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Vance At the Crackers’ Training Camp
Henry C. Vance, khown to his friends as “Old Dollar
Bill,” sporting editor of The Atlanta Georgian and Sunday
American, is at Bay SBt. Louis, Miss, with the Atlanta
baseball club. Vance knows the game from the backstop
to the deep center fence and, withal, has the most unique
style on the entire circuit. Read his stdries every day on
The Georgia\n's and American’s double. sport pages.
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A Small Bite of Melon.
Twilight Revolution. |
Strong Abroad, Weak at |
* Home.
Woman, Eternal Educator.
| By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Congressman Green of the Apppro
priations Committee, objects to the
system based on a Supreme Court de
cision, that would enable men to
dodge income tax when the income is
big enough. |
He proposes a straight tax of 15
per cent on stock dividends. That
would at least bite off and hand to
the people a small piece of the meion
that the Supreme Court decision gave.
to the ultra-prosperous.
The German revolution seems to
have proceeded almost as quietly as
a twilight sleep birth. A few are
killed here and there, which doesn’t
mean anything. If Germany should
go suddenly from autocracy to de
mocracy, via military defeat, it would
be almost a miracle. There is a
prospect that the miracle will hap
pen.
A new complication for . absolute
prohibition. In many places—Buffalo,
for instance—men break the law by
manufacturing wine, beer, or whisky
in their houses, and juries decline to
convict. What can you do about that?
Perhaps a constitutional amendment
prohibiting the jury system would
help.
Poland, Austria and Armenia will
get 5,000,000 barrels of flour from
America on long term credits (pay
for it when you are able). You can
guess when that will be. It is pleas
ure and duty to help foreign nationals
struggling against misery. But how
does it happen that this government,
able to do so much for those that live
3.000 or 4,000 miles away, can do so
little for those at home? f
We are reacy for any sacrifice to
keep a Turk from maurdering an Ar
menian or a bolsheviki from dropping
a grand duke down the well.
Couldn't something be done to In
terfere with the United States of
America profiteer, the rent-raiser,
food price raiser and others that
steadily and placidly Tob everybody
in the United States?
. Gently and violently, in all kinds of
ways, women have been terrifying,
improving, worrying men. A great
work of education is hidden away in
sensational newspaper headings.
One Chicago lady killed Captain
Bleyer because she thought he didn’t
like her well enough or might not
continue liking her forever. She
proved her siacerity by Kkilling her
self. Yesterday you read that a
yo--~ lady shot herself because a
naval officer didn't lik . her at all.
Tomorrow, undoubtedly, you will
read of some other woman shooting
herself or the gentleman in’the case,
or both, because he liked some third
person.
An ignorant visitor from another
planet would ask, “What is the mat
ter with these earth women ever
lastingly shooting somebody?”’
The explanation is simple. These
shootings are survivals of the day
long past when there was no such
thing as marriage. The man wan
dered off as he pleased, leaving the
woman to take care of herself and all
the children.
Women, unlike men, do not run
away from their children. And the
only way to keep the man from run
ning away was to hit him on the head
with a stone hammer or chase him
through the cave with that expres
sion which man at once recognizes as
a danger signal
Killings and suicides, suicides and
killings combined, now apparently so
aimless, represent vestigial survival
of woman’s early educating pro
cosses. It is woman's fault that such
methods should have beem necessary.
Primeval man could not be trusted
and understood nothing but a blow..
Many men are still primeval.
PR :
Mr. Smith of New York proposes,
to lend $1,000,000,000 to Germanyy
using for, the purpose money taken
#rom German citizens in this country}
by the American government. The
jdea is not primarily to help Ger-‘
many, although that is desirable,
since a nation dying or decaying‘
would affect its neighbors disas
trously. .
The main idea is to boom business
in the United States. Our exports
have dropped 70 per cent during the
last three mont[fi Foreign nations
can't buy with money, or with
money like the German mark that has
practically no value.
Germany needs $1,000,000,000 worth
of stuff that Americans are anxious
to sell, hence the bill to lend Ger
many the money. The English, in
telligent business men, were first to
suggest this plan for bringing indus
trial Germany back to life. Nations,
‘like shops, need solvent customers.
Romantic news that will excite
boys of 12 and over. British divers
have brought up $250,000,000 worth of
treasure from ships sunk in the war.
Five millions in gold was recovered
from one ship. This is Jules Verne
in real life, 'and every penny of the
money recovered is due to the work
of scientists and to scientific educa-|
tion, '
“Free Syria” is proclaimed, and
King Feisal, formerly one of several
Emirs, thinks he is a real king. So
he ig, and will be until some nation
decides otherwise.
