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VOL. I. NO. 21.
Copyright, 1913, by
The Georgian Company.
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 1913.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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> Senator Smith of South Carolina
Secures Government Expert's
Figures on Total Estimated
Ravages During Last 17 Years.
Shows How $107,539,127 Yearly
Cost of Proposed Remedy Could
Be Counteracted by Diversified
Crops and United States Aid.
(The zone strip to which Senator
Smith refers as a remedy for the
boll tceevil, as proposed, would begin
in Tennessee and run down through
Alabama and part of Florida.)
By ELLISON D. SMITH.
(United States Senator From South
Carolina.)
WASHINGTON. Aug. 23.—A few
weeks ago I a$»ked some of the offi
cials in the Department of Agricul
ture to give me an estimate of the
losses the farmers of the South have
suffered as the result of the boll
weevil. The figures furnished me are
startling. From the report I make
the following extract:
“The only adequate way of arriving
at the losses due to the boll weevil is
by studying the average production
per acre by States, comparing years
of non-infestation with years of infes-
) tation. It is quite noticeable that every
State by the third year of infestation
has shown a decided reduction in
average yield per acre.
“This average production is used in'
connection with the acreage planted
to obtain an estimate in money value
of the loss from the boll weevil to the
, producers. This is only the primary
los* and is turned over and over again
as it reacts upon ginners, oy mill men,
merchants, bankers, property values,
manufacturers of the textile and the
final consumers.
“The total loss to producers ob
tained by this method from 1895
through 1912 is $841,521,135, or an
average during the 18 years of $46,-
751,174 per annum, with the loss now
reaching over $100,000,000 per annum.
These Only Obvious Losses.
“Only the more obvious losses from
the ravages of this pest can even be
estimated. These are the losses in
productivity suffered by the producers
and the losses* in business of the first
processes in manufacture.
“Figures are presented to show the
losses to the planter, the ginner and
the oil mills as follows, for the period
from 1895 to 1912:
Loss to the planters ....$841,521,135
Loms to the ginners 17.446.295
ivoss to the oil mills .... 72,270,421
Tents Only Shelter
For Toledo Families
City Is Growing So Rapidly That
Builders Can Not Construct
Houses Demanded.
Evelyn Thau) Gets Threatening Telegram Signed ‘H. K. T.) III HI . CG
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TOLEDO, Aug. 23.—Because the city
has not enough houses to rent and build
ers are not able to construct houses as
rapidly as they are desired tents are
being used as homes in Toledo.
Two tent colonies have been estab
lished in the city. In both districts oc
cupants of the tents are owners of lots
on which the temporary homes have
been erected. The lots have been pur
chased as home sites and tents are
serving as temporary homes.
The .tent homes consist of living
rooms, dining rooms and kitchens. Each
has a flower and vegetable garden and
one Is equipped with a chicken park, a
stable and outbuildings. Living rooms
are convertible into bedrooms, and ham
mocks, stretched in the open, are used
day and night.
‘Tal^e My Name Off the Signs at Once,’Is His Command
Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw in two poses made especially on Tuesday for the Hearst newspapers.
Woman Toper Has
Thirst Amputated
Obstruction in Her Throat Was Be
lieved Cause of Her Longing
For Alcbohol.
LIMA, OHIO, Aug. 23— Mary Cala-
han. 22, submitted to a surgical opera
tion in the Chief of Police’s office to
day, and it is hoped Mary’s thirst was
cut out, literally and figuratively.
Several years ago she was shot in
the jaw. A splintered bone lodged
against her palate, creating a contin
uous desire for drink. She insists the
desire was for strictly alcoholic drink
and that she had tried grape juice in
vain. Since that time Mary and her
tickling bone have given the police a
ticklish time.
Chief Ernest May consulted with City
Physician Steer. Between them they
decided on the operation.
Couple Will Re-wed
To Gain $1,000,000
Ceremony by Mormon Judge Is Call
ed Unsatisfactory by Adminis
trators of Estate.
Total $931,237,852
"To these must be added losses in
business suffered by cotton buyers and
brokers, merchants, bankers and cot
ton mills, the loss in property values,
the ultimate effects upon the con
sumer.”
In bther words, officials of the De
partment of Agriculture estimate that
the loss to the South from the boll
weevil between 1895 and 1912 has been
considerably more than $1,000,000,000,
This is staggering.
