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PROBE OF PRISON
BOARD PROVIDED
House Bill for Investigation of
Bethune’s Charges Passed
Today.
Mr. Mclntyre, of Thomas, introduced
resolution in the house today paving
the way for a hearing by the committee
on reformatories of charges against the
prison commission of Georgia, to be
filed by B. F. Bethune, of Baldwin, re
cently discharged by the commission
from his office of superintendent of the
nate reformatory.
Mclntyre’s resolution simply recites
that it is desirable that the charges of
Bethune be heard, in justice to all par
ties concerned. It was adopted by the
house and sent to the committee on
reformatories for teonsideration.
Bethune's communication to Mcln
tyre, who is chairman of the commit
tee on reformatories, and which was
attached to the resolution sent to the
committee, is general in its nature.
It charges irregularities in the ap
pointment and discharge of officials un
je; the prison commission, unfair
hearings before the commission and
"imbecility” in management.
Bethune, who was recently dis
charged from the office of superintend
ent of the state reformatory, after five
years service, says he might be in office
now had he been ■willing to indulge in
"truckling, toadying and stultifying”
himself.
He promises to be specific in his oral
charges, if the committee will agree to
hear him.
An official of the prison commission
said today that the commission would
welcome the fullest investigation of the
charges of Bethune, and denied that
there was anything meritorious in
them.
NORRIS RENEWS RAPS
ON G.O.P.CONVENTION
IN REPLY TO MONDELL
WASHINGTON, July 25.—Charac
terizing the nomination of President
Taft as Illegal and scoring the creden
tials committee of the Chicago conven
tion as "contributors to Democratic
success,” Representative George W.
Norris, of Nebraska, renewed in the
house today his attack upon the action
of the Republican national convention.
Mr. Norris, a Roosevelt supporter, spoke
in answer to Representative Mondell,
who yesterday defended the president’s
nomination.
Norris first turned his attention to
day to the delegates from the Southern
states, who, he alleged, were responsi
ble for the nomination of Taft, al
though no Republican could carry any
Southern states. The majority of these
Southern delegates, Norris said, were
Federal office holders and were given
Instructions by the Taft managers to
see that the state conventions sent the
right kind of delegates to Chicago.
HOLD-UPMEN - SHOOT AND
ROB VICTIM IN SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH, GA., July 25.—While
walking through the Atlantic Coast
Line yards last night, V. R. Caldwell
was shot by two negroes who held him
up and robbed him of S9O. The bullet
entered his left shoulder, causing a
p i inful but not necessarily a serious
wound. He was taken to the Savannah
hospital. The police are investigating.
Caldwell had been in Savannah two
weeks, having come here from Lake
City, S. seeking work. His wife is
here with him. Caldwell walked to the
freight offices, when he fell exhausted.
dalton Women - ban qu et
EASTERN STAR OFFICER
DALTON, GA., July 25.—Miss Tal
lulah Atkins, of Cordele, grand worthy
matron of the grand chapter of Geor
gia, Order of Eastern Star, was honor
guest at a banquet tendered by Dalton
chapter No. 65, at the Buchholz res
taurant last night, following her in
spection of the local chapter. Speeches
r< made by T. B. Ridley, associate
grand worthy patron of Georgia; H. B.
I’arrar, Judge J. A. Longley, S. E.
1 • rry, W. m. Sapp and Dr. Douglas,
worthy patron of the Chattanooga
chapter.
BARBECUE AT EASTMAN
FOR FARMERS OF DODGE
kastman, ga., July 25.—The
* ■ ■mmerclal club, backed by the mer-
rts and professional men of this
1 i,v - will give the Dodge county farm-
* rs md their wives and children a bar
ix-’ ue on Thursday, August 1.
