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IIEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA , SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1012.
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HOPELESS. SI1S
Women of Underworld Are Con
tented and Will Not Reform,
Declares A. W. Elliott.
“WHITE SLAVE SCARE A JOKE”
Ninety Per Cent of the Women
Are Victims of Own Folly,
Asserts Mission Head.
Women of the underworld will
not reform.
They are absolutely satiafled
and contented with their lives.
The white slave scare has
been terribly overworked and
magnified.
At least 90 per rent of the girls
in open lives of shame ure vic
tims of their own folly.
An increase in wages for work
ing girla would be a good thing,
simply because of the higher cost
of living, but low wages has
practically no connection with-
vice.
There is no possible ablution to
fhe social evil 1n a general and
comprehensive sense. It will con
tinue -to grow and widen its path.
The evil will not be eliminated.
—A. W. ELLIOTT. President
of Southern Rescue Mission,
who has retired from work
in slums, declaring that the
war on idee is hopeless.
From five years' experience in the
effort to redeem fallen women. A. YV.
Elliott, p retd dent of the Southern Res
cue Mission of Atlanta, proclaimed
these startling conclusions In an
nouncing Saturday the closing of his
rescue home In Jacksonville. Fla., and
his retirement from rescue work.
Mr Elliott's utterances were in
tended to shatter the beliefs upheld by
vice commission** and social workers
throughout the world. He laughs a;
the universally cherished theory that
low* wages is a most important cause
of vice conditions.
“Nothing of 1 the sort!” he declared.
“It is largely the depravity, the wick
edness. residing right in the heart of
the man and the heart of the woman.”
His theories, after he has pawmd
through five years of work In behalf
of the women of the underworld, arn
utterly at variance with those of the
great body of reformers and social
workers,
“Women Will Not Reform.”
They say. ‘ IJft the fallen women
and give them a chance to reform.”
He replied through his magazine
Issued yesterday:
“Women will not reform. 1 havo
actually offered in person to help
15,006 girls to better lives during the
last five years, going right Into their
very presence and offering to take
them at once to better surroundings,
but they positively refused to be
"helped.
“I did succeed in getting a few to
abandon their lives of shame for a
time and did everything to help thwn.
but with one single exception, they
all went back to their former mode of
living.
"! find that the ‘poor, unfortunate*
woman of the underworld.' so-called,
hates the word ‘reform,’ and that she
Is not so poor and unfortunate as one
might think. Women of this sort are
absolutely contented and satisfied
with their lives and regard it as an
insult for a reform worker to enter
their infamous places and talk refor
mation or the Gospel of Jesus Ghrist
to them.
“Useless to Try to Help Them.”
1 have found, beyond all doubt,
that women of the underworld will
not reform; that, except in isolated
Instances, t;*ey do not want the aid of
any inlusion or organization It is
therefore useless to try to help them.
1 am consequently going to be frank
enough to make an honest confession
and forever quit the work.
“The great majority of girls, at
least 90 per cent of those living open
lives of shame, are victims of their
own folly; they were unmanageable
as children and craved lives of pleas
ure and ease; they were negh ’ted by
their parents, and drifted .Rurally
into their wild and reeklew lives.
"Another important phase of this
great subject is that women inhabit
ing disreputable houses are. in real
ity, only a very small percentage of
girls and women living impure lives
Yes, th*»y represent only a very small
per cent.
"The statement that the white slave
traffic has placed over 350.000 women
in the United States in the toil* of
sin is as huge a Joke as ever was per
petrated upoh the American people.
There is scarcely a glimmering of
truth in many of the stories of white
slavery. 1 will admit that when the
subject was so vigorously agitated a
year or so ago, 1 fell right in line.
Hut now I beg the public's pardon.
1 believe there are comparatively few
girls in the whole United States to
day in houses of ill fame who could
pot walk right out if they desired.
