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r- HMB TTTE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. Secretary of Associated Charities Urges Need of Schoolbooks Fund “The need of schoolbooks for the poor children is a practical, everyday cause. A man can’t be really willing to help humanity if this worthy appeal for funds with which to send our poor children to school does not strike home right to his heart. “It costs from $1 to $10 per capita to put a child in school. In most cases not only the books are needed, but a pair of shoes. “In our organization we have five district agents. These agents have about 125 families apiece to look after in their districts. They report to me that there will be at least 300 children 1 who will have to be placed in school this fall. “Before The Georgian took up this worthy cause I was at a loss to know what could be done, as we have no fund for this purpose. Now I am sure that it will come out all right. The trouble is that everyone waits for everyone else to subscribe, and consequently but few contribute who really intended to at the first. Do not delay. In the nam e of humanity it is a duty if you can just spare a few dollars each,”—Joseph Logan, Secretary Atlanta Associated Charities. AIDS PARENT COMBAT CHARGE OF POISONING HEIHT THROBS 250 Penniless Boys and Girls Ask Charitable Atlantans to Send Them to School. ■ Contributions to Schoolbook Fund Georgian and Sunday j American $50.00 Cash . 10.00 W. L. Peel 5.00 J. P. Allen . 2.00 Cash . 2.00 Cash . 1.00 Mrs. Zella Bennett Aids Defense Counsel in Alleged Poisoning Case—Bitter Toward Accusers. HR OF OK Atlanta's big heart will need not much of softening to Insure a re sponse to the appeal from Its poor children. In ths very fact that 260 boys and girls are kept from public school and from a chance for edu cation because of their poverty there is enough of heart throbs and senti ment to awaken the coldest to a ready giving. School opens Monday, and your children, bright-faced, magnified in your eyes to the stature of future Presidents and statesmen, are golns there, laughing, willing, eager. Rut there are 250 boys and girls like yours, possible Presidents and wives or mothers of Presidents, Just like yours, who are going to stay at home and run in the streets and grow up with out even the three "R’s” unless you heln them. There are 250 boys and girls like little Willie Watson, whose mother is a widow and must work in the mills, and to whom the public school seems a very desirable and unattainable thing Just now. The school term opens In three days, and the fund is not a tenth, not a twentieth, of what Is should be. Last Chance for Education. To most of the children of the un fortunate 250 the failure of contribu tions would mean probably the failure of a last chance to get an education. Many of them are of that age when another year will make them eligible for employment in the mills and fac tories, and next year they will enter the army of the workers Then there will be no time for schooling. Then they will grow' old early, practically illiterates. Then they will enter upon a life of work «n which no hope of success presents Itself, for the unlettered man and woman has no part in the world ex cept as a beast of burden. And even this year, out of school, they will become children of the street, susceptible to the influences of the street, nrobably fruitful fields for a crop of evil habits. But apart from the latent possibil ities there are the children them selves. Most of the 250. boys and girls of ages between 8 and 9 years to 14, are healthy, bright-eyed young per sons, capable of real effort. None of them, according to the records, ar? what the eugenic sharks would call the “unfit.” The very fact that the children themselves are eager to go to school, to learn something that will enable them to grow up men and women different from most of the listless workers around them, makes them out as worthy of Atlanta’s help. Appeal to Real Americans. “The greatest contributions to sci ence, art and civilization have come from the genius in the hovel,” said W M. Slaton, superintendent of the At lanta public schools, Thursday. But the appeal is not made for potential geniuses. The fund to raise which The Georgian and Sunday American is lending its help to the Associated Charities is not a gamble with # ate for the probable produc tion of great figures. It is Just for the 250 ordinary boyH and girls who can be made into good American men and women with help now* when the