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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-29
TEXAS GOES BACK To
PRAIRIE SCHOONERS
BY JAMES r. RECORD
Ieased Wire Service to The Journall
Copyright, 1921

FORT WORTH, Tex, June 81
Twenty-eight Texas counties, The
very heart of the cattle country, are
preparing to go back to the prairie
schooner, the OK cart, and the long,
long trail.
It all is due to the imminent shut
down of the Kansas City, Mexico
and Orient railroad, the construction
of which was the dream Of Ameri-
can and British capitalists some
years ago and which now is on the
rocks of financial disaster
These twenty-eight counties, ex-
tending from Red river on the north
to the Rio Grande on the south, for
a decade have depended on the Ori-
ent for food, clothing and transpor-
tation. 1t is estimated that more
live stock was carried from the ORR
ent territory than from any other
section in the. United States. Be-
fore the railroad came the cattle
men drove these steers over the long
trails to other existing roads.
Arthur Stillwell first conceived
the idea of the Orient. 1t was an
imposing railroad dream. He planned
the start at Kansas City and the
terminal at the Pacific ocean. after
traversing g. great part of Mexico.
Work was begun at Wichita, Kan,
and the road ended at San Angelo,
Tex, bisecting the broad acid
branches all right, but neither begin
ming nor ending anywhere that com,
pensating traffic could be secured.
Through the twenty-eight Texas
counties little towns sprung up
along the railroad and for a time
there was semblance Of prosperity.
But the douth of 1917 hit the cat.
tie country. Thousands upon thou
sands Of cattle dropped in their
tracks and died of thirst. Prices
dropped to panic figures. Cattle
men went broke one after another.
The railroad had no traffic and in
consequence a receiver came. For
time he ran an occasional train
But his money gave out and now
comes the announcement that he no
longer can finance operations and all
trails will stop before August 1.
Merchants all along the line are
rushing orders to stock up while
they can. The ranchmen are moving
as many cattle as possible. But
soon the old days will return and
the cattle will be driven along the
trails-they are roads now, but won't
last long when the cattle begin tram
ping them down-and the merchants
will freight their supplies by prairie
schooner and motor trucks as long
as the roads remain passable.
1t is estimated that the shutting
down of the Orient will mean loss
of $5G,000,000 in the shrinkage oil
property values. in loss of trade to
merchants and in the abandonment
of many Of the little towns that now
mushroom the right Of way of the
road
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-29

way to get to the top is to be pulled
there is only the talk Of the dis
gruntled employee. In Chicago and
the Middle West the rich and the
sons Of the rich have no better
chance than the poor.
The men point to their own rise
to financial independence and the
rise of many others to prove their
contention that opportunity has not
ceased to knock on the door of Chi
cagos youth. Preparedness to take
advantage Of the opportunity when
it arrives is the only requisite for
the next step upward, they said.
ITO be prepared for that" one OF
them said, means that one can't
be running out all the time with the
flappers. Recreation is essential,
but use your brains just as much
in that as in your work"
No barriers of office boys, stenog.
raphers or secretaries guard any of
the three directors. Their doors are
open to any one who has to do bust
ness with them. It is said that each
Of the three men know the names
of every one employed in their de-
partment, and know most of them
by their first names. Office boys
go to them not only with their trou-
bles, but also with their ideas.
All Of the men are married and
have families
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-29
Wisconsin Democrats
Sound Militant Note

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, June IT.
By the Associated Press. eThis is
the year for political house cleaning
in Wisconsin with the Democrats
sweeping the Republican party,
which for twenty-seven years has
held all state offices from power,
Thomas M. Kearney, temporary
chairman Of the Democratic state
Conference told delegates at their
gathering here today. He declared
that the Republican party had,
through its administration, run the
state near the verge Of bankruptcy.
After outlining the accomplish
ments of the Democratic party dur
ing its eight years in control Of the
national administration Mr.. KearneY
told the delegates that they were
gathered because of their pride in
the old party Of Jefferson. and of
the fathers Of this republic" deter.
mine upon the means Of gaining con.
troll of the Wisconsin government.
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New Standard Oil Directors
Climbed Ladder by Ambi-
ton, Work and Little Fore
sight

