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Your Citizenship Test.
This Loan’s Meaning.
The World on Fire.
Protect Your House.
~~-By Arthur Brisbane ~-
UY the Victory bonds with
earnest realization of what
’ the loan means,
This is a serious period in the
history of the world and every na
tion.
¥ This Victory Loan to which you
are asked to subscribe is the test
of nationa] loyalty.
You may hear many reasons,
sound and selfish, why you should
buy Victory bonds.
They are the_best bonds that
have ever been offered anywhere,
Before the war, when the country
Was not as rich as it is today, 4
per cent bonds sold above 130, The
4 3-4 per cent bonds offered today
will ‘sell far above par.
The banks will want .them. They
carry exemption from income tax
when transferred into a 33-4 per
cent bond.
y _ Tax-exempt bonds bearing only
3 per cent sold above par, when
there was no certainty as to how
many billions of bonds the Govern
ment might issue. These tax-ex
. empt bonds, bearing 3-4 of 1 per
cent higher interest, will sell above
par inevitably, and soon.
When these bonds are sold, the
LAST that the Government will
offer, according to its solemn
pledge, the whole debt of the
United States will not amount to
ONE-HALF of ONE YEAR'S in
come of the United States, includ
ing the outstanding Treasury cer
tificates,
And Europe owes us more than
ten billions, or half of our whole
debt.
These bonds will be secure when
nothing else is secure. They are a
FIRST mortgage and a LAST mort
gage on this great country, sep
arated on each side by wide oceans
from the disturbances of Europe
&nd of Asia.
No such bond as the one offered
today ever was offered in any na
tion at any time in the world! To
buy these bonds, keeping them for
Yourself, ‘your children, for the ab
solutely certain profit that will
come in the rise above par, is com
mon sense.
But there is something in this
Vietory Loan infinitely more im
portant than certain.profit. The
loan will represent the faith of the
people of this country in their kind
of Government.
The present world dis'irbance is
no passing agitation, no mere “un
{emed" period, such as has fol
owed other wars.
The question at issue today is
this:
« SHALL DEMOCRATIC GOV
ERNMENT SURVIVE, or ghall new
and reckless experiments be made,
such experiments as have brought
Russia to anarchy and starvation,
experiments that have already
seized upon Central and HRastern
Europe, and that threaten Europe's
western civilized strip?
The answer to this gaestion will
come in the subseriptions to this
Vietory Loan.
At this moment the United
States is fortunate abhove all other
countries. Our friends in Europe
lost more than 7,000,000 Kkilled in
war. The United States lost 50.000.
Our friends spent scores of biliions,
nd literally beggared themselves.
And we have spent in a:l less
than one-half of ONE year's in
come of this eountry. It is as
though a man with an annual. in
come of $50,000 had gone through.
the one dangerous crisis of his life
at a total expense of $20,000,
The man of small means who
does not buy these Victory bonds,
put on sale, neglects the Interest
of his ehildren, and his own inter
est, because he neglects the most
magnificent investment ever of
fered in any country at any time.
Hut that is as nothing compared
’th the fact that he neglects also
his national safety and that/of his
family. He helps to advertise the
ct that because the war is over
-&;triotism has died down with the
shouting.
As for the rich man, the man with
an income beginning at s.'.t),flgfl a
vear, and running up toy $50,000;-
000 a year-—both those incomes ex
ist lin the United States—it is his
business to see to it that the Vie
tory Loan {is ‘heavily oversub
geribed, not ‘in THREE weeks, but
ir THE FIRST WEEK, the first
six days.
Taft, once President of the United
States, a man of earnest thought
and real statesmanship, warns the
country that If another great war
comesg it will exceed in horror the
lgst war, as that war exceeded in
(?:rrnr all other wars.
That ts a statement of fact. A
much greater war may come, If it
does, we shall not be left dut of it,
There must be no uncertain loy
alty, no grudging supply of the na
tion’s nceds, by little people or by
big people.
Conditlons are not/ what they
were while the war was on, when
bonds were sold with tearful ap
peals and amusing monkey shines,
We knew then that the United
States would WIN., There wasg no
possible doubt. The band played,
people shouted, men marched to the
*’”,,,L bonds were bought.
