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The Weather, j Local thunder storms, but the day 'will be a j good one for reading IA1JL. The Sunday American. SUN 1 T & GAM 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.” Wm 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! ' * | 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