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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-21
GEORGIAN Tells
Of ESCAPE IN
SKY FALL
Lieutenant Towers First Man t
Tumble Quarter of a Mile
and Live.

WASHINGTON, June 21.-Lying
on a cot in the Naval Academy Hos
pital at Annapolis, almost compIet,
nervous wreck, Lieutenant John A
Towers, of Rome, Ga. told the stor
of his 1,600-foot drop in an aero
plane which resulted in the death
Ensign William D. Billingsley. Tow
ers case is puzzling physicians, fc
while apparently but slightly inter
nally injured, his nerves are shat
tered He is the only man on recor,
to tumble a quarter of a mile down
ward and live to tell the story.
Biuingsley and Towers had at
tanned an altitude of 1925 feet in
trying out a hydroplane They haC
reached a spot about ten miles dowr
Chesapeake Bay when a sudden gus
of wind jerked the airship and threw
Billngsley over the steering gear. An
other jerk threw him from the ma
chine. He shot downward in the wa
tiers of the bay.
Held Fast to Machine.
Towers was thrown from his seat
but held desperately to one of the
uprights. over and over the machine
turned, but his grip never loosened
As the hydroplane struck the water
he was thrown free of the wreckage
and rose rapidly to the surface. He
was rescued by parties in a motor
boat
"Oh, It was horrible to see poor
Billy shooting downward" he moan
ed. I'VE were sailing nicely when a.
sudden gust of wind threw him out
of his seat, while another jerk sent
him completely away from it. There
was no chance to help him, it all hap
pened so quickly The only thing
that saved me was the fact that | had
a tight grip on one of the uprights,
and when the plane jerked I locked
my grip.
we shot downward at a terrific
rate, but poor Billy was topping over
and over and going downward even
faster than we were. 1t made me sick
to see him and know that he was
going to his death, and l almost lost
my grip. Before we had gone half the
distance to the water, the ship turned
completely over and braced itself for
moment, only to shoot downward
at a greater pace. All l remember
Of striking the water was a terrific
crash, of finding myself struggling to
get to the surface. 1t seemed a year
before / shot out above the surface,
and the gasp of breath / took seemed
as if it would tear me to pieces.
Towers Home in Rome.
Il suffered a thousand agonies and
feared l would drown"
Towers was ashen after his terrify-
ing experience All indications are
that he is but slightly injured ply
sically, but it probably will be sew
eral days before his mental faculties
resume their normal state. He is the
son of Mrs. Mary n. Towers, 10 Sew
enth Avenue, Rome, Ga He entered
the academy at Annapolis in 1902 In
1911 he was assigned to the aviation
corps. He has taken part in many
notable aviation meets. Billingsley
was from Mississippi.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-21
The Latest Rag
AS She Sung It.

Muffled strains of syncopated music
came from under a counter in a store
and reached the ears of the floor wal
ker. He crept closer and listened.
Presently a fluffy head popped up
That's a catchy little tune, isn't
it?" he asked gracioUsly.
But you should hear the words, .
she returned, and she recited the fol-
lowing:
1Ncy fool and fool and fool around
TBcy fuss md fret and flGme around,
But nary q cent thcB spend.
It's no good without name" he
suggested.
I'VE have a name, all right. The
girls at the bargain counter call it the
Department Store Rag"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-21
Look in the Hat
Brought Money.

To the paying teller's window Of the
bank came a man asking payment on
a check
'.dave you got anybody to identify
your" demanded the clerk.
The man was stumped
Let me see the inside of your hat, .
demanded the clerk.
The man obeyed and the next mo-
ment found his money coming at him
through the grated window. As he
said afterward, the strangest part of
it all was that he was wearing his
brothers hat though there were no
betraying initials in it.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-21
Man and Sister on
Motorcycle Hurt in
PeaChtree Accident

NJ. l. Seals and sister, Miss Bertha
Seals, $50 Capitol Avenue, were pain
fully injured Friday night when. to
escape collision with a street car, Mr..
Seals turned the motorcycle they were
riding into an obstruction at Peach
tree and Sixth Streets. They were
rushed to Grady Hospital and later
taken to their home The motorcycle
was badly damaged.
Seals and his sister were riding
TANDEM" A trolley car and an auto
mobile hemmed the machine, forcing
Mr.. Seals to swerve his motorcycle
across the curbing to the sidewalk
Both riders were thrown several feet
into the air
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-21

