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ATLANTA, GA, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7,
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
if Slayer of Former Hus-
nd Young Bride Say She
eveal Story of Years of
Iruel Suffering,
es Will Be Experienced
ting Jury in Jenkins, as
Is Widely Intermarried,
nal Insanity Plea.
■7, Sept. 5.—As the time
,r for the trial of Mrs. Edna
odbee on the charge of kill-
[ivorced husband and his
de, her successor in his af-*
there are indications a-
it the story to be told will
>ut of the commonplace and
ting of jealousy, out of the
a of emotional insanity and
ne the human document of
wronged and neglected for
l twenty years,
eople in Southeast Georgia
lat the woman on trial for
ill have a story to tell thaj
ten pulses and grip hearts
5 sympathy, and the trial is
d with a breathless eager-
Six Girls Are Kissed
10,000 Times at $1
A Smack for Charity
Prominent and Pretty Girls Receive
Salutes of Line of Men a
Block Long.
SALEM, OHIO, Sept. 16.—All kiss
ing performances of record were
eclipsed here when a pretty girl
member of a prominent family, was
kissed 1,688 times—and not by one
man, either. At the same time five
other gir^ equally pretty and promi
nent, received the same number of
kisses, on an average.
The girls disposed of ten thousand
kisses at $1 each to aid the endow
ment of Salem Hospital, which has
just been completed. The osculatory
bombardment lasted two hours, and
at times there was a line of men,
young and old, a block long waiting
to fire salutes.
All Arkansas Turns
Out to Work Roads
Governor Hays Dons Hickory Shirt
and Seizes Shovel to Aid
in Movement.
ind Jury of Jenkins County
lble Monday to consider the
drs. Edna Perkins Godbee,
than a month ago, met her
usband in the Millen post-
n in arm with his laughing
ide, and who shot them to
h hardly a word of warning,
of the case will proceed al-
lediately, it is expected, be-
;e Henry C. Hammond,
g trial, Mrs. Godbee remains
ortably appointed cell in the
ounty jail. She is a woman
it appearance, hardly look-
ct that she is a grandmother
lother of a daughter who is
idely for her beauty. Mrs,
undisturbed, it seems, almost
and ready to talk on any
ccept that of herself and her
LITTLE ROCK, Sept. 6.—Fully 75,.
000 men, with picks, shovels and road
machinery and togged in overalls and
hickory shirts, turned out Thursday
and Friday all over Arkansas to work
roads, following a proclamation of
Governor George W. Hays, setting
September 3 and 4 as "Good Roads"
days. Many cities practically sus
pended business and everybody from
officeboy to banker helped "pike Ar
kansas."
Governor Major of Missouri joined
Governor Hays in a good roads pa
rade here.
Both Governors were clad in regu
lation road-working uniforms, as
were other State officials and Mayor
Charles E. Taylor. Boy Scouts served
as water carriers. Society women
joined farmers’ wives along the pikes
in serving dinner.
CARREL 1ES
STEP NEARER TO
T. R. Called Dead One;
Troop Drops Name
Milwaukee Hebrew Military Organi
zation Changes Title by Vote
of 20 to 1.
Connective Tissue Preserved Per
manently in Condition of Ac
tive Life by Scientist.
GROWTH IS UNDER CONTROL
Constant Relation Found to Ex
ist Between Cells and Me
dium of Preservation.
Marshall Lays Sins
Of Youth to Parents
lard to Find Jurors.
rable difficulty, it is expect-
,e attached to the selection
y. Either Mrs. Godbee or
husband is kin to every
i, woman or child in Jenkins
,nd everybody knows, to the
T intimacy, the families of
iry selection, then, will be
certainly, for it is expected
veniremen who are not re-
blood or marriage to one or
may have fixed opinions
11 eliminate them. As it is,
is on the lips of every one,
subject for speculation in ev-
jhold.
n speculation also hinges
•s. Godbee’s probable motive
Judge Godbee and his wife,
it has been stated she will
lotlonal insanity, thejre are
believe her defense will be
ogether on that plea. Those
ir her declare that her actions
irne contradict the argument
f balance. Her self-posses-
re the crime and since the
3 been remarkable, it is said.
