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than all it says this after it has made a
solemn contract which has been completed
by the final adjudication necessary to
make it operative.
Society ln. its almost entirety rests upon
the inviolability of contracts. Admit that
contract* may be violated at will and
the holesty, the ¢ecency, the character of
life itsel? have all disappeared,
This is the issue controniing Atlanta
today and is the reason the street rail
road is only an incident. E g
To admit that a small minority can
dominate the public will, safety and con
venience simply means that our form of
government is a failure and will result
in its destruction.
The union has violated a solemn contract
and the resultant condition today in At
lgmn is chaos and anarchy. It is time
right thinking, honest citizens realized the
reality of this. A broken contract was
the direct cause of the European war. The
millions of our best men went to Europe
te maintain nothing but the inviolabilty of
contracts, which are the foundation and
and form of government,
Shall it be law, order and Americanism,
or chaos, anarchy and radicalism?
That's the only issue confronting At
lanta.
STRIKERS MEET.
The strikers met at the Wigwam
at 10 o'clock to hear the reports of
their representatives. It was indi
cated before the meeting that the
strikers and their leaders were dis
satisfied with the report and state
ment by Mr. Atkinson, and would is
sue their report of the conference
later. .
The petition @rawn Thursday by
citizens urging the resumption of car
service without regard to the merits
of the strike was filed at the mayor’s
office Friday morning by Ralph T.
Jones, the first signer. It bore 174
signatures.
Ail of the signatories volunteered
for special car or police duty. It had
been presented at the session Thurs
day of Chamber of Commerce direc
tors, but they withheld u'ndorsement.}
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Rotarans Ask }
Strikers to Return |
The Rotary Club, representing 176
lines of business in Atlanta, has
addressed a communication to At
lanta Local No. 732 of street car
employees asking that the strikers
return to work. It is urged that the
strikers realize the public is suffer
ing and that they reced their stand.
The latter, signed by the board of
directors, follows:
“The iils which flow from the tle-up of
Atlanta’s street car system are suffered
by all the people.
“The principle of arbitration is vital to
the working of the plan of wage nego
tiations and agreements by massed em
ployees as one party and the employing
conrern a 3 the other party.
“Whoever weakens faith in the principle
of arbitration by setting at naught the
award of an arbitration beard established
through agreement by employees and em
ployer vitally hurts the nullifying party
in the collective opinion of his fellow
men.
“In the heat of resentment at what sis
conceived to be an imposition, human nha
ture mav dictate the doing of that which
later judgment, lighted by the opinion of
the third party—the publie—is shown to
be lacking in full justification.
“In such a circumstance, the party in
error shows one of the finest characteris
ties of mankind and recaptures the good
will of the public by receding from an
untenable position.
“With the sole purposes of serving At
lanta and of showing a deeply feit in
terest in our fellow men who man the
street cars and of strengthening the gen
eral faith in arbitration between em
ployees and employers we, the Rotary Club
of Atlanta, speaking through its board of
directors, ask the street car men to view
the situation from this angle and with
proud confidence in doing what is right,
despite all things else—go back to work.”
OLDEST FAIR FRICE LIST.
LINCOLN, 111., March 13.—There is
nothing new beneath the sun, accord
ing to Professor B. O. Kooch, Latin
professor at Lincoln College. He is
testing a fair price lst issued in 301
A. D. by the Roman government.
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of Spring Footwear
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN nB.O A Clean Newspaper for Southern Homes SN - FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1920,
Sidelights, Grave
and Gay, on Strike
Getting acquainted through givingd
lifts to early morning and late after
neon pedestrians during the street
car strike is a small item in compari
son to renewing old acquaintances,
according to one Atlanta man who re-
Jated a little drama enacted Thurs
day evening as a Packard paused on
Peachtree street to pick up a couple
of walkers.
The owner of the car left the Cand
ler Building and started for his home
near Brookwood. Near the Capital
City Club he pulled up and invited
a man to get in. Conversation svun
revealed that the two were boyhood
friends who hadn’t seen each other
for twenty-five years.
~ So interested became their remi
niscences that they passed a dozen
iwalkors before the owner noticed a
‘woman making her way out the
thoroughfare near the Georgian Ter
race Hotel. Mindful of his resolution
to be a Good Samaritan during the
strike, he stopped and invited her to
ride. She thanked him and slipped
into a corner of the car to listen to
‘the conversation.
~ Suddenly the driver called the
3othel‘s name and the woman leaned
forward.
- “What did you say your name is?”
he asked.
‘ When it was reneated for her, she
smilead, and reached out her hand.
“F am——," she offerec.
