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* i n r. a UjA.n i a (jrAmuiAW ain u jnjlwb. 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 <ind de< 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". t Chicago Examiner This annovtucmcnl nas printed u« u full page in lhc Chicago Daamina on Saturday, December 20, 191S * A NewRex BeachNovel R EX BEACH, virile and forceful, writes a story that throbs with the teaming activity of our great metropolis. When he tells you of New York life, he shgws you the people who actually walk Broadway. 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