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I A / a HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GV, SUNDAY, APIUL 1:!, 1013. Brown On Pardons--Opposes Blease •!*•+ v«-r o Governor Won’t Defeat the Courts U.S. •i- • *r- +•+ •!•••!• I 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. {?- 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. MAIER & BERKELE, Inc. Gold and Silversmiths 31-33 Whitehall St. Established 1887 J Asks Rivets, Not Elastics, for Lau; chicasoExpertDeclar0sA,nerican ' I Builders Have Never Been 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. Auditorium. ®*j® All Oils Week OPERA Monday Night, “Manon Lescaut.” Tuesday Matinee “La Travlata.” Wednesday Night “Cyrano.” Thursday Matinee, “La Glocondo.” Friday Night, “Tales of Hoffmann’ Saturday Matinee, “Lucia.” Saturday Night, “La Tosca.” METROPOLITAN OPERA COMPANY Giulio Gatti-Cr.3c.zza, Gen. Mgr. 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