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ATLANTIC GA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1913.
EGOTIATE
KITH, NOT
OUST'BIG
[San Francisco Is
Amazed Over Its
New Evening Call
| Success of That Publication Makes
It the Premier Evening Paper
of the West.
So Says Vice President Kingsbury
of American Telephone and
Telegraph Company, Who Made
Agreement on Trust Issue.
Declares Fair Play of Administra
tion Has Saved Wire Concern
Costly Lawsuit—Denies There
Ever Was a Merger, However,
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—Vice Presi-
dent N. C. Kingsbury, of the Ameri
can Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany, who conducted negotiations
with the Government for the settle
ment of the telephone-telegraph com
bination, believes President Wilson
has now revealed his policy of deal
ing with the large corporations. The
policy is to be one of negotiation.
“Of course, it is all right,” Mr.
Kingsbury said, referring to the Pres
ident’s action in settling the question
without recourse to litigation, “but.ex-
ept in so far as it works out prac
tically any one conversant with the
laws of the land knows that in no in
dividual is vested the right to bind
the Government to any specific action.
“But this is of less significance in
itself than is the fact now established
that the Administration has declared
itself regarding its attitude toward
big business generally.
Pleased With '‘Fair Play.”
“When the Department of Justice
^ants to find out whether any corpo
ration is doing something it has no
business to do, all that is going to
happen is that the corporation will be
invited down to Washington to talk
the matter over.
' If the corporation plays fair and
shows a willingness to be decent—
there you are. In a word. Attorney
General McReynolds is imbued with
the same spirit that animates the
President. ‘You behave decently and I
shall behave decently.’ That’s their
attitude in a nutshell.
I told the Attorney General long
ago that the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company would never do a
| bit more—by way of traveling in the
straight and narrow’ path of busi-
| ness—after litigation than it was will
ing to do before litigation.
Suit Is Forestalled.
Fortunately for us the matter did
not end with the Attorney General.
The President became interested. He
expressed approval of our attitude in
the premises. And the result was
even more fortunate than w r e could
have hoped.
“Instead of being obliged to defend
a lawsuit that would have cost us
hundreds of thousands of dollars and
^ndless months of time, we had mere
ly to listen to the opinions of the De
partment of Justice and having list
ened, to coincide with those opinions.
Naturally there is nothing in the
w °r1d to prevent the Administration
from prosecuting us next week. There
nothing to guarantee a continu-
| ft nce of this method of procedure by
the authorities in Washington.”
Never a Merger, He Says.
Commenting on the published re
ports of the action of the Department
of .Justice in its severance of the tel
ephone and telegraph interests, Mr.
Kingsbury expressed indignation that
reference should have been made to
a dissolution of the telephone trust.
. "There never has been a merger,’
np said. “Therefore, there can not be
a dissolution. And there has been no
coercion. The Department of Justice
has not ordered the American Tele
phone and Telegraph Company to do
anything.
, lid put it that the Attorney
Xweneral and the President suggested
|]P“ best course for us to follow. Of
l'J 0 !' 1 ’ he added sinking, “it is only
rair to add that within the velvet
ecabbard was the steel-edged sw ord.”
Use of Bell Lines by Local
Concern Not Settled.
r 'fflcials of the Southern Bell Tele
phone Company declared Saturday
“ p ’ that any prediction as to the
P ohable effect locally of the agree
ment reached between the Department
Justice and the American Tele-
P^Ph and Telephone Company, which,
.._ Wa 2 rumored, would result in the
he toll lines of the Southern
u ,U> |L I ' Cumberland Companies by
r -^Bnta Telephone Company, is
y ‘PiatiiV-, arid purely speculation.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20.—A new
newspaper power has arisen in this
city. So phenomenal has been the j
success of The Evening Call since its
inception less than four months ago
that its growth is almost as much *
topic of interest as the Panama Ex
position.
By its recent absorption of The
Evening Post The Call added a cir
culation of 40,000 of the highest class
financial and society readers to It’s
own gilt-edged circulation of more
than 80,000, and this combined power -
1 and influential clientele gives it
the premier place among the evening
newspapers of the West.
The careers of both The Post and
The Call are bits of newspaper ro
mance. The Post was founded by the
late Henry George in 1871, and us«*d
by him for four years to promulgate
hi3 principles and theories.
After it l eft his hands it changed
gradually, but entirely, in Its charac
ter, and became finally t! organ of
the financial Interests and the society
classes of San Francisco. Its 40,000
circulation was made up of this ex
clusive class at the time of its ab
sorption.
