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Kippered HerringHas
Soul, if You but Knew
DEATH TIM IF
Special Dress Parade With Drill
by Seventeenth U. S. Infantry
Planned—Visitors to Have Many
Pleasures; Prizes for Some.
Appeals Made for More Residents
to Open Homes to Young Farm
ers, Only 600 of Whom Have
Been Provided With Quarters.
Georgia's corn club boys will b«
here this week 1,000 strong. They will
begin to come into Atlanta Tuesday,
the first day of the Third Annual
Corn Show, and by Wednesday morn
ing the majority of them will have
arrived.
At least 600 of these boys will be
entertained in Atlanta homes, that
number having been provided for in
response to the call of the Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce. The corn
show committee hopes that by the
time they come a sufficient number
of homes will have been provided to
take care of all, but if not, some pro
vision will be made for them, as the
committee has determined not to turn
any of the visiting boys away.
Special appeal has been made to
800 or more committeemen of the At
lanta Chamber of Commerce to do
Just one thing more for the Chamber
this year in addition to the splendid
work they have already done, and
that is, If possible, to take two of
these visiting corn club boys into
their homes. Those who are in a
position to do so are expected to re
spond to this earnest request of the
tliamber
Monday morning, by consent of the
Board of Education, 5,000 cards will
be distributed among the pupils of
the sixth, seventh and eighth grades
of all the grammar schools of the
city, with the request that pupils se
cure all the places for the boys they
can and return the cards early Tues
day morning. It is earnestly request
ed that the accurate name and ad
dress shall be given, so that none of
these boys will be wrongly directed.
The first, feature of the entertain
ment provided for the visiting corn
club boys will be a special dress pa
rade and exhibition drill by the Sev
enteenth United States Infantry at
Fort McPherson, arranged through
the kindness of Colonel J. T. Van
Orsdale. Special street cars will be
provided to take the boys and girls
to the fort free of charge. These
cars wiU leave the State Capitol at
3 o'clock sharp Wednesday afternoon,
and the boys will be brought directly
back to the city at the conclusion of
the program.
Wednesday night there will be ex
hibited, for the benefit of the visit
ing boys and girls, at the Grand
Opera House, one of the most inter
esting moving pictures of the age, en
titled “The Dawn of Plenty." This
picture, which was secured for the
occasion by the State Department of
Agriculture, and the presentation of
which, with a lecture, requires about
an hour and a half, deals with the
history of agriculture and harvesting
from the earliest known period down
to the present data It will begin at
t o’clock and complimentary tickets
for the picture will be mailed to each
host or hostess of the corn club boys,
who are cordially invited to attend.
The annual co^n show parade,
which will take place Thursday after
noon, December 4, will be the big
event of the show, and will be the
most extensive parade of its kind yet
riven.
The parade will be in charge of
Adjutant General J. Van Holt Nash
grand marshal, and will form
promptly at 2:30 o'clock at the Audi
torium-Armory. It will start at 3
o'clock sharp and will follow the
route including the Washington street
viaduct to Mitcheli street to White
hall, up Peachtree to Houston, to Ivy,
to Gilmer, to Washington and back
to the State Capitol where it will
disband.
The first division of the parade will
consist of the military in charge of
General R. K. Evans, commanding the
Southeasternn Division of the Unit
ed States army. This will include the
Fifth Infantry Regiment, Georgia
National Guard; the Marist College
cadets, the cadets of the Georgia
Military Academy and any other mili-
organizations which may en-
Mlss Lind af-Hageby, Who Is
Psychic, 8ure Fish, Eaten,
Will Haunt You.
More to
Tea Than Just
NEW YORK, Not. 29.-—"Do not eat
kippered herring, for it has a soul
and wil lcome back and make trou
ble for fou.'’
This was the advice of Miss Lind
af-Hageby, psychic and viviaection-
lst suffragette, lawyer and author,
who arrived on the Lusitania to at
tend the convention of the anti-vivi
section league at Washington.
I “All things have souls, the lowest
animal as well as the most brilliant
men,” said Miss af-Hageby as the
Lusitania neared quarantine.
"Then this kippered herring which
lies on my plate has a soul?" she was
asked.
