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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-26
MAKING GOOD
AT SIXTY-FIVE

Don't worry about old age. A
sound man is good at any age. Keep
your body in good condition and you
can be as hale and hearty and able
to do your bit' as when you were a
young fellow
Affections of the kidneys and blad
der are among the. leading causes
of earIy+,or helpless age. Keep them
clean and the other organs in work
ing condition, and YOU will have
nothing to fear.
Drive the poisonous wastes from
the system and avoid uric acid accu-
mutations. Take GOLD MEDAL
HARLEM Oil Capsules periodically
and you will find that you are as
good as the next fellow. Your spir-
it's will be rejuvenated, your mus
cles strong. and your =. mind keen
enough for. any task. -
/ GOLD MEDAL HARLEM Oil Cap
'sules will do the work. But be sure
to get the original imported GOLD
MEDAL HARLEM Oil Capsules. They
are reliable and guaranteed to help
you or your money will be refunded.
For sale by most druggists. In seal
ed packa ges, three sizes (Adyt.)l
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-26
House Wants Palmes's
Sugar Price Authority

WASHINGTON, d. CA reso-
luton directing Attorney General
Palmer to report by what authority
he fixed an arbitrary price for the
Louisiana sugar crop, has been
adopted by the house.
Objection was made by Republi-
cans to price in Michigan of ten
or eleven cents, while the Louisian
crop was fixed at seventeen cents
a pound for yellow clarified sugar
and eighteen cents q pound for plan
tation graduated.
"The attorney general has abso-
lutely no legal authority to fix the
price of any commodity" said Rep
re'senta tive Tinkhann, Republican, of
Massachusetts. who introduced the
resolution. by this arbitrary price
he has increased the cost of sugar
more than 100 per cent. He is sup
posed to punish profiteers but that is
all"
Representative Byrnes, a Demo
Graf, of South Carolina, said private
interests offered from twenty-five
to twenty-seven cents a pound. for
the Louisiana crop and that the
prices of seventeen and eighteen
cents were fixed by Attorney Gen
eral Palmer when the sugar growers
asked what price the product could
be sold and the sellers not held
as profiteers. -
''The attorney general said he
would not prosecute anyone who
sold under seventeen and eighteen
cents" Brynes said, land thus the
arbitrary price was established. THE
Louisiana crop is one-third the size
it is ordinarily, being only about 1907
900 tons this year. What the attor-
ney general actually did was to save
millions of dollars for the American
neOn1e"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-26
Mother, 80, Says She Hid
H.. Body of Maude Tabor

LAWTON, Mich.-MrS. Sarah Ia
Dor and Walter Tabor, mother and
brother of Maude Tabor. whose body
was found in the basement of her
home here nearly a month ago, have
arrived here from California in GUS
tody of county officers.
While the requisition papers upol.
which they were returned charge
them with murder, it has not been
definitely decided to push this
charge.
Joseph C. Virgo, who admitted he
married Maude Tabor about a year
before her disappearance in 1916, is
in the county Jail, charged with muir
der
Maude Tabor died from an over
dose of chloroform, her eighty-year-
old mother, declared.
There's too much pomp to funer-
ais" Mrs. Tabor is said to have de-
clared in explaining why her daugh-
ter's body was hidden in the base
ment of their home. where t remain
ed for three years, until found re-
Gently by another daughter.
Il didn't want any of it, she is
said to have continued. MY daugh-
ter's body was right in the house all
the time, and it was comfort to me
to know that twas there.
MY daughter died of an overdose
of chloroform. L put her body in the
trunk with my own hands and let 1t
down the cellar stairs. did it all.
Nobody else had anything to do with
it,
She made no comment on the fact
established by the coroner's invest1-
sation that the body had been en-
balmed.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-26
Kills Rabbit With Live
Mouse Fired From Gun

Henry Tyler, OF FROST, Tex. dis
covered last week that miee may
have a use hitherto undreamed of,
for he accomplished the unheard of
feat of killing a rabbit with a mo1se
fired from a muzzle-loading shot
gun.
According to Tyler he got down
his old gun and went out for rab-
bits. He killed the rabbit. and no.
ticed just beyond him a mouse run
ming away. The mouse was covered
with blood so the farmer chased
him and caught him. Then he ex-
2mined the rabbit and found that
it had one large hole through it's
body instead of being sprinkled with
shot, so he came to the conclusion
that the house had been in his gun
and had been fired through the rab-
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-26
StarVes to Death to Save
Funds to Brine Wife to- u, S,

