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I [Atlanta Practices New System
Prison Commission Looking to
Better Conditions of Geor-
, gia Convicts.
Th** Prison Association of Georgia
will endeavor to effect several impor
tant reforms through the incoming
Legislature, particularly with respect
to tail condition^ and the general
-.methods of handling convicts within
• the State.
The association holds that the
present system in vogue in Georgia
is very faulty; that It is extravagant
and unmindful of the reform of the
convicts, which the association con
tends is the real purpose of imprison-
» ment for crime.
The association is advocating a cen-
tralized prison system, and will make
many vigorous recommendations to
the Legislature, tut in all of its rec
ommendations it is careful to explain
that individuals are not attacked, so
much ns is the mere system itself.
The association admit* that officials
generally do about the best they can,
under the circumstances
Philip Weltner, the well known At
lanta attorney, who is secretary of
the Prison Association of Georgia,
in discussing prison conditions gen
erally in Georgia, scathingly attacks
the present system.
He says: "I have yet to meet the
prison official who will assert that the
present convict system makes men
better instead of worse. Indeed, quite
the reverse appears to be true.
Prisoners Demoralized.
"Warden after warden and guard
after guard has said to me that pris
oners more often than not come forth
from their prison experience all but
thoroughly demoralized and degraded
beyond hope of redemption.
"That is all wrong. The true ob
ject of imprisonment for crime is ref
ormation. not mere punishment. Cer
rainly reformation is the eventual aim
of a humane prison system.
"The present prison system of
Georgia is designed to shackle man ■
hood and ^unshackle the beast in the
man. It deadens, embitters and kills.
The State handles the problem of it:
convicts with the intellectual acumen
f) f a novice.
"And good roads in Georgia ap-
'* parently are as far off as they were
when the present system was inau
gurated.
“No matter how faithful the State
Prison Commission may be. no mat
ter how earnest the inspectors may
be, by themselves they are helpless.
The whole system L- a hoax, a delu
sion and a snare. Good conditions
A*re exceptional, so far as the in
ner life of the convict camps is con
cerned. This likely will continue to
be the case, so long as county boards
have the controlling voice in the lo
cal management.
Careless Officials.
"More often than not, the county
jails of 'he State are left to the mer
cies of careless officials. Most Geor
gia jails are public scandals, anyway.
In Colquitt County, for instance, as
many as sixteen negroes have been
caged in a dingy, dirty cell, so closely
packed together that many had to
snatch what sleep they managed to
get while standing on their feet. In
Floyd County the jail is one of un
precedented horror. The sunlight fil
ters through high, narrow slits in the
walls, and it is necessary to keep the
electric lights in the jail burning all
tho while, in order that the inmates
may see how to get around. In many
jails 10 cents per day per man is the
food expense, while 40 cents per day
per mule is allowed.
"Recently I visited the State Re
formatory at Milledgeville. It Is lo
cated on the same site with the adult
penal institution, and the warden at
the State Farm exercises final author
ity over lads confined there. Some
time ago, when old Bill Miner escaped
from the adult institution, the boys'
institution was delighted. The colored
-youths immediately undertook to em
ulate Bill’s example. As a boy's hero
is. so is that boy.
"The State Prison Commission is
doing Its best to right things at the
juvenile reformatory, despite the nig
gardly pittance allowed them for its
support.
Inadequate Equipment.
v "With inadequate equipment, it
impossible to carry forward the re
formatory work as it should be. Ten
per cent of the white boys and an
even smaller per cent of the colored
boys come from the country. The
training the boys get at Milledgeville
fit9 them only for farm work, not
withstanding the fact that very few
o? them go to the farms after leaving
£ the reformatory. So little money is
allowed to the negro branch of the
Juvenile reformatory that it is little
'Vss than a real penitentiary.
"Many of the wardens and guards
are kindly and intelligent, but too
many of them are not. Incarcera
tion for crime in Georgia means to
day nothing more than temporary
banishment from society, to which
the prisoner returns eventually dou
bly dangerous.
* The counties ought not to be al
lowed to work the convicts of the
State. The men ought to be under
the direct authority of the Prison
Commission. One hundred and thir
ty-two counties working separate
tamps means wasteful duplication
and inefficiency, both in the matter
of building roads and building men.
