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*■'■* y r ■ •:■■ - w - EXTRA H BA 1T^- 3 §j£r ☆ NOTICE > If you hare any difficulty in buying Hnarst'* ' Sunday American anywhere In the South notify Circulation Manager Hearst'a Sunday Amert- { can, Atlanta, Ga. VOL. III. NO. 10. (Copyright, 1811, by ieorfUn Company.) The Geor ATLANTA, GA„ SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1915. DAILY TOLL | Bryan Shows His Hand—It's Plaster Seoretary Also Exhibits Cast of His 4 Face to Press Correspondents, "In Confidence." JL. Mothers, Shriveled by Starvation, Replace the Scavenger Dogs. Refuse Wagons Cart Off Dead Found in the Doorways. Packs of Half Naked Children Roam Streets Begging—266 Women Faint at Distribution of Small Supply of Food. The following graphic uncensored statement of actual conditions in Mexico City was received by mail from the resident correspondent of the International News Service. The censorship on telegraph mat ter is prohibitive: MEXICO CITY, June 12.—The ter rors in revolution-ridden Mexico City have reached a climax in the unprece dented famine. The scarcity of food here is at a stage unequaled in the world, except, possibly, in ravaged Poland. The average daily deaths from star vation have jumped from scores to hundreds since the first week in May. It is estimated by vhe Ayuntamiento - the Town Council—that 500 persons are dying every day from hunger or from causes immediately superin duced by lack of food. It is predicted’ by the Ayuntamierto that within two week?, unless communication is es tablished with the producing States, the dally deaths due to lack of food will reach 1,000. This estimate was made twelve days ago Communication has not been established. All Foodstuffs Taken by Armies. The population of Mexico City is approximately 500.000, If all the corn, frijol, rice, cereals and other food stuffs secreted in the cellars by Span ish merchants were commandeered to-morrow for the starving women and children of the peon and middle classes it is doubtful if each family would receive enough rations to last them 72 hours. Supplies, In the city are exhausted because the so-called armies which pof-sess all lines of communication to the States of Michoacan, Queretaro end Vera Cruz confiscate all incom ing foodstuffs. The indifference of some higher of ficials is exemplified by an appropria tion just made of 500,000 pesos to send a, commission to Washington on a junket, while only 50.000 pesos was appropriated to relieve the starving thousands. Since the food situation became acute the number of beggars under foot has Increased a hundredfold, ©very doorway is littered with them. They cluster Uke flies in front of clubs and the scanty restaurants, swarming around the lucky with their pitiful appeals for Just a bite of„bread. Take Place of Street Dogs. The majority of the beggars are lit tle mothers, so shriveled with hunger that their skins look like cracked leather. Their clothes are rags, they show their breasts unashamed. They clutch for money, food—anything—as ravenously as street dogs grab a thrown bone. Here they have literal ly taken the place of the street dogs, for they have long since eaten the dog?. Then, there are the cripples which the revolution has produced so nu merously In every city, town a^id pueblo. They crawl about^ In shreds of clothing, and when you step around or over them, thrust at you stumps of arms or legs and whine to you by the love you bear the Virgin of Guada lupe to give them /£od or centavos. And in every smmmt in the central part of Mexico Cfty roam packs of starving, half naked, incredibly filthy children, who are forever darting in and out of throngs, crying to the skies for something to eat. Starving Peon* Die in Doorways. When the starving peons are no longer able to shuffle about the streets plucking you by the sleeve, entreat ing aims, they crawl into doorways— half a dozen huddled together like dogs—and in the morning the city refuse carts come along, pick up their bodies and take them away. Twice this week starving women warmed into the Chamber of Depu ties where the delegates to the So- V^rana Convention (the Sovereign , rni\ention) w ^re dra wing a new con. Continued on Parte Column WASHINGTON, June 12.—Secretary of State Bryan has taken the newspa per correspondents Into his confidence. Mr. Bryan discussed the Mexican Ques tion and some other affairs with which his department is dealing. "When you have concluded your questions, gentlemen." said Mr. Bryan solemnly. "I have a confidential com munication to make. 1 wish to dispel the Idea that I never take you into my confidence.” The correspondents having thus been prepared for the confidence. Mr. Bryan walked to a cabinet In the rear of his office, and returned with a plaster masjy of Mr. Bryan's own rugged countenance in one hand and a piaster cast of Mr. Bryan's right hand in the other. “This is the first time,” suggested one of the callers, “that the Secretary of State has shown his hand." Mr. Bryan smiled amiably as -he ex hibited the mask, which is a remarkable likeness. He said that for twenty min utes he had to hold his peace while Gut- zon Borglum, the scultpor, took the im pression. Pinchots Renounce Allegiance to T. R. i NEW YORK, June 12.