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Atlanta JTri-WccWfo Stoiwnal
VOL. XXIV. NO. 27.
FITZGERALD IS SWEPT
BY $300,000 BLAZE
* Several Automobiles Burned.
Tenants Flee From Up
stairs Apartments Out
side Aid Responds
FITZGERALD, Ga.. Nov. 30.- -
Fire destroyed three hundred thou
sand dollars’ worth of property in
the business section of the town at
4 o’clock Tuesday morning. The en
tire block was occupied bv automo
bile and farm implements concerns.
The upper stories were utilized as
apartment houses, about thirty fam
i ilies living there. One ladv and child
» were saved only by the use of ex
tension ladder by firemen. None of
the furniture or personal belongings
s of tenants were saved.
if When it appeared that the local
fire department might be unable to
i cope with the conflagration. Mayor
Pittman called for the Ocilla, Tif
ton, Cordele and Douglas depart
ments, and they started to the city’s
relief, but reached here after the lo
cal fire fighters had the fire under
control.
The fire started in the garage ot
the Automotive Sales company and
soon swept through the entire block,
taking in the buildings owned by
H. A. Burkhart, two stories, cover
ing a lot one hundred and seventy
by eighty-five feet; the wholesale de
partment of the Johnson Hardware
company and the three-story sales
rooms and apartment house of the
Fitzgerald Overland company, own
ed by H. H. Sleigh. The Burkhart
losses are estimated at SIOO,OOO.
Owing to the absence of owner in
Atlanta, exact amount of insurance
carried is not available, but it is
said to be about $60,000.
The Thurmond Auto company, A.
. H. Thurmond owner, lost $15,000,
with insurance of SII,OOO on new
cars in stock.
The Johnson Hardware company
lost about sso’ooo, with insurance
of SIB,OOO.
H. E. Sleigh lost SIO,OOO, with in
surance of $2,000.
Other slight losses were sustained
by dome Furniture company. Foo
ler Drug company, Maffet, Holder
& Mathis, drygoods, the Herald
building and the Bowen Telephone
company.
It was largely due to the fact that
1 the east wall of the Sleigh building
fell into the fire that the city was
saved from the certain loss of most
of its business buildings, as the fire
was sweeping in the direction of the
main part of the city when the wall
• fell in and smothered the fire. The
apartments in the Burkhart build
ing and the Sleigh apartments were
all furnished and owned by tenants
who were rot insured.
ITIOMiCK
■ BINWML
LONDON, Nov. 30.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —Intervention in Portu
gal as a result of the present grave
internal situation there is being se
riously considered by the powers,
according to the Times this morning.
France, Italy and Spain are in favor
of taking control of the situation un
der a mandate, the newspaper states.
Bolshevism is spreading through
the large towns of Portugal, the |
Times declares, and there have been i
many outrages, especially in the |
province of Alemtejo.
The recent bombing of tne Ameri
can consulate in Lisbon was an inci
dent in this movement, it is said, and
most of the foreign diplomats there
have received letters threatening
f »their lives.
When a number of foreign war
ships moored in the Tagus river at
Lisbon recently, the sailors on a
* Portuguese gunboat are said to have
been restrained only with difficulty
from attempting to torpedo the Span
ish vessels.
Dispatches to the Times assert
that the condition of the country is
such that it has been very difficult to
find men willing to accept posts in
the cabinet.
Dispatches from Portugal to the
Associated Press have reported two
distinct revolutionary movements in
the last six weeks. In the first sever
al members of the Portuguese cab
inet, including Premier Granjo, were
assassinated following their resigna
tion. A few days later it was re
ported that royalists were plotting
for the re-establishment of a mon
"l* November 24, dispatches
.Rt-fn the Portuguese frontier of
-Spain reported another revolution
1 ‘ brewing, Carvalho Mesquieta head
k Ing the movement. The troops In
Lisbon, were said to have been con
i Jined to their barracks in preparation
for eventualities. No advices have
been received since that time as to
conditions in Portugal.
Slacker Bergdoll
Says He’s American
In $750,000 Suit
WASHINGTON. Nov. 30.—Grover
Cleveland Bergdoll, convicted draft
evader, through his mother, Mrs.
Emma C. Bergdoll, of Philadelphia,
today filed suit in the supreme court
of the District of Columbia for re
turn of property valued at $750,000
seized by the government. Thomas
W. Miller, alien property custodian,
Frank White, treasurer of the
United States, were named as de
fendants.
