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the weather forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: fair today: showers tomorrow. 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 ■» w 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