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The Convention City.
The Heart of the South.
Grand Opera City of Dixie.
Georgia’s Educational Center.
The “Pinnacle City” in Climate.
Federal Reserve Bank Headquarters.
Distributing Center of the Southeast.
WONDER CITY
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VOL XVIII
MRS. G. T. RIDGWAY, OF ROYSTON, GA., WINS FIRST LIMERICK
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?tatement of Jealousy Leading to
Separation Reads Like
a Novel,
Jealousy over thé “One Woman,”
whose romance lasted for almost ten
years 'n his life, was blamed Wedues
\_'ray by Paul B. Carter for the trouble
that has placed him at the threshold
of the Federal Peniteniary whes2 ne
is to be 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 been
attentive to pretty Mrs. Claire Me-
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 scat
tered through a ‘life history” pre
pared by Carter as he sat in his cell
awaiting his hearing before the court.
“My Lilly,” the ‘“perfect one,” the
Yfone woman,” and the “peerless one”
are some of the endearing names used
by Carter in testimony of his high
regard for the beauty, whose Kkiss, he
says, caused the ‘“death of his soul.’
The meeting with the “one woman,”
the discovery of the part Capt. John
Xneubel of Ebenezer, N, Y., the man
to whom the bomb was mailed, had
played in the life of the “one woman”
and the 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 dealt
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,
blue-gray eyes, large and soft, and
filled with the terror of ‘t@e unknown,
rose reaf complexion fre® from paint
or powder, showing a tiny tg'ecklel
kere 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. 1
liked her from the start and not
being happy with my wife, found in
creasing delight # her companion
ship, which rapidiy developed i:}o
love. Finally, T tojll her I was mar
. ried and that we v ould have to dis
continue our friend hip as it was not
possible for us to le friends and no
more. About two weeks elapsed,
when one day she ¢ illed me over 'he
phone, telling me a aeighbor of her's
was sick and asked if I would cotie
out and sit up with ier at the houte,
as she was to look after the sick la¢ly
and wanted compan onship, for she
was afraid she might go to sleep and
neglect the medicine. |
THEY LOVE.
. “T went. That was tie beginning of
a love that has been given only to a
few. '
" “A pure love that grew like the un
folding of a rose growing stronger day
by day until the bud bicame the full
bloom crimson rose with all its per
fume.
“Finally, on March 14, 1910, I told
her 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
MeMillen held a conference to decide
which woman would be the favored
one in the man’s love. This confer
ence 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 urvorce 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
scribes what happened:
THEY QUARREL.
“On her return (from a visit home)
the same c¢oldness was shown, but
did not vanish this time, but became
worse,” he wrote. “One day while
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 oOne)
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
attorney at Gainesville, in one he
mentioned ‘when shall I 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, Washington, D. C,, and
last but not least, a visiting card.
THEY PART.
» “That was the beginning of the®n4g,
the end which has resulted in the
death of a man’s soul, for by her ac
tions she has killed mine.”
In the concluding part of his re
markable narration, Carter gives his
version of the bomb case,
Full Internati .
24-Hour { lad muli*Taiversal News | Service
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Has No Virtues
InMate’s Eyes
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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. 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 I did.
“The way I did it
“What I didn’t do.
‘“What I said.
“The 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.
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 Ix
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
\tjres. He said only one conflagrgtion
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 tinancial
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.
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 Build- |
ing, Marietta and Forsyth streets. I
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 full war
strength. Captain Burt stated Tues
day his detachment will shortly beg‘m‘
a tour which will take it over most of
the territory assigned to the reg:i
ment. ‘
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MEDICAL MEN MEET. }
" ALBANY, Feb. 11.—The annual
meeting of the Second District Medi
cal Association will be held in the
Cozy Theater here Friday, with morn
ing and afternoon sessions. Some
of the leading physicians In the dis
triect 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 to
Captain Kneubel. He says:
“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.
“T not knowing he was in the United
States, and he not knowing that 1 was
in the South, let alone in Atlanta,
unless informed by my wife or some
of his confederates.
“T,ove 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 lLer
—only a little lower than the angels.”
The concluding paragraph of Car
ter's statement is a direct contradic
tion of the love he expressed for his
former wife, for he says:
“The greatest punishment I could
wish for the ones who have wrecked
my life would be that they were legal
ly married and forced to live together
for many years, for they would soon
tire of each other, become disgusted
and then would begin to pay for the
wrongs done.”
