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The Washington times., 1919-06-06
How Many Members of a Family
Should Work for Uncle Sam?
H. Baa0a n Texas Question Mr. BantOu Ought
Knew He Has Hsd Three From His Family on the
Payroll Beside Himself
By EARL GOODWIN.

That wave Of midsummer madness which passed over
the House Of Representatives yesterday afternoon turned
up one more great statesman.
Through the rift in the cloud Heaven sent sunbeam
which played itngy upon the noble brow Of THOMAS
L. BLANTON Of Texas, who came to Congress sincerely
mbued with his Importance and vowing to reform every
body and everything in sight, including Champ Clark the
homespun Missourian, whom Mr.. BantOn believed be
afflicted with the pink tea habit
Like many another politician Mr. Blanton yesterday tried
the old route to fame the Government clerks back He
climbed upon the shoulders of nearly every In Washing
ton and had he hobnas In his shoes he would have sunk
them into human flesh far he could provided would
have aided him in his ascension.
Congressman Blanton, Democrat, succeeded by Re
publican votes having passed flock of resolutions to
inquire into the grave question whether any Govern
ment clerks have relatives in the Government service Had
it not been for the wise counsel of CLAUDE KTCHN he
would have insisted getting Government inquiry into
whether not Government clerks have any income outside
their Government pagan mpernent and useless question
ALI these resolutions passed amid the of Mr.
Bantons voice and the thunderous applause of the ced
congressman who couldn't have had more amusing after
But the serious part of this whole business that
Mr. Blanton actually made the statement that wherever
Government clerk has enough money to live he shouldn't
have any It doesn't make any difference how much
EARN. Mr.. Blanton would actually forbid him
to get nickel more than his actual expenses.
At period of his abuse against 100000 Washington
residents Mr. Banton worked himself into Juror the
statement that recently Government clerk died possessed
of $4,000 Another maleactor died possessed Of 000
Heavens! Can such things BET Where did he get it
Now, do not believe any Government clerk need worry
about Mr. Blanton. The great crime of having than
member of the family working for the Government win
be dealt with in the proper manner believe that if
Government employee has in his family who
will best do certain job for the Government that
woman should do the job, and else.
And Mr.. Blanton deep down in his heart, knows it.
too because well shown in the debate yesterday
no one earth do Government jobs as well Mr.
Blanton's family.
He has or has had at various times in his short Con-
gressional career THREE MEMBERS OF HIS OWN FAM
lily ON THE PAY ROLL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRE-
SENTATIVES.
What UGnt for Government service absolute efficiency
the best of JOB because
happens service
cL1nrpnsg
of handouts By tOrbiddtHg him large
The Washington times., 1919-06-06

What for Government service Is absolute efficiency
keep the best of JOB
happens be IN the Government service Nor
of the Government By clampg
pair handouts By fOrbdtHg hiu large
salary his merit deserves and his efforts
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
At 81 Discovers That
He Has Two Wives Liviku

At eighty-one years OF age James
Wainscott, of Richmond, Mo-, is theq
unhappy possessor of two wives,
thirteen children and two divorce
suits-all as the result of a romance
in 1865. -
In 1865. Wainscott was in a hos
Hi+al snffern~ from wounds receiv-
ed in one of the last battles of the
,.lVI " -. Ae ,herrIed the nurse
'yy'"0 y g - h;~' back to health. Six
months later they separated, and
IT, '"1C canned thar she had died
So in 1870 he married again, and
has since then been wealthy resi-|
dent of this place, with family oil
thirteen children. .
And now Of the dead past comes
Mrs. Waine'"nt+ No ! f~or1o Kanka II
City, very much alive and angry, to
secure divorce. Wife. No. also
considers herself a victim. of Wains-|
colts marital zeal, and has also ask
cd for a divorce. Both demand
heavy alimony. In addition suit al
~leging Islander has been filed by wife|
No. l against wife No. g. And sew
eral of the children have consulted|
attorneys in regard to filing suits to|
defend their rights to the property.
The October term of court will de-
eide the exact status of the Wains-I
colt family.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
Georgia Woman Farmer Goes to New York
To Bring City Girl Back to the Country

