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GEORGIAN FUND FINEST OF CHARITIES, SAYS JOS. C. LOGAN 'A hil nitb?" M Charities and iui expert in the iidininis- antn ..I pialanthropie p roJe et S , said of The Georgian's Emptv Storking Fun,l toda, : Ihe in'orgutns administration of the Empty Storking Fund was rhe most intelligent „l saustaemry distnbnt.on l have ever seen or beard of. The idea was to make the , hnstmas of many poor ehtldren more like the Christmas of rhildren in better .•ireinn oiiees. ."id tie Vian was admirably carried out. The hearts of several hundred mothers ~d children have been gladdened where it was impracticable otherwise to bring joy. A tea- THE WEATHER Forecast tor Atlanta and Georgia: I fair ltd somewhat warmer Wednes i day Thursday, fair. \QL. XI. NO. 123. BEAVERS HAS MADE GOOD, DECLARES CANDLER Atlanta’s New Moral Tone Brings Its Best Christmas, Says Mayor Pro Tem. SURE NO ATTEMPT WILL BE MADE TO REVIVE VICE; ■ • Beavers haw made good in his < iiisp,,. ; gainst vice. 1 he finest Christmas thought : nd one that should gladden r t of every person in Atlanta.” tins the statement of Mayor John S. Candler today while group .?■ which lie was a member < is discussing what they considered a i ii. i imas spirit in the city. All g’ • ‘hat a wonderful sociological P ... .-iiotogicai change had taken her. within the past few years. There is a higher moral tone in this ".vn that is apparent to everyone,” •ontinunl the mayor pro tern., who as jitri-t and a city official has seen con ■'itioux in Atlanta from the viewpoint practical sociologist for the past City Cleaner Socially Than Ever in Its History. .amping out of the public dens a oeial evil was the greatest step ■ 'ring it about. ' .... evei tmij have been one’s ‘i.oui to. wisdom of Chief act v.iien !.<■ committed it, no . question the fact that Atlanta : ■ socially today than the citj* • I hi ». I’-vi till exists. There are viola " ' "1 ti.e law. Hut a comparison conditions a year ago make the ■ r I tn evil insignificant. When we i i'ler t, i this law was a. dead let- 1 for many years, it is the best i". fd in Atlanta of all the criminal statutes. I’h. ie are murders and thefts, too, l ite the efforts of our police. The ■ in. is that public prostitution in At ant.i noy- stinks into the dark, subdued, >t equality with the criminal human '• iideiieies (hat produce these univer 'rJ'- condemned acts. ".' are a city on a, hill, and our ■'ogress has been seen. It would be a arful step backward to allow the old 'millions to return. I am sure that | will be no effort in the near fil lo revive the old order. I don’t ■ any effort will ever again be ' ■‘■■ fui o reopen the ‘houses in our • i Evidence ~l; Good Is Done. ■ add there was unmistakable evi that public opinion was that real " u had been done; and that public ' ■ *n is sovereign in such matters. 1 • ? few fireworks arc being* ex this Christmas,” he continued, tin- streets, as I walked last night, laces were the most cheery I had viewed on a Christmas during the 11 ' 1 have watched such things ' latiia. i don’t remembe • seeing 1 ■ person intoxicated. I I)is Christmas in Atlanta seems to to be the best celebration of the ltd of Christ that 1 have ever known ludg. Candler said that he had made ; observations wholly apart from ' ! * ’ r political significance. But, as a ' ■<tter of fact, the new conditions he i ' inted out are the most powerful po- I ■ *1 influences in the citv today. AH City Officials Take Same View. 1 hey overshadow the repudiation of Men and Religion Forward Movt - nt’s program by th** people ai th* - last October. They have cowed moneyed influence and killed th* '• ’ of the underworld that hav<* • n lighting so insistently and so vfullj f o r license. hy official# who have consistently | the opinion that Chief Beavers’ • f was a mistake arc blocked by the I * blic opinion that hae been created. 