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‘Man Born to Chase
Growler and Love/
Says‘Wittiest Maid’
Her Negative Answer to ‘Should
Women Propose?' Wins Prize
in Virginia Contest.
RICHMOND. VA„ Dec. 6.—Miss
STOPS Hi Pi
Two New Railroads
Defendants in Suit
Total of $60,000,000 Penalties Now
Asked in Mississippi Anti-
Trust Cases.
CITY PASTORS
TALK TO-DAY ON
‘Poor Little Rich GirP Happy Now
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RamonaBordenHas Home at Last
Neil R. Lee Murphy, of this city, pro
nounced by General Bennett H. flew Anesthesia Does Away With
Young, of Louisville, commander of
the Grand Camp, United Confederate
Veterans, the wittiest girl in the
South, has been awarded first prize
in a contest here for the best an-
Insisting Also Sixteen Destroyers,
Eight Submarines, Two Gun
boats Needed, Navy Board Says
Small Fleet Will Bring War.
Secretary Expresses Belief That
Budget Can Not Afford So Many
Dreadnoughts — Would Take
Initiative for “Naval Holiday.”
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. — Two
dreadnoughts, eight destroyers and
three submarines are the recommen
dations made by Secretary Daniels In
his first annual report to the Presi-
dent.
The recommendations of the Nary
General Board, which are appended to
the report, call for four battleships,
sixteen destroyers, eight submarines,
a tender, two oilers, two gunboats, a
transport, one supply ship and one
hospital ship.
Admiral I>ewey vigorously upholds
the four-battleship program and op
poses the Secretary In no uncertain
tone.
Secretary Daniels believes the pro
gram he advocates to be as heavy as
the revenues of the Government will
permit. He says:
Likes Churchill Idea.
"The revenues of the country do
not permit so large an expansion in
naval building as the department
might desire to enter upon at this
time.”
Mr. Daniels indorses the sugges
tion of Winston Churchill for a "na
val holiday.” He says:
"The suggestion of a vacation for
one year in battleship building has
met with hearty approval, and I ven
ture the earnest hope that this will
bear fruit in a well-considered plan
by navy-building 1 nations not to let
the unnecessary competition go to
further lengths.
Contending for a continuing build
ing policy, Admiral Dewey, speaking
through the general board, says:
"The general board does not be
lieve the nation stands ready to aban
don or modify any of its well-estab
lished national policies, and repeats
its position that the naval policy of
the country should be to possess
fleet powerful enough to prevent or
answer any challenge to these poli
cies.
Strength Needed Varies.
"The absolute strength necessary to
accomplish this is a question that de
pends upon the national policies of
prospective challengers and the force
they can bring against us, and hence
is relative and varies with their naval
policies and building program.
"The forecast of the board with re
gard to naval development In other
countries has proved remarkably ac
curate. The absence of any definite
naval policy on our part, except in
The general board, and the failure of
the people, the Congress and the ex
ecutive Government to recognize the
necessity for &uch a policy, has al
ready placed us in a position of infe
riority which may lead to war; and
-his inferiority is progressive and
will continue to increase until'the ne
cessity for a definite policy is recog
nized and that policy put into oper
ation.
Calls Hopes Futile.
"The general board, while adher
ing to the policy it has consistently
followed for the last ten years, and
believing that the naval needs of the
nation call for a fleet of 48 ships of
first line in 1920, recognizes con-
'Tiuns as they exist and the futility
"f hoping or expecting that the ships
<’nd men its policy calls for will be
provided by 1920.
The general board believes that
'he people, with full understanding of
1 ne meaning of and reasons for naval
Power, will instruct the legislative
branch of the Government, and that
’ lat branch, with the same under
standing, will provide the means.
Suggests Publicity.
If the people, having been given
meaning of and the reasons for
naval power, fail to instruct the Cpn-
the responsibility and the re-
su.ting material loss and national hu-
nulUtion rests upon them; and if the
ongiess, having been instructed by
tl ‘ e l*ople, fails to provide the means,
ten the responsibility is theirs.
