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THIEF ABANDONS
GAR AFTER RIDE
Oscar Thompson’s Auto Found
Through The Georgian—Had
Traveled 51 Miles.
p.. )8 51 miles on the speedometer, a
« collar, several ropes of blonde hair
and a few hairpins, the big Buick car
belonging to Oscar C. Thompson, whfch
stolen Sunday night. Is now in Its
n ner's hands once more. The news
e .„ ;> in The Georgian describing the
,cs'; of the car by a negro was re
sponsible for the car s ie cover>.
One of Mr. Thompson's friends who
6 ,„. the story also saw the car stand
ne m Gilmer street near the Audi
n-cium He noticed that the number
t.-.e car coincided with that given by
The Georgian, so he straightway called
\|r Thompson over the phone. All the
ent? of the big car were going full
tilt and the tonneau gave the appear
ance of having held several persons for
cuite a long time. The speedometer
showed a gain of 51 miles, but there
the trail ended.
Why the Blende Hair, Etc.?
M . Thompson, who Is manager of
■ . -hoe department at Rich's, has
thus far discovered no injury to the
: i nine. Without being unduly curious
e has speculated vaguely on the pos
sible abductor, but is still at a loss as
io w hom it was. The 51 miles also have
puzzled him. Why 51? He knows of
no placq of interest 25 miles and a half
cway which would make a good termi
nus for a joy ride.
And the blonde hair?
However, tie has the ear and it's not
huit. and he is very thankful to the
policemen who searched so diligently
and to The Georgian, which really
found the car.
GEORGIA POSTMASTERS
TO MEET IN SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH. GA.. July 9. —Arrange-
rpei have been completed for the
sixth convention of the Georgia As
sociation of Presidential Postmasters,
whirl, will be held in Savannah July
If* and 20. Theodore L. Weed, directar
"f t e parcels post system, and William
R. Spillman, superintendent of the de
partment of city delivery, will be here
f • in Washington to represent the post
oftice department. Both will address
the convention.
The officers of the association are:
President, J. A. Varnadoe, Valdosta;
fi"st vice president, R. L. Williams, of
Griffin: second vice president. Hugh L.
M. Kc-c. Atlanta, and treasurer, B.
rkachum, Lumber City.
THE REPORT <fi>
| etoKii | . . til i_ 4_’l J r -‘ wu Bs?tonK2sSSl «m«i*T
■■X. “Th e Finance Committee pays close attention to tile investments of the Company s funds, and it should be heartily ?
commended for a resolution it has adopted for its guidance. It is provided by this resolution that no member ot the Com
mittee shall, either directly or indirectly, borrow any of the Company’s funds, nor shall any member, directly or indirect-
IV,1 V, receive or take any commission for loans made, or upon securities purchased for the Company.
He also says: “The Company’s minutes are well kept, and set out in detail the action of the Directorsand various
Committees n
And in his final comment he further states:“The officers of the Company must be complimented for their administration,
which is without reproach, and for the earnest desire they have ever displayed to conserve the interests of the policyholders.
April, 1912. JOHN F. ROCHE, ACTUARY to the Alabama Insurance Dept.
WILMER L. MOORE, President
THOMAS D. MEADOR, Vice President FRANK ORME, Sec. and Treas.
JOSEPH H. WILLIAMS, Auditor JACKSON & ORME, Counsel
W. S. KENDRICK, Medical Director ROBERT F. MOORE, Agency Secretary
DIRECTORS
THE SOUTHERN STATES LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
W. S. McLEOD, Supervisor of Agents Af’lcinf’d f^w- o*l Cl r
For State of Georgia, Candler Building x L c llT*X
Woman Counsellor of Erring Boys
THIS COURT MAKES MEN
Little Gus stood on a chair, but even
then his round black eyes could hardly
peep over the desk, so Judge Ellis had
to bend forward to see the prisoner.
Gus’ trousers came up under his arm
pits and were held there by real sus
penders. and he looked like one of
those funny pictures of B'rer Rabbit
in an Uncle Remus story. He would
have been "just a baby" had he lived
in the Peachtree section, but they doff
babyhood with their milk bottles where
the streets are the nurseries..
