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FI'fDAY, DIX’F.MnRII 7. 19*-.
THE. ATLANTA OEOKU1AN,
People Are Aroused
Over the Japanese
Question.
DON’T WANT JAPS
MADE CITIZENS
Labor Organizations Pre
pare to Hold Meetings to
Protest Against Pres
ident ’s Idea.
Seattle. Wash., Dec. 7.—War talk is
heard all over the north coast In great
er volume than at any .time- since the
days preceding the Spanish war. What
worries the timid ones the most Is that
the Pacific coast Is apparently defense,
less. Seattle, Portland, LaC'oina, Bel-
linirham. Evorett, Olympia and many
smaller cities, they assert, would fall
easy prey to a Japanese lleet.
"The most serious phase of the situ
ation," said a Federal Jurist, “Is that
the president should have unexpected
ly advocated what the Japanese did
not ask—that lr, citizenship—and that
he should have suggested this radical
measure at the wrong time and with
out taking tho cokntry or his party into
his confidence.
Many Japs' in United States.
"It seems certain that congress will
refuse to pass the measure advocate^
by the president. The Japanese have - ,
been led to believe that tho president is
some sort of a mikado. 'When the
awakening comes there will be n reac.
tlon In the Islnnds, with the possibility
,.f serious results.”
There are 18,000 Japanese in the Ju
rlsdlction of Consul Hisdmldxu, Includ
ing Washington, Oregon, Montano.; Ida
ho and Alaska, all of-whom are liable
to Ire called to bear arms In Japan's
interest In cose there is war. Consul
illsnmldiu says all of the number
would become citizens If given
chance. , Admiral Katoaka, command
ing three ( Japanese cruisers, Is due here
•March 4, for the first official visit of a
Japanese naval squudron In the history
uf the const.
Oppose Visit of Fleet.
The central Inbor council of Seattle,
representing 10,000 enrolled working-
men, will, It Is declared, protest against
the visit of the squadron under the
circumstance*.
Govornor Mernle has come out In cm.
phntlc language ns being opposed to
the president's recommendation that an
act he passed specifically providing fc
the naturalization of the Japanese.
Governor Opposes Plan.
"I nm oppose^ to such a course,
said the governor. "Naturalisation of
the Japanese would tend to degrado the
American workman. The sacred right
"f American citizenship, acquired as it
was by the blood of our forefathers,
should not bo lightly handed over to
another and especially to foreigners of
the Asiatic cooat.
"We are very near to the countries
"f the Orient whose teeming millions
'•"Uhl he poured In upon our shores
Imuld wo throw down the bars to
•hem. The two races will not assimi
late. China Is laughing In her sleeves,
should Japan succeed In obtaining cit
izenship rights China Would come to
the front with a similar demand.
"We cannot extend our citizenship
lights to one Asiatic country without
duing the same to others.
Labor Takes Action.
“I believe the president Is wrong.
The Japanese arc poorly fitted as
American citizens. I have always con
tended so." •
Organized Inbor last night sent a
message to San Francisco, stating that
it Indorsed the anti-Japanese senti
ments of tho California rltlsens.
LIVES OF CONGRESSMEN
THREATENED IN LETTERS;
PRECAUTION IS TAKEN
Slayden Notified He’ll
Get a “Black
Shot.”
CITY COUNCILMAN
DIES AT WILMINGTON
Gs-elnl to The Georgina.
Wilmington. X. <*., las*. 7.—city Council,
•‘'■tit l-Mwnnl F. Johnson, leader of the
mtitdeipnl ownership forces of this city,
" d etmdldnte for ninyor. died this morning
.-ifter n three weeks' Illness.
Washington, Dec. 7.—Severn! mem
bers of congress have received letters
from negroes threatening their lives.
Three or four of the discharged negro
'soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry,
it Is said, pre In Washington.
Mr. Slayden. of Texas, who has In
troduced a 1>III providing that no
negro troops be allowed In the arniy,
was warned In a letter that he would
bo hit with o "black shot." An order
that no person carrying a bundle jfte
admitted to the capitol will be Inforce.l
for some lime.
“He Can't Dishonor Thtm.”
At a meeting In St. Mary's colored
Methodist Episcopal’church to protest
against President Roosevelt's action,in
discharging three negro companies if
the Twenty-fifth Infantry, the Rev.
