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IIEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA. GA., SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1313,
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3,000 Atlanta School Children TaJ^e Part in Field Day
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Confederate Veterans Aid Youngsters and Share Pleasure
fender Sentiment Inspires Ob
servance of Day Here and
Throughout Land—Every Boy
and Man Expected to Wear
White Rose or Carnation.
Special Services in Churches.
MY MOTHER’S SMILE.
By F. S. JACOBS.
ionic times when things don't go
just right
And worry clouds my skies
o'er cast,
Which blacken out my clearer sight
hi struggle to regain my clasp;
Sometimes l stop and close tny eyes
And lying motionless the while,
/ conjure up the light that lies
In memory of my Mother's smile.
I saw it first when babe in arms.
It freed me from my fancied fears.
It held me with its icondrous charms
While its soft beams dried up my
tears;
And through each chapter of my life
Wherein things came but to
beguile
The light that led me in the strife
Was that I saw in Mother's smite.
Its tenderness has held my hand
When anger prompted me to smite:
Its sweetness has made contraband
The painted, faces of the night;
It's love has kept my heart abeat
While waiting for a love as true;
Its patience, shining in defeat.
Has lent my struggles life anew.
Today is “Mothers’ Day.”
Before the memory enshrined face
‘of the “sweetest woman in the world”
Atlanta and the nation will bow in
reverence. Millions of hearts will
throb deeper as they forget their
present aches and wander back to the
days when the center of the little
world was “Mother,” to the purest
■ and truest love.
, To-day many men and women will
find their hearts unselfish and tender
for the first time in days and days;
boys away from home will feel their
hearts swell; girls in boarding houses
will frankly cry out their homesick
ness, and the lucky ones who live at
home will make It a shrine, with the
careworn face and maybe the bent
figure of their mothers as the presid
ing divinity.
White Flower the Symbol.
Because to-day is Mothers’ Day—
everywhere—and everyone will wear
a white carnation or a white rose as
a symbol of its observance. Even
last night the florists of Atlanta be
gan stacking their counters with
great heaps of tender flowers in an
ticipation of Atlanta’s loyalty to this
noble sentiment.
No holiday, it is recorded, ever
struck so popular a chord imme
diately upon being established as has
Mothers’ Day. In March, 1908, a
woman in Philadelphia thought of
the mother she had lost and decided
to set apart a day in tribute to her
memory. It occurred to her. in the
typically unselfish spirit of the day,
that there were others of a kindred
impulse, and she asked the public to
observe the day and to wear a white
flower, a rose or carnation, to be
speak the reason for the holiday. And
since then a Sunday in spring has
been set aside and called Mothers’
Day.
Special Church Services.
The day, intended to do honor to
living mothers, and to pay homage
to the memories of those who have
gone before, is observed hot only by
the personal mute devotion of many
men and women, but in almost all
churches.
"Mother o’ Mine” will be the sub
ject of this morning’s sermon by the
Rev. I,. Wilkie Collins at the Wesley
Memorial Church. Dr. Collins, in
part, will say:
"In this heartless modern world of
ours, Mothers’ Day is a testimony of
real merit—of a band of God's chil
dren who have suffered' to make this
a great country more than all Its sol
diers. It is a testimonial to those
who have wrought quietly and pa
tiently and have left behind a record
which our nation delights to honor.
They say in England: ’By the grace
of God, Queen.’ I say tonight, ‘By
the grace of God, Mother.’ Yet she
was called to be queen, indeed, of the
hearts of millions of us to-day and
so let us crown her to-day with a
crown of gratitude and everlasting
love.
Preserve Respect for Age.
"Let me say to all of. the young
folks here to-night that folks tell us
we are losing respect for age, and
for home, and for parents. They
said that two thousand years ago—
you may read it in the Greek pjays.
Yet « real mother enters into every
thought and ambition of young peo
ple, and she is willing to give you
time and thought and effort if you
will only let her remain in memory
deep down in your hearts.”
Among the many ceremonies to be
heki at the various Atlanta churches
today m observation of Mothers’ Day
Mothers’ Day for the
Protection of the Home
This is Mothers’ Day. It will b«
observed all over the country.
Nearly every minister in the land
will refer to it in'some way. Hun
dreds of preachers will make the
day the text for sermons, to the
•nd that a more vital interest in
morals and home protection shall
be engendered.
