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BATTLE FM
POWERS OF
POLICE BOSS
GROWS HOT
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Fain, Vernoy, King and Smith
Candidates to Succeed Mason
asChairman cf Commission,but
‘Dark Horse’ Has a Chance.
Retiring Leader Neutral, and Mayor
Remains Silent—Believed That
One-Man Control of Municipal
Whip Will Be Continued.
Political speculations Saturday cen -
»red about the question of who would
be Atlanta’s next police boss.
The. failure of every one of several
tndldates ambitious to sueceet? Car
os H. Mason, the retiring chairman
t' the Police Commission, to gain any
• mnianding support has brought the
rht to a bewildering state. It almost
would seem that the mantle of politi
cal power is about to fall on some ob
scure member of the Police Commis
sion and the grand old days of "boss
ism" in Atlanta, a system that has
lived in the police department for
more than a generation, brought to a
sad end.
There is no lack of effort on the
of a number of members of the
-dice Commission to secure the
■.-t-.slrmanship, Also one of them is
sure to get it; the commission must
have a chairman. But the chairman
ship does not necessarily mean the
boss, though the two have been
■ nonomous for more than a quarter
a entury. To be boss the chair-
nan must ba able to swing a major
ity of the votes in and out of season.
With Chairman Mason out, no mem
ber of the commission has been able
to show anything like that ability.
Fain and Smith in Race.
'•Villiam P. Fain, vice chairman of
■-he Commission, has viewed with
longing eyes the seat head of
the table. Many obstacles in his way
have stirred the hope in B. Lee Smith,
staunch and faithful supporter of
Chairman Mason, that he might be
the favorite. If the fervid Chief
Beavers' enthusiasts are to win, and
Mr. Smith's election would mean just
that, William A. Vernoy has whis
pered to one and all that he'should,
have the honor.
Equally ambitious is Andy P. King,
whose election by Council to the Po
lice Commission was marked by the
fact that he was first supported by the
anti-Beavers faction and later and
with a finality that was crowned with
success by the pro-Beavers faction.
George E, Johnson, who has never
developed the ardor of affection for
f Beavers that some other mem'
have, is out of the running on
count of being on a ticket for
Sheriff. It is understood that men
• ith sympathies akin to Mr. John
•on's would like to elect Robert Clark
as a compromise candidate.
Chambers As Compromise.
>ne suggestion of a solution, about
as simple as any of the others, is
that Mr. Johnson may resign as the
Sixth Ward representative and Ai
ms Chambers, former councilmanic
a :er, elected in his place and raised
the seat of chairman.
■lvor Woodward has kept rernark
y silent about it all. Once he said
■’ he would like to vote for Gra
m P. Dozier for chairman, but Mr.
'ozler has announced his Intention of
esigning and George P. Dickson is
lated for his place. '
' iewing the situation by and large
’■ e of the unmentioned members
about as good a chance of being
chairman as any of the candl
’ halrrnan Mason declares that
is to retire he will take no
' In the selection of his successor,
makes the whole affair consid-
■ rab.- more uncertain.
S-ittle Hope of a New “David.”
. Beavers has had the reins
st year through moral per-
If no new boss is elected or
■ assume control through
consent of the members of
nmission he is likely to
‘ them indefinitely.
■induct of the police depart
one-man power has been so
I that the chances are ten
'“ a; a new David will arise.
1 •• department is the whip of
'i' ipal machinery and politi
t"r are striving for the mas-
here are few say thai
stem Is particularly .»>-
the term does nut meiji
“ Atlanta as when applied
, ’any Hall.
’’ R,II .- V " Brotherton, Captain
l-.igll.h and Carlos H. Mu-
• "" gained the good will of
‘ in tan*
| Drug Fiends Given
l Blame for Theft of
Doctors’ Satchels
I City Health Board Gets Complaints .
From Several Atlanta
Physicians.
I i Dr. J. G. Hall, City Physician, is I
, one of a number of Atlanta doctors j
l who have recently had their medicine
| I cases stolen by “dope fiends.” A half
i dozen cases of such thefts have been
1 reported to the health department
within the last ten days.
