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IF ^oy lley illH, lrs. 1y n )ert ing, ton, di- lec- ES ail. dy, rag CA. mg rial t it ales re- re- lon- ma- nen nay re- lar- TTEARST’S STPsPAY AMERICAN ATLANTA SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2,51 SCIENTISTS CITHER M RS. CART11EW YORS- TOUN, who will be the soloist at this afternoon’s free Christmas concert. Some of World’s Most Noted Men to Lecture on Intricate Topics—Local Committees Plan Interesting Enter tainment Features for Delegates. More than 2,500 noted scientists ■ rum all parts of the United States nd several from foreign countries will gather in Atlanta this week to attend the sixty-fifth annual con vention of the American Association 'or the Advancement of Science and leven affiliated societies, which will hold sectional meetings. The general sessions of the con ation will be held in the even- ngs at the Auditorium, while the members of the eleven sections will .■other in the mornings and after noons at various halls. Papers will be read before the gen eral meetings and the sectional meetings by some of the most noted scientific men of the world, covering every branch of science. . The latest discoveries and the re sults of research work will be given particular attention, many of thelec- -ures being illustrated with stereopti- ron elides. The official program will be Issued Monday, covering the work of the general body and the sections for the week. Sermons on Science. Tn honor of the visiting scientists, Sunday has been set aside as “Sci- •ntifle Sunday” in many of the At- Mnta churches, and probably twenty of the best known Atlanta pastors will preach sermons based on scien- •ifle themes. This will he done at the request of Attorney Burton Smith, of the local executive committee, who has had the matter in charge. Mr. Smith asked virtually every minister in the city to preach on nee and Religion,” or some kin- • i subject, at either the morning or voning services. mu of the scientists have already (1. and many others will arrive i\ The majority, however, ore ■xpected to reach here until or Monday night, when the ssion will be held. H ivard, Thief of the Bureau Pomology of the United States •iment of Agriculture and per il; secretary of the associatior., in Atlanta Friday night with - - ,mt, F. S. Hazard, of the • riiui Institution, Washington, and has opened convention mrters at the Piedmont Hotel, i he dele ates will register and their credentials, ernor and Ma^or to Welcome, ernor Slaton and Mayor James ; Woodward will welcome the scien- to Georgia and Atlanta at thp ■ • r-ning session Mondav night. Dr. ;dmund B. Wilson, of Columbia Uni- ersity. the incoming president of the association, will respond. The annual address of the retiring president, Dr. Edward C. Pickering, will be on “The Study of the Stars.” Dr. Wilson will be introduced by Dr Pickering, and will preside over the meeting. Interesting addresses by the vice presidents of the society before the sectional meetings have been ar ranged, as follows: Section of zoology, Vice President William A. Locy, on “The Story of Human Lineage,” on December 29: section of education, ^Jce President Cantell, on “Science, Education and Democracy,” on December 31; De cember 80. Vice President VanVleck, before section of mathematics and astronomy, on “The Influence of Fourier's Series on the Develop ment of Mathematics;” Vice Presi dent Webster, before t ie section of physic*, on “The Methods of Physi cal Science—To What Do They Ap ply?” Vice President Johnson, be fore the section of botany, on "Some Botanical Contributions to the So lution of an Important Biological Problem;" January 1, Vice President Holmes, before the section of mechan ical science ami engineering, on “Safety and the Prevention of Waste in Mining and Metallurgical Opera- tios;” Vice President Todd, before th section of geology and geography, ,on “Pleistocene History of the Mis souri River;" '.ice President John Hays Hammond, before the Section •of social and economic science, on “The Development of Our Foreign Trade;" January 2, Vive President MacLeod, before the section of phys iology and experimental medicine, on “The Physiological Instruction of Medical Students." Public Lectures Planned. Two public lectures will be given during the convention, complimentary to the citizens of Atlanta. On Tues day evening Dr. Charles