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VOL. 1. NO. 38.
Copyright, till, by
The Georgian Company.
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BRYAN GETS
Question of South American Pol
icy, Evaded Forty Years, Put Up
for Debate in Style Which May
Embarrass the United States,
Nations’ Right to Intervene When
American Is Convicted Included
in Program for Conference Ap
proved by Secretary of State.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—In giving
nis approval to the program for the
fifth Pan-American conference to be
held In Cantiago de Chile next year.
Secretary of State Bryan has opened
the way for the discussion of a vital
principle affecting the rights of Amer
icans in Latin America which the
smaller countries of this hemisphere
have for a generation urged the Unit
ed States Government to abandon.
Of eleven topics for discussion at
the conference, all but the last on the
program are entirely innocuous and
within the usual strict precautions
taken to prevent the raising of em
barrassing questions at Pan-Ameri
can meetings.
The last number, however, agreed
to by Mr. Bryan as chairman of the
program committee is a topic which
has never before been permitted to
come before the Pan-American con
ferences and one which former mem
bers of the conference regard as
charged with dynamite so far as the
Interests of the United States is con
cerned.
Here’s the Dynamite.
The eleventh topic for discussion Is:
“Declaration as a principle of
American policy that aliens do not
enjoy other civil rights or other re
courses than those guaranteed by the
Constitution and law's of each coun
try to the citizens thereof.”
International lawyers of experience
in Latin American affairs regard this
proposal as revolutionary in so far as
Ut seems to have the assent of the
^present Administration through Sec
retary Bryan’s having acquiesced in
its appearance on the program.
It is regarded as nothing less than
an attempt upon the part of certain
of the smaller and less stable coun
tries to draw the United States into
an agreement to curtail its right to
intervene diplomatically on behalf of
an American citizen in any of those
countries.
Taboo for 40 Year#.
For 40 years efforts have been made
from time to time to induce the
United States to accept the proposed
principle either by actual incorpo
ration in a treaty or by giving full
recognition to statutes to the same ef
fect enacted in those countries.
Throughout the entire period every
Secretary of State has flatly refused
to yield any such limitation on the
right of American citizens > appeal
to their Government when in difficul
ty in a Latin-American country.
There is reason to believe that Mr.
Bryan accepted the proposal at Its
face value and in perfect good faith
without acquainting himself with the
traditional attitude of his Govern
ment toward such a principle. Ho
sterns to regard the principle laid
down as in accordance with United
states policy.
Had he looked in the work of John
Bassett Moore, counselor for the State
Department, he would have found in
the "Digest of International Law”
many declarations of the determined
opposition of the United States to
proposals depriving American citi
zens of the right of appeal to the
Washington Government from deci
sions of Latin-Amerlcan courts or
authorities.
Secretary Blaine’s » iew.
Secretary Blaine in discussing the
treaty clause proposed by Ecuador,
to the effect that an American tak
ing part in international questions
should be treated, tried and con
demned as a citizen of Ecuador and
should not appeal to his home gov
ernment, said:
“The general principle which main
tains is that the judgment of the
courts of a country can not be ac-
1 ept^d as finally determining its in
ternational duties and liabilities. Once
a dmit that they are to be so accepted,
e &ch nation is left to fix the standard
°f its own conduct and the measure
‘Aeroplane Joe,’
Savannah Man’s
Song,GoesJustSo==
“Time brings about changes, we
cannot deny,
For a little bit later, this very
same guy,
Was seen tearing up roads and
ploughing up fields
With one of those six-passenger,
foredoor automobiles;
Those who now think he could
ever be checked,
Must consider for a moment with
greatest respect,
This guy has experience we would \
do well to gain,
For he’s soaring through mid-air j
with an aeroplane.
Chorus. !
| “Aeroplane Joe, we admire you so, |
| You are teaching us a lesson of j
progress we know.
