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COINS WOULD SID MMFIENDS Proposed 3-Cent and Half-Cent Pieces Would Be Welcome, Say Saleswomen. That the new 3-cent and half-cent coms, proposed in a bill in congress, al ready passed, by the house,, would fill a real want and need in the South, is as serted by Atlanta saleswomen, notwith standing the declarations of Atlanta bank ers that the proposed coins are not needed. ‘‘Think for a moment of the remnants and special sales we put on weekly where prices of 98 cents, 67 cents and 48 cents are quoted," said one wideawake sales woman. "We have to hand out two or three pennies in change or the customer has to have them, and as these sales are practi cally all on women's goods our custom ers most frequently wait for change to be made. With a three-cent piece the customer could hand us the necessary coin of the present denomination and add a 3-cent piece and the change would be made without loss of time. Could Make Better Bargains. “If we had half cents we could nut lots of things at 98% cents and 48% cents, and they would prove far more attrac tive. 1 believe, to the ordinary bargain hunter than a mere 98-cent bargain." “1 don't see any need for these coins,” said Robert F. Maddox, vice president of the American National bank. “I will admit that I have not given the matter much thought, but just on the face of it I see no occasion for their coinage.” “The 3-cent piece has been tried out once ?nd recalled,” said George R. Don ovan, casmer of the Atlanta National bank. “I believe it would prove con fusing and useless, except in certain lo calities, like Cleveland, Ohio, wlfere they have a 3-cent car fare. Oh, well, they might start a fight in other places for a 3-cent fare. That might prove their usefulness. I see no use for the half cent. A penny is small enough for me.” GEORGIA RAILROAD OWNERS HOLDING ANNUAL MEETING AUGUSTA, GA., May 9.—The seven ty-eeventh annual meeting of the stock holders of the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company was held here yes terday. Reports showed the company's affairs to be in a very satisfactory con dition. Officers were chosen as fol lows: Jacob Phinizy, president; Rufus H. Brown, cashier; directors. Henry D. McDaniel, Leonard Phinizy, James White, William A. Latimer, Billups Phinizy, Henry B. King, T. M, Green, Edward W. Butler, Tracy I. Hickman, John P. Mulherin, Porter Fleming, W. J. Hollingsworth H. C. Boardman, W. B. White and Ernest Woodruff. ChamberlinJohnsonDußose Co. Atlanta-New York--Paris Chamberlin=Johnson = Diißose Co. Now Comes the Sale of Silk Dresses Tomorrow morning at 8:30 the Sale begins. If yon would like to own a silk dress that has all the beauty of coloring, style and line that silk dresses have shown this season, be here when the clock shows 8:30. Like the Suit Sale that carried its tremendous savings to so many women Wednesday— these dresses are this Spring’s favorites. They are the limited fews of styles that have proven their attractiveness—as is evident by the fact that there are only one and two and three of a style left. It is not a question of profit now with us—it is a “let-go” sale, timed to the time when women’s needs will help us to the greatest extent. Also, like the Suit Sale, the dresses have been divided into two lots. And there being so few of any one style means that a very wide choice may be yours. ’ll 75 $ 16 75 For Silk Dresses That Were $18.75 to $23.75 For Silk Dresses That Were $25.00 to $31.75 Thirty-four in all. Two-toned and plain taffetas and Fifty-five of these. And every one has its own par foulards—plain taffetas in black, navy, brown; the two- ticular charm. Plain and two-toned taffetas, foulards and tonedin attractive combinations of blue, tan, grey and crepe de chines. Dresses for street and afternoon wear, the like. Foulards in light and dark grounds with little About as many light colorings as dark, which includes a figures, dotsand stripes. The styles are, some, very simple number of blacks. Some of the prettiest styles show a great and lovely, while others are as frilled and lacy as any one deal of chiffon about the waist, and rich, heavy laces, could wish Wonderful values ! ’ _______________ None Sent C. O. D., or on Approval. None Exchanged or Taken Back. —■ « ll ■ " ■■■ ' N - ‘ ' ' ' ' " I —■■ ' IL - —1 I II " » Chamberlin=Johnson=Dußose Co. Gas Company Is Sued For Removing Meter That Burglars Looted J. M. Dix. nf 50 West Peachtree place, has filed a joint mandamus and damage suit in the superior court to require the Atlanta Gas Light Company to restore a slot meter, taken from his house, so he asserts, because he refused to pay the gas company the amount stolen from the me ter by