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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-14
MERCER Struggled
Letter in CheeSebOX

Cardinal MERCER, at luncheon IN
New York, told for the first time
how he had struggled hts famous
pastoral letter of Christmas, 1914,
out of Belgium to priest in Hol-
land that it might be published to
the world.
"At the frontier between Belgium
and Holland" he said, 1--WE have
seminary, a college for priests, and
there are seven or eight hundred stu
dents, and for their living they usu-
ally receive great quantities of cheese
in boxes. Many of the boxes come
from Holland to Belgium for COM
merce. When the cheese came to
Belgium to that seminary. the papers
in which the cheese were wrapped
were, of course, old, filthy and soiled.
"T made my letter old, filthy and
soiled, and it was sent back with all
those filthy papers in the boxes to
Holland. So my friend received that,
and I think he told me afterward,
not with disgust but with respect.
He took the letter and published it
and sent it to France, to England,
and you got 1t from England here in
America, and so the whole world
knew the letter."
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-14
Dawson, of Orgy Fame,
Now SaIOOnIeSS Town

$50 this is Dawson. Well, how the
old place has changed"
A grizZled miner, one of the old
timers who mushed over Chillkoot
Pass to the Klondike during the
first rush to Alaska and who then
succumbed to the Lure of the Yu-
kon," returned to the metropolis of
the gold fields recently and thus
gave expression to his surprise.
Dawson is dry now. Venerable
dance halls of the once wild Arc
tic city are empty, desolate, barn
like. Gambling houses and other
..joints" have been cleaned out. Some
have been remodeled and will be
used for stores.
Habitues and the gamesters-most
of them, at least-have fled. The
rest are making their getaway" for
days are getting short and the boat
season is approaching close.
Closing of the bars in Dawson city
marks the end of the wide-open sa
loon in North America, from the Arc
tic circle to the Rio Grande.
Mexico is said to BIZ the destina-
ton of many adveN6rrers who spent
a decade or more in this region.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-14
Mrs. BradStreetJ Father
Declares He NH PrOUe
HIS DaMghter S Innocence

"Tt's impossible to believe
cried the mother OF the girl.
Agnes has never done anything
wrong in her life
The Queens are simple,
peaceable, home-loving folk, who
have devoted much of their life
to farming. They live comfort
ably and well, their home is we'll
furnished, and the house is COM
pleteIy surrounded by ripping
fields, wit htheir crops now
ready for harvest.
If it becomes necessary, we
will sell everything that we have,
and everything we expect to get
to defend our girls name and
her honor. Since her marriage
to Clarence, she has lived with
us good deal Of the time, has
given US little presents, has TAX
en- US to ride, and has been just
what a daughter ought to be. No
father could be more proud of a
daughter than l have been of
Agnes. She is a real blessing.
"Bradstreet has money. He
has had it all the time, I'm
sure. My daughter had no
money, nor jewels nor furs
when she was married, all these
things being given to her by her
husband
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-14
Falrburn CiHxenS Stand
Behind Bank Official
BeHeUe Green MnOCent

rot the foremost. He was chairman
of all the war drives and the Lib
erty loans; he was elected mayor
two years ago and reelected at
the last primary; he was promoted
some time ago from cashier to vice
president of the Fairburn banking
company; as mayor he was the
principal factor in getting the bond
issue for good roads, light and
power passed; he is a Shriner and
besides his banking business owns
q good deal of property in Camp
bell county and has interests in
ether businesses. He has been su-
perintenrent Of the Methodist Sun
day school although he Is not at
present.
All Of these facts were related
by Green's father a fine-looking old
gentleman of seventy with white
hair and white whiskers, as he sat
in his shirt-sIeeves, col1arless, on
the front porch of his own home
Sunday morning. His sons wife
sat beside him in the porch swing
and at intervals interrupted TO
cCrroborate his statement or add to
it.
1--WE haven't got much to say
now" said the old man confident
ly, 1--WE have the facts and the
facts are going to come out. The
banks ledger wasn't burned up in
the fire, and it'll show If Willie
was short or not. It'll prove he's
innocent"
mo, L never heard tell of this
Mrs. Bradstreet," he said. II reck-
on he's the woman Willie rode
around some during the Liberty
loans. He plumb wore out a car
riding her and that army officer
around We didn't like her looks
much, but bein' patriotic, we en-
tertained her. She came to Willie
last spring, I think it was, and
wanted to borrow five thousand
dollars to buy a house with. she
said Willie wouldn't lend her the
money till she put up security. She
paid that back, and wanted to Dor
row more--$35,00 900 I think it was.
And he wouldn't lend it to her.
Mind, I don't know much about
the banks affairs. My boy don't
tell me his business any more'n l
tell him mine. I'm a director in
the bank but I let them run it,
But if there's any question of
shortage, I'm able to pay any
amount. Don't forget that. It's not
question of money with us. It's
q question of right. And my boys
right He's innocent"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-14

