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IIKARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., .SUNDAY. MAY 2.',. 1913.
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at naught ; they injured hundreds of thousands of people by tem
porarily depriving them of the powers of transportation which are
necessary to their welfare. They struck a blow especially hard to
ihe poor people, who were not able to pay the higher prices for food
and other necessary's during the period of the strike. In faet, in
these eases this suspension of transportation facilities shut down
factories, thus depriving the employees of daily wages, which wpre
needed for the purchase of food itself.
Can anybody advance a plausible excuse—we can not say rea
son—for this nullification of the State's law which commanded the
operation of that railroad for the benefit of the public?
< 'an anybody claim that every other element of the Stale's citi
zenship shalj^ go into court to settle differences which can not he
adjusted by agreement of the parties involved, but that the labor
element should be given a free hand to hurt everybody else, if it so
chooses, in its 1 rial of conclusions, in its own way, with its rival?
THE ATTITUDE OF LABOR.
And bear in mind that the labor element in the contest to
which I am alluding planted itself upon grounds to which no other
class has even laid the slightest claim. I mean that its contention,
in a nutshell, was as follows: “This is your property, but it is my
job on it. You have invested millions of dollars in building and
equipping it for serving the public and I have not spent a cent on
it, but 1 will suspend work on my job on your property, and if
you put anybody else in that position so that you can obey the law
which commands you to operate it, my friends, the mob, will kill
him, if necessary, so that I can defeat you and the law.”
Now, suppose the owners of the road, through the managers,
had given orders to shut down the road for twelve days in order
to overhaul the track, engines and ears, does anyone suppose that
ihe Railroad Commission would not have interfered in a hurry to
force them to comply with the law?
Why, then, do the employees or any of them attempt to justify
a course which is absolutely counter to the law?
And if two or three hundred railroad employees can quit work
on that public service corporation's property and prevent it from
being operated, by the application of the same principle two or
three employees on a farm can quit work and say to the owner of
that farm, “You shall not have any more work done toward mak
ing your crop until our demands against you are satisfied,” and
they can with just as much right enlist their friends to paralyze
the power of that farmer to do any work on his property as the
railroad employees had on the Georgia Railroad. And if the
State, through its officers, either acquiesce in suspending the oper
ation of a railroad, or gives tacit consent to such procedure, she
estops herself from protecting any of her other citizens who may
be similarly held up.by other employees.
POINTS DUTY OF STATE.
I have stated this case very plainly, some may say very
bluntly, because it has within itself the undoubted elements of
anarchy, in that its participants openly set themselves in the lace
of the law; in fact, in opposition to the very letter of the law. and
in doing so inflicted great inconvenience and loss to tens of thou
sands of people who had done them no harm.
Therefore, it is the manliest duty of the State to prevent such
an occurrence within her borders in the future.
Rut some may say, how are you going to prevent it?
1 will answer: The power of the State of Georgia, within her
limits, is greater than any power or all other powers combined.
And that power will be incxorahlv exerted WHENEVER IT IS
CHALLENGED MY ANY ELEMENT WORKING AGAINST
THE STATE’S LAWS FOR. ITS OWN SELFISH ENDS.
A strike on a railroad, in a cotton factory, marble mill, or any
other organization, is LYNCH LAW.
The only difference between the striker and the employee of
any of those organizations and a mob which brutally beats or takes
the life of a human being, is that in the one ease it is property and
in the other it is the person that is lynched.
DYNAMITING OF HOMES.
Now. as to the dynamiting of homes and the terrorism other-
v is exerted to force certain people to move from the counties of
their residence to other counties. 1 will say that, no matter what
be the color, race or occupation of the people in question, they are
held accountable as individuals to the laws of the State, and so
Ions; as each of them obeys the laws and pursues his or her occu
pation m a peaceable manner, such one is entitled to the protection
of the State and shall receive it. And if the lawless methods which
have been adopted in certain localities are persisted in. the State
will control the situation in a manner which will not be forgotten!
As to the acts of mobs who invaded two seats of the State's
authority and dragged therefrom those whom she had taken into
her custody. 1 will say that there was not the slightest excuse for
this act in either ease.
The laws of Georgia are definite and complete in punishing
crime, and if the State permits a mob to supplant her laws with
this force in ONE ease and for ONE offense, there can be no res
son for not allowing any mob to take a like course upon a person
charged with ANY offense.
And if a mob chooses to lynch a negro in one ease, it is just
E; apt to lynch a white man in the next ease!
For the foregoing reasons, 1 have offered rewards of one hun
dred dollars each for the persons who participated in the unlaw
ful acts of breaking open jails in Columbia and Heard Counties,
after intimidating the officers at the jails with guns pointed at
them, and then hanged the persons who were the objects of their
ire.
