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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
Explosion Of Boilers Dooms the
VoIturnO, but Wireless Appeal
Brings Vessels Under Full
Steam Through Storm-Swept
Sea to Rescue.
Hundreds Watch Passengers Hud-
died on Decks as Flames Ap-
proach-Prompt Action Of Com
mander of Cunarder Cuts Fa-
tally List.
FACTS ABOUT THE
SEA DISASTER.
Total number of passengers .521

Total number of passengers .521
(These were divided as follows:
First cabin, "a; Storage, $40; crew,
s3.)
ASSsOueu ...''''.'... 1890. oZ1
Missing probably dead) .. 1876
The first call of the Volturno
was, I'VE are on fire and will
have to abandon ship. Can hold
on for a while. S. o. s."
The s. o. s. call was heard by
the Carmania, 78 miles away, and
by other ships within the zone
ind answered.
1t was sent out about 8 o'clock
Thursday morning. The Carma-
MIA made 20 miles an hour
through the storm and was there
at noon.
The Grosser Kurfurst and the
Seydlitz, a German tramp,
reached her at 4 o clock.
Seven other ships-La Tou-
raine, Minneapolis, Rappahan-
mock, Gear, Narragansett, De-
woman and Kroouland-reached
her by nighttime.
The passengers were taken of
and more than 500 lives saved on
Friday. 1t was possible only
through the use of wireless.
Special Gable TO The American.
LIVERPOOL, Oct. 11.-One hun
bred and thirty-six persons lost their
lives when the steamship Volturno,
| of the Uranium Line, was destroyed
at sea on Friday, having been on fire
"a hours.
Ten steamships surrounded the
Volturno for sixteen hours while the
! fire ragged at its height, but none of
the rescue feet was able to lend as
sistance owing to the terrific storm.
The Volturno sailed from Rotter-
| dam for New York, via Halifax, on
October 2. She carried "a cabin pas
, sengers, $40 steerage and a crew Of
49, OF the 657 known to have been
on board, SCI have been reported
saved by the ten vessels.
The greatest loss of life occurred
when four OF the Volturno's six life
boats were' dashed to pieces against
the side of the vessel a few moments
after they were launched. Other life
boats launched from the rescue ships
were also crushed by the waves.
Early Friday morning a terrific ex-
plosion in the Volturno's boiler room
i almost rent the vessel in half. When
this occurred the passengers on the
stricken ship believed they were
doomed while the captains of the yes
sells which had rushed to the rescue
could see little chance of saving those
on the burning ship.
Lifeboats Launched.
Suddenly the gale abated and the
sea Gained considerably. Within a
| few moments a score of lifeboats had
been launched from the vessels stand
ing by and were rushing toward the
| stern of the Volturno, where the pas
sengers and crew were huddled
| against the rail.
When the Volturno was abandoned
Friday morning she was seen to be
gradually sinking. Her position was
then about 900 miles northeast of
Cape Race and close to the spot
where the Titanic sank eighteen
| months ago.
Many See Disaster.
| Never before has such disaster
been witnessed by SO many 5specta-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12

THE SUNDAY AMERICAN and THE GEORGIAN
on October published DETAILED STATEMENT
OF CIRCULATION BY DAYS AND THE PER
CENTAGE OH RETURNS, UNsoLD copies No 9th
er newspaper in Atlanta did this so no comparison
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12

April Circulation ...........,0I 400
May Circulation. ..............4 a., ZO3
June Circulation. =. .................. 1853
July Circulation ....................".49 1855
August Circulation. ........... 1851
September Circulation. :. ...............62,331
EVENING"
b.
The net aand
the Govern
Evening Journal average for six months So 55S
Constitution average for six months AZ 6S6
of and tn month Of
Georgian average total circulation for April 4S0
The Georgians average total circulation for Sept 1881
The Georg ans Circulation April 1918 35877
The GeorgianS Circulation Sept 80, 1918 o. ,lJI
Gain in Six Months ................. 81, ECO
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12

can be made Of the CIRCULATION NOW Of the At
lanta Sunday Constitution, or the Atlanta Sunday
Journal. We repubsh the GROSS figures of the
SUNDAY AMERICAN to show HOW A REAL
NEWSPAPER GROWS.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12


steadily growth THE GEORGIAN They the figures
in ADDITION
NUMBER PAID FOR that advertisers Advertising agencies
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12

To establish Sunday newspaper with NET PAID CIRCUA
TION OVER 100000 IN SIX MONTHS paid circulation of
competitors the field, the most remaka-
BILE journalistic achievement of the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12

Never before has such andisaster
been witnessed by SO many specta-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-17
A TASK FOR WOMEN.