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7% % | LEADING NEV/SPAPER ?‘s\3’%“{’s’ F THE
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 =ession 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 ecommission
formed of eight commissioners, each
representing a fixed school district.
SPECIAL SCHOOL TAX.
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.
6. 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 the
committee, in the view of Supt. W, F.
Dykes, and is the one most likely to
be urged by the committee. It will
hold another session Friday.
The commission would have au
thority to ilssue bonds and to deter
mine what part of the authorized tax
should be levied. The schools would
be wholly under its management.
NEW LAWS NEEDED.
By the proposed readjustment there
would be a slight increase of income
to the city and 1t would be relieved
entirely of concerr: with the schools,
it was rointed out by the superin
tendent. Already the County Com
'mission has been separated, the Coun
ty Board of Education having full
control.
To put it into effect new legislation
‘would be necessary. Agreement of
city and county authoriues alike
would be sought, however, before the
plan would be urged for enactment
into law.
A lond issue was suggested by Su
perintendent Dykes, and W. H. Tgr
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.
Congress Stirred by |
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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 Corporatioa.
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Col. Walter M. Milton
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BLACKSHEAR, Ga., Feb. IL—
‘Col. Walter M. Milton, 44 years old,
'died here eardy Tuesday morning,
}nl‘ter geveral days’ illness with pneu
‘monia.. He was one of the most
prominent attorneys of this section,
having served six years as solicitor
of the City Court and four years as
judge of the City Court. He is sur
vived l:{ a father, J. T. Milton, and
three daughters, Annette, Merriam
and Lillian, of this city. . Interment
will be at a loeal cemetery tomorrow
lmornlng.
| uamgfim onCopdition
; of the Highweye
The weather bureau Wednesday is
sued the following road report:
1. Atlanta-Rome-Chattanooga.
/The roads northward through Rome
to Chattanooga have continued to
improve. Light showers Tuesday
evening were not sufficiently heavy
to cause much deterioration. Roads
out of Rockmart are good, except the
route to Dallas, which is not so good
in low places, but passable.
2. Atlanta-Athens-Augusta.
The route is reported fairly good,
with exceptions of 2 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 continuea to improve,
but rains Tuesday afternoon and eve
ning will cause some to be slippery.
4, Atlanta-Newnan-Columbus.
l Light rains Tuesday and Wednes
day over Western Georgia have made
Irondd sli~htly slippery, but the amount
was 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 bays
Of him who sings in terms of
praise
The kindness and cheery ways
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
Relief Campaign February 22, accord
ing to Fred Ruslander, State director.
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
Educational 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 is
'beil.g 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 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. Dorfan, 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 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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Insurance 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 agents In the Preq.
mont district, which embraces Cen
tral and North Georgia, In the party
with Mr., Fiske will be F. O, Ayres.
second vice president; Dr. Lee K,
Frankel, J, E. Kavanagh, third vice
president; Lynn Cox, fourth vice
president; William H. Stewart, su
perintendent 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 conven
tion, which will be held on Thurs
day and Friday, February 19 and 20.
Business sessions will be held in
Taft Hall in the Auditortum.
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Sanitation to Cost 14
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Georgia Counties $77,000
Counties of Georgia operating un
der the Ellis health law will spend
$77,000 on sanitation work this year,
according to reports to the State
Board of Health. Fourteen counties
are operating under the Ellis health
law 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
$16,0000 Amounts to be expended
by other counties follow: Baldwin,
$4,000; Bartow, $4,000; Cobb, $5,000:
Colquitt, $5,000; Floyvd, $5,000; Lau
rens, $3,50C; lLowndes, $66500; Sum
ter, $2,400; Thomas, $4,000; Tift,
$4,000; Troup, $9,600; Walker, $4,000,
and Worth, $4,000.
Chicago Votes Raise in
Pay for All Teachers
CHICAGO, Feb. 11.—The Chicago
Board of Education today voted a
S4OO increase in the annual pay of
all Chicago teachers. A maximum
annual salary of S2OOO was fixed
with a minimum of $1,200 for grade
teachers. The increases date from
January L
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Prosecution of Leaders in Oak
land Camp Mutiny Is Being"
Considered.
