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ATLANTA, GA„ SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1913.
President Yuan Shi Kai Cables Appreciation from New Republic of China
Honorable William Randolph Hearst, New York, N. Y.
I thank you heartily for your cablegram (congratulating China on its
recognition as a Republic by the United States.) Our citizens, as well as my
self, feel highly gratified at the lead taken by President Wilson and the people
of the United States in the formal recognition of the Republic of China.
Our National Assembly, having perfected its organization, is now in
session. The Provisional Government, while approaching the expiration
of its legal term, has not slackened its efforts to promote peace and order
in the country and to do all that lies in its power to strengthen the founda
tion of the new Commonwealth. We appreciate highly the cordial and
sympathetic expressions contained in your cablegram.
YUAN SHI KAI, President of the Republic of China.
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Georgia Men Lead in Action to
Recover Investments in Silver
Claim Development,
Parcel Post Service
Costs One Cent More
DENOUNCE WHOLE PROJECT
History of Company Is Told in
Action Begun in the Fulton
Superior Court.
Stockholders in the Las Coloradas
Mining Company are suing in the
Superior Court to recover their in
vestments.
They charge that—
An abandoned silver mine was
bought for $40,000 and sold to the
Las Coloradas Mining Company
for $100,000.
With this $40,000 “hole in the
ground” in the State of Chihua
hua, Mexico, as sole asset, the
Las Coloradas Mining Company
was organized with a capitaliza
tion of $5,000,000.
No mining ever was carried on.
No satisfactory report of the
condition ever has been made.
The promoters took over the
“mine,” on the ground that the
company had no money with
which to pay the taxes, and as
they personally paid the taxes,
the property revested to them
under the laws of Mexico.
The stock is worthless.
The whole scheme was intend
ed simply to defraud investors.
James J. Hightower, Jr., of Atlan
ta, is one of the stockholders, who
says he put $8,000 into the venture
and wants it back. John Bostwlck,
of Bostwick, Ga„ also has filed suit.
He says he is out $1,260.
,T. T. Pittard, of Winterville, Ga.;
William Eberhart, of Cornelia, Ga.,
and O. E. Barron, also of Cornelia,
started a similar suit, but were paid
$4,940. in full settlement of their
claim, and dropped the litigation.
Other Georgians to Sue.
Suits are being prepared and soon
will be filed for Sam P. Thompson,
president of the Bank of Covington,
Ga.; P. A. Stanton, president of the
Bank of Social Circle, Ga.; Judge
Samuel H. Sibley, of Union Point,
Ga.; U E. Green & Co., of Watkins-
vllle, Ga.; E. L. Paw. of Marietta. Ga.;
J. N. McClure, of Norcross, Ga.; J.
L. Chupp. of Lithonia. Ga., and H. H.
Daniels, of Lithonia, Ga.
These and a few others invested
about $40,000 in the Las Coloradas
Mining Company for something like
150,000 shares of stock.
Among the defendants named are
* W. M. McKenzie, president; W. W.
Continued on Page 4, Column 6.
This Section.
Figures Compiled by Department
Show Delivery Has Added
Litt4e to Expenses.
WASHINGTON. May 17.—Figures
available to-day at the Postoffice De
partment show that the cost of the
delivery on parcel post packages for
the 50 largest cities in the United
States is less than 1 cent additional in
the cost of each package above the
ordinary cost of service. A total of
1,644,699 packages were delivered in
these cities in the six days between
April 14 and 19 at a cost of a ninth of
a cent a pound.
Automobile deliveries prove to be
the most expensive, notably in San
Francisco and Cincinnati, where the
cost is almost 15 cents a parcel. In
the 50 cities the average cost is 5.92
cents a pacakage.
The low average rate on all deliv
eries is due to the fact that most of
the packages are delivered by carrier,
where little additional expenditure is
necessary.
FAULTY TEETH
Free Brushes, Paste and Mouth
Wash Weapons to Be Used
in Combating Evil.
ALL SHOULD BE INSPECTED
Recent Tests at Two Schools
Showed 95 Per Cent Were
Defective.
Search Is Renewed
For J. D, Mattiford
Wealthy Clubman Wanted on Charge
of Kidnaping Barwick Children.
