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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-11
BY REV. THos. B, GREGORY.

TIME capture of Fort Churchill
by the French Admiral La
Perouse, 1871 years ago.
brought 10 a close the public ca
reer OF Samuel Hearne, who may
well be called the Pioneer of Arc
tic Exploration.
A Drawer man than Hearne
never dared the terrors Of the un-
known. and midst the "blushing
honors' that are these days com
ing to the Pearys and Amund-
sens, it were we'll not to forget
the man who blszed the way for
all future explorers of the Frozen
North.
on December {, 1910. Hearne,
with e little band Of Indians, sci
out to fnd the Far Away Metal
River" and on June Il, 177i, dis
covered the Coppermine, Press
ins on. on July n he stood ON the
shores ot the Arctiu-tlc frs.
White man to witness ,re tossing
ICE Goes g. that lone sreeu sea.
He had found a region half as
large as European Russia. and
proved ths NOT % narrow strip or
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-11
The South Sees Its Great
Opportunity
This Section Alive the Benefits That Will Accrue to Business
With the Opening OF the Panama Canal.

The Southern Commercial Congress which recently met in
Mobile rendered notable by many essential features.
Primarily the Congress- in its large and representative at
which the South realizes the magnificent of development
which is before with the completion OF the Panama Canal and
the united and intelligent vgor with which moving seize
upon its opportunities
Every class and every profession every section of the
South represented that great industrial gathering which
addressed the President of the United States several
members of the Cabinet distinguished members of Congress and
the Senate and number OF the eminent in the Republic
Every speech reahed good counsel and inspiring prophecies of
the coming greatness of the South.
Notable indeed among the expressions of the Congress
its definite and pronounced approval Of the progressive Amer
policies of the time Little Americanism and reacve
Aercanism had currency in that live convention And
when Mr. Underwood and Mr. Graves challenging the aggard
and tmorous spirit in influential circles made powerful
pleas for merchant marine for per derena
initiative right regulate tolls
had built and paid for and for ample to defend
the commercial enterprises which challenge nterna
outweghed all the other demonstrations of the
Vention
There no doubt that the South awake alike mind
and energy and going forward and not backward prosper
ity and in practical Americanism.
Within the last decade nearly every city within two hun
dred miles Atlanta has doubled than doubled its pop
ulaton and this remarkable growth still going with AT
anta It's Men living will Atlanta city
large the Baltimore of to-day and Birmingham rival of
Pittsbrg and Cincinnati.
1t in this foresight that Mr. Hearst planted of his
newspapers in Atlanta and will work in full unison with the
other great forces looking to the unlimited development of Dixie
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-11
SOME OF THE DEFECTS IN
OUR JURY SYSTEM
Editor The Georgian .

Editor The Georgian:
1 have read your recent edito-
rails with respect to the jury sys-
tenn in Georgia, and I am sure
they, with the discussion pro
Voked are serving 4 commend
able purpose.
venture to submit few OBJ
servations of my own in connec-
ton with this matter, because I
have discussed the subject in one
or two law magazines heretofore.
and am possessed OF profound
convictions in regard TO the
same.
THERE CAN BE NO CUES
TON BUT THAT THE MA
CHtNERY OF RICAN
COURTS Is MORE OR LESS
DEFECTIVE AND SUSCEPT1-
BILE TO WHOLESOME RE
FORM
We hear the complaint that in
many instances the rules of pro
ce6ure are so rigid and fixed as
not to be conducive to the ends
aimed at II is proposed as
remedy 70 make the tiXed pro-
cedUre more elastic and more
subject to the discretion of the
trial Judge.
Much complaint arises from the
inability of jurors TO comprehend
precisely what issue is submitted
to their determination. This is
due to the practice obtaining in
many courts Of submitting cases
to the jury under a charge con-
tanning mere generalities and
platitudes instead Of under q
charge sitting out the precise is
sues Of fact to be determined and
presenting them to the jury in a
sharp and concise form.
4 FURTHER CAUSE or
SUCH DIFFICULTY IS THE
PRACTICE OF ALLOWING
USELESS AND NEEDLESS
WRANGLES BETWEEN OP-
POSING COUNSEL IN WHICH
MUCH IRRELEVANT MATTER
NOT IN EVIDENCE IS STATED.
UNDER THE PRETENSE OF
WHAT COUNSEL EXPECTS
TO PROVE, THEORIES OF
THE CASE, ETC. AND THE
ADMISSION BY THE JUDGE
OF MUCH IRRELEVANT TES-
TIMONY, CALCULATED To
MISLEAD AND CO4FUSE A
JURY.
The temperament OF a juagp,
his grasp and hold upon the case
on trial, and the training OF the
lawyers practicing before him.
are as important factors in the
proper administration Of Justice
as acts of the Legislature and
rules Of court. II can not be
Gainsaid that the American bench
and bar are in many instances
sadly deficient in thqt training
which is expected OF tlrst-class
Judges and practitioners.
Tie criticisms made hN the
public upon the courts as eN-
pressed upon the street corners
and in the comic papers. are not
far from being proper diagnoses
"' the evils existing in tho al
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-11

