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NEW MIKADO ON
JAPAN’STHRONE
Yoshohito Takes Oath, Suc
ceeding His Dead Father.
Progressives to Front.
TOXIO, JAPAN. July 30.—Yoshohito.
the ncv. emperor of Japan, took the
oath of office this afternoon as succes
sor to his father, Mutsuhlto. The sol
emn ceremony, in which the young
ruler swore to uphold the glory of the
ancient empire, was performed in the
throne room of the palace. Earlier in
the day the religious ceremonies con
nected with his accession to the throne
were held in the Imperia Shinto sanc
tuary.
The voice of the emperor broke as
he took the solemn vow to perform the
duties which the death of his father
had imposed on him, and there were
tears in the eyes of the privy council
and cabinet members. The oath was
administered by Prince Aritomo Yama.
gata, president of the privy council,
who had worked practically all his life
time with the late emperor.
While the envoys were calling at the
palace the cabinet held a conference
and decided to call a special session of
the parliament.
There is expected to be no change
of the policy of the new ruler. The
progressive leaders, who have been
checked by their love and respect for
Mutushito, will now force their ideas
to the front and try to overthrow the
established order of things.
The body of the late emperor lay to
ds x in the room in which he died,
guarded by Shinto priests. It will be
embalmed and laid in a temporary vault
for a month, and then taken to Kioto
for burial. The coronation ceremonies
for Yoshohito will be held at Kioto in
June. 1913, according to present plans.
SAM HYDE. CONDEMNED
TO DIE, IGNORES FATHER
ANDERSON. S. C.. July 30.—"1 have
not heard one word from my son.” said
George W. Hyde, father of Samuel Hyde,
the Anderson man who killed his wife
and father-in-law and who is in the pen
itentiary now awaiting the report of
alienists. George Hyde spent his small
means in the effort to save his son from
electrocution. Sam left here two months
ago for the penitentiary and has cut him
self off from all communication with his
home people.
OLD OFFICIAL OF CENTRAL
TO ENTER JUSTNESS HERE
SAVANNAH, GA., July 30.—R. L.
Baugh, for many years In active charge
of the purchasing department of the
Central of Georgia railway, has ten
dered his resignation, to become effec
tive August 1. He will engage in busi
ness in Atlanta. Baugh has served the
Central for a third of a century. W. C.
Hunter, of Americus, has been named
to succeed him.
POWER COMPANY GIVES 'CUE.
COLUMBUS, GA.. July 30. The Co
lumbus Power Company is giving a
barbecue to its wholesale customers
today at Goat Rock, Ala., up the Chat
tahoochee river, twelve miles above the
city. The consumers were taken to
Goat Rock on a special train by the
power company to see the new $1,500,-
000 dam that is nearing completion.
Millions of housekeepers and exper.
chefs use SAUER’S PURE FLAVOR
ING EXTRACTS. Vanilla. Lemon, etc.
Indorsed by Pure Food Chemists.
MUSICAL COMEDY
MAKING BIG HIT AT
BONITA THEATER
The initial performance of the King- :
Murray-Jones Musical Comedy Com
pany at The Bonita yesterday afternoon
marked one of the most pleasing of
ferings this house has offered during'
the present season.
The entire cast is possessed of excep- I
tional ability, and a riot of fun. songs, j
catchy music and pretty, shapely girls, 1
together with tastily designed fresh
costumes, stamp the show as being far
above the average in every respect.
Beautiful motion pictures round out the
show. Continuous performances after
noon and evenings Adults, 10c; chil
dren. sc. ***
EXQUISITE WEDDING BOUQUETS
AND DECORATIONS.
ATLANTA FLORAL CO.,
Call Main 1130.
Bargain in Direct Connected Sets
I have seven brand-new Secor
Kerosene Oil Engines, direct con
nected to Slow Speed Northern
Dynamos suitable for lighting
arid power purposes. The sizes
are. (1) 6 H. P. DC to 31-2 K.
W, (2) 4 11. P. DC to 212 K.
W.. and (4) 2 1-2 11. P. DC to
11-2 K. W„ and include rheo
stats, wrenches, batteries for ig
nition and directions. Sacrifice
price. $2,500 for entire lot. First
call gets them.
