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The Heart of the South.
Grand Opera City of Dixie.
Georgia’s Educational Center., |
The “Pinnacle City” in Climate. |
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VOL. XVIII
SPARTACIST MOVEMENT IS SPREADING
'RUTH RANDALL’S DIARY REVEALS WORKINGS OF HER SOUL;
FINAL ACTION ON PEACE TREATY SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY
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First Part of Young Wife’s Diary
Shows Gradual Alienation of
Differing Temperaments, ‘
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Dramatis Personae. |
(In the Diary of Ruth Randall.)
RUTH VAIL RANDALL, graduate
of a Chicago high school and mat
riculate of University of Chicago,
who, planning death, wrote a record
of her unhappy life.
- NORMAN BROWN RANDALL, her
husband, whom she loved until he
neglected her.
LESLIE HART, Randall’'s chum,
who sympathized with the wife and
became her witness in the divorce
suit. He loved her and wanted to
marry her—but ' : A
CAPTAIN CLIFFORD BLEYER,
whom Randall introduced to her, lay
siege to her affections, won her, cast
her aside and then died by the pistol
which took her own life. &
By The Rev. W. H. CARWARDINE.
CHICAGO, March 18.—I have been
permitted to read the diary of Ruth
Vail Randall, who has been accused
of having slain Capt. Clifford Bleyer
and herself. I consider it a great
moral lesson. I am glad to present it
to the readers of the Atlanta Geor
gian and Sunday American, for I be-
Jieve it tells more of what a young
husband or a young wife should
know; more that a young man oOr
woman on the threshhold of marriage
should know; more that a father or
mother should know than any single
document I have ever read.
Ruth Vail, in death called a vam
pire, was one of the most accom
plished and charming of the school
girls of her age. She was bereft
through her parents’ divorce, of the
training a young girl should have. She
married a boy of her own age at less
than 20—too young to know what
is demanded of the marriage state,
too inexperienced to support her,
Her story provides its own moral—
the human document follows:
THE DIARY:
1 this be read some reason may be
found for what I have done.
RUTH RANDALL.
La vie est vaine,
Un peu d’amour
Un pen de haine,
Bt puis bonjour.
A translation of this follows:
Life is vain,
A little love,
A little hate.
And then—good-by.
DIARY OF RUTH RANDALL.
Account of my husband and self,
each day from December 1, 1911, to
September 13, 1916, and beginning
June 20, 1917, Clifford Bleyer and
myself,
WANTS CONSTANT PETTING.
“December 1, 1911—Just a month
today I have been living in this dear
flat. Norm was out at Hawthorne
and T at my easel drawing. Bought
four picture frames,
“Every night for a week he has
come home dead tire,
“After kissing me dutifully he goes
to sleep with my head on his arm.
One night there was no arm offered;
not even a god night kiss. I turned
over and wept myself to sleep. Oh,
I wish my husband knew how much
I want to be loved. I tell him, but
he does not realize that I mean 1
must be petted every minute he is
with me,
He loves me, though, in his abrupt
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24-Hour{ 10d sl Tnivensa: News | Service
East Point
Thy Virtu
y Virtues
Are Many!
The Georgian has received the sub
joined poem entolling the virtues and
joys of Atlanta's sister city:
EAST PQINT.
There is a place called East Point,
A famous place of some renown, .
Just down the A. and W. P. Railroad
Seven miles South of Atlanta town.
The people are all social and clever—-
As clever and social as can be;
They meet together often
And have a jubilee.
They study famous men.
Those to the world best known—
And in their social number
‘They boast of one of their own,
We have a clever mayor
And council true and tried,
Whose laws are made for keeping
And must not be defied.
Such things as fuss and fighting
Are seldom ever seen.
And scraps between her neighbors
Are few and far between.
And when it comes to stealing
They know not what you mean,
Because they have a record
That's albsolutely clean.
