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News Was Real News. The news was really news. It was new news. It was startling news. And our world has watched and waited and carefully read and as carefully thought, and is still making up its mind as to Avhether the law, justified by Congress and the Supreme Court of the United States, shall be justified at the bar of public opinion. Judge Van Vleet, in his charge, so full, so strong, so clear, has repeated and emphasized his own conviction: “IN MY JUDGMENT THE LAW IS A GOOD ONE AND IN THE INTERESTS OF PUBLIC MORALS AND DE CENCY.” And again: “THE MANN ACT IS AS MUCH FOR THE PROTEC TION OF VIRTUOUS WOMEN AS IT IS TO BREAK UP THE EVIL TRAFFIC IN WOMEN.” And that is what the public has learned with such sur prise. The public believed that the act was to break up the vile traffic in women. And friends of Diggs and Caminetti may protest as they will; the judgment has been previously affirmed by the Su preme Court. And the court yet more supreme, the court of public opinion, the court of national conscience, will confirm the judgment of these lower tribunals. Prostitution is not a necessity. It is not, as generations, almost fondly, called it, a “necessary evil.” The sacrifice of women t,o*the passions of men, all but hallowed by the beliefs and practices of thousands of years, has to end. A new era has dawned and in this age conduct which once was thought of as personal and individual, is seen to be a crime against society. And society, for its own protection, will treat it as a crime. Attack on All Society. It is this conviction, defined or unexpressed, which is dem onstrated in a verdict of “guilty” against both Diggs and Cam- innetti. The feeling deepest in the souls of the earnest men and women throughout the United States who have followed the trials with such eager interest is not one of resentment on behalf of Marsha Warrington and Lola Norris. The wrong, it has been seen—or at least felt—is not the sins against these girls, but the attack upon the whole framework of the social order. , , These two girls are entitled to very little sympathy, except as one sympathizes on general grounds with every man or wo man who goes wrong, as one is sorry for the two men in the case. They are bad girls; treacherous; wicked. And if a law could be passed which women could administer, these girls would suffer severely at their hands. They will suffer. They are suffering. And they ought to suffer. Their parents suffer and one wonders whether their suffer ings will be a warning to other parents in this country. What sort of parental oversight has there been? How does it come about that these girls can easily deceive their fathers and mothers ? What kind of a love is it which does not love well enough to be stem, which accords license to wander about at all hours with all sort#? of men and go to all sorts of places? There are mothers and fathers In this city and in every city in the land who ought to have to learn the lesson. And if they will not learn It from the Diggs-Caminetti trials, they may yet have to learn i f in bitter, heartbreaking trials of their own Appeals for Light Sentence. I have done. During the prog ress of the trial I carefully refrain ed from saying a word which might prejudice the defendant. At the end of the Diggs trial I penned an appeal to the judge to temper Jus tice with mercy. I have been re proved on the one hand because, it was alleged. Diggs was a debauch ed scoundrel, who deserved no mer cy, and on the other because the case being on the mibjudice, it was “contempt of court” to seek to In fluence the judge. Such critics do not know the meaning of the words they employ And they know nothing of law and the administration of law. That is not "contempt of court.” Now that the matter is out of the hands of the Jury, it is a perfectly proper plea. It is one which would be admitted as proper In every CHICAGO. Sept. 6.—Leaden bis cuits and leather-crusted pies and all the other dinner delicacies of Mrs. Newlywed soon may cease to causo physical pain and matrimonial es trangement. Their existence is threatened. Authorities of Cook County are considering the advisability of giv ing away official Cook County cook bookn with all marriage licenses. Robert M. Swietzer. county clerk, will present the plan to the county Board. MARRIFD 14 YEARS, PAIR ELOPE TO CORRECT ERROR ST. LOUIS. S*pt. 6.—Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Grimes, of St. Louis, “eloped” to Springfield. 111., and were remarried. They were married fourteen years ago # but because of a clerical error in the li cense Mrs Grimes requested her hus band to go through the ceremony again. Mrs. Grimes' maiden name was Sadie Gruber. In the marriage license the name was written "Cruder.” HEIR RETURNS AFTER HUNT OF EIGHTEEN YEARS FAILS BORDENS Malted Milk Im iKAKO HAS NO EQUAL toftWlfc CMOOWOftUlCfl LA PORTE. IND . Sept. 6 —After hav ing been awnv for more than eighteen years Otto Ruck legal heir to the estate of William Buck, who died in January, unexpectedly returned to La- porte. General interest is taken in the af fair because of the world-wide search for Buck and the fact that several have been presenting claims for the estate of SI 2,500. Relief from Dyspepsia can bf obtained by temporary fasting but at tile expense of your strength. The better way is to take special pains with your diet and to use a food like BORDEN’S Malted Milk IN THE SQUARE PACKAGE Being Already thoroughly cooked it is easy of digestion and can In? quickly prepared by the addi tion of water either hot or cold. Don’t put off trying it. We guarantee results. 50c size 39c $1.00 size 78c $3.V.» Hospital size . $3.23 SOLD AND GUARANTEED BY All Jacobs’ Stores I IK ARST S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA. OA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1013. DR. AKED SEES NEW MORAL ERA DAWN FOR U. S. t»+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +••> +•+ *•+ *•+ *•* A Diggs - Caminetti Verdict a Triumph ’ r * + +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ *!•••> •!-••!• +•+ +•+ Mann Act Stands Baptism of Fire +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ Noted Minister Declares Public for Hrst Time Has Taken Up Arms Against Condoned Immorality. By THE REV. CHARLES F. AKED. SAN ERANCISCO, Sept. 6.—It is impossible to over-esti mate the significance of the Diggs-Caminetti trials. bor all practical purposes these two cases may now be studied as one. The social position of the two men first called attention to the charges brought against them. But this would only have given notoriety, not importance. The ill-judged action of their friends in trying to stave off an appearance before judge and jury added to the notoriety. The intervention of the Attorney General, the fierce daring of Mr. McNah, the United States district attorney, taking his official life in his hands and challenging the Government of the United States to deal out even-handed justice even to the son of one of its trusted officers; the painful blunder of the Presklent of the United States; his verbal rebuke to McNab and his actual compliance with McNab's demand; the debates in congress that followed—all this gave to what at first looked like a Sacramento elopement a publicity not limited by the boundaries of this country. New Principal on Trial. Yet these things are not of the essence of the matter. The importance of the case lies deeper. Perhaps the man or wom an who made no secret of the absorbing interest which this case possessed could not have explained in so many words the nature of that interest. But all the same, each person was conscious of a some thing vaster than the fate of two vicious young men. It was not they who were on trial. A new law of the land we love was on trial. And behind that, a new great principle of law, a new great principle of order, of life and government had to stand its trial before a jury composed of all the thoughtful, earnest persons amongst a population of ninety millions of free men. The Mann act, miserably misnamed “the white slave traf fic act,” lias had its baptism of fire. And the public have learned with amazement that its scope goes far out beyond their dreams of what law and the administration of law can do. Designed to afford the Federal Government power to deal with criminals who fatten upon the flesh and blood of women, it was—and again by deliberate purpose—made to include vicious conduct in which no suggestion of monetary gain or of “white slavery” inhered, hut which might tend eventually to swell the ranks of women devoted to a shameful life. The world—our world, the world of the United States— has for some time been prepared to take arms against the brutalized creature who panders to vice and who by