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THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
ATLANTA. ®A-, • NORTH FORBTTH MT.
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JAMES R. GRAT,
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A bent pin on a chair makes an excellent starting
point.
Some married men act as frisky as a young
widow.
Some men put everything off till tomorrow —with
the possible exception of bill collectors, and they put
them off indefinitely.
And many a man's self-control is due to the fact
that his wife is big enough and strong enough to sit
on him occasionally.
If we had all known beforehand how exciting it
would be in Baltimore, more than a handful of people
would have spent their summer vacations there.
DEMOCRACY HAS MET IT'S
DUTY AND OPPORTUNITY.
The Democratic National Convention has marked
a new era in American politics.
It has given the first clear-cut and organixed ex
pression to a people's fight for freedom.
It has not only pointed the way but has also sup
plied the means to a restoration of truly popular
government.
It has shown a vital loyalty to tfioee great prin
ciples from which the party sprang and to those
quickening ideals in which the republic itself bad
birth.
It has shown good sense in the face of an epochal
opportunity and. above all, good faith in the/presence
of a national duty.
Democracy goes forth from Its council at Bal
timore deserving success, thrice-armed in the just
ness of its cause and, therefore, virtually assured of
victory.
From beginning to end, this convention was dom
inated by a spirit of uncompromising honesty toward
the interests of the people. Its face was set like
flint against the abuses, the mistakes and the sur
renders of the past. Its keynote was sounded in the
resolution, adopted almost unanimously, which de
clared In effect that no servant or representative of
Wall Street interests should represent the Demo
cratic party.
There was no mistaking the fact that the same
influences which succeeded in gaining an upper
hand at Chicago were present and militant at Bal
timore. But the significant thing is that at Bal
timore they were repudiated and routed as they
have never been before in national politics.
The platform adopted by the national Democratic
Convention has been truly called the most progres
sive in the country's history; and, more than that,
it is the most constructive. Its language is sharpen
ed to a point, that cuts straight to the heart of
present day issues. It not only lays evils bare but
also indicates tneir remedy; and the makers of this
platform have shown by the?r record that its every
pledge will be fulfilled.
Most Important and most heartening of all, the
man who is to stand upon this platform is the living
embodiment of its principles, a leader to whom all
Americans, weary of misgovernment and wishing
for a freer day, can turn with confidence.
By nominating Woodrow Wilson for the presi
dency, the Democratic party has proved more clearly
than it could by any other act its practical devotion
to its own and the country’s interests.
His record, his ability, his character all make
him the logical leader of the millions of citizens
whose hope and purpose are turned forward to bet
ter government.
He offers deliverance from the reactionary abuses
of the old Republican order and he stands also as a
bulwark against the menace of Rooseveltism. He is
at once progressive and well poised. He would re
store popular rights by means of the Constitution,
not by destroying it. And he represents the Interests
of the nation, not an Individual ambition.
With such a platform and such a nominee, the
Democratic party meets the demands of the hour,
and enters the national campaign with a hope that
rests upon duty squarely done.
An occasional failure encourages the hustler to
make a more strenuous effort.
The value of forethought is often demonstrated
by the after effects.
Experience is a great teacher, but graduates are
handed their diplomas by the undertaker.
A man never knows how fleet-footed he really is
until he has occasion to make a getaway from a leap
year girl.
When a man is down and out his friends are soon
up and away.
The uses of a mother-in-law are too often less
than her abuses.
When you are offered anything free look for the
string.
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOTTRNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, .JULY 5, 1912.
REPUDIATE THE BRISTOW
AMENDMENT; IT’S DANGEROUS.
The lower house of the Georgia legislature has
done well to adopt the resolution by Mr. Alexander,
of DeKalb, calling for a careful Investigation of the
Bristow amendment both as regards the manner in
which it has been proposed by Congress and the mat
ter it contains. Such an Inquiry, we believe, will lay
bare the peril which this amendment holds for the
protective suffrage laws of Georgia and her sister
states of the South and will mark the beginning of a
widespread movement toward its merited defeat.
