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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
SUPREME COURT SETS TO
AVELING RED THREAD
UTH II FRANK CASE
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
nbsprvers. people with
rojudieed and free of bias,
shed a weight of sinc ere
... •• ,.,i their souls when, at last,
• , atv ,ments closed In the Supreme
,: o * ir . hearing of the Frank' case, and
that famous
flna;,
into t
cause had been given
he keeping of Georgia’s
htg-pst court of review.
Tr.e public generally will Incline to
tM „l- that little If anything of fur-
zh was thrown upon the case
-r side to the controversy, so
, . « oratorical effort* pro and
w ,re c oncerned In the Supreme
And, after all Is said and
flnne the court will proceed to Its
floflng" upon the written records In
r , and not otherwise—and so,
j; there was nothing much gained by
the "superabundance of eloquence re
ified be fore the high court, there
likely wasn’t much lost. And there
vou are!
j. is the opinion of one observer, at
lea5; t that neither elde to the Frank
hearing exactly festooned Itself with
glory in the matter of the Supreme
Court arguments.
Its Rulings the Law.
Those people, of high or humble
estate, who love their country, who
tlsm pure and unde-
fllAd, who please to linger lovingly
over P'l h phrases as “the majesty of
the lav and all that sort of thing,
see in the Supreme Court of this
Commonwealth the majesty of the
law in its ultimate dignity!
Whatever that, court says, that then
is the law of the land!
Its decrees and judgments are be-
t speaks from out the
moat appalling chaos the ineffable
and isn/ited word of truth and right
neces<arv to restore reason and bring
unerringly to its own again absolute
and impartial Justice.
Ear from the madding crowd’s ig
noble strife" sits the Supreme Court,
serene and unafraid!
T Frank case, in the hands of the
mo? 1 august tribunal within the
S’ate, is utterly impersonal. What-
• ■ver may have been the passion and
pride of opinion characterizing
• u >rnrvG and their methods, their
iterance and their movements, in the
”:ner hefoTe the trial court below.
eared small and inoonse-
vptiai things, indeed, to lug into
r cr-nce of the Supreme Court!
Squabbles Out of Place There,
^-•mehow sadly out of place seemed
ie squabbles and the vehement
rtarges lodged this way and that in
t’** j rial court, when one sat there in
the presence of the Anal court of re
view and thought upon the tremen-
e of the matters then
under consideration, and wbat. they
mean eventually to every citizen of
; he Commonwealth—for upon the
findings of the Supreme Court in the
Frank case depends, perhaps, far
more than some easy-going and
loose-thinking citizens may imagine.
It was not surprising, therefore,
that at one point in the hearings Mr.
Justice Evans expressed a measure
of the court’s coldness toward out
bursts of feeling in the Supreme
r ourt, Rnd rather sharply reminded
the attorneys engaged that the 'court
they *hen were dealing with and ad
dressing directly cared for none of
that!
The sheet anchor of the Ship*, pf
is the law—the Impersonal and
unimpassioned law. That, and noth-
nor less! And it Is the
mighty province of the Supreme Court
sa Y what IS—and equally what is
NOT-the law!
C T^eo Frank was tTied according
■'* iw, the Supreme Court of Georgia
''■!i say as much—and that will end
t m matter If he was not tried ac-
(( *rcing to law. the Supreme Court
mv as much—and Frank will be
tried again.
Honor of State Involved.
Ife, a man’s liberty, and a
man s dearest honor are involved in
e decision of the Supreme Court—
® u t °ver and beyond that, as
> r above it as the stars . are far
,vov> the SPa t he dearest honor of
sovereign State of Georgia—
. T ° r ' r£r: ' ! ,l ’at boasts a proud ancestry
"He the original thirteen States—
ts involved.
It is that sacred honor of 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,
Georgia 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 heavens fall. It
must be remembered that the Su
preme Court of Georgia is not serv
ing I-eo Frank In this matter, save in
so far as he is the hub about which
mighty principles of law temporarily
revolve—it is the people of Georgia
the court is serving!
FTanks 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 griin
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-
ivelv 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 appears
more in keeping with the spirit and
intent of the high Court’s functions.
For one thing, human beings are
more careful in what they write than
In what they say. The written word
stands a permanent witness that 1n
the afterwhile may arise tj confound
ot affright the writer if he fails to
consider carefully the things ne
writes. The spoken word, reckless
of consequence and mindful of later
confusion and possible indeflinteness
of meaning, lend itself Inevitably to
error and miscarriage of justice.
Looks to Records for Truth.
