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ms AT&T’S SUNDAY AMERICAN. ATLANTA, 0A„ SLinuai, dm wiumi ho, i:«o. First Photograph Showing the Panama Canal, Uniting the Atlantic and Pacific, in the Culebra Cut V •: God (A)—Contractors Hill (C)—Cucuracha Slide. METHODS OFCRUSAGERS SCORED BYCHUIICH PAPER “In Atlanta a Sort of Publicity lias Been Given on Evil Subjects Which Will Not'Pend to Im prove Morals, It Says. Continued From Page 1. a natural interest in a safer and more healthful preference. A comment by The New York Times editorially on this subject very wisely and sensibly states “that lectures In the schoolroom ran not take the place of home training, and It Is the neglect of duty in regard to the moral and hygienic training of children that la one of the disheartening phe nomena of American civilization.” It further ('ailed attention to the fact “that no worse, plan could be devised to set the generation on the right track than to make sex hygiene a common topic for dis cussion at will among the school boys and schoolgirls. Officious meddlers of both sexes continue to get considerable self-advertisement as moral leaders. The barriers of polite reticence have been broken down, and old-fashioned folks, whose early education was not de fective, are frequently shocked by the turns of ordinary conversation.’' The two editorials—the one from The Record of Christian Work, probably the leading magazine for the advancement of morals and re ligion; and the other. The New York Times, are on the right line, and are worthy of the attention of all. In Atlanta a sort of publicity through the medium of so-called 'bulletins’* has been given to the public on evil subjects and inherit ed disease, which, while it assured ly lowers the tone of social inter course, quite as surely will not tend to improve morals or the public health. These “bulletins” are read, not by those at whom the evil is aim ed, but in a large measure by young and Immature minds who receive from them the wrong impression and consequently their conception <*f life is erroneous, and often mat ters mentioned in them become *he topic of indelicate talk. The editorial in The Record of Ghriati&n Work, to which Mr. Pnxon refers in his article, tills a page in what is considered one of the leading religious papers of the United States y It questions the wisdom of “enlight riVing" the youth of both sexes on sex hygiene, and especially denounces the publication and agitation of Immoral subjects. Knowledge Not Protection. “Innocence and modesty,” the arti cle declares, “are youth’s greatest safeguards. A knowledge of evil is not the protection that many would have us believe, and the extremes to which reformers are going in the ad vocacy of wide and indiscriminate dissemination of information upon so-called ‘sex hygiene’ is beset with gravest peril. To familiarize boys and girls with evil is far from the deterrent that many imagine it to be. Already this familiarity with evil has resulted in conditions which seem in credible.” Mr. P4xon declared vigorously that every conservative Christian should oppose the sort of bulletins that the Men and Religion Forward Move ment has been publishing recently, and declared that the activities of the movement in this regard are directly in opposition to the wishes and de sires of many of Atlanta's influential business men. “Some of the bulletins that have appeared recently have been horri ble.” he declared, “and they have cre ated the impression throughout the country that Atlanta is the most vice- ridden city on earth. I’ve had dozens of parents who had considered send ing their children to Atlanta schools / tell me that, they wouldn’t lot their boy a and girls come to Atlanta for anything in the world; that it was the moat wicked city on earth—and to prove their statements they pointed to the bulletins, which paraded vice before the eyes of whosoever might look, and continually agitated immor ality Give Wrong Impression. “A prominent Florida man content plated sending his son to Marist Col lege and he told me he had been read- lftfc some of the bulletins published by the Men and Religion Forward Movement, and that he would not send his son to an Atlanta school solely because cf them. He