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r» Noted Lawyer Will 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 mainder $1.00 a week. Call early. rRAot RIBBON m *»» DENTaL CB£AM You will like its deli cious flavor — you will enjoy the wholesome cleanliness it gives— you and your dentist too, will notice the im provement in your teeth after a few months’ regular use of Colgate's Ribbon Dental Cream. "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 Beautifully lined with silk-fin ished Venetian We will compare! this number with anyone’s $25 suit. You can have this charged, also, and pay as little as $1.00 a week. Hun dreds of others at $15, $18, $20 and $25. Call to-day. AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE Grows steadily by every standard by which a groat wom an's college is judged. To-day it ranks among the first educational institutions of America. BESIDES, residents of DECATUR enjoy all the edu cational advantages of ATLANTA, with which it is closely connected by TWO ELECTRIC LINES, Georgia Railroad, TELEPHONE and DRIVEWAYS. SEND FOR BOOKLET. UNITED Si 28 West Mitchell Street 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 BELL PHONE DECATUR 148