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5 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. T [ Huge Monopolies Crush Organiz ers and Crumble From Own Weight, Declares Forbes. By B, C. FORBES. JUST LIKE A WOMAN Do we really need to become very excited over the growth of American combinations? Is it, aft$r all, neces- sary to pass laws restricting their sire? • * * Recent events suggests that nature and natural laws tend to govern this nroblem better than man-made laws. Is not growth carried to ex cess apt to lead to disintegration? Does not abnormal centralization bring decentralization? * * • There is a limit to what one man can do. If he be brainy he may be able to direct intelligently the labor of a thousand men. If he be a genius he may efficiently organize and su pervise the work of a hundred thou sand men. But breathes there a hu man being who can effectively in spire and control the energies of half a million of his fellows? • • • Charles A. Mellen sought to carry centralization to excess. And do you not see that the first task of the New Haven directors is to bring about decentralization? No individual could hope to preside successfully over a huge railroad system, an intricate and extended trolley system and a large steamship system. Mellen aim ed at doing all that. The new scheme is to split up the organization into several parts and place a practical, trained man at the head of each. * * • The greatest industrial combina tion in the world is the United States Steel Corporation. The ablest brains in the country joined to build it up. At first responsibility was divided, but gradually one man has assumed control, Elbert H. Gary. An argu ment for centralization? I rather think not, for the strain has been so great that Judge Gary has aged twen ty years in the last five. * • • Andrew Carnegie regards him as one of the greatest geniuses ever born. But even Gary cannot long continue to direct the labors of 200,000 men, notwithstanding that decentralization has been carried far in the way of * placing each plant on its own feet and running it as a separate unit. * * • I was shocked to note the change in the Judge last time I saw him. His physique and his spirit have both un dergone a terrible ordeal. I question whether any man will be found able to fill his shoes. The tremendous size of the corporation has not made it more profitable than small, well-man aged steel companies. Some of its competitors, less unwieldly, are do ing better. * • • Let us turn to the railroad world. The greatest railroad system ever de vised is the Pennsylvania. Cast your mind back over the roll of its presi dents and you will realize that the office has killed them. One by one they have gone under. The human frame and the human mind could not bear up against the super-human task, despite the fact that no more perfect transportation machine was ever evolved. • • v* Harriman centralized to excess— do you remember how he declared to official investigators that he would buy up every railroad in the country • if the Government would let him? Well, the load crushed him into a premature grave and his successors are turning to decentralization as the only way out. No man has been dis covered big enough to fill the Harri man mantle, to use his own phrase. * * * James J. Hill may be quoted as an V exception to the rule here enunciated. Yet he has not run riot in arrogating power to himself. His chief task was upbuilding the Great Northern. The Northern Pacific, the Burlington and other enterprises have been more or less side lines, the active management of which he placed in other and able hands. • # • Colossal machines constructed by supermen cannot be held together aft er their builders pass away, for su permen cannot transmit their genius to their heirs or successors. When a Napoleon or a Cromwell goes, the power they centralized is decentral ized. * * * Oup captains of finance and _ in dustry to-day are not less ambitious than those who have gone before, but the very ablest of them are coming to realize that human nature has its limitations, that the mind and the body can stand only a limited amount of pressure, and that the penalty must be paid for every excess. ... Then, too—this statement will be challenged by those not familiar with part of their glamor. Power is a the facts—swollen fortunes are losing