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NOTICE "1 j If you have any difficulty !n buying Hearrt's i < Sunday American anywhere in the South notify < - Circulation Manager. Hearst’a Sunday Amerl- ; J can, Atlanta. Ga. VOL. I. NO. 16. BRYAN OUGHT TO LIVE ON HIS PAY OR 0011, SAYSENATORS * Explanation of Secretary of State More Amazing Than His Acts, Declares Bristow, Who Intro duced Resolution to Investigate t i Wilson’s Premier Capitalizing His Position, Asserts Representa tive Willis—Much Work To Be Done in His Department. WASHINGTON, July 19.—The con- , senaus of opinion among public and private persons In the National Capi tal is that if Secretary Bryan can not live on his salary of $12,000 a year he ought to resign and continue his lecture tours as a private individual. Mr. Bryan to-day gave evidence of the fact that the country-wide criti cism had got under his skin. That he . was irritated and Impatient and real ized the “bad break" he has made was apparent to his subordinates througti out the day. Somewhat petulantly he declared that the press of the coun try might have assumed that “my lecture engagements are subject to cancellation.” Publicly, Mr. Bryan announced to the country that he could not live on ’ a salary’ about which his fellow Cab inet members have not complained, and in a second statement, given out authoritatively, complained that crit icism was groundless. Evades Paper's Questions. The American to-day endeavored to obtain from Mr. Bryan more In de tail the reasons that actuated him to arrange to leave his post of duty at a time when very grave matters per taining to our relations with foreign powers were pending. He declined to answer certain questions and refused to discuss the subject of his official pronunciamento. Mr. Bryan was asked these ques tions by The American: “If you feel your duty is to yonr private pocketbook rather than to the ‘great common people’ to whom you have preached simplicity for the last seventeen years, why do you not resign and devote your en tire time to the lecture platform and literary pursuits? “If you believe the people have called you to the great office you can fill so ably, do you not believe , that it Is your duty as an American and a patriot to sacrifice your per sonal interests for the Interests of your country? The more so from the fact that you admit you have saved about $200,000, which is con siderably more than a competence when invested shrewdly? "You say that you entered one campaign from the Chautauqua platform. Is It not a fact that you look upon the present and future 1 engagements as the best opportu nity to get in direct touch with the people, who, you contend, will elect the next President by direct vote?” Bryan Leaves to Lecture. No answer was returned to the questions. Later in the day he left Washington to keep an engagement to lecture. I Senator Bristow, author of the reso lution calling upon the President for information as to what salary ought to be paid to enable Mr. Bryan te stay in Washington and attend to his public duties, to-day came back with ( a rejoinder to Mr. Bryan’s explanation of last night. “Secrttary Brya-’s second state, ment has astounded me even more than his first one,” said Mr. Bristow. "That the present Secretary of State should have such a sordid view of the Governmtnt service is amazing. “Secretary Bryan says he has a right to use his vacation for lectur ing if he sees fit. But he is to be away on one tour of six weeks, and there is no telling where his vacation will end. Needed at His Post. "Besides, since he has been Secre tary of State he has been in Wash ington only about one-half the time so far. If ever there was a time when the Secretary of State was needed on the job it is now, when so many Important questions are up for consideration. To cause the people to pay money to hear the Secretary of State, the highest officer in the Cabinet, deliver addresses Is all Continued on Page 12, Column 1. U. S. State Secrets ‘Lifted’ From Wire By Mexican Agents Information Worth Thousands of Dollars Finds Its Way Into Possession of Huerta. WASHINGTON, July 19.