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THE ATLANTA (ibdKlilAJN AND NEWS.
Reviews Record Crop—Declares
Coming Legislation Will Aid
Agriculture Further.
Sidelights
GEORGIA
POLITICS
JAMIS B-NEVTN
A'
MAYOR BULKS AT 'UNION PRINTERS
THOMSON “BOOST' CONTEST LOCKOUT
J. W. Hirschfeld, 37
Years in Atlanta,
Buried in Oakland
San Francisco Has
Worst Storm in 12
Years; Beach Razed
Refuses to Make ‘Promotion’ on
Request of His Coun-
cilmanic Foe.
Leader Issues Statement in Con
troversy Over Index Concern
as ‘Open Shop.'
By B C. FORBES.
Let's not become too doleful. Lei'
not look only at the hole in the
doughnut.
A country that In one year can
produce nearly 110.000,000,000 from
It a farms alone ought not to be badly
off More, measures now contem
plated should lead to the doubling -»f
this sum within the next dozen years.
Amid so much that Is gloomy and
depressing—when business men are In
the dumps, labor losing employment
and able-bodied men choosing of th?lr
own free will to go to the workhouse
- for three months—at *"»ich a time it la
refreshing to he#r from the Secretary
"of Agriculture that 1913 has brought
the greatest agricultural prosperity'
"the nation has ever known. Farm*
yielded $6.1^0,000,000 and live stock
$3,650,000,000.
There is a popular delusion that wo
Vave almost ceased to export food
stuffs and the like. How much did
we collect from foreigners on this
head during the last twelve month?,
mink you? Fully $1 123,000,000, a flg-
tife never before reachi .
"The total ca»h income of our farm
ers. after allowing for all the products
they consumed on their farms, is put
“
Slates as Kansas can boast of more
automobiles per capita than any effete
Efestern State given over to com-
" merce'
'The United States is the richest na
tion agriculturally in the whole world.
“Yet it is only in its Infancy.
At last the Federal Government has
awakened to the necessity for helping
rhe farmer to help himself. In the
progressive countries of Europe the
governments can not do enough to
aid the tillers of the soil to wax pros
perous. to deal generously with their
land and to increase their yields. In
this country the average farmer®haw
been shackled financially, has been
discriminated against by bankers ana
banking laws, being compelled to p*y
at least twice the interest rates
charged Wall street speculators
Dispatches from Washington tell
how the ways have been cleared for
the immediate launching of legisla
tion designed to remedy these evils.
Pro-farmer measures are to be given
precedence, over anti-trust laws a
decisions eminently wise in view of
the present nervous state of the busi
ness wog*ld and the prospective period
of depression more or less severe anti
prolonged
The law enacted by. the Legislature
of 1911 which gives a Superior Court
judge the right to change the venue
of criminal cases when he fears mob
violence to defendants, and without
the presence of the defendants in
court, enabled Governor Slaton to
untangle most happily a badly mixed
situation Wednesday with respect to
conditions in Louisville, .as they
touched the pending trial of three ne
groes for murder.
Governor Slaton is very much op
posed to sending the militia Into a
community unless it is imperatively
necessary. He is friendly to the State
troops and believes they should be
maintained in a manner that insures
their full and complete usefulness
when they are needed At the same
time he realizes that the people re
sent interference from the military
when matters ran be bandied other
wise.
The military is as much opposed to
being used, too, save in the gravest
necessity, as the Governor is to using
It Had the Governor, for instance,
d< idid to md '!«♦• ntgroe concerned
In Wednesday’s business from At
lanta to Louisville under military es
cort. it would have meant taking a
hundred or so men away from their
businesses for from three* to six or
eight days besides subjecting them to
some possible feeling among the peo
pie they were
sity and that the duly constituted au
thorities be trusted in the law's en
forcement ”
Without pampering without spe
cial favor, without public or private
coddling, our farmers ought shortly
to be in a position to raise capital on
very reasonable terms, and thus en
able them to greatly improve their
methods Given the fullest credit
they deserve, the farmers will be able
to install labor-saving machinery, to
buy the most modern implements, to
fertilize his fields more generously, to
rear more stock, to market his prod
uce to greater advantage, and, gener
ally. to increase his •efficiency, raise
his status and make things more com
fortable for the whole population.