Miss Elizabeth L. Barker is twen-
ty-four years old. She never saw
big city before. She went to New
York last week, and when some one
asked her why she stared up at the
skyscrapers, as she did, she replied:
II never saw one before. I've
spent my life on farms-I'm a farm
er, and I'm proud of it. I've come
to New York to get some of these
sallow faced girls and take them
back to the farms of Georgia and
make Georgia Peaches out of
them"
lanta. She has spent the last ten
years Of her life yoing about the
country districts trying to teach the
farm women of the south how to
be economical-how to can fruits
scientifically how to keep worms
and bugs out of the truck patch
and she teaches the men a few
things, too, about the boil weeVil
and fruit-tree growing. She has spe-
cialized in agriculture, and she said
that she knew more about farming
in a minute, she believed, than the
ordinary farmer knows in ten years.
give read a lot, all right" she
said, but / just haven't travelled
much outside of my own farm dis
tricts in the SOUTH"
She said she directs the work of
385 men, who report to a southern
southern farmers, with a view to
| teaching the farmers more modern
and profitable schemes.
Her trip to New York. she said
was for the purpose of finding young
women who needed to ''manufac ture
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29

their competitions and take them
back to the sunny south and let
them grow" themselves some rosy
cheeks.
In an intermission while motion
picture man adjusted his camera to
take her photograph on top of the
McAlpin hotel, she said she purposed
musical comedy theaters up and
down Broadway and seeing if there
weren't some "cute young things"
who would like to go south with
her and don overalls and blue shirts
and come back in year or SO with
genuine, dyed in the wool COM
pleXion.
American womanhood," she said.
'is too little interested in tractors
and silos and the proper production
! of food Anybody who sneers at a
| farmer is a fool. If he didn't work
| from year to year the people around
your town would starve."
She peered over the edge of the
hotel roof and into Broadway. TWEEN
| flowing stream of humanity.
Poor things she sighed. What
| Georgia would do for them
Miss Barker is a striking blonde
| and she says she never has known,
until the last few months in which
she has been preparing to come to
New York, what it was toy wear
| regular women's clothing all the
! time"
Say" she said half giggling, eff
this building fell over to the south
west, figure we'd just about land
on my farm in Georgia."
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
Crown Prince Says
He Is Honesick and
Longs for FatherIand

BERLIN, July 26.-The former
crown prince of Germany, in his Sc
clusion at Wieringen, is suffering
from Inconsistencies which grows
stronger daily and is looking for
ward eagerly to the time when he
can return to Germany to assist in
rehabilitating the fatherland.
This was revealed in a letter by
the fugitive May !, printed in the
second edition of Captain Kurt An
ker's book, just published.
After deploring the present plight
Of Germany, the former crown prince
wrote:
Both myself and my family wish.
in spite of our completely altered
conditions, to build up a new life.
Still more ardently do I await the
moment, should it be granted. when
can again have a little place in
Germany, where I can assist in re-
building the beloved fatherland.
Give my greetings to my friends
and believe ne that my homesick-
ness grows STRONGER, 6ai1v"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
Hicost Here for Long
Time to Come Asserts
Philadelphia Experts

PHILADELPHIA - Correspond
ence of The Associated Press)-:
The cost of living is likely to stay
high for a long time to come in
the opinion of the Philadelphia
board of trade. This view is re-
suit of a compilation of statistics
from many lines of trade and in
dustry.
According to these figures the a5-
vance in prices in this country since
1914 has been about 107 per cent.
in Canada lis per cent; Great Bri-
per cent. 1t is pointed out that, In
spite of material reductions in the
price of steel. the advance in other
commodities since the armistice has
been so great that the average price
schedules have been reduced but 81
per cent below prices prevailing Oc-
tober /, 1918.
The following are given as rea-
sons why wages will not be nauch
less for a considerable period of
time.
Practical stoppage of Immigration
since 1914, depriving this country
Of several millions of workers who
would normally have come to Jus
shortage which confronts American
industry upon the resumption of
capa city operations. +.
Retention in the government mill.
itary service of nearly 100000
workers, which, 1t is declared will
doubtless continue an indefinite
period.
Creation of new industries such as
shipbuilding. manufacture of chem
icals and dyes.
Urgent demand for building and
construction of every class duo ia
their having been forcibly held back
| for several years.
Shortage of world food supplies
and uniformly high prices. E
Proportionately higher levels Of
commodity prices existing through.
out Europe.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
SIeuths' DutifuI Noses
Find Whisky A-Makinu

