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The Sunday American.
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Atlanta Edition of The American
Consists of the Following Sections
1 — Late News.
2—Real Estate and Wants.
Z—Extra News.
4—Sports. Auto*.
&—Society and Foreign.
0—Editorial.
7— City Life.
8— Magazine.
9— Comice.
BE SURE TO GET THEM ALL.
VOL. I. NO. 6.
CopyHght, 1913, by
The Georgian Company.
ATLANTA. GA„ SUNDAY, MAY'
M TiS. ST V YVES ANT
FISH, New York society
leader, who scores American
women’s craze for equality
and ballot.
Thomson Declares Woodward Will
Be Ignored During Remainder
of Term If He Does Not Change
His Attitude Toward City Body.
“We’ll Continue to Override His
Vetoes,” Is Defi of Member
From the Fourth Ward, Who
Charges “Exaggerated Ego.”
Councilman Albert Thomson, of
the Fourth Ward, late Saturday
again denounced Mayor James G.
Woodward’s attitude toward Council,
and declared that a continuation of
that attitude meant that Council ab
solutely would ignore the city’s
executive during the remainder of his
term.
“The situation is so disgusting that
if^I were, to follow my personal feel
ings I would resign,’’ said Council
man Thomson. “But duty to the
business of the city forces me and
many of my colleagues,—and I know
that I am expressing the sentiments
of a majority of them—to bear his
outrageous slander and forge ahead
as best we can. At the same time
there is much in it to appeal to one’s
sense of humor.
“The Mayor seems to be blinded
as to the true situation by a disease,
a disease with which he has long
been affected—exaggerated ego. The
fight is over. He has been whipped
at every turn. He has reduced his
office to a nonenity. Yet he still
rants and ‘places himself as an ob
stacle to every move of progress, su
preme in his own mind and therefore
deluded into believing that he is su
preme in the city government.
“He started out to concentrate our
city government by charter reforms.
He has accomplished the concentra
tion, but not by charter reforms. He
virtually has abolished his own office
and forced Council to assume both
the legislative and executive func
tions of government, for Council
must override and ignore him, else
nothing would be accomplished. He
has not proposed a constructive thing.
He has sought to block most of the
constructive things proposed by
Cbuncil. What could Council do but
steam-roll him.
“The result is the Mayor’s office
is a place on the third floor of the
City Hall, where Councilmen never
call, and would be forgotten so far
as official authority is copeerned ex
cept that he still signs checks. And
indications are that the court de
cision on the crematory contract will
reduce this function to a mere for
mality. He has made it clear that
he won't sign the crematory check
unless he has to.”
Councilman Thomson said he was
not seeking a quarrel but that the
Mayor bad so often flayed Council
through the newspapers 'that he
wanted the people to get an insight
into the other side of the controversy.
“It now has come to be the regular
thing for Council almost unanimously
to pverride a veto of the Mayor. By
that power Council has abolished his
office to all intents and purposes.
“I want, to review a few highlights
of his administration which I think
make it clear how he has cut off his
own political head, unless he will
change his attitude. If he ever turns
♦ o reason he will find co-operation
in Council.
Tactics of the Mayor. ^
"First he attacked the crematory
and charged that the contract was
loaded with graft. H* never sub
mitted one iota of pgoof and the
crematory is about half finished and
he has never been down to look at it.
But he is still against it.
“Next he declared that everything
was rotten and that we must have
a new charter that would sweep
everybody out of office. All that re
mains of his offtoe is his chair .and
the salary. Everybody else Is se
cure.
“Then he jumpe'd on the Fire De
partment, but was still short on
proof.
“Unlike Alderman John E. McClel
land, who accused only three Aider-
men, he attacked the whol* Coun
cil.
“I am not concerned as t<» the
Mayor’s personal estimate of me.
Our standards of excellence either as
to ability or character are probably
widely different.”
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DETECTIVE IS
1 III NIGHT
Negroes in Exciting Gun Battle
With Officers—Ten Finally
Rounded Up.
City Detective Sam Webb was shot
in the face while taking part in the
raid of a gambling game shortly aft
er 1 o’clock this morning. He was
rushed to Grady Hospital in a .«e-
rious condition.
n a call from residents nearby De-
Otectives Webb and Harper descend
ed on a score of negroes in a house
on Alexander Street, between Peach
tree and West Peachtree Streets.
There was an exchange of shots that
aroused the entire neighborhod, per
sons frightened by the fusilade ap
pearing in their night clothes at the
doors and windows.
