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VOL. XVlill 24-Hour{ ost Oaiversal News [ Service
PARENT UNION REPUDIATES CAR STRIKE
COMMERCE CHAMBER URGES LABOR-TO HELP END TIE-UP;
U. S. OPERATION OF SHIPS EARNED HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS
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Payne Gives Figures on Receipts
From All Vessels Since the
Signing of / the Armistice.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 11.—Net
earnings of the shippig board in a
period of slightly more than six
months following the armistice
amounted to $166,493,994.85, accord
ing to figures laid before the Senate
Commerce Committee Wednesday
afternocon by Chairman John Barton
Payne of the shipping board.
Chairman Payne presented figures
to show that net revenue from opera
tions to June 30, 1919, were $166,493,"
994.85 and that the balance of re
ceipts over disbursements for opera
tions to December 31, 1919, was $137,-
549,508.97,
A total annual saving of 88,659,-!1
072.13 has been éffected by the pres-.
ent administration of the board,
Chairman Payne announced. F‘igures{
were presented showing that on Feb- |
ruary 10 the total cargo fleet was |
1,673 vessels, with a dead weight ton- ‘
nage of 9,282,122. It was shown thati
159 cargo vessels with a dead weight |
tonnage of 959,749 have been sold. !
The passenger fleet now consists
of thirty-two vessels, the greater part
of which consist of the ex-German
passenger liners. Seven passenger
ships, built’ by ‘the board, have been
sold. |
The active program of the board
now calls for a fileet of 2,311 vessels
at a tonnage of 13,592,710, Chairman
Payne said. \
The large earnings shown by Chalir
man Payne's report were made dur
ing a period when the merchant ma
rifie was being adjusted to peace
time conditions, it was pointed out,
and indicates huge profits from the
operations of the vessels.
Anti-Saloon Chief Is
Bitterly Assailed
(By International News Service.)
ALBANY: N. Y., March 11.—Wil
liam D. Anderson, State superin
tendent of the Auti-Saloon League,
which may be subjected to legislative
investigation of its prohibition lob
bying, was today charged with fo
menting a revolution within the
United States by Assemblyman Louis
A. Cuvellier.
“We have been asked to throw out
the Socialist,” declared Cuveillier,
who besides being a member of the
Judiciary Committee which conducted
the Socialist inquiry, x{ sponsor for
the investigation resolution aimed at
the Anti-Saloon League. “We are
asked to expel them for giving aid
and comfort to an enemy outside the
country, but we lLa.:n’t done any-
Xhing yet with Anderson, who is caus
ing a revolution within the country by
\ringing the religious question to the
re.
“Mr. Anderson is 6 feet tall, 4%
years old, and big and healthy, but I
did not see him in any war for his
country,” continued Cuvellier. “He is
a moral and physical coward and the
thirty-five ex-service men in this As
sembly resent his threatening and
bulldozing. Remember there was one
man sent to the penitentiary for in
sulting the Legislature. If the Re
publican party had a leader in this
dtate, Anderson would be in jail long
ago.”
THE WEATHER.
Forecast — Cloudy Thu'sday
night and Friday; probably rain.
“Temperatures—6 a. m., 49; 8
a. m, 53; 10 a. m,, 59; 12 noon,
64; 1 p. m,, 65; 2 p. m,, 67.
Sunrise, 5:54. Sunset, 5:42,
Liquor Smuggling
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Planes Darken Air
.
In Florida, She Says
(By Universal Service.)
CHICAGO, March 11.—Airplanes
and all types of seacraft are car
rying on an immense liquor smugy
gling business along the TFlorida
coast, according to Mrs. Roland R.
Hurford, who spent six weeks near
Palm Beach.
“The ocean is crowded with all
kinds of vessels and the air is dark
" with aircraft—mostly hydroplanes
—all engaged in smuggling whisky
to the Florida coast,” Mrs, Hurford
said.
“The source of supply is an island
called Bimini, under the British
protectorate, 65 miles off the coast.
