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ATLANTA, C.A., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1913.
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By The Georgian Co.
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OUT PERILS IF
Policy Has Damagd Sueffrage
Cause in England—No Excuse
For It in United States,
By DR. CHARLES AKED.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL., Sept. 11.
Dispatches from New York assert
that Mrs. Pankhurst has planned a
visit to America, and that arrange
ments are already made for meetings
to be addressed by her in the great
cities of the East and Middle West.
It is asserted, perhaps with little
knowledge and lens judgment, that
Mrs. Pankhurst’s visit will be pro
ductive of wide results in the adop
tion of a policy of “militancy” by
American women.
It is to be hoped that these fore
casts are wrong. “Militancy,” as now
understood and practiced, has done
untold harm in England; has shocked
and grimed the best friends of woman
suffrage among men. and has done
apparently irreparable damage to
women themselves.
No Chance In America.
Nothing in the world can justify
the action of the Pankhurst family
and their ftjH#wers> But they have
been driven into their irrationality of
crime by the more reasonless irra
tionality and more criminal acts of
the Asquith cabinet. In America, be
tween the Pacific and the Atlantic,
there is not the shadow of a pre
tense that women are driven or are
likely to be driven out of the path of
orderly, sane and healthy methods
of advocating a noble cause.
I admired Mrs. Pankhurst and I
liked her daughter, fhristabel. I have
opened my chuch to them in Liver
pool. I have preached sermons and
made speeches in defense of their
militant methods.
Women Driven to Crime.
T mention these things for the pur
pose of showing that mine is a sym
pathetic protest and not a hostile one.
' They have been driven into irra
tionality and they have been driven
into crime. And the guilt of the men
who have so driven them is worse
than theirs.
The late Prime Minister of Great
Britain, Sir Henry Campbell-Banner
man. told them to pester the Govern
ment. eH told them that his cabinet
was divided, and he advised them
to make themselves an irritant to
politicians. They did. and they were
treated with a brutality which passes
all belief. This phase of the story
has not been understood in America.
Started by “Heckling.”
Tt is the custom In England to
ask questions in political meetings.
The process is known as “heckling.’’
After Campbell-Bannerman’s advice,
the women began to attend public
meetings, and they asked questions
Their interruptions angered men;
they were thrown out of the meet
ings with violence; they were mauled
by blackguards.
They continued to go to meetings
and to interrupt. The violence grew, i
Filthy scoundrels offered themselves
as “stewards,’’ for the opportunity it
gave them of committing indecent as
saults upon women and girls in the
act of carrying them and bundling
them out of meetings.
Pastor Condemns Violence.
The women were prosecuted; not
the men. They were charged with all
sorts of fancy offenses, such as as
saulting policemen, etc. Had they
paid the small fines imposed the world
would have heard no more of it. But
they refused to pay the flneB. and
they went to jail. Here they were
treated as the worst of criminals are
treated.
Women of refinement, university
women, girls among the sweetest and
most engaging of their sex, were
forced to strip, stand in a line of
women as nude as themselves, street
walkers, pickpockets, thieves and
criminals of every' kind, waiting for
* \r bath, and go into the same bath
fc ub * and the same water as these
women had been in.
Bring Reforms in Prison.
The prison system has been changed
sinoe then, but it has been changed
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RESERVES
Chamberlain, of Oregon,
Mexican Crisis Shows U. J
Says
. Is
NEW YORK, SEPT. 11.—THE FOLLOWING RADIOGRAM WAS RECEIVED TO
DAY AT CROOKHAVEN FROM THE STEAMSHIP BALTIC:
“TO ROBERT ADAMSON, SECRETARY TO MAYOR GAYNOR, CITY HALL, NEW
YORK CITY. FATHER DIED WEDNESDAY AT 1 O’CLOCK. DEATH DUE TO HEART
FAILURE. NOTIFY MOTHER. (Signed) R. W. GAYNOR.”
R. W. GAYNOR IS RUFUS GAYNOR, SON OF MAYOR GAYNOR, WHO ACCOM
PANIED HIS FATHER ABROAD.
MAYOR GAYNOR AND HIS SON SAILED FOR LIVERPOOL FROM THIS CITY
ON BOARD THE WHITE STAR LINER BALTIC ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4.
