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VOL XVIII
A Queer Defense.
What War Gave France,
Do You Notice Shackles.
Expect No Gratitude.
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Lawyers, trying to keep Senator
Newberry’s friends from jail, do not
appear to have complete confidence
in the cause they are defending. In
steadl of proving that the senatorship
was not bought, they are concentrat
ing attention on the fast that Henry
Férd’s son did notigo to France.
Just what that has to do with the
buying of a senatorship is not clear.
Edsel Ford attended to the govern
ment’'s most important business
when he managed his father's gi
gantic factories to help the army and
navy, he. and his father accepting
not a penny of profit. It would have
been a orime if Ford's son had, re
linquished that work. And it is not
negessary to say that like many other
sons of rich men, he might "have
worn a pretty uniform and “faced
the front,” a long comfortable dis
tance from the front. ‘
The attack on Ford is enlighten
ing. When an innocent man is ac-‘
cused of felony he does not. usually
try to escape by telling the jurors{
that somebody else did not go “to
war, ‘
What France got from the war in
which she bore the brunt is put sim—l
ply by Caillaux, the Frenchman ac-'
\cused of treason. Traitor or not, he |
expresses clearly the hard situation
as regards France.
A “War is waged with men, coal and
steel.” France supplied her own
men, the war commodity that can’t
be bought or paid for. She bought
her coal and steel from England and
America, ahd comes out of the war
with her men Kkilled and the sur
vivors loadad with a debt of forty
or fifty billions -to England and |
America alpne. 1
Once a most prosperous creditor;
nation, thanks to the industry of her
people, France is a heavy debtor.f
And her papulation loses, through
repudiation, its savings of billions!
invested in Russian bonds. |
# If any “forgiving of debt” should |
be done, it should be given, not im|
America but in England. Great |
Britain owes to France her securityn!
the fact that she was not invaded. !
France having supplied 'fighting men
in the beginning, England might well
sypp]y fighting pounds sterling at |
the end. But there is not much giv
ing or generosity among nations, |
once war and danger are past. 3
Senator Harding of Ohio, one of
many that hope to be President, says
industry must be “unshackled.” Doosr
that mean that 31l kinds of business |
should be allowed to go ahead and |
charge all they can, unrestricted? t
The general public has not noticed{
many shackles on indxry. or at|
least on prices. The suf@r industry, |
for instance, has raised the price
from 5 cents to 24 eents a pound, an |
increase of about 400 per cent, andt
you are told that the price won't goi
down. No shackling there. |
It is interesting to see prosidr-ntin]l
candidates running on the flwm*ymi
that organized labor ought to be sup- |
pressed and profiteering save fulll
swing. *
When you help another, expect no
gratitude, and your expectation wllll
be fulfilled. This country did not
start the war, was not responsible for |
any part of it. When this country
took part it worked rapidly. It sent
men across 3,000 miles of ocean more |
rapidly than England sent them |
across twenty-five miles of (‘hanneli
when Belgium was first invaded. |
America is now described among |
the allies as “the last to enter the
war and the first to abandon her
crippled partners.” g '
The Tampa Times says .'\"m*""“’ll
should ‘be good natured, keep calm
Babies Born In Atlanta and Suburbs February 29,
1920, Will Receive Many Presents Through The
Georgian and Sunday American.
Every baby that is born February 29, 1920, between Saturday
midnight and one second before Sunday midnight in Atlanta and
its immediate suburbs——Decatur, Kirkwood, College Park, East Point,
East Atlanta, Hapeville, Eagan and Bolton—is eligible for The Geor
gian and Sunday American's Leap Year Baby Handicap.
An entry blank will be printed in The 3unday American and
must be properly filled out and sent to The Georgian-American.
It must either be in the hands of the Raby Handicap Editor by 3
9’ m. Monday, March 1, or, if mailed, must bear a postmark not later
thdn that time,
Atlanta business men, through The Georgian and Sunday Amer
jean, offer the following prizes for the winners in this “Race of the
Storks™:
FIRST WHITE BABY.
| (Born (n Atinnta and suburbs Feb. 20, 1920 )
Baby earringe, £35 value, R%Wo«l Parnitare Co,
s£s savings aceount, Central Bal & Trust Corporatien Brand'
§lO werth eof baby clothes, M. Rich & Bres. Co.
