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THE WEATHER.
forecast: Fair, wanner to-night and
Wednesday. Temperatures: 8 a. m„ 46;
10 a ni., ^ I 12 m., 51, 2 p. m., 55. Sun-
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The Atlanta Georgian
Read I or Profit GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
ATLANTA. LA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 <>, 1913.
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p ^ R e°
Warden of State Prison Camps and
Guards Favor It, but the Very
Suggestion Has Stirred Up Deter
mined Opposition in All Quarters.
The suggestion by some officials and employees of the Georgia
| ?t»te prison campB that the Legislature enact a law providing
I for the FLOGGING of unruly and incorrigible women prisoners
I |ta* not a chance in the world to succeed!
The opposition to the suggestion of a law that women priaon-
| »rs. whether ncorrigible and unruly or not, SHALL BE
FLOGGED is so abhorrent that, the Legislature will not even
consider the matter, much less act favorably by the passage of
| such a bill.
The Georgian is very glad to make public this statement at
I once, and make it in the most emphatic manner. No effort at
lawmaking can succeed which contemplates the FLOGGING of
I women prisoners.
No matter what the wardens or officials in prison camps
I may ask, no matter what the guards may demand, there is ONE
THING THEY CAN NOT HAVE-—and thal is emphatically
settled and settled forever—the power to flog women, whether
thev be white or black!
| Proposal to Whip Women
Brings Storm of Protest
Will Georgia resume the flogging of
| women in its prison camps?
Threats by guards at the Fulton
county female convict camp to quit
I their posts if they are not allowed to
I whip the women prisoners brought the
•sue to an acute stage to-day.
Shelby Smith, chairman of the
I County Commission, declared that
into of the camp officials had ex-
reeded their authority In going over
the heads of the County Commission-
rrs and seeking to take the matter up
directly with the members of the
1 P-ison Commission.
Opposed by Legislators.
Members of the Legislature and oth-
I »! having a part in framing the regu-
| Ittions under which the convict sys
tem is administered displayed an un-
I Blstakable determination never to
| grant permission to flog the women.
Backing the stand of the Legisla-
I lure was the beginning of a wave of
objections from the public. General
Lemiment appeared most strongly
tjainst a return to the old practices
of beating and whipping, which have
»een abandoned in the majority of
| 'lightened communities.
Superintendent A. Q. Turner and
|"arden A. A. Mitchell, of the Fulton
1 ounty camp, were the officials whom
'’iiairman Smith censured. These
I »«n sought an audience with the
Prleon Commission In order that they
I eight ask the good offices of the
pembers in behalf of a return to the
| id method? of punishing the women
(onvicts.
None of the commission being at
be Capitol, they laid their complaint
I ’efore Goodloe Yancey, secretary. He
tdvised them to return later in the
| "eek.
Commission Sees No Need.
Chairman Smith said that the
County Commission was totally un-
aware of any conditions that would
I warrant a procedure of this sort. He
I declared that neither Turner nor
IMitchel 1 had informed him that the
•omen all of whom are negroes, had
|become so intractable that the offi
cials considered the lash the only re
course remaining. If such a report
bad been made it would have been in-
'rstigated at once, was his assurance.
I am speaking advisedly when J
| ! -V that the warden and superintend-
|nu have no authority to take the
I hatter up with the Prison Commis
sion except through the County Com-
piseioners,” Chairman Smith assert-
|td
Incidentally, the action of Turner
|>nd Mitchell and the near-mutlny of
I '' guards, who declared practically
'°a man that they were prepared to
Wit their Jobs cold” if the prohibi-
lon against flogging remained, re-
| !j ted in a sharp alignment on the
1 subject and In a storm of protest
J'gainst the proposal.
See Return to Barbarism.
Expressions to-day were general
|»»d emphatic that the re-adoption of
lagging in the female camps would
l' 1 * but little short of a return to the
I'-htelties of semi-barbarism.
That’s the only way the women
I Sn be handled and disciplined.” was
['be chief defense offered for the prac-
l'ire.