Don’t Lie to Your
Wife! You'll Stutter
In Your Next Life
CHICAGO. Sept. 11.—'“Don't lie to
your wife. Don’t break any vow®.’*
If you do you will sufTer as one young
man suffered, in the opinion of a
young woman who attended the
“question and answer’’ meeting of the
Theosophical Society here. She (her
Identity was not disclosed) sent the
following question to the platform:
“A bright young man friend of
mine has a habit of stuttering.
Naturally thin is a great detriment
to his business career. What was
the Karma (cause)?”
“Well,” said Mrs. Marie Russak.
an expert in the occult, “he must have
lied to his wife. I know of one case
in Madras where a man is mute be
cause he lied to hie wife.” t
Bride Made Insane
By ‘Voodoo’ Charm
TRENTON, N. J., Sept. 11.—Mrs.
Marie Zielska, a young Slav bride,
became insane to-day after trying a
“voodoo” ('harm, said to have been
suggested by Mrs. Richard Washing
ton, a negro woman.
Two weeks ago Mrs. Zielska bec&mo
slightly ill. A neighbor recommended
the witch doctor. Mrs. Zielska was
sent to the State Hospital for the
Insane.
Must Wear ‘Soul’
Color to Play Piano
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—Mins
Margaret MoChord, of Kentucky,
daughter of Interstate Commerce
Commissioner MoChord, the richest
belle of the new Democracy, owns to
a pet superstition—namely, that un
less she wears n certain bluish green
chiffon gown she can not play the
piano.
Miss McChord claims her fingers
are tied into knots if she does not
have on her favorite blue green hue.
She culls it her soul oolor.
— 4
Pathfinder Greeted
In Watermelon Belt
HKMPSTKAD, TEXAS, Sep*- 11.—•
Pathfinder Ferguson and hi, party
completed another lap of the All-
Southern Transcontinental Highway
when they reached Hempstead short
ly before 6 o'clock Wednesday even
ing The noted good roads expert
was warmly welcomed to the water
melon center of the United States.
Mr. Ferguson made an Informal
talk of his tour and good roads, assur.
Ing the people of Waller County they
already had some splendid roads be
tween Hempstead and Houston.
Democrats Meet to
Finance Campaign
WASHINGTON, Sept 11.—Mem
bers of the executive committee of
the finance committee appointed by
the National Democratic Committee
to devise plane for continuing the
Democratic campaign will meet here
to-day.
The purpose of the meeting is to
raise funds for the distribution of
Democratic literature and to plan
State organisation.
Grant's Telegraph
Operator Is Dead
JERSEY' CITY. N. J., Sept. 11.—
George E. Baker, who, as a boy in the
Civil War acted as chief telegraph
operator for General U. S. Grant, is
dead at Havre de Grace. Md.
He was 65 years old and had been
aitb tl* Western Union 50 ya&rs.
HOW OLLIE JAMES
MIXES MINT JULEP
Washington Friends Say Kentucky
Senator’s Silver Mug Concoc
tion Leads All Others.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—Friends
of Ollie James, the big Kentuckian,
claim that his recipe for a mint Julep
leads all others. Senator James will
ingly gives the recipe when asked for
It. Here it Is:
A silver mug, the larger and the
older the better.
But first crush a large lump of
sugar in a mixing glass, dissolved
with a spoonful of wateT and
mixed with a Jigger of bourbon
whisky.
Then fill the mug with ic» from
a crystal lake, cracked fine but
not crushed.
Pour the sweetened whisky
over the cracked ice and then
stir the mixture until the fingers
of Jack Frost belt the mug.
A generous bouquet of baby
mint should be half buHed in the
mug. and then, like an amber dew,
sprinkle a pony of old cognac
over the whole.
That's a mint Julep a la Ollie
James.
Wisconsin Facing
An Empty Treasury
MADISON. WIS.. Sept. 11.—With
no money coming in until January
and oniv enough left to run the State
another month, Wisconsin is threat
ened with “going broke.”
There was only $1.”69.963 in the
State treasury a week ago and fig
ures for the past fiscal year show
that it then cost a total of $16,989,524,
or an average of over $1,000,000 per
month, to run the State.