Gus is just six, but the probation of
ficer told the court that he had stolen a
mule and wagon; he had been "up"
once before for stealing a goat, and
such things as carpenters’ tools and
bicycles just wouldn't stay where they
were put when Gus was near.
"Why, if you’re stealing mules at
your age," observed Judge Ellis, "you’ll
be running off with locomotives by the
time you’re in long pants. What made
you take the mule?”
Gus Appreciates Joke.
Gus grinned his appreciation of the
joke. His eyes sparkled in the best of
humor, he dug his toes into the chair,
he wiggled almost out of his red sus
penders.
"Wanted to take a ride," he ex
plained. "I was going to bring him
back.”
Judge Ellis called Gus' father, a
swarthy foreigner of the type that ar
rives with a bundle of shoe strings and
leaves his children a department store.
"You take the boy home and be good
to him, and persuade him to do right,”
he urged, kindly. "Gus, will you be
good if I let you go this time?”
“Yes, sir,” returns Gus. confidently
"I’ll be so good."
Gus was the first defendant in the
children's court, the new tribunal which
convenes each week to pass upon the
offenses of bad boys and girls. Some
times Judge EIMs holds the court, some
times another of the superior judges,
but always the probation officer sits
beside him to tell the story of the
young defendant's offense and perhaps
drop a hint as to his record.
Miss Laing Always Busy.
Miss Margaret Laing, the woman pro
bation officer who holds over child sin
ners the power of the high justice, the
middle and the low, is busy in the
background counselling parents or pat
ting the curly head of some youngster
who has been given "another chance."
The court room is a study in black and
white and all shades of yellow.
There are two dozen boys in the
group ushered in by the officer. Half
of them are black, with close cropped
bullet heads and clothing in all stages
of disintegration. They separate in
stinctively from the white boys as they
file into the bar and slide into the rear
seats, where they watch with expres
sionless eyes the progress of the trials.
None of them betrajs the slightest in
terest in the proceedings, and even
FRED S. BALL
Attorney, Montgomery. Ala.
LEWIS H. BECK
Pres Beck & Gregg Hardware Co.
J, W. CALLAHAN
Naval Stores. Bainbridge. Ga.
J. FERRIS CANN
Attorney, Savannah. Ga.
RAYMOND CLAY
Naval Stores. Jacksonville, Fla.
TENCH C. COXE
Capitalist. Asheville. N. C.
W. T. GENTRY.
President Southern Bell Tel. & Tel. Co,
J. ROSS HANAHAN
Pres. Carolina Portland Cement Co.,
Charleston, S. C.
C. E. HARMAN
General Passenger Agent, W. & A. R R.
L. C. HAYNE
Pres The Planters Loan * Savings
Bank of Augusta, Ga.
mE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, JULY 9. 1912.
when one's own case is called he stands
before the judge as unmoved as an In
dian, apparently indifferent as to his
fate.
The white boys are younger, as <:
rule, and excited. They watch with
interest to see what becomes of their
companions, speak up quickly when
asked a question, and are ready to
promise better behavior in the future.
Half of them are apparently "back
ward” boys, their mental and physical
development stunted by adenoids, the 1
eyes dull, the faces heavy and stoli'l-
Behind them are their mothers, per
haps their fathers and a neighbor or
two. Sometimes the mother pleads
that her boy "isn’t really bad, just fail
of mischief."
Mother "Tells on” Boy.
Sometimes she .begs that the judge
help her to make her son behave. There
was one woman in the court this week,
a silent witness in the case of her son,
who was accused of stealing a watch.
The boy, a sunburned, sturdy youngster
of fourteen, denied the theft. But the
mother spoke at last.
"He steals everything he gets his
bands on. judge,” she said. "He steals
his own clothes and his sisters' skirts
and waists and pawna or sells them. I
can’t do anything with him. It's up to
you now."
The court plainly hesitated. It is
hard to handle a case like that. Then
the judge leaned forward.
“My boy, I’ll have to send you out to
Professor Means' school, the reforma
tory,” he said, kindly. "It’s a hard
place out there. They keep a tight rein
on the boys, and there isn’t much fun
In living there. But they’ll make a bet
ter boy of you if you’ll let them. And
if you don't help them and are brought
before me again when you are older—
why, then, my boy, It must be Milledge
ville for you."
All Kinds of Offenses.