Dr. Hall said Saturday that he left
his case in his automobile in front of
the Hotel Ansley the other night and
when he came out his medicine case
was gone. He said the “dope fiend"
1 who got it suffered a bitter disap
pointment, for there was no “dope"
, in it.
The doctors are sure that the thefts
I are being committed by persons crav-
I ing drugs because most of the cases
• have been found later rifled of all
morphine.
J Mother Faints as
Son Is Acquitted
, Alabama Man. Who Spent Two Years
In Jail, Is Freed of Slay-
ing Charge.
1 GADSDEN, Nov. I. —When Willie
, Goforth, charged with the murder of
Nicholas Shentzen, a German miner,
who was killed and robbed at Al-
1 toona in 1911, was acquitted by a
verdict returned late to-day, the aged
mother of the defendant fainted. Go
forth sprang from his seat, and, hold
ing his hands above his head, de
clared in a*ringing voice:
“God knows I was not guilty of
the charge that kept me in jail two
1 years.” He then broke down and j
wept like a child.
Joe Saulsberry, who was convicted !
of the murder two years ago on al- :
most identica’ly the same evidence, I
' escaped from the penitentiary, where j
he was serving a life term, and is still
at large.
No Free Concert at
Auditorium To-day
Zeuch, New Organist, Delayed in
Coming to Atlanta —Next
Recital November 16.
I
Professor William Zeucb, of Chi- i
. cage, the new city organist, has been
delayed in coming to Atlanta, and
, there will be no free organ concert a:
the Auditorium Sunday. The amphi- !
theater will be occupied this week by
■ the automobile show, and consequent
ly there will be no concert a week
from to-day.
On Sunday, November 16, however. |
the free concerts will be resumed with I
Mr. Zeuch at the organ. He also will :
I immediately take up’ the training! of ,
the Atlanta Music Festival Chorus, ,
and several choral concerts will be;
given throughout the winter.
Underwood to Speak
At D. A. R. Festival
Senate Candidate Scheduled for Ad
dress at Centennial of Tal
lasehatchee Battle.
ANNISTON, Nov. I.—Oscar W. Un
derwood, chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee of the House of
Representatives and candidate for the
United States Senate, will speak on i
the invitation of the Daughters of
the Revolution at the celebration here
of the centennial of the battle of
Tallasehatchee November 3.
Mrs. Underwood will be here, and
the celebration will be made the oc
casion of a large gathering of some
of the most noted women of the State.
Among those who will attend will be
Bank Clearings
Still on Increase
Reports for Last Week in October
Show Growth of More
Than $2,0’0,000.
Bank clearings are on the stead 1 ’
increase in Atlanta. The clearings
for the last week in October showed |
an increase of more than $2,000,000 ;
for the same week of last year.
The clearings did not equal the i
“bir week” of a fortnight ago. but the ■
ratio of the incre se was kept up.
The clearings for last week were |
$17,816,440.22. For the month they -
amounted to $91,549,341.61. I j
WOMAN GETS 12 MONTHS
IN LIQUOR SELLING CASE
WAYCROSS. Nov. 1. One of th< ■
few Instances known in Georgia since
prohibition went into effect where a
white woman received a twelve
months’ sentence for selling wnisky
went on n-eord at the Clinch Superior (
Court. Just adjourned, when Thaney I |
Jowers entered a plea of guilty Sim ' j
will serve the sentence on the State Ii
farm
s
USE HOD ONLY
USUISTRESORT.
SftYS GOOGLER
Probation Officer Believes With
Recorder Broyles Thrashing
Sometimes Is Beneficial.
‘■MAKE WHIPPING STICK”;
Advises Parents Against Corporal
Punishment and Then Immedi
ately Cuddling Children.
Probation Officer S. J. Coogler Sat- •
urday afternoon gave to The Sunday ;
American h’s views on the correction i
of children by the rod. which has been '
widely discussed the past week. Coog- •
lev’s duties carry him into hundreds I
of Atlanta homes, and thus. enable !
him to study prevaiing home disci- I
pline and conditions-, in general as |
affecting the training of children. i
Basing h's ideas on these experi
ences, he says the rod should be re- I
■sorted to only as the last hope of ;
correcting a child and maintaining
home discipline. Like Recorder
Broyles, whose views already have
been published, he believes kindness
and example form the most humane
methods of correction.