Thos. H. Giblin, 115 Broadway, N. Y,
Ocean View Hotel
W. H. Adams, Owner and
Manager,
Pablo Beach, Florida.
Forty minutes from Jacksonville,
P’orfda. the moat desirable seaside re
port for the ac< ommodation of Georgia
people. One night's ride from Atlanui.
European plan, rales one dollar |>< i
baay and up. ss.on a week and up Ex
cellent case in connection. Special ic
oucod rate to regulu. guiei?
SENATE BILL FIXES
LAWYER’S CHARGE
IN DAMAGE ACTION
Damage suit lawyers partial to the con
tingent fee method will find hard sledding
if the state legislature passes the Harris-
Hamilton bill.
This measure, which went to the sen
ate yesterday, limits contingent fees
taken by lawyers to 25 per cent of the
amount of the judgment. The 25 per cent
applies to Judgments under $5,000. Be
tween $5,000 and SIO,OOO the bill limits
the fees to 15 per cent. On judgments
of more than SIO,OOO a fee of not more
than 10 per cent can be taken.
Senator Harris said the present, law
handicapped persons unable to pay law
yers large retainers. As a result of the
present system, he asserted, it was not
uncommon for a lawyer to take 95 per
cent of a judgment as a fee.
CONVICT CAMP COOK
STABS WHITE YOUTH
CORNELIA. GA.. July 80.—Tinney
Woods and W. W. Gailey, white youths,
and General Gordon, negro cook of the
Habersham county convict, camp, lo
cated near Alto, in this county, were
placed under bond of SIOO each for
engaging in a three-cornered fight in
the public road near the catnp. Gailey
was painfully, but not severely, stab
bed in the back in two places by the
negro. A preliminary hearing will be
held on Thursday.
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■i HE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TLESDAY. JULY 30, IDiz.
HOUSE IN moil
OF MILEAGE BILL
The railroad committee has reported
favorably to the house the bill of Rep
resentative Watts, of Randolph, re
quiring railroads In this state to "pull”
mileage on trains.
The general judiciary committee has
reported unfavorably the bill of Mr.
McElreath, of Fulton, providing that
three-fourths of a civil jury may return
a verdict in certain cases; the bill of
Mr. Massengale, of Warren, to prescribe
the measure of damages for failure to
deliver telegrams, and the bill of Mr.
White, of Screven, to provide for
amendments to bills of Indictment and
special presentments of grand juries.
The bill of the Fulton delegation
which provides for closing the Forsyth
street underpass likely will be reported
favorably from the committe on muni
cipal government, notwithstanding the
opposition of Mr. Hall, of Bibb, who
blocked a report late yesterday after
noon.
The bill to provide for the annexa
tion of Ormewood to the city of Atlanta
has been set as a special order for
Wednesday afternoon.
DORCAS SNODGRASS’
DEATH A PUZZLE; NO
MARKS OF VIOLENCE
CATSKILL, N. Y., July 30—Working
by the light of lanterns and improvised
lamps, which hung from the surround
ing trees and were fastened to the un
derbrush, physicians at midnight lagt
night performed an autopsy on the re
mains of Miss Dorcas I. Snodgrass, the
Mount, Vernon society girl and nurse,
whose body was found floating in a small
creek running into the Hudson here, after
she had mysteriously disappeared from
home.
Hundreds of villagers gathered at a dis
tance and watched the physicians at their
grewsome task. The scene was one of
the most weird ever witnessed. The body
was laid on a stretcher on a small grass
plot in the cemetery.
Dr. Rooney afterwards declared that
there was no signs of violence and that
all of the organs were Intact. He will
examine the stomach and intestines for
signs of poison in his laboratory at Al
bany.
Various theories have been advanced to
account for the girl’s death, but the police
believe she committed suicide by jump
ing from a Hudson river boat and that
the body floated up the creek.
OPEN CHATTAHOOCHEE BRIDGE.
COIATMBUS. GA., July 30.—The Dil
lingham street bridge across the Chat
tahoochee river between Columbus and
Girard, Ala., built by the city of Co
lumbus at a cost of $200,000, will be
thrown open to traffic tonight for the
first time. The bridge is built of stone
and concrete. It has been nearly two
years in course of construction.
