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COST OF LIVING 13
PROBLEM EVEN TO
OUR LAWMAKERS
Members of Alabama Dele
gation Don’t Save Much
of Their Salaries
SOME KEEP HOUSE
AND OTHERS BOARD
j
TTnderwood and Hobson Only Mem
bers Who Own Their Homes.
Several Have Rooms
at Hotels
Hy C. E. STEW ART
Washington, February 10.—(Special.)—
Probably no question before the American
people hag been so widely discussed, both
by orators and the press, and there is
probably no problem of legislation—if it
Is a problem of fegislation—in which the
public is so keenly interested and so
keenly alive, as the high cost of living.
Everybody, in all walks of life, is In
tel ested, from the man who earns his
daily bread by the sweat of his brow to
the man who controls the operations of
big Industries. The mechanic, the artisan,
the merchant, the professional man and
the legislator, all realize that the cost of
living has rapidly advanced over what
it was only a few years ago, and is still
advancing.
The constituency at home need have no
fear that his representative at the national
oapitol will forget it. It hangs like a grim
spectre over the representative himself,
and is a constant reminder to him of the
needs of his constituent. The cost of liv
ing in Washington is in the "midst” of
Congress all the while. Years ago con
gressmen could live much cheaper and
still keep up with the procession than they
can today.
In the Old Days
Then when their salaries were in the
neighborhood of $9000 per annum they
could live very comfortably and save a
little for the next campaign; now their
salaries are approximately $8000, and the
demands upon them are constantlly grow
ing Washington is a great city, and it
is absolutely necessary for a congress
man or a senator to live in' a manner
befitting his station, and unless he has
private means at the end of the year his
balance looks like the bank roll of an
outspoken clergyman.
Most of the Alabama delegation live in
hotels. Mr. Underwood, Henry Clayton, j
G. Washington Taylor and R. P. Hob- j
son keep house. The remainder of the j
delegation. Including Senators Johnston j
and Bankhead, live in hotels and apart- j
ment houses.
Underwoods Keep House
lrp to a short while ago, and while he
was a candidate for the democratic nomi
nation for the presidency, Oscar Under- ,
wood lived at the Dresden, an elegant '
apartment house in the northwest section |
of the city. Recently, however, Mr. Un
derwood purchased the home of the late1
lamented Archie Butt at 2000 G street,
northwest, and not very far from the
White House. This home is on a corner
and is a comfortable three story brick,
and if Mr. Underwood had to dig down
and pay rent for its use it would not cost
him less than $2000 per year. It has a
reception room, a parlor and dining room
all on the lower floor, besides tlie hall, all
opening into each other, and which Mrs.
Underwood has furnished with quiet but
elegant taste. It is a fitting home for
the democratic leader, and one which is
destined to be used extensively during the
next four years in the entertainment of |
Mr. Underwood’s friends and associates
in Congress and political life. At the
same time, and while there are no extrav
agances, it is no hard matter to figure
what goes with Mr. Underwood’s salary.
Mr. Underwood brought his cook from
Alabama, and she is a good one. He
keeps a butler, a negro man, who takes
his cut from the majority leader and
knows just exactly how to handle the
large number of visitors at the Under
wood home.
How the Senator? Live
Senator Bankhead lives at the New
Willard. The New Willard is to Washing
ton what the St. Regis Is to New York.
The atmosphere breaths of dollar marks.
When you go in the New Willard what
loose change you have on your person
begins to struggle around seeking a
change of scene. It is only since Mrs.
Bankhead has been in Washington that
the senator has been at the New Willard.
Prior to that time he was at the Raleigh.
At the very least the senator cannot get
out on less than (6000 per annum at the
New Willard. But it is worth the price
to get onto the curves of predatory
wealth, and the senator daily returns to
more Bohemian surroundings by taking a
15 or 20 cent lunch at the Senate office
building, and smoking 5 cent cigars. With
all this, however, after entertaining con
stituents and buying cigars, the senator
is in no great danger of dying “rich and
disgraced” if his salary is his sole source
of income.
