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T 0 THE TAXPAYERS OF AMERICA:
O YOU fully realize that the continuance of oppressive war taxation, after war should
be ended, is largely due to the private wars which Mr. Wilson is conducting without
authority from Congress and which he maintains as the heavy expense of the people of
the United States?
In former times, when this nation was more truly a republie, its citizens more free and
their representatives more courageous, a President would have been impeached for such ar
bitrary assumption of dictatorial powers and for the imposition of such unwarranted bur
dens upon the citizenship. .
The proposed League of Nations, which Mr. Wilson has not dared to refer to the judg
ment of the people of this country is merely a license for Mr. Wilson to continue, without au
thority, the costly wars and dangerous entanglements with Kuropean intrigues which he
is now carrying on without the sanction of Congress or the consent of the people.
I£ it is the primary purpose of you taxpayers to support and finance the imperial plans of
MAN WHO ALMOST KILLED THE KAISER IS BURIED WITH HONORS
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Alois Van Kiersbilk, “the silent hero of Thrift,” was “the man who
almost killed the kaiser.” His plans failed because the German emperor
changed his own plans, and the Belgian paid for his failure with his lifes
The story of the plot to end the Kkaiser’s life and an account of the
arrest and execution of Van Kiersbilk are contained in thelast issue of
“The Watch on the Rhine,” the paper of the Third (marine) Division.pub
lished at Andernach, Germany. The article follows:
After four years of German fiend
ishness, the Belgian flag again flies
over the tower of Thielt, and has
floated there since the day of the
armistice. i
And after lying four years in a
ditchs, in Ghent, the body of Aldis
Van Kiersbilk, the martyr of Thielt,
known as ‘“the man who almost
killed the kaiser,” has been brought
back to his native city and re
interred with the highest honors
that a grateful nation can bestow.
Aloise Van Kiersbilk is dead—has
been dead these four years—but the
memori of him wiil live while Bel
gian history endures. For he was
the idol of the Belgian people.
Van Kiersbilk's fate is one of the
most ‘tragic that the late war
brought out, 1t is literally stronger
than fietien,-for no novelist would
dare‘{q;;we such fiendishness
as was ? ed on the body “and
mlndfi!,ft, his ‘stanch . .patriot and
martyr. R
LOYAL TO ASSOCIATES.
But he will alwayg. bé remem
bered by bis: countrymen for his
attempt to-kill the kaiSer, which all
but We‘d. and he will forever
be s en of as the man who knew
no fear and = who, in the face of
death, refused to name his fellow
conspirators. -
In 1914 Thielt was the headquar
ters of the Fourth German Army,
which was commanded by the Duke
of Wurttemberg. Van Kiersbilk was
hhief conductor on the railway be
tween Thielt and Bruges.
In addition, Alois was the chief
of a secret organization whose ob
ject was the help as the Belgian
soldiers, and destroy the enemy.
organization ' had agents in the
Belgian army and all over Belgium,
even those parts*of the country oc
cupied by the Hun.
Many a German army plan for
mulated in the duke's headquarters
in Thielt was brought to naught as
the result of the counter scheming
of Alois and his compatriots.
CHANCE FOR GREAT STROKE.
When news spread that the kai
sor »nd his staff were coming to
Thiglt on the Ist of November,
Alois saw his chance for a great
stroke. His plan was to Kkill the
kaiser, for he felt assured that, with
the chief barbarian dead, the war
would soon end.
A great attack had been planned
against the Belgian forces along the
Yser, and from there on against
Ypres and Dunkirk. The kaiser was
coming to Thielt to inspect the
preparations.
Von Kiershilk and his compan
fons secured all the information
they could concerning the war lord's
-visit and then asked the Relgian
army to gend over some airplanes at
the proper time and drop the death
dealing miseiles on the on the un
susvecting Huns.
The big dinner to which the kai
ser was to it down with scores of
generals and other officers of high
rank was to begin at 2 o'clock in
the afternoon of November 1.
RAIN OF DEATH BEGINS.
