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The Heart of the South,
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Georgia’s Educational Center.
The “Pinnacle City” in Climate.
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Distributing Center of the Southeast,
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VOL XVIII
MRS. .G. T. RIDGWAY, OF ROYSTON, GA., WINS FIRST LIMERICK
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statement of Jealousy Leading to
Separation Reads Like
a Novel,
Jealousy over the “One Woman,”
whose romance lasted for almost ten
)¥ears in his life, was blamed Wednes
ddy by Paul B, Carter for the trounle
that has placed him at the threshold
of the Federal Peniteniary whes: ne
is to W& a prisoner for five years.
Carter pleaded guilty in the United
States Court Tuesday to sending a
bomb by mail to a man who had peen
alttentive to pretty Mrs. Claire Mc-
Millen ' Carter, the divorced wife of
the prisoner. The latter has assumed
her maiden name. ¢
Lavish expressions of praise for the
beauty of Miss McMillen were scai
tered through a ‘life history” pre
plted. by Carter as he sat in his cell
_awuitmg his hearing before the court.
. “My Lilly,” the “perfect one,” the
“one woman,” and the “peerless one”
are some of the endearing names used
by Carter in testimony of his high
ragard for the beauty, whose-‘kiss, he
says, caused.the “death of his soul.’
The meeting with the “one woman,”
the discovery of the part Capt. John
Kneubel of Ebenezer, N, Y., the man
1o whom the bomb was mailed, had
played in the life of the “one woman”
and *he final separation from the
“‘peerless one” were narrated in the
“heart throb” confession written by
Carter.
THEY MEET.
“I met her, the one woman, Janu
-+ary 18, 1910, in a soda fount,” began
the remarkable document that deait
with all the intimacies of the romance
that caused Carter to leave his wife
for the one woman, and later to chal
lenge the army catpain to a duel be
cause he believed her affection had
turned from him to the man in uni
form.
“Dressed in gray, she was, a gray
coat suit, close fitting, with blue hand
painted buttons down the front, a pic
{ure hat crowning the beautiful waivy
brown hair that shows a gleam of gold
in' the sun,” he wrote. *Red lipped,l
blue-gray eyes, large and soft, and
filled with the terror of the unknown.l
rose reaf complexion free from paint
or powder, showing a tiny trecklc[
here and there, which did not mar the
beauty, but lent added charm to a
patrician face.” A beautiful form—ir'
fact .a Madonna, made for love. I
liked her from the start and not
~ being happy with my wife, found in
creasing delight in her companion
ship, which rapidly developed into
love. Finally, I told her I was mar
" ried and that we would have to dis
continue our friendship as it was not
possible for us to be friends and.no
more. About two weeks elapsed,
when one day she called me over the
phone, telling me a neighbor of her’s
was sick and asked if 1 would come
sut and sit up with her at the house,
as she was to look after the sick lady
and wanted companionship, for she
was afraid Qhe might go to sleep and
neglect the medicine.
THEY LOVE.
“T went. That was the beginning of
a love that has been given only to a
v few,
‘““A pure love that grew like the un
folding of a rose growing 'stronger day
by day until the bud became the full
bloom crimson rose with all its per
fume.
“Finally, on March 14, 1910, I told
het that we must part and she asked
me to kiss her good-by. That sweet
kiss has led to the wreck of an in
nocent life (my first wife’s) and the
death of the soul of a man—my own.”
) However, the parting for which
Carter pleaded .failed to take place,
but instead, he, his wife and Miss
McMillen held a conference to decide
which woman would be the favored
one in the man's love. This confer
erice was held in Atlanta, and, ace
cording to Carter, he left his wife,
went to Jacksonville, where he was
joined by Miss McMillen.
Then began a romance that lasted
for years, resulting in the divorce' of
the first Mrs. Carter and the marriage
of Carter and Miss McMillen and their
travels until they finally moved to
Philadelphia, where Carter was
building locomotives for the army.
it was there that he became sus
picious, and in his own language de
meribes what happened:
THEY QUARREL.