In a two-story farm house,
which stands on a knoll about
nine miles from Atlanta on the
McDonough road, lives the fam
lily of A. P. Queen, father Of
Mrs. Agnes Katherine Brad
street, one Of the principal fig
ures in the sensational Incl
dents growing out of the burn
ing of the bank at. Fairburn.
Mr.. Queen lives in his home
with his wife, and three sons,
William, Roy and Lawrence
Queen, and all of them are stead
fast in their belief of the in
nocence of kitty" as Mrs. Brad
street has been known from her
girIhood.
Mr.. Queen, the father Of the
girl, was stunned when he was
told Sunday what had happened.
It's an outrage" he declared.
MY daughter knows nothing
about it, and I'll help her prove
her innocence If I have to sell
my home, my farm and every
thing that I own"
why, sisters the finest girl
in the world" exclaimed William
Queen, brother of Mrs. Brad
street, with deep Indignation.
I'm through with farming until
the whole thing is straightened
OUT
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-14
GREEN DECLARES
HE NEVER USED,
BANKS MONEY

William B. Green. who now is at
liberty on $4,000 bond, made the
following statement to Journal re-
porter:
81 deny absolutely any connection
with the robbing or the burning Of
the Fairburn bank. 1t is an absurd
story and nothing but q frame-up
am sure that the truth will soon
come out. 7 have been connected
With the Fairburn bank since 1912
and [ have never used a dollar of
the banks money on Mrs. Bradstreet
Or for any other purpose.
"I have loaned Mrs. Bradstreet
money on a number of occasions. [
have called her Kitty and she has
called me Bill and 1 have kissed her
several times, but there have been
no improper relations Of any kind be-
tween us and the money that I have
loaned her has always been paid
back.
"I met Mrs Bradstreet about a
year ago at Camp Gordon and 1 have
become attached to her, but ! could
not say I love her. She has locke /
upon me as a man who is eat deal
older than herself and has called
upon me for advice many times. [
have not seen her more than Cnce a
week and the times tn, [ have
seen her have been when we have
made appointments with each other
to discuss business matters. I have
advanced her money to buy automo-
biles, a house, jewelry and other
things, but she has always paid me
back.
at have given her a number OF lit
tie presents, among them a small
ring, but I have never bought her
any diamonds and my presents would
not amount to more than $3.50. She
has accepted a number Of boxes of
candy from me and other little
things like that. When she ordered
some clothes at an Atlanta depart
ment store, I agreed to stand good
for anything she bought. Sometime
later they called me up and told me
that she was behind with her &C
counts, owing something like $500,
so 1 gave the store a check for 50 To-
500 and a day or two later Mrs
Bradstreet gave me her check to
repay me for this amount.
II love my wife and my children,
have been superintendent of
Sunday school, mayor Of the town,
and I certainly would not allow any
affair with a woman to enter into my
life"
Mr.. Green declared that the idea
that he framed" the rohbing and
burning of the Fairburn bank was
nothing short Of preposterous. He
said that he had put his own money
into the purchase of the bank build
ing, and it was worth $4,000, and
ONLY insured for &25O0.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-14
"Dutch" Elliott Killed by
TiIIey EIIis-Wife Says
He Had No Cause for
Action