' Aeroplane Joe, always on the go, '
< Just keep on going,
j Oh, Aeroplane Joe.”
Steel Trust Urges
Men to Drink Milk
Dairy Established for Workers in an
Effort to Curb the Habit of
Drinking Beer.
BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 20.—Substi
tuting milk—and Pasteurized milk, at
that—the Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Railroad Company, which employs
more men than any other company in
the South, is making an effort to
break employees from the use of beer
and liquor.
Around the big works milk stations
have been provided. In addition to
establishing a dairy with a number
of fine cows, the company has made
arrangements with dairymen for their
full output, which is Pasteurized.
Then the milk is placed before the
employees in such a manner as al
most to force itself on the men.
Instead of running to the nearest
saloon for a glass of beer, the men
have taken to drinking milk.
The company finds it is cheaper to
offer inducements to the old hands
than to keep up a labor bureau, with
agents constantly in the field for new
labor. Furniture is sold at cost. The
homes are kept in good repair. In
Iffany instances ground is furnished
for a little gardening.
Loves His Mother;
Postpones Wedding
CLEVELAND, Dec. 20.—Love for his
mother caused John Polatsek. 24, re
cently appointed to the position of Rec
ord Clerk of the Board of Education, to
postpone his wedding and risk his job
by obtaining leave of absence without
pay to take his invalid parent to Aus
tria.
The mother. Mrs. Rosalie Polatsek, 60,
has been 111. Recently she declared that
only the air of her native Austria would
help her, and her son decided to take
her to that country at once, even though
he had just been promoted from the
teaching ranks to the new position, and
was to have married Miss Mamie Deutch
this week.
['FOR HI
Savannah Conductor Declares His
Lilting Ballad Never Got Rec
ognition He Paid For.
COURT FULL OF RHYMESTERS
Aspiring Troubadours Say They
Sent Money and Got Noth
ing in Return.
Dr. Sargent Tells How
Sports Aid Americans
CAMBRIDGE, Dec. 20.—"The United
States is supreme in the business
world because its youths are supreme
in the athletic world," said Dr. Dud
ley A. Sargent, physical director of
Harvard University, to-day.
“Baseball, football and all forms of
athletics have cut a big flgure-in the
development of the American busi
ness man. Investigation shows that
at the time sports gained universal at
tention the wonderful expansion of
the nation began."
Wife’s Dress Afire,
Calls Out Engines
NEW TORK, Dec. 20.—"Send the
Are engines—quick! This is John b .
Nolan, No. 1432 East Sixty-sixth
place!”
This call last night sent three fire
companies tearing through the
streets.
"No, you can’t come in.” said No
lan, blandly, to the firemen.
“Yes, I called you because my wife’s
dress was afire, but I put it out. Good
night.”
5,000 Italians Going
Home for Christmas
PITTSBURG, Dec. 20.—The annual
exodus of Italians from the Pittsburg
district has begun. Steamship and
railroad agents estimate that fully
5,000 Italian laborers have departed
for their former homes.
With the approach of winter they
spend, a part of their savings for a
trip to Italy for the Christmas holi
days. Many will be back with the
coming of spring.
NEW YORK, Dec. IS.—Robert J.
Kellogg, of the Kellogg Music Com
pany, of No. 1431 Broadway, was put
on trial yesterday in the United
States District Court for using the
mails to swindle young poets, whom
he Is said to have promised to make
famous at prices ranging from $14 to
$21.
B. R. Hutto, a street car conductor,
of Savannah, Ga., said that after he
had been assured by Kellogg that his
“Aeroplane Joe” would make a “tre
mendous sensation," he sent on $4
extra to have a picture of himself
sitting in an aeroplane displayed on
the cover of the song.
After Kellogg’s office was raided by
the postoffice inspectors, Hutto said,
he received a letter from the publish
er saying that the photograph had been
confiscated by raiders, but that he,
Kellogg, was perfectly wdlling to let
the $4 go toward paying the last in
stallment on the $20 fee for setting
the words to music. Kellogg, accord
ing to the witness, generously agreed
to waive all rights to the song and to
ailow Hutto an undivided profit in
the sale of the same.
