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Everybody Work.
More Beautiful Faces.
Imagination’s Power.
The Roosevelts and Adver
tising.
By Arthur Brishané——
ERNAI;D SHAW has a
B scheme to pay the debt of
England . He would treat
the man or woman not worl.dnc as
slackers were treated in war. He
says, “Until our debt is cleared to
the uttermost farthing, no able
bodied man or woman should be
exempt from the obligation to do a
fair day's work toward paying it
off.”
Ruthless conscription of produc
tive labor is his plan. The problem
then would be to deal with over
production, glutted markets and
the other ancient woes of industry.
Shaw, who is by marriage a rich
man, is opposed to the conseription
of wealth. That would nqt work,
he says. But it may have to work,
unless England decides to repudiate
her debt.
The number of beautiful female
faces has increased greatly be
cause of moving pictures, Millions
of young girls look every day at
the carefully chosen, most beauti
ful faces on the screen, and by
physical imitation and psychologi
cal influence they become more
beautiful. We may have a race of
women all with curly hair, rosebud
mouth and eyes two inches wide.
The influence of the eye upon
mind and body is very great. The
Bible tells you how the man that
was to have all the striped cattle
arranged to have the mother cows
look at striped objects constantly.
The calves were born striped.
Scientists say it is not so, but how
do they know?
In Greece the human body was
brought to greatest perfection.
Sparta killed off the badly shaped
babies, made the handsomest young
men and women run public races
entirely naked and with no thought
of immodesty Constantly behold
ing beautifully made bodies im
proved the shape of the race. You
can not think of an ancient Greek
knock-kneed or bow-legged. The
modern dress that makes a running
woman move her legs sidewise like
a sidewheel steamer, and the mod
ern, ungainly, flapping trouser legs
have produced imperfect bodies.
What limits would you set to the
power of imaginatién? A street
car conductor watched a lady, hot,
ancomfortable, sitting at a window
that happened to have no glass in
the window frame. She fanned her
self violently, then put down the
frame in which there was no glass.
After that she was much more
cheerful,
A man felt that he was suffo
cating in his bedroom, got up in
the dark, trlsd to open the window
and could not. Finally he broke
the glass; filled his lungs with air,
went back to bed and slept well
In the morning he found that he
had broken the glass of a bookcase.
Colonel Roosevelt's letter, writ
ten when Japanese and Russians
were negotiating peace in this
country, says: “The more | see
of the czar, the kaiser and the
mikado, the better | am content
with democracy even if we have to
include the American newspapers
as one of its assets—liability would
be a better term.”
Colonel Roosevelt, himself an
editor, in a way weal probably
have omitted the advertising power
of newspapers from his general
condemnation. No one knew bet
ter than Mr. Roosevelt, descendant
of an ancient Duteh family, that he
owed as much to advertising as
does “Old Dutch Cleanser.” Roose
velt and the cleanser both required
strength to succeed, but they need
ed advertising even more than
strength.
At this moment Colonel Roose
velt's son, Theodore the Second,
is making speeches, doing what can
be done by a number two to follow
in the footsteps of number one.
Young Mr. Roosevelt offers in his
latest speech a Roosevelt phrase,
“Meef 'em head on.” He decides
_that the I. W, W, the bholshevik
and the Socialist are all eriminals
and should be treated as such, and
offers that as his political platform,
The young man is entertaining, in
% Roosevelt way, but that would
not do him any good, or carry him
forward without newspapers to ad
vertise his first, tottering footsteps
on the road to notoriety,
Archduke Joseph, one of the
Hapsburgs, decided that his people
needed a royal leader, and an
nounced himself head of the Hun
garian - government, The allles
sald, "We don't want any Haps
burgs, get out.” The royal and
imperial Hapsburg leader gets out
promptly.
It is not so with the unknown
and not royal individuals Lenin
and Trotzky In Russia. They made
up their minds that Russia needed
leaders from the people. The
_ allies all sald, “Get out” and this
Yeountry has soldiers there trying
to shoot them out, But they do
not get out.