was afraid his son would read these bulletins, and he also gathered the impression, through reading them himself, that Atlanta reeked with wickedness. “The publication of the fact that a young woman had died of a disease contracted while caring for women who had been placed in a refuge home was one of the most disgraceful things ever printed in Atlanta—and it was printed in one of the bulletins of the Men and Religion Forward Movement, for boys and girls to read. There was no reason for it; It taught no lesson and pointed no moral. It simply stained the character of the dead girl, for thousands of people will remember the disease she died of who will not remember the circumstances under which she contracted it. “The agitation of immorality and the discussion of inherited disease by an organization that was formed for the furtherance of religious ideas can have no good effect. These bulletins arc not read by the people at whom they are aimed, hut by boys and girls with immature minds who gather from them an erroneous impression of life, and who think that because the Men and Religion Forward Move ment can publish such facts, they can discuss them at school and wherever they are gathered. Dr. White Defends Bulletins. “The boys and girls who read the bulletins do not gather the lesson they are probably intended to con vey; in most instances they regard them merely ns salacious morsels of reading, and a discussion of forbidden subjects, clothed in repulsive, yet fascinating, language. And boys and girls read them with avidity, watch ing the papers for a bulletin to ap pear. I’ve seen the young boys and girls at work in our store reading them and discussing them w ? ith one another, something that should never happen, for the Idea that the indis criminate discussion of immorality is a preventive is all wrong. Many times 1 was moved to protest against the bulletins, and w hen I saw my of fice boy, a mere lad. reading the bul letins and even cutting them out and putting them in his pockets to show to his companions, 1 thought it wis time something be done.” Dr. White, an associate editor >f The Welder, and a member of tho executive committee of the Men and Religion Forward Movement, de clined to criticise either Colonel Pax- on or the article which appeared in the paper. “it is Colonel Paxon’8 paper." said Dr. White, “and he is privileged to publish in it anything he sees fit, and to give utterance to any of his per sonal opinions. It does not mean that it is the official opinion of any or ganization, v»r of the editorial staff of the paper; it is merely an expressln of Colonel Paxon's opinion. It ;s hardly necessary to say that it does not coincide with mv own peraon.il opinion, inasmuch as T am a member of the Men and Religion Forward Movement. I consider the bulletins one of the best mediums of education at our .disposal.” ! Marion Jackson’s Aid 1 Sought by Savannah | j Leader cf ‘Drys’ Thinks Atlanta Man ! Should Make Hi6 Fight Statewide. PA VANN AH, Dec. 27. The cru sade that opened this week with the closing of six wholesale places by Injunction and the serving of 23 war rants on alleged whisky dealers will bring Marion Jackson, of Atlanta, into the fight, if he accepts the invi tation of W. R. Stubbs,' the local leader. Mr. Stubbs and his attorney, Ma jor George Richter, considered to day a campaign similar to that car ried out by Mr. Jackson in Atlanta Including the posting of bulletins in daily papers. They have, however, decided that It will be necessary to get some one experienced with the work and at a meeting this afternoon it was decided to make an effort to interest Mr. Jackson and see if he will not make his fight statewide. The leaders say it will be difficult to raise money enough ip thi.