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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS
II. S.
E
House Expected to Get Adminis
tration Bill Soon Carrying
Out Ideas of Burleson.
Continued From Pago 1
through Government ownership.
Original Policy of Nation.
act of July 24, 1*66. providing
for the Government arquisitlon of the
telegraph lines upon payment of an
appraised valuation, and tha act of
1*02 directing the. Postmaster Gen
eral 'to report to Congress the prob
able cost of connecting a telegraph
and telephone syetem with the poatal
servica by tome feasible plan.’ are
evidences of the policy of this Gov
•mment ultimately to acquire and
operate thepe electrical mean* of
communication as postal facilities, as
Is done by all the principal nations,
the United States alone excepted
"The successful operation of the
parcel post haa demonstrated the
capacity of the Government to con
duct the public utilities which fall
properly within the postal provision
of the 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 message and a telegram
are the same within the meaning of
the law's 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 country will enable the Gov
ernment to acquire the telephonic
network of the country.
Parcel post reaches everywhere
whereas private expresses extend
Hielr operations only to profitable ter
ritory.” * a V fl thft report 'Twenty
millions of rural residents now have
house-to-house delivery and collec
tions of parcels, a service formerly to
be had only In cities and towns.''
Telegraph Lines Useless.
Kepresentative 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
ernment should operate both the tele
phone and telegraph lines The Lewis
bill rontemplates taking over the
telephone wires only.
We do not need the telegraph ays
tem," said Mr. Lewis to-day. ‘‘The
Government may acquire and use the
wires both to send telephone and
telegraph messages It is being done
now
Mr Lewis estimates that the tele
phone systems of the country, in
cluding the Bell and independent
lines, may be purchased for $900,000,
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 Postofflc© 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, is still seriously ill
at his home. No. 110 Peeples street,
where he w r as brought from Birming
ham suffering with acute indigestion
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The f-nd of s thrilling automobi'e
ride to escape mobs came Thursday
morning when thr*f negroes, con
fessed murders of Mrs. Jefferson Irby,
of Wrens, Ga., were brought to At
lanta from Augusta by two depu y
sheriffs and lodged in the Fulton
County Tow'er for safe-keeping. Th*
blacks are William Hart, George Hart
and Robert Paschal!.
AM 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
Girl Found Ill in Bath
Quits Grady Hospital
Miss Kline Ball, who was found un
conscious in the bathroom of her
apartments at No. 41 East Cain street
Tuesday night, has recovered rniffi
ciently to leave the Grady Hospital
She went to the home < * relatives in
the city.
It was at first thought that the 1
young woman had attempted suicide
Tf developed, however, that her condi- i
flon had resulted from an overdose >f
medicine
Sweetheart’s Shoes
Will Not Fit Roy
DECKER, IND., Dee 18. Roy Man
nlng broke a bone in the arch of his <
foot while wearing a pair of high heel
shoes belonging to a young woman
friend
He was "breaking” them in for her.
MISS BAIN TELLS HOW
TO DOTHE HESITATION
Two steps in the Hesitation" waltz, posed by Miss
Bain and her dancing partner. Donald Crane.
towns en 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. Tip* woman was found by her
husband lying on the Moor in thei'
hhme.- with her head cut off and
mashed with rocks, and her little chil
dren cowering Tinder the bed. Blood
hounds were put on the trail, and the
dogs ied 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
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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 aM 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 wait*, so pop
ular in the days of our forefathers, is
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
I iiT a modified form, is being greeted.
will means the extermination of those
j dancing abominations called - turkey
1 trot and the bear and all the other
■ freak dances that require exagger-
uted, unnecessary $nd foolish move
ments of the shoulders and the body
to give them a thrill and carry them
9o 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
l dances, still have a tender spot in
their hearts for the glide waltz and
j dance it at everv opportunity. And
■ for these the hesitation is a suitable
! and satisfactory substitute. It is a
1 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 the 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 w’ill 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 good 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
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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BARED BY DEATH
Continued From Pag* 1.
probably the only true human aaeo-
clatlona he knew In later year* wax
to attend a banquet of hie young fra
ternity matee 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-
I appointed him.
So he with drew from the world, and
the world forgot him—until he became
a tjiystery.
Sister Comes to Bury Him.
Mrs. Cora McKinney, of Chatta
nooga, Tenn., a sister of Qasktll, 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 Gaskill for a few days before
his death.
After waiting before the house,
which was guarded by a policeman
for a long time, efforts to and Bet!
racota having failed, Mrs. McKinn = •
had the pigeons fed and left.
pruuiiai ai. ...» r rum tnfnr
matlon she gathered from neiehhT
she did not think he had any cons?' 1
erable sum of money in the house -.« J
she said she did not think he ieft '
will. She said she had another broth
er, Clinton Gasklll, in Houston Tex
but that she had not heard from t
since he had bee;, notified of :
brother’s death. Until she did r ,
funeral arrangements would be nisd.
she said.
The Cosmopolitan
Life Insurance Company
James 0. Wynn, President.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
James O. Wynn, W. L. Peel ,
J. K. Orr, Paul B. Trammell
Arthuj* Powell,
W. L. Pomeroy, Secretary.
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
W. L. Peel, W. J. Blalook,
John W. Grant, M. M. Riley.
Arthur G, Powell,
ANDERSON & SHROPSHIRE, of Atlanta
Now Prominently Connected With
THE COSMOPOLITAN
It gives me great pleasure to announce the appointment of Ander
son & Shropshire (Marcellus M. Anderson and A. J. Shropshire, Jr.),
of Atlanta, as managers for THE COSMOPOLITAN for territory em
bracing about forty counties 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. Mr. Anderson and Mr. Shropshire are loyal 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 actuariallv, and at the same time very attractive to
insurers.
I beg to state that THE COSM OPOLITAN is the only company
organized under the new and rigid insurance laws of Georgia, and the
organization was perfected under the direct, supervision of TTon. 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 be 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, tmiversally 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.
W T vnn in regard to this matter that he has been 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 cities 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 iu value. I am satisfied that no more advantageous se
lection of a man for the Presiden cv of the Company could have
been made, and feel that this selection assures the future success
of the Company. Yours very truly,
(Signed) WM. A. WRIGHT.
Insurance Commissioner.
1 desire to call attention to the fact that “THE COSMOPOLI
TAN” LIFE INSURANCE CO ALP ANY, 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 wavsot 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. The Company merits the fullest confidence,
and invites the closest investigation.
JAMES 0. WYNN,
President.