—Amos Pin- chot, who with his brother. Gifford, has long been known as a leader of the Progressive party, has renounced his allegiance to Colonel Theodore Roose velt an# to George W. Perkins. Mr. ^Pinchot said he had carried with him in his decision his brother, Gifford. William Allen White, of Kansas, and others, who, with himself, he said, "composed the most Important part of the Progressive party." Pinchot proposed that a new party he organized composed of a coalition between his branch of the Progressive party and a branch of the Socialist party, which might be dissatisfied with a program “composed only of vague yearnings with no specific and imme diate program attached thereto." Vanderbilt Estate Tax To Be $2,000,000 ALBANY, N. Y., June 12.—Comptroller Travis directed T^afayette B. Gleason to appraise the Alfred G. Vanderbilt es tate. hoping to secure for the State at least $2,000,000 In collateral inheritance taxes. Should he collect that amount the direct tax may be reduced to $17,- 500.000 The Comptroller said he would not name special counsel, who would have to be paid at least $20,000, but would depend upon Counsel Gleason to conduct the examination. Have a Cigarette? Not in Wisconsin! MILWAUKEE, June. 12.-The Doble cigarette law-, which w'ent into effect with publication June 2, has the strange provision that It‘ is illegal to give a cig arette to a friend, and this provision ap plies to leaving a box open on a bufTet for friends to help themselves. This provision, it is said, was included to prevent abuse of the main purpose of the law. allowing sale of cigarettes only to adults. Cardinal Farley, by ‘Miracle/ Starts Auto TARRYTOWN. N Y.. June 12.-Car- dinal Farley performed a great miracle. He started a refractory automobile. After waiting an hour following com mencement exercises at the Marymount School. Tarrytown, for his chauffeur to get the engine started. Cardinal Farley poked his cane about the interior of his car, touched a spark plug, and the ma chine resumed operation*. t Dixie Man Ends Life, War Lost His Fortune LEAVENWORTH. IND., June 12.— Colonel John C. Davidson, of Louisville, Ky.. formerly prominent in insurance circles, and recently engage* in coal mining in the South, committed suicide by cutting his throat in a hotel here. Big contracts which were canceled when the European war broke out swept away Colonel Davidson’s fortune, arw b* had been Offering from Insom- nil Three Injured When Fruit Jar Explodes LOS ANGELES. June 12.—A fruit jar. hermetically sealed and filled with water, exploded when thrown Into a rubbish fire, and three men were so badly injured that they were taken to the Emergency Hospital for treatment Flying glass cut their heads, necks and bodies. The concussion of the explo sion broke windows in a nearby house. Paris Churches Ban Abbreviated Skirts PARIS. June 12.—Notices have been posted in several Paris churches that communion will be refused io women wearing the new spring fashions. Cardinal Amette. Archbishop of Paris. ba c condemned th*» rage for short skirts and deep "V” shaped decollette cor ns grs. MOTHERS SCOREiHEBE’S UTEST THIN WAIST; TD PLAN TO REPEL START REFORMS Illinois Parent-Teacher Congress Also Attacks Stylish Slip pers and Gems. TO INSIST ON CHAPERONAGE Women JJeclare Time Is Past When Daughters Can Be Trusted to Chivalry. Girls Star in Shakespeare / •}••-!• •!•••!• •!■ • -1- ■!•••!• • -1- +•+ Normal School Play Hit LOCKPORT, ILL . June 12 —Waists that are nothing but a breath and the fashionable black-tipped white shoe? are to be taken out of the girl’s wardrobe this summer. The Illinois Congress of Mothers and Parent- Teacher Associations, in conference in the Town Hall, put those articles of" apparel on the blacklist along with French twists to the coiffures. "It's a part of the girl's social re sponsibility to the boys to wear saner waists." said Mrs. B. F. Lang- worthy, president of the organiza tion. . “The commonest trouble of to-day Is the too-.thin waist. Do not let us continue to dress so that the. men can still say they can not tell the good women from the bad ' And let u? save our daughters from this odium.” Mrs. Langworthy advised against, four and five kinds of jewelry, tand told the mother? to teach their girls that boots are better than pretty slip per? run down at