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Union Heads Testify That Mail Rotted in l’oslt
office Because He Hired Only CheapHelp—Re
taliation For Refusal to Permit Organization.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Organized
labor’s fight against Postmaster Gen
eral Burleson, brewing since the Am
erican Federation of Labor at Buffalo
denounced his refusal to permit em
ployes to organize, broke in congress
today.
Presidents of two national unions
appeared before the House Committee
on Expenditures in the Postoffice with
testimony that soldiers’ Christmas
mail was delayed, destroyed and lost
“in the New\York mail terminals.
They were President W. G. Hyatt, of
the postal employes union, and Presi
dent E. J. Ryan, of the Railway Postol
clerks unfon.
_Both declared that ‘“cheap, \ineffi
cient help, hired in a penny-pinching
policy.” was responsible for much de
lay. They charged civil service regu
lations were disregarded in this policy
of economy.
Supporting statements were made
by two Republican congressmen, Brit
ten of Illinois and Rogers of Massa
chusetts. *
Hyatt thus described mail condi
tions at Chelsea terminal, New York,
in the season when soldiers’ letters
and packages were piled highest:
“The mait was delayed so long that
Christmas supplies decomposed. Tur
keys, jams. cookies, even puddings be
came putrid.
“There were so many packages that
doorways were blocked. Men tramp
led over p#rcel post matter—they had
to do their work. I want to say that
civil service rules were disregarded
and the employes were temporary
and irresponsible, despite the fact that
many were waiting for work on the
civil service list.
“These men had to be watched
every minute. In the district at
torney’s office today are six indict
ments for mail rifling by this crew.
The pay allowed was SSO a month.
Many unskilled women worked. A
nigardly, despicable policy of penny
pinching on help was responsible for
the trouble. The force did not know
how to work.
% “The foreign station, where navy
mail was sorted, was no better. From
November 11 to January 6 the force
worked holidays, Sundays and all
There was still much mail which had
not been started to Europe by Janu
ary 6. Of the crew of 30 employees,
four were civil service. The pack
ages, many of them fragile, were
trampled on here, too.
Needed New Doorway.
‘“At Pennsylvania Terminal the en
tfrance became so blocked that the
employees passed a petition for a new
doorway so thev would not need to
step on the mail and packages.
“A draft questionnaire mailed De
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cember 19 was found held up on Jan
uary 2. One employee accidentally
found his own in a supposedly empty
sack.”
Ryan read a similar statement, and
added: 3
“Disregard of civil service regula
tions and a refusal to hire labor un
less it worked far under the market
ratd—which meant the poorest class
of labor—are the causes of many
American soldiers receiving packages
so putrid they will be puzzled as to
what to thank their homefolks for.”
Representative Rogers declared that
at Chelsea Terminal there was such
congestion that shovels were used to
clear pathways, ruining many gifts.
He said that Burleson’s statement
that mail got to France in 30 days
was amazing; it aws nearer seven
weeks.
"“The redeeming feature is that an
official message sent to an officer and
an ordinary letter are treated alike,”
he said.
“What kind of service is that?”
asked Representative Van Dyke, of
Minnesota.
“Both very had,” said Rogers.
Delay Cost Boy Liberty.
Representative Huddleton, of Ata
bama, said ‘that a 17-yvear-old hoy
named Gallagher got into the army
throrigh deceipt. His parents pro
tested and the department said Hud
dleston sent orders September 26 to
return him home.
“The letter.” he continued, “did not
arrive until November 6. By that time
young Gallagher, like a true Irishman,
had gotten into the first line trenches
and was captured &n a German raid.
He is in the West Prussia prison
camp now.” .
~ Britten and Rogers submitted let
ters from constituents complaining
that cigarettes were stolen from
packages. Rogers said cigarete man
ufacturers are disguizing their pack
ages s 0 that they may be safely ship
ped abroad.
Britten declared tonight that James
V. Forster, a former employee of the
committee on public information,
since resigned, will testify at the ear
liest opportunity that important docu
ments were stolen from the New York
censorship office. This story has been
denied formally by the committee on
censorship. Britten declares that
Forster has submitted to him con
vincing testimony in refutation of the
denial.
