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Senate Committee, in Report on Probe, Declares
There Are “Parlor Bolsheviki” in U. S. Who
4 {Would Overthrow Government.
(By International News Service.
WASHINGTON, June 14.—Strong
walls of legislation must be built by
Congress to protect the nation from
Bolfiaevlam. This is the outstanding
recommendation in the report made
public tonight of the Overman com
mittee of the Senate, which inves
tigated Bolshevik and German prop
aganda for the Senate last session.
Investigations of the committee
developed three facts, the report
states:
1. That brewers have used their fi
nancial power to control. Govern
ments and newspapers;
2. That there are “parlor Bolshe
viki” in this country who would over
lthrow the Government of the United
States; and
3. That German propaganda was
actively fostered in this county be
‘fore and after the entrance of the
United States into the war,
R LAWS PROPOSED.
» Legislation recommended by the
‘investigating committee follow:
Control and regulation of the for
eign language press.
Control of the manufacture, sale
and distribution of explosives,
Full publicify regarding the actual
ownership of all publications, wheth
er printed in English or a foreign
lanzuage. . .
" Peace time laws to take the place
of the wartime espionage laws.
Publicity concernimg the origin, fi
nancial backing and purposes-of all
organizations appealing through the
mails for support of popular approv
al, and
Stronger provisions for the Federal
corrupt practices laws,
In recommending legislation along
these lines the report of the commit
tee says: .
/We believe the real advantage of
mo inquiry will be lost unless Con
gress profits from the knowledge thus
obtained by undertaking, by appro
priate legislation, to make impossible
a repetition of these activities, either
on the part of the offenders who have
been under investigation, and many
of whose activities are continuing. or
by others who at some future time
may seek to undermine the Govern
ment or pervert the popular will.”
BREWERS' ACTIVITIES.
With regard to the activities of
brewers, the committee reported:
“They furnished large sums secret
ly 1o eontrol newspapers and period
icals; have undertaken to econtrol,
and frequently have econtrolled, pri
maries, elections and political organ
izations have contributed enormous
sums to political campaigns in viala
tion to Federal laws and laws of sev
eral States: have exacted pledges
from candidrtes; attempted, and
‘paruy succeeded, in subsidizing the
publie press: hoycotted unfriendly
manufacturine and mercantile con
cerns; with the purpose of using it
for their own political purposes they
contributed lnrge sums to the Ger
man-American alliance, many of the
wmembershin of which were disloyal
and unpatriolic; organized clubs
leagues, and corporations for the pur
nose of secretly carrying on their po
litieal getivities without having thelr
interest known to the public; con
ceived a plan of subsidiation of the
foreign language press; subsidized
authors of redognized standing; held
a working agreement with distilling
interests for division of political ex
penditures.’ ,
AIMS OF BOLSHEVIKI.
In dealing with Bolshevism, the
committee said:
“The best answer that can be given
the champions of this Russian insti
tution is a true explanation of its real
nature and the actual principles on
which it is founded, as well as the
punavoidgble consequences that would
®ollow F's adoption in the United
States.
“It i@ significant that in the nited
States only a portion of the so-called
radical revolutienary groups and or
ganizations accept in its entirety the
doctrine of Bolshevism. They have
all, however, geized upon Bolshevism
as a rallying ery and are undertak
ing to unite all of these elements un
der that banner for the purpose of
accomplishing the injtjal Step in their
common formula, to-wit, the over
throw of existing Governmental in
stitutions and the complete demorali
zation of modern society,
“With this accomplished each group
hopes that it can muster sufficient
strength to maintain a supremaey in
the new social order and invoke the
parolicies of its particular creed. Most
of these groups accept the common
ground that forcible, as Aistinguished
frm?‘ political, action should be used
as the instrument to secure the over
throw of the present Government and
( in so doing defy and repudiate the
Democratic form of Government
which guarantees tnder our consti
tution the rule of the majority.
BASED ON VIOLENCE.
“Like the Bolsheviki in Russia,
these groups recognizeé in the destrue
tion of life, property and personal
security the necessary preliminary to
the establishment of a Government
founded upon the violence of the mi
nority, They realize that riot, dis
crder and hunger breed hatred, blood
lust and desperation, and that with
out these mankind ean not be driven
to the use of force to accomplish an
end attainable by lawful and peace
uble poiitical methods under the ex
tuting Government,
“The radical revolutionary elements
bn this country and the Bolshevik
Government of Russia have, there
fore, found a common cause in sup
port of which they can unite their
forces.
EFFECTS ARE CITED.
