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An Open Letter
To the Councilmen of Atlanta:
’S our board meets this afternoon. The ses
sion will be w.itched 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 you have been talking
in a dilatory manner about the streets. Nowit
is time to act A 1 ittle 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 |etl er :
Editor The Georgian: Roosevelt. like th® (pinning hun-
Dear Sir It is up to you otd tel that he is. has set th® trap
the influence of your at tides >*■ with false promises, and is lying
sn ■ >ne republit from gome , ,
down m Xugusf HR. th® Titanic ,ead > M ""’ 2 " aßain 1,1
unawar- of th- floe August unless the country is awak-
A petition to congress. signed by cm d to tin danger and wipes out
both Democrats and Republican*. rveiy < ham •<■ by constitutional law
opposed to a third term. if publish- of this man who has shown film
’d in your column--, would no doubt -elf ttuly great in brazen effron-
secur® th® passage of i measure tery and da-tanUim-SB from grati-
prohibiting more than two terms in tying his ambition.
th* presidential ehair. This lik< The Ameiitan people have yet
th® Monroe doctrine, would help to io learn that it only takes this
■preservt and hand down to pos- kind of greatness to make a king,
trrity" the liberty we love and rep- and a'® adding to it by every "Rah'
resent throughout the w orld. Rah! forging their own chains and
For tin lot(’ ot out country troth that As their • otintrr For God'®
Democrats and Republicans would <-ik< who gave us this beautiful
sign sinh a petition and demand land in all its grandeur and virgin
this of congress immediately be- glory ? Let us "dow n with th.®
fore it adjourns and before the traitor and up wi'h the Stars!"
convention meets in August. L. HELEN EYEE.
"Down with the Traitor, and up with the Stars" by an means.
But let us not get excited until the proper time comes. We do not
see at present any very great need of being excited about Mr. Roose
velt or his third term.
It does seem rather ridiculous to give a third term to any ordi
nary man, considering that Washington and Jefferson each had two
terms only But then, they didn't ASK for more than two terms
in fact, they wouldn't take any more than two terms.
We al) know that good little boys are supposed to take only one
piece of cake, unless very much urged to hale a second.
A very hungry little boy MIGHT want a third piece, and yet
there would not be any 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 ('hicago indicated
to those who have studied tyrants in history that he would never
lie much of a tyrant.
If he ha<l got up in that convention hall ami made his light and
shrieked. " Down with the Starsand up with the Tyrant." or words
to that effect. he would probably have been nominated for that third
term.
Even if that bad happened we should not have given tip all hope
of the republic.
Erankly, we do not see so much danger to this republic in three
Successive terms tor Mr Roosevelt as we should see in ten or tiftv
SUCCESSIVE TERMS FOR THE TRI’STS
There is nothing in our t radii ions, nothing in the storv of Wash
ington and Jefferson, that prevents the power of money, commonly
called the trusts, from silting in the White House indefinitely.
If you have first a mild Republican, who is actually a trust man.
so that tile trusts occupy the While House, and if you then have, let
Us say hv way of imagination, an energetic and noisy Democrat
who a Iso at heart is a perfectly good t rust man you ha ve two terms
for the trusts in the White House
And if' you then have another Republican and another Demo
crat. both ol them l rust men. ami keep it up. you really have exact Iv
th’’ same situation as though you had one man sitting in the White
Hous® indefinitely
What tins country needs is not so much to change THE NAME
of the man who sits in the White House every four or eight years as
to give the count ry assuranc* I’ll AT TH E l’E< >l’l ,E AR E At'Tl' A 1.-
LY RI'XXIX'G THE (O1 XTRY. AX'D X'OT \XY INDIVIDUAL
DR AXY SPECIAL INTERESTS
The objection of three terms is based on the notion that the peo
ple might cease to govern, and that the power of one man. or the
forces back ot him, might take the place of the people in popular
government
When you have in the White House, and in the office’of the
governor in various stales, 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. you
have got very far awai 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 to 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 it rather than let it compete
with the government
What would he think if he came back now and found it taken
quite for granted that organized money , controlled by a dozen men.
should have not merely a few members in the congress of the
United States, BI T A GOOD CLEAR WORKING MAJORITY IX
ALMOST EVERY LEGISLATIVE BODY IX THE NATION
Good Helen Fyfe, do not worry about Mr Roosevelt he will
not sink this republic, nor wipe the stars off the Hag. Hi* is simply
an excitable. earnest gentleman who likes io enjoy himself ami to
hear himself ami to be big and important
He is going to fiml out before very long something about tin
difference between a man who achieves success and the man who is
made successful by accident Xml lie will NOT sink your republic
If you han* lime to spa re m worrying, w <>rry abi ml the fa el that
i in th® long rim our ruling is done not for two terms <>r three terms,
tmt Im- almost every term from aiderman up by representatives of
org:o i/cd power and money in this country ami that there is ap
par®mly no prospect tn sight of any rotation in office so far as the
ft 1-1: •’( < 'me'rm <1 Thev don 1 rotate Th®' stav.
