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ATLANTA. <IA„ SUNDAY, MAY 4. 19115.
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Southern Women More Emotional-Mrs.John M. Slaton
The differences between the women North and the wo
men South are not of decree or kind, but of environment and
habit and of cllmi te. The/ are sisters.
The Northern woman knows more textbook definitions
but the Southern woman knows more things. The two types
have the same ideals with different ways of reaching them.
Untried Material Makes Up the
Greater Part of This Year’s
General Assembly.
PROMINENT FIGURES GONE
Joe Hill Hall and Hooper Alex
ander Will Be Missing When
Body Convenes,
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
The Legislature that assembles in
Jfctlanta in June will bring Into no
tice in Georgia an entirely new let rt.
leaders of public thought and opin
ion.
Very few of those members who
dominated the last General Assem
bly were returned to the new.
Eighty per cent of the new House
either is untried legislative material,
or from the ranks of that used two,
three and four legislatures back.
Joe Hill Hall, of Bibb, for years
the most commanding figure in the
House, will not sit in the next one.
and neither will Hooper Alexander, of
DeKalb, for half a dozen Legislature?
a leader of repute and force.
Besides these two familiar faces,
'.her will be missing John N. Holder,
of Jackson, Walter McElreath and
George Brown, of Fulton, Mack John-
on, of Bartow, Emmett Cabaniss, of
Oglethorpe, Carl Vinson, of Baldwin,
\ Lawrence, of Chatham, Byron
I? v. r. of Decatur, and J. A. Ault,
Polk. All of these men played con-
: on • parts in the last House.
Beyond Burwell, of Hancock, Full-
bright, of Burke, Hardeman, of Jef
ferson, and one or two others who
took an active and aggressive inter
est in legislation last summer, there
are few of the “old guard” left to
“keep the lid on” in the next.
Strong Men Not Lacking.
White all of the foregoing is true,
however, it does not follow' that the
incoming House of Representatives
will lack for strong men.
On the contrary, the shifted lead
ership will be found to have landed
in capable hands. The veterans of
the last House will be succeeded oy
strong men in the next, even- if they
are in a measure untried in legisla
tive ways.
In the next house will be found such
men of mark as Slater, of Bryan.
Slater served a term once as Senator,
ajid will take immediately a high
stand in the next House. He is a
fine floor debater, and a hard worker
in committee.
Grover Edmondson, of Brooks, who
likely will be the “baby” of the new
House, is sure to be a live wire there
in. He is only 22, but as he was ad
mitted to the practice of law at thi
very early age of 17, and has grown
to be one of South Georgia's most
progressive young men, his standing
seems a foregone conclusion. He will
urge, among other important things,
the calling of a constitutional con
vention for the revision of the State's
fundamental law.
Barry Wright, who will represent
Floyd in the new' House, Is a son of
Seaborn Wright, father of much re
form legislation in Georgia. Young
Mr. Wright served a term in the
ftouse several years ago, and made
a fine reputation for hard work and
fighting ability then. He is loaded
with a number of propositions calcu
lated to create a stir.
The “talkingeet” member of the
new House likely will be H. B. Moore,
oV Cobb. He, like Wright, of Floyd,
has served one term, and during that
time is said to have made more
speeches on the floor than any other
five members put together. He is
something of an orator, and has ideas
upon all sorts of subjects.
Gower Will Show Strength.
O. Y. Gower, of Crisp, who cornea
to the Capitol for a second term, is
the father of the present insurance
legislation, recognized as among the
finest work of the last House. He
already has won his spurs and will
play a i.;.rre part in forthcoming con
structive legislation.
C. M. Methvin, of Dodge, is one of
the best known newspaper men in
Georgia. He is the president of he
Georgia Weekly Press Association,
and will wield an influence in the
House that is certain to be wide and
result getting. Personally he Is very
popular throughout the State.
Shelby My rick, of Chatham, son of
the late Bascombe and Louise My-
rick, of Americus, will come to the
House with all the political prestige
of his father and mother's name, and
a fine reputation as an attorney in
Savannah. This young man's friends
are predicting great things for him.
joe McCarthy, of Chatham, comes
bijr'K. He will be looked to lead in
Continued on Pago 2, Column 5, Thit
Section,
Northern Women More Conventional—Mrs. Champ Clark
T
Sheltering Arms Will Profit by
Atlanta's Generosity on That
Day Alone.
If you're waking, call me early, call
me early mother dear.
