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ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1!»13.
Wind Shows Cause for Empty Stocking Fund
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Question of South American Pol
icy. Evaded Forty Years, Put Up
for Debate in Style Which May
Embarrass the United States.
Nations’ Right to Intervene When
American Is Convicted Included
in Program for Conference Ap
proved by Secretary of State.
W ASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Ii\ giving
his approval to the program for the
fifth Pan-American conference to be
rield in Cantiago de Chile next year
Secretary of State Bryan has opened
the way for the discussion of a vital
principle affecting the rights of Amer
icans in Latin America which the
smaller countries oJ this hemisphere
have for a generation urged the Unit
ed States Government to abandon.
Of eleven topics for discussion at
the conference, all but the last on the
program are entirely Innocuous and
within the usual strict precautions
taken to prevent the raising of em
barrassing questions at Pan-Ameri
can meetings.
The last number, however, agreed
to by Mr. Bryan as chairman of the
program committee is a topic which
has never before been permitted to
ome before the Pan-American con
ferences and one which former mem
bers of the conference regard as
charged with dynamite so far as the
Interests of the United States Is con
cerned.
Here's the Dynamite.
The eleventh topic for discussion is:
Declaration as a principle of
American policy that aliens do not
*njoy other civil rights or other re
courses than those guaranteed by the
Constitution and laws of each coun
try to the citizens thereof.” ,
International lawyers of experience
In Latin American affairs regard this
proposal as revolutionary in so far as
:t seems to have the assent of the
present Administration through Sec
retary Bryan's having acquiesced in
» appearance on the program.
It Is regarded as nothing less than
an attempt upon the part of certain
of the smaller and less stable coun
tries to draw the United States into
an agreement to curtail its right to
Intervene diplomatically on behalf of
an American citizen in any of those
countries.
Taboo for 40 Years.
For 40 years efforts have been made
from time to time to induce the
United States to accept the proposed
principle either by actual incorpo
ration in a treaty or by giving full
recognition to statutes to the same ef
fect enacted in those countries.
Throughout the entire period every
Secretary of State has flatly refused
to yield any such limitation on the
right of American citizens t. appeal
to their Government when in difficul
ty in a Latin-American country.
There is reason to believe that Mr.
Bryan accepted the proposal at its
face value and in perfect good faith
without acquainting hin?self with the
traditional attitude of his Govern
ment toward such a principle. Ho
•?ems to regard the principle laid
down as In accordance with United
States policy.
Had he looked in the work of John
Bassett Moore, counselor for the State
Department, he would have found in
>he “Digest of International Law"
many declarations of the determined
opposition of the United States ro
proposals depriving American citi-
z-rs of the right of appeal to the
Washington Government from deci
sions of Latin-American courts or
authorities.
Secretary Blaine's * iew.
Secretary Blaine in discussing the
reaty clause proposed by Ecuador,
to the effect that an American tak
ing part in international questions
•hould be treated, tried and con
demned as a citizen of Ecuador and
should not appeal to hie home gov
ernment, said:
The general principle which main-
ataa u that the judgment of the
' ourta a country can not be ac-
' % Pt*d a& finally determining its in-
•mational duties and liabilities. Once
admit that they are to be so accepted,
•ach nation Is left to fix the standard
I of If® own conduct and the measure
L it* obligations”
Heartiest Appeal of All in Christmas Charity
Project To Be Made at Entertainment
at Forsyth Theater.
Dirty, gray clouds shut out the sun Saturday, and a biting
wind whistled up and .down the crowded business streets. It Avas
the bodily visitation of winter. It Avas a real, direct, irresistible
appeal that has been made to Atlanta’s Christmas charity.
Up in the editorial office of The Sunday American and Geor
gian a ribbon on one of the typewriters has been worn to tatters.
The “sob sister” and her masculine cousin have written for weeks,
day after day, their request tfiat Atlanta men and women open
hearts and purses and give to the Empty Stocking fund. They
have written sincerely, with a knowledge of the great need.
There have been benefits. Great actors and ambitious ama
teurs have given of their time and their talents to help Atlanta’s
poor toward a happy Christmas.
But nothing that has been said or done or written voiced so
clearly the need that exists among Atlanta’s poor as did the wind
that bleAv out of the gray sky Saturday, with its message that Avin-
ter is here, and that want is here, and bitter cold.
LUCKY ONES, THINK OF THE POOR.