Every vessel that can be stolen,
bought, begged or chartered, is sent
to Bimini and loaded with liquors.
“They bring it to the three-mile
limit and then the hydroplanes fly
out. The whisky is thrown over
board with buoys attached and
picked up by the planes and
brought to land.”
Allied Officers Are
Stoned by Germans
(By 'lnternational News Service.)
LONDON, March 11.—Another at
tack by Germans upon allied army
officers was reported from Berlin
today. A group of British, French
and Belgian officers were stoned
while passing through Brandenburg,
said a dispatch from Berlin. :
Reports are current in Berlin that
France still demand indemnity for
the French soldier who.was Kkilled at
Weinitz by a German policeman.
Herr Bauer, German chancellor, has
issued an appeal to the German pub
lic to treat allied army officers po
litely and threatens sever measures
to prevent further attacks,
Scotland Going Dry,
Bishop Welldon Thinks
| By BISHOP WELLDON, :
| Dean of Durham.
| (Special to Universal Service.)
'~ LONDON, March 11.—Tt is possible
within twelve months of a littie more
that all Scotland will have followed
iAmerica's example and gone dry.
| The experiment in Scotland by pro«
hibition forces will be a local experi
‘ment, and it is expected that the re
sulting officiency and morality will
iinduce other areas to follow suit.
‘I I hope Scotland will be the
‘ploneer in reform in which England
‘will perhaps, at no distant date, fol
}low suit.
Foch Finds Politics
Lost in Clouds, He Says
(By Universal Service.)
PARIS, March 11.—Paris newspa
pers publish the following statement
by Marshal Foch in comment on his
visit to the German occupied area:
By MARSHAL FOCH.
Politics is, now lost in the clouds.
I decline to follow it. All I can say
is that my visit to the occupied Rhine
provinces has assured me that the
American ‘and all other allied troops
retain the same excellent spirit that
filled them at the time of the armis
tice.
Uses Local Anesthetic
For Major Operations
SWAINSBORO, Ga., March 11.—Dr.
Rufus Cecil Franklin performed an
unusual operation at his sanitarium
here a few days ago on Mrs. Robert
Thompson. Because of the age of the
patient and the weakness of her
heart. Doctor Franklin used novo
caine, a local anesthetic, in remov
ing her appendix and repairing a
hernia of the umbilicus.
The patient is reported recovering
rapidly.
Progressives Start
o 4 Boom for Johnson
| (By Universal Service.)
} WASHINGTON, March 11.—A
movement of Progressive séknators to
the support of Senator Hiram John
son’s campaign for the presidency was
initiated here by Senators Kenyon
of Towa and eorge W, Norris of
Nebraska.
Both senators issued statements
urging Johnson's nomination,
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Many Wilcon Followers Said To
Be Shifting to Bryan's View of
Ratification in Some Form,
By J. BART CAMPBELL,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
WASHINGTON, March 11.—Oppo
sition to the treaty being made a
campaign issue developed so
strongly today among Democratic
senators that it was claimed thirty
of them were prepared to desert
their leadership of Senator Hitch
cock of Nebraska, the administra
tion's treaty manager.
Senator Simmons of North Caro
lina, leader of the Democratic sena
tors seeking ratificaiion, openly de
clared he was bending every effort
to effect a compromise on Article X
that would lead to ratification. ‘
~ Serator Hitchcock asked for a
‘show-down on Article X today. This
was refused by Republican senators,
including the “mild reservationists"
who are working with Simmons to
effect a change in the Lodge reser
vation to Article X that will prevent
the defeat of the treaty for the sec
ond time,
SIMMONS STILL FIGHTING.
The compromise suggested by
Senator Watson, Republican of In
diana, which the Republicans with
drew yesterday, was being used
again today as a basis for the re
newed negotiations,.it was said.
“I shall continue the fight for rat
ification until the last vote is taken,”
Simmons said.
Senator Ashurat, Democrat, of Ar
izona, scored ‘‘politicians in and out
of the Senate,” who, he declared,
“are using the treaty as a screen to
keep themselves from having to face
the real issues.”
