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SENATE HAS BILL RESTRICTING MARRIAGES Copeland’s Measure Provides Medical Examination and Shuts Out Dope Fiends. Rigid medical examination as a pre requisite to marriage and prohibition of marriages of drug and alcoholic habit uates persons afflicted with heredi tary diseases or lunatic taints, is pro vi(jed in a bill introduced in the state senate today by Senator E. A. Copeland, o j t h e Nineteenth district. The author of the measure, although aware of the fact that it can not pass the legislature, is confident that mar rjage reform along some similar line „. in eventually be considered by Geor gia lawmakers. “Some one has got to do the mission ary work necessary to awaken the peo ple to realization of the necessity of medical marriage law's and 1 might lust as well be the one to do it,” said Senator Copeland, in explaining his The machinery of the bill Is elaborate and the opinion of the majority of the senate seemed to be that the measure would be defeated. The prime objec tion to the bill seemed to be that it was considered an interference with personal liberty that would not be tol erated bv the general public. What the Bill Provides. The bill provides: A commission of three members; one a physician appointed by the judge of superior court. This com mission is to make a physical ex amination of all persons seeking to marry. Declaration of intention to mar ry shall be made to the ordinary' of county at least 30 days before such marriage is contemplated. Upon such declaration tire ordinary shall require Information as to the pa rents and grandparents of the mar riage parties before issuing a mar riage license. Persons, addicted to the use of alcohol or drugs, affected with or having transmissible taints of dis ease or insanity shall be denied a marriage license. Senator Copeland asserted that sev eral states and at least one foreign gov ernment —Germany—had enacted laws along tills line. His bill, he maintain ed. included the best features of a res olution recently' adopted by the Amer ican Nfedlcal association. The senate confirmed the following nominations made by Governor Brown Appointments Confirmed. P. C. King, of the county of Clay, to be solicitor of the city court of Fort Gaines for a term of two years from August 27. 1911. ' S. Burkhalter to be solicitor of the county court of Clinch for a term of two years from October 28. 1911. Roger L Gamble, of the county of Jefferson, to be judge of the city court of Louisville for a term of two years from November 1. 1911. John R. Phillips, of the county of Jefferson, to be solicitor of the city court of Louisville for a term of two years from November 1. 1911. E C. Elmore, of the county of Bryan, to be judge of the city court of Pem broke from September 28. 1911, until January 1, 1913. J P. Dukes to be solicitor of the city court of Pembroke from September 28. 1911. until January' 1, 1913. T G. Ham to be Judge of the county court of Echols from April-23, 1912, un til his successor is elected and quali fied. R. O. Jackson to be judge of the countv court of Henry for a term of two years from December 1, 1912. Pau! Turner to be solicitor of the county court of Henry' for a term of two years from December 1, 1912. Mrs. Maude Barker Cobb, of the county of Fulton, to be state librarian for a term of four years from June 26, 1912. The senate adjourned at noon until Monday at 11 o’clock, Tippins Bill Read First Time in Senate The Alexander-Tippins bill was read in the senate for the first time today and referred to the temperance com mittee of which Senator I. A. Bush, the prohibition leader of the senate, is chairman. >o meeting of the temperance com mittee is expected before next week and call for the meeting will not be made until Monday. The bill will be railroaded through the committee and come to the senate with a favorable re port. iny quantity of amendments likely rill be submitted both in committee and on the floor of the upper house. County Attorney Bill Is Opposed Mr Fullbright, of Burk, opened one of the hardest fights of the session this c orning when house bill No. 19 was ' 1 led up for passage under a favorable t' port from the committee on amend ments to the constitution. This bill provides for the abolition of ’ “ office of solicitor general in Georgia, ' amendment, ami the • institution therefor of prosecuting a'torneys in the various counties, on a salary basis. the law now stands, solicitors are e.ect-d by judicial circuits and serve | Is It an Insult To Be • • Called a Bull Moose? • • __— « • HAMMOND. IND., July 12.