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Everybody Work.
More Beautiful Faces.
Imagination’s Power.
The Roosevelts and Adver
tising.
By Arthur Brisbane——
ERNARD SHAW has a
B scheme to pay the debt of
England . He would treat
the man or woman not working 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 i§ by marriage a rich
man, is opposed to the conscription
of wealth. That would not 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 hunfan 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 gidewheel steamer, and the mod
ern, ungainly, flappi’ng trouser legs
have produced imperfect bodies,
What limits would you set to the
power of imagination? A street
car conductor watched a iady, hot,
uncomfortable, 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, tried 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
céountry, 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—lliability would
be a better term.”
Colonel Roosevelt, himself an
editor, in a way would probably
have omitted the advertising power
of newspapers from his general
condemnation. No one knew bet
ter than Mr. Roosevelt, descendant
of an ancient Dutch 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 cam
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,
“Meet 'em head on” He decides
that the I. W. W, the bolshevik
and the Socialist are all criminals
and should be treated as such, and
offers that as his political platform,
The young man is entertaining, in
a 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 allies
said, “We don't want any Haps
burgs, get out.” The royal and
imperial Hapsburg leader gets-out
pr?tmr:b;iot so with the unknown
and not royal individuals Lenin
and Trotzky in Russia. They made
up thelr mintds that Russia needed
leaders from the people, The
allies all said, “Get out,” and this
country has soldiers there trying
to shoot them out, But they do
not get out.
Deplorable as are Russian coh
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 is 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
| Martyr’s Death? Read This Soul Stirring Story in Tomorrow’s Georgian
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YOoIL. VI 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.—The
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 living
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, consecious 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 probahle national
requirements and current production
and stocks.
INCREASE PRODUCTIONN.
The findings particularly emphasize
the fact that®high standards of living
can not be maintained upon any basis
of reduced productién. .
The report says in part:
“An analysis of the high cost of liv
ing problem brings out the follow
ing racts and principles as constitut
ing the essgnce 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
living is adequate production, eco.
nomical 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 curtail
ment, and has in general been ab
normally low. Normal econsumption
can not continue unless an adequate
rate of production is maintained,
"4, Food production and the facili
ties for food production were lim
proved rather than Injured during the
war, Moreover, the program wiih
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 cattle slaughtered in the
period January to May, 1010, was
3,803,000, as against 4,204,000 for the
corresponding period of 1018, though
the national reserve of cattle on farms
has increased during the war. The
situation In‘regard to swine Is sim
““-rrl. The production of eivilian cloths
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Food Plent ,
Says Report
Of Probers
MHere are some striking points
brought out by the report 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 ehort 1,000,000
homes. Shortage of building
materials makes high rent and
prices for homes certain.
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’ MONTGOMERY, Ala., Aug. 30.—
IC(m\'ivted of forgery, escaping from
'the penitentiary, enlisting in the army
lundor an assumed name, fighting on
the battlefields of France in the same
‘division as the judge who sentenced
him, honorably discharged from the
service, I'red 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 Cir
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
penitentiary 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
honorably discharged at Camp Fun
ston, May 6, 1919,
Judge Thomas W. Wert, who passed
sentence upon Pentecost, served in
the same dtvision throughout the
war. In a letter to the governor,
Judge Wert states the facts,in the
case. :
“1 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.”
BOARD'S RECOMMENDATION,
Following is the recommendation of
the pardon beard to Governor Kilby:
“The pardon board is of the opin
fon that the time served by Pentecost
before his escape was entirely ade
quate punishment for the crime in
volved, and owing to his splendid
gervice in the army of the United
States, the recommendation of the
trial judge, the solicitor and other vn-l
jzens of Morgan County, we are of
the opinion that this Is a case where
clemency should be shown, and we
recommend that this petitioner be pa
roled, conditioned upon his future
good behavior and observance of the
law."” |
Pentecost is at present employed by
Morgan County, and is operating a
tractor in connection with some Im-}
portant road work, J
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PEOPLET [wH G HINK
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.