The unidn in her churches
And Sabbath schools as well,
Just shows the Christian spirit
In which her people dwelis” "
To those who want a nroma
Where peace and pleasure dwell,
We know no place like East Point
Where they can do as well
Written by Joseph H. Cook, Cook
Construction Company, 124 East Tay-"
lor avenue, East Point, Ga.
Great Britain Making
Huge Loans to Poland
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 18.—Great
Britain is making huge loans to Po
land, according to cabled advices to
day from Hugh Gibson, American
minister at Warsaw.
An extension of credit of 26,000,000
pounds has been made to Poland by
Great Britain to finance the purchase
of British goods, the cable said, and
another loan of 300,000 pounds has
been made to pay transportation
charges on 100,000 tons of flour
bought by Poland from the United
States Grain Corporation.
A report that Great Britain has
loaned Poland 800,000 pounds to buy
British merchant tonnage is uncon
firmed. -
Chile Asked to Prevent
Bolivia-Peru Outbreak
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 18.—Chile
was today asked to act as an inter
mediary between Bolivia and Peru
to prevent an outbreak between
these two countries, facing a crisis.
Under Secretary of State Polk
conferred today with Chilean Am
bassador Don Beltram Mathieu and
asked hi mto urge his government to
take steps to preserve peace between
Peru and Bolivia.
Atlantan Lands
Patriotic Line
You remember the Limerick
about the British and the
American ‘‘kale’’—don’t
you?
An Atlantan gets over the
““best last line.”” And he
gets fifty dollars in gold
by calling today at The
Georgian and asking for
the linterick editor.
It was a fine opportunity
for all patriotic Ameri- |
cans, and it drew a lot of
“‘last lines.”’
There’s an easy one in The
Georgian today for the
limerick fans to complete,
And the reward for the
““best’’ is fifty in gold.
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Atlanta’s Sunday Laws Rapped as
‘Narrow’ by Chamber’s Speak
~ ers—New City Form Pushed.
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Less rigid Sundays laws, taxation
of property on a basis of the income
it produces ahd a more modern and
efficient city government were rec
ommended Wednesday afternoon at
a group meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce by prominent business
men gathered to make suggestions
for the 1920 program of the organiza
‘tion.
~ The first two recommendations
came from Nat Kaiser and the latter
ifrom Alderman Harry Goodhart, who
offered a mass of statistical informa
tion showing the relative merits of
the systems of governmént in At
lanta ard Birmingham. |
f{ervey Laird presided over the‘
meeting and Forrest Adair followed
his introductory remarks with a sho_g;J
talk in which he urged membeunti
the chamber and Atlantans generally
to get tqgether on a concerted pro-1
gram. He declared the tax system
to be too widely separated with in
dications of becoming even more so
if the school board is permitted to
levy taxes separate from the city,
county and State.
Mr. Kaiser said Atlanta’'s Sunday
laws were too narrow-minded. He
said Atlanta heads are trying to run
a big city on a small town basis and
he urged more liberality in Sunday
laws to allow more harmless amuse
ment to people whose day of rest
would be made more enjoyable.
Mr. Kaiser also assailed the pres
ent tax system, telling of one or
two instances of unequal assessment.l
He said the plan should be revised
so that taxes would be based upon
the amount of income a property pro
duced for the owner. He said the
system now in vogue is working un-{
due hardships on many property
owners, ‘
Mr. Goodhart led a group of sug
gestions that city government retorml
is badly needed in Atlanta. He szudi
the city's resources are sumciently‘
large to care for her needs, but thati
the system of administration doea‘
not permit careful distribution of
the funds. He showed that other!
cities operate on less financial in-i
come than Atlanta and serve a larg-‘
er area with greater facilities. ‘
He said that in 1918 Birmingham
was accredited with a populatlonl
almost as large as that of Atlanta,
but that an area almost twice as}
large as this city was served on less !
expenditure because the city com
mission form of government was used
instead of the old aldermanic form
used in Atlanta.
