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VOL. XVII
WIRES NOT GIVEN BACK, BURLESON SAYS
Plans for Nation-Wide Telegraph Strike To Be Made Saturday
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Atlanta society will grace the boxes
it the Atlanta Theater tonight to
witness “The Magistrate,” presented
l he Oglethorpe Players, - Miss Er
nestine Campbell, above, and Miss
rabpScloen, below, will adorn the
Ka § BX Ipha -box.
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Wilson Will Make
No Further Move
.
For Beer and Wine
By JOHN EDWIN NEVIN,
Staff Correspondent of the |. N. 8.
PARIS, June 6.-—~Unless Con
gress intervenes, ‘wartime prohibi
tion will go hhto efféct on July 1.
The International News Service
was authorized to state officially
today that President Wilson will
take no further steps to prevent the
United States from going dry on
that date. 'l'he President has been
inundated ‘with appeals from Amer
fea to set askie the wartime prohi
bitionn measure, because of the be
lief that Congress will fall to act
on his request. But he hasg taken
the stand that he Is unable to do
anything further in view of Attor
jey General Palmer's decision,
The Preaitent, however, plans to
Adiscuss the effects of the wartime
prohibition measure with the Cab
inet on his return to the United
States before the law becomes ef
fective,
President Wilson expressed his
warmest satisfaotion at the action
of the Senate in passing the woman
wuffrage measure, and said he was
convineed - efough - Btate - hegisla
tures will ratify the amendment to
permit women to vote in the next
presidential election.
Full International News Service
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What promia'es to be one of the best
amateur productions ever staged in
this city will be presentéd at the At
lanta Theater Friday night when the
Ogletho '‘pe Players put on Pinero's
“The Magistrate.”
The Oglethorpe Players are perma
nentiy organized, and they are am
bitious to outshine any other college
performers in the country. They re
hearse frequently and faithfully and
maintain their star performers year
after year, in order that practice may
bring perfection.
JWilliam R. Carlisle and Marion
Gaertner, veterans of oiner perform
ances by the Oglethorpe Players,
stand out promineéntly in the cast.
This will be their last appearance, as
both are to graduate this year. Ches
ley Howard, Jr., star of “The Melting
Pot,” who has just returned from
service overseas, also has a prominent
role. Miss Sarah Wagstaff has tuo
leading feminine role, closely rivaled
by Miss Gertrude Kelly, 'who has
shown such abllity as an esthetic
dancer that she has reen asked to go
to> New York to prepare for the stage.
( ther girl stars are Miss Elsie Trippe
and Miss Marybelle LaHatte.
Tho play is sponsored by the wom
an's board of the university and the
proceeds will go toward the erection
of a Greek theater on the campus
Miss Carolyn Cobb, of the Oglethorpe
faculty, will be the director. Atlanta
society is taking a great interest in
the performance and will make the
cecasion a soclal event. All of the
boxes were reserved several days
ago. The cast follows:
Agatha Posket .. Miss Sarah Wagstaff,
Charlotte (her sister),
Miss Gertrude Kelly
Beatie Tomlinson (music mistress),
Miss Elsie Trippe
Popham (a maid),
Miss Marybelle LaHatte
Mr. Poskert (magistrate),
Marion Gaertner
Mr. Bullamy (magistrate),
E. E. Moore
Colone! Lukyn ..... William Carliale
Captain Vale ......William Johnson
Cys Farringdon.. Chesley Howard, Jr.
Achille Blond .......... Ernest Duffy
leadore (French waiter),
Charles Tidwell
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Repeal of the Daylight
Saving Law Agreed On
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, June 6.--Repeal of
the daylight saving law, effective for
1920, was agreed to today by the
House interstate and foreign com
merce committee. The existing. Jaw
will not be chunged during the pres
ent season, A bill carrying ‘into ef
fect this decision will be reported.fa -
vorably to the House by the com
nmiioe, .
