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Never Strike or Beat Your
Child Without Waiting
to See It Asleep
*. P. n
If You Can Beat the Child After That, Then the Poor Thing Is
the Child of a Savage. It Can Only Be Pitied.
Those that whip children unfortunately are often well mean
ing hut ignorant fathers and mothers. They have had brutality
whipped into them when THEY were young, and they haven’t got
it out.
In regard to the whipping of children, they are like the savages
in some voodoo region who never get voodooism out of their sys
tem —even after you convert them to Christianity.
Certain fathers and mothers will go on whipping children as
long as they live. The sad thing is that they probably will not be
punished for it after they die.
The Atlanta Georgian, which wishes to discourage brutality,
offers one suggestion to the father or mother of a child “supposed
to need whipping.’’
If you feel that you must beat your child, to satisfy your
anger—that is the usual fact—or to save its little soul from per
dition, wait until the next day. And go up at night and look at
your child sleeping.
A reformed beater of children said to this newspaper:
“I had always been taught that it was the duty of a father to
discipline children, make them mind, and if necessary whip them.
“I whipped my small boy one day, and whether you believe it
or not, it actually did hurt me more than it hurt him. That night
1 went up and saw him asleep. He had had his whipping just
before he went to bed.
“The tears were still on his face, dried and dirty. And the face
was troubled and sad. If 1 could have seen that face before, I
should not have struck him. And I shall never whip him again.”
Try the experiment of going upstairs to see your child asleep,
BEFORE, instead of after, giving it a beating. If there is any
thing good in you, the sight of a sleeping child ought to convert
you from the ranks of brutal fathers and mothers.
You will see in that sleeping face YOUR OWN FACE MODI
FIED AND IMPROVED. You will see before you the child as you
have made it. What it lacks, it lacks BECAUSE YOU Dll) NOT
GIVE IT. You are responsible for the union that created that
child. And that child IS THE RESULT OF THAT UNION AND
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CHILD AND ALL ITS
SHORTCOMINGS.
Those that know most about education tell you over and over
that beating a child is brutal, and useless. It breaks the child’s
spirit and will diminish its chances of success in life. It makes
the child a hypocrite and liar.
You live in an age which no longer beats convicts or unruly
sailors —and still yon beat the delicate body of a helpless child.
In the face of that child asleep you see affection, trust and hope.
What a horrible thing to till the young mind with fear, with
a threatened whipping, with a blow that might kill and that ought
to kill all affection !
How rarely one man heats ANOTHER man's child! Fear pre
vents that. THE OTHER CHILD HAS A FATHER WHO WOULD
NOT PERMIT IT.
And yet thousands of parents—cowards, bullies, confessing
their incompetence and admitting that, they have brought into the
world a child that needs thrashing- beat their own children: it is
so safe and easy.
A child beater is ignorant, cowardly, bad tempered or incom
petent —and often all of those things.
© Blossoms of Peace ©
By MINNA IRVING.
THE Spirit of Peace to the battlefield came.
The cannon had blackened the earth with its flame.
The drums were all hushed and the bugles were still.
The smoke-wreaths had vanished from valley and hill:
The swords that were red, though it was not with rust.
Were broken and tarnished and ground in the dust ;
And she gazed with a tear at the blue and the gray.
Where silent and stark in the shadows they lay.
She summoned a cricket to pipe them a mass
While she wove them a pall of the daisies and grass;
She fashioned of violets sheaths for the swords.
To buttercups changed all the cavalry cords.
And out of the blood of the soldiery brave
Commanded the wild rose to blossom and wave;
And buried in myrtle, starred over with dew.
The bayonets dropped by the gray and the’blue.
She hade from the forest the woodpeckers come.
And to each of the birds she presented a drum.
Then, calling the wood-thrushes brown, on parade.
She gave them the bugles that heralds had played.
The trumpets she hung on a slender green vine
That she taught o'er the door of a cottage Io twine.
