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11111 w* 1 1 (i V > 1 ■'. NOTICE If you have any difficulty In buying Hearst * Sunday American anywhere in the South notify Circulation Manager, Hearst’s Sunday Amen- , can, Atlanta. Ga. SUN VOL. I. NO. 23. The Copyright, Q< 1913, by eorglan Company ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEF Farm Demonstration Agents in Louisiana to Study Cotton Pest Which Has Crossed Border of This State—U. S. Co-operates. Staple’s Enemy Has Migrated 75 Miles Across Line and Is Ex pected to Equal Distance Next Year—Preventive Is Sought. By CHARLES A. WHITTLE. Georgia State College of Agriculture. The boll weevil has landed in Georgia. He has made his hop r,f from 50 to 75 miles. Next season he will measure another zone that wide to have and to hold his cot ton, and so on till there is no more cotton for him to hop into. The fight is on in Georgia. It may be said to be inaugurated active ly to-morrow with the invasion of weevil territory by about 25 farm demonstration agents of Georgia, who are working along the western bord er of the State of Georgia. The party is gathering at St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans to day ready to start out to-morrow over Louisiana, where the weevil is being met. Will Study the Pest. To get acquainted with the wee vil, to see how he operates, what damage he does, Ywhen he is active, and to observe how the Louisiana farmers are fighting him, or standing him off, so to speak, as far as they are able while the cotton matures, and to get at all the best prac tices of agriculture under boll weevil conditions, will engross the attention of the boll weevil scouts for the next ten days. This scouting party is being taken out by the United States Department of Agriculture, which is operating through the State College of Agri culture of Georgia, using the farm demonstration agents of the Depart ment of Agriculture and the college- Making use of the opportunity af forded, the Department of Agricul ture of the State of Georgia is send ing along representatives, including Assistant Commissioner Hughes and State Entomologist Worsham. This department received an appropriation from the recent Legislature for pro pagating a variety of cotton which Professor Worsham has developed that it is claimed is resistant to wilt qnd largely resistant to the boll weevil. Campbell on Scene. Prof. J. Phil Campbell State agent in charge of farm demonstration agents, boys’ corn clubs and girls' clubs, has headed ,the party of boll weevil scouts to weevil territory. In each State where investigations will be conducted, the State 'agent will map out an itinerary for the party. Mr. Evans, of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, will have general direction of the trip and will accompany the party, represent ing Hon. Bradford KnapjJ. who is chief in charge of all the farm demonstration work in the South. 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. CARREL TIES STEP NEARER TO 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 girls, equally pretty and promi nent, received the same number of kisses, on an average. The gix^s 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. AU Arkansas Turns Out to Work Roads Governor Hays Dons Hickory Shirt and Seizes Shovel to Aid in Movement. Rubber Doll Saves Life of an Infant Child Falls Into Water, but Toy Acts as Buoy Until Baby Is Rescued. 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. BothwGovernors 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. Marshall Lays Sins Of Youth to Parents Vice 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 role 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 in 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 (dfeath 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. HUNTINGTON, W. VA., Sept. 6. A rubber doll mat it carried saved the infant child of Mrs. John Mathe- ny from drowning. The mother, with the child in her arms, fell from a boat, and the child went underneath a ferryboat, Mrs. Matheny being pulled out. - In a short time the child was seen to emerge from the water at the oth er end of the boat, and was rescued It still clutched tightly the rubber doll which acted as a buoy and kept the baby on the surface of the water. Spanking Inspector Appointed by Court Kansas City Probation Officer Sees That Truants’ Breeches Are Properly Warmed. GIRL BABY, FOURTEENTH, TIPS SCALE AT 26 POUNDS PORTSMOUTH. N. H., Sept. 6.—The home of Mr. and Mrs. William True man has been invaded for several dais by women, chieiiy mothers, to congrat ulate them and to get a look at the largest and handsomest baby in the city. Minnie Louise is the latest addition to the family of tne Truemans, and on the day of her birth she tipped the scales at 26 pounds. She Is the four teenth child to arrive in the family. 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 Lyl^, 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. 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. T. R. Called Dead One; Troop Drops Name New Harry Thaw Is Evolved *•* •i*®*I* Milwaukee Hebrew Military Organi zation Changes Title by Vote of 20 to 1. Becomes Just Petulant Child 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 on** 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 th* minority made a gallant fight. Letter in Freneh written by Harry Thaw to a reporter on “La Patrie,” a Freneh 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. ’ -Nr- NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—The earlier experiments upon the preservation of life in animal tissues after removal from the gros« 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 all 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 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 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 they 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 \Vas composed died in a secondary 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 rate of proliferation of the connective tissue sixteen months old equalled and even exceeded that of fresh connective tissue taken from an eight-dav-old embryo. “It appears, therefore.” Dr. Carrel reports In summation, “that time has no effect on the tiMsues isolated from the organism and preserved by means of thje 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 duce a large quantity of new tissue. This fact, therefore, deflnitelv dem onstrates that the tissues were not in a Mtate 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.” Bare Legs in Poster Stir Oregon Women Qas* JU ^ Cit/uX Temperance Union Protests Against a Portola Festival Advertisement Depicting Half-Nude Dancer. PORTLAND. OREG., Sept. 6.