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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN' AND NEWS.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
(AND NEWS)
JOHN TEMPLE CRAVES, Editor.
F. L. SEELY, President.
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ing Its own gas and electric light
plants, as It now owns Its water
works. Other cities do this and get
gaa aa low aa 60 cents, with a profit
to tba city. Tula should bo done at
once. THE OEOROIAN AND NEWS
believes that If street railways can be
operated succesafullv by European
ated here. But we do not believe this
can be done now, and It may be somo
year* before we are ready tor ao big
an undertaking. Still Atlanta ahould
aet Its face In that direction NOW.
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made os often as desired.
let the Board Elect the Superin
tendent, But—
There li a great stir and protest
over the proposition for the people
to elect the superintendent of the
city schools.
In the main the protest Is well
founded. The change would In all
probability throw the superintendent
Into ictlvo politics, and this would be
B calamity to the whole cause of edu
cation. It Is better far that tho se
lect and deliberate board of education
should continue to choose this Impor
tant official.
But It may be Just as well to sug
gest that the present agitation grows
probably out of opposition to the se
cret sessions which the board of edu
cation has established, and Is a fur
ther protest against the unduo haste
which tho board tlluatratea In making
a choice.
Tho discussion of today will not be
In vain If It (ball serve to call to the
attention of the board the popular dis
content with somo of the present
methods which they employ, and it
will be a wholesome Incident, If It
shall educate the board to an avoid
ance of theao policies for the future.
The people are abundantly willing
for the board to elect.
But the people, it we know them,
would Ilka open sessions and a delib
erate vote.
The Birmingham Ledger.
The Georgian right heartily con
gratulates The Birmingham Ledger
upon the thirty-eight brimming and
Interesting pages which spell tho suc
cessful story of Creator Birmingham,
and the Birmingham district.
We have rarely seen a more real
and comprehensive summary of pro
gressive prosperity and liberality
than that represented in The I-cdgcr
and its work.
It is easy enough to fill any number
of pages, but to flit so msny pages
with articles so well written, so thor
oughly Intelligent and so full of In
teresting Information Is Indeed a tri
umph for the newspaper and the
town. The splendid volume of adver
tising which The Ledger carries is a
Joint Index of the prosperity of the
Magic City and of the confidence
which It has In the Influence and car
rying capacity of Its brilliant after
noon newspaper.
The Ledger la one of the papers
which we have always held most cod
dlslly In our good will. Its president,
James M. Smith, Is one ot the finest
fellows in the entire newspaper rank.
He has built The Ledger up actually
from nothing to a strong sod admira
ble position In Southern journalism.
Mr. George M. Crnlkshank, the editor,
is a man of fairness, force and con
viction and his work Is always clean
and strong, while Mr. K. F. Johnson,
the managing editor, is of our own
best strain of Georgia blood, descend
ed from Richard Malcolm Johnson,
Chronicler and historian of the middle
portion of the state.
The Ledger Is a newspaper of brave
victions. of fair and Judicial tem-
-r, of amlablo spirit and of unfailing
energy and devotion.
It deserves the success which Is
srritten in its splendid special edition
dedicated to Greater Birmingham.
BOARDS OP TRUSTEES AND GEORGIA COLLEGES.
We hare been Inclined for some years past to believe that the
function of boards of trustees In educational institutions In Georgia has
been much exaggerated and sometimes abused.
The Impression has been left upon our minds by a careful observa
tion that the usefulness of these boards to the general educational sys
tem might be vastly Increased Jf the gentlemen who constitute them
would Illustrate more discretion and less activity.
From the university down through our entire system of schools, wo
believe that the Interests of education and of Georgia youth would be
furthered If boards of trustees would confine themselves more largely
to the material Interests of the colleges and leave curriculum and dis
cipline to the trained intelligence and experience of professional teach
ers who are placed at the bead of our schools.
One has only to consider the caliber of the boards of trustees, and
their mode of selection, to appreciate the significance of this observation.