After a review of Russian Bol
shevism from the time of the Czar's
overthrow to the present, the com
mittee pointed out what would hap
pen if “the program that the revo
lutionary elements and the parlor
Bolsheviki want” were adopted in this
country, There would be 27 conse
quences, the report set forth, which
started with “the repudiation of de
mocracy and the establishment of a
aletatorship,” and winding up with
“insuguration of a reign of fear, ter
rorism and violened” Other effects
ineluded are confiscation of property,
digenfranchisement of large numbers
l‘ vud classes of people, abolition of re
ligious freedom, muzzling of the
press and establishment of compul
sory military service and compul
sory labor,
“Notwithstanding the fact that
every champion of Bolshevism that
testified before the committee ad
mitted the Bolshevik formulas were
not adaptable to the United States,
they and their evangelism persist in
their appeals to the passion of the
people in an attempt to provoke dis
content and hatred,” the report de
clares,
OFFER NO IDEAL.
“They must, therefore, be condemn
ed as the mere champions of discon
tent and disorder, offering no practi
cable and acceptable ideal.”
Detailed report by the committee
was made of German propagandists,
and it was declared the inquiry had
shown Germany had used great ef
fort systematically to foster the
growth of a German-American popu
lation in the United States, until, at
the outbreak of the war, there was
one-tenth of the population’ of the
United States of German birth or de
scent. Going further, the report
shows the efforts used by Germany
to use all this part of the American
people in carrying on her war aims
and of t.he consequent failure,
The ‘report reviews testimony
which was given before the commit
tee and repeats evidence showing a
large number of organizations and
persons, the majority of whom were
interned or arrested, used as the in
struments of Germany in the United
States at one time and another,
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North Georgia Tour
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| To Start on Tuesday
Entrants in the tour of Northwest
Georgia arranged by the Georgia
State Automobile Association, will get
away at 7:30 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing. Fourteen counties are to be tra
versed thoroughly in the three days
of the tour. Leaving the Kimball
House, the machines will go to the
following towns, visiting them in the
order named:
Roswell, Alpharetta, Cumming,
Dawsonville, Dahlonega, Cornelia,
(Clayton, Clarkesville, Hiawassee,
Young Harris, Blairsville, Morgan
ton, -Blue Ridge, Ellijay, Jasper, Tate,
Canton and Marietta,
Among those who will make the
trip are Mr, and Mrs. W. Tom Winn,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Leoridans, Mr.
and Mrs. William Candler, Mrs. J. B.
Grant, Mrs. Gertrude V. Kelly, Oscar
Coursey, James Coursey, W. L. Mat
thews, J. E. McMillen, Howard See,
K. T. McKinstry, J. Oscar Mills, W.
H. Brittain, Frank T. Reynolds, C. L.
Davis, of Warm Springs; W. B. Roy
ster, of Griffin; Dr. Craig Arnold, of
Dahlonega; Mrs, Kimball, Miss Tea
beaut and Miss Bessie Kempton,
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Crittenton Home to
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Hold an “Open House
The Florence Crittenton Home wili
insintain open house from 4 o'clock
until 6 o'clock Wednesday afternoon,
and an invitation has been given the
public to attend. Automobiles will
meet* river cars at Ashby street and
conduct visitors to the institution.
Deaths and Funerals
MRS. FANNIE KARR.
Funeral services of Mrs. Fannie
Karr, 45, who died Thursday night at
her residence, No. 32 Graham street,
will be held Sunday at 2 o'clock at
the chepel of Harry G. Poole, and
interment will be in Connally Ceme
tery, near East Point, |
EDGAR M. OLVEY. |
Funeral services of Fdgar M. Olvey,
19, who died Friday afternoon at the
resifdence, No. 311 Turner avenue, wili
be held Sunday at 3 o¢'clock at the
Ezra Baptist Church, and interment
will he in Northview, with Awtry &
Lowndes in charge., He is survived
by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C, E.
Qlvey; three brothers, Homer, Bu
ford and Zmmett Clvey, and two six.
ters, Misses Esta and Bessie Olvey. |
MRS. EMMA BARRETT BLACK.
Funeral services of Mrs. Emma
Barrett Black, 54, who died Saturday
at the home of her nepnew, R. L.
Burrett, No. 423 Greenwood avenue,
wi!l be heid Sunday at 4 o'cloek at
the above address, and interment will
be in Westview, with Awuy &
Lowndes in charge. She is survived
Ly three nephews and one niece,
MRS. BESSIE L. FULLER.