If these acts of contempt of the State’s authority be ignored
by the State, then we may as well throw off all pretense of au-
thoritv and law.
NO PRICE IS TOO HIGH.
If the guilty parties be apprehended and convicted and the
bill due for the rewards be large, every good citizen of the State
will agree that no price is too high to pay for freedom from an
archy.
1 can not end these words without admonishing the officers
of the Slate in EVERY county to exert EVERY power which the
law places in their hands to protect the process of the State.
Better the enforcement of the laws than popularity with law
breakers.
True nobility is OBEDIENCE TO DUTY, and if even life be
sacrificed upon the altar of loyalty to a sworn obligation, such an
nd is grander than a crown.
No nobler epitaph has ever been written than that inscribed
b the ancient Spartans upon the monument they erected at Ther
mopylae over Leonidas and the 300 who had fallen w ith him : “Go.
stranger, tell in Lacedaemon that we died in obedience to her
laws * ’ < '
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Mabel Trunnelle, ‘Movie ’ Actress, Lilies Her Girlish Parts
REQUISITES FOR SUCCESSFUL
MOVING PICTURE ACTRESS
She must photograph well.
She must have personality and a face that expresses
emotion.
She must be medium sized, because then she is the right
height to play opposite almost any man.
She must be able to forget herself in her part and not
overdo emotion.
She must have ability to express much in movements of
body, eyes and hands.
She must have a pleasing or attractive face.
She must cultivate repose and be able to stand still while
others act.
She ought to have large eyes and be of dark complexion.
Miss Mabel Trunnelle as $he is and as she appears in a popu
lar movie play.
Retiring Little Celebrity Is Quite
Fond of Her Life in the
Open Air.
BY MIGNON HALL.
A woman ha« come to Atlanta who
sayn that she In able to appear In a
hundred different places at the same
time, and will live on years after her
real death.
I have seen her in the actual flesh,
—and it was at the Georgian Ter
race.
Sitting on a davenport like a com
mon, ordinary mortal, she gave me
this interesting news:
“I seem to be here with you. and
you seem to see me whole and com
plete. (I admitted it.) But in real
ity you don’t at all. All of me is
not here by a long shot. I have sev
eral hundred other selves. You see
only the living part of me.” (I told
her it was perfectly all right—not to
mind me- I was horn* folks anyhow.)
She said the other several hundred
of herself, all wearing different clothes j
were floating around loose in various
sections of ihe country, maybe in |
Paris—or Halifax or Bing* n-on-the |
Rhine she didn't know exactly
where.
Time and space had not existed fori
her since three \ ears ago when she |
got so she could see herself as other
people saw her. She could be talk
ing and laughing with friends and
stand off and watch herself going
through the motion.
Nothing Wonderful.
But she wasn’t anything wonder
ful at that. Anybody with her job
could do the same thing
She's a moving picture act teas,
that’s all—and sfie's Mi c s Mabel
Trunnelle of the Edison Company,!
which has been here for the past few i
days making Atlanta scenes.
After she had told me all this, she
proceeded to outline for me what the
life of a moving picture girl was like.
“O, it’s great—I’m Just crazy about
it.” she declared.
She said she wouldn’t do anything!
else but be a moving picture show j
girl for anything in the world—ex
cept Herbert Prior’s wife. He was
the best thing!
"It’s the out-door life I love so
much—and the traveling. While we
muke a lot of pictures in the big
studio in New York, a large part of
the scenes in them are out-doors, and
we go right to the woods to make
them.
"While the pictures are being made,
all tlie actors have to stand very close
to the camera and in u kittle space
about as big as four feet.
"That’s so the expressions of our
faces will show."—she did a grimace
at me—“and maybe, you don’t think
it's hard to get the expressions!- Act
ing isn't easy even if It does look
like it when you’re sitting out under
an electric fan watching us.”
She began to swing her hand-bag
up and down to do little stunts with
it. and show me something besides.
"We’ve got to make our gestures
slow as Christmas." she told me. "Now
watch. If 1 were to wave at some
body with this thing, I couldn’t wave
it fast Just as if I were waving. 1
would have* to work it up and down
like a young derrick or it would look
like the picture of baby’s face when j
she moved that lime. i
Small Working Space.
"If you could just see that space
we have to walk and work in. you’d
be surprised.” Miss Trunnelle inform
ed me. "There’s only about enough
room for four people to stand side by
side Notice the next time you go
to a moving picture show and you’ll j
see. You can put lots more people:
in the rear behind the others—long
ways, as it were—but not across. I
mean you can’t have more than four
people across and have them any
size. Of course if you’re making a
ball-room scene or a battlefield it's
different—what you're after then is
space - and it doesn't matter about
the smallness of the faces or figures
In the same way you rarely ever see
a whole room—only a corner.”