Tilley Ellis, thirty years old, of
612 Ashby street, decorator in the
employ of w. A. Brown Decorating
company, shot and killed a man
known as Dutch Elliott, about
twenty-seven years old, Of 27O Bell
wood avenue, on Whitehall street
early Saturday afternoon in front
Of the R. o. Campbell Coal COM
pany yards, on Whitehall street.
The shooting followed an argu-
ment and scuffIe, which arose when
Ellis, who claims to have just re-
turned to Atlanta from a business
trip, confronted Elliott and Ellis
wife, Mrs. EstelIe Ellis, walking to-
gether on the street.
Ellis gave the following version of
the affair to the police:
II had just returned from Chat
tanooga and was on my way to the
Empire Box company, on Whitehall
street, where my wife is employed.
When I got in front of the Campbell
Coal company yards, l saw my wife
and Elliott walking together.
ct said to Elliot, Haven't I told
you to leave my wife alone?'
Elliott gave some curt reply and
made a motion as if he was going
in his hip pocket after a gun.
then pulled my gun. Elliott crap
pied with me and threw me to the
ground. We scuffled for some few
moments, when finally I managed to
wrest myself loose. I fired three
times"
Declaring that her husband, Tilley
Ellis, had no cause for killing
Dutch" Elliott when he met her
and Elliott walking together along
Whitehall street at noon Saturday,
Mrs. Estelle Gray Ellis late Saturday
afternoon at police headquarters re-
lated her version Of the tragedy.
"Tilley had no reason at all for
killing Dutch" declared Mrs. Ellis.
i've known Dutch for some time and
we have been good frIends--r othing
more. I don't understand VIII! Tilley
did it,
Mrs. Ellis was taken to the police
station with Mrs. Rheba Crowell.
companion who was with her and
Elliott when Ellis accosted> them on
Whitehall street, demanded of Ell
lott what he was doing with his
wife, and then shot and killed him.
Ellis, who issued a brief statement
Saturday night through his attorney,
John Y. Smith, declared that Elliott
attacked him and that he fired in
self-defense. The slayer also assert
ed that he had warned Elliott sew
eral times to stay away from Mrs.
Ellis.
Attorney Smith indicated Saturday
night that Ellis would base his fight
! for freedom on a plea of self-defense
and the unwritten law.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-14
LEAGUE MEETING
HERE MAY FIND
u. S. OUTSIDER
Labor Delegates Scheduled
to Convene at Capital 0C-
tober 29-Treaty Virtual
Iy in Operation Now

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.-With the
peace treaty just on the verge Of
going into effect through ratifica-
ton by three major powers, France,
Italy and Britain, and with sectiona,
meetings of the League Of Nation:
scheduled to start in Washington
this month, the government today
found itself in need Of funds to carry
out the program.
The international labor conference,
created under the treaty, is to meet
here October 20. Delegates will be-
gin arriving here within a few days.
The sum Of 100000 is needed to
finance this, to pay the wages Of
clerks and stenographers, and to
maintain the necessary office force.
Whether congress will appropriate
the money in time for it to be used
during the LABOR conference was
problematical today. A number OF
congressman were understood to look
with disfavor on the proposition OF
providing cash for a League of Ma
tions meeting.
Unless the treaty has been ratified
by the senate by October 20, the
United States will be unable to have
any representation in this labor con-
ference. Secretary of Labor Wilson
will lopen it and then withdraw
leaving the foreign delegates to
conduct the sessions.
Secretary Wilson today made pub
lie letter he wrote Secretary Ian
sing, explaining the governments
attitude toward the convention. He
said he would receive the credentials
Of delegates. If sufficient delegates
are not present, he will declare the
meeting adjourned until later date.
Should this be necessary, there will
have to be an amendment to the
treaty before the conference can as
semble, Mr.. Wilson said, as the treaty
provides that it shall convene in
the month of October.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-14
ALLIES SEND STIFF
NOTE TOGERMANS
ON BALTIC PLOT

