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THE NORTH GEORGIAN
(SUCCESSOR TO THE NORTH
GEORGIA BAPTIST.)
Entered at the postofflce at Cum
.filng, Ga. f an eecond class matter.
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Every man would be a hero it he
could, declares Ram’s Horn.
Tell a girl she is as pretty as a pic
ture, sneers the New York Times, and
she will make a bee lint; for the pho
tographer’s.
An lowa women’s club has started
a crusade for the protection of lob
sters. The dramatic department sug
gests the Washington Herald, will
probably push the movement.
A New York woman, the wife of
Martin W. Littleton, is making an ef
fort to substitute the Bible for bridge
in socviety. That is what we are al
most prepared to call a hopeful symp
tom, remarks the Rochester Herald.
In discussing the problem of the
assistant professor in American uni
ersities, in Science, Professor Guido
11. Marx, of Stanford university, says:
"The rapid ip-crease in the cost of
living in the last twenty years has
made the situation acute; for there
lias been no general increase of sal
aries commensurate with this, and as
a consequence these men find them
selves driven to a lower and lower
standard of living. This is a grave
menace to the efficiency of the insti
tutions, both present and future, for
it must not be forgotten that the
highest ranks must be recruited from
time to time from men whose develop
ment has necessarily been limited by
the conditions surrounding this rank.”
Impure milk is not cheap at any
price, inserts the Boston Herald.
Protestants against the board of
health order requiring all milk re
tailed to be sold in bottles must find
some argument other than the conse
quent advance in price with which to
combat this health regulation if they
would suceed. There is lit ye use in
enforcing sanitary regulations as tot •
the handling of the milk supply from
the time of production, through col
lection and the earlier phases of dis
tribution if in the final and widely
scattered distributing centres, more
difficult of supervision than the cen
tral depots, the supply is allowed to
be kept in open receptacles, to be
dipped out and handled with no pro
tection against disease germs. If the
milk supply requires protection that
protection should be maintained un
til it reaches the consumer.
Those who speak and write on the
subject of justice in the abstract al
ways associate it with expedition.
Justice that is needlessly delayed is
not complete. Justice that is too cost
ly is deficient. Justice must be
prompt as well as equal, exact and
cheap, insists the New York World.
A protest is made by his lawyer be
cause a young man charged with a
murder of peculiar atrocity is to be
placed on trial in New York less than
three weeks after the date of the
crime. Yet, if justice only is the end
in view it would be difficult to pre
sent a good reason why the case
should not be passed upon at once.
The fact that the State is ready indi
cates confidence on the part* of the
authorities that they can establish the
prisoner’s guilt. Delays for months
or, as sometimes happens, for years
are apt to result in the loss of im
portant testimony and so perhaps in
the defeat of justice. President Taft
has said more than once in the last
two years that “the administration of
criminal law in this country is a dis
grace to civilization.” “There is de
lay in civil cases also,” he has said,
‘‘and it always works to the disadvant
age of the poor.” Delay is the great
est fo eof justice, criminal and civil.
Every lawbreaker fights for it, know
ing that he has something to gain
and nothing to lose by it. Every
powerful man or interest fights for it,
knowing that time and expense may
exhaust the weaker adversary. There
is no injustice, therefore, in bringing
speedily to trial men accused of crime.
It is the first and one of the most
necessary steps toward true justice.
COTTON DEALERS INDICTED;
MAN! MILLS MENTIONED
Dills Returned Against Patten
and Seven Other Factors.
INDICTMENT CHARGES CONSPIRACY
Alleged Many Southern Cotton Mills Entered
Into Contract to Bull Cotton Market
Five Counts Are Mentioned.
New York City The government
came out in the open in its attempt
to prove that manipulating the cot
ton market is against the law. James
A. Patten of Chicago and seven les
ser figures in the speculative field
have been indicted, charged with con
spiracy in restraint of trade under
the Sherman anti-trußt law. The in
dictment was returned by a special
federal grand jury and handed up be
fore Judge Hough in the United States
circuit court. Five of those indicted
—Patten, Eugene B. Scales, Frank B.
Hayne, William P. Brown and M. K.
Rothschild —gave bail of $5,000 as re
quired through counsel. For the oth
er three who were neither present
in court nor represented by lawyers
bench warrants were issued. ’they
are Sydney J. Herman, Robert M.
Thompson and Charles A. Kittle.
Immediately after the indictment
was announced there was an excited
break on the New York cotton ex
change.