1 The Atlanta Georgian There 9 s Real Christmas Joy in the Homes of Atlanta’s Poor Today EMPTY STOCKING FUND MAKES 600 KID DIESHAPPY FILLED! 2) \ W Bp— * % w \ 'i'l * * w* S I v „<"<*** A? a-a 'MMI •■ > 1 x -* ... i fife. ? -1 WH *** il i w H >. aS / -•. \ 1 xA alb a.* W \xw Ol xl® Mm’ te3 I Kv .7as ■ a MMh & *Sa f < y If £ a i ■ wW i -ES W I HK 9K B Abh w | ww OV IM ; ’ L X/ |i|f Iflf < 4lffiOikx WF V M■l-L w 1 M h f / BMW ' MSSEWILS MUTH SLAYER Man Hunt. Led by Fellow Offi cers. Marks Christmas Day in Muscogee County. COLUMBUS.. GA . Dec. 25. -Five deputy sheriffs and scores of citizens are scouring Nance’s district in Mus cogee co.unty for Howard Davis, a ne gro. who shot and killed Deputy Sheriff Bussey Wright last night. Wright was attempting to arrest Davis when the latter fired at him with a shotgun, kill ing him instantly. People of that sec tion tire much aroused oyer the trag edy. Wright was popular. The mur der was cold blooded. Sheriff Beard is directing the search from Columbus. Davis is heavily armed and defying arrest. After he had shot and killed Deputy Wright he barricaded himself in a house eight miles from heie while a posse surrontided the house, awaiting reinforcements from this city. No details of the killing, which oc curred near where the negro has barri caded hinise f, has reached heie Sheriff Beard dispatched a |.osse from here at lti:3o o’clock last night to aid the force that already hud sur rounded the house In which the negriy had tak. 11 refuge. Early this morning. Hide, .'ove; oi du.Kness, Cue negro slipped from the house and escaped. When this was dis covered the search of the district began. Read For Profit-CEORGIAN WANT ADS-Use For Results ATLANTA. GA.. WEDXESDAV. PECEMBER 25, ll)]2. Ii Children of the Slums Now Certain Old , Santa Can Find His Way Anywhere. BY EVELYN WREN. Early this morning, before most of 'you had been hauled out of bed by your ’ own white-clad, riotous kiddies, I went Christmas calling, and found every body at home. I didn’t send In my card by butler or maid at the homes where I called today. A butler yvould have turned up his nose at the idea of being seen in such localities, and a maid— . oh. dear me, a maid wouldn't begin to think of setting foot in such a place. My calling tour took me over beyond the tracks and up funny little side ’ streets that never had learned the I meaning of paving or grading; into i tumble-down little shacks tucked away behind rich folks’ resideiui t; into the third-floor back rooms of battered old houses which used to be homes until ’ factories smoked out the occupants and the homes became "Rooms to Rent.” They were chilly like the inside of a ; cave, and the wall paper was coming off in strips and the windows rattled ; around and let the wind slip by and ! had to be stuffed with paper and stuck f tight with broken caseknlves. They > weren’t homes any longer. Just places ; to. keep out the rain and some of the cold and give the children a place to . stay while their mothers are out look ing for a chance to earn perhaps 50 cents a day. Led to Slums By Curiosity. 1 I a. in a-slumtning -If that's th. ■ right word—just to see for myself y whether the Empty Stocking Eutid had accomplished ny real good. I want, i . to be su.’e the (>.»'<ents tin- Christmas - Editor had packed 'or three children - so-and-so, such a street, had reached . the right destination, and whether it were true that Mrs. Miggles actually had five children between thirteen and four. I wanted to see whether these children of the poor were as happy with their gifts as the children I had known, the youngsters who have everything they need rind almost everything they want. My welcome wasn’t as warm as I ha 1 led myself to expect. 