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TTTF ATLANTA fiEOROTAN AND NTTTS
Will You Help Atlanta's Children to
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. The 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 wiil be glad to
receive other cash subscriptions which will be turned over to the Associated Charities to aid this most worthy cause.
OPEN UP YOUIl PURSE! YOU NEVER CONTRIBUTED TO A BETTER CAUSE
250 Atlanta Children Without School Books
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Aid Asked to Give Education to the Poor
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Here’s the $50 cheek of The Georgian and The Sunday American, the first answer to the appeal
of the Associated Charities for a fond to buy books and clothing for poor children who are
eager for an education, but are kept from school by poverty.
Georgian and Sunday American Start
Fund With $50 Check.
Ten-year old Willie Wation, who
live! somewhere on the Kaat 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 l**ft 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
Ills two littler brothers and sisters.
It makes him cry sometimes, in
spite of all his manly umbitlons, to
think that school opens so soon as
next Monday, and there a pears no
chance, not the slighest 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 many of the
city’s unfortunate families are feeling
the pinch of poverty to-day more than
if they were without tire 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
of 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 Ix)gan, Superintendent of
the Associated Charities of Atlanta,
an appeal to the generosity of the
public. Not 01.ly money contributions
are asked, but gifts of elothes 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 L>-
gan specifies that all donations of
clothes be sent to the office of the
Associated Charities, in the Gould
Building on Decatur street and Edge-
wood avmue, 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 all
want very much to ro to school. Wit
ness little Willie Watson crying Wit
ness dozens of the incidents whl-h
Superintendent Logan relates of sor
row in homes where sickness of the
bread-winners or actual failure of the
tiny pittance puts books and clothes
out cf reach.
In some instance- the coveted
amount is less than $1. These e
the cases of the smaller children, wno
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’ p.M-
nies.
In other cases the need is greater
The larger children, already with a
smattering of education, want to go
to higher gi’ades, where the books are
more costly. They study geography,
i remember, in the third and fourth
and perhaps history.
^ Some Need Clothing,
of the children must be pro
vided with entire outfits of clothing
These are the children you never s°e
on Peachtree street, w’ho probabiv
never come from their own narrow
streets, and who, it Is threatened,
may be forced to wtay 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 Bogan, of the
Associated Charities, makes the ap
peal for public help.
"No one regrets more than 1,” he
said, "that our finances are in such
shape that w f e can not meet thiH sit
uation without an appeal to the gen
erosity of the public, but the fact
remains that this is the only course*
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, two
of whom, suffering from tuberculosis
of the bone, are kept at home, help
less. Two others work 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 'l,
who can not work and who can not,
because of their poverty, buy books
and clothes to go to school.
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 in
school only one year, and unless out
siders take an Interest In their case
and help them, they will grow' up in
absolute ignorance.”
The appeal has a simple directness
I which, it is hoped, will be answered
I 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.
COTTON GOES OP
.S.
Queen Mary Sends
Back Gift Crucifix
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Sept. 2.— Queen Mary’s
j extreme Protestantism has been out-
! raged by a harmless gift.
King Manuel’s bride-elect. Princess
Victoria of Hohenzollern. lately be
came the intimate friend of the
Queen's daughter, Princess Mary
During the Queen's absence. Princess
Victoria presented Princess Mary
with a gold crucifix. The Queen
seized the gift and returned it.
Big Display at Fair
Urged by President
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—President
Wilson has under consideration to
day plans for an appropriation for a
big Government building at the Pan-
ama-Pacifle Exposition, and will con
fer soon with members of Congress.
The United States already has appro
priated $500,000 for exhibits.
The President expressed renewed
interest in the exposition and hoped
that any impression abroad that the
affair was a sectional one would be
dissipated.
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. hut 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.
Rise Starts at Opening.
Cotton futures in New York were
strong toduy. 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, when
the trading came to a standstill to
await the flash of the government
figures, quotations were from 19 to
33 points over Friday’s close, with
January options standing at 12.44
cents. Fifteen minutes after the flash
January touched 12.53, May 12.71.
At the close October sold at 12.95,
December at 12.98 and January at
12.80—advances of 68, 73 and 71
point**, respectively.
Far Below Average.
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
111 points this year.
Once, with a low August condition
figure, there was a big t 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 Texa^
and Oklahoma remains unbroken :o
date, a week after the date of the
Census Bureau report.
The condition in the various cotton
growing States follows:
Aug. July. Aug Aug Aug
25. 25. 26. 25. 25.
