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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-01-25
THE JEFFERSONIAN
PAGE FIVE

10 say that piety demands the darkness of
a dungeon, is the same as saying that the rose
blooms best in the cellar.
TO say that the most unnatural life is the
most godly, is the same as saying God didn't
know what He was doing when He made the
laws of nature.
Let the State enter all these places where
her citizens are held, and put these questions:
~ H0oo came you here?
(2.) Who did 1t?
(3.) Do y0u rant to get out?
The questions should not be heard by the
jailers, or by any one representing the guilty
Roman church.
Their presence would amount to intimida-
ton, and would defeat the object the State
has in view.
To those inmates who say they want to Get
out, immediate freedom should be given.
OTHERWISE, they acW suddenly die, OR DIS
APPEAR.
The officers Of the State should be en-
powered to take those inmates away with
themselves, when they leave the premises.
Never trust priest, in such a matter, one
single minute.
Remember, "No faith to be kent acith here
HcSn'
Remember three things always;
a. The person imprisoned by the Cath
olics may not know his or her legal rights,
and may not have means and opportunity to
assert them, if he does;
(2) The outside friends or relatives Of
the victim may not know the victims where
abouts, or may not be financially able to en-
ploy lawyers;
(3.) If a lawsuit is threatened, the Cath
ohcs will learn of it in time to rum the
prisoner, before legal service is perfected, or
will cause the victim to disappear after
wards
Unless the State will act, the vast majority
of victims are doomed
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-01-25
Thursday, January Is, 1917.
Stale Inspection OF All Tnsti-
tut1Ons and Houses Where Gill
ZenS are Held i'm Confinement.
( CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. J

W NC eAP1OlIeQ at nara LABOR, and to
suffer all possible torment from Catholic
slave-drivers. That was nearly 200 Years
ago, and we comforted ourselves bv the
thought that ut can never happen again"
But 1t has happened again. It. Is happen-
ing around us, every dag Of our Hves
The House of the Good Shepherd is the
new name Of the slave-pen; and the Juvenile
court IS the Bourbon King that fills 1t qcitH
the lard labor and the bitter suffering of the
helpless Protestant
isn't IT A BURNING SHAME?
| found that the inhuman and utterly un-
lawful system was in full blast in Atlanta;
ana one OF the worst cases ever reported was
that OF Laura Stone, sentenced to slavery by
the "Police Matron' of San Antonio
BY her mere word of mouth, this inhuman
creature, the Police Matron, sentenced the
Protestant girl to years of slavery in the So
called Good Shepherd" laundry.
WHERE is LAURA STONE?
The question remains unanswered She
was shipped out of San Antonio at nj chit and
nobody tells achere she Is.
Is this your 'free America"
Is this your idea of State protection to
citizens?
Why send the inspector to look after nv
COW, and none to see that my imprisoned child
is treated right?
Why inspect the shop which is open, and
pass the shop that is locked?
Why be SO careful for the life and health
Of the girl-workers and boy workers who can
freely come and go, to and from the mill ana
the laundry?
Why SO careless about the boys and the
girls who toll in Good Shepherd laundries,
behind barred windows and locked doors
boys and girls who are not free to pass in and
out but who are held in rigid captivity. slav-
ing from daylight to dark?
Some saplent lawyer will contend that any
person illegally confined can sue out a writ of
Ha6eas Corpus.
Can he? Can she?
Pray tell me what chance the imprisoned
person will have to communicate with a law
yer.
The prisoner is not allowed to see visitors,
or to 90 outside the slave pen
Letters to the prisoner pass through the
hands of the jailer
Letters from the prisoner must run the
same gauntlet.
Hoa0 can the prisoner get at the lawyer, and
the Writ?
If a prisoner screams the gag is ready
IF the prisoner refuses to work, the lash is
ready.
Ii the prisoner attempts to escape, he or
she risks life in the jump, and if no limb is
broken In the fall, the policeman is on hand
to fling the wretched fugitive back into the
hell-hole.
Talk about the blood hounds of the ante
bellum Southern slave-holder-no blood
hounds were ever SO numerous, SO watchful,
and SO sure of the runaway negro, as these
Romanist catchpoles of the present day.
But the sapient lawyer will say, "The out
side relatives and friends of the prisoner will
employ attorneys, and the Writ Of Habeas
Corpus will do the rest.
VIII 1t?
The Protestant mother tried il in BALI
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-01-25

