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Lecture on Death
STRIKE ONE!
ODDITIES
Atlanta Bible Students Get Judge
J. F. Rutherford, New York, for
Address Sunday.
Blue Ridge Instructors, Here in
Conference, Plan Denomina- j
tional Campaign.
Adjutant General Will Ask for
Fifty Thousand Dollars to Form
Additional State Troops.
‘•Where Are The Dead?” is the
subject of a free lecture to be de
livered at the Grand Opera House
Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock by
Judge J. F. Rutherford, of New York
City. The lecturer promises to an
swer the question from an undenom
inational standpoint. He was invited
by Bible students of the city.
Judge Rutherford, in addition to
being a prominent* lawyer, is a lec
turer of international reputation. Af
ter an extended tour of the Holy
Rand he spoke in all the principal
cities of Great Britain and the con
tinent. electing favorable comment
from the European Press. Judge
Ruthertord first came into the public
eye because of his fight on grain
gambling in Missouri.
John Y Smith, representative from
Fulton v’ounty. will* preside at thti
meeting.
Inquiry Commission Finds That
Public Schools Are Largely
to Blame.
“Let’s Have Less Talk of Univer
sal Peace and More American
Manhood,” Says Senator.
LIGHTNING BOLT RESTORES
HEARING—A bolt of lightning
which struck a building next door is
believed to have restored the hearing
of Florian Blazejewski. of Marinette,
Wis.. who had been a deaf mute since
birth. The young man also is learn
ing to talk.
For the
the work,
workers who
years in the
the Southern
were brought together
at the North Avenue
terian Church.
Carolinas,
Georgia are re]
JJOUDie the present State appropria
tion is needed to give Georgia a thor
oughly equipped and modern militia,
according to Adjutant General Joseph
VanHolt Nash, in outlining the#needs
of the State military.
• We get a State appropriation of
$25,000. It should be $50,000,” said
General Nash. "We have three in-
fantr> regiments and one battalion.
That is plenty. But we ought to have
three batteries of artillery and we
have <|dv two. We ought to have
seven more companies of cavalry.
"We need a well drilled and equip
ped field hospital corps composed of
about 58 men. With this we should
have an ambulance corps. To care
for such an increase in the organiza
tion and to provide for other improve-
teachers and industrial
have labored for ? tew
mountain fastnesses cm
Appalachian regioii]
■ajjM Atlanta
Presby4
Fifty schools in th«j
Kentucky. Tennessee andj
■presented by more than!
100 delegates.
Rev. Dr. Richard Orme Flinn, oil
the North Avenue Church, declared!
that the Atlanta meetings would
be* epoch-making in the work of edu-l
eating mountaineers of the Soutb.j
For more than ten years denomina-^
tional workers, aided by many un-j
denominational volunteers, have con
ducted schools in the mountains, but
no attempt has been made tp combine
the work.
It is believed the conference will
result in an organized campaign, in]
which all denominations will takei
Atlanta has Had and is now
having an anti-vice crusade.
What has this crusade saved
the people of Atlanta in cold
cash?
Is "segregation” or abolishment
the better solution?
Light may be thrown on these
questions by the following news
story from Philadelphia:
PHILADELPHIA, April 25.—One-
.iif of the women in Philadelphia
■ho quit the straight and narrow
ath do so because of inadequate
WASHINGTON. April 25. if the
I'nited States is affronted somebody
is going to get whipped before any
more peace treaties are adopted by
the Senate."
This emphatic protest against Sec
retary Bryan's plan for universal
peace submitted to the Foreign Re
lations Committee was made by a
prominent member of that committee
to-day. He is one of the leading law-
years in the country, an aggressive
American, who believes in being able
to compel peace on the part of those
who would insult the United States.
“We have had enough of peace
treaties,” this Senator continued.
"Twenty-six arbitration treaties are
now* on the statute books. Secretary
Bryan’s scheme includes everything
even national honor. Even when that
is at stake he asks us to tie ourselves
up to wait a year before we do any
thing.
Dangers of Plan.
