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VOL. XII. XO. 128.
ATLANTA GA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1913.
Copyright, 1906,
By The Georgian Ca
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WEDDING BELLS CALL
CITY FIRE LADDIES
MRS. CLAUDE ROWE.
U. S. and State War Over Moyer
SEX HYGIENE
Plan Writ to Meet
Move of Mayor on
Courthouse Fence
President of Visiting Experts
Warns People to Go Slow in
Instructing Youth.
Dr. Collier Cobb, of the University
of North Carolina, who has made a
special study on the effect of geo
graphical situation and transporta-
n facilities in respect of a city’s
• wth and progress, said Monday
if Atlanta was the most ideally lo-
ued city In the entire South and
that it should make even more start
ing development in the next decade
or two than it has in the past.
Dr. Cobb is in Atlanta attending
ie meetings of the American Asso-
ntion for the Advancement of
>nonce, and will read a paper Tues-
■ 1 v before the geological section on
"The Physiographic Conditions That
Contribute to the.Making of Atlanta.”
"I have had to take into acount,
' »o, the human element,” he said.
\n ideal location would not have
amounted to much if the right men
had not been here to boost and de
velop the city.”
Gateway of North and South.
Atlanta’s opportunities for com
merce and manufacture are incalcu
lable. It is the center from which
many railroads radiate. It is the
gateway between the North and the
South, between the Northwest and
the Southeast.
Location near raw material is not
nearly so important to the develop
ment and growth of manufacturing
industries as transportation facili
ties. Take New Bedford, Mass., for
xample. It is not anywhere near
ie cotton belt, it isn’t near the coal
fields, and it isn’t near the source ot
the greatest food supplies, and yet it
irns out the finest cotton products
n the world. That is because It has
eveloped its transportation facili
ties.
Atlanta has done the same thing.
There is much still to be done, but
ie is in a strategic position right
now.'
The opening of the Panama Cana'
ill be a direct benefit to Atlanta.
; he canal will boom the Southern
i 'lrts, and they in turn will contrib
ute to Atlanta's prosperity.”
Warns of Sex Teaching.
Dr. Edmund B. Wilson, of Colum
bia University, president of the as-
>ciation, issued a note of warning
Monday to those who are advocating
the wholesale and indiscriminate
teaching of sex hygiene to children
of all ages in the public schools.
Dr. Wilson male it plain that he
favored the teaching of sex hygiene
•a the higher instiutions of learning
by competent and tactful instructors,
but that he was a bit fearful that the
fage for the teaching of sex topic#
might carry the idea to a dangerous
point in the teaching of the younger
folk.
‘‘It Is the parents of America who
iould be the instructors in matters
of this sort,” said Dr. Wilson. "Chil
dren should have their first knowl
edge on these subjects from their fa-
; tiers and mothers. If they are in
structed tactfully and sympathetical
ly, they will develop with normal and
clean ideas.
Children Must be Taught.
But we are confronted with the
situation of thousands of children of
the slums in our big cities never hav
ing any such instruction. Their
thoughts and ideas they pick up on
the streets. They must be taught. It
is a grave question as to when the
instruction should begin. I believe
’hat every teacher in the public
schools should be informed on these
subject#, but I doubt if the subject
'hould be approached directly until
ne colleges and normal schools are
reached.
“It is a most delicate question.
Any attempt of Mayor Woodward
to remove the fence around the new
courthouse will be met with a re
straining order sworn out by either
the County Commissioners or the
contractors erecting the building, it
was said Monday.
So far, though, no official cogni
zance is being taken by the Board of
County Commissioners of the Mayor’s
threat to tear down the fence be
cause no official notice has been re
ceived by the board from the city’s
chief executive ordering the fence re
moved.
The "fence subject” was a live
topic of conversation around the
Commissioners’ office Monday morn
ing, but no one cared to be quoted
"because there was nothing official
about the matter.”
Inside the fence, which runs along
the street eight feet outside the curb,
is stored a great mass of building
material.
Fire Rages as Water
Fails in Montreal
MONTREAL, Dec. 29.—With prac
tically no water to fight the flames,
due to the breaking of the city's
mains, fire broke out this afternoon
at Hubert and Ontario streets, and
in less than half an hour twenty
houses were reduced to ashes. The
flames are spreading. The damage
already amounts to $250,000. Four
explosions of gasoline took place dur
ing the fire.
Fire Chief Trettlay has ordered his
men to dynamite buildings in the
path of the flames.