I he general board believes that
* v il lack of understanding of these
,. lews by the people at large pre-
1 ‘®nts the adoption of a consistent na-
a ‘ Policy, and recommends to the
| "partment a system of extended pub-
! y in all matters relating to naval
swer to the question "Should Women
Propose ?”
Her answer follows:
"Let man propose forever! Cheap
gifts are lightly treasured. Man most
admires in woman modesty. Without
respect love dies. From the growler
to love, man is constituted to chase.
If the bride must be given away, let
father do it. In Old Virginia, at least,
God forbid the bride unsought will
ever give herself away, for ‘de fruit
dat draps afore ’tls shook am apt
to be too mellow.’ ”
Miss Murphy has been a belle at
serveral reunions, having made her
debut at the meeting of the grand
camp In Mobile In the spring of 1910.
Mother Fears Arctic
Explorer Is Dead
CHICAGO, Dec. 6.—University of Chi
cago friends of Ernest DeKoven Lef-
fingwell, a student at the Midway In
stitution, fear he has lost his life on his
final dash for the North Pole. A tele
gram was received yesterday at the
university from Leffingwell’s mother,
who Is In Pasadena, Cal.
She telegraphed she had not heard
from her son since August 26, and that
he was to have returned from Point
Barrow, Alaska, by November 1.
In the spring of this year Lefflngwell
joined the Steffansson expedition. He
had promised his parents that this would
be his last Arctic trip.
She Loses Divorce;
Longest on Record
NEWPORT, R. I„ Dec. 6.—-A five
years' divorce case, the longest in the
history of the State, ended here when
the Superior Court refused to grant a
decree to Mrs. Ina Chinn Walker, a
former Washington belle, who entersd
suit for legal separation from Lieu
tenant Commander James W. Q.
Walker, formerly of the United States
Navy, early in 1909.
Walker has a suit for divorce pend
ing.
Savannah Plans For
Great Boosters’ Day
SAVANNAH, Dec. 6.—Great plans
are being made for the celebration of
Boosters’ Day in Savannah. December
10, when It Is planned to have every J the Patent suffered
citizen visit all manufacturing plants
Ether and Danger to Patient
It Entails.
SUBJECT REMAINS AWAKE
Study of Nerve Centers and Zones
Enables Physician to Develop
Wonderful System.
HARTFORD, CONN., Dec. 6.—In
the presence of 24 prominent sur
geons of this city, Dr. William H.
Fitzgerald, an ear and throat special
ist of this city, who formerly prac
ticed in New York City, demonstrated
a new anesthesia at St. Francis’ Hos
pital this afternoon.
Instead of using drugs or gas Dr.
Fitzgerald applies pressure to the
nerves. He has used the method oc
casionally in his private practice with
satisfactory results, but has only just
developed it to a point where he
would use It in general hospital prac
tice.
Studies Nerve Zones.
The method of anesthesia practiced
by Dr. Fitzgerald is based on the
known fact that there are areas in
the nose, throat and mouth that are
highly sensitive and which contain
delicate and intricate nerve sources.
It was by study of the zones that Dr.
Fitzgerald worked out his discovery,
the method of applying which he
demonstrated in so startling a way at
the clinic.
The physician selected several pa
tients as subjects for his tests. In
one case he anesthetized the hand of
a woman so that pins were thrust
Into the flesh in several places, and
she felt not the slightest pain though
fully conscious.
In another case a foot was anes
thetized and fifteen incisions made
without the slightest pain. Two teeth
were painlessly extracted.
Punctures Ear Drum.
In still another case, after produc
ing an anesthetized condition, the
physician punctured a subject’s ear
drum without any sensation of pain.
The puncturing of an ear drum is
generally regarded as one of the most
painful of operations.
Another test was even more start
ling. After producing a condition of
anesthetization the physician removed
a foreign object from the subject’s
eye, and then, to the amazement of
his watchers, drew a scalpel lightly
across the patient’s eye. In this case,
MERIDIAN. MISS., Dec. 6.—Attor
ney General R. A. Collins, of Missis
sippi, has filed an amended bill here In
the anti-trust suit formerly brought
against the Mobile and Ohio, the Ala-
abama Great Southern and the South
ern Railways in Mississippi, Intro
ducing as new defendants the Ala
bama and Vicksburg and the New
Orleans and Northeastern Railroads.
