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NOTICE If >ou have any difficulty In buying Hearers Sunday American anywhere In the South notify Circulation Manager. Hearst’a Sunday Ameri can, Atlanta. Ga. EXTRA hWTM-L-yj-»j-i_ni~ii~ii~' —li~ i , J VOL. I. NO. 21. Copyright, 1913, by The Georgian Company. ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. P > 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 *.* *.+ +.* +.* +•* +•+ +•+ *•* +•+ +•+ *•* *•+ +•* *•* +#+ LliUL -Uu 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