! H. Hyman, secretary of the Macon
> i tuber of Commerce, will be the
i r u.<’ipal speaker. The advisability of
■i'mg a county fair in November will
he discussed. The barbecue will be held
’lie city park, and it is expected that
• ral thousand persons will attend.
jeweler sued’by wife
FOR FAMILY'S SUPPORT
' rs - Rebecca Stein, 17 Warren place,
' ng for divorce, today asked the su-
I ■ rlor court to order her husband to
i' mide for herself and their three
- 'ii children. The petition will be
*rd Monday. The husband, Samuil
■ "in. is a jeweler.
THREE KILLED IN WRECK.
, r STONINGTON, CONN.. July 25
‘ e trainmen ware killed and three 1
1 ■’uied badly in a collision between an
ins express train and an extra
i. Pin at Stonington Junction on the
* 'i'" line division of the New Haven
i J east of here at 6:30 this morning.
How to Make Your Children "Husky '
PHYSICAL TRAINING FOR TOTS
Atlantan Says Parents Should
See to Development of the
Youngsters While Small.
If you don’t believe Professor F. B.
McGee knows how to raise children, he
has three—as fine as you ever saw—as
proof, and all of them are strong,
healthy and muscular beyond the nor
mal. And every one of them can put
on a performance that would be a
credit to a circus acrobat.
Professor McGee has been a teacher
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Professor F. B. McGee an d his little son in two of the tot’s physical culture training ‘feats.
The weight the child is holding weighs fifty pounds.
of physical culture for 21 years. He
believes that children must be strong
to be successful in the battle of life.
He believes also they will never grow
as strong as they ought to unless their
parents take them in hand.
Here is the McGee system:
"Start with your children when they
are a month old. Too young, you say?
Nonsense. Put your fingers out and
the child will grab them. Pull him (for
convenience we'll say he's a boy,
though it works as well with a girl) up
from a reclining position as far as he
will hold on. Keep this up a few weeks,
trying it a few minutes a day, and you
will be able to pull the child up to a
sitting posture.
Hold it by Its Fingers.
"If the child is healthy and normally
strong, you can hold it in midair by
its fingers by the time it Is three months
old.
"Gradually teach the child other lit
tle tricks.
“For instance;
"Roll it around on the floor.
“Pick it up by its feet."
“Pick it up by its head. Don’t let its
mother see this going on at first or
she’ll call it murder. Do it gently and
there's no danger.
"Make it play wheelbarrow.
“When my first child was three years
old I bought him a tiny pair of dumb
bells. By the time he was five he could
swing them well enough to give exhi
bitions. Club swinging is good if you
know’ enough about it to teach the
child. If you don’t, try something else.
Make Play of It.
“The idea is to teach the children
whatever you know best.
“Be sure to make play of it. If the
children regard it as work, they will
get neither pleasure nor development
out of it. Don’t be too dignified to make
a romp of it. If you can’t get down on
the floor and throw somersaults with
the children it is time you learned."
The McGee children are Impressive
advertisements for the McGee physical
culture system. The older ones, a boy
and a girl, can do lots of circus stunts;
can box like professionals and are as
hard as nalis. .
The youngest, a little shaver no big
ger than a pint of cider, can do more
tricks than the average grown man.
One is to stand on his feet, his hands
and his head, with his little torso,
“tummy” up, forming a perfect arch—
which is “some trick" for the average
grown man. Another Is to stand erect
on his father’s hand, held high in air.
His feature performance is the lifting
of a 50-pound weight. Os course he
doesn’t actually lift it. But he seizes
the weight and his father puts his
hands under the baby's arms and locks
them together on his chest. Then the
father lifts, and the baby, holding the
‘weight, comes up. too. Sometimes for
as long as a minute he holds the weight
suspended. Then his fingers relax and
it drops. That it is a real 50-pound
weight the photographer will testify.
He nearly broke his back trying to
lift it.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS;
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WIRELESS PRONE
TESTED Ry QUEEN
Demonstration of Newest In
vention at Buckingham Pal
ace Called Wonderful.
LONDON, July 25.—<Jueen Mary
witnessed at Buckingham palace an in
teresting demonstration of wirelegs tel
ephony betw’een motor cars placed at
opposite ends of the grounds. Her
majesty personally tested the capacity
of the invention, placing a receiver to
her ear and listening to a -conversation
transmitted from the second car, stand
ing at least 200 or 300 yards away.