Mrs. JetPr Also Sought.
Renewed efforts were made Satur
day to effect the capture of John D.
Mattiford, wealthy clubman, and Mrs.
Annie Laurie Jeter on Grand Jury in
dictments charging them with kid
naping the two children of John A.
Barwick. head bookkeeper of the
Exposition Cotton Mills, whose wife
and children disappeared several
weeks ago at the same time as Mattl-
ford and Mrs. Jeter. Indictments
against the couple were returned by
the Grand Jury yesterday.
Descriptions of Mattiford and Mrs.
Jeter, who Is the mother of Mrs. Bar
wick, have been sent broadcast over
the country. They are believed to be
in the East with Mrs. Barwick and
the missing children. Barwick de
clared Saturday that he intended to
prosecute the alleged kidnapers to the
extent of the law.
Peace Union Would
Cede England Land
Joint Bill To Be Introduced in Con
gress Affecting Alaskan
Coast Strip.
Washington. May it - a nroposai
to cede to Great Britain the coa?* strip
of Southeastern Alaska, 6S6 miles ’ong.
and in some places eight or ten miles
wide, was made in a joint resolution in
troduced to-day by Representative Ste
phens, of Texas, at the request of the
Universal Peace Union at Philadelphia.
The resolution requests President
Wilson to negotiate with Great Britain
for a commission to investigate the pos
sibility of rectifying the boundary of
Southeastern Alaska, for the benefit of
both parties.
It sets forth that the border should
he adjusted to remove the unnatural
boundary by which British territory is
shut off from the sea by the American
coast strip and suggests that such a
move would set an example in the policy
of mutual concession that would consti
tute a “glorious achievement in his
tory."
YUAN SHI KAI, PRESIDENT OF CHINA
STATE MEETING
A. P, Coles and Hartwell Financier
Almost Clash Over Attorney
Park, Who Retains Place.
Court Reform Aim
Of Legislative Bill
Measure Defeated Last Year Will Be
Reintroduced This Year—Has
Judges' Approval.
A bill giving all criminal court
judges in Georgia legal authority (o
suspend sentence and giving coun
ties the right to appoint probation
officers will be reintroduced this
June in thg Legislature. The bill was
defeated last year by thirteen votes’.
The measure has the sanction of
the Prison Association of Georgia and
the indorsement of all Superior Court
judges In the State.
Safeguards are contained in the
measure. No person convicted of a
crime, the maximum penalty of which
is more than ten years imprisonment
will have the right to benefit by the
act.
THIS WEEK’S PENNANT
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inches.*
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can pennant series.
The series now includes Harvard, Yale,
Princeton, Georgia Tech, Georgia University and
Auburn.
The Pennant Coupon on page 6, City Life Sec
tion, of to-day’s Sunday American, will entitle you
to any of these handsome pennants at the special
reduced price. .
Your newsdealer can get them for you, or
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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN
20 East Alabama St. ATLANTA * 35 Peachtree St.
Tooth brushes, tooth paste, mouth
wash, distributed free, if necessary,
to the school children of Atlanta are
weapons which the city's dentists
would bring into play in the fight
against defective teeth. Compul
sory care of the mouth among school
children, is ufgent, thinks Dr. George
S. Tigner. who yesterday told of the
co-operative campaign being con
ducted by the Chamber of Commerce,
the Atlanta Dental Society, and the
public school authorities, to bring
about such an end.
“Dentists of Atlanta have for a
long time recognized the need of den
tal inspection among school children/'
said Dr. Tigner. “Teeth and effieien*
Cy are related. Bad teeth make for
bad scholarship and bad health in
more ways than one. And the great
proportion of the school children of
Atlanta have defective mouths.”
He told of a recent inspection of
the teeth of childien of the Crew
Street and Bell Street schools, con
ducted by members of the dental so
ciety who volunteered their aid to
the Chamber of Commerce in the
work inaugurated by that institution
to remedy deficiencies in the teeth
of the children
Ninety-Five P*r Cent. Bad.
“The first inspection." he related,
“revealed the fact that 95 per cent,
of the children had defective mouths
They were bidden to seek remedies
at the dental hospitals. So effective
was the impromptu campaign, that
a second inspection in the two
schools revealed a great improve
ment in the condition of the teeth
of the children. A third inspection
will be made shortly.”