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ERZBERGER NOW FAVORS SIGNING
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Germans Now Balk at Treaty Be-{
cause French Aided Rhine
Republic, They Say.
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, June 6.—Dr. Mathlui
Frzberger, head of the German arc-)
m’'stice commission, after a prolonged
discussion of the peace terms, is nowi
advocating signing the treaty, said an
Fxchange Telegraph dispatch from
Berlin today, quoting The Deutsche
Tages Zeitung. ;
Previous advices had characterized
Dr. Erzberger as being opposed to
signing the treaty. .
Germans S:;{l French
Aided New fl:ubhc
(By Internstional ws Service.) 1
BERLIN, June 6.—A new crisis in
the peace negotiations has developed{
here, growing out of the charges that,
the French commander of the army
of occupation have encouraged andi
lent considerable support to the lead
ers of the movement for the forma
tion of a Rhine republic
Criticism of the terms of the treatyi
of peace was beginning to moderate
when reports of the proclamation of
the republic at Wiesbaden were re
ceived. It is now charged in Govern
ment circles that the French, not
content with gaining control of the
Saar valley for a period of years
affd with other territorial arrange
ments are now plotting the dismem
berment of what remains of the old
German empire.
The Berlin press unanimously in
dorses the strong note of protest
handed to the Allies at Parls by
Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau,
against the alleged support by the
French of the Rhine separatist
movement. The head of the German
peace delegation asserted that the
separatist movement is bound to dis
turb the fulfillment of the terms of
the peace treaty and made the pointed ‘
charge that the French had pro-l
voked the separatist movement in
violation of the terms of the armiu-‘
tice, ‘
Coun von Rrockdorff-Rantzau in
formed the Allies that Germany could
carry out the terms of the proposedi
treaty of peace only if her economic
and territorial basis was unaltered. ‘
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Germany’s War Debt ;
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To Be Known November 1
By JOHN EDWIN NEVIN
Staff Correspondent of the |. N. S.
PARIS, June 6—Amplifications are
being planned for the peace treaty
by which the exact amount of Ger
many's war Indebtedness will be
*known by November 1, it was learned
from Allied sources today.
Another conference was held by
the experts of the allied and associ
ated powers at Versalligs to consider
possible changes in the clauses deal
ing with economic restrictions,
The German experts are reported
to have taken the position that the
changes already proposed are “par
tially satisfactory.”
The work of drafting the reply to
the German counter proposals is be
ing carried out with all possible
haste with the various groups of ex
perts contributing data,
President Wilson and Premier
Clemenceau are said to have framed
most of the preamble which will car.
ry the rejection of the German pro
posals,
British delegates are In complete
accord and are united with the other
envoys on the food proposals which
will be presented to Count von
Prockdorff-Rantzau, chalrman of the
German peace delegation, next week,
Not a single one of the original
principles in the original treaty will
be sacrificed,
1,500 CZECHS EXECUTED
WASHINGTON, June 6.--At least
1500 Czechs were executed by Aus
tria. during the war as a result of
drum-head courts-martial, according
to the results of an Investigation
cabled to the commissioner of the
(‘zecho-BSlovak republic in the United
States.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1919
THE GREAT WAR—
A GOOD OR
AN EVIL?
No man knows.
No more than he knows the
answer to any other great ques
tion buried in the unfathomable
future.
But no man who thinks has
failed to ask himself the ques
tion, nor fails to seek every light
he can upon it
For, in part, his may be the
power to govern the deciding fu
ture.
In an effort to bring some of the
best thought of the community to
its readers, The Georgian has
asked the question, “Do you look
upon the great war as a good or
an evfl thing for humanity?” of—
DR. H. J. MIKELL,
Bishop of Atlanta.
DR. WALTER ANTHONY,
Pastor St. Mark M. E, Church
South.
DR. M. ASHBY JONES,
Pastor Ponce Del.eon Avenue
Baptist Church
DR. G. 1. KEIRN,
Pastor Liberal Chtistian
Church.