Funeral services of Mrs. Bessie L.
Maller, 39, who died Friday at her res
idence, No. 246 Lucile avenue, will be
held Sunday at 4 o'clock at the Gor
don Street Baptist Church, the Rev
W. M. Sentell officiating, and inter
ment will be in Westview, with Bar
clay & Brandon in charge
| MRS. MARY JANE SAWYER.
~ Mrs. Mary Jane Sawyer, 66, dled
‘Saturduy at her residence, No, b
Murphy avenue. She is survived by
her husband, J. C.; one daughter, Mrs,
W, H. Smith; two step-sons, W, T.
Sawyer, of Conyers, and J. L. Saw
\yer, of Atlanta., The body was re
'moved to the chapel of Harry G
Poole and will be sent to Conyers
Sunday at 12:15 o'clock.
PERRY LYLE.
Perry Lyle, 10, died Friday night at
10 o'clock at the residence, No, 355
Lakewood avenue, He Is survived by
his parents, Mr. and Mrs, J. G, Lyle;
two brothers, . E. and C, 8. Lyle;
one gister, Miss “Ella Lyle, Funeral
services will be held Sunday at 11
o'clock at the Lakewood Heights
Methodist Church, and interment will
be in Forest Park, Harry G. Poole in
charge,
JOHN THOMAS McMURPREY.
John Thomas McMurprey, infant
spn of Mr. and Mrs J. A, M:Murprey,
‘({led Saturday afternoon _at 6H:30
‘o'(‘lork. Besides his puren‘u. he Is
survived by one orother, Clay, and
one half-brother, Willlam Head. [u
neral services will be held Sunday at
f“ n'clock at Sandy Springs Church,
‘and interment will be in the church
;yurd. Harry G. Poole in charge,
MILTON G, MILLER,
Milton G. Miller, 24, died Saturday
at 'ort MePherson. The body was
removed to the chapel of Harry G
Poole and =ent to Athens, Ala,
| L. M. KYTLE.
1.. M. Kytle, 19, of Cedartown, died
Saturday afternoon at a local hos
pital, He is survived by his motiher,
Mra, Rosa l'\'_\th'. Th'e’ body Is at the
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The Boy Scouts took a leading part in the Flag Day celebration here. One group is shown here.
Left to right, Merrill Bumstead, Troop 2; Frank McComack, Troop 19; William Delany,
Troop 3; Fran.ces Parker, Troop 21.
Flag Day, Saturday, was oob
served in Atlanta by many organi
zations and in hundreds of private
homes, by flying new and brilliant
flags.
At the Joseph Habersham Chap
ter House of the Daughters of the
American Revolution flags of all the
Allied, nations were presented to
the chapter and General Sturgis,
commanding Camp Gordon, was
the orator of the occasion.
The Atlanta Lodge of Elks, as is
customary, observed Flag Day with
an interesting program of music
and oratory Saturday night at the
clubhouse on Ellis street. Reuben
R. Arnold delivered the principal
address. '
The Boy Scouts, who were clos
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Shriners Report Great
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Time at Indianapolis
“The biggest time we ever had
since the Shriners met in Atlanta,”
was the verdict of the Shriners from
Yaarab Temple who reached home
yesterday from the national conclave
at Indianapolis,
The Atlanta Shriners stopped at
Louisville on they way to Indianapo
lis, and many of them went on to oth
er cities, paying their last visit before
July 1 changes the map of the coun
try.
The most interesting feature of the
convention, the returning Shriners
said, was the solemn funeral of John
Barleycorn, staged in the streets with
a score of bands playing funereal
dirges and all the Shriners weeping
real and copious tears.
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Telephone Striker Goes
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Joe Smith, striking telephone em
ployee charged with assault and bat
tery upon Misg Gertrude Anderson, a
nonunion supervisgor for the Southern
Bell Telephone Company, was dis
missed by Judge T. O, Hathcock in
the eriminal division of Municipal
Court Saturday afternoon at 3:30
o'clock after a hearing lasting fyom
10 o'clock Saturday morning. Aler
the evidence had ban introduced and
Attorney J. A. Branch had made his
speech for the prosecution, Judge
Hatheoek dismissed the case, telling
Attorney C. M, Lancaster that it was
not necessary for the defense to arguo
the case. Attorneys Paul Donehoo
and J. A, Miller alded in the defense
while Attorney Aldine Chambers as
sisted in the prosecution, |
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THREFE, SETS OF TWINS, § YEARS,
(“{ Internntionnl News Nerviee)
EHELBYVILLE, IND, June 14.-Thres
sty of twins In nine years (s the record
of Mr. and Mre. Leo Hulsman, of this
city. The latext twins, A boy and a pgirl,
ench welghed eight pounds at birth. Mrs
Hulsman is thirty years old and her hus
band forty-three ‘
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tion of Flag Day a part of their
program.
