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WOODWARD GETS
SNICKERSNEE
OUTFORWORK
Many at City Hall Certain to
Feel Ax With Advent of New
Administration.
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disposal piaT t. He saic) he felt sup a I
number of other officials who voted for |
the plant would do the same
Maddox Attacks
Construction Department.
At a meeting of the sewer committee I
yesterday Mr. Woodward asked Goun- |
oilman Aldine Chambers, chairman of I
the committee, to show him over the
sewer work now in progress. M . Cham- i
bets said he would take the matter up I
later.
Alderman James W. Maddox, a |
strong supporter of Councilman Cham
bers. said today that Mi Woodward
was right if he intended to cut the pay
roll of the construction department.
“The grfeat trouble with our govern
ment is that the construction depart
ment is incompetent.’’ he said. And I
don’t care if you quote me.’’
MUSIC ASSOCIATION
PLANS FOR LONGER
CONCERT SEASONS
Active campaigning for an enlarge
ment of their work will be inaugurated
next week by members of the Atlanta
Musical association, and It is expected
to interest every music lover in the city
in the fifth season <»f orchestral con
certs by the Atlanta Philharmonic or
chestra.
Under the leadership of Mrs. John
M. Slaton, the new president of the as
sociation, letters have been mailed ,to :
scores of Atlantans believed to be in- i
terested. These letters will be followed (
immediately by a personal canvass, and '
it is the hope of the members to in- j
crease their number so that the numbe.- :
of oncerts will be accordingly aug-|
mented.
Dues of $lO a year is the only method
the association has of raising funds and
the campaign for membership will,
therefore, be vital to the success of the
organization. It is the idea of the as
sociation to cultivate a love for music
for art’s sake and to develop an inter
est which looks to the higher cultiva
tion of such art and the making of an
atmosphere of musical culture and re
finement.
Notable success has been attained in
the four previous seasons, but all of
this is expected to be outdone this year.
ALDERMAN MADDOX
DEFENDS RIGHT TO
HOGS IN CITY LIMITS
•
Aiderman J. W. Maddox today again
appeared as a star in police court.
This time he defended his right to
raise hogs at his home, 66 Howell Mill
road. The aiderman is the owner of a
dozen swine which run loose in a two
acre lot. The fact that this lot Is inside
of the city caused Sanitary Inspector
Strickland to hale the aiderman before
Recorder Broyles, accused of violating
the city ordinance relating to hogs.
The ordinance specifies that hogs
•hall not be kept in a pen within 100
vards of a residence, and the aiderman
said this didn’t “touch him.”
Under this ordinance, hogs can be
kept anywhere in the city, the same as
chickens, provided they are not penned
and the premise# are kept clean
BEVERIDGE SAYS
PERKINS HELPED
HIS 1904 CANVASS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26—Ex-Sena
tor Beveridge, of Indiana, testifying be
fore the Clapp committee of the United
States senate, today confirmed state
ments that George W. Perkins had con
tributed $30,000 of the $57,500 donation
made to his 1904 campaign, all of which
he returned the day after the election.
He denied that he knew that $20,000 of
the Perkins money came from the na
tional committee.
COLUMBUS ASKS TIME TO
MAKE TELEPHONE PROBE
COLUMBUS, GA., Oct. 26.—A letter
addressed to the management of the
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph
Company by a joint committee appoint
ed from city council and the Board of
Trade requests that the proposed raise
in telephone rates on November 1 be |
postponed until the committee can i
complete an investigation of telephone'
conditions here. In the event the tele- ’
phone company refuses to grant the re- j
quest. Injunction proceedings will be J
Instituted to stay the raise in rates un
til the investigation is made.
Tlte subscribers of the company do
not propose to submit to a raise in
rates until they ate thoroughly con
vinced that the company is justified.
The opposition to the raise is based on
' he jwyr sei vice,
BETTER THAN SPANKING.
Spanking does not cure children of
bed-wetting There is a constitutional
cause for this trouble. Mrs. M. Sum
mers. Box W, Notre Dame. Ind., will
send free to any mother her rrucce«#fu’
home treatment, with full instructions'
Send no money, but write her today
if your children trouble you in th.s
way. Don’t blame the child, the chances
are it can’t help it. This treatment
also cures adults and aged people trou
bled with urine difficulties by day or
Mrs. White Believes Woman’s Mission Is to Aid Women
ANSWERS “WHY IS A CLUBWOMAN"
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President State Federation of
Women’s Clubs.
