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CHARLTON COUNTY HERALD.
VOLUME XIIII.
Rockefeller Pledges Wealth to
Kill Traffic in Girls.
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PROBE REVEALS HORRORS
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Hundreds of Men and Women Are Now Scouring
the Country for Evidence Against the
Procurers of Girls. |
New York City.—The first glimpse of
a very rich and very sincere Chris
tian young man in horror of the un
derworld’s most sordid institution—
white slavery—will result in the ex
penditure of a fortune to wipe out
the traflic, not only in America, but
in the whole world.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the leader
of the special grand jury which con
ducted the white slave investigation
here, is so appalled and horror-strick
en at the revelations here and the in
ternational ramifications of the sys
tem, that he is determined to wipe it
out. He said he would spend any
amount to do this, and he is backed
in his determination by his father,
John D. Rockefeller, Sr., the world’s
richest man.
“lI was stunned by the revelations
of this gigantic system of dealing in
girls,” said Mr. Rockefeller, Jr., when
prevailed upon to discuss his own at
titude in the investigation which, up
until now, has been conducted secret
ly in the principal cities of the Unit
ed States and in Alaska.
Young Mr. Rockefeller was so ap
palled by the disclosures that he went
to his father and explained that, in
view of the revelations, he felt that
he ought to devote his time and his
money to the investigation. He ex
pressed the hope to ais father that the
fight might be made international. He
told his father some of the frightful
stories which the grand jury had been
told. John D. Rockefeller listened
gravely to this recitation and then he
told his son to go ahead.
All this time the investigation was
supposed to be sagging, but Mr. Rocke
feller has applied a portion of his for
tune to hiring private detectives to
look up the ramifying ends of the
trafiic in the northwest, the south and
the middle west. Women were re
tained—college women and prominent
socialist workers—so that no suspi
~cion could be attached. to their testi
mony. They were told not to seek
.the assistance of the police or detec
tives in the wvarious cities visited.
“Their instructions were to work alone
and all were amply supplied with
money. They scattered, one going to
Juneau, Alaska; others to Seattle,
Washington, Denver, St. Paul, Omaha,
Kansas City, San Francisco, Portland,
Spokane, Cincincinnati, St. Lonis,
Louisville, Pittsburg, Chicago, Atlanta
and elsewhere. These workers were
not scattered into each town simulta
neously. Some of them visited sev
eral of the cities mentioned.
Of the investigators, two of the
women are from Smith and Radcliffe
colleges, and several of the men are
from Harvard and Yale Universities.
The indications are now that the
federal authorities will take a hand
following thne revelations that New
York constitutes just one little part
of the white slave syndicate, which
extends all over the United States.
Following this there is a strong prob
ability indicated in Mr. Rockefeller’s
interview that America and Ingland
may join hands in wiping out the in
stitution of white slavery the world
over. The French government for
some time has been interested in this
troublesome question, and in London,
T. P. O’Connor, M. P, has been wag
ing relentless warfare against the ter
rible institution in his paper.
District Attorney Whitman refus
ed to show his hand, and refused to
“say what action the government would
take, although he said the most sen
sational incidents were yet to come.
The evidence of women in the far
west was readily furnished investiga
tors with the identity of the under
lings of the New York branch of the
white slave trust. It was reported
that arrests in other cities are immi
nent.
CIVIL WAR ROMANCES.
Blue and Gray Soldiers Celehrate the
88th Anniversary of Grant’s Birth.
Chicago, lil.—Romances of the civ
il war were renewed at Galena, 111,
in one of the most remarkable gath
erings of former Confederate and Un
ion soldiers held since the close of
the civil war. Hundreds of former
associates and opponents of Ulysses
S. Grant from every part of the Unit
ed States gathered at the former
home of the dead warrior and states
man to celebrate the eighty-eight aa
niversary of his Dbirth.
TRIBUTE TO MARK TWAIN.
Old Home of Humorist Will Be
Bought and Made a Museum.
New York City.—Sentiment among
richr men in the east who were friends
of the late Samuel Clemens to fur
nish the bulk of the funds necessary
to purchase the humorist’s old home
in Missouri and rehabilitie it into a
museum, will soon take tangible form.
Among those who were admirer of
Mark Twain and who will contribute
to the fund are Henry H. Rogers, Jr.,
Andrew Carnegie and J. Pierpont
Morgan, .