Mr. Coogler believes that the rod
is necessary in many eases, and that
I its use in the schools is a valuable aid
to school discipline.
A child, however, should never be
' whipped by a parent in anger, he
said. The rod should serve solely
1 as an instrument of correction, and
should not be used by parents to sat
isfy their angry passions. Many par-
I ents, he said, make a great mistake in
this respect.
AMow It to '•Stick.**
> Whenever a thrashing is found nec. •
essary and is administered, the par- j
ent, he said, should allow it “to stick” '
I and not turn right around and humor
and pet the child and apologize to it.
This is worse than if the child had
not been corrected at all. he said.
This Is where parents make another
; great error.
, Mr. Coogler also emi aasized the
i great importance of beginning the
■ training of the child in kindness and
■ precept at the earliest possible mo
ment. This early training by par
ents would go a long way toward do
ing away with the necessity for the
rod, he said, as the child would soon
I become accustomed to regular home
discipline and would not be apt to
. grow disobedient and commit other
infractions of the home rules.
“The whipping of children should
j be avoided just as much as possible,”
said Mr. Coogler. “In this respect
I parents should carefully study the
dispositions and natures of their chil
dren, for it will be found that in some
instances a whipping will make a
child worse instead of Improving it.
Kind words, persuasion and all other
means should be exhausted before a
parent resorts to the rod.
Whipping Often Brutal.
"Whenever a whipping is found
necessary, then it should be admin
istered with the one Idea of correct
ing the child arid impressing on it
that the offense mus* not be commit
ted again. So many parents make
| the mistake of Hogging their children
I when they are all riled because cf
something the child ha 4 done. This
should not be. Such a parent is like
ly to become brutal. All of the pos
sible benefit of the whipping then is
lost”
Belcher To Be Put
On City Park Board
Third Ward Politician is Agreed On
by Delegation in
Council.
James Belcher, well-known iJblitl
cian of the Third Ward, will be elect
ed to the City Park Board at the
meeting of the City Council Monday
to succeed R. A. Burnett, resigned.
The Third Ward delegates haxe
unanimously agreed on Mr. Belcher.
COMMERCE BODY FIGHTS
■HIGH COST’ STATISTICS
, The Chamber of Commerce has be
gun a fight against the statistics of :he
Government which show Atlanta to be
the second city in America in th • high
cost of living. It is hoped by the Cham
ber that figures it will compile will re
fute the, Government statistics
NEW STATE GAME AND
■ FISH WARDEN ON JOB ,
Charles Davis was Installed In his of
fice In the Capitol Saturday as the new
State Game and Pish • ’omn ws’oner (
Up succeeded l< Mercer who re-
tired after holding *" •» pwti tw? yeui
•nd two ukOtith*
ATLANTA, GA.’ “sLxI)AY,“NOVEMBKR"2. 1913.
Atlanta Girl Tells of City Snares
'Flirts Make Beauty Only a Curse’
❖•• f -!•••«•
Her Grandsire a General in Gray
Miss Hazel Deane’, who tried to die because it was easier to end
all than be good, shown in two poSes. She is now with Penrhyn
Stanlaws and his wile, and hopeful of helping other girls.
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Young Woman in Aew York Needs Trade,
Friends, Money, Church, She Warns Others.
NEW YORK, Nov. 1. —“The big city
is not the Eldorado it is painted. It
In a place of grave danger for pretty
girls who are alone, a place of snares
and pit falls, where there are bold
eyed men and evil suggestions, and
where work is very hard to find.”
All this from the story of Haze!
Deane the X6-year-old Southern girl
who appeared to-dav to have regain- ,
ed her health and happiness after her
attempted suicide a week ago. Miss ,
Deane, according to her story, is from
Atlanta, Ga., and Is the granddaugh
ter of a Confederate general from
Kentucky. She came here in search
of fame and fortune, and worked un
til, disillusioned, despondent, finding
it hard “to be good and make an
honest living,” she swallowed bichlo
ride tablets. She was discovered in
time for salvation from death, and
arrested. It seemed that her attempt
ed suicide was the best for her. TCow •
she has friends, protection and oppor- j
t unity.
