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RECORNGROPS AND RATE
RAISE PROMIGE BUSINE:
REVIVAL:CONDITIONS RIPE
By B. C. FORBES.
Accepting as correct the forecasts
¢f a favorable railroad rate decigion
] would predict a genuine revival in
pecurities, in industry, in trade and
in employment, based on these funda
mental facts:
1. America’'s crops promise to be
the most bountiful ever garnered in
this or any other country; their value
will probably exceed $10,000,000.060,
equal to SI4Q for every man, woman
and child in the land
2. A helpful decision by the Inter
gtate Commerce Commission would
have an electric effect upon the coun
try's shattered confidence and would
pre-ipitate a demand for American
gecurities, both abroad and at home,
thus enabling the rallroads to procure
millions of new capital, the expendi
ture of which would set many idle in
dustrial wheels in motion, giving work
to hundreds of thousands of men now
idle and comfort to families now suf
fering.
3. Money rates everywhere are low
—a fact of tremendous underlying
imporiznce.
4. The Wilsor. administration is be
traying nervousness over the havoc
ilts anti-business crusade has wrought
and the expectation now 1s that the
Senate will hesitate to do the Presi
dent’s bidding in regard to rushing
through revolutionary, ill-baked. cha
otic legislation aimed at nnsetting the
nation’s economic machinery.
5. Financiers are counting upon one
or other of these developments and
laying much stress upon them. Either
the Bryan policies will no longer be
attempted by the Administration, or,
if they are, there will be a Republi
can landslide in the fall which will
block further corporation baiting.
6. The inauguration, under its ca
pable management, of the new Fed
eral reserve system, will have marked
gentimental effect, and, later, will fa
cilitate enormous expansion, if not
downright inflation.
7. The opening of the Panama Ca
nal will prove stimulating. |
Securities at Inviting Prices.
8. Good securities are NOT selling
at dizzy levels; the income yield on
fnvestment issues is to-day more gen
erous than can ordinarily be obtained.
save ia times of panic,
Moreover, liquidation has been
drastic, and bad news has lately
failed to shake the market. In Wall
Street parlance, “there is no specula
tive position open.”
9. Surplus stocks of merchandise
everywhere are at an abnormally low
ebb, and a stampede for supplies may
start at any moment.
10. The Supreme Court’s “Shreve
port” decision, curbing the powers of
State comfnissions over even intra
gtate railway trafic and giving the
Interstate Commission sovereign pow
er over the whole flow of railroad
transportation, has greatly relieved
railroad managers, whose life has
been plagued by embarrassing and
1 Dead and 3 Hurt
.
In Georgia Wreck
GREENSBORO, June 12.—1 n a
head-on collision of two freight traing
on the Georgia Railroad at Robinson,
twelve miles east of Greensboro, this
morning, Fireman Fred Harris was
killed. Engineer Arnold Scott wa3
bruised about the face and head. En
gineer Bob O’'Neal, who jumped from
his engine, suffered slight injuries,
and Fireman Theodore Thompsen
gprained an ankle. L
A tank of oil ignited and burned a
iwo-story dwelling near the track.
Occupants of the house had narrow
escapes from the flames.
2 Visitors Robbed in
Alley Seeking Drink
J. R. Hawring, of Austeil, and G. L
Irby., of Macon, Monday wisncd that
an all-consuming thirst had n s prompt
ed them to follow a negro blind tiger
dewn a dark alley.
The visitors to Atlanta Sunday night
wanuted beer. A negro heard them ex
press the desire. He offered aid. He
guided them down an allcy, in Fddge
wood avenue, where other negroes ap
peared and with pistols as persvaders
mgbc:; the young men of a revolver
an
Marriage Ceremony
Farce, Says Dr. Shaw
PHILADELPHIA, June 15.—De
claring that the marriage service is a
~poll parrot” affair, Dr. Anna How
ard Shaw, the noted suffragist, urged
that the ceremony be remodeled.
Dr. Shaw said that she would not
officiate at the wedding of a bride
swho promised to obey.
' JRISH POTATOES CHEAP.
GADSDEN, ALA., June 15—Irish po
tatoes are % sowest Krlca in
m:l years. are selling the
at 25 cenis & peck
THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS.
often cornfiicting rulings by State
ba}‘ues,
fexico, you will observe, is not
touched upon. Its future is still tod
uncertain to justify deductions one
way or the other,
Business Men to Enter Politics.
Business MEN are now to enter
politics.,
Heretofore Big Business has dab
bled—or dominated—in that field.
There is a significant difference.
Big Business sought to gain its
ends by the use—the abuse—of money,
as the Hearst publications revealed
in the case of Standard Oil, and as
has been abundantly disclosed witd
reference to the Southern Pacific out
West, the New Haven in New Engz
land, etc. That was corruption.
Business men now mean to use not
money, but argumo:nt, logic, educi
tion. They do not intend to work in
the dark, but in the open.
