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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-03
CENSORSHIP NEEDED

A good deal of free advertising has been Sc
cured by a local theater because of the furore
created by skilfuI press-agent work ON behalf of
ture The Star Bulletin would not have given
space to the matter today but that it points di
rectly to the lack of proper censorship of the
vaudeville houses of this city
There is a sort of unofficial board of censors
headed by the law and order committee of the
Civic Federation, which performs voluntary
function. This committee, however, has no au
thority to stop suggestive or obscene pictures or
the showing of films of a sensational character
which tend to inflame the imagination of young
sters prone to imagine themselves "bad men" or
wild Indians The censors are without power
They can recommend but not enforce. The sher
iff of the city and county has the authority to
stop undesirable pictures under the general po
lice powers of the city, but we do not imagine
that in such a case Bill Jarrett's sense of dis
elimination would show up to much better add
vantage now than in the past
The needed action is quite plain The board
of supervisors should pass an ordinance provid
ing for a theatrical censor or a board of censOrs
with the right to call upon the city attorneys
office and the police department to stop the dis
play of pictures the exhibition of plays or acts
that are deemed improper Under the city char
ter, the board is given considerable power in this
direction, and if it has not now the power, let's
find it out before the next session of the legis
lature and then secure that power by territorial
statute.
We believe there are plenty of good citizens
who would consent to serve without pay on a
censorship board, and there doesn't seem to be
much doubt that such board is needed In the
case under consideration, the Star Bulletin is in.
formed that the acting manager of the theater
is averse topictures even bordering on the in
proper There is a difference of opinion as to
whether this picture is improper or not All
who have seen it agree that it is stupid and that
the press-agent was employed to secure notoriety
fer it.
But it serves to draw attention now to the
need for prcperly-constituted theatrical censor
ship here.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-03

Roland Shugart, a lawyer, was kill
ed, and his brother-in-law. Haynes
Moore, was fatally wounded In \ pis-
toll fight on a street in Birningham.
Ala.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-03

Identification of criminals by means
of motion pictures is the novelty
which may be adopted by New. Yorl,s
nOlice department
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-03

]. Bruce Ismay. who is to retire
on June / as managing director OF
the White Star line. has resigned
from the New York Produce Ex-
change.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-03

Evidently the new manager of the Hawaiian
Electric Company is starting out with a public
he pleased policy.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-05-03

Speaking of changing the public school
tics?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-29
Mrs. Ethel Rich and
P, M. Young Are
Placed Under Bond

Mrs Ethel Rich, daughter Of Rob
ert Edwards, prominent Albanian. and
p NJ Young, son Of Park Commits
sioncr Young who were Tuesday
morning arrested in the Gate city
Hotel were Wednesday placed under
bond for higher court
Mrs Rich and Young We're before
Recorder Broyles, It was alleged that
they had been living at the Gate City
Hotel for several weeks. Mrs Rich,
it developed in the trial is separa ted
from her husband and Young is not
living with his wife.
Mrs. RiCh's mother made a pathetic
plea 20 the court 30 save her daughter
from the disgrace Of a sentence. a
sister and the wOman's mother burst
into tears when the father asked the
judge 10 punish his daughter for her
conduct
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-29
CALLS WILSON s
SPEECH 'EP0CHAL'
Secretary Daniels Tells AtIantans
mobile Declaration" Reiter-
ates Monroe Doctrine.

