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Communication From Dr. Friend
Recorded by Psychical Re
search Society—Southern Me
dium Receives Spirit Message.
*I Was Mere Youth on Earth; |
Will Bring Something to Guide
You,” Declared Harvard Man
Who Lost Life on Big Vessel.
NEW YORK, Dec. 4s—The Ameri
can Society for Psychical Research
has received a message from Profes
sor Edwin William' Friend, who was
lost on the Lusitania. The message
came through Mrs. Celestine Glenn,
who, members of the society declare,
is one of the most celebrated medi
ums in the world. It is now a part of
the official records of the organiza
tion. It follows:
“It will take me some time before |
I can give you a full report upon my
investigations here. | feel that | was
a mere youth in the cause upon the
earth. But | feel now that since |
have had the experience with you
upon the earth | have been strength
ened here.
“And | feel that | will bring back
to you something that will guide you
more thoroughly and fully than |
would have been able to haye im
parted otherwise. And | want to
know more myself. | am just in my
infangy here.”
Other Messages Received.
Mrs. G!enn was not acquainied
with Dr. Friend. She was under psy
chic influence in the presence of Miss
Tubby, secretary to Dr. James H.
Hyslop, when she received the com
munication. She repeated the mes
sages carefully to Miss Tubby, wno
recorded them in shorthand.
Miss Tubby confirmed receipt of the
message, She stated that other mes
esages have also been received from
Dr. Friend through Mrs. Glean, but
that they were fragmentary They
were sufficlent, however, she said,
fully to identify the sender
Professor Friend was a Fellow at
Harvard University He was not yet
80 years old. He was bound abroad
to continue research into the spirit
world when the Lusitania was lost
The next revelation from Professor
Friend, according to Mliss Tubby
came a week or so later It was re
corded n shorthand as spoken by
Miss Glenn, as follows
Sees “Mourning Across Water.”
1 see SOME n mourning across
the water I seem to go where thers
are a iot f people lving down with
sheets over them like they are ill o
&l They ve een irt, maybe I
keep hearing You w recall me.'
Seems mebody want to be re
called Do you know?”
Mrs., Glenr poke to Miss Tubb
thet Someor that has a wife and
child ana tha hild a little girl? It
aay \ wife nd 1d (At the
time of Professor Friend's death his
child As 1 ! It was not bora
untit O ¢ ! s girl)
Membe of the soclely believe this
communica ! ¢ M Glenn
Wi speaking ! Professor Yy_‘“l.‘
deat whe the » yvent down
Predicted Sinking.
Professor riend talked to My
Glenn a ar r time, members
of the ociety sa Hie ald
I'he boat a long way off no
longer in my wandering I will rea~h
the hore
(m Aprt 23 Mrs. Glenn receivsd
¥ hat the societ belleves to have beq
& prediction that the Lusitania would
de dest yed It went down on May
10, Mrs Glenn was working on ar
other mimaur wtior at Lthe e
wher L
| see a g ship—a very blg shit
1 se it the le, so 1 can't tell it
name But it t an American flag
I hea { & low forever —yas
it will s forever I'm trying
to get the na o ( i
No | ca I'he ! ng might
have » ' g 1« y with the war
It's a big ' 1 t has a big anche
It's a ver rge !
Lodge a Correspondent,
I H vinced M
Glenn's eff W the me demon -
sirnte that e wa endeavoring to
spell " ne-n
Mrs, Gled ~ thern woma
Mental spe ! 'niver
#ity. Newn ¢ nuct t
tracted by er ’ Advisnd
her to come to New be w
Dr. Hyslor
Bir O)live i 18 f Ene
ah moclets . ’ oy O
correspondent \ " Stend
Was o) In way th hor
when bhe was drowned
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Joy Riders Baffled
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By John D.'s Scheme
Oil Magnate Enforces Rule at Tarry
town by Cutting Gasoline
Supply.