—A copy of the official code of the State De partment, containing Information worth thousands of dollars to foreign governments, has fallen into the hands of the Mexican administration. It Is being used to further the ends of the Huerta regime, It was asserted here to-day. For some months State Department officials have suspected that the Gov ernment telegrams from Mexico City have been tampered with, It Is de clared, but this was not considered Important, as all the dispatches were in code, and, therefore, theoretically illegible. About three weeks ago, however, Government officials here had their first inkling that the Mexicans were obtaining the gist of dispatches pass ing between the State Department and Ambassador Wilson. The agents of the almost unknown "secret service” of the State Depart ment were put on the trail and evi dence was obtained that the Govern ment dispatches had been “lifted” from the wires In Mexico and de coded. the information contained therein being transmitted to President Huerta and his Cabinet. Girl Traps a Thief In Telephone Booth Sets Shoulder Against Door and Holds Man Until Cries Bring Her Aid. NEW YORK. July 19.—Holding a thief trapped in a telephone booth. Miss Florence Rosenthal, cashier in Edward Feuhrer’s drug store at No. 53 Second avenue, finally succeeded in delivering him to the police yes terday. The captive, who said he was Alex ander Moskowitz, 17 years old, was so long “telephoning" that Miss Ros enthal went to the booth to see If he was dead or alive. She saw him opening the money box with a screw driver, she says. Screaming for her employer. she set her shoulder against the door, and the youth could not force it open. Moskowitz was held for trial. Burleson Eats but Two Meals Each Day Postmaster General Believes In and Practices "Early to Bed, Early to Rise” Theory. WASHINGTON. July 19—Post master General Burleson believes thoroughly in the old adage, "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” He prac tices this theory himself and in addi tion supplements it by a two-meal-a day program. His dally routine Is as follows: “I arise at 5 In the morning. “Read the papers until 6. “Breakfast. “Go over papers and reports until 9. "Work at the Postoffice Department until 5 in the afternoon without any lunch or lunch hour. "Dinner at 6 to 7 o’clock. "Eight o'clock—go to bed.” “Cooling Period” to Halt Divorce Evil Pastor Suggests That Three Months Elapse Between Final Hearing and Decision of Court. ATLANTIC CITY. July 19.—Speak ing on “The Modern Problem of Mar riage and Divorce,” before the Central Conference of American Rabbis here to-day, the Rev. L. Leonard Levy, of Pittsburg, advocated a "cooling” pe riod of three months from the time of the final hearing until the decision Is announced as the solution of the prob lem of minimizing the divorce evil. "This cooling period," said the speak er, “would cover a time during which neither of the parties at interest could marry.” Marries His Aunt, 12 Years His Senior Young Actor Takes as Bride the Recently Divorced Wife of His Uncle. NEW YORK. July 19.—Earl Oscar Schenck, 24 years old, an actor, of No. 600 West 138th street, was married in the City Hall yesterday to his aunt, Marlon Carr Schenck, twelve years his senior. The bride of yesterday was married in April, 1899, to Oscar A. Schenck, the uncle of her present husband, who on January 17 of this year divorced her tn Columbus, Ohio, "for gross neglect of duty.” S ugrHSIAMERICAN Copyright. 1913. by The Georgian Company. SHORTAGE HITS NATIONAL BANK LT LAFAYETTE Comptroller of Currency Orders Institution Closed When De falcation Is Discovered. ARRESTS ARE LIKELY Preliminary Examination Shows That It Has Been Looted of Not Less Than $30,000. WASHINGTON, July 19. —Acting Comptroller of the Currency Kane to day announced that the First Nation al Bank of Lafayette, Ga., has been closed by National Bank Examiner Thomas C, Dunlap, with the authority of the board of directors, on account of a large shortage which makes tho bank Insolvent. Mr. Kane says he has not received a detailed report of the condition of the bank. Mr. Dunlap has been ap pointed receiver. “We do not know how big the de falcation may be,” said Mr. Kane, "but our preliminary examination has shown that It is not less than $30,- 000. This shortage has occurred since May 23, when the bank was last ex amined. Suspicion on the part of of ficers of the bank several days ago that a shortage existed caused the n to call in Examiner Dunlap. Discov ery of the embbezzlement resulted. "In his telegraphic advices to me Mr. Dunlap does not say to whom suspicion attaches. The last state ment of the condition of the bank, issued on June 4. showed the bank to be in a proper state. The president of the bank is R. N. Dickerson, and S. A. Hunt, Jr., is cashier.” In a telegram from Mr. Dunlap Mr Kane is advised that steps have been taken to make an arrest. Depositors to Lose Little by Failure. CHATTANOOGA. July 19.