The idea is to purchase eitaer the
house at Florida, Mo., where Clemens
was born, or at Hannibal, where he
spent his boyhood.
NUMBER 48
LITTLE ROCK GETS U. V. C.
Gray Veterans to Gather in 1911 in Arkansas
City---Gen. Gordon in Command. -
Mobile, Ala.—With Little Rock, Ar
kansas, chosen as the reunion city
for 1911 and New Orleans endorsed
for the honor in 1915 and with an
election of officers, the United Con
federate Veterans’ Association closea
its business session.
The selection of Little Rock had
been freely predicted and though the
Arkansas city lacked a majority on
the first ballot, she was so far in
the lead that a vote to make the se
lection unanimous carried with a
roar. The vote stood: Little Rock,
1,470; Chattanooga, 640; Oklahoma
City, 17; Houston none. When Texas
was reached the veterans saw how
things were going and tarew their
strength to Arkansas.
The indorsement of New Orleans
as the meeting place for 1915 was con
tained in a resolution favorably re
ported and adopted. It recites that
New Orleans proposes to hold a Pan
ama canal exposition in 1915; that the
Crescent City had asked the veterans
to indorse the exposition and attend
it in April, 1915. It was resolved,
therefore, that each reunion until
1914 take this same action and that
the reunion of 1914 follow the idea
and meet in New Orleans.
It was almost dark when the reso
lution was made and the resolution
committee reported. The resolutions
were simple and few, announcing the
Panama exposition in New Orleans in
1915, endorsing the monument to the
women of the Confederacy designed
by Miss Belle Kinney of Nashville and
‘making a few changes in the by-laws.
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General Clement A. Evans.
Mobile was thanked as was every one
who attended the reunion and then
came the election of officers.
It had been persistently rumored
that General Evans would not stand
for re-election and that General Ca
bel of Texas would not be a candi
date, but that both men would be
made past commanders-in-chief and
the command thrown on General Gor
don. o
The rumors were well founded. Gen
eral Gordon was raised to the su
preme command. Then the honorary
title of past commander-in-chief was
conferred upon Generals Evans and
Cabell and the convention adjourned.
The new commander, General Gor
don, has the distinction of being one
of the four ‘living Confederates who
were actually major generals before
the war ended. He also has a record
of being captured by the federal fore
es three times.
General Gordon will not announce
his staff for several weeks, but it is
understood that General William .
Mickle will remain adjutant general
and chief of staff to General Gor
don.
MATRIMONIAL FRAUD.
Farmer and Daughter Reaped Fortune
from Wedding Bureau.
Jefferson City, Mo.—J. A. Campbell,
a wealthy farmer of Morgan county,
and his daughter, Mrs. Mabel Addi
son, were held to the federal grand
jury here under SI,OOO bonds to an
swer a charge of conducting a fraud
ulent matrimonial scheme.
Search of Mrs. Addison’s rooms at
her father’s home by postoffice in
gpectors brought to light more than
400 letters from men in all parts of
the United States, Canada and Mexi
co. Several of the letters had con
tained sums of money running from
$5 to SSO for a wedding outfit. g
Campbell inserted an advertisement
in a matrimonial paper about six
months ago, giving the name of Nora
Johnson. The advertisement was go
successful that the postoffice authori
ties became suspicious because of the
many letters and the arrest followed.
“Nora Johnson” was supposed to be
17 years old, an orphan and hciress
to $17,000 in a year. Campbell is 62
years old.
Counterfeit Gold Pieces.
Ban Antonio, Texas.—Secret ser
vice agents have in their possession a
coisiderable 'number of counterfeit
Un'ted States $5 gold pieces, beliey
ed ‘o have been made in Mexico. This
spusious money has become so plen
tiful in certain parts of Mexico that
hotel keepers are now refusing gold
in payment of bills of tourists and
others.
Taft Sends Canal Message.
Washington, D. C.—ln a special
message to congress President Taft
urgss that the defenses of the Pan
ami. canal be completed and ready
for business on January 14, 1915, on
whith date it also is hoped to open
the :anal to navigation.
FOLKSTON, GA., MAY 3. 1910.
The Big Educational Endowment
Funds Are Growing.
