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A spirited protest, charging that
Pedera! fixing of intra-State iele
phone rates in Georgia is a violation
of the constitution and direct disre
gard for States’ rights has been sent
by the Georgia Rallroad Commission
o Postmaster General Burleson,
who iustituted a new schedule of
rates in Georgia in January.
The commission ordered also that
Judges J. K. Hines, Its legal counsel,
Intervene in behalf of Georzia, in a
tert case to be instituted in some
other State, to be decided upon later.
The telephone companies them
selves were freed of all blame, ti.e
eominission recognizing the mae.its of
their argument that they are operat
ing under supervision of Mr. Burle-
Son and that they have no other al
ternative than to obey any erilers
coming from Washington.
Kosimastef General Burleson’s fix
ing of intrastate rates was ermed
by the commission as a direst blow
at the very foundation of State sov
ereigniy, depriving the States of the
exercise of police powers vested sole-
Iy and directly in them.
Putting its protest in a more gen
eral way, the commission sail ‘“we
vicw with apprehension the in’‘inge
ment op the police powers of the
Stotes by the Federal Gove'nm nt,
under & Democratic administration.”
In the opinion of the commission,
Mr. 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. Burieson and
the decision to intervenc were the
ouigrowth of hearings held last week,
Wheni the Soutlvern Bell Gainesborg,
Consolidated and ¥ruit ‘Belt te ephone
fompanies were summoned by rule
nisi to appear before the commission
and show cayse why rates in force
Previous to new schedules promulgat
ed by Posimaster General Burleson
shoul? mit be restored.
A coraparative table prepared by
the rate .epartment of tae commis
sion shows an average increase of $1
4 month in both residenc- and busi-
Beéss rates, in Moultrie, Foston, Car
rollton, Greenville and Fort Valley,
Which are served by the cxmipanies
clted.
Here Is Protest
Following is a copy of the protest,
and a scihedule of l?n( distance rates,
showing the compatison - between the
Goveriwent, schedule and rates previ
ously in force:
A February 14, 1919,
File No, 14148,
Honoreble Aibert S. Burieson, Postmas
ter General United States. Washing
ton, D, C.
Sir, After full and careful comsid
eration we pregent this memorial and
protest against the exercise by you of
the power to fix intrastate rates for
telephone service within the State of
Geor{{m.
1. Under the joint resolution of Con
w~gress of Tuly 16, 1918, which authorized
the President of the United States,
whenever he deemefl it necessary s for
the national gecurity or defense, to
supervise or to take possession and as
sume control of any telegraph, tolo’hoho.
marine cable, or radio system or sys
tems, or any rnrt thereof, and to oper
ate the same in such manner as may be
needful or desirabl™ for the duratiom of
the war, it was distinetly declared by
Cogfir\ung
‘“That nothing in the act shall be con
strued to amq?d.. repeal, impalr or af
fect existing laws or powers of the
States In relation to taxation or the law
ful police régulations of the several
States, except wherein such laws, pow
ers or rec:#tmns may affect the trans
mission of Government cummunlmlmu,
or the issue of stocks and bonds by such
system or system.” » /
In other word, we ke%w that Con
gress meant that the opegation o6f these
;yatoml by the President should not
ave the effect of amending, repealing,
impatring or affecting the existing laws
and powers of the States which spring
from their police powers. Cangress ex
n«mly reserved to the States their ex
ing laws and ruwen_ both in relation
to taxation and in relation to the Jawful
police resulations of the several Stales
It must be conceded heyand reason
able controversy that the pewer to fix
Intrastate rates is derived from the po
lice powers of the several Stutes. Police
regulation and polire power are synony
mous. They are dentical
Without Authority.
If by the resolution of July 18, 1918,
Congress expressly reserved to the re-
Epective States all their laws and pow
ers in relation to their police regula
tions, andiif the power to initiate intra
state rates is a part of the gml!ce pow
ers of the several States, then we re.
