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Piedmont Lake Bathers Will Contest Today in a Big Carnival of Water Sports for the Season’s Titles
fair swimmers to compete today in the FINAL MEET OF 1912
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In a carnival if water spurt:- whii
vi.l be on a larger scale than anything
ever attempted at Piedmont park, the
fiimmine championships of the 11112
s ason "ill be d-terminei’ this aftei •
ninDi in a seties of r-v nts of va.i ■■ -
distances, arranged so that there will ' .
entriis for the men. women and boys
who have spent their afternoons tec
summer enjoying the wati r sports.
This season will be brought to a close
within two weeks and the lake ~t
Piedmont, which has been filled each
day with a happy throng of Atlantans
clad in bathing suits of every color and
hue. soon will be ns? deserted as an
abandoned sumim r resort.
The scores of pretty girls who Imv ,
found health ami pleasure learning to
sii.m in the lake and w 2 > < pr<w.<.
an attraction for hundreds of visitors
to the park will soon be dropping back
tn th-' bridge tables ami th:-.’ ter
Women to Race For Prize.
.\l,ii .mi. boys w.o "aw found ■'
he.mhful tan th:,- . ;immer an.l lost th.
wan look of t.'.e city w.e.ler wi.l b<
once more back at the office and shop
in the winter time tush and struggle
for a livelihood, whi- ■■ tin Ink. waits
for tin coming of moth r year.
It wis first pF.inn-d to ho’l the |
swimming contests <>:: September IT
th .i :y on which all bathing and swim
rmg at th. like will b - discontinued I
for tii season, but tin id. . was sup,- |
pested that the events b, held today as I
part of ilic exercises in honor of i.a- ,
bor day.
There are many Atlanta women who
1 .me to the lake this summer as ex- 1
[■ r> swimmer® and found themselv
able to compete creditably in diving
and swimming with tin men. Oliui
women have developed into expert®
p lough constant daily practice after
they learned the stroke. The winner
ir tee nomen's free-for-all this after
noon, which is to be for a distance of
!3 yards, will receive a handsome piece
nf cut glass as a prize. •
Various prizes were thought of as t In
most appropriate for the women's event
and finally Captain B. H. Sehlomberg,
under whose direction the events are
he'd, put the matter toXi vote when a
score of fair bathers were discussing
whether they would enter the women's
1 ontest. Some one made the sugges
tion that any woman would swim for a
piei-i of cut glass, and one of At mta*s
merchants offered to donate the prize.
Cup Prize in Men's Contest.
I'm the man or boy who can m ike
'll, greatest number of points in the
sir contests for men a seventeen-inch
- ."I loving cup is offered. The pres
entation of this cup carries with it the
award of the title of supreme champion
nf ;b lake for the entire season, and
’ nr. ire mor. than a score of men and
boys who believe they should hold it.
Nearly every man contesting will
have a chance for an individual prize,
11s the distances of the various swim
ming events are arranged to give a
: . aiice to those who are best on tong
swims and to those whose specialty is
the short and speedy dash through the
r ater. The men's races will start with
a half-mile swim and will end with the
shortest route. 2". yards. Included in
terse will be a imi-yard swim and a
’"-yard swim.
For the younger boy s who x. ant to
compete among themselv, s and feel
that they have a chance to struggle
against their equal in muscles and
years a swimming event of 2., yards
will be held.
Another event which possibly brings
more laughter than any other contest
in I arouses more of the pride and dar
ing of the boyish contestants, is 1 a
tilting contest between two boys in
boats. Like knights of old in a joust,
tl e lads are armed with long lances
and endeavor Jo unseat each other.
While just as exciting, and far mote
ludicrous than the contests held in
medieval times when two knights . aw
in heavy mail fought for love or honor
before their “ladves faire," thfse mod
-■ n "jousts" are far less dangerous.
Ducking For Loser..
The only mishap that can b fall a
contestant is a dip into the waters of
the lake, and as the required suit is a
bathing costume, no daniag. is done
"b'n one contestant falls. Great skid
rs been acquired by many of tin lads
in the life-saving corps in keeping, a
footing on the bow of their boats and
their respective oarsmen have also dc
"ped a friendly spirit 'of rivalry in
maneuvering foi the proper angle at
"inch the boats shall pass each other.
The bathers at the lake have remem
b. red the two life-savers under ■> In -■
"atchfu! eyes they have felt safe 'h's
summer and two gold medals have bn :i
1 urchased for them. Tin y w ill be pre-
- ntr.l this afternoon, at the conclusion
f the events, to R. McDermott and
L A. Carraway in token of the appro
riation of the thousands of swimmeis
"ho have been under their care this
s tminer The medals w ill be suitably
•ngraved with th“ names .>f the life-
v, r- and with a suitable testimonial
'■ 1 neir -kill and fitness
llm first contest will b. started
l r 'iipily at. 3:30 o'clock and m< m'" i a
"■ tht paik board have been asked l”
an a.- judges in the events.