BIG ODOS ON ROSE
BEING MURDERED
Becker Must Spend at Least
Year in Death House Pend
ing Appeal Disposition.
NEW YORK, Oct. 26. Bets of 100 to
1 were offered today among gamblers
that Jack Rose, one of the state's chief
witnesses against Becker, will be as
sassinated. Even money was offered
that Rose will be killed ten days after
he leaves jail. Ten to one that he will
be killed in six months; 5 to 1 that the
four gunmen will be convicted of fit st
degree murder; 2 to 1 that Becker will
not win his’ appeal. On the other hand,
gamblers offered the same odds that
Becker will not be convicted if he gets
a new trial.
Becker, convicted of the murder
of Herman Rosenthal, will spend
at least a year in the death
house at Sing Sing before the execu
tion of the sentence to be imposed
upon him Wednesday by Judge Goff.
Becker will be taken to Sing Sing
immediately after sentence. He was
automatically dropped from the police
rolls as a result es his convicti >«, ..
Appeal in the Becker ease will be
filed by his attorney. John F. Mclntyre,
as soon as he is sentenced. This will
act as a stay of execution and it will be
almost a year before final decision can
be made in the case.
Becker today appealed to public
opinion. In an interview he denied
being a grafter, and declared that his
life savings and those earned by his
wife during her 17 years as a public
school teacher aggregate only $23,000.
“I see I am credited with spending
$25,000 for my defense up to date." said
Becker. "That is as true as all the
other things they have said against me.
$25,000 is $2,000 more than I ever had
or ever will possess in this life."
PICKPOCKET GANG
GETS TO S2OO PURSE
IN A CROWDED CAR
Tli band of three men who cleaned
up almost SI,OOO last Saturday are still
in Atlanta, it is thought, as several re
ports were received at police station
today’ of pockets being picked.
The largest amount lost was by
Grover B. Tully , a supervising archi
tect. He reported that lie had drawn a
S2OO pay roll from the Atlanta Nation
al bank and was boarding the Forrest
avenue car at Five Points when three
men jostled him. After he got on the
car he missed the roll. He can identify
the men.
STATE GEOLOGIST SPEAKS.
BRUNSWICK. GA., Oct. 26.—5. W.
McCallie, state geologist, delivered an
illustrated lecture on Georgia minerals
at the city hull here last night before u
good sized audience. Professor Mc-
Callie also gave good advice to those
interested *n the drainage problem of
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1912.
President Tells Ideals of the State Federation
and the Work It Is Doing
Wiiy is a <. mb woman'.'
Mrs. H. C. White, of Athens,
president of the federated women’s
clubs of the state, answers the
question as follows:
"As president of the Georgia
Federation of Women's Clubs, I be
lieve that the mission of the club
woman is not to secure ‘woman’s
rights’ or suffrage, but to help
womankind in every-day things, to
fit themselves and their neighbors
for their responsibilities, old and
new.”
“Whether she will or no. the
modern woman ha°, of necessity,
become her sister’s keeper it may
or may not add to her value as a
member of her race; it may or may’
not add to her efficiency as a citizen
it may or may not add to frer in
dividual happiness. All this de
pends upon the spirit and the man
ner in which she meets the de
mands upon her and the extent to
which she keeps inviolate her es
sentially womanly’ qualities of
modesty, gentleness and conscien
tious self-sacrifice.
"But it certainly adds to her du
ties and burdens. For —whatever
may’ betide in the evolution of so
ciety—woman will continue to
have, as she has always had, chief
part in the preservation of the in
tegrity of the fundamental unit in
any social system—she must be
the keeper of the home of her sis
ter and her brother: she must be
the keeper of the children of them
both.
"There are some wlto believe that
organized womanhood is merely
engaged in a propaganda for the
securing of a larger measure of
wiiat are designated as Woman’s
Rights. These may well excite
Atlanta Athletes Will Go in for Equine Sport
POLO CLUB IS PLANNED
Atlanta men are planning something
new in sports for the South—a polo
club, with ponies, grounds and an or
ganization which will include some of
the best known society men and horse
lovers in the city,
"We have been talking it over, and
while our plans are still in embryo, I
believe a charter for the Dixie Polo
club will be applied for soon, and we
shall start with a membership of about
sixteen men,” said one of the prime
movers today. He asked that his name
be not used, and was reticent about
the proposed club, saying there were a
number of reasons why publicity would
be premature.
