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B/ JAMES B. NEVIN.
observers, people with
nprejudiced and free of bias,
’ ighed a weight of sincere
rn their souls when, at last,
,,,,ents closed in the Supreme
ring of the Frank case, and
,. s cause had been given
o the keeping of Georgia's
s- .urt of review.
; pile generally will incline to
a little if anything of fur-'
nas thrown upon the case
. ,i e to the controversy, so
iratorieal efforts pro and
. concerned in the Supreme
Anri. after all is said and
■ ourt will proceed to its
; p.>n the w’Htten records in
mil not otherwise—and so,
w is nothing much gained by
:abundance of eloquence re
store the high court, there
■ t much lost. And there
: - -in opinion of one observer, at
:u neither side to the Frank
j , \ i 11v festooned itself with
V the matter of the Supreme
Court arguments.
Its Rulings the Law.
Those [>eople, of high or humble
efJ , ;r v hn iove their country, who
patriotism pure and unde-
<» ho i.lease to linger lovingly
,,'vpr s ■ 11 phrases as "the majesty of
. , an i all that sort of thing.
;ho Supreme Court of this
the majeflrty of the
ult i tun i e dignity!
iat court s:iys, that then
i ? ? he Law of the land!
n es and judgments are be-
v ,, ; .impute—it speaks from out the
palling chaos the faeflfabie
•Cited word of truth and right
n ., ... - irv to restore reason and bring
ur*' i '• -1 y to its own again absolute
and impartial justice.
mm the madding crowd’s ig-
■p , • iff*" sits the Supreme Court,
serene ; nd unafraid!
mi< case, in the hands of the
r , i tribunal within the
iMerle impersonal. What-
ive been the passion and
opinion characterizing
- and their methods, their
i their movements, in the
re.the trial court below,
led small and inconse-
!: ngs, indeed, to lug into
- . ->f the Supreme Court!
Squabbles Out of Place There.
>-.m hm\ sadly out of place seemed
Lies and the vehement
1 > ged this way and that in
’ ■ r •>art, when one sat there in
- of the final court of re-
<Mjgli(r upon the tremen-
: 1 11'i. a nee of the matters then
n r on; iteration,, and what they
in* a eventually to every citizen of
' he ( inmonw eajth—for upon the
nt -he Supreme'Coiirt in the
' Frank < so depends.-' perhaps, far
m snmV^ . e^s^gotng and
' chinking citizens may imagine.
!' was not surprising, therefore,
point in the hearings Mr.
. Evans expressed a measure
. ' s coldness toward oul-
kiirs-s i feeling in the Supreme
< r: and rather sharply 'reminded
the attorneys engaged that the court
t e hen w ere dealing with and ad-
nre^Mng directly cared for none of
• ’ anchor of the Ship tpf
the law—the impersonal and
Tfl&fe, and notli-
ng more nor less! And it is the
miehtv i rovince of the Supreme Court
- a- IS—and equally what is
Tf Leo [-
la
hank was tried according
Supreme Court of Georgia
much—and that will end
11 Her. if he was not tried ac-
" ■ law, the Supreme Court
- much—and PTank will be
Honor of State Involved.
life, a man’s liberty, and a
t' m honor are Involved in
of the Supreme Court—
over and beyond that, as
it as the stars are far
■ ‘ sea, the dearest honor of
mii , State of Georgia^—
’ imasWa proud ancestry
among the original thirteen States—
is involved.
it is that sacred honor pf Georgia,
the guarding of which has been
placed in the hands of the Supreme
Court!
The sovereign—Georgia—can do no
wrong. Nobler and braver than that.
Geoigia WILL do no wrong! She
will do in the Frank case as her ac
credited ministers direct - as the Su
preme Court shall say.
And in directing a course of con
duct for Georgia, that course must be
right, though the heaven* fall. It
must be remembered that the Su
preme Court of Georgia is not serv
ing Leo Frank in this matter, save in
so far as he is the huh about which
mighty principles of law temporarily
revolve—It is the people of Georgia
the court is serving!
Franks may come and Franks may
go. but the supremacy of the law
abides forever!
At last, "the tumult and the shout
ing dies; the captains and the kings
depart. * Into the austere keeping of
the highest court in the State the last
word of argument in the Frank case
has been confided.
Weighted With Dignity.
Much of that which has gone be
fore now seems utterly confusing and
vague.
Where are the storms and ragings
of yesterday? The winds have blown
them all away.
Sitting in the presence chamber of
the Supreme Court, over In the grim
and grimy old Capitol, callous Indeed
must have been the spectator who
failed to feel heavily the full signifi
cance of the proceedings.
When the honorable Court filed in
in the morning there was no need to
admonish those present that it was
their part to stand the while the Court
seated itself. Somehow, one instinct
ive! v rose to his seat and remained
silent as the Court settled itself to
work. The law does not design to he
spectacular—it is full of purpose to be
dignified in the extreme, however.