^ city to prosecute the fight, and unless aid comes from the outside it may prove unsuccessful. NEW M LAW ILL 1 Suit If Properly Tried, the Governor Declares, It Will Solve Geor gia’s Financial Difficulties Fourteen-Inch Guns Will Fortify Canal Governor Slaton expressed* himself Saturday as entirely optimistic with regard to the finances of the State next year, and is looking forward to New Yera’s Day with particular pleasure, as it is upon that date that the new tax equalization law goes into effect. The Governor believes that this law, if properly tried out, not only will solve all of Georgia’s financial difficulties of the present, but will make a repetition of past untowafd conditions impossible. “The various county commission ers are electing local boards of equal izers, and if these boards are made up of the very best citizens to be success of Cave-Dweller Nation Found by American In Southern Tunisia Edward Johnson Discovers 100,000 People Pursuing Mode of Life of Prehistoric Man. Special Cable to The American. PARIS, Dec. 27.—"I haVe discov ered a nation of cave dw r ellers In Southern Tunisia." This remarkable announcement was made to the Hearst newspapers to day by Frank Edward Johnson, edi tor of The National Geographical Magazine, Washington, D. O., who sailed to-day for the United States on La France. Six years ago Johnson was nearly skinned alive in Tripoli. He has just returned from his sixth trip to the Hinterland of Tunisia and Tripoli. "There are possibly 100,000 of these cave dwellers,’’ he said, “in a section hitherto supposed to be almost unin habited. They are pursuing the mode of life of prehistoric men. Some of their numerous caves are situated near the summits of crags 3,000 feet high. The dwellings often extend 150 feet into the hardest porphyry forma tion I have ever seen and are capable of sheltering 4,000 men.” Mr. Johnson also discovered Ro man ruins in Tunisia and long stretches of Roman highway. fouftd in the counties, the mu cues e» uj. t\ ■ T .he law is assured, ' said the Gov- QutlaWS DlTVeU IlltO WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—A board consisting of the highest officers and expert authorities In the army has been designated by the Secretary of War to report on the "necessary de fenses” of the Panama Canal. The chairman of the board is Major! I hope this is the,last time that vex- General Leonard Wood, Chief of thing ernor. “There is nothing lacking now. but the right sort of local boards—everything else had been done to make the new law work smoothly and equitably. Pensions Still Vex. “Of course, we shall be confronted this winter with the annual question of how best tcV distribute the pen sion and common school money, but Staff, and the second in order is Ma jor General Wotherspoon, Assistant Chief of Staff, and recently head of the Army War College. The understanding at the War De partment has always been that the guns and fortifications should be com plete and in position at, or near, the time of the opening of the canal. The main defense of the canal will he the fourteen-inch guns for the fortresses on the east and west sides of the canal. Page’s Aide Is Near Death in Auto Crash Special Cable to The American. LONDON, Dec. 27.—Harold Fowler, secretary to Ambassador Page, is being congratulated upon his narrow escape from serious injuries when an Automobile in which he was driving with friends to a Christmas party was demolished In a collision with a motor bus at Hammersmith. All of the oceupffftts of the lim ousine were thrown to the ground but none were seriously injured. The members of the party found ' their clothes had been ruined and aban doned their plans for the Christmas party. Woman With ‘Fiery Tongue’ Is Arrested When Policemen Lasseter and Mc Cauley refused to disperse a crowd so Mrs. C. C. Downs, of No. 29 1-2 Marietta street, could complete a lec ture she was delivering to a news boy, and instead ordered her to go into her house, the police say she turned upon them and hurled fiery epithets at their heads. They arrested her and took her to police headquarters, where she was charged with disorderly conduct and placed under bonds of $100, which her husband furnished. American Factories Locating in Canada OTTAWA. ONT., Dec. 27.