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THE ATLANTA CEORC.TAN AND NEWS
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npum c flyrnr pilCLirn Girl Found Ill in Bath
Munir ULnlLRu nilu ^LU Quits Grady Hospital
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!i isp Expected to Get Adminis
tration Bill Soon Carrying
Out Ideas of Burleson,
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through Government ownership.
Original Policy of Nation.
The art of July 24, 1*66. providing
for the Government acquisition of the
teleirraph lines upon payment of an
appraised valuation, and the art of
1902 directing the Poet master Gen
eral ‘to report to Congress the prob
able coat of connecting a telegraph
and telephone system with the postal
service by some feasible plan.' are
evidences of the policy of this Gov
ernment ultimately to acquire and
operate these electrical means of
communication as postal facilities, as
la done by all the principal nations,
the United States alone excepted
"The successful operation of the
parcel post has demonstrated the
capacity of the Government to con
duct the public utilities which fall
properly within the postal provision
of the Constitution
Inolude* Telephone*, Too.
"Every argument In favor of the
Government ownership of telegraph
lines may be advanced with equal
logic and force in favor of the Gov
ernment ownership of telephone lines.
It has been competently decided that
a telephone message and a telegram
are the Bame within the meaning of
the laws governing the telegraph ser
vice and therefore It Is believed that
the statute enabling the Government
to acquire, upon payment of an ap
praised valuation, the telegraph lines
of the oountry will enable the Gov
ernment to acquire the telephonic 1
network of tVie country.
“Parcel post reaches everywhere ■
whereas private expresses extend 1
their operations only to profitable ter
ritory.” says the report ‘Twenty- i
millions of rural residents now have ’
house-to-house delivery and collec- j
tlons of parcels, a service formerly to
be had only in cities and towns.”
Telegraph Lines Useless.
Representative Lewis, of Maryland,
who lias devoted months to the study
of the Government ownership of wire
lines, is not committed fully to the
plan advanced by Burleson. The
1‘ -stmaster General believes the Gov-
'inm- nt should operate both the tel*
phone and telegraph lines The Lewis
ontemplates taking over the
telephone wires only.
We do not need the telegraph sys
tem said Mr. Lewis to-day. "The
.'overnment may acquire and use the 1
v n > both to send telephone and
'< graph messages It is being done
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Mr. Lewis estimates that the tele- j
phone systems of the country, in- i
eluding the Hell and Independent '
lines, may be purchased for $900,000,- 1
000 The acquisition of the telegraph
would cost at least $200,000,000 addi
tional.
"The committee has not yet con
sidered the legislative features of its
annual bill,” said Chairman Moon, of
the Postofflce Committee of the
House.
Administration Bill Coming.
"The recommendations of the post
master General are yet to be digested
by the committee, but the Govern
ment ownership of telephone and
telegraph lines Is such a big problem
that a party caucus probably will be
held before any definite action is
taken “
W J. BELL SERIOUSLY ILL.
W J Bell, superintendent of the
Southern Railway, iy still seriously ill
at his home. No. i 10 Peeples street,
where be was brought from Birming
ham suffering with acute indigestion.
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vigor at all times.
The r«nd of s thrilling automobf’e
ride to escape mobs came Thursday
morning when thre<* negroes, con
fessed murders of Mrs. Jefferson Irby,
of Wrens, Ga , were brought to At
lanta from Augusta by two deputy
sheriffs and lodged in the Fulton
Counts Tower for safe keeping Th rt
blacks are William Hart, George Hart
and Robert Paschall.
All three of the negroes were on
the verge of collapse when they were
locked In their cells In the Tower, and
during the ride from Augusta to At
lanta they pleaded constantly with
the deputy sheriffs to run the car
faster Rumors of mobs forming in
Miss Ellse Hall, who was found un
conscious In the bathroom of her
apartments at No 41 Fast Cain street
Tuesday night, has recovered auffi-
It was at first thought that the
young woman had attempted suicide
It developed, however, that her condi
tion had resulted from an overdose of
medicine
Sweetheart’s Shoes
Will Not Fit Roy
OFX'KKR, JNT>., Her 18 Roy Man
ning broke a bone In the areh of his
foot while wearing a pair of high heel
shoes belonging to a young woman
friend.
He was
MISS BAIN TELLS HOW
TO DO THE HESITATION
HERMITS SECRET
BARED B? DEATH
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probably the only true human asso
ciations he knew in later years was
to attend a banquet of his young fra
ternity mates in Atlanta occasionally.
To one of these he told why he led
•uch a lonely existence.
Once he had fallen In love—desper
ately in love—and the woman had dis
appointed him.
So he with drew from the world, and
the world forgot him—until he became
a mystery
Sister Comes to Bury Him.
