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VOL. XVIII
DEPOSED GREEK RULER DENIES RENOUNCING CROWN
HLAEKEUJSUES
(By Universal Service.)
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 11.—Follow
ing the sensational assault upon her
by Eugene Waliter, the playwright, in
the Alexandria Hotel, Miss Nina
Whitmore, a moving picture actiress
and formerly a member of “Ziegfeld's
Foliies,” has filed a $50,000 damage
suit against the playwright.
Walter is cenfined to his room in
the Hollywood Hotel, “suffering from
a nervous collapse’” accoreing to ine
yeport. He would make no statement
except to say he deeply regretted the
episode.
With her right eye bandaged and
the other flashing indignation, Miss
Whitmore denounced Walter's act as
one inspired by jealousy.
+ “Mr. Walter struck me four times
with his fist, and one of the blows
rendered me unconscious,” Miss
Whitmore said. ‘I have been tacitly
ergaged 1o Mr. Walter for more than
a vear, and we were Lo have been
married as soen as he could procure
a. divorce from his wife.
JEALOUSY HINTED.
‘T attended a social affair at the
home of a 4 well known film producer
Wednesday evening without consult
ing Mr. Walter, or permitting him to
aceompany me.
“He came to my room the next
morning and demanded admission. 1
was not up and refused to let him in.
1 toldihim to come back in twentv
minutés, but he jumped up on the
doorknob, shattered the transom and
precipitated himself into my room.
“He charged me with having re
ceived attentions from other men,
and then struck me without giving
me the chance to explain.
“l was home from the parly to
whizch Mr. Walter objected not later
than 31 o'cleck. I am told Mr. Wal
ter paced the floor during my ab
sence, all the time brandighing a re
volver with which he said he ‘would
kill me.”
WALTER'S STATEMENT.
*“The entire inciGent is one of pro
found regret,” said Walter shortly
after he had been taken to the Cen
tral Pblice Station following the “in
cident.” “I have only the highest
regard for Miss Whitmore.”
Walter posted SIOO for his appear
ance in Police Court to answer to
a battery charge, but his attorney
appeared before the judge and an
nounced that his client had suffered
from a nervous collapse and could
not attend. His time to enter a
plea was therefore set for next Tues
day morning.
Miss Whitmcere did not appear in
court. Instead she consulted an at
torney and informed him that she
tad been damagea by the assault,
and the action asking $50,000 damages
wag the outcome. There is already
a report that the suit will be com
promised.
Los Angeles Affair to
Bring Reconciliation
(By Universal Service.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—Charlotte
Walker, the actress, wife of FEugene
Walter, intimsted in an interview
tliat the difficulty in which her hus
ban? has become involved in L.os
Angoles may lesult in reuniting him
to her after a separation of nearly
iree years.
“In a crisis like this my place is
by my husband,” she declared, with
gpirit. *“No matter what my plaas
may have been, I certainly will not
seck a divorce now. No true wife
would desert her hushand in an hour
of trial, and I shall not leave Mr.
Walter. Nothing is soo unimportant
in my life as a bad woman. Al
though my husband has caused me
untold ar:uish and siffering, I love
him. . I have loved him from the very
first, and always shall. He is a won
derful man. I am too happy for words
that he has seen the light. I knew
he woula, sooner or later.”
The following telegram was re
eeived by Miss Walker from her hus
band:
“l want to be the first to tell you
that I am involved in a disagreeable
scandal which will inevitably result
in a certain amount of publicity. The
difficulty has reso'ved itself into an
attempt to obtain nioney from me,
but I think I shall defeat it. My chief
regret is the anonoyance and just in
dignation i: will cause you. Love.”
Miss Walker immediately wired
back that she would stick by her
husband.
Dry America Shipping .
. e &
Liquor to Wet Britain
LONDON, Oct 11.—While “Pussy
foot” Johnson is trying to prohibi
tionize Britaia 4,000 barrels of Amer
ican whisky have arrived on the
steamship Georgeanna at Weems
from “dry” America. The supply of
whisky in Britain is large, but the
government is letting out only lim
ited quantities, so Friday's receipt
has delighted the market here.
Moreover, it is rye, and about ail
the whisky available in Britain is
Scotch. lour milhen gallons of rum
ualso were made availakble, due to the
fact that it arrived too late for the
army's use.