But thus. was not a moment asg
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Washington forecast for Georgia:
Partly cloudy and warmer Sunday;
showers at night or Monday.
VOL. VI. NO. 3.
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Inspired Reports From British
Sources Declared -False by
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U. S. Officials at Conference.
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Orlando and Diaz Stir Up Crowds
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at Rome by Warlike Speeches
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on Fiume Crisis,
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SATURDAY’S DEVELOPMENTS
IN THE PEACE SITUATION
Announcement is made in official
British quarters that Lloyd George
and Clemenceau urged Wilson to
postpone publication of his note to
Italy on the Fiume controversy:
This announcement is declared by
American officials to be false. Lloyd
George is accused by Americans of
“trying to carry water on _both
shoulders.” " |
Baron Sonnino, Italian Fereign Min
ister, leaves Paris for Italy after
conferring with Britism and Japa
nese delegates. Before his depar
| ture he announced that “the entire
Italian delegation had riow quit the
conference."”
Premier Orlando arrives in Rome and
is given tremendous ovation. A
crowd of 100,000 persons marched
| through the streets, cheering the
~ Premier,
'Although Washington announces that
“the situation in Parts is -rapidly
- clearing,” it was pointad out in the
- French capital that the presence of
Italian troops at Fiume is further
| complicating the problem of the
~_disposition of that port. |
Great demonstrations continue
. throughout Italy, |
The Italian press bureau ir Paris de
nies that Premier Orlando will pro
pose a compromise on the Fiume,
question along the same lines ap
plied by the Allies to Danzig. .
The big three met agair Saturday'
and discussed commitiee reports.
LA df-(‘?iun was reached to discuss
the ledgue of nations covenuant at a
plenary session of the peace con-,
ference Monday.
By JOHN EDWIN NEVIN.
Correspondent of the |I. N. 8.
PARIS, April 26.—Inspired reports
from British press gources that Pre
mier Lloyd George did not indorse
President Wilson’s statement on the |
Italian situation were characterized
as entirely false in American official
quarters tonight. i
The actual facts are that the Presi
dent read his statement to both Pre
mier Lloyd George and Premier Clem
enceau. He claimed it was necessary
to issue the manifesto unless the;
Italians were willing to change their |
tactics . and withdraw their open
threats of secession. i
The PEritish premier was .'llLl\ll*l*‘
astic in his indorsement, Premier |
Clemenceau’s position was simply to |
question the expediency of issuing the |
statement at the time it was mad |
publie. |
The apparent effort of }']l']])il‘l':
Lloyd George to “carry water on both
shoulders” caused criticigm in certain|
official cirgles this evening. I
Howewver,, it is. generadMy accepted!
that the position of the British pre-|
mier was affected by open rrim'ixm!
of certain newspapers which had been |
enthusiastically supporting him, but)|
which had not learned of the attitude |
taken by Mr, Lloyd George toward |
Premier Orlando. {
While the official Italion press bu-!
reau insists that it is untrue that|
Signor Orlando plans to present a
compromise proposal to the Italian)|
Parliament on Monday or Tuesday,|
the general assumption is that the |
Italian leaders will discus the entire|
outlook and evolve a proposition |
which will be transferred to Paris
later, 5,
There was deep gloom at Italian)
headquarters tonight Only a few|
underlings remained behind in l':n)s.a
Reports are current that a confer
ence will be held in Rome Sunday
night. preparatory to presenting \h;']
entire case to the Itallan |wn;m-_|
American sources close to the I'n-"-'
dent declare that no difference what |
attitude Italy assumes, 8o far as|
President Wilson is concerned his|
public position will be adhered lnl
regardless of the position taken ly”
the other governments. It is contend
ed ‘that the President visifed Kurope
at the invitation of the Allied gov
ernments and was prepared to accept
a peace program along the lines they
had publicly indorsed.
Fresh complications have been add
ed to the 'ltalian situation by the
presence of Italian troops at Fiume
without the approval of the British
or French. There is a feeling here,
however, that whatever happens the
troops must be withdrawn before
there are any other further parleys.
