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ITEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN,
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1918.
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COGUE HABIT
Vice Creeps Into Ranks of Sev
enteenth Infantry, Declares
Chaplain Durant.
DRUG IS BOUGHT IN ATLANTA
Evil Started in the Philippines^
It Is Said, as Outgrowth of
Opium Smoking.
The cocaine hatoit has found its
stealthy way into the ranks of the
Seventeenth United States Infantry
regiment stationed at Fort McPher
son, and in a small fashion has be
come an evil against which the au
thorities can not expect easily to
cope. This startling statement is
vouched for by Rev. Henry L. Dur-
-rant, chaplain of the regiment. Mr.
Durrant said yesterday that a num
ber of men make regular trips to At
lanta to obtain the drug—in a man
ner unknown—to gratify their desires.
The drug victims are not easy of
detection. None of them is so thor
oughly in the clutches of the habit
as to reveal chronic signs, he said.
Occasionally, although rarely, a man
is found going about his duties in
a sort of apathetic stupor, and then
it is known that he is one of the un
fortunates. But usually, from out
ward appearances, there is no means
of detection.
Mute Evidence.
However, mute evidence of the in
sidious habit is borne, he said, in
the tiny empty vials that are found
now and then on the ground within
the boundaries of the post. The vials
are found usually after rather long
spells of relief from the suspicion
that the habit is gaining ground. And
with the discovery the suspicion al
ways comes back with renewed force,
and the anxiety of the authorities is
doubled. The drug habit has a secret
and awful means of operation, says
the chaplain.
Sometimes the private soldiers
themselves voice the most tangible
suspicions, explained Mr. Durrant.
They will point out one of the vic
tims of the habit.
‘He is ‘snuffing snow,’ ” they tell
the officers or the chaplain or the
physicians. That man is watched.
The authorities at the post, like the
municipal authorities of Atlanta, are
striving to locate the^ sources of the
purchase of the drug.’ With the city
government, the war on the secret
enemy has been of long standing, as
in almost every American city, but
with the army the drug evil is rela
tively new.
“The habit is reminiscent of the
campaigns in the Philippines,” said
Mr. Durrant. “It most likely began
there, where the vice assumed a more
attractive form and in its novelty had
an appeal.’’
Outgrowth of Opium.
It is believed generally at the post
that the cocaine habit is an out
growth of an experience in opium
smoking that was afforded the United
States soldiers in the Philippines. The
sensation resulting from the use of
the two drugs is not very different,
physicians explain. But the method
of using it differs. Soldiers who “hit”
the opium in the Philippines found
their way into secret chambers, mys
tery shrouded, fascinating Oriental
dives. At Fort McPherson the “coke”
fiend must be secret, also, but with
out any attraction in the secrecy. Be
hind a tree, or in a quiet corner, or
in the privacy of his bunk, he must
hastily invert the vial, pour a pinch
of the w'hite crystalline powder into
his palm and as hastily inhale it. It
is in the quiet corners that the empty
vials are most generally found.
The cocaine habit, thinks Mr. Dur
rant, exists pretty generally in the
army, and is not confined to the sol
diers in Atlanta. The habit is making
inroads everywhere.
“There is no reason why the sol
diers should affect the drug,” he
said, “except for the sensation. It is
not a matter of veiling ill health
nor of anything else except the mo
mentary pleasure to be derived by
being drugged. ’
Some Encouragement.
The authorities at the post find
some encouragement in their fight on
the drug habit in the fact that most
of the men, being normal and healthy-
bodied persons, are as ready to dis
countenance the habit as are they.
•Mr. Durrant observes, he said, a de
crease in the amount of drunkenness
among the soldiers.
“Still there is some,” he said.* “On
pay day some of the soldiers will go
tn town, spend most of their month’s
money and come back drunk. In the
city only the near-beer can be bought,
but it must be that there are places
in the woods about the post where
whisky can he had secretly. At any
rate, whisky causes some of the
drunkenness. Near-beer is responsi
ble for most of it.”
So far as the Atlanta post is con
cerned, he said, near-beer has be
come the substitute for the conve
niences of the army canteen.