Forster's story is that one piece of
evidence on German propaganda ‘in
Mexico was stolen which would have
opened a whole new field of disclo
sures.
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‘Jones and Rodier
. On Speaking Tour
| peaking To
| Bebat .
A dispateh from Washingten an
l nounces:
“Following a conference with Gov
gommenr officials here, Jerome Jones
sand J. L. Rodier, two distinguished
| Southerners and both from Atlanta,
| ieft on a speaking tour under the di
| rection of the Department of Com
merce and L.abor. Mr. Jones was as
signed for the present to territory
embracing North and South Carolina
|and Florida, while Mr. Rodier goes to
| Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas
| This is the most important service to
the handled for this department of the
| Government during the war period
|and Messrs. Rodier and Jones are the
only men selected from tive South.”
Mr, Jones is editor of The Journal
of Labor. Mr. Rodier is head of the
| proofreading department of The Geor
igian, He is an able speaker, whose
work counted for much in the cam
ipaign that gained adeguate child la
| bor laws for this State, and his sobri
| quet touches on, thls and other iabors,
ifor his friends call’him “The Old War
iHnrse ol
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St. Matthias School
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'To Have Honor Guests
I LAk
|~ Progress of St. Matthias Church and
| Parish School will be reviewed this
| afternoon at 3 o'clock when Mayor
{ Candler and other prominent Atlan
| tans will visit the institution at No.
i:.’:l? Greensferry avenue. There will
| be reports on the school and health
[ser‘vice relief work, instruction on
{ the care of body and teeth by Dr.
| H. M. Holmes, community physician
|of the St. Matthias health service
| guild; reports and observation on the
Ihomes of the community by the free
| visiting nurses of the guild. The
|exhibits and reports will be in charge
iof W. Q. Rogers, director of the mis
sion and school.
Others expected to be present are
Bishop H. J. Mikell: W. H. White,
Jr., president of the Atlanta Chamber
of Commerce; Major R. J. Guinn, Dr.
J. P. Kennedy. .
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Flanagan to Speak
To Advertising Club
At their next luncheon meeting, the
members of the Advertising Club of
Atlanta will have the privilege of
hearing one of the voungest big busi
ness men in America—T. F. Flanagan,
25, sales manager of the Pyrene Man
vfacturing Company, a million-dollar
corporation, and directing the work
of 200 salesmen.
Mr. Flanagan was persuaded to
come to ™tlanta to address the clil
by its president, Frank E. Lowenstein,
He is a fine example of the proweas
of youth and dash, when controlle
and directed by a real brain. In four
vears from his graduation from T'rin
ity College, in Hartford, Mr. Fianagan
went to the top of the heap wich the
Pyrene CCompany, after a brief but dis
tinguished service with the Wales
Advértising Agency and the C. J. Tag
liabue Company, of Brooklyn.
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All Shriners Invited
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To Monday Reception
George M. Napier, potentate of
Yaarab Temple, last night issued an
invitation to all Shriners to attend
the reception at the Elks Home, be
ginning at 8 o’clock Monday evening,
to Imperial Potentate Charles E.
Ovenshire, of Minneapolis. No formal
invitations will be sent. Mr. Napier
said:
“1 desire it understood that the en
tire membership and nobles visiting
in the city and their ladies are invited
to attend the receotion. Commodious
accommodations have been secured.
The Auditorium was not obtainable
on Monday night, but the Elks build
ing, which is entirely at the disposal
of the Shriners, will be found very
suitable.
“No formal invitations will be is
sued. The committee on arrange
ments requests that Shriners appear
in dress suits where possible and the
fez must be worh. It will not be
necessary to exhibit membership
cards.”
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Sheldon Will Play
~ While Picture Runs
| s
A new plan has been adopted for
the Sunday afternoon organ recitals
at the Auditorium-Armery, and today
City Organist Sheldon will inaugu
rate it.