Dinmond baby ring, Kugene V. Haynes Co.
White enameled baby erib, Empire Furniture Co.
Baby shoes und hose, Fred 8. Stewart Co.
Half dozen portraits of mother and baby, W. M. Stephenson Inc, Studie
Geld benuty pin and chain, Miller Jewelry Ce.
Baby bath tub, King Hurdware Co.
" Baby book,” Southern Book Cencern.
Silver baby spoon, K. A. Morgan.
Engraved birth announcements, Webh & Vary.
Picture frame, Georgin Art Supply Co,
® Jandsome baby rattle, :jhuwn Hardware Ce.
Ivory cemb and brush , Charles A. Smith Drug Co,
FIRST COLORED BABY,
(Born in Atlanta and suburbs Feb, 29, 1920
Baby ecarringe, $35 value, Rhodes-Wond Furniture Co,
45 savings account, Central Bank & Jrust Corperation Bran !
my-h.--um.ms.wwmu
Geld kenuty pins *‘ chain, Miller Jewelry Ce.
. ALL BABIES.
o’ (Born In Atlanta and suburbsyFeb. 29, 1920.)
$5 savings bank ncceunt, Centyal Bank & Trust Corporation Branch,
Prizes wild be awarded only those babses whose parents or physi
olan carefully. fill out the instructions on the blank which will appear
in The Sunday Amerdcan, , <
2440ur { 13 (intermationat News\ Qo vice
Delegation on Special T...i to
Visit Shipping Points
in West.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. Feb. 27.—Geory
gia, Florida, South and North Caro
lina will co-operate to send a char
itnrod train through the Middle West
jern States in an advertising . and
’tmde building ‘trip early next sum
mer, according to plans laid here
| Thursday by representatives of Sa
l vannah, Brunswick, Jacksonyille, Wil
mington and Charleston
' According to tentative plans, a
speeial Pullman party will be organ
iized in each of the cities, which con
stitute the “Five Ports Association,”
and the train will be assembled in
Columbia, to begin an extended tour,
launching vigorously into the cam
lnnixxn at Knoxville, touching Cin
cinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Tole
’do, Detroit, Chicago, Kansas City,
1 St. Louis, Memphis, Atlanta , and
’othnr important and intem&]iate
cities of the section and itinerary.
The last of May is set tentatively
for the tour.
Chgrleston already has approved
|tht- g]:m and practically organized
its party. Savannah ratified the
| plan today. The proposition will be
{ presented to Brunswiek, Jackson
ville and Wilmington within a few
| days.
| Tentative plans allow each of the
| five ports a delegation of twenty
| five on the train. All parties will be
{limited to executives of the largest
| business interests, th eobject being
{to have the delegation comprise the
' most influential citizens. The gov
| ernors of each of the four States will
| be_invited. i
| Besides arrangements for dinners
| and other gatherings, at which the
tourists will present to the business
linterests of the cities they vigit the
advantages of the South Atlantic
ports, about s2§ooo will be raised
for newspaper anmd magazine adver
tising through the section toured.
Representatives of the Five Ports
Association in Savannah today te
| discuss the plan are; Brunswick, A.
| M. Smith, secretary gs the Chamber
of Commerce; Jacksonville, B. R.
Kessler, secretary of the Chamber
{of Commerce; W. M. Nelscn, city
| traffic manager; Savannah, Thomas
{ano. secretary of thq Board of
| Trade; Thomas E. Grady, traffic
' manager: Charleston, A. V. Snell,
{so('rvtarv of the Chamber of Com
| merce: Harry Masman, traffic man
| ager: Wilmington had no represen
| tation here.
| For many years, the association
?poin!nd out, the South Atlantic ports
| have been operated under a handicap
| of discrimination in saver of New
| York, Boston and other Eastern
?lmr(s_ Under the United Statesrail
' road administration, the South At
| lantic ports were able to effect an
| equalization of rates out of the Mid
| dle Western States as between the
| South Atlantic and Eastern ports.
|
and “treat Europe as a nerve wrecked
invalid.” .
What would happen if the nerve
wrecked invalid should pull itself to
gether and decide that the United
tates must become paymaster for
Furope, league or no league? It%is
fortunate for the United States that
it knew enough not to allow itself
to be tied up, Houdini fashion, with
that bundle of ropes galled the
TLeague of Nations.