It has been too much the custom In recent years to make a position up
on these educational boards a means of paying political debts by publlo
men In office, of rewarding friends, of strengthening political influence
and of recognising personal favors. Any sort of study of the personnel
of the educational boards of Georgia will indicate how rarely these im
portant boardB are filled from men who hare given any particular study
to educational systems or institutions, and how little of general informa
tion, much less of experienced knowledge upon educational matters, is
encompassed In the brains and the experience of the men who aro for
mally chosen or formally appointed to direct and to control the action
of the schools. Men of high standing thoy may be in general affairs,
bnt Interest In education Is rarely a requisite In their selection.
If there has been a lack of prosperity tn any of our greater Georgia
schools within the decade. It is duo to the fact that the "zeal without
knowledge” and the activity without discretion upon the part of un
trained end undeveloped trustees has too often thwarted the individual
initiative and the free and untrammelled experience of trained find ed
ucated teachers.
We know a school In Georgia that has come to bo a model of Its
kind. Wo shall call no names and make no personal application, but
we will express the belief that this Is one of the best, If not tbe best
school, under tho supervision of the state. Its board of trustees, like
other boards, was not selected with an eye single to any particular ex
perience or educational fitness of Its members, bnt was selected within
these last ten years after the somo random fashion of favoritism and
politics that has vitiated the entire system of board supervision.
But this particular board got into it* head about fire years ago an
Idea essentially wise and discreet. The members agreed among them
selves, upon the emergency of a vacancy In the presidency of the school,
to concentrate all their wisdom, all their Judgment and their Impartial
discretion Id the selection of a now president who was to embody In him
self the qunlltles of equipment, experience and Information which the
board Individually and collectively lacked. This was done. With great
care and with absolute unanimity tbe president was selected from the
ranks of the young Georgia which has progressed ao earnestly and ao
heroically In educational equipment within the decado. A young man
who had graduated from one of our Georgia colleges and bad subse
quently by his own exertions gone through Harvard and Chicago and
added a season of study In Europe to his equipment—live, vital, and
practical—was put at the head of tho school. The board had the good
sense to realize that he knew more about education than all of them
combined. They bad the discretion to understand that his Judgment in
the selection of teachers was better than theirs, and that in every mat
ter relating to discipline, equipment and service, his Bhould be the mas
ter and directing mind.
And so with a wisdom which has been bravely vindicated in re
sults, the board decided Its highest service to tho state consisted in hold
ing up the hands of this wise young teacher, cooperating with his poli
cies, helping him to accomplish his ends, standing by him in bis appeals
to tho legislature, to the state, and to publlo opinion, and serving rather
as bis cooperative friends than os his legal bosses and hli authorised
controllers.
In consequence the president of this college, feeling the responsibili
ty that restod upon him In the attitude ot the board, appreciating tbe
opportunity wblch it afforded him to win his spurs in education, conse
crated bis Judgment, his Individuality and his energy to tbe school. His
knowledge of the profession has enabled him to choose teachers with far
greater Judgment than any member of the board could have displayed,
and no recommendation of his has ever failed to bo promptly Indorsed
by the state's representatives who sustain him. lie has made his own
faculty; he has established his own curriculum; he has added his own
Improvements; ho has been given a free hand In the execution of his own
wlso policies, and today under this system ot primary selection, follow
ed by the responsibility of tho president and the cooperation ot the
board, tbe school stands at the head of tho list ot similar sohools in the
state and the 8outh and la without a superior anywhere In tho country.
If this board had been tossed at every meeting between factions
anxious for political advantage, it it had been fretted by partisans seeking
to fill the professional chalra with personal favorites or political allies,
if It had boen concerned to establish new positions In order to roward
certain Individuals, and If Its own deliberations bad been handicapped by
Jealousies and tactions within, this great school would today havo been
adrift and entangled In mistakes which are fretting so many educational
institutions of the country.
Tho state of Georgia has just been enriched by nearly a dozen great
agricultural schools under the maintenance and direction ot the state. In
each one of these there are boards ot trustees appointed by the govern
or and chosen perhaps as has been the custom for a quarter of a centu
ry. The Georgian with a deslro to be useful to these hopeful Institu
tions and to the cause of education, commend* to them the example of
this model school to which we have referred.
