Georgia Historic Newspapers

    FIFTH OF BLACKS
OBE MULATTOES
United States Census Shows
Great Increase in Percent
age of Mixed Element.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—A prelim
inary statement showing by states and
geographic divisions the number and
proportion of mulattoes among the ne
groes •■numerated at the thirteenth de
cennial census of the United States,
taken as of April 15. 1910. was issued
today by Director Durand, of the bu
reau of the census.
The statement gives comparative fig
ures for 1870 and 1890. no data being
available for 1880 or 1900.
The term "mulatto." as used in the
census of 1910. includes all persons, not
full-blooded negroes, who have some
proportion or perceptible trace of ne
gro blood. The bureau of census does
put regaid the returns as being beyond
question, since the classification of ne
<roes as full-bloods or mulattoes was
necessarily to a considerable degree de
pendent upon the personal opinion and
conscientiousness of the enumerators.
The results, however, are believed to
approximate the facts for the country
as a whole and for large aggregates.
How Percentage Grows.
In 1910 there were in continental
United States, as a whole. 9.827.763 ne
groes. of whom 2.050.686, or 20.9 per
cent, were reported as mulattoes. In |
1890 there were 1,132,060 mulattoes re
ported, or 15.2 per cent of all the ne
groes. and in 1870 a total of 584.049. or
2 2 per cent. Thus the figures, taken at
their face value, show that about one
fifth of all the negroes in 1910 had some
admixture of white blood, as against
about one-eighth in 1870. It may he
noted, however, that an increase in the
mulatto element does not necessarily
imply increasing intermixture with the
whites, since theW'hildren born of mar-’
riages between blacks and mulattoes
would be mulattoes. according to the
census definition.
The percentage of mulattoes reported
'varies widely in different states and
different sections of the country. In
New England and in the East. North
Central and Pacific divisions, about one
third of the negro population were re
ported as mulattoes. while in each of
the three Southern divisions the pro- 1
portion is only about one-fifth. In th
Middie Atlantic division, for some re.i-■
son. the percentage is not higher li
it is in the Southern divisions.
tna" possibly be due to the rap!’
growth of negro population in that i.
■vision through immigration from ti.
South.
OREGON GOVERNOR'S
VICE CRUSADE LAGS
AS OFFICIALS FIGHT I
PORTLAND. OREG., Aug. 29.—Dis-| |
trier Attorney Cameron has been oust- [
cd. So says Governor Oswald West, ,
here personally to supervise a war on ,
vice. District Attorney Cameron him-
Felf says he has not been ousted, al- i
though he has refused to assist the
goverhor in the crusade and still re- ,
fuses to do so. I |
Cameron plans an appeal to the i
courts that will involve many interest- |
Ing legal questions, principal of which
Js the right of the governor to turn a
district attorney out of office.
In the meantime the war on vice
languishes. All parties are waiting for
the legal tangle to be straightened out
before any other move is made. Wai- ’
ter Evans, who has been appointed by t
the governor to take Cameron's place, i
does not know whether he has a job or ,
rot He intends to be sure before he
acts.
Governor West says he has found an 1
old law that gives him the right to I
act. He says Sheriff Stevens will lose ,
his official head unless he co-operates (
In the anti-vice war. Stevens is pon
dering the matter and watching the
Cameron fight with interest. So far he 1
has refused to aid the governor. <
•HELLO' FOURTEEN BILLION
TIMES IN U. S. DURING 1911
BOSTON. MASS.. Aug. 29.—Accord- 1
ing to figures compiled for the Ameri- 1
can Telegraph and Telephone Compa- 1
nv there wore 22,000,000,000 telephone 1
calls throughout the world in 1911. Os ’
this total the .United States had more 1
than 14,000,000,000, or 66 per cent. In ’
the yeat 1911 579,000,000 telegrams were 1
sent in the world, but the United States
used only 17 per cent of the total. The
world's investment in telephones is
more than $1,795,000,000. and the gross
yearly earnings are $829,000,000. The
average annual earning for each tele
phone is more than $32.
BRIDEGROOM OF 60 WEDS
PRETTY GIRL OF SIXTEEN
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29. —True
love did not run smooth for Levi Quad
enfield. a wealthy contractor of Eighty- ,
first street and Mingo avenue, but the ,
obstacles that attempted to bar his hap
pines were quietly and effectively re
moved by <'upid, and today a proud
husband is observing a double celebra
tion—his sixty-first birthday and his
second marriage.
