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SENATE ACTS FDR
GO.UNITPRIMARY
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Bill Taking Power of Fixing
Method From the Executive
Committee Is Passed.
Members of the state executive com-
W iu.=e. who have used that commit
tees primary prerogatives to play par
tisan politics when the occasion seemed
propitious, awoke today to find the
Georgia legislature proposing to make
the 'ounty unit system part of the
general primary law.
The bill pi dosing the change was
passed by the senate late yesterday
•vitbout comment, while 35 weary sen
ators sat in their chairs and thought
they were voting for a local bill.
Senate bill No. 34. sponsored by J.
K* Felker, is the instrument, which, if
passed the house, will take from the
exr.utive committee the right to pre
scribe the plan upon which Georgia
primaries shall he run.- Senator Felk
er’s bill is an amendment in the form
of'., nP w section to the general pri
mary law of 1907 making the county
unit s'stem and only the county unit
gvatem the rule under which a Georgia
state or national, shall be
conducted.
Bill Not Reached Last Year,
The bill was introduced in the legis
lature on July 11, 1911, but failed to
reach passage before the summer ses
sion adjourned. It attracted little at
tention because the county unit sys
tem was firmly established. It was
the common belief then that Hoke
Smith s unlucky experiment with the
popular plurality primary in 1908 had
written finis to that plan in Georgia.
While Felkers bill was reposing as
unfinished senate business the state
executive committee in formulating
the plans for a presidential preference
prima’y this year hit upon the popu
lar plurality plan as the one most fa
vorable to the candidate the majority
of the committee supported—Woodrow
Wilson. Then this same committee
last Saturday switched hack to the
county unit plan for the state-wide
primary of August 21. using the argu
ment that it was bound by the action
of the state convention of 1910.
The Felker bill was read in the house
for the first time today and its pass
age virtually is assured. The bill pro
vides for the plurality rule in ease of
tie under the county unit system.
HOT WEATHER MAKES
POPE NERVOUS; FEAR
FELT FOR HIS HEALTH
ROME. July 10.—The continued hot
wave is- having a serious effect on the
health "f Pope Pius X. 'Both Dr. Pet
tacci and Dr. Marchiafava are admit
tedly anxious over the pontiff’s condi
tion.
The pone, always highly nervous dur
ing warm weather, is particularly irri
table jt the present time, and has con
tmnallv disregarded the physicians’
order to rest. The doctors fear that a
genera] breakdown will come unless
fr.-re p relief from the hot spell.
FLAGLER’S ENGINEER TO
PLAN FLOOD PROTECTION
AUGUSTA. GA.. July 10 --J. Walton
Flvthe, an expert civil engineer who
was in charge of the masonry and con
crete work on Flagler's Key West ex
t'-r--- n ~f -he Florida East Coast rail
re n been employed by the people
o' X■■•■th Augusta to m ike estimates
cn • ’e . .... t of ptoteeting the low’iml
of th it town against the ravages of th
P.v-inrmh river.
■L- soon as Augusta passed her sl,-
Onn non | lnnr | j ssue f or fl oo d protection
her neighbors immediately started a
.protection plan for themselves. ♦
SAVANNAH RIVER VALLEY
FARMERS MEET JUNE 11
AT Gt’STA, GA.. Ju’y 10.—The an
nmi mooting of the Savannah Valley
Associated Farmers Clubs will be held
rmo- oxi ■■ itii th<‘ Bennett Springs
chib, of Rennett Springs. S. C. The
Atlantic Coast Line railroad will oper
-3 i special train from Augusta and
’han 200 persons from this city
an '■ vicinity will attend. The asso
''■■ • > clubs embrace ten agricultural
*'■ isties. (n the Savannah rive valley.
CHILD RITTEN BY SKUNK
TAKEN 1.200 MILES TO AID
tin, TEXAS. July 10.—After
■’"■■re so miles on horseback, carry
ittle daughter who was bitten
mad skunk. J. A. Slaughter made
a rnord run to this city of 1,200 miles
the child to the state Pasteur
Institute.
Must wait another year.
L' 1 ' T " X> nA - Julv ll'.—The towns
1 d"n and Cohutta, Whitfield coun
not he incorporated until the
' urn meets next year. Both’towns
' incorporation, and asked Rep
f.'" 1 vi'ive Tarver to Introduce hills for
1 urpose. However, they delayed
'sing the bills too long to get
’"fore the general assembly this
. , Next year they will start ear-
S t ORM in MACON COUNCIL.
t 1 GA., July io._ .There was a
'■ ssion of city council last
.pc to the passage of a voucher
'■' of Aiderman G. Bernd forgqm's
I from his store. The charter
I ' v prohibits aidermen from
* wi»h the city. Aiderman P. L.
