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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” Miss Mira Scott. '/■ • -xj... Jh- ‘J - ..x oiB*" O T far w * w - 3Jr x 4b JS ■ w&jMßfr ir- w u- -• Wihx *> i 'tK v Hk X ;a xI. w, J| . W; ;/ M . (f . ggp \A > - ■ x "x<'' *.■ 1 t M i 'W z lo 'W * - X - > vHOS|K 'X..;, fc-. olfc* HHh : A l /- r , ifee j® k Hr wV »w it \ kHI 9r '" f kk * liXi f j ■ ft iXu? ill <*? W Ft ■- W*F > USB >.’ , 't3F> ? r A "i I - i Csf H'- EMtWHjM Vr ' " -sfes hK • tflHHHrr- fill W Hkl’ ’. ■ vHBHw I I I B W* Hrt U I K ■ »■ w ' iHH * "*'?•■ 2& ; h • >z 19 -^' y 1 1-. y HV . V * jHy fi pXZXX|? • yH| H 1 IK » . ■ I -WOHMBx W w , ~ < WFWMm» <-< - X wK w lwP» h & v 'f* r - W H JBL * i HfUSFrE® . sTa i’v“-*L a wfx -7 =^^^BMir- ,~j T&fl I Nwlfatfr wr ■ ' : S‘ Z/V <' ' Illi I C~~ —' ' // k W/fiVi XXwtit I W-^ 2 " = ' y x wwO Miss Harriet Trimble. X" 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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Lady Attendant Over Brown & Allen's Drug Store—24l-2 Whitehall. Miss Louise Mellichamp. 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. 5