She 1s-or was-a grown woman, and Mrs.
Graham, the "Police Matron' Knocked the
Law in that case, most insolently and success
fully.
Is it your idea that the State is not con-
cerned, when she is ma0rdzlY an acc0mapzice to
the un1aWfuz practices Of her Juvenile Courts?
DO you believe that the State should be in
active and acqulescent, while private corpora
tons are maintaining a system OF Involuntary
servitude?
The Government took notice of the White
Szave traffic.
The Government made laws to stamp it out.
The U. S. Supreme Court decided last
week, that when girls were taken from one
State to another for immoral purposes-even
without the mercenary element-it was
felonlous; and the whole country noticed that
the Catholic members of the Court dissented.
The DEFENDANTS IN THE CASE ARE CATHo-
Lies
Therefore, the greatest Government and the
greatest Court have co-operated to suppress
v01am1Gry Uace.
How anomalous it is, then, that the same
Government does not suppress the systema-
tlzed violations of the Fourteenth Amendment
to the Constitu Of the United States.
The Good Shepherd houses and the Juve-
nile Courts are steadily defying the highest
law of the land.
They are Systematically consigning to in
voluntary servitude, and holding to labor,
c5tlaens echO are not accused Of crime.
IT is AN INTERNAL OUTRAGE
But every State can act for itself, and put
stop to the monstrosity within State borders
INSPECT THE GOOD SHEPHERD HOUSES
Find out who is held there, and what for
Let the State, through her officials, liberate
all boys and girls so held.
No court has the legal right to send con-
U1cted persons to q private house, or institu-
ton.
No court should be allowed to use its in
fuence over persons brought before it, to per-
suade those persons to consent that they be
sent to Good Shepherd slave-pens.
Such consent Is necessarily the fruit of en-
vironment and pressure, and is not binding
Do2ess IS there!
The authorities know it, and take advantage
of it.
The victims of it, are ignorant of their le-
gal rights, and give their consent-when they
do give it-Without knowledge of the terrible
consequences.
Often they exchange 3O-day term, in the
local Stockade. for an indefinite number of
years in Good Shepherd slavery
1t is against public policy for minors to
take perpetual VOWS.
The State loses those who would become
useful citizens The Roman church gains
what the State loses.
A boy OF ten should not be allowed to take
perpetual VOWS which condemn him to life
long imprisonment
Boys cannot know how they will feel, after
they reach ripper age.
Girls in their teens, and full of religious
rapture and moonshine, ought not to be al
lowed to VOW away their natural lives.
They cannot foreknow how they will feel,
when they reach maturity.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-07-07
ENEMIES MUST PAY.
"lndemnities Are Essential Part Of
Mechanism Of Civilization.

"lndemnities Are Essential Part Of
Mechanism Of Civilization.
London.-"Peace before victory
would be the greatest disaster in the
history of mankind" declared Premier
Lloyd George in an epoch-making
speech.
T1demnities constitute an es-
sential part Of the mechanism of civil
ization everywhere" he declared.
Tie Premier asserted that great
International peace congress would de-
eide as to the disposition of the Ger
nan colonies"
"Mesopotamia can never be restored
to the Turks because of their blast
ing tyranny" he continued. 1.-THE
same holds true of Armenia"
Without inden1nities," the Prime
Minister went on, I'VE have no guar
antee against repetition Of events"
Lloyd George predicted that the
Russian revolution would eventually
insure victory of higher and more
exalted nature than anyone could have
contemplated before - because now
free people are fighting for demo
cracy's future"
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-07-07
GERMAN SPY
At THE VATICAN
Tried and Sentenced to Prison
for Life.
BUT HAD MADE HIS ESCAPE
A Burglary In House Adjoining the
German Embassy In Vienna Gave
Italian Secret Police the Facts
That Exposed Spies.