Waycross Speeds Up as
Horse and Mule Market
WAYCROSS, Oct. 11.—During the
last few years Waycross has made
wonderful progress as a mule and
horse market, and in order that the
erowing demands for stock may be
met another large market is being
established by McDonald & Long.
They will open next week and oper
ate @ <eneral sales stable. |
Full International News Service
@ ®
KNOW
WAS the place where Major
James J. Andrews, a dar
ing Federal raider, and
seven of his comrades were
hanged? That the scene of the
hanging of Major Andrews, who
captured the Confederate engine,
the General, at Big Shanty, was
on the little grass covered point
of the Georgian Terrace grounds,
and that he was buried under
where the Ponce de Leon Apart
ment building stands? That his
seven comrades were executed
at the Decatur street entrance
of Oakland Cemetery, and that
the names of the raiders were
Major James J. Andrews, Ma
rion A. Ross, George D. Wilson,
Charles P. Shadrack, John M.
Scott, Samuel Stevens, Samuel
Robinson of Ohio and William
H. Campbell, - a Kentucky citi
zen? That Major Andrews used
to whittle whistles for an At
lanta child who is now a grand
mother?
That Belle Boyd, the noted
Confederate spy, was a frequent
visitor to Atlanta 'during the
war of the sixties and had her
headquarters at .he old Atlanta
hotel, which stood where Tem
ple Court now stands, and that
she afterwards married an offi
cer in the Union army?
That Decatur street was the
fashionable residence street at
the time the war broke out, and
that many .of the best people of
Atlanta wera born on that
street?
That the largest torchlight
procession ever held in Atlanta
started at the spot where the
Carnegie Library stands, in 1867,
and that thousands of home
made candles were used for il
lumination in the windows of
the houses and stores on that
occasion?
That community quilts were
the vogue with the women of the
Confederacy when they met and
pieced their calico scraps into
designs like the Star of Bethle
hem or the Fool's Puzzle, and
that the quilts were raffled by
the churches for the benefit of
charity, and to raise money for
the soldiers in the Confedarate
army?
That the unselfishness of the
women of the sixties and the
daring of the men, has continued
through the succeeding genera
tions, and that Atlanta did war
work second to no other city of
its size during the last war?
You KNOW it! TELL it!
$45337972] p2,lj
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—Four
persons received net incomes jin the
vear 1917 of $5,000,000 and over. The
average tax paid by these four was
$4,937,731.25 and their total net in
come was $57,242,379, according to
figures made public today by the
bureau of internal revenue.
The number of persons filing re
turns of taxable incomes from §2,-
000 to $2,600 for the year was 311,5625.
More returns of taxable income of
from $3,000 to $4,000 were received
than in any other class. The number
was 356,437. The total income from
these returns was $1,225,167,248, and
the average tax $27.50.
Ninety persons filed returns of in
come from $750,000. to $1,000,000 and
paid an average tax of $249,948.30,
Sixty-seven returns reported net in
comes from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000
the average tax being $360,758.
Returns of taxable income” from
$5,000 to $6,000 numbered 105,055,
representing a total aet income of
$573,807,914 and a total tax of SB,-
418,718.
Thomasville Hard Hit
By Shortage of Houses
DEMAND THOMASVILLIZ —2
THOASVILLE, Oct. 11.—With the
demand for houses in Thomasville so
much greater than the supply, there
ig talk of a good dezal of building to
e done here at an eerly date. One
man who wants to bring his family
bere said yesterday he saw no hope
of getting a place except to pur up
tents, and was thinking of investing
in a zupply.
GOOD-BY, SUGAR BOWLS.
MOBILE. - Oct. 11.—Sugar bowls
were ordered off all restaurant and
case tables here today as a means of
conserving ‘sugar, and many soda
stands are using brown sugar. The
shortage Is acute.
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—_—
The thousands of Confederate vet
erans who have been- the honored
guests of Atlanta since iast Monday
packed their flags and war relics in
suit cases Saturday and bade Atlan
ta farewell.
The Terminal Station early in the
morning was thronged with the army
of departing vets, all enpthusiastic
over the success of the reunion, full
of appreciation for the generous hos
pitality of the city but anxious to get
back to their homes,
While trains were arriving to bear
them to ,various parts of the South,
they voiced the admiration that filled
their hearts for Atlanta.
