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TITF. ATT ANT A GEORGIAN AX’D NEWS.
riGHTS TO LHP
FBI HOTEL
, Ivey Creates Sensation Under
Hallucination That ‘‘Evil Ele
ment” Pursues Him,
Imbu*'! with tho hallucination that
the evil element” of Atlanta had In
vaded his room with ropes and sun*
to kill him, I. Ivey, a picture framer,
made a desperate attempt early on
Tuesday morning to leap {rnm a
third-story window of the WillUtm?
House, No. 15 1-2 Marietta atreet,
where he has been living for the laat
few days
Policemen and quests of the hotel
who rushed to the man's room when
they heard him serearntn* found him
struggling with the window and try
ing to break the small Iron bars that
inclose it. Policemen Jones and Da
vid took him to headquarters, where
he was locked up In a cell to prevent
a recurrence of the temporary fit of
Insanity with which it is thought he
became afflicted He was released
five hours later, when he had become
rational
Only the timely entrance of the of-,
fleers and the guests of the place
prevented the man from plunging to
his death on the Marietta street
pavement.
Persons who occupy neighboring?
rooms were awakened by Ivey's
screams of "Murdc.r!” and Help!"
and then there came the sound of
crashing furniture and the breaking
of giass Half a dozen of the room
ers rushed to his room and found the
door locked.
"What's the matter"?” shouted one
of *he crowd that had gathered.
"They’re killing rr“ ; - screamed
Ivey. "They’re going *o hang me!
For God s sake help me!'
While some of th» guests of the
hotel telephoned the police, others
broke open the door and entered
Ivey’s room When they entered Ivey
was frantically tearing .it the win
dow, and wielding a heavy chair in
his efforts to break the iron bars
P’ai’lng in that, he thrust his head be
tween the bars and tried to wriggle
through, hut whs caught as his
shoulders went through the opening !
Telit Weird Story.
When the policemen came Ivey told
p weird story of a midnight assault
that he declared was directed against
his life
’Tve been heartily In favor of Chief
Beavers' vice crusade.” he told the
police, "and the evil «lenient of the
city have got It in for me and are
pursuing me They followed me home
last night and after 1 went to bed
they knocked on my door and wanted
in. I told them to get away, and a
great crowd of them came in through
the keyhole. They carried ropes, and
said the;, were going to hang me. I
begged them not to do it, and they
flnallv decided that they wouldn’t.
The\ left the room then, and later
another crowd came in and said they
guessed they’d shoot me I couldn’t
talk them out of it, and when they
started after me with their guns 1
tried to get away from them.”
Woman Found Lying
In Stupor in Theater
BALTIMORE. Dec 23 Mrs. Annie
Hughes Lawless, daughter of a wealthy
East Buffalo commission man, was
found lying in a stupor in Ford’s The
ater. In a chamois hag on her person
was found J2.000 worth of jewels
8he is being held until word is re
ceived from Fast Buffalo
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GEORGIA i
POLITICS
JAMIS B* KEVIN
I man woman and child on It has a
Merry t’hriotma* and a Happy New
Year If it he within his power to
bring those things to pass.
Assistant Commissioner Hughes
will leave Atlanta Wednesday to |
sp.-nd the holidays with his hom
folks In Americas. returning, how
ever, to the Capitol Immediately aft
er Christmas
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The Belton citizen, whi^h 1h one of
the highest-class weekly newspapers
in the South, beautiful typographical
ly and edited with rare intelligence. Is
ver, earnest and vigorous In Its op
position tr capital punishment in
Georgia, and rarely loses a promising
opportunity to rrv out against it
Making note recently of Fome prog
ress in Georgia of a movement
against capital punishment that Is
sure eventually to crystallise into a
compelling force inside the legisla
ture, The Citizen says
There are five States In the
Cnlon that ha\e abolished the
barbarous custom, and the day is
coming when a!! 6f them Will do
the same thing.
The State in hanging a crimi
nal hut imitates his crime, ex
cept as to methods employed, and
In so defng rets an example that
encourages the crlmlnallv in
clined to murderous deeds ns
much ns does the same kind of a
< rime committed by the individ
ual “Like begets like.” Murder
breeds murder, whether commit
ted by the individual or by the
State under the guise of law.
The great teacher, Christ, in
veighed Hgninat th° old Mosaic
Injunction of “an eye for an eye
and a tooth for a tooth.’’ and vet
Christian people stand up for a
custom that should shame th“
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 probably will
he abolished In Georgia eventually
just as it will he abolished every
where in the civilized world—and al
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 does not seem likely that capital
punishment for all crimes will he
abolished at fine sweet) in Georgia
hut after a while there likely will be
introduced and passed through the
Legislature a bill sharply circum
scribing it, and that will he followed
later by a A v* stopping it altogether
That, at lenst. is what a great many
Intelligent observers now believe.
Governor and Mrs Slaton will
spend the Christmas holidays in the
Executive Mansion In Peachtree
street: Secretary and Mrs Clm are
in Augusta, Mr Clm’f old home, and
Secretary ./esse Perry, who is a
bridegroom-elect, will spend Christ
mas in Lavonia. where the future
Mrs. Secretary Perry resides.
Iyf'gan Bleckley, who probably
knows whereof he speaks, thinks the
Supreme Court of Georgia is about
the re;il solution of perpetual motion
"That court,” said Mr. Bleckley to
day. "rarely gets much recess »n
Christmas week- and once it actually
gat to hear arguments on Christmas
T>a v!
"Sundays it doesn't work, and now
and then an occasional holiday finds it
not on its Job, but generally squeaking
it Is grinding all the time. It hears
arguments, then consults and then
divides to write its opinions, which
are ;;one over hv the court as a whole.
“The prett nt court will not sit <>n
Christmas Day this year—hut it wi 11
come mighty n^ar doing It!”
Commissioner of Agriculture James
D Price has departed the Capitol
for 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
Count.,, and will make it his par
ticular business to see that every
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and The Atlanta Georgian
Free Christmas Trees
Jefferson 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 69,000
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 born 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 nfore 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, the.«e 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 davms 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.
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“Awake thou that sleepest—
And Christ shall give you light.”
‘ 1 The Lord is at hand. ’ ’
“No room?”
Yea, but there is in your home, your heart and life.
Christ has corne. Let Him in!
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE MEN
AMD RELIGION FORWARD MOVEMENT