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The Georgian’s Weekly
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News Briefs
Being the News of Each Day of the Week in Condensed Form Specially For the Busy Man and the Farmer
VOL. V. NO. 31. ATLANTA, GA., WEEK ENDING JULY 22,1913
Sc A MONTH, 36c A YEAR Entered at the Atlanta. Qa., Poatofflcc aa 8econd Claai Mall Matter.
Published Weekly By
THE GEORGIAN COMPANY
20 E. Alabama-st., Atlanta. Ga.
POST 10 CARRY
Rates Also Cut in First and Sec
ond Zones—Chart Replaces
Map.
WASHINGTON, July 22.—The
Postoffice Department has announced
Important changes in the operation
of the parcel post system, including an
increase in the maximum weight lim
it on packages from 11 to 20 pounds,
a reduction in the rates of postage
within the first and second zones and
the substitution of a convenient rate
chart for the elaborate parcel post
map in determining postage rates.
Since the establishment of the par
cel post system, many requests have
been received at the Postoffice De
partment for an increase in the maxi
mum weight of packages that will be
carried and a corresponding reduction
in the rates of postage.
The act of August 24, 1912, estab
lishing the system authorizes the
Postmaster General, with the consent
of the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion, after investigation, to change
from time to time, in his discretion,
the classification, weight limit, rates
or zones, to improve the service.
After weeks of consideration, Post
master General Burleson submitted
to the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion and got its consent to the fol
lowing changes, which are to be ef
fective on August 15:
The first zone shall include the ter
ritory within the local delivery of any
office and the first zone rate of post
age will apply to all parcel post mail
deposited at any office for local deliv
ery or for delivery by city carrier or
on rural routes emanating from that
postoffice.
The second zone shall include the
remainder of what is now the first
zone together with the present second
zone, and shall include all the units of
area located in whole or in part with
in a radius of approximately 150 miles
from any given postoffice.
The rate of postage on parcels
weighing in excess of four ounces in
the proposed first zone—that is, for
local delivery—will be reduced from
5 cents for the first pound and 1 cent
for each additional pound or fraction
thereof, to 5 cents for the first pound
and 1 cent for each additional two
pounds or fraction thereof.
The rate for the proposed second
zone—that is, the territory embraced
within a radius of 150 miles from any
given postoffice—will be reduced from
5 cents for the first pound and 3 cents
for each additional pound (the pres
ent first zone rate) or 6 cents for the
first pound and 4 cents for each addi
tional pound or fraction thereof (the
present second zone rate) to 5 cents
for the first pound and 1 cent for each
additional pound or fraction thereof.
The maximum weight of parcel post
packages will be increased from 11
pounds to 20 pounds, the increase of
weight to apply only to the first and
second zones. No change has been
made in the restrictions as to the size
and form of the package.
PRAISES MODERN MEN.
CHICAGO, July 22.—“David and
Solomon and some other patriarchs
were excellent men as judged by the
standards of their own time, but they
would not be admitted to member
ship in the church of to-day,” said
the Rev. John Thompson, of Chicago,
who contends the world is growing
better.
The speaker said the rise of golf,
baseball and other outdoor sports was
a sign of improving moral standards.
“DELUGED WITH PROSPERITY.”
“Dixie is bubbling over with pros
perity.”
That is the characteristic way in
which J. W. S. Hardy, of Waycros3,
president of the Retail Merchants’
Association, defined commercial con
ditions in the South at the associa
tion’s convention headquarters in the
Hotel Ansley.
PHILADELPHIA SLUMBERS.
PHILADELPHIA, July 22.—Be
cause the chimes on the chapel of
the Little Sisters of the Poor here
disturbed the sleep of persons living
in the vicinity, the bells which were
brought from Prance, will be silent
hereafter from 7 p. m. to 7 a. m.
6,500-Pound Cheese
Made in New York
UTICA, N. Y., July 22.—Th e finish
ing touches on a cheese weighing 6,500
pounds, the largest cheese ever made
in New York State, if not in the
world, were put on to-day at the
Gowdy factory in Martinsburg.
Two days’ milk from two factories
was required. The cheese will be
exhibited at the State fair in Syra
cuse.
POLITICS CAUSES DUEL.