DR. HENRY ALFORD PORTER,
Pastor Second Baptist Church.
Their replies will appear in
The American Forum
of the next
SUNDAY AMERICAN
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, June 6.—Self-de
termination for the Irish people was
urged on both sides of the Senate
this afternoon.
Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Mas
sachusetts, presented a resolution that
the Senate of the United States ex
press its sympathy with the aspira
tions of the Irish people for a Gov
ernment of its own choice.
The resolution of Senator Borah,
Republican, of Idaho, with a request
of the Senate that the American
peace commissioners secure a hear
ing for Sinn Fein representatives be
fore the peace commission at Paris,
which was blocked yesterday by Sen
ator John Sharp Wililams, Democrat,
of Mississippi, also was taken up.
The Walsh resolution was adopted
as an amendment to that of Borah by
a viva vore vote.
Borah's resolution also was adopted
without a roll call.
Towers Is Expected
.
In Rome Fair Week
ROME, June 6.—A big event plan
ned for fair week will be the visit
of Commander john H. Towers, of
the United States navy. The landing
field for the airplanes which the fair
assoclation will build is to be named
Towers Field, in honor of the Roman
of whom all Rome ({8 proud, and
Commander Towers has been detailed
to come down and dedicate it. It is
possible the officer will make the
flight from Washington to Rome by
airplane. Furthermore, planes are
heing made to secure the use of a
seaplane, as the Coosa River, it is
stated, could afford position for the
hop-off,
Giving Firms |
Who Sell Semvice |
A Chance to Get Ahead
In the Want Ad pages of The
Georglan and American there
is a department headed
‘““Business Service,” and any
firm, large or small, who
sells service-—~Printing, Re-
Kuirlnx. Building, Personal
ervice of any kind--can ad
vertise lin it and builld up
his clientele of customers,
He doesh't need to know
anything about advertising.
If he ‘;‘vb- good. service and
tells what it is and how he
may be reached, that's
enough,
That's all there is to ad
vertising -~ <common-sense
words at the command of
everybody,
Georglan and American read
ers read the "Business Serv
ice” columns and use the
service offered there, |
Anyone wh osells service has
only to write 4 Want Ad.
Then send it or bring it to 1
The Georzian and American
Atlanta’s Want Ad Directory
20-22 East Alabama Stzget
Hundreds of Persons Express
Opinion Stringent Ordinances
Should Be Abolished.
A Sunday for the people, with some
vrere to go and something to do
tesides strolling on the sidewalks or
s'tting on the park grass, is planned
tir Atlanta by t he Chamber of Cons
merce committee on public recreation.
It held its first meeting Friday at 11
o’clock, and the first topic of discus
sion was Sunday recreations.
No definite plan was formulated for
handling the situation, but the com
mittee decided to draft a resolution
in favor of more recreations for the
people on Sunday, and then to sound
public sentiment on the matter as far
s possible, It was desired to keep
awvay from “commercialism” as far
as possible, and while most members
of the committee favored the opening
of picture shows on Sunday after
ncons and evenings, it was recognized
that to operate these under regular
cenditions would cause strong oppo
sition from citizens who object to the
carrying on of business on Sunday.
LEGAL OPINION.
A legal opinion was had on the
Sunday laws and ordinances, in which
i* was shown that more th an 90 per
cent of occupations carried on every
Sunday are illegal in the strict sense
of the word. The State law forbids
the carrying on of anyone’'s regular
cecupation on Sunday, and it was the
opinion rendered that it is a violation
of the law to sell drugs, except inj
cases where it is necessary to savei
life; to sell soda water, to operate a‘
taxicab, to print or sell a newspaper,
to sell cigars or cigarettes or to ('ar-‘
ry on any business whatsoever.
