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TTTE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS
PASSIVE 110
POLICY SCOH
Fall's Resolution, Guaranteeing
American Citizens' Rights
Abroad, Is Tabled.
WASHINGTON, July 23.—The Fall
resolution guaranteeing constitutional
rights to American citizens abroad
and protection to their property, went
over without debate when the Sen
ate met to-day. This leaves the reso
lution tabled and ready for considera
tion at any time the author may see
fit to again call it up.
Fall agreed with members of the
Senate that enough publicity has been
given the Mexican situation for the
present and on motion of Senator
Simmons, the tariff bill was made the
order of business.
Senator Fall made It plain that he
wag not averse to having his resolu
tion referred to the Foreign Relations
Committee in accordance with the
suggestion of Chairman Bacon of that
committee.
“I feel confident that sufficient pub.
licity has been given the Mexican
situation through debate on this reso
lution,” said Senator Fall, “to make
it plain that the United States either
must revoke the order prohibiting
the exportation of arms into Mexico,
or take a determined attitude with re
gard to the protection of Americans
in Mexico.”
Senator Fall said in regard to the
Mexican situation that no greater
error could be made than a contin
uance of the dilatory tactics pursued
by the United States in the past.
Agreeing with Fall in this view were
a large number of Senators in both
sides of the chamber.
President and Bacon
Confer on Mexico.
WASHINGTON, July 23 —President
Wilson to-day summoned Represen
tative Flood, chairman of the House
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and
Senator Bacon, chairman of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee, to
the White House to confer on condi
tions in Mexico.
The delicacy of the present situa
tion enforced a policy of secrecy at
the White House, but it was asserted
that the purpose of to-day’s confer
ence was to discuss the advisability
of removing the ban from shipments
of arms and ammunition to the con
stitutionalists in Northern Mexico.
General Carranza and other revolu
tionists have been pleading for weeks
for the removal of this prohibition,
claiming that they are entitled to the
same privileges accorded to the Ma-
derlsts by President Taft.
’ It is doubtiul if any decisive move
will be made until after the removal
of Ambassador Wilson, but It is prac
tically certain that this Government
will favor the removal of the prohi
bition relative to the shipment of
arms to the rebels and then will await
developments in the hope of estab
lishing a stable government in Mex
ico.
Sidelights
GEORGIA
POLITICS
JAMIS IL KEVIN
U. S. Prepared to
Act on Short Notice.
WASHINGTON, July 23.—Dispatch
of a gunboat to Mexican waters, in
addition to the four battleships al
ready there, the presence of Secretary
of War Garrison and General Leonard
Wood on the Texa.« border and the
summoning of Ambassador Henry-
Lane Wilson to Washington are taken
to indicate the intention of official
circles here that the Mexican situa
tion will no longer be allowed by
President Wilson to drift.
Reports from Chihuahua and Coa-
huila indicate the centralization of
the Federalist forces in those prov
inces and the opening of railroad
communication from the capital to
the border within a week.
Mexico Is Stuffed With
Ammunition for U. S.
LAREDO, TEXSA, July 23.—A bit
ter arraignment of the United States,
accusing the Government of foster
ing the revolution which resulted in
the overthrow of President Diaz, and
of aiming mortal blows at the liber
ty and sovereignty of the weaker Cen
tral American nations, in direct con
trast to the principles of the Monroe
Doctrine, has been published in Span
ish and distributed throughout Mex
ico.
A copy of the document to-day was
forwarded to the State Department at
* Washington.
“With the pretext of diffusing civ
ilization,” says the document, "they
(the United States) send to the limit
of the continent all the castoffs, all
the excess of population which con
gests their cities, and heralds of cul
ture and progress, the majority of
those who arrive are tramps, broken
bankers, defaulters, pardoned prison
ers, the bulls of their cosmopolitan
, criminals.
"These are they who* come to us,
’ who, supported by them in obtaining
concessions, in founding banks with
out capital, to suck like vampires the
blood and the riches of the ingenuous
and credulous, noble and confiding
people.”
The Waters-Plerce Oil Company
and the Harriman Interests are flayed
for their efforts to establish trusts in
oil and railroad properties. The doc
ument then says:
"We have given them our riches and
our confidence, but we will not give
them an atom of our dignity nor an
other hand’s breadth of our territory.
The people must stand erect at the
proper moment, and this now has ar
rived. They can not annihilate us.
International complications will pre
vent them.
