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Holle, Boys! Here is an offer that wil I interest you Every boy and girl can get a pair of roller skates absolutely free. It is a simple, straightforward offer — easy t<> enter. Just call at the office, secure a card. When filled with ten subscribers to The Atlanta Georgian and Sunday Amer ican, return, and we award you a pair of skates. Easy, isn't it? Call or telephone Circulation Department for particulars. HEARST’S • Daily Georgian and Sunday American 20 E. Alabama Street Phones 100 CHARLES DANA GIBSON, CHRISTY, HARRISON FISHER, FLAGG, WENZELL,' ROBERT W. CHAMBERS and Many Others All the Foremost Artists and Writers of Modern Times ALL IN NEXT SUNDAY’S AMERICAN By special arrangement these distinguished contributors who have made the fame and popularity of the leading magazines are now presenting their newest and best work in the new and wonderfully improved special 0NCE-A-M0NTH MAGAZINE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANI) NEWS. Which is given the first Sunday of each month with the Sunday American. Never before in the history of journalism has it been possible to make such an announcement. Get the Sunday American next Sunday—no maga zine at any price on the newsstands can offer anything better. Scores ('ome <) 111 in Defense of Attitude Taken In Colonel Faxon and Forrest Adair and Continued From Page 1. In her pra* tires be placed there also, j If so. where will we get enough met. to keep these in prison’.’ “This Men and Rel1| Movement, in one of its article! While she ia at large, while th i aver is permitted to make others like her by the tolerated brothel, lit tle can be done in solving the problem ; of the social evil ' None White Slaves. He Says. God! How many of them are white . iyes? N'U a one It Is .i vtonder that the joke of slavery among this! class of women would not s me da\ j cease to be discussed. They are not slaves any more than you are my dear reader. 1 pledge > on j a« faithfully a« 1 know how that they are no more slaves than you are The writer does not mean to say that we should license these worm n and thus -ay to the orltl that we approve of the vice That would he wrong step Christ did not li<* nse :t. but He did tolerate it. He had to tolerate it Now. i* there anything accom plished by chasing women of the un de: world from one plate to another’ If *o. v hat is it? Does it cause them to stop their practices? Where they to he chased to? ■ Vice has not been diminished iota by closing the district in an> 1 :• rge city. Go to any city where the district has hern closed and make i;11ir effort to find women of cl iss nd Uriel how ras\ it is Scattered Over the Citv. Where nill you find them? W ! :h< downtown district i w-cil scattered through the residence sc - tions \^k any hack driver or public auto driver. fl- knows where they a re "The> an located a boarding houses where any young girl from the country might come to seek hoar 1 “This organization states that the evangelical minister* (they seem o take no credit themselves), by spend ing a little over $-.000 ended a $700.- nofl-a-year infamy. Actually ended vice in Atlanta! I »o you believe it ? “In addition to this $7,000 that they Haim it cost to eliminate vice *n Atlanta, it also cost the life of one of the inmates; but his is not all. It scattered those women all over the city, and they are n Atlanta now, and cvet will he here. “Now as to the accomplishments »f the Men and Religion Forward Move ment. the report was heralded broad - • a.st that they rescued 118 inmates of brothels of Atlanta and that 116 re mained Arm and embraced « pure flif If an organization really Is striving to do something for the glory of God, why are such exaggerated statements given the public? “Crusaders Do Not End Evil." “1 consider a liar as abominable in the sight of God as I* a woman ,r the underworld. I do not know that he Men and Religion Forward Move ment is respor but It appeai- lrading dailies where it was “Does the wiping out of the segre gated district cure the evil? It cer- inl\ does not The solution to Ilia social evil can he found only in the d vim- teachings. If these are not v - cepted by these women, as well as by the men who pa.rorrize them, there* ;u be no hope for thorn. If the scarlet woman is with its to stay (and sin certainl> is), is it not better to have her and her sisters w here they can he controlled and where the young and innocent ran he Kept out of their sight ?'" Many Praise Paxon. •Nilotic! Frederic .1. Paxon. whose editorial in The Welder and his sub sequent comment in The Sunday American precipitated the row over the bulletins of the Movement, de clared Wednesday that he is receiv ing every da> scores of letters and telephone calls from business men and well-known citizens congratulat ing him on th*- stand he has taken. Every letter, he stated, is an enthu siast if indorsement of his attitude in the light, and many offers of aid and co-opi ration are contained In the - MinmunicatIons. Among the prominent business men who telephoned Mr. Paxon Wednes day morning was Richard M. Jones, a well-known lumber dealer with of fices In the Fourth National Rank Huildlng Mr. Jones stated that In* had but recently returned from trips to Norfolk, Washington and Rich mond. Va.. and that in each * ity he found that the reputation of Atlanta, generated and fostered b\ the bulle tins and the propaganda of the Move ment, Is very bad. He declared that the city is consid ered the worst town In America, and that