I Fur-clad women and men in comfortable overcoats, as they
threaded their Avay through the crowds on Peachtree and White
hall, must have realized, with something of a remorseful pang,
that there are some people who don’t possess furs and overcoats
to keep the cold away.
And Avhen they dreAv their chairs close to the snug radiator
or toasted their toes before a glowinr
fire Saturday evening, they must have
felt within them the birth of the
thodght that somewhere in Atlanta
there are homes—humble, drab homes,
without fires of any kind, or, at the
most, only struggling, despairing
flames, about which poorly clad wom
en and children are huddled.
And surely, when they cuddled
their own boys and girls, and lis
tened to happy talk of Sa..ta Claus
and next Thursday, these fortunate
folks of the furs and overcoats MitSt
have thought of the ether children
whom Santa Ciaue doesn’t know.
Mighty Message in Gray Sky.
There is a mighty message to be
read in the gray skies, and to be
heard in the chill wind.
It is a message more eloquent and
impelling than anything the Christ
mas Editor or his lachrymose help
ers can write.
ATVhistling around the downtown
corners, and gnawing its course be
tween tall buildings, th& wind Satur
day made people on the street to
draw tighter their overcoats and
wraps, and to hurry on to their shop
ping, rather than dawdle before the
T HE largest Christmas tree in the South. It will be lighted
Christmas Eve and Christmas night for the big Empty
Stocking festival. Below at Jho left are Mayor Woodward and
Alderman A. II. Van Dyke admiring it. The others are a
member of Lee’s Hatvaiian Trio, and the Steinway Four, Avho
will appear at the free concert this afternoon at the Forsyth
Theater.
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windows as they have for days and
days.
The same wind whistled in the
sparsely settled corners of the town,
out among the little cottages where
live Atlanta's poor. No doubt its
whine cut into the heart of a hun
dred poor mothers, who thought of
shoes and warm underclothes and
the other unromantic necessities, and
at the same time remembered that
next Thursday is the day of dreams
for their little, half-doubting folks.
Gloom Poverty’s Emblem.
And the work at the mill Is hard,
almost as hard as the pay la sma
lt was a mournful wind that sounded
to these mothers.
But it is an ill wind, indeed, that
blows no good. Frightening the
hearts of the unfortunate poor, tin
Saturday chill at the same time must
have spurred the consciences of rich
er, luckier people. It is not easy to
frame in your mind a picture of suf
fering and want at a time when the
sun is shining warm and the skies are
unseasonably blue.
But when the wind cries and the
skies are gray, then the world itself
seems an embodiment of gaunt pov
erty. Atlanta has had too mu?h
brightness and warmth, deceptive of
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Knights Templars
Observe Christmas
Commanderie8 Will Drink Toast to j
| Grand Master at Exercises at
Masonic Temple.
The two Atlanta commanderies of
the Knights Templars, Coeur de Lion
and Atlanta, will observe the custom
of the Templars the world over on
Christmas by drinking a toast at an
appointed hour to the grand maste-
The members of the commanderies
will meet in the Masonic Temple at
11 o’clock Christmas and closely ob
serve the ritual. W. C. Warfield will
make a brief address on the progress
of Templarism. Robert V Maddox
will represent the Coeur d© Lion
Commandery.
J. L. Mayson, Dr. A. H. VanDyko
and C. H. Essig make up the commit
tee from the Coeur de Lion Com
mandery which has charge of the
ceremonies this year. The committee
representing the Atlanta Commandary
consists of P. L. Blackshear, J. R.
Dickey and Thomas H. Jeffries.
George F. -lubanks will preside.
LA FOLLETTE SEAMAN'S BILL
San Francisco Chamber of Conjmerce Appeals
For Assistance in Obtaining Congressional
Hearing of Protest on Measure “Under
Which Japanese Vessels Alone Would
Profit.”
‘We Didn't Gro So Fast'
Says Woman of 102
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—"In my
youth we didn’t go so fast," Haid Mrs.
Priscilla Ayres Inslee, of New Bruns
wick, N. J., who is 102 to-day.
"We didn’t have sterilized milk,
and we got our water from th© pump
which sometimes was near th© barn,
something forbidden now.”
Christmas Feast for
Poor Negro Children
A Christmas dinner will b© served
to poor negro children In the Institu
tional department of the negro First
Congregational Church at noon
Christmas Day. One hundred will be
invited, including the negro ew3boys
of Atlanta.