And so, in considering this famous
miscarriage of justice in the final
word the Supreme Court speaks.
One recalls again-and again the ad
monition of Mr. 'Justice Evans—the
warning word that, ;-fter all, the Su
preme Court will look to the WRIT
TEN RECORD for the truth of the
Frank case’s history and may forget
entirely the passionate vehemence of
attorneys in partisan argument.
Ands 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 construc
tion upon the evidence, nor yet Ros
ser’s, nor Felder’s, nor Arnold’s. The
Court will make up its own mind Jn
Its own way.
Dorsey may shout and Rosser may
imagine vain thines—the one may say
thus and so proves this and that, and
the other may beat himself to willing
fragments contending that thus and
so mean nothing of the kind. The
Supreme Court still will decide for
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 to
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EMPTY STOCKING FUND TO GET
BIG BOOST FROM TECH PLAYERS
A1 Roberts
(left) and
Walter Troy,
two of Tech’s
star dramatic
cast, who will
help Empty
Stocking Fund
Friday.
SILL TS
BE PHD B1
Debate Now Only 'Vain Repeti
tion,' Asserts Senator Kern,
Asking Time for Vote.
WASHINGTON, Dec 17. Senator
Kern, Democratic leader, asked con
sent in the Senate to-day for a vote
on the currency bill not later than
6 o’clock Friday evening .Senator
Bristow objected It Is believed, how
ever that tha bill will be passed in
any event by .Saturday night.
Senator Kent reviewed the cur
rency debate and said it had now
reached a stage "of vain repetition.”
He asserted that men now out of
w T ork will be recalled to work as noon
as the bill is passed.
Senator Gallinger sold the tariff
bill was a partial failure and he
doubted if the currency bill would
give the expected relief.
“Were my questions absurd be
cause they revealed faults in the
bill?” asked Senator Burton in re
ply to Kern’s criticism.
“Must the Senator from Indiana
swallow a measure whole no matter
how crude or unjust it mav be, mere
ly because a caucus so dec des? Must
wa. become here an aggregation of
ciphers to accept without question
every measure that comes from the
Executive Department or the cau
cus? If so, the Senate sinks from its
high estate to deserved contempt. If
the Sei ator from Indiana had given
attention to the questions he would
not ‘have made the criticism."
Senator Bristow Inquired why Sen
ator KeVn had wasted an hour’s time
“When he knew before he asked that
unanimous agreement would not be
granted.”
65,000-Horsepower.
Moves Chattanooga*
CHATTANOOGA, Dec. 13— Current
from the $10,000,000 lock and dam at
Hale’s Bar, Tenn., operated all cars
upon the lines of a local traction com
pany and furnished lights for Signal
Mountain for the first time last night
Although more than 65,000 horsepower
has been available, for several week*,
operating current was not turned Into
the transmission lines until last night.
Don't Worry, and Live
Long, Advises Man,93
SOUTH ORANGE), N. ,1, Dee. 17 —
Don’t worry; then you'll sleep well
If you sleep well you'll be happy and
live Ions. These are the rules for
longevity riven by Joseph Bradbury,
93
Savannahans Go to
Ask Visit of Wilson
SAVANNAH, D«n. 17.—A strong
delegation of Sav.nnilum. 1s ;n
Washington to-day to urge upon
President Wilson that he accept an
Invitation to attend the meeting of
the Drainage Congress here next
March.
At the same time an effort will be
made to have the Government locate
the Sixth I.lghthouse District at Sa
vannah. It la now at Charleston, while
Brunswick and Jacksonville are also
trying to win It.
Albanian King to
Take Throne Jan. 15
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
FRANKFOR T-ON-MAIN, GER
MANY. Dec 17.—A Fonetantinople dls-
S atch to The Frankfurter Zeltunjr to-
ay aays that Prince William of Wind,
who has consented to become the first
ruler of the new kingdom of Albania,
will ascend the throno January 15.
Break World Record
As Masonic Officials
ROME), Deo. 17^-tA wqrld’a record
In Maeonlo auccegston was broken last
night when Cherok**.Jksflge, No. (Ill,
F. <%>, M., elected far the thirteenth
consecutive capitular year Judge Max
Meyerhardt worahlpful master and
for the forty-first VfarTt. tj. West as
secretary.
Both are prominent Georrians, the
former having served as grand mas
ter of the Georgia- Grajid Lodge. Fol
lowing the election of officers 400
members participated In a home-com
ing banquet.
Panama Canal Guns
Will Carry 11 Miles
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The ord
nance bureau has finished a number of
13-lnch mortars of new design for the
Panama Canal fortification which have
shown a maximum range of mere than
eleven miles.
