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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
MONDAY, JUNES S. I»r.
7
“The Daylight Corner’
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EISEMAN & WEIL
1 Whitehall St.
Next Year Means
Worse Instead of
Better.
DEBATE QUESTION
Municipal ownership lost In debate,
when the president of the Alclphron-
ian Literary and Debating Society
Monday morning rendered his decision
in favor of the negative side of the
municipal ownership question.
The occasion was the annual debate
of the society of the Boys' High School,
The exercises began promptly at 10:30
o'clock, and the regular program was
rendered without a hitch. The feature
of greatest Interest, of course, was the
debate.
Tile subject was, "Resolved, Tllat
Municipal Ownership Is Wise.”
The speakers on the negative, the
victorious side, were: Vernon Stiles,
leader, senior class; Leonard Denton,
second grade; David Klstner, senior
class, and Roy Goree, second grade.
The speakers on tho affirmative side
were: Edwin Stauffacher, leader,
senior class; Henry Elliott, first grade;
Clyde Daniel, second grade, ana Ru
dolph Loeb, first grade.
All of the speeches showed deep
thought and study.. Lewellyn Terrell,
the president, rendered the decision.
The following were tho declalmers,
all of whom were greeted with ap
plause: David Schwarts, "The South
and Her Problems,” (Henry W.
Grady), G. B. Wells; "Regulus to the
Roman Senate," E. Kellogg; Abraham
Schwarts, "Memorial Day."
PALMETTO TREE IS SOUTH
CAROLINA’8 TRIBUTE
Special to The Georgian.
Columbia, 8. C., June 3.—The banka
were closed today on account of Jef
ferson Davis’ birthday and the day
was generally observed ns other legal
holidays, though there were no public
celebrations. The Daughters of the
Confederacy held a Bpeclal meeting
this afternoon.
South Carolina’s floral tribute for the
Davis monument Is a palmetto tree, be
fore which tho South Carolina sponsor!
ure to unfurl the flag today.
Seven more basementa will be con
verted Into echool rooms next year, If
the present Indications for school at
tendance are realised and the Intentions
of the board of education ace put Into
effect.
According to the report of the com
mittee from the board of health, there
are now thirteen such rooms being
used for school purposes and in these
poorly lighted and more poorly venti
lated, crowded quarters, 600 little chil
dren are now made t,o study and re
cite throughout the major portion of
the day.
This addition of seven next year will
make twenty makeshifts for school
rooms, some of which are nothing moro
than coal bins with the coal removed
and desks and chairs substituted.
“It Is not a case of whether the board
thinks these rooms good or not," stated
Professor L. M. Landrum, acting su
perintendent of schools. "It is purely a
matter of necessity.
Three Alternatives.
"The board hoa three alternatives.
One It to rent rooms in private houses.
This has been tried and always found
a failure. Rooms, unless built espe
cially for schools, are not and can not
be made to answer for that purpose.
"The lighting Is always poor. The
ventilation la never good, and the ar
rangement is such as to causo great in
convenience and discomfort.
"The hoard can better convert base
ments into school rooms than vent
rooms In private dwellings or outside
buildings. We have tried It and we
know that wo can get better ventila
tion and lighting.
"I do not say that these basements
make good school rooms. To the con
trary, 1 know that, as a rule, they do
not.
"t Is a question of a choice between
the two evils, and the basement Is the
lesser.
Turn Down Pupils,
‘We have one more alternative. That
when the good school rooms are
filled to turn all other applicants away.
We can not do this. The board
never refuse any child the right to be
educated, and the city of Atlanta can
never afford to have It said of her that
she refused to school her children.
"It's a question of Inadequate school
facilities, and we are trying to mnke
the best of them—a question of exigen
cy and not of preference.”
With seven more basement rooms
added to tho thirteen now being used
no less than 1.000 school children of
Atlanta will be crowded into stuffed
quarters, poorly lighted and poorly
ventilated.
Tho fight for better quarters for the
school children was begun by The
Georgian several months ago, and the
real conditions were revealed.
What The Georgian Found.