Deplorable as are Russian con
ditions, and horrible as are the
charges made against the bolshe
vik government, it Is quite clear
that any government originating
with the people themselves s more
powerful than a government of
Romanoffs or Hapsburgs handed
down from above.
Have You Ever Heard of ““the Man Who Almost Killed the Kaiser’’ and How He Died a
i Martuyr’s Death? Read This Soul Stirring Story in Tomorrow’s Georgian
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YOI, V. NO. 21
COOPER, CARMACK’S SLAYER, KILLED
CURB PROFITEERS, BOOST PRODUCTION, IS WARNING;
MEXICO IS BEING LAID WASTE BY BANDIT GANGS
More Meat, More Live Stock,
More Wheat in Country Than
There Was Year Ago, Finding,
Cotton Supply Low, Wool Above
Normal, but Production Cut
Down by Manufacturers.
WASHINGTON, Aug. - 30.—’l'hel
United States Council of National
Defense, through Secretary Baker as
chairman of the council, has submit
ted to the President and members
of Congress a full report on the con
comitants of the high cost of Hvlnx;
as surveyed by its reconstruction re
search division—this in order that
various agencies charged with con
sideration of this problem may take
concerted remedial action.
The findings of the council indi
cate that the high cost of living is
primarily due to curtailment in the
production of nearly all commodities
except raw food products, to hoard
ing of storage food products, to prof
iteering, conscious and unconscious,
and to inflation of circulating credit;
and that the situation may be most
advantageously met by stimulated
production; the repression of hoard
ing and profiteering, the improve
ment and standardization of methods
and facilities for distributing and
marketing goods, and the perfecting
of means of keeping the nation in
formed regarding probable national
requircmgnu *hd current production
and stoeks. .
INCREASE PRODUCTIONN.
The findings particularly emphasize
the fact that high standards of living
can not be maintained upon any basis
of reduced production.
The report says in part:
“An analysis of the high cost of liv
ing problem brings out the follow
ing facts and principles as constitut
ing the essence of the situation:
1. The only complaints of the high
cost of living -which have justifica
tion are those which are based upon
inability of present income to main
tain previous or reasonable standards
of living at present prices.
“2. America's industrial and eco
nomic achievements during the war,
notwithstanding depleted man power
and diversion of productive effort to
war purposes, demonstrate the ample
ability of the nation to sustain its
population according to a standard of
living equal to or above standards of
living which obtained previous to or
during the war,
\ “3. The fundamental basis for the
‘maintenance of national standards of
\llving is adequate production, eco
’numlcnl distribution and fair appor
tionment among the various economic
groups which constitute our society,
With the exception of agricultural
activity, production since the armi
stice has shown evidence of curtall
ment, and has In general been ab
normally low, Normal consumption
can not continue unless an adequate
rate of production is maintained,
* “4, Food production and the facili
ties for food production were im
proved rather than Injured during the
war, Moreover, the program with
respect to food production since the
signing of the armistice has been one
of vigorous expansion of the means
of providing raw food products, The
number of eattle slaughtered in the
period January to May, 1919, was
3,803,000, as against 4,204,000 for the
corresponding period of 1918, though
the national reserve of cattle on farms
has increased during the war. The
gituation In regard ‘to swine is sim
““f_;,. The production of civilian cloths
Continued on Page 8, Column 1.
*A Kk Kk
Food Plent_,
Says Report
Of Probers
Here are some striking points
brought out by the réport of the
Council of National Defense on
the high cost of living:
Food is plentiful.
There is more meat in cold
storage than a year ago, and a
bigger reserve of live stock on
farms.
Supply of wheat and grains
ample, with nearly three times
as much wheat in elevators and
mills than at same time last
year.
Supply of wool above normal,
but production cut down by
manufacturers to little more
than half,
Supply of cotton low, and
acreage less than in 1918,
Production of boots and shoes
60 per cent below last season.
United States short 1,000,000
homes. Shortage of building
materials makes high rent and
prices for homes certain.
