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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-03
Dan Carey Learns
There's Another One

There is another Dan Carey in At
lanta besides the General Manager
Of Parks
Mr.. Carey received a letter Friday
and carelessly ripped open the en-
velope He then saw ii was not in
tended for him He looked back 1T
the address
Dan Carey, Robin Hood Compa-
NY
Mr.. Carey 'atd he would deliver he
letetr in person at the theater to seo
n the second Dan Carey also had rel
hair
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-03
MEN AND RELIGION BULLETIN NO. 80
WATCH AND PRAY" /,

External Vigilance Is the
Price of Honest and Efficient
Government"
The Outlook.
Croker united the elements New York
he added good citizens. so
Hence his influence.
y respectable ones serving as gureeads he would have been
helpless The evil are ever the minority They have power
only when they have with them those who have live
With their assistance, Croker ruled 3t@,
favorite weapon the police force.
Deysr his chief Of police made the New York force by
word for corruption throughout the world.
To-day Croker is gone
Devery has fallen
aws the cy heart and leaves trail of degradation and
suffering in its path.
But this too will go.
The misguided good finding difficult
in the light day eat the caon which the tiger throws them
The hideOus reek of it makes many away T7wsS
Others track it these ackas seeking feed
upon his eavings they unwilling that it should live
They seek to kill
The tigers end is near
People thinking: this death to the beast
And other cities have lesson.
When uniting all that a cy's life
know it, the not hope to add the Of the few
good citizens did Croker when he held the tigers
For waking.
In Atlanta days they gained for weapon
the right of the Referendum, Initiative and Recall.
And at the polls when clearly unequvocally
stated publicly his position favorg law and order placed
him by votes at the head of the ticket
This victory for faction, but for the right
Men waiting They watching.
He who thinks to build no place in At
lanta or the State
OURS rs NO DIVIDED CITY
For you recognizing the truth.
Long ago seeking trap asked him question
Answering He asked for Whose
is the image and superscripton?'
They replied: Caesars"
The Lord therefore unto Caesar the
Gods"
your name is not upon but that
of God
No longer is there Caesar.
accountable God
Every king must his for the affairs
of his kingdom.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-03

External Vigilance Is the
Price of Honest and Efficient
Government"
The Outlook.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03