Wardeil Stiles, of the United States Public Health Service, will speak on “The Health of the Mother in the South,” and on Wednesday evening Dr. Charles E. Monroe, of George Wash ington University, will speak on "The Explosive Resources of the Confeder acy During the War and Now—A Chapter in Chemical History.” At 2 o’clock in the afternoon of Friday a symposium will be held un der the auspices of the section if physiology and experimental medi cine, on “Pellagra.” Elaborate arrangements have been made for the entertainment of the visiting scientists, and a women’s re ception committee headed by Mrs. John K. Ottley has charge of the plans for the entertainment of the women who will accompany their husbands here for the convention. Governor and Mrs. Slaton will en tertain the scientists and their wives with a reception at the executive mansion at 5 o’clock Tuesday after noon, and there also will be a recep tion Monday night at the University Club, following the first general ses sion of the convention at the Audi torium. Reception to be Given. On Thursday the Atlanta Associa tion of College Women will entertain with a reception at the home of Mrs. Emma Garrett Boyd, No. 194 Wash ington street. The local members of the Ameri can Society of Civil Engineers ex pect to entertain the engineer mem bers of section D of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the University Club on Monday evening at 8 o’clock. This meeting is also the annual meeting of the Atlanta chapter of the national organization, and on this evening officers for the ensuing year will be elected. Engineers to Speak. The reception committee consists of James Nisbet Hazlehurst, chairman; Paul Norcross, Park A. Dallis, Victor H. Kriegshaber, Professor T. P. Branch and K. W. Brittain. Distinguished engineer visitors to the federation meeting will make short informal talks, to be followed by a recitation by Mrs. W. C. Spiker. Later the local members will assist in entertaining at the general recep tion given the members of the Ameri can Association for the Advancement of Science, after the conclusion of the exercises at Taft’s Hall. 1013. 5 A Georgia Road Makes Changes January 1 Chief Clerk, Purchasing Agent, Au ditor and Car Accountant To Be Affected. AUGUSTA, Dec. 27.—Edward J. Mulherin, chief clerk to the general manager of the Georgia Railroad, has tendered his resignation, effective January 1. He will engage in busi ness in ,this city. It is reported that J. A. Best, pur chasing agent, will also be chief clerk to General Manager Wickersham; that Carlton Killyer, for 43 years con nected with the road and for 30 or more years auditor, will retire on January 1. W. H. Vincent, at pres ent assistant auditor, succeeding him, and that the car accountant’s office will be moved to Atlanta, Car Accountant Wingard remaining with the road, but in another capacity. Fort Valley Pioneer Heart Failure Victim * FORT VALLEY, Dec. 27.—J. W. An- thoine, a native of Maine, but who had resided here for a third of a century, died this afternoon from heart failure. He leaves a widow, two sons and a daughter. He was 68 years old. Mr. Anthoine was prominent in Ma sonic circles and will be burled by the Knights Templars to-morrow. FREE MUSIGALE Mrs. Yorstoun and Herr Wolffun- gen Will Be Heard in Solos and Duets. The big free Christmas concert of the Atlanta Music Festival Chorus will take place Sunday afternoon at the Auditorium - Armory at 3:30 o’clock. The general public is invited. The Music Festival Chorus is a permanent organization, composed of more than 400 of the finest male and female voices in the city. Careful preparation has been made for this year’s concert, and it is be lieved that it will be even more nota ble than that of last season. For a month or more past the cho rus has been under the direction of Herr DeCortez Wolffungen, now of Atlanta, who until a short time ago was director of the Grand Opera Chorus at Washington. The chorus will sing the wonderful “Stabat Mater” by Rossini, Gounod’s “Sanctus" and other choral selection.'