“Yes, indeed,” answered Miss af-
Hagebv, “and if you eat It I venture
it will return to trouble you.”
Georgians Are Named
As Peace Delegates
Delegates from Georgia to the one
hundredth anniversary of peace
among the English-speaking nations,
which will be celebrated in Rich
mond, Va., December 3 and 4. were
announced Saturday by Governor
Slaton.
The list includes: Dr. J. ,1. Hall,
Atlanta; Wllmer L, Moore, Atlanta;
Rev. Dr. John E. White, Atlanta;
Rev. Dr. C. B. Wilmer, Atlanta: Rev.
Dr. Dunbar H. Ogden, Atlanta; Col
onel Walter P. Andrews, Atlanta;
the Rev. Howard T. Oree. Augusta;
Charlton E. Battle. Columbus; Gen
eral Peter W. Meldrim, Savannah;
Judge Walter G. Charlton, Savan
nah; Kev. Dr. W. N. Ainsworth, Ma
con, J. Lindsay Johnston, Rome; Pro
fessor H. C. White, Athens; J. S.
Shingler, Ashburn, and Dr. George
Brown. Atlanta.
Young Farmer in Hart
Ends Life With Razor
HARTWELL, Nov. 29.—Walter B.
Shirley, 35 years old, a prominent
poung farmer of Hart County, com
mitted suicide late to-day by cutting
his throat with a razor at his home
in Shoal C’reek District, dying In a
short time. He was apparently In
good health. It Is believed he was de
spondent over financial adversities.
Shirley was a son of the late James
N. Shirlej\ and was one of a promi
nent North Georgia family. He leaves
a wife and two small children. The
funeral and interment will be on Sun
day at Shoal Creek Church, of which
he was a member.
Negro Gets Life for
Killing of Newsom
Judge Hill on Monday will sen
tence Ed Fowler, a negro, to a life
term for the murder of H. F. New
som, a young white man, following a
verdict of guilty with a recommen
dation for mercy which wag read in
court Saturday.
The Jury was out for six hours and
late Friday night returned a sealed
verdict. The killing took place at
the comer of Whitehall and Ala
bama streets about ten months ago.
The defense endeavored to prove an
alibi.
John Copeland Quits
State Risk Office
John Copeland, State Deputy In
surance Commissioner, Saturday seit
his resignation to Comptroller Gen
eral Wright, to take effect January 1.
He will become a. consulting actuary-
in Atlanta.
The place made vacant is the high
est subordinate position in the De
partment of Insurance. It pays a sal
ary of $3,000 and is filled by appoint
ment.
Serves 23 Days to
Protect a Friend
CHATTANOOGA, Nov. 29.—After
he had remained In Jail for 23 days
for contempt of court because he re
fused to divulge to the Grand Jui#
the name of a friend who had sold
him a pint of whisky, Charles F. Jelf
was released this afternoon by Judge
McReynolds.
Jelf never gave the information de
sired but it was secured through an
other person.
Patterson Wars on
Chattanooga Liquor
CHATTANOOGA, Nov. 29.—With
ex-Governor M. R. Patterson as the
chief speaker, the Anti-Saloon
League of Tennessee will hold a field
day here to-morrow.
Other speakers will be former
United States Senator W. R. Webb
and Professor Gus Dyer, of Yander-
added the story of his experiences to
the sensational charges that have
been made against Warden William
H. Moyer by Julian Hawthorne and
others, declared Saturday that the
half of the cruelty and inhuman treat
ment of prisoners practiced by the
prison authorities has never been told,
and probably never will be.
“While I was there I saw many
things that were Just as bad as the
Incident of the prisoner who tore a
hole in his side with a nail and
crammed the hole full of broken
glass,” said Mr. Archer, “and there
are hundreds of cases that the public
has never heard of and that it will
never hear of. Men die out there from
no other cause than being confined in
the ‘hole,’ and the public accepls
without question the stories of their
death that are sent out by the prison
authorities I've Been men carried on
stretchers from the 'hole’ to the hos
pital—and when they died a few days
later it was the ‘hole 1 that killed
them.
