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A, AL BOARD
PROTEST PHONE
AATES SET BY
BURLESON
A spirited protest, charging ,that
W fixing of intra-State iele
‘phone rates in Georgia is a violation
of the constitution and direct disre
{ard for States’ rights has been sent
¥ the Georgia Raflroai Commiulq;
to Postmaster General Burleson,
who instituted a néw schedule. of
rates in Georgia in January.
The commission ordered also that
Judges J. K. Hinel{ its legal counsel,
intervene in behalf of tieoraia, in a
=@ cuse to be institnted in some
@her State, to be decided upon later.
The telephone comj'nies them
salves were freed of ali hlame, tie
commission recognizing the ni-..:s of
thelr argument that they are operat
ing under supervision of Mr. Burle
6on and that they have no other al
ternative than. to obey any «riers
coming from W&shln‘t&.
Pos}m&ster General Burleson's fix
ing of intrastate rates was térmed
by the commission as a direst blow
at the very foundation of State sov
ereignly, depriving the States of the
€xereéise of police powers vested sole-
I and directly in them. '
Putting its protest in a more gen
eral way, the commission said “we
view wilh-apprehension the inf-inge
ment on the police powers of the
Stutes by the [federal Governm-nt,
under a Democratic administration.”
- In the ‘epinion of the commission,
Alr. Burleson's tactics have brought
about a revulsion of feeling on the
part of the public against all Govern
ment control,
The protest to Mr. Burleson and
the decision to Intervene were the
\utgrowth of hearings held last week,
When the Southern Bell; Gainesbora,
Consolidated and Frait Balt telephone
companies were summoned by rule
nisi to appear hefore the commission
and show cause why rates in force
pFrevious to new schedules promuigat
ed by Postmaster General Burleson
should not be restored. |
A comparatlve table prepared by
the rate iepartment of the commis
sion shows/an average increase of $1
a 4 month in both residence and busi
ness rates, In Moultrie, Boston, Car
rolitoh, Greenville and Fort™ Valley,
which are servod by. the corapanies
cited, ~ |
Followi ”Y’QBN . pmf"-h ‘
Following., a copy of the protgst,
and a schefiule of long distance r;&.
showing the comparison between the
Government schedule and rates previ
vusly -in force;
February 14, 1919,
File No. 14143,
Honorable Albert 8. Burleson, Postmas
ter General United States, Washing
ton, D, C.
mfm After full and careful consid
eration we present this memorial and
Dbrotest against thé exercise by you of
the {mwer to fix intrastate rates for
telephone service within the State of
(;eor{ia.
1. Under the joint resolution of Con
g&ress of July 16, 1918, which authorized
the President of the United States,.
whenever he deemed it necessary for
the national security or defense, to
supervise or to take possession and as
sume control of any telegraph, telephone,
marine cable, or radio system or sys
tems, or any fyart thereof, and to oper
dle the same in such manner as may be
reedful or desirable for the duration of
the war, it was distinctly declared by |
ongress:
“That nothing in the act shall be con
strued.to amend,, repeal, impair or af
fect existings laws or powers of the
States in relation to taxatiom or the law
ru\tpolire regulations -of the several
Statles, except wherein such laws, pow
ers or Legulations may affect the trans
@nission of glovernment communications,
or the issue of stocks and bonds by such
eystem or system.”
In other word, we belioye that Con
gress meant that the op-pation of these
svalem‘i by the President should not
have the effect of amending, repealing,
impairing or nfl'ev!h&g the existing laws
and powers of the States which spring
from their police powers. Congress ex
rrensly reserved to the States their ex
stinw laws and rnwera both In relation
to taxation and in relation to the lawful
police regulations of the several Stajles,
It must be conceded beyvond reas’n
ahle controversy that the power to fix
Intrastate rates ig derived from the po
licg nowers of the seyeral States. Police
r("\l‘wt'r\n and pnl‘ntx‘;mwer are synony
mous. Thev nra jdentical,
/7 W'thout Authority.
If by the re=o'ution of July 16, 1918,
Coneress express'v regerved to the re
gnective States all their laws and pow
e = in relation to their police regula
tions, and if the power to initiate intra
ginte :‘\'o9 is a part of the nélice po;v
eva nf the several States, then we fe
gpectfnlly suhmit that vou are without
uthority to initiate and fix the domestie
ntes of telephone and telegraph compa
‘es doing business in this State.
For this reason we most solemn'v pro
est againts the exercise of this power
v the Postmaster General of the United
fates.
2. The power assumed by you to fix
he intrastate rates for these compa
nies, in the respective States, strikes at
the very foundatign of State sovereign
ty, transfera the regulations of these
rafes to Washington. D, ¢, and de
privessthe respective States of the union
of thé exercise of the police powers
whu:'p is lodeed exclusively in them, and
net in the Faderal Government,
We view with alarm the lifféreasing
concentration of power in the Federal
Covernment at Washineton, whereby the
inherant police powers of the States are
d vn‘flh‘!l"' and, in effect, destroyed. We
wish to preserve ae& far as possible the
foenl governgments of the States.
For this |-w}mn we do most earnestly
protest againgt the assumption and ex
erclse of this power hy vou. ‘We believe
that sudh exercise of power by vou rnbn'
fha States of their police powers and
takes away from them !fm right to man
age their own domestic concerns by
thele own Governments.
