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STRIKE ONE! THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS SUITE’S RIGHTS Inquiry Commission Finds Thai Public Schools Are Largely to Blame. if i 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. '•m . ‘ £= ^tr\Ve.|!mc s t-orv 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. I 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. See your dentist twice-a-year. Twice-a-day use’ COLGATE'S TRAOt RIBBON MARK DENTAL CR&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. 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. *• ■■ ■ U : Mi) I am PU^E SILK, GLOVES The secret of wear in silk gloves is in the purity of the silk. silk gloves are one hundred percent* 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. 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. 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