#pe~tiully, submit that you are without
authority to initiate and fix the domestic
rates of telephone and telegraph compa
nies doing business in this State |
For this reason we most solemn'y pro
test againts the oxercise of this ‘snwrr‘
by the Postmaster General of the United
Stutes
? The power agsumed by yom to fix
the intrastate rates for these f‘m\m
nies, in the respective States, strikws at
the very foundation of State sotereign.
ty. transfers the regulations of these
rates to Washington, D. ¢, and de-
Arives the pospective States of the uniop
of the exercies of the police powers
which Ig lodged exclneively in them, and
net in the Fedaral ;’nvammer;t 4
We view with alarm the Inc
concenirstion of power in the m&\
Rovernment ay Washin-ton, wheraby the
inherant nalice powere of the States are
diminighed and™ in effect, destroved. We
wish to preserve ae far ag possible lhc!
locnl movernments of the States. ‘
Por this reagon we do most earnestly
protogt nretingt the assumption and ex
ercise of 'his power hy you. We hellave
that snek exercise of power by you robe
the States of thelr pallee powers and
takes nway from them the right to man
age their own Aomestic concerns by
their nwn Covernments.
3 The power of the reapective Rtates
to regulete thelr domestic concerns, In.
cluding ‘the making of Inteastate rates
for tetephone and telegraph Mmmmlu‘
merating within thar horders, I 8 abso- |
mitely easential to the preservation of
loeal government and we submit thae
there should be no~warrender of such
powers hy the States. Clearly the ex
arcige of such power by the PFedernl
Government shoftld not he dertved from
any fancifu! construction of the meaning
of the nrovien in the resontion of July
18, 1918 Tha wxercise of this danger.
ous power hyv the Wedera! Cowvernment
s LEGAL NOTICE.
BOND APPLICATION NOTICE, |
Notice In h'}r'ebv given that .Q.oor'h‘
Railway and Power Company ap
edy to the Railroad c?».mmbhn of
K..urm for "Trm‘ of an additional
{esue .gs ”3?‘,01) 00 par -y nr-tym
Refunding five cen BAr,
sinking fund, m m first
and Refunding mortgage, m
1914, the same u; b&.udhrdm ”\
the Treasury o said w
the extent of 80 and 8§ per 'm
eost of additions and extensions ? |
g:-l and mnrflu. July 1, b »
ember 31, 1918, both w‘"
Said sprlbcn!lon will be heard the
Raflrond Commission of Ooum Its
office in the Btate P?M on
Pebruary 26, 1919, at 10 o oom ‘
This notto!(ll puflwgw of
the Raliroad Commision .
GIRORGIA _ RAILWAY AND WHR
GOMELNTE 5. Askwitght, President
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Miss Kathryn Hutchison, star or legitimate and screen dra
ma, in Atlanta on way to Europe.
Miss Kapthryn 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 ecan 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 painlessly
and all that.
Miss Hutchison is in Atlanta for a
few days' visit to her brother, Joe
Hutchison, before she deperts for Bu
rope as head of her own company to
engage in motion picture production.
should not be drawn by mere inference
Its exercise should be bottomed upon
an express grant of power.
View With Apprehensiond
We view 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,Aelieving that such exercise of
uut’oflty is a dangerous usurpation.
4’ We further protest against the rates
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
efied therein to be heard, and without
any evidence on behalf of the public, as
to the reasonableness of such rates and
charges. We submit that reagonable and
just rates can not he established without
exhaustive investigation, and in the ab
sence of all opporiunity for those who
are tony such rates, to be heard.
We further protest againts the estab
lishment of these rates by you for the
reason.thal the same constitute pro
nounced advince in the rates formerly
charged by (hesg 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 I 8 a fair exhibit of
the operation of the rates put in effect
by vou.
- While the country was engaged in war
and actual Lostilities were fulnc on, we
made no protest on account of the ex
ercige of this authority by you, or as to
the gmmulx;znon of these rates, because
we did not wish to embarrass the Gov
ernment, in the slightest degree, M its
gvmcutlon of the war. againts flormng
e did not wish to put any. obstac
in the way of the Government's success
ful prosecution and c-ndh\ga hoestilities.
But as actual hostilities ve ceased;
and the country is rapidly returning to
normal conditions, we feel that sllence
is ne longer justifiable. We feel that
our voice should be lifted against the
asgumption by the Federal Government
of ‘the powers and zuthority of the re
speetive States. It is in view of the
magnitude of this subject that we now
venture (o present this memorial and
protest to vou,
The exercise of this power by the
Postmaster General has brought about
a complete revulkion In public senti
ment, and has brought into marked dis
favor Gevernment comtrol, operation or
ownmh‘i’? of public wutilities. This
chnn{o sentiment is-due to the fact
that the poo;;le of the respective States
view with ‘fear the centralization of
wm in the Wederal Government at
Mhmmn. and look with anxiety upon
the destruction of the police power of
the States of this Unlon.