- Mesopotamia has set up a free
kingdom also. The name of the Emir
in this case is “Abysmal” which of -
fers an opportunity to the humorist.
Kingdoms have been riging up and
falling down in Asia and elsewhere
through the centuries like dandelion
crops in the spring.
The rabbits might set up an inde
pendent kingdom with Emir Lopear
as king. But look out -when the
weazel comes around, "
Fashion Show at New York Dis
play No Curves Above
Ankles.
By WINIFRED VAN DUZER,
Universal Service Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, March 17.—The first
of the season’s fashion shows, held
here Tuesday, demonstrated that
madame who wishes to appear styl
ish during the spring and summer
would better carefully censor her diet
if she w.eighs more than a fraction
over 100 pounds.
For, according to Mme. Frances of
Frances, Inc.,, exclusive and wultra
fashionable firm of dress artists, the
feminine figure of the immediate fu
ture will be of a sinuous slenderness
hithertofore imagined but seldom
seen; though corsetless, it will be
hipless and curveless, excepting, of
course, for such rounded outlines as
appear in the undraped arms.
“This is going to be a season of
flapper figures,” Mme. Frances de
clared, “the figure of the girl just ap
proaching maturity. Of course, they
can not be obtained by corsets which
compress and add years to a wom
an’s looks. They must at least ap
pear spontaneous.
SEASON OF YOUTH.
“Oh, yes, it will be a spring and
summer of youth. In all the world of
clothes there will be no place for the
woman who weighs over, well, say,
115 pounds.”
~ With dozens of newly-created
gowns, suits and wraps of character,
as she explained, peculiarly suited to
the American feminine personality,
‘Mme. Frances astonished and de
lighted a select audience of society
and stage women. Mrs. Reggie Van
‘derbilt, Mrs. Angier Duke, Mrs. E. T.
Wanamaker Jr., Miss Ethel Barry
more, Mrs. Eaton Cromwell and Mrs.
Brooks, daughter of Mrs. E. T.
Stotesbury, attended the show. An
other interested group was composed
of certain film favorites, among them
Norma Talmadge and Alice Joyce
i Mme. Frances explained that the
flat figure is essential for the proper
effect of the straight up and down
lines which will characterize the sea
son’s wearing apparel. It likewise
fits in with the extreme simplicity
of the new models and carries, par
ticularly with stunning vesult, black
and white combinations which are
the eream of new creations.
FADDY COLORS NO GOOD.
“Faddy colors will not be good,”
she said. ‘““Nor will bizarre materials
or fantastic combinations of fur
trimmings upon tulle—such freakish
conceits. e
“The American woman should wear
American clothes. It is not that Ido
not approve d&f French styles, but
they are not in harmony with the
personality of our women.”
“Colors,” she went on, “will be
those most becoming to the individ
ual for evening wear, and a white
and black combination for the day.
This latter is exquisitely developed
in charmeuse, or in silk floss with
silver embroidery.”
One of the afternoon gowns exhib
ited was fashioned upon the severely
straight lines of a bungalow apron. It
was black charmeuse, excepting for
the wide front panel of brocaded
ivory satin. This rose high in the
neck to a rather wide stole collar
with ends crossing down the back
of the mannikin and knotted in some
sort of sash effect at the side. The
creation looked Chinese and appeared
to the casual beholder anything but
extremely simple.
SPORT COATS COMING.
‘Wraps, better known to the nublic
as dolmans and cape coats, will give
place to coats verging upon a sports
style; suit coats will settle finally
into hip lengths and trotteurs will be
developed in a soft quality of very
dark navy, according to the display
today. Suits were fashioned upon the
severely simple lines of M'Sieu's
business suit, with the skirts little
wider than one trouser leg at hems,
And not only were skirts very nar
row but they also were very short.
“Of, course it depends,” remarked
Mme. Frances thoughtfully. *“Eleven
inches from the ground will be the
fashionable length. But if a woman
hasn’t good legs—ah!"” she shook her
head. “These short skirts are de
signed to promote beauty, not to re
veal ugliness. If madame has not
curves where curves belong—!" she
shrugged away such predicament as
hopeless.
Pioneer Schoothoys
Pay Heualey Tribute
At a meeting of the Pioneer School
boys in the Healey Building Tuesday
night, resolutions lamentln' the death
of William T. Healey, the Tirst presi
dent of the organization, were adept
ed. Speakers expressed appreciation
of the interest Mr. Healey showed
in the organization. Resolutions of
sympathy for the widow were also
adopted, and the two sonz of Mr.