There was a decided echo of inter-
est in Atlanta Wednesday following
the brief talk made Tuesday before
by Josephus Daniels. Secretary of
the Navy, who passed through here
on his way from Mobile to Raleigh,
n. C.
Mr.. Daniels. referring to the speech
OF President Wilson Monday in Mo
bile, said he considered it an epoch
al address"
ut will go down in history as the
Mobile Declaration Mr. Daniels as
serted. ut makes plain to all nations
and to ourselves that the Monroe
Doctrine still is our pillar of cloud
and fire.
Since the United States acquired
Porto Rico, the Philippines and the
Panama Canal Zone, there has been
a suspicion that we were falling into
the ways of other nations; that we
keep other nations out Of the Latin
American republics, but that, when
we chose we would play our hand N
the game at any time and in any
way.
The speech at Mobile should set az
rest any suspicious on that point. 1t
shows Europe where We stand, and
should encourage a closer and more
satisfactory relation with practically
every one Of the great powers"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-29
Atlanta Ad Men
In "Spellin' Bee"
rs. Florence Wins

.. S. Florence won the spelling
championship from f. II. Cone at the
Ad Mems monthly dinner at the New
Kimball Hotel Tuesday night, an old
fashioned "spellin' bee" being the fea-
ture of the evenings entertainment.
A cash prize had been offered, but
when Florence claimed his reward
amid howls of derision against ms
doing so, the prize money was con-
fiscated and more cigars purchased
for the smokers.
Bert Adams and Ivan Allen were
captains of the respective sides. The
pleasure of missing the first word and
taking a place on the Ounce stool was
afforded by DIR. W. A. White, VINO
couldn't spell coca cola.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-29
CIVIC CLUB
BEING PUSHED
BY JONES
Expert in Charge of Junior Cham
Der of Commerce Plan to
Call Meeting Soon,

with the return of Harrison Jones
10 Atlanta the preliminary work of
organizing ;he Junior Chamber of
Commerce, through which It is hoped
to train the rising generation OF At
lantans to realization and appre-
citation Of their duties as citizens, is
rapidly being gotten under way.
Mr. Jones, who is chairman OF the
general committee Of so appointed by
President Wilmer L. Moore, of the
Chamber OF Commerce, to have
charge Of the organization work, said
Wednesday morning that he expects
to call a meeting Of his committee
some time this present week.
Mr. Jones has prepared a constitu-
not been officially ratified by the gen
eral committee, has received the in
dorsement of a many as have seen 1t.
BY It's terms the male pupils of the
public and private schools are CLASH
fed, according to grades, into three
divisions, A, B and G. 1t Is proba-
bic that the boys will elect general
president Of their organization, with
a vice president and a secretary for
each school.
Jones Explains Idea.
"The Junior Chamber" said Mr..
Jones this morning lis stil very
much in embryo. and the work it will
do hardly can be forecast. 1t will
be necessary for all of the work of
the organization to be under the con-
troll and supervision of the general
Chamber Of Commerce committee, as
the boys hardly win be capable Of
planning the work for themselves
They will. however, have a part,
and a very prominent part, in the
government Of the organization. There
will be committee of boys, to which
will probably be appointed one mem
Der OF the general committee, and
these boys committees win do prac-
tiCally the same work as is done by
the present committees of the Cham
Der Of Commerce.
THE organization will have a paid
secretary, and we will try to have
the secretary attend the Saturday
afternoon meetings of the city school
teachers, and outline work for the
teachers during the week, of a few
moments each day, along the line Of
the civic education of the boys.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-29
SMOKING VIOLENTLY FATAL

PHILADELPHIA, oct ga la
borer was blown to pieces here when
sparks from a pipe he was smoking
exploded six sticks of dynamite he
was carrying under his arm.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-29
Wife Drinks Poison
When Love Is Dead

ASHEVILLE, n. c., Oct 29.--After
packing her grips preparatory to max
ing a trip to the National Conserva-
ton Exposition at Knoxville, Mrs J.
w. Mcfarland swallowed a glass filed
with paris green and water, and died
shortly afterwards. She left a note
that read:
John, John. | can't live this life I'm
living You have left me for an
other This is my last curse 1t is
hard to live with a man and love him
who won't love me-"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-29
Jane Adams Suitor
Held on Suspicion

NEW ORLEANS, Oct 2s-Because
he wrote letters to Jane Adams, Of Hull
House. Chicago, protesting his undying
devotion and threatening to commit
suicide, Henry Leuker, aged 80 years,
Of No. S26 Howard avenue, was ar
rested today as a dangerous and sus-
picious character. He is being held
pending information from Chicago
Superintendent Charles H Patterson
of the Charities Association, made the
arrest after he had been notified OF
Leuker's threat by Miss Adams. He
found Leuker at the Howard avenue
address, where he has been rooming
for several weeks.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-29
BETTER PAY FOR
CITY TEACHERS
IS LIKELY
Councilman Knight Back of Prop
osition to Give Them More
Than Usual Increase.

