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THE WEATHER.
Forecast: Fair Wednesday night
and Thursday. Temperatures on
Wednesday (taken at A. K. Hawkes
Company's store): 8 a. m., 50 de
grees; 10 a. m., 57 degrees; 12 m.,
60 degrees; 2 p. m., 66 degrees.
The Atlanta Georgian
“Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN"
AND NEWS
“Nothing Succeeds Like—THE GEORGIAN"
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VOL. vn. NO. 218.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14,1909.
FULTON COURT RECORDS
give no Information
ON LAW ENFORCEMENT
THREE LEADERS IN SCOTTISH RrTE
Lawyers Urge Adop
tion of System Really
Wpr^h While.
nobody knows what
is accomplished
Impossible To Find Number
of Convictions For Liq
uor Selling or Any
Other Violation
of Law..
How many canes of violations of the
prohibition laws have been docketed In
the courts of Georgia during the past
vear? How many of these defendants
have been tried, how many have been
convicted, and how many have been
acquitted ? Has the number of crim
inal cases In the courts of the state In
creased or decreased during that time?
The information contained Jn anewer
to these questions would be very valu
able. but who can 'give It? Does any
one know? Can any one find out?
The governor of the state does not
know, neither the attorney-general, nor
the prison commission, nor any other
state official. Nor could you find It
out yourself If you tried, unless you
are willing to devote the next four or
live years to the work. ,
The same questions might be asked
of Pulton county, and no one could tell
you and no one can And out, unless lip
separately examined more than 3.000
misdemeanor cases tiled In that time
In the criminal court of Atlanta and
the criminal division of the superior
court.
Why No Records?
Why Is It that a state which Is try
ing to enforce a prohibition law’ knows
nothing about what has been done for
Its enforcement? Why is It that one of
the surest ways of starting an argu
ment la by ussertlng either that crime
has Inert-used In the state during the
past year or that It has decreased, and
with no way of ever positively settling
the argument? Why Is It thht learned
gentlemen from other states where
prohibition Is an Issue come to Georgia
to Investigate and then go home and
spend the next six months In news-,
paper controversy with Georgia citi
zens as to what ts actually being done
here with reference to prohibition?
The reason la that Georgia has no
provision of law whereby It can be
Informed of what Its criminal courts
are doing. No report of criminal cases
Is ever made either to the courts them
selves or to the attorney-general or
other state officer. And yet this Is In
formation that Is wanted by the peo
ple.
In Fulton county It ts Impossible to
tell either from the Judge's bench
docket or the court minutes how many
liquor cases have come to the court
during the year. All misdemeanor
<ases are marked on the dockets sim
ply "misdemeanors,” without specify
ing the nature of the offense, and as
«U liquor cases are misdemeanors It
will be seen that they are thus lost
In the great volume of the entire busi
ness of the year. The only way the
number of such cases can be ascer-
Contlnu—’ on Page Thirteen.
Leading College Men
Gather For Confer
ence on Education.
-H-I-I-M-H-H
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4- PROGRAM FOR WEDNESDAY. +
X 10 A. M. *
4* Conference of state, nuperin- 4*
4* tendents, J. Y. Joyner, presiding. 4*
4* Conference of supervisors of 4«
4* the women’s school improvement 4*
4* work, P. P. Claxton, presiding. 4*
4* 3 P. M. 4*
4* Business meeting, auditorium 4*
4* Piedmont Hotel. 4*
4* 8 P. M. 4*
4* (The formal opening of the 4*
4* conference.) 4*
4* Address of Welcome — Hon. 4*
4* Hoke Smith, governor of Qeor- 4*
4» gJa. ' • 4*
4* President’s Address—R7c. Og- 4*
4* den, New York. 4*
4* Address. “The American Spirit 4*
4- in Education”—Dr. S. C. Mitchell, 4*
4* president University of South 4*
4* Carolina, Columbia, S. C. • +
The "brain center" of the country
will not be far from Atlanta Wednes
day night, when the great conference
for education In the South will form
ally open Jts three days' session In the
new Auditorium, where all lta sessions
will be conducted.
