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1UJ“j Ai-LiiiiMA UJ^UJililAiN AJS L) iNJ^VVO.
LEADERS AGREE
TO PUSH BIG
F
Decks Cleared in House arid Ap-,
priation Measure Will Go to
Senate This Week.
Sidelights on
GEORGIA
POLITICS
V-
JAMES B. KEVIN
LAGRANGE GREETS IVOR BALKS AT
WEEKLY EDITORS DICTOGRAPH CHECK
Largest Attendance in 27 Years Refuses to Sign $19 Voucher for
at Annual Georgia Press Use of Very Machine That
Convention. Trapped Him.
TVhen Chairman Wheatley, of the
House Appropriations Committee,
rails up the general appropriation*
bill Wednehday he will ask that it be
made a continuing order until It is
disposed of in the House and sent to
the Senate.
The chairman of the Appropriation*
Committee has the extraordinary
right under the rule* of the House of
calling up his bill whenever he
pleases, and it must have the right
of way.
Chairman Wheatley has determined
to exercise his right to the limit, and
to that end ha* invited and obtained
the promise of Speaker Burwell’a
earnest and sincere support In putting
the bill through.
Trying to Push It Along.
It is the purpose of Chairman
Wheatley and the Speaker to have the
general appropriations bill in the
hands of the Senate at least by the
end of this week, and if they succeed
they will have the bill In the. Senate
earlier than it has been since the war,
and at least ten days earlier than it
has been in thirty years
When the big bill comes up the
House will immediately be resolved in
a committee of the whole House, with
some member other than the Speaker
presiding, as the rules require
The chairman of the Committee of
the Whole House has not yet been an
nounced. but It is likely it will be Mr.
McMichael, of Marion, or Mr. Miller,
of Bibb.
Both are experienced parliamenta
rians and either would make a fit and
proper person for the work. Both are
behind the effort to get the appropria
tion bill into the hands of the Gov
ernor well in advance of adjournment,
as the Governor has requested.
General Tax Act Next.
The bill carries the constitutional
appropriations, statehouse salaries,
and the ljke, which can not be
changed by the House, In full, and
these items will be quickly disposed
of
The other items will go In in blank,
to be filled in by the committee of the
whole.
Immediately after the general ap
propriations bill is disposed of the tax
revision bill and the general tax act
will come into the House from the
Way a and Means Committee, when,
at the request of Chairman Aiken,
those bills also will be given the right
of way. Both should be in the hands
of the Senate before the end of next
week.
Speed Assured in Senate.
If this is accomplished, another
House record will he smashed.
The chairmen of the two big com
mittees and the Speaker of the House
have been assured by a large major
ity of the House that they will be
co-operated with in their efforts to
expedite legislation.
In the Senate President Anderson
Is but waiting for the House meas
ures in order that he may duplicate
there the program of orderly haste to
be enacted in the House. He has as
surance of co-operation from a pra •-
tically solid Senate.
Big Damages Asked
In Macon Depot Case
MACON. July 22.—The special
committees appointed to ascertain the
amounts of damages claimed by prop
erty owners on Cherry Btreet on ac
count of the closing of the thorough
fare for the building of a union sta
tion have submitted their report to
the Railroad Commission.
The report shows that the proper
ty owners want exceedingly large
damages, and that It will take either
arbitration or court suits to settle
most of the claims.
Chamberlain Decides
Not to Oppose Tariff
WASHINGTON, July 22.—That
Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon,
Democrat, does not intend to vote
against the tariff bill because it car
ries free raw wool and other Item* ob
jectionable to the West became ap
parent to-day.
An examination of the Congression
al Record shows that the remark he
made in the Senate yesterday that he
would not support the bill has been
revised out of the official record.
Orators within and without the
General Assembly, particularly those
given to loquacity and frequency of
effect, sometimes being more or less
hard up for something to say upon
the spur of the moment—whatever
that !i—now and then jump a-strad
dle of the Grand Old Legislature’s
grand old neck and dance a hornpipe
thereupon!
Always the livllent tune to dance
by concerns the Legislature's “do-
nothing” inclination, and its prone
ness to move at a snail’s pace. Par
ticularly is this the case when \h<*
orator immediately on the Job is
“a-gin the government, anyway.”
An attack upon the present legis
lature that it is too slow may be
justified. Maybe it is alow—slower
than it ought to be. Maybe legisla
tures hught to do everything right
off the reel, and debate the matter
afterward, if time holds out. Maybe
a lot of things—but the only way to
Judge one legislature as to its effi
ciency is by past legislatures; and in
the matter of slowness, laziness.
pokeasynes««. or general cussed nrs*.
the present Legislature is entitled to
be Judged, perhaps.
The following things are true, as
the records will show*: Never before
within the service of any member of
the present General Assembly has a
general appropriations bill been re
ported to the House for action so
early as on the twenty-sixth day of
its sitting
And yet, this Legislature, under the
direction of the Chairman of the Ap
propriations Committee, will take up
that very bill In the whole House to
day—the twenty-sixth day of its sit
ting!
