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3 THE ATLANTA C!EOT?CHAN AND NEWS, THURSDAY, APRIL 17.1913. TILL VICTORY. JAP HERE SITS M RS. J. K. OTTLEY, prominent society woman of Atlanta, who will represent the National Civic Federation at the Southern Sociological Congress here. Mrs. Ottley will deliver a message, also, from the woman's department of the Federation Hope of America’s Winning Canal Dispute Now Rests With the United States Senate. By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES. WASHINGTON. April 17.—J-ames Bryce, a discreet and prudent diplo mat, familiar with our country, and fresh from the breakfast table of the White House, assures his British pub lic tbat a decision favorable to Eng land is forthcoming in the issue of the Panama Canal tolls. Secretary of State Bryan went out of his way at the Navy League din ner last week to slap in the face the ample-navy spirit of the country, op posing even his fellow Cabinet officer, Secretary Daniels, to say that he would never be in favor of a large navy unless the country was invaded, *r« if in elemental common sense there would be time then to build a navy for defense. Now, the President himself has chosen, out of all the list, as counsel for the State Department, John Bas sett Moore, whose hobby and expert equipment has always been set to ar bitration as the solution of interna tional difficulties. Gives Nations New Spirit. Up to the moment of President Wil son’s conference with Ambassador Bryce the Panama question had set tled down apparently into a general acceptance by all parties. It was un derstood that England was making no further stir in the matter. This new projection of President Wilson’s spirit and opinion coming at the same time with the increasing urgency of Japan’s contention on the Pacific Slope, it is believed, will give both England and Japan new spirit in urging both of their contentions, and tonic the aggressive attitude of both nations toward the United States. With Secretary Bryan committed absolutely to the doctrine of "peace any price" and with President Wilson committed almost without res ervation to the equally timid policy of arbitration, the final decisions must rr st with the Senate. Senate Already on Record. The Senate, which has been sturdily American before Mr. Wilson came Into this matter, has already voted by a two-thirds majority against charg ing tolls for our domestic vessels in the canal and against arbitrating this matter of domestic rights with Eng land. There are no indications that the Sepate will lie down at the President’s feet and let him walk over them. There are strong men in that body. They represent great States. They have seen much service In pifblic life. They have debated this great question fully. They have registered an honest American conviction upon It. And it is scarcely possible that James O’Gor man, chairman of the committee, and other American Senators will make obeisance to thi?i new-found royalty of President Wilson, the arbitrator, and of William Jennings Bryan-for- peace-at-any-price. We shall see the temper and indi viduality of the Senate. 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. Scholar Scoffs, Though, at Dan ger of War Over California Legislature's Action. Kenjiro Sato, Japanese of high degree, college graduate, newspaper writer and, incidentally, butler to Governor-elect John M. Slaton, *•*>- day discussed interestingly and for cibly California’s plan to deprive Japanese of the right to hold land. He said the California Legislature was distinctly un-Christian, but scoffed at the idea the proposed ac tion would precipitate war. "The attempt to discriminate against the Japanese in California is unjust. People of all countries should be treated alike. If the California dnti-alien land bill becomes a law, the Japanese Government may retal iate by forbidding Americans and Europeans to own land in Japan," said Sato, who is a Japanese noble man. "The Japanese have gone into Cali fornia, and have gone into the waste places, tilling land that heretofore has been valueless. They have de veloped the land to a point where it is fertile and is valuable, and now the big land owners want it. They have caused this bill to be framed. Japanese Peaceful People. “Is it right to give citizenship to negroes and other races and refuse it to the Japanese? The question of whether the Japanese are to be given the privileges of citizenship in the United States is a big question in Japan to-day. California says the Japanese are a danger to the nation. But we are not. We are a peaceful people and