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VOL XVIII
MRS. G. T. RIDGWAY, OF ROYSTON, GA., WINS FIRST LIMERICK
World's Picture of Isolated Coun
try Distorted, Says English
Correspondent, Urging Cure.
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By WILLIAM T. GOODE,
Special Correspondent of the Man
chester (England) Gardian in Rus
sia, Who Was Held Captive on a
Britisk Warship on His Re
turn from Petrograd.
LONDON, Feb. IL.—Why not peace
with Russia? Not merely Russia,
but the world at large for it.
We have had a solem ratification
of what is really no peace, but no
number of ratifications will alter the
fact that so long as this question
of peace with Russia is unsettled
the world peace remains an empty
ffusion.
The position of Russia as one of
the world’s granaries, as one of the
world’s sources of raw materials,
_ealls for some settlement—the con
clusion of the present state of war.
The fact that Russia is at this
moment the laboratory in which the
greatest political experiment in the
history of the world is being tried
calls for the same settlement with
equal urgency.
CHURCHILL’S POLICY.
In his now noorious speech at
Sunderland, Mr. Churchill gave an
indictment of the present government
in Russia, which may be taken tu
represent the ostensible reasons of
the British government against mak
fng peace.
In reading this onslaught one is
forced between the horns of a di
lemma—either the speaker knew the
facts and was sinning against knowl
edge; or, he did not know the facts
and yet—the reader can supply the
conclusion.
There is hardly a ‘statement in
the speech which can not be directly
traversed, but there are two which
really contain all the rest, they are
80 comprehensive and violent,
They are that “the present Rus
sian government is the avpwed enemy
of the existing civilization of the
world.” ~And that Russia, “one of
the greatest granaries of the world,
was reduced to famine and had come
upon a condition of barbarism worse
than that of the Stone Age.”
THEY'RE HUMAN BEINGS.
Let there be no mistake. Russians
still live in houses and sleep in beds.
They still cook their food, and cul-
Jtivate .their fields. They still dress
in the usual garb of civilization and
do not wear a lion cloth and feath
ers.
Order is maintained in then
streets, which are still swept ana
tended, as are also their gardens,
both public and private.
The amusements with which we
are familiar in London obtain also
in Russia. Books are still printed,
newspapers also, and both are read.
In fact. all the evidences of what
we call civilized living are present
in Russia as in England.
Then ‘“‘the granary of the world” is
i 1 a state of famine, we are told.
A THEORY ASSAILED.
How does that square with the
last pronouncement of a lifting of
the blockade in order that Russia may
feed Western Kurope? Some one
has blundered here, who is it?
It is the bolsheviki who have
starved her. And what of the “bar
barism worse than that of the Stone
Age?”
This ‘“barbarism” has, to my cer
tain knowledge, done what was never
done in Russia before. It has tackled
the question of the illiteracy and
ignorance of the masses with a cer
tain measure of success in the pres
ent and the promise of more in the
future. It has preserved and ex
tended the art galleries and brought
them to the comprehension and en
joyment of the workers.,
It maintains theaters, opera, bal
let in full work as before.
It has provided for the first time
in Russia universal tolerance for re
ligions. It has put the worker on a
decent economic footing, man or
woman.
It has kept the great towns free
from epidemics
Montgomery Man Shot;
Motor Car Dealer Held
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Feb. 11—
Jim Brinsfield, a white man operat
ing a blacksmith shop here, was shot
four times about 1 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon, Herbert Reynolds, of the
Reynolds Auto Company, being
charged with doing the shooting.
Reynolds gave himself up to the
county authorities. Brinsfield was
rushed to a local infirmary, where
the extent of his injuries has not
been determined. It is said that the
men fell out over the parking of an
automobile.
MEDICAL MEN MEET.
ALBANY, IPeb. 11.—The annual
meeting of the Second Distriet Medi
cal Association will be held in the
(Cozy Theater here Friday, with morn-.
ing and afiernoon sessions, Some
of the lending pavsicians In the dis
{fct are on the program. Dr. W. L.
Davis of Albany is the president of
the association, Dr. \WW 11. Hendrieks
of Tifton, vice president, and n, A,
W. Wood of Albany, secretary, New
officers will be eleeted at the mect
ing here Friday.
Full roati 1
24-Hour { lad ruii“Uaiversi News | Service
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Has No Virtues
InMate’sE
nMate’s Eyes,
Asks Divorce
(By Universal Service.)
NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—John
McLaughlin of Brooklyn is
the champion fault-finder of the
world, according to claims made
by his wife, Genevieve T. Mec-
Laughlin, in an affidavit filed
in the Supreme Court, Brooklyn,
in support of her suit for a sep
aration. She deposes that hub
by found fauit with—
“ What I did. .
“The way I did it.
“What ‘I didn't do.
“What I said.
“The way I said it
“The way 1 ate, read, walked,
looked, amused myself and be
came ill
“He objected to my looking out
the window, saying my duty was
indoors and to him."”
Justice Squiers awarded Mrs.
McLaughlin S6O a month tempo
rary alimony.
T. A. Fleming, supervisor of the
conservation department of the Na
tional Board of Fire Underwriters of
New York City, addressed Atlanta
fire underwriters at the auditorium
of the Chamber of Commerce Tues
day. The address was also attended
by members of several civic organi
zations, who have been invited to co
operate with the fire preventive com
mittee of the Atlanta Insurance Ex
change in the campaign of “preven
tion of fires,”” which will be waged
during March.
Mr. Fleming gave his hearers fig
ures on the enormous losses suffered
every year from fire, and said care
lessness causes a great percentage of
fires. He said only one conflagration
had occurred in the United States in
the last fifteen years that precaution
would not have prevented. Fifty-five
per cent of the fires caused from
electrical fixtures, he said, are due to
the amateurish extension of electric
light service and the careless fise of
electric irons.
According to statistics, Mr. Fleming
said more money was lost last year
from fires than was spent for educa
tion, and that the authorized capital
stock of all the national banks was
less than the amount lost from fires
and the upkeep of Insurance in 1918.
But as great as are the financial
losses, the speaker said they were
not to be compared with the loss and
suffering of human life that invaria
bly results from large fires. In 1919
15,000 persons died and twice that
number were injured as a result of
fires in the United States, he said.
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Sixth Cavalrymen Are
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Seeking Recruits Here
Commanded by Capt. W. C. Burt,
an “overseas” veteran, a detachment
of four men of the Sixth Cavalry, ar
rived in Atlanta Tuesday from the
regiment’s station at Fort Oglethorpe
to obtain recruits for their organiza
tion, and established temporary head
quarters in the Transportation Buila
ing, Marietta and Forsyth streets.
The war department has designated
five Southern States—Georgia, Flor
ida, Alabama, South Carolina and
Mississippi—as the recruiting field
for the Sixth'Cavalry, which regiment
will be brought up to rull war
strength. Captain Burt stated Tues
day his detachment will shortly begin
a tour which will take it over most of
the territory assigned to the reg:-
ment.
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Congress Stirred by
Attack on Grain Body
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Congress
s stirred by the findings and recom
mendations of a Spokane, Wash,
grand jury condemning the United
States Grain Corporation, urging the
President to fix the selling price of
wheat, and opposing the Western
Rurope food relief bill in Congress
as a plan to provide “for the pur
chase of wheat now owned largely
oy speculators and in some cases by
interests directly connected with
some of the officers of the grain cor
poration.”
House Republican Leader Mon
dell said today the matter had been
brought to his attention. At pres
ent there is no plan under way in the
House, he said, for an inquiry into
the affairs of the Grain Corporatiom.
Charter Issued to New
Bank at Jefferson
The Citizens' Bank and Trust Com
pany of Jefferson will begin business
with a capital stock of SIOO,OOO, a
charter having been issued Tuesday
by Secretary of State S, Guyt Mc-
I.endon. The incorporators include 8.
V. Willhite, 1. W. Etheridge, B. D.
Moore, J. C. Shields and others of
Jefferson.
The Union Banking Company of.
'Monroe has filed application for au
‘thority to increase its capital stock
from $40,000 to $60,000. This is the
third bank of Monroe to recently ask
‘for an increase in capital stock.
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} . PLAINS GROWING FAST.
. “PLAINS, Feb. 11.—Judge J. 1. Hil
ler reports that in the thirty days
’ondlnz vesterday there were fifteen
hirths and no deaths in the Plains
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Actress Speaks of Suit for Her
1 Child, Tony, Son of
" Henry Field.
