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February 17, 1910. at the post offire
at Cartersville. Ga., under the Act
of March 3. 1879.
The Past.
Where is the old fashioned parlot
upon whose walls we always saw th<
*Jiotio “God Bless Our Home.’
Often Used.
Piesiiuut Wilson his c-lJ re
ceniiy with a lung, not sig ot —bui
(what La the use to say it? fuu know
.what will cure a cold.
The Jonquil.
Whether Use yellow or not, you
• nusit admire the, jonquil. When all i
seej - aiui frost pays a visit every iiigui
yet we see tuis brave little flower put
ting forth its yellow head above thq
ground as if to say “never mind tUe
; wtatiier.”
The Wrong Idea.
A Chicago man of more than usual
intellectual reputation suicided be
cause his wife d.voiced him. When
>vill men and women learn the better
•way of living for those they love
rather than the emptiness of dying for
Close who don’t?
A Troubled Mind.
Our idea of a thoughtful person is a
little girl in the fourth grade prepar
ing tor an examination in arithmetic
with a conciousness that something i
gcing to be asked concerning the great
est common divisor, about which she
• ' members little, if anything—in fact
nothing.
Opening Season.
The tact that dry goods men have
been taking trips to New York and
other eastern markets lately is a mat
<er of interest to all. Daughter will
soon be wending her way to town to
see what they are placing on. their
counters and in their show windows
and upon coming home again will treat
‘‘dear old dad” to every sort of beau
tiful courtesy. Hence these bills fo
millinery and dress goods of latest de
sign and smartness.
Bringing Up Father.
The news that another daughter of
the :(resident will soon be married is*
almost conclusive that a daughter ol
a {.resilient has some better chance
than the laughters of other people. A
girl vviose daddy is only a congress
man, or a senator or something, hus
only a fair chance. A daughter of a
railroad president or a boss of a trust
nr two is in some demand and work
themselves off pretty rapidly. All thi
•ihows that girls should be very caj*e
tul in the selection and bringing up of
athers
Tending A Garden.
YVe want father to be more careful
his year about statements he will be
prone to make concerning the garden
V'e have noticed that he claims to be
•bout the only one who does anything
oward making his garden. He should
.iot be so boastful. The sun helps him
>y sending down its rays of warmth
he cloud helps him by furnishing
ootstune and even the toad helps him
•y destroying the bugs and worms and
j|ia wife helps him by calling him up
'ht come home and do a little hoeing.
Vheu you come to think about it,
iijpli'ow gets a good deal of help in
Wringing up a first class vegetable dis
lay.
LEAN UP.
(Communicated.)
The ather day some one said: “The
S-rty Uttle town of Cartersville,"
[ Now isn’t that enough to mate all
re civic- pride in each of us rise to
If, highest point? And what is more
Id worse—lt is true.
I Cartersville does need a cleaning
| and she needs a good one. it
iouil not only be our pleasure to
ve’t town so well kept that we may
T proud of it —it is our duty and a
Irious one at that
|o*'to riiere comes to us improve
>.:mts that the city urgently needs,
lie same old answer comes tack—
"J money. Here before us now is one
Smrovement that needs but little
|ine> to accomplish quick results.
Ti'here are some people who do not
|e—there are some too busy to
ak to the city’s upkeep, there are
■ |ne who are anxious for a clean city
! t the vast majority are just indif
jfent. Cartersville is ours and as it
Tjppens, it is the only town we do
n. Many of us were born here, mo-t
• us will die here and so for our
tilth’s sake, for our wealth’s sake
i|gs clean up.
’he greatest need for the cleaning
1 jms to be in our business districts.
• i'he housekeeper who neglects her
• jise is at once censured and often
THE FRANK CASE.
The Supreme Court of Georgia having affirme-i the lower court in the
f rank case, the man stands today sentenced to hang on AprP 17th, for the
murder of Mary Phagan. Since the decision of the appellate court var.ou;
matti rs have arisen which, to some degree, throw about the case an increas
ing element of doubt.
\V> are free to confess that, to our mind, the case has always been sur
rounded with much of mystery. The testimony produced at the trial, as pub
lished in the paj er-, was not sufficient to make secure the correctness of
the verdict of the jury before whom the man was tried. Admitting that. w,_
did not hear t.he testimony and that the papers did not publish it all, s il.
'he trial judge heard it all and he expressed a doubt as resting on his mind
concerning Frank’s guilt.
To begin with it seems inconceivable that such a brutish crime coul i
be committed in such a brutish way by a man of Franks culture, refine
ment and education. There was present at the trial too much of the mob
spirit. There was too much intemperate speech. There was too much of pre
judice and too much eagerness to fasten the crime on Frank, omitting an
other possibilities. The value placed upon the negro’s testimony was not war
ranted by the past, life of the negro himself and certainly not when he ap
pears in court admitting his participation in part in an atrocious crime.
Mean enough to do what he confesses to have done we would hut slightly
regard what he says about any feature of the case unless strongly corrob
orated by the best of proof. The corroboration furnished lacks much to
bring about complete satisfaction of mind.