There are boys who steal bicycles,
and boys who throw rocks, and boys
who insist on riding the freight trains.
There was one slender little fellow of
thirteen, the type one would expect to
see playing with the girls rather than
on the baseball field, who had threat
ened to kill a companion and was try
ing to do it when somebody interfered.
There are negroes caught shooting
craps in the alleys, others accused of
carrying pistols.
The court hears th’eir stories, weighs
their records and decides whether they
may have another chance or go to the
reformatory. If the y are placed on pro
bation, they must report each week to
the court officer and show that they are
at school or at work, end not in more
trouble. Sometimes they, are released
on a mere promise to be good. Rut
they are no longer locked In jail or sent
out to the stockade to learn new les
sons from those universities of crime.
The state has learned that it is easier
to save a boy than punish a criminal,
and far cheaper in the end.
L. P. HILLYER
Sec. Georgia Bankers Association,
Macon. Ga.
A. B. HULL
Vice Pros Prairie Pebble phosphate Co..
Savannah, Ga.
MARION M. JACKSON
Os the Law Firm of Jackson A- Orme.
W. McEWEN JOHNSTON
Capitalist, Macon, Ga
HARVIE JORDAN
Pres. Southern Cotton Growers Asso
ciation.
W. S. KENDRICK, M.D.
Medical Director The Southern States
Life Insurance Co.
W. J. KINCAID
Pres. Griffin Mfg. Co. and Kincaid Cot
ton Mills.
T. D. MEADOR
Vice President Lowry National Bank.
CECELIA LOFTUS
WANTS DIVORCE
English Actress Makes Home
in Milwaukee to Sue Chicago
Physician.
MILWAUKEE. WIS„ July 9. -Ueeidn
Loftus the famus English singer and
star of the London music hail:-, has
become a resident of Milwaukee.
Miss Loftus, who in private life is
Mrs. A. H. Waterman, has engaged an
apartment In a select East side apart
ment building, and made it her home
until she sailed for England, where she
is resting.
Miss Loftus was accompanied bj- a
companion and a maid, who made up
her household. It is said that her pur
pose in engaging che apartment was to
establish a residence in Milwaukee with
a view to to a divorce next year. Miss
Loftus appeared at the Majestic thea
ter during the holidays. That was her
first visit for several years.
Miss Loftus and Dr. Alonzo H. Wat
erman were secretly married in Lon
don June 9. 1909. He was in charge of
the London hospital at the time, go
ing there from Chicago. It was fully
a month after the ceremony had been
performed at the Kensington registry
office that friends learned of the union.
It was said he proposed by phone.
Dr. Waterman is now resident physi
cian at the New Hotel Sherman, Chi
cago. He returned to Chicago and re
sumed his practice.
When "Peter Pan,' Miss Loftus’ nine,
pound baby, was born to her in Lon
don. December 2. 1919, the news was
cabled all over the world, and when she
brought the child to Chicago in 1911
her reception on the part of her friends
was in the nature of an ovation.
Mrs. Waterman's first marriage was
with Justin Huntley McCarthy, dramat
ist, poet and historian, with whom she
eloped in 1896. Four years later she
obtained a divorce in Philadelphia.
FIVE COMMISSIONERS WANTED.
GREENSBORO. GA.. July 9.—A bill
will be Introduced in the legislature by
Senator E. A. Copelan. of the Nine
teenth district, and Representative
Merritt, of Green, providing for a com
mission of five men to take the place
of one corfimisisoner which Greene
county now has. The county will be
divided into five districts, one commis
sioner being elected from each district.
FREIGHT BUREAU FOR AUGUSTA.
AUGUSTA. GA.. July 9.—At a meet
ing held at the. offices of the Chamber
of Commerce yesterday afternoon ac
tive steps were taken towards the for
mation of a freight bureau for this
city. A rate expert will be employed.
AT THE THEATERS
PARTICULARLY FINE BILL
IS ON AT THE FORSYTH
If you are one of those Atlantans who
go regularly to the Forsyth, be sure and
not miss this week's bill.
If you are one of those who go every
now and then, be sure you include this
week in your program.
For the bill is as clever, if not more
so. than any which Manager Cardoza has
put across in quite a while. There is not
an act on the bill not worth while, and
there are several which are worth while
going to see If there was nothing else on
the program.
