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THE ATLANTA OKOlUilAN VXD NEWS, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1913.
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They Assert Men Have Not Acted
Squarely on Laws They
Demanded.
ToPKKA. KAN., April 21. There
all bf Kansas women In the next
Kansas Leginlatur»». in all probability.
The women feel that they haven’t
been given fair treatment from the
present Legislature, and there are
many women who are already laying
their plans to become active candi
dates against the inen whose activi
ties against the measures the women
demanded were most, oernlciouf
'The women of Kansas have served
notice on the men that we want to
work with them," said Miss Helen
Hacker, secretary of the Kansas
Equal Suffrage League. "We do not
feel that we want to have a party of
our own yet. Tho women are not
eady for it. They must be educated
in their civic duties and realize the
needs of Government before a suc
cessful women’s party can be or
ganized.
Would Help the Men.
1 told the men, in a speech at the
Progressive party organization meet-
ng, that if they are truly progressive,
if they really want to help humanity,
we would work with them.'
The present Kansas Legislature has
been tested and part of the members
have been found wanting. The wo-
jten went before the Legislature and
asked that a law be passed fixing a
minimum wage for women and fixing
a nine-hour day for them.
The only law the women asked for
that they are likely to get is the ex
emption from jury service. Under
this law a woman may be excused
from Jury service simply on the claim
that she is a woman. Ministers, phy
sicians and lawyers are the only ex
emptions allowed the men.
* As the nine-hour law stands it np-
plles only to five counties of the State
and does not even apply to stores in
those counties that employ less than
fiVe women or to other establish
ments employing less than five. The
law originally provided for fifty-four
hours a week and not more than ten
hours in any single day for all women
employees. The Bell Telephone Com*
pany and the hundreds of small stores
throughout the state that have* been
keeping open eleven to fourteen hours
a day all joined in the general cam
paign against the measure,
"Interests" Killed Bills.
It was the big packing houses, the
garment factories and the big stores
It ’saLie, SaysMaddox;
Two Others Reticent
Continued From Page One.
nation, in wciil in Honorable Courtlaml H. Winn, wlio had likewise been
nominated as .Mayor of the city of Atlanta, and obtained front nald Winn
an assurance or promise that hi , Spratling, would be made the chairman of
the Police Hoard, which said board has direct and immediate control over
the Riant and regulation of near beer licenses.
Immediately after obtaining from Honorable Courtland. S. Winn said
assurance, mid Spratling proceeded to interview the greater part, or all, of
the leading firms and corporations engaged in the near beer business in the
<ii\ of AUuiita. To (hew persons, Arms and corporations, he represented
that he was to lie made the chairman of said Police Committee, and that
he desired to obtain from them different sums oi money. He further rep
resented that, a . such chairman of the committee, he would lie able to pro
tect said near beer dealers in the particular zones which they were opera-
ing.
Said Spratling. by force of ills position and aald representations, coerced
said m ar beer dealers, or many of them, to either directly lend or Indorse
his paper for various sums.
I charge that, as to one of these near beer dealers, he obtained a
urn of about $800; from another the sum of about $500; from another the
sum of about $11,000.
I charge that he went to Mr. Paul Smith (now dead), who was operating
a near beer saloon on Viaduct Place, and requested said Smith to lend him
the sum of $1100, giving the usual and customary promise of protection as
an official; and that the said Smith went, to the officers of the Fourth
National Bank. In the city of At-
were made known to Mayor Winn,
and that by reason of the truth of
same he (Mayor Winn) refused to
appoint Spratling chairman of the
committee that it was agreed he
Should be. J. E. M'CI.EI.I.ANI),
Editor Recovers Wife
Resumes Publication
iilHI' LEWIS, [GEORGIA NEWS IN BRIEF
lanta. and stated to them that he
desired o borrow the said sum of $300
for the purpose of relending the saino
to the said Spratling; and that the
said ofilccrs of said bank, after con
ference, advised -the said Smith not to
make the loan to Spratling
i charge that the money thus ob
tained by the said indorsements of
said near-beer dealers ha-’ not been
repaid by th“ auid Spratling, and that
said indorsements are now evidenced
by promissory notes held by various
banks in the city of Atlanta.