Senator Johnston lives at the Cochran.
The Cochran is an exclusive and elegant
lltttle hotel in the northwest section, not
so expensive as the New Millard, but
it can go sbme itself. It is quite safe
to say that neither of our senators is
buying any bank stock out of the savings
from his salary.
Claytons Also Keep House
Representative Clayton keeps house.
Keeping house in Washington is much
more expensive than having apartments
and taking one’s meals out. When you
art* keeping house, especially if you are a
congressman, and have a charming wife.
a* Representative Clayton has, who
knows everybody and is very popular,
naturally there is a lot of entertaining.
Entertaining Is very pleasant but it comes
ti'gh. There can be no question but what
Mr. Clayton is on perfectly familiar terms
with the “high cost of living,” and he
li\ es very modestly at that.
Representatives M'illiam Richardson,
iJohn L. Burnett and Fred U Blackmon
Are You Going to
Market This Season?
The Merchants and Manufac
turers of Atlanta will make many
special offerings for the next three
weeks.
Our stocks have never been
as large, nor complete. All the
latest novelties and the last word
in Paris creations.
On a season like this all
economies count. You can save
a lot of time, and practically all
the expense, as railroad fare both
ways will be refunded to all mer
chants; buying an adequate bill.
Write H. T. Moore, Secretary
Atlanta Merchants and
Manufacturers Association
A very charming
love story, full of the
tenderness and pride
of the Southland.
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Fireman Recently Acquitted
on Charge of Wrecking
Train Seeks Damages
Decatur, February 10.—(Special.)—Wil
liam Nabors has just filed suit in the |
Morgan county law and equity court here i
against the Louisville and Nashville Rail
road company for $50,000 for alleged false
arrest and imprisonment.
The suit for damages grew out of the
fact that Nabors was arrested here some
months ago on the charge of wrecking
a train In the yards of the railroad com
pany. He ww tried on this charge and
was acquitted.
The police have been working on the
supposed dynamiting case in West New
Decatur, hut up to tills time they have
accomplished nothing.
B.v many people It is believed that it
was not a case of dynamiting at all. but
that It was a meteor which fell. Many
people claim they saw a dash of light
on the sky before the report of the dis
charge was heard.
Mrs. Walter D. Shepard of Montgom
ery, state president of the Alabama
Christian Endeavor utjlon, delivered an
address at the W’illoughby Presbyterian
church, New Decatur, yesterday evening
at 7 o’clock.
A suit for $5000 damages against Sheriff
R. N. McCulloch has been filed in the
courts of Lawrence county by John W.
Davis of Lawrence county.
A few weeks ago Davis was arrested
by Deputy H. H. Wright of Decatur,
on a state warrant charging assault with
attempt to murder. Davis was placed in
jail here and then taken to Lawrence
county, where it developed he was not
the man wanted.
A large quantity of whisky and beer
is stored at the county courthouse here,
having been captured in raids on blind ti
gers by the sheriff and his deputies from
, time to time.
live at Congress Hall. Congress Hall is
a small but rather pretentious hotel on,
Capitol hill; it is convenient to the House"
office building and convenience costs
money. A couple of nice rooms with a
private bath and meals for two may be
had at Congress Hall for from $190 to j
$22o per month. It is also convenient for
a congressman to tuke a constituent for 1
a meal, and in these tfnies when there are
a few constituents dropping in every now
and then this cuts no small figure.
Representative Dent has apartments and
takes his meals out. Representative Hef
lin lives at the Now Varnum, right next
door to Congress Hall, and Representa
tive Taylor keeps house. Representative
Hobson also keeps house, and owns his
own home at 2117 S street. Mr. Hobson
entertains a great many visitors, and
while Im lives modestly, he declares that
he has forgotten what his salary voucher
looks like; it is gone before he realizes it.
There are no very rich men among the
Alabama delegation, and most of them
at least must live within their salaries,
and for them to do so in Washington there
is little danger of them forgetting or over
looking the fact that the cost of living
is a great, problem.