- • • When a man is called a "Bull • ® Moose" is he insulted? That is the • • question Indiana courts have been • • called upon to decide. • • John Banks and Charles Ander- * • son, ofr Delaware, engaged in a • • fight because Banks called Ander- • • son a Bull Moose. • • "I don't allow any man to call • • me such names;” said Anderson. • • and sailed into Banks. Police ar- • • rested the belligerents. * • • Li ON EXCESS RUE HELD VALID Supreme Court Grants New Trial of Suit for Overcharge on Central Railroad, The state supreme court today held constitutional the law providing a fine of SI,OOO per offense to railroads charg ing more than the legal passenger rate on through fares over connecting lines. The decision was reached in the case of William Stephens, of Whitesburg. Carroll countyi who had sued the Cen tral of Georgia railroad for $2,000 for refusing to sell him a through ticket to Atlanta byway of Newnan over the Atlanta and West Point railroad for $1.06. The lower court had ruled against Stephens, but the high tribunal assigned the case for new trial. The fare from Whitesburg to New nan over the Central is 28 cents and from Newnan to Atlanta 78 cents. The Central’s agent at Whitesburg required Stephens to pay $1.21, or 15 cents extra, for the through ticket. The law', which the court held to be good, requires railroad companies to observe the railroad commission tariff on through tickets over lines with which they connect directly or Indi rectly. The penalty for failure to ob serve this law is SI,OOO, STOVEMAKERS TO MEET. P.OME, GA., July' 12.- —The Southern Stove Manufacturers association con vention will be held in Rome July' 17. and will bring a large number of vis itors here. A barbecue and boat ride down the Coosa river are among the entertainments planned by the local stove men for the guests. from one to ten counties. They get a small salary from the state, but the greater part of their compensation comes from the forfeitures and fines brought into the county treasuries un der a fee system. The proposed new law seeks to es tablish the office of county prosecuting attorney in every' county of the state for service in all courts, without com pensation from the state, to be elected by the people and to receive a salary of not more than $5,000 per annum in any event, and as much less as the county authorities may' determine from the county' treasuries Fines to General County Funds, All fines and forfeitures brought into the treasuries by the county attorneys In excess of their salaries shall go into the general county funds, and unless the county attorneys bring Into the treasuries sufficient funds to pay their salaries, through fines and forfeitures, they shall receive only' such propor tion of their salaries as they do bring in. This bill, in the main, seems likely to find much favor in the house, but it will not pass, in all probability. The fight begun today likely' will end eventually with the enactment of a law putting Georgia s prosecuting offi cers generally on a strict salary' basis. Mr. Fredericks, of Macon, under a request for unanimous consent, had his bill permitting the icing of fruit cars on Sunday In this state read a second time today. In briefly discussing his bill. Mr. Fredericks read some figures from a re port of the fruit exchange, showing that for the first three days of one week this season 750 cars of high-grade peaches were shipped out of Georgia, valued at SIIB,OOO. The bill was passed to a third read ing without opposition, A resolution of Mr. Johnson, of Bar tow. was adopted In the house inviting Harvey Jordan to address the house of representatives in the eapitol next Tuesday afternoon al 4 o’clock on the subject. “European Rural Credits." Mr. Jordan is a former president of the Georgia Cotton Growers associa tion and is a recognized authority on banking and kindred subjects. CRIMINAL COURT WEDNESDAY. Contrary to former announcements. Judge Calhoun will open a session of the criminal court of Atlanta next Wednes day. when a number of Jail cases will be heard. The decision was made today when It became known that the number of prisoners confined In the city jail has grown in such proportions that a disposi tion of many of them will have to he made to allow room for the daily arrests by the police. Under a cleverly conducted, but not particularly illuminating, filibuster at the hands of Mr. Wohlwender. of Mus. cogee, the bill went over as unfinished business until Monday. Mr. Wohlwender favors tne bill, but was afraid jo trust it to a vote today, hence he held the floor from 12:10 until the hour of adjournment, addressing himself eloquently to the merits of country boys and their superiority over town boys, without particular refer ence to the measure under considera tion. jHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS FRIDAY. JULY 12. 