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An Open Letter
To the Councilmen of Atlanta:
Your board meets this afternoon. The ses
sion will be watched by every man and woman
in the city with any public spirit, because you
are expected to take action on Atlanta’s dis
graceful streets.
For months some of \on have been talking
in a dilatory manner abom the streets. Nowit
is time to act A little spine combined with a
little brain is all that is needed to start the
movement.
Dear Helen Fyfe, This Republic Will
Not Sink—Just Yet
Exaggerating somewhat the power of yellow journalism, a lady
sends a letter with a request "to save the Republic from going down
in August.”
Here is the letter :
Editor The Georgian:
Dear Sir: ft is up tn you and
the influence of your articles to
save the republic from going
down in August, like the Titanic
unaware of the floc.
A petition to congress, signed by
both Democrats and Republbanf.
opposed to a third term, if publish
'd in your columns, would no doubt
secure the passage of ,i measure
prohibiting more than two terms in
'he presidential chair. This, like
the. Mohroe doctrine, would help to
"preserve and hand down io pos
terity" the liberty we love and rep
resent throughout the world.
For the lore of out country, both
Democrats and Republicans would
sign such a petition and demand
this of congress immediately be
fore it adjourns and before the
convention meets In August.
cun'cutmn in .siigio' iriiyi.rjix t > I r.
‘' Dow n w ith the Traitor, and tip w ith the Stars" by all means
But lot us not got excited until the proper tune comes. We do not
see at present any very great need of being excited about Mr. Roose
velt or bis third term
11 does seem rather ridiculous Io give a third term to any ordi
nary man, considering that Washington ami Jefferson each had two
terms only. But then, they didn’t ASK lor more than two terms -
in fact, they wouldn’t take any more than two terms
We all know that good little boys are supposed to take only one
piece of cake, unless very much urged to have a second.
A very hungry little boy MIGHT want a third piece, and yet
there would not beany great danger to the nation. Individuals that
become tyrants and kings in a republic, by the way, are usually ag
gressive and decided in action. Mr. Roosevelt at Chicago indicated
to those who have studied tyrants in history that he would never
be much of a tyrant.
If he had got up in that convention hall and made his tight and
shrieked, "Down with the Stars and up with the Tyrant."or words
to that effect, he would probably have been nominated for that third
term
Even if that had happened wo should not have given up all hope
of the republic.
Frankly, we do not see so much danger to this republic in three
successive terms for Mr. Roosevelt as we should see in ten or fiftv
SUCCESSIVE TERMS EOR THE TRUSTS.
There is nothing in our traditions, nothing in the story of Wash
ington and Jefferson, that prevents the power of money, commonly
called the trusts, from sitting in the White House indefinitely.
If you have first a mild Republican, who is actually a trust man.
so that the trusts occupy the White House, and if you then lune, let
us say byway of imagination, an energetic and noisy Democrat —
who also at heart is a perfectly good trust man—you have two terms
f or the trusts in the White House.
And if you then have another Republican and another Demo
crat, both of them trust men. and keep it up. you really have exactly
the same situation as though you had on* man silling in the White
House indefinitely.
What this country needs is not so much to change THE NAME
of the man who. sits in lhe White House every four or eight years as
tn give the country assurance TlI AT THE I’E<II’LE ARE At 'TI Al,
LV RUNNING THE COUNTRY. AND NOT ANY INDIVID! Al,
OR ANY SPECIAL INTERESTS.
The objection of three terms is based on the notion that the pro
pie might cease to govern, ami that the power of one man. or the
forces hack of him. might take the place of the people in popular
government
When you have in the While House, and in the office of the
governor in various states, and in the senate, and in all of your
important bodies, man after man. a long succession of officials. ALL
REPRESENTING THE TRI STS AND ORGANIZED MONEY, von
have got very far away from the old idea of two terms only and rule
by the people continuously
When they told Andrew Jackson that the great bank which he
fought and destroyed was entitled m a certain number of seats in
congress he swore by the Eternal that if there was anything so pow
erful in the country he would destroy ii rather than let it compete
with the government
What would he think if he eame hack non and found it taken
quite for granted that organized money, controlled by a dozen men.
should have not merely a feu members in the congress of the
United States. BUT A GOOD ( LEAR WORKING MAJORITY IN
ALMOST EVERY LEGISLATIVE BODY IN THE NATION .'
r: nod Helen Eyfe. do not worry about Mr Roosevelt—he will
not sink this republic, nor wipe the stars off the Hag. He is simply
ar-e.vc’t'&LW, earnest gentleman who lik< s to enjoy himself and to
near himself and to be big and important.
He is going to find out before very long something about the
difference between a man who achieves success ami the man who is
made successful by accident. And he will NOI’ sink your republic.
