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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1913.
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Restaurant Chain Is Urged as Aid to Mothers
Democratic House Leader Practi
cally Announces for Place
From Alabama.
AWAITS TARIFF LEGISLATION
Four Aspirants for His Present
Office Have Sprung Up at
Birmingham.
BIRMINGHAM, Sept. 8—A letter
from Congressman Oscar Underwoo I
practically announces his candidacy
for the United States Senate Juat as
Boon as the tariff bill has been adopt
ed. He says that he would not be
true to the American people If ne
would not remain In the House until
th* tariff bill is adopted. Should the
t iff bill fall, a vote being expected
within three weeks, Congressman Un
derwood will not leave the House.
Following the announcement that
Congresjman Underwood will doubt
less run for the United State* Sen
ate candidates for his seat as Con
gressman are grooming. Mentioned
already are Nathan L. Miller, C. P.
Beddow. Jere C. King, Burden Burr,
all attorneys of Birmingham, and J.
Fritz Tnompson, Centerville, Bibb
County, attorney.
Hobson Brands
O’Neal Usurper.
ANNISTON. Srpt 8—Captain
Richmond Pearson Hobson, candidate
for United States Senator, was loudly
applauded here to-day when he ac
cused Governor Kmmett O'Neal of
usurpation of power and the rights of
the people In making an appointment
of United States Senator to succeed
the late Senator Joseph F. Johnston,
stating that he was afraid to call spe
cial session of the Legislature. He
referred to the Governor In scathing
terms several times, and each ref
erence brought forth applause
lf»hson declined to recede from his
stand for a larger navy, which he
termed the cheapest insurance In the
w ,rld He made his chief plea upon
a platform of service, stating that
to perfect a system that
would give every boy and girl in
America an equal opportunity for
educational development Is his chief
anibition.
Turning to the old veterans, Hob
son said many of them had done
more fighting before breakfast than
was done in all the Spanish war. and
that he did not pride himself on hla
naval services.
Hobson denounced the "flying
squadron" that is proposed to defeat
him and the political "bosses” of the
State and nation, whom he classed
under the old regime. He spoke In
praise of the personal character of
Senator Johnston.
Need of Auto Fire
Engines Is Urged
Alderman Ragsdale Gives Demonstra
tion to Show That Horse
Power Is Obsolete.
I. N. Ragsdale, Tenth Ward Aider-
man and chairman of the Board of
Fire Masters, Saturday afternoon be
gan an unusual campaign to con
vince the City Council that all the
old horse-drawn fire-fighting appa
ratus should be replaced with mod
em automobile engines.
Alderman Ragsdale Invited all the
Council out to a dinner at the Tenth
Ward Station Saturday afternoon.
After the meal In the station, the
OounclJmen witnessed an exhibition
by the big automobile engine. It
was raced down the road a mile and
back, the hose connected to a hydrant
and water thrown within three min
utes Then In another half minute
the engine was pumping two new
streams of water. All three were
shooting to dizzy heights
The spectators were highly pleased
by the exhibition.
ENGINEER KILLED IN WRECK.
TU8CUMBIA, ALA., Sept. 6.—En
gineer Egbert Doughett. of the
Southern Railway, was killed and
Conductor Jean Bell and several oth
er trainmen were injured when a
transfer train Jumped the track here.
Mrs, J. S. Barnwell, Superintend
ent of Home for the Friendless,
Tells of Need for Strictest Care
of Infants Prior to Their Birth.
Mrs. J S. Ramwell, superintendent
of the Home for the Friendless, at
No. 226 Highland avenue, drawing
examples of deficients among the
homelss, “doorstep” children In the
care of the home, has pointed out
that acute physical suffering, and
mental and moral taint as well, Is
the result of failure of mothers to
care for their children before birth.
This failure, she declared, comes from
ignorance or Indifference, usually
from ignorance.
"It is appalling how little is known
among women of the vital fai t* of life
and death and birth," she said. "And
yet girls In schools are taught for
year after year trigonometry, Latin,
and such things relatively valueless,
In consideration of these greater
facts.”
The superintendent w-as Inspire!
to the discussion by her study of
the recent movement among wealthy
women of Boston to establish "pre
natal cafes,” where expectant mothers
are taught the kind of foods they
must eat, to prevent malnutrition
of the children before birth.
"The idea is splendid,” said the
Atlanta woman. "Why should not
mothers care for their children be
fore birth, w'ith a view to their men
tal, moral and physical well-being?
If it were done everywhere then chil
dren would not be brought Into the
world such as we see every dav,
anemic, dull, dishonest. After birth
it is too late to cur^ these evils. They
have been born with the children.
Involves Future of Race.