NEW YORK.-First choose your
organization. Then use your brains
ed work.
There is the formula for success
as it is measured by the world that
the three newly elected directors of
the Standard Oil company Of Indi-
ana. All three of the men rose from
ent places which, La Sale street
says, pays each of them well over
100000 a year.
The men, Thomas j. Thompson.
Idward J. Bullock and Robert H.
McElroy, were elected to board of
directors May Is. Mr.. Thompson
succeeds H. S. M|rton, resigned, as
leral manager of the sales de-
part.nen:, and the two other men
fill places created for them on the
board. None of the three boasts a
college education.
There Is always room at the top
for those who want to get there
badly enough to work for it was EN-.
phatically asserted by each Of the
trio.
"But you must work." they all
agreed.
Oddly en"ug the three are of diff.
ferent nationalities. Mr.. Thompson
was born in Blossop, Dertyshire,
England; Mr.. Bullock in Cleveland
of Welsh parents, and Mr.. McElroy
of Irish parents il Chicago.
None of them IS old and each be-
lieves that the best part of life is
still before him. Mr.. Thompson. the
oldest, is SO years; Mr.. Bullock, next
in age, 40, and Mr.. McElroy, 45.
The story of one is practically the
story of the trio. Work, ambition
and being prepared for the job ahead
when it came tells it.
Mr.. Thompson began his career
with the company driving a ray in
c. and Rapids, Mich, when he was
% years old. A. the end Of the
first year he was a tank wagon
driver,.a slight advancement. From
then on it was steady rise.
''You know" he said, leaning back
- his chair, ,'I'' g held every job
there is in the sal" department.
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I theory is not limitless. It will ac-
commodate just so many wireless
messages and no more-at least I'M
til such an invention as Dick was
working on was perfected. When
that limit is reached, the air becomes
a boiler factory.
Dick cast the headgear in useless
veXation on the table.
1t seemed to him that he had been
on the point Of getting just the i'm
portant thing he wanted to hear.
He had been making notes as he
went along, for somewhere he had
heard something about the methods
Of detectives.
His mind was in a whir1, as. II a
dozen people were sending in his
ment. etehr at once. Then, suddenly,
as if unconsciously, he had sharp
ened the thoughts to the exact wave
length, one idea seemed to swamp
all others.
Dick felt that he must get this
place where Ruth had spent the
night and where Garrick was run
ming into danger, If he had not al
ready fallen into it. And he must
get there first.
He tore out Of the apartment,
grabbed the first taxi, rode only a
| few blocks, and dismissed him down
the street.
AS he sped down the block, he
could see a car in front of Gerard's
Then man ran across under the
arc light. Dick quickened. He saw
| in the, shadow two men struggling
and third creeping toward him.
Dick could make out Garrick. He
was just in time. He hurled him.
| self at the other attacker. They
were two against two now.
But at the moment when it seem.
ed that each was getting the upper
hand Of his man, couple of others
ran on. Evidently they had been
trailing him from Garrick's, where
they must have been watching.
The fight Of the four now swung
entirely against Garrick and Dick.
From the Avenue whence had
come the new assailants, now came
a quick scurry Of feet. A whistle
Some one raped as with a hickory
stick on the curb, making hollow
echoes.
The four fed.
The newcomers hauled Garrich
/
feet.
you're under arrest!' One Of
them flashed a badge. "Saw yoI
come out Of the cellar Of the Inner
Circle last night. Also you were or
that roof tonight"
Garrick looked at the badge. They
were revenue enforcement men. He
pulled his own card, issued by the
comptroller Of the state. There was
a moment of perplexity, then expla
nations and apologies.
Thought you were in the Velvet
Gang, too"
1.-THE Valvet Gang?"
"Yeh-that's what we nickname(
that bunch of aristocratic rum-run
ners."
One Of them had picked up thu
key. "Ah-ha! We're in luck!'
So, without the formality of 1
search warrant, they entered the Ge
rard house.
If anything had ever been thel e.
the stuff was gone!
"Then-why the fight-with us?'
puzzled Dick as they parted from
the chagrined riders.
"Just to get us out of the way,
grunted Garrick. "Gosh! ache!I
Humph! u. The Velvet Gangv .
don't know whether it's a detec
tive that's needed so much--or ;
psychoanalyst-or an alienist-or Z;
spiritual adviser!' .,.
Copyright, 1922, by N. e. A. Service, Inc.
| ITO Re Continuedl
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-29
Jacksonville Man,
Shot bv Wife. Dies

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, June 81
J. Lewis Travis, who was shot by
his wife recently, succumbed Mon
day afternoon in st. Luke's hospital.
Mrs. Travis, who claims that she
shot in self-defense, was Frustrated
when apprised of his death, declar-
ing she wished she were dead with
him.
1t is stated that the woman at
tempted to shoot herself after shoot.
ing her husband, but was deferred
by negro maid in the house. Mrs.
Travis aged mother has come from
kissimmee to be with her.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-29
WILSON DAM BILL
PASSED BY SENATE