“Suppose we were a party to such
an absurd agreement and we bad
trouble with, let us say Mexico. Dur
ing the year that trouble would'be
under inquiry we must sit idly by and
wait without even increasing our ar
mament.
“Suppose, for instance, Japan be
lieved she had a grievance against us.
While we w*ere maintaining our ex
isting military status until the Mex
ican problem was solved, what do
you suppose Japan would be doing?
“The United States is now feeling
the effect of too hasty treaty action
in our controversy with Great Britain.
We’ve had enough of peace treaties
until there is occasion for
BOYx 4, "BEST MAN” AS DI
VORCEE WEDS The 4-year-old son
of the bride acted as best man when
Mrs. Ina Webster, of Duluth, a di
vorcee, was married at Hudson, Wis.,
to Henry A. Phillips, of Bedmidji,
Minn.
Locomobile Branch
Holds Open House
ments in the militia, the State appro
priation should be doubled.”
General Nash said he was consider
ing making a recommendation of this
nature to the Legislature when it
convenes this summer. Half the State
appropriation is consumed in armory
rent and the remainder goes for office
rent, traveling expenses of inspectors,
stationery and other necessaries.
Marks Completion of New Building
Here and Inauguration of
Headquarters for South.
mission, whose report covers eignr
months of inquiry.
Of thirty-four women questioned
by the commission particularly as to
the disposition of their gains, nine
spent the money on their children,
four gave it to their husbands, and
three used it for general household
expenses. Four expended the earn
ings on dress, and fourteen handed
ov !• the money to friends and han
gers-on of the opposite sex. From
these figures the conclusion is drawn
that a very considerable proportion
)f the erring Quaker City females
are married and live in their own
households.
Go Astray in School.
The excuse of inadequate support
Is not fully accepted by the investi
gators, who say they are inclined to
believe that very many of the women
thev questioned began so young as to
make it clear that improper envir
onment and lack of proper home and
school training ore to be blamed to
a very* considerable extent.
So much vice was found among
school children that the commission
reluctantly concludes that vice is first
taught the Philadelphia child in the
classroom, and tli^t it is there that
the work of education against the so
cial evil should be begun. Tile
widespread, systematic teaching of
6* x hygiene is urged, therefore, as a
most pressing need for the schools.
£ixty per cen-t. of the schoolgirls In
terrogated. so the investigators as
sert, turned out to have learned, be
fore they were ten or eleven years
old. a varity of bad habits.
The recommendations of the com
mission are:
First—That segregation and all ef
fort- to continue that practice Here
be abandoned.
Second—All measures of suppres
sion be treed from the spectacular.
Third—That prosecutions for the
suppression of the evil in the future
be directed first against the owners
of the houses, the proprietors, and
second, against the white slavers.
Fourth—The introduction into the
public chools of courses of sex hy
giene and pathology as one of the
most necessary essentials.
Fifth—That the Department of
Health be empowered to supervise the
registration of physical ailments that
accompany the social evil.
$18,000 a Day the Receipts.
The total yearly wages of the white
slaves of Philadelphia Is estimated by
the commission at over $6,250,000, of
which more than $2,433,000 is gath
er'd in disorderly houses, nearly $1,-
217,000 i- got by women who lodge in
furnished rooms and $2,600,000 is
picked up on the streets. This is
about $ L8.000 a day. There are, it is
averred, 3,311 disorderly houses in
the central red light district, where
also there are 1,542 school children
and 2,500 others under twenty-one.
The individual earnings of the women
average ?25 a we«-*k, and range from
$10 to $200 each. More than eight
hundred of these creatures are de
clared to be regularly roaming the
streets. ,
Eighty-three per cent, of the wom
en. according to the commission, are
American born, and 10 per cent, are
from the south of Europe. The rest
are from scattered parts of the East.