A U three or Atlanta's represents-
UVet In the Legislature came out un
Notice to Burglars
There is nothing of value here
that you would care to steal. We
have no money hidden and no
jewelry. We have no treasure of
any kind except oiir orphan chil
dren. Please t ike notice.
HOME FOR FRIENDLESS.
This notice was suggested to
day bv Mrs. John J. Woodside.
after the vi«it of burglars to the
institution last night.
Girls’ Bullets Rout Burglar Trio Three Times
+*+
Dare Thieves to Return to Home for Friendless
Burglars were active in Atlanta last night, and in two sen
sational robbery attempts imperiled the lives of young women
and orphan children. One baud of three entered the Home for the
riendless at 228 Highland Avenue, where they were frightened
away by three courageous young women. The second entered the
Hollingsworth home on Forrest Avenue, and were likewise routed
by brave young women.
equivocally to-day against the Leg
islature lending its sanction to any
mode of punishment which would in
volve cruelty or unnecessary harsh
ness'. Without exception, they revolt
ed at the Idea of lashing women, black
or white, although they conceded that
a most difficult problem is presented
by the situation in Georgia.
Warden Mitchell and the guards
argued quite as strongly for their side
of the question. They declared that
with only the dungeon as a means of
punishment, the women simply laugh
at all attempts at discipline, revile
the guards, and continue in their wild
acts of insubordination.
Doctor Favors Lash.
Dr. Paul McDonald, county physi
cian. was inclined to think that they
were right. He has been at the camp
frequently and said to-day that the
use of the "leather” reaily is more
humane than the practice of putting
the recalcitrant women in the dun
geon.
Secretary Yancey, of the Prison
Commission, speaking' unofficially,
also was for a return to the practice
of flogging. He wished it under
stood, however, that he was not as
suming to represent the sentiment of
the commission and was only offering
his opinion from his years of expe
rience in penal administration.
The majority of persons who were
interviewed to-day on the subject
were unqualifiedly opposed to its re-
introduction.
Rep. Smith Opposes Move.
Georgia will experience the scan
dals that have besmirched the penal
systems of other States if she goes
back to the flogging of her female
prisoners, in the opinion of John Y.
Smith, of Atlanta, Representative In
the State Legislature.
"Put the power to whip women in
the hands of brutal and incompetent
wardens and the same cruelties and
atrocities that have shocked the whole
civilised world will be repeated," he
said.
"I have heard of no movement to
obtain the sanction of the legislature
to the removal of the ban on corporal
punishment of the women in the con
vict camps, but if such a movement
actually is launched it will have my
heartiest opposition. You may be
sure that 1 will fight it tooth and nail.
“It is a step backward, and Georgia,
which already is far behind modern
ideas in her treatment of prisoners,
ran not afford further to retrograde.
Would Improve, Not Retrograde.
"Far from lending my aid to such a
movement, it will be my endeavor, so
far as I am able, to see that the
methods in the treatment of the
State’s prisoners are made more hu
man rather than more barbarous.
There is no question that Georgia is
backward in this respect. There are
specific evils and there are general
evils. For the former, the wardens
and other penal officials undoubtedly
are largely to blame. For the latter,
the responsibility must be placed
upon the antiquated system.
-Wardens, drunk with power, abuse
their positions. They are the appoint
ees ot the system. They are inexpe
rienced and incompetent in many
cases. They are chosen, not because
Continued on Page 2, Colum* A.
First Opera Stars
Reach Here Sunday;
Others Come Monday
Two Special Trains Will Bring Met
ropolitan Company to Atlanta
From New York.
NEW YORK, April !5.—Caru30,
Scotti and Lucrezia Borl, the van
guard of the Metropolitan opera stars,
will reach Atlanta Sunday afternoon
at 5 o'clock. The three will leave Ne.v
York with W. J. Guard, business rep
resentative, Saturday afternoon, nine
hours ahead of the first of two special
trains.