“The greatest city in the South,” a
gray haired Texan said.
“Well worth fighting for,” a Vir
ginian declared. .
BALL FAREWELL EVENT.
The big ball held in the Auditori
um Friday night was the last num
ber on the program of the reunion.
The event proved a fitting ciose. No
social feature of the. week. excelled
the brilliance of the occasion, where
the aged citizens who have stoofl so
long and faithfully at the social and
political helm of the South gathered
for the last dance with the beauti-*
ful women assembled to aid in their
entertainment.
Another event of Friday was the
unveiling of tablets that mark historic
spots of the battle of Atlanta. The
first tablet unveiled was on “Deer
land” lawn, on the estate of J. J.
Spalding. This spot marks the heart
of the battle of Peachtree Creek,
where Capt. E. P. Howell's battery
was situated. .
The ceremonies opened with an in
vocation by Father Guinan followed
by a short address by Mrs. Ww. 8.
Coleman, president of the Atlanta
chapter of he U. D. C.
DR. PORTER'S ADDRESS. \
The principal address was made by
Pr. G R, Port:& who was introduced
by Mrs. E. G. arner.
“These monuments will keep alive
the patriotism of the old South,” he
said. “They will perpetuate the glory
of those who died in the war of fifty
years ago. There is a South. God
created it; history confirms it and ex
perience has sanctified it.”
Little Eleanor Spalding and Betty
Schroeder, granddaughters of Col.
Jack Spalding, owner of “Deerland,”
unveiled the stone. The monument
bears this inscription:
This spot marks the location of
the Confederate troops (Capt. Evan
P. Howell’s battery), during the bat
tle of Peachtree Creek, July 20, 1864.
In the siege of Atlanta the Con
fedarate forces numbered 48,060;
losses, 34,979. The Federal forces |
numbered 112,819; losses, 40,060,
Erected by the Atlanta chapter,
United Daughters of the- Confed
eracy, 1919. |
MONUMENT TO GRAHAM. |
The second monument unveiled was
in Collier road, erected to honor the
memory of Col. Rovert Howell Gra
ham, calle Cthe “Second Morgan,”
who achieved fame from his daring
deeds in the war. This monument
carries the following lines:
This, Collier road, old and his
torical, leads to Howell's Mill,
where Col. Robert Howell Graham,
C. 8. A., with 100 in his command,
in one of his many raids, captured
from General Sherman’s forces, 100
prisoners, 72 wagons and 800 mules
and equipment. |
“Erected by Atlanta Chapter
United Daughters of the Confed- ‘
eracy, 1919, a
Former Gov. Nat E. Harris of Ma
con paid the city a compliment in
commenting upon the success of the
reunion.
“It has been a great day for us all,”
he said. “I fear we shall neyer see
its like again. The parade was one
of the greatest 1 have ever witnessed.”
He commented on the skillful way
which the veterans had been cared
for and of the generous manner in
which Atlantans responded to the call
for help from Piedmont Park Thurs
day afternocn and rescued the vet
erans from the pond of water that
gathered under their tents.
COMMITTEE PLEASED.
The committeemen, Walter P. An
drews, G. F. Willis and Gen. N, B.
Forrest, who worked faithfully night
and day during the reunion, are re
ceiving congratulations upen the suc.
cess of the work.
They faced and solved a gigantic
proposition and all Atlanta realizes
that the success of this the greatest
reunion ever held in the South has
been propelled by their leadership, it
was said. The committeemen spoke
of their appreciation of the co-opera
tion the people have given them, de
claring that if the pecople generally
had not lent their aid in such un
stinted fashion, they could have never
coped with the situation.
Saturday a detail of Boy Scouts
met at the Terminal Station to assist
the veterans and to bid them good-by.
Night and day, in sunshine and rain,
they have been on the job, a“d they
are not to leave the stations until the
Jast vet's baggage is safely on the
train and the last vet seated com
fortably in the right car.
»
Five Dead, Twelve Burned
In Tank Ship Eplosion
PHILADELPHIJA, Oct. 11.—Five
men were killed and a dozen others
were burned, three probably fatally,
in an explosion on the tank steam
ship Chestnut Hills here Friday. Two
were fir.t reported Killed, but late
Friday atternoon five bodies had been
recovered. and identified. The explo
sion was so terrific that one man was
blown to fragments and another badly
mangled
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1919
Chews and Smokes
.
