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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-09-28
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
ONCE AN ENEMY, NOW A FRIEND.

ONCE AN ENEMY, NOW A FRIEND.
Dear Sir: have been your enemy
for thirty years, until Sept %, 1910,
when I drove twenty miles through
the country to Douglasville to hear
you speak; | had never seen you till
that day and you converted me to the
belief that you are for the good Of
our country and working to that
end, trying to show the people out
of the traps that Hoke Smith led
them into. I came home and sub
scribed for your literature and have
been reading it ever since. I wish
we had more Tom Watsons.
Yours truly L. w. e.
Draketown, Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-09-28
FROM "a REGULAR READER. "

Dear Sir: Having been regular
subscriber and constant reader of
The JeffersOnian for long time, I
would ike to express my apprecia-
ton to you for the various articles
which have fallen from your pen ex-
posing the prelateS, as there are but
very few PrOteStantS today that seem
to know or care anything about the
history of Paganism or the spirit of
Paganism that has been brought out
of Pagan Rome by the Catholics and
IN my opinion there has never been
a greater need in this earths his
tory for the Protestant to cry aloud
and spare not time nor means in try
ing to educate the non-interested
Protestant in regard to the issues
that are now confronting the Ameri-
can citizen.
| heartily agree with you in the
statement made in your last issue of
the Jeffersonian that the Catholics
are not American citizens, neither
are they seeking for religious free
dom, but we find that our Baptists
as we'll as many other denominations
are joining hands with the Catholics
in more than one way and it will not
y
not be free school on the American
soil unless the Protestant rises as a
whole and demands religious free
dom, but instead Of that there are as
many of our popular ministers of to-
day, who are joining hands with the
Catholics, which should be consid-
cred grand insult to any Protestant.
For instance l have in my hands a
sermon from one of our most popu-
lar Baptist ministers of today, which
was delivered in the city Of Savan-
nah July Goth to a large congrega-
ton, in which he says that only ig-
norant people claim that the Catho-
lies worship images and positively
affirms that all such statements are
not true, but says that they do not
worship images. Now | would like
to have you explain through the
columns of your paper how we are
to maintain religious freedom when
we are being taught Catholicism
from the popular pulpits of the land.
Yours sincerely,
AN ADMIRER.
Savannah, Ga.
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WANTS A FEEDER TION OF
PROTESTANT SOCIETIES.

Dear Friend Waston: I am glad
the towards among your advertisers
are showing up SO conspicuously.
Now I will know better than to deal
with them. I know where to place
them. If they are going to help boy
colt your papers, I will help boycott
them. It's a very poor rule that
won't work more than one way.
If they are too cowardly to stand
by their friends, for one will not
stand by them.
Let's declare boycott against
every one Of the "crawfishes.
Let's show them that the "Wat-
son" Federation of Protestant So
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WHAT A SOLDIER THINKS OF
THE ROMAN CATHOLICS.
Cincinnati. o.

Dear Sir: We enclose you two pag-
es of a recent letter from an "enlist-
ed man" of the 3rd Cav, u. S. A.,
that you may see how your bugle-
notes OF warning against "Catholi-
cism in America" are echoing from
court, farm and camp. Wherever
there are thinking men and women,
your article is being read and ap-
preciated, and your earnest and pa
triotic efforts for your country's up
lift are being seconded by the best
citizens. Continue in the daring
fight against current evils. The re-
ward of the true reformer is coming
your way. We get letters from
many older, wiser, and more promi-
nent men than this Soldier Boy"
and in all of them is expressed a be-
lief in the growing danger of the
Catholic superstitions in America
We have just read Ebert Hub
bard's Battle of Waterloo" Victor
Hugo's Lies Miserables," years ago,
now intend reading your Waterloo"
this winter and to write you after
wards. Very respectfully,
MRS. I. N. MCCULLOUGH.
Paris, Tenn.
The following is an extract from
the soldiers letter:
1.-THE second installment of maya
zines came yesterday, and are being
perused with much interest by my
self and Synad, especially tom
WatsOn's JeffersOnian,' and the arti-
Gle on Catholicism, which contains
more truth than fiction. If the Pope's
influence in this country is not cur
tailed, we will see one of the blood
lest wars in history. 1 have come
to this belief by experience and OBJ
servation, while at Washington and
New York. In Washington after
seeing McKinley's reply to the Pope
of Rome, and his subsequent assas-
sination. In New York, after seeing
the blind superstition of the ignorant
Irish and Italians, who are the prey
OF priests, and consider their unit
matum more to be obeyed than that
of the President"
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ANOTHER OLD YARN SPOILED.