Not .only lha leading educators of the
South will beTn the gathering, but also
men will be there whose names carry a
weight of national and International
prestige In the cause they represent.
And the Southerners are by,no means
lacking from this roll of fame. Orators,
editors, professors—leaders in every
branch of educational development—
have come from every part of tha
Southland to contribute lavishly of
their knowledge, their unselfish devo
tion and their rich and varied expe
rience to the wealth of the conference
and to the wisdom of Us deliberations.
Plnchot, Van Hlse, Ousley, McKel-
way. Buttrick, Ogden—scores of others
—have come together to make tills con
ference, as they affirm, not only the
greatest tn the history of the move
ment, but also, and more particularly,
to make It the farthest reaching and
most productive of vitally Important
results of any educational gathering
ever held In the Interests of the South.
"Certainly," said one of the Ogden
party Wednesday morning, "there has
never before been such an array of
speakers and educators lined up for
any similar convention. The cream of
the country's educational talent Is here,
and the results of their efforts can not
ED. M. HAFER.
Prominent Scottish Rite Mason
who Is doing much toward success
of ceremonials of the rite.
.. DR. DAVID MARX.
He is one of the dignitaries con
ducting elaborate ceremonials of
Scottish Hite.
E. S. M'CANDLESS.
Wise Master. White Ragle Chap
ter Scottish Rite and one of dig
nitaries conducting ceremonials.
Tlf, IF YOU HAVE NONE TIC
IAU YOU’RE LONESOME »AU
The Fall Guy, the Mean Guy and the Smart Guy All
Tagged by Woman Army—It Will Beat Last
Year a Block. .
on Page Thirteen.
ITS GROWING QUITE FADDY,
THIS BLACK HAND STUNT
Harry Poole Gets One
With a Countersign
For Him to Memorize
Harry G.*Poole, the.Hunter-st. un
dertaker. is the latest to receive a Black
Hand letter. The letter came In the
malls Wednesday morning. Mr. Poole
considers It a Joke nnd so has paid no
attention to It.
The letter, without any parleying or
circumlocution, makes known the wants
of the writer. "If you don’t pony up
with 1300 In cash," It says, “some of
your competitors will get a Job."
The writer of the letter, who signs
himself as "Castro," then details spe
cific Instructions as to how the money
)s to be delivered.
"A messenger with a blue cap wll
meet you," says the letter, "at the cor
oer of Alabama nnd Broad-sts. Wed
nesday night at s o'clock. You will
•ay to the messenger. 'Was Andrew
■fm-kson at the battle of Orleans?' The
messenger will then say to you. 'Cheese
“id Crackers.' whereupon you must
turn over 1300 to him at once.”
Mr. Poo|e thinks that such methods
Joking are rather poor, as they are
more or less likely to make the victim
'oink that some one Is really trying to
Set Ills tag.
Senate To Sting
Corporations?
Washington, April 14.—It was report
ed at the capftnt today that the major-
"y members of the senate finance com-’
mlttee will report aa a substitute for
[he Inheritance tax a provision for n
tax un gross receipts of corporations.
Ben Rosenthal Invited
To Place $300 Under
Steps of the High School
"Say. If you don't leave 1300 under^
neath the south steps of the Boys' High
School by 8 o'clock tonight, we will
send you out to Oakland cemetery.
"NO. 13.
When Ben Rosenthal, the near-beer
dealer, opened his mall Wednesday
morning he found an ordinary-looking
envelope, containing this very pointed
message. Rosenthal treated the matter
as a Joke, hut he decided It might be
worth Investigating, so he turned the
threatening letter over to the postofflee
department.
Should Rosenthal decide to fork over
the 3300. he would have to communicate
with the Black Hand artist who sent
the letter and ask that another place be
designated, as the Bovs' High School
is not provided with any south steps.
There are east, west and north steps,
but none on the south.