She sighed.
"And then to think how it !o«»ks
like you’ve got all the space in the j
world when it’s flashed up on thej
screen!”
She said it appeared a man walked j
some distance to get out of a plot- |
ure but it was really only a step or J
two. When making pictures, the pho
tographer marked off Just how much j
was in the picture and how much
wasn’t. In the woods he used sticks,
and in the studio, he used chalk. It
you stepped over that line you were j
out or in. whatever you happened to
be doing.—going or coming.
Careful About Dress.
Moving picture artists had to be j
careful about the way they dressed. 1
They couldn’t put rouge on their lips
or cheeks because it made them look j
black, and they couldn’t wear clothes
except of certain colors for the best >
effects.
"For instance, if I w ere going to j
be a bride, now—w hich I have al- |
ready been for my last time. 1 hope—!
I would wear a pink wedding gown,
but in the picture it would take
white.” C
She gasp*/! as a thought struck
her. [
"ThaAk /leaven, moving picture]
folks doii’f have to worry about dirt
taking inf a picture. It only - hows
when it’* jon the face, or if there’s!
a big greite spot somewhere. If it :
did. it would b< an awful draw back. I
for vV certainly do get nice and black
sometimes (after a hard day out."
"Moving } pictures cost money, let
me tell you. Just the average one
nets up to about $1,500, and from
that on up to several thousand dol
lars. We don’t spare any expense
to make a picture. Often we rent
furniture worth fabulous prices to
make just one. It’s so awfully nice
they're always w arning us to sit care
fully on it. But as for that, furniture
or things of any kind are never used
but once nor any place or setting.
Bought Who e Ship.
“Once we bought a big ship off the
< oast of Maine Just to blow up, and
we frequently buy whole houses to
burn.”
Lights and shades placed a groat
part in the pictures, and lighting ef
fects were, usually made in the studio.
The moving picture people worked in
doors when it was raining, and out
doors when it wasn’t.
"We make our faces up with the
whitest kind of chalk, and black our
eye-brows heavily. We have to go
Scores Orientals for Their Stand
in the Controversy Over
Alien Land Bill.
out like that. too. We’re funny to
look at. but folks have got so they
just say—O. the movies, and give us
a kind look.”
It wav wonderful the way wealthy
people allowed the picture companies
to use their homes. Handsome resi
dences were not make-believes at all.
They would simply walk up and ask
a woman if she would allow them
to use the outside of her house for
a minute, and she would invariably
consent. Often people’s very from
parlors and hair-cloth sofas were
pressed into service.
Accidents Make Eelieve.
Even though people looked like they
were thrown over bluff- and things,
they weren’t. The photographer
took the picture of the real man just
before he falls and then shuts the
camera off. sets up a dummy and
that is thrown ever. Which looked
the same, but wasn’t—for which the
man was Very thankful. Horses that
fell in battle were taught the trick.
When it seemed a train ran over a
person, the camera was turned up
side down giving the appearance that
the train was coming instead of go
ing.
“It takes about a week to make the
average picture,” Miss Trunnelle said,
"and sometimes it’s the very last
scene that is made iirst. Usually all
the pictures that are to be made in
the studio are made at once,- and the
out-door pictures the same way.
"We have seven directors, all of
them with troupes of .actors under
them. Ore will use you one week—
another the next week perhaps, ac
cording to how your part suits his
play. We have one Western troupe
and one a -road. In ac ting, we have
to make up our own lines. The di
rectors simply tell us ’Now you’re
sad here,’ or 'You’re gay here,-—’ and
we are. Of course we know the play
besides.”
Miss Trunnelle is really a retiring
little person, and not conceited a bit.
i had to beg her for an hour before
she would consent to go and see her
self in a moving picture tha was on
at one of the Peachtree theaters.
She liked to play the part of a
young girl in love and very happy,
she said. No matter how satisfied
she was to be married in real life,
she hated it in pictures. She liked
her hair down her back and being
made love to. She didn't want to b*
middle class. •
HICCOUGHS KILLING VICTIM.
CINCINNATI. May 24.—James
M&yers, a railroad employee, is slowly
hiccoughing himself to death to-day
at the City Hospital, where physicians
are working day and night to save his
life. He has had no relief from the
paroxysms since Thursday morning.
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cocks, showing their feathers—
a piece of vanity. The states
men of the world know what navy
we have, and all true statesmen
are very sorry that such a piece
of vanity was displayed by our
country which before had enjoyed
a reputation for good sense. The
navy and army^whose greatest
triumph is parading does not
strike one as being efficient.