WASHINGTON, June 81. The
senate today concurred in the house
amendment to the army bill, au-
thorizing an appropriation of ST.
100000 FOR new work on the Wilson
dam, at Muscle Shoals, Ala, effec-
tive next October 1.
Chairman Norris, Of the agricui-
ture committee, lead fight to re-
fuse to accept the house amendment,
but was defeated, 80 to %. He want
ed the senate to insist on it's amend
ment under which tho fand would
have become available Immediately
after the president signed the army
hill
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Attorney General
To Rule onLegality
Of Ship Booze Sales

WASHINGTON, June 81. The
question Of the legality Of the sale
of liquor on shipping board vessels
outside the three-mile limit will be
determined in an early ruling by
Attorney General Daugherty. Re
quest for such ruling has been
made by Secretary Mellon, it was
stated, at the treasury department
today, at the urging Of Prohibition
Commissioner Haynes, counsel for
the enforcement unit having held
that the treasury regulations, as
now drawn, do not prohibit such
sales.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-29
Chinese Girl Wins Two
School Excellence Prizes

\ NEW YORK, June 27.-China-
town found something to talk about
today outside of the usual humdrum.
for twelve-year-old Chinese school
girl, Florence Low. was announced
as the winner of two prizes.
She won an award of $40 for be-
ing the best cook in public school
district No. 1, and she captured Sec
ond prize of SIS in a newspaper com.
position contest for an essay on,
American history.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-29
Illinois Honors Memory
OF Wife of Governor

KANKAKEE, ILL.,, June 27.-Ar-
engagements for the funeral Wednes-
day Of Mrs. Ida Moore Small, wife Of
Governor Len Small, were complet-
ed today.
Mayor William Hale Thompson. Of
Chicago, and Lieutenant Governor
Fred E. Sterling issued proclama-
ton requesting the people Of the
city and state to bare their heads
and pause for two minutes at 8
o'clock in respect to the memory of
Illinois "first lady,"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-29
President Harding
To Give Dinner
To Farm Leaders
Ry William e. Nash

WASHINGTON, June 27.-Pres.
ident Harding will give dinner to
representatives Of agricultural in.
terests at the White House similar
to the steel and railroad dinners, it
was officially announced at the
White House today.
1t was stated at the White House
that its purpose will not be re-
vealed officially until after the din
ner. ,r
Indications were, however, that
the president will discuss policies
looking to the general welfare Of
the farming community.
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Go Be Continued.)
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GERMANY IS SHAKEN /
by INTERNAL STRIFE.

BERLIN, June 27.-Germany was
faced today with the critical after
math Of the murder Of Walter
Rathenau.
A great general strike was declar-
ed in Berlin, on occasion of the late
foreign minister's funeral.
Trains throughout the country
stopped at noon.
Communists and Socialists held
great meetings in larger cities,
watched by the police and troops
who were called out to prevent pos
sible disorders.
It was learned further and more
serious demonstrations are planned
for tomorrow by Communists and
Royalists on the occasion of the an
niversary of signing Of the Versail-
les treaty.
The government, struggling to
preserve order, has demanded that
Pan-German meetings be abandoned.
1t is generally feared that if Royal
lists are permitted to gather in
large numbers, a "putsch" against
the republic may develop.
Royalist plotting, which has been
constant since the revolution, has
been carried on openly recently. The
assassination of Rathenau put an
end to this. temporarily at least.
1t caused tremendous revulsion
of feeling and STIRRED up liberals to
active opposition. These mon
archist plots have taken the out
ward form Of demonstrations in IA
vor of Hindenburg and Ludendorff,
so that the government has been
forced to forbid these former heroes
to participate in public ceremonies.
Former Kaiser Wilhelm has been
kept constantly informed of these
royalist activities. 1t is not the in
tention of pan-GermanS to restore
the kaiser to the throne, however.
Ten members of a secret oreani-
zation which was suspected of being
responsible for the assassination of
Erzberger are under arrest in con-
nection with the murder of Rattle
nau. A lieutenant, Karl Tillsen,
whose brother is supposed to have
taken part in the attack upon Err
berger, also is under arrest at Frank
fort. A Captain Hoffman, another
suspect, is held.
Herr Won Haniel will succeed
Walter Rathenau as German foreign
minister, according to reports.
At Munich, an enormous placard,
bearing the words EBERT Wirth and
Scheidemann still live" was torn
down by an angry mob.
The funeral Of Rathenau, attend
ed by the entire government and
many members of the diplomatic
corps, started from the reichstag
building, where the body was placed
upon a bier and drawn through the
streets. Berlin was in deep mourn.
ing.
FRANCE BEMOANS
LOSS OF RATHENAU
BY William e. Nash
Especial Cable to The Atlanta Journal Ind
Chicago Daily. News-Copyright. 1927
PARIS, June 27.-The French
government looks upon the death of
Walter Rathenau in Berlin as is
fortune for France. He was one OF
the few men in Germany WHO seem
ed sincerely DESTROYS Of paying off
the war indemnity in full.
The famous plan Of reparations in
arranged with Louis Louchre
AZ Wiesbaden was largely his. This
and other accomplis.~ nents will
m rk him as a gre, lal4 in history
The EranoI,
New-York tribune., 1922-11-19
The Nesp Dnnce