If you have time to spare in worrying, worry about the fact that
in the long run our ruling is done not for two terms or three terms,
but for almost every term from al<b rman up by representatives of
organized power and money in this country am! that there is ap
I'.irrntly no prospect ill sight of an v rotation m offiei -n 'ar as 110
trux* arc concerned The. don 1 oil.|h- 'l'hri -lav.
Roosevelt, like the cunning hun
ter that he Is. has set the trap
with false promises, ami is lying
low ready to spring it again in
August unless the country is awak
ened to the danger ami wipes out
every chain'® Io eon. t itutional law
of this man who has shown him
self truly great in hi.iz.en effron
tery and <laslardtineas from grati
fying his ambit lon.
The American people have yet,
tn learn that it only takes this
kind of greatness to make a ting,
ami are adding to it by ev erf "Rah!
Rah!" forging then ow n chains and
that of their < minify. For God
•ilo "ho gave ns thi.i beautiful
land in ali its grandeur and virgin
glory? Let us "down with the
traitor ami up with th® Stars'"
l„ HELI.N l Vi l-:
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The Philosophy of Anger By Garrett P. Serviss
An Angry Man, Like an Angry Lion. Harins Himself More Than He Harms Others
A HOT Summer is on.
A still hotter political cam
paign Is coining with it.
Now Is Hie time, before they ac
tually arrive, to put a curb on one's
temper.
Auger is n doubly dangerous
thing after the summer solstice. Il
catches tire from the kindling at
mosphere. It is. itself, a lire, a
Confucius averred, and heated
blood is like thunder to it. The
spirit of a man in anger is like
flaming oil In the reservoir of a
lamp. Medical history is full of
eases in which people have been
killed by the explosion of their
own angry feelings..
In the brain of an angry man the
trained cells have become an un
governed mob. They are like in
army that has lost its general, and
all its officers. The arteries are
gorged wilh a wild rush of uncurb
ed blood.
Anger is a kind of panic. II
paralyzes intelligence. It blindfolds
skill. The cunning swordsman
makes his opponent angry, and
then has him at his mercy. Tile
pugilist who keeps his temper bat
ters his fellow brute who loses it
as if he were a lump of putty.
George Borrow, in his famous tight
wilh the "Flaming Tinman," won
the victor.' because the Flaming
Tinman' got furious with anger.
Anger is a Polyphemus with bis eye
put out
Children of Anger.
Tin children of anget are lage
and I'nry. which ace born and full
grown on Hie instant, and the mo
ment the> appear reason flies. The
man "Im i*- in a fury throws away
Itis weapons without knowing ii.
Hi- 'lucid fail- in.- -"oru snap.*,
lie ran not e'en -ee his enemy, and
strikes wild I.' and a* random. He
is no longer a min but a raging
brute He lias delivered himself to
foil' T> give way Io ingi'l is to
thro" away your brains and sink
io the level of the unreasoning
beasts of tlie jungle. The angry
Hon heroin-*s the easy pr< ' of the
<oo| marksman.
Whatever you do in anger you
always repent of. No more unwor
thy words were ever spoken of the
\lniighty than those which repre
sent Him as breaking out in a
blaze of wrath against those who
had offended Him. That is impos
sible to deity. In this regard the
old pagans were more respectful
toward their imaginary gods They
ascribed to them manv human
weaknesses, but they did not rep
resent them as bursting into fits
of useless fur.' Jove kept his
Olympian temper, and made sport
of his enemies.
The most god-lik<- quality that a
man can l> ' e is ihe ability Io >on -
iml anger H p that -low to an -
i bci'ei 'han the mighty, and
MONDAY, JULY 15. 1912.
he that ruletii his spirit than he
that tak, th a city.”
"When angry count leu." and if
still angry, count a hundred.
Discretion is half of every bat
tle. hut discretion vanishes when
ingrr comes.''*
Tlie bases of anger are resent
ment and indignation. They are
proper to men. It is RIGHT to re
sent injustice: we MUST be in
dignant at wrong. Not to do so
would be to give free range to the
spirit of evil. All the moral ad
vances that man has made have
been achieved by resentment and
indignation HELD IN LEASH.
ANU KEPT UNDER CONTROL.
Properly governed, they are might'
forces for good; but allowed to run
wild they turn to anger and be
come as dangerous as rabid dogs.
All philosophers, in all times,
have uttered numberless warnings
against angel. ''Anger." said Sene
ca. "is like ruin, which breaks it
self upon that on which it falls."
"W hosoe'er is out of patience."
said Bacon, "is out of possession
of his soul." "An angry man." said
Solomon, "stirreth up strife, and a
furious man is full <T transgres
sion."