.lasi is elated a- Quadenfield over the
happy culmination of a romantic and
cx< King courtship is his pretty 16-year
old wife, who was Miss Maria di Gia
como. The youthful Mrs. Quadenfield
was a worried fiancee yesterday morn
ing. but last night she was a smiling
b ide and the owner of a $5,000 house
and loi at Eighty-second street and!
Holstein avenue, which her husband I
presented to her as a wedding gilt, |
Big Atlanta Business Men Masters of Their Craft
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chased Last Yea'’. Owing to
Milliners’ Fads.
PARIS, Aug. 29. In F ;tn< <• during '
the last seventeen years the importa
tion of hair has gone up by leaps and
bounds. In 1894 some 150,000 pounds!
weight of hair was imported. In 1899 I,
the imports had more than doubled ami I
the crescendo continued until last year
h’rance was importing over a million
pounds weight of hair, mainly from
China and Japan.
It is true that not a! 1 of this is fo'
home consumption: a fourth is re
exported. Still, the figures are formid
able. What does it mean? Is the
Frenchwoman losing her crown of
glory? Nothing so serious as that Tht
milliners, with the immense hats they
dictate, are responsible. One might
almost suspect them of collusion with
the hair Importers, for their pyramidal
confections require to be propped and
bolstered with curls innumerable if
they are to keep their equilibrium. This
craze for borrowed plumage has given
rise to a new trade. There are men
who, working chiefly in the great shops,
make a comfortable living by picking
up and reselling the curls shed by
eager bargain hunters
SLADE ACQUITTED OF
KILLING AT CORDELE
CORDELE, GA. Aug 29.—A verdict
of acquittal was returned by the jury
in the case of Edwwrd Slade, eighteen-;
yea l -old son of Price Slade, charged
with the death of Oscar Johnson, his
neighbor, in June. The ease had been
on trial in Crisp county superior court
since Monday morning and was given
over to the jury Tuesday night, fol
lowing Judge George's charge.
ANOTHER CARDINAL TO
BE NAMED FOR AMERICA
PARIS Aug. 29. The pope is about
to create a new American cardinal, who
is to reside In Rome, according ta a
special dispatch received here.
The American cardinal will occupy a
position similar to that of the prelates
representing Erance and Spain in Rome.
It is stated the pope will later cr-qi' a
cardinal in Central America, probablj
Mexico.
FHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS- THURSDAY. AUGUST 29. 1912.
! Fi‘ minoi'.t Manufacturer Able
to Run a Convention or a
Shoe Machine.
Whether it's the running of compli
ated shot machinery that has made
•I. K f>ir, president of tht company
that bears his name, an expeit runner
of conventions, or vice versa, hasn't
been settled, but both come as easily
to th president of the Southern Mer
chants association.
Mr. < );r, who is prominent in frater
nal as well as business circles, is an
other striking example of big Atlanta
business men who know their trade
from the ground—or rather the sole—
up. If hard put to it, he could himself
'tarn out a boot that would suit a Jim
I Jeffries—or one that would tickle a
I princess.
I Tlie glimpse of him shown in the ac
companying picture isn't at all an un
usual view, for no shoemaker who ever
obeyed the ancient injunction to stick
to his last ever got better acquainted
with his machine than the man who
owns enough of them to shod most of
Atlanta.
NEW USE FOR $1 WATCH;
FINE AS LIFE PRESERVER
NEW YGRK. Aug. 29.—Adolph Hen
drickson, a painter employed on the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad, owes his life to his dollar
watch. He was working on one of the
catenary piers, putting a new coat on
the metal, when his brush struck the
feed wire, charged with 32.01)0 volts
The current passed into his hotly, but
Hendrieksen was leaning against tlie
pier in such 'a way that his watch
was pressed against the steel. The elec
tricity found an escape through the
watch, fusing the works into a solid
piece. Had it not been for the watch,
the heavy voltage, having no outlet,
would have killed the painter instantly.
MAN WILL LIVE WITH
HIS BRAIN PATCHED UP
NEW YORK, Aug. 29 Surgeons of
St. Josephs hospital. Yonkers, proudly
announce that John Martin, whose skull
w as badly fractured, is recovering and
will live with part of his brain missing.