It is alleged that the Southern Rail
way controls all the other defendants.
Penalties amounting to about $20.-
000,000, In addition to the $40,000.1)00
asked In the original bill, are asked
for violation of the Mississippi ant*
trust law.
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t- She Pours Out Her Soul in Song
Holy Catholic’ Stays
In Methodist Creed
In Response to Governor’s Proc”
lamation Churches to Help
Stamp Out the Disease.
PRETTY GIRLS TO SELL SEALS
Mrs, Willett Chairman of Great
Stamp - Selling Campaign
Which Will Start Monday.,
Miss Ramona Borden, daughter of multi-millionaire milkman,
whose early life was saddened by the separation of her parents,
and who disappeared from a sanitarium early this year, has found
a home and happiness among friends in California.
MONTGOMERY, Dec. The Ala-
bama Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, to-day
voted against the proposition to elim
inate the words “holy catholic
church” from the Methodist creed.
Those in favor of the proposition
fought to substitute the words,
"Church of God,” in place of "holy
catholic.”
Five additional clerical delegates
to the general conference at Oklaho
ma City in May, were named to-day.
Mrs. E. D. Thames, of Greensboro,
head of the school improvement de
partment of the church, delivered an
address in favor of compulsory edu
cation.
In practically every church in At
lanta thic mor.iing sermons or talks
will make by *he pastors in observ
ance of Tubeicuh sis Sunday.
In response to Governor Slaton’s
proclamation on this subject and to
the fine campaign work of Mrs. H. H.
Hale and her committee on plans, It
Is believed that every minister In the
city will respond generously to the re
quest.
Mrs. Hale and her committee have
made the direct request of all minis
ters to make talks to their congrega
tions on prevention and kindred sub
jects. Nothing will he said to offend
anyone.
In addition to the ministers, the
superintendents of Sunday schools
Girl Ushers Only at
Suffragette Wedding
UD'-jaGO, Dec. 6.—"The suffrage
wedding” was introduced at the mar
riage service of Miss Frances Golds
worthy to Dr. William S. Ttmblin in
Windsor Park Memorial Baptist
Church.
In planning the personnel of her
bridal party, Miss Goldsworthy put
forward the resolution: "Be it Re
solved, That girls make better ush
ers than men." Affirmative, asserted
by the bride; negfnive—more or less
—by the bridegroom.
? So ten young women members of
Delt^ Beta Phi ushered to their seats
the some 200 guests at the Timblln
Goldsworthy wedding.
and la.ter In the day congregate on
Broughton street for a one-night
Mardi Gras.
Secretary Daniels, of the Navy De
partment, announced that he would
send two gunboats to the city for the
celebration. Plans are being made to
entertain the men and officers.
Policy,
acting through patriotic or-
i i'/ 1 J! ,Za ^ ons » P r ess. or by whatev-
| r ; e '/ n ‘ s a knowledge of the naval needs
I *• nation may be brought home
1 ^ oe people of the country, with the
" amn * and reasons for them.”
Woman Peacemaker
Interferes; Is Shot
SPRING CITY, TENN., Dec. 6.—
Mrs. Callie Wheeler, aged 67 years,
mother of W. E. Whe3ler, of Ch tta-
nooga, Superintendent of Terminals
of the Queen and Crescent Railway,
was shot when she intervened be
tween Bob Elliott and his father, S.
A. Elliott.
The former attempted to enter the
room where his father was sitting
and when Mrs. Wheeler, who was vis
iting there, closed the door he shot
through it. \
‘Wes’ Edwards, Feud
Leader, Seriously Ill
RICHMOND, VA„ Dec. 6.—Suffer
ing from tuberi losis, Wesley Ed
wards, serving 27 years in the Vir
ginia penitentiary for his part in the
Hillsville Court tragedy, was removed
to the State farm, where the doctors
hope the fresh air and work in the
open will restore him to health.
Edwards, with three other members
of the mountain clan who drew prison
terms, has been working 1 the prison
shoe shop.