Somewhere in Russia a mother and
her three children are awaiting the
return of a husband and father who
left them several years ago to ac-
quire wealth in America. He will
never go back.
Frank Zabielski made the journey
halfway around the world in his
quest for a fortune. He had been
living IN a small basement room at
4S Charlton street, Newark, n. j.,
working hard and skimping and saw
ing. His bank books show a balance
of SLIPS in one bank and 1925 in an
other. But he is dead. He died last
Sunday night in the City hospital
Newark, and his malady puzzled the
physicians until County Physician
Warren made his report yesterday.
Starvation killed Zabielski, the
physician said. Mrs. Rachel Lippen,
of 121 Morton street, Newark, to
whom zabielski had intrusted the
care of his bank books, said he told
her he was saving money to take back
to RuSSia
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-26
The Hula Dance Was
Religious Custom Of
Ancient Hawaiians

SAN FRANCISCO.--H2W wall, Eden
of the Pacific, home of the hula"
and the ukelele, long has lead an
established school for the training
Of dancers of the "hula." AS seen
today, it has fallen from it's ancient
position as a religious. rite to the
depths of disgusting sugges tiyeness.
The hula stood for much to the
ancient HaWaiians. To them it &C.
cupied the place of our concert hall,
lecture room, opera and theater, and
was their chief means of social en-
joyment 1t was their means Of
perpetuating the memory Of their
past~and was inspired by pure senti-
ment and lofty purpose. 1t was2not
INDUCED in for personal pleasure as
one does, in sthe modern dance, but
only engaged in by highly, trained
and paid performers, not because it
was held in disrepute-quite the re-
Verse-but because the art of the
hula was an accomplishment Of spe-
cial education and arduous training
in both song and dance.
And especially because it, was
religious matter to be guarded
against proclamation by the observ-
ance of tabus and the performance
of priestly rites. 1t was not an en-
thusiastic outburst, but an affair
of premediation and organized eff
fort, guarded by traditions Of SOM
Der religious nature and undertaken
only after long instruction by court
bards and those versed in mythology
and philosophy.
The dancers were selected with
great care from the flower of the
land, and included the most beauti-
full and physically perfect. They were
divided into two classes, the olapa
or agile ones, and the ho'o-poa, or
steadfast ones. The olapa were the
younger dancers, 1.-the of muscle and
capable of great endurance. The
ho'o-paa were more mature and older
and acted a corresponding role.
Here the superstitions of Ha-
waiians held their religious services.
Nature to them is an allegory. Ma
ture is full of voices for their ears,
and in this simple ceremony of the
hula, poetry music, pantomime and
dance lent themselves. The actors
represented gods and goddesses Of
old earth, come back again; heaven
come to earth, and Pan with all the
nymphs was dancing.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-26
MISSIONARIES
ONREMEDY FOR
UNREST IN u. S.

NEW YORK. - The cure for
social unrest in this country is
"a fuller knowledge of American in
stitutions," declares President Will
son in an article written for the cur
rent number of The independents.
Men today are blessed with a new
curiosity about their governments"
says the president. Everywhere
they are demanding that the doors
behind which secret policies have
been incubated be thrown open and
kept open henceforth. The doors
that do not respond to the keys the
people hold will be battered down
and free passage ways erected in
their stead.
"Autocratic" governments of the
past have lived by concealment; free
government must live by understand
ing. In the new day that is dawning
only those governments that have no
secrets from their peoples can long
endure. 1 do not say that such a
government will make no mistakes,
but 1 do say mistakes will be fewer
and more easily corrected when all
Governments are guided by weIl=in+.
formed opinion.
Unrest is evident everywhere
throughout the world. 1t is not of
itself disease, but symptom of
disease. In our own country the
disease lies principally outside the
government. Those who think other
wise are mostly the newcomers and
t he men. they have influenced The
cure for theiE tdfsquiet is a. fuller
knowledge. of American institutions.
In this nation the people have in
their ballots the instruments of
peaceful change.
eve can know if change is desir-
able only by knowing all the facts
about the thing we wish to alter.
The journals that give the facts
about government, it's policies land
activities set down by the men prfn;
Cipally responsible for them Will per-
form public service. They will af-
ford 4 medium through which the
government can report continuously
to the people"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-26
Worlds Cotton Supply
For Next Ten Years Is
Seriously Threatened