Bryan is expected to re-appear in
the Senate lobbies and ante rooms
before the last ditch of the treaty
fight is reached. He hopes to fan
the hot resentment among many
Democratic senators at the Presi
dent's insistence upon injecting the
League of Nations into the campaign.
BRYAN’S VIEW,
Bryan wants the treaty ratified,
He thinks the will of a Senate ma
jority should prevail.
Hitchcock apparently agrees with
the President that the treaty fight
should be carried into the campaign.
There are many Democratic sena
tors who do not share either the
President’s nor Hitchcock’s views. A
number of them are in open rebel
lion against the President and Hitch
cock,
The Lodge reservation to Article
X will, however, muster more Demo
cratic votes this time than it did in
November when the Democratic side
blocked ratification. Even Hitchcock
concedes this. But not enough Dem
ocratic senaters will vote for it and
ratification.
Atlantan Grabs
SSO for an Idea
Remember, of course, the
incompleted limerick
about the young damsel
named Jane and the aero
plane? It upset a mile
up from town, you know!
““What made it upset?”’
That’s what an Atlantan
asked—and then he got
a SSO idea!
The winning ‘‘last line’’
ought to be a lesson to
lovers of the near future,
too. ,
Have not you got an idea
for a ‘‘last line?’’ 'lf it’s
the best submitted, The
Georgian will pay you
SSO in gold.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1920.
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Reference to Militarism Is Passed
Up as Personal View and
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Not Sufficient for Incudent.’}
(By Universal Service.) J
PARIS, March 11—After long de-J‘
liberation, the French cabinet hasi
decided to instruct the war office to
take no official notice of the passage!
in President Wilson's letter to Sena-“
toer Hitchcock which refers to the al-‘
leged enthronement of militarism in
France.
The instructions are to the effect
that Mr. Wilson's remarks are not
to be regarded in the light of an ac
icusation, since ‘the President was
merely expressing his personal view
in a private letter to a senator and
friend, and his observations do not
offer sufficient ground for an interna
tional quarrel, or even for an “inci-,
dent.” i
! The concensus here is that the real
itcst of American feeling towara
}France will be given by the Senata's:
‘Lfinal vote on the treaty of Versajncsi
and the Franco-British-American
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“protective” agreement. Until them,|
President Wilson's personal oplnions‘
are not to be made the subject of
official or semi-official policies, l
PRESS IS INDIGNANT.
There is no concealinz the fact,
however, that -publication of his !et-‘
ter here has. aroused the press andi
publie to redoubled indignatlon‘
against the President porsonally,‘
many bitter commerts being made by
the leading newspapers of Paris. Here
are some excerpts from editorials:
Le Petit Parisien—“lt is certain
President Wilson would mnot have’
written the letter if he possessed full
control of his faculties and good
health. The letter unquestionably isl
the work of a sick man, discyediting
his party as well as himself.” ‘
Le Gaulois—“President Wilson is*‘
endeavoring to knock ‘he strength of
those governments which advocate‘
order and discipline. His anti-im
perialistic formula is bound to en-{
courage the international reds be-‘
hind whom Germany is preparing tor‘
future revenge. FEurope lis dlsap-‘
pointed in the President whose ad-|
vertised ‘fair play’' is apparently ln-i
cohc-ent.” \
NOT NATION’S VIEW. |
4 I'Echo de Parig—"“Mr. Wilson's in-|
feriority is now proved. He certainly
does not protect America’s interests.
When he quits the White House
America’'s policy will change, for
America can not express its. real
feelings towards Europe until it has
a government in which it itself can
trust.”
Le Figaro—" France regrets In
’tens(xly having sacrificed the tangi
ble guarantees of her, security for
moral assurances which now are
being disavowed by the very man who
'has given them. We hope that the
vote of the Senate will enlighten Mr,
’Wilson on his deplorable error of
judgment regarding France.”