PARIS OCT. discharges that
the German government has delayed
deliberately the withdrawal of Cen
eral Won Der Goltz's forces from
the Baltic region, are contained in
the most recent note to Berlin
from the allied and associated pow
ers.
The note, made public here to-
day, declared that until Germany
undertakes the evacuation and "pur-
sues it with all desirable celer-
ity," the allies will maintain the
coercive measures announced IN
their note Of September 27 when re-
newal of the blockade was threat
ened.
The allies point out that the
situation in the Baltic suddenly has
become more critical and declare
that Germany will be held fully
responsible for executing the order
for evacuation.
| An allied commission will be
appointed to superintend the with
drawal, the Germans are told, and
the measures provided for in the
ultimatum will not BID cancelled I'M
til that commission informs the
supreme council that the evacua-
ton is progressing normally.
Demand Punishment
The allies inquire why Won Der
Goltz has not been punished, if
it is true, as the Germans assert,
that he is guilty Of insubordina-
ton.
ut is difficult not to believe"
says the allied note, that the de-
lay Gin evacuation has been CAL
culated to lead to the very results
which the German government
now affects to deplore. 1t seems,
indeed, impossible otherwise to eX-
plain the refusal to recall Won
Der Goltz, who has been their
(the CerE2ans) official instrument
in creating the present situation
in open defiance OF the allied and
associated powers"
The allied note asks why Won Der
Goltz, after being summoned to
Berlin only recently was sent back
deliberately to the scene of his
atrocities, except to complete the
organization (which now affords the
German government the pretext that
the troops hitherto paid, clothed
and transported by them have
passed out of their control"
The allies assert that unless Ger
many offers q more satisfactory eX-
PLANTATION the allies cannot accept
the contention that Germany has
tried continually to withdraw her
troops from the Baltic
Threatened Riga
According to recent information"
| it. is stated 1.-The situation sud
| denly has become more grave on
account of the offensive taken by
| the Germans October 8. Other troops
! have violated the Courland and
| Lettish neutral zone and have
| bombarded Lettish positions by ar
| mored trains, airplanes and poison
| gas shells. They have threatened
| Riga and brought about the forna
| ton in Courland of a German-Rus-
sian government opposed to the To-
| cal government already established"
| The note concludes with the asser-
ton that Germany will be held re-
| sponsible for any act of hostility
| by German troops directed against
allied representatives in the Baltic
provinces.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-14
WILSON'S ENEMIES
CIRCULATE ISLANDERS
ABOUT HIS ILLNESS
Some Would Go So Far as
to Dust Him if Possible,
No Resolution of SYM
pathy
BY DAVID LAWRENCE

Copyright. 1919. for The Atlanta Journal)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.-Noth-
ing less than a contest between
President Wilson and the bitterest
of his opponents in the United
States has arisen for possession Of
public confidence.
First it came with the League
o. Nations as an issue.
Now the question is being pro-
tected whether Mr. Wilson is able
at all to discharge the duties Of
tIte presidency because Of his ILL
ness. Ordinarily the indisposition
of a president might be regarded
as a personal matter. But such is
the intensity Of feeling on the part
of those who would like to see Mr..
Wilson out of the presidency that
rather than wait for March 1921,
some of them have sponsored a
movement to get Mr.. Wilson out of
office by applying the constitution
al provisions about presidential sue
cession in the event of executive
Inability.
Rumor after rumor has been
sent out Of the cloakrooms of the
United States senate giving the i'm
preston that the president is I'M
able now to discharge the duties
Of his office and that he never will
be able to do so again. Senator
= Brandegee, of Connecticut, Repub-
lican. went so far in a public
speech as to insinuate that a sig
nature on public document re-
Gently sent by the president to the
senate was not written by Wood
row Wilson. Senator Moses, of New
Hampshire, another Republican, ad-
mits the authenticity of a letter
written by him to a constituent in
which he speaks of the president
as having suffered cerebral
lesion" and while he may get
well, he will not be any material
force or factor in anything" A
man in administra ton councils is
authority for the statement that a
certain Republican senator called in
two or three newspapermen recent
ly and told them to be sure and put
it into their articles that the pres
ident was out of his mind. The
same official fairly burned with in
dignation as he described the rumors
about the presidents health as "a
deliberate aganda in which the
hope that the president may be
disabled is dominant" Resentment
at the tactics Of the presidents OPP
ponents was encountered on every
side.
Il am a party politician" said
one administration official, land
know there are many things one
can do in a political fight; but If
this is a prize fight why not have
Marquis Of Queensberry rules? Why
hit below the belt?"
The president has been in bed
just two weeks. During that inter-
val the senate has not passed any
resolution Of sympathy or eX-
pressed any solicitude for the pres
ident's health.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-14
BY WARD GREENE.
The Journals Staff Correspondent.