The Call was the first morning
newspaper in San Franisco. It was
recently bought by F. W. Kellogg and
John D. Spreckels and transformed
Into an evening pater. Since it en
tered th. evening field on September
1 of last year it has been so success
ful that its competitors have felt the
destructive force of its competition.
The Evening Post was, because of this
competition, offered for sale, and The
Call bought and absorbed it.
The history of The Call dates back
to 1856, when it was founded as a
morning paper by a band of seven
printers working on a co-operative
basis. For years it was extremely
successful. Formerly Republican in
policy, in 1895 it became Independent.
Its transformation into an evening
paper met with a response unique in
newspaper history. Its attainment
of 80.000 circulation in a few months
has never been duplicated by a newly
started paper in a city of this sire
anywhere in the world.
With the notable circulation of Th*
Post added to its own, it reached
daily more than 100,000 of the city’s
most representative citizens.
Mrs, Godbee, Denied
New Trial, Appeals
AUGUSTA. Dec. 20.—Judge Henry
C. Hammond to-night issued an or
der overruling the motion for a new
trial for Mrs. Edna Perkins Godbe*.
convicted at the September term
Jenkins Superior Court and sentenced
to- life imprisonment for the murder
of Mrs. Florence Boyer Godbee, sec
ond wife of her divorced husband,
whom she also slew, last August.
The case now goes to the State Su
preme Court on appeal.
Blind Youth Star
In Athletic Meet
NEW YORK. Dec. 20.—Joseph Har
ris, a blind student, furnished the sen
sation in the annual indoor games of
the public schools of New York held to
day in Madison Square Garden. De
spite his great handicap Harris went
through the trials and semi-finals for
the 60-yard dash and only failed by "a
nose" in winning a place in the finals.
For the purpose of guiding the blind
pupil, a line was stretched the entire
length of the course and he ran with
his side rubbing the string
rtiKiPS
Hilt
I
Hanna, Spooner and
T.R, Get Canal Credit
Taft Declares Their Efforts Were
Nucleus That Made Waterway
Possible.
New Evidence in Mayson District
Scandal Found—Meeting Is
Postponed.
INVESTIGATION IS STARTED
Persons Who Caused Teachers to
Quit To Be Punished, Cit
izens Declare.
IKES BAYS OF
Beachy Loops Loop
4 Times for Record
FRESNO, CAL., Dec. 20.—Lincoln
Beachy this afternoon broke his own
and the world’s record for Iooptng-
the-loop by doing the complete turn
in the air four times, following which
he crossed the aviation field and
drove over the crowd at the fair
grounds for an eighth of a mile.
Previously Beachey had done the
loop three times.
Policeman’s Home
Robbed of 5 Suits
While Policeman Cochrane was on
duty Saturday night, his home at No.
405 East Fair street was robbed and
five suits of clothes stolen. The po
liceman did not discover the theft un
til he returned to his home.
The discovery of unexpected evi
dence indicating that there is a pos
sibility of determining the origin of
the slander which caused the resig
nation of two young women teachers
of the Mayson School District,
brought about a postponement Sat
urday night of the indignation meet
ing called by patrons of the school to
protest against the, action of County
Superintendent E. C. Merry In closing
the school as a method of discipline
to the community.
D. M. Willingham, one of the lead
ing citizens of the district, who is
said to have fceen instrumental in
calling the meeting, told a Sunday
American reporter Saturday night
that the meeting probably would not
be held until the investigation of the
new evidence is completed.
He refused to disclose the evidence,
but declared that if the investigation
proved successful the matter would
be cleared and action probably taken
against the guilty persons.
Hope to Find the Guilty.
“We are going to make every ef
fort to run down the person who
started the scandal.” said Mr. Wil
lingham, “and nothing will be done
until we have completed our investi
gation.
“During the day we came into pos
session of information that leads us
to believe we will be successful, and
it was because we wished to have
something definite to go on that we
decided to postpone the meeting.
“Before we can take any action at
a public meeting we must be pre
pared to go into the courts, and we
will do that if it becomes necessary
to vindicate the people of this com
munity.”
It Is generally understood among
the patrons of the school that when
the investigation now under way is
completed the person suspected of
having started the scandal will be
asked to appear before a meeting of
the citizens and prove his statements
or face action.
Postponement Voted.