WILLIAMS IS HERE
Indicted For Burglarizing
Eiseman Bros. Store.
with s number of oilier defendants, charged
with Imrgliirlxliig the store of Klsemnn
Urns.. In Hiiltehiill-st.. Inst minuter, ami
taking therefrom nlwut 31.000 worth of
goods, gore himself up to Impure Sheriff
I'lemife Miner Weiltiesdny morning, and
was lodged In Jail to await hla trial. It
la thought, however, that hr will make
••Benin" Horsey. Charles llnmllt
Buchanan nnd Kara llrown. Homey and
Hamilton have.slnte loom eonvlrted ami
are serving their sentenees. Williams was
never eapinred and has lawn nl large Until
he gave himself up Wednesday morning.
Kara Brown, another one of the defend
ants, la also allll at large.
The man who said that since the
Introduction of the automobile, there
were only two class distinctions In
America, the quick and the dead, didn't
know what he was talking about. He
was simply making conversation.
The World Is divided Into three dis
tinct, separate and clearly-defined
classes—the mean guys, the smart
guys and the fall guys. And In the
words of Shakespeare—or was it
Grantland Rice—"All the world loves
. lovely fall guy.". It was one of.
them” great poets.
The mean guy Is the man who Just
won’t buy a tag.
"I’ve got a little orphan of my own."
he says. That's an aggravated case of
meanuglltls. He is dismissed with a
"tut! tut! Too bad."
The smart guy Is the man who buys
a tag for a nickel, hides It under Ills
coat and aays: “Ha! Ha! . Tennes
see Teas! I have foHed thee, base
vlolln-essl."
Fall. Guy is the Best.
But thb fall guy Is-the Invelleetr'the
darlingest creation In captivity on a
aweet Tag Day. The man who Just
buya tags and buys tags, and then
buys more tags, and does It with an
abandon and nonchalance which shows
plainly that deep down tn his heart
he knows he ought to be paying his
debts—ah, the fall guy! He's the fel
low after Miss Taggle O'Day's own
heart!
Atlanta Is full of all three classes.f
By noon, however, the mean guys had ;
succeeded. In some way, In securing.
.tags, borrowing, finding or stealing
them, nnd so were It not for their tell
tale features It would be hard even for
an expert on guys to detect the forged ,
lines In their faces. -
Sometimes a man Is found who Is it!
cross between a mean guy and a fall |
guy or a combination of the 1 two,
Mr. Myers' Hard Luck.
Take the case of Cornelius T. My
ers, tile man who sold the city the
historic pump. There had tn be a
pump end to Tag Day, you know. He
was In Milwaukee, had purchased 94
lags, and saw a squad of fair ones
about to charge again. He.ran—nat
urally he ran—and for economy's sake
caught a train and came to Atlanta,
Intending tn go back as soon as the
massacre of Innocent pocketbooks was
over.
And he ran right into Tag Day In
Atlanta. That's falling some, Isn’t It?
He bought a tag—he bought a series of
tags. He came to the city hall. The
reporters caught him, held him, and
mode him buy another tag. He paid a
dollar for It. Then he caught the re
porters. But what's the use of these i
horrible details?
Anyway, a man who can sell the city |
a 30-cent syringe for 3133.000 and call
Continued on Page Eleven. 1
YOU MIGHT SING THIS . ,
AS YOU DIG FOR COINS
.Tnjt Dajr! Tn& I » ...
Denr old, yenr-oM Ta# Dny!
1)1 men nnd nickels And quarter*, foo; .
Dollars nnd fives and tens—It feif;
Hundreds of queens are oq the Job
Tnurhlnif the town In a •‘tlJrtrlty Bob;”
Where’er you go, they serenely bob,
. Touching and tying on Tags.
Tag Day! Tog Day!
A sort of Charity jag day!-. »
Fathers and brothers nnd uncles, nil
.Searching their Jenna at the children’s call;
"In securing the Decatur-st.
paving The Georgian was the
whole thing. At one time the
movement was dead, absolute
ly nothing doing and very lit
tle interest being taken in it,
when The Georgian came along
and whooped things up with a
full-page boost.”'
T. M. WEBB,
The Webb Dry Goods Company,
at 288-290 Decatur-st.
OF TRADERS,
SMS EXPERT
Boggert DecIaresGrain
and Flour Are
Plentiful.
Mother of Six
Kills Her Rival
Muskogee, - Oklx, April 14^—Mrs.