“Criminal a Man.”
"While I firmly believe in road
work as the best solution to the con
vict work pioblem. the State should
not forget that the criminal is a
man. and not an animal whose keep
requires less concern than a mule’s.
“The camps ought to be taken
away from county management and
concentrated in larger units, one for
each congressional district. These
headquarters ought to be equipped
with facilities to teach the men use
ful trades, and the illiterate the ele
mentary branches of an education.
"Convict officials ought to disclaim
Industrial lineage with the old slave
driver. They ought to assume the
grave responsibility of raising fallen
manhood to higher levels of eharae-
‘er and training. The' ought to be
,/n asters of making men and 'Making
v-oads. No prisonc ought to h“
-barged unfit to take up an honest
•areer.
} "The county camp s> stem is a p -
aetua! bar to progress; its abolition
will mark the beginning of a ncv. era
of enlightenment.’’
PRESS BILL ON
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SIXTHMJS
TO
.Miss Ora Stamps and some of her proteges.
Roddenbery Sends for Testimony
in Johnson Case to Use in
Argument.
WASHINGTON, May 24.—Repre-
sentative S. A. Roddenbery, of Geor
gia, will soon pass his proposed
amendment to the constitution, pro
hibiting the marriage' of whites and
blacks, and will use as part of his
argument the evidence disclosed in
Graduating Exercises Take Place
at the Grand Opera House on
Evening of June 6.
The Bovs' High School will hold
its annual graduating exercises at
the Grand Opera House Friday even
ing, June 6. There are three grad
uating classes this year at Boys’ High
School, and they contain a total num
ber of 65 boys.
The exercises start at 8:30 p. m.
Atlanta Celebrates
Wagner’s Birthday
Devotees of Music Will Hear Special
Program on Auditorium
Organ Sunday.
The hundredth anniversary of the
birth of Richard Wagner will he cele
brated by Atlantic music lovers Sunday
afternoon at the Auditorium-Armory,
where a Wagnerian concert will be ren
dered on the great organ by Dr. Percy
.1 Starnes, under the auspices of the
Atlanta Music Festival Association.
This will, contain some of the most
beautiful and melodious of the Wagner
music. The concert will open with the
WOLFE’S BIRTHPLACE IS
BOUGHT BY MONTREAL MAN
MONTREAL. May 24. -Thp old
Wolfe manor house at Westerham,
Kent, England, where the conqueror
of Quebec was born in 1827, has been
bought by J. B. Learmont of Mon
treal.
Mr. Learmont said to-day that he
would turn the house Into a museum.
overture to Riensi. There will be a
preponderance of selections from Tann-
hauser, Including the "Evening Star’’
and the Grand March.
The concert will be further remark
able for the presentation by Dr.
Starnes' composition of his own, a
"Grand Choeur Triumphal*. ” The con
cert will begin promptly at 3:30 o’clock.
First Band Concert
At Grant Park To-day
Twenty-five Musicians of the Fifth
Regiment Begin Playing
at 3:30 P. M.
The Fifth Regiment Band will play al
Grant Park this afternoon under the
leadership of Bandmaster C. E. Barber.
The hand will consist of twenty-five In
struments and the program selected con
tains attractive numbers. The concert
begins at 3:30 p. m.
9
Miss Ora Stamps Outlines Present Day Meth
ods Used In Public Schools.
By MIGNON HALL.
When I swung off of the car
and went over to Edge Wood school to
see Miss Ora Stamps, the principal,
1 found her conducting a flag drill
with 30 boys g.nd girls in the big
auditorium.
"I’ve come out to ask you in what
way parents can be of the greatest
help to their children in school. Miss
Stamps,” 1 said after we had shaken
hands and said we* were glad to meet
each other.
"By not helping them at all,” Miss
Stamps answered.
Then the woman principal led the
way to her office to explain the de
tails of whaj. she meant, because W.
M. Slaton, city superintendent, had
asked her to talk to the reporter on
the question. He thought what she
said might be helpful in bringing
about closer co-operation between At
lanta parents and teachers.