TARRYTOWN, N. Y., Dec. 4 —John
D. Rockefeller has issued orders that
there is to be no more joy ridin\g 01
his estate. He owns nine cars, which
are used for various occupations on
the grounds. For some time his gas
oline bills have been getting larger,
-and he has also noticed that his re
pair shop has been busy, the average
being one crippled car a week.
| He knew that orders had been is
sued before to stop joy riding, but it
‘did not stop chauffeurs, so Mr. Rocke
feller has placed a man in charge of
the gasoline at Pocantico Hills., As
‘each car goes out it is provided with
just enough gasoline to make the trip,
and the mileage figures on the
‘speedometer must be turned in every
‘night.
| The chauffeurs might sllp the
‘speedometer out of gear temporarily,
‘but they are double-checked with a
gasoline supply. If they want to rile
any farther than the order calls so,
they must do it with gasoline bought
at their own expense. Mr. Rocke
feller figures that they won't do that,
long.
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‘Wealthiest Village’
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Plans Big Bond Issue
DULUTH, Dec. 4.—The village
lCouncH of Hibbing, Minn., “the rlchestl
village in the world,” where the United
States Steel Corporation and other iron‘
mining companies have refused to pay
certain taxes, alleging extravagance, hasf
called a special election to be held No—f
vember 30, to vote on a proposition to
sell $1,500,000 in bonds to care for float
ing indebtedness of ‘about that amount.
Immediately upon the vote of the
Council, several mining companies’ offi
cials are said to have declared their in
tention of fighting the bond issue in the
courts,
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ISkull of Egyptian
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Queen Brings Death
PITTSBURG, Dec. 4.—The mummy
skull of Queen Hathesputt has been an
ill omen for the family of Mrs. ‘Jere
Baumann, of Newcastle.
’ Since it was unearthed by Mrs. Bau
mann in 1909 Baumann and his son
: have dled,
" The skull, 3,500 years old, has been
' bequeathed to the Carnegie Museum by
‘.\lrs. Bauman. who declares it a hoodoo.
‘Man 68 Weds Woman
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56 Who Nursed Him
| PEORIA, Dec. 4. —Edward J. Brown
| son, retired Chicago capitalist, aged 68
‘_\'Pilr.“. and Mrs,. Florence Bennett, 56, of
Moline, 111., were married by Justice of
itl‘v Peace John G. Higgins. The mar
riage is the outcome of a short romance
lthrnugh which the bridegroom was
nursed back to health by the woman he
'wed. Each is starting on a Ssecond
‘ matrimonial voyage.
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New Evidence Delays
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Slingsby Case Appeal
‘ LONDON, Dec. 4. -A delay in the
hearing of the appeal in the famous
Slingsby baby case has arisen unex
!'m('!mll_\' The decision which upheld
‘Huh} Teddy's claim to English baronial
',.M;",. worth $500,000 is hotly contested
by Lieutenant Charles .\‘lin"sh_\'» broth
ifir.u New facts have just come to light
which necessitate an investigation in
!l‘romh quarters in America
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inreless Between
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U.B.and 8. America
NEW YORK, Dec. 4 —~Chauncey Kl
dridge, president of the Federal Holding
Company of thig city, which has for
three yeurs operated a wireless tele
graph system between San Francisco
and Honolulu, announced that the com
pany would erect a high-power wire
less station at Buenos Alres, Argentina
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Prince, Vegetarian,
Chews Dime to Wad
CLEVELAND, Dec. 4.--Just to show
common, ordinary meat eaters what ac.
tual, sure-enough vegetarion teeth can
ldn_ Prince Paul Troubetskoy, sojourning
¢ln Cleveland, chewed a dime until it
| resembled a spitball And It was no
‘nwn dime, either
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‘Sothern's Brother
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. Divorced in London
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| LONDON, Des.’ Lk ductts of &
‘\..v,. has been granted to the wife of
“.-,Am Sathern, brother of E. M. Sothern,
actor, who I 8 now playing In “A Palr
of ¥k Stoekings” In America
“NATIONAL AIR IS TOO HARD. ™
l ROCKFORD, ILL., Dec. 4 At the 11
Hine Federation of Women's Clubs
!«m vention a resolution that “"The Star
S pangle Banner' be SUng &t every
meeting of every woman's elub in I
‘l\;,'.- during the next year caused muct
dincune but was finally tabled afte
& numbe of deieguten had declar: the
tune was extremely difficult to sing
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New York Magistrate Fixes the
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Height Limit at Which Dresses
May Be Worn.
