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SUPERINTENDENT SLATON MAKES ATTACK ON UNSIGHTLY CONDITIONS
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EDO GSM FOR
OPENING Os TECH
Dormitories Are Filled and All
Students Have Not Arrived.
Work Begins Monday.
Preparatory to the opening of Geor
gia Tech Monday morning, the dormi
tories of the college today' are filled
with students, awaiting their turn at
the registration office.
More than 600 prospective students
are occupying the rooms of the col
lege, filling the dormitories to the limit.
Those who are to enter are register
ing with the secretary today, being
classified and receiving such instruc
tions concerning their college work as
is required.
Formal opening exercises will be held
at the chapel at 9:30 o’clock Monday.
Several well known Atlanta men will
be there to deliver addresses, as will
officials of the college. President K. G.
Matheson today announced that the
speakers have not been selected, as
answers to invitations have not been
received.
The students will find an almost new
college at Tech this year. During the
summer many of the buildings were
gone over and some of them remod
eled. An addition or two was made,
and the facilities are much better than
last year.
Medical College
Opens; 350 Enrolled
The fact that the Atlanta College of
Physicians and Surgeons has placed Its
entrance requirements on a par with
the Carnegie fourteen-unit system
adopted by many of the literary col
leges has caused a decrease in the en
trants of this year’s freshman class.
College opens today with exercises in
’he building in Butler street, opposite
the Grady hospital, and then tlie grind
°f a year’s work begins.
Dr. Robert Stuart MacArthur, pastor
°f the Baptist Tabernacle, has been se
lected to make the opening address.
•Judge T. P. Westmoreland, president of
the trustees, will preside and welcome
'he students
Short addresses also will be made by
members of the faculty, among them
Leaping one of the chasms in.
the Forrest avenue school yard—
a sport just as hazardous as it
looks in this remarkable snap
shot. It is a quick way to avoid
a tedious journey over hills and
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 girls will open this morning
with the largest attendance in its his
tory.
Every 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.
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 Rend, 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
pure gold.
Marton 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
band's estate
Search of his effects revealed the
"golden cheese" reposing In the bottom
of a trunk, and brought to light a draft
for SIO,OOO drawn by Marlon in favor
of himself and cashed by him at a
Seattle bank in October, 1909.
Dr. Willis Westmoreland, president of
the college, and Dr. W. S. Elkin, dean
of the faculty.
More than 350 students are expected
this year, And while the raise in en
trance requirements has cut down the
size of the freshman class, rmsst of the
students of last year have announced
their intention of returning, so that
the attendance will be about as large
as formerly.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS
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A conference in one of the Tenth street school yard chasms.
The picture strikingly illustrates the outrageous condition of
the yard, this one hollow being deeper than a child and forming
a fine trap for active youngsters inclined to care-free running
about.
NEGRO STEWARDESS
AT UNION STATION
25 YEARS IS DEAD
Lulu Lewis, one of the beet known
old negro women in Atlanta, for 25
years stewardess in the Union station,
is dead. 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, yesterday. 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 most prominent Chinese merchants
in San Francisco, some of whom are
now under bonds. .
According to Captain Charles T. Con
nell, of the immigration service, the
smugglers have grown rich by bringing
In Chinese from Ensenada, Lower Cal
ifornia, under a contract that virtually
meant life servitude for the contra
bands.
A charg ■ of SSOO was imposed upon
each Chineatt to be worked out at the
rate of $1.50 a day. A dollar a day was
allowed the Chinese for living ex
penses, and the debt was paid off at the
rate of 50 cents 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 qf Old Testament History and He
brew at the San Francisco Theological
seminary, has resigned.
His resignation lias 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. IXIUIS, Sept. 18 To satisfy a bill
of $8 for conveying a would-be wedding
party to various points in St. Louis and
East St. Louis, James Hurley, a practi
cal-minded chauffeur, appropriated a
trunk containing the winter wardrobe of
Ftank W. Scoville and caused Scoville’s
marriage to Miss Tessle Kleffner to be
delayed a day.