Dear Sir: Several days ago I
walked into a drug store and heard
a conversation between two gentle
men in regard to the negro Natur-
ally the conversation drifted to the
leaders in the late Civil War One
or the men said that Abraham Lin
coin and Jefferson Davis were half
brothers. This was new to me; in
fact, | doubted the truthfulness of
the assertion.
Please answer through The Jeffer-
SOnian whether these leaders and an
tagonists were brothers.
Very truly yours,
A. w. STONE.
Talladega, Ala.
Comment:
Not any truth whatever in state
ment. T. E. w.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-09-28

Dear Studs! Here's Mexico's rev.
olutin' again, and we thought Ma
dero was safely on the job of Pres
identing.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-09-28

Push the work of organizing the
Progressive Democratic League. De-
lays are dangerous.
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Creates Mild Sensation.

Ordering those present to remain until
President Taft left the auditorium, and
emphasizing his orders with sharp and
repeated raps Of the gavel. Prof. Charles
E. Bessey of the University of Nebraska
created a mild sensation at the formal
opening of the sixty-thrd annual conven-
ton of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, in the main hall
of the National Museum last night. Pres
ident Taft, acting. as he said. in the ca
pacity of mayor of Washington" had
delivered the opening address. welcoming
the scientists to the city. and still occu-
pied seat upon the stage. The hall was
crowded. all the seats and the standing
room being occupied, and more than 1000
were unable to gain admission to hear
the Presidents address. At the conclu-
sion of the address of Dr. A. A. Michel
son. the retiring president of the associa-
ton, a number of persons in the audience
arose to leave, turning their backs upon
the stage as they passed down the aisles.
Prof. Bessey. the newly elected presi-
dnt. gavel in hand. sprang to his feet and
sent a vOlley of taps echoing through the
auditorium. Prof Bessey shouted:
mo one must retire from the hail.
Those who had called forth the repri-
mand turned and gazed In amazement at
Prof. Bessey, but continued their way
toward the exits. Prof. Bessey again
shouted:
"Will YOU stop?'
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con at the hospital at 1890. In the even
ing they will join the Psychological So
ciety in their smoker.
The Botanical Society Of America will
hold its annual dinner at the Ebbitt this
evening at o'clock.
The American Economic Association
will be entertained by the Chamber of
Commerce at it's rooms at this evening.
This section gave a luncheon at the
Raleigh at 1 pm.
The American Society of Psychologists
will be entertained at dinner at the Cos
mos Club at 8 pm.
Ehe SigmaXi Fraternity will be enter
tanned at dinner at the Tea Cup Inn at
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town, Md, Tuesday night by Sheriff Nc
Kee and Officer Lockerman, confessed to
being members Of a gang OF eight thieves
who have recently broken into stores at
Ridgely. Greensboro and Ingleside. They
stated that q white man is at the head OF
the gang.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-28
Romance in Egypt.

Katharine Lee Bates is the author Of a
prize competitor in our next Sunday Mag
azine, entitled "That Find Up River"
pretty little story of the tour Of an Amer-
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JERSEY TO FIGHT MOSQUITO.
City of Montclair Appropriates $40,
600 to War on Pest.

MONTCLAIR. \. j., December Is
The local board of health has included
in its budget for next year the sum
of $4,000 to be spent in fighting the
Jersey mosquito.
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Two Types of Machines.

