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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.