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11 < EXCLUSIVE JtEPKESl THE OPERA b attraction of th , the one super e most strict compliance and it is fitting, tkerefor< in conventional evening cl is occasion men s has imposed c e manner an >f Quality is quite capable o erly in all your requirements ress an mo Dress Suits uxedo Coats to mate IX Dollars stud s, dress ties, dress collars, nos links and all other drees requirements. ress 1 Dress Chart containing full information may be had for the asking. HEARRT’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY. APRIL 20, 1013. STRINGER LAIS IS,000 THEFT Atlanta Society Approves Trot and Tango'LM RUSSELL *•* +•+ *•+ •!•••:• +•+ +•+ -:••+ +•+ +•+ mm i Import Master to Teach Exclusive Circle iHILI +•*: +•+ +•+ Classes Learn Step in Strictest Privacy Express Messenger, in Jesup Jail, Tells Story of Crime to Sun day American. FELL WHILE INTOXICATED Habit Just a Month Old—Refused to Touch Another Package Containing $4,500. One-Step Here Has None of Dis agreeable Features, Miss Jane Cooper Declares. JESUP, GA., April 19.—J. B. Stringer, the young express messen ger arrested to-day for the theft of 15,000 In currency in transit between Brunswick and Atlanta banks, from the Souhern Express Company, told the story of his crime and Its causes to The Sunday American as he sat Id his cell In the county Jail. He blamed drink for his plight. Stringer, a slight oountry boy, seemed frightened and on the verge of an emotional collapse in the Wayne county Jail this afternoon. With his Angers nervously working and pinch ing at his face he explained the as tonishing case. The boy made the remarkable state ment that he spurned a package whioh contained $4,600—the com panion of the one he stole. “I let It lie there, in the car.” he said. “'I did not want It. After I had taken the one package, the other seemed to repel me. “It Is all because I drank too much Wednesday night. I don't know of anything else that made me take the money. I have handled many pack ages containing thousands of dollars before this, and, did not want to take them. Began Drinking Month Ago. ‘ But about a month ago I started to drink a little, and Wednesday night I drank too much. My nerves were shattered. In the car the temptation t ame to me to take the money oul of the package. "The temptation was new to me, but nervous and sick as I was I did not seem to care I cut up some papers I had in the car to read, and put the scraps in the package, re sealed It, and put the money In the safe until I got to Jesup. Somehow I could not urge myself to touch the other package with the $4,500. "When I got to Jesup, I took the money with me, got a glass Jar from the restaurant, went down the rail road to the water tank and buried the money. "Then I sat down, still and quiet, for the first time since the impulse first came to me. The thought of what I had done sobered me, and I saw what a fix I was In. I decided to return the money, but they caught me.” Alone in His Offense. The boy declared that he was alone In his offense, and that nothing had Inspired him to steal the money ex cept the drunken Impulse. "Before I left Brunswick on the trip,” he said, “I had no thought that I would take the money. The Idea had never entered my head. It came all at once, like that, and seemed to hold me.” The boy seemed ignorant and help- less. ( He has not employed a^lawyer, and \said he did not km>V what he would do. "I don’t know what will happen,” he said, in a tone of hopelessness. "And I don’t know what to do. 1 can’t do anything, I reckon.” Stringer waived preliminary hear ing, and his case will go to the grand Jury for consideration. A bond of $6,000 was fixed, which the boy has not furnished. The Superior Court session begins here next week, with Judge E. Graham, of Hazelhurst, pre siding. and It Is probable that he will be tried then. Superintendent Knowles, of the Southern Express Company, was her e to-day, but would make no state ment except that the entire $5,000 had been recovered, and that Stringer had taken it. He left this afternoon with his detectives for Brunswick, but will be here Tuesday when court convenes. Express Thefts Infrequent. Local officials of the Southern Ex press Company, discussing yester day the theft of $5,000 by J. B. Strin ger, declared that they did not fear repetitions of the offense. Dishonesty among employees, they said, is in frequent. Here is how Joseph E. Skaggs, At lanta agent of the company, answer ed the question as to why so few packages containing money were stolen: Because of the inherent honesty of the employees. Because the employees are trusted implicitly and respect their trust. Because there is a fraternity among l he employees of the express com panies that makes them work to gether for the company and for