“And unless the system has changed
sine® I worked there a tew years ago,
the stories about the food are true,
too. They didn’t give the men enough
to eat. It wasn’t very often that the
prisoners had meat, and w’hen they
did they didn’t get enough to do them
much good. A little syrup, potatoes
and soup and coffee—vile coffee, too—
was their usual fare. And the vege
tarians can say v hat "they please—
meat is necessary If a man does man
ual labor.”
Mr. Archer is now living in Sum
ter. Ga., where he Is engaged in the
real estate business. For the past two
or three weeks he has been in Atlan
ta visiting his brother.
Underwood to Hold
Congressional Seat
WASHINGTON, Nor. 29.—Majority
Leader Underwood, of the House of
Representatives, announced to-day
that he would reain his seat in the
Lower House pending his contest for
election to the Senate of the United
States from Alabama.
This action Is taken, it is under
stood, at the instance of President
Wilson, w r ho wants Underwood to lead
the battles of the majority in the
regular session of Congress which Is
to convene Monday.
Georgia and Florida
Ry. Directors Named
AUGUSTA, Nov. 29.—Directors for
the ensuing ye^r were elected at the
annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Georgia and Florida Railroad here
to-day. They are:
R. Lancaster Williams and H. C.
Huffer, Jr.. Baltimore; B. W. Duer,
Thomas Barrett, Jr., and George R.
Lombard, Augusta; J. M. Aahley,
Douglas; F. R. Durden, Savannah;
Jesse Thompson, Swalnsboro; Thad
Adorns, Moultrie: J. M. Wilkinson,
Valdosta; E. L. Bemiss and L. M. Wil
liams, Richmond; F. Q. Brown and
W. R. Sullivan, New York.
The directors are not expected to
change the present officers, w ho are
R. Lancaster Williams, president, and
Messrs. Brown, Bemiss, Wilkinson
ana Duer, vice presidents, the latter
also being general manager.
Last Descendant of
Andrew Jackson Dies
DURAND, MICH., Nov. 29.—The
family of President Andrew Jackson
passed from the earth with the death
here of Mrs. Sarah Jane White Cham
bers, a granddaughter of General
Jackson .
Mrs. Chambers was 93 years old.
and was horn in West Virginia. She
was the last of three daughters of
President Jackson’s only son.
Maybe you don’t tango. Let’s ad
mit. for the sake of argument, that
you don’t, and that you are saying in
your heart that the tango tea at the
Piedmont Hotel Monday afternoon for
the benefit of The Sunday American-
Georgia Empty Stocking Fund doesn’t
interest you a little bit.
Maybe you are saying that. But if
you are It is without thinking of what
the tango tea means. It is without
realizing that the dollar you pay for
admission into that gay, bright tea
room will go toward the purchase of a
dream for one of Atlanta’s poor, to
ward making true a wistful Christmas
hope that hundreds of poor boys and
girls, toll-worn mothers and helpless
fathers are cherishing.
Cherishing, with a fear at their
hearts that Christmas morning wil!
dawn to show them empty stockings,
and a hom^ whoae habitual gloom
and sordidness is not enlivened by
even so much as a gleam of the
Christmas cheer with which more for
tunate folks will enjoy.
Atlanta society has lent itself whole-
heartedly to the plan for raising
money by means of the tango tea.
Prominent men and women not only
will attend, but will work actively to
ward the success of the novel benefit.
The Piedmont Hotel management, en
listing with all sincerity Into the work,
has proffered the use of its women’s
orchestra for the entertainment, with
out charge. Ther3 will be no charge
for any services that afternoon.
Every dollar, every penny, of the re
ceipts will be conserved eagerly, be
cause the money has a wonderful sig~
niflcance in this case.
Chance to Buy Dreams.
You can buy the ordinary material
commodities at any time, you know,
but it is only a few times In your
Average Person lifetime that you will
have the opportunity of buying dreams
and happiness for boys and girls and
tired women who have all too little of
tho«"' things.
And not only dreams and happiness,
but the actual necessities of existence,
without which they are trying to live,
and without which they are shudder
ing at everything that promises win
ter and cold.
Big, hearty Atlanta is waking up to
the. necessity of these wards of tir-
city. There are a hundred evidences.
Saturday night, as the Sunday pi-
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In a Letter to The Boston Post He
Congratulates That Paper for
Printing Ex-President Mellen’sStory
and Says the Administration Is
Doing Its Best to Show Apprecia
tion of Railroad Support.
