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Will You Help Atlanta's Children to Get an Education? W HEN Atlanta’s Public Schools open next Monday, more than 250 children will be unable to enter because they lack money to buy clothes and the necessary school books. I'he Associated Charities has sent out a call for aid. Superintendent Logan asks for money and cast-off clothing to enable the children to get an education. THE GEORGIAN AND SUNDAY AMERICAN TO-DAY HEADS A SUBSCRIPTION LIST WITH $50 and will be glad to receive other cash subscriptions which will be turned over to the Associated Chanties to aid this most worthy cause. OPEN UP YOUR PURSE! YOU NEVER CONTRIBUTED TO A BETTER CAUSE The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit-~-GEORGIAN WANT ADS---Usc for Result3 VOL. XII. NO. 26. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2,1913. Copyright. 1906. By The Georgian Co. 2 CENTS. PA Y NO MORE ■■■ ■■ • "■ ~ START OF FUND FOR SCHOOL BOOKS The Atlanta Georgian PaV TO THE -- order OF The Associated Charltlea N? * 7430 Sept. and. 1913 1913 Fifty DOLL*** S 50 -0<L School Chlidrena Fund 1 to the American national Bank THE GEORGIAN COMPANY ATLANTA. GA Countersigned: Cashier Here’s the $50 check of The Georgian and The Sunday American, thelfirst answer to the appeal of the Associated Charities for a fund to buy books and clothing for poor children who are eager for an education, but are kept from school by poverty. Lillian Russell In Airship: Thinks It Helps Complexion PARTS Sept. 2.—Lillian Russell, who left Paris recently for Germany telegraphs the following: graphic ac count of her experiences in a Zeppe lin airship: Yes. I flew through the air over the City of Berlin to-day. Only one word describes the trip—won derful. I have often envied the birds as they flew through the air, but to day I flew faster than any bird. When the dirigible balloon is per fected there will be no more wars. There will be universal peace, and 1 shall be glad of it. From our commanding position to-day a whole army could have been de stroyed. I could not advise women with weak hearts to make this trip. But the wonderful air should be food for complexions. LILLIAN RUSSELL. Ten-year old Willie Watson, who lives somewhere on the East side of the Georgia railroad, wants to go to school and learn things. Then he can do something worth while, and his mother and his big sister will not be forced to work all their lives in the factory. But just because mother and sister must work, for little, and because all their money is needed for things to eat and a little to wear and a place to sleep, there Is none left for school books and for such clothes that Wil lie, properly clothed, may face his schoolmates without shame. There fore, the boy must stay at home with his two llttler brothers and sisters. It makes him cry sometimes, in spite of all his manly ambitions, to think that school opens so soon as next Monday, and there apears no chance, not the sllghest chance, for him to enter. But Willie is only one of more than two hundred and fifty children of At lanta. Boys and girls of manj of the city’s unfortunate families are feeling the pinch of poverty to-day more than If they were without Are or bed clothes In the middle of winter—more than If they were Just hungry. They have not the means to pay even the slender expenses incident to their at tendance at public schools. Books are beyond their reach. In the case if 129 there are even no presentable clothes. Appeal Made to Public. The fact is revealed in an appeal which went out today from the office of Joseph Logan, Superintendent of the Associated Charities of Atlanta, an appeal to the generosity of the public. Not oi ly money contributions ere asked, but gifts of clothes as well. The Georgian and Sunday American has heeded the ap peal, heading the list with a subscription of $50. The Georgian and Sunday Amer ican also will receive cash contributions from the pub lic which will be forwarded immediately upon receipt to the office of the Associated Charities. The appeal of Superintendent La gan specifies that all donations >»f clothes be sent to the office of the Associated Charities, in the Gould Building on Decatur street and Edge- wood av?nue, between Peachtree and Pryor streets. Going to school, it seems, is not the bugaboo to children that popular fan cy paints it. The 250 boys and girls poverty threatens to keep at home ill want very much to to school. Wit ness little Willie Watson crying. Wit ness dozens of the incidents which Superintendent Lorran relates of sor row in homes where sickness of the bread-winners or actual failure of the tiny pittance puts books and clothfs out it reach. In some instances the coveted amount is less than |1. These .re the cases of the smaller children, who maybe have already sufficient clothes to make them presentable and whose little reader and speller and arith metic