Five counts are embraced in the in
dictment which is in blanket form and
contains 10,000 words. The first count
charges that the defendants unlawful
ly did conspire with certain corpora
tions not herein indicted to “demand
arbitrary, excessive and monopolistic
prices for cotton.’’ The firms men
tioned as co-conspirators, though not
included in the indictment, are as fol
lows:
Alabama —Avondale Mills, Birming
ham; Central Mills. Sylacauga; Enter
prise’ Mills, Enterprise; Montgomery
Cotton Mills, Montgomery; Prattville
Cotton Mills, Prattville.
Georgia—Anchor Duck Mills, Rome;
Catton Cotton Mills, Canton; Elm City
Cotton Mills, LaGrange; Exposition
Cotton Mills, Atlanta; Flood Cotton
Mills, Rome; Grantville Hosiery Mills,
Grantville; Habersham Mills, Haber
sham; Lawrenceville Manufacturing
Company, Lawrenceville; Lois Cotton
Mills, Douglasville; Milstead Manufac
turing Company, Milstead; Newnan
Cotton Mills, Newnan; Roswell Manu
facturing Company, Roswell; Sybley
Manufacturing CompanY,. Augtrsta if
Bcottdale Mills, Atlanta;' Trion MamF
facturing Company, Trio*; Unity Cot
ton Mills, LaGrange. t
North Carolina —Cannon Manufactu
ring Company, Concord; Heriett Mills,
Caroleen; Mecklenburgh Manufactur
ing Company, Charlotte.
South Carolina —Aiken Manufactur
ing Company, Bath; Belton Mills, Bel
ton; Brandon Mills, Greenville; Capi
tal City Mills, Columbia; Easley Cot
ton Mills, Easley; Glenn Lowery Man
ufacturing Company, Whitxnier; Gran
burg Cotton Mills, Columbia; Green
wood Cotton Mills, Greenwood; Gren
del Mills, Greenwood; Jackson Mills,
Iva; Ijancaster Cotton Mills, Lancas
ter;’ Langley Manufacturing Company,
Langley; Monaghan Mills,Greenwood;
Olympia Cotton Mills, Columbia; Ot
taray Mills, Union; Pelzer Manufac
turing Company, Pelzer; Piedmont
Manufacturing Company, Piedmont;
Richland Cotton Mills, Columbia; Riv
erside Manufacturing Company, An
derson; Saxon Mills, Spartanburg ;
Seminole Manufacturing Company,
Clearwater; Toxaway Mills, Ander
son; Union Buffalo Mills Company,
Union; Williamstown Mills, Williams
town; ’ Woodruff Cotton Mills, Wood
ruff; Woodside Cotton Mills, Green
ville.
Describing the inside workings of
the alleged conspiracy, the indictment
says that the conspirators were to be
come members of and engage in an
unlawful combination in the form of
an agreement, under which they were
severally to purchase for shipment
from the south to ship to New York
all cotton not directly absorbed by the
demands of foreign and domestic spin
ners and manufacturers in the ordin
ary business course—in other words,
as much as they could purchase from
day to day without seriously enhanc
ing the price, but nevertheless to such
an extent that together they would
long before the end of the crop year,
have so much cotton in their posses
sion in the city of New York that they
could, '"by reason of the abnormal and
artificial condition thus produced in
said trade and commerce, severally
demand arbitrary, excessive and mo
nopolistic prices.”
RAILROAD BILL SIGNED.
Bill Amending Interstate Commerce
Now a Law.
Washington, D. C—President Taft
signed the railroad bill. The bill is
in accordance with the president’s
message demanding amendments to
the interstate commerce laws. The
only exceptions are that it does not
legalize holding agreements made by
railroads, permit mergers or regulat
ing the issuance of stocks or bonds.
It creates a commerce court, and also
broadens the scope of the jurisdiction
by the commerce commission and
brings telegraph, telephone and cable
companies within that . jurisdiction.
Supervision is given to the commis
sion over increases of rates.
GOVERNOR FORBIDS FIGHT.
Jeffries-Johnson Battle Will Not Take Place
in State of California.
San Frnacisco, Cal Stirred to ac
tion by insistent protests from all
parts of the state, Governor James
N. Gillett took steps to prevent the
championship fight between James J.
Jeffries and Jack Johnson, scheduled
to be held in this city July 4th.
in a letter to Attorney General U.
