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T MME. GAILLAUX
[HAILLS GOURT BY TALE
OF LOVE LOST T 0 RIVAL
Special Cable to The Georgian.
PARIS, July 23, —Mme. Gueydan,
divorced wife of Joseph Caillaux, this
afternoon suddenly became the cen
tral flgure and the storm center In
the trial of Mme. Henriette Caillaux
for the murder of Gaston Calmette,
editor of Le Figaro.
The courtroom where the wife of
the former French Premier and Min
ister of Finance {s on trial became a
theater in real life with scenes so in
tensely dramatic that the spectators
were swept away by them.
When Mme. Gueydan took the ‘wit
ness stand she faced the woman who
had succeeded her in the heart of
Caillaux and the incidents which fol
lowed were replete with sensational
thrills,
Mme. Gueydan told the complete
story of her life, beginning with her
girlthood and continuing down to the
present day. Her story was told with
graphic simplicity, but at times the
woman was carried away with emo
tion and anger and then she leaned
forward across the rall of the witness
stand with eyes aflame with rage.
Mme. Gueydan pictured the story
of her courtship with M. Caillaux,
who was then a struggling figure in
the world of finance and politics. She
told of her marriage and her married
life. Her recital pictured happy do
mesticity, with the wife encouraging
and advising her husband.
Took Letters as Weapons.
“Where did you get these letters?”
asked the court,
The witness hesitated, but finally
admitted that she had taken them
from Caillaux's study with a view to
holding them as weapons in the di
vorce proceedings.
“M. Caillaux made every effort to
recover the letters’” sald she, “but I
declined to listen to any overtures.
No sum of money tempted me. My
mind who made up and my heart was
steeled.”
Mme. Gueydan left the stand tem
porarily to give Andre Vervoort, a
former reporter on Gil Blas, an op
portunity to testify concerning the
letters 60f which he had personal
knowledge.
“I knew that Mme. Gueydan re
lentlessly persecuted this defendant
for eighteen months by holding these
love letters over her head,” swore the
witness. “She took pleasure in
taunting Mme. Caillaux and goading
her.” Most of these letters had been
written by Caillaux to his present
wife while the former was the hus
band of the present Mme, Gueydan
and the latter was still the wife of
M. Claretie. They showed that the
man was carrying on a secret love
intrigue with Mme. Claretie,
Letters “Very Intimate.”
Alfred Wesphel, a friend of Cail
laux, who knew about the letters, was
then called.
“Were the letters ohscene and
shocking?” asked Attorney Chenu.
Wesphel refused to answer until
ordered by the court. Then he said:
“They were certainly very intimate,
but I do not know as I would call
them obscene.”
In continuing her story about the
letters, Mme. Gueydan said:
“I found letters written by my hus
band to this defendant which I know
were composed for the purpose of
fooling me. They sought to make
out that my hushand had not been
intimate with Mme. Claretie.”
This statement caused tremendous
excitement.
Her Happiness Blighted.
Then Mme. Caillaux, then the wife
of M, Claretie, entered upon the
scene. The happiness of her married
life then was blighted, for Calllaux
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? All $1.50 Knit Union Suits, §l.
| All $1.50 Corsets at $l. |
$1.50 fresh, new Muslinwear, §l.
$1.50 Black Silk Stockings, $l.
$1.50 new Dressing Sacques, $l.
$2.00 all-linen Table Damask, yard, $l. :
Six 25¢ Union Linen Huck Towels, $l. |
10 yards of any 15¢ Gingham in stock, $l. T
$1.75 dozen Linen Napkins at $l. |
Three yards of any 50¢ Shirt Madras, $l. i
$2 to $5 gold jewelry, many kinds, $l. |
$2.98 German silver mesh bags at $l. :
$2 casseroles, cake plates, stands, ete,, $l, !
$2 suit cases, leather goods, ete., $l. :
$2 roller skates, sand toys, ete., at $l. ]
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$2 ali-linen skirts, new tunic styles, $l. 3
$2 girls’ white lawn dresses, 6 to 14, $l. ¢ |
$1.50 to $2 fresh, new neckwear at $l. |
Laces and silks, values to $2 and more, at $l. ;
$2 cotton blankets and bed spreads at $l. |
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fell in love with the beautiful and
sprightly Mme, Claretie.