Might not the women who argue SO
earnestly and logically for equality OF
civil rights between the sexes material
ly advance their cause by accepting
and advocating and seeking to enforce
equal responsibility, even in the Grim
inal courts? For that equality, SEEM
ingly a corolIary if not prerequisite
to woman suffrage, is still far distant.
Hardly had confessed perjurer
been exempted from punishment in
New York. admittedly for no other
reason than that she was woman
when a woman on trial for murder In
Jrn:ontown. Pa, obtained her freedom
by timely show of dementia- Testify
ing in her own defense with every ap-
pearance of nationality, she leaped to
her feet. screamed a description of the
dead woman appearing as an angelic
vision in a robe of white and a crown
of gold. mumbled incoherently and
had to be overpowered and taken
back to Jail" Whereupon the jury re-
turned a verdict of not guilty by reason
of insanity.
We need not assume that the jury
was itself suddenly seized with emo
tional insanity or that the court and
all it's officers were deceived by pre-
meditated display of histrionic talent
and misled into preventing Justice to
fatter gallantry. Still there is ground
for suspicion that, if the defendant had
been a man. some one of those con-
cerned would have been prompted by
curiosity to hear expert testimony in
the case and some evidence as to
whether the alleged insanity existed at
the time the alleged crime was COM
mitted.
The New York and Pennsylvania
cases come too closely together and
heralded by too many presidents to be
regarded otherwise than as conse-
quences of a general, though erron-
eous, rule. Not so much because
others have failed to correct it as be-
cause they themselves feel its indirect
and unjust effect, women who wish
to vote will address themselves to set
ting right the prevalent notion that
Justice takes note of sex-that the law
is justified in granting women special
immunitfes any more than in imposing
upon her special disabilities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-17
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATcHIsoN GLOBE.

When a man starts to turn away, don't
start another story.
Strawberries, like other sweet things,
have short season.
After a man reaches fifty, prospects
don't seem So important.
Some artists seem to think that all the
public wants is soulful eyes.
The celebrated early bird should change
its menu and get the fly.
Please don't discuss old times. for you
may send some one to the penftentary.
Probably a good many of US are poor
because we rely too much on luck for as
sistance.
Women talk so much it is queer that a
married man should seek affinity even
in spring time
You can't convince any man who has
two women in the house that the art OF
conversation is on the toboggan.
Women policemen are becoming com
mon enough, but they dress too slowly to
break into the fire department.
When a woman insists on putting a
street parade, she shouldn't complain be-
cause the coarse men stare at her.
A visiting girl is popular because young
men feel that she can chase them with
out staying long enough to catch them.
These new gum-soled shoes impress peo-
pie that their wearer is trying to sneak up
on something, whether he is or not.
After a man marries. he wastes a great
deal of time searching for his few belong
ings which his wife has carefully put
away.
In this prosperous age, an invitation to
the commencement exercises is bunch
to buy a present, same q bid to a
worlds greatest wedding ceremony.
There was one advantage in the good
old days when knights were bold; a pair
of trousers made at the blacksmith shop
probably wouldn't bag at the knees.
The average man never gets mad when
he is told he has no business sense but
tell him he has no political sense and he
will spring fit. Which is queer, as 1t
doesn't make any difference whether a
man has political sense not. The idea
is to feed the wife and children
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-17
BY THE WAY
BY HARVEY PARSONS.