More than this, It may confirm the opinion that
the amendment has not really received the legal
sanction of Congress. Mr. Alexander raises the in
teresting point that, according to the records, the
resolution to submit this amendment to the states
did not receive the vote of two-thlrds of the members
of the Congress, but the vote of only two-thirds of
those present; nothing less than a full two-thlrds, he
contends, can constitute the majority required for
submitting changes in the constitution.
However, this particular issue may be determined,
the amendment itself Is so obviously dangerous to
the rights of the individual states and particularly to
those of Southern states that it should meet the
prompt repudiation of every legislature In this sec
tion. And Georgia should lead the way.
As The Journal has frequently pointed out the
South has long believed In the popular election of
United States senators. Indeed, she has put her
belief Into practice. For, the Democratic primary in
Georgia and neighboring states Is equivalent to an
election; and It is through such primaries that our
senators are chosen, by a direct vote of the people.
The legislature simply attests and ratifies a prefer
ence declared at the polls. We have nothing to gain,
therefore, even from the constructive elements of the
proposed Bristow amendment; for we already enjoy
whatever good there may be in this plan.
Why, then, should Georgia or any other Southern
state ratify a proposition that will add nothing to
the popular rights they now possess, but which will
strike at the very root of one of the most essential
rights they have laboriously established?
For the South at least, the distinctive feature of
the Bristow amendment is not that it provides for
the election of senators by a direct vote of the peo
ple, but that it robs the individual states of their
authority to say in what manner these elections shall
be held and what the qualifications for suffrage
shall be.
We grant that this is not avowed or explicit in
the Bristow amendment, but it is certainly implied
and at the very least it is an alarming possibility.
Whether a partisan majority in Congress would ever
override the suffrage regulations of a Southern state
may be debatable, but there can be question that this
amendment offers us no assurance to the contrary;
and it is a perilous thing to bestow power on the
theory that it will never be exercised.
When Mr. Bristow’s proposition was before the
House Congressman Bartlett, of Georgia, offered a
qualifying amendment which asserted that “Congress
should not have the power to provide for the qualifi
cation of voters within the various states, or to au
thorize the appointment of supervisors of elections,
judges of elections or returning boards to certify the
results of any such elections; nor to authorize the
use of United States marshals or the military forces
or troops of the United States at tfee polls during
election. It is a significant fact that Congressman
Bristow himself strenuously fought this qualifying
amendment and succeeded in defeating it
If his proposition does not contemplate or make
possible the exercise of such power as the South has
reason to fear, why did he refuse to accept an amend
ment which would have specifically protected
our states and have set all our apprehensions at rest?
The truth is if the Bristow amendment is ratified,
the South's suffrage laws, enacted as a safeguard
against the corrupt and ignorant vote of the negro,
would be exposed to the possible attack of a Republi
can majority in Congress as they could never be
under existing regulations. When senators are
elected, as they now are, by the legislature any in
quiry that Congress might be disposed to make into
a particular election would be limited to legislature,
that body constituting the electors. But under the
Bristow plan such an inquiry would proceed directly
to the ballot box and would concern itself with the
qualifications of the voters at the polls; and just
there it would jeopardize the integrity of the negro
disfranchisement laws.
Let the members of the General Assembly of
Georgia ponder well this fact.
Let them remember that when this pernicious
amendment was presented in Congress, the Southern
delegations voted against it almost as a unit.
Let them reflect that in Georgia we already have
whatever advantages such an amendment might
offer; that in effect our senators are now chosen by
the people.
Let them take a timely lead and sound a note
of warning that will ring around the South, and stir
our sister states to a united resistance against this
menace to their welfare and freedom.
The Alexander resolution is one of the most im
portant that has ever come before the legislature.
