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Georgia’s Educational Center,
SOUTH /| The “Pinnacle City” in Climate. :
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VOL XVIII
Sum Kim’s Snake Heads.
4 Colby No Rubber Stamp.
Feeble ‘‘Warning Notes.’’
No Master Mind in Crime.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Indians of Oregon, is dead in Chicago.
He blew out the gas. There in pro
saic language you have the real his
tory of the noble red man, He blew
ouat the gas from the beginning, in
stead of trying to understand it.
On Sum Kim'’s chest, fastened by a
stging around his neck, they found
four little leather bags, in each bag
the dried head of a snake.
Chief Sum Kim believed those
snake heads could protect him in all
sorts of ways. He was mistaken;
they couldn't even hiss a warning
about blowing out the gas.
Clergymen, teachers, professors of
grrm.llsm. your text on ignorance
'Mr. Sum Kim, chief of the Mayuse
and her sister, superstition, is sup
ptied by the Indian chief’s four little
leather bags, snake heads and escap
ing gas.
¢ Bainbridge Tolby, as secretary of
state, will ‘'be dn improvement on
many of his predecessors. Those
that know him believe him to be
more deeply interested in the United
States than in the British Islands,
convinced that this nation has
reached maturity and is fit to govern
itself.
* Mr. Colby has made his own suc
cess and reputation by hard work.
With the right opportunity he will
make a first class secretary of state,
but he will not make a good rubber
stamp.
"More worry about decreasing pop
unlation on the farms. Government
statistics from New York State show
farm hands fewer by 17 per cent,
farm owning population by 3 per
cent. |
A reduction in the population that
provides food is serious. Govern
ment may well “sound a warning
Dote.”
But warping notes of themselves
are not valuable. |
Government, State and nation
should do something. |
¥Food production is more a matter
of machinery than of men. If you
ow mulitiplied farm labor by ten and
k away harvesting machines, your
grain production would vanish. |
If you multiplied by five the men
working on potato diggers and put
mep to picking potato bugs by hand
or distributing Paris green from
watering pots, potatoes would cost
S4O a barrel instead of $lO. |
Can government do anything? Of
course, it can. It does, when really
interested.
It soon found a billion and a quar
ter for aircraft profiteers and forty
other billions when it got excited
about war,
This next national election should
give to narrow minded government
, ®uch a kick as would force it to in
terest itself in the problem of feed
ing Americans as much as it recently
interested itself in the problem of
killing Germans.
Roads should De made good to save
farmers waste of time in hauling.
Government should provide, at cost,
a full supply of tractors to help farm
ers work. The little farmer can not
afford an expensive tractor, used
three weeks in the year and left rust
ing for forty-nine weeks, Govern
ment should proceed with something
more effective than pretty platitudes
against those that profiteer at the
farmer’s expense in the sale of fer
« tilizer and other necessities. |
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Gasoline is as important on ,the
farm as horsepower. Its price should
be controlled by government. GoVv
ernment oil lands owned by the peo
ple should be developed by the gov
ermmment to protect the people from,
oil trust extortion, not farmed out to
start a new brand of extortion. \
There is a limit beyond which
scarcity and high price of food can
¥ not go without serious con Sequences.
' The danger line is not far off, and
the time for “warning notes” is past,
—— l
The police are hunting “the muter}
mind” in bond robberies amoumlng‘
to millions. No such mind will be
found. Criminals have weak minds,
sometimes made dangerous by a form
of insanity or a drug habit that ig
notes danger and operates for a while
with success because of its reckless
ness.
The so called “master mind” will
probably turn out to be some tenth
rate mind, its instinct of self-preser
vation deadened by a supply of co
zaine,
It must amuse the saturnine Lenin
e reed the heading, “France and
Germany in Race to Establish First
¥Friendly Relations With Bolshevism.”
First, the allles and somebody in the
¢ United States, whose knowledge of
world affairs does not go beyond
Montauk Point, announced that bol
shevism must be immediately sup
pressed.