The crowded condition of the schools
was revealed. Instances of Inadequate
facilities, stuffy atmosphere, dim light,
ar.d other Irregularities were shown.
Tho agitation by The Georgian caus.
ed tho council to sit up and take no
tice, with the result that a resolution
was Immediately passed providing for
two new modern school houses, one on
North avenue and the other at the
corner of Grant and Pavilion streets.
These, however, will not be completed
In time for the opening of school next
year, nor, when opend. will they be
sufficient to house all the children com-
fortnbly.
In tho Third ward, where the W. F.
Slaton school will be built, the condi
tions are especially poor, as regards
school facilities. At present, two base
ment rooms are being used in this
BABY HIPPOPOTAMUS IS
NAMED FOR GOV. SMITH
Governor-elect Hoke Smith’s fame Is secure. Since his memorable
campaign for governor, when he swept to overwhelming victory, scores
of babies have been named In his honor all over Georgia.
. Now comes news from far away Wisconsin that a baby hippopotamus,
born In John Robinson's circus Saturday, has been named "Hoke," in
honor of Georgia’s new governor.
Governor Smith has not been notified of this new honor conferred
upon him, and this will probably be the first Information he will receive
of the fact.
DEPRAVITY AND REPORTERS
DISCUSSED BY MINISTERS;
BELIEVE AS THEY PLEASE
LITTLE REST
© FUND FOR FIFTH ©
© GROWS SLOWLY ©
© Kumper Grocery Co $ 5.00 ©
© Capt. L, S. B. Rucker 5.00 $
© A Friend 10.00 ©
© Previously subscribed 685.00 ©
© ©
Total, $705.00 ©
© The Fifth regiment Iihs not ©
© yet secured tho amount nee- ©
© essary to pay for its trip to ©
© Jamestown.
© Colonel Anderson is mak- ©
© ing preparations to have the ©
© regiment leave nest Satur- ©
© day, but he is depending up- ©
© on the generosity of tho peo- ©
© pie of Atlanta To give free- ©
© ly to the fund for expenses. ©
© The regiment needs $1,- ©
© 500 to cover its necessary ©
© expenditures. It has raised ©
© but $705 of that amount. ©
© From Michigan came at ©
© letter Monday from Captain ©
© L. S. B. Rucker, formerly ©
© stationed with the Sixteenth ©
© Infantry at Fort McPherson, I
© who inclosed $5 to aid the ©
© Fifth Regiment. ©
© When a regular army offl- ©
© cer, thousands of miles away, ©
© sends his contribution to aid ©
© the Georgia regiment, it is ©
© up to the people at home to ©
© follow his example. ©
© Let the fund grow, and ©
© grow rapidly! ©
Evangelical Body De
cides to Coerce No
Opinon.
ward, one at Grant park and one at
Fair street.
According to Professor Landrum, It
Is probable that three more basement
rooms will be added to Fair street next
year, two at Fraser stret and one
more at Grant park, making a total of
six new ones, which, with the two now
In existence, will make a grand total of
eight?
Mutt Use Coal Room.
At the Tenth Street School plans are
being considered for the removal of
the coal from the coal room In the
basement, so that It may be converted
Into a school room.
Tho committee from the board of
health has severely condemned the
practice of using basements for echool
rooms. In regard to this report, Pro
fessor Landrum has this to say;
“I do not want to be put In a falsi,
attitude." he stated, to a representa
tive of The Georgian.
"I do not say they are good echool
renme, but they are ua good as the ex
igencies will permit. In reality, only
seven basement rooms are being used,
find not thirteen, and only 287 pupils
are forced to recite In these rooms, and
not 600.
These are the actual figures, and
not guesswork. There Is no use trying
to make bad look worse. The board li
doing sit It can reasonably be expected
to do.
I do not see how the board can keep
from converting more basements into
school rooms nsxt year."
Total depravity, that bone of conten.
tlon which never fails to arouse a heat
ed argument where ministers of more
than one denomination are congregat
ed, was mentioned at the meeting of
the Evangelical Ministers’ Association
Monday morning and immediately there
ensued a general expression of views
In which (he doctrine of total depravl
ty, newspapers and newspaper report
ers figured largely.