Members of the committee believed
that if public sentiment demands a.
more liberal interpretatin of the Sun
day laws, which will permit innocent
reereations to be carried on, that
these recreations will follow. |
CROWDS ATTEND GAMES, |
The demand of the public for some
form of Sunday recreation, it was
pcinted out, is shbwn in the patronage
ot the Sunday baseball games at
Camp Jesup, which is on a Govern
ment reservation and outside the ju
risdiction of State and ecity authori
ties. Many thousands have attended
‘these games, the crowds being far in
excess of those at weekday games atl
Ponce Del.eon Park. §
‘ . The attendance at the free vaude
ville and plctyre whows given at the
Auditorium since the establishment ot
tle military camps here was pointed
out also, and it was shown that many
' thousands of persons had been
turned away from these entertain
‘memu because of lack of room inside
the big building
“Manufacturers here have told me
that they find it impossible to bring
workmen here from other cities be
cause they refused to live in a city
where there is nothing to do on Sun
day,” said Julian Boehm, chairman
of the committee, “One manufactur.
er went to Chicago and Milwaukee
and brought several families down,
On the first Monday they were here
they informed him they were going
to quit, because they had no recre
ation on Sunday.
THEY DODGE ATLANTA
“Hotel proprietors tell me that
traveling men dodge Atlanta on Sun
days when it is possible, because
they have nothing to do but sit
around the hotel lobbies,
“The well-to-do man can take his
family on an automobile ride or play
golf, but the working man and his
wife and children have nothing what
ever to do except visit a park and
they grow tired of that”
} No definite movement to open the
;Dk‘lure ghows on a commercial hasis
was discussed by the committee, be
'(‘lurm it was felt that at this time
a strong opposition from ministers
would be aroused, But the commit
tee went on record In a general way
as favoring more extensive facilities
for Sunday recreation, preferably
out-door recreation, and decided to
sound public sentiment,
“We do not want a wide-open
town,” sald one of the members, "I
do not think Atlanta wants a wide
open town. Bus I do belleve—and I
have talked with hundreds of men
and women of all types—that the
great majority of pubile sentiment
here does favor some facilities for
recreations which will give everybody
some opportunity for amusement on
Funday afternoons.”
With Lines Restored to Compa
nies, Fight to Finish Looms
Throughout United States.
The strike of men and girl em
ployees against the Southern Bell Tel
ephone Company and the Western
Union Telegraph Company in Atlanta,
already spread to include every West
ern Union office in the Southeastern
territory, Friday at noon appeared
likely to become nation-wide.
News from Washingfon was that
a conference will be held in Chicago
Saturday at which officials” of the
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union will
perfect plans for a nation-wide strike,
There are no hopes for a peaceful
settlement of differences, which in
volve prinecipally the right of organi
zation, acecording to 8. J. Knnvnkump,‘
international president of the telegra
phers. |
The strike has become a definite
issue between the workers and the
companies with the Burleson order re
storing all wire lines to private own
ers. ¢
3,000 REPORTED OUT.
According to reports at local strike
headquarters, 3,000 telegraphers have
walked out from offices of the West
ern Union in the Southeast. It was
said there are only 4,000 workers in
those offices eligible to membership
in the Commercial Telegraphers'
Union.
Replying to a telegram sent Thurs
day to S. J. Konenkamp, international
president of the Commercial Telegra
phers’ Union and Telephone Opera
tors’ Association, jointly with Post
master General A, S. Burleson, ask
ing if both sides would agree to sub
mit adjudication of the Atlanta tele
phone controversy to a local tribunal,
Mayor James L. Key Friday received
a telegram from Konenkamp stating
that the issue was national instead of
‘lm-:ll, but that the union would agree
‘m arbitration if the company would
agree to abide by the findings of an
larbitration board. He expressed doubt
‘that the company would so agree
KONENKAMP'S MESSAGE. |
Postmaster General Burleson's re
ply as given to Congressman W, D,
Upshaw was a flat refusal to arbi
trate. Konenkamp's message to the
Mayor follows:
“The nation-wide strike is based
upon nation-wide grievances of long
standing, of which the Atlanta con
troversy is but one. The policies of
the Bell compunies are dictated from
New York for all subsidiaries, which
makes it impossible to settle locally.