“On her return (from a visit home)
the same coldness was shown, but
did not vanish this time, but became
worse,” he wrote. “One day while
t looking in the linen chest I found a
small cash box, used to keep bills in
and by curiosity was aroused by the
box having a new Yale padlock on
it. I pondered over this several days
and finally decided (a la Pandora) to
investigate. I made a key, opened
the box and found, indeed, all that
Pandora did—love letters from “Jim
mie,’ (Oh, Claire, my peerless one)
telling of the fine clothes he would
buy for her; pitying her for having
to wear linen underwear, begging her
to leave me and come to him.
. “Letters supposedly written by an
atforney at Gainesville,"in one he
mentioned ‘when shall 1 see you and
enjoy the dearness of your near
ness and the sweetness of your lips?
+ “Then there were two letters signed
‘John,” a receipted bill from the Hotel
Washington, Washingten, D. C, and
last but not least, a visiting card. 1
LTHEY PART, ;
‘“That was the beginning of the en{
the end which has resuited in ta®
death of a man’'s soul, for by her ac
tfons she has killed mine.” |
In the concluding part of his re
markable narration, Carter gives his
vefsion of the bomb case, denying
24-Hour { 134 vt Uaiversat News; Service
Has No Virtues
InMate’sEyes
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Asks Divorce
(By Universal Service.)
NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—John
McLaughlin of Brooklyn is
the champion fauit-finder of the
world, according to claims made
by his wife, Genevieve T. Mc-
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 1 did.
“The way 1 did it.
“What I didn't do.
“What I said.
“Thg way I said it
“The way I 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.
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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 ¥x
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 use 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 Transpdrtation Build
ing, Marietta and Forsyth streets.
The war department has designated
five Southern States—Géorgia, Flor
ida, Alabama, South Carolina and
*‘lississipbi—-as the recruiting field
or the Sixth Cavalry, which regiment
will be brought up to full 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.
MEDICAL MEN MEET.
ALBANY, Feb. 11.—The annual
meeting of the Second Distrint Medi
cal Association will be held in the
Clozy Theater here Friday, with morn
ing and afternoon sessions. Some
of the leading physicians in the dis
trict are on the program. Dr. W. L.
Davis of Albany is the president of
‘the association, Dr. W. H. Hendricks
of Tifton, vice president, and Dr. A,
W. Wood of Albany, secretary. New
officers will be elected at the meet
ing here Friday.
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that he mailed the death package (o
Captain Kneubel, He says: g
“Mark how this so-called bomb, ac
cording to the papers, was mailed
while I was a prisoner at the city
prison, according to the cancellation
mark, was received by Captain Kneu
bel, opened, and the contents analyzed
by him. Then he accuses me of send
ing it. ’
“I not knowing he was in the United
States, and he not knowing that I was
in the South, let alone in Atlanta,
unless imformed by my wife or some
of his confederates.
“Love her? Yes, I still love her.
Want her to be happy? I've given
the best part of my life to that end
and would gladly give it all if she
could only be as I once thought Ler
——only a little lower than the angels.”
The concluding paragraph of Car
ter's statement i a direct contradic
tion of the love he expressed for his
former wife, for he says: ;
“The areatest punishment I could
wish for the ones who have wrecked
my life would be that they were legal
1y married and forced to live together
| for many years, for they would soon
tire of each other, hecome disgusted
and then would begin to pay for the
wrongs done.” .
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777 LEADING NEWSPAPER Gt 1l e Yiy OF THE SOUTHEAST #Y[7 %Y
Amalgamation of City and County
Systems as Special Depart
ment Planned,
A revolutionary plan to consolidate
all city and county schools and to
separate the system of control en
tirely from either government was
being considered Wednesday by the
special committee named at the con
ference on high schools last week by
both boards of education, the mayor
and county commissioners.
Evolved by President Virlyn B.
