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Mothers Are Mankind’s
Teachers
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The World Owes More to Its Mothers Than to Any Other Insti
tution or Constitution—Their Lives Are Filled With Devotion
to the Children.
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UVniT learned, save in gracioufc household ways,
INI Not perfect, nay. but full of tender wants;
No Angel, but a dearer being, all dipt
In Angel instincts, breathing Paradise;
Interpreter between the 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
lie 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. /\nd 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.
Rut 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 onh 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 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. And all mothers go down to the valley of the
shadow ere they become such.
Sacrifice is their daily lot. health, beauty, time, pleasure,
and all that appeals to a young woman must be given up to the
toil, day and night, of caring for helpless and unconscious in
fancy. Life itself often hangs in the balance.
And as the y ears 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 ever 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, ami 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 rare with
anything like the love anil service it deserves? Too often the
mother's virtues find adequate eulogy only upon her tombstone'.
Let all ini>ii. husbands and fathers, joint with her children
and "arise up 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 hoar some noted man bear this testimony :
“Whatever I have or have done that is worth while I 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 t<>
her as the embodiment of the liner 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 persona] virtue; bv
remembering that there is, in Hod's sight, only one standard of
virtue for num and women; that he be true to the single stand
ard in his relations with all women, everlastingly true to his
plighted honor as a husband; giving love and service, eheerfulh
and ungrudgingly : and showing chivalry and unselfishness; un
ashamed of exhibiting the gentler attributes of conduct as well
as the stronger.
A man can pay no greater compliment to the memory of
his mother than to act toward all women, for her sake, especial
ly toward his own wife, as he would < xpeci his mother, his sis
ter or his own wife to. act.
A man who plays the game of life fairly with his fellows,
because he has to, should not fad to play the game fairly with
those whose relationship to him is that of ihe closest affection.
By so doing he will teach fairne-s by showing it where it
is not exacted by the stern necessities that rule in his relation
chips with other men
THI S HE BECOMES A TKIT PARENT. BECAI'SE HE
IS A TRI E TEACHER OF HIS i HILDRFN
This is what all mothers have d .mu. and are doing for their
children toda*-
The Atlanta Georgian
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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Boxing 1 was stopped, and Yum with his
fighter was left in the lurch. All their jewelry
went to tho pawnbroker’s. They stuck it out for
a week or two. and 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 dope, 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
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It Is Man’s Own Fault if He Permits Myriad-Headed Pest to Spread
Disease.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
rj') HE greatest peril of summer
I is not from heat, but front
files Man's deadliest enemy
in hot weather is the innocent
looking, buzzing, impertinent, filth
loving house fly. It. is cradled tn
uncleanliness, 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 tlie 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 every one of them, if al
lowed t<> live, becomes a carrier of
typhoid, consumption, fevers, ca
tarrh. plague ami every communi
cable.disease from which mankind
suffers.
It is safer to allow a burglar to
go undisturbed into jour silver
closet than to permit a fly to enter
your kitchen. You can replace what
the one carries off, but not what
the 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
neeissarj nuisance?” Then listen
to this:
THERE ARE SO EE\V FLIES
IN BAVARIA THAT THEY CAN
IN NO WAY BE REGARDED AS
A BEST THIS IS PERHAPS DI E
To THE EXTREME CLEANLI
NESS OF BAVARIAN CITIES
. COURT YARDS. ALLEYS. VA
CANT LOTS ALL MIE KEPT
CLEAN. AND THE HALLWAYS
AND ENTRANCES OF THE
HOUSES M4t. AS ERESH AS
SOAP 'ND water can make
THEM
THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1912.
Perhaps the only error about this
is the statement that the few files
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 rerfiain.
Every city should be rendered as
free from flics 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 flgnt with
the first fl.v that comes buzzing out
in the spring. Kill him on sight;
don’t let him get away!
Produce 12 Generations
In One Summer.