Judge Grubb and the Jury heard a
stanza from "Aeroplane Joe.”
Then the judge cracked a gavel,
restoring order.
Rhymers Crowd Court.
The courtroom was crowded with
the rhymers. There were pastoral
poets fresh from the virgin soli; city
poets, black poets, white poets, poets
who depended on versification for
their living, and looked It; amataur
poets with other sources of income,
who looked better fed; girl poets with
dreamy eye, lawyer poets, doctor po
ets, -and, lastly, widow poets—each
1 with a story to tell of how Kellogg
offered to set their lines to music,
give them 100 printed copies of the
same free, attend to copyright mat
ters and thereafter sell their songs
to high-class musical concerns, in
suring them a 2-cent royalty on each
song.
Prominent among the bards was
the lawyer poet from Louisiana who
wrote "The Ocean Severed the Tie
That Bound the Two in Twain,” a
tragic poem written around the Ti
tanic disaster. He was too mode.st
to give his name, and as he hasn’t
been called as a witness as yet the
Government authorities also kept it a
secret. He vouchsafed the informa
tion anonymously, however, that
when he played the tune composed
by Kellogg to fit his Titanic poem lie
found that it sounded suspiciously
like "There'll Be a Hot Time in the
Old Town To-night." Other poets
say they had similar experiences. One
of them Insisted that he had a love
sonnet set to ("Hail Columbia.”
“Widow Lady” Is Victim.
Mrs. Offie Ktme, who ascribes half
her fame to the fact that she came
from Petersburg, Ind., and the other
half to her poem, "Won’t You Come
to Me, Dearest Mother?” told Judge |
Grubb that she was “a widow lady”
trying to make some "honest” money
out of poetry. She modestly protest
ed that she never really expected to
sell her songs outside of her home
town.
During her examination Assistant
United States District Attorney
Charles H. Griffiths turned sharply
about to point at the defendant in the
dramatic manner of prosecutors, but
found his accusing forefinger leveled
at an empty chair. Judge Grubb
called a snort recess until Kellogg
was found in the hall, smoking a
cigarette. Things had become r oo
tense for him, he said.
Mayme's Sorrows.
Mayme Schneider, of Reading, Pa,
pleaded guilty to murdering the
King's English In "If You Knew."
She said she sold 95 copies to tier
friends. This, she declared, was not
her first venture, as she said she
placed a song with another musical
firm and got dividends of 35 cents In
the first six months. Kellogg, she
said, didn’t even pay that much.
Frank Brown, from Savannah, Ga.,
testified that he wouldn’t have said
a word about not getting his hundred
sample copies or a cent In royalties
after paying his $2L but he really had
to draw the line when his love song,
“Burneas Mine,” came back to him
with a number of words deliberately
“forged, into It.”
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY,
DECEMBER 21, 1313.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
His Straights Bent,
Jacks Up. No Good,
‘Uncle Joe' Unlucky
Denies Playing With John Quincy,
but Admits Sessions With the
Elder Adams.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—They
"wouldn't stand up” for Uncle Joe
Cannon last night.
Some of his former colleagues In
the House had arranged a session at
the national game—not baseball—for
the old war horse of standpattism.
and he renewed his youth from short
ly after 10 o'clock until well along in
the morning.
Every time Uncle Joe tried to get
away with a nickel raise on a good
hand everybody dropped. Every ti le
he tried to make “Jacks up” do the
work of a real'hand he was compelled
to take a look at “three small ones.”
His “flushes” would not flush and his
“straights” had kinks in them, and
after a seven-hour session in the big
game, where the blues were worth a
dime and the chocolate drops stood
for a quarter, the former Speaker
coughed up *3.08 in currency and
withdrew in disgust.
