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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. 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Store them in our VAULTS g |*| where you know they will be safe. |j?l Call on us before you go away. 5 m Trust Company of Georgia I S Equitable Building, 53-55 N. Pryor St. 1 5 Capital and Surplus - - $1,800,000.00 MZ.JAS.W ENGLISH 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.