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3 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, TV EH DAY. .MAY IT liMT Noted Temperance Lecturer De clares Vice Crusade Is Object Lesson to the World. ALL TRAINS BEAR DELEGATES Business Men Lay Down Work to Help Welcome Hosts Pouring in for Assemblies. With the beginning of the influx of thousands of delegates and visitors ♦ j the Presbyterian Assembly which opens here Wednesday, Atlanta al ready is ringing with their praises as the cleanest city in the world—both morally and physically. Experts from other and larger cities, who inspected the town Mon day, have declared Atlanta is an ob ject lesson to other cities of the na tion in what can be done. “The fact that such a large city us this could so effectively remove the. scars from its social side is .a great proof of the fact that so-called evil necessities are anything but necessa ry,” declared the Rev. Charles Scan lon. of Pittsburg, the noted temper ance lecturer, who arrived Monday. While few delegates were expected to arrived before Wednesday, early trains Tuesday brought in their quota and several hundred are expected to come in during the day. From now until Thursday after noon it is doubtful if any train en tering Atlanta will be minus a corps of ministers and elders coming to At lanta to participate in the conven tion. Several special trains are sched uled to arrive Wednesday morning. There will be two from New York, one from Chicago, .>ne from St. Louis bringing in the Western delegates, one from Ohio and one from Philadel phia. These are the special trains of which the local committee has re ceived notice. It is possible there will be others. Registration Bureau Opens. Tuesday morning found headquar ters on the fifth floor of the Empire Building opening with as busy a rush as character.zed the place Monday. Rev. Jere Moore, who is secretary of the local convention committee, has been the busiest man in Atlanta for the past week and is right up to his ears in work now. Assisting him are a large number of ministers and business men, grinding away in the effort to make everything run smoothly, in the list are a number of men of heavy business interests who have laid aside everything in the entertainment of the mammoth joint convention. Rev. Mr. Scanlon, who will be one of the principal speakers at the great temperance service Sunday night in Wesley Memorial chapel, is much in terested in Atlanta, especially in con nection with tho vice crusade cam paign which Chief of Police Beavers has waged. “Of course, I know nothing person ally of what Atlanta has done in cleaning up the city, but I have heard much of it.” he said to a Georgian reporter. “1 suppose the vie? crusade In Atlanta has attracted more atten tion than any single city campaign ever carried on in this country, and there has been much discussion of it. When a city like Atlanta decides to make itself good and succeeds in doing so, it is indeed an object lesson to every other city in the world, for certainly what has been done here can be done elsewhere.” Another prominent arrival was .Rev. T. P. Junkin. president of the Daniel Baker College, of Brown wood. Texas. “Well, I'm with you and g.’|d to be here, too,” was his greeting as he introduced himself to Rev. Jere Moore. The joint assembly here has been all the talk among Presbyterians down my way. and 1 suppose this mammoth meeting will be talked o* for many years to come.” Missionary Meeting Sunday. In addition to the mammoth tem perance meeting to be held Sunday- night, there will be a Sunday school missionary meeting Sunday afternoon in the Central Presbyterian Church. It will be one of the most interesting features of the convention. The meeting will be unique in that its object is somewhat different from that of the ordinary missionary meet ing. It will be an actual demonstra tion of platform missionary instruc tion in the Sunday school. Dr. A. L. Phillips, general superintendent of the Department of Sabbath Schools and Young People’s Societies of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, will preside at this meet ing. There will be a brief address on “The Value of Missionary Education in the Sunday School,” by the Rev. Charles R. Watson, of Philadelphia. This will be followed by a demonstra tion of “A Missionary Opening Exer cise” for the Sunday school, entitled “America’s Welcome.” The theme of this address will be immigration, and It will be presented by a number of young people from the Central Pres byterian. Often features of the work will be the demonstration of how, in five min utes* or less, to present to a Sunday school a missionary book so as to Insure its being read. There also will be instructions as to how to make a telling misisonary speech and how to present a missionary map talk ef fectively. Special Music Feature. Among other prominent workers who will participate in