Moore of the County Board of Educa
tion and County Superintendent J. W,
Simmons, the plan was revealed to
the committee in its sesslon late
Tuesday at the City Hall. The chief
features are:
1. Abolition of both boards of ed
ucation at the end of the members’
terms,
2. Creation of a school commission
formed of eight commissioners, each
representing a fixed school district.
SPECIAL SCHOOL TAX. J
3. Establishment of a special school
tax not to exceed 1 per cent, and a
school building tax of not more than
one-fourth of 1 per cent.
4. Reduction of the city's tax rate
from $1.25 to $1 on the SIOO.
5. Reduction of the county’'s tax
rate from 90 cents to 70 cents on the
SIOO.
While two other plans also were
considered, this most impressed (he
committee, in the view of Supt. W. F.
Dykes, and is the one most likely to
be urged by the commiftee. It will
hold another session Friday.
The commission would have au
therity to Issue bonds and to deter
mine what part of the authorized tax
should be levied. The schools would
be whoilly under its management.
NEW LAWS NEEDED.
By the proposed readjustment there
would be a siight increase of income
to the city and 1t would be relieved
entirely of conceri: with the schools,
it -was pointed out by the superin
tendent. Already’ the County Com
mission has been separated, the Coun
ty . Board of Education having ful
control.
To put it into effect new legisiation
would be necessary. Agreement of
city and county authorities alike
would be sought, however, before the
plan would be urged for enactment
into law.
A tond issue was suggested by Su
perintendent Dykes, and W. H., Ter
rell, another member of the commit
tee, proposed a different sort of com
mission. It was believed that the
committee would center on the Moore-
Simmons arrangement.
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Congress Stirred by
Attack on Grain Body
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Congress
is 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
Europe food relief bill in Congress
as a plan to provide “for the pur
chase of wheat now owned largely
by 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 Corporatios.
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Col. Walter M. Milton
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BLACKSHEAR, Ga., Feb., 11.—
Col. Walter M. Milton, 44 years old,
died here early Tuesday morning,
after several days’ illness with pneu
monia. He was one of the most
prominent attorneys of this section,
haying served six years as solicitor
of the City Court and four years as
judge of the City Court. He is sur
vived by a father, J. T. Milton, and
three daughters, Annette, Merriam
and Lillian, of this city. Interment
will be at a locak cemetery tomorrow
morning.
‘ U.SOflcflßflort onCopdition I
The weather bureau Wednesday is
sued the following road report:
1. Atlanta- Rome-Chattanocoga.
The roads northward through Rome
to Chattanooga have continued to
improve. Light showers Tuesday
evening were not sufficiently heavy
to ¢ause much deterioration. Roads
out of Rockmart are good, except the
route to Dallas, which is not so goed
in low places, but passable.
2. Atlanta-Athens-Augusta.
The route is reported fairly good,
with exceptions of a few places where
it is very bad. Some cars have been
stalled near Union Point during the
Jast day or two. Light rain over the
Tallulah Falls route was insufficient
to cause much damage to roads.
3. Atlanta-Macon-Southern.
Roads have continued to improve,
‘but rains Tuesday afternoon and eve
‘ning will cause some to be slippery.
4. Atlanta-Newnan-Columbus.
light rains Tuesday and Wednes
dn*over Western Georgia have made
roafis slizhtly slippery, but the amount
wag insufficient to cause much mud.
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 I much prefer the bayvs
Of him who sings in terms of
praise
The kindness and cheery ways
That grow along the Sunny
side.
(Copyright, 1920, Atlanta Georgian.)
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Herbert Hoover, former food ad-{
ministrator and much discussed as a.i
presidentlal possibility, may come to
Atlanta to speak in the Jewish War‘
Relief Campaign February 22, accord- i
ing to Fred Ruslander, State director.i
Mr. Hoover has been invited to de
liver 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
and 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
Georgia in the interest of the cam
paign within a few days, Mr. Rus
lander says.