BLAChPOOL, Eng. - PROFESSOR
John A. Todd, one of the British
delegates to the World Cotton con-
ference at New Orleans, in October,
last, told the Textile institute the
other day that the worlds supply
Of cotton for the next ten. years
was seriously threatened. He saw
indications that the scarcity of
cotton would increase as the world
capacity to consume it returned to
normal.
Professor Todd said the first step
to be taken should be to assure the
grower of reasonable price to
cover the cost of production and to
reward him adequately for grow
ing improved cotton. He pointed
out that the present system Of mar
keting did not encourage the pro-
duction of better cotton and in
sisted that the British government
might well do a great deal more
than this to extend the cotton in
dustry. He pleaded for rigorous
economy in consumption. The Amer
lean cotton crop, said the profess
sor, was the limiting factor in the
worlds supply. This crop had de-
veloped an extreme undesirable see
saw movement" % acreage, crops
and prices There had been five bad
crops in succession with high prices
accentuated by world initiation.
Before the war, said the speaker,
a large part of the american grow
ers were on a small margin of
profit and when prices did not pay
they reduced their acreage. This
occurred during the war and tie
acreage then lost had not since been
recovered. American acreage was
reduced in 1919 and, owing to bad
weather, this years crop was "a
disastrous failure and a calamity"
The result was that prices had been
forced up to very high level
Europe and Asia are without
stocks of cotton goods, said the
professor. The amount of cotton
which the worlds mills could spin
and weave now is restricted by de-
struction of machinery in the de-
vastated regions of Europe and re-
striction of the hours of labor, but
these conditions would not be per-
manent.
One thing which alarmed him was
the enormous development of the
use of motor cars in America with
consequent demand for 5OO,0
bales of staple cotton far fabrics
in tires. This demand existed at a
time when the whole world supply
of staple cotton, he said had been
reduced to 100000 bales.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-26
Wife Thought Dead
Found When lie ReWedS

Kaspar Markenan, Armenian, has
tow wives and is asking the govern
ment to help him settle his troubles.
Kaspar migrated from Armenia in
1911. His wife and two children
were to follow when he had saved
money for their transportation.
The war came and the Turks turn
ed Armenia into 4 graveyard. For
revenge Kasp2r enlisted in the Rus
sian army. When the latter went
to pieces Kaspar hurried to Arme-
MIA, where he ehard his wife. chill
dren. parents. brothers and sisters,
and all of the home villagers had
been massacred.
After two months he finally located
a neighbours widow, the only sur
vivor. married her in May, 1913, and
came to America.
Three weeks ago he received a let
ter from his first wife, saying she
had escaped, was. coming to America
and asked assistance. Kaspar's sec
ond wife suggested to send for her
and volunteered to so away if he
would care for their bay. She went
to relatives in indiana.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-26
THREAT OF RAIL.
STRIKE AVERTED
FOR TIME BEING

WASHINGTON. Dec. 23.-Threat
of strike of 100000 railway shop
men was considered temporarily
averted today when it was learned
at the office Of the railroad admin
istra ton that the proposed wage
conference between representatives
of the shopmen and the administra-
ton had been postponed.
The conference was scheduled to
have been held early this week,
but has been put. off until after
the first of the year, it was stated.
The meeting was postponed so
Rail Director. Hines will have time
to gather more evidence from the
department of justice for submission
to the shopmen, in an effort to prove
the government is bringing down liv-
ing costs as demanded by the railroad
employees. The postponement was ac-
cepted as strong indication the lines
will not be handed back to private
ownership January 1, but probably
will remain under federal control
until satisfactory laws to govern
them have been enacted by congress.
he'congressionaI conferees on the
Esch and Cummins railroad bills met
today in an effort to reconcile the
differences between the two meas
ures, one of which has passed the
house and one the senate, SO that a
bill may be agreed upon ready to
be rushed through both houses early
in January.
Senator Cummins, Of the senate
conferees, hopes. he said, that by
mapping out their discussions sys-
tematically the conferees will be able
to make rapid progress.
Conferees must compromise on the
rate making. labor and organization
features of the two bills, which are
vitality different. Upon these three
features practically all the other
provisions of the two measures de-
pend.
House conferees are ready to make
a fight against the anti-strike pro-
vision in the Cummins bill. They
will not yield on this, they said, I'M
less specifically Instructed T to do
so by the house. The house voted
alphabetically against Including an
anti-strike provision in the Esch
bill. The senate repeatedly defeated
efforts to eliminate this clause from
the Cummins measure.
B. M. Jewell. leader of the rail-
road shopmen, declared today there
would be no strike.
There is absolutely no disposition
on the part of the men to go out"
he said. while many of them feel
there is justification for a strike,
we believe the matter can be set
tied by negotiation; it will be set
lied that ",
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-26
Brother of Elliott
Seeks Divorce From
Wife. Sister Of Ellis

