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SECY. WILSON URGES FARMING OF PUBLIC LANDS BY SOLDIERS
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Legisla
tion providing for the colonization
and farming of the public lands of
America by the millions of soldiers
released from the army, is strongly
urged by Secretary of Labor William
B. Wilson, in his annual report to
President Wilson, made public today.
Secretary Wilson recommended the
crganization of a board consisting of
the Secretaries of the Departments of
Agriculture, Interior and Labor to su
pervise the general plan of coloniza
tion and to effect its operation should
the necessary legislation be forthcom
ing.
The report emphasized that legisla
tion authorizing such a plan should
include the following provisions:
1. The possibility of commercialized
speculation should be eliminated. 2.
Colonists must be given access not
only to land but to farms, not only
the bare soil, but fully equipped agri
cultural plants ready to operate. 3.
The farms themselves must be welded
together into genuine communities by
provisions for roads, schools and mar
kets, under the general supervision of
the Federal Government.
Secretary Wilson points out in the
report that the necessity of augment
ing the world’s food supply for many
years to come necessitates a wore ex
tensive and more intensive cultivation
of American lands. The soil must be
the chief working opportunity for
great numbers of the nation's wage
earners, he said.
Former Land Grants.
The grants of land in former years
to soldiers were of almost no value
to them, Secretary Wilson said, be
cause of the extensive evils of land
speculation. The land granted to the
soldiers was speedily transferred t o
perspns, who resold it at higher
prices. For this reason the Secre
tary recommended that legislation
that may be enacted on this subject
will lay less stress on titles and more
upon the actual use of the iand by the
soldiers and other colonists.
Previous grants of land to soldiers
were found unsuccessful for another
reason, the Secretary said. Frequent
1y the efforts of the former@settlers,
many of them not used to frontier
hardships or familiar with agriculture
and disliking the monotony, résulted
in failure, and an exodus back to the
cities. Secretary Wilson, therefore,
recommends that the Federal Govern
ment make provision .for farming
communities and agricultural equip
ment.
“I recommend the early enactment
of such legislation as may be neces
sary to permit the preparation of the
public domain for this purpose. Such
legislation should provide for the pur
chase of such privately owned areas
as it may be found desirable to add to
the public areas,” he said.
The report also recommends the
working of forest areas along similar
lines of the farming proposals.
Secretary Wilson, in the report, said
that the entire machinery of the
United States Employment Service,
which, at the writing of the report,
had more than 400 employment offices
throughout the country, would be de
voted to the task of minimizing any
vnemployment that might occur with
the return of America's millions of
fighters,
“The department i{s not unmindful
of the fact that the overwhelming
mass of our armies is drawn from
the ranks of wage earners and that
when their military task is done these
men will return to the ranks of wage
earners. It would be an ungrateful
nation, indeed, which did not deem it
its first duty to assure to its returned
soldiers honorable and profitable em
ployment,” says the report
Of the policies of the Department
of Labor, the report says:
“The fixed policy of the department
has always been to acknowledge the
right of both employers and wage
earners to organize and to use its in
fluence against abuse of organization
by either side. Upon this theory the
conciliation service of the depart
ment has always operated,
“It is felt, however, that the rights
of organization and of collective bar
gaining are no longer in dispute
since they have been formally adopt
ed both by employers and wage earn-
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Here we have the five Duggan boys,
all of Atlanta, and all in the military
service of Uncle Sam. They are not
of the same immediate family; that
is, three of them are brothers in one
family, sons of Paul F. Duggan, No.
466 North Jackson street, and two of
them are brothers in the family of
Professor M. L. Duggan, State Su
pervisor of Rural Schools, and those
who are not brothers are first
cousins of each other, so you may see
that the relationship is close enough.
Of the trio, 1.. N. and W. B, Dug
gan are lieutenants, and went to
Tlrance last May, winning their com
missions in the service over there.
The other, Private M. R. Duggan, is
in the navy hospital corps. All three
formerly were students at Georgia
Tech, and at the time of their enlist
ment were connected with the Re
tail Credit Association. They are
grandsons of the late Dr. J. B. Dug
gan, of Dublin, Ga.