His downfall broke up the game,
and as the group was separating one
of the other players took occasion to
remark:
“Well, Uncle Joe, for a man that
has played draw poker all his life
.you’re pretty punk. To think of a
man who sat in with John Quincy
Adams putting up such an exhibition
as you have to-night!" „
Uncle Joe scratched his head and
.thought a minute. Then he drawled:
"It’s a damn lie. I never played
poker with the boy. It was his fa
ther.”
Two Oregon Towns
Have Women Mayors
TROUTDALE, OREG., Dec. 20.—
Oregon and the West won another
woman Mayor to-day wheh Mrs.
Clara Latourelle Larsson, daughter
of the late Joseph Latourelle, one of
the most prominent pioneers of Ore
gon, was elected head of the Trout-
dale town government, with only five
votes to spare.
Her opponent was S. A. Edmund-
son. Mrs. Larsson, the Mayor-elect,
has been long identified with wom
en’s clubs and civic organizations.
Oregon now has two women Mayors.
Goes to Buy Shoes;
His Rival Weds Girl
COLUMBUS, IND., Dec. 20.—Because
Joseph Walters. 22 years old, of this
city, took time to buy himself a pair
of wedding shoes to-day, he lost his
chance of getting for his wife Miss
Mary Moore, who had promised to
marry him.
With the exception of the shoes, all
arrangements had been made for the
wedding, but in the short time Walters
was gone Charles Hovis. his rival, in
duced the girl to accompany him to
the County Clerk’s office, where Wal
ters found the couple being married
when he rushed from the shoe store
to the Clerk’s office to get a license.
Will Hold Potatoes
For $1 Per Bushel
FOND DU LAC, WIS., Dec. 20.—Four
hundred and fifty empty potato cars
were counted on railroad tracks here to
day. The condition resulted from a de
termination by Wisconsin growers not
to ship until prices advance.
Word that the Southern crop is suf
fering from scab is said to have caused
the growers to believe that potatoes will
sell for $1 a bushel.
Federal Experts
Quit for Higher Pay
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20-George
Otis. Director of the United States Geo
logical Survey, in his annual report,
said that In the past four and a half
years, 41 geologists had left the Gov
ernment.
The salaries they received from cor
porations averaged nearly two and one-
half times the salaries paid them by
the Geological Survey.
Mrs Lucy Keyes, 101,
Recalls Lafayette
NEW YORK, Dec. 20—Mrs. Lucy Wil
liams Keyes, of Cambridge, who still
remembers the visit of Lafayette to this
country and the running of the first
railroad train between Boston and Wor
cester, observed her 101st birthday
quietly at the Baptist Home in Brook
line street, in that city.
She was able to receive relatives and
a small number of friends who called.
Mother-in-Law Gets
Bad Rating in Court
CHICAGO. Dec. 20.—As a destroyer of
marital happiness mothers-In-law are
six times more dangerous than fathers-
in-law. according to records of the
court have been caused by liquor. Chief
per cent of the cases brought Into this
court have ben caused by liquor, Chief
Justice Olson, of the Municipal Court,
reported.
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Anonymous Author’s Battle Be
tween England and Germany
Ends With Honors Even.
SuffrageWinsRecruits inGeorgia
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MaconWomen Form Association GETS INTO
FlfiHT FOR
Anti’ Judge Has ‘Pro’ Daughter
Miss Deborah Adams, of Savannah, and, below, Mrs. Carl H.
Fuller, both ardent advocates of equal suffrage.
ZEPPELINS SHELL LONDON
Britons Successful on Sea. but
Imperial Forces Are Winners
of Victories on Land.
Special Cable to The American.
BERLIN, Dec. 20.y-Terrific slaugh
ter and destruction by land and sea
In a war between England and Ger
many are described In a sensational
volume just published, written by an
anonymous German naval officer.
The author thinks neither side would
win, while both would meet appalling
ruin.