all we want to do is what is right.’' Mr. Sato hoots the idea that th$ California situation may become so acute as to bring on war between America and Japan. "I bet my life." was the emphatic way he put it, "that there will be no war between my country and yours." Sato Writes Views. Mr. Sato is part own^r of The Jap anese American, published in San Francisco, and under the pen name of C. Yamanaka, is a regular contribu tor -to its editorial and special arti cle columns. The late issues of his paper have been filled with articles on the land bill. Mr. Sato was graduated hi medicine from Columbia University, New York, several years ago. He says he is "butlering” for the Governor-elect of Georgia because he needs the money. Some day he hopes to return to his own country to practice his profes sion. He is of the Samurai, and in Japan is of noble blood. SALARIES HIGHER, MORE APPLY FOR POSTAL JOBS With many applicants to take the civil service examinations for post- office clerks and carriers on May 10, the postal authorities are confident that the efficiency of the department will be increased by the opportunity to employ better men. The increase in the number of ap plicants is due, postal officials say, to the new law raising the salaries of the clerks and carriers, for the first year, from $600 to $800. This law goes into eflject July 1. IIS MAJESTY. Federation, in Resolution, Re sents Strike Order of ‘His Royal Highness,’ Jos. M. Brown. CABLE NEWS Important Events From All Over the Old World Told in a Few Short Lines. EIRL ATHLETES TO SENATE HEARS OF , ■ V t h ;: / (/ o WILBURN AND MRS. KING TO FACE TRIAL APRIL 24TH MACON, GA.. April 17.—Attorneys McNeil and Cooper, who represent Mrs. Kate King and Nick Wilburn, have been advised by Solicitor J. J}. Pottle, of the Jones County Superioi* Court, that the trial of the two de fendants, charged with the murder of the woman’s husband, will probably be assigned for Thursday, April 24. He will not decide definitely, however, until after the return of the indict ments by the Grand Jury at Grays on Monday. WhatEveryWoman Wants to Know Three Great Features That Will Deeply Interest Every Woman Exclusively In The Sunday American How Can a Wife Win Back Her Husband’s Love? How Dancing? Develops a Beautiful Figure in Old or Young How a Leopard Taugbi a Famous Woman the Way to Make Love OrderYour Sunday American Now Atlanta Society Woman Will Ex plain Civic Work at Southern Congress Here. Mrs. J. K. Ottley, one of Atlanta’.! most prominent society and club women, will be among those to ad dress the Southern Sociological con gress in Its convention here April 25 to 29. Mrs. Ottley is now engaged in preparing a message which she will carry to the convention from *he National Civic Federation and the woman’s department of the same organization. Owing to the Inability of President Seth Low, of the National Civic Fed eration, and Miss Maude Wetmore, president of the woman’s department, to attend the congress, Mrs. Ottl?y has been asked to carry a joint mes sage from both organizations. Club women see in the fact that Mrs. Ott ley has been chosen to represent jointly two such noted national or ganizations an undoubted compliment to her genius and ability. Mrs. Ottley will point out the mag nitude of the National Civic Federa tion and its woman’s department, and point to the path it expects to follow for greater accomplishments. Mrs. Ottley is enthusiastic over the approaching gathering. She says sh believes Atlanta will have between 1.000 to 1,500 delegates as guests dur ing the congress. HEAD OF R. R. ENJOINED FROM ACCESS TO BOOKS PENSACOLA, FLA., April 17. Judge William B. Sheppard, in United States Court, to-day granted a tem porary restraining order against Hen ry McLaughlin, president of the Pen sacola, Mobile and New Orleans Rail road, denying McLaughlin access to the books of the company. The bill was filed by heirs of David Davis, who w r ho claims he owned a one-third in terest in the road. The petitioners also ask that a receiver be appointed. The hearing begins next Monday. In the meantime the temporary in junction is in effect. SENATOR SAYS PRESS OF U. S. IS OF LOW STANDARD WASHINGTON, April 17.