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Mothers Are Mankind’s
Teachers
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The World Owes More to It Mothers Than to Any Other Insti
tution or Constitution- Their Lives Are Filled With Devotion
to the Children
• uK’nT • arm i. --*'c in gra ous household ways,
IN V.t j ■ rf>('t tuu but full of trnd'-r wants;
Xo Anti' !, but a dearer bemg. all dipt
In Angel instincts. brcathinv Paradis?.
In*?rpr?t* r between th? gods and own.
Wh? ..k*’d all nafiv' t** her p'a* and yet
On tiptoe '1 t<> touch upon a sphere
1.-.,, gros- to tr* ad. and al) uni* minds perforce
Swaied t<> her from their orbits as they moved.
And girdled b*r with mibir. Happy he
With such a mother I Faith m womankind
Beats witii his blood, and trust in all things high
Comes easy to him. and th'*' he trip and fall
H> shall not blind his soul with day. "
SOME<»\I ba- -aid --n-i'. I could not be everywhere, He
made mothers \ trm m. not merely a figure of speech.
A mother is a borne maker. And a true home is a haven of
refuge and a foreta-te of heaven.
A mother >s t!> universal teacher From her the child
Irarm- ■d- '■> rdk and to pra; Ry her he is taught the
meaning and the pradi"? ot all the virtues
Ihr world ow. - umro to its mothers than to an; other
sourer or n*-t itut i*»n th it has e- er .-xistrd.
Not that tbrr ar? m good fathers in the world. There are,
and many of them
Rot the relation of a mother to her child is o close and inti
mate that, alike from circumstances of early association and
from the peculiar physical relationship which exists between a
mother and her child, no one else < an. or does, wield such an in
fluence as slw
Tim profession of a mother u not only the most sacred and
Useful one in the world it is the most exacting and responsible
one This can be said without the least hesitation or reservation.
It is exacting to tin last degree
The constant care of a child through the long and anxious
'ears of infancy is a task to which there is no vacation or ehang"
or relaxation Eternal vigilance is tin price all mothers pay lor
health' children \nd all mothers go down to the valley of the
shadow ere they become such
Sacrifice .s their *laily lot. health, beaut', tune, pleasure,
and all that appeals to a young woman must be given up to the
tod. da.' and night of caring for h> Ip 1 ■-> ami um-ons.-imis in
farm,'. Life itself often hangs in the balance.
And a* t lie e,i i - go on. even ;f (not her ami child grow si rotig
and well, it falls to the mother to gunb the child mlo the right
wa's of living a I'esponsibilit' that tew imm are called upon to
share, and w ith which no business man is ever loaded down, how
e'er exacting the nature of his varied undertakings
It is not only an arduous and responsible post, involving in
credible sacrifice, but it is ill paid, ami ill reiputed in far too many
cases
Children. "•■ all know, are unthinking creatures I'hey take
much ami demand much. How many repay a mother's care with
an'thing like the love and service it deserves 100 often the
mother's virtues find adequate eulogy mil,' upon her tombstone:
Let all men. husbands and fathers, joint with her children
and "'arise up and call her blessed to her face and bring the
• snub ami the light to her eyes. A mother 's av erag - day i- a
hard one at best Let all mm mai* t brighter and easier for
her all da's and e'er,' da'.
How often do we hear soni" not' ,I man bear this testimony .
“Whatc'cr I haw .*r hav« done that - worth while 1 ow> it to
nr mother* '
Happv thr son who tells hi- mother that while she is living!
Happv the mother who receives the tribute from her children
that she deserves.
What -hall a daughter do to honor her mother nr her mom
or'
Sin should aim at tin cultivation of all that makes woman
hood attractive and tis'fnl Not by exacting tribute by appeals
to dn io- In virtu* of hereditary position as the weaker ves
sei But In a devotion to those ;di ils which properly belong to
her a- ’h- i-mbod m.'iit of th finer grace- of mmd ami of spirit
- tho outconu ot tied s second and best thought.
How shall a -on honor Ins mother or her memory ?
Io r' tm mbering if o womanhood is sacred, that the virtue
h* a.->o'nates with his thought or memory of his mother should
furnish th* ground and im-ntive for hrs own personal virtue; by
rem* mbci-oi. that ih*r. is, in God '- sight, only one standard of
virtue for num and women, that b- be true to the single stand
ard in hi- relations with all women, everlastingly true to his
plight**! lumor a husband, giving b*v* am) service, cheerfully
and ungrudgingly . and show ing hi\ airy and unselfishness. un
,<-tiam*d of • xh bit’i'g the attributes ot conduct as well
as th* stronger
A moi an pay m> g*, a s -r ."mip: nwnt to the memory of
his mother than to act toward all "om* n. for her sake, espeeial
|v toward h- ow n wd* as would expect his mother, hi- sis
ter or his own wit* to act
A man wh* ic.i'sth* g.w • *> lif* fairly with his fellows,
because h* has to. should nut fad to play the gain* fa rly w ith
tbos* who.-* r*’iation-nip io him is that of th,* closest affection.
