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Buusr The Heart of the South,
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Georgia’s Educational Center.
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VOL XVIII
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Sum Kim’s Snake Heads.
Colby No Rubber Stamp.
Feeble ‘‘Warning Notes.”’
No Master Mind in Crime.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Mr. Sum Kim, chief of the Cayuse
Bafians of Oregon, 1s dead in Chicago.
¥e 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 lgx's chest, fastened bya
string arou 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. L
Clergymen, teachers, professors of
Joufnalism, your text on ignorance
and her sister, superstition, is sup
pHed by the Indian chief's four little
ieather 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,
convineed that this mation 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 decreuint 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 reduetion in the population that
provides food is serious. Govern
ment may well “sound a warning
nate.”
But warning notes of themselves
are not valuable.
Government, ‘State and nation
should do something.
Foofl production is more a matter
of machinery than of men. If you
now 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 goverfiment 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
such a kick as would force it to in
terest itseif in the problem of feed
ing Americans as much as it recently
Anterested itself in the problem of
killing Germans. et
Roads should be miade gdod to save
farmers waste of time in hauling.
Government should provide, at cost,
@ 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.
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 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 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 will be
found. Criminals have weak mlnds,‘
sometimes made dangerous by a form
of insanity or a drug habit that lg-‘
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 lc-lf-proner-‘
vation deadened by a supply of co
calne.
It must amuse the saturnine Lenin
to read the heading, “France and
Germany in Race to Establish First
¥riendly Relations With Bolshevism.”
First, the allies and somebody in the
fUnited 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
Association to Meet
The Community Center Assoclation
of the Adair Public School Distriet,
will meet at 7:30 o'clock Friday
night at Catherine and Maylard
streets, to receive reports from coms
mittees on proposed civie improve
ments. An entertainment will be
given,
Proposed improvements are better
street car service, concrete paving
and larger sewers. Efforts will be
made to begin quickly concrete pave
ing In Stewart avenue, to eliminate
water overflow into yards of resi
dences and to have a double car track
in Stewart avenue,
24-Hour { U jntersstional News! Service
Child, Popularly Known Around
the U. S. Capitol, Succumbs
to lliness of a Few Days.
(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
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
boy and the mother of the chtad
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 Mor‘mn lived with the Vice
President.
WELL CARED FOR.
In their hotel apartment here the
Vice President and his wife had a
special kltchenet}e installed, a
trained nurse Wwas given charge of
little Morrison and he became famous
as one of the most handso;ne babies
in Washington.
Wherever the Vice President and
Mrs. Marshall were seen during the
Idaytime, 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 he had a few minutes
to spare before opening the Senate
the Vice President spent it playing
on the capitol lawn with the little fél
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 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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Simpsqn Girl Goes to
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Enter Training School
Catherine Simpson, 17, who figured
in police circles a few weeks ago,
lfonowlng 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 Cincinnati to enter a train
ilng 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 said she went to the Cincin
nati training school of her own voli-;
tion upon hearing her mother was
sick and knowing the latter wanted
her to return to schogl
Atlanta Shop Crafts
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Oppose Railroad Bill
Protest against the railroad bill is
volced 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 rallway 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 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;
C, H. Barton, electricians; J. 8. Price,
machinists; R. E, Farris, bollermak
ers, and W. H. Ahler, carmem
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Archeologist to Talk
.
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. C. Roland Flick, dean of the
school of violin at Lanier University,
assisted by Miss Nellle Lalng, head
of the school of volce, will conduct
the muskeal program for the lecture.
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MILITARY TRAINING
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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 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
imany have been suggested to the
committee, and misinterpreted to the
ipublic 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
’lng 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 beyon’!ny such
innocuous step. In genéPal, most
informed persons, exeept 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.”
|swuss AND AUSTRALIAN.
In the following brief outlines, the
‘training vyeriods 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 s 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 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 he spent
in camp, in each of .ae next seven
years; and in the eighth year reports
only for “muster,” and is dlacharged.‘
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 entere&atho regular German
army for two rs of constant, rlgid.‘
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We have arranged with Ernest Clayton, head of
the firm of Clayton, Eaton, Horton & Saussey, cer
tified public accountants, an income tax expert, to . o
be in our banking room each day froxl?,‘ 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. i
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FRANK HAWKINS, Chairman of Board MILLS B. LANE.............President 1
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 w
W. V. CROWLEY ...ooosrooooovssesssssiCashior
HENRY COHEN......Assistant Cashier A. J. HANSELL.......Assistant Cashier
W. H, FITZPATRICK.. Assistant Cashier ~ W. B. SYMMERS. ....Assistant Cashier ‘
JNO. B. WALLACE............Asslstant Cashier ]
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SAVANNAH AUGUSTA MACON
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1920.
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‘Georgia Republicans Meet Here
Saturday to Select Date.