She and the other also were
friends of long standing who hadn't
met for many years.
Students of Oglethorpe University
now will be able to return to Atlanta
in the afternoon for arrangements
have been made with the Southern
.
Tears of Wife and
Baby's Smiles Win
~ ‘Daddy’s’ Freed
| aaday’s’ rreeaom
. A woman's tears and a baby’s
'smiles melted the heart of Recorder
Johnson and brought freedom to
‘Albert Pryor of 1 Picket street, who
)appeared in court Friday morning
on charges of disorderly conduct.
Mrs. Pryor walked two miles to
town with her 5-month-old child in
her arms and entered the courtroom
‘just as Recorder Johnson assessed
‘Bll on Pryor, following testimony by
‘Policeman Englett who said he
found the man drunk under the
iCourt]and street viaduct. The offi
cer said Pryor resisted arrest by at
' tacking him and tore from his grasp.
Englett called for aid and reserve
policemn were gent. The fugitive
was captured in Central avenue.
When Mrs. Pryor entered, .the
baby spied its father and held out
its arms to be taken. Pryor took
' the child while the wife, with tears
'in her eyes, begged for her hus
band’s freedom. She said he was a
|good husband and father and kind
to her and the baby.
It was more than/ the recorder
could resist. \
“I'll have to cancel your fine, Mr.
Pryor,” he said. “I'll release you on
probation. Please don't drink any
more."”
> . .
ledenbury Willing to be
Nominee for Presidency
[ BERLIN, March 13.—Field Marshal
von Hindenburg’'s candidacy for the
presidency of Germany is strongly
urged in an appeal which, according
to the Morgen Post, was agreed upon
by the German nationalist party and
the people’s party. The lL.okal An
zeiger claims to have knowledge that
the field marshal would accept a
nomination. S L
. : Shoe
Slgnet Shop
' 13 PEACHTREE ST.
Railway for train No. 39 to stop there
daily at 4:04 p. m.
There is a morning local which has'
been conveying Atlanta students to
the university since the strike began.
Edwin Camp of West End, who
drove down town early Friday in a
snug closed car, carried a carefully
prepared luncheon consisting of two
medium boiled eggs, two sandwiches
and a quarter section of Charley
Chaplin custard pie.
On the way he picked up a stranger
weighing 200 pounds and on reach
ing the office he found that his guest
had been sitting on the lunch.
Guy Norton, who lives in North
Boulevard, drove down in his big Cws
and picked up a stranger. When the
latter was ready to get out he ex
plained that he had a Ford in his
garage but didn't like to bring it out
in the rain.
Now, it's ‘“Pay-as-you-enter’ on
trains. }
At the old station as early at §
o'clock Thursday evening there was
a big crowd to get on the Augusta
6:10 train. The crowd was com
vosed largely of folk living at Edge
wood, Kirkwood, Decatur and other
nearby stops.
The coaches were all locked.
At 5:30 the conductor opened one
coach door at the front end of the
train and the flagman was at the
last coach. They took up fares as the
crowds swarmed in.
Wednesday night the conductor at
tempted to get the fares as the train
halted in the yards. It took him
about an hour, and the “pay-as-you
enter” system of Thursday night got
folks home an hour or more earlier,
as the stop in the yards was elimi
nated.
. .
Light Tap on the Jaw in
Sparring Match Fatal
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, March 12.—Andrew
Lockett, a young Georgia law student,
was held in $2,500 bail when arraigned
here today on a technical charge of
homicide in connection with the death
of Milton Stepnfeid of Albany, N. Y.
Sternfeld and Lockett, both students
at Columbia, engaged in a friendly
boxing bout at a students’ smoker
last night. Sternfeld died from the
results of a light tap on the jaw.
Bail was furnished by Frederick A.
Goetz, treasurer of the university.
Lockett told the court he and Stern
feld were chums and that he had no
desire to hurt his friend. He will be
given a hearing Thursday.
. . .
Subscription Dinner
By Schools Postponed
The big subsecription dinner, which
was to have been given by the city
department of schools to the Atlanta
public, at the Chamber of Commerce
next Tuesday evening, has been in
definitely postponed, according to an
nouncement Friday.
The dinner will be held soon. The
date has not been determined upon.
The reason given for the postpone
menrt is the disorganized state of traf
fic conditions in the city, s
Portable Houses May
Solve Rent Problem
(By International News Service.)
. CHICAGO, March 11.—A plan to
‘house apartment tenants in portable
‘houses, to be abandoned after a suffi
cilent number of flat buildings are
erected to meet the demand and after
rents go back to normal, was
launched today by the Chicago Real
ITistate Board. It is believed thou
sands of families can be housed in
‘this way. ;
400 Pairs
Walking Oxfords
Brown
Kid—
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i By H. M. ATKINSON, |
Chairman, Board of Directors, Geor
iga Railway and Power Company.
