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Hundreds of Heroes
Ask Carnegie Medals
Noted Lawyer Will
Lecture on Death
STRIKE ONE!
Commission Meets in Pittsburg to
Investigate Claims and An
nounce Awards.
Atlanta Bible Students Get
J. F. Rutherford, New York,
Address Sunday.
PITTSBURG, April lift.—Hundreds
upon hundreds of eas€;s were called
t<* the attention of the Carnegie Hero
Fund Commission which met here to
day. Most of these have been in
vestigated, hut there still iremains
a number of alleged acts of heroism
« I recent occurrence, in o th« merits
of which the commission s investigat
ors must look.
It is said that a great many cases
have been found warranting action by
the commission, and that the awards
to he announced will exceed in num
ber any ever made before by the com
mission at one time.
Adjutant General Will Ask for
Fifty Thousand Dollars to Form
Additional State Troops.
Blue Ridge Instructors, Here in
Conference, Plan Denomina
tional Campaign.
"Where Are The Dead?" i., u,..
subject uf a free lecture to be dt
livered at the Grand Operu 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 F3ible 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 Hoi;
Land he spoke in all the principal
cities of Great Britain and the con
tinent. electing favorable comment
from the European Press. Judp-
Rutherford first came into the pub] ■
eye because of his fight on gr
gambling in Missouri.
John Y. Smith, representative front
Fulton County, will preside al the
meeting.
Government Must Curb Califor
nia or Defy Arrogant Japanese,
Says Mr. Graves.
Inquiry Commission Finds Tha
Public Schools Are Largely
to Blame.
Double the present State appropria
tion is needed to give Georgia a thor
oughly equipped and modern militia,
according to Adjutant General Joseph
Vanllolt Nash, in outlining the needs
of the State military.
“We get a State appropriation of
$25,000. It should be $30,000,” said
General Nash. “We have three in
fantry regiments and one battalion.
That is plenty But we ought to have
three batteries of artillery and we
have ilily two. We ought to have
seven more companies of cavalry.
“We need a well drilled and equip
ped fteld hospital corps composed of
about 38 men. With this we should
have an ambulance corps. To care
for such an increase in the organiza
tion and to provide rof utr.t; unprove-
mt nts 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 Stale
appropriation is consumed in armory
rent and the remainder goe?* for office
rent, traveling expenses of inspectors,
stationery and other necessaries.
For the first time in the history of
the work, teachers and industrial
workers who have labored for ten
years in the mountain fastnesses of
the Southern Appalachian region
were brought together in Atlanta
at the North Avenue Presby
terian Church. Fifty schools in the
Caroiinas, Kentucky, Tennessee and
Georgia are represented by more than
100 delegates.
Rev. Dr. Richard Orme Flinn. of
the North Avenue Church, declared
that the Atlknta meetings would
be epoch-making in the work of edu
cating mountaineers of the South.
For more than ten years denomina
tional workers, aided by many un
denominational volunteers, hav.- con
ducted schools in the mountains, but
no attempt has been made to comhint
the work.
It is believed the conference will
result in an organized campaign, In
which all denominations will take
part
Atlanta has had and t& new
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 23.—One-
half of the women in Philadelphia
who quit the straight and narrow
path do so because of inadequate
support or give that as an excus<
according to the Mayor's Vico Com
mission, whose report covers eig.it
months of inquiry.
Of thirty -foui women questioned
by the commission particularly as to
the disposition of their gains, nine
>pont the money on tlieir. children,
four gave it to their husbands, and
.three ustd it for general household
ex pens- y Four expended tin e.lin
ings on ore as, and fourteen handed
over 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 ,iring Quftkhi 4 ‘City females
RIGHT OF WAV WANTED
FOR ROME INTERURBAN
GADSDEN, ALA., April 25.—A pro
posal will probably be made to prop
erty holders between Gadsden and
Rome, Ga.. to donate a right-of-way
for the proposed interurban railroad
between the two cities. Farmers in
Cherokee and Etowah Counties have
already offered a right-of-way for the
road and to give several thousand
ties. A committee meeting will be
hold in Gadsden at an early date
when plans will be made to raise a
fund for a preliminary survey.
100 FLEE HOTEL FIRE.
STEUBENVILLE, OHIO, April J
—One hundred guests in the Imperi. :
Hotel here had hair-breadth escapes
from death and a number were pain
fully burned when fire swept throug i
the hostelry this mornihg. Incen
diaries are blamed for the confiagr .
tion.