Less and less attorneys incline
nowadays to proceed to Supremo
Court hearings by way of verbal
pleadings. More and more they In
cline to appear by brief and written
arguments alone.
Those few who heard the oral
pleadings in the Frank case probably
all agree now that the written method
is the better—certainly it appeals
more in keeping with the spirit an i
intent of the high Court’s functions.
For one thing, human' beings arc-
more careful in what they wrne than
in what they say. The written word
stands a permanent witness that in
the afterwhile may arise to confound
or affright the writer if he fails to
consider carefullv the things ne
writes. The spoken word, reckless
of consequence and mindful of la*er
confusion and possible indefiintencss
of meaning* lend itself inevitably to
error and miscarriage of justices
Looks to Records for Truth.
And so, in considering .this famous
^miscarriage of justice in tfre final
Word the Supreme Co’tift speaks.
One recalls again and again the ad
monition of Mr. 'Justice Rvan^—’the
warning word that, t.fier all, the Su
preme Court will look to the WRIT
TEN RECORD for the truth of tha
Frank case’s history and may forgot
entirely thb passionate vehemence of
attorneys in partisan argument.
And.s o, in considering this famous
Frank case in its final analysis, those
who wish to see it ended—and their
name is legion—will do well to re
member that the Supreme Court is
not going to put Dorsey's constru -
tion upon the evidence, nor yet Ros
ser’s, nor Felder's, nor Arnold’s. The
.Court will make up its own mind in
its own way.
Dorsey may shout and Rosser may
imagine vain things—the one may sa;.
thus and'so proves this and that, and
the other may bear himself to willing
fragments contending that thus ami
so mean nothing of the kind. The
Supreme Court still will decide fur
itself.
From out the warp and woof of this
curiously and amazingly complex
weave of the Frank case, the Su
preme Court will unravel the red
thread of truth- that surely MUST
be somewhere tangled therein.
You, reader, believe thus and so to
be the truth of the Frank case, and
in. that conclusion you do violence o
FINAL SPURT FIR PIPE I
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OF
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And now it s
the "peg-top hat. ’
The etyle, di
rect from Paris,
of course, has Just
struck America
Fashion experts
admit that the hat
will attract atten
tion
It can not fail
to do that. they
said, because the
hat has a real
"punch." It is not
fluffy, like the cre
ations with ai
grettes and such
things on 'em
The make-up of it
is more like that
of a prizefighter's
fist.
The "peg top”
has an outward
coating of velvet.
Its interior com
position is of good
ateel wire, guar
anteed not to
break or bend
when it comes in
contact with a
human face.
There is a dis
tinct list to star-
hoard in the new
style. The "list"
is what makes the
hat catchy and
"fetching ’’
It gives the gen
eral design a rak
ish appearance,
like that of a
boat which has
just struck a coral
reef during a
heavy storm and
doesn’t know
where it is going
thereafter.
°ersons inter
ested in styles
said to-day that
the new headwear
for women really
is an off-shoot of
the Tam o’ Shan-
ter.
From the Tam
o’ Shanter there
gr*'w the picture
hat, then the
"cavalier’’ and
finally the "peg."
Workers Must Get $12,500 Per
Day to Complete the Fund
by Sunday.
Approximatelv, the Oglethorpe fund
lacks $50,000 of the quarter-million
mark, and it is the honest and ener
getic persuasion of every worker that
that deficit will be wiped out next
Saturday night.
That leaves four days, including
Wednesday. And that means $12,500
a day.
That is more than the committees
have been able to average dally thus
far—not counting the big "lump" sub
scriptions that have been turned in
through the central committee. But
the renewed certainty of success, the
ninth-inning rally to make good and
sure, is bound to have its effect on
the final spurt of the flftv workers.
So the workers started out earlier
than usual Wednesday morning, with
the understanding that those who
subscribed before Saturday night
would be the real founders of Ogle
thorpe.
"The thing has such a splendid im
petus." Ivan E. Allen said, "that it is
bound to run well over the mark set
as a minimum. But the real found
ers of Oglethorpe will be those who
get in with their subscriptions before
the $250,000 is attained. You might
say this is the ‘last call' for the
founders of Oglethorpe ”
In order that no one may be held
back by the failure of some commit
teeman to see him, it was announced
Wednesday morning that subscrip
tions might be telephoned to the of
fice of the general chairman. Ivan E
Allen. Ivy 800, or to the office of Dr.
Thornwell Jacobs, Ivy 2568
Mrs. Pankhurst, Ill
From Hunger Strike,
Wins Release Again
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Dec. 17.—Mrs. Emmeline
; Pankhurst, who was rearrested last
►Saturday under the "cat and mouse"
law. was released from Holloway jail
I to-day.