It is declared in semdoflicial Frencnh
circles that the presence of the Italian
troops in Fiume is a violation of the
Allied understanding. In this con
nection it is pointed out in other cir
cles that if Jtaly refuses to withdraw
these troops it may furnish added
reasons why Great Britain and France
are released from the pact of London
and will be in a position to sign a
treaty with Germany along with the
American envoys,
Sonnino and Salandra Go.
Baron Sonnino, the ltalinn Foreign
Minister, and former Premier Salan
dra left for Rome this afternoon, ac
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‘New World’s g
z Flying Record
(By International News. Service.)
ORFOLK, VA, April 26.—The
navy has made a new
world’'s flying record. Sea
plang No. 3589, with twin Liberty
motors, took the air at 11:42
o'clock yesterday morning and re
mained aloft twenty hours, landing
at 7:52 o'clock this morning in
Hampton Roads. The course over
which the machine flew was from
§ Norfolk to the mouth of the Po
tomac. The flying boat carried
E 1,000 gallons of gasoline and had
{ aboard Lieutenant Commander H.
N. Grow, Ensign Delos Thomas, H,
¢ W. Souther and Rutledge Irving.
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o'Donnelly’s Beloved
Organ Is Silent at
. Funeral of Master
The funeral Saturday of John P. |
O'Donnelly at the First Baptist }
Church was marked by the most
expressive tribute that possibly
could have been paid the beloved
musician who had been organist !
of the church for 31 years.
| It was atribute of silence. The
| keyboard of the organ in the bal
l cony above the white marble altar
- was closed and locked, and above
it stood a tall harp of delicate flow
! ers. The seats of the choir were
\ vacant. The book of anthems lay
i closed upon the music rack. The
" members of the congregation who 1
‘ had for so mpany years given praise
~ through the music of John O'Don
~ nelly believed no other fingers
* should touch his beloved organ
~ while his body lay there, even |
“though they played the works he
had composed.-
The church w? filled when Dr,
Charles W. Daniél began the brief
funeral service. -In the congrega- '
tion were a score of musicians,
many of them organists from other
churches, who revered Mr. O'Don
nelly as an organist of high ideals
and an artist in interpretation. Aft
er the service one of them, himself a
musician of high standing, said:
“Atlanta can ill-afford to lose
such an organist as John O'Don- |
nelly., He did a great work for [
music in this city. It was he who {
gave us many of the great works
of the masters for the first time
here. He was a sound musician,
and his 31 years in one church had
not led him into lessening his inter
est in his work or into lowe.ing his
ideals.” I
"The illness and death of Mr, |
O'Donnelly were unusually dramatic |
and pathetic. For weeks he had !
looked forward to two events of
absorbing interest. One was _ his |
Faster service at the ghurch, for l
which he had prepared a splendid
program; the other was the season
of opera, for Mr. D'Donnelly loved
music in all its forms and the an
nual visit of the opera was a great |
event in his life, He was at the |
organ last Sunday morning, playing |
an Easter anthem, when he was l
stricken. His fingers fell from the
keyboard, he was removed to a hos
pital, and the belief was expressed
that he would recover. But he died
Thursday night, in the midst of the
opera season which he had antiei
pated with so much pleasure.
The funeral service was brief and
simple. Dr, Daniel read the Twen
ty=third Psalm and a selection or
two from the Scriptures, and paid
a brief tribute to the friend he had
known inlimuwiy for ten years,
“His soul was filled with melody,
and *his heart was as humble as
that of all true artists,” he said.
“We who have sat under the spell
of his music and worshiped the
Lord through “the medium of his
genius will miss him sorely.”
The pallbearers were chosen from
among old friends, They were So
lon Drukenmiller, J. J. Spalding,
Preston H. Epps, John Morris, Jr.,
and Perry Thompson. The inter
ment was in Oakland Cemetery.
Mr. O'Donnelly is survived by a
brother, R. E. O'Donnelly, and two
sisters, Mrs, John A. Hynds and
Mrs. James T. Prince.
