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THE ATLANTIAN.
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WE PAY 4% ON SAVINGS
A MODEL COMPENSATION
BILL.
The United States, if not the greatest
employer of labor on the American con
tinent, is one of the greatest, as it has
350,000 employees on its pay-roll En
lightened self-interest ought to make it
the most humane, intelligent and liberal
employer—for its employees are a part
of itself. As a matter of fact, it is far
from being in the front rank. A num
ber of private industrial and transpor
tation concerns in this country make
far better provisions for their workmen
than does the Federal Government for
those in its employ. Not until 1008
was there any arrangement by which
compensation could bo given to employ
ees or their families for losses due to
disability through accidents incurred in
the service of the Government, and the
provisions then made are sadly deficient.
There has, however, been introduced
in the present Congress, by Senator Kern,
of Indiana, and Representative Wilson,
of Pennsylvania, two bills, identical in
every' feature, remedying the defects of
the present law, and providing compen
sation for Federal employees suffering
from injuries of occupational diseases ac
quired in the course of their employment.
This bill has been drawn after careful
investigation made by the American As
sociation for Labor Legislation, and is
to supplant the existing law. Among the
present law’s numerous weaknesses the
fact that it embraces only one-third of
the 350,000 Federal employees; grants no
relief for incapacity lasting less than fif
teen day*, and, as the most liberal bene
fit, grants only one year’s wages, even
for total blindness or death. The Kern-
Wilson bills include all Government em
ployees; reduce the waiting time from
fifteen days to threo; and grant 06 2-3
per cent, of wages during the entire pe
riod of disability. Special provision is
made for the prevention of accidents and
| occupational diseases in navy yards and
Government workshops, and a now fea
ture is compensation for occupational dis
eases, such as lead poisoning.
If Congress passes these measures, the
United States will come much nearer be
ing a “model employer.” It will in
deed bring this country up to the stan
dard set by Englund, Switzerland and
Germany.
Members of the Fraternal Order of
Eagles, recognizing in the bills the em
bodiment of the principles of our fra
ternity', should not only welcome the stat-
• ute, but should aid in its enactment by
urging their representatives in Congress
to give earnest support.
TRICKS IN ALL TRADES.
Teacher (to boy whoso fnther keeps a
corner grocery): “Johnny, if your
father has a hundred eggs, and twenty
of them are bad, how many of them
does he lose?”
Johnny: “lie doesn t lose any of
them. He sells the bad ones to the
restaurant keeper to make egg omelettes
of.”
A RULING PASSION.
lie—The thermometer was 100 at noon
yesterday. Today it is down to 50.
She—My! Isn’t that a bargain?
AN AGE OF BY-PRODUCTS.
(Chicago Journal.)
This is an age of the utilization of
by-products. The packing industry of
Chicago led the way in this regard, and
the lesson is being learned by other in
dustries.
One of the most instructive recent de
velopments in this line is the manufac
ture of paving brick from furnace slag
in England. Instead of throwing it out
to become a mountain of ugly useless
ness, the molten slag is poured into
molds, allowed to harden, coled in an
annealing oven and sent forth ready for
use on the roads. It is claimed that
these waste-product bricks are equal to
the best, made in more orthodox ways;
and certainly they are good enough to
be exported in increasing quantities to
Canada and the United States.
Some day we may get our fuel from
cornstalks and paper from wheat straw.
At a still greater period we may even
turn the wheels of industry with that by
product of gravitation known as the tides.
It is all a question of invention.
HEROIC CURE.
(Puck.)
Miss Laflin—What has become of our
friend, Mr. Clay?
Mr. Rand—He has taken employment
in a powder mill for six months.
Miss Laflin—How strange!
Mr. Rand—Not at all. lie wished to
break himself of smoking.
BOREDOM.
(Smart Set.)
I hate the changing-changeless moon,
The iteration of the sun,
The regularity of noon
And systems that like clockwork run;
And I would leap and clap for joy
If morn for once would enter late
Day’s Empire, like a careless boy,
And make expectant twilight wait.
And I would dance for joy and shout
If the sun bartered gold for green,
Or if the moon should swing about
The silver side 1 ’ve never seen.
GET A LADDER.
Dick—“I wish we had a great big
dictionary. ’ ’
Tom—‘ ‘ Do you want to look for some
thing?’
Dick—“Yep, the preserved cherries
grandma put up on the shelf, that I
can’t reach standing on the chair. ’ ’
THATS DIFFERENT.
(From the New York Herald.)
She: “I liate big check patterns for
cloth dresses. ’ ’
He: “That’s the pattern of the last
check I sent your dressmaker for them.”
“In time of trial,” said the preacher,
“waht brings us the greatest comfort?”
* ‘ An acquital! ’ ’ responded a lowbrow
who should never has been admitted
by the usher.
HOMER GEORGE
The Genial Manager the Atlanta Theatre
Who promises the best line of attractions this season
ever [offered in Atlanta.