—That American Journalism im the United States is of a low standard, tending to poison the mind and destroy the morals of the people and that ews- paper reporters live constantly in an atmosphere of crime and immorality, was the view of Senator John Dow ney Works, of California, who ad dressed the Senate to-day on his bill "making it unlawful to publish in the District of Columbia details of crime accidents and tragedies." "Whereas the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States provides that even Con gress shall not abridge the free dom of speech and the press, but His Royal Highness, Joseph M. Brown, Governor of the State of Georgia, deems he is mightier even than the Constitution, for in his proclamation of September 2, 1912, declaring Augusta in a state of rebellion, great stress was laid on the clause prohibiting the criticism of the military officers and His Majesty the Governor. Therefore be it ’resolved, That the Georgia Federation of Labor, now in session, does hereby con demn the action of Joseph M. Brown for the usurpation of power which was not his.”—RES OLUTION ADOPTED TO-DAY BY THE STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR. AUGUSTA, GA.. April 17.—Govern or Joseph M. Brown to-day was con demned by the Georgia Federation of I>«bor in a bitter resolution for his attitude toward labor last fall in call ing out the State militia during the Augusta street car strike, when he issued a proclamation declaring Au gusta in a state of rebellion. Char acterizing the Governor as "His Roy al Highness" and "His Majesty,” the resolution charges him with "usurpa tion of power that was not his," and declares he “deems he is mightier even than the Constitution." The action of the federation in adopting the resolution followed the attacks made on the Governor yes terday by Leon F. Marquardt and Je rome Jones, of Atlanta. An amendment to the federation constitution, offered by the Lithonta Stone Cutters’ Union, that no officer of the State Federation be allowed to hold public office or office with any public corporation, was tabled. It Is suid that the amendment was aimed at President S. B. Marks, who holds a public office in Atlanta. The point of order was made that to pass such an amendment would be to violate the charter granted to the Georgia Federation by the American Federa tion of Labor. The federation passed a resolution asking the legislative committee to go before the State Legislature next summer and try to get a law enacted forcing the railroads to. put derail ing switches on spur tracks as a pre ventive of accidents. Judge Emory Speer addressed the federation at the close of the morn ing’s business session. Kansas Girls Fix an Ideal Male Standard He Need Not Be Handsome But He Must Make a Good Appearance. TOPEKA, April 17.—College gins In Kansas have fixed the standard for the "Ideal” young man, the possi ble husband. Throughout the State In the Young Women’s Christian As sociation buildings the requirements are posted. Ho must be five feet ele ven Inches tall and weigh 159 pounds. Otherwise he must: Make a good apearance, but need not he handsome. Be a good conversationalist, but not a flatterer. Revere and respect the aged. Not smoke, drink or be guilty of at tendant evils. Not sneer at religion or joke lightly of it. Not recognize a different standard for men and women. ADMIRAL SAVES $50,000 IN SCRAPS FROM BRASS WASHINGTON, April 17.—Sever- al months ago Rear-Admiral Cowie. Paymaster General of the navy, had installed in the Brooklyn Navy Yard an experimental metal smelting plant Yesterday, a requisition was made for 300,000 pounds of brass at a cost of $50,000. Admiral Cowie called up the smelting plant at the Brooklyn yard and was informed the order could be filled. "Do vou mean to say you have saved that much brass from the scraps?” "Yes, and 100,000 pounds more.” LONDON, April 17. Gustave F. Wolff, one of the founders of the great shipbuilding firm of Harland & Wolff it Belfast, died here to-day, aged 79. Captain Scott's Aide at Naples. NAPLES, April 17.—Commander E G. E. Evans. R. N., a member of the Antarctic exi>edition of Captain Rob ert 1*\ Scott, arrived here to-day, ac companied by his wife, who is crit ically ill. Chinese and Mongols Clash. PEKIN. April 17. Many skirmishes between Chinese and Mongols in Southern Mongolia an* reported. Two thousand Mongols attacked and de feated four Chinese regiments sta tioned at the Tahuangrlao Temple In Silinghol. France to Make Apology. PARIS, April 17.