Given to Veterans
.
By Rich Brothers
Smokes and chews were en
joved Friday by thousands of vet
erans as a compliment from M,
Rich & Bros. Co. .
The tobacco was - distributed
among the honored visitors by a
corps of pretty «girl employees of
the big store under direction of
Lucian York, general, manager-
Three automobiles were required
to haul the supply. The distribu
tion was made at Camp Johnston,
the Piedmont Hotel and at the Au
ditorium Friday night. Many
hearty expressions ‘af appreciation
came from the vets.
“We feel very happy in having
pleased the veterans with this lit
tle courtesy,” said Mr, York Sat
urday. %
Warm praise for the manner in
which Atlanta ceme to the front in
an emergency and provided a splen
did reception for tha Confederate sol
diers during the reunion is contained
in a statement issued Saturday by J.
P. Allen, president of the Retail
Mercharts' Association.
Mr. Allen speaks for ‘the largest
civic organization in Atlanta. He
particularly praises the Atlarta Con
vention Bureau for the service that
organization has rendered the city,
not only during the reunion, but for
several years in other activities. ,
Following is the statement of Mrs
Allen: ; :
“All Atianta owes a vote of thanks
and congratulation to the hard
worked members of the committee in
charge of arrangements for the glo
rious. reunion of the Urited Conted
erate Veterang.
NEW INSPIRATI,ON.
“Atlantans this week have received
& new insgiration of pride” in the
Souths’ traditional ideals, a new in
spirtaion of respect and reverence for
the gallant old heroes who be
queathed to their sons an immortal
heritage, a new inspiration of Amer
ican patriotism, a new determination
that American instiutions and Amer
ican liberty under law shall not be
submerged by the rising tide of bol
shevism. )
“Probably no convention that has
met in our city since the memor?ble
assembly of the Mystic Shrine five
years ago imposed such a strain upon
our capacity for entertainment; cer
tainly none has ever called forth a
more magnificent display of the fa
mous ‘Atlanta spirit’ as expressed in
terms of hospitality.
“It is my firm belief, based upon
conversation with hosts of Confeder
ate veterans and other visitors, that
the treatment we have accorded our
distinguishéd guests of honor touched
their hearts and sent hem home with
a feeling of appreciation that will
never he forgotten, ;
PRAISE HOSPITALITY.
“When the Shriners met here every
citizen of the community, old and
yvoung alike, made himself a member
of the entertainment committe, with
the result that the Nobles left prals
ing our hospitality, and have never
ceased o praise it on every occasion
when Atlanta’s name was mentioned.
“During the reunion of Confederate
veterans the same universal commu
nity spirit manifested itself in a
thousand dif’crent ways. It made
one proud of Atlanta and proud of
his Atlanta citizenship to observe the
tender solicitude bestowed upon the
veterans by every one with whom
he came in contact, from newsboys
selling their papers on the streets
to owners of limousines.
“Speaking as the head of oen ‘of
Atlanta’s largest civic organizations,
and speaking also as a citizen and
business man, it is my opinion that
Atlanta can not make a better in
vestment of her time, ner energy ana
her money than in the entertaiiffhent
of big conventions. |
FAME IS SPREAD, |
“Our splendid Convention Bureau,
with its dble officers and unsur
passed secretary, has taken the fame
of ‘Atlanta, the Convention City of
Dixie,’ into every part of the United
States, We have had the privilege of
entertaining nearly every one of the
really great conventions. They have
brought to Atlanta a host of visitors,
numbering hundreds of thousands,
who have caught the magic of our
‘Atlanta spirit’ and gone away prais
ing our enterprise and progress. The
results of this far-reaching goodl
name and fame are beyond calcwin
tion. |
“The Convention Bureau is now en
gaged in a very extensive campaign
of publicity concerning our climate,
It is making famous throughout this
country its striking new slogan, ‘At
lanta, the Pinnacle City) Blesged
with a climate not to be surpassed by
any city anywhere, we have a(:hievedj
uor reputation Elong other lines., Now
it is proposed to capitalize this tre-‘
mendous asset, y
“I repeat that we owe our fthanks
and congratulations to” the men and!
