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the ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. In Granting Interview to Speyer. President Shows Disposi tion to Learn. By B C. FORBES. President Wilson is now willing to l.sten to financial reason. The Wash ington dispatches that he granted a 30-minuto interview with .lames Speyer, the international banker, have been accepted as an encourag ing omen, for heretofore the door of the White House had been regarded as closed to any citizen identified with Wall street. • • • Mr. Spever is one of the most level headed. democratic, broad-minded financiers America can boast. His sympathies are not confined to high finance. He takes a broad-gauge, long-range view of economic prob lems To him workers are not mere animated machines, mere autorim- tons They are human beings, cast .n the same mould as himself. He is active in charities and in organiza tions that deal with the unemployed. • • • It is to be presumed, therefore, that in his talk with the President, Mr. Speyer did not fail to emphasize the need for straining every effort to stem the onrushlng tide of un employment. I discussed this phase of the situation with Mr. Speyer re cently, and 1 know he regards it as most important and as demanding the most serious consideration. As a director of concerns employing many thousands of men. Mr. Speyer naturally lias first-hand knowledge of Industrial conditicfhs. • * • Mr. Speyer is even more intimate ly identified with railroad systems. None knows better than he the plight into which the railroads are ■inking It is believed and hoped in finan .•ml circles that Mr. Speyer could not have neglected the opportunity <• impress upon the administration the actual railroad status to-day and the outlook for to-morrow if things continue in their present direction. * * • Henry Walter*, financier and rail- <...<t authority, recently remarked to . friend. I am told, that there were js railroads. biK and little. which would fall into receivers' hand* were ^lothinf; done lo stop the current fiend. lie had the name* of the 28 al the Up of hi* tongue. • • • Last week I made a public plea to the Interstate Commerce Commission i<» forego part of their holidaying take off their coats and get to busi ness in dealing with the Eastern railroads' request for higher freight rates. I would repeal that exhorta tion with even greater earnestness now. The prevailing uncertainty is paralyzing. It should not he pro longed one unnecessary day. Con ditions are unhappy enough without needlessly aggravating them by a dilly-dallying, what's-the-hurry pol icy In so grave and pressing a mat ter. • • • Aron‘1 a revolutionary new tariff and an impending new currency law unsettling influences enough for the present? Why pile on the agony by gratuitous acts of omission or com mission? • * • if the entente cordiale could only be firmly established between those who employ men and those who are running the Government, n return of onfidence would be greatly has tened. • • * l nfortunately, Hie Treasury’ De partment is at loggerheads with hanking interests and has followed a policy that has evoked widespread ritirism The intimation that whole sale, country-wide prosecution of bankers is being planned by Treasury • •ffleiais is construed as a fresh indi cation of the relations between the department and those who manage the banking business of the land. So long as a spirit of hostility exists, the possibilities of an unsettling rupture will not be dismissed from mind • • * May it not be that President Wil eon will take a hand in smoothing out existing wrinkles in the general situation? The financial community has more faith in him than in the majority of his Cablet. Even a rumor that real heavy weights would he chosen as mem bers of the Federal Reserve Board, the overlords of the nation’s new banking system, was accepted grate fully by financial circles yesterday. The rumor, however, was very thin. It named James J. Hill a.s prospec tive chairman of the board. Mr. Hill months ago declared he would NOT accept a position on the board Paul M Warburg was given as another selei'tlon. Mr Warburg told me yes terday afternoon that the news was news to him—that, indeed, he didn’t believe it was news, only talk. • • • If the Government could Induce men of Mr. Warburg's caliber to join he Federal Reserve Board, even if fur only the first year, our national hankers would lose much, if not all, -»f their nervousness over the admin- stratioTi of the new system Judge Richard B. Russel!, of the ‘ourt of Appeals, rather prides him- elf upon the size of his family -he s the proud father of fourteen —but hat seems Tat her small potatoes be side a Catoosa Coifntv farmer who boasts a family of twenty. When Judge Russell was a candi date for Governor, his fourteen olive branches were fashioned into one of the most insistent planks in his plat form. and now’ that lie is up for re- election to the Court of Appeals— even though no opposition is in sight the Judge doubtless will dust off that plank and put it in evidence gain. Of the Catoosa gentlemen, who ought to bk a firm supporter Of judge Russel], The