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HOBSON UYS ALL CRIME
IN NATION TO WHISKY IN
CITIZENSHIP MEET TALK
Speakers at Closing Session of Con
ference Devote Addresses to War,
on Liquor Traffic—Secretary Bryan
Is Defended for Grape Juice Policy.
Pleading for a higher standard of
American citizenship to cope with
mighty problems that confront the
country, Richmond P. Hobson, Con
gressman from Alabama and candi
date for the United States Senate to
succeed the late Senator Johnston,
vigorously denounced the liquor traf
fic at the final night session of the
Southern Citizenship Congress at the
Auditorium Saturday night.
Mr. Hobson was one of five speak
ers, all of whom based their talks
on the liquor traffic and its relation
to crime and lawlessness. Others who
spoke were A. J. Orem, a Boston
capitalist; Judge Nash R. Broyles.
William D. Upshaw, editor of The
Golden Age. and Dr. Lincoln Mc-
Connell, pastor of the Baptist Tab
ernacle.
Replying to an assertion made by
Judge Broyles that there is more
crime in Birmingham in a year than
in the city of London, Mr. Hobson
created a stir when he declared that
every murder committed in the Ala
bama metropolis in a year can be
laid at the door of the liquor traf
fic.
Calls Whisky Alabama's Curse.
"If it were not for whisky,” he said,
"Birmingham would have little or no
crime. Whisky is the cause of prac
tically all the crime in the country.
Alabama and Birmingham admit the
truth of the figures that show Lon
don. with its millions, to be a city
of less crime than Birmingham, but
we are working to eliminate the
cause of this crime—whisky—and
when We are successful murders will
cease in our city.”
Mr. Hobson marshaled statistics to
prove his statement that virtually all
crime is caused by liquor; he vigor
ously assailed the men who make
and the men who sell whisky, and
declared that the liquor question is
becorning an issue of ever-increasing
importance all over the country.
"America needs a new birth of clt
i.enship to cope with the problems
t 'at tire confronting the country,” he
.•-aid. "We are facing greater prob-
I ms of citizenship now than ever
botore. The solution of these prob
lems is in the hands of the Anglo-
Saxon strain of our people, and the
Sou s ands in the forefront in the
woibecause the Southern people
are pre-eminently of the Anglo-Saxon
strain. Tlie work of solving the great
problems, chief among which is the
liquor question, parallels the devel
opment of national character.”
Characterizing drunkenness and
war as the greatest crimes of the age.
A J. Orem, of Boston, delivered an
address in which he warmly defended
Secretary nf State William J. Bryan
for barring alcoholic drinks from
Sate dinners He declared that Mr.
Bryan showed courage of a high or
der when he made grape juice the of
ficial drink of the State Department.
Orem Lauds Sulzer,
Mr. Orem also lauded Governor
William Sulzer, of New York, and
vigorously denounced Tammany.
"New York City,” he said, “is a ma
chine ruled by Tammany, and every
Atlanta Debutantes Drink,
Mrs. Lindsey Tells Congress
Mrs. C. B. Lindsey, an Atlanta
woman, was a Savonarola in skirts
when she spoke at the woman's meet
ing of the Southern Citizenship Con
gress Saturday, charging that the
young society women of Atlanta and
the South are heavy drinkers, de
nouncing the present-day' ideas in
dress as indecent, and scoffing at
woman suffrage as a fad and a delu
sion.
Mrs. Lindsey spoke with an empha
sis and conviction that was startling.
Her speech at times aroused a mur
mur of disapproval, particularly when
she spoke of woman's suffrage as
something undesirable. A debate en
sued. Mrs. M. L. McLendon, presi
dent of the Georgia Equal Suffrage
Association, voluntarily arose and de
fended her cause.
Most emphatic was Mrs. Lindsey in
scoring what she said was a ten
dency' toward loose morals among
the young women of to-day.
