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VOL. XI. NO. 45.
BJBIES DIE IN
IS.IT MIE
OFI.OOO
DJILY
And in World 40.000 Infant
Lives Go Out Each 24 Hours.
Scientist Says.
HALF OF VICTIMS COULD
BE SAVED. HE DECLARES
Congress of Hygiene Is Also
Told of Progress in Fighting
Hookworm.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—Babies
and school children held the attentian
of the ''engross of Hygiene and De
nwgraphy In its session here today.
", paper of absorbing interest, deal
ing with infant mortality, was lead by
Edward Bunnell Phelps, editor of The
American Underwriter, New York city.
Hr subject of medical inspection for
public school children was taken up In
must able form by Dr. Helen McMur
,ln. ~f Toronto, Canada, and Dr. Wil
iam s. Small, principal of the Eastern
High school. Washington. D. <'.
Editni Phelps made the interesting
statement that 55,000.000 babies arc
belli into the world every year. But,
mi the other hand. 15.000,000 <>t them
die b' foie they teach tin- age of .>m>
i year.
Till* means that about 10.000 babies
die e\cr. day in the y<-at, or on every
otliei tick of the clock an infant life
so.'s out. To this terrible harvest of
Infant Ines the United States contrib
utes 1.000 a day .
"There are the best oi reasons tor be
lieving." said Mr. Phelps, "that at least
so per lent of the world’s infant mor
tality is readily preven able, and the
I civilized countries are jus. beginning to
awake io that fact.
Crusade Making
Rapid Progress.
"Th. pres, nt broad cru-tni. I . the
reduction of infant mortality." added
Mr Pheips, "dates back scarcely five
years, and can flow be regarded as lit
tle more than a pronjise of the whole
sale movement which is to come. Three
international congresses for the discus
«fr>n of the subject have already been
held In Europe, a permanent interna
’ioral association with similar purposes
las been organized, and all hold out
great ; remise in France. Belgium. Ger
many Holland. Great Britain, the
United Slates and other countries. The
movement has made exceptional prog
ress in Germany.
"Mothers should suckle their children
as God intended." declared Dr. William
H. Davis, vital statistician of the health
department of Boston, in the course of
; an address.
" babies reaching tic age of two
""k-." said the doctor, "one in five
dies before a year old if bottle fed.
"’hlle if breast fed only one in 30 fails
o icach the one-year mark. This means
'hat the death of these infants would
per cent less than they are today
11 babies were breast fed."
' Davis said the women of Norway
■'l'veden suckle their babies when
possible, and for that reason those
countries have the lowest rate of
at mortality of anv countries in the
I | ( ]
I; I ho hookworm was the chief topic
s ''t| late yesterday. The ravages
his pest has made in Porto Rico
H- the effective campaign the United
■' ,a - ’ has made against it. was de
"d by Dr. Bailey K. Ashford, man
’i ’he medical corps of the United
s army at San Juan. Porto Rico.
I « • . inlei ’ es tlng address.
I P’ n g Hookworm
I Ol ’t in Porto Rico.
y Ashford said the Porto Ricans
e< n exposed to the ravages of
fokworm for centuries, but. since
nited Slates government bad
r hold of the island this strange
uad been practically eradicated,
ip Physical condition of the Porto
En s - said the doctor, is now 50 per
i, >etter than when the government
’* Us campaign against the hook
® o about seven years ago.
- 1904 over 300,000 victims of the
B " "tin have been treated in Porto
B "tid with complete succvss. There
B ms about loo.UOo more to be treat.
£ 11 these cases are not aggravated.
'enfold- took up the material
B that has accrued to the Island
B i Rico because of this h.ghly
8 ”ful campaign against the hook-
E He estimated that the com-
* the island had Increased at
■ per cent because of the cn-
B and ac tivity of the native laborers
I they had been relieved of ’he
B "rm disase.
