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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-13
Letton Tells AID Men
Good Hotel Is City's
Best Publicity Agent

\ good hotel is one Of the hest sd-
refreshments a city can have, according
to j. F. Letton, manager Of Hotel Ans
ley Publicity. as it affects the hotel
business, was the theme Of an address
by Mr. Letton at a luncheon OF the Ad
Mems Club. He said hotels need adj
vertising of the right sort, adding that
the hotel is a natural promoter of pub
licity.
Give a city a good hotel and il will
give that city a good name said he
"A wide-aw hotel man can DO more
for the advancement of his town thar
half dozen merchants
Hubert F. Miller, managing director
of the Chicago Association of Com
merce. was a guest Of the club. lie Is
in Atlanta making arrangements VIII
the Southern Railway for a Southern
tour Of his organization.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-13
AUDITORIUM TAX VOTED DOWN.

CHATTANOOGA. March 13.-By a
vote of 615 to 2O7 Chattanooga voted
against a special tax levy to raise
5000. 600 for a new municipal audito-
rum. The proposed tax would have
raised the city rate from $165-to $2lj
Der $1,000
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
NINE CURES RHEUMATISM

| From the New York American.
Radium mining in the Paradox valley
OF Colorado has developed a very curious
by-product in the shape of an unlocked
for cure for rheumatism.
The government bureau of mines has
Gently undertaken to supervise the work.
ings of some 81 radium mines in that
valley, which contain the most important
DEPOSITS of radium bearing ore in the
world. The ore is a yellowish mineral
known as "carnotite," and occurs in
! pockets" associated with uranium and
vanadium.
| 1t has been found that the men en-
saged in working these deposits if they
happen to be sufferers from rheumatism,
are cured of the malady. Not only that,
but their general health seems to be BEN
Gifted in a remarkabl way.
This is matter of no small Importance
While radium itself is the most costly
thing in the world, being worth over
sa,500o00 an ounce, the ore from which
it is taken is by no means so precious
that anybody of moderate means could
not afford to buy and Keep on hand con-
siderable quantity of it,
1t takes ton of "carnotite" to produce
bit of radium no bigger than the head
OF pin; and the cost of the radium is
due mainly to the difficulty of the pro-
cesses involved in extra citing it.
Perhaps il the sufferer from rheuma-
tism were to keep a few pounds of car
| notite" by him he would experience re-
| lief. The matter. of course, is wholly one
of SPECULATION as yet.
| There is no question of the fact that
radium is good for rheumatism. 1t has
been used very successfully in the treat
nent of this distressing trouble, the
method commonly adopted being to allow
the patient to breathe the emanations of
the mysterious mineral through rubber
! tube entering the nostrils.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19

vote was cast. I told the tried demo-
Gratis that to vote for Hobson was vote
for reactionary measures. and for can
nonism and would be a severe rebuke not
only to the democratic platform ana
party, but Woodrow Wilson, and all that
this great President stood for.
II found in some beats where l CAM
paigned that Mr.. Hobson did not possess
single follower that he could count on
for a vote for the Senate. 1 found that
Mr.. Underwood by his remarkable con-
stancy to duty his wonderful record as
democrat and his services to the party
and his country was looming up bigger
and bigger. l am certain that he VIII
sweep this district clean, and l believe
that he will be elected overwhelmingly.
Mr.. King said that so far as his cam
paign was concerned it was progressing
very fine indeed. He said that wherever
he went he promulgated the doctrine OF
local self government. and local option
Mr. King is opposed for Congress by N.
L. Miller and George Huddeston of Bir-
mingham and George Darden of Oheonta.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
Japan and the United States