1913. 1913 1912. 1911. 1910.
Georgia . 76 76 70 81 71
N. Car.... 78 77 76 76 76
S. Car.... 77 75 73 76 73
Virginia .60 81 80 96 82
Florida . . 81 82 73 85 74
Alabama.. 72 79 75 80 72
Miss .... 69 77 70 70 71
Louisiana. 67 79 74 6(> 60
Texas ... 64 81 76 68 69
Arkansas. 72 87 77 78 78
Tennessee 80 90 76 88 78
Missouri . 72 86 78 88 78
Oklahoma 45 81 84 62 85
California 96 100 95 100 96
Average 68 2 79 6
10-> r av. 74.7 80
4 B
74.7
73.2
72.1
Atlanta Holds Own
As Cotton Center.
Cotton received at Atlanta for the
season ended September 1 amounted to
200,000 bales. In round figures, compared
to 350,000 for 1911. which was the bump
er crop year
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.
FOUR COMPANIES AT G. M. C.
MILLEIX1EVILLE.—The Georgia
Military College opened the fall aes-
slon here Monday. The cadet bat
talion has so increased that it will
necessitate the forming of four ’arge
companies, which will be command
ed by Lieutenant F. E. Wilson, U. S.
A., who is stationed here.
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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 women who affect the ex
treme 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 be the most remarkably
moral city In the world, doubly so
when considering its immense popu
lation.
“Moral Condition* Better.”
"But I can not help believing that
moral conditions generally are bet
ter," he said. "New York is the gay
est at thla time that I have ever seen
It. The theaters are Just opening their
season, and 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 idea
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
und the other styles of dress, or lack
of dress, can hardly be other than the
devil's own Invention."
Silent on Vice Situation.
I)r. 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
for Chief Beavers: I have known him
for many years, and there was never
a cleaner* or more upright gentleman,
and 1 do not think u 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 town
morally. In fact, I think the condi
tion of the world’s morals is gradu
ally improving, in New York, for in
stance, less drinking and other dissi
pation 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. 1 believe London is the
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 me wonder if 1 had really
said all of the things credited to me.
But I suppose it is all in the game
and that news was dull. In the very
fast newspaper game I suppose some
of the reporters think it is all right
to overstep or understep things.”
Dr. Broughton is just a little afraid
that the London suffragettes may get
after him when he gets back to Lon
don. He also said that the condi
tions there are as bad as reported,
and that if it had not been for the
actions of the militant suffragettes
that England would have granted the
women there the use of the ballot a
year ago.
Fears Militant's Anger.
"Since 1 have been in America I
have had reports that the suffragettes
are attacking churches in London,
and suppose 1 will come in for my
share when I return there. It is really
a pity that the suffragettes have
stooped to arson and violence, for the
spirit of sutTragism is strong In Eng
land. Undoubtedly the suffragists
would have won the right to the bal
lot a year ago except for the action
of the militant suffragettes.”
•The hunger strikes which the suf
fragettes are having are a bit amus
ing. in view of the fact that England
has a very strong law against allow
ing persons to commit suicide. A bill
is already pending in Parliament,
though, which will relieve this condi
tion. then the authorities may be able
to properly handle the situation."
Visiting His Brother.
Dr. Broughton is stopping at the
home of his brother. Dr. Joseph F.
Broughton. No. 102 West Twelfth
street. He was surprised when the
reporter called upon him. as he had
made efforts to keep the time of his
arrival here quiet, in order that he
might rest for a few days. He left
New York at midnight Sunday, after
a five weeks’ service, in which he
preached three times a day and is
very much worn out.
lie will go to Macon in a few’ days
to conduct services there, and will
return to Atlanta Sunday week to as
sist in the installation of I>r. Mc
Connell as pastor of the Baptist
Tabernacle.
Judge Pendleton severely scored tha
gambler and the pistol-toter in his
charge to the new Grand Jury Tues
day morning, and asked the members
of the Jury to see that every man
charged with either of these offenses
was indicted if the evidence indicated
a possibility of his guilt.
The judge was bitter in his arraign
ment of persons who carry concealed
weapons, declaring that this w’as re
sponsible for much of the lawlessness
and violence with which the courts
are hooded at present. He branded as
a coward the man who carries a pis
tol in a civilized community.
Judge Pendleton could find no ex
cuse for the practice of gambling.
There was no more senseless vice in
the catalogue than this, In his opin
ion. He asserted it was the duty of
the grand and the petit Juries to see
that the gamblers are j unished to the
extent of the law.
