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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-19

credneSs Of home life. They look for
everything they want outside of the
home. They are out on the streets
at night instead of in the home. A
mother will say:
q told my girl she could only go
to the first show The girl is quite as
likely to meet her temptation at the
first show as at the second.
Girls have no home responsible
ties. At one time the daughters of
the house cleaned the lamps and
washed down the stairs. Today chill
dren 90 outside of the home to work
in factories and stores-and home
becomes only a place to sleep in at
night.
1.-The girl should be given some
task, however light, and told it is her
task and she will be depended upon
to perform it always. It will give her
a feeling that she is needed. None
of us are very much good in a place
where we do not feel we are needed.
There is too much self-gratifica-
ton permitted children. Their prin-
cipal attitude seems to be that what
they want they must have. There is
a false standard of living that moth
ers permit and even encourage in
their children. The girl must have
silk stockings; she cannot wear a hat
that costs less than SIS; she must
have high boots since they are the
fashion, though they may cost Sc a
pair.
I'VE are living on bubbles. The
parents live at a hysterical pace and
the children are given the same lib
erty. I sometimes grow cold as I lis
ten to the stories of night life that
girls tell who are mere children, and
/ expect the mother at any moment
to rush forward and clasp the girl in
her arms to protect her, but the
mothers listen as though the girls
were not their flesh and blood, or the
CtOTinc oDno11iD Onnc
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-06-19

DELlN(9UENCH CAUSED BY
PARENTAL NEGLECT
Fully 80 per cent of. delinquent
girl cases that come into the juvenile
court presided over by Judge Mary
NJ. BaTtelme are caused by parental
neglect.
Judge BaTtelme said she had no
hesitancy in placing the figure that
high when she was asked by a Day
Book reporter to state, as a result
Of her long experience in the court,
how much delinquency should be
placed at the door of the parents, as
was done by the jury in Portland,
Ore, that found Mrs. VIM. Hodge
guilty of contributing to the delin-
qUency of her 15-year-OId daughter.
whom she permitted to run out at
night and offered as her defense that
she prayed for the girls safety.
"A mother who only prays for her
daughters safety has a parallel in
the story Of the Chinese students,
Judge BaTtelme said. THE superin-
tendent told three of the pupils who
lived across the street from the
school that she would take them to
the o'clock train if they would be
on the steps of the school at Is min
Utes before 2, just sufficient time to
get to the station.
'She was kept busy until a few
moments later than she expected.
When she hurried out the students
were not in sight, so she rushed over
to the boarding house and found |
them in a room. She asked them why |
they weren't waiting on the steps.
" We saw it was getting late, one
said, so we came here and prayed we !
might make the train
" Do your praying while you are
running for the train the superin- |
tendent told them.
q feel safe in saying that fully 80 |
per cent Of delinquency of children |
brO11obt into this OO11rf ic oouCod nv /
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05
Road BuiIdina Progressing.

Work is progressing very satisfas
tOrily on the Jefferson Davis highwa,
under direction Of the state highWa
commissioners.
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GREAT ROADWAY THRU SOUTH
PathfIndInc Committee Toured Pro.
posed Route To New Orleans.
Federal Aid Secured.


Jackson, Miss.-The executive com.
lhittee Of the Jackson Memorial High
way Association will meet in Nashville
In October for the purpose Of designat-
ing the official route Of the great thor
oughfare, and as the time for the COM
mittee to assemble approaches local in
terest in the matter is constantly in
creasing.
The contest will be between two
tentative routes, one going from Nash
vile to New Orleans via Huntsville,
Montgomery and Birmingham, and the
other via Florence, Columbus and Me-
ridian. This route. which is generally
known as the Jackson Military High
way, is the one that people in this sec
ton are working for and the one which
they earnestly desire to see selected.
At a meeting held in Nashville last
fall the executive committee decided
that the route which had most nearly
reached completion by Oct. /, 1916,
would be officially designated as the
official course of the highway, and it is
believed that the route on which Co
lumbus is located is much nearer COM
pletion than the competing course.
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United States Senator from the State
of Arkansas Dies Suddenly at Little
Rock. Was President Pro TEN. of
: last session Of the Senate.
OCEAN LINER RACES TO PORT
Reaches. Philadelphia With Fire In
Hold-Passensers Safely Taken
Ashore.