When Mme. Gueydan reached the
part of her tale relating to Caillaux's
divorce from her the words tumbled
from her lips in incoherent haste at
times and her voice rose to a
scream. She glared into the hard,
cold eyes of the defendant or leaned
from the witness ch»!i as though she
were about to sp*'ng at Judge Louls
Albanel, the president of the Assize
Court.
The woman's words plerced the
tense stillness; her fists were clinched
and the looks that she cast upon the
prisoner were full of vengeance and
hatred.
For a time Mme. Caillaux glared
back at the angry witness. Then she
shrugged her shoulders and turned in
hker chair until her back was before
the witness' gaze.
This seemed to infuriate Mme,
Gueydan still further, and tears of
rage roiled down ner chalk-white
cheeks. :
“They are trying to make me out a
baseless woman!” shouted the wit
ness. “But they will never succeed.
I have all kinds of documents to
prove my words are true.
Shakes Fist at Successor.
“My married life was the happlest
until this woman appeared.” ;
Here the witness shook a menacing
fist in the direction of the defendant.
The witness then took a bundle of
letters from her dress. They were
tled with a lavender ribbon, which
Mme. Gueydan untied with trembling
fingers. She had no sooner started to
read one of the letters when Fernard
Labori, chief of counsel for the de
fendant, was upon his feet objecting
and protesting.
“Let her read them!”™ shouted At
torney Charles Chenu, legal represen
tative of Gaston Calmette’s children.
Spectators joined in the tumult,
some crying:
“Yes, allow her to read them,” and
others shouting, “No! No!”
Judge Albanel finally ruled that tha
letters sQould be read first by him
gelf and his four assoclates to deter
mine whether or not the jury should
hear the contents.
This decision was greeted with
cries of “Bravo!”
Judge Reads Letters.
Then the letters were passed up to
the judges, who began poring over
them.
~~ Mme. Gueydan did not immediate
ly end her address to the court. She
was apparently so worked up that she
could not keep still.
“M. Caillaux is a very powerful
man in France, and don’'t you forget
it!” she cried in vigorous accents.
Calllaux, who was seated in the
very first rank of spectators, eyed his
former wife as though amused at her
cutbursts. - 1
“Yes,” she continued, “but despite
his power the divorce decree was pro
rounced in my favor when the suit
was decided in the ecourts”
Mme. Caillaux was very pale, but
showed marvelous self-control while
Mme. Gueydan was on the stand.
On account of the enormous crowd
and the excitement, republican guards
were kept moving through the crowd
ed courtroom during the afternoon.
President Watches Case.
With political passions daily
mounting higher as a result
of the trial of Mme. Henriatte
Caillaux for the assassination of G)s
ton Calmette, editor of L.e Figaro, of
flcials showed anxiety over the situa
tion to-day.
Secret missions were sent to Presi
dent Poincare and Premier Viviani,
who are now in Russia, advising.them
to be prepared to hasten back to
Paris at a moment’s notice.
Seizing upon the opportunity af-
Less Calves Killed
Last Year,Says UB,
Refuting Packers
WASHINGTON, July 23 —Figures
showing a decrease in the number of
cattle and calves slaughtered in all
Federal-inspected establishments dur-
Ing the fiscal year ending June 30
last, as compared with the average
number slaughtered each year during
the seven preceding years, were made
public by the Department of Agricul
ture to-day. Packers recently blamed
increased beef and veal prices to In
creased slaughter of calves.
There were only 6725107 cattle
slaughtered in the last fiscal year,
while the yearly average for the pre
ceding seven years was 7,499,195,
Calves slaughtered in the last fiscal
year numbered only 1,814,904, while
the vearly average previously was 2,-
094,614,
‘Swiss Admiral' Off
In Driving Rain for
Panama Exposition
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georglan.
