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■ j - The Weather. Atlanta and vicinity: Cloudy, with local rains Sunday Monday fair and colder. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Copyright, 1»1», by Thb Georgian Company. ATLANTIC GA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1913. EGOTIATE KITH, NOT OUST'BIG [San Francisco Is Amazed Over Its New Evening Call | Success of That Publication Makes It the Premier Evening Paper of the West. So Says Vice President Kingsbury of American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Who Made Agreement on Trust Issue. Declares Fair Play of Administra tion Has Saved Wire Concern Costly Lawsuit—Denies There Ever Was a Merger, However, NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—Vice Presi- dent N. C. Kingsbury, of the Ameri can Telephone and Telegraph Com pany, who conducted negotiations with the Government for the settle ment of the telephone-telegraph com bination, believes President Wilson has now revealed his policy of deal ing with the large corporations. The policy is to be one of negotiation. “Of course, it is all right,” Mr. Kingsbury said, referring to the Pres ident’s action in settling the question without recourse to litigation, “but.ex- ept in so far as it works out prac tically any one conversant with the laws of the land knows that in no in dividual is vested the right to bind the Government to any specific action. “But this is of less significance in itself than is the fact now established that the Administration has declared itself regarding its attitude toward big business generally. Pleased With '‘Fair Play.” “When the Department of Justice ^ants to find out whether any corpo ration is doing something it has no business to do, all that is going to happen is that the corporation will be invited down to Washington to talk the matter over. ' If the corporation plays fair and shows a willingness to be decent— there you are. In a word. Attorney General McReynolds is imbued with the same spirit that animates the President. ‘You behave decently and I shall behave decently.’ That’s their attitude in a nutshell. I told the Attorney General long ago that the American Telephone and Telegraph Company would never do a | bit more—by way of traveling in the straight and narrow’ path of busi- | ness—after litigation than it was will ing to do before litigation. Suit Is Forestalled. Fortunately for us the matter did not end with the Attorney General. The President became interested. He expressed approval of our attitude in the premises. And the result was even more fortunate than w r e could have hoped. “Instead of being obliged to defend a lawsuit that would have cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars and ^ndless months of time, we had mere ly to listen to the opinions of the De partment of Justice and having list ened, to coincide with those opinions. Naturally there is nothing in the w °r1d to prevent the Administration from prosecuting us next week. There nothing to guarantee a continu- | ft nce of this method of procedure by the authorities in Washington.” Never a Merger, He Says. Commenting on the published re ports of the action of the Department of .Justice in its severance of the tel ephone and telegraph interests, Mr. Kingsbury expressed indignation that reference should have been made to a dissolution of the telephone trust. . "There never has been a merger,’ np said. “Therefore, there can not be a dissolution. And there has been no coercion. The Department of Justice has not ordered the American Tele phone and Telegraph Company to do anything. , lid put it that the Attorney Xweneral and the President suggested |]P“ best course for us to follow. Of l'J 0 !' 1 ’ he added sinking, “it is only rair to add that within the velvet ecabbard was the steel-edged sw ord.” Use of Bell Lines by Local Concern Not Settled. r 'fflcials of the Southern Bell Tele phone Company declared Saturday “ p ’ that any prediction as to the P ohable effect locally of the agree ment reached between the Department Justice and the American Tele- P^Ph and Telephone Company, which, .._ Wa 2 rumored, would result in the he toll lines of the Southern u ,U> |L I ' Cumberland Companies by r -^Bnta Telephone Company, is y ‘PiatiiV-, arid purely speculation. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20.