At 3:30 so'clock Mr. Sheldon will
play two organ selections of a bril
liant and attractive style. They arc
the “Liberty March,” by Frysinger,
and “Grand Offertoire.” by Read. Aft
er these numbers other features of
the afternoon’s program arranged for
the soldiers will follow, and at 4:40
o’clock, during the showing of the
feature motion picture, Mr. Sheldon
will give a svlendia program in kecp
ing with the theme of the plcture, and
including the best organ literature of
the brighter aad moreé brilliant type
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,Prmcess Radziwill
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Will Lecture Here
The Princess Catherire Radziwill,
of Russia, for twenty vears a member
}nf the Imperial Court of Germany, will
lecture next Friday night at the Au
ditorium, under the auspices of the
Alkahest Lyceum (‘ourse, She is 3
noted linguist, author and speaker,
who is making a tour of the United
’Stalos for the cause of the Allies.
Princess Radziwill will speak on
“Real Conditions in Russia,” dis
cussing the industrial, social and po
litical problems of that country. She
‘fs Russian by birth and a believer in
'a great future for her country. She
will give, it is said, some rirst-hand
information about Rasputin, the no
torious “Black Monk."”
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Councilman Scents
Water Profiteers
Councilman W. H. Johnson, of the
Fifth Ward, has discovered a new
class of profiteers. He plans to ask
Council to do something to stop the
alleged practice. ~
According to Mr. Johnson, some of
his constituents have complained that
certain real estate agents are collect
ing 73 cents a month for water rent.
whe nthe minimum rate is only 72
cents. Although three cents os a
small item in a single case, Council
man Johnson states that some agents
realize this amount off 400 or 500
renters, £nd thus ‘“clean up” a profit
for which Councilmen get the blame.
He is going to see that the matter is
adjusted.
Negro School Plans
A Patriotic Evening
¥ The birthdays of Abraham Lincoin
'swep}wn Douglas and Booker Wash
ington wiil be observed Tuesday night
| hy exercises at the Wheat Street Bap
tist Church. Sketches of the lives of
| the three men will be given by sti
‘dents of the Bryvant Day and Night
School. A negrg brass band will play.
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Mediation Commission's Report a
Recommendation to Organ
~ized Industry.
(By International News Service.)
‘\\'AS’H]NGT()N, Feb, 9.—Organized
labor's long-standing fight for the
principle of collective | bargaining
scored a signal advance today when
the report of the President’'s media
tion commission was made public.
“Modern large scale industry,”
reads a concluding paragraph of the
report, “has effectually destroyed the
personal relation between employer
and employee-—the knowledge and co
operation that come from personal
contaet. It is, therefore, no longer
possible to conduct industry by deal
ing with employees as individuals.
Some form of collective relationship
between management and men is in
dispensable, The recognition of this
principle by the Government should
form an accepted part of the labor
policy of the nation.”
Other:recommendations of the com
mission, based on observations in the
handling of a threatened strike in the
oil fields of Southern Califoghnia, a
threatened and partly executed strike
on the telephone lines of the Pa
cific States and a threatened tie-up
of the packing industry in Chicago,
follow:
“The elimination to the utmost pos
sible extent of all profiteering during
the period of the war is a prerequi
site to tl_'xe best morale in industry.
Eight-Hour Day Upheld.
“The eight-hour day is an estab
lished policy of the country; experi
ence has prove justification of the
principle also in war times. Provision
must, of course, be made for longer
hours in case of emergeneies Labor
will readily meet this requirement if
its misuse is guarded agalmst by ap
propriate overtime payments.
“Unified direction of the labor ad
ministration of the United States for
the period of the war should be ‘es
tablished.”
Since this was written into the re
port, a footnote explaips, the direc
tion of the labor administration for
the war has been delegated to the
Secretary of Labor.
“When assured of sound labor con
ditions and effective means for the
just redress of grievances that may
arise,” continues the report, “labor
in its turn should surrender all prac
tices which tend to restrict maximum
efficiency.
Labor’s Stake Is Large.
