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NO. 46.
VOL. 1.
WHOLEU.S.
MOURNS FOR
BACON; HIGH
TRIBUTEPAID
STATE_SWIAN
Unexpected Death of Georgia
Leader Shocks Entire Nation.
President from Sick Bed,
Lauds His Ability and Loyalty.
Public Funeral in Senate Cham
ber Will Be Held Tuesday.
Body To Be Brought to Old
Home on a Special Train.
V\ \SHIN’GTON, Feb. 14— Wash
ington to-night is in mourning for
Senator Augustus O. Bacon, of
Georgia, whose death came vnexpect
■ 1! this afternoon at 2 o’clock,
Messages of sympathy to relatives
o’ • dead statesman and tributes
tc shed to members of the Senate
parts of the United States
th. i that the entire nation had
■ hocked by his sudden end.
Georgia Senator had been 11l a
nd his condition had been
• Icr.il grave, but reports from
hi.- ■••dslde early in the day cheered
1 friends greatly, and they were the
If-.- prepared for the sad news that
" onveyed to them in the after
noon.
President Pays Tribute.
Expressions of the admiration and
respect held for the dead Senator
were made on every hand. From a
bee. President Wilson paid his
tribute to the statesmanship, ability
and loyalty of Senator Bacon.
A power in the Democratic party
and particularly in the upper branch
of Congress, of which he had been a
member nearly nineteen years, Sen
ator Bacon’s loss will be most keenly
felt and will confront the State of
Georgia with a problem In the selec
tion of a successor comparable to him
n value of service, according to esti
mates of his worth made here to
night.
Had Senator Hoke Smith been in
the city, the duties of looking after
the arrangements for the funeral of
Senator Bacon would have fallen upon
'i. on account of his being a col
league of the deceased. To-night he
’■ ired from Atlanta to Senator Lee S.
Overman, of North Carolina, asking
hv to take charge of all arrange
rents, which Senator Overman Is do
ing.
While the arrangements have not
been arranged as to minute details.
has been decided to hold funeral
FA vices in the Senate Chamber Tues
<L’. afternoon at 1 o'clock, the •pe
dal funeral train leaving Tuesday
'ruing at 5 o’clock for Atlanta,
"'•■re it is expected that the body
" lav in state Wednesday. The
funeral at Macon probably will be
Wd Thursday afternoon.
Special Funeral Train.
The funeral will be attended by the
members of the Senate, the members
'he House of Representatives, the
President of the United States, the
m nbers of his Cabinet, th* Generals
the army, the Admirals of th#
. the Chief Justice of the Su
' rente Court, his Associate Justices,
members of the Diplomatic Corps.
The body will be taken to Georgia
after the funeral ceremonies on a
special train, and will be accom
; inied by committees of the Senate
and the House.
When the Senator’s Illness began
about a month ago his indisposition
"as ascribed to a broken rib. which
h< was believed to have sustained in
fall. It was not until some time
''ter that a more thorough diagnosis
'nd an examination with the X-ray
disclosed that he was suffering from
m affection of the kidneys, the exact
'ature of which was difficult to de
ermine.
Clot on Heart Fatal.
He was taken to a hospital on
Thursday and was reported to br
regressing favorably. The opera
which had been planned bj- his
ysicians, was abandoned on his
satisfactory showing
Clot on Heart Fatal,
Folowing’ so closely on the heels <>l
ese encouraging reports, the an
nouncement of his death this after
noon was at once a surprise and a
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U.S. OFFICIALS INVESTIGATING THE CLAIMS OF SOUTHERN CITIES FOR A REGIONAL BANK
From left to right behind the table facing the camera are David F. Houston. Secretary of Agriculture; William G. McAdoo. Secretary of the Treasury, and
: John Skelton ’Williams, Comptroller of the Currency. On the witness stand with his back to the camera is Colonel Edward Watkins, of Chattanooga.
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130,000 SWIFT
BABY GIVEN TO
GRANDMOTHER
Mrs. Huntley and Aunt to Whom
Child Was Willed Agree
on Custody,
Another, unexpected, chapter in the
eventful life of little Lena Swift, “the
$30,000 baby,” w ho was willed by her
mother, Jacques Bradley Swift, to her
aunt, was written Saturday when her
grandmother, Mrs. Lena Swift Hunt
ley, one of the richest women in At
lanta. returned to this city from
Washington with the child in her pos
session.