magnet as strong as of yore. But it has been learned that power can come only through careful recogni tion of the public’s rights and de sires and that to ride roughshod over > the people's will is to court disaster. Selfish centralization of excessive cower is frowned upon, and the lead ers of to-day know it. They are, therefore, less given to attempting autocratic designs. They **« that safety and lasting success lie in mod eration, not in excesses. Final Hours Find Contestants Piling Up Votes by Thousands. Hustlers Will Win. Fate Drags Major Francis Walker to Vagrant’s Cell—Career Reads Like Novel. England Not to Join In the Panama Fair Special Cable to The Georgian. LONDON, July 31.—The foreign office to-day announced that England would not participate in the Panama Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. There is considerable mystery in diplomatic circles over England’s re fusal, but outside of the bare an nouncement made by the foreign office, no further statement was is sued. It te generally believed, however, that England adopted this attitude because she still resents the treat ment accorded her by the United States In the Panama Canal tolls con troversy. Millionaire Held on Charges of Children CHICAGO, July 31.—David G. Max well, a millionaire box manufacturer, was released under $1,000 bond pend ing the investigation of his conduct with two little girls, aged 13 and 7. The children were away from home all night. Maxwell was identified by them as the man who gave them money, took them riding In his auto mobile and spent the night with them in an abandoned basement. Rah! For Gbe Wolo! Harvard’s Black King CAMBRIDGE. MASS.. July 31.—A full-blooded African chieftain has just passed his entrance examinations at Harvard with flying colors. He is P Gbe Wolo. His people, 300,000 strong, are the Krus of Liberia. They have no written language, so he has begun the stupendous task of reducing his language to writing, making a gram mar and translating the Bible. He speaks French fluently and Eng lish without the trace of an accent. CHILD BREAKS AN ARM. FORSYTH.—Louise, the young daughter of Mrs. James Kendrick wno is visiting her mother, Mrs. C. A. Ens'gn, at Forsyth, fell while play ing around the house breaking two bones in an arm, the fractured bones protruding through the flesh. IN SLAYING PLOT Two Convictions Already Have Resulted for the Killing of Bellton (Ga.) Man. GAINESVILLE, July 31.—Mrs. Sil- va Hawkins goes on trial to-day as the third defendant indicted jointly for the murder of her husband, Ar thur Hawkins, near Bellton, on May 27. Bartow Cantrell, 16 years old, was found guilty without recommendation by a jury Wednesday night, following the conviction on Tuesday of his brother, James Cantrell. Sentence has not been passed on either of them pending the disposition of the case against the slain man’s wife. The evidence is that Bartow* Can trell killed Hawkins at the instance of his brother, by sh< *>ting Hawkins from his mule as he was returning from the day’s work in the flel 1. Judge Jones called the jurors to the courtroom Wednesday afternoon and recharged them. Th'» jury was out from 2 to 7 o’clock. Stole to Keep Family And Enjoy Gay Life ' CHICAGO. July 31.—Richard Zen- kers, member of an old French-Ger man family and a graduate of Heidel berg, was being held to-day for an embezzlement of $7,000. Zenkers confessed he could not make his $200 a month pay the ex penses of himself, his wife and his five children, and his activity in the “white light” district. Mrs. Vanderbilt Aids Child Her Auto Hit NEWPORT, R. I., July 31.—Kneel ing in the dust of John Street yes terday, Mrs. Elsie French Vanderbilt held in her lap the head of 4-year-old Edward Cannell. who had been struck and knocked unconscious by her heavy touring car. It was with the greatest difficulty that John Flynn her chauffeur and bystanders Induced her to let them carry the boy into a nearby drug store. Mrs. Vanderbilt was being driven up John street, when the boy ran in front of the car. He suffered con cussion of the brain, and is on the dangerous list at the Newport hos pital. Thursday at midnight The Georgian and American pony contest closes. It will be a day of bustle and ac tivity. There is not a candidate who has not saved leserve strength for the last spurt. The votes are rolling in by thousands