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DIME SIDED Sf GHURCH.SAVS DR.BOGGS Atlanta Delegate Asserts Pres byterians Err in Approving Desertion as Just Cause. BRISTOL, TENN . May 20.—1 n pre senting the majority report of tile com mittee on marriage ami divorce to tlie general assembly of the Southern Pres byterian church, in William E. Boggs, of Atlanta, today, made an appeal to the assembly to refer to the presbyteries the question of marriage and divorce, adding that the confession of faith was wrong in authorizing desertion as a cause for divorce. He said that the church by its erroneous position on the subject was contributing to the greatest evil in history of tbe race, and that 40 per cent of the divorces are for de sertion. Dr. Boggs is secretary of th* Presbyterian church commission, with headquarters in Atlanta., Dr. \\ ebb, of Louisville, will present the minority report, urging that the present position of the church is cor rect. Dr. Flinn Makes Report. Dr. Richard Orme Flinn, of North Avenue church, Atlanta, today present ed tile detailed report of the committee on systematic beneficence, which was considered schedule by schedule and adopted with minor alterations. Ex ecutive secretaries were elected by thwj assembly on recommendation of Dr. I Flinn s committee as follows: Christian education and ministerial! relief. Dr. Henry H. Sweets, Louisville; i Sabbath school expenses and publica tion, R. Magill; assembly's home mis sions, Rev. ,E. L. Morris; foreign mis sions. Rev. Egbert W. Smith, Jr. The assembly voted to raise during the next fiscal year amounts as fol lows: Foreign missions. $550,000; as sembly's home mission, $190,000; Christian education and ministerial re lief. $129,000: Sabbath school expenses and publication, $30,000; American Bible society, SIO,OOO. The report of the committee on “Ro manism as a Menace to Christian Lib erty” was. made an order of business for this afternoon. Church Union Favored. Di. James I. Vance, of Nashville, made the report of the committee on foreign correspondence, submitting for consideration of the assembly the fol lowing recommendations: “We recommend to the assembly the appointment of a committee of confer ence to confer with a similar committee which, we trust, may be appointed by the United Presbyterian assembly; to ascertain whether a basis of union of the churches is practicable, and if found so, to report the said basis to the re spective assemblies for their considera tion and action thereon. We nominate as members of this committee Rev. R. C. Reed. Rev. S. L. Morris, Rev. John F. Cannon. Rev. Allen G. Hall and Hon. W. F. Buchanan.” Change in Representation. That the report of the ad interim committee, to which was referred the overtures of presbyteries in Texas, South Carolina and other states, asking for a change in the fundamental law of the church, so as to give a new method of selecting representatives to the general assembly, will be adopted, with amendments, is indicated today. The report has been made an order of business for tomorrow and will be dis cussed at length. Sinnott Case Coming Up. Another important matter yet to be debated before the assembly, the dis cussion of which will bring up some nice questions of church government, Is the Sinnott ease of north Alabama, which glow out of the action of a pres bytery indorsing a proposed prohibi tion amendment to the state constitu tion. Dr. W. 1. Sinnott made complaint to the general assembly against his presbytery for alleged wrongful and il legal interference in civil matters. The general assemblies at Louisville and Lewisburg refused to entertain the complaints. The presbytery had harsh ly censured Dr. Sinnott for his action in complaining. Dr. Sinnott and his friends are seeking to have the present assembly reopen the case and relieve him of censure. DISPLAY OF LUXURY IRRITANT OF LABOR. SAYS WRITER WELLS May 20. -H. <:. Wells, the novelist, it) an article on the labor un rest pillories the indulgence in pleasure and excitement <»f the owning ami ruling classes, which, he says, is one of the chief tendencies toward revolution He says: “The spectacle of a pleasure parade of clothes, estates, motor cars, luxury and vanity in the sight of workers is the cul minatUig irritant of labor.” Mr Wells warns his readers that this is coming to an eml, because the old ar rangement of classes which made it pos sible is breaking down. It is incumbent upon the wealthy minority, he says, to show a greater willingness for work them selves and demand less for their services, otherwise the insurrectionary leaders will tak* the matter into their own hands. LONDON SOCIETY TO REPRODUCE FAMOUS DANCE OF WATERLOO LONDON. May 20. —The historic ball given by the Duchess of Richmond on the eve of the battle of Waterloo will be re produced at Albert Hall. London. June «. by ladies and gentlemen as prominent so cialh as those who look part on that famous occasion. They "'ll dance ' The Waterloo Qua- | drdle The Dodies* of Marlborugh will take pa r ' nf ”’ p Duchess Richmond. Vis count Jljniiw pin he Wellington and j.orri Jclm < a'end' b " l,! l,r Rim he, rhe re.iiinif’-i "’ll i” * a* !