As the hour drew near Alois and
his friends scanned the sky eagerly
for the vengeful planes. At last
three airpalnes were seen apnroach
ing the city. Alois notified the Bel
gians, according to prearranged
plans. and searcely had the towns
people taken refuge in their cel-
Jors than the rain of death hegan to
fall on Thielt.
It was a well managed raid, but it
failed. There had heen a sudden
change In the war lord's schedule,
and he had left Thielt before mid
day. While the bombardment was
in progress his ears were speeding
along the highway to Bruges,
But the commander of the Fourth
eCirman Army raged in his private
office at the kommandatur. The
secret of the visit had plainly gotten
out. The kalser, the idol of 70,000,
000 Gerrnane, had barely escaped
death. The zuilty had ta ba found
and punighed,
CONTRA.SPY SYSTEM,
A contra-gpy svEfem wWas organ
f2ed and large snms were promised
for any bit of information
Alois was Arawn inio the net. On
Fobruary 2 he was summoned to the
kommandatur and taken prisoner.
Already three of his co-operators
were thare,
1t wag then that Alix Van Kiers
hilk showed the eouraze which won
for him the mame of “the Silent
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN e A Clean Ncwspaper for Southern Homes Qe muNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 1919.
Hero.” He knew that one word l
spoken lightly might betray the
whole of his organization and
nothing could induce him to speak
even a word.
All devices, old and new, were
tried by the kommandatur—tortures
as well as promises, the menaces of
a cruel death, and the promise of
life in luxury. It was all in vain.
Perhaps Alois thought of the
many lives he had in his hands.
Anyway, he remained silent.
CONDEMNED TO DEATH.
He was condemned to death on
February 25, and then the Germans
created and applied as devilish a
scheme of menttal torture for a hu
man being as eould be devised. Alois
had two children, and a third was to
be born soon.
“ “On the day that new life enters 1
your home your life will end unless
ygu, speak,” said the German in-
Q,gudr- Sl ki 2 ‘
oubtedly Alois Lhough; of his ‘
wife, who would be calling for him
on that day more than ever. |
Perhaps he thought of the new '
baby also. Nevertheless, he was
still true to his name, “the Silent.”
On the sth of April a little girl
was born in the Van Kiersbilk
home. Tt might seem unbelievable,
but evidently the Germans had
waited for the event. On the same
day they sent official word to
“Madame Van Kiersbjlk” that if
she desired to see her husbhand still
alive she could see him on that day
at 3 o'clock in the prison at Ghent.
CHILD SENT TO FATHER.
A merciful neighbor nurse saw to
it that the message did not reach
the mother, then ursing her day-old
baby. .
Instead the eldest girl, 10 years
old, was sent to the prison to see
her father. Full of joy, in her hap
py ignorance, she exclaimed:
“Oh, father. you must come home
with me. We have a little sister,
and mother wants to show it to you,
Come, father!™
But father could not come. He
pressed his little gir! in his arms.
He could not ell that she would
never see him again, for he wanted
to spare the mather, who had to
live for the children.
Not a word did he say. One Kkiss,
and the big prison gate closed after
the child, while her father prepared
himsgelf to die, /
His end came next morning at
5:30 in the “eourt” of the prison.
Four Belgiane were to fall that day.
When Van Kiershilk arrived at the
place of execution, three were al
ready lying dead against the wall.
Wor some unknown reason he was
to face the muzzles of twelve Ger
man rifles nlone.
REFUSES BLINDFOLD.
He refused to he blindfolded. “Let
not a German hand touch me in this
solernn moment when T die for my
country. 1 have no fear of vour
bullets,” the Belgians heard that he
said, and erect he walted for the
moment when his agony would
come to an end.
A few seconds later his body,
with those of his comrades in death,
was thrown into the diteh.