The charming youngster, whose ac
tress mother clung to her in lier dark
est days of trouble, even as she lay
dying, will make her home with her
father, Thomas Swift, at Mrs. Hunt
ley's Peachtree street residence.
Mrs. Huntley last night confirmed
to The Sunday American the report
that the child was with her. and said
that the “reunion had been ac
complished without rancor or trou
dell.
How Child Was Given Over.
A vouching story of how the hearts
of two women went out to each other
In life's supreme emotions was re
vealed in dispatches from The Sun
day American's Washington corre
spondent telling of the surrender of
Lena by her aunt, Mrs. Harry Wen
dall.
When Mrs. Huntley began to tell
in letters to Mrs. Harry Wendell, of
Washington, who had custody of lit
tle three-year-old Lena, her love for
her granddaughter, Mrs. Wendell
softened and wrote Mrs. Swift that
she might consider parting with the
child.
Encouraged, Mrs. Swift continued to
write to Mrs. Wendell, with tlie re
sult that Mrs. Wendell invited her
to Washington. She reached there
Friday, and started last night for At
lanta with the child.
Mother-Love Comes First.
"I could not stand it." said Mrs.
Wendell, in Washington yesterday.
"No sooner had Jacques died (refer
ring to her sister, mother of the
child), “than Mrs. Swift wrote me one
of the sweetest letters I ever read.
She told me Lena was her flesh nnd
blood: that she dreamed of the child
and loved her as her own, and be
cause the child bore her name that
she wanted her.
"I love Lena. too. but when she
began to tell me about her yearning
and how lonely she was and how
badly she wanted to sec little Lena.
It occurred to me that I hud never
known the love that a mother has
for a child and that perhaps the love
of the grandmother was stronger. If
possible, than the aunt. I told her to
come to Washington to see Lena. She
came, and we sat right here in the
parlor and talked it all over, and I
told her that she had acted so rea
sonable about it. and that I knew
that she was tired and weary of law
suits. so Harry and I told her to take
little Lena,with her "
"Are you ever to s?e the child?' 1
was asked.
"Yes: it is agreed that I can visit
Lena any time and that I am to visit
them real soon because T love the
child. Mrs. Swift promised me she
would bring Lena here soon to visit
me again, and while I cried a lot last
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S UNIWWAMERICAN
(Copyright. 1913, by
The Georgian Company
Sullivan Shoots
Broadside at Bryan
Senatorial Candidate Declares in Re
ply to Attack That Secretary
of State Is Officious.
CHICAGO. Feb. 14.—Roger C. Sul
livan will not permit William J. Bry
an's opopsition to his Senatorial can
didacy to dHve him out of the pri
mary fight next September. In a
statement Issued to-night in reply to
the Secretary of State’s attack on
him, Sullivan calls on the editor of
the commoner to be more specific in
his charge that Sullivan does not rise
to the dignity of the office.
Mr. Sullivan did not prepare an an
swer to Bryan until he received a
telegram personally from the Secre
tary of State assuring him, it is said,
that he stood sponsor for the Com
moner article.
"If a Democrat in Illinois has not
the right to announce himself as a
candidate of his home State without
the sanction of Mr. Bryan, who has
more than once, and without suc
cess, undertaken to control the Demo
cratic party in Illinois, then my can
didacy Is ’unthinkable’ —not other
wise," said Sullivan.
Bill Frees Banks of
Income Tax Burden
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Repre
sentative J. Hampton Moore, of Penn
sylvania, presented to the House to
day a resolution requesting the Ways
and Means Committee to change the
income tax law to require only "in
formation of the tax on Incomes at
the sobree," and not “collection of
the tax on incomes at the source."
The resolution states that the law
places a heavy burden on banks, cor
porations and financial institutions
by requiring them without compensa
tion to act as collecting egencies for
the Government.
Houston Not to Quit
For Bank Board Job
WASHINGTON. Feb. 14—Secre
tary Houston of the Department of
Agriculture, will not leave the Presi-
dent’s Cabinet to accept a place on
the Federal Reserve Board. This was
learned to-day. It is understood also
that President Wilson does not con
template or desire the slightest
change in his Cabinet, and regards his
selections for each post as peculiarly
fortunate for himself and the country.