2t that she had the revolver
andbag the morning of the
jads to the certain conclusion
killing was premeditated. No
dive would have influenced
about armed, it is generally
d.
iscinated by Shooting.
e motive that prompted her
shot into the brain of the
bride is shrouded with mys-
rs. Godbee the first had no
gainst Mrs. Godbee the sec-
pt the natural grievance that
th jealousy. It is considered
le excitement of the moment,
e had begun to work the
apidly, fascinated by the
shots and the thrill of shoot-
almost involuntarily turned
ver on the woman.
>st common anticipation con-
he defense is that Mrs. God-
charge her former husband
ital treatment and neglect,
? even in the years of their
rried life, 25 years ago.
iny years she stood the ill-
t, it is expected she will tell
for the sake of her children,
;re came a day when she
ir it no longer. The God-
irated several times, hut were
much against the advice of
tan’s friends. Finally came
•ation that divorce made per-
Vlce President Says Mothers and
Fathers Are Responsible for
Tango and Slit Skirt.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—Vice
President Marshall’s personal phil
osophy on all things, from slit skirts
to religion, was expounded to a huge
audience at Great Falls. Va., to-day,
where he played the rolo of "preach
er” to a camp meeting. Here follow
some of the comments of Mr. Mar
shall:
"You wonder why are the tango,
turkey trot and slit skirt; and I say
it is because the mothers of the coun
try are not interested if! training
their children.
"If I were a higher critic there Is
only one commandment I should
change, and for the sake of justice
I would reverse that to read, ‘The
sins of the children shall be visited
upon their parents.’”
Fourth of July’s
Death Total Only 32
Figures of American Medical Asso
ciation Show Remarkable De
crease in Number of Casualties.
CHICAGO, Sept. 6.—Thirty-two
persons died in Fourth of July cele
brations this year, fewer than in any
year since statisticians began record
ing the death toll of fireworks.
Figures gathered by the Journal of
the American Medical Association
compared this total to that of 466 in
1903, the first year the association
counted the victims.
Of this year’s victims, thirteen,
most of them little girls, were burned
to death when their clothing caught
fire. Two of these accidents were
caused by supposedly harmless
"snapper” matches. The non-fatal
injuries this year were 1,311, as
against 3,983 in 1903.
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 6.—The Mil
waukee Roosevelt Guards have
changed their name to the Milwaukee
Hebrew, guards, but the decision was
reached only after a prolonged and
bitter debate. *
"Roosevelt? Say, he’s a dead one
now,” declared the anti-Roosevelt
members, and then they proceeded to
argue that it was all right to name
the guards for him when he was
President, but after his retirement
to private life it was making a po
litical and factional organization of
the only Hebrew military company in
the West to retain the name.
The vote was about 20 to 1, but the
minority made a gallant fight.
Spanking Inspector
Appointed by Court
Kansas City Probation Officer Sees
That Truants' Breeches Are
Properly Warmed.
odbee has claimed, time and
at her husband had usurped
une inherited by her from
er, and that on the wealth
en from her, he lived in af-
Tuei on Page 2, Column 6.
KANSAS CITY, Sept. 6.—Edward
Hicks, a probation officer, was ap
pointed special master of spanking
by Judge Seehorn in the Juvenile
Court today. Mr. Hicks, in pursu
ance of his duties, went to the home
of Charles Lyle, and witnessed a
spanking, in which Charles Lyle was
the spanker and Charles Lyle, Jr.,
the spanked.
Judge Seehorn created the new
office after hearing the story as told
by Mr. Lyle and the boy. Charles,
Jr., has the habit of running away
from home. He has been brought
into court two or three times on the
same charge, . ,
NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—The earlier
experiments upon the preservation of
life in animal tissues after removal
from the gross organism have set Dr.