way and go by-1ust because he
happened to want to set some
where in . hurry or because he
liked to run and needed the ex-
ercise?
The automobile ID the intruder,
the interloper. the one to give
concessions and make allowances,
not the man who walks Isn't
there some way OF getting this
simple fact into the brains OF the
persons who drive us madly from
hither to yon in something that
seems very like a demoniac OBJ
session"
Atlanta traffic ID pretty wei
controlled. But I wish some one
would get d list of the automobile
murders from one end Of this
country to the other, day after
day. | believe it would prove in
teresttng reading, and in the
meantime-what are we going to
do about it"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-11
LOSSES OF CIVIL WAR.

NJ. DIT is usually estimated
that the life losses during the
Civil War on both sides, meas
ured up to the million figure The
actual killed In battle numbered,
on the side of the North, 100 900;
on that of the South, 10000, \
large percentage OF the losses
was from wounds, but the larg-
est Of all was from sickness,
caused by climate and exposure,
OF the million or Whereabouts who
were sacrificed on account of the
struggle, the North lost between
$50, OO0 and 100000, the South be
tween 100000 and $4,000, The
Southerners, being acclimated.
did not lose as many men from
sickness. in proportion to the
number enlisted, as the North
do
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-11

ministration of justice. AS an il
lustration Of the custom of judges
in giving such generalities In
charge to the jury is a descrip
ton given by wag in descrb
ing a trial in court in which he
quotes the judge in his charge as
telling the jury to remember the
Magma Charta, the Constitution o.
the United States and the Par
anna Canal. and retire geutlemer
and mako up your verdict"
T H 2 DISTRACTIONS
THROWN AROUND T Il J.
POWER OF THE JUDGE n
MANY JURISDICTIONS PRE-
VENT HIM FROM PROPER
LY AIDING THE JURY IN Ar
RIVING AT a VERDICT,
More power in this regpec
could well be given with good re-
suits to many OF our State courts
1t is often suggested that jul
ors in civil cases be allowed T.
bring in verdicts upon special is
sues of fact rather than genera
verdlcts finding for or against one
OF the other Of the parties. T.
certain extent this Is whole
Some rule, A jury bringing In g
special verdict, settling q partlc
ular issue of fact, would likely
bring in a verdict expressing the
real truth of the issue presented
a general verdict the individus
juror could justify upon various
grounds which, in the case Of
special verdict, he could not urge
a > Justification without stultifl-
ing himself. BY allowing issues Or
fact to be settled by special yer
diets many reversals and new
trials could be obviated.
Quoting Noorefinl1 storey ln
mis- book cited 1T is importan-
that the trial should oe So .n-
Quoted that there will be no sec
ond trial Of the same facts. This
can in many cases be done b,
submitting to the jury distinct
issues of fact, or requiring them
to answer specific questions, r
practice which has been repesL
eddy recommended by the An1eri-
can Bar Association and other or"
ganizatiOns of high standine
AS cases are generally submlt
ted to jury, the iurymen are re.
quired, after a long trial an.
moving appeals to their passi9h-
and prejudices, upon ev'6"'ef
which must be remembered I'm
perfectly, and under instructor
on complicated questions OF .aN
at best imperfectly understood. 20
decide whether on the whole ia'
plaintiff or defendant should pre-
vail.
The real issues are obscurol o.
forgotten, and the jury must oLtef
agree upon d verdict without rea.
" considering the vital quesuot.
upon which the rights Of the NS'
ties depend.
Georgia lawyers familiar ~
jury yerdicts in Justice 'oa
VIII readily realize the force
this suggestion.
ALEX W sTE!PHENE
Atlanta
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-11
Comment on the Frank Case