Martin is 28 years old. He was
; found unconscious on the New York
It'entral tracks four weeks ago. His
skull was badly mashed in at the fore
head. Dr. Mendelsohn and Dr. Lopez,
who operated upon him. found that
several bits of hrain tissue had been
torn away and were lost through the
opening in the skull
They did not believe he c ould live 24
hours, but they ><>t f., work delicately
mending th< torn tissues and patching
the broken bones.
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London Suspends Business as
Long Funeral Cortege Moves
Through Great City.
LONDON, Aug. 29. Amidst scenes
of hearttouching grief, the late Gen
eral William Booth. patriarch and
founder of the Salva-lon Armv, was
laid to rest today beside the body of
his w ife ill Abney Park cemetery.
Burial of a dearly lv • L.»v«potentate
could hardly have caused a parallel for
the pathetic exhibitions of general grief
as the catafalque moved through the
streets of London. As the procession
• moved by business was suspended.
London paid its tribute to the mem
ory of the great international evangel
ist with unmistakable sincerity. Mourn
ers from over -eas stood with tearful
eyes as the funeral ranks swept by.
More than 5,000 members of the Sal
vation\Army. representing all parts of
the world, were in line.
The procession moved away from the
Thames embankment at 11:39 o'clock.
Forty brass bands played sacred music
as the procession moved.
Blood and fire banners, the emblem of
the- Salvation Army, waved above the
man hers.
Thousands Stand Uncovered.
When the procession ai l ivi d at t'on
gf' ss hall in (Tapton the procession
halted while the coflin containing the
body of the founder was removed from
the bier where it had been resting in
state for a week and was placed upon
the funeral ear.
Thousands stood uncovered a- the
plain oak casket bearing the colors of
the Salvation Army was carried from
the hall. immense crowds lined the
streets through which the line moved
to Abney Park. Elags fluttered at
I half -mast above the buildings.
As the procession passed Mansion
house Sir John Kmll, who is acting
lord mayor of London in th> absence
of Dr Crosby, stopped upon the balcony
and stood with his hand raised in salute
while the hoarse passed by. Sir John
was dressed in the robes of his office
and his act represented the official
tribute' of the- city to the memory of its
distinguished citizen.
CONDUCTOR KILLS A MAN
WHO IS BEATING TRAIN
BLOOMINGTON. ILL.. Aug 29 -Lee
Wright hoe . . of J ff'-r '. ix lh . Ind.. wa
killed by c'onduetot 1' ill t-. of a Big
Foul freight train. He was beating his
way on the- train.
GfflL BENEFITS
BHITIJW
Tolls or No Tolls, It Gives Much
Now Business to English
Ship Builders.
LONDON, Aug. 29. —If you talk to an |
Englishman about the Panama canal
at present, in nine cases out of ten lie
will Hare up and denounce the perfidy
of Americans who have sunk so low
t ; 'at they ho longer respect their
pledged word. But aside frpm the
question of tolls or no tolls, it is gen
erally admitted that the canal, even
now. b. fore its opening, has greatly
benefited English industry, as it is
hoped It will in time benefit English
shipping.
!’ vg'.i- sive Englishmen realize that
with the opening of the canal the
pi ai i ful struggle between England an I
Germany for the world's markets will
enter into a new phase and to the fact
that It i.ish ship owners are prrpaiing
to make a bold light to present the
Panama canal traffic from falling into
Ge .mm h.irt's is du that English ship
bnil, ii - h ve received more orders
I inn they van fill for two or three
yea i s.
At lb’Ti-t the Royal Mail Steam
Packet <'om. i:y has just placed orders
ffur ni v :s< i. for this particular
'■ ■!"><•■ ! > ibir.il ami Wolff will build
two ot them and Workman. Clark
<'■>. have been given the contracts for
the oflier two. The vessels will be
lsimi | :ir in design, and will be modeled
on the most up-to-date principles, as
c'li-y mo intend.'(] chiefly for Hrst-dass
■ ‘.» k s at>< ■ ij.itH. The full clhncnsions
'hips have not b« n divulged,
hut it is understood that they will be
about 650 feei long.