Tile argument was precipitated by
set of resolutions offered by Dr. J. O.
Patton, In which he sought to correct u
statement published In a local newspa
per on the day of the last meeting of
the asoclatlon In which it was stated
that the "association hnd abandoned
the belief In total depravity.' 1 The gist
of Dr. Patton's resolution was to the
effect that the association took no such
action.
This resolution was construed by
some of the ministers ns meaning that
the association had retained 1 Its be
lief in the doctrine of total depravity
and the argument ensued.
Rev. Sam Small declared that tho as
sociation declared that no minister
should be coerced Into any belief, that
the constitution so, stated, and that any
action on the resolution would be folly.
"If we spend our time trying to cor
rect misstatements made by newspaper
reporters wo will get to the point after
awhile where we will have nothing else
to do. These newspapers send little re
porters ' down here who do not know
any more about religious terms and be
liefs than they know about the parallax
of the stars,” he said. Then Dr. Small
turned his attention to total depravi
ty.
"Anti-Christ and Ungodly.”
"This question of total depravity is
all nonsense anyhow," he said. "It Is
anti-Christ and ungodly.”
E. C. Cronk then arose and
strongly condemned the discussion ol
the question.
If we have gotten to the point that
we can't hold a meeting without bring
ing Into It a discussion of religious doc
trines I think we had as well quit," said
Dr. Cronk. "I don't see any use In
holding meeting# If those of us who
believe In total depravity are to have
our fnces slapped about It every time
MSA enma hafin "
Must Spend 5 Weeks
in Summer Normal
School.
Suits at $22.50
A Great Line---See the Windows.
There’s never been a question among
well-posted men as to the high quality of
Rogers, Peet & Co. and Hart, Schaffner &
Marx clothes;
But the very moderate prices we ask
for these splendid clothes often surprise
purchasers.
The line of smart two and three-
piece suits at $22.50 we’re featuring this
week well illustrate our small-profit-and-
big-value policy.
Daniel Bros. Co.
> L. J. DANIEL, President.
Copyright 1907 by 45-47-49 Peachtree Street.
Htrt SchifTnertf Mur
we come here.'
After a considerable amount of dl».
cusslnn Dr. Cleveland arose and said;
”1 do not want to condemn the re.
porter who wrote that atory for after a
careful rending of tho article 1 see that
It says 'the association abandoned to
tal depravity as a belief essential to
membership In thla aaosclatlon.' That
clause explains the action of the min
liters. , ,
"It’s the heading. Look at the head,
exclaimed Dr. Cronk. "It says, ‘Total
Depravity Is Abandoned.”'
Further discussion to the same effect
followed. In which reporters and total
depravity were Inseparably connected,
after which Dr. Small arose to the point
of order that the resolution of Dr. Pat
ton violated the constitution In that it
coerced Ills views and was therefore
out of order. The point was sustained
by President George H. Mack. An ap
peal was taken from tho decision of the
chair and tho appeal was sustained by
a vote of tho association.
Dr. Mack then offered a substitute to
the resolution of Dr. Patton, w hich was
read as follows:
"In adopting the constitution
the last regular meeting this associa
tion made no expression upon the doc
trine of total depravity or any other
specific doctrine.”
This resolution and correction of tho
published report was eminently satis
factory, since It did not commit the as
sociation to the belief or disbelief of the
doctrine of total depravity,
"l am glud we've got It settled now,
sard Dr. Hlllyer. "A man can believe
It or disbelieve It and at the snme time
be a member of thla association If he
wants to.” ,
Discussion In future of this vital doc
trine will be put under the ban by the
minister**, mhJ the meetings of the
Evangelical Ministers' Association will
be devoted to the discussion of ques
tions of more general Importance.
UNIONS WILLTsK
ELECTION BY PEOPLE
Atlanta teachers protest against the
ruling of the board of education that
they must take a five weeks' normal
school course during the period usually
given over to their summer vacation.