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A ruling has been made by James
1.. Mayson, City Attorney, steering
the tax committee of Council through
the dilemma it found swirling about it
in May as to the status of church
and other property used for benevo
lent and religious purposes. He found
the law exempts churches from all
taxation save paving assesments as
it does all organizationg '‘not oper
ating for purposes of income.”
Church parsonages, hospitals and
civic institutions may be required to
pay in full,
It has been the custom of Council
to relieve these classes of all but a
fourth of the city tax, In its search
for additional revenue, which is bad
ly needed, the tax committee reopen
ed discussion of the taxability of
such property. A long list of fi. fas.
principally against parsonages, found
ed on 1917 tax assessments, was
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SUFFRAGE FIGHT DUE
"IN THE LEGISLATURE.
Out of the maze of important meas.-
ureg to be presented before the com
mxfiseulon of the Legislature, stand
three bills of more than passing in
lt‘erelt that have not been made pub
e,
Probably the most important of
these is the Susan B, Anthony bill,
which proposes to put Georgia on
record as favoring an amendment to
the Federal Constitution, giving suf
frage to women. It is reported that
this measure will be supported by a
member of the Fulton delegation,
Reports also come that efforts will
be made to put the measure through
both houses on the first business day,
in the same manner the prohibition
bill was put through last year,
In this plan the supporters of the
measure are bound to meet obstacles,
for the conservative members of both
brarches al“x planning to put off the
fight on thésuffrage bill until other
measures they consider of more im
portance to Georgia have been
brought up.
' FIGHT IS EXPECTED.
There will be stiff opposition—that
is certain. There are a number of
members who have signified their in
tention of fighting the measuras on the
ground that it is contrary to State's
rights. That contention will be the
general basis for the whole opposi
tion,
Realizing that other matters of vital
importance will become of second
consideration if the suffrage contro
versy is precipitated at the outset, the
conservative leaders are planning to
shove it back of three measures, the
lders local school tax bill, the State
banking bill and the bighway leglsla
tion.
There will be a fight to place the
Elders bill as No. 1 on the Senate
calendar, |
With opposition looming up against
the suffrage amendment, gossip at the“
Capitol indicates that the hottest leg
islative fight of years will center
around that matter,
STRENGTHEN LIQUOR LAW.
Senator 8. W. Ragsdale, of the Thir
Woman sl Accused
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CHESTER, 8. C., June 14.—A war
rant was sworn out before Judge
‘Shannon this evening for the arrest
’of a welll-known Chester County
woman, Mrs, Vennie Love, charging
her with assault with intent to kill
her husband, Joseph Love, on whom,
it is alleged, while he lay asleep, she
poured hot water from his waist
down, painfully and severely bugning
him. He was taken to Pryor's Hos
pital for treatment. Mrs. Love says
someone broke into the home and
drenched him with the water and
that she also was burned. They
have six children.
Sudden Illness on Car
Is Fatal to Aged Men
| COLUMBUS, June 14-—John La
nier, an aged white man, who be
}cume violently ill immediately a fter
boarding a North Highland street car,
‘died soon after he was taken from
the car. He is a citizen of Phenix
City and is survived by a number of
relatives,
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>ty -eighth Distriet, Haralson, Polk and
Paulding Counties, is planning to pre.
cipitate a fight in the Leglsrlature by
proposing an amendment to the pro
hibition law, to take away from judges
the right of exercising discretion in
the imposition of sentences en per
sons convicted of violatng the prohi
bition law,
- The plan proposed by Mr. Ragsdale
contemplates obgliatory penal service,
in part. at least, on every conviction.
~ Mr. Ragsdale is the member who,
during the last Hoke Smith campaign,
introduced and fought out in the Sen
ate a resolution calling on Governor
Smith to immediately resign his office,
and assume his duties in the United
States Senate. He was at hat time a
remarkable power in the upper branch
of the Assembly.
Representative . Fred Kelly, of
Gwinnett County, is planning to In
troduce companion bills, which he
conceived after the bringing to light
of cruel treatment inflicted upon or
phaned children in the Undenomina
tional Home at Marietta by Mrs. Na
omi V. Campbell, who was convicted
for her erimes.
