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ALWAYS FIRST The SUNDAY AMERICAN Order It WOW ==■. . .. „ Both Phones Main 8000 The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit---GEORGIAN WANT ADS---Use for Results South Georgia AFTERNOON EDITION VOL. XI. NO. 000. ATLANTA , GA„ MONDA Y. JULY 21, 1913. Copyright 1RW, By Th* CeorK^n Co 2 CENTS. PAT NO MORE. SPEAKER TO DEMAND REAL TAX REFORM GRANS) .IllliV MEETS Tft CONSIDER TOIUEY CASE To Investigate Drowning of Boys Says Ways and Weans Committee Wust Get Together or He Will Take Floor. Speaker William H. Burwell ha? taken a firm hand in the adjustment of the difference existing in the Ways and Means Committee of the House with, respect to a tax equalization measure, and has read the riot act to that honorable body. The Speaker, who, although he is the Speaker, is not divested in any way of his representative capacity, will take the floor, if necessary, and Lght for a tax equalization measure That means something, and that will ■/nmire a State board of as great ef fectiveness as may be secured. The Speaker takes the position that neither extreme of opinion in the Ways and Means Committee, or any where else in the Legislature, should he permitted.-telecontrol or block leg islation to its way of thinking. Insists They Get Together. He, therefore, when the Ways and Means Committee seemed to be hope lessly split, called upon the heads of thd two factions therein and told them very plainly that they must get together, or he might be compelled, against his will, to undertake to find a means of getting them together. The Speaker Insisted that It was not so much a question of getting this or that tax equalization measure through, with all of its provisions just so, as It was a question of, at least, getting things started toward genuine and honest tax reform. To pass an equalization measure without any sort of State board to dualize the counties would, the Speaker thinks, not be to pass such a measmre as the people desire or as would be effective. On the other hand, the Speaker is willing to concede that It may not ne necessary now to insist that the State board have too wide authority or be made arbitrarily supreme. Seeks to Bring About Order. In other words, with a split in the committee already in evidence and a split on the floor of the House loom ing as a grave probability, the Speak er has intervened, both as the Speak er and as the Representative from Hancock County, to bring order out of chaos, if possible, and, in the in terest of economizing time, to hasten along the matter of tax reform. The Speaker is an earnest advocate of prompt payment for the school teachers, and he also is heartily in fa vor of revising the tax laws thorough ly and effectively. He, perhaps, per sonally inclines to a more drastic and effective tax equalization measure than now seems possible to secure from the House. His attitude is, however, that even “half a loaf is better than no bread,” find that the interests of the State de mand a getting together of the war ring factions inside the Ways and Means Committee, as paving the way t<» an approximately satisfactory com promise measure on the floor. Speaker’s Stand Effective. The direct result of the Speaker's interference was a reassembling of the Ways and Means Committee and th. recommendation of a measure Tying a State Board of Tax Equal- v '-'-rs of limited powers and discre tion. His hearty insistence that he would take the floor in person, and, if nec- cssury, lead the fight on a tax equali- measure proposing to elimi- Bfit.- entirely the State Board, un doubtedly has had a profound effect on the situation. The Speaker is determined that the House, at least, shall not permit tax ' "!‘m to be a failure. If he can pre- v ~nt it And he is willing to go the ,r, 't of his responsibility, if neces- *‘ :ar . v - in getting things shaped up as lh *y should be. 'Bloomer Girls’ Play Ball Too Well; Boy PenetratesDisguise WASHINGTON, July 21.—When the center fielder of the Chicago Bloomer Girls made a Ty Cobb throw from deep center to the home plate j in yesterday’s game at Union League] Park with the Sparrow's Point male team, a boy spectator became suspi cious of the sex of the bloomer play ers. He jerked the blond wig off the head of the third baseman and ex- j posed to the eyes of thousands of fans j the closely cropped head of a man. The rest of the “girls” made for the clubhouse, a square away, at top speed. They were besieged there by j hundreds of angry spectators, w’ho swept a squad of police aside, de manding their money back. They were escorted by a police guard to the depot this morning. HOUSE’S INTEREST IN SUFFRAGE ON INCREASE—HERE’S THE REASON Miss Mary Rosa Johnson, who has set the entire House a-flutter. She’s a suffragist and is winning; favor for ‘’the cause.” Council to Try to Override Veto for Thirty-third Time Council, at its meeting Monday aft ernoon, will make an effort to over ride Mayor James G. Woodward’s veto for the thirty-third time. Dur ing the seven months of Mayor Woodward’s administration Council, by a two-thirds vote, has annulled almost every veto, many on matters affecting the crematory. Mayor Woodward has established a record for vetoing and Council set a new mark for overriding vetoes. It Is said that during his former years in office as Mayor Mr. Woodward wr.s overridden 22 times. The issue that comes up Monday afternoon is a consolidation of the assessing and receiving departments of the tax office. Choked to Death By High Collar PITTSBURG, July 21.