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"INASMUCH AS YE HAVE DONE IT—
TREATS LITTLE
TOILERS IRST
Noted Sociologist Declares This
State's Laws Are Useless to
Help “Child Slaves.”
rvclarinfc Georgia offers less pro
tection to the thousands of child-
slaves in her mills and factories than
nny other State, Dr. A. J. McKel-
wajr, of Washington, D. C., secretary
for the South of the National Child
Labor Committee and one of the big
figures of the Southern Sociological I
Congress, to-day suggested an ideal |
law, which, he said, would solve the |
child labor problem.
Dr. McKelway’s child labor law al
ready haa received the indorsement of
the American Bar Association, und
has been adopted, with slight modifi
cations, by Arizona, Oklahoma, Mary
land, Kentucky, Mississippi and Lou
isiana. It is now being considered by
the Legislature of Florida, with excel
lent chances of passing.
Briefly, the main provisions of the
law are these:
Limits Hours of Work and Age.
An eight-hour working day for boys
under 16 years and girls under 18
years of age.
A 12-year age limit for hoys en
raged in street occupations.
A 14-year age limit for children
employed In factories, stores and en
gaged'in other industrial occupations,
A 16-year age limit for rhildren en
gaged in dangerous occupations.
An 18-year age limit for children
engaged In extra hazardous occupa
tions.
A 21-year age limit for those en
gaged in immoral occupations. (Night
messenger service, w orking in saloons,
etc, are classed as "Immoral occupa
tions.")
"It is high time," declared Dr. Mc-
Kelway, "that Georgia heeded the cry
of the’child-slaves. Their weak voices
have been lifted In a pitiful appeal
for years; their childish faces have
become lined with the marks of un
ceasing toil.
Calls Laws Useless.
"They have been dwarfed and stum-
ed mentally and physically—and still
the State of Georgia allows child la
bor laws to remain on her statute
books that are of absolutely no value
and that offer no relief to the suffer
ing thousands.
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Graduates in June 125 Well-
Trained Teachers, Versed Also
in Household Economics.
Rescuers at the Finleyville Shaft,
Where 100 Workers Were En
tombed, Renew Efforts.
efrifc
"Georgia and North Carolina *ive
their Children less protection than
any other States in the Union, and
,here is little to choose between their
laws. Georgia is the. only State that
allows children 10 years old to labor
eleven hours a day in the mills and
factories, and is even worse In that
reapect than North Carolina, where
Lh* age limit la 12 years. The fac-M
iory inspection lawi et Qaorgia are
inadequate and antiquated. If there
are inspectors they do not inspect,
and I have not yet been able to learn
the duties of the State Labor (.om-
mlssioner.
Plan to Keep Up Fight.
"We have been lighting since 190S
to get a child labor law In Georgia
i |,at would give her children a meas
ure of the protection enjoyed by the
children of other States, and we In
tend to keep up the fight until public
opinion forces the legislators to enact
lhe right kind of laws. The law that
1 have briefly outlined is the right
kind of a law, and we hope to see it
en the statute books of every South
ern State.
“Last summer we had a bill before
the Georgia Legislature, and It was
killed by the Influence of the cotton
manufacturers. The bill, which was
in effect the Idea! law indorsed by
the Georgia members of the National
<'liild Labor Committee and by the
Georgia Industrial Association, would
have met every need of the
child slaves. It passed the House ten
to one, but when It went to the Sen
ate the individual cotton manufactur
ers didn't feel hound by the action of
their organization, and started a light
on it. Telegrams received by mem
bers of the Senate and the presence of
a cotton manufacturer on the Rules
Committee sounded the death knell of
the bill. It never came to a vote.”
Public Ssntimont a Help.
Dr. MoKelway declared that the sit
uation has Improved throughout the
South within the past ten years, but
this, ha says, is due more to public
opinion than to the presence of laws
on the statute books of the States.
However, public opinion has been so
strong all over the South that every
Southern State—with the exception of
Georgia North Carolina, South Caro
lina, Alabama and New Mexico—now
has an age limit of 14 years
The public sentiment which has re
sulted in comparative relief of the
situation has been fostered and en
couraged by the National Child La
bor Committee, which has upon Its
membership rolls such men as Pres
ident Wilson Theodore Roosevelt.
William H. Taft. Gifford PijiohoL
Hoke Smith, Benjamin R Tillman.
Ben B. Lindsey, Cardinal Gibbons,
Charles W, Eliot and others.
