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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Tub!-ahM F’-*r Astern r Fxr*p» Sunday R THE GEORGIAN < ' »MI \N’Y M L«rt .Y.iham# S’. V'*r-’ « Ga FnTf* a••e* *" d• ' 'it * 1 y> ** * .4 ’ {'■ •*? r V L’-. ■i ’ 1 ’•!<**■ at f f ,'T <d rSS.I ®< 3 SjbMrir* T f-f 4--T’ *rr. B\ nun $S An a ’ ear Mothers Are Mankind’s Teachers », r r 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 TIH - HL BK ' All-- \ TRi F I’AKFXT BFt 'AI'SE HE JLS A I R('F TEAt HFR <»F HI - t 'HH BRFX Ihr i •*«m '-r dotiu, and are d for their cmldr* u • >d*k. 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 Ry TAD i — |T~ '_w -gg — - ■“ - - ** ~~ ~~~ ' Ay*}*, ■ 3- ■v & - I®K k -OB'' SwAy R&i. 11 liS i ! te® A B .'A: j 7- RDr—Try L l Aljl J; r L ‘ •» 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.