Auto Companies at
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Americus Consolidated
AMERICUS, Ga., March 11.—A
deal concluded Wednesday has re
sulted in the consolidation of Emory
Rylander’s automobile establishment
with that of the Georgia Motor Com
pany. Mr. Rylander sold his bugi
ness to Y. C. Griffin, who in turn
purchased an interest in the Georgia
Motor Company. The business will
operate as the Gegrgia Motor Com
pany.
Wilson’s Name
.
Is Painted Off
French Street
(By Universal Service.)
PARIS, March 11.—An illus
tration of the feeling
aroused here by President Wil
son's letter to Senator Hitch
cock, which charges that mili
tarism and imperialism are in
the saddle in France, is the fact
that the press hailed as a na
tional patriot a joker who
painted out the President’s name
from the street boards on the
Avenue Wilson and w-ote in its
rlace, “Avenue of the American
People.”
Announcement Taken to Mean
Renewal of Old Hardwick-
Watson Alliance.
Thomas E. Watson will support
Janies A. Reed of Missouri for Pres
ident in the Georgia preferential pri
mary, in the event his name is en
tered, which now seems fully assured.
This announcement is made by
forther Representative Grover C. Ed
mondson of Bacon County, and is re
garded as authoritative. Mr. Ed
mondson, who is very close to Mr.
Watson and was In recent confernce
with him, makes the statement in a
signed card to the Macon Telegrapn,
which reads as follows: ’
“You are authorized to say that
the candidacy of Senator Reed will
receive enthusiastic. support from
Thomas E. Watson. (Signed) GROV
ER C. EDMONDSON.”
OLD ALLIANCE RENEWED.
This is taken generally to mean a
line-up in Georgia between Thomas
E. Watson and Thomas W. Hard
wick, former bitter political foes. It
really is a readjustment of an old
alliance, however, as Mr. Watson and
Mr. Hardwick years ago were close
allies, and Mr. Watson is generally
credited with having been responsible
for Mr. Hardwick’s first election to
Congress.
Senator Reed will begin a speak
ing tour of Georgia at Moultrie
March .20, to be followed by an ad
)dress in Atlanta at the Auditorium
March 22 and in Macon the 23rd. It
is expected these three addresses will
be followed by additional addresses
in Rome, Columbus and Statesboro,
but that has not yet been fully de
termined.
It also may be ‘stated that Senator
Reed already has tentatively agreed
to the use of his name in the Geor
gia primary and Mr. Watson's an
nouncement leaves little doubt that
it will be so entered.
FIGHT ON ADMINISTRATION.
Mr. Edmondson’s announcement is
taken to mean the withdrawal of a
petition now well under way to enter
Mr. Watson’s name in the primary,
his promised support of Reed render
ing further progress with that un
necessary.
The Reed-Watson-Hardwick al
liance .is accepted as meaning a
straight-away anti-administration
fight in Georgia, with the battle rag
ing around the League of Nations
proposal.
FEarly Report on Coal
Output Quiz Expected
(By International News Service.)
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March 11.
The federal grand jury which has
just completed a three months inves
tigation of the coal industry, may
report to Judge A. B. Anderson in
Federal Court before night, it was
said at the Federal Building today.
To investigate alleged conspiracy
to restrict the production of coal and
probe charges of collusion bhétween
miners and operators to curtail mine
output were objects of the jury's in
vestigation, ;
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J. H, Mills, President of Union,
Pleads To Be Allowed by Court
to Become Party Plaintiff.
J. H. Mills, as president of the
Georgia ¥Farmers' Unién has filed ‘in-.
tervention through his attorneys in
the United States District Court here
in the complaint brought by J . J.
Brown, commissioner of agriculture
against five local cotton firms,
charging -wviolation of the Sherman
anti-trust law, adopting the allega
tions of Mr. Brown on behalf of
25,000 or more farmers he repre
sents and begging to be allowed to
intervene as party plaintiff.