New York-Racing to port from mid
ocean when flames were discovered in
the hold underneath the steerage quar-
ters, the steamship Philadelphia, Of
the American Line, arrived here Sun
day, with the fire still smouldering.
the matches battened down and steam
being poured in over the cargo in an
effort to prevent the fire from gaining
headway.
Although the fire was not discov-
cred until Thursday afternoon, it is
believed it had been smouldering since
the Philadelphia left Liverpool five
days before.
+ The Philadelphia carried SAG pas
sengers, of whom S4S were in the
steerage. It was feared that q panic
might result in the steerage if the pas
sengers there learned of the fire, and
accordingly, when the situation seemed
serious, they were moved to another
part of the vessel.
At times the heat was SO great that
the pitch in the seams Of the deck
melted.
The fire burned briskly until just
before the vessel reached port.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05
SCHOOL At NIGHT
FOR ILLITERATES
SEVERAL COUNTIES HAVE EsTAs-
LisHED NIGHT SCHOOLS FOR
FREE INSTRUCTIONS.
WILL BE TAUGHT THE 3 RS.
Per Cent Of White lIIiterates In Mis-
sissippI Very Low-Iiliteraey Com
mission viii Have Booth
At state Fair.
Jackson.

NA~@@ASOAAs
The Mississippi illiteracy commits.
sion, created under an act passed at
the last legislative session, win con-
duct campaign of publicity in Jack
son during the State Fair.
Although the commission has been
in existence but a few months, good
headway is being made with the war
on illiteracy, despite the fact that the
organization is supported wholly by
voluntary contributions, no legislative
appropriation for its work having been
made.
The work of teaching illiterates in,
night schools has been actually started
in the many counties. and much inteE
est and enthusiasm is being shown
both by the volunteer instructors and
the illiterates who will be benefited
thereby.
Miss Ellie Willingham, field secre-
tary of the commission, is arranging
for an educational booth in the Lib
eral Arts building and during the State
Fair literature will be distributed
showing the plan and scope of the
work in Mississippi, and also asking
citizens for voluntary contributions to
aid this worthy cause.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05
LOCKED IN ROOM
WITH GIRL LURE
PROMINENT IOWA "LEADlNc clTI
ZEN" vlcTlMzEp BY BLACK
MAILING BAND.
COMPELLED TO PAY $4,000
Alleges He Was Locked In Room BY
Girl Aceompliee-cost $4,000 to
Prevent the Episode Becom-
ing Public.

Chicago.-The details OF scheme
whereby a wealthy Iowan referred to
as a leading citizen of his commun-
ity" was compelled to pay $4,000 to
band of so-ealled Mann act black
mailers became known here when H.
G. Clabaugh. investigator for the de-
partment of justice, appeared to hold
conference with G. e. Wheeler and
w. N Jay, attorneys for the Iowa vic
tim. and one of the two girls alleged
to have been the "lures" in this case.
The Iowan, 1t is said, was introduced
to one of the lures" by a client in his
home town, who said she was the girls
aunt. Later he came to Chicago alone
and visited the apartment at which the
girl he had met in Iowa lived with
another girl. While the girls were
showing him through the nat the bell
rang and in going to answer it one of
the girls locked the Iowan and the
other girl in bedroom.
The visitors, two men, proclaimed
themselves lawyer and detective. re-
spectfvely, and accused the Iowan of
violating the Mann act. Under the
combined pressure of the girls and the
two men, the former pleading that he
save them from shame, the victim paid
the gang $4,000 in cash and $4,000 in
notes. The lures" and their accom-
plices later were betrayed to federal
authorities by the abandoned wife of
one Of the men
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05
ALLEGED MURDERER CAUGHT
D. D. overton, Accused Of Killing Pro
bate Judge, Is Captured in
Tennessee.


Nashville, Tenn.-D. D. Oyerton, ex
circuit court clerk of Madison county,
Alabama, who has been in the David
son county jail, this city, since his
capture last Tuesday at Smithville
Tenn, by Sheriff G. C. Puckett
charged with the murder Of Probate
Judge w. T. Lawler in Huntsville, was
delivered to Police Chief A. ]. Dyas of
Huntsville and taken to Montgomery.
Several other Alabama officers and
Sheriff Puckett Of Smithville also &C.
companied the prisoner on the trip.
Arrangements were completed here
to take Overton directly to Montgom.
cry, where he will be held until No.
vember, when he win go to Huntsville
for trial. The prisoner signed the
waiver o. extradition and consented
to go to Alabama without fighting foT
his liberty. He expressed a desire to
return to HIS friends in Huntsville
and to prove him innocence.
Sheriff G. c. Puckett. his captor,
was paid the reward Of $1,000 when
Overton signed the waiver OF extradi.
tion. The reward was paid by Chief
Dyas of Huntsville.
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Loss Excseds s15o.ooo.

