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The Washington times., 1921-11-06

IL TO. | didn't tell II in detail, but | told
him knew the charge against my father
and was going to put in a complaint.
can't say for sure, but | think it was the
18th of May of this last year.
On crossexamination at the hands OF
Lawyer Carlson, the attorney for the ac-
cused murderer. the young man rehearsed
with some further detail the story Of the
fire, the sudden awakening OF Mrs Ball.
her screams, the rush through the door to
gain safety from the flames and the bans.
bang, bang of his fathers shotgun as he
dropped them one by one.
After some preliminary questioning
Lawyer Carlson brought the witness to
the moment OF the tragedy.
QUESTION BY LAWYER CARLSON
And your father stationed himself there
IN front OF the door?
ANSWER BY JULIUS Schultz
Yes; not in front of the door. but over
there to the side OF the door.
QUESTION-How far away. were you?
ANSWER was about probably ~ or
25 feet; about 20 feet ! think it was.
southwest of the house.
Q-You laid your rifle down, didn't
you?
Al think had it in my hand.
Q.-Ready to shoot with it,
Al was. held it in my hand ready
to shoot
OFF your father couldn't kill them
you were going to kill them, isn't that
about the size OF it?
A-Well that was my instructions.
l., l. no. ,,,,N 4
there before you heard any noise al all?
Al happened to turn away when
heard Mrs Ball screaming
Q.-What was the cause Of the scream.
ing?
Al guess the woman had probably
suddenly been awakened by the fire
Q.-And then what was the next thing?
A-The next thing | heard something
as though there was a chain moving; |
took It that the door was probably chained
and they were trying to move 1t.
Q.-The door was opened?
Ayes.
Q.-And the old man Ball came out?
A.-Yes.
o.-Running out?
A.-No. not running; he walked along
pretty fast.
Q.-was a shot fred before he came
out?
A.-The shot was fred just as he came
out The shot was fred ard then | saw
him run around the side Of the house, and
then he ran back.
Q.-The question Is. did you SOC the
first shot fired before he went around tue
side OF the house or afterward?
Alfred before he was in sight OF me
hadn't seen him whCn the first shot was
fred.
Q.-You heard the rattlng OF the door
and you were right where you could see
the door?
Al couldn't see II real plain; It was
dark on that side Of the house.
Q--H0w lar awav did you stand?
A-Quite a ways up on the knoll.
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Al didn't see any
O.--What was the mex. thing that hap
pened?
A--The boy came out of the door and
just turned facing the roadway, and he
hadn't much more than got turned when
he was fred at
Q.--Who fred the shot at him you don't
know?
A-Ies.
Q.-He was shot through the back?
Al think so.
Q.-And he fell?
A.-Ies.
Q.-By that time Ball had come back?
Ayes.
Q.-Now where did the boy fall?
A.-The boy fell right on his stomach.
on his face, about half way behind the
house toward the road.
Q.-Right in the open space there?
Ayes.
Q.-On that little path?
A-Yes.
O.-That leads up from the road 10 the
back door of the shack?
A.-Not exactly on the path; he was
around on the right side.
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the store and the kitchen. Two times she
called out to him that there was some one
to see him, that Mr.. Zagarin was down
there saying that the Ball house was
burned up and all the people there were
burned with it, / went up to tell my father
and he said ne didn't want to come down;
he wanted 10 sleep, he didn't feel well! He
went to sleep and he didn't come down
stairs at that time.
Q-Do you recall anything else your
father did that morning?
A.-Well not right then. We were out
in the kitchen and we were eating break
FAST my mother, my brothers and myself.
and we heard the telephone ring. 1t rang
three, which was Lawyer Tyler's call in
Tylerville, and my father came downstairs
as he heard It ring up there He came
down in his stocking feet and listened In.
Odd your father say anything at that
time?
A.-No. sir, and he repeated that about
four times. Every time the telephone bell
would ring calling Mr.. Tyler he came down
and listened in and went back upstairs.
lie nd0n any SDOeS on at dll-CT6pt
and down in his stocking feet.
Ole didn't say anything on any Of
these occasions when he listened in at the
telephone?
A-No, sir, not until toward afternoon.
AS happened to pass him in the store and
there was no one in there he said, We'll,
they have come to the conclusion that the
bodies we're suffocated in the fire. They
don't suspect anything wrong"
Odd he give you any instructions
about what TO do?
