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TV IK ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS Enlisted in a movement to place the South in the vanguard of the na tional campaign for social, civic and economic reforms, leaders in the public life of the Southern States are gathering in Atlanta to-day. More than five hundred delegates registered at the Y. M. C. A. head quarters this morning. One thousand more are expected late this afternoon and evening, and when the first ses sion is called to order at the Wes ley Memorial Church this evening at 7 '30 o’clock there probably will be between 1,-00 and 1,500 social workers in Atlanta. ' Included among the arrivals are se\eral who are nationally prominent in the work. Dr. A. J. McKelway, of Washington, D. C., head of the Child Labor Commission of the Southern States, was one of the first to arrive. He will serve as chairman of the conference of child welfare. Others who came this morning were Dr. Creasy L. Wilbur, of Washington, Director of the United States Bureau of Vital Statistics, who will speak to-morrow morning on "The South’s Greatest Public Health Need;” Chan cellor Kirkland, of Vanderbilt Uni versity, and W. B. Patterson, of Phil adelphia. secretary of the Commis sion on Social Service. Captain Hobson on Program. Interest to-day is centered on the arrival of Representative Richmond 1’ Hobson, of Alabama, who will speak at the Sunday afternoon ses sion of the congress. His subject will he "The Great Destroyer.” The sessions and conferences, which begin to-night In Wesley Memorial church with a general assembly of delegates, will conclude next Tuesday afternoon. They will constitute the second Southern Sociological Con gress, the first of which, launched by Governor Ben W. Hooper, was held in Nashville last year. The presence of the Governors of two States, the heads of two univer sities and other prominent men of the South will make the opening meeting to-night a notable one. Official wel come will be extended by Governor Brown. Mayor Woodward will give the del egates the freedom of the city and Invite them to accept Its hospitalities. Response will be made by Chancellor James H. Kirkland, of Vanderbilt University, Governor Hoope*-, of Tennessee, one of the founders of the congress and Its president, will deliver the annual address, outlining the purposes of the organisation and describing Its im mediate plans for Instituting reforms. Other speakers of the first evening will be Rabbi David Marx, Dr. John H. White and Father Rapier, of At lanta, and Dr S. C. Mitchell, presi dent of the University of South Caro lina. The special conferences will begin to-morrow morning. Another general assembly will be held in the Auditorium Sunday afternoon. The workers are planning a deter mined fight against the present con ditions of child labor In the South. Investigators will submit the result of their investigations in Southern factories and mills, and make recom mendations for framing laws that will protect children Instead of allowing ! their exploitation. Startling conditions In some of the Southern States will be revealed. Residents of Georgia will be aston ished at the manner in which child hood Is oppressed In some parts of the State. All sessions of the child welfare conference will be held In the First Methodist Church. Placet of Meeting. The conference on courts and pris ons will be held in Wesley Memorial Church; public health in the First Baptist Church; travelers' aid in the First Methodist Sunday school; church and social service in the Cen tral Congregational Church, and race problems In the Baptist. Tabernacle. Sessions will begin in earnest to morrow morning. Dr. A. J. McKel way, of Washington, will be in charge of the child welfare conference when It opens 1n the First Methodist Church. He will read a report of work accomplished in the last year and investigations made in each of the Southern States. Dr. Cressy L. Wilbur, director of the Federal Bureau of Vital Statis tics in Washington, will be the prin cipal speaker at to-morrow's session of the public health conference in the First Baptist Church. NEGLIGENCE SEEN |RAPS GEORGIA FOR 1 MINE DISASTER! LAX VITAL RECORD Rigid Probe of Explosion at Fin- leyville, Pa., Which Killed One Hundred, Is Begun, FINLEYVILLE, PA., April 25.