Here are Miss Stamps’ Jews:
The big way in which parents
can help their children in school
is to see that they have a quiet
hour or two of uninterrupted
study at home.
Under the present day school
system, children do not need
home teaching. All their diffi
cult lessons, such as grammar
and arithmetic, are thoroughly
gone over and explained to them
by their teachers the day before
they are heard in school.
Constant help from parents will
therefore have a tendency to
make children inattentive at
schocl.
It will also fasten on them the
habit of dependence which may
follow them through life.
Parents should watefl reports
carefully. If a child isn’t doing
good work in school, the matter
should be taken up with the
teacher to see if something can’t
be done to better conditions.
Then Miss Stamps outlined a little
plan of study.
Play Just As Important.
"When a child comes home from
school in the afternoon,’’ she said,
"he should be allowed to play for
two or three hours. He should then
be called in to study before tea.
while it is still daylight. When ne
says he has finished his lessons his
mother might try him out sometimes
to see. If he doesn't know them an 1
she feels he hasn’t been studying, he
should be made to understand that
he must learn them. But if he is a
child naturally fond of study, the
mother should see that he doesn’t
wear himself out at his work.”
Miss Stamps straightened a pack
age of monthly report cards which
had been sent into her for attribution.
"Really," she went on, "the onlv
things required of a child to learn
nowadays at home are memory sub
jects, things that he can learn only
through personal application— things
that nobody can heii him with. Sub
jects. 1 mean like history, geography
and spelling. These he must have
time for study on, and as he hasn’t
but twelve minutes of actual study
a day in school, he must do it at
home. He is busy re king or beintr
taught the five hours he is in school.”
The principal reclared Increasing
interest on the part of , Atlanta
mothers and fathers in what their
children are doing is a great help to
the teachers.
“Don't Help Too Much.”
“Often a boy or girl can be brought
around to do surprisingly excellent
work just by parents and teachers
playing into each other's hands .if
it were,” she said. "Parents are
getting to trust more and more to
the teacher and it's right that they
should. They see that methods have
changed, and that in many cases if
they helDed their children with their
studies they would block their pro
gress more than they would help
them."
Vi.-s Stamps opened a first grade
leader.
"In ■ as. s live th. se." for instance,”
I she illustrated. "It used to be back
in our father's and mother’s » ay a
child was taught a. b. c's first of all.
It has now been discovered that he
will learn much faster by teaching
him words and sentences, and let
ting him learn his letters later when
he begins to spell. In the same way
easier methods for working examples
have been substituted for ancient
ones.
She pointed out the new methods
and explained them.
"Isn’t it plain that if a child is
taught one way at school and his
parents train him another way at
home, it is bound to get him con
fused?” she asked.. “Later, of course
the child will understand the two
ways, but it makes it hard for him
and delays him if too young to grasp
the idea."
Miss Stamps thought inducements
held out by parents to children for
good work were proper if they did not
tend to make the children overwork.
Prize Flowers There.
Then Miss Stamps took me
out to show me the Edgewood
children’s own flower beds. She said
on the way she thought It a good
idea' that children were compelled
to do their studying at home, be
cause if they had to do it at school
it would mean too long hours of con
finement for the little fellows. As
it was. they could go home and get
several hours of recreation before
taking up their books again.
The Edgewood school took the prize
on flower beds and the prettiest yard
last year and the children are trying
for it again this season. Miss Stamps
was pleased with the new nasturtium
beds in which the plants were grow
ing beautifully.
While the swings and joggling
boards were being inspected. the
sound of children’s voices singing “O
Where and O Where is My Highland
Laddie Gone?" in one of the grade
rooms floated through the window.
"I do want you to hear them at
close range,” Miss Stamps declared
enthusiastically, "they do wonder
fully well. 1 think.’’
Forty little folk stood up in wel
come when the song was finished and
Miss Stamps introduced company.
"Schools nowadays teach chil
dren so much,” she commented
later. after we had made the
rounds of several rooms and seen the
children doing everything from dress
ing clothes-pin dolls to drawing
maps of the United States. "While
of course schools are not perfect and
won’t be for many long years to
come, they are paying more and more
attention all the time to the develop
ment of little people's every sense
and faculty. Teachprs are also coming
to love their work more, J believe,
and requirements are gradually grow
ing higher. All of which means bet
ter facilities and better training for
the young—which in the end means
race uplift.