Charles S. Morris said:
"He can tear the uniform from the
black men who ascended San Juan hill
with him, but he cannot dishonor
them.”
Resolution is Adopted.
At yesterday’s session the senate
adopted the Penrose resolution request
ing the president to send It information
regarding the discharge of the negro
troops of the Twenty-fifth Infantry,
and also the Forakcr resolution direct
ing the secretary of war to transmit -ill
Information in the possession of his de
partment on the same subject.
Both resofiitlons carried an Identical
amendment by Mr. Culberson asking
specifically for the order to Major Pen
rose, commanding the troops, which di
rected him not to turn over to the
Texas authorities certain of the troops
demanded.
Foraktr Dsftnds Troops.
Dining the debate Mr. Forakcr de
nied that "it had been alleged nnd not
denied" that the negro troops had com
mitted murder In Texas. 4 , ,
■ - -Mr. THlpidn said he had read In the
papers' "ah alleged; report” from the
secretary of war that ten or twenty of
the troops had "shot up the town of
Brownsville. Texas."
Mr. Forakcr admitted, at the sug
gestion of Mr. Warren, thnt the presi
dent under the law had the right to In
crease or decrease the army within cer
tain maximum and minimum limits.
siMfiK
HIM FOR KNIFING
ERIN L
Gate City, Va., Dec. 7.—Witnesses
yesterday before the coroner’s jury in
vestigating the death of Dr. I. S. And
erson, testified that In his dying state
ment he said his brother-in-law,
James Nelms, killed him by cutting an
artery.
wording to the testimony, Dr.
Anderson said ho was held by his wife,
awl his mother-ln-luw while Nelms
did tin? cutting. Nelms Is under arrest
ailing the verdict of the Jury.
ATLANTA CHILDREN
A TRENDING SCHOOL
IN OLD COAL ROOM
The table below show* the number of classes In each school which have
below nnd above the number of pupils considered th*e best number for ef
ficient tenching. Experts givo, forty pupils as tho best maximum for a
class. The table shows that many classes have between forty and forty-
nine pupils an<f that a large number have between fifty and sixty. #
Below Between Between Between
30 30 am! 30 40 and 49 50 and 60
pupils. pupils. pupils. pupils.
Boys* High School *6 4 o l •
Girls’ High School 5 * Tl - s n
Ivy Street I 1 3 4
Grew Street o 3 4 10
Walker Street 3 3 f. 4
Marietta Street 1 1 3 4
Fair Street o o 7 6
Calhoun Street 0 0 4 6
Ira Street. 11 3 1 4
Davis Street :i 3 5 l
Boulevard 1 0 6 ’ 5
State Street 1 3 4 5
Frailer Street o o r» j»
Edge wood Avenue... ..... 1 1 4 4
Forihwalt Street n * t 3 5
Williams Street... 0 3 4 4
West End 0 r» 4 3
Bell Street 3 I. 3 3
Grant Park., 0 0 3 s
Lee Street.. 0 t! I * 0
Tenth Street 0 3 1 4
Pryor Street. 0 3 0 2
Night School 4 0 0 0
Total No. of Grades 29 4| -75 93
Come in Tomorrow
and see Prof. Joseph Becker demonstrate the
art of cooking upon the great Majestic Range.
Free Scientific Cooking Lecture
from 2 to 5 o f clock.
Prof. Becker’s Recipes Given for the Asking.
Tomorrow. Saturday, Prof. Becker will cook a
seven-pound rib roast, three or four different vegeta
bles, a dressing, and two dozen biscuits in one pan in
side of one hour in tho .Majestic ltange, and will serve
them to tho ladies present. Ho will also make and
bake dainty pastries, explaining each one as it is made.
Majestic drip coffee and all kinds of dainty
cakes served free to all—everybody invited.
Our Great Offer
Tomorrow, Saturday, we will give to
each person pur
chasing a Great
Majestic Range
The Majestic Range
will last a life time.
It saves fuel, labor,
food and money.
Don’t fail to see it.
worth of the Best
Enameled Cook 1
Ware.
If you need a Range
don’t fail to come
and take advantage
of this great money
saving opportunity.
And erson Hardware Co.
Housefurnishings Dep’t., Second Floor.
Invented In new school buildings could 1
not be better Invented.