book can be had for a few pen nies. Willie Watson, for instance, is crying for lack of just tl.ose few p3i- nies. In other cases the need is greater. The larger children, already with a j smattering of education, want to go to higher grades, where the books are more costly. They study geography, you remember, in the third and fourth j grades, and perhaps history. Some Need Clothing. Some of the children must be pro vided with entire outfits of clothing. These are the children you never see on Peachtree street, who probablv never come from their own narrow streets, and who, it is threatened, may be forced to stay in the same narrow streets and in the same nar row life, ignorant and unlettered— Just because they lack the money that even public school attendance re quires. The amount necessary will amount In no case to more than $10, it is esti mated. It is with something of an apology that Superintendent Logan, of the Associated Charities, makes the ap peal for public help. "No one regrets more than I," he said, "that our finances are in such shape that we can not meet this sit uation without an appeal to the gen erosity of the public, but the fact remains that this is the only cours° we can take to secure necessary aid. We have been for several months in a hand-to-mouth struggle to meet even emergency distress calls.’’ Mr. Logan related many instances of extreme poverty. One case was that of a widow with six children, twe of whom, suffering from tuberculosis of the bone, are kept at home, help less. Two others \york in the mills and are the only support of the fam ily. Then there are two small chil dren, one 7 years old, the other ». who can not work and who can not, because of their poverty, buy books and clothes to go to sc hool. Time to Give Is Short. Another case Is that of two or phans, unwelcome children in the home of a grandfather, who drinks and neglects them. "They give these orphans a place to sleep and a little to eat,” said Mr Logan, “but the children have been ir. school only one year, and unless out siders take an interest in their cas« and help them, they will grow up in absolute ignorance.” The appeal has a simple directness which, it is hoped, will be answered by contributions from every quarter. The gifts must be made immediately, because less than a week remains before the time for the opening of the school session. Finds Lost Husband When She Asks Work Forced to seek employment to sup port herself and two small children when her husband left her in Ander son. S. C., Mrs. M. B. Wallace ap plied at the Fulton Bag and Cotton Company Tuesday morning. She was asked to place her name and address in the company’s application register. As she did so she noticed the name of the applicant before her. It was that of her husband. She threw down the pen and ran from the building, returning later with a policeman. Wallace was ar rested on his wife’s charge of de sertion. She declared he disappeared August 11. Sentencing of Diggs Deferred to Sept. 15 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2—The sentencing of Maury I. Diggs, con victed of violating the # Mann white slave law’, to-day was deferred until September 10. That the prosecution of Drew Cam- inetti, charged with violating thu Mann white slave law, will be con cluded to-day or early to-morrow, and that the case w’ould reach the jury by Thursday night or early the next day, was the statement of Special Prosecutor Roche shortly before the case was resumed to- day. PENCIL PLANT MYSTERY SOLVED +•+ +•+ +•+ •!•••!• +•+ •!••+ +•+ +••> +•+ +»4* Cotton Up 70 Points on U S. Report GIRL WHO STRANGELY WAS LOST FOR A Q£Y It w&s feared that she had met a fate like that of Mary Phagan. WASHINGTON. Sept. 2.—The con- dition of the cotton crop over the entire belt averaged 68.2 on August 25, the lowest condition of that date recorded since 1909, according to the estimate of the United States Cen sus Bureau, announced at noon to day. Reports of continued drouth and high temperatures in Texas and Ok lahoma had made it apparent to the trade that there would be heavy de preciation from the July condition of 79.6. but the most pessimistic private authorities had looked for a condition of not worse than 69.6 and the pri vate estimates ranged from this fig ure to 70.6. The decline in the Condition of cot ton for the month is 11.4 points. In August, 1909. a condition of 63.7 was recorded, and in August. 