Already a score or more members
of the new Legislature are in Atlanta,
quartered for the session.
Additions are coming in on every
train, and it is figured that by Mon
day evening practically the entire
membership of both the Senate and
House will be in the Capital, ready
for business.
Monday and Tuesday, the new Leg
islature will meet informally and
without organization in the Kimball
lobby, to get acquainted.
Wednesday it will be sworn in
and later along, as one promising
member put it, Il will be "cussed out"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-21
Florida Woman Dies
On Visit to Atlanta

Mrs. E. B. VanDeman, wife Of E. B.
VanDeman, respected citizen of
Jacksonville, Fla, died Friday night
at the residence of her daughter, Mrs.
H. W Brown, 226 Forrest Avenue.
Mrs VanDeman has been visiting here
for some time and was III only a few
days. Her death is attributed to heart
disease.
Besides her husband, Mrs. VanDe-
man is survived by two daughters,
Mrs. John L. Doggett Of Jacksonville.
and Mrs. II. w Brown, of Atlanta
one son, Carl VanDeman. of Jackson
vile; one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth De-
Cottes, and one brother, Frank p.
Foster
No funeral services will be held i'm
Atlanta, except prayer by the Rev.
DR.. Hanscom. The body will be sent
to Jacksonville for interment
Nearly everybody In Atlanta reads
The Sunday American. YOUR adVer-
tiseOen- n the next issue will sell goods.
Try it!
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-21
French Birth Rate
SaddenS Bertillon

special Gable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS. June 21.-The vital Stats
tics for 1912 report 76O,650 births in
France as compared with 742114 for
the year 1911.
DR.. Jacques Bertillon says that the
two years, 1911 and 1912. have es-
tabHshed the worst record in many
years, clearly demonstrating the
persistence of the evil which is driv-
ing France TO ruin"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-21

Do you know that you can take
off fat or put it on in your bath
tub2 A Berlin professor tells
you how to do this in The Sun
day American. It is a sort Of an
electric bath that is worth know
ing about. Exclusive IN THE
SUNDAY AMERICAN.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-21
HEAT AND SUICIDE WAVE.

LOUISVILLE, June 21.-The hot
wave and a suicide wave have been
running parallel in Louisville. Six
heat prostrations and three suicides
by heat crazed persons were reported
in the last "a hours.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-21

Shelby Myrick, one of the Repre-
sentatives from Chatham County in
the Legislature, will introduce a bill
at the coming session to permit police
officers when on duty, whether in uni
form or not, to carry concealed
weapon. This law will be made
Statewide in its application.
Myrick has had this measure in
mind for some time. The experience
of notice officers at the Savannah
polls recently. who narrowly escaped
prosecution for carrying concealed
weapons because they were armed
while on duty in citizens clothes
about the court house, has made his
determination in this direction more
emphatic
Georgia is one of the few States
in the Union" said Myrick, that
does not permit a police officer to go
armed when on duty. | believe that
an officer of the law should always
be permitted to carry a gun when ne
is attending to his business as sucn
officer.
Il do not anticipate any trouble in
passing the proposed bill. / have re-
Gently had occasion to study the stat
utes Of several States and have found
that in practically all of them except
Georgia this privilege is granted.
Il do not pretend to say that an
officer when off duty should be al
lowed to carry a concealed weapon.
But when they are on duty either in
uniform or out Of it, they should have
this means Of protection at hand"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-21

