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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-04
Year of Plenty for
Farmers Predicted

A wear of unprecedented prosperity
Was predicted for Georgia farmers by
former Assistant Commissioner Of
AerricIIl+ure J. J. Brown Saturday
Mr.. Brown attributed the fne out
look TO crop diversification and the
SPLENDID yield Of corn, the greatest
since the war
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-04
JOURNALS PRINTED.

The Senate and House journals OF
tho summer session Of the Legisla-
ture have been delivered to the state
department by the state Printer and
are ready for distribution. The se,s
will be deliE cred next week.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-04
Judge Boasts He
Is Above Governor

BATTLE, oct 4.-Twenty Social
We're still in jail to-day as the
of Judge HUMPHREYS wholesale
.'-mpt hearing, when he fined or
''--t,lSoned 50 Socialists as the result
'eiopments in the courts cam
'.Sa asainst street speaking.
nave great power" said the
i am higher than the Gov
can put you in Jail and
.1 pardon you"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-04
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-04
APPLEgLossom TIMEIN JERSEY

BUTLER, y. j., oct Apple and
cherry trees are in fun bloom on the
farm of Noah Hampton here. Recent
heavy rains are said to be respon-
BILE
The Colorado statesman., 1913-12-06

Jack Dillon easily defeated Sailor
Petroskey in their twelve-round fight
at Butte, Mont.
The Carlisle Indian eleven defeated
Brown university 13 to 0, in their an,
nual Thanksgiving Day game at Prov
idence, r. |.
The fisheries of Alaska yield annual.
ly more than $12,00O,0O0 while almost
$35,000,000 is invested in the salmon
industry, which employs $4,000 men.
At Villa Coublay, France, ROLAND G.
Garros accomplished for the first time
in monoplane a flight head down.
ward carrying a passenger. During
the maneuver the machine made sew
eral loops.
The Thanksgiving dinner of the
American Society in London was note
worthy because of the pronouncement
of the British governments indorse-
ment of the Monroe doctrine by Wis
count Haldane, lord high chancellor.
The pope continues daily his au-
dience of bluejackets from the Amer
lean warships in European waters A
party of twenty of the crew of the
battleship Arkansas was received at
the vatican.
One of the unique wedding fits re-
ceived by Miss Jessie Wilson was a
beautiful American emerald of about
three carats weight, presented BY
Lovat Fraser of Washington, through
his friend, DR.. w. T. Grenfell.
The theft of more than S25O,OO0
worth of Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany and General Electric Company
securities from the Farmers Loan and
Trust Company of Now York, became
known when James E. Foye, thirty
five years old, former SIS a month
clerk of the trust company, was ar.
rested as he stepped from a train in
Philadelphia.
The Berlin correspondent of the
Daily Mail asserts 1,40O great German
firms and corporations have agreed to
exhibit at the Panama. Pacific exposi-
tion.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-12-06
An Open Letter to the
Telephone Using Public

public prosperity depends largely upon
the utilities that bring them in contact
with each other, and that the more
nearly perfect in efficiency and suf-
ficiency the utilities serving the public
are, the more prosperity, comforts and
conveniences the public will enjoy
We believe our story is an interest
ing one, and we hope that everyone
will read it.
Note.-As an instance of the kind
of startling news which newspapers
sometimes publish, We want to call
attention to recent articles in the
newspapers headed, United States
Government Calls Upon Two Girl Ste
nographers to Tell Where They Got
Two Million Dollars to Form the Cor
poration Securities and Investment
Company" Then the articles went on
to say that this Corporation Securities
and Investment Company was
scheme of the Telephone Company to
further its purpose of monopolizing
telephone companies, etc.
The truth is that our company has
been met with strong feeling in the
State of Montana-well-nigh univer-
sal-that something should be done to
relieve the citizens of that state, of
ings have been held, and votes taken,
that the telephones of one or the other
of the systems should be thrown out.
Resolutions and letters have been sub
mitted to us, and we have started out
to see what we could do to relieve the
citizens of that state of this burden.
We found that the Independent in
terests operating there also operated
in Spokane, in the State of Washing
ton, and in northern Idaho, and that
the Independent interests doing busi-
ness in Montana could not be bought,
or sold, SO as to alone cover the prop
erty in Montana, but that the purchase
must include their property in the
states of Idaho and Washington. The
Mountain States Telephone and Tele-
graph Company does not operate in
either of these sections, and, there
fore, is not responsible for telephone
conditions there, nor does it wish to
operate there, but we felt we must
meet the situation in Montana, and
SO, in order to be in a position to
either buy or sell, from or to, the
Independent interests in Montana,
there was formed this Corporation Sc
curities and Investment Company, as
corporate company, to enter into ne
SotlatOnS with the Independent inter-
ests in Montana, which negotiations
are now in progress, and, if possible,
to buy these Independent interests in
Montana, northern Idaho and Wash
ington, and then in the end, if that
purpose was accomplished, the Corpo-
ration Securities and Investment Com
pany should sell to The Mountain
States Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany the portion of the Independent
plants located in Montana, and sell
to others the portion of these Inde-
pendent plants existing in northern
Idaho and Washington.
We explain this SO the public may
know that in the above Forword,
where we say there is no company
within a company, or wheels within
Wheels" we are speaking absolutely
truly, and also that this Corporation
Securities and Investment Company,
which was so freely advertised by the
articles in the newspaper referred to,
is absolutely legitimate and proper
company and organized for the specific
purposes stated.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-12-06
AFRO-AMER|CAN CULL|NCS