—An apology from the French Government to Germany probably will put an end to the “Nancy incident.” it was authoritatively re ported to-day, and placate the feel ings of Germans who were enraged at insults given to German tourists in Nancy recently by a party of French students. Mississippi Asks Votes for Women State Suffrage Association Also Goes on Record for Other Legal Reforms. JACKSON, MISS. April 17. To day the Mississippi YV'oman Suf frage Association adopted a resolu tion advocating votes for women anu legislation in Mississippi to raise the age of consent for girls from 12 to 18 years; to attempt to secure legisla tion making women eligible as trus tees of all eleemosynary institutions; to urge the Legislature to make women eligible for school trustees and county superintendents of edu cation. The resolution begins by declaring that women shouhi Hot be discrimi nated against in the matter of suf frage because of their sex, and "therefore we shall ask that th4 word male be stricken out of the Constitu tion defining the qualifications of the voter.” The election of officers will take place this afternoon, when the con vention will adjourn Y. W. C. A. “Gym” Classes Have Been Drilled for Months in Steps and Poses. Pretty devotees of Terpsichore—160 of them will take part in an exposi tion of folk dances to-mbrrow night in the Wesley Memorial gymnasium. They are members of the Young Women's Christian Association "gym ' classes who have been drilled for weeks and months* In the steps they will reproduce to-morrow night. The program will have as Its finale the brilliant Hungarian dance, in which all of the class in costume will participate. The Russian Court dance and the English Harvester dance are among the other numbers. The "June Bug Frolic” is promised to be as merry and eccentric as Its name. In addition to the dances, there will be flag drills, children’s drills. Indian club drills and many new and interesiing gymnastic exer cises. This will be the last of the drills before next fall. Admittance will be by tickets, which are being sold by the young women to the friend* of the association. The gymnasium work will not he taken up again until the passing of the warm weather. The work in the gymnasium classes has been greatly above the average this year, in the Judgment of Miss Era. Betzner. physical director. Miss Betzner is expected to be in charge again next year, when, with a gym nasium of adequate size and equip ment, it will be possible to accomplish even more gratifying results. Americans' Lives Unsafe, Accord ing to Arizona and j'lew Mexico Members. WASHINGTON, April 17.—Alarm- ing reports as to conditions in Mex ico, especially along the American border, are receiving the considera tion of the Senate Committee on For eign Relation?*. Senators Smith, of Arizona, and Fall, of New Mexico, have laid the facts before the com mittee. They are in closer touch with Mexican affairs than any other mem bers in the Senate. They stated that threats have been made against Amer icans by Mexican officials. Despairing of immediate recogni tion by the United States, various American interests are said to have joined with Canadian and English interests in urging the London Gov ernment to recognize Mexico without delay. SENATOR CHARGED WITH BLOCKING AMBULANCE WASHINGTON, April 17.-Dr Ar- thur M. Zinkham, of Emergency Hos pital this city, told the Senate Inves tigating the conduct of the police on the day of the suffragette parade, that Senator Poindexter, of Washing ton, ignored a police badge and heir] up an ambulance on Its way to the hospital and that It was some time before, the Senator desisted In his efforts to prevent the ambulance from crossing the line of parade. NEGLECT OF COURT REFORM IS DENOUNCED AS TREASON CHICAGO, April 17.—“You are traitors to your country If you do not do something to change the rotten procedure in our courts. In the name of God, do something to bring about the administration of Justice.” Thtw statement was made to 200 members of the Chicago Bar Associa tlon by Father Maurice J. Dorney, of St. Gabriel’s Church. If vou hav® anything to sell adver tise in The Sunday American. Lar gest circulation of any Sunday news paper in the South. Phone Co. Raises Tax Return to $5,898,217 Increase of More Than $1,000,000 Over F.rst Figures Effected by Comptroller. Through a conference to-day be tween Comptroller General W. A. Wright and representatives of the Southern Bell Telephone and Tele graph Company, the corporation was induced to raise its tax returns from $4,631,538. its original declaration, to $5,898,217. The first figures were a decrease of nearly a million dollars from last year, while the revised returns w’ere about $210,000 greater than in 1 !* 12 The Pullman Company offered re turns aggregating $771,578.47. but in the opinion of the Comptroller Gen eral this amount w’as too small, and the ieturns were sent back to the company to be reviewed. Rebels Plan Separate Republic. EL PASO. TEXAS. April 17.