Boston.-A special cable to the
Christian Science Monitor from its Eu-
ropean bureau gives the following re-
markable story of the discovery ana
conviction of a German spy, who held
a responsible position at the Vatican.
The report comes from Rome under
date of June "a, and is as follows:
1.-THE uncovering of further ramidca-
tons of the German espionage system
spread through years Of peace to every
corner of the globe which might be
included within the orbit of pan-Ger-
man ambitions, ended here Saturday
in the conviction of MonsignOr Won
Gerlach and his accomplices after a
trial occupying Sc sessions of the
court. Monsignor Won Gerlach, who
held high position at the papacy, be-
ing private chamberlain to the Pope,
was sentenced to perpetual confine
ment. Mario Pomarici, in some ways
the greatest criminal of the gang, was
sentenced to be shot. Others of the
accused were sentenced to penal servi-
tude for life or to five or three years
ordinary Imprisonment, according to
the courts view of the degree of their
completely. Won Gerlach and Pomarici
are fugitives from justice.
Monsignor Won Gerlach, in fact, on
learning of this burglary, Immediately
fed from Rome and got safely away
two hours before the Italian police,
acting under the orders of the secret
service agents, burst into the prelate's
house. He allowed himself no time to
remove a mass of discriminating docu-
ments which revealed the ramifcations
of the German syp system as affecting
Italy and in a very few hours after
wards over 500 arrests, many of them
of highly placed people, had been eff
fected all over Italy.
The Italian secret service had long
been trying to unravel the meaning
the loss of two Italian battleships,
Benedetto Brin and Leonardo da Vinci
They eventually learned that docu-
ments which would reveal the infor-
nation they wanted were in a safe in
a private house adjoining the German
E. bassy in Vienna, but that the safe
was so constructed that if opened or
broken into by persons unacquainted
with its arrangements a stream of
poison gas would pour out upon the
safebreakers and alarms would be
rung in every police Office in Vienna.
Hence the release of the notorious bur
glars, who agreed for the payment of
a sum equal to $4,000, to attempt to
break into the safe. They were SNUG
gled into Vienna, provided with poison
gas masks and the latest safe-breaking
devices, and successfully accomplished
their mission.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-07-07

Austria to make certain frontier
notifications, for reasons of strategic
safety" (for instance she ought to re-
tain possession Of Belgrade and Mount
Lovchen in Montenegro.
The Roumanian wheat crops must
be secured for the use Of the central
powers by treaty.
Italy must evacuate Valone CAV
lona) and free navigation Of the Adri-
attic must be guaranteed.
Bulgaria must be left in possession
Of Dobrudja and the Bulgarian part
Of Macedonia.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-07-07
"BANTAMS" TO GET CHANCE.

M0H Ut small StdtUrc Way BE AC-
cepted For Service.
of requests from men of small stature
who wish to form regiments like
Britain's famous yorkshire Bantams,"
the War Department announced that
no man will be rejected for service if,
in the opinion of the recruiting off,
Ger, his deficiency in height and weight
will not materially impair his useful
ness as q soldier.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-07-07
DECORATION FOR WHITLocK.
President Asks Senate To Permit Be-
stowaI Of Gift From King.

Washington.-President Wilson re-
Quested the Senate to permit Brand
Whitlock, American Minister to Bel
GUM, to accept from King Albert the
decoration of the Order of Leopold.
The President transmitted to the Sen
ate letter from the Belgian Govern
mnt asking that Whitlock be allowed
to accept the unusual honor "as a rec
ignition OF unusual services"
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-07-07

Austro-Hungarian standpoint, consid-
ers that IF the Serbian danger can be
held in check by the permanent win
ming of our turbulent neighbor, and
our own territories remain untouched,
we shall have every reason to welcome
such a solution"
Doctor Dumba's peace plan can be
summarized as follows:
Russia to restore the occupied Aus
tro-Hungarian territory, while she re-
gains the Russian territory occupied
by the Austro-G Germans.
The re-establishment Of Poland.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-07-07
SENATE WOULD SAVE DAYLIGHT
Passes Bill Amended To Make 1t Ef
fective Next Year.

