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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-12
3DO EXHIBITORS
IN CORN SH D "
Boy Scouts From All Over State
Anxious to Visit Atlanta
Display.

All Of the exhibits for the Georgia
g-or, show. to be held in Atlanta De-
.anber 3. 4, 5 and 6, from the south
EASTERN district, will be shipped to At
,anta November 20. according to a let
t4r lust received from J. Walter Hen
ticks Of savannah, district agent there
for the Corn clubs.
Mr. Hendricks says there will be APP
or,yimately 300 exhibits from the
southeastern district These exhibits
r.iu first hes hown at the Southeastern
Georgia Corn show at Savannah, No
yamber 1929. and, following that, will
he sent direct to Atlanta. Indications
are there will be a good attendance of
corn club boys from the southeastern
district.
Boy Scouts Instructed.
Tho Georgia Corn show committee,
through Captain w. H. Leahy, of the
Fifth regiment, is preparing a letter of
instructions to be sent to the county
school commissioners in each county in
the state. relating to the boy scout
movement and giving instructions as to
drill and field work.
The purpose is to enable the boys to
get some preliminary instruction in the
bov scout idea before coming to At
autd.
Information from all sections of the
state is to the effect that the boy scout
feature has commanded immediate pop
u,arity among the Georgia Corn club
bows. and many of them who are not
aNhibitors in the show have expressed a
desire to come to Atlanta on that ac-
count
In some counties the boys have al
ready taken hold of the boy scout move
ment and are learning it's basic prin-
ctrles The leaders expect to come to
Atlanta enthusiastic over it.
Prize For Best Company.
Captain Leahy realizes that he has
no small job on hand in taking hold of
and training these hundreds of boys
who will be here for the show. But if a
considerable proportion of them come
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-12
BROWNS IN cHArTAHoocHEE.

. COLUMBUS, GA, Nov. 12.-Harry
Bennett, of the Portland Manufactur-
ing Company, fell from gasoline
launch into the Chattahoochee river,
four miles south of Columbus, and was
drowned. Friends have been searching
for his body, but thus far have not re-
covered its Bennett was machinist,
installing looms at he Columbus Man.
ufacturing Company's mills.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-12
CRANK ARRESTED AT
DOOR OF WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON, Nov. Ia man
who said his name was Jeff DowdeI. a
miner of Sherwood, Ind, was arrested
at the white house while insist
ing upon an audience with President
Taft and Ambassador Bryce. with
whom he said he wanted to discuss
ways of reducing the cost of living The
crank will be held pending inquiry into
his sanity.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-12
PHYSICIANS MEET TOMORROW.

MACON, GA. Nov 12.-The SEMI
annual convention of the physicians of
the Sixth district will be held in Macon
tomorrow. DR.. w j. Little of
Macon. is president of the association.
An interesting program has been ar.
ranged
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-18
SHERMAN'S MARCH.
Grant Authorized Destruction Of
Railway Lines and Supplies.
From the New York Post

From the New York Post.
A telegram Of Gen. L. s. Grant of
great historical importance is to be sold
at auction this week. 1t is dated at City
Point. Virginia. October II 1854. Is adj
dressed to Gen. Sherman, and reads In
part as follows;
On reflection I think better OF your
proposition. 1t will be much better to go
south than to be forced to come north
You will no doubt clean the country
where you go of RAILROAD tracks and sup
plies. / would also move every wagon.
horse. mule. and hoof Of stock as we'll
as the negroes. AS far as arms can be
supplied 1 would put them in the hands
of the negro men. Give them such organ
ization as you can. They will be Of some
use.
U. s. GRANT, 1t. Gen.
Now. the significance Of this Is that Gen.
Shernan's commander deliberately or
dered that policy of laying waste the
IN his march to the sea. that began
almost at once. For this policy Of ruin
ing the territory in which he operated.
Gen. Sherman has ever since been Sc
operations of the ''bummers" who fol-
lowed his troops. 1t is still the custom
in many sections OF the south to lay at
his door any and all loss of property.
What Sherman did on his march to the
sea Sheridan did In the Shenandoah
ravag1ng that wonderful granary from
which Lees armies drew so large a por-
tion OF their food each year until Sher-
idan made good his threat that q crow
flying over 1t would have to carry his
rations on his back. In Grants telegram
cited above We have the clearest proof
that. after three and one-haH years OF
warfare he. too, had come to the con
Clusion that the most humane method OF
conducting war was to SO completely
impoyerish and wreck the enemy's coun
try as to make dong-drawn-out resist
ance impossible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-18

