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THE ATLANTA C.EOKUIAN AND NEWS.
FIGHTS TO LEHR
FROM HOTEL
I. Ivey Creates Sensation Under
Hallucination That “Evil Ele
ment" Pursues Him.
Tmbut*<1 with th# hallucination that
tho "evil element” of Atlanta hart In
vaded hie room with rope? and *un«
♦ o kill him, I. Ivey, a picture framer,
m*de a desperata attempt early on
Tu^sdiv morning to leap from a
thlrd-'tory window of the Williams
House, No 15 1-2 Marietta street,
u here he har been living for the last
few day a
Pol emen and guests of the hotel
who rushed to the man’s room w’hen
h*\ heard him screaming found him
struggling with the window and try
ing to break the small iron bars that
nclose It. Policemen .Tones and T >-t
• ok him to h^adouarterv i (
he wan locked up In a cell to prevent
^ recurrence of the temporary fit of
inaanlt> with which It i9 thought he
is afflicted Ho wfl* released
ffvo hours later, when he had.berome
rational
Only the timely entrance of the of
ficers and the guests of the pla< *
prevented the man from plunging to
his death on the Marietta street
pavement
Persons who mrup) neighboring
rooms were awakened by Ivey *
creamn of "Murder!” 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
"Whet's the matter shouted one
of the crowd that had gathered
‘‘They're killing me! screamed
ivev. "They’re going i<* hang me!
For God's sake help me!”
While some of the guests of tho
hot*l telephoned the police, others
broke open the door and entered
Jvev’s room When they entered Ivey
was frantically tearing at the win
dow. and wielding a heavy chair in
bis efforts to break the iron bars,
t ailing in that, hi thrust hi* brad tie-
tween the bars and tried to wriggle
through, but was caught as his
shoulders went through the opening.
Tells Weird Story.
Wien the policemen came Ivey told
a weird story of a midnight assault
that he declared was directed against
his life
I’Ve been heartily in favor of Chief
Beavers' vice crusade.” be told the
police, and the evil element of the
city have, got it in for me and are
pursuing me They followed me home
last night and after I went to bed
they knocked on my door and wanted
In T told them to get away, and a
great crowd of them came in through
the keyhole. Thsy carried ropes, and
said the> were going to hang ine I
begged them not to do it, and they
finally decided that they wouldn’t.
They 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 I
tried to get away from them”
Woman Found Lying
In Stupor in Theater
BALTIMORE Pe< 28 —Mrs. Annie
Hughes Lawless, daughter of a wealthy
East Buffalo commission man, was
found lying in a atunor in Ford's The
ater In a oh&mole bag on her person
was found S3.000 worth of Jewels.
She Is being held until word is re
ceived from East Buffalo
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[Sidelights on
GEORGIA
POLITICS
jamis b.nwin
I man woman and child on It has a
Merry < hrlstmas and a Happy New
Year if it be within his power to
j bring tho*e things to pass.
Assistant* Commissioner Hughes
will leave Atlanta Wednesday to
spend the holidays with his home
imsi ui returning, how
ever. to the Capitol immediately aft
er Christmas
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The Dalton Citizen, whhh Is one of
the highest-class weekly newspapers
In the South, beautiful typographical
ly and edited with rare intelligent, is
very earnest and vigorous in Its op
position to capital punishment. In
Georgia, and rarely loses a promising
opportunity to cry out against It
Making note recently of some prog
ress In Georgia of a movement
against capital punishment that i*
sure eventually to crystallise into a
Compelling force inside the T/egivla-
ture, The ritlzen says
There are five States In the
TTnlon that have abolished the
barbarous custom, and the day is
coming when all of them will do
the n*m* thing.
The State, in hanging a rrfmi
nal. hut Imitates his crime, ex
cept as to methods employed, ard
In so doing sets an example that
encourages the criminally In
rllned to murderous deeds hm
much as does the same kind '*f ■»
crime committed by the individ
ual "Like beget* like." Murder
breeds murder whether commit
ted by the Individual or by the
State under the guise of law.
The xreat teacher, fhrlst, in
velghed against the old Mosaic
injunction of "an eye for an eye
and a tooth for a tooth," arid vet
Christian people stand up for n
custom that should shame the
civilization of a Hottentot.
May the day speedily urlve
when Judicial murder will be at
an end In this great Common
wealth, and also In this great na
tion!”
Capital puntshment probably will
be abolished in Georgia eventual^
Just as It will be abolished every
where in the civilized world and al
ready the sentiment against It is very
strong One need only ILsten to the
ritriklng 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 be
abolished at one pwaep in Georgia
but after a while there likely will be
Introduced and patuted through the
Legislature a bill sharply circum
scribing It and that will he followed
latsr by a law stopping It altogether
That, at least, Is what a great many
Intelligent observers now believe
Governor and Mrs, Slaton will
spend the Christmas holidays iri the
Executive Mansion in Peachtree
street, Secretary and Mrs f’lm are ;
in Augusta, Mr. Tim's old home, and
Secretary Jevsse Perry, who is a
bridegroom-elect, will spend Christ
mas in Tj&vonia, where ihe future
Mrs. Secretary Perry resides ,
Logan Bleckley, who probahlv
knows whereof he speaks, thinks the
Supreme < «>v*rt of Georgia i? about
the real solution of perpetual motion.
"That court,” said Mr. riecklay lo
de "rarely gets much recess on
t'hristmas week and one* it actually !
sat in hear arguments on Christmas
Da.\ !
"Sundays it doesn’t work, and now
and then an occasional holiday finds it
not on He Job, but generally sneaking
It. is grinding all the time. Tt hear*
arguments, then consults and then
divides I** write its ophilona, which
htc gone over by the oourt as a whole
■ The pre*< nt court win not *i< on
ChrLatmas Day this year -but it will
come mighty near doing it!”
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Commissioner of Agriculture .lames
D Price has departed the Capitol
for the remainder of the holiday sea
son, and has left Assistant Commis
sioner Dan Hughe? in charge
Mr Price owns and operates moirt
successfully a big farm in Oconee
County, and will make it his par
ticular hustnuFS to see that every
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HERE ARE THE FOUR
Energetic Churches That Will Be Awarded
\
Hcarsts 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 60,000
Moore Memorial Presbyterian 20,000
1 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 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?” 1
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 nigfit 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 hELIGION FORWARD MOVEMENT