Several teachers have signified their
dissatisfaction with the order, and pro,
test that tlie board is arbitrarily or
dering them to spend in study a period
over which the board lias no Jurlsdic.
tlon. They contend that they draw no
salary for the summer months, but are
paid for only nine months In the year,
end that the summer is theirs to spend
as they please.
Luther Z. Rosser, president of the
board of education, was asked for a
statement regarding the new rule made
by the board In executive session. He
said: •
"There are many teachers In At
lanta’s public schools who are imma
ture girls, and who, though bright and
industrious, need more training. The
two weeks' normal school was not suf.
flclent, and three weeks were added
This was the position of the board, and
I am willing to stand on it. The board,
of its own volition, requested Miss Sar.
gent to take charge of the school.”
Superintendent’s Statement.
Professor L. M. Landrum, acting su.
perintendent of the public schools, said:
"There is no doubt that some of the
teachers need more training, and it was
the Idea of the board, in ordering that
they take this normal course, that they
be trained, without expense to them
selves. The board Is reasonable, and
those who had planned to spend a lew-
days In Jamestown will be allowed to
go, I feel sure.”
Miss Nettle Sargent, principal-of the
Girls’ High School, who will conduct
the summer normal 1 choc!, said:
“I have nothing to add to what Mr.
Rosser lias said."
The resolution, adopted by the bonrd
in executive, session, was that all the
women teachers who have taught only
one and two years, all the supernumer
aries recently elected to regular places,
and all the new supernumeraries should
attend a normal school to be conducted
by Miss Sargent at the Girls' High
School, assisted by three other teacli-
s.
The assistants are Min Jessie Muse,
Miss Sarah Converse and Miss Belle
Kennedy.
Will Cost $600.
For this purpose the board appro
priated 3600.
The position of tho teachers Is that
they will, In effect, be forced to work
five weeks additional during the 'dull
summor months, without any recom
pense, and that the board knows that
the present scale of salaries Is low.
It Is odmlttod that there may
teachers who need this normal course,
hut tho teachers object to a
order which makes about 100
attend the school, regardless of tlielr
qualifications.
Some of the teachers had made plnns
for trips during tho summer, and this
order of the board will seriously Inter-
fore. Last summer Miss Sargent was
given the use of the Girls' High School
for conducting a summer school, for
which a small tuition whs charged.
A few weeks ago Miss Sargent peti
tioned tlie board for the same privilege,
for the purpose either of conducting a
similar prlviite school or one under tho
auspices of the board. The board Im
mediately accepted the latter sugges
tion. and then the order went out to tlie
teachers.
“Hops it Will be Permanent."
"J know." stated President Rosser,
"that some of our teachers need this
course, and, tor my own part, 1 hope it
will bo made permanent.
The board decided that such a nor
mal course was advisable, ordered that
It be held, and asked Miss Sargent to
conduct It. She accepted, and, In fact,
could hardly have refused ouch a re
quest. We are rearonable, and do nt t
expect anyone who Is III to attend, nor
do we Intend to deprive one of the
teachers of short trips to Jamestown,
where such trips have been planned.
"We took the position that the chil
dren of Atlanta should have ber.tr
equipped teachers, and we worked on
the basis that tlie parents wanted ilielr
children to have better equipped in
structors. Thai's nil there is to it.
"Teachers taking tills course will not
have to take the two weeks' normal
previously ordered. What could be fair
er than providing tho means for these
■young women to become elficlent teach
ers and at the city’s expense, not their
oivnT r
Committee Appears Before
Council on Important
Mission.
large delegation of the Atlanta
Federation of Ijlbor will appear before
council Monday afternoon to urge the
election by the people Of a Bum bee of
officials now cliosen by council.
The discussion win coma up when the
ordtnsnce by Alderman Curds, provid
ing for the eleotlon by the people of
practically all ministerial Officers, Is
considered. The Atlanta B'ederatlon will
ask particularly that the city clerk, the
superintendent of the waterworks, and
the city comptroller be chosen by the
people.
