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1 ■ wKmmmms Eaas 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. 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