The fact that the buying of new hats
is not the favorite dissipation of this
department, has been the subject of
more or less comment on the part of
1ellow criminals. But we rise for in
formation: why should we purchase
a new hat, when a trip to the laundry
Will disguise our last season lid to
such an extent that it fools bod Gas
ton?
This CASTOR person is supposed to
De the greatest authority on things
Sartor1al in our village; and if our
old Panama gets by him so far as to
become the subject of new hat"
paragraph, should worry about the
opinions of lesser lights.
Peace" is a short word in our
language-one may almost hiss 1t; in
chinese, the equivalent is "wah-pah"
peace in two pieces, as it were. But
from the difficulty they find in pro-
nouncing it, one might suspect that the
Montenegrin name for Carnegie's hobby
is something like "zoozwogpiffesnow-
Observation-Disclosures INSTRUMENTATION"
Surgeons are going to operate on a
Philadelphia kid to keep him from
growing any taller. If there is an OPP
GRAFTON to prevent anyone from grow
ing short hasten hitherward, Doc,
with the tools and etherl
Investigators hold that the high cost
of living is due largely to expensive
habits; people .eschew the cheaper
cuts" and chew the T-bone. An ex-
ample of this growing extravaganza
was shown in recent news items:
Sioux City youth refused $4,000 to give
up a girl, although girls, according to
a story on the next page, are selling
at 10 cents each in India.
Our short-grass correspondent, who
is model of truthfulness, advises us
that since the recent flood at Great
Bend, the Barton county jackrabbits
are becoming web-footed But in To-
peka it is so blamed dry the pet gold
fish are growing toe-nails.
The six-cent verdict is liable to be-
come a fad. The latest recipient Of
the six-cent damages, is Philadel-
phia lawyer who sued the CoSmopon-
tan Magazine for $4,000 By adding
nine cents to his vindication, the law
yer may purchase the next issue OF
the Cosmopolitan and find out what the
editor thinks about the verdict.
This is about the time of year."
says Jack Supp, "when the other ginks
begin taking their vacations, and I be-
gin talking mine"
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait notices
the phenomenal increase in women's
Really, they are notice.
able. aren't they? But maybe it isn't
because the women make more move
ments, but just because they dress to
show their movements to better adj
vantage. Mace paw, Carrie?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-17

Hundreds of other American girls
jump at titles. Why shouldn't Miss
Scott? He bowed. He gave her hand
a squeeze.
and sat down on a bench beside an
artificial lake.
Il will speak to your ladder soon,
Ell ?" queried the baron.
what about?" was rather care
lessly asked.
That he may gif you to me-"
Did you come over here wife
hunting?''
Don't you understand dot I am
'Weu?"
Dot vhas a great title. My wife
Will be a baroness"
"Well?"
She shall be reech und lif in a
CASTLE
"weI?"
81 love you, and you Will be my
wife, Ell %
''Never!'
What. You toy NIT my heart? You
make game of me-"
Sir, 1 am going back to the
house!" said the girl
No! No! I must have your prom
ise!"
You can find your way to the
II shall not go! I vhant to talk"
But he went. Mr. st. Clair came
strolling along the path, and he
picked up the baron, and gave him a
fling into the lake and stood and
watched him wade ashore and take
himself off. Then he turned to the
girl and said:
Hes an imposter from head to
heel. Clara, will you be my wife?''
''Why-why didn't you ask me be-
fore ?" she half-demanded.
Because I was waiting for you to
meet man with titlei"
IT was a little idiot!' she replied
Copyrighted 1913 by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-17
EVENING CHAT
yY RUra cAAzNRoN.