Now the watchword is “Never mind
the horrors, never mind even the de
lightful stories about making women
public property. How can we get
Russia's raw material and keep Ger
many from getting it first”™
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Adair Community Center
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Association to Meet
The Community Center Association
of the Adair Public School District,
will meet at 7:30 o'clock Frilay
night at Catherine and Maylard
streets, to receive reports fromn com
mittees on proposed civie tmprove
ments. An entertainment will be
given,
Proposed improvementas ars better
street car service, concrete paving
and larger sewers, Efforts will he
made to begin quickly concrete pave
ing In Stewart avenue, to eliminate
ater overflow into yards of resl.
&nm and to have a double car track
in Stewart aveuus,
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AD“PTE"S“N;
Child, Popularly Known Around
the U. S. Capitol, Succumbs
‘ to lliness of a Few Days.
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. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Little
3-year-old Morrison Marshall, adopt
ed son of Vice President and Mrs.
Marshall, died at 6:45 this morning,
after an illness of several days.
He was never legally adopted by
the Vice President, although he had
been a member of the family more
than two years,
Son of an obscure family, little
Clarence Ignatus Morrison attraced
the attention of Mrs. Marshall when
his mother brought him to a tene
ment meeting in which the wife of
the Vice President was interested.
Mrs. Marshall became attached to
the little chap and frequently “bor
rowed” him and took him to the
Marshall suite in a hotel here. The
Vice President became fond of the
Lboy and the mother of the child
consented to its being taken into the
Marshall family,
That the mother might be near her
child, Mrs., Marshall secured em
ployment for her in the hotel where
little Morrison lived with the Vice
President.
WELL CARED FOR.
In their hotel apartment here the
Vice President and his wife had a
special kitchenette installed, a
trained nurse was given charge of
little Morrison and he became famous
as one of the most handsome babies
in Washington. .
Wherever the Vice President and
Mrs. Marshall were seen during the
daytime, Morrison was generally seen
also. The Vice President frequently
took the little chap and his nurse
with him when he went to the capitol
and often when hehad a few minutes
to spare before opening the Senate
the Vice President spent it playing
on the capitol lawn with the little fel
low. -y
SAND PILE IN HOTEL. |
The Marshalls moved to a subur-?
ban hotel last year, thinking to bene
fit their small ward. Here on a high
balcony they had a special playroom
fitted up with a sand pile installed on
the balcony of a modern hotel
Little Morrison became one of the
“celebrities” of Washington and he
was known to statesmen and diplo
mats of high rank. He was en ener
gilc child and had been in good
health up to a few weeks ago. Sun
day his condition became serious and
Vice President Marshall canceled en
gagements for a speaking tour and
returned hurriedly to Washington.
Specialists from Johns Hopkins Hos
pital were called in.
Vice President and Mrs. Marshall
were constantly at the bedside of the
boy during his illness and until his
death.
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‘Sunpson Girl Goes to
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Enter Training School
- Catherine Simpson, 17, who figured
in police circles a few weeks ago,
following her arrest at Hotel Ansley
‘after. she had run away from a col
lege and spent two or three months
in St. Louis wher‘ she made a suc
jcess as a bond salesman, left Thurs
day for Cincinnati to enter a train
ing school. She was accompanied by
Policewoman Mrs. John Davis.
Miss Simpson had been a patient
at Grady Hospital, having been taken
there from the matron’'s ward at po
lice headquarters while being held
there on complaint of her mother,
Mrs. Jessie Spencer, 90 Ira street.
While in the hospital the police
charges against her were dismissed.
It is sald she went to the Cincin
natl training school of her own voli
tion upon hearing her mother was
sick and knowing the latter wanted
her to return to school.
Atlanta Shop Crafts
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Opposes Railroad Bill
Protest against the railroad bill is
voiced in a resolution adopted by the
Atlanta Federated Shop Crafts, which
urges that President Wilson veto the
measure,
A message sent to B, M. Jewell,
president of the railway employees’
department of the American .l"edcm
tion of Labor, by the local organiza
tion, says: “We wish to express
through you our most vigorous dis
approval of the action of Congress in
passing the Esch-Cummins bill. We
solicit your full co-operation in get
ting the President's veto on this
measure.”
The message was signed by J. M.