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LONDON, Feb. 11.—Peggy Marsh,
the beautiful young American actress
who figured in a romance in the
life of Henry Field of Chicago be
fore the latter's marriage to Miss
Nancy Perkins, a niece of Viscountess
Astor, M. P., is not seeking any of
the milliors of the late Marshall
Field in the litigation now pending
in the Illinois courts at ‘Chicago.
Miss Marsh emphasized this fact
in discussing the suit which was
brought in the name of her 3-vear
old son, “Tony,” to collect two-thirds
of the $5,000,000 trust fund originally
set aside by Marshall Field for his
grand son, Henry. Henry Field was
the father of little Tony.
“I was amazed when I returned
from Switzerland and saw press dis
_patches from Chicago which made
it appear that I was the plaintiff,”
said Miss Marsh. “There is absolutely
no truth in the reports that 1 per
sonally am seeking any of the mil
‘lions of the late Marshall Field.
TELLS HER ROMANCE.
~ .““Here are the facts of my romantic
acquaintance with Henry Field:
“It was in 1915 while I was play
ing in /5064 Gerrard’ at the Alhambra
Theater in this city that I first met
Henry Field. We became very much
attached ‘to each other. We were
together as mueh as possible and
when I went to the United States
we spent as much time in one an
other's company .as the circum
stances would permit. This lent
color to reports that we were to be
married, but there are certain faots
that are of no interest to the pub
lic.
“In February, 1917, Mr. Field mar
ried and in the following July he
died. By his death I lost $30,000 a
vear which was the sum set aside
for me by an agreement we had.
Owing to my ignorance of the Amer
jcan law I had difficulty with a
trust fund of SIOO,OOO that had spe
cially been created, but none of the
maitters enter into the suit at Chi
cago.
TONY FIELD'S SON.
‘“There has never been any ques
tion of my son ‘Tony’ being the is
sue of Mr. Field. A guardian, For
mer Governor Edward F. Dunne of
Illions, was appointed for him, with
the consent and approval of the Field
estate, and it is Mr. Dunne who is
fighting the case in behalf of ‘Tony.’
I have nothing whatever to do with
it except, of course, that I trust my
boy will be successful.
“If 1 were the plaintiff I should
most certainly be in the TUnited
States myself. That seems to have
éscaped some of the people who are
only too pleased to circulate fancy
reports about anybody.”
The actress assumed the name of
Marsh when she went upon the stage.
Her family name in Greenough and
she comes from Chelsea, Mass.
GAINESVILLE, Feb. 11.—Follow
ing attacks made on negro school
and church houses in Hall County,
the connty commissioners miet last
night with Sheriff Crow and offered
a reward of $250 for the arrest of
any person connected with the at
tacks.
The authorities say they will put
forth every effort to maintain law
and order in the county.
W. R. Hughes has pjurchased the
W. H. Ledford home place on West
Broad street. The price was $4,800.
Samuel C. Dunlap Jr. and Edgar
B. Dunlap have returned from Flor
ida where they were called to the
bedside of their father, Col. Samuel
C., Dunlap Sr., who had a stroke of
paralysis.
The Rev. W. J, Jordan, arrested in
Lawrenceville recently upon com
plaint of a widow resding here on
charges of cheating and swindling,
was tried before Judge F. M. Loden
vesterday and boumd over to the
Superior Court. Bond was assessed
at SSOO. When the judge announced
his decision, the Rev. “Dick” ejacu
lated, “Bless the Lord” The Rev.
Jordan' is alleged to be a religious
crank,
Rumors are ceurrent that Profes
sor H. J. Pearce, ‘one of the fore
most educators of the South is con
sidering entering the race for sen
ator,
Mrs, H. N. Merck has been called
to the bedside of her son, Hubert
Merck, at Columbus, in a serious
condition.
Col. Walter M. Milton
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Dies at Blackshear
BLACKSHEAR, Ga., Feb. 11.—
Col. Walter M. Milton, 44 years old,
died here early Tuesday morning,
after several days’' illness with pneu
monia. He wag one of the most
prominent attorneys of this section,
naving served six years as solicitor
of the City Court and four years as
judge of the City Court. He is sur
vved by a father, J. T. Milton, and
three daughters, Annette, Merriam
and Lillian, of this city. Interment
will be at a local cemetery tomorrow
morning.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1920.
Cheer Up!
By John Kendrick Bangs.
A PREFERENCE.
