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VOL. I. NO. 23.
The
Copyright,
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1913, by
eorglan Company
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEF
Farm Demonstration Agents in
Louisiana to Study Cotton Pest
Which Has Crossed Border of
This State—U. S. Co-operates.
Staple’s Enemy Has Migrated 75
Miles Across Line and Is Ex
pected to Equal Distance Next
Year—Preventive Is Sought.
By CHARLES A. WHITTLE.
Georgia State College of Agriculture.
The boll weevil has landed in
Georgia. He has made his hop r,f
from 50 to 75 miles. Next season
he will measure another zone that
wide to have and to hold his cot
ton, and so on till there is no more
cotton for him to hop into.
The fight is on in Georgia. It
may be said to be inaugurated active
ly to-morrow with the invasion of
weevil territory by about 25 farm
demonstration agents of Georgia, who
are working along the western bord
er of the State of Georgia.
The party is gathering at St.
Charles Hotel in New Orleans to
day ready to start out to-morrow
over Louisiana, where the weevil is
being met.
Will Study the Pest.
To get acquainted with the wee
vil, to see how he operates, what
damage he does, Ywhen he is active,
and to observe how the Louisiana
farmers are fighting him, or standing
him off, so to speak, as far as they
are able while the cotton matures,
and to get at all the best prac
tices of agriculture under boll weevil
conditions, will engross the attention
of the boll weevil scouts for the next
ten days.
This scouting party is being taken
out by the United States Department
of Agriculture, which is operating
through the State College of Agri
culture of Georgia, using the farm
demonstration agents of the Depart
ment of Agriculture and the college-
Making use of the opportunity af
forded, the Department of Agricul
ture of the State of Georgia is send
ing along representatives, including
Assistant Commissioner Hughes and
State Entomologist Worsham. This
department received an appropriation
from the recent Legislature for pro
pagating a variety of cotton which
Professor Worsham has developed
that it is claimed is resistant to
wilt qnd largely resistant to the boll
weevil.
Campbell on Scene.
Prof. J. Phil Campbell State agent
in charge of farm demonstration
agents, boys’ corn clubs and girls'
clubs, has headed ,the party of boll
weevil scouts to weevil territory. In
each State where investigations will
be conducted, the State 'agent will
map out an itinerary for the party.
Mr. Evans, of the Department of
Agriculture at Washington, will have
general direction of the trip and
will accompany the party, represent
ing Hon. Bradford KnapjJ. who is
chief in charge of all the farm
demonstration work in the South.
Six Girls Are Kissed
10,000 Times at $1
A Smack for Charity
Prominent and Pretty Girls Receive
Salutes of Line of Men a
Block Long.
CARREL TIES
STEP NEARER TO
SALEM. OHIO, Sept. 16.—All kiss
ing performances of record were
eclipsed here when a pretty girl
member of a prominent family, was
kissed 1,688 times—and not by one
man, either. At the same time five
other girls, equally pretty and promi
nent, received the same number of
kisses, on an average.
The gix^s disposed of ten thousand
kisses at $1 each to aid the endow
ment of Salem Hospital, which has
just been completed. The osculatory
bombardment lasted two hours, and
at times there was a line of men,
young and old, a block long waiting
to fire salutes.
AU Arkansas Turns
Out to Work Roads
Governor Hays Dons Hickory Shirt
and Seizes Shovel to Aid
in Movement.
Rubber Doll Saves
Life of an Infant
Child Falls Into Water, but Toy Acts
as Buoy Until Baby Is
Rescued.
LITTLE ROCK, Sept. 6.—Fully 75,.
000 men, with picks, shovels and road
machinery and togged in overalls and
hickory shirts, turned out Thursday
and Friday all over Arkansas to work
roads, following a proclamation of
Governor George W. Hays, setting
September 3 and 4 as “Good Roads”
days. Many cities practically sus
pended business and everybody from
officeboy to banker helped “pike Ar
kansas.”
Governor Major of Missouri joined
Governor Hays in a good roads pa
rade here.
