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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-10-03
MORE SIDE LIGHTS ON THE AT
LANTA SOLDIERS, HOME.

Dear Sir: I have been wishing to
write to you for some time. but 1
have been sick.
want you to publish the follow
ing facts. You have the only Jour
nal IN which the old soldiers can get
a hearing. An old veteran at this
home, man of good family and
name, got too much whiskey and was
drunk. He had words with the SUI
perintendent and was ordered under
some sort of punishment. He left
his room quite drunk, he did not
know what he was doing The SUI
perintendent ordered him off the
grounds. A telephone message was
sent to town by the superintendent
for the city patrol wagon. The
Black Maria" came with two city
policemen. The old soldier had man
aged to get down to a neighbours
house. He was followed there by
the policemen and was carried to the
car line. The superintendent fol-
lowed him, and the old veteran in
his drunken rage cursed the superin-
tendent. He was carried to the city
barracks and kept for three nights
and two days in cell with no furni-
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-10-03
HE PUTS SOME HARD QUESTIONS
AND RUNS ME UP A TREE.

Mr. Watson: In your comment
on Mr.. McEachem's remarks in the
Jefersonian of the 18th inst, rela-
tive to Governor Wilson's attitude
towards Roman Catholicism, you say:
"It is true that Wilson did the vari-
Gus things alleged, and I made all
those points on him before the Ma
tional convention that met in Balti-
more, but inasmuch as l went into
the primary, and-am not able to
prove that Wilson obtained the nomi-
nation by improper means, l feel
bound by the action of the conven-
ton
AS a reader Of both. Of your pa
pers | would like to make few
remarks concerning this matter
In the first place wish to ask. if
the charges made against Mr.. Wilson
are true, is he the proper man to
elect president of the United States?
If not, why should your going into
the primary, and not being able Ito
prove that Wilson obtained the
nomination by improper MEANS" be
sufficient grounds for your support?
It seems to me, sir, that what
the American people want to con-
slider is, not whether Mr.. Wilson
obtained the nomination by i'm
proper MEANS" but has he changed
his attitude towards Roman Catholic
ism. If Mr.. Wilson is guilty of the
charges made against him, he is not
tie man to elect to such high Office.
v 4ly organize societies for the pro-
lection of American institutions, and
then elect men to Office who are
controlled by the enemies of those
institutions?
Why?
In your reply to Mr.. J. A. Delhe
asked Mr.. Wilson, you say:
eff I were to ask those questions
Of Woodrow Wilson, the Atlanta
Journal and others, would say | was
trying to embarrass, betray and
trick Mr. wilson
Suppose such to be the case, is
that Of more Importance than for the
people to be informed in regard to
the position of the presidential can
didate On such questions?
Indeed, such questions might
"have a bad effect" and especially
on Mr.. Wilson, but better have that
dad effect than for the people to
have to suffer the consequences of
which his election might impose
upon them.
l am in favor of those questions
being put to each presidential cam
didate, and those who fail to COM
nit themselves fayorabIy to the in
terest of the people, to be
scratched at the polls, primary or
no primary.
AS long as the American people
are controlled by primaries, and pri-
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-10-03
PROFESSOR THRELKEL DIS
CUSSES THE FAMILY UNIT.


Dear Sir: We have three units of
special Importance in our form of
Vernment-family, county. and
state. The county unit has been
somewhat ignored for several years,
and its use and Importance forgot
ten by many people, but l am glad
it will soon be put into just opera
ton again. -
The family has the sanction of
church and State, but never has been
used in practical politics as a unit.
Each family usually has one vote,
but it may have several in case of
unmarried sons of voting age. Judg-
ing from the attacks made on the
family by some Socialists, we should
study and discuss ways Of exalting
and Strengthening the family as a
unit.
My plan is to make the family
unit part of the organic law Just
the same as the county unit. Allow
each and every family one vote only.
This will have several good results.
1t Will encourage all bachelors to
marry so as not to be disfranchised,
1t will kill the "craZy woman suff-
rage idea with one of justice. It
Will draw out full vote on all cleo
lions. 1t will give thousands of
young men under twenty-one years
OF age who are heads of families the
privilege Of voting. Is there any
reason why these men should not
vote?
Woman suffrage will inevitably
cause family jars, and dissensions
1t dIsregards the representative
principle of government, because the
husband and father naturally repre-
sent the best interests of the family
and State. "Crazy women is an
epithet which the suffragettes de-
serve.
Under nay plan thousands of good
women who do not want woman
suffrage will vote carefully and in
diligently, because of duty. The
women voters are widows. those
with husbands who are criminals.
degraded, vote buyers or sellers, too
careless, Indifferent or busy to vote.
Every family is entitled to one vote
Tor protection, ETC., and if the man
Will not vote for any reason men
toned, then let the woman vote. A
partial woman suffrage like this will
encourage the men to vote more
regularly
This idea seems SO just and reas-
enable that it is now unlawfully
practiced to a limited extent in seve-
raj communities in Georgia. The
writer has taught school where the
teachers and trustees were elected
by vote of the patrons on the fami-
ly unit plan-widows, ETC., voting.
GEO. w. THRELKEL.
LAGRANGE, Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-10-03
THE BLUE LAWS WE'RE NOT A
FAKE.