Record Scarcity of
Police Court Cases
It may be due to the strained con
dition of Atlanta’s pocketbook so soon
after the holidays, or it may be due to
the remnant of Christmas spirit that
fills the civic heart—but there were
only 39 cases docketed at police head
quarters Monday for both sessions of
Recorder's Court
It is the smallest number in the his
tory of the court, and has occasioned
considerable comment among police
and court officials. Usually on Mon
day the cases number all the way
from 150 to 250.
Bad Weather Opens
With ‘Blue Monday’
Another sample of the worst the
weather man can do when he tried
real hard was furnished to Atlanta
Monday in a dreary, cloudy, damp
day that made the week’s opening
blue indeed.
A chill drizzle fell all morning, and,
according to Federal Forecaster Von
Herrmann, was in town to stay for
the night at any rate.
Monday night was expected to be
rainy and colder, and Tuesday cloudy
and colder still. The same condi
tions exist all over the State.
Inquest Begun Into Death of
Seventy-two—Moyer Still
Very III of Wounds.
BIG RAPIDS, MICH., Dec. 29.—In
scholarly language, Governor Ferris
of Michigan to-day told the United
States Government, as represented
by Special Investigator John B.
Densmore, to mind its own business.
Mr. Densmore shopped here between
trains ?( inference with the
Michigan executive before gjing to
the copper country to investigate the
strike for Secretary of Labor Wil
son.
"The Federal Government has no
business in the copper country,” said
Governor Ferris. “If Michigan were
not doing its djty, it would be the
Government’s duty to step in. But
Michigan is doing its duty. There is
a grand jury in Houghton right now
from which Mr. Moyer or anybody
else can get fair play.”
Mr. Densmore left immediately
after the conference for the North.
Bullet Removed
From Moyer’s Spine.
CHICAGO, Dec. 29.—The bullet
which was imbedded near the spine
of Charles H. Moyer, president of
the Western Federation of Miners,
was removed this afternoon by an
operation at St. Luke’s Hospital. The
bullet, according to Moyer’s story,
was fired into his back when he was
attacked by a mob of citizens in
Houghton, Mich., where he was di
recting the strike of copper miners.
Dr. George, V. Hilton said the oper
ation was successful, and that in a
shore time Moyer would be able to
leave his bed.
"I’ll go back to Calumet soon,” said
the miners' president to a delegation
of union men who visited the hos
pital soon.
Bitten in a Sleeper,
Wants $10,000 Salve
MILWAUKEE. WJF. Dec. 27.—
Suit for $10,000 lias been started in
Montana by a Milwaukee man who
claims damages because of a bite that
happened on a St. Paul Railroad
sleeping car in Montana.
Railroad officials say the car he
complains of was on its'first run over
the route.
Man’s Body Found
In Trunk in Street
NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Another
trunk mystery confronted the New
York police to-day, when the body
of a man, the arms and legs bound
with ropes, was found in a trunk
in front of No. 47 Pitt street.
Residents of the neighborhood said
the trunk had been dumped from a
pushcart by two boys.
According to all indications, the
victim had been tortured to death.
There were more than a dozen stab
wounds in the chest, abdomen and
legs.
Continued on Page 2, Column 4.
Corset Raids’ New
Crusade in Berlin
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN, Deo, 29.—Local police are
making "corset raids" as the result
of protests against shopkeepers who
display corsets on life size wax fe
male figures. The shopkeepers made
a concession by putting flimsy petti
coats on the figures.
Wilson Puts Lid on
Politics; He Doesn't
Like Bad Weather
PASS CHRISTIAN. MISS., Dec. 29.
"No admittance to politicians” is the
word that went out of the winter
White House to-day when President
Wilson learned that a number of
Southern leaders of his party were
planning to come here to interview
him on patronage and other subjects
during his vacation.
The Presiden' is deeply disappoint
ed by the continued cold weather. He
had to golf ..nder leaden skies to-day.
He has eliminated all work possi
ble, and to-day sent to Washington
some of the business which he had
originally planned to. care for. The
White House staff will have to attend
to it.
The President has for breakfast
daily the freshest of fresh eggs. They
come by parcel post from the Missis
sippi Experimental Farm, and thus
far none has been broken in transit.
U.S.Put Next to China
In Cheapness of Life
CHICAGO, Dec. 29.—Human life is
cheaper in industrial America than any
where else in the world except China,
according to Episcopal Bishop Charles
D. Williams, of Michigan, who lectured
here.
Superintendent for
Black School Dress
SACRAMENTO, CAL., Dec. 29.—A
uniform style of dress for girls in
the California schools is advocated
by State Superintendent Hyatt, who
believes a simple black dress with a
neat white apron would aid in ob
taining better results in school work.
"I hope to see a uniform style
adopted,” said Mr. Hyatt.