need is greatest. The appeal w T as born in the chil • dren themselves. They, rather than their parents, asked first that they b3 given the chance. From their request it grew to a wider appeal. The Asso ciated Charities sensed the necessity. Then all Atlanta heard it. Atlanta, it seems, has many inter ests. There is the pennant race, and the theaters, and the green hats that they say are expensive. But Atlanta is a very big and rich city, and there is room for other In terests. particularly if they be human Interests. MERGER SURE HE State Attacks Chief Evidence in M’Naughton Fight to Escape Death Sentence. Fish and Game Commissioner Confident Governor Will Not Grant Demand for Removal. Vincent Astor Sees Sonder Boat Contest MARBLEHEAD, MASS., Sept 4.— Fine weather greeted the sonder boats when they started In the third race of the International series to day. A strong east wind was blowing and a great crowd was on hand fot the race, including Vincent Astor and a party on* the yacht Norma. Jcs.*»e Mercer, Fish and Game Com missioner, declared Thursday he was confident Governor Slaton would ris3 above demands that he appoint one of his personal friends and instead re name him. His term expired on Sep tember 1, but owing to the precedent of giving a man four years in case he makes good, he is entitled to another two years, he claims. Mr. Mercer’s statement was in an swer to rumors at the Capitol and elsew'here during the last ten days. He referred to his rumored successor, Charles Davis, as a fine man, but one unsuited in temperament for the of fice. He declared he believes he has made good as Commissioner. Mr. Mercer returned Thursday from Washington, where he was in strumental in getting through nation al legislation striking out f e Senate clause which was detrimental to the Audubon Society. He said the socie ty won a complete victory. Imperial Potentate Of Shrine Is Coming To Prepare for Meet Will Irwin, Imperial potentate of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, heading a delegation of the high of ficers of the national order, will ar rive in Atlanta next Tuesday to make the first preparations for the holding of the 1914 convention in this city. The securing of accommodations for the vast hordes of gayly uni formed Shrincrs that will pour into Atlantat next May will be the first business that will be attended to by the important delegation. The prin cipal hotels of the city practically will be bought up by the visitors for the few days that they will he here. Ar rangements have been made for con ferences with the managements of the Piedmont, the Ansley and the Wine- coff, and it is likely that tentative agreements also will be made with a number of other hotel men. The delegation will come to Atlanta from Colon, where they have been on a pleasure trip. Forrest Adair, po tentate of Yaarab Temple, will meet the visitors with the Yaarab patrol and the Shrlners’ Drum Corps. They will go from the Terminal Station to the Hotel Ansley, where their head quarters will be while in the city. Before the end of the year other representatives of the order will be in Atlanta completing the reservations for the period of the Shrlners’ con vention, and by the time the new year is on its way it is expected that prac tically every available room and apartment will be spoken for. Burglar Gets Load Of Shot in His Leg JACKSONVILLE, Sept. 4—Gus Lightner, a negro burglar and porch climber, received a load of buckshot in the leg early this morning while descending from the second story of a house on West Duval street. The negro ran several blocks after being shot, and was found by a po liceman concealed under a house. J. H. Harvey, who says he did the shoot ing, was sitting up with a sick friend near the scene of the attempted rob bery. Continued from Page 1. , retired, stating he had taken a dose of capudlne, an he had a headache. Later in the day Flanders seemed to be feel ing well, made no complaints and at tended church that evening.” Thompson further statese that he was In the company of Flanders throughout the stay In Thomasvllle except one hour, when Flanders was with J. E. Thompson at church Sun day evening, and for about an hour Saturday night, when Flanders and R. D. Durden took a stroll about town. He declared further that he was with Flanders all the time that he was In company with Messrs. Taylor and Stanaland, who swore that Flanders took medicine, with the statement that “It Is going to kill me some day,” and that at no time was any such statement made by Flanders. When this testimony had been made a part of the record, Attorney Brad ley asked for a continuance of the case until he had had time to ex amine the affidavits of physicians of Savannah, Ga., which declare that Flanders could not have met his death by arsenic, which, it is charged, Dr. McNaughton gave him. Chairman Davidson of the commission adjourn ed the hearing until 9 o’clock Friday morning. Wreck Victims Had Relatives in Florida JACKSONVILLE. Sept. 4.