the heels. Have Other Plans. "The criterion of the hest-drpssed woman is that she is the last person to put on a new fashion, and the iasi to leave it off." she declared. The mothers have other plans for the protection of their daughters. The foremost is a system of chaper- onage such as has never been known in Illinois. This, because, the'women assert, that the day has' gone when the chivalry of man can be counted upon. ^ "We used to be able to trust even the worst gambler with one oT our daughters, hut that day is done,’’ said Mrs. Langworthy. “Chaperonage is needed more than ever to-day.” We give the children an inflamed idea of life, subject them to dangers, and then are surprised when they'appear in the Juvenile Court. ” The writings of Robert Chambers, Rex Beach, Jack London. Gouverneur Morris were decried as "inflammable and too exciting." Mrs. William F. Young, vice presi dent of the organization, advised the mothers to chaperon all social activi ties of their children, even to the vis its to the moving picture show?. Would Change “Proms.” Other things that are to be put on the blacklist by the mothers are; The "senior prom." the dancing event of the graduation season, to be made into a "party that all may at tend.” Taxis to take the girJ? to parties. Demands upon boys that huge bou quets be sent the girls^escorted to partle?. The women were advised by Mrs. Young to "make themselves as charming and interesting as possible to their offspring”—to get down from "The Maiden? Prayer” to "It’s a Long Way to Tipperary" in order to entertain the children’s company. The mothers decided they will have to give up their evenings to the girls and boys. In place of those tiling? that "will be taken from the youngsters the fol lowing were the proposed substitutes: Camera clubs. Trips to the Art Institute. School orchestras. Dr. Lindsay Wynekoop. of Chicago, spoke In the evening session urging the teaching rtf religion to the chil dren. Mrs. L. N Sager, president of the Lockport Parent-Teacher Association, was in charge of the arrangements for the day. St. Louis Hospital Bars ‘Twilight Sleep’ ST LOUIS. June 12—“Twilight sleep" hag been liseontinued at the St Louis City Hospital. It was announced that the treatment was found not en tirely satisfactory after eighteen cases had been treated. The treatment had been in use at the City Hospital since early last Febru ary. The doctors report that out of most of the eighteen cases treated a state of complete a.mnesia existed In all but thr#»e the women were restless and had to be held during childbirth. In one case the treatment failed to have any effect In several of the case? the 'itabie? turned blur short!' after birth. Zeppelins or Seaplanes All Alike to Squads of Trained t Hornets. SOUTHERN MAN’S DISCOVERY Effort to Get Patent on Scheme Reveals It—Insects Hate Hum of Motor. SMITH. LA., Jun* 12.—Ab# Wiley has perfected an idea that will maJ<e the United States entirely safe from aerial attacks. Abe is a great lover of bees, wasps, State Normal School students who took part in outdoor play. “ Merchant of Venice.” Top, Miss Augusta Young, as Rassanio. Belcrw, left, Miss Grace Reh ley, as Portia, and Miss Lora Collier, as. Shvlock. \xxxwx\xxxxxxxx\ I r* FT Sat % m V r \ % A%>' VS 7 i SB** 8 '* I/* yff. ** and hornets and probably understands their nature as well as anyone, f^ast summer he had the loft of his house full of hornets, and wouldn't tell what he was doing with them Only the other day he came into town to con sult a lawyer about trying to get a patent on his hornets and gave away the whole thing. He discovered that hornets hate the buzz of motors. It sterns to enrage them. So he commenced training them. H'd start his auto engine go ing. open th.* windtfw of the loft and a few hundred hornets woul|i dash at the motor and attack anything near it. When they came back he had drop* of molasses for them as a reward. He got them so that when a city man went by in a machine a^mile away h% could open the window, let them hear the noise and they’d go for It like a flock of bullets. He figures that he can. in case of war. take boxes of .his trained hornets to the front and whenever an aero plane comes near, can send the hor nets up at it. He’ll guarantee one hornet to knock any fellow' out of his seat in an aeroplane, at one swat. N. W. Aldrich's Death Is Kept From Widow NEW YORK. June 12. With the an nouncement that hfe will of Nelson W. Aldrich had been probated at Warwick, R. I., is became known that his widow. Mrs. Abbv P. A Ulrich, is j?o seriously 111 at her home here that she has not beep told of her husband’s death Under the will stic and three children. Edward B Aldrich, of New York City. Lucy T Aldrich, of Warwick Neck, and Rich ard S Aldrich, /of Providence, are ex