The Parcel Post
has particularly made
possible the selling by
mail of farm products.
The “Want Ad” pages
of The Daily Georgian
and Hearst’s Sunday
American supply you
with busy little sales
men, who can keep
you and Uncle Sam
busy. Start something.
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1914
Ji IL jb flEnd li ' A*
Infants Substituted
For Pigs by Doctors
In Dread Serum Tests
MAY “BLIND” PATIENTS, SAY NOTED DOCTORS
*y|RS. SAMUEL McC. HAMILL, Howard Childs Carpenter j
IVI and Thomas A. Cope, of Philadelphia, pioneers in the use
of the tuberculin test, in a report to the American Association
of Physicians, say:
“It (the tuberculin test) has the great disadvantage of
producing a decidedly uncomfortable lesion and iV is not in
< frequently followed by serious inflammation of the eyes, which
not only produce great physical discomfort and require weeks
of aetve treatmet, but which may permanently affect the
vision and even lead to its complete destruction.
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“In fact we are strongly of the opinion that any diagnostic
! procedure which will so frequently result in serious lesions of
the eyes, irrespective of the way in which it produces them, has <
no justification in medicine.”
i
Dr. Simon Flexner Admits ('harges and Justifies
Experiments on 1,000 Children.
NEW YORK. Feb. 14.—Infants are
being used as substitutes for guinea
pigs and rabbits in scientific experi
ments in the Rockefeller Institute and
in New York hospitals.
These helpless children are inoc
culated with Dr. Noguchi’s “leutin"
serum, which is the extract of the
germs of the disease most dread by
humanity, or they are subjected to the
tubercular tests applied to 1.000
charity patients In the babies’ hos
pital by Dr. L. Emmett Holt, the fa
mous specialist.
Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the
Rockefeller Institute, whose medical
research work has made him one
of the foremost scientists of the
world, Justifies such vivisection. Os
his personal motives, high scientific
knowledge and professional skill
there can bo no question. He ad
mitted, however, yesterday every vi
tal point In the charges made by
Michael Joseph Whitty, of the Amer
ican Institute of Social Service. Dr.
Flexner said:
"The charges that 1,000 babies had
been tortured by the tuberculin test
and that infants have been substi
tuted for guinea pigs in experimental
work and other frightful sounding
charges must give the reader one of
two impressions, either that hideous
practices are very prevalent in New
York hospitals, or that the author of
the statement printed has deceived
himself and does not know what he
is talking about.
"The fact is that the tuberculin
test is used by every good practition-
er who has occasion to diagnose a
doubtful case of tuberculosis.
“It would be outrageous to apply
a curative preparation to a person
who is ‘presumably well,’ but a per
son who is ‘presumably unwell,' may
under certain circumstances very
properly be submitted to certain rou
tine dlagonlstlq tests to aid in the
diagnosis of disease. It is quite prop
er to apply such tests as the tuber
culin and leutin tests to such pa
' tients.
"It is perhaps sufficient to say that
no patient was worse, but that many
were better for the tests.”
Dr. Flexner admits that such tests
1 are being made dally in Rockefeller
Institute and hospitals In New York.
■ Consent of parents is not obtained be
fore the serums are injected.
As to the charge that infants were
1 substituted for guinea pigs In ex
perimental work, Dr. Noguchi in an
article prepared for The Journal of
. the American Medical Association
said:
"While I was still working with anl.
mats Professor Welch suggested that
I make the tests on human subjects.
Through his encouragement 1 com
menced the work,at once at different
dispensaries and hospitals with the
co-operation of the physicians in
I charge.”
Daniels Called Most
Pious Cabinet Officer
I W ASHINGTON, Feb. 14. -Secretary
. of the Navy Daniels has won the
palm in Washington society as the
most pious member of the Cabinet.
1 says grace before meals, even at
state dinners. .
Mrs. Littleton Moves
Legislature to Tears
Plea for Preservation of Jefferson's
Home by U. 3. Stirs Virginia
House to Action.
RICHMOND, VA„ Feb. 14.—Mem
bers of the House of the Virginia
Legislature were moved to tears to
day as Mrs. Martin W. Littleton, of
New York, appealed for the acquisi-
ItlOn by the national Government cf
I Monticello, the home of Thomas Jef
ferson.