Four separate and distinct polit-
ical headquarters are in fun bloom
in the Kimball House nowadays, and
in each and every one optimism sup
posedly is running riot and more or
less hot air is in vociferous evidence.
So far as claiming the earth and
the fullness thereof is concerned, the
innocent bystander at large in the
Kimball lobby just now may pay his
money and take his choice.
Everybody is going to be elected.
Everybody rides, nobody walks. Good
night, nurse!
bill" BurweT has the Speaker
ship race sewed up in crinoline
sack, and gone Bill" says so him
self, and so DO his 1856 ardent and
rantankerous supporters.
That is to say, however, notwith-
standing, but-"Bob" Hardeman says
he doesn't know about that. Harde-
man says he is some runner himself,
even If he has permitted BurweH to
do most of the running thus far. he
saws he will be there with the good
from this time forward-says Cd
DR.. Hardeman, says he. The old Doc
tor says he has the dope" Where
fore, he bids Bur well be- warfare!
John T. Allen is going to be elected
President of the Senate. Ask him!
He has checked the Senate up one
side and down the other, crossways
and on the bias, and it's Allen, for
a fareyouwell He has somewhere
between % and SO votes to his credit,
he forgets which, but it is more than
sufficient.
It appears, however, that the new
Senate is to have two Presidents, for
]. Randolph Anderson is sure as fate
that he is to be named President, too
and first, at that! He has % votes,
signed, sealed and delivered-28,
count 'em, IS. That's what he says,
anyway. He expects to gather IN
seven or eleven more as time runs
along-not that he needs them but
Just for luck.
In the meantime the man who
stands around the Kimball House
lobby and doesn't believe half he sees
and nothing he hears IS having rather
a hard time putting 2 and together
in such wise as to make the sum of 4.
Somehow or other 2 and 3 doesn't
seem to make 4, and yet that's what
the politicians are insisting upon-or
some of them, at least.
Sporting gentlemen incline to view
the situation about this way: Bur
we'll to win, to /; Allen against An
derson, even money, and nothing do
ing around the board.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-21

That General Joseph Van Holt Nash
and Colonel Frederic ]. Paxon will
continue as Adjutant General and
Chief of Staff, respectively, under
Governor Slaton, are two semi off
cial rumors that will be very pleasing
to many people throughout the State.
Both men are highly efficient and
extremely popular among the mill
tary of Georgia.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-21
IT,, II IL IT. T.:.NS
81 81 1G....pKjH.I[N:5:;:';'>';:SS
t;r' 1lM!'
r')I.~')(N7'lN1
Price of Eggs
on the Subject.

They were eating at a table d. hote
and had come to the course before
the last. One of them demurred at
the portion OF chicken served him.
They might" said he, give one a
little better portion"
"Oh, l don't know" replied his
friend, what can you expect, consid-
ering the present price of eggs?"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-21

The Macon Telegraph has a straight
tip that Dan Hughes. Of Twiggs Coun-
ty, is to be named Assistant Com
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-21

Nearly everybody In Atlanta reads
The Sunday American. YOUR adver-
tisement in the next issue Will sell goods.
ry It'll
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-21

Quo Vadis continues at Grand
next week. Buy seats now.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-21

missioner Of Agriculture under Com
missioner James d. Price.
If Mr.. Price has determined upon
this appointment it will be a most
happy one, indeed. Dan Hughes IS
the son of Representative "Dud"
Hughes, one of the most popular men
in Georgia and one of the ablest
members of the Georgia Congression-
al delegation.
The younger Mr.. Hughes has the
reputation of being one Of the very
best posted men in the State in the
matter of the farming interests, and
his recent contributions to System"
and other magazines along that line
have attracted a great deal Of atten
ton throughout the country. He is
himself a successful farmer, and will
lend efficiency and dignity to the
Commissioners office. He is a South
Georgian, rather modest and is eX-
tremely well liked wherever he IS
known.
If The Telegraph tip is o. X, Mr..
Price doubtless will find that he has
made a popular and approved selec-
ton for the assistants place.
Colonel j. Lindsay Johnson, of
Rome, Washington and Shanghai, is
in Atlanta's midst.
How about that consulship, Colo
nel?" ventured one of the Romans
acquaintance in the Kimball lobby
to-day.
Well" said the Colonel, not at all
disturbed. even sweetly. 81 am not
losing any over it, for 1 am going
to get tat least, / am pretty sure
to. You know, they say lightning
doesn't strike more places than II
does strike, and so If don't get swat
ted, shall not set up a howl. How
ever, it looks mighty like johnson to
me-"
Most folks in Georgia are pulling
for the Colonel and betting on him,
too!
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-09-25

The foreman of grand jury should be
good judge of what is fit to be printed in q
courts records.
So say we, all of us.
The quotation from Liguori's Theology,
for which Thos. e. Watson was indicted, was
classified by the foreman of Georgia grand
jury mot fit to be placed the court
records"
Roman Catholic priests that quotation
every time they confess" woman girl.
Get an ''Eye Opener and read, in English,
that quotation and the questions the Roman
Catholic priest must pat to his ''penitents."
Price Zoe copy, six copies for $1.25.
THE JEFFERSONIAN PUBLISHING co.
Thomson, Georgia.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-09-25