Boys Quit Smoking
To Save Schoolmate
COFFEYVTLLE, KANS., Dec. 1.—
To save their schoolmate, Robert
Murray, from a sentence to the State
Industrial School in the Juvenile
Court, every boy pupil at the Mc
Kinley School at Coffeyville signed a
pledge to abandon the use of tobacco
in every form.
Upon the strength of this pledge
and a petition appealing for leniency,
Probate Judge Osborn consented to
give Robert another chance.
ndt the slightest sensation of pain.
This demonstration by Dr. Fitzger
ald was a sequel to one which he
gave at the hospital two weeks ago,
in which he showed the preliminary
steps in the use of the method.
Relieves Pain by Pressure.
By pressure on the neck the phy
sician produced sensations in various
parts of the body and demonstrated
that acute pain in any section may be
relieved quickly by mere pressure.
There are several advantages to be
gained by the use of reflex anes
thesia as demonstrated. In the first
place the use of dangerous anes
thetics like ether is avoided.
In spite of the general use of ether,
its administration is still accompa
nied by danger, except in the teinds
of an expert. It is sometimes said
deaths were caused by operations,
when a stricter statement of the truth
would be that they were due to the
anesthesia.
This danger is avoided when a
method of anesthesia is used which
avoids all use of drugs or gases.
In the case of minor operations,
such as the removal of splinters, the
use of the local anesthesia avoids the
necessity for administering _ ether,
which requires twenty minutes or
more, though the actual operation can
be performed in 30 seconds.
Well Known Writer.
Dr. Fitzgerald is a native of Mid
dletown and is recognized as a leading
specialist of the State in treatment of
the nose and throat.
He was graduated from the Univer
sity of Vermont, was in the Boston
City Hospital three years, and stu
died in Europe four years. He is an
associate member of the New York
Academy of Medicine and a frequent
contributor to professional magazines.
Savannah Girls to
Have Suffrage Club
SAVANNAH, Dec. 6—Mrs. S. B. C.
Morgan, one of the pioneer clubwom
en in the State, is planning to or
ganize the working girls of Savannah
into classes along the line of work
conducted by Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont
in New York, in the interest of votes
for women.
Recently Mrs Morgan was in New
the guest of Mrs Chapman
Catt.
Real ‘Sticky’ Party
Given by Bachelor
FO#T VALLEY, Dec. 6.—Illustrat
ing Fort Valley’s predilection to tear
off stunts unheard of before and un-
thought of by residents of any other
section was a social affair this week,
when John H. Allen, a confirmed
bachelor, yet on the sunny side of 50,
whose fortune was made from or
chards that abound on the 1.200
acres of his ancestral farm, gave a
"syrup sopping” party at his colonial
home, a few miles east of here.
It was unquestionably the "sticks
est” social event of this or any other
season.
The invited guests went out in au
tomobiles and w’ere “clingingly” re
ceived by the patriarchical host, at
the mill, where the cane was being
ground and the juice converted into
the more detectable and desirable
syrup.
Dublin Is Sued for
$5,000 Plumbing Bill
DUBLIN, Dec. 6.—The city of Dub
lin and City Plumbing Ispector J. W.
Reynolds are both being sued by a
plumbing firm to restrain the city
from enforcing certain rulings of the
plumbing inspector, concerning a j b
of plumbing done by the firm, and to
recover $5,000 damages from the in
spector. Reynolds claims that the
work was not done in accordance
with the plumbing ordinances of the
city, and that the material and work
manship were Inferity. The plumb
ing company claims that the work is
entirely sanitary and the material
and workmanship comply with the
contract with the customer.
Tobacco Crop Slow;
Books Get Extension
LEXINGTON, KY., Dec. 6.—The
United States Treasury Department
to-day extended for thirty days the
loan of $375,000 made to three Lek-
Ington banks from the National Crop
Moving fund. The request for the
extension was made because the to
bacco crop, the principal product of
Central and Eastern Kentucky, is be
ing moved slowly. By granting this
request the Government averted any
danger of currency shortage in this
section. About 3,000,000 pounds of
tobacco will be handled altogether in
Kentucky, Louisville havii.g also
benefltted from the Government
loans.
also will make short talks on this
subject. The Anti-Tuberculosis As
sociation has purchased 50,000 of the
double Red Cross emblems, which
will be distributed in the churches
and Sunday schools to-day by com
mittees of young ladles appointed for
this purpose. It is the hope of the
association to see everyone wearing
these emblems of a great work.
