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BOSSES’VICTORY
NO JDYFOR TAFT
He Smiles Sadly at Fulsome
Congratulations of Cabinet
on Ohio, Says Lewis.
By ALFRED HENRY LEWIS.
WASHINGTON. June 6.—When the
' news came in from Ohio that Taft had
been given the “big six,” his cabinet
people made the loud and joyful noises,
out of all proportion to the size of the
triumph recorded, and extended to Taft
the glad hand of fulsome congratula
tion:
They could not cheer him up, how
ever. He smiled, hut the smile was wan
and his hand grasp hopelessly flabby.
Like what other "triumphs” he has
registered, the Ohio triumph was a ma
chine-made triumph, and Taft could not
forget what Roosevelt had so disas
trously done to him at the primary
polls. Roosevelt carried 69 out of 88
Ohio counties, and beat him in the ag
gregate by 47,44 7. Even La Follette,
running next to Roosevelt, defeated
Taft in one county.
Taft is learning, hut he is learning
thoroughly, the sorrowful lesson of his
unpopularity.
Taft Headquarters Chilly.
There is now a chill funereal atmos
phere about the Taft headquarters,
Tawney. McKinley and the other man
, aging Taft heads are still trying to
make Hughes listen to allow his name
to take the place of Taft’s at the last
moment.
It went so far, this Hughes move
ment, that something which a week ago
might have been called a “Hughes
headquarters” has been opened on F
street.
All in vain, however. Hughes would
not and will not listen. He might like
to be president, but he doesn’t like to be
beaten, and with the vivacious Roose
velt in plain sight, threatening that h“
will either have the regular nomination
or lead a bolting ticket to the field,
Hughes can see no ray of hope.
McKinley has given up every hope of
Taft, and privately says so. Aside from
Hughes, McKinley and the Taft man
agement are canvassing Fairbanks and
Bob Lincoln. Their attempted nego
tiations with LaFollette came to
naught. The Wisconsin man would not
abate one splinter of his progressive
ness. and the Roots and the Raineses
and their fellow reactionaries could not
see their way clear to accept him as he
i was. LaFollette. as the price of their
conservative support, must consent to
have his piogressive horns sawed oft
This he refused to do, preferring his
> horns to a Barnes-Root-Conservative
support.
Fairbanks and Lincoln Canvassed.
With Taft dead set on getting out.
with Hughes unwilling and LaFollette
impossible, the Taft people have sent
emissaries to both Fairbanks and Lin
coln. The purpose is to talk over with
these gentlemen their supposed ele
ments of strength and consider besides
how far each is willing to die in a last
ditch opposition to the dangerous
Roosevelt.
Taft and the harassed management
are waiting to hear from both Fair
banks and Lincoln. It is a sinister
commentary on the straits into which
the Republican party has been betrayed
that, bar Roosevelt, there isn't a man
pi eminent on its muster rolls who is
even willing to accept its nomination.
What during 40 years lias been scram
bled for is now fled from and avoided in
this year of 1912.
RUSSIAN WOAIEN WILL
BE GIVEN PASSPORTS;
SEE OTHER REFORMS
ST. PETERSBURG, June 6.—-Rus
sian women, at least, the married ones,
are joyful, for the sunreme council of
the empire has given them the right to
have their own passports. Hitherto they
were merely included on their hus
bands' passports, and had to obtain the
male consent if they wished to leave
home or their husbands. Many hus
bands had written to the papers, com
plaining bitterly. The more advanced
women are exultant, for they take this
unexpected move on the part of the au
thorities to herald other reforms.
T. R. MOLLYCODDLE.
PREACHER DECLARES
HOPKINSVILLE. KY. June 6 —ln a
sdlmon delivered at the Methodist
i church Rev. A. R. Kasey declared that
Theodore Roosevelt, who coined the
term “strenuous life,” and posed as a
» living exponent of it. was a "molly
coddle" when compared to the Apostle
Paul. The preacher said where Roose
velt often took long pleasure dr hunting
trips to secure relief after some spe
cially hard labor or after a temporary
defeat in some cherished plan, that
hardships, disappointments and even
attempts upon his life only nerved the
Apostle Paul to greater endeavor.