3. The ‘mwb'r of the respeftive States
to regulate thelr domestic, concerns, in
cuding the making of Intrastate rates
for tedephone and telegraph companies
anerating within their bordera, {s abso
itely essentinl to the preservation of
Ineal govermment and we ‘submit thas
there ghould bhe no surrender of such
powers by the Siates, Clearly the ew
ercing of un’nh nower by the Federal
Covermment lshould not be derived from
any fantiful construction of the meaning
o' the nroviso in the resolution of July
14, 1818 The exercige of this danger
oug nower hy the Federal Government
LEGAL NOTICE. ¢
EOND APPLICATION NOTICE,
Nolles I 8 hereby given that Georgia
Pallway and 'ower Company has ap
pled to the Railroad Commission of
Ceorglae for approval of an additional
freve of $633,000.00 par value, &nt and
Eefunding five per cent, foply year,
snl g fund, gold bonds, umdar it first
and/ ilefunding mortgage, dated April 1,
1014 the same to be used in reimbursing
the J'roasury of the said (?nmpnng to
the « xtent of 80 and 85 per cent of the
et of additlons and extensions to its
lank und properties, July 1, 1818, to
;w mbar 31, 1918, both inclusive.
S applicgtion will be heard by the
Tailroad Commission of Georgia at its
ol i the State Capitol, Atlanta, on
T übruary 26, 1010, at 10 o'dlock a. n, |
Ts notiee lg published by order of
the '\m"('nml Commission of Georgia, '
sEOHar nAILWAY AND POWER
COMPANY
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+ Miss Kathryn Hutchison, star or legitimate and sereen dra
ma, in Atlanta on way to Europe.
Miss Kathryn Hutchison, as you
may have noted, can look the most
threatening camera squarely in the
lens with the utmost aplomb-—and
make the’ camera like it. You can tell
the camera likes it by the kind of pic
tures it makes of Miss Hutchison,
And then Miss Hutchison is in the
movies, so she knows perfectly well
how to be photographed painiessly
and all that.
Miss Hutchison is in Atlanta for a
few days’ visit to her brother, Joe
Hutchison, before she departs for Eu
rope as head of her owh company to
engage in motion picture production.
should not be drawn bhnere inference.
Its exercise shouldp? bottomed upon
an express grant of power, '
View With Apprehension.
We vilw with apprehension the in
fringement “of the police powers of the
States by the Federal Government, un
der a democratic administration. ~
For this reason we respectfully pre
sent this memorial to you with the earn
est hope that you will not further exer
cise the authority, now being exercised
by you, believing that such exercise of
authority is a dangerous usurpation,
4. We further protest against the ratgs
and charges fixed by you for those com
panies in this State because the same
were fixed without notice to patrons,
without an opportunity for those inter
ested therein to be heard, and without
any evidence on behalf of tlhe public, as
to the reasonableness of such rates and
charges. We submit that reasonable and
Jjust rates ean not be established without
exhg}stlve investigation, and in the ab
sen of all oppor.unity for those who
are to pay such rates to be heard.
‘We further protest againts the estab
lishment of these rates by yau for the
reason that the sam(g constitute pro
nounced advance in e rates formerly
charged by these publie utilities. As an
example of such increase, we attach
hereto, as Exhibit A, a table showing
such advance for the instances therein
named. The same is a fair exhibit of
the operation of the rates put in effect
by you.
‘While4he country was engaged in war
and actual hostilities were going on, we
made no protest on accoum&ef the ex
ercise of this authority by yéu, or as to
the gmmulnuon of these rates, because
we did not wish to embarrass the Gov
ernment, in the slightest degree, # its
prosecution of the war againts Germany.
We did not wish to put any obstacle
in the way of the Government's success
ful prosecution. and endinfihostflitlo&
But as actual hostilities ve ceasdd,
and the country is rapidly retuml(;g to
normal conditions, we feel that silence
is no longer justifiable. We feel that
our voice should be lifted against the
assumption by the Federal Government
of the powers and authority of the re
spective' States. It is in view of the
magnitude of this subject that we now
venture to present this memorial and
protest to you.
The exercise of this power by the
Postmaster General has brought about
a complete revulsion in public senti
ment, and has brought into marked dis
favor S‘nvernment control, operation or
ownership of public utilities, This
change of sentiment is due to the fact
that the people of the respective States
view with fen; the centralization of
wer il® the Federal Government at
W:uhlnmon. and look with anxlety upon
the destruction of the police power of
the States of this Union.
Velvet Beans Scarce;
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Price Is Going Up
“THOMASVILLE, Feb, 16~ Velvet
beans are sald to be somewhat .scaroe
in this section now, owing to the fact
that the wet weather last fall caused
many to rot when stacked In the fields
There I 8 a demand for the Ir-?.'nn for
planting and good ?rl('nm are offered for
them. Twenty dollars per ton Is the
usual price for those in the hull, but
the shelled beans especially selected for
planting come considerably higher
Thomasville Welcomes
.