Once in a long while You see farm
house with a few rusty streaks Of iron
running down from the rooftree to
ground under the caves Inquiry usually
develops the fact that these have been
in place for twenty years or more. The
lightning rod agent has vanished with
his wares. He is no longer a subject
for the jokesmith dealing with rural
themes.
That clause in the insurance policies
that protects against fire. lightning.
windstorms and tornadoes' seems to
have taken the place of the platinum
tipped rod that used to stud the roofs
Of the fearful and the prudent There
are thousands of farmers and business
men who never met a lightning rod
agent.
Certainly the electrical currents are
just as dangerous to life and property
as they were when the lightning rod
was staple article of commerce. More
lives are lost. more live stock is killed
and more buildings are burned by these
discharges now than in the past, as the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-18
TREAT THE TOAD KINDLY.
Encourage It to Stay in the Garden
and It Will Kill Off the Worms.

From the Springfield Union
City Forester Gale came out as a cham
pion of the toad yesterday in an interest
ing dissertation, the main point of which
was the increasing activity of the cut
worm In the gardens of the city is due
in large measure to the departure Of the
frogs first cousin.
The city forester says that the natural
enemies OF the cutworm, "tud." "toadie"
toad and hop toad" have apparently
left Springfield for good. He says that
it would be good idea if garden lovers
imported some OF them; that 1t would pay
to treat them kindly and to encourage
their permanent settlement in the gar
dens Where the sleepy-eyed ''hoppies''
used to be common in the city the forest
er says now only few Of them can be
found. while the cutworm, free from
inroads, fiourishes and wakes fat in in
creasing numbers. The toads remaining
IN the city. he says. should be welcomed
as true friends and encouraged to re-
main If the cutworm is ever to be sub
dued
The city forester said that there are
several apparent reasons why the toads
have been growing fewer and fewer One
reason given Is that many persons, hav-
ing strong dislike for the toad's per-
sonal appearance. have made 1t uncom-
- $3.50 ~. ehcIA 70 stay d OuAu. Sdto
are also blamed for reducing the toad
population. The city forester says that
many "kitties'' make a speciality of cap
turing and killing the gardeners friend
The slaughter is apparently done in a
sporting sense, as the killer seldom sam
pies the good qualities Of its victim.
The city forester also finds that the
toads are apparently growing fewer in
the country surrounding Springfield Just
what the reason Is for this mysterious
decrease in the open country he could
not say, but 1t looks as il the toad, hav-
ing found that it was not welcome. had
decided to let the cutworm and the man
fight it out between themselves. The city
forester says that II owners Of Spring
field gardens could get few toads and
put them in the gardens they would find
that the trouble from cutworms would be
much less. II the news Of the kind treat
ment were spread throughout toaddom 1t
is considered possible that a return of the
old friends would be accomplished.
Mr.. Gale says that the toad knows
when to get the cutworm and does It's
hunting In the night time, when the
worm works on plants. cutworm
crawls to young stalk under cover Of
darkness and starts to sever 1t. The toad,
being able to see In the night time, spots
the worm. One flip Of long tongue and
the worm Ia. goner. The toad has q spe-
cial liking for cutworms and a big appe-
tite. Consequently 1t takes many worms
to satisfy it and the gardeners garden
is protected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-18
THE STRAIN ON RAILS.
ANALYSIS Which Makes One Regard
Them With Respect.
From the Metropolitan