OVER $2,000.000 NEEDED
Funds Are Now Being Raised to Endow Many
Educational Enterprizes in Georgia.
Some Endowments Completed.
Atlanta, Ga.—Work is now in prog
ress or has been completed in rais
ing more than $2,000,000 of endow
ment funds for educational enterpris
es in Georgia-—the total, to be accu
rate, is $2,375,000,
This includes the $500,000 which the
Baptist denomination is engaged in
raising for the secondary educational
schools in Georgia and other states.
The other projects are confined exclu
sively to this state, and are as fol
lows:
For Emory College, Oxford, Ga.,
$350,000, nearly all of which has been
subsecribed,
For Agnes Scott College, Decatur,
Ga., $350,000, all of which has been
subscribed, and is now being collect
ed.
For Wesleyan Female College, Ma
con, Ga., $250,000,
For Bessie Tift College, $250,000.
For the Martha Berry School, near
Rome, SIOO,OOO.
For the college at Demorest, SIOO,-
(000, which has all been subscribed.
For the Baptist College at La-
Grange, $50,000. '
For the Georgia School of Technol
ogy, $75,000 for a Y. M. C. A. build
‘ng, of which $50,000 is to be given
by John D. Rockefeller, conditioned
upon the additional $25,000 being giv
en by friends of the school.
In addition to these other smaller
funds are being raised here and there
over the state for various educaticn
al purposes, and it is probable tae spe
cial educational funds of this sort in
process of accumulation will run over
$2,500,000. 4
Possibly as much more is being
raised or has just been raised for va
rious church enterprises, and it is said
there are other projects in process of
dincubation which will be announced
just as soon as it is thought the field
for them is clear. :
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~ Atlanta, Ga.—Major F. L. Palmer,
U. 8. A, retired, who is inspector
general of the state national guard,
was a caller at the capitol. After
completing his tour of the military
organizations of the state,
Major Palmer was loud in his
praises of the good work done by
the soldiers and the splendid effi
ciency which most or the organiza.
tions showed.
“The general average of efficiency
this year,” he said, “wiil probably be
75 per cent. This is an improvement
of about 9 per cent over last year. It
will probably place the Georgia na
tional guard near the top among the
military of the states, as our stand
ing. last year was much above the
average,”
Major Palmer found the organiza
tions entirely out of debt througnout
the state. All equipment has been
paid for and extra accounts paid. All
bonds or other obligations of the com
panies have also been settied.: The
military organizations throughout the
state are in splendid shape to make
fruther improvement, and Major Pal
mer expects to see a better showing
made each year.
It is a high honor for Colonel Har
his and other officers of the second
regiment, that two Macon companies
lead all others in the state for effi
ciency. First are the Macon volun
teers and second the Macon Hussars.
Thé third companies in standing are
the Savannah Cadets and the fourth,
the Atlanta Rifles,
CONVICTS STRIKE.
Long-Termers Refuse to Work for the
Tattnall County Authorities.
Reidsville, Ga.—This county faces
one of the most peculiar strikes it
has ever known. Thirty convicts—
most of them serving life terms for
murder, and all of taem serving sen
tences of as much as twenty years
each—have agreed that they will not
work and their leaders state that
they will die before they will do any
kind of work for the county or state,
Several of the prisoners are white
men,
The men were recently in the hands
of the Clarke county authorities, but
were transferred to Tattnall county
after a contest between the counties
for their possession. Apparently they
worked willingly in Clarke county,
The state prison commission has
told the sheriff to investigate the
quee case and report. Just what can
be done with the prisoners unless the
authorities retaliate by stopping their
food, is not known.
Experiment Station Wanted.
Waehington, D. C.—Representative
Edwards has introduced a bill in the
house asking that the secretary of
agriculture buy a site and operate an
agriculturural and stock raising ex
perimental station in the first district
of Georgia. He asks for an appropri
ation of $75,000, with which to buy
the site and start the work. The bill
has been referred to the committee
on agriculture for consideration,
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.
Families of Chicago in greater num
bers than ever before are storing
their furniture and going to live in
boarding houses or in the country,
according to managers of storage and
van companies. They assign this con
dition of affairs to the increased cost
of living.
’the ability to read French or Ger
man will be required of Harvard stu
dents in order to secure an A. D. de
gr?e after this year. All such candi
dates by a rule recently announced
®ill have to pass an oral examination
in the reading of French or German
before being admitted to the junior
clags.
