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Good Taste Is Displayed by the Young Women at High School, These Attractive ‘Snapshots Show
PRINCIPAL DEFENDS HER GIRLS AGAINST CHARGE OF “OVERDRESSING”
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EMIT MEN PAY
TNDIITEJ CHIEF
Many From Nearby Cities Help
to Celebrate Visit of the
National President.
The annual visit of F. R. Salis
bury. of Minneapolis, president of
the National Association of Credit Men.
and the quarterly meeting of the local
association was made the occasion for
a gathering of prominent members of
this organization from several cities
near by today.
Montgomery. Birmingham, Nashville
and Savannah were represented at the
lunchepn at 1 o'clock today at the Cap
ital City club, which was given to the
visitors by the officers and directors of
the Atlanta Credit Men's association.
This afternoon the visitors and num.
bers of the local men will be taken for
an automobile ride around the city,
which will end at the home of Herbert
K. Choate in Ansley Park, where an in
formal reception will be held. Mr.
t'hoate, who is treasurer of the J. K.
• 'rr Shoe Company, is president of the
Atlanta association, which is made up
exclusively of wholesale men.
Tonight at 7:30 o’clock the associa
tion will hold its meeting and banquet
at the Piedmont Driving club. The oc
casion will be entirely informal and all
"f the 150 Atlanta members .will be
given a chance to meet their national
president.
Ihe national organization numbers
’tore than 16,000 in membership and is
represented in all of the more Impor
tant cities where it is loo’ked upon as
°n> of the strongest trade bodies in the
world.
its headquarters in Atlanta are in
Rhodes building, with E. L. Rhodes
as secretary and treasurer.
froth Atlanta. President Salisbury
■'• I go direct to New York to attend
' <• meeting of the national directors,
itie ss he is prevailed upon to pay a
visit to Savannah en route
Representing other cjties in the as
sociation today are C. J. Beam, presi-
nt of the Montgomery association;
■'■•dney ,j. Winter, F. G. Salter and A.
H Stern, of Montgomery; .1. L. Mc-
A liort. r, of Nashville, Oscar Kiilman.
Savannah, and J. C. blatter, us Bir
tnmgiatm.
Miss Ruth Z. Herbig.
Miss Jessie M use
Frowns on the Idea of
Uni forms---Wants the
. Students To Be “Just
Atlantans,” Not
Branded a s H i g h
School Girls-—Not
Painted and Pow
dered to Excess.
"Atlanta high school girls are not
overdressed, neither are they painted
and powdered to excess," according to
Miss Jessie Muse, principal of the
Girls High school, today. Miss Muse
was quick to defend her 663 students
against the charge of immodest dress
ing made so often recently against
young women seen in the “Peachtree
Parade.” which has so long been a
famous feature of Atlanta life.
"There are very few of our girls who
ever come to school in anything but
proper dress,” continued Miss Muse.
"Yes, sometimes one of the teachers
notices a girl whose collar is turned in
too far or whose clothes are cut in a
fashion too clinging for good taste, and
sometimes there is one wearing too
much powder or a touch of artificial
color. But whenever this occurs the
teacher speaks to the girl quietly and
privately and that girl doesn't offend
again. We try to impress her with
good reasons why she should be more
careful, yet not in away to hurt her
feelings. And I've always found that
this sufficed."
Opposes Uniforms.
The proposal that high school girls
wear cap and gow n or some other dis
tinctive uniform does not appeal to the
principal.
"We want our students to appear on
the streets just as Atlantans, not
branded as high school girls-," said
Miss Muse. "College boys are often
guilty of improprieties on the street
and in public places because they feel
that everybody recognizes them as a
party of collegians and will laugh at
escapades which would be frowned
upon if indulged in by individuals. If
we dress our girls in a distinctive uni
form. they might have the same ten
dency to larking that college students
often have.”
Colonel M alter K. Daley, president of
the board of education, was quoted last
spring as favoring a uniform for high
school girls His reason was not so
much the reported tendency toward
HIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FEIT) AAL SEPTEMBER 13. 1912.
Miss Emma Lowry Freeman.
Negroes Pine for “de Land ob Plenty ’ ---Africa
ASK GOVERNOR'S HELP
| From out the mass of mail coming
into the executive offices this morning
I Governor Brown found one he set aside
| for future consideration.
Frankly, the governor does not know
' exactly how to answer it, there is so
much of the unconsciously humorous
■ and pathetic about it.
It is from an ignorant negress, who
signs herself Pauleane Brinson, and It
is a petition for aid and assistance in
getting from Georgia to Africa, where
the woman believes peace and plenty
await her coming.
The letter reads as follows:
Faceville, Ga., Decatur County.
Sept, the 10. 1912.
Mr. Broon, Gover.
i rite you A few Dines on busi
nes, as some of us are askin for
help we kneed!
Some of us wants to Get to Afri
ca, and we are not able to. That
is our home, and we asks That you
aid us in Getting there.
We cannot hardly live here, and
we wants to go home. We are
paint and powder and bad taste in
dress, but the constantly Increasing
cost of clothes worn to school by the
wealthier girls and their less fortunate
companions who struggled to keep up
appearances. It was noticed last year
that high school students were wearing
such expensive and ornate costumes
that poorer girls could not keep the
pace set-uy the leading set. and it was
reported at that tinje that several girls
had left-the school rather than face the
alternative of straining their parents'
pocketbook or feeling conspicuous in
reasonably priced clothing.
