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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANH NEWS.
PRESIDENT STILL
IS
Stand of U. S. Will Not Be Fixed
Until He Sees Recalled
Ambassador.
WASHINGTON, July 24.—President
Wilson has not formulated a definite
plan for dealing with the Mexican sit
uation, he has not selected any of
the alternatives suggested to him for
escaping from the present tangle, nor
will he do so before his conference
with Ambassador Wilson at the White
House, scheduled for Saturday.
This statement was made at the
White House to-day and is under
stood to emanate directly from the
President.
The proposal that the President
should take the initiative in suggest
ing mediation to the warring fac
tions south of the border is scouted
at the White House.
In the first place, it is unlikely that
either side would consent to the
United States acting as a peacemak
er; secondly, the administration does
not feel that it should offer its ser
vices when it is almost certain they
would be declined with little cere
mony.
Cardinal Gibbons Lauds
Wilson’s Mexico Policy.
WESTMINSTER, MD„ July 24.—
That Cardinal Gibbons is in sympathy
with the Wilson administration's re
fusal to recognize the Huerta Govern
ment was clearly shown when, in an
interview, the aged prelate said he
thought the present Mexican Govern
ment is not well enough established
to give it permanence, and, therefore,
should not be recognized by the
United States.
He said he sympathized with Pres
ident Wilson in the delicate ques
tions confronting him in the Mexican
matter and thought he is doing his
duty conscientiously in withholding
recognition of the Huerta regime.
Intervention Too Risky.
He thought that, while European
nations were urging upon this coun
try some action for the protection of
their citizens and their property on
Mexican soil, the consequences of
American interference w'ere of too
serious character to Justify hasty
action.
He pointed out that it was by no
means certain that the Huerta gov
ernment would not soon be over
thrown, the uncertainty being so
grave that it could scarcely be reck
oned a sound de facto power, to say
nothing of its de jure authority. Un
der the circumstances President Wil
son is acting wisely, the cardinal be
lieves, in the course he has thus far
pursued.
Praise for Elder Diaz.
Referring to the uncomfortable
conditions American citizens on the
Mexican border are enduring, the
Cardinal said there was a possibility
that this border might be pushed far
ther south for their relief. He alluded
to the extreme discontent of the Mex
ican people in the State of Sonora and
opposite El Paso, Tex., as giving rise
to the impression of such a possi
bility.
The great mistake of the Mexican
people, he said, was in their repudia
tion of Porfirio Diaz, who had given
them a firm government, maintained
peace, and had done more than any
other man to develop the resources of
the country and advance its prosper
ity.
Would Cost Millions
To Stop Boll Weevil
WASHINGTON. July 24.—Federal
experts estimate that a loss of almost
$108,000,000 a year to cotton growers
in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and
Florida, would result from the adop
tion of the plan proposed recently by
Senator Smith, of South Carolina,
which contemplated the establishment
of a belt in which the growth of cot
ton should be prohibited by law in an
effort to keep the cotton boll weevil
from spreading eastward into the At
lantic Coast States.
This conclusion has been reached by
the Department of Agriculture from a
consideration of the proposed prohibi
tion in a strip about 100 miles wide
through Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia,
and Florida.
Western Pacific to
Extend Its Tap Lines
SAN FRANCISCO, July 24.—The
Gould lines will be extended into ter
ritory covered by competitors’ lines
within the next few months, accord
ing to definite plans announced by
B. F. Bush, the new president of the
Western Pacific.
The Western Pacific will push its
lines from Niles to San Jose, 18 miles;
from Orville to Chico; from Stock-
ton down the San Joaquin valley,
paralleling the -Southern Pacific in
to the Bakersfield oil district, and a
line from the main road to Reno,
Nev.
Job Hunter Pushes
Baby Cab to Gotham
NEW YORK, July 24.—Mr. and
Mrs. Lockwood, trundling a baby car
riage in which lay their two-year-
old daughter, limped into this city
hungry and penniless. Lockwood
said a stranger induced him to leave
his home in Bangor, Pa., promising
him a job and a home.
The stranger secured Lockwood's
baggage and disappeared. The Sal
vation Army took care of the couple.
HOTEL ELEVATOR HIS
SCHOOL OF AVIATION
Robert Pettit,
4, Who De
clares He’s Go
ing to be “Air
ship Flyer.”
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Don’t Like It," He Says, “But
I Must Get Used to Being
In the Air.”
