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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.