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y 1 u 4 m CPt > \w 4 §1.00 A YEAR. HOT WEATHER IS PROVING TOO MUCH FOR THE SOLONS IN WASHINGTON. MAY FINISH BY JUNE 15 It is Expected That the Reciprocity Bill Will Be Passed Within the Next Month. Washington.—Although the special session of congres is but little more than a month old, talk of adjourn¬ ment has already become general. Re¬ publicans in both branches have been hinting that a recess during the hot weather would not interfere with leg¬ islation, while many Democrats in the house are beginning to believe they will be through with all they care to enact of their legislative program within another month. High temperature experienced in Washington servetl to stimulate in the Democratic representatives more in¬ terest in the summer resort matters tnan in tariff questions. For several days they have been considering the possibility of getting through for the / summer by June 15. SECRETARY DICKINSON QUITS Henry L. Stinson of New York New Secretary of War. Washington.—Secretary of War Ja¬ cob McGavocck Dickinson of Tennes¬ see, the Democratic member of Pres¬ ident Taft’s cabinet, has resigned, and Henry L. Stimson of New York, re¬ cently defeated Republican candidate for governor of that state, has been given the war portfolio. In the letters exchanged between the president and Mr. Dickinson, no reason other than that of pressing private affairs is given for the sec¬ retary’s retirement. •Mr. Diekiuson will go to his 'Ten¬ nessee home immediately upon the qualification of his successor. He ex¬ pects to devote his attention to busi¬ ness and will not return to the prac¬ tice of law in which he was. engaged FORMER WAR SECRETARY AND HIS SUCCESSOR. < T M A m y. SSSKs \\\\wSi ---JACOB M. DICKINSON Ml A y' s’ . s * . VI u HENRY L. STIMSON. when President Taft appointed him secretary of war in March, 1909. Coincident with Mr. Dickinson’s re¬ tirement came the announcement of the appointment of C. S. Millington of Herkimer, N. Y., to be assistant treasurer of the United States in New York. Mr. Stimson was the Roosevelt candidate for governor, while Mr. Mil¬ lington was a former member of the jiouse from the Twenty-seventh close friend New of York district and is a Vice President Sherman. In the two appointments official Washington lound food for speculation and many politicians thought they saw therein the first step qf the administration to straighten out the tangled skein IIOM EKVILLE, G-EOHO-IA, FRIDAY, MAY 11), 11)11. COURTING THE PATRIOTIC MUSE 7^ *0> r'-- D V ... "i o' mm 1 >\j / I \\l L. ■ ! £*8 4 t .. (Copyright, 1911.) THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS AWARDED FOR THE BEST NA " TIONAL ANTHEM—NEWS ITEM. s HOW RACES VIEW PREJUDICE EXPERTS OF MANY PEOPLES GIVE THEIR VIEWS AS TO CAUSE AND EFFECT. Race Leaders Contribute to a Sympo¬ sium Prepared by New York Unitarian Club. New York.—Race prejudice is view¬ ed from many angles by representa¬ tives of several peoples in a sympo¬ sium prepared by the Unitarian Club of this city. M. Honda, editor of a Japanese newspaper, declares that “if the pres¬ sure of a few thousand Japanese threaten your country, it does not speak well .for your civilization. The best way to kill race prejudice is not to speak of it or pay any attention to it." • . - ■ • - *' ' “If we Jews," says Dr. De Sota Pool, “have any feeling against the Christian it is because you do not live up to the teachings of Jesus." As for the Italians, Prof. Alberto Peconini, director of the Italian-Amer- ican Civic League, says: “The chief reason of prejudice to the Italian in the United States is because a certain type of criminals have been advertised. Yet there is less percentage of crime among the Italians than among the other races.” Dr. Booker T. Washington, for the negroes, declares that “race prejudice in the South is growing less every day.” MADERO NAMES HIS CABINET Provisional Capital of Mexico Estab¬ lished at Juarez. Juarez, Mexico.