SAYS EVERY HOME OUGHT
TO HAVE A LITTLE SNAKE
NEW YORK. June 6.—Have you a
little snake In your home? You really
should have, according to Raymond L.
Ditmars, assistant curator at the New
York Zoological park.
This assertion is backed up by an
eminent French professor, who declares
that no home is complete without a
snake. He said they should be substi
tuted for cats and dogs for the purpose
Os keeping away the detestable rats
and mice.
Mr. Ditmars says there are three
’ snakes that should be taken into the
household. They are the king, black
and gopher snakes. This trio of rep
tiles are perfectly harmless, Mr. Dit
mars says, and should receive every
, confidence.
KICKERS’
COLUMN
If you are unhappy,
have a grouch“or a
grievance, here’s the
place to tell about it.
Suppress Immoral
Picture Shows.
To the Editor:
I want to know if the city reformers
can not do something to purify the shows
which the moving picture people are
handing the public. You Atlanta folks
are kicking about improper dressing,
street flirtations etc., which is well enough
and should be done away with, but you
inconsistently allow other and greater per
ils to thrive without a word of protest.
“Straining over a gnat and swallowing
the camel.’’
Os course, the evil is not confined to
this city. But Atlanta, being ahead in
most things, might take the initiative in
this and make the moving picture show a
medium of great instruction, instead of a
means of debasing the minds and morals
of our young people.
Some days ago my little girl, aged ten.
asked:
“Mamma, is it wrong for a married
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Below. Ruth Bowden, one of the fair bathers, caught in an in
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woman to let another man hug and kiss
her?"
Os course. I explained that It was.
She said:
“'.Veil, suppose she didn't love her hus
band?”
Inquiring into the matter. I found that
she had seen this at a picture show
Since then I have made it a point to go
into several of these places of amuse
ment. Some of the shows were positively
indecent. Others so insinuating ami dis
gustingly suggestive that 1 feel like grab
bing all those children, as if the build
ing were on fire.
Os course, all these pictures are ap
proved by the board. It's a pity we can
not get some men of character and con
science on that Infallible board. If the
"powers that be" will not go to work right I
away to abate this evil, then It s up to
the parents and guardians to furnish the
remedy. So long as we patronize the
plays, what care the film-makers about
the quality of the plays?
Aside from the individual heart inter
est of parents, it is a matter of civic
pride, and most vitally important to keep
pure the minds and hearts of our most
valuable asset—the men and women of
the future. A MOTHER.
FUR NECKTIES WORN
BY PARISIAN WOMEN
THE VERY LATEST FAD
LONDON. June 6.—Mme. Maeter
linck is responsible for the latest Par
isian fashion of wearing a cravat of
jaguar, tiger or leopard skin.
At the races the other day many
women appeared wearing these fur
ties, and the explanation was given
that Mme. Maeterlinck returned from
America with a pet leopard which was
presented her by an admirer. The an
imal soon grew out of control and it
was necessary to kill him, so the ac
tress wears his skin as a mantle.
It was so much admired that women
who can not afford to have a whole
wrap manufactured from Some wild
beast have at least Insisted upon wear
ing neckties or scarfs of these skins.
SENTENCED MURDERER
RECEIVES U. S. MEDALS
DENVER, June 6.—The state hoard
of pardons has received two medals of
honor which have been voted to Louis
Wechter by congress.
Wechter is under sentence of death
for the murder of Clifford E. Burrowes.
He served for a long time in the navy,
during which time he earned two
medals.
The medals say that he won them
through bravery, and on them appear
the words. "Fidelity, Obedience, Zeal."
LOCOMOTIVE DRIVERS
TO HONOR THEIR DEAD
Memorial services of the Brotherhood
nf Locomotive Engineers, participated
in by Divisions 207. 368, 684 and 696.
will he held Sunday afternoon at Moore
Memorial Presbyterian church. Dr. A
R. Holderby, pastor of the cliuri h, will
preach the sermon, and Rev. W. ('.
Schaeffer will lead in nrayer. The roll
of the dead for the last year includes
the names of w, B. McNew, It V.