Loose divorce laws have been
the target of every student of
modern tendencies; the new prob-
terms co-exi9tent with the changes
in the home life of the greater
part of our population have caused
unrest. Carelessness of the mar
riage tie is responsible for an in
finity of misery. The collusive di
vorce is the scandal of our courts.
Men and women conspire to break
a tie, on inadequate grounds or
none, and take no heed to the
rights of the children, who are the
real sufferers.
A uniform divorce law for the
nation is needed.
If Mothers’ Day helps establish
this principle it will be a victory
for the permanence of the home.
Attend Services Only Under Com
pulsion, Captain Donaldson
Tells Reformers.
; will be that of the Sunday children
j of the First Methodist Church. The
I classes will assemble in the main
room this morning and listen to ad-
■ dresses by their leaders on the theme
of “Motherly Love.” There will also
be special songs for the occasion.
U. S. Government
Recognizes Mothers’ Day.
WASHINGTON, May 10.—Official
| recognition here of “Mothers’ Day’
was assured to-day when the House
unanimously' adopted a resolution by
Representative Heflin, of Alabama,
requiring .the President, the Cabinet,
members of the House and Senate
and all Government officers to wear
a white flower to-morrow in honor
of the sacred memory.
Great preparations have been mad;
for the observance of the day. Thou
sands of white flowers have been cut
and prepared for wearers. One florist
alone announced to-day that he would
have more than 10,000 white carna
tions on hand and other florists and
street venders will be ready for a
big business. A white flower is the
symbol that will mark the celebrant.
Genius of Winsted-
Misses a Chance
Greatest Nature Fakir in America
Lets Green-Spotted Birds by
Unclassified.
Has the fertile brain of the genius
of WInsted, Conn., lost Its cunning?
It surely must be so. For years read
ers of newspapers all over the coun
try have chuckled over stories un
der the Winsted date line, which dealt
with some of the most marvelous na-»
ture fakes that it is possible to im
agine. But yesterday there came
over the wires an item which admit
ted of the greatest possibilities in the
hands of the imaginative correspond
ent of Winsted, and instead of send
ing out a story of some new wonder,
the following matter-of-fact para
graph tricked over The Sunday
American wires:
WINSTED, CONN., May 3.—
Bird lovers in Pleasant Valley
thought they had discovered a
new bird yesterday when a flock
appeared with spots of green on
their plumage. But somebody re
membered that the old iron bridge
is receiving a fresh coat of dark
green paint and the local natural
ists decided not to write to any of
the museums.
In the words of Shakespeare,
“What a fall was that, my country-
Tonsilitis Kills 13;
Town Is Terrified
Schools Closed and Public Funerals
Forbidden in Canton, Mass., by
State Board of Health.
CANTON, MASS., May 10.—The
State Board of Health to-day took full
control of this city in an attempt to
check an epidemic of tonsilitis. jthe
peculiar manifestations of which have
puzzled the local authorities.
Within a few days 357 persons have
been stricken, and of the number i3
cases have been fatal. The deaths
have all been sudden. Two patients
died to-day. Schools and other places
of public assembly have been closed
and public funerals are prohibited.
The action of the State Board in
superseding the local authorities was
due to the failure of the Canton
health officers to adopt recommenda
tions made by the State inspectors.
Beautiful Dance and Flag Drill Delight Crowd
at Ponce DeLeon. Athletic Exercises
in Morning.
TWO BROTHERS DIE AT
ALMOST SAME MINUTE
MACON, GA.. May 10.—Two
brothers, Don Williams, of Macon,
and Ernest Williams, of Cork. Butts
County, died to-day at almost the
same minute.
As W. Lamar Williams, a promi
nent Macon merchant, was on his
way to an undertaker to arrange for
the funeral of his brother. Don. he i
received a telephone call that his j
brother, Ernest, had just died. There |
will be a double funeral to-morrow I
afternoon. The brothers will be bu- J
ried in the same grave. J
Three thousand little bodies sway
ing in unison, three thousand little
heads bobbing in the sunshine, six
thousand little feet twinkling on the
green grass and six thousand arms
waving American flags in perfect time
with the music, with here and there a
Confederate emblem in honor of the
squad of veterans who watched the
little ones from a box in the grand
stand, brought tears of pride and hap
piness to the eyes of eight thousand
Atlanta fathers and mothers at Pon?.e
LeDeon Park Saturday afternoon, at
the annual field day exercises of, the
Atlanta grammar schools.