— State and county authorities to-day began a rigid investigation into the *ause of the mine explosion here, which killed more than 100 men. Chief Mine Inspector James A. Roderick to-day issued a statement pregnant with sensations. He esti mated the number of dead at 100, and declared that the explosion evident ly "resulted from more than care lessness.” Rumors of negligence on the part <>f the officials of the Monongahela Consolidated Coal and Coke Company, owners of the mine, are being inves tigated. The fact that the fire bosses’ records were put under lock and key while other papers bearing directly on the operation of the mine were, ’ was alleged, removed from the mine office, have given the matter a serious appearance. • ’resident VanBitner, of the Pitts- h| irg district, United Mine Workers "/ America, and Peter E. Quinn, ‘Springfield, Ill., international orga- m?er, aided the investigators to-day. resident Bitner declared the dead would total 150. r hief Inspector Roderick said he ‘ ould appoint two commissions to in vestigate. One will be composed of State mine inspectors and the other will be composed of three ex pert engineers. Aged Man Kills Himself. DALTON.—Frank CoogTer, an aged J-tired farmer of this city, was found ead, with a pistol bullet In his head, on tort Hill late yesterday afternoon, ’he presumption being that while mentally deranged he shot himself. Head of Federal Department Lends Aid to Obtain Statistics Bureau for State. Dr. Cressy L. Wilbur, director of the Federal Bureau of Vital Statistics at Washington, passed severe criti cism to-day on Georgia's backward ness in adopting a State-wide regis tration of births, deaths and sick ness. Dr. Wilbur was a visitor at the oapitol. where he was in confer ence with State officials interested In securing a bureau of vital statistics in Georgia by action of the coming session of tne Legislature. "Georgia and South Carolina are lagging far behind other States in this Important matter." said Mr. Wil bur. "These two register neither births nor deaths,” Dr. Wilbur declared careful and systematic registration is the basis of all sanitary and sociological work. "The registration of deaths," said Dr. Wilbur, "often gives the first in timation of the invasion of a com munity by pestilential disease. From another viewpoint, it relieves com munities of the reputation of un- healthfulness. Some of your South ern Georgia counties are said to be productive of much malaria. T am confident conditions are exaggerated. Vital statistics would prove It and people would not be scared away.” NO PIEDMONT ROBBERY. Assistant Superintendent Harry Scott, of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, and the management of the Piedmont Hotel announced to-day that no case of robbery of any kind has been reported in the hotel this week, despite the large number of grand opera guests. The report cir culated that H. H. Parks, a guest, had been robbed was pronounced groundless. MW GAN TELL IF YOU Mm GRAY. FADED HAIR WITH SAGE TEA Druggist Says When Mixed With Sulphur Prevents Dandruff and Falling Hair. 1 -°mmon garden sage brewed into heavy tea with sulphur and alco hol added, then left to age and carefully filtered, will turn gray, ^’rpaked and faded hair beautifully hark and luxuriant; remove every J!t of dandruff, stop scalp itching, \ a n<l falling hair. •lust a few applications will prove j 1 revelation if your hair is fading, ; " r dry, scraggly and thin. v -ng the Sage Tea and Sulphur i' e at home, though, is trouble- 'me. An easier way is to get the ady-to-use tonic, costing about ‘•nts a large bottle at drug n*s known as "Wyeth's Sage 1,1 Sulphur Haii- Remedy," thus avoiding a lot of muss. Some drug gists make their own, but it isn't nearly so nice as "‘Wyeth’s." While wispy, gray, faded hair is not sinful, we all desire to re