them selves. Only 1 in 1,000 Goes Wrong. ’ Express companies work on the theory," said Mr. Skaggs, “that all men are honest until they are proven otherwise, and though, of course, we do not throw temptation in any man’s way more than is necessary, it Is a fact that the honesty of the express employee is the safety of the pack ages. Honesty is a better safeguard than all the systems of protection that could be devised, and if you let a man know that you trust him, it is a 10 to 1 shot that he will be honest. ‘And when you put a bunch of honest men together, give them re sponsibility and treat them so they regard your interests as their own, there you have a safeguard against any yielding to temptation. This is proven by the fact that though the Southern Express Company has 15.- 000 employees, the percentage of those who go wrong and try to steal valuable packages is not more than one in a thousand, and I doubt if it is even that large.” A reporter for The Sunday Amer ican yesterday started to call up a number of Atlanta's most prominent society women to ask their views up on the tango, turkey trot and other of the latter day dances now in vo gue. Imagine his surprise when the an swer came over the telephone. ‘ Ma dame Is taking her dancing lesson.” The answer was sufficient enllght- ment. Atlanta society, even to it* most conservative element, is putting the stamp of its approval on the new dances. And what is more, Atlan ta society has started a class of in struction in the new wrinkles. Import Dancing Instructor. WltnesB the advent to Atlanta of C. V. Zebley, dancing master ctf Washington, whose wark has taken Will Take Moving Pictures of Eu ropean Working Women as High Tariff Argument. • NEW YORK. April 19/ Lillian Russell is going to Europe early In June on a novel philanthropic project, Accompanied by moving picture op erators, she will visit England, France, Belgium, Holland. Germany. Austria, Russia and Italy for the pur pose of making pictures of the women workers in those countries. She in tends next winter to lecture on the subject of labor slavery in Europe. The pictures will illustrate her ad dresses Mias Russell said to-day: "1 intend getting material that will ease the discontent of women with their lot. 1 think that our women live In an industrial paradise compared with most other nations. I am going to get pictures of English women dragging coal trucks like beasts of burden for a shilling a day. “I will show Belgian and Dutch women tugging at plcugha and *S;ar • rows and pulling barges like oxen. I will show the field labor of women in Austria, Germany, Russia and Italy. 1 will show the abominable condi tions under which the poor live and toil all over Europe. “During the Congrestflonal cam paign* next fall I -hall go on the stump with my motion pictures in aid of those candidates who favor protection of American industries." $38,000,000 IS URGED FOR FLOOD RELIEF WORK WASHINGTON. April 19,-Appro- priation bills carrying in the aggre gate more than $8,000,000 have been introduced in Congress for relief of flood sufferers in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and for repairs to the dams in the Ohio River and to the levees in the Mississippi. For repairs to the levees along the Mississippi River $80,000,000 is said to be necessary. ‘Hold-up Insurance' Issued in Mew York Timid Citizen Can Now Pay Premium and Trot Home Happily. Re gardless of Footpads. NEW YORK, April 19 The recent Increase in the number of lmid-ups here has resulted in I,ip indemnity firms Issuing "holil-up Insurance." The timid citizen who fears his homeward Journey will be molested by the man with gun und mask has only to go to his broker, fill in a policy, pay a small premium and trot happily homeward. Some concerns will protect attains! burglars, tuxi bandits who lift the till after trussing tl lerk up and storing hint beneath the counter, or the pickpocket who removes your roll in a crowd. "It's a new kink,' but the public are beginning to catch on to it." said E. R. Shephard, a manager of one of the firms dealing In the new insur ance. “It should he a perfect god send to women shoppers.” New Skirt Shows Limbs to the Knee F'esh-Colored Stockings Revealed by Slash In Front of the Garment. NEW YORK, April 19.