An odor pungent as the balms OF
Araby, and quite as rare nowadays,
was waited to the nostriIs of De-
tective Mogg, Higgins and Boylan,
of the Narcotic squad of New York
city, as they were strolling down
Monroe street. BY violent shifting,
the sleuths tGailed it to the door of
56 Monroe street, followed it down
three steps, thmrough a dark hall
way, through a room, through an
other room and in third discov-
cred the source.
There were barrels and hogsheads
filed with a liquid that gave forth
a. goodly smell There was an iron
boiler of fifty gallon capacity, under
which three gas flames We're burn
ing and to the top of which a con-
denser was attached. The detectives
also found a hogshead of mash, a
key of suga rand a coppey soil, in
other words, a good old-fas hioned
moonshine still.
They waited around, breathing
deeply and approximately, until a
man entered with an oblong box I'M
der his arm. They arrested him on
the charge of violating the federal
statute forbidding the manufacture
of alcoholic beverages. He said he
was George Perlow, a cook He
will be arraigned before Commits
sfoner Hitchcock today. The box
contained a thermometer.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
Says He Is Bachelor
THOUGH Sued for Divorce

An application for allmony made
before Supreme Court Justice Luce,
in New York City, disclosed allega-
tions that the defendant, Bernard
Schultz, contends he is a bachelor and
did not meet the plaintiff, calling
herself Mrs. Helen Card Schultz,
until five years after she alleges
they entered a common law matri-
monial state.
Terence J. McManus, attorney for
Schultz. told Justice Luce that the
plaintiff claims to have married
Schultz in 1898, while he didn't meet
her until 1906 at the Cafe Boulevard
on Second, and later lived with her
and her mother at 176 West Seven
ty-sixth street. The attorney said
he had visiting cards and Christ
mas cards used by the plaintiff as
late as 1917 in which she called
herself Miss Helen Card. Counsel
for the plaintiff asked for an adj
journment to inquire into the facts
of the case. The defendant contends
that the plaintiff made her claim
that she was Schutz's wife after she
had consulted an attorney and he
told her to pick some date" and
allege that they became husband and
wife at that time.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
Chaloner Declared Sane
BV Courts of New York

After having been legally insane
in New York state for % years,
though two other states had de-
clared him in full possession of his
mental faculties, John Armstrong
Chaloner, of Whose Looney Now?'
fame has won his right to be de
clared a sane man" in New York,
Supreme Court Justice Ford having
decided that Chaloner is a sane cit
izen and a man of competence"
In 1897 the young millionaire was
committed to the Bloomingdale Asy-
lum for the Insane in New York at
the behest. of some of the members
of his family. Two years before that
he had been divorced from Amelie
Rives, tie novelist, who later mar
ried the Russian prince, Troubet-
skoy.
Chaloner escaped from the Bloom
ingdale asylum, and later the state
of North Carolina declared that he
was sane. In later years he moved
to Virginia, where he is likewise con-
sidered sane.
Originally his name was Chanler.
but, because of difficulties with his
family, he changed his name to that
of Chaloner. The present action of
the New York court to declare him
sane was not opposed by members
of his family. and he will now have
free access to the state Of his birth.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
T}urnanians Discard
Old Roman Costume

B&charest.-(B Mail.)-For the
f.rst time since Rumania, as the
ancient Roman province Of Dacfa,
adopted the short white skirt of the
Roman DICTIONARIES as her especial
costume, the men Of Rumania have
changed thei rstyle of wearing ap
aareI.
The ancient costume since the
time\of tn eRomans has been a short
white tuntc. supplemented with thick
white wool 'bag -trousers," and
heavy padded coat whose lines of
,ich embroidery exactly follow the
lines of the old Roman body ar
NOR.
The German lgar- Turk 1ooters
-arried away as many of the en-
1roidered garments as they could
End The clothing brought from
*7rance b. the American Red Cross
':,s taken the place of the stolen
goods.
Hospital garments of all kinds,
hath robes pajalnas, hospital jackets,
are being worn by the men in the
villages in place of their historic ma
national costume. A grey wooden
hospital bathrobe may no the as
picturesque as an embroidered tunic,
but judging by the pleased look on
the faces of the peasants as they
leave the American Red Cross Dis
tributing station, the substitute gar
r-1ent is giving perfect satisfaction.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
Sumter Fair to Offer
So. 800 Prize for Exhibits