Healey, Willilam T. Jr., 15 years of
age, and Oliver Markham Healey, 11
years of age, were elected as hon
orary members of the association as
further tribute to the memory of the
deceased.
Among the speakers were W,
Woods White, the present president
of the Pioneer Schoolboys of At
lanta; John A, Whitner, Frank H.
Peck, W. L. Saye, Piromis H. Bell,
W. F. Cruselle, J. A. Forsyth, Carl
Hannsen, Patrick H. Calhoun, Hen
ry R. Durand, Edward L. Grant, Hor
ace Bradley, Frank Powell, Otto
Braumuller, Will Sheridan, T. H.
Withers, James 1., Logan, T. 1. Fran
cis, lsaac Liebman and _John 8.
Clarke.
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VOL. XVIII
Cheer Up!
By John Kendrick Bangs.
SAFE.
lF‘ through today I keep my
thinking clear,
Firm fixt upon !life's sunlight
and its cheer,
And greet what woes I meet
upon the way
With courage, and a smiling
mien and gay,
And trouble neither beg, nor
steal nor borrow,
I'll have no fear of what may be
tomorrow, .
For c¢ven though tonprrow’s fate
be grief
I'll have today \
Stored safe away
As 'twere a garnered sheaf.
(Copyright, 1920, Atlanta Georgian.)
By LEE ELLMAKER,
Staff Correspondent of the |. N. S.
WASHINGTON, March 17.—Con
gress will not lend additional money
to the nations of Europe either in the
form of gold or credit, it was the
opinion of leaders of the House to
day. Speaking of the bill introduced
by Representative Smith of New
York, which would provide for a bil
lion dollar credit to Germany for the
promotion of trade with that coun
try, Representative Kitchin, ranking
Democratic member of the House
Ways and Means. Committee, waid,
“The United States has gone its lim
it in lending money to KEuropean
countries.”
“I am not in favor of advancing
further loans to any country until
we have met our obligations to our
people at home,” Chairman Fordney
of the Ways and Means Committee
declared.
There is a feeling among House
leaders, however, against the pro
posal of Kuropean nations now in
debted to us for loans made during
the war, borrowing money in this
country to be re-lent to other na
tions for trade purposes.
“There was a meeting of a dele
gation of members of the House of
Commons in England recently which
resolved to open trade relations for
the sale of cotton goods to the cen
tral powers,” Representative Smith
said. “This shows the attitude of
the English business man for the re
covery of trade relations. The only
way this trade can be resumed is by
the establishment of credit, and
credit can not be established unless
England acquires the credit here to
grant it.” .
“Can the Ways and Means Com
mittee take action to prevent for
eign governments from floating loans
here which would be reloaged to
other nations for the promotion of
trade?” Representative Kitchin was
asked.
“We have no jurisdiction in a case
of private transactions. The most we
could do would be to express our Op
position to such action by Americans
if the committee would come to the
conclusion that private loans of the
nature mentioned was detrimental to
American interests,” Kitchin said.
Startling Testimony
. . .
Promised in Bribe Case
John Henry Harden of Cherokee
County, alleged illicit distiller, was
held Wednesday in default of $3,000
bond on a charge of attempting to
bribe a federal agent. Herbert Clay
of Marietta, retained by Harden as
counsel, declared his client could
provide ample defense and produce
evidence that will startle government
officials.
Harden recently finished eighteen
months in the Federal Penitentiary
for illicit distilling, and within a few
days after his discharge he was ar
rested Monday on the bribe charge.
He was already under indiztment on
charges of distilling and removing
whisky. The present charges will be
presented to the federal grand jury
for the April term.
Dr. Coad Expected to
. .
Fan Fight on 801 l Weevil
A more determined offensive
against the boll weevil is expected to
follow the lecture of Dr. B. P. Coad
in the hall of the House of Repre
sentatives at 11 o'clock Monday.
Governor Hugh Dorsey has sent out
about 150 invitations and the meet
ing will be well attended by cotton
men.
Dr. Coad and his assistant, T. P.
Cassidy, are experts from the Bureau
of Entomology, department of agri
culture, and are especially versed in
the use of calcium arsenate in de
stroying the ball weevil. Dr. Coad
in his lecture will summarize the re
sults of his experiments and will
show just how the poison can be
used to the greatest advantage to the
cotton planter.
Turns Burglar on Parole;
.