From the metropolitan
Have you an idea Of the strain to which
a steel rail is subjected today? Let us
consider one for a moment, In the time
of it's greatest torture. and see. The
Cannon Bali express is coming. 1t is
drawn by two engines. The largest
weighs 100 tons-seventy-seven tons OF
the weight are carried on the six driving
wheels. which means almost thirteen tons
20 wheel.
Thirteen tons of weight upon each
wheel That means thirteen tons OF
weight impinging for q flying instant
upon a rail surface perhaps no more than
an inch square. and then. moving for
ward all the time, succession OF whlri-
ing blows from a thirteen-ton hammer.
If the train is going thirty miles an
hour an imaginary square inch has but
1-J2S part of a second in which to re-
ceive the blow. Vince under 1t, distribute
the terrible force Of it through its elastic
elements to the surrounding mass OF the
rail. brace itself to help distribute
stresses that are being set up on ada
cent surfaces. and zigzagging back and
forth in all sorts of ways through the
content of the rail. and then almost IN
stantly lift it's devoted head to receive
the blow of the next driving wheel.
IL the train is going sixty miles an hour
instead of thirty. this all has to be re-
ceived. withstood and passed on in one
ten-hundred-and-fif y-sixth part Of sec
ond.
And yet this isn't all that is happening
to the nerves Of the rail. This is only
taking account of the compression
strains. There is another set OF strains,
for these big driving wheels are pulling
the train. They have caught hold of the
rails just as your hands grip the rope in
q tug Of war. and they take a fresh hold
every fraction of second. The tendency
is to pull the top of the head off the rail.
to pull 1t all to pieces. 1t is the business OF
the rail to site together, head and web
and fiange, in every single and separate
molecule with all the tenacity Of which
steel is capable.
But we have stated only one-half the
tension strain. This strain Is reversing
all the time: for while the huge drivers
are pulling one part Of the rail toward
them, they are pushing another part
away fro.n them. This pluckng and
spurning, hauling and kicking, tension
and compression goes on continuously.
Complete reversing from compression to
tension or back again takes place with
every half turn of driving wheel. and
at a frightfully rapid rate. The marvel
is that the rail IS not ground to powder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-18
"Barbarizing" the Air.
chicago Record Herald.

From the Chicago Record Herald.
Baroness Won Suttner. the peace cham
pion and many other prominent men and
women of Austria have issued a protest
against the frenzied rivalry in building
military aeroplanes. They call this ac-
tivity the barbarizing of the air" They
are demanding a conference of the pow
ers and an agreement to prohibit, at least,
the dropping of explosives from aeo-
planes on ships or military camps.
1t Is impossible not to sympathize with
these protestants. Everything that less
ems the savagery and devastation of war
should be encouraged by peace advo-
Gates Still. the question remains why the
Naturalization of the air is worse than
that of the sea. Why is the planting of
mines to send great warships to the bot
tom less shocking and uncivilized than
the dropping Of bomb?
The truth is. war Is babarous and hor-
rible, whether carried on on land. on
water or In the air. II should be limited
and abolished. There Is no longer any
decent excuse for it when not clearly de-
fensive. Let all peace men and women
work for radical arbitration treaties. for
anti-cOnquest resolutions Of the Mccall
kind, for Limitation of ornaments and
determined resistance to lingo and mill
tarist programs. =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-18
Disputing, Our New Dominion.
From the Chisago Evening Post.

ioni thc SAcoBO Evening FODt.
1t begins to look as though the airmen
had more enemies in the air than merely
the treacherous pockets into which they
fall. Sea gulls have now begun to figure
in the list of accident causes. The tum-
BILE which Rodgers. the aviator. took a
short time ago while on the Pacific coast
was attributed in all the reports to col
lision with a sea gull which had got
jammed in the rudder. And now 1t turns
out that the accident which befell Parme-
lee the other day was due to the same
cratic phenomenon A sea gull struck
the propeller and caused the machine to
drop 500 feet before control could be
established.
An air pocket is uncertain enough. but
1t cannot do much more damage than an
excited sea gull which gets into the very
heart Of the airman's delicate machine.
The airship of the future will have to be
protected in some way or other from the
turtles have held undisputed dominion
over the air.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-18
Leasing a Sewer System.
rom the Boston Transcript.