—Fifth Ave nue was treated to a view of the lat est freak of fashion to-day when a trim little blonde strolled up the ave nue above Forty-second Street wear ing a skirt that was divided in front. Am the little woman walked along, the divided skirt gave'an ample glimpse of flesh-colored silk stockings to the point just below the knee The new skirt wa» of Heavy dark blue cloth of moderate width and of ordinary walking length. The divi sion In front was cut away much in the fashion of a man's cutaway coat and wan bound with heavy black braid. Just what style it was above the knees no one see hied to notice. FIND THREE DEAD IN ANCIENT WELL Illinois Woman and Her Two Chil dren Slain and Their Bodies Hidden for Week. ELGIN, ILL,, April 19. -Search for Mrs. Maud Sleep and her two chil dren. who disappeared last Monday evening, ended to-day with the find ing of the three bodies In an aban doned well on her husband's farm near Elgin. Mrs. Sleep had been shot four times and the two children hud been beat en to death. The Elgin police be lieved all three had been murdered and their bodies thrown into the well. There were four bullet wounds in Mrs. Sleep’s body. An ax, stained with blood, was found in h shed near the well. It was supposed the alayer of the trio killed the children with the ax after shooting the mother to death. ' Posses of farmers were organized this afternoon to search for traces of the slaver of Mrs. Sleep and her two children. A lynching ia expected if the murderer ia found. At the inquest begun by the Coro ner this afternoon a note was pro duced. It was found In the well and whs signed “Maud.” The note said: Dear Father—I have killed my self. Good-bye.” The note was not In the handwrit ing of Mrs. Sleep, according to neigh bors who were close friends of the murdered woman. The police ware convinced It was a forgery- EDITOR NELSON FREED OF CONTEMPT CHARGE JEFFBRBON CITY, MO., April 19. William R. Nelson, owner of The Kansas City Star, who was charged with malice in the publication of an article in his paper, was found not guilty in the State Supreme Court to-day. Mr. Nelson wan held in con tempt of court last February for the publication of the article and sen tenced to serve one day in Jail. RETIRING HERD IS HISSED BYD.R.fl. Delegates Show Disapproval of Criticism Directed at New President, Mrs. Story. WASHINGTON. April 19. Mrs. Matthew' T. Scott, the retiring presi dent-general of the D. A. R., was roundly hissed by the delegates this morning when she complained that Mrs. William Gumming Story, of Newr York, new president-general, was using her new privileges to interrupt her while speaking. The congress passed a resolution indorsing the official report of Gen eral Leonard Wood, which asks for the restoration of the army canteen. They also passed a resolution indors ing the Sunday opening of Mount Vernon, which was strenuously op- * posed In an address by Mrs. Amos G. Draper, of the District of Colum bia, who said that while she had no personal feelings in the matter, the D. A. R. c<ingress should not go on record officially as breaking the American Sunday. With resolutions of thanks for ev eryone from the President of the United States down to the firemen stationed in the hall, the congress adjourned without delay at 2:45 o’clock, the historic election battle of 1918 becoming a thing of the past. LAND STEFANS0N FINDS WILL BELONG TO BRITAIN LONDON, April 19,—Vilhjalmar Stefanson, leader of the Canadian Arctic expedition, sailed to-day by the American liner St. Paul. Before sailing the explorer said that as the Canadian Gpvernment is paying the expense of the expedition on condition that it. sailR under the British flag, any new land discovered will be part of the British Empire. “This would not be so,” Stefanson said, “had the original plan been car ried out and American and Canadian funds been used jointly to support the expedition.” Photo by Hirshburg. Above is Miss Jane Cooper, who is said to be the best dancer ol: the tango and turkey trot, in At- lanta. Below is Mrs. W. A. Speer, who puts strong approval on the dance as it is performed in At lanta and is a member of a dancing class which is learning the new steps. him into the White House and into the solicitation of society leaders to teach them the newest steps—the tango, the long Boston, the one-step, which is our old friend the turkey trot in classical disguise, and the other new things. The leaders, chsr acteristically Atlantans, have re solved not to do the thing by halves, "Having adopted the new ball room steps, we decided to learn them well,” said one society woman. Enter Mr. Zebley with his mis sion. Under a veil of discreet privacy, his classes were organized before he was engaged. Then Atlanta society cast about for an Instructor of caste and ability. His clientele in Wash ington society recommended Mr. Zeb ley. Since his arrival in Atlanta sev eral days ago, his work has been con ducted behind the same barrier of ex clusiveness that marked the prelim inary organization of hlz classes. The pupils are chaperored and only by permission of the chaperones is one to be admitted during the periods of instruction. And as to Joining the classes, well ”We are very sorry, indeed," po litely but firmly, "but the classes are all made up.” Classes For All Ages. Instruction is given only In the au ditorium of