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8 RELIEF PROMISED PUPILS IN GOLD SCHOOLROOMS Dr. W. J. Auten Asks Aid of Physicians in Fight for Bet ter Conditions. Physicians of Atlanta will be enlisted In the fight started by Dr. \V. J Auten. 334 Hemphill avenue, to remedy the conditions at the Girls High school, which he blames foi the death of his daughter. Edith Marian Auten. At the same time some promise of action came in statements from W. R Daiey. president of the hoard of educa tion. and Aiderman .James E. Warren, chairman of the council committee on schools. both of whom decdaie public sentiment would not tolerate the exist ing conditions Dr. Auten charges that the death of his daughter. Miss Edfth Marian Auten. a 1912 graduate <>f the Girls High school, is directly traceable to the lack of heating facilities and the fact that she lost so much time at the school last winter and had to study late at night to catch up with her class* s To Ask Aid of Doctors. “I am going to see Dr L. <’ Eisher, who was associated with in* in treat ing my daughter during her last illness, and ask him to join me in putting th» matter before the physicians 1 dislike to take the part I am taking in this af fair, but some one has to, ami to no one else has it been brought so forcibly as to me and my family. •'Edith was a splendid student When a fifteen-year-old girl she won the ea sa\ prize in a contest in which ths school children of the entire state weir competing She went through the full giammai school grades and never missed promotion, and she kept that record when she entered the high school. "Pa tif'tila rlv in her last year at the high school she suffered from th* add ed work on account of having to lose so much time when the class would he dismissed on cold days. “Edith lost more time from school during her graduating year,’* added Dr Auten. "tl .in she had done In het en tire school course Her Constitution Weakened. "When she graduated h* mother was forced to keen her In bed all day so that she might appear on the stage to receive her diploma She did not im prove her run-down condition this summer, and when typhoid fever took her, she had no vitality’ left to fight All her vitality had been expended a sacrifice to the blind idiocy and dis graceful lack of caie which character izes the treatment Atlanta gives it- girl pupils "There is talk today of building a new school house for the Roys High school and of building tlv new house* for the Et.glish-commeri iul depart-I ment of the Girls High school. Well, i these are hot!.’ v od plans. Atlanta cei - | tainly needs- them, but I want to ask are they going to be built after the fashion of th* hui ding that killed my child? "The conditions umh-r which th* pu pils at the Girls High school ha\e to Ftudy are absolutely unbelievable and n no other citv hut Atlanta would they he tolerated "Day after day Edith w ould < «>me home w ith her feet as cold as blocks of Ice The senior class had to be dis missed for as much as a week at a lime on account vs the terrible cold in he room, and then these girls had to study twice as hard to make up this ost time. Fears For Other Child. "What has happened to m\ daughter who graduated this y ear may happen tn Esther, my younger daughter, who will be in the third grade this fall, nr It may Ilf ppen to the daughters of an\ one of nVv neighbors. None of them can real izp it as 1 can. for It has been forcel upon me. "Now what I want to ask the physi cians of Atlanta to do is to go before the public in a body and tell them just •xactly what such deplorable conditions tn the Gi - High school ar> going to lead to; tell the public something, that ever) father and mother ought to know already of the physical make-up »f girls of high school age. tell them the certain result of weakening them f they are forced to stax all day in ’ooms u here they can not k- ep warm " President l)ah’\ of th< school board declared that the sanitary condition of the school was good, but that the poor heating system and the general con-j struction of the building endangered ■ the lives of tin young nomen by bad colds, pneumonia and -imilai diseases 1 am very sorry to learn of the 1 Nervous Wrecks 1 FRIEND r.f mine said he believes r.lt • " men out of ten had more or les. Ir citation of the prostatie urethra 1 don’t - - know but what he , i!?is "■« ~,e m -st senat- I ' ar ” *»f 'he -Hott \ ■wl »”" r » Kl ”■“.the - han .... *8 1. mid r eds . ( tlents hiring ■>, '<• a ■ W . v, 'ars 1 | a , e ?