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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GV, SUNDAY, APIUL 1:!, 1013.
Brown On Pardons--Opposes Blease
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Governor Won’t Defeat the Courts
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Youngsters Hustle to Secure
Pledges Signed, and Schools
Doing Best to Get Prizes.
12,000 PLACES IMPROVED
| Cash Rewards To Be Distributed
v To-morrow When Chamber of
Commerce Counts Cards.
Atlanta, brighter after its spring
cleaning, greets you. The city put to
I the best use the opportunity present
ed by "Clean-up Day” yesterday, and
H was estimated last night by leaders
among clubwomen that 12,000 homes
are prettier and cleaner because of the
inspiration of the day.
Also, for your consideration, here
is the revision of an old, old proverb,
which was authorized by develop
ments in Atlanta yesterday:
p “If you want a thing well done, let
the children do it."
Children Did the Work.
[ To the children of the city, accord-
ling to the clubwomen, is due the big-
• gest part of the credit for the work
| done in the 12,000 or more homes yes-
• terday. Mrs. Charles J. Haden, pres-
• ident of the City Federation of ffom-
I en’s Clubs, before leaving for Wash-
f ington, was quick to give the school
I children credit for the work.
All Saturday morning, and before
E that, all Friday afternoon, several
f thousand children of the public
schools were active solicitors for an
observance of “Clean-up Day.” Ri
valry among the schools, engendered
by the offer of prizes by the Chamher
of Commerce, set them hard at work,
and they rushed busily about in the
distribution of pledge cards.
Prizes for Best Results.
The prizes aggregate $100. ranging
from $50 to $10. They will be given to
the schools whose children have ob
tained the largest number of pledges
from householders to clean and beau
tify their homes, the returns to be
made to-morrow at noon, and counted
hy a committee from the Chamber of
< 'ommerce.
The work of canvassing for clean
up pledges was carried on by chil
dren of the negro schools among the
negro population as thoroughly as by
the white school children among the
homes of those of their race, and ex
ceptional results everywhere are re-
-ported.
The children were enlisted 1n the
VI,l-k of distributing the pledge cards
:,v the members of the Federation of
Women's Clubs, who In turn were
commissioned to lead the clean-up
campaign by Chamber of Commerce
members.
But, although wisely leaving the
clean-up work to the women and the
children, business men did not forget
their part, and many downtown stores
had bundles of the pledge cards on
hand and gave them out to each cus
tomer for signatures. The city Sani
tary Department, too, caught the
spirit of energetic patriotism, and
Chief Inspector John Jentzen placed
at the disposal of housewives the
wagons of the department.
Jentzen on the Job.
Early In the day Chief Jentzen ad
vertised that the wagons were ready
to serve any home at which a pile of
garbage had accumulated as a result
•f the cleaning, and all day the de
partment workers were busy respond
ing to calls from those who took
them at their word.
School children, everywhere, are
considering the use to which they will
put their prize money—for each
school Is sanguine of victory, It Is
said hy clubwomen. The Boulevard
School boys want a baseball ground
and outfit, but the Boulevard School
girls can’t see where .they come In on
such an arrangement. Elsewhere, too,
there are arguments brewing. The
English Avenue girls want a picnic;,
hare, too, the boys think that they
can use the money toward the bene
fit of their baseball team.
A tragedy Is Impending In the fact
that some of the children will be dis
appointed, because reports which have
come to headquarters in the work In
dicate that they all are counting
chickens before the hatching in the
matter of .prize money. But they all
worked hard.
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An Invitation
to Visitors
While in Atlanta be certain
to take advantage of the op
portunity to visit our Art De
partment and model Jewelry
store.
You will enjoy seeing the
fine China, Vienna, Rookwood,
Marble and Bronze Statuary,
Carved Ivory, Fine Paintings,
Electroliers, Tapestry, Orien
tal Goods, Brass Goods, Curio
Cabinets, etc.
In the jewelry store proper
you will find all the newest,
prettiest and best goods m
jewelry—Platinum, Goid—set
with precious stones; fine
Watches, Sterling Silver, Rich
Cut GlaEs, Sheffield, and all
other lines usually found in a
first-class jewelry store.
You will be just as welcome
to come and look as you would
be if you had a definite pur
chase in mind.
Inexpensive souvenirs will
be found here. Souvenir
spoons range in price from
$1.00 up.
Write for 1913 illustrated
catalogue.
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Gold and Silversmiths
31-33 Whitehall St.
Established 1887
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Atlanta Executive
Urges Premium for
Respect, Not Viola
tion, of Statutes.
Views Power i n the
Abstract.
