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Copyright, 1919,
Study Your Kind.
Nothing Else So Queer.
Franco-Americans Welcome.
Music and Fighting.
“~~~ By Arthur Brisbane
HE Secretary of State for For-
Tel;n Affairs is asked In the
House of Commons whether
he observed that the United States
Congress undertook to meddle in
Irish affairs and whether he will
make a “formal protest.”
That is a new turn to an old story.
Congress has been passing resolu
. tions for Ireland so long! and noth
ing has been happening for so long,
that the sudden agitation is a sur
-prige. With every government inter
fering with the affairs of every oth
er government, one poor little con
gressional resolution might seem
permissible.
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Pight humdred refined suffragettes
g at a patriotic luncheon broke up in
a row when somebody mentioned
German opera at New York's Lex
ington Avenue Opera House. They
will sing Richard \‘Vazner. or were
gcing to. “’af:ner is the musician
who hated the Hohenzollerns, ahd
by them was driven out of @Ger
many, kept in poverty and anxiety
" for many years. ®
England has been playing his
operas all through the war, manag
ing somehow to keep patriotism and
music from fighting with each oth
er, We, it seems, ars more patri
otic in America. But what about
“PFaust,” sung regularly at the Met
ropolitan Opera? Do the patriots
forget that it was written by
Goethe, a well-known German?
Tt might be possible to reach a
compromise; give the “Twilight of
the Gods” and have Wotan make up
to look like the Kaiser. The patch
over his eye would be particularly
appropriate at this time.
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Six thousand young American sol
. diers have married French girls. A
good thing for the next generation.
The more it is mixed up the more
~the human race improves. Greeks
were the great men of the world,
made up of adventurers from Asia
and blue-eyed Celt fighters from the
Balkans.
* Then the Romans were the great
people, gathered from all over on
the.seven hills. )I‘hen came France
with her Gauls, whose big blond
type still persists in Normandy,
Latin conquerers led in by Caesar,
and a hundred other mixtures.
Then England, with all conceiv
able sorts, from the Basque ances
tors of Foch to the yellow-haired
men from Seandinavia, murdering
each other and the natives. And
now America, the champion world
mixture, The generation to be born
of 6,000 American saldiers and their
_ French wives will be a good gen
eration. The French girls from the
country make good housekeepers,
godd mothers, good thinkers—none
better than those of France.
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The Interesting things ever
changing, as-Dr. Johnson truly ob
. served, are human beings.
“When you have seen one green
fleld, you have seen all green
flelds,” but for every human being
you see you see a different inter
esting kind of foolishness.
A gentleman named Lange goes
so see a fortune teller and after
that he won't talk to his wife, and
she, instead of 'being happy, as she
should, sues him.
The foolish husband aectually be
lieved some lady who looked at
lines in his bands, or a pack of
cards, or a crystal ball, and told
him he had cause for jealousy.
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Miss Anna Barbe, who killed a
gentleman named Gage, for the
usual old reason, varies the mo
notony by saying: “My soul is my
judge.” £ Here you have “self-de
termination” with a vengeance.
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A clergyman 65 years old is con
victed of a crime. They sentence
‘fiim to jail for™ 9 years. This rep
resents optimism. The judge must,
have hoped, or thought it faintly
possible, that the eriminal would
live to be 164 year old, This hap
pened once, in a fairly authentic
case. It also happened once, ac
' cording to Darwin, that a man iso
lated with a yvoung baby, In South
America, was able hy an effort of
the will to nurse that baby. The
thing is not apt to happen in a
. Texas prison.