There arc a good many rich men in Con
gress who never feel it, and cannot real
ize it. Representative Gardner of Massa
chusetts, for instance, has three secre
taries, who draw the major part of his
salary. He lives on his private Income,
ar he is many times a millionaire. Sen
ator Crane allows his secretary to draw
all of his salary In addition to his own.
but Senator Crane is reputed to be the
richest man in the Senate, even richer
than Senator Guggenheim.
WALTER JONES GOES
Testimony of Convicted
Slayer of Rowan With
held From Public
Montgomery. February 10.—-(Special.)
Walter Jones, under death sentence for
the murder of Sloan Rowan at the
Cnion station last June, was a wit
ness before the Montgomery grand
jury today. What he said no one no;
connected with the grand jury knows
but rumors are that his story was n
sensational development in favor of th<
state's contention that Howan was
killed as the result of a conspiracy.
ft has been reported that Jones re
fused to testify at previous sessions,
standing upon the right granted bj
the constitution. Howan was u mer
chant at Benton, Lowndes county, and
was killed on a Western Railway of
Alabama passenger train while on the
way to Selma after appearing before
the grand jury here. Jones' father, J.
H. Felder and Henry F. Vandiver an
under indictment for murder in the
same case and when they arc tried the
state will attempt to prove that Jones
and others conspired to kill Rowan ho
he could not appeal against them in
arson cases in Lowndes county.
Jones was guarded by four deputies
heavily armed while he talked to the
grand jury. He was carried from the
county jail early in the afternoon and
spent several hours in the grand jury
chamber. What he. said no one has au
thority to say and the story will never
i»e known. Jones was convicted Ihki
July and Is awaiting a decision of the
supreme court irt his appeal case, sub
mitted soon after he was declared guil
ty of murder.
Washington. February in.—Tam
many Hall's contingent of 100 march
ers In the inauguration parade Marcii
4, will be headed by £5 real Indians to
be brought here from the west repre
senting 23 tribes, and each Indian will
be garbed in his distinctive tribal dress.
Recently an intimation was given that
Tammany might wish to have as a fea
ture a live tiger, but this was deemed
unwise and the Indian feature was sub
stituted.
Robert N. Harper, chairman of the
civic committee, today said that no
definite conclusion bad been reached
with Mrs. Elmer E. Black regarding
the participation of the American
Woman's Peace congress in the pa
rade.
Mrs. Black today conferred with
members of the inaugural committee
but no agreement was reached for the
reason that the inaugural committee
prefers no women take part in the pa
rade. Mrs. Black then said her con
tingent would be composed of men,
dressed in white, witli a woman herald
at the head. Efforts to have the peace
congress take part in the suffrage pa
geant ou Match 3, probably will suc
ceed.
SEVEN PRISONERS
ESCAPE FROM WIL
Rear Windows of Huntsville
Prison Prized Apart
and Men Escape
Huntsville, February in,—(Special.) — By
prising apart the bars on the rear win
dow of the city prison with tools that
had been left within their reach by work
men, seven prisoners escaped sometime
during the night, and are still at large.
The escaped prisoners are Walter Hill.
Tom Bailey, Wesley Moore. Tajnnlc
Donaldson, Robert Vincent, Will Lacey
and Jack Gulley. Lacey, a new prisoner,
was a blacksmith and led the others
In the work which gained them their lib
erty.
The Butler training school and the
Huntsville high school basketball teams
have accepted challenges to play games
with the Athens female college team In
Athena on February 22.
Elijah Chandler and son. Learner
Chandler, farmcre, who live In the north
ern part of Madison county, have been
arrested and lodged In jail on charges
of illicit distilling. A raid was made on
the Chandler place by Deputy Colector
Camp, Deputy Marshal Root and others
and portions of an illicit distillery were
found.
Will Lacy, a young white man, who
claims to have come here from Tennes
see, and his 17-year-old wife are under
arrest hers, the former on a charge of
violating the white slavery art and the
latter as a witness.