Velvet Beans Secarce;
Price Is Going Up
THOMASVI.LE, Feb. 16, - Velvet
benps are sald to be somewhat scarce
in this section nn owing to the suet
that the we! welther | fall ru*t'd
many to rot when auehq‘h the fialds,
‘flan s a demand for the heans for
gl’ thog and uogoflmn are offered for
om. Two-{y ars per ton s the
usual price for thome in the hull, but
the shellod Mmhny welected for
planting come oo ably higher
i : Iy
Thomasville Welcomes
Big Modern Bakery
THOMASVILLE, Feb. 15, -W. H. and
J. H. Flowers, owners of the b'fi bakery
to be established in Thomasville, have
gone East to buy the machinery to be
1:;0«:"? llha (oonutmtla and om;ltlon
« plant. erprise AL
tracting much -m(m in this section
of the State, asx it will be the lrgest
and a modern bak®y in every respect
and with nnmg facilities and meang
from Bare o h ports of feuid armte
rom re sos -
and Worida. -
‘She is just from California, where she
starred in many plays -under the di
rection of Julian Eltinge. She has
lived in Knoxville, hesides the periods
of her existence spent in Atlanta, and
has made a notable success on the
legitimate stage as well as on the
film. In the latter connection she has
played in the company with .Blanche
Ring, Olga Petrova, the latg Harold
Lockwopd and other famous Stars.
Miss Hutchison's parents are dead
and it has been a custom for her to
spend Christmas here with her broth
er. Being prevented by comtracts gn
California this year, she made it St.
Valentine's Day instead. {
{ Wreaths Sent by !
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| Wilson Placed on’
ine!
‘Shaft to Maine!
g . e ot
, (By International News Service.) |
ASHINGTON, Feb. 15—
< W Wreaths sent by President
y W Wilson were placed Satur
! day on the Maine shaft in Arling
) ton Cemetery, as part of the cele- 2
) bratien of the twenty-first anni- }
| versary of the sinking of the bat- §
tleship in Havana Harbor. g
{ Senator Harding, of Ohio, was
to be the principal speaker at the ¢
! eelebration later ir the day. Car- ?
{ loas Manuel de Cespedes, the Cuban g
; Minister, also was scheduled to '
| speak, 4
Bttt S
(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 Atlnti® ports, according to
figures made public today by officials at
the port of embarkation offices. At ihe
time of the signing of the armistice
2,000,000 men were in rranus or KEng
land, or en route oversehs.
All told, 170 transports lohded with
returning fighters have docked at New
York, Philadelphia and Boston Bince the
cessation of hostilities, 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
this week—a record lo;lhv entire home
ward troop movement
Rnurh weather in the last two weeks
has hindered troop movements, aceord
ing to the officials The period from
January 20 until March 1 is considered
the worst of the year for trans-Atlantic
trave! and (runs}mfln have not bheen
loaded to thelr fullest capacity, while
thmlon have necessarily been slowed
wn.
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Berger’s Plan to Speak
Is Halted 'b} Protests
(By International News Service.)
RACINE, WIS, Feb. 15.—Congress
man-elect Victor Rerger, recently con
victed for vlohtm the esplonage law
will not speak ore 4 mass meeting
as scheduled here today.
A stream of gm(nlu agninst Bor-rer
resulted in a hurried conference be
tween Mayor T. W. Thiesen, N. P. Neil
son, of the local Socialist organization,
eity and distriet nunm-ig the an
nouncement of the eancellation of Ber
ger's speaking date following today.
Resolutions Commend
,
Work of Martin Calvin
News of the retirement of Martin V,
Calvin from the ‘pmkfi-m:y of the State
Agrieultural Society, of which organi
zation he served as n»entui'mfor sV
enteen eonsecutive years rr to his
election as grc--ldam in 1917, has been
received with regret in all parts of the
State, Resolutions strongly sommend
ing the meal, faithfulness and accom
g‘fshmvm- of Mr Calvin wers passed
the sociéty at its annual meeling in
\L\m at the time e retired.
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» The conciliatory offices of the
United States Department of Labor
were Friday called upon in an effort
to reach a solution of the differences
between the International Brother
hood of Electrical Workers and the
electrical contractors of Atlanta, it
was learned Saturday morning.
f‘ne!nr more agents of the Federal
Depa &1( 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 dpp?’\mnnt rep
resentatives, has aireadf arrived in
the city.