Vicksburg, Miss.-The confagration
at the Anderson-Tully lumber plant
was gotten under control Friday after
noon after burning continuously for
sixteen hours.
The lumber stacked on the grounds
was estimated by the superintendent
Of the sawmill to contain $4,000, 900
feet and the estimated loss was TO-
100000 feet, leaving 100000 feet of
lumber saved from the fire by the
heroic efforts of the Vicksburg fire de-
partment, the Y. & NJ. v. railroad and
the entire force of Houston Bros. big
sawmill, which joined the Anderson
Tully force in their fight.
The estimated loss ranges from
$15O.OOO to $SOO,O0O. The exact amount
cannot be ascertained until the stock
books are gone over and the different
kinds and grades Of lumber destroyed
by the fire can be accurately stated
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05
CLAIMS "DIGNITY" IS HURT
WIN Renew Demands Against Allen
Land Law at Close Of European
Conflict.

Washington. n.-Baron Yoshiro Saka.
tani, former finance minister In the
Toxic cabinet, frankly admitted at
the Japanese embassy that Japan
would renew her fight against land
restrictions as soon as the European
war ends. Negotiations over these
questions, which came to a deadlock
two years ago, are not regarded by
Japan as concluded. It was explained,
but merely postponed while the larger
issues Of the war are being dealt with.
The deadlock followed q long series
OF conferences between former Secre-
tary Bryan and Baron China, then
the Japanese ambassador, and an ex.
change Of notes between the two gov
ernments over the alien land legisla-
tion enacted by California. After the
state department had pointed out that
under its constitution the United
States government could do no more
than seek to prevent such legislation,
and that persons affected by it had
recourse to the federal courts. Japan
closed the exchanges with note say
ing her complaint had lot been an.
swered and reserving for the present
further discussion of the issue"
Il has been generally assumed that
the issue would remain in allegiance
only while Japan was occupied with
the war. but until now no one in
position to speak with authority has
said So There will be no formal dis
eussion OF the subject at least until
the arrival of the new ambassador, DR.
Amoro Sato, who was appointed when
Baron China was transferred to Lon
don, and who is expected in Washing
ton in few months.
The position of the Japanese gov
ernment, according to informal state
ments by embassy officials, still is that
restrictions on immigration and land
holding are not only derogatory to her
dignity. but are unjust under interna
tional law in that they are discrimi
natory against her in favor Of other
nations.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05
Prominent planter Shot.

Natchez, Miss.-George Marshall,
one Of the wealthiest planters of Ad-
ans county and socially prominent, is
dead as a result of wound in the
head from a 25-caliber automatic re-
volver. Whether his death is due to
accident or was intentional is not
known.
He had been accustomed to carry
ing the pistol, and just before the IA
tai accident seemed in his usual
spirits. At the time he sustained the
wound from which he died he was
seated on the gallery of his country
home, Lansdowne, about six miles
from Natchez. His wife heard the re-
port, and when she hastened to him
found that he had been shot in the
head.
Mr.. Marshall had wide reputation
as scientific agriculturalist and au-
thority on live stock. His plantation,
Lansdowne, is considered one of the
show places of the county.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05
VETERANS COMING
TO GRAY REUNION
UNITED DAUGHTERS or THE CON
FEDERAcY WILL ESCORT VET
ERANs TO COLUMBUS.
WILL BE WARMLY WELCOMED
Old Soldiers WIN BE logged Out In
New Uniforms and Southern Hos
pltaIity Will Be Extended To
Them as Citizens.

Biloxi, Miss.-The United Daughters
of the Confederacy, under the leader
ship of Mrs. Mary Kimbrough OF
Greenwood. will take 80 veterans OF
the Jefferson Davis Home at Beau-
voir to the reunions of the Confeder-
ate Veterans and the Sons of Veter-
ans at Columbus in November free OF
charge. The old veterans are getting
new uniforms, which will be worn
when they invade Columbus with the
rebel yell" ALI the good things of
the season will be ready for the gal
liant old fellows, and they will be roy
ally entertained by the citizens of Co
iumbus.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05
Child Labor Law obeyed.