Alexin Carrel at the Rockefeller In
stitute at the threshold of a yet more
important discovery. These experi
ments established the facts that not
only could connective tissue be pre
served permanently in a condition of
active life, but that under certain eas
ily controlled conditions growth could
take place.
In Dr. Carrel’s laboratory cells have
been proliferating rapidly for more
than sixteen months after their re
moval from the organism of which
they had formed a part. Hitherto al!
tissue when removed from the ani
mal organism has been meat; these
researches establish the fact that such
tissue may continue to grow indefi
nitely.
As this discovery became more fa
miliar to the investigator it was dis
covered that a constant relation ex
isted between the rate of growth of
the cell and the composition of the
medium in which it is preserved. This
fact, Dr. Carrel now announces in
The Journal of Experimental Medi
cine, indicated that certain cell phe
nomena of the higher animals, such as
multiplication, growth and senility,
might now be investigated profitably.
At first blocked by lack of proper
method, this investigation has now
become possible through the discovery
of a technique which permits strains
of connective tissue to multiply in
definitely In the test tubes, like micro
organisms.
May Postpone Death.
A distinct character of the progress
reports which Dr. Carrel presents is
simplicity and directness. How each
successive item of this investigation
may be adjusted to the scheme of life
in general is nowhere set forth; it is
left entirely to inference; it is entire
ly a matter of interpretation of some
obscure hint.
In the report now Issued it may be
taken that the mention of senility Is
intended to foreshadow an ultimate
object of this line of profound study.
That would seem to mean that this re
search is advancing toward the dis
covery of some means of postponing
the approach of old age.
But Dr. Carrel says nothing of the
sort. He confines himself to a rigidly
detailed statement of this series of
experiments. He describes in terms
of absolute accuracy the source of j
the cells upon which his research has
been based; he describes the medium
in which they have been preserved;
he gives working directions which will
enable other students to repeat the
treatment to which the specimens
have been subjected. All this detail
is very recondite; it is information
which will Interest only those stu
dents of higher physiology who may
seek to check this experiment by con
trol tests performed independently
The results of this series of re
searches have the interest that thev
prove conclusively that Dr. Carrel
has taken yet one more step toward
the goal of his inquiry. His earlier
reports established the sufficiently
startling fact that the death of the
gross organism by no means entailed
the simultaneous death of the com
ponent parts. In effect his earlier
conclusion was that the animal might
die. but the cells of which the animal
was composed died in a fecondary
sense only by the failure to supply the
culture medium which supported their
individual life. The first conclusion
reached was the proof of life after
death, the survival of the cell.
Time Has No Effect.
The later Investigation has estab
lished a knowledge of the character
istics of the growth of connective tis
sue. This has led to a new result, the
indefinite proliferation of a strain of
connective tissue cells outside of the
organism. The strain of connective
tissue originally obtained from a
fragment of chicken embryo heart,
which had been pulsating in the test
tube for 104 days, was still actively
alive after sixteen months of inde
pendent life and more than 190 pas
sages. The rote of proliferation of the
connective tissue sixteen months old
equalled and even exceeded that of
fresh connective tissue taken from
an eight-day-old embryo.
“It appears, therefore.” Dr. Carrel
reports in summation, “that time has
no effect on the tissues isolated from
the organism and preserved by means
of the technique described. During
the sixteenth month of life in vitro
the cells Increased rapidly in number
and were able in a short time to pro-
Bare Legs in Poster
Stir Oregon Women
Temperance Union Protests Against
a Portola Festival Advertisement
Depleting Half-Nude Dancer.
PORTLAND. OREG., Sept. 6.—The
Oregon Woman's Christian Temper
ance fhion is up in arms against
the Portola poster that is being sent
broadcast over the country to adver
tise the festival to be held in San
Francisco.