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Abreast of
The News
“COMMUNITY SERVICE"
! . b o crma o d 3
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Precisely What It Is and the
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Depth of Its Power to Increase J
the City's Happiness * -
and Prosperity. i
Tovk SgE T -
By VICTOR VICTOR. -‘
The city planning commnrission has
gotten behind the movement to es
tablish a permanent “Community
Service” for Atlanta.
t Until the coming Of a revelation
lwhich has just been vouchsafed me
| by leaders of the movement to retain
Community Service in Atlanta, I had
a vague notion that Community
Service had something to /do with
getting people together in great
,crowds and teaching them to sing,
1 “My Country, 'Tis of Thee,” or stag
|ing an amateur entertainment in
| some Y. M. C. A. hut occasionally,
and that was about all. I have found
|1 was mistaken! / }
| Community Service is merey a
|trem9ndous force that would expand
ithe welfare of every element of the
| eity’s life, mot excluding the indus
(trial and commercial prosperity of
| the community, i
| THE PROGRAM.
| The proposed Community Service
is a broader outgrowth of the War
Camp Community Service, which ac
complished such splendid entertain
! ment and welfare work for our war
| time seldiery, and it anticipated the
{ employment of the same agencies;
but it is directed to the greater hap
piness of all the masses 3nsteavl' to
the army alone.
, Here are some of the things it con
templates: s
Establishment of a central com\
munity center and clubhouse.
J Supervision of recreational activi
ties, and establishment of recrea
tional centers in churches, schools,
parks, ;vacant lots and industrial
communities,
Direction of community singing,
| pageantry, drama, folk-dancing
|sports, athleties and formation of
]nelghborhood clubs and special
groups of recreational and educa
l tional purposes.
Conduct of a school for volunteer
| leaders and directors in such work.
i Réclamation of vacant and un
! kempt ground, and of unemployed
| space in buildings, as meeting
| places and playgrounds for the peo
ple.
’ Organization of boys’ and girls'
clubs, athletic leagues, .ete.
I Conduct of a soldiers’ ¢lub and su
‘perviflinn of hospitality and enter
| tainment*for men at Camp Gordon.
| Maintenance of truly efficient in
| formation booths, where one may re
| ceive practical information of any
gort, from the next Sunday's pro
| gram in any church to the best au
!tnmobile route to Griffin; including
|4 frae employment service, and di
:‘vclion to board, rooms, and hous
ng.
{ Publicity activities for the ad
| vVancement of civic and community
i projects, .
i A program, as similar as possible
|to the above, among the colored
people,
{ The Community Service does not
| plan to encroach upon the fields of
[ churches, schools, the Y. M. C. A., or
| any other entity engaged in wel
| fare work similar to its own. It
| seeks to develop activities, and plans,
| whenever possible, to turn the or
ganized results over to other institu
| tions for further development.
THE BUDGET.
| A detailed budget of $37.850 for one
| Year has been prapared, covering
| administration expenses, salaries of
| expert leaders and subordinates, rent
al and maintenan of the chief
community center, Kd incidental ex
penses. This amount will probably
| decrease as the community learns
how to help itself and volunteer
‘leaders replace salaried experts.
A definite indication that the
| money will be raised by the people
| of Atlanta must be forthcoming by
;Ai::rch 1, when the national fund of
| the War Camp Community Service
| will he withdrawn.
| WHAT HAS BEEN DONE.
| . On an experimental basis, *without
ifunds except those advanced for ad
ministration purposes by the Na
tional War Camp Community Coun
cil, and lacking certain badly needed
experts, workers of the War Camp
| Community Service have been op
'eraunz as “The Atlanta Community
| Service" since l)‘xmber 15.
Thus quickly, t organization has
lesm.hushed sixty-five "“Red Circle
Units,” compriging 1500 people—
neighborhood groups of men, women,
girls and boys, who meet once a
week, under gupervision, to play, or
{l6 work together along educational
lines,
I It has reclaimed and caused to be
put into use as playgrounds and
social centers, thirty-six places such
as the now famous “Woodlawn"” lot
in Ormewood Park, formerly covered
wth weeds and now covered with
romping children, or the newly equip
ped gymnasium and basketball ecourts
at the Martha Cundler Home,
MATERIAL BENEFITS.,
By January, no less than 162 Amer
jean cities had accepted the proposi
tioff now up to Atlanta. The little
city of Pensacola, Fla., has put up
over SIB.OOO for the first year, Mem
phis, $65,000, and others In propor
tion, "
In many cases, it has not been
the charitable forces, so much aa
the commenrcial and industrial in
terests which have backed the move
ment.
