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FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1916
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Railroad President Declares “All
Legislative Bodies Are a Men
ace and a Calamity.”
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, May 5.—“A1l leg
#slative bodies are a menace; in ac
tion they are a calamity. 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 the 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.
*“lf youw knew Mrs. Hetty Green, a
very capable woman, she would teli
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 jall. Our form of Government
makes plutocrats an inevitable part
of society. The doctrine that all men
are equal 1s not sound when appilied
to our people. Capital is the breathi
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 qf the
Interstate Commerce Commission, to
charge the railroad president with
being an anarchist. |
“The doctrine you say you believe
is 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 Fairfax
Harrison, president of the Southern
Railway, was given out at the local
offices of the company Friday:
I 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 Rall
road, a reference to some steno
graphic notes of a conference in
1886 between Mr. Smith and Mr
Samuel Spencer, then president of
the Southern Rallway Company,
which the newspaper report ap
t pears to give the color of an
agreement to divide the territory
f the South between the South
ern and the Louisville and Nash
ville,
Although 1 have been officlally
connected with the Southern dur
ing the past twenty years, a
greater part of the time In a re
sponsible relation, this is the first
information I have had of any
such conference as is described.
At all events, no such agreement
is now In effect, nor have I ever
hearfl that it was in effect.
Assuming that the reported
conference was held in 1896, |t
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.
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Skull in Ruins of
Gunness Negro Home
(By International News Service.)
LAPORTE, IND, May 6.-~ln tear
ing down the house today which had
been occupied by “Liz" Smith, the
negro woman who was belleved to
have had knowledge of all the Gum
ness murders, searchers found the
skull and other bones of a human
body. It was at the negro woman's
house that Ray Lamphere, who con
fessed to setting fire to the Gunness
house in which four charred e?u
were found, spent a large part of his
time during the year or more that
victims were lured to the murder
house.
Big Hereford Sale
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Is Held in Atlanta
Volow most
live u«i"'-”u? .v'"mh.ou n (q m-'
east Thursday, ;vd ’l.:‘;vlfl dootur,
Ind . Friday was conducting an auction
of e Hereford eattie at Siloam, Ga
R "ttock Tart* and “ross ..?."'::l
s,
vk Sver s wide area |t protiied
the sales in Georgia will 4o much 1o ad.
:.lu“!.t:: bresding of blooded stoek In
'f.m. John D mu:’"Am“ e
Ihe ehisf buyer atl the A s , Bav.
ummm.hoflo'!n“z'&:nl
for 833 He . one
W, the sire of -N% “‘&0:
émerics
$450,000 Order for l
500 Box Cars Placed
GADEDEN, ALA. lA¥ § —Orders
Were received today by the Oadsden
Car Works from the Queen and Cres.
oent Route for 560 new box cars, la
bor and material for which will cost
A 100.000-gallon steel tank I 8 to be
bulit and Ti-pound steel lald In the
yards here
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ALABAMA TRAVELERS MEET,
GADEDEN, ALA. May SWun
fmore than 169 delegates present, t:
velere' Protective Association
weant into sesmion this maofn -
;a8 the Printup Hotel. Veatures
mend.:‘hm unu::‘
Yorrrsordsi 1 over m .
e, ur& we a' Nosplata Fails
& fox cimre st & dance
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Drama League to
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Raise $1,500 for
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A Great Pageant |
N order for Atlanta to have a \
I pageant in celebration of the
Shakespeare tercentenary, it ¢
has been considered necessary to
raise a guarantee fund of $1,500, |
Already.somethipg 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:'Grant ..".5 o . 428
Johnson-Dallis Company.. .. 25
Uster Wolltemst, .. .. .. &%
Mrs. Henry Grady .. .. .. .. 10
Mr. Thornton Marye .. ~.. 10
Mrs. J. J. McGrath .. .. .., .. 10
Me. Fo W MMI .. ... 10
LU, T s SRR Tt 10
Mell Wilkingtn ... .. .. ... 10
Wi BaeeW oo s aahh sy 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 vy 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 ‘he
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 ques#on the woman with a past
has to decide. Some tremendous city
Scenes are pictured in *“Children of
Eve,” including a holocaust at a factory
in which hundreds 6f liwes are imperiled
by the flames. Besides ‘‘Children of
Eve" today the Piedmont has a Hearst-
Vitagraph News Weekly, Frank Daniels
in “The Mgfldu 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 triumph, “The Inno
cent Lie,”” a Famous Players’' produc
tion of lois Zellner's powerful drama.