Big Modern Rakery
THOMASVILLIZ, Feb, 15 W. H, ana
JoH. Flowers, owners of the hi;? bakery
to be established in Thomasville, have
gone Ka<t to buy the machinery to he
used in the construetion and operation
of the plant. This emterprise g ar.
traating much Atfalition In this section
of the Btate, as It will be the Jargest
and a modern bak®y in avery respeet
and with raflroad facilities and means
of handliug it, Mgad will he shipped
Jrom.here to all pxts of Soulh Georgis
and Florida. %
She is just.from California, where she
starred in many plays under the dai
reetign of Julian Eltinge. She has
lived in Knoxville, besides the periods
of her existence spent in Atlanta, and
has made a notable success on the
legitimate gtage as well as on the
filnf: In the latter connection she has
played in the company with Blanche
Ring, Olga Petrova, the late Harold
Lockwood and other famous stars.
Miss Hutchison's parents are dead
and it has been a custom faor her to
spend Christmas here with her broth
er. Being prevented by contracts,in
California this year, she made it St
Valentine's Day instead.
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Wreaths Sent by |
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Wilson Placed on|
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:Shaft to Maine|
) (By International News Service.)
: ASHINGTON, Feb. 15—
{ W Wreaths sent by President
; Wilson were placed Satur
; day on the Maine shaft in Arling
é ton Cemetery, as part of the cele
bration of the twenty-first anni-
E versacy of the sinking of the bat
) tleship in Havana Harbor. g
g Senator Harding, of Ohio, was
) to be the principal speaker at the
g celebration later in the day. Car
los Mgnuel de Cespedes, the Cuban
Minister, also was scheduled to !
speak. i ¢
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—Officers and
men of the American overseas armies to
the number Of 299,781 have been landed
at different Atlintie ports, according to
figures made public today by officials at
the port of embarkation offices. At the
time of the signing of the armistice
2,000,000 men were in France or Eng
land, or en route overseas.
All told, 170 transports loaded with
returning fighters have docked at New
York, Philadelphia,and Boston since the
cessation of hostifities. Some of these
ships have carried as few as one sol
dier. Others have brought as many as
9,000, the Leviathan bringing back 9,401
thig week—a record for the entire home
ward troop movement,
Rough weather in the last two weeks
has hindered troop movements, aceord
ing to the officials. The period from
January 20 until Margh 1 i 8 considered
the worst of the year for trans-Atlantic
travel and transportg have not heen
loaded to their fullegt capacity, while
schedules have necessarily been slowed
down,
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Berger’'s Plan to Speak
Is Halted by Protlests
(By International News Service.)
RACINE, WIS, Feb, 15.-—~Congress
man-elect Viktor Berger, recently con
victed for violating the espionage law
will not speak before a mass meeting
as scheduled here today
A stream of protests against Berger
resulted in a hurried conference bhee
tween Mayor T. W. Thiesen, N, P. Neil
son, of the lecal Socialist organization,
ecity and district attorneys, the. an
nouncement of the cancellation of Ber
ger's speaking date following today
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Resolutions Commend
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Work of Martin Calvin
News of the retirement of Martin V.,
Calvin from the presgidency of the State
Agricultural Society, of which organi
ziation he served ag secpretar for sev.
entean consecutive vears wior 1o his
election as_president in 1917, hag been
received M?;l reßie na parte of the
Htate Resolutions gtrongly commend
ing the zeal, falthfpine nd accon
plishments of Mr, Calvh vere passed
by the aclely at . lis annual meceting In
Macorr at the time he retired,
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Ul SI MAY ENn
The conciliatory offices of the
United States Department of Labor
were Friday called upon in an effort
to reach a solution of the differences
betweeh the International. Brother
hood of Electrical Workers™nd the
electrieal contractors :; Atlanta, it
was learned Saturday morning.
One or more agents of the Federal
Department of Labor will be instruct
ed by the Secretary of Labor to in
vestigate the situation with a view
to bringing the strike to an end. John
Bridwell, one of the department rep
resentatives, has already arrived in
the cfty.
That the strike situation has taken
on more serious aspects, despite the
fact that six of the contractors have
signed an agreement with the union
and énded the strike in their plants,
was the opinion of some of the build
ing trades unionists Saturdzy. They
claim to’ have information that the
refusal of the electrical contractors
to.sign an agreement with the electri
cal workers is dictated by ghe Build
ers’ Exchange and that the contrac
tors are not holding out on their own
initiative,
It is also contended by the building
trades workers that the fight against
the electrical workers is the first move
in a cargfully planned attack on all
the building trades organizations, and
that the electrical workers were first
affected because their gbntract was
the first to expire,
This phase of the situation will be
carefully gone into at an executive
session of the Building Trdes Coun
cil at the Labor Temple Sunday
morning at 10 o'clock, at which the
executive board of the Atlanta Fed
eration of Trades also yill be pres
ent, &
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Peb. 15—A plea
thatvall legislation on the calendar
be swept aside and that (‘o?rens
proceed immediately to the consfder
ation of legislation to check the
revolutionary doctrines was made in
Lthe Senate this afeernoon by Sena
tor Thomas, of Colorado.
“Here we are frittering our time
away trying to see how much money
we can get out of the Federal treas
ury when the country seems to be on
the eve of - a volcanic eruption,”
‘Thomas explained.
~ In two great cities, he said, revo
lutionary papers are springing up
like mushrooms to preach sedition.
“They not only encourage, but ad
vise insurrection, comscious of the
relaxation of the law,” he asserted.