&1l6 DUAL NOGEGSpOHUSAbp
FAIRBURN, Ca, Oct. 13.-If an
earthquake had rocked Fairburn, 1t
could not have shaken the tow o
deeper depths than the arrest Satur-
day night of William B. Green, may
or of the township for two years,
e-presiGant of the Fairburn Bank
ing company, principal factor in put
ting over the good roads bond issue,
chairman of every Liberty Loan and
wa: work drive, former superintend-
ent of the Methodist Sunday school,
husband, father and first citizen"
To all outside appearances, Fair
burns customary calm is unbroken,
but at the corner drug store,
on every varanda, in every house
hold there is but one topic Of con-
versation-the burning of the bank
last Thursday night, Mr.. Green's
story of the masked bandits Who
held him up, and then the bombshell
his arrest and the arrest Of the At
1anta woman declared to have re-
ceived from him thousands of dol
lars in the last few months for the
purchase of jewels, wardrobes and
motor-cars, fit for a princess.
Anu even DIS lIl6I6 10 DuI OiS IOJlS
Of conversation, so on the lips of
every Fairburn man and woman you
talk to there is but one assertion:
will Green is as innocent as L am.
A fairer, straighter man never lived
Well have to be shown more than
this before we believe anything
against him."
The quotation is verbatim, for Mr..
Green's standing In his own COM
munity, among his own people, on
their own declaration is above re-
proach. Whatever evidence circum-
stances may seem to array against
him, whatever any citizen of Fair
burn may suspect in his heart, not
one Of them has accused will"
Green in public.
"I have known Will Green all my
life" declared one old gentleman,
who sat on a cracker box outside
the burned building and whitfield at
stick. II taught him at school for
six years and he's as straight as a
die
Bears Pine Reputation
In his fifteen years of business
ond residence in F'airburn, Will
Green has gained the reputation as
one of the most substantial and
trusted men in the community, if
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-14
Green Feeds in Winter

Green feeds, such as sprouted oats,
alfalfa meal, CHOPPED alfalfa, and
clover hay, cabbage,N and mangled
beets should be supplied hens con-
fined in small yards and also to all
hens during the winter season when
no green feed is available. Cab
bages may be hung up in the poultry
house. Beets are usually split and
stuck on nails on the side wall of
the pen about a foot above the floor.
Frozen vegetables can be thawed out
and fed to fowls, but usually do not
keep well after thawing. Clover and
alfalfa may be fed as hay, cut into
one-fourth or one-half inch lengths,
or they may be bought in the form
of meal
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-14
Turns Night Into Day
New Lamp Has No Wick, No Chin
ney,' No odor. Most Bril-
liant Light Known.

new lamp which experts agree gives
the most powerful home light in the world.
is the latest achievement of w. II. Hoff-
stot 4O7 Factory Bldg. Kansas City, Mo.
This remarkable new lamp beats gas or
electricity-gives more light than three hun
bred candles, eighteen ordinary lamps or
ten brilliant electric lights, and costs only
one cent a night, blessing to every home
ly safe and gives universal satisfaction.
child can carry it: 1t is the ambition of
Mr. Hoffstot to have every home, store
hall or church enjoy the increased com
fort of this powerful, pleasing, brilliant,
white light and he will send one of his
new lamps on free trial TO any reader Of
The journal who writes him. He wants one
person in each locality to whom lie can re-
fer new customers. Take advantage Of
his free offer. Agents wanted. Write him
today--(AdYt.D
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-14
Pastor Couldn't Rent
Home; Asks for Tent

Because he could not find house
in which to live in Washington,
D. c., Rev. NJ. L. Powers, who recent.
ly went to tina tcity as pastor of the
Church of Our Father, asked per-
mission of the district commission.
ers to pitch a tent in Rock Creek
park.
He expects to use the tent as a
temporary parsonage until apart
ments become vacant and rents go
down
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-14
Women Jurors Take Only 3
Minutes to Reach Verdict

Oklahoma, established a record in
the trial of the first case ever heard
before women jurors in that county.
At Pitcher two married women.wer
arraigned for quarreling over family
matters, and the jury of women,
after three minutes conference voted
them guilty and recommended a
maximum fine as "a warning to ali
women to settle their family quar-
rels and petty differences outside the
court room"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-14
CURED HER FITS

Mrs. Paul Gram residing at 916 Fourth
Street, Milwaukee, Wis, recently gave out
the following statement: II had suffered
with Fits epilepsy for over II years. Doc
tors and medicine did me no good. 1t
seemed that l was beyond all hope of re-
lief, when at last ] secured a preparation
that cured me sound and we'll Over 10
years have passed and the attacks have
not returned. I wish every one who suffers
from this terrible disease would write r. 2.
N. LepsO, Is Island Avenue, Milwaukee,
Wis, and ask for bottle of the same kind
Of medicine which he gave me- He has
generously promised to send it postpaid, free
TO aJsy one who writes him.''-tAdyt)