TO PROTECT ORPHANS,
Mr. Kelly's bills will require ornl;mn
asylums and all other institutions so
liciting public funds for charitable
purposes to come under State regula
tion by registering with the Secretary
of State.
The bill will provide that before any
such institution may solicit funds it
must obtain a permit or certificate
from the Secretary of State, which
must be countersigned by the Clerk
of the Court in which the institution
is located, or the judge of the circuit.
The companion measure is an
amendment to the Veazy act. In this
amendment Mr. Kelly will seek to
provide that guarterly inspections be
obligatory on the part of the Sheriff
or a legal deputy in each county in|
the State, and that each inspection
of an orphan asylum or Jnstitntion
must be included in the recorded re
port of the Grand Jury.
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Highwayman Shot and
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Killed by Merchant
CHICAGO, June 7—~A man who
was identified by Frank Kriz, a de
tective of the lLawndale police sta
tion, as August Grochall, was shot and
killed by A. J. Donat, a shoe mer
chant, in ffont of Donat's home at
No. 2,432 South Ridgeway avenue,
Donat had left his store, a short
distance away, and was just about to
enter his home. He had his day’s re
ceipts. Two men approached him and
yelled:
“Hgld nup your hands!”
Instead of complying, Donat pulled
a revolver and shot. Both the hold
up men ran. Fifty feet away Groschall
fell. As he did so h» turned-and emp
tied his revolver a. Donat, but falled
to hit him.
Bryan Will Speak on
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Prohibition in Columbus
COLUMBUS, June 14 —William
Jennings Bryan will deliver two pro
hibition addresses in Columbus next
Friday evening. He will be accom
panied by Dr. Howard Russell, who
founded the Anti-Saloon League of
America 25 years ago, and who is
now vice president.
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(By International News Service.)
THE HAGUE, (by mail).—The com=-
mittee of defense of the interest of the
Flemish people living in Belgium, an
organization composed of a number of
well-known Flemish residents of Hol
land, has forwarded a letter to Presi
dent Wilson expressing its “most heart
felt sympathy and admiration’ for his
“‘unbroken effort to bring about per
manent peace on the basis of a League
of Nations and of the free acceptance
of any settlement by the people imme
diately concerned, and not upon the
basis of the material interest or ad
vantage of any other nation of people
which may desire a different settle
ment for the sake of its own exterior
influence or mastery.”
The letter adds: “Our committee,
voicing the interests of a population of
over four million people, expresses its
confidence that alike with the Poles, the
Jugo-Slavs, the people of the Ukraine,
the Finns and the Irish, the Flemish
people will see its future safeguarded
by the Peace Conference on the basis
sible in Belgium .unless our people
of full autonomy within the Belgian
State. No permanent peace will be pos
shall have found absolute security; that
it will no longer be govermed, educated,
tried in courts of justice or led in its
army in a language not its own, but
in its old Dutch vernacular, and will be
enabled to regain its ancient glorious
civilization, instead of beihg kepf
down under foreign influence. The im
mensee eacrifices of the Flemish peo
ple in this war—Bo per cent of the
Belgian army on the Yser having been
Flemish—give it a do#ble claim to the
right of being made the master of its
own destiny, and we appeal to you as
the defender of the world's right and
justice to see this claim granted.”
Mrs. Tom Thumb, 77,
. .
Slowly Losing Sight
MIDDLESBORO, MASS., June 14—
Lavinia Warren Bump, famous on two
hemispheres under the name of Mrs,
Tom Thumb. and now the Countess
Magri, has been slowly losing her
sight for a number ‘of months and is
now almost blind.
Mrs. Tom Thumb for many years
occupied an unparalleled place in the
affections of the amusement-loving
public, appearing first with P, T. Bar
num. She became the wife of the late
General Charles Stratton, also a fa
mous Liiiputian, marrying the Count
Magri jater.
For a number of yvears she has lived
at her old home, the James Bump
farm, at Warrenton. She is 77 years
old. Her sister. Minnie Warren, wife
of Commodore Nutt, died many years
ago, and the Commodore died a few
years ago in New York City.
. .
High Rents Sending
Clevelanders to Parks
CLEVELAND, June 14.—Sleeping in
the parks will be fashionabfe here
this simmer.
Secretary A. H. Hood, of the Fed
eral rent board here, has recommend
ed to the City Council that the rais
ing of tents for shelter through the
summer nights in city parks be per
mitted.
“Tents in.the parks, besides afford
ing a cool retreat for citizens, would
relieve the home congestion,” said
Hood.
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