We are not opposed to an adjustment
at the hands of any fair tribunal if
the employers will sbide by the de
cision. Momths of effort along these
lines offer little encouragement for a
peaceful settlement. 1 appreciate
your efforts to help solve the problem
and assure you of my earnest hope
that it will be found J;un."
ARBITRATION REFUSED,
One of the last acts of Postmaster
(}flnna‘z’ll Burleson before relinquish
ing trol of the wires apparently
was to wire Mayor Key refusing the
offer of arbitration, A curious faect
in connection with this message was
noted in Atlanta Friday-—although
the Postmaster signed an order turn
ing back the wire lines at 5:39 o'clock
Thursday afternoon, Washington
time, his telegram I 8 marked 6:18
p. m., indicating that his interest in
the strike was to continue. Here is
the message. ’
~ “Thanks for your telegram. It does
not require an arbitration board to
‘ascertain the truth about a disputed
fact. 1 am having the facts as to
whether any employee of the South
ern Bell Company has been dismissed
~ Continued on Page 5, Column 1,
THE WEATHER,
Forecast — Fair Friday night
and Saturday,
Temperatures—6 a. m, 66; 8
a.m, 72; 10 a. m,, 77; 12 noon,
82; 1p.m,84; 2 p. m, 86
Sunrise, 5:26; sunset, 7:47.
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The Jingles in
T ines
he Headlines
By HARVE WESTGATE.
OLD KONENKAMP raps
Burley for giving back the
wires, and 'lows that he's a quit
ter, because old “Burl” retires;
but Western Union owners con
fess their great delight and
promise now they'll go to bat
and promptly win the fight,
- . -
Four score and three are
roasted and burned until they
die, and as we read the sad
details it brings a Dhitter sigh;
they charge it up to careless
ness, and, though it's now too
late, of course they'll have a lit
tle probe and they'll “investi
gate.”
. - .
Atlanta now is skidding, but
hasn't far to go; she'll soon be
at the bottom, her Crackers
turned to dough; just one or two
more struggles and then she'll
fight no more, for somehow all
her sluggers can't even up the
score.
Bitter feeling in the trial of Charles
E. Davis, fdrmer lawyer, accused of
forging the name of the late Chief
i.luxllm- lLogan E. Bleckley in an al
leged land swindle, reached a climax
!l"ll(lu_\: Solicitor Boykin and Attor
‘ney Sam D. Hewlett, former assistant
city attorney and one of the counsel
'lur Davis, engaged in a fast fist fight
in front of the jury box, the clash
resulting in a delay of an hour and a
half in the trial, and ap effort by
the defense to have a mistrial de
clared
{ Judge Humphries overruled the
motion for a mistrial, and the trial
,prnu-c-(lwl, following a recess that
had been ordered by Judge Humphries
ltu allow the situation to “cool.”
HOW FIGHT STARTED,
The fight interrupted the examina
tion by Solicitor Boykin of H. D.
Leon, also accused in the alleged
swindle, who had been introduced by
the State and had testified that he
had signed the name of the late Jus
tice Bleckley to the alleged forged
deed in the presence of and at the
instigation of Davis. Leon had been
put through a vigorous cross-exam
ination for the defense, and then the
Solicitor asked -ome‘ further ques
tions. He was quizzing Leon in re
gard to visits he had made to the
‘Solicitor's office in the course of the
Hnw-utkgntmn of the alleged forgery,
lwhen Attorney Hewlett suddenly
Jjumped to his feet and objected to
‘the manner of the examination, de
claring he wanted a “fair trial for his
client.”
