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FRIDAY, MAY 5. 1916.
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Railroad President Declares AII‘
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Legislative Bodies Are a Men
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ace and a Calamity.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, May b.—" All leg-
Islative bodies are a menace;.in ac
tion they are a cdlamity. A great
railroad, therefore, must resort to
strong measures to protect its prop
erty from confiscation.”
This statement was made today by
Milton H. Smith, president of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad,
before Commissioner Meyer, of the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
who is investigating the financial af
fairs and political activities of the
road. Smith gave it in justification
of t.l"le company’s action in interven
ing in the politics of every State into
which the railroad extends.
“Why shouldn't the Louisville and
Nashville enter politics to protect its
interests?” asked President Smith,
“If you knew Mrs. Hetty Green, a
very capable woman, she would tell
you that her chief trouble in her
career has been protecting her prop
erty.
“Under our form of Government
persons are permitted to go almost
any length to get people's property
from them so long as they can keep
out of jail. Our form of Government
makes plutocrats an inevitable part
of society. The doctrine that all men
are equal is not sound when applied
to our people. Capital is the breath
of life and the shifting and dividing
and changing hands of capital is
what proves the quality of the
people
The expression of Mr. Smith's
principles of Government prompted
Joseph W. Folk, chief counsel of the
Interstate Commerce Commission, to!
charge the railroad president with
being an anarchist. .
“The doctrine you say you believe
48 the doctrine of the anarchist,” he
said “If you would not have pres
ent form of Government, what would
you have? Should the railroads rule
the country?”
Harrison Denies Any
L. & N. Agreement
The following statement by Falrfax
Harrison, president of the Southern
Railway, was given out at the local
offices of the company Friday:
1 note a report in the newspa
pers of certain testimony before
the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion by M. H. Smith, president of
the Loulsville and Nashville Rail
road, a reference to some steno
graphic notes of a conference in
1808 bhetween Mr. Smith and Mr
Samuel Spencer, then president of
the Southern Rallway Company,
which the newspaper report ap
pears to give the color of an
agreement to divide the territory
of the South between the South
ern and the Louisville and Nash
ville
Although | have been officlally
connected with the Southern dur
ing the past twenly years, a
greater part of the time in a re
sponsible relation, this is the first
information 1 have had of any
such conference ass is described
At all events, no such agreement
is now In effect, nor have 1 ever
heard that it was in effect
Assuming that the reported
conference was held In 1896 it
has about as much relation to ac
tual conditions today as the
agreement made between Augus
tus and Anthony to divide the
Roman world between them after
Pharsalia
Skull in Ruins of
(By International News Service.)
LAPORTE, IND., May b.—~ln tear
g down the house today which had
sen occupied by Liz" Bmith., the
TeRTO woman who was believed to
have had knowiedge of all the Gun
ress murders searchers found the
skuil and other bhones of a 3 human
body It was at the negro soman's
house that Ray Lamphere, who cone
fesned 10 setting fire to the Gunness
Pouse in which four charred corpses
were found. spent a large part of his
time during the year or more that
Yictims were Tured to the murder
house
Big Hereford Sale
Is Held in Atlanta
Poliowing ona of the mast suceessfyl
live stock sales sver held in the Bouth
sast Thursday, Fred Neppert. Decatur
Ind, Vriday was conducting an auction
of fine MHereford eattie at Hiloam. s
The Atlanta sale was held at Miller
Brothers wsiock yard, and resulted in
the distribution of 43 Sead of registered
Sloek over & wide area. It s predicted
the sales In Ceora will 4o much 1 ad
Yahte he Breeding of booded ook n
this State
Judae lohpn 1 Ldttle, Albany wae
the ehief e ' The A'anis sale, hav
m;\,»- piedd & herdl of ton cuws abd &
for $1306 tie said MEL for one
29w, the » of which ought sll. 0%
«she highes: price sver pald for one in
Amerin
$450,000 Order for
GADEDEN. ALA. May 5 lpders
Were recwived today by the Oadeden
Car Works from the Queen and Cres
eont Neats for 166 Bew Bal CRrs, ae
bor and material for which will eost
BaLn e
A 188 000 galion stes! ARE i e be
Bullt and TSeopound steel lald In the
yards here
ALABAMA TRAVELERS MERTY
GADEDEN, ALA. May S=Wnh
Bare (han 150 deingales jPeteh! the
?r"shl; Proftective A iation of
Almsativg = on’ ints sremion this Motn
ing st the Printap Hotel. Features
..,’ the afetin - ar Bigh! are an aw
Somobils i o the Gadeden die
i & bartw - f Nera'glla Valle
& fey B B 4 & daPpre
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Drama League to
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Raise $1,500 for
A Great Pageant
N order for Atlanta to have a ;
I pageant in celebration of the f
Shakespeare tercentenary, it
has been considered necessary to
raise a guarantee fund of $1,500.