Negro pastors wll also make talks
to their congregations, many of them
having expressed that intention.
Thermometer Shows Sales.
Yesterday the big 40-foot ther
mometer was erected in front of
Folsom’s Hotel In Marietta street,
near Five Points, and here every day
will be shown the rising tide of Red
Cross Christmas Seal sales. Plans
have been perfected to dispose of one
million seals here this year, and
everyone believes It will be done.
The business women’s committee,
under Mrs. John O. Bagwell, assist
ed by Miss Genevieve Saunders, is al
ready doing excellent work in selling
the seals in office buildings and stores.
The big whirlwind campaign opens
next Wednesday, and from that time
right through to the day before
Christmas the streets will be filled
with attractive women selling the
stamps.
Mrs. Willett Completes Plans.
Mrs. Hugh M. Willett, general
chairman of the volunteer workers,
has about completed all of fyer cam
paign plans. She has entered into
the work with enthusiasm, which she
has communicated to others, and no
such campaign ever has been seen
here before.
Mrs. Willett will name fifteen chair
men, one for each day between De
cember 10 and 24. She has named
eleven of these chairman, and is anx
ious to secure four more willing to
undertake the work. Chairmen will
have entire charge of the organiza
tion and distribution of their work
ing forces. Each may name as many
workers as they deem necessary.
Debutantes to Aid.
Some of the most charming debu
tants and matrons of Atlanta already
have signified their willingness to
serve, and it will certainly be a
crusty man who can run the gauntlet
without buying day by day.
Booths will also be erected In the
postoffice, the Terminal Station and
perhaps other points, where the
stamps will be sold.
Wednesday, December 24, has been
set aside as "Boy Scouts’ Day,” and
a large number of these alert young
sters will wind up the campaign in
great style. The boys also have sig
nified their willingness to help in any
other way possible.
The association feels confident that
Atlanta will set another new record
by buying a million Red Cross Christ
mas Seals.
Child Found in Boston Hotel After Strange Dis
appearance Now Enjoys California Sunshine.
LOS ANGEI.ES, Dec. 6.—Life Is
nothing hut song ana sunshine for
Ramona Borden, the "Door little rich
girl,” whose wish for love and a home
has been gratified.
Miss Borden is the daughter of Gail
Borden, the multi-millionaire of con
densed milk fame, whose sensational
disappearance in New York last April
was the talk of the country for
weeks.
"The poor little rich girl,” as her
friends used to call her, after an ab
sence of ten days, was found in the
Hotel Vendome. in Boston, in com
pany with Mrs. William J. White, wdfe
of the millionaire chewing gum man
ufacturer, and Mrs. Marian A. Backe,
of Brooklyn.
The women explained at the time
that they had felt sorry for Ramona
because of the dull life she had led,
and. Interesting themselves in her
welfare, had planned to make her life
a happier one.
Her father and mother had sepa
rated some months before the girl’s
disappearance, and she was placed in
a private sanitarium in Pompton
I^ake, N. J. flhe disappeared from
there In an automobile with two
women, who were later found to be
Mrs. White and Mrs. Backe. Private
detectives, engaged by the father,
traced them to the Boston hotel,
where Mrs. White turned the daugh
ter over to her father.
Some weeks later she left New York
quietly for Los Angeles and remained
there for some time with her mother.
A month or two ago she went to live
with friends, and it was on a visit to
Ijos Angeles that she announced her
self as the "happiest girl In the
world.”
"What I wanted moat of all,” she
told her friend, "was a home. Now I
have one and I am happy. I am hav
ing a real good time, spending most
of my time out in the open.”
Then she offered the following mes
sage to girls In a similar position who
plan to run away:
"If I could say anything to other
girls because of my experience I
would advise them not to leave home.
I could never be so unhappy without
riches as I was without a home.”
PLUNGERS
‘Twilight of Wall Street’ Is What
Some Observers Call Present
Dullness, Which Brings Wolf
Close to the Brokers’ Doors.