Not everybody is absorbed with poll
tics, and one should not be too severe
toward che young people who are more
interested In dancing than In The Near
East qaestion or In the mem ra Of
William III. On account Of lthess. aava
writer In 'La victoire,s we must
consi .er grave communication Of Pro-
fessor Robert, the introducer In Paris
of the Argentine tango and foxtrot
Thisn tina the dances that were in
vogue last winter are even like king
aTino." dethroned. And it Is not tae
"shimniy" that will succeed TO the favor
once given to the tango and fost.os
but the Fox-Biues.
The new dance launched last sum me.
at Deanville, at Biarrits and ss San
Sebastian will certainly win d great
succesa at Paris, where the women fre-
quenters Of the dancing resorts VIII
want to rcpeat the steps that met with
the approval of Alfonso XIII.
Henceforth the Fox-R -Rlues, which also
comes from America, offars fiis ue-
eaiiarisy, that It's steps are nos aalid, =
bus waiksds
New-York tribune., 1922-11-19
Life in Soviet Land

In an essay, Russian; Too Much
Russian" in Velhagen and Klasingsche
Monatshefte, appear the following
memoirs of the author, Rudolph stratz,
who belongs to German family set
tied in Odessas
MY father was, even ea my grand
father, merchant Of the arst guild
and an hereditary honorary freemen
OF Odessa So thieves naturally as.
sumed there was much silver plate.
Robbery. Disappearance. All right.
Nichevo. But a few weeks later / saw
nay father very angry and uneasy. The
.ilver had been found by the police and
could be called for. "A nice messl' said
my father. IL 60 to. the. police the
dogs there will draw up protocol. NV
name will get into the record. Every
day I'll be called away from my busi-
ness and summoned therel And / WON'T
get the silver after all. It's battar to
pay 100 rubles at once for receaing
rom my claim, 30 as not to be both
cred with the whole business.s And so
he did.
"one OF my brothers, In winter, start.
ea the long drive in sledge, through
marahy woods, on the ice-eoyered river
frona Petersburg TO Archangel. Ar.
rives safe and sound, Great hilarity at
bis arrival: 30 you know, gospodin
Strait, that the fellow, who drove yo,,
aione by night through the wooda q
the head OF widely ramified band of
murderers7' My brother tackles the
man In private. eYou good for moth.
ingi Why did you not kill met Tho
driver grins submisaiveiy: Once thew
Killed and robbed baron, man Of
high rank. Of ST. Petersburg. What
an annoyancel What troublesi Eysr
new commissicnsi Examinasionsl A.
restsi Mol Never againi your, high
ness may confidently drive back with
me- And my brothar did 80.
In August. 1898, she cholera rness
IN Russia. ! travelled from Reyal %
Riga. People died like fies, which
assmsd nos at all 70 disturb the genaral
New-York tribune., 1922-11-19
France viii Seize RhineIand
liz Brussels Conference Fails
Nation Tired of Waiting for Germany to Pay for
Devastation, Says Editor, as He Cites
Costs Up to Date