Whatever information might have
been obtained concerning the origin
of the alleged slander and the Iden
tity of the person who started the
trouble was not unearthed until late
in the afternoon, for more than 30
patrons of the school had gathered at
Watkins’ grocery, a block from the
school, at 7 o’clock, ready for the
meeting.
When Mr. Willingham announced
that the gathering had been post
poned many of those who were in the
crowd declared that the meeting
ought to be held anyway, but when
It was put to a vote the majority
decided to heed the advice of Mr.
Willingham and wait until something
definite turned up
Every man of the 30 or more ex
pressed resentment against Superin
tendent Merry, and declared that his
letter to Mr. Willingham, which the
latter refuses to mak? public, was an
insult to the community.
Deny Merry’s Statements.
“There has been no talk in this
town about either of the young
women,” declared T. M. Watkins,
owner of the grocery and one of the
influential citizen® of the district
"and we deny every statement Merry
has made.
“It would seem, In a place as small
as this, that if there had been any
slander circulated about either of the
teachers, we would all have heard it.
Both of the young women were high
ly respected by every person in the
district, and we consider them the
best teachers we have ever had.
“The statement that the young
women were taken from their hoard
ing house in a buggy to school is un
true They boarded within 100 yanis
of the school and there would have
been no necessity for buggy rides
They were frequently taken to the
car line, three miles away, in a bug
gy on Friday afternoons after school
and brought back Monday morning,
for they spent the sveek-end in At
lanta. But they could hardly have
been expected to walk to the car
line.”
Among other patrons who praised
the young women and declared that
Mr. Merry’s action was an insult to
the patrons of the school were T. M.
Bryant, W. A. Harper and C. J. Mor
ris.
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—Theodore
Roosevelt, John C. Spooner and the
late Mark A. Hanna were given credit
for the building of the Panama (’anal
by former President Taft in an ad
dress to-night at the annual banquet
of the Ohio Society.
Mr. Taft also declared in favor of
the foundation of the great water
way and advocated preferential tolls,
expressing the belief that the old
treaty gave the United States the
right to favor it* own vessels. At the
same time, however, he was willing
to leave the whole matter to arbitra
tion.
Explaining his award of credit for
the construction of the canal, he said
that Senator Hanna’s keen business
Instinct had removed many difflcul- j
ties at the outset. Senator Spooner :
had framed the act under which the I
work was conducted and President '
Roosevelt had carried out the ideas. I
Judge Ben Lindsey
Weds Young Nurse
CHICAGO, Dec 20—Judge Benja
min Barr Ldndsey, of Denver, father
of the juvenile court, author of “The I
Beast and the Jungle,” and world- 1
famous as a social worker in behalf
of children, was married to-night to
Miss Henrietta Brevoort, stepdaugh
ter of Dr. F. J. Clippert, of Detroit.
The wedding was private.
The judge is 43 years old. and his
bride but 23. They met last spring
in a sanitarium, whither the judge
went for a rest after (he Denver
elections at which the corporations
were routed Miss Brevoort had gone
there as a nurse, but fell 111, and she ,
and the judge were both patients.
“One of my earliest memories of i
her is when she put a wet towel on
my aching head,” said the judge.
It Does Not Overflow, but the
Pressure Causes Liquid in
Wells to Rise.
HIDDEN CHANNELS CLOaE
Citizens Near Hemphill Station
Ask for Damages Because of
Freakish Action of Water.
A puzzling phenomenon was re
vealed Saturdav in a petition for dam
ages against the city of Atlanta by
persons living around the water res
ervoir at the Hemphill pumping sta
tion, w'ho showed that their wells
were being overflowed and their yards
turned into bogs.
When, some week* ago, their wells
begaji to fill to the brim, these people
were surprised, but said nothing; but
when the water kept rising until the
wells overflowed and disgorged such
volumes that the surrounding section
has become almost a swamp, they
were frightened. Though the section
is near the city pumping station, it
has no waterworks. The convenience
of being able to go out to the well
and dip out w r ater as from a full
Miss Keller Aids Christmas Fund
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Will Talk at Concert To-day
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Crowned ‘Daughter of the South’
Helen Keller writing a letter in Atlanta to Thomas Edison.
E
Holds Up Grocer and
Rifles Till of $58.00
Oscar Richmand. a grocer at No.
214 East Cain street, was held up in
his store by a negro who robbed his
cash register of $58 Saturday night.
Richman was alone when the ne
gro entered and asked for a dozen
eggs. As teh grocer turned to get the
eggs the negro drew a revolver and
ordered him to hold up his hands.