These women pay a dreadful pen
alty for their mode of life, in proof
of which it is cited that they* com-
losed 60 per cent, of all the women
operated on at the University Hos
pital, no, to speak of the throngs of
them in the medical wards and at the
dispensaries. •
Open house will bo held by the Lo
comobile Company from 3 to b o’clock,
this afternoon in their new building,
160 Peachtree Street, the occasion
also marking the opening of the
Southern branch of the company in
Atlanta. The building is handsome
and complete in every respect.
F. W. Roberts, formerly with the
Locomobile Agency here, but branch
manager at Washington for the last
two years, will be in charge of the
Southern branch, with E. M. King, of
Washington, as associate.
The territory* will Hike in Georgia,
Tennessee, South Carolina, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Texas.
The first floor of the new building
will be used as salesroom, the base-
njent and rear second floor as a gar
age for Locomobile owners, the third
and fourth floors as a repair shop.
The building is beautifully decorat
ed for the opening.
Important
Sayings
more.
"Men who travel over the world tell
| us that the general impression exists
that we are a nation of shopkeepers
and cowards, afraid to fight lest we
disturb business.
Is ^America Cowardly?
“Is therf no longer good red blood
in our veins? Have we reached a
point where we can’t say who may
and who may not own property in
By important people on
topics of live interest
Preliminary Treaty Likely To Be
Perfected To-morrow—Terms
Agreed Upon.
"Certain it is, as Mr. Taft has in
dicated, that the poor man gets the
worst of it—but so he does most ev
erywhere else. too. It spems certain
also that he always will, under con
ditions generally, as they exist to
day. He cannot employ* the best le
gal talent, and frequently he cannot
employ* any.”—Frederick R. Coudert,
a lawyer, in commenting on Tail’s
criticism of courts.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 25.—It
was learned from a semi-official
source to-day that the preliminary
protocol to a treaty of peace between
Turkey and the Balkan allies will be
signed to-morrow.
The Ottoman Government and the
allies already* have reached an agree
ment as to the boundaries'of Thrace
and the conditions upon which pris
oners of war shall be exchanged,.
This accord, however, may not prove
satisfactory to the powers.
One ray of hope came from Cet-
tinje, the capital of Montenegro, in
a dispatch which quoted Premier To-
manovich as saying chat in view of
the concessions made by the Greeks
and Servians to the demands of tne
powers. Montenegro would not stand
disgraced in the eyes of the world it
she voluntarily gave up Scutari.
The Greeks gave up Avalona
which probably will become the Al
banian capital, and the Servians gave
up Durazzo, one of the chief Albanian
ports.
The conservative element in Euro
pean politics looks for Montenegro to
yield as gracefully as possible and
accept territory elsewhere.
“I believe the people of California
desire an alien land law that will
have the effect of preventing their
agricultural and residential lands
from passing into the hands of the
Japanese and Chinese, and such a
law should be passed.”—Senator
Boynton, President pro tern ‘of the
Senate, discussing the California
Aljen Jyiind law.
“No self-respecting nation would
abdicate its sovereignty over its do
mestic affairs as Senator Root con
tends we did when we negotiated the
Hay-Paurieefote treaty.” — Sena 1 ol
id ri stow.
Flyers Urge Federal
Control of Aviation
S ee
your 'vSL
dentist
twice-a-year. \
Twice-a-day use
$1 A
Week
II in Congress Would Put Aero- :
nautics Under Government
Bureau of Navigation.
WASHINGTON, April 26.—An
aviation-control bill was introduced
in the house to-day by Representa
tive Yare of Pennsylvania at the re
quest of the Aero club of that state.
It would place aeronautics entirely
under the control of the bureau of
Navigation of the Department jf
Commerce.
It provides that every person build
ing or owning an areoplane must
apply to the bureau of navigation
for a license, paying a fee of $5. Each
applicant for a license as an aviator
would be required to submit proof
of his qualifications for operating the
type of machine he names.
"Such a law.” said y'• Vare, "will
make the business of aeronautics
much safer than it is at present.”
“1 am one of those .who hope for
the virtual reunion of all the Protes
tant denominations during the next
century or two. Nor do 1 deem ;t
impossible that the Catholic Church
may ultimately follow. It may lie
now only a vision, a dream, but vis
ions have before now come true.”—
Governor Baldwin, of Connecticut.