—Local bankers stated to-day that the lia bilities of the First National Bank of Lafayette, Ga., which was an nounced to-day by Acting Comptroller of Currency Kane, at Washington. t > have failed, were approximately $240,- 000, but that depositors would be paid in full, with but a slight loss to stock holders, as the assets would prove but slightly less. An unsuccessful attempt was made this morning to obtain a schedule jf the liabilities and assets of the In stitution. The officials are extremely reticent concerning the cause of the institution’s embarrassment. Aerial Ferry to Join Cities in California Air Pilot Gets Permission to Install Aeroplane Service Between San Francisco and Oakland. SAN FRANCISCO. July 19—The first aerial ferry’ of the world will be in operation between San Francis co and Oakland in September. Per mission was granted officially to-day by the Harbor Commission to John L. Lek as to construct a dock for his hydroaeroplane. Lekas recently applied for a per mit. declaring that he wished to es tablish a regular passenger service between the trans-bay cities. Lekas was before the commission to-day and satisfied them he was a safe and sane air pilot. Motor Cars to Cut High Cost of Dying Storage Battery Busses To Be Put in Service in Chicago as Funeral Equipage. CHICAGO. July 19.—The high cost of dying is to be reduced. Storage battery motor busses are to be put in service as funeral cars. The change from car riages to busses, it Is estimated, will result in a saving of S3O in the coat of each funeral. As there are 31,000 fu nerals In Chicago each year, the gen eral reduction tn the cost of dying, if busses were used in all funerals, would be $930,000. Girl Fan Loses Teeth But Stays Out Game Foul Tip Injures Fair Baseball En thusiast, but Her Ardor Is Not Diminished. ZANESVILLE, OHIO, July 19. Miss Cora Bauer, of this city, was struck in the face by a foul tip while watching a ball game between the Akron and Zanesville teams here Her nose was split open, three teeth knocked out and she may be disfig ured for life Nevertheless, after being ti-.i'ed by a physician, she de cided tu stay out the game, ★ ★★ ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1913. Congregation Built Up by Band Concerts Ohio Pastor With Novel Methods Now Claims Biggest Sunday School in World. CANTON, OHIO. July 19 With the attraction of a band concert In the church roof garden and a double or chestra concert In the church audi torium, the Rev. P. H. Welshlmer, of Canton’s First Christian Church, has built up what he claims Is the big gest Sunday school In the world with in five years. The average attendance in this hot month of July Is 3,251, The record attendance Is 4,714. Several Sundays back 38 babies were checked In the “babies' check room” of the $90,000 church. The men's class of 250 had to hold their session in the street while the teacher explained the lesson from the tonneau of an automobile. Doctor Says He Has Vaccine to Cure Cold Dead Organisms Found in Blood of Patient Afflicted With Influenza Used as Culture. PHILADELPHIA. July 19 —Claims to the discovery of a remarkable vaccine for the cure and prevention of the trou blesome “cold” known among medical men as In Influenza are being made by physicians of the Mulford Laboratory, near Philadelphia, under the direction of Dr A. P. Mitchlns. The vaccine Is composed of the dead organisms found In the blood of a per son afflicted with Influenza. These or gans are Isolated and then an Impure culture is obtained. Afterward, a saline solution is used to wash the culture germs and then the vaccine Is ready for Injection. One striking feature of the results of the vaccine, it is said, is that it cures diseases allied with the common cold at the same time It does the “cold.” 3 Drowned Trying To Avoid Wet Feet Women Stand Up In Leaky Boat, Capsizing Craft In View of Hundreds. NORRISTOWN. PA.. July 15 —rtTught In a storm while boating on the Schuyl kill River, three women, all church workers, were drowned. They are. Miss Anna Mary Livergood. Miss Emma .1. Hex and Miss Helen Green, all of Norristown Miss Margaret Green, a sister of Miss Helen Green, clung to the overturned boat and was saved The women were within a quarter of a mile of the boat landing when the wind struck them. The boat began to leak badly To keep their feet and clothing dry the four girls stood on the seats. The next In stant the boat turned over. Two hundred persons on a boat re turning from a park saw ’he accident. Blue Cauliflower Is Raised in California Latest Horticultural Product is Hy brid of Ordinary Cauliflower and Purple Pickling Cabbage. OAKLAND. July 19.