In Houston, the business men were
impressed by the necessity for de
veloping a particularly efficient sys
tem of information booths.
In Seattle, enthusiastic support
arose out of a single, clearcut case.
The biggest department store in the
city allowed it employees, who
were organized, to adopt the prac
tise of a brisk, ioll_v song fest at the
store before the day's work began,
iand the sales of the institution
mounted directly and immediately.
In other places. mill owners had
abrovdy wesved 3 r—. output
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1920.
LAST HOUR
I HAND O
PR ESGS
WOMAN'S CLOTHES BUDGET
. CONTEST CLOSES FRIDAY,
vßules for The Georgian and Sun.
day American “Woman's Clothes
Budget contest:
1-—Letters must be addressed to
“The Woman's Budget Editor,” The
Atlanta Georgian and Sunday Ameri
can,
2—No anonymous communications
will be entertained. All letters must
bear the writer's full name, address
and, if possible, the telephone num
ber for purposes of confirmation by
the judges.
3—All letters must be In the of
llv>e of The Georgian-American be
fore 6 o'clock Friday evening, Feb
ruary 27. /
4—Letters are limited to 300 words;
write on one side of the paper, and,
particularly, itemize clothes and cost
of each item, and the relation of the
wife's clothes budget to a husband's
$5,000 income—whether the clothes
should cost five, ten or. some other
per ceat of that amount.
b—Announcement of award of the
“On With the Dance” tickets and
season passes to the Rialto Theater
will be made in The Sunday Ameri
can February 29,
~ Six o’clock tonight!
~ That’s the closing tige for the let
ters in The Georgian .and Sunday
American contest on the clothes bud
get of milady
Letters galore are coming in at
the last hours.
And it's no small wonder, with fine
feathers for spring the subject of the
letter;. I o) "
AnW woman, aimost. could talk
enough about or write enough, to fill
a book on what she should have to
spend for clothes, the proper allow
ance from Mr., Husband, and what
the different items cost.
The clothes budget contest was
suggested, you know, by Peggy Wells'
story recently in The Georgian on
the cost of clothes worn by women
in various statlons of life. A school
teacher, manicurist, salesgirl, stenog
rapher, newspaper reporter and
others figured out the cost of their
“fine feathers.”
SONIA FOUND A WAY.
And, with the coming of the photo
play “On With the Dance” to the
Rialto next week, the contest sug
gested itself, because Sonia, of “On
With the Dance,” became a masked
dancer in a cabaret to get more
money for clothes. /
Do you think a moderately success
ful husband should give his wife all
the clothes she wants? What is a
reasonable allowance for clothes?
Suppose the husband makes $5,000
a year—what should be the wife's
clothes allowance? And, if the al
lowanee is not enough, do you think
she should earn money as a dancer
to inerease her clothes allowance?
Those are the questions you should
answer in your letter.
And, to prove your arguments,
make out an itemized statement of
the clothes budget-——so much for
dresses, hats, shoes, eto,
HERE ARE THE RULES,
Read the rules, printed above, and
there still is time if you hurry.
Here is the list of prizes:
For the best letter, The Georgian-
American will award a 12-month’s
pass to the Rialto theater,
For the second preze, there 1s a
6-months’ pass to the Rialto,
Third prize, 83-months’ pass to the
Rialto. i
Fourth prize, ten passes te the
Rialto to “On with the Dance.”
Fifth to twentieth prizes, two
pusses each to the Rialto to “On
With the Dance.”
Twenty-first to fiftieth-——one pass
each to the Rialto to “On With the
Dance.”
The masked dancer in the windows
of Daniel Bros., windows on Peach
tree near Five Points, continues to
attract big crowds. She will be
masked and continue to dance for
the throngs Saturday, and Monday
will appear in a prologue on “On
With the Dance” at the Rialto.