- The committee to be appointed to investigate the
Bristow amendment should perform its task as thor
oughly and speedily as is possible. As to what its
report will be on the matter of this amendment, there
can be little doubt. Let the action of the General As
sembly follow without delay and the entire South,
we believe, will arise and crush this danger to its
rights.
Our idea of an optimist is a man who saves a lit
tle sunshine for a rainy day.
Cruel sarcasm of the New York Sun, which spoke
of the colonel dodging the crowd “that was not
there.” • • / »
GENERAL ROBERT F. HOKE.
There has passed in the death of General Robert
F. Hoke one of the bravest leaders and truest citizens
the South ever knew. In the two great eras of his
section's history, he marched and labored in the
thick of events, a fighter, a builder, a hero in bat
tle and a guide in peace.
The story has been often told by men who were
closest to General Lee that the great Virginian ex
pressed a personal wish that in the event of his
death General Hoke should be gives supreme com
mand of the Confederate armies. This confidence
was well deserved. For, on divers fields and in many
crises, General Hoke had proved his courage and bls
genius for strategy. He took part in nearly all the
great engagements of the war and in every instance
he showed a brilliance of leadership that ranked him
with the foremost generals of both the Confeedrate
and the Union forces.
The struggle ended, he turned his talent to the
upbuilding of his impoverished country. He had
suffered for the South; he had offered his life .in her
defense; and now, with an equally admirable devo
tion; he gave the remainder of his days to her ma
terial and civic restoration.
One of the most pressing needs of the later
sixties and the seventies was the construction of
railroads and industrial interests. It was to this
Important field that General Hoke turned his energy.
He was the founder and completer of several
epoch-making enterprises in the section’s industrial
life. The railways he built opened new lines of
commerce and prosperity and stimulated drooping
communities to fresh endeavor.
The entire South, and particularly Georgia, share
today the grief of North Carolina over the loss of
her gifted and useful son; and in Atlanta, where
members of his family reside, this feeling is espe
cially keen.
Altogether now on the Princeton yell.
A henpecked man crows when he is away from
home.
Still, it wasn’t surprising. Wilson was once an
Atlanta man.
What became of Alton Parker in the rush?
And the newspaper men can take a vacation, too.
And what became of the three-cornered oppo
sition?
The Ragtime Muse
HE’S A WONDER.
There are many pompous men
Walking proudly on the earth,
Men of caliber ano weight
Quite aware of ail their worth.
But no matter w|iat their build,
Fat or lean or short,or tall,
Nor what calling they profess—
The conductor dwarfs them all!
With his feet set far apart
Gently with the train he sways.
Watch as with majestic mien
Hand to signal cord h e’ll raise.
To the question of his fares
He replies with ready ease.
Ah, what stately lofty pose
As he qrders ‘’Tickets, please!”
He is grand at any time.
But the acme of his art
Is discovered when his train,
Having stopped, is due to start.
All that dignity and pride
Can of consequence afford
Is far, far surpassed by him
When he tells us "All aboard!”
I don’t care to die just yet.
Nor to see the River Styx,
But if I thought Charon knew
Any pompous posing tricks
That conductors here don’t know.
Cheerfully this flesh I’d doff.
And with joy take passage there
Just to see him show them off!
Wishing For Wealth
“I don’t care if I never become rich enough
to own a motor car.”
"Bo?”
‘’No; and what’s more, I”m not dead anxious
to be able to rfford a trip to Europe now and
then."
"Contented, eh?”
"Not exactly. Only, I’m not losing any sleep
because I haven’t money enough to build eight or
nine 2-family flats.” •’
"What is the matter with you, then?”
‘‘As I was saying, I haven’t any ambition to
corner the money market. All I want is enough to
live on, and”
"Enough for a rainy day?”
"No. I'd just like to be rich enough to afford
an ice box with attachments so that I wouldn’t
have to empty the pan underneath it every night
and morning.’’—Detroit Free Press.