The Twelfth will be the happiest
day of all this happy year.
For on that day the beauty, fashion,
wealth and woman-charms.
Will hold in thrall Atlanta, for the
Tag of Sheltering Arms.
Monday the twelfth of May has
been selected as Tag Day.
Tag Day means to Atlanta what
any wonderful festival of roses, or
carnival of masks, or gala occasion
means to the other countries. It be
comes a holiday for everybody. Young
and old play at Tag, and no one has
the nerve to walk along the thorough
fares of the city w ithout a tag, or two
or perhaps twenty tags. Many men
who have some sweetheart buys tags
by the dozens, and others more con
servative give the same amount and
get one tag w hich is sufficient for Tag
Day.
For four years the Sheltering Arms
women have had the exclusive right
to Tag. and a a this is the only way
a demand is ever made upon the
Mrs. John M. Slaton, wiO of Governor-elect Slaton.
Sisterhood of Women of United States Point
That Both Emphasize and Agree Upon.
W HAT difference is there in the ideals of the Northern and
the Southern woman? A discussion about, this interest
ing question arose recently at a meeting of a local woman’s club.
The Sunday American sought to find the answer.
A telegram was sent to Mrs. Champ Clark at Washington,
asking her views. Mrs. Clark, wife of the Speaker of the House,
is a womau whose position in the society of Washington for years
has brought her into personal contact, and has led to her intimacy,
with women of every section. By birth and domicile she is neither
of the extreme South nor of the North, being a native Kentuckian
and a present resident of Missouri what time she is not in Wash
ington. She is qualified to speak.
Mrs. John M. Slaton, wife of the Governor-elect of Georgia,
was interviewed on the question. Mrs. Slaton has traveled ex
tensively, and has enjoyed the friendship and companionship of
many women of the North. A leader in the social affairs of her
native State, she knows Southern women. Her opinion was re
quested as that of a woman of fairness, of keen analytical judg
ment, and of knowledge of human nature. She, also, is qualified
to speak.
The opinions of these two interesting women are given in the
following articles:
CLIMA TIC DIFFERENCES
CHANGE CHARACTERISTICS
Mrs. Champ Clark at her writing desk with her daughter, Genevieve.
Women South and their sisters
North are different, truly, thinks Mrs.
John M. Slaton. The differences,
however, are not of heart nor of char
acter, but of habit and environment.
“The climate's the reason,” Mrs
Slaton smiled. “The differences, I
should say, are climatic.”
Early in life, she thinks, the differ
ence is easily marked.
“There is a glamour of romance
about the life which the Southern girl
sees ahead of her,” she related, “which
her more literal Northern sister do^s
not behold.
“The Southern girl would be the
lifelong sweetheart of the man she
marries. The Northern girl would be
the comrade, the good fellow. There
you have an index to the difference
between the woman North and the
woman South.
“The women of the North are not
cold, and not formal, as persons in the
South probably have heard. The dif
ference between women of the South
and of the North is not one of the
heart. The Northern woman is mere
ly less responsive to sentimental ap
peal, and more matter-of-fact.
“The difference, again, I think, »s
one of climate and of environment;
don't you?”
This very gracious flrst-lady-of-
Georgia-to-be smiled the question at
her interviewer. In ?uch a case there
was nothing to do but to agree. Be
sides, it was so, he thought.
“Don’t think." she continued, “from
all this that the woman of the North
has fewer ideals. At the risk of be
coming monotonous, I would say again
that the difference is one of climate,
and not of heart.”
Mrs. Slaton Analytical.
Mrs. Slaton was seriously analyti- 1
cal and thoughtful. She talked with
her eyes studious and with her finger
marking hef* arguments, as she ran
over the points of difference between
her acquaintances North and South.
None of her comparisons even bor
dered on the invidious. None of the
difference which she enumerated were
derogatory to the one or the other.
Women, individually, are Mrs. Sla
ton’s friends; women, genetically, are*
firmly bound by custom. Prece
dent means much more to her than
to her Southern sister.
“This would seem to make out the
Southern woman the more Original,
wouldn’t it? Well, maybe that is so.”
Mrs. Slaton pondered a thoughtful
moment over the question whether
women North or women South most
readily affected fads and fashions.
‘We are not confronted with the
changing fads and fashions so much
down here as are the women of the
North,'' she said. “If they affect more
readily the new things, it is not be
cause they are more susceptible, prob
ably. as because the new things are
more insistent in their appeal in the
North. They don’t strike us with so
much force down here."