■ '"t rm the subject of "Signifl-
Centmued cn Page Two.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
ROOSEVELT IS
CONFIDENT
OFVIGTOfIy
IIUEI*
“We're Out to Break the Solid
South.” Colonel Tells His
Arkansas Auditors.
EXPECTS DIXIE TO GIVE
HIM HEAVY SUPPORT
North Carolina. Oklahoma and
Maryland on List of States
“Counted On.”
LITTLE ROCK. ARK.. Sept. 25. If
the Progressives do not carry at least
one of the Southern states, it will not
be because of any inactivity on the
part of Colonel Roosevelt.
The ex-president plunged into the
fight in Oklahoma yesterday with his
old-time vim and when he started in
today in this 'state he was even more
vigorous.
"We’re out to break the solid South,”
observed the colonel to one of Arkan
sas' committeemen as the train rolled
in here. "Think we can do it’.”’
Roosevelt bases his expectation of
polling a big vote in Oklahoma. Arkan
sas Georgia. Tennessee. Alabama.
Louisiana. Maryland and North Caro
lina upon the discontent that he is In
formed exists among the old line Re
publicans. The reign of the Federal
officeholders in those “tales has been
the cause of violent protest and the
malcontents are loudly declaring they
will vote for Roosevelt.
The colonel says he feels confident
that, of the Southern states mentioned,
he w ill carry Oklahoma. Georgia. Mary
land and North Carolina. As to the
others, he thinks he has a fighting
chance. All of the states will be
stumped by the colonel as vigorously
as he did Oklahoma in his rapid dash
of yesterday.
Roosevelt reached here early this
morning for a seven-hour stay. <>n his
way to Memphis he will speak at sev
eral small Arkansas towns.
MEXICAN WOMEN IN
STILETTO DUEL TO
WIN BULL FIGHTER
MEXICO CITY. Sept. 25. —Admitting
that she was stabbed by another wom
an who was her rival for the affections
of Carlos Garcia, a bull fighter. Caro
lina Kutze Arellano is in the city hos
pital here in a serious condition. The
other woman is said to have been Ma
rla C. Gondalez..
The story told by the Arellano wom
an is that she and the Gondalez woman
were apearing in a local theater when
Garcia visited the place and was taken
behind the scenes.
The women immediately began show
ering attentions on him. and their ri
valry for his favor, extending through
a period of several weeks, developed
into bitter hatred between them. Gar
cia. the Arellano woman said, finally
began showing a preference for her,
whereupon "La Muneca,” in despera
tion. challenged her to a duel They
met at a lonely place and at a signal
agreed on between them, proceeded to
fight with theii stilettos until the
Arellano woman fell to the ground,
slashed In a dozen places. Several
hours afterward the wounded actress
managed to make her way back to the
city by crawling over rough roads.
ALLEGED SLAYER. AT
LARGE FOR 5 YEARS,
CAPTURED IN TROUP
LA GRANGE, GA.. Sept. 25.—Special
Bailiffs E. B. Edmundson and Gus Reid,
of this city , have captured John Bailey,
alias Charley Williams, alias "Big Six."
alias "The Bookbinder." a negro, charg
ed with the death of J. B. McClary, a
young tailroad man. at Mulbeiry ' reek,
near Lineville. Ala., September 14. 1907.
The in-gro has lived for -nine time on
Hie William Godfrey farm, in Long
Cane district of Troup county, and the
officials report that his cabin was a
small arsenal, although they had no
difficulty in arresting him He lias been
taken to Lineville by Sheriff Mayo, of
Clay county. Alabama, to await trial.
A reward of $450 has been outstanding
for five years. In 1907 Batley was em
ployed on grading work nf the A . B.
and A. railroad. It is claimed he shot
McClary in the back while the latter
wa e watering hi horse in Mulberry
i reck and then took hi:- watch and
pistol, making good his escape.