—A new newspaper power has arisen in this city. So phenomenal has been the j success of The Evening Call since its inception less than four months ago that its growth is almost as much * topic of interest as the Panama Ex position. By its recent absorption of The Evening Post The Call added a cir culation of 40,000 of the highest class financial and society readers to It’s own gilt-edged circulation of more than 80,000, and this combined power - 1 and influential clientele gives it the premier place among the evening newspapers of the West. The careers of both The Post and The Call are bits of newspaper ro mance. The Post was founded by the late Henry George in 1871, and us«*d by him for four years to promulgate hi3 principles and theories. After it l eft his hands it changed gradually, but entirely, in Its charac ter, and became finally t! organ of the financial Interests and the society classes of San Francisco. Its 40,000 circulation was made up of this ex clusive class at the time of its ab sorption. The Call was the first morning newspaper in San Franisco. It was recently bought by F. W. Kellogg and John D. Spreckels and transformed Into an evening pater. Since it en tered th. evening field on September 1 of last year it has been so success ful that its competitors have felt the destructive force of its competition. The Evening Post was, because of this competition, offered for sale, and The Call bought and absorbed it. The history of The Call dates back to 1856, when it was founded as a morning paper by a band of seven printers working on a co-operative basis. For years it was extremely successful. Formerly Republican in policy, in 1895 it became Independent. Its transformation into an evening paper met with a response unique in newspaper history. Its attainment of 80.000 circulation in a few months has never been duplicated by a newly started paper in a city of this sire anywhere in the world. With the notable circulation of Th* Post added to its own, it reached daily more than 100,000 of the city’s most representative citizens. Mrs, Godbee, Denied New Trial, Appeals AUGUSTA. Dec. 20.—Judge Henry C. Hammond to-night issued an or der overruling the motion for a new trial for Mrs. Edna Perkins Godbe*. convicted at the September term Jenkins Superior Court and sentenced to- life imprisonment for the murder of Mrs. Florence Boyer Godbee, sec ond wife of her divorced husband, whom she also slew, last August. The case now goes to the State Su preme Court on appeal. Blind Youth Star In Athletic Meet NEW YORK. Dec. 20.—Joseph Har ris, a blind student, furnished the sen sation in the annual indoor games of the public schools of New York held to day in Madison Square Garden. De spite his great handicap Harris went through the trials and semi-finals for the 60-yard dash and only failed by "a nose" in winning a place in the finals. For the purpose of guiding the blind pupil, a line was stretched the entire length of the course and he ran with his side rubbing the string rtiKiPS Hilt I Hanna, Spooner and T.R, Get Canal Credit Taft Declares Their Efforts Were Nucleus That Made Waterway Possible. New Evidence in Mayson District Scandal Found—Meeting Is Postponed. INVESTIGATION IS STARTED Persons Who Caused Teachers to Quit To Be Punished, Cit izens Declare. IKES BAYS OF Beachy Loops Loop 4 Times for Record FRESNO, CAL., Dec. 20.—Lincoln Beachy this afternoon broke his own and the world’s record for Iooptng- the-loop by doing the complete turn in the air four times, following which he crossed the aviation field and drove over the crowd at the fair grounds for an eighth of a mile. Previously Beachey had done the loop three times. Policeman’s Home Robbed of 5 Suits While Policeman Cochrane was on duty Saturday night, his home at No. 405 East Fair street was robbed and five suits of clothes stolen. The po liceman did not discover the theft un til he returned to his home. The discovery of unexpected evi dence indicating that there is a pos sibility of determining the origin of the slander which caused the resig nation of two young women teachers of the Mayson School District, brought about a postponement Sat urday night of the indignation meet ing called by patrons of the school to protest against the, action of County Superintendent E. C. Merry In closing the school as a method of discipline to the community. D. M. Willingham, one of the lead ing citizens of the district, who is said to have fceen instrumental in calling the meeting, told a Sunday American reporter Saturday night that the meeting probably would not be held until the investigation of the new evidence is completed. He refused to disclose the evidence, but declared that if the investigation proved successful the matter would be cleared and action probably taken against the guilty persons. Hope to Find the Guilty. “We are going to make every ef fort to run down the person who started the scandal.” said Mr. Wil lingham, “and nothing will be done until we have completed our investi gation. “During the day we came into pos session of information that leads us to believe we will be successful, and it was because we wished to have something definite to go on that we decided to postpone the meeting. “Before we can take any action at a public meeting we must be pre pared to go into the courts, and we will do that if it