The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-07

shipped two hundred tons OF gold nv
parcel post from Phiiadeiphia with
out paying cent for transportation
iS brought out In a statement by lead
ing railroads today.
Tho government insists that tie
newly created parcel post business
shall be carried by the railway mail
service without any compensation
more than that fixed several years ago.
At SO much per year, when the anor-
nous parcel post business was NOT
contemplated. So when the war made
this big gold si,ipment necessary She
ratlrcah had to carry nineteen thons-
and dackB OF gold coin. One shiprnent
was fifty million dollars in twenty.
dollar gold pieces. weighing 100 toms.
The railroad furnished four specIai
cars, carried them by special engines.
and transported more than 100 Ruards
all for nothing. The parcel post rnte
would have been $4.554. hit the roads
didn't get q thank you.
This is merely one OF the insfances
being brought before Congress- in the
railroads Efforts to secure an adjust
ment OF pay for carrying the mails.
the roads claiming an underpayment OK
millions or dollars year.
An Atlanta deputy sheriff who went
70 serve divorce papers on O promin-
ent young real estate man yesterday
AFTERNOON mad his troubles for his
pains, for he found the husband and
wife billing and cooling and was greer
ed with the announcement that thev
had made up"
The man in the case ia ono or he
largest landowners in Georgia. bayinr
Oeen left large tracts by his father
some years ago. His wife, In her suif.
charged drunkenness and other faults.
TOT the wealthy young man has repu.
tation as n "rounderH az ~
the next legislature may enact q
law providing that conticts be maid
for all work done above that reonired
to pay for their upkeep. the money
I'd go to the support of their wiyes
and children. IL they have any.
iuil Z. Waters. retiring commission
er OF Fulton county. urged this in his
nnal report. II Is shown that tho avs
tenn has worked well in several states
we really punish the innocent wife
ana babies more than we punish the
prisoner, said one noted psychological
on the subject. "The convict Ia fed and
clothed. but there ia nobody to- enrc
for the folks at home. Tho stat, has
no right to deprive these or their sun
port and profit by the prisoners work"
Nathan Straus. the noted New Yorl,
phiianthropist. is. In Atlanta for a few
days, and thinks he Will spend the re-
manning years OF HIS life in Gaor9In
the state of his boyhood. ~
:; He is one Of tho famous brothers
who spent their. youth In TaIbotton
and Columbus, and who aftefward ba-
came great fgures iI the world Of &
nance and philanthropy. Iaador Stranh.
lne eldest. went down with the Titanfe'
oscar was minister to Turkey ara q
member OF Rooseyelt,a enhinet. Ns-i
than, the middle brother. ia that tGsn
who provided pure milk Tor thoussnda
OF New York Poor babies, and who ~
row deyoting himself to RELIEVING 4 flis-i
tress In ,3leBtino. 4. - 4
But ! am Coming back to GeorTie
to stay" he said. Perhaps i can tesch
my neighbora to raise something he
Sides cotton. That is what the So1ti,
must learn above all things"
Mr. Stratus leaves in q few days for
California. but says he intendg to COMO
pack. ind o comfortable home some
where IN Georgia and stay here unit,
the end comes. 80. ''.