There are a multitude of material things—money, publlo opinion,
prosperity and enoouragoment—In which trustees can be ot vast service
to their schools.
But If these 'gentlemen are wise they will choose first ot all some
discreet, practical and successful teacher to head these various Institutions
and then they will give him rather their helpful co-opcratlon than bur
den him with advice or handicap him by resolutions and policies from
their own Inexperionced minds.
From the university down, let trustee* give a free band to wise
teachers rather than meddle eagerly in things which they know very lit
tle about.
"BECAUSE ANOTHER PAPER STARTED IT."
Nevepapers are, after all, tbe expression of the character, conscience
and temper ot the men who cpnduet them.
And the general public, dlstntereited and serene, measures the
merit and conduct of newspapers aa It measures the spirit and customs
ot men, admiring the lofty and noble, and despising tho little and mean.
Newspapers do not always realise the Intelligent judgment at the
public, but those Judgments are unvarying and clear. Tbe email Jeal
ousies, tho little mean reflections, the sneaking depreciation! of one
who hnppens to be a competitor or a contemporary, are all noted and
condemned by that high clear public opinion which does not always
speak, but which Is always awoke and cognisant. Tbe plcayunlah in
journalism Is as promptly despised as the mean sad spiteful In the
Individual.
And how foolish as well as mean le the spirit In a responsible news
paper that would refuse Us Influence and support to a worthy public
movement, simply because a competing newspaper happened to be
first In suggestion and advocacy! Consecrated to public service, and
dependent upon public favor, this public voice choose* to be. silent upon
a public Issue, and to permit a public wrong or neglect a publlo good,
simply because another paper was the first to mention it! How Infi
nitely small!
Tho Georgian does not propose to be personal or offensive. Wo
shall call no names, and the incident le merely mentioned to point
tbe moral and to emphasize tho protest But within the week behind us,
when the great, big. broad general proposition of a Fourth ot July cele
bration was presented—Involving state, national and municipal patriot
ism, taking In the interests of our merchants, tbe welfare ot railroads,
sod stores and a hundred Institutions, not to epeak of the refreshment
and enjoyment of the people—a certain newspaper when approached to
secure Its cooperation responded:
“Well, we don't know. You see the other paper started It!”
What sort of a spirit Is this for the big, broad day In which we live?
What sort of a public Journal Is It that would alight the public service
rather than give wings to a good thing that another Journal merely
happened'to suggest?
It Is high time for public opinion to frown upon exhibitions of mere
littleness In corporations. Journalistic or otherwise, that ought to be
great. There are always going to be newspapers, more than one, to seek
tbe favor and to serve tho Interests of Atlanta and the state. There Is
room for all, and glory for all, and service for all. And no paper Is go
ing to kill competition or destroy Individual merit by mere smallness
of spite, or meanness ot innuendo. It never has done It, and it never will,
while the Georgia head Is clear and the Georgia heart Is fair.
A spirit like this Is a boomerang that comes back to fret and harass
Itself. It Is unworthy ot a man, and much more unworthy of a great
newspaper that assumes to stand for every Interest of the people upon
whose patronage'it lives.
May we protest that Tbe Georgian is not fashioned on this plan?
We are pleading today on this page with all heartiness and vigor, a cause
whoso first advocacy came from tbe nearest and . strongest competitor
with our own prestige and prosperity.
When we fall below the willingness to do this we shall be uawortby
of tho prosperity which we enjoy.
The public service Is above our private prejudices.
THE GREATER ATLANTA NOW A NECESSITY.
The word cornea that Atlanta’s dearest rivals in the race for popu
lation are awake and astir In the matter of enlargement
There Is scarcely a Southern city of Atlanta's class that Is not now
in the throes of a movement for the absorption of additional - territory
and the acquirement of other thousands of people within its municipal
limits. The greater Memphis, the greater Nashville and tho greater
Birmingham are all on tho way with an eager and ambitious eye upon
the next general estimate ot population. While New Orleans, already
great. Is preparing now to add to its present limits a new and compara
tively undeveloped territory twice as large as that of .the proposed
Greater Atlanta.
