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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS
SUITE’S RIGHTS
Inquiry Commission Finds Thai
Public Schools Are Largely
to Blame.
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Atlanta has had and is 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 25.- One-
half of the women in Philadelphia
who quit the straight and narrow
path do so because of inadequate
support or give that hs an excuse,
according to the Mayor's Vice Com
mission, whose report covers eight
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
over the money to friends and han
gers-on of the opposite sex. Front
these figures the conclusion is drawn
that a very considerable prot>ortlon
of 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, \\ho say they are inclined to
believe that very many of the women
they questioned began go young as to
make it clear that Improper envir
onment and lark of proper home and
wohool training are to be blamed to
a very considerable extent.
So "much vice was found among
achool children that the commission
reluctantly concludes that vice is fli*xt
’aught the Philadelphia child In the
classroom, and that It Is there that
th* work of education against the so
cial evil should be begun The
widespread, systematic teaching of
Hex hygiene is urged, therefore, as •
most pressing need for the schools.
Sixty per cent, a:' the schoolgirls in
terrogated, so th investigators as
sert. turned out to have learned, be
fore they were ten or eleven years
old. a rarity of bad habits.
The recommendationb of the com
mission are:
First—That segregation and all ef
fort to continue that practice her.
be abandoned.
Second—AI i nit*, sure* of suppres
sion be treed from th. spectacular.
Third—That prosecutions for the
suppression of the < vil in the future
be directed first against the owners
of the houses. I he 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 hocial evil.
$18,000 a Day the Receipts.
The total yearly wages of the whit
•laves of Philadelphia is estimated by
the commission at over $6,250,000, of
which more than $2,433,000 is gath
ered in disorderly houses, nearly $1,-
217,000 in got by women who lodge in
furnished rooms and $2,600,000 is
picked up on th*. streets. This ir
about $18 000 a city. 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 week, 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, end 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
posed 60 per cent, of all the women
operated on at the University Hos
pital, r\ot to speak of the throngs of
them in tfie medical wards and at th .*
dispensaries.
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TO BE REVIVED
Government Must Curb Califor
nia or Defy Arrogant Japanese,
Says Mr. Graves.
Adjutant General Will Ask for
Fifty Thousand Dollars to Form
Additional State Troops.
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PEACE PACT IS IW U.S. CANAL STAND
Preliminary Treaty Likely To Be
Perfected To-morrow—Terms
Agreed Upon.
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 36.—-it
as 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 dLspateh which quoted Premier To-
manovich as saying that in view of
the concessions made by the Greeks
and Servians to the demands of the
powers, Montenegro would not stand
disgraced in the 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 politics looks for Montenegro to
yield as gracefully us possible and
accept’ territory elsewhere.
Many Arms Taken
At Fall of Scutari.
CEJTTINJE, April 2&.—One hundred
and twenty heavy guns and more
than 40,000 .small arms were cap
tured by King Nicholas' Montenegrin
army at Scutari. General Martino-
vltch, 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.
Minister of State Suggests That
Toll Controversy Be Settled by
The Hague Tribunal.
WASHINGTON, April 25.—Gregers
W. W. Gram, 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 Panama (’anal 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, Oram suggested that the mat
ter be. referred to The Hague trib
unal. As he crossed the ocean ex
press] y lo 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.
Important
Sayings
By important people on
topics of live interest
"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-Pauncefote treaty." — Senator
Bristow.
BY JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
WASHINGTON, April 26.—When a
Minister Plenipotentiary and Ambas
sador extraordinary of a foreign
country conveys to the President of
the United States such a message as
the Viscount Chinda, the Japanese
Ambassador, has twice repeated to
President Wilson in the White House
within the day it amounts practical
ly to a Japanese ultimatum.
It has come to the point where the
United States must efther compro
mise the rights of the State of Cal
ifornia and surrender to Ja^an or
buckle on its armor and defy the
arrogant contentions of the Japanese
Government.
The message which President Wil
son telegraphed to the California
Governor and Legislature was sent
without even waiting for the special
session of his Cabinet culled to con
sider it.
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 Have 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 his
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 House 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 art:
both bombarding the iverssor and
the Legislature of California with
daily 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 tht
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 asThut raised by the Civil
War
The issue of 1861 involved the
rights if tiie States to perpetuate
human slavery and the extreme right
of each State to withdraw from the
Union. The iss\ e to-day in Califor
nia is over the right of that State to
control its own affairs on the matter
of citizenship and the alien owner
ship of land.
If tlie State’s rights issue should be
sharply projected, as It must be in
this matter, it is a question if the
Supreme Court, as constituted at
present, would sustain the anti-
states right idea. Lurton, of Ten
nessee; White, of Louisiana; Lemar,
of Georgia, and Van Deventer, of St.
Louis, learly one-half of the Supreme
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, ot
the population of California to call
for a referendum to the people in
case the Legislature should pass the
law which 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 piovide for eventual
ities. if they must bo met.
