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• • » V EXTRA ☆ nr 4 ’£r I CAN NOTICE If vn« have any difficulty in buying Hearat’a j Sunday American anywhere In the Smith notify J Circulation Manager Hearat'a Sunday Amerl- ! can, Atlanta, Ga. rl <tts VOL. III. NO. 8. iCopyright, 1913, by The Georgian Company.) ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1915. Mrs. Carman Plans to Go on Stage *!* • V T#V LINES BEING rnpTo Work to Pay Debts of Trial +•+ +•+ +•+ *•* +•* *•* NEUK FIGHT Regrets ^ a ^ ctogra ^ ON SHIPPING Mrs. Florence C. Carman, who is ready to go on the stage to repay debts incurred in trial. From her most recent photograph. Administration Will Reintroduce Measure Which Met Defeat in Last Congress and Merry Contest Is Expected to Result, Ship Subsidy Advocates to Make Counter Proposals, Saying War Will Necessitate Vessels to Handle the Larger Trade. By JONATHAN WINFIELD. WASHINGTON, May 29.—A great battle over shipping and merchant marine is to be fought in* Congress again next winter. The lines are now being drawn for the fight, and a great effort will be made to place the issue before the American people in an ef fective manner. The Administration will reintroduce the shipping bill which met defeat in the last Congress. The advocates of ship subsidy will make counter pro posals and will concentrate their ar guments on the fact that the Demo cratic administration is now agreed with them on the main point—that American shipping must be rehabili tated in view of the certain perma nent expansion of American foreign trade resulting from the European war. Has Largest Trade. The ship tonnage of the world is now apportioned in the following manner: British, 53 per cent: Ger man, 14 per cent; American. 9 per cent; French, 5 per Gent, and a few others scattering. The supremacy of Great Britain in shipping is not based on any such overwhelming superiori ty in commerce. As a matter of fact, American ex ports and imports at present are by far the largest of any nation in the world. For the fiscal year 1912-1913 they barely fell behind the total for eign trade of Great Britain and all her colonies. \ ■% At the present tim*%American ship ping carries less than 9 per cent or our own foreign trade. Out of a total of more than 45.000,000 gross tonnage for the entire world Great Britain carries a trifle less than half, more than 5,000,000 are German, while only a little more than 2.000,000 are Amer ican. Wants Merchant Marine. The Administration wants to build j up a merchant marine through gov ernment ownership and operation. The shipping interests believe same end can be attained through government subvention. Various j methods have been proposed, bu< that of Great Britain, which uses a system of mail contracts, is one upon which most emphasis is being laid The United States Commissioner of Navigation recently estimated that on the principal ocean mail contracts be tween England*and the other parts of the British Empire a yearly output of $4,400,000 was made. Germany also gives its ships a heavy subsidy for carrying the mails. These successful examples of ship subsidy will be placed before the American people In a supreme effort to convert them to the subvention doctrine. The Administration will be equally arduous on behalf of its ship ping measure. Between the two of them a merry fight is promised. V , iw 0 '.XvX r # r:* ; ' M in V> : . : >: Praises Husband, and Urges Solution of M rs. Bailev. f Murder John D., Jr,, Borrows $1 in Washington WASHINGTON. May 29.—John D. Rockefeller, Jr., borrowed a dollar to pay for a subscription to a Socialist magazine. The solicitor was so persist ent Mr. Rockefeller could not shake him off. | Then when he went to pay for Jt he found he <#dn't # have any motley L. M. Bowers, former superintendent of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, loaned him the amount. Willing to Give Sons For Country's Honor GALVESTON, TEXAS. May 29.—A proposal that the Texas Equal Suffrage Association indorse the women’s peace party failed of adoption at the annual convention. Mrs. Wendell Spence, vice president of the Dallas association, said: "I am opposed to war. but if our country is subjected to insult 1 will willinglv give my four sons to assist in wiping out that insult." * Mrs. Florence Conklin Carman, ac- ♦1k* f'USed and acquitted of the murder of irWTMrs, Louisa Hailey in the office of Dr. Carman. {/are out her own spe cialty prepared statement on the case. In part it follows : By MRS. FLORENCE C. CARMAN. Naturally, I am very much elated over the result of my second trial, and fee! that justice has at last prevailed. Nevertheless, my past sufferings have left an indelible impression upon me. and, although 1 might not show it outwardly, still I am conscious my constitution is far weaker than before this horflic|de, and my nerves are al most shattered. It is, of course, with deep regret that I look to the time when I in stalled and purchased the dictograph. Even now I can not realize why it was such a terrible thing to do. I was sus picious and curious, due to the many remarks I had heard concerning my husband. I would have regarded it as contemptible if my purpose was mere ly eavesdropping and if 1 had no defi nite aim in view except to overhear what the dpetor might say to his pa* tients in a professional way. When 1 heard him speaking profes sionally I always put the receiver of the dictograph down, as I regarded such conversations as sacred and as statements which 1 absolutely had no j right to know anything about "Not Great Jealousy.” I think the jurors thoroughly under stood it was not great jealousy which prompted Its installation, but curios ity to determine whether rumors which I heard were correct or not. On July 3. 