*”■•’- He the >me those worn a hundred j ears ago. CLUB WOMEN SPEND THE DAY WITH GIRLS AT AGNES SCOTT - - U (T ) J* 9 ■* -* ******Xml zb z Jl /flb./ /' i flk\ T.-zb' ss||aL,-,.z . / Vt,'* l ■JN'LZ x - - /p ; . X. \\ \ l \ \\ W . W A \ 1 z ■- XaJSx PGM &W- -mu mA. Tw CiBSEWT BEJAILEB AGAIN Ex-Ice King. Coming Back, Need Not Fear Atlanta Pen for Old Crimes. With health recovered and mind clear Charles W. Morse, the frenzied financier who served two years in the Atlanta peni tentiary. is returning from Europe to home and to freedom, for the Federal government has no strings on hint, ac cording to statements of Atlantans who ought to kn»w When Morse left the prison hospital at Fort McPherson he seemed to be in a dy ing condition His friends and his doc tors agreed that death could be only a short distance away. But he went to Eu rope, took the baths at Carlsbad and dwelt in the sunshine of Italy and Egypt. Now he is returning to New York ami will again jump Into the financial game The news that he wmuld return brought up the question of whether or not he could be re-jailed. This query was answered definitely to day by Warden Moyer, of the United States prison. "The order issued by the president on January 18 setting Morse free was a com mutation of sentence and not a pardon.” said Mr. Moyer. "The commutation was fixed at Morse's service on January 18 and took effect instantly. “It differed from a pardon in that it did not restore Morse to full citizenship, but it set Morse absolutely free. The federal government has no strings on hltn. He can go and come as he pleases " It will be remembered that the question of citizenship arose shortly after Morse was freed and. according to the best in formation. Is still being debated Morse was convicted of offenses, which, under revised federal statutes, are misdemean ors. and theoretically he did not lose his citizenship by his conviction. However, the line between felony and misdemeanor under certain federal laws is said to be so Indefinite that the question is one that will have to go to the courts. SHRINERS FIGURE ON ATLANTA AS PLACE FOR 1914 CONVENTION Atlanta will he the convention city of the Shrinters in America in 1914 if the work of Atlantans at the Los Angeles meeting counts for anything. The delega tion from this city made a marked im pression on officials of Mystic Shrine when there, and it is thought this city will be selected for the meeting place two years from now. • Dr. Malcolm K. Turner, one of the Shriners who visited Los Angeles, return ed to Atlanta early today. He announced that Atlanta is being considered in the formidable list for the 1914 meeting place, and that many prominent men from other cities are working with Atlanta men to bring the conclave here. The remainder of the Atlanta delegation will return before June 1. At the close of the convention many of them visited Seattle and other northwestern cities. COLORED Y. M. C. A. OPENS BUILDING FUND CAMPAIGN 'The first meeting of a series that is planned for the Y. M. C. A. for colored men in this clt\, and which are a part of the campaign for building funds, was held at the Butler street Colored Methodist Episcopal church yesterday afternoon. Dr W. G Alexander, of Morris Brown college, was the principal speaker. The next meeting will be held at War ren Chapel Methodist church next Sunday afternoon. International Secretary .1. E. Moorland will deliver a special address on progress of campaigns in several cities. ’l’he local association hopes to collect sev eral hundred dollars on the new building fund. SERMON TO GRADUATES GAINESK ILLE. GA Max 20 Dr R E L. Harris, of Vugtista. preached the • cj’imen’etoenf srinpn for ’he Gaine? : \’Hr public schools at the F Baptipt j church. The church na tilled. The i clacu composed uL 2b graduates, 4 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: MONDAY. MAY 20. 1912. / /a / JI jgF / /fl fl t 4 ...Jr AH /Mr jorwA 1 They Join in College Routine and Say They*Had a Lovely Time in School. 