1t is likely that the action of the
United States in so promptly Offering
aid to the sufferers in the Japanese
earthquake disaster will tend to bring
the nations much closer together than
anything which has occurred in the
past few years, and will go far to re.
move the unfavorable impression of
the alien1and agitation in the Pacific
coast states.
Japan has been menace to the
United States only in the Imagination
of few jingoists and "yellow" news
papers. There have been repeated in.
dications in the past year that the
rulers of Japan entertained absolutely
no hostility toward the United States,
and all efforts to provoke difficulty
between the two have been unsuccess.
full.
The attitude which Japan took in
regard to the alien-land ownership leg.
islation in California was very pacific,
and there was no indication of any.
thing more than dignified protest.
Japan showed every willingness to
meet the United States half way. For
protesting, and that vigorously, against
the discrimination against her SUBJ
jects, who can blame her? Certainly
not the United States, which took
even stronger measures in abrogating
the treaty with Russia on account Of
discrimination against Jewish citizens.
1t is quite true that the masses in
Japan took exception in the land con-
uoversy, and it is this class to which
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
TELEPHONE
Bell tprivate exchange connecting All
Gepnrtments). Main 1900.
The Medical Professions Great Loss

The recent death of DR.. +. Z.
Spitzka in New York city removes one
of the most renowned authorities upon
insanity known to the profession. 1hls
celebrated alienist was a star witness
in the trial of Guiteau for the assassl-
nation of President Garfield and testi-
fled that the prisoner was insane.
For many years DIR. Spitzka attend
ed the executions of criminals by
hanging and electrocuting and made
q study of their brains. 1t was he who
discovered the interoptic lobes OF the
reptilian brain and many medical
works emanated from his pen.
Not long ago the doctor was sued
in the sum of $4,000 by one Joseph
Gershgall, jeweller, for alienation of
his wifes affections. The writ was
served upon Spitzka on his birthday
anniversary and he then declared that
he neither knew nor had ever heard Of
the Gershgalls and that he understood
that some one of the same name as
himself had been sued.
The writ alleged that the plaintiff
and his wife Minnie were married
September II, 1902, and that they
lived happily together until January
last, when the defendant "wickedly en-
ticed the plaintiffs wife away"
DR.. Spitzka was to have made an
swer to the suit upon the day that he
died. Despite the suddenness of his
death it is not thought that these pro-
ceedings contributed to the Fastening
of his demise. He died of apoplexy. In
his taking off science has lost much
and it will be some time ere the medi-
cal profession ceases to regret him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
A Pathetic March

Never in the history of this nation
has there been witnessed such a scene
as that presented by the thousands of
Mexican refugee prisoners who ar
rived at the outskirts of Maria, Tex,
last night.
A column of 5000 soldiers and gen.
erals, 1867 women and 300 children
and infants, stretching 10 miles along
the wind-swept desert, probably has
no parallel There were burros,
wagons dogs and roosters, and another
baby girl Joined the column yesterday.
The dusty desert and scarcity of
water made their suffering intense
and yet they are glad to have escaped
Oiinaga and Villas wrath. Beginning
today they will be placed on trains and
carried to Fort Bliss, near Ell Paso,
there tc be held as prisoners of war,
and will live at the expense of the
United States until some arrangement
can be made for their return to Mex
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
Will Man Follow This Fashion?

Clothes so tight that the fashiona-
BILE man needs employ shoe horn to
enable him to don his trousers is the
edict of style for the present year.
1t is said that there was once such a
period and its vagaries are to be re-
peated in 1914 if we follow the declar-
alton of the convention of the Nation
al Association of Clothing Designers
which has just been in session in Balti-
more.
The old saying that it takes nine
tailors to make man is out of date
and out of place, for one tailor these
days can make nine men dance to his
fiddling no matter how great their
clamors of protest may be.
1t has ever been a query why tailors
are such perverse individuals and in
sist upon foisting upon helpless man
fashions which are contrary to his de-
sire and inappropriate to his needs.
Change of style creates demand for
new clothing and new clothing brings
in money. Probably this is the expla-
nation.
But will mankind submit to this new
and arbitrary dictum? There are some
| individuals who will follow at anv
| cost, but while men desire to look like
a fashion plate, few of them care to
feel like one. Is a man at his daily
vocation willing to waddle around the
office or counting room in a pair of
pony ballet tights ?" Will mankind
in general display the same temerity
as that shown by the alleged weaker
sex relative to the slit skirt?
Despite the phillipics of the pulpit,
despite the ban of the church, and
worst of all despite the jibes of ridi-
cule woman has braved all in adher-
ence to the behests of fashion. But
whether the fat man will consent to
resemble a wienerwurst and the thin
one straw of spaghetti is quite an
other question.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
FADDISTS