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~ Delegates Are Assembling,
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~ The date for the Republican State
convention will be fixed for the first,
lor 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 defl 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 bé takén 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
publican party in Georgia this year.
The election of a State chajrman
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.
‘military service in the ranks, embody
ing in each year several minor
‘maneuvres and one battlé maneuvre
on a grand scale, which lasted for
eight weeks. (In the cavalry 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; 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 Housge bill in Washington
were on. the line of the Swiss sys
tem, with these imq&flant 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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LIMERICK NO, 20 C ey
There was a young lady named Dot, -
Who knew such a wonderful lot
About dresses and hats,
About cooking and flats,
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All “best last lines” to Limerick No. 20 must be received
by 12 noon Tuesday, March 2. Award will be announced
Thursday, March 4.
Out at Agnes Scott, they’'ll probably
have a pajama party, or bonfire or
something or other “real exciting” in
celebration of a certain young stu
dent winning one of those limericks
in The Georgian every day.
It's the limerick 15 ‘“best last line”
that gets SSO 1n gold for Miss Roxie
Reid, a second year student at the
girls college in Decatur.
Miss Reid, while a student ™Tn Agnes
Scott, resides here in Atlanta with
her grandmother, Mrs, F. C. Strother,
at 6 East Thirteenth street,
Another sister, Miss Elizabeth
Reid, graduates from Agnes Scott
this year.
The Reid girls are from Woodbury,
Georgia.
Here's the whole limerick, No. I§,
by Miss Reid:
He took her to ride in his flivver,
The engine did shake and did
shiver
And four miles from town
The poor car broke down _
But she was a cheerful forgiver.
There is another Mmerilxc in The
Georgian today. It's about a young
lady mamed Dot.
It's a lot easier than the other lim
ericks—come on, get into the game,
A new limerick every day.
A new winner every day,
A new $560 in gold every day.
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Reservation in Camden
Is Sought by State
Ix GEORGE H. MANNING,
Washington Correspondent of The
. Georgian.
WASHINGTON, Feb, 26—Senator
Hoke Smith today introduced in the
Senate a joint resolution to have
the United States cede the Point
Peter military reservation, consisting
of 720 acres of high land in Camden
County, Ga., to the State of Georgla
for use for warehouse purposes.
There is a duplicate of the measure
introduced in the House by” Con
gressman Crisp of Georgia two
months ago.
The Georgia Legislature memorial
ized Congress to take this step.
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the Postoffice at Atlan
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sending in the same “best last line,” SSO
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2. No one is barred from p?nlclp.uu
except employees of The Atlanta Geer
glan and their families, who are abso
lutely barred No one may send in more
than one “best last line” to each
Limerick.
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Under Act of March 3, 1879
Sent to Ways and Means Com
‘mittee To Stop Bolt of
Supporters,
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, I"_eb. 26.—Soldier
bonus legislation was taken from va
rious House committees and consoli
dated in the, Ways and Means Com
mittee Thursday afternoon by action
of the House in special proceedings.
This action was taken by Repub
lican Leader Mondell in response to
pressure brought by Republican
members who threatened to bolt
their leaders, following decision by
the Republican legislative steering
committee, that because of the pres
ent financial condition of the treas
ury it was not advisable to enact at
this session legislation granting
bonus pay to' former soldiers.
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Atlanta Georgian will have a mnumber,
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 envel.n
containing the “best last line” must
written or printed “Limerick Neo, ——"
This i$ most important.
6. All “best last lines’” must be re
celved by the Limerick Department by
12 o'clock noon, four days after publi
cation. Announcement of each award
will be mase in The Atlanta Georglan
one week after publication of h
Limerick.
6. Any one once winning an award for
the ‘best last line” is elimninated from
further competition.
NO. 190.
Pegram Made Vice President of
Railroad, Local Man Being Pro
moted to Washington Position.
Vice President Henry W. Miller of
the Southern Railway, will be suec
ceeded in Atlanta March 1 by Robert
B. Pegram, general purchasing-agent
for the line at Washington, who has
been promoted to a vice presidency,
aceording to announcement “Friday.
Mr. Miller will be transterred to
Washington to accept a promotion,
the nature of which has not been
announced.
Mr, Pegram is now in the city in
conference with Vice President
Miller, and no statements relative to
the changes could be ascertained
from either of them. It was stated
at the latter's office that Mr: Miller
will leav Thursday night for
Charleston but that he will return
here before March 1,
Rumors have been current several
days that President Fairfax Harri
son, of the Southern Railway, would
probably resign his position with the
return of the railroad lines to private
control on March 1, The veiled in
formation that Vice President Miller
is to be transferred to Washington
at that time to accept a promotion
bears particular significance, al
though no rumor that he will succeed
Mr. Harrison has been circulated.
The only statement is that “he has
been promoted to higher and more
important duties.” g