Of the pair of brothers, Lijeutenant
Jim Duggan, is a pilot in the air serv-
ers through the war labor conference
board. This agreement between two
hitherto conflicting elements is pre
sumably temporary in nature, but
there is no good reason why it should
not he regarded as permanent. If the
principles upon which that agreement
Jim Duggan, is apilot in the air serv
ice and was just about sailing when
the armistice was signed. He was a
member of the junior class at Tech
when the President called out troops
for the Mexican border, where he
served with Troop 1., the Governor's
Horse Guards. After being trans
ferred to the air service he was sent
to Princeton and later to the flying
fields at Dallas, San Antonio, Fort
Sill, and other posts.
Lieutenant Ivy W. Duggan had
completed his junior year at Clemson
College and was major of the cadet
corps when he enlisted last June at
Plattsburg Barracks. He was com
missioned as lieutenant and assigned
as instructor at Carnegie Tech, Pitts
burg, where he still is on duty.
Leaving out the entirely ephemeral
question of rank, the Duggan families
would seem to be batting an even
1,000 in this business, and if you want
to lug in the official score they would
be hitting .800. The average is un
usually high in any event.
was founded can endure the stress of
war, it is fair to suppose that even
greater success will attend their ap
plication during the calmer periods
of peace,
“The war has demonstrated that
American patriotism is not restricted
A Message
from
Candy Headquarters
A Clean Newspaper for Southern Homes
Continued From Page 1.
crowded with cheering figures that
waved flags and hats and handker
chiefs.
.Early this morning the strecets of
Brest began to seethe with the recep
tion planned for the coming of
France's distinguigshed guest. A spe
cial train from Paris rolled into the
rallwgy station filled with silk-hatted
and frock-coated Ministers, Ambas
sadors and Deputies and generals and
admirals in uniform.
Everybody in Hurry.
The eating places were sgoon filled
to overflowing with the visitors
snatching what they could in a hurry
S 0 as to get to their appointed pla(‘es‘
at the pier.
livery once in a while someone‘
peering through the mist down the
harbor would cry: “There she comes,"”
and a shout would go up from the|
multitude.
Thousands of doughboys and French l
poilus swung into the city from their
camps and were quickly strung out in 1
two lines through the railroad yards
and up the steep slope leading to the
ancient chateau gate fortifications,
the granite walls of which loomed
menacingly above. The soidiers stood
elbow to elbow.
Thousands of school children;
dressed in their best Sunday bibs and
tuckers, gathered in the streets v\'uv-'
ing holly and mistletoe. Many of
them had been carried into the city
from far-away villages in great
American army motor trucks. Every
ear was eagerly attuned to catch the
first muffled roar of the ~uiute from
the assembled war craft to the George
Washington. .
Strict naval regulations were 18-
sued and every precaution was lake_nl
to safeguard the President and hlS‘
party. Orders were given that no
craft should move in the harbor whire
the George Washington was at ancbm
excent the »fficial tenders carrying
the welcoming officials and members
of President Wilson’s pariy. ‘
Welcome By Poincare.
N¢ formal speech was planned in
behalf of the Government as it was
deemed fitting that only President
Poincare was worthy to welcome
formally such a distinguished \‘151(01'.“
That ceremony was reserved for the
capital. 2
The program of ceremonies on
board the ship was confined to the
briefest and most informgl introduc
tions. Tenders were then provided
to take the presidential party ashore.
Following the brief ceremony, it was
planned for the visitors and the of-‘
ficials to leave the pler in motor cars
escorted by an honor guard from the}
French marines.
This city for the time laid off the‘
busy air it has worn since the Amer
jean soldiers began arriving in|
France. The great roadstead had
been cleared of ships, and those that
remained at their docks were dressed
out in flags from keel to truck. Every
high point of ground swarmed with
people.
For two days big gangs of German
prisoners of war had been at work
cleaning the soupy mud from the
atreets,
Banners Proclaim Wilson.
Great banners were g§tretched
across the streets, bearing in English
such inseriptions as “Hurrah for
President Wilson, defender of the
rights of the peoples” and “Vive Wil
son, who merits so much from hu
manity.”
Not only Brest, but the whole coun
iryside gave itself over to celebration
of the gala occasion. The streets that
had been hitherto humming with in
dustry and traffic, moving hundreds
of thousands of Americans toward the
front, was thronged with merrymak
ers. Nevertheless, some work still
was going on.