A first team of eight men will be
composed of prominent lovers of out
door and rugged sports, according to
the men behind the movement for the
club. A tentative list includes Ed Al
frlend. Gus Ryan, Eugene Haynes. Jo
seph Brown Connally, Bowie Martin.
Winship Nunnally. Clark McMichael
and ft. C. Congdon.
The club proposes to have a string ot'
about twenty-four Montana mustangs
suspicion and distrust. But—with
out undervaluing the sincerity’ and
the zeal with which some may feel
called upon to wage battle in this
cause, the vast majority of us. I
am sure, prefer just now at least
not to enlist actively for the fray.
“We aie content to commit t«
God and to our brothers the pres
ervation and extension of such
rights as it may seem necessary for
us to possess in order that we
may be better and happier women
and more valuable and efficient cit
izens. Besides, the performance
of our clear and undisputed duties
leaves us no time to spare, no en
ergies to waste. Extension of our
duties, our responsibilities, our
power may’ best be secured by
worthy performance of those al
ready in our hands.
“The individual woman should be
better, happier, wiser, and more in
telligent woman through member
ship in her club. Personal culture
is secured by association with oth
ers. cultured or seeking culture.
The extent and the great variety of
the activities of our clubs looking
to personal culture of the members
is indicated in many eases by’ the
names of the local clubs. The indi
vidual woman should be a more
competent and useful woman
through her club associations.
“As keeper of the individual
home and guardian of her own
children, she may learn much of
value to her in her own offices from
interchange of thought and expe
rience with her sitters. But it is
in meeting the larger responsibili
ties which have cemented us and
which are not individual or per
sonal that the club organization
demonstrates its necessity’ and
proves its < ffieieney.”
fer polo ponies. Some of these will be
purchased from the ranches which make
a specialty of training polo mounts for
the big clubs in the East and the Eng
lish army clubs, while others will be
raw. unbroken mustangs. I'hese will
be trained to follow the ball by the local
enthusiasts.
The management of Ponce DeLeon
park has been asked to rent the grounds
for polo practice, but it is said the use
I of this park will be refused, as poio is
an extremely rough game, and the po
nies’ hoofs cut the turf badly. The park
department probably will grant the use
of the oval in Piedmont park for polo
practice, and it is expected that the
polo club win later be given the use of
part of the grounds of the Athletic
club’s country home or those of the
Brookhaven club. Challenges will be
issued to the polo eight of the St.
Louis Country club and to the Chicago
Polo club, it is expected, those organi
zations being comparatively new in the
Held. Games with the Meadowbrook
and other famous organizations- of the
East will he considered after the Dixie
club has tested its strength against less
formidable adversaries
SLAIN MAN’S SON
WON’T PROSECUTE;
SLAYER SET FREE
E. B. Echols, a farmer, living near
Easton, in the Piedmont road, arrested
Thursday charged with the murder of his
brother-in-law, James Thompson, was
given his freedom by Justice Orr today.
The warrant against him was dismissed
on his plea of self-defense.
Horner Thompson, son of the slain man,
said that he would make no effort to have
Echols indicted by the grand jury. No
further action in the matter is contem
plated by the authorities.
Thompson quarreled with his brother
in-law two weeks ago and during the al
tercation struck him with a heavy hickory
walking stick. Echols retaliated with a
sand shovel, dealing Thompson what
proved to be a fatal blow on the head.
Thompson died a week later without re
vealing the name of his assailant to the
authorities. Echols gave himself up to
the county police.
COMMITTEE ASKS FOR
MATERIAL TO FINISH
OLD WOMEN’S HOME
The building committee in charge of
the large annex to the Home for Old
Women has progressed as far as it can
without additional gifts, and today
made a public request for material to
complete the work. Funds are avail
able for labor, but the committee needs
deadening felt, building paper, plaster,
plumbing material, paint, roof paint, tin
roofing and mantels.
The material for the annex has been
contributed by public-spirited persons
and most of the building' has been com
pleted. The home has long been over
crowded and the annex will provide
room for a number of women badly in
need of such a refuge. The building
committee is composed of Walter P.
Andrews, H. M. Patterson and J. Lee
Barnes.
FORMER PASTOR WILL
TALK AT NEW CHURCH
Dr. J. W. Lee, pastor of St. Johns
Methodist church in St. Louis, who was
pastor of the Park Street Methodist
Church in Atlanta two years ago, and
who started the movement to build the
new church, will preach there tomor
row evening- at 11 o’clock. Rev. S. R.
Belk is now pastor.
Dr. Lee was pastor of the church for
two years and was greatly loved by his
congregation.