The Wrong Kind of Compliments.
The other afternoon I had a caller who
said nice things about my house, my
clothes. my flowers. my family, etc, al
most every time she opened her pretty
mouth.
things, too!
She assured me that my old-fashioned
furniture was beautiful in itself. but even
more beautiful as a background for my
personality.
She flattered my taste in clothes by ask
ing If I would mind if she copied certain
point in gown which L wore. The full
force of this compliment is only under
stood when you are told that she dresses
and knows that know it.
She declared that must be prepared to
have ner intrude frequently because she
did so enjoy drinking afternoon tea from
my old blue cups; it added SO much to the
flavor of tse tea, which is exquisite
enough in itself, my dear
You would surely think I would have
been in glow of pleasure over all these
compliments, wouldn't you? And yet,
hear my confession,-they meant little or
nothing to
of appreciation, let me explain
did not feel delighted with her gracious
speeches because 1 knew they were
actuated, not by genuine enthusiasm nor
yet by a desire to please me, but merely
by the wish to say clever and pretty
things. that she herself might shine there
self.
How did I know it?
L felt it just as one usually feels insin-
certify and pretense.
You think 1 may be doing her an In
justice? Possibly. But 1 doubt it very
much.
I think she is a type of a large class; the
people who say gracious things and do
kind acts not from any desire to give
happiness but simply to make themselves
appear well.
Surely you have met such people. Sure
ly you have known by the self-satisfied
smile with which they launched their
pretty compliments that It was of them
selves and not of you they were thinking.
Surely you have realized the shallowness
of their benevolence and seen it evaporate
beneath GONE slight inconvenience or an
noyance an insufficient return in graft
tude.
Such people sometimes wonder why they
are not more popular. They do the world
an injustice. They think it unable to
sense insineerity and tell a pose from a
genuine feeling.
pretty speech made with a genuine
emotion behind it. and made only for the
pleasure 1T will give and not for the ad-
It will excite, is a joy forever.
But the other kind, and the people who
make them. we could well do without.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-17
says UNCLE CAV

You may be the best in your class,
but some little fellow will get you if
you let down your guard. Almost any
one can muster a punch that will dis
pose of the man who believes that he
can't be licked. The man who doesn't
know how to cover up as well as how
to carry the fight to his antagonist
has learned only half of the game.
The punch that puts him away comes
sooner or later to him who isn't
watching for it. Moreover, you sim
ply can't absorb all the punishment in
the world, so you'd better be prepared
to block some of it.
These pearls of wisdom dropped
from the battered lips of my old friend
Spike Dugan. who when he left
Puckyhuddle some years ago was call
ton to wear a diamond studded belt
then possessed by an Irishman of bel
ligerent disposition. Spike came back
without his original NAME He was
also minus the belt. They said it was
a lucky punch that stopped him at the
foot of the ladder.
Take it from me- says Spike,
there's no such thing as lucky
punch. A lot of us has-beens and
never-wasers like to think that there
is, but there isn't The lucky punch
doesn't bother the man who is all
there all the time. It's the shine guys
excuse. 1t was never offered by a
thoroughbred.
81 was good enough on the agrees
sive, but 1 figured that my frame was
reinforced concrete and that nobody
could get to me with the sleeping
powders. had a bunch that all had
to do was to wade in and wipe the
other fellow off the, landscape-that
he couldn't do a thing to me while 1
was engaged at that highly pleasing
task. 1 was wrong"
Well, let's take it from Spike. The
only luck in the lucky punch is the
luck that comes to the other fellow
fore watches for the big opportunity.
Eternal vigilance is not only the price
of liberty and prize ring purses, but 1t
is also the price of success in every
human undertaking. 1t isn't enough
to be aggressive. Courage that isn't
backed by caution comes cropper.
1t represents just so many deadly
openings for the attacks of your rivals
and that great antagonist that we call
the force OF circumstances.
Every career has it's point of the
jaw" and its solar plexus. It makes
little difference how hard you fight
if you leave your vulnerable points
exposed. Sooner or later the other
fellow will learn your careless habits
and send home the haymaker. What
you have won disappears in a flash
just as quickly as does the record of
the prize fighter who fails at last to
rise at the count of ten. Your past
victories count for nothing-the
strength of your good right arm is
comparatively valueless-you're not
real contender in the struggle of life
if you can't protect yourself while you
are carrying the fight to your oppo-
1913, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-17
THE CUT PRICE DECISION.