women who worked so hard to make
the reunion a glorious success. They |
have more than fulfilled their (-ity's{
expectations, ket us have more of
such great gatherings. Let us make
our city the one whose invitation is
the most sought after in the United
|
BIRMINGHAM, Oct. 11,—Law
rence' A. Fealy, bishop of the Al
turian cult, Friday was likened unto
Jesus Christ with disciples following
‘Him as the twelve holy men did the
Savior, by Mrs. Emily Carpenter of
Mladison, who testified in the Obear-
Fealy case in Chancery Court here,
This testimony began the fourth day
of the litigation in which Willilam
Gray Obear, former army major, is
seeking an injunction. to stop Fealy
from using his &° called hypnotic
powers over Mrs. Legare Obear, the
former major’s wife and to prevent
Mrs. Obear from dissipating her for
tune t}'\rough this alleged occult in
‘luence.
Under a rapid firg of questions
from Judge S. D. Weakley, one of
the attorneys. for Obear. Mrs. Car
penter testified that she joined the
society. and became a follower of
Fealy and his doctrine in Atlanta in
1912. She declared she went to him
hecause ‘'she had heard he could cure
disease and heal bodily ills and that
she was ill. Mzis, Carpenter said she
went to Fealy from her home in
Madison and at that time Fealy had
his ofices irn the Piedmont Hotel in
Atlanta. The treatments consisted
of living in accordance with the doc
trines of Christianity, she testified,
but she- admitted that Fealy some
times aided these doctrines by put
ting his hands on her head for a few
}seconds.
v PAYS $250 A LESSON.
The life Fealy leads is a manifes
‘tation of the spirit of God within
‘him, Mrs. Carpenter testified. Each
treatment, she declared Fealy spent
only a few seconds with her.
“He told me that anybody who led
a Christian life could heal as he
'did,” She said. “I know he has the
power of healing.” she added. Mrs.
Carpenter could not remember, she
said, whether or not Mrs. Legare
Obear ever took treatments from
Fealy in the Piedmont Hotel, Mrs.
Carpenter took a course of lessons
from Fealy, she testified, consisting
of a large number of typewritten
pages of which Fealy was the author
and that she paid $250 for them,
paying for the lessons was not com
pulsory, she declare.d Members who
could not afford to pay for them
got them free.
Mrs, Obear got her lessons while
she was living in Madison, Mrs. Car
penter testified, but Mrs. Curpenter
said she did not know what Mrs,
Obear paid for them.
EVERYONE ELIGIBLE,
Mrs. Carpenter disclosed that she
had gone through the “White Cross”
degree several years ago, having re
ceived a ring which was symbolic of
the initial step in the society. Later,
she saia, she received the ‘Black
Cross.” Then, she testified she told
I'ealy she desired to become a dis
ciple. She said she was still work
ing toward the “Master's degree,”
which is signified by a white cross.
Feally wears a white cross set with
a diamond.
The sonly persons she knew who
had the white crosses set with dia
monds were Feally and Migs Grace
Smith of Birmingham,
In Feally’s opinion, she declared,
every one is eligible for the mas
ter's degree, if they work toward
that end.
HEARING AWAITS BUTLER.
Proceedings in the tangle were
halted temporarily late Friday after
noon to await the arrival of Col, Ed
ward F. Butler, wealthy Georgian,
who, according to testimony already
adduced, was one of the principals
in the “Altrurian match"” recently ar
ranged by Bishop Fealy.
White Gibson, attorney for Fealy,
announced to the court that Colonel
Butler and his newly-wedded wife
are on their way to Birmingham from
Madison, Ga., and that he expects to
put them on the witness stand Mon
day. !
Colonel Butler is said to be the
“rich old fellow” whom Fealy and
Mrs. Legare H. Obear wanted to
“marry off,” according to testimony,
and the “girl in the case” was to
give the Altrurian Society SIO,OOO
when the “match” was made. Colo
nel Butler was married about three
weeks ago, it is stated by witnesses
who have ben heard. ”
Southwest Ga. Boosters
. .
To Meet in Thomasville
THOMASVILLE, Oct. 11,—If there
ever has been business pealousy be
fween towns of this section, all of it
probably wili be done away wity by
the get-together spirit of the South
west Georgia Boosters, who will meet
here October 23.
