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See Atlanta First! All the Thrills and Perils of Mountain Climbing in Our Own Public School Yards
SUPERINTENDENT SLATON MAKES ATTACK ON UNSIGHTLY CONDITIONS
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OPENINGOFTECH
Dormitories Are Filled and Ali
Students Have Not Arrived.
Work Begins Monday.
''' ip.iiatory to the opening of Geor-
- lech Monday morning, the dortni-
! 1 "f the college today are filled
'■ students, awaiting their turn at
ti'e registration office.
■'lon than 600 prospective students
■■ upying tlie rooms of the col
filling the dormitories to the limit.
1 hose who are to enter are register-
- with the secretary today., being
■issjfi,. ( | and receiving such instruc
'■oniet ning their college work as
!s required.
i arinal opening exercises will be held
a 'he chapel at 9:30 o’clock Monday.
s '-''-'al well known Atlanta men will
' " to deliver addresses, as will
*• 1 "f the college. President K. G.
■'latli.-oin ioday announced that the
Beakers have not been selected, as
- '"•is to invitations have not been
ro. -.ived.
1 ; ’e students will find an almost new
<" ~,. at T ec h l ] l j s veal During the
many of the buildings were
wer and some of them remod
\n addition or two was made.
'• trie- facilities are much better than
lao X (. HI .
Medical College
Opens; 350 Enrolled
p t that the Atlanta College of
mns and Surgeons has placed its
•' requirements on a par with
'aincgie fourteen-unit system
‘ 'l h> many of the literary < nl-
Has caused a decr« asr in the en
"f litis \ ear’s freshman • lass.
gp opens toda\ w ith ex« r< isos in
dlding in Buller street, •PI He
’ ‘ 'ly hospital, and then the m ind
•’ 1 s w «»i k begins.
Ib’bi ii Stuart Mm Arthur p< am
Baptist l ala rnacle, has be« n -•
to make ijp- opening addies-
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1 addi< >h. s alit'i w 111 Im in.rh i»>
" • of the fa« uh among them
Eral Cm
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Leaping one of the chasms in.r.
Ihe Eorrest avenue school yard—
a sport just as hazardous as it i
looks in this remarkable snap-'
, shot. It is a quick way to avoid
I a tedious journey over hills and
I dales -a quick, but not entirely
safe way.
SHORTER COLLEGE IS
OPENED WITH A NEW
ATTENDANCE RECORD!
ROME. GA.. Sept. 18. —Shorter col-|
lege for gills will open this morning '
with tlie largest attendance in its his
tory.
Ever) bit of space in the residence
halls had been reserved and numbers
of girls have been placed on the wait
ing list.
Many improvements have been made
on the grounds and buildings during
the last summer. There are many new
additions to the faculty, and President
VanHoose is of the opinion that he has
one of the best corps of teachers in the
entire South.
I RICH MAN IS SWINDLED
IN‘GOLDEN CHEESE'GAME
SEATTLE WASH., Sept. 18.—A $lO.-
000 gold brick swindle three years ago
on W. R. Marion, a wealthy resident of
South Bend. Wash., who has since died,
was disclosed when a cheese-shaped
"brick'' weighing 100 pounds was de
clared at the United States assay office
here to be made of an excellent grade
’of copper coated with a thick layer of
pute gold.
Marion evidently discovered that he
had been swindled, but did not com
plain. and the success of the confidence
man was brought to light only when
his widow began an investigation of an
' apparent SIO,OOO shortage in her hus
i band’s estate.
Search of his effects revealed the
1 "golden cheese” reposing in the bottom
of a t’unk. and brought to light a draft
for xio.ouo drawn by Marion in favor
of himself and cashed by him at a
Seattle bank in October 1909
|p \\ i s \\ • simondiifxi. pr< idr-nt of
the • <'ll'*u» . Hi VV. S. Elkin, dean
of Hp f.i- uh\
Moi »* ! h;ui «tud« lHs are ox|H*( !<*d
thi- x'mi and uhil- the r;dx«‘ in <*n
liii’i' r«qiiiieluents h;<s <ul down the
’)/.<• of th* IT • ’liman « la->, ni'».f <»f tin-
Hind»’m of la ’ ■•;<! h;i\<- announc'd
lin n intention of i«t irnlng o that
ii.i tHi'iinam* b* about as» Ihilp
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.WEDNESDAV. SEPTEMBER 18. 1912.
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A eoiti'creiice in one of the Tenth street school yard ehtt-sms.
The picture strikingly illustrates the outrageous condition of
the yard, this one hollow being deeper than a child and forming'
a tine trap for active youngsters inclined Io care-free running
about.
NEGRO STEWARDESS
AT UNION STATION
25 YEARS IS DEAD
Lulu Lewis, one of the best known
old negro women in Atlanta, for 25
years stewardess in the Union station,
is /lead. Many a feminine traveler
whom Lulu has helped get rid of the
grime of the railroad train and cheered
with her smile will mourn her death.