Officials investigating the daring
plot to dynamite the Oakland con
vict camp and bring about the whok
sale delivery of convicts, had under
consideration Wednesday the ques
tion of prosecution of the convicts
directly implicat 4, in whose pos
session was found pistols, cartridges
and dynamite.
The accused convicts are Dick Jes
ter, confessed automobile thief, from
whom two loaded revolvers 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 no weapons
were found on him.
~ Capt. A. A. Clarge Jr., county con
vict warden, and Oscar Jones, as
}slstant 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 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
’ot 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 fime 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 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
‘thelr way to the Oakland camp to
‘take part in the rescue of the con
victs. &
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\Shertff 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 ;
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Now Would Reclaim Her
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb, 11.—
Graydon Shaw and his wife, Idele
Shaw, of Abbeville, 8. C.,, who are
charged 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 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 drop the
charges. They left their baby girl in
care of a woman with whom they
boarded last Novem!er to be gone,
lthey 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.” f
'Charter Issued to New
| Bank at Jefferson
| The Citizens’ Bank and Trust Com
!mny of Jefferson will begin business
' with a capital stock of SIOO,OOO, a
'charter having been issued Tuesday
by Secretary of State 8. Guyt Me
l.endon. The incorporators ihclude 8.
V. Willhite, I. W. Etheridge, B. D.
' Moore, J. C. Shields and others of
‘Jeffermn.
| The Union Banking Company of
. Monroe has filed application for au
|thorlty to increase its capital stock
'from $40,000 to $60,000. This is the
‘thlrd bank of Monroe to recently ask
'for an increase in capital stock.
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l PLAINS GROWING FAST,
PLAINS, Feb. 11.—Judge J. 1. Hil
ler reports that in the thirty days
landlng yesterdayy there were fifteen
births and no deaths in the Plains
distriet.
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Evil Forgi b
Spiker I
Mrs. Spiker Is Not
Worst, Says Woman
Virginia Terhune Van de Water, celebrated novelist and short story
writer, recently gave thiz opinion to The Atlanta Georgiam om the war
romance which resulted in Mrs. Perley Spiker of Baltimore bringing to
America the English girl who 8 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 signal at |
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 cq:ld he
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 I 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 fcr
him to think lightly of his wrong
doing.
Instead of this, T 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. i
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
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
‘nume of its own father. In this ghe
is but treading the same path of
tatr dealing which she has trod since
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the PostofMce 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 vietim 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.
All 1 have said thus far has only
to de with the wife's action. As to
the plan for marriage with the hus
band’'s brother, I feel of a very dif
ferent mind.
Matters have not been righted
gimply by the girl’s marpiage 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
is a sin, and no less a sin because
legalized by the State or sanctified
by the church. One sin can not
wipe out the stain of the other.
Mrs. Spiker, I 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 thls 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.
Befpre 1 am through, I must add
this that has been in my mind
gince 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” 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,
Can 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 standards of
‘Him who said: “He that is without
‘gin among you, let him cast the first
stone.”
SECONDNEWS!
SECTION
H [A.II H & G k I-l
‘So She Powdered Her Nose—
and Phoned Harry' Is Judged
Best Last Line to Limerick N0..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 named
Carrie, .
Who had said 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 I won, of course.
It’s surely 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 $3.25 a
word is her pay.
Or $lO a minute!
That's mighty good pay, folks. If
Mrs. Ridgway could get that salary
and work eight hours » ‘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, 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 was a hard job, judging that first
limerick contest. There were more
than 1,600 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 to the
Limerick Editor and several of the
fellows in the editorial department,
who formed what you can call 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 Georgian today and try
your pen, or pencil, or put your type
writer “in lap.”
Thursday the winner of Limerick
No. 2 will be announced, Friday No.
3, Saturday No. 4, and so on.
Get your limerick in early!
Do it now! ' A
.
Newnan Is Working to
Establish New Banx
NEWNAN, Feb. 11.—Leading citi
zens »f Newnan and Coweta County
are interested in the proposition to
establish a $500,000 bank her. The
movement was started only & 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 L. H. Hill of Newnan, and
C. C. McKnight of Senioa, W. N:
Banks of Grantville and E. M. Camp
of Moreland. .
Shares are to be of par wvalue of
$125 each; capital stock to $400,-
000 with SIOO,OOO surplus, T un
dersteod practically all of sub
‘scriptions have been raised.
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