Councilman c. d. knight said Wed
nesday that he had received assur-
ance Of support from many members
of Council for the movement to in
crease the salaries Of school teachers
more than the allotted per cent that
is given each year
Councilman knight and Alderman
G. IL Kelley have prepared a wage
scale which would raise the mini
mum salaries Of $3.50 per month
$3.50. 1t provides for an increase in
the salaries of all teachers receiving
less than 500 a month The plan
would have been presented to the
Salaries Committee of Council Tues
gay afternoon but the meeting was
adjourned for two weeks.
Il am heartily in favor OF increas-
ing the pay OF teachers and also OF
the firemen" said Councilman
knight, The employees Of the city
who are receiving less than 500 a
month are the ones who are doing
the real work though their salaries
would indicate in this time of the
high cost Of living that they were
doing mighty little service
In these increases the negro
teachers must he included. | am in
formed that some Of them are teach
ing more than 100 pupils for $50 "a
month"
Under an ordinance Of Council the
teachers have been receiving a raise
OF per cent per year for the past
several years. Superintendent Of
Schools William NJ. Slaton and mem
bers of the Board of Education have
insisted that this amount should be
increased to put Atlanta on par
with other cities Of her class, and they
have succeeded in getting promises
OF additions several times.
Indications are that the Salaries
Committee will join with Councilman
knight in urging more money for the
teachers. All the recommendation
IF the Salaries Committee will go to
the Finance Committee when that
body starts making up the new bud
get in January.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-29
Richland Pastor
Heads Christians

COLUMBUS, Oct. 29.-The Georgia
and Alabama conference Of the Chris
tian Church, which began its annual
session at the Waverly Terrace
Church yesterday. will continue until
Thursday afternoon.
The Rev. II. w. Elder. pastor of
the Christian Church of Richland
was reelected president Of the con-
ference, having held that position for
several years. He preached the in
troductory sermon.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-29
Church Asks US. to
End Army and Navy

KANSAS CITY, MO-, Oct 29-
Resolutions adopted by the National
Council OF the Congregational Church
In Kansas City this morning by
unanimous vote declared for inter
national peace and asked President
Wilson and Congress to disband the
army and navy and cease building
warships or obtaining munitions of
war.
About 500 Congregationaiists from
all over the United States were pres
ent this morning.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-29
Disorderly Conduct
Costs Woman $50

Two fines Of SIS each were assessed
against Mrs c, c, Downes for dis
orderly conduct by Recorder Broyles
Tuesday afternoon. Her arrest grew
out of the visit of detective to her
husbands gun and locksmith shop at
No. % 1-2 Marietta street. where he
went to question 12-year- old boy
charged with stealing.
Detective W. c. Patrick testified she
had abused him without provocation.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-29
Queen Mary to Stop
Graft at Buckingham

Special Gable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. oct 29-King George has
ordered an immediate audit made OF
the household accounts Of Buckingham
Palace.
This is being done at the instiga ton
of Queen Mary who is determined to
stop heavy overcharges and big com
missions whereby not only the servants,
but several officials Of the household,
derive handsome incomes.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-29
Thought Lost at Sea,
He Had Gone0ut West

CHARLESTON, Oct. 29.--Manning Fl.
Jurs, druggist whose unexplained
absence from home caused friends deep
concern for three weeks, It being feared
that he was swept to sea while fishing on
a stormy morning, has returned
Jurs declares he made an unexpected
trip to the West, the details of which
he does not give.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-29
Ugh! Poor Los Land
Sold in His Absence