Webb fell in the fire from the gang
of negroes, some of whom were se
riously wounded, and a hurry call was
sent into police headquarters. A pa
trol wagon load of officers rushed to
the scene. While Webb was being
taken to Grady Hospital, the other of
ficers placed ten of the gamblers un
der arrest.
Dr. Alley, with offices In the Peach
tree Inn, was aroused by the commo
tion and arrived a moment after Webb
was wounded. He gave the wound
ed detective medical attention until
the arrival of the ambulance.
Slain Girl’s Ghost
Haunts Old Home
Young Woman Killed Years Ago
Said by Relatives to
Visit House.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 10.—
The family of Jane Adams, the vic
tim of a mysterious pier tragedy
here five years ago, of whose mur
der “Big Bill” Seyler, an engineer,
was acquitted, have appealed to the
police for protection from a “ghost”
which they asserted has haunted the
little frame house they occupy at
No. 1915 Caspian Avenue.
The mysterious “ghost” appears in
daylight as well as at night, accord
ing to the family, who have the
neighbors in a state of nervousness
by their wild stories. The police
have instructed them to move in or
der to lose the mysterious intruder,
who bears a resemblance to the dead
girl, |ier parents say.
Society Leader Decries the Fight
Women Are Making for Univer
sal Equality With Men.
TO«, S. SENATE
Asks for Hearing in Gainesville
Postoffice Controversy Before
Mrs. Ham Is Confirmed.
The Consequences of
A Pusillanimous and
An Unpatriotic Policy
SUFFRAGETTES RIDICULOUS’ BELL RESENTS TREATMENT!
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Modern Girl Has No Charm Be-; Congressman, on Floor of House,
cause of Her Manishness, to Attack President's Action
She Declares.
NEW YORK, May 10.—Mrs. Stuy-
vesant Fish, the real leader of New
York and Newport society, and wife
of the former president of the Illinois
Central Railroad, In a remarkable in
terview* to-day declared the insistent
and Increasing demand of women for
equality in politics, business and the
professions, is creating a sex antagon
ism, which is "eliminating sentinjent
and the prettiness of romance from
life.”
Seated in the beautiful Louis XVI
drawing room of the Fish mansion in
East Seventy-eighth Street, the bril
liant social leader decried the meas
ures women are making to-day in
asserting their “rights.”
Not Militant at All.
Mrs. Fish denied emphatically that
she intended following the example of
Mrs. H. O. *Havemeyer, Mrs. Robert
Goelet, Mrs. J. DeR. Norman White-
house, Mrs. Ogden Reid, Mrs. Frances
Higginson Cabot and other women of
wealth and social prominence, wno
publicly indorsed votes for women by
marching for the first time on May 3
last in the big suffrage parade.
“The proposition is ridiculous,”
said Mrs. Fish. “However, if I could,
I would give the vote to women and
stop all this. fuss. it would not
amount to anything if they had it.
What good w'ould it do? •
"You know’ women. As a rule, they
are hysterical. They are more or
less jealous of each other, and what
would they accomplish? Women are
a good deal like children. They want
a thing they have not got. If they
were given the vote it w’ould satisfy
them and stop all this ridiculous agi
tation.
“Just how foolish women can be
is shown by the way those screech
ing, fighting women of England are
carrying on. Isn’t It absurd? While
this fuss continues some one is cer
tain to suffer. And I think, most of
all. woman herself.
“Men are losing respect for wom
en because of this continued fight
ing for 'their rights,’” observed Mrs.
Fish. “Now. when you start to fight
men, women always get the worst
of it. You get better treatment from
men by being pleasant with them.
Women Losing Charm.
“I know’ scores of girls crazy to
marry. But womep are losing their
charm for men w#o would marry
thoroughly womanly women. Look
at the masculine clothing women are
wearing! They smoke and drink
with men and insist upon enjoying
all men’s privileges. Thai doesn’t es
pecially endear them to the other
sex, you know.
“Why, I have known young women
—the truly girlish feminine type, of
course—wno used to receive as many’
as twenty bouquets from young men
friends on the eve of a cotillion. The
young women now, since they want to
be men, don’t get any flowers, and
they are lucky if they get a dancijig
partner.
“This is the reason I think it is so
foolish of women to be crying for the
same sort of life that men lead, com
peting with men on their own ground,
when the women have so much in
their own lives worth while. Wh«r.
the days are not long enough for a
woman to do all that she can do
in her own home, in philanthropic
work and in further educating her
self. . Isn’t it silly, then, for her to
want to do a man’s work, too?