UNCLE JOE ACCEPTS
HIGH KICK BANTER
OF9O-YEAR-OLD MAN
■ ,:11EA 1•. MIUH.. Aug. 29.—"Un-
'■' ■*' ''' Uannon, m i let., i to State
•" "f I 'bar is S .larded, accepts tin
i hall. ng. of j jt. 1-ffiinchard, aged 91,».
| ot this city, to a ’high-kicking" con
i' st. M ' ' nm. i : h i ;,- was:
; ■' 1 11 »"■' siigffi'st that Mr. Blan-
|' ; ■ r,t ■’S t.l reptit itiou before at
viirr to ihill ng, m, in this re
r' '• 'ur-e, in's prowess in this
I ‘ieligiit.'ul sp< : t is known to all men.
In 'irw of the tone of defiance indi
l'!'id l’> till-, s,atoment, 1 can not do
othi , wi-e 11, a n - lO accept.”
Mr. Uannon then pr. s, nts his best
iwishe:. to Mr Blanchard, who on his
I 9'ith birthday declared he could beat
"Uncle Joe" or am other "young old
box s at a high-kicking contest.
1 "t th< m , has not been set.
CLOUDBURST RUINS
OHIO CROPS; TOWN
PARTLY SUBMERGED
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-I*' 11 “■ ■' ' night’s ■ loudburst indl
! '' u ‘' 'I ’’ le lot;.! damage would ex
ceed with L< banon suffering
greatest. Manx of the houses at Leb
anon are under thiee feet of water. No
loss ot lite has been reported.
The bod- of Airs. Zep Enfield, which
j ia\ in a eollin in her home, was car
ried out of th" building through four
tri ‘ of water as the house was giving
wa y.
The plant of the Peters Cartridge
Company was suhim rgpd.
Parts of blocks arc under water and
hardly a house or business structure in
the town escaped damage, and
| ag» (I people were rescued by men In
boatM. Lightning started two fires in
dwellings.
Whole fields of corn and wheat were
washed away by streams. Loss to crops
will bo enormous.
The town of franklin, a few miles
south of Dayton .is reported under wa
ter. Cloudbuists also were reported at
MEDTORTURES
WITHECZEW
Spots Burst and Ran All Over Face.
Sore and Inflamed. Had to Tie
Mittens on Hands. Cuticura Soap
and Ointment Cured Completely.
Freeland. Md —“Baby's eczema started
In little spots and would burst and run all
oxer his face and wherever the water would
i touch his face, it would make another sore.
Pimples would break out and make his face
sore and inflamed, and he was very cross
and fretful, it was awful. He suffered
tortures from it, and we had to tie mittens
on his hands to keep him from scratchjng.
We tried everything we knew and had him
to three doctors, but they could not help
him. A friend of mine told me of the Cuti
cura Soap and Ointment and I went to a
drug store and bought them. When wo
would bathe his fare with the Cuticura Soap
and apply (he Cuticura, Ointment, he would
be much better. He would wake up in the
nights and cry with his face and we would
put on some of the Cuticura Ointment and
then he would rest all right. By keeping
this up every day his fa<*e began to heal and
then got well altogether. He suffered Just
i about a year before we used the Cuticura
1 Soap and Ointment and they have cured
him completely of the eczema. We use the
: Cuticura Soap all the time and there la no
better soap for the skin ” (Signed) Mrs.
I Harry Wright, Mar. 21, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment do so much
for pimph s, blackheads, red, rough skins,
i itching, scaly scalps, dandruff, dry, thin and
falling hair, chap|>ed bands and shapeless
i nails, that it is almost criminal not to use
them. Sold everywhere. Liberal sample of
each mailed free, with 32-p. Skin Book. A<l
- post-card “< ’uticura. Dept.T, Boston.”
; Tender-fared men should use Cuticura
[ Soap Shaving Stick, 25c. Sample free.
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MINIMUM WAGE PLAhTK~
A DELUSION ANDSNARE,
SAYS CHARLES D. HILLES
By CHARLES D. HILLES,
Chairman of the Republican National
Committee.
NEW YORK. Aug. 29.—Have you
ever stopped to think where (he "mini
mum wage” proposition of the Third
Term party leads to? Do you know
what it means and where it will end?