A “cuh” reporter was sent out by his city edi
tor to cover a fire in the Back Bay district. Be
fore he could reach the house \ the fire
had been extinguished and the fire
department gone. Nothing daunted, the reporter
rang the bell of the house and soon was confront
ed by a servant girl.
"I wish to see Mr. Robinson," said the report
er, politely tipping his hat.
“He’s out,” tersely answered the servant girl.
•‘ls his wife at home?” asked the reporter.
"No, she’s out, too.’’
"V» ell,” came back the reporter, "I under
stand you have had a fire here.”
"Oh, that’s out, too,” and the reporter went
away as the door slammed in his faceßoston
Traveler.
Husband —Your extravagance is awful. When
I die you’ll probably have to beg.
Wise —Well, I should be better off than some
pooor woman who never had any practice!—Lon
don Opinion.
Pointed Paragraphs
Doing beats wishing, but It’s harder.
• • • •
Some people are always having a terrible time.
• • •
True love never runs smooth even on a golden
track.
• • •
Self-denial looks good to the average man—from
a distance. -
• • •
The Iceman is happiest when the other fellow
takes the cake.
• • ♦
The most imposing family trees have their roots
deeply interred.
• • •
A young widow makes love to a man by making
him make love to her. *
•* • x
Surely he is a wise man who knows when he has
enough before he gets it.
e • •
One way to get rid of your friends is to acquire
the “I told you so” habit.”
• • •
Love is a game of chance. Be sure that you are
a good loser before you take a hand.
• • •
Yes, a married man may enjoy kissing his wife’s
relations —If they are young, pretty, and of the fe
male persuasion.
• • •
An old bachelor says it takes mor« than a porous
plaster to relieve the pain generated by observing a
200-pound girl trying to act cut a
WOMEN’S CLUB WORK
In Domestic Science and for Pure Food.
BY FREDERIC J. RASKIN.
Long years before the general federation was
formed or even thought of, a prominent woman,
speaking before a body of earnest club women inter
ested in self-improvement, said:
g
nomics or what ever other term is applied to home <
making, had first to take into consideration the appli
cation of modern conditions to the demands of the
family—many of these demands being in a fluid state
of evolution. With the coming of higher educational
advantages for women there came temporarily a dis
taste for many things domestic. Mothers took a
pride in the intellectual attainment of their daugh
ters and neglected to train them for caring for their
future families. Then, too, when women were forced
into wage earning positions they had not always the
opportunity to prepare for home making. The result
of this neglect has become apparent in the present
generation and the club women are quick to profit by
the lesson. Now the pendulum is swinging towards
the middle again and, while the girls are being lib
erally educated in every chosen calling, the fact Is
not lost sight of that every woman, at some period
of her life, is likely to have a home to care for so’
a preparation for this is being made a part 6f her
education. Besides this, the domestic science work
of the clubs alms to help the women who did not re
ceive instruction in home making before marriage to
pse all means possible for increasing the comfort of
their families.
• • •
The General Federation of Women’s Clubs ex
tends a helping hand to every club working along
any line of domestic science. There are many lec
tures upon this subject suited to the different needs
of the individual clubs. Some of them consist of
practical, concise Information upon everyday sub
jects which help untrained housewives to provide bet
ter food and clothing and more comfort for their fam
ilies and to spend less money in doing so. For the
women who have mastered this elementary part of
the work there are courses in the chemistry of food,
in advanced ideas in home furnishings and kindrod
other topics. The lesions advocated by club women
are always suited to the needs of the people to
whom they are presented. For instance, cooking les
sons for the wives of men on a small salary will not
contain recipes for making a cake calling for a dosen
eggs, but it may give simple directions for making
one that is both good ana wholesome requiring two
or three eggs.