SOPER. OKLA, Oct. 29.-'Your mys-
teriGus disappearance fifteen years ago
caused this court to declare YOU legally
dead and your $500 600 estate was sold
TO satisfy heirs" said the court to John
Stepson, an Indian. to-day
Ugh, answered the Indian. leaving
the courtroom. Stepson returned last
week, declaring that fifteen years ago
he became tired Of the white mans
life and went to live among Mexican In
dians, but the revolution ran him back
home.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-29
Love Franchise Basis,
Mrs. Mccormick Says

BOSTON. Oct. 29.-Mrs. Stanley Nc
Cormick. of Commonwealth avenue,
one of the woman suffrage leaders in
this country. replying to the charge that
sex antagonism is the basis of the suf-
frage movement, said day:
"The instincts of the best mother
hood, which go beyond her own and
embrace all children, is the foundation
words, it is love"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-10-09

On the outside he had little or no
chance for schooling. The prison
school should offer him this oppor-
tunity, but we have no place to open
up this school. Since the big fire
last spring there is absolutely no
place in any way suitable for the
school. What to do is a greatques-
ton. The state requires the school
to go on, but provides no place.
What we need is school building
adapted to our situation. The state
is abundantly able, and it certainly
would be paying investment; for
nothing so aids in good citizenship
as education.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-10-09
A REFORMER IN PRISON

Thomas Mott Osborne, chairman
of the New York State committee
for prison reform, is wearing pris-
on uniform, occupying a prison cell
and going through the daily round
Of an inmate in Auburn peniten-
tiary. He is there without guilt
and by his own choice, in order
that he may study the effect of the
prison on the prisoners.
1t is worthy object that Mr.. Os-
borne has in mind, and doubtless
good will come of it. This country
has progressed amazingly from the
early days when, as McMasters re-
ports in his History of the Ameri-
can People," far less consideration
was given prisoners including pris-
oners for debt-than is given today
to a work horse. Duluth Herald.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-10-09
FOR ANOTHER

We read in one of our exchanges
this week where a man in Con-
necticut spent fifty years in the pri-
son in that state. A few years ago
the mans father died, and since
that time. up until his own death
last week, he claimed that his
father committed the crime for
which he was sent to prison.
This may be true, but there are
very few men who will suffer in
durance vile that length of time for
the sake Of another, providing of
course they knew the guilty party.
We are not in sympathy with a
man who will accept this kind Of
punishment for another, if he waits
until the guilty party passes to the
great beyond before making asser-
tions. It reeks Of falsehood. He
may have refused to testify to save
his father; is that any reason why
he should blacken the memory of
the father after death? The father
no doubt left plenty of friends and
relatives, who held him in high es-
TEEN, then to have the son lay the
crime of murder at the fathers
door, when he was past making a
defense and clearing his name,
would no doubt make them lose
some of the respect they felt for the
departed. The man may have done
a noble thing, in one sense of the
word when he took his fathers place
in prison, but the act would have
been far nobler if he had remained
silent with death.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-10-09
THE CAUSE OF CRIME

The Bismarck Tribune in a
thoughtful editorial on the subject
of Eugenics" has hit the mark.
While lawmakers are busy all over
the country in ciuttering up the
statute books of the different states
with laws designed to lesson the
production of criminals by regulat-
ing the intermarriage of diseased
and defective persons, the Tribune
directs the attention of its readers
to the great influence Of environ
ment upon the formation of indi-
vidual character.
There is no criminal class. )"
Criminals, so called, are the pro-
duct of social and economic sys-
tenn that denies equal opportunity to
all. For years England transport
ed her criminals to foreign coun-
tries. but their progeny were not
criminals; in fact, their descendants
are today the aristocracy of New
Zealand and other penal settle
ments.
England sent her criminal sheep
stealers to West Virginia, but in a
land Of opportunity they found it
easier to raise sheep than to steal
them. What made them criminals
was solely the denial of opportuni-
ty and this secured they were Grim
inals no longer.
When our lawmakers turn their
attention from dealing with effects
to the study Of causes, much of the
silly and vicious legislation will dis
appear from the statute books.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-10-09
A FINE COMPLIMENT,