SHORTER GOWNS JAR PEACE
Judge Declares Then Is Time forl
Law to Interfere With the
Dressmaker.
By RUTH M. BYERS.
NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—“ A woman
may wear her skirts up to her knees.
That is her own affair. Higher than
that—well, that is a matter for the
law.”
This gem of legal wisdom was
handed down by Magistrate Koenig.
Not that he spoke officially. He read
ily admitted it was a question of
ethics, this disturbing problem of how
long a woman'’s skirts should be. But
he did add with true masculine per
spicacity:
“I consider the knee the highest
limit of ‘proper exposure.’ The fash
ionable skirt limit is nine inches from
the ground, I suppose. You see, lam
keeping well within the law.”
' Then I told the magistrate that
Dame Fashion nowadays was wink
llng in gay unconcern at the twelve-‘
inch limit. Yea, even fourteen, if one !
l\\'ere young and pretty enough. Trim,
ihigh Russian boots of stunning black
patent leather, and even white leather,
Ifinlsh off the daring up-to-date cos
| tume.
| When Police May Interfers.
The judge smiled as he listened.
“That is entirely out of my jurisdic
tion,” he declared. “Any woman may
dress as she pleases, provided she
does not attract undue attention. But
if her costume causes a curious crowd
lto collect In admiring excitement—
) then tne police must interfere. Much
| depends on the ‘intent.’ That's more
a legal than a dressmaking term.
“Don’t disturb the peace,” the mag
istrate spoke quite judicially, “and
{you can wear anything you please.
luns of women disturb masculine
| peace of mind as well as feminine
'pn\_\‘ by their clothes. But certainiy
'the law has no right to interfere.
l “Last June,” the judge continued,
"‘a woman came to me., She wanted a
young woman arrested. The latter
| wore her skirts too short, the com
y plainant said. Her husband had no
-s!ived it, and—well, the wife wanted a
ff‘nurt reprimand for the girl and an
injunction for her future dressmaking
| designs.”
Judge Koenig has a sense of hu
mor. His answer to the woman was
characteristic and to the point,
' “I told her,” he said, “the courts
'and dressmakers should try to work
in harmony, and that the exposure of
‘u woman's leg from the knee down
| was of no interest to the bar.”
How the Trouble Started.
‘ This perplexing legal aspect of the
proper length of a woman's sk'rt
{xlanwl when Judge Koenig passed
| jJudgment on two men caught mas
lrun-rad;nu in woman's clothes Thanks.
giving night., Both were in the night
court Their skirts were too high.
The policemen who arrested them ad
mitted that., But they were only men
out for a pleasant evening, so a com
plaint of disorderly cogduct was
lvlmrgrd against them.» They paid a
$3 fine and were hastily dismissed.
“All this is very interesting, though,
the magistrate declared in discussing
the case., “There is a certain moral-
Jity for every community in the kind
yof clothes women wear, Women have
|mmr influence than they realize In
this matter Men like well-dreszed
!uumc n, but they are keen to detect
'\ulsurh_\‘ in feminine taste,
E ‘Unofficially, 1 should say, skiris
‘an’" ascending, and I pity the plight of
'mv girl whose dignity is measured by
the length of her skirt. Even grand-
Ifllvr('il‘r‘ nowadays scoff at the old
| problem of the balance of years
“'l.:«l.l?“l inches
i “It is an ardent question of the
| day,” the magistrate concluded. “Girl,
lnmnnm, dowager-—all look ke sweet
|l6, And as for grandmothers—they
| are becoming as extinct as the dodo!”
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‘Democrats Refuse
Couch for Cannon
i WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—Uncle Joe
| Cannon will return to no bed of ease
| when he comes back to Washington
Wednesday to resume his old place in
Il'.gw.;v- « His former secretary, L.