The grandstand was nacked from
the lower tier of boxes to the press
box on the roof, with a yelling, cheer
ing mob of fathers, mothers, brothers,
sisters and friends. From the time
the exercises began until the last child
had left the field, the very ground
shook with a continuous rumble of
sound as the throng expressed its ap
proval of the feats of the youngsters.
Two Numbers Given.
Two numbers were given in the aft
ernoon. More than a thousand little
children, members of the fourth
grades of all the city schools except
the Pryor, Bell and Davis Schools,
performed the intricate evolutions
of the Butterfly Roundelay in a won
derfully graceful manner. The chil
dren of the sixth grades, of all schools
except the Pryor, Bell and Forrest,
followed this with a flag drill, one cf
the prettiest exhibitions ever seen in
Atlanta. In both the drills the chil
dren showed the effects of long and
careful coaching, and they went
through the intricate evolutions with
out faltering.
Only one incident, bordering' on the
pathetic, occurred to mar the after
noon. Little Jane Reily, daughter of
Harry O. Reily, of 44 Lucile Avenue,
and a pupil in the Peeples Street
School, became overcome with tlie
heat and collapsed during the flag drill.
She was quickly taken from the ranks
of the children and laid upon th* 1
grass. She soon revived and begged
to be allowed to resume her place in
the drill. This was refused her, and
with tears streahning down her face
the little girl raised herself on her el
bow and wildly waved her American
flag at the veterans as they sat : rt
their box. The veterans saluted the
little maiden. Then the girl fainted
again and was carried to her mother
in the grandstand. She was revived
and was able to go home in an hour
or two.
The crowds began to enter the pack
at 1 o'clock, and inside of an hour the
grandstand was filled with a cheering
mob of humanity. Shortly after 2
o’clock W. F. Slaton. City Superin
tendent of Schools, decked with the
colors of every school in the city, rode
past the throng and was given a tre
mendous ovation by the children. T.k (
cheering continued as long as he re- j
mained in sight. Mr. Slaton was visi
bly affected.
Proud of Reception.
“I am prouder of that reception,"
declared Mr. Slaton, “than I am of
anything that has ever happened to
me. In my work I have made every
effort to earn the good will of the
children, and I am more pleased than
word ' ran tel! that they honored mo
to-da.,
Mr. Slaton declared that Die ex
ercises of yesterday were the best
he had even seen Atlanta school
children perform. His opinion was
shared by every person who saw
them. The children had had six
long weeks of coaching, and were
as nearly perfect as youthful hu
manity can be. To Dr. Theodore Toe-
pel and Miss Graves, In charge of
the physical culture department of
the schools, must go the credit of
teaching the children the intricate
drills and dances they performed so
well.
If the cheering was tremendous at
the appearance of Mr. Slaton, pande
monium broke loose when the band
struck up “Dixie.” At the first strains
of the great song, a door in the
grandstand opened and 30 qld men,
wearing the gray of the Confederacy
and bearing their battle-scarred flags,
marched across the field. They were
members of Cap Walker. On each
side of Standard Bearer R. A. Ellis
marched little Misses Eloise Lewis
and Belle Burdlne, each carrying a
streamer of ribbon attached to the
camp standard. The veterans march
ed to a far corner of the field and
watched the exercises attentively.
Later in the afternoon the veterans
and 22 little girls formed one of the
picturesque sights of the day. It
came at the close of the flag drill.
The 2,000 children were massed, with
their little hands raising 4,000 Amer
ican flags to the sky. From the west
end of the grandstand marched the
22 little girls, all of the first grade
class of the North Avenue School, led
by their teacher, Miss Daisy Rich
ards. Each little girl was clad in
spotless white and carried a small
Confederate flag. Behind the dainty
maidens marched the veterans. Slow
ly, while the band played “The Star-
Spangled Banner,” the little girls led
the battle-scarred heroes past the line
of upraised American flags. Every
veteran saluted the flag with bared
head as he filed past, and the flags
of the children dipped in salute to the
battle flags of the Confederacy, borne
proudly by the heroes of the Lost
Cause. As the last veteran saluted
the flag the band struck up “Dixie”
—and the crowd went wild.