FAhE.
Dear Sir: The July number of
your Magazine contains the Con
necticut Blue Laws with nothing
to show that they are fake" The
Library of Universal Knowledge"
a reprint of the 1880 Edinburg and
London edition of Chambers Ency-
clopedia, says "These laws never ex-
listed. Currency was given
to the idea of code of severe and
ridiculous enactments called the
blue laws by the notorious tory min
lister, the Rev. Samuel A. Peters,
who had charge of the English
churches in Hartford and Hebron,
but was compelled by the revolution
to fly to England. There, in 1881,
he published his General History of
Connecticut a work whose exagger-
ations and spite make it almost
curiosity. Many years ago a small
book containing these supposed laws,
which were really extracts from Pc
ter's history, was published, and is
even now referred to as authority by
some who have not investigated the
subject"
Yours truly,
REV HENRY WARE HALE.
Savannah, Ga.
(AnSwer.)
Many years ago I purchased from
an old book dealer copy of the
small volume in which the Blue Laws
were codified. It is in my possession
now.
New Englanders might just as well
deny that their ancestors hanged
ugly old women as witches.
All Of the real historians allude
to the Blue Laws, just as they do to
the New England custom of "Bund-
ling"
See the mastery work of Sidney
George Fisher, Men, Women and
Manners in Colonial Times pub
lished by Lippincott & Co. in 1902.
There were severe laws against
smoking in public, and, as Fisher
says, there are men still living who
can remember when it was not con-
sidered respectable to be out of the
house on Sunday afternoon" (Vol.
1, page 22O.)
1t was q crime to live more than
mile from the meeting house, and
If man cussed, they ran a needle
through his tongue.
Compared to a Puritan Sunday.
purgatory had its attractions.
Yet, some Of these Puritans sane
toned "bundling," by which custom
two young people of opposite sexes,
contemplating marriage, were al
lowed to sleep together under the
same covering. T. e. w.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1912-10-03

Watch the label on your paper.
Don't let your subscription expire.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-17
.sRRE~TS WITHOUT WARRANT.

1t is one OF the paradoXes of maintaining
Law and order that ii is frequently necessary
tor the police 10 violate the very law they are
employed To uphold ard enforce
Take the cases known as arrests Of "sus-
picions characters. In every snch instance
the person arrested withots warrant and. in
fact, without any charge except the opinion of
the authorities that he probably is criminal
liz restrained of he liberty against both the
letter and the spirit or every constitutional
guarantee Yet it is perfectly apparent 10 any
practical mind that without arrests on sus-
ricion The machinery OF justice would be ser-
cusly crippled
There is room between the theory and the
practice in such cases for Avery SHARPLY defined
ard limited discretion. That is to say, that
the police should in some cases be permitted to
take the bull by the horns aud detaiR persons
strongly suspected OF crime but only when the
grounds for such suspicion are clear and after
such action has been responsby directed
For instance, If there Ii reason 10 belevc that
d suspect has committed "A crime OF a high
order. II liz clearly the practical duty of the
police to seize and hold him until the evidence
raAy be developed But the seizure should be
intelligent, and Ii should be based on careful
Investigation. To proceed in this irregalpr
manner against persons Of apparent respecta-
bilftv, and especially where the suspected
4
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-17