“They openly announce that when
the hour arrives, and it is to arrive,
a massacre of all but the eriminals
who support this doctrine wfll be’
begun. They are preaching sedition
—with impunity.”
The American people, he said, are
minimizing the magnitude of the
menace, as they always do until the
crisis is upon them.
“Self-preservation is the first law
of nature,” he continued. “We must
act. Yet we seem to prefer to sit
here dividing the raiment of the re
public in the shadow of revolution.”
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Bad Roads Slow Up
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Autos in S, Georgia
THOMASVILLE, Feb. h More rain
and more bad roads is what South Geor
gia complains of now. Reports from the
country show that the very heavy rains
falling on Thursday have again put the
roads of the county in such a condition
as to render automobile traveling un
pleasant and in some instanges difficult.
Cars have been reported stuck in the
mud on some of the principal roads, and
many people have been delayed in their
trips to the differemt sections of the
county.
With the coming of warm weather
next month and during all of the spring
months many tourists will desire to visit
this section on their return from #lor
ida and numbers of them wiil be in
their automobiles, With good paved
rogds South Georgia could have a con
stdnt stream of such visitors, to say
nmhimi of the benefits to be derived
from the roads by the residents of the
towns and counties on their own behalf,
Father and Son To Be
.
Tried on Murder Charge
SOPERTON, Feb. 15.—The first term
of Treutlen Superior Court will convene
here Monday. It will be held in the
new Masonic hall until a courthouse can
b% built. Judge E. . Graham will pre
side,
The most important case will be that
of the Alfords, the son and father, ac
cused of killing Depusy United States
Marshal J. Hyn Wilson on November 13
last, Wilson‘was serving a warrant on
the elder Alford for illicit distilling when
they shot him. Since that time the Al
fords have been located in Montgomery
County jail There are several other
important cases that will come up for
trial at this term,
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Crawley Desertion Case
Comes Up Monday
The Government's case ngulnst
George, Decatur, Frank and Felix Craw-
Iley and Blaine Stewart, the Unlon
County men accused of ?nerflon. har
borinfill deserter and of the murder of
Ben . Dixon, deputy United States
marshal, will be fimsruted to the Fed
eral Grand Jury Monday morning. The
Government will s:n-sx the charge of
desertiog only, and the murder tharge
will bensmmwul‘?l by the civil courts.
According to €ordon Combg, assistant
United States attorney in eharge of the
case, George Crawley will be prosecuted
as a 4 deserter and the others as abetling
and alding him in the avoidance of his
l military duty.
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' Business Man Loses
-~ Roll of SBSO in Macon
BOPERTON, Feb. 15.-James Fow
ler, a prominent business man of this
lace, was in Macon and at Camp
{thlnr looking after lmnlrx-m inter
ests one day this week. HMHe Ritended a
Government male at Camp Wheeler and
carried SI.OOO in cash, thinking that he
might invest some of {tethere, He spent
lnhnut $1560 and placed the remainder,
SBSO, in his inslde coat pocket When
‘hfl boarded the train for home he misged
the cash and went back to ses if he
! could locate it, Later he was led to be
lieve it had been found und bLopes to
recover |t, J
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CAPTAIN WATT REACHES U, §.
THOMABVILLE, Feb, 19 A telogram
was peceived here Friday by th®tamily
|flf Cuptain Charles H Watt, of ithe
Inu-nlh'.al corpg of the army, annogicing
Rig safe arrival In New York 4'!".“
Wautt is a 4 member of the Johns Hopkin
unttof Bage Hospitul No. 18, He iy vul
at Camp Merritt, where he will romain
until he l\ discharged from service,
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;él;r;n Young, “(:,'aptur_erm——'
Of Crawleys, Victim of’
l Red Tape, Says Keeler
BY 0. B. KEELER.
¥ollowing is a more or less philo
sophical discussion of red tape, effi
ciency and other evils. It may get
me in jall, but 1 donlt care. They
have to feed a guy in jail and he
doesn't have to worry about the
clock-—~he isn't going anywhere.
This thoughtless article is based
on the canning of Glenn Young, the
special agent of the Department of
Justice who captured by himself
three members of the Crawley gang
after the United States army and an
acre »f deputy sheriffs had given up
the job as a bad one. Young was
canned, according to report, for a
most horrid offense against red tape.
He took eighteen prisgners—captured
by himself—from Asheville to Camp
Wadeworth without consulting
Washington, Furthermore, he paid
their railroad fares, as much of it
as he had money to pay, and asked
several of the prisoners to pay their
own fares, which they readily agreed
to do.
Washington is all sore about this
dreadf® faux pas. ®Whe Department of
Justice is shaken to its foundations.
It is not done, you know-—it really
ien't, It is said Camp Wadsworth
also is sore. Camp Wadsworth was
about to send a detachment of eight
men to guard the eighteen prisoners,
some of whom were pretty bad eggs.
The D. of J. was expecting to send
transportation or aythority for the
same, while the efghteen languished
in jail
A Pretty Pass.
Now, isf't that just awful?
