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BBUST B The Heart of the South,
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Georgia's Educational Center.
SOUTH The “Pinnacle City” in Climate.
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VOL XVIil
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Sum Kim's Snake Heads.
/Cqlby No Rubber Stamp.
Feeble ‘‘Warning Notes.”’
'No Master Mind in Crime.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Mr., Sum Kim, chief of the Cayuse
Indians of Oregon, 1s 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
out the gas from the beginning, in
stead of trying to understand it.
On Sum Kim's chest, fastened bya
strilg 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
Journalism, your text on ignorance
and her sister, superstition, is sup
plied by the Indian chief’s four little
leather bags, snake heads and escap
ing gas. |
Bainbridge Colby, as secretary of
state, will be an 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
ecess 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
ulation 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
:_:xnt” may well “sound a warnihg
e.
But warning notes of themselves
are not valuable,
Government, State and nation
should do something.
Food production is more a matter
machinery than of men. If you
w multiplied farm labor by ten and
took away harvesting machines, your
grain production would vanish.
If you multiplied by five the men
working on potato diggers and put
men 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
eourse, 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
{ such 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, s
Roads should be 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 for-i
tilizer and other necessif§es. |
/ Gasoline is as important. on the!
farm as horsepower, Its price should
be controlled by government. Gov
ernment oil lands owned by the peo-‘
ple should be developed by the gov
ernment to protect the people froml
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 consequences.
The danger line is not far off, and<
the time for “warning notes” is past.
The police are hunting “the master
mind” in bond robberies amounting
to millions. No such mind wiil 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 instinet of self-preser
vation deadened by a supply of co
caine,
It must amuse the saturnine Lenin
ta read the heading, “France and
Germany in Race to Establish First
Friendly Relations With Bolshevism.”
First, the allies and somebody in the
s 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 pget
Russia’s raw nraterial 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 Frillay
night at Catherine and Maylard
streets, to receive reports from com
mittees on proposed civie improve
ments. An entertainment will be
given,
. Proposed improvements ars better
street car service, concrete paving
and larger sewers. Efforts will be
made to begin quickly concrete pavs
ing in Stewart avenue, to.climinate
water overflow into yards of resi.
dences and to have a double car track
in Stewart avenue,
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24-Hour { =8 Ufepaenst, News. Service
MARGHALLY
ADOPTEDSON,
AGED 4, DIES
Child, Popularly Known Around
the U. S. Capitol, Succumbs
to Ilkess of a Few Days.
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(By International News Service.)
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
lhis mother brought him to a tene
‘ment meeting in which the wife of
‘the Vice President was interested.
‘Mzs. 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
boy 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
iittle Morrison and he became fam%'u
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 eapitol
and often when he had a few miniutes
to spare before opening the Senate
the Vice President spent it playing
on the capitol lawn with the little fel
low.
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
getic 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 Waghmgton.‘
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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Simpson 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 where she made a suc
cess as a bond salesman, left Thurs
day for Clncianti 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
‘thero on complaint of her mother,
Mrs. Jessie Spencer, 90 Ira street.
‘While in the hospital the police
charges against her were dismissed.
It is said she went to the Cincin
nati training school of her own veli
tion upon hearing her mother was
sick and knowing the latter wanted
her to return to school
Atlanta Shop Crafts
,
Oppose 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 Federa
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 Nsch-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. Price,
machinists; R. E. Farris, boilermak
ers, and W, H. Ahler, carmen,
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Archeologist to Talk
At Central Baptist
Dr. J. O. Kinnama, archeologist,
will give a stercoptician 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. C. Roland Flick, dean of the
school of violin at Lanler University,
assisted by Miss Nellie Laing, head
of the school of voice, will conduct
the musical program for the leecture.
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How Does It Differ From ‘Com
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pulsory Universal Military Serv
ice,)” With Which It Is Confused?
By VICTOR VICTOR.
It is probable 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 due 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 regarded ‘as “training”
purely by anybody; but the govern
ment’'s plans went heyond 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 military 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
Lhim and must keep intact throughout
the period eof 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 diffgrent times for maneuvres
lasting from ten to fourteen days. At
32 he passes into an inactive reserve.
In the Australian system, 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 .ae next seven
years; 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 beginning at 20. At 20 the
recruit entered the regular German
army for two years of constant, rigid,
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ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1920.
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Georgia Republicans Meet Here
Saturday to Select Date,
Delegates Are Assembling.
The 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
give 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
sire of the Republican National Com
mittee to build up a .formidable Re
pul)»licanr party in_ (}eqrgi:t thisAyear.
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 es 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.
Leadgrs, 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, ag well as
Republicans of the cities,” said one
of the leaders.
A A A A A APttt
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 eavalry and
heavy artillery he served three years.)
At the end of this period of regular
service, he passed into the active re
serve for five years, 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; f.nd thence into the “Land
sturm.”’ |
The French apply‘x 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
tem,ywith 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 colors 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: 455 ke,
* 652 Peachtree St.
LIMERICK NO. 19 .
There was an old Admiral, Sims, 2
Who talked when he should have sung hymns;
His betters he whacked,
Showing clearly he lacked,
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You may write your “best last line” of Limerick above this,
NAMO coceccescss, ssssscseserssrssessssssesssessetssssed
Street and NUMDOP.....ecssvoessesssssssossessscesy
il City or TOWD...coesovvrssscvessssssvnsscscssesy
BUALO coevcsiisricsssrrsrresisiseboßgessased
All “b®st last lines” to Limerick No. 19 must be received
by 12 noon, Monday, March ¥ Award will be an-
Wednesday, March 3.
Remember the limerick about the
her:s 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
flaise 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 wlill, 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. 4
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.”
Jasued Dally, and Entered as Second Class Matter at
the Postoftice at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1879
The Rules.
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 em.{)loycen of The Atlanta Geer
glan and Rheir families, 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 In The
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SECONDNEWS|
'SECTION |
Commission Discusses Plan to Rid Atlanta of
Great Drawback Which Practically Divides
City Into Two Separate Sections, :
Playgrounds, avers the Clty Plan-.
ning Commission, are nice things and
should be encouraged. More are
needed.
But the commission’s collective eye,
already developed to remarkable
keenness, is looking askance on At
lanm‘q 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 way a frank discussion. Malj.
John S. Cohen of the Journal stated
AAAN AAN AAN AP,
Atlanta Georglan will have a number,
and the “best last line” must be sent
in a sealed envelope, by mail, addressed
to "“Atlanta Georgian Limerick Depart
ment.” On the outside of each eunlon
containing the “best last line’” must
written or printed “Limerick Ne, —"
This is most important.
6. All “best last lines” must be re
celved by the Limerick Department by
12 o'clock moon, four days after publi
cation. Announcement of each award
will be maue in The Atlanta Georgian
one week after publication of each
Limerick,
6. Any one once winning an award for
the “best last line” is eliminated from
further competition,
NO. 189.
-his views succinctly, James B. Nevin
of The Georgian was on his feet the
moement 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,
The first thing the experts will be
asked to do is to find out just what
Atlanta’s rights are; just how much
control he has over her own, front
yard. Then the commission plans to
begin work. .
“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, the
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 te
be abandoned.
The knottiest part of the problem
is supplied by the State, Mr. Nevin
said. The right of way of the West
ern and Atlantic, the State’s railroad,
has bheen found in the past to be tied
up in the matter almost inextricably.
But with the aid of the Legislature
this could be dug out.