1914, the coroner's in quest was started, and I did not hesi tate to take the witness stand at a place where the District Attorney had full sway, where I could not be pro tected by any counsel and where the District Attorney could ask me any questions which he desired Celia Coleman also testified before the Coroner. I was not even present when she testified, and she walked home alone, so that it is quite obvious that no influence on the part of any member of the Carman household could have been exercised over her at that time person I was committed to jail. The Grand Jury brought in an in dictment of manslaughter in the first degree against me on .July 17, 1914. and I was admitted to bai) by Judge Sieklen In September 1 was surprised to learn that by a second Grand Jury I had been indicted for murder in the first degree in a superseding indict ment, and 1 was agai*i committed to jail to await trial. The uncertainty which confronted me while the jury was out was some thing I hope no living mortal will have to endure. As the second trial approachd, Mr. Graham. Mr. Levy, Dr. Carman and myself hafha consultation in Mr. Gra ham's offi- e, and it was mutually agreed that Mr Levy should try the c ase. There was no friction between Mr. Graham and Mr. Levy, or between Dr. Carman. Mr. Graham and myself The jury’s “Not guilty” was like music to my ears. Nerves Break Down. Since the trial I have been at my home at Freeport and have suffered a nervous breakdown. When I look back now I can not realize how I went through so much. My wish is that the citizens of Nas sau County will insist that the Dis trict Attorney continue to show as much energy in clearing up the mys- | tery surrounding the death of poor Mrs Bailey as he has done in prose cuting me. I have placed the disposition of my services for professional work in the hands of a reputable New York man ager. and I feel he win wisely shape a course for me that will aid me to hon estly return the money that this un just accusation has cost my relatives and friends I sincerely trust that a fair-minded public will look upon my temporary adoption of a stage career not as a desire for notoriety, but sim ply as the quickest method of paying my debts. When my debts are paid I will set tle down and devote the rest of my life to my husband and my daughter Eliz abeth. on whose little shouidefs fell the heaviest burden of the case, and v. ho at the age of 10 years was called Nude Models Will Educate the Public Chicago Club Will Repeat Startling Exhibition to Give Masses Ar tistic Mental Attitude. OF BIRTHS Advocates of Law Curtailing Spread of Information Limit ing Families Clash With Ex perts Insisting Upon Its Repeal Movement to Abolish Measure Led by Dr, Abraham Jacobi—An thony Comstock Says Action Would Lead to Immorality. EXPENSE OF CHICAGO, May 29. R. V. Brown, president of the Palette and Chisel Club, has announced that the exhibi tion of professional models given at the club headquarters w ill be repeat ed in a Loop theater ns soon pv ar rangements for the production ca > be made. "There is nothing suggestive in the nude,'' Mr. Brown said. "It is the half- d raped figure that should be sup pressed. No one could take exception to the poses of the sort on the pro gram before a group of artists. It re mains to educate the public to an ar tistic mental attitude Professional models posed several i old masterpieces and some new ones. An improvised stage at one end of the clubroom had been fitted to represent a huge frame. Across the frame was stfefched a sheet of fine gauze. The room was darkened. Then on the other side of the gauze appeared the rosy light of a dawn effect. This was the “Awakening of Spring ' All the young women were awake and dressed in $1,000 worth of electric light and one set of epidermis each. Upon the testimony of an unreliable upon to save her mother's life. By GRACE PHELPS. NEW YORK. May 29.