She died at 348 Park avenue. South
Atlanta, yeste-rday. She is survived by
three sons and one daughter.
WOMAN IS NOW ACCUSED
AS LEADER OF SMUGGLERS
LOS ANGELES. CAL., Sept. 18.—
The Federal grand jury took up today
the alleged smuggling plot headed by
Mrs. Ethel Hall now In the county
jail, in which were involved several of
the mow prominent Chinese merchants
in San Francisco, some of whom are
now urjder bonds.
According to t’aptain Charles T i'on
nell, of the immigration sort ice, the
smugg.ers have grown rich by bringing
in Chinese from Ensenada. Lower Cal
ifornia. under a contract that virtually
meant life servitude for the contra-
Ija rids.
\ chare ■ of |»UO was Imported upon
each Chlnew to be worked out at the
r.itr of it Mi a day A dollar a day win
allowed till Chingxe fol living ik-
I" Il ■ and lire d< lit vas paid oft al Ibe
Ia I * of ~U < < lit s. a day ,
MODERNIST QUITS
SCHOOL; DOESN’T
ACCEPT MIRACLES
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 18. After
eight years of battling for beliefs not
acceptable to the Presbyterian synod of
California. Dr. Thomas F. Day. profes
sor of Old Testament History and He
brew at the San Francisco Theological
seminary. has resigned.
His resignation has been accepted, and
Dr. Day is now en route for Europe for
a year’s vacation. Dr. Day has not re
ceded from his position, and his resigna
tion was offered to forestall removal, an
noyance to his friends and embarrass
ment to the seminary.
Among the specific charges brought
against Dr. Day were that he taught,
among other things.
That God never interrupted the orderly
workings of nature.
That accounts of miracles in the Bible
are to be so explained that the occur
rence may be regarded as having taken
place according to known laws of na
ture. and that, if this can not be done,
the accounts are to be regarded as false
TRUNK HELD FOR BILL
DELAYS WEDDING A DAY
ST l/>l’IS. Sept IS To satisfy a bill 1
of for conveying a would-be wedding*
party to various points in St Louis ami
East St Ijouis. James Hurlv . a practi
cal-minded chauffeur, approp; ihi< d .»
trunk containing the winter wardrob»- oft
Frank W Scoville and caused K< ovilh
marriage to Miss T< -ie Klinner t<» l»«
delayed a dav *
Finally matt rd t»u< till th<
trunk. Scoville • ailed a policeman to hi.-
hoarding houvi and made a complain'
against tor < ha of! tui
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Bad Lands of the West
Never Had Anything
on Plots Supposed
To Be Playgrounds,
But Often Used as
D u in p i n g Ground.
School Head Shows
Up the Need of Im
mediate Action.
I nless the Atlanta city council can
find fun*.s sufficient to regrade a num
ber of the public school yards, moun
tain < l:mbing. chasm jumping and kin
dred sports bid fair to displace the old
fashioned pastimes with Atlanta
youngstei s.
According to school authorities, the
sards »»f Eorrgst Avenue, Tenth Street.
Highland Avenue and Luckie Street
schools bear a distinct resemblance to
the “Bad Lands" of the far West. Ero
sfion. caused by the heavy summer
rains, has sculptured the surface of
the yards Into miniature mountain
ranges and deep canyons.
In the yard on the west and north
sides.of the Eorrest Avenue school chil
dren can hide from one another in the
arroyas the rain has cut. One gully
is so deep that Superintendent Slaton '
says he has ridden a horse into it,, but |
with considerable danger to himself j
and the horse.
Forced to Play in Street.
The same condition exists at the
Tenth Street school Here the yard
ie not as mountainous as at Eorrest
Avenue, but the children since the
opening of school have been forced to
take to the street during recess.
The yard of the Luckie Street school,
if it can be called a yard, will have to
be filled in before it w ill bb presentable
It Is really a hollow about twenty feet
deep. At the Highland Avenue school
two sides of the yard'are in such bad
condition the authorities have been
forced to prohibit the children from
using it.
Davis Street school yard is a dump
ing ground. During all hours of the
day wagons drive up and unload old
brick, tin cans and all manner of trash
directly in front of the school building.
Corpses in the Caverns.
Last week on» of the more ad ven
turesome pupils told the teachers that
he hail found a dead chicken across
the I and the teacher, upon in-
vestigation. found a dead cat also.
s pertntendent Slaton i« authority
| for tin- statement that lhe council
I should act at once, If a number of
I school .’aids aie not destroyed abso
i lately. While the superintendent has
[not tnade tqt estimate of the cost that
I would bi entailed in putting- tlie school
vards ip shape, he has made a brief
> sch'-duh of the work to be done
Tin yard ai Eorrest Avenue, Tenth!