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Dr. Daniel Deciines Call
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To Church in Louisville
Dr. Charles W, Danlel, pastor of thé
First Baptist Church, has announced
that he will not accept a call to the
rastorate of the Walnut Street Church
ln Louisville, Ky The announcement
has been received with great rejolcing
by the members of the local congrega
tion.
Dr. Daniel received the call to Louis
ville about three weeks ago, and has
had it under conslderation, It came to
him unexpectedly, as he had not signi
fled a willingness to leave Atlanta, How -
ever, as the Louisville church.ds one
of the largest in the South, he did give
the call some thought, and then decided
to remain with his work here, He has
been pastor of the First Baptist Church
for ten years, and ig universally popular.
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Wilson’s View Blow to
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Egyptian Naturalists
(Exclusive Cable by the International
News Service and The London
Daily Express.)
CAIRO (via London), April 26~
BEgyptian nationalists ~ were thunder
struck by the news from Paris that
President Wilson has recognized the
British protectorate of Egypt.
The Egyptian extremists were
openly boasting that they would se
cure American help,
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Germans Say Allies
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Restrict Their Moves
~ (By International News Service.)
~ PARIS, April 26,—German repre
sentatives who have arrived at Ver
sailles in advance of the German
peace delegation, today made formal
protest against their trestment. They
allege they are not being allowed that
degree of freedom of movement to
which they ure entitied under diplo
matic immunity,
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Burleson’s New Prices Will Mean
Average Increase of 12 1-2
Per Cent in Atlanta.
SOME REDUCTIONS FORESEEN
lZones Are Abolished Here and All
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Business Phones Will Cost
$7.50 a Month.
Effective May 1, a new schedule of
telephone rates for Atlanta has been
prepared, including an average of
12 1-2 per cent increase, although in
the process of stabilizing the figures
there are to be numerous reductions.
} The Supreme Court of the United
}States will soon decide whether or
‘not the nation-wide increase in rates
proposed by Burleson shall take ef
fect, the case now being before that
}body on appeal from the Supreme
Court of North Dakota. The decision
iOf the highest court will, of course,
determine the fate of the proposed
increase in rates here.
The schedule was filed Saturday by
‘the Southern Bell Telephone/and Tel
egraph Company with the State Rail
road Commission. It has been in
dorsed by Postmaster General A. S.
Burleson, director of the United
States Telegraph and Telephone Ad
ministration. In Atlanta the present
rate for special line unlimited busi
ness service ranges from §5.50 to
$7.84, according to the distance of
the station from the central office, or
the zone in which it is located, ’l‘he‘
rate for this service under the new
rate schedule will be $7.50 per month,
practically everywhere within the city
limits, and there will be no zones, ‘
Some Reductions Foreseen. |
Special line unlimited restdenco‘
gervice now ranges from $4 to $5 per
month, depending upon the location of
the station. Under the new rate
schedule, the rate will bes#4 per
month practically anywhere wnmn‘
the city limits, and many subscribers
who are now paying more than $4
per month for special line residence
service will experience a reduction in
their rate,
The same is true of two party resi
dence service which now ranges from
$3 to $4 per month. The new rate
will be $3 per month and many sub
scribers who are paying mileage
charges will now pay only the flat
rate of $3 per month.
The Atlanta rates are to apply to
College Park, East Point and Decatur
as well,
New rates are to be effective not
only in Atlanta and its suburbs, but
in every other exchange in the terri
tory in which the Southern Bell oper
ates—the States of Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, North and South Carolina.
Other Cities Affected.