—An in teresting statement shows the con stant drift to Canada of American manufacturing concerns since Janu ary, 1912. A total of 88 United States firms have located along the lines of the Canadian Pacific. They employ 10,- 875 hands, and the capital invested is $18,025,000. hall have to be reckoned with. We shall do the best we can this year, in justice to all parties, as has been, done in the past in adjust ing this situation. “There are over seven hundred new* pensioners this year, and there has been no provision made to take care of them. We shall have to decide l whether to let them wait, or to take ! a litle bit from each pensioner now J on the rolls and make up the deficit. ' It will take about $50,000 not appro priated to handle the new pensioners —and they can only be paid now by taking something from each of the pensioners at present admitted. That would seem rather a hard thing to do, so it may be that the new ones will have to wait a little while. "In seeking to suggest to the ad ministration how best to distribute the common school and the pension funds, it should be remembered that it takes more than 90 per cent of the State’s total ad valorem taxes to pay these two Items. “That statement will astonish many people, no doubt, but it Is a fact. And many a Governor has had it to keep him awake at nights, while he tried to imagine some new way of distributing it to make it fit the situ ation. Somebody has to wait for his pay—and as more than 90 per cent of the somebodies concerned come from one of two classes, it is not difficult to see where the waiters must come from. Law Promises Relief. “One of the great benefits I expect to come of the new tax equalization law is that it will enable the pres ent and future Governors to take care of the common school teachers and the old soldiers promptly, and with no delay in either direction. I believe that within a year or two we shall have wiped out all we are be hind. will be able to let up on bor rowing money for any cause, and that we shall still have a lower tax rate than we now enjoy. “As I said before, the new tax law goes Into effect next Thursday. With the right sort of local boards, and I understand those county commis sioners that so far have acted have, in the main, selected mighty good men for these jobs, the new* law will prove to be the grandest and most helpful legislation effected in Georgia in years—indeed, since the war!” ILL HILLS WIFE, 2 BABIES. SELF Churchman Wills His $25,000 Estate to Relatives Before Wiping Out Family. NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Henry Knell, secretary of the Philadelphia Stee! and Forge Company and a prominent church layman, was to-day found to have shot and killed his wife, Mrs. Emily Knell, and then to have killed himself and two young i children by gas In their home at Glendale, L. I., late Friday night. Knell explained the motive in a note to his brother-in-law, as fol lows: “I may die of heart failure any minute and don’t want my family to be left alone in the world to suffer. Therefore, I am taking them with me. Good-bye. HENRY.” The four bodies were found to-day in a bedroom at the Knell home. Knell had apparently killed his wife as she lay in bed. He then drew up his will, according to another note found in the room, in which he care fully divided $25,000 worth of real estate among his own and his wife’s relatives. After sealing up the room, Knell placed his daughter Edith, 2, beside her dead mother and turned on the gas. He then lay down on the floor beside his son, Henry, Jr., 3 years old. To make death more certain he wrapped a night gown tightly around his throat. A gayly decorated Christmas tree was in the room adjoining the bed room and friends of the Knells who attended the Christmas party given the night before at the Knell home recalled to-day that Knell had lifted his son high in the air and said: “Enjoy yourself, sonny, for it will be your last Christmas with father” See Asthma ad in this paper. Guaranteed to relieve in two minutes. ATLANTA THEATER ALL NEW YEAR’S WEEK Starting TOMORROW NIGHT Gala IVIatiriees Mew Year’s Pay and Saturday FIRST AND ONLY PRESENTATIONS HERE OF MAETERLINCK’S EXQUISITE FANTASY A Happy New Year Being happy is the A secret of being well, looking well and feeling well. Start the New Year right, by resolving to as sist the Stomach, Liver and Bowels in their daily work by nse of HOSTETTER’S STOMACH BITTERS It tones, strength ens and invigorates the entire system. Try a bottle to-day. Mine by Militiamen PINEVILLE, KY.. Dec 27.