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
The Governor of Georgia. Joseph
Mackey Brown, Is possessed of clear-
cut, definite and matured ideas with
respect to the unrestricted and arbl
trarlly discretionary power of clem
ency conferred upon him by the Con
stitution of the State.
And those ideas are diametrically
and utterly opposed to the views en
tertained by the Governor of South
Carolina, as set forth in Hearst’s
Sunday American of last Sunday.
Governor Blease generally is looked
upon as the easiest source of pardon,
parole or commutation in the South.
Governor Brown generally Is looked
upon as the most difficult.
The former yields to the slightest
of pressure; the latter yields only in
the final most favorable analysis.
The one looks upon the power of
clemency as a personal prerogative
of the executive office largely; the
other looks upon It as an impersonal
and logical provision of the funda
mental law' to be most carefully ex
ercised.
Opinions Are Sincere.
The opinions of the two Governors
may be accepted as sincere, and as
having been arrived at In a conscien
tious endeavor upon the part of each
to come to a righteous conclusion In
respect of the most sweeping, the
most extraordinary, the most unham
pered, the most picturesque, and the
most trying of all the rights, powers
and duties prescribed for Governors
of sovereign States.
For within the right of clemency
dw'ells the power of life and death, of
liberty, of property and the pursuit of
happiness—to individuals and to so
ciety collectively—and these are the
ideals around which the very Decla
ration of Independence itself was
framed.
Governor Blease boasts that it Is
his ambition to make his pardon rec
ord in South Carolina the greatest
the state ever has known, in so far
as the total number of released pris
oners is concerned. And to make It
that, he is willing to stretch the law
in the prisoners' favor to Its utter
most limit.
Holds Stats Is Supreme.
Governor Brown hazs no ambition
to set a record paralleling Governor
Bleaae's at any point. To him, the
rights of society and the State are
superior to the petitions of a duly
convicted criminal, and he contracts
the law sternly and Jealously to its
written limits in considering pleas
for clemency.
I Interviewed Governor Blease per
sonally upon this pardon question,
spending more than two hours with
him in the State House In Columbia.
His views were set forth, just as he
gave them, in last Sunday s Amer
ican.
I Interviewed Governor Brown for
this Sunday's American upon hts
ideas and his theory of the pardon
ing power.
Governor Brown said:
“In considering the matter of ex
ecutive clemency, I will say, In the
first place, that those who are In
clined to deeds against the peace of
society should be made to know that
it is a very serious thing to violate
the laws of Georgia.
“In the second place, with that ele
ment undoubtedly the .strength of the
law is the certainty of its enforce
ment.
“Yet. weakening this, there seems
to he growing in the minds of many
of the better element of our people a
belief that after a criminal has been
in the penitentiary for several months
or several years he has been ‘suffi
ciently punished' and that the ex
ecutive of the. State owes it as a
kind of moral duty to set him free, so
that he may re-establish himself as a
man of character.
“There Is one consideration here
which these people overlook. That Is
the fact that If, after a trial, be
ginning with indictment by the
Grand Jury and running through the
proceedings in the trial court and the
appeal to the higher court, a violator
of the law has been sentenced to
serve a given number of years, It is a
fair assumption that the jury knew
its business when it found him guil
ty and that the trial judge, with the
case fresh in mind, knew and at
tended to his business when he fixed a
certain period of time as the proper
limit of his punishment.
“Why?" Governor Asks.
“Why, then, must the executive of
ficer, who was not in the court room
and did not hear or see the witnesses
testify, change, say, a ten-year sen
tence to one of only two years, or
any other term shorter than ten
years? Why should he use this of
fice to defeat or to supplant the courts
or attempt to make of it a court of
correction ?
•Jn clemency hearings it has been
stated to me time and again that the
State does not need to hold that man
away from his family a longer time.
Given Opportunity.
BERLIN, April 19 The beauties
of European cities can be duplicated
in America without changing; the
form of city government or importing
European architects, in the opinion
of Charles L. Strobel. a Chicago
bridge builder, now in Europe ob
serving foreign architectural achieve
ments.
“We have men who can do as well
or better than the Europeans, if they
are only given the opportunity," said
Mr. Strobel to-day. “There is a lack
of efficiency in France, but the Re
public builds beautiful cities. We
could do the same without altering
the prjjiciples of representative gov
ernment. The staff of building offi
cials in Europe does not change with
each change of administration. Taxa
tion is more nearly equal and is
strictly enforced, so there is more
money to spend. The national Gov
ernment in France lends it*^ best en
gineers to th” cities to assist in the
solution of civic problems.