1912. J] Dauahters of Dixie in Business Life LEARN HOW TO EARN YOUR LIVING, WOMAN IN BANK URGES ALL GIRLS Mrs, Ella Wright Wilcox, Ex pert Teller, Says All Young Women Should Save. Mrs. Ella Wright Wilcox, the former Augusta society girl who has become teller in the savings department of the Fourth National bank, is bringing up her little daughter so that if it ever becomes necessary the child will be able to run either a boa-ding house or a bank. "1 think those two arts are things that every woman ought to know." she explained. “And, seriously, I think it requires Just as great ability' to suc cessfully conduct the boarding house as it takes to run a bank.” Mrs Wilcox has had experience in both. When, a widow, she came to Atlanta from her family home in Au gusta three years ago she faced the necessity of making a livelihood foi herself and daughter and she solved it first byway of the boarding house. She made a success of it, but she ad mits |.hat she found ft far from a "snap." "When the great majority of un trained women find themselves in the position of having to make their own living they, go in taking boarders,” she said. "They seem to think, as 1 did. that, that is a very simple way of gar nering the pot of gold. Well, it isn’t by any' manner of means. I’ve got. a tremendous respect for a woman who j has made a successful landlady. Landlady Must Be Financier. "If she’s come, out even at that busi ness it means that she Is not only a competent cook, but a financier. 1 think it takes more mathematics to run a money-making boarding house than it takes to run a store. “That’s a reason that every giri ought to be taught the science. No girl can tell how soon she’ll, be thrown upon her own resources and she'll fall nine times out of ten unless she has been practically taught how to make money keeping house. ■ “And along with that art parents ought to teach their children to be amateur bankers. I don’t mean to buy the child a toy bank made of nickel with a little slit in the roof to put the pennies in. I mean that a girl should be made to earn some money of her own, bank it in a real bank, keep her own accounts, even make investments. “Now. I’ve only been teller in the savings department at the Fourth Na tional for about three weeks, but in that little time I know it has given me the moat valuable experience and insight into human nature J have ever known. It has proved to me that wom an is more thrifty than man I've never footed It up exactly, but I know that in our savings department the women are giving in more money than the men. I think they’re more con sistent savers: that they' put by a greater proportion of what they earn, and that they can better resist the temptation to spend Os course. I'm talking about the. average woman now. Faith in Women Grows. “My' faith in women as practical •Americans has bounded up tremen dously’ since I’ve been at the teller’s •window. The worst trouble is that most of them haven’t been practically trained." Incidentally, Mrs. Wilcox, who comes ■from the famous Wright family of Au gusta, is not the only woman of her ■home to enter business. Her sister, Annie Gregg Wright, is employed al the strong boxes erf the Mutual Benefit Company In Augusta Her success equals her sister’s in Atlanta. At the Fourth National the officers say that ■Mrs. Wilcox's acquisition has been a real stroke of luck for the bank. She handles between three and five thou sand dollars every day and she admits pride, in the fact that her row of fle-ures has never shown a penny’s error since ■she took the place. DAMAGE SUIT FOR $50,000 FOLLOWS DALTON WRECK CALHOUN, GA.. July 12.