The first special will leave New
York at 1:30 o’clock Sunday morning,
arriving in Atlanta early Monday
morning. It will take the chorus
ballet, stage hands and scenery.
The second special will travel two
hours behind the first, carrying the
artists.
Mrs, Woodside Lauds
Sunday American Ad
“Want” Brings Replies From Every
State in Dixie—Astounded by
Flood of Answers.
Mrs. John J. Woodside, active in
the philanthropic work of Atlanta,
paid an unexpected tribule to HearstV
Sunday American to-day. Mrs. Wood-
side advertised Sunday for a matron
for the baby nursery at the Home for
the Friendless. To-day she called up
to ask that 1 lie advertisement be dis
continued.
“1 i have had answers,” said Mrs
Woods’ide, "from every part of the
South. Why, The Sunday American
must go everywhere. I have been
simply astounded at the replies our
little advertisement brought. Women
in every State in Dixie wrote to us*.
One little ad was surely enough.”
Bulgar-Turk Truce
Is Reported Signed
Believed That Armistice Will Lead to
Speedy Reopening of Peace
Negotiations.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
VIENNA, April 15.—An armistice
between Bulgaria and Turkey has
been signed, according to a Sofia
telegram just received.
If true, fighting along the Chatalja
lines will cease at once.
An earlier telegram from Constan
tinople said fighting was going on
at the Chatalja and that the artillery
could be heard in the northern sub
urbs of Constantinople.
It is believed that an armistice will
speedily lead to reopening of peace
negotiations.
Greece has raised the blockade )!
Southern Albanian ports. The pow
ers have sent another note to Bel
grade demanding the withdrawal of
Servian troops from Scutari, where
they are reinforcing the Montenegrins.
WIFE’S PEI DOE
‘Uncle Joe' Predicts
Rough Going for U. S.
WASHINGTON, April 15.—“There
will not be so much well-being in thi«
country twelve months from to-day
as there is now,” said Uncle Joe C.an-
non, former Speaker of ine House, in
discussing the political situation.
The Bull Moosers have been nak
ing a lot of noise.” he added, “but
their following has not been going
with them."
Mr. Cannon would not prom ‘■•e t.j
come back to the next Congress, ex
plaining that he could not speik for
his constituents in this matter and
wotdd have to wait and see what they
do.
The former Speaker called attention
to the fact that it has been 22 years
since his constituents last gave him a
vacation and that he is not so full of
-,cf a'fi 1 gunpowder as he was then
and held captive by a
•I. Burns, the famous
LONDON. April 15.—Detectives who are searching for
.Joseph Wilherforee Martin, the missing Memphis, Tenn., mil
lionaire, learned definitely lhat he is alive
hand of kidnapers.
Detectives working under William
American sleuth, were the first to strike the trail, and came within
an aee of rescuing Martin, but the kidnapers had been tipped off
and fled, taking their captive with them.
Burns' men have outwitted the
shrewdest of Scotland Yard
sleuths in this ease.
Mr. Burns says he is sure that
Martin will he rescued alive and
turned over to his relatives with
in twelve hours.
Following the visit of a mysterious
woman to the home of J. Lockhart
Anderson, Mr. Martin’s friend, detec
tives went to a rooming house in
Lambeth, where from the woman they
learned that Martin had been detained
for some days, in some manner the
kidnapers had gotten wind of the fact
i raw ing near
lhat the searcher- were
and fled, tin account of tin* shortness
of time at their disposal, it was be
lieved that they had taken refuge in a
house near by. Detectives were averse
to telling about the mysterious woman
who had revealed the hiding place ot
the kidnaping hand.
Lambeth is a low quarter of South
London and that section is squalid
and the houses occupied by people of
low caste. There are a number of
lodging bouses there which are fre
quented only by ( ririinals. It was in
the Lambeth section that the silk hut,
pocketbook and wstch chain of Mr.
Martin were found.
Drugged and Kidnaped.