Mrs. Cora McKinney, of Chatta
nooga, Tenn., a sister of Gaskin, ar
rived in Atlanta Thursday and went
to the little house on Forsyth stree'.
She could not get in, for it was
locked. She found that the keys were
in the possession of Derracote, who
attended Oaskill for a few days before
his death.
After waiting before the house,
for a long time, efforts to find p e .
racote having failed. Mrs. McKInn '
h*d the ptgeons fed and left.
Mr9. McKinney said her br«,h
was 62 years old and that he had h../
peculiar all of his life. From infrf”
mation she gathered from nelahiw'
■he did not think he had any cons?i*
I ■ rahle sum of money in the house
j she said she did not think he >ft
; will. She said she had another broth 1
I er. Clinton Gaskill, In Houston Texas'
: but that she had not heard fro m
since he had been notified of Vi
j brother's death. Until she did 'no
funeral arrangements would he mas,
* she said.
Two stops in the “Hesitation” waltz, posec
Bain and her dancing partner, Donald Crane.
1 by Miss Donna
towns on route reached the ears of
the sheriffs, and the trip was made by
a circuitous route to avoid them Ac
cording to stories the Augusta deputy
sheriffs told the authorities at the
Tower, the negroes reiterated their
confession of the murder during the
ride.
The murder of Mrs Irby was most
brutal. Tin* woman was found by her
husband lying on the floor in their
home, with her head cut off and
mashed with rocks, and her little chil
dren cowering under the bed Blood
hounds were put on the trail, and the
dogs led the officers to the cabins of
the Hart brothers and Paschall. The
blacks were arrested and taken to
Waynesboro, Burke County, to escape
a mob which quickly formed in
Wrens, and the militia was called out
to protect the negroes.
Mobs of greater proportions began
to form In Waynesboro, and in order
to avoid bloodshed Governor Slaton
ordered the negroes sent to Augusta.
Rumors of mobs In Augusta caused
Governor Slaton to decide to bring
the negroes to Atlanta and place them
in the Tower
qi Umbrellas
Devotees of Waltz Should Learn
Simple Steps of This New
Dance Easily.
Here is the first dancing lesson
for Georgian readers by* Miss
Donna Bain, beautiful instructor
of Atlanta society and brilliant
expert in all the latest steps.
By MISS DONNA BAIN
The popularity which the hesitation
waltz has recently achieved In Amer
ican dancing circles is an indication
that the old-time glide waltz, so pop
ular in the days of our forefathers, is j
coming back into.favor, for the hesi
tation retains many of the beauties
of the glide with distinctive varia
tions that give it what might be
termed individuality.
And, incidentally, it is to be great
ly hoped that the favor with which
the return of the glide waltz, even
in a modified form, is being greeted,
will means the extermination of those
dancing abominations called turkey
trot and the bear and all the other
freak dances that require exagger
ated. unnecessary’ and foolish move
ments of the shoulders and the body
to give them a thrill and carry them
to success.
Full of Grace and Beauty.
There was never a dance, perhaps,
sc filled with natural grace and
beauty as the glide waltz, and you
will still find that the majority of the
dancers, though they bow to the dic
tates of fashion and dance the new’
dances, still have a tender spot in
their hearts for the glide waltz and
dance it at everv opportunity. And
for those the hesitation is a suitable
and satisfactory substitute. It is a
combination of the Boston and the
old glide waltz, combined in just the
right proportion to suit devotees of
both dances. The Heston steps give
it vim and go. while there is retained
enough of the glide waltz to pre
vent tiie dance from being awkward,
and to give it a sort of bewildering
beauty that neither the Boston nor
the glide waltz alone has.
The hesitation is not hard to dance,
and to learn it one does not have to
have any special fund of natural
grace, although the more graceful the
beginner is the quicker will she learn.
Grace is an inherent quality of the
dance, ind any recognized dance,
danced well, is graceful. The aver
age person, even with no knowledge
of dancing, should learn th»* hesita
tion waltz in a few’ lessons and for
a good waltzer the task should be
even easier.
Instructions for dancing tjie hesi
tation waltz could be spun out in al
most an endless thread, but I think
the following will suffice to g;ve any
one an idea of how to dance t.
Here Are the Steps.
In the hesitation waltz the girl
should start on the right foot, and
balance back on the left, taking four
Boston walk steps forward; waltz I
back on the left and hesitate on the
right; starting on the left foot, take
four Boston steps, reversing to left
and Hesitating on the left; repeat,
starting on the right foot.
Another step n the hesitation waltz
Is made by waltzing on the left foot,
alternating forward and hack, and
hesitating on the right foot between
the waltz steps. There are numerous
others that come with practice and
that should not be attempted until
the principles of the dance have been
W’ell grounded.