becomes necessary to vindicate the people of this com munity.” It Is generally understood among the patrons of the school that when the investigation now under way is completed the person suspected of having started the scandal will be asked to appear before a meeting of the citizens and prove his statements or face action. Postponement Voted. Whatever information might have been obtained concerning the origin of the alleged slander and the Iden tity of the person who started the trouble was not unearthed until late in the afternoon, for more than 30 patrons of the school had gathered at Watkins’ grocery, a block from the school, at 7 o’clock, ready for the meeting. When Mr. Willingham announced that the gathering had been post poned many of those who were in the crowd declared that the meeting ought to be held anyway, but when It was put to a vote the majority decided to heed the advice of Mr. Willingham and wait until something definite turned up Every man of the 30 or more ex pressed resentment against Superin tendent Merry, and declared that his letter to Mr. Willingham, which the latter refuses to mak? public, was an insult to the community. Deny Merry’s Statements. “There has been no talk in this town about either of the young women,” declared T. M. Watkins, owner of the grocery and one of the influential citizen® of the district "and we deny every statement Merry has made. “It would seem, In a place as small as this, that if there had been any slander circulated about either of the teachers, we would all have heard it. Both of the young women were high ly respected by every person in the district, and we consider them the best teachers we have ever had. “The statement that the young women were taken from their hoard ing house in a buggy to school is un true They boarded within 100 yanis of the school and there would have been no necessity for buggy rides They were frequently taken to the car line, three miles away, in a bug gy on Friday afternoons after school and brought back Monday morning, for they spent the sveek-end in At lanta. But they could hardly have been expected to walk to the car line.” Among other patrons who praised the young women and declared that Mr. Merry’s action was an insult to the patrons of the school were T. M. Bryant, W. A. Harper and C. J. Mor ris. NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—Theodore Roosevelt, John C. Spooner and the late Mark A. Hanna were given credit for the building of the Panama (’anal by former President Taft in an ad dress to-night at the annual banquet of the Ohio Society. Mr. Taft also declared in favor of the foundation of the great water way and advocated preferential tolls, expressing the belief that the old treaty gave the United States the right to favor it* own vessels. At the same time, however, he was willing to leave the whole matter to arbitra tion. Explaining his award of credit for the construction of the canal, he said that Senator Hanna’s keen business Instinct had removed many difflcul- j ties at the outset. Senator Spooner : had framed the act under which the I work was conducted and President ' Roosevelt had carried out the ideas. I Judge Ben Lindsey Weds Young Nurse CHICAGO, Dec 20—Judge Benja min Barr Ldndsey, of Denver, father of the juvenile court, author of “The I Beast and the Jungle,” and world- 1 famous as a social worker in behalf of children, was married to-night to Miss Henrietta Brevoort, stepdaugh ter of Dr. F. J. Clippert, of Detroit. The wedding was private. The judge is 43 years old. and his bride but 23. They met last spring in a sanitarium, whither the judge went for a rest after (he Denver elections at which the corporations were routed Miss Brevoort had gone there as a nurse, but fell 111, and she , and the judge were both patients. “One of my earliest memories of i her is when she put a wet towel on my aching head,” said the judge. It Does Not Overflow, but the Pressure Causes Liquid in Wells to Rise. HIDDEN CHANNELS CLOaE Citizens Near Hemphill Station Ask for Damages Because of Freakish Action of Water. A puzzling phenomenon was re vealed Saturdav in a petition for dam ages against the city of Atlanta by persons living around the water res ervoir at the Hemphill pumping sta tion, w'ho showed that their wells were being overflowed and their yards turned into bogs. When, some week* ago, their wells begaji to fill to the brim, these people were surprised, but said nothing; but when the water kept rising until the wells overflowed and disgorged such volumes that the surrounding section has become almost a swamp, they were frightened. Though the section is near the city pumping station, it has no waterworks. The convenience of being able to go out to the well and dip out w r ater as from a full Miss Keller Aids Christmas Fund +••5* +•+ +•+ +•+ ❖•+ Will Talk at Concert To-day +••!