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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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At 20 East Alabama St , Atlanta, Ga.
Entered as second-class matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under art of March 3. 1879.
Why Women Should Vote
» * »
Not to Help Women, but to Help MEN. Women Will Improve
All Governments, Nullify the Bad Men, Multiply the Good
Men by Two
' Whether yon believe in female suffrage or not. whether you
WANT to see women vote or not. make- up your mind to this:
Women are going to vote. They are going to have their
say in the laws that rule them and their children. They are go
ing to add morality, benevolence and kindness to man’s gover
ing selfishness, and NOTHING WILL STOP IT.
There is a time for each important work. THIS IS THE
TIME TO WORK AND GET THE VOTE FOR WOMEN.
You will hear the subject discussed often in this newspaper.
You are invited to join in the discussion. The Georgian has
talked of votes for women often—but that was only the begin
ning. We shall succeed in this “votes for women’’ campaign, as
we succeeded in the others. BY THE HELP OF WOMEN.
Our purpose is to interest, first of all. the poorer women.
It is eas'- for the rich and prosperops “lady” to discutes in a
distant, indifferent way her future and her rights. She has com
fort,, luxury and ease now. Her rights do not really worry her
verv much, except as an added luxury.
Those especially interested, and in whom The Georgian is
especially interested, are the poor women—women whose hus
bands or fathers earn two dollars a day. or five or ten dollars a
day perhaps. They are the women that really pay the cost of
government today.
Is not our government a trust government” Are not the
real taxes in this country imposed BY THE TRI STS?
The man with a little house pays a little tax on that house.
And he pays to the government a little tax on his tobacco or his
beer, if he uses either, another little tax on his woolen suit. But
the government doesn’t get the REAL tax. That goes to the
trusts. The real tax laid upon the people. WITHOUT REPRE
SENTATION IN THE TAXING BODY, is made by the trusts.
There is Mr. Rockefeller’s tax from the Oil Trust. There
is the tax from the Sugar Trust and th* Meat Trust, and all
the other trusts.
WHO PAYS THOSE TAXES’ THE WOMEN PAY
THEM. Thei spend the household money, and the trusts raise
•their incomes by taxes in the household.
The women of the poorer families, the wives of men with
four or five hundred dollars a year, or of the lucky man with his
three or four thousand dollars a year. THEY PAY THE COST
OF OUR TRI ST GOVERNMENT.
The poorer women pax the taxes; the poorer women should
be allowed to vote.
There are a hundred ways of looking at this question of votes
for women, and no matter how you look at it. if you respect wont
en. if you have had a good mother, a good wite. good daughters
and sisters. GOOD WOMEN AROUND YOU. YOU MUST
WORK IN FAVOR OF THE VOTE FOR’ WOMEN.
Suppose a woman holds stock in a railroad. Is she not allow
ed to vote like any man. as . stockholder in that railroad’
Is not every woman in America a stockholder in this NA
TION? Do not the women of America CREATE the nation’ Wil]
there be anything left of Ihe United States a hundred years from
now. EXCEPT THE CHILDREN CREATED BY THE WOMEN
LIVING IN THE I NITED STATES;
Is not the nation made up of its people, and do not the women
CREATE the people? Are they not entitled to an opinion, to cast
‘ a vote, in the lawmaking, in the country governing, in the tax im
posing '
. You will hear women say that they do not want to vote, they
are happy as they ar<. quite contented. And this is said often by
some of the best women, the most intelligent in certain directions,
excellent morally.
We would ask them to remember that exactly the same thing
was said by the black slaves when abolition was suggested. When
there was talk of freeing the slaves many of the very best be
haved, most worthy among the slaves, said: “We do not want
freedom; we do not want abolition; we are satisfied as we are.”
But those very good slaves that wanted to REMAIN slaves
realize now that any kind of freedom was better than any kind of
slavery.
And to the women, well-meaning, satisfied, intelligent. BUT
NARROW, we would say. ami we shall often repeat, THAT
WHILE THEY MAY THINK THEY ARE CONTENTED IN
THEIR. SLAVERY. ONCE THEY GET FREEDOM. ONCE
THEIR MORAL CHARACTER IS EXPRESSED IN THE COUN
TRY'S GOVERNMENT. THEY WILL FIND THE FREEDOM
AND THE RIGHTS OF THE VOTER INFINITELY PREFERA
BLE TO PEACEFUL, WELL-DRESSED. SILKY SLACTRY.
The Atlanta Georgian
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The Importance of Breathing Deeply
properties that we
j have been wondering at
and labeling as almost
miraculous in the new element ra
dium are possessed in small but
measurable degree by the internal
organs of oui own bodies. Our
brains are especially radio-active,
the heart less so, and the kidneys
still less. As our means of de
tecting radio-activity become more
delicate, we are discovering it in
more and more natural objects and
substances. How do our organs
acquire it? From the food we eat.
or from the air we breathe? We
do not know; but possibly the lat
ter alternative is more probable,
since the lungs are verv radio-
That is what science says about
radium.