1 Club women and college girls, two generations, met on the campus of Ag- 1 nes Scott college at Decatur and for a 1 whole afternoon swapped views of top , ics of mutual interest. It was "college day” at the Womans club and the 1 members went to the school as the : guests of Miss Nanette Hopkins, dean of Agnes Scott. The club women didn't interrupt the ! routine of the college. They entered into it. They strolled with the girls on ' the campus, watched their tennis games and basket ball practice, spent an hour 1 In the gymnaisum and paid a visit to the laboratories where young women ' are taught all kinds of mysterious sci ences. "I’ollege day" is an annua! event in the Woman's club. Last year the girls visited the club. This year the club went to the girls, and next year they will probably join and go together to some other interesting place. And the students of yesterday seemed to enjoy their day as much as the club women of tomorrow. MISSOURI NOW AFTER WOODPECKER'S SLAYER JEFFERSON C4TY, MO.. May 20. A deputy game warden has returned from Cole Camp, Mo., where he sought with out avail for two days for a hunter who had killed a woodpecker in violation of the state law. The woodpecker selected a railroad tank as a place to make a hole, and he made one that let all the water out of the tank. Railroad em ployees plugged up the hole and refilled the tank, and then the woodpecker be gan to make another hole in the tank. While the bird was busv with.,his bill some one killed him. You cannot afford to do without it you will tone up your whole system by taking, in the HunyadiQ Janos ph Water IW Natural Laxative Qnlckly Relieves ; CONSTIPATION NEWBREAKAODS TO FLOOD PERIL Thousands More Made Refu gees by Fresh Breach in the Levee at Melville. La. NEW ORLEANS. May 20.—There was a change for the worse in tho Louisiana flood situation today when a new break occurred in the Atchafalya levee near Melville, allowing millions of gallons of water to pour into the al ready inundated town. Hundreds of persons who had remained in the town in defiance of warnings to flee, took flight after the new break. A fleet of rescue boats was rushed to Melville to take away the refugees. This latest break is the third breach in the levee near Melville. It is 800 feet wide and the full force of the river is pouring through the hole into the plantation lands surrounding the town. Thousands of persons from the town and surrounding country were placed in peril by the fresh disaster to the dike. More than 2.000 of them are women and children. The steamer Mimewiska with a tow of barges was scheduled to arrive at Melville about noon. A new refugee camp has been estab lished a! Jonesville, where 1.000 home less persons from nearbi flooded dis tricts have gathered. They are being fed by the state, but are without cloth ing and bedding. Major J. C. Nor merill, of the I'nited States engineers, in charge of the relief work, reports that ,200.000 persons are being fed in Hie flood zone. He states the refugees will require aid until at least June 1, and possible longer. SAYS SHE IS LOCKED OUT WHEN HUSBAND HAS INDIGESTION YONKERS N. V.. May 20.—When ever Thomas Toiney, of Yonkers, suf fers from indigestion he locks his wife out in the hall all night, or at least this is Mis Torney's allegation. He locked her out once too often and she hailed him before Judge Beall, in police court, on a warrant charging him with cruelty She told the judge that In addition to keeping he: in the hall z somethin fastened het up in a hall closet. Totney, she -aid, i a dys iand verv <1: agie.-ihb She -aid sht na not going to ileep in the hall any lunger. NORTH CAROLINA REBOKESWILSON Third of Counties Vote on Pres idency-Supporters of Jer seyite Opposed Primaries. RALEIGH, N. C„ May 20.—Returns today show that Oscar \V. I'nderwood secured a good lead over Woodrow Wil son In the presidential preference pri maries conducted on Saturday in a third of the 100 counties of North Car olina. Os the counties definitely heard from, Underwood carried eight and Wilson seven, with the Alabaman lead ing in a half dozen others. In a few counties Harmon and Clark were In dorsed. The Wilson supporters have been op posed to giving rhe people a chance to express themselves because there Is no law covering the question, but a num ber of the counties took the matter into their own hands Politicians said today that North Carolina, which was believed to be for Wilson several months ago, would send an uninstructed delegation to the Bal timore convention. n Miss Anna Montgom- py.. cry, one of Agues Scott’s crack tmnis players, and three members of the college basket hall Jk team. Fro m to right Miss o s Mar.' Pitt a rd. l\>tthr\ip> l\-n n e |> \ | I \«\ b\\ y \m How High Are You A strong body and steady nerves - are needed as much or more by 7 the Business Man and Busy Woman as by any athlete. Many use Grape=Nuts FOOD because they find it “does the business.” Grape-Nuts has a delicious taste, is made of Wheat and Barley, and perfectly cooked at the factory. It contains Phosphate of Potash {groum in the grain)—the element which unites in the body with albumin and water to form and rebuild the tissue ceils in Body, Brain and Nerves. That’s why “There's a Reason” for Grape-Nuts Postan Cereal Company, Limited. Battie Creek. Mkfetgan Devotion of Strauses Held Up as Example In Graduation Sermon ZEBULON, GA., May 20.