— Huerta-Diaz Federal soldiers In the garrison at Chihuahua and Juarez were bottled up with no chance to es cape to-day, following the capture by Constitutionalists of the cities of Pa- ral, Jiminez and Santa Rosalia. The fall of Chihuahua and Juarez will give the former adherents of Presi dent Madero control of the State of Chihuahua Plans were under way” to-day for the establishment of a sep arate republic if the two cities are captured. Battles at both places may he fought in a few days. Waterworks Chiefs To Meet in Atlanta Delegates From Three States Will Gather In This City Next Year. The Tri-State Water and Light As sociation has accepted the invitation bf the Atlanta Convention Bureau to hold its 1914 meeting in Atlanta. Secretary Fred Houser, of the bu reau, is in receipt of a telegram an nouncing the decision of the associa tion. which has just concluded its convention in Charlotte, N. C. Asheville, N. C., and Charleston. S. C.. put forth strong efforts to land this convention, but the telegraphic invitation from the Atlanta Conven tion Bureau was accepted by an al most unanimous vote. Georgia. North Carolina and South Carolina are the three States repre sented in the association. Accident Delays Trans-Ocean Flyer Great Dirigible Found Deflated as American Was Ready to Start From Canary Islands. LAS PALMAS, CANARY ISLANDS, April 17.—A disastrous mishap to the dirigible balloon Suchard II has caused a temporary postponement of the start of Joseph Bruecker and his two com panions on their long flight across the Atlantic Ocean. When Bruecker reached the aero drome to-day ho found that the gi- guntic gas bag had become deflated during the night. Investigation showed the main valve had been opened, although whether this result, ed from accident or design is not cer tain. Work of reinflating the balloon was begun at once. Bruecker’s departure had been fixed for 4 o’clock this afternoon and enormous crowds had gathered to see the final preparations. COURT RULES STEAM MILL CAN BE CONDEMNED That the granting of an Injunc tion against a power company at tempting to condemn land on which mill property is situated is not lim ited whet, the mill is operated by steam, was a point determined in a Supreme Uourt decision which re versed Superior Court Judge Jones, of Habersham. G. B. Stribling, proprietor of a small mill in Habersham County near Clarksville, sought to enjoin the Georgia Railway & Power Company from condemning the site of the mill property. Judge Jones held he had no jurisdiction to issue the injunc tion because the mill was operated by steam. SCHOOL TAX NOT PAYABLE UNTIL PLATS ARE FILED Counties must be properly and le gally laid off into school districts and the plats fl'ed with the Ordinary before school taxes can he collected, according to a decision of the Georgia Supreme Court made to-day. R. P. Brown and others, of Bald win County, sought to obtain an in junction against K. P. Hawkins, tax collector, and G. C. McKinley, presi dent of the school commissioners,’re straining them from making tax col lections. They based their plea on the fact that the school districts had never been properly laid off nor filed with the ordinary. BILL PASSED IN OHIO FOR STATE AND CITY PRIMARIES COLUMBUS, OHIO, April 17.—Both Houses of the Ohio Legislature to-day passed a primary bill to take effect on January 1. providing for the nomina tion of candidates to State, county and municipal office?* at primaries in stead of conventions. In each presidential year an addi tional primary Is to he held to select delegates and alternates to national party conventions. KIMBALL STORE 04 JV. Hrvor St. Choose Your Piano House As You Would Select Your Bank Your piano investment will then be safe and will pay good dividends. You do not look about for unknown banks and bankers; why consider unknown makes and unknown makers? Open a piano account with W. W. Kimball Co. Deposit a small amount each month and pay for a Kimball Up right or Grand or a wonderful Kimball Player-Piano. The association with this fine old piano house, from one to three years, while making monthly payments, is ap preciated by all as being particularly advantageous. Our location is most central, and this too, is still another advantage all those calling monthly appreciate. Remember the old piano slogan of Atlanta, “You can find the piano you want at Kimball’s.’' J* This great house can best supply your needs, no matter what you want or how much you want to pay, when it comes to pianos, uprights, grands, player-pianos or fine church and residence pipe-organs. Manufacturers of Kimball Quality W. W. Kimball Co. ESTABLISHED 1857. ATLANTA BRANCH, 94 NORTH PRYOR ST. H. R. CALIF, Mgr.