Speaking of an officer, not long
ago, prisoner said: There is a
clean man." He went on to say:
When I commenced to work under
this officer. l was very profane
man, but I soon noticed that he did
not use profanity nor vulgar Ian
guage. I also observed that profan-
ity and obscene speech were repul-
sive to him. l soon learned to ad-
mire the man, and out of respect to
him, did not indulge in offensive
language so much. Up to this time,
I had not supposed that it was posi-
BILE for man to live a clean life.
was surprised to learn that he had
no bad habits, and was clean in all
his life.
This example of good life was an
inducement for me to try, and / am
much better man because of this
kind of life lived before me. "
What a lesson to all. No man
liveth unto himself Surely our
lives are copied either for good or
bad, and how dire the result if our
influence is in the wrong direction.
Every officer ought to be an example
OF the white life' before the prison
body. Anyone failing along this
line is failing in his sworn duty
Kas. Pen. Bulletin.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-10-09

is also fairly meeting his other obi
cation to educate and train the
children to good citizenship, and
consequently, there is little proba-
bility that the children will be
guilty of disorderly conduct in the
city or otherwise violate the law.
On the other hand, following in the
wake Of the fathers failure to sup
port his family we find much juve-
nile delinquency, so that the strict
enforcement of the non-support
law in the manner outlined above
has done much to prevent juvenile
crime. And herein is the reason
for comforting upon juvenile courts
jurisdiction to hear and determine
complaints of non-support of the
family. To be efficient, such court
should be able to reach over the
head of the child, often only the
apparent offender, and eradicate the
cause of juvenile delinquency grow
ing out Of the unfit home and i'm
proper guardianship of the parent.
Those delinquent fathers who
have been sentenced to hard labor
at the workhouse, have been en-
gagged in building and repairing
roadways about the city, and in late
years, in the opening and construc-
ton of the new workhouse on the
site OF Occoquan, Virginia. This
source of employment still affords
opportunity for the useful labor of
prisoners committed under this act.
1t is kind Of employment that
meets with the least opposition, and
is virtually without competition with
free labor. And l believe the idea
of such employment is capable of
extension. so that throughout the
length and breadth of the land pris-
oners might be kept at similar use
full labor and the avails of their SER
vices paid over to their families, de-
prived for the time being Of the
bread winner, or kept on deposit
for payment to the discharged pris-
oner. when unmarried, so that he
may have some capital with which
to begin again his battle of life.
When it is remembered how neces-
sary are good roads as arteries of
business and social intercourse
generally, and to what extent good
roads are required everywhere, op-
portunity to utilize the labor of the
prisoners does not seem to be lack
ing. 1t will be remembered that
ancient Rome solved its problems
arising out of it's horde of military
prisoners by setting them to work
upon their magnificent roads that
lead from the ancient city-state ont
to all portions of the then known
world. The Delinquent.
The Nome daily nugget., 1913-10-15

All buildings south side of Front street with rear abutting beach dam
 aged, Many cabins destroyed east
 end town. Nearly all buildings on sand Spit destroyed. Snake river and Dry creek bridges destroyed. City pumping plant badly damaged. Sev-
 cr,i breakwaters demolished. Some streets flied with wreckage. Many iI,div id,n,ls lost winter food and fuel supply. There Is plenty of food and fuel in Nome but need fifty thousand dollar appropriation to give employ ,ncnt to destitute in rebuilding publi,, bridges. breakwatcrs. clearing streets < h wrccknge. etc. Everybody brave and cheerful. Many are. now rebuilding. t.nr life lost Nome. Five i"Hiies rr. covered twelve miles west beach from wrecked schooner Nora. solomon. thirty five miles east lost uI1 buildings Tut no lives. Road houses along the