The Government has spent hundreds
of thousands of dollars to stamp out
the boll weevil, but without avail. The
Gov5.-r.ment experts, entomologists,
farm demonstration agents and others
have done splendid work In teaching
the farmers better methods of culti
vation rotation of crops, etc., but so
far as checkmating the boll weevil is
concerned they themselves admit that
their work has been a failure.
Moves Eastward Steadily.
The weevil continues its march
eastward at a steady pace each year,
and In no section where it has made
Its appearance has any method been
discovered of minimizing the damage
done by It.
Unless something la done it will
not be very long until the entire cot
ton area of the South is Infested.
Of course, some cotton can be
grown in the area Infested by the
boll weevil, but the yield per acre
and per farm is greatly reduced, while
the cost of production is greatly in
creased. I am told by a member of
Congress' who owns a large plantation
in an infested section that it costs just
about twice as much to produce a bale
of cotton now as it cost before the
boll weevil came. Many others have
given me testimony to the same ef-
feet.
When one undertakes to estimate
the loss to the South during recent
vears because of this little insect, and
then tries to estimate the probable
loss In the future, the result must
be appalling.
I have been deeply Interested in the
boll weevil for a number of years. I
have watched its spread from the
time It made its first appearance in
Continued on Page 4. Column 5.
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 23.—In order to
comply with the wishes of the adminis
trators of the $1,000,000 estate of her
father, the late Thomas R. Lamb, of
Edinburgh. Scotland, Mrs. Anna B.
Lamb-Wilson must be married to her
husband again.
The husband is E. Douglas Wilson, of
the Pennsylvania Rubber Company, of
this city. He pursued Miss Lamb more
ban 10,000 miles across the United
States and over the Pacific Ocean be
fore he married her in Honolulu last
April. The ceremony was performed by
Judge Hernandez, whom Wilson says is
a Mormon. This marriage, though legal,
did not meet with the approval of the
administrators.
College Professor
Seeks Laborer’s Pay
Unable to Make Both Ends Meet,
Teacher Resigns Chair in
University.
BERKELEY, CAL., Aug. 23.—Un.
able to make both ends meet on a
salary of $900 paid him by the Uni
versity of California, Paul Boehncke,
an instructor in the German depart
ment, has withdrawn from the fac
ulty and is seeking a position in
which he can support himself and
family of two children.
During the last few summers Boeh
ncke has managed to augment his
meager salary by working as a plas
terer at from $5 to $7 a day, or near
ly twice the amount he was paid by
the university.
Goes to Cemetery
Instead of Ball Park
Fan Mistakes Funeral Hack for Om
nibus on Its Way to
Diamond.
MONTGOMERY. MO., Aug 23.—A
baseball rooter came here from a
distance to attend the St. Charles-
Montgomery game, and by mistake
he got into a hack at the depot filled
with pallbearers going to « funeral.
As he had crepe on his het, the
ballbearers thought he had come as
a mourner and he was taken to tie
cemetery instead of the ball park.
Finding himself In a funeral pro
cession, he woke up and escaped. He
got to the ball grounds Just in time
to see the home team win.
5-Cent Fraud in Ice;
5 Days on Rockpile
Portland Dealer Is Sentenced for
Cheating Customer in 25-Cent
Transaction.
PORTLAND, OREG., Aug. 23.—Five
days at the rockpile, for a 5-cent
fraud in the sale of a piece of ice
was the sentence imposed by Munici
pal Judge Stevenson upon Thomas
Barnes, proprietor of the National Ice
and Coal Company.
Barnes delivered a 40-pound piece
of ice worth 20 cents, saying it
weighed 50 pounds and charging 25
cents.
News aenwice —
‘He Shall Never Have That Baby,” Declares the Actress, Aroused and
Angry, but Fearing for Her Life.
Rector Denounces
Paid Choir Singers
Clergyman Declares There Is No
Worship in Their Strange and
Unutterable Music.
BRIDGEPORT, CONN., Aug. 23.-The
Rev. E. J. Craft, rector of Christ Epis
copal Church, caused a sensation while
addressing a meeting of the parishioners
of Calvary parish by telling them what
he would do If he were entering upon a
new pastorate.
For one thing, he said, he did not be
lieve in paid singers for church choirs
“The service of the church was designed
for the people as a whole and not alone
for the choir/’ he said. “These modem
choirs take the worship away from the
people of the congregation and do all
the worshiping themselves. They sing
in wild and strange ways and in unut
terable tongues the praises of God.’’
BERI BERI CAUSED BY
RICE DIET, SAYS EXPERT
Special cable to The American.
