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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
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Rebels Blow Up Troop Train.
Huerta Cabinet Split Over
Foreign Policy.
MEXICO CITT, Dor. 24 Federal
troops were* dispatched from San Luis |
Potosi to-day in pursuit of a band
of rebels who blew up a troop train
at Charcos Station and butchered all
the helpless Government soldiers who
were not killed by the blast of dyna
mite set off when the train passed.
Reports received here state that at
east 15ft soldiers were killed. Most
of them met instant death, being
Mown to bits by the terrific explosion.
Those who crawled, wounded, from
the debris ere bayoneted
Deep interest is felt in diplomatic
circles to-day as a result of the sen
sational dispute that occurred last
right at the state dinner given by
General Huerta, at which QuerHo
Moheno, Minister of Foreign Affairs,
attacked Americans as “imperialistic
Yankees," but was sharply answered
by Senor t’rrutia, former Minister :•?
tne Interior.
Huerta Against Tirade.
According to guests at the dinner,
General Huerta expressed himself as
:n accord with Urrutia, and a* a re
sult It i* probable that Moheno will
retire from the (’abinet.
Rumors that there are factional dif-
fereacos in the Cabinet were con
firmed at the banquet. Senor Goros:-
tita. Minister of Justice, and Senor
Alcocer, Acting Minister of the Inte
rior, Indorsed the views of Urrutia,
who said:
‘ The only way to preserve peace is
to establish strict Justice and to In
jure its continuance. I believe that
this foreign conflict must be settled
by diplomatic means and through the
Government employing all the peace
ful resources which are at Its com
mand.
"If General Huerta will do this he
will not only win the gratitude of all
Mexicans, but also the blessing of
heaven. ”
Calls Huerta Hero.
The open clash of the two oppos
ing factions was caused by Moheno,
who in a tribute to Huerta declared
him the “hero of the American Con
tinent who was the first to have the
courage to check the northern Co
lossus." and then continued;
“Should General Huerta die he
would have as his phroud not only
the tri-color of Mexico, but the flags
of 23 Ij&tin-American nations, as the
fate of all Latin-America Is involved
in his defiance of the Imperialistic -
Yankees.”
When some Americans expressed |
.surprise to-day over the fact that
Nelson O'Shaughnessy, the United
States Charge d’Affaires, attended the I
birthday reception of General Huerta. I
it was explained that this was done
only as a personal courtesy and not
Intended to indicate any change in'
the attitude of the American Govern - ,
ment.
Honeymoon Journey
On Elephant's Back
KENOSHA. WI8., Dec. 24—Cus
toms of the Far East were invoke!
at the marriage in Balguam, India, of
Miss Eva Thelien. Kenosha, to Wen
dell Kumlien, Appleton. VVis
Miss Thelien traveled more than
three-fourths around the world to
meet her fiance rt Bombay, whence
they traveled on the hack of an ele
phant overland to Balguam, on the
frontier.
Chile President to
Visit Panama Fair
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Ramon
Barros Luco, President of Chile, will
probably visit the United States dur
ing the Panama - Pacific Exposition at
San Francisco in 1915.
President Luco has expressed a
keen desire t6 visit this country.
Launch Big Liner
For Panama Canal
Special Cable to The Atlanta Qeorgian.
STETTIN. GERMANY. Dec. 24,—
The Hamburg-American liner Admi
ral Yon Tirpitz. which will ply
through the Panama Canal. was
launched here.
Fremont Voter Dies
At Age of 84 Years
BURLINGTON, IOWA, Dec 24.—
Thomas Rankin, organiser and presi
dent of the Fremont Voters’ Associa
tion of the United States, composed
of those who voted for John C. Fre
mont for President, is dead here, aged
84
Denmark's Bismarck,
Former Premier, Dies
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 24 —Jacob B
Estrup. known as the "Bismarck of '
Denmark." died here to-day. aged 88
Mr. Estrup formerly was premier an<J
his diplomacy prevented the absorption
of Denmark by Germany.
Woman Buys Titian,
Paying $400,000
CINCINNATI, Dec. 24 — Mr. Thos
Emery, a wealthy widow, has bought
Titian's Philip II from Sir Hugli Lane,
of London, for a price said to be
$400,000.
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GIFT TO
Miss Lelia Pryor teaching little girls of Baptist Orphans’ Home Christmas carols to be sung Wednesday evening at the celebra
tion at City Hall plaza.
