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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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By THE GEORGIAN «’<»MPAXY
At ‘JO East Alabama St., A’G-tni.i, Ga
Entered as -c. -Hass mallei a: p■••uoffe at Atlanta. under act <•( March 3. 1873.
How Long \\ ill Atlanta
Continue to Dally
W ith Death?
Th° finur.c' < ommitt t of cniin'"! promise- Io take final action
thi. aUrrnooii on tlir qii" : mn ol’ g;irhatr> - disposal.
Ti" 11 ventures Io Itrialhc 111'- hope ihal there will lie
action and that it will be final.
The mailer -. one of vital impm lane not merely of yqeat im
portance. I>nt \ I I \l< importance lor it concerns Ide ami death.
11 has bo n a VITAL quest on for three ; cars. Ami for
thr< > ear- '1 has been dmltred and postponed and considered
and i<oinn’i"r"ti ami ref' r> «l and re in-f.-rred until it has become
a L'll.'isli;
Tin phase ■ ■ t|p question which has recently been the cause
01 wraijehno and deias is wlrllr-r or not the city shall accept the
bid o’ I >ci ie :o < onipan,' of X'evv York, to creel a crematory
in a i edaoc with tin plan- and specifications nnan 1 imnisly fa
vored hi tin board of health In! I'l eoiil ili' lliletl by 1 )r. Rudolph
Hirim.’ tile sanitation '\pcrl employ'd Io the eity-to devise a
garhae, <li-o ■ I seh' iw lb ■ i ompatty others to erect and equip
a pla'- ior 'h" som of t-1 fo.ttia>
IT" 'in lie .o ii 'iill1■ •• ot ■ ■mell li;■ Imld np act mn lor w eei
in h op> • „ r i ' ,-| 11 x,i cheap i plant which shall be more nr less
sal is bo lon
The fin.mi i lommitiee's w'll-ineaniiiw interest in economy ha.
brol.:-m out in th' - wrciiw place. The * ieortrian bnlioves.
flu' tiii.'m l ' en i ii'ii it I• e ha. no >.p eial knowledge ol modorii
;..not.o i nieihod'. and 1 h»• i>• t■»ha no fitness to reject the garbage
di po d plan ipcli har eln cti decided on In iinanimoii i econi
no ml, i! ii ip ill the hoard "I' health and "I the eit.v s employed r.X-
I" i !
Th' om dntv the finance committee has had has been to al
tend tn tin limine detajks of idosnm .in the most expeditions and
pconornical maiim r possible. the contract lor erctino sm - h a dis
posal plant as llu board of health and the city's expert hare rec
emineiided
This duty it has mH yet met squarely.
Ininn'diate action is what the city needs.
Atlanta has been dallying with death long enough.
| W oman Suffrage—and a
Lew Silly Falsehoods
Buried
All Women Will Vote Soon And an Excellent Thing It Will
Be for the Country and for the Human Race Generally.
When the steam locomotive, pulling cars on rails, first came be
fore tin public, sad 1 lunes were predicted
WHi informed ''seientists ' declared that human beings would
be killed :f they were drtiggd along for ;in.v length of time at such
a I right fill speed as twenty miles an hour
W ' know now that they can go one hundred miles ;tji hour
ami w ilhout danger.
It was also said that sp etators along the tracks w hen the train
vent l>y would be killed by the frightful' rush of air. ami that it
would i" Jiecessar.v Io build high stone fences along the railroad
Ail that foolisliiiess disappeared as soon as the railroad really
began to WORK
When the sewing machine was invented, it was said that wom
en would be put out of work ; that where a hundred w omen made a
living with the tieedie, there would be work enough for only ten
with the sewing machine. The first man who invented the sewing
machine was persmub'd I'.v his wife to break up the model in order
not to ruin the poor women.
But with the sewing machine there are more women employed
at sewing than ever before-- ten to one.
Wli ti the spinning jeuny came along, ami \rkw right, the in
vent"; add"d thousands of millions to the wealth ol the world
and clothed th ■ population of the world, fools declared that work
ingin'Oi would be ruined and deprived of labor. It was necessary to
d" tlw v\ork inside of fortified factories to prevent ignorant work
ingmen from destroying the machinery.
Xov.. where one man was employed more than ten are employ
ed. and the wages are much higher.