1t had been recognized that for military
use there We're two types of machines,
the small, high-speed machine for dis
patch work and the slower machine car
rying two men for reconnaissance work.
Recent experiments in France had proved
the utility of the aeroplane as a defensive
arm, and there was now a third type
that could carry two men and 6oO
pounds of dead weight UP to % miles
an hour over range of 100 miles.
If this We're translated into terms of
emergency rations it meant a days food
for half a regiment, or in small arm
ammunition it meant $500 pounds. In
terms of high explosives it meant that a
small party OF raiders could pass over the
heads of frontier army and infiict ir-
reparable damage on base supplies, dock
yards, bridges and tunnels, things that
made war possible for the opposite side.
He said that the art of dropping bombs
had been developed here and in France
TO the point where the use of the aero
plane as an offensive arm was possible.
Emile Berliner of Washington. with the
aid of models showed what had been
done In the development of the revolving
cylinder motor. Spencer Heath talked on
the mathematics of propeller construc-
ton.
The meetings of the Association for the
Advancement of Science formally opened
at the National Museum last night with
an address by President Taft, and papers
/ by Charles E. Bessey, president of the
association; A. A. Michaelson, the retir-
Ing president, and other scientists.
Many Meetings Today.
Meetings of the various sections are be-
ing held today in different parts Of the
city. Every domain of science was dis
cussed. There were too many social en-
| tertainments for the visitors.
| At 10 IN. the Astronomical and Astro-
| physical society paid visit to the as
| trophysical observatory at the Smithso-
MAN Institution, where they were received
| by Secretary Charles d. Walcott and were
/ shown the apparatus of the observatory
and the system used for making stimuli
! taneouS solar observations here and al
the similar astrophysical observatory al
! Mount Wilson. in California. In the even
/ ing there will be a reception to the same
society at the Naval Observatory, where
| Prof Asaph Hall and the other scientists
/ will show the visitors over the big govern
| ment plant
| Members of the American Chemical So
| ciety are on an excursion to Mount Yer
non this afternoon.
| The Geological Society of America will
hold its annual dinner at the Ebbitt
| House at pm
Dinner to Psychologists.
There will be dinner to the American
Psychological Association at the Govern
ment Hospital for the Insane this even.
| ing. This will be followed by a smoker
| for the members of the society at the
Fredonia Hotel at pm.
! The Southern Society for Philosophy
and Psychology were served with lunch
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lean professor and his bride through the
historic part Of old Egypt. The find was
rare antique for which scientists had
been searching for years.
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Atlantic Coast Line.

the standard railway of the south daily
to Florida Cuba, south; 4:1O, $40 p m,
40 a M 1919 New York ave. n.w.-Advt
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President Amused.

Nobody stopped, however. and Prof.
Bessey stood watching the retreating au-
d.tors with an expression of stern dis
approval on his face AS the last of them
disappeared he said:
when we have the President Of the
United States upon the stage no one goes
out"
AS President Taft rose to leave the
professor wheeled and exclaimed:
The audience will stay" And again.
as the President rose, The audience will
stand"
President Taft, shaking with laughter
at the incident. made his way from the
hall, accompanied by his party. which In
cluded Maj. Butt, Senator Root, c. c.
Glover, Rear Admiral Stockton, President
| Thirkield Of Howard University, John
JOY Edison and others
In his remarks to the assembled scfen-
! lists President Taft dwelt OH the beauties
of Washington and its especial attractions
Tor men OF science, mentioning the Car
nesie institution and a number of TIN:
scientific bureau of the government
ing of the Naval Observatory. he said:
If L could change the Naval Observa-
tory into bureau with a scientific pro-
lessor at its head I would do it tomor-
men connected with that and with other
coordinate branches Of the government
that prevent. There are some of these
bureaus that | would like to get nv
hands on and change but there are limi-
tatonS upon the power of the President
OF the United States, and he cannot do
everything that he would"
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AERONAUT|C NEEDS
U. S. Laboratory of Research
Work Advocated.
SCIENTISTS IN MEETINGS
President Taft Favors Liberal Sup
port for Bureaus.
PARASITIC RICH" SCORED
Prof. Farnam, Before Economic As
ISOLATION, Urges Careful Study of
Members of Leisure Class"
PARASITIC RICH" SCORE1

Need for an aeronautical laboratory ir
the United States was urged before the
meeting of the mechanical engineering
section of the Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science today and a reso.
luton was passed pledging the Aero
Club Of America the support of the as
ISOLATION in a movement toward the
founding Of such a research institution
1t was regarded by many as the most
important and positive action that has
been taken so far by any Of the numer-
GUS sections meeting here this week.
Advocated by DR.. Zahm.
An address was delivered by DR.. AL
bert F. Zahm, pointing out the urgent
need Of such laboratory. He sketched
the future before aerial navigation in
the United States and gave an account
Of the laboratories now in existence in
England. France. Russia and Germany.
He said that there were several inSti-
ped for handling such research. and
named the bureau Of standards, the
Smithsonian Institution and the Franklin
Institute of Philadelphia.
1t is probable that active steps will be
taken in the near future by the Aero
Club of America to secure the founding
of such a laboratory and an endowment
fund for its maintenance.
Aeroplane Accidents.
The causes Of aeroplane accidents, and
the evils of "holeS in the air. were
graphically described by w. j. HUMPHREYS
of the federal weather bureau.
The dreaded holes he said were the
result of varying speeds of different cur
rents. Mr.. HUMPHREYS urged aeroplanists
to avoid landing in hollows, to shun
bright, sunny days when the earth is well
heated. or thunderstorm weather.: and
to avoid travelling from one sort of sur
face to another. Sandy soil he described
as most productive of the rising currents
that produce "holeS.''
He Endorsed the suggestion that there
are pockets in the air full of poisonous
gases which partially asphyXiate the air.
man when he rushes through them.
Maj. George O. Squier of the Signal
Corps said that the advent of the aero
plane had brought to warfare a new
feature that was certainly as important
as the invention of the needle gun, if
not as important as the invention of gun
powder itself. He said that the develop
ment of the aeroplane was SO rapid that
it was necessary to change ones opinion
almost daily.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-28
Visit Mount Vernon.