Princess Maty and Prince Alexander of
Teck also were present.
The apparatus can not lie us'd in
competition with existing telephones or
w’ireless telegraph companies, but ar
rangements are being made t» exhibit it
in London and in the provinces, a
charge being made in aid of the funds
of charity, the Cancer Charity of the
Middlesex hospital having been select
ed as having the first claim upon the
contributions.
The transmitting and receiving ap
paratus is placed in the separate cars.
From the roof of the transmitting car
projects a conical-shaped sfiaft, from
which are dispatched the - electrical
waves which are picked up by a shaft
attached to the second car.
Queen Mary displayed the greatest
interest In the explanations of the ap
paratus given by Brownrigg Fyers on
behalf of the inventors, and, after
watching a conversation being carried
on, took the receiver herself. “Won
derful!" was the queen's exclamation
at the conclusion of the demonstration,
WICKERSHAM TO GET
$60,000.00 TO ENFORCE
SHERMAN TRUST LAW
WASHINGTON, July 25. The general
deficiency appropriation bill, the last of
the annual budget, was reported by the
house appropriations committee today.
The bill carries $6,182,834.25 to supply
the general deficiencies in the various
government departments for the fiscal
year of 1912. One of the unusual items
in the bill is an appropriation of $150,000
for the Gettysburg memorial celebra
tion. to commemorate the fiftieth anni
versary of the battle of Gettysburg
The attorney general was given the S6O,
000 he asked for the enforcement of the
Sherman law.
Prof* McGee's Hints on
Developing Children
Don’t be afraid of breaking
your children; they’re not as
fragile as they look.
Kids will never develop .phys
ically if their training isn't be
gun early. One month old is
none too young.
Get acquainted with jvmr
kids. They’re worth it.
U.S.WARONBEEF
TROST NEAR END
Proposed Dissolution of? Na
tional Packing Co. Mteets
Wickersham’s Approval.
WASHINGTON, July 25.—The gov
ernment's long war with the beef trust
is practically at an end, It was learned
today. The plans for the dissolution of
the National Packing Company which
contemplates a physical division K>t the
properties of the companies into- three
parts, representing respectively the
Swift, Armour and Morris interests,
are almost certain to have th© approval
of Attorney General Wickersham.
Mr. Wickersham has already seen a
rough draft of these plans, but Is "with
holding formal approval until United
States District Attorney Wilkerson, of
Cricago, brings a full detailed report to
Washington.
GEORGIA ADVENTISTS
BEGIN CAMP MEETING
IN BARNESVILLE PARK
BARNESVILLE, GA., July 25. -Seores
of delegates arrived here today and last
night to attend the twelfth annua! camp
meeting of the Georgia conference of Sev
enth Day Adventists, which holds its. first
session -tonight, and will continue until
August 4.
The canvas city in Staffords park,
where the conference is encamped, has
become a scene of animation since the
arrival of the delegates and campers.
The family tents surrounding the great
canvas pavilion are being prepared to be
come the dwellings of the campers, while
many of the visitors have rented rooms
in the homes surrounding the park.
At the preaching service last night pre
ceding the oiwmfng of the campmeeting,
Elder D. C. Stephenson, of Columbus, de
livered a sermon.
Among the delegates already arrived are
the following from Atlanta: S. D. Year
gln, secretary of the Georgia conference;
Mrs. Yeargln, Miss Trice, W. H. wil
liams, secretary and treasurer of the
Southeastern-Union conference; George M.
Waters, F. C. Clark and wife, Elder 1,. T.
Crisler and wife, mn.l Elder C. B. Haynes,
wife and son.
LEP MEYER UNDER KNIFE.
MACON, GA„ July 25.—Lep Meyer,
the young* man wF*o shot and killed
Mary Moore last scaring, and who is
now serving a 2l)-year sentence at the
state farm, was operated on this week
for appendicitis, and is in a critical
condition
POUIIRE STILL IS
MING PARIS
Risque Songs and Scantily Clad
Dancers Are Features of the
Summer Garden Parties.
