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I ITEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1918. $ c 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’ •l-#v *!••+ +•+ +•+ 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. [ "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. 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