PARIS, July 23.—The American
Devartment of State's Invitation to
the Swiss Government to send a na
val representative to attend the for
mal opening of the Panama Canal
as presented by Minister Stovall, of
Georgia, apparently has caused a
thrill throughout Europe and possi
bly the unbalanoing of one mind.
A white-haired man wearing a
heavy gold-braided uniform was seen
pacing the boulevards in a drenching
rain. When a policeman timidly
asked him his rank, the man replied:
“I am a Swiss admiral and am pro
ceeding to America.”
The policeman saluted, called a taxl
and invited' the “admiral” to drive
with him to an infirmary for the in
sane, where an examination into his
sanity was made to-day.
Refuses to Install
More Street Lights
GADSDEN, ALA. July 23.—The
Alabama City, Gadsden and Attalla
Railway Company, which supplies the
city with electric lights, has refused
to install more lights until the city
reaches some conclusion as te wheth
er or not a municipal plant will be
built.
To-day officials discussed the ad
visability of bminging legal proceed
ings to force the light company to in
stall street lights in accordance with
its contract and franchise.
.
Southern Sacrificed
. . . .
Dixie Cities, He Says
WASHINGTON, July 23.—8. L. Du
laney, a Tennessee coal operator, told
the Tillman investigating committee
of the Senate to-day that the South
ern Railway was “used” by a number
of its directors to divert all coal ship
ments to the “Bituminous Tidewater
Coal Agsociation,” and that the inter
ests of Charleston, 8. C. and other
Southern cities, as well as the inde
pendent coal operators, were sacri
ficed to this end.
Murder “Tip” Leads
.
To Egyptian Mummy
NEW YORK, July 23.—Investigat
ing a “tip” that a murdered man was
lving in the cellar of Max A, Mo
laxas' home, detectives investigated
and found a mummy bought by Mo
laxas in Alexandria, Egypt. Mo
laxas says it has beeh dead since
4000 B. C.
forded by the public clamor agalinst
Joseph Caillaux, husband of the de
fendant and ex-Premier, the Royalist
organizations are preparing for a
coup d'etat, hoping to overthrow the
republic and re-establish the mon
archy. Agents of the Government
have secured full detaiis of the con
spiracy.
It is well understood that the Pres
ident and Premier timed their state
visit to Russia in order to be away
from Paris during the Caillaux trial.
They knew that Caillaux would be
the storm center of the trial and that
political affairs would be injected, but
‘amlclpated only in a measure the
‘great storm that has arisen.
- The political aspect of the‘ case
‘had heightened the public interest
over night and the ears of Paris were
‘strained for sensations which might
likely crop out.
| Real Issues Obscured.
Again the real issue, the guilt of
Mme. Caillaux, was overshadowed.
Political issues involving chiefly the
activities and policies of M. Cafillaux,
while he was a member of the
French Cabinet, came to the fore.
Mme. Caillaux, like the vital issues
of her case, shrank into the back
ground. She was scarcely noticed
when the session began.
A well-known financler, Gaston
Dreyfus, who was supposed to know
much about private Caillaux corre
spondence, which Calmette had in
his possession, was the first witness
for the defense. He caused a sur
prise by saying that he knew noth
ing about any such documents.
Then came M. Painlipe, who swore
that Dreyfus had told him he knew
all about the Caillaux letters which
Le Figaro was to publish.
While Painlipe was testifying, Drey
fus vigorously shook his head and
muttered that the witness was wrong.
Ex-Wife Offered to Sell Letters.
The editor of The Paris Journal
testified that Mme. Gueydan, the di
vorced wife of Caillaux, had come to
his office and offered a number of in
timate letters for s~ le.
Georgia Soldier Dies
In Manila Hospital
DAVISBORO, July 23.—A letter
Qrom the War Department to J. C.
Cobb, a prominent planter living five
miles east of this place, advised him
that his nephew, Julian Hattaway, a
cavalryman in the Philippine Islands,
died from the effect of a general an
esthetic while undergoing an opera
tion in a Government hospital In Ma
nila.