"They would require 100,000 men to
invade Mexico, and their triumph, if
they triumph, would be over burning
fields and mountains of corpses. They
would need their entire fleet to block
ade our ports.
"This would be very dangerous for
them, for there is someone lying in
ambush. Mexico is bristling with ri
fles and stuffed with ammunition. It
would be a horrible war.”
The Committee on Constitutional
Amendments is* the hardest worked
committee at present in the House,
but when it has cleared away the new
county propositions, which it is try
ing manfully to do, it will get a much
needed and deserved breathing spell.
Mr. Myrick. of Chatham, the chair
man of the committee, is one of the
Legislature's really tireless workers,
and sits patiently through the most
exhaustive hearings, without express
ing the slightest desire to cut any
body off or shut up the noise.
He seems determined to give every
new county proposition coming up a
"square deal” and a full committee
hearing, no matter what happens
thereafter in the House.
After the new counties are disposed
of, however, the work of the Con
stitutional Amendments Committee
will be by no means at an end. There
yet is to come up Mr. Edmondson's
bill calling for a Constitutional con
vention, and while the impression is
that no such bill likely will pass the
House at this session, that would by
no means stop the Constitutional
Amendments Committee from consid
ering. and recommending it, one way
or the other, to the Hous*e.
Besides this, there are half dozen
other proposed amendments to the
Constitution, some of which will have
aggressive and most influential back
ing. All of these Chairman Myrick
intends giving a hearing, if time holds
out.
The only thing that can head off
the chairman of Constitutional
Amendments Committee in the mat
ter of hard wqrk is adjournment—
and that will not come for twenty-odd
days yet.
Phil Cook, Secretary of State, is
happy!
He thinks he is going to get a new
Great Seal of State soon, and that is
what he has been looking for—these
many days.
For long, long years, Secretary
Cook’s pet grievance—he hasn’t many
grievances of any sort—has been that
worn-out Great Seal of State, which,
despite his best efforts, can hardly be
made out on legal documents.
Secretary Cook isn’t at all foolish
about gr^at seals of state, either. He
figures that he could have wabbled
along without them, had they never
been invented, and he would be, per
haps. quite as happy, had he never
heard tell of one.
Still, if Georgia must have a great
seal of state, he opines that it should
be one that might be differentiated
from <»ther and less Important seals,
and that without the aid of a 40-
horsepower microscope.
"Look at this thing, now,’’ said the
Secretary', exhibiting a specimen of
the present great seal’s most deadly
work. "Could you tell whether that is
the great seal of Georgia or the great
seal of Kamchatka? I couldn't, If
I didn’t know. What’s the use hav
ing such a great seal?”
Nobody' could answer that, and so
everybody listening agreed that the
Legislature should, and probably will,
pass the present bill of Mr. Nunnally.
providing for a new great seal.
"The best office in Bibb County”
will not be the best office after the
first of January' if a bill proposed by
Representative Wallace Miller is
passed by the present Legislature.
This is the office of Clerk of the
City Court, now held by Charles H.
Smith, 23 years of age, who draws an
Income of $8,000, collected in fees.
Mr. Miller’s bill puts the clerk on a
salary basis and provides for a salary
of $2,400. The clerk is appointed by
the judge, who now receives a salary
of $3,300, but for whose bent-fit there
has already been a bill introduced,
raising the pay to $5,000.
The duties of this Clerk of Court
are very light, and as he has a well-
paid assistant, the office is really a
delightful one. It has long been con
sidered the choicest office of the
county.
Professor J. W. Boyd, of Fair-
mount, Gordon County, whose elo
quent plea for Tate County was suc
cessful before the House Committee
on Constitiutional Amendments Tues
day, is one of the most picturesque
men that ever served in the Georgia
Legislature.
When a member of the State Senate
in 1908, he introduced the famous bill
abolishing the convict lease system
in Georgia, and no man fought for
the passage of that measure through
both Houses and both committees
more aggressively and more effect
ively than Boyd.
He is an orator of the old school,
with a "hallelujah lick” that reminds
one instantly of that other eloquent
North Georgian, the late Congress
man William H. Felton. Undoubtedly,
it was Boyd’s great effort before the
committee on Tuesday that carried
the day for Tate.
The argument winning the great
est favor, perhaps, was that wherein
Boyd assured the committee that the
creation of Tate would result, by
reason of the amalgamation therein of
the Republican end of Pickens, in the
abolition of one rock-ribbed Republi
can county—Pickens—and the crea
tion of a new rock-ribbed Democratic
county of Tate.
