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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY. APRIL 25.1912
Distinguished Men and Women Will
Urge That South Be Put in Fore
front of Social ReformCampaign.
Enlisted In a movement to place the
South in the vanguard of the na
tional campaign for social, civic and
economic re/orms, 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-
lov Memorial Church this evening at
T 30 o’clock there probably will be
between 1,200 and 1,600 social workers
in Atlanta.
Included among the arrivals are
several 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 Cressy 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
p Hobson, of Alabama, who will
speak at the Sunday afternoon ses
sion of the congress. His subject will
be The Great Destroyer."
The sessions and conferences, which
begin to-night in Wesley Memorial
' 'hurch 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 It* hospitalities.
Response will be made by Chancellor
James H. Kirkland, of Vanderbilt
University,
Governor Hooper, cf Tennessee, one
of the founder* of the congress and
Its president, will deliver the annual
address, outlining the purpose* of the
organisation and describing It* im
mediate plans for Instituting reforms.
Other speakers of the first evening
will be Rabbi David Marx, Dr. John
B. 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 light against the present con
ditions of child labor in the South.
Investigators will submit the result
of their investigations in Soutlmrn
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.
Places of Meeting.
The conference on courts and pris
ons will be held in Wesley Memorial
Church; public health in the hirst
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 w’elfare conference when
it opens in the First Methodist
Church. He will read a report of
work accomplished in the last ye*iT
and investigations made in each of
the Southern States.
Dr Cressy I, 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 |RI1PS GEORGIA FOR
N MINE DISASTER! LAX VITAL RECORD
Rigid Probe of Explosion at Fin-
leyville, Pa., Which Killed One
Hundred, Is Begun.
FTNLEYVILLE, PA., April 25.—
State and county authorities to-day
began a rigid investigation into the
cause of the mine explosion here,
which killed more than 100 men.
<’hief 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
“•) the operation of the mine were,
was alleged, removed from the
mine office, have given the matter a
serious appearance.
President VanBitner, of the Pitts-
• ug district, United Mine Workers
"J America, and Peter E. Quinn,
>pringfield, Ill., international orga-
mzer. aided the investigators to-day.
J’resident. Bitner declared the dead
would total 160.
(, bief Inspector Roderick said he
would appoint two commissions to in
vestigate. One will be composed of
? ’ve State mine inspectors and the
other will be composed of three ex
pert engineers.
Aged Man Kills Himself.
DALTON.—Frank Coogler, an aged
iM tired farmer of this city, was found
mad, with a pistol bullet in his head,
on Fort Hill late yesterday afternoon,
'he presumption being that while
menially 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 capitoi, 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 he
productive of much malaria, l am
confident conditions are exaggerated.
Vital statistics w’ould 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.
IBODY CAN TELL IF rDU DARKEN
GRftr.FADED HAIRWITHSACETEA
Druggist Says When Mixed With
Sulphur Prevents Dandruff
and Falling Hair,
Common garden sage brewed into
A heavy tea with sulphur and alco
hol added, then left to age and
carefully filtered, will turn gray,
streaked and faded hair beautifully
oark and luxuriant; remove every
hit of dandruff, stop scalp itching.
*nd falling hair.
•Inst a few applications will prove
! 1 revelation if your hair is fading.
' *iay or dry. scraggly and thig.
Mixing the Sage Tea and Sulphur
ipe at home, though. i« trouble-
' r n:e. An easier way is to get the
ready-to-uge tonic, costing about
■y vents a large bottle at drug
ores, known as “Wyeth’s Sage
<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 ftp pear
years younger. Elkin Drug Com
pany. Special Agents.
G overnor ben w.
HOOPER, of Tennessee,
and Governor O'Neal, of Ala
bama (below), who will speak
before Sociological Congress
here.
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 game
between Washington and Boston at
tracted the most brilliant official and
diplomatic gathering which ever ha?
watched a game in this city.