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You know that in - Russia the
strength of the Bolsheviki dies in
the fact that Bolshevism has dis
tributed the land among the peas
ants. Peasants support Bolshevism
bécause they fear that a new gov
ernment might take away and give
to the original owners the land
that Bolshevism has given to the
po'sumnts. Nothing like giving a
man land to make him support the
government, no matter what kind
of government,
In France, before the French Rev
olution, all the land was owned by
_ 50,000 people, Now there are #IOOO,
000 ownérs of land in France, work«
ing the land. The world has seen
how they will find their country,
The United States perhaps would
be better off if a larger percentage
of its inhabitants actually owned
something worth while, if it were
only a life job, protected Iyy civil
gervice, on a Government-owned
rallroad syste
s Goed p op(-r';’?'nwngd by the indi
vidual, whether it be real estate or
a life job, makes a man individual
istic, the antiesis of a communist.
THE WEATHER
Forecast for Georgia—Rain Sun
day and probably Monday; warmer
in north and center.
VOL. V. NO. 49
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Senators Say President’s Plan Is
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WANT BOYS BROUGHT HOME
Wilson and Tardieu in Directly
~ Opposed Statements on \
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BY JAMES R. NOURSE. ‘
Universal Service Staff Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, March 15.—Con
flicting reports from Paris as to
whether the league'nf nations cov
enant was to be an integrai part
of the treaty of peace aroused much
comment here today. The reports
indicate a direct issue between Pres
ident Wilson and the French rep
resentatives, of whom Andre Tar
dieu, recent high commissioner to the
United States, is spokesman,
The President is quoted as having
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stated that “the plenary council has
positively dedided that the league
of nations is to be part of the peace
treaty.” &
French Deny Plan.
Directly opposed te this view is
the statement made by M. Tardieu
to the effect that “the league cove
nant will have no place in the peace
treaty.”
Senators who are fighting the
league of nu;’;uns proposal declared
that if the Presidenfs statement is
true, the league plan will be beaten.
If it comes before the Senate as a
pagt of the treaty, there are enough
votes pledged to strike the league
clause out befare the treaty is rati
fied. The position of the Senators
who are against adoption of the
Jeague constitution has been stated
over and ,again and is part of ‘the
round robin resolution which 39
Senators have signed and over
60 have agreed to accept. This
position is that the important thing
at this time is to “make peace and
bring the boys home from Europe.”
“Peace First” Is Stand.
“Put off the league of nations
propesal until we have made peace’
is the demand 'which has been voiced
repeatedly by such leaders as Sen
ators Reed of Missouri, Borah of
Idaho, Hiram Johnson of California,
Thomas of Colorado, Knox of Penn
sylvania and Poindexter of Wash
ington. &
Several of these Senators were
interviewed on the question today.
Unanimously they adhered to their
former yposition that there must be
peace first and discussion of an in
ternational tribunal to secure per
petual peace must be postponed until
after peace is made, !
McCormick |s Emphatic. .4
Senator Medill McCormick said: |
“l don't believe the Senate will
ratify the league plan, whether it
is part of the treaty or not. For!
the (present, however, I prefer not
to discuss the question as to whether |
the league plan is in the, treaty ur}
not. 1 would like to wait and see
who is right.,”
genator King of Utah, Democm'.(
vehemently declared that the Japa
nese demands on the immigration
question make it necessary to Kkeep
the treaty separate from the lmguu‘
proposal. He said: \
“The whole situation clearly em
phasizes the uggent necessity of con
cluding the jpeace treaty immediate- |
l}/ and leaving untll later the for
mation of an international body of
some sort, not necessarily a league
of nations as we have come to un«‘
derstand the term, but a tribunal
of arbitrdment which awill consider
and decide questions likely to lead
to war.”
Johnson Is Silent,
Senator Johnson of California/said
he would prefer not to discuss the
matter at this time, He referred,
however, to a statement made re
cently by him in which he said it
would be “a monstrous thing if -the
constitution of the Jeague of na
tibns were intertwined with the
treaty of peace, The people of
America want the boys brought
home, they want a decisive peace
and they. want that at once; the
league of natiens can wait”
Senator Poindexter, of Washington,
expressed the view that whether the
league constiu is made a part
of the peace t r not will make
little differend®y muse the stand
taken by Japa s it evident that
the Japanese use to enter the
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Japan Opens Tangle.