Tho next census will tell a story of tremendous Import to Atlanta.
Either Atlanta will stand where she belongs, as the third city of tho
South In population, and tho first in popularity, or she will be left strand
ed by the apathy and dullness of her people, with her prestige lowered
and actually below Memphis and Nashville In the record ot her popula
tion.
_ ^hat this official announcem eat would make a calamity—commer
cial,’ political and social—for Atlanta, no thoughtful and loyal cltixen
will fall to realize. It must be forestalled and prevented.
Tbe movement for a Greater Atlanta was simply a falling In line
with the munlcIpaL spirit of Southern towns. It was a natural sugges
tion that Atlanta should do what other cities were doing and do it vig
orously.
And now that we are all into It, Atlanta Just cannot, under any cir
cumstances, afford to be left behind. The whole repute of tho city for en
terprise not less than for population and civic Importance, is at stake.
The Atlanta spirit Is tn the balance, and the scale must fall on the side ot
progress. We hold our own or we go backward.
We trust that no political or other body In this municipality will
throw any obstruction in the way of Greater Atlanta. Let It come
quickly and let it come unanimously. ,
Tbe larger city is now a necessity.
Governor Hughes, of New York, like
the true man that he Is, signed the
bill for a recount of the ballots cast
tor William R. Hoarst and George B.
McClellan in 1905. In signing the bill
tho governor declared that it was
warranted by publlo policy and that
the denial of the relief asked by Mr.
Hearst had become a “grave public
scandal.” No little man could talk
like that
Perhaps It might be just as easy
for tho New York Tribune to get Its
Atlanta dispatches from some one
who Is familiar with the truth.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Only s note shiver can raeceistallj whit
tle down expenses.
Son* men make * specialty of exchinstns
their brass for other people's sold.
him.
Follow tho advice of a friend and It'a dot.
ra to donihonta yon will be tbe loser and
ha will bo the gainer.
Too can always reach the hearts of men
and women by stuffing them—tho former
with food, the latter with flattery.
Tba drat thins a woman does after die
PASTOR INSTALLED
AT ROCK SPRINGS
— Presbyterian
chnrch Sunday morning before a congrega
tion which ailed the chnrch, about foor
ml lea from Atlanta.
Itoldarby was appointed tn
_ the newly Installed minister.
Mr. Brownlee succeeds Dr. V. L. Martin,
who left the pastorate abont a year ago. The
church has boon wltbont a pastor since
that tir-
ARMY-NAVY ORDERS
—AND—
MOVEMENTS OP VESSELS
BARBECUE 18 GIVEN
BY TROUP COUNTY BAR
Special to The Georgian.
LaGrange, Oa., June 14.—The of
ficer* of Troup superior court and the
local bar held a barbecue at Cameron's
mill In this county Friday. Besides the
local bar and tho court officials there
were present from out of the city Ad
jutant General 8. W. Harrla, who for
many years ao ably presided over this
circuit; Judge R. W, Freeman, of New-
nan; Hon. Render Terrell, solicitor
general, of Greenville, and Colonel Hen
ry Revlll, court stenographer, of Green
ville.
Revival et LeGrsnga,
Special to The Georgian.
LaOrange, Oa., June 14.—Evangelist
T. T. Martin, of Louisville, Ky.. has
been In LaGrange for the past week,
where he Is assisting Dr. A. 13.
Vaughan In a series of meetings at tbe
First Baptist church. Large crowds are
attending the service* and hta sermons
are hesrd with much Interest by his
large congregations. He will remain
In LaGrange another week and help In
the service* that are being held.
Washington, D. C., June 24.—The
following orders have been Issued:
Army Order*
Captain Raymond Sheldon, Eight
eenth Infantry, detailed to attend en
campment organized militia of Now
Jersey at Sen Girt, July 6. First
Lieutenant George R. Burnett, retired
from Blee'a Military Academy, July 1.
Following changes captains, corps of
engineers, ordered: Edwin It. Stuart,
from Infantry and cavalry school to
Charleston. Harley B. Ferguson, from
infantry and cavalry school, to Mont
gomery.
