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Hearst Gives $5,000 to Oglethorpe; Sees South as Leader in Education
The following telegram was read to the Oglethorpe University Committee to-day:
Mr. John Temple Qraves,
Atlanta Georgian.
1 am extremely interested in the rebuilding of Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. 1 wish you would
kindly subscribe $5,000 from me toward that fund, and through I he Atlanta Georgian or any other of our
publications that could be of service enter heartily into the agitation of this project. For a long time the
South led all America in the fame and excellence of its universities. There is now no reason why it should not
do so again, and there is every reason why Atlanta should be in the front rank of the advancing columns of
education and human progress. Please make sure that our papers do their full share in this great work.
\ December 10, 1913. W. R. HEARST.
FLORIDA
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VOL. XII. NO. 112.
ATLANTA. GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1913.
Copyright. 190«. o r’TT'M'l'S PA v NC
By The Georgian Co. “ V'CjiA I O. MORE.
FAIN PICKED FOR NEW POLICE BOARD HEAD
WAIT UNTIL YOU’RE 18 TO MARRY, '
ADVISESGIRL, 17, SEEKING DIVORCE
C&J
C*3
CSKJ
Mrs. Sophie
Meyers,
17 years old,
and the mother
of a 3-year-old
boy, who is
seeking a
divorce.
Says ‘Horsewhipping Wife Threatened Life
Man Restrained From
Annoying Suing Wife
Ari order restraining J. C. Hender-
! “on from annoying his wife, was 1s-
I sued Tuesday by Judge Pendleton,
following the filing of a petition for
divorce by Mrs. Henderson. Hender
son was arrested and later released
under $500 bond.
Mrs. Henderson was a witness in
the Lee will case. She said this made
Benders. so angry he treated he!
cruelly.
Child-Wife, Married Four Years,
Tells in Court of Shattered
Love Dream,
You Touch
a Magic
Button
When you become a Geor
gian “Want Ad” user.
Like thousands of other*,
Mr. Mecklin i* amazed.
WANTED—To get In cor
respondence with a man who
is honest and capable of look
ing after a six-horse farm, a
water mill, grinding corn,
lathes, cow feed. etc., who is a
Christian and a manager of
labor, who knows the value of
bogs, how to h ok after
garden vegetables, a summer
hoarding house and - who has
money enough to guarantee
that .he is no fakir. Address
A H’ Mecklin. Toccoa, Ga
Toccoa, Ga., Dec. 4. 1913.
Want Ad Man, Atlanta, Ga.:
Great Scott; The replies I
received from this "Want
Ad!” It's remarkable how
many people read The Geor-
qian. Yours very truly,
A. H. MECKLIN.
“My advice to girls is not to get
married until they are at least 18 or
20 years old."
Out of the wisdom of her 17 years
pretty Mrs. Sophie Meyers offered this
sage counsel Wednesday.
Although Mrs. Meyers is still a year
short of the minimum limit that she
lays down and is just a mere slip of
a winsome girl, she is qualified to
speak, for she has not been married
lo, these four years and has she not
at home the cutest specimen of a
three-year-old youngster that ever
made a happy mother?
Yes, she was but a woe maid of 13
when her girlish heart was captured
bv Frederick G. Meyers and she ran
away to marry him. Wednesday—
four years later almost to the week—
she sat in the witness chair in the
court of Judge Ben Hill and patheti
cally told a story of abuse, ill treat
ment and desertion.
Wed in Short Dresses.
Though she is three years a mother
and speaks with the manner of one
with eons of worldly wisdom, the
child-bride on the stand looked as
though she should still be in the
schoolroom and playing and entJoylng
all the girlhood amusements of her
young companions.
“I wasn't out of short dresses then,”
she said. “I didn’t know what I was
doing. I was just a foolish, foolish
little girl. I liked Fred mighty well,
and when he suggested getting mar
ried I thought It would be fine to have
a home just like a grown-up woman.
“It wasn't very long before I found
out my mistake. Fred began drink
ing heavilv and soon he began to beat
m° H>id abuse me terribly.
“J LLiL LQXctt Wbuks ailui' UdUi
Fred attacked . me and knocked me
over a trunk that was in the room.”
Mrs. John Slemons, mother of Mrs.
Meyers, was standing by listening to
the recital.
“He wouldn’t have had the oppor
tunity to treat my little «’ 5 rl like that
again if I had been there,” she inter
jected, angrily.
“After that he left me,” Mrs. Meyers
continued, “and T never have seen him
from that day te> this. That was in
1910. I went home to live with mamma
at No. 160 Haynes street and I’ve been
there ever since.