—Blue cauli flower, the latest novelty In things horticultural, was Introduced to the public to-day by Hugo Lillenthal, in structor in the University of Cali fornia. The new plant Is a hybridi zation of the ordinary cauliflower and the purple “pickling cabbage.” de clared by the experts to be a "first cousin to the cauliflower." The new vegetable is bright blue in color and stronger than the ordinary cauliflower in flavor. Only a Bathing Suit Left Friend by Thief Youth Is Marooned in Atlantic City When Companion Disappears With Money and Clothes. ATLANTIC CITY. July 19.—Arthur Leonard, a New York youth, spent the entire day on the beach in his bathing suit to-day, following thedls zppearer.ee of his chum, whose name he refuses to reveal, with four suits of his clothing and all his money. Leonard wired his relatives in New York State telling them of his predic ament. They came here to-night with clothing and rescued him. Billie Burke Wires She Is Recovering Actress Was Threatened With Ap pendicitis, but Did Not Have to Undergo Operation. Special Cable to The American. LONDON. July 19 —Billie Burke, tel egraphing the London bureau of The American to-day from Carlsbad in re ply to an inquiry concerning her health, says: "Thanks awfully Wa. threatened with appendicitis, but have not had to undergo operation Recovering nicely “BILLIE BL'KKE.” LOBBY x. JIRY STIRS NATION +•+ 4-»4- d-»-I- +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +»4- vo-b +•■{• Mulhall Story Leaves U. S. Aghast +•+ +»4- -r«-r- +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ ■M'fr +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ Power of Interests Vividly Revealed MARTIN W. MULHALL, former lobbyist of National As sociation of Manufacturers, whose revelations of cor ruption startled nation. >*• ♦. r .■ i i ' V jflg 4 I /: 1 £ .A * A. ■■ 3 4 w > V « B-l - '<3 jL f Boh 7 TBS* W k ' W * ’ ; IfL & z \ _ \ \ I \ "W A Even Take Fizz Out Os City’s Soda Water Members of Cincinnati Board of Health to Censor All Soft Drinks Sold. CINCINNATI, July 19.—The "fizz and bubble” in soda water and gin ger ale manufactured in this city is to be no more, if the Board of Health has its way about the matter, and it seems likely at this time that its con tention will hold good. The board has asked the Council to pass an or dinance limiting the amount of alco hol to one-halt of 1 per cent in any one drink of this kind. If the resolu tion is passed and made a law no dealer will be allowed to make soft drinks without first getting a per mit. 300 “HELLO GIRLS” ASK BOSS TO BE BEST MAN Special Cable to The American. ROME, July 19. —The Postmaster General is bewildered over the remit of the recent permission which he granted to telephone girls to get married. Three hundred of the.Me girls promptly availed themselves of the chance and everj couple asked the Postmaster Gen et al to act as best man. Umbrellas for Farm Hands Is Inducement Planter Advertises That He Will Supply Them With Sulkies, Sun shades and Ice Cream. FINDLAY, OHIO, July 19—There are other communities In this country that are suffering for a lack of farm hands besides Kansas It is up to H. B. Clark, a farmer in the western part of Hancock County, to make good, else be prosecuted for false ad vertising. as provided by the new newspaper laws. In a morning paper Mr. Clark is advertising for farm hands to plow corn. He says he will provide them with riding cultivator, a large sun umbrella for each, Ice water to drink and all the Ice cream each applicant can eat every other day. with *2.50 a day wages. GREAT BRITAIN IS AFTER LATEST GERMAN AIR CRAFT t *ci»l Cabl® to Th® Amorlcan. BERLIN. July 19.—Great Britain, 1t in Htuted. 1h negotiating for an L'nger airship, which la larger, fatter and mor® g.