War was declared on Christmas
Eve, and at once the news wag re
ceived that a British submarine had
attacked and sunk the German pro
tected cruiser Gneisenau in Chinese
waters, while the German batt.e
cruiser Goeben, scouting In Danish
waters, detected the presence of sev
eral British ships.
These happenings are only a prs-
Postmaster General Joins William
Randolph Hearst in Urging Also
That the Government Take Over
All of the Telegraph Lines.
Progressives in Congress Favor
the Plan, Which Would Mean an
Expenditure ofSI.000,000,000.
Wilson’s Approval Understood.
lude, the climax of the war being a
great sea batU \ when the German
and British fleets meet between
Borkum and Heligoland. The battle
ends in England’s victory, owing to
her fleet being more powerful both in
numbers and efficiency.
After a day of fierce fighting, the
German commander, seeing several of
his finest ships silenced forever,
places his last hopes in the smaller
craft, and displays the following sig
nal:
Admiral Sends Signal.
"The Admiral will not return to
harbor before the home seas are
cleared of the enemy.”
The following reply comes from
every one of his ships:
"None of the German ships is able
to offer the slightest resistance.”
Germany having lost the first move
in the game, the Zeppelins come on
the scene. Four military airships are
secretly sent to England, flying at
night with lights out. Each succeeds
in fulfilling its mission, one pouring
explosives over the English reserve
fleet, anchored in the Solent, another
setting the Portsmouth wharves
ablaze and dropping a supplementary
bomb on Nelson’s Victory, and a third
bombarding the Harwlck docks.
Destroys London Bridge.
The last was Intrusted with the
task of blowing up London. It ap
pears at 6 a. m. over Oxford-circus,
3,000 feet in the air, and drops bombs,
destroying London bridge, the Tower
and Greenwich Observatory, and on
the way home showers melinite over
Dover. The four airships return to
Germany undamaged. Now, the war
is practically over, England having
won on the sea and Germany in the
air.
Leaders of Staid City’s Social
Life Take Up “Votes for
Women” Movement.
MACON, Dec. 20.—Three hundred
Macon women, under the leadership
of Mrs. Carl H. Fuller, have organ
ized a suffrage association.
The organization of this league, de
veloping somewhat suddenly, rather
startled staid old Macon. It was
thought that the votes for women idea
would take hold here the last place in
the South. But those who reckoned
thus have been proved grievously
wrong.
Mrs. Fuller, who came here two
years ago from Chicago, and who
once lived in Colorado, where she be
came acquainted with the practical
workings of equal suffrage, inaugu
rated this movement. Then Mrs. E.
L. Martin, one of Macon's most bril
liant women, espoused the cause.
The organization was held at Mrs.
Martin's palatial home on Georgia
avenue, and was largely attended.
The enthusiasm equaled the attend
ance. The election of officers re
sulted as follows:
President, Mrs. Carl H. Fuller; first
vice president, Mrs. E. L. Martin; sec
ond vice president, Mrs. Sara Nlsbet
Couper; recording secretary, Mrs.
Gertrude A. Stowers; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. E. A. Isaacs; treasur
er, Mrs. Ailef Benton.
Miss Deborah Adams Enthusiast
for Feminists, Though Father
Is Strong Antagonist.
SAVANNAH, Dec. 20.—The views
of Judge Samuel Adams on woman
suffrage are not shared by one mem
ber of his family, at least. Miss Deb
orah Adams, his charming and ac
complished daughter, is as ardent in
support of the cause of votes for
women ae her father, jurist and edu
cator of State-wide fame, is in op
position to it. She Is as sure of the
success of the movement, that it will
better living conditions, make a bet
ter country, and as certain that wom
an is entitled to equal rights in this
Government as her father is positive
t hat a woman’s inalienable rights and
privileges are limited to her home life.
Judge Adams’ home in Savannah is
famed for Its culture and refinement.
