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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 Mg! / -WgP / ZfeO/ / IB I I | IHiigo RWw / ) -Of® K / 1 Hu I \ F-xTfUNr >/ f ©sl vewfe wo X. 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. X. 1 f I 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. i —. —. — - - ; 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- I . I v - 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. 3