Let those who will devote their
days
To effort on life’s Money-side.
For me | much prefer the bays
Of him who sings in terms of
praise
The kindness and cheery wayvs
That grow along the Sunny
side.
(Copyright, 1920, Atlanta Georgian.)
Herbert Hoover, former food ad
ministrator and much discussed as a
presidentlal possibility, may come to
Atlanta to speak in the Jewish War
ltelief Campaign February 22, accord
ing to Fred Ruslander, State director.
Mr. IHloover has been invited to de
‘Wver an address here at the Grand
Theater and Mr. Ruslander says he
has the assurance that Mr. Hoover
will come unless his engagements
prohibit.
There is probably no other man in
the United States who knows condi
tions in Eastern Europe and Pales
tine, where 6,000,000 Jews are report
ed to be starving, than Mr. Hoover.
‘He has issued statements showing
;the necessity for relief work there
‘nnd has complimented the Jews of
America for the aid already given.
‘ Herman Bernstein, editor of the
Present of. New York, wno was cor
respondent to Russia for the New
York Times during the war, will visit
@eorgia in the interest of the cam
palgn within a few days, Mr. Rus-
Wnder says. 4
Team workers and captains will
meet Wednesday night at the Jewish
Educational Alliance, when details of
the campaign will be outiined by Mr.
Rawlander. Women's committees are
‘bdng organized by Harold Hirsch,
chairman for Atlanta, and these will
be announced shortly. The State is
betug rapidly organized, V. H. Krieg
sbaber, State chairman, reports, with
cmmittees perfected in eighty-seven
daities,
The executive committee of the
campaign is as follows:
V. H.'Kriegshaber, State chairman;
I'red Ruslander, secretary; Marcus
{eb, treasurer; Harold Hirsch,
chgirman for Atlanta; Max F. Gold
stein, vice chairman; S. D. Selig Jr,
Frank Lowenstein, Leonard Haas,
Julian V. Boehm, Sidney Wellhouse,
Dr. David Marx, Leon Eplan, Max
Mandel, Hyman Jacobs, J. Heiman,
J. Dortan, Rabbi Abraham P. Hirmes,
Rabbi Tobias Geffen, S. Burstein, J.
J. Saul, Herman Weinburg, N. Rob
kin, M. Kahn, Rabbi Isadore Richert,
Joseph Loewus, Sam Gershon, J. H.
Goldstein, Jacob Jacobs, Joseph La
zear, Meyer Meltz, David Kaufiman,
Morris Hessler, M. Lichstenstein,
Charles Miller, Miss Rose Lesnoff,
Miss Gertie Kosnofsky, D. Davis,
Sam Feinberg, M. Shimbaum, Rabbi
Bloom.
(By International News Service.)
GRAND RAFIDS, Mich, Feb. 11.—
Bitter hatreds hidden until now under
the camouflage of pleasant smiles
have broken out here in the Newberry
trial colony as a result of the testi
mony given late yesterday by former
Gov. Chase S. Osborn.
One by one he assailed the New
berry campaign managers, attacking
in his testimony especially those who
formerly followed his flag and who
deserted to the Newberry colors un
der the stress of the hottest cam
paign in the history of Michigan.
The cross-examination of the for
mer governor may be postponed for
several days, at least until Mark T.
McKee and Milton Oakman, defend
ants particularly singled out by Os
born, are well enough to resume their
places in the courtroom. Both are
influenza victims.
Sanitation to Cost 14
Georgia Counties $77,000
Counties of Georgia operating un
&e: the Ellis health law will spend
£77,000 on sanitation work this year,
secording to reports to the State
Board of Health. Fourteen counties
nre operating under the Kllis health
Xw and several others are preparing
to organize health departments with
paid health officers.
Glyon County leads in appropria
tions for sanitation with a budget of
$16,000. Amounts to be expended
by other counties follow: Baldwin,
$4,000; Bartow, $4.000; Cobb, $5,000:
Colquitt, $5,000; Flovd, $5,000; Lau
rens, $3,50C; Lowndes, $6500; Sum
rer, $2,400; Thomas, $4000; Tift,
$4,0007 Troup, $9,600; Walker, $4,000,
and Worth, 34,000,
Prosecution of keaders in Qak
land Camp Mutiny Is Being
Considered.