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i''- -'I Rimini.mt Park Lake. The figur,.- In the water, reading j tl ;l crescent form left to right, are Miss Ruby I’erkerson, Miss Bobbie Carr. Miss
Mamt Waldron. Mis-, Lillian Karr. Miss Dorothy Shappy, Miss Ruth Walker. Miss Eveline (Ebbs. Mis-. Gertrude Jaffe. Miss Mabel Murphy, Miss Irene Terral,
Miss Bertha Whi'eh. and in front, left to right. Miss May Waldron, little Miss Jennie Perkerstfn. Miss Vera Thomas and Miss Thelma Freeman. The girl
on the left, diving, is Miss Frances Smith and the other Miss Maud -lacks. The central figure is Miss Bessie Powell.
COL GEORGE HARVEY
ANALYZES CONTEST
’ FOR THE PRESIDENCY
i
NEW YORK. Sept. 2—Colonel
■ Georgt Harvey, editor of The North
. Vmerii-in Review, has had notable
I success as a cold-blooded political
i prophet.
, He aloti'' predicted the nomination
iof Taft and Wilson two years ago.
I and told correctly the reasons why
I each w ould in the end be nominated.
i In the September number of his maga
zine Colonel Harvey analyzes the pies
ent political outlook, and The Geor-
l gian is enabled by his courtesy to
I print this synopsis of his view in ad-
The true appellation of the three
leading candidates, he declares, are:
Taft Conservative: Wilson, Liberal;
Roosevelt. Radical. He continues:
The contest has already nar
rowed, as in 1824, to Hu Democrat
igainst the field. Now, as then, lie
is practically assured a plurality of
j votes in the electoral college: and
now . ii'ii. hi - ■ ' I' . i' can be ac
complished only by withholding
from him. an actual majority over
till, thus again imposing the elec
tion of a president upon the house
of representatives.
If the slates should ' *te in the elec
tor il college as they are now repre
sented politically in the house of rep
resentatives elected in 1910 the r<sul'
would be: Wilson. 298; Tift. I*i7;
Roose*' 11. 66 The editor continues:
Taft's Probable Vote,
Without assuming that the voting
in November will follow closely the
lines indicated, we nevertheless find
in these actual results of 1910 the
p.-st b ■ 'ljta 'l.'ilil" l ol' III' :
gent speculation. Certain deduc
tions. for example, sei in fully war
ranted—to wit:
1. Roosevelt can not be elected.
He may expect witii reason to
obtain tin 66 votes allotted to him
in tin above table. Give to him
from the Taft column: Illinois, 29;
Pennsylvania, 3x; Wisconsin. 13:
Michigan. 15; Massachusetts. 18,
and Delaware. 3—a total, with the
original 66. of 182. Add from the
Wilson column: Arizona, 3; Colo
rado, 6; New York. 45; North Caro
lina. 12. Oklahoma, 10—total. 76;
grand total, 258. or 8 less than the
requisite number. The wildest ini
' agining can not accoid Roosevelt a
majority.
2. Taft 'an not win.
Allot t" him 167. as eeord' d
above, including the doubtful 54
from Illinois. Minnesota and Wis
consin: fl th*- Roo.-evelt column:
Ctal'. 1 fi"in Wilson: Matyland, 8.
X,. > y ( rl . 45; (ihio. 21. West Vir
gin!, > t 0,.,!. 256. Os Hl less than
m. unit.'. This must be regarded
as th*' topmost of Mr. 'laft’s po.-.si -
bilitie.'
!n ia,o Wil.-ot Mould m t obtain a
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 2. 1912.
majority over both Taft and Roosevelt
the house of representatives would be
called upon to elect a president on the
second Wednesday of February. Each
state would have one vote, and the
result would be: For Wilson. 22; oppo
sition. 22; divided. 4 Maine. Nebraska.
New Mexico and Rhode Island. Neces
sary to a choice, 25. Only Taft, Roose
velt and Wilson could be voted for.
Obviously neither Roosevelt nor Taft
would have a chance. Wilson would
have to win over three non-Democratic
states —i virtual impossibility. The
house of representatives. therefore,
w ould be* unable to elect a president.