“We are told,” the ‘Senator said,
“that immigration was purely a do
mestic question, and yet hefore the
league is even formed Japan states a
contrary position and demands that
the immigration question be incorpo
rated in the league, The statement
by Viscount Ishii shows that the intel
ligent Japanese people are not will
ing, to transfer from the Japanese
people and Government to a league
dominated by foreigners the decision
and L'ul\l/tyl of their most vital inter
est,
“This guestion of imimgration is of
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HE HAGUE, March 15.—
T Speaking on the proposed
extradition of the ex-Kaiser
from Holland for trial by an<nter
national court, the Minister of
Justice today told the Chamber
that he recognizes no right outside
of the Dutch national laws.
The n‘ranlm: implied by lhbg
Dutch Minister of Justice is that
Holland could mnot entertain any
Allied demand for the former Kai
ser that was counter to the Dutch
laws governing extradition. §
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D. 8. C. Is Awarded 2
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Georgians Who Gave
Lives in World War
Here, in official language, is the
story of two Georgians who gave their
lives for their country and who arel
posthumously awarded the Ilafin—’
guished Serviee Cross by the Com
mander in Chief, in the name of the
President ;
First Lieutenant James J. Roos
(deceased), 108th Infantry. For ex
traordinary hercism in action near
St. Souplet, France, October 17,
1918. "During the forcing of the La
Selle River Lieutenant Roos made
personal reconnaissances of the
térritory, under terrific machine-gun
fire, before leading his men in at
tack. Advancing to a farm which
was strongly fortified by the en
emy, he scattered his men about the
buildings, from which a deadly fire
was ‘pouring, and, adv:\'ncmg alone
into the building, captured nearly
200 Germans at the point of his pis
tol. He was killed in attack the
following morning. Next of kin,
Mrs." Jathes J. Roos, wife, Dover,
Ga.
Private (First Class) George B.
Statham (deceased), Machine Gun
{ Battalion, Ninth Infantry. (A. S. ‘
No. 41442)) For extraordinary hero
ism in action near Tuilerie Ferme,
France, November 4, 1918. Although
he was the only remaining mem
ber of his gun crew, Private Stat
ham courageously operated his gun
until he had put one enemy ma
chine-gun nest out of action. He
continued with his heroic work
until he was killed. Next of kin,
T. S. Statham, father, Route B,
] Cordele, Ga.
Sunday Night Theaters
I Now Open to Public
| Atlantans tonight will have their
first opportunity of attending a.lhe
atrical performanc¢e on Smul:l* if they
s 0 desire. At the Liberty Theater, at
Camp Gordon, “Sick-a-Bed,” the
|Klaw & Erlanger production, will be
offered, and for the first time the
theater will be opeén to the general
public.
| The number of men at Camp Gor
{don Las dwindled, and to support the
(high-class theatrical productions_ at
! the camp it ig necessary to draw upon
loutsido patronage. W. W. Hughnm,l
{manaw-r, lm:_; obtained pm'missipn,
from the military police for admit
‘ting visitors after hours, and has :u--i
ranged for automobiles parking and
i protection of the machines. It is (-x-~
“,prru-d to open the Libvrly Theater to
{the Atlanta public every Sunday
pight.
40 Sleeping Sickness
Cases Found in N. Y.
(By International News Service,)
NEW “YORK, March 15 —Forty
lnay(-s of sleeping sicknesd have been
Ire)mr(ed to the health department,
{ Commissioner Copeland announced |
today, one more of which resulted!
l fatally, !
“About half of these cases may h&-!
classified as “of ' the post-influenza |
type,” said the commissioner, "thf-Q
|uthvr half being of the true type of
the disease. There are no reasons|
lfm‘ public :Ilurm.l hu\vev'w', as lhul
number of cases is infinitestimal by
lcnmp;n‘ison with the population.”