This byway of preface to the things that idiotic opponents of
vv "mail suffrage have been saving about the woman s vote
Wv were told first that women would vote tn a sentimental,
foolish wav . ‘hat tie \ would be coni rolled by fancies, mH by com
moii sens.
We find. n"w that women actually ARE voting, that they vole
very much as tin imu do. except more conscientiously and more
t fjeU v
j'hey voie jus! .- bouJ v-. men do. sanely, honestly.
u vv a s x, inal .■iftei women got the liaitot llli'.\ \\ <•! LI)
Xt’Tl SE IT. The pri'dict mn was made that women wcmldn t take
th<‘ trouble 1o vote.
But now vvi'iii'ii ARE voting. \ml we find that in < alifornia.
for instance, m proportion to 'heir numbers, more women than men
went to tie polls In oth'-r words, out of one hundred women and
ope hundred im u the p n1 g' .' women sufficiently interested
to vote whs greater than the percentage o>' men.
It was mourtifullv predicted also that attendance at the polls
would be very degrading to 'he vvoim ti -
lt was said that rowdies ;nd roughs, and the Hower •'' rotten
political organizations. would insult the women, ami that no re
spectable woman 'mild go to tip pie is m sa! etv
But now women ARI' voting, ami we find that their atiendam-'
at the polls improves tin loiw ot the voting' plan
’l’hc fact is that women going to tn. pol - are 1 real'll emu
tcouslv bv the volet s, evil bv th" all emlaii Is. usually represent mg
a pyct 1 v low class of politica: heelers
An<l instead of women being degrad'd bv '"ting, th' - voting
place and the voting pm ib g' at. .-h".,it'd and mad- b.tt.r bv tin
pr. ■ Cos vv """'ll
Wotu'U art all going to vote \nd wlpu the,' all v"tv, the <
- —— Continued m Uiit-r
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The Atlanta Georgian
THLKSDAY. MAY 23. 1912.
THE DEMON OF WAR
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AS HE RIDES OVER THE BATTLEFIELD HE RIDES IN THE HUMAN HEART.
(One of a series of famous paintings by Kranz von Stuck that appear in the <‘osmopolitan Magazine
for Hum from vv Iwch this picture is. by permission, reproduced.!
Bv GARRETT P. SERYISS.
I I F| 111 the |.» imi ion of th"
\ \ < usmoroiit:• n Miguzin-.
Ibero i- reproduced above
from its dune miniltei. one of the
remarkable paintings with which
the great German aril :t. ITanz. von
Stuck, makes tin world shudder at
its own reflection. 'l’ll picture is
j called "AAar"
Over the awful "bioorly angle" of
seme field where men. mode in the
image of God. have a’lpealod to the
dtaadful arbitrament of the word,
rides; a personification of th" spirit
of minder, astride upon a bea t
which is half itoi.se. half portent
and trampling down the broken
bodies and limb of the fallen.
Greet, square-ia w ed. with deep
merciless ei rs. and out -t hrn t, tin
pitying face, with muscle- leno
and lame upon shoulder, tlm tider
moves stiatght onward, untroubled
br the agonies of that field of
slaughter, but gazing forward, with
fi.-r. . i agern. ss, to some otltei
Aeeldan •. w limli hi'- pt ophet ie vi
sion fol I sees
B< isl and rldei arc one. In I hem
the artist has embodied all the
groat war-makers of all limes Cy
rus, t’ambrs.-, Alexander. Hanni
bal, Seipin, .Mat ins Sulla, < "aesa
Belisarius. Attila, Charlemagne,
'l’.'i nmrlane. Xapoh'im and that
dr. ad field of nameless torture is a
siimm ■ ■ mu. a < olh itii e glimpse, tut
integi.il of Marathon. Thermopylae.
\: b- a. i’ann.i'. Zama. Cvnose- p
halae A<si a. Phut -alia. Philippi,
Chitions. freer. I.Utzon. Blenheim.
X.is, |>\ Piiltowa. Kunerfiorf. Aus
terlitz. .lensa I' iedland. Waterloo.
Gettysburg. Sedan
I A'l the: "gtorr" is summed up
; t pel o’ Does t lie pi ide of r.iee thrill
t \<m as ion look up l mit ?