‘Tve forgotten who the man was
who said that the greatest nation
in the world is the children’s,” she
finished, "but it’s very’ true.”
Man Amputates Toe
And Foot Himself
Far From Any Physician, Old Farm
er Uses Heroic Treatment
for Gangrene.
PENN TAN. X. Y., May 24.—Isaac
Bassett, of this county, is a man of
nerve. Fearing he would die from
gangrene, which originated in his
large toe, Bassett amputated the dis
eased member last week with his
pocketknife.
This, however, did not arrest the
progress of the disease, so he cut off
his foot with tlv same surgical in
strument.
Bassett is 75 'ears of age. He liv s
in,the extreme western part of the
countv, many miles from a phys’
via “
1
the trial of ‘‘Jack” Johnson. the
negro pugilist, who has had two white
wives, and who has just been found
guilty under the Mann White Slave
act, for his relations with another
white woman, by a court in Chicago.
Mr. Roddenbery’s amendment is as
follows:
“That intermarriage between
negroes or persons of color and Cau
casians or any other character of per
sons within the United States or any
territory \yithin their jurisdiction, is
forever prohibited: and the term
‘negro or person of color’, as here
employed, shall be held to mean any
and all persons of African descent or
having any trace of African or negro
blood.”
Mr. Roddenbery has sent to Chicago
for a copy of the evidence taken in
the trial of "Jack” Johnson.
“This is no amendment particu
larly favorable to one portion of our
great land." said Mr. Roddenbery.
Southern Negro Ail Right.
"In that section far to the South
.of us such is the relation between
j the two races that no African with
in all of Dixie Jand carries in his
heart the hope or cherishes in his
mind the aspiration that he can ever
lead there to the altar of matrimony
a woman of Caucasian blood. With
all the impositions we are alleged
to have placed upon this inferior race,
such is our harmony, such is the
black’s respect for the superiority of
j his former master, that he would
(commit self destruction before he
would entertain the thought of matri
mony with a white girl beneath
Southern skies.
"It would be detrimental to the
highest welfare of both races for
such a condition to exist. The per
mission of such a thing by a sovereign
state would be damning and a dan
ger signal heralding an ill omen for
which we can offer no excuse. We
can do no greater violence, we can
offer no more ill-fated injustice, to
the negro in this land than to let
our statutes permit him to enter
tain the hope that at some future
time he or his offspring, or she or her
offspring, may he married to a
woman or a man of the white race. It
will bring gruesome and bloody con
flicts.
I ntermarriage Repulsive.
"Intermarriage between whites and
blacks is replusive and averse to
every sentiment of pure American
spirit. It is abhorrent and repugnant
to the very principles of a pure Saxon
government. It is subversive to so
cial peace. It is destructive of moral
supremacy.
"There is no place in all our South
ern country where a negro can not
go and find employment and peaceful
habitation. There is no avenue of
honorable labor and honorable em
ployment in which he has not an
opportunity to go. He is unintimidat
ed. protected by law. aided and
helped in every laudable ambition,
but he has known through all the
generations that wedlock between
him and a woman of the South was
impossible, more impossible than any
other human undertaking to which
he could aspire. He has the fairest
opportunity to-day to go forward in
industrial progress and moral devel
opment. that he lias ever had. and
his opportunities for this growth and
this progress are superior to those
in any other section of the coun
try.
Conditions May Change.
"But whenever the condition at
which this amendment is directed
prevails in the North to such an ex
tent that these ideas and notions
begin to creep into the heads of ne
groes south of the Mason and Dixon
line, and whenever we have a foreign
tide into the Southland of the white
race unacquainted with our customs
and traditions, ard when they begin
j to bargain and contemplate matri
mony between the whites and the
blacks there- -then tne result will be
fraught with disaster, and it will
bring annihilation to the race which
we have protected in our land for
all these years.
and open with a selection by the B.
H. S.-T. H. S. Orchestra. foll<fwed by
a short prayer by Bishop Warren A.