Accompanied by Miss Wilson, Vice
President Marshall. Secretary Tu
multy and a guard of secret service
inert, President Wilson occupied his
flag-draped box from the 1 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 .'•ev-
eral of the "baseball trust busters.”
Among them were Assistant Attor
neys General Fou ler 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 i.c
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'J,
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, h*>
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 use the name to me
you have used and get away without
ari apology or a fight. This car goes
no farther until you do one thing or
the other.”
Senator Myers reached his office
Lamb stiil 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 Starck. a school teacher, was
n war led a judgment of $15,000 against
the Pacific Klec.ric Company. She
was injured in a car crash a year
ago.
The company’s attorney to-day
served notice tha; they would appeal
fioiii tiie decision.
U P D r P His Spirituality Was
rl U II L u Far Too ‘Spirituous’
So Juliu* MeBrayer Served Time on
Chaingang—Sentence Just
Commuted.
Juliu* MrBrayjr declares he never
strain will seek to increuse the fervor
of his religious worship by resort to
spirituous liquors.
MeBrayer tried it in a Haralson
eounty ehurch some time ago and
only yesterday the commutation of
his twelve months' sentence on the
chaingang was announced. MeBrayer
took an active part in the church
services, but his spirituality was of
the wrong sort.
Companions of MeBrayer were let
ofT 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 Links at Pocantico
Estate—Appears to Be in
Fine Health.
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 Is the only State show
ing a decrease.
The following table shows the esti
mate by States:
» Acres.
4,890,000
Per Cent.
—,1
Stats*.
Georgia
Alabama 3,916,000 5
Arkansas 2,274,556 . 3
Louisiana 1,364,930 ‘ 15
Mississippi 3.363,900 JO
North Carolina . 1,566,000 Ugd.
Oklahoma 3,036,320 12
South Carolina . . 2,734,200 5
Tennessee 8,78,990 10
Texas 11.W2.000 10
Others t 491.000 10
(—Indicates decrease; others are
gains.)
The crop is about half planted in
the eastern belt.
TARRYTOWN, N. Y„ April 25.—
John D. Rockefeller has returned to
his Pocantico Hllis 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 great game.
He appears to be in excellent health,
and in high spirits over his 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 ice a day and save him .12
a ton at the present prices.
CROXONE SOON RELIEVES ILL
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, Croxone, promptly over
comes such diseases. It is tile 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 the 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 the purchase price if Crox
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 the hands arc 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 hows they are called, when
worn at the hack or on the quarter which
is midway twixt the side and the rear.
The popular braid, the fashionable
braid, if you please, is the sennit straw
coarse milimeter, and the rough-and-
ready kinds which are still more fanciful
and with much thicker brims.
Thi. is the style tendency in Straw
Hats for young men and for those
who feel young.
$2.50 $3.00 $3.50 $4.00
Exclusive Ayrnl* for Itolih* .£ Co., fifth Are.. Hut*.
Cloud-Stanford Co.
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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, but will Reopen at 5 P. M.
and Remain Open Until 10. Extra Bargains from 8 A. M. to
1 o'clock and from 5 to lO P. M.
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
98c
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
54
.98
Extra Second Floor Specials
Beautiful Silk Chiffon and China
Silk Waists: up to *5 ftQ
values; choice . «PleVO
'Ladies’ House Dresses made of
f ood wash fabrics; worth /I
! ; this sale . . .