Finally married, but still minus the
trunk. Scoville called a policeman io his
boarding house and made a complaint
against the chauffeur.
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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 ping Ground.
School Head Shows
Up the Need of Im
mediate Action.
Unless the Atlanta city council can
find funds sufficient to regrade a num
ber of the public school yards, moun- ,
tain climbing, chasm jumping and kin
dred sports bld fair to displace the old
fashioned pastimes with Atlanta
youngsters.
According to school authorities, the
yards of Forrest Avenue, Tenth Street.
Highland Avenue and Luckie Street
schools boar a distinct resemblance to
the "Bad Lands" of the far West. Ero
sion, 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 Forrest 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
and the horse.
Forced to Play in Street.
The same condition exists at the
Tenth Street school. Here the yard
is not as mountainous as at Forrest
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 i an be called a yard, will have to
l>e filled In before it will be presentable.
It is really a hollow about twenty feet
deep. At the Highland Avenue school
two sides of the yard arc 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 one of the more adven
turesome pupils told the. teachers that
he had found a dead chicken across
the street and the teacher, upon in
vestigation. found a dead cat also.
Superintendent Slaton is authority
for the statement that the council
should act at once, if a number of
school yards are not destroyed abso
lut < ly. While the superintendent has
not made an estimate of the cost that
would be entailed In putting the school
yards in shape, he has made a brief
schedule of the work to be done.
The yards at Forrest Avenue, Tenth
Street and Highland Avenue will have
to be regraded and a retaining wall
built around the property to prevent
further erosion.
The hollow in the sard at the Luckie
Street school will have to bo filled and
“Climbing the Alps’’ in the Forrest avenue school yard.
The mountaineers in the picture being young and optimistic,
they’re not greatly appalled by jhe perils of this pastime; but
i the dangers would daunt many an older person and effectually
discourage any “tag” games.
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; 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-
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cuse, said:
“This is a party
of men and women
unafraid.”
What prompted
Governor Johnson
to use that expres
sion? What is the
real significance
underlying It? Just
this: We, as a peo
ple, here in the
United States, are
no longer a race
of men and wom
en who are afraid.
Fear is based on
ignorance and su
perstition. and we
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 becojne unafraid.
We have been coming out into the
open as Individuals and thinking for
ourselves—making up our minds for
ourselves.
This is not the sixteenth century; it
is the beginning of the twentieth cen
tury.
The fears, the 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 primary education
alone In this country, and many more
billions on high schools, private schools,
colleges, etc.
All has been done to build up our
educational system.
At the same time we have spent many
billions in building our railroads.
We expect our railroad systems to
a retaining wall built. At Walker
Street n< hool the lawn, as do< t* the
lawns around many school buildings,
net ds sodding
"It Is absurd," said Superintendent
Slaton, "to build now and expensive
school buildings and install perfect
equipment and then give no attention
tn the school yard*. Many of the raids
hut i never been taken car, of. and I
can unsure the people of Atlanta that
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 ■ duration 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
fairs?”
The answer is that you have first
to sow the seed and then reap the har
vest. ami it sometimes seems a good
while from seeding time to harvest
time, but progress is being made just
the same.
The 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 tin work, all the care, all the ex
pens, . all the blessings of rain and
sunshine to go to waste. There are
man;, cloudy days; there may be either
too much rain or too much sunshine;
but finally the crops come on with a
rush and the day of the harvest ar
rives. The time of actual garnering
comes almost to a day, and the wise
farmer knows almost the exact hour
wln n 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 the machine that
proposes to garner it at the hour when
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 .-ill respects a progressive move
rnent, and progress that is real is noth
ing to b. afraid of. It is something to
be proud of sone thing to welcome and
not repel.
1 r. gret that absence from the city
for several days and a very great pres
sure on my time made it impossible for
me to furnish articles last week for
so ■; nerously offered by Mr.
Hearst; but unless some unusual and
unform en tiling occurs to prevent I
shall contribute articles three time* a
week i’rqin now until November.
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