"Now. since sciente has. spoken
the word for the breath, perhaps
the men and women who have
given no heed to the voice of the
seers will listen and learn the great
FA< -T.
Quantity and Quality of
Blood Depends on Air.
A well known physician said
years ago:
"Excepting troubles resulting
from physical violence, every
physical trouble car. be traced to
the imperfection of blood supply
of the bodv Blood is the agent
that gives life to every cell in the
bodv. and the health of every in
dividual cel! depends on the quan
tity and quality of the blood that
nourishes It
"The quantity and quality of
blood depend on the food and on
THE AIR WE BREATHE.”
Then the doctor fwho is an emi
nent metaphysician as well as a
physician) urges us to drink ‘wo
quarts of pure water daily and to
AVEDXESDAY’. MAX' 8. 1912.
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
(Copyright, 1912, by American-Journal-Examiner.)
BREATHE. BREATHE. BREATHE
often, deep!?’ and long.
I'eep breathing acts as a mes
sage for the internal organs.
Too great stress pan not be laid
on the important part the MIND
PLATS in stimulating the organs
of the body to perform their
proper functions, he says again.
Here is a part of his mental for
mula :
"I am breathing in the air: it is
reaching every part of my lung
cells. It is creating good, rich
blood and supplying every part of
my body. Health is my birthright.
I am obtaining it from the life es
sentials. nutritious food, pure wa
ter and fresh air."
The physician insists that this
mental assertion, made with the
deep breathing and the partaking
of pure food, will benefit every in
valid and eventually cure any mal
ady.
Thought is a positive dynamic
force that takes form in action.
But he adds:
THE BODY REQUIRES THE
LIFE ESSENTIALS—AIR. FOOD,
WATER—AND ALL THE AFFIR
MATIONS OR AUTO SUGGES
TIONS OFFERED BY NEW
THOUGHT WILL NOT CURE
UNLESS the physical body is given
proper attention."
And, first of all, comes BREATH
as a life essential.
Here is a Good Rule for
Deep Breathing.
Here is a rule for deep breath
ing:
Take a full. Long, deep breath,
that extends the chest and the ab
domen.
Then hold the chest distended
and let the breath go out by draw
ing the abdomen in and up. N
Repeat this exercise seven times,
and not less than three times,
daily.
This exercise, done while walk
ing. is earnestly recommended:
Breathe through the nostrils:
AND MAKE THE MENTAL AS
SERTIONS OF HEALTH AND
PHYSICAL PERFECTION WITH
EACH BREATH
Here is a Rosary to use in
breathing. Say mentally:
This fresh air I am breathing in
is RADIUM.
It contains undreamed of power
to rejuvenate, heal and strengthen.
It is filling my whole system; and
driving out every undesirable con
dition. It is bringing me health,
quiet sleep and pure blood. It is
making my mind, clear, and en
abling me to do and have what
ever I wish.
Think of your breathing exer
cises as SCIENTIFIC methods of
obtaining and keeping health.
Give Deep Breathing
a Thorough Trial.
Remember science has declared
that the human body is radio
active. And that the lungs must
draw in the qualities in the atmos
phere which produce this wonder
ful thing, radium, we know.
The brain, which is the seat of
radium, must be fed by the blood;
i and blood must be produced by
air: and air must be pumped into
the veins by BREATH.
Therefore, whatever your belief,
or lack of belief, whatever your
malady, or trouble, give deep
breathing a trial-.
Take the exercise three times a
day for one month, never missing
one day or one time.
Make your mental assertions
while you breathe.
And then take mental and physi
cal stock of yourself at the end of
that time, and see If you are not
richer in health, in strength, in
mind and in happiness.
THE HOME PAPER (
Dr. Parkhurst’s xArticle
on
The Three Items of Ex
pense of Strikes
—and—
The Way Canada Deals
With Them
"Written For The Georgian
By the Rev. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst
THE Canadian method of deal
ing with strikes is one that
we could wisely afford to
imitate.
It need not be repeated that as
at present conducted and fought
out strikes are an expensive and
repulsive feature of our economic
condition, and. judging from Cana
dian experience all this expensive
ness, or by far the larger part of it,
might be avoided.
Strikes involve three items of
expense: expense to the owners,
expense to the operatives, which is
most grievous of all in its imme
diate results; expense to the
genera! public in the way of dis
turbing the equilibrium of pro
duction and trade.
.Now, in Canada they do things
differently.
Strikes occur there, but they are
not allowed to continue a running
sore, draining month after month
the vitality of the body politic,
using up acquired wages, intruding
on acquired capital and producing
a general state of uncertainty and
unsettlement.