Major George W. Martin, com
manding at Fort McPherson in the
absence of Colonel Van Orsdale, said
that he is not aware of the pres
ence or prevalence of the drug habit
among the men of the Seventeenth.
“I da not know of any cases of men
addicted, to the habit,” he said. “I
can not believe telegraphic reports
that have.been published telling that
the drug evil is growing in the regu
lar army. More than likely there Is
nothing to the scare.”
‘Dancing Expresses Beauty and Joy of Life’
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Atlanta Terpsichorean Teacher Lilies Tango
T WO OF ATLANTA’S PRETTIEST YOUNG GIRLS, who
are members of Miss Moseley’s dancing class, and who
will be seen in intricate dances Jo-morrow evening when the an
nual exhibition of the class is given. The girl at the top is
Idelia Andrews, and the one below, Nell Summerall. The for
mer will be seen in an interpretative number, “Little Hoy
Blue,” the latter in "La Paloma.”
Miss Lillian Viola Moseley Says Modern Dances
Are All Right When Properly Executed.
Children Renew
Fight for School
Four Hundred Pupil* Petition Coun
cil for Building Costnig Sixty
Thousand Dollars.
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"Dancing is the best remedy I know
of for the discontent and restless
ness of the modern woman," said Miss
Lilian Viola Moseley, instructor of
dancing to smart Atlanta women and
their children.
"There is a reason for the present
fad uf dancing,” Miss Moseley con
tinued. "and it is a natural one. whicn
I predict, will insure the lasting pop
ularity of the art, now that it has
been brought to the notice of so many
people. Dancing with graceful motion
of the entire body, moving in harmony
is nature’s own method of expressing
the love of beailty and the Joy of
soul is made alive to beauty and
grace. And, lo, she is a new woman. "
Technique of Danoing.
“Yes, indeed, there is a technique
of dancing. 1 mean by technique, th«*
fundamental principles of dancing; a
series of graceful movements and
combinations of steps which develop
grase, east 1 , suppleness, poise and
bodily control; thus constituting the
most fascination and beneficial form
of physical culture for the young and
the old. Grace is a mental quality; yet
a thorough technical training is nec
essary to enable the dancer to for
get the feet, arms, and body, in th*
The University’s Memorial Hall
Should Recognize Sons on
Other Side, He Says.
Cook Will Testify
In Land Fraud Case
Georgia Secretary of State Subpe-
naed as Witness in Lou
isiana Trial.
Secretary of State Cook left Sat
urday for Lake Charles, La., where he
is subpenaed to testify in one of
Georgia’s numerous land fraud cases.
The case is brought by the Govern
ment in the Western District of the
United States Court in Louisiana, and
is set for May 19. The charge is use
of the mails to swindle and defraud.
Blind Wife Brings
Husband to Justice
Deserted by Joliet Doctor 8 Years
Ago, She Traces Him to Detroit,
and Swears Out Warrant.
DETROIT, MICH., May 17.—Eight
years ago Mrs. Ladlaian Slonski, of
Joliet, wife of a physician, became
blind. With the loss of her sight
went her husband’s affection and he
deserted her and their three children.
In spite of her blindness she traced
her husband to Detroit. He th*m
learned where her stepdaughter, his
daughter, was working, helping *o
support the family, and he persuaded
the girl to desert. The wife has asked
a jft^rrant for his arrest.
life. When I was a little girl, we
were taught to dance without motion
—the proverbial glide, you know, that
would not displace a glass of water
on your head. That was not the nat
ural way of dancing and conse
quently was not popular. I remember
well, when the first motion dancing
was introduced. That was some
years ago, but this form of dancing
was confined to the trained dancer
and it was only with the introduc
tion of the tango and kindred dances,
that the public was initiated into
this fascination and true form of
dancing. As you know, it has swept
the country like wild fire."
Approves of Tango.