BothwGovernors were clad in regu
lation road-working uniforms, as
were other State officials and Mayor
Charles E. Taylor. Boy Scouts served
as water carriers. Society women
joined farmers’ wives along the pikes
in serving dinner.
Marshall Lays Sins
Of Youth to Parents
Vice President Says Mothers and
Fathers Are Responsible for
Tango and Slit Skirt.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—Vice
President ^Marshall's personal phil
osophy on all things, from slit skirts
to religion, was expounded to a huge
audience at Great Falls. Va., to-day,
where he played the role of "preach
er” to a camp meeting. Here follow
some of the comments of Mr. Mar
shall:
“You wonder why are the tango,
turkey trot and slit skirt; and I say
it is because the mothers of the coun
try are not interested in training
their children.
“If I were a higher critic there is
only one commandment I should
change, and for the sake of justice
I would reverse that to read, ‘The
sins of the children shall be visited
upon their parents.’ ”
Fourth of July’s
Death Total Only 32
Figures of American Medical Asso
ciation Show Remarkable De
crease in Number of Casualties.
CHICAGO. Sept. 6.—Thirty-two
persons died in Fourth'of July cele
brations this year, fewer than in any
year since statisticians began record
ing the death toll of fireworks.
Figures gathered by the Journal of
the American Medical Association
compared this total to that of 466 in
1903, the first year the association
counted the victims.
Of this year's victims, thirteen,
most of them little girls, were burned
to (dfeath when their clothing caught
fire. Two of these accidents were
caused by supposedly harmless
“snapper” matches. The non-fatal
injuries this year were 1,311, as
against 3,983 in 1903.
HUNTINGTON, W. VA., Sept. 6.
A rubber doll mat it carried saved
the infant child of Mrs. John Mathe-
ny from drowning. The mother, with
the child in her arms, fell from a
boat, and the child went underneath
a ferryboat, Mrs. Matheny being
pulled out. -
In a short time the child was seen
to emerge from the water at the oth
er end of the boat, and was rescued
It still clutched tightly the rubber
doll which acted as a buoy and kept
the baby on the surface of the water.
Spanking Inspector
Appointed by Court
Kansas City Probation Officer Sees
That Truants’ Breeches Are
Properly Warmed.
GIRL BABY, FOURTEENTH,
TIPS SCALE AT 26 POUNDS
PORTSMOUTH. N. H., Sept. 6.—The
home of Mr. and Mrs. William True
man has been invaded for several dais
by women, chieiiy mothers, to congrat
ulate them and to get a look at the
largest and handsomest baby in the city.
Minnie Louise is the latest addition
to the family of tne Truemans, and on
the day of her birth she tipped the
scales at 26 pounds. She Is the four
teenth child to arrive in the family.
KANSAS CITY, Sept. 6.—Edward
Hicks, a probation officer, was ap
pointed special master of spanking
by Judge Seehorn in the Juvenile
Court today.. Mr. Hicks, in pursu
ance of his duties, went to the home
of Charles Lyl^, and witnessed a
spanking, in which Charles Lyle was
the spanker and Charles Lyle, Jr,
the spanked.
Judge Seehorn created the new
office after hearing the story as told
by Mr. Lyle and the boy. Charles,
Jr., has the habit of running away
from home. He has been brought
into court two or three times on the
same charge.
Connective Tissue Preserved Per
manently in Condition of Ac
tive Life by Scientist.
GROWTH IS UNDER CONTROL
Constant Relation Found to Ex
ist Between Cells and Me
dium of Preservation.
T. R. Called Dead One;
Troop Drops Name
New Harry Thaw Is Evolved
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Milwaukee Hebrew Military Organi
zation Changes Title by Vote
of 20 to 1.
Becomes Just Petulant Child
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 6.—The Mil
waukee Roosevelt Guards have
changed their name to the Milwaukee
Hebrew guards, but the decision was
reached only after a prolonged and
bitter debate.