Members of the American Chemical So
ciety divided their attention today be-
tween business and pleasure, discussing
many perplexing problems at the McKin-
ley Manual Training School in the morn
ing and going on an excursion to Mount
Vernon this afternoon.
Washington members of the society en-
tertained visiting chemists who are here
for the annual convention of the allied
scientific organization at a smoker at
Rauscher's last night. The affair was
wholly informal a buffet supper being
served.
At yesterday afternoons session of the
society Prof. II. P. Talbot of West New
ton. Mass, struck a popular chord by de-
claring for higher fees for professional
chemists and analysts and decrying the
keen competition that exists between men
engaged in such pursuits. The PROPOSE
ton advanced by European chemists for
an international institute Of chemistry
also was received with favor. Prof
George B. Frankforter of the University
of Minnesota read paper on 1.-THE Resins
and Their Chemical Relation to the Ter
penes." Others who addressed the meet
ing were DR.. Arthur A. Moves, Massa-
chusetts Institute OF Technology; Prof.
w. d. Bancroft. Cornell University: Prof
II. G. Jones. Johns Hopkins University
Of Wisconsin.
The meeting of the American Economic
Association was held at the Raleigh Hotel
today. President Prof. Henry Farnam
CONTINUED on Thirteenth Page)
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Two colored men, arrested at Chester
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Favors Liberal Appropriations.

The President spoke Of a number of
the scientific bureaus, and expressed the
hope that Congress would become more
liberal in the appropriation of funds for
scientific research by the government.
Continuing he said:
| the truth of nature in which he would
in which he studies each individual In
stance to find that law. or, il he thinks
he has found 1t. to make the instance
square with the law, exercises the ju-
dicial faculty in a different branch, but
with the same necessity for absolute
adherence to truth in order that USE
full result may be reached-nO forcing
OF theory. no construction of individ-
uad instances in order to make a theory
II those instances really don't fit into
1t. and If l know the weakness of the
scientist or the temptation of the scien-
tist it is in reference to just such cases
as that.
Just as the Judge upon the bench
with a weakness for deciding the case in
advance because he has heard one or
two things in ii, and then tries to square
everything else that comes along to his
original theory, so. too, with you. 1 have
no doubt what you have to struggle
against is too quick recognition of some
thing that leads you to discover law
Subsequent study changes your mind
about it. and then you have to go back
and build up new theory or law, slow
ly, deliberately, but with strict adher-
ence to truth and a. desire to find the
truth, until you finally conquer and reach
conclusion that will bear the test of
every instance
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SUBURBAN PROPERTY,

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SPECIAL NOTICES.

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habit of saving something every month. Your
funds are invested in first mortgages on Dis
trict Of Columbia real estate. Ask about IT.
January is the time 10 begin. Offices 1I14 Ia
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PERSONALS.

ANY ONE KNOWING THE WHEREABOUTS
of Mrs. Fannie Minor. colored or her chill
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Box 80.
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PURSUANT To SECTION l. ARTICLE TX. OF
bylaws, notice is hereby given that the annual
meeting Of the stockholders Of the Capital
Traction Company for the election of directors
for the ensuing year and such other business
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SITS NV. Washington. ID C.. on WEDNES-
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FRATERNAL NOTICES.

L. o. q. F.-A SPECIAL SESSION OF THE
Grand Encampment will be held In the west
todgerooIn. Odd Fellows Hall, 9Th st. NV.
tomorrow tFridayl at pm, to make arrange
inents for the funeral of Jno A. Pearson, grand
patriarch. tSignedi
JOSEPH BURROWS Grand Scribe.
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