—Dr. Jo seph B. Marvin, of Louisville, Ky., who, with his wife and daughter, met death In the railroad wreck on the New York and New Haven Railroad near New Haven, Conn., last Tuesday, was a brother of John I.,, Charles and William Marvin, of Jacksonville He also was a brother of Mrs. a. B. Glo ver, of Montlcello, and a cousin of Thomas P. Denham, vice president of the Atlantic National Bank of Jack- j sonvllle. j Dr. Marvin was widely known in American medical circles. He was the j author of numerous lectures and pa- j pars. He was president of the medi- ! eal staff of the Norton Infirmary in I Louisville, and professor of neurology ! in the University of Louisville. The ; Marvins had been at Moosehead Lake, j In Maine, and were on their way to visit relatives In Atlantic City. Wouldn’t Pay Dog Tax; Haled to Court Do dogs need licenses to exist in the yards of their masters? This wa» the subject of an argu ment Thursday between Samuel | Smith, a butcher and grocer at 299 j Mangum street, and Tom Jackson, city dog catcher. The cause of the argument was a young bird dog, un tagged, which was playing in Smith’s yard. Smith declared the dog didn’t need a city license if he stayed in his own back yard. Jackson thought othei*- j wise and so summoned the butcher to appear Friday before the Recorder to answer the charge of allowing clous dog to run loose. vi- TIGERS RELEASE PITCHER. DETROIT. MICH., Sept 4 — Pitcher North, of the Detroit American League baseball club, has been released to Providence, of the International league North was recently purchased from the Jackson, Mich., team. He started one game for Detroit, but was replaced after a few inning*. Second Fall on Stairs Hurts Col. Huff Badly MACON, Sept. 4.— Colonel W. A. Huff, who was injured severely by falling head first down the stairway of his home last Saturday night, feil again yesterday afternoon in exactly the same manner. He again escaped broken bones, though he was bruised severely. He was trying to go dow’nstalrs for the first time since the accident last Saturday. His condition is now regarded as serious. Colonel Huff is 82 years old. SHEARS REPORTS TO YANKEES. BOSTON, Sept. 4.—The pitching staff of the New York American League team was further Increased to-day with the arrival here of Pitcher George Shears, recently purchased from the Brockton club, of the New England League. Shears is a left-hander. APPALACHIAN SEASON ENDS. KNOXVILLE, TENN., Sept. 4.—The Appalachian League season closed yes terday with Johnson City* and Knoxville winners of the half season pennant races The "world series" of seven games between them begins to-day at Knoxville. Mrs. Zella Bennett, the devoted daughter of Mrs. Mary Belle Craw ford, took up her mother's defense Thursday in a statement declaring and reiterating her confidence In Mrs. Crawford’s innocence of any part in Joshua Crawford’s mysterious death, and expressing the deepest bitterness toward those who instigated the charges. Mrs. Crawford, with the accusation of her husband's murder hanging over her, has found almost her sole con solation In the unswerving loyalty of her daughter. The suspected woman lives with Mrs. Bennett and the lat ter’s three children at No. 674 West Peaechtree street, and has seldom ap peared In public since the poisoning charges were preferred against her. Mrs. Bennett has been the almost constant companion of Mrs. Craw ford for more than three years, and the ties of love that bind her to her mother have been strengthened by the trying incidents of the past two months. She unconsciously has as sumed a protecting attitude toward Mrs. Crawford, and protests her mother’s innocence with greater em phasis than even M Craw’ford her self. Broken by Mother’s Arrest. Mrs. Bennett has suffered from the persecution which she asserts her mother is undergoing to an even greater extent than the accused woman. She is bitter toward Mr. Crawford’s relatives, who are con testing her mother’s right to the Crawford estate, and doubly bitter toward those who caused her arrest and incarceration in the