Catoosa Record says: “Joseph Peters, of Catoosa County, a Sidelights on GEORGIA 11 POLITICS JAMtS B. NEVTN X prosperous and highly regarded farm- who lives about three miles from Ringgold. Is the proud father of twenty children, all of whom are alive and well and nearly ail of whom arc still on the old home plantation. Mr. Peter» is the ideal father, according to the patriarchal ideals an/I accord ing to the anti-race suicide notions for which Colonel Roosevelt is fa mous " Judge Russell is now the presiding judge the Chief Judge —of the Court of Appeals, and lias served on the cour' since it was created. He is the only member of the court who has served either a full term or since its stabllshment. Jones, we naturally hat dull time the great pressure of and the extraordinary jy the prolong! Because of work upon it, dola\ caused by the prolonged* Frank case hearing recently, the .Supreme Court will not be able to give itseif any Christmas recess this year. In ordinary circumstanc es that high court would have, quit work* Saturday and have permitted itself the luxun of making this week a genuine holi day. However, the state of the docket will not admit of that relaxation at this time, and so the court is in ses sion to-day, as usual. The Georgia Supreme Court is one of the hardest worked tribunals in the Union—and it Is one of the most markedly underpaid. Only about half of the Georgia Congressional delegation will return to Georgia for the Christmas holi days. This is very unusual, of course, and is occasioned by the long extra se.s- = ■ —r vion of Congress which merged into ( the regular session a few weeks ago I Both Senators and Representatives have been obliged to make their boli de arrangements almost exclusive in Washington, and now that the time for "a run home at Christmas” is hand the Christmas doings all have been framed up for Washington, and there is nothing to run home to. This means, too. that campaigns for re-election to Congress must be conducted largely from Washington. The regular session will run cer tainly well along toward June, if not to August. In fact. It has about reached the point, where Congress In in session practically all of the time The next State primary likely will | he (ailed for August, and may be a i little earlier. In that event, the mar- I gin of time left for campaigning will . he rather narrow, and to make much I of it. candidates will have to do some ; grand and lofty hustling. There will be contests in several j Congressional districts—and warm ones moreover—not to mention other interesting rumored fights that may or may not materialize London Will Honor Benjamin Franklin Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON. Deo. 22.—It is proposed j to commemorate tlie residence of Benjamin Franklin in Bartholomew ( lose, where he worked in a printing shop, by placing a tablet in the Lady chapel of the Church of St. Bartholo mew the Great. Smithfield The church was founded in 1128 All the weekly newspapers practi cally without exception, are skipping their issues of this week, on account of the holiday season It is a custom of long standing among the Georgia weekly newspa pers not to issue an edition on Christ mas week—and it is not a had cus tom, moreover. It gives the country editors a chance to enjoy the holi day season, really and truly. Rev. J M (’ash. an Itinerant preaclter of Dalton, has entered the list of candidates for the Legislature In the special election to name a suc cessor from Whitfield to the late S F Berry In his formal announcement, Mr. Cash says: “Having served you as a minister of the gospel, I now have a desire to represent you at the Capi tol." The announcement of Mr. < ’ash brings a four-cornered rare, the other three candidates being G G. Glenn, H. 1). Keith and A. T. Gilbert. Cash Is a pretty perwiaslv^ sort of name for a politician- and maybe it is all right for a politician-preacher Anyway. Cash is expected to give the rest of them a run for their money in Whitfield. The election is to be held on January 9. The Griffin News has been think ing things of one sort and another over, and feel a better In Saturday's issue it says: “Griffin is determined that Atlanta. 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State Taxes > 'Tis that Empire of the South east which guarantees by Consti tutional provision the imposition of a State tax of not over five mills, the most moderat e in America. Soil Diversification of the Whole Southland? They’re Waiting for It m Every Capital and Corner of Dixie 'Tis th atland of diversified soil, with its mountains and rich val leys of the North, its undulating hills of the middle section, and its broad alluvial coastal plains of the South. Wealth of Products ’Tis that rich country where the Cornucopia of Plenty pours into the lap of Industry its wealth of cotton, corn, potatoes, vegetables, fruit and nuts, enriching the grow ers during 1913 an amount ex ceeding $300,000,000.00. It Awaits You ’Tis that hospitable land that awaits your coming to stir its vir ginal soil, to fallow the earth, to sow and to reap a bountiful har vest. 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