B -o doing h* wo le.em fairness by showing it where it
is not exact* *! by th* -t* rn m ■••■-sit that rule in hit* relation-
ships "uh oth ’■ m*m
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The Atlanta Georgian
THUKSU)AY. MAY 30. 1912.
HE NEVER HAD A CHANCE
That Is What Nine Men Out of Ten Who Are Failures Say. Look Out That You Don't Say It Yourself
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No. 6.
Biixins was stopped, and Yum with his
fighter was left m the lurch. All their jewelry
wen! tn the pawnbroker's. The,' stuck it out for
a week or two. and then were forced to seek em
ploy ment.
Yum wasn't a very smart lad. He hadn't
much time to study, and you know. It wasn't
necessary, anyway, according to his dope, but
now be was up against it.
He finally landed a job in a case as waiter
and entertainer. He was a pretty good singer
FLIES CAN BE ELIMINATED
It Is Man’s’Own Fault if He Permits Myriad-Headed Pest to Spread
Disease.
By GARRETT P. SERYISS.
r-p HE greatest peril of summer
I is not from Heat, but from
flies Man's deadliest enemy
in hot weather ip the innocent
looking, buzzing impertinent, fllth
lovlng house fix . It is * r idled in
unde -.inline.- • fattens upon putrid
ity, and plant, loathsome disease
wherever it Hights These are (iis
agrocahle fact.-, which, like some
other- have to be plainly stated
f"i the good of humanity.
Thief in the House Safer
Than a Fly.
A single fl' breeds more than two
hundred million descendants in 40
days, and everx one of them, if al
low'd to live, becomes a carrier of
typhoid, consumption, fevers, ra
tal rh. plague and every communi
cable disease from which mankind
suffei s.
It is safer to allow a burglar to
go undisturbed into your Silver
closet thin to p-rmit a fly to enter
your kitchen Tou can replace what
the one i irries off but not what
th other takes Your life and
your children are better than your
silver spoons.
Do you think that you can not
get rid of the flies that they are .a
"m -essary nuisance ?" Then listen
to this
THERE ARE St > FEW FLIES
IN BAVARIA THAT THEY CAN
IX X<> WAY BE REGARDED AS
A PEST THIS IS PERHAPS HI E
T<> THE EXTREME CLEANLI
NESS OF BAVARIAN CITIES.
■ .tIRT VARI'S ALLEYS VA-
■ ANT LOTS ALL ARE KEPT
CLEAN AND THE HALLWAYS
AND ENTRANCES OF THE
Ht'l’SES 'RE AS FRESH AS
i SOAP AND W ATER CAN MAKE
I THEM
and knew a bunch of popular songs, and. al
though the pay wasn't just what he thought it
should be. it was as ninth as he could make any
where. He sort of wished now that he had
Stayed in the little town and worked his way up
in business as some of the other lads had done.
The happy days of easy money were gone,
and Yum was on his uppers for fair, doing the
best he could. Xow he longed for the hours he
had wasted in pool parlors, cases and restaurants.
He wished he had studied a bit. read a book or
two, or at least made an attempt to learn a bit.
(To Be ('outinued. i
Perhaps the only error about this
is the statement that the few flies
that do remain can not be regarded
as a pest. Even a few flies are a
pest: even a single one is a po
tential pest, because of its amazing
productivity. But when, by clean
liness, they have>been so reduced
in number it is infinitely easier to
dispose of those that remain.
Every city -hould be rendered as
free from flies as those happy Ba
varian . ton ns. One effective way
■ to do ft was pointed out by an edi
torial in The Georgian just a few
weeks ago Begin the figftr with
the first fly that comes buzzing out
in the spring. Kill him on sight;
don't let him get away I
Produce 12 Generations
In One Summer.
Entomologists have discovered
that a house fly lays on the aver
age of 120 eggs. Within ten days
each egg has become a full-fllodged
fly This second generation, in an
other ten days, produces 14,400 flies.
Ten days later tne third generation
appears, numbering 1,728.000. An
other ten days sw ells the number.to
207.360,0001 All that myriad in 40
days from a single progenitor? In
the course of the summer there are
produced from ten to twelve gen
erations of flies. You can figure
out for yourself the stupendous
number composing the twelfth gen
eration.