Tower. “When they arrested mother and took her to Jail,” Mrs. Bennett said. “I thought my heart would break. I knew she was Innocent, and had no fear but that everything would come out all right. But the sight of mv mother behind the bars of a prison was almost more than I could bear. 1 think I suffered even more than she did—and God knows such persecu tion as has been her lot recently is enough to make any woman suffer. It is bad enough to be accused of any crime at all—but to have them say my mother killed her husband, a man whom she loved and who loved her devotedly—I can conceive of nothing more horrible or trying to a woman'* soul. "None of these relatives who are robbing Mr. Crawford's grave and trying to make my mother out a bad woman loved him with one-half the love my mother bore for him. I know my mother loved him, and I have never seen her so happy as she was when she told me she was going to marry Mr. Crawford. And I was hap py, too, because I knew Mr. Crawford was a good man, and whatever makes my mother happy makes me doubly so.” Adviser to Parent. Besides being her most loyal sup porter, Mrs. Bennett has been an ac tive adviser of her mother. She has suggested plans for defending Mrs. Crawford that are considered valuable by the accused woman’s attorneys and that doubtless will be carried out should the Grand Jury indict the ac cused woman and the case come to trial. She has been instrumental in keeping her mother in a happy frame of mind, cheering Mrs. Crawford and encouraging her with tender care, even though her own heart be sad. Mrs. Bennett and her husband made a great sacrifice in order that she might be with her mother. When Mr. Crawford died she was living in Pitts burg, where Mr. Bennett was in busi ness. At the request of her mother, they gave up their Pittsburg home and came to Atlanta that she might be with Mrs. Crawford. Mrs. Crawford’s grandchildren, Viola and Russell Bennett, aged 8 and 5, respectively, are too young to real ize the nature of their grandmother’s trouble. Their eyes open wide with childish wonder when they see her in tears conjured up by the memory of some incident of the past few months. Grandchildren Loyal. With the intuition that belongs only to childhood, they sense that some thing is wrong; they know’ ‘‘grand mamma” is sorrowful without know ing the cause. The result has been a tightening of the family circle, a strengthening of the ties of love that bind the little hearts to that of "grand mamma.” Little Viola and Russell are never so happy as when Mrs. Crawford con sents to play with them. They are with her constantly, bringing their dollies and their toys for "grandmam ma” to fix, always throwing about her the protecting wings of their innocent love. They have grasped the fact that their "grandmamma” is accused of something, of something terrible, and their indignation that anybody could suspect such a good "grandmamma” of doing wrong is one of the pathetic features of the whole affair. BLUE SEES 2 ADVICE TO FLEE HOES II IE Governor Witnesses First Double Many Arrive at Vera Cruz Be* Electrocution in South Caro lina Penitentiary. MRS. ZELLA BENNETT. ESCAPE STRIPES IE GOOD New Rules Provide Three Be havior Grades—Lowest Only to Wear Present Garb. The Georgia Prison Commission will issue an order Thursday remov- j ing the stripe? from all convicts ex- ! cept those of the low est grade, follow- j ing a decision reached Wednesday afternoon. This action is in line with ! recent legislation. The new plan carries provision for | three grades of convicts according to j conduct, the uniform of each prison er establishing his grade. Only the lowest grade will wear stripes. Discussing the change Thursday, Judge Patterson, of the commission, said the new system would be a strong stimulant to the convict to win reward by good conduct. The plan, he said, should solve the prob lem of maintaining good order and aid ip establishing real reform and in preventing escapes. When a prisoner finds he will have more to gain by obedience than by trying to get away, ho said, he will try harder to win his release legiti mately. Army and Navy to Play on Polo Grounds WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—The Army- Navy football game will be played at the New York Polo Grounds on No vember 29, according to an agreement reached to-day by Secretary Daniels. Assistant Secretary Bredkenridge and athletic directors of the two academies. "I am glad,” said Secretary Brecken- ridge, "to say that the difficulty has been obviated through the Navy's gen erosity in yielding to the Army's de sire to play the game this year at the Polo Grounds. The reason for the Ar my's desire to play there is the su perior seating capacity and arrange ment of the grounds.” Railroad Hard Hit By Violent Deaths ASHEVILLE, Sept. 4.