ATLANTA. GA.. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 25. 1912.
| Big Megaphone Squad
j Defends Factory From
BesiegingZionistßand
Queer Duel Takes Place When
Crusaders Try to Reform
Tobacco Users.
I
I CHICAGO. Sept. 25. —More than a
hundred, men, armed with megaphones,
filed into the Frank B. Cook factory in
Zion City today, prepared to renew the
duel of noise started yesterday.
For some weeks, by prayer and song
directed from the opposite side of the
j street against Hie factory , the Zionists
I have been trying to convert the fac
' tory hands who use tobacco and other
; wise violate Zion City ethics. Mega
’ phones were brought in yesterday, and
; shrieks and hoots drowned out the
; noise of the revivalists.
STRIKEBOUND STREET
RAILWAY ORDERED TO
! KEEP SERVICE GOOD
DULUTH, MINN. Sept. 25.—The
i street railway company here is facing
I a unique problem today. In spite of
a strike of its employees which has
! resulted in rioting and the destruction
■ of property, it must at once inaugurate
'and maintain a service equal to that
|abandoned September 9 when the strike
i was called.
The writ of mandamus compelling
service was issued by Judge Dibell,
j The court held that it could neither
' force the company to reinstate the
| strikers nor could it compel the men to
I return to work. But the company, it
I was decided, under the terms of its
franchise, must maintain a sufficient
service.
The judge intimated that if disor
ders broke out again either the city or
the company could reopen proceed
ings.
CHICAGO ALDERMAN’S
WIFE IS FOUND DEAD;
WAS MOURNING CHILD
CHICAGO, Sept. 25. —Mrs. Ellen Da
vis Harding. wife of Aiderman George
F. Harding. Jr., for twelve days grieved
constantly over the death of her 14-
year-old daughter. Last night she was
found dead, her face covered with a
towel soaked with chloroform. Today
the coroner will-determine whether Mrs.
Davis Harding's death was an accident
or suicide.
Members of the household say Mrs.
Davis Harding" occasionally used chlo
roform to relieve headaches and induce
sleep. She sent a maid for the drug
last night.
Alderman Davis Harding told the po
lice he thought his wife's ijeath was
accidental. He said she had not slepi
for two or three days and had not eaten
since her daughter died.
ARCHBOLD FACES
CHURCH CENSURE
AFTER EXPOSURE
AUBURN, N. Y.. Sept. 25. —Action
to censure John D. Archbold to be talcen
by the Central New York Methodist
conference was predicted today' as a
result of the exposures of the Standard
Oil president by Hearst’s Magazine.
Mr. Archbold is president of the
board of trustees of Syracuse uni
versity. which is controlled by the
Methodists, and he is also a deacon in
that church.
The senate campaign fund investi
gating committee probably will have J.
P. Morgan and George W. Perkins be
fore it next week when its sessions are,
resumed at Washington. Colonel Roose
velt has deferred the date of his ap
pearance owing to a change in his
speaking dates
CONTRACTOR ASKS FOR
RETURN OF MONUMENT
UNLESS IT IS PAID FOR
MACON, GA., Sept. 25.—F. C. .March
man. trustee for the National Marble
and Granite Company of Marietta. Ga.,
has applied to city council for permis
sion to move from the public park in
I front of the city hall the monument
j erected last year by the veterans to
I "The Women of the South."
The sum of $2,200 is owing on the
I shaft and there seems no hope of rais
i ing this amount. The local Daughters
of the Confederacy and the club wom
i ( n will hold a special meeting this aft
' ernoon to decide on some means where
by the monument can be saved and
Macon spared the humiliation of hav
ing it moved to satisfy a claim.
MUST FACE TRIAL FOR
KILLING MAN WITH AIR
—————— •
LA PORTE. IND.. Sept 25. Prosecutor
| Smith has prepared papers for the arrest
|of Albert Liebig, a Michigan City man.
| who killed a fellow-workman. Joe Syposki.