Resentenced for Life
MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 17.—
Following conviction in Montgomery
Tuesday on two charges of burglary,
Tom Hoffman’s parole was revoked
by Governor Kilby Wednesday and he
has been recommitted to the State
Penitentiary to serve out a life sen
tence.
Hoffman was convicted in the Ma
con Circuit Court and sentenced to
life imprisomnent. He began serv
ing the sentence in October, 1911, and
was paroled in 1919.
Buford Freight Agent
.
For the M. and M. Line
Curtis Buford, formerly with the
Central of Georgia Railway, has
been appointed traveling freight
agent of the Merchants! and Miners'
Transportation Company, with of
fices at 603 Austell Building, asso
vilm%with .. D. Jones, commercial
agent® The offices of the line, closed
for two years, have been reopened.
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ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1920
Chairman of House Committee Is
Confident of Success
of Program.,
By WINDER R. HARRIS,
Staff Correspondent Universal Service
WASHINGTON, March 17.—The
American navy by the end of 1924 will
be the equal of that of any other
nation, Representative Thomas 8.
Butler, Republican, of Pennsylvania,
chairman of the House Naval Affairs
Committee, declares.
“Taking it all around,” he added,
“our sea force by that time will be
the heaviest and best improved in the
world.”
Chairman Butler explained that he
did not mean that the United States
would have as many'naval vessels as
Great Britain, but by rounding out
the fleet with such light craft as rec
ommended by Secretary Daniels, he
said, “our navy will equal that of
England in value and strength.”
What the American fleet will lack
in numbers, according to Mr. Butler,
will be more than made up in big
guns and heavy armor.
These comparisons, it was ex
plained, are formulated on the pol
icy of the British government not to
undertake any further enlargement
of her naval establishment.
APPROPRIATION DECIDED.
Chairman Butlfr made the forego
ing statements after the completion
by the Naval Affairs Committee of
the 1921 naavl appropriation bill,
which carries $104,000,000 for conf¥n
uing construction on the 1916 building
program. Construction under this
program was suspended during the
war, and the committee now has de
cided to spread it over four years
instead of three. About $360,000,000
additional will be needed to complete
all the ships.
With the completion of this pro
gram, Mr. Butler declared, the United
States will have forty-seven ships of
the first and second line. Twenty
eight of this number will be first ves
sels and none of them more than six
vears old. England, he’said, will have
sixty first and second line ships,
many of them nearly, obsolete and
others having seen hard service in the
world war. Japan will have twelve
first and second line vessels.
Included in the American fleet will
be six giant battle cruisers, the most
powerful warships in the world. They
will be 850 feet long, weigh 40,000
tons, have 180.000 horsepower, a speed
of 331-2 knots and carry 16-inch
guns. 1
340 DESTROYERS. g
The TUnited States will have 340
destroyers. which number will be
about 30 less than Great Britain will
have, but, the Naval Committee
chairman explained, most of the
American destroyers will be practi
cally new and the most modern in the
world, while those of England will be
much older and many of them @&
relatively bad condition as the re
sult of their strenuous service during
thf war. |
‘There will be in the world at the‘
end of 1924 continued Mr. Butler,
“less than 120 battleships. If the
United States goes into the League of
Nations, the league will have at least
109 of these ships, with but a tew]
others to oppose them in time of war |
“If the league has any value what
ever, therefore, reductions in arma
ments then ghould be a simple mat
ter. We are not going to fight among
ourselves, are we?"”
The bill. which will he reported out:
today, ecarries appropriations aggre
gating $425.290,574.
Fulton Has Record
. . .
Voting Registration
The number of voters registered
for the county presidential primary
April 20 is expected to_ be known
the end of this week, Re}istrar Lu
agien Harris announces.
Mr. Harris and his clerks were
busy compiling the registration,
which closed Saturday night, and
which was declared to be the biggest
job the office has ever tackled. It
was regarded certain the total regis
tration would reach 22,000, and it
was expected that it might even go
to 25,000. Even a total of 22,000 will
be the greatest in the history of the
county.
All duplicates must be weeded out
and the registration arranged by
wards before the total figures v%ll be
known.
9 Ne
Ruth’s Diary Is
Lesson in Morals ».
Mrs. W. H. Hart, president of the Illinois Federation of Wom
en’s Clubs of Chicago, has read the diary of Mrs. Ruth
Randall, the Chicago beauty who killed herself after shoot
ing Capt. Clifford Bleyer to death,
“The diary of Ruth Randall,”” #ays Mrs. Hart, ‘‘shows most
foreibly to my mind the truth of the old saying ‘‘No one is
altogether bad.” One can not fail to be impressed by the
recital of her early struggles to preserve her good name
and character, The diary contains many lessons.
