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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN F’ublisheri Every Afternoon E>.« rpt Sunday By TH E<J E* -«l \ N ‘)M I' A N Y At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga. Entered as second-class matter at j>*.. t- ff • at. a* tn inder > f March 3. 1873. Subscription Price -Delivered 1 > < arrn»r, '■ ■■* t ’ a week. By mail. So 00 a '.ear Payable in advance. Mothers Are Mankind’s! 1 CciA HCI S •> r » The World Owes More to Its Mothers Than to Anv Other Insti tution or Constitution—Their Lives Are Filled With Devotion to the Children GNT * h arned, save in grai- ous household ways, IN Not perfect. na>. but fnll of tender wants; No Angel, but a dearer being, all dipt. In Angel instincts, breathing Paradise; Interpreter between lhe gods and men, Who looked all native to her place, and yet On tiptoe seemed to touch upon a sphere Too gross to tread, and all male minds perforce Swayed to her from their orbits as they moved. And girdled her with music. Happy he With such a mother! Faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him; and tho’ he trip and fall He shall not blind his soul with clay.” SOMEONE has said; “Since God could not be everywhere, He made mothers.” A truism, not merely a figure of speech. A mother is a home-maker. And a true home is a haven of refuge and a foretaste of heaven. A mother is the universal teacher. From her the child learns to walk, to talk and to pray. By her he is taught the meaning and the practice of all the ■virtues. The world owes more to its mothers than to any other source or institution that has ever existed. Not that there are no good fathers in the world. There are, and many of them. But the relation of a mother to her child is so 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 can, or does, wield such an in fluence as she. The profession of a mother is not only the most sacred ami useful one in lhe world; it is the most exacting and responsible one. This can be said without the least hesitation or reservation. It is exacting to the last degree. The constant care of a child through the long and anxious years of infancy is a task to which there is no vacation or change or relaxation. Eternal vigilance is the price all mothers pay for healthy children. \nd all mothers go down to the valley of the shadow ere they become such. Sacrifice is their daih lot; health, beauty, time, pleasure, and all that appeals to a young woman must he given up to the toil, day and night, of earing for helpless and unconscious in fancy. Life itself often hangs in the balance. And as the years go on, even if mother and child grow strong and well, it falls to the mother to guide the child into the right ways of living a responsibility that few men are called upon to share, and with which no business man is over loaded down, how ever 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, and ill requited in far too many cases. Children, we all know, are unthinking creatures. They take much and demand much. How many repay a mother's care with anything like the love and service it deserves? Too often the mother’s virtues find adequate eulogy only upon her tombstone! Let all men, husbands and fathers, joint with her children and “arise'np and call her blessed” to her face and bring the smile and the light to her eyes. A mother’s average day is a hard one at best. Let all men make it brighter and easier for her all days and every day. How often do we hear some noted man bear this testimony: “Whatever I have or have done that is worth while 1 owe it to my mother?” Happy the son who tells his mother that while she is living! Happy the mother who receives the tribute from her children that she deserves. What shall a daughter do to honor her mother or her mem- | < ory? She should aim at the cultivation of all that makes woman hood attractive and useful. Not by exacting tribute by appeals to chivalry by virtue of hereditary position as the weaker ves sel. But by a devotion to those ideals which properly belong to her as the embodiment of the finer graces of mind and of spirit —the outcome of God's second and best thought. How shall a son honor his mother or her memory? By remembering that womanhood is sacred: that the virtue he associates with his thought or memory of his mother should furnish the ground and incentive for his own personal virtue; by remembering that there is, in God’s sight, only one standard of virtue for men and women, that he lie true to the single sfiind ard in hus relations with all women, everlastingly true to his plighted honor as a husband , giving love and service, cheerfully and ungrudgingly; and showing chivalry and unselfishness, un ashamed of exhibiting the gentler attributes of conduct as well as the stronger. pay g;e;,-r compliment to trie memory of his mother than to act toward all women, for her sake, especial ly toward h’s own wife, as he wouhl Xpert his mother, h>s sis ter or his own wife to act. A man who plays the garni ot life fairly with his fellows, because he has to, should not fail to play the g finil - fairly with those whose relationship to him is that <>f the closest affection. By so doing In will leach fairness I"' showing it where it is not exacted by the stern net ssit es that rub- in his relation ship: with "tber o.n I'HI S HE BEt oMES A TRI E PARENT. BEf AI SE HE ISA ’RLE TEACHER OF Hl> CHILDREN Th. is what all motie r.s have done, and are doing forth. ir ! children t<-da' . I The Atlanta Georgian HE NEVER HAD A CHANCEj That Is What Nine Men Out of Ten Who Are Failures Say. Look Out That You Don't Say It Yourself. By TAI) “ r - mr Bra - 1»W .