And when she had broidered on caisson and gun
* Her name in white elover, her labors were done.
The Atlanta Georgian
’Twas Ever Thus
By T. E. POWERS.
Copyright 1912, by Amerlcan-Journal-Examiner.
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The Time Is Drawing Near When We Shall Speak Around the World
x as Now We Speak Across the Room.
A STARTLING prophecy, made
fifteen years ago by Profes
sor Ayrton, seems on the eve
of fulfillment, through recent ad
vances in wireless telegraphy, and
more particularly wireless tele
phony.
Said the English physicist; "Al
though still far away, we are
gradually coming within thinkable
distance of a time when, if a per
son wants to call a friend, lie knows
not where, he will call in a loud
electro-magnetic voice, heard by
him who lias the electro-magnetic
ear, silent to him who has it not.
'Where are you?’ he will ask. A
small reply will come, ‘I am at the
bottom of a coal mine,’ or ‘cross
ing the Andes,’ or 'in the middle
of tlie Pacific. - or, perhaps, in spite
of all the calling, no reply will
come, and the man will know that
his friend is dead."
About four years after that
prophecy was made the world was
ringing with the news of the trans
mission of wireless messages across
hundreds of miles of sea. Soon
thej were sent half across the
ocean; then all the way across.
The electro-magnetic voice and the
electro-magnetic ear had begun to
enter into the domain of human
. consciousness. Everybody knows
the subsequent history of wireless
telegraphy. Now we read the <iaily
news on a speeding ship in the
midst of the Atlantic. Now ships
in distress can call rescuers from
hundreds, or even thousands, of
miles away. The sinking ship may
go down before aid can reach it,
but at least it will not disappear
and leave no token, as happened so
often in the past.
Telephony in Its Infancy,
But the complete fulfillment of
the prophecy has not yet arrived,
although it seems to be fast ap
proaching. Wireless telegraphy is
an accomplished fact, simply noed
ing further development and im
provement, but wireless telephony.
\.hieh will be a greater marvel, is
still in its infancy. But it is grow*
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1912.
By GARRETT P. SER VIS 8.
ing with astonishing rapidity, if the
reports of what has recently been
done in England may be accepted.
The “aerophone" of Mr. H. Grin
dell-Matthews transmits human
speech over a distance of twelve
miles. It is no longer a question
of simply sending signals which
have to be translated into intelli
gible language, but THE VOICE
ITSELF GOES, and is heard with
all its intonations by the recipient.
Thus Professor Ayrton’s scientific
dream is partly realized. The voice
may at least be heard at the bot
tom of a coat mine, though it can
not yet reach the summit of the
Andes, or the middle of the Pacific
ocean.
First Step That Counts.
It is the first step that counts.
Wireless telegraphy was at the be
ginning confined in Its range to a
few miles. But. with amazing
swiftness, that range Was extend
ed, until now there is no recog
nized limit. There is reason to be
lieve that wireless telephony will
exhibit a similar capacity of ex
pansion. The one implied the
other. They are “sister arts.”
Laboratory experiments long ago
demonstrated the possibility of
transmitting speech without wire.
It could be accomplished over
small distances by electro niag
netic induction. An American in
ventor. Mr. A. F. Collins, showed
its possibilities a few years ago
in New York. I myself was a wit
ness of the transmission of tele
phonic messages, by Mr. Collins’
method, between ferry boats cross
ing the North river. In some ex
periments he made the voice audi
ble at a distance of three miles.
Other experimenters have achieved
a certain degree of success. But
Mr. Grindell-Matthews appears to
have outstripped them all. The dif
ficulties are purely technical, aris
ing mainly from the fact that while
almost any series of electric waves
will serve to send telegraphic sig
nals, a particular form of wave,
having the same “amplitude,”
“phase'' and "frequency" as the
vibrations of the voice, must be
employed for wireless telephony.
The new aerophone is described
as being astonishingly compact.