tain our youthful appearance and attractiveness. By darkening your hair with Wyeth’s Sage and Sul phur no one can tell, because it does it so naturally; so evenly. You just dampen a sponge or soft brush and draw it through your hair, taking one small strand at a time. Do this to-night and by morning all gray hairs have dis appeared. After another applica tion or two it will be restored to its natural color and be even more glossy, soft and luxuriant than ever. • Local druggists say they are sell ing lots of "Wyeth's Sage and Sul phur:" it surely helps folks appear years younger. Elkin Drug (' m- 1 panv, Special Agents. < G overnor ren w. HOOPER, of Tennessee, and Governor O'Neal, of Ala bama (below), who will speak before Sociological Congress here. Distinguished Men and Women Will Urge That South Be Put in Fore front of Social Reform Campaign. FEWER ACRES OF GEORGIA IN Official Washington Turns Baseball Fan President, Cabinet, Diplomats and Trust Busters All Drop Cares of State for Game. WASHINGTON, April 25.—Yester day’s American League ball gam< between Washington and Boston at tracted the most brilliant official and diplomatic gathering which ever has watched a game ir. this city. Accompanied by Miss Wilson, Vice President Marshall. Secretary Tu multy and a guard of secret service men, President Wilson occupied his flag-draped box from the first inning until the last man had been retired. Sprinkled through the remainder o f the crowd were many prominent Sen ators, Representatives, 'Cabinet offi cers and diplomats Prominent in the stands were sev eral of the baseball trust busters." Among them were Assistant Attor neys General Fowler and Thompson. Senator Hoke Smith and Represen tative Hardwick. New British Budget Pleases Taxpayers Lloyd-George Says $35,000,000 In crease Will Be Raised by Trade Alone. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON, April 25.—English tax payers breathed more freely when they found that the budget meant no new taxes. Chancellor Lloyd-George intro duced the Government’s financial plans in the House of Commons and took such an optimistic view of th-. future that it was decided to depend upon an increase in trade to meet the $35,000,000 increased expenditure, believing trade boom has not yet reached the high water mark. The Chancellor attributes present prosperity to the production of go 1, which is now at the rate of $500,• 000,000 per annum. Elevator Man Forces Senator to Apologize Holds Myers, of Montana, Prisoner in Car Until He Retracts for Epithet Applied. WASHINGTON, April 25. Senator Henry L. Myers, of Montana, was held a prisoner in a Senate elevator by a conductor who demanded an apology or a fight for an epithet applied to him. Conductor Lamb did not know the Senator. Operating under rules, he carried the other Senators* to the floors designated. Finally Senator Myers, with an oath, demanded to be taken to his floor. Lamb turned to the Senator and said: * "No man can usr the name to me you have used and get away without an apology or a fight. This car goes no farther until you do one thing or the other." Senator Myers reached his office. Lamb still holds his job. LESS LIKELY TO WED, GIRL GETS $15,000 FOR TWO TOES LOS ANGELES, April 25.—Because her chances of marrying were lessen ed by the loss of two toes. Miss Wari- na Starch, a school teacher, was a war led y judgme nt of $15,000 against the Pacific Electric Company. She was injured in a ear crash a year ago. The company's attorney to-day served notice that tb* y would appeal fium the decision. New York Authority Thinks This the Only State With a Smaller Area. NEW YORK, April 25.—According to the estimate of more than 1.000 correspondents of The New York Commercial, the cotton acreage for 1913 Is placed at 36,455,810 acres, a gain of 6 9 per cent from the previous year. Georgia la the only State show ing a decrease. The following table shows the esti mate by States: States. Acre*. Per Cant. Georgia 4.890,000 —3 Alabama .. 3,916,000 5 Arkansas 2,274,556 3 Louisiana 1,354,930 15 Mississippi 3.353,900 10 North Carolina .. 