“Uncorrected evils are the greatest
provocative to extremist propaganda
and_their correction In itself would
be the best counter propaganda. But
there is need for more affirgfative ed
ucation. There has been too little
publicity of an educative sort in re
gard to labor's relation to the war.
The purposes of the Government and
the methods by which it is pursuing
them should be brought home to the
fuller understanding of labor. TLabor
has most at stake in this war, and it
will eagerly devote its all if only it
be treated with confidence and under
standing, subject neither to indul
gence nor neglect, but dealt with as
a part of the citizenship of the state.”
The members of the commission are
William B. Wilson, Secretary of La
bor; Ernest P. Marsh, Verner Z. Reed,
Jackson 1. Spangler, John H. Walker.
Feltx Frankfurter lis secretary and
counsel and Max Lowenthal assistant
gecretary.
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Red Cross Will Be
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Active This Week
The junior membership campaign
for the Red CrossgSociety will begin
in Atlanta schools this week, directed
by Superintendent Wardlaw. Com
missioner Brittain will direct the
State campaign. The object is to es
tablish a Red Cross unit in every
school.
The Atlanta Chapter Wednesday
will'sponsor a picture at the Forsyth
Theater showing the work of the so
clety in France. An exhibit of Red
('ross work will be placed in the ro
tunda.
Later in the month an entertain
ment will be given, under the direc
tion of Mrs. W, (. Spiker.
Mrs. James L. Dickey has been ap
pointed chairman of the canteen com
mittee of the Red Cross. She will be
assisted by the Junior League and
the Rotary Club and will have head
quarters in the Healey Building.
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Freeman, of DeKalb,
Favors Road Bonds
A Stat>-wide campaign for an
amendment to the Georgia Constitu
tion permitting bond issues by coun
ties fayr gonod roads will be launched
at a xmss meeting which is being
fostered by R. J. Freeman, commis
sioner of roads and revenues of De-
Kalb County, to be held in Decatur
early in March.
In a published communicatlon yes
terday Mr, Freeman called attention
of DeKalb citizens that Georgia coun
ties have not been able to take advan
tage of Federal offers of aid in road
building because of lack of authority
to issue bonds by which national
funds may be supplemented. He
called attention particularly to the
great need of improvement of roads in
DeKalb County.
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To Give Book Shower
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At Second Baptist
A “book shower,” when every visi
tor is expected tg contribute a book
and to dress to l%prospm some book
or echaracter in literature, will be
given for the benefit of Camp Gordon
and Fort McPherson soldiers next
Saturday night at the Second Baptist
Church.
The Baptist Young People's Union
of the church, assisted By the Patri
otic T.eague, will have charge ofs the
entertainment,
Lecture by
Kate Richards O’'Hare
Red Men’s Wigwam
86 Central Avenue,
Sunday Afternoon,
3 o'Clock.
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ICHMOND, VA, Feb, 94—
R Jfhat sectionalism in the {
2 Seuth is a thing of the past !
3 was shown conclusively here today
§ when the Vigginla = Legislature |
;ndopted a resolution to adjourn
‘< from Monday to Wednesday so as |
{ to permit the State legislators to !
participate in the exercises at !
Camp Lee, February 12, in honor
2 of the memory of ‘Abraham Lin
§ coln. The vote on the resolution
3 was unanimous.
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Tuesday liorni
The :\l]:‘xnt:l and Fulton County
high schools * will hold joint
Georgia Day exercises at the Aud
iterium Tuesday morning, begin
ning at 11:30 o’'clock. The prin
cipal speaker will be Charles Ed
ward Russell. who is making a
tour of the country as a repre
sentative of the Government.
Miss Kate Haralson, director of
music in the public schools, has
drilled the high school pupils in
singlng “The Star-Spangled Ban
ner” and “Georgla Land,” which
will feature the musical portion
of the program. Dr. M. Ashley
Jones is to deliver an address and
Mrs. W. L. Peel will tell some
thing of Georgia's history. /The
orchestra of Boys' and Tech High
Schools and the mandolin clubs
of Commercial, Fulton and Girl's
High Schools will give selections.