PARIS, July 25. —The summer, which
set In so early and with such unusual
heat, has proved so capricious and the
weather reports received from all
mountain and seaside resorts so dis
couraging that thousands of people who
would never think of spending the sum
mer here have repeatedly postponed
their departure for cooler places and
Paris is doing al] she can to detain
them as long as possible.
Paris now boils and roars; the air is
heavy and the sun beats fiercely on the
mad crowds that rush through the
streets. And what does this Insane
race mean? It Is a race not to be late
for anything, to sell as much as possi
ble, to make as much money as possi
ble before the inevitable departure of
vhe money-spenders from Paris for the
fashionable seaside resorts.
Fashion More Hygienic.
There is really no end of things to
dY> for those who are determined to en
joy life In full earnest, In the morn
inig promenades ”en voiture" or “en
clteval” in the Avenue du Bols de Bou
logne, where a number of American
women are shocking the modistes and
deltlfghting the coiffeurs by walking hat
less. Fashion which literally speaking
has: prevented women from moving
their legs, which has ordered them to
wear furs in July and linen gowns In
December, now also begins to become
hygitmic.
Then women at teas arrcVgarden par
ties are wearing costly-silk or linen
gowns of studied simplicity, picture
hats, English scarfs, white gloves and
parasols. Fans are banned.
The gentlemen wear blue or iron
gray cutaways or morning coats and
silk ha Os., and a carnation or corbflower
in the. buttonhole, gray gloves and pat
ent leather shoes with gray cloth tops.
Dressed in Next to Nothing.
As often as not, the "gouter” is the
only attraction of these parties. When
the sign is given all make a rush for
tfie buffet. At other times the host has
provided an entertainment to keep his
guests from sneaking away imme
diately after satisfying their material
needs.
At a garden party given by the
Duchess of Dondeauvllle recently, after
the “gouter” the guests went to an
open-air theater. On the stage stood
Mlle. Polalre, who is still as popular as
she is ugly, and the audience went al
most Into spasms as she sang her
songs, which were certainly most
risque. After her came beautiful Mlle.
Dorzlat, the actress, performing for the
first time the dance of “Mendelssohn's
Spring Song,” dressed in next to noth
ing, and after her followed Arlette Jor
gere, Bartet, and last, but not least, the
Danish singer, “La Belle Danolse"
Paula Frisch.
NATION-WIDE STRIKE
OF BRITISH DOCKMEN
NEAR; RIOTS FEARED
LONDON, July 25.—Leaders of the
dockworkers’ strike here today took steps
to carry on the war against the ship
owners in every port tn the United King
dom. They plan to call out 300,000 men.
Rioting is feared.
Special police guards today were placed
about the residences of all the cabinet
ministers and around the home of Lord
Davenport, whom the strikers view as
their bitterest enemy among the employ
ers.
Truce of a Day Called.
BIRKENHEAD, ENG., July 25.—Strik
ing dock workers and ship owners met
here today and effected a 24-hour truce.
Meanwhile the owners have promised not
to attempt to put to work three train
loads of strike-breakers that arrived last
night.
HOOK, OF ALPHARETTA,
HEADS ODD FELLOWS
AS GRAND PATRIARCH
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GRIFFIN, GA., July 25.—The state
grand encampment of Odd Fellows met
here today at the city hall auditorium.
The election of officers was the most im
portant item of business The following
were elected;
Grand patriarch, George O. Hook, of
Alpharetta; grand high priest, R. L.
Bramlett, of Athens; grand senior war
den, E. H. Stout, of Atlanta; grand junior
warden, J. B. Everldge, of Columbus;
grand scribe, W. L. Abbott, of Atlanta;
grand treasurer, W. M. Pittman, of Ath
ens; grand representative, Burney Ran
dall, of Griffin.
This Is the first meeting of the grand
encampment apart from the regular
grand lodge meetings of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows.