. The petition set forth that Berg
doll is a citizen of the United States,
regards his stay in Germany as
“temporary,” and expects to return
to this country. The suit was
brought under a section of the trad
ing with the enemy act, which au
thorizes such actions at law.
German Committee
Coming to America
To Discuss Finances
BERLIN, Nov. 30.—Germany will
send a mission of industrialists,
bankers and agriculturalists to
America to discuss German eco
nomic problems with financiers
there, it was announced today.
Dr. Joseph Wirth, German chan
cellor, is expected to appoint the
of the commission tomor
* »ow.
Woodrow Wilson
As I Know Him
BY JOSEPH P. TUMULTY
BY JOSEPH P. TUMULTY
CHAPTER XII
UPON the completion of the leg
islative work of the first ses
sion of the New Jersey legis
; lature the name of Woodrow Wilson
I quickly forged to the front as a
lutrong presidential possibility. Inti
; mate friends, including Walter Hines
i Page, afterward United States am
; bassador to Great Britain; Cleve
j land H. Dodge and Robert Bridges,
the two latter old friends and class-
I mates of the governor in the famous
| class of ’79 at Princeton, set about
| by conferences to launch the presi
| dential boom of their old friend, and
I selected for the task of the actual
4 management of the campaign the
young Princetonian, William F. Me-
I Combs, then an active and rising
I young lawyer of New York. These
I gentlemen and other devoted friends
and advisers of the governor made
up the first Wilson contingent and
at once initiated a plan of publicity
and organization throughout the
country. They arranged to have the
New Jersey governor visit strategic
points in the country to make ad
dresses on a variety of public ques
tions. Whether Colonel Harvey was
behind the scenes as the adviser of
this little group I have never ascer
tained, but Harper’s Weekly, then
edited by the Colonel, was his lead
ing supporter in the magazine world,
carrying the name of the Princeton
ian at its masthead as a candidate
for the presidency. There were fre
quent conferences between the col
onel and the governor at the execu
tive offices and as a result of these
conferences the Wilson boom soon
became to be reckoned with
by the “Old Guard” in control of
party affairs in the nation.
Wilson stock, from the moment of
the adjournment of the legislature,
began to rise, and his candidacy
spread with great rapidity, until in
nearly every state in the Union Wil
son clubs v. ei o
New Jersey primaries, where again
he met and defeated the Smith
forces; the Ohio primaries, where he
split the delegates with the favorite
son, Governor Harmon, a distin
guished Democrat, and the Wis
consin primaries, at which he swept
the state, gave a tremendous im
petus to the already growing move
ment for the reform governor of New
Jersey.
Did Not Know He Had Offended
Everything was serenely moving
in the Wilson camp, when like a
thunderclap out of a clear sky broke
the story of the disagreement be
tween Colonel Harvey, Marse Henry
Watterson and the governor of New
Jersey. I recall my conversation
with Governor Wilson on the day
following the Harvey-Watterson
conference at a New York club. As
private secretary to the governor, I
always made it a rule to keep in
close touch -with every conference
then being held regarding the polit
ical situation, and in this way I
first learned about the Harvey-Wat
terson meeting, which for a few
weeks threatened to destroy all the
lines of support that had been built
up throughout the last months of
diligent work and organization.
The governor and I were seated in
a trolley car on our way from the
state capitol to the railroad station
in Trenton when he informed me, in
the most casual way and without
seeming to understand the possible
damage he had done his own cause,
of what followed his conference the
previous day. It was like this: The
conference had ended and they were
leaving the room when Colonel Har
vey put his hand on Woodrow Wil
son’s shoulder and said: “Governor,
I want to ask you a frank question,
and I want you to give me a frank
answer. In your opinion is the sup
port of Harper's Weekly helping or
hurting you?” In telling me of it,
Woodrow Wilson said; “I was most
embarrassed and replied: ‘Colonel, I
wish you had not asked me that
question.’ ‘Well, what is the an
swer?’ Colonel Harvey insisted,
pleasantly. ‘Why, Colonel, some of
my friends tell me it is jiot helping
me in the west.’ Colonel Harvey
said: ‘I was afraid you might feel
that way about it and we shall have
to soft-pedal a bit.’ ” Mr. Wilson
was so serenely unconscious that
any offense had been taken that
when informed by me a little later
that his name had disappeared from
the head of the editorial column of
Harper’s Weekly he did not connect
this with the interview. “Was Colo
nel Harvey offended?” I asked. “He
didn’t seem to be,” was the gover
nor’s answer.