My own conviction is that. Instead
of the palmiest days for farmers be
ing over in America, they are about to
dawn. The fallacy that the quickest
and best results can be obtained b>
working virgin soil to death without
giving it an ounce of bought fertilizer
will quickly be exploded. The best
farmers already realize the value of
dealing liberally with their land, of
crop rotation, of seed selection, of
rearing better grade stock, of scien
tifically determining the purposes for
which each field is best suited, etc'.,
etc. The possibilities and opportuni
ties are inspiring to anyone who has
had the good fortune to learn of these
matters at first hand and to give
them serious study. (It may be con
sidered a far cry from a remote farm
to Wall Street, but my schoolmaster
was determined that I should become
a teacher of agriculture rather than a
printer’s devil And It may be a pity
that he did not have his way!)
To Wall Street bears and to others
1 would commend perusal of the Sec
retary of Agriculture’s report. It will
act as a tonic. At present business
is the hole, agriculture the doughnut.
sent to mingle with,
not to Biention serious results follow
ing trouble.
Tiie militia certainly is as averse
to being ordered out unnec essarily as
anybody else* is!
Another thing that Governor Slaton
considered seriously before making up
his mind what to do in the Louisville
case was that to have ordered the
military there in any event would
have involved, under the l.»w\ the ab
solute necessity of declaring that
particular community under martial
law and In a state of riot.
Under the law cited by the Gov
ernor to Judge Rawlings, there will
rarely arise a necessity for sending
the military ,to the trial of a defend
ant. for the judge may easily foil an
impending mob by changing the
venue and bringing the defendants to
trial in a locality where there is no
danger from violence.
This new law serves another fine
purpose, in that it makes possible the
execution of convicted criminals in
counties other than the ones in which
their crimes were committed, for a
convict may be executed in the coun
ty to which the venue is changed.
The law of 1911 is regarded by the
Governor as a most happy and com
mendable piece of legislation.
Concerning it. he says: "The act of
1911 is mandatory on Judges and
wherever lh*‘ judge feels thOT he
should call for the militia to protect
the criminal, he must, In obedience to
that act, grant a change of venue. If
he did not obey the act and blood was
ahed by conflict between the citizens
and the soldiers, he would find it dif
ficult to Justify himself at the bar of
public opinion If he erroneously re
fused to grant a change of venue, and
the trial was proceeded with. It would
amount to naught, with consequent
delay.
“It Is most desirable, from every
standpoint, that the National Guard
he called upon only in extreme neces-
The recent tense situation in Louis
ville, Ga., a*nd Its relief by changing
the venue of the criminal trials con
cerned from Jefferson County % to Ful
ton. and the avoiding thereby of a
military display at the trials, has sug
gested anew to a member of the
Legislature the idea of offering dur
ing next summer’s session of the
General Assembly a bill providing for
a central place of execution for all
condemned criminals at the State
prison farm, say, or in Atlanta, the
Capital.
Last year it was necessary for Gov
ernor Brown to order a large and
very costly military escort from At
lanta for three negroes condemned to
death in Forsyth County, because it
was impossible then under the law
to execute the negroes anywhere else
within the dtate. There was grave
danger of a lynching in these cases,
notwithstanding the fact that the ne
groes concerned had been condemned
and merely awaited legal execution.
Had there been a law providing for a
central place of execution, however,
there would have been no military
display and escort necessary, the
State would have been saved much
expense, and the guilty prisoners
W'ould have been put to death quietly
und in order, as the law contemplates.
If a law providing for A central
place of execution is proposed there
is a good chance that it may pass.
The news of Colonel Charles R.
Pendleton’s nervous breakdown and
rather serious physical condition will
be read with genuine regret through
out all Georgia. An abundance of |
respectful sympathy Mill be extended)
to the Macon editor, along with |
thousands of good wishes and assur
ances of hope for a speedy and com
plete recovery.
Colonel Pendleton is the dean of the
Georgia editorial contingent thfe
Nestor of the Georgia press. Re
gardless of whether one agrees with
him and it generally is safe and
sane enough to do that—he Is es
teemed most highly and respected
genuinely among his contemporaries
Under his management and control.
The Macon Telegraph huK'grown to
be a powerful and splendidly repre
sentative newspaper. Its opinions
carry weight, and with conviction,
to thousands.