Children's Dresses, sizes 6 to 12
years; all new styles, up
to $1.60 values wVC
Misses’ an«l Children's Middy
Blouses on sale tomorrow A A-
Lot of Children's Fancy Parasols,
worth 50c; to dose out fl
at only . I VC
Special Saturday sale of 100 Ladies'
Tailored Suits of light-weight all-
wool Serges, in black, white and
colors, and of various novelty suit
ings. Two big bargain lots:
Suits worth up to AC
$20; choice
Suits worth up to ^ A A A
Stylish one-piece dresses of Linene
Suiting in all best AC
shades; $4 values . 9l*ww
New White Pique Skirts, worth up
to $2.50; in this sal© AO**
only ...... VOC
All-Silk Satin Messaline Petticoats
with dust ruffles; all AC
colors; $4 values .. 9
Toadies’ Muslin Corset Covers and
Drawers, worth 50c; in this ^ A*%
Ladies’ Muslin Gowns and Petti
coats; up to $1 values;
special only wAw
Gowns, Petticoats. Combination
Suits and Princess Slips; QQ r
up to $3 values ... wO\#
Ladles' lisle-flnished Undervests,
the 20c kind; in this Q
sale only ... Ow
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 7 and Men’s Furnishings
ladies’ 16-button length Silk Gloves in
white, black and colors; $1.25 grade
Ladles’ 16-but ton length Lisle ( doves in
black, white and colors; 8.9c quality
Latest novelties in Ladies' Neckwear and
Kuching; 50c values; all at
Ladies’ 50c quality Silk Hose in black and
papular colors; this sale only
69c
49c
25c
25c
in new 1913 summer 50c
1e
3o
R. & G. Make Corsets
models; this sale only
Ladies’ white Hemstitched Handkerchiefs on *
sale to-morrow at. each II
Men's white hemstitched Handkerchiefs*.
worth 10c; in this sale only
Men’s Batbriggan and Porous Knit Under-
wear, 50c grade, per garment iawv
Following on Sale from Stoll o’clock Only
Sheets 27c Pillow Cases Spreads 98c
Full double bed size bleached
hemmed Sheets on sale Satur
day morning from 9 to
11 o’clock, at each ...
27c
Good size well-made bleached
Pillow Cases on sale Satuday
morning from 0 to 11
o'clock only at each .
8c
Large Marseilles pattern white
Bed Spreads. $2 values; on sale
Saturday morning, 9 to A
11 o'clock only at. each wOC#
See These Bargains in New Silks
25 pieces of white washable
worth 50c. to sell at per yard
Pongees. Shantungs and fancy tul) Silks
worth up to 50c; at yard
China Silks. ^
19©
Special lot of silk striped Voiles in all the^d^ ^
popular shades; 75c value. Owv
45-inch Silk Crepe de Chines in black, _
white and best colors; yard QVC
Three Specials in New Wash Goods
New* mercerized Crepe Ratines ini36-inch brown Dress Linene, worth i Yard-wide French Percales in light
^ shades; e ^ ' 20c a yard: in this Aa a nd dark colors; per 7 —
I VC I sale 4P®lyard O s O
all the stylish
50c \alue
9©
5c
A Big 5-Cent Sale Saturday
A Ki« liarjfain sale of Domestics at 5c a yard will include:
Yard-Wide Sea Island Domestic
Yard-Wide Heavy Brown Sheeting
Yard-Wide Soft Finish Bleaching
Yard-Wide Bleached Cambric
5c
In Our Furniture Department
Solid oak mission style Porch Swing
as illustrated above; complete with
chains and hooks; $1.98
Mission style Tabourets or Jardi
niere Stands, as sold else- $ A^*
where at 50c; our price . ® vw
I*arge four shelf mission style Mag
azine* Stands; in this sale ^ fS _
only
Polished golden oak Dining or Bed
room Chairs; real $1.25 Q ^
value
Babies’ ail steel and leather Go-
Cart. as illustrated above; "one-
motion" collapsible A >1 AC
style; $10 value ...
1,000 pairs of I^ace Curtains worth
up to $2.50; only two to six pairs
of a kind; choice per
Good size three-pound Feather Pil
low’s on sale to-morrow OA^.
at only Ovw
Full double-size 120-coil all-steel
Bed Springs, flat or folding AQ
style; very special bargain
-foot extra super wool Art
» in attractive 98
s; only
9 by 11
Squares
designs;
9 by 12-
Squares
patterns.
-foot genuine Crex Art
in new 1913 A A A A
this sale .
foot Tapestry Brussels Art
in handsome 90
We Give
Green
Trading
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