Rhodes. W. B. Lewis. S. J. Everett, J.
A. W. Farris. J. D. Collins, Ernest
Brostmeyer and C. B. Jones.
TOE-ATLANT A GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1912.
BELGIUM FACING
POLITICAL CRISIS
BRUSSELS, June 6. —The political
outlook throughout Belgium threat
ened a crisis today, while the labor sit
uation has arisen through the post
election riots is growing m ire serious
daily.
There is continuous fighting in the
coal mining districts. In the commune
of Mons fifteen rapid-fi.a guns havi
been scattered throughout mining vil
lages. in the event mobs give actual
battle to the soldier-.
The strik- . called by socialists after
their defeat by the clericals at the polls,
is growing. Orders of conservatives
for the men to continue at work until a
peaceful way can be found to being
about elector 11 ycfoiins are disregarded.
A general declared today at
Liege and also at Borinage.
Nearly all of the Catholic parochial
-. bools have been closed.
There was a big demonstration here
last night when 20.000 men and women
parade:! through the streets. Socialist
deputies tried to pacify the paradeis.
but wei<' hooted down.
At Jammapes a mob fought the po
lice, tearing up the streets and using
the paving blocks for weapons.
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LIQUOR SLEUTH
UNDER ARREST
Detective Who Worked Up
Cases Is Now Charged With
Beating Board Bill.
THOMASVILLE, GA.. June s.—On a
warrant sworn out by J. R. Black, pro
prietor of the Cherokee inn. H B. Par
ker, detective in alleged liquor selling
cases against druggists and others here,
has been brought back from Fitzgerald
to answer a charge of beating his board
bill. Parker had been employed by per
sons here some time ago to collect evi
dence against druggists and others sus
pected of selling intoxicants. On the
strength of his evidence C. W. Mc-
Rae, J. R. Smith and N. T. Pike, drug
gists, and M. Sampson, a grocer, were
indicted.
These eases were tried at the special
term of court hold by Judge Thomas
here this week, with the result that Mc-
Rae was acquitted and the cases against
the others were nol pressed. Parker
was the only witness for the prosecu
tion.
Parker claimed to represent an At
lanta detective agency, but the defense,
it is said, sent a man to Atlanta to look
up his record, and found that his name
was on none of the lists of employees
of any detective agency in that city. He
is the same detective who was mixed
up with the near-beer cases in Fitz
gerald some time ago.
YOUTH GAINS 9 1-2 LBS.
IN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS
MINNEAPOLIS. June 6.—Carl Pe
terman. 21 years of age, aspirant to the
United States navy, broke Into fame as
the discovert-)- of the latest system for
getting fat. In 48 hours that followed
his advent in Minneapolis Peterman
amassed nine and one-half pounds, pro
viding his claims to Increased bulk and
avoirdupois in the scales at local naval
recruiting station.
“Hon did you get it?" asked Lieu
tenant Emerson, "till, it was very sim
ple." answered Peterman. "1 Just went
to a hotel, slept al! the time that I was
not eating, forgot everything else about
the world and worry."
SCRAMBLE IN MACON FOR
REUNION FUND SURPLUS
MACON, GA., June 6. -There, is a
scramble on for the unexpended money
subscribed for the recent Confederate
reunion. The Chamber of Commerce,
militia, hospitals, orphanages, chari
table associations and even missionary
societies have put in applications for it.
ATLANTA GIRLS, GOOD SWIMMERS,
NOT DETERRED BY LAKE ACCIDENTS
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Women Bathers Appear To Be
Able to Take Care of
Themselves.
Two fatal accidents in the first week
of the swimming season have failed to
deter Atlanta's fair devotees of the
sport, and the lake at Piedmont park is
as popular as ever.
The new regulations of the park
board, which were amended to give
women a share in the pleasures of boat-
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ably the dtingej of further fatalities.
Men in charge at the lake declare tlie
women bathers appear to be fully able I
to take care of themselves and that
many of them ate among the best
swimmers in the city.
POLICE MCE
mo IT DOCKS
Riot in London Among Labor
ers Is Brought to Quick End
by City’s Officers.