The Canadian government five
years ago passed a law forbidding
The Whole Earth Is Not
Too Great a Tomb
No Matter Where the Dead Lie on This Little Globe,
They Are in the Almighty’s Hand.
Bv GARRETT P. SERVISS
THE hearts of many women,
whose husbands, fathers or
brothers helped them aboard
the Titanic’s lifeboats, and then,
with resolute, souls, scorning the
example of the head of the White
Star line, turned back to the
sinking decks and waited for a
death from which they could not
escape with honor, are troubled by
the thought that their dear ones
now lie. in their last sleep, a thou
sand miles away from home "in the
deep bosom of the ocean buried.
It Is a natural feeling which has
been shared by millions in ali
times. The family tombs that
mark our cemeteries and the
"campo santos" of Italy, as they
marked the highways approaching
ancient Athens and imperial Rome,
are a token of the strength of the
sentiment, which prescribes that all
the members of a family shall, as
far as possible, repose in the same
soil, remaining within touch in
death as they were in life. It arises
from the religious instinct and is
connected with the belief in human
immortality. In Christian lands it
denoted a feeling that, when the
last trump shall sound, those, who
have lived in one another’s pres
ence should rise AND STEP
FORTH TOGETHER to receive the
sentence of the Final Judge. It
was a sentiment acknowledged
even by the American Indians, as
is shown by the dying words of the
famous Iroquois chief. Red Jacket;
"I do not wish to rise among pale
faces. I wish to be surrounded by
red men."
Still, it is a feeling whose de
mands can not always be respected
by events, and there exists a wide
and deep consolation for those who
must see it violated by the infi
nitely varied chances of terrestrial
life. This consolation comes from
reflection upon the LITTLENESS
OF THE EARTH. Let her whose
husband, son or brother went to
his death under the chill iceberg, in
a sea two thousand fathoms deep,
look upon this earth not as the
geographer regards it, a vast and
mighty globe, whose bulk blots out
half the sky, but rather as the as
tronomer sees it, a little speck
floating in space, too insignificant,
in a physical sense, to attract the
least attention from eyes that
range over the limitless universe!
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the ordering of any strike or lock
out till the grievance involved or
supposed to be involved had been
submitted to an official board of in
vestigation, on which there shall be
representatives of the two parties
in conflict.
The Canadian law does not forbid
strikes, but requires their post
ponement till a determined official
effort has been made to effect an
adjustment.
It is claimed that a 90 per cent
reduction in the number of actual
strikes has been effected by this
policy, economizing millions of dol
lars to employers and employees,
and securing a better condition of
feeling than would otherwise be
possible between the capitalists and
working men.
This system of procedure wrongs
no one. compromises no one’s inter
ests and allows the wheels of enter
prise to continue running. A move
ment outside of our country, which
has more than justified itself by
five years of mutually beneficent,
results, ought to find advocates and
imitation on this side of the Cana
dian frontier.
There are ultra-microscopic be
ings to whom a grain of sand would
seem as huge and prodigious as
this globe appears to us; but if
their fate and that of their grain of
sand were under our control we
would smile pityingly to see them
striving, even in death, to keep to
gether lest some of them should be
overlooked and forgotten in the
final accounting. For. no matter
on what side of their wee world
they might lie. they could not be
lost, or even separated, since the
whole grain would lightly repose, a
mere atom, in the hollow of the
protecting hand. Such a speck of
sand—and infinitely ] ess than such
a speck—is the earth in the hand of
Him who created it and the bound
less universe round it. What are a
thousand miles, or a thousand
thousand miles, to that Great Ar
tificer. of the Heavens who set plan
ets revolving around suns in paths
billions of miles in length and made
unnumbered millions of suns to
blaze in galaxies whose riches no
telescope can fathom and who
lights up other galaxies and sys
tems in those outer depths which
the swift couriers that tread the
luminiferous ether are too wearied *
to traverse? And what is the film
of the ephemeral sea to the meas
ureless, bottomless, eternal deeps
of all-enveloping space?
Wherever we live and wherever '
we die. on this mite of a planet, we
are always TOGETHER AND IN
SEPARABLE in the Eye of the In
finite One, as the ultra-microscopic
inhabitants of the grain of sand
would be indivisible to our wider
vision.
Pericles had a glimpse of this
great truth when he declared in his
famous funeral oration that “the
whole earth is the tomb of ■ illus
trious men.’’ The illustrious men
of whom he spoke were those who
had given their lives for their coun
try on the battlefields of Attica,
just as the illustrious men now be
fore our mental vision are THOSE
WHO SANK WITH THE SHIP,
THAT THE WOMEN AND CHIL
DREN MIGHT STILL LIVE But
Pericles felt, as we do. that the
great law is universal, agd that the
whole earth is not too wide a tomb
to keep safely, and beyond any
chance of loss, all who sink to rest
in honor and with clear spirits
anywhere upon its bosom.