Officials investigating the daring
plot to dynamite the Oakland con
vict camp and bring about the whole
sale delivery of convicts, had under
consideration Wednesday the ques
tion of prosecution of the convicts
directly implicated, in whose pos
session was found pistols, cartridges
and dynamite,
The accused convicts are Dick Jes
ter, confessed automobile thief, £Tom
whom two loaded revolvers were
taken, and in whose bed was con
cealed a stick of dynamite; TClyde
Thomas, who had a revolver, and
J. C. Matthews, who had a hack saw.
Joe Webb, life termer from Floyd
County, who several weeks ago made
a spectacular escape in an automo
bile with Jester and another convict,
was charged by officials to be i_n
volved in ‘the plot, but no weapons
were found on him. »
Capt. A. A. Clarke Jr, county con
vict warden, and Oscar Jones, as
sistant superintendent of public
works, who are directing the inves
tigation into the conspiracy, indi
cated that prosecution of the convicts
would come later. It was suggested
that the plotters could be arraigned
on a charge of carrying concealed
weapons. This offense is a misde
meanor, punishable with a term qaf
twelve months in the chain gang, six
months in jail and a fine of SI,OOO,
either one or all, in the discretion of
of the clurt. In view of the trouble
that has been given the convict au
thorities by Jester and Webb, it
was indicated that, in the event of
prosecutions, the limit would be
asked.
Warden Clarke was expected to
hold a further conference Wednes
day with Solicitor John A. Boykin,
at which time the question of prose
cutions will be determined definitely.
Solicitor Boykin made it known
that it is his purpose to prosecute
vigorously the three men, Willie Col
son, Oscar Ferrell and Rudolph Pres
nell, who were implicated by con
fessions of convicts and who are in
the Tower in default of $3,000 bond
each. The solicitor prepared {5 axk
the grand jury to indict them . on
charges of automobile theft and at
tempted burglary. They were de
clared to have been caught attempt
ing to rob a store in West End, to
which place they had driven in the
stolen automobile of Dr. E. C. Davis
of 521 Spring street. They were be
lieved by officials to have been on
their way to the Oakland camp to
take part in the rescue of the con
viets.
Body of J. D. Johnston
Is Sent to Suwanee
Funera! services of Jeff D. John
ston, 58, widely known figure in rail
rvad eircles, who died Tuesday morn
ing at the residence, 658 Washington
street, were held Wednesday morn
ing at 11 o’clock from the residence,
the Rev, W. 7T. Hunnicnt 6fficiating.
The body was sent to Suwanee, Ga,,
for burial, services there to be con
ducted by the Rev. T. 1.. Rutlana.
Mr. Johnston was in the employ of
the Southern Railway as passénger
conductor for the last twenty-five
years, and was an active member of
the Order of Railway Conductors,
Surviving him are his wife; eight
children, Ralph M., Ross R., Fred D,
Jeff D. Jr., Benjamin A, Edward 8,
Mary Elizabeth Johnston and a step
son, Ernest 1. Deaton of Atlanta.
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Sheriff Bound Over in
Tennessee Death Case
COOKVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 10—
Sheriff Archie Warren was bound
over to the federal grand jury Tues
day in connection with the death of
Fred Murphy, who was found hanging
in his cell in the jail at McMinnville
January 24,
His wife, May, and Floyd Cum
mings, also were bound over by J, B,
Barnes, United States commissioner,
The bond of each was fixed at $15,000,
They are charged with intimidating
and oppressing a witness who was to
have testified against the sheriff, who
was accused of owning and operating
a moonshine still. The grand jury
will hear the case in Nashville next
month.
Sheriff Warren denied all the
charges against him.
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Parents Desert Child;
~ Now Would Reclaim Her
. JACKSONVILLE, Fla.,, Feb, 11.—
Graydon Shaw and his wife, ldele
Shaw, of Abbeville, 8. (~ who are
charged with abandoning their baby
‘here in November and who are at
liberty at Abbeville under bond for
their appearance heré to answer a
eharge of desertion, have started pro
ceedings to reclaim the infant in an
effort to avoid prosecution. Proba
‘tion Officer Lanier, however, has an
nounced that he would not dro[f the
eharges. . They left their baby girl in
‘care of a woman with whom they
boarded last Novem'er to be gone,
‘they wsaid, a few days. Later the
' woman discovered a note among the
‘child's clothing u?tlnx that “if they
lf:m not come back she could have
the baby.”