New Buildings Needed
That these new school buildings are
needed is shown by the table accom
panying tills. This table .only Includes
the white schools, and shows how many
classes are crowded and how many are
normal. It Is obvious at a glance that
the columns showing Up; overcrowding
are larger than those which have
enough pupils to make work for the
teachers such ns to thoroughly Instruct
the pupils.
Continued from Pago One.
Governor Going to Columbus.
ivernor Terrell will leave * Friday
evening fur Columbus, whore Saturday
he will meet the agricultural trustees
f the Fourth district. So far, Mus-
>gee and Carroll are the only counties
to submit bids for the school, but
others will probably he on hand when
the trustees g^t down to burifnes*.
New General Manager.
D. R. Peteet whs elected general I
manager of the Georgia Transfer and}
Storage Company at the annual meet-]
Ini* of the directors Thursday. The | drum
|mi>ltllm Is a now one marie by the ill- j known how liberal counell hit* been to
,n‘ :;::r,n , :^:"t.rVe n t f eet ^ - «*■•- «•«
purchasing agent of the Southern Beil I
Telephone and Telegraph Company and
was also connected with the Western
class n teacher has little time to give
attention to each one of those sixty
pupils. Three minutes to each one
would mean 18t) minutes or three hours.
Now nobody Is “knocking.”
Nobody Is sore with the mayor and
council.
esident Luther Z. Rosser, of the
board of education, has nothing but
words of praise for the present mayor
nnd council. He says they,have done
magnificently by the public schools, but
at th«* same time he admits that the
bools are crowded; that Atlanta bad
ly needs more schools and consequently
more teachers.
Assistant Superintendent L. M. Lan-
talks the sume way about It.
Electric Company, as purchasing agent.
Nathan’s Home Bakery
-SPECIAL NOTICE—
Hereafter this Company will not maintain a retail store on Peachtree street.
Orders for Breads, Cakes, Pastries, etc., should be phoned direct to the factory,
Bell phone 2564 Main, Atlanta phone 4156.
Nathan’s Home Bakery,
Office and Factory, 83 Mangum Street, corner Markham.
for It, but at tho same time he sees
with what rapidi*y the number of chil
dren Increases.
.The question then Is:
•What Is the remedy?
What is the Remedy?
Nothing but more schools, nnd this
work could begin with advantage by
the tearing down of several of those
dilapidated flame structures and the
building «»f enlarged new ones.
In 1902 the enrollment of the public
schools in Atlanta was 11,395.5. In
1903 it was 13.334.8. In 1904 it was
13,865.2. In 1905 It was 13,961.5, nnd
already crowded and new schools are
•needed to relieve tho pressure on them.
The Best Investment,
The whole problem ^s Just one to
which the people of Atlantu have not
been giving much thought. Money
invested In the education of children is
the best invested money In the world.
This year there was an Increase In
school facilities of seventeen hew
rooms, but even this was not enough
for the increase in the number of pu
plls, and the time has now arrived
when. the board of education has
reached Its limit In. the addition
rooms to school buildings. It Is now
necessary to build schools.
Those schools which are antiquated
and behind the times, and even dan
gerous, are the Crew street, the Walker
street, the Lee street, Marietta street,
Ivy street and Fair street schools. They
stand out as shining examples. Wh<
compared With the new Pryor street
school, Just erected, the comparison is
odious. The old schools are antiquated
In every* particular and so cramped
have some of them become for room
that In one school a room formerly-
used to store coal In Is being used for
school purposes.
And with all the increases In salaries
of public officials the money question,
when school teuchers were concerned,
seems to have been forgotten. The sal
aries now pale! teachers are practically
the same as paid twenty years ago.
Schools cost money and Atlanta
>m»y to throw away, but It Is
j this year it Is 14,361.1. In four years
ill has increased about 3,900. or nearly i hasn’t
j 800 N pupils a year. While the facilities J generally conceded by all that money
; Have also increased, they have not In
1 creased enough to take care of this
L increase, in pupils.
| Assistant Superintendent Landrum
| says that It cun lie counted on an :t
| certainty that the Increase next year
« will e*iual y that of this year over last. It
] doe# not tak# an expert mathematician
! to figure that 800 pupils with 4a pupllrf
to groom Will mean 20 rooms and this
means a school or two.