BERLIN, Aug. 23.—The Berlin Med
ical Association reports that the well-
known investigator of beri beri, Dr.
Max Moszkowski, finds, after a re
markable experiment, that the disease
is caused by the yae of rice.
Dr. Moszkowski for 138 days sub
sisted almost entirely upon rice. All
the symptoms of beri beri manifested
themselves.
At the close of the experiment an
injection of serum containing an ex-
I tract of rice resulted in a complete
* recovery.
Policewoman Uses
Her Stare as Club
Declares She Has No Trouble With
Mashers After One Stern
Glare.
CHICAGO, Aug. 23—Squelch the
masher with a look. You don’t need a
whistle like the Boston women; hatpins
do not make good weapons, and a
club should be used only In a tight
squeeze.
This is the opinion of two of Chi
cago’s policewomen, both long in the
business of protecting women.
“I haven’t had any trouble with men
on the beach this year, even those who
didn’t know I was a policewoman,” said
Officer Mary Boyd, who is in charge of
the Thirty-ninth street bathing beach, j
“All you have to do when a man speaks j
to you insultingly is to look at him. j
He turns and runs.”
AUT0IST IS RUN OVER
BY HIS OWN MACHINE
JOLIET. ILL., Aug. 23.—Because
h e cranked his automobile while it
was in gear, Harry Lewis, a Joliet
banker, was run over and badly in
jured. Lewis was in a hurry to take
some friends to the Union station and
neglected to inspect his gears, the
machine would not spark the first
few’ whirls of the crank, so he opened
the throttle wider, one of the friends
put on the exhilarator to help mat
ters. and now Lewis has been two
weeks in the hospital.
Bridgeport, Conn., Aug. 18.
I want you to have that name taken
off the theater at once. You realize
your mistake. (Signed),
H. K. T.
Such was the threatening telegram
which was handed to Mrs. Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw, Harry Thaw’s wife, in
New York Monday. Her eyes blazed
as she read it. Of course, “that
name’’ meant plainly the electric sign
that blazes nightly on tfc theater
w'here Mrs. Thaw is dancing.
Wearied by the heat, agitated. Mrs.
Thaw’s nervousness increased after
reading the message.
“I can not doubt that Harry Thaw
sent this,” she said. “It is exactly
like him. Never have I received a
telegram from him which was not
signed like this, with his initials.
Probably he sent it by the same mes
senger who mailed his letter to his
mother.
She Sees a Veiled Warning.
“The words ’You realize your mis
take,’ is like him, a veiled warning of
something w’orse to come. Or if any
body but Harry Thaw sent this tele
gram to alarm me now, he must
know Mr. Thaw very well indeed.
He knows Harry hates me now.
‘Why?' you ask. I don’t know. It can
be only another symptom of his in
sanity.
‘/Merciful heavens! What I went
through for him when he was tried
for his life. Yet he showed not a
spark of gratitude. He did not seem
to realize what I had clone for him;
he took it as a matter of course.
“Why, his very letter to his mother
is another proof of his big head’—
what have the alienists called it?—
yes, ’egomania,’ ‘megalomania.’
Wife Criticises Letter.
“He writes ‘I might be asked for
interviews and do jiot wish to refuse.
Yet do not care to make a state
ment.’ I—I—I, the most important
person on earth.”
“But if Mr. Thaw has any purpose
to attack, how could ne get into New
York without being caught?” asked
The American reporter.
“Harry is a great make-up artist.”
Mrs. Thaw answered. “I have seen
him in disguises that would baffle his
most intimate friends unless they got
a look at that stare of his eyes. They
are absolutely expressionless except
when he is making a grimace. H e is
of a height, coloring and bearing that
would make it easy for him to wear
any sort of make-up without arous
ing suspicion.”
Calls Mother His Tool.
“It would be possible for Harry to
get into the Victoria Theater,” she
said, “and fire the shot he feels would
complete his mission In life. H. K. T.
is a good shot, too.
“This ‘getaway’ was not an acci
dent. It was skillfully planned and
will be carried out to the very last
frazzle edge of expertness if I know
anything about that lunatic, and God
knows I ought to.
“No human being could ever man
age Harry Tha v for any length of
time. His mother has had no influ
ence with him. In fact, she is putty
in Harry’s hand*.
“She will do anything for him, and
he has at ways depended upon this
complacency in her.”
Interviewed at Theater.