-Iw: ■iftoi V S' tOtfwy - A lji - lift'* I *W. F v jl / liAl 'IT H 1 ” 1 i No. 6. Boxing was stopped, and Yum with his fighter was left in the lurch. All their jewelry went to the pawnbroker’s. They stuck it out for a week or two, aud then were forced to seek em ployment. Yum wasn't a very smart lad. He hadn't much lime to study, and- you know. It wasn't necessary, anyway, according to his done, but now he 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. SERVISS. cf w 11 l‘t grcates-i |wri! of summer | is not fforn heat, but from files Man’s deadliest enemy in hot weather Is the innocent looking. buzzing, impertinent, filth loving house fly. it Is cradled in unoleanliness. fattens upon putrid ity, and plants loathsome disease wherever it alights. These are dis agreeable facts, which, like some others, have to be plainly stated for the good of humanity. Thief in the House Safer Than a Fly. A single fly breeds more than two hundred million descendants in 40 days, and evetv one of them, if al lowed to live, becomes a carrier of typhoid, consumption, fevers, ca tarrh. plague and every eonimuni cable disease from which mankind suffers. It is safer to allow a burglar to go undisturbed into your silver closet than to permit a flv to - titer your kitchen You can replace wh it the on® carries off. but not what the other takes. Vour life and xour children are better than your silver spoons t’o yea think that you cap not get rid "f the ft’es -thpt gr-. q “nei <■: vary nuisance?" Then listen to this ■THI-KI-. ARE Sti FEW FLIES IN B.W ARI \ CHAT TH ID < AX IX Xt> \\ At IU RHM XRDED VS A REST THIS IS PER HAPS IU E T> > THt EXTREME ‘ I.EAXLI- ’ XI fS <»F HV\ ARIAX i’ITIES. COURT YARDS. ALLEYS VA CAXT LolS. ALL ARE KEPT - I.EAX. VXD THE HALLWAYS AXD F.XTRLXi'KS OF IHE HOU.-l-.s ARE AS ERESH AS SOAP AXD V ATER LAN MAKE THE?' IHI RSDAY. MAY 30. 1912 and knew a bunch of popular songs, and, al though the pay wasn't just what he thought it should he. it was as much as he could make any where. He sort of wished now that he had stayed in the little town and worked his-wav up in business as some of the other lads had done. The happy days of easy money were gune. and Yum was on his uppers for fair, doing the best he could. Now he longed for the hours he had wastefl in pool parlors, cases and restaurants. He wished he had studied a hit, read a book or two. or at least made an attempt to learn a bit. (To Be Continued.) * 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 ate a pest; even a single one is a po tential pest, because of its amazing productivity. Rut when, by clean liness, they have been so reduced in number It is infinitely easier to dispose of those that remain. Every city should be rendered as free from flies as those happy Ba varian towns. One effective way to do it was pointed out by an edi torial in The Georgian just a few weeks ago. Begin the fignr with tile first fix that eomes buzzing out in the spring. Kill hint on sight; don’t let him get away! Produce 12 Generations In One Summer. Entomologists have discovered that a house fly lays lin the aver age of L'fi eggs. Within ten days < ar h egg has beeotm a full-tiledged fly. This second generation, in an other ten days, produces 14.10 n flies. Ten days later tne third generation appeal's, numbering 1.725.000. An other ten l;'-'s swells the number to 207. uta.Don! All that myriad in 40 days from a single progenitor! in th® course of the summet there are produced from ten to twelve gen erations of flies. You can figure out for yroursf It the stupendous number composing the twelfth gen i ration. The world would be rted'd with flies if this went on uninterrupted ly; but nature has shown sone merer to the other 'nhabuants of the earth. The average l.’e of a fly is but a few week.- Nearly al! die off. quite suddenly, with the approach of cold weather. It is not the (did 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 theii hosts melt away binder the attack. Wintering Flies Should Be Killed Like Snakep. Yet some escape and live through the winter, stowed away in con venient cracks and corners, par ticularly in warm houses and barns. \ 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 nfost of the multi tudes that suddenly appear with the first warm weather arise. They are born front the eggs that have been deposited by the last autumn generation in piles of refuse. It does not suffice merely to voter up such breeding grounds of flies. Full-fledged, new-born house flies have oe> n cen issuing in the spring from the surface of a pile of sand FOUR FEET DEEP with which the eggs had been covered. If such places ran be thoroughly disinfect ed eggs may be killed. Remember that whenever you kill t fit you may be saving a human life. Don’t let its innocent look, its sporting proclivities, its com radely manners, its amusing impu dent e. deceive you. "Beelzebub is the father of flies, and fie- are th— infernal agent? of Death In some of his most insidious and dreadful forme THE HOME PARER The Only Democrat By ELBERT HUBBARD. Copyright. 