‘“. ab to-day visited the oflice which
i\” Cannon had last sesxlon and
'w h has been assigned him again
' Anxious about Mr. Cannon’s comfort,
he asxked that & new leather couch be
tnata lled I'ie Democratic House of
ficials turned down the request,
ATLANTA,\ GA,, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1915
‘Cyclone’ Davis Gives
Congress Fresh Jar
Texas Statesman Puts Nickname in
House Directory—Second Case
on Record.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—When Rep
resentative Willlam H. Murray, of Ok
lahoma, bracketed “Alfalfa Bill" after
his name in the Congressional Directory
a few years ago, there was much crit
fcism by members who are sticklers for
dignified speech and conduct in the
House.
They predicted that it would be a
long time before any new member would
have the temerity to embalm his nick
name in the Congressional Directory.
These prophets were mistaken.
When the new directory appears in a
few days it will enroll as a member of
the House Representative J. H. Davis,
of Texas, who is known as ‘“‘Cyclone"
Davis in his State and who wants to be
known by that designation in Washing
ton. “Cyclone” Davis will appear in
parenthesis after the name of the new
member from Texas.
Mr. Davis is a striking looking man.
He stands more than 6 feet in his boots
and he is the possessor of a beard that
grows longer, wilder and more luxuriant
than any set of whiskers seen in Con
gßress in many years.
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Dixie Couple
ple of War
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Stock Are Married
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4—Two fam
ilies prominent in affairs at the time of
the Civil war were united when Lieu
tenant Augustus T./Beurenrd married
Miss Elizabeth H. Munford, No. 176
Kempton avenue, Oakland, a few days
ago.
The ceremony took place at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward S.
Munford, Dean McComnock, of the Pro
testant Cathedral Church, of Los An
geles, officiating.
The ancestry of both dbride and bride
groom is closely interwoven with the
big events of half a century ago. Lieu
tenant Beauregard is a grandnephew of
General Beauregard, who led the Con
federate forces at Bull Run. His home
is at San Antonio, Texas, but most of
his time is spent abroad ship in Pacific
waters. He is alde and flag lieutenant
to Admiral Winslow, commander of the
Pacific fleet.
Miss Munford is a granddaughter of
the late M. H. Clark, a member of the
Cabinet of President Jefferson Davis of
the Confederate States, '
The bride's father is a banker of
Washington, D. C. ‘
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Woman Judge Gives
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Divorce to Woman
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SANTA ROSA, CAL, Dec. 4.—- Mrs.|
Frances MecG. Martin, Santa Rusa'nl
woman lawyer, sat as judge pro lem-'
pore in Judge Denny's department of
the Superior Court and granted Mra.’
Mary A. Hanks a divorce from Willlam
A. Hanks, a Sebastopol farmer, on
grounds of willful desertion and ex
treme cruelty.
{ Thomas J. Butts, “discoverer” of the
constitutional provision permitting pro
| tempore judges to sit in divorce cases,
iwu attorney for the plaintiff.
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Doctor Prescribes
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Movies for Actress
CHICAGO, Dec. 4—As a phychologi
cal experiment in an effort to repalr her
volee, Mrs. Max W. Meyer, former Zieg
| feld star known as Thelma Orr, will
enter the movies
Mrs. Meyer strained her vocal cords |
recently, and the trouble has been ag
gravated, her physiclan says, by wor
Ir_\', It Is to divert her mind that movie
work has been prescribed
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Give Hens Highballs
To Get More Eggs
MADISON, WIS, Dec 4 —-Win
a drunken chicken lay more eggs than
her sober sister?