—The spec tacular suicide of Colonel Samuel Tate, widely known in engineering circles of the country, came as a cli max to a series of tragic deaths of officers of the Transcontinental Rail road. A vice president died here sudden ly, and the president of the road met death in an aeroplane in London shortly afterward. Colonel Tate, yes terday’s suicide, was chief engineer and general manager of the proposed road. His body will be shipped to New York for interment. CITY HELPS CLEAR PEACHTREE GREEK County Gives $500 of $1,000 Needed to Guard Sewage Plant From Floods. COLUMBIA, Sept. 4 —Because they had killed his friend and because he wanted to see the operations of an electric chair, Governor Cole L. Blease to-day attended the first! dou ble electrocution ever held in South Carolina In the State penitentiary, when Jasper Green and Davis Rey nolds, negroes, paid the extreme pen alty for the murder of J. R. Cooler, liquor constable for Beaufort County, last March. “Yes, I attended the execution at the penitentiary to-day,” declared Governor Blease. ”1 made a recom mendation to the General Assembly that the electric chair be substituted for hanging In this State. Ever since the change was made I have won dered whether or not we had adopted the most humane method for reliev ing society of those depraved and un fortunate human beings who were convicted of such heinous crimes, and I wanted to see for myself. “I have seen people hanged, but refrained from going to see one elec trocuted because, having the power in my hands to direct that It be stopped, I was not sure that it would be the best thing for me to do. “But in this instance these two ne groes were convicted of killing an of ficer of the law—a man who carried In his pocket a commission from me as Governor of South Carolina to per form the duties he was performing at the time they murdered him. When they struck him down, they struck, to that extent, the law of our State, and they killed one of the truest men that Souh Carolina ever had, one of the bravest and most efficient officers and one of my best friends.” The executions were also witnessed by the father and three brothers of the murdered man and relatives from Beaufort County. Both men denied the crime when strapped into tiio chair. Mayor W T oodward said Thursday that arrangements had been com pleted to clear Peachtree Creek of brush and waste matter, thereby re moving any danger of flooding the Peachtree Creek sewage disposal plant. He conferred Thursday^ morning with Chief of Construction Clayton, R. M. Harwell, chairman of the Coun cil Sewer Committee, and VV. G. Hum phrey, chairman of the Council Finance Committee. A report from the County Commis sion was read, in which that body of fers $500 toward cleaning the creek. The total cost will be about $1,000. it was decided that the work should b-*- gin at once. "That matter has been talked aboui for weeks and weeks,” said Mayor Woodward “It was high time to do something.” Girl Admits She Lied To Shield Caminetti SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4.—Attor neys in the trial of F. Drew Caminetti to-day expected to have the evidence against the alleged white slave law violator concluded by this evening. Witnesses for the defense, it was sari, would take up but a short time. Lola Norris, the young Sacramento girl who eloped to Reno with Cami netti, completed her story yesterday with an admission that she had liei to officers w r ho arrested the tw’o cou ples because she wanted to shield Caminetti, whom she loved at that time. SEND BODY BY POST. PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 4.