S. Webb, the governor expresses his
disapproval of prize fighting in un
measured terms and directs that the
aid of the courts be invoked to pre
vent the match and concludes with
a positive order that in case the plea
for a restraining order is not grant
ed and the fight is held, the attorney
general proceed to gather evidence
and prosecute the principals
San Francisco, Cal.—Tex Rickard
announced to the Associated Press on
rceeipt of a telegram from Morris
Sullivan of Goldfield, Nev., that the
Jeffries-Johnson fight would be held
there July 4. Sullivan guaranteed
$120,000 to the promoters.
"Sullivan is an old friend of mine
and absolutely dependable,” said
Rickard. ‘‘l have no details, hut i
know the man. You can announce
that the fight will go to Goldfield.”
Reno, Nev.—Despite the fact that
Tex Rickard positively stated tnat the
Jeffries-Johnson fight would be held
in Goldfield, Nev., the sporting world
is unconvinced. There is a lingering
suspicion and a strong one that Reno
will be the battleground.
Carson City, Nev—That the law or
Nevada would permit the Jeffries-
Johnson fight in this state, was the
statement made by Justice Sweeney
of the supreme court, when the
question was put to him in the ab
sence of Governor Dickerson.
GROCERS DENY WRONGDOING
President of Southern Grocers’ Asso
ciation Makes Statement.
Jacksonville, Fla—J. H. McLaurin,
president of the Southern Wholesalq
Grocers’ Association, expressed great
surprise that federal prosecution
should be taken against the associa
tion by the federal authorities. Ho
was aware that several parties ip
Washington were trying to intereslj
the attorney general in the prosecu
tion, but he stated it was evident
that the attorney general did not real
ize the true reasons for the activities
of the parties trying to bring on the
suit. Mr. McLaurin believes that the
sole purpose of their action was to
further individual litigation now pend
ing in the courts at Birmingham and;
elsewhere, in an effort to influence
public sentiment.
"The allegations of the present com
plaint of the United States as report
ed in the newspapers,” continued Mr.
McLaurin, "are wholly incorrect and!
can be proven so. The Southern
Mfholesale Association is
sitnply an association for social and
legitimate business purposes, like the
National Wholesale Grocers’ Associa
tion, which covers the northern states,
retails grocers’ associations, cotton
growers’ associations, fruit growers'
associations and like associations
which exit in practically every busi
ness and occupation in the country,
and unless they are all held to he il
legal and in violation of the acts of
congress, I do not think that the
Southern Wholesale Grocers’ Associ
ation will be held to be so.”
NO ICE TRUST INVESTIGATION
Atlantic Ice and Coal Corporation
Not to Be Probed at Present.
Washington, D. C.—No report will
he made at this session of congress
on the resolution of Representative
Clark of Florida, directing the depart
ment of justice to make an investiga
tion into the “acts and doings” of the
Atlanta Ice and Coal Corporation.
In explaining the object of this res
olution, and his reasons for asking
congress to take action in the premi
ses, instead of making complaint di
rectly to the department of justice,
Mr. Clark said: “Robert Gamble or ;
Jacksonville, Fla., appealed to me to
take this action to keep him from be
ing crushed by the Atlanta concern.
It seems that Mr. Gamble was, given
the alternative of joining the Atlanta
combine and accepting stock in the
Atlanta Ice and Coal Corporation, or
have them as competitors in his own
field. He asked to be permitted to
examine the hooks of the Atlanta cor
poration, to aid him in making a de
cision. This was refused him, and he.
was told he must accept stock for.
his property to the amount of its val
ue, as appraised by Mr. Woodruff.
Therefore, he decided to fight the cone
bine which is trying to crush him.”
Newsy Paragraphs.
In New York the report was pub
lished that a $100,000,000 corporation
was being formed to combine some
sixteen companies engaged in making
bathtubs and to be known as thq
“bathtub trust.” Jobbers already
have signed contracts.
About $10,000,000 worth of
are smuggled into the United States
annually, according to a statement
issued by the Importers’ Protective
union, which has just offered to pay
rewards of $2,500 and up for informa
tion leading to the arrest of offenders.
Robert Hunter, the noted author of
“Poverty,” who married into the
wealthy Stokes family of Norton,
Conn., has accepted the socialist nom
ination for governor in Connecticut
and says he will conduct an aggres
sive campaign, with speakers of na
tional requtation. Stimulated by his
party's success in Milwaukee, Hunter
says; “It is not a far cry from a city
to a sts.te, and the success in Milwau
kee will be duplicateed in many states
within the next few years.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
iS WELCOMED HOI
Ex-President Given Great Recep
tion in New York City.