The Macon editor 1r intensely and
fearlessly Southern in every virile
fiber of his being—he Is, perhaps, the
very best beloved editor in Georgia
to-day!
A clever bit of negotiation for com
mittee appointments in the new Coun
cil has been conducted between Coun
cilman Albert I>. Thomson and Mayor
Woodward. Because the attacks of
th^se two on each other were the
spiciest political episodes of the year,
the fact that they almost came within
personal touch was a sensation in
City Hal! circles, where the under
standing is that tiie enemies of the
Mayor shall stay far away from him.
A close friend of the Mayor, re
membering how f Councilman Thom
son was made vice chairman of the
Minutes Committee, known as the
"insult” committee, because there aro
no duties attached to it, asked Coun
cilman Thomson what message he
would like to send the Mayor regard
ing new appointments. In his most
diplomatic vein Councilman Thomson
replied:
"When the Mayor assigned some of
us to minor committees he said he
was putting us on probation. Coun
cilman A H, Baskin, chairman of the
Minute^ Committee, has not attended
a single meeting this year and the
duties have all fallen on me. I think
the Mayor should keep his word and
reward my services by making me
chairman of the Minutes Committee."
When the message was conveyed
to Mayor Woodward he was thought
ful for a moment, and then replied:
"Councilman Thomson Is right. I
did promise to promote all w'ho made
good. But I made the mistake of not
contemplating having to demote any
one. I think I’ll just hold the chair
manship of the Minutes Committee
as a soft spot for some of those high
er up whom I’m going to drop.”
Although Georgia has had itn in
heritance tax law on its statute hooks
for rour months, not one cent of rev
enue has been collected under it so
far. As It is undoubtedly true that
some estates have become subject to
this tax in the meantime, it is re
garded as rather curious that nothing
has yet been collected under it.
There is a heavy penalty attaching
to failure to enforce this law, und the
various Ordinaries of the State will
do well to familiarize themselves
with the statute, or they may find
themselves subjected to the penalty
of the same. The duty of collecting
this tax is put upon the Ordinaries.
The Governor is rather anxiously
watching to see where the first col
lection under this law will come from.
Woman Dancer Slaps
Senator Pomerene
Jesse W. Armistead. president of
the Atlanta Typographical Union, has
issued a statement denying that the
un^on printers employed by the Index
Printing Company w'alked out on
New Year’s Day, and declaring that
they were locked out when the man
ager of the* company, Rev. B. J. W.
Graham, decided to non-unionize the
composing room of his plant.
Mr. Armistead declares that the de
cision of P.ev. Mr. Graham followed
the action of the local “typos" in
raising the book and Job scale from
$1H 50 to $18, which increase he de
clares was granted by every printing
plant in the city except the Index
Company, which notified Mr Armi
stead several days ago that the unfcoti
policy of the shop would be discon
tinued and the composing room ncpi-
unionized after January 1.
Last Wednesday, Mr. Armistead
says, Rev. Mr. Graham went into the
composing room and addressed his
union printers, dismissing them from
his employ and telling them their pay
checks awaited them in the office.
Mr. Armistead also declares that
Rev. Mr. Graham has refused to give
either himself or the men any reason
for his action, declaring that there
were reasons which could not be told.
The Index Company also refused the
proposal of the printers to arbitrate
the question, Mr. •Armistead declares.
The union men expect to continue
their fight to get their jobs back, it
is understood, and Mr. Armistead de
clares the fight will be "conducted
In a fair and honorable manner."
The .funeral of J. W. Hirschfeld, a
pioneer Atlanta citizen, was held Fri
day afternoon, following his death at
his home. No. 352 Whitehall street,
Thursday. Interment was in Oakland
Cemetery. Dr. Isaac Marx officiated
at the services.
Mr Hirschfeld had been a resident of
this city 37 yeaffc, coming here from
New York City. He was in the tai
loring busfness but retired ten years ago
from active life.
He is survived by his wife, four sons,
Harry. Louis and Herman Hirschfeld.
of New York, and Isaac Hirschfeld, of
Dallas. Texas, ami one daughter. Mrs.
Guy Goidsmith, of Atlanta The de
ceased was a member of the Odd Fel
lows, the Royal Arcanum and the Free
Sons of Israel, all of which organiza
tions took part in the funeral services.