Summarizes Ideas.
Then Mrs. Slaton began to sum
marize her ideas.
"There is not much difference in the
final analysis,” she said.
“Neither the one or the other is
the more lovable; neither the one or
the other is the more gracious;
neither the one or the other is the
more hospitable. This quality of hos
pitality exists In the North as well
as with the Southerners. Nothing is
nwe delightful than the reception
which is accorded visitors in the
North.
"Differences between tlie women
North and the women South, then,
are not of degree or kind, but of en
vironment and habit, and of climate.
They are sisters.”
Mrs. Slaton at first was a little in
clined not to talk about the difference
between the women of the two sec
tions. Then she acceded with the
graciousness of hers that has made
her the most loved woman In Geor
gia, and talked of women North and
women South—both her friends. Af
ter all, It was a beloved theme with
her, being that of her friends.
Mrs. Slaton is a Southern woman
by every right. She comes of gen
erations of Southern ancestors, and
was born in West Point, Ga., the old
Grant home. Before her marriage to
John M. Slaton she was Miss Sallie
Grant, the daughter of an old South
ern family.
ENVIRONMENT SHAPES
WOMEN OF ALL SECTIONS
no less. Nothing she said reve
?aled j
anything else. The languor of the j
South produces a different tempera- *
ment than the briskness of the North J
That was all. |
“Northern women." she said. “are|
more punctilious. The little demands j
of social etiquette, the nice little for- »
malities, the returning of calls, the I
interchange of notes, the observance j
of the tiniest custom—all these they ,
consider in the strictest detail. This I
our women of the South do not do. I
‘ Hence, the Northern woman is the
more< conventional, and the more |
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 3—Mrs.
Champ Clark, wife of the Speaker of
the House of Representatives, to-day
gave to The Sunday American an in
terview on “What Difference I Have
Found in the Ideals of Southern and
Northern Women.'’
In a word, this Is what Mrs. Clark
said:
The Southern Woman: More
conservative, more Individual, more
independent, more original, more
inclined to have the courage of her
convictions, better equipped with
latent business ability.
The Northern Woman: More
conventional, better equipped with,
technical knowledge, relies on prec
edent more active in community
work, and more subject to fads and
and fashions.
"The Southern woman is a law un
to herself," said Mrs. -Clark. "She
confronts a. situation squarely, and
wastes no time seeking precedents
by which to govern her course, but
makes her own laws.
“I think.” Mis. Clark continued,
“that environment has a great deal
to do with all of u«. The Southern
woman is more sheltered than the
Northern woman. In general, I would
say that the two types have the same
ideals, with different ways of reach
ing them, due probably to the fact
that they are brought up differently.
“The Northern woman has more
money and more convention, and a
better knowledge, as a general thing,
of technical values.”
In carrying out this idea, Mrs.
Clark used a phrase which deserves
to be isolated from the rest for it?
clearness in indicating one funda
mental difference which she finds in
the women of the South and North.
Textbooks and Things.
"The Northern woman knows more
textbook definitions," said Mrs.
Continued on Page 2, Column 6, This
S' |tion.
public for funds with which to carry
on the work of maintaining the home,
the public has come to make it a fes
tival occasion, and last year gave in
dimes and dollars the great sum of
$5,000 for the home.
Four Nurseries Supported.
Under the direction of the Shelter
ing Arms management, there are four
day nurseries supported. They are,
The John Barclay, the Cornelia Moore,
the Sheltering Arms, and the Whit
tier Mills, where children from six
weeks to eleven years old are cared
for, from 6 o’clock in the morning
to 6 in tlie afternoon* while th$
working mothers are making a liv
ing for their offspring.
Lunch and dinner are given the
children, baths are in order, and
everything taught the children that
will make them keep their bodies
strong, and their minds healthy The
management* stresses the value of
nourishing food, fresh air and clean
liness as vehicles to better health,
better Citizenship and happier lives.
The Sheltering Arms was founded
in 1895, and the late John Barclay
gave much time and effort to Its
firm establishment as one of the fore
most organizations in the city. From
the Day Nursery bearing his nam»,
have come the committees of the as
sociation many of them having been
teachers In the John Barclay Mis
sion.
The committee in charge of the
John Barclay Nursery is composed of
Mrs. John Scott, matron; Mias Laura
Hoyle, assistant matron; Miss Susie
Sandiford, kindergarten teacher; Mrs.