REFUSES TO TALK POLITICS
Col. Roosevelt Reiterates Desire tJ d:ep Frost
Public Gaze--Hc Will Tour Country
in the Fall.
New York City.—Theodore Roose
velt set foot on home shores for the
first time in nearly 15, months, and
received a hearty welcome.
He bore with his usual buoyancy a
day of heavy fatigues, pubiic. duties'
and private emotions commingled and
after a family reunion left, the city
he had surveyed from afloat, reviewed,
in parade ashore and greeted by ex
plicit word of mouth, to be welcomed
more intimately by his lifelong neigh
bors at Oyster Bay, Long Island.
Asa private citizen, he was the
same outspoken, vigorous man of both
words and deeds the city of his birth
had known for 30 years as assembly
man, police commissioner, assistant
secretary of the navy, colonel of the
Rough Riders, governor of the state,
vice president and president of the
nation, and more latterly ambassador
to the jungle and monitor to those
who sit in the seats of the mighty.
He had an expansive smile for ev
erybody, a cheery word for ‘‘the boys,”
his old friends, the newspaper men, a
pat and anecdote for the politicians
and especial greetings of affection for
liis old command, the Rough Riders
The first zest o,f public curiosity,
speculation, now turns on what ‘share
Roosevelt will take in an acute po
litical situation within his own party.
But on that score speculation must
rest unsatisfied. The colonel positive
ly declared his intentions. ‘‘l have
nothing whatever to say in the im
mediate future about politics.”
It was the policy he had announced
on his departure for Europe, which
he had reiterated on his return to
civilization, and to which he had
steadfastly adhered in all his address
es before the learned societies and
universities of Great Britain and tlie
continent.
Therefore, there was nothing in tne
only speech he made here that could
he construed as applying specifically
to this or that phase of immediate
state or national issues.
Oyster Bay, N. Y. Sunday was
Theodore' Roosevelt’s first day of rest
in months. The return to privacy is
a delight to him, and he made it
known that it was his desire to drop
just as far out of public sight as the
public will let him. In the autumn
he will make a tour of the country.
WEATHER FAVORS COTTON.
Excessive Rainfall Has Delayed Crop
in Georgia and Carolina.
Memphis, Tenn—The Commercial-
Appeal publishes this summary of cot
ton crop conditions:
The past week was favorable to the
cotton crop except in the two Caro
linas and parts of Georgia, where the
rainfall was excessive, washing the
fields and delaying cultivation so that
grass is formed. North Carolina fields
were damaged by flooding. Elsewhere
it appeared that a week of bright
weather will repair much of the loss.
The crop has not grown rapidly,
and is still small for the season. The
plant generally looks healthy, how
ever, and would grow very fast with
high temperaturse day and night. In
many sections where there are com
plaints, correspondents anticipate
much better reports next week if the
weather is warm. It would seem that
a week of dry weather would put the
crop in excellent shape as to cultiva
toin throughout the south.
In Texas the soil is dry, but as yet
little hurt has been received. Moist
ure is needed, however, to stimulate
plant growth. 801 l weevil does not
appear numerous, although in Mis
sissippi and some sections of Louisia
na they are more so. In general dry,
warm weather is needed in east Tex
as and Oklahoma, while rains would
he beneficial in these two states.
Montgomery, Ala. —Heavy rains ot
the last week have retarded the cot
ton crop somewhat. In some places
the plants were washout out. In oth
ers, where replanting was necessary
because of the April cold, the plant is
small, and grass is thick. It has been
so damp that it was impossible to
work the fields, but the last few days
of hot, dry weather will do much to
restore normal conditions. Tlie stand
throughout Alabama is good and plan
ters expect an average crop. A fea
ture of this season is the great
amount of land planted in corn. A
bumper crop of corn is expected.
9 KILLED IN STORM.
New York City Swept by Terrific Wind
and Rain Storm.
New York City. Nine deaths,
scores of injured and incalculable
damage to shipping and shrubbery in
New York were among the results ot
the severest rain and wind storm that
has visited the city in months.
Of the long list of injured a dozen
or more probably will die. They were
struck by falling trees or poles, by
cornices blown from roofs or other
heavy objects hurled through the air
by the force of the 60-mile gale.
The streets ran rivers and thou
sands of persons who had left homes
to see the Roosevelt parade were
drenched.
ADVICE TO FARMERS.
Ten Things That Shoull Done On the Farm
During This Month.
1. Keep tne cultivators going. Level,
shallow, frequent cultivation is what
Hie crops need at this season. Dont
cut t.ic corn and cotton roots by deep
plowing.