The Atlanta Georgian
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I he Philosophy of Anger By Garrett P. Serviss
.4n Man, Like an Angry Lion, Harms Himself More Than He Harms Others
i\ H<>T Summer is on.
ZA A still hotter political cam
paign is coming with it.
Now is the time, before they ac
tually arrive, to put a curb on one’s
t e tn per.
Anger is a doubly dangerous
thing after the summer solstice. It
catches fire from the kindling at
mosphere. It is, itself, a fire, a
t'onfucius 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
cases in which people hate been
killed by the explosion of their
own angry feelings.
In the brain of an angry man the
trained cells have become an tin
governed mob. The.' are like an
army that has lost Its general, and
all its officers. The arteries are
gorged with a wild rush of uncurb
ed blood.
Anger is a kind of panic. It
paralyzes intelligence It blindfolds
skill. The* cunning swordsman
makes his opponent angry, and
then has him at his mercy. The
pugilist wh<> keeps his temper bat
ters his fellow brute who loses it
as if he were a lump of putty.
George Borrow, in his famous fight
with the "Flaming Tinman,” won
the victory because the "Flaming
Tinman” got furious with anger.
Anger is a Polyphemus w ith his eye
put out.
Children of Anger.
The children of anger are rage
and fury which are born and full
grown on the instant, and the mo
ment they appear reason flies. The
man who is in a fury throws away
his weapons without knowing it.
His shield falls, his sword snaps;
he can not even see his enemy, and
strikes w ildly and at random. He
is no longer a man but a raging
brute He has delivered himself to
foll> Tn give way to anger is to
throw away your brains and sink
to the level of the unreasoning
beasts of the jungle The angry
lion becomes the easy prey of the
cool marksman.
Whatever you do in anger you
always repent of No more unwor
thy words were ever spoken of the
Almighty 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 many human
weaknesses but they did not rep
resent them as bursting into fits
of useless fury Jove kept his
Olympian temper, and made sport
of his enemies.
The most god-like quality that a
'nan can have is the ability tn con
trol anger He that 's slow to an
ger f. better ’han the mighty, and
MONDAY. JULY 15. 1912.
he that ruleth his spirit than he
that taketh a city."
"When angry count ten." and if
still angry, count a hundred.
Discretion is half of every bat
tle. but discretion vanishes when
anger comes.
Th® bases of anger are resent
ment and indignation. They are
propei- 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.
AND KEPT UNDER CONTROL.
Properly governed, they are mighty
forces for good; but allowed to run
wild they turn, to anger and be
come a« ejangerous as rabid dogs.
All philosophers, in all times,
have uttered numberless warnings
againsi anger. "Anger." said Sene
ca, "is like ruin, which breaks it
self upon that on -which it falls."
"Whosoever 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 of transgres
sion."
Who does not feel the truth of
the old saying that "anger is a
short madness." But. perhaps, the
best and truest definition of an
ger was that of Confucius, who said
that it is a little fire which quickly
becomes a great one. When man
appeals to fire to fight for him he
has thrown away reason and hope.
If anger were kept under con
trol. how many wars would there
Song of the Fly
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
Raby rye.
There's a fly;
Let us swat him. you and 1.
There he goes
On his toes
Tainting Baby ’s nose.
Raby Rye.
Watch that fly.
Watch him while he's crawling nigh
On your guard.
Little pard'
Swat him good and hard.
Flies have feet.
Never neat.
Full of germs from yard and street
Baby Rye.
* He must die—
SWAT
TH XT
FLY ’
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 the anger that war
arouses, viz. that it is not followed
by repentance in the same way 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 he who has slain a fel
low man or ruined him in thought
less wrath is filled with remorse.
But when has a nation repented in
sackcloth and ashes for the wrongs
that it has done, and the cruelties
that it has inflicted, in th® course of
a victorious war?