Richman dropped to the floor behind
the counter and crawled out of the
front door.
The robber left 20 cents w ith a note:
“Here’s breakfast money.”
Vice President Makes
Squirrels Playmates
WASHINGTON. Dec. 2ft._vic*
President Marshall has made friends
with the gray squirrel* In the Wash
ington parks. They all know him
and never look in vain for an offer
ing of peanuts and other nuts, which
the Vice President carries for them
in his pocket.
Often Mr. Marshall leaves the.
Shoreham very early in the morning
| and spends nearly an hour feeding
! and playing with the squirrels in
Jackson square, near the hotel, while
the wheel* of state go merrily around.
Dr. Montessori Seeks
Rest in Battle Creek
BATTUE CREEK, MICH., Dec. 20.
Mme. Montessori, famous Italian ed
ucator, arrived here this evening
somewhat exhausted from her Ameri
can tour, and went into temporary se-
I elusion at the Battle Creek Sanita
rium.
She will be the guest of Dr. J. .11.
j Kellogg here for the next few days.
| Mme. Montessori is not ill, but is
J badly in need of rest.
; Grand Opera Troupe,
Stranded, Begs Aid
CINCINNATI, Der. 20.—Members
[ of the American Grand Opera Com
pany of Cleveland, stranded at Lex
ington. Ky., to-day appealed to the
Cincinnati Charities and Correction
Department for transportation to
their homes.
The .company was headed by Ade
laide Norwood, a well-known prima
I donna. Plans are under way to as-
j siRt the members of the company as
far as Cleveland.
spring did not ally their excitement.
An investigation of the conditions
by Councilman Claude L. Ashley has
revealed a strange condition of the
ground and a most freakish phenome
non. Representing the Council Claims
Committee, he went out and made a
thorough examination. H) told Sat
urday what he believes to be the so
lution of the enigma.
Some 800 feet southwest of the res
ervoir, across the railroad, are a dozen
private w'elis. They are on the wa
tershed in the valley on which the
new 400,000,000-gallon resei oir was
built,
"I do not believe that the waier
that is flowing out of these wells is
oozing out of the reservoir,” be said
"It is coming from the ground from
an independent source.
“It seems that there were few
snrings in this valley before the res
ervoir was built, but streams of wai r
undoubtedly were flowing under ,he
ground along there which had outl-tls
farther on. These are the streams
that are supplying the wells.
“In I he reservoir is 80 feet of water.
That has a pressure of 34 feet to ‘he
square Inch. It Is my theory that
this pressure has closed the under
ground channels of these streams that
flowed under it.
“The water had to get out. The
course of least resistance was the
wells.
“Proof of my theory is that a large
spring has opened just nt the edge of
the reservoir. Its waters are clear.
The water in the reservoir is muddy,
and If the water from this spring was
from that source It also would be
muddy."
Councilman Ashley has an Interest
ing method of relieving the water-
soaked conditions.
"I think if we lay a sewer pipe,
with open joints surrounded by
crushed stone, between the wells and
the reservoir it will drain the sur
plus water. I would not have the
pipes laid across the water channels.
That would dry up the wells. But trv
land about there is so soaked with
w'ater that the pipe with crushed stone
around it would allow all the surplus
w ater to seep out.”
Two Thousand Hear Blind and Deaf Marvel
Speak at Auditorium.
Miss Helen Keller, In Atlanta for
her lecture under U. D. C. auspices,
Saturday night heard the story of
The Georgian’s Empty Stocking Fund
and at once her great heart was en
listed in the cause.
So Mis* Keller is to make a little
talk Sunday afternoon at the Empty
Stocking Concert that starts at 3
o’clock in the Forsyth Theater, and
all those who attend the concert—It
Is a free concert, by the way will
have the opportunity of seeing and
hearing the wonderful young woman
whose name Mark Twain bracketed
with that of Napoleon Bonaparte, as
the “two greatest figures of the nine
teenth century.”
Mrs. John Maey, Mis* Keller’s
teacher and constant < ompanion, will
be there, too.
It was through her, of course, that
the arrangements were made. It
It didn't take Mrs. Macy ten seconds
to fall In love with the idea of an
Empty Stocking Fund, and it didn’t
take Miss Keller any longer, as soon
as her teacher’s deft finger* had
spelled the Idea into her sensitive
palm.
“It Is Beautiful,” She Says.