Zuber, secretary of the Shop Crafts;
. H. Barton, electricians; J. 8. l’rxro,‘
machinists; R, E, Farris, bollermak
ers, and W, H. Ahler, carmen, ‘
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Archeolyut to Talk ‘
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At Central Baptist
Dr. J. O. Kinnama, archeologist,
will give a stereoptician lecture Fri
day evening at 8 o'clock at the Cen
tral Baptist church on “Days in the
Foot Prints of Paul and Moses.”
Prof. . Roland KFlick, dean of the
school of violin at Lanier Unlversity,
assisted by Mliss Nellie Laing, head
of the school of voice, will conduct
the musical program for the lecture.
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How Does It Differ From ‘Com
pulsory Universal Military Serv
ice,” With Which It Is Confused?
By VICTOR VICTOR.
It is meable that the dropping,
for the present at least, of the uni
versal military training provisions
from the proposed army reorganiza
tion bill by the House Military Af
fairs Committee was as much duye ‘o
fright over the immense amount of
public misunderstanding on the ques
tion of military training, as it was
to a consideration of any careful
opinion such as the public might hold
on an issue which it clearly under
stood.
The general public does not even
know today just what form of elim
inated provisions might have taken
had they been left in the bill, for
many have been suggested to the
committee, and misinterpreted to the
public in all sorts of propaganda, pro
and con, of which the reader has
doubtless received some in the mails.
The “pros” say: “We must have
universal military training.” The
“cons” say: “We must not have com
pulsory universal military service.”
But when it comes to distinguish
ing between the two nobody agrees,
few understand, and the whole argu
ment gets lost in the fog.
Of course, to create only nominal
cadet corps in all high schools and
colleges which haven't them now
would be rerrded as “training”
purely by anybody; but the govern
ment’s plans went beyond any such
innocuous step. In general, most
informed persons, except the “anti”
propagandists, hold the opinion that
the Swiss and Australian systems are
examples of “universal training,” and!
that systems such as the French and
Japanese, modeled after the old Ger
man machine, are “compulsory serv
ice.”
SWISS AND AUSTRALIAN.
In the following brief outlines, the
training periods “are for the infantry
service. In most of them, the periods
for other branches of the service are
considerably longer.
~ In Switzerland all fit males between
20 and 40 are liable to gmilitary serv
ice. When he is 20 years old, the
young citizen is enlisted in the “Elite”
and given his complete military
equipment. This he takes home with
him and must keep intact throughout
the period of his liability to serve,
‘The next summer, he reports at a
camp near his home and receives
sixty-five days of intensive military
training. Thereafter, before he
reaches the age of 32, he is called out
seven different times for maneuvres
lasting from ten to fourteen dayvs. At
32 he passes into an inactive reserve.
In the Australian swstem, all males
must undergo a training scattered
through their school and early earn
ing careers from the age of 12 to 26.
From 12 to 14, the boy is a “junior
cadet.” He receives general physical
training in school, but not of a
strictly military nature. At 14 he
becomes a “senior cadet.” These are
organized into school ‘“corps” and
given uniforms (not army uniforms)
and receive a military training con
siting of four whole days, twelve half
days, and twenty-four night drills
annually., At 18 the cadet becomes
a “citizen soldier” and goes into the
uniform of the British army. He puts
in sixteen full days of continuous
service, eight of which must be spent
in camp, in each of .1e next seven
yvears; and in the eighth year reports
only for “muster,” and is discharged.
REAL COMPULSORY SERVICE.
Now, here is a brief outline of the
German system before the war:
All fit males from 17 to 45 were
liable to instant call to the colors,
training befllng at 20. At 20 the
recruit entel the regular German
army for two years of constant, rigid,
We have arranged with Ernest Clayton, head of
the firm of Clayton, Eaton, Horton & Saussey, cer
tified public accountants, an income tax expert, to
be in our banking room each day from now until
March 15th to assist our patrons and friends in the
preparation of their returns. Mr. Clayton's services
as well as all necessary forms are free.