The famous militant leader had re-
I fused to take any nourishment since
; she was incarcerated. She was in a
i state of collapse when the Home Of-
i fiee ordered her release
Mrs. Pankhurst is still serving the
three years' sentence imposed on her
last April for inciting suffragettes to
dynamite Chancellor David Lloyd-
George's home.
Lysm,
■ • »• is
A
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your well-meaning neighbor who dif
fers radically with you.
It all depends upon which lawyer
you heretofore have pinned your firm
est faith to.
Flower of Georgia Bar.
But consider—how much of the evi
dence did you hear, and in what or
der of its bearing upon the case in
hand? How much do you. of your
own knowledge, KNOW of the Frank
case? And are your conclusions ra
tionally sequenced, and do they fit
into one another as they should, the
very great gravity of the matter being
well kept in mind?
In seeking poise and patience to
await the decision of the Supreme
Court, it perhaps is well enough to
hold fast to the thought that the Su
preme Court of Georgia is composed
• f the very flower of the Georgia bar,
that it commands the respect of all
classes of citizens more surely and
more securely than any other civic
tribunal does or may—and that it can
have no higher ambition than to ex
pound the law of the land as it really
and truly is!
Leo Frank is making virtually his
last stand. He is making.it bravely,
too—tha: must be ungrudgingly ad
mitted! He is fighting with his back
to the wall, sore pressed and with all
promising avenues of retreat shut off.
The record may soon be closed, the
clasp snapped tight and locked eter
nally Bear these grim and thought-
arresting things in mind—and be fair!
So far the day has gone altogether
in the State's favor, but that is no
sure sign the State has won the battle
Prince May Come •
With German Ships
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN, Dec. 17.—The German Gov
ernment has notified the American Em
bassy that the German navy accepts
with pleasure the invitation to take
part In the international review at
Hampton Roads in 1915.
It is likely the Royal Prince will ac
company the squadron, which will pass
through the Panama Canal en route to
San Francisco.
finally. Gallantly enough the State’s
generals have pressed their advan
tages—and with stubborn courage,
that well might in weaker hearts have
engendered despair, have the defend
ant’s generals fought back!
The sun is sinking in the West—the
morrow must dawn bright and rain-
bowed with renewed promise to
Frank, or the sinking sun must go
down for him in darkness the last
time and not to rise again.
The matter of Leo Frank vs. the
State of Georgia, murder, is out ot
the hands of the lawyers—it is in the
bosom *>f the Supreme Court, and this
Commonwealth will believe that ail is
well!
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Demise of Leading Candidate for
Successor to Pope Leaves
Merry del Val Favorite.
Alfonso Would Model
Schools on America's
PITTSBURG, Dec. 17. -Dr W. J Hoi
land, director of the Carnegie Muieum,
who returned yesterday from Spain,
said that in an audience he had with
King Alfonso the Spanish ruler ex
pressed hope that there might be
brought about for his people a develop
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United States.
Kaiser Lets His Heir
Return to Berlin
BERLIN, Dec. 17 -Crown, Prince
Frederick William will return to Ber
lin very soon from his long banishment
In Dantalg. but he will have to work
hard
Ills father gave him his choice be
tween a year’s voyage to the German
colonies or a return to Berlin to be
trained at army headquarters.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. |
ROME, Dec. .17.—Pope Pius X wept
to-day when informed of the death of
Cardinal Rampola, former papal
secretary of state, who died of an
gina pectoris shortly after midnight.
The death of the 70-year-old prelate
caused surprise in the Vatican, for it
was' not known that he was seriously
ill.
The death of the cardinal removes
the leading candidate for the pontifi
cate in the event of the present. Pope’s
death and leaves Cardinal Merry Del
Val, the present papal secretary of
state, as the foremost personage In
the li»t of possible successors.
At the time of his death Cardinal
Rampola was preparing to preside at
a religious festival chle^y in honor
of Americans at St. Peters to-mor
row.
As a result of the deaths of Cardi
nal Rampola and of Cardinal Oreglia,
who died on December 5, the mem
bership of the Sacred College has
been reduced to 56. There is an old
tradition in Rome that the death of
a cardinal Is followed by the demise
of two others within a brief period
of time.
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Cathedral Rejects
Carnegie Window
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. Andrew
Carnegie, who presided at the annual
meeting of the Carnegie Peace Founda
tion, said the Dunfermline Cathedral In
Scotland has rejected hls gift of a
stained glass window because It is
modern.
Fr, Vaughan Lauds
American Catholics
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Dec. 17.—Father Bernard j
Vaughan, speaking at Bristol on his 5
recent American trip, said that what J
had most appealed to him was the en !
thusiasrn he found among ihe Oath- I
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Next Sunday’s American
The tragedy and grim humor which lurk
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way, which has never been equaled, in his ab
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Within The Gates Where
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