upon thousands. The bonus offers now are nothing but history. Votes count on the last day only according to the straight schedule. From a month to two years, subscriptions to The Georgian and American in combination, or singly, yield votes which will win for twen ty-two happy boys and girls a pony each. Eleven more boys and girls will win gold watches, and eleven will win silver watche^—there are forty- four prizes in all. The first contestant in each dis trict w'ins a pony, cart and harness. The second wins a pony, saddle and bridle. The contestants of all the eleven districts are not pitted against each other, except that the winner receiv ing the most votes has first choice of the ponies, and so on down the line, until the last of the twenty- two winners gets the last pony in the strlrg. But they are all good little animals, sound and strong, and the twenty-second is as good in all real essentials as the first. The contest aas been a thorough success. It will make forty-four chil dren happy with prizes, and it has given to ail who went into it earnest ly some business experience which will be worth more in later life than the value of a pony or a w*atch. Nothing but commendation has been heard for the manner in which the contest has been conducted, and. indeed, it could hardly be otherwise, for nothing but scrupulous fairness has marked the entire race. COLUMBIA, S. C., July 31.—Major Francis Douglass Walker, 72 years old, is dead at the Home for Confed erate Soldiers here. He was a mem ber of the Pinckney family and fought in many big battles of the war between the states. After the war he went to New* Tork City to enter business and was for a time prominent in social circles. In 1908, after a series of financial losses, he was sent to Blackwell’s Island i* a vagrant. Major Walker was sent here by a group of wealthy New York women of Southern birth, who arranged a ba zaar in his benefit at the Waldorf-As toria. Major Walker was a cadet at the Military Academy in Charleston when the first Confederate gun was fired at Fort Sumter. He jumpe«i fr<yn the classroom and ran to the water’s edge, four classmates with him. There was no boat, so they swam half a mile to the Ironclad Battery which helped batter the Federal fortress into sub mission. Flogs Rival on Stage. In the winter of 1877 Walker was the chief actor in an event that stirred Brooklyn’s society folk and became a national sensation. One night in the 1 'old Academy of Music, where the Amaranth Society was giv ing an amateur performance, Walker jumped on the stage and horsewhip ped a player who was his rival for the love of a young widow. Walker had wafned him not to appear in the same ca9t with the woman. The man Walker whipped later became vice president of one of the most impor tant corporations in the world and the husband of the young woman. Walker was arrested for assault. After a trial he was sentenced to 60 davs in the penitentiary on Crow Hill. His lawyers soon got him out of jail and a petition was started a his behalf, which was signed by Hen ry Ward Beecher. A letter from Gov ernor Hampden to Governor Robinson turned the tide in his favor. He did not return to the penitentiary. IL traveled for many years and then poverty overtook him. Asks Shelter; Sent to Jail. One night in the fall of 1908 a tall man with snow white hair stood be fore Magistrate Tighe in the Adams police court in Brooklyn and asked for a night’s lodging. It was Major Walker. The Magistrate could do nothing but commit him to the pen itentiary for six months. Then, through the co-operation of the Con federate Veteran Camp of New York, and the U. S. Grant Post, G. A. R., of Brooklyn, the Major was trans ferred to the King’s County Alms house. Wealthy women of Southern birth heard of Walker’s troubles. They or ganized a bazaar at the Waldorf-As toria on January 14, 1909, »and $3,000 was raised for his benefit. With this money he was sent to the Soldiers’ Home at Columbia, where friends got a clerical position for him. Major Walker had outlived pU his relatives. TO START ASBESTOS PLANT. GAINESVILLE.—An asbestos manu facturing plant is to be established here by a Chicago concern, which will also make this a distributing point for a pat ent roofing. Operations begins at once. LOSES SUIT FOR HORSE. FORSYTH— R. B. Giles lost his suit in the city court against the Mayor and Aldermen of Forsyth. He sought $200 for the death of a horse fatally injured by a road machine. Bryan Rejects Offer For a $3,000 Speech ST. LOUIS, July 31.