J — —
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Aug. 30.—
Convicted of forgery, escaping from
the penitentiary, enlisting in the army
under an assumed name, fighting on
the battlefields of France in the same
division as the judge who sentenced
him, honorably discharged from the
service, Fred Pentecost has won back
his good name and a parole.
“He was a good, brave and gallant
soldier, “reads the indorsement of his
commanding officer on his petition
for clemency, which was signed by
the trial judge, the Morgan County
solicitor who prosecuted him, the man
whose name he forged to a $2.50
check and scores of citizens who
know him.
| HIS REMARKABLE STORY.
Pentecost was convicted in the Cire
cuit Court of Morgan County for the
crime of forgery on July 7, 1913, and
sentenced to serve ten years in the
penitentiary, ten years being the min
imum sentence under the law. On
January 28, 1917, he escaped from the
;p«-nnontiary and enlisted in the
United States Army under the name
of Arthur Giffon. After many actions
in France as an enlisted man in the
129th Machine Gun Battalion, he was
‘hunor:n»ly discharged at Camp Fun
ston, May 6, 1919,
‘ Judge Thomas W. Wert, who passed
'sentence upon Pentecost, served in
ilhe same division throughout the
war. In a letter to the governor,
'Judgn\ Wert states the facts in the
case.
“I have investigated this man’s case
thoroughly,” Judge Wert states, “and
am satisfied that this young man has
been in the army and has rendered
the services set out in his discharge.”
‘ Several persons were injured In a
'demonstration at Ponce de Leon Park
| Saturday afternoon that started as a
friendly cushion-throwing contest be
tween the occupants of the grand
istand and the bleachers, ending in a
free<for-all melee with chairs and
bottles being hurled
The bleachers hurled the first chal
lenge as the final play was made In
‘the ball game It was accepted with
lalacrity, although smilingly by the
lllu'um: crowding the stands
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AN Same {TFORT) #OX \PEGRTe 1o Ry
Calhoun County, ‘Ala., Board of
Education Pleads for School
Ma’ams for Half of District.
Pupils Don’'t Seem to Worry.
Three-Mill Tax Elections for
Schools To Be Held Sept. 26.
ANNISTON, Ala., Aug. S().—Other'l
gsections of the country may have
their shortage of food, be shy en
clothes, or Tun out of “gas.” It isn’t
a famine in any of these, or a trans
portation strike, that is worrying
Calhoun County.. The board of edu
cation says it could fight its way
through any other problem, but here's
what it is up against:
There's a shortage in school teach
ers.
. REAL FAMIN% X
And the board isn' shy one teacher,
or even a half dozen. Only half the
schools of the county are supplied.
That isn't a mere shortage, it's a
famine and blonde or Brunette, young
or old, the board is crying for school
ma'ams.
More than thirty of the country
districts have no teachers at all, and
dispite its efforts, the board fears
most of them will not open on time.
Some will be ready Monday, but most
of them will wait until September 29,
a few until October 27 and some
even later.
HOLD ELECTIONS. .
And the three mill tax elections
will have to be held over. The Su
preme Court held that the election
last fall, when an overwhelming vote
was cast in favor of the tax, was in
valid because the tax was spread
over too many years,
The date for the balloting has been
set for September 26 in all thirteen
country school districts and the three
municipalities of Calhoun,
But the famine in teachers is
what's bothering Calhoun County. All
except the “kids.” They should worry.
Thief Takes Red Hot
Stove and Warm Meal
DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 30.—While Mrs.
Ella Brooks was chatting with her next
door neighbor a thief entered her kitchen
and stole her red hot cook stove and
sizzling Sunday dinner It was a gas
stove, and the thief just unjointed the
pipe and lifted the stove and dinner out
and disappeared. The following day
another hot stove and tasty dinner was
reported stolen.
Sales of Home Property
Are Increasing ‘
What does this mean? l
To the Buyer-—it means that
desirable property can be
bought now at a bhetter pur
chgse price than pérhaps it
ever can again; that because
there is demand, the dealers
are putting their most attract.
ive offerings in city and su
burban property on the
market, It means the buyer's
opportunity both in price and
selegtion,
To the Real Estate Dealer
this increase In sales means
that people are awaking to the
fact that it I 8 advantageous to
own their own homes; that It
is cheaper to huy than to pay
rent, Take advantage of this
practical impulse and give
Georgian and American read
ers the opportunity to choowe
‘ from among your good hold
ings.