“They want that kind of a life
and will scoff at the reformer and
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12 RULES FOR NEWLYWEDS
Atlanta’s Marrying Parson Discovers
‘Nuptial Nausea’ and Finds Its Cure
WOMAN'S PLACE IN THE HOME
T HE happy home is the home in which a woman regulates
everything. Woman makes the home. Without a woman
there is no home. God fitted woman for home life and home
control. Whenever a man undertakes to run a home he will
quickly realize that he is out of his element.
The newly married man soon discovers that his bride can
do ni ny things he can not do. As he looks in admiration on
her magic powers of arrangement, his heart sweeling with pride
at the “dear thing’’he tries to call “wife,” he says, “just to
think, SHE is all my very own. ”
It. has remained for an Atlanta clergyman to discover the new
est disease—an ailment from which romance and sentiment grows
pale and spectre-thin and dies. liev. Arthur C. Ward, pastor of the
Oakland City Baptist church has located “Nuptial Nausea,” and
has found a cure for it.
It is but natural that Dr. Ward should be the one to find and
name the disease. He is Atlanta's “marrying parson,” and in the
course of thirty year's work in the ministry he has uttered the fate
ful words over the heads of several thousand couples.
Dr. Ward stood in the parlor of his home on Mangum Street
yesterday, and talked to a Sunday American reporter.
“On his very rug,” he said, “hundreds of couples have been
married. And it is not half worn out yet.’ ’
Then the minister voiced a word of hope.
“ I hink,” he said, “ I have found out how to be happy though
married.”
Here, as he gave out twelve rules which constitute the very best
antidote against “nuptial nausea,” the antidote which he gives to
the couples who come to him—when they are not too hurried to
listen to him.
Woodmen to Honor
National Officers
Camps in Atlanta Plan Big Recep
tion Tuesday for Sovereign Com
mander and Clerk.
A notable gathering in Atlanta of
national officials of the Woodmen of
tho World will take place next.Tues
day.
Joseph Cullen Root, sovereign com.
rounder, and General John T. Yates,
sovereign clerk of the order, from
Omaha, accommpanied by Mrs. Yates,
will arrive in the city at noon Tues
day and will be met at the Terminal
Station by the local officials of the
Atlanta camps, officers of the Uniform
Rank companies and the Georgia
Head Camp officers, and escorted io
the Piedmont Hotel.
A reception will be tendered them
Tuesday evening at Cable Hall by
J. C. Root Camp No. 80, assisted by
all the other camps of the city and
the State officials of the order and
their wives.
Dr. F, L. Rosenthal,. of Columbus,
head consul of Georgia, will make the
welcome address on behalf of the 600
camps of Georgia, introducing Gen
eral Yates, who will be the principal
speaker of the evening, followed oy
Judge Roan and other**
Sunday, June 1, is the annual
memorial day of the order, and all
graves of Woodmen will be decorated.
Negroes to Have
A Music Festival
Singing Jubilee to Celebrate Fiftieth
Anniversary of the Emanci
pation of the Race.
The fourth annual music festival of
the Atlanta Negro Music Festival As
sociation will be held at the Audito
rium July 3 and 4. The festival will
be in commemoration of the fiftieth
anniversary of the emancipation of
the negro race.
The festival will be known as “The
Grand Jubilee Music Festival.” A
chorus of 200 voices, under the direc
tion of Professor J, W. Work, of
Nashville, Tenn., will render negro
folk songs and classical selections.
The new Fisk Jubilee Singers, a
mixed quartet, reputed to be the best
ever sent out. will be heard both
nights. Patti Brown, the famous so
prano singer of Chicago, will Id
heard both evenings. Roland \V.
Hayes, of Boston, the leading tenor of
the race, will sing at the grand con
cert on the closing night of the fes
tival.
New Peer Will Wear
Kilts in Parliament
Baron Ashbourne Once Reprimanded
by House of Lords for His
Attire.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, May 24,—William Gib
son who on the death to-day of hi*
father, Baron Ashbourne, has suc
ceeded to the title and the seat in
the house of lords of that peer, will
now have a chance to get revenge
on the members of the higher par
liamentary body.
Gibson is a nationalist and Presi
dent of the Gaelic league In London.