The meeting has been called by
President C. W, Cooper of this city to
effect a permanent organization to
succeed the temporary one organ
ized in Valdosta some weeks ago.
This organization was formed to pro
mote a feeling of good fellowship be
tween the business and professional
men of Southwest Georgia and for
advertising this section. The com
mercial organizations will send rep
resentativey ‘
1
¢ By PAUL STEVENSON.
‘When some stranger knocks on
your door during bleak January and
immediately begins to talk to you in
rapid-fire fashion something like this,
“Howoldareyou, marriedsingledordi
vorced, colorsexandage, likecreamin
yourcoffeeornot?’ don't be alarmed—
it's only the census man.
They're going to take the census
here in Atlanta during the first two
weeks in January, beginning Janugry
2, so look up the old family Bible,
find out all about yourself and your
family and be ready to tell the census
taker your real name.
Already the blanks have arrived for
the instruction of the census takers
and the government has even exceed
ed its rceord in the income tax matter
im the entangled language it uses in
telling you what you must do.
MARSHBURN IN CHARGE.
Capt. Walter 'O, Marshburn will
have charge of the census in the Fifth
District, which includes Atlanta. He
has established offices at 27 1-2 Ex
change place, but the census will be
over before you can ever find out
where Exchange place is. Its in the
Atlanta Theater building, and even
after you find the theater it takes a
couple of hours to find the office of
the census man.
But after you find Captain Marsh
burn you will get all ‘the information
you want in six blanks containing
about 10,000 différent sentences ex
plaining what you must do. After
you have read over the government
explanation blanks and copies of the
Congressional Record containing the
debate in both Houses of Congress
vou know less than when yvou started.
Then it's a good idea to ask Captain
Marshburn a few questions and get
the information quicKly and in more
understandable form.
‘ STAFF IS FORMING.
" The census taking here will require
about 2560 enumerators. Captain
‘Marshburn is now forming his staff
and is recejving many -applications.
The enumerators will be paid for the
number of blanks they sign up in
each family. The government is to
pay not less than two cents and not
more than four cents for each person
in cities whose name is taken in the
census. This is from two to four
cents more .tha%‘:oma of the names
are worth in Aflanta, but the old
saying “that fellow ain't worth a
cent” is forever -shattered—they're
worth at least two cents to the gov
ernment, anyway,
The pay in the rural districts is
to be not less than 20 cents and not
more than 30 cents, for each farm
reported; not less than 20 cents and
not more than 50 cetns for each ir
rigation or drainage enterprise re
ported, and 10 cents for each barn
and enclosure containing live stock
not on farms. In some cases the
census director has authority to" fix
the per diem pay based on the diffi
culty of securing names.
Qualifications and K duties of the
census enumerators are set forth as
follows: & |
DUTIES OF ENUMERATORS. ‘
The act of March 3, 1919, under the
provisions of which the fourteenth
census of the United States is to be
taken, provides for the appointment
of supervisors of census, one or
more to each State, the District of
Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii and Porto
Rico, to have general supetvision
within their respective districis of
the enumemtign to be made in Jan
uary, 1920, ne of the duties im
posed upon these supervisors by the
census act is the designation of suit
able persons to be employed, with
the consent of the director of the cen
sus, as enumerators within their re
spective districts. It is further pro
vided that such persons shall be se
lected gsolely with reference to fit
ness, and without reference to their
political party affiliations. |
Under the provisions of the census
act, the entimeration in January,
1020, is restricted to inquiries relat
ing to population, to agriculture, to
manufactures, to forestry and forest
products, and to mines and quarries,
but, under the discretionary power
vested in the director of the census,
the inquiries relative to manufac
tures, to forestry ‘and forest products
and to mines and quarries will for
the most part be collected either by
special agents appointed directly by
the director or by employees of the
Census Bureau specially detailed for
that purpose, <
The census act provides that the
enumeration of population and agri
culture shall begin on January 2,
1920, and that each enumerator shall
complete the work required in his
district within thirty days in the case
of rural districts and small towns,
and within two weeks in teh case of
any incorporated city, town, village
or borough which had 2,500 inhabi
tants or more under the census of
1910.
The law requires that an enumera
tor, so far as practicable, be an ac
tual resident of the subdivision with- |
in which his duties are to be per
formed. He should be familiar with
its territory and the general chumc-w
ter of its people.