NQTEDCHURCHMAN
Atlantans Join in Tribute to Oza-
nam, Founder of St, Vincent
de Paul Society.
DEAL STIRS
Mayor of Cincinnati Angered by
Scheme to Turn Over Lines
to That City.
'Make It Harder to
Wed, Divorce Easier'
Speaker at Women’s Conference in
This Way Would Solve Many
Marital Problems.
CHICAGO, April 26.—Mr*. A. Funk
Fpeaking at a meeting of the women's
conference on marriage and divorce
urged that marriage be made harder
• nd divorce easier.
“The belief in the sacredn^ss of
marriage has caused more unhappi
ness than anything else In the world,”
gaid Mrs. .Punk. “Persons who are
not suited to each other should sepa
rate before their entire live? ire
^polled. We should make marriage
harder and divorce much easier to
recure ”
“UNTO THE LEAST OF THESE YE HAVE DONE IT UNTO ME.”
(See acoompanying article on child labor in Georgia.)
Loss of Checks Not
Rare, Say Bankers
Number That Disappear in Mails,
However, Called Small in Pro
portion to Thoso Sent.
Losses of checks and other Items
in the malls are not uncommon, say
Atlanta bankers. Theft of $5,000 from
an express shipment to the Centra!
Bank and Trust Corporation and of
a note for $7,000 In transit through
registered mail to the Fourth National
aroused the comment.
Tanks handle thousands of items In
this way, and much of the business 1s
done in ordinary first-class letters,
unregistered.
Should a check, drawn by a travel
ing mail with an account In Boston,
be losl . n route from Atlanta to Bos
ton, Boston asks Atlanta for a dupli
cate; Atlanta risks the Macon bank
which deposited It; the Macon bank
goes to the hotel keeper who turned It
In; the hotel keeper gets It from the
traveling man when he is found. Then
the duplicate goes back by the same
route.
Dunbar Refuses to
Drop Kidnaping Case
Man Accused of Stealing Louisiana
Boy Is Said To Be Head of
Organized Band.
COLUMBIA. MISS., April 26.—The
charge was made to-day that W. C.
Walters, accused of kidnaping Robert
<\ Dunbar. Jr., is the head of an or
ganised band of kidnapers who have
stolen several children in the last five
years.
Detectives employed by Robert C.
Dunbar, the wealthy Louisiana plant
er. declared they had evidence on
w hich to base several charges against
Walters. They said this accounted
for the proof.” w hich Walters fur
nished. that he had the Dunbar boy
two months before he was kidnaped.
Dunbar to-day refused to aliow the
charge of kidnaping to be dropped.
Walters offered to relinquish the child
if the charge were dropped.
Original Little Dorrit
Dies at Age of 100
Mrs. Mary Ann Cooper Was Play
mate of Dickens in His
Youth.
LONDON. April 26.—Mrs .Mary
Ann Cooper, of Southgate, the origi
nal of Dickens’ “Little Dorrit,” is dead
in her hundredth year.
She and Dickens were boy and girl
together when they lived in the same
street in Somers Town.
Catholics of Atlanta will join in a
tribute to-morrow to the memory of
Frederick Ozanam on the centenary
of his birth. Ozanam was born in
Paris, 1813, and was the founder of
the Saint Vincent de Paul Society,
the branches of which now are all
over the world.
Tomorrow’s celebration will be in
charge of the St. Vincent de Paul
conference of Atlanta and will bo
participated in by the Immaculate
Conception, the Saint Anthony's and
the Sacred Heart parishes. The cel
ebrants will observe communion in a
body at the 7 o’clock mass in Sacred
Heart Church in the morning. Break
fast will follow in the basement of
the church.
The formal memorial exercises will
begin In the Marist College audito
rium at 10:30 o’clock. A panegyric
on Frederick Ozanam by Father Ra
pier will be the principal address.
Others will speak and a program of
vocal and Instrumental music ha*
been arranged.
Prominent members and officers of
local charitable organizations other
than Catholic have been invited to
attend.
Meningitis Epidemic
Ended, Says Kennedy
City Health Officer Predicts Atlanta
Will Be Free of Disease in
Month's Time.
That meningitis, which has been
raging to some extent in Atlanta for
a number of weeks, will have entirely
disappeared within another month,
the prediction of Dr. J. P, Kennedy,
city health officer
“The situation is improving every
day." said Dr. Kennedy, “and there is
no need for Atlantans to worry over
spread of the disease. There arc
now about 30 cases in the city. In
cluding those at Grady Hospital, am]
practically all of the patients are
on the road to recovery.