Celebration at City Hall Plaza 10
Fashioned .1 ubilee.
Continued From Page 1.
the incumbent be discontinued on
January I, 1914.
“It so happens that General Oberir
holds this particular office under
State laws, at a salary of $2,750 per
anniiin. and can n< t legally perform
any duties therein, so far as the Gov
ernment is concerned, after January
1. 1914. while 1. tho Adjutant Gen
eral, under bond to the State, will
necessarily be compelled to perform
the duties for wide General Obear,
who Is not under bond, would be p i; 1
a largo salary, should he continue In
office. To inject personalities and
politics into this is puerility person
ified and has no foundation what
ever.
Would 3e Injustice, He Says.
"It is a situation forced upon us by
the Government, and no Governor
could continue any man in office un
der such circumstances without im
posing an injustice upon .e National
Guard.
"1 have known General Obear fir
twenty years, and my personal reli-
tions with him now are of exactly the
same status as they have always
been.
"Whether or n t we agree up >n
military economics is of no public in
terest and of no i»olitical significance.
"Ho knows the office is unauthor
ized and unnecessary, and during his
administration as Adjutant Generai
he abolished it, as shown by the rec
ords and in the reports of the In
spector General on file h#re. Many
officers of similar rank and position in
other States have voluntarily retired,
thus preventing any embarrassment
to their companions in arms. Why
the General has no taken this step 1
am at a loss to to know.
"A majority of the States have now
fully complied with Circular No. 8.
Massachusetts, f- r instance, actually
dropped 28 o;cers. Therefore Geor
gia should be congratulated in hav
ing only <>ne office conflicting, and
there should be no hesitancy or delay’
in fully complying with the orders « t
the Federal Government. Georgia
laws make this mandatory.”
Bride His Xmas Gift;
Proposed by Wire
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 24. Albert
LaTourette. a salesman traveling out
of Kansas City, and Miss Myrtle A
Brown, of Salt Lake City, will be
married at the home of LaTourette's
brother, in Oakland. Christmas as the
result of a telegraphic proposal and
acceptance.
“Will you be my Christmas pres
ent?”
"Santa Claus is on the way and will
arrive Wednesday’ evening. Arrange
details.”
Second Twins Born
On Firsts' Birthday
LAWRENCEBURG. IND.. Dec. 24 —
The stork left twin baby boys at the
home of Mr. and Mrs William B. Ross
for the second time in the ’.ast three
y»*ars. The babies arrived at the same
hour of the same date of the same
month that their twin brothers were
born.
The babies weighed 21 pounds and
have been named Damon and Pythias.
Their arrival increased the number of
ch r y*w to ten.
And now for Christmas Eve!
You’ve probably completed your
shopping by' this time; you’ve bought
gifts for your folks and your friends,
and you've told Santa Claus what to
bring the little ones and how to get
to your house—and incidentally
you’ve filled your soul with the best
brand of joy there is in the world—
the joy of giving.
And so you’re happy’—and you’ve
got a right to be happy. And maybe
you think that the happiness that
surges through your heart deserves a
better celebration than merely walk
ing the streets and mingling with the
joyous crowds or shooting firecrack
ers. or even sitting at home with the
children. Maybe down in your heart
you think that there ought to be
something said or done that would
more clearly bring home the real
meaning of the day to the entire city.
If you do, why
Come to the City Hall, at Forsyth
and Marietta streets, this evening at
5 o’clock.
Come anyway.
Regular Old Jubilee.
For we’re all going to get together
to-night and REALLY celebrate
Christmas Eve—celebrate it as it de
serves to be celebrated—in the good,
old-fashioned way, with a band con
cert and Christmas carols and special
songs by’ the children, and a great
Christmas tree that will glow and
glitter with a myriad of Incandescent
lights and hundreds of yards of tin
sel and the other things that make a
Christmas tree a thing of beauty and
a joy forever.
And everybody—man. woman and
child—is invited; and The Georgian
considers it a privilege to foot the
bills.
It's going to be the greatest Christ
mas Eve celebration Atlanta has ever
seen—and It’ll be about the first of its
kind in the South; the first time that
everybody has been given an oppor-
unity to get together and join in a
feast of good fellowship and the real
Christmas spirit
So remember —
The Place—The City Hall.
The Day—Christmas Eve—TO
DAY.