yesterday FeFef"' hundred OF the f'aeN ana
t'n' together "'th some "hNe men gathered
- mona ~ the interest o. '"e h'"-'''tiF
mite movement Whlch h"ias theodote hoosc-
welt 10 ne ''s emblem OF pohtfca' purity
Inc convention when posed rs a state
wa" aha'f. followed me course }haf IT had been
ordained TOR II to follow. II scored the ted~
"fa' Once holders as men who desired to elm
"H'f o"'a negroes ana "htf" men from the
t7""9lleah party IN IN" 9'ai" III tAF'r own sci
hSF interests. ana theh proceeded IN glowing
terms 10 ''"'' " Delegation TO 80 10 Chicago
tedGed to the rough riding gentleman who
''8fH'S monopoly on poio honesty ana anec~
toh ioi me p"opie'-fSpf'iailE 1t would Scent
the Back ana Tan people.
We N'#' 70 can special attention. not to
lae convention llseit. which Is negligible
factor IA negligible political faction i'll Nir-
+tR'a' pHf 10 the manner "t MS organization
"hd ''N acts ~ rfhefinE Ia" political methods
+ MS sponsor
't'e '''t'> "h'e ol ih' HiaeN and 7aoS J.
IA '''"f'' noun" IL necessary 10 go twice to
Washington to see Mr.. ReoseYeit's manager
o''ofe me convention could even gain form.
= Is therefore evident that senator Dixon APP
pfo'9d 1t ana IT'S plans
An" al Il preliminary meeting II was openly
declared ny the same J. Il Pollard that. if
any "ep"ohtahS came INTO The convention and
"tehp'eo 10 'h'foaoee a ram resolution they
"o"'o 'e put IN }ail. Ponce were to be on
mana TO preserve order and order, in this
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-17

desire. may well stand ashamed rather than
proudly before those towns and cities many of
theIn halt her size, that have accepted Car
hee!es aic and are giving to their people free
access to the worlds best literature.
fonr statement that these libraries ma
cl,ine-made products, frequented only by re-
trlgerated scholars. Is, 10 put 1t with exceeding
mildness. too broad. From personal expert
ence can name you "a score of cities and towns
where Carnegie libraries anything but that.
On the contrary, have often found the Car
nesit library the cherry center of much of the
best lie of the community. / have seen ut the
lunch hour and In the evenings people,
shop people, office people, running into change
their books or spend quiet hour In the read
ing room. or browsing about among the books.
The ehiarens rooms | have generally found
most attractive, we'll equipped. and well used
by the little folks They not only come to these
rooms, but they linger there, and children do
not linger In chilling atmosphere.
II is books the people want; 1t is books the
people need, and bitter resentment against the
mar who helped supply the need does not seem
TO remain in the minds of the majority.
This attitude towards Carnegie libraries may
not be true in all places, but ! know it TO be
true of many. What is Richmond doing for
her people comparable to this? 1t seems to
me We cannot afford. TO speak with scorn of
such help. while negiecting TO meet in any AIDE
quate way this great civic need.
II we ourselves viii NOT give food to chill
dren may We take pride in letting them starve
because We would not accept pro.scred aid
DONNA StfEAtf4t9N,-
/ Richmond. Va, May It, 1912
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-17
CLERGY TO TRAVEL
IN SPECIAL COACH
REETORs AND DELE
GATES FROM RICHMOND PRE-
PARE FOR COUNCIL.

CIerRymen and lay delegates from
Richmond expect TO leave here in
special car next Monday night for
Harrisonburg to attend the council OF
Diocese of Virginia, which convenes
in that city Tuesday.
Included in the party will be rec
tors OF all the Episcopal churches In
Richmond. There will be In addition
TWO lay delegates from each OF the
churches. The council will be In sesr
sion several Gays.
The body meets once year. Last
year 1t convened In Winchester The
year before, it met in Richmond.
A special session of the body was
held In ST.. James. this city. February.
1911. for the purpose OF electing a
bishop coadjutor. The Rev. Berry
man Green, OF the Theological semi.
nary. was chosen.-~ However. he de-
clined the honor soon afterward on
account of Ill health Since then.
Bishop Gibson has been without an
assistant
According to those in position
to know. no effort will be made at
Harrisonburg to elect a. coadjutor.
On May 2sth. the council OF the
Diocese of Southern Virginia. of
which Bishop Randolph Is the rituiar
head. Will convene In annual session
in Petersburg. This meeting gl-~-
promise of being more replete with
matters - general Interest than the
session at Harrisonburg.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-17
LAST EXERCISES
TO BE HELD TONIGHT