The principal Georgia cities af
fected are Albany, Acworth, Adairs
ville, Austell, Arlington, Americus,
Athens, Atlanta, Augusta, Bainbridge,
Brunswick, Barnesville, Blackshear,
Buford, Baxley, Cartersyville, Colum
bus, Cordele, Covington, Conyers,
Cochran, Calhoun, Camilla, Ciaxton,
Cave Springs, Clarkston, Colquit,
Cumming, Dublin, Elberton, Eastman,
Eatonton, Fayetteville, Fairburn, For
syth, Gainesville, Griffin, Greensboro,
Grantville, Hazlehurst, Jesup, Jack
son, Jonesboro, LaGrange, Lawrence
ville, Lithonia, Lumpkin, Louisville,
Macon, Maadison, Marietta, McDon
sugh, Monticello, Millen, Newnan,
Norcross, Palmetto, Pelham, Rome
Royston, Roswell, Richland, Sanders
ville, Soecial Circle, Sparta, Senoia,
Sylvester, Swainsboro, Savannah
Smyrna, Tifton, Tennille, Thomson,
Vidalia, Valdosta, Waycross, Waynes
boro, Wrightsville, Wadley, Warren
ton, Woodbury, Zebulon.
Necessity for rate increases, it is
explained, is not the result of Gov
ernment control of the lines, but of a
deficit accumulated as a result of
normal operation under the old rates
Practically similar raises were to be
asked by the telephone company of
the Georgia Railroad Commission as |
urgently necessary just before the
lines were taken under Government
control.
When the new schedule was filed
with the Railroad Commission, it was
accompanied by the Postmaster Gen
eral's message to Union N, Bethell,
chairman of the United States Tele
phone and Telegraph Operating
Board, approving the proposed raises
and including the following state- |
ment:
“In this cennection | desire to <-ull|
your' particular attention to the fact |
that owing to the prevailing high
costs of labor and material, the defi
cit from operation is growing daily,
and to meet this condition every ef
fort should be taken to insure the
Government against loss from um-ra*-
tion during the period of Federal
control. To this end, your hoard is
hereby authorized and directed to
make these new schedules effective
in the order and at the earliest yrac
ticable dates which your Board may
deem consistent with the exercise of
good judgment.”
These rates are virtually all that
are available to Atlanta telephone
subseribers. The Southern Bell Tele«
phone and Telegraph Company will
be the only company operating in At
lanta as soon as the contemplated
merger of thal concern and the At.
lanta Telephone Company is come
pleted. The merger, now in process,
will be consummated about May 1,
Already the Atlanta Telephone Com
pany has surrendered its charter to
the city,
President Brown's Statement, .
Upon being regquested to give an ex.
planation of the new rates filed with
the various State Commisgions, Presi
dent J. Epps Brown, of the Southern
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ATLANTA, GA, SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 1919,
City Officials Say Atlanta Faces
One of Most Serious Sit
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uations in History.
Water Board Expected to Oppose
Plan to Increase Charges
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for Water Service.
BX WALTER CHAMBERS.
Atlanta is facing one of the most
serjous financial situations in her his
tory. The proposed closing of the
schools is probably the most serious
danger, but here also is an item of
$250,000 for pumps already purchased
that must be met, not to mention a
threat of mandamus proceedings to
force compliance with the order of
the Legislature for the appropraition
of funds for the erection of a suit
able building to house the Cyclorama
at Grant Park,
The city government faces strong
opposftion wherever it turns to in
crease the revenue of the city, since
the bond issues, designed to pay for
installing the pumps, motorizing the
fire department, constructing a Cy
clorama and manufacturing the city's
own electric current were defeated at
the election last Wednesday.
At a meeting of the finance com
mittee of Council in January of this
yvear Harvey Hatcher, Alderman from
the Second Ward and chairman of
the committee, told just what condi
tion the city would be in should the
bonds fail to pass, and submitted a
tentative reduction in appropriations
for all city departments, which was
given to the press following the elec
tion.
At a called meeting of the finance
committee, following the meeting ot
‘the Aldermanic Board Thursday aft
ernoon, the question was discussed,
and the proposed reductions submit-i
ted by Alderman Hatcher were agreed
upon in the main by the entire com
mittee. Even if all of these cuts are
ordered by Council, they would pro
vide an additional revenue of only
$340,000, which is insufficient to meet
the present emergency. Yet “emer
gency” hardly is applicable to the
case, as City Attorney James L. May
son has ruled that the conditions do
not justify the declaration of an
“emergency,” and the levy of a spe
cial tax to meet the bills.
School Problem Serious.