Dr. William S. Bainbridge describ
ed before a meeting of physicians in
the New York Skin and Cancer hos
pital the success of his treatment of
cancer by what he terms ligation. It
consists in shutting off th‘a supply of
blood from the seat of 'trouble by
tieing up the vessels wih ligatures.
He finds that cancer must have blood
to nourish its growth.
At a meeting of the members of the
Selma, Ala., Cotton exchange resolu
tio were adopted asking Alabama
corxx)iressmen to take a hand in pros
ecuting those who sold future cotton
and did not have cotton to deliver.
Senator Johnson replied that a reso
'luti‘n to inquire into these contracts
would be made. ;
Willard Smith, sixty-five years old,
a w&a]thy wall paper manufacturer ot
Waterbury, Conn. was instantly kill
ed &nd his_wife, Mrs. Anna Smith,
aged sixty, was held a prisoner from
10:30 at night until 2:30 in the morn
ing, . when a%glding bed in which they
were sleeping‘-@ a fashionable board
ing house closed up on then.
The state of New Jersey and thé
Standard Oil company have gone inte
partnership. They are to act together
in ridding the city of Boyonne of a
menace to the public health in the
shage of an extensive tract of marsh
land which has heretofore been a
prolific breeding place for mosquitoes.
Each is to bear half the expense of
draining the land.
Hanford B| Warner, for more than
fifty years a manager of the well
known wild men of Borneo, died at
his Zome in Waltham, Mass., ageq
eighty-two. He brought the wild
~men, Wailo and Pautano, from Bor
neo and traveled all over the world
with them. After retiring from the
_‘;%;f-aslness ‘he took them to his
~home, and one of them lives now,
i ”’m aghingt | billbotbile
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'Whigh the Civic League of St, Louis
‘has been carr 'l'3 il mg.*
o vfi e “t«’;" ' oP,
_cou t,;“:guml‘s a city“ordinance
passed in 1905, but a.g‘a‘,m_s;y which an
advertising agency secured a perma
nent injunction. It is to the effect
that billboards may not stand more
than fifteen feet above the ‘ground,
nor closer than fifteen feet to the
sidewalk; must provide two feet of
clear space at the bottom; must not
run more than fifty feet in length,
and must not rest on the tops of roofs
or over the front of buildings. The
objection to the prevailing board is
on the ground that they are unsightly,
unsanitary as bins of refuse and im
moral "as retreats of vice.
Washington.
Four men of the Mazama expedition
sailed from Seattle for Alaska to at
tempt the ascent of Mount McKinley.
The cotton empioyers at a mass
meeting in Manchaster, England, de
cided to insist on a 5 per cent reduc
tion in wages. This action is attrib
uted to the expecteéd shortage in the
American crop.
The senate committee on judiciary
voted to conduct a thorough exami
nation into what is known as “third
degree” methods of extorting confes
sions from persons charged with
crime; also the practice of cmploying
persons in the espionage of jurors.
That Mars is inhabited and its sur
face marked by canals of human con
struction, a popular theory, was dis
puted before the convention of the
National Academy of sciences in
Washington by George K. Hale of
Mount Wilson solar observatory of
the Carnegie institution. Dr, Hale
made mention detrimental of the dig
coveries of Dr. Percy Lowell of Har
vard university, who established an
observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona,
and spent several years telescopically
exploring Mars and who asserted that
canals existed on the planet,
In reply to a speech by Senator
Smith of South Carolina assailing the
tariff as the cause of high prices, Sen
ator Aldrich as the principal author
of the bill, made this reply: “I'he Byß
- of high protection has caused
general and great prosperity in this
country. Wages have advanced and
money hasg heen more plentiful, there
by enabling people to live better and
pay more for articles of food and
clothing. This in a measure accounts
for the gradual increase in the cost
of living.”
The abstract of reports of condi
tions of national banks in the United
States on Marcn 29 last, issued by
the comptroller of the treasury,
shows that on that date the total re.
sources were $9,841,924,345. The in
crease in total resources since April
28, 1909, was $473,040,502 and since
January 31, 1910, $111,405,710.