And It is before a court with
these exalted attributes that the
supreme legal fight of the Frank
case viii be staged. The Supreme
Court Of Georgia viii come as
near finding the Justice Of this
mysterious case as can be eN-
pected of any tribunal ruled nv
human beings. II Is fully com
petent TO pass upon the many
troublous issues here involved
u the court writes its indorss-
ment to the death warrant il VIII
be because IL believes the suilt
or the defendant has been legally
proven II viii not permit him
10 go 70 the gallowS unless II Is
sailStled his guilt has been eStab-
hshed beyond reasonable doubt.
n uarantee of the con
stitution II that man shall have
fair trial for his life. The Su-
preme Court must say whether
or not Frank has had such a tria.
II he has, the verdict stands. II
he has not and II the verdict il
not 'itied by the evidence. he
is entitled to and he will receive
% new trial
The proponents and the opuo-
nents Of Frank may be assured
the court will act with ultimate
COnsCientiousness In full knowl-
edge that whatever verdict IL
reaches viii be cited in Georgia
for many generations. il could
not 90 otherwise
And that is asked by ANYBODY
every hudy. lis Nlat absolute uS
tye ho uons n Frank f. AIIt
beyond q reasonable doubt. zud
Ii is $40 proven foo lhe satisfaction
OF Tie court Io should pay tine
penalty for h.s crime II not. he
should nsyc new trial The Su-
orsue Court must say
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-11
THE FRANK CASE.
From AtldHtd Constitution. J


In short while the issue Of
the life or death OF Leo Frank
viii be fought out before the Su-
preme Court of the State.
lie will not approach the court
as Jew or a Gentle, a beggar
or a millionaire lie will be sim
ply a man in' legal peril OF his
life.
The six justices who sit upon
the bench are men Of unimpeaCh-
able character Their profess
sional equipment Is unquestioued
At every angle they are qualified
70 administer the law with minds
single TO justice and closed 10 all
s1traneous influences
There are many who are Who'll
ly sincere in their belief in Franks
guilt Many believe with I'M
shakable faith that Frank is the
innoceu. victim of circumstances
These Two beliefs are, Of course
Hyedly Incompatible IL II be-
.ween the two that the Supreme
Court must come as final arbiter.
a court of last resort can have
nothing in common with preju
dice, racial or otherwise. Bias of
any nature must he an alien TO
rs counsels II is and must be
concerned solely with the right
eous administrator Of justice
under the law and the evidence.
'r VIII undoubtedly discharge the
Iuctiou ~ weighing that eyi-
'cuce with scrupuious impair
'a.iE> Where the evidence -.
uhlg.cN. 20 support Sire vardt..
.ao verdict should stand n +, rp.
sards the evidence as insufficient
p this case the verdict should h,
seq aside and the accused Doe
slVsn new trial
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-11
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Writes on
Married Life
Unless the Man Is a Drunkard
It Rests Within the Woman's
Power to Make Him What She SSsssssN
Will @yyRGy
Married Life
Written for The Atlanta Geor7ian
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
lCopyvight. 1918.

A large percentage OF women
marry for a dozen reasons 81
which great and absorbing love Is
not included,
The majority of men are lee
into marriage through love Of the
woman selected to be wife.
That so many men do not rs
main in love Is due to various
causes, And these causes can b,
traced very often to the failure
Of the wife to do all her role
calls for in the great drama o.
life.
Men demand a bright interest
ing, orderly, cheerful, comfortable
environment.
They want g woman to lo,t
pleasing; to dress tastefully: to
be entertaining; to be amusing: 10
be economical: yet to supply all
their needs in the home.
1t IS difficult task, especially
if the man is inclined TO be closp
in mis- money dealings.
But just there is where WON
ans tact should be employed
A tactful woman, who loves he,
husband, can make him see the
necessity Of enlarging her in
come; and she can accomplish
this without any humiliatins
methods of begging Or arguing
There is nothing love and tact
can not accomplish in this world.
Are You Using These Methods?
Are YOU using these admirable
methods in your home?
Are you making good use Of the
many hours in the day, when you
are away from your husband, t.
render yourself and your home
moro attractive?
Are you giving even one hour
daily to some form of self-cul-
ture?
II you are, this means that you
will be adding new and interest
ing friends to your life each veal
and enriching your home, and In
creasing your prospects for Civ
ing and receiving happiness.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-11
IWhatWill Be Rookie
feller's Income Tax?