This I& the problem the College n{‘
Agriculture of the University of Wis
consin has set out to solve It uumn‘
’!u.m a report that an Intoxicated
{chicken lays three eggs to the one of a |
sober hen The students are treating
hens to highbalis to find out If it is true I
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‘Don’t Sneeze Into
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ißook, Woman Pleads‘
CHICAGO, De 4. —~Mrs Ives v«":'
does not sign her full name, writes to
| the directors of the Chicago public I {
! brary
i “1 wish you would stop people from
l«nnxlnx in library books Print a not
fce In each book saying “Don't sneeze
in this book ~close the hook before
sneezing and thus save some one from
disense l
F ears Fighting
or 30Years Fighting
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Man Without a Fight
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SEATTLE, WAEBH., Dec. 4 .\'nr-:
geant Major James Deaver, the highest
ranking enlisted man |ir the United
States Marine Corps, who has served
in the nav 10 years wit t being In
an engagement, has Just been retired
from active service with full military
honors at the Bremerton Navy Yard
For a number of years Deaver was
recrulting officer stationed In Seattle,
Lone Star State Is Fairly on Its
A
~ Feet Again Despite a Bad
i Year in 1914,
FARMER SAVES BUSINESS
Has Paid Debts Incurred When
War Made Big Cotton Crop
Drug on Market.
DALLAS, TEXAS, Dec. 4.—Texas
has caught up the losses of the past
vear. Texas has produced the 1915
crop on 60 per cent of the credit ordi
narily extended. Texas has raised its
own feed for the first time since the
war between the States.
With the great 1914 gotton crop a
drug on the market and practically all
sacrificed at a price which bore no
relation to the cost of production,
with the debts of 1914 unpaid and the
production of the 1915 crop to be
financed, the Texas farmer has risen
nobly to the call for rigid thrift and a
home-grown llving sent out by the
Texas Industrial Congress, the Texas
bankers, the press and the other
agencies, and has saved himself and
the business of the State.
Texas is now in as good condition
as though 1914 and 1915 had been two
average vears-—and this with the 1914
cotton crop representing a heavy loss
and the 1915 crop short, poor in qual
ity and bringing only a fair price,
Three thousand correspondents of
the Texas Industrial Congress, includ
ing bankers, publishers and commer
cial clubs from every agricultural
county of the State—men personally
acquainted with local conditions in a
business way—have given specific in
formation in replies to questions,
which, when tabulated, shows such a
change from recent conditions as {o
cause both astonishment and con
gratulation.
Speaking for the State at large, the
farmers generally have paid the debts
of 1914 and 1915, have enough feed
for a year in advance, have marketed
‘abnul 65 per cent of the 1915 cotton
irr()p and a considerable number have
money in the bank. The reports to
::he congress have come from every
section except the trans-Pecos, and
'lh:v corroborate each other by coun
ties and sections in a way that shows
they are more than usually accurate
They also indicate that except in
the plains counties a more or less ex
tensive raturn to cotton growing may
ilm expected in spite of boll weevi]
damage. In all the counties reporting
Sudan grass has been grown in scat
tering small patches, apparently in
an experimental way, but as there 1)1;1
| general satisfaction with the plant, it
| will become a considerable factor in
tthv hay production of the future,
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at Made in Alabama
! Town for Mrs, Galt
! ANNISTON, ALA.; Dec, 4.-—Mrs
Matthew H. Maury, of Anniston, the
!m autiful sister of Mrs. Norman Galt,
flancee of President Wilson, has al
| lowed the firm of Powers-Woodruff
’ in this eity, to display in their window
j:- hat their milliner has designed for
| Mre,. Maury, who will present the
’trn,«lu-n to her sigter as a part of the
| future Mre, Wilson's trousseay
| The hat contains a crown of Ha
i\;nm brown velvet, the brim of which
| I 8 shaped after the fashion of a four
' leaf clover, of gold brocade tinsel and
’\-'nri in brown silk net The only
| garniture consists of two handsome
‘\ui\rt orchids that tone in with the
| color scheme produced by net over
| tinsel
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iUndersea Mountain
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i 6,000 F't. High Found
BEATTLE, Dec. 4 Discovery of the
l‘umn. t of a submerged mountaln peak,
1278 milex south of Cape Flattery,
claimed by the captain of the steamship
Aibatross, of the Government Bureau of
Fisheries, In his report, following a sun
mer's Investigatior of the fishing
grounds lying off the Oregon and
Washington coast The peak, according
to the report, rises §.OOO feet from the
‘lj. vel of the ocemn's bec
‘Back-to-Farm Move
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l HAMMOND, INI : Aibery
Dougar 8 farmer, hus n I 8 arrel cis
tern ful i der whic! pumyg out
!I‘: sAame ax waler ] Igan had ar
l«':'l € Apple crop and no barrels. so
he | t & norete paraffir mted «
ter w! h prevents fermentation The
Cler was piped from press o cistern,
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Fight Started on ‘The Unborn
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Play Strong Plea for Eugenics
Beulah Poynter, who tells the message she means to convey
in her remarkable play, “The Unborn,”’ which has just been
produced. An order to stop the play was offset by injunction.
