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SOUTHWEST GEORGIA EXTRA EXTRA VOL. 1. NO. 21. Copyright, 1913, by The Georgian Company. ★ ★★ ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 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 weevil, 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 Keeks ago I asked some of the offi cials in the Department of Agricul ture to give me an estimate of the losses the farmer# of the South have suffered as the result of the boll weevil. The figures furnished me are startling. Prom 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 the * ■ 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 lo.'<s and is turned over and over again as it reacts upon ginners, oil 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 S100.ft00.000 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 Loss to the ginners 17.446,295 i,oss to the oil mills .... 72.270.421 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 other 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 government 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 sastward at a steady pace each year, ind in no section where it has made ts appearance has any method been Siscovered of minimizing the damage Sone by it. Unless something is done it will aot be very long until the entire cot on area of the South is infested. Of course, some cotton can bo frown in the area infested by the i»oll weevil, but the yield per acre tnd per farm is greatly reduced, while Ihe cost of production is greatly in creased. I am told by a member of Tongress who owns a large plantation n an infested section that it costs just ibout twice as much to produce a bale if cotton now’ as it cost before the loll weevil came. Many others have riven me testimony to the same ef fect. When one undertakes to estimate :he loss to the South during recent ’ears because of this little insect, and hen tries to estimate the probable oss in the future, the result must appalling. . I have been deeply interested in the loll weevil for a number of years. 1 lave watched its spread from the ime it made its first appearance in Continued on Page 6, Column 4. New Cancer Cure Arouses Germany Kaiser’s Subjects Have Cornered Supply of Mesothorlum, Found In U. S. and Brazil. BOSTON, Aug. 23.—Mesothorlum. the new cure for cancer, is causing great excitement in Germany, accord ing to Dr. F. D. Donoughe, of Bos ton, who has just returned from the Cancer Congress at Brussels and the Medical Congress In London. Ger man towns have subscribed large sums for the purchase of mesotho rlum, which is found in Colorado, the Carolinas and Brazil. A rayless product of therum, it be comes active through transformation into radio-therum. The price, for merly one-sixth that of radium, re cently has become higher. Hungary' and Germany have purchased the supply of mesothorlum available until 1915. It Is said to be a dependable cure for certain forms of cancer. Sir Herbert Tree’s Cast Stirs British Ire L EO M. FRANK as he appeared in court yesterday. The defendant was calm under the terrific denunciation of the prosecutor and watched Mr. Dorsey intently through the many hours that the Solicitor consumed in declaring the defendant one of the greatest of criminals. He seemed scarcely more moved than the spectators. * Buildings Are Blown Up by Heavy' Dynamite Charge and Then Torch Is Applied. Americans in ‘Joseph and His Breth ren’ Win Noted Playwright’s Praise. Special Cable to The American. LONDON, Aug. 23.—Antagonism has been aroused in London theatri cal circles because Americans are tc play the principal roles in Sir Her bert Tree’s production of "Joseph and His Brethren.’’ Sir Herbert said: "The Americans are wonderful in whatever they attempt to do. I have the greatest faith in their powers, and, without wishing to enter on a comparison between American and English methods, I must say I think Maxine Elliott will be a peerless Zeu- lika, and George Relph a most ro mantic Joseph.” Caruso Sadly Says: ‘My Star Is Dimming' Tenor Thinks Public Soon Will De sert Him for Young and Brilliant Star. Special Cable to The American. ROME, Aug. 23.—Caruso, who is taking the cure with his eldest son at Monte Catini, is in a philosophical mood. To a newspaper man he said: "It is about time the public ceased to take an interest in me. There are plenty of young stars rising who soon will shine with dazzling brilliancy in the firmament of art. Mine is dim ming; don’t you think so?" Then he sadly shook his head and walked slowly away. HEARTHSTONE 200 YEARS OLD FOUND IN MINNESOTA ST. PAUIMINN., Aug:. 23—The hearthstone used by early French voyagers who made their headquar ters in the stone house at Taylors Falls, in Interstate Park, was found by workmen excavating in the foun dations for relics. The house is thought to have been built 200 y ago. CASUALTIES REPORTED Attack of Merchant on Young Man Cause of Outbreak—Black Makes Escape, MOULTRIE, Aug. 23.