The Hours—From 5 to 7 and from
8 to 10.
And remember also that YOU are
Invited and that it is absolutely
free. N M one penny’ will it cost you
to join in this celebration.
The program will begin promptly at
5 o’clock, when \\ edemeyer’s Band—
which everybody’ knows is one of the
best hands in the South—will give a
| concert.
Carols by Children.
Then there will be Christmas car
ols and special songs by 100 little or-
wphan boys and girls from the Deca
tur Orphans’ Home and the Georgia
Baptist Home, who will be brought to
Atlanta in special cars, through the
kindness of the Georgia Railway and I
Power Company, and then there will I
be more music by the band.
And then will come the crowning I
feature—songs and Christmas carols j
by the entire force of Georgian and j
Sunday American newsboys. Profes
sor Gerard-Thiers has been teaching
the boys their songs for the past two
weeks, has unearthed some fine young
voices. All the boys are deeply in
terested, and they're going to sing
their way into your heart with the
same energy that they sell their pa
pers.
At 7 o’clock there will be an inter
mission of one hour, and at 8 o’clock,
and for two hours thereafter, the
band will hold forth with all the lat
est music and all the good old mu
sic that our fathers used to like, and
tl.e music that time has linked in
separably with Christmas.
And then there will be the great
Christmas tree that must be seen to
be enjoyed. It’s the biggest tree ever
erected in the South, probably, tow
ering 60 feet into the air. The great
cedar w ill glow* with the light of hun
dreds of colored lights and thou
sands of yards of tinsel will sparkle
like the stars.
No Gift Distribution.
There'll be no gifts at the celebra
tion—just the opportunity to have a
rollicking good time, breathe deeply
of the spirit of Christmas, hear some
good music and enjoy all the famous
carols and songs of peace on earth
and good will to men, and an abun
dance of good fellowship.
So you’d better be there—with your
family and your friends.
And now’, before finis is written on
the Empty Stocking Fund, ask your
self if you have done your share to
ward averting the Tragedy’ of th*»
Empty Slocking in an Atlanta home?
And if the answer is "NOTH
ING ”
It is hot yet too late.
Right at the last moment there
came to the Christmas Editor an ap
peal from an unexpeced quarter—an
appeal from 200 little boys and girls
who had been overlooked: a pitiful
little gathering who seem likely’ to be
the only persons in Atlanta w’ho do
not know’ the joys of Christmas.
Your Last Chance.
Are you going to stand idly by
find see 20ft little hearts break? Or
are you going to do your part and
let them in on all the good time that
ether children are going to enjoy’? If
they are to be cared for, the money’ll
have to come from generous Atlanta
—for the Christmas Editor has pur
chased as carefully as he could and
there was not enough money’ in the
fund to meet this unexpected de
mand.
So if you have not yet subscribed
to the fund—DO IT NOW. Mail it to
the Christmas Editor of The Geor
gian, or bring it in person, or call him
up on the telephone and he'll come
and get it.
And if you have already subscribed,
increase your donation a few dollars,
or quarters, for it would be mighty’
sad if 200 little chaps looked in vain
for Santa Claus and their comrades
and playmates were numbered among
the fortunate ones.
And if you do y r our share—then
surely you will be among those of
whom He spok»; "For inasmuch as
ye have done it unto the least of
these. My children, ye have done it
unto Me.”
TO OLD SOLDIERS
ATHENS, Dec. 24.—To-morrow will
be "graduation day” for an even dozen
old Confederate veterans who left
their studies at the University of
Georgia to battle for the “Lost Cause”
and never returned to college after
the war between the States.
The university has sent out regular
diplomas, and they will reach tne
"graduates” as Christmas presents
from the alma mater, this action hav
ing been confirmed at the last meeting
of the trustees.
The twelve men who are to receive
these unique Christmas gifts to-mor
row are:
James Norwood Belcher, class of
1864, Calhoun Falls, S. C.
James Dudley Thomas, class of 1863,
Rome, Ga.
Henry Hillyer, class of 1865, At
lanta, Ga.
George Baber Atkisson. class of
1861, Maxeys, Ga.
John Hampden Belcher, class of
1861, BentQn, La,
William Marcus Middlebrooks, class
of 1862, Atlanta, Ga.
John Waring Weed, class of 1864,
New York City.
John Irvine Stoddard, class of 1864.