WOUNDED MAN IMPROVES.
THOMASVILLE, GA., Oct. 26.
James L. Patterson, who was shot ten
days ago by J. W. Dillon, Jr., has im
proved very greatly and the attending
physician states now that he sees no
reason why he should not recover. Mr.
Dillon is still under arrest, but nothing
has as yet, been done in the matter, al
though the grand jury has been in ses
sion here this week.
COLLEGE GIRLS ATTEND COURT.
COLITMBUS, GA., Oct. 26. —A bevy
of pretty girls \Hio are attending the
Columbus seminary went to the court
house and sat through part of a ses
sion of superior court, witnessing its
proceedings. The girls, all belonging to
prominent families, appeared very
much interested in the trial of a negro
tried on a charge of violating the pro
hibit'nn
PERMITS ISSUED FOR
CONSTRUCTION OF 17
DWELLINGS AT ONCE
The largr-st number of building per
mits in a batch during the past year
was issued this morning to the Dillin-
Morris Company for the construction of
dwellings on Lake avenue in the Ninth
ward and elsewhere. Seventeen houses
are to be erected, eleven of which will be
at 236, 238. 240, 244, 246, 250, 252, 25G,
258, 260 and 264 Lake avenue. The to
tal is $63,325, dwellings worth $33,800
on Lake avenue, and others worth $29,-
525 elsewhere, as follows: Oakdale
street, near Ponce DeLeon, two-story
frame dwelling. $12,800; 96 Greenwood
avenue, one-story frame, $3,600; 900
DeKalb avenue, one-story frame, $2,-
825; 37 Copenhill avenue, two-story
frame, $3,400; 178 St. Charles avenue,
one and a half-story frame, $3,600; 39
Copenhill avenue, two-story frame,
$3,300.
Miss Leila R. Wilburn is architect
for the Oakdale street house, and H. W.
Dillin for the others. The only other
record of recent date approaching this
was the application of the Acme Hom
Builders over a year ago to build eight
een houses in the Fourth ward.
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WHISKY BLAMED
8Y JUOGE ROM
McDonald. Found Guilty. Is
Lectured by the
Court.
Flank McDonald, former waiter in
a local restaurant, was today sen
tenced to serve eight years in the pen
itentiary for the killing of R. L. Ste
vens, son of former Railroad Commis
sioner O. B. Stevens, after the jury try
ing his case had returned a verdict of
voluntary manslaughter.
Yet McDonald is at liberty today be
cause of the complete faith in him held
by Charles E. Thompson, the broker,
who knew McDonald only as his favor
ite waiter. When Judge Roan recog
nized McDonald’s motion for a new
trial today, Thompson came forward
and agreed to sign a bond for the boy’s
appearance on November 30, the date
fixed by the jurist for the hearing.
Shortly after the judge had agreed to
hear W. M. Smith’s application for a
new trial, Solicitor Dorsey consented to
a bond of $3,500 for the boy. Thomp
son Instantly signed it. and McDonald
was released.
Youth doesn t need a stimulant,
youth needs cold water poured over its
head every day. I am confident If
there had been no liquor in this affair
you would not stand before me today,"
said Superior Judge L. S. Roan today
in sentencing McDonald.
“There is altogether too much killing
in this country,” continued the jurist.
“If it does not cease, we will stand
before the world a nation of homi
cides. The records of this court in this
respect are appalling.
“I am confident that a man can go
through life without killing another,
and I am sure that if you young men
had all been sober Stevens would not
be in his grave today and you would
not be standing before me facing a
prison term.”
Voluntary manslaughter was the ver
dict returned by the jury' at 8:30 o’clock
last night, but not rendered until court
opened today. In pasisng sentence,
Judge Roan said he took into consid
eration McDonald’s youth, his good
record and his limited education. J. D.
Kilpatrick, retained by O. B. Stevens
to assist the prosecution, told the court
that the dead boy’s father did not seek
vengeance.
Deafness Cannot Be Cured
by local applications, ns they can not
rench the diseased portion of the cur
There is only one way to cure deafness ami
that Is by constitutional remedies. Deafness
Is caused by rm inflamed condition of the
mucous lining of the Euntnchlnn Tube.
When this tube Is Inflamed you have n
rumbling sound or Imperfect hearing, and
when It Is entirely closed deafness Is the
result, and unless the inflammation can be
taken out aw! this tube restored to Its nor
mal condition hearing will be destroyed for
ever; nine eases out of ten are caused br
Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed
condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness tcuused by catarrh)
that can not be cured by Hall’s Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars free.