At a meeting of the School Board
Friday afternoon that body admit
ted that it had run against a stump,
the general appearance of which indi
cated that Its roots descended to
great depths. The only solution of
fered was by W, H. Terrell, of the
First Ward, who proposed that the
salary increases deemed absolutely
essential to preserve the organization
be granted, and that the schools con-~ |
tinue in operation with their present
appropriation as long as possible,
then close down-—probably from Oc
tober until January 1-—when the ap
propriations for 1920 will be avail
able,
While the board members were op
posed to this suggestion, they agreed
that it offered a solution which they
might have to resort to, Fred E, Win
burn, 8. B, Turman and other mem
bers taking this view. Another prop
osition that received some considera
tion from the board was that of levy
ing a special tax under the title uf]
“tuition,” but this was nipped In the
bud by City Attorney Mayson, who!
rule that to do so would require an|
act by the State Legislature author- |
izing a charter revision. l
A proposition submitted to the
finance committee was that of In-|
creasing the water rates until the!
present “emergency” is passed. 'l‘ho‘
water increase proposed would hrim;i
to the city treasury approximately
$400,000 within the next year, h_\’,
which time it is hoped more money
may be available, Under the city
charter, the school department i¢ ap
portionad 22 per cent of the gross
revenue of the water department, and
the increase in rates would turn into
the school department SBB,OOO, which
would emable the board to make the
contemplated increases in salaries,
and leave approximately SIO,OOO, The
$300,000 left to the water department
however, is insufficient to purchase
and install the pumps and provide
for a new coagulating bagin and oth
er improvements designed to bring
the department up to a state of effi
ciency equal to the increasing de
mands, : ]
May Raise Assessment.
While the Water Board has the
power to order the lincrease, it is
stated on good authority that the
members will actively oppose the
pressure expected to be brought to
bear upon them, and advise the city
government to adopt other measures
to meet its obligations
Only one other course is open, That
is to raise the assessment on proper
ty values,
An office building in Atlanta, under
the present arrangement, is valued at
$1,000,000, say, and assessed for $700,.
000, A man with small means owns
a home valued at $4,000 and assessed
at 32,800, An increase in the assess
ment on both property ownerg would
tax the owner of the office building
approximately $3.750 additional, while
the man of moderate means with his
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Atlanta’s Ninth Season of
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Grand Opera a Big Success
§
A v A Al T e i L B
TLANTA'S ninth season of grand opera closed in a veri-
A table blaze of glory Saturday night.
Never before has a season in any city been so success
ful, either from a standpoint of attendance or performance.
Appreciative and warmly satisfied audiences ruled from
Monday evening’s opening to Saturday’s closing.
The world’s grand opera record was broken in Atlanta last
week.
Never, anywhere, have so many enthusiastic people attend
ed a week of grand opera, even by the Metropolitan.
Nowhere else in the world has one week’s total receipts
been so large; nowhere else has any one performance yielded
such returns as Saturday night's.
Atlanta made grand opera this year a sort of peace jubilee,
Peoplg from all over Dixie vied with one another in the
very joy of attending.
The artists—the greatest the world knows—entered fully
into the splendid spirit of the week, and sang in Atlanta as never
before.
The week was full of the spirit of happiness, artistic appre
ciation and the zest and gladness and verve of living.
Atlanta should be proud of this week's record.
It is a high privilege Atlanta enjoys—that of providing for
her people an annual week of grand opera, by the foremost or
ganization on earth.
Nowhere else in all the South is it possible for people of
culture, refinement and high appreciation of artistic things to
realize them so surely as in Atlanta.
Atlanta should be—AND IS—glad that it is within the
power of her spiendid citizenship to furnish every year this rare
and magnificent occasion—this week of song unparalelled.!
Grand opera is an established institution in Atlanta.
Each succeeding season will go on, ahead of those before.
And not only Atlanta, but the entire State and section
should rejoice that this is so.