QUESTION—Would you say any
thing about the necessity of augment
ing the navy?
ONLY TWO NAVIES LARGER.
REPLY There are only two
larger navies in the world. One
has more than 2.000.000 of tons of
warships. That is Britain. She
has to keep the seas open to im
port food for her people. If this
were obstructed. she would
starve. We are in exactly the
opposite position. We need noth
ing from abroad. We have every
thing that we need right here at
home.
We would be foolish to expend
great sums on our navy. We
have thirty-three great battle
ships to-day and five under con
struction. The President of the
United States. I think, should ve
to any bill that ordered another
battleship until the five now un
der construction are completed
We want embassies for our am
bassadors. millionaires being
scarce. The cost of one battle
ship would provide sixty embas
sies. averaging $250,000 each,
which is ample. A few embassies
might cost more, but the greater
number of the people are misled
in regard to this.
These battleships will never
fire a shot, but rust in decay. If
1 were asked the most foolish
thing our country is doing. I
would say that it is the build
ing of battleships to rust.
"NO WAR WITH SPAIN.”
QUESTION—Didn't the war with
Spain prove our efficiency?
REPLY—We had no "war” with
Spain. It was only play to dis
able her four old tubs. There
were only three or four ships en
gaged. Spain has not one dread-
noughl. while we have thirty-
three first-class battleships, and
five more building. If the Ameri
can wishes to do a great serv
ice let it tell our people that this
Japanese question will be ad
justed peacefully.
■John Cooper Register
Dies at Home of Son
John Cooper Register, aged 74
year-, died Saturday at the home of
his son. C. E. Register, 506 South
Pryor Street. Mr. Register was a re
tired merchant and came to Atlanta
two years ago from Texas to make
his home. He is survived by two
other sons. J. E. Register and H. H.
Register, of Texas: two granddaugh
ters and two grandsons.
The body will be taken to Newnan.
Ga., Sunday morning for funeral serv
ice and interment.
Ultimate Union of Great Presby
terian Bodies Likely—Stelzle
Discusses Move.
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schools of the country. One of the
newer features in this document, as
compared with the old standard Wes.
minster catechism, is its plain state
ments about the churrhman’s duty|
toward home, country and other
land?.
A splendid phovring was made by
the great mission boards of the Unit
ed Presbyterians, the Southern As
sembly and the Northern Assembly.
It isn’t necessary to give figures for
each of these, but it may be said that)
nearly all of them had record-break
ing years in point of contributions
The matter of Union Theological
Seminary was settled in as satisfac
tory a manner as wa* possible at thi*
time. A committee of seven wm ap
pointed to study all the legal, eccleei-
astical and doctrinal matters in
volved. This committee will report
next year.
The reports on Sunday school work
In all the Assemblies were exceed
ingly important, particularly as each
Assembly, together with the entire
church, is coming to appreciate the
importance of introducing the most
modern methods of education.
But the finest thing of an was the
splendid spirit of co-operation that
was manifested throughout all the
proceedings. From the great union
communion service, in which all the
1,400 commissioners participated, to
the last doxology, there was an un
usual spirit of Christian forbearance
and sympathy.
To Honor Memory
Of Federal Dead
Memorial Services To Be Conducted
This Morning at First Con
gregational Church.
Memorial Day services of O. M.
, Mitchel Post No. 1, Grand Army of
i the Republic, will be conducted Sun
day morning at the First Congrega-/
tional Church, corner of Ellis Streea •
and Carnegie Way. The Rev. A. U
Sherrill, D.D., will conduct the serv
ices.
Regular Memorial Day services will
be held Friday, May 3ft. at the Na
tional Cemetery. Marietta. Ga. Two
special cars have been chartered *or
use of the O. M. Mitchel Post No. 1
of Atlanta, to leave the Walton Street
depot at 9 and 9:30 o’clock in th-3
morning. >
In Marietta a procession will oa
formed under direction of George B. <
Leavitt, post commander, in the fol
lowing order: Detachment of Sev
enteenth United States Infantry, with
j band; O. M. Mitchel Post No. 1 of
Atlanta: J. B. Steedman Post No. 4 of
; Tallapoosa; Woman’s Relief Corps,
I and citizens.
The first address at the cemetery
will be delivered by George B. Leav
itt, of Atlanta, on the subject. "Duty
of the Day.” J. W. Smith, of Atlanta,
will give Lincoln's Gettysburg ad
dress. After an address by the Re-'.
W. H. Hopkins, the ceremonies will
close formally.
Committees have been appointed m
superintend the decoration of each
section of the cemetery.
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