The editor continues:
Meanwhile the Semite, acting nn
dei the same provision of the con
stitution. would be engaged in
choosing a vice president, since
Marshall necessaiily would have
failed to obtain a majority in th*'
electoral college. in common with
Wilson. <'hotei w ould be restricted
to the two persons who bad re
ceived the largest number of elec
toral votes—Marshall surely and /
Sherman probably—and the sen
ators would vote individually in
stead of by states, as in the house
of , 'presentatives. Forty-nine votes
would be required to elect. The
senate is notv classified political!.'
as follows: Republicans. 50; Demo
crats, 44. vacancies, 2 The vacan
cies "ill be filled presumably by
the legislatures of Colorado and
Illinois, in January. Apparently,
therefore, the Republican- would
have sui'-ly one and possibly three
more than the 49 required for the
election of a vice president, who
would become president on the 4th
of March. This seems to mean that,
in the event of Wilson failing to
obtain 266 electoral votes, Sher
man would succeed T ift. ,
Senate Might Then Act.
But here enters another faetoi
The Republican majority in the
senate is not only scant, but also
nominal rather than actual. Prom
ising that both Illinois and Colo
ado return Republicans, the total
Republican vote would be 52.
If for any reason four of these
senators should abstain from vot
ing the senate would be unable to
elect a 'ice president. Now, it is
quite conceivable that Roosevelt
might consider it. advisable to pre
vent the election of Sherman.
If so. it would not be surprising
if four out of the so-called Insur
gent senators Dixon. Clapp,
Bourn". Woi ks. Borah. Poindextei
and Hie two new senators from
I'ol. rado ami Illinois should re
fuse to act in conformity with his
j wish's. • specially in view of the
I position which Sherman holds 'in
then st imu t ion a.- ,-t pronounced
reactionary. Precedent for their
refraining from voting is found in
the abstention of the Vermont ami
Maryland Federalist members of
the house, whose refusal to vote
gave the presidency to Jefferson in
ISHII.
But the question arises imme
diately: What, aside from their
disapproval of Sherman, could be
the motive of Roosevelt and his
adherents in preventing the elec
tion of a vice president under cir
cumstances which would constitute
him president for four years? A
possible answer is to be found in
the law of succession (chapter IV
of the Acts of the forty -ninth Con
gress), which provides that:
Knox Would Be President.
"In ease of the removal, death,
resignation or inability of both the
president and vice president, then
the secretary of state shall act as
president until the disability of the
president or vice president is re
moved, or until a president is elect
ed. * * * The acting president
must, upon taking office, convene
congress, if not at the time in ses
sion. in extraordinary session, giv
ing twenty days' notice.”
This statute was enacted by au
thority of article 11. section 6. of
the constitution, which confers
upon congress the power of “de
ci; icing what office) shall then act
as president • » » until the dis-
ability be removed or a president
shall be elected." The plain intent
of both constitution and statute is
that "such officer'-' shall only act as
president until a president can be
elected, and the mandatory provis
ion requiring him to convene con
gress forthwith is obviously for the
purpose of enabling congress to call
a special election under authority
vonferred‘by article 11. section 4
In the event, then, of the house
of representatives failing to elect a
president and the senate failing to
elect a vice president, the proced
' mi would be as follows: P csldent
Tafts fixed term of office would
expire at midnight of March 3. and
the secretaiy of state. Mr. Knox,
whose official life is indeterminate,
would become acting president. As
such h" would hr obliged to con
vi m congress in extraordinary ses
sion on March 21. and congress
would "dete'mine the time of
choosing electors” —certainly- not
later than November of the forth
coming year. In this manner Mr.
Roosevelt and his new party would
have a second opportunity to win
the presidency within a twelve
month. greatly, no doubt, to the
satisfaction of both.
The contest then resolves to Wil
son against the field, and "there
lemains the vital question: Is It
within Hw iang" of possibility that
any combination, tacit or fixed, can
withhold from Wilson and Mar-
Mall, whose pluralit* is virtually
assured, an actual majority of votes
n the eleetora I college ?"
New York and Illinois Pivotal States.
From the Wilson column represent
ing the actual Democratlt standing n
the present house of representatives
the editor deducts as doubtful New
York (45). Illinois (24). Ohio (24), Col
orado (6) and West Virginia 18), leav
ing a net secure total of 215 out of the
266 required, and adds: Apparently it
is a fact that tile two pivotal states—
both, possibly, and one or the other In
any case—are New York and Illinois.
If so it is a fact of the first magnitude,”
because in these two states "voting by
groups is a more important factor than
in other commonwealths." These groups
are classified roughly as follows: Or
ganization men. railroad men, business
men, anti-prohibitionists. Roman Cath
olics. factory workers, fa rmers, foreign
born voters and negroes.
After analyzing the proclivities of
each aggregation, the editor concludes
that "the merest glance at the tabula
tion suffices to show that the strong
appeal of Governor Wilson to the whole
people, without heed to segregated in
terests and prejudices, while constitut
ing his chief strength as a candidate,
nevertheless contains elements of no
little weakness."
Roosevelt's Strength.