This uncouth PUNE person evi
dently has no rm for efliciency
or regulations or red tape. In the
same rude, simple and untutored
way that he trailed the Crawleys to
their cabin and went in and pinched
them, he put those eighteen slackers
and deserters on a train and took
them where they were going. He
even made some of them pay their
own way,
Gosh! And they are shooting au
tocrats in Russia. This Young is
palpably a menace to society. Pret
ty lucky for him that the Dept. of
Just. doesn’t cast him into the bas
tile—after sending him there with
a carefully selected guard of eight
men, on a railroad picked out by the
Federal administrator and transpor
tation obtained on a voucher signed
by eleven flat-chested clerks with
goggle eyes. Pretty soft for a hard
ened offender like Young, I should
say, They might have shot him at
sunrise Qr sugh a crime—if they
onul?lr get\ the proper type of am
munition prescribed by the D. of J.
for ahooti:\g special agents in Feb
‘Takes’ Auto Load of
‘Tonic; Gets SI
onic; Gets Sleepy;
.
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Wrecks Car; Jailed
Nicholas E. Marshburn, of No. 148
Forrest avenue. docs not appreciate
a little voluntear assistance he re
ceived Friday night. His assistant
likewise has a few regrets, as the
following recital shows:
Mr. Marshburn is conrected with
a loecal tonic manufactory and had
twelve cases of' the product in his |
automobile, ready for shipment to !
Chattanooga, Tenn. On his way to
the express 3mce he stopped his
car in front of the Tudar Theater,
and when he was ready (o gon on
his way the car was missing.
It seems that a young man who
gave his name as Johnson liked
the appearance of the car, and, no
ticing the packages addressed to
'C.'huttanoo,:a. decided to deliver
them. So he drove the car all,
night, but early Saturday mornihg
evidently went to sleep at the
whvl and ran off a bridge near
Calhoun, about 80 miles from At
lanta, on the Chattanooga road: He
made the mistake of running away
from the wreck, and the Sheriff of
Gordon County placed hira under
arrest. The car, a seven-passenger
Chalmers, was seriously damaged.
After leaving Atlanta, Johnson
changed his mind about the tonic
and claims that he threw it over a
high bank near Marietta, being
afraid that he would be arrested on
suspicion that the unopened hodes
contained whisky., However, the
medicine has not been found.
Girl Clings to Madly
; ing A I
Dashing Auto as It
Jake Minsk, No. 276 Marietta
street, appeared at poliee headquar
ters Friday and wanted something
done about it, He said he and a
young woman driving with him the
previous dayr had been very ;badly
and disrespectfuly treated by three
mysterious oecupants of a large
touring car--a Cadillac, he be
lieved; the number of which he had
Yeen unable to make out through
the mud that spattered it,
The big car, Minsk waid, had
bumped his ear rudely from the
rear at Marietta and Forsyth
mtreets, shaking up himself and
Miss Hadie Nessow, Both cars
halted, but when Minsk inquired the
name of the' driver of the big ecars
all he got was a curt refusal and
the Mur started away. Miss Nessow
was indignant and active, She
leaped from Minsk's car and clam
bered on the running board of the
Cadilac, which pleked um speed
rapidly. ©Out Walton street went
the big car, pursued by Minsk. The
big car gained steadily and pro
ceeded on out Marietta street to
North avenue,
Miss Nessow was talking most
of the time, clinging to the side of
'uw enr and making motions to oth
er ears and pedestrians when she
deemed It safe to let go with one
hand. At North avenue the car
stopped. One of the men got out—
there were two men and a woman
in the car,
“(Get off thix ear or I'll put you
off,” he told Miss Nessow. Mlias
Nessow decided to alight, Several
hystanders began to assemble and
in the middle distance Minsk was
closing in,. The man jumped back
in the car and it set off at a high
speed out Marietta street .'ln&l wis
soon loxt to view
BANK ROBRFED.
DUQUOIN. Ll, Fah 15 -Bank rob.
hers dynamited the First Natlonal Bank
vault early « Friday and escaped with
£I.OOO in euuvings stamips and counter
change. G
ruary for ‘paying the railroad fare
of prisoners from Asheville to Camp
Wadsworth,
Glenn Out of Luck.
Glenn Young is out of luck-—that
is.if he ‘wants the Xind of Job he had.
He is out of luck because he isn't a
goggle-eyed efficiency expert with a
card index system on a mahogany
desk (furnished by the Government)
and a scale map showing the posi
tion of every tree more than thvee
years and four menths old in the
mountain district of North Carolina,
And six or eight goggle-eyed assist
ants with card indexes, or indices,
and portfolios on their desks and
pads of paper headéd “Memo from
‘the Desk of Mr. Whickerbill.”
Poor Glenn Young is hopelessly
crude, as a man hunter. He doesn't
have any assistants or horn-rimmed
spectacles or card indexes or any
thing much. Just an army rifle—
which it must have taken him six
months to get from the Government
‘unless he stole ig—=and a couph of
gats. His system of man-hunting
is as crude as his equipment. He
doesn't sit at a mahogany desk and
write “R. R. to Mr. Whi‘:}(erhnl" on
carefully typed reports postoffice
robberies by army deserters. He is
crude. in the extreme-he just goes
out with a gun and gets those de
serters. If they object, he is posi
tively coarse about it. If they re
sigt, he shoots holes in them. When
he gets them, he brings them in,
The Expert's Jobe
That's all there is to it, with Glenn
Young. Of course, that won't do
with the efficiency experts and the
red tapesters. An efliciency expert
is usually so occupied with being ef
ficient. and talking about it that he
doesn’t have time for anything else.