Spirit of Democracy.
"I believe uniforms would be a good
thing for. the girls,” said Colonel Da
ley at that time. "If the right to a
choice of dress is being abused by ex
travagance an order by the. board of
education requiring the wearing of
plain and simple uniforms might heal
a lot of heartaches. And I have no
ticed in girls’ schools where uniforms
are worn a spirit of democracy which
could not exist where a rivalry- In cos
tume is permitted."
Mrs. John D. Pickett, chairman of
the board of lady visitors, said, when
this topic was under discussion, that
she would welcome any movement to
ward simple girlish dresses for school
girls. She -aid she was well aware of
the tendency toward extravagance In
dress I
poor, and need to go where we can
live cheap.
Plese rite and let me no. We
wants to go in jenery.
Write me as soon as you get this
We wants to go to Africa.
Resnecfuly,
PAULEANE BRINSON (col)
The governor is not at all sure that
it would be fight and proper to dis
illusion the woman, even if there were
anything doing in the way of transpor
tation to Africa around the executive
departments.
Whether, after ail, it would be worth
while to shatter that African dream
that is what puzzles, even though it
does not impress as profoundly impor
tant.
The governor left for his home in
Marietta early this morning, and the
Brinson letter went over until Monday
as unfinished business.
MACON BOOSTERS
GIVEN OVATION ON
RETURNING HOME
MACON, GA.. Sept. 13.—When Ma
con's first trade train returned lasi
night from a trip through middle and
south Georgia the 100 merchants who
made the trip were accorded an enthu
siastic welcome home by several hun
dred citizens.
They were met at the depot with a
band and escorted In a street parade to
the corner of Cherry and Third street
where an experience meeting wal held,
some of the merchants addressing the
crowd and telling what benefits had
been achieved by the "booster train."
Forty towns were visited on the tour.
GEORGIA COTTON MILLS
PAY BIGGER DIVIDENDS
LA GRANGE. GA.. Sept. 13. A 2 per :
cent increase in annual dividends was 1
declared by officers and directors of
the Elm ("ity Cotton Mills at their an
nual meeting, held here, and the Man
chester Cotton Mills decided to pay its
first dividend of 8 per cent, beginning
October 1. Large surpluses were turned
over by these mills and the Unity Spin
ning and Unity Cotton Mills Divi
dends in all these mills will be paid
beginning October 1. Officers were
elected by each mill,
Miss Elizabeth Smith.
HIGH DIVING GIRLS
FRAUD, SHE SAYS
Widow Is Suing Manager for
SSOO Miss Leahy Hurt in
Fifty-Foot Plunge.
Mrs. Alice Cumbie. a widow living ai
73 Nelson street, is giving Robert M.
Brown, manager of a “girls’ high diver'
show, a lively time tn the courts in an
< ffort to recover SSOO, of which sum she
■ays she was swindled by Brown.
Brown was tried before Instate Rid
ley yesterday afternoon on a warrant
charging him with larceny after trust,
on which lie was brought back from Cin
cinnati a few days ago by Detective
George Bullard, but was released, the jus
tice holding that the offense, if any had
been committed, did not come under this
head. Mrs. Cumbie then immediately
swore out another warrant against
Brown before Justice Girardeau, charging
him with obtaining mon fey under false
pretenses The “high diver" was again
arrested on this second warrant, after
enjoying but a few moments of liberty,
and again placed in police station. He
will he given his second hearing this
afternoon.
Mrs. Cumbie says she was induced to
finance the “girls' high diver" show, and
that she, has never seen any profits nor
been able to get back her money. Brown
says lie was not given time to make
any money, as Mrs. Cumbie had him ar
rested just as soon as he ojlfened his
first show in Cincinnati.
When Brown left here he was acconi- '
panied by his wife, Mrs. Blanche Brown,
and Miss Nora Leahy, of New York, who
did some stunts at Piedmont park. They
remained In Cincinnati when Brown was
brought here.
Miss Leahy, whom Atlantans remember ■
for her startling aquatic feats at Pied
mont park this summer, Is lying in a
Cincinanti hospital as the result of a 50-
foot dive at a public resort in that cits.
She is said to he the only support of 1i
aged parents.
DONKEYS BALK. ROBBERS
DESERT THEM IN YARD
NEW YORK. Sept. 13. -Dewey and
Katherine. 25 and 30-year-old donkeys,
foiled burglars who led them from their
stalls by balking
Mrs. John Fay, their owner, found
them placidly standing in the front
j aru. |
Miss Ethleen Stewart.
'calls her son thief to
SAVE HIM FROM FRIENDS
NEWARK. N. J. Sept. 13—Mrs.
.Michael Stacevlcz is in jail charged
with perjury, because, to save her son
from bad companions, she charged him
with theft. Overcome by remorse, she
admitted the charge was false.
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WHOLE POLICE FORCE AT
TARGET DRILL WOUNDED
BRONXVILLE. N. Y.. Sept. 13.—Tar- "
get practicing. < 'harles V’in Buren, chief
us police, and <'harles Ambrose, his only
officer, shot each other. Van Buren was
hit in the abdomen. Ambrose lost a,
finger.
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