ought We should like to know just what his conscience
will tell him
He realizes of that the Government which lays
protects him the POSSESSION his property that
the tax is reasonable insurance
He has shown his of public duty very emphatcay by
the giving away of many of millions and by the effort to
give away and tie for the public benefit fortune that would
probably amount to five hundred millions if more
Just what his income is the amount of the pays will
tell us. 1t will be an interesting revelation.
No matter how big the income is the public need not worry
1t better to have John D. Rockefeller drawing fifty million
dollars year and reinvesng it while he sips and setzer
than have fifty Coal Oil Johnnies John Gateses draw
ing million year each and spending the money to set bad
example tracks in gambling houses and sorderly
resorts
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-11

XX TlFE, OF a man IN comfort
w able circumstances, and
mistress of a good home,
what are you doing with your op-
portunities for usefulness and for
happiness?
What are you doing to keep
your husband interested in you,
to make your children proud of
you, and to render your home Il
center Of light and bright whole
some pleasure for your family
and friends?
Those are the duties which con-
front every woman who takes
marriage vows.
A Woman's Duties.
They are the first and foremost
duties Of the world for woman
who is married.
If she is not filling these du-
ties to the utmost of her abili-
ties, she is making life d failure,
no matter if she is singing like
Lind, writing like Sappho, paint
ing like Bonheur or leading an
army toward suffrage goals like
Joan dare.
We must better ourselves be
fore we can better the world.
That is woman's great work.
When she rounds out her own
character and her own home
life, she may then talk and sing
and write and make speeches for
the benefit of humanity if she
has the talent
But first-let her make herself
The woman who takes mar
riage vows must consider her
husband and her home her world
until she has done in every pos
sible way her entire duty toward
perfecting that world
Unless man is a hopeless de
generate or drunkard, it rests
greatly in the woman's power to
make him what she win
Love and Fact.
The average man starts mar
rage with more love in his heart
than the average wife brings as
her dover
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-11
Questions and Answers

II may be said with perfect safe
~ -that Il you will read them
both, Hugo'S from the French
side, and Levers from the Eng
fish, you will get the best and
completest representation Of the
great conflict. in novel form, TO
be found in literature The de-
scription in Les Mlserables" is
the more famous. but Levers
story is also deservedly popu-
lar
U. S. AND GERMAN NAVlES.
i. l.. D. R.-The records OF
1911, the latest available, show
that the German Navy consist
ed Of 1886 craft OF all kinds, OF
which the first-class battleships
numbered 2s: second class, 8;
first-class cruisers. IS; destroy
ers, llG; torpedo boats, TO- sub
marines. a. Total officers and
men Of the line, $500 The fig
ores for the United States for
same date are: Total craft. eos:
n..i-ola,s batUesnips, "a: second
GLASS; @; first-cluss cruisers, Is.
dcstroyers 40: torpedo boats "a.
submarines, 20: officers and men
of The line J1.0cn
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-11

How much income tax will
John D. Rockefeller pay to
the Government We believe
that he will pay all that his
conscience tells him that he
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-05-17
>sQUALoR IN BABY FARMS
California County Health Officer FInds
Twenty "Homesn Dealing In
NansIess Children.

Los Angeles, Cal Twenty baby
farms" where profits are coined out
of nameless little lives, have been
found operating just outside the city
limits Of Los Angeles, by DR.. e. o.
Sawyer, county health officer, who has
demanded immediate action on the
part of the board of supervisors.
These institutions, said DIR. Sawyer,
are conducted for profit by persons
who have no interest in the children,
and were removed from the city to
escape municipal regulation. They
harbor mostly foundlings and the ba-
bies Of persons who would rather hide
their parenthood.
II found babies kept in the most
repulsive squalor," said Dr. Sawyer.
ITO make profits out of the small
sums paid as board some of the pro-
prietors of baby homes kept the chill.
dren in half starved and half clothed
condition. Insanitary conditions exist
in every case"
Each of the farms" harbors from
three to sixty babies. DR.. Sawyer
said that a county ordinance providing
strict regulations was necessary to
protect not only the children in the
homes, but also to protect the health
of the community
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-05-17
BAN IS PLACED ON
THIS CLEVER HOUND
G. s~
Daschund Taught to Watch the
Players During the Progress
of Card Games.