Mr. Mills said the effect of a meet
ing in Atlanta Webruary 28, hel’d by
companies named in the complaint,
were thnat the price of cotton below
middling was reduced from 1 to 4
cents a pound, which has proven
’disastruus‘ to Georgia farmers, who
had a’ portion of their crop remain
ing on hand. He declared they will
be forced to hold now indefinitely
and have been forced +to borrow
money from banks to prepare the
1920 crop. ;
Mr, Mills said the arbitrary price
reduction was made at the time the
farmers were preparing to sell to get
money to purchase fertilizers, He
said farmers all over Georgia are in
terested and are watching the out
come,
“The farmers of Georgia are just
beginning to be able to do business
on a cash basis,’ said Mr. Mills, “and
the l;emaining crop on hand has
been held by them for spring uses
and this action, taken by the de
fendants has compelled the farmers
to hold their cotton until prices can
be restored, and either buy their
fertilizer on credit or to again go in
debt for their fertilizers and spring
supplies.”
Tigner Backs
Cotton Buyers
J. Hope Tigner, secretary of the
Atianta Commercial Exchange, has
come to the support of C. B. Howard,
president of the North Georgia Cot
ton Buyers’ and Manufacturers’ As
sociation, In derial of irregularities
complained of by J. J. Brown, com
missioner of agriculture, and. L. B.
Jackson, State market director, in a
meeling of local cotton firms here
Pebruary ZB.
The State oificials in a petition for
injunetion filed in Federal Courr,
charged five cotton firms violated the
Sherman anti-trust act by (fixing
prices, and brought about a drop in
ceiton prices,
Mr. Howard issued a statement up
hciding the jegaiity of the meeting's
action and his stand was substanti
ated Wednesday morning in the fol
lowing statement from Mr. Tigner
to The Georgian:
In the Sunday edition of your paper
appeared an article concerning a meet
ing held at the Atlanta Commercial Ex
change on February 28, and the determina
tion of differences of the various grades
of cotton. The meeting was in no sense
gecret, but was held on the floor of the
exchange, and every one interestéd was
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Blighted Romance of the
Unkissed Floradora Girl
Why the disillusioned Mr. Hoyt is seeking freedom from
what he terms his frozen chains of marriage, and the mil
lionaire manufacturer’s story of how chilly a honeymoon
can be, will be told in the big sixteen-page magazine of = -
THE SUNDAY AMERICAN
FINALHOME
EDITION
Issued Dadly, and Entered as Second Class Matter at
the Postoffice at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1879
‘Week Hat’ Is
Newest Dragon
Paris Pugrse
(By Universal Service.)
P ARIS, March 11.-—As if the
cost of clothes was not
enough to ruin women, the Paris
modistes have discovered a new
scheme of enticing money from
thejr clients—the week hat. Sev
eral of the smartest houses have
launched the idea of making a
special model for each week.
These models are, of course,
adapted to the individuality of
the clients, so that while each is
of a special date, it is at the
same time exclusive,
Consequently if a woman
wants to be well dressed she
must not only have a new hat
for each of the seasons and for
eagh of her gowns, but the hat
must harmonize with the fashion
dictum of the week.
Unless a day hat is intro
duced, it would be hard to im
agine a more tyrannical fashion,
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Membership of 5,000,000 Votes
Over 3to 1 Against ..
. Walkout.
By FLOYD MacGRIFF,
Staff correspondent of the I. N. S.
LONDON, March 11.—The Trade
Union Congress by a large majority
today voted to reject “direct action™
as a means of forcing the govern
ment to nationalize the coal mines.
The vote stood:
For “direct action,” 1,050,000, .
Against “direct action,” 3,870,000,
By *direct action” the labor lead
ers meant a- general strike, instead
of employing political pressure upon
Parliament,
The miners had voted by
a majority of nearly 180,000, in favor
of a national strike to force the gov
ernment to take over the mines and
leaders of the Federation of Miners
declare they will have the backing
of the other two branches of labor's
triple alliance-~the transport work
ers and the railroad men,
The Lloyd George government has
refused to adopt the policy of nation
alization despite pressure frqm or
ganized labor. In a statement to the
House of Commons the premier de
clared any attempt by the miners to
seek a test of strength by “direct ac
tion” would be treated by the gov
ernment as “rebellion.” |
The congress represents 5,000,000
members, of which 700,000 votes are‘\
held by the miners. ]
If the last industrial crisis—the
railroad strike—is a criterion, it is
possible labor leaders, other than
miners, will act as a mediating body
between the government and the Fed
eration of Miners in the present dls«
pute.