Already something over SI,OOO has
been raised, but the entire amount |
is needed at once. It is expected |
that these subscriptions will be re
turned in full to the guarantors.
The following names were added
to the list Friday: |
Byron-Qelnt . i e
Johnson-Dallis Company.. .. 25
Cater Weolfard., ... = .. 9§
Mrs. Henry Grady .. .. .. .. 10
Mr. Thornton Marye .. .. .. 10
Mrs. J. J. McGrath .. ~.. .. 10
Mre. F. M. Wikell-\. .7, ~ 10
Noil Beld oo qoaea o o 10
Mell Witkingen .. .. ... .. 10
WA BB . 5
Persons desiring to add their
names to the guarantors’ list
should communicate with the pag
eant headquarters on the second
floor of the Phillips & Crew Build- |
ing, telephone lvy 2953, ‘
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At the Pledmont.
“Children of Eve,” the Edison feature,
starring Viola Dana, at the Piedmont
today and tomorrow, is a story of the
underworld, of “Fifty-Fifty Mamie,”
who quits the Bucket of Blood and the
life she leads there for the love of a
good man. Shall she marry him? That's
the question the woman with a past
has to decide. Some tremendous city
scenes are rlctured in *“Children of
Eve,” including a holocaust at a factory
in which hundreds of lives are imperiled
by the flames. Besides ‘‘Children of
Eve” today the Piedmont has a Hearst-
Vitagraph News Weekly, Frank Daniels
in “The Escapades of Mr. Jack” and
tuneful songs by the Senate Three.
At the Georgian.
Valentine Grant, one of the screen’s
most noble emotional artists, supported
by an excellent cast of Famous Players,
is appearing at the Georgian Theater In
her latest screen trlumrPh, “The Inno
cent Lie,” a Famous Players’' produc
tion of Lois Zellner's powerful drama.
It was Froduccd under Daniel Froh
man’'s direction, and has been pro
‘nounced one of the season’'s most flop
ular photo-plays. It provides iss
Urant with one of her most adequate
characterizations, that of a poor, mis
‘.ulded immigrant girl who comes to
| America.
At the Forsyth,
Harry Girard wrote “The Luck of a
Totem,” the unusual musical sketch in
which he, Agnes Cain-Brown, and oth
ers appear as one of the leading fea
tures of the Forsyth Keith vaudeville
bill this week, from his own experi
ences in the land of the far North. For
three years he was a ‘}?ld-uekqn un- |
dergoing all of the hardships, thriils and
deprivations of a prospector in the wudx‘
of Alaska. Amonf additional features
of this week are Mme. Adelaide Herr
mann, the queen of magic, widow of
Herrmann the Great; Alice Marion
Stewart and Jack Donahue in a divert
lng collection of nonsense and a dozen
other splendid artists,
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Mute, Released From
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Jail, Off for New York
H. J. Mahoney, a Texan, who was
partialiy blinded and made deaf and
dumb by an explosion at oil wells in
his native State, Friday resumed his
Journey toward the Rockefeller Insti
tute in New York, after having spent
two months in the Tower at Atianta
for vagrancy.
Mahoney sald he was makirg his
way to New York tor treatment when
special agents for a railroad pulled
him from a train In the Termina!
Station He was sentenced to six
months, and since that time hag been
appealing to the State Prison Com
mission and Judge Calbhoun for his
reiease.