Tango Is Forbidden
In Austrian Army-
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 2—The
long series of storms and tidal dis
turbances on the Pacific Coast the
lasrt several weeks had their culmina
tion In a terrige storm destroying San
Francisco’s magnificent beach and ex
posed to danger the huge trans-Pa-
eifle cable, the only means of com
munication between the United States
and the Orient»by way of Honolulu.
The storm in this city was the
worst in twelve years and the Pacific,
whipped into a raging mass by a 70-
| mile gale, vented its fury on the sev
eral miles of beautiful beach and al
most obliterated it.
A steep bluff, from 15 to 30 feert
high, now drops sheer from the edge
of the ocean highway and the waters
are threatening the driveway itself.
The massive concrete piling, built at
an enormous expense to protect the
ocean highway, is a mass of wreck
age.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Boars the
Signature of
'4/.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
VIENNA, Jan. 2.—A War Office
edict forbids uniformed officers to
dance the tango at public balls.
As a majority of the men dancers
at the important balls are army offi
cers, the prohibition is practically
universal. The Burgomaster also has
prohibited the dancing of the tango
at the city ball, one of the most elab
orate festivals of the carnival sea
son.
DROPSY AND
BRIGHT’S DISEASE
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IlSUPPEABSi—2SCENT MNDERINE
Save Your Hair! Make It Soft,
Fluffy, Lustrous and
Beautiful.
‘Don'tMakeU.S, Yacht
Too Fast/Begs Lipton
CANTON, OHIO. Jan. 2.—Two
cabaret dancers in short skirts
caused a stir at a banquet of the
business men’s association held to
form a Chamber of Commerce.
One tangoed between the tables,
playfully slapped Senator Atlee Pom
erene on the head and tried to kiss
the Rev. T. Wallis Groce, pastor of
the First Methodist Church, behind
the ear. The other sought to lure
Mayor-elect fcStolberg, church work
er. into dancing the tango with her.
Germans to Drill
Paraguay's Army
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN, Jan. 2.—The reorganiza
tion of the army of the Republic of
Paraguay W to be undertaken by
German officers, eight of whom sign
ed a contrat to serve in Paraguay for
three years.
Side Trip to Tuskegee
Via The West Point Route,
January 3d.
For parties of ten or more travel
ing together, $6.30 round trip. For
this trip please register with Secre
tary. American Association for the
Advancement of Science, at Piedmont
Hotel. Advt.
jlyrtzif j46oVe
£'yTer y tj//ifj7y
When “Dixie IV” ran away from the Duke of Westminster’s \.
“Pioneer,” which challenged the right of the United States to retain the
Hamsworth Cup, American motor boat supremacy was gloriously
emphasized.
The Dixie IV” covered the 30 nautical mile course—off Huntington, Long Island,
Sept. 4, 1911—in 53 minutes 47 seconds. This single-step hydroplane showed tremendous
speed, at times skimming the surface at nearly 50 miles an hour.
*&eurid 66 ftye
a
Away Above Everything’*
Be a Bell
Telephone
Operator
Is the Standard Whiskey of "Dixie Land’’—■
easily the winner in the race for public favor.
Rich, Ripe and Rare, with a mellow flavor ac
quired by ^ slow, natural ripening process in evenly
heated storehouses.
BOSTON Jan. 2.—Sir Thomas
I.ipton, challenger for America’s Cup,
wrote Mayor Fitzgerald in a letter-
"Kindly see to it that they do not
make the cup defense yacht build-
ihg in Boston go too fast, as It is
certaiidv not encouraging when the
Shamrock is far behind.
"If I should be fortunate enough
this time to win the «cup I should
like to bring it to Boston before-tak
ing it back.”
Nearly everybody knows that when
the dropsy comes so fast in Bright's
Disease that the patient has to be
tapped that the ease is hopeless so far
as the old treatment is concerned. We
never heard of a case recovering that
required tapping until Fulton’s Renal
Compound was evolved. Under the Re
nal Compound recoveries are frequently
reported even in this supposed hopeless
stage. We will cite two cases:
F. H. Chandler, of Clay, New York,
was a very serious case. As high as 4
quarts of water were drawn at a tap
ping He was put on Fulton’s Renal
Compound and a year thereafter had
resumed employment.