/8o Glenn Young is out of luck.
He is too rude and uncouth in his
methods for the delicate art of eatch
ing bad men and chaperoning squads
of deserters. He has captured be
tween 400 and 500 slackers and de
serters. and bad eggs generally in
the North Carolina hills, and the
folks around there are crazy about
him. They think he's great stuff—
they don't know about all this effi
ciency business. They don’t realize
how hopelessly crude poor Glenn
Young is. '
So he's canned. Well, well -now
I want to commit lese majeste to the
extent of recommending to the De
partment of Justice that the able and
efficient and particular gent that fired
Glenn Young be given the job of
rounding up the rest of the deserters
in the North Carolina woods. When
he collects 400—-or even 375-—l'll
write a nice little story about him.
Georgia Boy Doesn’t
Know ‘Dad’ Is Dead;
’
ALBANY, Feh. 15,—Corporal J.
J. Adams, of Bainbridge, who vol
unteered as soéon as America en
tered the war and who has heen in
France for more than eighteen
.~ months, has not had a l_(tter from
~ home in over a year, despite the
“fact that his mother and other
members ¢f the family have writ
ten him with devoted regularity.
/ His father has been dead for
nearly seven months and the young
man is still ignorant of the fact,
and continues to write letters to his
father. His mother recently re
celved a “Daddy Day Letter,” writ
ten by the boy to his father. Cor
poral Adams' father, J, J. Adams,
was Coroner of Decatur County and
dropped dead while holding an in
quest over the body of H. 8. Rich
ardson in the Citizens' Bank at
Bainbridge, for the killing of whom
R. H. May, cashier of the bank,
was recently convicted of man- |
slaughter, :
His mother wrote the bhoy of his |
father’s death and has referred to
it frequently in her letters since, |
but ‘letters still go to Bainbridge |
for the dead father. Mrs, Adar?s
and other members of the family
receive letters from the hoy witn
out trouble, and these contain ad
dresses apparently plain enough,
but letters sent to such mlgrens are
either returned or are never deliv
ered, ‘The boy has been woundwl
during the year just closed and let
ters sent to his hospital address
were delivered with no better suc
cess than those sent t¢'his com
‘and. g
Many Attend Funeral
» i
Of Americus Physician
AMERICUS, Feb. 15.-—The funeral,
Baturday, of Dr. Douglas B. Mayes, who
died Friday at his home here, Was
largely attended. Dr. O. B. Chester,
||ro-.~ddlnz elder of Americus district,
officiated, being assisted by The Rev.
Guyton Misher, pastor of First Metho
dist Church, of which the deceased was
W Imeager.
Dr. mu,n-n wag 36 vears of age, and
had been city physician here for sev
oral years, He was 4 member of Amer
fcus Lodge, No. 13, F. and A. M.; Wells
Chapter, No. 42, R. A. M., and DeMolay
Commandefy, No. 6, Knights Templars
He is survived by his wife, formerly
Miss Annie Claire Kendrick, of Ten
nille, and two children, Doughlas Ken
driek Mayes and Elizabeth Mayes. His
mother, Mrs, . W, Grifthn, also survives
him, together with a sister, Mrs, H. 7T.
Coleman, and two half-brothers, Inman
Grifin _and Fletcher Geifin, alk of
Americus. Active pallbearery at the
funeral were Inman Griffin, Fletcher
Griffin, Moffat Kendrick, H. T, Coleman,
Leon Grifin and W. J. Walker, the phy
sielang of Americus acting as honorary
palibearers, and the services at the
grave being those of the Masonic fra
ternity
600 Tons of Nitrales
for F
Ready for Farmers
AMERICUS, Feh, 13 Sumter County
farmers who have placed orders for
1,200 tons of Government nitrate will
receive haif this guantity during the
current week, If the order just placed
by George O, Marshall county farm
demonstration agent, is filled in My en
tirety,
Mr. Marshall received notlee vester
day that these nitrates are now ready
for shipment from Savannah, and im
mediately requested that 600 tons be
shipped farmers here, W, T, Lane, Jr.,
who will aet as loes!l distributor for the
niteates, will notify individual farmers
as rapidly as care arrvive, and the work
of distr'bution will be hurried to com
pletion
RAIN DELAYS FARM WORK
REBECCA, Feb 15 - The almost Iy
coseant had weather for some weei
past hay cauwed e frmers to get I
hind with their wo:l hough all plows
Ares running every day that s at sl
Fuiltable for farm work Much land
haw been broadensted Cotton acrepge
will be eut to a very linited extent in
this immediate section, 4
Mary Power, the girl whose afl‘nh“
with Johnny Abbott terminated in the
slaylng of Abbott by his wife. has
now dropped out of the Albott case
as an actlve figure, it was the opinion
of officialg and investigators Satur
day, following the action of the Ful
ton Grand Jury in halting her prose
cution by failing to indict her as an
accessory,
Solicitor Boykin announced that
the young woman will not be sum
moned as a witness for the State in
the trial of Mrs. Abbott, which is
#chednled for next W ednesday, and
attorneys for Mrs, Abbott indicated
that she’ would not be called by the
defense. Colpnel K, W, Martin, who,
with Attorney Reuben' R. Arnold, is
counsel for the young wife, said Mary
Power would not go on the witness
stand for the defense unless develop
ments in the trial should demand her
presence there,
The Power girl, however, will re
main in Atlanta and will be in easy
reach should her testimouy be desired
by either side, it was understood.