Robert Pettit, 4-year-old son of
Mrs. Frances Pettit, of Denver, spends
from six to eight hours every day
“I got a bank
with 4 pennies
and a dime.
That ought to
buy a good
machine, ’ ’
he says.
in the elevator of Hotel Ansley, be
cause he wants to be an aviator.
Robert figures it this way: There
isn’t much use in buying and run
ning an airship if you are going to
get sick every time you get a few
feet up in the air; the thing to do,
therefore, is to get used to being
off the ground—and then buy your
airship.
“I don’t like to ride in elevators,”
he says, “but I’ve got to. I’m going
to be an airship flyer when I grow up,
and I’ve got to get used to being off
the ground. It is working fine, too
I can go up to the twelfth floor now
without getting dizzy. I’ll make a
dandy aviator. I’ll bet!”
The youngster has become a fa
miliar figure to attaches and guests
of the hotel. Every morning, as soon
as he can slip away from Mrs. Pettit
and his nufse, he drags his little chair
into the elevator and sits solemnly
behind the operator. He manifests
great interest in the operation of the
lift, and his greatest joy comes when
«£&•
he is allowed to hold the levers and
make believe he is operating the car.
Robert says he is going to have
an airship as soon as he is sure he
can fly without getting sick.
“I’ve got a bank at home with four
pennies and a dime in it,” he said.
"I guess that’ll get a pretty good air
ship. If it ain’t enough. Mama will
give me as much more as I need.”
DEPOT CONTRACT AWARDED.
COLUMBUS.—The Southern Rail
way has awarded the contract for
the construction of its new $40,000
freight depot in this city to E. W.
Parker, of Tampa. The work will
begin about September 1.
EMPLOYEES FEAST BOSSES.
COLUMBUS.—The annual barbe
cue given by the employees of the
Columbus Railroad Company to the
officials took place last night at Wild
wood Park, where several hundred
pnioyed the hospitality of the work
men.
Government Plans End to Rebate
Extortions Costing Lines
$42,000,000 a Year.
WASHINGTON, July 24.—The an-
swer of the Interstate Commerce Cora
mission to the application of the rail
roads east of the Mississippi and
north of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers
for permission to make a general in
crease of 5 per cent in freight rates,
will be as follows:
1. The application will be denied.
2. All railroads will be ordered to
discontinue making “allowances” to
certain favored big industrial com
binations.
This will save the general public
from paying the additional $42,000,000
a year which the railroads are asking
for and deprive certain big industrial
corporations of a sum ranging be
tween $50,000,000 and $100,000,000 an
nually.
The Commission during the past
few months has secretly made an in
vestigation to determine Just the ex
tent to which the practice of making
“allowances” to industrial short line
railroads, owned by manufacturing
concerns, is prevalent.
His Names and Facts.
It is now in possession of the
names of the concerns which receive
these “allowances” or rebates, or dis
criminatory rates—and in addition it
has the names of the railroads which
pay them, the amounts received by
the favored industrial corporations
and something of the extent to which
the practice injures the competing
manufacturers, who are not in a po
sition q> enter into such arrange
ments.
In a large number of instances. It is
claimed, the practice amounts to ex
tortion. The railroads are compelled
by the demands of competition to
make allowances to the manufacturer
for transferring his product over nis
own insignificant trackage to the
junction where the regular railroad
takes up his cars. Where several
railroads are bidding for such a man
ufacturer’s business the one which
makes the most liberal allowance
usually gets the freight
To End the Extortion.
In view of this fact it is expected
that the answer which the commis
sion will give the railroads will meet
with their approval and co-operation,
and will do away with the most im
portant of existing improper prac
tices without the necessity of prose
cution.
The railroads are asking for the
five per cent increase on the ground
/hat they must have increased rev
enue to pay their large operating
expenses, and particularly, to pay
the higher wages demanded by their
employees.
The recent demands for higher
wages would take $17,000,000.
Can Pay Wage Advance.
Under the order which the Inter
state Commerce Commission will is
sue the railroads will get more than
$42,000,000 by simply cutting off an
improper expense, and corresponding
ly, the favored trusts and combina
tions which have been mulcting them
of the amount will be deprived of it.
The railroads will be placed in a
position to pay their employees the
living wage they demand, the danger
of a huge strike will be avoided, and
the whole thing will be accomplished
without the shippers—and through
them the general public—being re
quired to pay more for the transpor
tation of the necessities of life.