Team workers and captains will
meet Wednesday night at the Jewish
Educatioral Alliance, when details of
the campaign will be outiined by Mr.
Ruslander. Women's committees are
being organized by Harold Hirsch,
chairman for Atlanta, and these will
;be announced shortly. The State h{"
‘being rapidly organized, V. H. Krieg
shaber, State chairman, reports, with
committees perfected in eighty-seven
cities.
The executive committee of the
campaign is as follows:
V. H. Kriegshaber, State chairman;
Fred Ruslander, secretary; Marcus
Loeb, treasurer; Harold Hirsch,
chairman for Atlanta; Max F, Gold
stein, vice chairmafi: 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 ¥, 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 Kauffman,
Morris Hessler, M. Lichstenstein,
Charles Miller, Miss Rose Lesnoff,
Miss Gertie Kosnofsky, D. Davis,
Sam Feinberg, M. Shimbaum, Rabbi
Bloom.
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Insurancé Men Will
Visit Here February 19
Haley Fiske, president of the Met
ropolitan Life Insurance Company of
New York, and other officers of the
company, will be in Atlanta next
week for their triennial meeting with
the company's ‘xent‘s in the Pred
mont district, which embraces Cen
tral and North (Jeorgia. In the party
with Mr. Fiske. will be F. O. Ayres.
second vice president: Dr. Lee K.
Frankel, J. E. Kavanagh, third vice
president; Iwnn Cox, fourth vice
president; William H. Stewart, su
perintendént of agencies, and F. C.
Remington, supervisor of agents.
One hundred and fifty Metropolitan
agents in the Piedmont district, with
more than twenty Metropolitan visit
ing nurses, will attend the oonven
tion, which will be heid on Thurs
day and Friday, February 19 and 20,
Business sessions will be held in
Taft Hall in the Auditorium,
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Sanitation to Cost 11
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Georgia Counties $77,000
Counties of Georgia operating un
dGer the Wllis health law will spend
$77,000 on sanitation work this year,
according to reports to the State
Board of Heaith. Fourteen counties
are operating under the Ellis health
lJaw and several others are preparing
to organize health departments with
paid health officers.
Glynn 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; Lowndesg $6,500; Sum
ter, $2,400; Thomas, $4,000; Tift,
$4,000; Troup, $9,600; Walker, $4,000,
and Worth. $4,000,
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Chicago Votes Raise in
Pay for All Teachers
CHICAGO, Feb. 11.——The Chicago
Board of REducation today voted »
S4OO increase in the annual pay o.
all Chicago teachers. A maximum
annual salary of $2,000 was fix~d
with a minimum of $1,200 fér gra'e
teachers. The increases date frc na
January 1.
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}Prosecutnon of Leaders in Oak
~land Camp Mutiny Is Being
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Officials investigating the daring
plot to dynamite the Oakland con
vict camp and hring 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, qonfessed automobile thief, from
whom' two loaded revplvers were
taken, and in whose bed was con
cealed a stick of dynamite; Clyde
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 in
volved in the plot, but nogweapons
were found on him.
- Capt. A. A, Clarge Jr., county con
vict warden, and Oscar Jones, as
sistant superintendent of public
works, who dre 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 of
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 cburt. 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 Rudoiph 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 to awk
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
victs.
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Sheriff Bound Over in
Tennessee Death Case
COOKVILLE, Tenn. Feb. 10—
Sheriff Archie Warren was bound
over tp the federal grand jury Tues
day in connection with the death es
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. 8.1
Barnes, United States commissioner.
The bond of each was fixed at $15,00
They are charged with intimidating
and oppressing a witness who was to
have testified against the sheriff, who
was accused of owning and operatlng!
a moonshine still. The grand jury
will hear the case in Nashville nenl
month.