“In Germany the Mayors are co
llected because of their known abili
ties as administration experts, and
there is less waste in the manage-
i ment of cities than in America# Give
* us the same conditions and we could
equal the beauties of Europe. How-
! ever. I consider that the Chicago plan
commission and the city administra
tion arc coping successfully with the
different problems presented ir. Chi
cago.”
1868 Bank Statement
Pigmy Against 1913
Aged Paper in Atlanta National
Vault Reflects Giant Stride
of Progress Here.
Gov, Brown’s Views
On Pardoning Power
‘The strength of the law is the
certainty of its enforcement.”
“Why should the executive of
fice be used to defeat the courts?”
“Criminals must realize that if
they incur the penalties of the
law, the law will be enforced.”
“Fifty guilty men go free to one
innocent man adjudged guilty.”
“There must be extraordinary
reasons for reversing the courts.”
“Wo should have higher sympa
thy for the law abiding than for
the criminals.”
“Instead of putting a premium
on crime, we should put it on re
spect of law.”
“Instead of excusing those who
violate the law, we should encour
age and protect those who obey-
it.”
“‘We need more rivets and less
elastics in the application of the
criminal law.”
than the period he has already served.
Harrowing accounts of the necessi
ties of the family are brought be
fore the Prison Commission and the
executive. There is too much truth
in these stories of suffering; but
what shall we say of the suffering of
the families of those law-abading
citizens whom these criminals have
shot down, in very many cases with
out warning?
‘They (the criminals) have re
moved forever the power of those
men to provide for their families, and
co-ordinately made it necessary for
the State to withdraw the offenders
from the power to take care of their
own families. The confinement com
plained of is not the fault of the
State, but it is a supreme duty which
the lawless acts of criminals have
made necessary. It must in such
cases be made clear to those in the
criminal element that if they incur
penalties those penalties will be en
forced.
Extends to All Laws.
“In these remarks I have referred
primarily to criminals who have
taken human lives; but the same ob
ligation rests upon the people of
the State to OBEY all the laws, and
the same obligation is upon the offi
cers of the State to ENFORCE all
the laws.
“Of course, no hard and fast rule
can be laid down to govern all cases
alike. The Constitution places upon
the executive officer the power to
grant par Jons in his discretion; but
that discretion he is expected to use
only after the exercise of the great
est care. It is true that occasionally
a wave of passion, sweeping over a
community, influences a Jury into ex
tremes. It is true that judges them
selves sometimes err, and 1 sometimes,
I am sorry to say, are prejudiced, and
that it is the duty of the executive
to protect the people against such
judge*.
“There are other causes which call
for the exercise of clemency in ex
ceptional cases, but these are excep
tions. An a rule, those placed m au
thority by the people should conform
their official, as well as personal, acts
to the words spoken by the Almighty
Himself, viz: 'They shall keep the
way of the Lord to do justice and
judgment.”—Genesis xviii:19.
Safe to Trust Courts.
“As a general proposition, the ex
ecutive is safe in assuming that if
the solicitor general, the jury and the
judge have steered the case through
mazes, quibbles, false swearing, tech
nicalities and sometimes sophistical
speeches and found tlie accused guil
ty, he is really guilty.
“I do not doubt that 50 guilty men
go free to one innocent man who is
adjudged guilty. Quite likely the
proportion i.s even greater. Hence
while In the courts the burden is upon
the State to prove the arraigned man
guilty, in the executive office the
conditions are reversed, and the as
sumption is that the courts have
done their duty, and there must bo
EXTRAORDINARY reasons for mod
ifying or reversing their action.
“It is but stating it correctly when
I say that while criminals are on trial
there are some other matters on trial.
Our laws are on trial, our very civ
ilization is on trial. Not only do
technicalities specious pleadings and
false swearing in the trial of crimi
nal cases contest the law, but mis
guided sympathy after conviction be
comes the most powerful advocate of
the criminal. It is against this that
we must take a firm stand.
“While we are having so much
sympathy for the criminal, we should
have even higher sympathy for the
law-abiding people.
“Instead of putting a premium on
crime, we ought to put it on respect
for law.
“Instead of excusing or condoning
those who violate the law, we ought
to encourage and protect those who
obey it.
“We need more rivets and less plas
ties In the application of the crimi-,
nal law.
“We should force it upon the
knowledge of the good and the bad
that the law la a solid rock wall, noi
a woven wire fence.”
Here, then are two Southern Gov
ernors, chief magistrates of two of
the proudest and bravest Common
wealths in the Union—each tracing
its history back to the “original Thir
teen”—entertaining absolutely con
trary views concerning the tremen
dous and unrestricted power of
clemency lodged in the person of the
executive.