Income Tax Fraud I
. .
Charged in Chicago
(By International News Service.)
l‘l(l(‘AGO, Feb, 27.-—~Numerous dis.
closures concerning Income tax
frauds are expected today as a result
of the indictment of two prominent
Chicago attorneys, charging perjury
and fraud in the return of personal
income tax statements for 1916, They
are Daniel J. Schuyler Jr. ana
Charles Weinfeld,
The indictments are regarded as
the government's “opening gun” in
its investigation of false tax state
ments here,
upon the organization of recreational
activities among their employee
communitiag, because pleasant ex
ternal interests make men forget un
rest and discontent,
“Colored labor particularly,” eone
man remigked to me, “will not only
be easler to obtain in Atlanta, but of
a better quality, when some force
provides wholesome recreation for
these people, who have extremely lit
tle at present,
The principle of greater production
t:\ron:rh Community Service aectivi
ties is:
“Theshabit of loafing in off hours
‘can not be entirely cast off ofen
tering the plant. Wholesome recrea
tion abolishes loafing. Those who
will PLAY HARD will WORK
W Besides, our people are hap-
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Contributions Must Be Itemized
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‘ in Return, Warns Revenue
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| Collector Blalock.
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3 If the average citizen, preparing a
| return to the income tax collector
has been generous to charitable and
other organizations duaring 119119, he
is going to be given credit for these
| donations, according to A. 0. Blalock,
collector of internal revenue,
But the conditions are these: There
should be no guess work or estimates
'or the setting down of a lump sum,
the contributions should be itemized,
and noted so that they can be sub
stantiated.
' No deduction should .be claimed for
amounts given to individuals, but
should be confined strictly to dona
tions made to ofganizations operated
without benefit to the persons behind
the movement,
Aceording to Mr. Blalock, the tax
payer should be careful to omit any
claim for eontributions to funds gath
ered for propaganda and political pur
poses,
The income tax law allows a per
son to take ecredit for contributions
made to organizations conducting
charitable, seientific, edueational, and
religious work; to societies for the
lpr»wmmn of cruelty to children and
animals, and to the special fund au
thorized by the vocational rehabili
tation act.
Churche dues, and all donations to
missionary funds, building funds, pew
rents and other church assesments
come under the head of deductiable
stems.
There is another limit, however,
|.'u'('hrding to the internal revenpe col-
Ih-mnr and that, after listing his con
! tributions the taxpayer should not
| claim over 15 per vent deduction of
the net income, computed withotit the
llwm-m of the special deduction for
contributions,
| Where contributions are made by
!finn.u wHere there are several part
ners, each partner should deduct his
| proportiomate share, with the same
limitation in regard to the 15 per/
cent limit, ®
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Tech Commerce School
Has 500 Students
The department of commerece, the
new addition to Tech's curriculum
Is its largest asset, having an enroll
ment of more than 500 students,
Men in this department represent
'N..uwhmm Northern and Fastern
!Fl;alo-u
{ The Tech Schoo! of Commerce, the
| first of any Southern college, already
|h.’N turned out 30 graduoates, now
lemployed in Georgla. Prospective
I graduates have heen engaged for po
| sitioris upon their leaving the school
iln June
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South Carolina Senate.
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| Adopts Highway Tax
| COLUMBIA, B C., Feb, 27.—-The
State wide two mill tax for State
.Mzhw:uu was adopted by the Benate
lagt night a=s introduced by the joint
!unmml'hw‘. The money 18 to be used
{in the county where pald, for im,
provement of State highwaoys
| Following the defeat of the hill
| wherby fraternitics m t he restored
{lO the State college by action of the
i board of trustees hy a vote of 18 to 12
lan effort was mnde to reconsider, but
Iwu:n lost, 16 to 13
lssued Daily, and Entered as Second Class Matter at
the PostoMce at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1872
Unknown Dark Eyed
Man Comes Into Life
Of Lonely Girl Scribe
On Borrowed Dollar Slltm'xns From anum“j
Teller She Is To Be Single Only One
More Year, ;
| “Oh, I have just discovered some:
wonderful things about myself,
things I never suspected,” I confided
to the city editor, who looked up
from his paper with a patient sigh.