That the etrfke situatiom has taken
on more sesdous aspects, despite the
fact that six of the contractors have
signed an agreement with the union
and ended the strike in their plants
was the opinjon of some of the build
ing trades™anionists Saturday. They
claim to have information that the
refusal of the electrical contractors
to sign an agreement with the electri
cal workers is dictated by the Build
ers’ ;Exchange and that the contrac
tors are not holaing out on their own
initiative.
It is also contended by the building
trades workers that the fight against
the electrical wo ‘kers is the first move
in a carefully planned attack on all
the building trades organizations, and
that the electrical workers were first
affecded because their contract was
the first to expire.
This phase of the situation will be
carefully gone into at an executivey
segsion of the Building Trades Coun
efl at the Labo Temple Sunday
morning at 10 @'clock, at whiech the
executive board of the Atlanta Fed
eration of Trades also will be pres
ent
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—A plea
that all legislati(? on the calendar
be swept aside dnd that Congress
proceed immediately to the consider
ation of legislation to check the
revolutionary doctrines was made in
the Senate this afterncon 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 seéms 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, conscious of the
relaxation of the law,” he asserted.
“They “openly announce that when
the hour arrives, and it is to arrive,
a 4 massacre of all but the criminals
who support this doctrine will 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.”
Bad Roads Slow Up
. .
« Autos in S. Georgia
THOMASVILLE, Feb. 15.--More rain
and more bad roads is what South Geor
gia ecomplains of now. Reports from the
country show that the very heavy rains
falling on 'vrmrmag have again put the
roads of the county in such a condition
as to render automobile traveling un
pleasant and in some instances 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 different sections of the
county. <
With the coming of warm weather
nextemonth and during all of the spring
monihs many tourists will desire to visit
this section on their return from Flor
ida and numbers of them will be in
their automobiles. With good paved
roads South Georgia could have a eon
slant stream of such visitors, to m_v‘
nothing of the benefits to be derived
from the roads by the residents of the
towns and counties on their own behalf }
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Father and Son To Be 1
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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 Masgonic hall until a courthouse can
by’ built. Judge E. D. Graham will pre
side, ‘
The most important case will be that
of the Alfords, the son and father, ac
cused of killinc“pnputy United States
Marshal J. Ben llson on November 13
last. Wilson was serving a warrant on
the elder Alford for illicit distilling whem
they shot him. Since that time s\& Al 4
fords have been located in Monummery\
County Jail. There are several other
important cases that will come up for
trial at this term.
.
Crawley Desertion Case
‘ Comes Up Monday
The Government's case against
George, Decatur, Frank and Felix Craw
ley and Blaine Stewart, the l'nloni
County men accused of desertion, har
boring a deserter and of the murder of
Ben F. Dixon, députy United States
marshal, will be glrww-nlod to the Fed
eral Grand .lurfl onday morning. The
Government will press the rhurf.v of
desertion only, l'\'? the mu?h-r charge
will be prosecuted by the eifil courts.
Acmrt\lmx to Gordon Combs, assistant |
United States attorney in charge of the
case, George Crawley will be prosecuted
a 8 n deserter and the others as abetting
and alding him in the avoidance of his
military duty.
.
Business Man Loses ‘
Roll of SBSO in Macon
BOPERTON, Feb, 16.--James Fow
ler, a prominent business man of this
place, was in Macon ahd at Camp
Wheeler looking after business inter
ests one day this week. He attended a
Government sale at Camp Wheeler and
ecarried SI,OOO in cash, thinking that he
might invest some of it there. He spent
about §l5O and placed the remainder,
SBSO, In his inside coat pocket, When
he boarded the train for home he missed
the eash and went back to see if he
‘could locate it. Later he was led to be
lieve it had been found and hopes to
recover it -
CAPTAIN WATT REACHES U, s,
THOMASVILLE, Feb. 16.—A telegram
was recetved here Friday w the family
of Captain Charles H. att, of the
medical corps of the urml. announcing
hig saufa arrival in New York., Captain
Watt Is a member of the Johns Hopking
unit of Base Hospital No. 18. He is now
at Camp Merritt, where he will remain
until he is discharged from service.
Glenn Young, Capturer
Of Crawleys, Victim of
Red Tape, Says Keeler
BY O. B. KEELER.
~ Following is a more or less philo
sophical discussion of red tape, effi
ciency and other evils. It may get
me in jail, but I don't care. They
have to feed a guy in jail and he
doesn’t have to worry about ‘tlu
clock-+he isn't going anywhert.
