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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
II. S. TB KEEP
RED CROSS SEAL SALE
TREMENDOUS SUCCESS
But Would Put Federal Curb on
Capitalization and Permit
‘Agreements.'
Miss Anne
Akers, at top,
and Miss Helen
Hawkins, two
Seal sellers who
have had ex
cellent results.
Nl'.W York. iVec. 12.—Maintenance
of the Sherman anti-trust law ami
erieral control of corporations was
idvocated to-day by John Hays Ham
mond. capitalist and mining expert,
before the New York Civic Federa-
tion. Mr. Hammond, who spoke on
the subject, "Should the Sherman
Anti-trust Law Be Amended?” said:
“To remedy the potential evils ot
trusts the Federal anti-trust law —
the Sherman act—was passed in 1890,
but until the past few years it has
been in a state of innocuous desue
tude.
"Unfortunately, it has been invoked
too frequently in recent years to
punish the offenders rather than to
prevent the offense. Its application
oft! bron destructive, rather than
conservative and constructive.
• Capitalization Evil.
“I favor maintaining: the basic
principle «>f the Sherman anti-trust
law until a new, substantial law
shall be enacted to protoot the inter
ests nt-tbe. public against possible ag-
grdssitVn. <m the part of the trusts.
‘‘One of the most serious evils re
uniting from 'big business’ Is ascrib-
able to the overcapitalization of in
dustrial corporations, w hich results in
the enhanced cost of their products
to the consumer, since the cost of
production i' v T>?tse)T twt mTtynpon the
mtual cash invested, hut also upon
the watered stock issued upon the
promoters’ profits.
“The public does not so much ob
ject to paying prices which would al
low adequate earnings on the actual
financial investment as it~does to be
ing charged upon the bafris of nver-
c&pi tatizat ion.
For Federal License.
■ This is a strong argument in favoi
or the enactment of a Federal incor-
■ poration law—or of a Federal license
whi- h directly attains the same end—
' having as one of its functions the
power to determine tjBe. amount ol
capitalization of industrial eorpora-
. Hons We believe that certain classes
; <*f industrial corporations doing inter-
s'•* business should be compelled to
' incorporate under such a law."
.Mr. Hammond said he believed that
t r Government should sanction busi- j
iamalgamations (agreements, he I
• l I them), and cited the fact that..
uendent coal operators through '
t o South and Middle West were los- I
: ing money through competition.
Baptists Will Raise
$10,000 for Orphans
\ rush of money from all over :
Georgia i&. expected in a Sunday
school co-lie ;ion Sunday for the re
lief of fhe Baptist Orphans’ Hjgrne at
Hapeville. It has been announced the :
institution is .$13,000 in debt, and j
w ithout money to feed and clothe the
250 orphans}' there.
i’ighteon hundred Baptist Sunday
schools will• participate in the collec
tion, the c.iv being designated ‘‘Or-
phuns* Home-Gathering Day.” At
h■.:st expected.
It'sBggstravagance
Eggstraordinary!
CHICAGO. Dec. lit.—Eggstreme
egg si- it omen is eggetant in Chicago
11• -11:iv over the eggstraordinary an
nouncement by the eggserutive com
mittee of the eggstravagant Bakers
and Confectioners* Association that it
i ike containing 5no
The Lee will case, in which the
two daughters of Mrs. Emma G. Lee
were contesting over her $40,000 es
tate. was declared a mistrial Friday
morning by Judge Bell after the jury
had been out 24 hours without ar
riving at a decision.
The vote throughout the jury’s de
liberations was reported to have stood
seven in favor of the contention of
Mrs. Maud Lee Thompson, and five
for Mrs. I.a Rue Lee Mi/ell.
After deliberating several hours
Thursday afternoon the jury asked
Judge Bell for a recharge on the
Miss Keller Will
Retire Soon After
Her Lecture Here
Preparations are complete for the
lecture to he given by Miss Helen
Keller on December 20 in the Audi
torium under the auspices of the At
lanta Chapter of the Daughters of
Lie Confederacy. The advance sale
of tickets lias been heavy and large
representation of society people is ex
pected.
Not onl\ w lit Miss Keller's appear
ance in Xtlantu he her first here, as
well as in Georgia, but it probably
will be one of her last on a lecture
platform. She will retire shortly from
(Public life entii«* time
to writing.
Tickets for the lecture are on sale
at Cable Hall.
Harris Slayer Held
In Muscogee's Jail
COLL MBPS. Dec. 12 t E. Melton,
who Is in Muscogee County jail,
charged with killing Mans Teal, at
Jacksons Mill, in Harris County, wilt
not be taken to Hamilton for the pres
ent. The jail at Hamilton is undergoing
repairs and is not considered sate
Melton still maintains that he had to
kill Teal in self-defense.