ecutors and be/otpe trustees of the eh./of 1 be/ime • left toi mi worth rppr / , .X..;' A .. XXv '\\\\xx\xxxx\x\xx\x\xxx\xxxxxxxxx'' N ''' .XX'X"' hurls Students ciilt Parts Show Marked Talent in I)iff.i- in Outdoor Performance. ATHENS. June 12. - Young women students of the Georgia State Normal School here displayed uncommon tal ent in their outdoor commencement play. They presented Shakespeare’s "The Merchant of Venice ’ in a man ner delightful and instructive to their large audience. Costumed to a his torical nicety for the play, the girls were no less proper and diligent in their acting, and made a highly favor able impression on the teachers and visitors. In the part of Shy lock. Mis? Lona Collier, of Macon, interpreted a diffi cult character with remarkable suc cess. her work being one of the grati fying features of the performance. Miss Grace Schley, of Columbus, who made a graceful and pretty Por tia, shared honors for diligent effort and capable acting with the balance of the participants The character of Bassanio was im pressively and minutely portrayed by Miss Augusta Young, of Ced&rtown. The other male parts were given as much detailed attention as the wom en roles, and were cleverly done by the young women. rubers of rxlmately Bride in Plaster Cast, Weds in Bed PHILADELPHIA, June 12 Miss Sa rah Penner George, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. John C. George, well known in Bal timore society, declined to have her marriage to Dr. T Grier Miller, of this city, postponed, a performed at her hospital. The bride recent 1; ous operation, and plaster cast while fh formed. d bedside ceremony In a pi Told to Leave Town Only Partially Clad CENTRA LI A, WASH.. June 12.—Jus tice Hows imposed a fine of $30 upon F. McCoy, a former employee of the Grand Theater, charged by Manager Lucas with stealing a pair of trousers. Sen tence was suspended, however, on con dition that McCoy return rh« trousers and leave town Thu court order left McCoy in a pre dicament as in complying h* would have been forced to leave town only partially dresswi. ?•» Lucas bought tne man a pair of overalls, to travel In TO END WAR IS PLAN OP Taft to Head Great Rally in In dependence Hall Called by the Nation's Leaders for June 17. Wilson Favors Movement. Compulsory Arbitration Is the Keynote of Proposals Drawn Up by the Former President. Ask Powers to Unite in Work. NEW YORK, June 12 A confer ence for international peace, with for mer President William H. Taft, as its sponsor, and having the unofficial in dorsement of President Wilson, will be held in independence Hall, Phila delphia. Thursday. June 17. The conference has been arranged by a^committee of 100. including the Governors of two States, college pres ident?, financiers, diplomats, lawyers and business men The call i? Issued for the purpose of organizing a league of Peace, or a League of Nations. Among the re markable proposals to be discussed at the conference will be that the signa tory powers shall jointly use military forces to prevent any one of their number froth going to war. or com mitting acts of hostility against an other signatory until the question at issue has bop n submitted for arbitra tion. The proposals were drawn up by former President Tafi. and he will preside at the meeting The confer ence had its origin at a series of meetings held at the Century Club in this city' on January 25 and 31, March 30 and April 9 Proposals Ambitious. The proposals are regarded as vast ly more important and ambitious than anything that has been undertaken heretofore by advocates of Interna tional peace Certain of the Idea* in dorsed by Viscount Bryce are intrud ed and President Wilson, it is under stood. Was consulted For diplomatic reasons, however the Administration will not he represented at the confer ence. The full text of the proposals fol lows: “Jt is desirable for the United States to join a league of all the great nations binding the signatories to the following: “First. All Justiciable question* arising between the signatory' powers not settled hv negotiation shall he submitted to a Judicial tribunal for hearing and Judgment, both upon the merits and upon any issue as to it? Jurisdiction of the question “Second All nonjusticiable ques tions arising between the signato ries and not settled by negotiation shall be submitted to a council of conciliation for hearing, consideration and recommehdation. "Third. The signatory powers shall jointly use their military forces to prevent any one of their number from going to war. or committing arts of hostility against another of the signatories before any question arising shall be submitted as pro vided in the foregoing Conferences Urged. ‘Fourth. Conferences between the signatory powers shall he held from time to time to