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VOL. XII. NO. 104.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1913.
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DIVORCE EVIL
MAYOR PRAISES
WELFARE SHOW
IN OPENING TALK
Denominational Differences Laid
Aside While Preachers Get to
Bottom of Problem.
The Evangelical Ministers’ Associa
tion of Atlanta stands pledged to seek,
bv the conscience of its members, and
by suitable legislation, such restric
tions of marriage as ultimately will
solve the so-called “divorce problem”
in Georgia.
Two resolutions, or, rather, a reso
lution and an amendment, were adopt
ed Monday morning at the regular
monthly meeting of the association on
the fourth floor of the Wesley Me
morial Church building. Also, they
were adopted at the end of the hot
test debate, and the most varied dis-
; cussion, held in that body for a long
I time.
Asain and again there were several
j members seeking the floor at the same
time There was no tinge of per
sona it: but a tremendously Intense
| aim to get at the bottom of the prob-
em—to decide whether the “bitter
I record" of divorce and blasted lives
av at the door of the State, at the
. Ordinary's office, or in any measure
| a -he door of the church and the
| raptor’s study.
Not Marrying Machines.
Denominational differences were
laid aside.
For the first time in my life. I
! agree with a Baptist,” stated Dr. H.
j Fields Saumenig, as he aro6e to fol
low a fiery speech by the Rev. W.
R. Owen, secretary of the associa
tion.
| And then Mr. Saumenig, having got
| into his discussion, found out that he
I didn’t agree with Mr. Owen at all—
on some other part of the subject.
It all started with a crisp and bril
liant discussion by the Rev. Dunbar
I Ogden, who introduced the topic of
: divorce and marriage after the pres
ident, the Rev. W. C. Shaeffer, Jr.,
| v ad announced that it would b'e the
subject for the day.
"We are not merely ‘marrying ma
chines,' stated Dr. Ogden. "In this
matter we are ambassadors of God,
! o pronounce His blessing upon mar
riage."
And then Dr. Ogden launched into
a discussion of his own belief.' and
methods, and this precipitated the
main debate.
j "I ask these questions of every
'ouple that come to me to be mar-
I r ied,” he said. “I ask, ‘Have you
j been married before? Are you di
vorced? I? so, is your former partner
living?’
"And when either persons answers
' Tpr ' I leu them that I can not
i mar ry them until I have looked into
the cause of that divorce—and when
^ do I fi n( | that nine out of ten of
Col. Andrews Sails
On Liner With White
House Newlyweds
An interesting feature of the sail
ing Sunday of Colonel and Mrs. Wal
ter P. Andrews from New York for
Europe, where Colonel Andrews goes
as a special envoy of President Wood-
row Wilson to encourage displays by
Mediterranean countries at the Pan
ama-Pacific Exposition, was the
presence of Mr. and Mrs. Francis B.
Sayre on the same boat, the George
Washington, of the Hamburg-Amer
ican line. The daughter and son-in-
law of the President were on their
honeymoon trip.
Colonel Andrews and his commis
sion will be entertained by the Con
suls and Ambassadors at the various
Mediterranean countries and intro
duced to the leading foreign offi
cials.
Vote on Vetoes to
Show City Line-up
Political attention will center on
the action of Council Monday after
noon on two vetoes of Mayor Wood
ward. Since Mayor Woodward is so
soon to appoint Council committees
the action of the members is regard
ed as a sort of test of political sup
port of him.
One veto is on a resolution provid
ing for the employment of expert
electricians to inspect the new fire
alarm system.
The other message of the Mayor
disapproves an ordinance to close the
street at the comer of Broad and
Alabama streets to make room for
the erection of a new building.
NAVY CAPTJOiNHEAD
IS HELD BY SUCCEEDS
POLICE FINLEY
West Is Taken When Mother-in- Appointee Formerly Vice Presi-
them
are not proper persons to
be
j marr i p d hy a Presbyterian minister."