Naturally it was a case in which public feeling has been Very much
aroused, and a situation existed which made it possible for mistakes to b
made. We blame no one but In times of stress it is difficult to deliberate
with accuracy.
In view of all that has transpired we feel that the public should no.v
view the case more dispassionately. The courts have well nigh exhausted
their remedies to meet the case. That which remains for Frank to pursue
through the medium of the courts is very much circumscribed and limited
There is so much that must be taken as having been settled by judicial de
cision that the courts cannot now take the case up as an original proposi
tion.
But the jteople can. The governor of Georgia can look at it from al
angles. Should he have the case brought to him upon an application for a
commutation of sentence he should be given credit for honestly seeking to
perform his duty and the people should let him know that justice is all that
is wanted —no man’s innocent blood.
Too much was withheld from the consideration of the jury. That which
Dr. Harris was ?iot asked about seems to most minds to he important and
tended to wreck the chain of circumstantial evidence pointing to Frank’s
guilt, Conley, the negro accessory or principal, made many contradictory
statements before the trial and admitted that he may have told “a niDlion
lies” about It. Two or three women, of lax moral natures, have repudiate I
under oath the truthfulness of statements made by them on the stand. One
or more men have admitted the recklessness of their statements of fact bn
oath.
Through no fault of their own, men are sometimes found to be envelop
ed in an embarrassing tangle of circumstances which, when put together
are deemed to be of sufficient value to warrant a conclusion by some quite
different from the real facts. So that in all this case there is present every
element of doubt. Human testimony, from evil lips, is very shaky, and cir
cumstantial evidence, by itself, is not sufficient. In this case we have parts
of the circumstantial facts deliberately withheld from the jury while niucn
of the human testimony was given by men and women since found to he un
reliable and practically degenerate.
We are not interested in Frank. We are only concerned about the mav
ler of giving him a fair trial and an opportunity to secure from the public
generally equal justice before the law. He should be viewed as an American
citizen and a human being who, charged with a great crime, seeks to arrest
public attention so that it may he directed toward the great principle that
every man Is presumed to be innocent until he is proved guilty by “due pro
cess of law.”
Look at the case in a calm, deliberate manner. Asa people we should
be as much or more interested in freeing the innocent as punishing the
guilty. Asa people we cannot afford to do away with the rule of law that
where a reasonable doubt exists, the verdict should be “not guilty.”
1-iet no man say The Tribune is influenced by any consideration except
that which it believes to be for the best interest of society. The fact tha (
Frank is a Jew should neither injure or help him in this case. The fact that
he has influential friends or that he is a stranger in a strange land make
no difference with us. We are not guided by any hope of gain. There are no*
perhaps in all Bartow county a half dozen Jewish families, and these, so far
as we know, are only contending that he be given a fair chance. If he is
guilty the true Jew will admit that he should meet the laws demand, just in
the same manner that we, as Gentiles, punish those of our own religious
faith when guilty. The Tribune is merely a weekly county paper but it tries
to be cosmopolite in the statement of its views. We simply say that Jewish
influence is not sufficient to affect the policy of this paper and that Jewish
patronage is a mere bagatelle in the summing up of a year’s business. Wo
have not been solicited by any man to espouse the cause of Frank. We do
not do so hut distinctly affirm that we do not know, from all that has been
offered, whether he is guilty or not and hence we insist that this fact
should he known, beyond a reasonable doubt, before we demand his life. We
are unable to place the value on the testimony which was given it by th
verdict of the trial jury. We very much fear that certain rights, which ar
guaranteed by our courts, were not sacredly regarded when this man was
tried for murder.
severely—matters not what her dlf
f'eulties are. Yet the merchant, the
me who supplies our food and clothes
raid all utilities can keep any sort o
a store and naught be said. Too busy
ad bigger business is the plea bu* |
what pray is a bigger business thar
selling clean goods? Better sell clean
poor goods than supposedly good
goods ladened with dirt and germ
The business stores of our town
need cleaning up. When the dry
goods merchant allows his goods tc
become dirty, it is his loss. When the
grocer and market man allow theirr
o become dirty, it is the consumers’
loss. Have any of you ever walked
i no a grocery store or market in our
town and seen such commodities es
meats, fancy cakes, sugar, dates, figs
and candies out exposed to ail dirt
and filth? And what is more, when
a t order goes in for any commodity
jou want and expect clean goods,
you get the cleanest he has, but what j
THE BARTOW TRIBUNE, MARCH 12, 1914.
is that?
Beside, have you ever walked along
cur streets and noticed the windows
There is one store in Cartersville
where often the goods can scarcely
t'<> seen on account of the dust and
dirt.
Not only to grocery sto es and mar
kets but to others do these complaints
apply. But we are glad to say, there
are in Cartersville several well kept
s i ores —clean and up-to-date. We
thank them for it. But it isn’t right
fci all of them not to be clean. Por
our health’s sake it isn’t right tc
have stores filled with dust and filth.
Your customers give you nonest
dealings; they expect hon sty in re
turn and dirty commodities are no
honest.