Professor C. S. Culver, super
visor of high schools, is to pre
side.
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Salvation Army to
Start Its Campaigu
The Atlanta campaign for contribu
tions to the Salvation Army war work
fund will be started with energy at
a luncheon-meeting of the campaign
committee at the Chamber of Com
merce building, February 11, at which
Brigadier A. W. Crawford will be
host. Guests will be: Mayor Cand
ler, who is Southern treasurer for
the/ fund, ¥. J. Paxon, Robert J.
Lowry, Georgia treasurer; A. M. Berg
strom, Atlanta treasurer; Mell® R.
Wilkinson, and the following team
captains: W. A. Smith, Oscar Mills,
J. M. Van Harlingen, C. B. Howard,
A. N. Bentley, A. K. Franklin, Julian
V. Boehm and H. J. Ouellette. G. E.
Watts, general chairman for the local
campaign, will outline the plans.
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Six Zones to Speed
Ship Building Plan
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. B.—Govern
ment shipbuilding is to be speeded
by distributing the shipping board’s
power over six shipyard zone direc
torates, each with a practical ship
builder in control.
There will be three zones on the
Atlantic and Gulf coast, two on the
Pacific and one on the Great lLakes,
comprising in all 132 ship yards.
Appointment of the six directors
has not yet been made. Eath will be
the head of the leading shipbuilding
company in his respective zone. He
will co-ordinate all the companies in
his zone into a single unified enter
prise.
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Lecture on the Bible
Explanation of allegorical lessons
in the Bible is offered by Mrs. Har
riet Tuttle Bartlett, author and lec
turer, who will give a series of five
lectures in the assembly hall, City
Hall Bailding, beginning Thursday at
8:15 p m. The gublic is invited, par.
ticularly students of Biblical and oc
cult literature and to members ol
women's clubs,
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State Association Seeks Remedy
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in New Laws and Or
dinances.
Members of the Georgia State Au
tomobile Association this week will
push vigorously the campaign against
‘awnmoblle thieves, working espe
clally to bring about the passage of
ian ordinance which will provide a
check on all sales of second-hand
cars and make the purchaser of a
stolen car liable unless he has used
care In assuring himself of the sell
er's title to the car.
Councilman Al Martin, of the Sec
ond Ward, will introduce at the next
meeting of Council an ordinance to
be drawn by tht City Attorney. It
will provide that the seller of a used
car must exhibit to the purchaser a
lmn of sale or other proof of owner
ship and that the purchaser must see
such proof hefore closing the deal.
The ordinance also will provide
that every garage rented in Atlanta
must be reported at once to the po
lica department. The auto thieves, it
is said, make a practice of renting
small back-alley garages, storing a
stolen car there and leaving it until
th . police are less active in search
ing tor it., These garages, too, are
used as workshops where the iden
tity of a car may be completely
char.ged. It is probable that proprie
tors of revair shops and storage gar
ages may be required to make re
ports of dally business, make of cars
received, and other information,
W. Tom Winn, an officer of the
Aatomobile Association, is working to
secure the passage of the ordinance,
to which he expects no opposition. He
believes that if Atlanta will take the
lead the State will follow in the
movement to protect automobhiles,
“The next Legislature will be asked
to pass stringent laws on the sub
ject,” he said.
’ John Lottridge, prominent auto
dealer and meinber of the associa
tion, called attention vesterday to the
ease by which cars can be so changed
that tae owners can not recognize
them.
“An auto thief can change brand
‘new paint into a three-year-old ap
pearegnce in half-an-hour,” he said.
“He can exchange magnetos, chip off
serial numbers cr change them, alter
the equipment in a dozen ways, so
no description will fit them.
“Every car owrer should £0 out
today, without waiting, and put a se
cre. identification mark on his car,
one that would not readily be found
by a thief. He would then be able to
swear to the identity of the machine
when he found this mark.”
An average of thirty-five cars a
month are being stolen in Atlanta, the
committee of the association report.
ed. Every type of automobile, from
$3,000 car: to Fords, is represented
Comparatively few o, them are being
recovered.