Today the Belgian flae flies again
from the tower of Thielt and the
thrif*v neonle of Flanders are busy
rebuilding their homes, Many of the
men are missing: some died on the
battlefie'd, others In prison, but all
dled fichting for the small strip of
and they called thelr own, and
those who remain cherish the mem
orv of their heroes,
They will te** thalr stories to their
children and the grandehildren, thus
adding another page to the glorious
history of Flanders, and among
those stories will he that of Alols
Van Kiersbilk, who tried to end the
war by ending its instigator, and
who failed, and died, silent. .
Bartow Countu Plans
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Y.M.C.A. Aid Campaign
CARTERSVILLE Aug. 31.—Plans
have been perfected for a compalen
to be ‘waged throughout Bartow
County this wek for raleing a fund
of $2.000 which is to he used in or
ganizing und carrving on the work of
a county Y. M. <. A. in Bartow
County,
~ Prof, J. W, Jackoon, county super
fntendent of schaels, s chairman of
the organization
Cheer Up!
By JUSTIN FAIR.
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Whether it is down in Dixie,
Where the cotton blossoms
gleam;
Or if it's a little cottage
Standing by a mountain
stream;
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Whether it is California,
By the broad Pacific’s shore,
Or a cabin in Ohie
That your heart is longing
for;
Hli.
Whether it is North or South
land,
Whether it be east or West—
Home, sweet home, is home to
you, and
That's the place you love the
best!
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WAYCROSS, Aug. 31.—J. J. \‘\'ild-1
e of Waycross, who owns approxi
mately. ten thousand colonies of bhees
is regarded as, perhaps, the largest
individual bee owner in the world,
certainly, it is claimed, the largest in
the United States. Mr, Wilder came
to Waycross a little more than a year
ago from Cordele and started to man
ufacture of bee hives, which business
has grown steadily until now he has
the largest factory for the manufac
ture of bee supplies in the Southern
Stcotes.,
in addition to the maanufacture of
bee supplies, Mr. Wildcr has also a
packing plant where he packs honey
in cans, jars and other containers.
The capacity of this plant ig several
thousand gallons per day, depending
upon the size of the packages,
In the manufacture of his bee hives
he uses cypress lumber which is ob
tained from the large lumber com
pany here in Waycross.
Everything that is needed in the
Lee business is supplied by Mr. Wild
er, even to the foundation comb that
is h{al into the hive for thg bees to
start building their cells t 6 when a
new swarm is housed in a new hive.
In addigion to his other activities
Mr., Wilder edits a bee paper called
The Bee Keeper. This is a monthly
jrublication,
The honey that is produced by this
“bee king’ comes from hives—or col
onies—that he has scattered through
o't southern Georgia and Florida.
They are worth, in round numbers,
£200,000.
Baptists of Northwest
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Georgia Plan Campaign
CARTERSVILLE, Aug. 31.—The
Baptists of the northwest section of
Georgia held a meeting in Cartersville
this week to perfect plans for se
curing this distriet’'s quota in the
$75,000,000 campaign to be waged by
this denomination . throughout the
South in October. . Rev, Carl DeVane
of Rome, the district organizer, pre
sided, and the entire day was taken
up in a discussion of pians to be pre
sonted to the membership of the dis
trict at once, '
C. L. MeGinty will be director, and
J 1. Hill organizer for the First Bap
tist Church of Cartersville, while Rev.
Gordon Ezzell, the pastor, will he di
rector, and.J. B. Foster organizer for
the Second Baptist Church of this
city,
Mrs, Joel G, Greene, will be organi
zer for the Woman's Missionary S -
clety of the Firs: Baptist Church and
Mrs. George D, Adams will oegupy
the same position for the ladies of the
Second Baptist Church of Carters
ville,
Dies in Hospital as
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Result of Gun Fight
WAYCROSS, Aug. 31.—-J. C. High
smith died at the King's Daughters'
Hospital last night about midnight
from a gur<hot wound received in a
shotgun f @n' at Screven Tuesday
night. ThL. other party engaged in
the affray was W. M. Johns, who was
killed by Highsmith. The remains of
Highsmith were carried to Screven
this mornig for burial.
LOWNDES' TAX RATE UP.