In that message President Wilson
appealed to California and to public
opinion upon the basis that they did
not know the consequences they were
inviting.
May Hava Other Menaces.
Of course, the people could not be
expected to know the situation they
were fronting if the President, who
proposed to take the people into hi'
confidence, had not confided to them
the inside information in his posses
sion.
Nobody knows as yet what other
menace and threat is held in the
White iiousi* and the State Depart
ment in addition to the two warlike
messages called by Ambassador
chinda to the President
It is enough to know that the Presi
dent and the Secretary of State an
both bombarding the -• ive::.ov and
the Legislature of California with
dally appeals not to do what both
the Governor and the Legislature de
sire to dt and feel it absolutely nec
essary that they should do.
In case California proceeds to pass
the law excluding only Asiatics from
the perpetual ownership of land, the
President will either appeal to tin
courts or to referendum.
State's Rights Involved.
If it is an appeal to the courts the
question will be one of State’s rights,
as distinct as that raised by the Civil
War.
The issue of 1 SGI involved tin
rights the States to perpetuate
human slavery and the extreme' right
of each State to withdraw from the
Union. The lss*. o to-day in Califor
nia is over the right of that State to
control it.s own affairs on the matter
of citizenship and the alien owner
ship of land.
If the State's rights issue should be
sharply projected, as it must be in j
this matter, it is a question if the |
Supreme Court, as constituted at |
present, would sustain the anti-
rtates right idea. Lurton, of Ten-*
nessee; White, of Louisiana; Lemar,
of Georgia, and Van Deventer, of St.
Louis, learly one-hall’ of the Supremo
Court were all born in the State’s
right zone of the republic.
The only course which the Presi
dent could consistently maintain
would be to induce 10 per cent, o?
the population of California to call
for a r* lerendum to the people hi
case the Legislature should pass the
law w hich infuriates the Japanese.
This referendum, if it should be
called, would give time for the tumult
in Japan to be allayed, and serve the
additional purpose of enabling the
United States to ptovide for eventual
ities, if they must be met.
Whatever quieting influence may
1 be derived from this probability is
. neutralized by the apprehension that
when Japan thinks the proper time
has come to strike she will strike at
CANAL TO OPEN JAN. 1,
G0ETHALS ANNOUNCES
WASHINGTON. April 25.—Colonel
George W. Goethals, engineer in
charge of the Panama Canal, has
designated January 1, 1914, as the
day upon which the canal will be
open to navigation.
Secretary Garrison further an
nounced that he had decided to
award to Captain Amundsen, the
Antarctic explorer, and his ship the
Fram the honor of making the first
passage from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific via the new waterway.
Minister of State Suggests That
Toll Controversy Be Settled by
The Hague Tribunal.
Preliminary Treaty Likely To Be
Perfected To-morrow—Terms
Agreed Upon.
widespread, systematic teaching of
sex hygiene is urged, therefore, as i
most pressing need for the schools.
terrogated, so th investigator.- as
sert, turned out t« have learned, be-
tore they were ten or eleven years
old. a • arity of bad habit'*.
The recommendations of the com
mission arc:
First--'fhat segregation and all ef
fort to t-ontinu that praetor hen
he abandoned.
Second—-All m«» sure.- of Bqpprts-
tioti be treed' from th* spectacular.
Third—That u'oseeullofts for the
suppression of tie evil In the future
be directed first aguinst the owners
of the houses, the proprietors, and
second, against the white slavers.
Fourth—Th© introduction into the
jatblic chools of tourse* of sex hy
giene md pathology as one of the
most necessary essentials.
Fifth—That the Department of
Health he empowered t<» supervise the
registration of plr/sical ailments that
accompany the social evil.
$18,000 a Day the Receipts.
The total yearly wages of the whit,
slaves of Philadelphia is estimated by
ihe commission at over $6,250,000, of
which more than $2,483,000 i& gath
ered in disorderly houses, nearly $1,-
217.000 i got by women who lodge in
furnisheu rooms and $2,600,000 is
picked up on th* streets. This is
about $18 000 a uny. There are, it is
averred. 8,311 disorderly houses in
the central red light district, when
also there are 1,342 school children
and 2,500 other.* under twenty-one.