• • •
When it is considered that 90 per cent of all that
people earn is spend for tood, clothing or shelter
the importance of securing the maximum value from
this expenditure cannot be disputed. The time has
come when * housekeeping is recognized as a science
calling for special instruction instead of an unskilled
employment that can be picked up haphazard without
any training. It is impossible, in many homes, tor
the mother to give this instruction even when she is
competent to do it, and it becomes the alm of the
club to work for the welfare of the home in this
way. Under the auspices of the club women of Col
orado, lecturers have been sent out to maqy small
towns in order that the gospel of right livirig might
be sent to the women who most need it.
• • •
Sometimes these lectures have been in halls and
skating rinks, unattractive in appearance and lack
ing ‘in many conveniences, but the attendance evi
denced the appreciation of the audiences. Women
came pouring in, sometimes carrying a baby or two
with them. Often they have ridden miles through
snow storms or walked long muddy roads to reach
the lectures which are generally given in courses con
tinuing a week or ten days. During that time sys
tematic instruction in hygiene, the care of small
children and the preparation of simple food is given.
At the close of a course in one small town, a middle
aged woman came forward and said: "If I could
have had a week like this when I was a young house
keeper I would have saved quarts of tears and long
hours of wretchedness. I did not know how to keep
house and my first two babies died because I did not
know how to take care of them.”
• • •
The club women are keeping in mind the fact that
more than 110,000,000,009 annually are spent in the
United States for food, shelter and clothing. The
same amount of money to be expended in other ways
or to be invested in a commercial manner would be
safeguarded by the trained experience of those hav
ing it in charge. Yet until a comparatively recent
period little attention was paid in the training of the
persons who are to handle this great sum for the
benefits of the American homes. The domestic
science course of the women’s clubs takes the stand
that home economy is as important to the political
economy of the nation as any other branch of fi
nance.
• • •
Under the direction of the club women, domestic
science conferences to which the men are invited also
are held regularly in many of the states. In many
instances the women cannot have the necessary ap
pliances for the Improvement of the home because
the men hold the purse strings. This fact is espe
cially true in the farming districts and is largely re
sponsible for the discontent that prevails among
farmers’ wives. There are farms which have every
outside convenience Including running water in the
barp and yet the wife and mother may be using an
old tomato can in the kitchen for a dipper and be
forced to pump every drop of water she uses or to
carry it for a considerable distance from a well or
spring. When such subjects are discussed in open
meeting in the presence of men it is surprising how
soon results are apparent. At one meeting a man
arose and said: “I have been made to feel as small
as a peanut today because I have running water in
my barn and not in my house, but it shall not be so
a month longer.”
• • •
One reason for the high cost of living is the ex
travagance of the age. The domestic science sec
tions of the woman’s clubs are teaching that the
shop windows and the advertisements of the daily
newspapers have too strong an influence in setting
the standards of the needs of the home. An era of
education in this direction is already well under way.
Women are being taught through the medium of the
clubs that a few articles of good value for which a
fair price is paid, are vastly more to be desired than
the accumulation of bargain day sales.
• • •
Domestic science deals with every matter pertain
ing to the comfort and beauty of the home. For this
reason every club having a domestic science depart
ment will include some study in artistic furniture and
interior decoration. Simplicity is more and more
recognized as the keynote to be observed in the fur
nishing of the house, -here must be economy of la
bor considered in the avoidance of non-essentials to
be dusted and cared for. Because of its simplicity,
all forms of what is known as the art and craft form
of household furniture are apt to receive the favora
ble consideration of the club women studying this
subject.
Another economy of recognized value is the utili
zation of all of the new labor saving devices which
have practical value. A number of large city clubs
have formed the habit of having annual exhibitions
to which the manufacturers are invited to send their
newest Inventions for practical demonstration. Some
times a large hall is rented for the purpose and ad
mission charged, the proceeds going to some popular
philanthropy. At other times the manufacturers are
glad to pay the expenses for the benefit of the adver
tising they receive. In. either case the club women
profit bye new ideas presented to them. In a
number of towns, the gas companies have co-operated
to the extent of supplying gas ranges with all the
latest appliances, and perhaps in addition paying
the salary of a cooking teacher to demonstrate tne
newest culinary wrinkles. During the past year the
paper bag cookery has been well brought forward in
this way. It commends itself for its sanitary as well
as its labor saving advantage since it obviates the
washing of cooking utensils as well as insuring per
fect cleanliness in the handling of the food products.