force or fraud holds women in prostitution, making his market out of them. But the Diggs-Caminetti case told all this great world that law had now armed itself against conduct which long ago both men and women have condoned, and stood ready to brand as a party to this iniquity men who only thought to tread, as men had done before them, the primrose path of dalliance—at the cost of a woman’s shame. M EN convicted as “white slavers” and women who were affected by the sensational trial. Above is Lola Norris, the girl who eloped with Caminetti. Below (from left to right) are Drew Caminetti, Maury Diggs, Marsha Warrington and Mrs. Caminetti. WHITE SLAVE LAW MADE THE PROTECTION OF WOMANHOOD T HE Mann act, miserably misnamed “the white slave traf fic act." has had its baptism of lire. Designed to afford the Federal Government power to deal with criminals who fat ten upon the flesh and blood of women, it was and again by deliberate purpose—-made to include vicious conduct in which no suggestion of monetary gain of “white slavery” inhered, but which might tend eventually to swell the ranks of women devoted to a shameful life. The Diggs-Caminetti case told all this great world that law had now armed itself against conduct which long ages ago both men and women have condoned, and stood ready to brand as a party to this iniquity those who only thought to tread, as men had done before them, the primrose path of dalliance -at the cost of a woman's shame.—REV. CHARLES F. AKED. Caminetti Indicates He Will Not Resist Sentence SAN FRANTTSCO, Sept «. - While P. Drew Caminetti, convicted yester day on a charge of violation of the Mann white slave law, refuses to dis cus# his future plans, It is not be lieved he will appeal to the higher courts. Caminetti declared this morning that he felt relieved that the case was over, and intimated that he would ac cept his fate. ‘ In a way, this verdict is a Jus tification form,” he said. “I am guiltj of violating the law by taking I^ola Norris to Reno, but I am not guilty of persuading or enticing her to go. Nor am I guilty of anything connect ed with Marsha Warrington “I feel relieved now that the long strain t* over If the Jury had dis agreed, there would have been all this mess to go over again. Surely this leaves me better off In a financial way. If I had been acquitted in this case, I would have had to face the conspiracy charge. I hope they will drop these now.” Wife Makes No Sign. Caminetti took the verdict with good spirit. A look of deep anxiety settled on hia face as the Jury came in for the last time yesterday, and it remained after the verdict was read, but in a few minutes he had recov- Five of the principal fiprures in the famous Ditfgs- Caminetti “White Slave” cases in which the Mann Act received its first, important test since its passage. ered his usual cheerfulness and ex pressed his relief that the strain of the trial was over. His mother. Mrs. Anthony Caminetti. was not in the courtroom when the verdict was an nounced. Mrs. Drew Caminetti was present, with her little daughter, hut neither she nor Mrs Maury I. Diggs made any sign. Caminetti and his attorneys were confident of a disagreement after the Jury had once come in and asked for further instructions on the question of Intent. A question put by Foreman C. F. Michaels, asking Judge Van- Fleet if the immoral purpose must have existed in the mind of the de fendant before the party crossed the State line, and the attention paid to the answer, seemed to Indicate that Robert T Devlin's skilled argument on the purpose of the trip had raised a doubt in the minds of at least some of the jurors. The court’s reply that the criminal intent must have existed at least at the time the trip began gave the defense hope. But it was short-lived. Released on Bond. Caminetti was taken into custody by the United States Marsha! after the verdict was returned, but later was released on bond. Both Caminetti and Diggs will he sentenced next Wednesday. Diggs, having been convicted on four counts qf the indictment, faces a prison term which may be set at twenty vears, at the option of the Judge, and also a fine of $20,000. Caminetti. who was found guilty on only one count, faces the maximum penalty of five years imprisonment and a fine of «5.000. There remain iver the heads ol both Dlg.es and Caminetti indict ments charging conspiracy to violate the act, and Diggs still has a third indictment hanging over him. With Charles R. Harris, of Sacra ment', his »rmer attorney, he Is ac cused of subornation of perjury. Nel lie Barton, friend of Marsha War rington, testified during the Digg* trial that Harris and Diggs had coached her in testimony, which sh« in turn was to drill Mar c ha Warring ton for use on behalf of Diggs. The perjury trial will be called be fore Judge Van Fleet on Wednesday. Pennies Cut in Two To Pay Off Labor Contractor Gets Angry Whan Brick layers Ask for Scale on Fraction of Hour. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6. Sixteen bricklayers worked fifteen minutes on an Oakland Job and were then laid off because of lack of material. Car nahan & Mulford, the employing con tractors. grew peevish when the bricklayers asked for a full hour's pay. 87 1-2 cents. “Very well," said the contractors, "they shall have their 87 1-2 cents an hour or fraction thereof.” Soon the bricklayers were called to the cash ier's window. The first man to sitrn his pay check received a shock. He had counted out to him eight dimes, a five-cent piece, two pennies, and the half of a penny that had been chopped in two. One of the bricklayers suggested that the Government does not permit mutilation of its coins, so the matte* was referred to the United States Dis trict Attorney’s office. Officer Weds in Time To Catch Transport 8oldier Ordered to Philippines Tele graphs Fiancee He Cannot Leave Without Her. WASHINGTON, Rept. 6.—Lieuten ant Charles J. Boehs, Medical Corps, United States Army, of Washington, and Miss Hattie Collier, of Houston, Tex., were married In Ron Francisco Just in time to catch the army trans port for Maniia. The romance began in Houston and all was going oicel.v when Lieutenant Boehs was ordered to the Philippines. The engagement was announced and the couple parted. Thursday Lieuten ant Boehs decided that life was not worth living without his fiancee, so he telegraphed her to come at once. She did A minister was wnitlng in a hotei near the railroad station. The ceremony over, the couple made a hurried trip in a taxicab and board ed a steamer. Finger Prints Prove Indian Signed Note Pawnee Denies He Affixed Signature, but Marks on Paper Con vict Him. WASHINGTON, Sept, 6 —Two or three finger-prints on an "I. O. U” are as valid as a formal signature, in the opinion of the finger-print ex pert of the United States Marine Corps. The expert establishes the genu ineness of nineteen finger-prints which were given to him for identi fication and the finding is expected to cause a certain Pawnee Indian, who denies signing a note for $300, con siderable embarrassment. HORSE GETS DRINK AND THEN TURNS OFF SPIGOT GEORGETOWN, DEL., Sept. 6 — Rndle, a mare owned by John T Wagamon, with a ruHous aversion to drinking standing water, doesn't bother about calling anyone when thirsty, but turns on and off the wa ter at her pleasure. In his barnyard Wagamon has a big tub with a spigot. Sadie goes to this and, with her teeth, turns the spigot on, drinks her fill of running water, ihen turns off the spigot. WIFE OF I LEPER ItLLS STORY OF Declares That She Suffered in Martyr-Like Silence the Tor tures of an Outcast. TACOMA, Sept. 6.—Having suffer ed in martyr-like silence the tortures of an outcast which were made doubly hard to bear through the al leged cruelty of the man for whom she assumed her burden. Mrs. Georg** Tatisan, the divorced wife of John Ruskin Earlv. leper and man of mys tery. who ha«* but recently been de clared insane, has at last broken her long silence. Mrs. Early, on divorcing the m?n whom she had married when a girl 'n her terns, married George Tausan. formerly clerk in the office of the Treasurer of Pierce County. Washing ton. \Y ith her three children she is living happily. I lost all affections for John EaU;v the day following our marriage.” said his wife. “I lived in veritable purga tory with him. It was not because he was a leper, we did not know that he was. I was just eighteen. I had been reared by an elder brother, a. minister. I was a little more than five years. I had been taught to avoid divorce, and for that reason I did not} seek one at that time. Sleep Was Impossible. 