more. She notes that Of the 7,ooe, ,000..
600 gold marks actually paid down By
Germany in money or in kind NOS a
cent has been given to her for repara.
tions. So she Is determined. once for
all, TO put stop to the present state
Of things and to act.
What viii she do IL tho Brussels
conference fails7
She will certainly not mobilize sn
army; shs will not invade Ger
many; she will perhaps rot even enter
the Rnhr; but she win seize the re-
sources which she has at hand on the
left bank of the Rhine.
France Has Plans Made
For Rhineiana Occupation
At present che inhabitants OF the
Rhineland continue 70 pay down their
taxes into the bottomless Golfer Of the
Reich; why should they not pay them
to France7 (When, in 1871, the Ger
mans occupied forty-fve French de-
parsments, these forty-fve depart
ments paid their taxes to Germany
AZ present, the Rhineland railroads,
the 9orests Of the Rhineland. the
mines OF the Rhineland, are being ex-
plotted by the state Of Prussia; why
should they not be exploited by
f'raneef
1t has been figured chat II France
were to collect the taxes in the Rhine
land, IL che were TO exploit the rail-
roads. the mines, the forests OF the
Rhineland, she would easily collect
0o,0o0.o0o gold marks, which is more
than 3,5oo,eoo,o0o OF the present
French money, Now, q net annual
revenue Of s25o.ooo,ooo represents q
capital Of at least $4,000, 100000. The
revenues Of the left bank of the Rhine
would therefore allow France to make
q loan Of 10000, 100000 francs st the
present rate Of exchange. The two
thirds Of the sums which are at pres
ent being paid out by France would
then be reimbursed--and the annual
interest Of the French debt would thus
be lightened by two-thirds.
1t is possible that such calculs-
tion is rather optimistic; but even IL
the figures were reduced by one-half
1t would still represent $4,000, ,ooo, coo
which France would receive. To-day
repeat it, after three years Of peace,
OF negotiations, Of discussions, she has
received nothing at all.
A Latin proverb sayss ~primum
vivere, delnde philosophers" France
wishes to live. If the Brussels con,
ference fails to give her the means o,
doing 30, she will find them withoui
caring about the appreciations o,
philosophers.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-19
Versailles Treaty Bombarded !.
With Hard Words by Frenclmen

"a treaty OF reprisal and affairs un-
changed, but more hypocritical."
"Heil paved with good Intentions.
'More combatants and less pol,s,.
clans would have elaborated ,ts
clauses"
"A structure on sand. No peace
ehrives In an atmosphere Of hats. Un-
til there is victor and vanauished
wars are inevitable"
CONSTRUCTED by bad architects"
"The supreme disillusion for those
who shed their blood"
Eve merit better and will accent
nothing less"
"The eternal error OF incapable
French diplomacy.
THE Treaty OF Versailles 10 NOT that
which we might have wished it to be /:
the last treaty OF the last war"
"Ths Versailles Treaty has subsss.
tused g provisional and localized wa,
for state Of general and permanen,
war. Tt contains the germ Of all future
wars In the world"
"A verbal Jungle"
Monsieur Woodrow Wilson 10 q wraa,
Democrat
"The proof chat events grow beycnt
men, or at least the viellards who con.
duct the people"
can imbecilic masterpiece composed
by idiotio jurists and rnaladro,,
Utopians."
"A masterpiece Of wilsonian idsai.
ism"
IA venomous flower sproutsd through
the decomposed debris Of thousands -ot
dead and which, II we do not taks
care, will poison our children"
"Being inappiicable, this treaty 4,
nothing more than q scrap Of paper.s
"The labor Of the aged, when, the
young OF the Old World hoped for a
work as courageous, confident and
Sdealistic as was their sacrifice"
"A perpetual hope, but what will come
Of itf"
"A wound dressing that slipped.n
"The treaty has ths value Of those
who applied It."
New-York tribune., 1922-11-19
Memoirs of alexander III

. The journals Of the late Princess
Dolgoxouki Yourievski, the SECOND
(morganatic) wife Of Tsar Alexander
II. which are about 60 be published
simultaneously In Russian, English,
French and German, contain manv
notes written to her daily by the Tsar
during the last dozen years OF HIS
reign, and dealing more with interest
ing personalities than with politics or
diplomacy. Among the personages Of
whom ne wrote were Queen Victoria,
Emperor Francis Joseph and, above sIl.
Kaiser William I, whom he profoundly
respected.
These journals are very interesting
on account Of the light they throw on
alexander IT'S own character They
reveal rectitude and clesrness ~
views which historians have not always
credited to this sovereign. The criti-
cisms OF the grand dukes and the Rms.
Sian court are severe. The best Of his
thoughts are given TO bis son, later
'Isar Alexander III.
After 1878 the Emperor became more
and more absorbed by the revolution
ary Spirit rising in Russia. De de-
scrined the numerous attempts on his
NE, sevesal among them being passed
without public notice. He deemed the
measures taken by the police 10 pro-
see1 hi1n incpportnne and ineticacious,
The last pages Of his diary were de-
voted 20 the constitution which he In
tended 70 give to h!a eountsy. he ar.