twenty-five hundred dollars in
awards will be offered by the Sumter
County Fair association for exhibits
during the big two-day fair which
will be staged here October 1911.
This was determined at meet
ing of the directors of the associa-
ton, and a committee was named to
secure funds necessary to provide
these awards.
This committee is composed of
Frank Lanier, Frank Sheffield, Frank
Harold, w. T. Anderson, C. G. Thorn
as, ]. E. Ferguson, A. A. PRESLEY,
Will Chambliss, A. F. Hodges, Sam
McGarrah, J. w. Carter, C. A. Slap
rey. John F. Daniel, C. C. Sheppard,
r. S. Oliver, Alton Carter, E. Tim
norman, G. D. -Brinkley, John D. Will
liams, George Israel S. A. Rodgers,
Peel, G. b. Dell and George Waters.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
Couple in Airplane,
Going 80 Miles an Hour,
Are Married by Wireless

NE WORK, July 27.-Traveling
eighty miles an hour, two thousand
feet in the air, Lieutenant George
Burgess, of the army aviation corps,
and Miss Emily Schaefer, of Brook
lyn, were married by wireless tele-
phone. The ceremony was con-
Quoted by the Rev. DR.. Alexander
Wouters, from another airplane, pi-
loted by Lieutenant Eugene H. Harris
dale, best man, while the machines
circled above two hundred thousand
persons attending a police field day
at Sheepshead Bay speedway.
The details of the ceremony were
announced to the crowd after being
received at a wireless telephone sta
ton. The bridesmaids, who were in
the grandstand, also had wireless
telephone connection with the air.
D13neS
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
Mother at Pier to Welcome Son Returning From
France Faints When She Learns of Death at Sea

Magham was urged to step back a
few PAGES, while an officer went
aboard the transport to find her son
and bring him to her.
Five minutes later the officer re-
turned to the pier She piled him
with questions about George, when
he would come off the ship, how
he looked, what he had said when
told his mother was there.
The officer urged her slowly to
the reception room at the street
end of the pier.
Impatiently. as she strolled with
him, Mrs. Magham demanded word
of her boy.
In the reception room the officer
told her. The lad died at sea last
Saturday; The body was on the ship,
The boys sister, who had waited?
in the reception room all the while,
COLLAPSED.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
Socialist Attitude on
War Is Explained by
Representative Berger

Socialists in all countries tried to
prevent the war, Victor L. Berger de-
ciared before the special house COM
Inittee inquiring into his qualifica-
lions to sit in congress.
The party succeeded only in Italy
in 1911. when they Kept that coun-
try from standing by the central
lowers by a strike, he said, but later
mad not enough power to keep Italy
from joining the entente.
IF it had been in my power or the
power of my party to prevent this
var, we would have done it, he de-
Jared.
In England. Berger said the So
ialjsts stood firmly against war.
They said some stronger things
than American Socialists ever did,"
ne continued.
Berger traced the history of the
I2boring classes from the days OF
the slave up to the present, which he
called the capitalist civilization"
THE next step in civilization is
production for use. not profit" ne
said
The present system. he SAID caus-
ed a panic every fifteen or twenty
years.
"a panic was due In 1914" he de-
"lared You'll get It twice as hard
as ever in a short time"
The main issue of the war. he said
w2s fight between Great Britain
anG Germany for the trade of the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
Received One of First
TeIeuraDhiG MessaneS

An old man slowly made his way
over the Sheep Meadow in Central
Park. New York, to the ropes which
keep back the crowds viewing the
NC-4, first airplane to cross the At
lantic. He approached Chief Elec-
trician l.. NJ. Sessions, in charge of
the recruiting tent of the navy.
The old man pointed with his cane
to a line of from $50 to 200 women
with their children, waiting patient
ly to set foot on the famous sea-
plane and to observe it at close
range.
ITS pretty hot he said to Ses-
SONS, land l want to tell the folks;
back in Iowa that 1 saw this great
a1rplane. [ was one of the first men
in the world to receive telegraphic
message, too. I'm pretty near ninety
and I'm afraid the rays of the sun
will be too much for me. Isn't there
some way / can go aboard the NC-4
without going to the back of that
proceSsion?'
Sessions took one glance at the old
man, and said, why, sure Colonel
l guess we%can fix that up"
Then, with two other gobs, he
helped the old man over the ropes,
and to the head of the line
This incident provides an indica-
ton Of the amazing popularity OF
the NC-4.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
Women in Court Must
~. State. Ace Exactly