Grant Huddleston, mother of six chil
dren. shot und killed Mr*. Beulah Cox.
whom she charged with alienating her
husband's affection. Huddleston Wit
nessed tha shooting.
HE ADDRESSED
SUPERINTENDENTS
Plants Throughout the
South Stop Because
of Poor Business.
PROF. J. G. JOYNER.
Superintendent of education of
North Carolina spoke Wednesday
morning.
Kansas City, Mo., April 14.—Follow
ing a conference here nearly 1,000
lumber mills In Texas, Louisiana, Mis
sissippi and Florida will be shut down
Indefinitely.
"it Is simply a rase of no prices for
lumber," said F. F. Patterson, of Klr-
byvllle, Tex. "There is no business
und rather than sell at any price we
can get, we will force the dealers to
pay our prices by cutting out the sup
ply as long as necessary.”
ASKED BY SHERIFF
Memphia, Tenn., April 14.—Sheriff
j Frank L. Monteverde has demanded of
| the criminal court an Immediate In-
: vestigatlon of charges made against
i him by Attorney-General Newton Estes
i In a' speech before the City Club of
. Memphis.
; Estes charged the sheriff's office with
: collecting weekly for “protection given
gamblers" and with "raiding those who
would not pay,” while "dismissing dep
uties who arrested protected gamblers."
Monteverde dqnles the charge and a
special probe will probably be made.
Everybody Is “It” on Tag Day
JIM PATTEN TO RETIRE?
HE SAYS SO, ANYWAY 4*
. „ Chicago, April 14.—James A. 4*
t Patten said today that he Is going 4-
T J? out the wheat market. +
T He predicts thnt wheat will-go +
T a* 1 ! 1 higher.- May wheat closed 4*
t T? d ? y J lt 11 29 - Patten still denies 4*
T L, he ,ia * a comer, and says 4>
f high prices are controlled abso- 4-
T * ute| y by the laws of supply-and
T demand. He declares that he will 4-
J J* 11 "very bushel he owns directly 4-
Chicago, April 14.—Just where the
rise In wheat will end Patten himself
says he can not tell.
"There Is not enough wheat to go
around, Is the way he puts It, -'and
nobody wants to take chances."
This view of the case Is directly op
posed to that of W. B. Boggert. an ex-
pert connected with the trade, who
sold In an Interview today:
“Current high prices of wheat are
due to manipulation of the May fu
tures and bullish sentiment engen
dered thereby, not to scarcity of either
Wheat or flour or to other national
condition*. On April 12. 1904, with an
Indicated emp of 416.000,000 bushels,
prices declined 2 cents In a single day.
‘he May closing at 92 7-8c and'July at
■36 6-8e. The domestic visible supply at
that time was 20.000.000 bushels
against 30000.000 bushels. In May
conditions were worse and prices de
clined. There was plenty of wheat
that year."
Bakers Are Worried.
New York, April 14.—The wheat
¥ Bible of Jamea-A. Patten, of Chicago,
ias already caused the bakers to cut
down the size of the loaves they sell.
There are 40 big bakeries In New
York, and 436 small ones licensed by
the board of health. In- every one of
these 446 .bakeries, big and small, the
boss Is worried because he must raise
the price of his bread or go to the
wall. And perhaps If he raises his
price before the next man perhaps he
will go to the wall anyway.
Wants Government Intervention.
Pittsburg, April 14.—George Sward,
head of the biggest bakery here, yes
terday wired Secretary of State Knox,
appealing to the government to put an
end to the wheat corner. He wired:
“The manipulation and selling of fu
tures on wheat and other food prod
ucts on margin should have the Im
mediate attention of congress In' order
that It may be prohibited by law.
thereby relieving the burden of the
wage-earners." ,
London, April 14.—As a consequence
of the Patten wheat corner in. Chicago,
the price of bread Is being raised 111
Englund. The Liverpool bakeries today
announced an Increase In price of 2
cents per loaf.
EET PEOPLE
SELECT NEW
CITY EMPLOYEE
Alderman Grant In
dorses Georgian’s
Position.