—Mexico’s provis¬ ional government became an estab¬ lished fact with the naming of a cab¬ inet by Francisco L. Madero, Jr., the president of the provisional govern¬ ment, and with the establishment of a capital at the captured city of Jua- lez. The cabinet follows: Dr. Vasquez Gomez, minister of for¬ eign relations. Gustavo Madero, minister of finance. Venustiana Carranza, minister <of war. Frederico Gonzales Garza, minister cf the interior. Pino Suarez, minister of justice. Juan Sanchez Azeona, secretary to the president. Secretary of War Carranza will have charge of the railways and tele¬ graph, and his first act was to grant permission for the repair of the Mexico Northwestern railroad. A gang of men immediately set to work on the torn roadbed south of Juarez. Gonzales Garza will have charge of tile mail service, and Secretary of the Treasury Gustavo Madero will direct the affairs of the custom house. That the insurrecto army is more than an armed mob was shown in the complete absence of looting and of intoxication and the quickness with which the shattered city was cleared of its dead and wounded. The em¬ bargo against visitors was removed, and curious sightseers in thousands poured across the bridges leading from Ela Paso. White Slave Story. Atlanta, Ga.—A particularly har¬ rowing story of alleged white slave traffic is told here by Nellie Lewis, a pretty 17-year-old girl, who says her home is in Winston-Salem, N. C. The girl dedarees that she has been carried from city to city for Ihe past several weeks by H. M. Burt of South Carolina and Oassie Cobb of Winston- Salem. She says that the couple have kept her in a state of bondage. In the various cities she was made to lead a life of shame to support the man and woman. THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CLINCH COUNTY. ALMOST PERFECT PHYSICAL CONDITION OF W. <9. A. RY. IS FINE ACCORDING TO COMMISSIONER CANDLER. PROPERTY WELL CARED FOR No Railroad in the State Shows Up Better Than Western and Atlantic. —Atlanta. j|. Railroad Commissioner C. Murphy Candler is authority for the state¬ ment that the physical condition of the state road, now under lease of .the Louisville and Nashville, is well t tjigh perfect. WILL FIGHT BOLL- WEEVIL Grocers Will Use Their influence With Farmers Urging the Planting of Early Cotton. Atlanta.—Declaring that the 4 sale grocers of the South have had nothing to do with the "high cost of living," H. A. Forchheimer of Mobile, Ala., vigorously defended J e the ^ South- ^ era Wholesale Grocers’ Association, In a paper which proved to be the fea- ture of the convention of that body, Which is now holding its twentieth an- nual „ . convention , in this city. At . ,, the same meeting lion, T. G. Hudson, com- niissioner of agriculture of Georgia, enlisted the help of those present against the further encroachment the boll weevil, which he characterize ed as the most serious economic prob4 lem with which the South iq. cob fronted. : “ 1 ' Mr. Forchheimer began his paper by repudiating the attacks made by certain papers of the South charging the members of the Southern Whole¬ sale Grocers' Association with boost¬ ing the prices of provisions when the pioducer was selling them at the usual cost. “This is a malicious falsehood,” he said. “We have had nothing more to do with the high cost of food prod¬ ucts than we have had to do with the high cost of other commodities. As 1 analyze matters, the high prices that have prevailed have been due to four causes—the tariff, trusts, drastic leg¬ islation and the well-known Americaii extravagance.” Resolutions against the parcels post act now before congress were unanimously passed by the Southern Wholesale Grocers’ Association. This matter was considered so urgent that unanimous consent was given to the proposal to consider it by the body at large instead of having it pass first through the usual channels of the resolution and the legislative commit¬ tees. GERMANS NAME OFFICERS Next Saengerfest Goes to Jacksonville, Florida. Atlanta.—The German Saengerfest came to a close with a ball in Taft hall. The meeting of the German so¬ cieties of the South Atlanta League has been a great success, and the visit¬ ors and the citizens of Atlanta have enjoyed the affair more than they have any similar occasion of the kind that has taken place in the city in a long while. The convention at the Turn Verein hall, after transacting routine busi¬ ness, selected the following officers: Honorary president, C. II. Toussaint, Savannah; president, F. H. Hanne, Jacksonville; secretary, Fred Bach¬ man, Jacksonville; treasurer, C. Brickwedel, Jacksonville; attorney, John D. Cappelmann, Charleston; first vice president, J. H. Moellering, Sa¬ vannah; seond vice president, G. Mau, Atlanta; third vice president, G. Ste- cher, Tampa; fourth vice president, A. Morgenstern, Charleston; fifth vice president, Th. Winter, Brunswick, Ga. It was unanimously agreed to hold the next Saengerfest at Jacksonville, probably in April of next year. Bail Is Denied McNamara. Los Angeles.