Navy Orders.
Commander J. J. Knapp to navy
yard, Washington. Lieutenant O. G.
Murfln, detached Olympia, home, wait
order*. Lieutenant L. R. Sargent, de
tached naval proving ground, Indian
Head, to naval academy, July 10.
Ensign J. Rogers, detached Hall to
Nebraska. Ensign C. O. Kerrick, de
tached Preble to Hull. Midshipman W.
H. Booth, detached Vermont to Vir
ginia.
Movement! of Vessels.
Arrived June 21: St Louie, at Rio
Janeiro; Wolverine, at Harbor Springs;
Maine, Ohio and Iowa, at Hampton
Roads; Wasp, at Savannah.
Sailed June 11: Olympia, from An
napolis, for a cruise; Dolphin from
Washington, for a cruise; Marcellus
from Baltimore; for Portamouth, N.
Change* In Contmanda.
Changes In Important naval com
mands to take elfoct tn the near future
were announced at the navy depart
ment lost week:
Captain Q. B. Harber will be de
tached from command of the receiving
•hip Independence at the navy yard,
Mare Island, Cal., on July 1, and has
been ordered to assume command of
the battleship Mains, of-the Atlantic
fleet on July 10.
Captain C. El Fox has been ordered
detached from court martial duty at
the navy yard_ this city, on July 1,
and to proceed to San Francisco for
duty at the Union Iron Works tn con'
neotlon with the fitting out the arm-
ored cruiser South Dakota. He will
command this vessel when she la
placed In commission.
Commander J. M. Helm will be de
tached from command of the cruiser
Galveston, In Philippine waters, on
August 5. and will be relieved by Com
mander J. H. Soars, who has been de
tached from lighthouse duty at New
Orleans for this purpose.
Captain Richard Walnwrtght wilt
succeed Captain A. R. Couden In com
mand of the battleship Louisiana about
August 1. When the three scout cruis
er* now under construction are ready
for aervlce they will be commanded by
officer* now on duty tn Washington,
although these commands will not be
ready for some time.
The Salem will be commanded by
Lieutenant Commander Albert L. Key.
naval aide to the president and on duty
In connection with the general board
of the navy.
The other scout cruisers, the Bir
mingham and Chester, will be com
manded by Lieutenant Commander 8.
S. Wood, aide to Admiral Dewey, and
on duty In connection with the general
board, and by Lieutenant Commander
W. S. Sims, at present on duty In the
bureau of navigation as Inspector of
target practice. The Chester will be
launched at Bath, Me, on June 24.
Can Din* With King.
There are several ancient privileges
attached to the post of armorer to the
king. One of these gives him a right
to dine at the king’s table at least once
n week; another enables him to de
mand a golden goblet from his majesty
once a year. Mr. Guy Laklng, the
present holder of the post, doez not
claim either of these ancient privi
leges. On state occasions, however,
he wears the gorgeous uniform of his
office, which la no doubt far more orna
mental than comlortable.—Tit-Bits.
MADDOX-RUCKER BANKING CO.
Notice To Our Savings Department Patrons:
On July 1st the regular dividend of
INTEREST AT FOUR PER CENT
per annum will be paid on all deposits entitled thereto.
ACCOUNTS CAN BE OPENED BY MAIL—WRITE FOR BOOKLET.
Defendant’s Illness Pre
vents His Appearance
in Court.'
Armed with affidavits affirming that
the defendant and two of his attor
nays are In such p state of 111 health
that It will be Impossible to go to trial
at any time In the near future. At
torney H. V. Culberson appeared In
court Monday morning and secured a
continuance for the term, of the case
of M. M. Turner, charged with embes-
illng 262,000 from the Georgia Re
demption and Loan Company.
Mr. Culberson stated that he was not
dlreotly Interested In the case, but that
his law partner, Mr. Johnson, Is sick In
bed, Attorney Reuben Arnold has left
town for two weeks on account of a
severe attack of Indigestion, and that
he was requested to appear for them
and make the showing In the Turner
case.