Christmas Cigars
Oppenheim’s Cigars
“For Fussy Smokers”
Every man who loves a good smoke
knows Oppenheim’s Cigars. And he will
appreciate a box of them to smoke during
the holidays.
If you have a friend, a husband, or a
sweetheart, give him a box of these famous
brands of Imported Cigars.
Webster Cigars
Edens,
Belinda,
Partagas,
Punch.
Lozanos.
Hoyo de Monterey,
Romeo and Juliette,
La Escepcion,
Van Dycks,
Telephone Orders
Promptly Delivered
0PPENHEIM CIGAR COMPANY
Seven East Alabama ATLANTA
One-fourth of Receipts From ‘The Magistrate’ Is
Promised—Play Friday Night.
Another delegation of friends of
Atlanta’s poor boys and girls turn
ed up Wednesday. They are the
members of the Georgia Tech So
ciety, who made announcement that
25 per cent of the gross receipts at
their annual play Friday night would
be devoted to The Georgian-Ameri-
can Empty Stocking Fund for the
youngsters of the city who otherwise
would not have a visit from Santa
Claus this year.
As the Tech play is one of the
events of the winter season and in
variably attracts a big house, the
fund will be swelled materially by
the generosity of the students. On
Sunday another substantial addition
to the Empty Stocking Fund will
come from The Georgian’s great free
concert in the Forsyth Theater,
The play at the Grand Friday night
by the Tech student-actors promises
to be even more of a grand and
delightful affair than It was last year,
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
arvait the decision of the Suprems
Court, It perhaps is well enough to
hold fast to the thought that the Su
preme Court of Georgia is composed
of 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-that 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
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 raiji-
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 of
the hands of the lawyers—it is in the
bosom of the Supreme Court and this
Commonwealth will believe that ail Is
wel$
when the house was packed from pit
to gallery.
College Girls to Attend.
The annual dramatic effort by the
collegians Is to be graced this year
by the presence of several hundred
young women from Atlanta's famed
educational Institutions. Not that
they have not attended before, but
Friday night they will be here In
larger numbers than ever before; they
will be in thyty, pettiest of gowns;
they will come In -solid delegations
from the. varlofls, schools they, repre
sent, and . they will be decked out
with the colors of their schools.
Washington Seminary, Agnes Scott
College, the Glrl<t’ High School, Miss
Woodberry’s ana Miss Hannah’s
schools all will he at-the Grand with
large representations.
The Tech actors, as soon as The
Georgia# made public Its plans for
raising an Empty Stocking Fund
for the poor children of the city.
Immediately fell in with the’idea and
decided to make a contribution on
their own account. It was agreed
that one-fourth of the gross receipts
would be turned over to The Geor
gian to be need In filling the empty
stockings in the poor homes of the
city. ’
Some, of Players.
A1 Roberts, who, starred last year
In "Brown of .Harvard,” will have a
leading part In this year's produc
tion, which Is Pinero's famous com
edy. “The Magistrate." It will be the
professional ranks of Thespians for
Roberts after his school days are
over, according to the report of his
friends.
He Is regarded as one of the best
actors that the Tech Dramatic So
ciety has ever had. Besides possess
ing an impressive personality on the
stage, he has unusual ability for an
amateur and has decided to use his
talents professionally. Roberts is
prominently connected with the Play
ers’ Club of Nashville, his home.
Free Concert Sunday.
And remember:
The Georgian-American’s free con
cert at the Forsyth Theater next
Sunday afternoon, at 3 o'clock.
Ever}' seat In. the house will be
free. The concert last year was at
tended by as many as the house
would hold
Some of the best musical talent in
the city will have places on the pro
gram. Musicians from other cities
also will perform. Altogether It will
be one of the most enjoyable affairs
that Atlantans have been privileged
to attend in months.
Here are the latest contributions ta
the Empty Stocking Fund:
A Gc0afello\> 1.00
Cash 1.00
J. M. High Co. . 10.00
Another Goodfellow 1 00
L. C. Cash . 1.00
In memory of a Little Niece.... 1.00
Shellman Boston 1.00
Joseph E. Boston, Jr. .. 1.00
Dr. T. P. Hinman 5.00
McMillan Produce Co., box of
oranges.
Industrial Arts Club, Inman
Park, provisions
Edmund Hurt 1.00
Sarah Hurt 1.00
Joel Hurt, Third 1.00
Lucy Vincent Goss 1.00
8. P. Monerief Co. 1.00
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