—Nation wide interest has been suddenly aroused in the movement to repeal the law prohibiting the spread of in formation that will result in curtail ment in the production of families. All over the country scientific and lav minds are at grapples over the subject, with the partisans of both sides of the problem unhesitatingly outspoken in approval or denuncia tion. Dr. Jennie V H Baker, of the morial Hospital for Women and Chil dren, Brooklyn, is one of the oppo nents of the efforts to repeal the law r forbidding the spread of information leading to family limitation. “I am absolutely opposed to at tempts at birth control,” said Dr. Baker. “I do not care to give my reasons, but you may put me down for an unqualified NO!" Dr. Abfaham laflflft, world-known as an authority on children's diseases, is one of the leaders of the Birth Con trol Committee Dr. Jacobi did not hesitate to support his partisanship when asked. Would Control Marriages. “The congestion of population has proved dangerous even w'hen the na tion consist of normal individuals, originally healthy ajnd competent.'' said Dr. Jacobi. “The case is much worse when unhealthy sick, sickly or infested and contagious children are born. It should be punishable by law for persons affected by bad heredi tary influences to propogate their ail ments. “It is important that this unjust law regarding the limitation of chi 1 - j dren should be repealed at the ear liest possible moment. It is impor tant that usefuf teaching be not crip pled, that personal freedom be not in terfered .* ith, that the independence of marred couples be protected It is important that families be safe guarded in regard to health and com fort, and that the future children of the nation be prepared for competent and comfortable citizenship.” Our Morality Safe. Anthony Comstock, president of the Society for the Prevention of Vice, recently stated that the repeal of this law would lead to immorality Dr. William J. Robinson, president of the American Society of Medical Sociology, said: "There is a class of people who be lieve we are all essentially wicked. They believe the only thing that re strains us from committing all the crimes on the calendar is the fear of consequences. I should like to re mind such persons that capital pun ishment in England for stealing a loaf j of bread did not prevent a hungry man from stealing “What keeps our unmarried women moral is the general bringing up, the general and religious education, the custom of the country, hereditary in fluence and the general monogamous tendency of the female. Cause of Late Marriages. “One of the chief causes of late marriages with their attendant evils, is the fear of having to support not a wife, for iwo can often live as cheaply as one. not two or three chil dren, but a possible ten! The spread of information on family regulation would induce many men to get mar ried ‘much earlier than they other wise would and it would decidedly diminish the number of bachelors and old maids. "Our opponents ask, ‘Do you not admit that there are people who with this knowledge would shirk the re sponsibility of parenthood altogeth er? I answer 'yes,' but I hasten to add that it is better for the race that such people should remain childless. In time by such processes, such peo ple would be eliminated from the race. “From the bottom of my heart I pity the children that are horn into the world againstheir parents' dis tinct wishoe.** Believed Dead, Comes Back to Claim Estate BOSTON, May 29.—The full bench of the Supreme Judicial Court will decide W'hether Charles C. Jones, who was thought to be dead, but who, after wandering about the world from 1879 to 1913. now seeks to reverse a decree of the Norfolk Probate Court, made In 1901, may maintain a petition to that effect. His mother died in 1900 and he wa<« entitled to $12,754.91 from her estate. A year after her death It was repre sented that Jones was dead and the money was divided among his three sons by a decree of Judge Flint. If Jones Is able to have the decree re versed It will give him an opportunity to begin proceedings to recover the money. $1,000,000 Bride's Drama Venture Fails PHILADELPHIA, May 29. —Mrs. Keith Donaldson, one-time “Million Dollar Bride." and "Little Mary Mack" have come back, but not in the usual mean ing of the phrase. "Little Mary Mack" is. or was. a mu sical comed\, in which Mrs. Donaldson starred. The show, rehearsed in this city, played twice at Wilmington, went to peranton and Harrisburg and went on a reef at Wilkes-Barre. Attach ments on the scenery and trunks have been filed by several persons to whom the company Is said to owe money. Edison Would Have U. S. Warn Voyagers NEW YORK, May 29.—Thomas A. Edison, in s talk in his laboratory In Grange, said: “I feel the deepest horror over the destruction of the Lusitania. Why should not our Government warn all Americans not to go abroad except in American ships? If then Germany fails to have proper regard for American rights we can retaliate. "We can harm her more by boycott ing her and helping her enemies than we can by fighting her.” JTALY'R foremost fighting men. King Emmanuel, who will lead his own arinv, is shown above. Below is the Duke of the Abruzzi, head of the navy, who is fa vorably known in the United States because of his ardent though unsuccessful courtship of Miss Katherine Elkins. r. But Cost of Armed Clash With Wills 1 Cent Each to His Son and Daughter NEW YORK. May 29.