And in dancing, remember that the
more you try to be graceful, the more
graceful you probably will be. And
above all do not shrug your shoulders
or wiggle your body. There are some
dances, notable interpretive and clas
sical dances, that require certain
movements of the arms, shoulders
and the body to convey the full mean
ing of the dance—but in the modern
ballroom dance such movements are
out of place and ungraceful.
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The Cosmopolitan
Life Insurance Company
James O. Wynn, President,
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
James O. Wynn, W. L. Peel ,
J. K. Orr, Paul B. Trammell
Arthur Powell,
W. L. Pomeroy, Secretary.
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
W. L. Peel, W. J. Blalock,
John W. Grant, M. M. Riley.
Arthur G. Powell,
ANDERSON & SHROPSHIRE, of Atlanta
Now Prominently Connected With
THE C0SA10P0LITAN
It gives me great pleasure to announce the appointment of Ander
son A: Shropshire (Marcellus M. Anderson and A. J. Shropshire, Jr.),
of Atlanta, as managers for THE COSMOPOLITAN for territory' em
bracing about forty eounties north of Fulton, and some few south, with
exclusive control, except counties of Fulton and DeKalb.
Both of these gentlemen are highly respected citizens of Atlanta,
and by their courteous and just treatment of agents they have built up
a very strong agency force of an unusually fine type of men.
The reasons which induced Messrs. Anderson & Shropshire to be
come associated with THE COSMOPOLITAN are worthy of note.
First, Air. Anderson and Mr. Shropshire are loyial Georgians, and feel
that they are performing a duty to their State in assisting to build up
a Great Home Institution, which is destined to accomplish an immense
amount of good in developing the resources of our State as well as the
South at large. In the second place, these gentlemen have made the
connection after weeks of deliberation and the closest investigation of
the financial condition of THE COSMOPOLITAN: the character of of
ficers and directors of the Company, and the economical and conserv
ative business policy to he pursued. Their investigation has disclosed
the fact that not one penny has been paid for the sale of the Company’s
stock, and no rebate or concession given to any subscriber, all buying
their stock on the same basis. They have found that the members of
the Finance and Executive Committees of the Company are enthusias
tic and ready to co-operate in making THE COSMOPOLITAN a
great Southern Life Insurance Company. Furthermore, they have
carefully inspected the forms of policies issued by the Company, and
found them sound actuarially, and at the same time very attractive to
insurers.
1 beg to state that THE COSMOPOLITAN is the only company
organized under the new and rigid insurance laws of Georgia, and the
organization was perfected under the direct supervision of Hon. Wm.
A. Wright, Insurance Commissioner, and Mr. John A. Copeland, Dep
uty Insurance Comissioner. Thoy are familiar with every detail, and
have given the Company their highest indorsement, as shown by the
following statement of General Wright:
OFFICE INSURANCE COMMISSIONER,
STATE OF GEORGIA:
Atlanta. March 1, 1913.
Dr. M. M. Riley. Chairman, Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sir—I desire to say that your Committee is to he con
gratulated upon having secured the consent of Air. J. O. Wynn to
accept the Presidency of the reorganized Cosmopolitan Life In
surance Company. I have known Air. Wynn officially and per
sonally for nearly thirty years, and am familiar with his career as
a Southern insurance manager. He is a man of unquestioned in
tegrity, universally recognized as an insurance man of the very
highest qualifications, and an eminently successful financier, as at
tested by the success of all enterprises with which he has been con
nected. I am satisfied from the conversation T have had with Air.
Wynn in regard to this matter that he has bben finally induced to
accept the Presidency of this Company entirely from patriotic
motives. His official connection with the company will draw
about him the co-operation of the leading business men of this and
other pities of the State, and, in my judgment, when it becomes
generally known that he is connected 'with the Company, the
stock, old as well as new. will, within a very short while, material
ly advance in value. I am satisfied that no more advantageous se
lection of a man for the Presidency of the Company could have
been made, and feel that this sole c'tion assures the future success
of the Company. Yours verv trulv,
(Signed) WM. A. WRIGHT,
Insurance Commissioner.
I desire to call attention to the fact that TIIE COSAIOPOLI-
TAN’’LIFE INSURANCE COAIPANY, which was organized on
April 5, 1913, has! no connection whatever with “Cosmopolitan” Life
Insurance Company, which failed in December, 1912. The new com
pany, by purchase from the Insurance Department, acquired the as-
.sets of the old company, paid the claims authorized by the courts, put
in new money and new officers, and intends al waysot pursue conserv
ative and safe business methods.
I confidently believe that the citizens of Georgia will appreciate
our efforts to make a Great Home Company, and will give us a liberal
share of their business. I he < ompany merits the fullest confidence,
and mvites the <-! «e«t invertitration.
JAMES 0. WYNN,
President.