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VOL. III. NO. 3.
iCopyrlght, 1918, by
The Georgian Company.)
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, APRIL
1915.
Philadelphia to Pay All Expenses.
Whole East Will Celebrate the
Departure of Famous Relic on
Its Ocean-to-Ocean Journey.
Winifred Black Urges Orations
All Along the Route — San
Francisco .Eagerly Awaits the
Coming of Revered Treasure.
By WINIFRED BLACK.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 24.—Hur-
rah! The Liberty Bell is coming to
San Francisco. The Liberty Bell that
rang in the Declaration of Independ
ence. the Liberty Bell that is like the
voice of our fathers speaking to us
from the splendid days of glorious en
deavor—the Liberty Bell is coming
across the wide continent from Phila
delphia, over the prairies and through
the plains and across the mountains
—to California—to San Francisco—to
the exposition which celebrates a
great American achievement. v
Philadelphia is going to send a
splendid committee of the most prom
inent men in Pennsylvania to bring
the glorious bell and keep it safe.
The descendants of those men will
boast for years to come of that jour
ney.
City to Pay Expenses.
And Philadelphia would ridt even
listen to the idea of having the ex
pense of that journey, one penny of
it, paid by any human being but the
city of Philadelphia.
Hats off to the City of Brotherly
Love—the spirit of William Penn lin
gers, doesn’t it, Philadelphia?
What a day it will be when the bell
starts on its wonderful journey—
©very little white doorstep in the city,
cf White Steps will be scrubbed till it
looks like marble, and there’ll be a
flag in every window' of every red
brick house—and, if there’s a boy in
Philadelphia that doesn’t carry a flag
on that day; a girl in Pennsylvania
that doesn't wear a red, white and
blue ribbon to tie up her hair—why, it
will be because, they don’t know' how
to get hold of the material—that’s all.
Every Bell to R*ng.
Every bell in the State of Pennsyl
vania will ring and every big gun in
the Commonwealth will fire a salute
and the whole city will be down to
the station to say: "Good-bye, old bell
—take care of yourself out W est there
on the Pacific.”
And the great journey will begin—
the splendid journey that ought to be
taken to the tune of a triumphal
march.
Let’s make it an American journey
every step of the road.
Let’s do away with the hyphening—
for this once.
No German-Americans, no French-
Ameircans, no English-Americans
now— n ot when we make ready to re
ceive the guest of honor from good old
Philadelphia.
All to Honor Old Bell.
Let’s be Americans—not Northern
ers, not Southerners, not Easterners,
not Westerners—no, not even Cali
fornians—let’s be Americans, and
that’s all—all and proud of it.
Let s show ourselves worthy of the
honor—from one end of the country
to the other.
They call us mercenary and mate
rial—they say wp are money grab
bers, we Americans- we’ll show them
that under all our light pretense and
the idle satire of frivolous hours we
are now what we started out to be—
deep-hearted, clear-visioned Ameri-
«*ns, as proud of our old traditions
and our splendid history as any na
tion on earth could ever dare to be.
May, June, July—and with July the
Liberty Bell! Sing, winds, and tell the
world the story.
MooreThanks
Wm.R.Hearst;
* Aid Won Bell’
P RESIDENT CHARLES C.
MOORE, of the Panama'-
Pacific International Expo
sition, has sent the following tele
gram to William Randolph Hearst:
San Francisco.
Hon. William Randolph Hearst:
On behalf of the exposition, I
have the honor to express our sin.
cere gratitude and appreciation of
your support of the proposal to
bring the Liberty Bell to the ex
position, and to state to you our
conviction that without the inter
est you took personally and with
out the assistance given under
your orders by representatives of
the Hearst papers the Liberty Bell
would not have been sent here. I
am glad at this time to make rec
ognition of the more than ample
fulfillment of your promise made
at the public banquet tendered to
you by the exposition more than
three years ago, when you stated
that all of the Hearst publica
tions would lend their unqualified
and enthusiastic support to this
expression of national pride in
trusted to us by our Government.
The exposition knows that it can
confidently rely upon your en
thuslastic and unfailing support at
all times.
(Signed)
CHARLES C. MOORE,
President.
Brilliant Presentation of History
of Chattanooga Planned
by Schools.
1,000 CHILDREN TO DANCE
University Girl To Be Queen.
Every Period of City’s Develop
ment Is To Be Shown.