IT) OSTON, Nov. 29.—The following letter from WTffiaxn Rarv
dolph Hearst appeared in The Boston Post on Thursday
Empty Christmas Stocking Fund Editor Smiles
as Generous Atlantans Raise
His Fund.
The letter was Rent in response to a request for an interview fol
lowing the Boston paper’s publication of the story of Ex-President
Charles S. Mellen, of the New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad.
Mr. Mellen’r story was reprinted by The American. His
explanation of the financial looting of the road and the remedy
therefor bear out the points made by Mr. Hearst a year ago.
Mr. Hearst’s letter reads:
“I want to Ray a word of congratulation to The Post on fh»
interview with Mr. Mellen, that it printed November 9. The
printing of such an article is a great public service. It is an
authoritative exposition of the evils and abuses of railroad mo
nopoly.
“It definitely fixes the fault of the mismanagement of the New
York and New Haven Railroad. It locates the blame for the de
terioration of the property, the deaths of many unfortunate pas
sengers and the damage to business interests of New England
upon the actually responsible individuals—the great speculative
bankers of Wall Street.
“These men have no concern for the business interests of New
England, for the welfare of the railroad property or the safety
for the railroad’s passengers, so long as they themselves can secure
their speculative profits.
“The action of these speculative bankers in interfering with
the development of a great and important section of this country,
in restricting the condition, the wealth in the section, in hamper
ing the transportation, in destroying the property and murdering
the citizens of that section, is essentially criminal.
“The individuals responsible for such conditions should be
regarded as criminals.
“Politicians who condone such criminality merely because of
the wealth and political influence of the responsible individuals
are nothing less than accessories after the fact.
“Attorney General McReynolds has the New York and New
Haven Railroad situation before him for action, or rather, it. would
appear, for inaction.
“It remains to be seen whether the special railroad repre
sentative of a railroad administration will proceed against the
individuals clearly shown to be responsible in the Mellen interview.
Personally, I doubt if anything will be done to the dissatisfaction
of any railroad interest by the Wilson Administration.
“The Wilson political boom was conceived in the veto of the
railroad safety crossing bill by Mr. Wilson when he was Governor
of New Jersey.
“During the time that elapsed between Governor Wilson’s
veto of the railroad safety crossing bill and the repassage and the
signing of the bill by the administration that succeeded him, sew.
enty people were killed and ninety-two mutilated—a fact which
indicates both the sincerity of Mr. Wilson’s devotion to the rail
roads and the intensity of his ambition to be President.
“The Wilson boom was definitely delivered at the Baltimore
convention, where the largest number of railroad lobbyists ever
assembled was led to a Wilson victory under the leadership of
Mitchell P. Alger, attorney for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
“Since the election of Mr. Wilson, the Wilson Administration
has done its best to show its appreciation of the railroad support
which elected it.
“It permitted the reorganization of the Union and Southern
Pacific in harmony with the desires of these railroads and in oppo
sition to the interests of the States affected, although President
Taft had prevented this unjust reorganization and the State of
California had attempted to enjoin it.
“Again, when the States of Minnesota and Wisconsin were
attempting to compel the railroads to do their duty to the citizens
of those States, and were employing the powers of their State
Railroad Commissions to this end, the Wilson Administration
appeared before the Supreme Court of the United States in an
attempt to deny such powers to the Railroad Commissions of those
States.
“The United States Supreme Court overruled the specious
federalists plea of the Attorney General of the United States and
sustained the States of Minnesota and Wisconsin. The Attorney
General of the United States accomplished nothing other than fur
ther to establish the sympathy of the Administration at Washing
ton with the railroad abuses and oppression.
“The Administration at Washington has been in favor of com
pelling the coastwise shipping of the United States to pay tolls
through the Panama Canal, for the simple reason that the coast
shipping will be the main competitor of the transcontinental raiU
roads, and whatever canal toll shall be added to the cost of tran*»
portntion from one coast to the other of the United States can bsi
added And will be added to the cost of transportation by the tram*
continental railroads.
“Undoubtedly, if (he railroads can secure a canal toll on
intercoast shipping, they can impose the same additional charge
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