Th se, however, who keep the chan,
sanitary stores deserve the patronage
and if it can be made known to the
people, they shall have it.
The various organizations of the
U wn, the Cherokee Club, U. D. C., D.
J. R. and the Missionary Societies
are going to he asked to be agent
for a cleaner Cartersville. A commit
tee is going to be appointed which
will from time to time go around our
c'ty and from time to time will the
tell where clean and pure commodi
ties can be secured. Through thi
committee, which will always be un
known to the public, the people will
! e told where goods which should be
covered are kept covered and where
scores are swept and kept clean.
There are some people who are
cereless and to whom it makes but
little difference whether they safe
guard themselves and their familie:
from dirt and disease. But on the oth
er hand there is a vast number who
are anxious for the cleanest goods. It
is these whom the committee wiP
serve.
This is free for all. We hope all on
people and merchants will be inter
ested. ( lean stores will make your
customers better, more satisfied and
we believe more numerous to say
nothing of your part in the upbuild
:ng of our town and the upkeep of our
r eople.
The commissioners will clean our
streets, and if each person will look
to their premises before very long it
will be absolutely impossible for any
one to say, “That dirty little town of
Cartersville.”
DIVISION MEETING I. O. O. F.
TO BE AT CALHOUN.
An important meeting of the eigh
teenth division of the grand jurisdic
tion of Georgia, Independent Order o p
Odd Fellows will meet with the Cal
houn lodge No. 245 at Calhoun, Ga
on April 3rd and 4th, next. The eigh
teenth division of this large and In
fluential order is composed of the
lodges and membership of the five
counties of Murray, Whitfield, Gordon,
Bartow and Catoosa, and comprises a
fotal of forty-four lodges with their
membership amounting to about 2,500.
This is the largest division in the state
end one in which the spirit and pur
poses of Odd Fellowship are most
potent and useful.
The Odd Fellows of Calhoun are
making extensive preparations for the
entertainment of their guests on this
occasion, and no less than 150 repre
sentatives together with the grand
lodge officers and a large number of
visitors will be in attendance.
Mr. W. B. Robinson, the Division
Deputy Grand Master, residing at
CLEAN UP OPPORTUNITIES.
High class Laces, 5 and lOcts.
Shirt Waists, 69 and 98cts.
Yard wide Silks, 38 and 69cts.
Silk Dresses, 4.85 and $6.90.
" ALL SPOT CASH.
i. t #
These and many specialties are cut to less than half their true
value.
While this special clean out lasts you’ll find richness in op
portunity to save money, and while this great buying privi
lege is given, you will observe newnesss and freshness each
day by the regular arrivals of men’s and women’s wear from
the Eastern markets.
Quality is never sacrificed-the prices are always warranted.
Any article can be returned within 48 hours and find money
to be cheerfully refunded.
Your looking will prove profitable.
J. W. Vaughan & Cos.
Cartersville, = Georgia
I— AT EVERY TURN
i-^--'-SSS&) AND PUTIT
IN THE
BANK.
TU WILL BE SAFEf IN
—*-oUR BANK
The road to prosperity looks like an up-hill climb. It
may be at first but it keeps getting EASIER. The nearer
you get to the top the more joy you experience in knowing
that soon you will be up and the climb will be over. Toward
the top the money you have in the bank begins to assist
and boost you. Nothing succeeds like success, and every
one will push you the way you are going—down or UP.
Make OUR bank YOUR bank.
We pay 4 per cent interest on Time Deposits.
BANK OF CARTERSVILLE
J. W. Leak, President J. W. Knight, Vice President
G. M. Milam, Gashier.
Spring Place, Ga., has sent out letters
to the various lodges throughout the
and vision and is earnestly endeavoring
to secure a large attendance on this
occasion.
Bartow county is largely represent
r- 1 in this order and the Odd Fellow
of this county are very greatly inter
ested in the coming meeting of this
division. All who possibly can are ex
pected to attend as it is through these
division meetings that the light ot
Odd Fellowship is better understood
ar.(l better applied. From these meet
ings the members derive an inspira
tion and are imbued with a purpose
altogether beneficial to themselve,
end to society in general.
You can see the latest styles in
spring millinery at Adair & Lewis.
Mr. and Mrs. Stiles Hopkins, of At
lanta, were the guests of their sister,
Mrs. W. W. Daves, for the last week
end. Miss Emily Daves accompanied
them home and will be their guest for
several days.
Stubborn, Annoying Coughs Cured
“My husband had a cough for fif
teen years and my son for eight years.
Dr. King’s New Discovery completely
cured them, for which I am most
thankful,” writes Mrs. David Moor, of
Saginaw, Ala. What Dr. King's New
Discovery did for these men, it will do
f.-r you. Dr. King’s New Discovery
should be in every home. Stops hack
ing coughs, relieves la grippe and all
throat and lung ailments. Money baek
if it fails. All druggists. Price 50c. and
si.oo. H. E. Bucklen & Cos., Philadel
phia or St. Louis.