Liberty Bell to Go to
the Panama* Pacific
Exposition
O N the first page of the maga
zine section of this news
paper to-day there appears
a very interesting account of the
Insidious disease which has re- i
cently attacked the most precious
relic of the birth of this nation,
the famous Liberty Bell, and
threatens to shorten it’s life. At
the time this color page went to
press it was fearod that the bell’s
malady had reached such a criti- i
cal stage that it would be impos
sible for it to make the long jour
ney to the Panama-Pacific Expo
sition at San Francisco as had
been expected. Now, however, as
every good American will be glad
to hear, experts have decided that
there is enough improvement in
the bell’s condition to warrant the
trip, the famous relic will there
fore make the journey to the great
exposition at San Francisco, and
will remain there for several
months to receive the homage of
millions of loyal citizens.
Yale Seniors Spend
$1,079,111 in 4 Yrs.
Big Difference Is Seen in Expenses
for Course of Richest and
Poorest Students.
NEW HAVEN. April 24.—The mem
bers of the Yale class of 1915 will get
their diplomas in June at a total cost
of $1,079,111, according to the ex
pense accounts of the men who gave
the figures in their personal statistics
published In The Yale News.
The figures show the great differ
ences in the financial resources of the
men who come to Yale and testify to
the continued existence of democracy
at Yale. In freshman year, the most
expensive, the most affluent man spent
$4,500. while the most frugal got his
education for a cash outlay of $200.
Perhaps due to parental conferences
over freshman year’s expense ac
counts or to the financial depression,
the richest man in sophomore year
spent but $2,800, while the poorest
man spent $200 cash. The average for
the year was $1,076 a man. Last year
the average expenses a man were $1,-
106, individual expenses varying from
$4,000 to $200. This year the richest
man expects to spend a total of $3,100
and the poorest man $250.
CHATTANOOGA, April 24.—Fully
1,000 school children of the city and
county educational Institutions of
Chattanooga and Hamilton County
will take part in a historical pageant
entitled ‘‘Chattanooga.’’ to be given as
a spectacular feature of the Southern
Conference for Education and Indus
try on the afternoon of Wednesday,
April 28, at Warner Park.
The pageant will be symbolic of
the development of Chattanooga.
Each, period will be f represented by
groups of fifty school children, appro
priately costumed. Bands of Indians
will attack a group of early settlers,
after the wood nymphs and fairies
have frolicked over the green in spe
cialty dances.
A beautiful part of the production
will be the folk dance by the school
children. The folk dance9 of several
nations will be depicted. Germany.
Holland, Spain, Scotland, Japan and
Sweden wil be represented.
The pageant will take place before
a court composed of Queen Chatta
nooga, her courtiers and tributary
queens and their courts. A fair young
woman from the University of Chat
tanooga will be the queen. Tributary
queens will be taken from the various
suburban -schools and the courts will
be made up of the children from those
schools.
City and county teachers, instruct
ors in private institutions and mem
bers of the faculty of Chattanooga
University are co-operating in the
effort to makee the pageant a suc
cess.
Mrs. L. N. Russell, of Central High
School, is directing the production.
On Thursday afternoon there will be
a playground demonstration and on
Friday athletic events.
Wanamaker Expects Heinze Left a Gross
Trade Flood for U. S. Estate of $1,478,666
[LADELPHIA. April 24.—"Ameri-
jmmerce will be in greater danger
the war than it is now. and mer-
s had better buckle up and pre-
to face the worst,” declared John
maker before the reorganized
ber of Commerce.
,e worst is yet to come,” he said,
use there are thousands of dol-
ivorth of foreign goods now in stor-
will flood this country as soon
ere la any sig» of peace.”
NEW YORK, April 24.—F. Augustus
Heinze, Jr., four-year-old son of the
late copper magnate, is heir to a gross
estate of $1,478,666, according to the
appraisers’ report filed in Saratoga.
Mrs. Lida M. Fleitman, of No. 32 East
Sixty-seventh street, a naunt. is guar
dian of the heir and administratrix to
the estate.
A judgment of $1,264,449 obtained
against Heinze by Edwin Gould is still
outstanding against the e3tat..
Kept Saloon Sunday
To Give Police Drinks
LO ITS VILE, April 24.—That he dis
obeyed the Sunday closing law to accom
modate the thirst of policemen was the
unique defense offered by John D. Frey,
proprietor of Riverside Inn, when called
upon to explain how his bartenders
happened to be serving drinks at 1
o'clock Sunday morning.