““In this case, as in many others, we are clearly shown the
folly of any attempt at a double standard of morals. A
single standard of right living for men and women is the
only way to prevent such iragedies as this.”’
““Ruth’s Diary’’ will appear in installinents in The Georgian
and Sunday American beginning Thursdag, March 18.
Even Houdini
Couldn’t Flee
Amerongen
(By International News Service.)
T{E HAGUR, March 17.—
Houdini couldn’'t escape
from Amerongen these days.
Seventy-five guards were on
duty about the castle Wednes
day and these are augmented
by secret service agents from
many Europan countries inter
ested in the movements of Wil
helm.
German hydroplanes hovering
near the Isle of Wieringen,
where the crown prince is in
terned, were warned away by
Dutch officials.
(By International News Service.)
GRAND RAPIDE, Mich.( March 17.
Judge James O. Murfin ended his
closing addresss for the defense in
the Newberry trial today. The real
issue of the campaign, he declared,
was the question “whether a militant
red-blooded man should be sent to
the United States Senate or a pussy
footing pacifist.”
Just before noon Attorney Martin
Littleton, chief of defense counsel, be
gan his closing address, the final
word for Senator Netwberry and his
eighty-four political followers. His
speech was expecetd to occupy the
remainder of the day's session.
Following Judge Marfin was James
M. Helme, charged by the govern
ment with having run against Henry
Ford in the Democratic primaries as
an obstructionist candidate in the
empoy of Newberry interests.
“'m proud of that title of obstrue
tionist, because 1 kept Henry Ford's
name from going on both tickets”
Helme declared. “I had more cour
age than sense. It's a wonder I did
not get my head kicked off.”
.
Carmen Sign Contract
.
With Power Company
' T4nal settlement of differences be-
Ttween the Georgia Railway and
Power Company and its motormen
and conductors came Wednesday
‘when the 1920 contract of services
was signed by representatives of the
company and the men.
| The contract includes als per cent
}increase in wages for conductors and
!motormcn, which was the figure
granted by the wage arbitration
‘board. The increase is to be com
[puted on the hourly figures of 36,
' 38 and 40 cents as allowed by the war
labor board in 1920.
~ The contract did not include the
closed shop provision, one of the
points for which the men were con
tending. It did not include several
other deminds, among them certain
Sundays off and annual vacations.
The contract called for time and a
half for over time. Student motor
men were granted an increase of five
cents an hour, Shop and barn work
ers are to receiev a 15 per cent wage
increase. Roadway and maintenance
foremen ar to be compensated ,on a
straight salary basis for a sixty-hour
week, with time and a half for over
time,
AR LRI O R é
.
Live Stock Agents of
.
Southern Appointed
Changes in the development serv
jce and live stock service of the
Southern Railway System, both
working toward development of the
live stock industry, were announced
here Wednesday., J. C. Williams,
manager of the Southern's develop
ment service, has named H. C. Bates,
G. W. Humphrey, J. D. Moore and C.
C. Prescott as live stock development
agenis to cover the entire Southern
territory, working under the direction
of Roland Turner, general agricultu
ral agent, Atlanta. |
The following appointments in the
live stock - department were an-i
nounced by Executive General Agent
E. C. Gatewood: N. Moore, aaslsmntl
general agent, Rectortown, Yo Bk
Word, general live stock agent, At
lanta; V. A. Slaughter, live stock
claim agent, Washingten, D. C.: C. L.
Shepherd, Alexandria, Va.; J. w.
Houston, Birmingham, Ala., and R. 8.
Taylor, Cinecinnati, Ohio, live stock
route agents; R, L. Humphrey, chief
veterinary surgeon, Rectortown, Va.:
F. R. Butz, assistant chief veterinary
surgeon, Cincinnati, Ohlo. |
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DAYLIGHT SAVING.
BOSTON, March 17 —The Massa
chusetts Hoige Wednesday passed to
a third x'audlfi: the bill tu allow day
light savin gin this State. The vute
was 136 to 44. |
Woman Who Figured in Nelms
Mystery Will Be Tried
Again.
The release from the State prison
farm at Milledgeville next Tuesday
of Mrs. Ida May Innes will not mean
freedom for the woman principal in
the great Nelms mystery of a few
vears ago. Instead, she will be taken
into custody immediately on a fed
eral warrant, based on an indictment
returned by the United States grand
Jury in 1915, and again must stand
trial for the part she nlayed in the
disappearance of Mrs. l.ois Nelms
Dennis and Miss Beatrice Nelms.