1 didn’t find my self play Ing grand lady in a cabin w hile humbler mothers knelt, in an admiring circle of children and sent up pious praise for the Lord’s good works and mine. These mothers were grateful so. the gifts given their children; they had ex pressed their gratitude as best they could when they had called for the packages. But they didn't particularly appreciate a gin reporter's butting in next morning to analyze then emotions and check off the charity . And 1 didn’t I blame them a bit. So I hurried to explain that I only , came to be sure the gifts had read, '.the right homes and didn’t propose to J ask family pedigrees or pass around I any tracts. And one or two of the j mothers got real chummy w ith me aft ier 1 sat on the floor and showed the d smallest girl how to make dolly’s eyes ’■ open and shut. Gifts Meant a Real Christmas. 'if course I couldn't go every wli. re, ey.-n if I'd want'd to, for more than GuO children received presents f "om The ‘Georgian's fund, and th it mean.- mole , "an ;i"' home-. But I cl ' vi.-i: <-n . Ii" make -m< that the gif'- had me:.nt n | Continued on Page Two. ture of the distribution system was rhe suceess in giving only to tin* p<»<»r —the children of people who could aiford toys and dinners were not included in tin uifts. I have seen manv such projects attempted by newspapers, hut not one that has been carried out with greater judgment or dispatch, and memories of Ihe Georgian s campaign will remain with hun dreds for years to come. 'l’here was a ready response to this voluntary offer <>L help to the poor, anti I am sure that not only the beneficiaries. Inn the cominiinity, appreciates the ef fort made, and that the influence of the campaign will assert itsell for years to come. 57 TAKEN FINN PERILEDVESSEL I Revenue Cutter Receives Pas -1 sengers and Proceeds With Them to New York. I NEW YORK. Dee. 25.—A1l the ..7 passengers of the United Fruit Coni ’ ' pany’s Turrialba, which Is . | ashore on the New .!• is< > coast near I Jersey City, were safely transferred to 1 the revenue cutter Seneca today and [are now on the way to New York. News of the safety of the passengers • who had been in peril on the Jersey roast for more than 24 hours was re ceived here today in a \a ir - )< s message 1 transmitted to the United Fruit Com ■ puny by Captain Lindsay, of th* Tur f rialba. The message, which was re ceived at 8:10 a. m.. was as follows: “All passengers saft ly transferred to the Seneca. Sending half-weighted bag ’ gage and mail. The Merritt and Uom -1 missioner have arrived and are along side. Ship going easy and taking no • water. ’’LINDSAY.” The Merritt and Commissioner named in tlie dispatch are tugs that were i seni from New York to help in lighter ing tin Turrlalba. No mention of the linen o the was made in • ‘aptain i I Lindsay’s dispatch, and th«- officers of . tile lira sityV thej had “muinco aboard tin stranded steam* to assist in un j loading the cargo of aU.oiHt bunches of , h inaj l ' ■ ami flee bugs of cotfi- t.o ic i M rritl and (‘omrntssion* r and the lUgfc j scut to the fccem early '.oday, 'GREEKS Ifii Mil TURK» Final Battle for Possession of Janina Has Begun Shells Fire Houses. li' i'.ns. i »“• 25. T ’.1.. I bat th forth. capture of Janina, with its rich 1 stores of Turkish munitions of war. was opened today bj the Greek annv. i i The last siege gun was placed in posi tion yesterday and at dawn toda> a tri - i rifle bombardment wmh begun f-om the north ami east of the city. Within a lew houis several houses within the town were set on fire by bursting shells, but tin rapidity with which the ilames were extinguished in dicated that the Turks wen- taking ' even precaution to prevent destruction of the city by fire. Luring the night a large force <.f , Ottoman troop.-s made a sortie from the < i:\. but they w» ro drivn Lack .ifte, a 'sharp skirmish. one hundred and : I twentj dead Turk* were found on the field after th• main I"»dy/retreated. Th< Greek los>- as sum . Tl»e following x ,ig. a.is ‘<aeiv<d he.