—Harry D. Wingert. a graduate of Western Re serve University, was choked to death by the collar he was wearing. Wingert called at the office of a friend to consult him about the pur chase of an automobile. Not finding his friend in his office, he went into a private room and sat down to wait. While there the young man evident ly was overcome by the heat and fell in a faint. He wore an extremely high and stiff collar, which strangled him to death. Churches Lukewarm, Dr. Holderby Asserts Dr. A. R. Holderby, pastor of Moore Memorial Church, declared in his ser mon Sunday morning that the churches of to-day were lukewarm and the members indifferent. “If the ministry really believed in the doctrine of eternal punishment and preached it what a shaking of dry bones there would be,” he said. “Much of the preaching of to-day is formal, even apologetic. We tell our children the Bible is the best book in the world, yet it is not given a place in our schools” Man Beaten to Death By Mob; Mayor Held INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINN.. July 21.—Mayor Edeke, of Ranier. Minn., !s out on bail to-day, charged with being an accessory to the mur der of F. J. Couture, owner of the Ranier Hotel. James Kelly was in the county Jail here, charged with the actual murder. Couture was beaten to death by a crowd of men after he made a state-’ ment that no attempt was being made in Ranier to enforce the saloon-clos ing laws. Mayor Edeke is charged with being a member of the crowd. THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Local showers Monday and Tuesday. All-Day Search Reveals Fate of Jerry Moles, 17, and Casey Daniels, 15 Years Old. Inquest into the death of young Jer ry Moles and Casey Daniels, who were drow'ned while Ashing in the Chattahoochee River Saturday, began at Poole’s Undertaking parlors at 9 o'clock Monday morning. Coroner Donehoo said the deaths would be thoroughly Investigated. The bodies were found Sunday aft ernoon hanging to a trotline by George W. Smith, of No. 527 West North avenue, after an all-day search Instituted at the request of the wid owed mother of young Daniels, who says she had a premonition her son had been drowned. Mr. Smith, who was a member of a large party of searchers who spent nearly the day trying to locate the boys, rowed out alone to the middle of the stream, w r here he found a trot- line that ran from one etwl^of the bank to the other. Bodies Caught on Hooks. Having attempted to draw’ the line up, Mr. Smith found that it was too heavy to manage, and this led to the discovery of the bodies of the twm boys, w’hich were found caught in the hooks about midway in the river. immediately following the discovery the county police notified Coroner Donehoo, who went to the scene of the tragedy to make an investigation. The bodies, which showed no bruises of any kind, were taken in charge by Poole. Among the theories that have been advanced as to the cause of the death of the boys Is that while boating one of them fell into the stream, and that 4n an effort to rescue him the other went down also. Neither a Good Swimmer. Another theory is that in trying to land a fish the lads capsized their boat in midstream. It is known that neither boy was a good swimmer and that for this reason Mrs. Moles, moth er of young Jerry, had protested against the trip. The boys, w r ho were inseparable companions, left home early Satur day morning, promising their parents that they would be back by nightfall. Before leaving home, young Daniels turned over his week’s wages to his mother, allowing himself only car fare for the trip down to the river. When young Moles failed to return home Saturday night, Mrs. Daniels, becoming alarmed, telephoned the county police, who immediately be gan the search. It was not until 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon, however that her gravest fears were realized. Boy* Chums for Years. Young Danjels. w r ho is just 15 years old, lived with his mother at No. 71 Hightower street, while his compan ion, Jerry Moles, aged 17, resided with his parents, Mr. and xMrs. N. L. Moles, at No. 34 Humphries street. The boys had been inseparable com panions for years, and are said to have been model youths. Driver Ditches Auto In Averting Holdup The chauffeur of Ed L. Wight, of No. 262 Juniper street, was driving through Inman Park Sunday when two young men hailed him and asked if they might ride into town. When they were in the car they leveled re volvers at the chauffeur and ordered him to drive tow'ard East Point, ac cording to his story. The car was found in a ditch near East Point Sunday morning. The chauffeur said at this point the high waymen attempted to rob him. and in trying to defend himself he ran the car into the ditch. The police are atill investigating the i Waycross Girl Deserted a Week After Marriage, Seeks Miss ing Spouse in Atlanta. Wooed and won after nine months of romantic courtship; a week of happiness in an ideal home, then de sertion, was the experience of Mrs. S. J. Jowers, a pretty young woman, of