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Huns to Surrender $130,000,-
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Foodstuffs at Once.. _
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By JOHN T. PARKERSON,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. 8.
PARIS, March 15.-—-Nine gigantie
passenger ships, including the new
Imperator, will be allotted to the
United States from the 2,000,000 tons
of shipping which Germany is sur
rengering under the new armistice
terms to insure the revictualing of
that country.
The' ships allotted to the United
States have a total carrying capacity
of, 35,000 passengers,
The initial payments by Germany
for food will be made in gold.
Ships, to Leave Soon.
The first of the surrendered Ger
man merchant ships is expected to
leave for the United States within
four days bearing American troops.
They will steam by way of England.
(By the acceptance of the armistice
terms at Brussels, Admiral Sir Ross
lyn Wemyss, head of the Allied par
liamentaries, promised Germany 370,-
000 tons of food monthly.)
On account of alterations that were
necessary upon the vessels, it is prob
able they will not be able to carry
their full capacity on the initial
western vovage. 5
U. 8. Money Refused.
The German armistice envoys
wanted the United States to advance
money for food, but this proposal was
rejected. Then .the Germans agreed
to turn over gold for payment of the
foodstuffs at the Belgian frontier. It
is understood that the Germans have
$130,000,060 available now.
A larger sum will be ready for use
within a few days. s
The German blockade is to be lifted
to a considerable extent immediately,
thus placing Germany in a position to
resume her world trade, under cer
tain restrictions, according to Herbert
Hoover, head of the inter-Allied relief
commission, and Mr. Lamont, who
arrived here from Brussels this morn
ing.
German Flag Banned.
Some of the German cargo boats,
maost of which will go to England and
France, will he oper#ed by German
crews, but the German flag will not
be flown
When the Germans are allowed to
resume world commerce, they rwill
send out certain exports, chiefly coal,
dyestuffs and potash, *
The blockade imposing certain fish
ing restrictions upon the Germans in
the Paltic also will be removed by the
northern neutrals, !
Agreement Reached |
On Reparation ‘
By ROBERT J. PREW.
PARIS, March 15—An unofficial
agreement has been reached on the
question of the reparation Germany
will have to make, it was learned this
afternoon. No statement is available,
howeverg at this time, i
A careful canvass of the British
and French delegates reveals that the
big outstanding prablems vet to be
decided are,the houndaries of Ger
many and the disposition to be made
of the Kaiser, Von Tirpitz and oth
ers. \
Want Kaiser Tried.
The French delegates are urgng
that a tribunal be established, con
sisting of all the big powers, and that
this tribunal try the Kaiser and his
confederfites j
Phe majority of the delegates be
lieve that the preliminary peace terms
will be handed the German delegates
within a week, The final peace treaty
is expected to be ready by July, and
the covenant of the league of nations
is expected to assume final shape
somewhat earlier so that both can be
signed at the same time. “
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Mrs. Beaumont Davison Says
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POINTS "TO WASHINGTON
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‘Pledges Fight for Full Suffrage
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[ ucational Matters.
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l “l don't say that the appeintment
of a woman superintendent of schools
in Atlanta would solve the educa
‘lional problems of the city, but 1 do
\sxy that the office of school super
intendent is just as logically that of
the woman as the office of house
keeper and homemaker.”
Rfis. Beamont Davison, vice presi
’dem of the Fulton County Suffrage
‘l‘urty and corresponding secretary of
the Woman's Party of Georgia, made
the above statement when asked
what she thought a woman superin
tendent of schools in Atlanta could
accomplish. Mrs. Davison has made
a study of thig particular phase of
the enfranchisement of women, and
She says that in “States and cities
‘where the practice of electing women
superintendents has been put into ac
tion it has accomplished wonders.
i “Take the State of Washington, for
instance,” she said. “When a recent
survey of educational conditions in
‘this country was made, Washington
outranked every other State. It may
furnish a ray of enlightenment and
encouragement to the opponents of
equal suffrage to know that the State
superintendent of schools in Wash
ington is a woman and that practical
ly all of the county superintendents
are women."