Lea Urges Suffrage
As Aid to Prohibition
ASHEVILLE. N. C.. Dec. 29.—Sen
ator Luke Lea, of Tennessee, in an
address to men at the Y. M. C. A.
here espoused the cause of woman
suffrage. He stated that the enfran
chisement of woman would be a long
step toward nation-wide prohibition.
Senator Lea referred to the suf
frage movement as the last step In
the evolution of woman.
WILSON SENDS THANKS.
MOBILE, Deo. 29.—Secretary Don
A. Farnsworth, of the Mobile Cham
ber of Commerce, i« In receipt of a
letter from President Woodrow Wil
son thanking him for a box of Satsu-
ma oranges raised in a Mobile County
orange grove.
MRS. J. E. CAR WILE.
Bank Cashier to Help
Untangle Its Affairs
AUGUSTA. Dec. 29.—It is under
stood that J. P. Armstrong, cashier of
the Irish-American Bank, will go to
work to-morrow to assist in straight
ening out the tangled affairs of the
institution which was closed two
weeks ago bv the State Bank Exam
iner at the instance of the board of
directors.
Armstrong has returned to the city
furnished bond of $10,000 and is re
ported to be ready for business.
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VESHOTREPLY
Couch’s ‘Heart Wife’
Strangely Vanishes
MONTICELLO, N. Y„ Dec. 29.—
Adelaide Brance, who for fourteen
years was the "heart mate” of Melvin
M Couch, had disappeared completely
to-day, following her flight undercov
er of darkness from the local Jail.
Conflicting reports were circulated as
to her whereabouts.
It is expected that she will eventu
ally be given shelter by a brother liv
ing at Ualmer, Iowa.
MRS. E. ir.
A triple romance successfully cli
maxed with three wedding# had the
firemen at engine house No. 4 ail
astir Monday, where the echo of the
wedding bells made the ordinary rou
tine of the day seem dull in the ex
treme.
The brides and bridegrooms are:
Ladderman Edward Carwile and
Miss Violet Lawler, of No. 163 Geor
gia avenue.
Driver Claude Rowe and Miss
Schuyler Moore, a forelady for the
McCall Pattern Company.
E. H. Lawler, a brother of Mis#
Lawler—who gets in on this fire ro
mance story only on account of that
relationship—and Miss Willie Male
Horn#by, of No. 200 Wellington street.
The weddings were all pleasantly
mingled with the atmosphere of
Christmas. Across two, however,
there lies the shadow of death, for the
mother of Miss Lawler and her
LAWLER,
brother died the day after Christmas.
The morning before the holiday Miss
Lawler had become the bride of Car-
wile and in the afternoon the Lawler-
Hornsby nuptials were performed ut
the bedside of Miss Lawler s mother.
The Rev. J. S. V. Haul, who wed
the two couples, officiated at the fu
neral services . r the mother the next
day, and in the house where, within
the span of a day, there were glad
ness and sorrow the four newlyweds
are now making their home.
Secrecy surrounded the Rom?-
Moore wedding, which followed an
acquaintance#hlp of but six week#.
The day before Christmas Rowe tele
phoned the young woman that he had
a surprise for her, and when she met
him he calmly announced that they
were to be married. Miss Moore ca
pitulated, and the Rev. Henry Pace
performed the ceremony.
Chief’s Retort to
Adair’s Charges *
"I challenge Mr. Adair, or any
one else, to produce proof of his
statement that the vice crusade
has scattered vice throughout the
city and that there are immoral
houses on the downtown streets
or in the residence sections. If
he knows of such places he should
tell me, for when I closed the
houses' district, Mr. Adair was one
of several real estate men who
promised me their co-operation by
refusing to rent Droperty to the
banned women.’—From Chief
Beavers reply to the statement of
Forrest Adair that the vice cru
sade has only spread vice in At
lanta.
With developments of Monday indicating that the attack by
Colonel Frederic J. Paxon on the propaganda of the Men and Re
ligion Forward Movement, backed by the sensational statement of
Forrest Adair that the vice crusade and the closing of the restricted
district had merely scattered the evil it sought to exterminate, will
be followed by a meeting to protest against the issuance of the ob
jectionable bulletins, John J. Eagan, Chairman of the Executive
Committee of the Movement, definitely outlined the attitude of the
Men and Religion Forward Movement when he declared that the
criticisms are “useless and will be absolutely without effect.’’