Want* to Help Other*.
Sno hopes she can say something
know. And out of her experience she
has passed through, an experience |
which has taught her much more r
of life than one of her years should
know And out of her experience she
gave advice to girls, particularly girls '
of her own South, who may consider j
seeking their fortunes in the metrop- 1
olis. She said:
“First ami foremost, the girl c un- .
ing to New York snouid know jk.jAc
trade.
“She should have some friends
here, some one to whom she can go
in her hour of trouble.
“She should have enough money to
keep her for at least four weeks, a?
it may take her tr.it long to obtain
a position.
“She should join a social club or
Trade Secretaries
To School This Week
—.
Commercial Body Workers To Be '
Taught How Small Towns May
Have Orgamzationc
Commercial secretaries are going to
school this w.e«-k In Atlanta. Friday
and Saturday are the days, and the
rooms of the Georgia Chamber <>f
Hur* Building, will be the pu<
The object i* io teach “commercial
organization and to show how the
*maile*i town* may form *uch bodies!
to .’n lr yr« * p’ tli ar.-l
Interest herself in church work. That
is highly important.
The Most Lonesome Town.
“New York is the largest city in the
country, but it is the most lonesome
place on earth. It is more lonesome,
than the little town in which I was
born, and there wpre only 400 Inhabi
tants there.
“The trouble with people here Is
they are unneighborly. They think
i only of themselve* or of making
money.”
Miss Deane Is in the home of the
artist Penhryn Stanlaws and his wife,
into whose custody she was given
by officers of the Yorkville court
when she was arraigned on the
charge of attempting to kill herself.
She talks freely to Interviewers.
“If my story will help other girls,
I will gladly tell it,” she said to-day.
“At present I don’t want any one to
know who I am or who my relatives
I are, a® I don’t want them to suffer
L by my notoriety Byt the other
i things, my experience here and the
i things I have found out from these
experiences, I gladly will tell.
The Flirt Constant Menace
“I was born in Kentucky sixteen
'years ago. My father was wealthy
and prominent. My grandfather was
a general in the Confederate Army,
t 1 lived in Atlanta, Ga., for years.
Then, upon the death of my parents.
I was sent to a fashionable school up
state In New York, where I remained
until last June. Then 1 decided to
i seek my fortune, and I was flattened
; into the belief that my face would
win me fame as an artist’s model. I
came to New York on that quest, and
thus all my troubles began.
“The flirt is the greatest danger to
girls In New York. He is everywhere,
fallowing you, walking along the
street at your heels, crowding you in
street cars. It was so that I thought
every man In New York a cad, and
was afraid to leave my home.”
$1 Came Back After
44 Years, 14-Fold
I Stranger’s Conscience Forces Him to
Make Mistake Right With
Compound Interest.
PENNY AN, N. Y„ Nov. 1. A toll ’
gate keeper employed by Solomon D J
Weaver gave a strung* r XI »<» much
change one day 44 year He kept •
it and it never bothered his con
science until lately e
To-day the stranger sought <»ut the ,
wife of Solomon D Weaver’s de
<<a<d f-on, Mr*t George S Weaver. 1
i
lof Pennvan, and h»no«*<l her 114.53, ,
I wbf'-h Ik ,v.> ih- dollar *iw ,
'ompouud intww ■■ d i*”
MONEY RULERS
DFU.S.DDONIED
THINKS MM
*
Noted English Author Finds a
New Financial Era Opening
for America.
COUNTRY GROWING GREATER
‘I Think Pierpont Morgans Will
Not Flourish; a More Hum
drum Class Will Multiply.'
j
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON. Nov. I.—Sir Gilbert
Parker, the noted English author, who
returned to-day from New York, was
asked for his impressions of the trip
He told The American representative:
“Once Disraeli, after escaping with
extreme difficulty out of a comer
■ f TwK
a W' ■hfc • ?
where his word was In question, told
his private secretary, with that mor
dant and half cynical smile charac
teristically his own: ’God is great,
and it seems that He glows greater
day by day.’