It was produced under Daniel Froh
man's direction, and has been pro
nounced one of the season’s most pop
ular photo-plays. It provides Miss
urant with one of her most adequate
characterizations, that of a poor, mis
guided immigrant girl who comes to
| America. &
At the Forsyth,
Hapry 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 v-.uievllh
bill this week, from his own experi
ences in the land of the far North. For
three years he was a gold-seeker, un
dergoing all of the hardships, thrills and
deprivations/of a prospector in the wilds
of Alaska. Amon& additional features
of this week are Mme. Adelaide Herr
mann, the -“uun of magic, widow of
Herrmann the Great; Alice Marion
Stewart and Jack Donahue in a divert-
Ll:g collection of nonsense and a dozen
er 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
partially blinded and made Jeaf 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 Atlanta
for vagrancy.
Mahoney said he was makirg his
way tp New York for treatment w”on
special agents for & railroad pulled
him from a train in the Terminal
Station. He was sentenced to wsix
months, and since that time has been
appealing to the State Prison Com
mission and Judge Calhoun for his
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}Gentral Presbyterian
Plans Banner Sunday
Efforts are being made by mem-.
bers of the Central Presbyterian
Church Sabbath School to make May
14 a 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
bas been set aside as “Home Study
Pepartment Sabbath” Dr. Henry A.
Porter, pastor of the Racond Baptist
Church, will deliver an address,
All members are urged to report
the names of anyone dnm«’ to at
tend to Mre. M. M. Grinnelll, super
intendent of this department, phone
Tvy 2835-J.
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Power Inspector |
r E. J. Hurst, 35, an inspector for the
Georgia Rallway and Power Com
pany, was working in the transformer
station of the Atlanta Woolen Mills
Friday .m-nla'x when he eame ig
contact with & live wire carrying
H.'z. volts
was carvied to the Atlanta Hos.
pital with seri®us burns about the
shoulfer and right leg.
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Atlanta Chapter of Drama League
Accepts Invitation of Georgia
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
lield, 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
the supervision of the Drama League,
with Mrs. W. (. Jarnagin and Mrs.
Hamilton Block as business managers
and Miss Carolyn Cobb and Miss Era
Betzner in charge of the verformance,
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 persons, costumed
to represent some 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 is being put forward by
the Drama League to make this event
truly representative of the city and to
keep Atlanta in line with what has
be~n 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’ Assoclation, the Second
'Ward Civic Club and others. Per
‘snns who would like to take part
should communicate with the busi
ness office of the Shakespearean Pa
geant, on the second floor of the Phil
lips & Crew Building, telephone lvy
2953.
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Moonshiners Plan
Pipe Line to nta
ipe L Atla
The revenue force in the Federal
Bullding 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 so busy with other|
things, 1 would like to be local man- |
ager of that line,” said Colone! Briscoe |
B. Bouldin, revenue agent. *“I would
!wn tickets for the legal allotment
ind 1 would run a parallel line leading
into a beer tank, for swimming pur
poses Do 1 hear a second”™
I SUNDAY MOVIES OPPOSED.
i COLUMRUS, May §.—Thirteen pe
titions signed by men and vomen
| isking that Sunday movies be pro
| hibited have been turned over to the
1 ity Council of Columbns. The net
' ons have been referred to the Com
'u,"u- n Police and Ordinance
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Bucwsz 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 eomrlm index of
the season’s authentic styles.
Our NEW OXFORDS at $5.00 will in
terest the man who seeks quality and dis
tinction combined with moderate price.
They are the most attractive models we 've
cver u;emblod. The wno’odi:d sll-hln.el:
sive and comprises every style in
colors of Russia calf, black gun metal
and viei kid.
Bycka
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After the dance, a a
Grape Juice Highball
Another of our distinctive drinks.
The Ansley Rathskeller §
has always been and will continue to be the :
rendesvous for the people of taste ‘
WM. R. SECKER, Mgr. |
~I'HKE ATLANT A GEORGIAN
For the next ten days E. Price, fl,q
who lives at No. 88 Woodward ave- |
nue, will have nothing to do but loaf
around in a cell at police headquar
ters.
His daily menu will consist of one
gallon of drinking water, a la hydrant,
and two man-sized pones of corn
bread, ala Georgia. He can consume
his full portion eacih day with official
assurance that the supply will be re- l
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 sparriag partner. Price ad
mitted that he had been drunk since
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, put 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 His
Hand Making Liqu
: g Liquor
MACOCN, May s—That his first ef
forts idis:lllatiun produced an un
palatal@® liquor was the defense of
John Baker, of Montgomery County,
on_trial here for illicit distilling. He
was discovered Sunday morning by
the conviet warden of Montgomery
County making whisky in a jug near
his home.