In response to a request from the
jofficials of the local union, I had a
conference with them today in my
office at 12:30 o'clock. The union
was represented at the conference by
its executive committee and also Mr.
Hardy Teat, business agent; Mr.
Madison Bell, attorney and Mr. J.
H. Reardon, member of the national
executive committee of the union.
I invited the representatives of the
iunion to make such stateruents as
jthey desired. Mr. Reardon made the
(first statement and spoke partly as
follows: :
“I notified healquarters yesterday
morning that the men had voted not
to accept the award of the arbitra
tion and had suspended work. 1 got
a telegram last night notifying me to
'notif_v the membership that they
should return to work and comply
|with the award; that the Internation
al Association did not endorse the ac
tion of thie men. I received a further
| telegram stating that I should try to
get in communication with you; that
you had communicated with the of.
‘fice and requested that the Interna
tional Association do what it could to
see that the award and contract were
carried out. I read those telegrams
to the men this morning and advised.
the international headquarters that
the men had refused to comply with
the order of the International Asso
ciation and that I was seeking a con
ference with you today. The situa
tion briefly is this: The men will not
resume work under the award of the
arbitration board. I have done as in
ternational representative everything
that T ean do to prevent a strike and
have done everything that I know of
to try to get the men to go back to
work. But that they refused to do
by their unanimous vote this morn
ing. So that is the situation. We
have asked for this conference in the
hope that you will do something that
will induce the men to return to
work."”
After Mr. Reardon all of those
present representing the union were
invited to make further statements.
When they had finishel. 1 read to
them the following telegram which I
sent to Mr. W. D. Mahon, interna
tional president of the union, on
March 10:
“Local seventy thirty-two and this
company signed a written agreement
to submit wages to board of arbitra
tion, having previously agreed on ev
ery other detail of new contract cov
ering operations for nineteen twenty.
Umpire suggested by union, being
one of the judges of the Superior
Court here, was accepted by us. After
full hearing arbitration board by ma
jority = decision rendered written
award Tuesday evening, March ninth,
Union at meeting Tuesday night,
March ninth, repudiated award with
out cause or notice to company or
public and ordered strike effective at
three o'clock this morning. Action
of local union violates written con
tract with us and violates agreement
for arbitration. Action also, as we
understand it, contrary to your gen
eral laws and constitution. Strike is
on and no effort being made to oper
ate cars. H. M. ATKINSON.”
And copy of a reply dated March
10, which I received from Mr. W. B,
Fitzgerald, first vice president of the
International Association, as follows:
~ “Telegram received. We are also in
receipt of telegram from general ex-|
ecutive board member, Reardon. I
immdiately wired Reardon to instruct
men to return to work and carry out
agreement. Would advise that- you
request conference with Mr. Reardon
and committee. I am so instructing
Reardon.”
I merely reported to the Interna
tional Association the facts, in com
pliance with a request that I had pre
viously received from Mr. W. D. Ma
hon,, international president, and 1
made no request that the Internation
al Association take any action, leav
ing it strictly up to themn.
I replied to the statements that
had been made by the representa
tives of the union as follows, stat
ing that what 1 said was final:
“While 1 still have the Kkindest
feeling for the rank and file of the
men and believe that they have beoen
misled, it is out of my power, repre
senting the company, to undertake
to make any more contracts with
the union until it calls the mer back
to work and carries out the present
agreement.
“It is impossible to make another
contract with the union that will be
more binding than this one is. It
was thoroughly discussed, agreed
upon and signed. It was submitted
to and approved by the public. If
this contract does not bind the un
ion, then no contract can be made
that will bind it, and it is utterly
useless to be going through the cere
mony of making agreements and
signing up contratts when the union |
will not live up to this contract.” |
There was more or less genpral‘
conversation, the substance of all of
which wag appeals by the repre
sentatives of the union for more
money, which concluded the confer
ence.