“Without Disraeli’s cynicism I can
say. ’God has done much for the
United States; she is great and seeing
to grow greater every day.’
“I find, however, in spite of the
political activities of three Presi
dents, the financial conditions of the
country are more sensitive and nerv
ous than ever before, although there
is no panic.
Sees Great Activity.
“Strangely enough, this state of
affairs is accompanied by gr«at com
mercial and Industrial activity. New
York itself used to be great; now it
is prodigious. lam confident a great
change has passed over the country’s
financial life. I am certain that the
day of the great spectacular financier
and potentate is gone.
“I think Pierpont Morgans will not
flourish In the more broadly organ
ized financial life of the future, and
a humdrum class or financiers
will be multiplied over and over.
Financial Skyscraper Gone.
“I do nut say that this is good or
bad, or that It will make for the
country’s prosperity ur otherwise. I
think it is just one symptom In thit
particular phase of America’s prog
ress.
“There used to be one or two sky
scrapers In New York. Now they are
so common that nobody thinks any
thing about them. Likewise, the old
John Jacob Astor financial skyscraper
has been lost in the multitude or
those who are equal competitors, ye
ar© more amenable to the dictates of
society.”
W
TOWN MARSHAL KILLED
IN QUARREL ABOUT DOG
VIENNA, Nov. 1 J Dayton Godwin, I
marshal or Mlly. Dooly County, was |
shut and killed on the streets »t that ,
town to-day by Wright Hpra«llev. a !
fanuet Tilt Hiiuuihi* *.*»*• the n.-uh ,
a quitrnl .bulil i
THIS SECTION CONTAINS
SPORTS AND AUTO NEWS
Wartime Biscuits
Exhibited at Fair
Virginia Woman Preserves Bread
Cooked by Georgia Lieutenant
at Petersburg In Sixties.
I PETERSBURG. VA., Nov. I.
Three biscuits, cooked by Lieutenant
i Griffin, of a Georgia company, during
| the closing days of the Confederacy at
. : a camp near Petersburg, now tn the
j possession of Mrs. J. D. Simonson, of
. Beach, Va„ who prizes them highly
I as war relics, were exhibited at the
Petersburg Fair just closed.
Mrs. Simonson is unable to recall
the number of the Georgia compajiv,
but she remembers that Lieutenant
Griffin had a brother who was ser
geant In the company, and that there
was another sergeant named Lindsey.
Council Plans War
On 'Light Grabbing’
Ninth Ward Found to Have Secured
More Lamps Than Any Other
During Year.
When the Council Electric Lights
Committee met Saturday to review
the year’s work, it was discovered
that the Ninth Ward has secured
more street lights this year than any
other ward. Members of the com
mittee declared that this was due to
the fact that the apportionment for
lights was made in bulk without re
gard to the number of arcs. The
Nintn Ward delegates In Council
waited until the year was half gone,
and then their appropriation pro
vided for the maintenance of twice
as many lights as could have been
Installed at the first of the year.
The committee unanimously agreed
1 to present an ordinance in Council
I Monday to stop "light grabbing.’’ If
the ordinance passes, the new bud
get will provide for a specified num
ber of street lights instead of a lump
sum for’ lights
Mrs. Gould Offers
Sympathy to Cousin
Mrs. Debman's Alimony Hearing
Comes Up Monday at Durham.
Divorce Trial Later
DURHAM, N. C„ Nov. 1.-Before
Judge Chambers on Monday the
question of alimony for .Mrs. W. K.
Debman, who .s suing her husband
tor divorce, will come up.
“My husband was cruel to me and
I will not live with him again,” said
Mrs. Debman.
Mrs. Debman Is a cousin of Mrs.
George Gould and is a member of the
prominent Cameron family, she lias
received a letter of conciliation from
her cousin The divorce case will
j come up at the January term of court.
