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Other Business Men Join Paxon
and Adair in Their Attack on
‘’Men and Religion.”
Continued From Page 1.
so indorsed th«• bulletins
1 the work should oon-
Coihpan
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linue.
Lauds Vice Crusade.
Attorney Harry Etheridge, a mem
ber of the committee. declared tliat
he approved of every bulletin thnt
has been published, with the excep
tion of one that appeared during
Mayor Woodward's last campaign,
which, he declared, was worded in a
manner calculated to do Mr. Wood
ward more good than harm
“The bulletins should not attempt
to get Into politics, and that one in
cident was the only mistake that I
think Mr. Jackson made in all the-
bulletins he has issued.'' Mr. Eth-
eridgr said. “1 heartily approve of all
the rest of them, an£ think that they
have made Atlanta a better city than
ever before. The vice crusade w. s
one of the greatest movements ever
started anywhere, ajid it has done in
finitely more good than harm. The
Men and Religion Forward MovemeM
stands for Christian citizenship, and
Is prepared to light the devil wher
ever he pops his head up. I think
John .1. Kagan and Marion Jackson
are the greatest moral force Atlanta
has ever seen. They have my hearty
upproval and all the assistance I can
give them in their work.”
Colonel Frederic .1 Paxon declared
Tuesday that he is more than ever
convinced that the majority of the
people of Atlanta are disgusted wi»h
the bulletins that have been appear
ing recently signed by the Executivo
Committee of the Men and Religion
Forward Movement. ..d declared
that since his interview criticising
them appeared exclusively In Sun
day's American he has received more
than 200 messag ^ of congratulation
on the stand he has taken.
"Monday more than twenty wom
en. some of them among the most in
fluential in Atlanta, called me up and
expressed their approval of my ac
tion in taking a stand against the
disgusting bulletins issued by the
movement,” Colonel I’axon said. “One
of them told me she had found it
necessary to have the newspaper in
\yhich they were appearing discon
tinued because her 12-year-old daugh
ter had formed the habit of reading
them and of asking questions that
could hardly be answered.”
Colonel Paxon showed a Georgian
reporter a stack of letters a foot high
that had come in during the day, all
from people indorsing his stand. On
his desk were half a dozen telephone
calls that had come in during a /ew
minutes’ absence from his office.
Adair's Vice Charge Defended.
Mr Paxon and Mr. Adair both said
Tuesday that they hnd received hun
dreds of telephone calls from people
praising them for their criticisms and
assuring them of their support. Both
received a cal.l from A. \V. Elliott, su
perintendent of the Southern Rescue
Mission, who declared that he was
heartily in accord with their views,
especially with those of Mr Adair,
who declared that the vice crupade
had scattered the social evil Instead
of exterminating it. Mr. Elliott, Mr
Adair declared, told hiju that he had
not even gone fur enough in his Abate
ments.
Ivan E. Allen, chairman of the
Convention fiureau. and one of the
* ity's most influential leaders In civic
nffairs. declared that the Men and Re
ligion Forward Movement is trying to
cover too much territory, and de-
nlored its attempt to regulate -he
liquor business of Atlanta. He also
declared that srfme of the language
used in many of the bulletins should
never have # been printed.
The Men and Religion Forward
.Movement." Mr Allen declared
“should finish what it has start d
before beginning on the liquor ques
tion. It is trying to cover too tnu. o
territory As a prohibitionist. I think
that the agitation of prohibiton by
the movement, especially ,in Atlanta,
only makes things worse. Atlanta is
to-day as well regulated, so far is
the liquor selling is concerned, as any
« ity her size in the country, and the
Forward Movement would do infi
nitely more good to the State at large
if the\ would let Atlanta alone and
spend the money they spend here in
August.! or Savannah, where the liq
uor laws are hardly enforced at all.
"As far as the bulletins are con
cerned, there are a lot of things that
are printed in them that if they were
in a patent medicine advertisement
would be excluded fyom the newspa
pers. There has been a great deal of
language used in them that l do not
approve of, although there have been
a few bulletins that were all right. 1
do not believe in tilling the bulletins
with a discussion of inherited disease
and various phases of immorality, and
then putting it where the children can
get hold of it.
Harm Done to City.
“The .Men and Religion Forward
Movement has undoubtedly done At
lanta a lot of good, but it lias done as
much harm as it has done good, and
us hurt the clt> The bulletins an«*
the movement’s propoganda have
made the outside world think Atlanta
:> .■ great deal worse than she real-
Robert F. Maddox, vice president of
the \merican National Bank and one
'•f the city’s leading men. declared
hat The Men and Religion Forward
Movement has wandered greatly from
the original aim of the movement as
It was explained when the movement
was inaugurated in Atlanta.
The movement as first organized.”
said Mr Maddox, "was intended to
develop interest in settlement work,
associated charities work, public hos
pital work and similar things, as 1
understood it, and I do not believe
the movement in Atlanta is following
the plans outlined at that time.