ACTIVE MEN WANTED.
The census requires as enumera
tors dctive. energetic persons ofj
good address. They must be be
tween 18 and 70 years of age, citizens
of the United States, and be. thor
oughly trustworthy, honest, and of
good habits. They must have at
least ordinary education and be able‘
to write plainly and with reasonable
rapidity. ‘
Each person seeking appeintment
Issued Daily and Entered as Second-Class Matter at
the Postoffice at. Atlanta Under Act of Marcih 3, 1879,
Policeman Will Tell
What It Takes To Be
A First Class C ‘
rirat Ulass Copper
Atlanta's patrolmen are to get a (
firm seat in the saddle of Pegassus
and take a flight in literature. “
The coppers are requested in an
order issued by Chief Beavers Sat
urday to write an essay on what
constitutes a first class policeman.
A prize is to be raised by the po
lice for the winning composition.
Once before a similar contest was |
held to test the mental ability of
' the officers, and some of the an- |
~ swers turned in were quite unique. |
Some of them were models of
brevity.
as census enumerator must make a
written application (see form 9-128)
to the supervisor for the district of
which he is a resident, and said ap-.
piication must be made throughout
in the handwriting of the applicant,
and must be endorsed -by two rep
resentative business men of the com
munity in which the applicant re
sides. |
All apnlieants for appointment as
enumerators will be required to sub
mit te a test, to be prescribed by the
director of the census, to determine
their fitness for thé work. This test
will be of a practical character, con
sisting of the filling out of a sample
schedule of population from data
tfurnished, and in the case oti
enumerators whose work will be in|
rural districts, the filling out of a
sample schedule of agriculture. J
Bach applicant is furnished with
an' illustrative example (form 9-120)
of the manner of filling the popula
tion schedule and, in country dis
tricts, with an illustrative example
(form 9-130) of the agricultural
schedule, to which, in the main, the
work of ‘the census enumerators llj
confined. |
These forms of schedules are fur
nished for the information of the ap
plicant and should be studied and
preserved for use in connection with
‘he test referred to in the preceding
parsgraph. |
It will be necessary for each enum
erator, before entering upon his du
ties, to receive a commission, under
the hand of the supervisor of the
district to which he belongs, and to
take and subscribe an oath or af
firmation that he will faithfully dis
charge all the duties required of him
under the law. .
‘ The census act also provides that
an enumerator, after accepting an
appointment and qualifying for the
work, can not, “without justifiable
cause,” refuse or neglect to perform
the duties of the position; and he
will further be required to devote his
entire working time to the census
during the period of the enumeration.
PREPARE YOURSELF.
When the census man calls you
must be prepared to say whether or
not vou are the head of the house,
tell if you own' the home you live in |
or rent, if owned tell of mortgages, lt‘
any, and how much; sex, color, age
at last birthday; single, married,
widow or divorced; year of immigra
tion to the United States, naturalized
or alien—if naturalized, give year of
naturalization—attendance in school
at any time since September 1, 1919;
whether able to vead and write,
whether able to speak English; trade, |
profession or particular kind of work
done; industry, business or eutab]lsh-‘
ment in which work is done; state
whether you are employer, salary or
wage worker or working on own ac
count.-
The census enumerator must fill in
the blank with the street, avenue or
road in which the citizen Hve!.‘
house number or farm, number of
dwelling house in order of visitation
and number of family in order of
visitation. *He fills in the name of
each member of the family whpse
place of abode January 1, 1920, was
in the house visited. Every person
living in a home should be included
c:;ept children born after January 1,
1920.
CITIZENS MUST HELP.
Captain Marshburn said that it is
particularly important that all citi
zens of Atlanta co-operate fully in
giving complete information to the
enumerators. He said Atlanta has
not taken in much additional terri
tory since 1910 and that if the city
is to make the showing it should make
that the names of all persons should
be turned in to the enumerators, ‘
One thing Atlawta people must be
careful about this census is in giving
the names of people who live in
double houses. Captain Marshburn
says much of Atlanta's population is’
found in houses occupied by two or
more families,
He particuarly stresses the impor
tance of giving all the names in each
family. He said many cases have oc
curred where an enumerator would
visit a house and wauld be told only
one name, Later a second visit
would be made and it was found that
the occupant of the house had failed
to say that his father and mother or
children were also living there.