Graduating exercises Of the Harts
horn Memorial college. an insttt..-
ton for negoes. were held last night.
Irene Naomi Hill and Marie Frances
summons compose the college prepar-
atory class.
In the normal, class are q. ID. r..
Bailey. Louise II. Pierce, GarSts 4,
EraAton, ida NJ. Chandler, Emma p,
GrigKs. Carrie Il. liockaday Rather.
Inc Johnson. Sadie M. Lewis. Mary 4
Rayford, Esther ID. Shepard. Grace
g. Walker Bessie T.. Williams. Sarah
4 a. Wilson. Virginia Il. Wilson. EsteIi.
| Woodson and Ruth A. Yeatman.
The Alumnae. association will hola
a business meeting Friday norninr
banquet In the afternoon, aud liza
alumnae1 anniversary will be cola
brated Friday night.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-17

drawn in the Mcnamara trial will be watched
with intense interest by the entire world. In
measure organized labor again comes to
the bar of public opinion. The question oil
whether man whose eccentricities have hith-
erto been supposed to consist in the quality of
his human feeling was guilty OF forgetting
long and honorable legal career in his partisan
passion for the cause of labor, liz incidental
The real question is again brought up for de-
sible officers Of labor, what segment of the
labor interests were involved In an admitted
effort to corrupt the source of justice to the
salvation Of murderous anarchists?
If 1t shall be proved that barrow did author
re the bribing of the Mcnamara jury IL will
he pertinent to ask how useful he has found
this method of persuasion in the many great
labor that he has conducted in the past
ii the McNamaras confessions were forced
,nly because it was discovered that the jury
rad been brbed, what was done with the jury
which acquitted Meyer. Haywood and Petit
bone. whom Harry Orchard charged with hay
ing planned the murder of Governor Steunen-
:
for justice shalt ne proved to be nothing better
nan one who suborns his yerdicts what shall
be thought Of the protestations of persecution
by organized labor?
We hope that 1t will be established that
barrow is innocent. He is man Of too high
ability. too great courage. too manifestly hui
name qualities for his disgrace not 10 prove
q national loss. Now that his trial has
started. however. IT would be we'll for or
ganized labor To refrain from making the mis-
take it made in the trial of the McNamaras
and has made in almost every other case where
the members or the frie IDS of organized labor
have been charged with crime The organized
AIDES can well afford to do as the rest Of the
forid and not PREJUDICE the case. It would be
the height of injustice to declare man of OAR
row s record and ability briber of 1uries but
stranger things than that have happened. and
II would be equally foolish for organized labor
to he among it's sympathizers, he is therefore
before,--that because the defendant happens
be among its sympathizers, he is therefore
innocent of guile,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-17
Wasted Opportunity.

some OF our readers may recall VIM lI sfay-
~; y " unuStea the tlaEsn}aat Herald seq.
sIAd sssa3ss lA 4r@af
colony COMPANY at Waycross. Ca aud saws h.
y fn1kihg big success In a personal latter /,
the ttmes-Eari,d he declares that what has
oeeh done at. Naycross in the WAY of coIonr.
ne ana agriculture. Development could b., din
rilcateu doubie and quadrupie In Tidewater
Virginia.
Take your ewn section between Nevnor,
News ana Williamsburg. says he "Drive owe,
y pofuon or it and see the thousands OF acres
growing hr to pine trees and oak th,, tr,,..bt
&c be utilized for farming purposes 1yith :.
1r0ieT Eo%ement. and the establisi.ln ~ =
good -Etzea laho company AT Newport News ri, -
could be ACCOMPLISHED. $40
Newport News Times Herald
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-17
VIRGINIANS WILL
SEE OTHER COAST

one OF The most unique and pron>sr-
ing excursions that has been afforded
the people Of RichmoAid and this section
in some time is that just announced
by Samuel III. Bowman. tourist agent.
Mr.. Bowman calls the tour "a Virgins.
House Party on Wheels. and 1t mlll
consist of a vacation trip to the PacffIr
coast. personally conducted. embracing
q visit to the grand canyon OF Arizona,
the Yellowstone National Park and tho
Rocky mountain resorts.
The Virginia house party will leave
Richmond Saturday, June 18th. via tina
Chesapeake and Ohio railway at r.
NJ. arriving at the Grand Canyon july
3d. From thence through to San Fran
cisco the party VIII visit all the show
places ct the great West including
salt Lake City. the Santa Barbara
mission. Yellowstone Park. etc TIL.
return trip viii be maze by different
route taking in other sights and in
Guiding n number OF side trips by
automobile. The 7rty Will arrive In
Richmond July 25th
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-17
PEOPLES FORUM