Entomologists have discovered
that a house fl.v lays on the aver
age of 120 eggs. Within ten days
each egg has become a full-flledged
fly. This second generation, in an
other ten days, produces 14,400 flies.
Ten days later the third generation
appears, numbering 1,728,000. An
other fen days swells the number to
207,360,000! All that my riad 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
mere, to the other inhabitants of
the earth The average life of a
fly is but < few weeks Nearly al!
die off, quite suddenly, with the
and knew a bunch of popular songs, and, al
though the pay wasn’t just what he thought it
should be, 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 way up
in business as some of the other lads had done.
The happy days of easy money whre gone,
and Yum was on his uppers for fair, doing the
best >he could. Now 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 Continued.)
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 corners, par
ticularly in w arm houses and barns.
A wintering fly should never be
suffered to live. They ought to
be hunted out like torpid rattle
snakes.
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It is not., from these hidden flies,
however, that most of the multi
tudes that suddenly appear with
the first w arm weather arise. They
are born 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
FOUR 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
dent e. deceive you. "Beelzebub is
the father of flies," and flies are the
infernal agents of Death in some
of bis most insidious and dreadful
forms
The Only Democrat
Bv ELBERT HUBBARD.
Copyright, 1912. International News
Service.
ABOVE all things this age
stands for temperance, in
dustry, economy, efficiency.
The parasite and the barnacie were
never in such bad repute as they
are today.
Men who in. ist on throw ing mon
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 agitatifig the
proposition of getting government
on a business basis. V. e are elim
inating the economic sla-k and
taking up lost nioti l a.
The highest ambition of every
gre'd business man t> ;,1 is m be
•a good public .servant, and this
w as the controlling impulse in the
heart so Thomas Jefferson.
Thomas Jefferson carried no ex
cess baggage. He was 5 feet 10 and
weighed 150 pounds. He used ail
the body he had.
He rode horseback until his
eightieth year. Two particular
horses that he owned and loved
have come down to u..- 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.
Mas 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 o'nee. but
twice—and tw ice w as 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 brass buttons, gilt and
braid and feathers coming up the
street, looking for their man. Jef
ferson declined theiv 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. And
that one thing to him was to serve
humanity.
Jefferson was a great 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
| 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 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 what interested claimants
rna.v attempt to foist on the tax-*
payers of Atlanta.
To the point: There are two con
cerns seeking a contract with the
city to destroy her garbage, the
New York Destructor Company,
with an elastic proposition of
$276,01i0 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 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 away some
$200,000 or more from a deplated
treasury in order that certain pre
conceived health view s may con
tinue to sleep in w ell screen) d
porches of mental composure?
What are th. papers doin..- as to
protecting the people; Tru» nt
want a good plant, but we don’t
THE HOME PAPER
clear in his mind, 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. 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 Aay when
some of the students were guilty
of gross misconduct.
Jefferson believdd in the honor
system. He founded the public
school system of America on this
idea. He had such faith In human
ity that he believed if the scholars
were not too much interfered with
that they would do what was right,
best and proper. Jefferson believed
in the divinity of the child. H'?.
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 bv in
heritance and were a part of his
family.
But on th® 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 permission to 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 that mortal man could
possibly, have planned could have
been more 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.
Jejferson always enjoyed good
health, and even in his old age, aft
er his eightieth year, nat-v.’v-'.'
kindly, for Jefferson was a worker
and a thinker to th® day of his
death. Jefferson was always gentle,
always considerate. Hv founded ntj
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.
Whaf 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. Ths
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 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 plartCS'
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 have suffered from
it for .years. We must not suffer
longer.
Atlantans have always boasted of
the healthfulness of thn? 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 act at once
and provide some suitable disposal
system. It is false economy to sav
the )it' > in not afford to buy a
plant. The protection of the health
of < itc. •n: i.- the first due. of a
munit .p.ility. L. J. DANIEL.