Dr. DuBose's View,
j • r H. M. DuBose took a different
view.
fhe difficulty lies not at the door
pastor’s study,” he said, "and
hoes not lie at the door of the
"lurch it lies at the place where
j T mar riage license was Issued
e is always a difficulty in the
a minister probing all the
r, 'umstances—and yet, so far as I
do so, I do probe any and all
lr h circumstances.
r " illustrate the difficulty of which
I N'eak, I may take as an example a
° n m °ny that 1 performed here not
P ’ Ver V long ago, about which there
Trust Can't Set Book
Prices, Court Rules
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1.—The fight
of the so-called Book Trust to main
tain arbitrary sale prices on copy
righted books culminated to-day in a
decision in the Supreme Court in
which the court held against the trust.
The main question at issue was as to
whether the trust Should have a
“copyright” monopoly in the sale of
such books.
Atlanta Young Men
Confess to Robbery
DALTON, Dec. 1.—Two young men,
giving their names as Claud Byron
and Frank Phillips, of Atlanta, In jail
here on a charge of burglary, con
fessed to Deputy Sheriff Thompson
that they robbed the Eoonomy De
partment Store of approximately $100
worth of goods.
Two accomplices escaped. Byron
and Phillips were arrested at Var-
nells.
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|Wilson Is Forced to
Abandon Canal Trip
W ashington, Dec. i.—president
-"U in-day had to abandon all
I g the Pwrni
I during the holidays. He will
Ira"* n ° vacation unless the Senate
■ ChV. c currency bill before
Two New Members in
Georgia Sphinx Club
ATHENS, Dec. 1.—Two new mem
bers of the "Sphinx'’ have been ini
tiated by that club of the University
of Georgia. They are A. B. Bernd,
of Macon, and Rucker Ginn, of
Royston. This is the greatest honor
that a student of the university can
attain, and the records of these two
seniors have been brilliant.
Ginn is captain of the 1914 baseball
team.
City Gets Right to
Tax Alien Bank Stock
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—The Su
preme Court of the United States to-
day decided that the city of New
York has the right to tax bank atock
owned by banks of other States,
The question was brought before
the court by the Amoskeag Savings
Bank, of Manchester, N. H.
With Eggs at$lDoz.,
Brazilians ‘Eat One'
CINCINNATI, Dec. 1.—"We don’t
pa t eggs in Brazil; we eat AN egg,"
said Captain J. F. Ellison, head of the
Amazon River Steam Navigation
Company. . ..
•‘Eggs in Brazil cost one dollar a
dozen,” he concluded.
Law Charges Officer At
tacked Her.
Another sensational chapter was
added Monday afternoon to the do
mestic affairs of Captain Ernest E.
West, U. S. N.. a prominent club
man of this city, when his mother-
in-law, Mrs. John J. Jones, issued a
warrant charging that he had beaten
and severely injured her at her home,
No. 485 Courtland street, earlier in
the day.
This latest difficulty is said to be
the outgrowth of a long series of al- j
tercatlons which have followed since •
Mrs. West's suit for divorce from the .
naval officer In which she charged I
him with habitual intoxication.
West was declared to have been j
intoxicated when he visited ' the j
Jones home Monday where he de- |
manded to see his 8-year-old son, •
Ernest Reid West. The boy had been
given into the custody of his mothe; '
pending the divorce proceedings.
According to .Mrs. Jones, with
whom Mrs. West is making her home,
when West asked to see the little
boy, she consented, and stepped back
into the house to call him. Then, it
Is charged. West caught Mrs. Jones
by the arm and wrenching it severe
ly threw her to the floor.
Sees Mother Fall.
Mrs. West, who had been attract
ed by the voices, came up in time to
see her mother fall. Uttering a
scream, she swooned.
Mrs. Jones, it is reported, scrambled
to her feet and fled through a rear
door to the home of friends. From
here she telephoned for assistance to
the police.
A policeman was dispatched to the
| Jones home, but before his arrival
the naval officer had disappeared.
A warrant was immediately taken
out charging W’est with disorderly
conduct and detectives .sent to make
the arrest. He was taken into cus
tody shortly after 1 o'clock at the
Capital City Club, where he had gone
to bed. He had to be forced into a
taxicab. At the police station he
refused to m,ake a statement.