Cable Hall. There are morning classes for ma trons, four times a week. There are classes for younger mem bers of the society set, conducted of- There are classes for the children of Atlanta's first families. Everybody is learning it. Atlanta society has gone in wholeheartedly or the new steps in bail room darn - ing, and the old order, its members prophecy, is passed. "The new forms of ball room danc ing seem to have come to Atlanta to stay," said Mrs. W. A. Speer, who is one of Mr. Zebley’s pupils. "Their adoption is general, by the young sets and the older sets. This ought to prove that they are something more than a fad, when the more ma ture persons go in for them. "And the new steps are popular and leasing. There is no objection to any of the regular dances when they are danced well, and they fur nish desirable variations from the o'd steps." Most popular of the new wrinkles, members of the society set declare, is the long Boston—point de tour, it is called in technical terms, of dancing —which has become a figure in every dance. And the turkey trot,—but no, it is not au fait to dance the turkey trrt with the new order. Tn its pla^e Atlanta is learning the one-step. The difference is largely one of names. Mr. Zebley explains that he turkey trot is based on elgnt figures and the one-step on four. But, taken by and large, the distinction Is one for expert opinion. To be sure, the one-step that Atlan ta society is learning has not the features that made the turkey trot the horror of the sedate. Sewing circles. It is expurgated and tamed and put on basis of the purest technique. The one-step that Mr. Zebley is teaching Atlanta so ciety is made desirable because the positions in which the danf'ers are placed are not objectionable. “Position Is The Thing.” “The position is the thing," said Mr. Zebley yesterday. “It is that which made the original turkey trot sensational and objectionable. It Is because of the position of the dancers that the -bunny hug and the grizzly bear, freak dances, cannot survive. In fact, they have not survived. But the turkey trot—or rather, its tech nical relative, the one-step—is harm less and even pleasurable.” But Mr. Zebley would not talk much about himself or his work in Atlanta. He is as exclusive as his patrons, and said that he desired their per mission before telling of his classes, or even of talking about the dances he is teaching them. The work of the master wifi keep him in Atlanta about seven weeks, the courses he has outlined covering about that period. Which means tha: with the opening of the summer danc ing season at the Piedmont Driving Club, the Capital City Club, the At lanta Athletic Club and other clubs whose members are from exclusive circles, the new steps will have in quired absolute sway. Miss Cooper Likes It. Miss Jane Cooper, a popular mem ber of the younger set, bears the rep utation of being the best dancer In Atlanta of the turkey trot, the tango, and other new steps. Miss Cooper is grace personified, and she does not believe in “ragging" the danc-s. which is the usual manner of their production on the stage and in cab arets and public places, and which has gained for them unenviable and often undeserved censure. 1 like the new steps," Miss Cooper says, “because they are easy and pro duce little fatigue, yet are as exhil arating was as delightful as the old time waltz and two step. Of course, the turkey trot is a step which can easily be carried to a disagreeable ex treme. but that is usually the fault of the dancer, and not of the dance. “I consider the turkey trot wht’h people give a most objectionable per formance, and I wish to emphasize the fact that the way we—that is, the Atlanta girls and boys give the dance, Is entirely different, and has none of the bad features of the ex aggerated dancing. In fact, the way we dance Is quite an improvement on the way the turkey-trot Is given in other cities ’When 1 was in Washington recent ly. people would stop dancing to watch us—Lucy Hoke Smith, myself, Lamar Hill and Marian Smith—for our dance was something entirely new to them, and not at all like their turkey trotting." Athletes Balk at New Strenuous Dances. CHICAGO, April 19.—Now it's the athletes who balk at the turkey trot and the tango that has a tang. They say the new dances require too much exertion. Coach Denis Grady, of Northwest ern University, was glad to-day when told the dean of women had asked the Sorority girls to refrain from dancing the tango and other new movements. Miss Irene Blanchard is dean of women. Coach Grady said: “The exertion a man puts in in one evening of dancing the new dances is equivalent to the energy he extends in an afternoon’s football practice. I will be glad to see the girls abolish the new dances." 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