"The doctrine of prenatal Influence
is one of the most powerful signs of
the world's development and pro
gress, 1 think. Prenatal care is a
matter vital to the whole of human
ity, for It Involves the vigor of the
future race.
"Establishments where mothers can
be taught these things, taught how’
they may conduct themselves to bring
Into the w'orld strong, healthy, capa
ble children, will be of Inestimable
value. How much suffering would
be saved the world If women only
knew how to feed themselves to
avoid malnutrition of the child.
"We here w’ho are brought into
contact with the homeless, ‘doorstep’
children, most of whom come into the
world unwelcomed, can realize the
deficiencies that come with lack or
care before birth. We see children
with Ineradicable moral tains, chil
dren who are dull and slow-witted,
children who are p emic and who. if
they live to maturity, live only to face
a life of ill-health and suffering.
"After birth it Is too late to erad
icate these evils. The harm is done
then. And how easy it would have
PRENATAL INFLUENCE
IS SION OF PROGRESS
It is s pity to think of girls being
stuffed full of trigonometry and
Latin in schools, and being l®ft
ignorant of the essential fchyngs of
life.
Half the persons in the world are
without knowledge or understand
ing of the laws that govern and
control life and death.
Such steps as the doctrine of
prenatal influence are indications
that the world is growing better.
The care of children before they
are born is even more important
than their care afterward, saving
them from possible physical, men
tal and moral taints which it is
difficult to eradicate later.
We who can observ the home
less and the foundling child know
how much harm and suffering can
be wrought by ignorance and in
difference of parents.
I am not afraid to venture the
prediction that progress'veness in
these things—in the establishment
of institutions for public educa
tion in such matters, in general
facilities for education—will be
come universal.
Declares It Pity That Trigonometry
Is Taught While Women Know
Nothing of the Laws That Gov
ern Control of Life and Death.
been, with proper consideration if
such simple things as foods, pleas
ant thoughts, profitable occupation
and study, to bring Into the world,
Instead of the deficients, children
strong, bright, moral.”
The superintendent pointed exam
ples of deficient children—-usually, she
showed, they w ere unwelcome chil
dren, and indifference as to their wel
fare had marked the period before
their birth. On the other hand, she
talked of children of her acquaintance
who have grown into brilliance of
mind and health of body because of
care and training before birth.
Prenatal Cafes Indorsed,
The prenatal restaurants, which
she Indorsed without reserve, have
been established In New York and
Boston by wealthy women. The big
Idea of these Institutions is to check
malnutrition before birth. The cham
pion of the plan is Miss Mabel Parker,
Vnown as the "Good Angel of the Ba-
v jieM of New York.” It is her belief
that the number of criminals will be
greatly decreased when malnutrition
before as well as after birth Is less
frequent. Miss Parker's theory is that
dining at the prenatal restaurant the
expectant mother, by eating the prop
er kind of food, is kept in prime health
and is thus able to hear a robust chili.
The first prenatal restaurant ir.
this country was opened In New York
by MIbs Parker. It Is reported that
the "Angel” was amazed by the rush
of expectant mothers who applied to
her for feeding. On the opening day
there was not room for a tenth part of
them. Immediately steps were taken
to organize an issoclation In New
York to take over the work of the pre
natal restaurant. College professors,
settlement leaguers and many wealthy
New York women are charter mem
bers.
In the beginning the plans for the
restaurant Involve a noon meal only
at 5 cents a person. There will be
broth, meat and vegetables. At least
once a week the women will be in
structed in what to eat, and lecturers
will expound on other factors in the
care of the children.
Hopes for Cafe Chain.
It is the hope of Miss Parker that
her first prenatal restaurant will lead
to the establishment of a chain
through the country. Three of Miss
Parker’s most ardent supporters in
the Boston enterprise are Mrs. Robert
H. Sayre, mother of Frank Sayre, the
future husband of Jessie Wilson, the
| daughter of the President : Professor
Thomas D. Wood, of Columbia Uni
versity, and Mrs. Julia Heath, presi
dent of the Housewives’ Leagues, of
which Mrs. Woodrow Wilson is hon
orary president.
All this Mrs. Barnwell tn Atlanta
views with hopeful eyes
"It Is a sign that the world Is grow
ing better,” she said. "I believe that
this progressiveness in such matters
will become unlver**al. and that At
lanta will not be long in taking steps
for public Instruction and training in
these things. It is a great opportunity
for local philanthropists.”
Atlanta Club Will
Have New Quarters
Social Organization to Occupy Top
Floor of Forsyth Building—Im
provements Planned.
Recorder Declares ‘Go-Betweens’
Must Be Given Same Penalty
as Real Offenders.