—Secretary Bryan, in a message received to-day. declined an offer to speak at the Coliseum in this city. Spearmen Lewis, the promoter, had arranged to "play the Secretary of State at popular pricee.” It was estimated that house would be worth $6,000, of which the Secre tary was offered one-half. Mr. Bryan replied that he was speaking "during a limited period, and then only at Chautauqua*." SEASHORE EXCURSION AUGUST 7. Jacksonville, Brunswick, St. Simon, Cumberland, At lantic Beach, $6.00—Limit ed 6 days. Tampa, Fla., $8 —Limited 8 days. TWO SPECIAL TRAINS. 10 p. m. solid Pullman train. 10:15 p. m. Coach train. Make Reservations Now. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. IF YOU'RE OUT FOR A GOOD TIME- No need for us to tell you about the pleasures of Kodaking; every body knows—because it Is the one universal form of enjoyment. Almost everybody owns a Kodak. What you ought to do is to get yours right now and get busy these beautiful summer days. In the fewest possible words—you can have twice as good a time if you take a Kodak along. $1 up to $66. We will take pleasure In showing them to you. If yo u already have one, send us your films for developing. / A. K. HAWKES CO. KODAK DEPARTMENT H WHITEHALL HAND CUT OFF BY TRAIN. HARLEM.—Percy Willingham, while attempting to cross a railroad track in front of a moving freight train fell, the wheels of the engine cutting off his left hand at the wrist. SURVIVES LIGHTNING BOLT. MACON, July 31.—Although hit by a bolt of lightning, which demolished her front proch and set the house on fire, Lula Conner, a negress, living m East Macon, will live. ‘Squarest Gambler/ Silver Bill Riley, Dies CHICAGO, July 31.—Colonel “Sil ver Bill” Riley, known to gamblers of the United States as the “squarest sporting man” of all the race track and poolroom fraternity, is dead. He was rated a millionaire when he quit gambling activities in 1888. He was almost penniless when he died. He gave away large sums of money. He settled $100,000 on his wife in New York when they separat ed several years ago. “Silver Bill” never allowed a minor in his poolroom and he prohibited the smoking of cigarettes, card play ing and faro in his place. Columbus Runaways Found in Rio Janeiro COLUMBUS. July 31.—McClarken Clarke and Emmett Smith, boys who disappeared from their homes here about April and who were thought to have “shanghaied” on an Italian bark in Mobile a few* days later, have been located by the United States authorities in Rio Janeiro, Brazil. Arrangements for return passage for the runaways will be made at once. GETS $500 DAMAGES. FORSYTH.—Because he was not allowed a sufficient time to alight from a train at Pope’s Ferry. W. H. Evans, of Monroe county, recovered $500 from the Southern railway in the City Court of Forsyth. Allen’s Special Shoe Sale To-morrow and Saturday Until 1 o’Clock 1000 Pairs of Shoes At $2.95 « Pair These include our $4.00 and $5.00 shoes. In this lot at $2.95 we have shoes of all leathers, and most every size in every leather. You can’t help from getting your size in one of the styles, for all sizes are in this sale. We also have a special lot of white shoes at $1.95 and $2.45 a pair. J. P. Allen & Co. SHOE SALE of the Season will start to-morrow (Friday) morning The best Shoes—the best Styles—the best Values and the largest stock of Footwear to select from. We will sell SUMMER SHOES for Men & Boys Ladies, Misses and Children, at prices lower than we can buy them for to-day Johnston & Murphy’s and Stacy Adams’ Men’s Shoes are included $7.00 $0.00 $5.00 $4.00 $3.50 $3.00 Low Shoes now only. ... Low Shoes now only.... Low Shoes now only.... Low Shoes now only.... Low Shoes now only.... Low Shoes now only.... $5.35 $4-85 $3.95 $3.15 $2-85 $2-45 All Ladies’ Fancy Slippers for Evening or Street are included $2-50 $2-oo $1-75 $1.50 $£.25 $£.00 Low Shoes now only.... Low Shoes now only.... Low Shoes now only.... Low Shoes now only.... Low Shoes now only.... Low Shoes now only.... $£.95 $£.65 $£.45 $£.20 95 c 85 c These prices apply to both our main floor and downstairs department. Sale continues through month of August Goods sent C. O. D.—Exchanged, or charged, if you have an account. All Summer