business men of other cities told him thev hoped the Men and Religion Movement would continue its activi ties because they were driving busi ness away from Atlanta and to the other towns where the agitation of similar subjects is never more than spasmodic. In Richmond. Mr Jones said, a prominent banker said he would be willing to donate to the treasury of the Atlanta Movement if they would continue to publish the bulletins,' characterizing them as doing Rich mond mote good than any one other thing of recent years. Detriment to Business. .1 W. Robinson, general manager of the Morris Manufacturing Company, telephoned Mr Paxon that from his experience lie * an state positively that tlm Men and Roligion Forward Move ment is very detrimental to the busi ness interests of Atlanta. His com pany. he declared. Is doing business over five or six States, ' the effect of the agitation is noticeable. \V. A. Horne, president of the H*»rne-('andler Company, wrote. “I heartily agree with you in your attitude In reference to bulletins of oid No. Mr. . itlzeoa yourself has been by the the Men and Religion Forward Move ment. These bulletins have b* * n ob noxious to me for some time. W hen the Hulletin was published in which reference was made to Miss Apple- yard and her untimely end. I was very much embarrassed in having plain the matter to Mrs. Horn was a student at Agnes Scott Miss Appleyard was a teacher institution. Many of others bulletins arc just as bad, and . of any moral teaching. Charles M. May, a Jeweler 10 i -'j Peachtree street, wrot* Pa xori: “Permit me to convey to you my appreciation of the stand you have la ken with reference to the bulletins which Have been published from time to time under the sanction of th. Men and Religion Forward Movement. While it is no doubt true that the great majority of our best entertain the same views a? as to the harmful effect that done our city and our peop needless and hurtful exploitation of such matters in the manner in which It has been done, it remained for you to exhibit the moral courage of being the first one to publicly enter a pro test against such methods. Cordial Support Pledqed. “Rest assured tlia* l am heartily with you In the attack you have made, and many of my friends also have stated to me that you will have their most cordial suonort In an* measures you may take to remedy 1he evil." R. M. Walker, a well-known engi neer. of No. 712 Grant Building, wrote: “I desire to express my sympatny with the stand you have taken con cerning th bulletins published bv the Men and Religion Movement. These have become so outspoken in thou reference to obscene matters that I think they should be denied transmis sion through the mails. “It is necessary for the scientists t'* analyze and stud' sewage in or der to determine the best methods of handling and disposin'* of it. Hut this is no argument for emptvin ,r our sewers through the schoolyards, so that our children may become fa miliar with the subject. I trust that your stand will lead to a movement «for a saner and more temperate handling of the situation. Ira f). Greene, former Atlantan and at present in holiness In Macon, wrote: "1 have ust been reading about the stand you take and what you have t.q say concerning the Men and Religion Movement in *'our cit'. At the time this vice war started I was living in Atlanta, and being a member of the Arm of J. P. Allen Shoe Company, 1 was in th position to also see the evil of scattering women of question all over our very tine city. Infest Best Residence Sections. “I remember one of these women came in our store one day and made a purchase and when asked where the goods were to b, • *nt she advised the salesman to send them to a house in the 800 block of Peachtree street. Everyone who is familiar with At lanta knows what this section of the city is. Lots of other instances I re member. 1- ♦his is a fair sample. Thi# woman explained how ahn VV < making a lot of money in this swell residence section.’ ’’ M. Ford on, tailor, wrote as fol lows : “Your article against the Men arid Religion Forward Movement prompts me to write you and tell you that I am so glad that we have a man so straightforward as to make such statements public. I think it the best move for the < ity of Atlanta. “Being one of the old citizens. I hope that you will be successful in your undertaking, for I feel sure it wil! benefit our city. “If rnv co-operation will help you, I shall be glad to be cflled upon.” A conference between Half a dozen prominent business men who hnv* taken issue with the Men and Religion. Forward Movement and come out into the open in their fight against the propaganda and bulletins of that or ganization is planned f° r Wednesday afternoon. It is generally expected hat the conference will result in the adoption of the plan urged by L. J. Daniel president of the Daniel Bros. Company, to call a mass meeting of the ( itzenship to discuss the situation and to devise means to combat • he bulletins and the work of the move ment that will meet with the approval and co-operation of the entire city. Adair Leads Meeting Move. Forrest Adair, whoso criticism of Police chief Beavers created a sen sation. Is one of the moving spirits in the calling of the conference. Mr. Adair said that he expects to get Colonel Paxon. Mr. Daniel and half a dozen more of the men who have en listed against the bulletins to attend the conference, and that some defi nite plan of campaign probably wifi be decided upon. Roth Mr. Adair and Mr. Daniel favor th* idea of the