Tacoma Park. Wash.
Matthew Pierce Briscoe, class of
1863. Athens, Ga.
Gideon Dowse Harris, class of 1864,
Columbus. Miss.
Edwin Leigh Wight, class of 1865,
Smyrna, Ga.
Edw’in Gardner Weed, class of 1865,
Jacksonville, Bishop of the Episcopal
Diocese of Florida. Bishop Weed has
been Invited by Chancellor Barrow to
deliver the comrhencement sermon at
the university next June.
organization committee will desig
nate regional reserve bank cities and
fix the limits of reserve districts.
Preparations were made to-day for
hearings by the committee, which,
under the law, includes the Secretary
of the Treasury. ( 'omptroller of the
Currency and Secretary of Agricul
ture.
President Wilson has not yet ap
pointed a* comptroller, hut as two
members constitute a majority of the
committee, Secretaries McAdoo and
Houston can conduct the hearings. It
Is probable that no comptroller will
be named until after the holidays.
John Skelton Williams, of Virginia,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
is the leading candidate for the place,
which, under the new law, is worth
$12,000 a year. v
Sharp inquiry into Williams’ career
will be made before the Senate con
firms his nomination to ascertain if
he has any affiliations that would
make him favor the “money trust.”
Atlanta for Reserve Bank.
New York, Chicago. St. Louis and
San Francisco are certain to be re
serve cities under the new act. Bos
ton, Washington, Atlanta, Cincinnati,
Minneapolis, Omaha and Denver ap
pear to be the most likely locations
for other banks. Until the hearings
have been completed it will be un
certain whether twelve banka will be
designated at onci?, but It is probable
that the maximum f number will be
selected.
More than 60ft national banks al
ready have indicated that they will
join the new system. Primarily, en
trance into the system means the
subscription of 6 per cent of capital
and surplus to the capital stock of
the regional banks, submission to ex
amination requirements, the transfer
of reserves from present reserve
agents to the Federal banks and a re
duction of exchange charges to a ba
sis of actual cost. Until the system
is completely organized, none of these
requirements will be enforceable ex
cept the subscription for stock, only
half of which is made payable within
90 day’s.
The President’s Talk.
President Wilson said, as he signed
the bill:
"I need not tell you that I feel a
ver.v deep gratification at being able
to sign this bill and I feel that I
ought to express very heartily the ad
miration I have for the men who have
made it possible for me to sign this
bill.
“It is a matter of real gratification
to me that in the case of this bill
there should have been so consider
able a number of Republican votes
cast for It.
“All great measures under our sys
tem of government are of necessity
party measures, for the party of the
majority is responsible for their orig
ination and their passage, but this
i can not be called a partisan meas-
1 ure. It has been relieved of all inti-
j mation of that sort by the cordial
! co-operation of men on the other side
| of the two Houses who have acted
j with us and have given very substan-
j tial reasons and very intelligent rea-
i sons for acting with us. So that I
think we can go home with the feel
ing that we are in better spirits for
public service than we were even
when we convened in April.
First Constructive Measure.
“As for the bill itself, I feel that
we can say that it is the first of
| series of constructive measures by
which the Democratic party’ will
ghow that it knows how to serve the
country.
“In calling it the first of a series of
constructive measures. I need not say
that I am not casting any reflections
on the great tariff bill which preced
ed it.
“The tariff bill was meant to re
move those impediments to American
industry and prosperity which had so
long stood in their way. It was a
great piece of preparation for the
achievements of American commerce
and American industry which are
certain to follow. Then there came
upon the heel of it this bill which fur
nishes the machinery for free and
elastic and uncontrolled credits, put
at the disposal of the merchants and
manufacturers of this country for the
first time ir. 60 years.
“I was refreshing my’ memory on
the passage of the national bank act,
which came In two pieces, as you
know, in February of 1863, and in
June of 1864; it is just 5ft y'ears ago
| since that measure, suitable for that
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To Our Friends and
Patrons One and All
We Wish a Very
Merry Xmas
Store Closed All Day
To-morrow
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43=45 Whitehall Street
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I
time, was passed, and it ha* taken u*
more than a generation and a half to
come to an understanding as to the
readjustments which were necessary
for our own time.
Reply With Action*.
“But we have reached these read
justments. I myself have always
felt, when the Democratic party was
criticised as not knowing how to serve
the business interests of the country,
that there was no use of replying to
that in words. The only satisfactory’
reply was in action. We have writ
ten the first chapter of that reply.