The Atlanta Club will move into
new quarters on the top floor of the
Foryath Building October 1.
A large ballroom and a roof garden
and stage will be among the im
provements to be installed. A system
of shower baths will be included and
there will be larger reading rooms
and billiard rooms.
A campaign for new members will
be started as soon as the club Is able
to accommodate them. The member
ship now numbers about 650. It la
proposed to increase this to 1,000.
The club officers are: Dr. George
Brown, president; J. M. Dobbs, vice
president: H. L. Cardoza, secretary;
C. Ft. Orchard, superintendent; Eu
gene Roberts, assistant superintend
ent; F. M. Mack, steward.
War on the negro cab drivers
who act as go-betweens for disrepu
table women was declared by Record
er Pro Tem Preston Saturday aft
ernoon, following disclosures made In
the hearing of Hamp Smith, a negro
cab driver, and Bessie Gurley, The
odosia Pittman and G. C. Brandeis,
who wore given heavy fines on
charges of immorality. The Gurley
woman was fined $5.75, and the others
$15.75 each.
“This court has ordered before,”
Judge. Preston said, “that the negro
cab drivers who aid these women
must be arrested and prosecuted.
They are as guilty as the women, if
not more so. I understand there ,s
a regular gang of cab drivers who
make It a practice to find Immoral
resorts and conduct these women and
their friends to them. Policeman
must arrest the cab drivers as well
as the women.”
Brandeis and the Pittman woman
were arrested Friday night by Offi
cer Andrews, after they had gone to
the Forsyth Hotel at Hunter and For
syth streets, in Hamp Smith’s cab
and registered as "J. E. Hagan and
wife.” Andrews declared that Smith
is one of the ringleaders in the gang
of cab drivers, and asserted that
Smith had told the manager of the
Forsyth Hotel that Brandeis and
the Pittman woman were man and
wife. The Gurley woman was ar
rested when she returned to the Ter
minal Station after ridir"- for two
hours with a man in a cab.
Atlanta Autoists
Make Record Time
K. T. McKinstry and J. H. McTeer
Reach Lexington, Ky., on Long
Tour Through North.
Two well-known Atlantans, K. T.
McKinstry. manager of the Flre-
stone-Columbus Southern Company,
and J. H. McTeer, put the Gate City in
the limelight again Saturday when
they rolled Into Lexington, Ky., In
their Buick car, after a record-
breaking trip of 541 miles from At
lanta. The tourists left Atlanta
Thursday morning and arrived at
Lexington at 2 o’clock Saturday aft
ernoon. The trip was made by way
of Chattanooga and Nashville.
McKinstry and McTeer will go di
rect to Columbus. Ohio, and thence
to points in West Virginia, return
ing by rail. The trip is being made
for pleasure and not to test the dura
bility of the automobile.
Bolt Kills Barber
And Man He Shaves
Proprietor and Customer of Shop at
Bridgeboro, Ga., Victim of
Lightning.
SYLVESTER, Sept. 6.—Two men
were ki' - -) by lightning this after
noon at uridgeboro, a small town 14
miles south of Sylvester, on the Gulf
Line Railroad.
ChesJey Willis, son of G, T. Willis,
a prominent merchant of the town,
was reclining in a barber hair being
shaved by John Barksdale when i
bolt of lightning struck toe shop. In
stantly killing both.
S. Guyt McLendon to
Investigate Rates
Employed by Valdosta Chamber of
Commerce as an
Expert.
VALDOSTA, Sept. 6.—S. Guyt Mc
Lendon, of Atlanta, has been em
ployed by the Chamber of Commerce
to audit the freight rates into and
out of Valdosta, and will begin the
work immediately.
The business men of Valdosta have
excellent reasons for believing that
they are badly discriminated against
In both eastern and western rates,
and numbers of them have been ready
to admit for some time that they
don’t know what the correct rate on
many commodities is or should be.
LIFE COMPANY AGENTS
TO MEET IN ATLANTA
Preparations for the two days’ con
vention of the Georgia representa
tives of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company of New York, which will
be held in Atlanta Monday and Tues
day of this week, have been com
pleted. Practically all of the 60 men
who represent the company in this
State will be present, in addition to
several New York officials. Head
quarters will be in the Hotel Ansley.
A banquet will be served Monday
night. Robert F. Shedden, head of
the State organization, will preside.
Widow, Accused of Admiral Ea
ton’s Death Is Superstitious
of Day of Hearing.
BOSTON, Sept. 6.—Mrs. Jennie
May Eaton, who is in Plymouth jail,
awaiting her trial on October 13 for
the warder by poison of her husband,
the late Rear Admiral Joseph G. Eat
on, U. S. N., of Assinippi. is super
stitious about the "hoodoo” date
named for her trial to begin. She
said in her jail cell:
"Why couldn’t they have made it
October 14 just as well? My punish
ment is hard enough to bear without
this added burden.”