Smilingly nodding an affirmative
answer to an interpolated question
here. Miss Moseley said; “Yes, I ap
prove of the tango, when it is danced
well. Of course, crudely done, it may
be objectionable, but the steps are
technical, and if well done, are grace
ful. It is a vigorous dance too, and
is good for tho physical well being
of the ladies who have grown decid
edly embonpoint, because of a lack
of exercise. But the real remedy for
the woman who has lost interest in
life is fancy dancing. By that I
mean the beautiful interpretative and
aesthetic dancing which I study ev
ery year under Louis Chaliff, in New
York. In the interpretative dancing,
the mind is exercised. The story .s
expressed by graceful movements ?f
the arms, the body, the feet. After
a thorough training in the technique
of dancing the interpretative dancer
forgets her body, in following the
story, and her movements are uncon
sciously made with unstudied grac**.
By and by, as she grows more ex
pert, she becomes more and more fas
cinated with the graceful art. She
forgets her discontent *ind. private
cares; her body grows graceful and
strong, her mind is refreshed .and her
charm and freedom of expressing the
harmony and rythm of thought.
“And let me say, no woman is too
old to learn fancy dancing or to ben
efit thereby. It is a positive fact that
M. Chaliff had as a beginner in fancy
dancing, a woman 68 years old, who
mastered the course and graduated in
four years. At the age of 72 she wa3
a finished and graceful interpretative
and aesthetic dancer, young in body
and younger in soul.”
Miss Moseley is one of the leading
authorities on dancing in the South.
She teaches the methods of Chaliff, the
great Russian instructor who is the
leading teacher of dancing in Ameri
ca. Every summer, she attends the
normal sessions of this famous school
in New York. She plans to leave
Atlanta soon after the termination of
her terms of teaching the latter pari
of May.
Studies Pantomime.
Miss Moseley also studies panto
mime and ballet dancing under Ro
meo, the well known Italian ballet
master at the New York Hippodronv.
Her pupils are the most graceful and
expert dancers in the South. They -*o
wonderful dances, the girls who have
studied several years having a reper
toire of classical, aesthetic, interpret
five, national folk and ballroom
dances which demonstrates her capa
bilities as a teacher and her thorough
knowledge of the art. A beautiful re
cital is to be given at Segadlo’s Hall
on to-morrow evening wheh these
various dances will be interpreted by
some of the talented pupils of Mips
Moseley’s fancy dancing classes. A
large audience of invited guests will
witness the beautiful program.
In addition to these young puplts,
Miss Moseley instructs and trains
many prominent women who are
learning the new steps and the un
derlying principles which enable them
to get the full beauty and grace from
the popular daijicei of the day.
BOSTON, May 17.—Declaring that
Memorial Hall, the great building
erected by Harvard as a monument
to the Harvard men who fell in the
Civil War misrepresents the atti
tude and spirit of a national univer
sity, S. A. Peters a junior and a
member of an old Boston family,
wants Harvard’s Southern soldiers al
so to be remembered in the hall.
His appeal, which is printed in the
Harvard Advocate, calls on the living
Harvard generations to right the mis
takes of those who built Memorial
Hall In the decade following the Civil
War. If the memorial remain as It
is, he says, there is grave danger of
"transmitting the prejudice* of for
mer day* to the generations that are
to come.”
On tablets on the walls of the mem
orial hall proper are inscribed the
names of all the Harvard soldiers
who perished on the Union side in
the Civil War battles. Occupying a
central and elevated position on the
east wall is this inscription:
Thif. lOnll
of the Graduates and Htudents of
This University Who Served in
the Army and Navy of the
United Mates
During the War for the Preservation
of the Union,
and upon These Tablets
Are Inscribed the Names of Those
Among Them Who Died in That
Service.
“Mingled Shame and Reproach.”
“It was with a feeling of pride,”
sgvs Mr. Peters, “that some years
since, os a freshman. I read these
lines and considered that this college
had sent its students to defend the
country in the time of its greatest
peril. But three centuries of Puri
tan ancestry have at least given me
a sense of justice; and after meeting
Confederate soldiers in their home*
and observing their efforts to rise
above the desolation of war, It lr
with a sense of mingled shame and
reproach that I now look on the walls
of Memorial Hall and feel that names
are wanting that should be there.
