Show i georgian defies a sacred southern tradition WILLIAM C ADAMSON representing the fourth district of 0 georgia and VF uniformly called bedge Adal because of his service service on the city bench of 0 carrollton back in the eighties Is the one man in congress who defies the sacred southern tradition that no statesman should appear in anything but a large blace felt slouch hat M i bedge adamson prefers a flat drab go golf cap 1 nonchalant it which he weara mears with the same nonchalance th that V he wears his largo large and trod trousers sers of car roll county ga design once long years ago the little william adam son was taken to school tor for the first time b his parents it as a country school where the birch rod bad lull full tay say little Williar Will iara 3 being left to hla his devices made an experiment with his hands he patted the top of his head ind rubbed his stomach at the same time which aich requires great control the big boys and girls around hin him caught sight of the phenomenal Phenomena i exhibition and in less than ten minutes nearly every pupil in that log schoolhouse was mas trying tho the adams adamson Adam trick with varying degree degraef a of success at the end of ten minutes the large larg and raw boned schoolmaster bad despaired of getting order a gain again and started in to whale hla his school with a fine and unyielding bit of birch it Is history that about every pupil caught a taste of 0 that hire birch h rod except the innocent looking william adamson long years passed little william had bad become a congressional leader he was chairman of the great interstate and foreign commerce committee I 1 which deals with railroads and trusts and which framed the panama canal set act the principal of the big school which has grown up on the spot where the little old log schoolhouse was in the old days invited bedge adamson to speak there he accepted and told the story of his first daa da in scho school 01 and illustrated it with a fine demonstration of patting his head and rubbing his bis stomach the fever caught the school again the very tery next day every scholar who w be heard the bedge tried the trick it nearly broke up the classes tor for a month after and now nos says bedge adamson the principal of that school have his famous aJ alumnus uranus make another address there tor for any coa consideration unless he ties his hands bands |