CEDRGIA ROADS
U.SOlflcflßfi:ortooCopdtlm
of the Highmoys:
' The following report on condition
of highways was issued Friday by
the weather bureau,
. Up to Thursday night road condi
tions throughout Georgia were satis
factory and traffic nearly normal. In
'some sections roads were quite dusty,
caused by the considerable amount of
travel over the roads. Most roads
were still somewhat bumpy in places,
but otherwise good, and where
scraped, as in Madison County, they
‘were in excellent condition. Rain,
however, set in over Northern Geor
gia on Friday morning, which will
make the roads muddy and slippery
for a few days and somewhat dan
gerous for heavy cars, (
Special reports on the route from
Dublin to Savannah indicate that the
Dixfe Overland highway from Adrian
to Swainshoro is impassable on ac
count of bridge building. Travelers
' should inquire for the southern route
via Norristown-Covena. Beyond
Swainsboro to Graymont bridge
building is also under way, inquire
for the Lamb bridge road,
The rainfal Friday will probably
e 0 o o o el
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27th WINNER: Jpsi b
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LIMERICK NO, 32
The American people turn pale
As Britain walks off with their ‘‘kale’’
But it gets on their nerves
When she blithely observes,
Seveen D) Cranrrnn Ssssanne SassstlsNtssts s snrned
You may write your “‘best last line” of Limerick above this,
NAMO cuvercrvces ssecesssssssssssacescssssorsssssssoced
Street and NuUmMDer.....civsvrsesesresrcsrssscsssacsy
Clty oFr TOWD..cvtceeosssssssssssssssssvsosesd
SO iiitinnrcisannnpssensnnissiniadsnoned
All “best last lines” to Limerick No. 32 must be received
by noon Tuesday, March 16. Award will be announced
Thursday, March 18.
The Rules.
1. In the event of two or more persons
egending in the same ‘“‘best last line,” SSO
wi’l be awarded to each of such persons.
2. No one is barred from participating
except employees of The Atianta Geor
gian and their families, who are abso
lutely barred ‘No one may send {n more
than ome ‘“best last line” to each
Limerick.
3. The blank printed herewith s for
the convenience of the readers and the
Editors. §
4. Each Limerick appearing i The
Atlan‘a Guargian will nave & number,
and the ‘“‘vest last line” must be sent
in a sentew envelope, by maii, addressed
to “Atlanta Georgian Limerick Depart
ment.” On the ontside of each onvelos:
co=taining the “best last line” must
written or orinted “Limerick Ne. ——"
This is most important.
o, All “best last lines”” must be re
celved by the Limerick Department by
12 o'clock noon, four days after publi
cation. Announcemnent of each award
will be maie in The Atlanta Georgian
onc week after publication of each
Limeriel,
6. Any one once winning an award for
the “best last line”” is eliminated from
further competition.
AAA AAN AAAAAAAAAA A A AN
.
War Against Turks
.
Might Be Renewed
(By Intrnaticnal News Service.)
LONDON, March 12.—The possi
bility of a renewal of the war
against Turkey by the allies was
pointed out today by Major General
Maurice in a review o fthe Asiatic
situation.
Major General Maurice was direc
tor of operations at the war office
during the world war and it was his
task to analyze the* big military
movements for the press,
STRAND
ALL WEEK
Theda Bara
In the Beautiful
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“KATHLEEN
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“BROKEN BUBBLES’’
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Friday, March 12th, 1920
TABERNACLE
BAPTIST CHURCH
REV. J. W. HAM, Pastor.
78 Luckie St.
THE END OF THE ROAD
.
No Further Action Is
Planned by Chamber
The Chamber of Commerce will
take no further action on the street
car strike since its directors adopted
resolutions condemning the strike, un
less some development arises Friday
to warrant a special session of the
board of diréctors, according to in
formation obtained from Secretary
Charles E. Robertson.
“No call has been made for any
further special sessions of the direc
tors and the matter will rest as it
stands unless something develops to
warrant a special meeting,” said Mr.
Robertson.
Many messages approving the ac
tion of the directors were received
Friday at the offices of the organiza
tion. Some of the messages came
from other cities.
. Ch .
‘Georgia Legionnaire’ To
& & . .
Be ‘Dixie Legionnaire’
Announcement was made Friday
that a real estate section will be added
to the (@Georgia Legionairre, official
publication of the American Legion
in eGorgia, and that with the April
issue of the magazine the name will
be changed to the Dixie L.egionairre,
The new name was adopted be
cause of the allotment of additional
territory tc the Atlanta magazine. It
is now the official organ of the Le
gion in South Carolina and Alabama
as well as in Georgia.
The real estate section will be
edited by leading real estate men in
the South and is designed to foster
“Iwn your own home” movement.
ALL NEXT WEEK
Douglas Mac Lean and
Doris May in
“MARY’S
ANKLE”
First came “23', Hours Leave,”
then “What's Your Huskand Do
ing,” and now “Mary’'s Ankle.”
Better than the first two.