It has been years 6ince Pickens sent
a Democrat to the Legislature, all
because of the Republican end of the
county that Boyd proposes to whack
off. The republicans of Pickens,
needless to say, are bitterly opposed
to Tate and are fighting it tooth and
nail. The pressing of this partisan
point before the committee, however,
was effective.
Of course. Senator Boyd urged oth
er points, such as earnest desire upon
the part of the population effected,
necessity of location, wealth and
IN TEACHERS’ FIX
U, S, Promises Aid to
Akin’s Drainage Plan
A fight for a favorable report on
his bill appropriating $5,000 to drain
swamp lands in Georgia will be made
by Representative L R. Akin before
the Appropriations Committee of the
House when the bill comes up for
consideration Thursday afternoon
The amount requested Is to be met
by an equal amount from the Federal
Government. The Government also
ns ill furnish engineers and all other
details. According to Mr. Akin the
Secretary of Agriculture has agreed
to all this.
TO PROBE SLAYING.
COLUMBUS. — When the Law
and Equity Court of Lee County*
Alabama, convenes on August 4 the
Grand Jury will take up the case of
Homer Carmack, charged with en
tering the store of J. J. Folk re
cently and hacking him to death with
a butcher knife.
McMichael Resolution Diverts
Legislators’ Salary Fund to
Schoolma’ams,
To pay the members of the Geor
gia General Assembly in 1914 in
script', payable within six rrtonths.
and apply the fund set aside for leg
islators’ salaries to the payment of
country school teachers is the pro
vision of a resolution introduced by
Representative McMichael, of Marion
County, Thursday morning. The res
olution would have provided for this
at the present session, but for the
fact that many members already have
drawn their pay.
Should the resolution be adopted it
would mean that two-thirds of the
annual deficit of $100,000 in school
teachers’ salaries would be made up
at once. The daily payroll of the
Legislature amounts to from $1,300
to $1,500 a day.
The teachers are awaiting the pay
ment of more than $100,000 on their
salaries, past due many months.
Script usually is given, but as pay
ment is deferred from six 10 twelve
months they are forced to discount at
from 10 to 50 per cent, if they are not
in position to support themselves un
til payment of the script is made by
the State.
McMichael’s resolution is a bit sar
castic, referring to the fact that all
other employees of the State from
the Governor down to the janitors,
including the members of the Gen
eral Assembly, are paid promptly.
The resolution was referred to the
Committee on Education.
The resolution provides for the
payment of ca c, h to the legislators
for actual mileage due the members.
Secretary of Crusaders Urges In
determinate Sentence as Best
for Convicts.
Tate’s ability to take care of itself,
but the big card undoubtedly seems
to have been the anti-Republican ar
gument before a Democratic commit
tee.
Tate will go before the House when
it does go with considerable favor be
hind It.
Eckman’s Alterative
FOR THE THROAT AND LUNGS.
Eckman’s Alterative is effective in
Bronchitis. Asthma. Hay Fever,
Threat and Lung Troubles, and in
upbuilding the system. Does not
contain poisons, opiates or habit
forming drugs. For sale by all lead
ing druggists. Ask for booklet of
cured cases and write to Eckman
Laboratory, Philadelphia. Pa., for
additional evidence. For sale by all
of Jacobs’ Drug Stores.
Another gun in the campaign of
the bill providing indeterminate prison
sentences, which has been favorably
reported by both House and Senate
Committees, has been fired by Philip
Weltner, secretary of the Prison Re
form Association, which is responsible
for the bill.
“The enactment of the bill will not
only Improve convict conditions In
Georgia,” Mr. Weltner declares, but
It will increase the efficiency of the
convicts in road building. The in
determinate sentence is based on Jus
tice and common sense rather than
sentiment and ’mercy; and wherever
it has been tried it has tended to em
barrass the crook by keeping him in
up to the limit, yet holding the door
of opportunity open to the occasion
al offenders whom kind treatment and
hope can reform.
"To give a convict a fixed term of
imprisonment means that the law be
lieves It can foretell the length of
time it will take to discipline him
Wrong doing gets the perpetrator In
to prison; right doing ought to be his
only means of getting out.”
Great July Pre-Inventory Sales at
. RICH & BROS. CO.
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Little bees make
the honey;
little 44 Want Ads
make the
money
Read for Profit
GEORGIAN
-WANT ADS"
Use for Results
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$20.85 BALTIMORE
AND RETURN VIA
SEABOARD.