'■ruovpiv oppnspd the payment
v hfr, declaring thaT hewou.d
a party to the disgraceful and
. ‘ 11 * Council finally ordered
voucher paid by a vote of 10 to 1
DARROW WITNESS
REFUTES CHARGE
Job Harriman Testifies Accused
Had No Safe Where Franklin
Said He Got Money.
LOS ANGELES, July 10.—Job Har
riman, the first witness of the Darrow
defense, was expected to take the stand
for further examination when the trial
of the Chicago attorney was resumed
today. Harriman has already testified
that he had never at any time given
Darrow $4,001) in currency, as Bert
Franklin swore he did. Harriman fur
ther stated that there was no safe in
Darrow's office, or in the adjoining
room, where Franklin said he went with
Darrow to get the money. Harriman
said the only safe in the suite was in
his office, and that the combination was
held by himself, his secretary and John
R. Harrington. The defense will try to
establish a strong suspicion that Har
rington unlocked the safe and gave
Franklin $4,000, which he had stowed
away there in a box which he kept in
the safe.
Mrs. Darrow is still 111 and shows lit
tle improvement from the nervous col
lapse she suffered a w*ek ago.
Judge Hutton held a conference this
morning with District Attorney Fred
ericks to consider the advisability of
securing a new custodian for the Dar
row jury. During the last few days a
number of matters have been brought
to the attention of the district attor
ney’s office that have caused consider
able apprehension concerning the at
titude of some of the men employed to
guard the jurors. Juror Goldgin com
plained to the court that detectives
were watching him, mentioning the
possibility of the district attorney keep
ing him under surveillance.
Up and Down
Peachtree
That’s What They’re
All Looking For.
A young woman stepped into a
Whitehall street drug store and stared
at a huge sign for about two minutes.
The sign read:
1 500 Ways To Be Beautiful. I
25 Cts.
It was evidently the title of a beauty
book. The young woman, who was not
pretty, but bertainly not unbeautiful,
seemed lost in mathematical thought
for several moments more. The little
ftnger of her right hand worked fever
ish figures in the air and there was a
stern pucker between her eyebrows.
Finally she reached in her purse and
extracted a penny. Approaching the
clerk, she gave him the copper piece
and said:
"Show me one way, please, and keep
the change."
In the language of the day, the
clerk was flabbergasted.
They Cotne as Fast
As They Leave.
When is Atlanta not Atlanta?
Now —say the railroad men and mer
chants of the city. According to the
representatives of several important
roads which lead into the city, more
than 50 per cent of the city's perma
nent population is out of the city just
at present. The majority of these are,
of course, spending the whole or frag
mentary parts of the summer at the
various resorts stretched out along the
coasts or in the mountains or at coun
try homes. A smaller part Is away on
business.
Meanwhile, however, the city’s popu
lation the crowd on Peachtree street,
for instance, has not decreased notice
ably. The reason is that as fast as a
native leaves the city some one steps
in from another city to take his place.
The most of these come for a few days'
shopping trio while others come for
extended sum.\er stays. Atlanta being
a popular resort for those who are not
natives
So it is that Atlanta is truly not her
self, but a composite of Georgia and
the South. The difference is easily no
ticed. jn the shops, say the merchants.
BARROW COUNTY FIGHT IN
COMMITTEE ON THURSDAY
Since the opening of the new Barrow
county headquarters in Atlanta by the
citizens of Winder and their activi
ties for a new county, much interest
has developed in Jackson, Walton and
Gwinnett, the counties effected by the
movement. While the Winderites have
developed a stronger following than
ever before, still the faction opposing
the creation of the county is up In
arms against it, and will make a strong
appeal before the judiciary committee
of the house to defeat it.
The bill is schedulefl to come up be
fore the committee Thursday and each
side will have speakers to argue its
case.
The creation of this county is be
coming an issue in the campaign for
representatives in Jackson county and
for senator In the Thirty-third district,
embracing Jackson and Gwinnett, two
of the counties affected.
NEW GIN FOR THOMASTON,
THOMASTON. GA., July 10.—The
Farmers union ginnery of this place,
which has formerly be»n housed in a
wooden building, will soon be in a fire
proof structure on the Macon and Bir
mingham railroad. The new ginnery
will have eight large gins with a ca
pacity of 6,000 bales of cotton per sea
son. The stock in this company is held
by farmers of the county. James H
Colquitt is the manager,
inL ATLANTA GEORGIAN AXD NEWS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1912.