Dr. John S. Hurt made affidavit that
Mr. Turner is suffering, and that It
would be Impossible for him to appear
tn court
Judge Roan was In favor ot holding
court open until the defendant Is
ready for trial, but Solicitor Hill de
sired that It be continued until next
term, which was done.
BUCKET SHOP CASES
TO COME UP TUESDAY
DIRECT TO SPINNER
COTTONJS SOL!
McEldery Declares Livei
pool Is Full of Commer
cial Bandits.
Birmingham, Ala, June 24.—"Livei
pool Is full of commercial bandits, an
If anything. Is equal to tf not wort
than the New York cotton houses, wii
must have their ‘rake off 1 under th
guise of all sorts of wharfage, carl
age, dockage, tare lossage and broket
age charges.”
The foregoing is the opinion of Get
McEldery, a delegate to the Interna
tlonal Cotton Congress, who has Jus
returned from Europe. Mr. McEIder
emphatically saya It will pay the farm
ers to ship their cotton direct to th
spinners at Manchester rather than t
Liverpool, and that cotton can be soli
In the fields or at the nearest rallroai
station In the South, direct to the con
turner at Manciiester, saving more that
21 per bale on every elilpment to Llv
erpool.
The result of tho congress was prac,
tlcally to eliminate the Intermedlar]
and make sales from first hands In tht
fields to tho spinner, possible. This, It
the opinion of Mr. McEldery, win b<
worth $50,000 annually to the South.
Women and Marriage.
The cases of Holland Curran and
others, charged with violating the Boy
kin bucket shop law, were called In the
criminal division of the superior court
Monday morning, but were continued
until Tuesday afternoon on account of
tho absence ot Attorney Luther Ros-
eer, who Is one of the attorneys for
the defendants, and who Is engaged In
the trial of a case before the supreme
court. The cases aro set for trial at
1:20 o'clock Tuesday.
By CAROLYN PRESCOTT.
Do you ride In the street cars?
Unless you aro rich enough to own or
hire a carriage, and as only a very
small percentage ot the people In the
world have money enough to Indulge
In title extravagance. It is taken for
granted that you art an- occasional
’straphanger."
This being the case, here are ten
commandments that you might study,
along with the gorgeous Instructions
on how to get on or off the car:
Say “Thank you" when given
■eat, whether you mean It or not
Nover step upon a fellow-passen
ger’s toes. He needs them to walk
with.
3. If you do. say "Pardon me,"
will make them hurt lees.
4. Move up occasionally. You only
pay a nickel for the ride; don't take
up a dime's worth of space unless you
pay for It accordingly.
6. Don’t, please don’t, get the habit
of reading your neighbor’s paper or
magazine. He bought it for his own
perusal and Is not engaged tn the
philanthropic occupation of running a
circulation library.
6. Don't plant yourself at the rear
door when there is plenty of room up
front Everybody else does that—be
an exception.
7. Avoid talking scandal or gossip In
the hearing of every one else In the
car. This Is not a pretty way.
8. Don’t plump your child or your
bundle Into the seat beelde you. Some
one else might like to sit down.
Don't get into a dispute with the
conductor. He Is a human being like
yourself, and probably bos a wife and
children to support.
10. Don't allow your offspring to wipe
his muddy feet over the people on each
side of him.
And I am going to write an elev
enth—don't use your elbows, especial
ly It they are sharp.
Have you noticed that the street car
glutton Is disappearing, or at least
growing beautifully leu? Ho Is. He
flourishes In the summer time, but
when cool weather comes he vanishes.
But even considering that ti e street
car hog Is disappearing, one still sees
many acts of discourtesy In the cars.
1 heard a man say only last week, "1
have heard people complain about being
compelled to rtde with dirty, greasy
workingmen from the mills and the
streets, but I tell you light now I
would rather ride with a crowd of
dagos or hunktes than with a bunch
of women. The men mind their own
affairs, take as little room as possible
and let one alohe, but the women chat
ter and atep on one'a toes and glare if
every man In the car does not rise at
once and give up Ills seat, and I have
yet to hear the first one say “Thank
you.”