Practically everybody in At
‘ lanta roads these two news
-1 papers. Among them are At
lanta’'s most seriously minded
‘ buyers. Reach them now
1 Bring your wd or
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Georgian and American
Main 1000 r Atlanta M. 8000
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1919
Former U, S. Agent Tells How
Carranza and His Aédes Strip
Country of Wealthy i
Soldiers Slay Man to Steal His
Hat—Children Dying of Star
vation—Disease Spreads.
S |
NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—“ Mexico
has ceased to exist as a nation. Polit
ical disintegration is complete; eco
nomic decay and social degeneracy
are far advanced and many of the
people have succumbed to starvation
and disease,” said Dr. Paul Bernado
Altendorf, who has lived in Mexico
since 1914, and who' operated there
as an agent of the military intelli
gence department of the United States
for twenty months.
He is telling some of the things he
learned in that stricken land in a
series of interviews arranged at his
request by the National Association
for the Protection of American Rights
in Mexico in the hope that he may
arouse the American people to a real
ization of the increasing peril south
of the Rio Grande.
ONLY GERMANS SAFE.
“Since 1914 1 have been in twenty
two of the twenty-seven States con
stituting the former Mexican repub
lie, and in most of them in the last
two years, traveling almost continu
ously on foot, on mule back, in boats
and on the few trains that are stil,
running,” continued Dr. Altendorf.
“T traveled as a German; for no one
but a German is safe in Mexico,
“Speaking from the fullness of
first-hand knowledge thus acquired
it seems to me a joke to call Car
ranza's administration a ‘govern
ment,! No real government exists
south of the Rio Grande, except such
authority as a thug with a gun ex
ercises over an unarmed victim. Mex
ico is nothing more than an agglom
eration of anarchist gangs who kill
and plunder with no restraint but
their own caprices,
“The .fln-z-nlln'd ‘rebels’ are no more
nor less than banditti, To discrimi«
nate between Carranzistas and other
banditti is to make a distinction
without a difference. All alike liva
by plunder )
KILL TO GET SUPPLIES.
“Of these rebels or banditii there
are 100,000 men operating in gangs of
40 to 4,000 ynder® thirty-seven known
leaders of importance who hunt in
definite territories. In addition there
f# an unknown number of smaller fry
who operate independently at times
and again assert allegiance to some
large gang when they need protec
tion,
“Included in this 100,000 bandittl
are about 58,000 men who part of the
time claim to be Carranzistas and
who actually do serve under his ban
ner when expedient,
“But this'is not all the story., Car
ranza’'s actual, dependable military
strength is 67,000 men These men
are banditti like all other Mexicans
who own a gun, They kill and rob
just the same as any so-called ‘rebel’
In fact, that is the way most of them
get their supplies and their pay, That
i also the way they make their offi
cers rich: and in this connection it
is well to remember that the Mexi
can army has a 4 higher ratio of gen
erals and colonels and majors than
Any other military organization on
earth Nearly all the robberies of
paymasters 8o frequent in the 01l re
gion are committed by Carranzistas
“T'he point is that there are 167,000
armed men preying indiscriminately
Continued on Page 2, Column 1,
Steel Men’s Strike
Certain If Wilson
Does Not Take Hand
Union Officials Declare There Ts Nothing They
Can Do—Give Up Plan to See Gary. \
(By International News Service.)
BILLERICA, Mass., Aug. 30—
Boston and Maine car shopmen here
voted overwhelmingly against ac
ceptance of the government’s award
of a 4.cent per hour advance in
wages, it was announced today.
Sixteen hundred men are employed
at the plant. The result of the
vote will be made known to nation
al officers Sunday. 1
By JOHN EDWIN NEVIN, |
WASHINGTON. Aug. 30.—A gen
eral strike of the organized workers
in the iron and steel industry is in
evitable unless President Wilson can
find some means to avert it.