PUCE IS
District No. 7 Only One Lagging.
Positions May Change Quickly.
Last Bonus On.
Standing of the contestants in The
Georgian and Amertean pony contest
is published Thursday, and again is it
possible to see what remarkable gains
have been made by the busy con
testants.
District No. 7, it seems, must "speed
up” if it is to get anything except
The la,st choice of the ponies. for
George Melton, with 110,125 votes, is
leading, and A. Morrison, with 106,-
000, is second.
On the other hand, Herbert Chap-
Children in Race
For Pony Outfit
DEATH III Kill
ROBS DIXIE TAR
OF A FORTUNE
Anderson, S. C., Youth, Heir to
Mother’s $250,000 Estate,
Slain in Philadelphia.
DR pi
Choice of University President
Lies Between Louisville and
Raleigh Ministers.
Clifford Henry, Carrollton, Ga.
Eugene Willingham, 29 Gordon
street.
Metropolitan Gets
Abbey's 'King Lear'
NEW YORK, July 24.—The Metro
politan Museum of Art has come into
possession of “King Lear,” one of the
most beautiful and noted of the paint
ings of Edwin A. Abbey. The picture
formerly was a part of the collection
of the late George McCulloch, which
was sold in London this spring. It
was bought by Knoedler for $25,200
and sold to George A. Hearn, who
presented it to the museum.
PHILADELPHIA. July 24.—Wilbur
Martin, the young sailor from Ander
son. S. C., who was killed here re
cently in a brawl in a tenderloin sa
loon, was worth more than $250,000 in
his own right, according to informa
tion received here to-day.
The fascination that the sea he»i
for him and the adventures of a naval
career led him to give up the enjoy
ment of his fortune to become a com
mon seaman on the battleship Con-
nectiout.
He inherited this fortune when his
mother died last March. His relatives
at once began to plead with him iO
j give up his adventurous life and settle j
down in Anderson. The lure of the j
sea was too great, however, and ne j
disregarded their pleadings and ad
vice. In despair, his relatjves ap-
| pealed to Washington, but this last
hope was without avail.
The Connecticut has been at the ;
League Island Navy Yard several
weeks. With the rest of the sailors, 1
Martin was in the habit of coming
ashore and visiting the places of
amusement He was in a saloon in
the old tenderloin district the other
night when he became Involved in a |
quarrel with a stranger.
Words led to blows and a general j
j brawl resulted. Suddenly a weapon
Was drawn and Martin sank t<> th«* !
; floor. A hurry was sent to the police j
and to a nearby hospital. Martin was i
unconscious and died within a few j
I minutes.
Before her death his mother had
! argued with him to leave the navy 1
! and come home, where he could have
every luxury that he desired. His in
I variable reply was that he loved the
j service too well and would stay in *t
! all his life.
MACON, July 24.—The presidency
of Mercer University lies between the
Rev. W. W. Landrum, of Louisville,
Ky., formerly of Atlanta, and the Rev.
T. W. O’Kelley, pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Raleigh, N. C., ac
cording to men in close touch with
affairs at the institution.
The special committee appointed to
choose a president has offered the
office to one of sixteen ministers and
educators who were under considera
tion, and they decline to state his
name until he has either accepted or
declined.
It *8 believed that Dr Landrum,
who Is now with the Baptist Theolog
ical Seminary, is first choice, and that
If he declines the place will be ten
dered to the Rev. Dr. O’Kelley. The
latter delivered the commencement
address here this year.
OPTIMISTIC AT 110.
BLOOMINGTON. ILL., July 24 —
James Morgan, of Grundy County,
has just celebrated his 110th birth
day. He expects to live another
decade.
FACE BADLY
Also on Hands. Broke-Out in Pim
ples, Itched Badly. Spread All
Over Body. Cuticura Soap and
Ointment Cured.
man in District No. 4 has rolled up
and PTorence Greenoe, with 204.000
206.000 votes, and Fannie Mae Cook
and 202,000, are close behind, pursued
at no great interval by Eleanor Raoul.
Nathaniel Kay and Oscar Eugene
Cook.
Between these extremes aer the
leaders of the various other districts.
In district No. 1 the leader. George
Rosser, has 205,000 votes, and Helen
Brantley is close behind with 201.000
hyid them.
votes. A field is closely bunched be-
Standing Con Change Quickly.