~ “I knew the drouth was coming,
}and I just thought I'd trv my hand at
‘maklnz some,” was his statement to |
the Commissioner. The court ruled,
however, that he was not a judge of
quality and bound the defendant over.
THOMASTON, May 5.-—Lee Coo
ley, who had been confined in the
Upson County jall 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 féllow, and
his whereabouts is unknown.
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Variable Routes
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Given Vacationists
Vacation parties from Atlanta thl.!
summer will have advantage of vari
able route summer excursion rates
for the first time, according to ane
nouncement by the railroads,
BEffective June 2, the railroads 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 \
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House and Senate Conferees Are
Split Over Portions of Pre
paredness Program.
(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
army of Federal volunteers, and the
proposal for a plan to manufacture
‘nitrogvn for explosives from the air,
under joint control of the Federal
| Government 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
especially warm in his advocacy of
the nitrate plant authorization As
| the House by a vote of 224 to 179 had
| flatly stricken the nitrate plant pro
vision from the House bill, the House
l(‘nnfvrvos declined to agree to the
Senate plan, and the conference
' broke up in total disagreement
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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. McDonald, Blue Ridge; W. G.
Owens, Rochelle; 1. Carlisle, Cairo; G.
Beveridge, Cedartown; B. R. Beck and
wife, Eatonton; D. C. 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, Greensboro; 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. Stanfleld. Reidsville; F. M, Ridley,
LaGrange; W. W, Wynn, Macon; H. J.
Fullbright, Waynesboro; B. Couiter. Js
'B. Yates, Ringgold: W. G. Haddock,
Quitman; K., S. Anderson, Madison; C.
‘HA Jones, Jackson; G. H. Swearengen.
Macon; J. l. Satterfield, Milledgeville;
W. W. Watkins, Monroe; W. R, Pitts,
R. O. Pitts, Jr., Cedartown; R. W.
Thompson, Macon; J. C, Beavers, Ca
non; W, P, Minter, Monticello; G. 1.
Howell, Jr,, Thomaston; J. Williams,
J. R. Moore, Rome; R, G. Stewart, Ogle
thorpe.
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Meet in Debate
Smm— e
Oralors of the Atlanta Law School
and the Chattanooga L.aw School will
debate Friday night at the former's
auditorium the Philippine question, in
the following form:
“Resolved, That after retaining suf
ficient coaling stations the Philippine
Ilslands 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 Flovd W. Ball, for Chat
tanooga, will take the affirmative.
Make your State and
County Tax Returns NOW.,
T. M. ARMISTEAD,
Tax Receiver,
Collier Formally in
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Race Against Hurt
Henry L. @ollier Friday formally
announced his candidacy for the office
of Chief of Construction, oppesing
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
rolls alone.
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Thrift Thoughts
The dial of Time regis
ters only one period—
NOW-—and now is the
le;‘.’,' n time to save.
“fflil‘l[}‘f d b“f",, : If you can and do save,
.-"““"'5':@:;[‘;“': {_fi Ol mafl your Savings are the
' 'j‘ L:!hm:,.‘; greatest assets in your
AL g n "‘.-‘f' favor.
¥ ::’,_ I f‘l_‘l If you can and do not
I AR S % 11;J save, you are handicap-
B Hiecn i b {] S R ping yourself for life.
TEEARE N | gel iAR Come in, let's talk it over.
!, ’ff‘:i~,.; 8| a 3 _’;'-{ YOUR ACCOUNT INVITED.
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CANDLER BUILDING, ATLANTA
BRANCH BANK CORNER MITCHELLAFORSYTH STS.
f you have the young
man’s natural inclina
tion for a sack suit
fashion so new that the
designer’s chalk, figura
tively speaking, still
lingers upon it—glance
at this:
The Kirschbaum
Vogue
Note the narrow lapels; the
two closely spaced buttons;
the high waist effect — and
then consider how it would
look in the new grey ‘rlaids,
banjo stripes, or color flecked
mixtures,
To be well dressed and up to the min.
ute means to select “Vogue.”
—Correctness of dress is essential.
—Correctness of choice is essential.
~—There is but one choice—but one
place that displays “Vogue"”—that’s
HIRSCH BROS.
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Visitors to the Southern conference
of the Bureau of Standards left tgr'
‘their homes Friday, the conference
hdving closed after severdl days of
‘technical discussion. The last session
was devoted to underground electrical
connections and the resulting danger
of eleetrolysis,
A. M. Schoen, chairman of, the al~
rectors of the Affiliated Technical 80~
cieties of Atlanta, declared the con
ference had been of great benefit to
Southern engineers.
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