According to statistics prepared by
the agricultural department, there hasg
been a phenomenal increase in the
value of farm products since 1889,
The increase in dollars from that
time up to end of last year is put at
$6,300,000,000, The total value of
wealth produced on United States
farms in 1889 was $2,460,000,000,
while the latest figures are $8,760,000,-
000,
Dollar Saving Days
Prosperity dates from the first dol=-
lar saved. If you are earning
. money you ought to save some=
thing. What you do now
in the way of saving may
determine what the fu
ture will bring you.
'We pay interest on
savings accounts
compounded quar=
terly at 5 per=cent, on
time certificates 6 per-cent.
Let us open an
account with
We are prepaied to serve
the public in an accepta
ble way. Have you tried
us?
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FOLKSTON
Jome Dangers ~n—
F - -
§ rom High Prices
SA A - 02os T BrREST
By Elizabeth Hewes
N\ Y #n VERY one is talking high prices. But my topic is different.
D\N‘m‘% I wish to talk not on the high prices themselves, but on their
dangers, the chief dangers being, of course, to that trunk
% class of a nation, the small-salaried man, the clerk, the shop
girl, The present high prices are affecting this class in two
d ways; first, they are tending to force them down rather
5 \ than up in the social scale; second, they are putting them
@m“k\} to such stress that they are tending to become an underfed
class, under-nourished, and certainly the danger of having
the great trunk class of a nation under-nourished cannot be overrated.
Well, I don’t pretend to know the causes of high prices, but this I do know:
that I am today paying 8 cents more for my steak, 7 cents more for eggs, 7
cents more for butter than I was last year; that a better class of people than
heretofore is beginning to try and evade the compulsory education law, and
that certain shop-girls whom I know have reduced their lunches from chicken
on toast with rice border to an eclair and a cup of coffee. In other words,
our great, prosperous (?) country stands at the parting of the ways. A little
more, and you will have the trunk class of America an underfed class, being
slowly but surely forced down' in the social scale, The laboring man, the
miner, the servant girl (who are being paid more) will force their children up
into the clerk class only to have their children stick there or return to them.
This would no longer be American,
This that I say is true, and it seems to me to merit the attention of all
thoughtful Americans who care for their country.~—~American Magazine,
Pitlshurg Graft Informer Pleads to
Be Removed to Another Prison.
Pittsburg, Pa.—Capt. Johnny”
Klein, a ringleader of the Plttgsburg
grafting Councilmen, has begzed his
attorneys to apply for his removal to
some pricon other than the Riverside
Penitentiary, Klein declares that a
third of his 1300 fellow-convicts hava
pledged themeelves to kill him be
cause he ig a “squealer,” and thut
they heat him whenever they get an
opportunity,
A dozen convicts are in the dun
geonsg at Riverside for attacks on him,
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The Field of Sports.
Columbia's interclass crew race
will be held on the Hudson May 17.
Canadian turf authorities decided
to shorten meetings of current year,
James Winkfield, the negro jockey,
has signed a contract to ride for an
Austrian count at SBOOO a year. |
New York is included in the Grand
Circuit, and is to hold a trotting meet.
ing at Brighton Beach in August, ‘
Charles M. Daniels, the speed mair
vel of the New York Athletic Club,
swam 100 yards in 54 4-5 seconds in
the tank of the Illinois Athletic Club, ‘
in Chicazo.
SI.OO A ¥EAR.
Squad Biroke Record of 135 Vears
Ago, From Boston to Lowell,
Lowell, Mass, — The Middlesex
County military marching record, eg
tablished 135 years ago by a detach
ment of British troops, in an expedi
tion from Boston to Concord, was
broken by a squad of eight men from
Cemipany F of the Fifth regiment,
}rho covered the twenty-six miles
rom Boston to this city in five hours
and forty-eight minutes. No effort
was made to rob the Red Coats of
the running record from Concord to
Doston,
About Noted People.
Former Senator Allds went South
to recupernte.
President Taft defined ‘“Republi
canism® at a dinner of clubs 19 Wash
ington, D, C.
Nathan Guilford, railway official,
who rose from freight clerk to presi
dent, is sixty-nine.
W. J. Bryan checked tirades
against the American Government in
a speech at Ponce, P. R.
Supreme Court Justice Morschau
ser declared himself in favor of
amending the code so as to forbid
gecrct divoreas,