Today and Saturday
Special Feature
“THE DEMARR
JAZZ BAND”
Douglas Fairbanks
In His Big Success
“Mr. Fix-It”
“Her First Mistake”
2-Reel Mack Sennett Comedy
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Now, if those street cars would onlyi
start a-running, one of the mil-|
linery shops would have an enthu-'
siastic customer. l
And if the street cars don't start
soon, maybe the prospective customer‘
will change her mind-—as all women}
have a perfect right to do—and put
it in the bank. “It,” of course, re-|
fers to the fifty in gold for writing a|
“best last line” to one of those in
completed Limericks in The Geor
gian.
And she is Mrs. 1. ). Roberts, wife
of Hughes Roberts, attorney. They|
reside in the Fairmont Apartments a:%
72 Peachtree Place, ;
About five minutes after the good
news news reached her, Mr. Roberts
visited The Georgian. His wife hadi
telephoned him. So he took her fifty
home. i
Now if only those street cars will
run——!
The Limerick Mrs, Roberts won 1s
No. 27. Here it is:
A sweet little actress named |
Maude ‘
Stamped hcr foot and exclaimed:
“It's a fraud!
W:en I finished my song
Not a sound from the throng,
I must Be so good that they're
awed!”
A rabbit's foot—one of the original
hoodoo chasers and token of good luck!
—came with a Limerick “last line"l
from “J, R. T.” of Atlanta Thursday.
It might interest “J. R. T.” to know,
that a mighty good looking little girl,
who spends the day opening hun
dreds. of Limerick envelopes, has put
that rabbit foot in her purse.
Is she superstitious?
Not a bit!
But she expects it to bring her
good luck just the same.
“ANTI-VAMP SOCIETY.” |
LONG FEACH, Maich 13.—C0-eds
of the high schol here have formed
an “Anti-Vamp Society” to end the
practise of ‘“squeezing a boy's heart
dry and returning 1t to him n that
conditon.”
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Jo! = !
Vaudeville 3:30—7—8 P. M.
SIX TASMANIAN GIRLS
Daring death in the air.
Dorothy Roye; Lester Raymond & Ca.,
Bertram May & Co.; Leroy & Dresd
ner,
PEGGY HYLAND in “Black Shadows”
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Vaudeville 2:30-—7:30—9:15 |
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WALTER FISHTER CO, ‘
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OTHER KEITH HITS
The Personal
Appearance of
LIEUT. BELVIN W.
MAYNARD
Flying
Holder of the Record Flight From
New York to San Francisco and Re
turn; New York to Toronto and Re
turn; Overseas Looping Record, Etc.
LIEUT. MAYNARD WILL POSI
TIVELY APPEAR TODAY ONLY
: At
12:15P.M.,2 P. M., 3:45 P. M.
530P.M,,7:15P.M,,9P. M.
Picture Program Today
CHAS. RAY
—lN—
“Alarm Clock Andy”
Burton Holmes l Gaumont News
Travelogue Weekly
FORSYTH
Landlords Put
B Child
anon Children,
Shaves, Smokes
(By Universal Service.)
PITTSBURG, March 12—" No
smoking.”
“No shaving.”
“No children.”
Those prohibitions have been
discovered among clauses of
leases under the probe of the
Renters Council, which has
been delving into facts con
nected with rent gouging.
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Funeral Services for |
Editor Long Held Friday
| MACON, Ga., March 12.—Fumne!
| services for George H. Long, man
guging editor and editerial writer so
' the Macon Telegraph, who died fr i
gpnoumonia Wednesday night, will b
%hnld this afternon at 4 o'clock from
the Vinevilie Methodist Church, th
i Rev. Bascom Anthony, pastor, assist
| ed by the Rev. C. R. Jenkins, pre
dent of Wesleyan College, will ¢ ‘
duct he seryice. Interment will be i
Rcse Hill. The pallbearers will k
D. C. Horgan, Eden Taylor, .
Simmons, Hollis N. Randolph, A
'lanta; Mark F. Etheridge, John
Blourt Savannah; R. Holmes Maso
and A. P. Wheeler. &
Messages of condolence have baes
pouring in from all sections of thi
country. Floral offerings are mai
and beantiful, many sent by friend
throughout the State. Among th
messages of sympathy received wer
!telegrams from Attorney Generai
Il‘a]mm'. Senator W. J. Harris, Con~
gressman Walter Wise, Hiram Gard
| ner, secretary of Democratic State
Executive C“ommittee; Governor Dor
cey and many others from private
individuale and newspaper editors.
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STEALS BABY—GRAND PIANO. *
NEW YORK, Marck 13.—-Att§;
playing jazz time and smoking
package of cigarettes in the show
room, burglars stole a perfectly good
baby grand piano from the Standard
Photograrhy Company. £
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