Wants Full- Suffrage.
Mr® Davison is very enth@siastic
over the proposed measure to be in
troduced by Representative Jonn Y.l
Smith in the LegiSlature, giving
women a right to vete on educational
questions.
“But I, personally, will not be sat
isfied with that,” she said. “I will
never be satisfied with anything less
than full suffrage, Perhaps educa
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tional mattegs come first, since they
‘so closély touch the home, But should
this bill pass, we will not be satisfied.
One we particularly want is that
'womon be allowed to take part in
white primaries, This privilege can
be granted by the city executive
committee, and we do not intend to
cease our efforts until this has been‘
accomplished,
| “Members of the committee have
said that if we will show them that
the people of Atlanta want this privi
lege granted to women they will be
in . position seriously to consider the
q\}wti(m. The people of Atlanta do
want the women to be allowed to vote
in white primaries, and we hope to
convince the executive committee, |
Women Better Superintendents,
“In the meantime, we are vory‘
grateful to Mr. Smith for the effort
he is making to get us the privilege
of voting on educational matters. If
we are to take statistics as a basis—
and, after all, there is no better proof
of anything-—we must belicve that
women make better school guperin
tendents than men, If they have
made better superintendents in other
cities, it is only logical and reason
able that the rule would work here,
“A board of education can no more
be rounded out and complete with
out women on its personnel than can
a home be well rounded and complete
with & man at the head of it. We
need both forces in both places—in
the home and out of it. And if there
is any place in the world where the
woman's voice is needed it is in the
transaction of school affairs The
school and the home are so closely
interlinked as to be almost insep
arable. Why, qu-n, should the wom
an be allowed Tull sway in one and
denied even entrance into the othe;
“Women not only should be allowed |
to serve on school boards. They |
should be allowed to' serve on h-m‘«!
pital boards and similar public Insti- |
tutions.” ‘
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Davies’ Name Mentioned
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Again in Packing Probe
(By International News Service.)
CHICAGO, Mareh 15.-—Joseph E. Da
vies, former chaleman of the Federal
Trade Commission and Democratie can
didate for senaty from Wisconsin, In
the last senatorial election lin that
State, was again drageed into the Con-4
sumers Packing Company investigation
before Judge Landis today. Ddward J
Ader testifled that Davies tried to get
$15.000 for his services in obtaining per- i
misgion of the capital issues committen
for the sale of stock. Davies received
$7.500, according to witnesses, but ae
complished nothing as the committos |
went out of business at that time ;
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As Two Cars Smash
C. K. Mauldin, conductor on a South
Pryor street car, was hurt seriously
Saturday at midnight when o White
hall ear crashed into the rear end of
his car at Alabama and Whitehall
strests,” The Whitehull car skidded
on the slippery tracks of the incline,
in front of the Atlanta National Donl
Mauldin was thrown violently against |
the iron brake handle and his fore
head was bruised.
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Now That the War
Is Over, Let Us Tell
.TheTruth, Says Shaw
il']ngland Already Has Had Its Revenge by
763,000 Vietims of Blockade, He Says.
By GEORGE BERNARD SHAW,
Copyright, 1919, by Star Company.
LONDON,- March' 15.—\We are so unaccustomed
not to being at war with our Eufopean neighbors
that most of us have no idea of how we should behave
oyrselves under such circumstances.
Not only our simple ecitizens, but our editors and
statesmen, even in a few instances our very soldiers,
have been guilty of the most shocking solecisms.
| Instead: of putting on our full dress clothing and
standing on our very best behavior, we have been reck
lessly abusive and injurious.
