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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- pje, 6:06 a. m.; sunset, 6:10 p. m. 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. >