The bane of politice in America
heretofore has been that able, suc
cessful business men, engrossed in
their own affairs and in money-mak
ing, have left the Government to be
carried on for the most part by self
seeking, lightweight politicians of no
experience in the ordinary affairs of
life, men who never demonstrated any
conspicucus ability in administering
their own petty affairs,
As President Vanderlip of the Na
tional City Bank said, “To-day busi
ness is practically unrepresented In
Congress.”
Such a situation does not make for
healthy business, for national pros
perity, for plentiful employment. In
Great Britain, the most successful
business nation the world has ever
known, the members of Parliament
are larerely men who have distin
of industry or commerce, men who
guished themselves in some branch
have demonstrated their fitness !0
handle big protlems and to direct the
energies of large bodies of men.
The new course proposed by our
business leaders, if adhered to with
honesty of purpose and in a spirit of
statesmanship and patriotism, rather
than narrow selfishness, should be
productive of invaluable results, for
we are to-day, and hav: been for
some time, in danger of seeing this
great. rich, viggrous, ambitious coun
try haltered and crippled by the mis
directed activities of neophytes.
Indeed, the full purpose of the in
sidious but insistent anti-business
campaign carried on under the di
rection of certain Washington lead
ers has not -en grasped by the pub
lic. The welfare of the people has
been a motive secondary to the ‘“get
ting even” with the men who have
done more than most politicians in
raising the United States to the hizh
place it now holds among the Indus
trial nations of the earth.
One day the true inwardness of
the Bryan-McAdoo-Williams attack
upon New York and her Dbusin-ss
giants may be laid bare.
Rich Farmer Held
As Distiller’s Slayer
GADSDEN, ALA. June 15.—Har
mon Hill, aged 40, a rich farmer, is
under arrest, charged with the maur
der of Will Tidwell, 2 moonshine op
erator, whose dead body was found
eight days ago beside his still near
Keener, Ala.
Hill was arrested at Chattanooga.
He is said to have tried to induce an
Alabama Great Southern Railway
ticket agent to tell those inquiring
about him that he had bovght a tick
et to some foreign country. Other ar
rests may follow.
Wilson to Fight
WASHINGTON, June 15.—1 t has
leaked out that no trifling issue has
arisen tetween the Southern Democratic
Senators and the President over the
appointment of colored men to Federal
office. The President has laid down an
ultimatum that he will appoint them,
and defies the Southern Senators to do
their worst.
They do not like the war, but are
prepared to resist the President in the
Senate when he makes the nominations,
From Bryan's Home
WASHINGTON, June 15.—A swarm
of eeveral thousand bees descended on
the shopping district of Washington,
demoralized traffic in F street and
caused all sorts of conjectures, political
and otherwise. The bees appeared from
nowhere—just like political beces—and
after circling the White House three
times gettled down a block away.
There was a persistent report that
they came from Lincoln, Nebraska.
20 Pi in R
Igeons 1n hace,
Mobile to Paterson
MOBILE., ALA, June 15 —Twenty
homing pigeons from the Racing Pig
eon Club, of Paterson, N. J,, were re
leased here to-day for, a race te that
city. Onpe dird remaln‘d :
Patriotism at Last
Gasp, Says Parker,
Rapping T. R. at Yale
NEW HAVEN, CONN, June 15.—
Without mentioning the name of The
odore Roosevelt, A, B. Parker, once
candidate for President on the Dem
ocratic ticket, assalled the ex-Presi
dent to-day in an address to the grad
uating class of the Yale Law School.
He salid, in part:
“Semething is radically wrong in
the mental processes of the electorate
or else patriotism is at its last gasy,
when, with hardly a whisper of pro
test, a retired Chief Executive may
brag to the representatives of the pe)-
ple of his treasonable scheme to in
trude upon State rights and violaie
otherwise the fundamental law by es
tablishing a military receivership over
coal mines pending a strike, admitting
without a suspicion of decent shame
that had been well considered that his
offense might be impeachable if com
mitted—impeachable, of course, only
because the acts planned would have
been unconstitutional and lawless.”
Damp Room Saves
.
Count From Assassin
NEW YORK, June 15.—A high
powered bomb with a fuse which had
been lighted was found to-day in the
porters’ room, across a narrow hall
way from the office of Count G. Fa
roni, Italian Consul in New York, in
Lafayette street. It was said by de
tectives that an attempt had been
made to assassinate the Count, but
that the fuse had been extinguished
by the dampness of the room.
. .
Carolinian to Try to
Fly to New York
SUMTER, S. C., June 15.—E. A.
Robbins and H. R. VanDeventer are
engaged in the construction of an
aeroplane in which Robbins expects
te fly from here to New York in one
continuous flight.
Robbins already has built three
aeroplanes, the third of which was
successful. He made flights in it
last year in North and South Caro
lina, and wiil fly here next week.
.
Wilson Plans Answer
To Roosevelt Attack
WASHINGTON, June 15.—President
Wilson personaily will defend his ad
ministration against the attacks of
Theodore Roosevelt in speeches he will
make in Pennsylvania, which will be
the scene of the great conflict in the
November election.
Secretaries Bryan, Daniels and W. B,
Wilson will join with him.
. .