stock but of people who cared in the least for
Society," but whose affiliations altogether with
church affairs and also with politics. This had brought
them forward and into notice. but not in the way that
would prove in the world of which the aspant
aimed to be a member.
He good business man, and was thrown with
few in the Street who recognized this quality and
took him up. He then mans He joined
several of the clubs that stood for outdoor sports
he took intense interest in club affairs In fact, he had
remarkable talent for organization Clubs are looking
for just such man. and in few years you his
name on various committees in these organizations and
later the board of governors.
And them combined with this, he knew-perhaps one
good dinner Today he is the valued friend and prac
tca1y member and adviser households, both of
which anchored firmly the rocks of Newport in
summer. He is always good humored, and never too
assertve either or in dress He has long since
his position, and is helping Others
The fashionable establishments of today really
the hotel club principle 1t is treasure trove
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to find man who is friend ofthe family to
many of the complications that you cannot trust to
hired person. =
And here again was another example, young man.
fairly good looking, who danced WELL had neat talent
for accounts and not bad executive He belonged
to most excellent family with Baltimore and Phila
dephia connections Through the kind offices of one of
these cousins he put into communication with a
wealthy banker Of multimlions who had pretty and
ambitious wife. They advancing steadily from a
smaller city New York and Newport, and bent
conquest.
1t was a happy deal The banker despised Society,
except as means for the goricaton of his financial
standing. He could have attended to the thou
sand and vexatious details of campaign, and he
wanted someone whom he and his wife could trust i'm
plicitlv..
So this most competent secretary took charge, ran
the households he the master, and did well
that he brought his people right to the front.
Here were lawyers who dabbled bit in politics OF the
brand that bore influence upon well laid schemes of
trust magnates and were taken by them and pushed
into ultrasets.
Here were influential publishers who had seemed
to fashionable society," but were wooed and won
in very brief period by this system of give and
tunate man who volunteered to publish many of the
illusions of the "sart set in exchange for recognition;
but he did not go it the right way get in with the
right people, and he went through the bankrupt court
New York was fast awakening to the fact that it
long way behind London and Paris and other cosno-
potan cities the water, the paucty of men of
brains at its smartest functions For twenty it
had ignored them and its dinners although marvels of
the chefs art and gorgeousy lavish to appointments,
were dreary affairs at best.
And thus it propitious moment, and J. Benson
Smith, comparatively commonplace, had even chance,
by the wider opening of DOORS | knew this and how
That my business and his opportunity.
I HAD inspiration. l would hand ]. Benson
to Bessie Van 'rwler. 1t was perfectly Safe and |
was doing great thing for both of them.
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not an Indian. She had ScaipS at her belt She
had placed everyone OF her admirers, and IN the list
there less than bakers dozen who were among
the most fashionable about town, who, when they
were taken in hand, came literally from nowhere.
And yet with it all never met Bessie but that she
would pour forth her grevance,-the lngratltude
of man. that she crazy to marry and that | must
find her someone 1t would be question of lineage.
Her parents firm believers in Luther Burbank and
wonderful possibilities in genealogical grating In
fact they would welcome good healthy Western stock
Bessie herself preferred men, whom she could mold,
who were liberal spenders.
So put the proposition up to Benson. He de-
lighted Like all novces in the social game the very
glamor of the Van Twer dazzled him. If it had
been years later you might have thought that he
had read up of the Wharton novels; but we had
only Julien Gordon Society Mrs Van Rensse-
laer Cruger, and Edgar Fawcett
1t seemed such a rapid realization of his widest
dreams that the Sunday afternoon that brought
him to call on the Van Twllers he insisted upon end-
enough.
TT was too easy had told Bessie what had in tow
1 a new rich man who was wild to meet her. | gave
him good sendoff. | told to bring him around
post haste but waited prudently until the next week
This made better impression on Smith, who was no
fool. | coached him. told him that Bessie rather
breezy at times and that he must not be upset if she
smoked little little and had relish for Gallo
stories. This kind of girl always absolutely safe,
and one had to be ones mette all the time. There
was chalkline and you couldn't cross it.
Well, the preliminaries most successful. They
chronic Sunday callers, and Ma Van Twiller won
over from the first. Then | had little party to the
play for Bessie and her mother, Benson and myself.
Ma grew quite jolly at Sherrys afterward, and
bowed to many people Benson was IN the seventh
heaven
He heard from it too downtown the next day. 1t
gave him closer grip with conservative firm that had
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this to the best advantage. There wer,
points in dress, in manner, and in speech
that must be learned! | would advise
very good if not the best club in town.
such long waiting hst,that it would h;
present; but he might be laying his roI
in the meantime he could get into anot
least money prestige and was always av
material, as it needed a small fortune to
told him he was fortunate in having
downtown and not being a native NeN
wanted to be elected to one or two of tn
native has his best chance when his M
on the list when he was baby. Othe
least notable, there would always be SON
him and did not like him, or had griev
family, or might be ugly in some way, ar
him and make an objection to his cleo
name would have to be passed. In the
club at which we were lunching was not
been used as stepping stone by man.
whom had been ungrateful enough nc
what aid it had given them in their start
that they had never belonged to it.
was frank enough to say that coul'
able time even to the best of friends for
an enterprise of some hazard. Society
was an oyster, which had to be opened
like any other biva1ve of its kind. One
had to employ finer methods in reach
ing conclusions, because the traditions
were opposed to out and out negotia-
lions. 1t was absurd. Gradually a
broader view will be taken of such
matters.
There has been a great change al
ready. Nowadays the best foreign
cotillion leaders-titled gentlemen, if
you please-have not scorned to take
checks for their services, and expect to
be paid just as are the caterers, the
musicians, and the florist. Many of
these little transactions have been con-
Quoted through the medium of secre-
taries. Others have been adjusted by
the one working party sending in an
account and placing the services rem
dered under the head of "secretarlal
duties"
In London several women of title
make no bones of asking sum-so
much down and so much for expenses,
etc.-before they will move finger to
help their client or customer (the latter
term may sound brutal; but this client
kIIOWS well III Jul oWu Iiiei1 Lazy
So and So can deliver the goods, SO
they are willing to pay the price.
We came to terms on the basis of
wager, he to give me certain sum if
l landed him in two years-but there
was a proviso arranged in case lost.
During the campaign was to have all
funds necessary as if l was run
ming him for the presidency or the
governorship. was to be his manager.
No doubt people would have their
then knew my world we'll enough. 1t
provide amusement, and if could not
own funds, or if l did not care to pay
own pocket, there was no reason VIII
should not stand for it. Here was my &C
is nothing new in all this. 1t has been
times. We know the tune by heart.
THERE is no set recipe for the metho
! Society. 1t differs as to the indiv
circumstances. What is the right thing
is entirely wrong the next. You can pc
you can throw all your influence into t
can put to use all that which you have
you cannot jam person down people:
Here is one man with reputation as
absolute clown to the multitude, but
business person, with keen nose for OF
fame comes from a smaller city to
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Now, you cannot find an older or more respected
name than that of Van Twer in all New Yorl-and as
it extinct it is for this that have chosen it to
stand for the real one, that of family with long and
ancient lineage.
The Van Twilers rich Knickerbockers There
yet few of that sorD They owned vast tracts of
rocky land in the lower part of Westminster County
the Bronx boom just beginning, and they stood
excellent chance of being mlionaires many times
When the great invasion of Calfonlians, and South
who had not suffered by the Civil War; but had
proted thereby, and Pttsburghers and the rest swept
into New York and taken into the fold by the late
Ward McAllister, many of the old families routed
and retired they could not keep up with the extrava
fortune their heritage of prudence from Holland an-
ccstors forbade their INDUCING in such prodigality
They kept up in way until their renaissance with the
birth of the Bronx.
The Van Twiller home imposing mansion Of
red brick not exactly lower Fifth-ave, but
of the best known streets in that quarter They
had built it in the early sos, moving up from the Bat
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quit that locality. And now they were
hemmed in again by trade; but they in
tended to hold the fort until the very
last
1t was house meant for kindly hos
pitality on broad lines, and it found its
home there. The Van Twillers enter
tanned whom they pleased. They were
related to nearly everybody of conse-
quence; but Society considered their
dinners and dances bit mixed, and
possibly they were just little off the line.
They were too kind hearted, were con-
stantly picking up social aspirants and
passing them along, and they gave many
climber helpful shove up the ladder.
Society could not ignore the Van
Twillers, and you found the name on all
the lists of Patriarchs, and Matriarchs,
and Family Dancing classes of the day.
1t gave distinction and dignity to any
enterprise, social or otherwise.
Bessie Van Twiller was not debutante.
She might be described as bachelor girl.
She had long since eschewed dancing,
although there were dances given by her
mother; but she had fallen into the age
of dinners and cards She was witty,
most amusing, and rather daring. Her
mother was anxious to see her settled;
but, although she had many suitors, was
good to look upon, and was careful of
her complexion and figure, which were
perfect, Bessie had never been able to de-
eide. In fact, she liked her liberty too
much-and she had too good time.
One of her fads was to have each year
aman dangling after her, most devoted and
presumably the one to be chosen. The
next winter there was another; but Bessie
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THERE is set recipe for the method of getting into
L Society. 1t differs to the individual and as to
circumstances. What is the right thing to do one day
is entirely wrong the next You point out the way
you throw all your influence into the balance, you
put to all that which you have acquired but
you cannot jam person down peoples Threats
Here is man with a reputation fun maker, an
absolute clown to the multitude, but keen, shrewd
business person. with keen for opportunity His
fame comes from a smaller city to large watering
place, and from there to New York itself Although he
has visited and been received for years at Newport
no one has taken much stock in his latent abilities
fun maker. But he suddenly dawns the horizon in
when there few men, when there is war in
progress and fear of foreign INVASION and when many
families plunged into mourning and others not enter
tanning He the by fooling, he gains the
favor of an eminent personage-and his fortune IS
made
Whether not he turns his newly acquired influence
into commercial channels and makes honest penny
in side lines, question depending entirely on
his capabity. The position and fortune he has
qured to this. In another season, diff
ferent circumstances, he would probably have failed
Others have tried follow in his footsteps but Society
nothing for cowning 1t is tickle, and that
which it today will be cast aside tomorrow.
7 BENSON SMITH came to me with few negotiable
- social assets. He got well with men, even if he
little shy with women. And perhaps for this
very reason women liked him.
Like an architect, collected number of plans of
social campaigns for him. All of these results
of successful experiments. Here one of who
was handicapped in the start for the that he
came from New York and from excellent, respectable
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-03-07
SENATE. CAUCUS
CHOOSES KERN
WILL BE LEADER or SENATE IN
PLACE OF SENATOR vii.
LiAMs. .