Ugh! This Is a mean shot. But It's
up to the women to prove that tho man
Is not right In what he says of them.
ANYBODY, ANYWHERE,
ANY TIME
Can get The Georgian and
News sent to them. Phone
4928 or write the circulation
department. 45 cents per
month, 10 cents per week,
$4.50 per year.
By MRS. JOHN A. LOQAN
(Copyright, 1907, by Amerlcan-Journal-
Examlner.)
P ROFESSOR William L Thomas, ol
the Chicago University, hu writ
ten what he calls a book on ths
above subject, which for meaningless
platitudes, Incoherency and disgusting
suggestions surpasses anything that
has ever been penned on the sacred
subject he essays to discuss with un
blushing freedom.
If the excerpts which I have read are
In any sense correct, I am amazed that
any man, a professor In a co-education-
al university, would put In print euch a
diatribe.
I blush to confese that I have read
and re-read every word that haa ap
peared of this publication, and I have
failed utterly to extract a single pur*
thought that proves anything touching
women. . . _
His mind seems to hava been wholly
occupied with the animal that Is In
mankind. He paya a poor compliment
to his mother and his wife, If ha he*
one, If there le any meaning In what
he says in regard to ths morality and
modesty of women.
“Morality Is pre-eminently an adult
and a male system, and men are Intelli
gent enough to recognise that neither
women nor children have passed
through this school. It Is on this ac
count that, while man Is merciless to
woman from the standpoint of personal
behavior, he exempts her from anything
like contractual morality.” •
It Is difficult to understand what he
does mean by such a string of Incon
gruous sentences.
The concise definition of morality in
Webster Is “the practice ot duty; obe
dience to the moral law; virtue; good
ness.” The gender of tho word Is not
given, and one wonders where Profes
sor Thomas got his authority to denom
inate It masculine. Morality Is a vir
tue equally admirable In men and wom
en, and not, as Professor Thomas would
have one think, not expected In women
and children, and he should have added
Idiots, as men of hi* etamp are wont to
do. In classifying Irresponsible human
It Is little wonder that there Is «o
much complaint of demoralisation or
young people and tha assertion that a
majority of them have false Ideas of
life and their duties, when books of the
character of Professor Thomas The
Adventitious Character of Woman, ana
Mrs. Parion's “Trial Divorce theories
aro allowed to be distributed broadcast,
both of which have wrought Incalcula
ble wrong to old and young.
Professor Thomaa has written so
plainly upon the most sacred relations
of life as to excite the Indignation of
every pure-minded person. He dis
cusses topics that should never *>
mentioned In print, and makes
tlons that are absolutely revolting to
one with a particle ot refinement, and
yet, unfortunately, ho Is a professional
educator. __
It seems high time that someone was
appointed to censor the literary produ-
tlons which emanate from universities,
ao that the public might know the In
lluonce under which the characters
students ore being formed.
Company Furnishes Gam*.
Games of chess and draught*.mr
travelers on long Journeys &*ve ne
Introduced by the English Midland
Railway Company. There le
made by the company and when tne
game Is finished the conductor collects
the pieces.
About tho Tram Road.
•Tramway,” a very useful word uni
versally employed In Great Britain but
hardly ever heard here, Is said to have
been derived from "Outrami '*•>»■
Outram being the first man to Wjjon
plates on wooden stringers. Tram
Is an old word, meaning. *t
times, a sled, a car. The word tram
was used long before Outram s tim
for designating a plank road or even
a highway. The fact that the name “j
the builder of the first railway ended
In "tram" Is probably a coincidence.
Bishop Beritenhngen. of the Morsrlsn Ml*
•Ion. In Nlcnrostin. who hits been In tnst
service Quinns ths Indians nir 'wrnt:
years, says dial In suite of their victory
over Honduras, the Mrarasusu*> win SJJ—
exploit their own country, hut that toret#
ers must do It.
Rhode Island, which hits 4*> P'"”"* !|
tho x]ititro mile. I* thi* nioet dW**ly
dinted urate In the union. There a re i
■even other itote* with more than a ■ .
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