Women Police to Guard Girls Here
REFORM DANCE HALLS
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Miss Margaret Laing’, assistant probation officer of the juve
nile court, who, today gives to The Georgian her ideas on social
needs of the city. She is for women policemen, dance hall super
vision, and the establishment of social centers in school houses.
Miss Margaret Laing, Assist
ant Probation Officer, Pro
poses Radical Reforms.
“The dance halls are perhaps
our greatest trouble. They are
part of the 'girl problem.’ Dance
hall inspectors are needed.
"A woman policeman or two
would be a great thing for At
lanta. They would find their field
principally around some of the
picture shows.
“What to do with the girls is
the greatest puzzle. We have a
county reformatory for bad boys,
but there is no place for the girls.
We need a reformatory for girls,
and we must have it.
"Converting the school houses
into social centers would help a
great deal. Why shouldn't the
people whose taxes build them en
joy dances and games and enter
tainments in them at night? Why
should they remain idle and dark
except for a few hours every day?”
Proposing women police for duty
around picture shows and other places
where young girls go and a. super
vision of Atlanta dance halls by city
authorities, urging the use of public
school buildings as social centers for
.dances and amusements of the neigh
borhood. and stressing the need of a
reformatory for waywaid girls, Miss
Margaret Laing, assistant probation
officer of the juvenile court, told a re
porter for The Georgian today th’at the
girl problem was the most difficult of
all those faced by the new tribunal.
Miss Laing is no new-comer in the
field of sociological work. For several
years she was one of the skilled work
ers of the Associated Charities, and she
joined the juvenile court more than a
year ago. W. W. Tindall, chief proba
tion officer, places great dependence
upon her knowledge of human nature,
and the woman's intuition which leads
her straight to the center of a tangled
skein of cross-evidence. The children
who ha ve come to the court in fear and
trembling look upon her as their friend.
They report to her every week when
they are placed on probation, and she
has set many a boy and girl upon the
right road after a heart-to-heart con
ference.
Young Girls the
Greatest Problem.
"Yes, I think this work is fine for a
woman,” said Miss Laing, with a smile.
"That is, if she Is the right woman. Os
course it wouldn’t suit every woman
But I like IL
"You ask what’s the great problem
before us. It is 'girls.’ Young girls
around fourteen years old. We can’t
tell what to do with them when they’re
wayward. We have no reformatory,
you know, so we must turn them loose
or send them to Milledgeville—the two
extremes.
"These dance halls are causing us a
great deal of worry. No, I can’t sav
they are conducted* in a disorderly
manner. But the city should provide
an inspector for them and see that they
are kept straight. I’ve had opportunity
to visit only one. and then I had to go
home before the dance ended, the real
ly critical time. But I'm making ar
rangements, with some friends, to visit
all of them. And there are some mo
tion picture houses much frequented by
little girls which do not exert the best
of influence.
"I believe a woman policeman could
do a great deal to improve matters
around the picture shows and dance
halls. She could reach girls where a
man couldn't; could show them their
dangers and persuade them to guard
themselves.
“Yes, I guess I’m a policeman my
self. The law gives me power to make
arrests, or at least I think it does. I've
made them, anyway. Oh, yes. I’ve
arrested several children and brought
them in. No, I don't need a club and
I don’t 'pack a gun.’ What a foolish
question.
Poorer Girls Need
More Amusement.
“1 don’t say the dance halls should
be closed. The girls of the poorer
classes have little enough to amuse
them now. They need more pleasure,
not to he robbed of what they have.
Oh, I wish the city itself could open a
great amusement hall, with dancing
and other pleasures, carefully super
vised and kept under control.
“The city will never do that, per
haps, but it could open a dozen neigh
borhood social centers in the school
houses. Why couldn’t every one of
those schools in the suburbs and the
poorer districts be brightly lighted at
night and thrown open for dances
among the boys and girls, the grown
men and women of their neighborhood,
with good chaperonage by the older
persons? Don’t you think the girls
would rather dance there, with their
friends, titan uptown at a public dance
hall, with strangers? What chance has
the working girl to find amusement’’
She must go to the public dances and
the picture shows. There’s nothing
else for her.