Eat Less Meat and
More Sy rup
because good syrup has more
food value than meat. It is the
most economical food your
money can buy. And this year
it costs less than ever because
the new tariff has made it
cheaper. The best syrup is
VeIva
with the fine flavor and the
snap you'll surely like. Noth
ing compares with Velva on
hot biscuits or waffles or
muffins or hatter cakes. Your
grocer's—red or green cans.
PENICK A FORI), Ltd.
New Orleans
a /\ ^ ___ Send for free
lUC UP booklet of
cooking and .
candy recipes m
NEW YORK. “Dec. 12. More than
1UU shots were fired early to-day in a
ibattle b*et ween , rival gangsters out-'
' side of Square "'Garden*
where the-eix-day* bike race is being
held.
' One man was wounded. but he
was whisked away in an automobile
and the police did not learn his
name.
The fight is said to have arisen over
the “strong arm" privileges. ’These
are “privileges" of gambling and
stealing watches and jewelry from
the crowds watching tlie race.
Passengers on a southbound Mad
ison avenue car, which passed at the
height of the battle, threw themselves
on the floor to escape the flying bul
lets. After the police had made two
arrests they said that the combat
had taken place between gunmen be
longing to the Sirocco and .Timmy
Kelly gangs, two powerful East Side
organizations.
The;shooting threw all the night
spectators of the race into excite
ment and the riders were forgoten for
the time being.
The shooting affray came as the
climax to a night of excitement. Ear
lier the police made a raid upon the
“sleepers” who had been occupying
seats since the race started early
Monday morning and hundreds were
driven into the street.
Wilton Jellico Coal
$5.00
PER TON
I The Jeliico Coa! Go.
82 PEACHTREE ST.
Atlanta Phone 3668
Bell Phone Ivy 1585
Wilson Is ‘First Aid’
To Brave Girl Rider
WASHINGTON. Dec. 12.—President
J Wilson, walking in Rock Creek Park.
! saw a riderless horse. Nearby he found
a little girl on the ground. She was
Ruth Donaldson, 13, who had been
thrown trying to take a hurdle.
‘‘Are you hurt?” inquired the Presi
dent.
‘‘Oh. no," she replied, smoothing her
tousled hair. “I am used to that; I've
ridden a long time."
Miss Donaldson was slightly bruised,
! but mounted her horse and rode away.
Historic British Gates
Bought by American
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georqian.
LONDON. Dec. 12.—A pair of early
I i eighteenth century iron gates have been
I sold to an American purchaser for
a;,:
The pates have stood at the entrance
I of the Royal Female Asylum, Surrey
| They were sold on the condition that
duplicate gates be supplied.
MRS. KING WINS AGAIN.
Mrs. Bertha* King again vion her
•ontests with W. M. King last night
Ht the Merchants and Manufactur
ers' Club. In the continuous game,
with a handicap of 75 to 40. Mrs.
King won 40 t<* 53. in the 15 to no
' <>unt against 50 to n<* count game
Mrs. King .won. three frames out of
i five.
Leaders Expect to Raise Average
to $500 a Day as Workers’
Ranks Grow,
The sale of Red Cross Christmas
seals went merrily on Friday morn
ing. and Mrs. Luther Rosser. Jr.,
was elated over the success of the
movement which she is heading
“We sold more than $300 worth
yesterday,” Mrs. Rosser said, “and
that makes about $700 for two days.
I think we did mighty well, when it
is considered that I had only 29 girls
helping me. and of those only four
or five worked all day.”
Mrs. Willet, general chairman, said:
“We are just starting, and in a few
days we will he averaging more than
$500 a day. The girls are becoming
really interested now. and more and
more are taking tip the work. We
surely will reach that million-stamp
mark by the evening of December
24 “
FTiday morning Mrs. J. Wade Conk-
ling, chairman of the open-air school
committee of the Anti-Tuberculosis
Association, departed with a party of
young women from in front of the
Gould Building to distribute the seals
to all the schools in Atlanta. The
teachers will assign them to their pu
pils. who will sell them until Decem
ber 24 .
Woodlieacl Ad Men's
soundness of mind required in the
signing of the will. The judge gave
the charge.
At midnight, after much argument,
which could be heard beyond the con
fines of the jury room, the bailiffs in
charge were advised that some mem
bers of the jury were sleepy, and the
jury was escorted to a hotel. At 7
o’clock Friday morning they resumed
consideration.