It is tm exaggeration of the lint -
-ors of war. Kvcrj soldier knows
I ; tint is a faithfill pu tm • It
shows what General Sherman meant
. a.- n he io. ar. that 'W .Alt IS
H I <l.l. '
T ;< |. mtn,B tells the store of
pair glory a< no words eoul.t
It b ng- mo. elements, that can not
do-e. ib'-il in S| a ' writing
! - , Pli’TI'RE GIISPHI. "I'
PEACH which should be held be
fore >t'. ores of .-u-n rub" ami
everr people who are i-'mptcri t"
in ok- wat to settle their di«T- ' -
on. «
V. At; is Till-: GB'l AT I'll’ 'll A-
- II; Tm 'V ip. I -hll'ldm s p
it ,vb< n ii !•' ’hu (i'srlo-Cfi in !’ ■
II ■, . 1 1 < • I• i ’ w ’ tb- !
..... • i nfo; •unH' l’ ’vi
. ..if < | ;vr> > b*”h 1 ' hat
i il uu uuuwn and
ton the \r r\ next lime md that
time mat ho \< i \ nrar that i
heard tip' . i»i» it sHi rins drum, th*
•< re;tminsx fife, th*' thrilling * all of
tho bugle .iiid the Ihund-T *»f min.
going into action.* It will fade
<twa\ in the blinding flash of the
ba.von»ts. the flutter of th** red
haltlo flag- and the glitter of the
epaulet 1 os. and flashing
sword.* Was tli' i*' e\er : uch an
other *l* i *l’l »ve demon hidden In
(ini' rating flowcif as thi: nionst-’r
\V AG :
l-liit < fin nlci the put lire < I"
P*'iid*'t upon it. ami you will p* r
<*ive that it is not m* :i l> a battle
field which is r* pr* sent rd. It is 11m
minor 1 i* ■ "f the huma n It*' 11 I
when maddened by th*' lust *»f blood
Lli.t! i th* l‘» displaxed That dt* ad
num nt (ra m plr on in * \ *r\ .•*u i
where i * «i. *»n ami inert \ have ma*l*’
plav .• for the "light ing spirit" the
idril which said in South Afri <
i
w hen greed <»f g 'in Hid of rule rod*’
d«*w n a p* n *Tnl people "\\ a<t* n*>
lime in lisi* , n'ing, hut EIGHT."
wlin h says |oda\ in -trii ken ,\l< x
i< o. when rival ambition: and dis
cordant ideas rome in! •• < ontlict :
No argument' No words’ Away
w ith l*»gi* i lx I Li/ SI ~\ Y "
Th* spirit of war w ill ne\. : ho
The Dictagraph
Bv Ml XX A IRVING.
"IT T I-: dai' net luiV" .1 i|iii, i game
I \/A <if piikci on the sly.
VV.- da "■ nut ki.“S a pretty girl
VV h, ii not a sclil is c.igli.
VV" dare nxt talk ;ib"tit "in fr "lids.
Or iell a .i"k". "r laugh.
Because ii may he lurking non
’l'll,' tattling di- t.igi'.iph
,\" iai ks !'■ hind tin t,- b:" li
Xm i,i - • f ill Is,'h""t.
X, ■ g,,s- ip at Iw .- u I'll' ,■!ub
VV hi'i " g- --m tin rui \
: | - .. auv |d.i, ■ ill" lull it l"a\ 1,
\, - I ", g • a ; t' V i II f.
- r,. ;i "1"..-, . ll.n y* , ■ a I
The iruthful du tagrapl,
VV lien li ’ gli l • - ' ' it.- st i' rv v■ i .
Vnd -a • ' I" 'I
X,, ii>"i" bll l 11 11 , 1 •' " '
For tiurgtai- grim ami do id
: Bill in a fulli r a> i -1: ■■ ' ,'l
Tiie <up "f tVa: «" miafi':
VV ■ I""k behind the ;■ a ur, frami .-
To find a dictagraph.
I d iik. speak "" ii'.iwi ab,>m
Tin man h" first c,.n. , ii ol
i Tliis on- ei"n- ini' "Ila r li"\
Thi .p' t li.i. ha nv poo ol
I 1,-1 like ", "1. ■ " Im" m ' daa a
\,,.l |,:O ■ 111
I , uk, but 1"i b' I' mai !>, i, ar
I I'ht till-tale ".ad = :apt'
uhdued until it ha' first been over
' mne in the individual minds of
men. I suiv it flaming up hut the
other dav in a city street, in the
shadow of a great public school.