Sheriff Warren denied all the|
charges against him, |
Parents Desert Child;
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- Now Would Reclaim Her
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb, 11.—
Graydon Shaw and his w!s. Idele |
Shaw, of Abbeville, 8. C., who are
‘chnrged with abandoning their baby‘
here in November and who are at
liberty at Abbeville under bond for
their appearance here to answer a
charge of desen.iog,‘ have started pro
ceedings to reclaim the infant in an
effort to* avoid presecution. Proba
tion Officer Lanier, however, has an
nounced that he would not drop the
charges. They left their baby girl in
care of a woman with whom they
boarded last Novem'er to be gone,‘
they said, a few days. Later the!
woman discovered a note among the
child's clothing stating that “if they
did not come back she could have
the baby.” i
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 8. 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 incfease its capital stock
from $40,000 to $60,000. This is Jhe
third bank of Monrde to recently ask
for an increase in capital stock.
PLAINS GROWING FAST.
PLAINS, Feb, 11.—Judge J. 1. Hil
ler reports thaygin the thirty days
ending yeaterdai there were fifteen
births and no deaths in the Plains
distriet.
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Evil Forgiven by
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Mrs. Spiker Is Not
Worst, Says Woman
Virginia Terhune Van de Water, celebrated novelist and short story
writer, recently gave this opinion to The Atlanta Georgian on the war
romance which resulted im Mrs. Perley BSpiker of Ballimore bringing to
America the English girl woho is mother of Mrs. Spiker's husband's baby:
By VIRGINIA TBBHUI{E VA.N »Dz WATER.
It seems that women always have
to put up the red danger signal atl
the one special sin, 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 €in. This Mrs. Spiker
has been. ’ 1
1 do not mean for a moment to
condone the evil this woman has
‘forgiven. But I do say that there
are other evils which show a pov
erty of soul and medanness of na
ture which should be quite as hard
to pardon.
A fair minded wife should find it
even harder, for Inu‘unce. to for-‘
give a husband who cheats his em
ployees; who grinas ine noses of
‘the poor; who takes advantage of
‘the ignorance of his rllow 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, 1 think rather she
{8 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 hini.
BEARING THE BURDEN.
It is as if the wife were putting
her own shoulder under the burden
of sin which he must carry. In
}mher words, she, though innogent,
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 charac
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
miay be true. Certainly this wife
has left nothing with which to re
proach nerself in later life as a de
velopment of this unhappy affair.
For she has not only befriended
the ‘child-like mother, She has at
-Imlred an even greater plane of jus
| tic in insisting upon giving to this
' ¢hild born of an illegal union, the legal
'name of its own father. In this s‘:e
i« but treading the same path of
foir dealing which she has trod sinee
Ysued Daily, and Enteted g 8 Second Class Matter &8
the Postoffice at Atlanta Under Act of Mareh 3, 1879
she first learned of the womarn 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 bearing 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.
‘AII T 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
lieve that a marriage without love
i’ a sin, and no less a sin because
legalized. by the Btate or sanctified
by the church. One sip c¢an not
wipe out the stain of the other.
" Mrs. Spiker, 1 teeéi, is perhaps
pight in saying that the voung 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
decpens 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.
1 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 1 am through, I must add
this that hag 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 mqr is hardly more than a
child, a little girl of limited expe
rience in human nature. Certainly,
one can say that she has been a
victim ‘of social conditions.
Cur' you imagine condemning and
punishing a single transgression of
‘aw, when the person who condemns
is *himself guilty or a much greater
violation of that same law?
Yet is it'not this that society does
daily in passing judgment on such
cases as Emily Knowles'? -
Have we not in our judgments
strayed far from the standgrds of
Him who said: "He that Lawtthout
sin among you, let him cast the first
SLONE.” 1 i
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So She Powdered Her Nose—
(4 ik
and Phoned Harry’ Is Judged
' ' o 1 arh
Best Last Line to Limerick No. 1
Mrs. G.T. Ridgway of Royston, Ga..