Lee Jordan, president; Mrs. Rix Staf
ford, treasurer; and Miss Ada Alex
ander, secretary.
The following women make up the
governing committee: Mrs. Edward
Van Winkle, chairman of the Kin
dergarten; Mrs. Frank West, chair
man of the House committee; Mrs.
Cyrus Striokler. chairman of enter
tainment committee.
Associate Members.
Associate members are: Miss Hat
tie Orr, Miss Martha Boyuton, Miss
Marie Sciple, Mrs. Edward Inman,
Mrs. Paul Goldsmith, Mrs. William
Glenn, Mrs. Evelyn Harris, Mrs.
Joseph Raine, Mrs. J. K. Orr. Mrs.
W. J. Blalock, Mrs. Henry Leonard,
Mrs. Botes Block, Mrs. John N. God
dard. Mrs. Robert Davis, Mrs. Shep
hard Bryan and Mrs. Edward
Doroughty.
Officers of the Sheltering Arms are,
Mrs. Gilbert Fraser, president; Mrs.
W. H. Elkin, vice-president; Mrs.
Eugene Black, treasurer; Mrs. Wil
liam Kiser, secretary; Mrs. Dunbar
Roy, corresponding secretary.
, MAIN SHEET-Part II.
ALL THE LATEST NEWS.
J. A. Chaloner of
‘Who’s Looney Now?’
Fame Tries Poetry
Muse Stirred Into Lively Gallop by
Thoughts of John L. Sullivan,
‘Prize Ring King.’
NEW YORK. May 8 John Armstrong
Chaloner, author of the famous “Who’s
lxjoney Now,'' which he dedicated to his
brother, then husband of Lina Cava-
lieri, has produced a volume of verNe
under the title “Scorpio.’’ •
A bitter arraignment of Rockefeller Ls
followed by the following eulogy of John
L Sullivan, under title of “The Apoth
eosis, or a Dead Game Sport's Lament.”
Oh! for a day of Lawrence Sullivan!
Just one day of Just one hour- noth
ing more
“Jeff," “Fltz." Ruhlio, Sharkey at four
rounds per man.
In succession sev’rally would bite ths
floor!
Each into sweet oblivion then would
flout,
Propell’d by John's strong arm which
ne'er did tire.
Each in John L. would then his master
note-
John L the paragon of “T. R.’s" em
pire!
For twelve years he fought as man
never fought before;
As John L. fought, ne'er will man fight
again;
For with him the love of battle counted
more
Than what rules now-a-days—the love
of gain.
John L.J Th’ Imperial Roman, now 1
sing!
Great John L. Sullivan, the Prize-
Ring King!
“Venice All Bunk”
Garland Declares
Noted Lecturer Says Every Vene
tian Is Born and Reared a
Grafter.
CHICAGO. May 3. Hamlin Gar
land, essayist, novelist and lecturer,
delivered an address to the Hamilton
Club to-day, in which he said:
“Venice is the world’s Coney Island.
It is a show place supported by vis
iting suckers, and the show* is so oM
and moth-eaten that it is a wonder
any American falls for it. There is
some beauty of architecture, but tlie
city has a petrified system to fleece
all visitors.
“Venice is u poor, old, slimy piece
of scenery, All the ao-called cana’s
outside the grand canal are e*wer«-
It is the home of mosquitoes and the
field of malaria. Every inhabitant Is
a grafter, especially the hotel own
ers and gondoliers.
“The Doge’s Palace is mediaeval
bunk and the Bridge of Sighs Byronflc
bunk. The air is bad, and most of th
money handed tourists is counterfeit.
The gondolier is a brigand, and Ills
merry song usually precedes a rob
bery of his passengers. The waiters
are thieves, who take your good Ital
ian money and hand you counterfeit
in change.
“The ignorant man who referred to
the dogs of Venice had the situation
sized up right.”
Manila Bay Society
Honors Adm’l Dewey
At Annual Banquet He Reads Poem
Entitled ‘Lest We Forget,’ Writ
ten by Philadelphian.
WASHINGTON, May 3.—Twenty-
one of the surviving officers who
fought under Admiral George Dewey
in Manila Bay celebrated the fif
teenth anniversary of the famous
naval battle here at the annual re
union and banquet of the Society of
Manila Bay, in honor of the Admiral,
who is president of the society.