—'"Happy Jack’’ Hendrickson and between ten and twenty clansmen, sought by the autholties since Wednesday's battle, during which two men were killed and two wounded, have been forced to re treat to an abandoned coal mine by thirty State militia men and deputy sheriffs, according to advices received here to-night. Reports said that Press Hendrickson had been shot through the breast and dangerously wounded; George Hen drickson had been slightly wounded in the hip and ''Happy Jack” Hendrick son had been slightly wounded in th,e cheek. The besiegers hope to starve the outlaws into submission. State Employees Pay To Hold Their Jobs ALBANY, N T . Y., Dec. 27.—For eighteen years all State canal em ployees have been compelled to pay a percentage of their wages as political assesments. This admission was made to-day by three State canal of- [ flcials, testifying in the State graft inquiry before Special Commissioner James W. Osborne. As a result of this testimony, it i* said that Governor Glynn will de mand the resignation of Duncan W. Works, who has charge of all canal work in the State. Further startling testimony in connection with canal re pair work is promised for next week. Mrs. Blake, Suffrage Chief 40 Years, Dying | NEW YORK. Dec. 27.—Mrs. Lillie D. | Blake, more than 40 years a leader in the woman suffrage movement, is re- ported to be dying In the Linwood Sanitarium, West Englewood, N. J. Mrs. Blake’s hip was broken in a fall I about two weeks ago. Because of j her age—she is now 78—It is feared : ■ - she can not recover. m , j . She has been in the sanitarium suf- lypGWTltGrS rGIlt6Cl 4 H10S., the'past' three ^yearfr' b ™ kd< >™ ,or ! $6 U P . Am. Wtg. Mch. Co. STAGED ON A SCALE OF UNPARALLELED SPLENDOR THE POSITIVELY ORIGINAL NEW THEATER (N. Y.) $150,000 PRODUCTION COMPANY OF 100—LOVELY MUSIC AND DANCES 11 Rows Orchestra. $2; 7 Rows, $1.50; 4 Rows, $1.00. 4 Rows Balcony, $1.00; 9 Rows, 75c. Performances Reserved Gallery, 50c; Balance, 25c. Prices all 1h GRAND One Week Beginning Monday December 29 W. W. NEWCOMER PRESENTS THE SUPREME OF ALL PHOTO DRAMAS The Volunteer Organist In Eight Parts, Written and Produced by William B. Gray. The Most Dramatic, Heart-Throbbing Motion Picture Ever Submitted to the Public. Eight Reels of Sensation, Thrills, Pathos and Laughter. 3000 People in the Cast ACCOMPANIED BY CHOIR BOYS AND ORGANIST” 2 PERFORMANCES DAILY—2:30, 8:30. MATINEE PRICES 10c, 25c. NIGHT, 10c, 25c, 50c. New Year Sees Civil Service in Augusta AUGUSTA, Dec. 27.--On Wednes day night next the present police commission will die automatically and Thursday morning Augusta policemen will be under the civil service. Waycrossls Seeking A Larger Postoffice j WAYCROSS. Dec 27 —One of the ac complishments Way cross hopes to mark down on the 1914 year book is an addt- | tion to the present postoffice. With/this in view. Congressman Walker Is going to be urg»d to include an appropriation in the next public building biff for Way- cross. Thomason's famous Asthma Remedy, guaranteed to relieve Asthma in two minutes, or 50o back. Guaranteed to relieve Asthma in two minutes, 50c. LYRIC WEEK DEC. 29 Matinees Tuesday, Thursday, Sat. Every Evening THE DISTINGUISHED YOUNG ACTOR NORMAN HACKETT IN HIS LATEST SUCCESS “A DOUBLE DECEIVER” A Modern Play in a Spanish Setting (Founded on O. Henry’s Famous Story, “A Double-Dyed Deceiver”) Adapted by Donald C. Stuart. SPECIAL INCIDENTAL MUSIC. SUPERB PRODUCTION—ELABORATE SCENIC AND LIGHTING EFFECTS. MR. HACKETTS EXCELLENT COMPANY INCLUDES J. MAURICE SULLIVAN—ILKA MARIE DIEHL. NEXT WEEK:-- Mr. Hackett and Company in “Classmates” FORSYTH ATLANTA’S BUSY THEATER WEEK I DAILY MATINEE DEC. 29 AND NIGHT The Beautiful and Original Aquatic Spectacle, NEPTUNE’S GARDEN OF LIVING STATUES DANCERS, DIVERS, MODELS, WATER “V NYMPHS and PANTOMIMISTS, Including CARLO CASETTA, LILLIAN LESTORA, ALSO MISS CLARA SEXTON, OPERATIC SOPRANO McKAY 4 ARDINE GLIDING O’MEARAS WILLARD & BOND GUY BARTLET TRIO GERTIE 4 ARCHIE FALLS A HAPPY NEW YEAR TREAT Next Week Cartoonist R. L. GOLDBERG “!’M THE GUY” Matinees Daily— BIJOU —Evenings FOR THE NINETEENTH AND LAST WEEK OF ITS ENGAGEM£ nT THE JEWELL KELLEY COMPANY Will Present the Greatest of All Comedy Dramas “A SLAVE OF THE MILL” MATINEES DAILY, 2:30; EVERY NIGHT, 8:30; NIGHT PRICES, 1( X’ 20c. 30c. MAT. PRICES, 10c, 20c. LADIES FREE MONDAY NIGH ; WEEK OF JANUARY 5th RETURN OF THE FAVORITE COMEDIAN EDDIE BLACK