“I wouldn’t be surprised that after
a while women will get tired of .ill
of this sort of thing and go back to
the old-fashioned tastes of women,
the minuet instead of the turkey trot
and the feminine pursuits of life.
“I didn’t see the parade on May 3.
I went out of town because I didn't
care to see it; but I heard the women
marched very well and made a good
showing. Parades are silly, but If
women want to march, I suppose
nothing would stop them.”
UNDERWOOD BOOM FOR 1916
LAUNCHED BY HIS FRIENDS
in Making Appointment.
WASHINGTON, May 10.—Repre-
sentative Oscar W. Underwood’s
friends have started to boom him for
the Presidential nomination in 1916.
They claim that tariff hills have made
Presidents and that Underwood w’ill
come to the front on the bill that
passed the House.
His supporters are backing Under-
w’ood in the belief that President
Wilson will abide by the Baltimore
convention platform, which declared
in favor of a single term.
WASHINGTON. May 10.—Sharp
criticism of the action of the Presi- !
dent in sending to the Senate the i
name of Mrs. H. W. J. Ham -for |
postmaster at Gainesville, Ga., in I
the face of his promise that he would j
take no action until he had con
ferred with Representative Thomas
M. Bell, of the Ninth Georgia Dis
trict, will be made by Mr. Bell in a
statement on the floor of the House j
as soon as the Senate take;-' action on j
the appointment.
Representative Bell, whose home is j
at Gainesville, had endorsed A. S.
Hardy for postmaster. Being very [
busy, he asked Postmaster General 1
Burleson to hold up the appointment
until he had presented his argument
for Mr. Hardy, and he received a
letter from the Postmaster Genera!
agreeing to defer action. He received :
similar assurances from the White
House.
The day before his engagement with
the President, at which he was to
urfee the appointment of Mr. Hardy,
the President sent to the Senate the
name of Mrs. Ham. The same even
ing he sent a letter to Mr. Bell re
gretting that tlie name had been sent
inadvertently.
Bell Broke Appointment.
In view of flie fact, however, that
the President did not show a dispo
sition to recall the name of Mrs.
Jiam, and listen to the argument for
Mr. Hardy, Mr. Bell deliberately
broke the appointment.
To avoid being put in the position
of attempting to influence the Sen
ate, Mr. Bell will make no state
ment until Mrs. Ham’s* name is acted
upon. He will then express himself,
and the indications are that his re
marks will be right to the point.
Senator Hoke Smith to-day said
that, so for as he was concerned,
there would be no opposition in tli/
Senate to the appointment of Mrs.
Ham.
Mrs. Helen D. Longstreet, widow of.
General James Longstreet, who
failed to obtain a reappointment, is
still in Washington, keeping up her
fight.
Mrs. Longstreet Makes Plea.
To-day Mrs. Longstfieet issued an
appeal to the T T nited States Senate to
withhold* action on the nomination of
Mrs. Ham until she can state her
own case.
Her letter follows:
The American Senate:
The patronage dictators now in
the State of Georgia have sum
marily kicked me out of the
Gainesville postoffice, on false
charges which I had no oppor
tunity to refute because they
were never submitted to me.
A large majority of the patrons
of the Gainesville office earnest
ly desired my retention, as was
abundantly evidenced by the v Sfli
uminous recommendations filed.
The American people also were
concerned In my reappointment,
and In evidence thereof letters
and telegrams are on file from
Union and Confederate veterans
and from patriotic organizations
from every’ section of the conti
nent of North America.
The most representative men
and women of my town have con
veyed to President- Wilson in per
sonal letters that nothing more
disgraceful has ever happened in
Gainesville than the fight which
has been made on me.
Unable To See President.
The patrons of the Gainesville
office made many efforts to se
cure a hearing before President
Wilson. Delegations of my peo
ple, both men and women, wished
to come to Washington in my be
half, but were not successful in
getting an audience with the
President. Neither was I able to
see the President.
However. I have no. idea that
President Wilson knows anything
about the efforts the patrons of
this office and the American peo
ple in m.v behalf. Everything
bearing on my case undoubtedly
was turned ov# p to the Postoffice
Department for 'action. I will
continue to believe that the man
Continued cn Page Two, Co-umn 3.
T HE unpatriotic attitude of the Democratic party has
placed the nation in a serious predicament.
. The country is confronted with a possibility of a war with
Japan, and is wholly unprepared for such a contingency because
of the policy of the Democratic party ever since the party of
late began to have an appreciable power in the conduct of the
United States Government.