I in a joke by placing a compressed air
I pump against his body and turning on 70
I pounds of pressure. The victim died In
I torture, his body being lorn muscle from
muscle The Michigan City authorities
1 had dropped the case
FORCED TO PAINT. WIFE
SAYS IN DIVORCE SUIT
ST. LOUIS. Sept. 25.- Mrs. Mathilda
Verrell charges in a divorce petition
that het husband. Henry, forced b?i to
paint hi* bou*r. She also arts that
he quarreled with her.
OFFICIALS STUNNED AS CHIEF
CLEANS UP WITHOUT ORDERS
Fritzi Scheff and Novelist Husband Separate
"MOODS" KILL ROMANCE
Me ■
Comic Opera
Prima Donna,
azic/ / / i
Her I I
Husband, I -nk
1/
John Fox, Jr., rl
From '‘d I
WA°m i t
Ha 5 \
Separated jfr I
I 1 tV
Literary and Artistic Tempera
ments Refuse to Blend—Still
Love Each Other.
BALTIMORE. Sept. 25.—John Fox,
Jr's., literary temperament and Fritzi
Scheff's artistic disposition do not blend
in a harmonious duet, and their friends
were not surprised lo learn that the
novelist and the singer he married a
few years ago have agreed to separate.
Mr. Fox Ijas "moods.” When he Is
feeling right he is a jolly good fellow.
When one of his moods comes on he is
something else. Miss Scheff was asked
once, when her engagement to Fox was
first announced, what she would do
wh“n John was attacked by one of
those same moods.
"Why. I’ll smile once." she replied.
"Maybe I’ll smile twice. If that doesn't
straighten him out. why—", And she
shrugged the shoulders which have
helped make her famous.
Rumors for weeks have been circu
lating that the fascinating Miss Scheff
and her novelist husband had agreed
to separate. There was to be no fuss,
no florid discussions of sentimental
differences which had shattered their
love. Both agreed, it Is said, upon a
quiet dissolving of their matrimonial
partnei ship.
This was two months ago at the
Plaza hotel in New York Mr. Fox
went to his home at Big Stone Gap,
Va.. while his young wife —more than
fifteen years his junior—took up re
hearsals for the season she has just be
gun in a n«w opera. "The Love Wager,”
composed by Charles J. Hambitzer.
whom Miss Scheff discovered plaxing in
a hotel orchestra Lp New York.
She Regrets the Publicity.
At her hotel here Miss Scheff ex
pressed regret that any rumors of mat
rimonial discord had reached the pub
ic While having nothing to say about
the separation o' the possibility of an
action being instituted by her. the
sprightly prima donna denied with
some asperity reports that Ml Fox in
tends suing for divorce.
"Why should I discuss m\ affairs
with the public'”’ she asked. "It is the
usual attempt of some irresponsible
person to discredit a 'eputable woman
of the stage .My husband will not sue
me for divorce and my intimate friends
know this to be true."
Mr Fox’s friends and relatives in
New York were hardly more com
municative
"I have heard nothing of any suit and
I have no information on the subject tn
make public." said the novelist's h r mh
er, at No 25 Broad street.
Neithet i»' husband not
know; anything about a contemplated
suit." added Mrs. Rector K. Fox. over
the telephone from her home in Mount
Kisco. “We do not even know where
Mr. John Fox is at present.”
A paucity of accurate information
was dlscove.ed also at the office of Miss
Scheff’s manager and from Nathan
Burkan. who acted for Miss Scheff four
years ago. when she secured a divorce
from her first husband. Baron Fried
rich Gustave Carl Vonßai deleben.
Neithet had Mr. Fox taken into his
confidence any of his friends at the
University club From other sources it
was learned that Mr. Fox has retained
Robert Evans as his attorney—for
what purpose remains to be seen.
Her Heart in the Stage.
It was stated yesterday by friends
that Miss Scheff still loves Mr. Fox.