—Several largo damage suits are resulting from the recent wreck of the Calhoun picnic train, near Dalton. Efforts to settle some of the more serious cases have been unsuccessful. John W. Ray, whose wife received a broken back which caused her death, has filed suit for $50,000 through a law firm of At lanta. it is rumored that another suit for $40,000 will be filed in a few days. There are still about 30 claims unset tled. RECEIVER FOR SUBSIDIARY OF NIALL-HERIN COMPANY The Atlanta Pole and Novelty Company, a subsidiary company of the Niall-Herin Company, has been placed in the hands of Receiver T. J. I’eeples, the same re ceiver appointed for Ntali-Herin Com pany The petition asking for the com pany to be declared bankrupt was filed In the Federal court today. The following are the petitioners and the amounts they claim: Atlanta Paper Company, $82.03; Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, $28.84. and the Nfall-Herln Company, by T. J. Peeples, receiver, over $5,000 The assets of the company are said to be $15,000. NOTIFIES HIS FRIENDS, THEN COMMITS SUICIDE MEDFORD. N. J.. July 12.—Making his intentions known to his friends In order that he might be regarded as a man of unsound mind, Joseph Bennett. 63 year? old. ended his life sometime during the night by Jumping into the Rancocas creek. His body was recov ered and a burial permit was it sued by t'orener Belton, of M'torestown Bennett told friends he did not care to live owing to his poor health. JI z "' i "w •<* U i - ip SBr . ■ * HF - ’ ’ ■ V w } - • r * ' '■ ■ j ■ ■* V ■ - U v r- ■. 4 r I t MW'4 1 0 1-i I T Mrs. Ella Wright Wilcox, baoli teller, who gives valuable business advice tn girls. ATLANTA WOMAN BANKER'S ADVICE ON TRAINING GIRLS Evert sir! should be so trained that she will be able to help run a bank or a boarding house. Teach your child to be an amateur banker. Woman is more thrifty than man. A girl should know how to earn her own livelihood. It takes as much ability to run a boarding house as a bank. pjla Wright Wilcox, Teller in Fourth National Hauk. ALL DENVER MOURNS SARAH PLATT DECKER; THRONGS AT FUNERAL DENVER, COL., July 12.—Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker were held this afternoon at St, Johns Episcopal cathedral, where the body was viewed by hundreds for two hours before the services. All flags in the city were at half mast during the day and all public offices closed for the aft ernoon. The dean of the cathedral, for the first time in 40 years, departed from the church service and pronounced an eulogy of the dead. Former governors were among the honorary pallbearers and a guard of honor was composed of past presidents of the women's club, all members of which wore mourning bands with the club colors. After the cathedral services all the flowers sent by friends were delivered to the county hospital and the Critten ton home, in each of which Mrs. Decker had been interested. BURGLAR ROBS STORE IN PRESENCE OF PROPRIETOR ROME, GA., July 12. Hold up your hands and keep quiet.” thundered an unknown man in J. B. Porter's store at Silver Creak, when Mr. Porter, awak ened by a noise in his store room, went there to investigate. Held at bay, Mr. Porter could do nothing, and the burglar proceeded to help himself to everything lie wanted. Backing out the window through which he had gained an entrance, the ma rauder hastened away and disappeared up the Southern railway. Officers are looking for him. STATE TROOPS SENT TO TAKE DOUBLE SLAYER SAYLERSVILLE. KV July 12. State troops have been sent hero at the request of county authorities to restore order and make arrests follow ing a double murder Sunday in the up per part of the county. Bud Collins shot and killed two brothers named Bailey and wa.- hirn.-elf shot and yvounded by another brother. Collins in biding with rolaU'"'! who defy officers to arrest him. COURT’S INJUNCTION COMPELS CATTLE TO SEEK NEW PASTURES Judge Pendleton of superior court has ordered twenty cows to remain off the land of a farmer near Atlanta. The command was made indirectly to them through R. O. Rivers, their owner. Victor E. Lambert, who lives on South Boulevard near the city limits, was granted an injunction today through which Mr. Rivers Is ordered to prevent, his cows from trespassing on the lands of the plaintiff. Lambert asserted the cows had been allowed to run on his property and that when he complained to Mr. Rivers the latter became highly Indignant. MILLIONAIRE BROWN CUTS OFF SON WITH THOUSAND BOSTON, MASS.. July 12.