The general tax act will be ready
for the House before Saturday night
—at least ten days earlier than any
general tax act has been reported
wdthin a decade or more
The various committees have re
ported more than 100 bills adversely,
and easily as many more favorably.
This was made possible by reason of
the fart that the committees of both
the House and the Senate were ap
pointed this year two days earlier
than ever before in thirty years.
In one recent Legislature, the gten
ate had the general tax act exactly
FOUR days—this year it will have
some fifteen days before adjournment.
It is a well-known parliamentary fact,
too. that both these bills have the
right of way over all other bills at
all times.
It undoubtedly is true that any
Legisia.ure would be able to travel
much faster than it does were it not
for the fict that local bills require
lmost as elaborate handling as gen
eral bills, and a reform In this mat
ter has been urged for year*. But
since that reform never ha3 been ef
fected, it hardly seems fair to charge
-he present Legislature with giving
to these bills more than the time
absolutely necessary to their passage.
And so, while it may be true that
the present Legislature ia no faster
than it should be, it is Just as well
to remember that the Legislature
machine is of an old model, and there
fore much out of date, and can not
run any faster than it can!
When the State takes the speed
limit off its Legislature. It naturally
will have to provide a machine cap
able of making at least a little hit
better time than the speed limit, or
nothing: will happen by way of re
form.
The present Legislature may not
be a wonder of wonders, but It really
la moving along FASTER than usual
—and that is the honest truth of It!
Mr Payton, of Worth, the hand
somest man in the last House, and
one of the handsomest men In any
House, looked in on the General As
sembly to-day to see if it was mov
ing along to suit him.
Mr. Payton gave it ns his opinion
that the present House Is all right,
so far as he could see, albeit he neg
lected to bring his eyeglasses along
and wasn’t committing hlmnelf fin
ally.
”1 enjoyed my brief Legislative «a-
reer.” said Mr. Payton, “and marie
many lasting friendships while it con
tinued I take ~reat interest in the
work of -the present House, and be
lieve it will enact some wholesome
legislation. I believe it wants to do
the right thing, at least. I have met
many new members, and the averag*
seem; 1 to run rather high In many
ways, however, being a member of
the Legislature is more or less a
thankless Job, and it often happens
that the best and most sincere work
ers fall to get the credit they really
are entitled to”
“Uncle Billy” Wilson, of Gwinetto,
another veteran of the last. House,
and the prize humorist therein, was
talking It over with his former col
leagues to-day.
“Uncle Billy” declines and refuses
to get excited about anything, and al
ways takes life as easy as he knows
how. He does not look upon a Legis
lator’s job as one removing him very
far from the ranks' of Just ordinary
folks, and therefore he never takes
himself too seriously.
“I love all the boys, and in the
main they are good boys.” said “Un
cle Billy.” “If they make mistakes,
they generally are mistakes of the
head and not of the heart!”
LAGRANGE. July 22.—With 75
more delegates attending than at any
previous convention, the twenty-sev
enth annual session of the Georgia
Weekly Press Association opened
here this morning. The delegates
number 250 and represent 150 papers.
The convention assembled in the
Mayor Woodward again is refusing
to sign checks.
From the Police Department has
come a voucher for $19 to pay the
expense of the very dictograph that
entrapped Mayor Woodward, Colonel
T. B. Felder and others in the Wil
liams House No. 2. Chairman A. R.
Colcord. of the Council Police Com-
Troup County courthouse. After
solo by Miss Ruth Oppenheim, of At- j mittee. hesitated at approving this
lanta. and the invocation by the Rev. | voucher and Mayor Woodward scoffs
E. B. Vaughn, pastor of the First : at the idea of him signing the check.
Baptist Church, LaGrange, Mayor
John M. Edmondson and President
W. A. Reeves, of the I^aGrange
Chamber of Commerce, welcomed the
visitors. W. S. Coleman, of The
Cedartown Standard, responded. Mrs.
John N. Holder read a paper pre
pared by her husband, editor of The
Jackson Herald, who was unable to
attend. The theme was “The In
fluence of th© Georgia Press on the
Government of the State.“
At 11:50 o’clock the convention
delegates left for West Point, where
a big barbecue wai tendered this aft
ernoon, followed by a reception at the
home of W. Trox Bankston, editor of
The West Point News. They return
to LaGrange this afternoon.
Louis E. Wisdom, of Forsyth, who
is altogether 22 years of age but not
much more. notwithstanding the
fact that he looks every day of 17,
had trouble with a new doorkeeper
in the House of Representatives the
other day.
Wisdom didn’t know there was a
new doorkeeper on the job until, ac
companied by two friends of the fe
male persuasion, he approached the
door during a session for admittance, j
“Hey, you, kiddo!” stage-whis
pered the doorkeeper, “you can’t get
in here!"
“The h—um—deuce, I can’t!” said
Wisdom, in a loud and commanding
tone of voice. “I’m a member of the
House! ”
“Run along, buddy, and let your
pipe go out—you can’t put that over
me! If you had claimed to be a page,
300 Pellagra Cases
In Flooded Counties
JACKSON, MISS.. July 22—The
State Board of Health to-day issued
a report declaring that more than 300
cases of pellagra have been discovered
in Mississippi counties that were over
flowed during the spring floods.