this meeting are Mrs. D. E. AVaid. New York; George innes. Philadelphia, and the Rev. A. W. Halsey, New York. There will be a large chorus and special music under the direction of Pro- Ponce DeLeon Rink Now Goen. Differences of Opinion on Social Service May Serve to Keep «, Presbyterians Apart. Continued From Page 1. adopted by most of the leading de nominations in this country,'some of them having accepted it long before the platform of the Federal Council I had been drawn up. The Federal Council’s platform is, I therefore, practically the expression of I the Protestant forces of this country, with regard to social service. Asa matter of fact, most of the j criticism that has beeni directed | Against the social service platform of! the Federal Counc il is based upon the j assumption that those are the only | principles for which the council is I contending, hut the council spoke just j as strongly with regard to •‘evan gelism," "foreign missions." “temper- j anee,” “Sabbath observance,” “the family and the home” and upon kin - | died, subjects as it did upon social j service. At Its last meeting in Chicago a I strong evangelistic commission was, appointed!' which will no doubt in j time be jusj as influential as' the so- ; cial service commission of the. coun- i oil. It simply happened that the men who were interested in social servic- j became immediately active when they were appointed, so that they have got ’ a better start than Some of the other commissions. Favored by Atlantans. The report of the social service commission submitted at the Chicago meeting indicates that the men who framed it are warmly sympathetic toward evangelistic work and the evangelistic spirit. Following are some extracts from this much-maligned re port ; “The church, is not tuining aside from her task, neither is-she creating new forces: still further than this we are happily discovering that the con servation of the e.vangelistlc note is an essential to an effective social gos pel. and are no longer disposed to rend asvoder that which Christ has joined together. “We are not to forget that we can I have no kingdom of heaven on earth until our economic programs are fash ioned in the light of spiritual ideals and with spiritual ends in view, and we are to remember that the world will come together in the consumma tion of sympathy, tenderness an i brotherhood only when all men are brought to sit together at the feet of Christ.” It is impossible to tell how strongly developed is the. feeling tha ihe Southern Assembly should sever its connection with the Federal Council, but the men who have been fighting in Atlanta for the eradication of the social evil are strongly in favor oi having the Southern Assembly retain its relationship to this interdenomina tional organization. This feeling also characterizes the attitude of the mem bers of the Presbytery of Atlanta. Rev. Jere Moore welcoming Rev. T. P. Junkin, president of Daniel Baker College, Brownwood, Texas, and a prominent commissioner to the convention. fessor Joseph MacLean, of the Cen tral Presbyterian Church. Progress of the Southern Presby terian Church, which section of the church includes a majority of *he Presbyterian churches in the South, is interesting. Statistics to be read in the assem blies show the number of ruling elders in the church io be 10,977; the num ber of Heaeons, 10,637; the number added to the church during the year on examination. 14.103; the number added on certificate, 12,077; the total number of communicants, 352,84V During the year 6,021 adults and 4.970 infants were baptized. The total Sunday school enrollment was 245,- 495. Huge Sums Contributed. The amount contributed last year to foreign missions was $501,412; to home missions, $125,787; to Christian education and ministerial relief. $97,- 143; to Sunday school extension and publication, $25,499; to Bible caus- . $8,483: to orphans’ home, $86,125; to pastors’ salaries, $1,320,059; to con gregational expense, $1,493,234: to miscellaneous, $233,673. making a to tal of $4,4193,044 contributed to all causes. The vote of the presbyteries on the proposed amendments in the Confes sion of Faith and the Book of Church Order, handed down Dy the assembly of 1912, has peen awaited with special interest, as every amendment must receive the approval of three-fourths of the presbyteries before the assem bly can authorize the same With reference to the “elect infant clause” in the Confession of Faith, re ports from the presbyteries to be pre sented to the assembly will show that 22 presbyteries voted against the amendment, making the three-fourths vote in favor of the same impossible. It will be necessarv. therefore, for the assembly in Atlanta to consider overtures to omit the paragraph en tirely from the Confession of Faith. HAWKINSVILLE ELKS VOTE TO ABOLISH CLUB LOCKER HAWKINSVILLE. GA Ma> 13 — The Elks voted last night to discon tinue their