* from Prine* I j (''.ns'.ujtin* io tl)s Or* ek eorninander Wi .Xi • • .«■ i.i x Panina wiinln a ‘ f. Son- -«• * : Hu-.-it-- tie and uhX k"'s •» ai.id to lie ghnx of Greece,'* HOHL IPITION 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE TURNED WILL CARRY LIGHT WM INTO COURT Reprimanded and Hts Charges Branded False. City Electri cian Plans Injunction. HOPES TO BLOCK PACT ADOPTED BY COUNCIL ITisubilu. ii by the re(" Inuiiui of ths general council, which unanimously inanderl bls eha gee against tin ineni- I bers of to electric lights committee ■ "unfounded and outrageously false.” City Electrician It. Turner today I prepared to have tin injunction filed against the city to prevent the new | street lighting contract from going into I effect. He said if an Injunction was filed It l.would be done by a. representative of 1 the Consumers league, which, he an il flounced, fs ahT-organlzation to get low let i>iectiTe light mid gas rules. ! Turner said today I e felt like he hac "on a victory, so many people had I shaken hands with and congratu- J Jated him. I City Clerk Walter Taylor ruffled hi# serious mien when he 'calked up and said: Wishes Him a ‘ Scrappy New Year.” "Turner, 1 wish you u merry Christ- i mas and a scrappy New Year.” i Nevertheless, tl.e relations between I the city .‘h-ctrieian and rite city council [are seriously bitter. Vldcrrnan John S. Candler, as a mem- ■ li, i of electric lights committee, was on the stand as a. witness at the invet itigation yesterday. Judge,” said Turner, "you say 1 I haven't .■ . wense I'd like to know If I you arc an insanity expert.” ! "No.” replied Judge Candler, indig ■ nant. “Any man with common sense |< itld tell that you were either a liar ot a fool. I prefer to bellei e tha t you are I a fool.” i "1 don’t agree with yoiT," retorted | Turner, curtly. I When the investigation closed Coun cilman Harvey Hatcher introduced a I resolution declaring that Turner could I no more be believed than any man who i would willfully li< and denouncing the | charges that members of the electric ! lights committee “had been seen,” and I that they had “obeyed the president of | to. Georgia Railway and Power Com pany" as untrue. Chairman Hatcher 1 ; said Turner’s own testimony was suf- Iticnnt evidence for such a report. ! liming the hearing Turner win ' asked to (coot’ of ids charges. After | parleying for sonn- time, he said be |kuev they wef" ti m by intuition. This provoked a laugh from mombe-s lof council, but It didn’t “feaze” Tur ;ne Throughout the cross-examina tion he was an excellent witness for | himself. City Attorney Mayson, the I quest oner, was unable to get a direct lan.-wer from him on any proposition i that looked risky. The councilmen ■ sugg> ste,] questions to the attorney to ■ I ask. | Tile far t was developed that Turner i had gone to Chicago at the expense of I R. L. Doolittle, engineer for Joel Hurt, Ito inspect some elevators. Turner said lire saw Mr. Hurt in Chicago. Evidence was produced that he had I represented in n letter to the mayor, applying for a leave of absence, that lie was going away on < ity business. It i was further show’n that he left town before any leave of absence was grant- ! This member's of council declared tn be dearly an impeachable offense. But i they took no step to impeach him. Turner said he occasionally rnatie ' I trips to nearby towns to do inspection , I wor k. I "I get $25 a day for such work. Does 1 I that look like I haven't any sense?” he I I snapped, defiantly. 11 e OS--,(II- .tioned eadi member of the electric lights committee who took ; th' stand, endeavoring in each case to , I develop the fact that these ottieiais e unduly friendly with the officials of tin Georgia Railway and Power . 1 * 'ompany. Tin cyt lighting contra.a wjs : . dotite.'i. , "I exp. ev-,i si.- . action," Turner said 11 'day. "They ad all made up tlreo ■ minds by for. they heard any testi bnony.’’