Attacks Daniels for
Navy Test ‘Flunks’
WASHINGTON. Sept 11. — Th»
Senate and House Committees on
Naval Affaire have amplified their
criticisms of Secretary of the Navy
Daniels for “flunking” four candidates
for admission into the marine corps.
Information in the hand* of tha
committee shows that the Secretory**
disapproval of "aptitude and effici
ency” marks in these examinations
was inconsistent.
George Gould Has
Great Hunting Luck
Specie) Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Sept. 11.—George J.
Gould, when saying good-bye to hie
son. who was crossing on the Kaiser
Wilhelm, said that he considered ho
had the best luck of anyone shooting
In Scotland this season.
'TVe shot 2,200 brace with five guns,
which must be reckoned first rate,"
said Mr. Gould,
Straw Hat Riots in
New York East Side
NEW YORK. Sept. 11.— Pande
monium broke loose and police re
serves had to be called to-day when,
on practically all horoughfares of the
lower East Side, there were straw
hat riot*.
Victims who though straws were
"called in” September 15 were made
to realize that the East Side had
dedicated September 10 as the day
when el raw* shall be discarded.
JUDGE CANDLER
oraumi
8F MORALS'
Alderman and Former Supreme
Court Jurist Defends Police
Anti-Public Spooning Edict.
John 8. Candler, city Alderman and
ex-Judge of the Supreme Court, on
Thursday gave a lucid interview to
The Georgian on the rights of the
State as opposed to the rights of in
dividuals.
It was given as a result of the out,
cry against infringement on persona’
liberties in the police anti-kissing
crusade.
Alderman Candler explained that
the very basis of our State and Fed
eral Constitutiona was individual
rights. He said that a lack of per
sonal liberties and rights brought on
the Revolutionary War, and that our
colonial forebears believed in those
principles of government as intensely
as they believed in God.
"But times have changed since
those days’,” he said. “We confront
conditions our forefathers never
dreamed of. And in this great change
individual privileges have perished in
the interest of the rights of the ma
jority.
Revenue Laws an Examole.
"What would the gentlemen of the
old school have thought, if they had
been prevented from taking their ap
ples and peaches to the neighborhood
distillery and having them made into
brandy?
"When Toombs and the other dis
tinguished Georgians drafted our
present Constitution in 1877 they
never dreamed of the State giving
children anything more than a com
mon school education.
‘We have many lav/s to-day which
if enforced 100 years ago would have
caused a second revolution. Think of
our great railroad systems. To-day
they are run by the labor unions and
the Government. The individuals who
own them have little to say in their
management.
“Individuals' rights as to morale has
changed from a basic national princi
ple of government to a local issue*
Issue Up to the People.
While 60 years ago the Interfer
ence of the police with a woman for
wearing a hoop skirt would have
caused a riot, to-day it is not unusual
for the police to arrest a woman on
account of extreme dress.
•'Different sections differ in their
regulation of morals. We don’t have
the same attitude to many things in
Atlanta that the people 1n New York
have. We enforce certain laws in
Atlanta that are not enforced in Sa
vannah. Yet the same general prin-
ci pal holds true—the right* of the
individual are curbed in the Interest
of the whole community,
“The police have now' decreed that
there shall be no public kissing or
spooning in Atlanta. I rather think
they are right. But ail such issues as
that, I think, finally are up to the
people to decide. In the end the wfll
of the majority will prevail.
“Undoubtedly there are abuses of
the laws affecting individual rights.
Officers sometimes go too far. You
rarely hear complaints against
sheriffs; they are directly responsible
to the people, and are more con
siderate.
“But officers of the general go
ernment and city police have no
rect responsibility to the people
therefore, sometimes gn to extreme*
la enforcing tdo law, ^
Mrs. Edna
Perkins
Godbee.
Miss Wilson Demands
American Trousseau
WASHINGTON. Sept 11.—Miss
Jessie Wilson, second daughter of
j the President, whose marriage to
Francis B. Sayre, of New York in the
White House November 25 will be the
social event of the season, has de
clared emphatically for an all-Ameri
can trousseau made of American
goods by American women.
It is rumored that part of the
trousseau will be spun of linen by the
mountain women of the South, in
whose uplift the Wilson ladies have
shown much interest.