From the Kansas City Star,
The bureau of chemistry of the fed
eral government is advising drastic gov
ernmental action to prevent the indis-
criminate sale of such habit-forming
drugs as cocaine. That Is just the
trouble with these government officials.
They think they can step in and inter-
fere with business any time they please
on the flimsy excuse that 1t is hurting
the public. They are forever mussing
round and trying to stop the sale OF
sawdust life preservers, and clay candy
and rotten eggs. and adulterated foods
and all that. They are faddists. dream
ers, impractical men. Probably there
isn't one of them ever made a hundred
thousand dollars in his life by selling
the public bread pills for curing con-
sumption. They haven't any respect for
vested interests. You never can drive 1t
into their heads that business is busi-
ness What if people do want to get the
cocaine habit and go to the devil in their
own way? Isn't it their affair? What
business is it of the government? This
interference with liberty is going too
far.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Candidates mt Lodge Meetings

There is one thing that is always very
noticeable during a political campaign,
said man who belongs to several Sc
cret orders "and that is, the number oil
candidates for political office that be-
come models of attendance at the lodge
meetings when the campaign is in pro-
gress.
''Of my own personal knowledge 1 know
members of different fraternities who
were seldom seen in a lodge room before
the campaign started and now they are
always there. Not only that, but you
will find them at every unusual gathering
that any of the orders to which they
belong may give, and while politics is
tabooed as a rule by the laws of the
order, they generally manage to make
the fact known that at the solicitation of
their many friends they have consented
to become a candidate for some county
or other office.
1T is all right for fellow to let his
lodge brethren know that he is running
for office but if he expects any favors
from the fact that he is a member of that
particular lodge, just glance over his
record for attendance and interest in
lodge affairs before he became a candi-
date, and you will easily find out whether
he is trying to work the lodge members
or not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19

the proffered succor of the United
States will appeal, because it will be
to their fellows that the aid is given.
1t is indeed deplorable that deter
mined efforts have been made to TO-
ment trouble between the great ma
tion of the west and the great nation
of the east. Such evidences of good
feeling as the action of President Will
son will not be disregarded and the
attempts to provoke complications will
be as fruitless in the future as they
have been in the past.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
Accumulating a Fortune

Some years ago man whose promi-
nence did not spring from his ability
to make money said that no man could
accumulate more than five million dol
ars in life time unless he did it by
Hshonest transactions.
NNarping pessimists are still fond of
h. ing that opportunities for making
money are not what they used to be.
Twelve years ago Henry Ford was a
mechanic in Detroit. On January l of
this year he announced that he would
give $10,000,0O0 as part of the profits
from his automobile factory to his en-
ployes during 1914.
Opportunity still knocks at our
doors in every line of human endeavor,
but not all of us are able to recognize
her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
CAUSES OF TIDAL WAVES

