The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-02-20
BURNS IS TALKING
ON VISIT TO ATLANTA
Famous Detective, in Atlanta to
Lecture Says Governor Would
4 Be Menace IN Senate
lRy Associated Pressl

AlIdHIdt req. l5.--FiBOFOuS OSnun-
citation OF Gov. Cole Blase of South
Carolina. whom ne characterized as a
barking dog who doesn't bite" was
launched Wednesday by William J.
pices OF the Alkahest Lyceum Bu:1
Agency.
The famous detective, accompanied
by Mrs. Burns, arrived in Atlanta
Wednesday mogning from st, Louis,
and went to the Georgian Terrace.
He will speak at the Baptist Taberna-
Gle Wednesday night, under the aus
pices 6ftthe AIhahest Lyceum Bu.-
reaus H '"'
Deteetiye Burns arrangement or
Gov. Cole Blease came when a news
paper man asked him IL he came
through South Carolina en- route to
Atlanta.
"I came from st. Louis" said Mr..
Burns, "it seems there is a fellow In
South sCarolinaZwhat's his name?
Oh, yes, Blease, who doesn't like me
because I've told the truth q ut him.
However, that fellow is ne least
Of my worries. He Is barking dog
that doesn't bite; he talks ant ra
and busters around and yells about
VIII Il he is going to do-and then
lucks mis- tail beneath his legs and'l
runs when You say, 'Boo!' at him..
Mr.. Burns attention was called tol
the fact that Gov. Bleas4 cpntem-
plates entering the race Npr United
STATES senator. He exprsssadt his
surprise. q m
...I hadn't heard about tli tsSfhe re-
marked. 'I have uhderBe60d that
for the last few years the people have
beer: $$sSsS.!!as 70 eleanc nm thh United
States Senate instead l6R besmirShine
IT, To elect that fellow to the Sen
ate would be q disgSFce to American
..sITi Would represent -Ualy FfnssIf,, h
"I don't think the people OF South
Carolina have Sc Ger deterioratad in
intelligence that they, will elect q man
OF that Gellow's type to the United
States Senate, wi1ere many meh who
have been good men have worked.
sIIoweFe- II he should be elected.
South Carolina would be In the unique
position OF having two Senators and
being renresented by one, for that fe;-
low Blease, doesn't represent ANYBODY
any time, but himself. 81
1lr nnrns rave his views on crime.
and the causes OF crime incidentally.
taking issue with the men in author
ity IN Georgia who believe that in sinis
pfisonns siIti the idaa toff. ipani ishii ehts
should take prscaaence over the fdea
of refb bEmatioSs k 89 ~ =
Reform HdkG faraIliHGat.l Ivan
sis... IN npriaonad,y he
said tbers kflle jdsa e5 pInl,nisiment Pm, III
nor ;ieab ,ol sSSs III tshould
be is6st sight OF = Cert Cert iStaily5 a man
Should be. punished N bon ne Siyi0laies
| ne I:iw,F but3Jikel idea ~ l1ation
pshould come &Hst. .C&
we put meh iiif Prison In tne hc!!Ss
O.. II akfng better men out >nf itnem
tand- n, -ssii m eis8nnseRts the hope OF
reforming the prisoner Should O;cu-,
py /, RI attend Iona thRnn the :ie.,fre To
| pal jsii. The man who SAYS g cnnl;n-l
at should be punished rather than
rsforiaed 1ias not, stuffed the sub
ieat
Mr. Rsss;ssts....s asscorced che statements
of famous criminologists that crime
Is hereditary
THAT theory is foolish" he said
Just because boys father is a
criminal, it does not follow that the
hoy must be q criminal.
'Fieredity SIa5 nothing &c .-n win
it; environment causes crime. En-
yironment Is d greater cause of crime
than Ignorance, for our greatest
criminals are educated men"