It Mtmi to us tlut among the greet
number of newipspsrs tbat coma to ua
dally. Tbs Atlanta Georgian la tba beat
edited and cleaneet. Editor Sealy and
Aaaoclate Editor Lnelan Knight ara edu
cating tba pnbUo to a new line ef thought
end ehowlng how great end needed re
forma may ha accompUahed, tha while
tha paper'e conduetora atend mute and
■erene under aometlmei gaffing Bra.—
Union city Journal.
If the positions of city engineer and
commissioner of public works are con
solidated. the new- official should lie
elected by the people, by all means.”
This Is the statement of Alderman
John W. Grant.
“Both officials now are elected by the
people." he aays. "and It wouldn't tie
fair to the people to taker" away two
positions they elect to create one for
council to elect. Not only that, but this
row between the commissioner of pub
lic works and the city engineer lias
been going on for a long time now, and
the people ought to be allowed to say
■which they prefer, tf either, and. If
neither, to elect another man.
"As for the findings of the cominii-
lee, 1 have only this to say: Tlie com
mute Investigated certain charges
made agalnsL,the engineer. That com
mittee ought, In my opinion, to come
out unequivocally and say either that
the charges are sustained or nre not
sustained."
The position- taken by Alderman
Grant accords with that taken by The
Georgian.
Some time ago the commissioner of
public works threatened, If things did
not go as he wanted, to oppose Captain
n before the people for city engl-
Those who arc keeping tab with
the situation are .thinking It stimuge
that those considered partisans of Mr.
Collier are opposing the effort to have
the people elect the Incumbent to the
proposed consolidated office. Those
considered friendly to the engineer me
favoring nn election by the people.
The following card received by The
Georgian from Councilman Chambers
speaks for Itself: \
Editor Georgian. Atlanta. Ga.:
"Dear Sir—I have often In the past
disagreed with your policies and public
utterances, and am now very much op
posed to your attitude on tile question
of commission government, because I
believe such a concentration of power
t» be not only a departure from Ameri
can Institutions and principles, but a
dangerous departure, and for this rea
son I think all liberty-loving citizens
who.are looking out for the future wel
fare of this city should oppose such a
concentration of [rower and authority.
"I wish, however, to commend most
heartily your attitude toward the inn-
posed. or rather suggested, change In
the manner of electing the city engi
neer. or the official who is to discharge
the duties of that position. Some time
ago 1 Introduced a resolution covering
the very question at issue now. nml In
that provided that the people should
elect the official This resolution was
referred to the charter revision com
mittee, and, so fag as 1 have been ad
vised, has received no further consid
eration. The committee has wisely de
cided to consolidate the two offices. In
my Judgment, but the manner of elect
ing the official Is altogether wrong. I
believe that the majority of council will
so decide, and that the report will be so
amended as to preserve to the people
the right which they now have and ex
ercise. and'will probably broaden It bv
conferring upon them the right of recall
under proper restrictions. This right
can be very readily conferred by a sim
ple amendment to the city charter.
"I trust you will keep up the fight
and will extend It to other officers, a -
all heads of the different departments
should be elected by the people, with
the right to recall them whenever de
sirable. anil such heads should be held
responsible for the conduct of the de
partment.' Youcs truly.
"ALDINE CHAMBERS."
ROOSEVELT ARTICLE TO
BRING SUIT ON OUTLOOK?
Socialists Object to Story in Which Ex-President Re
flected on Leaders of the Party and the Entire
Socialist Movement.
New York, April 14.—Secretary W.
B. Kilpatrick, of the New Jersey com
mittee of the Socialist party, said yes
terday that stepa have been taken to
obtain legal advice to* bring suits
against The Outlook Publishing Com
pany, of New York, for an article re
garding the Socialist movement nnd
party by ex-Prestdent Roosevelt. Mr.
Kllllngbeck said the objection 10 the
nrtlcie was not on account of Its po
litical character, but to refiections It
contained upon members of the So
cialist party.
HTHE MOST EFFECTIVE and
* quickest way of reaching the
greatest number of people who are
desirous of securing board, renting
rooms, apartments, etc., is through
the Want Columns of The Georgian.
Use GEORGIAN WANT ADS to get results, secure
the most for the least cost. One Cent a Word,
if paid for In advance.