In regard to the dropping of the
prosecution of the young woman, it
was explained in the Solicitor's oilice
that there is no law under which she
coeuld be indicted as an accessory be
fore the fact, the charge on which she
was bound over+to the Grand Jury in
Policé Court It was f{mpossible to
show a conspiraey baetween Mary
Power and Mrs. Abbett before the
slaving of Abbott, and such a cir
cumstance was necessary to bring
bout ner indictment.
The case was presented to the
Grand Jury by Assistant Solicitor I,
A. Sterhens merely as a matter of
fcrm, with the statement that there
was no evidence to hack the charge
and with the request that a “no-bill”
be returned.
With the Power case out of the
way and with Mrs. Abbott indicted on
a murder charge Solicitor Bovkin and
his assistants set about Saturday to
Jbut the finishing touches to the
State’s case against Mrs. Abbott, In
preparation for her arraignment be
fore a jury.
' Proceedings growing out of the ad
ministration of the estate of the late
J. H. McKenzie, wealthy Atlantan, by
his son, Ralph I, McKenzie, were
started in Superior Court Saturday
by four Atlanta business concerns, as
creditors, who asked the court to set
aside the sale of two steres, as made
'lg\- young McKenzie, and to appoint a
receiver for the stores in order to in
sure the sum due them,
The bill, filed by Attorneys Walter
S, Dillon and Dorsey, Shelton & Dor
sey, charged that young McKenszie
had disposed of the store properties
at an inadequate price and then failed
to make an accounting to the court
a 8 administrator. McKenzie, who wus
connected with a local cotton oil eon
cern, was sald to be in South Caro
lina.
It further was set out that the ad
ministrator had contracted -debts
without authority to the amount of
SII,OOO. The action was brought by
the Peck & Gregg Hardware Com
pany, the Naticnal Biscuit Company,
’lho- Brower Candy <ompany and
(Cohen Bros. The indebtpdness of the
administrator to these four specific
creditors was sald so be about £SOO.
! The two stofes in controversy are
‘situated at North Boulevard and the
Piedmont road, and No. 762 Piedmont
avenue, respectively, ‘The bill, in ad
dition to McKenzie, also named as
defendan's Kelley Bros., W. J. (‘mua-}
‘well, John 1. Coffee and Avers Rms”‘
and W. A. Callaway, the latter of
‘whom i 8 surety on McKenzie's bond‘
of S4OOO as administrator. Kelley
Bros. and Croswell, it was stated,
'bought the two stoces from McKenzie
and then resold th-m teo Coffee and
Ayers Bros. The price paid for the
two stores by the original pupghasers
was said to have been SBSO,
~ Judge John T. Pemylleton, in the
‘motion division of Snperior Court, sat
the case for a hearing next Saturday,
at which time it was expected Me-
Kenzie would be buck in the city,
| IR
Col. Meßride Believes
82d Will Soon Be Home
| That the Eighty-second Divislon
soon will be on its way nome was the
opinfon expressed in Atlanta Saturday
by Colonel Bruce Mcßride, of the Third
| Army Corps, who is vlnllm"hln parents,
C'olone! and Mrs. A. J Meßride, No.
158 Cooper gtreet. Colone!l Meßride,
‘whnm- corps has been at Coblenz, has
not seen the Kighty-second, and spoke
!nnly from unofficial information.
» “The Eighty-second is not on the lilg
‘uf units intended to remain in France,’
he sald.« ““This would indicate it soon
will be sent home,"”
Colonel Mceßride does not believe |t
likely the division will be sent to its old
home, Camp Gordon, to be demobilized ‘
“The rule is to demobilize a division
at the camp nearest the homes of lrllml‘
of the men,” he said. “Most of the
Bighty-second men were from the ast |
it seems, and Camp Upton therefore is
| llkely to be the camp chosen.” \\
| 3 3 3
Harvard’s President }
v
To Be Club’s Guest
Plane have been annoupnced ,\'.<"l!'o|llv‘
by the Harvard Club of Atlanta for o |
reception and dinner to be given Februsry |
28, at which President A Lawrence Low
ell, of Harvard, will be the honor guest ‘
President Lowell iy n member of n party
headed by Willinm Hownrd Taft, that is
to be in Atlanta at that time in attend
ance on the Southern Congress of l\u!‘
League of Nations
Any Harvard men desiring information
t Svas angounced, canw”communicnte with
Madison Richardson, secrotary of the Mot
ard Club, at _No I Grant Bullding
telephone Tvy OM2 . '
| .
| NO HOUSES VACANT
REBECCA, Feb, 156, There s a great
dearth of houses In town, there not be
ing a vacant dwelling here, and some
houses belng occupied by more than
one family Congiderable talk is '-44!!
about bullding more homes, but the
gearcity of labor WMWY high price .es
bullding material has so far deéterred |
those having surplus cush from at
mep! ng bullding operations 1
l The Atlanta Building andi
Trades Council, will hold special‘
-~
lmoetmg\unday morning at 10
o'clock at Labor Temple. C. P,
;Ball, Recording Secretary. .. ,
| e R s _.-.-_.-_._i
' BUY FROM . ‘
CITY CCAL CO.