“We are greatly favored by the cir
cumstances of our time. We come at
the end of a day < contest, at the end
of a day when we have been scru
tinizing the processes of our business,
scrutinizing them with critical, and
sometimes with hostile, eye. We have
slowly been coming to this time,
wnich has now’ happily arrived when
there is a common recognition of tho
things that it is undesirable should
be done In business and the things
that it is desirable should be done.
“What w’e are proceeding to do now
is to organize our neace, is to make
our prosperity not only stable, but
free to Lave an unimpeded momen
tum. It is so obvious that it ought
not need to be stated that nothing
can be good for the country which is
not good for all of the country.
At Beginning of Understanding.
“Nothing can be for the Interest of
the country’ which is not in the in
terest of everybody; therefore, the
day’ of accommodation and of conces
sion and of common understanding is
the day of peace and achievement of
necessity. We have come to the be
ginning of that day’. Men are no
longer resisting the conclusions w’hieh
the nation has arrived at as to the
necessity of readjustments of its busi
ness. Business men of all sorts are
showing their willingness to come into
this arrangement, w’hieh I venture to
characterize as the constitution of
peace. So that by common counsel
and by the accumulating force of co
operation we are going to seek more
and mbre to serve the country’.
“I have been surprised at the sud
den acceptance of this measure by
public opinion everywhere. I say sur
prised because It seems as if it had
suddenly become obvious to men who
had looked at it with too critical an
eye that it was really meant in their
interest. They have opened their eyes
to see a thing which they had sup
posed to b$ hostile to find it to be
friendly’ and serviceable—exactly
what we intended 1 f to be and what
w’e shall Intend .all our legislation to
Pretty Woman and Man Who
Rode Horses Naked Whipped,
Houses Burned.
OLD HORTON, MO., Dec. 24.—A
feud was stirred to high pitch here
to-day on account of the action ot
night riders who beat Mrs. Paralei
Collins, 23 years old and pretty, and
a man companion with whom, citi
zens of the town allege, she rode nude
on a horse through the village streets
After the woman was severely beaten
and her male companion horsewhip
ped, several small houses belonging
to Mrs. Collins were burned by the
night riders.
Mrs. Collins denied the Lady Go-
diva stunt, and she has a large fol
lowing of friends who have taken
her side. She was urged to ignore
the orders of the night riders that
she leave Old Horton. To-day she
remained at home and said she would
not leave. County authorities are
prepared for further trouble here It
the night riders attempt to carry out
their threats to drive the woman from
the town.
The men who whipped Mrs. Col
lins and the man they said rode with
her were masked, and the authorities
have not been able to Identify them.
TWO BANQUETS AT MONROE.
MONROE, Dec. 27.—Friday evening
the ladles of the Civic League will give
a banquet at which about 100 plates
will be laid. Saturday evening Warren
Masonic Lodge will have its Installa
tion of officers followed by a banquet.
be.
To Secure Us Prosperity.
“The men who have fought for this
measure have fought nobody. They
have simply fought for those accom
modations which are going, to secure
us in prosperity and In peace. No
body can be the friend of any class in
America in the sense of being the
enemy of any other class. You can
only be the friend of one class by
showing It the lines by which it can
accommodate itself to the other class.
The lines of help are always the lines
of accommodation.
“It is in this spirit, therefore, that
we rejoice together to-night, and I
can not say with what deep emotions
of gratitude-1 feel that I have had a
part In completing a work which I
think will be of lasting benefit to the
business of the country.”
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The World Goes Home
and Takes a Holiday
The busy-ness is over, people of
all nations turn homeward to cele
brate the holiday of the home.
Such is the spirit of Christmas
that pervade^ the universe since
the first—
“Peace on earth; to men good
will.”
As a store w T e have done our
best to make the Holiday of the
Home one of genuine joy, one in
keeping with the spirit of the day
-—and our best was dependent
upon the best from those who
served you—and us.
Our helpers have done well.
They have merited the deep and
true gratitude we hold for them.
And you—the big public—who
showed such generous trust in,
and good w r ill toward us during
the Christmas business days—you
have thereby given us a very
peaceful thought to carry over the
holidav and many other days to
come.
Indeed, we have every reason to
wish you all—
A Very Merry Christmas
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