Judge F. H. Taft, of the superior
court in Los Angeles, Cal, has ruled
that hereafter all women appearing
in the court must state their age
with exactness
Instead of answering the question
as to their age with a statement to
the effect that Il am something
over twenty one" they must say ex-
actly just what their age is.
"There is no reason" says the
judge, why any one should object
TO telling their age"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
Worlds Biggest Bouquet
For AirpIane Bride

The alrplane That carried
and Miss Milly K. Schaefer aloft
for their wedding above the
heads of the crowd at the police
games at Sheepshead Bay. N. Y,
also was burdened by the largest
bouquet, ever carried by a bride
on earth or in the air.
This was prepared by Park
Commissioner Francis D. Gala
tin, who called upon all the re-
ries to make up the bouquet. Gov
ernor Smith presented it to the
bride.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
Dies After Fifty Years
In ASYLUM for Insane

John J. Key, of Mason county, who
ton (Kyl asylum for fifty years.
died in that institution last Mon
day.
Fifty years ago-on Saturday ait
ernoon at O'Clock, March 10, 1863
John J. Key, then a young man, en-
tered the par1or of his fathers home,
at the top Of the hill on the Mays
Vile and Lexington pike and shot
and killed his father and Moses
Givens, in the presence of several
persons, who were in the room.
He went to Maysville Immediately
after the double Staying and gave
himself up to authorities. After a
long drawn-out trial he was declar-
ed insane and sent to the asylum.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29

BY courtesy of officials of the
nort of embarka ton, Mrs. William
Magham, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa, was
on the pier at Hoboken when the
transport America arrived from
Brest. The woman, perhaps sixty,
paced the pier nervously, anxious
to get a glimpse of her son, Sergt.
George Magham, of the 9Th infantry,
She knew that he would be sur
prised to find her there. She pic
tured to officers escorting her how
happy he would be when she ran to
his arms.
Eagerly, as she leaned over the
pier edge, she scanned the thou
sands of faces that lined the ships
rails. 1t was impossible to distin-
guish them. But, she thought
George might spy her and shout his
greetings.
The gangplank was rim ont Mrs
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
Mourned As Dead;
Comes Home to Wed

Herbert Williamson, a young
farmer of Scott county, KY, and Miss
Sarah Walker were married last week
at Georgetown, KY, Ky County Judge
Robert Lancaster.
Williamson has just returned from
overseas service. He was wounded
July IS, 1918, at the battle of Cha
teau Thierry, and his grandfather,
DR.. Eads, was notified at the time by
the government that he was killed.
After being mourned for dead for
three months, the mistake, was cor
recteG.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
Wants to Know Where
DR., Lewis HuOt Is Now

l.. J. Huot, OF Bullock Creek. x.
G, has writtea and asked The Semi
Weekly Journal to make inquiries
for him as to the whereabouts of
DR.. Lewis HUot.
He asks that if any one knows
where DR.. Huot now is that they
communicate with L. ]. Huot, at
Bullock Creek, s. C.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
Switzerland Has Aided
100000 Wounded Men

More than 100000 mutilated.
seriously wounded soldiers have
been transported to their re-
spective home countries through
Switzerland during the war. The
men were transported in hospi-
tai trains with the assistance
of the Swiss Red Cross. A fur
Their movement Of these soldiers
is expected from France to Ger
many through Switzerland, which
will bring the total up to 10000.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
Oregon Lad of Ten
Admits KiIIinu Mate

George Miller, Jr., 10 years old, of
Portland, Ore, who hid the body of
his playmate, Frank McCauley, Z, in
the attic of the Miller home, has
admitted that he killed the McCauley
lad accidentally while showing him
how to work an automatic army pis-
tol.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-07-29
EopNoTcaERs TRATNING

NEW YORK.-BattIing LeVinsky
light heavyweight champion, and
Clay Turner, the sensational Indian
fighter who hailed from st. Paul,
are hardening up for their battle be-
fore the Armory Athletic associa-
ton at Jersey City, on July 81. This
will be their second meeting at the
same club. In the last battle Tur-
ner put up a wonderful scrap.