\ AND SAVE MONEY |
3
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb, 15.~The
grand total cost of the world wap
has been estimated by Governmen’
experts to have been $179,000,000,000,
The total cost to the United Stated
snd the Entente, excluding loans, is
estimated at $119,581,000,000, while the
Germanic allies expended $539,000,000,-
000,
Before the war it was estimated
that each year the total investment
capital of the whoie world averaged
$4,000,000,000. On that basis the wap
cost almost as much as the tota)
saved invested capital of the entire
world for 45 vears. &
Great Britain bears the higgest
share of the finaneial burden, having
expended $37,100,000,000 and loaned tu
the Allies £6,500,000,000,
France spent $27.000,000,000 and
loaned £2,000,000,000. The Lliited
States during the eighteen months we
were in the war exvended §518.481,-
000,000 and loaned to the Allles
$7,875,000,000, X :
Russia spent $18,000,000,000 before
it withdrew its support to the Allies.
and Italy’s total expenditures are ap
proximately $10,000,000,000, Japan
and Greece hetween them expended
about $1,000,000,000, and Belgium,
Serbia, Portugal and Roumania teo
taled about $£8.000,000,000,
The War Department in this wap
spent and authorized expenditures
of more than six times as mch
money as the total dishursements in
all the other wars in the history of
the United States, viz, $20,786,678.000,
as against total disbursements of
$3,412.710400 in the wars with ®reat
Britain, Mexico and Spain, and in the
Civil War.
The naval expenditures are, in &
way, even more striking, this depsart
ment having spent almost six times as
mueh in the war just ended,as in
previous wars, viz, $3.355,519.000. as
against a total disbursement in jall
other wars of $611,228 000
Y - - o
State Librarian Has :
Income, War Tax Data
Mrs. M. B. Cobb, State librarian, has
provided the library with all informa-~
tion concérning the income l:lfiafld war
tax acts for the benefit of t public.
Georgians interested in the new acis
can acqudint themselves thoroughiy:
with all details by calling at the library
in the Capitol
Tois information is especially valuable
at this time for the reason that incna'
tax returns must be made before March
1. The librarian also has on file lin 'X“
library copies of Income Tax Servies
and War Tax Service, issued by the
Corporation Trust Company and in
which the tax laws are minutely intors
preted
a 4 4O
Twenty-seventh Division
rs s
Will Return in March
(By International News Service.) 2
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—-The Pwen
ty-seventh Division, composed of New
York troops, will sail from '3l'o'(,‘
France, for the United States on Mareh
2, % and 4, General Pershing cabled the
War Department today,
The division will #ail on the transporis
Leviathan, Mauretania, Harrisburg,
Louisville, Agamemnon and Pannonia.
the cable slated.
Stomach ills
permanently disappear after drinking
the celebrited Shivar Mineral Water.
Positively goaranteed by money-back
offer, Tastes fine: costs a trifie D‘l
livered anywhere by our Athlt%
| Agents, Coursey & Munn Drug Store,
Marietta and Broad Sts. Phone them
-~ Advertisement. ;
e e e A
ODAK T
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| SOUTHERN PHOTO HATERIAL CO.
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| SEVENTY-TWD NORTH BROAD
i...m. S—— oe g - AR
PAY 25C TO $1 A WEEK AT
HOME ART SUPPLY CO.
Why go without needed Rugs for your
floors when you can have the use DI"M‘
goods while you pay? Home Art Sup
ply Co. offers some Aines of Rugs at
prices based on last spring's market
quotations. These lines are Jimited and
you should go Monday and select the
ones you want, taking your choice from
Axminsters, Wiltons, Velvets or Brugs
sels
~“H A-8-C-O carries an extensive stoek
of rugs in all sizes and of every descerip
tion, as well as Linoleums and Congo
leum Art Squares and Japanese-Chinese
Matting Art Squares
Their four-story establishment con
tains full and complete lines of Cur
tains, Drapes, Bed BSpreads, wool and
cotton Blankets, Silverware, ete., ete,
Located at 172-174 Whitehall street,
which is outside the high-rent zone,
their prices are lower and their terms
most liberal.—Advertisement,
: Sal
Auction Sale
Horses and Mules
Big Sale of Surplus Govern
ment Horses and Mules™,
of All Kinds.
There. will be sold at publie
auction at Auxiliary Remount
|)4-[m| 307,
CAMP WADSWORTH, S '€
February 17, 1919
The following animals.
SOO Riding Horses.
200 Draft Horses,
500 Draft Mules..
60 Pack Mules.
Sale starts 9:00 a. .
= Rain or shine,
All animals are sound
and in good condition.
There will also be sold at
Auction Sale a lot of Har
ness,Saddles and Bridles,
Terms: Cash or Cashier's
check, No personal checks
:l('('(‘llh'(l.
If purchaser desires,
stock will be loaded on cars
by Remonnt Depot.
Halter with each animal.
Lunch on Grounds.
The Government reseryvos
the right to rejeet any » o
all bids, ‘
REMBRANDT PEALE, TR
2nd Lieut. Q. M. Coppsis
Quartermuster, a i