She very promptly said what she
thought about it.
“It is beautiful—beautiful!” she
exclaimed. ‘‘Such a wonderful way
of applying the Christmas spirit! It
i* bringing to bear a great principle
*o sadly overlooked in everyday life—
the principle that the good things of
life, and the pleasant side, should be
shared equally.
“Atlanta must feel that principle
strongly, to determine that there
shall be no empty stockings. T shall
be so happy If T can do even a littlo
to help.”
Miss Keller sits by her teacher's
side. Mrs. Macy spells your ques
tion Into her hand, very quickly;
much more quickly than you could
spell It off a page. There Is practi
cally no delay, for Mrs. Macy Is trans
mitting the question as you talk.
Then Mis* Keller replies, speaking
slowly and with emphasis, if the top
ic is one that Interests her; some
times with gestures; always with
ready and smoothly-worded sen
tence*. There i* a slight uncertainty
of inflection and accent; about the
same as you might hear in the Eng
lish of a well-educated Frenchman.
It only adds to the Interest.
2,000 Hear Her Speak.
The 2,000 persons who went to the
Auditorium to hear her Saturday
night were intensely interested.
Throughout her address they leaned
forward, hardly breathing, trying to
make out her words. A great part of
it was unintelligible, but the message
at the last came out clear, as she tried
very hard to make it.
“The world i* full of miracles,” she
Continued on Page 4, Column 5.
ATLANTfl’S
GREATEST
CAMPAIGN
Canvassing Committees, in Whirl
wind Finish, Bring Total Within
$25,000 of Amount Needed to
Have Big School Founded Here.
Two Banks Aid in “Clean-Up" of
Huge Fund — Executive Board
to Raise Remainder, and Work
ers Are Released and Lauded.
Oglethorpe University now i* up to
Atlanta.
The canvassing committees Satur
day, In a whirlwind finish, whien
brought the fund, after a three weeks’
campaign, up to $225,180 of the quar
ter million required, brought their ac
tivities to a halt, when they turne 1
the matter over to the executive com
mittee.
Captain James W. English, head of
the executive committee, declared
upon this occasion that the campaign
had been the most thorough and mag
nificent ever made In Atlanta. It was
crowned with complete success, he
declared, and the remaining $24,820
would be secured easily.
The canvassing committees, which
were composed of 60 well-known and
active Atla: tans, raised $11,727 in
their final day’s work. This brought
the amount above that which they
volunteered to raise.
A further Impetus was given ttl#
last lap In the campaign Saturday
when two Atlanta bar\ks came for
ward with subscriptions of $1,003
each. It is reported also that oth-r
banks will follow this move.
The executive committee will as
sum* charge of raising the remaining
amount.
A Splendid Finish.
There was pleasant rivalry between
the two leading committees over the
final showdown. Dr. Cheston King a
committee brought its total for the
t‘ ee weeks up to $15,792, while Mr.
Bottenfleld’s committee made its final
total $14,863.50.
Cheers and loud applause greeted
the reports from both of these com
mittees.
A subscription of $100 was an
nounced from James Lawrence HlghL
4-year-old son of Emmet Hight, who
took It from hi* own bank account.
L. P. Bottenfleld, Dr. J. Cheston
King, B. F. Burdett. Henry Schaul
and others made brief speeches com
mending the splendid work that had
been done.
Chairman Ivan E Allen, of the
campaign committee, in a speech of
congratulation and thanks to the
committeemen, said;
“This has been the most magnifi
cent campaign of the kind ever con
ducted in Atlanta. The committee
men have done exceptionally fine
work frofn start to finish, and it is a
credit to their enterprise, devotion
and self-sacrifice.
“I want to say further that this is
one of the cleanest lists of subscrip
tions I have ever known. I hold In
my hand subscriptions for $3,000
which were made upon such condi
tion* that the executive committee
decided it could not accept them, and
they have not and will not be count
ed in our totals.”
On motion of Dr. William Owen*, it
was unanimously decided to form an
Oglethorpe University society, pledg
ed to the everlasting aid of Ogle
thorpe
The proposal was received with en
thusiasm and the following officer*
were elected;
President. Ivan E. Allen; first vice
president, Dr William Owens; sec
ond vice president. Dr. J. Cheston
King; third vice president, L. P. Bot
tenfleld; secretary and general coun-
Free Concert To-day
All of the best Musicians in Atlanta will take
part in the Empty Stocking Fund's Entertainment
At The Forsyth
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