He said the need for better streets,
better schools and other improve
ments mentioned during the cham
ber conferences are all subservlem‘
to the adoption of a new city charter
improving the form of government. |
“A charter which will give the city
a businesslike form of government
and one not subject to the hand of
the policitian with his bickerings and
inefficiences is needed now,” he said.
“It is not the City Hall crowd so
called that is subject to criticism,
but the system under which they are
forced to operate and the thousand
and one disadvantages they are forcedq
to bear. They do the best they can
under the circumstances and it is up
to the people of Atlanta to change
the conditions so the city can ad
vance.”
'~ He emphasized the fact that a,
certain element would bitterly oppose
any changing in the form of govern
ment because they like the political
‘business which is inspired by the al
dermanic form.
W. D. Manley said the public
should be called into a mass meet
ing and told of the conditions exist
ing and they would take steps to do
away with a wasteful form of gov
ernment which was not producing the}
desired results for the majority of the
people ‘
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1920
Names Not on Official Ballot
May Be Inserted by Voter.
Rule Regarded as Hooyer Move
Voters of Fulton County may vote
for any candidate for President in
the primary of April 20, regardless
of whetner the name is on the of
ficial ballot, according to a ruling
Thursday by the subhcommittee of
the county Democratic executive com
mittee.
Under, this ruling, supporters of
Herbert Hoover or any other can
didate may insert his name with pen
or pencil on the official ballot and it
will be counted.
BLANK ON BALLOT.
Claude C. Mason, chairman of the
subcommitiee, said a blank will be
left on the official ballot for in
serted names. Managers and clerks
will be instructed to count them,
Committee, Jfidv;éve‘r,"hs another
nquestion, Chairman Mason an
nounced that, should the name of
Herbert Hoover be inserted in the
ballot by a majority of the voters,
his name would be certified by the
ecounty committee to J. J. Flynt,
chairman of the State committee, It
would then be up to the State com
mittee to rule on whether the votes
were valid
COMP FOR HOOVER?
The action of the county commit
tee in providing space on the official
ballot for other candidates will be
received with particular interest, in
view of the action of the subcom
mittee of the State committee in de
clining to place the name of Herbert
Hoover on the ticket, because of his
refusal to declare himself a Demo
crat:
While the announcement of the
Fulton subcommittee was that a
space would be left on the ballot
that the “voters might vote for any
one they might -choose for Presi
dent,” it generally was regarded as a
move to allow Fulton supporters of
Hoover to vote for him, and thus out
wit the State committee in its de
termination to keep his name off of
the State ticket.
Committee Favors
Party Statement
With a majority of replies to ques
tionnaires sent to members of the
State Democratic Executive Commit
tee by Chairman J. J. ®lynt approv
ing the action of the subcommittee
fn requiring presidential preference
candidates to qualify as party mem
bers before their names are placed
on the forthcoming primary ballot,
it is not considered necessary to call
a meeting of the full committee at
this time.
This was decided Wednesday at 4
meeting of the subcommittee held in
the Kimball House. Of the answers
in the hands of Chairman Flynt 48
favor the subcommittee’s action and
8 are opposed. There are yet a score
to be heard from.
Following the conference the fol
lowing statement by Mr. FFlynt and
Hiram L. Gardner, secretary of the
committee, was issued:
At a meeting of the subcommittee of
the Btate Democratic Executive Commit
tee, held at the Kimball House this day,
the following members were present:
Messrs, J, J. Flynt, chairman; Hiram L.
Gardner, secretary; H. H. Dean, Fermor
Barrett, J. H. Milner, T. H. Parker.
The subcommittee proceeded to canvass
the replies from the State executive com
mittes us to their approval or disapproval
of the action of the subcommittec as to
its request upon Hon. H. . Hoover to
qualify under the rules, before putting his
name on the ticket for the presidential
preference primary to be held on April 20,
Replies had been received from fifty
six members of the total seventy-six. of
which forty-eight expressed their unquali
fied approval of the subcommittee's ac
tion, eight expressed thelr disapproval of
that action, and neotice was taken of ex
pressions through the newspapers of dis
approval of two other members, leaving
eighteen members unheard from in any
Wltl‘yr.'m rules adopted by the State Demo
cratic Executive Committee in 1918, which
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Slip by P
y Porter
May Cost Good
Cu)s,tomer Wife
(By International News Service)
CHICAGO, March 18.—An
Ethiopian faux pas, perpetrated
by a Pullman porter is expected
to win a divorce here today for
Mrs. John A. Martens.