burglars. As a result of the gas company’s re-, moving the meter after the argument about tfe stolen money, Dix, who oc cupies a second floor apartment, says that his wife has been forced to do her cook ing in the basement and carry food up two flights of stairs. The food is cold when it reaches the table, he complains. Dix says the meter was installed in the apartment when lie rented it three months ago. On March 25, he asserts, his place was entered and ransacked. The burglars pillaged the meter and dam aged it. The gas company, after the meter had been repaired, sent him a bill for the money stolen and the cost of repairing. This, he maintains, he refused to pay. The company removed the meter. Judge Pendleton today ordered the gas company to appear on May 25 and show good reason why the mandamus suit should not stick. Dix asked the court for SSOO damages for the inconvenience caused by the basement cooking arrange ment. FELLOW OFFICER NABS A MACON POLICEMAN FOR SELLING WHISKY MACON, GA.. May 9.—Policeman B. J. Hunt was arrested today for violat ing the state prohibition law. He was arrested by a brother policeman, D. J. Griffin, who charges that he witnessed several sales of liquor by the other of ficer. When arrested Hunt had two bottles of whisky on his person. Hunt was on duty at the time of his arrest. TEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL WINS. SPELLING 4.000 WORDS KINGSTON. MO., May 9. —The coun ty spelling contest here resulted in first honors for Gladys Frazier, ten years old. Hazel Sloan was second and Hazel Wonsettler third. The contestants spelled more than •1,000 words. Little Miss Frazier will be Caldwell county's representative in the state spelling contest at Jefferson City. She has never yet been spelled down in a contest. APPROVES SON’S CHOICE: MARRIES HIS WIDOW TOLEDO, OHIO, May 9.—John C. Baird, sixty-three, of Zanesville, was married today to the widow of his own son. Mrs. Mary H. Baird. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1912. INELTNER HITS IT POLICESYSTEM Atlanta Man Likens City Courts to Quack Doctor in Speech to Sociologists. NASHVILLE. TENN., May 9.—Philip Weltner, of Atlanta, general secretary of the Prison Reform Association of Georgia, arraigned the police court sys tem today in an address. He termed the whole system a jug gernaut by which those prosper who of all persons ought to suffer. “As at present administered,” he said, “a police court is good for but two things—cash revenues and convict 11- bor. The ordinary police court may be likened to a quack doctor dispensing a dose, as distinguished from a treatment. And the dose is inflicted, regardless of the offender’s conditions or circum stances. Go into a police court in one of our large Southern cities and you will sometimes see 150 cases tried in a day. The judge has no time for indi vidual eases. He has in most instances only the arresting officers to look to for assistance, and this man is usually in terested only in establishing his case.” Probation System Favored. He suggested that a system of record cards for offenders and an effective sys tem of probation officers be inaugu rated. “Stop dealing with the case and begin dealing with the individual,” was his message. Prison reform was the subject before the congress, and Mr. Weltner treated the police court as the bottom round. “The indeterminate sentence and the probation system," was the subject of Professor C. S. Potts, of the University of Texas. The indeterminate sentence theory, he said, based incarceration on an entirely different ground from the present doctrine that the amount of guilt connected with each crime could be determined and suitable penalty at tached. "It starts," said he, "with the funda mental proposition that the criminal must be restrained because his conduct has proved him dangerous to society. Nothing but a long period of instruc tion and training under the closest ob servation by experts in criminology can determine when he will be ready to re turn to society. Should Learn Some Trade. "No prisoner should ever be released until he has learned some occupation by which he can earn a living, and the prison management should find him employment and turn him over directly to a responsible employer." Tom Finty, Jr., of The Dallas News, blamed the lease system in the South on the military or reconstruction gov ernments. the false notions sown by that system being in part responsible for the slow movement in .reforms in the section. Louis J. Bernhardt, of Atlanta, gavg the prisoner’s side. Seven Are Drowned As Storm Hits Boat; Search For Bodies FOX LAKE. ILL., May 9.