“Roosevelt? Say, he’s a dead on**
now,” declared the anti-Roosevelt
members, and then they proceeded to
argue that it was all right to name
the guards for him when he was
President, but after his retirement
to private life it was making a po
litical and factional organization of
the only Hebrew military company In
the West to retain the name.
The vote was about 20 to 1, but th*
minority made a gallant fight.
Letter in Freneh written by Harry Thaw to a reporter on
“La Patrie,” a Freneh newspaper published in Sherbrooke, in
which he thanks the paper for an editorial on “Fair Play.”
Harry Thaw in court at Sherbrooke, is shown below. This pic
ture was taken just before the spectators started a noisy demon
stration in his behalf. ’
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NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—The earlier
experiments upon the preservation of
life in animal tissues after removal
from the gros« organism have set Dr.
Alexin Carrel at the Rockefeller In
stitute at the threshold of a yet more
important discovery. These experi
ments established the facts that not
only could connective tissue be pre
served permanently in a condition of
active life, but that under certain eas
ily controlled conditions growth could
take place.
In Dr. Carrel’s laboratory cells have
been proliferating rapidly for more
than sixteen months after their re
moval from the organism of which
they had formed a part. Hitherto all
tissue when removed from the ani
mal organism has been meat; these
researches establish the fact that such
tissue may continue to grow indefi
nitely.
As this discovery became more fa
miliar to the investigator it was dis
covered that a constant relation ex
isted between the rate of growth of
the cell and the composition of the
medium in which it is preserved. This
fact, Dr. Carrel now announces in
The Journal of Experimental Medi
cine, indicated that -certain cell phe
nomena of the higher animals, such as
multiplication, growth and senility,
might now be investigated profitably.
At first blocked by lack proper
method, this investigation has now
become possible through the discovery
of a technique which permits strains
of connective tissue to multiply in
definitely in the test tubes, like micro
organisms.
May Postpone Death.
A distinct character of the progress
reports which Dr. Carrel presents is
simplicity and directness. How each
successive item of this investigation
may be adjusted to the scheme of life
In general is nowhere set forth; It Is
left entirely to inference; it is entire
ly a matter of interpretation of some
obscure hint.
In the report now issued it may be
taken that the mention of senility is
intended to foreshadow an ultimate
object of this line of profound study.
That would seem to mean that this re
search is advancing toward the dis
covery of some means of postponing
the approach of old age.
But Dr. Carrel says nothing of the
sort. He confines himself to a rigidly
detailed statement of this series of
experiments. He describes in terms
of absolute accuracy the source of
the cells upon which his research has
been based; he describes the medium
in which they have been preserved;
he gives working directions which will
enable other students to repeat the
treatment to which the specimens
have been subjected. All this detail
is very recondite; It is Information
which will interest only those stu
dents of higher physiology who may
seek to check this experiment by con
trol tests performed Independently
The results of this series of re
searches have the interest that they
prove conclusively that Dr. Carrel
has taken yet one more step toward
the goal of his inquiry. His earlier
reports established the sufficiently
startling fact that the death of the
gross organism by no means entailed
the simultaneous death of the com
ponent parts. In effect his earlier
conclusion was that the animal might
die. but the cells of which the animal
\Vas composed died in a secondary
sense only by the failure to supply the
culture medium which supported their
individual life. The first conclusion
reached was the proof of life after
death, the. survival of the cell.
Time Has No Effect.
The later investigation has estab
lished a knowledge of the character
istics of the growth of connective tis
sue. This has led to a new result, the
indefinite proliferation of a strain of
connective tissue cells outside of the
organism. The strain of connective
tissue originally obtained from a
fragment of chicken embryo heart,
which had been pulsating in the test
tube for 104 days, was still actively
alive after sixteen months of inde
pendent life and more than 190 pas
sages. The rate of proliferation of the
connective tissue sixteen months old
equalled and even exceeded that of
fresh connective tissue taken from
an eight-dav-old embryo.
