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CANNOT
ABOLISH VICE
BY STATUTES
THE MAYOR GF COUNCIL
BLUFFS MAKES A FINE PLEA
FOR CITY POLICE OFFICERS—
SOME SOUND THOUGHT ON
THE LAW.
Hon. Thomas Maloney, mayor of
Council Bluffs, lowa, discussed the
enforcement of law in cities at yes
terday’s meeting of the League of
American Municipalities, in Atlanta.
He said: “The impracticability of
abolishing a vice by mere repressive
legislation is now recognized by prac
tically all students of public affairs.
A vise, which is deeply ingrained in
the natural instincts of a large pro
portion of the human race, cannot be
abolished by framing laws which make
indulgence in that vice a statutory
crime and placing hem upon the sta
tute books of the state. And yet this
is what legislatures are attempting to
do.
“In connection with this question
of ‘law enforcement’ I desire to say
in conclusion that too often the police
department of a city is blamed for the
apparent lax enforcement of certain
laws. Too much is required of the
city police, and I have noticed that
state and county officials too often
shirk their responsibilities and lay
the burden upon the shoulders of the
police department. It is as much, if
not even more, the duty of the county
and state officers to see that the laws :
of this stae are enforced as it is that
of the police officer.” ]
HOW CURTJS SCOOPED. 1
• i
Got an Interview With Jesse James j
Before All Others. I <
Chicago, Oct. 7 — One of the ear
liest “scoops” of Wiliam E. Curtis, 1
the journalist who died Thursday j
night in Philadelphia, was that of i
getting an interview with the James j
boys while they were in the midst
of their war with the authorities.
While detectives were endeavoring
to locate the desperadoes, Curtis, then
a reporter for a Chicago paper, went
out to Missouri, (found their hiding
place and calmly announced he had
come for interview with bandits.
“We know what you’re here for;
you’re a spy,” was the reply of Jesse
James. “What’s more, you won’t
get away from here.”
But the aggressive reporter was not
to have his cherished hopes thus
spoiled until too old to be of use to ■
his paper. He refused to be a prison
er. He talked to the James bdys about
his trip out there to see them so that
he might put the truth about them
before the public and finally convinc
ed them he was there for the purpose
stated.
“Well, I’m going to give you any
thing you want just to satisfy you.’'
Jesse James finally agreed.
And he did. He gave Curtis the
’ most vivid interview anybody ever
had had with him. Having accomplish
ed his purpose the reporter returned
to the nearest telegraph station and
wired his “scoop” to his paper.
But he kept faith with the men who
hal taken him at his wo’-d. He did
not reveal any of the secrets of the
desperadoes, and he did not tell the
detectives who were searching (for
them, the location of their hiding
place.
THREE MEN SHOT
DURING PISTOL DUEL
Natchez, Miss., Oct. 6 —ln a three
cornered pistol fight tonight at a
boarding house near Fish Pond, La.,
fifteen miles south of here, Holman
and Berry Britton shot Thomas La
brie, station agent at Fish Pond.
Labrie received a flesh wound in the
left shoulder.
The Brittons claim to have acted in
self-defense. They telephoned the
Mhsheriff of Concordia parish that they
surrender tomorrow.
TRUTHFUL
BLIND TIGER
1 IN ATLANTA
> JUST THINK OF EVEN A COON
l DOWN IN THE GATE CITY
OWNING UP TO DOING ANY-
F THING OTHER THAN WHAT IS
RIGHT.
•
If ever there was a policeman who
was jarred it was Officer Felder when
he struck up with a walkng blind tig
er that made a quick and ready con
fession, says the Atlanta Constitution.
Officer Felder, whose beat is on Deca
tur and Ivy streets, has been trying
to pick up walking blind tigers for
several weeks past. He frequently
found negroes with their pockets full
of whiskey flasks, hut in every case
the negroes denied that they were
walking blind tigers and it was diffi
cult to prove that they had been sell
ing whiskey.
Thursday afternoon he met a negro
named Ned Gilham, whose pockets
bulged suspiciously. He walked up
to the negro and asked:
“Haven’t you got whiskey in your
pockets to sell?”
And greatly to his surprise Gil
ham pulled out of his pockets four
half-pints of corn liquor which he
handed over to the officer with the
asounding statement:
“Here’s de liquor Mr. Perliceman,
an’ youse sho catched me dis time.”
“Are you a walking blind tiger?”
asked the officer.
“I sho is,” was the unexpected re
ply-
The negro was taken to the police
barracks and locked up. He was tried
in the recorder’s court Friday.morn
ing where he again made a confes
sion and was sentenced to 30 days in
the city chaingang.