JURISTS’ ACCOUNTS
SIM SHORT
Discrepancies of Over $10,
000 in Account of
Deceased Men
Montgomery, February 10.—(Special.)—
Discrepancies of more than $10,000 in the
accounts of former Probate Judge A. J.
Driver nnd the late Probate Judge John
Vardanian of Chambers county, will be
made known to the grand Jury when it la
Impaneled March 3. This statement was
made by Judge L. Brewer of the fifth
Judicial circuit today when he reached
Montgomery to hold circuit court for
Judge \\\ W. Pearson
Judge Brewer refused to discuss the
report, saving that it would become pub
lic property after it had been referred
to the grand Jury. Report was made by
II. V. Brooke, state examiner of public
accounts, who filed a copy with Governor
O'Neal. The governor refused to make
It public, saying Judge Brewer was the
person to give out the information.
100,000 NAMES ON
“SUCKER LIST”
New York, February 10,—The so
called “sucker list” of the mining com
panies promoted by Julian Hawthorne,
Joslah (Juinoy, Albert Freeman and Dr.
William J. Mortoi), who are on trial
In the federal court for alleged fradu
ulent uso of the malls, was compiled
from 100 college catalogs and contained
100,000 names. So testified Freeman to
day under cross-examination by gov
ernment counsel. He identified a check
for J20.000 as one of hls own and said
It was drawn to cover tile expense of
making the list of names of persons to
whom literature was sent. Testifying
us to the cost of printing circular let
ters sent out, Freeman said:
“1 did not rare how much I paid if
the letter was perfect. But the trou
ble was to get the different numes put
Into the letters in hucIi a way as to
make those who received them think
they were personal letters from Haw
thorne and not mere circulars. I sent
out fully 700,000 of those letters."
JOHN FOWLER ON
TRIAL ATANNISTON
Charged With Complicity in
Kennedy Murder
BETTER TRAIN SERVICE
Anniston Merchant Walks to Jack
sonville in Record Time—Jack
sonville Rector Prominent in
Various Organizations
Anniston, February 10. (Special.'
John Fowler was the first of the remain
ing defendants in the Pearce-Kennedy
feud cases to be arraigned when the
cases wore called In the city court of
Anniston Monday morning. He is charged
with complicity in the murder of Shelt
and Sarge Kennedy, father and son, who
were killed in a pitched battle.
New passenger service has ben inau
gurated in the way of a modern, first
class, electric lighted passenger car on
the Southern passenger train between
this city and Rome. Ga., No. 24. There
had been considerable complaint In re
gard to the service, but it was promptly
remedied when brought direct to the
attention of the company.
Rev. Dr. W. T. Allen, rector of the
St. Duke's Episcopal church at Jack
sonville, north of here, probably enjoys
the distinction of being chairman of more
organizations than any other one man in
the county. He was here today to at
tend a meeting of the Calhoun county
humane society, of which ho is a di
rector.
Dr. Allen says that over 800 members
have been recently gained in the colleges
and universities of the south for the
White Cross Single Standard league of
America, of which he is chairman. He
Is also chairman of the Major General
John H. Forney national park commis
sion, chaplain general of the Sons of
Confederate Veterans and will attempt
to revive the chapter of this city, lie
claims that Governor O’Neal has neon
derelict in his promises in regard to this
organization. Other affiliations outside
of his church work keep Dr. Allen very
busy.
Anniston lias a Weston in the person
of Julius Marcus, a merchant. Several
years ago he became alarmed at the rapid
increase in his fat. Sunday morning he
made a trip to Jacksonvlle at 8:30, the
distance being 12 miles. He waited 10
minutes at the postoftiee there and re
turned, reaching Anniston at 11:30.
George K. JebeleS, a Tenth street rex
tauranteur, w’ho has been convicted a
number of times of seling liquor In vio
lation of the law', was again convicted
In police court Monday.
Announcement has been made of the
engagement and approaching marriage
of Miss Corinne Jendson Collins of this
city, to C. F. Douglass, a well known at
torney. The wedding date has been
withheld, but it will occur this month.
bailie Anderson, charged with the theft
of a poeketbook from an aged white man
by the name of Padgett, was bound over
to the grand Jury under a $800 bond At on
day on being tried before Recorder Green.
