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n 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 XMAS RATES Reduced over N., C. & St. L. Ry. and W. & A. R. R. Apply any Agent. Smughts on 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 I 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 The Itack IsLani Ljries ewe MHw «f Moton ErifrosriB ONLY ONE “Bromo Quinine'* that ic Laxative fjromo Quinine Foremost Transcontinental Train ft California The“Golden State Limited” Via Direct Route of Lowest Altitudes A train of all-steel Pullmans, luxurious library- buffet-observation car and handsome modern diner. Through from Chicago, Saint Louis and Kansas City. Through Tourist Cars Daily from Memphis and Saint Louis in connection with the “Californiananother high class trans continental train via the same route. Rock Island Passenger Trains Cover over 50,000 miles every day Finest modern all-steel passenger equipment H.H.HUNT Dial. Paaa'r Agent For detailed information call or write 18 N. Pryor Street Atlanta, Ga. Cures a Cold in ! Dev, Grip in 2 Day. on box, 2i0 m ATLANTA TELEPHONE USERS have been for years enjoying the Low Rates and High-Class Service which come with Inde pendent Competition. From 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 That Will Be Awarded Hearst’s Sunday American 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. % “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