The Sliver Link encampment, of Atlan
ta, put on the patriarchal degree last
night. This was the finest degree work
ever witnessed in Griffin.
I DEATHS AND FUNERALS
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Miss May Brunner.
Mrs. Rolfe Hunt, of Atlanta, has re
ceived a telegram announcing the death
of her niece, Miss May Brunner, of
Colorado Springs. Miss Brunner had
been 111 about a week. She was a
daughter of J. K. Brunner, deceased,
formerly of Atlanta. Miss Charlotte
Dunn, of the faculty of the Atlanta
Girls High school, is an aunt.
Miss Eva Bynum.
The funeral of Miss Eva Bynum, twenty
years old. who died at a sanitarium last
night, was held today. Interment was
in Westview cemetery.
James A. Franklin.
Funeral arrangements of .lames A.
Franklin, member of the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen, who died last night,
will be made late today. The trainmen
will have charge of the funeral. Mr.
Franklin resided at 193 South Humphreys
street. His widow and two children sur
vive him.
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CRON SONGS VEK
ERE HIGHBROWS
American Ragtime Crowds
Classics Out of the German
Popular Taste.
BERLIN, July 25.—The "Friends of
Richard Wagner" assembled in a na
tional convention at Leipsic the other
day to launch a movement to perpet
uate the Wagner family’s monopoly of
“Parsifal," which expires by limitation
In 1913.
Frau Coslnia Wagner, the composer’s
widow, is said to be entirely disasso
ciated with the object, which has been
undertaken by Independent artists and
musicians. Professor Engelbert Hum
perdinck is one of the prime movers. It
is desired to preserve “Parsifal" from
desecrating hands by making it impos
sible to produce it anywhere except at
Bayreuth, as at present. Hitherto the
only successful "piracy” of the master
piece has been committed by American
Impresarios. Impartial German critics
do not bespeak much success for the
Leipsic crusade.
Meanwhile, the German Music Pub
lishers league is out with a doleful
manifesto, bemoaning the fact that
between Viennese operetta and Ameri
can coon songs German musical taste
is going to the dogs, as it were. They
declare that Wagner, Chopin, Bee
thoven and Brahms are having a
dreadful time of it in competition with
Fall, Lehar, Oscar Straus and the
creators of “Alexander's Ragtime
Band” and “My Octoroon Sue."
Popular trifles, it is asserted, are
quite displacing the classics, and un
less the movement is checked Ger
many's artistic reputation is in immi
nent jeopardy.
THESE YOUTHS NOT
BOTHERED A BIT BY
HIGH COST OF LIVING
A new way has been found to beat
the high cost of living.
A young fellow, faultlessly groomed
and with a distinct air of “belonging,”
swung into an Atlanta case and made
his way to a table well in the rear.
The meal he ordered showed him no
mean epicure. The waiter's check,
when he laid it down, amounted to
close upon SB. The diner toyed with
an expensive cigar as he waited for the
finger bowl.
In came another young fellow, like
wise well groomed and prosperous
looking, but evidently In a hurry. He
made for a vacant seat at the table of
the first diner.
"Pie and coffee—and hurry, please,"
was his order.
The waiter brought It, together with
a check for fifteen cents.
Finishing his smoke, Diner No. 1
picked up his check, sauntered to the
cashier's desk, laid down a quarter, re
ceived ten cents change and left.
Diner No. 2 finished his pie and cof
fee and picked up his check. Then the
fireworks started.
"I never ate any eight dollars worth
of pie,” said the young fellow bellig
erently.
Appeal to the head waiter followed.
But Diner No. 2 was so manifestly in
the right that he was permitted to pay
his fifteen cents and depart.
A block down the street Diner No. 1
and Diner No. 2 met.
“How’d it go?” asked No. 1.
“Slick,” replied Diner No. 2. "And
now me for the big eats and you for
the pie and coffee. Come on."
And they headed for another well
known case.