"Mr. Fox is a quiet man, happy in his
home and loving only the peace and
quiet of the Virginia hills," said one
friend. "He is essentially a student,
whereas the theater to his wife is he?
life and her inspi atfon.
"After their marriage four years ago
Mr. Fox took his bride to bis home in
the mountains of Virginia. The quiet
gentleness and love of het husband in
their home, far from noisy Broadway,
was something new to her. Then came
the call of the stage She wanted to go
back, but she wanted Mr. Fox to go
with her. For a time he yielded, be
cause he was as much In love with her
as she was with him. Rut the constant
traveling, attendant upon her custo
mary Hf<t was irksome to him. He
pined for the freedom and quiet of his
hills.
"There is no bitterness between them
—not a bit. They are perfectly loyal
to one another. Mr. Fox will not at
tempt to oppose anything his wife
wishes to do If she files an action he
will not oppose They ate two sensi
ble people, and theii separation to them
is the most practical way of avoiding
the differences caused by their temper
aments.”
THESE DUCKS SLEEP DAYS
BUT HUNT BUGS AT NIGHT
I’ONTIAC, ILi. , Sept. 25. Sleeping dur
ing the entire day, and at night bestirring
themselves to searr ti for hugs beneath the
electric street lights, a tlock of ducks
owned by Stephen Moore are the wonder
of Freeport T.he birds refuse to go
abroad In the day time, but when dark
ness falls Ihev glow lively and hungry
MRS. CHAMP CLARK TO
BE JUDGE AT HAM SHOW
COLUMBIA. Mo. Sept 25 -Mrs
t'hamp Clark, wife of the speaker of the
house, will judge Mi:-souri hams and ba
con at the Utst Missouri Ham and Ra
con how to i*r hi Id here in January.
Mr- r'lark ■- a recognized authority on
country hatnn
\\ iping Out of Restricted District Ac
complished Without Aid From Ad
ministration and Is First Big Step in
General War on Vice—Vice Com
mission Sidesteps Issue in Prepared
Report on Conditions in Atlanta.
~ r ■ f
Mayor Winn Not Consulted, But Backs Up
Chief’s Action—Candidates? Reticent, Wood-,
ward Intimates He Is Against Move—Police
to Guard Against Contamination of Residence
Districts—Whole City Stirred.
—— r
Atlanta officials and Atlanta candidates are dazed today. Thfl
order of Chief James L. Beavers driving the women of the restricted
district from the resorts struck like a bombshell in the political camps
in the very midst of the campaign, and the supporters of the rival
candidates are wondering which way to turn and how the order will*
affect the respective aspirants for office. Nobody is anxioos to discuss
the situation. Indeed the reticence of several officials usually brin>
ming over with conversation is something remarkable.
The one thing most evident today is that the act of Chief Beawrs
was absolutely free from the influence of politics and entirely inde
pendent of Mayor Winn and every other official of the city. Not half
a dozen persons in Atlanta knew of his order until The Georgian
reached the streets. He had consulted nobody, had asked no official
advice. He was chief, there was the law, and he obeyed it. And it is
a strange commentary on things political that the enforcement of the
law by an official sworn to enforce it could bring about such a storm
Vice Commission Sidesteps Issue
Candidates for mayor say today that the matter is something
which will be settled before the new administration takes office, and
! decline to give any opinion on it. The vice commissioners, whose re
port on the evils in Atlanta has been formulated after months of argu
ment, refuse to discuss it, and their report sidesteps all reference to
the Manhattan avenue district and merely urges a general reform.
On the street the topic is all-absorbing. There are many who say,
the move of Chief Beavers was a mistake; that the women who are
driven from a “regulated” and supervised restricted district will drift
into residence districts and good citizens will be living next door to
disreputable resorts and in the same apartment houses with objec
tionable characters without knowing it until the disorder becomes
flagrant. But the chief says the women will be watched and the home
districts protected.