The two schools were selected for
the experiment as being representa
tive institutions. The effect of the
work. Dr. Tigner said, points to the
ufgent need for established periodi
cal inspections among all the school
children.
A city ordinance probably will be
necessary. In the law, Dr. Tigner
explained, should be provisions for
nurses and dentists to instruct the
school children in the care of their
teeth, and for the distribution of the
necessary materials in cases where
the parents of the children lack the
means of purchasing. He even hint
ed the efficacy of a dental hospital.
"In Boston,” he explained, “the
Forsyth Dental Hospital, established
and sustained at a cost Of millions,
is the answer to the question. In
Atlanta the nearest approach to a
public institution of this kind are
the clinics of the two dental colleges,
Ihe Atlanta and the Southern.”
Clinics Great Power.
These clinics, he said, possess a
wonderful power for doing good, and
already have accomplished much.
There is material in Atlanta for great
work in this line.
“Atlanta turns out each year more
dentists, from her two colleges, than
any other Southern city," he declar
ed. “There is possibility in the
clinics for great service among the
school children. This possibility and
power is being realized, with much
benefit."
The graduating classes of the two
institutions, he said, aggregate from
60 to 75 young dentists each year,
and the total attendance is several
hundred.
So much in lamest was the Atlan
ta Dental Society regarding the nec
essity for the inspections that its
members stood the expense of the
work In the Crew Street and Bell
Street schools, furnishing the neces
sary materials for demonstration and
use. Manufacturers helped in this
by supplying the material at low
cost.;
Atlantans to Figure
In Citizenship Meet
Ministers Will Take Part in Confer
ence of 20,000 Delegates at
Portland, Oregon.
Atlanta ministers will take a promi
nent part in the World’s Christian
Citizenship Conference to be held i»i
Portland, Dreg., next month. Among
the local men who will attend will be
the Rev. Preston E. Wood. Rev. L.
O. Brlcker and the Rev. Dr. McKel-
way.
The conference, which 19 expteted
to attract 20,000 people to Portland,
will be one of the greatest religious
gatherings of the year. The Citizen
ship is rapidly extending the scope
of its work, and in fourteen States
definite working organizations have
been established.
More than 100 of the world's great
est orators are scheduled for ad
dresses. Dr. McKelway, of Atlanta, is
Included In the list of speakers, hi?
subject being the child labor problem
White House Phone
Mystery Unsolved
Secret Service Men Unable to Find
Boys Who Called Up Presi*
dent's Daughter.
16 OPPOSE HIS RE-ELECTION
L. P. Hillyer, of Macon, Is Made
President and Haynes McFad-
den Secretary of Ass'n.
WASHINGTON. May 17—“Id like
to talk to Jessie,” said the boy on
the telephone.
Secret service men. it was learned
at the Capitol to-day. have been un
able to discover the identity of two
page boys in the House who several
weeks ago called up MfsS Jessie Wil
son, the President's daughter, and
made the foregoing remark on the
telephone. The call was put in w r hiie
the House was in session at night
from one of the booths in the Demo
cratic cloak room. After the call
was in the boys disappeared. Tho
White House operator traced the call
to the Capitol.
The boys, it is 6aid, called Miss
Wilson merely as a joke.
Mrs. J. J. Astor Ill;
Needs Outdoor Life
Titanic Baby In Best of Health Be
cause It Has Always Had
Fresh Air.
NEW YORK. May 17.—Mrs. John
Jacob Astor is ill and is preparing
to leave for the country, where it is
hoped the return to out-of-door life,
of which she is very fond, will restore
her former splendid health.
W. H. Force, her father, to-day ad
mitted that she w’as far from well
and is under the doctor’s care.
“The b?by," said Mr. Force, “has
practically lived out of doors since it
was born, and is a fine, big healthy
child. We call him the ‘fresh air
baby.’ because he has certainly
thrived on that sort of life."