—Out of an es tate of $150,000, William J. Cooke, a Richmond Hill leather merchant, be queathed 1 cent and his parental affec tion to his son. Dr. Tyler G. Cooke, and his daughter, Margaret Gordon Cooke, a nun in St. Mary's Convent, Peeksklll. The bulk of the estate is left to his widow. The testator held they were amply provided for. Witchcraft Charges Win Husband Decree NORfWSTOWN, PA.. May 29 Believ ing his wife was Influenced by witch craft or was "hexed" to leave him, William A. Evans applied for divorce from her. The court granted the di vorce. The master. W. R Conver, reports the "hex' testimony of the husband to the court, but makes his own deductions that the woman just got tired of liv ing with her husband after six years. DixieBeauty andRich Fiance Break Match CHICAGO. May 29.—The engagement of the young Chicago millionaire. Rich ard Reed, now In business at Phoenix. Ariz., and Miss Martha Downs, a South ern beauty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs William P. Downs, of Shreveport, has been broken, It is reported here A lover’* quarrel is given as the rea son. A reconciliation is likely, hqjtf- fcver. friend a say. Germany Would Far Over-j shadow Previous Setbacks, Experts in Washington Claim. | National Tax Laws of Past Being Studied by Treasury Officials. Country Paid a Total of $6,237,965,701 for Civil War. WASHINGTON. May 29.—Th« pos- sibility of war between this country and Germany and the vast trail of national expenditure that might fol low has set members of Congress w'ho are in the city to looking up sta tistics concerning the cost of wars in the past, particularly those of the Civil War and the brush with Spain. I^arge as was the total cost of the war between the States, public of ficials estimate that it would become small by comparison if the United States were> drawn into the vortex and compelled to put an army in the field and undertake actual military operations. In the War of the Revolution the total forces engaged amounted to 309,781; in the war with Great Britain in 1812 the total force amounted to 576.622; in the war with Mexico, 112,230. The entire number engaged In th^vll War aggregated 2,772,408. In the Spanish-American war the number of men put into the field was 274-717, but of these only about 60,000 troops were actually engaged. Figures supplied by the Adjutant General's office show that in the Civil War there were 349,944 deaths from various causes. In the Confederate army there were, according to the best figures obtainable, 133,821 deaths. The Confederate troops captured 212,- 608 of their opponents, and the Union troops captured 476,169 of the Con federates. Jump in Public Debt. The total interest-bearing debt of the United States in 1860, before the outbreak of the rebellion, amounted to $64,640,838; in J861 it Jumped to $90,- 380,873, and ttie following year to $365,304,826. The war debt approach ed three-quarters of a billion in 1863, and reached the high water mark August 3], 1865, when the total inter est-bearing debt touched the huge sum of $2,381,530,294. At the same time the total national debt. Including that which bore no interest, aggregated $2,844,649,026. This interest-bearing debt remained above two billions until 1871, and by 1897 had been reduced to $847,365,130. The Spanish-American war again ran it up, the highest point, $1,046,- <•48.750. being reached in 1899. For 1914 the total Interest-bearing debt is $967,953,310, with an annual inter est charge of $22,891,497. In 1865 the annual interest on the war debt amounted to $150,977,697. This, nat urally, has fallen with the principal: but in the period between 1864 and 1897, Just before the war with Spain, the American people had paid in in terest a grand total of $2,713,316,675. a sum that represents almost the en tire amount of the national debt caus ed by the Civil War. First Big War Tax. The act of July 1. 1862. to meet the expenses <>f the Civil War was the foundation for the present Internal revenue system. It contained the first Income tax law from which tax was collected. It taxed practically every thing that was capable of being taxed Nearly every occupation was taxed, with the exception of ministers of the gospel and schoolmasters. Manufac tures of nearly all kinds were taxed It appears from the best obtainable information at the Treasury Depart ment that during the years 1861 to 1866. or the duration of the Civil War, approximately $680,000,000 was col lected from Internal revenue taxa tion. Add this sum to the high-water mark of the national debt, on August 31. 1865. amounting to $2,844,649,026. and ihe interest charge for the 26-year period, and we find that the total cost of the Civil War to the Government footed the enormous total of $6,237,- 965,701. This, of course, does not take Into consideration the vast expendi tures made by the South out of its treasury, nor the huge destruction of property and loss in earning capacity of the entire country. Cost $5,000,(XX) a Day. In addition to the bond Issue of $198 792,600 on account of the Span- ish-American War the people paid in war taxes” a total of $380,371,764.67. making th« extra burden of taxation to the American people on account of that small affair amount to $579,164.- 424 This war began April 21. 