From the Kansas City Star
The tidal wave which devastated the
Island of Sakura in one of the provinces
of Japan is not the frs disaster of this
kind which the Mikado's empire has suf-
fered In July. 1896, a great tidal wave
swept along the coast of the Island of
Yezo for nearly 200 miles Towns were
ruined, fertile fields were laid waste.
Twenty seven thousand persons We're
Killed, $3.50 wounded and 1913 houses were
washed away or wrecked. More than GO :
0OG persons were made destitute. 1wate
Prefecture suffered worse, as more than
3, ,6l1 of the dead lived in that province.
The japanese papers of the time We're
busy constructing theories as to the
cause of the sudden ocean disturbances.
Some suggested that volcanic eruption
had taken place far cut in the PACING
ocean. Another theory was that a huge
oaVe-in occurred III the southern part
of what is known as the Great Deep, ="
stretching more than 700 miles northwest
and eastward
The term tidal wave is enormously ap-
Piled to almost any unexpected wave that
mandates the seacoast or the shore of a
great lake. These waves are rarely II
ever due to the tides, since the real tidal
wave is a phenomenon admitting of exact
calculation and prediction, but they may
be traced usually to some distant earth
quake or violent storm.
When an earthquake occurs beneath
the sea, the vertical movements of the
sea bed generate a great wave which is
propagatod outward from the center of
tho shock and reaches the land after the
arrival of the earth wave. In the open
sea this wave is so bl cad that it cam
not be perceived; but when it reaches
shallow water near the shore it rushes
forward as an immense breaker, some
timee 60 feet or mora high, and over
whelming everything in its course.
The sandy beach deposits and loose
powders are swept away, while inland
the surface is strewn with debris. The
velocity of these great sea waves is
greater than the ordinary waves raised
by the wind. A submarine earthquake
near the coast of Japan in 1854 gave rise
to sea waves which traVersed the whole
breadth of the Pacific at a rate of about
$40 miles am hour. At Smoda, Japan,
the waves were 30 feet high, while at
San Riego, Cal, they measured only six
inches. Such an earthquake wave near
the coast of Peru once lifted a gunboat
OF the United States navy and landed 1t
Il mile inland.
The seaport of Callao was inundated
only the other day by tidal wave, ae-
oonpanied by an earthquake lasting 90
seconds. The naval school at La Junta
and some of the hotels were flooded. A
tidal and earthquake wave few years
ago in Ecuador did much damage. Across
the Pacific from Ecuador, in Hawaii, the
same disturbance was felt. accompanied
by a great earthquake wave which did
little damage, A hundred miles of beach
towns and summer homes from Long
Beach to Santa Barbara showed the ef-
fects last December OF high tide combined
with great swells which swept the south
ern California coast. But Japan always
seems to have been the worse sufferer
from these phenomena.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
WASHINGTON AND CATS
ny BILL VINES

MIN gets into the poundkeeper's hands
| ana that cruel and abandoned person be-
comes his executioner, but all the same
there is apparently no diminishing of the
number, and the grand total of common.
every day cats with unknown and nm
heralded ancestry remains the same. OF
actually increases.
Ihere is a society for the suppression
of cats in Washington, and there is also
society for the protection and conser-
vation of our natural resources in cats.
The authorities and the citizens are in
constant warfare over cats, and the cats
still remain in possession of the city.
There is not an apartment house in
Washington but gets the benefit of eat
concert almost every night. In grand
opera accomplishments it may be said
in passing that the Washington cats, per-
baps, because of their environments and
special advantages, seem to have it on
any other cats that the writer has seen
and heard in his experience. 1t may be
because of their superior numbers, and it
may be just because of their greater ad-
vantages, but they are certainly there
on grand opera. There is a large and
intellectual yellow cat, of unknown sex.
who pours out a wall OF uncertain har-
mony, that closely resembles the sextet
from Lucia, on amateur night, almost
every evening in our neishborhood. From
overexertion or dissipation or something
this cats voice has lost much of its
charm, and is no longer soothing in ef-
feet.
There have been many foul attempts to
take this faithful old serenader's life,
or lives, but all have failed. The battle-
SCARED old veteran shows up on the job
every night and starts right in where he
left off the night before.
No town on the map has anything on
Washington when it comes to cats. More
than that, any of the cat societies here
can give the tourist information con-
ceining cats, of which he, or she, never
dreamed. Washington is certainly good
place to make study of the cat indus
try. and it's effect upon political econ
omy. l think that I'll get out a paper
myself bearing on that subject.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
LOUIS NJ AND MARTIyaIIE