As a matter of fact, when Chief
Justice Aiken, of the Superior Court,
named October 13 lie merely set the
opening day of that week, Monday.
But Mrs. Eaton sees some ill omen in
the way the date falls.
When Plymouth County people jam
into their county courthouse for the
opening day of the trial, they will be
hold a woman changed from the ro
bust matron who pleaded "not guilty”
so heartily at arraignment.
Jail life all summer, lack of exer
cise and institution faro have com
bined to tell on Mrs. Eaton.
Mrs. Eaton was essentially an out
door person. On her Assinippi farm
she fed the poultry, attended the gar.
den, took long walks and, for a wom
an of her build, was amazingly ac
tive.
Sheriff Porter and his wife, the ma
tron. have allowed Mrs. Eaton as
much exercise in jail as was consist
ent with regulations. They have made
her menu as palatable to her as pos
sible. They have not fretted her with
finely drawn rules. Mrs. Eaton and
her counsel appreciate this rightly.
NEGRO PASTOR TO TALK
OF NEW ENGLAND TRIP
The Rev. H. H. Proctor, pastor of
the First Congregational Church, In^
stltutional, negro, comer of Houstonl
and Courtlajid streets, will deliver an
address Sunday evening on his re
cent trip through New England.
“GETS-IT,” for Corns,
Surely Gets Them!
It’s ths Corn Cure on a New Plan j
—Gets Every Corn Quick and Sure, j
"If you're like me, and have tried {
nearly everything to get rid of !
corns and have still got them, just $
try the new, sure, quick, easy, pain-
COOK HELD AS THIEF.
Alice Robbins, a white cook at No.
138 South Forsyth street, was ar
rested Saturday night on a charge of
larceny of linen and silverware.
“Talk About Your Corn-Getters,
‘GETS-IT’ Surely is the Real
Thing!”
less way—the new-plan com cure,
‘GET3-IT.’ Watch it get rid of that
corn, wart, callous or bunion in a
hurry.” "GETS-IT" Is as sure as
time. It takes two seconds to ap
ply—that’s all. No bandages to
stick and fuss over, no salves to
make corns sore and turn true
flesh raw and red, no plasters, no
more knives and razors that may
cause blood poison, no more dig
ging at corns. Just the easiest
thing in the world to use. Your
com days are over. “GETS-IT" is
guaranteed. It is safe, never hurts
healthy flesh.
Your druggist sells "GETS-IT,"
26 cents per bottle, or di ect if you
wish, from E. Lawrence & Co,
Chicago. *
$2.00 TO CHATTANOO
GA AND RETURN
W. and A. Railroad will sell
round trip tickets from Atlanta to
Chattanooga and return for train
leaving Atlanta at 8:35. a. m.
Thursday, September 11, 1913,
good returning not later than
train arriving Atlanta 7:35 p. m.
Saturday, September 13, 1913.
C. E. HARMAN,
General Passenger Agent.
Night School at Georgia Tech
Will Open September 17. Enrollment and
Registration September 15 to 19 Inclusive
Courses in Architecture, Mechanical Draw-
i n g, Electrical Engineering, Woodwork,
Carpentry and Joinery, Foundry Practice,
Machine Shop, Mechanical Engineering,
Mathematics, Chemistry, English.
This Night School Is a Regular Department of Ga. Tech
Contingent Fee $5 Per Term. TUITION FREE
For further information write J. N. G. Nesbit.
A New Garden Seed
and Poultry
Supply Store
Just opened at 23 S. Broad
Street, with a complete line of
Garden, Field and Flower Seeds,
and the leading brands of Poultry
Supplies.
CANARIES.
A new shipment of guaran
teed singing Hartz Mountain
Canaries, at $2.50 each.
Cages—Cages to go with
them at $1.00 and up.
Pet Stock—Pet Live Stock
’v.of all descriptions.
Phone and Mail Orders
Promptly Filled.
J. C. McMillan, Jr.,
Seed Co.
23 S. Broad
Bell Phone Main 940. Atl. 912.
irythlng for your Pet*, the
Gabion or Farm.
A Train Three Miles Long
To Carry All the Shoes Shipped
From Lynchburg Last Month
—LYNCHBURG is “The South’s Shoe Center”
—LYNCHBURG is the largest shoe center in the world for its popula
tion.
—LYNCHBURG is the fifth shoe center in importance in the world
regardless of size.
When You Buy LYNCHBURG Shoes
You Are Patronizing Southern Industry
From Which Every Southerner Must
Benefit
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