Immediately after the detectives
found that the kidnapers had tlown.
they put tin- owner of the lodging
house through a drastic examination.
From facts gathered by the Burns
detectives it was evident that the
American millionaire had been drug
ged and kidnaped and had struggled
hard to gain his freedom toward the
end of nis journey. It was said one
of the captors was to hold him for
ransom.
The oand which kidnaped Martin
sent a letter to Captain Prior threat
ening him with death if he did not
call off the private detectives en
gaged in the search and cease his own
activity. This letter was turned over
to Scotland Yard, and two detectives
were assigned to act as a bodyguard
for Prior. Captain Prior was*one of
the friends with whom Martin dined
on the night of hi- disappearance,
April 3.
Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads
The Sunday Ame ican. YOUR ad-
vertisemsr.L in the next issue will sell
goods. Ti y it!
Fatal Pistol Duel in
Birmingham Street
Lawyer Roland Shugart Is Slain and
His Brother-in-law Wound
ed Mortally.
BIRMINGHAM. ALA.. April 15. In
a pistol fight early this* morning on a
prominent corner in North Birming
ham, a part of Greater Birmingham,
Roland Shugart, a well know n lawyer,
was killed and his brother-in-law,
Haynes Moore, was shot and fatally
wounded.
Shugart married Moore’s sistei
about a year and a half ago. but was
separated from her and there has
been feeling between the two men.
When they met this morning before
8 o’clock both pulled a pistol and be
gan firing at each other, four or five
phot?-' being fired by each man.
Several years ago Shugart killed a
man named Bonholzer, whom lie did
not know, but was acquitted on the
ground of temporary insanity.
He also was in a shooting scrape a
few months ago with another lawyer
in the heart of Birmingham. Shugart
leaves a widow and three children and
two children by his first wife.
Page, Acceptable to
Britain, Is Nominated
English Government Raises No Ob
jection to Wilson’s Choice for
Ambassador’s Post.
WASHINGTON, April 15.—Having
received word from London that the
British Government has no objection
to the appointment of Walter Hines
Page, of New York, to be Ambassa
dor to Great Britain, President Wil
son to-day sent Mr. Page’s name to
the Senate.
Among other nominations transmit
ted to-day were: Assistant Secretary*
of State. John E. Osborne, of Wyo
ming; Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue, William II. Osborn, North Car
olina. Postmasters: Portland. Orog.,
Frank S. Myers; Tulare, Cai, John A.
Rollins; Abilene. Kans.. William A.
Matteson; Iroton. Ohio, John (’. Gor
man; Middletown. Ohio, John Q Ba
ker; Chattanooga, Tenn.. John E
Conner; Harpers Ferry, W. Va., J.
Garland Hurst. i
Daring burglars to return,
Misses Harriet Bradner, Eva
Rowan and Raehel Lane, the
three young women in charge of
the Home for the Friendless,
with nerves unsKattered froth
three visits ot prowlers last
night, to-day declared that the
marauder who makes the mis
take of attempting to enter the
place again is very, very sure to
be greeted by bullets.
Throe times the trio of intruders ef
fected un entrance to the main build
ing of the home and woke its occu
pants, the three young women and 60
children, to be driven off each time by
a fusillade of bullets. Miss Lane han
dled the pistol and the robbers barely
escaped being hit.
Attempts of th«* burglars were the
nerviest exhibitions of the kind At
lanta lias experienced in many years.
On the second visit one of the bur
glars succeeded in hiding under a
pile of covering upon a bed in the cor
ner of the third floor dormitory and
was discovered by the children.
Runs in With Revolver.
Their screams brought Miss Lane
on the run, revolver in hand, just in
time to catch a glimpse of the bur
glar as he dropped from the second
floor to the ground. Neighbors had
been attracted by the screaming and
saw the man as he raced across the
back yard and jumped over the rear
fence.
The children In tlie home were so
frightened at this time that they rush
ed down tiie stairway and huddled
in the parlor. It was an hour before
they wer? quieted enough to return to
the dormitories.