Retired Merchants and Everyone
Else With Money Refuse Now
to Play Other Man’s Game.
Exchange Members Sell Autos.
Wife Gets Her Child
Until Court Acts
MERIDIAN. MISS., Dec. 6.—Mrs. A.
P. Miles, a prominent woman, who
became hysterical in Chancery Court
Thursday and threatened to Kill her
self when the court gave their infant
child to her husband, has again been
given the custody of the infant by
furnishing bond until the Supreme
Court passes on the case.
Postal Takes Appeal
InSuit for $1,000,000
BULFPORT, MISS., Dec. An
appeal is being prepared by attor
neys for the Pqsta! Telegraph Com
pany in its $1,000,000 suit against the
Gulf and Ship Island Railroad, the
lower courts having decided the case
in favor of the road. The suit is the
outgrowth of the Postal's contention
for lines along the railroad’s rjght of
way. The railroad tore down poles
and wires of the telegraph company.
NEW YORK, Dec. It is the
Twilight of ,Wall Street. The dar
ing and spectacular plunger is gone
forever. The public is apathetic to
ward stock speculation. One of the
most picturesque elements in our
public life is passing. These are some
of the conclusions drawn from the
duilnese on the New York Stock Ex
change, the failure of brokers to
make a living, the dry rot.
’’It was not so tn the olden days.”
Way back in the Black Friday era,
Jay Gould or Jim Flske wouldn’t hes
itate at all to appear In the public
share mart and flay the opposing
crowd of either bulls or bears with
the utmost freedom. Everybody knew
what they were about, and nobody
thought of complaining in the sense
of considering their faults as of a
public character.
Everyone Took Chance.
Later came the great speculative
eras of our national life, when a
“million share day” was considered
nothing, when doctora and lawyers
and merchants gambled in stocks
from every hamlet, when the little
speculators were myriad and the big
speculators were aa fierce if slightly
more cautious, than in the seventeis.
Harrtman flinging railroads into'
the gambling pit, John W. Gates and
other men of his type leading spec
ulative campaigns which netted them .
tens of millions, foxy old James R.
Keene, engineering pools—for many
years the American people stood for
them and simply laughed.
Then the great outcries began.
They’ve never led to the actual gov
ernmental reformation or abolition
of the Stock Exchange, but they seem
to have put It almost hors de com
bat simply by the force of public
opinion.
"Nobody's buying!” the brokers
cry.
/ We never sell anybody from up
town," complain the hungry-eyed
ones, meaning that the > merchants
who accumulate fortunes no longer
follow the custom of retiring, seat
ing themselves next the ticker, and
proceeding gradually to turn their
hard-earned wealth over to the men
of stocks and bonds. The "men from
uptown” are coming to realize that
this Is the brokeTs game—not theira
And the broker Is selling his auto
mobile. He’s no longer known as the
“wine buyer,” He’s no longer known
as the patron saint of the chorus lady.
Too Much Machinery,
The floor of the exchange these
days resembles the lounging room of a
clubhouse. The exchange is a club in
reality. Will it become one in name?
Will it turn Into a mere social or
ganization, with traditions of busi
ness?
Hardly, because there are more se
curities to be traded In each year.
There must be a public auction room
where they can change hands. The
trouble Just at present is the broker
age machinery is too big for its pur
poses. It is built on a scale to handle
great speculations and little specula
tions, and when it has to come down
to calm and peaceful transfers, It is
like a sightseeing automobile carry
ing a single passenger. There is n»
profit.
Disregarding Jury,
Judge Gives Penalty
TIFTON, Dec. Judge W. R
Thomas in Tift Superior Court dis
regarded the jury’s recommendation
that Carson Taylor, charged with as
sault with intent to murder, be pun
ished for a misdemeanor. He called
attention to Taylor’s reputation and
gave him five years’ imprisonment,
without the alternative of paying a
fine.
Carson Taylor, his brother, James
D. Taylor, and Allen F. Dorman were
indicted by the Grand Jury this week
for assault with Intent to murder
Town Marshal T. F. Powell, of Ome
ga, on the night of November 11.
Carson Taylor, who was tried first,
pleaded self-defense.