1902, the condition was 64.0. In August, 1900, the condition also was 68.2. Cotton futures in New’ York were strong today. Shorts were fearing an extremely bullish report and the weather during the three days that the exchange had been closed has been most unfavorable to the Texas and Oklahoma cotton. At noon, w hen the trading came to a standstill to await the flash or the government figures, quotations were from 19 to 33 points over Friday’s close, with January options standing at 12.41 cents. Fifteen minutes after the flash January touched 12.53, May 12.71. Near the close October sold at 12.97, December at 12.93 and January at 12.78—advances of 70, 73 and 69 points, respectively. The average August condition for the ten years from 1903 through 1912 was 74.7. For July, the ten-year con dition average was 80. The ten-year average decline in condition, there fore, has been 6.4 points, compared to 11.4 points this year. Once, with a low August condition figure, there was a big crop. This was in 1911, when the August figures were 73.2. It now’ is suspected that the government made an error in computing the average that year and besides, the weather during the lat ter part of August and all of Sep tember that yea* was ideal for the crop. This year the drouth in Texas and Oklahoma remains unbroken to date, a week after the date of the Census Bureau report. The condition in the various cotton- growing States follows: Aug. 25, 1913. 76 78 U. S. Soldiers and Texas Blacks Clash GALVESTON, TEXAS, Sept. 2.— Twenty-five persons were injured, three probably fatally, to-day in a clash between soldiers, negroes and Mexicans. The trouble started w’hen a negro struck a soldier on the head. Four of the Injured were stabbed. The three most seriously Injured received fractured skulls. Georgia N. Car.. S. Car. ... 77 "Virginia . 60 Florida .. 81 Alabama. 72 Miss 69 Louisiana. 67 Texas ... 64 Arkansas. 72 Tennessee 80 Missouri.. 72 Oklahoma 45 California 96 July. 25. 191*1. 76 77 *75 8t 82 79 79 81 87 90 86 81 100 Aug. 1912. 70 75 73 80 73 75 70 74 76 76 78 84 95 Aug. 25. 1911. 81 76 76 96 85 80 70 60 68 78 88 88 62 100 74 8 74.7 Aug. 25, 1910 71 76 73 82 74 72 71 60 69 78 78 78 85 95 72.1 BUTLER COLLEGE OPENS. BUTLER.—The fall term of Butler Male and Female College opened 1 Monday. The faculty consists of W. M. Pettis, principal; Misses Ella Foy, Katie Neil Adams, Mrs. W. M. Pettis, and Mrs. J. W. Edwards, iu charge of the music department. Average 68.2 79.f 10-yr. av. 74.7 80 Atlanta Holds Own As Cotton Center. Cotton received at Atlanta for the seaeon ended September 1 amounted to 200.000 bales, in round figures, compared to 350,000 for 1911. which was the bump er crop y**ar Every Indication points to a large crop In Georgia this year, and conse quent heavy receipts in this city. At lanta. according to those in the trade, is holding its own as a cotton center There is considerable business in cotton compressed here in transit, but the amount sent here direct also is large. Atlanta women are not as bad as New’ York women. The devil would hardly enjoy a walk along Peachtree as well as he would along Broadway. And, even at this, the morals of New York now are apparently better than ever before. The W’omen who affect the ex- trefne style of few clothes are but a coterie of rapid ones who do not in any way represent the great bulk of American women. Thus spoke Dr. Len G. Broughton, who arrived in Atlanta Tuesday morning. Twenty-seven pounds heav ier than he was when residing in At lanta, and just as ready as ever to fight the devil, the noted divine talked interestingly to a Georgian reporter, and sprang to the defense of South ern women. In contrast, though, he declared London to he the most remarkably moral city in the world, doubly so when considering its immense popu lation. "Moral Conditions Better.” "But I can not help believing that moral conditions generally are bet ter," he said. "New' York is the gay est at this time that I have ever seen it. Tiie theaters are Just opening their season, anil the theatrical hotels are wonderfully lively. It is around these places that the extreme in feminine attire is to be seen, where the few- trimmings and abandonment of mod esty must indeed bring joy to the devil. But this class of women should not be taken as representative of the true American women. "It is true that the European ide3 of the American women is that the feminine sex here are extremists in the matter of dress, and judging by the general class of American women visiting Europe, the Europeans can not be blamed for forming such an opinion. The slit skirt, shadow dress and the other styles of dress, or lack of dress, can hardly be other than the devil’s own Invention.” Silent on Vice Situation. Dr. Broughton did not care to ex press himself upon Atlanta’s vice sit uation. "I have not been here since Chief Beavers began his crusade, and there fore am not in a position to express any opinion on it. But 1 will say this j for Chief Beavers: I have known him for many years, and there was never a cleaner or more upright gentleman, and I do not think a mistake could be made In trusting him. As to any fight against him, I do not believe the people of Atlanta would turn him down. "Atlanta is a fairly good tow'n morally. In fact, 1 think the condi tion of the world’s morals is gradu- | ally improving. In New York, for in- \ stance, less drinking and other