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(Ga. Companies of
- Rainbow Division
~ Reach New York
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l (By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, April 26.—A strong
incomiing tide today hindered the
docking of the battleship Minne
sota, with 1,240 troops aboard, and
it was only after three attempts
‘ that the vessel was made fast to
~ her pier.
| More than half the men aboard
were members of the 151st Machine
Gun Battalion. Thrae companies of
this unit came from Macon, Ga.,
and the otners are from Pennsyl
vania. The battalion was com
manded by Lieutenant Colonel
Cooper D. Winn, of Macon. Colo
nel Winn was wounded at Chateau
Thierry.
_ “I am not a politician; I'm a sol
dier,” he laughed,-when told nhis
_name had been mentioned as a
Georgia gubernatorial possibility.
Aboard the battleship were Com
pantes 1, and M of the 167th Infan
try from Alabama. Otlier units of
this regiment landed VFriday.
S i ot s
.
New Russian Revolt
. .
Likely to Help Allies
(By Internationai News Service.)
STOCKHOLM, April 26.—Another
revolt has broken out in Russia, ac
cording to advices from Helsingfors,
The latest uprising occurred in the
government of Olonets, in the north
western part of the country, and it
may be of big assistance to the Al
lied troops on the Archangel front, as
thg revolutionaries were pressing the
redls very hard at last reports,
The revolutionary armies are press
ing eastward and southward from
the region of Lake Lazoda and have
already captured four villages from
the Bolshevikl.
Direct Bolshevik communication be
tween Moscow and the Archangel
front has been cut off by an uprising
of anarchists near Ivanovo-Yozne
senk.
The extremists proclaimed an an
archist republic and sent envoys to
Yaroslav to confer with their anar
chist colleagues, but the agents were
arrested by the Bolsheviki and exe
cuted. In revenge the Yaroslav work
ers killed half the members of the
local soviet.
.
Senior Round Table
ey p
Initiates Two Atlantans
ATHENS, April 26—The Senior
Round Table, the old and honored club
of the Benjor Class at the University,
initiated it new members yesterday,
those who will compose the club next
year., The members are elected on the
basgis of scholarship and speaking abil
ity, and the honor is one of the most
coveted among Semiors,
The sw men are R. L, Anderson,
Mm'on;'fi‘}li. Bagley, Columbus; W. B
Disbro, J®, Atlanta; F. W, Harrold,
Americus; G. T. Mann, Lyons; K. A,
McWhorter, Savannah; N. G. Long,
Pendergrass; R, D, O'Callaghan,
Athens; Stephen Popper, Macon; C. W,
Black, Galnesville; T. 1., Stokes, Jr,
Atlanta; W. D. Weathers, Glenville,
increased assessment of $1,200 would
be required to pay only an increase
of $156. In this manner, while all
property owners would be taxed on a
percentage basis, the heavier charges
would be against the man who Is
more prepared to stand it,
Just what solution will be reached
is a “stunner” to city officlals, Some
of them say: '""The people have sald
what they want, If they want a $1.25
tax fate and no bonds, let the schools
close; let their families cateh in
numerable diseases through a erip
pled water department; and let the
city lose its priceless Cyclorama
through fire which the crippled fire
department would be unabie to
quench.”
This drastic view is not taken bj
all, however, and it I 8 expected that
the much-troubled officials of Atlanta
will get down to business right away
"n?t find some way out of their diffi
culity
(Copyright, 1913, by the
~ Georgian Companw)
Daniels Speaki
Hun Warship Pledges
Unity With England
(Bg International News Service.)
SCAPAFLOW, SCOTLAND, April
26.—" America and Great Britain
will always remain united,” de
clared Josephus Daniels, American
Secretary of the Navy, in a lunch
eon speech today on board the for
mer German warghip Kestrel,
Secretary Daniels and his «staff
inspected the surrendered German
?eet off this port during the morn
ng.
Following the luncheon a number
of speeches were made on the Kes
trel. Admiral Prendergast, of the
British navy, pald sigh tribute to
the aid given so ungrudgingly to
the Allies by the United States
during the war. |
Secretary Daniels in his reply
spoke of the pleasure it gave him
to review the remains of the Ger
man fleet—‘"some of the mightiest
vessels in the world held by only |
three British drifters.”
The surrender of the German
fleet, said Mr, Daniels, destroyed
i any hope for honorable traditions
for the defeated navy.