Athletic Medals Presented.
At 5 o’clock W. F. Slaton and At
torney Harrison Jones presented the
medals and plaques to the winners
of the athletic contests Saturday
morning. Mr. Slaton presented the
medals, twelve in number, and Mr.
Jones presented the eight plaques
to the grades that won them. The
seventh grade boys of Formwalt
Street School lead in the contests,
with 293.26 points, and Russell An-
stett, of the Edge wood School, led in
the individual athletics with 71 points.
The plaques were awarded as fol
lows:
Fifth Grade boys, plaque donated
by the Fulton County Medical Socie
ty, to the North Avenue School, 226
points.
Fifth Grade girls, plaque doiated by
Forrest Adair to Beeples Street
School. 184.07 points.
Sixth Grade girls, plaque donated
ny University Club to Edgewood
School, 254.29 points.
Sixth Grade girl.-, piacque donated
by Atlanta Athletic Club to Form
walt, 293.26 points.
Seventh Grade girls, plaque do
nated by the Georgia Railway and
Power Company to Formwalt School,
with 209.85 points.
Eighth Grade boys, plaque ddhated
by Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, to
Peeples Strict School, with 279.13
points.
Eighth Grade girls, p aque combed
0$ Athletic Committee of the At-1
lanta Board of Education, to Pee
ples Street School, with 202.26 points
Individual Winners.
Class A—Boys: First, Russell An-
stett, Edgewood School, 71 points;
second, Mitchell Benton, Peeples
School. G9 points; third, Robert Scott.
Forrest School, 63 points.
Class A—Girls: First, Katie Leach,
Slaton School, 55 points; second, Eliz
abeth Vaughn, North Avenue School,
54 points: third, Clyde Webb, Ira
School, 50.5 points.
Class B—Boys: First, Benjamin
Holmes, Calhoun School, 45.5; second,
Morton Dameron, Formwalt School,
40.5 points; third, Albert Jordan,
Tenth Street School, 37 points.
Class B—G*is: First, Estelle Mc
Queen, Davis School, 59 points; Ar
cadia Near, Tenth Street School, and
Lilly Harrington, Formwalt School,
tied for second with 55 points, and
each was given a medal; Jeanie Bell,
Slaton School, and Lucia McDavid,
East Atlanta School, tied for third
with 39.5 points, and each was given
a medal.
Athletic Entry List.
Class A, boys over thirteen years—
Crew School, Cecil Lemon; Walker,
Cecil Self: Luckle, Harry Allen; Cal
houn, DeSales Harrison; Ira, George
Simpson; Davis, Charles Courtney;
State, Horace Hull; Inman Park, Wil
liam Hollingsworth; Formwalt. Rob
ert Smith; Peeples, Mitchell Benton;
Grant Park. Robert Gaston; Tenth
Street, Mansfield Matthews; North
Avenue, Arnold Bearden; Slaton.
Levy Turnipseed; Edgewood, Russell
Anstett; East Atlanta, Willie Mc
David: Oakland, Ben Montgomery;
Battle Hill, Ramsey Gailmard; Eng
lish Avenue, Willie Rice; Hill, Ern
est Smith; Forrest, Robert Scott;
Adair. Ernest Brewer.
Class B, Boys Under Thirteen— !
Crew school, Allison Pise; Walker, j
Guy Waldrop; Luckie, Jerrell Morris;
Calhoun, Benjamin Holmes; Ira, Har
ry Whitner; Davis, Clifford Wil-,
Hams; Boulevard, Julian Christian;
Inman Park, John Hollingsworth; !
Fprmwalt, Morton Daineron; Peeples, j
Cecil Burnett; Grant Park, Willie ,
Parker; Tenth Street, Albert Jor
dan; North Avenue, Louis Lloyd; 1
Slaton, Joseph Davidson; Edgewood, i
D. A. Pirkle; East Atlanta, Edgai l
Fincher; Oakland, Sidney White; j
Battle Hill, Clark Landers; English
Avenue, Willie Jones, Hill, Cary Bor- |
ford; Forrest, Newton Anderson;
Adair, Globe Brewer.