locker adjunct and after June 15 no more liquors or beers will be dispensed in the club rooms. Public sentiment was averse to i locker club and the churches looked with displeasure upon their me mb rs affiliating with any fraternity or club maintaining a locker. The Elks vol untarily voted to discontinue it. rnr MILITANT CHIEF, There Will’ Be No Difficulty Ln Raising Funds to Entertain, Says Joseph McCord. “Whether Atlanta gets the 1914 convention of the American Bankers’ Association depends on two things— hotel accommodations and the guar antee of a satisfactory entertainment fund. The first is under considera tion; the second is assured.” J. I<. Ottley, vice president of the Fourth National Bank, thus sums up the situation. With Joseph A. Mc Cord, vice president of the Third Na tional Bank, Mr. Ottley delivered At lanta’s invitation to the 1914 conven tion when the executive council met at Briarcliff, N. Y., last week. “Proper accommodation of dele gates and guests demands 2,000 hotel rooms. Atlanta has more than this,” said Mr. Ottley. “The question is whether it is possible for hotel men to co-operate in setting aside that number of rooms. The Contention Bureau will die * - this with no• • 1 men. when its heads return from the Shliners’ convention. "If the Convention Be* and tin- hotel men make a satisfactory reply, the information will be forwarded to the national secretary. He tin n will make a visit 1<> Atlanta and will look over the situation. “Detroit last yqar spent $40,000 en tertaining the bankers. Boston this ' ear has underwritten $100,000 for the same purpose. But the uestior of raising funds in Atlanta is not bothering us. If we can get the hotel rooms we can get the money.” If you 'nave anything to sell adver tise in The Sunday American. Lar gest circulation of any Sunday news paper in the South. Successor to Mrs. Pankhurst, Sick From Hunger Strike, Gets Bail for Two Months. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON. May 13.—When the trial of the leaders of the militant suf fragettes arrested in the police raid on'the headquarters of the Women’s Social and Political Union, was re sumed to-day in Bow Street Court, Mrs, Flora Drummond, the "General, ’ was not present. The court \*%\s Informed that Mrs. Drummond is still in d serious condi tion at a nurving home, where she was taken after collapsing in court last week. Mrs. Drummond, who went upon a hunger strike after her arrest, has refused to eat in the nursing home. Her bail was extended for two months. Testimony was adduced to show that the Women's Social and Politi cal Union offered medals and other prizes for the militants who were able to accomplish the most destruc tion of property and think up new m forms of violence. Those who underwent punishment also were re warded. Militants Smash Shop Windows Worth $5,0C0. NORWICH, ENG., May 13.—Vandal suffragettes smashed $5,000 worth of plateglass in dry goods store windows here to-day before they were driven from the streets by policemen. The women opened an organized campaign, going through the streets armed with hammers and missiles with which they smashed the win dows. white City Park Now Open Ponce DeLeon Rink Now Open. County Will Build A Home for Girls Fulton County will erect a home for wayward girls and incorrigible wom en, the work to begin at once and the borne to be completed within the year. This announcement was made Tuesday following a conference be tween a committee from the County Commission and « committee from the trustees of the Harriot Hawkes Home. The latter agreed to deed to the county a 50-acre tract of land on Stewart Avenue, near Mt. Zion Church, and a fund of approximately $12,000 pledged for the erection of an institution. The agreement reached Tuesday is the result of several conferences. Fulton County will have absolute title to the property and will be in com plete control. It wall be responsible for the home’s maintenance. As a concession for the Harriet Hawkes donations, the home will bear this name. Several members of the for mer trustees will constitute an ad visory board for the institution. Following Tuesday’s conference it was announced that work would be gin immediately. A meeting of the Board ofi County Commissioners is expected to ratify the action of the committee, which comprises three members of the board—Shelby Smith, C. L. Anderson and Tull Waters. Henry Y. McCord represented the Harriet Hawkes trustees. If you have anything to sell adver tise in The Sunday American. Lar gest circulation of any Sunday news- Here he is again. Just when you thought that The Georgian’s “Man of Mystery,” with the three ties ranging down his shirt front, had vanished as unaccountably as he first made his appearance, pres to, up he bobs! Returning, he explained that hi# ap pearance, disappearances and reap pearances all are for the* same pur pope--—that of exciting your interest and