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PU^ESILI^ GLOVES The secret of wear in silk gloves is in the purity of the silk. silk gloves are one hundred percent/> u re. 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 Tonawanda, N. Y. New York Boston Chicago San Francisco I i. V# U 8 I I i 7 P STRIKE ONE! SUITE'S RIGHTS E Inquiry Commission Finds That; Public Schools Are Largely to Blame. Atlanta ha* had and is new having an anti-vice crusade. What has thi* 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 oi give that as an excuse, according to the Mayor’s Vice Uom- 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. From these figures the conclusion is drawn that a very considerable proportion «.f the ciring Quaker <Mty 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, who say tlies' are inclined to believe that very many of the women they questioned began so young as to make it clear that improper envir onment and lack of proper home and school tiaining ;»re to be blamed tj a. very considerable extent. s3o much vice was found among school children that the commission reluctantly concludes that vice is first (aught the Philadelphia child In the classroom. and that it is there that the work of education against the so cial evil should be begun The widespread, systematic teaching of sex hygiene is urged, therefore, ns i most pressing ine.d for the schools. Sixty per cent, j? the schoolgirls in terrogated. so th investigators as sert, turned out ;• have learned, be fore the> were ten or eleven years old. a rarity of bad habits The recommendations of the com mission are: First—That segregation and all ef forts to continu * that practice here be abandoned. Second—All measures of suppres sion be treed from the spectacular Third—That prosecutions for the suppression of the evil in the future be directed first against the owners of the houses, (he proprietors, and becond. 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 es. v entials. Fifth—That the Department ot Health f*o empowered to supervise the registration of physical 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 56,250,000, of which more than $2,433,000 i# gath ered in * isorderly house?., nearly $1,- 217,000 \a got by women who >dge in furnished rooms and $2,800,000 is picked up on the streets. This is 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 2,300 others under twenty-one. The individual eai nlngs of the women average $25 a week, and range from $10 to $200 each. More than eight hundred of thes'* creatures ere de clared to be ragularly roaming the fctreets. Eighty-three per cent, of the wom en. according to the commission, are American born, and 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, not to speak of the throngs of them in the medical wards and at th * dispensaries. 4 —Tftrvrfrllin^frpr*- 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. SIGNING OF BlILK.ANjNaRVIIEGIAN OAFS PEACE PICT ISIB U.S.CANALSTAND Preliminary Treaty Likely To Be Perfected To-morrow—Terms Agreed Upon. 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- manovlch as saying that in view of the concessions made by the Qretks 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 Durazao, one of the chief Albanian ports. The conservative element in Euro pean politics looks for Montenegro to yield as gracefully as possible and uccept territory elsewhere. 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. Gram suggested that the mat ter bo referred to The Hague trib unal. As 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. Many Arms Taken At Fall of Scutari. CETTINJE, April 2k. One hundred and twenty heavy guns and more than 40,000 small arms were cap tured by King Nicholas’ Montenegrin army at Scutari. General Martinn- vitch, tin 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’ tire, 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. 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-P&uncefote treaty.” — Senator Bristow. “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 a 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. BY JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES. WASHINGTON, April 25.—When a Minister Plenipotentiary and Ambas sador extraordinary of a foreign country conveys to the ITesident 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 either compro mise the rights of the State of Cal ifornia and surrender to Japan or buckle on its armor and defy the airogant 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 called to con sider it. In that message President Wilson appealed to California and to public opinion upon the basis that they did not know r 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 Secret aTy of State ai> both bombarding the -»iverr.or and the Legislature of California with dally appeals not to do what both the Governor and the Legislature de sire to do 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 th* 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 1861 involved the rights ~>f the Btates 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 the State’s rights issue should be sharply projected, as it must be in this mp.tter, it