This thoughtless article is®based
on the canning of Glenn Young, the
special agent of the Department of
‘Justice who captered by himself
three members of the Crawley gang
after the United States army and an
acre of 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 prisoners—-captured
by himself—from Asheville to Camp
Wadsworth without consulting
Washington. Furthermore, he paid
their railroad fares, as much of it
as he had money to pay, and ‘askei
seyeral of the prisoners to pay their
own fares, which they readily agreed
to do.
Washington is all sore about this
dreadful faux pas, The Department of
Justice is shaken to its foundations.
It is not done, you know--it really
isn'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 authority for the
same, while the eighteen languished
in jail .
A Pretty Pass.
Now. isn't that just awful?
This uncouth young person evi
dently has no regard for efficléncy
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 Wim thére with
a carefully selected guard of eight
men, on a railroad picked. out by the
‘deeral 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 for such a crime—if they
could get the proper type of am
munition prescribed by the D. of J.
for shooting special agents in Feb
‘Takes’ Auto Load of
Tonic; Gets Sleepy;
Wrecks Car: Jailed
Nicholas E. Marsht urn, of No, 148
Forrest avenue. doss not appreciate
a dittle volunteer assistance he re
ceived Friday night. His assistant
likewise has a few regrets, as the
following recital shows:
Mr. Marshburn is connected with
a local tonic manufactory and had
twelve cases of the product in his
automobile, ready for shipment to
Chattanooga, Tenn, On his way to
the express office he stopped his
car in front of the Tudor Theater,
and when he was ready to go on
his way the car was missing.
It seems that a 2 young man who
gave his name as Johnson liked
the appearance of the car, and, no
ticing the packages addressed to
~Chattanooga, decided to deliver
them. So he drove the car all
night, but earty Saturday morning
evidently went to sleep at the
wheel 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 himm 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 thatge would be arrested on
suspicion that the unopened boxes
contained whisky. However, the
medicine has not been found.
Girl Clings to Madly
.
Dashing Auto as It
Jake Minsk, No. 276 Marietta '
street, appeared at police headquar
ters Friday and wanted something
done about it. He sald he and a
young woman driving with him the
previous day had been very badly
and disrespectfuly treated by three
mysterious occupants of a large
touring car—a Cadillac, he .Dhe
lieved: the number of which he had
JPeen unable to make out through
the mud that spattered it,
The big car, Minsk said, had
bumped his car rudely from the
rear at Marietta and Forsyth
streets, shaking up himself and
Miss Sadie Nessow. Both cars
halted, but when Minsk inquired the
name of the driver of the big car,
all he got was a curgt refusal and
the car started away, Miss Nessow
was indignant and active, She
leaped, from *’l‘:lnk'l car and clam
bered on the™running board of the
Cadillae, which picked up speed
rapidly. Out Walton street went
the big dar, 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, elinging to the side of
the car and making motions to oth
er cars and pedestrians when she
deomed [t safe to let go with one
hand. At Narth avenue the car
stopped. One of the men got out—
there were two men and a woman
in the ear.
“Giet off this cm® or I'll put you
oft,” he told Miss Nessow. Miss
Nessow decided to alight. Several
bystanders 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 and was
soon lost to view,
BANK ROBBED,
DUQUOIN, 11. L., Feb, 15.—Bank rob
han“dvnnr'nlw’dw'nho Hr-td Nutional flu'n%l
yan early Ay an esca wit
:‘m in savings stamps Jogunt"
.
ruary for paying the railroad fare
of prisoners from Asheville to Camp
Wadsworth,
Glenn Out of Luck. -
(lenn Young is out of luck—that
is, if he wants the kind of job he had.
He is out of luck because he isn't a
goggle-eyed efliciency 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 three
years and four months 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 headed “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
specgacles or card indexes or any
thing much. Just an army rifle—
which it must have taken him six
mon&u to get from the Government
unle; he stole it—and a couple of
gats. His system of man-huntlnz
is as crude as his equipment. H
doesn’t sit at a mahogany desk and
write “R. R. to Mr. Whickerbill" on
carefully typed reports of 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
sist, he shoots holes in them. When
he gets them, he brings them in.
The Expert’s Job.
That's all there is to it, with Glenn
Young. Of course, that won't do
with the efficiency experts and the
red tapesters. \n efliciency expert
is usually so occupied with being ef
ficient and talking about it that he
doesn’t have time for anything else.
So (denn Young is out of luck.
He is too rude and uncouth in his
methods for the delicate art of catch
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.
Bo 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—1'1l
write a nice little story about him.