Mrs. Martens testified in the
hearing of her case that when
she Iyparded a train with her
husband, often taken by him on
business trips, the porter looked
her over appraisingly and re
marked to Mr. Martens:
“Well, boss, yo' sho’ made a
pretty good pick this time.”
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Perzecution, Neglect and Cruelty
Charged to Him by
His Wife,
(By Universal Service,)
IL.OS ANGELQ,;‘ March 18.—Mil
‘dred Harris Chaplip, vouthful bride
of Charlie. Chaplin, has found mar-
M“’h‘é‘i-“ffim ‘comedian hus
‘band a failure, Mrs. Chaplin today
admitted she will file suit for di
vorce,
And with her confession, made at
her home, 674 South Oxford street,
that she and Chaplin had separated
several months ago, came a story
of heart aches, alleged cruelty, neg
lect and charges of persecution. It
is on one of these grounds that Mrs.
Chaplin will seek ner freedom.
Without cause and so frequently
it has made life unbearing, Mrs.
Chaplin asserts her husband has left
her alone and neglected, while she
waited for him in wvain at home,
finally deserting her aitogether and
making his kesidence at the ILos
Angeles Athletic Cluh.
Several times since, she declares,
he has appeared at her Oxford street
home with declarations that unless
she accepts $25,000 and file suit for
divoree~, in Nevada on “nominal
grounds” he would institute a di
vorce action against her. After these
threats, she said, detectives followed
her constantly from home to studio,
from studio to home of friends, mak
ing inq¢u'ries and making life un
pleasant,
Pleas, she declared were in wvain.
Finally, unable to stand the strain
of persistent worry and the pity of
her friends, Mrs. Chaplin asserts she
placed her case in the hands of an
attorney. The plans for the divorce
action followed,
When informed that her plans had
become known, Mrs. Chagplin, showing
the effects of the strain of trying to
keep her marital troubles a secret,
broke down and wept. She declared
she had hesitated at a divorce be
cause of the publieity certain to fol
low and because of a dislike of taking
the stand and exposing to the gaze
of the world her family secrets.
U. S. Denies Asking
Conference on Russia
(By International News Service.
WASHINGTON, March 18.-—For
eign reports that the United States
had asked a conference March 20
of the allies to discuss resuming trade
with Russia, were denied today by
the state department. ‘
‘Most Pathetic
Story Ever Read.’
That’s what Mrs. Martin Kent Northam, of the State Board,
Ilinois Federation of Women's Clubs, said after she had
read the diary of Mrs. Ruth Randall, the Chicago beau
ty, who committed suicide after killing Captain Clifford
Bleyer. ks
‘“lt contains a great lesson for all of us. . . We can not be
too patient with such girls,”” added Mrs. Northam.
‘““Ruth’s Diary,”’ the first installment of which appears Thurs
day, will be printed in full, daily and Sunday, in The
Greorgian and American. ‘
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Lodge Seeking to Clear All Loose
~ Ends for Decision Tomorrow.
~Senate May Remain Tonight.
By J. BART CAMPBELL,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
WASHINGTON, March 18-—Final
action on the peace treaty by the
Senate is scheduled for tomorrow—
four months® after its firet defeat on
November 19.
By a vote of 27 to 48 the Senate
rejected this afternoon a reserva
tion proposed by Senator Reed, Dem
ocrat of Missouri, that the United
States reserve “exclusively the right
to decide what questions affect its
national honor or vital interests.”