Citi d Southern Bank
Officers Atlanta Bank
FRANK HAWKINS, Chairman of Board MILLS B. LANE.............President
W. W. 8ANK5..........Vice President J. N. GODDARD.........Vice President
A. M. BERGSTROM......Vice President JOHN W. GRANT........Vice President
THOMAS C. ERWIN.....Vice President H. LANE YOUNG.....,..Vice President
L C%}W’LEY...................H..Cuh1nr
HENRY COHEN......Assistant Cashier A. J. HANSELL.......Assistant Cashier
W. H. FITZPATRICK. 'Assistant Cashier W. B. SYMMERS..... Assistant Cashiel
JNO. E. WALLACE............Assistant Cashier
Atlanta
Marietta Street at Broad
SAVANNAH AUGUSTA MACON
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1920.
Georgia Republicans Meet Here
Saturday to Select Date,
Delegates Are Assembling.
Thé date for the Republican State
convention will be fixed for the first,
or second week in April, it was pre
dicted by Republican leaders who be
gan assembling in Atlanta Thursday
in advance of the meeting of the
State Central Committee, Saturday
at 10 o'clock in the hall of the House
of Representatives.
In view of the defi hurled at the
old line organization by the progres
sive Republicans in their State con
vention last Saturday, when they
nominated Harry Stillwell Edwards
of Macon, for United States senator,
keen interest was manifested in local
Republican circles as to what action
may be taken by the committee re
garding the party split.
It was suggested by some leaders
that the committee will ignore the
progressives and will not take issue
‘with them in any formal manner. On
the other hand, there was some be
‘lief that an effort might be made for
a truce, because of the expressed de
'gire of the Republican National Com
mittee to build up a formidable Re
publican party in Georgia this year.
The election of a State chairman
and of delegates to the National
Convention in Chicago on June 8 will
take place in the State convention.
Roscoe Pickett of Jasper, State
chairman, will preside. He has ar
rived here, and was in conference
with local leaders Thursday.
Walter H. Johnson of Columbus,
former State chairman who headed
Georgia Republicans for many years,
also is here. R. H, Williams of Grif
fin, is another member of the com
'mittee in Atlanta Thursday.
Leaders, in suggesting that the
convention will be held in the early
part of April, said that this time
would prove more suitable to farmers.
“We are anxious for a big con
vention this year, and it is our pur
pose to fix a time that will suit the
convenience of farmers, as well as
Republicans of the cities,” said one
of the leaders.
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military service in the ranks, embody
ing in each year several minor
maneuvres and one battle maneuvre
on a grand scale, which lasted for!
eight weeks. (In the ecavalry and!
heavy artillery he served (hree years.)
At the end of this period of regular
service, he passed into the active re
serve for five vyears, during which!
time he was called up for the grand!
eight-week maneuvres at least twice.
Then he passed for ten years into
the “Landwehr,” in which period he'
was called out twice for minor
maneuvres of about two weeks’' dura
tion; and thence into the “Land
sturm.”
The French apply a similar system
to all their males, with a longer in
itial service, but less service in the
subsequent reserve status.
In general the systems suggested
for the House bill in Washington
were on the line of the Swiss sys
tém, with these important exceptions:
That all proposed legislation is said
to have provided that outside of the
brief training periods to be gone
through, the recruit, throughout his
service and afterward could NOT be
called to the colars for any purpose
in time of peace, The training periods
suggested did not exceed a total of
five months, nor the total reserve
period five years; and one scheme
submitted in August suggested a sin
gle training period of three months
and no reserve period at all
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14th WINNER: Y HLR K.
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LIMERICK NO. 19
There was an old Admiral, Sims,
Who talked when he should have sung hymns,;
His betters he whacked,
Showing clearly he lacked,
You may write your ‘“‘best last line” of Limerick above this,
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All “best last lines” to Limerick No. 19 must be received
by 12 noon, Monday, March 1. Award will be an-
Wednesday, March 3.
Remember the limerick about the
grens and the threatened strike?
It was No, 14 in The Georgian's
daily series.
And Mrs. H R. Kistler of 652
Peachtree street is the winner.
She turned in the “best last line,”
the editorial department judges say,
and she’ll get SSO in gold.
Her “best line” reads:
“This shortage is caused by fowl
play.”