—The application ol John J. McNamara, for the fixing of hail on the charge of dynamiting was disallowed by Superior Judge Bord- well without prejudice and with leave to renew it at any time. Washington.—The American Feder¬ ation of Labor issued an appeal for funds for the defense of the McNam¬ ara brothers, in jail in Los Angeles for dynamiting. The appeal for funds states that the accused labor leaders are in jail as a result of a “vindictive spirit ot persecution.’’ During the present week Commis¬ sioner Candler had occasion to go to -the upper part of the state to inspect a depot at Hooker in Dade county. % order to get there he had to pass through Chattanooga. In order to note the condition of the Western and At¬ Commissioner Candler rode Gil the rear of the train both going to and returning from Chattanooga. iW’hile Commissioner Candler will no written or formal report to the commission regarding his inspec- lion and views concerning the state Property, he will tell his fellow twnmissioners about it at some eatly UKieting in an in f orma i way. . -.. The physical condition of the Wes- tern and Atlantic is well nigh per- feci," said Commissioner Candler in ^cussing the matter. “I wish to say I have seen no road in the state in ni) , var j ou8 trips over many of them i n such good condition generally as this property of the state’s. I think tW| people of the state should kuow |o*tJK }U>? by e11 the their lessees, property who is deserve being kept the commendation tor doing so. fh 011 pays a very high tiibute to McCollum of Atlanta, superin¬ tendent, and declares that it is his belief that ‘much of the credit for the splendid condition of the road is due lo the efficiency of Major McCol- huh." This semi-official statement from one of the most conservative mem- hers of the railroad commission will go far toward correcting the idea ob¬ taining in some quarters that the les¬ sees are allowing the state road to run down, particularly as the ques¬ tion of another lease must come up soon. School Levy Act Decision. The first decision affecting the act of August 13, 1910, which authorized municipalities to levy and collect a special tax for the support and main tenance of public school, was decided by the supreme court. Brunswick held an election under this act and t o-thlrda of the voters favored the levy of one-tenth of one per cent, for the maintenance and support of the public schools of that city. The mayor and city authorities were proceeding to collect this tax, when A. S. Deaver, a tax payer, sought an injunction to prevent it. The judge granted the injunction, lidding that the act was inapplicable to Brunswick, The supreme court re¬ versed this decision and declared that the judge was in error to grant the Prior to the passage of this special act municipalities had the right to levy a school tax, but could not do SO without the enactment of meas- ures providing machinery for so do¬ ing. In order to remove this difficul¬ ty the general assembly passed a gen¬ eral measure, which gave cities the right to make the levy when two¬ thirds of the registered voters record¬ ed themselves favorable to the plan. State Farm Is Prosperous. R. E. Davison, chairman of the pris- on commission, has returned from a trip of inspection to the state prison farm at Milledgeville. “The work on the new prison build¬ ing is progressing rapidly," said tHe chairman, “and we will have it com¬ pleted and ready for occupancy by the first of August. “The farm is in splendid condition, and Superintendent Burke is getting things in shape for planting the crops. We expect a larger harvest this year than we have ever had, and it seems that in every particular the farm is to have one of the most suc¬ cessful years in its history." Weevil Threatens Georgia An insect, believed to be the boll weevil or an equally destructive pest, has appeared in Tattnall county, and is destroying the cotton crops in the vicinity of Claxton, Ga. Prof. L. O. Howard of the Federal bureau of en¬ tomology, in Washington, lias been furnished with several bottles, contain¬ ing specimens of the insect. He hopes to classify the bug shortly, and imme¬ diately the Federal department of ag- VOL. XV. XO. 30. will co-operate with the Georgia state agricultural authorities in trying to exterminate the pest. Representative Charles G. Edwards of the First district conferred with Entomologist Howard with