WASHINGTON. Mar, s--Wheu the
democrats of the new senate met in
caucus today to elect chairman
tnere was no opposition to Senator
oonn w Kerne, of Indiana. az tbe
new leader. Senator. Martin Of viz
glnla, resigning democratic leader
declared few days ago that he was
siad TO lay down the Responsibilities
OF the Office. The retirement of Sen.
ator Martin and the candidacy Of
senator Kern ends a long str,egA1e
lor control of the senate and Of the
si4ty-third congress between tha so
caiied progressive democrats and rho
old conservatives.
Republican senators in cancns 90
lected Senator Gallinger. Of Nov
hampshire. They authorized him to
select committee which will have
charge of filling the republican com
m'ttee places. There was no op,osi.
.ioh 70 the seniority rule
senator LaFollette was present at
the REPUBLICAN gathering, but sena.
tors Bristow, Clapp and Poindexter
uid not appear. The two latter Rave
been classed as members Of the nro.
slessive party, but republicans te.dav
stated that they expected Senator
clapp would participate in republ1
can committee assignments
The democratic caucus authorized
Kern to appoint a commit.
Tee Oh nine to devise plan for the
reorganization of the senate commit.
tees with the understanding that he
should present his list to the -eancus
tomorrow.
Senator Newlands, of Nevada was
CHOSEN vice shairman and Senator
salisbury, of Delaware, one OF the
newly elected members of the BODY.
was elected secretary of the caucus
senator Tillman expressed a pre-
ference for the Craftsmanship of the
on appropriations and said
ne mad requested the advice of Presi,
aent wilson as to the chairmanship
y should choose. and that the pres.
ldent had urged his selection as
of the committee onaopro-
President Wilson, he said.
was heartily for economy.
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Tony Sudekum. the proprietor