Central Presbyterian
Efforis are being made by mem
bers of the Central Presbyterian
Chureh Sabbath Schoo! 1o make May
14 & banner Sunday in the history
of the school. The home study de
partment will have charge of the ex
ercises on that occasion. The day
has been set awside as “Home Study
Department Sabbath ™ Dr. Henry A
Porter, pastor of the Second Baptist
Chureh, will deilwer an address,
All members are urged to report
the names of anyone desiring to at
tend 1o Mre M. M. Grinnell, super
intendent of this department, phone
Ivy 2835-)
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Burned by Shock
K. 1. Hurst, 35, an inapector for the
Georgia Raliway and Power Com
pany, was working in the transformer
station of the Atlanta Woolen Mills
Friday morning when he came ig
contact with a live wire carrying
11,906 volts
e was carried to the Atlanta Hos.
pital with serfous burns about the
shoulder and right jog.
FREE 3%\s
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HIGW GRADE FIN'ANMING AND ENLARGING
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Atlanta Chapter of Drama League
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Accepts Invitatior of Georgia
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Tech Faculty.
The Atlanta Center of the Drama
League has accepted the invitation of
the faculty of Georgia Tech to hold
the Shakespearean Pageant on Grant
Field, the Tech athletic grounds,
which has one of the finest stadiums
in the South. It was at first planned
to hold the pageant at Piedmont Park.
The pageant is being staged under
thie supervision of the Drama League,
with Mrs. W. C. Jarnagin and Mrs.
Hamilton Block as business managers
and Miss Carolyn Cobb and Miss Era
Betzner in charge of the performance,
which will take place Saturday, May
27. Mrs. Armond Carroll is musical
director and Armond Carroll is author
of the pageant book, which has been
pronounced a splendid literary pro
duction.
More than 1,000 persoms, costumed
to represent scme phase of Shake
speare’s life and writings, will take
part. These will be drawn from the
public and private schools of the city,
from Tech and Cox College and from
the city at large. Some of the parts
require skilled actors, while others
need persons who are only required to
wear a designated costume.
Every effort i{s being put forward by
the Draima League to make this event
truly representative of the city and to
keep Atlanta in line with what has
basn done in this way in other large,
progressive cities. The movement has
the indorsement of nearly every ac
tive organization in the city, including
the Rotary Club, the Ad Men’s Club,
the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce,
the Atlanta Woman's Club, the Fed
eration of Women's Clubs, the Atlanta |
Teachers’ Association, the Second |
Ward Civie Club and others. Per
sons who would like to take part
should communicate with the busi
ness office of the Shakespearean Pa
geant, on the sacond floor of the Phil
lips & Crew Building, telephone lvy
2958.
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Moonshiners Plan -
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- Pipe Line to Atlanta
The revenue force in the Federal
Building heard Friday of a plan to
connect a large number of moonshine
stills in Rabun County and run a pipe
line to Atlanta
If 1 wasn't g 0 busy with other
things, T would like to be local man
| ager of that line,” said Colonel Briscoe
'B. Bouldin, revenue agent I would
!HH tickets for the legal allotment
ind 1 would run a paralle! line leading
into a beer tank, for swimming pur
poses Do I hear a second”
SUNDAY MOVIES OPPOSED
COLUMRUS, May i.~Thirteen pe
titions signed by men and women
|sl ing that Sunday movies be pro
| ited have been turned over to the
lr ity Council of Columbus. The netl.
tions have heen reserved to tha un
'“ ittees on Police and Ordinance
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B..\JAUSE some of our advertising is
directed to the attention of women,
don’t think we have overlooked the needs
of men who want good shoes. Our show.
ing of men's shoes is a oomrlcu index .of
the season’s authentic styles.
Our NEW OXFORDS at $5.00 will in.
terest the man who seeks quality and dis.
inction combined with moderate price.
They are the most attractive models we 've
ever assembled. The variety is all-inclu
sive and comprises every needed style in
colors of Russia calf, black gun metal
and viei kid.
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After the dance, a
Grape Juice Highball
Another of our distinctive drinks.
The Ansley Rathskeller
has always been and will continue to be the
rendezvous for the people of taste
WM. R. SECKER, Mgr.
“IHE ATLANT'A GEORGIAN
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Leads to Cell
For the next ten days E. Price, 41,'
who lives at No. 88 Woodward ave- |
nue, will have nothing to do but lnafl
around in a cell at police headquar
ters. I
His daily menu will consist of one |
gallon of drinking water, a la hydrant,
and two man-sized pones of corn
bread, a la Georgia. He can consume
his full portion each day with official
assurance that the supply will be re-|
plenished for the morrow.