—Samuel Newell Brown, a millionaire, who died a few days ago at Swampscott in a will made public, leaves his wealth to his wife of a year, who was Miss Charlotte Thompson Ames, and cuts off his son. Harold Haskell’Brown with SI,OOO. The will says: I have already paid to him (meaning his son Harold) a considerable sum and there will be due to him at my death a further sum of life insurance. One-tenth of the estate which I bequeath to my ■vlfe is to go t" charity. She is not to be accountable to any one for her .ac tions In giving that money." BOY OF TWELVE SAVES LIFE OF CHILD IN SURF NEXV YORK. July 12.-—Twelve-year old Harry Melloy, whose parents occu py a cottage at Bergen Beach, saved eleven-year-old Charles Dockman. of Brooklyn, from drowning at the immi nent risk of hia own life. The. Dock man lad was attacked by cramps and his cries for help were heard by more than 5,000 people on the boardwalk and by the life-saving guards. But before any of these people could get to young Dockman little Harry Molloy ran into the water with his clothes on and ?want out to where Docktnan tvas struggling Just as the latter was going down for the third time young Melloy grabbed him. and, troarfinw u waited for the lifeboat. CITY PLANT PLAN AGAIN IN BALANCE Fate of Project Rests With the Decision of Mayor Winn and Attorney Ellis. • Indications today were that the New' York Destructor Company will not build a garbage disposal and electric power plant for the city. With the whole proposition hinging on a deci sion of Mayor Winn and W. D. Ellis, assistant city attorney, plans for dis posal of garbage in Atlanta threatened to become as unsettled as they ever were. The Destructor Company will not ac cept the city’s moral obligation for all but $50,000 of the $376,000 cost of hte plant, as its representative promised when the council offered It the con tract. The company wants to retain the title to the plant and have charge of its operation until it is paid for. Mayor Winn and Mr. Ellis refuse to grant these concessions, declaring that all the burden is placed on the city. If the plant should fail to operate, the city would be forced to sue t+ie bondsman. If the city owned the plant and trouble arose, the company would rightfully become the plaintiff The finance committee referred the matter yesterday afternoon. It will meet again tonight to hear a report from the mayor and the assistant city attorney. The Destructor Company’s represen tatives seem confident that the city can not forfeit its $37,000 certified check of good faith on account of amend ments that flXve already been made in the contract. It can’t get the contract undet written unless some legal claim to the plant Is granted. The representa tives have declared their company can not build the plant unless the council does what they ask. LEGAL REFORM THEME AT ALABAMA BAR MEET MONTGOMERY. ALA.. July 12.—With an attendance of about 150 lawyers from all sections of the state, the annual con vention of the Alabama State Bar asso ciation began here today at the eapitol. The first order of business was the ad dress of the president. Judge John Pel ham, who discussed reform and revision of the Judicial system of Alabama. “The pending revolution” w'as the subject for opposition to the initiative, referendum and recall, by Colonel Al fred P. Thom, of Washington, D. C„ general counsel of the Southern railway in the principal address delivered be fore the association at noon today. In his address to be delivered before the association Governor O’Neal will take up the fee system and the practice of sheriffs of Jefferson county employing special deputies for corporations at Bir mingham The executive's subject will be "Law Reform.” TWO ATLANTA FUGITIVES TAKEN £N_BI RM, NGHAM City Detective Norris returned last night from Birmingham with two prison ers. E. A. Watson, an insurance man of the Alabama city, and L. J Stublefield, an express messenger, of Fort Worth, Tex. Watson Is wanted on an indict ment for embezzlement, being accused of misappropriating funds of the New York Life Insurance Company. The amount involved si small Stublefield is accused of having passed a number of worthless checks. TWO WOMEN KILLED AND DOZEN HURT IN CAR PANIC MEMPHIS. TENN., July 12.—Two women were killed and twmlve other passengers injured, two fatally, when a fuse in a Vance avenue street car blew out today, causing a. panic on the car. The accident occurred when the crowded car was coming down town. MAN IS MADE DEAF BY SHOCK OF LIGHTNING GAS CITY. IND., July 13.—Glen Fi field was made deaf and Frank Kurtz was knocked unconscious when light ning struck near them. POSTOFFICE SAFE BLOWN. UTICA. N. Y., July 13.