From a Watterson Paris letter in the
Louisville Courier-Journal.
When Louis XI went 10 consult the sage
Martivalle. he found that famous maa
seated in huge chair curiously ex-
aniining specimen just issued from the
frankfort press, of the newly invented
at of printing and this dialogue fol-
lowed:
You are engaged. father" said the
King and, as 1 think, with this new
fashioned art of multiplying manu-
scripts, by the invention of machinery.
Car things of such mechanical and ter
restrial import interest the thoughts OF
one before whom heaven has unrolled her
own celestial volumes?'
My brother" replied Martivale. for
so the tenant of this cell must term even
the King of France when he deigns to
VISIT him as a disciple, believe me that
IN considering the consequences of this
inv ention, l read with as certain augurv.
as by any combination of the heavenly
Bodies, the most awful and portentous
changes. When I reflect with what slow
ar limited supplies the stream of science
hafh hitherto descended to us; how liable
to be diverted, or altogether dried up. by
the 1nVasions of barbarism, can l look
forward, without wonder and astonish-
ment' TO the lot of a succeeding genera
ton, on whom knowledge will descend
like the first and second rain, uninter-
rupted, unabated, unbolnded: fertilizing
some grounds and overlooking others;
changing the whole form of social life;
establishing and overthrowing religions;
erecting and destroying Kingdoms"
Hold, Galeotti," said Louis, "shall these
changes come in our timer"
No, my royal brother" replied Mar
tivalle; this invention may be likened
to young tree, which is now newly
planted, but shall, in succeeding genera
tions, bear fruit as fatal, yet as pre-
cious, as that of the Garden of Eden;
the knowledge, namely, of good and
evil"
The great astrologer meant the news
rarers, to be sure,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
TOMoRROW-TRIALO OF ROBERT EMMETT

the days when the Pilgrims Progress and
Foxes Book of Martyrs were the best
sellers.
With some men penny saved means
that four more will purchase beer.
Every girl believes it is unnatural to
look natural when she has her picture
taken.
The world is growing better. But there
are still too many trained goats in vau-
deville.
The biggest men in any community are
those who make the least noise.
1t is funny that when man lies to his
wife the story flows out smoothly and
without a break But when he tries to
tell her the truth he stammers and gets
all tangled up and cinches her suspicion
that he is lying.
There are 10000 words in the Bible.
And there are that many men in this
country who couldn't repeat one of them.
When a man offers another man any,
thing free he looks for the string. But
when strange woman smiles at him on
the street he imagines she loves him for
himself.
Men are wiser than women. That's why
a man is always scared when he lines up
to be married.
When man can make $4,000 a year he
seldom has anything but fence running
around the house. But the man who
can't make more than SIS per week sell
dom has less than six children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
FACTS AND FANCIEs

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
A woman does her worrying over her
husband until after her first baby is
born. After that she worries over the
baby.
The parrot seems to be different in the
respect that the male of the species does
most of the talking.
If there is any hog in man travel
will reveal his bristles.
The man who is interested in proving
there is no hell generally has personal
reason for doing so.
There is at least this to say for the
self-made man: He seldom attempts to
lay 1t on the Lord.
A few are musicians. Others merely
have taken lessons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-19
"BEAUTY's" APPEAL UNHEEDED

From the Boston Herald.
No Bostonian would admit he was afraid
or unwilling to go to the aid of beauty
in Distress but several hundred did
refuse to do just that much to the dis
comfiture of two young women skaters
on the swan pond in the public garden.
The reason for the seeming lack of gal
lantry was because a photographer, who
happened ot be a newspaper photograph
er, but looked like a motion picture artist,
Happened to be at the pond at the mo-
ment the fair skaters broke through the
ice into the shallow water.
Dozens who saw the plight of the girls
started toward them, and then paused
sins his camera ON them
Don't butt in; it's only motion pic
ture stunt" someone cried, and every
BODY held back. All had read of if not
seen the realistic stunts pulled off,
almost every day for the sake of whet-
ting the appetites of the patrons of the
"novies.'
Unaided, therefore, horribly embarrassed
by becoming the cynosure of several
EcnQred pairs or eyes, the bedraggleC
maidens slowly and painfully made theii
way toward shore, breaking the Ice II
front of them as fast as they tried tc
step onto it.
Considerably at the risk of getting q
| wetting himself-the photographer II
question is scarcely lightweight and has
| been called a heavy-the innocent cause
Of oil ha lla ,trv fo11pxyad ha irls
| a ways and got a picture.
Boston, however, contains two young
women who not only are convinced thai
il is cold winter, but that Boston mer
arc horridl