One of the keenest observers of the
proceedings in congress is Eugene
Patten, the only negro who ever
served as page in the house or SEN
ate. Sixty years have whitened his
hair, but his step is sprightly and his
mind alert, while from mere force of
habit the trend of legislation on the
hill and the personnel of the two
branches which shape the laws are the
center of his interest.
Patten is still an empioye of the
government, but in the humble ca
pacity of gathering rubbish from the
parks instead of responding to the
handicap of lawmakers in the lower
house. He has a memory like a pho
nograph, wide in it's range and aston
ishingly accurate. The good old days,
when the giants of debate sat in con-
gress during the Democratic regime
Immediately following the era of re-
construction, have become "the ocean
to the river Of his thoughts and he
loves to linger over the memory of
them. AS he recalls the incidents and
cites the characteristics of eminent
men, an absorbing panorama of politi-
cal history unfolds before you.
Patten was born in Huntsville, Ala.
and when he drifted to Washington as
lad he was one of the few Democrats
of his race. He was no ordinary lad,
and his political views were a matter
of real conviction. The promptness
and intelligence with which he dis
charged minor errands brought him
to the attention of influential members
of congress, who resolved to secure
him an appointment. Never before in
the history of congress had any but
white boys been appointed pages, but
the men behind young Patten decided
to break all precedents. Such celebri-
ties as John Randolph Tucker, Eppa
Hunton, Tom Ewing and Alexander H.
Stephens eXerted themselves in his
behalf, and in due course he was ap-
pointed a page.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-12-06

One question was debated SO years
ago, and that was the question as to
our ability to support ourselves from
a physical and>personal point of view.
There were not a few who so years
ago predicted that this newly freed
race would become a perpetual bur-
den upon the pocketbooks of the ma
ton. 1t was freely predicted that we
would neither feed, clothe nor shelter
ourselves. Every year the American
congress is asked to appropriate be-
tweep $10,000,000 and 100000 to be
used largely in providing food, clothes,
and shelter for about 100000 Ameri-
can Indians. While this is true of the
American Indian (and l have nothing
but the highest respect for the In
dians) ever since the days of Recon
struction the American negro has not
called upon congress to appropriate
single dollar to be used in providing
either clothes, shelter or food for our
race. Absolutely in all these person
al matters we have supported our
selves and mean to do so in all the
future, and very seldom in any part of
the country does one find black hand
reached from corner of street ask
ing for any mans personal charity.
Within so years. then, we have proven
that we can survive from a physical
point of view, and we have proven that
we could not only support ourselves
but contribute taxes from 100000, 900
worth of property toward the support
of local, state, and national govern
ment.-Booker T Washington.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-12-06
The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company

A brilliant ceremony attended the
opening of the Italian parliament by
King Victor Emmanuel.
Joe Rivers, the Los Angeles MeXi
can, defeated Leach Cross, the New
York lightweight, in twenty rounds OF
fighting at the Vernon arena. in San
Francisco.
Jimmy Clabby, the Hammond Ind :,
middleweight, defeated Soldier Frank
Logan in the fourteenth round of a
scheduled twenty-round fight in San
Francisco.
Harry White, a wealthy Chinese,
said to be leader of a band of Snug
glers that has operated long on the
Canadian border, was arrested in New
York.
With every business house in Juarez
closed and under the protection of
United States Consul Thomas B. Ed
wards, General Pancho Villas troops
were thwarted Thursday in well-or-
ganized plan for loot.
One cent postage promises to be
one of the live issue to be fought out
in the regular session of Congress. A
dozen bills have been introduced and
it is said about half of these provide
for penny postage outright.
Displaying old-time, power and
smoothness, the Mines football ma
chine smashed the University of Den
yer to pieces at Denver, winning the
final game of the season, 40 to Z.
1t was just one hour and forty-five
minutes after the passage of life SEN
tence upon him, that Marion Nc
Adams, the holdup, who pleaded
guilty to murder in the second degree
at Cripple Greek, began to serve his
term in the penitentiary.
Thomas H. A. Magill, pioneer Den
yer newspaper man, who succumhed
to tuberculosis at the Oakes home in
Denver, was buried from ST Leo's
church. The funeral service was
preached by the Rev. Father William
O'Ryan and interment was at Mount
Olivet cemetery.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-12-06

