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The Jeffersonian Will Stay in
Thomson.
A F TER thinking the matter over, from all
the different "angles,” I have decided to
stay where I am, and, what lam.
As editor of a monthly magazine and a
weekly paper, I can reach people over a
broader field than any daily paper can cover;
and enter the homes and the lives of thous
ands who are unable to take a daily.
Besides, this work at Thomson has cost
me several years of sustained labor, and 1
have seen it grow under my personal direc
tion, until it is something one can be hon
estly proud of —something which needs me
every day, and which I need, every day.
It gives me just the kind of work that I
love to do, and furnishes an agency by means
of which I can render a greater service to
humanity than any office could supply.
While I appreciate, the letters and ’.xdi
tions and offers which have come to me from
Atlanta and elsewhere, mv mind is made up
to “let well enough alone.”
Mayor Dorsey of Athens, Geor
gia, Goes Into tiie North-West
ansi Talks About the Frank
Case.
A CITIZEN of the name of W. F. Dorsey
is Mayor of Athens, and he is the only
official in Georgia who telegraphed to the
Jewish New I ork IFwZ<Z that the people
approved Slaton's action in the Frank case.
Dorsey runs a business in Athens under the
name of the Dorsey Furniture Company.
He depends on the Athens Savings Bank
for financial accommodation.
The President of this bank is a gentleman
from Jerusalem, named Myer Stern, and a
descendant of Abraham is Vice-President—
Moses M ichael, whose wife is the aunt of
Leo Frank's wife.
Mayor Dorsey went into the Northwest
recently, and while there he talked, with
great gusto and volubility, and he was
gladly reported in the Grand Rapids Her
ald, which may, or may not, be a Jerusalem
sheet, and which may, or may not, be a bor
rower of Jerusalem gold.
This is what Dorsey said, and I am
pleased to say he is no kin to Hugh Dorsey:
Mayor W. F. Dorsey of Athens, Ga., one of
those most active in securing the commuting of
the death sentence of Leo Frank to one of life
imprisonment, is in Grand Rapids on the fur
niture market, and first learned of the attempt to
kill Frank through The Herald.
“I am not a bit surprised, except in the man
ner in which the assassination was attempted,”
said Mr. Dorsey last night in talking of the case.
“ vVe all expected that an attempt would be made
to ambush him while working in one of the fields
on the prison farm.”
A close personal friend of the Frank family,
and mayor of Athens since 1896. Mr. Dorsey
took the unique position of opposing his cousin,
Solicitor Hugh Dorsey, who secured the convic
tion of Frank in the efforts to save Frank’s life.
Mr. Dorsey spent a great deal of his own time
and money in his efforts to save Frank from
hanging and personally appeared before the
Georgia pardon board in the convicted man’s be
half.
‘‘An attack upon Frank’s life hrs been antici
pated ever since Governor Slaton commuted his
sentence,” said Mr. Dorsey. “The feeling against
Frank is most bitter in Georgia, especially among
the laboring class, and the poor felloe never had
a fair chance The fact that he is a Jew was
against him, and he fought a losing fight from
the very start.
“I do not believe Frank was guilty of the mur
der of Mary Phagan. It was not a murder by a
white man; it had all the ear marks of a ne
gro rapist. We, who live in the Sou s h, know the
crimes perpetrated by the lower class of the col
ored race. When they rape, they kill to seal
forever the lips of their victim. Such was the
case of Mary Phagan. She was criminally as
saulted £nd killed to hide the Identity of the as
sailant. It was the work of a degenerate. I
cannot conceive that a man of Leo Frank’s stand-
THE JEFFERSONIAN
Dancing a High Jink at the
Mission School in China.
“STOP! LOOK! LISTEN!”
yLZHILE it is true that David danced
before the Lord, modern churches draw
a distinction between times, places, and
dances.
But it seems that the missionaries in
Shanghai are going in for all that is gay,
and that the girls dance everything that’s fit
to look at.
An Apostle of the Christian Catholic
Church in Zion, Rev. Francis M. Royall,
writes me, under date of June 12111, 1915,
enclosing a clip from the paper which the
missionaries publish in the English language.
. The name of the paper is, The 7’liina
Press, and it prints the program of a pub
lic entertainment given in the grounds of
The Eliza Yates School, at Shanghai.
This mission school was named after the
wife of the noted missionary. Matthew T.
Yates.
The headline in the paper reads—
CHINESE GIRLS TO GIVE
DRILLS AND DANCES, SATVRDATN
Then follows a tribute to the missionary
work of Miss Y. M. Chung, a graduate of
Wesleyan Missionary College.
Then comes the program:
I. Gymnastics by High School students:—Chi
Sue, Sung Char, and Shanghai Girls’ Schools.