Frey said when he kept open after
hours he nejter charged the police any
thing for what they drank. Frank
Thomas. Steve Crimmons and Tom
Grimes, policemen, testified they bought
drinks at Frey’s place after hours.
Fre.v was fined $9 and costs. The po
licemen were reprimanded by the court,
which threatened to hold up their pay
unless they enforce the law In the fu
ture.
Sends Spade as Gift
To President Wilson
PARKERSVILLE, W. VA., April 24.—
President Wilson and the members of
his Cabinet may now go right along
with their spring plantings. A too)
manufacturing firm of this city has sent
through parcel post to the President
and each member of his Cabinet a new
kind of spade. With the President’s
spade was sent the following letter:
"Speaking before the National Board
of Comerce you said: ‘We should keep
every plow and spade busy from now
on ’ 1 am sending you by parcel post
one of our new spades. If you can not
use this about your premises, would be
glad to have you send It to some of
your friends who would appreciate a
tool of this character."
ATTEMPTS TO
t nis
Also, Reported Separation of
Democratic Chairman and
Wife Shocks Society.
TUMULTY IS POLITICAL FOE
Leader Denies Domestic Trouble,
but Seems Dissatisfied With
Party’s Conduuct.
WASHINGTON, April 24.—DIssen-
sion within the Democratic party, re
volving about William F. McCombs,
the national chairman, have broken
out afresh.
Also, society was shocked when it
was known that Mr. McCombs and
Mrs. McCombs had separated. The
belief among close friends of the
couple was that Mrs. McCombs soon
would bring an action for divorce.
Mr. McCombs denied the report,
saying: "Any statement of separation
or intended divorce is entire news to
me. There is no truth in this report,
but I don’t wish to dignify it with a
deniaJ.”
Ever since the close of the Wilson
campaign, in which Mr. McCombs, al
though the titular leader, was in large
measure subordinate to William Mc-
Adoo, now Secretary of the Treasury,
then an assistant at Democratic head
quarters, effort© have been in evidence
looking to his retirement from th'e
national chairmanship. As though
emanating from him, the effort was to
make it appear that because of the
uncertain condition of his health he
would voluntarily withdraw' from par
ticipation in the political work of the
party.
In this connection use was made of
the name of Joseph P. Tumulty, sec
retary to the President, as his prob
able successor. To-day these stories
were revived, and, although Secretary
Tumulty endeavored to put an end to
them by asserting that they were
made out of the whole cloth by politi
cal mischief makers, they continue to
circulate. Criticisms of Mr. McCombs,
w’hich have found publicity on a num
ber of occasions, have been credited
by some of Mr. McCombs’ friends to
Mr. Tumulty and to Mr. McAdoo, al
though the latter has been at pains
to deny and disprove them. Notwith
standing this fact, Mr. McComos
seems to regard Mr. Tumulty as a
political rival, and the gossip will not
down.
Regarding the separation story, it
was pointed out that Mrs. McCombs
has spent much time for the last sev
eral months at the home of her par
ents, Colonel and Mrs. John R. Wil
liams, in this city.
Mr. and Mrs. McComos have been
married less than eighteen monins,
the wedding having been celebrated in
London November 7, 1913. Washing
ton society was greatly surprised at
the marriage, the announcement of
w hich was made only one day in ad
vance of the ceremony.
Before her marriage airs. McCombs,
wno was Miss Dorothy Williams, was
a leader of the younger set in the
Capital, and she is recognized as one
of W ashingion s most prominent
young matrons.
Insure McLean Gems
Jt or inree Minions
BOSTON, April 24.—The Boston in
surance firm of O'Brien, Russell &. Co.,
108 Waters street, it was learned, will
insure tne famous McLean jewels at a
figure said to be $3,000,000.
The fortune in jewels belongs to Mrs.
Edward B. McLean, of Washington,
mother of Vincent McLean, the famous
million-dollar baby. Included in the ar
ray of gems is the famous Hope dia
mond.
COLUMBUS PAGEANT BIG SUCCESS
The fiftieth anniversary of the last battle of the war between the States, fought in Columbus
April 16, 1865, was celebrated with a brilliant civic pageant. The crowning of the queen was the
principal event. (}. Gunby Jordan placed a jeweled crown on the head of Miss Ophelia Davis, and
proclaimed her queen of the Columbus Home-Coming Celebration. The picture shows the queen
and some of her maids. In the center is Ophelia Davis, the queen; standing at left,Clyde O’Neill;
right, Sara Litchenstein; seated, left to right, Arminta Flotirney, Belle Dudley and Glennie May
Forston. Other maids were Misses Nell Diamon, Louise Battle, Louise Scarbrough, Kathleen
B«!l. Louise McMath, Elbe Henderson, Fedora Hill, Ruth Battle, Lorreta Chappell.