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rs. OPIKEr IS IVO t
Virginia Terhune Van de Water, celebrated novelist and short story
writer, recently gave this opinion to The New York American on the war
romance which resulted in Mrs, Perley Spiker of Baltimore bringing to
America the English girl who is mother of Mrs. Spiker's husband's baby :
By VIRGINIA TERHUNE VAN DE WATER.
It seems that women always have.
to put up the red danger llhnl at
the one’special gin, and find it near
impossible to forgive when their own
husbands are sinners. .
Only the woman with broad in
telligence, little vanity and deep in
sight into human nature could be
as forgiving of a husband's sin of
infidelity as she could be of any
other possible sin. This Mrs. Spiker
has been,
1 do not mean for a moment to
condone the evil this woman has
forgiven. But 1 do say that there
are other evils which show a pov
erty of soul and meanness of na
ture which should be quite as hard
to pardon.
A fair minded wife should find it
even harder, for instance, to for
give a husband who cheats his em
ployees; who grinds the noses of
the poor;: who takes advantage of
the ignorance of his fellow men or
the trust of his friends. than to
pardon the yielding to fleshly temp
tation, !
It has been said that Mrs. Spiker
has made things too easy for her
husband, has made it possible for
him to think lightly of his wrong
doing.
Instead of this, I think rather she
is pursuing a course that will make
it all but impossible for him ever
to be careless of an action of his
own that has made necessary such
suffering and such a sacrifice on the
part of the woman who loves him.
BEARING THE BURDEN.
It is as if the wife were putting
her own shoulder under the burden
of sin which he must carry. In
other words, she, though innocent,
is helping him to expiate the sin he
has committed.
The wife who is capable thus of
pardoning the man she loves must,
in simple justice, pardon his partner
in transgression. This would be in
thorough accordance with a charge
ter such as Mrs. Spiker has proved
is hers by her stand in this strange
case,
Mrs. Spiker is a very wise woman
though.
Psychologists tell us we always do
the things we most want to do, That
may be true. Certainly this wife
has left nothing with which to re
proach herself in later life as a de
velopment of this unhappy affair.
For she has not only befriended
the child-like mother. She has at
tained an even greater plane of jus
tice in insisting upon giving to this
child born of an illegal union, the legal
name of its own father. In this she
is but treading the same path of
fair dealing which she has trod since
Ywsued Dally, and Enteied as Second Class Matter a 2
the Postoffice at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1879
,she first learned of the woman in
her husband's war life.
Mrs. Spiker will not allow this
child, this innocent victim of her
husband’s sin, to suffer the disgrace
that would come to it were it to go
through life without bearirg the
father's name. By this very action,
in years to come, the whole tragic
affair will have lost its bitterness
and will have been forgotten.
All I have said thus far has only
to do with the wife's action. As to
the plan for marriage with the hus
band’'s brother, 1 feel of a very dif
ferent mind.
Matters have not been righted
simply by the girl's marriage to .a
man whom she can not love because
she has not yet had an opportunity
even to know him.
1 am old fashioned enough to be
’Heve that a marriage without love
is a sin, and no less a sin because
‘lenllled by the State or sanctified
'by the church. One sin can not
wipe out the stain of the other.
‘ Mrs. Spiker, 1 feel, is perhaps
‘right in saying that the young wife,
in the first flush of married life,
‘might not be capable of the thing
‘which she has done. But if a wife
really loves her husband, her love
‘deepens and grows with each pass
ing year, so she becomes capable of
even this forgiveness, such forgive
ness as could not possibly come with
the early days of married life.
I don't think people need be
‘alarmed about the precedent. There
are but few wives who will follow
the course toward erring husbands
set by Mrs. Spiker.
Before | am through, I must add
this that has been in my mind
since the beginning of this case. It
ill behooves those who condone the
lapses from virtue of members of
certain rich and influential classes
to cast stones at this little English
girl, who is lacking in education,
maturity and worldly experience.
In weighing this decision we
must not forget that the “woman
in the case" ig hardly more than a
child, a little girl of limited expe
rience in human nature. Certainly,
one can say that she has been a
vietim of social conditions.
Can you imagine condemning and
punishing a single transgression of
law, when the person who codemns
is himself guilty or a much greater
violation of that same law?
Yet is it not this that society does
daily in passing judement on such
cases as Emily Knowles'?