"Go to the cases and clubs of the
city,” she cried, "and there you will
find the greater problem. You will see
beautiful young women benumbing
their intellect and debauching their
souls in liquor—even to the drinking
of straight whiskey.
"The ballot wouldn’t stop It, my
suffrage sisters. This thing already
Boy Scouts and Old Scout
Vie at Christian Meeting
‘ Kids,” 1,740 of them, enthusiastic,
noisy and happy, thronged in the Au
ditorium Saturday afternoon for the
children's rally of th<* Southern Chris
tian Citizenship Conference.
The youngsters were from the
schools, marshaled in marching order
and bearing the insignia of their dis
tricts. A silken banner was offered as
a prize for the school with the best
representation, and rivalry for this
trophy brought out the gay trnop.
When all were assembled the teach,
era proceeded to “count noses” and
report. As the banner wer\t, not to
the school numerically strongest, but
to the school which sent the largest
percentage of its enrollment, the
judges were faced with the necessity
of brushing up their own School les
sons and doing sums.
Report Saturday night was to the
effect that the contest was a tie be
tween the Lee Street and Formwait
Street Schools. The Street Schoo,
is said to have been in the lead on
appearance, but the Form wait Street
School led in percentage. Owing to
the tie, Superintendent of Schools!
crime in the catalogue has been made
to pay tribute to the organization.
Tammany protects and encourages the
whisky traffic, the white slave traffic,
and all forms of lawlessness and
crime.”
Mr. Orem declared that Tammany
now is punishing Governor Sulzer not
for his )>ast crimes, but because ot
righteous deeds performed since he
has been Governor of New York.
Judge Broyles, City Recorder, spoke
for fifteen minifies on "The Law tan
Be Enforced.” He declared that the
four causes of crime in the South are
pistol "toting,” the negro, undesirable
foreign element, and the difficulty of
enforcing the law in a democracy
such as the United States.
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I attend the meeting. Fifty students of
the Georgia Military College carrte in
a body and occupied a special sec
tion of seats.
is in open violation of law. You al
ready hJive your legislation.
“I find that in the North and West,
where suffrage prevails, the most
needed reforms have not been reach
ed. Social and industrial conditions
for the most part are worse than in
the districts where the vote for wom
en has not been obtained.
"What the girls wear to-day would
have ostracized them from decent so
ciety in their mothers’ time, and in
their grandmothers’ It would have
made them outcasts. This tendency
is growing to an alarming extent in
the South.
“We must teach our boys and girls
the principles of manhood and wom
anhood and Christian citizenship. We
do not need the ballot."
Mrs. Lindsey is prominent in the
work of the Citizenship Congress,
and holds the o’Tice of corresponding
secretary of th • Civic League of
America.
Mrs. A. P. Coles, president of the
Woman’s Club nf America, presided
at the Saturday morning session
Woman’s work was the general topic
discussed, and it was in the develop
ment of this theme that Mrs. Lind
sey’s arraignment of Atlanta wom
en’s modes and manners came to dis
turb equable discussion and to pro
voke a storm of comment.
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Slaton will be called in and a decision
arrived at probably Monday.
“Scout" Is Luminary.
Captain Jack Crawford, "Poet
Scout,” was the luminary of the aft
ernoon. Captain Jack wears long
white hair, a “Re-Gad, sah.” goatee,
much befringed khaki and soft leath
er boots. Also a devil-may-care som
brero •
Besides this, he has been shot four
times, the standing being:
Rea! soldiers. .500.
Honest-to-goodness Injuns. .500.
The Captain says there will be no
games to decide the tie.
Exhaling this atmosphere of sage
brush, alkali and powder. Captain
Jack made a powerful appeal to the
imaginations of the boys, and seemed
wickedly fascinating to the girls,
whose hair ribbons quivered visibly
as the srout told of the bad, bad
days on the plains.
It seems that to be a frontiersman,
a hunter of buffalo and Indians and
a Frederic Remington sort of person
igenerally one does not have to leara
ito roll cigarettes with one hand, or
HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA . SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1913.