FdIlnr of The NlrEIntans
Gir,=-Your editorial in the issue 81 May 10th,
headed Refrigerated Libraries should not /
feel. b-0passed over without protest, consider
ing the important part that the daily paper
piayS~ih the formation of public opinion, and
the erroneous ideas that such IA mistaken view
will create in the minds OF many who are I'M
informed.
something OF which the mass of the people have
no conception naturally Never having had this
great aid 10 broader fuller living they do not
realize their lack But does this lessen in any
measure. does II not rather increase the re-
sr osibility Of those citizens who do or should
realize the need, and through indifference o.
foolish pride withhold the fuifllmens of 1t from
the community?
For a city to erect. and maintain unaided, an
ac. quate library Is matter for CIVIC pride; but
Richmond with well-equipped library to
which young and old. rich and poor may go
and i've among good books at their hearts
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-17

The finding of Pastor Richesons sanity
shows that Massachusetts alienists are not
given to brainstorms. The crime which this
nam confessed was conceived with deyilsh
ingenuity, To make the victim his own exc
cutioner has long been held to be the very
genius of murder. To carry off the pose OF
righteousness while his brain chuckles at the
deed is the act of the finished assassin. II
may be sound theory that the capacity to
commit such crimes constitutes insanity, Ii we
take insanity TO consist in every variation
from the normal, but insanity in such cases is
no more delusion and responsibility than the
insanity that produces an original book. or
amasses an unprecedented fortune. The best
test possible of insanity is when remorse fol-
lows on detection, The world win be we'll
rid Of the Rev. Rcheson.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-17
CHRISTIAN IDEAL OF \ soc,Er, RUG

friend sends Us the following report Of an
addE<ss delivered by prominent Philadelphia
millionaire;
Eoston. MAY 12.-~ln a speech before ST.
Andrews Brotherhood here. Anthony J. DrexaI
the Philadelphia society leader said that Christ
was an athlete, and would have played bask IF =
ball had IL been known IN his time.
Things like this make one wonder at the
crimes against taste which so easily COM
mitted in The hunt for notoriety So to picture
the Man OF sorrows the gentle soul the loving
teacher, rs To argue ones self not necessarily
btasphemous but guilty Of the almost equally
repulslYe defect of an absolute want OF rever-
-Irreyerence of this sort lis to-hias-
phemy is immortality to immortality
We believe that Mr.. Anthony J. Drexel HIM
self goes in for" athletics, especially tsttcuTs.
On time he met before a Rasping crowd of
fashionable women the Hon Bobby Beres-
tord Of England aud her Navy. The Phi.a~
delphian lasted about two rounds before he
took the count After hearing the expression
above quoted. we regret that the Honorable
Bobby" did not choke him with his own mtt
for good and all,
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-17
Iuasi>G THE ALLEN PERIL.

ltsappeaTs that the Alien ]hrN has disagreed
Ii II has not actually disagreed IT is trading
Ger the question, 81 degrees OF guilty. I'st
rex appears obvious prove true The calamity
10 the state Ri}i prove scarcely less disastrous
than the catastrophe out Of which IT grows.
There ia not scintiila Of doubt as to The
guilt OF the Aliens Every man in the State
must feef II IN MS hearT fncir trial by The
jury should have been nothing more than the
solemn and dfgnjfed execution OF form. lu-
stead, Ne are In danger of the spectacle OF men
whose crime was no less than murder Of the
very sHmboi VI IA" making all outrageous 'esal
escape
inns may or may hot be due 10 c7"aTdtce on
Inc aiteh ]nf}' II may or may not nave re
suited from some sneak of partisan having
'nssnoated himself 1nto I'll" position +" pro-
feft murder and dfi$ Justice even as the
Attens went armed TO the teeth 10 10" itlls-
vie courthouse u dcff ana assassinate it,
Whether Il he due to these or other causes the
apparent result creates disErae"inl and
sSaFaffifs precedent
Within short time another trial Of the
greatest Importance ls TO begin al Bristol,
when the wholesale election frauds ar" to b"
passed ON by court and JURY Already, and
Ter q long time. There have been threats Of
trouble when thee" trials commence. only
Tuesday the Judge who is to Try these cases
received hlaekhand letter warning him that
his portion would be that which be Aliens
served 50 Judge Massey This ma} hc Idle
talk. but II springs from definite feeling Of
animosity toward constituted authority If
II result in another affrput 10 the law and the
courts the miscarriage in the Allen case can bo
safely charged ms the melting cause,
Faced with n SIT ttatior, tt,..t brings Whole
State into public contempt it is essential that
the authorities continue the prosecution OF the
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-17

MIR Barnes Of New York made a tame
speech last night, probably with the idea of
eng original by contrast. But even so good
fighting man as Mr.. Roosevelt has discovered
that Mr. barnes is no tame cat /"