The case has occupied three weeks
in the Superior Court. The cost of
the litigation has totaled several
thousands of dollars to be paid out
of th« 'estate of Mrs Emma G. Lee.
The cost of tin jury alone will
amount to more than $800.
Lanett Boys Going to
U. S. Training School
COLUMBUS. Dec. 12. Deputy Mar
shal W. D. Owens, of the United States
Court, has carried Allle Griffin, Daly
Monroe and Eugene Cox. white boys, to
Atlanta, where he will turn them over
to the Federal authorities to be taken
to Washington and placed in the Na
tional Training School.
The boys, who are from l^anett, Ala ,
were convicted in the United States
Court here on charges of ear-breaking
and sentenced to terms of two years
each in the training school
Chief, to Speak Here Houston to Form
County Chamber
Loses $11,000 Trying
To Trap Swindlers
GARY, IND . Dec. 12.-William
Clee, of Greeneastle, Pa., to-day was
out $11,000 following a boast that he
could trap three faro swindlers in a
local hotel.
Clee. when he went into the gam
blers’ room, slaked $2,000 and in a
few minutes he had won $9,000. The
gamblers pleaded that they were un- I
able to pay his winnings. When Clee
went out for a policeman the three
gamblers tied with Clee's $2,000.
Wireless Sent From
Germany to Africa
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian, j
BERLIN. Dec 12.—Wireless mes-|
sages, transmitted a distance of 3,348
miles, were received by the Govern
ment wireless station to-day at Ka-
mina. W. Y.. German West Africa.
They were sent from the station at
Xguen, near Berlin.
tion that physicians were called bv
the defense as expert witnesses be
cause they happened to be the fam
ily physicians of certain of the
Jurors.
“It is difficult to conceive of an ar
gument more unfounded and more
unwarranted and more unjust than
this," they complain, “ft put the de
fendant, without a word of evidence
to sustain It. in the attitude of put
ting up physicians who were, physi
cians for some of the jury and there
by attempting to influence their. un
duly It tended to prejudice mem
bers of the Jury against the defend
ant. The Solicitor’? statement that
he was justified in making this argu
ment because none of the defend
ant’s witnesses was a stomach spe
cialist is no ground for this argument
at all.
Continued From Page 1.
version, brought this case squarely
under section 5885 of the ('ode of
Georgia, as a case where the evidence
was vulgar and obscene and tended
to debauch the morals of the young,
and the judge had the right, either in
his own discretion or on motion of
either side, to clear the courtroom
from all members of tlie public.
“That Judge Roan did not meet the
occasion with sufficientK drastic ac
tion is held, we think by a number
of cases. Judge Roan never once took
any action, but merely stated in a
verj mild way what he would do if
the disturbances occurred again. He
admonished the crowd once or twice
that he would clear the courtroom,
but t!u» disturbances were repeated
and the courtroom never was cleared
Referring to tiie demonstrations
tiiai took place while the jury was
being polled, the argument says:
“It is perfectly obvious that if poll
ing the jury is a substantial right, it
amounted to nothing in this case, be
cause of the demonstration which not
only overawed the jury, but made L
almost impossible for the court to
hear their responses.
“A verdict is not complete when it
is read in-court. It is only complete
after the jury is polled. Every Juror
has the opportunity to dissent in open
court from the verdict, upon being
polled. The verdict is still In the
making before the jury is polled;
nothing could be more important than
the utmost freedom of action while
this action is takirr- place.
“The demonstrations of the crowd
are just as effective, or probably more
so, in resulting in injury to the pris
oner during the polling of the ver
dict as during the trial of the case
in court. A more critical time for
the Jury to be free from outside in
fluences can not he conceived than
while they are deliberating in the‘r
room and while they are being polled.
“This jury, while deliberating on
one of the top floors or the building
at the corner of Hunter and Pryor
streets, was doing so in the face of
an excited crowd thronging Hunter
and Pryor streets just below them
A mere look out of the window would
have disclosed the scowling faces of
the mob
Say Jurors Were Afraid.
“Can it be' said that a jury has
any freedom of action under such
circumstances? Were they not afraid
for their very lives?
“And when thus Intimidated into a
verdict, as they must* have been,
ought not some man who had a little
more courage than the rest be al
lowed to recant if he wished to do so
while the polling was taking place?
The nerve of some man may have
returned to him while the judge was
polling them, and he could have then
arrested the verdict.
“The judge certifies in referent *- t*)
this ground that while he was polling
the jury the disorder in the street
and the applause at the rendition of
this verdict was so great that he
could with difflcultv hear the answers
of the jury.