It is intimated that the ' present
movement may lead to a fight before
the legislature this summer toward
abolishing the probation' system. It
was stated there was little doubt that
this would be done should the auto
mobile men become convinced that
probation has been used too extens
ively, particularly in the matter of
freeing auto thieves.
Osear Mills, county commissioner
and vice president of the automobile
asscciation, explaining that the pur
pose of the automobile men in seek
ing this information concerning the
probation system, said:
“It is the plan of these .'mtnmuhile!
men to find out just how far t,hei
probation system has been used in
placing thieves back on the sn'('etfl\
after they have been convicted and
sentenced, and then to place the hlflmv}
where it belongs. The association isi
co-operating in every way possible
with officers of the law in this cru
sade, and the automobile men simpl.\"
wish to know if the prghbation system
in any way is hindering the move to
stop the operation of auto thieves.” ‘
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Cantor Rosenblatt
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To Sing This Week
Josef Rosenblatt, celebrated Jewish
cantor, will give a sacred concert
at the Auditorium next Thursday
evening undar the auspices of the
national central relief committee.
The singer recently appeared at the
New York Hippodrome and more than
$250,000 was raised at his concert for
war relief among Jewish soldiers. He
will be accompanied by Sascha Jacob
inoff, violinist. ‘
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‘Mountain Minstrels to Contest for
~ State Championship at the
Auditorium Next Week.
Fiddlin’ John Carson, most cele
brated of thes wandering minstrelg of |
Georgia, arrived from his native city
of Blue Ridge yesterday, accom
panied by his equally famous coon
hound, Rastus. Mr. CCarson laid upon
the desk an official notice, to wit:
“The Georgia Old-Time Fiddlers’
Association will hold its annual con-
Iventinn at the Atlanta Auditorium
every night from February 28 to
March 2, inclusive. Hundred dollars
in prices. Come one, come all.”
“The school teacher, he wrote it,”
‘explained Mr. Carson. “And being as
' I'm one of the old-timiest of the lot,
I'm kinder looking after getting the
convention started off. I'm looking
to see around forty fiddlers on hand
this year. 'There ain’t so many of
'em heen drafted. Most of 'em fit in
the big war fifty year ago, and 1
reckon they ain't needed in this here
one.”
M® (Carson's appearance, like the
first robin of spring, always heralds
the annual contest of the Georgia
fiddlers for the State championship
medal and the pot of money that
goesg with it. Fiddlin' John has car
ried off the prize several times,
though ‘there have been years when
some dark horse frfom a backwoods
valley has fiddled around him and
won the unanimous vote of the three
judges.
Most Atlantans are familiar with
the . annual fiddlers’” conventions,
which are asg much a State “classic”
ag the Kentucky Derby or Louisiana
Mardi Gras. But there are thousands
of visitors and new residents in the
city this year to whom the fiddlers
will offer a unique entertainment.
Most of the filddlers are descend
dnts of the pioneer Georgians who
settled in the mountains many gen
erations ago, and who brought with
them, or carved from native woods in
long winter nights, instruments
which have gained in beauty of tone
throughr many years of use. And the
tuneg they play were handed down
from father to son with the fiddles.
There hasn’'t been a new tune learned
in the mountains in a hundred years.
The favorites still are ‘“Arkansas
Traveler” and “Billy in the Low
Ground” and “Napoleon's Retreat,” |
though there are some contestants |
who stick by “Buffalo Gals” as the |
ihns! fiddle tune ever evolved from
catgut. Few of the airs have boen{
set down on paper. Few of the fid
dlers can read a note of mugic. But
the thousands who hear them every
yvear can testify that there is some
thing in their playing that sets the|
feet to patting on the floor and in-I
spires one with a desire to fling his
hat upon the floor, jump three feet‘
into the air and start to dancing in
the ajsle. And many a staid and dig
nified business man, with the magic
of Long Bill Tumlin's fiddling in his
system, has thrown dignity to the
winde and done it.
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Are Sold for $104,000
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William 1. Wilson, receiver ofif
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for $104,000. The court had HA%e
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