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SENATE ACTS FDR GO.UNITPRIMARY / 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 Jr IB® / \\ fa v V \\ H /•' • I \\ q j /\\ XI { Jt\ . V • ; < a f wfe c ■ ■ B i A’’- / > W f I /Oh# _ ... .Qt // 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. fThe “Little Bit of a Boy IsWZell ? Dressed in Nluse iriSs&l ,*i =============== V : i Hr ash Suits W What is a more practical purchase than the ready to-wear Wash Suit for small hoys? Bay it and put it on that's all. Saving a lot of worry, of time and money, and of regret, for these little suits do not fade, and they don t “pull out'' in the wash. MUSE WASH SUITS are something more than durable and certain as to color. They are distinguished by a high development oF style and a trim jauntincss that stamps the little wearers as being well dressed. Military and Sailor Russian Suits, 2 1-2 to 6 years, white and colors, SI.OO to $3.50. Military Blouse Suits, 5 to 10 years, white and colors, $1 to $2.50. Sailor Collar Blouse Suits, 5 to 10 years, $1 to $5.00. Boys Shop - - - 2d Floor Geo. Muse Clothing Co. 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. 3