« +•■{• •{••<• •!*»•!• ■!•••!• +•+ Crowned ‘Daughter of the South’ Helen Keller writing a letter in Atlanta to Thomas Edison. E Holds Up Grocer and Rifles Till of $58.00 Oscar Richmand. a grocer at No. 214 East Cain street, was held up in his store by a negro who robbed his cash register of $58 Saturday night. Richman was alone when the ne gro entered and asked for a dozen eggs. As teh grocer turned to get the eggs the negro drew a revolver and ordered him to hold up his hands. Richman dropped to the floor behind the counter and crawled out of the front door. The robber left 20 cents w ith a note: “Here’s breakfast money.” Vice President Makes Squirrels Playmates WASHINGTON. Dec. 2ft._vic* President Marshall has made friends with the gray squirrel* In the Wash ington parks. They all know him and never look in vain for an offer ing of peanuts and other nuts, which the Vice President carries for them in his pocket. Often Mr. Marshall leaves the. Shoreham very early in the morning | and spends nearly an hour feeding ! and playing with the squirrels in Jackson square, near the hotel, while the wheel* of state go merrily around. Dr. Montessori Seeks Rest in Battle Creek BATTUE CREEK, MICH., Dec. 20. Mme. Montessori, famous Italian ed ucator, arrived here this evening somewhat exhausted from her Ameri can tour, and went into temporary se- I elusion at the Battle Creek Sanita rium. She will be the guest of Dr. J. .11. j Kellogg here for the next few days. | Mme. Montessori is not ill, but is J badly in need of rest. ; Grand Opera Troupe, Stranded, Begs Aid CINCINNATI, Der. 20.—Members [ of the American Grand Opera Com pany of Cleveland, stranded at Lex ington. Ky., to-day appealed to the Cincinnati Charities and Correction Department for transportation to their homes. The .company was headed by Ade laide Norwood, a well-known prima I donna. Plans are under way to as- j siRt the members of the company as far as Cleveland. spring did not ally their excitement. An investigation of the conditions by Councilman Claude L. Ashley has revealed a strange condition of the ground and a most freakish phenome non. Representing the Council Claims Committee, he went out and made a thorough examination. H) told Sat urday what he believes to be the so lution of the enigma. Some 800 feet southwest of the res ervoir, across the railroad, are a dozen private w'elis. They are on the wa tershed in the valley on which the new 400,000,000-gallon resei oir was built, "I do not believe that the waier that is flowing out of these wells is oozing out of the reservoir,” be said "It is coming from the ground from an independent source. “It seems that there were few snrings in this valley before the res ervoir was built, but streams of wai r undoubtedly were flowing under ,he ground along there which had outl-tls farther on. These are the streams that are supplying the wells. “In I he reservoir is 80 feet of water. That has a pressure of 34 feet to ‘he square Inch. It Is my theory that this pressure has closed the under ground channels of these streams that flowed under it. “The water had to get out. The course of least resistance was the wells. “Proof of my theory is that a large spring has opened just nt the edge of the reservoir. Its waters are clear. The water in the reservoir is muddy, and If the water from this spring was from that source It also would be muddy." Councilman Ashley has an Interest ing method of relieving the water- soaked conditions. "I think if we lay a sewer pipe, with open joints surrounded by crushed stone, between the wells and the reservoir it will drain the sur plus water. I would not have the pipes laid across the water channels. That would dry up the wells. But trv land about there is so soaked with w'ater that the pipe with crushed stone around it would allow all the surplus w ater to seep out.” Two Thousand Hear Blind and Deaf Marvel Speak at Auditorium. Miss Helen Keller, In Atlanta for her lecture under U. D. C. auspices, Saturday night heard the story of The Georgian’s Empty Stocking Fund and at once her great heart was en listed in the cause. So Mis* Keller is to make a little talk Sunday afternoon at the Empty Stocking Concert that starts at 3 o’clock in the Forsyth Theater, and all those who attend the concert—It Is a free concert, by the way will have the opportunity of seeing and hearing the wonderful young woman whose name Mark Twain bracketed with that of Napoleon Bonaparte, as the “two greatest figures of the nine teenth century.” Mrs. John Maey, Mis* Keller’s teacher and constant < ompanion, will be there, too. It was through her, of course, that the arrangements were made. It It didn't take Mrs. Macy ten seconds to fall In love with the idea of an Empty Stocking Fund, and it didn’t take Miss Keller any longer, as soon as her teacher’s deft finger* had spelled the Idea