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U. $. OWNERSHIP SIMMS MSED
Girl Found Ill in Bath
ILL! Quits Grady Hospital
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House Expected to Get Adminis
tration Bill Soon Carrying
Out Ideas of Burleson.
Continued From Page 1.
through Government ownership.
Original Policy of Nation.
“The art of July 24. 1*66. providing
for the Government acquisition of the
telegraph lines upon pavment of an
appraised valuation, and the act of
1902 directing the Postmaster Gen
eral 'to report to Congress the prob
able cost 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
is done by all the principal nations,
the United States alone excepted.
"The auocessful 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 tho Constitution
Includes Telephones, 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 njeesage and a telegram
are the same 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
network of the country.
“Parcel post reaches everywhere ,
whereas private expresses extend
their operations only to profitable ter
ritory.” says the report. “Twenty I
millions of rural residents now have j
house-to-house delivery and collec
tions of parcels, a service formerly to
be had only in cities and towns."
Telegraph Lines Useless.
Representative Lewis, of Maryland,
who has devoted months to the study
of the Government ownership of wire
lines, is not committed fully to the
plan advanced by Burleson. The
Postmaster General believes the Gov
ertim»*nt should operate both the tele
p.’ioiif and telegraph lines The Lewis
. ■templates taking over the
telephone wires only.
"We do not need the telegraph sys
tem, said Mr. Lewis to-day. “The
>v t nment may io quire and use the
res both to semi telephone ami
’-h-^raph messages. It is being done
now."
Mr. Lewis estimates that the tele
phone systems of the country. In- i
‘hiding the Bell and independent
lines, may be purchased for $1>00.000,
000. The aequisition of the telegraph
would cost at least $200,000,000 addl- i
tional.
"The committee has not yet con
sldered the legislative features of its
annual bill," said Chairman Moon, of
the Postofflce Committee of the
House
Administration Bill Coming.
“The recommendations of tne Post
master General are yet to be digested
by the committee, but the Govern
ment ownership of telephone and
telegraph lines is such a big problem
that a party caucus probably will be
held before any definite action is
taken ”
W J BELL SERIOUSLY ILL.
\Y. J. Bell, superintendent of the
Southern Railway, is* still seriously 111
at his home. No. 110 Peeples street,
where he was brought from Birming
ham suffering with acute Indigestion
The end of a thrilling automobl’e
ride to escape mobs came Thursday
morning when three negroes, con
fessed murders of Mrs. Jefferson Irby,
of Wrens, Ga . were brought to At
lanta from Augusta by two deputy
sheriffs and lodged In the Fulton
County Tower for safe keeping Th rt
blarks are William Hart. George Hart
and Robert Pasch&ll.
All three of the negroes were on
the verge of collapse when they were
locked In their cells In the Tower, and
during the ride from Augusta to At
lanta they pleaded constantly with
the deputy sheriffs to run the car
faster Rumors of mobs forming in
Miss Elis* Ball, who was found un
conscious in the bathroom of her
apartments at No. 41 East Cain street
Tuesday night, has recovered suffi
ciently to l^ave the Grady Hospital
She went to the home * 0 relatives in
the city.
It was at first thought that the
young woman had attempted suicide
It developed, however, that her condi
tion had resulted from an overdose of
medicine.
Sweetheart's Shoes
Will Not Fit Roy
PECKER. INP.. Pec 1* Roy Man
ning broke a hone in the arch of his
foot while wearing a pair of high heel
shoes belonging to a young woman
friend.
Me was "breaking” them In for her
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN 1 , AND NEWS. »
M IS$~ B A IN TELLS HO W
TO DOTHE HESITATION
&
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HERMITS SECRET
BARED RE 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
such 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 Ga skill, ar
rived In Atlanta Thursday and went
to the little house on Forsyth street.
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
hts death.
After watting before the house,
—
which was guarded by a policeman
for a long time, efforts to llnd Der
racote having failed, Mrs. McKlnnsy
had the pigeons fed and left.
Mrs. McKinney said her brother
was 62 years old and that he had been
peculiar all of his life. From Infer*
matlon she gathered from neighbor-,
she did not think he had any ronsld
erahte sum of money In the house anl
she said she did not think h« lif t '1
will. She said she had another broth
er, Clinton Gasklll, In Houston, Texr~
but that she had not heard from hint
since he had been notified of hi,
brother’s death. Until she did n,,
funeral arrangements would he made
she said.
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towns cn 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 b> 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 cabin* >f
the Hart brothers and Pa sc hall. 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
Devotees of Waltz Should Learn
Simple Steps of This New
Dance Easily.
Here is tho 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 tho hesitation
wait/, 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
coming hack 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,
so 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 every opportunity. And
for these 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 Boston steps give
it vim and go. while there is retained
enough of the glide waltz to pre
vent Lie 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, and any recognized dance,
danced well, is graceful. The aver
age person, even with no knowledge
of dancing, should learn the hesita
tion waltz in a few lessons, and for
a ^ood waltzer the task should be
even easier.
Instructions for dancing the hesi
tation waltz could be spun out in al
most an endless thread, but I think
the following will suffice to give any
one an idea of how to dance it.
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
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 in the hesitation waltz
is made by waltzing on the left foot,
alternating forward and back, 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
well grounded.
Anu 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 w iggle 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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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
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