] charge that said conduct upon tile
part of said Spratling constituted a
deliberate and wanton misuse of his
official position, to the detriment jf
the public, which hail elected him to
said position, and was a betrayui of
sub) trust end confidence. I charge
that substantially all of these facts
U.S.in 14th Place in
Aeroplane Equipment
This Country Has 28 Machines
Against 400 in Germany; Latter
Spent $28,000,000 in 5 Years.
that killed the minimum wage law.
The bill, as originally drawn, pro
vided that every girl, on entering em
ployment, should be started at $3.50
i week. Bach month her wages were
to be Increased fifty cents until at t'ne
end of six months the girl would re
ceive the minimum wage of $6 a week
and increases in salary from that
time would, of course, be voluntary
on the part <»f the employer and n -
cording to the earning® of the girl
herself.
WASHINGTON. April 21 The
United States stands fourteenth
among the nations of the world In
number of Government owned aero
planes and in Government expendi
tures for aerial navigation during the
last five year?.
Figures compiled by the Chief Sig
nal Office of the Army shows Ger
many leads with 400 aeroplanes and
an expenditure of $28,000,000. The
United States owns 28 aeroplanes and
spent $435,000 in five years.
Other countries rank above the
United States as follows: France,
Russia. Italy, Austria. Great Britain,
Belgium, Japan. Chile. Bulgaria,
Greece, Spain ami Brazil.
Had Stopped Printing Newspaper to j
Look for Spouse, ‘‘Lost in
Bloomin’ Wilds.”
LOGAN. \V\ YA„ April 19.—George
A. Dean, editor of the Logan Banner,
who announced in his paper that he j
would suspend publication for three
weeks to hunt for his wife, who dis
appeared two weeks ago after they
had been married but a short time,
has resumed publication and makes
the following statement:
"Mrs. Dean's trunk was taken by
J. M. Curry, labor agent at Kenova.
and she got lost in the wilds of this
bloomin’ Stale while searching for her
trunk and the man. Curry and I were
rivals for the hand of Mrs. Dean, but
I wae chosen because of my handsome
appearance and polished manners.
"Mrs. Dean, one morning several
week® ago. was waiting for an N. and
VV. train here for Canebrake. She
had just checked her trunk. Curry
re-checked her trunk, and when my
wife arrived at Canebrake she dis
covered the trick.
"She then started on a hunt for her
missing trunk. The trail led through
a number of small towns in this
State, and finally Mrs. Dean caught
up with Curry. She demanded her
trunk check, and when Curry refused,
she called the assistance of the po
lice. The check was turned over to
her, she secured, her trunk, and sfm
is now at home to greet all her
friends."
BEAUTY AND BEASTS MIX
AT ST. LOUIS PACKERIES
ST. LOUIS, April 19.—A beauty
parlor has been established in Swift
and Company’s packing plant in the
National Stock Yards In East St.
Louis. The company’s officials ex
pect the shop to promote hygiene and
Insure meat from becoming inocu
lated with any germs that might oe
carried by an untidy girl.
Three times each week 125 girls of
the various departments where meats
are handled go to the fourth floor of
the plant to have their nails mani
cured and their hair dressed in
styles most becoming to each parxl-
cular girl. Many of the girls are also
given shampoos.
The shop is in charge of Miss Vir
ginia Lauer. 1015 Gaty Avenue,
East 81. Louis, and Miss Anna Mor
ris, 4G04 St. Louis Avenue.
The Sunday American qoes 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.
t
New Illinois Senator Was Never
Taken Seriously in Georgia,
Except by Himself.
SAVANNAH. GA., April 21.—Jim
Ham Lewis, a Virgir^ap by nativity
and a Georgian by force of circum
stance?*, the man who was not taken
seriously at home, has been elected to
the United States Senate from Illi
nois. ,
Being born and reared in the South,
his political tendencies naturally lean
toward that party known In the ver
nacular as "Democracy, unterrified
and unafraid.’’ Lewis furnishes one
more example of the Georgian away
from home who has won honors in
an adopted State.