LEXINGTON, KY., July 22.—After
having a fist fight over politics Sun
day at Olympia, Bates County, Thur
man Pergrain and a man named Har
ris agreed to go home, get their guns
and settle it. They met as arranged
and shot it out.
Pergram was mortally wounded and
died while being taken to a hospital
here.
35 Negro Convicts
Are Burned to Death
JACKSON, MISS., July 22.—Thir
ty-five negro convicts were burned to
death when fire last night destroyed
the prison cage on the State convict
farm at Oakley, Miss.
STORK ALIGHTS ON TRAIN.
LOUISVILLE, July 22.—The stork
presented Mrs. D. J. Jones, of John
son City, Tenn., with a girl baby
while on a westbound Southern Rail
way train to join her husband at Col
orado Springs.
The youngster arrived en route, be
tween North Vernon, Ind., and Fair-
field, Ill. The train was backed to
North Vernon, and the mother and
baby were taken to a hospital. The
husband was notified and is on the
way to North Vernon.
U. S. SOIL BOARD
American Commissioners Get .Im
portant Information in Ireland.
Sail for Home.
LONDON, July 22.—The American
Agricultural Commission has com
pleted its inquiry and sailed from
Queenstown by the Cedric to New
York. They spent eleven days in the
United Kingdom, the first three of
which were devoted to London and
the surrounding agricultural district.
Everywhere the commission was
cordially received, but there was at
first considerable doubt just what was
the precise scope and aim of the in
quiry, doubt which members of the
commission* did not appear to have
been quite able to dispel. Immediate
ly on reaching Ireland, public inter
est in the proceedings commenced to
liven, and the published debates of
the commission and those with whom
they conferred upon agricultural ques
tions became absorbingly interesting.
Many members of the commission
declared before leaving Ireland that
they there got nearer to the kernel
of their problem than in all their pre
vious European wanderings.
When the commission came to Ire
land they found that a body of rural
reformers had for nearly a quarter of
a century been trying to induce Irish
farmers to adopt the co-operative
measures employed by Continental
competitors.
Members of the commission who
had seen the marvelous effect of co
operative organization on the Conti
nent were told how it had been intro
duced into Ireland to supplement tho
agrarian revolution through which
the country had been passing. They
became satisfied that the Irish rural
scheme of regeneration was the best
that could be devised.
RIOT AT POPE’S ROOMS.
ROME, July 22.—After 24 hours of
wild rioting by the Pope’s Swiss
guards, during which the men were
shorn of their military powers at the
Vatican, order was restored to-day.
The demands of the soldiers, which
caused the mutiny, will not be grant
ed. The soldiers had asked conces
sion raising the embargo against
them visiting wine shops and other
stores along the Tiber; the right to
choose their own commander; the in
crease of the guards’ quota, and a
demand that no punishment be meted
out to them for their mutinous con
duct.
HIGH COST OF DYING CUT.
CHICAGO, July 22.—The high cost
of dying is to be lowered in Chicago
with the advent of motor buses. The
funeral bus will have a compartment
to the right the chauffeur’s sent
for the coffin, and above it a place
for flowers. Near the driver will sit
the minister and the undertaker, and
there will be accommodations for 27
mourners.
The funeral bus, it is said, will re
duce the transportation cost by $30.
Ten of the buses are to be in opera
tion soon.
INTERVENTION DEMANDED.
WASHINGTON, July 22.—A sen
sational resolution demanding inter
vention in Mexico within 30 days un
less peace be restored, and denounc
ing the Huerta regime as one of
“brute force, incendiarism, rapine and
murder,” was introduced in the Hou.mj
to-day by Representative William IL
Murray, of Oklahoma, a Democrat.
The resolution provides that tho
President shall notify Mexico that
peace must be restored and that *lio
lives and property of American citi
zens and all foreigners sojourning in
Mexico shall be respected.
BRYAN TAKES A NAP.
CHICAGO, July 22.—For two hours
early to-day Secretary of State Bryan
sat nearly upright in a railroad sta
tion seat and slept. When his train
was called he entered a drawing room
and prepared to awake in Oelwein,
Iowa, where he was scheduled to give
a Chautauqua lecture this afternoon.
Before his nap Secretary Bryan en
tertained four newspaper men at a
midnight lunch which cost him 45
cents. He ate canteloupe off a dairy
lunch chair.