- But the stream of American traffic
was reversed today. Instead of troops
going to the front, wounded were be
ing brought from the interior for
transportation home. Most of these
were ‘“‘casuals.”
The George Washington is to re
turn to the United States, and she
will take home with her thousands of
wounded doughboys, who will occupy
the places that accommodated the
members of the presidential party on
the eastward vovage,
Fisher Folk Excited.
The excitement over the President's
arrival was not confined to Brest.
Dawn found the Breton coast lined
with keen-eyed fisher folk watching
for the first glimpse of a smoke
smudge on the horizon which would
foreshadow the arrival of this new
peace armada, just as they had been
the first to sight the sails of the war
like h:punish armada as it turned into
the English Channel centuries ago.
These simple and stoical fisher folk
were dressed out in their Sunday
best, and, hardworking as they are
they “took the day off” to cheer the
coming of the great American., They
wore brightlv colored jackets and the
women's heads were covered with
quaint eaps
Even the humbhlest peasant realizea
the importance of President Wilson's
mission—how muech it meant for
peace and democracy—and wWis
thrilled by it,
Decpite the fact that it is mid
December the hills were green and ¢
made a very pleasant background for
the scenery viewed from shipboard
Erormous crowds of peasants and
f'sher folk had gathered it Toul
Brouch, off which point the wareraft
took review formation, the George
Weashington leaving her escorts there
and moving out from the protecting
array of destrovers and battleships,
The presidential train, which was
drawn up in the Brest railway stae
tlon, i« scheduled to depart for Paris
at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, with
President and Mrs, Wilson and their
personal suite on board,
.
Drops Dead While He
Prepares Son’s Funeral
(By International News Service.)
MERIDEN, CONN,, Dec, 11 —While pre
paring for the funeral of hiz son Wal
ter, 16, whe died of pneumonia, Withelm
. 1. Flatow, of this city, dropped dead of
a heart attack
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to any section of the country nor to
any class or group of individuals nor
to any stratum of society, The great
need for sacrifice for the common
good engendered by the war has im
pelled both employers and wage earn
ers to lay aside old prejudices, old
suspicions and old hatreds. Both la«
borer and employer have done this
in supreme measure during the past
year, In continuance of that spirit
of sacrifice lies the hope for the fur
ther attainment and development
during the days of peace of that de
mocracy for which we have taken up
arms.”
Traveling Texan Loses Car
And May Lose Liberty by
Letter and a Georgian Ad
“Just Break the News to Mother,"”
although an eminently worthy and
touching ballad, nevértheless prom
ises to be the undoing of Ired Foster,
who is alleged to have stolen a Twin
Six Packard car from A. L. Belle Isle's
garage some time around midnight
Thursday, December 4. A letter to
his mother in Texas, telling of his
sudden coming into wealth and his in
tention to return home, dropped care
lessly in the garage from which the
car was taken, added to the speedy
efficiency of a Georgian want ad, af
fords reason why trouble hovers over
the head of Mr. Foster.
The ca ritself is now safe in Mr.
Belle Isle’s paint shop, but the thief,
persistent to say the least, is in the
meanwhile on his way to the Lone
Star State in another borrowed car.
Whether he was as particular in
choosing the make of car this time is
not available, But to hearken back
to the efficiency of the advertisement
in Friday's Georgian.
The chief of police of Chattanooga,
Tenn., perusing his copy of the pa
per last Friday, happened on the fol
lowing:
“AUTOMOBILE~—One 1918 Twin
Six, 7-pass. Packard automobile, mo
tor 150527. Initials “A. L. B.” on side
door, Standard Packard color. Good
yvear cord tires on rear, Gioodrich cord
on front; one extra Goodrich cord
cn rack. Bumpers on front and rear.
Front bumper sprung in center.
Speedometer cable broken, reading
12,000 plus. Liberal reward. A. L.
Belle Isle.” ‘
Saturday morning between 3 o'clock
and day at the corner of Thirteenth
and Market streets, in Chattanooga,
one of the chief's trusties happened
on the car. Belle Isle was immedi
ately notified and at once started for
Chattanooga. But he was not alone
in starting. Police believe the unin
vited custodian of his car immediately
made way with another car and left
Chattanooga about 7 o'clock.
