The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-12-22
ATLANTA LETTER

AALN1f I'd, OeC. Zl.-A banner
crop Of whiskers is predicted for
Georgia next year by e. e. Limbaugh,
chairman OF the State board of bar
Der examiners. Mr.. Limbaugh is ex-
ceedingly worried over the failure of
thousands OF BARRIERS to take the State
examination demanded by the last leg
islature, pay their fees, and prove
themselves sanitary, harmless and not
too full Of conversation.
Georgia citizens will have. an I'M
usually large crop of whiskers," said
Mr.. Limbaugh. Because she will be
a barberless race. Out OF $500 bar
bers only 300 have applied for IL
censes, and no business can be done
without a license except In jaiIs,
State prisons and towns OF less than
5000 population, where whiskers run
rampant anyway"
The barber who gets ia before the
first Of the year can cop out O license
for two dollars, but after that the
bargain sale is off aud Ave Lucks Is
the price.
The Cotillion Club of Atlanta, the
ultra swell dancing set, has cI,osen
Raymon Hitchcock in 1.-THE Beatty
Doctor" for its annual theatre party
this year. Every season the Cotillion
Club has n big theatre night, when
1t takes half the first floor at the At
ianta theatre and goes in a body to
enjoy 1t, leaving after the curtain falls
for a dance at n of the hotels.
The Atlanta has an unusually good
booking for just after the holidays.
Potash and Perlmutter" is coming
next week, with Billie Burke and
George Arliss and 1.-THE Little Cafe"
in the near future.
Georgia Shriners, and members Of
the order throughout the country are
greatly pleased at the ruling handed
down by Judge H.. L. Patterson OF the
Blue Ridge circuit restraing q negro
organization from using the name, in
sigma, emblems and other belongings
of the Ancient Arabic Order Of the
Mobiles Of the Mystic Shrine.
The negro organization calls itself
Rabban Temple. Ancient Egyptian Ar
able Order of the Mobiles Of the Mystic
Shrine Of North and South America
and their Jurisdiction, thereby giving
q few extra words for good. measure
and pleasing the African taste for
p~olysyllabic nomenclature.
Judge Patterson acted because all
the Atlanta Judges are members Of
the oTder, or have relatives in Yaarab
temple.
The negro shrine wss organized in
Washington in 1902. The local tenn
pie was chartered in 1908 but local
Shriners heard little Of it until after
the recent national Shrine convention
here. when the negroes became Often
'sively conspicuous. The petition. Is
based On the fact that the negro or
der uses an exact imitation OF the
Shrine badge. uses the same names
for officers Of the temple, the same fez
and the same emblems used by the
white organization.
Chief Beaver OF the Atlanta police
department does not belle 70 all the
stories OF -hold-ups and burglaries that
are reported to him. He does not
think the OF crime" is 80 bad as
1t is painted by the sensational press.
The chief quotes two instances
where reported hold-upa were investi.
gated and 1t was found that the "vic-
Tins" we're financially short and had
framed up stories to account FOR the
money being missing. It is also o
common belief that 1t least two re-
ported crimes recently laid to "bur-
glars" were not really burglaries. but
n clearly the suicide OF q man deep
ly involved financially and the other
the visit OF a young society man to a
home where he had no business,
which resulted in his shooting by the
hand of the 7arniIv -
"The worst of the present depres-
sion has passed." says Robert T.. Mad
dox, chairman OF the Georgia commit
tee which will have. charge OF the
States share OF the Wade cotton pool
of $135,c0 900. Mr.. Maddox, who is
vice president OF the American Ma
tionai bank, has Just returned from q
ffop to Washington, where he Joined q
conference on details OF the loan
plan.
Mr.. Maddox said $s9.oo0,00o Of The
fund hnd been received but IL ytouid