curiosity. The picture of the "Man of Mys tery” was published three days in The Georgian without any explana tion or comment. There was not even a line to sa> whether hf % .is a for eign nobleman or the latest suspect in some daring crime. After the office of The Georgian had been deluge, with letters asking the identity of the strange personage came the explanation. It was simply this: The Georgian is about to pub lish a great serial story. It may be said with assurance that it is the most interesting story At lantans have read in years. This picture typifies the story. The first instalment will appear in next Monday’s* Georgian. What should be the title, judg ing solely from the picture? P'ive dollars in gold will be paid to each of the five best literary judg ments received. The title has already been se lected. It is now in a sealed en velope in the hands of T. J. Pee ples, cashier of the American National Rank. Originality, literary value and analytical clearness will be con sidered in awarding the prizes. Address all answers to “Lit erary Editor,” The Georgian, At lanta. The contest closes Sunday night. No answers posted after midnight. May 18, will be con sidered. mam cc 1 i Kir Str ikv 1 aight lair SOFT and SILKY LX ELEN TO never fairs to do what it claims. It stops falling HAIR, deans DANDRUFF at once, and juyt feeds the St'ALP and ROOTS of the HAIR, and makes HAIR grow so fast that ! t is a Wonder. 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Prices: A Splendid Cleans of Entertainment j $450 Oar own make G00 i 700 / 800 THE KIMBALL 88-Note PLAYER PIANO finds its legitimate sphere in the home life of our people. Its ownership bridges the years formerly spent in mechani cal toil. It Unfolds Instantly the Beauty of Music enabling the performer to devote his attention to the en joyment and interpretation of the master works. Every , musical mood is immediately gratified by the possession of this matchless instrument. Ask to Hear Any Music •in which you chance to delight, played on the Kimball 88- note Player Piano at the warerooms of the VV. W. Kimball Co. Their library of music rolls comprises every form of music—tile popular, classic, operatic, church or dance. You will be charmed with the artistic playing of this Player Piano. Inquire also about special Library Privileges. Should you prefer, however, a new upright—we have a most complete stock: prices ranging from $195 to $440; Grands, $650 to $1,250. We have your choice in woods, such as Oak, Mission, Walnut, Rosewood, Circassian and Mahogany. Special bargains in used instruments at nominal prices. W. W. Kimball Co. Established 1857. At lanta Branch, 94 North Pryor Street, H. R. Calef, Manager. 0 t mti l &T£I, CO. Decatur and Atlanta The corporate limits of Atlanta and Decatur are just two miles apart. The center of Decatur is connected with the cen ter of Atlanta by two street car lines, the Georgia railroad and by three public roads. East Lake Drive, through Druid Hills to Oak- hurst, thence by DeKalb avenue to Decatur, is at present an almost perfect automobile route from Decatur to Atlanta. The straight shoot from Decatur to Atlanta is now DeKalb avenue, which eastward from Mayson avenue is now being paved with vitrified brick. Ponce DeLeon avenue is being rapidly extended to the Court House at Decatur. A few months more of good weather will see the work completed. By street car the distance from the center of At lanta to the center of Decatur is 30 minutes; by the Georgia railroad the distance is about 10 minutes. Hundreds of telephones, both Bell and Atlanta, connect Atlanta with Decatur, and residents of De catur have exactly the same use of these two tele phone systems as the citizens of Atlanta. The truth of the matter is, a resident of Decatur on the average is just as closely in touch with the business in Atlanta as the residents of the best res idence sections of the city of Atlanta. Think of these things, and find out for yourself how much more cheaply you can build a home in Decatur than in Atlanta. Send for Booklet. DECATUR BOARD OF TRADE Beil Phone 148 Decatur (Weekes’ Building) GOES TO SLEEP UNDER A WATERSPOUT; DROWNED OMAHA, NEBR., May 13.— Jack O’Donnell went to sleep in a down town alley. So much water came out of the spout above his head during; an early morning storm that he was drow ned. If you have anything to sell adver tise in The Sunday American. Lar gest circulation of any Sunday news paper in the South. 0 | Here He Is Again; Man of Mystery Heralds a Story Griffin Insurance Man Kills Himself GRIFFIN, GA.. May 12.—VV. A. Goodrich, of the Insurance linn of R. H. Drake & Company and prominent in business circles of Griffin, com mitted suicide ®h> shooting himself in the mouth at his home here to-day. Ill health is assigned as the cause. His business affairs arc said to be in excellent shape. ATLANTA PASTOR WELCOMING NOTED ASSEMBLY DELEGATE >