all paid dollar for dollar, in cash, at
par, into the treasury of our company,
for every share they hold, and they
have simply come into our company
because they believed it to be safe
investment.
There IS, too, upon the part of the
public, 4 belief that the company is
largely engaged in politics. We imag-
inc this feeling is caused by the fact
that in the past. simply from the
standpoint of self-preservation, certain
corporations were almost compelled
to be in politics. but in these days,
when the tendency is to place all cor
porations and trust. affairs into the
hands of a central body, such as the
Interstate Commerce Commission and
local state commissions, etc, to deal
with the conduct of businesses such as
ours, being in politics, as believed by
the public, would be a foolish thing
and entirely unnecessary. This is,
therefore, to state emphatically that
we are not, either directly or indirect.
ly, in politics, in any way, shape or
manner, and shall not be.
We are going to attempt to give
you the entire story as to our rates.
We have been told, when stating to
starting campaign like this, that our
efforts would be futile; that our sub
scribers would turn out to be selfish
and only look toward the end of get
ting as cheap telephone rates as pos
sible. We do not believe this. We
believe that the great majority of the
public are inclined to be fair, and that
it is not so much the question of what
our telephone rates are as it is that
when we make a statement regard
Ing them, and show our true financing,
that we shall be honest, and that the
public shall know that we are honest.
That when we make statement as
to our profits and earnings, showing
just where the dollar that our sub
scriber pays us goes, the public may
know that we are not trying to de-
ceive them or keep anything back that
should be shown. When we honestly
do this and our position seems to be
just and right, we believe that the fair
ness of the public will sustain us.
We are going to set forth the in
herent difficulties of giving universal
telephone service These articles and
/ letters are not to be a piece of spe-
cial pleading or adroit use of words,
but clear, business-like setting forth
of facts. We hope, before we get
through, both ourselves and the public
will understand each other better.
There is at least no harm to be done
in trying to accomplish this desired
result.
1t is our aim to educate, please and
satisfy the public and to be educated
ourselves. 1t seems to us that every
corporation has the right of self
defense, the same as an individual.
The public has the same right. Listen
to our defense and we will listen to
yours. No problem has ever been
harder for us than just how we were
going to let the public know truly
about us, but we believe that no prob
lem was ever more important to both.
If we really can make you feel that
you are a partner in our business, we
shall have accomplished much A
large part of the problem will be
solved, if we can only bring the pub
lie, through education, to a full under
standing that there is mutual de-
pendence between the public service
corporations and the public, and that
The Colorado statesman., 1913-12-06

Resolutions were introduced in the
House to investigate the high cost OF
living.
The battleship Emperor of India, the
last of the four battleships on the Brit
ish 1911-1912 naval construction pro-
gram, was launched at Barron-in-Fur-
ness, England.
The car barns, general offices and
number of cars of the Mesaba Elec-
trio Railway Company at Virginia,
Mimi, were destroyed by fire. The
loss is S125,000
Thanksgiving Day was celebrated
by all Americans in Rome. Thomas
Nelson Page, the United States am
bassador, gave a dinner to the mem
bers of the embassy staff.
The state public service commission
of Missouri granted permission to the
Chicago, Milwaukee and ST. Paul rail-
road company to issue $470,000,000
ninety-nine year mortgage bonds.
Mrs Katherine D. Osbourne was
granted a divorce in the Superior
Court at San Francisco from Lloyd
Osbourne, stepson of Robert Louis
Stevenson. on the ground of desertion.
One hundred and eighty-four wound
ed men are in the Juarez hospitals
as result of the unsuccessful federal
attack upon Juarez. Pancho Villa ia
also back in Juarez with 6,0OO rebel
troops.
Death ended the romance of Elmorc
and Mrs. Pearl Macdonald, whose
marriage at Macdonalds bedside in
st. Joseph's hospital in Denver took
place few days ago. The Rev John
II. Houghton. who performed the we'd
ding ceremony, conducted the funeral
service at Macdonald's grave.
Ole Stromberg, whose ranch Is.
three miles west of NiWot, on Left
hand creek, reports that a large num-
ber OF beaver are working in the
creek on his place. They have cut
down 100 trees, all cottonwoods, three,
feet in diameter.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-12-06