ANNIST(.)N. Ala., Aug. 30.—Other
sections of the country may have
their shortage of food, be shy on
clothes, or run 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 FAMINE,
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 erying 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
lla Brooks was chatting with her next
door neighbor a thief entered her kitchen
and stole her red hot cook stove and
sizzling BSunday dinner It was a gns
stove, and the thief just unjointed the
pipe and lifted the stove and dinner out
and dlsnppenred The ¥ following day
another hot stove and tasty linner was
reported stelen
Are Increasing
What does this mean?
To the Buyer—it means that
desirable property can be
bought now at a hetter purs
chase price than perhaps |t
ever can Again; that because
there is demand, the dealers
are putting their most attracts
ive offerings in city and su
hurban property on the
market It means the buyer's
oppertunity both in price and
selection
To the Real Estate Dealer-- |
this increase in sales means
that people are awaking to the
fact that it is advantageous to
own their own homes; that i
is eheaper to huy than to pay
rent. Take advantage of thin
practical unruln Al give
Georgian and American read
ers the opportunity te choose
from among your good hold.
ings.
Practieally everybody in At
iantan reads these two news
papers. Among them are At
Innta’s most seriously minded
buyers. Reach them now
. Bring your ad or
Telephone It to The ‘
Georgian and American
Main 100 or Atlanta M. 8000
ATLANTA, GA. SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1919
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Former U. S. Agent Tells How
Carranza and His Aides Strip
Country of Wealth,
Soldiers Slay Man to Steal His
Hat—Children Dying of Star
vation—Disease Spreads.
NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—“ Mexico
has ceased to exist as a nation. Polit
ieal 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 teliing 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 Mexieo 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 comn
stituting the former Mexican repub
lic, 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 stii
running,” continued Dr. Altendorf.
“I 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 ecall 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 withs no restraint but
their own caprices.
“The so-called ‘rebels’ are no more
nor less than banditti., To discrimi- |
nate between Carranzistas and mhl‘rj
banditti is to make a di.ulin(-txuni
without a difference. All alike live
by plunder. 1
KILL TO GET SUPPLIES. i
“Of these rebels or banditti there
are 100,000 men operating in gangs of
40 to 4 000 under thirty-seven known
leaders of importance who hunt in
definite territories. In addition there
Is an unknown number of smaller fry
who operate independently at times
and again assert allegiance to mmwl
large gang when they need protec
tion t
“Included in this 100,000 banditt!
are about 58 000 men who part of !hn"
time claim to be Carranzistas ;md!
who actually do serve under hisg 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 tact, that is the, way most of them
get their supplies and their pay, That
18 also the way they make thelr offi
cers rich; and in this connection it
is well to remember that the Mexi.
can army has a higher ratio of uun—l
erals and colonels and majors than
any other military organization on|
earth Nearly all the robberies nf’
paymasters so !'rqu--nv in the 01l re
glon are committec hy Carranzistas,
“T'he point Is that there are 167,009
armed men preying indiscriminately
Continued on Page 2, Column 1, '
Steel Men’s Strike
Certain If Wilson
Does Not Take Hand
Union Officials l)(z—'—l;:l‘;;r—o [s 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 nlant. The result of the
vote will be made known to nation- |
al officers Sunday. ‘
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? 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
‘tind some means to avert it. |
} Leaders of the metal trades depart
lment of 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
ist(‘el workers presented the details
of their side of the situation to the
President in th.eWhite House yester
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
Lapbor Day celebrations on Monday.
TO RETURN TUESDAY. ‘
The only one left this afternoon was
John Fitzpatrick, who was to leave
this evening. All are to return Tues
day, when definite action regarding
the strike profiosed, 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
board of the steel corporation, that
they would remain in Washington un«
ti! last night to receive any reply he
desired to make.