Sold August 1-2-3. Correspond
ingly low rates from other points.
New Steel Dining Cars, through
trains.
Unde Trusty
CanJ Keep
You From
Owning a
Home
T RUSTS have no monopoly of
the EARTH! There’s a
home in this world for
EVERYBODY—there’s a home
for YOU, right here in Atlanta.
If you are making "living”
wages, then no TRUST—no
COMBINATION—no power on
earth, except YOURSELF, can
keep you from OWNING a
home!
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If you continue to pay RENT
on somebody else’s property,
then you’ll probably never own
a home—but, if you BUY a
handsome house and lot, on our
DIVIDED PAYMENT PLAN,
then you will be the proud
owner of a splendid HOME!
.For $100 down, and as little
as $21 a month, we will sell you
a house and lot, In CAPITOL
VIEW, which is a picturesque
residential section, inside of At
lanta’s city limits—an 18-minute
street car ride from the Post-
office! We have several brand-
new houses ready for occu
pancy!
For full information, phone us
—or call at our office!
W. D. BEATIE
207 Equitable Bldg.
Be)), M :»n 3520
Atlanta Phone. 3520
300 Fine Summer
Dresses at Half Price
Just the thing to wear at the present time, when the sea
son is at its height, and certainly a timely opportunity, in
deed, to buy them at Half Price.
Many very substantial effects make up the 300 imported
ratine and lieavv linens, fine French linens and voile, Bedford
cord and very many novelty materials,
Smart French models, plain tailored models, including
dark colors that may be. worn all through
the fall.
White and light colors and dozens of
exquisite combinations of materials and
colors.
These are the kind of dresses you’ll
find in this sale, and tliere’re 300 to select
from.
You’ll not have any trouble finding
what you want. All sizes from misses’ 14
to women’s 44—all at Half Price. And, re
member, you have two months of summer
to benefit by the purchase.
A **Let-Go” of Fine Linens
Prices Drop to Halt and Less for Thisf
Most Extraordinary Clearaway
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“Clean Stocks” is our slogan—our rigid Pre-Inventory Policy is not toSE
carry over any soiled merehaudise nor odds and ends. g
That’s the reason for the finest linens in the South being offered at a frac-
tion of their value. E
To our certain knowledge no Southern store ever offered linens of such qualities at these J*
near-half and less-than half prices.
The left aisle table and counters are heaped high with values. Though the sale is sched- jE
uled for three days—Thursday. Friday and Saturday—it is plain that the best Bargains will
be snapped up Thursday. Selling starts at 8:30 with these unprecedented values. gs
Finest Table Linens
at Exactly Half Price
French table linens—acknowledged the
finest in the world. Oddments—only one pat
tern of a kind. Two or more patterns, how
ever, at the same price:
$20 cloth, 2x2 1-2 vards, at $10.00.
$25 cloth, 21-2x21-2 yards, at $12.50.
$30 cloth, 2 1-2x3 yards, at $15.00.
$25 dozen napkins, 27 in. size, $12.50.
Fine Lunch Sets
Beautiful qualities of high grade linens. Cloths
are hemstitched or scalloped. Dozen napkins to
complete each set. Just about a dozen sets in all.
to clear them, we make these pre-inventory prices:
$12.50 Linen sets, $6.90.
$15.00 Linen sets, $8.50.
Napkins in the Sale
$2
$5
QOdoz., 22 1-2 in. size,
•UO values $4 and $4.50.
QQdoz., 27-inch size,
values $7.50 to $9.
doz. 27-inch size.
values $10 to $13.
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$7.98
$5 German Damask QO
Lunch Sets Only ^*^0
All linen damask lunch sets in various colored de
signs. The cloths are inches, neatly hem
stitched. Half dozen 14-inch napkins complete the
set.
Scalloped Table Cloths i
A few odd scalloped cloths that are a little soiled. J
Sizes are 2x2 yards, 2 1-4x2 1-4 yards, 21-2x2 1-2 j
prices:
$8.50 Scalloped cloths, $4.90.
$10.00 Scalloped cloths, $5.90.
$12.50 Scalloped cloths, $6.90.
$15.00 Scalloped cloths, $8.90.
Soiled Table Cloths!
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Though these linens need a tubbing, they ]
will emerge with their “bloom” and “finish’
intact. High grade linens; full 100 per cent j
flax; honest to the last thread; the grades you !
would gladly buy at full price. Here’s how
they go to-morrow:
$6.50 to $8.50 Cloths at;;
Sizes are 2x2 yards, 2x2 1-2 yards,
2x3 yards, 2 1-4x2 1-4 yards, 2 l-2x
2 1-2 yards, 2 1-2x3 yards.