VALDOSTA.N Aug. #l.-~Lowndes
County's tax rate for next year, fired
by the county commissioners, (s 20
mills on the dollar, an increase of
3 1.2 mills over the present rate, The
Increase is regarded ag a conserva
tive one, in view of the large increaso
in the county's expenso, The en
larged sehool and health program,
steel bridges and paved roads will ab
gorb the increase, The county's tax.
able property amounts to nearly sll,-
fioo.ogn. and the new rate will bring
in a revenue of $126.67080,
By WINFIELD JONES,
Georgian Staff Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—What
part are the exports of foodstuffs,
textiles, shoes, leather and other
necessaries playing in the present
high cost of living in the United
States? What steps, if any, can be
taken or should be taken to prevent
depletion in these supplies in this
country? These are questions which
are giving members of Congress and
government officials food for thought
in their attempts to deal’ with the
present situation.
i The total exports of the United
‘States in June nearly reached the
billion dollar mark. The bureau of
foreign and dometsic commerce re
ported -that the exports in June
amounted to the unprecedented to
tal of $918,252,143. It has been esti
mated that in July, the total exports,
when all reports are in, will have
gone over the billion dollar mark
and will be nearer a billion and a'
half. And it is further reported that
the warehouses in the ports of the
United States are filled almost to the
bursting point with goods which the
owners hope to ship abroad at prices
in excess of what they can obtain for
them here,
EXPORTS JUMP HIGHER.
In June, 1918, when this country
was duin‘ its best to supply Europe
~the allled nations and the neutrals
—with" foedstuffs and other neces
saries, the export totaled 0483,799,399.
But after the armistice was signed
the exports jumped higher and
higher. It seems as though the war
weary countries of Europe have turn
ed to this country to supply their
needs in all lines. J
What is going to happem when
Germany begins to tap the markets
of the United States, now that the
peace treaty has been negotiated and
the trade is opening again? She, too,
will seek wvast quantities of food
| stuffs here, While Germany has pro
!duvul a great quantity of foodstuffs
|for her people, it is true, too, that
she has always depended upon im
ports to fill out her needs in grain
and meats. Much of the grain in the
past she has obtained from Russia
and_countries in the East. But Rus
sia's principal crops now are “red”
and Germany undoubtedly will have
to seek foodstuffs here. Russia, too,
{may be forced to obtain food from
other countries.
| OUTLOOK NOT BRIGHT.
The outlook, so far as conserving
food supplies for the people of this
country is concerned and thereby de
creasing the cost of living, does not
appear bright. It is unthinkable that
the United States with vast quanti«
ties of grain and meats and other
foodstuffs, will shut down entirely
upon exports to foreign lands, where
food is urgently needed. Nevertheless,
serious consideration is being given
'hy students of the situation to the
| question of establishing some kind
luf check upon_ the indiseriminate
%sh!mm‘m of huge quantities.of food
|:lhrcmd in the interests of the people
‘at home
New Step to Check
Profiteer Is Taken
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—Another
step in the effort to check the prosy
iteer was taken in Congress Satur
day when Senator Jones of Washing
ton introduced a bill following one
of the recommendations of President
Wilson for the reduction of the high
cost of living.
The bill provides that the manufac
turer of goods for sale in interstate
l-nménorr'n shall have plainly marked
upon it the cost, and that every re
tailer of any manufactured article
carried in interstate commerce shall
have attached to the article the cost
to him, so that the customer may
séo it,
Flying School Airmen
Search for Lost Men
SAN DIEGO, Calif. Aug. 81.—Avia.
tors at Rockwell Field and the Naval
Air station here have joined forces
in a renewed search for Licutenants
Waterhouse and Connelly, who have
been missing since August 20, Lieu
tneant Colonel H, I, Watson, com
manding at Rockwell Feld, announ
ced Saturdan night.