Al was going TO Tylerville that after.
noon to see party by the name of Decker,
and he told me on the way down there
William, my brother. was going with me-
and he said, When you get opposite the
cemetery tell William, out of curiosity, to
get out and go over to the remains of the
fire, to go across the path and down to the
Ball shack where 1t had been, and see who
is around there and hear what was said
II there was any one around there, to see
what was going on" and he told me after
he left there to go up the back road to the
house. He said that the alarm clock
hadn't been changed, the time II was sup
posed to so Off and he said, Change it, 50
If anyone happens 10 go in there and see
the clock they wouldn't suspect anything"
To turn II around to about or o'clock
I think, to look out there was no one around
there up the hill by the house, to just give
the clock a turn. We came back and took
the team. We went over across the prop.
erty and came out on the main road to the
barn.
Q.-You testified earlier in the morning
that as you we're going through the woods
your father had told you that II you ever
told about that the same thing would hap
pen to you as happened TO these people
which were in the Ball place. When was
the first time you first told about this
thing?
A.-Well. | don't know for sure, to re.
member the date, but think the frst time
| told II was TO my brother Walter, my
oldest brother. He was the first one told
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Q.-Right near there?
A.-Yes.
Q.-On the grass ground?
Ayes.
Q.-He didn't go down in the bushes?
A-No.
Q.-Now when the father came back
didn't he have TO run over the body of his
son to get back?
A-No. sir. There was that whole path.
He DIDN'T have TO go over the boy.
Q.-And the father was shot again?
A.-Yes.
Q.-Where did he fall?
Ale fell right backward with his head
ont toward the road.
Q.-What position-whers was he with
reference to the boy? Did h fall between
the boy or above on the Other side OF the
boy?
"A little bit toward where my father
was standing.
Ole had to go by the boy?
A.--Yes.
Q.-Then he fell?
A.--Yes
Q.-You didn't notice OF course. sne
couldn't tell where he was shot at that
particular time?
A.-No.
Q.-But he was shot?
A.--Nes.
heard from him?
A.--Yes.
Q.-,LThen your father fired into the neck
and shoulders Of young Ball? And that
was the last you heard of him?
A.--Yes.
Q.-And then your father went to the
vrithing, screaming form OF Mrs. Ball in
the bushes and fired shot into her?
A.-Yes, sir.
Q.--And then all was silence?
A.--Yes.
What a scmbre picture of cold blooded
slaughter! Even a inotion.picture audi.
ence would shake their heads at such
scene as being rather too crude and un.
likely-and vet this is exactly what young
Schultz swears transpired in the early
morning hours on that cold December day
in the stiffness of the dawn.
And the jury believed Julius Schutte's
story, for they convicted his father Of the
Wholesale murder Of hs unfortunate
neiEhbor5.
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jedsalts bottle and had one Of those screw
tops on top He took this out Of his pocket,
his back pocket, and took long drink OF
whiskey from 1t, then he stuck 1t back IN
his pocket again. Then he said to me, i
want you to keep your mouth shut about
this. no matter how much | beat you or
how much punishment you get; no matter
how mad you get at me don't open your
mouth about this to any other people.
Don't tell your mother or brothers or any
body" and if did would get the same
as these people had gotten. and when he
did that he pointed back toward the fire
and / didn't say word and we went on
Q-You say after you had finished wash
ing your hands you went upstairs. Did
your father 60 also?
A.-WeIl, I think he went up little
ahead OF me. When we got up from the
cellar we went upstairs in the store and
took my coat and he threw me his coat,
and took them and hung them up where
we generally hung them, and took out the
couple OF shells that he had in there.
Odd you go to bed?
A-Yes, we did
Q.-You went to sleep?
At didn't. no, sir.
Q.-What time cid you get up?
seven o'clock.
Q.-Was yCur father up az that time?
A-No, sir, still in bed.
Q-How soon did you see your father?