2. burnt cowpeas, soy beans, velvet
brans, peanuts -some legume that will
work twenty-four hours a day for you
gathering nitrogen, making money
md building up the land. Put in
stubble lands not otherwise employed
as soon as the oat or wheat crop is
taken off.
3. Save all the crimson clover seed
possible. If no clover huller is avail
able, the seed can he beaten out by
hand and sown in the chaff.
4. Get the mower in good running
order. See that all bolts are tight.,
the knives sharp, the guards on
"straight and the hearings well oiled.
A mower is a splendid weed killer
as well as a necessity in the hay
field.
5. Plant late corn and potatoes.
Keep up a succession of garden crops,
beans, tomatoes, sweet corn and oth
er vegetables should tie planted this
month. Fresh vegetables are cheap
er and better tnan meat or store
bought foods.
6. Spray the apple trees again with
Bordeaux and Paris green and the lave
peaches with lime sulphur. Plow out
the first year strawberry beds ana
plow up the old ones.
7. Look after the work stock. Cut
out some of the corn these hot days
and substitute cotton seed meal, oats
or peavine hay. See that there is
enough shade and water as well as
grass in your pasture.
8. Fix up a bathroom of some sort,
so that you can free yourself from
dust and perspiration at the close of
the day. It will prove invigorating,
add to your sense of dignity and en
able you to do better work.
9. Keeep up the warfare against
flies and mosquitoes and so help ward
off typhoid fever and malaria. Screen
the doors and windows, drain the
stagnant pools and look after the
breeding places of the flies.
10. Prepare for the Farmers' Insti
tutes in your section, and if there are
no Women’s Institutes in your state,
keep after your officials until they are
started.—Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive
Farmer and Gazette.
BIDDING FOR EXPOSITION.
New Orleans and San Francisco Want
Canal Celebration.
Washington, D. C.—‘Both San Fran
cisco and New Orleans must raise
$7,500,000 before they can hope to
receive government endorsement for
their expositions in celebration of the
completion of the Panama canal.
The house committee on foreign af
fairs decided not to invite foreigi
nations to participate until these con
ditions were complied with.
Prior to the executive meeting of
the committee a representative of San
Francisco argued that his city has
raised more than $6,000,000 by public
subscription and wanted to raise the
limit on the Kahn resolution to $7,500,-
000. A member of the committee hur
ried outside and talked with Repre
sentative Estopinal of Louisiana.
“Will New Orleans meet that
amount?” asked Estopinal.
“Yes,” replied Estonjinal, “we have
already raised $6,000,000, and can ea
sily obtain the lest.”
If both cities raise the sum at the
same time the question is then to be
presented to the president for his de
cision, in which event it is not im
probable that he will designate both
cities to hold expositions.
CHILD LABOR REPORT.
Use of Child Labor in Cotton Mills
Worst in South.
Washington, D. C.—The bureau of
labor of the department of commerce
and labor has completed its investiga
tion of the subject of the employment
of women and children in the cotton
textile industry of the country as
carried on in six southern and four
New England states .
The total number of cotton mills
investigated was 198, located as fol
lows ;
Maine, 7; New Hampshire, 7; Mas
sachusetts, 22; Rhode Island, 10; Vir
ginia, 4; North Carolina, 59; South
Carolina, 36; Georgia, 31; Alabama,
13, and Mississippi, 9.
These states had in 1908 85.8 per
cent of the total cotton spindles in
the United States. Among the south
ern operatives the concentration of
the lower age groups is more striking
in New England, because of the em
ployment of children at 10 and 13.
Of the 143 establishments visited in
the five southern states, having child
labor laws, 107 employed children un
der legal age.
These 143 establishments employed
9,126 children under 16 years of age,
and of these 753, or 8.3 per cent, were
under 12, the legal age. This was
1.64 of the total number of employes.
Charlotte Gets Farmers’ Meet.
Texarkana, Ark —Secretary Davis of
the National Farmers’ Union announc
ed that the next convention of the
union would be held at Charlotte, N.
C., September 16 of this year. St.
Louis, Atlanta, Denver, Memphis and
Atlantic City were among the other
cities which bid for the convention.
Professor Harris Acquitted.
Manassas, Va —“ Not guilty,’’ was
the verdict of the jury, rendered in
the case of Professor J. D. Harris,
former principal of the Warrenton
High School, who was tried here on
the charge of having murdered W. A.
Thompson, associate editor of The
Warrenton Virginian, on the streets
of Warrenton, Va., in April, 1909.