DIVES 250 FEET TO DEATH
AFTER ATTRACTING THRONG
OAKLAND. CAL., May 17.—Harold
McGill, City Clerk of Oakland, to-day
climbed the dome on top of the new
City Hall and. after shouting and
waving his arms to attract the at
tention of persons on the street 260
below dived to his death
MACON. GA.. May 17—After the
liveliest and most personal contro
versy in the history of the Georgia
Bankers’ Association, Orville A Park
this afternoon was reelected general
counsel for the association in t^ie
closing minutes of the final session
of the State convention.
Sixteen bankers, led by A. P. Cole*
and Carl H. Lewi*, of Atlanta, fought
Mr. Parks' nomination. Mr. Coles
spoke fof nearly an hour, and once
nearly had a personal encounter with
J. G. Crafts, a young banker from
Hartwell, w’ho said that the Atlanta
man was .“h6t acting decently” in
holding the floor so lohg. As the two
men started for each other a score of
bankers intervened. They later with
drew their respective remarks and
apologized for their conduct.
Lewis Attack* Farit.
Mr. Lewis demanded the right of
personal privilege to declare to the
convention that ne would not vote for
Mr. Park under any circumstances.
“His usefulness as attorney for this
association has expired." declared Mr.
Lewis.
Mr. Coles declared that if the con
vention took away from the execu
tive council the right to elect the gen
eral counsel, not only would the pre
cedent of the association be broken
but the convention would commit a
disgraceful act. He Said that Mr
Parker drafted a hill for the Legisla
ture last year without conferring with
the legislative committee of the bank
ers and that for that reason the Leg
islature did not pass the bill.
Atlanta Delegation Overruledl.
Four tintes the contentions of the
Atlanta delegation on parliamentary
points w’ere upheld by the chair, B.
W. Hunt presiding, and four times
did the convention ovefrule the chair.
There were only about 50 bankers
present and a majority Of them were
Mr. Park* friends afid mostly Macrtn
financiers. L. P. Hlllyef, the newly
elected president, led the fight for
Mr. Park, who, he said, had been
done a great Injustice. He declared
that Mr. Park’s remarks on how' to
control the Legislature were spoken
In jest and should not be held against
him.
The convention indorsed Atlanta
for the 1914 convention of the Amer
ican Bankers’ Association.
Ban Pirt on Politic*.
A resolution to thank President
Wilson for the appointment of W. J.
Harris as Tensas Director was de
feated on the ground that it savored
of politics.
An agricultural committee was cre
ated to promote closer and friend*
lier relations between farmer and
banker and a sum was appropriated
for agricultural extension work In
Georgia.
Joseph A. McTord, of Atlanta, made
a report on hi* recent visit to Wash
ington in regard to the tariff bill, w ith
special regard to the income tax fea
ture. He said that the bahkers se
cured an important amendment to
this bill.
N®w State Officers.
Officers elected by the association
to-day are-
President, L. P. Hillyer, Macon;
first vice president. L. D. Council
America*: second vice president, R
O. Barksdale, Washington third vice
president, C. A. Shelton. Brunswick;
fourth vice president, L. C. Hall, Mil-
ledgeville; fifth vice president. J. S
Calhoun. < ’artersvnle; secretary
Haynes McFadden, Atlanta, re-elect
ed; treasurer, E. c. Bmith, Griffin.
The selection of too n< xt meeting
place was left With the executive
Broyles to Speak
At School Closing
Atlanta Recorder Accepts Invitation
to Deliver Baccalaureate Ad
dress at Eatonton.
nnimclL
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Recorder Nash Broyles will deliver
the baccalaureate address before the
Eatonton, Ga.. High School on May
26. Judge Broyles has announced
his acceptance of the invitation, which
was presented by prominent officials
and citizens of Putnam County.
The Atlanta Recorder’s fame as a
public speaker ha* spread rapidly
throughout the State, and he is now
much ,4h demand. He has spoken
before large gatherings at several
different places during the past few
weeks.
CINCINNATI PRIEST WILL
PREACH AT ST. ANTHONY
Rev. Father Flavian Larbes. a
Franciscan priest from Cincinnati,
will preach at the Novena to St.
Anthony this year when the exercises
open at St. Anthony’s Rectory, West
End. on June 4.
Confirmation will be admiri Uerod
at St. Anthony’s Church June 8.