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Sold by druggists, "fie.
Taks Halt's Vamllv mils for constipation
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SAYS DR.MERRITT I
IS HAMPERING I
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Aiderman Van Dyke Charge? |
That Battle Hill Head Is Pre
venting Testimony. ... |
Aiderman A. H. Van Dyke, w .-. o K
pressing the charges of mismanage' ■
meat against the Battle Hill Tuber
culosis sanitarium, said today tha‘ he B
had been given a list of names of in- B
mates of the institution who want to B
testify in the probe, but whom Dr. £ ■
W. Merritt, superintendent, would no: K
pei mit to come to the hearing. JU
Aiderman Van Dyke said Miss Loeb B
of tlie Anti-Tuberculosis association B
hail given him the names and that he I!
was going to see to it that the persons B
testified if the committee had to go ou; . B
to them.
Ti-e aiderman continued by 3ay B
that the testimony of the doctors yes- ■
teroay that pork and weinerwurst was B
proper food for tubercular patients was H
absurd. He said Dr. J. p. Kennedy, cltj
health officer, was protecting the in'- B
stitution when he testified that such B
food was proper. ■'
Alderman Van Dyke is himself i doc. Bi
tor and he condemned Dr.‘Merritt f,,-- B
being abrupt in his manner. He smd Bi
the head of such an institution should B
emanate good cheer, as the persons
there were naturally downcast. K
Alderman Van Dyke said the test;- B
jmony in the investigation would grow B
j sensational when he and others tool. til# B
stand.
The councilmanic probers of the Bat- B‘
I tie Hill Tuberculosis sanitarium are to- B
| day confronted with a long and tedious ■
task; for, after a three-hour session E
yesterday afternoon at which much pa. |i
thetic testimony was heard from in- ■
mates ami former inmates of the insr- K
tution, a large number of persons stii: K
desire to give evidence. The probers wih Ml
meet again Tuesday afternoon. E
With Dr. Claude A. Smith, direete” B
of the city's laboratory of hygiene, am. E
Aiderman F. J. Spratling conducting E
tiie defense of the institution, Dr. E. C. ■
Thrash, Dr. A. B. Elkin and Dr. 1.. c. K
■ Roughlin, who have had experienc<
with tuberculosis sanitariums, wen in «
troduced as experts to show that th, E
institution was properly run. E
I They all praised the institution. Dr H
) Thrash said he was amazed when b M
1 learned that it cost less than $40,00u E
: He said it would be a credit tor a $7.7.- K
I 000 institution. They all testified tha: K
j tubercular patients were extremely hard K
|to manage and that discipline was th* H
i first law of such an institution. M
Dr. Elkin said that he was once cot: E
| nected with the city tuberculosis san: H
tariurn in Louisville and that patient: B
■in a free city institution expected anil K.
demanded more than they did in a pri- S
vate institution.
The doctors declared that they saw B
nothing but what they could praise co B
an inspection of the institution.
Dr. Thrash said frequently he ad- H
vised patients'who were sleeping in cole ■
air to put their heads under cover for ■
a few moments to stop their coughing K
He said in treating tubercular patient; E
it was best to prevent them from H
coughing as much as possible. K
They declared that pork and v.einer- ■
wurst were good food for patients no
suffering from indigestion.
Dr. J. P. Kennedy, city health officer K
and Dr. ,T. G. Hall, city phvsician, were w
called before the committee to tell o: ■
an alleged nuisance caused by tuber- S
cular infected persons corning to the B
city health office to be examined. Tin7 B
said they had objected to the condition B
because at times th< re were from ter 3|
to fifteen tubercular infected person 1 ■
waiting in the office to be examined ■
Dr. Merritt did the examining, am.
Dr. Kennedy said that Dr. Merritt hy
been tardy in keeping his engagemcni; ■
several times. But he saiu that most o. K
the trouble was caused by patient; ■
being sent over to the eltv hail fron
the Anti-Tuberculosis association;
clinic at all hours of the day. H
Dr. Kennedy said he was a niernbe n
of Hie committee of three, with Dr
Smith and Mr. Spratling. in charge m ■
the institution. He said Dr. Merrn
had explained his lateness all r.gr. ■
and that he had no complaint against ■
him or the institution. Cross-ques
tioned by Dr. Smith, he said council him
passed a resolution providing for
tuberculosis clinic in the basement
the city hall, that the examination or »
patients might not conflict with any <F- ■
partment. M
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