Another—Pat lent 6 years Old ths sen
of A. C. Dean, of Oakland, Cal., wa:»
tapped Might times; even had to be
tapped after being put on Fulton’s Re
nal Compound, but the tapping grew
further apart and he made a recovery
and was going to school at the last ad
vices.
If you have Bright’s Disease do you
not owe it to your family to try Fulton’s
R*mal Compound before giving up It
can be had at Edmondson Drug Com
pany.
Ask for pamphlet or write John J.
Fulton Company. San Francisco. —Advt.
Try as you will, after an application
of Danderine you can not find a single
trace of dandruff or falling hair, and
your scalp will not itch, but what will
please you most will be after a few
weeks’ use, when you see new’ hair,
fine and downy at first—yes—but really
new hair—growing all over the scalp.
A little Danderine immediately dou
bles the beauty of your hair. No differ
ence Wow dull, faded, brittle and scrag
gy, just moisten a cloth with Danderine
and carefully draw it through your hair,
taking one small strand at a time. The
effect is immediate and amazing—your
hair will be light, fluffy and wavy, and
have an appearance of abundance; an
incomparable lustre, softness and lux
uriance, the beauty and shimmer of true
hair health.
Get a 25-cent bottle of Knowlton’s
Danderine from any drug store or toilet
counter, and prove that your hair is as
pretty and soft as any—that it has been
neglected or injured by careless treat
ment—that’s all.—Advt.
New Treatment for Bronchitis,
Asthma, Catarrh and Head Colds
Vick’s Vap-O-Rub Croup and Pneu
monia Salve Relieves by Inhala
tion and Absorption. No Dosing.
When Vick’s “Vap-O-Rub” Croup and
J*neumonia Salve is applied externally,
the body warmth releases vapors of
I*ine Tar. Camphor, Thymol, Menthol
and Eucalyptol. These vapors are in
haled direct to the lungs and air pass
ages where internal medicines can not
go. They loosen the phlegm, open the
air passages and stimulate the mucous
mernbrane to throw off the disease
germs. For catarrh and head colds melt
a little in a spoon and inhale the vapors,
also, apply well up the nostrils. For
asthma and hay fever fpllow the in-
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structions given above and also rub
Vick’s w r ell over the spinal column, thus
relaxing the nervous tension. Vick's is
not a "cure" for these diseases, but it
has at least the merit of containing no
harmful habit-forming drugs, and It is
Wold by all druggists on thirty days’
trial. IC iJL fails to relieve in your case
the purchase price will be immediately
refunded.
For sore Ihroat, tonsilitis, deep colds,
and bronchial troubles, apply hot wet
towels over the chest and throat to open
the pores of the skin. Then rub Vick’s
well in and cover with a warm flannel
cloth. The next morning the phlegm is
loosened, head is clear and in addition
the absorption of Vick’s through the
skin has taken out that tightness and
soreness. At all dealers—25c, 50c and
$1.00.—Advt.
A
Home
In “Dixie”
In city, town or country
can be found just the place
you are looking for if you
will read the Real Estate
and “Want Ad” section
of this newspaper. These
ads are the guide posts to
wealth and happiness.
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Henry W. D avis.
Cashier
E. A. Bancker, Jr.,
Asst. Cashier
H. V/araer Martin,
Asst. Cashier
DIRECTORS:
Established 1861
The Lowry National Bank
OF ATLANTA
Designated Depositary of the United States,
the County of Fulton and the City of Atlanta
Capital
Surplus .
Undivided
Profits
Interest Paid on Deposits in our Savings Department
$1,000,000
$1,000,000
$ 250,000
The Officers and Directors of THE LOWRY NATIONAL
BANK., of Atlanta, heg leave to thank the many customers of
the hank for their liberal prtronage during the year 1913.
With best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year,
bespeaking a continuance of,your patronage, we ara
Yours respectfully,
OFFICERS: • ,
Robert J. Lowry, President; Thomas D. Meador, Vice-Pres.
am
Samuel M. I ■ man
• Thos. K.. Glenn
E. P McBurney
J. Paxon
John E. Murphy
Edward H. Inman
Roh ert J. Lowry
J. H. Nunnally
Ernest Woodruff
Thos. D. Meader
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