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EE — gg.waf.y -r-• -- :.^r luJi ai ii.1 yj ±^\s .i-GLi^ Aa< J x)ii<Vvo f ^Ax Ai/i-tx-L -:u, t afi i 11?,,; ft ir *1 "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. Ill.b, - V T" & r.—v 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. If you have anyttirng to sell adver tise in The Sunday American. Lar gest circulation of any Sunday news paper in the South. 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Also Suzanne and the Duke go with him. And Hap py meets the elephant. Help! * ■ I THEIR ONLY CHIL “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. THE SUNDAY AMERICAN HAS THE GREATEST COMIC SECTION IN THE WORLD. ORDER YOUR PAPER NOW for Next Sunday THE SUNDA Y AMERICAN ^ Both Phones Main 8000 i L T 1 • • • • HE sur :: GREAT (DAY AMERICAN’S Wj DOUBLE-PAGE FEATURE ▼▼ * iy Crime ] Does 1 N o 1 Pay —----- - \