Georgia Boy Doesn’t
Know ‘Dad’ Is Dead;
Letters Returned
ALBANY, Feb. 15.—Corporal J.
J. Adams, of Bainbridge, who vol
unteered as soon as America en
tered the war and who has been in
France for more than eighteen
months, has ngt had a letter from
home in over a year, despite the
fact that his maother and other
members of the family have writ
ten him with devoted regularity.
His father has been dead for
nearly seven months and the young
man is stili ignorant of the fact,
and continues to write letters to his
father., His mother recently re
ceived 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 boy of his
father's death and has referred to
it frequently in her letters since,
but letters still go to RBainbridge
for the dead father. Mrs. Adams
and other members of the family
receive letters from the boy with
out trouble, and these contain ad
dresses apparently plain enough,
but lefters sent to such address are
either returned or are never deliv
ered. The boy has been wounded
during the year just closed and let
ters sent to his hospital address
were delivered with no bettér suc
cess than those sent t¢ his com
meaend.
) R N S TR
Many Attend Funeral
!
Of Americus Physician
AMERICUS, Feb. 156.—The funeral,
Saturday, of Dr. Douglas B. Mayes, who
died Friday at his home here, was
largely attended. Dr. O. B. Chester,
prc-mdl::g elder of Americus distriet,
officiated, being assisted !;'z‘ The Rev.
Guyton Fisher, pastor of rst Metho
dist Church, of which the deceased was
a nu-m‘or. J
Dr. Mayes was 3 years of age, and
‘had been MP[{ physician here for sev
eral years, 6 Was & member of Amer-
Jdeus Lodge, No. 13, F. and A. M.; Wells
Chapter, No. 42, R. A. M., and DeMolay
Commandery, No. 6, linights Templars
He is survived by his wife, formerly
Miss Annie Claire Kendrick, of Ten
nille, and two children lmufihlu Ken
drick Mayes and Elizabeth Mayes. His
mother, Mrs. F. W, Griffin, also survives
him, together with a sister, Mrs. H. T,
Coleman, and two half-brethers, Inman
Griflin _ and Fletcher Grifin, all of
Americus, Aetive pallbearers ut the
funeral were Inman Griffin, Fletoher
Griffin, Moffat Kendrick, H. T. Coleman,
Leon Griffin and W. J. Walker, the phy
sicians of Americus acting as honorary
pallbearers, and the services at the
fravn being those of the Masonic fra
ernity.
600 Tons of Nitrates
Ready for Farmers
AMERICUS, Feb. 13- Sumter County
farmers who have ploced orders for
1,200 tons of Government nitrate will
receive half this quantity during the
current week, If the order just placed
by George O Marshall, county farm
dlnmtumtn.tkm agent, is flled in its en
tirety,
Mr. Marshall received notice yestor
day that these nitrates are now ready
for shipment from Savannah, and im
madlutel{ requested that 600 tons be
shipped farmers here. W. T Lane, Jlr,
who will act as local distributor for the
nitrates, will notify individual farmers
A rapkfly as cars arrive, and the work
of distribution will be hurried to com
pletion. -
RAIN DELAYS FARM WORK.
REBECCA, Feb. 154 The almost in
cessant bad weather for some weeks
Ku.t has caused the farmers to rel be
ind with their work, though all plows
are running every day that is at ll},
suitable for farm work. Much lanc
has heen broadeasted. Cotton ll‘rfllfl‘
will be eut to asvery limited extent in
this wnmediate poction,
Mary Power, the girl whose affair
with Johnny Abbott terminated in the
slaying of Abbott by his wife, has
now dropped out of the Atbott case
as an active flgure, it was the opinion
of officials and investigators Satur
day, follawing the action of the Ful
ton Grand Jury in halting her prose
cution by failing to indict her as an
accessory. 3 |
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
#cheduled for next Wednesday, and
attorneys for Mrs. Abbott indicated
that she would not be called by the
defenge. Colonel K. W. Martin, who,
wHh Attorney Reuben R. Arnold, is
counsel for 'he yvoung wife, said Mary
Power would not go ont 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 testimony 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 office
that there is no law under which she
could be indicted as an accessory be
fore the fact, thé charge on which she
was bound over to the Grand Jury in
Police Court It was impossible to
show a conspiracy between Mary
Power and Mrs. Abbott before the
slayving of Abbott, and such a cir
cumstance was necessary to bring
about ner indictment,
The case was presented to the
@Girand Jury by Assistant Solicitor E
A, Sterhens merely as a matter of
fcrm, with the statement that there
was no evidence to back 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 vharge Solicitor Boyvkin and
his assistants set about Saturday to
put the finishing touches to the
State’'s case against Mrs. Abbott, in
preparation for her arraigument 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 1. McKenzie, were
started in Superior Court Saturday
by four Atlanta busipmess concerns, as
creditors, who asked the court to set
aside the sale of two stores, as made
by young McKenzie, and to appoint a
receiver for the stores in order to in
sure the sum due them, |
~ The bill, iled by Attorneys Walter
8. Dillén and Dorsey, Shelton & Dor
sey, charged that yourg McKenzie
had disposed of the store properties
at an inadequate price and then failed
to make an accounting to the court
as administrator. McKenzie, who was
connected with a local cotton oil con
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 Beck & Gregg Hardware Com
pany, the Naticnal Biscuit Company,
the Brower Candy Company and
(Cohen Bros., The indebtedness of the
administrator to these four specific
creditors was said to be about SSOO.