Ned Gilham is the first walking
blind tiger that has ever been known
in the history of the police depart
ment to so quickly and candidly con
fess'_ « '■
THE STATE
CHAMBER BE
COMMERCE
LOSES MR. WAKEFIELD, ITS
FORMER SECRETARY WILL
PROBABLY BE REORGANIZED
AT MACON SOME DAY NEXT
WEEK.
Macon, Ga., October 7 —There has
been a general shaking up in the re
cently organized state chamber <bf
commerce, and it is likely that the
body will be reorganized shortly on
an entirely different plan. It will be
th eearnest efforts of the present offi
cers to get Atlanta into the organiza
ion.
Secretary William Wakefield, of
Barnesville, has resigned, and H. D.
May, of Barnesville, is now looking
after the duties, of this office. Pres
ident John D. Walker, of Sparta, has
called a meeting which will be held
in Macon during the fair, week after
next.
Meeting at Pine Grove.
The citizens of Pine Grove and
Fincher districts had another busi
ness meeting Thursday night and ap
pointed committees to go ahead and
make the addition to the Pine Grove
school house for the purpose of a
Masonic and Odd Fellows’ lodge
room. Messrs. T. D. Ridley and C.
C. Maples made fine speeches that
were much enjoyed.
No Experience.
Gibbs —How are lobsters caught ?
Bibbs—Don’t ask me; I’m no cho
rus girl. . <V < 1 < ' $
«a. . . US' ka. Yk -Mt
THE DALTON ARGUS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1911.
(AN AGED MAYOR
. CANES ATTORNEY
Bristol, Tenn., Oct. 7 —An exciting
incident of the Bristol, Va., police
court this morning was the caning of
A. H. Blanchard, a prominent local
attorney by Mayor W. L. Rice. The
mayor, who is now almost 80 .years
old, used his cane vigorously, striking
the attorney two or three times over
the head. The incident created no
little excitement about the city hall.
The trouble grew out of an insinu
ation, it is said, that certain witness
ies in a police court case had been
tampered with. The aged mayor is
game, and is quick to resent what he
considers an insult.
MOST HONEST MAN.
Paid Newsboy $2.50 Instead of a Cent
After Reading Paper.
The most honest man in the city
lived in a boarding house and read
daily, with no thought of its provision
the morning paper that he found at his
plate, says the Buffalo Express.
But one morning he hurried out of
the house without reading the paper
and when he had attended to the bus
iness which had summoned him forth
in such haste, he bought his first pa
per —twelve pages, 1 cent. He took
it to his office and read. With leisure
unusual, he progressed from begin
ning to the end—accidents, benevo
lences, crimes, telegraph news, local
news, vicinity news, political news,
railroad news, government news, ma
rine news, essays, reports of meeting’s,
speeches, the list of persons to whom
Carriage license had been issued, in
teresting clippings from newspapers
of which he had never heard, a short
story, market news, baseball news,
football news, news of the boxers,
bowling news, tennis news, yachting
news, motorboat news, automobile
news, music news, religious news and
advertising of two many kinds to men
tion.
When he had finished he went out
into the street, hunted up the lad of
whom he had bought the newspaper
and paid him $2.50 for value received.
NEW RAILROAD TO BE
BUILT TO GAINESVILLE
Gainesville and North Western Rail
way Will Be Built to Robertstown.
Gainesville, Ga., Oct. 7 —The ex
tension of the Gainesville Midland
railroad from Gainesville through
Concord, Cleveland and on to Roberts
town is a certainty, all the papers
having been signed up yesterday. Up
to midnight last night it was not
known whether Gainesville or Clarks
ville would get this road. The name
of the new road 'will be Gainesville
ana Northwestern Railway company.
Depots will be located at Roberts
town, Cleveland, Clermont and at O’-
Kelleys. It is the purpose of the
railroad company to finish the road
in one year. This new railroad means
much to Gainesville. It means that
the virgin section of the country, un
developed north of Gainesville, the
mountain section, will be put in close
proximity to Gaipesville, and the lum
ber interests, the mining properties,
and other great industries will be de
veloped.
Knew What She Should Do.
The new minister was noted as an
indefatigable talker, and when Mrs.
Schuyder, who was very busy, saw
him coming she decided not to re
ceive him. She instructer her dau
ghter, aged 4. accordingly.
“Mamma says she’s ndt in,” said
the little one when she opened the
door in response to a ring.