Iwo hoys, just from
iheir bunks, were disputing. Their
elders and GROWN MEN gather
'd about tlicni to separate them?
1" advise them to reason over their
difference'.’ NO! TO PRGE THEM
I'' I’lGH'l ITOI'T. Men did that!
Men, some of whoni had children
"f their own. They formed a ring.
The, cheered on the fight. They
laughed when blood was brought.
Anri the two boys, mere infants,
rolled in the gutter, striking, bit
ing. tearing at each other with
ibnioniac faces, unlit, exhausted,
they i"-', with bleeding cheeks
and ruined garments, to go Jiome
m sharne and tears to their
walling mothers Some day, per
llap as a i'suit of that experience,
thev will go io i broadei and blood
ier field never to come back.
In tiie hearts of those men urging
"ii the battle nf the innocents th"
iiglx tiglire nf ttic painting on his
nameless beast was trampling over
the slain and tin- dying! They were
doing their best to breed new vic
tims for wqr b.c encouraging the
spirit "f fighting instead "f the
-I ii it of pear" and of reason.
It-is education that accomplishes
all things in this world, but educa
tion works with disheartening de
liberation. The race has struggled
I i inf u’ly upward during countless
ecu: uric.and still the grip of the
war demon is strong upon its neck.
VV • pi '.uh pear, , lint the hunter
"f biood rides -teadily on--first in
>m: lie.iris, then over the field of
-Ii lighter.
VVa talk of the pai ifx ing influence
of |.i"pareilness f"i wai. and we are
iic!" Tiie .ig,' -till demands that
1 pi, pa ati"ii. But w must not lose
-ieni >f the iieailieious nature of
: ..ii with vliicli w' are dealing. It
- i |oi -ii whii h onlv tin greatest
skill and camion r an safely handle.
Ti' tie, i-site for Ils use must be
,-|.,hl'.. v. iselv eliminated VV can
not vet dismiss the demon, but we
on minilv his influence by strip
ping him "I his deception- VVe can
. 1 I'-ieh otir i iiildren and our chil
dren's iliiliren the true horror, the
A US' >l.l TH XTI PIDITV of war
and lighting, vv'e ran exorcist the
;■ mon. IF VVF. VV 11.1. In the mean
while Hi,- great, teirible painting
T stitdt' will b" foi all who study
o . I |'SS"X i’F TEA I '!, and a
■, ,q ~f iio v. ■ hrd fo' time
■ itn i'ii">|i hall learn vvar
THE HOME PAPER .
The Annual Tragedy
There is something else to talk about except politics. The late cold
snap is reported to havr seriously damaged the Georgia peach crop
Darien Gazette.
By HOMER KNOTT.
THE melancholy days have come,
The saddest of the year.
The annual slaughter now is on—
Dear friends, let s drop a tear'
t
The good old peach crop, once again
Must be laid in its grave.
Ob. kick it firmly in the slats;
No one its life may save!
For years and years, it s been this way—
Each spring we kill the crop.
For years and years it will go on—-
Naught can its fate estop.
Though some things live for centuries,
And some things die —well, never!
The good old springtime peach crop dies
Forever and forever!
NEVERTHELESS—
Gentle reader, lift your eyes.
And these sage words remember:
Peach crops that die in budding spring
Come hack in sweet September!
The Eternal Longing
Rv BEATRICE FAIRFAX'
r f is. quite the fashion of late to
■ay that the life of the spinster
is happier than that of the wife
There Is almost a revolution on
the question of marrjing. Some
generations ago it was said of a
girl-child: "When she marries." It
is now said: "If she marries." and
it is quite th® thing in circles re
garded as progressive to imply a
doubt that she will, and a hope
that she won't
Rut all this agitation, this new
way of thinking, can never change
the fashion ordained when th"
world began
And that fashion was to love, to
marry, to bear children and tq have
a home.