The two stores in controversy are
situated at North Boulévard and the
Piedmont road, and No. 762 Piedmont
avenue, respectively, The bill, in ad
dllinn‘tn McKenzie, also named as
defendants Kelley Bros, W. J. Cross
well, John E. Coffee and Avers Bros,,
and W, A. Callaway, the latter of
whom is surety on McKenzie's bond
of $4,000 as administrator. Kelley
Bros. and Croswell, it was stated,
bought the two stores from McKenzie
and then resold them to Coffee and
Ayers Bros. The price paid for the
two stores by the original purchasers
was gaid to have been SB6O,
Ju&c John T. Pendleton, in the
motion division of Snperior Court, sel
the case for a hearing next Saturday,
at which time it was expected Me-
Kenzie would be back in the clty.
Col. Mcßride Believes
»
82d Will Soon Be Home
That the Eighty-second Division
soon will be on its way home was the
opinion expressed in \Atlanta Saturday
by Colonel Bruce Mcßride, of the Third
Army Corps, who is vh\lnng{hls parents,
Colonel and Mrs. A. J. cßride, No.
188 Cooper street. Colonel Mcßride,
whose corps has been at Coblenz, h
not seen the Kighty-second, and moro
onl¥r from unofficial information.
“The Kighty-second\is not on the list
of units intended to remain in France,"
he s=aid, ““This would indicate “ 800 N
will be sent home."
Colonel McßHride does not” believe it
likely the divigion will bé sent to its old
home, Camp Gordon, to be demobilized
"’{‘:o rule is to demobilize a division
at t camp nearest the homes of most
of the men,” he sald. ‘‘Most of the
Eighty-second men were from the East
it seems, and Camp Upton therefore is
likely to be the camp chosen.’”
Harvard’s President
9:
To Be Club’s Guest
Plans have been announced Saturday
by the Harvard Club of Atlanta for a
reception and dinner to be given February
4%, at which President A, {nwrrnm Low
ell, of Harvard, will be the honor guest
President Lowell is a member of a party
hended by William Howard Tuft, that (s
to be in Athanta at that time In attend
ance on the Southern Congress of the
League of Natlons
Any Harvard men desiring information,
it was announced, ean communionte ith
Madison Richardsen, secretary of the ‘r\r
vard (Mluh, at No. 626 Grant Bullding,
telephone Ivy 6612
NO HMOUSES VACANT.
REBECCA, Feb, 156, There ix a great
dearth of houses in town, there not be
ing & vacant dwa-*ng here, and some
houses being oceupied by more than
one famil Considerable talk Is heard
about lm{hilnx more homes, but the
wenrcity of labor and high price of
h!xl!din{ material has so far deterred
those vlvhur surplug eash from at
tempting bullding operations
The Atlanta Building and
Trades Council, will hold special
meeting Sunday morning at 10
o’clock at Labor Temple. C. P.
Ball, Recording Secretary. ...,
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BUY FROM
CITY COAL CO.
| AND SAVE MONEY
3
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7 L I E
(By International News ce.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. ! The
grand total cost of the world ar
has been estimated by Govern “
experts to have been $179,000,000,0 9.