The present wave of crime w’as
mentioned by the judge. He said that
he had observed the prevalence of
lawlessness and that he was dis
turbed by it. He did not think, how
ever, that Fulton County was any
worse in this respect than any other
county of the State.
"Atlanta," he said, "is a cosmopoli
tan city. We have here people from
all parts of the world. Some of them
possibly are not the most desirable
citizens. So it is ^not to be won
dered at that we have occasional
waves of crime and violence."
H. Y. McCord, Sr., Is foreman of
i the new Grand Jury. The Jury will
meet Friday morning and take up a
long list of cases, prominent among
which will be that of Jim Conley,
charged with being accessory after
the fact in connection with the murder
of little Mary Phagan, for which Leo
M. Frank is under sentence of death.
* After being organized the jury re
tired to the Grand Jury room where
they were in short conference with
, Solicitor Dorsey.
Folowing is the personnel of the
Grand Jury: H. Y. McCord. Sr., fore
man, John W. Alexander. George H.
Sims, D. J. Baker, John H. Mullin, R.
H. Pickett, John J. Finnigan, T. A.
Capps, Jerry W r . Goldsmith, C. C.
Tohrn, O. H. Mrorow’, W r . E. Wood, R.
B. Seagraves, C. L. Fain, C. L. Elyea,
H. M. Walker, George T. Howard and
George W. Moore.
Need More Police
Stations, Says Mayor
Mayor Woodward declared Tues
day that the crime wave that has
spread over Atlanta emphasized the
need of police sub-stations.
“Ninety per cent of the cases made
by the police are against persons in
Decatur, Peters and Marietta streets,”
he said. "Because of the police sta-
I tion on Decatur street, that is the
! most orderly of the three. We need a
sub-station on Peters street and one
on Marietta street.
"With the police within easy call of
these concentrated districts crime
would be greatly diminished in At
lanta and our city would be a safer
and better place to live In.”
Mayor Woodward was an Alderman
at the time the Decatur street police
station was built, and acted as chair
man of the committee that had charge
of its construction. It was the plan
then to add two sub-stations. He
pointed cut Tuesday that Atlanta’s
rapid growth and the records of dis
order and crime made the need of
sub-stations now infinitely greater.
After trying his 185 cases Mon
day, Recorder Pro Tern W\ H. Pres
ton declared Monday it was the rec
ord day since prohibition.
Authorities at the Grady Hospital
fix the number of victims of crime
they have treated within the past two
weeks at approximately 160. The fa
talities reach a dozen.
Most of the record arrests have beer
among the negroes, and this fact is
pointed out as ari especial reason for
police sub-stations. When policemen
are around the negroes can be kept
orderly.
U. S. Envoy Is on Visit to Old
Friend During Lull in
Peace Parley.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
VERA CRUZ, Sept. 2.—Special En
voy Lind, accompanied by Rear Ad
miral Fletcher. IT. S. N., and Louis
Dantin, counselor of the United
States Embassy in Mexico City, left
here to-day for Sierra Blanca to visit
R. M. Emery, an old friend of Mr.
Lind, who is manager of a sugar plan
tation.
Sierra Blanca is the seat of a re
gion held by the Mexican rebels.
The Lind party planned to remain
away from Vera Cruz not longer than
48 hours.
The absence of the special envoy at
this time indicated that no immediate
change in the Mexican situation is ex
pected.
Wm. Bayard Hale
Reaches Key West.
KEY - WEST. FLA.. Sept. 2.—Wil
liam Bayard Hale, President Wilson’s
and Mr. Bryan’s special investigator
in Mexico, passed through this city
from Havana this afternoon.
He stated that Mr. Lind’s mission
in Mexico was unsuccessful and that
Lind will leave for^the United State?
in a few days. Other than this, Mr.
oefickt bill sz.iii.im hat
CUT MUMS BILLS DODGED
EVERT YEI
Interest Is Charged Delinquent
Companies—Comptroller Will
Issue Bills of Execution.
That bills of execution forcing the
payment of the annual tax will be js-
sued against all delinquent corpora
tions within the next ten days was
the statement made Tuesday morning
by Comptroller General Wright. More
than 100 of the smaller corporations
throughout the State have failed to
comply with the State law requiring
payment of the tax by September 1.
Although Mr. Wright has issued no
extension, he probably will not draw
the bills of execution before Septem
ber 10. In the mean time, each day
will see an accumulation of the in
terest on each tax due.
