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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. S ee >3®|p your dentist twice-a-year. N Twice-a-day use $1 A Week 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. RIBBON D£NTaL ceeaw mark 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. 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. PU^E SILK, GLOVES 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. 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. silk gloves are one hundred percent pure. They are double tipped and each pair contains an iron bound guarantee. Ask your dealer. If he can not supply you, send us his name. 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