Correspondence With Harvey
/I immediately scented the danger
of the situation and the possibilities
of disaster to his political fortunes
that lay in his reply, and I told him
very frankly that I was afraid he
had deeply wounded Colonel Harvey
and that it might result in a seri
ous break in their relations. The
governor seemed grieved at this and
said that he hoped such was not the
case; that even after he had ex
pressed himself so freely, Colonel
Harvey had been most kind and
agreeable to him and that they had
continued to discuss in the most
friendly way the plans for the cam
paign and that the little conference
ended without apparent evidence
that anything untoward had hap
pened that might lead to a break in
their relations. We then discussed
at length the seriousness of the sit
uation, and as a result of our talk
the governor wrote Colonel Harvey
and endeavored to make clear what
he had in mind when he answered
the question put to him by the colo
nel at the conference a few days
before, not, indeed, byway of apol
ogy, but simply byway of explana
tion. This letter to the colonel and a
subsequent one went a long way to
ward softening the unfortunate im
pression that had been created by
the publication of the Harvey-Wat
terson correspondence.
The letters are as follow’s:
(Personal).
University Club,
Fifth Avenue and Fifty-fourth
street, Dec. 21, 1911.
My Dear Colonel:
Every day I am confirmed in
the judgment that my mind is
a one-track road and can run
only one train of thought at a
time! A long time after that in
terview with you and Marse
Henry at the Manhattan club it
came over me that where (at the
(Continued on Page 6, Column 3)
NINE POWERS VOTE
TO GIVE IIP RIGHTS
EWJOYED IN CH
Conference of Naval Experts
Postponed—Agreement on
I
Big Ships Likely Despite
Japanese Protest
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—(8y the
Associated Press.) Arrangements
have been made, it was said offi
cially today in armament conference
circles, for direct negotiations be
tween the Japanese and Chinese del
egations over Shantung.
The negotiations are expected to
start immediately and in order to
give the Japanese and Chinese dele
gates a free day for their discus
sions, the conference committee on
Pacific and Far Eastern questions
adjourned today until Friday.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 30.—(8v the
Associated Press.) —The nine cowers
conference on Pacific and Far East
ern questions Monday aronted reso
lutions providing for relinquishment
of foreign extraterritorial rights in
China.
A plenary session of the confer
ence probably will be held Decem
ber 5 to consider the uestion of
naval armament, it was indicated
by delegation spokesmen.
The resolution provided for with
drawal of foreign courts in China,
should an international commission,
which is to make a study of Chinese
laws and court practice find that
the Chinese judicial system is ade
quate without maintenance of the
foreign courts.
After adopting a resolution deal
ing with extraterritorial rights, the
delegates in executive committee
session, continued discussion of
Chinese requests for withdrawals of
foreign troops.
The delegates of the various pow
ers were understood to have agreed
informality in principle to the with
drawal, but further discussion went
over until another meeting.
The Japanese delegates were un
derstood to have told the committee
that they would submit reasons for
the presence of Japanese troops in
China including why they were sent
there in the first place, and why
they have remained. The Japa
nese, however, were said to have
acknowledged that the presenc of
foreign troops, in principle, was in
violation of China’s rights.
Italy is especially interested in the
maintenance of a proper ratio of
naval strength in the Mediterranean
and only secondarily, if at all, in the
adjustment of naval ratios for the
Pacific, according to the view ex
pressed today by one of her spokes
men.
It was said that Italy was ’ thor
oughly sympathetic with the Ameri
can idea of reducing naval arma
ments, but, of course, she must be
governed in that to some extent by
what other powers did in the Med
iterranean.
Naval Meeting Postponed
The meeting of the “big five”
naval experts, the first general con
ference of the naval men scheduled
.for nearly a week, was postponed
until tomorrow, at the request of
one of the delegations. No official
statement as to the reason for the
postponement or the delegation
making the request was given.