11. Folk Dances:
1. Children’s PoIka—YATES SCHOOL.
2. Washwoman’s Dance—Chi Sue School.
.3. Norwegian Mountain March—Girls from
four schools:—South Gate, Chi Sue,
Bridgman and Yates.
HI. Marching—Shanghai Girls’ School.
IV. Ribbon Drill —Yates School.
V. Butterfly DANCE —Chi Sue, Sung Char,
YATES and Y. W. C. A. Schools.
VI. Aesthetic Dancing Benita Caprice —-
Shanghai Girls’ School.
VII. Games: 1
1. Bat Ball—Chi Sue School.
2. Pin Ball—Y. W. C. A. members *v. Y. W.
• C. A. School.
, 3. Obstacle Relay Race —By four schools.
4. Simple Games—Chi Sue and Bridgman
Schools. >
VIII. Mortis DANCE- YATES, Chi Sue, and
South Gate Schools.
Thei e you have a pretty prospect of grace
ful tripping, skirt-flouncing, and frolicsome
hilarity. You begin with gymnastics, and
follow up with folk dances, polka, wash
woman’s dance, Butterfly dance, Aesthetic
dancing, and the Morris dance.
ing, his high mindedness, his education and clean
moral record, could have done such a fiendish
piece of work.
“I iave talked with Leo Frank many times
since he was convicted and sentenced to death,
and I always found him the same. He would
meet you with a firm shake of the hand, and
looked you straight in the eye. He did not act, or
lour: like a man who had something to conceal,
and I believed his story.
“Most men, who have gone through all that
Frank has, would have welcomed death, but not
he. He wanted to live, with the hope that some
day the truth would come out. He did not care
for himself, but he wanted to vzipe away the
stain from his family’s name, v'hich was placed
there when he was found guilty of the murder.
“Smail in body, an 1 of a fragile stature, Frank,
in most cases, would have attracted to himself
sympathy instead of hatred. But the laboring
class was against him from the very beginning,
and the more publicity given the case, the strong
er the hatred grew'. And the day ueo Frank was
saved from the gallows, he was a marked, man.
We all expected him to be shot; not attacked in
the manner he was.
“I do not believe anyone instigated his as
sassin to his work. Whenever Frank’s name
was mentioned, murder beat in the hearts
of hundreds of men, and it is not to be expected,
with the feeling against him as it is, that it should
be barred from behind the prison doors.”
Mr. Dorsey is accompanied here by M. V. Bloom
of Atlanta, Ga., who has been on the Grand Rap
ids market for 36 years. Mr. Bloom represents
several local lines, and is on th» market every
season, as is Mr. Dorsey.
All this is done in the name of Yates and
wife, the consecrated missionaries.
The expense account is footed by the
duped American churches, who are kept in
the dark while this commercialized mission
system amuses the young Chinese with
European dances carried to China by the
missionaries!
V here did these missionaries learn enough
about all this fancy foot-work to teach it
to the heathen?
The Morris dance is the old Gypsy dance
of England, the Polka is a Polish dance, the
M ash woman’s dance is probably the Irish
jig: and the Butterfly dance is doubtless; the
same thing that goes by the name of skirt
dance on the stage.
I saw the Buterfly dance once, and I have
been blushing ever since.
A well-shaped young woman stood up be
fore the audience and violently tossed her
skirts over her head, as though her life de
pended on undressing inside of two seconds:
but the clothes were securely fastened, and
they stayed put: and all that llie young
woman could do. when her skirts fell down
from above her head, was to toss them
back up.
If the Butterfly dance at (he Yates Mis
sion School is not really the skirt-dance of
the ballet, the bishops and the Boards ought
to tell us what it is, right away.
In writing to me about this new-fangled
development in Foreign Missions, Brother
R ova 11 says:
I see from The Jeffersonian that you are mak
ing onslaughts on the way Mission work is done,
and rightly so. I enclose a clipping that speaks
for itself. Think of a mission school named for
the wife of Matthew T. Yates having a dance for
anybody. And to think of the Eliza Yates School,
in China, taking part in such doings, is enough
to make Yates turn over in his grave. Think of
hard-working Christian people giving their money
to support such things. My God in the heavens,
what does it mean but the End of the Age?
Think of a Baptist Missionary going to see a
dancing girl dance. Think of a dancing girl com
ing from England to India, and the people in
India discussed the matter there whether it would
be wise to allow her to dance, as it might reflect
on the English people, as she dressed in such an
almost nude condition. Then she comes to Shang
hai. The people were well informed about her. as
the matter was discussed in the papers, and she
dances, and then think of missionaries, and one of
them a Baptist, going to see her dance.
Mission schools teaching children to dance,
and one paper said that the Chinese like it, too.
It seems that some of them are trying to see how
near they can get to be like the heathen and keep
decent.
May the Lord have mercy on them!
I thought you would be interested, so I am
enclosing this. Yours,
FRANCIS M. ROYALL.
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