LONDON, June 6. —Twelve hours of
rioting at Tilbury docks was brought
to an end early today when three fresh
platoons of police were thrown against
the unruly transport strikers, driving
them off. The policemen who had been
on strike duty all night were ex
hausted from their constant clashes
with the rioters. During the fight a
hotel was nearly wrecked and hundreds
of windows were broken in warehouses
and private buildings.
Hundreds of sympathizers of the
strikers joined the mobs.
TALBOT CANDIDATE FOR
SOLICITOR AGAINST FEES
COLUMBUS, GA.. June 6.—Neill Mc-
Gehee, a well known attorney of Tal
bot county, ie about to enter the race
for solicitor general of the Chatta
hoochee circuit.
The friends of Mr. McGehee an
nounce that if he enters the race
against Solicitor General Palmer and
C. F. McLaughlin, of this city, he will
wage a campaign against the fee sys
tem for the office and will further con
tend that Muscogee county has fur-'
nlshed both the judge and solicitor of
the circuit for the past twenty years.
BLIND SCHOOL CLOSES
WHEN MEASLES COME
MACON, GA., June 6. —On account
of two cases of measles developing
among the students, the Georgia Acad
emy for the Blind has (dosed ten days
ahead of time, and 100 little s’ghtless
boys and girls have gone to their homes
in the various parts of the state.
SENIOR BANQUET JUNE 13.
ATHENS. GA., June 6. The senior
class of the university has decided to
hold its annual banquet at the Hotel
Georgian here on the night of June
13. Charles H. Stone, of Athens, is to
be the toastmaster.
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VISION OFSEA DISASTER
LONDON, June 6. An investigator
searching for material for a biography
of W. T. Stead, who went down with
the Titanic, has discovered a strange
prediction of his own doom made by Mr.
Stead In The Pall Mall Gazette, on March
22, 1886.
This article, written by Mr. Stead, was
headed, “How the Mail Steamer Went
Down in Mid-Atlantic.”
The article appeared a couple of days
after the Oregon was lost, and purported
to give a description of the scene of
horror that ensued on the then biggest
Atlantic liner, when at last the passen
gers realized the ship was doomed.
Singularly Powerful Argument.
The article was a singularly powerful
one. It occupied two and a half columns
of The i’all Mall, and in a footnote Stead
wrote:
“This is exactly what might take
place and what WILL take place If
the liners are sent to sea short of
boats.”
Here are some extracts from Stead’s
forecast of a disaster, such as was in
strumental in his own passing, almost
exactly a quarter of a century after he
penned this grim prediction:
“From below there came a queer, suck
ing sound, with an occasional long gur
gle, and 1 saw that the ship seemed to
•hang’ as the seas met her.
“The boats were made fast to stand
heavy weather, and only skilled sailors
could launch them.
“I calculated that, by loading all the
eight boats down to the water’s edge
and by packing the children along the
bottom boards, we might accommo
date 390 people. We were carrying
916 altogether.
“A loud crack, followed by a wallow
ing noise like thunder, rendered all other
sounds insignificant, and a captain who
was going out to New York said, ‘The
bulkhead’s gone We must take our
chance now ' The ship stopped nearly
ilead, and began to tremble curiously, bu s
it was only the river of water pouring
aft. and w» soon saw the firemen driven
up like rats from a burrow ‘Stand by
t'ne boats.'
“Women First Here.”
“The order was given, and the boat
swain's call rose in a long, tremulous
screech. One of the starboard boats was
successfully launched, and the chief of
ficer stood, revolver in hand. ‘Women
first here. Thompson, you will steer her.
l ake four men and no more.’ The young
English lady was lowered down, although
she clung hard to her father and begged
him to let her stay. 'No, darling, good
bye. 0e happy,’ he said, and then stood
( composedly amid the hurly burly.”
By an extraordinary coincidence Stead
the girl as a “dark beauty,
about eighteen years of age.” One could
almost fancj that he saw as in a glass
darkly the then yet unborn Mrs Jacob
Astor.
| “At only one light boat remained,
and still there were over 700 of us
jammed in the narrow space left by the
awful list. The captain had dropped his
bands he could do no more, one sailor
said, ‘We’ve stood it long enough, Torn.