The sender consists of a small box
containing a battery, a motor and a
transmitter, which anybody can
carry about with him. The receiver
is equally simple and compact. The
one stands for the “electro-mag
netic voice" imagined by Professor
Ayrton, the other for the “electro
magnetic ear.”
Everybody must rejoice at this
news, but there is no reason to be
astonished by it. It was inevitable.
It had to come. We have at last
got so close to some of nature's
greatest secrets that the real won
der would be a failure to get into
the very heart of them. They cease
to be mysterious as soon as they
are grasped. The steam engine,
was a wonder only while It was
new; wireless telegraphy no longer
astonishes anybody; in a little
while wireless telephony—talking
with our friends, transmitting our
wishes and our orders by means of
ethereal waves, hundreds of miles,
as we now transmit them a few
yards by means of air waves—may
be so common a method of com
munication that nobody will see
anything surprising in it. It sim
ply means taking away the wires
of the telephone and talking
through space, just as we have dis
carded telegraph wires and begun
to send signals, dots and dashes
through the air.
Worked Twelve Lears.
It is patience as much as genius
that accomplishes these things. It
is said that Mr. Grindell-Matthews
has worked unceasingly for twelve
years on his invention. Now that
success Is in sight no doubt he
will have many fellow laborers.
Somebody may soon outstrip him,
as he has outstripped others. Every
invention implies a successor; ev
ery step in advance demands an
other. Wireless telephony is in
sight—what next?
Dr. Parkhurst’s Article
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! What Socialism II 1V
Really Is . /
I —and—
I How We Should HHp
Regard It v
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Written For The Georgian
Bv the Rev. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst
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WHEN a considerable lAimber
of people combine in the
enthusiastic support of any
doctrine, religious or economic, it is
safe to assume that there is some
thing in it, more or less, that is
worth standing for ants saving.
They may misunderstand their
own ideas and give to them a mis
taken shape, but, even so, it is rea
sonable to suppose that, however
much of error there may be, there
is mixed with Jt an element of
truth: and, if there Is, It is a mis
take to oppose it, for .truth will
bear any amount of crushing with
out crumbling.
It is In some such way as this
that it is necessary to look upon
what is known under the name of
Socialism.
Socialism Is a difficult thing to
talk about intelligently, for to no
two persons does It carry the same
meaning; but it is safe to say as
much as this; That it Is a policy
devised by the discontented for cor
recting social maladjustments and
for improving conditions of social
inequality.
Whether the methods proposed
for accomplishing this are the
wisest and the zest is a question
by itself, but in regard to the ob
ject which those methods have in
view there can be no question.
The poor are too poor, and the
rich are dangerously rich.
Tile poor do not have all that
righteously belongs to them, and
the rich have more than they have
the disposition righteously to han
dle.
Every Man Entitled
To a Fair Chance.
American aristocracy is an aris
tocracy of wealth, and that means
undeserved degradation to those
who have little and artificial ex
altation to those who have much.
Every man is entitled to a chance
to become the best that there is in
him.
Under tile existing state of in
equality the poor man is defrauded
of that right.
The impatient discontent fostered
by that fraud is the genius of So
cialism.
Now. if we see fit we can criti
cise methods adopted or proposed
for righting the wrong .but the
wrong is there, and it is unfair
and also imprudent to pass stric
tures upon Socialism in such away
as to have the impression that
while criticising Socialistic schemes
we are indifferent to the wrongs to
which these schemes are designed
to bring relief.
Fully in line with tlie foregoing
are the following words spoken by
Bishop Lines at the Episcopal dio
cesan convention, recently held in
Newark:
“A good many people are joining
in the cry against Socialism who
know very little about it. No such
movement can have gained its
strength and hold upon many peo
ple without expressing some need
and some truth which right-minded
o?« Deathless Fame
By ELBERT HUBBARD.