The Third Term platform asserts that
"minimum wage commissions should be
established • • * to determine the
standard which the public ought to
sanction as a minimum." To the wage
earner who is underpaid that sounds
peculiarly attractive. So does the
promise of health to the sick man. But
it is an old adage that "all is not gold
that glitters.” and this applies as often
to economic remedies as to patent med
icines. The proposition in its simplest
terms is that the government should fix
a rate, of wages less than which no
employer would he permitted to pay.
Governments are controlled by political
parties, so that it also means that a
political party would tlx the lowest
wage which any employer could pay.
Now, what would that lowest wage
be .’ That, of course, would have to de
pend on the political party. The Re
publican party, if it continued to hold
its national convention first, would tlx
the minimum wage for an eight-hour
• lay of an able-bodied man, for Instance,
at $3. Then the Democratic pat ty would
hold its convention. It would be ob
vious that to hold its own it must make
the rate equally high. But the Demo
cratic party, like other parties, is al
ways anxious to do more in its plat
form than hold its own. It wants to
win supporters from the other parties
To do this it would naturally fix the
minimum wage tot which it stood at
$3.50 a day. Then would come an in
dependent party ami it would raise the
minimum to $4 a day, for unskilled
labor, other "minimums” in proportion.
Then would come the Socialist party,
determined to make the strongest bid
'or the support of labor. Its minimum
would probably be $5, and the labor
party, determined not to be outdone,
would make it $6.
"Would Labor Get It?”
Os course, that would be all well anil
proper so far as the rate of wages was
concerned, and no one would object to
labor receiving such reward, but would
it receive it? Os course, if unskilled
labor cost $6 for an eight-hour day,
skilled labor would have to be paid in
proportion if men were to continue to
take the trouble to become skilled la
borers. The skillful brtekmason who
now receives three times the rate paid
1 to the unskilled laborer would demand
that his wage be three times greater,
or $lB a day. Even supiiose, for sake
of argument, that these rates of wages
were fixed at one election, where would
Il end? At the next election each po
litical party would seek to outbid the
other until the "minimum” would be
come a maximum little dreamed of to
day.
As I have said, no friend of labor
could object to its generous compensa
tion, but would labor receive the wages
promised by the party platform'.'
Would not the effect be so as to in
crease the cost of building, of manu
facturing, of production of every sort,
that no one could afford to buy the
produets, so that building and manu
facturing would cease? For if such
rates of wages could be established for
the worker in the factory. In construc
tion work and in building, is it possible
that any labor could be induced to work
on tin farm? Even now, when wages
in the city are good, labor on the farm
is so scarce that crops go to waste and
the farmers are constantly complaining
—and the complaint of the presenthigh
cost of living is universal
But suppose the employer were for-
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bidden to add the increased cost of la
bor to the price of his product, would
that not remedy the defect? If that
were done, the employer would imme
diately demand, and with justice, that
the government fix the price of the ma
terial he was compelled to buy. With a
minimum wage and a maximum price
prescribed by law the employer’s only
protection against extortion by land
lords and owners of all classes, of ma
tetial would be maximum prices fixed
by law. Os course, that is the golden
age dreamed of by the Socialist, and to
that alone the third party plat
form lead; but I venture to assert that
never will a political party, or a gov
ernment controlled by political parties,
prove able to tlx the rates of wages in a
manner either just or satisfactory to
labor.
Labor unions can do much to effect
just wages, but they can do it because
they are not political organizations:
because they are almost free from po
litical influences, and because they fix
their attention on lhe needs ami rights
each a particular trade, or at most a
number of affiliated trades. The gov
ernment can do much to assist; can
break up combinations which put inor
dinate power as employers into the
hands of a few men; qpm impose a tar
iff which will protect the American
w orkman from unfair competition from
abroad; can compel the u-e of safety
appliances, and even enforce the ob
servance of the eignt-hour law on all
the woik which it controls. But the
fixing of wage scales must be left to be
worked out by the working men
through his union and the employer.
That Is tire point to which no govern
ment can go and give satisfaction.
Let no man who is attracted by the
alluring promise of the Third Term party
take my word for it. Like President
Taft, I am perfectly content to t; ust the
decision to the intelligence of the
American workmen—only 1 urge that
he shall think it out for himself and not
let any persuasive politician do his
thinking for him.
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