1,565,000 Ugd. Oklahoma .. . 3,036,320 12 South Carolina . . 2,734,200 5 Tennessee 878,990 io Texas 11.962.000 10 Others 491,000 io (—Indicates decrease; others are gains.) The crop is about half planted in the eastern belt. His Spirituality Was Far Too ‘Spirituous’ So Juiius McBrayer Served Time on Chaingang—Sentence Just Commuted. Julius McBrayer declares he never again will seek to Increase the fervor of his religious worship by resort to spirituous liquors. McBrayer tried it in a Haralson county church some time ago and only yesterday the commutation of his twelve months’ sentence on the chaingang was announced. McBrayer took an active part in the church sendees, but his spirituality was of the wrong sort, Companions of McBrayer were let off with fines of $50. He, because he had given trouble before, was given a more severe sentence, which was commuted to present service on the payment of a $100 fine. Rockefeller Is in Good Golfing Form Out Early on Link* at Pocantico Eatate—Appear* to Be in Fine Health. TARRYTOWN, N. Y„ April 25.— John D. Rockefeller has returned to his Pocantico Hills home for the spring season and Is In great golf ing form. He is out on the links early every morning. Mr Rockefeller plays a greal game. He appears to be in excellent health, and in high spirits over hts play. He Is overseeing the finishing touches on his mansion on the iiiil and observing the progress made in his new Ice plant, which will make a ton of toe a day and save him .12 a ton at the present prices. CROXDNE SOON BELIEVES ALL KIDNEY AND, BLADDER TROUBLES Chronic Sufferers Find Relief After Few Doses Are Taken. If you are bothered with backache —or rheumatism, have disagreeable, annoying bladder or urinary disor ders to contend with—or suffer with any other of the many miseries that come from weak kidneys, here is a guaranteed remedy you can depend upon, no matter what else may have failed to cure you. It is a positive fact that the new discovery, t'roxone, promptly over comes such diseases. It is the most wonderful remedy ever made for ridding the system of uric acid. It soaks right in and cleans out the stopped-up kidneys and makes them filter and sift out all the poi sonous waste matter from tlie blood. It neutralizes and dissolves the uric acid that lodges in the joints and muscles, causing rheumatism; soothes and heals the delicate lin ings of the bladder. _ More than a few doses of Croxone are seldom required to relieve even the obstinate long-standing cases You will find Croxone entirely different from all other remedies. It is so prepared that it is prac tically impossible to take it into the human system without results. An original package costs but a tri fle. All druggists are authorized to return tile purchase price if t'rox one fails to give the desired results the very first time. Fashionable St raws A very perceptible change in the styles of Straw Hats is to he noted for this season. The tendency in shapes is marked. The crowns are higher.the brims not so wide and th« hands are of narrow rib bons, the color of which may accord with your fancy, although green is newer. The hows on the smarter hats are loose tied when worn at the side; or loose ends, French howa they are called, when worn at the hack or on the quarter which is midway twixt the side and the rear. The popular hraid. the fashionable hraid, if you please, is the sennit straw coarse milimeter, and the rough-and- ready kinds which are still more fanciful and with much thicker hrims. Th is is the style tendency in Straw Hats for young men and for those who feel young. $2.50 $3.00 $3.50 $4.00 □Q BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS. BASS. SATUBDAY BARGAINS At the Big Bass Store For the last Saturday of this great April Sale we have arranged a most remarkable collection of attractive bargains in seasonable merchan dise. Every department will join in the effort to make this a record- breaking day. Only a few of the hundreds of specials to be offered are quoted in this advertisement. Come and see them all. Store Will Close Saturday at 1 