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ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER
1913.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.'
NEW ERA OF
Mrs, Young to Bar
Pupils' Home Study
Noted Head of Chicago Schools
Plans a Revolution in Edu
cational Methods.
Society Women Dodge Arrest
DIXIE,SAYS
CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—“Before the
next semester in February I believe
I shall have brought about a radical
change in the system of study in the
Chicago schools. 'The main principle
of this change will be that when a
pupil leaves the school for the day his
work w r ill be completed, Just as when
a man leaves his shop or his office h|s
work is done.”
OutliMng a system to intensify the
school course of study waa the first
step of Mrs. Ella Flagg Young as sTe
resumed her position as superintend
ent of public schools.
Mr. Shoo*- took his old place as
assistant superintendent.
'It Ought To Be Just About Best
Year This Country Ever Saw,”
Declares Head of the Atlanta
Clearing House Association.
Crisis Is Past; We Have Taken a
Big Dose of Medicine, and It
Will Do Us Good,” He Asserts
Concerning Recent Legislation,
In my opinion, the United States,
and particularly the South, is on the
thn -' id of a year of splendid pros-
ts and vast possibilities,” said
C"I‘>nel Robert J. Lowry, president
the Lowry National Bank and
T official of the Atlanta Clearing
Association. Saturday.
; :<mel Lowry had been discussing
;<*w currency bill and its rela-
:•> the South. He also had said
i hing of the tariff—and the fast
* Colonel Lowry is a stout protec-
• ist makes all the more significant
optimistic outlook for the coming
\ ear.
Thinks Crisis Is Past.
Vow, I wouldn’t be giving this to
t might," Colonel Lowry went
one, "if I didn’t admit that, in my
opinion, the country has just come
through a crisis. I am sure it was
i »t generally realized how grave the
situation was. But I believe it is
well over, now—a thing of the past,
und an added tribute to the ability
of the American people to cope with
any situation that may arise.
"Being a protectionist, I can’t help
but hold to the opinion that the new
tariff was put over at an inopportune
time for our Southern manufactur
ers. The New England factories had
enjoyed the benefits of protection for
decades. In former years, the South
did not require any particular pro-
tection from the product of the cheap
labor of Europe. Now' there is a
Southern manufacturer at every
crossroads—and the protection is re
in >ved from all alike.
Cites Power of the South.
‘ But even that circumstance will
1 "t retard the prosperity of the
— *uth. I feel sure of that, because
l have lived long in this section and
I know' its natural resources and its
Wonderful recuperative pow r er. If the
lew tariff proves a handicap, why,
means will be found to correct the
trouble. 1 have every confidence in
the power and wisdom of the people
: the South. They are essentially
1 apable of looking after their own af
fairs.
But I certainly can not conscien
tiously minimize the recent period
•f unrest and uneasiness the country
has just been through. Two great
measures were pending. Business did
lM) t know how to regard either. I’ll
tc!! you—it ,was like the administra-
t" n of a dose of medicine in a case
‘ * -hness. The dose was powerful;
n some ways it was bitter; it was
: 1 : ‘d to take. But I believe firmly
"hat its effect will be most beneficial.
|- ' characteristic of our people that
"hen there is a big job to be done,
r severe medicine to be taken, they
hko to do the job, to take the medi
an 0 * in a hurry and get it over with.
Praises the Currency Bill.
As to the currency bill, I am ex-
mely optimistic in regard to its
■ring on the South, and particular-
"n Atlanta, for I have little doubt
Atlanta will be selected as one
the regional banking locations.
I’his bill, as at first framed, did
appear to many of the more con-
vative bankers and financiers to
desirable. 1 may say that it look-
pretty bad to me. But the tenor
,is been changed so radically that,
it was enacted, the currency meas-
" provides a sound and progressive
is for the future of our American
1 king and currency system.
\nd perhdps the finest part of it
the evident relief and confidence
"Ht have succeeded the unrest and
turbance while the two big meas-
LTf-p were pending.
The thing Is settled now. Ever
* c who do not agree with the reg-
’’ion <»f the tariff and with the pro-
Butter-Egg Board
Fights Dissolution
CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—Ten excep
tions to the findings contained in
the report of Mastery in Chancery
Morrison, in the Government’s effort
to dissolve the Chicago butter and
egg board, were filed with Federaj
Judge Landis to-day by attorneys for
the board. They deny that there was
any evidence to support the Govern
ment’s charge that the board fixed
price quotations.