' The Senate took up another reser
vation offered by Senator Reed that
“the United States assmues no obli
‘gation to employ its wnilitary or
naval forces or resources or any
form of economiec discrimination un
der any article of the treaty.”
It was defeated by a vote of 17
to 62.
Senator Lodge, the Republican
leader, served notice he will hold
the Senate in session tonight if nec
essary that the resolution of ratifi
cation may be whipped into final
shape before the end of today’s ses
sion
Under the rules of the Senate, the
resolution would lie over a day, or
until tomorrow. A suspension of
the rules, would, howsver, permit a
final vote on it by tonight.
VOTE SEEN FRIDAY.
Such a vote is not anticipated,
however, until tomorrow.
Senator Lodge plans to get rid of
all pending reservations and amend
ments and of other loose ends at
today’'s session.
Defeat of the treaty for a second
time, despite last hour efforts to
force ratification, is generally an
ticipated on all sides. At least fif
teen Republicans and twenty-five
Democrats are expected to vote
against ratification as a result of
the coalition between the “irrecon
cilables” opposed to the treaty on
any wcondition and administration
senators standing unalterably against
the Lodge reservation program. Only
thirty-three votes are needed to block
ratification.
Tremendous pressure is being
brought to bear by outside influences,
political and otherwise, to compel
ratification.
RESOLUTION EXPECTED.
Defeat of the treaty is expected
to be followed by an attempt to end
the technical state of war still ex
isting hetween the United States and
Germany by the adoption of a resolu
tion declaring peace to be re-es
tablished between the two countries.
A resolution by which the treaty
would be returned to the President
with a notification that the Senate
had failed to ratify it is also con
templated,
Whether the treaty ic ratified or
not, leaders of all factions agree the
moot question of the entry of the
United States into the League of
Nations can not now he kept out of
the eampaign in which the long dis
puted article X is regarded as cer
tain to be out of the big issues,
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A Paper for Atlanta, Giorgia. ‘
and the South
Issued Dadly, and Entered as Second Class Matter at
the PostofMce at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1879
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Kaiser Decreed
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Right to Live
In Holland
(By Universal Service.)
L(nNDO.\', March 18.—Queen
Wilhelmina of Holland has
published an official decree
granting the ex-kaiser the right
to reside in Holland, according
to an unofficial dispatch from
The Hague,
Petition Signed by Lowndes Citi
zens Qualifies Him for
Primary,
The name of Senator James A.
Reed of Missouri will be placed on
the Democratic ballot in the forth
coming presidential preference pri
mary.
Qualification of Senator Reed as
a candidate in Georgia was an=-
nounced Thursday by Secretary Hi
ram Gardned of the State Democrat
ic Executive Committee, after he had
officially acknowledged receipt of a
petition signed by 118 Lowndes Coun«~
ty Democrats asking that his name
be placed on the ballot,
Senator Reed is now speaking in
Georgia and will appear before an
Atlanta audience at the City Audito
rium Monday night at 8 o'clock. He
has been speaking in the southern
part of the ‘State and the petition was
signed by a number of those who
have heard him. ;
The law requires 100 qualified
Democratic voters to affix thelr
names to a petition seeking placing
of a pdesidential candidate’'s name on
the ballot. The Liowndes County pe
tition 'bears sixteen ore signatures
' than is necessary.
Foreign Wireless Toll
Business Up in House
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 18.—~Facil«
ties for wireless commercial and press
message business between this and
foreign countries were considered to
day by Alhe House Merchant Marine
Committee.
Representatives of business organi
zations, publishers, the navy ‘radio
system and of private radio corpora
tions were heard on t(he resolution
passed the Senate authorizing the
navy to econtinue its war time ship
to-ship radio message business and
’lo accept for transmission commercial
and news messages at tolls not less
lthan cost. . |
. The navy in performing this servy
ice, however, is not to invade a terri
tory adequately served by private
radio corporations,
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Judge George Hillyer
Has 85th Birthday
Judge Géorge Hillyer, Atlanta pi
oneer, former mayor and former
member o fthe Georgia Railroad
Commission, was 85 years old Wed
nesday, and still strong in body and
mind. He spent the day at his
home, 568 West Peachtree street,
with children and grandchildren
holding a family reunion at dinner.