Struggle on Eastern Front Keeps
Germany From Sending More
Forces to West Line, Declares
Noted Military Authority.
Gigantic Armies Are Battling on
Even Turns in Rugged Moun
tains—Neither Line Has Shift
ed for Two Weeks.
Ooamsw*
Surgeon’s Knife Is
Guided by a Dream
Operating to Remove Growth From
Lung Success After Hospital
Nurse's Vision.
NOMINATION BLANK
1,000 VOTES
PADUCAH, KY., April 24.—How
the dream of Miss Gela Harmon,
nurse of Riverside Hospital, revealed
the source of an inflammation in the
lung of Paul Cox, a youth, and how'
Dr. Paul Stewart performed a suc
cessful operation, has Just been an
nounced.
Cox has entered the hospital for an
operation on his throat and nose.
Soon afterward he showed symptoms
of pneumonia, and his condition grad
ually became worse. Efforts were
made to locate the trouble which phy
sicians felt sure to be in his lungs
but scientific methods were of no
avail. While the patient lingered be
tween life and death Miss Harmon
dreamed that the Inflammation could
toe located in a certain part of his
side and informed Dr. Stewart of it.
“Well, we'll just take a chance."
said Dr. Stewart, and preparations
for an operation were made Imme
diately. The corruption was located
and removed, and young Cox is on the
road to recovery.
Posed as His Own
Brother 27 Years
Man Who Dodged Alimony by Allow
ing Death To Be Heralded
Recognized—Confesses.
MILWAUKEE, April 24.—-Orville E.
Collins, after having posed as his own
brother for 27 years, and counted dead
for that length of time, has been or
dered to appear before Judge Eschweller
and show cause why he should not pay
back alimony' to Mrs. Bertha Collins,
who divorced him just prior to his sup
posed death.
Mrs. Collins obtained a divorce in 1888
with alimony of $20 a month, which for
the period of Collins' absence, amounts
to $6,460.
Recently Mrs. Collins met a man who
professed to be her one-time husband’s
brother. An investigation proved him to
be the husband himself. Collins has ad
mitted it.
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one candidate.
War Gives U.S. Grain
Raisers $200,000,000
CHICAGO. April 24.—Europe's war
has enriched Middle West farmers
approximately *200.000,000, the money
going chiefly to growers of grains.
What speculators have made by the
war perhaps never will be known.
A prominent grain merchant said
the *200,000.000 • extra" received by
farmers for their bumper wheat, corn
and oats crops can be readily ac
counted for by citing the one in
stance in regard to prices on cash
wheat. He pointed out that wheat
now is selling, and has been for
months, at from 35 cents to 50 cents
more a bushel than it would have
brought but /or the war.
Sinclair Campaigns
For Miss, Socialists
JACKSON, MISS., April 24.—Upton
Sinclair, author of "The Jungle,” and
at the head of the I. W. W.. of New
York City, has come to Mississippi to
enter the present gubernatorial fight
in the capacity of campaigner for the
Socialist candidates for State offices.
He w ill reside on the Gulf Coast, near
Gulfport, and expects to make Missis
sippi his permanent home.
Mr. Sinclair is one of the leading
Socialists of the country.
$1 Waists, No Short
Skirts, at Radcliffe
Senior Committee Ordains Uniform
Dress for Co-eds’ June
Commencement.
CAMBRIDGE. MASS.. April 24 —Rad-
cliffe's commencement will be barret-
less. The dainty little furbelow which
most women deem as necessary' to fem
inine happiness as an Easter bonnet or
a powder puff, has been banned at the
college exercises next June, by order
of the Senior Class Committee. Dutch
clips, French twists and braids are be
ing talked of as methods of revenge by-
girls dissatisfied with today's ulti
matum.
The costumes must he also uniform,
the waists and a stiff Mack bow being
furnished by the committee at the cost
of $1 None but these waists will be al
lowed. and each girl must post her name
and waist size on the college bulletin
board. Pumps are barred, and skirts
are to hang three inches from the
ground instead of four, as heretofore.