Mrs. Ada Wallace Unruh, State
president, contends that a poster de
picting a woman with the legs par
tially bare in a dancing posture is
an insult to womanhood and should
not be allowed to represent any fes
tivity on the Pacific Coast.
The union has addressed a protest
to United States Senator Lane, to
Governor West and to State unions
throughout the West.
New Harry Thaw Is Evolved
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Becomes Just Petulant Child
L
Letter in French written by Harry Thaw to n reporter on i
“La Patrie,’’ a French newspaper published in Sherbrooke, in
which he thanks the paper for an editorial on “Fair Play.”'
Harry Thaw in court at Sherbrooke, is shown below. This pic
ture was taken just before the spectators started a noisy demon
stration in his behalf.
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duce a large quantity of new tissue.
This fact, therefore, definite 1 }' dem
onstrates that the tissues were not in
a titate of survival, as was the case
in certain earlier experiments, but in
a condition of real life, since the cells
of which they were composed, lik**
micro-organisms, multiplied indefi
nitely in the culture medium.’’
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Veteran of Civil and Spanish-
American Wars Says National
Guard Could Not Be Depended
On in Strife With Great Power
Citizen Soldiers, He Asserts, Are
Brave Enough, but It Requires
Time and Experience to Develop
Warriors to Fill the Bill To-day.
BOSTON, Sept. 6.—That the United
States has not thoroughly digested the
lessons taught by wars of the past
and that its refusal to digest such
lessons is the cause of the present
state of unpreparedness for war is
the opinion of Brigadier General
Phillip A. Reade, U. S. A., retired.
Seen at his apartment this veter
an of the Civil war, the Spanish-
American war and numerous cam
paigns against the Indians and Moros
said:
“The test of an army Is the charac
ter of its men. The good soldier
makes a good citizen, and the good
citizen can he trained to he a per
fect soldier. But soldiering is an art
—*it can not be learned in a minute.
A man can not put on a uniform and
become a general. He must begin at
the bottom and work up.
“The citizen soldier, upon whom
HUERTAHA5
Fiery Mexican Sees Great Light
Overnight and Gives Wilson As
surance He Will Not Be Can
didate in the Next Election
Special Envoy Hurried to Wash
ington To Make a Last Effort
in Behalf of Present Regime
in the Southern Republic
Thaw’s Nemesis, William ravers Jerome, former District
Attorney of New York, who is relentless in his efforts to have
Thaw sent back to Matteawan,
Proposes Too Loudly
And He Is Arrested
Suitor Return* to Find Affianced
Pledged to Another and
Pleadings Bring Police.
NEW YORK. Sept. 6.—Because he
proposed marriage In tones too loud,
John Flynn was parted from his
sweetheart in Yonkers yesterday and
arrested.
F'lynn was the fiance of Elizabeth
Foley, a maid in the household of
Samuel Hubbard, Jr., a cotton broker,
of No. 643 Palisade avenue, Yonkers.
Returning unexpectedly after two
years, he found she had forsaken him
for a rival. He came back after mid
night. and, standing beneath a win
dow. beseeched her to marry him. Po
liceman Morrissey heard the proposal.
Judge Ellis suspended sentence.
BABY DROWNS IN VINEGAR.
TERRE HAUTE. IND., Sept. 6.—
ester, the 2-year-old son of Mrs.
Georg' David, was drowned in an
[eight-gallon jar of vinegar. He fell
I head first into it.
Mother Comes to Aid of Million
aire, Who Begins Last Fight
Against Deportation.
COATICOOK, QUKBEC, Sept. 8.—
A new Harry Thaw is evolved out of
the legal squabble that followed his
wild dash from Matteawan. Not
Harry Thaw the slayer, nor Harry
Thaw the lunatlce, nor Harry Thaw
the millionaire Is the figure that is
being made out by the men who are
trying set him back to the States
and to Matteawan, but Harry Thaw, a
willful child, who is to be taken In
hand and, / if necessary, spanked
soundly and taken home.
