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The Georgian’s Weekly 36 Cents Per Year 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.