Have we not in our judgments
strayed far from the standards of
Him who said: “He that is without
sin among you, let him cast the first
stone.” ’
SECONDNEWS!
H EAT H ! B b [ i
‘So She Powdered Her Nose—
and Phoned Harry’ Is Judged
Best Last Line to Limerick No. 1
Mrs. G.T. Ridgway of Royston, Ga.,
is the winner of Limerick No. 1, the
first cf the series in The Georgian,
and gets the first daily award of SSO
in gold for the “best last line.”
And here's the winning last line:
“So she powdered her nose—and
phoned Harry.”
The whole limerick follows:
There was a school teacher ngmed
Carrie,
Who had sdid that she never
would marry;
But her pay was so small
She was forced to the wall,
So she powdered her nose—and
phoned Harry.”
“It's the first time I've been paid
for writing,” said Mrs. Ridgway over
long distance telephone to the Lim
erick Editor.
“I've written a great deal of poetry,
but I've never had any published. I'm
mighty glad to know 1 won, of course.
It's suredy big pay, and it didn't take
me over five minutes.”
Mrs. Ridgway is the wife of a phy
sician. Everybody around the county
‘knows them, and they have three fine
boys, the eldest 19.
DID IT IN FIVE MINUTES.
It didn't take Mrs. Rigway more
than five minutes to figure out that
“‘best last line.”
Eight words in it! Just $6.25 a
word is her pay.
Or $lO a minute!
That's mighty good pay, folks. If
Mrs. Ridngay could get that salary
and work eight hours a day, she'd
make oil well booms look like pikers.
It would be $4,800 a day, or, 365 days
a year, a total of $1,752,000.
But unfortunately for Mrs. Ridg
way she can not earn at that rate
from The Georgian and American,
because under the rules of the con
test each person winning one prize
becomes "ineligible to compete for
subsequent prizes. Somebody else
will win the next prize, and the next,
and so on. As long as the contest
continues one new name each day
will be awarded the prize.
A different incomplete limerick ap
pears each day in The Georgian, 4nd
it’s “open season” for eveérybody.
MORE TO COME.
Already five of the limericks have
appeared and more will follow., Just
keep everlastingly at it -
It was a.hard job, judging that first
limerick contest. There were more
than 1,500 replies. They came from
all over Georgia, and a few were too
late to get in the judging. Some con
testants hadn’'t read the rules care
fully about the time they were to get
them to The Georgian and Sunday
American office.
A crew of clerks was busy, first,
opening the envelopes.
Then they were passed on te the
Limerick Editor and several of the
fellows in the editorial department,
who formed what you can ecall the
“Limerick Committee.”
Each member of the committee was
given a batch of limericks from which
to pick out the best five, - -
Then the committee took the twen
ty-five “best last lines” and got
together.
- It was an elimination contest. Al
the “best last lines” were read, and
the committee unanimously agreed
on Mrs. Ridgway's. :
And a still bigger job awaits the
committee on the other limericks.
Fifty dollars a day in gold for one
line isn't small pay, you know, and a
lot of folk would like to have that
kind of pay for such effort,
Get The (eorgian today and try
your pen, or pencil, or put your twpes
writer “in lap.” g
Thursday the winner of Limerick
No. 2 will be announced, Friday No.
3, Baturday No. 4, and so on.
Get your limerick in early! Y
Do it now!
.
Newnan Is Working to
.
Establish New Bank
NEWNAN, Feb, Ill.—Leading eciti~
zeng of Newnan and Coweta County
are interested In ‘the proposition to
establish a $500,000 bank her. The
movement was started only a few
days ago, and it was decided to call
a meeting and take some definite
steps, at which time a committee
was appointed to solicit’ subscrip
tions. The committee is D. T. Man
get, H, C. Arnall Jr, A. W. Arnall,
W. J. Murphy, D. W. Boone, Dr. T, B.
Davis, A. H. Freeman T. B. Mec-
Ritchie, V. E. Manget, T. G. Farmer
Jr., and 1. H, Hill of Newnan, and
¢, C., McKnight of Senioa, W. N,
Banks of Grantville and E. M, Camp
of Moreland. »
Shares are to 'be of par value of
$125 each; capital stock to be. S4OO, -
000 with SIOO,OOO surplus. It §s un
derstood practically all of thg sub
scriptions have been raised.
NO. 177.