Figures in the Comptroller Gener
al’s office Tuesday show an increase
of $30,729 in corporation taxes this
year. The valuation of the corpora
tions this year is $144,166,907. The
total taxes paid in by the corpora
tions will amount to $720.S35.06. The
income tax this year amounts to $5,-
686.12.
Among the corporation taxes re
ceived Tuesday was the Georgia Rail
way. Light and Power Company’s tax
of $64,000, and the Atlanta. Georgia,
Light Company's tax of $12,500.
Hale refused to talk on Mexican af
fairs, and will make his detailed re
port to President Wilson and Secre
tary Bryan.
MARSHAL SLAYS BARBER
DYERSBURG, TKX.V. Sept 2
John Moore, 25. a barber, was killed
today by Town Marshal Jim Finney.
Moore heard that his brother had
been arrested and securing a revolver
went to Finney's home and threat
ened to kill the officer.
Big Drop in Meat
Prices Predicted
WASHINGTON. Sept. 2.—A predic
tion that the Democratic tariff sched
ule placing meat on the free list
will reduce the cost of living so far
as that commodity is concerned i.m
made to-day by Representative Kin-
kead. of New Jersey. He expressed
the opinion that the admission of
meat duty free would result in a sav
ing to the consumer of from 7 to 10
cents a pound.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—The gen
eral deficiency appropriation bill, car
rying one-third of the amount asked
for by the government departments,
was reported to the House to-day by
the Appropriations Committee. The
bill includes the $100,000 asked for by
Secretary Bryan to aid destitute
Americans to leave Mexico.
Provisiion also is made for the abo
lition of the Commerce Court sixty
days after the passage of the bill.
The measure carried only $3,809,-
379.40 instead of the $9,923,406.78
asked for by the Treasury Depart
ment in behalf of other executive de
partments.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion received $300,000 to start the
physical valuation of railroads.
An appropriation of $39,000 is al
lowed to the Civil Service Commis
sion for competitive examinations for
fourth-class postmasters.
The committee allows $654,659 to
continue work on public buildings al
ready begun, which is less than one-
half the amount requested.
Provision is made for reimbursing
the Army and Navy departments for
expenditures in relieving flood suf
ferers in the Ohio and Mississippi
valleys
CHICAGO, Sept. 2.—“The womer
America are ‘beating’ their millin
out of of $2,000,000 a year," decla
Madam Marie Harries this afterno
praparatory to introducing a chai
in the by-laws of the organization
the convention of the National As
elation of Retail Milliners, limit
the credit to the fair wearers of
latest styles to not more than 30 da
Three thousand members of the ;
sociation, which numbers 20.000 mi
ners throughout the United Stai
met in convention in the Congr
Hotel to-day to pass the last word
fall and winter styles.
Madam Harries, who is president
the association, believes that $
j should be a m.nimum average
‘ dead’’ accounts lost by each mem
j annually.
"I favor enlisting the assistance
husbands in closing up the urn
sirable accounts," the president add
' Many times the wife buys with.
| his knowledge, and while she rr
i have the right to do so to a limi
extent, I believe heavy accounts ho
be taken without delay to the head
the house."
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL OPENS.
COLUMBUS.—The Columbus In
dustrial High School began its eighth
annual session to-day, with the larg
est enrollment in its history. C. A.
Maupin is principal.
BOOK COMPANY ASKS CHARTER.
ELBERTON.—C. H. Robinson and G.
A. Smith, of Charlotte. an<i J. P. Garri
son and S S. Brewer, of Elberton. have
applied to Superior Court for a charter
for the Robinson Book Company, the
capital stock being $8,000. already paid
in.
FOR THAT TIRED FEELING
Take Horsford's Acid Phosphsto
Kxrallem for the relief of exhaustion due to
Summer beat, overwork or insomms.
Adv
CAS i GROCERY CC. f
MAXWELL HOUSE n—
COFFEE, LB. ... <!5C
If purchased with i ib. of 'Meadow
?5c d ib Br00kfl " d ° r El0ln 8utter at
35c Wesson
Oil, 24c
Gallon 88e
Vo. 10 Sno
drift .
Median
Picnic Ham*.
1*>
25 lb*.
Softer .. |LlO
20 lba.
Sugar .ft.no
10c Caa Ga.
take Sjnap, 5c
-Ye. 10 Carte-
IcTIC . • . $1.14
Medium Cette-
Ye. 10 Stiver
Leaf
Lard . tl-M