ODD FELLOWS
WILL CELEBRATE
Jackson, Miss.. February 10.—(Special.)—
The Odd Fellows of Jackson will celebrate
tbe seventieth anniversary of their or
ganization in Jackson next Wednesday
night, and at which time several of the
grand lodge officers from over the state
are expected to be present. A special
musical programme has been arranged,
and at Its conclusion a feast will he ten
dered the members and their friends.
YEGGMAN STEALS
$6000 FROM VAULT
Nashville, February 10.— A .Tamper, Tenn.,
special dispatch today nays that the Ma
rlon Trust and Hanking company vault
there was blown during 1 lie night by
yegg men and about $0000 in rash and $.'150
in jewelry obtained. A telephone oper
ator was held up to prevent an alarm.
Spring Manhattans
Too early to talk
about Spring Manhat
tans—? Why, the cro
cuses and violets do
their preparing in much
colder weather. Given
the impulse, and every
thing from crocuses to
man starts to get ready
—at once.
Surely these new
Manhattan Shirts are
worthy the “impulse.”
Fine line stripe madras patterns; pink, light blue and
lavender Manhattan Shirts $1.50.
Pin stripe Manhattan percales, made with box pleated
front, $1.65.
Cluster stripe madras, pleated front, new blue and
gray effects in Manhattans, $2.00.
Corded stripe madras, with side or box pleat front;
tan, blue, gray and green, $2.25 and $2.50.
Russian cord madras, with inch pleats; a Manhattan
beauty, $3.50.
Waistcoats
Linen, Panama cloth, worsted and silk; fine selection
here; $3.50 to $6.00.
1922-1924 FIRST AVENUE
NOTICE """
Temporary Change in Route of
East Lake Cars.
Commencing on Wednesday, February 12, on account of the reconstruction
of tracks and paving on 24th street, East I.ake ears will run in and out of the
central section of the city ns follows:
In on 1st avenue 1o 17th street, thence to 2d avenue, thence to 19th street,
thence to 1st avenue, and out 1st avenue.
BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY, LIGHT & POWER CO.
Commissioners Vote to Dis
continue Work of Four
Years
IIjr .1. II. KWIS.
Livingston, February 10. — (Special.)
Sum lor county today slid from its pin
nacle as the most progressive cattle
raising county In Alabama and hit the
| bottom of retrogression with a dull
jthud, when the board of commissioners
unanimously voted to discontinue tick
eradication.
For nearly four years this great
work ham been carried on and todav
Sumter county is practically free »J'
ticks.
The cattle raisers of Sumter have
made great progress. They have im
ported many fine bulls to improve their
herds and have looked after their bus
iness in a careful and scientific man
ner. Their fame had spread abroad and
they are looked upon as authority on
cattle business.
TOBACCO COMPANY
INDICTED BY JURY
Henderson. Ky., February 10.—A special
county grand jury today Indicted the Im
perial Tobacco company of Kentucky and
the Imperial Tobacco company of Great
Uritain on charges of combining in re
straint of trade. Tills action came after
representatives of the Stemming District
Tobacco company and several buyers have
been trying to coma to terms on a selling
price for 25,000,000 pounds of pooled to
bacco. Charges thAt there was a reason
for the similarity of prices offered, about
TY2 cents, resulted in the grand Jury be
ing called and today's indictments.
Financial Gossip
From the Pathfinder.
Said one man on the street, speaking
to a friend: “Well, money talks.**
“Maybe It does,” answered the other,
"but ail it ever said to mo was ‘Good
by.’" j
Still at the Top
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is more easily digested and costs much less.
For breakfast heat the Biscuit in the oven a few moments to restore
crispness; then pour hot milk over it, adding a little cream; salt or
sweeten to suit the taste. It is deliciously nourishing and wholesome
for any meal with stewed prunes, baked apples, sliced bananas, preserved
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