' Bonn* of the new # schools built to re
lieve the pressure «*n other schools ore
FOR SALE AT. BIG SAC
RIFICE. j
Elegant new office furni
ture and fixtures in Golden
Oak Annlv IS Pacf Ala Hodges & O’Hara** tur
Acs £*051 Ala-1 ^mjne farm and lumber camp. Buffalo
bama St.
With the colored school* thl* contri
tion 1*/even worse, anil addition* nnd
new school* hardly make any differ
ence. This Is nccounteil for by the fact
that many ncqroes have thslr children
In tho nrltnnry departments of tho no-
gro colleges In Atlantn, where they pay
a small fee, but ns soon a* there Is
room In the Atlantn public schools they
take the children from these colleges,
put them In the public schools and save
the fee.
These facts are things the /!eo|ile/>f
Atlanta should think nlmut. They need
not Maine the city council. As Presi
dent Rosser, of the honnl of education,
says, tho council hus done well, and nfl
It could do under the circumstances.
Rut a concerted cfTort Is coming on the
j,art of Atlanta people to remedy this
condition. At least It ought to be com
ing.
Just think of those old antiquated and
unsafe school houses!
NAT, DEM, CONVENTION
WANTEDJV ATLANTA
Continued from Pago On*.
SEVEN INDICTMENTS
CHARGING PEONAGE
Federal Court Making Thor
ough Investigation of
Labor Conditions.
In fuvor uf bringing everything to \t-
luntu.”
Homy H. Johnson: “An excel t
pistil and we should work to gat the
convention. It should be held In \t-
lnnta. I am heartily In favor of It.”
K. It. DuBose: "Beat think In the
world. Let's get the new auditorium
nnd then the national Democratic con
vention to be held in It.”
From the Capitol.
Assistant Adjutant General A. J.
Scott: ”1 think It would bo an ex
cellent Idea to bring the national Dem
ocratic convention to Atlanta in 19ng
It would bring the great Democrat#
the etUIre country to the very heart of
Democracy, and 1 believe all other »••• -
tlon* of *th© country would approve.
Let everybody pull for It.”
Comptroller General W. A. Wright:
"Why, there would seem to be but •
difficulty In the way of It, and that u
adequate hotel accommodation!!. Suc/i
a convention would bring thousand# **f
prominent Democrat* here frdm nil sec
tions of the country, and they would
have to be cared for properly. If tho
people would throw open their homes
to the delegates and visitors, then l
thluU It would be a fine thing.”
Executive Secretary B. M. Black
burn: “I understand that the new audi
torium will seat 10.000 people. That
would not be sufficient to accommodate
a great gathering such os one of then.)
national conventions. Chicago. .St.
Louis urn) Kansas City had fine audi
toriums, but they built temporal v
structures large enough to accommo
date 35,000 to 30,000 people. Allan .4
would have to do something like that.
If It will, then I #ay bring the conven
tion here, where the fountain of pur#
Democracy and Americanism la to l»e
found.”
There were doxens of others who
spoke in the same way. They all wane
the convention to come to Atlanta. Ic
means money In the pocket# of Atlanta,
people. Every delegate who attend# Is
going to spend money, *uid all this will
be left In Atlanta.
Bpecial to The Georgian.
Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 7.—Yesterday
afternoon the Federal grand Jury re
timed seven Indictments in peonage
cases, six against F. J. O’Hara, of the
firm of Hodges & O'Hara, of Palatku,
Fla., and one against George F. Bur-
vlll, foreman for O’Hara.
Two Indictments charge O’Hara with
carrying away Frans NebeJ, to be held
in a condition of slavery, and conspira
cy to carry Nebel away.
Three indictments charge O'Hara
with returning laborers to a condition
peonage, and another charges the
holding of Benjamin Wileuskl.
The men making the charges were all
ward Johnson in peonage. The men
who. It Is charged, were held by O’Hai t
besides those mentioned ubove, nr**:
Morris Kerretu, Nathan Maybergi r 1 /
Bennie IUchenstein. The irten are ItaL
| Ians and German Jews.
All have been held in jail here sin.v
July as government witnesses u; SL
per day.
The Jury is now considering t o
cases of peonage against John I*.
Lynch, at Fairbanks, Fla.; Edward
Geiger, Indian Springs, and one other
against a defendant named Clayton.
THE DELICIOUS QUAIL
IS NOW IN SEASON. TRY
ONE TONIGHT AFTER
THE THEATER AT THE
NEW KIMBALL PALM
barged with holding Ed- GARDEN.