“Did you know some of ‘our girls'
gave a play a short time ago? Yes,
they did; and they enjoyed it, too. It
was ‘The Three Chauffeurs,’ and we
presented it at the Y W. C. A. rooms.
Three girls played the men's parts. We
didn't let any men in. And we have
organized a little club among our girls,
too. Yes, I think the children’s court ’
is doing a great deal of good. It isn't
perfect yet. but it’s growing better."
Beware of
Bright f s Disease
Its insidious advance is
DEATH unless you take
steps to counteract it.
Insure your health by rid
ding your system of uric
acid, what causes Bright’s
Disease.
The best remedy in the
world for this is
J a cobs 1
Liver Salt
the only true solvent of uric
acid in the blood.
Just two doses will prove
its beneficial effects. Take
it. Don’t accept substitutes.
/ -2 lb Jar 25c
16c additional by mail
Jacobs’ Pharmacy
Atlanta, Ga.
CITY LITERATURE
LWNY URGED
Taylor Would Collect Informa
tion on Municipal Works in
Other Towns.
A library of municipal literature, g
collection of the official publications of
the larger cities of America. Is pro
posed by Walter Taylor, city clerk, who
offered today to get and maintain such
a library if’ the city council would au
thorize it and provide space for it in
the city hall.
“We need such a library." said Mr.
Taylor. "We are constantly writing to
various cities for information on this
subject and that. Almost every day we
receive an inquiry from some other
city in regard to some detail of Atlanta
work already printed in a report of
some board, committee or department.
“If Atlanta had a new piece of con
struction work under consideration, the
experts could go through the reports
from other cities, see what they have
done, how they were satisfied, and get
valuable information, perhaps saving
the city a great deal of money.
“New York has a splendid municipal
library, covering every important city
in the country. We could build up one,
not so large, which would answer our
purposes. It need not cost the city
anything, as other municipalities are
glad to send us their reports as they
are issued."
EXQUISITE WEDDING BOUQUETS
AND DECORATIONS.
ATLANTA FLORAL CO.,
C»ll Main 11.10.
SPEND WEEK-END ON
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN
Delightful Trip at Small Cost to
Chattanooga.
Not in years have the people of At
lanta had the opportunity to make so de
lightful a week-end trip as the railroads
offer next Saturday to Chattanooga.
World-wide travelers declare the view
from Lookout Mountain surpasses all in
grandeur and magnificence. One can look
into seven states from Point Lookout.
Stanley, the African explorer; Bancroft,
the historian; Prince Henry of Germany,
and many others have declared the pano
rama from Lookout Mountain was the
finest in the world.
Chickamauga National Park, with the
splendid Georgia monument and 750 other
monuments and markers is a place of
great interest. Nearly 50,000 men were
lost in the four great battles at Chatta
nooga. and the battle of Chickamauga
w-as the bloodiest in the world’s history.
It is no use to go to the Rocky Moun
tains or the Alps, when such grand and
wonderful scenery can be viewed so
close to home, in Missionary Ridge. Wal
den’s Ridge. Stringer’s Ridge, Raccoon
Mountain, etc., to say nothing of grand
old Lookout.
Hotel Patten in Chattanooga has a
lobby with eighteen oil colored paintings,
depleting places of scenic and historic in
terest. Concerning this hotel. English
Ambassador Bryce says: "Hotel Patten
would be a credit to any city in the
world.” It has 250 rooms and every mod
ern luxury and convenience. Rates for
single rooms $1.50 and upwards. Special
rates for parties In summer season.
Make up your mind to take this trip to
Chattanooga next Saturday, and you will
find It the best trip you ever made for
such a small cost. For anv information
address. HOTEL PATTON,
*** Chattanooga, Tenn.
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Military Blouse Suits, 5 to 10 years, white and colors, $1 to $2.50.
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RESCUERS OVERCOME
BY FUMES IN COAL PIT
WHERE 74 LOST LIVES
NEWCASTLE. ENGLAND, July 10.
An explosion occurred today in the
shaft of the Gadeby colliery at Conis
borough, Yorkshire, where 74 persons
were killed in a series of gas blasts.
Today's accident came at a time when
a party of rescuers was working in
the pit, and many of them were over
come by fumes and were carried to the
surface unconscious.
King George, who is visiting at the
estate of the Earl of Fitzwllllam, and
also visited Gadeby mine Monday, to
day inquired solicitously after those
woundeti in the series of explosions.
programToflports
TO FEATURE OUTING
OF THE TYPOTHETAE
Recreation and fun for Its members
are planned by the Atlanta Typothetae
on its outing Saturday at the home of
John Aldredge on the Roxboro road.