“You go and tell your mother,”
said the minister, impressively, “that
I’d like to know what she’d do if St.
Peter sends her that kind of a mes
sage when she knocks at the gate of
heaven. ’ ’
“Site says,” said the child when
she returned, “that she’ll do what
you’ll do, only she won’t make so
much noise about it.”
ANOTHER
BIG DAM
BURSTED
ANOTHER VILLAGE SAID TO BE
WIPED OFF THE MAP
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE IS PROBABLE
This Time the State of Wisconsin is
the Scene of Another Fearful Loss
of Life and Valuable Property.
LaCross, Wis., Oct. 7—The situa
tion at Black River Falls, the pre
cipitous little city of 2,000 population,
swept by a flood yesterday afternoon
when waters of the Black river, swol
. —~n—
len by recent rains, washe dthrough
the embankment at the LaCnoss Wat
er Power Company’s dams at Hatfield,
is worse by far than was even feared
when the deluge burst upon the un
fortunate town. It is impossible to
ascerain the loss of life at present. It
is believed he casulty list will be hea
vy. Half of the business section was
destroyed, together with a part of the
residence district, and it is alleged by
residents who have taken refuge on
high lands that the city will be wiped
off the map; The people have been
scattered and canvasses are being
made to determine how many are
missing.
At 7 o’clock last night between 25
and 30 business houses, comprising all
stores on two streets, had been de
stroyed, together with about that num
ber of homes. A that hour the waters
were still rising rapidly and he de
struction of the stores on the other wo
hastiness streets were predicted.
The buildings have been not merely
flooded, ba destroyed. The Tremont
hotel, a substantial three-story struc
ture, was the first o go, and one build
ing afer another followed. No pre
cautions could be taken to stop the
wrcking of the town. The city is in
darkness, the electric light plant be
ing one of the first to he struck by
the flood.
The disaster was caused by the sud
den rise of the Black river behind the
two dams of the LaCross Water Pow
er company folowing rains which last
ed almost a week. The dams with
stood the pressure, but in each case
the river washed around the sides, tak
ing out a big section of the river bank
and coming down upon the country
below in almost as great volume as
though the dams had been swept
away.
The $5,000,000 property of the wat
er company is believed to be not great
ly damaged and it is said that the
main dam, which is a concrete struc
ture 100 feet thick at the base and 50
feet at the top, would probably stand
all the force which might be directed
against it.
Besides he damage at Black River
Falls, a great tract of surrounding
country was overrun. Effort was
made to send warnings to farmers,
but telephone wires soon went down
and the fate of many settlers who
knew nothing of the flood until it
struck their immediate le'»lities is
the cause of much apprehension.
Below Black River Falls are a num
ber of small villages, and the high
/wafers are due to strike them during
the night and tomorrow. Forces of
men have been sent out to strengthen
the bridges in the three counties along
the river.
“How did yon b mto buy way
up there at the
“Brain fevc
“But why did you sell down at the
bottom?”
“Cold feet.” —New York Press.
Farm For Sale.
Having moved my family to At
lanta, will sell a big bargain in the
best farm on East Chickamauga
Creek, Whitfield county, Ga. For
price an dterms, address Dr. W. A.
Anderson, Atco, Bartow County, Ga.
DIO-4-7—QlO-5-12. i
HELLO GIRL
PLAYS THE
HEROINE
A FAITHFUL TELEPHONE OPE
RATOR AT AUSTIN, PENN.,
STUCK TO HER POST DURING
THE DAM DISASTER AT THAT
PLACE LAST WEEK.
In whatever guise it appears the
admires heroism. Where its exhibition
illustrates the marvels of modern me
chanical invention the feeling is in
tensified. says The Atlanta Constitu
tion, editorially. It was these quali
ties that combined in the recent cata
clysm at Austin, Pa., to exemplify
the life-saving value of the telephone
and to point the bravery of Misses
Lyons and Bickley, two switchboard
operators. Their exploits deserve to
rank with the feats of the knights
of the wireless who periled life and
limb to avert disaster.
Miss Lyons sat at her switchboard
sending out warnings to individuals,
and other warnings that set whistles
going, long after she was told that
the flood was approaching and her
own life in danger.
Miss Binckley performed the same
act of bravery, saving her own life
by a margin even narrower than that
accorded Miss Lyons.
And these are merely instances of
the gallantry of women who are cogs
in the vast machinery for communi
cation in this country.
