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VOL. 1. NO. 38. Copyright, till, by The Georgian Company. ★★ 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. 4 i + •+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ Anonymous Author’s Battle Be tween England and Germany Ends With Honors Even. SuffrageWinsRecruits inGeorgia +•+ *•+ •!•••!• +•+ +•+ *•+ 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