”1 doubt the wisdom of what the
movement is doing, and 1 do not be-
beve they are accomplishing the re
sults at which they are striving. On
the other hand. I think some of the
bulletins have Injured the good repu
tation Atlanta has always enjoyed.”
The criticisms directed against the
bulletins by Colonel Paxon were j
heartily indorsed by Charles Winshlp, ;
president of the Continental Cotton
Gin <’ompany.
“Mr. Paxon has the right idea,*'
said Mr Winshlp, “and I indorse j
every word he Bays. The bulletins !
are read by young people w ho do toot I
understand them, and the resultant
discuss Ions lower the tone of social
intercourse and are decidedly harm
ful."
All Holiday* Goods
Wore Well Sold Out
Marshall Field & Co., in their weekly
review of the dry goods trade, says:
“The volume of mail orders received
during the last few days preceding
Christmas was in excess of the totals
for the corresponding days a year ago.
This Is remarkable, considering the ex
tremely unseasonable weather during
that time.
“The numerous mall orders may be in
terpreted as an indication that the gen
eral distribution of holiday goods was
larger than a year ago, Inasmuch as the j
*ales of heavy wearing apparel were be-
Sidelights
GEORGIA
POLITICS
. JAMES B.NEVTN
low normal
“The increase of last minute orders I
also seemed to indicate that holiday j
stocks throughout the territory adjoin
ing Chicago were well sold out."
New City Court to
Open on Thursday
Formal opening of the new municipal
court of Atlanta will lie held In the first
division of the Superior Cdurt at 10
o’clock Thursday morning and will be
marked by a meeting of the Atlanta
Bar Association called by President Ed
gar Watkins.
The speakers will be Governor John
M Slaton, Judge John T. Pendleton,
General Clifford L. Anderson, of the
hoard of County Commissioners; Walter
McKlreath, chairman of the committee
..f Atlanta attorneys which prepared
the bill establishing the court, and
Judge Eugene A. Thomas.
Negro Slayer Gets
Respite for 2 Weeks
Jim Baxley, a negro slayer of an
other negro In Coweta County, has
1 een grunted a two weeks’ respite
from tit * hanging, the original date
having been set for next Friday.
The Governor acted on the recom
mendation of the trial Judge and the
Solicitor General, who stated that a
certain conflict in the evidence left a
doubt as to the negro’s guilt. They
asked a commutation to life impris
onment. The Prison Commission will
Investigate the ease.
There seems to be considerable un
certainty and some misapprehension
throughout the State as to the real
difference of opinion between Gen
erals Nash and Obear Inside the State
military establishment, and public
men generally in Georgia are watch
ing the progress of the controversy
with a large degree of interest.
As a matter of fact, however, the
point of difference between th** two
generals is not at all difficult tq locate
and it concerns an administrative
question purely. Leaving out all
points of personal and political dif
ferences—which General Nash, at
leist, Insists have no place in the
pending discussion the trouble all
arises from a question of law\
The Georgia military is organized
under a Federal statute known as the
Dick law. This law undertakes to
give extensive Federal aid to those
Stati troops coming under its opera
tion. They may or may not come un
der. as they please.
The State statute establishing the
Georgia military expressly provides
for a quartermaster genera), and this
IrtAv mev.er has been qualified or re
pealed In any way by the Legislature.
The same statute, however, which
creates the office of quartermaster
general provides f irther that the
Governor may. in his discretion, fix
regulations for the State militia, even
to the extent of changing in effect the
general State statute, if he deems
that necessary to bring the Georgia
statute within the meaning of the
Federal statute.
The clause giving the Governor this
discretionary authority expressly
states that lie mav exercise it in or-
d* r to bring the Georgia statute “in
detail” within the operation of the
“regulations of the War Department,”
and that department is empowered to
make regulations, under the terms of
the Dick act, for the State militia.
When General dibear was named
adjutant general by Governor Hoke
Smith the office of quartermaster
general was merged with that of ad
jutant general and Obear was given
charge of both offices. This merger
was effected by an executive order.
Governor Brown Inter re-separated
the offices, and retained Obear as
quartermaster—his old position —and
named Joseph VfinHolt Nash adju
tant general. At that time, however,
the National War Department had
not issued its order doing away with
the office of quartermaster general in
the State, and there was no apparent
question of the latter, officer’s sep
arate standing in the State militia,
save in so far as it had been changed
temporarily by Governor Smith’s dr-
der. Since Governor Brown appoint
ed Obear quartermaster general, the
War Department's order abolishing
Obear’s office has been promulgated.
Nash’s contention, therefore, is
this: The War Department’s order
must he complied with under the au
thority given the Governor to com
ply, even though it does away with
the quartermaster generalship, cre
ated under State statute, and that to
carry that officer longer not only is
unwarranted in law, but a useless ex
pense of $2,750 per annum.
Governor Slaton is thus placed .in
the position of being forced to say
whether a regulation o.* the National
War Department, under the Dick law,
is sufficient to set aside an unre
pealed State statute.