Young Hattaway was only 23 years
of age and had been in the service
eighteen months of his three years’
enlistment. His body will be sent
back here for interment.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
HEPPARD BILL
WING ON TEaT
IN HOUSE
Author Wins Consent to Prolong
Debate—Leaders Assert Act
Surely Will Pass.
After leaders of the House of Rep
resentatives had analyzed the child
labor situation in Georgia, and in stir
ring and convineing speeches pointed
out that the remedy lies in the en
actment of laws that will take the
l'ttle children from slavery in the
mills and factories and give them a
chance to acquire at least the rudi
ments of an education to equip them
for the battles of life, the Sheppard
child labor bill won the first clash
when the measure came up for con
sideration Thursday.”/
The test came when Representative
J. E. Sheppard, of Sumter County,
the author of the bill, asked unani
mous consent that the debate be ex
tended from 12:40 o'clock Thursday,
the time to which it was originally
limited, to the same hour Friday.
There was objection to the request.
; Motion Tests Strength,
It became apparent at once that the
opponents of the Sheppard bill were
trying to force the measure to a vote,
relying on the misunderstanding that
cxists among certain members as tc
the provisions of the bill to carry
them through to victory.
Mr. Sheppard then put his request
in the form of a motion. It was
plainly a test vote on the Sheppard
bill and the Dorough amendment.
which has been accepted by the au
‘thor of the bill and others supporting
it
‘ The llne was plainly drawn between
the advocates and opponents of the
bill——and Mr. Sheppard's motion car
‘ried overwhelmingly.
; Leaders of the House regard the
‘vole on Mr. Sheppard’'s motion as in
dicative of the final vote when the
}measure reaches the roll call stage
Friday.
‘ The Sheppard bill, before the House
‘adjourned, had one vote recorded for
it.
| Stone Votes for Bill.
This is the vote of Representative
‘S!one. of Dawson County, who asked
that he be permitted to cast his vote,
as he will be unable to attend Xri
day’s session. Mr. Stone voted for
the Dorough amendment and the
Sheppard substitute, and against the
Moon substitute. Half a dozen other
members tried to get the consent of
the House to cast thelr votes the same
way, but it was refused.
The debate on the Sheppard bill at
Thursday's sesslon developed some
of the strongest speeches members
of the House have heard in recent
vears. Those who spoke in favor of
the bill were Representatives Robert
Blackburn, of Fulton County; Samuel
Olive, of Richmond County; Dorough,
of Franklin County, and Smith, of
DeKalb County.
Arguments against the bill, ex
pressing the ideas of the mill owners
of Georgia respecting child labor
legislation, were made by Represen
tatives Moon, of Troup County, and
Akin, of Glenn County. The impor
tanee of the bill had brought a larger
attendance of members of the House
than of any previous day since the
session opened. ‘
Galleries Filled. |
| The galleries were filled with more
'than 200 men and women, many of
‘them factory operatives, all eager for
‘the passage of the bill and lending it
their moral support.
~ The speech of Representative Olive,
iof Richmond County, was one of the
‘most remarkable oratorical efforts,
‘and the most convincing présentation
of indisputable facts, the Georgia
‘House of Representatives has ever
heard. He was forceful, his logic was
clear and faultless, and his naturally
strong volce was made stronger by
the fact that he was speaking earn
estly and pleading for the welfare
of the children of Georgia until it
‘reverberated from the rafters audible
‘and distinct in every part of a large
hall in which few speakers can speak.
;wlth any success,
- Constant attention was given Mr,
Olive and his presentation of facts
that left no doubt as to the vital ne
cessity of a child labor law in Geor
gla that will really remedy condi
tions.
| Will Emancipate Children.
. Mr .Olive declared that with the
Dorough amendment the Sheppard
bill is a measure that will emancipate
‘the children of Georgia from the
slavery in which they have toiled for
‘years; it will give them an oppor
‘tunity to be children and attend
school at least part of each year, and
will redound to the benefit of Georgia
in future years, when the children of
to-day become the citizens upon
whom the State depends.