His children have been well educated
at schools, but the home life was In
itself a liberal education. Around the
family table and the fireside Judge
Adams each day discussed with his
children topics of current Importance
and the trend of national affairs.
They are therefore well informed in
matters of government, political econ
omy and State and national politics.
The movement for woman suffrage
came in for a good part of the dis
cussion, and it was in these discus
sions that Miss Adams took the side
of women. She studied it and talked
it until she felt herself capable of
taking a prominent part in the move
ment in Savannah, which Is yet with
out an organization.
As a leader of the younger set Miss
Adams has won over a great many
of the society girls, and it is reliably
reported that she is to take the lead
in an organization that Is soon to be
formed to advance the cause in this
city.
Tells Truth; Wilson
Commutes Sentence
LEWISTON, IDAHO, Dec. 13.—Ellas
Bowman, of Kamliah, Idaho, sen
tenced to 60 days in the county jail
and a fine of $100 for Introducing
liquor on the Indian reservation, is
the happy possessor of a pardon
signed personally by President Wil
son.
"I pleaded guilty, while Freeman
and Johnson tried to show the liquor
all belonged to me,” he said.
"The officials tell me this is the
first Presidential pardon ever received
by them for a like offense.”
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Postmas
ter General Burleson, advocating ac
quisition of telephone and telegraph
lines by the Government, has added
his voice to the widespread indorse
ment of an idea advanced several
years ago by William Randolph
Hearst.
The significance of the Postmaster
General's recommendation lies in the
fact that it is unreserved and em
phatic, and not in its novelty. Post
master General Hitchcock, in an un
authorized interview two 3 ears ago,
spoke his belief in the efficacy of
Government ownership of communi
cation lines, and thereby found con
siderable disfavor in the eyes of
President Taft. Authoritative state
ments from a number of Represen
tatives and Senators concerning Mr.
Burleson's proposition reveal the fact
that public men have been consider
ing the Idea seriously already. Rep
resentative Lewis, of Maryland, It is
disclosed, has been studying the mat
ter of Government ownership of wire
lines for several months.
Wilson Favors Project.
It is generally considered that the
Postmaster General’s proposition was
submitted after lengthy conferences
with President Wilson, and that the
Idea of Government ownership has
the President’s indorsement.
Following Mr. Hearst’s promulga
tion of the idea some time ago, an
evident interest and serious consid
eration has grown, until the frank
proposition by the Postmaster Gen
eral, bearing the stamp of adminis
tration approval has come to presage
adoption of the plan.
"The Postoffice Department should
have control of all means of intelli
gence,” Mr. Burleson stated In his
annual report. “A study of the con
stitutional purposes of the postal es
tablishment leads to the conviction
that this should be the case. The
monopolistic nature of the telegraph
business makes It of vital importance
to the people that it be conducted by
unselfish interests, and this can be
accomplished only through Govern
ment ownership.
U. S. Owned First Line.
"The first telegraph line In this
country was maintained and operated
as part of the postal service, and it
Is to be regretted that Congress saw
fit to relinquish this facility to pri
vate enterprise.
"The act of July 24, 1866. providing
for the Government acquisition of
the telegraph lines upon payment 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 the Gov
ernment ultimately to acquire and
operate these electrical means of
communications, the United States
alone excepted.”
Postmaster General Burleson points
to the efficiency with which the par
cel post service is being administered,
as evidence that the Government pos
sesses the capacity to operate public
utilities.
The Hearst idea concerning pubHe
ownership of means of communica
tion were based on these principles.
It was pointed out that the business
of conducting telephone and telegraph
lines bore the nature of a monopoly,
and that It was well within the la
tent of the constitutional Ideals of
public service that the wire lines be
taken over by the Government.
Phone Lines as Well.
The Postmaster General argues
that since it has been long recog
nized there could be no objection to
the Government’s operating the tele
graph lines, similarly there should be
no trouty* in taking over the taie-
v