Who does not feel lhe truth of
the oh' saying that "anger is a
short madness." But. perhaps, the
best and truest definition of an
ger was that of 1 mfucius. who said
that it is a little fire which quickly
becomes a great one. When man
appeals to tire to fight for him he
has thrown away reason ami hope.
If anger were kept under con
ti'C, how many wars would theie
Song of the Fly
Ry WILLIAM F. KIRK.
bye.
There 's h H,v ; •
Lot ns swat bun. you and I
Tlii'i p he **oes
f>n his toes
Tainting Baby s nose.
Baby Bye.
Watch that fly.
Watch him while he's crawling nigh.
On your guard.
Little part!!
Swat him good and hard.
Elies have feet.
Nover neal.
Lull of germs from card and street.
Baby Bye.
He must die—
SWAT
THAT
EI,Y '
be? It is the great breeder of war.
In war the fire of anger becomes a
conflagration. It spreads like
flames on a dry prairie. Then fire
is fought with fire. It can no long
er be put out with water. The
water itself burns.
The greatest condemnation of the
spirit of war is the fact that it
breeds and cultivates anger. It
spreads the infection from individ
uals to masses of people. The after
scenes of a battlefield are a terrible
commentary on the crime of giving
way to anger. The greatest heroes
of war are the greatest brutes.
When Caesar’s soldiers stormed
Bourges they "slew every human
being that they found —men. wom
en and children alike.” Out of
40.000 who were within the walls
only 800. who had fled at the first
sound of the attack, remained
alive! It is an admirer and de
fender of Caesar who makes this
awful statement.
No Repentance.
There is this additional condem
nation of lhe anger that war
arouses, viz. that it is not followed
by repentance in the same wa' that
it is in the individual soul. The
man who has struck down his child
In a fit of anger repents on his
knees, and be who has stain a fel
low man or ruined him in thought
less wrath is tilled with remorse.
But when has a nation repented in
sackcloth and «shes for the wrongs
thju it lias dom. and the cruelties
that it has inflicted, in ih p coms'- of
a victorious war.'
Ang"i is man's deadliest enemy,
and it house- in his own soul.
THE HOME PAPER
S: The Gossip
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
Copyright 1912, by American-Journal-Examiner
I
AROSE in my garden, the sweetest
and fairest.
Was ’hanging her head
through the long golden hours;
And early one morning I saw her tears
falling.
And heaid a low. gossiping talk in
the bowers.
11.
The yellow Nasturtium, a* spinster al!
faded.
Was telling a Lily tvhat ailed the
poor Rose;
That wild, roving Bee. who was hang
ing about her
Has jilted her squarely, as every one
know s.
HL
"I knew when he came, with his sing
ing and sighing.
His airs and his speeches, so fine and
so
Just how it would end; but none would
believe me.
For all were quite ready to fall at
his feet.”
IV.
"Indeed, you are wrong." said the Lily
belle. proudly.
"I eared nothing for him. He called
on me once,
And would have come often, no doubt,
if I’d asked him.
But. though he was handsome, I
thought him a dunce.”
V.
"Now. now. that's not true." cried the
tall Oleander.
"'He has traveled and seen every
flower that grows;
And one who has supped in the garden
of princes.
We all might have known, would not
wed with the Rose.”
VI.
'But wasn't she proud w hen he showed
her attention'.’
Knd she let him caress her,” said sly
Mignonette.
"And 1 used to see it and blush for her
folly.
The silly thing thinks he w-ill come
to her yet.”
VII.
"I thought he was splendid," said pret
ty. pert Larkspur,
"So dark and so grand, uflth that gav
cloak of gold:
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Letters From the People
AS TO GARBAGE DISPOSAL,
Editor The Georgian:
Some months ago you published
a picture of an auto garbage truck
spreading disease and filth on the
streets while en route to the cre
matory. If this one auto brought
forth your condemnation, what will
you say when fifteen or twenty
auto garbage, trucks will be used
to help feed the big new crema
tory? What will you say to the
several hundred one and two-mule
carts as they gather the garbage
from the farthermost parts qf the
Greater Atlanta and jolt it along
through our streets to its very cen
ter to feed the 250-ton crema
tory ?
If the carts alone are used it will
take about 1.000 loads a day. If
you found one auto so objection
able. do you think you could main
tain the same argument when we '
increase the number? Would the
result of your arguments stop the
carting of the garbage of the en
tire city to the one common cen
ter ■ If you do. then what becomes
of our $340,000 investment in th«
crematory?
We already own and have oper
ated for several ' ears, a crematory'
'bill consumes 125 tons daily of
garbage. This crematory cost only;
$30,000. It has withstood injunc
tion suits and attacks on ground®
of being a nuisance. Why should
wo tear this one down to erect one
to consume 250 tons to cost $340,-
oon. and possibly abandon it in a
year or two if your arguments pre
vail?