1898, and ended December 10 the same year. Hostilities actually ceased August 13, 1898. Hostilities continued, therefore, ex actly 115 days, and the cost of that war upon this basis was a trifle over $5,- 000,00b fox each day of that period. i \ A? I ,, t •Cu M U”l ill Ex-Gov. Cox Turns Laborer; Foils Strike Former Tennessee Executive Fires Big Lime Kiln on f^arm When Workers Quit. BRISTOL, TENN., May 2. Former Governor John 1. Cox, of Tenne^ee, settled a, strike umong laborer? en gaged in burning a large lime kiln on one of his farms in this county by stripping off hi« coat, donning his son's overall? and jumping into the ta?k of firing the big mass of lime stone. The laborers worked amicably until the kiln was constructed and the fires kindled. Taking advantage of a sit uation they thought would assure them a substantial Increase In wages, every man walked out and demanded more money “Gemlem n." said the ex-Governor, "you were content to work until you had advanced this kiln to a point where von felt your services were in dispensable I will pay you for what you have done, but will not need you further in this connection." With this statement, the ex-Gov- ernor went imrpediately at his task When his son brought new men* the ex-Governor made up his mind he would be no quitter, so he continued to feed the furnaces until the lime stone crumbled into flakes of pure lime His neighbors commend him for his stand. BIG CROP OUTLOOK. BRISTOL. TENN„ May 27.—Frop conditions in upper Ea?t Tennessee are !;iie\i riled The has been deal thus far- The wheat has sel- dum iooked mure promising SAYS BELLOC Kaiser Making Strong Offensive but Will Be Unable to Push Gains Because of Lack of Troops", Declares War Expert. Filling of Gaps With Final Re serves Explains Recent Vic tories in West, but Close For mation Means Failure Finally. By HILAIRE BELLOC. (Foremost Military Writer of Europe.) The last week wajs the beginning of that critical period in the war indi cated as due in the late spring or early summer. Briefly, the last reserves of the ene my are beginning to appear in the field. He is undertaking his last of fensive (though no longer with supe rior numbers) in the west. Under the momentum of that of fensive he has achieved three local successes of very different values, none of which hgs as yet any decisive character. The two lesser ones, in the Vosges and in the Woevre, we may neglect for the moment. His offensive in Flanders, around Ypres, is upon Another scale. In order to comprehend this offen sive, which he has just undertaken, and undoubtedly intends to maintair^ (at great expense to himself), let recapitulate certain main elements. 2,500,000 Men to Call. Tn the German Empire alone (ex cluding Austro-Hungary) we esti mated some two and a half million at the most, probably more like two mil lion men. really available for fighting^*i over and beyond the numbers off trained men which the empire could , put into the field in the first months of the war—say by October 1 Supposing this estimate to be accu rate within its rough limits, we note that the German Empire has a maxi-- mum training capacity of some 800,-1 000 men. It was to be presumed, therefore, that, generally speaking, the forces of the German Empire during the war would pass through a sort of rhythmic movement, diminishing un der the losses of the first stage, swell- ing again when the earliest of the newly trained hatches arrived, dimin ishing again by further losses and then swelling again as a further batrh- of newly trained men came in and/ so on. Now. if we admit 800,000 as the 1 maximum number of men which Ger many can train at any moment, and If we compare this with, sav, 2.400,-/ ooo. it was to be expected that in the course of the war three princi- cessions of strength would be apT^ ent in the forces of the German pire alone, exclusive of those of i ally. • - -/|f Last Accession le Made. Upon the appearance of the third / these accessions of strength, the la effort of the enemy would have hjJ launched and no more was to follotj It Is evident that we are now I'-ring this period of the third and laj accession of strength to the enemy. How he is using this last reserve x. « can not yet tell. Much of it must a' ] ready have been drafted in to fill gapi much of It may be on the Hungarie I - le. Perhaps he is planning anotht ! stroke in North Poland when the fine! weather has dried up the mud.'' But of one thing we can be certain:^ He is using a very considerable pro portion of his new strength in Flan ders and upon other points on the western front. And that Is the expla nation of all the news that we haver been receiving during the last fufw. days, and that we shall continue to receive for some time to come, in cluding a very possible stroke south of Lille. Upon the analogy of what thej Germanic force did In the past i may expect repeated attacks In r formation and losses far superior those of the defense. Emm Play for High Stakes. Whether we may expect the failure of these blows and the sec Pel resistance of the line against wli chi ■ h< future 1 anl show, but if this issue is achie then we can confidently predict t tat ; the decline following upon it wjll.be very dampening. The enemy can not but play hnw fot high stakes, and attempt at a very great expense of men, to obtain coucUtiQiB a.5 XcUYoratbift &a pcfisfola