The individual earning* of the worrier
average $25 a wo* k. and range from
$10 to $200 each. More than eight
hundred of these creatures arc de
clared to be regularly roaming the
? treets.
ISlghty-three per cent, of the wom
en, accoiding to the commission, ure
American born, and 10 per cent, are
from the south <»f Europe. The rest
are from scattere.1 parts of the East.
These women pry a dreadful pen
alty for their mode of life, in proof
of which it is cited that they com
posed Oo 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 th *
dispensaries.
WASHINGTON, April 23. -Gregers
W \\ Grain, Minister of State of
Norway, in an address before the
American Society of International
Law; at the New Willard, accused the
United States of taking the wrong
stand in the I* mama Canal tolls con
troversy with Great Britain.
“To discriminate in favor of the
trade of the United States is to break
the spirit of the treaty.” the Minister
declared.
Mr. Gram suggested that the mat
ter be referred to The Hague trib
unal. Am he crossed the ocean ex
pressly to address the society, his
speech is considered a pronounce
ment of the true European view of
the controversy.
Mr. Gram expounded the clause in
the treaty reading:
“There shall be no discrimination
against any nation in respect to the
conditions or charges of traffic.’’ He
took the British view.
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 that in view of
th«‘ concessions made by the Greeks
and Servians to the demands of the
powers. Montenegro would not stand
disgraced in tin* eyes of the world if
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 polities looks for Montenegro to
yield as gracefully as possible and
accept territory elsewhere.
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Important
Sayings
Many Arms Taken
At Fall of Scutari.
i ’ETTINJE, April 2s. One hundred
and twenty heavy guns and more
than 40,000 .small arms were cap
tured by King Nicholas’ Montenegrin
army at Scutari. General M&rttnn-
vitch, the Montenegrin Minister of
War. who has been at the front, ar
rived* here to-duy 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 1 city.
King Nicholas will make his state*
entry into Scutari to-morrow, when
lie* will proclaim that city his royal
residence.
“No self-respecting nation would
abdicate its sovereignty over its uo-
mestlc affairs as Senator Root con
tends we did when we negotiated the
Ilay-Pauneefote treaty.” — Senator
Bristow.
Sold Everywhere
once without formalities and without '
negotiations, as .she did in her con •
tests with China and Russia.
“I expect to see conditions in my
State bettered, if they can be bet
tered, now that the women have a
vote. 1 expect Oregon to teach
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.
DECATUR
ITS EDUCATIONAL
ADVANTAGES
A SECOND NEW Public School Building, costing ap
proximately $25,000, will be erected in Decatur before Sep
tember. The site has 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 ol‘ population from 2,400 in 1910 to
about 3,000 to-day.
For tin 1 past year DECATUR has operated a public
1IIU1I SCHOOL of three grades. Beginning in September
there will be added a 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.
“I am one of those who hope for
the virtual reunion of all the Protes
tant denominations during the next
century or two. Nor do I deem It
impossible that the Catholic Church
max ultimately follow. It ’.nay be
now only a vision, a dream, but vis
ions have before now come true."—
Governor Baldwin, of Connecticut.
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The secret of wear in
silk gloves is in the
purity of the silk.
“Certain it is, as Mr. Taft has In
dicated, that the pout man gets the
worst of it—but so he does most ev
erywhere else, too. It seems certain
also that he always will, under con
dition:* generally, as they exist to
day. He cannot employ the best le
gal talent, and frequently he cannot
employ any.”—Frederick K. Coudert,
a lawyer, in commenting on Taft’s
criticism of courts.
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You can have this charged, also, and
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silk gloves are one
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They are double tipped and
each pair contains an iron
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Ask your dealer. If he can
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AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE
“I believe the people ot Califormi
desire an alien land law that will
have the effect of preventing their
agricultural and residential KtanJs
from passing into the hands of th’
Japanese and Chinese, and such a
law should be passed.”—Senator
Hoynton. President tiro tent of the
Senat, . discussing the California
Alien Land law.
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CHURCH LEADER GUILTY
IN LIQUOR SELLING CASE
GA.. April 24.—Superin-
tendont ul the Anchor Duck .Mill
Aitohociisl Sunday School, member of
their nit Bibb teacher, Martin
Hah. white, has been convicted of
.--•iling whisky, in Superior Court
Soitten lets not been imposed. Halo
*■ nh-ti •• Hu.: liquor, but said In* | , hvo
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