At the conclusion of the talk lhe
H<mße“tiTOtffNfflrtlF!y adopted a reso
lution calling upon Congress to take
steps to acquire the propertj' either by
purchase or condemnation, if neces
sary .
The Senate Is expected to concur in
the action Monday.
Wilson Expected to
Be at Desk Monday
WASHINGTON. Feb. 14 —Uneasi
ness in official circles that President
Wilson's Illness was more serious
than at fi: ’. supposed was responsible
for a statement to-day by Dr. Cary
Grayson, the President's physician,
that he would be able to return to his
work on Monday.
“The report that the President is
suffering from anything hut a bad
cold." said Dr. Grayson, "is utterly
without foundation. The President
was able to sit up this afternoon, and
undoubtedly could have arisen had it
been necessary.”_
13 Food Staples Up,
Only 2 Drop, in 1913
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. Accord
ing to statistics issued to-day by the
Bureau of Labor, retail prices ad
vanced from 1 to 2 per cent on thir
teen staple articles of food during
1913 and declined on but two.
The percentage of Increases: Pota
toes, 12.3; eggs, 14.2; round steak.
12.9: ham, 10.8; rib roast, 8.3; sirloin.
8.3: bacon, '8.2: hens. 7.5: pork chops.
8.3: butter, 3.7; milk, 2.7; corn meal,
1.7, and lard, 1.
The decreases were sugar 8 8 per
cent and flour 2.8.
Women Speakers
Attack Suffrage
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 14.—Mrs. Ar
thur Dodge and Miss Minnie Bron
son. of New York, spoke before a
public meeting of citizens to-night In
opposition to the suffrage movement.
"1 have given the suffragists to un
derstand that If thej' continue to cir
culate stories that liquor interests
have financed our movement I shall
bring damage suits against them,’
said Mrs. Dodge.
Gives S2O to U. S. to
Buy Wire Systems
WASHINGTON. Feb, I I—Twenty
dollars In gold with which t<> found h
fund to purchafcH the telephone and
telegraph llnee of the t’nlted Statea
for the people wm received by Pres
ident Wilson to-daj from a <tfoo-a
-jear stenographer In Man Francisco.
Steps have been taken to locate the
sender and return the meney«
MMS MARRY
GHUMS;UNIQUE
GOUBLEWOOING
God of Coincidence Aids Dan
Cupid in Bringing About Sim
ultaneous Marriages.
At all times Daniel Cupid is a game
little fighter, a dead shot and a fairly
successful worker with astonishing
perseverance, but when he Is aided
and abetted in his labors by the God
of Coincidence, the little blind archery
expert can't lose.
And then we have the "Coincidental
Romance."
For Instance —
There was Miss Mary Pugh Elliott
and her (hum, Miss Eulalia Taylor,
and Fred T. Kyle and his chum, Harry
L. Farr, all principals in a double
I wedding at the home of Mrs. S. P.
! Elliott, of No. 380 CapTtol avenue,
j when Dr Dunbar H. Ogden, of the
[Central Presbyterian Church, made
I Miss Elliott Mrs. Kyle and Miss Tay
lor Mrs. Farr.
All Sorts of Coincidences.
Now, of course, Cupid fired the
first shot and deserves lots of the
credit, but the God of Coincidence In
jected into the proceedings a remark
able scries of coincidences and hap
penings that transformed the budding
romance from a "regular" romance
into a unique "coincidental romance."
Here are a few of the things that
might properly be credited to the God
of Coincidence, or, at least, to some
i body besides Cupid
The brides have been chums and
j roommate* for five years.
The grooms have been chums and
[ roomates for five years.
i The brides are the same age.
The grooms are the same age.
Tlie four lived on the same street.
The grooms work In the same de
’ partment In the L. W. Rogers Com
! pany's wholesale house.
The four became acquainted on the
same day, at the same reception, In
I I he same house.
All trips to the theaters and other
places of amusement were made to-
■ gether.
Proposed at Same Time.
Both proposals were made the same
day, at the same time, in practically
tlie same language.
The grooms bought rings at the
same store at the same time, and
slipped them on the fingers of their
sweethearts at the same time.
The brides like the same sort of
shows, the same books and the same
brand of candy.
i The grooms smoke the same kind
of cigars and tobacco, and wear the
same size hats and shoes.
