Thursday, 27th November 1913: Gone Are The Days Of Oratory At The Bar, Says Pendleton, The Atlanta Constitution

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Stick to facts.

Cut out the Fourth of July oratorical

fireworks.

State your case

before the jury tersely and briefly.

Such was the advice of Judge John T. Pendleton,

senior judge of the Fulton county superior court, as given by him Wednesday

afternoon in an address before the students of the Atlanta Law school. He

declared that the old days of flowery oratory at the bar are gone forever, and

that in the courts of today the forceful presentation of true facts alone is

necessary in successful law pleading.

Judge Pendletons was the third of a

series of addresses being delivered before the law school by prominent members

of the Atlanta bar. He was introduced by Hamilton Douglas, dean of the school,

who paid him high tribute as a foremost leader in his profession and the

highest type of true citizen.

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PROHIBITION

LEADERS

CONFER WITH BEAVERS

Reported That They Wanted to Know Why Blind Tiger-ism

Was Spreading Here.

Two of the states prohibition leaders

and a private detective conferred with Chief Beavers for an hour yesterday

afternoon and departed in mystery, refusing to divulge to reporters the object

of their meeting.

They were Rev. H. M. DuBose, an

official of the Georgia Anti-Saloon league, and Rev. J. B. Richards, secretary

of that organization. With them was J. W. Hewitt, head of a private detective

agency. It is said by responsible authority that the conference was over the

blind tiger situation, the visitors wanting to know why there was not more

activity on the part of the police.

The prohibition leaders, it is said,

were informed by both police heads that whatever ineffectiveness of the police

department in handling blind tigers was due entirely to the lack of funds for

this kind of work. Rev. DuBose said:

There is nothing definite to give out

regarding the conference. We were talking merely along general lines. There

will be no exceptional action as a result.

Chief Beavers, while refusing to talk

any whatever regarding the visit, intimates that an amount of evidence was

produced by Hewitt. The nature of this evidence, however, the chief would not

disclose. It is rumored that Hewitt had obtained evidence indicating a spread

of blind tigerism in Atlanta.