Among these are Isabelle D'Armond and
Frank Carter, in "Bright Bits:" Edmund
Hayes and company, in "The Piano
Movers:" the well known local trio, Jack
Lamey Joe Coombs and Howard Win
burn, and Rutan's Song Birds.
Miss D'Armond. always an Atlanta fa
vorite. was given an enthusiastic recep
tion and her act was very favorably re
ceived. The local trio, too, wer# a wel
come addition to the Forsyth bill, and
they were called on for several encores.
The Hayes sketch is one of the funniest
put on at the Forsyth in a long time, and
is cleverly acted by Mr. Hayes. Miss
Marie Jansen and Robert Archer.
The Melnotte Twins, who sang catchy
songs and danced cleverly, made a de
cided hit. Rutan's Song Birds were as
enthusiastically received as on their for
mer visit to Atlanta, the two children be
ing especially popular. The show was
opened by the Lowes, experts with the
lariat, and they did some stunts with the
rope which were clever.
If you are disgusted with the weath
er, have a grouch about the condition of
business, or if things are not going well
in general, take a night off and go to
the Forsyth this week. It will help some;
yes, some
TO TEACH DOMESTIC SCIENCE.
MADISON, GA., July 9.—Miss Irene
Colclough, of Penfield, Ga.. has been
elected teacher of domestic science and
art in the Eight Congressional District
M. &. M. school, at Madison. Miss Col
clough is a graduate of the Georgia
Normal and Industrial college, at Mil
ledgeville, Ga.
FORSYTH COURT CONVENES.
FORSYTH. GA.. July 9—The city
court of Forsyth is in session for the
regular July term, with Judge T. B.
Cabaniss presiding. Only criminal cases
are being tried. Because farmers are
behind with their work, court will ad
journ this afternoon.
.. II.AIL4U . ~==»C==aM«.IUUII.I Jr
There Is more Catarrh lu this section of
the country than all other diseases put to
gether, and until the last few years was
supposed to be incurable. For a great
many years doctors pronounced it a local
disease and prescribed local remedies, and
by constantly failing to cure with local
treatment, pronounced it Incurable. Science
has proven catarrh to be a .constitutional
disease and therefore requires constitu
tional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo Ohio. Is the only constitutional
cure on the market, it Is taken internally
in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It
acts directly on the hlvod and mucous sur
faces of the system. They- offer one hun
dred dollars for any case it fails to cure.
Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address: , ,
F. J. CHENEY A- CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold bv druggists. 75c.
Take Hnll's Family Pills for constipation.
WILMER L. MOORE
Pres. The Southern States Life Insur
ance Co.
JOHN E. MURPHY
Director Lowry National Bank and
Georgia Railway & Electric Co.
WILLIAM J. MURRAY
Pres The Murray Drug Co. Colum
bia. S. C.
A. J. ORME
Os the Law Firm of Jackson A Orme.
FRANK ORME
Sec & Treas. The Southern States Life
Insurance Co.
J. E. RANKIN
Cashier Battery Park Bank. Asheville,
N. C
JAMES P. SAWYER
Pres Battery Park Bank, Asheville.
N. C.
J. M. STEPHENS
Division Commercial Supt, Western
I nion Telegraph < 'o.
The Kind You Have Always Bought has borne the signa
ture of Chas. H. Fletcher, and has been made under his
personal supervision for over 30 years. Allow no one
to deceive you in this. Counterfeits, Imitations and
“ Just-as-good ” are but Experiments, and endanger the
health of Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea, and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
The Kind Yon Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
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R. J. TAYLOR
Pres. American National Bank, •
Macon, Ga. 1
CHAS. A. WICKERSHAM
Pres. A. & W. P. R. R and W.
R R. of A.
JOHN R. WILKINSON
Judge Ordinary’s Court, Fulton County,
Ga.
MELL R. WILKINSON
gee, & Treas. of the Van Winkle Gin
& Machine Co.
JOSEPH H. WILLIAMS
Auditor The Southern States Life In
surance Co.
H. C. WORTHEN
General Superintendent Western Union
Tel. Co., Atlanta. Ga.
C. G. ZIRKLE
Zirkle & Moore, Real Estate, Montgom
ery, Ala.