The Governor is deeply concerned
over the situation in the adjutant
general’s office and is giving the mat
ter his most careful attention.
Nash claims that Obear’s position
has been automatically abolished by
general order No. 8 of the National \
War Department, which abolishes the
office Obear holds. Obear claims that
he still is quartermaster general and
should be retained as such, under the
State law creating his office, which
has not been repealed by t/e Legis
lature.
Rather a pretty puzzle, and. as Ed
die Foy would say, ‘an odd one!”
The newspapers of Georgia, al
ways interested in the topic, have
been discussing of late the next May
oralty race in Atlanta, and are won
dering “what is going to happen.”
“Uncle Jim” Woodward has a Teal
State-wide reputation. There is ‘‘a
Woodward following”—whatever that
is—in many towns and villages in
Georgia that never have had and
never will have anything whatever to
do directly with Atlanta city politics.
Woodward has been so persistently
in the public eye, however; has been
the storm center of so many pictur
esque campaigns for Mayor, and has
been so uniformly successful that
many esteemed contemporaries have
been moved to wonder v hu will “tac
kle the old man next.’ it anybody,
and what will happen in the wind
up!
It seems to be taken for granted
generally throughout the State that
Woodward will offer to succeed him
self as Mayor. It also seems to be
taken for granted that the offering
will bring on more talk. And, finally,
that that "more talk” thus brought
on is going to be becidedly interest
ing
Therefore, asks the State press,
why not let the argument proceed?
The answer is, of course, that the
argument likely will proceed—and
few can remember when an argument
in which "Uncle Jim” Woodward
played a star part was not decidedly
and more or less absorbingly inter
esting!
It generally is accepted as a fore
gone conclusion that Rosroe Luke, of
Thomasville, who was defeated for
Congress by Judge Frank Park in a
special election called to name a suc-
< esssor to Congressman Rqddenbery,
of the Second District, will again be
;• candidate against Park in the pri
maries next summer.
It is an open secret that neither
Luke nor his friends consider the
late election conclusive. Indeed, so
far from conclusive do they consider
it that there was serious talk of a
« ontest for many days following the
late election—and there likely would
have been a contest had not Mr. Luke
put his loot down upon that method
of settling matters, and practically
assured his friends that he would try
conclusions again with Judge Park in
the regular primary elections, under
the usual regulations as to registra
tion, and so forth, then to be pre
scribed for all contests in the State.
While Mr. Luke himself is not en
gaged in active campaigning, it is ad
mitted by many of his close friends
that he is in the race, and much quiet
work even now is being done in his
behalf.
Sikorsky Aeroplane
FiiesWith 10 and Ton
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 30.—Si
korsky’s giant aeroplane flew sev
eral hours, carrying ten passengers.
In addition, it had a load weighing a
ton.
First Radium in East
Discovered in Penna,
MAUCH CHUNK, PA.. Dec. 30.—
Radium producing deposits, the first
in the East, have been discovered at
the base of Mount Pisgah, within a
mile of Mauch Chunk.
XMAS RATES
Reduced over N., C. & St.
L. Ry. and W. & A. R. R.
Apply any Agent.
vs
ircu
XMAS RATES
Reduced over N., C. & St.
L. Ry. and W. & A. R. R.
Apply any Agent.
| N a statement, in which it substitutes fiction for fact, the Chicago Tribune asserts that it has a
larger net paid city circulation than any other Chicago morning newspaper.
Lest anybody whom it may concern should be deceived into mistaking bluff for genuine circu
lation. the Chicago Examiner makes the following proposal:
That all the Chicago morning newspapers open up their circulation books and
records to the Association of American Advertisers and to such other represent
ative bodies as may be selected.
N * • x
The Chicago Examiner herewith agrees to have this investigation made and it
herewith invites the Association of American Advertisers to take the first step
to bring this about.
The investigation, under these auspices, would be fair and square, comprehen
sive and comparative. It would remove all doubt in the minds of national ad
vertisers and Chicago merchants as to the circulation, particularly the city
circulation, of each of the four Chicago morning newspapers.
The period for this investigation shall be the six months beginning July 1,1913,
and ending December 31, 19IX
If any one of the other morning newspapers of Chicago refuses to open up its
books and records, then the Chicago Examiner agrees herewith to have a joint
investigation made with the remaining Chicago morning newspapers.
If all of the other morning newspapers refuse to open their books and
records, then the Chicago Examiner herewith agrees to submit to this
investigation alone because the Chicago Examiner insists on proving
its own circulation.
* I ^ HF. CHICAGO EXAMINER honestly believes that this investigation will prove that its
city circulation is far in excess of any other Chicago morning newspaper, both Daily and
Sunday.
The Chicago Examiner honestly believes that this investigation will further show that the net
paid Sunday circulation of the Chicago Examiner is almost double that of its nearest competitor".
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Chicago Examiner
This annovtucmcnl nas printed u« u full page in lhc Chicago Daamina on Saturday, December 20, 191S
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