Candler. Sam Eplun will speak on
“The Gospel of Service” from the
commercial department, while Joseph
H. Stanfiel is to give the valedic
tory. After a short musical produc
tion Roy W. Manning will give "Uni
versal Peace.” Ernest H. Lowenthai
will speak on "Woman’s Suffrage"
and Bascom H. Torrance will deliver
the valedictory.
Daley to Give Diplomas.
Walter R. Daley, the president of
the Board of Education, will deliver
the diplomas. Harold Hirsch will de
liver the medals and scholarships
which have been donated by inter
ested citizens of Atlanta. Mr. Hirsch
himself has contributed a scholar
ship of $150 to the University of
Georgia, while others have been given
to Emory, Mercer, the University ot
North Carolina, Washington and Lee,
the University of the South. Tulane
and also a scholarship of $120 to the
University of Chicago.
The following medals are to be
awarded: The Holzman medal, given
by Mr. A. Holzman. is to be award
ed to the member of the senior class
making the best record in scholar
ship. and the Atlanta Chapter of the
U. S. Daughters of 1812 offers a med
al for improvement In physical cul
ture.
The following are the boys who are
to get diplomas:
Classical Course.
Sam Arm! stead. Glenn Bell. Her
bert Calhoun. Charles Candler. La
mar Carson, Edwin Coolerige, Charles
Cotney, Raymond Englett. Spencer
Folsom. Lawrence Fox. Evelyn Ham
ilton. P. B. Holtzendorff. Jr.. George
Hoyt. Jerome Johnson. Bolling Jones,
Wharey Little, Edwin Lochridge, Wil
liam MacDougall. Arthur Newschul-
ten, Frank Price, I^ouis Rosser, Her
bert Sams, Janies Setze, Arthur Small,
and Bascom Torrance.
Scientific Course.
Robert Bedinger. I>awrence Gold
smith, Eugene Johnson. Guy Lips
comb. John Lopez, Ernest Lowenthai,
Roy Manning, Bernard Neal. Pat Sea-
wright and William Wash.
Commercial Course.
Paul Allen. Fred Anderson. J. R.
Asbury, Walker Blood worth. Paul
Boenning, Hugh Butler. Hyman Co
hen. James Coleman. Lawrence Court
ney, Sam Eplan. Herman Falcovitz,
I Forrest Gee, Mike Ginsberg. Tom
Henley. Roy Hoffman, Frank Lef-
koff. Carey Lynam. Joe Mangum, Roy
Martin. Charles Morris, Raymond Mc
Culloch, Sam McKinney, Hiram Nich
ols, John Pioda. J. T. Smyley. Joe
Stanfiel, Sam Taylor. Deck Wallace,
John Welch and James Wikle.
3-Party Fight for
Arkansas Governor
Republicans and Moosers to Name
Candidates to Oppose Demo
cratic Nominee.
LITTLE ROCK, ARK., May 24.—The
campaign to select a successor to Gov
ernor Joe T. Robinson, now United
States Senator, promises to be the most
unique in the history of Arkansas poli
tics. The election is called for July
23. and a Democratic primary for June
21.
Chairman H. L. Remmel, of the State
Republican Central Committee, to-day
issued a rail for a meeting of that com-
mktee on June 16 In Little Rook to se
lect a Republican nominee, who will
probably be Harry H. Myers, superin
tendent' of the Government Reservation
at Hot Springs.
The most interesting feature of all Is
that the Bull Moose candidate will be
Colonel George W. Murphy, formerly At
torney General on Democratic ticket,
but who has forsaken the Democratic
party. A joint canvass is wanted by
the Republicans and may be arranged. I
White City Park Now Open j
The Great Tenor Solo from“Rigoletto”
“La Donna e Mobile”
Drives Out the Inferno of the World
when Played by Instinct
Experiences with the New Instinctive Playing.* No. 6 of Series
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an Inferno. Yet I could not shut it out completely, for the Echo
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I was in the great Teatro San Carlo again. I heard the golden
voice of Caruso as I first heard it there, years ago, in those open
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j " 'Woman is as changeable as a feather in the wind.’
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