Of naptha for export, but said not word
about any cut In price for the American con-
sumer
and the Beef Trust. the Oil Trust can ship
its products to Europe, pay freight on them
from home to Europe, and sell them in COM
petition in Europe cheaper than it will sell
them to the people at their very door at home
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-09-25
THE .JEFFER@ONHAN

that cannot sustain by Jesuit teachings, as
published In Jesuit books of theology.
Furthermore, that damnable and treason
GUS oath which the knights deny, is in exact
keeping with Roman Catholic Canon law,
and the official utterances of their Poppas.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-09-25
PAGE EIGHT

the Cnurcn.
The University of Paris, a Roman Catho-
lie body, reproached the Jesuits for being
governed by secret lars, not known to the
King, or to the Parliament This was in
1924
The Bishop of Angelopolis, in 1866, makes
the following inquiry: "What other religion
has a secret Constitution, hidden privileges,
and concealed laws of it's own! =
The superlors OF the Jesuits do not govern
them by the rules of the Church. which are
known to ALL. but by certain SECRET
RULES, which are known only to those
superlors"
This letter was published in Cologne, Ger
many, IN 1866.
The authors Of the Edinburgh Encyclope-
Ola examined into the genuineness of the
authentic.
The Rev. Robert Hall. and the Glasgow
author, McGavin, both use the Konita Secreto
as an indisputable authority.
Dr. Mosheim the illustrious historian Of
the Christian Church enters his verdict
against the secret teachings of the Jesuits-
teachings Inconsistent with all regard for
virtue, and even decency" These teachings
have been drawn from the moral writings
Of the Order"
DR.. Moshelm says that it is easy to under
stand why certain kings, princes and the
nobility of both sexes should want the Jesplits
for confessors, it being highly convenient for
such persons to have spiritual guides ''who
diminish the guilt of transgression disguise
the deformity of vice, let loose the reins to
all the passions; nay, even nourish them by
their dissolute precept; and render the way
to heaven as easy, as agreeable, and as
smooth as possble''
(See Eccles. Hist. 9TH Century, Sect II,
part ~
Was there ever a more tremendous indict-
mcnt of false Christianity, than that?
Did anybody ever say harder thing
against the Jesuit order, than that?
The historian Robertson in his monl-
mental and classical History of Charles ",
makes similar charge against the Jesuts
and their System of relaxed and plant NOR
atty; which accommodates itself to the pas
sons of men, which justifes their vices,
which authorizes almost every action that
the most audacious and crafty politician
would wish to perpetrate."
Dr. Robertson further says that the Jesuits
had their secret rules which they kept in
impenetrable mystery, and even refused to
produce in court.
In the Order itself only the inner circle
knew the innermost secret (Charles v, Vol.
H., p 488-9.)
The German nobleman, Count Hoens-
brooch, who quit the Jesuits, after having
been with them IA years, makes exactly the
same statement: that there was wheel
within the wheel, an innermost circle that
the outer members had to obey without know
ing it's secrets!
To the same purport as Mosheim and Rob
ertson, is the testimony Of historian Hume.
Thomas Carlyle's bitterest essay is against
the Jesuits and ,Jesuitism | wish every
American would read it, Perhaps it would
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-09-25
EDITORIAL NOTES
BY J. ID. WATSON

BY }. ID. WATSON
IN striking contrast to Mr.. Bryans trotting
about lecturing as the main attraction of
show composed of yodIers and Jugglers. is the
action of former Governor Folk, of Missouri,
who has just been made Solicitor for Mr..
Bryans State Department.
In accepting the position IN the department
ruled over by Mr. Bryan Mr. Folk has can
celled a series of lectures that would have
paid him $50, 900 per year In order that he
could give his whole attention to the duties
of his public office which pays him only $5,-
600 per year.
Mr.. Bryan, to serve the people (whom he so
dearly loves) must capitalize the highest Office
In the Cabinet, and cheaper the dignity of
both himself and the office because a $4,000
salary Is insufficient to support his family In
Washington, while one of his assistants
reverses the thing and cancels $4,000 worth
of lectures to accept position under Mr.
Bryan for $4,000 per year
Which man will the people have the better
opinion of, Secretary Bryan, or former Gov
Folk?
And now comes the announcement from
Mr.. Bryans friend Davis Chief Clerk of the
State Department, that Mr.. Bryan will quit
the lecture tour,-quit being the chief attrac-
ton under the big tent and we presume will
give little more of his time to the duties of
his office.
But Mr.. Bryan should resign.
The Chief Of our Diplomatic forces. who
IS the laughing stock of Europe, can hope
to accomplish little the remainder of his time
Europe considers him joke, and will go
into negotiations with Mr.. Bryan on the pre-
sumption that he is a Joke
II Il
try can be imagined from the fact that he is
being cartooned as the main attraction in
competition with the web footed calf, the
four footed chicken, and the wild man from
Borneo.
In fact the criticism has been so severe that
the New York World, which was his strong
est supporter when President Wilson
appointed him, makes him the following
offer:
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-09-25