Dinner will be served at 1:30 o'clock
and the remainder of the afternoon will
be devoted to sports. There will be a
game of baseball, a 100-yard dash, open
to all: a fat man’s race, standing and
running broad jump, potato race and
numbers of other events, for which
prizes will be offered.
Those attending are asked to take the
Buckhead car at 12:30 o’clock. They
will be met at the road crossing with
automobiles.
H. H. PERRY, CANDIDATE FOR
UNITED STATES SENATOR
Discusses the County Unit Plan in State Pri
maries, and Points Out the Mistakes of the
Executive Committee in Not Adopting
It as to the Senatorial Primary.
The county unit plan is the only
just, the only wise method of deciding
on any candidate or on any measure.
It gives a better balance expression
of public sentiment.
The plurality plan is not only unjust
to the country counties, but is more
apt to result in a one-sided expression.
It is not a wise policy to cause the
people of any county to feel that their
votes will be reduced to Insignificance
by the immense plurality vote of the
large cities. It would discourage
their interest in public affairs and
their contribution, often much needed,
to the proper solution of public ques
tions.
It is better for the maintenance of
free institutions that there should be
many centers of political thought and
activity than that political power
should be concentrated at a few points.
This principle lies at the foundation
of our Federal system, which seeks to
avoid too great concentration of pow
er, always fatal to liberty, and to guar
antee to each local state, however
small, its part in the government. It is
this feature which has won the admira.
tion of all students of our government.
The same principle should be applied to
county units. It is so preserved by our
constitution in our legislative sys
tem and should be in our primary elec
tion.
It is all the more important when
we consider that the agricultural inter,
est is our main interest and, there
fore. should be fairly represented in the
administration of the government and
that this interest finds its only’ voice
through the votes of the country coun
ties.
I can not understand why this should
be recognized by the executive com
mittee in the selection of the governor
and state house officers, and ignored
in the selection of a United States sen
ator, an office of such vital signifi
i ance. Why should not the country
counties be entitled to their proper
voice in one as in the other? Besides,
■ G.O.PIILL
DMEFORU
Program Will Allow Progres
sives to Oppose Taft Without
Losing Party Rights.
DES MOINES. IOWA. July 10.—Pro
gressive Republicans in lowa who want
to support Theodore Roosevelt may de
so without losing their party rights
That is the plan of the progressives to
day who far outnumber the. conserva
tive delegates to the state-convention.
An old resolution, known as the Bad
Man resolution, will be made part of
the state Republican platform. It will
absolve all Republicans who refuse to
support Taft. A plank snipporting
Roosevelt will also be a part of the
document, according to plans of the
leaders ’before the convention went
into session.
The "Bad Man” plank is a corppro
mlse. The radicals at first planned a
resolution denouncing the Chicago
convention and asking that President
Taft withdraw from the race. The
conservatives secured the compromise.
Some of them want to carry the fight
to the convention floor. If they do the
progressives will retaliate with the
resolution demanding that the presi
dent get out of the race-
as to the candidates, it Is an unfaii
discrimination.
The bill Introduced by Mr. Adams,
of Hall, seeks to remedy this anomaly
and this injustice and to fix the county
unit plan in our primary system.
Whatever may be the fate of the
Bristow amendment, this bill gives us
the election of the United States sen
ator by the people. Anything short of
it leaves us with the name and not the
substance.
The manipulation of the methods of
nomination by party committees and
caucuses in the interest of some can
didate has been the source of great
dissatisfaction among the people with
both the present political parties, and
it is this dissatisfaction so created
which is the hope of Roosevelt today.
It is better to regulate all this by law
and leave no room for complaint or
suspicion.
If the people have a right to elect
their officers, they have the right to
regulate the manner of their nomina
tion. They have asserted this right
all over the country by laws regulating
the time and manner of holding .pri
maries and of selecting candidates, and
such laws have been readily sustained
by the courts. They are perfectly con
sistent with our constitution and sys
tem of government.
As to the recent action of the exec
utive committee. It was without doiibt
honestly intended. I mean no reflec
tion upon them. Some are my personal
friends, and. I am proud to say, my
supporters. It was simply unwdse, and
done, perhaps, without much reflection
amid many other matters absorbing at
tention.
I have never thought it proper as a
candidate, either personally or through
others, to appear before any execu
tive committee to urge any particular
action.
I have a right to expect fair play
without asking it.
H. H. PERRY.
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