Daniels Paints Bright
Future for Jack Tar
❖
Unprepared for War.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 11.—Senator
George E. Chamberlain, of Oregon,
chairman of the Senate Committee on
Military Affairs, has come out flat-
WOMEN'S JEWELS
AID HOSPITALFUND
footedly in favor of placing the army-
on a better war footing than is the
case at present.
“As long,” says Senator Chamber-
lain, “as we maintain the Monroe
Doctrine, retain the Philippines, con
trol the Panama Canal, and dominate
the Pacific, which is our manifest
destiny, we must have an army ade
quate to care for these conditions
and meet emergencies.
Trained Reserve His Plan.
“No one advocates a large standing
army In this country, but we ought
to have as a military organization an
army of efficient officers and drilled
men which can be augmented by
trained men from a reserve and sup
plemented by the National Guard of
the States.
“There „ /s been a great deal of
Wesley Memorial Building Cam
paign Started by Contributions
of Gems and $1,350 Cash.
With $1,359 in Ocash and a valuable
miniature brooch, an heirloom, sub
scribed to the fund by members of
the way's and means committee, the
women promoters of the new Wesley
Memorial oHspltal building Thursday
started on the second lap of the cam
paign to raise $100,000.
The subscriptions made at Wednes
day’s meeting were entirely unexpect
ed, as the committee intended only to
devise way's and means of raising the
amount necessary'. Such enthusiasm
was manifested, however, that in a
short time funds amounting to $1,360,
in addition to the costly brooch, had
been recorded on the subscription
books.
According to announcement. Asa
Candler ha. 1 * promised the women $3
for every $1 raised, provided $25,000
is subscribed. The new building, the
women say. is absolutely necessary to
care for the large number of patients
admitted.
The officers of the ways and means
committee which will plan the cam
paign are: Mrs. H. H. Tucker, chair
man: Mrs. William R Prescott, sec
retary, and Mrs. John A. Miller. Mrs.
T. R. Kendall, of Gainesville, presi
dent of the auxiliary', presided Wed
nesday.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.— Secre
tary of the Navy Daniels issued a
statement painting a bright future for
“Jack tar” during his Incumbency of
office. The Secretary says the men
before the maet will be given a chance
to advance through progressive ex
aminations for higher and better paid
positions
Examinations will be held next
month for twelve assistant paymas
ters, positions hitherto only open to
civilians.
First Englishman to
Own an Auto Dead
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Sept. 1L—Evelyn Ellis
the first Englishwoman who owned
an automobile, 1s dead at the age
of 71.
Ellis bought a five-horsepower Pan -
bard machine in 1895 and drove it at
ten miles an hour in defiance of the
law, hoping to be prosecuted and
thus draw attention to the car.
King Edward had his first motor
jnde In Ellis’s can
DEFENDANT IN MILLEN
DOUBLE SLAYING TRIAL;
Mrs. Godbee
and counsel,
G. 0. Dekle, on
the left, and
James A.
Dixon.
because of the suffragettes, and
through the agitation of these women.
Then they resorted to violence. Here
I part company from them.
“Militancy” in England first meant
a policy of “pestering,” recommended
by Sir eHnr>' Campbell-Bannerman
when the first minister of the Britisn
crown. It involved suffering. And
I defended the women. But is there
need in America for even such “mili
tancy” as that?
"Militancy” in England now means
arson* train wrecking and murderous ^
assaults. If it is suggested that the
women of America should adopt it
as policy, I *iy that nothing can ex
cuse the irrationality of the sugges
tion and nothing can palliate its
crime.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia — Fair Thursday;
warmer; Friday, unsettled.
general discussion as to the neces
sity of better preparation for sudden
war emergencies, and there seems to
be quite a unanimous opinion that
at the present time our army is
wholly inadequate owing to the meth
ods that have been employed. I am
heartily in favor of such changes and
Improvements in the army as will
meet existing conditions.
Should Not Fear Japs.
“We ought not to leave ourselves
in an attitude w'here we fear the
possibility of Invasion bv Japan on
the Pacific coast or by any other for
eign country on our Atlantic coast,
nor in apprehension as to what might
happen to our troops in case of inter
vention in Mexico because the army
Is inadequate for emergencies.
“The present session of Congress
has been occupied with matters which
have taken all the time, so that little
attention has been given to questions
of national defense until the acute
| situation in Mexico has brought home
to us the unprepared state of this
nation to face a, auddea wax.