The question of a 60 or 70
per cent naval ratio for Japan, upon I
which there has been no indication 1
of an agreement in the committee j
had become the outstanding issu« j
of the conference through the defi I
nite announcement by Vice Admiral i
Kato, chief Japanese naval expert. |
that Japan wants the 70 ner ient
status. In the first authoritative an I
nouncement that Japan sought to j
replace the “5-5-3” ratio basis of j
the American naval limitation pro |
posal, giving her a 60 per cent j
status, with a 70 ner cent ratio "or I
her fleet. Vice Admiral Kato de
dared this was the minimum neces
sary for Ton nn ’ s security.
Against this definite announce
ment of the Japanese position the
American naval experts still gave
every indication today of firm ad
herence to the view that 60 ner cent
for Japan is the maximum naval
strength that could be accented In
view of American liabilities and In
terests in the Pacific. With Ameri
can officials satisfied also is to the
correctness of th< original estimates
of naval strength unon which Sec
retary Hughes’ pronosal was based,
after a review of the facts and fig
ures involved by the committee of
experts, it was believed the com
mittee would not go beyond nres
entation of the fact in renorting
to the committee of the big five dele
gations. It seemed probable today
the issue of naval ratio for Japan
would be placed before that bodv
seme time this week for settlement
Standing on the sidelines -in a
more favorable position for the form
ing of a cool judgment as to the
ultimate outcome of the differences
that have been developed between
the American and Japanese naval
experts, some of the delegates of
other powers have reached the con
clusion that nothing has really oc
curred that is likely to prevent a sat
isfactory solution of the problem.
These delegates base their belief
on the conviction that the spirit that
has animated all of the delegations
has been so admirable as to insure
mutual concessions and the solution
of the issues in a reasonable way.
French and Italian N:«-”**«
The French and Italian arms non
Terence delegations, it was learned to
day, have occasion to talk with
each other on the subject of the
relative naval strength of their re
spective countries. The French po
sition is that France has no objec
tion whatever to Italy having the
same size navy as Franca, which it
is contended should eventually be 30,-
000 tons of capital ships and 75,000
tons of submarines. *
Kato Statement
To safeguard property interests of
the Japanese empire the ratio of 70
(Continued on P&gt 6, Column 4) ,
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1921
When Death
Comes
By Mrs. W. H. Felton
Only those who have waited,
watched and suffered, and who
have seen the clutch of death’s
cold fingers on the dying saint,
never to be relaxed, can under
stand how helpless are we mor
tals to stand death off in the
final hour of struggle and pain.
When I reached my sister in
her Atlanta home, nearly four
weeks before she passed away,
I had a foreboding that she
would never be well any more.
There was a gray pallor on her
fine face that I had never seen
before. She was the very es
sence of qpp<'u>ness and forti
tude during her long life of more
than eighty-one years. No mat
ter how gloomy things seemed
to b? she would cheer you up
with her brave words and
smiles.
But I felt sure that Jhe clock
was about to strike the hour
of her departure, as soon as I
kissed her. My haste was eager
to get her to a place fully pre
pared to care for the sick night
and day, where trained nurses
could give her careful attention
and where good doctors could be
always at hand to relieve suf
fering all the time.
Then begun the long waiting
days, where even my aged eyes
could see that she was going
steadily and surely to the end.
She had some bad days and a
few easier days, but the dear
pilgrim was going down to the
deep waters that had to be
crossed —the Jordan of death.
She was a marvel of patience.
She did all that she was asked
to do, and thanked her nurses
so long as her lips could utter
a word., for their willing service.
But a time came early when
she cou.d not speak a single dis
tinct word, and one of my hard
est trials was to see her try In
5100,000 IN JEWELS
TAKENBYROBBERS
CINCINNATI. Ohio. Nov. 30.
Four armed robbers earlv Monday
raided the residence of William
Cooper Procter, president of the
Procter & Gamble Co., in Glendale,
a suburb of Cincinnati, forced the
three women members of the house
hold, who were alone in the house,
to become prisoners in the cellar
and then ransacked the home, escap
ing with jewelry valued. Cincinnati
police say, at more than SIOO,OOO.
The robbery, which for boldness
surpasses any residential burglary
in Cincinnati or vicinity for years,
was executed with such dispatch
and thoroughness as to indicate, po
lice said, that it had been carefully
planned by a band of bandits w’ho
were expecting that their loot would
be of huge proportions.
The robbers escaped in an auto
mobile, leaving no clue except such
descriptions of them as the frighten
ed women were able to furnish.