1912. International News Service. ABOVE all things this age stands for temperance, in dustry. economy, efficiency. The parasite and the barnacle were never tn such bad repute as they are todaj. Men who insist on throwing mpn ey to the English sparrows supply amusement, but they do not com mand respect. For the first time in the history of the world we are agitating the proposition of retting. government on a business basis. NVe are elim inating the economic slack and • taking up lost motion. The highest ambition of every grind business man today is to be a good public servant, and this! was the controlling impulse in the heart so Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson carried no ex cess baggage He w as. 5 fe»t 10 and weighed 150 pounds. He used at! the body he had. He rode horseback until his eightieth year. Two particular horses that .he ow ned and loved have-come down to us in history.’ One- is Wildare and the other is Eagle. This horse Eagle Thomas Jeffer 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. V As 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 only once, but twice—and twice-.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 ft, 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 brass buttons gilt and braid and feathers coming up the street, looking for their man. Jef ferson declined their invitation to turn about and ride 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. An<j that one thing to biro was to serve humanity. Jefferson was,a great writer and had a peculiar, distinct literary style, all . his ow n. 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 | ATLANTA’S GARBAGE QUESTION WANTS INVESTIGATION. To the Editor of The Georgian: Sir —It occurs to me as a citizen that the press of Atlanta is editor ially neglecting a most serious ob ligation that is 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 w hat ■ Interested claimants may attempt to foist on the tax pavers of Atlanta. To the point ; There are two con cerns seeking a contract with the city to destroy het garbage, the New York Destructor Company, with an elastic proposition of 1276,000 to $441,000. 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 thf Georgia Electric Light Company. Now. according to estimates as to th® 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 th® average man that At lanta is about to throw away som® $"00,000 or mor® from a deplated treasury in order that certain pre conceived health vi®ws may con- I tinue to sleep tn well screened porches of mental composure? What are the papers doing as to protecting the people'? True we want a good plant, but we don t clear in hia mina. and he had skill to express it just as clearly on paper. He could not make a speech, however. He was no orator And the few times he attempted to speak in public he always carried his manuscript with him. Thera 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 the students were guilty of gross misconduct. Jefferson believed in the honor system. He founded the public school system of America on this idea. He had such faith in human ity that h° believed if the scholars were not too much interfered with that they would do what w as right, best and proper Jefferson believed in the divinity of th° child. His faith was in th* '’demos." Jefferson said. “That country is governed best that is governed least." He believed in doing away with corporal punishment H» 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 bv in heritance and were a part of his family. But on the particular occasion in mind, when the boys had forgotten their better manhorjd and had vis ited, an Indignity in the way of haz ing on one of their members. Jef ferson appeared in th* assembly room of the college and asked the principal’s permission to speak to th» boys. IJr began bv 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 that mortal man could possibly have planned could have been mor® effective. His possible word of rebuke to the students was unuttered. but every one in the room who had anything to do with the particular misdemeanors was humiliated, abashed 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. H® founded no Ananias club He once said, “No man is so wholly right.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 peopl® expect the tax committee to look into the matter and act as ft 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 man, is elected by the city council, and therefore responsible to the 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 be 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 hav® suffered fr®m it for years. We must not-suff-, longer. Atlantans hav® always boasted of the healthfulness of this 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 Rut they should act at on e I and provide some suitable disposal s-'stem It is false r-< onomy to say th® city can not afford to buy a plan'. The protection of the health of its citizens is t?,- Arst duty of t municipality. L. J. DANIEL