Tiie interview took place on Hara-
merstein’s roof Just after Mrs. Thaw
had finished her strenuous dancing
act. She appeared tired and nervous.
“I have had no sleep,” she contin
ued, “and between the worry over
what may happen to me, the rehears
als and my singing lesson. I am a
wreck. The newspapers are my best
friends in this crisis.”
“Do you think Dr. Austin Flint is
in danger after testifying against Mr.
Thaw at his trials and legal attempts
to free himself?”
“I think Dr. Austin Flint realizes
the danger he is in as much as 1 do,”
Mrs. Thaw- answered. “He knows how
Harry feels toward him. He remained
fixed in his belief that Harry was a
paranoiac regardless of which way
the Thaw money was flying.
Says Thaw Fears Dr. Flint.
“It Is because of the urlassailable
professional standing of Dr. Flint that
Harry Thaw has such fear of him.
“The more I think of the liberty
allowed Harry at Matteawan, liberty
that4ias given him the opportunity to
escape, the more convinced 1 am tha
New York State is no longer capable
of taking care of its criminally In
sane.”
“And your little son?”
“Harry does not know where my
little son Russell is, but with all his
cunning and omney he could find out.
He shall never have that baby.”
WOMAN POLITICIAN IS MAD
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, Aug. 23.—Countess Eliza
beth Emilie Von Wedel, a French-
woman and a former “political agent,’
who was quite a celebrity, has been
placed in a German asylum for the
insane.
Fugitive From Matteawan, Backed
by Family’s Millions,Will Utilize
Every Legal Technicality to Pre
vent Deportation From Canada,
Even if Dominion Expels Him, He
Will Fight Desperately Against
Return to Empire State, Where
He Has Been Declared Insane.
Probability of Long-Continued
Litigation and Ultimate Liberty
Counted on by Millionaire Be
fore Starting Dash from Asylum.
SHERBROOKE. QUEBEC. Aur. 23.
With Harry Thaw’s case now in the
courts of Canada, the prediction made
that It would be months—years, per
haps eternity—before the ©layer of
Stanford White Is again In the juris
diction of New York State is
strengthened.
His family, wealthy and powerful,
has rushed to his defense. He has
unlimited resources to fight the legal
battle against his deportation from
Canadian soil. When the first writ
of habeas corpus was granted, It ns- /
sured him the right to appeal his
cause to the highest Canadian court.
It is believed that this litigation
can be made to last over years. It
will be impossible to deny him bail
In the Dominion: for he is a lunatic
only in New York State. His status
now is that he is simply considered
an undesirable by Canadian immigra
tion authorities, who. it is thought,
may override the courts and deport
him.
Should the coqrts of Canada finally
rule against him, his case might be
taken up from Washington. Even
then If he were finally deported,
should he be sent to any other State
than New York, he could fight extra
dition there, and there are many emi
nent lawyers who believe that It fs
absolutely impossible to bring him
back into New York then.
Probably Considered These Facts.
All these things probably had been
considered when Thaw made hi« dar
ing escape from Matteawan Asylum,
when he dashed across the Connecti
cut border, then through the State
Into New Hampshire and from New
Hampshire into the Dominion of Can
ada.
Thaw knows well the law's delay.
He remembers his long period in the
Tombs before he was first brought to
trial for the slaying of White. He
remembers the long fight for life and
liberty then. He remembers the en
forced wait after the first mistrial. Ho
remembers the weary days of his sec
ond hearing.
He remembers the slow’ progress of
his cause during his legal efforts o
get his release from Matteaw’an
Knowing these things and recognizing
that there was hardly a bare possi
bility that ball would be denied him,
he turned toward Canada rather than
seek safety at sea. as his pursuers
thought he surely would do.
It was probably due to this realiza
tion that he accepted his arrest .it
Coaticook, Quebec, coolly and that he
awaits the Issue of his habeas corpus
proceedings Just as coolly now.
Secures Talented Lawyers.
He is represented in his application
for habeas corpus proceedings by W.
L. Shurtleff and Colonel H. R. Fraser,
one of the most talented lawyers of
Eastern Canada. He is thoroughly
buoyed up in the belief that the Ca
nadian Government will never order
his deportation or extradition.
“I have studied every legal phase of
my case and have arrived at the be
lief that 1 am safe here,” said Thaw.
“My plans did not alone include my
physical escape. I looked Into the le.
gal feature to establish my status in
any other State than New York and
any other country than the United
Stales. 1 am not a dangerous m&a, i