SCENES at Children’s Day at the Auditorium. In the lower left hand picture, from left to
right, are Blanche Warner and Ivaline Lucke, of the Lee street school. In the upper
picture Boy Scout Billy Reese is conversing with Captain Jack Crawford, while in the right
hand picture is Sadie Wiseman, of the Hill Street School.
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at all for that matter. Likewise, one
can be just as good a plainsman while
shunning the "redeye” which figures
in every Owen Wist* r story.
At least, this was Captain Jack’s
message to the boys No cigarettes,
no Demon Rum, no dime novels.
The boys seemed much impressed.
They whistled, applauded and cheered
madly when he had finished.
The real stars of the occasion, how
ever, were the members of Troop 3.
Boy Scouts of America, who covered
themselves with glory. Troop 3 has
a drum and bugle corps, which awoke
the echoes in the iron fretw’ork be
neath the Auditorium dome, and
which had susceptible young folk
"trotting” on the sidewalk afterward,
when the troop marched away, Cap
tain Jack at the lead.
Troop 3 has a color bearer, too.
One couldn’t break up the line of
march to get his name, but he was
the cynosure of all eyes. Off he
goes, the pennon as steady as th*
mast of a ship on a calm sea, but the
erect little figure beneath, with u
rakish campaign hat, swaggering like
the drum major at Fort McPherson—
the ultimate word in swagger.
Lee Street School, too, attracted
much attention. "We work for civic
beauty,” said their banner, and to
prove their readiness they borc»
brooms, shovels and rakes. But every
school had some distinguishing gon
falon, otherwise there was no way ot
telling one clean, starched, radiani
band from another.
Teacher Fails to Show.
There really was quite a bit of ex
citement when the roll of schools was
called. The schools strained every
point to make a good showing High
land School, after reporting 128 in its
band, came up later with the request
that one of the boy scouts on the
stage also be enumerated as among
their number.
“Forty-seven and no teacher,”
piped a youngster for Georgia Ave
nue School. He got a “hand."
The schools were represented as
follows:
' Calhoun, 75; East Atlanta, 16; Hill
Street, 62; Street. 120; State
Street, 60; Formwait, 133; Fraser, 37;
Pair Street, 106; Home Park, 43:
Highland, 129; Williams Street, 62;
Twelfth Street, 55; Crew Street. 55;
Grant Park, 55; Peeples, 22; Edge
wood Avenue, 122; Luckie Street, 40;
Davis Street. 59; Georgia Avenue, 47;
Bell, 56; Walker Street, 50; Adair, 28;
Fay, 17; English Avenue, 62; Oakland
City, 51; Slaton, 45; Inman Park. 4;
Ivv Street, 11; Ira. Street, 19; North
Avenue. 50; Pryor. 48; Boulevard. 1.
W. M. Slaton made a brief talk to
the children. He was greeted with en
thusiasm.
Lincoln McConnell May
Talk Again of Spooning.
Dr. Lincoln McConnell, of the Bap
, tist Tabernacle, will speak at 3
o’clock at the. closing rally of the
Christian Citizenship Congress at the
Auditorium. Dr. McConnell will take
as his subject, "The Private Citizen
and the Law.’’ The evangelist is ex
pected again to make reference to the
decent controversy over “spooning,"
which brought him into the limelight,
s together with Mayor Woodward. Dr
McConnell will also speak in the
morning on "The City for the Peo
ple.”
Other Atlanta pastors who will
speak before the congress to-day are:
Rev. J. L. Jackson. Kirkwood, "The
Citizen and the Rabbath;” Rev W. L.
Hambrick. Cooper Street Church.
"The Sabbath;” Rev. W. T. Smith.
Decatur Baptist Church, “Knowledge'
and Patriotism Fundamental to Good
Citizenship;’’ Rev. H. M. Dußose.
First Methodist Church, “Our Un
saved Men and Women;" Rev. A. R.
Holderby, Moore Memorial Church.