Waycross, who is scouring the State in search of her missing husband. She appealed to the Atlanta police Sunday. The young woman went direct io pplice headquarters, where she bared the whole story of her misfortunes. Between sobs, which moved even Captain Poole, who has heard many a tale of this sort, she told how she had been wooed; how, finally, she had given her heart to the ardent suitor; how they were married in the little church in Waycross, where she was born and reared; how they took up their married life at her husband's home in Fitzgerald- and then* one week later, of his sudden departure. Jowers, the young wife told the po lice, said he was going away to get a better job—that was the last she heard of him. Having a “tip” that he might be in | Atlanta, Mrs. Jowers came to Atlan ta and immediately instituted a search for him through the police. All the j afternoon Captain Poole and the i young woman searched the streets of Atlanta, but to no avail. Mrs. Jowers left Atlanta Monday morning, after leaving a description I of her husband with the police. Mrs. Jcwers, before marriage, was Miss Victoria Pace, daughter of J.! B. Pace, of Waycross. She Is 18 ( years of age and is pretty. Alleged Rioters in Jail at Statenville VALDOSTA. July 1.—R. S. Wil liams, of Haylow, who, with his two sons and two other men, is charged with Inciting a near-riot at Howell, has been arrested and lodged in Jail at Statenville on an order issued by Judge W. E. Thomas, of Superior Court. Williams and his followers are said to have gone to Howell with the avowed Intention of killing Ben Weth- ering, Town Marshal. According to reports received here, the trouble was caused by an attempt of Marshal Wetherington to arrest a son of thj elder Williams. Dalton Man's Slayer Caught in Tennessee DALTON, July 21.—Sheriff Glenn, accompanied by local officers, has gone to Cleveland, Tenn., for Dan Hatfield, wanted here on a charge of murder. Hatfield was caught by Cleveland officials a week after kill ing Will Parrish in North Dalton. There was a reward of $50 for his ap prehension. According to two eyewitnesses, Hatfield killed Parrish in self-de fense. They are both in jail, charged with being accessories to the murder. Dr. J. B. Robins, Extolling Gos pel of Progress, Likes Fresh ness of New Thought. Owner Asks $1,200 For Cow's Switch CINCINNATI, July 21.—Holden Bros., of Kentucky, breeders of thor oughbred cattle, have sued the Louis ville and Cincinnati Packet Company for $1,200 for the loss of the end or switch of a registered Jersey cow’s tail. The complaint recites that the cow was shipped from Louisville to Cin cinnati on July 6 and that en route the end of her tail was pulled or cut off. making her valueless for prize - winning or show purposes. A man who gets no new idea, in twenty years ought to have been dead twenty years ago. Nothing counts in life but the pro gressive. The heretics of to-day are the preachers of to-morrow, and it has always been so. New phases of old thoughts are what we need and want. The above statements by Dr. J. B. Robins, pastor of Trinity Methodist Church, Sunday created a decided impression upon his congregation. His sermon was built around Paul, comparing the life of modern man to the life of Paul. “Nearly every church has banished some man who is now teaching the world, uplifting men and giving a bigger outlook on religion and life. The old ideals are dead. The new ideals must be shown to the people. "The preachers of to-day must know in what their people are inter ested. They must find out what reaches, touches and draws them, and knowing these things, must offer the religion of Christ as related to their needs. I like the freshness of the new thought. 1 find something in it that I, find nowhere eLse. ‘‘In the progression of human life religion enlarges itself as well as other things. Let us think of this and help to give the world the things It needs." HOG KILLED BY HEAT. COMMERCE.—A hog belonging to Bud Aderholt died here from exces sive heat. Press Table Suddenly Becomes Attractive to Lawmakers and Sessions Lose Monotony. Members of the House are finding excuses to hang around the press table; the young men of the press have found such expressions as “brown eyes,” “wavy hair,” and “suf fragette” mysteriously creeping into their copy; Speaker Burwell has found trouble In keeping his eyes on the north side of the House and Clerk John Boifeuillet has experienced the greatest difficulty in calling the roll. The reason—well, it’s the press table’s nomination for the Booster Button Girl in Atlanta’s beauty con test—Miss Mary Rosa Johnson, a monopoly of feminine pulchritude, who has become a regular member of the House newspaper delegation. Miss Johnson “Just strolled in.” coming with her friend, Mrs. Mar garet McWhorter, who has been ac corded the privilege of the press table this season. Her visit created a demand for her continuous presence there. Accordingly appropriate res olutions were drawn up and unani mously adopted, beseeching her to act as guardian of the press table for the balance of the session. Miss Johnson is a real honest-to- goodness suffragette. it took her about one minute to convert the press gang to the cause of suffrage, while the Legislators fell in the suffrage column in rapid order. A strong effort