Al first saw him before | got down
stairs, as | was going through the hall and
went by the room he called to me He
called me into the room and he asked me it
had any sleep and said no. He said, You
didn't sleep?" and | said. mo, didn't
close my eyes" ard he called me over TO
his bed and he said, You don't want to
mind a little thing like that" and he smiled
and he said, Il want you to go down and
take my coat. and If there are any blood
spots on the sleeve or anything clean II
off," He said there were discharged shells
In his pocket and he wanted me to take
them out of his pocket and put them IN
the henhouse where we always kept them
on the shelf. | went downstairs and went
10 the kitchen, and my mother was up.
and think my brother William and a
couple of my brothers, and got the coat;
Il was some kind OF a heavy corduroy stuff,
skin color fathers coat: and | took the
coat and put II down In the henhousc.
| didn't look at it until I got down there.
and there were discharged shells In the
right pocket and loaded shells In the left.
hand pocket. took them out and put them
on the shelves where we used to keep them
and saw several spots Of blood across the
sleeve. The sleeve was crusted up, IL
stuck to the corduroy, so I tried to get 1T
off, and then | went back TO the house,
Odd you look at your own coat to see
whether there was any blood on II or not?
A.-No, sir, don't remember looking at
II at all.
Q.-You say you took shells out OF your
fathers pocket, both loaded and unloaded.
discharged shells?
Ayes, sir.
Q.-what did you do with those7
A.-Put both the loaded and unloaded
on the shelf over the door as you go in
the hencoop.
Q.-After cleaning of your fathers coat
what happened, IL anything?
Aust as came In the kitchen ! heard
nv mother call to my father. He was -till
upstairs and the door was open between
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julius Schultz of
Entire Family of
They Rushed Out

"As the fIan n, g 8
ieaped up and
a 70 a ksned the
sleeping family.
Mrs. aUscrsaned
and rushed out of
the front door.
Schultz fired and
the poor toonan
rolled oUer into
thebushes,scream-
ing. Her son, Joe,
then came out and
Schultz dropped
hin, uOifh a shot.
Next came Mr..
Ball, and another
shotfromS Schutte's
gun snuRed out
the life of the old
man. The boy
continued to nloUe
and Schultz, step.
ping up TO him.
@red into the neck
md shoulders of
young Ball. Mrs.
Ball u as still
y, o aning and
screaming as she
writhed in the
bushes. Schultz
approached and
pressing the r,uz-
zle of the shotgun
close to her Urith-
ing form, fired an
other shot, ,Ohich
silenced her for
eUer."
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-10
Tariff Humbuq
He foreshadowed defeat of the Fordne

-HE foreshadowed defeat of the Fordney
emergency tariff bill, born in insin-
cerity and designed only to fool the
farmers, should be warning to the Repub-
lican party in the formulation of legislative
program under the Harding Administration.
The Fordney measure, in it's course
through the lower House of Congress and in
the Senate, has been loaded with amend
ments that make it one of the most ridicu-
lous and grotesque pieces of legislation ever
suggested.
Since the Republicans now are in control
of both branches of Congress, 1t scarcely
need be remarked that the supposed friends
of protection through a high tariff are re-
sponsible for the added incongruities that
magnify the absurdity of the measure. Their
object was not to hamper the legislation, but
to impress their constituents with their de-
sire and capacity for getting something for
them while the getting was good
The author of the bill, Mr.. Fordney, of
Michigan, chairman of the Ways and Means
committee of the House, in writing the meas
ure, neglected to provide any protection for
cherries. Evidently he wasn't impressed With
the danger to the American cherry industry
through large impOrtatiOns Of foreign brands,
and he must have been unmindful of the
lessened con umption of this fruit in conse-
quence of our prohibition law that has made
the Manhattan cocktail thing OF memory.
But the senate made haste to provide ade-
quate protection for cherries, as it did also
for needles and sunflower seed; the bill as
finally perfected is made up of the smallest
things known to man.
The situation confronting the United
States today, in consequence of the war, make
old tariff arguments obsolete and perilous.