"The Purity and Permanency of the
Family;’’ Rev. C. V. Weathers, East
Atlanta Methodist Church, “Personal
Evangelism:” Rev. John F Purser.
West End Baptist Church. “The Civic
Life of Atlanta;’’ Rev. William M.
Sentell. Gordon Street Baptist Church,
"Co-operation of the Family, the
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Church and the State;” Rev. W. O.
Foster, West End Christian Church.
"Church Attendance and the Day of
Rest;’’ Rev. L. J. Ehrlich. Oakland
City, "The Jew as a Citizen;’’ Rev.
W. P. Lovejoy, presiding elder At
lanta District, Wesley Memorial
Church, "The Moral Accountability nf
Nations;" Rev. Henry B. Mays, Druid
Hills Methodist Church. “The Chris
tian Citizen’s Duty to His City; ’ Rev.
Oscar B. (’lose. Eggleston Methodist
Church, “The Remaking of the Na
tions;" Rev. George L. Hanscom.
Central Congregational Church, "So
cial Salvation;” Rev. W. 11. Clark.
Collins Memorial Church. “Christ and
His Law the Only Remedy;" Rev. J.
J. Hall, Capitol Avenue Baptist
Church, “The Church and the City."
Society Leaders Angered
By ChargeThatGirls Drink
Mrs. W. L. Peel and Mrs. Robert F. Maddox
Vigorously Defend Atlanta Young Women.
Leading women of Atlanta are up
In arms against the charges of heavy
drinking made against Atlanta so
ciety girls by Mrs. G. B. Lindsey.
Civic League worker, at the Saturday
session of the Christian Citizens’
League at the Auditorium. In their
defense of the Atlanta girls they
charge the accuser with absolute un
famliiarlty with Atlanta society, and
also with not having the acquaintance
of the girls arraigned.
Atlanta society girls are the most
refined to be found anywhere, they
declare in a bitter answer to the at-
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tack. And not only are the members
of the feminine sex abstainers, but
! the drinking fad among Atlanta so
ciety men Is fast dying out as well,
they claim.
Mrs. W. L. Peel, leader in Atlanta
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I society for many years, declares the
charges to be untrue and unjust in
the extreme.
Defends Atlanta Girls.
"I can not conceive of how anyone
car. make such a charge” declared
Mrs. Peel. “It is untrue and unjust;
it is a reflection upon the sweet girls
of Atlanta, than whom there are no
finer to be found. I have known At-
lanta society girls since the Civil
War; I have met girls from all over
the country at resorts and other
places, and am in a position to speak.
I always have Lad young people
around me and have never seen anv
of the debauchery charged to them.
It is impossible for me to believe that
the persons making these charges are
acquainted with Atlanta society, and
are acquainted in any way with the
girls whom they accuse.”
Mrs. Robert F. Maddox, whose so
cial life has brought her In contact
with every phase of Atlanta society,
emphatically declared that the sneak
ers at the Christian Citizens’ League
meeting were not acquainted with
Atlanta society girls or they would
not make such charges.
“It Is impossible to believe that the
people making these charges are real
ly acquainted with Atlanta society
girls,” declared Mrs. Maddox. “If
they knew them It would be impossi
ble to make such a charge and speak
the truth.
“I think I am tn a position to know
as much about Atlanta girls as any
one else and I have yet to see any of
tlo-ni guilty of suc h a thing. I doubt
very seriously if these people are even
acquainted by sight with the girls
they accuse of drunkenness It is a
base charge and is sufficient to create
indignation among the girls of At
lanta.
“Have you ever compared Atlanta
girls with those from other parts of
the country? Do it and you will dis
cover that the very finest are to be
found here. 1 have associated with
them for many years and have never
known them to be guilty of any such
indiscretion. I think it a shame that
people can get up and talk like this
when there is no foundation for their
remarks, and any man or woman who
has ever associated with Atlanta so
ciety knows these (’barges are base
less.”