“Of course. Tam very proud of my
little boy—Frederick, Jr.. I call him—
but T would warn girls never to get
married until they know their own
minds and Are able to use a little
judgment In selecting a husband.
“No: I am not prejudiced against
married life,” she added, In response
to a question. And she smiled. "I
know that many, many people are
happy. My own father and mother
are. But I repeat my advice to girls
who ought to be in school: ‘When
you plan to get married, don’t.'”
Mrs. Meyers' story In court won her
a “first decree.” She was represented
by Attorney J. W. Weaver
Duke Bets $2,500
On Self at Tennis
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. Dec. 10 The Duke of
Marlboro gh and the Right Hon. Fred
erick Edwin Smith. M. E., are to play a
tennis match shortly on Maxine Elliott'a
hard court at Bushey Park. Each play
er will back himself with $2,500.
TO HEAR W. C. T. U. PETITION.
AUGUSTA. Dec. 10.—On Decem
ber 18 Judge Henry C. Hammond
will hear the petition for injunction
brought by Sidney Smith, attorney
fnr the local Woman's Christian Tem-
l • gh <• Union., against the .Metropoie
cS
Cro
HEARST’S OGLETHORPE GIFT STIRS WORKERS
FLED H0ME!“~oTk|Sli,00D SENT “X |Q
POISOU
J. J. Lee, in Divorce Court, Tells
of Wife Pointing Gun in
His Face.
Sensational testimony marked the
hearing of the petition for temporary
alimony pending the suit for divorce
brought by Mrs. Cora L. Lee against
J. J. Lee. a railroad man, in Judge
Pendleton’s court Wednesday.
Lee, on the witness -stand, declared
that his wife on several occasions
had pointed a revolver at him, and,
placing her finger on the trigger,
said :
"Now, you hound, you are going
to die.”
Again, the man testified. Mrs. Lee
had spru"~ upon him and beat him
severely with her fists. Also that when
he caught her hands and held them
she bit him on the forearm. The w u -
ness displayed several deep lacera
tions in his arm to bear out his tes
timony.
“My wife continually nagged me for
money,” said I^ee. “I gave her every
cent I made. She gave me 10 cents
every day for car fare, and when I
wanted .j purchase clothes she would
give me the exact amount necessary
a d no more
Forced to Clean House.
“With the money I gave her, Mrs.
Lee rented and furnished a house at
No. 388 Peachtree street. The furn! •
ture cost ?1,800.
“Yet she never attempted to clean
it. and forced me to do so every Sun
day.
“Finally, under the constant strain
of her nagging, I broke down and was
forced to quit work. Then she be
came angry and one night came into
my room with a revolver in her hand.
“She pointed the weapon at me and
said. 'Now', you have got to go to
work. T am tired of seeing you
around here’
“I protested, and she then said.
'You miserable beast, I might as well
shoot you, then.'
“T told her that I knew that when
the time came for me to die that 1
couldn't do anything to prevent it,
and for her therefore to go on and
shoot.
Hadn’t “Nerve” to Shoot.
“She said: 'Well, T haven’t got the
nerve to shoot you, hut there are
more ways than one to kill a cat ’
"At that I arose from my chair
and started to packing my suitcase.
I was going to leave. Then my wife
sprang at me like a mad woman and
sought to tear my .eyes out
“T caught her hands and held them.
Then she bit me time and again on
my arm*, until finally the pain forced
me to throw’ her off.
“I left my wife because 1 was
afraid that she would put poison in
my food.”
When Mrs. Lee took the stand she
was almost hysteircal. She wept at
frequent intervals, and was extremely
nervous.
Mrs. Lee denied almost every state
ment her huaband had made. She
declared that he had treated her
cruelly.
Awards Alimony.
While the fourth witness, a physi
cian, was testifying that Lee’s con
dition required an operation. Judge
Pendleton stopped the hearing with
Continued on Pane 2. Column 5.
Atlanta Couple Put
Under Bond on Girl's
White Slave Story
Samuel A. Stoe, a saloonkeeper at
No. 319 Peters street, and his wife,
Mrs. Annie Stoe. were placed under
bonds of $1,000 each by United States
Commissioner Carter Wednesday
morning, on charges of violating the
white slavery’ laws In the transporting
of .Annie Bond, 18, of Atlanta, to Bir
mingham and points In South Caro
lina. The preliminary hearing has
been set for Saturday at noon.
The girl, In an affidavit before the
United States Commissioner at Ath
ens late Tuesday afternoon, charges
Stoe and his wife Induced her to ac
company them to Birmingham, where
they placed her In a resort. Later,
she says, they took her to other Ala
bama towns and to different places in
South Carolina, where they forced her
to turn her earnings over to them,
with the exception of barely enough
to pay her living expenses. She says
she escaped from a place 1« Athens.