He always wears tl»e Saffron colored
kilt of the ancient Irish chieftain and
speaks nothing but Irish except un
d< r compulsion. The eldest sons of
peers have the privilege of standing
on the steps of the throne in the
house of lords during debates buf
when Oibson exercised this right
some time ago, the members raised
violent objection to his attire. Now
that he is a, member of the uugust
body and therefore immune from
criticism, the new Baron Ashbourne
intends sporting his abbreviated gar
ments'whrn he takes his seat.
TIP* late Baron Ashbourne was 75
years of age and had three times
held the post of chancellor of Ire
land. He also acted as one of the lord
Justices of Ireland on several occa
sions during the absence of the Lord
Lieutenant.
SPRAINED ANKLE IN WRECK.
FAYETTEVILLE, GA . May 24 —
Southbound passenger train 32 was
wrec ked here 4o-day. Fireman Har
ry. .Waits suffered’ a sprained ankle.
No one wise was hurt. The engine
was badly damaged, but otner dnm-
age was slight. A top off a switch
run caused the wreck.
FOR BRIDES.
I Bc chummy with your husband
You were sweethearts before mar
riage. Now you are to chums.
There is no better wife than a chum
my wife.
2 Do not expect too much from
“Hubby" after marriage. The man
who runs after a street car usually
takes a rest when he lias caught it.
Remember you made him run a gobd
race for you.
—The best and quickest way to a
man’s heart is through the mouth.
Always feed the animal well and he
will not be hard to manage. A poor
ly prepared meal has often caused
“nuptial nausea."
4 Do not try to run his business for
him. He has had more experience
on that line than you have. He will
not tell you tj “Mind your own busi
ness.” but h ? may think it real loud.
5 Always be your natural self to
him. He married you because you
are his style. If you change he may
not like you any more. He is study
ing you with a view of knowing you.
He never will know you fully, hut If
you are always yourself to him he
will, after a while, get sufficiently
acquainted with you to trust you.
6 -Have a perfect understanding
from the first that you are to con
trol the house expense money, and
always study how to spend it to the
best advantage for the table and oth
er home expenses. Put down every
cent you receive and spend. It will
convince him that you have some
business qualities.
7 Do not buy his clothes or cigars.
You will surely fail to fit him in
both. If he insists on your buying
these things tell him you have had
no experience either in wearing men’s
clothes or in smoking cigars.
8 Always examine his clothes when
they come In from the laundry and
never put them away until you have
repaired all damage that may have
come to them. If he finds one button
missing he will think you do not love
him as much as his mother or sister
did-
Q Don’t paint your face, but always
” "fix up” for him. He thinks you
ure tlie prettiest woman in the whole
world, it is largely due to your "fix
ings” that he thinks as he does. When
you stop "fixing" he will probably
stop "thinking.”
Ill lzove him and keep on loving
him. He has, by marrying you,
’shut out a loving touch from every
other woman in the world. It will
neither spoil nor repel him for you to
fondle him. Never forget that he is
going to be fondled by some one and
that you have the best opportunity
for “holding down that Job.’’
•J i - If reverses come to him let him
** understand that you are with him
and that any trouble that touches
him is as much your burden as his.
He will not impose on you, but your
attitude toward him will help him to
retrieve his losses and draw you near
er to him than ever before.
|O Always remember that he is to
be first with you in everything.
He is your husband. He gives you
his name and his earnings. He is
your protection. He gives you your
home and in return he is entitled to
be “first” in your thoughts, first in
your love and first in your efforts.
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even kick him out if he does not gqt
out when asked.”
Mr. Elliott offers only two methods
of combatting the evil.
The parents are to blame, he said,
for much of the evil. It is their first
duty to train their children carefully
in respect to the temptations and
evils that menace, and. having train-
| ed the young people, carefully to
guard them until they have reached
maturity. •
His next act would be mercilessly
i to pursue the scarlet women until he
had driven them out of existence.