John Bozeman, of No. 185 1-2 Au
burn avenue, Is chairman of the com
mittee to receive contributions.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 20.—William Randolph Hearst,
New York:
There is no one in the East who so knows the West, nor who
so keenly appreciates the needs of this great section of this
nation, nor who has more earnestly endeavored to promote the
upbuilding of the American mercantile marine than yourself.
It is because of your knowledge of the West, its conditions
and its needs, that we are appealing to you to aid the commercial
interests of the Pacific Coast in a matter which we believe most
seriously affeots the future 'welfare of this great Western slope.
There is before the House Committee on Merchant Marine
and Fisheries a bill which will soon be reported to the House of
Representatives, the provisions of which are the most drastic
ever proposed by any legislative body in the world for the regu
lation of navigation.
The bill passed the Senwie Avithout an opportunity given to
any commercial interests of the United States to be heard on this
measure of so vital a chaiacter. As you know, there have been
a number of bills introduced in both the House and Senate with
a view of amending the navigation laws, especially viith regard
to securing greater safety of life, several of which have passed
and are now in successful operation. But the LaFollette bill,
officially known as Senate bill No. 136, now before the House,
has several provisions which most seriously affect the com
mercial interests of the Pacific Coast, the seriousness of which
could not have been appreciated by our representatives in Con
gress, or they would not have refused to grant us a hearing.
Therefore, we ask that you help us to get a hearing, so that
we may be able to show how some of the provisions of this bill
will affect the commerce of the Pacific.
If this bill becomes a law the Panama Canal will afford but
little of the long-expected reward to either the shipping or other
commercial interests of the Pacific Coast.
The LaFollette bill, instead of placing upon the shipping
interests of this country nation-ivide provisions looking to the
safety of the traveling public, will, in fact, greatly add to the
danger of far greater loss of life in event of accidents at sea.
The bill nullifies every attempt to effect the highest standard
of efficiency. The bill deprives the American shipoAvner from
aiding in the restoring of the American flag to the sea.
It also deprives the Amerioan boy from becoming an Amer
ican sailor, but, above all, as far as the Pacific Ocean is con
cerned, there is not a possible chance for an American ship or
that of any European nation to be operated in trans-Pacific com
merce under the provisions of this bill.
The passage of this bill will positively, definitely and abso
lutely turn over to the ships of Japan the shipping industry of
this coast, because by reason of the provisions of this act ships
manned and officered solely by Japanese are the only ships that
can be operated under the requirements of this bill.
Should we be denied the right to appear before Congress to
present our objections and our reasons for opposing the LaFol
lette seamen’s bill? We do demand that before this bill is re
ported out of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and
Fisheries we be given an opportunity to present our views be
fore final action is taken on this bill.
From a national vieAvpoint and in reference to the interna
tional conference now being held in London, a meeting inspired
and fathered by this Government, the conclusions of the eminent
men now assembled in solemn discussion of problems of deep
interest to the commerce of the world should be received. Then
this Government, Avith the other maritime nations of the earth,
can ably pass laws which will by international action increase
safety at sea. Every effort in this attainment we cheerfully and
earnestly join.
We appreciate, Mr. Hearst, your ever willingness to rise
when the Pacific Coast calls you. We believe that in this instance
you, through your chain of powerful neAvspapers, can ■win for
us from Congress the hearing that we ask.
The whole West now asks for your earnest and deep sup
port in its efforts to prevent legislation which means the life of
the shipping of the West and requests your aid in preventing the
turning over to Japan of the commerce of the Pacific.
Thanking you most sincerely for whatever you can do in our
behalf, we are signing as individual members of the San Fran
cisco Chamber of Commerce.
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, William T. Sesnon, presi
dent; Robert Newton Lynch, vice president and manager;
G. M. Mason, Northern Flour Company; R. B. Underhill, Jr.,
president Selby Smelting and Lead Company; E. L. Bosqui,
E. L. Bosqui Printing Company; Burt Fisher, Fisher Flouring
Company; C. B. Sharp, Hammond Milling Company; H. M.
Lee, Tubbs Cordage Company; W. C. Duncan, vice president
S. L. Jones & Co.; F. B. Maldonado, president Maldonado& Co.;
C. M. Culver, manager the Western Transfer and Storage Cpm-
pany; A. A. Brown, F. A. Somers, Somers & Co.; George A.
Beanston, E. N. Bray, Bray Bros.; C. M. Brown, president
Pioneer Salt Company; Joe Durney, president Griffith U
Company; L. A. Maiaon, Hunt Bros. Co.; P. E. H<-