Washington.-The Daylight Saving
bill, amended to take effect next year,
passed the Senate without discussion
or record vote, and was sent to the
House. Under the bill all timepieces
would be turned forward one hour be-
ginning the last Sunday in April and
continuing that way until the last Sun
day in September.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-07-07

WasningtOn.-Thea advance guard or
the mighty army the United States
is preparing to send against Germany
is on French soil.
In defiance of the German sub
marines, thousands of seasoned regu-
lars and marines, trained fighting men
with the tan of long service on the
Mexican border, or in Haiti, or Santo
Domingo, still on their faces, have
been fastened overseas to fight beside
the French, the British, the Belgian,
the Russian, the Portuguese and the
Italian troops on the western front.
News Thrills Washington.
News of the safe arrival of the
troops sent a new thrill through Wash
ington.
No formal announcement came from
the War Department. None will come,
probably, until Maj.-Gen. Pershing's
official report has been received. Then
there may be a statement as to the
numbers and composition of the ad-
vance guard.
Press dispatches from France, pre-
sumably sent forward with the ap-
proval of General Pershings staff,
show that Major-General Sibert, one
Of the new major-generals of the army,
has been given command Of the first
force sent abroad, under General
Pershing as commander-in-chief of the
expedition.
One thing stands out sharply, de-
spite the fact that the size of the task
that has been accomplished is not fully
revealed as yet. This is that Ameri-
can enterprise has set new record
for the transportation of troops.
Considering the distance to be COW
cred and the fact that all preparations
had to be made after the order came
from the White House the night of
May IS, it is practically certain that
never before has a military expedition
of this size been assembled, conveyed
and landed without mishap in SO short
time by any nation. 1t is a good
augury of future achievements. The
only rival in magnitude is the move
ment of British troops to South Africa
in the Boer War, and that was made
over seas that were unhampered by
submarines, mines or other obstacles.
Net Gain To Allies.
The American forces will be net
gain to the Allies. 1t will throw no
single burden of supply or equipment
upon them. The troops will be fed,
clothed, armed and equipped by the
United States. Around them at the
camp on French soil are being stored
supplies that will keep them going for
months, and more will follow.
General Pershing and his staff have
been busy for days preparing for the
arrival of the men. Despite the
enormous difficulties of unprepared-
ness and submarine dangers that faced
them, the plans of the Army General
Staff have gone through with clocklike
precision.
When the order came to prepare i'm
an expeditionary force to 60
to France, virtually all of the men now
across the seas were On the Mexican
border.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-07-07
DESTROYER SETS RECORDS.
Shaw Makes Voyage From Pacific
Port In Less Than IS Days.

Washington. - The destroyer Shaw
has completed a record from the Pa
cifc Coast port to an Atlantic port,
approximately 1888 miles, in IA days,
10 hours and 20 minutes. The Shaw
is new destroyer whose keel was
laid down in February, 1916. Besides
making record run the vessel also
broke all records in passing through
the Panama Canal.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-07-07
HENRY S. GRAVES IN PARIS.
U. S. Forestry Chief Preparing Way
. For American Engineers.

For American Engineers.
Washington. - Henry S. Graves,
chief of the Forest Service, is in Paris
to make arrangements for the forest
work which the American army
engineers will undertake in France in
connection with the military opera
lions of the Allied forces. He has
been given a commission as major in
the Reserve Engineer Corps.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-07-07
Arrive Safely and Are Now in
Camp.
N @ VEMENT UNRIVALED
Records Broken BY Swift Action.
Force, Many Thousands Strong,
Fully Equipped For
Service
u. s. AIRCRAFT EXPERTS LAND
IN ENGLAND.