AS the New York Times remarks, the
trainers of the Republican platform perceived
this "They saw that the comfortable old
fallacies of protection could not be urged
with straight face at the present time. So
they wisely declared that the uncertain and
unsettled conditions of international bal
ances the abnormal economic and trade stu
alton of the world and the impossibility of
forecasting accurately even the near future
preclude the formulation of a definite pro-
gram'-that is, a tariff program
Mr.. A. B. Hepburn, a lifelong Republican,
writing in the Financial Chronicle, is con-
WINGED that the "oId arguments for protec-
ton are wholly inapplicable" to existing
conditions. The only way in which Europe
can hope to repay us the billions she owes
is by sending us goods, and Mr. Hepburn
thinks it would be financially suicidal'' for
the United States to enact protective legisla-
ton that would interfere with the importa-
ton of manufactured goods from Europe"
The Fordney bill, as Mr.. Hepburn OBJ
serves, is merely intended to "trifle with the
farmers" an old trick of the Republican
party, and he does not attempt any analysis
of the measure. His arguments against the
revival of tariff agitation and the enactment
of such legislation are fundamental, and
will be just as valid next year as they are
now.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-10
REAL RICHES
By H. AddingtOn Bruce

BY H. Arlington Bruce
r UME it was who once observed:
II "a propensity to hope and joy is real
riches; one to fear and sorrow real pow
And according to Henry Ward Beecher:
mo man can tell whether he is rich or
poor by turning to his ledger. 1t is the heart
that makes man rich. He is rich according
to what he is, not according to what he has. "
To similar import Luther long ago pointed
out:
Material riches are the pettiest and least
worthy gifts which God can give man.
What are they to Gods Word, to bodily gifts
such as beauty and health, or to the gifts
of the mind, such as understanding, skill,
wisdom?"
These are truisms which cannot too often
or too vigorously be insisted upon. For
though they were sensed by the sages of an
tiquity no less than by the wise Of later times,
the world at large remains strangely deaf to
them.
Almost universally there is a misindentify-
ing of riches with. the possession OF gold
bonds, stocks, land, buildings, and extensive
personal property. A millionaire dies, his
estate is inventoried, the terms Of his will
made public. The general exclamation is:
'How rich he was!"
Only the discerning few hesitate, and, be-
fore pronouncing the dead millionaire rich,
ask themselves:
did he lead lonely life of friendships ?
Was he happy in his home relations? Had
he a smile or a frown in his heart as he made
his way through the world?
Were the riches of the spirit and the mind
his or only the riches to be gained through
money-grubbing? Were others made happier
by contact with him or did they shrink from
his coming and rejoice at his going? And
was he good company for himself in hours of
solitude?"
Questions akin to these, indeed, every
man should put to himself, especially at the
outset of his money-earning career. 1t is be-
cause they usually are not put that the gen.
erality of men go so sadly astray in their
sense of values that, however wealthy they
may become, life is to them unaccountably
disappointing.
Norman Macleod's seemingly synical re-
mark has in it more than a germ of truth
and wider application than most of us ap-
preciate:
"The rich are the real outcasts of society,
and special missions should be organized for
them
Special missions might we'll be organized
for all-rich moderately well-to-do, or poor
-obsessed with the false idea of the supreme
Importance of the things that money can buy
Outcasts assuredly they are, miserably pow
erty-stricken in so far as they are deprived of
the highest joys and satisfactions life can
bring.
Copyright 1921, by The Associated News
papers.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-10
Common Sense
VERITABLE mind of sound common
sensa is nnntainad in an artinla re-

a VERITABLE mind of sound common
~ sense is contained in an article re-
garding business conditions recently
published by Paul Jones, prominent Can
ton (Ga.) merchant and citizen, in The Cher
okee Advance, of Cherokee county.
So appropriate was the article to the Pc
culiar circumstances of the time, whether
the application be made to "a rural commu-
nifty of Georgia 70 the country's big cities,
that it attracted the attention of business
men throughout the state, especially bankers.
eve knew, you knew, everybody knew,
says the article regarding the causes which
led up to readjustment, "tnat the country
could not always go like it had been going.
We all knew conditions had to change,
though we admit that most OF were slip
ped up on 'Weve all been caught more or
less together. We've all had to stand our
losses and reverses as best We could, hurt
as much as they may. 1t has shown us the
real stuff we are made of.