“No, I haven't been reading ‘How
to Improve Your Memory in One
Evening,’ ‘Beauty and Better Health'
or ‘Become a Financier.' But listen,
I just had my fortune told.
“Please give me all the assign
ments to interview brown eyed men
with straight black hair and a dim
ple in their chin, The fortune teller
told me that I was to marry within
the next year and I migh just as
well get it over with. Of course,
with prices as they are and my lim
ited salary how I am going to sup
port one after I get him is more than
I know, stille—
“Write it, write it,” called the C. E.
80 here it is beginning with chap
ter one and all,
HITS RAY FOR §l.
Feeling that | needed a short va
cation to recuperate from. a strenuous
year of work and gaining not one
crumb of comfort from gazing at my
list of deposits and withdrawals in
my bank book, I borowed $1 from
Ray MeGill and slipped out to learn
from a crystal gazer just when 1
could afford a new hat and a
vacation,
And, girls, the things that that
gazer could see in the glass,
First of all after I had arrived at
the studio of this fortune teller, rec
ommended to me as o wonder by my
shampooist, 1 wuas ushered into a
darkened waiting room, softened
lights, incense ahd everything.
YMmm, I'm glad this dollar belongs
to Ray, I commented to myself, I'd
hate to lose a buck when I'm trying
to save encugh for a new sgpring Hd.
Say, that girl said she read minds
and evervthing. Wonder [f gshe can
tell thig’ dollar is borrowed, What if
she should start telling Ray’s fortune
to me! Well, he's a kind of open
faced boy anyhow; it wouldn't be so
bad.
There wae a swish of Oriental
draperies and a soulfu! eyed daugh
ter of Buddha entered the rooam and
gtood heside the erystal murmuring.
“Your fortune, madame?”
TAKES DOLLAR'S WORTH.
And learning that a palm reading
cost $1 and a seance In which the
fortune teller went Into a trance cost
$5, 1 took a dollar's worth,
“Madame s artistic,” said the soft
voiced seeress, "she longs for higher
things."”
I nodded vigorous assent. thinking
of the higher priced things | wanted
but couldn’t buy.
“She longs to pour out her soul but
i# held down by convention.” A se
ries of nods. “Now she is employed
in an office, butee I belleve that If
she had an opportunity she could
earn her living with her brains. She
w 0 far has not used her mind in her
business, is it not so madame?"
What could 1 do but admit it?
But it was fine and 1 learned some
wonderful things about my sonl, my
By PEGGY WELLS.
*emotions, my artistic temperament,
imy nervous system, my past, présent
and future, the man I am to marry
‘and the blonde who is trying to ruin
‘my life, the villian who would spread
this same artistic temperament all
‘over the lot, if given the opportunity,
‘'which I am warned to avoid, by never
no, never, on any account, eating my
lunch at Child's restaurant.
DARK EYED MAN.
Then there js the perfectly thrill
ing part, girls, about the dark eyed
man, with the straight black hair and
the dimple in his chin, whose life
will be wrecked if I do not marry
him and bring that influence into his
life to divert him from a career of
crime.
As a reformer T am a wonderful
success, so it shows in the lines of
my left hand just above my life line.
And my fate line shows there is
something very, unusual going to
happen in my life just before I am
overtaken by death. I was go excited
that I forgot to listen to what she
was saying but I think it was a long,
logt relative leaving me money or
something. Anyhow it was exciting.
And this man I am going to marry.
At first he doesn't care for me at
all, but for a blonde who isn't good
enough for him (blondes so seldom
are). And 1 must win him by gen
tleness, as his heart has been bruised
or something.
And 1 couldr earn my living by my
imagination and some day be fa
mous, but I'm not going to, for I am
of the loyal, self-sacrificing type. It
was all just lovely.
Next Friday, which is pay day. I'll
see if | can borrow $5 from Willard
Cope and have her tell men what she
can when she is asleep. She does
fine when she is awake.
. .
Turks to Retain Capital,
v
Annoidnées Loyd George
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Feb, 27-Formal an
nouncement that the Turkish govern
meat is to retain Constantinople was
made in the Hoyse of Common
Tharsday uftm'nm;\ by Premier Lloyd
tieorge. The premier said:
“It would be the height of folly
however, to trust the guardianship
of the gates (Dardanelles and the
Bosphorus) to a pecple who betray »d
thelr trust. The gates will never be
closed by the Turks in the face of
British warships again.”