Soldiers must make oath to amount
edict.
The council has decided that Den
yer saloons may continue to serve
free lunches.
The first strawberries of the season,
two carloads, left Plant City, Fla, for
Chicago. The farmers netted 75c a
quart.
The telephone has supplanted the
telegraph in the dispatching of trains
on the Denver G Rio Grande between
Grand Junction and Salt Lake.
John Thomas, for years one of the
most successful mining men of the
district, died of heart disease on a
couch in the office of the chief of
police in Cripple Creek.
John McLennan, state president OF
the striking coal miners, was re-elect.
ed president of the Colorado State
Federation of Labor in the recent ref
erendum vote.
Postmaster General Burleson has
recommended to the Interstate Com
merce Commission that the maximum
weight of parcel post packages be in.
creased from ~ to 90 pounds for first
and second zones.
William Wilson Finley, president of
the Southern railway and leading
figure in movements for the de-
velopment of the South, died from ap-
opleXy.
Judge William C. Hood, Jr, of
Brighton, who is presiding over the
second division of the Denver County
Court to help Judge Rothgerber dis
pose of heavy docket, and Miss
Alice Cady, clerk of the division. were
married at Littleton by the Rev.
George Edmundson, pastor of the Lit
tleton Presbyterian church.
A proposal to have the annual Har-
vard-Yale football game played on
Thanksgiving Day, instead of on the
Saturday preceding the holiday has
been communicated umofficially to the
Harvard football management.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-12-06
Denver, Colo, November 80, 1913.

Tho Mountain States Telephone and
Telegraph Company, in the consider
alton of It's future development, recog-
nizes that its highest interests as n
public utility lie in establishing the
closest and most friendly relationship
with the public generally, and with
its patrons in particular; therefore, it
is tho purpose of The Mountain States
Telephone and Telegraph Compcny,
through this announcement, to inau-
guratc what may be termed an cdver-
tising educational series of articles,
both in the newspapers and in the
form of letters to its customers. 1t is
our hope that this campaign may mark
q new era in the relation of public
utility corporations to the public they
serve. We want this education to
work both ways-that the public may
learn the truth about us, and that we
may learn how the public regard us.
and how We may fairly and efficiently
serve the public-in other words, what
is just and right to us and to the peo-
pie, and to convince the public that
we will voluntarily remedy any wrongs
we are doing. if pointed out to us.
We shall show you our financial af-
fairs, frankly and freely. 1t so hap
pens that our financing has been of
such 4 nature that it is easy for us to
clearly show to you this side of our
affairs. What we mean by this is, that
we have absolutely no water in our
stock; we have no bonds, nor any pre-
ferred stock, and no mortgage of any
kind upon which to pay fixed charges.
We have more invested in our plant
at its present replacement value than
our issue of common stock, and we
have no other stock issued than the
common stock There are no wheels
within wheels, nor companies within
companies, to absorb profits. We
finance ourselves from year to year
by selling our common stock to the
people, at not less than par, in he
states in which we operate
When we tell you tho story of our
financing, we will prove to you that
there never have been any fortunes,
large or small made out of the manip-
ulation of our stock-in other words,
no high financing has ever been done
in connection with The Mountain
States Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany, or its predecessors. The stock
never has had any speculative value;
it has been, and is now, simply a safe
investment
There is a great misunderstanding
upon the part of the public as to this
side of our business. Persons with
ulterior motives, striving for office,
and newspapers wishing to give start
ling news (see note below frequently
publish stories of how rich certain
officials of our company are. Right
now, this is being dono in connection
with the new revenue tax. We sup
pose these stories grow out of the
belief of certain of the public that the
executive officials of our company own
the entire plant. 1t is absurd, for
these executive officials of our COM
pany are merely trustees of the prop
erty for the stockholders, and none
of them are rich men, nor have they
very heavy holding of the stock. 1t
ia true that certain reputed rich men
have large holdings of the stock of our
company-some of them being on our
Board of DirectorsLbut not one of
them has made any money whatsoever
out of dealing in our stock. They have
The Colorado statesman., 1913-12-06

George Washington Buckner, the
new American minister to Liberia, has
been in consultation with Ambassador
Page for one or two days this week,
reports the London Times He is a
negro doctor, of Evansville, Ind.
Apparently he is approaching his
task in the African republic with great
zeal and ardor in company with Lieu
tenant Martin. graduate of Howard
university, who will help organize the
Liberian constabulary
The Colorado statesman., 1913-12-06

The re-establishment of direct COM
munication between San Francisco
and Bristol through the arrangements
for the Maple Leaf line of steamers
to call at Avonmouth, has rendered
valuable aid to the development of the
trade in canned fruits and salmon.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-12-06

An aviation school has just been
founded in Lima under the auspices
of the National Aero league Uiga
Naciona Pro Aviacion) under $4,000
subsidy by the Peruvian government
for acquiring aeroplanes and other
euipment necessary for such a school.