mass meeting, although it is understood that, Colonel Paxon has some opposition to the plan. If the meeting is called, as ap pears likely at this juncture in the controversy, it will be held '.n the Grand Opera House, and every citi zen of Atlanta, no matter on which side of the question he stands, will be invited to attend and take part in the discussion. The men who are promoting the movement to hold a meeting stated Wednesday that those who favor the methods of the Men and Religion Forward Movement will be given as much opportunity to be heard as those w ho are against them. Time Ripe for Meeting, He Say*. “The situation now' has reached a stage where a meeting would d« everybody good,” said Mr. Adair Wednesday. “Ry a calm, dispasison- ate discussion of the matter we can arrive at some conclusion as to the sentiment of the great body of At lanta citizens who have not yet takei any part in the controversy, although 1 do not think there is any doubt that most of the people of Atlanta agree with us that the bulletins are harmful and that they ought to be suppressed and the activities of the movement curbed. Those who do not agree with us could, at this meeting, have every opportunity to show 7 us the error of our ways, and an ex change of views can hurt nobody.” Marion Jackson, member of the ex ecutive committee of the Men and Religidn Forward Movement and tlie author of the bulletins, declined Wed nesday to comment on the agitation for a mass meeting of protest. He indicated that the movement would continue to pursue its policy of ig noring the protests and criticisms and declared that this policy of si lence would extend even to the Men and Religion mass meeting to be held in the Grand Opera House the sec ond Sunday In January. Mr Jackson declared that the movement would “pursue the even tenor of its way,” unruffled by the waves of criticism, and that the bul letins would continue to appear as regularly as deemed necessary. Among those who have joined the opposition are Hamilton Douglas, dean of thr Atlanta Law School; W. R Daley, chairman of the Board of Education: Chris Essig. of the Ess’g Bros. Company; Edward Brow’n. of Brown & Allen Drug Company; H. A. Maier. of the Maler & Berkele Jew elry Company; Dan A. Walraven, well-known attorney; Attorney Reu ben Arnold: William A. Ansley, real estate operator; George M. Hope, cap italist and insurance man; W. L. Cos grove, manager of John W. Grant’s enterprises, and J. D. Robinson, man ufacturer. The bulletins and the w r ork of the Men and Religion Movement also de veloped some champions during the day. Many ministers have rallied to the defense of the bulletins, declaring ihat the good they have accomplished in ridding Atlanta of vice and wick- edn%ss can hardly be estimated. T. W. Galloway, who is here at tending the convention of the Ameri can Association for the Advancement of Science, also has written to the leaders of the movement expressing j his pleasure at reading the bulletins and the hope that they will prevail against he force of Mr. Adair and Colonel Paxon. Mr. Galloway declares that Colonel Paxon and Mr. Adair and their sup porters are mistaken in their asser tion that Atlanta is advertised in the wrong manner by the bulletins, and declares thart the advertising given the city by the bulletins is the best thing that has ever happened to It. Hooper Alexander, United States Attorney, also rallied to the defense of the bulletins Wednesday, declaring that they are doing a great deal of good and ought to continue. Mr. Alexander declared that the reason for the criticisms directed against the bulletins is not apparent, and ex pressed the view 7 that the news col umns of the newspapers, should be subject to the same criticism as is given the bulletins. William A. Ansley. one 6f the city’s best known real estate operators. In terpolates Into his defense of Colo nel Paxon and Forrest Adair an attack on the modern methods of the preacher, declaring that the “old- time religion” is being lost sight of in “the craze for publicity and the desire to preach on sensational subjects and glorify themselves in the preaching.” He declared that the bulletins were commercializing religion. “I only read a few of them when they were first published,” he said. “I read them first out of curiosity, whFh quickly changed to disgust, as it ao- prared to me the.* were commercial- | Reuoen Arnold, one of Atlanta's | that it is time the bulletins rzing the sacred religion I profess.” . most prominent attorneys, declared | stopped. Boiler Skates Free - JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG Mr. Flagg’s picture* take rank the best that are being America or Europe today. done m A B WENZELL Hi* delightful illustrations have en deared him to millions of discriminat ing mag,,une zanders. Don *t Miss Th is Literary and Art Treat in Next “i IQ | The Great “ Want Ad” Directory ID CHARLES DANA GIBSON The creator of the famous “Gibson Girl,” considered bv many critics the greatest living illustrator. ia HARRISON FISHER No one has ever portrayed the finest types of American women with greater charm than Mr. Fisher. ID ICS ROBERT W. CHAMBERS Author of “The Common Law,” and undoubtedly the most popular fiction writer of the present generation. HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY Mr. Christy needs nc introduction to lovers of the best that American art ran afford. ID MORE BUSINESS MEN DECLARE VICE WAR HAS SPREAD EVIL (On l v I'i'iict' Planned tor ((i in pa ig it Against Dion and Roligion Rullotins