“Why I did not know you wanted
them,” would be the statement given
the enumerator,
TO AVOID “SKIPPING.”
Captain Marshburn says such in
stances were innumerable in the last
census and he hopes to avoid it in
the coming tabulation.
The census rules require the enu
meration of all people “in their pilace
of abode.” This means usually where
people sleep., Attention is called to
the fact that there will be many peo
ple whose ‘‘ustial pluce of abode” is
in a certain district who are not per
sonally in the district at the time the
enumeration is made. These must be
enumerated, the information to be ob
tained from the family, relatives or
friends. This is an important thing
in Atlanta as muny Atlanta men are
traveling salesmen and many other
citizens are in other cities attending
school or for other purposes when
the census is taken.
It is well to note also that every
person must answer the questions
asked by the enumerator. The law
requires it and sever penalties may
be inflicted for refusal.
(SECONDNEWS!
f SECTION]
NO. 61
By FORMER KING CONSTANTINZ
OF GREECE.
Written Expressly For Universal
Service.
Copynright, 1919, by Universal Service.
PARIS, Oct, 11.—{ never icnounced
the crown. 1 simply left Greece in
order to facilitate the solution of in
terior problemsg during the war.
It is utterly false to say that I
favored an alliance between Greece
and the central empires. All that T
sought was prolongation of neutral
ity in view of Greece's unprepared
ness and total lack of arms and mu
nitions.
It was my duty also to consider the
situation of the numerous Greeks in
Turkey who were exposed to the
gravest danger in case we went into
the war on the side of the allies. :
~ These alone were the considera
tions that forced mé to adopt the
neutral policy to which I adhered in
spite of the loss of the throne.
It was pure folly to accuse meg of
plotting an attack on .General Sar
rail's army from the rear. The mer
est military novice should recognize
the absurdity of that charge and the
impossibility of such an eventuality.
The French minister at Athens
himself admitted to me that it was
a fantastic fabric of the imagination,
whereupon I wrote him:
I “Tell this to your government. Do
not confine your admission to my
self only.”
Besides, how could any right- |
[m!nded person consider war between
Greece and Great Britain possible
‘when a glance at the map proves
such a step to be inconceivable from
our standpoint?
But these are all matters of the
past. Greece must now assure the
safety of her future ‘3hich will be
best accomplished by means of an
Italo-Greek alliance. The two na
‘tlona are closely related racially and
have the greatest similitude of in
terests.
I am therefore glad to learn that
accord on a durable basis is at this
moment being established between
Italy and Greece, under which it s
agreed that Greece shall get Thrace, '
which is only right from every stand
point. :
Naturally the Turkish question oc
cupies a large portion of my
thoughts. Will Turkey be broken up
into small pieces? :
The hesitation of the allies on this
point is quite comprehensible. My
own opinion is that the only methed |
of establishing order in the Near
East is to give the various peoples
making up the Turkish nation an:
opportunity to decide their own poli- =
tical fate and accomplish their rnc(a!l :
deveciopment in an atmosphere of
freedom. e
.
Industrial Congress
| ”
Vote on Steel Strike
Is Expected Tueslay
(By Internationsd News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.--Prac
tically all members of the Indus
trial conference had scattered to !
their homes and nearby cities to- i
day. The conference will not meet
as a whole until Tuesday. )
The committee of fifteen, gov
erning body of the conference,
Monday will meet with the princi
pal object 2{ threshing out the la=-
bor resolution compelling arbitra
tion of the steel strike, It is ex
pected the matter will come to &
vote when the conference meets
as a whole on Tuesday. .
Atlantan Tries to Buy %
Sugar in Thomasville
THOMASVILLE, Oct. 11.—~An At~ |
lanta man in Thomasville yesterday
was trying to buy sugar to ship bacik
t¢c his family at home. He succeede:! é
in vetting a little. Some of the gro=
cers say they are ntirely out, and &
few are keeping a little or hand to fi
dole out to their regular customers |
until the new supply comes in. | i
If worse comes to the worst, the
cane growers can make a Supply
of the old-fashioned brown sugar.
which at least has the adwantage of
being aweet, and with plenty of goed
new syrup coming in soon things will i
rot be so very bad in this section,