. The soloist for the afternoon will be Mrs. Carthew Yorstoun, who is known ;n the operatic world as Mad ame Esther Boone, and who has a soprano voice of magnificent range and power. Madame Yorstoun will sing the “Aria” from “The Flying Dutchman” and the solo parts in the “Stabat Mater.” Herr Wolffungen, whose voice has won for him the highest criticism in musical centers of the North and East, will be the tenor soloist, in ad dition to solo work, he and* Madame Yorstoun will sing the duet from Gou r nod’s “Faust.” The organist for the occasion will be Charles A. Sheldon. Jr. Col. Thompson To Be Buried Here To-day The funeral of Colonel Peyton G. Thompson will be conducted at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Pat terson chapel, and interment will be in Westview. Colonel Thompson died at midnight Friday in a private sanitarium. He was a resident of Athens and one of North Georgia’s principal citizens. He was visiting his son, B. E. Thomp son, in Atlanta, when he was taken 111. He retired from the practice of law six years ago. OBITUARY. Joseph J. Wallace, the tu*o-year-oUl son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Wallace, died Saturday at the home. No. "’S Hugh street. The body will be sent at 7:30 o'clock Sunday to Rex, Ga, for interment. The funeral of Mrs. Susan Reynold?, the aged mother of Henry Jennings, former police captain, will be held at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon from No. 24 Bedford place. Mrs. Reynolds, who was seventy years old, died Friday night at the resi dence of her daughter. Mrs. W. T. Cooper. Interment will be In Hol lywood. Thelma Cook, the four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Cook, of Gilmore, died at the home of her parents at 2:30 o’clock Sat urday. The body was taken -o Greenberg & Bond’s chapel, from which place the funeral will be held Sunday at 10:30 o’clock, inter- •mnet to be in Westview. The body of Mrs. Ira Herren, who died Saturday morning in Harri- man, Tenn., will reach Atlanta Sun day night at 10-o’clock and wiU be taken to Poole’s undertaking rooms. Atlanta relatives will make funeral arrangements. Kappa Alphas Will Convene in Memphis Daily Newspaper and Initiation To Be Features at Sessions of College Fraternity. Governor Glynn Names Her as First Woman on the Panama- Pacific Commission. ALBANY, X Y., Dec. 27.—Governor Glynn to-day announced the appoint ment of Mrs. W. R. Hear?*t as a mem ber of the commission to represent New York State at the Panama-Pa cific International Exposition to be held in San Francisco. Mrs. Hearst is the first woman appointed on that commission. The appointment was made under the recent act of the Leg islature, adding three new members to the original commission which was created by the Legislature of 1912. It Is understood that the Governor pro poses to anpoint two other distin guished women to fill the remaining vacancies. Mr. Hearst’s Services Cited. In announcing the appointment of Mrs. Hearst, Governor Glynn said: “I have named Mrs. Hearst because she is a representative New Yorker, the wife of a distinguished son of Cal ifornia, who has done much for the Panama Canal and was largely In strumental in securing the exposition for San Francisco. I consider It a particularly appropriate appointment, linking thc*Eapt with the West, Just as the canal brings the East and the West closer together.” The appointment was made Decem ber 24 and Mrs, Hearst’s commission sent to her on Christmas Day. The Governor, however, delayed making the formal announcement until to day. The original ect provided for a commission of fifteen members, five appointed by the Governor, five from ’ ie Senate by the Lieutenant Govern or and five from the Assembly by the Speaker. The law provided that the “commission shall encourage and pro mote a full and complete exhibit of commercial, educational, industrial, naval, military, artistic and other in terests of the State. It shall provide, furnish and maintain during the ex position a building or buildings for a State exhibit and for official head quarters.” Other Commission Members. The members of the old commis sion are Norman E. Mack, of Buffalo, chairman: Arthur A. McLean, of Newburgh; Joseph B. Mayer, of New York; Senators James A. Foley, of New York; Winfield A. Huppaoh, of Hudson Falls; James J. Frawley, of New York; Thomas H. Cullen. of Brooklyn; John F. Murtaugh. of El mira: Thomas H. Bussey, of Perry; George W. Whitney, of Meehan ics- ville; former Senator George H. Cobb, of Watertown; Assemblyman Alfred E. Smith, of New York; former As semblyman Daniel D. Frisbie, of Mid- dleburg; John R. Yale of Brewster, and Frank L. Young,.of Ossinning. The commission has offices at No. 140 West Forty-second street, New York City. MEMPHIS. Dec. 27.