U. S. Bond Issues
Make High Record;
Victories Again Up
NEW YORK. Nov. 30.—Seven of
the Liberty bond issues soared to
new high records of the year on the
stock exchange Monday as the result
of further heavy buying, which in
cluded various out-of-town sources.
In the first two hours sales of
these bonds approximated $5,000,-
000 par value, this representing more
than half of the entire dealings in
the bond list.
The first 4’s were strongest, rising
$1 per SIOO, to 97.00, while the tax
exempt 3 12’s rose 74 cents to 96.80.
Other new maximums included the
second 4’s at a gain of 42 cents to
96.30, the f first 4 1-4’s 40 cents to
97.40, the second 4 1-4’s 80 cents to
96.94; the third 4 1-4’s 46 cents to
97.80 and the fourth 4 1-4’s 78 cents
to 97.28.
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vain to utter a word that stood
for what she wished to tell us.
At the last, for forty-eight
hours, the labored breathing
held on, and my anxiety was
great that she might have a
convulsion with her lungs so
crowded and her heart so slow,
but God w’illed that she should
go away to rest in great peace,
for w’hich I am profoundly
grateful.
As the older of the two I al
ways had a feeling that I must
be a careful, loving sister, in
the days of my youth, and to
her dying day these two sisters
were more than sisters for we
were warmly attached friends.
Nothing could have been finer
than, her affection for me in her
school days, her married life
and the long time which we were
spared to each other in our old
age.
She was the soul of honor.
She was as true as steel to her
convictions. She was the most
loyal o f friends to her co-work
er s and comrades. She ■ never
spared herself in what she
promised to do for them in her
desire to serve them loyally.
She was proud in her self-re
liance for she always felt it a
high privilige to work in a great
cause.
When she lay in her coffin,
her face was beautiful with its
loveb’ seren ty and gentle smile.
Her friends paid her tributes
that were phenomenal. Her
sick room had a wreath of flow
ers all the time. Her grave was
literally banked with magnifi
cent floral design.
My dear sister sleeps well. She
deserved all the good things the
papers said of h6r.
May God help us to apply
our hearts unto wisdom that
we rtiay meet death calmly, and
also rest in peace!
MORATORIUM FOR
- GERMANY PLANNED
LONDON, Nov. 30.—(8y the As
sociated Press.) —Reports that the
British cabinet was considering the
proposed moratorium for Germany
were confirmed in official circles to
day. The point being discussed is
under what conditions a moratorium
could be declared.
Dr. Walter Rathenau. former
German minister of reconstruction,
conferred last night with Sir Robert
S. Horne, chancellor of the ex
chequer. Sir John Bradbury. Brit
ish delegate on the reparations com
mission. and Baron Edgar D Alber
non, British ambassador to Ger
many, also attended the conference.
The morning newspapers give
great attention to Dr. Rathenau’s
visit, and discuss the subject of
Germany’s finances from many an
gles. As yet, no very concrete opin
ion has developed, although it 'is
noteworthy that there is complete
absence of any declared hostility to
the suggestion of a moratorium for
Germany, or any other scheme cal
culated to make payment of the
reparations easier.
Indeed, the tenor of most of the
comments suggests that it will be
easy to bring general opinion into
line with the view, attributed to
financial experts, that a moratorium
is desirable.
Half of Americans
Over Ten Years Old
Work for a Living
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—More
than fifty per cent of the inhabitants
of the United States over the age of
10, work for a living, the census
bureau reported today.
111. 5. JOINS POWERS
IN PROGRAM TO AID
FIMCESOF WORLD
If Successful Will Have Far
reaching Effect Upon Re
vival of Business—Would
Restore European Trade
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1921.)
WASHINGTON. Nov. 30.—Ameri
ca has decided to join hands with
the other powers of the world in
an effort to stabilize international
exchange.
The United States government has
accepted the invitation of the allied
governments to be represented at
a conference to be held abroad in
the near future at which the whole
question of exchange will be ex
amined.
This is the most important step
in the direction of financial read
justment which has been taken
since the armistice. If successful,
the movement may have a far
reaching effect upon the revival
ot business in America and par
ticularly in the restoration ot mar
kets for the sale of American agri
cultural and manufactured prod
ucts.
Moral Support of U. S.
For a long time there has been
a persistent effort on the part of
European countries to elicit Amer
ica’s interest in an international fi
nancial conference. There has even
been a suggestion that the ques
tion of the war debts of the allies
might be discussed at the arme
ment conference at Washington but
this idea has been abandoned.