Leaders of the metal trades depart
ment bf the American Federation of
Labor so declared today. They said
that, so far as they personally are
concerned, there is nothing more they
can do. The representatives of the
steel workers presented the details
of their side of the situation to the
President in th eWhite House yeaier
day, leaving the matter temporarily in
his hands. Nothing the President said
at that time has changed the situa
tion, it was stated.
Today the committeemen were scat
tering to various quarters of the
United States to make speeches at
L.abor Day celebrations on Monday.
TO RETURN TUESDAY. ‘
The only one left this afternoon was
John Fitzpatrick, who was to leuve‘
this evening. All are to return Tues
day, when definite action regarding
the strike proposed, including the
date, is adopted.
The time limit in the notification
to the United States Corporation ex
pires today, and the committee has
notified Judge Gary, chairman of the
becard of the steel corporation, that
they would remain in Washington un
til last night to receive any reply he
desired to make,
“So far as Judge Gary is cone
cerned,” said Mr., Fitzpatrick today,
“we are through. The incidents con.
necting him with our plans are
closed.”
PRESIDENT SECLUDED.
At the White House the President
was secluded for the best portion of
the day. He was said to pe “speeding
up” preparations for his departure for
the West next Wednesday. A circum
stantial report that already he had
communicated with Judge Gary ask
ing for a reconsideration of the re
fusal to meet the union committee
was In circulation here. The White
House declined to discuss it
However, it was generally credited
in administration circles. In the
event that Judge Gary stood firm in
his refusal there was a growing be
lief that when tae steel men returned
to Washington next week the Presi-
Jlent might ask them to refrain from
ordering a walkout pending his re
turn from the West,
MUST ACT WITH WISDOM,
The labor situation is one “whicn
must be dealt with with as much
wisdom as energy,” President Wil
son today said in a telegram express
ing his pleasure at the return of
striking painters and paper hangers
in Hoboken, following his appeal for
a truce between capital and labor,
The telegram, addressed to the
secretary of the union, follows:
“May 1 not express to you and,
through you, to your fellow members
of Local 78 my tadmiration of the
public spirited action they have taken,
an action which I am sure {8 in the
interests of the whole country as set
ting an example of patriotic co-oper=
ation In relleving, not:complicating,
X 3 e ke kghkokokatokatetet*g¥e @k
o THIS EDITION CONSISTS OF g
The Fellawing Sectlons:
1-——Late News. 6—Auto Section,
2—Want Ads, Sperts, 7—FEditorial, City
Finance, Life, Scouts,
3—Nociety. Forum,
4—Fashion Section, B—Magazine,
s—Trade Review, 98—Comics,
=3 s sunt s
e BE SURE YOU GET THEM ALL o
(Copyriéfit, 1913, by The
Georgian Company.)
a situation which must be dealt with
with as much wisdom as energy.
“Cordially and sincerely yours,
“WOODROW WILSON.”
The telegram was in reply to one
from the union notifyifk the Presi
dent of the action it had taken.
Gary Adds Nothing to
Labor Statement
‘ (By Universal Service.)
NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—Judge El
bert H. Gary, chairman of the United
States Steel Corporation, has left
town without making any further re
ply to representations of a commit
tee representing organized labor of
the corporation than that he gave
out several days ago, when he said
he did not care for a personal pres
‘entation of the committee's desires,
ibut that a written communication
l would be considered by the board and
answered by the board-+if an nnswcrJ
were made.
Local Shopmen Lean
To Wilson’s Proposal
Leaders of the railroad shop work
ers of Atlanta are of the belief that
there is 4 growing sentiment among
the mer® here to accept tentatively
President Wilson's proepesals on the|
wage increase demand of the unions.
The President’s pledge to reduce the
high cost of living and to see that
the union men are protected in future
railroad legislation together with the
increase of 4 cents an hour is de
clared by them to be posible of ac-'
ceptance.