YOUTH SEES FRIEND
DROWNED; HELPS TO
BEAR BODY TO GRAVE
Grover Cochran, drowned while tak
ing a moonlight swim in a lake at Al
bert Howell’s country home on the
Howell Mill road last night, will be
buried at Bethel church tomorrow
morning at o’clock. Roy Dale, of
Smyrna, who was in bathing with
Cochran, will be one of the pallbearers.
The two young men entered the lake
shortly after dark. Dale svas some
distance from Cochran when the latter
suddenly shouted for help and disap
peared beneath the water. Albert
Howell, W. H. Kiser and County Po
liceman Rogers were summoned and
dragged the lake for the body.
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
DAUGHTER SIDES
AGAINSTMOTHER
Hannah Rachmil Defends Her
Father on Trial for Striking
• His Wife.
Pretty slxteen-year-old Hannah
Rachmil turned against her mother and
strongly defended her father, Robert
Rachmil, when the latter was arraigned
before Recorder Broyles today, accused
of striking Mrs. Rachmil In the head
with a chair.
“Mother has always abused fathei
and always will, I guess,” said the
daughter as, with a dainty handker
chief, she tenderly wiped tears from
the cheeks cf the weeping father.
Rachmil, until about six months ago,
was a wealthy merchant of Philadel
phia. Beset by financial reverses, how
ever, he closed his business and came
to Atlanta. Since then the family has
been living at 386 Central avenue. It
is understood that they still have con
siderable property Interests in Phila
delphia.
Miss Hannah, who appealed in court
attractively attired in white, told Judge
Broyles that their home life had been
ruffled ever since her father failed in
business. She blamed it all on the
mother, declaring that a few days ago
Mrs. Rachmil struck Rachmil with a
cuspidor.
Mrs. Rachmil, who wore a big piece
of plaster on her forehead, said her
husband became angered at her yes
terday and struck her in the head with
a chair. Rachmil protested that his
wife attempted to strike him with the
chair and that in the struggle the chair
was shoved back against her head.
A local organization has been aiding
Rachmil to get on his feet again, and J.
Jacobs, one of its officers, made a
strong plea for him. He said that
Rachmil is finely educated, speaking
and writing seven different languages,
and that he is held in high esteem by
business men, both here and in Phila
delphia.
Judge Broyles ruled that Rachmil
should not have struck his wife with
a chair and bound him over to tho
state courts in bond of SIOO on the
charge of assault and battery. Bond
was promptly given.
GOVERNOR OPPOSED I
TO EXTRAVAGANCE
ON PART OF STATE
Governor Brown said today that ho
deplored the legislature's apparent ten
dency to disregard the financial condi
tion of the state. He said that he fa
vored a constitutional amendment
which would limit the general assem
bly in the matter of appropriations.
The governor’s plan is to require the
tax receivers of the various counties
to make reports to the comptroller gen
eral before the middle of July, and to
amend the constitution go that the leg
islature can not appropriate more
money than is actually in sight at that
time.
This, the chief executive believes,
would not only free the state from
financial difficulties, but prevent many
foolish appropriations.
The governor’s statement came after
It had been suggested that an extra ses
sion of the legislature would be neces
sary if the present tendency in finan
cial legislation continued.
GEORGIANS START ON
10,000-MILE WEDDING
TOUR TO SHANGHAI
BRUNSWICK, GA., July 25.—With a
10.000-mile wedding journey before them,
Mr. and Mrs. Hart Westbrook are now
on their honeymoon, following their mar
riage here yesterday. Their destination
is Shanghai, China, where Mr. Westbrook
is being sent as professor of English in
the Baptist university of Shanghai by the
foreign mission board of the Southern
Baptist convention.
Mr. Westbrook, whose home is at Grif
fin, Ga., is a graduate of the literary de
partment of Mercer university at Macon.
He has also taken a post-graduate course
at Harvard university and recently grad
uated from the Yale divinity school.
Mrs. Westbrook, formerly Miss Annie
May Arnold, is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. C. E. Arnold, of this city. She is a
graduate of Bessie Tift college at For
syth, and during the past year was an
instructor in music at that institution.
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