The case against the board is
scheduled to go on trial early in
January.
St. Louis Is Swept
By a $200,000 Fire
ST. LOUIS. Dec. 27.—Fire early this
morning did 7200.000 damage to th<«
building at 412 North Sixth street, occu
pied by the Adams Stamp and Seal
Company, the Royal Bowling alleys, the
Y. W. C. A. lunch room, the Harris
shoe store and several smaller con
cerns.
The building was a five-story brick
and stone structure. Late diners in
Nagel's Restaurant across the street
fled from their tab’es. Guests in the
St. Regis Hotel, in the rear of the burn
ing building, were aroused and left the
hostelry in confusion.
$250,000 For Chicago
To Greet New Year
CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—Chicago will
spend $250,000 to welcome 1914. It
was estimated to-day that this
amount would be given up by Chica
goans for food, drinks, theater tick
ets and taxicabs during the closing
hours of the old year and the opening
hour of the new one.
Approximately 15.000 persons will
fill the dining rooms and lobbies of
fifteen of the larger hotels and res
taurants in the downtown section
of the city.
Vaccine Virus Fatal
To Young School Boy
INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 27.-Th.it
Frank Cline, aged 9. died from in
fection of vaccination was the verdict
of Coroner Durham to-day. The la I
was one of many children of public
school No. 7 who were recently vac
cinated because of tile prevalence of
smallpox in that neighborhood. It is
said to be the first death from small
pox vaccine on record.
There are 70 cases of smallpox now
under treatment in Indianapolis.
Her Divorce Papers
Stolen; Can’t Rewed
DUBLIN, Dec.| 27.—One of the girls
belonging to a musical comedy company
playing here this week, named Dollie
Williams, had her suit case stolen by a
negro. The police found the suit case,
cut open at the outskirts of the city.
The police felt rather cheap when it
was found that the satchel contained no
money, and not much but photographs
and music. Still. Doliie was badly wor
ried and kept searching, until she final
ly exclaimed in dismay: "Oh. they
taken my divorce papers and I can’t
get married again."
Drunkards Indexed
At National Capitol
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—"Have you
been carded yet?” is the latest greet
ing in Washington. The operation of
the Jones-Work liquor law forbids
drunkenness on the streets in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Tiring of trying to remember faces.
Judge Mullowney, of the police court,
ordered the police officers to write the
drinking record of every person brought
before him on a charge of drunkenness
on a card and file It.
Continued on Page 6, Column 2.
Comes From Hungary
To Find Estate Myth
MILWAUKEE. WIS.. Dec. 27.—After
a railroad Journey to a seaport city In
Europe, an ocean voyage to America
and a trip to Milwaukee, Attilio J.
dementi, a consular agent of Hungary,
discovers that a supposed $400,000 estate
left by Dela K. Korik. who died here
a few weeks ago. amounts to several
broken-down pianos and a few hundred
collars.
ATE AND IDEN
SENT NIS BILL
Guest of Honor at Leesburg, Va.,
He Forgot All Business—for
a Time.
NOTHING SAID ABOUT PAY
But the Enterprising Secretary of
State Forwarded a Dun and
Has Received $300.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—William
J. Bryan continues to be one of the
most enterprising Secretaries of State
this country ever had. At Leesburg,
Va., last summer he made a speech,
graciously received glowing tributes
as the chief guest of the town and
then sent in a bill for $300. He g<)t
the money.
The story was told here to-day that
when the Loudoun Heavy Draught As
sociation got up Its annual exhibition
last summer the members thought it
only fitting that Mr. Bryan be asked
to speak. The "heavy draught” re
fers to horses. So the members heid
a special meeting and designated E.
B. White, the president, to call on
Mr. Bryan at the State Department
and ask him to appear. Mr. White
watched the papers carefully and
crept in between Chautauqua en
gagements.
Bryan Was Glad to Talk.
Certainly. Mr. Bryan assured him.
when was the fair? It was on Sep
tember 3 and 4. Mr. Bryan looked
over his date book. September ** **’•T
an open date. All was arranged
Mr. White went back to Leesburg,
and proudly announced that Mr. Bry
an would attend the exhibition and
speak. So the Loudoun printer struck
off a lot of glowing bills that read:
"Do not fall to hear America’s great
est statesman.” These posters were
placed on barns and fences in all the
country ’round.
When the day arrived so did Mr.
Bryan and hordes of farmers, their
wives and children. The admission
to the fair grounds was 50 cents, half
price for children. The ticket seller
perspired freely as the line worked
past his window'.