'At Summit I did not average two hours’ sleep out of every twenty-four for the two months we remained there I was a nervous wreck. I did not know what moment Early would attempt to kill me and the babies*. When I think of it all, I nearly go mad. "I tell you. I didn't have enough .sense. I thought, once married, you must stand all that comes with it. "We were married November 3, 1908. Here mv purgatory began. Ha would not work, and I was obliged to support him. After our first baby came. Early grew worse, and I took \ number of blows from him while shielding my 3-weeks-old child. In May, 1908. I noticed a sort "t rash breakout on his hands, and asl\- ed him what It wat*. He said it was from the effects of acid dropped on him while working in a small pulo mill. He took me to the mil! and showed me where the acid had fallen on the floor. I never gave it another thought. It was while in Washington the terrible truth was learned Earlv went to e»ep about his pension. He was examined and told he had lepro sy. I can not describe my terror. "Oh! it was something beyond thought. I wanted to flee, and yet I wanted to remain for my child's sake. Thinks Only of Children. "If it had not been for my children, God knows*. I would have left him or killed myself years ago. But my babies! Only a mother knows how I felt. "In 1909 we went to New York and remained there until 1910, leaving that place and going to Los Angeles. "While I was losing all my sleep from nervousness, I was losing weight rapidly. When m.v husband was taken by the authorities. I promised to go with him. I do not deny that. U would have promised anything to get him a wav. If I had not promised to settle on a ranch near the Diamond Point colony I was afraid he would refuse to go. "His refusal to leave meant my death and the death of my babies also. Knowing that, I gave him my promise, but which I know will not be held against me. "I have never spoken of my trou bles before, but when every one be gins to criticise me for leaving him, I had to explain.” COOK BOOKS FOR BRIDES WITH MARRIAGE LICENSES country in the civilized world. For the reasons which I have given be fore, and for reasons which appeal to some of the best men and wom en I know of. I made my appeal to Judge VanFleet. I submit, with great respect for him personally, and with great respect for the of fice which he so worthily fills, that the law be vindicated, and the ends of justice served as effectively by a light sentence as a heavy one—ani perhaps better. “FAST”~PASTOR OUSTED; FORCED TO LEAVE TOWN LOR ANGELP.R. CAD. Rept. 6 — The Rev. O. H. Mason, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Long Reach, around whom a storm has raged for* three weeks, was ordered by a member of the vestry to resign at once and leave Long Reach for ever. The pastor left at once. Charges made by two girls, mem bers of the church, were Investigated by the vestry and resulted in the pastor being found guilty of indis cretions. Ardenites in Kimonos Observe George Day As Single Taxers Celebrate In Tree Top Homes. Brown Addresses Anarchist Faction. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 6—The sin gle tax colony of Arden to-day, in kimonos, night dresses and all kinds of up-to-date costumes, celebrated the seventy-fourth anniversary of the birth of Henry George. Had George been alive he might have objected to the celebration and ,.e attire (t tlje celebratory. As It was. he prob ably satisfied himself with turning over n his grave. The celebration resolved Itself Inti two meetings, one by the ardent Ardenites. at which Esperanto and politics were discussed, and the other presided over by George Brown, an archist, at which anarchy was the real live topic. The Ardenites held their meeting in the Woodland Theater, while the single taxers, iu their open-air cos tumes. perched themselves upon the branches of trees and applauded. The Brown farewell party was held surrounding Brown's bungalow. Aft er It was all over Brown announced that he had leased his bungalow an'? was done forever with Arden Arden breathed a sigh of relief, because, wasn’t it George Brown that mad-# Upton Sinclair and other Ardenites pound stone on the Delaware roads because they insisted upon playing ball on Sunday? $2.00 TO CHATTANOO | GA AND RETURN s W. and A Railroad will sell j ? round trip tickets from Atlanta to < > Chattanooga and return tor train >! i leaving Atlanta at 8:36 a. m ( > Thursday, September 11, 1918, j J good teturnirig not later than j j train arriving Atlanta 7:35 p. m. < s Saturday, September 13, 1913 C E. HARMAN, General Passenger Agent. J [ (