. The American statesman visited
the Kirkwall Cathedral yesterday
and afterward dined as the guest
of Admiral Sir Roger Keyes on the ‘
dreadnought Lion. |
Aggrieved Countries ‘
» .
To Try War Criminals
(Exclusive Cable by the International
News Service and The London
Daily Express.) |
PARIS, April 261 t was under
stood this evening that the bhig pow
ers, disregarding the report of the re
sponsibilities commission, have decid
ed that crimes against the laws of
war must be judged by a national
military tribunal of the prosecuting
countries instead of by an interna
tional court,
. .
Nearly Two Million Men
. L
Discharged From Service
(BI International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, April 26.—S8ince the
signing the armistice 1,832,528 officers
and men have been discharged from the
service, the War Department announc
ed this afternoon. During that, time
32,0564 officers and 644,687 men, have
returned from overseas. Enlistments
for overseas service now total 18,373,
it was stated.
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Season of Metropolitan Here.
Artistic Climax Comes When Ca
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. ruso Superbly Sings the Great
“Sob Song” in “Pagliacci.”
By DUDLEY GLASS,
The greatest opera week the world
has ever known from the standpoint
of attendance and receipts ended last
night at the Auditorium when the or
chestra sobbed out the last notes of
the Canio motif in “Pagliacei.”
If the statement sounds like hy
perbole, consider the facts which
made the truth possible: the largest
auditorium in which grand opera ever
has been given, seven performances
in six days, which is known nowhere
else than in music-hungry Atlanta,
which must take all its year's opera
feast in one meal; and the musfe
loving population of several States
from which to draw attendance.
These conditions exist nowhere else.
The attendance upon the seven op
eras of the week was between 35,000
and 40,000, and the cash receipts
were approximately $105,000, it was
stated last night by €. B. Bidwell,
treasurer of the Music Festival As
sociation and one of the most inde
fatigable workers for the success of
the opera cach year. Mr. Bidwell
is Inclined always to be conserva
tive, Optimists in the associatloq set
the receipts at nearer SIIO,OOO, and
this did not include the fiur tax
which goes to the Government. It
was stated officially that the expenses
were paid and the guarantee met,
and that guarantors would not be
called upon to put up a cent of loss,
Guarantee Easily Surpassed.
The guarantee to the Metropolitan
this year was the largest ever de
manded by that organization. Its
management required $85,000 guaran
tee, and this was underwritten quick.
ly by @itizens of Atlanta and sus
rounding towns, The local organi
zation, it was unofficially =aid, wounld
pay all expenses, pay the Metropoli
tan a total of more than $90,000 and
perhaps have several thousand in it
treasury tg devote to other musieal
activities, For there is no individust
profit mads from opera in Atlanta.
[ So much for the commercial as
'pect of the season. Artistically, ®
was n?most equally successful. Twe -
or three of the operas were marked
by weakness in some principal; the
old Bellini work on Saturday failed
to meet expectations. But on the
'whole the season was a brilliant one,
:.'md in several instances the operas
'were perfectly presented,
| The Artistic Climax.
i The climax of the season, to the
minds of many, came last night when
Caruso as Canlo sang the great “Sob
Song.” The opera had been preced
;ml as usual by “Cavalleria Rustica -
'na,” sung beautifully by Paunl Alt
?hon.«», Rosa Ponselle, Thomas Chal
llmc-rs Raymonde Delaunois and Ma
rie Mattfield, Roberto Moranzoni led
’lhl‘ orchestra through the exquisite
| shadings of the Mascagni score, and
every sniger achieved a personal tri
umph, Particularly plbasing was the
work of Paul Althouse, the Turiddu,
This fine young American tenor had
not appeared previously this season
and his singing last night made one
regret he had not ben given earlier
opportunity. Miss Ponselle was an
effective Santuzza. The glowing in
termezzo, of course, was one of the
great moments of the little opera
The intermisison was marked by
Victory Loan address by 8. ', Débbs,
president of the Chamber of om
merce and chairman of the loan cum
paign, which opens next week., And
then the first strains from the orches-