This was made known Wednesday
by government ¢ ‘thorities, who pre
pared to serve the warrant,
United States Marshal Claude Bond
said that Mrs. Innes, unless she is
able to make bond, will be brought to
Atlanta and confi 'd in the Tower,
‘pendlng arraignment in the United
States Court. The federal warrant
fcharges Mrs. Innes with complicity
‘with her husband, Victor E. Innes,
‘Portland, Oreg:, lawyer, in the misuse
}ot the United States mails in fleec
ing Mrs, Dennis of her fortune. Let
ters from Innes to Mrs. Dennis re
lating to money deals were incor
porated in the indictment.
The term served by Mrs. Innes on
the State prison farm was imposed
in the Fulton Criminal Court, she
having been sentenced to serve three
yvears on a charge of larceny after
trust in connection with the alleged
swindle of Mrs. Dennis. She was
given some time off of her term for
good behavior.
Innes was convicted of a similar
charge and was given a term of seven
years. He is servi-g his sentence in
the Oakland convict camp in this
county.
The trial of Mrs. Innes on the fed
eral charge will be held in Atlanta.
~ Innes and his wife were brought to
Atlanta for trial after they had_ been
acquitted in an Antonio, Tex.. of a
charge of murdering the Nelms sis
ters. The State at that time was un
able to prove the actual death of the
girls, according to the requirem nts
of the Texas criminal laws. Both sis«
ters were declared to have disap
peared in San Antoni , the prosec :»
tion contending that they had been
slain in a bungalow, occupied by
Innes and Mrs. Innes, and their
bodies then destroyed with acid. |
Manget Announces New
.
Egg and Lard Prices
A new schedule of maximum prices
on eggs and lard was announced
Wednesday by John A. Manget, Geor
gia fair price commissioner, effect
ive Thursday. A maximum of 42
{ cents was placed on eggs from whole
saler to retailer, and 50 cents a doz
en from retailer to consumer, the
grade being fresh country guaran
(teed. The commissioner sald cash
merchants are selling the same eggs
as low as 43 cents a dozen.
Pure leaf lard from retailer to
consumer must not cost more than
27 cents a pound, bulk basis, or
'dered the commissioner, who said
|cash merchants are selling lard as
|low as 23 cents a pound. On both
‘eggs and lard, he advised watching
‘advertisements. The communication
lconoluded:
“Irish potatoes are very high and
prices are irregular, so we make no
list for a few days. ‘Advise consum-~
ers doing without for few days, then
watch ads for lowest prices.”
Interlocutory Decree
For Mrs. Daniel G. Reid
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, March 17.—~Mrs. Mar
garet Carrere Reid today was granted
|an (ntcrlcmi;r_v decree of divorce
from Daniel G. Reid, multimillionaire
"‘tin plate king"” by Supreme Court
iJuatice E. R. Finch. Reid had first
brought suit for divorce against his
wife, but failed to put in an appear
‘snce when she filed a counter claim.
‘RBoth had charged ‘“unfaithfulness.”
' Nn alimony was granted, as a
financial settlement had been made
by Reid. |
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Probers of U. S. Grain
Board Authorized
WASHINGTON, March 17.—~Ap
pointment of a subcommittee to in
vestigate the activities of the United
Rtates CGrain Corporalion. growing
out of findings of the federa, grand
jury at Spokane, Wash,, was author
izc! late Woidnesday Yy the Sente
Manufacturers’ Committee.
Senator LaFollette, chairman, will
name five members to conduct the
investigation,
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MEXICO BARS AMERICANS.
MEXICO City, March 17. ( via
Galveston.)—-The Mexican govern
ment has refused permission to elev
en Americans, members of the As
sociation for the Protection of Amer
ican Rights in Mexico, to enter the
country. |
SHOE PROFIT PROBE. |
WASHINGTON, March 17.—Inves- |
tigation of profiteering by shoe man- |
ufacturers and dealers is provided in'
a resolution reported favorably by
the Senate Manufacturing Commit
tee Wednesday.
NO. 207
Bryan Says
lsirties \)’\r’ill
Back Dry Law
(By International News Service.)
WASHI.\'L]TO.\’. March 17.—
William Jennings Bryan
does not expect prohibition to be
an issue in the coming presi
dential campaign.