In the early eighties there drifted
from Savannah to Seattle, Wash., a
young man named Lewis, James Ham
ilton Lewis. He had drifted previous
ly from Augusta to Savannah. The
drifting then was good, for Savannah
stands on the banks of the river, as
does Augusta. The boats in those
days were not much to look at or to
ride on, but they beat walking.
A Joke in Savannah.
In Savannah Lewis was not taken
seriously except by himself and a few
who knew him best. "Jim Ham.” he
wLis called. Savannah tried to make a
joke of the owner of the name. Joke
or not, Lewis soon bec ame one of the
well-known young men about town.
But he did not get along. He got
talked about. He was red-headed, for
one thing.
Seattle, then was demanding notice.
Lewis decided to drift along to the
West. Seattle was a long way off,
nnd "Jim Ham’s” funds were low.
But there were a few' believers in
Lewis in Savannah, and the money
for the trip was forthcoming.
Savannah forgot about Lewis for a
few years. Then some citizen who
had visited the Pacific coast came
back. He had seen "Jim Ham” out
Uierc and reported that Lewis was
Succeeding. Even in Savannah Lewio
always dressed strikingly. In the old
days he would say that if he had $30
the money would g<> into three suits
-not just one. "Jim Ham” was
dressing at the $10 gait out ill Seat
tle.
Georgia City Takes Notice.
They smiled 4n Savannah. They
didn’t really believe it. Then came
press dispatches announcing that Jim
Ham had been elected to Congress
from Washington. Savannah began
to sit up. Then story qfter story
came out of Washington, prodigious
yarns demonstrating that the pink
WASHINGTON. —Hoy S. Barnwell,
i editor of The Washington Gazette-
| Chronicle, is dead at his home here,
§ i following a lingering illness of about
four months.
To Build $25,000 Addition.
COLUMBUS.—The Columbus Gro
cery’ Company, a large wholesale es
tablishment, announces that it will
make a $25,000 addition To its present
store room and warehouses.
Commerce Man Injured.
COMMERCE.—Cicero C. Alexander,
for many years Postmaster at this
place, while returning home from his
farm last night fell from a wagon,
hitting on his head and shoulders and
receiving serious injuries.
Jealous Woman Shoots.
FITZGERALD.-At Arp, a smell
place near here, Mrs. Lottie Pettus
shot hrough the arm and badly
wounded Mrs. Mary Livingston, wife
of a storekeeper at Arp. Jealousy is
given as the cause of the shooting.
Salvation Army Profits.
DALTON—The Salvation Army
profited as a result of the session of
the Grand Jury just closed. Those
Jurors guilty of going to sleep during
the sessions, refusing to wear socks
whiskered prodigy from the Pacific
coast, as the newspaper boys had be
gun to dub him, was a live one.
He was always about two seasons
ahead of the fashion plates. What
clothes did for Lewis was to get him
more publicity than any other mem
ber of Congress in those days. He
wore mauve spats, which protruded
beneath the most, beautiful trousers,
and graced patent leather shoes. He
had an abundance of frock coats, with
braidings of delicate Colors, pilk hats
and canes
Popular in Illinois.
Later on Lewis left the Pacific
coast for Chicago, where he has re
sided for the last ten years. He has
filled positions of high trust. He has
attained prominence In his profession.
In the popular election for United
States Senator he had the Democratic
field to himself, ail others having
withdrawn, declaring that no man
could beat Lewis in Illinois. He polled
a quarter of a million votes.
Janies Hamilton Lewis was born in
Danville, Va., in 1866. He went to
Augusta when a boy and received his
academic training in Houghton Col
lege and the University of Virginia.
After coming to Savannah in the ear
ly eighties he rend law in the office
of Chisholm & Erwin. He was ad
mitted to practice in the Chatham
County Superior Court in 1884 by
Judge A. Pratt Adams.
Lewis married Miss Rose Lawton
Douglas, of Screven County, Georgia,
in 1898. For a time Mrs. Lewis lived
In Savannah. She was a strikingly
beautiful girl. Mrs. Lewis is said to
have been a great help to her husband
In his political career.
and other offenses were fined, the
money going to the Salvation Army.