War Material Sales
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Now Over Six Million
WASHINGTON, Aug, 31— Bales of
surplug war materials reported for
the week ended August 22, 1919,
amounted to $6,872.901.20, the War
Department announced Saturday. The
grand total of receipts from sale of
war material reported up to August
22 was $626,.401 88650,
foreign nations, if you are willing to pay to destroy democracy not only abroad but at home, =
if you actually desire to reach the point of financial bankruptey and economie demor
tion which European nations have reached, then you should aceept the League of Nations
and re-clect Mr, Wilson to carry out its program of perpetual war and interminable taxatm:niffi
But if you, as patriotic American citizens, desire to adhere to the wise policies of théhfg
farseeing founders of this republie, policies which have made this nation the greatest, theiii
richest and the happiest nation in the world, then you should reject this foreign League of;’g
Nations, continue the true and tried American policies of non-interference in foreign af
fairs, and elect a genuine American President to end this exhausting participation in the;
conflicts and complications of Europe and to conduct the government of the United States
in the interest of the people of the United States.
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST.
Chicago Coliseum
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Becomes Melting
Pot of 40 Races
CHICAGO, Aug. 31.—Chicago's
big Coisseum was a racial melt
ing pot Saturday night when forty
distinet national groups, represent
ing thousands of naturalized Amer
icans, gathered in this city from all
parts of the world, opened their
exhibit with their handiwork.
Paintings, statuary, weaving,
wood carving, tapestry and what
not were shown at the All-Ameri
can exposition, which is to continue
for three weeks.
From bands of pure-bred Chero
kee, Sac and Fox Indians, to na
tives of Greece, Poland, Norway,
Armenia, Alsace-Lorraine, France
and practically every other organ
ized nation—costumes of the home
land, bright in dash and color, was
the picture given the visitors.
Official “days” have been as
signed various groups on which
special emphasis will be placed on
“home town" productions.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Aug 31—
Plans for the launching of a Baptist
theological seminary for the negroes
of America in this city were unfolded
today by Dr., O. L. Hailey, secretary
of the commission of the Southern
‘Baptist convention charged with the
duty of establishing such an insti
tution. Dr. Hailey declares this will
be the first negro seminary in the
world, the ministers of that race hav
ing been compelled heretofore to
content themselves with such theo
logical training as is afforded by the
negro - denominational colleges, or
else accept tuition in the seminaries
operated by the white people.
For the estiblishment of this insti
tution the “Baptist $75,000,000 Cam
paign” has apportioned $200,000, the
exccutive board of the national Bap
tist eonvention, composed of repre
sentatives of negro Baptist churches
of both the South and the North, has
appropriated SIOO.OOO, while Dr.
Hailey will raise $200,000 from other
sources, giving the new institution a
fund of $500,000 for initial equipment,
A co-operative agreement has been
reached with the board of trustees of
Roger Williams University, a negro
Baptist institution here, whereby stu
dents of the seminary in need of fur
ther general training may obtain it in
that institution.
PLAN IS FAR-REACHING.
“l believe the launching of this
seminary that will train the preach
ers to 4,000,000 Baptist negroes of
Americe is one of the most far
reaching steps in the solution of the
race problem that has been taken
anywhere,” Dr. Halley declared in
making his announcement, “and 1 ex
pect to see a vast improvement not
only in the relations between the
races as a result of this movement,
Lut a great step toward the solution
of economic, social and political ques
tions which hinge upon the race
problem.
“The relations between the whites
and the negroes now are strained in
many quarters, This evidence of the
good will for the negroes on the part
of the people of the South, who know
them best and are undoubtedly best
prepared to deal with them, will do
much to allay feelings of animosity
toward the whites on the part of the
negroes, while the establishment of
the seminary will give white men of
large vision and proper ideals and
large sympathy for the negroes an
opportunity to inculcate the right
kind of ideas of religion and right
notions on social, economic and polit
jcal problems inio the minds of the
negro preachers, and these preachers
will in turn pass these ideas on to
their people through the pu'pit and
through their ministrations generally,
SOLVES MISSION PROBLEM.