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Playwright Says Every Human Soul Has Right
To Be Well Born or Not at All
NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—Action taken
by Commissioner of Licenses Bell to
prevent a performance of the ma
ternity problem play, “The Unborn,”
at the Princess Theater, was de
feated by an injunction obtained from
Supreme Court Justice Platzek, re
turnable before Supreme Court Jus-:
tice Whittaker. The play went on. |
The order to stop the play was is
sued by George Bell, Commissioner of
Licenses, on complaint of Mgr. La
velle, rector of St. Patrick's Cathe
dral. In a letter to the commissioner,
Mgr. Lavelle said: 1
“His excellency, Cardinal Farley,
has heard of this play and is anx
ious that everything possible be done
to prevent its public presentation.”
In the audience was Dr. Harry J.
Haiselden, the Chicago physician
whose part in the Baby Bollinger
case attracted wide attention,
At the end of the second act of “The
Unborn” Dr. Haiselden addressed the
200 persons in the audience in warm
champlonship of his action and re
ceived a great deal of aplause,
He said he approved of “The Un
Drama Inspired by Pity
For Unfit, Says Authoress
By MARY K. MAULE.
NEW YORK, Dec, 4.--" Every hu
man soul has a right te be born
clean and pure, or not to be born
at all”
This Is the message of Beulah
Poynter, playwright. Her new drama,
“The Unborn,” was produced recently,
The story is of a young girl who
falls in love with a man and Is mar
ried to him. BShe has been warned
by her mother that her father had
been an epileptic,. Her mother had
been a drink victim, Passionately in
love and beloved in turn she could
not refuse herself the happiness of
marriage. She resolved never to have
a child,
But she faces motherhood., In her
agony and remorse she tries to avold
bringing the child into the world,
but falls. The boy becomes an epi
leptic. Al his infancy and youth she
guards him. In his twenty-first year
his malady becomes pronounced,
Play Written Out of Pity,
He (s engaged to be married to the
niece of his mother's former flance,
The play ends with the boy shooting
his sweetheart and himself. The long.
suffering mother loses her reason,
I asked Beula Poynter how she
came to write the drama.
“1 think,” she sald slowly, “it was
because | have always felt such an
intense and profound pity for those
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born” because it was so horrifying
that it was deeply impressive, and
he sald the points it discussed were
such as must come before the public
through the stage, the lecture plat
forms and the schools.
“Let us not be hysterical,” said he,
“about thls matter of taking the lives
of the unfit. Physiclans and clergy
men should unite in their knowledge
and power to lessen this horrible fea
ture of human life,
“The present tendency Indicates
that we are becoming a nation of
weaklings. We couldn’t now stand up
against any first-class nation in a war.
Does anybody suppose that Germany
could stand against the United na
tions of Europe as she has done if she
had permitted herself to become a
ration of the unfit?”
As to Baby Bollinger, Dr. Haiselden
said that he would stake his life on
the opinions of three of the distin
gulshed doctors who composed the
Coroner's jury, but that the other
three, he thought, had been influenced
In their, opinions by religious and
other influences.
who have been born into the world |
with a handicap. Thosé who hlvol
come here and never should have
come,
“I have always been interested in
sociological subjects, and also In
medicine. 1 once thought 1 should
be a doctor. This play, ‘The Unborn,’
has been growing with my Interest in
pre-natal influence. Looking about
the world my very soul was sickened
by the abnormal, degenerate, tuber
’«-ulur children I saw in it, 1 wanted
1o see better children born, better
specimens of humanity,
l Science Must Help.