P. M. In Honor of the Confederate Dead, and Remain Open Until 10. Extra 1 o'clock and from 5 to 10 P. M. but will Reopen at 5 P. M. Bargains from 8 A. M. to Ready-to-Wear and Millinery Great Hat Sale On sale Saturday—2,000 brand-new Hats, including Trimmed Dress Hats, Ready-to-Wears, White Ratines, Knox Sailors and Untrimmed Shapes in all best styles and colors— Values up to $5.00 at, choice 08c Sale of Dresses Just in by Friday’s express—500 new Dresses, including ratines, silks, all-wool serges, white and Bulgarian embroidered voiles—every one a new and pretty model— Values up to $12.50 at, choice $4 .98 Extra Second Floor Specials Beautiful Silk Chiffon and China Silk Waists; up io *5 |W|C£> values; choice liwU Ladies' House Dresses made of good wash fabrics; worth $1; this sale Children's Dresses, sizes 6 to 12 years: all new style**; up fy% ^ to $1.50 values OwfC Misses’ and Children's Mkldy Blouses on sale tomorrow only *at Lot of Children's Fancy Parasols, worth 50c; to close out | fk _ at only I V6 49c 49c Special Saturday sale of 100 Ladies' Tailored Suits of light-weight all- wool Serges, In black, white and colors, ami of various novelty suit ings Two big bargain lots: Suits worth up to ft /J $20: choice . Suits worth up to ftp ^ <\ 980; ' Stylish one-piece dresses of Linene Suiting in all best ^4 Aft shades; $4 values 4) I aVw New White Pique Skirts, worth up to $2,r. »: In this sale 88C All-Silk Satin Messaline Petticoats with dust ruffles; all AC colors; $4 values .. 9l*vw Toadies' Muslin Corset Covers and Drawers, worth 50c; in this 1 sale only I W Ladies’ Muslin Gowns and Petti coats; up to $1 values; 099^ special only wVw Gowns. Petticoats. Combination Suits and Princess Slips; QQ. up to $3 values ... Ladies’ lisle-finished Undervests, the 20c kind; in this Q^ sale only . . Ov New Spring Skirts Big line of new Spring and Summer Skirts of light weight all-wool serges, diagonals, novelty stripes and mix tures—splendidly tailored in latest style effects— Real Values Up to $8.50 at, choice. . $3.90 New Spring Waists New White Lingerie Waists, pret tily trimmed with laces and embroider ies—a special lot bought ’way below value—worth from $1.00 to $1.50 re tail— On Sale From 10 to 12 O'clock Only at . . . . 44c Specials in Ladies’ and Men’s Furnishings Ladies’ 16-button length Silk Gloves in white, black and colors; $1.25 grade Ladles’ 16-button length Lisle Gloves In black, white and colors; 89c quality Latest novelties in Ladles’ Neckwear and Ruching; 50c values; all at ...... bvv Ladles’ 50c quality Silk Hose in black and popular colors; this sale only 69c 49c 25c R. & G. Make Corsets in new 1913 summerBJA^ models; this sale only w wO Indies’ white Hemstitched Handkerchiefs on sale to-morrow at, each Men's white hemstitched Handkerchiefs, worth 10c; In this sale only Men's Balbriggan and Porous Knit Under wear; 50c grade, per garment 1( 3c 25c Following on Sheets 27c Full double bo<l size bleached hemmed Sheets on sale Satur day morning from 1) to 11 4)'clock, at each Sale from9to 11 o’Clock Only Pillow Cases Spreads 98c 27c Good' size well-made bleached Pillow Gases on sale Satuday morning from 9 to 11 o'clock only at each . 8e Large Marseilles pattern whit© Bed Spreads, $2 values; on sale Saturday morning, 9 to AQ a 11 o’clock only at, each See Th ese Bargains in New Silks 25 pieces of white washable China worth 50c, to sell at per yard Pongees, Shantungs and fancy tub Silks, worth up to 50c: at yard Silks ’ 19c 19® Three Specials in Special lot. of silk striped Voiles in all theQ#A popular shades; 75c value Ow0 45-inch Silk Crepe de Chines in black, AA« white and betsji colors; yard 090 Wash Goods New mercerized Crepe Ratines in |36-inch brown I >res« Linene. worth i Yard-wide French Percales In light all the stylish shades; art-* 20c a yard; in this Q^jand dark colors*; per 50c value I «IC sale J A Big 5-Cent Sale Saturday Yard-Wide Heavy Brown Sheeting Yard-Wide Soft Finish Bleaching Yard-Wide Bleached Cambric In Our Furniture Department CD DO DO do CD DO DO DC GO cn DO DO CD CD CD CD DO CD P <k I • I i