“Then, | belleve the seminary wil!
be the instrument of the final solu
tion of the mission problem for
Africa, or =0 much of Africa as Is
inhabited by negroes. Agnegro with
the right gpirit of r\':ma--ftsm can no
doubt bhe more effeative In winning
his brother in black in Africa than
the white miggionary can, and I be
lieve negro missionaries will go out
to Afriea in inereasing numbers and
finally be able to eare for the situa
tion there” ‘
Negro Raptistse of the North and
South will raike $3,000 000 at the sames
time the SBouthern Baptists are rajs ‘
ing their $75.000,000, and a portion ..r;
the cum the negroes raize will he ap
propriated to this seminagy, ‘
Dy, Hallev has been working on the
gominary project since 1913, when the
commission was established at a
meeting of the Southern Baptist con
vention in 8t Lonis,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.-—Creation
of a new government bureau es
pecially to enforce food laws soon to
be passed by Congress now is lwlu;.:'
proposed here,
A bill embodying the proposal \\'ill;
be introduced in Congress within a
few days, it is believed, ‘
Co-ordination of all government
policiies having to do with regulation
of food production and distribution
thus could be effected under one head
it is urged.
Thke bureau would be headed by an
)orficial directly responsible to the
President and appointed by him, This
plan would develop a special govern
ment food prosecutor, whose sole
duty, 1t is urged, would be to keep
his finger continuously on the nation’s
food pulse and go right on enforcing
determined regulation policies arter
the present agitation has died down.
Framing of new regulatory food poli
cies still would rest with Congress,
Meanwhile Attorney General Pal
mer is planning new moves in his
campaign against profiteers and price
gougers which will be unfolded this
week.
Palmer now has made clear the li
cense provisions of the Lever Fooa
Control Act will be invoked where
possible to curb dealers who take un
reasonable profits. Palmer caused
the revoking of the license of the C.
Becker Milling Company of Red Bud,
Ills., it was announced.
Many classes of food wholesalers
still are under Hcenneg {ssued by the
nearly defunct food administration.
Congress this week 1s expected to
score heavily in the food campaign
when bpth houses are scheduled: to
begin consideration of Palmer’'s pro
posed amendments to the food act
providing a jail sentence for profi
teers.
The House i¢ expected to begin con
sideration of the act regulating cold
storage plants agreed on Saturday by
the agricultural committee. 'The bill
limits to one year the. period for
which food may be held and vests
with the Department of Agriculture
the avthority to enforce the regula
| tions.
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Last Great War To Be
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Fought in Palgstine
(By International News Service.)
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa., Sept. 1.
There is still one more great war to
be fought. This was the consensus
of belief among the United Presby
terian clergymen who were drawn
here by a conference of missionary
workers. All were students of 3ible
prophecy.
- “We have yet to stand before a
more formidable Armageddon than
the Marne,” one said. “The last greas
war will be fought on the plains of
Ezra-Blam in Palestine as it is proph
esied in Reveltion. There will be
an orientation of the forces of worldly
powers against the forces of the spir
it. The Jews will occupy the center
of the spiritual forees. Not until after
the great struggle on the plains of
Fzra-Elam can the world be rebunt‘
and the kingdom of heaven estab
lished here on earth” ‘
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Cartersville Business |
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Men Organize Board
CARTERSVILLE, Aug. 31.—The
business men of Cartersville have of
ganized the Cartersville Board of
Trade, and plans are now being for
mulated to complete the work, and
raise the additional funds necessary
to place it on a firm foundation. W.
J. Weinman, one of the leading min
ers of the district, was elected pres
ident of the new board, and Joseph 8.
Calhoun, J. W, Vaughn, C, D Smith
and W. J. Taylor make up the board
of directors, Mr. Weinman being the
chairman |
Paris Hears Italy Will
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Compromise Fiume Row
PARIS, Aug. 31, Hints of a com
promise offer by Ttaly in regard to
Fiume and Adriatic coast problems
are current. The American peace
delegates have adhered strictly to the
attitude outlined by President Wison
before his departure from Paris and
the Itallans are said to have realized
the impossibility of bringing übom;
any change in this attitude ;
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West Point Public
Schools Open Monday
WEST POINT, Aug. 21.--The \\‘f“\"
Point public schaols open Monday
The prospect was never hotter for a
most prosperous year, The West Point
system of public schools s among
the first inaugurated in Georgia, The
pveiem has had only four superin
tendents within the last fifty years.