“The warm weather of the past
week lias worked wonders in aiding
cures, and if It continues for another
month we shall probably see the end
of the epidemic.”
Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads
The Sunday American. YOUR ad
vertisement in the next issue will sell
goods. Try it!
CINCINNATI, April 26—Mayor
Hunt was very angry when he learned
of the activities of former Senator J.
B Foraker in connection with the
$29,000,000 settlement of the troubles
between the traction company and the
city.
Frank L. Ris^, editor of The Chron
icle, an American Federation of La
bor newspaper, told the Mayor that
Foraker had sent for him with the
hope of influencing the character of
the matter to be printed. Rist says
he told Foraker that If the traction
company would permit the employees
to organize it could have space free
to set its side of the controversy be
fore the public. Benson Foraker, the
son, told Rlst that an increase of
wages could be provided for in the
settlement provisions.
Senator Foraker refused to com
ment upon the statement made by the
editor.
BY JAMES B. NEVIN.
The Georgia Normal and Industrial
School, of Milledgeville, in many
ways the State’s pet educational in
stitution, will send out in June 125
graduated young women and 50 cer
tificate pupils, who will be prepared
to carry on special forms of teaching
and practical school household work.
This Is a particularly large con
tribution to the State’s teaching
force, and sets a new record in Geor
gia.
The training and preparation given
students at this college beyond ques
tion is most excellent. The young
women not only are prepared thor
oughly to teach in the grades, but
are brought to a high standard of
efficiency in the domestic sciences
and arts. No other college in the
Southern States, indeed, has been so
successful in preparing teachers along
the line of household economics.
Much attention is paid, however,
to training the teachers for work in
agriculture, botany, horticulture,
biology, and poultry culture. All of
the teachers turned out have had
wide and varied practical training in
all departments of school.
From all of this, one may easily
see how great is the service this
State institution is rendering the tax
payers of Georgia. For years it
was most difficult to get efficient
teachers, particularly for such sub
jects os this school now supplies
abundantly.
President Fta.rks has notified many
Institutions of learning throughout
the State that he Is about to grad
uate some 200 thoroughly equipped
young women teachers from the Nor
mal and Industrial School, and those
who have places to supply are get
ting in touch with him rapidly.
By July 1, he expects to have this
entire outfit of Georgia girls pro
vided for.
At least one member of the Geor
gia Legislature, expects the near-beer
saloons to stay put around and about
Tipplns bill or no Tlpplns bill, for
he has announced his intention of
introducing a law requiring all serv
ers of draft beer—beg pardon, near-
beer—in Georgia to provide separate
and individual sanitary drinking cups
for each and every glass.
He has assembled a bunch of sta
tistics showing how many million, or
billion, or quintrillion, whichever it
Is. germs daily get mixed up indis
criminately in the ordinary tub of
water in which beer glasses com
monly are rinsed between drinks. He
thinks that much disease may be
avoided—theoretically, anyway—by
requiring every drink to be handed
out in a new' glass.
It is objected to this that it wili
surely cut down the size of the glass
or elongate the foam collar, one or
the other, without doubt, and thus
entail upon the long suffering ulti
mate consumer additional woes. But
, that In no wise serves to dampen the
ardor of this reformer. He Is bent
and determined upon his sanitary
beer glass bill, if he has to double
the price of the stuff per glass.
The plan to make the Cherokee
Circuit over again into two circuits
of the Superior Court and to make
Floyd County a separate and distinct
circuit all by itself is meeting with
great favor throughout all Northwest
Georgia.
Bills providing for these changes
are sure to be offered in the next
House, and the outlook for both Is
most favorable now'.
FINLEYVILLE, PA.. April 26.—
Ninety-three bodies had been recov
ered from the Cincinnati mine of the
Monongahela River Consolidated Coal
and Coke Company to-day. Forty had
been identified.
Rescuers went at their work with
renewed zeal to-day following the
finding of Charles R. Crawl, 36, and
Philip Legler, 36, both miners, alive
at midnight after having been on-
tombed 52 hours, during which time
they had only two slices of bread
to eat. They will recover.
Both had abandoned hope of res
cue and Crawl had written the fol
lowing message to his two children
on his overalls with chalk:
“Good-bye, my children, God will
take care of you.”
"We entered the mine at 6:20 a. m.