“It appears, therefore.” Dr. Carrel
reports In summation, “that time has
no effect on the tiMsues isolated from
the organism and preserved by means
of thje technique described. During
the sixteenth month of life in vitro
the cells increased rapidly In number
and were able in a short time to pro
duce a large quantity of new tissue.
This fact, therefore, deflnitelv dem
onstrates that the tissues were not in
a Mtate of survival, as was the case
in certain earlier experiments, but in
a condition of real life, since the cells
of which they were composed, lik*»
micro-organisms, multiplied indefi
nitely in the culture medium.”
Bare Legs in Poster
Stir Oregon Women
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Temperance Union Protests Against
a Portola Festival Advertisement
Depicting Half-Nude Dancer.
PORTLAND. OREG., Sept. 6.—The
Oregon Woman’s Christian Temper
ance Union is up in arms against
the Portola poster that is being sent
broadcast over the country to adver
tise the festival to be held in San
Francisco.
Mrs. Ada Wallace Unruh, State
president, contends that a poster de
picting a woman with the legs par
tially bare in a dancing posture is
an insult to womanhood and should
not be allowed to represent any fes
tivity on the Pacific Coast.
The union has addressed a protest
to United States Senator Lane, to
Governor West and to State unions
throughout the West.
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UNDER FIRETO WILSON
Veteran of Civil and Spanish-
American Wars Says National
Guard Could Not Be Depended
On in Strife With Great Power.
Citizen Soldiers, He Asserts, Are
Brave Enough, but It Requires
Time and Experience to Develop
Warriors to Fill the Bill To-day.
BOSTON, Sept. 6.—That the United
States has not thoroughly digested the
lessons taught by wars of the past
and that its refusal to digest such
lessons is the cause of the present
state of unpreparedness for war is
the opinion of Brigadier General
Philip A. Reads, U. S. A., retired.
Seen at his apartment this veter
an of the Civil war, the Spanish-
American war and numerous cam
paigns against the Indians and Moros
said:
“The test of an army is the charac
ter of its men. The good soldier
makes a good citizen, and the good
citizen can be trained to be a per
fect soldier. But soldiering is an art
—it can not be learned in a minute.
A man can not put on a. uniform and
become a general. He must begin at
the bottom and work up.
“The citizen soldier* upon whom
under present conditions we would
be forced to reply in case of war. is
not a trained soldier. I do not mean
that the militiamen, as we call them
in this State, are not brave men,
courageous men. But they are not
Trouble Maker Will Immediately
Offer Himself for President at
October Election and Is Cori-
fident He Will Be Again Chosen
Return of William Bayard Hale
Is Anxiously Awaited at Wash
ington in Order To Hear First
Hand Information on Conditions
Thaw’s Nemesis, William ravers Jerome, former District
Attorney of New York, who is relentless in his efforts to have
Thaw sent hack to Matteawan
Proposes Too Loudly
And He Is Arrested
Suitor Returns to Find Affianced
Pledged to Another and
Pleadings Bring Police.
NEW YORK. Sept. 6.—Because he
proposed marriage in tones too loud,
John Flynn was parted from his
| sweetheart in Yonkers yesterday find
arrested.
Flynn was the fiance of Elizabeth
Foley, a maid in the household of
Samuel Hubbard, Jr., a cotton broker,
of No. 643 Palisade avenue, Yonkers.
Returning unexpectedly after two
years, he fotind she had forMakeft him
for a rival. He came back after mid
night. and, standing beneath a win
dow, beseeched her to murry him. Po
liceman Morrissey heird the proposal.
Judge Ellis suspended sentence.
Mother Comes to Aid of Million
aire, Who Begins Last Fight
Against Deportation.
BABY DROWNS IN VINEGAR.
TERRE HAUTE. IND.. Sept. 6.—
Lester, the 2-year-old son of Mrs.
George David, was drowned in an
eight-gallon jar of vinegar. He fell
head first into it.