AOuy 6uQchulup Inc QEUpIlotOE y
the Dixie Theatre, and w. p. Ready
the promoter, were out from Nash
vile Monday and each rode .rult
for the, Pathe picture. but escaped
the specially man VIII wanted them
Individually for the local papers.
Miss Mary Beecher, of the postof
flee force is In Washington to wit
ness the Inauguration.
Mrs. w. J. Gipson of Ashwood is
spending the week end with Mrs. j.
w. Denham on South Garden street.
Mrs. T. N. Figuers, Jr.. will return
this afternoon after spending ten
days with her parents at Fayetteville.
Miss Gertrude Johnson has return
ed home, afte, spending the wiEter
with her sister, Mrs. c. H. Bailey,
at Wartrace.
Charles Edward Guest has gone to
Atlanta on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Dobbins left
Monday for st. Augustine, Fla, to
spend the month of March and part
Of April.
Miss Eugenia Jordan has return
ed to her home in Franklin after
pleasant visit to her-cousin, Miss Mar
garet Mitchell
B. D. Bird, of New Decatur, Ala,
who has been here for the past
month with his mother, will leave the
latter part OF the week for his home.
Mrs. w. E. Norvell, of Nashville,
was here Tuesday attending the open
ing OF the King Daughters hospital,
and while in the city was the guest
Of Mrs. Frederick Hardy.
!. Mrs. Joseph Jones, Of Fayetteville,
spent Tuesday with Mrs. F. F. Ever.
EFT and attended the opening Of the
Kings Daughters hospital. Mrs.
Jones went to Nashville this morning
for visit.
Among the visitors here yesterday
from Mt. Pleasant to witness the
opening of the Maury County Hospit-
al were Misses Frances Ricketts,, He |
len and Fannie Bostick, Nita Cooper, |
Mary Anderson. Dollie Powers, Elsie
Young and Elizabeth Patterson.
Attorney Clint A. Armstrong, OF the
bar, was in Columbia to-
day. |
Misses Mona and Annie Davis leave |
this afternoon for a visit to friends
1t Kettle Mills and Shady Grove.
Mrs. Alice H. Smith has returned
% her home at Murfreesboro after a,
short visit to relatives in Columbia.
Among the attractive shoppers
rom Culleoka here today are Misses
lutte and Brownie Tomlinson, Char
otte Smiser and Mrs. Merit Booker
;miser.
R. s. McCarty returned Wednesday
light from TRIP to Honduras, where
e spent several days. He Is looking
'rowned from contact with the sum-
nertime sun on the island and says
e is feeling splendidly
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-03-07
MILITARY OFFICERS
HERE LOOKING INTO
PROPOSED COMP ANY
AOJT. GEN. MALoNEY AND CAPT.
cHAs. 3. RoGAN IN coLuM.
1iA WEDNESDAY.
WILL ACCEPT THE APPLICATION
Local Organization Will Probably Be
Equipped With Machine Guns by
the United states-Armory Being
Considered.