“It seems that the list is not com
plete, and cannot be filled by any
stretch of the imagination. One looks
in vain for the students of Harvard
from Virginia, South Carolina and
Tennessee. They are not there, and
one wonders if Harvard has turned
against her own sons and bowed her
head to the narrow prejudices of: a
provincial town.”
Mr. Peters then touched on State’s
rights, saying that until the nine
teenth century was far advanced New
England as well as the South held
that a State had the sovereign right
to secede, and that the South was
fighting for a constitutional right.
Suffered Sufficiently.
"They suffered sufficiently for the
mistake of slavery' which the traders
of New England helped to fasten on
them, and it Is not for us to deny
them the honor which they well de
serve.” he says. ‘New England is now-
proud to claim Lincoln a.s a descend
ant of her own, although it was here
in Cambridge that they sneered at
him and ridiculed him for an untu
tored barbarian from the West when
he visited the city in 1869.
“Let us of New England do no
more injustice. The South has an
equal claim on Harvard with us of
Puritan stock, for there has.been ho
time, except the period of the Civil
War, when Southern men have not
come to be educated within our gates.
“In the general rejoicing over the
outcome to the war we can under
stand w-hy Col. Higginson used the
words ’for the preservation of the
Union’ in the dedication of the memo
rial to the Harvard men; but now,
with the clearer vision which time
alone can give, he would have been
the first to remember the other Har
vard men who came from the South.
"Surely, we who are living to-day,
graduates and undergraduates, ought
to be above the petty bickerings of
sectional differences, too generous
even to remember a grievance and
too intelligent not to realize that Col.
Higginson gave Memorial Hall as a
tribute to the spirit of these Harvard
men as well as a reminder that they
fought to save the Union.”
Court Prevents Fare
Reduction on L.&N,
HUNTSVILLE, ALA.. May 17.—A
temporary order restraining the Ala
bama Railroad Commission from re
quiring the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad to reduce passenger fares
to 2Vz cents a mile May 20 has been
issued in the Federal Court.
The order will remain in effect
pending an appeal from a peimanent
injunction to be heard May 28 by
three Federal Judges.
The railroad was required to make
some arrangement for paying back
to its passengers who pay 3 cents
a mile the half cent excess in the
event that the order of the railroad
commission eventually is allowed to
become effective.
fourth candidate Inters
FOR GOVERNOR OF ALABAMA
MONTGOMERY, ALA., May 17.—
Charles Henderson, president of the Ala
bama Railroad Commission, formally an
nounced his candidacy for the Governor
ship this afternoon, declaring for local
option, railroad regulation and retrench
ment in the State government. This
makes the fourth formal announcement
this week for Governor, the others be
ing former Governor B. B. Comer, of
Birmingham; Lieutenant Governor wai
ter D Seed, of Tuscaloosa, and Reuben
F Kolb, Mate Commissioner of Agri
culture, of Montgomery.
Four hundred children, pupils of
the Davis Street School Monday will
renew their fight before the City
Council for a new school building to
replace the present dilapidated struc
ture which has done duty in the Aa-
vls Street district for many year.*.
Council will be asked for an ap
propriation of $00,000, half to be ap
propriated in the June apportion
ment so that actual work can begin
immedlau ly.
The school children are leading in
the fight, and declare they will con
vince the members of Council and the
Finance Committee that the need of
u new school is imperative. It is
expected that a big delegation of cit
izens from the school district will ap
pear before the Finance Committee
At a mass meeting of citizens and
school children Friday night a formal
petition to < ’ouncll was unanimously
adopted. This petition was intro
duced in Council by Alderman John
Harwell, of the First Word.
Miss Julia Riordan. principal of the
school, also spoke, stressing the needs
for a new school.
The plan for a new school has met
with the approval of members of the
Board of Education.
Mrs. Ava Astor Jilts
Nobleman of Austria
Count George Feetetics Not Good
Enough for Former Wife of
American Millionaire.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON. May 12 — Tt Is reported that
young Count George Festetlca, a cham
berlain of the Austro-Hungarian Em
bassy In London, has proposed to Mrs.