"The scarlet woman is' a criminal,
pure and simple.” he declared. “Our
j opinion is that the only way to deal
with the problem with any degree of
success is to bring the issue squarely
| before the eyas of every parent and
then tight the scarlet woman and the
scarlet man with our might and
strength.
“Give to a woman who conducts an
immoral house a term in prison if she
refuses to give up the life. Give a
man who makes it a business to live
off such earnings the sentence that he
deserves. Take the scarlet woman
and put her in the chalngang, where
she belongs. All this* sentimental feel
ing about 'being good to a woman
Just because she is a woman" is the
essence of silliness. A good woman
should have the very best that the
world affords, but « mean and vicious
woman deserves the same treatment
as that of a mean and criminal man.”
FOR BRIDEGROOMS.
1 Remember, first of all, that your
bride is not an angel. She Is a
woman, and from the beginning of
time a woman has had her own way
in spite of God or man. You may
not realize it at first, but you will
soon learn that your wife is not the
exception to this rule.
2 Give her a monthly allowance for
pin money. She will not waste it.
She must and will have it, and if you
give it to her she will not get it some
other way.
—Remember that “to do as she
pleases" is her first conception of
the word “obey.” Its deepest mean
ing to her Is that you are to be
pleased with any and everything that
she does. It would greatly shock her
to discover that she could do any
thing that would displease you.
—Your wife is always hungry for
your love. Her very life Is w rapped
up In you. But don’t tell her that she
looks better in her old hat than in a
new one. She will not believe you,
and it will cause her to lose faith in
your judgment.
—Though you forget all the anniver
sary dates your wife never forgets
one. When she announces an anni
versary date always ask her to help
you plan some sort of celebration
Generally she will take the whole
burden from you except that of pay
ing the bills for the occasion.
—Do not find fault at the mistakes
she makes. Always remember that
she can do everything "just right” to
suit herself. Her greatest difficulty
is in doing things to suit you.
7—Never scold or o» - r our wife.
■ It will do no good. . ou can man
age and control her better by the
same methods by which you won her
at first. There is always the great
danger that she will learn how to
scold back at you.
—Always think, feel and say that
you have the best wife in the
world. By doing this she will be the
best in the world—to you.
—Do not regard her in the light of
"housekeeper.” She is your wife
and with her you will ascend or de
scend according as you place her in
the social world. If she goes up or
down you will go with her.
| A Don’t deceive your wife. She
*”kno\vs more about* you than you
know of yourself. If you admit your
faults to her she will be less likely
to “tell on you."
—Don’t make your wife a partner
in your business, but tell her all
about what you do. She ought to be
your confidential adviser in every
thing. She ought to be permitted to
know everything about your business
affairs.
jO Be careful of the “little things."
She is always looking for “little
attentions.” Sometimes she will drop
her handkerchief for no other pur
pose than to see you pick it up for
her. Woman has always been great
on “little things.”
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12 S. BROAD ST.
The Bridge Block
EMI Phone 3076 Atlanta 593
STUDEBAKER
Wins As Usual
WAS an old familiar sight to see “Old
I Bullet” sweep across the tape a win
ner. Some people were surprised, others that were
driving her sisters were not. Last year n 01d Bullet”
was on a tour around the world and could not be here
to defend her title as champion of the Stewart Avenue Hill,
but her younger sister won, and, incidentally, made a new
record for the class on this hill climb.
The Studehaker “20” was no surprise—
only the prejudiced
ability, the sentiment of
saying, “I told you so. ’ ’
The newspaper
seemed to
the crowd was
doubt
that old
her
mean
boys
and asked us if we were
came
going
around
to say
anything in the papers about winning, as we had
quit advertising. This remark made us write these few lines.
To our many friends and customers:
We have not quit advertising, but we are
SO far oversold and the demand is so far in excess of
the supply that we have simply been trying to catch up, and
want to assure our friends that our cars are all winners and it
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Studehaker quality, Studehaker price
and Studehaker service.
Think of this and you will wish you
had waited.
These winning cars were equipped with Firestone Tires.
Studehaker Corporation
Atlanta Branch
G. W. HANSON, Mgr.
324 Peachtree St.
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