The coal miners have been con
ducting widespread propaganda, but
it had not the effect anticipated. Pub-‘
lic interest on nationalization has
been only luke warm, ‘
. However, in all parliamentary de»;
bates on the coal situation, the miners
‘have more than “held their own,” al
ithough the government always hu;
possessed a steam roller vote. :
NO. 201.
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Key Wants to Name Board of Cit
izens to Solve Problem, Includ
ing Proposed Increase in Fares.
Developments came rapidly in the
street car strike situation Thursday
when important steps were taken by
the officials of the local union, the
Georgia Railway and Power Company
and the Atlanta Chamber of Com
merce.
Outstanding features of the situa
tion were:
1. The decision of the union offi
cials to “stand pat” in their position
in the face of orders from their in
ternational headquarters instructing
the union men to veturn to work and
abide by the decision of the arbitra
tion board,
2. A conference by union leaders
with H. M. Atkinson and other offi
cials of the Georgia Railway and
Power Company, at which the union
officials reiterawd their demand for
a b 0 per cent increase in wages, and
TMr. Atkinson insisted that the action
of the arbitration board be upheld.
KEY'S SUGGESTION.
3. Adoption of resolutions by the
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce cons~
demning the strike as being “unwar
ranted and unfair” and calling on all
labor unions to join in asking the
strikers “as Atlantans” to return to
their posts of duty. :
4. Suggestion by Mayor Key that
the entire problem, including ttgo
question of granting the street rall
way company increases in fare, be
turned over to a commission for set
tlement, the commission to be com
posed of Atlanta citizens appointed
by the mayor. This suggestion was
made to the directors of the Cham-~
ber of Commerce at a special session.
The order from the international
board came as a reply from a re=-
quest sent to Vice President Fitz
gerald at Detroit Wednesday. Recog-
I nition was refused the Atlanta walk
| out on the basis that the workers
!struck after refusing to accept the
Gecision of the board of arbitration,
which awarded them a 15 per cent
increase in pay effective from Jan-:
uary -1, 1920. Rules of the interna
tional recognize arbitration as &
means of s¢ttliag wage disputes.
VOTE TO “STAND PAT.”
Decision of the internatignal as
read at the morning mueth{x of the
strikers by J. H. Reardon, member
of the board, who is here to assist
in the strike and who sent the tele
gram to Vice Preésident Fitzgerald
l Wednesday.
' Immediately a motion was made
'{hat the union vote to “stand pat”
| until granted a “living wage.” Shouis
seconded it from all parts of the room
and after the meeting it was declared
that a unanimous.vote had been cast
for its adoption.
The meting was addressed by Har«
dy O. Teat, business agent for the
local union; Madison Bell, attorney
}for the men, and Mr. Reardon.
\ Attorney Bell deciared after the
meeting that it had also been voted
to seek a conference with Mr. Atkin-"
son, Thursday afternoon to make a
further effort to get the company to
acce-t the scale offered by the union
in its demands.
LOWEST WAGE PAID.
’ “The street car worker in Atlanta
‘has been receiving a lower wage than
the commonest laborer and far less
‘than he received in other cities,” said
Mr. Bell.. “In Augusta and Columbia
the men are paid 52 cents an hour
with two weeks' vacation in the sum=-
mer. Seattle pays her Jnen 60 cents
an hour and in Chicago they get 65
cents an hour. In a hundred other
cities the 52 cents an hour scale pre
vails. The increases asked for by
the ‘Atlanta men is just the average ‘
paid in manv cities and is not in
keeping with the advanced cost Q!
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