reference to the insects, and urged upon him the necessity of speedy action if the cotton crop of Georgia is to be saved Professor Howard agreed to co-operate with State Entomologist Lee Worsham of Georgia, and it is not unlikely that experts from the department of agri¬ culture will proceed immediately tc Tattnall county to enlist in the fighl against the bug, J. M. S. Conyers of Tattnall county who supplied the Federal entomologist with specimens of the bug, states in his letter: “The farmers say that at the rate these insects have Worked in this im¬ mediate vicinity it will not take them a great while to destroy the entire cotton crop in this section of Georgia "Several healthy fields of cotton have already been destroyed by the bugs, and many of the farmers have abandoned them. The insects bore into the middle of the cotton stalks, which soon die and break off.” It is regarded as unfortunate that the classification of the insects is un¬ known. It is sincerely hoped that i* is not the boll weevil, but from the information at hand the experts fear that it may prove to be a new pest equally as destructive as the Mexican insect. McLendon Wants Senatorship. S. G. McLendon, former chairman ol the Georgia railroad commission, an¬ nounces his candidacy for the United States senate in the declaration print¬ ed below. Mr. McLendon does not specify a preference as between election of sen ators by direct vote or by the legisla¬ ture. The inference has been public¬ ly stated that he is indifferent on that point. Following is Mr. McLendon’s an¬ nouncement: "I believe the people desire an open and dignified discussion of those great .questions which most nearly affect tlieir material well-being, and which are wholly are partly subject to public control. I believe they desire as their representative in the senate that man whose knowledge of the Constitution aud .history of our country qualifies him to discharge the duties of the of¬ fice in a manner creditable to himself and his constituents. 1 believe they de¬ sire and need one whose knowledge of transportation, the tariff and a world commerce, equips him for an intelli¬ gent discussion, protection and pro¬ motion of the highest and best inter¬ ests of this country on these subjects, i have a desire to discuss these things before sober-minded men with all the decorum their importance demands, and all the propriety of speech good taste could suggest. 1 believe a ma¬ jority of the people of Georgia will approve my views, for I shall proclaim the protective policies and principles of Jefferson and Madison and Monroe. “I am therefore a candidate for the senate. If I have not ‘misunderstand¬ ing of the times to know what Israel ought to do,’ my public utterances will disclose this fact. I ask the people to hear ine, not for my cause, but for theirs; for I shall speak on lines more to establish the truth and advance the welfare of my country than to win a personal triumph." Following the announcement of his candidacy for the United States sen¬ ate, S, G. BcLendon has submitted to Governor-elect Hoke Smith a chal¬ lenge for a series of joint debates in case the governor aspires to the sen¬ atorial office himself. Mr. McLendon has already invited Senator Terrell and W. A. Covington to join him in a series of joint dis¬ cussions. Wright May Be Candidate. According to rumor current at the capitoi, Comptroller General William A. Wright will very probably be a can¬ didate for governor in case the result of the senatorial election by the legis¬ lature should cause a vacancy in the gubernatorial office. When asked about the rumor, Gen¬ eral Wright declared that it was news to him that he would be a candidate for the office, or that he had even considered it. It was reported, how¬ ever, that several of General Wright’s friends will urge him to enter the race for the office of governor. Weevil Cowpea Variety. Dr. E. L. Worsham, sttae entomolo¬ gist, is daily in receipt of letters from south Georgia and oftentimes speci¬ mens of the insect, which Is just now doing damage to young cotton, which, many fear, is the boll weevil, but which he has recognized as the cowpea pod weevil. This weevil, while it is doing some damage to the growing cotton, is not so destructive and dam¬ aging as the boll weevil and only lasts a few days when it does appear. The first notice of its advent came from- Cordeie; a second notice came from Claxton and still others arrived later. Doctor Worsham states that cowpea pod weevil generally attacks a field which the year before had been plant¬ ed with cowpeas, aud the insects were left there, then, but this does not al ways follow. TAFI DISAPPOINTED OPINION OF THE COURT IN DI- RECT OPPPOSITION TO VIEWS EXPRESSED BY TAFT. WHY HARLAN DISSENTED Opinion Seems to Be That the Cour< Reversed Itself in the Standard Oil Decision. Washington.