Judge Humphries remarked that
Davis would be given a fair trial in
every particular, Attorney Hewlett,
turning toward the Solicitor, then re-l
marked: s s e
THIS REMARK DID IT,
“Well, 1 don't propose to be framed
up in this case like 1 was in the Care
son case and other cases.'
At this Solicitor Boykin struck the
attorney a terrific blow under the eye,
cutting a gash. Then the melee
started., Several blows were siyuck
by the belligerents before they could
be separated by Deputy Sheriff Gors
don Hardy, Attorney Fred Harrison,
John 8, McClelland and others,
Attorney Harrison, rushing in be
tween the fighters, received on the
Jaw the full force of an uppercut by
Solicitor Boykin, which came near
sending him down for the count.l
When It was all over, Harrison re-|
marked that he thought the roof hud‘
fallen in on him. He also stopped
a blow by Attorney Hewlett that
smashed his nose glasses,
JURY LEAVES ROOM,
~ Judge Humphries had the jury
1!:.k-~n from the courtroom immodhlo-‘
‘ly and declared a recess, Solicitor
Boykin immediately apologized to the
court, The latter announced that he
would deal with the fighters later, It
was immediately on the reconvening
of court that Attorney Nathan Har
ris, nlso of counsel for Davis, moved
for a mistrial,
The Carson case, to which Mr,
Hewlett referred in his remark, was
un automobile theft case in which the
defendant was convicted and sen-
Lenced to five years' lmprisonment.
NO. 264
LOMPANIES
Al ILLUNDER
- LONTROL
UFL.S.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, June 6.-—“ There
has been no acual return of’ the
properties of the telegraph and tele
phone companies to their private
owners, nor is such fction contem
plated,” Postmaster General Burle
son announced this afternoon. .
“Responsibility of the Government
to these systems in no wise ceases,”.
Burleffon added.
1 The Postmaster General's statement
follows: ¢
An order issued by me yesterday
relative to the operation of the tele
’ graph and telephone systems has
~ been construed by some as actual
return of the properties to the
- owners. No such action has been
taken by me, nor is any contem
plated. This order simply dissolves
the operating board appointed by
me under date of December 13,
1918, and directs that the systems
again be operated by the regular
operating officials under Govern
i ment supervision, Responsibility
of the Government to these systems
) in no wise ceases.
LEGISLATION NOT AFFECTED.
It being evident that these prop
erties are to be returned in the
very near future, it was necessary
for the Postmaster General to take
steps immediately to set up the
regular operating organization of
the companies, so that when the
properties are turned back it can
be done without confusion to the
serviec, which was the purpose of
the order, ;
This order in no wise affects the
legislation pending before the com
mittee of the Congress, It will en
able the company to begin steps
immediately to prepare the data
and collect the information to be
submitted to the Scale commis
sions for the rate cases, which will
probably be taken up immediately
after the period of Government con
trol ends, :
Postmaster General Burleson has
NOT turned hack the telephone and
ty'egrapl: systems to their private
ewners, in the opinion of Nathan C.
Kirgsbury, vice president of the
American Telephone Company. Tes-~
tifying today before the Senate in
terstate commerce committee, Kings
bury said Burleson had “simply done
sway with the board of operations.”
“The companies are now in opera
ticn with control of their own offi
cials " Kingsbury continued, “but op
erating for the Government and re
porting direct to the Postmaster Gen.
eral instead of to the board of opera
tions "
. Serator Kellogg, author of a meas
ure providing for the return of the
wires, with the present rates to con=-
tinue for 60 days, today characters
ized Postmaster General Burleson's
crder as “simply fiimflam.” The Sen
ate committee, he said, would proceed
to report the bill and urge its pas
sage.
SUBJECT TO BOARD.
“The Postmaster General has sime
ply turned back the responsibility and
kept his control, hasn't he?’ Kellogg
asked Kingsbury,
“1 think that is a little unfair,*
Kingsbury answered. “We are now
controlling matters of rates and
wages ourselves, but, of course, it =
all subject to the consent of the Wit
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