Wednesday,’’ said Crawl, “and were
eating our lunch when we heard an
explosion at 12:30, I heard nothing
more, but, going out of the entry,
found several bodies. During the 52
hours we were entombed we only had
two slices of bread and some sulphur
water.
‘"We crawled on our stomachs into
the different entries and into the
workings of the old mine. Legler
gave up hope and wanted to lie down
and die. but I pulled him along. We
found an old man and his son still
alive. They w r ere weak for want of
food. We tried to pull them along,
but had to leave them. I almost went
Insane. My mind had begun to give
way w r hen I saw the light of the res
cuers.”
Crawl was in the Marianna mine
explosion November 28, 1908, when
154 men were killed, but was rescued
after losing the sight of his right eye.
Congress Too Slow
For Spry Old Iowan
Almost an Octogenarian, Represent
ative Kirkpatrick Longs for
. More Action.
“CfcSCARETS” BEST
BOWEL CLEANSER
Headache, sour stomach, bil
iousness and bad taste
gone by morning,
{ Furred Tongue. Bad Taste, Indi-
}’ gestlon, Sallow Skin and Miserable
lHeadaches come from a torpid
(liver and clogged bow els, which
, cause your stoma ch to become fill -
S ed with undigested food, which
! sours and ferments iike garbage
tin a swill barrel. That’s the first
1 step to untold misery—indiges-
j lion, foul gases, bad breath. yel-
i low skin, menial fears, everything
(that is horrible and nauseating. A
(Cascaret to-night will give your
> constipated bow els a thorough
! ’ cleansing and straighten you out
by morning. They work while
you sleep—a 10-cent box from
your druggist w ill keep you feel
ing good for months. Millions of
} men and w omen take a Cascaret
S now and then to keep their stom
ach, liver and bowels regulated,
and never know a miserable mo-
s ment. Don’t forget the children—
\ their little insides need a good,
' gentle cleaning, too.
FULL OF SCABS
What could be more pitiful than (he condi
tion told of in this letter from A R. Avery,
Waterloo, N. Y.:
W# have bean using your Tetterlne. It s
the best on earth for skin aliments Mrs.
S. C. Hart was a sight to see. Her faee
was a mass of scabs. Tetterlne has cured
It.
Cured by Tetterine
Tetterlne cures eczema, ground itch, ring
worm and all skin trouble*. Its effect is
magical
50c at druggist?, or by mall
8HUPTRINE CO., SAVANNAH. UA.
SPECIAL PULLMAN
SLEEPING CAR
ATLANTA TO MACON
CENTRAL OF
GEORGIA RAILWAY
APRIL 21 22 23 24 25 26
To accommodate those who may at
tend the grand opera in Atlanta and
wish to return to Macon aftf'r the per
formance. the Central of Georgia Rail
way will operate a Pullman sleeping ear
from Atlanta to Macon on train No. 8,
April 31 to 26. inclusive. Train No. 8.
scheduled to leave Atlanta at 11:45 p m ,
will, on the above dates, leave Atlanta
Terminal Station at 12:01 a. m This car
will be open for occupancy at 9 p m.
Bertha in this car may be reserved in
advance at Central of Georgia offices
in Macon or Atlanta.
W. H. FOGG, D. P. A.
Advt.
WASHINGTON, April 26.—Repre
sentative Kirkpatrick, Democrat, of
Iowa, who has already lived three
score and ten years, does not like
Congress as well as he thought he
would.
“It’s too ail-fired slow,” said Mr.
Kirkpatrick. “I am used to action.
Although I am almost eighty years
old I go like a shot when I start.
Congress is tame, too tame for a man
of my temperament. Many pieces
of lead have gone into my body at
different times, but I lack much ol
being dead.”
Mr. Kirkpatrick is almost totally
blind from a shot he received in a
pistol tight with a negro moonshiner
liquor dealer in North Carolina.
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LAUGH
ALL WEEK
If you have never seen the
Grand Canyon in Arizona, make
the trip with “Jimmy” in The
Sunday American next Sunday.
It certainly is the funniest page
you ever saw.
HAPPY
HOOLIGAN
Our old friend goes to the cir
j cus, and he has a lot of fun and a
lot of trouble. Also Suzanne and
the Duke go with him. And Hap
py meets the elephant. Help!
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“Snookums” tries to open a
bottle of champagne at a dinner
party. What this remarkable
child did and what happened to
the dinner party are enough to
put you in a good humor for the
rest of the day.
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