—Governmental Wash¬ ington in all its branch—legislative, executive and judicial—gave over tha greater part of a day to a discussion of the Supreme court’s disposition of the Standard Oil case. While there was much gratification in administration circles over the or¬ der for the dissolution of the giant cor¬ poration, which had been declared “an unreasonable combination and monop¬ oly in restraint of trade, there un¬ questionably was also some misgiving as to the interpretation of the anti¬ trust law giving to courts tile right to determine whether or not a monop¬ oly was “reasonable’’ and declaring a “reasonable” monopoly not to be in controvention of the statute. President Taft, who a little more than a year ago, in a special message to congress declared that under Su¬ preme court precedents there could be no such things as “reasonable” and “unreasonable” restraints of trade, or in other words “good trusts” and “bad trusts,’’ was said to have been rather keenly disapointed that the court should have seen fit to revrese itsell in this important matter. President Taft's message was freely quoted about the capitoi, and tha seeming similarity of his views to tha expressed view by Associate Justice Harlan in his dissenting opinion, at¬ tracted renewed attention to Justice Harlan’s position as outlined in his statement to the court. Justice Harlan held that his brother judges had no right to usurp the func¬ tion of the legislative branch of the gofernment^by writing into tills stat¬ ute a differentiation between “reason¬ able" and “unreasonable.” He de*' Glared that congress had resisted all appeals to so amend the act, and that there was every reason to believe that .such an amendment never could be put through the legislative branch. Justice Harlan declined to be a par¬ ty to such a reversal and hence his dissenting opinion. He denounced as “the most alarming tendency of the day” the tendency to judicial legisla¬ tion. Men of power, he said, always were trying to get the court to do what congress would not. A $50,000,000 BOND ISSUE For Expenditures on Account of the Panama Canal. Washington.—Secretary MacVeagh invited popular subscription to a $50,- 000,000 issue of government bonds to reimburse the treasury general fund for expenditure on account of the Pan¬ ama canal. Treasury officials expect the loan will be larg ly oversubscribed, and in distributing the new securities, the government's announced intention is to to smaller The new securities will be at 3 per cent, interest, payable quarterly; will be free from all national, state or mu¬ nicipal taxation, and will be in denom¬ inations of $100, $500 and $1,000. They will be dated June 1, 1911, and will be payable in fifty years. By provision of law the new bonds will not be available to national banks as the basis of circulation. Inasmuch as they are the first the United States ever has issued with such a restric¬ tion, much interest is attached to the price they will bring. According to the law, they cannot be sold at less than par. Inasmuch as the postal savings bank law fixes the par value of a postal bank bond bearing 2 1-2 per cent, in¬ terest at $100, it is agreed that 3 per cent. Panama canal bonds must bring more than par. How much more is con¬ jecture, The estimates range from slightly above par to 103. Checks and postal orders will be ac¬ cepted for the new bonds—something which never has been done before. Al¬ though the Issue is designed for pri¬ vate bankers, national banks which bid for the bonds will be allowed to deposit them as seccurity for govern¬ ment deposits. Solons Sought Bribes. Columbus, Ohio.-—Senator Edgar T. Crawford and Representative A. Clark Lowry, Republicans, and Representa¬ tive Owen J. Evans, Democrat, were indicted by the grand jury for bribe soliciting. Crawford is elleged to have asked $200 from W. H. Cook, secre¬ tary of the Ohio Butchers and Gro¬ cers' association, in connection with trading stamp legislation. Evans is alleged to have solicited a bribe of $650 from the Stark-Tuscarawas brew¬ eries for his vote on one of the city local option bills.