This enforced diet was prescribed
by Recorder Johnson Friday when
Price's pretty young wife came into
court with a black eye and said she
had unwillingly acted as her hus
band's sparring partner. Price ad
mitted that he had been drunk ince‘
Saturday, when he began celebration
of the passing of Demon Rum. :
The wife pleaded that the husband
not be prosecuted for striking her, and
that the atonement be made for his
drinking. She protested against the
bread-and-water treatment, but the
Recorder said experience had proved
its value and that he could produce
more testimonials than a patent med
icine press agent.
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Held for Trying Hi
ying His
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Hand Making Liquor
MACON, May s—That his first ef
forts at distillation produced an un
palatable liquor was the defense of
John Baker, of Montgomery County,
on trial here for illicit distilling. He
was discovered Sunday morning by
the convict warden f Montgomery
County making whisky in a jug near
his home.
| “l knew the drouth was coming,
and T just thought I'd try my hand at
‘making some,” was his statement to
;the Commissioner. The' court ruled,
| however, that he was not a judge of
lquulll.\' and bound the defendant over.
THOMASTON, May s.—Lee Coo
ley, who had been confined in the
Upson County jal for several months
charged with the murder of Wiil
Durham, in East Thomaston, has es
caped. One of the bars of his cel!
was sawed. It remains a mysters
how he got out of the main building.
None of the windows was broken and
the door was locked. No trace was
left for the authorities to follow, and
his whereabouts is unknown.
Variable Routes
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Given Vacationists
Vacation parties from Atlanta lhll}
summer will have advantage of vari
able route summer excursion rates
for the first time, according to an
nouncement by the railroads,
Effective June 2, the raliroads wil!
take persons from Atlanta on these
rates through the Northeast as far
as Montreal and return by different
route, either by rall or water
House and Senate Conferees Arel
Split Over Portions of Pre
paredness Program,
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(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, May s.—The Ad
ministration today confronted an ex
ecutive tangle which threatened seri
ously to delay the enactment of the
land defense portion of the President’s
preparedness program.
The conference committee of the
House and Senate on the army re
organization bill gave up all efforts
to reconcile the differences between
the two branches, and Chairman Hay,
of the House conferees, prepared to
ask the House for further instruc
tions,
The conferees were unable to ef
fect any sort of an agreement on two
disputed points in the measure
‘These were the Senate plan for an
‘urmy of Federal volunteers, and the
hwnpusal for a plan to manufacture
:nitrox(\n for explosives from the alr,
under joint control of the Federal
lum’m*mnent and private interests.
Substantial agreement was in sight
when President Wilson notified the
conferees, through Representative
Hay, that he was in complete accord
with the Senate provisions on both
of these points. The President was
especlally warm in his advocacy of
the nitrate plant authorization As
| the House by a vote of 224 to 179 had
flaily stricken the nitrate plant pro
l\'mun from the House bill, the House
conferees declined to agree to the
Senate plan, and the conference
'l»r--ln- up in total disagreement
W T f you have the young °
4 %‘:\? man’s natural inclina
[+ F tion for a sack suit
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A i\ fashion so new that the
o¥ - Ty designer’s chalk, fi
BYh esigner’s chalk, figura-
N g\ 2 tively speaking, still
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(RS X W AR lingers upon Il—glance
; . <, ” ' :f»; ~. at t’hiS:
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a=x ey Ly The Kirschbaum
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Q"‘w : }; Ogue
/t : " Note the narrow lapels; the
’; ;b o two closely spaced buttons:
0 T the high waist effect — and
i " then consider how it would
o / . look in the new grev plaids,
# banjo stripes, or color flecked
mixtures,
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~ To be well dressed and up to the min
ute means to select “Vogue.”
. —Correctness of dress is essential.
P , —Correctness of choice is essential.
| —There is but one choice—but one
place that displays “Vogue"”—that's
HIRSCH BROS.
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§ Georgia Folk at
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ANSLEY—W. M. Clements, Eastman;
Mrs. C. Downing, Miss Marjorie Night
ingale, Brunswick; P. M. Feltham, Way
cross; Mrs, Mildred Rhodes, Athens;
T. J. MecDonald, Blue Ridge; W. G.
Owens, Rochelle; I. Carlisle, Cairo; G.