Whatever quieting influence may
be derived from this probability Is
neutralized by the apprehension that
when Japan thinks the proper time
has come to strike she will strike a T
once without formalities and without
negotiations, as she did in her con
tests with China and Russia.
, Double 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 fn-
fantry regiments and one battalion.
That is plenty. But we ought to have
three batteries of artillery and we
have rfily two. Wc- ouxht 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 Tor omer -raprove*
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.
CANAL TO OPEN JAN. 1,
G0ETHALS ANNOUNCES
Hundreds of Heroes
Ask Carnegie Medals
Commission Meets in Pittsburg to |
Investigate Claims and An-
, nounce Awards.
PITTSBFRG, April J3.—Hundreds
upon hundreds o/ cases were called
to the attention of the Carnegie Hero
fund Commission which met here to
day. Most of these have been in-
vestltfuted, but there still iromalns
a number of alleged acts of heroism
of recent occurrence, ini* the merits
of which the commission’s Investigat
ors must look.
it is said that a great many cases
have been found warranting ac tion 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.
RIGHT OF WAY WANTED
FOR ROME INTERURBAN
Blue Ridge Instructors, Here in
Conference, Plan Denomina
tional Campaign.
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
held In Gadsden at an early date
when plans will be made to raise a
fund for a preliminary survey.
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
C’arolinas. Kentucky, Tennessee and
Georgia are represented by more than
100 delegates.
Rev. Dr. Richard Orme Flinn. of
the North Avenue Church, declared
that the Atlanta 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, have con
ducted schools in the mountains, but
no attempt has been made to combine
the work.
It is believed the conference will
result in an organized campaign, In
which all denominations will take
part
'Noted Lawyer Will
Lecture oa Death
Atlanta Bible Students Get Judge
J. F. Rutherford, New York, for
Address Sunday
“Where Ar* The Dead?" j s the
subject of a free lecture to be de
livered at the Grand Ope:a House
Sunday ufternoon at 3 o’clock by
Judge J. F. Rutherford, of N« w 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 addit'on to
being a prominent lawyer, is a
turer oT international reputation Af
ter an extended tour of the Holv
Land he spoke in all the principal
cities of Great Britain and the con
tinent, electing favorable comment
from the European Press. Judge
Rutherford first came into the pubiie
eye because of his fight on grbu
gambling in Missouri.
John Y. Smith, representative from
Fulton County, will preside at tie
meeting.
100 FLEE HOTEL FIRE.
STEUBENVILLE, OHIO, April 23.
—One hundred guests In the Imperial
Hotel here had hair-breadth escapes
from death and a number were pain
fully burned when fire swept through
the hostelry this morning. Incen
diaries are blamed for the conflagra
tion.
WASHINGTON. April 26.—Colonel
George W. Goethais, engineer in
charge of the Panama Cana!, has
designated January 1, 1914, as the
day upon which the canal will ba
open to navigation.
Secretary Garrison further an
nounced that he had decided to
award to Captain Amundsen, the
Antarctic explorer, and his ship tho
Fram the honor of making the first
passage from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific via the new waterway.
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dentist
twice-a-year.
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Sold Everywhere
"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
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.
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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
not supply you, send us his
name. We will supply you
through him.
Niagara Silk Mills
North Tonaw«ndo, N. Y.
"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 1 deem it
impossible that the Catholic Church
may ultimately follow. It may he
now only n vision, a dream, but vis
ions have before now come true."—
Governor Baldwin, of Connecticut.
"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 seems certain
also that he always will, under con
ditions generally, us they exist to
day. He cannot employ the best la-
gal talent, and frequently he cannot
employ any."—Frederick R. Coudert,
a lawyer, in commenting on Taft’s
criticism of courts.
"1 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 th.
Japanese and Chinese, and such a
law should be passed."—Senator
Boynton, President pro tern of the
Senate, discussing the California
Alien Land law.
New York
Chicago
Boston
San Francisco
CHURCH LEADER GUILTY
IN LIQUOR SELLING CASE
K< »m ... GA.. April 24. Superin
tendent of the Anchor Duck Milt
I .vu* * hod is i Sunday School, member of
j the choir and Bible teacher. Martin
J Hale, white, has been convicted of
I selling whisky, in Superior Court
' Ser.teiiv ins not been imposed. Hale
* ••nled selling liquor, but said he gave
] ! i accuser, John Heard, w hisky to
1 urink. l\ard sa d he bought whisky
from H. l«. several times.
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 pubiie school
building erected in DECATUR in three years, made neces
sary by tho growth of population from 2,400 in 1910 to
about 3,600 to-day.
For the past year DECATUR lias operated a public
HIGH 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.
AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE
Grows steadily by every standard by which a great 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 bj TWO ELECTRIC LINES, Georgia Railroad.
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You can have this charged, also, and
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