Here is the completed limerick:
If hens were to strike for one day,
All egg dealers surely would say:
“The prices we must
Raise to double or bust
“This_shortage is caused by ‘fowl’
play.”
Fifty dollars is a lot of money, but,
honestly it wouldn’'t buy very many
eggs these days. It will, however,
buy Mrs. Kistler a dandy hat and pair
of shoes, or, if she's got an auto, it
will run or provide a lot of “gas” and
maybe a tire.
It was the first line Mrs. Kistler
sent in, she said.
Mr. and Mrs. Kistler came here
recently from Chattanooga, and are
guests at the Peachtree address.
Everyone going out Peachtree and
coming in know the house—the big,
old-fashioned home hidden behind a
row of trees and in the center of a
solid square of ground.
There's a new limerick today—
easier than the average limerick, and
it ought to bring forth a big variety
of last lines.
It's about Admiral Sims and the
mess he caused in Washington over
the medals and the conduct, of the
navy in the war.
Try your hand—some one is going
to get SSO for the “best last line.”
lssued Daily, and Entered as Second Class Matter at
the PostoMoe at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1879
1. In the event of two or more persons
sending in the same “best last line,” SSO
wi’l be awarded to each of such persons.
2. No one is barred from participating
except employees of The Atlanta Geer
gian and their familles, who are abso~
lutely barred No one may send in more
than one *best last line” to each
Limerick.
3. The blank printed herewith Is for
the convenience of the readers and the
Editors,
4. Each Limerick appearing lin The
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(SECTION|
Nuisance in Center of Atlanta Is Target of Plan
ning Commission—Expects to Investigate
Rights of City at Direction of Board. ik
Playgrounds, avers the®City Plan-.
ning Commission, are nice things and
should be encouraged. More are
needed. ;
But the commission’s collectjive eye,
already developed to remarkable
keenness, is looking askance on. At
lanta’s billion dollar, smoke produc
ing recreation center right through
town for locomotives, trains and
freight cars—mostly freight cars—to
mill around” in and generally have a
splendid time of it.
The commission discussed it ear
nestly late Wednesday and promptly
concluded that something should be
done. A moment later it further con
cluded that something was going to
be done. And so it has gone to work.
It was a frank discussion. Mal.
John S. Cohen of the Journal stated
A AAAAAA AAA A A AN AN,
Atlanta Georgian will have a number,
and the “best last line'” must be sent
in a sealed envelope, by malil, addressed
. to “Atlanta Georgian Limerick Depart
‘ ment.” On the outside of each mvelo::
~ containing the “best last line” must
~ written or printed “Limerick Neo, ——"
~ This is most important.
6. All "best last lines’”” must be re
cetved by the Limerick Department by
12 o'clock noon, four days after publi
~ eation. Announcement of each award
~ will be mase in The Atlanta Georgian
one week after publication of each
| Limerick,
6. Any one once winning an award for
‘ the '“best last line” is ellininated from
further competition.
NO. 189.
his views succinctly, James B. Nevin
of The Georgian was on his feet the
mement his colleague finished and
added a few pungent observations.
The commission approved and adopt«
ed unanimously the suggestion of
John J, Eagan that experts should
be retained for a number of things, |
and this was not without bearing on
the question. i )
The first thing the experts will be
(nch-d to do is to find out just what !
! Atlanta’s rights are; just how much
control he has over her own fronty
yard. Then the commission plans to*
begin work. '
l “Make Atlanta one city, instead of
two,” was Major Cohen's plea.
' He demonstrated that virtually*
{every problem for the city’s ad-,
| vancement winds up somewhere near
| the center of a viaduct. The city'
| market plan is affected, he said. Un«
| til the railroad problem is settled, t!
[location of the market can not be
‘determined finally. Many projects’
can not be completed until it is)
‘known whether the smoky line of
division is to be permanent or is to'
be abandoned. ¥
The knottiest part of the problems
|is supplied by the State, Mr. Nevin |
said. The right of way of the West-,
ern and Atlantic, the State’s railroad,
has heen found in the past to be tied?
up in the matter almost inextricably,,
But with the aid of the Legislature
this c¢ould be dug out. ‘@