Beveridge, Cedartown; B. R. Beck and
wife, Eatonton; D. ', Kingry and wife,
Gordon; A, V. Pitts, Gordon; Mrs. J.
L. Reavis, Columbia; Dan Harrison, Ball
Ground; Mrs. Charles Hight, Rome; C.
V. Carlisle, LaGrange; W, T. Strozier,
Greenville; P. W, Jones, Canton; L. M.
Sterne, Albany.
WINECOFF-J. B. Clements, Irwin
ville; Mrs. Lillian Lawrence, Valdosta;
J. D. Watterson, Eatonton; C. E. Rob
inson, Greeunsboro; Mrs. W. F, Culpep
per, Greenville; W. A. Carlisle, Gaines
ville: Mrs. A. F. Archer, Elberton; W.
A. Lord, Rome; Miss Amy Blasingame,
Jersey,
KIMBALL-—T. L. Lumpkin, Rome; D,
C. Stanfield, Reidsville; F. M. Ridley,
LaGrange; W. W. Wynn, Macon; H. J.
Fullbright, Waynesboro; B. Couiwr. J.
B. Yates, Ringgold; W . Haddock,
Quitman; K. S. Anderson, Madison; C.
RB. Jones, Jackson; G. H. .\‘.wl-arengen,
Macon; J. L. Satterfield, Milledgeville;
W. W. Watkins, Monroe; W, R. Pitts,
R. O. Pitta, Jr., Codartown: R. W,
Thompson, Macon; J. C. Beavers, Ca
non; W, P. Minter, Monticello; G. L.
Howell, Jr., Thomaston; J. Williams,
J. R. Moore, Rome: R. G. Stewart, Ogle
thorpe.
Meet in Debate
Ot e
| Orators of the Atlanta Law School
‘and the Chattanooga Law School will
‘(le'uan- Friday night at the former's
~auditorium the Phillppine question, in
| the following form:
“Resolved, That after retaining suf
ficient coaling stations the Philippine
Islands should be given their inde
pendence within five years.” |
Horace Sandiford and Francis Pa
vesich, for the Atlanta school, will
support the negative, and Roy Me-
Kenzie and Floyd W. Ball, for Chat
tanooga, will take the affirmative,
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Make your State and
County Tax ReturnsNOW.
T. M. ARMISTEAD_,
Tax Receiver,
Collier Formally in
Race Against Hurt
Henry L. Colller Friday formally
announced his candidacy for the office
of Chief of Construction, opposing
Nym Hurt, who now holds the office.
The Georgian announced some time
ago that Mr. Collier would make the
race.
Mr. Collier, who was Commissioner
of Public Works several years ago,
before that office and the City Engi
neer's were merged, declares in his
announcement that if elected he will
save the city $20,000 a year on pay
rolle alone.
Thrift Thoughts
The dial of Time regis
ters only one period—
NOW-—and now is the
14‘-\?," g time to save.
~:l‘<":;u‘l[[“a") T If you can and do save,
.‘,Tl,;»':s‘r,§l§‘f 43 4| mml your Savings are the
1' »|’lm]-|.|_;‘r greatest assets in your
It x| & j‘-|~‘l"\' favor.
. *j‘:;:_- ;i _‘|\ If you can and do not
i | 3l R R save, you are handicap-
B i ,'-~~}«:~ ping yourself for life.
RN |a3 i A Come in, let’s talk it over.
‘ ‘:":?w: :‘, —'ii YOUR ACCOUNT INVITED
}ifi,.."?. ";F i ‘47 Interest—loo7, Safety
s SOoy
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Gy ey Qentral Banks,
ov svmies Crust Corporation
CANDLER BUILDING, ATLANTA
BRANCH RANK CORNER MITCHELLAFORSYTH STS.
ATLANTA. GA.
Visitors to the Southern conference
of the Bureau of Standards left tgr
their homes Friday, the conference
having closed after several days of
technical discussion. The last session
was devoted to underground electrical
connections and the resulting danger
of electrolysis,
A. M. Schoen, chairman of the di
rectors of the Affiliated Technical So
cieties of Atlanta, declared the con
ference had been of great benefit to
Southern engineers.
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