The only practical solution is to
build three or four small cremator
ies in different separated localities
These would be less objectionable
thou one targe crematory. The
handling would be less and thus we
can reduce our sanitary expense in
stead of increasing it. We could
■reet these small crematories in a ■
few months instead of two .years
to build the, large one.
I am glad to see there is some
probability of the contracting eom
, pane not signing the contract and
thus saving the city from a $340,-
000 expenditure that will not bring
the relief needed in our garbage
disposal.
MARTIN F. AMOROUS.
TEACHING THE DEAF.
Editor The Georgian:
In a recent issue of your paper
we note a suggestion put forward
by Dr. Dunbar Roy that in case
the proposed •gi-ade for the deaf is
made » part of th p Atlanta pub
ii. ~h,wis, d p ?f chi L-p-an be
But he tried, once, to kiss me. the i
1 pudent fellow.
And I got offended; I thought huu
J , too bold,”
3 VIII.
"Oh, fie!” laughed the Almond. 'That
i does for a story.
Though I hang down my head, I
all that goes.
And 1 saw you reach out, trying hi-'
to detain him.
But he just tapped your cheek and
flew by to the Ro-®.
IX.
"He cared nothing for her, h® orflv
? flirting
To while away time, as even ?r ,.
knew;
_ So I turned a cold shoulder to a! his
advances,
j Because I was certain his h®art n s; ,
untrue.”
3 X
"The Rose it served right fo r her v. v
in trusting
An oily tongued stranger," q U ,.
proud Columbine.
. "I knew what he was. and thought
once I would warn her.
j But, of course, the affair wa. r,. ?
business of mine."
XT.
j "Oh, well." cried the Peony, shrugging
her shoulders,
"I saw all along that th® Bee w a a
flirt:
s But the Rose has been alwav® » 0
praised and so petted.
r I thought a good lesson would do h®r
no hurt.”
i
XII
( Just then cam® a sound of a !ov®-?ong
sung sweetly;
1 saw my proud Rose lifting up her
bowed head ;
1 And the talk of the gossips wa? hu. ; n®d
in a moment.
v And the flowers all listened i- h®ar
what was said.
r
XIII
And the dark, handsome Bee, with his
, cloak o'er his shoulder.
Came swift through the sunlight and
kissed the sad Rose,
- And whispered: "My darling. I've rrw-j
the world over.
y And you are the loveliest blossom
that grows.”
taught by' what he claims is the
most modern method of teaching
the deaf—the science of lip read
ing.
The intelligent deaf of the entire
world almost to a man are against
lhe pure oral, and are in favor of
the combined system. Pure oral
Is a fraud perpetuated upon an un
suspecting public. It is founded
upon sentiment and sustained by
sentiment. The educated deaf the
world over are in favor of that
method which does the greatest
good to the greatest number, and
that is the combined system. It.
would be just as well to confine the
teaching of hearing children to rhe
purely oral method.
The great objection deaf people
make to oral teaching is that the
teaching is done only by speech
They' do not decry oral instruction
for those who can profit by it. but
they are opposed to the efforts of
, the oral propaganda to make their
method of instruction to which ail
must submit, no matter what their
mental or physical limitations.
MRS. C. L. JACKSON.
222 E. Fair St.. Atlanta. Ga.
WHY NOT WOMEN LAWYERS?
| Editor The Georgian:
Very soon the house of reptf■ en
latives will vote mi a bill intro
duced by Hon. E. H. Beck.
Brooks county, to give women ' ”
privilege of practising law in
gia. Every state lias granted
right io women except A'kan*.
Virginia and Georgia. Shall ,r
gia again be Hie last, as she *’-*
in passing the scientific teuip*
anve instruction law. which pro
vides for the instruction of children
in the public schools as to th p p
effects of alcohol on the hum
system ?
We believe it absolute!’ n P, '“-
sary to have women at the bar ’ fl
secure equal and exact Justice fi ’
women and children In th p cou'' 1
of this state. Give us women law
yers legislation!
MARY L. McLENDON.
Atlanta, Ga.
REGARDING PAVEMENTS.
Editor The Georgian:
I noticed in Tuesday's Georgian a
plea for the firotection of draugn'
animals from the slick wood' 11
block pavements after rains.
It does certainly make a human -
ly Inclined person shudder to
the poor dumb brutes quivering *r»
fear of falling, not to mention
financial loss
What's the matter with 'itrifi' ’
brick set on • dge ' Make* ■’ , " 1
level and durable p? 'men'.
Atlanta. Ga. U H. A