From the Boston Transcript.
Capitalists who invest in sewers gen.
enerally do so by the roundabout method
of buying municipal bonds. but In the city
of Ellsworth. Kan, plan is in operation
that seems to exemplify an unusual de-
velopment of American ingenuity. The
city needed a sewerage system, some
years ago. but there was not much
money in the treasury and the situation
seemed desperate until a wealthy resident
offered to build the system and lease it
to the municipality on a per yard basis.
That offer was accepted, and now the
original contract. which recently expired.
has been renewed. The man who owns
the system has a good investment. The
city fathers assert that 1t has cost them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-18
Ike Philbert's Idea.

'It seems that Ike Philbert got the idea
into his head long time ago that all the
farmers In the mountain section of my
state-and that's three-fourths Of it
were putting a bit Of money in the bank.
simply because Of the heavy hickory nut
crop. 1t worked out this way. The farm
paid it's annual profit, and that money
generally went toward living expenses.
upkeep and all that, but the by-products.
such as hickory nuts, were really adding
up the increased wealth. Oh, We used to
ship many tons of hickory nuts every
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-18
not only flowers but low-necked waists
and cobwebbed stockings

and cobwebbed stockings
II this were an illustration of condi-
ton peculiar to Cincinnati, it could be
passed over with sarcasm. If it were but
an example Of the folly of schoolgirls, it
could be passed with jest. But it
shows a condition prevalent throughout
the United States, ana the folly Is not
that of schoolgirls but that of their
mothers. One Of the duties a mother
owes to her daughter is to teach her how
to dress with modesty becoming youth
and to see to it that she dresses that
way There is no need of setting an ex-
ample.
All sorts of cubs and societies are
now called in to help manage girls.
Home training by the mother appears to
be passing away. and with it is passing
the old ODE dience of the daughter. Club
reform schools are equally helpless. The
one thing needed is the old-fashioned
motherhood that not only bore children.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-18
Mothers and Their Daughters.

From the New York World
AS a result of a discussion along the
members Of the Home Economics Asso-
citation Of Cincinnati. some sixty $50
cially prominent women have started a
movement for promoting simplicity OF
dress. We are told 1.-The need was urged
most strongly on the ground that an
example must be set to schoolgirls who
paint and powder and wear to school
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-18
Fridav Clearance of Mems Wear

country is more thickly populated and
the chances are greater.
Foreign countries used them in enor-
nous quantities. Even South Africa,
twenty-five years ago, protected life and
property against the tropical thunder
storm by means Of these products OF
American ingenuity
Why has the lightning rod vanished?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-18

less to lease 1t than 1t would have cost
to pay for construction and maintenance.
And yet for all its originality one would
hesitate to approve this new departure
in city building. II 1t We're not explicitly
provided in the lease that the munich
pality may purchase the property. at
price agreed upon. whenever 1t may ma
itself in funds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-18
The Vanishing Lightning Rod.

From the ST. Louis Republic.
The death Of John Cole. authority on
electrical phenomena and pioneer in the
lightning rod business, calls attention to
the undoubted fact that humanity is not
so fearful of lightning as it was gen
Grafton ago. The lightning rod is vanish
ing.
These deflectors Of electrical current
are practically unknown in the cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-18

Capt John A. Davis died at the Virginia
state epileptic colony. Albemarle county.
aged sixty-eight years. He was the son
of a physician of Bedford county. and
during the war was a captain at the
Virginia Military Institute and took part
in the charge at New Market.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-18

fall. 1 guess our hickory nut production
supplied half the world. Well. old Phil
bert, he doped out scheme to have all
the hickory nuts pass through his hands
He owned a little railroad down the
mountains, and at the end Of ten years
he and a dozen other shellbacks were in
control of the nut situation. II you had
any nuts. you had to get the price for
them from the nut trust or you had EN-
on your hands.
good and proper by the hickory nut ring
Eot elected to the state legislature. and
the way he went after old Philbert was
a shame He made speeches against him
names he could think Of. and succeeded in
advertising the nut industry very well.
indeed. Finally he got a committee of
the legislature to investigate. We had
old Philbert on the stand for days. He
confessed. after some urging. that they
about 9S7 per cent month. or about
a million dollars season. 1t was also
shown that the stock was at really q
low figure, and that almost any one with
Interest In Inquiry Lays.
about the time that information was
sprung the investigation began to lag.
There was a pile of money drawn out Of
the banks at that juncture. and no one
seemed to take the slightest interest In
the nut trust Afer the state papers had
glowed with red-hot articles on the in
iquitous inside circle of the hickory nut
combine the fire began to cool.
When the legislature adjourned that
session you couldn't say hickory nut
without having a legislator looking at you
with grieved expression on his face.
There was never any end to that investi-
cation. 1t just dropped off. Why? Be-
cause they investigated 1t just long
enough to find out that 1t would pay a
mighty good dividend. All those investi-
gators were on the inside with q fist full
Of hickory nut preferred in their pockets.
1t all depends on the point OF view"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-18
Plain Speaking.