is a question if the Supreme Court, as constituted at presem. would sustain the anti- r.tates right idea. Lurton, of Ten nessee; White, of Louisiana; Lemnr, 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 r» terendum to the people in case the Legislature should pass the law which Infuriates the Japanese. This referendum. If it should be called, would giv«* time for the tumult In Japan to be allayed, and serve the additional purpose of enabling the United States to provide for eventual ities. if they must be 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 at once without formalities and without negotiations, as she did in her con tests w-ith 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 In fantry regiments and one battalion. That is plenty. But we ought to have three batteries of artillery and we have «iily' two. We ought 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 toi otrier improve- merits 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 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 fir9t passage from the Atlantic to the Pa cific via the new waterway. See your dentist twice-a-year. Twice-a-day use COCGflTE'S r ~ ot RIBBON DENTAL CREAM 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 DECATUR ITS EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES "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 may ultimately follow’. It may be now* only a 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, as they exist to day. He cannot employ the best le gal talent, and frequently he cannot employ any.”- Frederick R. Coudert, a lawyer. In commenting on Taft's criticism of courts. “I 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 the Japanese and Chinese, and such a law should be passed.”—Senator Boynton. President pro tern of the Senate, discussing the California Alien Land law. churchIe/Tder guilty IN LIQUOR SELLING CASE' HUM 1 .:. G A April 24 Superin tendent of the Xnchor Duck Mill im ihodU; Sunday School, member of th*' choir and Bible teacher, Martini Hale, white, has been convicted of selling whisky, in Superior Court. Sentence h is not been imposed. Halej o< nied selling liquor, but said he gave ui- ae< user. John Beard, whisky to drink. Lea i d sa d he bought whisky from Hale several times. 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 of population from 2,400 in 1910 to about 3,000 to-day. For the past year DECATUR has 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 by TWO ELECTRIC LINES, Georgia Railroad, TELEPHONE and DRIVEWAYS. SEND FOR BOOKLET. DECATUR BOARD OF TRADE DECATUR, GA. BELL PHONE DECATUR 148 WEEKES BUILDING Mr - Hundreds of Heroes Ask Carnegie Medals Commission Meets in Pittsburg to Investigate Claims and An nounce Awards. PITTSBURG, April 25.—Hundreds upon hundreds of cases were called L* the attention of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission which met here to day. Moat of these have been in vestigated, but there still ire mains a number of alleged acts of heroism of re* out occurrence, int* the merit.* of which the commission’s investigat ors must look. It is said that a great many cases have been found warranting action bv 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. i) Ulv! RIGHT OF WAY 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 held in Gadsden at an early date when plans will be made to raise a fund for a preliminary survey. MOUNTAIN WORK Blue Ridge Instructors, Here in Conference, Plan Denomina tional Campaign. For the first time in the history of the work, teachers and industrial workers who ha»’e 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 tile Carol!nas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia ure 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 believedi the conference w r ill result in an organized campaign, In which all denominations will take part Noted Lawyer Will . Lecture on Death Atlanta Bible Students Get Judge J. F. Rutherford, New York, for Address Sunday. “Whore Are Thu Dead?” J s the subject of a free lecture to be de livered at the Grand Opera 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 Bible students of the city Judge Rutherford, in addition to being a prominent lawyer, is a lei turer of international reputation, u. ter an extended tour of the H„lv Land he spoke in all the principal cities of Great Britain and the con tinent. electing favorable comm nt from the European Press. Judge Hutherford first came into the public eye because of his fight on gr in gambling in Missouri. John V. Smith, representative from Fulton County, will preside at the meeting. 100 FLEE HOTEL FIRE. STEUBENVILLE, OHIO, April 25, —One hundred guests in the Imperial Hotel here had hair-breadth escapes from death and a number were pain fully burned when Are swept throug.i the hostelry this morning. Incen diaries are blamed for the conflagra tion. DRESSES! DRESSES! DRESSES! 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. ANOTHER SHIPMENT OF 150 SEROE SUITS We Have Just Received Another Shipment ot Wool Hand-Tailored Serges to Offer at 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. CREDIT CLOTHING COMPANY 28 West Mitchell Street