dissi- 1 pat ion is to be noticed in public. Of course, it is impossible to Judge of what is going on behind the doors, bui to all appearances the town generally ' is improving. I believe London is the I most moral big city in the world. Puzzled by Interviews. "The newspaper boys in New York had quite a good deal of fun out of me and my remarks of women's at tire was commented upon in a way to make no* wonder if I had really said all of the things credited to me. But I suppose it is all in the game Continued on Page 2, Column 3. Phagan Argument ‘Settled’ in Court A discussion of the merits of the Frank case was responsible for the presence of (4. H. Hargett, No. 115 Connally street, in Police Court Tues day morning, wh<*re he paid a fine of $5.75 for disorderly conduct. Mrs. Stella Effel, No. 98 Connally street, was the complainant in the case. According to her story, she and Hargett had engaged In an animated debate on the Justice of the verdict. The woman wan rather inclined to think there were unfair features to the trial. When she thought the argu ment had proceeded far enough she had Hargett arrested for using of fensive epithets. TEXAS BANKER SHORT. FORT WORTH, TEXAS, Sept. 2.— The State National Bank to-day an nounced that M. L. Woods, vice pres ident of that bank, is short $25,00l and has disappeared. He w is proml nent in church circle* and has beet connected with the bank for twenty years. September Brings Heat August Didn't September was started as a hot month. The maximum temperature Monday was 90 degrees, four degrees higher than the first day of August. During Monday night the mercury did not drop below 73, and at l o’clock Tuesday afternoon the official thermometer again registered 90. Only two days last month were that hot. Intermittent breezes tempered tho heat. Fair weather, w'th slightly lower temperature, Is predicted for Tuesday night and Wednesday. Slaton's Return to Georgia Is Delayed As a result of missing train con nection in Denver Monday night. Gov ernor John M. Slaton and party will not arrive in Atlanta until Thursday. Major Hardy Ulm, secretary to the Governor, received a telegram Tues day morning telling of the misfortune. The Governor’s party will leave Den ver Tuesday afternoon. Miss Clara Belle Griffin, the Na-» tional Pencil Factory girl W’hose strange disappearance from her homo at No. 265 North Ashby street led the police to fear another Phagan mystery, was found by her brother Tuesday noon at Grady Hospital, where she explained her failure to re turn home Monday afternoon. She said that she went to the pen cil factory Monday morning, but that she became faint soon after arriving there and went to the hospital, wher* the had received treatment before. She was ill all day, she said, and that was the reason her relatives had not been informed of the reason for her disappearance. Following close on the tragedy of which Mary Phagan was the victim, at the pencil factory, Miss Griffin's unaccountable disappearance spurred the police to an immediate investiga tion After making inquiries of all her friend® and acquaintances, the detectives decided upon a thorough search of the pencil factory. Detectives Black and Bullard went to the factory and were about to be gin their search when the news cam* that the girl had been found at the hospital safe and sound. Relative* Are Frantic. Miss Griffin lives with her mother and her brother, Louis A. Griffin, at the Ashby street address. They were frantic when she failed to re turn home Monday night. She had left in the morning at 6:30 o’clock, saying that she had some work to Jo that would keep her at the factory until about noon. She informed her mother that N. V. Darley, the genera' manager, had told her that she would have to work only the half day. The apprehension of her relatives was increased by the fact that Mon day, like the day on which Mary Phs gan was slain, was a holiday, when only a few persons would be arouii" the factory. The police were notified Mondav night, and inquiry was made at the home of girl acquaintances, where i was thought she might stay over night. This investigation bringing n result. Detective Ba?s Rosser was as signed to the case Tuesday morning and was instructed to spare no effort to locate the missing girl. The girl’s brother, who is a ma chinist at the Gate City Coffee Com pany, visited the pencil factory the first thing in the morning and made rigid inquiry in regard to the where abouts of his sister. Darley, the general manager, and E. F. Holloway, the day watchman, told him that no one had been work ing there Monday, on account of it? being Labor Day, and that it was pre posterous to suppose that the gir‘ could have been at the factory. Detective* Begin Search. Griffin, however, was extremely fearful that his sister had met a fate similar to that of Mary Piiagan, from the fact that she never had stayed Continued on Page 2, Column ».