—“ Were I permitted to erect but one monument to the hundreds of souls who went down with the Titanic. I would raise a shaft to the memory of Mrs. Isadore Straus, wife of the Georgian and philanthropist, whose lifelong devotioji to her husband lasted until the end and who faced death calmly in his arms rather than live without him." said Rev. W. M. Wil liams. of Jackson, in the course of his sermon yesterday at the graduating ex ercises of the Griffin District institute. “To you young men and women w ho are soon to enter life,” continued the speaker, “I would commend such a life as hers and that of her husband. Such a life rightly lived is worth more than all the gold and silver for which man often strives in vain or loses his sou! to secure.” Rev. Mr. Williams preached the com mencement sermon to a large number of friends of the institute who had gathered from all over the district to attend the graduating exercises now in progress. JUDGE SAYS HUSBAND HAS RIGHT TO CHOOSE HIS WIFE’S FRIENDS YONKERS, N Y , Mai 20. Judge Beall told Mrs, Thomas Mci'oi that a husband has a right to determine what friends his wife shall associate with. In other words, the husband is to be the judge of the w ife's company Mrs. McUoy was in court to ger her weekly alimony increased. “He doesn'l want ine to go out ot have any friends just because he hasn't any," Mrs. McCoy said, “and be wants me to stay shut up in the house." “I think your husband has a right to say something about the friends w ith whom you associate," said the judge. MANY PRELATES TO GIVE BIG CATHEDRAL SECOND DEDICATION SAVANNAH. GA.. May 20. With a solemn pontifical high mass on Wednes day. which will be celebrated b\ the Right Rev IL I’. Northrop. ]>.!>.. bishop of Charleston, the cathedral of St John the Baptist in this city, which has recently been completed, will again he dedicated. The dedication sermon will preached bj the Right Rev. D. O’Connell, bishop of Richmond, with the Right Res Bishop Kenny, of St Augustine, and the Right Rev. B I Kelley, bishop of Savannah, in attendance, in addition to the most prominent of the pastors from all sec tjons of the South. ATLANTA LODGE N 0.523 TO HOLD CALLED MEETING \ called meeting of Atlanta lodge. No. '•23. will he held in the chib rooms. 11 Vs Hast Alabama street. Monday evening. May 20, promptly at R o’clock. Nil mem bers are earnestly requested to be pres ent, as matters of great interest to the organization will be discussed. DeLos R. Rogers. Supreme Instructor. W H. Hoey, District Depots Su preme Dictator. K. Smith M< Allister, Acting Secretary. TAFT TAKES LAST FLINEIWNS Smiles Confidently as He Closes Campaign Before His Home State Primaries. HAMILTON. OHIO. May 20—Smil ing jovially and apparently confident of the verdict which Ohio will render to morrow in the presidential primaries. President Taft today wound up the campaign in his home state. Leaving Cincinnati early this morning, he made his first speech here, holding up his administration as one conducted in the interest of the people, and assailing Theodore Roosevelt. Today's program called for other speeches at Eaton, Greenville. Piqua, Troy. Tippecanoe. Dayton. Xenia, clos ing with h. final rally at Dayton tonight on his return to that city. President Taft in his speech here made manifest that the last day of the campaign would be as telling as he could make it. He charged that the colonel created government commissions whenever he wanted to without regard to law. thpn t iled some statements of the colonel s which he termed "inaccuracies of mem ory.” “T. R.'s Memory Inaccurate.” “Now, Mr. Roosevelt says that J ant to blame for yielding to the bosses, because I did hot continue many of the commissions which had been unlawful ly created. W.'ll, I could not do it be cause of the express prohibition of the Jaw which was passed before 1 got into office ami whici) ho himself signed. That is an instance of his inaccuracy of memori. He applies that to the country life tommission, to the mining commission and to every commission that bls lively imagination thought it would be well to appont. ' It is easy enough to appoint a com mission to devise ways and means, but it is a good deal harder to get a statute through that does anything except ad vertise tlie administration." President Taft further charged that the action of President Roosevelt in withdrawing public lands from settle ment was without nmrrant of law. and lie claimed credit for the statute which permitted the withdrawals of hundreds of millions of acres during the Taft ad minisi ration. “Thai is a fair illustration." cried ths president, "between Ills administration and mine; It shows Impatience with witch lie regarded a law w hich limited his action." HOMESICK MONKEY DIES SUICIDE: DRINKS POISON NEW YORK. May 20.—As a result of melancholia, brought on by brood ing for its native country on the Ama zon. a monkey belonging to Mrs. Clif ford Harmon committed suicide by drinking poison. 5