The total cost to the United St it
and the Entente, excluding loans, is
estimated at $119,581,000,000, while the
g}ermanic allies expended $59,000,000,~
00. LU
Before the war it was estim -
that each year the total investm it
capital of the whole world ave
$4,000,000,000. On that basis the
cogt almost as much as the otal
saved invested capital of the entire
world for 45 years. <
Great Britain bears the biggest
share of the financial burden, having
expended $37,100,000,000 and loaned to
the Allies $6,500,000,000. R
France spent $27,000,000,000 and
loaned $2,600,000,000. The United"
States during the eighteen months we |
were in the war expended $18,4
000,000 and loaned to thei A lles
$7,875,000,000. Lo
Russia spent $18,000,000,000 before
it withdrew its support to the AIH 3'\;
and Italy's total expenditures are -t
proximately $10,000,000,000. Japan
and Greece between them expended
about $1,000,000,000, and Belgiume"
Serbia, Portugal and Roumania to="
taled about $8,000,000,000. S
The War Department in this
spent and authorized expenditures
of more than six times as mul -
money as the total disbursements in
all the other wars in the history of
the United States, viz, $20,786,678,000,
as against total disbursements of
$3,413,710,000 in the wars with G ‘
Britain, Mexico and Spain, and in the'
Civil War, "‘4
The naval expenditures are, n &
way, even more striking, this depart-+
ment having spent almost six times AS
much in the war just ended as in
previous wars, viz, $3,355519,000, as
against a total disbursement in all’
other wars of $611,328 000, A
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State Librarian Has 3
Income, War Tax Dathé
Mrs. M. B. Cobb, State librarian, hiis
provided the library with all informa
tion concerning the income tax and i
tax acts for the benefit of the public.
Georgians interested In the new ¢
can acquaint themselves thoro &
with all details by calling at the u%
in the Capitol.
This information is especially val %
at this time_ for the reason that income
tax returns must be made before ch
1. The librarian also has on file in -»i’”gr']
library copies of Income Tax Service
and War Tax Servige, issusd :z the
Corporation Trust Company a in
which the tax laws are minutely inter~
preted ¥
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Twenty-seventh Division
ye o J
Will Return in March
(By lntarnation:l News Service.)
WASHINGTON, ¥eb, 15.«The ‘Twen
ty-seventh Division, composed of New
York troops, will sail from Bmfl“
France, for the United g!ataa on Mart !
2. 3 and 4, General Pershing cabled the
War Department today. 3
The division will sail on the !rl'nagortl :
Leviathan, Mauretania, Harrisburg,
Loulsville, Agamemnon and Pa.nnon&n
the cable gtated k 3
Stomach ills
permanently disappear after drinking
the celebrated Shivar Mineral Water
Positively gvaranteed by money-baels
offer. Tastes fine; costs a trifle. De
livered anywhere by our Atlanta
Agents, Coursey & Munn Drug Store, j
‘ Marietta and Broad Sts. Phone them.
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Why go without needed Rugs ‘w(w :
floors when you can have the use of the
goods while you pay? Home Art “r:'é
ply Co. offers some lines of Rugs at "
prices based on last sprinf's market
quotations, These lines are limited and
you should go Monday and select the
ones you want, taking your choice from'
Axminsiers, Wiltons, Velvets or Brus- "
sels, 4
H-A-8-C-O carries an extensive stoek
of rugs in all sizes and of every descrip
tion, as well as Linoleums and Congo
leum Art Squares and Japanese-Chinese
Matting Art Squares, 5
Their four-story establishment con
tains full and complete lines of Cups
tains, Drapes, Bed Spreads, wool and
cotton Blankets, Silverware, ete., ete, "
Located at 172-174 Whitehall streat,
which is outside the hlgh-rent zone,
their F'h'n-s are lower and their terms
most liberal.-—~Advertisement, v
Auction Sale
Horses and Mules
Big Sadle of Surplus Govem-g
~ ment Horses an%llulol o
of All Kinds. lhg
There will be sold at publie
apction at Auxiliary Remount
Depot 307, o 5
CAMP WADSWORTH, §. G
| February 17, 1919
~ The following animals, . 8
- 300 Riding Horses. o
! 200 Draft Horses. g
500 Draft Mules. -.‘é 3
60 Pack Mules. il
~ Sale starts 9:00 a. m.
~ Rain or shine. b
All animals are sound
and in good condition.
There will also be sold at
Auction Sale a lot of Hag-j
ness, Saddles and Bridles, ™
Terms: Cash or ()ashier’_»b%fi
check. No personal checks
accepted. 1
If purchaser desires,
stock will be loaded on cars
by Remount Depot. i
Halter with each animal,
Lunch on Grounds, -
The Government reserves
the right to reject any and
all bids. e
REMBRANDT PEALE, Byl
2nd Lieut. Q. M. Corpa
| Quartermaster, =