We hail each instance of heroism
on the part of men as reassuring evi
dence that the pessimism over the
deterioration of the race is ill-found
ed. Such cases as those above sight
ed are equally, if not more, signifi
cant, as pointing that the women of
the race, upon whom, after all, the
safeguarding of the race depends, are
still cast in that mold which makes
for racial virility and preservation.
These two girls saved, not one, but
many lives. Carnegie medals, since
they are being so generally distribut
ed, would be rather an indifferent re
cognition of their valor. There should
be some more sufficient manner in
which to signalize displays of that
high courage which is so indispensa
ble an asset of humanity.
droppeTdead
AT WARING
MR. WYATT, AN AGED CITIZEN
OF THAT PLACE SUDDENLY
STRICKEN—WAS WELL AND
FAVORABLY KNOWN AT THAT
PLACE.
Mr. D. M. Hyatt an aged citizen of
Waring, dropped dead late yesterday
afternoon about five o’clock.
There was no indication of any par
ticular illness other than the fact that
he was over seventy years of age. He
had not been complaining during the
day and there was no premonition of
immediate death.
He left a daughter and one son. The
son, Mr. W. F. Hyatt, is the tfnrd
trick operator of the Southern railway
up at Waring. The deceased was a
pleasant gentleman and liked by all
who knew him.
The son and daughter will have
the sympathy of all their friends in
the loss of their father.
Accidentally Kills Child.
Albany, Ga., Oct. 7—Mrs. A. N.
Hilburn accidentally caused the death
of her 2-year-old son, Alton, today,
when, after putting a teaspoonful of
carbolic acid in a quart of water, she
administered a portion of the mixture
internally to the boy. The child liv
ed two hours. The mother is pros
trated by grief.
Even the freckle-faced girl has her
good spots.
When a man ceases tc doubtTT
gins to do things. ' ' he
When you hefc- a man Bav that i ■
feels better when he works if
cue to make a getaway. ’ “
And Abbey Enjoyed Life.
“The late Edwin A. Abbev, t u
j American painter who lived i n Ls , r
was only comfortably off. whereat
might have been rich.”
| o The SpcakeT ’ sa ys the Kansas Citv I
Star, a Chicago art dealer, had
returned from Europe. He ’
“I dined one evening with Abbev
m Ins house in Chelsea and after
dinner we walked in the blue twi.
light on the Chelsea embankm nt
“As we passed Old Swan House
and Clock House, and the other Su
perb residences that front the river
I reproached Abbey for his extrav
agance.
“‘Why,’ I said, ‘if you had saved
your money you might be living i n
a palace like these today.’
“But Abbey, with a laugh, rather
got the better of me. He rattled off 1
this epigram—and it's an epigram ’
I’ll always remember when I’m tempt
ed to be parsimonious.
“ ‘Some folks,’ he said, ‘are so
busy putting something by for a ra,..v
day that they get little or no good out
of pleasant weather.”
One-Man Power.
In a speech at Denver N. C. Good
win once remarked on the small means
wherewith Washington had achieved
such great ends, says the Washington
Star.
“When I think,” said Goodwin,
“of Washington’s terrible handicap,
my mind goes back to the town of
Nola Chucky.
“An actor manager was to appear
for one night in Nola Chuckey, and
accordingly, wired the proprietor of
the Nola Chucky operda house:
“Will hold rehearsal tomorrow at
noon. Have stage manager, stage car- I
penter, property man and assistant
chief electrician and all the stage
hands at theatre promptly to hour.”
He received this telegram in re
ply: “He will be there.”
“We don't hear any more about
the difficulty of securing chorus girls.’
“No, the hard conditions in Wai!
street have made it necessary for most
of the chorus girls who were thinking
of marrying rich men’s sons, to go
back to work.” —Chicago Record-
Herald.
Juarez, Mexico, claims to be the only
city in the world in which the direc
tion and control of the city parks have
been turned over completely to women,
a board of eight women managers
having exclusive control of them.
HELP WANTED—Wanted; ex
perienced loopers, knitters, toppers,
pairers, and folders, and girls for our
paper box department. Good pay and
steady employment. Apply to Rich
mond. Hosiery Mills, Rossville, Ga.
DR H. L. ERV IN
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office over McWilliams Clothing Stora
rnones:
Office 58. 2 Rings. Residence 59„3 rgs-
AGENTS WANTED— to sell Texas
lands. No experience necessary. Big
money for traveling salesman. Ts
you are a “live wire” write E. E.
Clark, sales manager, Hamlin, Texas.
wut-11-23-11.
roofing
Best made. Fully g uar
anteed. Come to see us
before buying.
GARDNER
PLUMBING
CO.