While these events had been trans
piring Mrs. Belle Isle had discovered
something in the garage at No. 52
Penn street, from which the car was
stolen, in the way of a most interest
ing letter. It ran:
“Dear Mother—l have made lots of
money. I worked for 85 cents an hour
at Newport News and have been to
Glasgow, Scotland. Made $385 there
and then came back to Jacksonville,
Fla. 1 sure have made lots of money.
I have bought me a new car, a dia
mond ring, good clothes—and it sure
is a fine auto. 1 am on my way home
and am sure the Governor will let me
off, as I have papers to show 1 have
been over there. See yvou soon. lL.ove,
“FRED FOSTER.”
Further investigations make it prac
tically certain that Foster is a {ugi-'
tive from the Texas courts and that
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1918.
the trip “over there” referred to in his
letter was merely a voyage on a cattle
boat. Authorities believe he is respon
sible for the second theft, in Chatta
nooga, is also a certainty in Mr, Belle
Isle’'s mind.
The original theft of the Packard
was not without its unusual features.
The lock of the garage was unmarred
and Mr. Belle Isle is positive that the
thief must have secreetd himself in
the garage early in the day. A young,
shabbily clad man of about 23 years
put in appearance at the Georgian
Terrace garage the same day and se
cured a route book to Chattanooga, it
has since been verified. Which in a
way is adding insult to injury, as
Belle Isle owns that garage also. But
the Packar dis back in Atlanta after
an all-night drive Saturday by the
owner, the letter is in the hands of
the authorities, and the little adver
tisement has done its work.
. .
New Style Tight Skirt
o
Has A ppeared in London
(By International News Service.)
I,()K'T)ON (by mail.)—The tight skirt
is upon us!
Or, rather, the women.
Forty-four inches about the hem Is
the latest dictate of fashion, and girls
whe have been swinging along in the
comfortable stride permited by knee
skirt war dresses, such as worn hy the
land girls and woods women, or in the
full-skirted unifogn of other war detach
ments, will have to get in practice for
the mincing gait.
Mere men, who have endured the put
teed war girl, feel equal to the new
whim of wvanity. And casualties have
been discounted.
Negroes Look So Much
. . .
Alike, Mixed in Court
(By International News Service.)
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 13.—D0 all negroes
look alike?
Ask one Harry Hurst, negro, who has
spent eighteen days in jail, and he will
agree that all of them in that jall surely
must look alike,
Hurst was brought bhefore Judge Dyer
in the United States District Court with
three other negroes and two white men,
charged with selling liquor to soldlers.
But it was Harry Jones instead of Harry
Hurst who was accused of the charge.
The two got mixed up in jail
It took a lot of persuasive words and
then a registration card before Hurst,
brought in as Jones, was permitted to
go back to jail.
WANT THANKSGIVING—2 FRIDAY.
(B{ International News Service.)
DELAWARE, OHIO, Dec. 13.—The Ki
wanis Club, of this city, wants Thanks
giving Day to be on November 11 in the
future and has prepared resolutions
which have been sent to Congress ask
ing that the change of date be made.
The local club is but following the lead
of other similar organizations of the
country in petitioning for the change
in date.
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alry lifeguards regiments under Gen
eral Lequist, stationed at Potsdam,
had caused anxiety in Berlin until
these troops entered the city and took
oath to support the present govern
ment until the national assembly con
vened, General Lequist also swearing
allegiance to the republic. The situ
ation is thereby much improved.
Negotiations have led to an agree
ment between the Government and
the executive committee of the So
viet, leaving the executive power in
the hands of the Government, the
latter recognizing the consultive
rights of the Soviet, but the head of
the Government reserving to himself
the exclusive right to appoint mem
bers of the Cabinet.
A majority of the Socialist mem
bers of the Cabinet have expressed a
determination to prevent the noisy
Spartacus group from upsetting the
Government, which, they say, has 90
per cent of the German people be
hind it.
(Copyright, 1918, by Public Ledger Co.)
British General
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Flies 2,548 Miles
LONDON TIMES CABLE.
LONDON, Dec, 13.-—~Major General
Salmond has arrived in Kayachi, In
dia, after a flight of 2,548 miles from
Cairo in a Handley-Page machine.
Descents were made in Damascus,
Bagdad, Bussiere, Vanadarbas and
(‘harbas. The wheee jJourney from
Cairo to Kayaghi occupied 36 hours'
actual flying. General Salmond is
proceeding to Delhi by aeroplane on
urgent business. Apparently there
has been no hitch anywhere.