Assuming, for examtile, that Roose
velt should draw two-fifths of the Re
publican vote from Taft and one-fifth
of the Democratic vote from Wilson.,
I aft would still carry Illinois by 10,01)0
and \\ ilson would have a scant 12,000
in New- York. Contrary to the gen
eral view, Roosevelt's candidacy is
regarded as harmful rather than help
ful to Wilson, chiefly because he will
get the far Western states, which oth
erwise would have gone to Wilson. The
editor continues:
There remain the great bodies of
workingmen in both New York and
Illinois who comprise a large per
centage of the Democratic party.
To whom will they turn? Mr. Taft
offers them the constitution. Mr.
Wilson points to his record of offi
cial achievement as evidence of hie
effective friendship. Neither, it
must be told in -truth, said in his
speech of acceptance one convinc
ing word of sympathy w ith the toil
ing masses. Roosevelt not only
professes but promises everything.
He will work to raise their wages;
he will reduce their hours of toil:
he will pension them in old age
he will insure their lives; he will
lift the burdens and lighten the
homes of their women; he will pro
tect and safeguard their children.
Do these millions of men believe
he can or will do all of these
things? Probably not. But he says
that lie will try. Does any one
else? Where else have they to go?«
And why believe that he could not
and would not? If Lloyd-George
can and does, w hy can not and why
will not Roosevelt” Grant that he
may be a demagogue, a hypocrite,
and a false friend, what of it? He
is at least a concrete image; he
speaks their language; he shakes
their hands, he is neither a theory
of government for which they do
not care nor an abstraction which
they do not wish to comprehend:
I he is on- of themselves a live, hu
i I man, imperfect being whom they
1 can understand. Such is the Roose
velt appeal.
In conclusion. Mr. Harvey summa
rizes the probability ami the lesson de
rived from his painstaking analysis in
these significant words:
"Wilson will probably be elected. If
he carries New York, he can not be
beaten."
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bill of $14.10, told the police he had in
his pockets $250,000 in notes, but only
$1.50 In currency.
HARD TO CONVICT WOMEN
FOR SLAYING IN CHICAGO
CHICAGO. Sept. 2.—That it is next
to impossible to convict a woman for
murder in thsi city Is Indicated by the
fact that in the last nine years out of
45 accused 38 were acquitted.
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BOOTH TRIBUTE
Governor-elect Slaton Lauds
Famous Leader of Salvation
Army and His Work.
The number of Atlanta people famil
iar with the life of the late General
William Booth, Salvation Army leader
and charity worker, is increased mate
rially yalay as a result of the memo
rial services at the Baptist Tabernacle
yesterday afternoon. More than 1.000
persons wore there and listened atten
tively to Governor-elect John M. Sla
ton and others as they told of the
great work of the famous commander.
Mr. Slaton paid marked tribute to
the life work of the great man. He
opened his remarks by saying that il
was right that members of all denom
inations should gather to honor Gen
eral Booth, and that he was proud of
the fact that he had been selected to
lead the exercises.
Salvation Army His Monument.
"Never has any man in modern times
conceived a more general and efficient
plan of bringing the erring to God and
of preaching practical Christianity than
General Booth," Mr. Slaton said. "He
was a great man who ,-ame at the right
time to begin the work he did, and the
Salvation Army will stand as a monu
ment to his memory through the years
to come.
"General Booth did not advocate a set
rule of religion. He preached of
Christ, worked for a goodness of soul
and lived the life of a true Christian.
He sought to set men in thq ways of
God and to aid them in material ways
without regard to any especial church."
A telegram was read from Rabbi Da
vid Marx, who was to have spoken dur
ing the services, sent from New York,
in which he said he lamented the fact
that he could not be present.
All Classes Represented.
"We are, Indeed, sorry that he could
not be here, for it is fitting that a rep
resentative of the Jewish church should
honor the name of General Booth.
When Queen Victoria extended an ex
ceptional distinction to him for the
work he did, it was through a Jewish
tninistei she presented it.” said Mr.
Slaton.
The audience represented every
branch,of life, and short addresses were
made by men from many professions.
Major VV. W. Crawford, of the Salva
tion Army; W. VV. Olr, representing the
business men; T. H. Jeffries, the fra
ternal orders; J. P. Jackson, the Young
Men's Christian association; Rev. J. D.
Wing, the Episcopal churches; Rev.
Dunbar Ogden, the Presbyterians, Rev.
W. R. Hendricks, the Methodists; Rev,
John K. White, the Baptists, and others
spoke.
Better Order
Coal Today
September 2
is the last day on which yoi
have to buy you; coal at the
summer prices. Deliver)
to be made any time in Sep
tember or October, to suit
your convenience.
Henry Meinert
Coal Company
Phones 1787
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