formulate and Vodify rules of International law. which, unless some signatory shall signify Its dissent within a stated period, shall thereafter govern in the decisions of the judicial tribunal mentioned in article l.” The call Is signed by the following, among others; William H Taft. President Hibben of Princeton. President Lowell of Harvard, Chancellor David Starr Jor dan of Leland Stanford, Judge George Gray, John Bassett Moore, Alton B. Parker. Darwin P. Kingsley. Oscar S. Straus, Professor John Bates Clark. Cardinal Gibbons. Professor Samuel T. Dutton. Dr. Frederick Lynch, Ly man Abbott, Edwin A Alderman, James A Angell, JohrKgarrett, James M Beck. Alexander Graham Bell. Perry Belmont. George H Blakglee Rudolph Blankenberg, Gutzon Bor- glum. Samuel P Brooks, Charles R Brown. Chancellor Brown of Ne\* York University, Henry B Buchtel, George Burnham. Jr. Winston Churchill, Francis E. Clark. Philander P Claxton, A. T. Clearwater. Frederic Ft Coudert. R Fulton Cutting. Wil- jiam c Bennie and former Secretary of War Dickinson. Lieutuenant 'von Muecke D<h scribes How Landing Party Saul Their Famous Sea Raider Dei stroyed in the Indian Ocean Dodged Enemy’s Ships in Event ful Voyage, Using Flags of All Nations—Many Survivors Are Slain in the Arabian Desert The following article, which mag appropriately be called the Odyssey of the fSmden, is incomparably the I most thrilling story of a^drenfura pro* j dueed by the war. Iacutenant eon j Mueckle. of the German navy, tells how he and forty-two men saw their \ ship destroyed and later escaped front j the hostile Cocos Island and finally reached Germany after scene moH amazing experiences in the Indian Ocean and on the Arabian Desert, The complete story is here told fen* the first time. By LIEUTENANT VON MECKE. When Japan entered the.great wmi> on the -side of our enemy, our shig Emden was at our East Asiatic naval, base. Tslngta<o Besides the Emden, our Bast Asiatic naval forces consisted of the armored cruisers Scnornhorst and Gneisenam and the light cruisers Numb erg and Leipsig We also had five gunboats, whlfih w*»re tlie Cnrtnoran, litis. Jaguar, Tt-' per and Lilchs. and two destroyers* There also was an armored cruiser be longing to our ally. Austria, namely, the Ka iserin Elizabeth. German Gunboat* De*trOyed. Our gunboats and the two destroy-* era and also the Austrian cruiser Kal- serln Elizabeth were destroyed by th« A nglo-Japanese fiesta Our two heavy and two light cruis ers succeeded in eluding the combined Angio-Japanese fleets, and while thessi four made their way to the South At-/ lantic the Emden remained in the In-» dtan Ocean, and for months gave the A nglo-Japanese squadron a merryj chase, destroying over 70,000 tons j British shipping, in addition to doing other damage to the enemy ships and property One way or other, we kepi on escap ing the attention of the three .Japanesp fleets who were searching for us. Of course, the Japanese naval offi* cere were not a match for our re-* sourceful Captain. Every time we felt that we .were in 0% tight hole and that w-e would have [ measure swords with a superior ene my, we found sorq p way tp get out of It. at last we became past master* ip; this great game of high sea hide-and* | seek. Dummy Funnel Uaed. But the best we ever did wa.s whei^ we thought we had to fight the hea.w« ily armored Japanese cruiser whlcif was waiting for us jtlst outside Ktao? chau. As we left Kiaochau we werqi, sure that we|had'to fight this Japanese cruiser It \^ould have been madness for us to attempt to put up a. flg^ii with the Japanese, as we knew well that her heavy guns would have cer» tainly outranged us. and we would have been sunk long before we would be in a position to hit the enemy shift, So wo utilized the dummy funnaj which we always kept on deck. Our Emden was three-funneled and we made it appear four-funneled. We replaced our black-whlte-anci-red man-of-war ensign wuth that of the British white ensign, ihep we lined up the crew along the railing. We had on board many sailors who had in the past fraternized with the British saJU ors. These sailors instructed the whold crew in giving British cheers, and long before we sighted the dreaded Japanese cruiser we were enabled to give cheers like those of the British | sailors • At last, when we came by the Japa«i nese ship, with our dummy funnel sending out black smoke, our newly, hoisted British ensign flying from th«i mast and our sailors cheeking like genaj uine Britishers, we passed by the enev my. with whom we exchanged salutes* Ship Roves High Sea*. From that time on we roved ovefi the high seas, and did as much da age to the enemy as we possibly con'd* | After sinking several ships, and, *ft*r reprovisioning our ship, ong night we stood off near Ma/iraa Th MMS l r* • ~ 1