Mississippi factory owners and 9th.
ers employing labor will not be af-
fected by the federal child labor law,
according to David Mcdowell of Jack
son, child labor law inspector for the
state. Mississippi's child labor law,
which has been in effect for the last
two years, will not permit factory
owners to employ boys under II and
girls under IA years. The federal law
of the same nature will not permit the
employment of boys or girls under II
years. Mississippi factory owners viii
be required to obey the state law,
which, as far as Mississippi is con-
cerned, includes the federal law.
Mr.. Mcdowell declares that never
since the enactment of the child labor
law in the state haye there been fewer
violations as at the present time in
every part of Mississippi. He added
that as a result of the law he believed
that the health and education of the
youth of Mississippi has been enhanc-
ed so per cent.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05
Non.sult In Raunh Case.

Clarksdale. Mission motion of at.
torneys for the state in the trial of J.
O.. Baugh, sheriff of Coahoma county,
accused of irregularity in his ac-
counts, a non-suit has been entered.
Motion for new trial was argued.
1t was the states belief that convic-
ton was improbable following the
overruling of the motion to submit
amended charges.
If a new trial is had the charges
will be amended to include the bill of
particulars which was rejected.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05
YEARS EXPORTS TO EUROPE
5readstuff Shipments In Eight Months
More Than $2s3, ,ooo, ,oo0-Break
All Previous Records.

Washington American shippers
exported $3.50, ,101, ,181 worth of bread
stuffs during the eight months ending
Aug. 81, according to an analysis of
August trade just issued by the de-
partment of commerce. The August
exports represented an increase of
more than $50OO,OO0 over August of
1915. Meat showed an increase of
$2,0OO,OO0 over the previous August.
One of the largest export gains was
in gasoline and naphtha shipments, to-
tai Of which for the last eight months
was more than double that for the
same eight months year ago. The
August total was $5,O00,O0O greater
than for August, 1915.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05
Beef Club Exhlblt.

Vicksburg. Miss.-During the year
keen interest has been eyinced by the
members of the County Baby Beef and
Pig clubs and it is stated that through
their efforts Warren county will send
a most excellent exhibit to the Missis-
sippi State Fair at Jackson
To the boy in each district who has
raised the best calf during the season
will be awarded one of the five bulls
donated by the Illinois Central Rail-
way Company as prizes to the Warren
County Boys Baby Beef Club.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05
E. Il. RANDLE DIES.
Widely Known as Writer on Scientific
and other Subjects.

and Other Subjects.
fernando, Miss.-E. H. Randle, A
NJ, LID, one of the most widely
known educators and scientific writer's
in the south, died at his home at Her
nando, Miss. He spent nearly so years
in the school room, having taught at
Mckenzie, Tenn, Paducah, KY, Rip
ley, Tenn. Byhalia, Miss. and Herman
do, Miss.
He endeared himself to his pupils
and large number who have attained
prominence in life say they owe their
success to his teaching and early in
fluence. He was an author well known
in the scientific world. The books pub
lished by him were: Plurality of HUI
man Race, The characteristics of the
Southern Negro, Antagonisms of
Forces of Nature
He was widely known contributor
to religious, medical and legal maga-
zines. He was a member of the Amer
ican Society for Scientific Research
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05
Divorces Are Popular.

Meridian, Miss.-Twice married and
once divorced, Mrs. M. E. Ford has
filed suit for divorce from Geo. A.
Ford. The petition alleges that the
couple were married in Mobile, Ala,
in 1903, and were divorced in the Ala
bama courts in 1910. In 1911 they re-
married and lived together until 1913,
when, the petitioner alleged, the de-
fendant deserted her without cause.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05
indians Are FIourIshIna.

Chicago.-The race of Indians is no
longer a dying race, Cato Sells, United
States commissioned on Indian affairs,
announced here on his return from an
inspection trip through western In
dian reservations. There are more In
dams in the country, he said, than
there have been at any time since the
bureau Of Indian affairs was estab-
Iished.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05
W. c. NIXON ILL.

