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THE ATLASTA UEUmilAA AM) NEWS.
Ivey Creates Sensation Under
Hallucination Thst “Evil Ele
ment 1 ' Pursues Him.
Imbued wfth the hail urination that
the "evil element" of Atlanta had in
vaded hie room with ropes and gun* ,
to kill him, I. Ivey, a picture framer,
made a desperate attempt early on
Tuesday morning to leap from a
third-story window of the William*
House, No. 16 1-2 Marietta street,
where he has been living for the last
few day a
Policemen and guests of the hotel
•vho rushed to the man's room when
he\ heard him screaming found him
-truggling with the window and try
ing to break the small Iron bars that
inclose it. Policemen Jones and Im-
■ id took him to headquarters, where
he was looked up In a cell to prevent
recurrence of the temporary fit of
insanity with which It ia thought ne
became afflicted. He was released
live hour* later, when he had become
rational
only the timely entrance of the of
ficers and ihe guests of the place
prevented the man from plunging to
Ids death on the Marietta street
pavement.
Persons who occupy neighboring
rooms were awakened by Ivevs
>eream» of "Murii. r: and Help!
and then there came the sound of
rash in g furniture ami the breaking
"f p.ass Half i dozen of the room
ers rushed to his room and found the
door locked.
"W hat's the matter'”' shouted one
of the crowd that had gathered.
"They're killing me!’’ screamed
Ivey. "They're going to hang me!
For God’s sake help me!"
While some of the guests of the
hotel telephoned the police, others
broke open the door ami entered
Ivey's room When they entered lve>
was frantically tearing at the win
dow. and wielding a heavy chair In
's «ffort# to break the iron bars,
l olling In that, he thrust his head be
tween the bars and tried to wriggle
t .-trough, but whs t aught as his
*• boulders went through the opening.
Tells Weird Story.
Sidelights
GEORGIA
POLITICS
AMES B.MIH
man woman and child on it has a
Merry Christmas and a Happy New
Year if it be within his power to
bring those things to pass
Assistant Commissioner Hughes
will leave Atlanta Wednesday to
■pend the holidays with his home
folks In Americus. returning, how-
ttvtr. to the Capitol Immediately aft
er Christmas
The Dalton Citizen, which In one of
the highest-class weekly newspapers
in the South beautiful typographical
ly and edited with r»n ntelligence. is
vir. earnest end vigorous in Its op
position to capital punishment in
Georgia, and rarely loses « promising
opportunity to cry out against It
'.Taking nore rec#»ntlr of some prog
res •» in Georgia of « movement
against capital punishment that i*
sure eventually to crystallise into a
ccm:wiling force inside the i/egiala-
fcure, The Citizen says
There are five States in the
I'n’on that have abolished the
barbarous custom, and the day is
coming when «1! them will do
the same thing
The Slate, in hanging a crimi
nal hut imitates his crime, ex
cept a« to methods employed, and
in so doing seta an example that
encourages the criminally In
clined to murderous deed* as
much as does the same kind of a
• ■rime committed by the individ
ual "Like begets like.” Murder
breeds murder, whether commit
ted by »he individual or by the
State under the guise of law.
The great teacher, Christ, in
veighed against the old Mosaic
injunction of "an eye for an eye
and a tooth for a tooth,” and vet
Ghrlstlan people stand up for a
custom that should shame the
civilization of a Hottentot
May the day speedily arrive
when Judicial murder will he at
an end In this great Common*
wealth, and also In this great na
tion!"
Capital punishment probabl> will
be abolished in Georgia eventually
Just as It will he abolished every
where in the civilized world - and ak-
ready the sentiment against it is very
strong one need only listen to the
striking of a Jury in a murder case in
Georgia to realize how many people
even now will not qualify because of
their opposition to this form of pun
ishment for crime
It dues not seem likely that capital
punishment for all crimes will* be
abolished at one sweep in Georgia
hut after a while there Mkeiv will be
introduced and passed through the
Legislature a bill sharply clmim
scribing it, and that will be followed
lat*r bv a law stopping it altogether
That, at least is what a great many I
Intelligent observers now believe
Governor and Mrs Hi&ton will
spend the Christmas holidays :n the
Executive Mansion in Peachtree
street; Secretary and Mrs. Llm are
in Augusta, Mr. Tim's old horns and
Secretary Jesse Perry, who is a
bridegroom-elect, will spend Christ -
mas In I^avonla. where the future
Mrs Secretary Perry resides
[yogan Bleckley, who probable ■
knows whereof he speaks, thinks the
Supreme Court of Georgia Is about
the teal solution of perpetual motion !
"That court,” said Mr. Deckley to
ds >. ‘rarely gets much recess on j
Christmas week and once it a< tually
sat to hear arguments on Christmas
Day!
“Sundays it doesn't work, and now '
and then an occasional holiday finds it
not on its Job, but generally speaking
it is grinding all the time It hears
arguments, then consults, and then
divides to write its opinions, which
are gone over by the court as a w hole
‘ The present court will not sit on
Christmas Day this year- hut it will
come mighty near doing it!**
Commissioner of Agriculture James
J> l*rice has departed the Capitol
fur the remainder of the holiday sea
son. and has left Assistant Commis
sioner Dan Hughes in charge.
Mr. Price owns and operates most
successfully a big farm in Oconee
County, and will make it his par
ticular business to see that every
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midnight
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thflt he neciar
his life.