was made by a youth presiding over the Senate press table to in veigle her to their side of the Capitol, but a comparison of “the gangs" brought her back to the House in short order. "Oh. I think it is great to be here.” she said. “You know X am a suf fragette, and I like to see the Leg islators at work, hecause/they act so funny. Does anybody in the world know wiiat they are talking about?" Bad Colds Prevented by Newly Discovered Anti-Toxin, Says Philadelphia Doctor. PHILADELPHIA, July 21—Claims to the discovery of a remarkable vac cine for the cure and prevention of the troublesome “cold” known as in fluenza. are being made by physicians of a medical laboratory near Phila delphia, under the direction of Dr. Arthur Parker Mitchins. The vaccine is composed of the dead organlfwns found In the blood of a person afflicted with influenza. Two years ago Dr. R. J. Allen, a London physician, conceived the theory that If "cold” germs” were in oculated into the blood of a person afflicted with influenza a cure was bound to result. He also maintained his theory would hold good as applied to the prevention of the ailment us well. The theory was taken up In thi9 country about a year ago. Dr. C. P. Brown. Dr. Webb, of Svvarthmore. and Dr. Nathan Ward, now dead, started to experiment with the vaccine and Anally declared they had found that their efforts to inject an organism in to a person afflicted with influenza had been successful. In a nutshell, they held that the “no disease twice” idea might be as applicable in cases of catarrh and influenza as in diphtheria, typhoid, scarlet fever or smallpox To various Philadelphia physicians, among whom were Dr. W. Wayne Babcock and Dr L. F. Ashcraft, quan tities of the vaccine were given. Dr. Babcock has treated fifty patients and says lie has found that in many instances the patient was entirely cured of catarrh or influenza. One stirring feature of the results of the vaccine he discovered was that it cures diseases allied with the com mon cold at the same time. There is a slight reaction, but after that it is declared the patient suffers no more, and when the “cold" disap pears there is very little likelii%od of it ever appearing again. 3 Foreman Declares Inquisitorial Body Will Not Ride “Rough shod” Over Dorsey. With Solicitor Dorsey re affirming his cprtainty that Jim Conley will not be indicted be fore the tral of Leo M. Frank and declaring that he will fight with all his vigor any movement in that direction, the Grand Jury members gathered in the Throw er Building Monday morning in response to the call of Foreman Beatie to decide whether they will reopen their investigation of the Phagan murder mystery. A strong probability that no action would be taken during the day arose when it became known that there were only eighteen of the grand ju rors in the city, a bare quorum. In the event that all of the eighteen did not appear, there still was the oppor tunity to go out and summon tales men at random to serve on the Grand Jury, but no statement was made as to whether this legal privilege would be exercised. No Witnesses Called. Foreman Beatie announced that no witnesses had been summoned as yet. giving confirmation to the report that the meeting was called only for the purpose of passing on the petitions requesting the Grand Jury to reopen the murder investigation, and not for the purpose of proceeding at once to the definite consideration of Jim Con ley’s indictment. Solicitor Dorsey was the only per son asked to appear before the ju rors. Before they assembled he as serted that he w r as entirely confident that no Indictment would be returned against the negro. “I can not conceive that these men. w r hen they are in possession of the facts of the case, seriously will con sider bringing an indictment for mur der against Conley,” said the Solici tor. Foreman Beattie indicated that if a quorum were present and a decision were reached to go into the connec tion of Conley with the crime a num ber of witnesses would be served at once with subpenas and that an op portunity would be given for the pre sentation of all the important evi dence againet the negro. He said, however, that the report that the meeting Monday was called for the definite and prearranged pur pose of Indicting Conley was utterly false. Not to Ignore Dorsey. "We have no intention of riding roughshod over the Solicitor,” he said. "The purpose of our meeting to-day merely is to become informed on the question and to determine if we are warranted In reopening the investiga tion with a view of bringing an in- distment against Conley in case the evidence is sufficient. "We propose only to discuss the matter informally and to have the Solicitor lay before us his reasons for desiring no action at this time. We have no desire to block the Solicito'* in his prosecution of the case or *o defeat the ends of justice in anv manner. If we come to the conclusion that the Investigation should be made, we have a list of witnesses we will ask to have called.” William H. Mineey. author of the sensational affidavit which accused Conley of confessing to the killing of a girl on the afternoon that Mary Phagan was murdered, has returned to Atlanta, it was reported Monday, and is prepared to go befoijlv the Grand Jury to repeat his story* ALa- ‘s..|