Their return’ to the* third floor re
sulted in the discovery of a burglar in
Mies Rowan's room. The children
screamed and the negro rushed by
them, down the stairway and out the
rear door, and another fusillade of
shots followed, Chief Jett rushed a
squad of officers to the scene, and a
search of that entire section was made
while plainclothes men were left to
guard the house.
"We have been rather helpless
against burglars, on account of there
being practically no locks on the doors
or windows.” said Miss Bradner. “I
have gotten a few during my two
months here, but we are badly in need
of more. The young ladies were re
markably cool, I think, while Miss
Lane was right after the burglars
W'ith a revolver. Reports that we were
greatly excited. I think, were extreme
ly unjust to us, though I know* that
women are expected to become ex
cited under such conditions.’’
Girls Say They Will Shoot.
Miss Lane declared that “she was
not afraid of any burglar,” and would
certainly* shoot one if she had the
chance, while Miss Rowan declared
she could shoot just “as well as Miss
Lane.’’
“Waking up and finding yourself
alone in the room with a burglar and
realizing that you are practically shut
off from the rest of the household Is
Defendant in Divorce Suit Testi
fies That Neglect of Child
Caused First Quarrel.
Continued on Page 2, Column 3.
VonHerrmann, Local Director, Men
tioned in Charges That Chief Used
Department to Boom Candidacy
for Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. (•., April 15.—A banquet, conference
and certain informal meetings in Atlanta last November may
cause the biggest shake-up in the Uilited States Weather Bureau
that it has ever experienced. Information based on revelations
made by Section Director C. T. YonHerman in Atlanta will be
laid before the House of Representatives in the next few days
by Congressman II. Robert Fowler, of Illinois, to show that Prof.
Willis L. Moore made Atlanta the starting point for his cam
paign for Secretary of Agriculture under President Wilson.
On account of these campaign
activities President Wilson, in
stead of appointing him to the
Cabinet, asked Moore for his
resignation, it is Congressman
Fowler’s intention to press a
1 borough investigation of the
Weather Bureau and Moore's
political activities before the
latter actually quits the Govern
ment service.
Mr. Fowler will make his fight prin
cipally on a document which, he say ft,
is a .summary of report made by Von
Herrmann to the Secretary of Agri
culture within the past week or two.
The report tells how the campaign
was started in Atlanta and how Gov
ernment employees were used to ob
tain indorsements for their chief.
The report says that on October 30.
1912, Charles T. Burns, a compositor
In the chief office in Washington, ar
rived in Atlanta and said he was to
inspect the plant there. He showed
rq orders to that effect.
Directed Banquet, is Claim.
The report says:
“Mr. Charles T. Burns privately di
rected Mr. VonHerrmann to make ar
rangements for a banquet to be given
by Professor Willis L. Moore to tlie
president and secretary of the Typo
graphical Union and the president and
secretary of the Central Labor Union
of Atlanta. The object of the dinner
was not stated to Mr. VonHerrmann,
who was also informed that Professor
Moore would pay the cost of the ban
quet. Subsequently Mr. Burns also
visited Macon, Ga., and Montgomery,
Ala., where there are no printing
plants.
“Before leaving Atlanta, Mr. Burns
(ailed upon the labor people and se
cured the passage by the Typographi
cal Union of a very favorable resolu
tion, which was printed in The Jour
nal of Labor, advocating Professor
Willis lx. Moore for the position of
Secretary of Agriculture. The read
ing of this resolution gave Mr. Von
Herrmann the first intimation of Pro
fessor Mode’s desires.
List of Guests Given.
“Professor Moore was informed, un
der date of November 9:
“ 'In accordance with the sugges
tion of Mr. Burns, arrangements have
been made for a private banquet at
the Georgian Terrace Hotel on the
evening of November 14, at 7:30 p. m.