L. J. Baley, special investigator for
the Department of Justice, is han
dling the investigation, and probably
will bring the girl to Atlanta before
the hearing for an interview.
City Police Fines
Rival New York's
"The best policeman is the one who
can keep order with the least ar
rests.”—Mayor Woodward.
“Atlanta’s Police Court yielded
$80,000 in fines imposed upon prison
ers last year; New York City's Police
Courts, all in all, yielded only $120,-
000.—Philip Weltner, secretary of the
State Prison Board.
Atlanta policemen came under fire
Tuesday night at the meeting of the
Police Commission when Mayor
Woodward and Philip Weltner set on
foot a campaign to reduce the great
number of arrests which have been
made in this city during the past
year.
Gifts of Building Material Worth
$17,500 to $25,000 Also
Announced
Fogler Grabs Lead
Of Six-Day Racers
NEW YORK, Dec. 10—In a sharp
brush with Francisco Verrl, the dar
ing Italian rider, Joe Fogler snatched
the lead in the six-day bicycle race
at Madison Square Garden this after
noon and set so fierce a pace that the
record for «61 hours was shattered by
eleven miles and one lap.
The hot pace maintained all day
continued during the sixty-second
hour, and at 2 p. m the riders had
broken the previous record by four
teen mile* and three laps. At that
hour the leading teams had covered
1,266 miles and one lap.
John Temple Graved, representing
William Randolph Hearst, treated the
Oglethorpe University fund subcom
mittee chairmen to a surprise Wed
nesday by appearing unexpectedly at
Their noon luncheon tn the Piedmont
Hotel and announcing a $5,000 gift
from Mr. Hearst.
The appearance of Mr. Graves, who
was well known to most of those
present, wns the signal for an ovation
which developed Into a near-riotous
demonstration when the purpose of
his visit became known.
It was a day of big contributions.
The cheering for Mr. Graves had
hardly died down when James R.
Gray announced that building mate
rials aggregating from $17,500 to $25,-
000 In value had been donated by a
corporation :hat wished Its identity
withheld for the present.
Day’* Total $27,643.
Other contributions brought the
day’s total up to $27,643. the largest
since the noon luncheons were Insti
tuted two weeks ago. L. P. Botten-
field’s committee bore off the paim
for the day, bringing in $1,093 in sub
scriptions.
“I have a gr?at personal Interest in
Atlanta and in the project to locate
Oglethorpe University here.” said Mr.
Graves when he was Introduced by
Vice Chairman Ivan E. Allen. “It Is
one of the greatest undertakings ever
assayed In the South and one most
worthy of support.
“I arrived In Atlanta only this
morning. When 1 went to The Geor-
Continued on Page 3, Column 6. I
Elihu Root Awarded
Nobel Peace Prize
CHRISTIANIA. NORWAY. Dec. 10.
Two Nobel peace prizes for 1912 and
1913 were to-dav awarded to United
States Senator Elihu Root, of New
York, and to Senator LaFontaln, of
the Belgian Parliament.
As no Nobel peace prize had been
awarded last year, there were two for
disposition this year, each worth
$40,000.
75 Syracuse Co-Eds
Punished for Tango
SYRACUSE, Dec. 10.-Because Syra
cuse University Oo-ed* danced the tango
at the llavenhall Dormitory ball, 75 of
them have been ordered not to attend
any dances at all, and during the next
two w**eks to he in their room* by 10
o clock tdcli night.
Hobson Near a Fist
Fight After Calling
Congressman Liar
WASHINGTON, Dec 10.—Only In
terference by bystanders prevented
Representative Hobson of Alabama
and Representative Donovan of Con
necticut coming to blows on the
threshold of the House chamber this
afternoon, after the lie had been
passed.
Hobson upbraided Donovan for ob
jecting to the presentation of the pe
tition for prohibition by the W. C. T.
U., and Is reported to have called
Donovan a liar. Donovan retorted
"You can't tell the truth, either in
the House or on the platform.”
Friends of the two men interfered.
Bad feeling is wild to have existed
between Donovan and Hobson for the
past two months on account of Don
ovan’s attacks on the floor aQCustng
Hobson of chronic absenteeism from
the House.
Insurance Firms Hold
$75,000,000 Realty
Secretary W. H. I^eahy. of the Indus
trial Bureau of the Chamber of Com
merce, Is compiling statistics showing
the value of the real estate Investments
of the 50 or more life insurance com
panies doing business In Atlanta.