The delegation may not Insist upon
the election of the city clerk by the
people. The committee from the Fed
eration Is composed as follows: Jerome
Jones, chairman: R. O. Ross. Charles
Bernhardt, Henry Garrett and William
Strauss.
A number of laboring men will also
probably apponr before council In be
half of the bid of the union shop for
the city printing.
PONCE DE LEON
NORTH AVENUE
EXECUTOR’S SALE
On Ponce DeLeon Avenue, Hunt
Street and North Avenue.
t Will be sold before the courthouse
door of Fulton county on Tuesday, June 4,
1907, at 10:30 o’clock—
Lot 60 by 412 feet, fronting Ponce
DeLeon avenue and
North avenue.
running through to
PETER F. CLARKE,
EXECUTOR.
MUSICAL FESTIVAL
TO BE PERMANENT
IF PLANS SUCCEED
That tho May-June Music Festival
will be an annual feature for at least
three years Is assured, with the strong
possibility that It will be made a per
manent feature.
iFrnm an artistic standpoint the fes
tival this year was a great success.
From the financial standpoint, however,
so much can not be said, unfortunately.
Just what the money loss will be Is dif
ficult to estimate yet. Only the very
highest class artists were secured, and
high-class artists cost a great deal of
money.
The entire expense of the festival
was about $12,000. For Wednesday and
Friday nights the attendance wae 2.000
or 2,600, and for all other performances
about 2,200. The capacity of the audito
rium is 3,400.
As an Instance of the heavy cost of
such an affair, It Is known that Mad
ame Schumnnn-Heink received $1,000
for tho single night In which she
aroused tho audience to a high pitch of
enthusiasm. Miss Bessie Abott recelv-
td 31,600 for two performances. Other
artists were paid proportionately high
prices.
Fifty to Give $5,000-.
The plan of tlie May-June Music Fes.
tlval Company Is to get fifty of Atlan
ta's well-known men to subscribe $100
a year for a period of three years, thus
guaranteeing a fund of $6,000 a year.
Several have already agreed to do so.
■ml no trouble Is anticipated In carry
ing out this plan.
An effort will be made to bring Ca
ruso, the world's greatest tenor, here
next year. He has eight concert dates
open. Recently Caruso signed a con-
tiact with the Metropolitan Company
tor $200,000 for the season.
Efforts will probably be made to
bring ouch artists as Calve, Melba,
Nordics, Godskl and Bessie Abott.
Some of the stars of this festival will
return next year. A splendid orchestra
will be secured, and In order to Insure
the success of the movement, work will
begin next September.
Dr. J. Lewis Browne, tho moving
spirit In the festival, will play tho open-
Ing and closing numbers on the organ
for the Georgia Day exercises at James
town. He has also signed a contract,
for concerts there June 11-14, Inch!'
tive.
COTTON CROP IS
II
Fi
SAY THEWISE ONES
Commission to Wait for
Larger Powers From
Legislature.
that, admitting that some teBehers do
need the course, this docs not signify
that loo of them, regardless qf whether
they need It or not, should be forced to
attend the normal school.
TRIPLETS ARE BORN
IN NASHVILLE HOME
gpcflnl to The Georgia a,
Nashville, Tenn., June 3.—Mrs. Joe
Schwelss, living at 160$ Eleventh ave
nue, North, gave birth to triplets, all
boys, Sunday morning. Orte weighed
four pounds and the other two 3 1-2
pounds each. Dr. H. C. Wright, who
attended Mrs. Schwelss, says that the
mother and children are doing nicely
and the hoys are healthy and lively III.
tie fellows.
BREWERS MUST QUIT
LOCAL TRADES BODY
With the revocation of the charter
of the International Union of Brewery
Workmen by President Gompers of the
Amerlean Federation of Labor, it la
probable that the local union of brew
ery worker* will sever all connection
with the Atlanta Federation of Trades.
The order of President Gompers will
If the observations of traveling men
count for anything, the Georgia cotton
crop will come up rather short this
year, and the rropa of other states will
fare no better. And as a result a very
high price for cotton Is predicted.