«l than any others yet designed, in cluding Names of Wilson, Taft, Senators and Congressmen Are Dragged Into the Testimony, Showing Corporations Have Set No Limit in Corruption. STARTLING FACTS REVEALED IN U.S. SENATE INVESTIGATION OF CONGRESSIONAL LOBBIt National Association of Manufacturers raised a slush fund of $500,000 to $700,000 a year to oppose objec tionable legislation. Place in Taft Cabinet pledged to manufacturers by Vorys, Taft manager. Charges that the big manufacturers had the ears of Taft, Sherman and Cannon. List of Congressmen in pay of the National Manufac turers' Association disclosed. Also, a list of the “un purchasable,” whom the association hated, and tried to defeat. Fights made by National Manufacturers’ Association on progressive Congressmen and Senators, often successful. More than 400 letter tell of plans of association to be come sinister factor in controlling the wheels of gov ernment. Attempts made to foment strife among labor organiza tions, and to corrupt labor leaders, even G-ompers, Mitchell and Morrison. Agreement by Woodrow Wilson with Gompers and Morrison that he support Hughes for Senate. Powers of big business fought Hughes because he was friendly to labor. Tom Johnson, Senator McComas of Maryland, and oth ers were political victims of the association’s ven geance. Gigantic corruption in Wall Street laid bare in testi mony of David Lamar. Forgery on Union Pacific’s books covering item of $82,000,000 charged. Senate resolutions hawked about Wall street for sale to highest bidder. The nation to-day stands aghast at the sensational revelations which have come as the result of investigations by the Overman Committee of the United States Senate into the work of lobbies at the National Capital. It has heard how big business combines and Wall Street oper ators have made and unmade men in public life, influenced legis lation, dominated public opinion, all the time secret and vigilant. It has learned how big business has become one of the most powerful factors in the American civilization, striking in ill v«iv aa• » a v eau ‘Oh Fudge'Strongest Language Permitted Kansas City Starts Crusade Against Public Swearing—Police Rebuke Violators. KANSAS CITY. July 19—Any thing stronger than "Oh. fudge!" must not be heard on the streets of Kansas City hereafter. All the min isters of the city and all the members of their churches have started an an ti-swearing crusade, and part of the work is to ask persons who are over heard to swear to consider the vul garity of it and cease the practice. The Police Department and the street railway company have agreed to join in the crusade, so that here after it is part of the policeman’s duty to stop swearing as well as breaches of the peace. I Miss Elliott Returns To Stage To Be Happy Wil! Play Potiphar’s Wife in Sir Her bert Tree's “Joseph and His Brethren.” Special Cable to The American. LONDON, July 19 -Maxine Elliott, yielding to Sir Herbert Tree's persua sion, will return to the stage Septem ber 2 in a great production of Louis N. F'arker’s piay, “Joseph and Hit Brethren " She will play Potiphar's wife Miss Elliott glvea as the chief reason . for her reappearance that every on® la | happier when occupied She is now living in her beautiful house ai Bufhe>. Just outakis Lo’idom EDITION FOR NORTH GEORGIA PRICE FIVE CENTS. • V* » Vi Mil, hi tilv nisi a against men who opposed It. It has heard the names of the men highest in public life. President Wil son, former President Taft, Senators, Congressmen, Cabinet members, dragged into the testimony, and has learned that certain predatory in terests have set no limits in their attempt to corrupt public servants. The bulk of the startling testi mony came from Martin M. Mulhall, for years the servant of the National Association of Manufacturers, and the chief lobbyist of that organization at Washington, and from David La mar, an operator tn stocks, who Is known as "The Wolf of Wai! Street.” Wilson Starts Inquiry. The investigation began more than a month ago when President Wilson declared that a lobby, "insidious and Industrious" in nature, had long domi nated tariff legislation. The announce ment did not come unexpected!’’, how ever. and there were many Senators and Congressmen to endorse the Chief Executive. The Senate began imme i dlately its investigation of the | charges, empowering a committee, headed by Senator Overman, to con duct the inquiry. Relatively pointless testimony from men Interested In the sugar Industry came first, revealing the fact that sugar lobbies were the most indus trious. Lobbyists from Hawaii, the Philippines and Louisiana defended their actions by a protest against free sugar. Former Governor Carter of Hawaii declared that the elimination of the duty on sugar would make the Hawaiian Isiandt merely military posts, destroying their commercial prestige. Frank C. Lowry, of the "free sugar lobby," admitted In the testimony that *25,900 had been spent in four years by the Federal Rugar Refining Company in lobbying opera, tlone. Then game the Mulhall testimony.