We have frantically denied every statement made
by the enemy without stopping to consider whether
they were true, and we have thereby not only missed
the advantage of many valuable admissions in our favor
but put ourselves gratuitously in wrong. .
We have passionately accepted and affirmed and
reaffirmed as authentic news stories which on the face
of them could not possibly have been true. ;
Our suppressions, being sane and premeditated,
have been worse than our raging affirmations; in short,
we behaved as naively as the children of a eertain little
country town in my neighborhood, who assembled at the
railway station when the announcement was made that
some prisoners of war were to be imported for work on
farms. When they were asked what they had come for
they replied: *“‘To spit at the Germans.”
Those who told them that this was naughty and
sent them home were immediately accused by several
quite fully grown persons of being pro-German.
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| For, indeed, the worst of it was that we did all
these things not merely to a few unfortunate Germans
who were within our reach, but to those of our own
people who behaved punetiliously according to the ereed
of Christian chivalry or even with common decency.
It seems hardly creditable now that the head
master of Eton was driven scurrilously from the place
for remarking that our occupation of Gibraltar and
German control of the Kiel Canal were part of the same
problem, or that the Archbishop of York would have
been unfrocked, had such proceeding been possible, for
speaking of the Kaiser as one gentleman speaks of
another whose hospitality he has aceepted in happier
days. l
' I might strengthen my demonstration by eciting
cases in allied or enemy countries, but it is for them to
confess their own sins, not for men to econfess for them.
What, then, is" the ereed of Christian chivalry and
the code of manners founded on it?
First and above all, a soldier who kills his enemy
for any personal reason whatsoever, is guilty of murder
whether the reason be simple hatred or the desire to
strip him of a better pair of boots, or to remove an heir
who stands between him and a property, or a rival whn‘
has supplanted him in love. No excuse can be allowed
on the scdre that the dead man was an enemy in a
military sense. \
MORAL LAW AND PHYSICAL LAW. |
A soldier slaying an enemy for personal reason;
a judge summing up against a prisoner for a personal
reason, a clergyman refusing the sacrameént to a parish
ioner for a personal reason—all incur the same con
demnation,
Were it not so a soldier who had disabled an enemy
or taken him prisoner would kill him,
But his obligation to kill or disable him in a fair
fight is not more sacred than his obligation to bind up
his wounds, nurse him, doctor him, feed him,*lodge him
and clothe him when he is at his conqueror’s merey.
That is the difference and the whole difference, be
tween a civilized soldier and any lawless brigand or
pirate.
The moral law in the matter is the same as the
physical law; the civilian’s obligation is the same as the
warrior’s,
War is a very dreadful thing at its best, but if tl
suspended every rule and impulse of human kindness,
so that men were not only authorized but enjoved to
hecome utter devils ““for duration of the war®’ both at
home, and in the field, human society would lie incom
patible with war as an institution, and Dr. Johnson’s
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Conference Saturday Night Ad=
journs Without Action, but
Key's Plan Seems Favored.
Strikers Still Say That Ottarson
Must Go—No More Walkouts
While Negotiations Are On.
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At 2 o'clock Sunday morning the
strike of railway clerks on South«
eastern roads was stili on.
Several conferences, attended by &
J. Forrester, national president of t?
Brotherhood of Railroad Clerks; .
L. Winchell, regional director of rail
roads, and local union officials were
held Saturday afternoon, and a con~
ference in Mr. Winchell's office Sat
urday night lasted until nearly mid
night.
Following this meeting it was am
nounced that neither side had made
any concession, nor had submitted
any sort of proposal. It was stated,
however, that a plan submitted by
Mayor Key is looked upon with much
favor by both sides. What the May
or's proposal provides was not inti<
mated. Reports stated that it had
not been considersd thoroughly,
E. M. McGee, acting chairman of
the local protective (-,nmmmg:. said
no more walkout ‘would be ordered,
pending a further meeting to be held
either Sunday or Monday.