Death Penalty
To Be Asked for
Chicago Women
CHICAGO, Aug. 31.--The death
penalty will be asked for two
women charged with murder, it was
revealed Saturday night.
Trial of Mrs. Emma D. Simpson,
who shot her husband and fatally
wounded him in a courtroom here
following proceedings in their di
vorce suit, will begin Tuesday.
Prosecutor John K. Murphy de
clared he will ask the gallows for
the woman, saying she slew her
busband in cold bßood.
Extreme punishment also will be
‘ gought for Miss Margaret Seit
heimer, 17, who shot Attorney Ben
jamin Burr to death during a call
at his office, State attorneys said.
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(By International News Service.) 1
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—Calling
on every school to plant a tree this
fall, the American Forestry Associa
tion directs attention to the approach
ing arbor days and the importance of
the month of September in the life of
a tree. “Organize your school and
plant a memorial tree,” says Charles
Lathrop Pack, president of the asso
ciation, who points to what a fine
memorial a living tree will make in
1940, if the class of 1920 plants a tree
now. The association will send free
tree-planting instructions and a tree
planting day program to any one who
asks for them. Important points for
’Seplemher are:
Prune all dead branches of impor
}u\ncp. Do not prune unnecessarily;
prune as little of the live wood as
possible; make all cuts close to the
trunk or main limb, and cover all
wounds with coal tar.
Remove and destroy egg masses of
the tussock moth and like leaf-eating
insects,
For removal in winter mark all
fhopc-lossly infested and dead trees.
You can mark these better before the
leaves drop, but you can cut them
down to better advantage in winter,
Plant evergreens in early Septem
ber. Move them with a ball of soil.
Every day this fall will be arbor
day, the association says, and (it
urges that all memorial tree planting
be reported, that it may enter these
trees on the national honor roll it is
compiling, and for which it is send
ing out free certificates of registra
tion. The approaching arbor days
follow:
Georgia, first Friday in December;
Hawali, first Friday In November;
'(,‘nlnmdn. Connecticut, Delaware, [lli
nois, Towa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mich
|igan, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, New
' Hampshire, New Mexico, North Da
kota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Da
kota, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin,
Washington, Wyoming, by proclama
tion of their respective governors;
North Carolina, first Friday after No
vember 1; Porto Rico, last Friday in
November; Tennessee, date in No«
vember named by county superin
tendents, -
‘Women Raise Over S2OO
l For Library Fund
CARTERSVILLE, Aug. 31.-—-Over
’B2OO was raised by the women of the
Mary Munford Memorial Library
during a tag-day drive heid recently
in Cartersville. In addition to this
fund, which will be used to buy ju
venile books for the library, a dona
tion of fifty books was recently an
nounced by the librarian, Mrs. Stella
O. Brumby, the donor being Miss
Laura Roberts, who made the gift
a 8 a memorial to her brother, the late
"Thornan O. Roberts,
illuntwille to Raise
~ $20,000 For Y. M. C. A.
‘ HUNTSVILLE, Aug. 31.-~J M,
Graham, gzeneral secretary of the
Huntsville Y. M. €. A, {8 back from
Birmingham where he attended a
conference of Y M, C. A. workers
from all parts of the State held for
the purpose of mapping ‘out plansg
for the general drive for funds which
will be held during the last ten days
of October., Mr. Graham stated that
Huntsville and Madison County's
quota will be $20.000 ‘
Council Will Meet in 1
Formal Session Monday
Only a formal session of City Coun«
cil, necessary for complinnce with the
law, will be held Monday. as it %
Labor Dayv. Adjournment for a week
probably will be taken in order to al
low for the presentation of the traf.