The figures already obtained, without
having covered more than half the
companies. Indicate the total will reach
more than $75,000,000.
Slaton Party Guests
Of Kahns at Opera
NEW YORK, Dec. 10. —Mr. and Mrs
Otto H. Kahn had as their guests at the
American premiere of the Rosen Kava
Her last night at the Metropolitan
Opera House Governor and Mrs. John
M. Slaton, of Georgia, and Mr. and Mrs
Clark Howell, of Atlanta.
Fashion;Hair;HatPin;
And Now Girl Is Deaf
IOLA. KAN8., Dec. 10.— Wearing her
hair down over her ears In the pre
vailing fashion will result In Miss
Maude Rodgers being permanently
deaf She pierced her ear drum with
a hat pin
GET YOUR SEA TS FOR
THIS GREA TSHOWNOW
Get your tickets now for the Empty Stocking Fund Star
Matinee Friday afternoon, 2:30 o’clock, at the Atlanta Theater.
You can reserve them by calling Ivy 595—and you’d better )
do it, because you’re going, and you want a good seat.
Here’s a partial list of the great bill:
Australian Boy Scouts, champion boy woodsmen of the
world.
Thomas Wallace, tenor, and Bayne Young, baritone, soloists
with Ellery’s band, accompanied by Ellery himself.
Yvette, violinist, headliner at the Forsyth.
Auriema, sensation of the movies.
Francis and House, crack tumbling team from the Atlanta ’
Athletic Club.
All these, and then some more—and then the great climactic
act from “Fine Feathers,” with Robert Edison, Wilton Lack-
aye, Max Figman, Rose Coghlan, Lolita Robertson and Lydia
Dickson in the star roles.
Also a Doll Auction, of dolls dressed by Atlanta society
women, with Forrest Adair as auctioneer.
The prices are: Orchestra. $1: entire balcony, 50 cents;
entire gallery, 25 cents.
GET YOUR TICKETS NOW :
\\ . I’. Fain, Second Ward Rep
reeentative, will lie elected suc
cessor to Chairman Carlos H. Ma
son, of the Police Commission,
unless something happens be
tween now and the time of the
election to disrupt well-laidplans.
The unmistakable signs Wednesday
are that the fight finally will narrow
down to Mr. Fain and W. A. Vernoy.
Commissioner from the Third Ward.
The situation is Inevitable In spite of
the fact that attempts to deny it will
be made by those concerned. And if
the vote Is taken on only these two
at least eight of the twelve member*
will cast their ballot for Mr. Fain.
The chaotic state of the race for
the chairmanship took definite form
during and following the meeting of
the Police Commission Tuesday night.
There were further development*
Wednesday.
Narrow* Down to Two.
From a situation where practically
every member of the Commlislon was
a candidate to succeed Mr. Mason, the
situation haH sifted to a fight between
Mr. Fain and Mr. Vernoy; and every
step points more and more clearly to
the election of Mr. Fain.
The position of only one man casts
any uncertainty over the election of
Mr. Fain, so far as political prognos
tications go. That is the attitude of
Commissioner B. Lee Rmith, also a
candidate for chairman. Mr. Smith
Is a warm personal friend of Mr.
Fain, whose friends declare that since
the adjustments of the last few days
there Is no doubt that Mr. Smith will
throw’ his support to Mr. Fain.
A. R. King also is a candidate for
the chairmanship, but he Is said to
be ready to withdraw in favor of
Mr. Fain.
The support of Mayor Woodward
and his new appointees to the com
mission is counted on through the
pressure of expediency. The Mayor
will not vote for Mr. Vernoy and he
is personally very friendly with Mr.
Fain.
Dozier Urged to Return.
There Is a report that Mayor Wood
ward Is urging Graham P. Dozier, who
resigned as Tenth Ward Commissioner
at the last meeting of Council, to re
turn to the Commission and stand for
the chairmanship. Should Mr. Doz!*r
decide upon such a course, Mr. Fain’s
plans would be badly upset, but 0k
P. Dixon already has been «gr»ed upon
as Mr, Dozier's successor and it
that Mr. Dozier is out for good.
From present indications the line
up on the election of chairman will
be as follows;
For Fain—Robert C. Clark. A R
King. I)r. J. H. Baskin, slated to b*
elected to succeed t’arlos Mason a*
First Ward representative; MarceUus
Anderson, slated to be the new
Seventh Ward representative; B. Lee
Smith. O. P. Dixon, slated to succeed
' 1 ' / 1 ' ff< \Ta.\
Woodward and his appointee
For Mr. Vernoy—George Johnson
and G. R Garner. e
Not counted -Fain and Vernoy.