COATICOOK. QUEBEC, Sept. 6 —
A new Harry Thaw is evolved out of
the legal squabble that followed his
wild dash from Matteawan. Not
Harry Thaw the slayer, nor Harry
Thaw the lunatice, nor Harry Thaw
the mjtfnonaire is the figure that Is
being made out by the men who are
trying to get him back to the States
and to Matteawan, but Harry Thaw, a
willful child, who is to be taken In
hand and, if necessary, spanked
soundly and taken home.
Captain John Lanyon, a private de
tective, who is armed with a handful
of warrants for Thaw’s arrest, told
to-day of the attitude observed by I
most of the authorities toward the j
wealthy fugitive.
“We wnuld have no scruples toward
hustling him in an automobile and
taking him back to New York, just as j
v\e woulu an IVitractable child,” said I
the captain. Thuw, in the disgusted
opinion of most of the detectives, is
not entitled to all that.i.s being done
for him.
And there is another person who
disciplined men. And in war braverf
without discipline avails nothing.
“It is true that in the Revolution
ary war a handful of citizen soldiers
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MEXICO CITY, Sept. 6.—General
Huerta is still insistent in his de
fiance of American authority and
Am<4rican policies. Balked in his
intention to succeed himself as Pres
ident by a conclusive legal opinion
vrl|ch declares his immediate suc
cession unconstitutional, he will re
sign to become a candidate at the
October election, it is rumored in the
latest talk among official circles.
The opinion which declares his suc
cession unconstitutional was obtained
at the insistence of the unofficial
American Envoy, John Lind. Presi
dent Wilson and the American Gov
ernment are openly and steadfastly
opposed to Huerta for President of
the southern republic. And it is con
sidered that Huerta’s expedient in the
contemplated resignation by w'hich
he hopes to make himself eligible to
re-election is adopted to thwart the
wishes of the powers at Washington.
The opposition at Washington «o
Huerta and his government is based
on the fear that, being unstable and
without peaceful authority, it can not
insure international obligations.
Much the same opposition was voiced
by President Hayes against Porflrio
Diaz in 1877.
Huerta to Select Successor.
High-handed as ever, Huerta ' will
select his successor to fill the office
of President for the short period be
tween the time of his resignation and
the time of his election. He i9 san
guine of that election. According to
the rumors. General Geronlmo Tre
vino has been slated to become tem
porary custodian of his presidential
robes.
Huerta can easily arrange Trevi
no’s succession by making the gen
eral his Minister of Foreign Rela
tions. Then, when Huerta resigns,
Trevino can naturally step into au
thority.
Becoming Minister of Foreign Af
fairs. Trevino would displace Fred-
erlco Gamboa, who has been evincing
a desire to aid the American author
ities in obtaining peace in Mexico.
Gamboa it was who assured Envoy
Lind that Huerta is ineligible to suc
ceed himself because of a constitu
tional prohibition which would pre
vent his Immediate succession to the
office of President, h^ being merely a
provisional President. However, there
are a number of diplomats and so-
called constitutionalists here who
hold to the opinion that this restric
tion may easily be evaded by his res
ignation in favor of another provi
sional President some time before the
election.
But whether arbitrary Mr. Huerta
resigns or not, whether the rumors
of Trevino's succession have any ba
sis of fact- it remain* generally un
derstood that Huerta will be a can
didate for election in the October
election. As a matter of policy, le
must be a candidate. He has defied
the United States in every overture
that the northern republic has made,
and must continue in his defiance by
entering the race, another action
\hich President Wilson opposes
stoutly
Refugees Crowd Vera Cruz.
With-all the tangled web of poli
tics. the human element in the stormy
situation remains. American men and
women in Mexico are torn between
fear and a courageous, almost fool
hardy, impuHe to remain in Mexico to
care for their possessions. But slow
ly the tide is turning toward thought
of discretion and safety, and daily the
arrival of more und more refugees at
Vera Cruz is reported.
Not ail these refugees come from
Mexico City. Here there Is compara
tively little unrest, but In the more
secluded sections the Americans are
torn with terror and are fleeing to the
coast.
The American government is mak
ing provision for the care of its citi
zens, the Consul General authorizing
the Consul at Vera Cruz to pay $2§
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