It was not until the Democratic party’s representation in
Congress began to assume appreciable proportions that the in
terference with the development and equipment of the navy be
gan. But since the Democratic party became a factor in the
government, that interference has continued and increased.
Since the Democratic party came into actual control of the
government the vital and fatal interference with our naval pro
gram took place.
And to-day the navy stands not only hampered in its de
velopment, but deprived of the actual equipment in men and
munitions necessary to make effective the navy that we have.
These newspapers have continually warned our govern
ment and our citizens of our r.npreparedness for war, and have
continually explained to the government and the citizens the
character of Japan as a pirate pation and the conditions exist
ing here wljich would invite,and impel such a nation to make
war on the United States.
The present situation in California is not a reason of war,
it is merely an excuse for war. And Japan has long been de
termined to make war upon this country with or without rea
son and with or without excuse.
War is Japan’s opportunity for plunder. It is to her a
piratical expedition, resulting in profitable accessions *>f terri
tory and money indemnity. She has grown larger with her wars
and richer with her wars.
And never before has a pirate craft of a nation had such
an opportunity to plunder a helpless golden galleon as this na
tion has offered Japan through the imprudent and unpatriotic
attitude of our government.
Mr. Bryan may now have an opportunity to exercise his
“Peace at any price” policy, and to establish the value of his
plan to delay in providing an adequate navy until after war
has been declared.
War is a disaster at any time. But it is likely to be a dou
ble disaster with Congress in the hands of pork barrel patriots
and the administration of the nation in the hands of a school
teacher and a crank.
SOCIALIST PAID III
Longfellow’s Granddaughter and
Fellow Believer to Marry
Without Minister’s Aid.
BOSTON, May 10.—Delia F. Dana,
granddaughter of the poet Longfel
low and sister of Edmund Trowbridge
Dana, who married Jessie Holladay,
the English portrait painter, with a
unique ceremony of their own com
position, without maids or minister,
and with the trees for a canopy, plans
an identical service when she we is.
She is to marry Robert P. Hutchin
son, a fellow Socialist, next June at
the family summer home, Manchet-
ter-by-the-Sea.
Both Highly Educated.
Miss Dana and Mr. Hutchinson
have been acquainted for six years.
He is now in the post-graduate
school at Harvard, preparing for hi*
work as a teacher.
Miss Dana is completing a philo
sophical course at Radcllffe, paying
espeyial attention to the works of Tol
stoi She is a graduate of the Bos
ton Children's Hospital and of the
post-graduate department of Johns
Hopkins in Baltimore.
Seated in the great front room ;>f
the Longfellow house, -with many
menmeatos of the great poet on eve y
side, including th«* ever-famed
“grandfather’s clock.” Miss Dana, pe
tite of form, with a wealth of golden
hair that refused to remain in pla e.
and with her frank blue eyes spark
ling with good humor, talked perti
nently and interestingly of marriage
and its importance.
“In the first place,” said Miss Dana,
we don’t intend to use the forma*
vows. Instead, the one my brother
used, with slight variations, will be
used.
How the Ceremony Goes.
“1 will say: ‘I, Delia Dana, take you,
Robert Hutchinson, as rnv lawful hus
band and promise fnithfulb* to tuifUl
toward you all the obligations arising
from the married state, and I hope
be a true comrade and helpmate:
a symbol thereof, I give you this ring.
"As I say the last words. I will slip
on Mr Hutchinson’s third finger -f
the left hand a heavy silver ring. Mr
Hutchinson’s vo v will be on the same
lines, save that he will give me a goal
band instead of i silver one.
“A Justice of the Peace will mar*y
us instead of a minister. We ire
not Episcopalian*, nor are we believ
ers in any other set faith. Hence we
use the unusual marriage vow. WV
will take vows for only what we be
lieve. (>ne must he sincere in such a
step, ard 1 regret to say that I believ*
few really consider the solemnity of
such a union."
Greatest Medical Mystery of WorTd
To-day May Be Solved by
Savant’s Discovery.
BOSTON. MASS., May 1ft.—Dr.
Howard W. Nowell, of the Boston
University School of Medicine, con
sented to discuss to-day for the first
time his experiments with an anti
cancer serum. Since the announce
ment a few weeks ago that Dr. Now
ell’s experiments had shed new light
on the treatment of cancer the eyes
of the entire world have been cen
tered upon his work. Dr. Nowell re
ports that:
Fifty patients have been treated
with the serum
In every, case the pain has prac
tically ceased within 4X hours.