Several traveling men who are ob
servant have reported that In their
travels over the state very little cotton
Is to be seen, and what little there Is
does no compare favorably with crops
In ycurs past at this time.
Reports coining Into the Southern
Cotton Association headquarters Indi
cate that the crop In Mississippi will
be very short Indeed this year. These
reports are to the effect that cotton
has been planted there three times and
even now Is not doing well. The first
replanting was caused by the extreme
cold, white a tornado caused the second
attempt to raise a crop.
And' the cold weather of the past
week Is said to have Injured the Geor
gia on*> to s' great extent.
That no decision will be rendered In
the passenger reduction petition of tha
Farmers’ Union for sixty days or more
is now a growing belief among thott
who keep Informed as to the move
ments of the railroad commission.
Finding that tho Individual members
of the board were at variance on sev- i
oral vital points In the case, the com
mission Saturday afternoon adjourned
with the announcement that another
meeting would be held Wednesday next
to take up tho points of difference.
It Is believed, however, at that time
announcement will be made that a final
decision has been postponed for at '
least sixty days. As a basis for this
postponement, It Is pointed out that the I
commission needs enlarged powers to >
enforce Its orders.
In order to give the coming session :
of the general assembly, which meets
on Wednesday, June 28. an opportunt-
tv to pass laws enlarging the powers
of the commission, and widening Its i
scope for enforcing Its orders, this |
postponement may result.
For some years the commission has i
called uttentlon In Its annual reports'
to the need of moro and Increased It—J
gal authority. Moat of these recomal
mendatlona have been Ignored. Tho
Democratic platform at Macon as
adopted stated:
"We favor Increasing the powers of
the commission (railroad) to such an
extent that It ran enforce Its orders,
by suitable, swift and certain proce
dure. We also favor the enactment of
such laws as will make the willful
refusal of railroad corporations or any
of their agents to obey the orders of
the commission a penal offense, to be
punished by fine or Imprisonment, on
both." i
It is said that the plan of putting off
the passenger rate reduction for some
sixty days Is In order to give the gen
eral assembly an opportunity to m*ke
effective this pledge, and when the rate
Is cut to have laws In force that will
render It Impossible for the railroads
to fight back or cause long delays by;
taking the Issue through the courts.
The commissioners admit that thsy j
are at variance about certain Impor- i
tant points, and this serves to strength
en the Idea that the whole matter will
be postponed for elxty or more days. I
Chairman Hill was not in the city :
Monday, but Commissioners Urownj
and Stevens were In their offices dur-J
Ing the forenoon. Both declined toi
say anything more than that the com- 1
mission would meet again on next
Wednesday morning, when the passen- ,
ger rata case would be taken up again.
JUNE COLO SNAP
prevent the 400 local unions of brewery
workers throughout the country front
affiliating with the central labor bodies
In the yarious rites, and of course this
will affect Atlanta,
As soon as the official notice Is re
ceived In Atlanta of the action of Pres
ident Gompers, the Federation of
Trades wilt be compelled to take action,
and If the five delegates from the At
lanta Brewery Workers do not with
draw from the Federation of Trades,
their expulsion will become necessary.
The Brewery Workers' Union ln\At-
lanta Is a strong one and It Is a strong
organisation throughout the country.
Even though Atlanta peopls did keep
fires burning In their grates all day
Sunday—the first Sunday in June—the
weather'man didn’t break any records
by the Installment of frigid goods he
handed out.
cople thought so a* they kept close
>he fires and shivered, but Director
Marbury points out records showing
considerably cooler weather for June.
In fact, there was a light frost back
In 1880 on JuneL when the mer.-ury
went down to 36. In that year there
were several days of cold weather,
and the record made then stands until
the present. On May 30 of that y< ir
the thermometer registered 62 degrees;
on May 31, 41 degrees; on June 1, .:9
degrees, and on June 3, 64 degrees.
And on the first Sunday of Jim- this
year the coldest Director Marbury
handed out was 64 degrees.
It was colder, too; In 1903. when on
the llth the mercury went down to 14
degrees and It remained cold for three
days.