—The Oregon Woman’s Christian Temper ance Union 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. %, /irtruca oLoc_ jdajj fy*-*. (VxsiA^f Ons cZutmuj cYjh^o (Jv&L* Onut-c t (rufe K. Z Y Citt-uX / f l£. UNDER FIRETO WILSON 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 Philip A. Reads, 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 be trained to be 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 under present conditions we would be forced to reply in case of war. is not a trained soldier. I do not mean that the militiamen, as we call them in this State, are not brave men, courageous men. But they are not Trouble Maker Will Immediately Offer Himself for President at October Election and Is Cori- fident He Will Be Again Chosen Return of William Bayard Hale Is Anxiously Awaited at Wash ington in Order To Hear First Hand Information on Conditions Thaw’s Nemesis, William ravers Jerome, former District Attorney of New York, who is relentless in his efforts to have Thaw sent hack to Matteawan Proposes Too Loudly And He Is Arrested Suitor Returns 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 find arrested. Flynn 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 fotind she had forMakeft him for a rival. He came back after mid night. and, standing beneath a win dow, beseeched her to murry him. Po liceman Morrissey heird the proposal. Judge Ellis suspended sentence. Mother Comes to Aid of Million aire, Who Begins Last Fight Against Deportation. BABY DROWNS IN VINEGAR. TERRE HAUTE. IND.. Sept. 6.— Lester, the 2-year-old son of Mrs. George David, was drowned in an eight-gallon jar of vinegar. He fell head first into it. COATICOOK. QUEBEC, Sept. 6 — 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 lunatice, nor Harry Thaw the mjtfnonaire is the figure that Is being made out by the men who are trying to get 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 I most of the authorities toward the j wealthy fugitive. “We wnuld have no scruples toward hustling him in an automobile and taking him back to New York, just as j v\e woulu an IVitractable child,” said I the captain. Thuw, in the disgusted opinion of most of the detectives, is not entitled to all that.i.s being done for him. And there is another person who disciplined men. And in war braverf without discipline avails nothing. “It is true that in the Revolution ary war a handful of citizen soldiers Continued on Page 4, Column 4. Continued on Page 2, Column 6. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 6.—General Huerta is still insistent in his de fiance of American authority and Am<4rican policies. Balked in his intention to succeed himself as Pres ident by a conclusive legal opinion vrl|ch declares his immediate suc cession unconstitutional, he will re sign to become a candidate at the October election, it is rumored in the latest talk among official circles. The opinion which declares his suc cession unconstitutional was obtained at the insistence of the unofficial American Envoy, John Lind. Presi dent Wilson and the American Gov ernment are openly and steadfastly opposed to Huerta for President of the southern republic. And it is con sidered that Huerta’s expedient in the contemplated resignation by w'hich he hopes to make himself eligible to re-election is adopted to thwart the wishes of the powers at Washington. The opposition at Washington «o Huerta and his government is based on the fear that, being unstable and without peaceful authority, it can not insure international obligations. Much the same opposition was voiced by President Hayes against Porflrio Diaz in 1877. Huerta to Select Successor. High-handed as ever, Huerta ' will select his successor to fill the office of President for the short period be tween the time of his resignation and the time of his election. He i9 san guine of that election. According to the rumors. General Geronlmo Tre vino has been slated to become tem porary custodian of his presidential robes. Huerta can easily arrange Trevi no’s succession by making the gen eral his Minister of Foreign Rela tions. Then, when Huerta resigns, Trevino can naturally step into au thority. Becoming Minister of Foreign Af fairs. Trevino would displace Fred- erlco Gamboa, who has been evincing a desire to aid the American author ities in obtaining peace in Mexico. Gamboa it was who assured Envoy Lind that Huerta is ineligible to suc ceed himself because of a constitu tional prohibition which would pre vent his Immediate succession to the office of President, h^ being merely a provisional President. However, there are a number of diplomats and so- called constitutionalists here who hold to the opinion that this restric tion may easily be evaded by his res ignation in favor of another provi sional President some time before the election. But whether arbitrary Mr. Huerta resigns or not, whether the rumors of Trevino's succession have any ba sis of fact- it remain* generally un derstood that Huerta will be a can didate for election in the October election. As a matter of policy, le must be a candidate. He has defied the United States in every overture that the northern republic has made, and must continue in his defiance by entering the race, another action \hich President Wilson opposes stoutly Refugees Crowd Vera Cruz. With-all the tangled web 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 fool hardy, impuHe to remain in Mexico to care for their possessions. But slow ly the tide is turning toward thought of discretion and safety, and daily the arrival of more und more refugees at Vera Cruz is reported. Not ail these refugees come from Mexico City. Here there Is compara tively little unrest, but In the more secluded sections the Americans are torn with terror and are fleeing to the coast. The American government is mak ing provision for the care of its citi zens, the Consul General authorizing the Consul at Vera Cruz to pay $2§ 1