The movement to reconstruct the
world’s finances will be a slow and
evolutionary one and will not be
confined to a single conference but
to a series of meetings which may
take the better part of a year. The
whole thing is the outgrowth of the
recommendations made at the last
international conference at Brus
sels but it now has the moral sup
port of the United States govern
ment which means that more re
sults will be accomplished.
Just who the American represen
tative will be is not known but un
doubtedly some banker or bankers
of prominence.
To Go Only as Observers
These men will be in the nature"
of observers and will not be author
ized to conclude any agreements
binding the United States, but will
explore the whole field and bring
back to this country recommenda
tions which might be laid before
American bankers in a series of con
ferences such as President Harding
held at the White House last spring.
When there is agreement among
American bankers as to the proper
course to be pursued, there probably
will be a final conference in Wash
ington at which the whole fiscal sit
uation of the world will be reviewed
and definite plans laid for financing
the trade of the globe.
America’s part in the deliberations
will hardly be passive, even though
her delegates will not have the pow
er to commit this country to any
definite plan of action. The Har
ding administration intends to throw
the full weight of its influence on
the side of financial reconstruction.
Vital Question
This has been urged for many
months by leading bankers as well
as by such influential organizations
as the United States Chamber of
Commerce. So vital has the ques
tion of international finance become
that men like Frank Vanderlip and
James Simpson, of Marshall Field &
Co., who have just returned from
Europe, are insisting that chaos will
follow if America doesn’t save the
financial situation abroad.
Along this line cablegrams from
Paris today tell of the decision of
the reparations commission to ap
point a committee of bankers and ex
perts in international exchange to
devise means for preventing a shock
to exchange rates whenever Ger
many pays or fails to pay her regu
lar reparation payments.
Although the United States doesn’t
receive any reparation money, nev
ertheless this country Is deeply in
terested in international exchange,
and therefore America wil lhave her
observers at the conference to be
held in Paris next month.
Result of Exchange Drop
In other words, it may be taken
for granted that the Harding ad
ministration has embarked upon a
policy of co-operation with other
governments, not merely for the re
duction of armament burdens and
the settlement of such political mat
ters as disturb the peace of the Far
East, but financial questions which
have been hanging in the air ever
since the war ended and which ad
mittedly have done more to disturb
business conditions everywhere than
any other single factor.
The drop in exchange has prevent
ed America from selling her goods
abroad. All sorts of artificial meas
ures to relieve exchange have been
suggested, but the tendency now is
to e.void experimental measures and
go to the root of the trouble.
The theory upon which the next
conference will proceed, it is sug
gested by persons familiar wi‘h the
administration .view, is best ex
pressed in the i .commendations of
the Brussels conference itself, which
said:
“The conference recognizes that
any general improvement in the sit
uation requires a considerable pe
riod of time and that in present
circumstances it is not possible for
certain countries to restore their
economic activity without assistance
from abroad. This assistance s re
quired for periods which exceed the
normal term of commercial opera
tic ns.
“This assistance, however, can
only be effectively accorded to coun
tries which are prepared to co-op
erate with one another in the restor
ation of economic life and to make
every effort to bring about within
their own frontiers the sincere col
laboration of all groups of citizens
and to secure conditior s which give
to work and thrift libevcy to pro
duce their full results.
Conference Recommendations
“The conference does not believe
apart from the particular decisions
dictated by national interests or by
considerations of humanity credits
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FUGITIVE BANKER’S LETTER
SAYS HE MAY REPAY FUND
500 INMATES AT
MM DON'T ED
110. DOCTOR SAYS
At least 500 persons at the state
sanitarium for the insane at Mil
ledgeville, or more than 10 per cent
of the total inmates, are not actu
ally in need of sanitarium treatment
and are not legitimately entitled to
it at the state’s expense, it was re
ported to Governor Hardwick by Dr.
R. G. Hutchings, the distinguished
New York alienist and authority on
treatment of the insane, who has
just completed a survey of the sani
tarium for the governer ond the de
partment of public welfare.
Dr. Hutchings completed his sur-‘
vey last week, came to Atlanta and
reported briefly and verbally his con
clusions to the governor, then re
turned to New York and will reduce
his report to writing and furnishing
it to the governor and the depart-1
ment of public welfare at an early I
date.