The following gentlemen have accept
ed the invitation to attend: Mr. Lu
ther H. Still, president, Atlanta Typo
graphical Union; Mr. W. H. Grant,
secretary, Atlanta Typographical
Union; Mr. Carl Karston, president,
Central Labor Union; Mr. J. F. Brad-
field. secretary. Central Labor Union;
Mr. Earle E. Griggs, associate editor.
Journal of Labor; Mr. Jerome Jones,
editor. Journal of Labor. The cost of
the dinner will be $5 a plate, with
wine, cigars and flowers extra.’ ’’
The date of the banquet brought it
right in the midst of a convention
called by Professor Moore of Weather
Bureau officials from various cities, at
which, it Is charged, they received in
structions as to liow to help their
chief realize his ambitions.
That there was reason why the
convention of Weather Bureau offi
cials should be kept somewhat of a
secret is shown by the fololwing tele
gram received by VonHerrmann No
vember 4:
Asked for No Publicity.
“Observer, Atlanta—We desire no
publicity regarding the conference of
Weather Bureau officials at Atlanta.
"MOORE.”
On the same day VonHerrmann re
ceived another telegram from Moore:
“Observer, Atlanta—Reserve room
at hotel with Weather Bureau offi
cials for Professor J. G. Lipman, New*
Brunswick, N. J.. and telegraph him
when room is secured. If possible, get
It next to mine. "MOORE."
The next day VonHerrmann tele
graphed Professor Lipman: .
"Have reserved room for yoi^next
Opposing Mrs. Louise Pate’s suit
for divorce, A. T. Pate took the stand
in Superior Court to-day and told the
jury that "a little black dog. named
Sport, came first in the affection?* of
his wife’s family to the neglect of his
little daughter, Jewel, and caused all
the troubles that led to her suit for
divorce.”
During the hour Pate was on the
witness stand, Mrs. Pate, scarcely out
of her ’teens, sat before him and
shook her pretty head negatively to
the judge and jury as Pate told of
the alleged grange affection for the
little black dog. that he said caused
the family to wrongfully neglect their
only child.
“Sport” and "Jewel.”
“If it had not been for that dog we
would not be In the court room now,”
said Pate. “They thought more of
him than they did of little Jewel. At
night time he slept in her little bed,
while she slept on the bed with her
mother, and during the day he slept
on the bed the baby had to sleep on at
night.
“Whenever I went out at night and
left my wife at home, she and her
mother nursed the dog. Jewel had
her collar bone broken once when I
was not at home, and 1 have' no doubt
she fell from the bed while the family
was busy taking care of Sport.
“If he got his feet wet they were
afraid he’d catch pneumonia. They
would wipe his feet dry. give him
medicine and tuck him in bed. His
meal?« cost more than mine did half
the time. Usually It was a nice steak
cooked with the greater portion of a
pound of butter.
“When my wife would go out and
we would leave the baby at home, it
would be left in a room by itself, and
the mother-in-law would care for the
dog. It was this neglect that led to
our first quarrel, end I firmly believe
it is responsible for our being in the
divorce court.”
Pate lives at 265 Houston Street.
Mrs. Pate lives with her father and
mother at 17 Currier Street.
Bride Only 13 Years Old.
Pate and ills pretty little wife were
married October 31. 1908. and sepa
rated February 7, 1911. At the time
of the marriage Mrs*. Pate claimed to
have been but 13 years and 2 months
old. Pate claimed she was 15.
The first suit for divorce was filed
by Mrs. Pate in February of 1912. The
jury found a verdict for the defend
ant, holding that cruel treatment as
specified in her petition did not con
stitute “cruel treatment" within the
meaning of the law.
Her second petition for divorce set
forth virtually the same allegations
as the first. She charged Pate with
being a "night drinker.” who had
threatened to steal their little child
away, threatened to strike her. and
that as a result of these threats she
had suffered a nervous breakdown
and had been unable to sleep at night.
The Sunday American goes every
where all over the South. If you have
anything to sell The Sunday Amer
ican is “The Market Place of the
South.” The Sunday American is the
best advertising medium. >