$3.90
, $10 & $12.50 Cloths at
Sizes are 2x2 yards, 2x2 1-2 yards, A Q A
2x3 yards, 2x3 1-2 yards, 2 1-4x2 1-4, J • t/ U
2 1-2x2 1-2 yards, 2 1-2x3, 2 1-2x3 1-2 yards.
$13.50 to $16.50 Cloths at
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Extremely fine tablecloths in all
sizes up to 2 1-2x4 yards.
$9.90
Pre-Inventory Pencil Pushes Down
Prices on Rich’s Staple Black Silks
Standard $1 and $1.25 Black Silks
Rich’s black silks in a sale. And at an average half price! It
is almost as if a grocer sold sugar at half. For Rich’s black silks
are as staple and as standard.
You can choose from soft, lustrous black LOUISINE; the fashionable black FAILLE '
FRANC’AIS; the gracious ever-wearing GROSGRAIN; a magnificent MOURNING SILK; the '
beautiful SATIN BENGALINE. Widths range from 20 to 27 inches. Regularly $1.00 and j
$1.25 a yard; to-morrow at 59c.
Prices on $1.00 to $2.00 Silks Slashed to
49c
You will be astonished at the values; the quantities; the varieties; the lovely
$1.00 to $2.00 silks that are offered at 49c.
You have choice of 42-inch all-silk chiffons; flowered silks, odd silks; 27-inch
chiffon taffetas in changeables and solid colors; novelty silks, including many de
sirable weaves and patterns. Lengths from 3 to 30 yards. Not a yard worth less than $1.00;
most of them formerly priced at $1.50 to $2.50. Choice 49c.
for 85c to $1.50 Silks—
55c
$IO 00
$12.50
$15.00
$18.50
$20.00
$25.00
$3 000
$35-oo
$40.00
Dresses
Dresses
Dresses
Dresses
Dresses
Dresses
Dresses
Dresses
Dresses
$
$
$
$
5.00
6.25
7.50
9.25
$10.00
$12.50
$15.CO
$17.50
$20.00
J. P. Allen & Co.
51 and 53
Whitehall
are spot-proof foulards, in choice
patterns and favored colors. The
$1.50 silks are Dolly Madison
patterns, pretty floral designs,
new this season.
for $1.00 Messalines—
choice of our entire
stock of $1 yard-wide Messa^
lines, except black or white.
? 79c
$1.19
for $1.50 silk and
wool Poplins — the
beauty of silk wedded to
strength of wool. Soft
sheer, with classic grace.
Leading shades of navy
Copenhagen, also black
brown. 42 inches wide.
the
and
and
and
for 59c Silk Foulards
33c
pin and polka dots. 23 In.
$1.39
25c
for $1.75
Crepe de
to $3.50
Chines—
includes our entire stock of $1.75
Crepe de Chines in full pieces,
except black or white, and all $2
to $3.50 Crepe de Chines in dress
lengths.
for 50c to 85c silks—
solid color messalines
and wash silks and short lengths
of staple and novelty silks. The
yard, 25c.
(Silk Anne*—Main Floor, Left)
: To Sell These Stockings
i Quickly, We Have
s Slashed the Prices
A Parasol Sale at
Nothing wrong with the
stockings, save that they
are odd lots and broken
lines that we won't in
voice. So we empty the
boxes and group the dif
ferent lots on three tables
at 29c, 49e and 59e.
Stockings are variously of
lisle and silk lisle, lace and
embroidered. Black, tan and
a few white and colors. All
sizes at each price.
$1.98
Choose any summer
parasol in stock,,
whether its former,
trice was $2.50, $3,
3.50 or $4, at $1.98.
Something like four score in all, in solid ]
colors; Roman stripes; solid colors with floral \
or Persian borders; plaids and other fancies.
Novelty and regulation shapes. Leading
colors and combinations. Select the parasol
you like—there’s a saving of about half at
$1.98. (Main Floor, Right)
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29c; values to 50e.
49c; values to 75c.
59c; values to $1.25.
(Main Floor, Right)
Half Price Sale Toys, Games, Etc.
Final outclearing Friday and
Saturday of all kinds of dolls, doll bug
gies, children’s furniture, toys, vehicles
and games. Most of the articles are at
half price; some even less than half.
(Toy Annex—Main Floor, Right)
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