Governor Hardwick on Tuesday |
made known in a general way the I
important recommendations submit
ted to him by Dr. Hutchings in their
conference last Saturday.
The statement of Dr. Hutchings
that 500 persons at the sanitarium
are not actually in need of sanitar
ium treatment is particularly impor
tant at this time because of the fact
that few persons committed to the
sanitarium in recent months have |
been able to gain admission. They
are now confined in county jails,
for the most part, and numbers of
them are said to be violently in
sane.
Another recommendation made by
Dr. Hutchings is that persons ad
judged insane by the present meth
od of trial in the courts of ordinary
should be examined by a board of
alienists on arriving at the sani
tarium. There is no such a board
at the present time, and the sani
tarium authorities have no power to
set aside the finding of a lunacy
trial, even though the jurors in such
a trial are not required by law to
have any knowledge whateve- of in
sanity.
Another recommendation is that
persons sent to the sanitarium by
families who are able to pay for j
treatment should be required to pay
at least the cost of their treatment,
instead of being treated free as at
present.
New Building Favored
Concerning additional facilities for
the care and treatment of the in
sane, Dr. Hutchins is expected to
recommend the building of another
and separate sanitarium, instead of
enlarging the present one at Mil
ledgeville. There is a limit, he stat
ed, to the scale on which an institu
tion of this kind can be operated
efficiently. Not only has the sani
tarium at Milledgeville reached that
limit from the standpoint of the
number of patients under treatment,
but also the buildings and grounds
have been stretched to such an ex
tent to provide additional capacity
that they cannot be stretched or en
larged any further, and if an ad
ditional unit were built, at Milledge
ville it would require additional
grounds and would have to be built
new from the ground up.
Hence it would be doubly advis
able, in Dr. Hutchings’ opinion, to
build elsewhere the next time, car
rying out the idea of small units
built as nearly as possible in the
center of the territory they serve,
limited in the number of patients so
as to permit the largest possible de-‘
gree of individual attention by the
nurses and doctors, and located close
by the homes of the patierits, where
they can receive frequent visits
from their families, and make visits
home when Cheir condition warrants.
Ort his previous visit to the gov
ernor’s office some weeks ago, when
he was going to Milledgeville to
make his survey of teh sanitarium,
Dr. Hutchings commented upon
Georgia’s lack of physicians trained
in the treatment of mental diseases,
and expressed the opinion that it
would be advisable to locate the next
sanitarium adjacent to Emory uni
versity and to give special induce
ments for medical students to take
courses in mental hygiene.
The situation of the state sanita
rium has ben growing more and
more serious for the past two
years, owing to its extremely over
crowded condition. The report of
Dr. Hutchings will, therefore, be
considered of the highest importance
by the governor, and probably will
be made the basis of special recom
mendations to the legislature.
Dr. Hutchings is superintendent
of the New York state sanitarium
for the insane at Ogdensburg. His in
stitution there is one of fourteen
maintained by that state, which has
followed the European practice of
breaking up its sanitariums into
small units well distributed over the
state.
Dr. Hutchings is a native of Ma
con, married at Milledgeville, and
has made frequent visits to his na
tive state. His views concerning
Georgia’s stiuation with reference to
the insane are in no sense hypercriti
cal, but are prompted by the friend
liest motives. He is considered on?
of the highest authorities, in his line
in' the country. When the gover
nor and the department of public
welfare requested the national com
mittee on mental hygiene to recom
mend a man for a general survey
of the Georgia situation, the com
mittee recommended him.
20,000,000 Koreans
Held in Serfdom,
Delegate Charges
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Twen
ty millions of Koreans are being re
duced “to political and economic serf
dom” by Japan, Dr. Philip Jaisohn,
vice chairman of the Korean commis
sion to the arms conference, assert
ed today in an address before the
City club’s luncheon forum.
“Korea stands today a living mon
ument to human perfidy, treachery
and greed,” he said, “a monument
to violated contracts and broken
treaties.
“If this conference lets this mon
ument stand, wars will continue for (
treaties will be broken again as long
as the nation which breaks them is
permitted to hold the spoils.”
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$1 A YEAB.
Berrien Writes Hardwick He
Will Try to Make Good
State Funds If Left
Alone
Governor Hardwick announced
Wednesday that he had virtually de
cided not to issue warrants on the
state school appropriation to replace
the shortage of R. N. Berrien, Jr.,
the Atlanta broker who was handl
ing the warrants as discount agent
for the state, and who disappeared
from the city ten days ago when a
warrant charging embezzlement was
issued against him.