into her sensitive palm. “It Is Beautiful,” She Says. She very promptly said what she thought about it. “It is beautiful—beautiful!” she exclaimed. ‘‘Such a wonderful way of applying the Christmas spirit! It i* bringing to bear a great principle *o sadly overlooked in everyday life— the principle that the good things of life, and the pleasant side, should be shared equally. “Atlanta must feel that principle strongly, to determine that there shall be no empty stockings. T shall be so happy If T can do even a littlo to help.” Miss Keller sits by her teacher's side. Mrs. Macy spells your ques tion Into her hand, very quickly; much more quickly than you could spell It off a page. There Is practi cally no delay, for Mrs. Macy Is trans mitting the question as you talk. Then Mis* Keller replies, speaking slowly and with emphasis, if the top ic is one that Interests her; some times with gestures; always with ready and smoothly-worded sen tence*. There i* a slight uncertainty of inflection and accent; about the same as you might hear in the Eng lish of a well-educated Frenchman. It only adds to the Interest. 2,000 Hear Her Speak. The 2,000 persons who went to the Auditorium to hear her Saturday night were intensely interested. Throughout her address they leaned forward, hardly breathing, trying to make out her words. A great part of it was unintelligible, but the message at the last came out clear, as she tried very hard to make it. “The world i* full of miracles,” she Continued on Page 4, Column 5. ATLANTfl’S GREATEST CAMPAIGN Canvassing Committees, in Whirl wind Finish, Bring Total Within $25,000 of Amount Needed to Have Big School Founded Here. Two Banks Aid in “Clean-Up" of Huge Fund — Executive Board to Raise Remainder, and Work ers Are Released and Lauded. Oglethorpe University now i* up to Atlanta. The canvassing committees Satur day, In a whirlwind finish, whien brought the fund, after a three weeks’ campaign, up to $225,180 of the quar ter million required, brought their ac tivities to a halt, when they turne 1 the matter over to the executive com mittee. Captain James W. English, head of the executive committee, declared upon this occasion that the campaign had been the most thorough and mag nificent ever made In Atlanta. It was crowned with complete success, he declared, and the remaining $24,820 would be secured easily. The canvassing committees, which were composed of 60 well-known and active Atla: tans, raised $11,727 in their final day’s work. This brought the amount above that which they volunteered to raise. A further Impetus was given ttl# last lap In the campaign Saturday when two Atlanta bar\ks came for ward with subscriptions of $1,003 each. It is reported also that oth-r banks will follow this move. The executive committee will as sum* charge of raising the remaining amount. A Splendid Finish. There was pleasant rivalry between the two leading committees over the final showdown. Dr. Cheston King a committee brought its total for the t‘ ee weeks up to $15,792, while Mr. Bottenfleld’s committee made its final total $14,863.50. Cheers and loud applause greeted the reports from both of these com mittees. A subscription of $100 was an nounced from James Lawrence HlghL 4-year-old son of Emmet Hight, who took It from hi* own bank account. L. P. Bottenfleld, Dr. J. Cheston King, B. F. Burdett. Henry Schaul and others made brief speeches com mending the splendid work that had been done. Chairman Ivan E Allen, of the campaign committee, in a speech of congratulation and thanks to the committeemen, said; “This has been the most magnifi cent campaign of the kind ever con ducted in Atlanta. The committee men have done exceptionally fine work frofn start to finish, and it is a credit to their enterprise, devotion and self-sacrifice. “I want to say further that this is one of the cleanest lists of subscrip tions I have ever known. I hold In my hand subscriptions for $3,000 which were made upon such condi tion* that the executive committee decided it could not accept them, and they have not and will not be count ed in our totals.” On motion of Dr. William Owen*, it was unanimously decided to form an Oglethorpe University society, pledg ed to the everlasting aid of Ogle thorpe The proposal was received with en thusiasm and the following officer* were elected; President. Ivan E. Allen; first vice president, Dr William Owens; sec ond vice president. Dr. J. Cheston King; third vice president, L. P. Bot tenfleld; secretary and general coun- Free Concert To-day All of the best Musicians in Atlanta will take part in the Empty Stocking Fund's Entertainment At The Forsyth Atlanta Edition of The American Conafata of tha Following Sections » 1—Late Newt. 5—Editorial and City Lifa. ’ 2—Raal Estate, Wants. 6—Magazine. , 3—Sports, Autos. 7—Comlca. 4—Society and Foreign. BE SURE TO GET THEM ALL.