“I do not expect prohibition to
be an issue, because I am con
fident that both parties will put
dry planks ir their platform and
nominate candidates pledged to
enforce it,” Mr. Bryan said here
Wednesday.
(By International News Service.)
PARIS, March 17.—President Paul
Deschanel is one of the greatest
orators of the day in France, but he
is always suffering from a kind of
“stage fright” when he rises to make
a public speech. In a letter to M,
Ajam, deputy from the .Sarthe. de
scribes his sensations as follows:
! “The waliting is awful. I always
lfeel ill before I go to the tribune. But
once there 1 feel a relief. All the
same every minute is perilous. In
the chember, just as on the battle
field, it needs only a minute to win
or lose. It is victory or the guillo
tine.”
Endowed with all the gifts of the
orator, a majestic presence, sonorous
{nnd extraordinarily clear voice, im
peccable delivery and diction, M.
Deschanel has never failed to im
press his listeners. He is less of a
4ebater than his predecessor, M.
Poincare, which is probably due to
tha fact that his function as presi
‘dent of the chamber, which position
‘he held for many years before his
}elevatlon to the chief magistracy,
forbade him from taking part in the
‘debates of Pariiament.” Morecover, he
has confided to M. Ajam that he
lacks the gift of certain* orators
with whom ‘“the gesture precedes
the word and the word the thought"
For M. Deschanel it is abselutely
necessary to think deeply before
epeaking.
~ “For me,” wrote M. Deschanel to
his friend, Ajam, “there is no such
thing as improvisation. It is not
that 1T am obliged to write my
speeches, but 1 must undergo a cer
tain mental operation. I must ar
range my thoughts in logical se
quence. Without a fixed plan it is
impossible for me to speak. I do
not actually decide what words or
expressions I shall employ. I ar
range merely the plan, The rest
comes as I am speaking, according to
the actual circumstances in which
the speech is delivered or the time I
have for my discourse. |
“I have noticed a curious fact.
Very often the clearness of my pro
nunciation ¢*ves the illusion of ab- ‘
solute correctness of language. I say
illusion because it has happened that
[ have had to correct faults of syntaxl
when I have révised my speeches for
The Journal Officiel. Friends have
remarked to me: “Oh, you have
nothing to correct in that speech™
But I have found several times not
only slight imperfections of syntax
but a faulty choice of words or ex
pressions. And always the r‘learness|
of my pronunciation covered up thel
mistakes. |
“Once 1 have my plan in mind i
take long walks. The movements of
waiking aids that of thought. The
best speeches—l am speaking of |
prepared speeches, not parliamentary
outbursts—are those which one hasi
‘urned over in his mind during a
#alks in the country, without the
aid of pencil or paper. The words |
live and walk with you."” i
Dutch Queen Grants
- - .
Kaiser Resident Rights
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, March 17.—Queen Wil
helmina of Holland has published an
Lofficial decree granting to the former
German kaiser the right to reside in
| Holland, it is learned here.
20 Sailors Are Burned
When Tank Explodes
(By International News Service.)
| PENSACOLA, Fla., March 17.—
Twenty sailors suffered frormm burns
ilunt night when a gasoline tank
aboard the United States cutter
Camden exploded while at anchor
here. |
RECALLS HOOVER’'S LETTER.
WASHINGTON, March 17-—~Her
bert Hoover has made “the most lu- |
cid indictment of the President's po
sition” on the treaty question, Sena
tor Borah declared in the Senate,‘
referring to the letter Hoover wrote
to the President cautioning himi
against intermingling in internation
al affairs.
IRISH FLAG FLOWN.
MILWAUKEE, Wis.,, March 17.—
The flag of the Irish republic was
flown Wednesday under the Stars and
Stripes on the flagstaff over the City
Hall. Mayor Hoan, who ordered the
flag flown, said that was permissible
inasmuch as the Belgian flag was
flown in Milwaukee recently,
ASK 30 YEARS FOR BERGDOLL. |
NEW YORK, March 17.—-—Thirtvi
years' imprisonment was demanded
for Grover (i, Bergdoll, wealthy Phil- '
adelphia draft dodger, wmnttor-:
nevs for the government b sum
ming up the prosecution’s case.
Sports
Finance
Comics
SECOND
NEWS
SECTION
Issue Rests With Executive Com
mittee, but Women Are
Sure of Victory, '
Women’'s suffrage in the forthcom
ing city primaries appeared uncertain
Wednesday. The matter rests with
the City Democratic Executive Toma
miftee, and there seemed no dispo
sition to take it up at present, said
Chairman W. H, Johnson. Women
leaders are confident they will win
'their cause, while members of the
committee are reticent,
l At the last meeting of the city ex
| ecutive committee a motion to permit
|thc women to vote in the primaries
was presented, but before it could be
approved the committee voted to
adjourn.