*ST’’ l tn * ~ 'yL diseases ,-r : chron'c ~ K ant ' narveus ■ w "I- ■SLWt ,® 1,1 Ol " “f > v <-> • sHaaK.— >• V s wrecks t■ • » '••4 ret'.ex Irr I• a .on WW-" !u ' 'a 1., g ’KttKsiWfti. / Rffe ted Had pa ns In ba. k. neck back DR WM M BAIRD of head and Brown - Randolph Bldgcouldn’t sleep ke a Atlanta, Ga. Good t>b> sklana d tree e<i them withe .t rest: beca s® did: * fr.d -pa raise . r the trouble office hours are s to S.ndays and i .<■ to M< m t arapna free a/ la a.a.n. acaled »rapper. | death of the young woman." he said. I “Without regard to the merit of the I father's charge, it dramatically tails I the council's attention to a need that has been neglected.” Board Asked For Heating Plant. Mr Daley told how the board of edu cation .had requested the council for funds for a new heating syatem as an I Immediate necessity , and urged an en tirely new Girls High school building. Funds have not been provided for eithci He said he denounced the con. dition of the school at the graduation exercises. "An Investigating committee from the board found that there are fourteen separate heating systems and four stoves in the building,” he said. year it was necessary to dismiss school on a number of days on account of inadequate heat. The whole building, made up of several separate buildings, is an old trap and should be torn down." No appropriation has been made for a new heating system, and similar con ditions will obtain next year unless something is done soon Aiderman Marten said that there was no doubt that the condition of the building is very bad He recalled a statement made by Miss Nettie Sar gent. former principal that one of the young women contracted pneumofila while attending school there last win- "But I don't think there was the slightest chance for any one to contract typhoid fever as a result of conditions al the school," he said. "A person in the finest physical condition would have a hard fight with malignant typhoid fever." CONFESSES KILLING NEGRO. MAt'tt.N. GA., Aug. Hl.—Three weeks ago a negro was found dead in one of the suburbs. Two negroes and two white men were subsequently arrested All denied any knowledge of the killing. Now one of the yvhite men. Wil! t'ato, has confessed that he fired the fatal shot in self-defense. 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Aug. 16 —General William Boothe, founder of the Salvation Army, w ho Is seriously ill, passed a more com fortable night than usual and today his physician said the aged patient's gen eral condition showed slight improve ment. While the general's heart action has been but slightly impaired, he lapses into periods of unconsciousness which cause alarm. SHE'S 104 ANO IN GOOD HEALTH. TROY, N Y , Aug. 16 .Mrs Margaret Van Rensselaer has Just celebrated her 104th birthday and is in good health. Be a Doer YOU must have a strong body to do things. Many lag behind and lose the race when the goal is in sight, because some vital organ failed at the crucial moment. Germs get into your system through impure air, drinking water, etc. They exhaust vital organs, sap your strength, and breed most diseases. DR. 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The Kind You Have Always Bought \ ANNUAL MOUNTAIN EXCURSIONS SOUTHERN RAILWAY PREM'ER CARRIER OF THE SOUTH SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1912 Low Round-Trip Fares as Indicated in Following Table: „ n . t Render- Hot Lake Tate rmm MISO’"' 1 C'i As h e vi ! le, Bristol, sonv ille, Springs, Toxaway, Springs, 1 10111 1 (J N. C. Tenn. N c N c N . C . Tenn. ATLANTA. GA >6.00 $6.50 'll''- 00 * fi on AL'STELL, GA 6.006,006.006.00.. . ■ FAYETTEVILLE, GA 7 20 7.207.207.20 FLOVrLLA, GA 7.508.007.507.507,50 '-*”0 FT. VALLEY. GA 750 S 0n7.507.507.5 50 GRIFFIN, GA 7.50... .7.507.507.50■ - JACKSON, GA 7,507.507.507.50.. . . McDonough, ga 7.t0 7.40 7.40 7.40 ROCKMART, GA 6.00 6.00 6.00, 6.00 * 6-00 i 6-60 FINAL LlMlT—Tickets will be limited to return on any train and date up to midnight of . September L J 912. _ ~ THREE SPECIAL TRAINS FROM ATLANTA_ MORNING.( NOON. NIGHT Dv. Atlanta 8:00 a. m. L\. Atlantall:ls p. m. Lv. Atlanta 0:45 p. m. Ar. Hendersonville 5:15 p. m. Ar. Hendersonville 8:17 p. tn. \r. 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