An aftermath of the trial of Tillie
Ellis, charged with the murder of
Dutch" Elliott developed in the SUI
perior court Tuesday morning, when
va A. Elliott, brother of the dead
man, filed suit for divorce against
Mrs Mary Ellis Elliott. sister of
the defendant in the murder trial.
Ellio claims his wife had repeat
ed remarks reflecting on the petit
TONERS brother and told the petit
toner that one of the Elliotts had
been killed and she was going to
see that another would be killed It
she had to do it herself.
The petitioner claims he was mar
ried October II, 1903, and separated
December 10, 1919, five days before
the trial Of Ellis in the criminal
court for having shot and killed the
brother of the petitioner, when, it is
alleged Ellis found Dutch" Elliott
walking on the street with Mrs. FL
lis. The petitioner asserts that the
first ten years of his married life
were happy, but after that, he says.
his wife began to neglect her home
and would stay away weeks at a
time, In October of the present
year, the petitioner claims, his wifes
brother shot and killed Elliott's
brother, and since that time, he
says, his wife's abuse of him be-
came worse.
Shortly before the trial. the petit
tione- says, his wife told him that if
his sister was going to swear on the
witness stand at the murder trial
what she believed she was going to
do, that the petitioners wife was
going to slap her face. On Decen-
Der 10. the petitioner says, he went
to his home and found his wife had
left, taking her fourteen-year-old
daughter with her. Attorneys B. H.
G Harvey Hill kare counsel for. the
Petitioner. \:
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-26
PERSHING GREETS
BOYHOOD FRIENDS
AT Ills BIRTHPLACE

LACLEDE Mo-, Dec. 23.-General
Pershing returned to his boyhood
home today. More touching even
than his farewells to the men with
whom he served in France and for
depth of feeling vying with the ac-
claim accorded him in congress, was
the reception of his former fellow
townsmen. Aside from the presence
of the governor and a brass band
at the railway station, General Per-
sings greeting was entirely spon-
taneouS.
Laclede was in gala attire, flags
and tri-colored bunting formed
canopy over the towns single street
and under that the general, with
Governor Gardner. Miss May Per-
shing, his sister; Warren, his son;
Mayor Allen and a group of friends
of boyhood days, drove to the old
Pershing home for an old-time din
ner.
Formally had been laid aside as
far as was possible for a day of
handshaking and greeting of &C
quaintances unseen since the general
left here thirty-eight years ago for
West Point. After dinner, however,
General Pershing addressed Linn
county neighbors, and thousands of
other persons who came from nearby
states. They assembled in the yard
and the commander of the American
expeditionary forces stood OH the
front porch of the house where he
was born.
A silves loving cup, Bought by old
| friends, was added to General Per-
| shing's collection of remembrances.
| 1t was embellished with the four
gold stars of "a general.
A public RECEPTION at the city hall,
where General PerShing shook hands
with as many persons as could reach
him, received a gold medal from Gov
ernor Gardner on behalf Of the state
and told the crowds of some of his
experiences as leader of Americas
greatest army, closed the formalities
surrounding the generals visit.
An important part of the menu at
the dinner was a fried, dried apple
pie which was prepared for General
Pershing by Aunt" Susan Hewitt,
seventy-eight years old. When he
was a youngster, the general was
fond of that particular variety of
pie and Aunt Susan has often said
that he used to "pester me nearly to
husband conducted a tavern.
Before leaving tonight for Lincoln
Neb., to spend Christmas, General
Pershing expected to call on Mrs.
Hewitt, who now is an invalid and
unable to leave her home.
Warren Pershing, ten years old,
was one of those that sat down to
dinner today in the old dining room
where daddy used to eat his Christ
mas and Thanksgiving turkey way
back in the days when dad would be
| Warren's age, and ordinary folks
could afford turkey. .... go,
Everybody at the dinner except
General Pershing a<e as much as he
| pleased, but the general saved room
for the fried, dried apple pie that
Aunt Susan Hewitt had baked for
| him.
Laclede had planned a different
sort of day from any tho general
had spent for many years. 1t was a
day of shaking hands with neighbors,
and Nhowdy, john and John,
had boy over yonder; you didn't
happen to run across him, did you?"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-26
Premier NTH Defends
Attitude of America
On Adriatic Problem

