Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St,, Atlanta, Ga. Entered as second-class matter at postoffiee at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 1873. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mail, $5,00 a year. Payable in advance Mothers Are Mankind’s Teachers »? » M The World Owes More to Its Mothers Than to Any Other Insti tution or Constitution—Their Lives Are Filled With Devotion to the Children. 1 _ || _ IIIIIWII 11l ■!! I L Hill 111 I JIMI 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. By TAD ===■■' B Ftes -’wW B JBBBd&a B- -JR - W&W' Vs Ju iW'' ® w Jf||& n ▼ rr ~®JSrW 1 ‘. No. 6. ’ ~ ' 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 s 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. i* 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.