Each is the choice of his people for
Governor; the titles of both re-t upon
the verdict of an unterrified electo
rate.
Into the case of Blease enter those
things which go to make for “human
interest” in newspaper stories, ele
ments that encourage the “sob” re
porters to do their w'orst—or best—
as the case may be.
Abstract Versus Personal.
Into the case of Brown enters the
abstract, impersonal, stern contem
plation of the law—the sure protec
tion of the honest man against the
criminally inclined.
The case of Blease considers the '
executive in his most intensely per
sonal attitude. The case of Brown
considers the executive as the execu
tive—nothing more.
If Blease asked the people of South
Carolina to-morrow to re-elect him
Governor, they likely would do it.
If Brown asked the people of Geor
gia to-morrow to re-elect him Gov
ernor, they likely would do it^
Each State seems abundantly sat
isfied with its Governor.
Which, then. Is right in his view
of the pardoning power?
It is as pretty a problem as might
be Hubmiltad in a thousand efforts!
Remodeling the basement of the
building recently, the Atlanta Na
tional Bank ran across a statement
reporting its condition on “the fir-t
Monday in April, 1868.”
The statement was little yellowed
by age. It was found in one of the
old files in the big vaults.
By way of curiosity, some of thr-
officers of the bank put the table side
by side with the statement issued
April 4 of this year. Forty-five years
of Atlanta’s growth is reflected accu
rately in the wonderful strides the big
bank has taken.
In 1868 assets were $678,107.39. Now
they arc $9,934,963.68. In 45 years,
despite the development of other
strong institutions, the Atlanta Na
tional's assets have increased fourteen
fold and more. Forty-five years ago
deposits were less than half a mil
lion—$426,922.92, to be exact. Now
deposits reach the imposing total of
$6,688,294.64. The bank’s surplus in
1868 reached the modest figure of
$7,500. Now' surplus and undivided
profits are $1,278,621.54, or 170 times
as great.
EDITOR ON BOARD OF
THE STATE UNIVERSITY
E. L. Rainey, recently made a mem
ber of the State Prison Commission,
to succeed the late Captain Wiley Wil
liams, will be succeeded on the Board
of Trustees of the State University by
Charles C. Brantley, editor of The
Valdosta Times. The appointment of
Mr. Brantley by Governor Brown lia>
been made public.
$1 Will Buy Old
Church In France
Eleventh Century Edifice Near the
Summer Home of President
For Sale.
PARIS, April 19.—There is a church
eating from the eleventh century at
Clairefoniaino. near Rambouillet,
where the President of France has his
summer home, which is for sale at th*-
modest price of $1.
The rumor of such an extraordinary
bargain reached Paris and one news
paper man went down there to see if
it was true. He met the Mayor of
the llttl3 town and said to him:
“Is it true th-: the Clalrefontain-
Church is for sale?”
“Just as true ad you are alive, mon
sieur, and it is not dear.”
“Some one lias mentioned the price
of five francs,” the interview- sug
gested.
“That Is at least the first price,”
replied the Mayor.
The i Id church was founded. by
Simon le Montfort, but it is little
wonder that no one want* it, be
cause tin buyer must have it demol
ished. Besides two columns and the
rafters of wood there is nothing which
would be of any use to anybody.
The Final
Blow-
The
Bankrupt
Stock
49 WHITEHALL ST.
Th.3 building must
be vacated-
Peremptory orders
to sell it all out—
Specials in all fine
hair ornaments for
Grand Opera-
Also all hair goods,
real, genuine, live
hair goods—
Silk dresses and
Ratine dresses—ev
erything exactly
like a
PUBLIC
AUCTION.
WHATEVER
SOMEBODY
BIDS and
WILL PAY.
DANIELS PLANS TO REOPEN
NAVY YARD AT PENSACOLA
PENSACOLA, FLA.. April 19.—Ac
cording to a letter received by the
secretary of the Pensacola Commer
cial Association from Senator D. U.
Fletcher. Secretary of the Navy Jo
sephus Daniels will be here on or
about May 14 to look over the Pen
sacola Navy Yard, with a view to
reopening it.
GOV. HOOPER TO WELCOME
CONFEDERATES AT REUNION
CHATTANOOGA, TENN., April 19.
Governor Ben W. Hooper will be
present in Chattanooga May 27 as a
guest of the Confederate reunion
executive committee and will deliver
the address of welcome on behalf of
the State of Tennessee at the open
ing of the reunion. General Chairman
W. E. Brock has re^eiv^d a telegram
from the Tennessee Executive to this
effect.
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Wednesday Night
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Thursday Matinee,
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Friday Night,
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Saturday Matinee,
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Saturday Night,
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