FROM COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE. *./
EVERY good thing has been
condemned in its day and gen
eration. Et ery innovation has
16 tight for its life
Error once set in motion con
tinues indefinitely, unless blocked
by a stronger force, and old meth
ods of thinking and doing will al
ways remain unless some one in
vents a new and better way and
then lives and dies for it. And the
reason men oppose progress is not
that they hate progress, but that
they love inertia.
Even as great a man as John
Ruskin foresaw that the railroads
would ruin England by driving the
stages out of business and killing
the demand for horses, thus bank
rupting the farmer.
Thomas Jefferson tells us, in his
autobiography, of a neighbor of his
who “was agin” the public schools
because, when every one could read
and write, no one would work.
Sir William Berkeley thanked
God there was not a printing press
in Virginia, because printing press
es printed mostly lies, and their
business was to deceive the peo-
!■! the time of Mozart, musicians
| wn<e classed with stablemen, scul
lions. clowns and cooks. T'»J ate
THE HOME PAPER
,below stairs, and their business was
to amuse the great men who hired
them and his assembled guests.
The word business was first used
in the time of ChaUcer to express
contempt for people who were use- I
ful. The word was then spelled
busyness. |
lo light cities by gas would set
them afire. Electricity was dan
gerous, and to put up wires was to
invite the lightning to come into
our houses and kill us all dead.
Only a few decades ago any man
who advertised in the newspapers
was looked upon with suspicion,
and even yet .ve have associations
of professional men who stamp
with their disapproval any indi
vidual among them who pays for
his advertising. Such a one was
called an "irregular.”
If we look back through history
we will find that, every good and
beautiful thing has at one time or ,
another been under the ban, and
assailed as an evil.
And the argument seems to be r
this, it you think a thing is right, J
never mind what the manv say’, I
stand by it.
Tn achieve deathless fame, choose
| an unpopular eause that you know
ir just, then work for it, live for
it, die for it!
men are bound to recognize. It is
a means which a great many people
in the harder places of life are
using in their contention against
privilege, and the wise course is for
those who bear the Christian name
to try to understand the move
ment. and to get into as friendly a
relation as possible with those who
are finding in Socialism their re
ligion.”
Churches Feel Keenly ' j< | »
Their Responsibility. ~ »
Quite as pronounced was the
declaration made by the bishops of
the Methodist church at their re
cent conference in Minneapolis.
It is an omen of good that the
Christian churches are coming to
feel more keenly, and to confess
more openly, the relation of ac
countability in which they stand to
people in the everyday secular con
cerns of life.
There are two directions In which
the churches have been in the
habit of expending a. disproportion
ate amount of their thought and
effort to the neglect of common hu
man necessities—one In trying to
fit people for the world to come,
the other in debating the problems
of religion—it being forgotten, ap
parently, that if we are fit for 'this
world we shall certainly be fit for
the other, and that it is not the
conundrums of religion but its in- > #
telligible practical applications that J
best serve the purpose for which I
religion exists.
Christianity, as Christ lived it
and tauglit it. seems to have had ‘
its strongest hold upon those in
humble circumstances, and to have
been less appealing to the educated
and well-to-do.
While, on the other hand, Chris
tianity, as it exhibits itself at pres
ent in the more conspicuous Prot
estant churches, addresses itself
with more effect to the classes that
were least affected by Christ's
presentation of it.
Which shows that there is some
thing in the situation that ts fun
damentally wrong.
It Is therefore pleasant to ob
serve that the thought of the
church, as expressed in the two
conventions just mentioned, is giv
ing a wider expansion to its inter
ests and sympathies and taking
upon itself the concerns, burdens
and deprivations of men without
regard to social distinction.
How the Rent Might Have
Been Prevented ,
If this had been done sooner, and
If Christianity had continued to
have given to It Its original inter
pretation, the rent between the
classes and the masses might have
been avoided, society have main
tained its proper solidity, with no
destructive competition to sharpen
the voracity of the rich or to in
tensify the bitterness of the poor.
The serious question is whether
there yet remains enough of the
pure spirit of Christianity to put
the church back into its original
relation with the wants of the com
mon people.