President Of Frisco System Suffers
From Poisoning.
St. Louis.-Wm. c. Nixon, recently
elected president of the Frisco system
under the reorganization following re-
ceivership. is i'll at the Frisco Hos
pital.
His illness was brought on by poison
ing of some sort. friends say, although
just what kind of poisoning is uH-
known. First reports that he suffered
from ptomaine poisoning were later
denied. His condition is said to be
serious, but not critical.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05

Philadelphia, Miss-The jury in the
trial of Mrs. Ethel Winstead, charged
with completely in the murder last
January of her husband, Samuel Win
stead, prominent farmer and mill own
er here, after 4S hours deliberation,
rendered verdict of guilty. but dis
agreed as to the punishment. The
verdict stated: "The jury wants the
defendant to have all the favors the
law will admit of.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05
So came Law Is void.

Meridian, Miss.-The new game anG
fish law, passed by the 1916 ilegisla-
ture, is not in force, but is held in
abeyance until the people vote on its
adoption or rejection at the general
election in November, under the initia.
tive and referendum amendment to
the state constitution, according tc
the opinion of Assistant Attorney-Gen-
eral George H. Ethridge. In eonse.
quence the provisions of the new game
law are being laughed at.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05
school For Adults.

West Point, MIss.-County Superin-
tendent E. H. Walker, City School SUI
perintendent Prof C. F. Capps and
Mrs. H. Lang Quinn have organized a
moonlight school for grownup litter
ates and opened up the second school
of it's kind in the state at the cotton
factory and expect to put them all over
the county at once. Clay county has
the smallest percentage of illiterates
of any county in the state, and expects
to clear this completely before the
next census taking starts.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05

Washington.-Census bureau Off
cials are busiIy engaged organizing
their forces for the collection, and pub
fishing Of monthly reports Of cotton
seed and ccttonseed products and quar-
terly reports of cotton fiber used In
the manufacture of guncotton and ex
plosives Of all kinds and Of absorbent
and medicated cotton.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05
convovs German ships.

Newport News, Va..-Commanders
Of eight u. S. battlelshlips which will
convoy the two interned German cruis-
ers to the Philadelphia navy yard, met
here and arranged the details of the
trip. The cruisers, the Kronprinz
wilhelm and the Prinz Eitel Fried
rich, are being sent to Philadelphia
on account of the crowded condition
of the Norfolk yards.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05
MANN Pav Poll 20.

jackson, Tenn-F.ive hundred Madi.
son countians have paid their poll
tax for 1915 during the last two
weeks. When an appeal was made
from Democratic and Republican
headquarters that all delinquents pay
their taxes by Oct. Z, and it became
known that after that date poll tax
receipt would be worthless in the No
vember election, there was a rush t.
pay taxes.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05

The board Of Mississippi levee cor
missioners met at Greenvi1le and J
several contracts for leves work.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05
Killed n Runaway.

Milan, Tenn-A sad accident oc-
cRrred several miles north of here,
when Stonewall Eldridge, a well-to-do
farmer. and his S-year-old son went to
Bradford to market a load Of seed cot
ton. Their team became frightened
and ran away, throwing the boy out,
breaking his neck
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05

Cairo via London) The waters OF
the Nile are at the highest stage
reached IN % years and the ministry
Of public works has issued warning
that every preoaution should be taken
ia view Of the danger that the Nile
may burst It's banks.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05
Has six crandmothers.

Tocopola, Miss.-Miss Josie Elaine
Aycock, a young lady of this county,
according. to her grandfather has per
haps more living grandmothers than
any other person in the state. She
has two great-grandmothers, three
great-grandmothers, and one grand
mother.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05
ATTACKED BY SUBMARINE.

British Steamer Escaped After She
Had Been Damaged.
Newport News, Va.-The British
steamer Antinous had marrow es-
cape from destruction by a German
submarine when off Algiers, en- route
to New York, via Gibraltar and New
port News. The Antinous was badly
battered up by shell fire from the u
boat and only the two guns carried by
the steamer, by keeping the undersea
craft at a distance too great to fire Q
torpedo, enabled her to escape.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05

Washington.-Release of Maj. Ar
thur S. Humphries and Lieut.. Hugh
Leyick, Jr.. the British army officers
detained at Ellis Island on their ar
rival from England, has been ordered
by Commissioner-General Caminetti Of
the immigration bureau.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1916-10-05
Exhibit Model Dairy.

Probably no single feature of the
Mississippi-Alabama Fair to be held at
Meridian, Oct. 16 to 21, and the Mis-
sissippi State Fair, to be held at Jack
son the 25th and 26th, viii be of more
practical value to the farmers of the
state than will the model 1O-cow dairy
to be operated in the model dairy
barns on the fair grounds by represen-
tatives of the Mississippi A. and M.
College extension service and the fed
eral dairy division.