Once Taught at Tech.
Captain West was formerly an in
structor at the Georgia School of
Technology. Eater he occupied the
professorship of science at the Boys
High School. During this time he had
a physical encounter with Superin
tendent of Schools William M. Sla
ton and, following this, West re-en
tered the navy and held a captaincy
in the marine corps for some time.
A month ago he came to Atlanta on a
furlough and has since resided at No.
21 East Linden street.
A week ago Mrs. Jones complained
that Captain West had visited her
home during the night and threw a
brick through the panel of the front
door. A search was made for him
at that time by detectives but he
could not be located.
To Show Our Women
How to Wear Hats
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS. Dec. 1.---Lewis, the well-
known milliner of Paris, is going to
New York next month to teach Amer
ican women how to wear hats.
He intends to lecture in fashionable
circles with two beautiful mannequins
and to show cinematograph films to
illustrate the exact angle required by
the newest models.
dent of Line, and Familiar
With Its Details.
Atlanta Egg Prices
Being Investigated
On Order FromU. S.
Acting under orders from the At
torney General, L. E. Raley, local
head of the Department of Justice,
is making an investigation into the
price of eggs in Atlanta. He will in
vestigate cold storage holdings. This
Is the outcome of the protest. Wash
ington complaining that a corner on
eggs was holding the price up.
Baley is making his investigation
in co-operation with others being
made all over the country.
Mrs. J. 0. Par-
mele, Showing
How to Bathe
the Baby
Properly.
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High Court Upholds
Child Workers' Law
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—A child
labor law of Illinois, which prohibits
the employment of boys under 16
years of age at dangerous occupa
tions, was declared valid in a decision
of tht Supreme Court to-day.
NEW YORK. Dec. 1.—Fairfax
Harrison, president of the Chicago,
Indianapolis and Louisville Railway,
was to-day elected president of the
Southern Railway to succeed the late
President W. W. Finley. He was
chosen at a special meeting of the
Board of Directors In this city.
Mr. Harrison was also elected head
of the Mobile and Ohio, the Ala
bama Great Southern Railway and
the Virginia and Southwestern Rail
way companies in place of Mr, Fin
ley.
Harrison's election had been gen
erally forecast. He is well acquainted
with the problems confronting the
road and an optimistic believer in the
future of the South. Confidential
friends say he has ambitious plans for
expansion of the road. The appoint
ment to the presidency becomes ef
fective to-morrow.
Francis Burton Harrison, New
York Congressman, recently appoint
ed to be Governor of the Philippines,
is his brother. Finley’s successor is
a Virginian by birth. His father was
secretary to Jefferson Davis during
the days of the Confederacy.
44 Years Old and Yale Man.
Mr. Harrison was bom in 1869 and
was graduated from Yale with the
A. B. degree in 1890, and from Co
lumbia with the A. M. degree in 1891.
He was admitted to the bar in New
York in 1892 and continued the prac
tice of law in this city until 1896,
When he entered the services of the
Southern Railway in the legal depart
ment as solicitor. In 1903 he was
made assistant to the president, and
1906 became vice president, which
position he held until 1910, when he
resigned on being elected president
of the Chicago, Indianapolis and
Louisville. However, he continued as
a. director of the Southern Railway, so
that his service with the parent com
pany has been uninterrupted.
Finley’s Trusted Adviser.
Mr. Harrison was one of Mr. Fin
ley’s closest and most trusted advi
sers, and is thoroughly in sympathy
with the policies which made Mr.
Finley’s administration so success
ful, both for the Southern Railway
and the territory’ served by its lines.
Though Mr. Harrison entered the
service of the Southern in the legal
department, his experience ims not
been confined to that branch of the
service. He has given much study
to financial, traffic and operating
problems and is intimately acquaint
ed with conditions on the Southern
Railway and throughout the section
which it traverses.