Admiral Dewey read a poem by Ed
ward C. Curran, of Philadelphia,’en
titled "Lest We Forget,” the last
stanza of which pointed out that
there was not a single casualty on the
American warships, while hundreds
of the enemy were killed or wounded.
Buddhists Die in
Fire as Sacrifice
Ten Monks Put Torch to Temple,
March Into Structure and
Perish at Altar.
Special Cable to The American.
TOKIO, May 3.—Ten Buddhist
monks, victims of religious mania,
sacrificed their lives at Seki to-day
in the moat painful form of death—•
self-destruction by fire.
Aroused to a frenzy of passion, tin
priests set fire to the Sanryo Temple
and then as the flames spread, march
ed into the burning structure.
Unmindful of the torture and with
the chant of the Buddhist upon their
lirs, the priests marched to the altar,
where they knelt. Their bodies were
burned to ashes.
JAPANESE TO LECTURE.
T. Umrate, a Japanese student of
Vanderbilt University, will lecture at
St. John Methodist Church, East
Georgia and Central Avenues, on
Tuesday night. He will discuss the
progress of Christianity in Japan and
its effects upon the Japanes^fpeople.
City Best Friend of De&lvn h
Georgia and All Over Sooth*
as Indisputable Figures Clearly
Demonstrate at First Glanco*
Two Hundred Thousand Men Out
of 312,491 Within Five Hon-
dred Miles of Atlanta Come
Here to Buy All Their Supplies.
Seven Hundred and Fifty Differ
ent Articles Are Made in TMs
City and Shipped Out Broad
cast Over This Whole Section.
Atlanta boldly makes its bid, backed
by figures indisputable, for the po
sition of the best friend of merchants
in Georgia and in the South every
where.
Figures, compiled for The Sunday
American by the Chamber of Com
merce and the Merchants and Man
ufacturers' Association, bear evident »*
that as an advantageous trading cen
ter Atlanta has not a rival in the
South.
Hard-headed business men have
realized it. Of 312,491 merchants in
the South, more than 200,000 trade in
Atlanta. The 200,000 and more are
listed by the Atlanta Credit Man's
Association; the other figures come
from the books of Brndstreet’s agen
cy; both are records of Impeccable
truthfulness.
Said Harry T Moore, secretary
the Merchants and Manufacturers’
Association, yesterday!
"The figures alone should pro***
Atlanta’s advantages as a trading
center It is just another instance
that nothing succeeds like success or
like merit. The fact that buetness
men do trade here is the beat evidence
of the city’s advantages."
What can merchants buy in Atlan
ta?
The sump “Made in Atlanta” is a
label know now to the entire United
State*. It is borne by no less than
750 distinct articles, the range of
whose variety covers practically ev
erything that can be contrived by the
hand of man.
750 Genera! Classes.
The 750 articles do not include the
enumeration of different varieties of
a single object. The number is that
of the general classes of things man
ufactured.
An alphabetical list of articles mads
in Atlanta gives an idea of the great
variety of th© city’s industries. Ths
list begins with abdominal supports,
accordion plaiting, and acid phos
phates. It ends, after 18 pages, with
cotton yarn, Including everything
from car wheels to Jewelry, and from
horse collars to candy. No branch
of known industry la unrepresented.
Atlanta's boast that no other city
in the United States can show such
a versatility of manufactures is well
founded on government statistics.
Other cities, larger cities, may olaim
a great aggregate value for their
manufactured articles; none can
claim a greater variety. Few wants
can not be filled by Atlanta's fac
tories.
Besides the products native to At
lanta, the city offers to merchants the
articles made in other sections, which
are distributed from Atlanta to all
the immediate South. The city’s claim
to prestige as the South’s first dis
tributing point is based on the fact
that fourteen railroad lines run from
the doors of its warehouses and fac
tories into every part of the South.
Atlanta is a veritable hub city, with
the fourteen lines radiating in every
direction, tapping the Atlantic and
gulf coasts, reaching northward, east
ward, westward and northwestward.
There is no port of the South Atlantic
or gulf coasts that can not be reached
by rail from Atlanta in eighteen
hours.
John C. Calhoun Prophetic.
History records that John CJ. Cal-
houn, the great South Carolina
statesman, saw with his wonderfully
prophetic eye Atlanta's future great
ness. The city, founded about 18SI,
was known to Calhoun and his con
temporaries as Terminus.
“The city will be great,” he said,
“it is tlie natural point of conver
gence for roads tfcal will bq^buil;