Class A. Girls Over Thirteen—Crew,
Minnie Manning; Walker, Bessie
Evans; Luckie, Nora Stradley: Ira,
Clyde Webb; Boulevard, Alma Hicks;
State, Nellie Wallace; Formwalt, Mi
nerva Smith; Peeples, DeKtte Cal
houn; Grant Park, Maran Chambers;
North Avenue, Elizabeth Vaughn;
Slaton. Hath* Leach; Edgewood, Mil
dred Reils; East Atlanta, Nanny Car-
roll; English Avenue, Lillian Bart
lett; Hill,#Katherine Alexander; For
rest. Louisa Viewig; Adair. Laura
Langston.
Clafs R, Girls Under Thirteen
Dorothy Orr; Walker, Alice
Fair. Emma Freer; Ira, Joseph-
dbert; Davis, Estelle McQueen;
.ard, Ruth Green; Fo.tnwalr,
Harrington, Peeples, Laura |
Woodruff; Tenth Street, Arcadia
Near; North Avenue, Edna Lenney;
Slaton, Jeanie Bell; Edgewood, Ro
berta Upshaw; East Atlanta, Lucia
McDavid; Hill, Anna May Hillsman.
Seventeen young women, members
of the graduating class of the Atlanta
Normal School, served as judges and
clerks, as follows: Misses Ethel
Rogers, Clara May Fowler, Fannie
Marshall, Frances Smith, Mattie Lou
Richardson, Ruth Miller, Virginia
Stannard, Sally DeSaussure, Louise
Leiper, Anna Estes, Willie Carmi
chael, Irene Hancock, Caroline Camp
bell, Vivian Winslow, Fannie Hen
ley, Lillian Reeves and Anna Hill.
HAIL AT MOULTRIE, GA.,
KILLS PIGS AND CHICKS
MOULTRIE, GA., May 10.—A se-
vere hailstorm swept the Buckhead
district of Colquitt County this aft
ernoon and wrought heavy carnage
to growing crops, destroying cotton
and corn.
Reliable parties from there state
that some of the hailstones were as
large as eggs. Several pigs and
chickens were killed by the falling ice
and ope man was seriously Injured.
“If It were not for the strict orders
of the guards the county convicts
would make a joke of the Sunday
services and the attendance would be
nil.”
Captain T. J. Donaldson, Superin
tendent of the Roads of Fulton Coun
ty, who has charge of the convict
camps, made that statement to John
J. Eagan, philanthropist, yesterday,
when, with a delegation from the
Prison Reform Association, he ap
peared before the .county board to ask
improvements that would make the
camps “Ideal.”
Mr. Eagan requested that during
the summer open-air eating places be
provided, shower baths be installed
and a more "uplifting” environment
thrown around the prisoners.
Captain Donaldson objected to the
proposed Improvements, with the
statement that it would require hie
guards to give up their half-holiday
every second Saturday and require
them to work Sunday.
In discussing the matter, Mr. Ffegaii
said the convicts seemed to genuine
ly enjoy the services conducted under
the auspices of the reform associa
tion and had shown every willingness,
and even an ambition, to better their
condition.
It was hi*re that Captain Donaldson
stated to the delegation that If It were
not for the compulsory attendance
rule but few of the convicts would at
tend the servloes. He said they were
attentive because they were forced to
be and not because they were inter
ested.
The county board agreed to make
an investigation, and If it was found
practical, would make the improve
ments.
‘Casey at the Bat’
Aids Thief’s Escape
‘Meanest Robber In World’ Steals
Watch From Fourteen-
Year-Old Boy.
MINNEAPOLIS. MINN., May 10 —
While 14-year-old Ernest Locke,
fearing for his life, stood In a room
near Hennepin Avenue and Seventh
Street stammering out the words of
“Casey at the Bat,” the meanest rob
ber Minneapolis ever heard of, made
away with Ernest's watch, accord
ing to the story the boy told at police
headquarters.
He was riding on his bicycle, the boy
said, when a kindly looking stranger
stopped him.
“He said he was selling a new kind
of bicycle lamp and would give me
one if I would show It to the other
boys and help sell It.” the boy told
the police.
“We went into a room; It was dark.
He pointed a revolver at me and
and asked if I knew poetry. I said I
knew ’Casey at the Bat.’ He took
my watch. Shut your eyes and say
"Casey at the Bat,'’ over four times,'
he said.
“ ‘If you stop saying it and open
your eyes I will kill you.’
“I said it over four times. When
I got through he was gone.”
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it
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