The decision in the Minnesota rate
case, handed down by the United
States supreme court, has attracted
wide attention and comment, but the
court on May 26 made a ruling that
probably is of much more Importance
to the general public.
Ten to fifteen billions of capital are
affected by the decision in the case
of cut prices on patented articles, SO
Representative Oldfield of Arkansas
is reported as saying in the New York
Sun, which tells us also that in the
opinion of officials of the department
of Justice the decision Eventually will
affect every home in the country"
The decision turned on the point of
the extent of control which a patentee
may retain over a patented article.
A chemical company manufactures a
nerve tonic, which is patented. 1t is
issued to druggists with a notice that
they must not sell it at less than 81 a
package, or be guilty of an infringe
ment of the patent and consequently
liable to injunction and damages. A
Washington druggist repeatedly sold
this commodity below the stipulated
price, and the manufacturing COM
pany sought to secure an Injunction
in the supreme court of the District
of Columbia. The petition was de-
MED, and recourse was had to the
court of appeals, which certified the
case to the United States supreme
court. At the same time other COM
panies, including the Gillette com
pany. the Victor Talking Machine
company, the Waltham Watch COM
pany, and the Ingersoll Watch COM
pany, were permitted to file briefs
wit hthe supreme court, as they had
cases pending in various courts
throughout the country bearing on the
rights of patentees to restrict the re-
sale prices of their articles
These are the words of the courts
decision presenting the kernel of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-17
A QUIET PANIC.

Certain political economists have
been telling us recently that the high
cost of living is due to the presence
of too much money in the world. With
money scarcer, they say, prices OF
commodities would be lower. No
doubt they are right.
But what of those other economists
who now are saying that the fall in
the price of securities and the general
decline in the volume of business is
due to a scarcity of money. There is
not enough they say properly to carry
on the various public, private and
corporate enterprises in operation
or projected.
1t is not meant by this that there
is not sufficient money in existence
but that it is withdrawn largely from
the channels of trade. If this be true
why does it not affect the prices of
commodities as it does the prices of
securities?
The truth seems to be that there is
enough money for everybody but the
In other words available
supplies of capital are insufficient to
provide for all the financing that Dor
rowing governments, municipalities,
states. colonies and corporations have
This condition of course falls most
heavily on the railroads which must
have money or go the way of the
Frisco. The others can wait. The
New York World denominates the
situation "a silent panic"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-17
AYHAWKER JOTS

Down at Neodesha the stores close
to let the employees go to a Sunday
school picnic.
Conner Davies must be taking off
another brood of chickens. He is not
doing much writing for his paper these
days
A Nickerson woman hanged herself
with a roller towel and attention is be-
ing called to the fact that the use of
the roller towel is prohibited by law.
Notwithstanding the pessimistic crop
reports sent out from western Kansas,
Hays and Ellis counties have sent out
word that 100 harvest hands are needed
in each place to take care of the wheat.
Somebody has started a story that
Bert Walker is to be married soon.
When man starts on downward
course one can never know where he
will stop. First it's POLITICS and then
matrimony.
There were six candidates for the
postoffice at Altamont, says the Par
sons Sun, and President Wilson and
Senator Thompson compromised on the
prettiest one-a woman, Miss Viola
Hamilton, a milliner
1t was so hot there a few days ago,
said a Newton man, that when he
turned the hose on his garden, the
stream of water just dried up in the
air, and a robin, thirsting for a drink
hoped up on it and chirped for more.
Kansas should not be too haSty, says
the Winfield Courier, in deciding on the
candidate for that empty niche in
the hall of fame. Henry Hahnenkratt
of Downs is working on an iceless re-
frigerator that promises to be a sue
cess.
Out at Dodge they had ten rains
in eleven days. The explanation that
the Dodgers will probably make for
missing one day, says the Lawrence
Gazette will be that the day missed
was Sunday, and they wanted a chance
to go to church.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-17

The validity of the law requiring
newspapers seni-annually to publish
the names of their editors, managers
owners, stockholders and bondholders
has been upheld by the supreme court
The law was passed in 1912. 1t was
objected to by two New York publish
ing companies, which asserted that it
sought to regulate journalism and en-
force censorship of the press"
Pending the outcome of those suits a
number of newspapers have withheld
compliance with the law. The State
Journal promptly carried out this
laws requirements.