So the committee will have to take
ithe matter up at the next meeting
]or refer it to the voters at the next
'!:rimarirs. which action in itself
;would disfranchise the women for
| voting in the prim .ies. ¢
| "I am sure that the women of At
{lanta will vote 'n the city’s prima
ries,” stated Miss Eleanor Raoul, am
executive in the League of Women
Voters. “It is evident that the fed
,erab amendment will be ratified by
]the majority of the States in time for
;the presidential election., The men
|of Atlanta will not be so ungallant
ias to refuse the women of the city
‘the opportunity to vote in the city's
primaries.” ’
l. “l have not been asked by the
| members of the executive committee
to call a meeting,” -explained W. H.
Johnson, chairman of the committee.
“Until such a time, nothing can be
{done. It all rests with the commit
tee. T can not say whether or not
the committee will permit the women
to vote,”
| Miss Raoul, however, contended
[that a gentieman’s agreement exists
|between the committce and the
iwomen voters and that the majority
jof the committee have pledged them
|selves to permit the women to vote
{in the city primaries, 0
! The autcome until the next meet
|ing of the executive committee re
| mains very uncertain.
l i
.
| Grand Officers at .
- .
| K. T. Inspection
| Joseph K. Orr, grand master of
‘Knights Templar of the United
| States, and Alva C. Atkins of Cor
idele, eminent commander of Georgia,
| were the prominent visitors at the
{annual inspection of the Atlanta
Commanedry No. % at the Masonic
Temple Tuesday night, It was the
orinion of the grand officers pres
ent that probably no better ritualis
tic work had ever been put on in
CGeorgia, and poth My, Orr and Mr.
Atkins, were received with the
henors,
Charles M. Marshall. the candidate
on whom the wirk was demonstrat
|cd, had the honor of being appointeéd
i & Knight of tke Tempic by Grand
Master Orr. Mr. Atkins, eminen
State commander., declared th
[sl-landid work of the Atlanta Com
mandery had been a revelatioy to
him. Among the officers of othyw
commanderies present were €. W,
Hepderson, eminent commander of
Knight Templar a!t Carrollton, and
| Judige D. A. . Crum, prelate of (bhe
| coramandery at Cargele. Plans for
| the demonsiration wlre arranged Iy
CFravk A Caudell, eminent command
| er of tha Atlanta Cinamandery, and *
' his assisiart, Perry 1. Blackshear.
- Pallowing Lo creinonies t'.3
ceremonies the kniglts repairel fa
' the divinz ha! i the basemert,
iw!vorr. under the «iro j.on of Ms.
James M. I"uller, suvter was sery .
'1 bty :
Frank T. Reynolds to
| Talk on Good Roads
By request of the good roads com
mittee of the Atlanta’ Woman's
Club, Frank T. Reynolds. represent
ing the Georgia Association of Coun
ty Commissions, will address them
Thursday afternoon at 3 o'ciock in
their club rooms at 946 Peachtree
street. He will then resume his
'Statewide tour cn behalf of the con
'stitutiona! amendment now pending
in the Georgia Assembly which pro
‘vidos for a bond issue of $50,000,000
for berter highways over the State.
1 Beginning Wednesday Mr. Rey
nolds will address the citizens of
'Dade County in the courthouse at
Trenton. He will speak Friday at
'Sylvania, Screven County, and Sat
urday at Millen, Jenkins County.
Held as Draft Evaders
.
~ On Return From Brazil
NEW ORLEANS. March 17.—
George Ball, 32, of Norfolk, just ars
rived from Brazil, and C. R. Talia
ferro, 27, of Prescott, Kr., just ‘from
Buenos Aires, were arrested by the
department of justice Wednesday,
charged with evading the draft. Both
declared they did not know they had
to register, Ball saying he was in the
interior of Brazil and did not know
there was a war until he reached the
coast last month. He had been in
Brazil since 1914, Taliaferro left this
country February 17, 1917, :
ROADS DECLINE RETURN.
WASHINGTON, March 17 --Severs
al of the larger lailroads are expect .
ed not to aceept the- government
“standard return” for the period of
gix months after the retirn, of (hs
ros:ds te private nwnership, it was
loarnad a: the Interstate Comuaaroe
Commission. The roads have @ op=-
tion of accepting this return, ‘