file ordinance to ho drafted, after a
public hearing Thursday by the po
lice and ordinance committeres of‘
council and the Board of Firemasters.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 31.——Cleopam‘l*§
ability to mix love potions, of which:
Antony drank great draughts, was "
given as one rsaasoen why young wom-‘_:
en should stuwdy pharmacy as a pm“‘;’:’j
session, by Miss Adelaide Rudolph,
before the women's section of the'
American Pharmaceutical Assnclatlfi“fi
in session at the Hotel Pennsy’l\'fl.l’llai;;si
i here, b
| Artemisia and Agnodice also had &
| knowledge of drugs, she said. 1
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Citing precedents, Mis Rudolph said 4
Cleopatra had luit a {reatise on he
maladies of women. But she did,
not state whether the treatise pre- s
scribed an antidote for the poisen
of an asp. B
Artemisia, queen of Caria, cultfs
vated medicine. Queen Artemisia
was very much in love with her own
husband, Mausolus, which may have
been the fashion around 350 B, ;}3
Mausgolus died and Artemisia built
a tomb for him which was one of the |
seven wonders of the world. A ,4:2%?
misia mixed her hushand’s ashes in‘a
“precious liquid”’ and drank the b 4
thus eonverting herself into a mausd=
leum, B
| Anyhow, there were precious
quids in those days just as th
are now, B
As for Agnodice, she was an Athen+
ian maiden who dressed herself il
men’s clothes, studied medicine uns
der the tuition of Herophilus, M, Do
and practiced with much success., "
At the meeting of the commercial
section of the association, Ro R
P. Fischells, one of the younger meng-+:
bers, put out the idea that musie
would add melody to the sizz of
water fountains in drug stores. There
was a time when the band should
have played “Little Brown Jug” aftes
‘a man had winked to the chap draws
Ilng the soda water or had p nte
’a prescription for spiritus frumen
‘Nowadays an appropriate tune woul
‘be: “Sweet Spirit, Hear My P 33
Fischells advocated mgfo and bet!
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New Profiteering T
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~ CHICAGO, Aug. 31.—New angles |
‘the food profiteering were brought |
attention osflUnlted States D sLri
Attorney Clyne Saturday. An atto
ney for a wholesale grocery hou
declared a private Ilndl‘;idull had co
nered a large supply surplus a
canned goods and was trying to diss s
pose of them at a profit to olesabe™
grocers and jobbers. #o e
The attorney, Jay D, Miller, couns
for Sprague, Warner & Co., declars
that the individual who manag h
coup was engaged in no kind of meps"
chandising business, but had %P
bidding wholesale groeers 3 to
cent per can obtained the go fros
the quartermaster’s department
the army. The wholesale neer:
Miller declared, needed these anned
goods very badly, but were bel
asked a substantial increase over ti
price which the unnamed individus
had paid for them. Miller request
that an investigation be made, = &
At the same time information wes"
sent to the district attorney’s offite
that a grocer was purchasing larg
quantities of army canned goods 4
stocking them away. <r Ay
“Pathetic Dependence”
On U. S. Found in Asia
PARIS, Aug. 31.—Charles R. Cranee
whose report on conditions in t
Near Fast has just been suhmitted t 6
the peace conference, deciared tha
everywhere he went in Asia, he foun
“pathetic dependence” upon help fre
America, fer
“Literally millians of M
to us as their saviors of the
sald Mr. Cranee. "They trust us &
have pinned stheir entire faith to
Our assistance would give them thi
chance they are looking for to 1o
along democratic lines, ,_
“Archaic Army Plan”
Balking Young Mei
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.-Thi
‘archale army systems” Is keepin
voung men out of the army, Sam
T. Ansall, farmer acting judge adve,
cate of the army, declared Saturda
in attacking the military laws befon
a subcommittee of the Military A
fairs Committee of the Senate.
AUTO TOURISTS MOVING,
HUNTSVILLE, Aug. 31a—The &
tomobile tourist season over the AN
bama-tackson highway is bexing
te open up and there is an e
ing humber of cars passing f"‘“
Huntsville. Tro big rush of tousl
from the North to Morida is expects
to begin néxt month i o
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