Is the winner of Limerick No. 1, 'téb
first cf the series in The Georgis
and gets the first daily award of §oB
in gold for the “best last line” i
And here's the winning last line ™ ;
“So she powdered her nose—ad
phoned Harry.” SN
The whole limerick follows:
There was a school teacher hamed ‘
! Carrie,
Who had said that she never
would marry; .
But her pay was so small 2
_ She was forced to the wall, :
' 80 she powdered her nose—and:’
phoned Harry.” A
“It's the first time I've* béeh pc;a
for writing,” said Mrs. Ridgway over
long distance telephone to the Li‘:
erick Editor. e
“I've written a great deal of poetry.,
but I've never had any published.
mighty glad to know I won, of coyrge.
It's surely big pay, and it didn’t take
me over five minutes.” S %,
Mrs. Ridgway is the wife of a ph‘iv
sician, Everybody around the county
knows them, and they have three tlri‘
boys, the eldest 19. o
DID IT IN FIVE MINUTES, :
It didn't take Mrs. Rigway mote
than five minutes to figure out that
“best last line.” » . .
Eight words in it! ~Just $6.25 a
“word is hep pay. / %
| Or 310 a minute!” o
That's mighty good pay, folks.. r
Mrs. Ridgway 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 4 year, a total of $1,752,000, ° »
But unfortunately for Mrs. W
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 &or
subsequent prizes. Somebody m
will win the next prige, and the n
and 8o on. As long as the contest
continues one néw name each day
will be awarded the prize.
A different incomplete limerick ap+
pears each day in The Georgian, and
it’s “open season” for everybody. -
MORE TO COME. &
Already five of the limericks have
appeared and more will follow. Just
keep everlastingly at it. &
It wag a hard job, judging that. first
limerick contest. There were meore
than 1,600 replies. “They came from
all over Georgia, and a few were tao
late to get in the judging. Som’ can
testants hadn’t read the rules’ -
fully about the time they were &o
them to The Georgian and Sunday
American office. A ¥
A crew of clerks was busy, flll&.
opening the envelopes, b
Then they were passed on to g
Limerick Editor and several of ¢
fellows in the editorial departmehi
who formed what yon can call
“Limerick Commitiee.” ) [
Each member of the committee was
given a batch of limericks trom whidh
to pick out the best five, ol
Then the committee took the twen"
ty-five “best last lines” and z
’ together. ; »
It was an elimination conten...g
the “best last lines"” were read,
the committee unanimously m”‘
on Mrs. Ridgway's. ; . Ay
And a still bigger job awails the
committee on the other limericks © '
Fifty dollars a day in gold !w
line isn’t small pay, you know; *
lot of folk would like to have that
kind of pay for such effort. ‘
" Get The Georgian today and try
your pen, or pencil, or put your type
writer “in lap.”
Thursday the winner of Limeriek
No. 2 will be announced, Friday No,
8, Saturday No. 4, and so on.
Get vour limerick in early! 4
Do it now! Mg
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Newnan Is Working to
.
Establish New Bank
NEWNAN, Feb, 11.—Leading citi
zens »f Newnan and Coweta County
are interested In the proposition te
establish a $500,000 bank her. The
movement was started only a fe
days ago, and it was decided to m;
a meeting and take some de{::m:
steps, at which time a comm
wag appointed to. solieit !m!:clsrz;f
tions. Theé committee is D. T. Man
get, H. C. Arnall Jr., A, W..Arn%,.
W. J. Murphy, D. W, Bopne, Dr. T, B,
Davis, A. H. Freeman T. B. Me-
Ritchie, V. E. Manget, T. G. Farmer
Jr, and L. H, HIII of Newnan, and
C. C. McKnight of Seniom, W, N
Banks of Grantville and BE. M. Camp
of Moreland. ' a)
Shares are ta be of par value ‘of
$125 eaoch; capital stock to be 3400.%
000 with SIOO,OOO surplus. If is
derstood practically all of the subs
‘scriptions have been' raised. o 5
NO. 177.