—The postof flee at Clayville, four miles south of this city, was «entered early today, the safe blown open and SI,OOO worth of stamps, SIOO in money and»a number of pieces of registered mall was stolen. HOW POOR ARE YOU? HHHHHHHHI Don’t yon feel dejected and dis couraged when you see an old schoolmate driving to his office in his big automobile? Whose fault is it ? Weren’t yor chances equal? Couldn't you save even SI.OO a week? By saving, couldn’t you have forced people to place their faith in your common sense and responsibility? Wouldn't you feel lots more prosperous today if you had saved just a little bit of your weekly salary ? Interest is paid on Savings at the FULTON NATIONAL BANK Ml EMPIRE BUINDING H FELDER RGGUSES STENOGRAPHER OF FORGERY H Atlanta Lawyer Declares F. H« Crauss Wrote “T. B.” Let ter to “Hub” Evans. AUGUSTA, GA., July 12.—With De tective William J. Burns, of McNamara fame, as a star witness, the special investigating committee of the South Carolina legislature, probing the old state dispensary system, began a hear ing here today, called primarily to take the testimony of Thomas B. Felder, the Atlanta attorney, who represented the commission that w'ound up the dis pensary affairs. Colonel Felder’s testimony was only partly finished at 2:10 o’clock this aft ernoon, when the hearing was adjourn ed until 3:30 o’clock. Detective Burns is expected to take the stand later this afternoon, after Colonel Felder con cludes. The principal feature of Colonel Fel der’s testimony was that F. H. Crauss, a former stenographer and chief clerk in the office of Anderson, Felder, Roun tree & Wilson, of Atlanta, in 1904, W'as guilty of several forgeries and w»as short several thousand dollars in accounts. Crauss, he said, was a splen did imitator of handwriting and forged the famous “T. B.” letter which Felder in charged with writing to “Hub” Ev ans, inviting him to go into a scheme with him to make some money tn the South Carolina dispensary. Felder read an affidavit from D. W. Rountree to the effect that Crauss had stolen from the firm and that he was several thousand dollars short. Felder said Crauss went to Newberry and forged the “T. B." letter. He said that he intended to prove that “Blease is an assassin.” Colonel Felder charged that Hub Evans and Cole L. Blease, then attor ney for Evans and now governor of South Carolina, went to Atlanta and secured $4,000 each, in SI,OOO bills, from Monroe Bigot, of that city, as whisky rebates, as Evans, so Felder said, pre ferred to have the money rather than get checks. He also said that in his (Felder's) Atlanta law office, Evans was to make a confession to him and to Attorney General Lyon on the con dition that he be granted immunity from punishment and not be forced to testify in any of the other graft cases, but that General Lyon refused to grant immunity unless Evans would go on the stand in the other cases. The hearing will probably last through Saturday. Shows How Dictograph Works, Before Colonel Felder took the stand, E F. Reed, one of Detective Burns’ operatives, made a demonstration of the use of the dictagraph. Members of the investigating committee talked and listened in different rooms. They were much interested in the demonstration. It is expected Detective Burns will ore sent dictograph evidence. The hearing was opened at 10:5C o'clock and a recess was taken until noon, at Colonel Felder’s request, he announcing that Detective Bums would arrive at 11:30 o’clock and that he de sired to Introduce the sleuth as a wit ness. He intimated that the Burns tes timony would be sensational. | DEATHS AND FUNERALS Mrs. Harriet Trader. Mrs Harriet Trader, of 94 Spring street, who died at her home late yes terday, was buried in Hollywood cem etery today. The funeral services weri held at Poole’s chapel. Mrs. Trade! is survived by four children, J. A. Trader, Mrs, K. B. Simon, Mrs. J. L Weeks and Mrs. Hattie E. Dove. Mrs, Francis Garrett. Mrs. Francis Garrett, of Chattanoo ga. Tenn., daughter of Mr. and Mrs J. B Peavy, of 264 East avenue, wh< died in Tennessee yesterday, wat buried in the yard of Peachtree church todav. ,The remains arrived in Atlanta late yesterday and funera. services followed. J, F. Bynum- Though definite funera! arrange ments of J. F. Bynum, who died in At lanta last night, have not been made the remains will be carried to Shell man, Ga.. soon. The body is being held in Atlanta awaiting the arrival oi relatives. 5