Driver Lost His Load
Chasing Money Thief
DURHAM, N. C.. Dec. 1.—Leaning
back in his wagon for a package of
bread, a bakery driver was startled
by the jingling of money and, turn
ing, saw a negro leaving with his
money box containing more than
$100. The driver gave chase and
while hunting the robber his supply
of bread was stolen.
Neither of the robbers has been
captured.
Kentucky Maximum
Freight Rate Valid
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—The
maximum freight rate law of Ken
tucky, creating a State Railroad Com
mission, and written by Commission
er McChord, of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, formerly a Ken
tucky official, was approved to-day by
the Supreme Court.
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Adamson Has Bill
To Let Advertising
Pay Railroad Fare
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—Congress
man Adamson of Georgia, chairman of
the House Committee on Interstate
and Foreign Commerce, to-day intro
duced two bills of Importance to the
railroads of the country.
The first gives the Interstate Com
merce Commission authority to regu
late stock and bond issues of all in
terstate commerce carriers and to pro
hibit over capitalization. Roads now
over capitalized must retire excessive
bonded indebtedness certificates.
A second hill authorizes railroads
to exchange transportation for news
paper advertising, but in no case shall
the road give a certificate for more
transportation than the actual cost of
advertising at the pewspapers’ current
rates.
Railroads subject to interstate com
merce laws are required to advertise
in at least one paper In each county
through wihch the roads run.
Hunt Aged Woman
Straying From Home
Police Monday are scouring the
city for Mrs. W A. Nelson, an aged
woman, who strayed from the home
of her daughter. Mrs. G. N. Carroll,
No. 139 East North avenue. Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. Nelson has suffered a slight
mental derangement, which is as
cribed ns the cause of her action. She
was dressed in black, and wore a
shawl over her shoulders. She also
carried a handbag.
Daylight Bandit Robs
R,R, Agent in Chicago
CHICAGO, Dec 1.—-A lone bandit,
braving daylight and the chance of en
countering a dozen railroad men, to
day entered the station of the I.ake
Shore in South Chicago, tied and gagged
the agent and escaped with $700.
Pencils Blamed for
Diphtheria Epidemic
SUFFIELD, CONN., Dec. 1.—Lead
pencils, distributed and collected each
dav in a school here, are blamed for
an epidemic of diphtheria among the
pupils.
Mayor James G. Woodward, with
a few words expressive of his ap
preciation of the purposes of the ex
hibit, formally opened Atlanta’s Child
Welfare and Health Show Monday
noon in the building at No. 198
Peachtree street
Women prominent in society, in
women's club circles and in the im
portant reform movements of the
city were present in large numbers
on the opening day.
The object of the show, in the
words of one of the enthusiastic wo
men, is to teach all of the women of
Atlanta:
How to make proper preparation
for the visit of Old Doctor Stork
How to care for the precious bur
den that the Old Doc brings, through
the early days of its career.
How to feed and clothe the little
person.
How to bathe it—for they say there
is more to bathing the child than
simply dousing him in the water.
How to Fight Disease.
How to protect the child from dis
eases.
How to place about this young
member of the community the prop
er sanitary safeguards.
How to insure Lts moral and physi
cal development.
Mayor Woodward looked at the
various interesting exhibits and then
said to the women:
"I appreciate the object of this show,
pose.
"The only chance you have for any
legree of failure is that you may not
get the people here who most need
this sort of instruction. You must
make a strong appeal to the poor of
the city, to those who know little of
the fundamentals of caring for the
child’s welfare.
"I believe that the city should take
a greater interest in its children and
should make provision for those who
Put Anti-Trust Law
Violators in Jail, Is
Henry's Plea in Bill
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1.—Impris
onment for personal guilt In violating
the Sherman anti-trust law, and the
adoption of some drastic amendments
to the measure, were urged to-day in
a bill introduced in the House by
Congressman Henry, of Texas.
Henry’s bill declares illegal every
contract, combination or agreement
between two or more persons, be
tween firms, corporations, officers of
corporations intended to restrain
trade, to Juggle the prices of com
modities and to prevent competition
either In manufacture, transportation
or sale.
