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j m? u-j j4sf ACCUSED BY SIEGEL, COOPER & CO., GIRL IS CLEARED Charging that Siegel, Cooper & Co. has persecuted her, Miss Helen Pow ers left Judge Barrett's courtroom yesterday cleared of a charge of shoplifting. The store charged Miss Powers with stealing a $25 silk dress. Two detectives, a store detective and a clerk testified to how they found the dress-in her muff. The state produced a confession the girl had signed ad mitting that she had stolen the dress. But here is what Helen testified: "I left my muff on a table while I went into the fitting room to try on a gown. A short time later we con tinued to shop. We were looking at some waists when the officers arrest ed me. (The girl was with her aunt, Mrs. Rowe, 144 N. Waller st.) "I was taken to the room of an as sistant superintendent, where I was held two hours. They put me through the third degree. City Detective Gorman told me I had better buy the, dress. At last they promised to stop questioning me and let me go home with my aunt if I would sign a paper. They dictated this statement and I signed JL Then they arrested me, but not before I had been undressed and searched by one of their ma trons." Miss Powers is the daughter of one of the officials of the Nashville, Chat tanooga & St. Louis railroad and re sides in Nashville. o o CIVIC FORUM GIVES FOLKS A CHANCE TO DISCUSS THINGS The Seventh Ward Civic Forum, a non-partisan, non-political, non-dues paying organization, held its month ly meeting at the Woodlawn Masonic Temple, 64th and University av., last night The Forum is the New England town meeting brought up to date. It is an idea of Aid. Merriam and has nearly 1,000 enrolled members. It is maintained by subscriptions and at the monthly meetings the .people are told by their aldermen just what is being done for them. Votes on big measures are explained and the in side dope on political questions and city projects are handed out by com petent speakers. Last night -Lorado Taft, the sculp tor, spoke on improving the Midway, which runs along the north end of the ward. There were more than 300 people present. Aid. Merriam told what was going on in the council and Aid. Kimball told what was going on in the ward. "The idea of the forum is to get the people's support, not by political ma chines or subsidizing the workers, but by bringing democracy into poli tics' said Aid. Merriam. Anyone may speak or ask questions. The ald ermen learn the attitude of the peo ple on different questions and the people learn to take a correct view on these questions. " "We have discussed transportation with R. F. Kelker, the city's expert. The transportation company was in vited to send a representative, but declined. We had a debate on the Loeb rule. We discussed big bond issues, our public schools and other public questions. There are three special meetings a year to dis cuss ward Improvements. "The forum Is a success and I think it has done untold good by de veloping the civic interest of the peo ple." o o JUDGE REFUSES TO MARRY AN UNMARRIED MOTHER Judge Jacob M. Hopkins of the court of domestic relations had es tablished a precedent in eugenics to day. He refused to marry an un married mother. "You are unfit for matrimony," he said to the couple, Una Anderson and David Kuhlin, the father of her child. "Scientific parenthood is mora than a fad," he added. "Seventy five per cent of feeble-mindedness is traceable to unfitness of parents" " . --AtfrfjBfcVyiji- MiiiMtiffi