The city carriers and newsboys
have been the most active, and Ross
Greer has 208,000 votes, with Ray
mond Wilkinson, at 205,000, pushing
him hard. In this race there are nino
boys above the 100.000 mark.
Ben Steinberg, of Cartersville, is
leading the Georgia boys and girls’
race with 126.000 votes. Clifford
Henry, of Carrollton,/ has 123,000
votes. Three more are within two
years’ subscription to The Georgian of
the leader, which shows how quickly
the relative standing of these con
testants may change.
Sons to Seek Pardon
For Aged Wife Slayer
MACON, July 24.—Sons of Roger
McCall, a 75-year-old Macon man.
who shot and killed his wife two
years ago while intoxicated, and who
is now serving a lif • sentence at th°
State F’arm, will apply shortly to the
Prison Commission for a recommen
dation for a pardon.
A petition is now being circulated in
this city.
Hardy Elected Head
Of Retail Merchants
At the meeting of the Retail Mer
chants’ Association of Georgia, con
cluded Wednesday evening, the fol
lowing were elected officers; J. \Y. S.
Hardy* Waycross, president; W. P.
Grantham. Thomasville, vice presi
dent; John Barten. Atlanta, re-elect
ed sertary. Th association Is fighting
for garnishment and fraudulent
check laws.
The time and meeting place of the
next convention was referred to the
executive committee.
Sewage Plant To Be
Finished by Sept. 1
W. A. Hansel, assistant chief of
construction, has announced that the
Peachtree Creek sewage disposal
plant will be ready for operation by
September 1. With the completion of
this plant Peachtree Creek, about
which there has been much complaint, f
immediately will be purified.
The main part of the plant practi
cally is complete, but the city has not
yet been able to get sufficient stone
for the filter beds.
Champ Clark Won’t
Let His Wife Fly
WASHINGTON, July 24. — The
yearning of Mrs. Champ Clark, wife
of the Speaker of the House, to en
gage in an aviation flight, while visit
ing Representative and Mrs. Baker,
at Wildwood, N. J.. received a setback
when the Speaker flatly refured to let
her go.
“I never talk back to Champ.” she
said. He is master of his own house
and so I guess I won’t fiy just now.”
Hampton Springs. Fla.—*'T had had
ftexama on my face and hands for about
three years. My face was badly disfigured.
The eczema broke out In
pimples and itched so very
badly I would scratch it all
the time. It wan the most
irritating disease I have ever
had It started on my face
and hands and it spread all
over my body. I had great
large sores all over me, caused
^" " from the eczema. It both
ered me day and night so that 1 could not
rent afall
“I used three remedies for skin disease
and they didn’t give relief at all. I was
almost terrified until a friend recommended
Cuticura Soap and Ointment to me. They
helped me from the time I started to use
them. I used the Cuticura Soap and warm
water as a wash and then put the Cuticura
Ointment on the sore places. I only used
two cakes of Cuticura Soap and two boxes
of Cuticura Ointment and was cured.”
(Signed) Mrs. K. C. Parker. Dec. 7, 1912.
When you buy a fine toilet soap think of
the advantages Cuticura Soap possesses over
the most expenstve toilet soap ever made.
In addition *o being absolutely pure and re
freshingly fragrant, it is delicately yet effec
tively medicated, giving you two soaps in
one. a toilet and a skin soap at one price.
Sold throughout the world Sample of each
mailed free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
pout-card “Cuticura. Dept. T. Boston.”
Men who shave and shampoo with Cu
ticura Soap will find it best for skin and scalp.
Millionaire Youth
Works for $9 a Week
BOSTON, July 24.—Elisha S Coil- j
verse, a 19-year-old boy with a mil- I
lion dollars in his own name, with i
a 50-foot sailing boat, saddle horses '
and a motor car, is working as an I
ordinary “hand” in a rubber shoe fac- I
tory. He earns $9 per week.
The Clink
of Comfort
in a glass of
Iced
Postum
Means more than the passing pleasure of a cool drink
on a hot day.
Postum contains no drugs, but it does contain vitalizing
food elements from wheat that afford lasting refreshment, and sus
tains the heat-wearied body by furnishing the support Nature
requires.
Instant Postum dissolves instantly in hot water. Chilled
with ice and flavoured with sugar and lemon, it makes a delicious
drink that cools and comforts and is really a food for Brain and Nerves.
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There’s a Reason” for Postum
A
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