Taft Sends His $5 to
Join AmericanLegion
NEW YORK. April 24.—William How
ard Taft has decided to be a soldier of
the legion, along with Theodore Roose
velt. He has sent this letter to Dr.
John E. Hausmann, secretary of the
American Legion:
"I have the invitation of the council
of the American legion asking me to
become an advisory member. I hereby
accept and inclose my check for $5 to
meet the annual dues."
Villa on Verge of
Nervous Prostration
SAN ANTONIO, April 24— General
Villa is reported, in a message from
Aguas Callientes, to be on the verge of
a nervous bfeakdown, due to recent re
verses of his forces and personal trou
ble with some of his officers
Within four days. H was reported, he
had ordered eight officers shot for what
he demlared was criminal carlertbness
in the handling of their troops, but in
each instance he. was persuaded to re-
consKicr.
Wants $1 He Says
He Lent to Carnegie
CHICAGO, April 24 — Andrew Carne
gie. so John Mund declares, had better
appear In the Small Claims Court of
Chicago and pay back that $1 Mund
says he loaned to the ironmaster when
the latter was "broke" fifty-one years
ago. Mund figures it amounts to $17.53
now.
Mund has written from Kansas City
saying that he wants t oflle suit for
the money, and asking the costs In
Chicago’s cut-rate court.
By HILAIRE BELLOC.
(Foremost Military Writer »n Eu
rope. Special Cable to The
American.)
LONDON. April 24.—The whole in
terest in the war centers at this mo
ment more than ever upon the Car
pathian front. The struggle there,
which has been described far too op
timistically as the "pouring” of Rus
sians over the ridge of mountains. Is
and has been for three weeks an un
decided. furious piece of wrestling
which leaves no clew so far as to
which way the event will turn.
The elements of the posit : on are
these: The Russians hole » tops
of the mountains and passi. . and In
one or two places as much as five or
six miles of valleys beyond the passes
along a line rather more than 40 miles.
Along the remaining hundred miles of
ridge and the widest and most densely
wooded portions of the Carpathian
chain are bands of Austrians and Ger
mans who have come down through
the plains of Galicia to the east and
occupy the whole of Bukowina.
Russians Hold Belt.
Tn other words, if you draw one line
to represent the ridge of the Carpa
thians and a second line to represent
the front of the two armies, the sec
ond line crosses the first at an angle
of about fifteen degTees. giving upon
the left hand a certain belt of the
Hungarian side of the mountains to
the Russians, but on the right a much
wider belt of the Galician or eastern
slope, to the Austro-Germans.
Now. under these conditions, the
efforts which either party has under
taken are clear. Each Is trying by
pushing farther and farther forward
on his side of the mountains to get
behind the other.
Tf the Russians can get down to
the Hungarian plain and turn to the
j left, they x\ill cut the communica
tions of the Austro-Germans and
compel them to fall back from all
their positions in the mountains. In
other words, the barrier of the Car
pathians would have been wholly
surmounted by the Russians and the
Invasion of Hungary will have begun.
May Block Invasion.
If. on the other hand, the Austro-
Germans can push farther along the
Galician plain and threaten the rear
of the Russians, the Russians will
have to fall hack and abandon the
whole of what they now occupy In the
mountains.
In that case the threat of invasion
which now overhangs Hungary (the
granary of the Germanic alliance, its
chief source of supply for horses and
weakest point politically of the com
bination that follows Berlin) will
have to be abandoned and t>ie Teu
tons will have scored a very great tri
umph. Such is the comparatively
simple scheme in its most elementary
form, but in practice this means, of
course, effort upon either side so de
termined that the numbers there in
volved are the largest drawn into the
field In the east.
The losses are enormous, and the
final result when it does come will al
most certainly mean the collapse of
the defeated of the two parties. Some
thing between three and four million
men are now fighting among the rap
idly melting snows and in the deep
pine woods of the Carpathian side.
Germans Are Stubborn.
The chances of success of either
side will depend upon the following
data: The Russians now have, un
impeded, a complete railway system
serving them from bases throughout
almost the whole of Galicia. Since the
fall of Przemysl on March 22 all the
railways have been unrestrictedly in
their service. Whenever they are over
a ridge of the Carpathians, however,
their communications become more
and more difficult, and the Austro-
Germans, of course, destroy the few
mountain railways as they fall back.
On the other hand, the Russians,
whn were heavHy handicapped by a
lack of munitions and equipment un~
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