DEKALB NEW ERA PLANS TO
PRINT A BOOSTER EDITNON
I The I>< Kalb New Era, published In
| Decatur, Ga.. has announced that it win
I issue a special booster edition early Jn
| December .1 (>. flell will have it In
| chut*.' 1 The edition wIP contain about
, IS pa.:- - IK i .rees of DeKalb Coun-
I D will be ihoroug! v set forth. The
. t’.o<r<’ ~’ 1 rode Deca'ur has given
u..i wuiei' to the e uitloik
MEROAN
TRADES HIS
BENCHFOR
JUDGE HILL'S
New Judges Take Oaths of Office
Before Governor, and Will Be
gin Work Cleaning Heavy Dock
ets of AtlantaCourtsThisWeek.
Nominations Are Sent In for Jus
tices of Municipal Court—Rid
ley, Thomas, McClelland, Hath
, cock and L. Rosser, Jr., Named.
Within half hour after Judge L. S.
Roan had signed the bill of excep
tions in the Leo M. Frank case Sat
urday afternoon, the change In judges
of the Court ot Appeals, Atlanta and
Stone Mountain Judicial Circuits was
effected, the three Judges and Solici
tor General qualifying before Gov
ernor John M. Slaton.
Judge Ben H. Hill left the Court
of Appeals to become the fourth Su
perior Court Judge In Atlanta, thia
judgeship being provided for under an
act passed by the recent Legislature.
Judge 1,. S. Roan goes from the
Superior bench of the Stone Moun
tain Circuit to the place made va
cant on tho Court of Appeals by
Judge Hill’s appointment.
Solicitor General Charles L. Reid,
of the Stone Mountain Circuit, as
sumed tho place made vacant by
Judge Roan's transfer.
G. M. Napier succeeds Judge Reid
as Solicitor General of the Stone
Mountain Circuit.
These changes would have been
made some time ago but for Judge
Roan’s desire to complete the worb
on the Frank case. It was the opinion
of Governor Slaton and Judge Hill
also that the hearing of the motion
i for a new trial should be heard by
Judge Roan, and for this reason the
changes were held up.
Municipal Judges Held Up.
The appointment of the five judges
for Atlanta’s new municipal court Was
also held up on this account, tho
other three judges on the Fulton
County Superior Court, Judges Ellis,
I Pendleton anti Bell, desiring Judge
| Hill to have a voice in the election
■ of these judges.
Saturday afternoon the four judges
held a conference and nominated live
men for the places. These nomina
tions will I>e sent to the Governor
Monday.
The five men were nominated from
a list of 35 applicants and are J. i.’.
Ridley, Eugene D. Thomas, L. F. Mc-
Clelland, T. O. Hathcock and Luther
Z. Rosser. Jr.
From these live men Governor Sla
ton will select the Chief Justice, who
will serve four years. He Will also
name two of the others for four-year
terms, while the other two wlil serve
two years.
A general reviving of the work of
the courts fn Atlanta is expected to
result from the disposition of the
Frank case fur the present. Judge
Hill will start Monday on the felony
docket and hopes to clear it up by
the finish of the November term, De
cember 20.
200 Felony Cases on Docket.
More than 200 felony cases are on
the docket. Judge Hill will hold court
in tho Thrower Building, which has
been used by Judge Calhoun, while
the latter will try misdemeanor cases
in one of the courtrooms in the old
City Hall Building' at Hunter ami
Pryor streets.
The new Grand Jury will also be
organized Monday and will find u.
heavy docket awaiting it
A group of friends of the various
judges assembled In the Governor’s
reception room at the Capitol while
the oath of office was being adminis
tered to Judges Hill, Roan. Reid mid
Solicitor General Napier. Judge Reid
was accompanied by his two daugh
ters. Miss Katherine Reid and Miss
Ethel Reid. An interesting figure was
Judge Harry M. Held, the noted jurist
who has presided over the Atlanta
City Court for many years, and who
was one ot the first to congratulate
his brother, Judge Charles L. Reid
Judge Hill Discusses
Weight of Judgeship.
; Judge Hen H. Hill, In retiring irom
I the Appellate Court bench, wrote too
I following expression of appreciation
to Governor Slaton:
His Excellency John M. Slaton.
Governor. Atlanta, G«
My Dear Governor Slaton:
I cun not content myself wltn
merely a formal expression of ap
prtciatlon o ’ the honor conferred
U'|> >n me In w. appointment us one