Abandoning the sentimental aspects
of child lahor, Mr, Olive, with con
vincing earnestness, proved that child
labor in the cotton mills is responsi
ble in a large measure for the low
prices prevailing for the staple
product of the South. He proved that
with child labor abolished in the
mills, the farmers could get better
prices for their product.
“The uncertainty of the cotton
mill business in the South,” said Mr,
Olive, “is due, largely to two causes
—cotton futures and child labor. Both
are unnatural growths on civilization
and must be removed before the
farmer of Georgla and the South can
prosper as he deserves.
“The millowner i{s directly respon
sible for neither. He is a victim of
an evil that can only be removed by
legislation.
How Farmers are Hurt
“The financial interests that con
trol the mariketing of cotton have dis
covered that cotton products can be
manufactured on the basis of a child’'s
labor, and low wages paid to the child
mean low prices for the producer of
cotton The low prices for Southern
cotton goods are in part predicated on
the cost of production, and this cost
of production was estimated on a
basis of child labor pay. The com
merecial world would take cognizance
of child labor and child labor inva
riably means low prices to the pro
ducer and high prices to the con
sumer,
“The abolishment of child labor has
become an economic necessity if the
farmers of the State, who raise the
cotton that {s our staple crop, are to
prosper as they deserve,
“When child labor is abolished
there will be 2 change {in the methods
of determining the cost of production
and the result can not be anything
but higher and better prices for the
producer of cotton goods in the
South.”
Blames Parents.
“Georgia childiren for years have
been held {n a slavery that has throt
tled their ambitions, minimized thelr
opportunities and forced them to
grow up in the world ignorant, know
ing nothing but unremitting toil at
the loom and in the factorles.
“You can't blame the children for
working, Primarily the parents of
the child are to hlame for child labor
conditions that have become a dis
grace to the State of Georgla; sec
ondarily, the mill owners are to
blame. %
“It i of no use to appeal to the fa
thers, and it Is of no use to appeal L 0
the mill owners. The fathers are not
going to relinquish their present sys
tem of allowing the children to sup
port them while they roam the streets
in blissful {dleness, and the mill own
ers of the State are victims of a sys
u;m that they are powerless to rem
edy. |
“The remedy lies in the hands of
the State. As the chosen representa
tives of the neople of Georgla, we are
called upon to-day to help the chil
aren of our State. We are not called
upon to legislate for grown men and
grown women. We are called upon to
help the children, the children who
can not come here and present their
own gide of the case.
Duty to Pass Law.
“And it Is our solemn duty before
God and man to give these children
the relief that they can not give
themselves. It {s our duty to take
them out of the mills and factories,
where their bodles and souls are
shriveled by long hours of the hardest
kind of toll, and put them out into the
world, out into God's blessed sunshinc
and in the schools that we have had
the wisdom to establish.
~ “Unless we are blind to the best
Interests of our State, unless we are
‘deat to the appeals of thousands of
little children whcse faces are wrin
‘kled before their time, whose backs
are bent from toil and who are retro
grading mentally, morally and physi
cally, we are going to pass the Shep
pard child labor law,
“There can be no doubt that It is
our duty to pass this law. The best
interests of the State and the best
interests of humanity demand that
Georgia place upon the statute books
a law that will give the children a
chance. They are helpless, and as
the representatives of the people of
Georgia, here to express the will of
the people of this great State, it is
our duty to help the helpless, to land
a helping hand to those of whom
our Savior said: ‘Suffer them to
come unto me and forbid them not?
~ On Future of Citizenship.
‘lnn the children of to-day we are
building the foundatio of future cit
izenship. Do you want to bbuild that
foundation in a marsh of disease?
Do you want to lay it in a mass of
disease, and have the future citizens
of the Imperial State of Georgia men
and women who are old before their
time, weakened by toil, ignorant of
everything that makes life worth
while, knowing nothing but slavery?
“Do you want the future citizens
of Georgia to be men and women of
high moral character, of Intelligence
and mental capacity to grasp the
problems that will confront them,
or do you want them to be men and
women of astounding ignorance, of
the mental capacity of a child, know
ing absolutely nothing, without the
rudiments of an education and totally
unfit to govern themselves because
of this ignorance and lack of char
acter?