The hour for this meeting will be
decided upon the arrival in the city
of M. H. Murray, chairman of the ex
ecutive board of the Brotherhood of
Railroad Clerks, who has been teles
graphed to come. Mr. Murray is ex
pected to reach here this morning at
8 o'clock,
Mr. Murray is reported to have full
information regarding lhi‘, trouble
since the tenute of office of 'A. P. Ot
tarson, Federal director at Nashville,
which caused the strike. It was re
ported.that the committees in session
here are not in possession of the full
‘hlstnry of Mr. Ottarson's operations,
which are in the hands of Mr, Mur
ray.
Say Ottarson Must Go.
Representatives of both sides were
reluctant to talk following the econ
ference Saturday night. Mr. MeGee
stated that it twvas generally under
stood by both sides that the clerks
will remain out until Ottarson is re
moved from office,
It was generally conceded that the
difficulties will be settled in .\:h’rt ors
der upon the arrival of Mr, Murray.
No information could be obtained as
Yo what concessions, if any, could be
considered from either side,
The only ray of hope was held out
by Mayor Key, who said late last
night:
“The prospeets for a settlement are
very, very bright at this time.” PFur
ther than this the Mayor would not
commit himself, stating that while he
could give Mis reasons for such a
statement, he did not deem it advis
able to do g 0 now. He had left while
the conference was still under way,
C. F. Jackson, regional director un
der the grand president of thé Broth
erhodd of Railroad ('lerks, is expect
ed to arrive in Atlanta Monday.
~ Besidgs Mr. Winchell, Mr. MecOes
and others well known In connection
with the deliberations locally, the
conference Saturday night was at
tended by G. N. Woods, of the N., C.
and St, I.; J. R. Beardsley, of the A.,
B, and A, and the A. and W, P.; W,
P. Allison, local chairman for the
Nouthern, and J. B Turer, local
thairman for the Joint Terminals, and
others, G
| Plans for General Walkout,
While all railway clerks on the As
lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic and
the Atlanta and West Point Raflroads
were walking out Saturday to join
the 5,000 mll\v'ny clerks on various
Southeastern rdads already out, prep
arations were being made on the Sea
board Air line Railway, the Central
of Georgia Rallwny and the Loutsville
and Nashville Rallway for a general
walk-out on those roads unless an ad-
Justment of the demands of the strik
ers could be obtained before these
plans go into effect,
Widespread discontent among the
employees of the Southern roads over
the alleged failure of officials in
charge of the Southern systems to
carry out instructions in their favor
from the office of tMe director general
precipitated the walk-out. Beginhing
with the strike of all Nashville, Chat.
tanooga and Bt. Louis, Tennessee Cen
tral and Birmingham Northwestern
clerks, the strike spread to involve all
clerks employed in the Atlanta offices
of all rallroads, and late Saturday in
volved all elerks employed on the Ate
lanta, Birmingham and Atlantie and
the Atlanta and West Pofnt roads.
Walk-outs on the main lines of the
remiining systems were expected mo
mentarily
The strike was precipitated by the
refusal of the regional director and
Federal manager to remove A, P, Ot.
tarson, Federal auditor at Nashville,
whose Interpretation of regulations of
the rallroad administration and whose
alleged antagonism to organized labor
ereated a condition by which It was
impossible for officers of the broth
erhood to longer hold the membership
ir check Beginning wgth 1,000 men
who walked out last “Fuesday, the
#trike has spread to involve, It Is es
timated, about 7,000 men Saturday
night
Freight traMe throughout the
Southeast was profoundly affected.
Cars wefe belng piled up on side
tracks and in eity yards throughout
the Houtheast, and eongestion was
growing hourly Passengor teafMc,
while greatly hampered, was moving
tunder HOome handicaps,
While there appeared to be agl
bility of settling the strike Hfl
night, local officers uf"tM
hrotherhood continued th ?
monts for calling out system 1
system untll every road in the South-
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