Ava Astor and has been rejected. His
devotion Is evident to all who know the
two. Mrs. Astor declared to-day that
she has no intention of marrying again
Mrs. Astor has never looked more at
tractive than she looks this season, nor
has she ever appeared in better spirits.
Whenever she goes to the opera the box
she occupies is the center of attention
from the nqjjlenoe.
Count George Festettes Is the eldest
son of Prince Festetlca de Tolna. He
was born in Baden-Baden in 1882 His
mother is Lady Mary Hamilton, whose
marriage to the Prince of Monaco was
annulled In 1880. The Kestetics family
is an old and distinguished one In the
Hungarian nobility.
Judge Grubb Ready
For Trial of Huff
Aged Vacon Man to Face Contempt
Charge for Speer Attack
Tueaday.
State University, Deaf School
and Blind Academy Inspec
tors Designated.
Governor Brown Saturday appoint
ed boards of visitors to the Georgia
Academy for the Blind, at Macon;
the School for the Deaf, at Cave
Spring, and to the (’niversity of
Georgia, at Athens. The appointees
are:
Academy for the Blind—E. E. Cox,
Camilla; LeRoy Hirshburg, Buena
Vista; J. H. Holland, Madison. A. L.
Miller, Edison; J. Hunter Johnson,
Jeffersonville; P F. Bauknight, At
lanta; (\ D. Roundtree, Swainsboro; ..
John C. Reese, Atlanta; Joe Hill Hall,
Macon; E. H. Griffin, Bainbridge.
School for the Deaf—John Awtrey,
Marietta; J. C. Bennett, Commerce:
Ernest Camp. Monroe; L)r. .1. 8. Dan
iels. Daniehrvllle; Dr. W. B. Tate, Jas
per; Dr. E. H. Richardson, Cedar-
town; J. B. Nevin. Atlanta; W A.
Wood, Dublin; R. O. Ross, Winder;
John L. Herring, Tifton.
University of Georgia—Prof. A. W
VanHoofle, Rome; Prof. Otis Ash
more. Savannah; Hon. B. W. Hunt.
Katonton; Judge 8. B. Rrewton,
Hinesville; A. Homer Carmichael,
Jackson.
WOMAN COMMANDS OLDSHIP,
HUSBAND IS FIRST MATE
BOSTON, May M.—Captain O«or-
i gl« Orne, one of the few women
skippers In the cdtmtry. is ready to
| put to sea with her century-old
schooner. Hiram. All hands, lnelud-
| ing First Mate James Orne, the skip-
| per’# husband, and .cabin girts. Mary
and Jana Orne, have signed articles
for the summer’s resulting trips, which
usually consist in carrying lumber
from some Maine ports to New York
and returning with coal.
White City Park Now Open
MXCON. GA.. May 17.—Colonel W.
A. Huff, the 82-year-old ex-Mayor of
Maron, will b«.tried Tuesday morning j
for contempt of court tn that last I
summer "he sent .fudge Emory Speeri
a letter attacking his personal and
judicial character.
Judge W. I. Grubb, of Birmingham,
who will preside, and District Attor
ney Street, of BJimlngham, who will
prosecute the case, arrived here to
day. Judge Speer will be represent
ed by Orville A. Park and Gorge S.
Jones, of Macon, and Enoch Callo
way, of Augusta. Ten witnesses have
been summoned by Judge Speer, He
will take the stand himself.
‘Manger to Cross’
Film to Show Here
Wonderful Picture, in Three Reels,
of Life of Christ To Be Pre
sented at Montgomery.
The much-discussed moving pic
ture film, “From the Manger to the
Oops," a wonderful example of photo
film art, has been secured for the
Montgomery Theater Monday and
Tuesday.
This film, which Is in three sec
tions and which depicts the life of the
Savior, has been pronounced by crit
ics to be one of the most beautiful
creations of its kind. Wherever it
has been shown it has received the
full commendation of the clergy.
The film was produced in the Holy
Land by a large company of compe
tent artists. There are about 80,000
photographs, which required eight
months of artistic industry, the em
ployment of specialists in authorita
tive research, 4«> actors, hund^ds of
<■ up tnun.eraries, r loves of she°p and
n caravan of canals.
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