‘““That is the ‘question that you an
swer by your vote on the Sheppard
bill. If you vote for it you vote to
give the children of Georgia a chance
to be children, a chance to attend
schoo! and get the help that is their
right by all the laws of humanity.
~ Remedy Needed Now.
“The child labor situation in Geor
gia needs remedying and it needs it
now. There are more children under
16 laboring in the cotton mills of
Georgla, bound to a servitude from
which they can not escape by their
own efforts, than there are convicts
on the publie roads of the State—and
almost every way you look at it, the
convicts are better off than the chil
dren,
“The orphan and widow and de
pendent father clauses in the Moon
substitute would utterly kill the bill.
The Moon substitute offers no relief.
It merely paves (he way for faise
swearing, for a greater exploitation of
the children by unprincipled parents
who are incapable of looking to the
children's welfare, These parents
went to work in the cotton mills when
they were children; they are ignorant
of the things that their children must
have to fit them for the work of
manhood; they are more to be pitied
than censured.
“Mr. Moon declares that if the
Sheppard bill is passed the streets
of Georgla will be filled with va
grants, and he says that under the
laws of the State they will be liable
to prosecution as vagrants. He misses
utterly the purpose of the vagrancy
laws.
Aimed at Adult Vagrants.
“It was not almed at the boys and
girls who play about their homes
and in the streets near their homes.
We had to have these vagrancy laws;
we have to have them now to keep
unprincipled, vicious parents from
moving to the mill settlements from
the country and exploiting their chil
dren, forcing them to earn the lv
ing for the family while the fathers
sit around idle. It is for the fathers
that the vagrancy laws of this State
have the greater terrors. It i{s not
aimed at the children who are try
ing to be happy in their childhood.”
Representatives Dorough, of Frank
lin County, and Bmith, of DeKalb
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County, delivered strong arguments
In favor of the Sheppard bill. Mr,
Dorough explained his amendment,
declaring that its purpose is not to
make the bill look llke class legisla
tion, but to make it reach only that
portion of the child labor evil that
presents the most problems,
“There is nothing in the Sheppard
bill, with my amendment .adopted,”
sald Mr. Dorough, “that will preclude
the children of Georgla from labor
of a useful sort,
Allows Healthy Work,
“There is nothing that will keep
them from working in the flelds and
in other places where the surround
ings are not such as will hurt them
mentally and morally and physically.
It applies only to mills and factories,
laundries and manufacturing estab
liehments, where the surroundings
are unhealthy and unsanitary, where
the child labors at hard work for
long hours and comes out of its slav
ery defective mentally, morally and
physlically " |
Smith, of DeKalb County, declared
that no man in the House would be
doing his full duty if he did not vote
for the Sheppard bill and the Dorough
amendment, ‘
“We now have the children at work
in the mills in competition with their
parents,” he sald. “The children at
work make vagrants of the fathers.
The fathers move to the mill settle
ments, and then they make thelr chil
dren support them while they sit
around In vicious idleness.
No Time for School,
“It may be true that the mill own
ers provide educational advantages
for the children who toll in their
mills—but they do not give them any
opportunities for avalling themselves
of these advantages. How can they
do it when they are forced to labor in
the mills long hours each day?
“If the mill men would prevent
child labor of their own accord, and
force the children to attend school, It
would be good business for them from
any standpoint. They would get bet
‘ter, more intelligent and more faith
ful workmen when the boys and girls
became men and women,
“The Sheppard bill offers a reme
dy for a condition under which Geor
gia has labored long enough. I am
going to vote for, and every man in
this House who does his duty will
vote for it.”
Foes Make Speeches.
Representative Alken, of Glenn
County, spoke against the measure.
He declared that Georgla lls not
ready for a child labor law llke the
Sheppard bill, and pleaded that the
children “be allowed to work so they
can learn the love of a dollar.”