Don't lose faith, don't give up, but rather
take courage, brace up and go to 1t. TO
some it may be a matter of few years, to
others only a few months, but everyone can
help by showing a real honest effort anC a
willing mind"
Mr.. Jones then presents some observations
concerning "conservati.m as applied to
business and in this connection he says
"Buy what you need and can afford. You
cannot adopt better policy than OF dong
your business WIN a concern III "uOlH yoi
can afford to place your utmost confidence,
concern that does IT, best to serve you and
sell you good merchandise at fair price, a
concern among whom are men you know to
be your friends
And then on the subject of work:
"The country needs men. Honest men to
farm, to run our business concerns and banks,
to do our religious work, as doctors. states
men and lawyers, men in essential indus
tries. There are many at work producing that
which is worthless to the country. Try 10
impress this upon the boys. Are we protect
ing them or helping them as we should? Are
we leading them or trying to lead them as
we should? Remember that on their shoul-
ders will some day rest the burden of the
country. Try to impress the Importance OF
the contract-our duty to fulfill them. Let 8
settle down, use every bit of Judgment OF
which we are capable go to good men FOR
advice, work and do right.
''To sum it all up, let us all work and
work honestly; live right and spend wisely
according to our ability; save and meet our
OBLIGATIONS like men,"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-10
Chinese Suffrage

China, following hard on the peoples of
the western world, now has it's Chinese Wom-
ans Suffrage association. The platform
drafted at the opening meeting by the men,
bership, composed of women educated in the
schools of China and abroad, is as follows:
Every woman may have a right to VOTE
Men and women will have equal protection
under the law. Girl slavery shall be prohib-
tied. Women shall have the right to the pos
session of their property which shall be reg
istered by name.
Women shall have the right to marry whom
they desire. Women shall have equal oppor-
tunities for education with men. Women
shall have equal vocational opportunities and
vocational education with men. Women shall
have equal rate of wage with men,
Concubinage shall be prohibited A single
standard shall be maintained for men and
women. Widows shall have financial recon-
pense from the state for the care of their
children.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-10
QUIPS AND QUIDDITlES

The other day stranger entered the In
diana National bank and wanted to borrow
S.. He was told that the bank did not lend
such small sums.
But he went on, lending money is your
business, isn't it?"
The banker admitted that it was
well, have good security" said the
stranger, "and l want to borrow S."
Finally the banker, half from fatigue and
half from amused curiosity, agreed to make
the loan. When the note was all drawn and
the interest of 35 centf paid, the stranger
drew from his pocket $40 900 worth of gov
eminent bonds and handed them over as Sc
curity. Before the banker could express has
enlistment the stranger said:
Now, this is something like it. Over at
the other bank they wanted mo to pay $40
just for a safety deposit box to keep these
things ini'
"Cholly, old man, you look glum!"
Peter smacked his chum Justify between
the shoulders.
"Cheer up. OLD -eA, What's the gloom?"
Cholly looked up at the only friend he had
in the world.
"'The girl I loved" he declared "has just
married"
"Well. cheer up, old man; there's just as
good fish in the sea-
Eyes but" added holly, desperately,
1--WE were engaged; I gave her ring"
No matter. old man. Don't be foolish"
"It's you who's foolish" returned Cholly,
sharply. eff you'd let me finish my sem
tence you'll understand. 7 gave her ring
which I purchased on the in talment plan
and I'm still paying instalments on the
darned thing"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-02-10
That Winning "Let' s.Go!

xV1H1hE the st0rdiest slogan or the high s,,+
M est precept is, apart from action but
a puff of breath, there can be no
doubt of the heart-lifting power of words
fifty spoken. Truly fit they cannot be, I'M
less behind them throbs a purpose and shines
a vision. Consider the American Let S
CO." which, thinks Colonel Edward Munson,
chief of the morale branch OF the General
Staff was the slogan that won the war.
1t can be argued just as consistently, or
course, that the French "They shall not
pass" or the British Garry on decided the
grim tug between Democracy and Prussian-
ISM for without the fortitude and the tenac-
ity which those phrases ring forth, Verdun
would have fallen, the vital lines in Elan
ders and Picardy would have broken, the
drama would have ended-and how darkly!
before the dough-boy arrived. But If te-
nacity and fortitude were decisive
at certain stages Of the struggle, a bold
launching forward was the all essential pol
icy when Hindenburgs last fling was on.
Not Lets hold" not Lets dig in" but
Lets co. was the spirit then to win with.
Trench warfare had been considered by some
authorities, and some of the greatest, the
only. kind possible in the circumstances;
wherefore, it argued that there could be
no military decision except on basis OF
endurance power, and that probably meant
no decision worth in anywise the cost. 1t
was the will and the power to go which
turned a terrible deadlock into victory. 1t
was the personal and national morale behind
two short words that dealt the winning
stroke