Lei's have our turn.’
“And he, with three sturdy Swedes,
managed to get at the davits. They were
just in time, tor the steamer began to
sway as they floated, and they were all
but swamped by the charge and leap of
a crowd who flung themselves into the
water. Then I was left witn a groat
multitude, whose agonized clamor stun
nod me.
“I felt a mighty convulsive movement,
(hen the sea seemed to flash down on me
In one mass, ad if the wall of water fell
from a high crag. Then I heard a hum
ming noise in my ears, and with a gasp
i I was up amid a blackened, wriggling
* sheet of drowning creatures.
“A boat came past me and I struck out
lustily. I raised myself to the gunwale
‘Shall I hit his fingers?’ said a man. ‘No,
let him come.' and I was laid, sick and
dizzy, on the bottom boards of a crowded
boat. You know that we were picked up
after a nasty time.’’
The great journalist’s friends on both
’ sides of the Atlantic would have wished
that the last sentence of his vivid fore
cast could have applied to his own case
when the mammoth White Star liner’s
“great multitude’’ were hurled to their
ocean tomb.
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100 NEW NOBLES
WEARING BED FEZ
Georgia Shriners Make Initia
tion and Reunion a Lively
Event for Lodge Men.
There are about 100 new Shriners to.
day as a result of ceremonies at ths
Ponce DeLeon skating rink, which
brought the state reunion of nobles to
a close last night. The day had been
on° of celebration for the mystic shrine.
The visitors practically owned the
city for the day. They were here from
all parts of Georgia, and they all wore
the little red fezzes from noon until
midnight.
The initiation of the 100 or more can
didates into the Shrine followed close
ly the exercises of last week, when
about eighty were inducted into Scot
tish Rite Masonry. To be a Shriner a
Mason must first be either a Knight
Templar or a Scottish Rite .Mason,
which accounts for such a large class
last night, as candidates were there
from both branches. H
Arab Patrol Makes Debut.
The feature of the reunion celebra
tion was the first public appearance of
the new Arab patrol. It is the first
Arab patrol that Yaarab Temple has
had and will in the future be in evi
dence at all Masonic gatherings to
i boost Atlanta. The patrol paraded
Peachtree and Whitehall streets, head
ed by the Wedemeyer band, yester-.
day afternoon, and then went to Ponce
DeLeon park.
When the costumes of flashy oriental
color schemes were seen upon the base,
ball diamond, a shout went up from the
stands. This applause lasted for some
moments, as the patrol cut different fig
ures in its drills. The saber drill was
well executed, and brought hearty
cheers from the noble fans who were
seated in the north end of the stand.
Originally the entire celebration waa
planned for a stag affair, but this did
not work out with the baseball game,
for of the 1,000 or more Shriners at
tending the game, only about 700 sat in
la group, the other 300 being Scattered
over the stands at different places,
seated by lady companions. In this
way the little red fez was scattered
pretty generally through the crowd, ■'■■s
Not until the last ball had thrown the
last man out and Atlanta had dropped
another game did the nobles leave their
places. They were loyal throughout the
game, and frequently vied with the
bleachers for supremacy in noise-mak
ing
And Such a Barbecue!
Over to the old amusement park they
trailed through the mud of Ponce De-
Leon flats, but their trouble was re
warded. One of the best barbecues
served in these parts aw'aited them.
| Barbecued beef, lamb and pork, pickles,
olives, onions and Brunswick stew—
and then —well, it was flowing for the
rest of the afternoon.
After the eats the crowd adjourned
to St. Nicholas rink, where the inter
esting ceremonial which made 100
more men Shriners was held. Before
the ceremonial began, however, the
Arab patrol gave some of its fancy
drills before 32d degree Masons as
sembled there. There will be another
such celebration about six months from
now.
Mrs. Lizzie Farar.
Mrs. Lizzie Farar, 62 years old, was
burled at Dunwody this morning, fol
lowing funeral services at the residence,
15 Longley avenue.
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