From the Taller.
Why. it's as plain as the nose on
your face
We'll. anyhow. 1t Amt as plain as the
face behind your nose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-18
Back of the New Visible
Model Burroughs

Back of the New Visible
Model Burroughs
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pany in the world
Every man of a
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A o7-men inventions
departments guaran-
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Burroughs Keep-the-
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and
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desired.
Let us show YOU this
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ton or lost to you.
Burroughs Adding Machine Co.
F.. s. NEWMAN. Sales Manager.
1918 14th st. NV.
WASHINGTON. D. C.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-18

but ruled them with firmness and reared
them in reverence.
The Sentinel=record., 1912-01-10
THE FHieE--AoAiN.

The press dispatches from Washing. lnn, where the Democratic National Committee is in session. yesterday said
 Baltimore stood out to the fore of all her competitors as the next con- yention city. The representative of ifat city proudly displayed certi- fled check for sio0,0o0 as its bid for the convention. 1,
 Verify, it Is ever the price that gets conventions.
 The National Democratic Commit tee is none too democratic to he lared by the price. Neither seems any oth- CT national organization.
 1t isn't a matter of convenience to delegates. or point of political want. age. or city of adaptability. but a question of price,
 In the old days a party convention was held first where the convention wonld leave enthusiasm where en- thuslasm was most needed.
 The s100.000 certified check will not go to the delegates. Any city that asked for the convention would have given public halls in sufficiency, a band, committee rooms, and paid the hotel bills of the ebig guns" These are always done.
 But Baltimore offered more. It had q certified check for s100,000 and a certified check for slo1,ano Is not tc be sneezed at
 It may be all right for democracy to follow the customs which generally prevail, but to a country editor who l6ohs on the situation from afar. il might have been good time for a democratic organization to do some thing out of the ordinary, and inform Baltimore that democracy wasn't so interested in the "glue' as in the oth- CT things that should have bearing on national party conventions scenes.
 And incidentally. we might urge the Southern cities to follow that resolution passed in Memphis last year. when they went on record at a Municipal Convention as opposed to straight out buying of conventions, agreeing. on the other hand, to pre- sent their actual claims for conven- tions in an honest manner, and if not selected under these conditions, let the conventions pass to the cash bid ders.
The Sentinel=record., 1912-01-10
MILWAUKEE DINING ROOM.
Opens to the Public Last Evening
 With Many Guests Present.

The Milwaukee Hotel dining room was formally opened for the 1912 sea son last evening when Mine Host Hickey had number of invited guests present to enjoy a very splen- did menu. For some time the dining rccm feature had teen closed and the
 hotel run on the European plan, but the general demand from guests that Mir. Hickey continue the oper. ation of the dining room in the splen- did manner formerly handled. has been answered in the opening of last evening. A most excellent repast was served many special guests at the opening.
The Sentinel=record., 1912-01-10
THREE MORE LICENSES
Issued Yesterday by County Court Completes Liquor License Roster.


 Three additional licenses passed on fayorably yesterday by Judge Thurston P Farmer in county court it Is believed completes the full hoster of applications for the year of 1912. The licenses granted yesterday were to G. P. Belston at 12s Central avenue; M. T. Relyea, TAO Central avenue; Wilson and Law renee. 225 Valley street. There is now but one controversy over the license question. that being where there are two applicants for the Kentucky Club Bar and this case is still in the courts on appeal.