“Fugenics? Yes, the study of eu
genics would help, Physical exami
nations and health certificates would
heip. But what about those who are
here now-—who are suffering, and
must suffer, for the ignorance and
weaknesses of their parents?”
“How can we prevent it 7" I asked.
This was a blg question, and the
author of “The Unborn" paused a
moment before she answered It
“That is a thing, 1 think, we must
leave to sclence, In some of the older
countries of the world they are meet
ing It, in the case of the drumken, the
criminal and the insane, by surgery.
“Science must come to our ald in
lthls great problem of life as it has in
many others”
Coast Patrol’s Methods Described
by Kipling—Destroyers, Pri=
vate Yachts and Trawlers Are
Balking Plans of the Enemies.
Retired Admiral Commands Fleet
of Former Fishing Vessels and
Has Some Thrilling Experi=
ences—Writer Lauds Prowess.
By RUDYARD KIPLING.
(Copyright, 1915, in the United States
of America, by Rudyard Kipling.)
PATROLS.
Be well assured that on our side,
The untroubled Heavens Aght,
Though headlong -wind and heaping
tide
Make us their sport to-night.
By force of weather, not of war,
In jeopardy we steer,
Then welcome Fate's discourtesy
Whereby it shall appear
How in all time of our distress
And our deliverance, too,
The game is more than the play
er of the game,
And the ship is more than the
| crew.
Be well assured, though wave and
wind
Have mightier blows in store,
That we who keep the watch assigned
Must stand to it the more;
And as our streaming bows rebuke
Each billow's balked career,
Sing welcome Fate's discourtesy
Whereby it is made clear.
'lh' well assured, though in our power
Is nothing left to give
But time and place to meet the hour
And leave to strive to live,
Till these dissolve our order holds,
Owur service binds us here,
’lhul welcome Fate's discourtesy
Whereby it is made clear
How in all time of our distress
ind in owr triumph, too,
The game is more than the plays
er of the game,
l And the ship is more than the
crew.
V~PATROLS.
N the edge of the North Sea
’O Kits an admiral in charge of a
stretch of coagt without lights
’wr marks, along which the traffie
;'III'H'N‘ much as usual In front of
him there is nothing but the east
i\\nu! the enemy and some few of our
;Hmm Behind him there are towns,
with M. P’s attached, who, a little
)wh;lu ago didn't see the reason for
certain lighting orders. When a Zep
pelin or two came, they saw!
Left and right of him are enormous
| docks, with vast crowded sheds, miles
:nx stone-faced quay edges, loaded
| with all manner of supplies and
l'r ywided with mixed shipping.
| In this exalted world one met staff
| captains, staff commanders, staff lieu«
i tenants and secretaries, with paymas
ters so senjor that they almost ranked
W admirals. There were warrant
{‘ Mcer too, who long ago gave up
'n:r wshing about decks barefoot, and
| row checked and issue stores to the
ravenous, untruthful fleets.
Sald one of thése, guarding a collec
tion of desirable things, to a cross
between a sick bay attendant and a
| Junior writer (but he was really an
experf burglar) “NO! An' you can
L 4 Mr. So-and-80 with MY complil
ments that the storekeeper's gone
| away--right away-—with the key of
| these xtores in his pocket. Under
stand me? In his trousers pocket.™
He snorted at my next question.
“Do I know any destroyer-looten
ants?" sald he. “This coast's rank
with 'em' Destroyer-lootenants are
born stealing. And what they daren’t
pinch they take out in lyin', It's &
mercy they're too busy to practice
forgery, or I'd be In jail
A “Case of Conscience.”
Engineer commanders” Engineer
lootenants? They're worse! ¢ & o
| Look here! If my own mother was
{to come to me beggin’ brass screws
for her coffin I'd--I'd think twice before
I'd oblige the old lady, Wuar's war. 1
grant you that; but what I've got to
deal with is CRIME."
I referred to him a. case of con
science In which everyone concerned
acted exactly as they should, and #t
nearly ended In murder. During &
lengthy action, the working of a gun
was hampered by some emply cart
ridge cases which the lleutenant in
charge made signs (no man could hear
hix neighbor speak just then) should
be hove overboard, Upon which the