Judge Hillyer has for many years
been one of the mogt prominent cit
izens of Atlanta. He helped to re
store the city in the reconstruction
period, was one of the leading spirits
in building the improved city water
works system, and until a few years’
ago took a prominent part in all
civic affairs. He is a veteran of the
Confederate army.
Georgia Republicans
For Wood, Says Pickett‘
Atlanta Republicans were linter
ested Thursday in announcement
that the eighth and ninth district
comvention had endorsed Gen, Leon-‘
ard WObd as the Republican can
didate for President.
Roscoe Pickett of Jasper, chairman
of Republican State executive com-’
mittee, was in Atlanta Wednesday,
and predicted that all Georgia would
go to Wood. The State Republican
Convention will be held in the Capitol
April 7
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Ebert Supporter Takes Military
Control, Claiming Sufficient
Troops to Crush Spartacists,
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(By International News Servica.)
London, March 18.—The Central
News agency circulated a report this
afternoon that Von Kapp, who re<
signed late yesterday as revolution«
ary chancellor at Berlin, has been ar«
rested by the Spartacists. According
{to advices to this agency, comunists
lin Westphalia were attacking both
Ithe Von Kapp and Noske troops.
| The Central News is authority son
the report that ‘the allies are ready
to advance into the neutral zone (ly«
ing just beyond the allied military
lines in Germany), in the event of
further disturbances.
(By International News Service.)
The absence of direct news from
| Berlin overnight left the situation in
obscurity, following the resignations
of Wolfgang von Kapp, the revolu=«
tionary chancellor and General von
Luettwitz, commander of the revolu«
tiofary tWobpe, ' " "> " " ’
It was reported in Berlin that Vord
Kapp had committed suicide, bugt
thig has.not been.confirmed, Nor is
there any confirmation of reports
that President Ebert and Minister of
Defense Noske, of the old constitu«
tional government, have returned to
Berlon frim Stuttgart.
At last reports the Spartacistd
were making ‘desperate efforts ta
control of the German capital and lo=
cal soviets were springihg up
throughout the country. Orders
were given' to call off ‘the general
strike, but how far ‘thig has beeuu'
| obeyed was not known this mornings
'Von Kapp and ,
His Chiefs Flee :
By FRANK MASON,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. 8.
| BERLIN,” March "17° (11 p. m.).—e
Three of the chief leaders of the
revolution—Wolfgang von Kapp,
General von Luettwitz and Colonel
Bauer—have fled from Berlin, it was
learned tonight. Von Kapp and Von
Luettwitz left immediately after
They handed in their resignations to
Vice Chancellor Schiffer (of the old
Ebert constitutional government),
General von Seecht, who was left in
command of the revolutionary
troops, promised to remove them
from Berlin immediately,
The situation is bad. Unter den
Linden, the chief thoroughfare in
Central Berlin is filled with barbed
wire entanglement and manchine guns
The reichswehr (troops supporting
Ebert government) is threatening to
attack the Baltic troops (supporters
of Von Kapp) unless they are with«
| drawn.
| It is estimated that there'are 50,000
' reichswehr in Berlin and environs
Their leaders claim to have enough
'soldiers - to+ erush « thre - Spartacist
movement. Spartacist leaders con
trel the strike situation, however,
Spartacist chiefs called upon Herr
Schiffer demanding the dismissal of
Noske and a revision of the Ebert
cabinet. Leaders of the independent
Soeialists demand the surrender of
all persons responsible for the Von
Kapp uprising so they can be tried
for high treason. They insist thas
ng amnesty shall be declared.
The Communists asked the- de«
mobilization of the reichswehr om
the ground that these troops are re
actionary and untrustworthy. This
request was rejected with the ex«
planation that if the reichswehs
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