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tl element
of the
cit\ have got
it in for me
uid art
} ur>’iiiu me
Thr>
followed me home
la M night an
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to bed
thev knocked
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wa nted
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cm t(
get awa>
and ti
great crowd (
f I hem c inn* in
through
the ke> hole.
Thev
< i rried r«
pew. and
nail thev wet
e gol
ng to hang me. !
begged th*m
not
o do it, a
nd t hey!
finally doebh
»d th
al thev v
ouldn’t.
The\ left t i i
roo
m then, a
id later
aid they
guessed they
rt sh.
>ot me. I
couldn't
talk them ou
t of
it, an»i wh
en thev
Maned after
me
with their
gun# i
tried to get
away
frnm ill.-
n."
Woman Found Lying
In Stupor in Theater
BALTIMORE. Dec 23* Mr* Annie
Hughes Lawless, daughter of a wealthy
Kast RufTalo commission man. was
found iying in a stupor in Ford's The-
*»;er in a chamois bug <*n tier person
was found $2,000 worth of Jewels.
She s being held until word is re
elved from Kast Buffalo
XMAS RATES
Reduced over N.. C. & St.
L. Ry. and W. & A. R. R,
4pply any / pent.
ATLANTA
TELEPHONE
USERS
have been for years
enjoying ihe Low Rates
and High-Class Service
which come with Inde
pendent Competition.
Fro*n this time on
our subscribers will be
gin to enjoy additional
advantages as the re
sult of the agreement
reached between the
Government and the
American Bell.
It is a triumph for
Competition.
ATLANTA
TELEPHONE
& TELEGRAPH
COMPANY
HERE ARE THE FOUR
Energetic Churches 1 hat Will Be Awarded
t
Hearst’s Sunday American
and The Atlanta Georgian
Free Christmas Trees
Jeff erson Street M. E. Church 892,000
College Park Christian Church 804,000
Ponders Avenue Baptist Church .440,000
Asbury M. E. Church 400,000
TOTAL VOTES AND STANDING
Jefferson Street M. E. Church * 892,000
College Park Christian Church 804,000
Ponders Avenue Baptist Church 440,000
Asbury M E 400,000
Tabernacle Church “Cubs” 320,000
East Atlanta Baptist Church 300,000
Payne Memorial Church 200,000
Cooper Street Baptist Church .. 180,000
Hapeville Baptist Church 104,000
English Avenue M. E. Church 80,000
St. Luke’s M. E. Church 64,000
Mt. Vernon 60,000
Moore Memorial Presbyterian 20,000
/ otal votes cast over 3,864,000
MEN AND RELIGION BULLETIN NO. 90
“The Lord Is at Hand”
“NO ROOM?”
—Luke 2:7
A woman tired and sick.
Doors were closed in her face.
At the inn, they said:
“No room.”
Generous men?
In her condition—could she sleep by the roadside?
They let her into the stable with the beasts.
There Christ was borij that Christmas so long ago.
Would it be different? Is it otherwise this week?
Weary women are here. Underpaid girls are striving for life.
“They have bread and meat?”
They need more than food for a day.
A CHRISTMAS DINNER—CAST OFF CLOTHES.
Wlil you stop with giving these to those who lack a living wage?
Three hundred and sixty-five days are in a year.
“No room?”
Christmas Eve—laughter gladdens your home.
Maybe an empty chair causes a heartache—But you hide it. You
join the romping children. They are hanging their stockings.
Your boy—your daughter—they are there. Your sister and brother
are with you.
But your prisoners—yes, yours. You are a citizen. You can not
shift your responsibility for Georgia’s shame. In part yours is the blame
for the man who lately hung himself after being beaten—for the man
shot down for revolting against the lash.
Your prisoners—thousands of men and boys—While you and your
children laugh and play on Christmas Eve, these lie chained one to an
other and to bunk-house walls in convict camps throughout the State.
This night—God’s Holy Night—
They seek rest.
They turn in their beds. Chains clank. Neighbor drags neighbor.
Vainly they try to sleep.
Shackles bite the skin—As they twist and toss the clinking of steel
runs shudderingly along the chain that binds them leg to leg from bunk to
bunk and to the wall, this Christmas Eve, the Night before the birthday
of our Lord.
HELL CAN BE NO WORSE.
Women and children are in their homes.
They love their own.
They think of these.
Their empty chairs mean worse than death.
“No room?”
Ere the New Year dawns you will send others to join these wretched
throngs who night after nignt lie down to sleep chained by you to one an
other and to walls as you would not chain a crowd of dogs—
In your locker clubs and open bars men are dishing out the poison that
will bring them there.
You sing—
“Eggnog, 'simmon beer,
Christmas comes but once a year.
And when it comes, it brings good cheer.”
Yule logs- fires blaze in your home.
IN YONDER ALLEYS ARE EMPTY GRATES.
“Quick, a scuttle of coal?”
It will not suffice.
“A basket of food?”
Not enough.
Only sickly sentimentality—
Or a liquor-soaked soul can salve a conscience with a Christmas dinner
and a scuttle of coal.
“No room?”
Christ comes to you, as He has ever done in the woman who works.
This Christmas day, He is in your convict camps, where you are brutal
izing boys and men.
In each home where there is want, Christ comes to you.
“Awake thou that sleepest—
And Christ shall give you light.”
“The Lord is at hand.’’
“No room?”
Yea, but there is in your home, your heart and life.
Christ has come. Let Him in!
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE MEN
AND RELIGION FORWARD MOVEMENT