(Copyright, 1918, by Public Ledger Co.)
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Wants to Make John P.
.
Sousa a Captain
(By International News Service.)
MANSFIELD, OHIO, Dec. 13 Because
he wrote "“The Stars and Stripes Forever’
and bhecause he is one of the greatest
bandmasters of all time, the leading news
paper of this city wants to make Lieuten
ant John Phillip Sousa a captain at least
hefore the American forces are mustered
out The paper says, “thousands of young
men at the training camps have had their
hearts heat to the stirring music written
by Lieutenant Sousa and he is more ¢
serving of promotion than others who
have been given higher rank."”
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First Wireless Flyer
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Was 22 When Enlisted
(By International News Service.)
COLUMBUS, 0., Nec. 13.—Captain Herald
Young, of this city, recently promoted in
France, where he was the youngest offi
cer in the Ninety-sixth Aero Squadron,
learned wireless in his own home in this
city and built his first aseroplane in this
city with his own hands He is said to
have been the first wireless flyer who left
America, and was only 22 years of age
when he entered the service
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ROBES
for a man who appreclates
comfort and ideal as an ex
pression of Yuletide senti
ment. Blanket Robes, $6
to $25. Terry Bath Robes,
$6 to sls. Silk Lounging
Robes, $lB to S3O.
CHICAGO, Dec. 13—~The dress, or
rather lack of dress, of modern girls
keeps the morals court busy, Dr. Clara
Seippel, city physician, told the Wom
an's Protective Association. She said:
“Parents select the right school for
their children, supervise their educa
tion, provide money for movies and
dancing school, and neglect to start
them on the right road to manhood
and womanhood. Children of 18 to
day-—girls especially—seem to be a
different species from those of two
decades ago.
“We daughters of old-fashioned
mothers knew very little of the pres
ent causes of delinquency. We
dressed differently. But now ging
ham aprons have been replaced by
the transparent blouse and children
are sent out half-naked to school.
“Girls in thin silk stockings, short
skirts and low-cut blouses—pretty
well uncovered at both ends—have
met the curious glances of the boys
ard ‘men. It makes them defiant and
leads to all sorts of evil.
“Thus the usual remark of a boy's
mother, when she is confronted with
the evidence of his guilt, is: ‘Well,
the girl must have led him on."”
Buttons, the physician said, appear
to have gone quite out of style, for:
“The girls who come to me for ex
amination have to be unpinned all
over. Some haven't a button on their
clothes. As a result, a great deal of
my time has to be unprofessionally
employed in unpinning and pinning
up these children.
“I suppose if it were the fashion,
women would wear g G string:and
call themselves dressed.”
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Death Follows Discharge
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Of Gun When He Hit Cow
(By International News Service.)
GLENWPOD SPRINGS, COLO., Dee. 13.
Hitting a cow over the back with a
shotgun is no way to shoo an animal out
of a pasture, it was demonstrated ves
terday in a costly legson to Wilson Pot
tinger, a raillroad engineer, of this city.
Pottinger was, going home through the
pasture when he came on the cow (a
neighbor's) tranquilly eating his best
BTrass The engineer, who had been out
hunting, brought the butt end of his gun
over the cow’s back, accidentally turning
the muzzle directly on himseif. The trig
eer went off, the discharge catching Pot
tinger full in the chest. He died severai
hours later
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Grave Soldiers Whisky
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And Now Law Has Him
(By International News Service.)
ST.” LOUIS, MO., Dec. 13.—Adoption of
the divine injunction *“Give and ye shall
receive,”” proved unfortunate for George
M. Fortune At Union Station Fortune
met a pair of thirsty soldiers. Being a
former sailor and having in his possesion
a quart of liquor, Fortune offered the
doughboys a “nip."”” He was arrested. Pa
pers on his person showed that For
tune was arrested at Navairre, France, in
June, 1917, for larceny and was sentenced
to two years in prison He was discharg
ed from the navy September 21. He was
held for Federal authorities
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coon he ;
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an old stand-by as a Gift. We
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cooo
HATS
make a practical gift., Fine fur
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winter styles. Best makes,
Sizes still complete. $4 to $lO.
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