—Greenough, a negro village Just over the line »n Mitchell County, has been partially destroyed by a mob of white men. No deaths have been reported. It appears that John Davis and his brother, young white men, had ad vanced some money to Bradley Broth ers, negro proprietors of the leading store of Greenough. The negroes failed to return the money, and wh-»n the white men went to collect, a dif ficulty arose, in which one of the negroes struck John Davis with a scantling, knocking him unconscious. The Davis boys escaped to their home and reported the difficulty and the action of the negroes. At night a mob of white men asesmbled and marched on the village, armed with dynamite and such firearms as could ^>e procured. When the village was reached, it was found the Bradleys had escaped. A charge of dynamite was exploded under the store and it was complete ly demolished, together with the stock of goods. Other stores were fired and many shots emptied Into negro houses. The fire was returned by the blacks for a short time, but without effect. The Bradleys have not been seen s , me the outbreak, and further trou ble is not expected by the whites. NO Solicitors Scathing Address Halted by Adjournment—Had Spoken for More Than Six Hours—Cheered by Big Crowd Outside the Courthouse. PRISONER CALM, WIFE SOBS AS STATE CHARGES MURDER Slain Girl’s Mother Breaks Down, but Defendant Faces Spectators With Hint of Smile—Case May Go to the Jury by Monday Noon. Insisting upon the application of the Mosaic law of “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,” Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey demanded the life of Leo M. Frank yesterday in expiation of the murder of Mary Phagan on April 26. Nothing less than the death penalty would satisfy justice, de clared the Solicitor in one of the most bitter and impassioned ad dresses a Georgia courtroom audience ever has heard. It was the closing argument of the State before the fate of Frank is placed in the hands of the twelve jurors. It was inter rupted by adjournment at 1:30 o’clock in the afternoon. The So licitor had been speaking since 9 o'clock in the forenoon and was exhausted by his efforts. His address had begun at 3:30 the aft ernoon before and had consumed a total of six and a half hours. Crowd Greets Him With Cheers. When, weak with fatigue, he asked for a recess and court ad journed until Monday morning at 9 o'clock, a great crowd awaited him outside to cheer him and rend the air with their yells because of the magnificent fight he has put up to send Frank to the gal lows for the murder of the little factory girl. The demonstration was spontaneous and was of greater mag nitude than that of the night before. He had aroused to the high est pitch the admiration of the populace for the earnest and de termined battle he was conducting for the conviction of the man he deemed guilty of the murder. Men in front of the courthouse cheered with all their might as Dorsey came in sight from out the courtroom doors. Men fromi across the street took up the cheer and the little Solicitor was given the demonstration of a governor or some other popular hero as he quickly tucked his books and records under his arms and escaped through the crowd into his law offices in the Kiser building. Hurls Charge Directly at Frank. If his tongue was tipped with venom and bitterness, it can hardly be said that the Solicitor was not sincere and in earnest* Every word and every pharse that he uttered during his long speech —the longest of the trial—carried with it the conviction that the speaker was in deadly earnest. Much of the time he was talking directly at the prisoner and was accusing him of murder and other crimes unmentionable. He looked Frank right in the eye. He leveled his finger at the defen dant sitting calmly between his mother and his beautiful wife. He called him a “red-handed murderer’’ and a pervert. Frank did not flinch. During a brief intermission, Frank even walked in front of the spectators with the suggestion of a smile on his face. If there was any fear of the verdict in his heart, it was kept buried there, far out of sight of human eyes. Likens Frank to Oscar Wilde. Dorsey compared the defendant with that prince of per verts, Oscor Wilde, and there was never a flicker of Frank’s eye nor a change in his quiet, speculative expression. Dorsey told of other | men who had possessed good reputations and yet had been guilty I of the most heinous offenses—Theodore Durant, of San Francisco; I Pastor Richeson, of Boston; Mayor McCue, of Charlottsville, Va.; Henry C. Beattie, of Richmond; Dr. Crippen, and others. In the : same connection he mentioned the name of Judge Iscariot and Ben edict Arnold, both of whom, he said, were supposed to be of good character until they had become traitors and betrayers. “Character isn’t worth a cent when you’ve got the evidence before you,” shouted the Solicitor after he had compared Frank with some of the most infamous persons he could call to mind. Prisoner Encourages His Wife. His denunciation at times was so unsparing and his words so i like a physical blow that it seemed that the prisoner must quail be j fore him. But Frank maintained his composure. In fact, during a lull in the storm of invective he occasionally would lean toward his wife or his mother and whisper a few words, accompanying them with a smile. For all that his manner betokened, he might be talking of some amusing incident that had just occured to him. If the Solicitor’s words failed to affect Frank, he was prob ably the only person in the courtroom who did not feel the inten sity and the grim determination behind each sentence and each ac cusation that came from the lips of the State’s representative. So overcome at Dorsey's blunt and grewsome description of the torturous manner in which the pretty little factory girl had