Captain John Lanyon, a private de
tective, who is armed with a handful
of warrants for Thaw’s arrest, told
to-day of the attitude observed by
must of the authorities
<*>
wealthy fugitive.
"We w'ould have no scruples toward
hustling him in an automobile and
taking him back to Now York, Just a*
we would an intractable child," said
the captain. Thaw, in the disgusted
'opinion of most of the detectives, is
not entitled to all that Is being done
for him.
And there is another person who
toward the l Continued on Page 4, Column 4.
under present conditions we would
be forced to reply in \se of war, is
not a trained soldier. I do not mean
that the militiamen, as we call them
in tl!is State, are not brave men,
courageous men. But they are not
disciplined men. And in war brAvery
without discipline avails nothing.
"It is true that in the Revolution
ary war a handful of citizen soldiers
Continued on Page 2, Column 6.
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 6.—Arbitrary
Mr. Victoriano Huerta, it seems, is
going to listen to reason at last. As
surances that he will not be a candi
date for re-election, that he will keep
good faith with the United States in
all his promises, that he will give
every effort at his command toward
the safety of American citizens in
Mexico, have gone out from the Mexi
can capital to Washington.
All this embodies a complete change
of front overnight. Only a day or
two ago Huerta seemed recalcitrant,
defying the authority of the United
States, even to announcing his inten
tion of running for President in Oc
tober. This announcement was made
in direct contravention of the wishes
of the American Government, which
has been insistent that he be not a
candidate. Huerta and any govern
ment that smack of Huerta, according
to the message borne from Washing
ton, is not acceptable to the United
States. 1
But now Huerta has begun to make
overtures. Manuel de Zamacona,
former Ambassador from Mexico to
the United States, is on his way to
Washington, where he will serve as
the personal representative of Provi
sional President Huerta, much as John
Lind is the personal representative of
President Wilson. Thus would
Huerta try to make his peace with the
powers of the northern republic.
Huerta at Last Awakes.
Feeling certain that President Wil
son is opposed to his government,
Huerta is endeavoring to plead for
himself. The United States stead
fastly has refused to recognize the
Huerta regime, but Special Envoy
de Zamacona is invested with the
mission of urging the necessity of
recognition, in order that the best in
terests of both Governments be con
served.
It is believed here in the capital
that President Huerta is beginning at
last to see the value of American good
will.
Americans will be safe in Mexico,
is the announcement which went out
from his offices yesterday. Even in
case of American intervention, he
promised, Americans and American
property would be safe if efforts of
the Mexican Government could render
them safe. Those Americans who de
sire to leave may have special trains
to the ports, and those without money
will be supplied the difference be
tween the cost of passage in the steer
age and in any other class of travel
which they aspire. President Hu-*
erta becomes gracious.
Good Will Is Assured.
Nelson O’Shaughnessy, Charge
d’Affaires of the American Embassy,
has received a number of oral assur
ances of the good will of the Mexi-
an Government, and the prospect is
held out that peace in Mexico is not
far away. It is believed here that the
officials In Washington are \ooking
forw’ard to an early negotiation of an
armistice by the Mexican factions and
the early holding of a constitutional
election. This fair and safe election
President Huerta also has promised.
However, in spite of all these pa
cific declarations and friendly over
tures, many Americans are suspicious.
Mexican newspapers have frankly
launched a boom for Huerta’s candi
dacy, and there are many who be
lieve Huerta soon will resign as Pro
visional President in favor of General
Trevino, that he may be eligible to
run for re-election in October. The
suspicions are confined mostly to a
minority of American residents in
Mexico, most of them, together with
the Government at Washington, be
ing ready to accept as genuine the
assurances that come officially from
the Mexican capital.
Refugees Crowd Vera Cruz.
With all the tangled w'eb of poli
tics, the human element in the stormy
situation remains. American men and
women in Mexico are torn between
, fear and a courageous, almost *fooK