Washington.-Safe arrival at a
British port of a party Of about
125 aircraft experts sent from this
country to Investigate European
methods of aircraft designing and
manufacture was announced late
today by the Aircraft Production
Board.
Included in the delegation are
men representing legal, manufac-
turing, designing, engineering,
military and naval experience and
training.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-07-07
DUMBA OUTLINES PEACE PLAN
Former Ambassadors Proposals Hard
iy Likely to Find Favor With
the Allied Powers.

DR.. Constantine Dumba, the former
Austrian ambassador ut Washington,
In an article in the Vienna Neue Freie
Presse, advocates peace without an
nexations or indemnities, however dis
appointing that formula may sound to
the Chauvinists."
Doctor Dumba, speaking from the
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-07-07
DUMA WILL STICK.
Refuses Requests OF Various Elements
For Dissolution.

For Dissolution.
Petrograd.-The Duma formally re-
fused the request of number of ele-
ments in Russia that it dissolve on the
ground that it was superseded as
representative body by various con-
crosses such as those Of the Work
men and Soldiers and peasants. The
decision not to dissolve was voted at
private meeting of the Duma mem
bers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-13
A year
Hawaiian Pineapple Crop

The Hawaiian pineapple crop for 1917
will be moved expeditously. One rea-
son for this, according to a consular
report, is that contracts were awarded
by the Navy Department to several of
the Gamers for 1875 pounds of
canned pineapple. The bidders were
the Hawaiian Canneries Company. Mani
Pineapple Company, Pearl City Fruit
Company. Libby, Mcneil & Libby and
the California Packing Company, all
Of which operate canneries in the ISL
ands.
The total Hawaiian output for the
year is estimated at 100000 cases.
Practically all of the Gamers report
increased acreages from which 20 draw
their supply. The canning season is
now in full blast, but will ease up in
September In order to save the cost
Of transportation, law material for
making cans is now shipped in bulk
from the American mainland to the ISL
ands and is made into containers in
factories which supply individual can.
neries direct.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-13
Allies Reported
Placing Orders
For Shells Here
Increasing Activity in Iron
and Steel Trade on Gov
eminent Work

The Allies are making preparations
to purchase shells from American
makers on huge scale, according 10
a report circulated in the financial dis
trict Yesterday. This came as a sur
prise, in view of the prevalent bellet
that Great Britain and France had
ample facilities of their own to produce
munitions. Several months ago it was
stated by J. p Morgan & Co. that only
basic materials would be required
henceforth from this country.
DELAY in announcement Of the gov
ernment's price fixing programme Is
believed to be behind the reported de-
termination Of the Allies to enter THIS
market for shells. etc. This Is lndi-
Gated in this weeks issue OF the Iron
Age" which saws: ,
Establishment in iron and steel
values is slow-paced, and the govern.
ment situation is more complicated II
anything. A significant fact is that
representatives of some Of the Entente
Allies are again actively negotiating on
their own behalf, indicating the sus-
pension, for the time az least, OF efforts
to get steel for them through the war
Industries Board at the prices to be
fixed later for the Washington govern
ment."
According to the reports in the finan-
cial district, inquiries have gone iorth
for bids on 100000 six-inch shells
for the Allies. which will cost in the
neighborhood of Sl20,OOO.OOO. The du
Points have been given an order Tor
100 600, 900 pounds of powder, when
will reouire an expenditure of soO,-
100000.
Government purchases. according TO
the "Iron Age" make up the bulk OF
current business in the iron and steel
market. Some large shipments on ship
steel contracts are yet to be made to
Great Britain.
II is pointed out that the tonnage OF
plates that will be required for gov
eminent ships will leave little or moth
ing for Japan.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-13

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fresh. 25i. fl25 iac double daisies, 25n2? re:
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twins and fats held. specials. lsn l9c nsn'
fresh. specials. lsVls Nc twins and ched-
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state. Penn and nearby gathered brown and
mixed colors. $50 i6c.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-13
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