Representative Moon, who comes
from LaGrange where there are sev
en cotton mills, had a bill he want
ed substituted for the Sheppard biil
The bill would be highly more pleas
ing to the employers of child labor
than would the Sheppard bill. Mr.
Moon made a speech painting in
glowing terms happy lives led by the
children in the mills.
Mr. Moon alse attacked The Geor
glan because it advocated the pas
sage of the Sheppard bill. He sald
’that The Georgian had printed more
to ald the Sheppard bill than had all
the other papers in the State, and
that The Georgian had no business to
do fit.
Blackburn Fires First Gun.
Representative Robert B. Black
burn, of Fulton County, fired the first
gun in the child labor debate when it
opened in the House in an
eloquent and analytical address that
won the hearty and prolonged ap
plause of his colleagues.
Mr. Blackburn’s argument bristled
with facts and figures, convincingly
presented. In vivid comparison with
the children of other States, protected
by adequate child labor laws that
give them a chance to be children
ana acquire the rudiments of an edu
cation, Mr. Blackburn pointed out
that in the percentage of illiteracy
(Georgia ranks high; that thousands
of her children have grown to man
‘hood and womanhood unable to read
and write, with the mentalities of
children, solely because there were no
laws to protect them, to take them
from the mills and factories and force
them to attend school for at least a
small portion of each year.
Will Relieve Thousands.
“This bill i{s aimed at the relief of
the thousands of children in this gen
eration and coming generations who
will develop Into mental and physical
defectives If nothing is done for their
protection,” said Mr. Blackburn.
“It is for thelr protection that the
bill was framed. Industrial condi
tions in this State, worse than In any
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other State in the South, are aloquent
testimony that there is need for pro
tection.,
“It is good business from any point
of view to keep the children out of the
factories and mills at least until they
are 14 years of age, The laws In
other States are more drastic than we
have, and yet they are working for
still more rigid measures, showing
that they have reached an apprecla~
tion of value of such laws.
Replies to Interrupter.
“The day will come when all the
children of Georgia will be free. This
is the first step in their emancipa
tion. There are 10,000 in this Empire
State under 17 years of age who are
doing work that only adults should be
forced to do.”
Representative Adams, of Hall
County, interrupted at this point to
ask the Speaker how many children
under 14 were working in the fac
tories at present. Mr, Blackburn re
plied that he dld not have rellable
statistics at hand.
“Then what's the need of this law,
if you don't know how many children
are to be affected by 1t?" inquired
Adams.
“The law should be enacted {f there
were only 100 children under this
age,” replled Representative Black
burn.
The following general bills were In
troduced in the House Thursday:
By Glenn, of Whitfleld—To abolish
the death penalty as a punishment for
offenses against the penal laws of
Georgla.
By Anderson, of Murray—To pro
vide for the return for taxation of
mortgages and notes.
By Smith, of DeKalb—To create the
office of county weigher in each
county.
By Culpepper, of Meriwether, and
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Criticises Girls Who
Work for Pin Money
NEW YORK, July 23.—The woman
who 18 in business simply for the sake
of earning “pin money” was criticised
by Miss Belle DaCosta Greene, libra
rian for the late J. Plerpont Morgan.
“Unless a young woman is obliged
to go to work as a means of provid
ing her own livellhood or the liveli
hood for those dependent upon her,
she should remain at home,” sald Miss
Gireene, “Many girls seek employment
just as a means of passing away
time until they are married.
“As a result they Kkeep ‘someone
‘more capable and more worthy from
obtaining a position and are respon
gible for lowering salaries paid te
women."
Heath, of Burke—To exempt from
taxation the endowment of colleges
and academies.
By Smith, of Fulton—To prohibit
corporations from being chartered
with the word “trust” as a part of
the name.
By Wheatley, of Sumter—To ap
propriate $2,500 to the military de<
partment for riot funds.
~ By Rhodes, of Clarke, and Cheney,
of Cobb—To appropriate $2,168.33 for
insurance for the University of Geor
gia.
By Fowler and Miller, of Bibb—To
make provision for the building of &
union passenger station at Macon.
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