For several days the proposition of
the President has been discussed by
the men, although no official action
has been taken by the locals here. It
was planned to hold a meeting Fyiday
night, but following receipt of offi
cial communications from the union
heads at Washington the meeting
was postponed. It is said thaf the
postponement was announced at the
request of the international leaders.
Some of the shop craftsmen here
still are of the opinion that their de
mands should bg met in full, Others
feel that the matter should be left
completely in the hands of the lead
ers at Washington for settlement.
Arrangements have been made to
hold a meeting some day next week.
Monday is Labor Day and it is not
probable that the session will be held
Monday night unless urgent mesages
are received from national headquar-‘
ters*at Washington, |
It is certain that the local shop
workers will not walk out again on
strike until an official strike ballot
has been taken and call issued by the
international leaders.
Drug Clerks
Threaten to Quit
j (By International News Service.)
~ NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—A strike of
8,000 drug clerks and registered phar
macists In all of the hospitals In the
city was threatened today unless
more pay and shorter hours are
;xnntvd. The strike is set for Mon
‘duy and If it goes into effect officlals
of the Drug Clerks' Unlon promise
‘they will do all they can for the pub
lie In thg- event of an epldemie.
Coast Rail
Workers Return
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30.--All
striking rallroad workers here and
throughout Central California are
back at work today, obeying the in-
Continued on Page 7, Column 3.
PRICE SEVEN CENTS
Governor of Tennessee Offers
Reward for Capture of Slayer
of Nashville Man Near His
Country Home,
Body Was Found in Creek.
Cooper Became Famous
Through Trial in 1909 on
Charge of Killing Senator.
(By International News Service,)
NASHVILLE, Aug. 30.—Convinced
by strong circumstantial evidence
that Robin J. Cooper was murdered
by two or more men some time after
10 o'clock Thursday night near -his
handsome country residence in Belle
Mead Park, and that robbery was
the motive of the slayers, officers
were still working diligently early
tonight in ® effort to clear
up the mystery and find a clue to the
gullty parties.
After the time Mr, Cooper left his
home in company with a stranger
who called him out of his residence
Just Dbefore 10 o'clock Thursday
night, nothing was seen of him until
10:30 o'clock this morning, when his
lifeless body was dragged from the
shallow waters of Richland Creel:,
where the Nashville, Chattanooga
and St. lLouis railway bridge spans
the stream, half a mile gorth of the
Cooper home.
GOVERNOR OFFERS REWARD.
Officers at work on the case wers
spurred to greater activity by Goav
ernor A. H, Roberts' offer of a s3uo
reward for the capture of the sfayer
or slayers, The action was taken by
the chief executive as soon as he
learned that the murder had been
enacted and that the guilty persons
were at large,
The results of the officers’ investis
gation up to noon today are summed
up as follows
SUMMARY OF FACTS.
At 9:40 o'clock Thursday night
Robin Cooper was aroused by a noisy
rap at the front door. He answered
the knock and greeted a stranger,
who was seen by no one but Rimself,
D. E. eMtealf, gardener at the Cooper
home, heard the caller ask Mr, Cooper
for something Mr. Cooper acecom -
panied the man, driving away with
him in his (Cooper’s) automobite, a
five passenger car, and they went In
im.» direction of the Harding pike, 200
;_\urvlu from the house,
i At 10 o'clock Thursday night resi
dents of that section were startled
by the report of a pistol, Philip Pat«
ton, a negro houseboy; W. O. and S,
. Parmer and Josie Starnes, a negro
cook, heard the shot and all thought
it was the report of a pistol. The
‘\.-unuul came from the vicinity of the
bridge, where the car was later found,
I.uul all sald it was not loud enough
to have been the report of a shotgun,
BODY IS DISCOVERED.
’ Shortly before 6 o'clock this morne
‘Hu.: the tell-tale evidence of the targ«
:ul\' was first digscovered when a pas«
serby, noticing the car standing uns
‘uw upled just off the golf club road
'and headed south, made an Investiga -
tion and found the bloody papers, rock
and pocketbook.
At 10:30 o'clock the body was found
in Richland Creek.
Robin Cooper was well known in
: Continued or Page 2, Column 5.