They were all married the same
I day, in the same house, with the same
sort of service, by the same nilnis
ler.
The brides are from the same State
Alabama.
They all live in the same house.
'We van't be separated," -said Mrs.
Kyle Saturday. "We'll probably live
in th< same house always. We’ were
chums before we were married, and
we arc going to keep right on being
chums."
All .of the young people are well
known in Atlanta. Mrs. Kyle Is a
granddaughter of former United
States Senator James L. Pugh, of Ala
bama, and is also a distant relative
of Senator Tillman, of South Caro
lina. Her uncle Is judge of the City
Court at Birmingham.
EDITION FOR
NORTH GEORGIA
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
BANQUET TO
BANKBOARO
SETS REGORD
FORATLANTA
HOSPITALITY
Brilliant Affair Brings Forth Both
Light and Serious Talks by
Distinguished Guests; Sec.
McAdoo Praises Money Act.
Calls Measure Protection to Both
Business and People; Lauds
President and His Principles;
Williams Sees Boom for South
After a strenuous two days of seri
ous argument, there' was relaxation
a-plenty for President Wilson’s re
gional bank commission In the bril
liant banquet at the Capital City Club
Saturday night, tendered the three
distinguished visitors by the Clear
ing House Association and the Cham
ber of Commerce.
For a gathering associated with so
serious a matter as a reserve bank,
the banquet was singularly unevent
ful. The Atlanta business men who
Played the hosts to the President’s
I Cabinet members Intended that it
should be a social gathering alto
gether, and so It proved. There wav
good music and good speeches—from
a standpoint of entertainment —and
an excellent cuisine—and that was all.
Best of all was the speech of Sec
retary of the Treasury McAdoo, a
masterly cpttome of the Democratic
administration, and a warning to al!
I Atlanta and to other contenders for
the regional banks to be reconciled if
their appeals are not rewarded.
Be Good, He Saya,
if Atlanta does not win. he said, the
city's loss must be accepted philoso
phically, and it must be regarded that
the Commission members acted, as
they saw. for the best Interest of all
j the nation.
That warning and the exposition
■ of the Wilson principles by the other
l speakers. Secretary of Agriculture
! Houston and John Skelton Williams.
Comptroller of the Currency, were the
only serious notes of_the evening.
Otherwise there waj only pure en
joyment of the repast, and a sports
man’s concern regarding Atlanta's
chances for the bank.
Early in the evening a small par.'
of women came to the balcony over
looking the banquet hall. Among
them were Mrs. John K. Ottley. Mrs
Robert F. Maddox and Miss Isma
Doolev. The central table, where sat
the guests of the evening, vas elab
orately arranged.
A number of prominent Atlanta
men sat there. They were: Bolling
H. Jones, John Temple Graves, W. J.
Blalock. J. R. Gray, J. K. Ottley, Mell
R. Wilkinson, J. K. Orr, Colonel Rob
ert J. Lowry, Robert F. Maddox,
Joseph A. McCord. W. L. Peel, Judge
W. T. New man, Frank Hawkins. J. S
Floyd. General R. K. Evans and A P
Coles.
Distinguished Assembly.
From the expectant moment when
Colonel Bob Lowry announced in his
flexible baritone a toast "to the Pres
ident," standing, to the rather hazy
moment when the dark brown taste
of the bill o' fare's Mocha had been
allayed by the strains of "Too Much
Mustard." from a delectable orche. -
tra, it was an occasion to be re
membered.
It was a distinguished assembly.
Even the versatile ballroom of the
Capital City Club was distinguished
by the red, white and blue of the fes
toons over the window, and post and
pillow: by the red, white and green
of the carnations and the narcissus
decorations; by an eminent, an ex
ceptionally eminent, gathering of e\
erybody in Atlanta worth while.
When the canvasback duck and
the French endive had been elinr
nated, speeches began under the
sponsorship of Colonel Lowry.
Tribute to Senator Bacon.
There was a solemn lull when
Robert F. Maddox read a letter from
Governor Slaton explaining that hi«
absence was due to the death, of Sen
ator Bacon. Governor Slaton paid
high tribute to the dead Senator and
proposed a silent toast to his mem
ory.
Mr Maddox declared that the weak
banking and currency system of for
mer years needed relief, but no par
ly In power had the pre*