The second edition of this book is going as
rapidly the first did.
Have you read it?
Do you want a comprehensive, historically COR
rect and simply written history OF this religious
political power that is trying to dominate the
United States it dominated Spai- Portugal,
Mexico, and the South American countries for
hundreds of years?
Do you want to understand why those countries
kept in ignorance, stepped in vice md de-
pravity?
Then read '"The Roman Catholic Hierarchy" by
Thos E. Watson. Price $500, postpaid. Beauti-
fully printed and profRsely illustrated.
For sale by THE JEFFERsON4AN PUBLISH
ING CO., Thomson Ga.
The Handbook of Politics by Thos. e.
Watson, is book every American citizen
should read. Contains every party platform;
fourth edition almost exhausted. Price, SOC,
postpaid. The Jeffersonian Publishing Com
pany, Thomson, Ga.
Life and Speeches of Thos. e. Watson will
encourage every ambitious young man who
has to struggle for success. Price, SOC, post
paid. The Jeffersonian Publishing Company,
Thomson, Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-09-25
THE WORLD TO MIR. BRYAN.

William j. Bryans salary Secretary Of State
is $4,000 year. He has justified his activities
as a lecturer by the statement that to meet his
ordinary expenses without encroaching upon his
personal fortune he must have income of not
less than $4,000 year. He is willing to forego
accumulation during his period of public service,
but he resents the idea thct there should be any
sacrifice on his part while he is honored by high
official preferment.
The World assumes that the crux of this ques-
ton is therefore, the of $4,000 a year.
Mindful of many things in the proposition that it
hereby makes, notably the dignity of the American
Government, the circumspect behavior of it's
principle officers and the success of the Admins
tration Of Woodrow Wilson, all Of which have
been given the most sober attention, it modestly
makes this suggestion to Mr. Bryan
If you will devote your entire time to the duties
Of your Office and refrain during your tenure from
lectures other addresses at which admission
fees charged The World will pay you ON
behalf of the American eople regularly during
your incumbency of the Office of Secretary of
State the of $4,000 year, with obliga-
ton on your part except to observe the one
dition herein expressed.
=
L II l.. II. I
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-09-25
A Book All Young People Should Read

You hear so much about Cesar
wouldn't you like brief, up-to-date
sketch Of his marvellous career, his
creation of the Roman Empire, his
murder and his great funeral2
Wouldn't you like to know about the
noble pair Of brothers, the Graceful?
And about Marius and Sylla? And
about the Great instruction of White
Slaves led by Spartacus?
Also the immortal love-story of
Antony and Cleopatra?
All this, and much more you will
find In
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-09-25

Last week the Standard Oil Co. announced
a cut of one half cent per gallon on all grades
The Holt County sentinel., 1913-02-14
"Grandpa" Springer.

Let no one I've surprised during the
next week If W. II. Springer. the 10.
cal weather prophet. announces a
thunderstorm for a cloudless day. or
mis-, axes the drops of perspiration a.
they roll from our faces In the heat
of the noon-day sun for a rainstorm
and gives the rainfall To the newspa.
pcrs as ten inches for the past
twenty.four hours" lie has just he.
come inflated with the information
that he Is a grandfather and l. liable
TO send everybody claimming al high.
tide for several days, ~ least until
the exci'emenl wears OIL.
\ daughter VAS born 10 Mrs. Ralph
G.. Springer, saturday, IN Los IN.
gelcs. The father Of tie baby j. A
son Of the well.known Garfield street
family and santa Cruz hoy with
many friends who will I've pleased ia
hear Of his new Happiness. SAM a
Cruz. Calf News. Feb. }. 1918.
Mr.. Springer has many Old friends
here who send congratulations. lie
vas our circuit clerk here lsihs.I.
and he made a good one, too.