"Is it not child’s play to say that
the jury did not Lear and understand
this?”
Throughout the argument hitter at
tacks are launched at the manner in
which Solicitor Dorsey conducted the
prosecution. He is charged with
warping and misrepresenting the tes
timony and arguing from supposed
facts concerning which there is not a
line of testimony in the record.
The Solicitor is represented as
grossly unfair in arguing that Frank's
wife, because of her failure to visit
him for a few days after his arrest,
had a consciousness of his guilt.
"Her consciousness, one way or the
other, as to the defendant's guilt, was
wholly inadmissible and immaterial,”
says the argument. “In thp first
place, she could not testify. In the
second place, if she could have testi
fied, the law would not for a moment
have allowed her to express any
opinion about the defendant's guilt or
innocence, or state what her con
sciousness was.
"And yet the Solicitor General puts
the defendant's wife in the attitude of
testifying before the jury that the de
fendant is guilty by arguing, in ef
fect. that the failure of the defend
ant's wife to visit him at the station j
house indicated that the wife was
conscious of the defendant’s guilt.
“The argument was not warranted
by the evidence or by the law."
Frank’s lawyers also took strenu-1
ous exception to Dorsey's insinua- j
COAL
SPECIAL CASH PRICES
Best Jeilico Lump $5.25
Ky Jellico Lump $5.00
Jellico Nut . . $4.50
Dec. 12-13-15 CASH ONLY
THOMAS & HARVILL
Main 3585
Atlanta 3585
William Woodheari. president of.
the Associated Advertising Clubs of
America, will speak before the Ad
Men’s Club of Atlanta January 13 at
a luncheon in his honor.
The announcement wa» made at the
Ad Men's luncheon at Hotel Ansley
Thursday. The following men were
appointed to make the arrangements:
L. D. Hicks, chairman; W. L. Hal
stead. H. M. Atkinson, Georg* 0 J. Auer.
St. Elmo Massengale, J. H. Lewis and
Samuel C. Dobbs.
FORT VALLEY, Dec. 12.—Follow
ing a visit here by B. M. Lee, field
representative of the Georgia Cham
ber of Commerce. representative
business men have determined to hold
a mass meeting of. citizens of Hous
ton County on Thursday. December
18. at a place to be selected and an
nounced later by Judge A C, Riley.
The object of the meeting is to
form a county chamber of commerce.
Policeman Gets
Saloon Man's Goat
NHVV YORK. Dec. 12 -A goat own
ed by a saloon keeper was arrested,
charged with intoxication.
A ,policeman had t<> rescue several
per.-:iuiswhom Billy" had ba< ked.inu-
a .dt^rw ay.
GOING TO
SOUTH GEORGIA?
Sleeping Cars to Cordele,
Fitzgerald, Douglas, Way
cross, Tifton, Moultrie,
Thomasville. Leave Atlan
ta 10 P. M.,
Via A., B. & A.
If You Eal Heartily,
Educate Your Bowels
Food Nourishes if It Does Not
Impact; Take'Jacobs’ Liver
Salt Before Breakfast.
The prevailing complaint of civiliza-
tion is malnutrition and Inactivity of
liver and bowels, for the higher man
advances the richer becomes his diet,
with a heavier percentage of waste
which Impacts and retards elimination,
then ferments and poisons the system,
resulting In constipation, indigestion,
headache, biliousness and rheumatism,
95 per cent of all diseases originate In
the digestive tract, says Dr. Charcot,
the French scientist. Food poisoning
destroys strength and resiliency and the
system succumbs to malevolent germs
But it is not the food itself which de
stroys; It is impaction and fermenta
tion.
Jacobs' Liver Salt before breakfast
gives a gentle flushing inside, loosens
impact waste and washes away fermen
tation and uric acid accumulation with
the natural elimination. If you are con
stipated or bilious, have a sick headache
and feel down and out. Jacobs' Liver
Salt on arising will put you in splendid
shape. It never gripes or forces
like Calomel and blue mass. Calo
mel is a dangerous mercurial drug
which crashes through the system and
leaves it shaker and weak. Jacobs'
Liver Salt acts just as surely, but qent-
ly and naturally, and is better.
Jacobs' Liver Salt before breakfast
is agreeable and energizing. The best
liver regulator for everybody. All drug- |
gists. 25c. Made and guaranteed by
Jacobs' Pharmacy. Atlanta.—Advt.
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GEORGIA
MR. BUSINESSMAN:
If you haven’t sufficient work to justify the
employment of a stenographer, let me do it
for you.
Phone Ivy 2975. 410 Empire Life Building.
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