He Talked and Ate Also.
Mr. Bryan arose to the platform
1 and talked for an hour and a half.
Cheer after cheer went up from the
crowd. When lunch time came Mr.
Bryan was invited as chief guest. He
ate heartily, for the Virginia matrons
had done their best.
At 5 o’clock in the afternoon Mr.
Bryan and the reception committee
went back to the station and the
Secretary left. He had been there
Just seven hours.
Back to Washington, Mr. Bryan
wrote up a neat bill and sent it to
the Draught Association. Nothing
had been said of payment w’hen Mr.
White asked Mr. Bryan to speak.
But the bill was paid.
"We are satisfied,” Mr. White said
over the telephone from Leesburg
to-night, "and I hope Mr. Bryan is
satisfied. The association knew that
Mr. Bryan charged for lectures.”
Nebraska Farm Hand
Buys an Automobile
LYONS, NEBR., Dec. 27.—Nebraska
farm hands are prosperous In Nebraska
despite the drouth of last summer. R.
H. Zeller, employed for a number of
years on the farm of E. N. Manley, has
been careful of his savings and recent
ly purchased an expensive automobile,
paying for it without depleting his bank
account.
His action has started an automobile
boom, and now half a dozen other farm
hands are negotiating for machines.
Expects Poll Laws
To Reveal Marriages
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27—Secret
marriages may be revealed by a new
requirement to be Incorporated in the
affidavit of registration.
Women voters will be compelled to
say under oath whether they are mar
ried or single. Deputy County Clerk
Thomas McAleer has made this ruling
In order that the like names can be
distinguished.
Aerial Mail Route
Approved by House
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.- Favorably
report upon a bill to appropriate $100,-
000 for experiments in carrying mail by
aeroplanes was decided upon to-day by
the House Postofflces and Post Roads
Committee.
Practical trial of Government owner
ship of railway mail ears Is proposed in
another hill which the committee ap
proved. This measure would appropri
ate $100,000 for purchase and operation
of several cars.
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Pursued by a Carolina Warden
•:•••!*
Accused of Hunting Illegally
Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt (above) and Mrs. Francis II.
Me Ad oo. e
Wilson Wins Praise
Of Caddie at Links
President Happy Over Ability as
Golfer—Plans Trip on Reve
nue Cutter.
GULFPORT, MISS., Dec. 27.—
President Wilson is th<* happiest man
in Mississippi this afterneon. He put
up such a good game of golf on the
golf links of the Country Club during
the forenoon that he won even the
praise of his caddie, Leo C. Ruthlrd.
Few men are heroes to their caddies,
but Ruthlrd, a young Creole, said: "I
think the President is one of the best
players we ever had on this course.”
The caddy refused to comment on
the nlaylng of Dr. Cary Grayson, the
President’s physician.
The President will take a short trip
on the revenue cutter Winona to
morrow and will attend church in the
little Presbyterian Church here.
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Lady Decies Speeds,
Chauffeur Is Fined
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Lady De
cies came In contact with the traffic
speed reform on Friday afternoon on
Twenty-third street, when, with her
two children and Mrs. George J.
Gould and a couple of maids, she was
on her way to Lakewood.
The Gonld chauffeur, Fred Palmer,
was driving the party to the Twenty-
third street ferry when Motorcycle
Policeman Cassidy noted the speed
SPANIARDS IRE EXPELLED
FROM MEXICO; PROPERTY
TAKEN; APPEAL TO HEARS!
Refugees, Driven Out by Villa Under
Death Penalty, Voice Cry for Jus
tice and Relief at General Meeting
Held in Their Haven at El Paso.
Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt and
Mrs, Francis H. McAdoo Take
Special Train for North.
I SPARTANBURG, S. C., Dei/. 27.
A. A. Richardson, chief Game Warden
| of South Carolina, is still nursing
hts disappointment at faffing i'fi'WVUO
good his charges of law' violation
against prominent men and women of
! New York and Baltimore society who
; made up a hunting i.trty at the game
preserve of Isaac K. Emerson, near
Arcadia, last week.
Warden Richardson has sworn
eternal vigilance for the future. So
ciety people fiom the East are not
going to hunt in South Carolina un
watched, he has vowed. He is their
blood enemy.
The Warden succeeded in appre
hending only one of the Emerson
party. The others, learning that he
was on their trail, boai led a special
train and fled North, leaving Mr.
Richardson unable even to identfy
them.