Accused Slayer Acquitted.
FITZGERALD. — T o m Burnham,
charged with murder, was acquitted
when tried yesterday in Superior
Court here. Claude Hyde, a citizen
of this place, was killed at Bowens
Mill, near here, July 4, 1910. Burn
ham was accused of the killing.
Women Want Clean Streets.
MACON.—Tile Ladles’ Improve
ment Association, the auxiliary of the
Chamber of Commerce, has started a
i rusade for cleaner sidewalks and
streets In the business section of the
city. Mrs. R. j. Taylor, Mrs. H. M.
Wortham and Mrs. Church Berry
man are directing the campaign.
Drop Lunacy Charges.
MACON.—Mrs. Myrtle Roquemcfre
and her husband, Herbert Roquemore,
w'ho swore out writs of lunacy for
each other this week, have been re
leased from jail, each having dis
missed the proceedings. They have
become reconciled and will live with
each other again.
Columbus Plans Ad Campaign.
COLUMBUS.—-An "All for Colum
bus Meeting” of the Columbus Board
of Trade has been called for Tuesday
night at 8 o’clock, when the plans for
increasing the membership and rais
ing $8,000 to be used in an advertis
ing campaign will be formally
launched.
Audit to Cost $2,500.
MACON.—It will cost the city $2,-
500 to ascertain the amount of the
shortage in the Marshal’s office, due
to • he defalcation of W. F. Holmes.
In resigning when the defalcation
was announced, the Marshal esti
mated his shortage at $7,800. but it is
believed it will exceed that figure.
Mission Conference Opens.
COLUMBUS.—The Woman’s Mis
sionary Society of the South Geor
gia Conference began its annual ses
sion in Columbus last night at St.
Luke Methodist Church, with Mrs. G.
W. Matthews, the president, presid
ing. Tho conference closes Tues
day.
Gots Another Sentence.
COLUMBUS.—Bill Jenkins, a ne
gro, under a sentence of one year on
the State farm, but now out on bond,
has been convicted in the City Court
of violating the prohibition law' and
given one month in Jail and three
months on the chaingang or a fine of
$200.
High Belgian Official Dies.
BRUSSELS, April 19.—Paul Jansen,
Belgian Minister of State, died to-day.
His final illness was aggravated by
anxiety over the national manhood
suffrage sT.Ke.
Booker T. Washington Has Kept
Count and Is Pleased With
His Race's Improvement.
Booker T. Washington points with
pride to the diminution of lynching*
In the South.
He points with pride to the fact that
of the thirteen lynching.* in tho
United States in the first three
months of 1913, not a single victim
was charged with assault on a white
woman. He has written an open let
ter on the subject. It follows:
"There have been about thirteen
lynching® in the United States dur
ing the first three months of 1913.
while for the same period of time a
year ago there were 24; this repre
sents a reduction, by nearly one-half,
in the number of lynchings. It is a
gratifying record; even though it is
very deplorable that there have been
any at all. If all the people, white
and black, will work together in a
courageous manner, I feel quite sure
that we can go through the present
year with a much smaller number of
lynchings than has been true in the
history of the last 25 years.
"In order to throw some additional
light on the subject, I give below
some details as to the places and
causes of the lynchings which have
taken place:
"A colored man in Paris, Texas, for
murder.
”A colored man in Houston, Miss.;
case of murder. It was later discov
ered that the wrong colored man had
been lynched, and another w'as burn
ed at the stake instead of the wrong
one lynched.
"One was lynched at Shreveport,
La., in February; cause unknown.
"One at Drew, Mbs., lynched by
negroes tor killing two negro women
"One in South Carolina, a 17-year-
old negro boy, for assault and batten
on a white mail.
"Two negroes of Harrison County.
Texas; cne for cause unknown, the
other for horse stealing.
"Andalusia, Ala., in February, negro
was lynched for shooting a white
woman.
“Cornelia, Ga., two negro tramps
l'or killing a policeman.
"Union, Tenn., negro accused ot
killing a white man.
"BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.
"Tuskegee, Ala.. April 12, 1913."
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wrote these three words
for the guide posts at
railway crossings ;;
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