Boy Scouts Attend
Boy Hunter's Burial
ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA., Dec. 1.—
With Boy Scout honors and with the
entire freshman class of the High
School attending, the funeral of Na
than Maddox, aged 14, who accidental
ly killed himself while hunting yester
day. was held this afternoon.
The boy was testing the ejector of
his auto matic shotgun when the gun
was discharged. The entire load of
shot struck him in the waist, nearly
severing bis body.
parents are not able to care for them.
“There's another problem before us.
It Is the negro problem, and we must
face it. We can not ignore them, for
In great measure upon their health
depends our own. They are packed
together six or eight in a room, and
these are the same negroes that care
for our children and prepare our food."
One of the most interesting features
of the show’ is an actual children's
clinic, where deformed and ailing chil
dren aree ared for. Prominent phy
sicians of Atlanta have volunteered to
he at the show’ continuously, and
parents may have the privilege with
out cost of having the ailments of
crippled or defective, and wuos« tueir children diagnosed Uiere.
Widow Scores First as Legal Bat
tle, Long Delayed by Frank
Case, Is Renewed.
An attack on the test made
by Dr. IT. F. Harris, State Chem
ist, upon the body of Joshua B.
Crawford was made by Dr. J. M.
McCandless, an analytical chem
ist, in a statement of interroga
tories submitted in the hearing
of the famous Crawford will con
troversy, Monday morning when
the case was resumed before
Auditor James L. Anderson, aft
er a long delay on account of
the Frank trial.
Dr. McCandless charged that
the test was incomplete because
a color test instead of a quanti
tative analysis was made.
Following immediately after the
testimony of County Physician Dr.
J. W. Hurt that he had given Joshua
B. Crawford morphine during his last
Illness and denying that there were
any symptoms of opium poisoning,
the testimony of Dr. McCandless was
regarded as strengthening materially
the defense which is being built up
by the attorneys of Mrs. Mary Belle
Crawford, who is accused of causing
the death of her husband.
Dr. McCandless said that the brown
color revealed in the test made by
Dr. Harris after the body of Craw
ford had rested in the grave for four
years, might have resulted from pois
ons developing out of decomposition
of the body.
Not Unusual Amount.
Even if the color was caused by the
presence of meconic acid, a product of
opium, the amount stated to have
been found by Dr. Harris—one-
fiftieth of a grain—was in accordance
with the amount contained in the
cough syrup and hypodermic adminis
tered under the direction of Dr. Hurt
to the wealthy farmer, according to
Dr. McCandless. The only reliable test
was the quantitative one, the inter
rogatories declared.
Joshua B. Crawford left an estate
valued at more than $250,000. About
a year before his death he married
Mrs. Belle Savage, of St. Augustine.
Fla., and formerly of Pittsburg, Pa.
His will favored his widow with prac
tically all of his estate. A host of
relatives have combated the will .and
have attempted to show his death was
caused by the administering of opium
hy Mrs. Crawford. This litigation is
on the civil part of the case. The
criminal charge is pending before the
present Fulton County Grand Jury.
Attorneys Reuben Arnold and Bur
ton Smith are representing Mrs.
Crawford in the will hearing, while
Colonel J. S. James and Albert Kem
per are counsel for the heirs. The
hearing is being conducted in the
office of William C. Massey, commis
sioner of the Fulton Superior Court,
on the fourth floor of the old Cham
ber of Commerce Building. There
were less than half a dozen persons
outside of the attorneys present at
the hearing Monday morning. Short
ly before 1 o’clock a recess was taken
until Thursday morning. Mr. Ar
nold announced that the defense
would close, reserving the right to
place a number of doctors on the
stand later.
But two witnesses were placed on
the stand Monday morning These
were Dr. Hurt, County Physician, and
Miss Emily Townsend, a trained
nurse, both of whom attended Mr.
Crawford in his last illness and who
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Floating Barrooms*
Subject to License
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1 Floating
barrooms on the Mississippi River
are subj#rf to liquor license laws of
the various States that border on
the river, according to a decision ot,
the Supreme Court to-day, M
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