State School Site To Be
Selected Wednesday
Selection of a site for the State
School for Mental Defactives has been
been postponed by the commitiee
until Wednesday of next week.
A second meeting of the board,
composed of Qovernor Dorsey, At
torney General Walker and Dr. T, F.
Abercrombie, secretary of the State
Board of Health, was held Thursday.
Augusa's representatives, headed by
Hugh Alexander, presented thelr
clalms, offering the Tuttle Newton
home, Claims have been presented
by Macen and Atlanta,
SECONDNEWS
Remainder of Stocks in the Gov
ernment Stores Will Be Dis
posed of Direct to Dealers.
By GEORGE H., MANNING,
Washington Cortespondent of The
Georgian,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27—The di
rector of sales of the war department
Thursday issued the following state
ment in regard to the plans for clos
ing the army retail stores, one of
which is in operation in Atlanta.
“No army quartermaster retail
store or branch store, of which there
are at present sm'enty-seven'in op
eration in various parts of the United
States, will be closed until its supply
of jtems has been practically ex
hausted or until its overhead expense
exceeds 10 per cent of its sales re
ceipts. More than 90 per cent of the
items adapted for sale through the
retail stores already have been sold.
The supply, therefore, having been
greatly diminished, particularly of*
those for which there is the greatest
demand, the expense of operating
these establishments is materially
increasing.
“Afer the stores have been closed,
1. new method of disposing of the
balance of the quartermaster corps
surplus will be put into effect. Lists
will be prepared covering the re
maining items and giving a deserip
tion of the material, location, and
quality. In all cases the minimum
quantity on which bids will be re
ceived will be fixed as the smallest
practical shipping unit, regardless of
the total quantity offered.
~ “This method will make it possible
)tor the small retail dealer to pur
chase direct without making it neces
sary for the material to pass through
the hands of the manufacturer, job
ber, or wholesaler. KEach bid will be
closed on a specified date, and the
utmost publicity will be given.”
The government store in Atlanta
will close tomorrow, according to an
nouncement made recently by the
zone supply officer. ¥
Ivish Parliaments to
Have One Chamber Each
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Feb, 27—~The Irish
Parliaments which the government
will seek to estabush under the new
home rule bill will consist of a sin
gle chamber each, according to the
forecaSt of the Times today upon the
details of the measure. The first
election of members to the two Leg
islatures will be under the propor
tional system, the Times says.
The Morning Post announced that
the text of the bill wouid be made
public tonight. It has been an of
ficial secret so far,
Sir Edward' Carson, leader of the
Ulster Unionists, anti-home rulers)
will leave for Belfast on March 4 to
meet the Ulster council.
Troops May Be Ordered
To Leave Montesano
(By International News Service.)
MONTESANO, Feb. 27.—~With
the ultimatum of the attorney for the
defense of the ten alleged 1. W, W,
charged with the Centralia murders
that either the troops or he must
leave this city today, the court is
faced wih a problem.
Judge John M. Wilson, it is ex
pected, will today order that the
troops be withdrawn, He has already
expressed himself as averse to the
presence of troops in this city. Judge
Wilson said “there has not been the
slightest apparent necessity for the
goldiers. There may be information
showing a need for soldiers whiech [
do not possess and I should like to
have all of |t." @
Uses His Flivver for .
Fishing Under Ice
NANTUCKET, Mass, Feb 28—
lee pickreling in a flivver! Max Egle
has set .the midwinter fashion on
Nantucket Island for fishing through
the lce. Max flivvered out to Long
I'ond to look things over from a pro
fessional fresh water fisherman’'s
point’ of view,
Max found the jce fourteen inches
thick—something unusual for Nan
tucket Island, near the Gulf Stream.
He chugged out on to the little lake,
cut a few holes through the ice and,
weatéd in his Ford, fished through (le
ice. He took out a dozen good sized
fish ‘and then buzzed away Lome,
BARS “POCKETING"” TREATY.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-Senator
Brandegee of Connectieut introduced
a resolution requiring the President
to deposit the treaty with the seere
tarigt in Paris within thirty days
after its vatification by Senate. The
regolution purposes to ‘prevent the
President from “pocketing” the
treaty. '
NO. 190.