Chief of Police Beavers, replying to Mr. Adair’s allusions to
himself and to the statements that the vice crusade had only spread
the social evil throughout the city, challenged Mr. Adair to produce
the proof of the existence of immoral houses on the downtown
streets and in the residence section. He declared that he is sur
prised at Mr. Adair’s attitude, and that when he entered the gen
eral order closing the houses, he served Mr. Adair, in common with
other real estate dealers, with a notice to cease renting property
for immoral purposes, and that Mr. Adair promised to co-operate
with him.
The chief also declared that if
he is ruined, as Mr. Adair stated,
he has been ruined because he
tried to enforce the law, “re
gardless of Mr. Adair or Mr.
Anyone else, who tried to keep
him from doing his duty.’
“The work of the Executive
Committee of the Movement will
continue as it has done in the
past,’’ declared Mr. Eagan Mon
day. “We will take no official
notice of the criticism of Colonel
Paxon, nor of the editorial which
he printed in the official paper of
his Bible School class, which has
but a limited circulation and
therefore little influence.
"The bulletins will continue, clothed
in the language that we deem neces
sary. Tuesday is our regular day to
Issue a bulletin, and one can he ex
pected to-morrow, probably along the
same lines that the recent ones have
been The bulletin will not mention
the criticisms, although there may be
some indirect reference to them.
"Criticism of the movement and of
the bulletins which the executive
committee are Issuing Is useless, anil
will have no effect whatever on our
future work. We are satisfied with
what we are doing and will continue
doing it.’’
The executive committee of the
movement will hold a meeting at the
Baptist Tabernacle Monday after
noon, which is eagerly awaited by
those who have engaged in the con
troversy. Although Mr. Eagan has
stated that the criticisms will not be
noticed, Marlon Jackson, a prominent
member of the committee and author
of the bulletins, declared Monday
morning that Colonel Paxon’s and
Mr. Adair’s attacks "probably would
be mentioned.”
Newspapor Men Barred.
Mr. Jackson stated also Monday
that newspaper men would not be ad
mitted to the meeting, but that it
Ont Ypnr fnr Mirlflipq would be |,trict,jr e * ecutlv<! it u
v Uu 1UI 1V1IU.L11L/0 problematical whether a statement
Police Seek Youth for
Kicking Glass Doors
The police Monday are searching
for a young man, well dressed and
supposed to be insane, who kicked in
the glass doors of the Cronhelm Phar
macy at Pryor street and Georgia
avenue, and the Melton Pharmacy at
Pryor and Garnett streets early Mon
day morning, walked in, turned
around and walked right out again.
In neither store was anything missing
when the owners of the place came to
work.
Neighbors who saw the strange an
tics telephoned the police, and Cap
tain Poole answered with a squad of
men.
Congressman Metz
Tired of Washington
NEW YORK. Dec. 29.—"Well, I
don’t think I’ll go back to Congress
again. I won’t be a rubber stamp
for anyone, and I don’t think you
have much of a show in Washington
unless you are a Southerner.”
Ex-Comptroller Herman A. Metz
thus expressed himself when asked
how he liked Washington. He is now
Congressman from the Tenth Dis
trict, but wants to retire.
Miss Knight to Ring
HARRISBURG, ILL., Dec. 29.—
After eluding the officers for two
years, George F. Wilson is believed to
be under arrest at Spokane, Wash.
Wilson was secretary-treasurer ot
the United Mine Workers of America
local at Herrin, III., and disappeared
with $11,000 of the miners’ money.
Bonding companies made good part
of this, and his shortage now
amounts to about $8,000.
will be issued at its close.
Intimation that a meeting to pro
test against the bulletins and the
propaganda of the Men and Religion
Movement would be called was made
by a number of business men Mon
day, many of them declaring that
such meeting would be the logical re
sult of the criticism and agitation.
Forrest Adair declared that 6uch a
meeting appeared very likely.
The Rev. W. C. Schaeffer, presi
dent of the Evangelical Ministers’
NEWPORT, Dec. 29.—Miss Kath
erine Knight, the handsome 19-year-
old daughter of Rear Admiral Aus
tin M. Knight, has gone to Annapo
lis as the choice of the middies to
ring out the old and ring in the new
year at the Naval Academy New
Year’s Eve.
She was selected by the graduating
class of cadets.
$11,000 Thief Caught
Aftoy* 0 Vpqv PVlQQP A ® sociat,on > which controls the ao-
AAl tbl X Udl L/IIctbv5 tions of the executive committee, de
clared Monday morning that official
action by the association is very like-,
ly should the criticisms attain con
siderable proportions and should de
velopments warrant it.
"The committee’s actions end ttie
publication of the bulletins clothed in
their present language have th#
hearty approval of the association,”
Dr. Schaeffer declared, "and w are
of the opinion that they are i^flng a