Come to our store Saturday or Mon
day, and we will show you a selection of
new summer dresses at $7.98, that can
not be duplicated elsewhere for less than
$12 to $15. Ratines, Lingerie and Voiles
in a wide range of colors. Only $2.00 nec
essary in maknig your purchase. The re
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"I expect to see conditions in my
State bettered, if they can be bet
tered, now that the women have a
vote. I expect Oregon to teach n
lesson to the 'effete East’ in legisla
tion for the good of her citizens. The
women are instinctively on the side
of moral right.”—Senator Chamber-
lain.
Many Arms Taken
At Fall of Scutari.
CETTINJE, April 2S.—One hundred
and twenty heavy guns and more
than 40,000 small firms were cap
tured by King Nicholas’ Montenegrin
army at Scutari. General Martino-
vitch, the Montenegrin Minister of
War, who has been at the front, ar
rived here to-day and gave out this
information.
Scutari is held by 40,000 Monte
negrins and Servians.
The works, which were badly dam
aged by the besiegers’ fire, are being
repaired and fresh guns are being
mounted.
This action indicates that the Mon
tenegrins intend to hold the city.
King Nicholas will make his state
entry into Scutari to-morrow, when
he will proclaim that city his royal
residence.
Hundreds of Heroes
Ask Carnegie Medals
Sold Everywhere
Commission Meets in Pittsburg to
Investigate Claims and An
nounce Awards.
PITTSBURG, Apri 125.—Hundreds
upon hundreds of cases were caileu
to the attention of the Carnegie Hero
Fund Commission which met here to
day. Most of these have been in
vestigated. but there still irematns
a number of alleged acts of heroism
of recent occurrence, into the merits
of which the commission’s investigat
ors must look.
It is said Phat a great many cases
have been found warranting action by
the commission, and that the awards
to be announced will exceed in num
ber any ever made before by the com
mission at one time.
DECATUR
ITS EDUCATIONAL
ADVANTAGES
A SECOND NEW Public School Building, costing ap
proximately $25,000, will he erected in Decatur before Sep
tember. The site lias been bought, plans have been ac
cepted by the Board of Education, and work will be begun
in a few days. This is the SECOND new public school
building erected in DECATUR in three years, made neces
sary by the growth of population from 2,400 in 1910 to
about 3,600 to-day.
For the past year DECATUR has operated a public
HIGH SCHOOL of three grades. Beginning in September
there will be added it FOURTH HIGH SCHOOL grade,
making it so that boys and girls may be prepared in DE
CATUR for the best college and universities in the United
States and for LIFE ANYWHERE.
IMPORTANT DATE FORED
WILSON TO LEAVE GAME
PU^ESILI^ GLOVES
The secret of wear in
silk gloves is in the
purity of the silk.
WASHINGTON, April 25.—Presi
dent Wilson wrestled with conflicting
desires as he watched yesterday's
Boston-Washington baseball game. He
went to the contest hoping that it
would be concluded in time for him
to meet Secretary Bryan at the White
House at 5 o’clock for a final confer
ence before the latter took a 6:45 train
for the Pacific coast.
The game was close and exciting
and reached its climax as the time
approached for the President to leave.
Washington had overcome Boston’s
lead, tieing the score 2 to 2, and
things were breaking well for the
Washington team. The President
loked at his watch regretfully and
tOld Secretary Tumulty that if Ills
engagement had not been with the
Secretary of State he might have been
tempted to be a little late. He depart
ed reluctantly, receiving an ovation
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Grows steadily by every standard by which a groat wom
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Raiford will be held:at 2 o’clock this
afternoon at the First Congrega
tional Church (colored), the Rev. H
H. Proctor officiating. Interment
v. ill be in Southview. The deceased
had attained prominence among the
members of her race, and as a teach-
r at Starrs School was highly re
garded. She was born in Columbus
and was a graduate of Atlanta Uni-
% eiiity. , - —
DECATUR, GA
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