—A pack age delivered by parcel post to David H. Schuyler, an undertaker here, con tained the body of a newly born babe. A note attached read: "This is fr; m a poor mother. Please burj this lit tle body.” GOES TO WAR ON TICK. Dr. E. M. Nighbert, Federal inspec tor in charge of tick eradication and Southern cattle transportation, left Wednesday for a trip through Texas to study the tick problem in that State. Boy Slays Brother With'Unloaded' Gnn ASHEVILLE, Sept. Picking up an old rifle from a bed, John Bart lett, 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Kelse Bartlett, of Chunn’s Grove, pointed the weapon at his brother. Lawrence Bartlett, 12 years old, and, not knowing that it was loaded, pulled the trigger. The elder Bartlett boy staggered and fell over, fatally injured. He lived only a short while. Alderman Harwell Not a Smoke Censor Alderman J. H. Harwell, of the First Ward, said Thursday that he wished he could make the public un derstand that he was not R. M. Har well, chairman of the Smoke Commis sion, and that he had nothing what ever to do with the administration of the anti-smoke law. "I am being deluged with com plaints from apartment house owners and "cussed’ on every street corner for insisting on people not making smoke,” he said. "All the smoke I know anything about Is the sweet aroma from my trusty pipe.” lieving United States Intends to Intervene. Special .Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 4.—Many American residents here resent the advice of President Wilson and Sec retary Bryan to leave Mexico, and It was not until to-day that some of them understood fully why this ad vice had been given. The newspapers this morning pub lished a dispatch from Washington saying that President Wilson and Secretary Bryan had been Inspired by fears that American residents would be killed In antl-forelgn demonstra tions If they remained. Charge d'Affalres Nelson O'Shaatgh- nessy denied to-day that he and Spe cial Envoy John Lind are again la negotiation with President Huerta. Word from Vera Cruz is that Americans, who have arrived there upon Secretary Bryan’s order to get out_ in the belief that the United States expected to intervene, have approached Mr. Lind seeking aid to get first-class accommodations to the United States. There are many Mormons and mis sionaries at Vera Cruz. Bryan Has Conference With Wm. Bayard Hale. WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—Secretary of State Bryan to-day conferred with Dr. William Bayard Hale concerning conditions in Mexico. The conference took place in Secretary Bryan’s of fice Just prior to Dr. Hale’s confer ence with President Wilson. Americans Not Slain, Says Consul Hanna. WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—Consul General Hanna at Monterey Informed the State Department to-day that there is no truth in the report of the execution of six Americans at Torreon. He added that as recently as August 31 trustworthy persons ar riving in Monterey from Torreon ad vised him that all Americans and for eigners had been well treated by both the federal and rebel forces. RUST CAUSES LOCKJAW DEATH. MEMPHIS, Sept. 4.—Leola Fallis, aged 28, a morphine fiend, died of lockjaw caused by using a rusty hy- perdermic needle. STRENGTHEN THE NERVES Take Horeford's Acid Phaaphatt A teaspooulul In a glass of cold water make* an Invigorating, refreshing, delicious baverage. "Adv.’ # HOUSTON RAISES TAX RATE. PERRY, Sept. 4.—At a meeting of the County Commisisoners of Hous ton County the tax rate for the coun ty was fixed at 13 mills, being an in crease over the rate of 1912 of 3 mills. | CASH GR0. CO. whVtVh 2 a°ll 20 LBS. SUGAR $ 1ii TAX RATE IS REDUCED. CRAWFORDVILLE, Sept. 4.—The County Commisisoners have fixed the tax rate for Taliaferro County at $10 per thousand, which is a reduction of $2.50 per thousand from the rate tor the past year. 25 pounds Sugar...51-25 Snowdrift: No io ... 88c BANKRUPT SALE Two Bay Horses and Delivery j Wagons. On Monday, September 8, at 11 a. m . I will offer for sale two fine bay horses about four and five years of age. re spectively. and two grocery delivery I wagons belonging to the estate of C S Wyatt C. O. D. Company. Sale will take place in the office of V. H. Adams, Ref eree In Bankruptcy, 513 Grant Building at which time sealed bids will be re ceived and opened. Bids will be accept- 1 ed either separately or as a whole, and all bids subject to the confirmation of the Referee. Terms cash. For inspection of the said horses and wagons, inquire of the undersigned, or J. M. Moore, 209 Whitehall street. H. A. FERRIS, Trustee. MOORE & POMEROY, HENRY NEWMAN, Attorneys for the Trustee. Announcing First Display of New Fall Fashions in Hats The soft felt, easy to ad just. light of texture, ideal for comfort, is the favorite Hat for early fall wear, nigh crowns leading the style. Many new creations. You will have to see them to appreciate the two-tone effects in Moss Green, Blue Gray, Pearl Gray, Ox fords, Navies, Browns. Prices $3 to $4 Plain felts in Pearls, Buf falo, Castor, Black. Prices $2 to $5 PARKSCH AMBERS=HARDWICK 37-39 PEACHTREE CO. ATLANTA, GEORGIA < A\ r \ <v t- i 4 i