Some* improvement is apparent in
each case.
Negro Shot Dead in
A Gamblers’ Battle
Another Badly Slashed and a Third
Gets a Bullet in Right Arm
in Midnight Row.
M'kick
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
END U. 8.
One negro was shot
the heart, another was
tally cut, a third was
dead through
probably fa-
shot through
the right arm and the servants' quar
ters :n the rear of 202 Washington
Street, where the fatality occurred,
v ere partially demolished in a fierce
gambling row shortly before mid
night Saturday night.
John Smith is the dead negro. In
his dying statement be accused John
Henry Adams, a porter, of doing the
shooting.
Brantley Pitt was sho through the
right arm, and was one of the three
held in connection with the (’rime.
The others are Charley Pitt and Bea
trice Hunt. Adams was caught in an
almost dying condition badly slashed
and cut. He is at Grady.
PRESIDENT VISITS TOMB
OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON. May 10. -Woodrow
Wilson, the latest President, visited
to-day the tomb of the first Presi
dent. George Washington, at Mount
Vernor. The President and Mrs. WiL
I son and a party of friends motored
over from Washington.
Ambassador Chinda Declares Only
Basis on Which His Country Will
Treat With This Nation Is the
Repeal of the California Measure.
PRESIDENT TO SEND NEW
MESSAGE TO GOV. JOHNSON
Opinion at Washington Is That Un
less Orientals Recede From Posi
tive Demands, hriendlv Relations
Between Nations May Be Severed.
WASHINGTON". May 10. Ambassador Chimin. in llie name
of tlie .Japanese government, refused to-day to accept the reply
to the protest against the California alien land law made by
I’resident Wilson.
He demanded as the only basis upon which the controversy
could be amicably settled that the Federal Government make
impossible the execution of the legislation which is objectionable
to his people.
Secretary Bryan hurried to the White House with the answer.
In him. President Wilson dictated a telegram to Governor .John
son, giving the full details of the final demand of the Tokio gov
ernment and placing emphasis on the gravity of the situation.
The text of the telegram was not made public, but it is un
derstood llie President appealed to the California Governor to
veto the bill, setting forth that this was the only means by which
the friendly relations between this country and .Japan could be
insured.
PRESIDENT SHOWS HESITATION.
It is known that the President hesitated to make another
formal request on Governor Johnson after tfie visit of Secretary
Bryan to California, but did so, it is admitted, to jdiow the -Jap
anese people that as Chief Executive of the nation he was will
ing ot exercise his prerogative to make suggestions.
He finds precedents for this in the language of several treat
ies with other foreign nations which provide that "the President
will use his good offices with State governments to obtain for
the citizens of the other subscribing power such privileges and
concessions as may be granted citizens of the United States.’’
The sum of the day s events is accepted at the State Depart:
meat to mean that unless Japan recedes from the positive de
mands made, the friendly relations between the United States and
that government will be severed Within the next seventy-two
hours.
Governor Johnson has until May 13 to either sign or veto the
bill. If he does not exercise his veto power, the measure will be
come effective us a law anyhow. The impression prevails here,
however, that he will sign it,
PROTESTS NOT TO BE MODIFIED.
There is nothing in the attitude or demeanor of Viscount
Chinda to indicate the possibility of the protests being withdrawn
or modified. He has informed the President that the Japanese
government holds llie national government responsible, and will
look duly to the Washington government for a settlement of the
differences which have arisen. *
Ambassador Chinda, to make known these facts, has made
daily visits to the State Department and also went to the White
House until it was intimated to him that his visits to the Presi
dent direct were emphasizing the seriousness of the trouble.
The Mikado’s representative entered the building occupied
by the State, War and Navy departments so early to-day that
he was obliged to rub elbows with the clerks who were hurrying
to their work. He leached Secretary Bryan’s office before any
other work had been taken up and the two immediately went into
conference. The conference was brief.
DEMANDS LAW BE NULLIFIED.
Viscount Chinda had communicated with his home government
overnight and had only to say to the Secretary of State that the
terms for a settlement suggested in the reply given to the pro
test yesterday was not satisfactory. He then demanded that.some
other step be taken to nullify the California law.
Secretary Bryan is understood to have made a plea for time
because of the announced policy of making Saturday a half hol
iday at the White House. To this Viscount Chinda answered
politely but firmly that his instructions from the Japanese foreign
office were to obtain and cable an immediate answer which would
toll whether the United States would take any further steps in
the matter. s
From that time until the close of the day, Secretary Bryan