“So far as Judge Gary is con
cerned,” said Mr. Fitzpatrick today,
“we are through. The incidents con.
necting him with ©6ur plans are
closed.” b
PRESIDENT SECLUDED,
At the White House the President
was secluded for the best portion of
the day. He was said to be "speeding
up” preparations for his departure for
the West next Wednesday. A eircum
stantial report that already he had
communicated with Judge Gary ask
ing fer a reconsideration of the Tre
fieal to meet the union committee
was in eirculation here. The White
House declined to Jdiscuss 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
lent might ask them to refrain from
otdering a walkout pending his re
turn. from the West,
MUST ACT WITH WISDOM.
The labor situation is one “whien
must be dealt with with as much
wigdom as energy,” President Wil
gon 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 | 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 is in the
interests of the whole country as set
ting an example of patriotic co-oper
ation In relleving, not complicating,
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Georgian Company.)
ba situation which must be dealt with
‘wnh as much wisdom as energy.
“Cordially and sincerely ygurs,
“WOODROW WILSON."
The telegram was in reply to one
from the union notifying the Presi
dent of the action it had taken.
Gary Adds Nothing to
Labor Statement
(By Universal Service.)
NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—Judge Ell
bert H. Gary, chairman of the United
States Steel Corporation, has left
town without making any further re
ply to regresentntlons of a commit
tee representing organized labor of
the corporation than that he gave
out several! days age, when he said
he did not eare for a personal pres
entation of the committee's desires,
Ibut that a written communication
would be considered by the board and
lan-wared by the board—lif an answer
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 a growing sentiment among
the men here to accept tentatively
President Wilson's proposals 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 l"flday‘
night, but fellowing receipt of offi
‘clal communications from the union
;hends at Washington the moetlngi
‘was postponed. It is said that the
ipoatponement yas announced at the
request of the international leaders.
~ Some of the shop craftsmen here
still are of the opinion that their de
‘mands should be met in full. Others
feel that the matter should be left
completely in the hands of the lead
ers at Washington for settiement,
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 (ssued by the
international leaders. |
Drug Clerks
Threaten to Quit
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—A strike of
8,000 drug clerks and registered phar
macists in ali of the hospitals in the
city was threatened today unless
more pay and . shorter hours are
granted, The strike is set for Mon-
Cay and if it goes into effect officlals
of the Drug Clerks’ Union promise
they will so all they can for the pub
lie in the event of an epi«!emlc.
Coast Rail
Workers Return
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 80.—-Al
striking rallroad workers here and
throughout Central California are
back at work today, obeying the In-
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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 swrong 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
’Lnnight in an effort to clear
up the mystery and find a clue to the
guilty parties.
| After the time Mr. Cooper left his
‘home in company with a stranger
iwhn 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 Creek,
where the Nashville, Chattanooga
and St. Louis railway bridge spans
the stream, half a mile north of the
Cooper home.
GOVERNOR OFFERS REWARD.
Officers at work on the case were
spurred to greater activity by Gov
ernor A. H. Robérts’ offer of a $3500
reward for the capture of the slayer
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’ investi
gation up to noon today are summed
up as follows:
SUMMARY OF FACTS.
At 9:45 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 himself,
D. E. eMtcelf, gardener at the Cooper
kome, heard the caller ask Mr, Cooper
for something. Mr, Cooper accom
panied the man, driving away with
him in his (Cooper's) automobire, a
five passenger car, and they went In
the direction of the Harding pike, 200
vards from the house,
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,
E. Parmer and Josie Starnes, a negro
cook, heard the shot and all thought
it was the report of a pistol. The
sound came from the vicinity of the
bridge, where the car was later found,
and all said it was not loud enough
to have been the report of a shotgun.
BODY IS DISCOVERED.
Shortly before 6 o'clock this morn
ing the tell-tale evidence of the targ
edy was first discovered when a pas
serby, noticing the car standing un
occupled just off the golf club road
and headed south, made an investiga
tion and found the bloody papers, rock
and pocketbhook
At 10:30 o'clock the body was found
in Richland Creek.
Robin Cooper was well known In
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