Indians See Warning
Of End by Volcano
CHICO, CAL. June 15—Believing
the eruption of Mount Lassen is a
warning that their end is near, the
few surviving Indians of the Modoc
tribe have burned their belongings
and are preparing to-pass to the
“happy hunting grounds,”
Women's Minimum
NEW YORK, June 15.—1 n a hearing
before the United States Commission on
Industrial Relations, Miss Gertrude B.
Beeks, of the National Civic Federation,
declared the minimum wage cn which &
woman can live in decency is $B.
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Champ Clark’s Son
WASHINGTON, June 15.—Bennett
Champ Clark, only son of Speaker Clark
and parliamentarian of the House, has
received a degree of Bachelor of Laws
from George Washington University.
He stood among the highest in his
class.
.
Valdostan Is Killed
By Fall Under Train
LEXINGTON, KY., June 15.—De
witt Manfield, 35, of Valdosta, Ga.,
was killed here to-day by a freight
train which he attempted to board.
His hold slipped and one foot and
one arm were cut off.
Kentucky Boy Giant
At 16; Weight 409 Lbs
SERGEANT, —;\'_\fi'fi,-—;une 15, —James
Sturgill, aged M."s feet 11 inches tall.
welghs 409 poundd &nd s still growing
Newell Not Factor
In Senate Campaign,
Says Thos. 8. Felder
M \CON, June 15.—Thomas S. Fel
der, candidate for the nomination for
United States Senator, does not con=-
sider Alf C. Newell, Governor Sla
ton's campaign manager, as a factor
or personage in the sSenatorial cam
paign. He said so to-day regarding
Mr. Newell's Sunday statement on
the Ducktown case. Further, he said,
he considered the matter too trivial
to dignify a reply.
Felder will make only one speech
this week in his Senatorial campaign,
and that will be at Eatonton next
Saturday. However, this week he will
attend, the annual meeting of the
Georgia Bar Association at Tybee
and the annual convention of the
Association of County Officers at In
dian Springs.
Mr. Felder is planning now to make
a speech in Atlanta at the Grand
Opera House in July, the date to be
announced later. Next month he also
will invade Mr. Hardwick’s Tenth
District. N
Father and Son.
A gentleman in a provincial town
owns a row of houses, and in one of
them lives a married son of his who
is noted for his miserly habits.
This had got to such a pitch that
for several years his father had been
unable to get a single penny of the
rent due to him.
As he did not want to take harsh
measures, he at last went round to
his son one morning, and said:
“Look here, Tom, it's plainly no
use my trying to get any rent out
of you for that house of mine, so I've
decided to give it to you.”
“No fear,” interposed the son. I
sha'n’t have it.”
“Why not, pray?’ exclaimed the
astonished parent.
“Because then, replied the- un
abashed son, “I'd have to pay th’
rates and taxes; and goodness knows
they are heavy enough in this town.”
Whereupon.
A revival was being conducted by
a muscular preacher. He was dis
turbed by two young men who scoff
ed at everything they saw or heard.
He paused and asked them why
they had attended the meeting.
“We came to see miracles perform
e?" imprudently replied one of them.
Leaving the pulpit and walking
quietly down the aisle, the minister
seized one after the other by the col
lar, and, as they disappeared out of
the door, remarked:
“We don’t perform miracles here,
but we do cast out devils.”
What He Left.
Residing in a little village is a
lawyer who is famous for drawing.
wills, in which branch of business he
has long enjoyed a monopoly of the
country for miles around.
A few months since, a wealthy man
died. There was much speculation
as to the value of the property, and
the town gossip set about to find out
‘the facts. He hunted up the lawyer,
and, after a few preliminary remarks
‘about the deceased, he said, rather
;tluntly:
“] suppose you made Brown's will 7
i Y ent!
~ ““Then you probably know how
much he left. Would you mind tell
ing me?”
“Not at all,” the lawyer answered,
as he resumed his writing. “He left
everything he had.” ‘
Good Reason.
A Birmingham man, arm in arm
with an old friend, revisiting his na
tive place after an absence of many
years, was discussing old times, when
the returned one began a series of
questions as to the friends of other
days. i#
“Tell me,” said he, “about your
aunt, old Mrs. Blank. She must be
rather feeble now.”
“We buried her last year,” said tha
other,
“Buried her? Dear me! Is the old
lady dead?””
“Yes; that's why we buried her”
was the response.
Natare.
He was enraptured with the scen
ery. His fair companion at the coun
try resort sat upon the stone wall b2~
side him.
“Behold that exquisite sunset!” he
exclaimed. ‘Note the delicate flesh
tints, the cream shades, the long
dashes of vermillion, und the almost
living fire that leaps up from the
sinking sun as from a fountain. Be
hold the framework of darkening
skies and of deep green! Isn't it
wonderful?”
His fair companion sighed heavily.
“You just bet it is!” she exclaimed.
“It looks just like a great, big lobster
salad!"”
Low Figures.
The Mistress (indignantly)—Jane,
whatever did you mean by wearing
my low-necked evening dress at the
'Busdrivers’ ball last night? Really.
vou ought to have been ashamed of
yourself!
Jane (meekly)—l was, mum; you
never ‘eard such remarks as they
made.
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