Mrs. Robert Lowry Indignant.
Eiiually indignant was Mrs. Robert
J. Dowry, who has always been popu
lar among Atlants society people an<l
who is noted for the great number of
friends she has among the younger
element.
“To one who always has been as
sociated with Atlanta society, the
charge that our society girls drink
brings righteous indignation.” said
Mrs. Dowry. “I always have had
young people around me, and I think
if mure is any person who is In a
position to know’ just w’hat the young
er people tn Atlanta society are
that I am the one to know. In the
first place, the parents of the girls
would not allow it; in the next, the
matrons who entertain would not al
low of such a thing. There is no
ground for such a charge. Atlants
. girl* ar* modeat and refined
They are the most lovable girls In
the world and the beauty of their
character Is shown by the willingness
with which they are willing to forego
their own pleasure to assist in any
work that will help others
“As for drinking, while I am not
strait-laced. I wmuld most certainly
deny that Atlanta girls are guilty of
the charge. Bven among the men
there is not near as much drinking as
there was a few years ago, and, in
my opinion, the drinking fad is fast
dying out. I do not think tliat any
person acquainted with Atlanta so
ciety girls would make such a
charge.”
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TRIES SUICIDE
WHEN SCOLDED
FOR DISSIPATION
Young Manufacturer Slashes
Throat in Presence of Landlady
Who Reprimanded Him.
W. J. Bell. 27 years old. w’ho until
recently was a stockholder in the
Scott Machinery Company, No. 22
South Forsyth street, cut his throat
in an attempt at suicide Saturday
night when his landlady, Mrs. D B.
Henry', No. 108 West Harris street,
remonstrated with him for his heavy
> drinking.
Bell was rushed to Grady Hos
pital when the alarm was given by
Mrs. Henry, and it is believed he will
recover.
» The young man was In a remorse
ful mood when Mrs. Henry faced him
r in his room. He had been drinking
• steadily for some time, and she spoke
(o him about his behavior.
“I’m in a bad fix, I guess,” he ad
mitted.
“Yes, you are,” Mrs. Henry said,
. frankly,
• “Well. I’ll cut my throat and end
it all,” he said. And as she watched
‘ him, he took his razor from the dress
! er and drew It across his throat.
Mrs. Henry ran at once to the tele-
. phone, calling help, and physicians
from Grady Hospital responded. They
found the cut did not reach the jug
ular vein.
. Bell has not been connected with
the Scott Machinery Company since
’ September 1, according to W. D.
Scott, president. Mr. Scott also said
’ that Bell had been drinking heavily
' for some time, but said, too, that hie
’ affairs were in good shape, so far as
he knew.
’ Bell is married. His wife and sev
f eral small children are in Yatesville
1 with relatives. They were not in
formed of the attempt at suicide, al
though Bell’s father, who lives near
Talbotton, was notified.
The Bell family of Talbotton is
1 prominent and wealthy.
f Police Chief Finds
His ‘September Morn’
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j WATCROSS, Sept. 20.—Chief of
. Police John W. Colley’* copy of “Sep-
J tember Morn,” which disappeared
1 mysteriously from his office one day
1 when he was at lunch, has been found.
A friend of the chief’s borrowed it
f and forgot to return it promptly. The
9 chief was so impressed at the friend s
s desire to have the picture that he
p sent it back as a prelent. He says,
however, that a friend of his has
n promised to send him a larger copy.
n TAYLOR, LIKE MAYOR, GETS
J MYSTERIOUS BOX IN MAIL
y R. Frank Taylor, assistant resident
manager of the Piedmont Hotel, rl
t valed Mayor Woodwajd and his
y “bomb” Saturday afternoon when he
f received a mysterious pasteboard box.
n It contained a curious-looking trin
s ket bent in the shape of a hairpin,
ii with the letters, “R. F. T.,” in bas
t relief.
y The postmark was "New Orleans.”
- Mr. Taylor is offering a reward to
b anyone who will clear up the mys
tery.