Htii-ei and Highland Avenm will havi
Io le ' graded and a letainltlg Wai. I
built aioitnd tin- propertv to prevent |
f<ill It. > rosiim.
'flu ollow ii tin i e,i i i lii I .ml. ie !
Stu . t m Imol will have to be filled and |
4, “Climbing the Alps’’ in the Forrest avenue school yard.
The mountaineers in the picture being young and optimistic,
they’re not greatly appalled by the perils of this pastime; but
the dangers would daunt many an older person ami effectually
discourage any “tag” games.
PROGRESSIVES A PARTY
OF MEN AND WOMEN NOT
AFRAID,SAYS PERKINS
Second of a Series of Articles Written for The Georgian.
By GEORGE W PERKINS.
Governor Johnson, of California. Pro
gressive vice presidential candidate, in
his address before the Progressive con
vention at Syra
cuse, said: "L??-
“This is a party
of men and women 111
unafraid.” l-JfifIHRKhJF
What prompted
<1 .v.rnoi .lolmsoii
t<>
sion ." What is the
real significance
und. riving itJust j !
this: We, as a p,-o- .
pl', here in the 1 i
I'nited Stales, a:., K **" - I
no longer a r ac. IL 7 i:'' ii
of men and worn -!
en w ho are afraid.
l-’ear is based on '
ignorance and su Ljq
perstition. and we
I have spent 135
years and billions of dollars since our
Declaration of Independence in a titanic
struggle to dislodge, uproot and dissi
pate both, with the result that we have
thrown off one superstitious yoke after
another- and have become unafraid.
We have been coming out into the
open as individuals amt thinking for
ourselves making up our minds for
ourselves.
This is not the sixteenth century; it
is the beginning of the twentieth cen
t ury.
Ihe .fears, 4be superstitions, the
timidity, the ignorance of the sixteenth
century have no place with us in the
opening days of the twentieth century
We, as a people, have spent many bil
lions of dollars on primarv education
alone In this country, and many more
billions on high schools, private schools,
colleges, etc.
All this has been done to build up our
educational system.
Al the same rime we have spent many
billions in building our railroads.
We expect 0111 railroad sv stems to
a retaining wall built At Walker
Htrot school th' lawn, is doea the
lawns around many school buildings.
n< eds sodding
''ll absurd. ' said Sup.-i lip.ndeiit
| Slutoi', 'to build new and expensive
,si he'd bulltlings and Install perli-i 1
eipilpment and then give no attention
Io the school vards. Alanj of tin vards
Imvi never lawn talon cate of and I
call .issui) (In peoph of Atlanta that
I they look it now,”
earn and pay dividends. Why should
we not expect at least as much of our
educational system?
As a matter of fact, our educational
systems do earn and pay dividends, and
the dividends are getting bigger and
bigger all the while. We have now
reached a point where we are gathering
in the results—results not only from
the education that comes through book
learning, but the education that comes
through travel, through contact with
people, through intercommunication.
You hear many people saying just
now, "What is all this hubbub about?
Why this sudden demand for a larger
and more direct participation in munic
ipal. state and national political af
fa i rs
The answer is that you have first
to sow the seed and then reap the har
vest, and it sometimes seems a good
while from seeding time to harvest
time, but progress is being made just
tlie same.
Tlie crops grow gradually, but with
good soil, good seed, proper cultiva
tion and average rain and -sunshine,
the day is bound to come when you
must garner in your crop or allow
all the work, all the care, all the ex
pense, all the blessings of rain and
sunshine to go to waste. There are
many cloudy days; there may be either
too much rain or too much sunshine;
but finally the crops come on Xvlth a
rush and the day of the harvest ar
rives. The time of actual garliering
comes almost to a day. and the wise
farmer knows almost the exact hour
when he must put in the sickle or lose
his crops.
The same process applies to many
affairs of life, and the Progressive par
ty Is indeed made up of men and wom
en unafraid—unafraid because, through
the educational seed that has been sown
in good soil, they know that the time
has come to harvest the crop, and the
Progressive party is tlie machine that
proposes to garner it at the hour .w hen
it is ripe for the harvest. '
In place of very many good people
in this country being alarmed at what
the harvest is going to be. they should
rejoice, because we are moving for
ward. not backward. It is distinctly
and in all respects 11 progressive move
ment, and progress that is real Is noth
ing to be afraid of h is something to
tn- proud of something to w olcom. and
not repel.
1 tegiet that alisenee from the city
foi several days and a very great pres
sure on mv lime made it Impossible for
tm to furnlsli artich ■ last week for
space so geneiousiv olteuil bv \t
lieui -.i hut mill s some unusual amt
unfmHei n tiling occurs to prevent I
shall >oiitribute anti h e Hirii time* «
wi.k from now until November.
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