It is the eternal longing In every
heart that Is truly feminine And
because it ts Hie eternal longing,
an,, a desire planted there by na
ture. and which no new order of
thinking can entirely uproot. I ask
sympathy for the girl who writes
me the following appeal:
"I am twenty years of age. and
very, very - discouraged. 1 live in
the heart of the East Side, where
none but foreigners abide. 1 am
perfectly Americanized, having re
ceived a good education, and I now
hold a very good position But I
have very little chance of meeting
nice young men to my liking. .Most
of those .with whom 1 come in con
tact are foreigners who are non"
too refined, and it appears that I
am destined to be an old maid,
which I very much dread, as in.'
one aim in life is a home of my
own. with everything (hat gdc. l with
it in lhe way of blessings. What
am 1 to do?
DISt OUR A GED B(’SI N ESS
GIRL."
I can hear in fancy the voices of
those who advocate the new order
of things saying in very strident
tones, "You can thank heaven you
arc free, and have no man to tyran
nize over you!"
Doesn't Want To Be Free.
Bui the girl doesn't want to be
free! She is free now. to tome and
go as she pleases. She is free t"
spend her money without quibble
or question. She is free to her own
opinions. She is free to dress as
she desires. without disturbing
thoughts of the money being need
ed for flour or bacon. She is free
to indulge her longings ’or the
beautiful without hampering mem
ories of the needed prosaic.
She is free for all these joys, and
more. But she doesn't enjoy her
freedom.
' Woman Suffrage—and a
Few Silly Falsehoods
Buried
’Continued From First Column.
that are in office WILL BE COMPELLED TO THINK <»!-’ WOM
EN AND THEIR NEEDS AND THEIR OPINIONS.
Those in office will realize that woman s first thought i of th®
children, and the children will fare better.
Women will destroy the vice in the great cities as rapidly as
that can be done.
Women, for the sake of children, will light child labor and
kill it.
Women, for the sake of children, will improve the parks, in
crease the playgrounds, see that the streets are clean—and poli
ticians. knowing that these are the things that women demand,
WILL GIVE THEM EAGERLY.
Do what you can to hurry along votes for women.
Tell the woman who opposes female suffrage that she is simply
like the very dullest among the negro slaves before the war th y
didn't want liberty, they wanted to stay and be treated kindly by
'old Massa
Tell the m®n who oppns® woman suffrage that they ar® to be (
pitied—the class of women with whom tiny h.nc a >.< ijtrd have ■
evidently been of a rather poor kind.
j
/
She prefers the obligations of a
home. She w ould h" happier know
ing sh" must b" home at 5 to get
dinner for a husband than posses
sing the income and tije time to go
where she pleases and eat in a res
taurant w hen it suits her
She longs for tiie joy found only
in sacrifice and obligation. She Is
the kind of a woman who is hap
pier in serving and loving a hus
band than in going through life
w ith less cares and mors freedom
without one.
To "Discouraged Business Girl,”
therefore. 1 would NOT say:
"Tut. tut, child, you don't know
when v on are well off. Rut thoughts
of men oqi of your mind and do
something for the world!"
I would not say that tn th® girl.
She is lonesome now. How much
more lonesome she would he if she
started out with this longing in her
liTart for a little nest of her own
crushed by the newer fashioned
ambition to save the world'
What She Should Do,
I would counsel her to keep her
Ideal, her hope, her ambition and
never let Hie newer fashions
change it.
I would suggest that she become
interested in some church or so
cial organization on the West Side,
whore -ho would moot voting men
cf her own nationality.
I would urge that -In gui d her
ideal sairedlv. and that until the
man who (its it coni' along she re
fuse to take any.
And I would ask her to know.'
that if Hie prince of her dream.?
never materializes, lu ing an old
maid isn't such a terrible fa"-
There are happy old maid-: ihcre
are useful old maids, and there arc
"Id maids who have built "ar them
selves happy homes, without any
man to help or hinder.
I would ask her to remember
that, w hile she w ishes "a home and
all the blessings that go with it."
on" should knov. all are not bio; -
lugs.
'me w iio become:- a wife must
know that it isn't to be all sunshine.
I would ask "I>iscouraged Bu-mess
Girl" to feim'inbei that.
And. at the last. 1 would urge
her always in bear in mind that
happiness is independent of lhe
marriage ring That little gold
band doesn't secure ii. and neither
does it keep it out.
If a woman is happi. useful and
content, if her life is made up of.
more than moans because she can't
change her condition, depends sole
ly upon HERSELF. Il does not de
pend upon having a husband.