Winsted, Conn.-Friends Of Eugene
McCaskey have placed the no admit
tance" bar on his daschund whenever
he goes to their homes for an evening
at cards, because the canine has been
taught to watch the, floor and seats
about table while game is in prog
ress. Not only will ne pick up coin
or card which finds It's way to the
floor and carry 1t to his master. but
the daschund watches players who are
in the habit of concealing card be-
tween their legs or on seat beneath
their legs for future playing.
One of Mr.. McCaskeys friends was
bitten in the leg after concealing a
card, hence the edict. The dog has
other sporting proclivities. When his
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-05-17

A dispatch from London states that
two tiny collins have been found in the
monastic burial ground of Peter
borough and have been placed In Pc
terborough Cathedral One is two feet
six inches In length and the other two
feet eight inches. They are said to
be the coffins of the twin children Of
King Canute ts95-1035). who were
drowned In Whittlesey Mere as they
were crossing to be educated at Pc
tersborough Abbey. Every reader OF
English history Is familiar with the
anecdote of the courtiers who told
King Canute that he was the lord of
the waves as well as Of the land, and
will recall the dramatic way In which
he rebuked their dattery by setting
his chair on the beach while the tide
was rising and commanding the waves
not to engulf 1t. which. however, they
promptly did. But the still more i'm
pressive circumstance that two OF Ca
nute's children lost their lives by
drowning probably will be news to
the general reader, though 1t happened
nine centuries ago
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-05-17

The other two cans of soil remained
dry. At the close of the school, the
thermometers we're read again Which
soils showed the highest tempera-
lures? Which the lowest?
At another time they punched holes
at different heights In the sides Of
some OLD tin cans; the cans were then
filed with the same kind of soil and
the same quantity Of water was pour
ed into each can.
It was observed that little or no wa
ter ran through the holes while 1t was
flowing downward through the SOIL
but as the soil became over-saturated
from the bottom upward the water be.
gan to run out,
The bottom of the pan represented
a blue clay, hard pan, rock. Or any
other hard layer through which water
could not easily pass. The hole in
cne can represented the underground
drain through which what water the
soil could not hold would flow away.
They learned that the soil like a
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-05-17
HARM M N q y WA POM |
Sharp Contrasts In Living Room Some
thing to BE Avoided by the Up
to-Date Homemaker.

A room is really q picture, or at
least it should be composed with due
regard to its esthetic possibilities. The
walls are the background Of which
doors and windows are a part. The
furniture is in the middle distance and
the family furnishes the foreground.
It is evident that II the wall paper
is figured conventional designs are al
ways best and the designs should be
worked out IN varying tones of the
dominant color. This dominant color
may be any that lends itself charming
~ to interior decoration. It should be
soft, rich and beautiful In Its varying
shades.
It Is not enough that it should blend
with carpets and curtains or contrast
harmoniously with them. It should be
favorable as a background to the per
sons who make the main part OF the
picture, it should bring out the flesh
tones, or at least not spoil them, and
it should not clash with the co1ors Of
the garments worn by those who pass
their time within the four walls of the
room. Moreover, it should simplify the
lighting problems, whether the posi-
ton Of windows or the effect Of cleo
trio lamps is taken into consideration.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1913-05-17

sponge, will hold only certain Quan-
dty of water
Do you suppose that they concluded
that tile drains should be made shall
low OF deep? What do you suppose
they learned dsouf soils having gravel
or sand subsoils?
The next week, these boys came to
per, which they purchased for five
cents at the drug store, some clean
saucers. and some samples of soil ta-
ken from different places.
One touched some vinegar (acid)
with the itmus paper to see what
change would be made in its color;
one touched some lemon juice; anoth-
er placed piece against raw piece
of tomato, Then theC touched some
dampened soda, wood ashes, and lime.
These they found to be alkaline; that
is they acted much like lye.
They learned that by carefully mix.
ing little lime water and vinegar
no change In the color of the litmus
paper would be made. They had read
that such a substance was said to be
neutral. They learned that the els
tern water was neutral.
The samples of soil were separate
ly mixed with rain water to a stiff
mud, and a piece of litmus paper
pushed into each and allowed to re
main two or three minutes.
Three found that their papers were
darkened from being wet. but that
there were no marked changes in the
color. The soils tested therefore were
neutral
One boy found his paper turned a
brickish red. That was decided to be
an acid or sour soil. It was learned
that it needed draining or lining, or
perhaps both, to neutralize it.
The most impressive lesson these
boys learned was from what they did,
rather than what they read. What
these four boys did any other boys of
the upper elementary grades in an!
school can do.