The world would be choked with
flies if this went on uninterrupted
ly. but nature has shown some
merer to the other inhabitants of
th. earth. The average life of a
fly is but a few- weeks. Nearly al!
die off. quite suddenly, with the
approach of cold weather. It Is
not the cold that puts an end to
them, but their filthy habits. To
ward the end of the season they
are attacked by multitudes of mi
nute red mites which slay them in
myriads. Fungous disease seize
them about the same time, and
their hosts melt away' under the
attack.
Wintering Flies Should Be
Killed Like Snakes.
Yet some escape and live through
the winter, stowed away in con
venient cracks and < orners. par
ticularly in warm houses and barns.
A wintering fly should never be
suffered to live. They ought to
be hunted out like torpid rattle
snakes.
It is not from these hidden flies,
however, that most of the multi
tudes that suddenly appear with
the first warm weather arise. They
are horn from the eggs that have
been deposited by the last autumn
generation in piles of refuse. It
does not suffice merely to cover up
such breeding grounds of flies.
Full-fledged, new-born house flies
have been seen issuing in the spring
from the surface of a pile of sand
FOCR FEET DEEP with which
the eggs had been covered. If such
places can be thoroughly disinfect
ed eggs may be killed.
- Remember that whenever you kill
a fly you may be saving a human
life. Don't let its innocent look,
its sporting proclivities, its com
radely manners, its amusing impu
dence. deceive y ou. ' Beelzebub is
the father of flies." and flies are the
infernal agents of Death in some
of h’s m ist insidious and dreadful
forms.
THE HOME PAPER
| The Only Democra,t
By ELBERT HUBBARD.
i Copyright I’l2. International News
Serve e.
* BOVE al! things this age
ZA stands for t'-mi'frani e. in
dustry. eeonomi ■ efficiency.
The parasite and th*- barnacie were
never in such bad repute as they
are today
Men who insist on throwing mon
ey to the English sparrows supply
amusement, but they do not corri-
I mand respec t.
E*:r the first time in the history
of th" wor'-i we arc- ae-itating the
prop s:C n of tett i'g government
on a business *>nsi.-. V" . .f- elim
inating the finnn"'!’ s! i k and
taking up lost m >ti* n
The highest ambit ■ n of e r erv
I go d ic.i.-inrss man mV: ,s ta be
I
a g*ied publir servan*. and this
was th' ccntrcllinp impulse in the
he ' so Thomas J'-ffrrson.
Thomas Jefferson carried no ex
cess baggage. He was 5 feet io and
weighed l.V> pounds. He u; d all
the bod- he had.
He r de hoissback until his
eightieth year-. Two particular
horses that he owned and loved
have come down to us in history.
One is Wildare and the other is
Eagle
This horse Eagle Thomas J-ffer
son rode up the hill to the capitol.
There he tied old Eagle to a post
and went in and took the oath of
office as president of the United
States. Not only did he do this
once, but four years later he did
the same thing, riding the same
horse.
Was any horse ever so honored
before? To have carried on his
back the kingliest man that Ameri
ica has produced on such a mo
mentous errand, not nnlv once, but
twice—and tw-ice was enough.
The last time that President Jef
ferson took the oath of office he
had to elude a valiant captain of
militia who insisted on acting as
escort for him.
Jefferson simply beat him to It.
and. after taking the oath of of
fice he mounted old Eagle, turned
his head toward the white house
and rode on an easy trot down
Pennsylvania avenue. He met the
escort in bra-s buttons gilt and
braid and feathers coming up rhe
street, looking for their man. Jef
ferson declined their invitation to
turn about and rifle at their head,
circling the capitol, on the plea
that he had work to do.
To him there was something
greater than military display:
something nobler than to make a
noise and attract attention. And
that one thing to him was to serve
humanity.
Jefferson was a groat writer and
had a peculiar, distinct literary
style, all his own. He gave us a
lesson in the use of the period. His
verb always fetches up. He said
things clearly, distinctly, succinctly,
forcibly and well. The idea was
I ATLANTA’S GARBAGE QUESTION
WANTS INVESTIGATION.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
Sir—lt occurs to me as a citizen
that the press of Atlanta is editor
ially neglecting a most serious ob
ligation that 1- due the people in
allowing the discussion concerning
the building of an incinerating
plant to proceed without making
thorough Investigation of the re
spective claims of parties at inter
est. and should it appear consistent
to do so. inform the people with
exhaustive and courageous expos
ure of what interested claimants
may attempt to foist on the tax
payers of Atlanta.