‘‘Let it never for a moment be
forgotten that a club woman’s
first duty is to her home. No
outside work can ever make up
for the neglect of home duties.
Despite many assertions to the
contrary, the spirit of this
statement has always been tne
keynote of women’s club ef
forts so it follows that while
civics, education and other
matters have been seemingly
most popular, there has never
been a time when domestic sci
ence in its broadest sense was
not a dominant feature in the
club work of the women of
every state.
The changes in industrial
conditions nave wrought
changes ill the home life of
every family and, therefore, do
mestic science, household cco-
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WHAT DO TOUR CHILDREN READ?
Many pafents object to their children reading sto
ries, and indiscriminately condemn all good story
books as novels. They will not allow such books to
be brought into the house, nor will they even exam
ine them.
These same people who so strenuously fight so
called novels will allow all sorts of cheap almanacs
and medical books to come into their homes. These
books are sent through the mail and passed around
promiscuously on the streets or thrown into buggies
when they are hitched in town.’ Every circular that
comes through the mail should be examined by some
older member of the family, and if not desirable, be
promptly burned.
Children would better read half a doxen story
books than one medical book with its accompanying
pictures. When you get into your carriage after be
ing in town the next time, just make a collection of
the trash you find in it. You will soon see that it is
more valuable to light the fire with than to serve
as reading material for the children.
Children, with few exceptions, will read. In the
absence of good books they will read poor or even
bad ones. Some parents tell their children to read
their school books when they are asked to provide
reading material. School books are all right in their
place, but children tire of them, and with good rea
son. Besides reading them themselves, they hear the
other children read the same books. Any bright child
will not drone over something that be has heard sev
eral times. Grown people know how monotonous it
is to be compelled to listen to the same stories from
the same people time after time and to be expected
to laugh at the right place whenever the story 1* re "
peated.
If you see the children siting off by themselves
reading, or reading in the barn, it is just as well to
find out what they have and where they got it. A
taste for this kind of reading is much easier formed
than broken up. If never formed it will never need
to be broken up.—Margaret Whitney.
These words are so sane and sensible that I quote
them in full. The land swarms with books, maga
zines and stories that no young girl or boy should be
allowed to read, because they are so suggestive of
licentiousness and so corrupting to young minds.
Hence we find runaway matches are prevalent.
Hence we find the courts swarming with divorce
suits. Hence we find the need of rescue homes and
foundling hospitals. As we sow so shall we reap,
and as the land is sown down broadcast with yellow
backed fiction, we may expect to reap a harvest of
unhappy lives and broken homes. Statistics go to
prove the results, and the beginning can be found
in the flood of suggestive literature which is read by
the great majority of people.
JEETU, THE SON OF MIMS KI.
The story of Jehu as found in Kings II deserves
more attention than has been usually accorded to
him. ‘‘Riding like Jehu” is often heard, but he was
a personage who could do a great many things as
well or better than ride a horse. He was a grandson
of old King Jehosaphat as well as a son of Nlmshl,
his father, who was not a king, and Jehu became one
of the celebrated kings of Israel later on.
One of Elisha’s prophets was sent with a "box of
oil” to Ramoth, Gilead, and commissioned to take
Jehu aside into an inner chamber and there annoint
Jehu as the coming king of Israel. The young
prophet was directed to do the work in a few minutes
"then open the door, flee and tdrry not” /
The latter injunction was a safety clause for the
young prophet for prophets’ lives were by no means
insured in that olden time.
The young prophet opened and spread the "box of
oil” on Jehu’s head and told the coming king to inau
gurate his reign by wiping out Ahab’s crowd and
avenge the prophets who had died violent deaths at
the hands of cruel Jezebel, for this cruel queen had
acted her part just as Catherine the Medici difi her 4
part in tempestuous and cruel France in the sixteenth
century.