MEN AND RELIGION BULLETIN NO. io
“The Houses in Our Midst”
Berlin, Madrid and London
Will Not Tolerate Them;
Atlanta Should Not.
Defenders of the Houses in our Midst have knowledge of the world.
Not without sadness, they say “Closing the Houses will not elimi
nate the social evil.” ” /
Some of them almost weep in referring to the antiquity of the sin.
But they forget that theft was committed in Eden, and just with
out the Garden’s gates man murdered his brother ere they had devised
the brothel.
Imagination staggers at .the thought of the heights that might have /
been attained by the thief and the murderer in their peculiar lines had '
they been favored with a segregated district for their avocation.
Their sin is older than harlotry, but even the defenders of the
“Houses in our Midst” would not advocate their protection and license 1
by our city officials. /
Yet picking a pocket is better than ruining a girl.
And cutting a man’s throat is more profitable for the city than z
blinding his children and destroying his wife by the poison distilled
through the Houses in our Midst.
There is better authority than the defenders of the Houses for the '
statement that the evil will not go in a day with the closing of the i’
Houses.
Jesus said: ' /
“It is impossible but that occasions of stumbling should come; but
woe unto him through whom they come! j
“It were well for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck *
and he were thrown into the sea rather than that he should cause one
of these little ones to stumble.” t
“Occasions of stumbling” will come.
But no longer will followers of Jesus Christ in Atlanta be without
protest parties to causing these “occasions” through the failure of city
officials to keep their oaths of office.
And with His followers in the fight, if fight there must be to free
ourselves from this intolerable shame, will be hundreds and thousands
of good men who do His will though they may not know Him as Lord
and Saviour.
The international order of B’nai B’rith at its recent convention in
Europe instituted a world wide campaign against the white slave trade.
A splendid Jew, A. Leo Weil, leads the battle for decency now on in
Pittsburg.
A people to whom we owe our religion, whose God is also our God
and Father, whose law decreed death to the seducer of the Jewish girl,
will not willingly endure a traffic based on the ruin of girls.
Nor will the descendants of the Teutons, whose blood is in our
veins.
Before they knew of Christianity, ere the inroad of the Roman,
drunk with materialism and debauched with the decadent civilization of
Greece, they punished crimes against chastity with death.
Not yvonderful then is it to hear a German speaking in the Reich
stag, protesting, say: “A state which officially tolerates and guarantees
these houses assumes the role of a procurer.”
The same must be said of cities.
And this role for our city, this causing of girls to stumble and fall,
can not and will not be tolerated by men of our religion and blood.
Every day that these more than forty houses remain open, the con
sent and protection given by city officials make our city, and every man
and woman in it a party to the betrayal of the girls necessary to furnish
the inmates.
Logic, not idealism, compels this conclusion.
And German cities, including Berlin with its great population, have
closed such places.
Madrid and London have done likewise.
In Great Britain there is now no form of police regulation of social
vice.
Persistent repression is the method in force.
In these cities, those American ones listed in Bulletin No. 8, and
other cities where a policy of suppression has been adopted, the social
evil has not been entirely eradicated.
Nor has burglary, arson and murder.
But they have proved Mr. Weil, of Pittsburg, right in saying that
the social evil is greatly reduced by removing police protection from it.
And they can no longer be classed with the cities without conscien
ces, the cities which sanction and cause the destruction of the virtue of
women.
The appeal is to the conscience of Atlanta and her officials!
Individuals could close the Houses with an injunction today.
But this would advertise that citizens in Atlanta have to do the
work for which officials are elected and paid.
It would be ineffectual because the same authorities who are re
sponsible for the present condition would permit the evil to spread to
other sections.
, It would not silence the false accusation often made that Atlanta
exists only to make money.
Her officials alone can disprove the charge that she is a conscience
less city.
And let them consider!
Her laws are sacred; oaths are made to he kept.
The disregard of these by public officials resulting in the wreck of
women and girls and the spread of infection can not and will not be
justified in the eyes of men and of God by the cynical and false idea
that the passions of some men must be gratified.
Men and women have been deceived.
But “God is not moeked.”
And today Ho is waking His children, the men and women of the
world, and they are beholding the truth!
Atlanta should and will close the Houses in our Midst.
The •Executive Committee of
THE MEN AND RELIGION FORWARD MOVEMENT.