—-The twenty- sever.th biennial convention of the Kappa Alpha fraternity will be held here Monday, Tuesday and Wednes day next under the auspices of tho Memphis Alumni Chapter, which is one of the largest and most represen tative graduate bodies in the frater nity, numbering more than 100 mem bers, representing 22 active chapters. Elaborate preparations have been made for the occasion In the way of social entertainment. A special fea ture of the convention will be a dally paper and a model initiation. The Atlanta Alumni Chapter, which is the largest in the fraternity, will have a good delegation, headed by William Miller and George and Dixon McCarty. The Tech chapter will be represented by J. M. Reifsnider, R. B Donwody and B. D. Smith. Bell Improved But Still Is Seriously Ill Slight improvement in the condi tion of W. J. Bell, superintendent of the Southern Railway *■<s noted by attending physicians Saturday. Mr. Bell has been seriously ill at his home, No. 110 Peeples street, for two weeks, following an attack of acute indigestion, by which he was stricken while in Birmingham and to which were added severe complications. Nurses’ Dormitory and More Room Imperative. Declares Summerall. Wards Pay $15,000 Income. The Grady Hospital has less than one-half the capacity necessary to meet the constantly growing demands made on it to care for the city’s sick, according to the annual report of the institution, now being prepared by Dr. W. B. Summerall, the superin tendent. • The report further shows that 1913 has proven the hospital’s greatest year in every respect. Not only have more patients been treated than ever before, but the hos pital, for the first time in Its history, has derived a real income from the pay wards. More than $15,000 will have been paid into the city treasury by the close of the present year, which sum is $9,000 more than was paid by the private weirds last year. Summing up the needs of the hos pital for the new year, Dr. Summerall declared Saturday that it is impera tive that the long-needed dormitory Remember, what relieves Asth ma in two minutes. for nurses he built immediately. He w ill recommend* in his annual report that the <’ity Council Finance Com mittee set. aside $75,000. The report shows that more than 4,000 bed patients have been treated in the hospital during the year. PELLAGRA Sufferers Write For Our Free Book In which m*ny men and woman who had wof!-defined, oovaro oaaee of Pellagra eta to, UNDER OATH, that they ware ourad— and In some c*«o» literally snatched from the grave—by Baughn’s Pellagra Remedy Every day’s mail brings ua letter* from Pellagra sufferers all over the country, thanMwg ua for what Baughn’s Pellagra Remedy la doing for them. 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Because when you entrust your shipment to the Southern Ex press Company, you know It will be handled carefully and deliv ered promptly. Full Information about any kind of express service will be given promptly and courteously by any agent of the Southern Express Company Mutual Benefit’s Employees Banquet The sixth annual (tinner of the Mutual Benefit Industrial Life In- •nranee Association of Georgia was held In the Georgia Pine Room of the Hotel Aneley Saturday night, with 34 officials and employees of the company seated around the festal board. Attorney Samuel Boorstein served as toastmaster, and speeches were made by Mayor James G. Wood ward. Secretary Jesse M. Wood, Vice President MeyeT Rauzin, L. Z. Gor don, J. B Johnson, A. J. Waters, f L. Davis, J. S. Tyson. W. M. Tur ner, S. Moore. J. B. Gautrell and Sol Steinberg. The talks were on busi ness topics, the speakers urging that he insurance men study their busi ness and strive to increase their ef- - i^ncy and their value to the com pany. Moyer Rauzin, vice president of the ■■'"nation and manager of the At- •"!a. district, was presented with a ome isonic pin by the com- P A. J. Waters making the pre- entation speech. ‘Within the Law’ Sets Record at Atlanta Attendance records at the Atlanta ' cater were smashed in the last : *e days when “Within the Law” " v the largest crowds and the most v of any show ever playing the 1 no- ;(t the prices. Five perform- ; i?1,, es were given, and at each the ise was so nearly packed to its . be ca lied sold out. 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