It has become known that among
the party were Mr. Emerson, the
host; Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Henry, of
London and New York; Mrs. Alfred
G. Vanderbilt, wife of the multi-mil
lionaire and sister of the former Mrs.
Jack Horner, of Atlanta and New
York society, and Mrs. Francis H. Mc
Adoo, Mrs. Emerson's daughter by
her first husband, and George W. E\v-
1 ing, of Baltimore.
The only arrest was that of Mr.
Ewing, who was haled before a mag
istrate. but was discharged. Mr. Ew
ing made the statement that he was
hunting deer, a sport permitted under
the law, and not turkey or quail,
game forbidden unlicensed non-resi
dents. The Warden had n evidence
otherwise. But he says he D going to
watch in the future.
The Warden has done a bit of
watching in the past, but it has been
desultory. However, it bar been re
warded* by the arrest and conviction
of several wealthy Northerners, most
of whom were fined $50 for shooting
without a license. Included in the
list are Henry C. Stebbins, of Plain-
field, N. J.; John R. Todd, of Sum
mit, N. J.; E. M. Carnegie, of New
York, and G. C. Sage, of New York,
said to be a nephew of the late Rus
sell Sage.
DECLARE THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN
PARTISANS IN THE REVOLUTION’
"We Request You Do All You Can in Our Behalf
Through Your Important Papers, and Wo
Thank- You for Your Good Services,” Mes
sage Reads.
[THE APPEAL PRESENTED HERE WAS MADE IN THE SPANISH
LANGUAGE THE ORIGINAL SPANISH IS PUBLISHED BEfcOW THFJ
ENGLISH TRANSLATION.]
EL PASO, TEXAS, December 18, 1913.
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST, New York:
In a secret manner Rebel Leader Villa expels under the
penalty of death over 400 Spanish merchants of the State of
Chihuahua, at present in this city.
Villa executed two Gonzalez brothers. Spanish colony was
ransacked entirely, extorting large sums of money.
There are still in the State of Chihuahua over 100 Spanish
subjects, all honest men devoted to the business trade, respected
and considered by the Chihuahua community.
They always complied with the duties of foreigners, re
specting the laws of Mexico. They never made any propaganda
against the Government, nor did they start their revolution.
They always were impartial. They never made politics known,
gave no help in any way toward the civil war.
The English Consul in charge, in the absence of the Spanish
Consul, was unable to resist attack of Villa.
Our Minister at Washington is working very hard to pro
tect the lives of those who are still in the State of Chihuahua, and
also to protect their interests through the American Consul.
Knowing your humanitarian sentiments, we appeal to you,
requesting you to do all you can in our behalf among your
acquaintances and through your important papers, and we thank
you for your good services.
At a general meeting of the Spaniards who have been ex
pelled, a general committee was appointed to sign the present
telegram, in the name of the Spanish colony of Chihuahua.
(Signed) THE GENERAL COMMITTEE.
FEDERICO SISUIEGO,
BENITO MARTINEZ,
FRANCISCO N. VILLA,
EDUARDO ANGOITIA.
VINCENTE FAELA REQUERA.
JOSE SANCHEZ MIER,
FRANCISCO SANOS,
ANGEL DIEGO GOMEZ,
EDUARDO ALBA FULL,
Elam and Wife Said
To Be Reconciled
DETROIT, Dec. 27. Belief that Dr.
W. T. Klam, the St. Joseph physician
who shot and killed William T. Cra
mer, of Chicago, in Kansas City on
November 19, is In Detroit and that a
reconciliation has taken place be
tween the doctor and his wife was
strengthened to-dav when Mrs. John
M. West, mother of Mrs. Elam, de
clared that an interviewer could see
neither the physician nor his wife.
"How long has Dr. Elam been here
with his wife?” she was asked.
"I shall not tell you," said Mr.i.
West, with asperity.
Governor Opposed to
Sex Study in School
CHICAGO, Dec. 27 Governor Edward
F. Dunne’s anounced opposition to
“personal purity” courses in the schools,
in a letter to President James, of the
University of Illinois, pave promise of
a fight in the Board of Trustees’ meet
ing when the proposal to establish a
sex hygiene course is considered.
••[ would not permit my innocent
daughters to be sent to a school where
sex hygiene is discussed in public,"
wrote Governor Dunne “I honestly
fear that if sex hygiene be taught in
schools it probably will create a prurient
curiosity which will induce immorality
and unchastity.”