The prophet acted like he was crazy, so thought
the companions of young Jehu, who sat in the outer
chamber. They asked: "Wherefore came this mad ■
fellow to thee?”
But Jehu told them what had happened and they
instantly took the cue, and the Bible writer says:
“Then they hasted, and took every man his garment,
and put It under him on the top of the stairs, and
blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.”
King Jehoram was on the throne, having killed
King Jehosaphat to make the trip, so Jehu’s faction
rejoiced greatly over their opportunity to even up
things with Jehoram. Not only did Jehu despatch Je
horam the king of Israel, but also Ahasiah, the king
of Judah. With the prophet’s oil on his head, b«
made a notable killing of two rival kings in a single
day, and finished up his undertaking when Jezebel
was flung from her upper story chamber and her
carcass was eaten by dogs in Jezreel.
Among the notable kings of ancient times, tell ms
if you can find one. who despatched more serious busi
ness in the limits of a single day. Ahab and Jezebel
between them had 70 sons, and next day Jehu had
all their heads in a basket. A company of Ahab’s
kinspeople, his priests and his allies were caught as
they were journeying towards Jezreel to make a visit
to these dead kings’ sons, 70 in number, so Jehu had
all their heads in a basket very shortly. He clean
ed up the land and wiped out the Ahab generation,
big and little. All this took place inside of two days,
and then Jehu lost his head and ascribed all the
glory to Baal, although he reigned over Israel for
eight and twenty years. Jehu was a wonder!
THE INSCRIPTION
ON THE PANTHEON
BY DB. FBAMX CBAMX.
Above the portal of the Pantheon in Paris is the
inscription: “Aux grands hommes la Patrie recon
naissante,” which being interpreted is, "The grate
ful country to her great men."
The story is told that a country
boy came to Paris to be edu
cated.
He visited the Pantheon. Ho
was awed by the IHustriouS
names that surrounded him as
the guide conducted him through
the vaults. He was shown the
monuments to Voltaite and
Rousseau, and the tombs of Vic
tor Hugo, Marshal Lannes, and
others. Finally the guide Indi
cated a receptacle in which, ho
said, were the remains of 56
great men. The simple boy |
thought that would be a good
opportunity to acquaint himself
with the heroes of his nativg
land. So he stopped and learn- t
ed by heart the 56 names.
Later when he was asked in a
written examination to give the
names of some of the great men
of France, he wrote down the il
lustrious 56.
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He was amazed when the professor marked him
zero and sharply reprimanded him for attempting to
perpetrate a joke.
All of which throws a sharp light on the hum*
buggery of alleged greatness.
It has been assumed for some thousand years or so
that greatness and prominence mean the same thing.
It is assumed that the man who is born king is
greater than all the other babies born that day, and
that the gentleman who is elected president is greater
than the gentlemen who were beaten.
All of which is a delusion and a snare. For ths
first thing a soul needs to learn is that worldly suc
cess of any kind is not the test of greatness.
The man who makes millions of dollars is not
necessarily either great-sou led or great-minded; he
simply has a certain kind of shrewdness, which is
often enough quite compatible with utter pettlneaa.
The so-called great artist, or author, or states
man, or warrior, may be really quite small and mean.
Real greatness lies in those attributes common to
all men; in loyalty, courage, strength of feeling, intel
ligence. self-co ntrol, sound judgment, clarity of vision,
noble-mindedness and the like.
A blacksmith or a carpenter can have these and
frequently does have them, to a greater degree than
a senator or a learned professor.
The fundamental error in moral education is to
teach children to try to be great in the sense of being
wealthy or conspicuous.
The kind of greatness the world needs, and ths in
dividual needs, is that inner greatness with which so
called success or failure has nothing to do.
• France owes her greatness not to her great men,
including the *'s6 others," but to her common peopla
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