The governor announced further
that the warrants will be discounted
for the balance of the school war
rant discounting period, which runs
to next March, by the Citizens and’
Southern bank, at the rate of 7 per
cent, which is one-half of one per
cent lower than the rate Berrien was
giving for warrants discounted since
last June.
Attorney General Napier has fur
nished him an opinion, the gover
nor stated, to the effect that he is
authorized to draw warrants on the
school appropriation to replace the
shortage, but the governor said h?
could not concur in the opinion.
“On the one hand,” said the gov
ernor. “it would be necessary to
overdraw the school appropriation
to replace the shortage, or on the
other hand it would be necessary
to scale down the balance remain
ing in the appropriation to absorb ‘
the shortage. Either one of those
expedients is prohibited by law. I
have carefully gone over the situa
tion and cannot see how it would
be possible to replace the shortage
without running counter to one or
the other cf those statutes. Comp
troller General Wright and State
Treasurer Speer concur in my vidw.
Their approval of the governor’s
warrants is necessary before such a
warrant can be paid, so if I issued
warrants to replace the shortage
they would not be paid.”
The governor expressed the opin
ion that the legislature might see
fit at its next session, after hear
ing all the facts, to make a defi
ciency appropriation to 'replace the
shortage, but that, as he pointed
out, is a matter for the legislature
to decide.
$43,811 Shortage.
Berrien’s shortage, according to
his letter to Governor Hardwick
made public Tuesday, is $43,811. As
matters now stand under Governor
Hardwick’s decision not to issue
warrants to replace the shortage,
the shortage will have to be borne
by the local school authorities
whose checks from Berrien, cover
ing their respective pro-rata shares
of warrants turned over to him for
discount, were refused payment by
Berrien’s bank in Atlanta. In other .
words the governor’s warrants un
der the old arrangement were sent
to the local authorities for their en
dorsement, returned by them to
State School Superintendent Brit
tain, turned over by him to Berrien
for discount, and Berrien disbursed
the proceeds.
The largest single check of Ber
rien on which payment was refused
was one for SIO,OOO to the superin
tendent of schools of Chatham coun
ty. The others ranged down to
small amounts, though there were
several ranging from $2,000 to $5,-
DOO.
A new arrangement has been
made, Governor Hardwick said for
discounting the warrants with the
Citizens & Southern bank. Under
this arrangement the bank turns
over to Superintendent Biyttain a
cashier’s check for each warrant
presented by him bearing the en
dorsement of the local school board
to which it was made payable. That
is to say the proceeds of the dis
count are collected immediately.
Attorney General Napier is pre
paring some further citations for the
governor in support of his Qpinion
that the governor is authorized to
draw warrants to replace the short
age, but it did not seem likely from
the governor’s discussion of the
matter that he would change his
mind.
Renewed efforts were being made
Wednesday to discover Berrien's
whereabouts, Sheriff Lowry sent
deputies to his residence on Peach
tree street to make a search. They
found nothing, they reported, which
would furnish a. clue. The furni
ture was packed and the family said
they were preparing to move to
Washington, where a sister of Ber
rien resides.
Asks to Be Alone”
Berrien in his letter to the gov
ernor said he had formed a connec
tion in a large city and expected to
make enough money to renav his
shortage in full. He said the degree
of his success along that lina would
depend on whether he was let done.
His letter was mailed in the Atlanta
postofflee with a special delivery
stamp. It evidently was written out
side of Atlanta and sent here bv
Berrien to some relative or friend
who remailed it to the governor,
thus concealing Berrien’s where
abouts.
Governor Hardwick, of course,
does not consider for a moment tho
proposition of compromising or tem
porizing with Berrien, he said Wed
nesday. Neither does Superintendent
Brittain. Instructions tn the Pinker
ton agency, employed In the case,
are to make every effort to locate
Berrien.
Governor Hardwick expressed
gratification that he was able to dis
count the balance of the warrants
for the current period at a rate of
7 per cent with the Citizens and
Southern bank. The rate naid Ber
rien from the beginning of the pe
riod, the first of last February, up
to the last of June, was 7.93 ner
cent. The rate naid him from that
time until his difficulties ended in
his departure from the citv was 7.50
per cent. •