The first communion of the < iiil
dren will be held at the end of t!i
celebration on June 18. All Catholic
and non-CatholicS hav been invited
tr* knar thn Rfl-.nnns l-I li’-thB.-
Miss Douglas Bride
Of Dr, Henry Estees
Groom Leaves Immediately After
Ceremony to Accept Place in
New York City.
Mr. A. S. Douglus yesterday an
nounced the marriage of his daugh
ter, Kathleen, to Dr. Henry Grady
Estees. The marriage ceremony was
performed by the Rev. John C. Jen
kins at the home of the bride’s aunt,
Mrs. A. L. Anderson. Moreland Ave
nue. yesterday at high ^oon.
| The bride is one of tne most ad-
! mired and highly esteemed members
j of the younger set. Dr. Estees is a
i recent graduate of the A. C. p. and
IS. He left for New York City im-
I mediately after the ceremony to ac-
! cept an appnintment in one of •
I leading hospitals there.
WIFE HELD FOR SLAYING;
ALLEGED AFFINITY FREED
CHICAGO, May 17.—The Coroner’s
jury, after deliberating three hours
minutes, placed the re-
on the shoulders of Mr
and twenty
sponsibilitv
AugUstg DI
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1 found dead.
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Th' jury
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i rromrnerded that Mrs.
■] for the Grand Jury, but
that there was Insuffl-
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President Yuan Shi Kai Cables
Gratitude for the Publisher’s
Influence in Obtaining Admis
sion Into the Roll of Republics.
Message Completes International
Exchanges Which Began When
Wu Tingfang Made Appeal for
Aid When Freedom Was Won.
Yuan Shi Kai, President of China,
presents through The American to
day the thanks of the new republic
of the East to the American people
for the recognition which the United
States was the first to accord to the
youngest member of the Sisterhood
of Free Popular Government*.
It is a message of peace and good
will which completes a significant
chapter in the history of the twen
tieth oentruy.
By his message to Mr. Hearst,
President Yuan Shi Kai brings to a
felicitous conclusion the series of
international interchanges which be
gan when, th© people of China hav
ing made their successful stroke for
freedom, F"oreign Minister Wu Ting-
fang appealed to Mr. Hearst to trans
mit to the civilized World the new
republic’s plea for recognition; and
came to a happy end when, follow
ing the passage by Congress of a
resolution inspired by The Amer
ican, favoring the Chinese republic’s
recognition, this recognition was ac
corded by the Washington Govern
ment.
President Yuan Shi Kai now com
pletes the chain in his cabled thanks
to Mr. Hearst.
The Hearst papers are proud to have
been a medium of thus bringing
about, in advance of all other nations
of the world, the recognition by the
United States of the Oriental re
public.
China's First Appeal.
It was on November 15, 1911, fol
lowing the first flash of the news
thbt the Chinese people- had thrown
off the yoke of the long intrenched
Manchu dynasty and established a
Government of their own, that Mr.
Wu Ting-fang, long Chinese Minis
ter at Washington and fully informed
as to the widespread influence of the
Hearst newspapers, cabled Mr.
Hearst from Shanghai, incoking his
aid in securing recognition for the
new Government.
“As one who is a steadfast lover
of liberty,” wrote Mr. Wu. who had
been given the post of Foreign Min
ister in the new republic, “who is
ever courageously fighting the bat
tle of the oppressed, ^“may I ask you
to transmit to the civilized world
this appeal for the new republic of
China, as written by me as Director
of Foreign Affairs?” •
“The Chinese nation,” wrote Mr.
Wu, “born anew in the travail of
revolutions, extends friendly greetings
and felicitations to the whole world.
“As the Republic of China it now’
asks such recognition by the civilized
powers as will enable it, with the
assistance of their kindly offices, to
erect upon the foundation of honest
government and friendly trade and
intercourse with all peoples a peace
ful. happy future.
“The Chinese people are not untried
In self-government. For counties?
ages they ruled themselves and de
veloped an observance of the law to a
degree not known among other races.
•Out of the chaos and dust of the
failing throne emerges a free, enlight
ened people, a great natural deniocra-
v of 400,000.000 human beings.
"ThuU hav.- nl»wu>«»