To the point: There are two con
cerns seeking a contact with the
citv to destroy hei garbage, the
New York Destructor Company,
[ with an elastic proposition of
i $276.n00 to S44LOOn. according to
speculative estimates as to what
uses the plant may be put to in the
future, and the Forsythe Garbage
Incinerator Company, whose pro
posal is fifty or sixty thousand dol
lars. based, on a simple and practi
cal plan of destroying garbage,
without regard to impractical and
unattainable power benefits that
are securely wrapped in contracts
that the city already has with the
Georgia Electric Light Company.
Now. according to estimates as
to the successful operation of the
Forsythe plant in Atlanta, from
Hon James G Woodward. who
was then mayor, and other city of
ficials who investigated the plant,
its work was not only successful,
but really better than the contract
called for. If this be true, doesn't
it strike the average man that At
lanta is about to throw awav some
$200.04hi or more from a 'lsolated
treasury in order that certain pre
conceived health views may con- •
tinue to sleep in well screened
porches of mental composure?
What are the papers doing as to
protecting the people? True we
want a good plant, bur we don t
clear in his mind, and he had skill
to express it just as clearly on
paper.
He could not make a speech,
however. Ho was no orator. And
th*- few times he attempted to
speak in public he always carried
his manuscript with him There
was one time when he attempted to
make a speech without his manu
script and failed. sitting down
without giving his message.
Jefferson had founded the Uni
versity of Virginia, and the enter
prise was fairly under way when
some of *he students were guilty
cf gross misconduct.
Jefferson believed in th» honor
system. He founded the public
hool system of America on this
idea H» had such faith in human
it* that he believed if the scholars
■core n ztoo much interfered with
that they would do what was right,
best .and proper. Jefferson believed
in the divinity of the child. His
faith was in the ■■demos."
Jefferson said. "That country Is
governed best that is governed
least."
He believed in doing away with
corporal punishment He did not
believe in the death sentence He
did not believe in slavery, and by
his will all of his slaves were
freed. And these slaves he had not
bought: they came to him by in
heritance and were a part of his
family.
But on the particular occasion in
mind, when the boys had forgotten
their better manhood and had vis
ited an indignity in the way of haz
ing on one of their members. Jef
ferson appeared in the assembly
, room of the college and asked the
principal's pe mission tn speak to
the boys. He began by saying.
"Young gentlemen, you are sons of
Virginians”—here his voice falt
ered. he hesitated, again tried to
speak, and. bursting into tears, sat
down.
Nothing thst mortal man could
possibly have planned could have
been more effective. His possible
word of rebuke tn the students was
unuttered, but every one in the
rnnm who had anything to do with
the particular misdemeanors was
humiliated, aba-hed and undone.
Jefferson always enjoyed good
health, and even in his old age, aft
er his eightieth year, nature was
kindly, for Jefferson was a worker
and a thinker to the day of his
death. Jefferson was always gentle,
always considerate. He founded no
Ananias club. He once, said, "No
man is so wholly light that he can
say that any one else is wholly
wrong."
If ever a man grew' old grace
fully. that man was Thomas Jeffer
son. His hope for the race, his
faith in the plain people never falt
ered.
What this country must do is to
catch up with Thomas Jefferson.
want to pay too much. What did
the Montgomery plant cost? How
does the price given Atlanta com
pare with the cost of that plant as
to the relative difference in power
capacity ? These are business ques
tions that concern Atlanta. The
people expect the tax committee to
look into the matter and act as it
would in matters concerning their
own private interests. This com
mittee and council owe direct re
sponsibility to the people.
The board of health. though
made up of most estimable gentle
men. is elected by the city Council,
and therefore responsible to ths
people through ..the city council.
The question of purchase should
rest with the officials who are
elected to care for the tax money
of Atlanta.
Meanwhile the engineer to be se
lected to pass on the plants pro
posed should he accepted to all par
ties concerned. The inspection
should be fair, without prejudice
and by a competent engineer
BENJAMIN M BLACKBURN.
SHOULD ACT AT ONCE,
To the Editor of The Georgian;
Every citizen of Atlanta demands
relief by council from the garbage
nuisance. We have suffered from
it for years We must not suffer
longer.
Atlantan? have always boasted of
the healthfuiness of thee city. It
has been our chief pride. Yet the
crudeness and the filthiness of our
method of disposing of garbage
mocks us. And the evil has in
creased to such an extent that it
should not be tolerated longer.
I would not attempt to advise
council what sort of disposal plant
to build. That is entirely its busi
ness. But they should ai t at once
, and provide some suitable disposal
system. It is false economy to say
the eitj can not afford to buy a
plant. The prote. tion of the health
of its ciHzens is the first duty of a
municipality. L. J.