Town Dry; Tollgates
May Open All Night
HARRISONBURG, VA., Dec. 27.—
Since Staunton went dry last week, a
movement is on foot here to keep the
tollgates between that city and Har
risonburg open all night, so as to ac
commodate the extra rush of liquor
business from that quarter. At present
the gates close at midnight. Automo-
bilists argue it would be a hardship to
make them wait from midnight until
morning, if they should happen to get
thirsty after that hour.
Court Refuses Beer
For Meals of Jurors
SCRANTON. PA., Dec. 27.- Members
of the jury trying the Giordini murder
case will have to save their thirst un
til they are released from the jury room
after returning a verdict.
Judge A. V Searle refused them per
mission to drink beqr with their meals.
of the machine and trailed it to the
ferry house, where he handed Palmer
a summons.
Palmer took the summons without
a word, nor did Mrs. Gould or Lady
Defies offer any protest.
Palmer appeared before Magistrate
Marsh in the Jefferson Market Court
to-day, pleaded guilty and paid a $25
fine.
Ex-Senator’s Wife
Sews for the Poor
KALAMAZOO. MICH.. Dec. 27.—Mrs.
J. C. Burrows, wife of former Senator
Burrows, who recently organized in this
city a branch of the Needlework Guild
of America, is one of the most active
workers in the organization.
Through her efforts more than 1,000
new' garments made by the members of
the guild were distributed to the hos
pitals and needy families in Kalamazoo
during the last year.
Cat’s Mewing Saves
Family From Death
POTTSVILLE, PA., Dec. 27.—A mew
ing cat saved Lewis Shellbume, wife
and family from asphyxiation at Schuyl
kill Haven to-day, when they were tak
ing a noon nap.
Deadly coal gas entered tfieir apart
ments, and when Shellburne heard his
wife’s call for help (she having heard
the cat) he was so much under the in
fluence of the gas himself that it was
with great difficulty he raised a win
dow.
EL PASO, TEXAS, Diciembre 18, 1913.
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST, New York;
De manera innonniniosa fueron expulsados bajo pena de
muerte por Revolucionario Villa mas de cuatrocientos Espanoles
comerciantes del estado de Chihuahua que encuentrame en esta
ciudad fusilo.
Villa dos hermanos Gonzales fueron sagueados casi total-
mente de cuantiosisimos intereses colonia Espanola aunquedan
en estado mas de cien Espanoles e intereses son hombres
trabajadores y honrados dedicados al comercio respetados y con-
siderados por soccidad Chihuahua. Pues complieron perfac
tamente sus deberes de extraryeros respetando leyes Mexico.
No piecieron propagandas in en encontra gobierno in revolucion
pius estuvieron siempre dentro terreno neutraly jamas fueron
politicos in impartieron ayuda para guerra civil.
Consul Ingles encargado por ansencia Consul Espanol no
pudo impedir atropello Villa. Nuestro ministro Washington
trabaja activamento cerea departmento de estado en Washing
ton para que vidas de los que aim estan en estado de Chihuahua
sean respitadas y protejan presto intereses por Consul Amer
icano.
Sabiendo los sentimentos humanitarios de listed apelamos
a ellos suplicandole haga cuanto pueda en nuestro favor cerea
de valiosisimas hersonalidades amigas de usted y con su impor
tantivima prensa agradeciado profundamente sus buenos
servicios.
En junta general de expulsados Espanoles nombrose comite
general que suscubiran el presente telegrama en representacion
colonia por colonia Espanola Chihuahua.
EL COMITE GENERAL:
FEDERICO SISUIEGO, JOSE SANCHEZ MIER.
BENITO MARTINEZ, FRANCISCO SANOS,
FRANCISCO N VILLA, ANGEL DIEGO GOMEZ,
EDUARDO ANGOITIA, EDUARDO ALBA FULL
VINCENTE FAELA REQUERA,
Torreon Bombarded for 8
Hours; 90 Federals Slain
Special Cable to The American.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 27—The city
of Torreon was bombarded for eight
hours on Friday by rebels, according
to advices received here to-day. Ma
chine guns stationed in the hills
rained shells into the town and killed
90 Federal soldiers. Scores were
woundel. *
General Velasco, the Government
commander, has asked for aid from
Saltillo, but General Tellez and his
Federal troops are bottled lip there.
Government advices to-day sta^e
that the rebels have abandoned tem
porarily the atatek on Tampico, and
are directing their energies to cap
ture Monterey and Saltillo. A suffi
cient force of rebels, however^ wu
i is
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