—Seven persons, six of them Chicagoans, were drowned in a storm that swept Fox lake and caspized the boat in which they were seeking to cross the lake. Although the accident occurred shortly after 8 o'clock, it was not until day light today that the launch, bottom up, was found floating on the lake. Search was at once begun for the bodies: The dead: Mr. and Mrs. Louise Han sen, Chicago; Jack Hoefer. Chicago; Lewis Truschke, Chicago; George Rus sell, Ingleside. Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. J. Hume, Chicago. The party set out from the Lippin cott hotel to cross the lake to the Bay view hotel. A storm came up and the lake became extremely rough. The heavily laden launch was soon swamped and sank. Persons on the veranda of the Lippincott hotel heard screams. They gave the alarm and searching parties were sent out. They were un able to find any trace of the boat in the darkness. BUSINESS LOTS BRING HIGH PRICE AT AUCTION Morris Brandon bought the two lots offered at auction by the Edwin P. Ansley Realty Company today for $640 and $7lO per front foot, respectively. The lots are located on West Hunter street between Forsyth and Madison. Each has a frontage of 19.6 feet, and they brought a total of $26,460. The property was sold for the former own ers. Shewmake and Murphy. Steve R Johnston was auctioneer. SOUTHERN RY. CHANGES SCHEDULE TO MACON Effective May 12th, Southern railway trains 5 and 6 will be operated between Macon and Cincinnati instead of be tween Jacksonville and Cincinnati. No. 6 will continue to arrive Atlanta from Chattanooga and Cincinnati at 11:10 a. m.. leave Atlanta 12:40 noon, arrive Macon 3:25 p. m. Northbound train No. 5 will leave Macon 2:05 p. m., arrive Atlanta 4:55 p. m. and leave Atlanta on the present schedule, 5:10 p. m., for Cincinnati, ar riving there 8 o'clock the following morning. This train will run solid from Macon to Cincinnati, carrying electric lighted coaches, sleeping car and dining ear from Atlanta; also through sleeping car from Macon to Louisville. J. L. MEEK, Assistant General Passenger Agent. Cilrcle No. fn of the Second Baptist church, of which Miss Josephine Smith is chairman, will give a cake and candy sale Saturday. May 1. at Rhodes-Wood furniture store, corner of Whitehall and Mitchell. MARRIED BLISS FADES; WIFE SEEKS DIVORCE Mrs. Willie Smith Hudson says that she knows what married bliss really is. She experienced it for three years. But after that, she says, her husband. Lynn W. Hudson, Jr., whom she has made de fendant in a divorce suit, converted her erstwhile peaceful home into a place of turmoil. Mrs. Hudson, in asking the court for total divorce and alimony, recites cruelty as cause tor action. Lynn W. Hudson. •Jr., is secretary and treasurer of the Mi lam A- Miller Stable Company. The pair had lived at 835 East North avenue. “THE NEW STORE” BARGAINS for FRIDAY HATS 69c One table of choice Untrimmed Hats, all good shapes—Chips and Milans, in black, white, and burnt. Values to $1.50. Choice, Friday 69c HATS $1.98 One table of stylish Trimmed Hats; hats really worth $5.00 to $7.00. On sale Friday only $1.98 FLOWERS 25c One table of choice Spring Flowers—-pretty roses iu white, pink and other colors; values 50c and 75c; choice Friday 25c TAILORED SUITS $8.75 One rack of Spring Coat Suits; serges in blue, black and mixtures; $12.50 and $15.00 values; choice, Friday $8.75 SILK PETTICOATS $1.98 One small lot of Messaline Silk Petticoats, with Persian flounce; $3.00 values; choice. Fri day '■........ $1.98 WHITE WAISTS 69c I One table of Lingerie Waists: all good styles; high neck and Dutch neck; lace and embroidered styles; SI.OO and $1.25 values; choice, Friday 69c WASH SKIRTS SI.OO One lot of White Wash Skirts, new styles, well made and worth up to $1.98; choice, Friday SI.OO THE BON-TON 94 WHITEHALL STREET WOMAN IN PARK WITH KNIFE; MUST PAY FINE Josephine Leathers, a young woman living in Marietta street, was arraigned before Recorder Broyles today to explain why she was in Grant park very much excited and carrying a long knife in her possession. When first arrested, she said she had cut another woman "all to pieces.” but later denied this. She told the recorder she had some words with another woman and merely went to the park to escape the other woman. She was fined $5.75. CONVICTS ARE FIGHTING TO SAV£PLANTATIONS BUNKIE. LA.. May 9.—Fifteen hun dred convicts are fighting the flood in various parts of Louisiana today. One hundred men left here before noon for Evergreen plantation near Plaquemine, while 150 more were sent to Iberville. The town of Peaehville is in the path of the torrent sweeping from the Torras break in the levee and is threatened with destruction. Residents of the town built a levee about the town dur ing the night and hope to save a por tion of it at least. 13