ROME, Dec. 21.-(Delayed.)- DE-
claring that Fumes value to Italy
was being; greatly exaggerated by
sentimentalists, Premier Nitti last
night in an address to the cham
Der of deputies, stoutly defended the
motives which have led America to
adopt it's present attitude on the
Adriatic problem.
Nitti denied the charge made by
Modigliana recently that American
capitalism was interested in block
ing any settlement of the Fiume diff
ficulties which might be advan-
tageous to Italy. y
American capital" he said, ''is no
more interested in the political fu-
ture of Fiume than in that of Danzig
or Odessa. Let's not exaggerate
Fumes economic Importance"
Reminding the deputies that the
country is living on foreign credit"
the premier maintained this is no
time for recriminat1ons
''No political changes" he said
Twill improve the economic ~situa-.
ton
Italy wishes to be great power
for democracy. She opposes all pros
poets of future wars, but she must
conform to the present situation and
the treaty must be ratified since only
after peace is fully established will
she be able to resume work.
Admitting that the United States
has to some extent blocked our as
pirations in the Adriatic, no nation
so economically, territorially and
financially powerful as America could
knowingly commit an injustice in the
settlement Of any European question.
1.-THE truth of the situation is the
United States is not fully nor cor
rectly acquainted with the Adriatic
problem. The charge that the United
States is greedy is entirely unfound-
ed.
None of the allies is now oppos-
ing Italy on the Fiume situation so
it is probable that the happy solu-
ton to the problem is not far dis
tant."
The chamber of deputies, after
Foreign Minister Scialoia had out
lined the governments policies, prac-
tically regarding Fiume adopted a
vote of confidence 242 to 216
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-26
Bourbon Becomes Water
In MYSTERIOUS Manner

BALTIMORE, Md.-Hermann the
Great nor any necromancer could
have been more successful than the
man who changed ten barrels of
whisky to ten barrels of water some
where between Baltimore and New
York cityslast week. 1t was dis
appearing act that will doubtless be
remembered by the consignee of the
whisky.
When the "firewater" left here it
was pronounced good old Bourbon.
: hen the shipment arrived in New
i ork city it was declared by experts
to be perfectly good spring water.
No one here knows where the whis-
XIV has gone
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-26
Chauffeur Husband of
Society Girl to Wed Again

BOSTON,, Handsome Jack"
Geraghty is to be married again.
The one time husband of the one
time Miss Julia EstelIe French, of
Newport society, is now in California
with his future bride, Miss Amy
Bluste, formerly of WATERFOWL and
Allston.
Miss Bluste formerly was employ
ed by motion picture distributing
firm. She is pretty, and it is said
by friends Of the couple that both
will become motion picture stars af-
ter their wedding.
The second Geraghty romance vies
in interest with the one that led to
his elopement when a chauffeur
with the girl who recently divorced
him, December last.
By the divorce decree granted by
Judge Doran of the superior Court
of Rhode Island for non-support
Mrs Geraghty received the custody
Of her siX-yaar-Old SON
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-12-26
Mice Have Wild Night
Eatinu BRANDY Candy

HARTFORD, Conn.-Two mice
hiGhly hilarious, staggered for awhile
about on the velvet rug in. the Of
flee Of Thomas Holt, dairy and food
commissioner, at the state capitol in
the midnight moonlight, then turned
on their backs. toes in the air. and
died. Commissioner Holt pronounced
death the result of alcoholism.
Commissioner Holt. on the COM
0laint of women. had confiscated a
suspicious confectioner.s ware called
brandy drops" Hartford husbands
had been buying them by the five
pound boxes. The chocolate confec-
lions We're left in his office until he
could send them to a chemical an
n1ysist at New Haven. The mice,
hunger driven. fed upon them and
7"ank of the fluid "fi1linr"