The order closing the resorts in
the restricted district is but a step
in the cleaning up of Atlanta.
Raids on cheap “hotels.” which
are really places of rendezvous,!
began today and the campaign will
be continued. The police have de
termined to close a number of dis
reputable places in various parts
of the city, and women driven out
of the segregated section will find
it difficult to settle in new houses
without being arrested and pen
alized.
Recorder Broyles has promised Chief
Beavers loyal support in upholding the
law. and offenders brought before the
recorder within the next few weeks will
be given the limit.
Courage of Beavers
Lauded by Mason.
"Chief Beavers has made the great
est display of nerve, backbone and
courage ever shown here by a city of
ficial.” today Is the opinion of Chair
man Carlos .Mason of the police com
mission. In speaking of the action of
the chief yesterday’ in suddenly swoop
ing down on the tenderloin district and
virtually wiping it off the city map.
"The chief worked this whole thing
out in his own mind, and then did what
he thought to be his duty, without con
sulting any other official or oiganiza
tlon of any kind. His action is strik
ingly remarkable in this respect. He
never informed any member of the po
lice commission of his plans, and re
ceived no instructions from the com
missioners. either individually or as an
official body. What he did was done
at the dictation of his own conscience.
He has shown himself a tnan of un
questioned bravery and courage."
And then Chairman Mason added:
Chief's Move Was
Surprise to All.
"Some time ago the police commis
sion voted that the chief of police
should be chief in fact as well as name.
Thai <’hief Beavers is making good as
a teal chief there is no question. His
single-handed extermination of the ten
derloin demonstrates it thoroughly."
Other members of the police com
mission express themselves along the
same line as Chairman Mason.
None of them was aware of the
chief’s plans, and all received the sur
prise or their lives '’hen they learned
fat h-- had suddenly taken th.* vice
situation in his own official hanili and
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2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
had done what no other chief of police
had ever dared to do.
In assuming full responsibility for«the
wiping out of the resorts, Chief Beavers
ways that he had been carefully study
ing over the matter for some time and
had become convinced to the satisfac
tion of hfct own mind and conscience
that it was his plain duty to follow the
law and close all such places in the
city.
Asked when he definitely decided ton
his plan of action, the chief repliedc
Intended to Quit
If He Didn’t Succeed. '
"The night previous— Monday trtght
I had weighed all phases of the situa
tion with the utmost care, and came
to the conclusion there was nothing
else for me to do but enforce the law
When I left home yesterday morning
my mind was fully made up as to all of
the details and I told my wife what 1
was going to do.”
The chief paused a moment, and then
said:
' onvineed that it was my duty to
close these places, I determined to de
this duty or quit my Job.”
The chief declared he intends to vig,
orously enforce the taw as to all forms
of vice in Atlanta. Not on tj- does he
intend to exterminate the tenderloin
district itself, but he has formally
opened war on the cheap hotels of the
city that may be conducted tn the
manner of illegal houses. Much com
plaint has been received by the chief
concerning these places, and he asserts
that they must maintain "a clean bill of
health. In the event evidence Is ob
tained against any of these places, he
said, they will be closed and the pro
prietors prosecuted.
Not to Tolerate
Vice in Hotels.
"We will not tolerate vice In the
hotels of the city." said the chief. "We
will keep a watchful eye on these places
and those we find to be operated as an
illegal house will be given the same
treatment as a regular house in the
tenderloin.”
Chief Beavers said some of the
cheaper hotels are a peril to young
girls, and that much complaint has been
made to him in this respect.
"I intend to do all 1 can to save the
young gills of the city. We must throw
a protecting arm around them and
shield them from the lure of vice,” he
said.
That Chief Beavers will receive thi
hacking of police court in his crusade
there is no question. Just before start
ing out yesterday with Captain Pool?
and Policemen McWilliams and Weh
to close the tenderloin, the chief held