J Adjutant Frank Maloney, of ths
state militia. and Capt. Chas. B. Ro
gan, OF the United State army, came
down from Nashville Wednesday fol-
the purpose Of looking into the pro
posed plans for establishing a militia.
ry company in Columbia. They were
seen at the Bethel House and stated
that there would be no trouble as to
It's establishment, as the minimum
requisite of fifty-eight signers to the
application had been passed, and
there were now about seventy five
signers. The organization of the
company will be proceeded with and
it will in all probability be machine
gun company, and in the nature OF
battery of light artillery. The Unit
ed States government has promised
ne equipment of the company with
machine rifles with firing capacity
OF three hundred to the minute, and
1t will require twelve pack mules to
carry the rifles and ammunition
equipment of the company.
The small arms, side arms, uni
forms, canteens and tenting outfits
will be sent direct from the state cap
ltal, while the machine guns and their
will come from the Unit
ed States authorities, and will rraba.
bly, be three weeks later reaching Co.
'umbia than the other equipment. (.
The list of applicants will be taken
,aek TO Nashville By these officers
and Immediately enlistment cards
will be sent. As soon as these are
signed and returned Adju-
tant Maloney will either come him.
self or will detail an officer to come
to Columbia and muster the company
into service.
All these details, it is stated Incl
dent to the establishment of the com.
pany ought to be worked out within
week or ten days. While here Cen
Maloney and Capt. Rogan are looking
into the matter of a building for an
armory. Several locations suitable
have been suggested and are availa.
BILE, but decision has not been rem.
dered as to the location. This win
be done, however, by the time Of the
of the company.
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DEAD. AGAINST
WOMENS VOTES
NEW ENGLAND STATES oPpoS
Ed TO suFFRAGETTE MOVE.
MENT.

BOSTON, Mar 6.-The cause OF
woman's suffrage received set back
in two New England legislatures to-
day.
A committee OF the Massachusetts
legislature voted to report 'leave to
withdraw" on a bin providing for a
referendum on "a constitutional
amendment which would eliminate
the word male" from teh provision
defining the qualifications of a voter.
A similar bin was killed In the
Maine house by q vote Of 50 to IS aft.
er Il had been passed by the senate.
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DEATHS HARVEST.
r. A. Doster.

r. A. Doster, who has been ZACH
ing at Ettaton, died ON the 9th of
pneumonia. The burial will take
place at Campbellville on Sunday.
Mr.. Doster vas popular man and a
most excellent citizen. He is surviv-
ed by a wife and four children, Rob-
ert, Zenith, Vivian and Reba. The
teachers of the county In session here
today, passed resolution of respect
and sympathy regarding the death of
Mr.. Doster.
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AGAINST OPERATION
OF THE WEBB BILL

LOUISVILLE, KY, Mar. 4.-Geo-
H. Washourne, editor of the Wine
ana spirits Bulletin. who is more in.
umately in touch with the liquor In
oustry than any other man In the
state, declares that steps will be tax.
en- at once to secure an injunction
against the operation of the Webb
law until Its question Of constitution.
atty had been settled by the, United
States supreme court.
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y ARE ALWAYS WELCOME AT OUR STORE.

be given too much praise, was the
music furnished by Miss Cones or
chestra This splendid musical or
ganization is q distinct credit to the
local school and Is quite an addition
to the musical talent Of Columbia.
Miss Crone's superior work In train
ing the orchestra has certainly ccrne
fruit.