Anger is man’s deadliest ®nemy,
and it houses in his own soul.
THE HOME PAPER
The Gossip
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
Copyright 1312. by Ameriean-.fournal- 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 heard a low. gossiping talk in
the bowers.
H.
The yellow Nasturtium, a spinster all
faded.
XVas telling a Lily what ailed the
poor Rose;
That wild, roving Bee. who was hang
ing about her
Has jilted her sguarely. as every one
knows.
Hl.
"I knew when he came, with hi® sing
ing and sighing.
His airs and his speeches, so fine and
so sweet.
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.
“X cared nothing for him. He called
on me once.
And would have com® often, no doubt.
if I'd asked him.
But. though he was handsome, I
thought him a dunce.”
V
"Now, no" . that's not true." cried the
, tall Oleander.
“He has traveled and seen every
flower that grows;
And on® who has supped in th® garden
of princes.
We all might have known, would not
wed with the Rose.”
VI.
"But wasn’t she proud when he showed
her attention?
And she let him caress her." said sly
Mignonette,
"And I used to see it and blush for her
folly.
The silly thing thinks he will come
to her yet."
VII
“I thought he was splendid.” said pret
ty, pert Larkspur.
"So dark and so grand, with that gay
cloak ot gold;
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 w hile 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 of the
Greater Atlanta and jolt it along
through our streets to its very cen
ter to feed the 280-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 the
crematory ?
We already own and have oper
ated for several years, a crematory
that consumes 125 tons daily of
garbage. This crematory cost only
$30,000. It has withstood injunc
tion suits and attacks on grounds
of being a nuisance. Why should
we tear this one down to erect one
Io consume 250 tons to cost $340.-
<IOO. 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
thon one large crematory. The
handling would be less and thus we
can reduce our sanitary expense in
stead of increasing it. We could
erect these small crematories in a
few months instead of two years
to build the large one.
I am glad to see tWere Is some
probability of the contracting com- j
pany not signing the contract and
thus saving ihe city from a $340.-
000 expenditure that will not bring
the relief needed in our garbage
disposal.
MARTI N F A MOR OU S
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 grade for the deaf <-
made a part of the Atlanta pub
11' schools, the deaf children be
But he tried, once, to kiss me. the im.
pudent fellow .
And I got offended, I thought him
too bold."
VHI.
"Oh. fle!” laughed the Almond 'That
does for a story.
Though I hang down my head. I s s *
all that goes.
And I saw you reach out. trying •®ard
to detain him.
But he just tapped your cheek > n d
flew by to the Rose.
IX.
"He cared nothing for her. he onb- wa s
flirting
To while away time, as ever®
knew;
So I turned a cold shoulder to a! his
advances.
Because I was certain his heart -
untrue."
"The Rose it served right for her p. v
in trusting
An oily tongued stranger,” quoin
proud Columbine.
"I knew what he was. and thought
once I would '.earn her
But. of course, the affair was no
business of mine."
XI.
. "Oh. well." cried the Peony. shrugHnr
her shoulders.
"I saw all along that the Bee was a
flirt:
But the Rose has been, always j 9
praised and so petted.
I thought a good lesson would do her
no hurt.”
i
XII
Just then came a sound of a love-song
sung sweetly;
I saw my proud Rose lifting up her
bowed head,
I Ajtd the talk of the gossips was husnsd
in a moment.
And the flowers all listened to hear
what was said.
XIII
And the dark, handsome Bee. with
cloak o’er his shoulder.
Came swift through the sunlight and
kissed the sad Rose.
• And whispered; "Mv darling, I’ve roved
the world over.
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
the 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 the
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 al!
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 represen
tatives will vote on a bill intro
duced by Hou. E. H Beck of
Brooks county, to give women the
privilege of practising law in Geor
gia. Every state has granted this
right to women except Arkansa
Virginia and Georgia. Shall Geor
gia again be the last, as ’he was
in passing the scientific tempei
ance instruction law. which pro
vides for the instruction of children
in the public schools as to the evu
effects of alcohol on the human
system ?
We believe it absolutely neces
sary to have women at the bar '0
secure equal and exact justice for
women and children in the court’
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 protection of draught
animals from the slick wooden
block pavements after rains.
If does certainly make a humane
ly inclined person shudder to-see
the poot dumb brutes quivering in
fear of falling, not to mention ’he
financial loss.
What's th» matter with vitrified
brick set on -dge ’ Makes a fin
level and durable pavement
Atlanta, Ga. L. H- A-