In Washington County 125 cases
were reported.
HEADACHES
Pains in temples and back of head,
nervousness, blurring of vision while
aif rl^T mTght 'have* faiiTnlfSTu! °T
but a person must be at least twen
ty-one to get in here as a member!"
replied the doorkeeper, as he pushed
Wisdom gently bark
Then Wisdom quit arguing, and [
went around to another door with
his lady friends, where he stood in |
with the doorkeeper, and everything j
was all right.
When the new doorkeeper found
out what he had done, he was much |
chagrined and attempted to apolo
gize to Wisdom, hut Wisdom is a i
good little fellow and wouldn’t stand i
for any apologies. He admitted that j
he hardly looked the part of a ma
ture and experienced statesman, any
way, and said he could and did un
derstand the situation.
If It lust hadn’t been for the |
ladies—.'
General West Gets
Gettysburg Medal
A silver medal bearing the inscrip
tion ”1863-1913, Fiftieth Anniversary
of the Battle of Gettysburg," the gift
of Governor Tener of Pennsylvania
has been received by General A. J.
West, the Georgia Gettysburg Com
missioner.
Accompanying the beautiful gift
was a letter from Governor Tener in
which he expresses his sincere ap
preciation for the active interest o<
General West In the celebration.
The medal has the kneeling figures
of two veterans, blue and gray, on
one side and <n the leverse side two
hands tightly clasped.
Also, he explained, he Is not In
clined to throw away $5 on an option
on an electric feature to the new
crematory. He sent the resolution
providing this back to Council with
out acting on it. The lower branch
of Council passed It up again by a
vote of 15 to 2.
Although Council easily overrode
Mayor Woodward the thirty-third
time on the tax office merger Issue
the bill must be passed by the Leg
islature to become effective. It will
have to be attached as a rider to the
other charter amendments and then
submitted to a vote of the people
along with the other amendments.
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$500,000 Fine Paid
Texas by Oil Trust
GREENEVILLE, TEXAS. July 22
A penalty of $500,00 was paid to-day
to the State of Texas by the Magno
lia Petroleum company of Texas un
der a verdict by which H C. Folger.
Jr., and John D. Archbold submitted
to a ruling that they release 21,696
shares of stock in the company to a
trustee.
Instructions to pay the penalty
were received by officers of the Mag
nolia i 'ompany from the offices of the
Standard Oil Company of New Jer
sey.
WHY CRIME DOES NOT PAY.—
Sophie Lyons, most famous criminal
of modern times, tells of thrilling
events which crowded ore short
weak of her life, in next Sunday’s
American.
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MEN AND RELIGION BULLETIN NO. 65
CHAINGANGS IN GEORGIA
Breaking Bocks,
and a Death
Gamp
Last Thursday night a man slept chained to others.
Doubtless the drag of the shackle on his leg disturbed his rest.
In the cool of Friday morning he shuffled out of the convict camp.
Linked with clinking steel to others, he came through the woods to
the rock quarry.
The guard unlocked the gang chain.
The man scrambled down into the pit.
Work started.
The sun mounted higher.
Its beams sought and found the laborers.
Men began to feel it as they toiled.
Twelve pounds is the weight of t he ordinary quarry hammer.
Theirs weigh forty-nine pounds in this quarry.
One, buying them for the county, said:
“Strength is not required to crush stone with these. They come down
of their own weight. THE ROCK BREAKS.”
YES, AND SO DO MEN!
Forty-nine pounds to the hammer!
You could scarcely raise one.
Consider, then, what you do when you force the man to do that which
you could not endure—
Lifting this hammer—crushing stone with it when the thermometer
registers nearly one hundred degrees!
And doing this at the bottom of a funnel-shaped pit of stone into
which the sun’s rays pour and beat, enveloping in wave on wave of agoniz
ing heat the suffering striped and shackled working men!
Friday each minute the heat grew worse.
The atmosphere quivered with it. ’
The quarry became a pit of torment.
From its depths, to his keeper, the man cried:
“I am sick.”
The guard replied:
“You didn’t say so this morning.”
Later the man fell fainting at his work.
Stripe-clad, shackled men lifted him tenderly.
They carried him out.
Through the woods a jolting springless wagon bore the dying man to
tne convict camp, where he died.
The man had not been condemned to death.
He was only a misdemeanor convict.
The utmost punishment provide d by your law for him was twelve
months in the chaingang, six months in jail and a fine of one thousand
dollars.
And you had no wish to kill him.
BUT THE MAN IS DEAD.
Across the ages rings the question of God: 1
“What mean you that you break my people to pieces, and grind the
faces of the poor?”
Down the centuries comes the voice of Jesus, saying:
“Woe unto you, for you load men with burdens grievous to be borne
and you yourself touch not the burden with one of your fingers.”
Do not deny responsibility for the man’s death.
Your laws—our laws—placed him in the convict camp.
Your servant, a public official, made him work the day he died.
He feared your lash—our lash.
God will require of you and of us his blood and the blood of others. 1
The Executive Committee of The Men and
Religion Forward Movement