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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St,. Atlanta. Ga Entered a« second-class matter at postolfv’e at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 1873 Subscription Price Delivered by carrier. 10 cent* a week. By mail. Json a year Payable in advance. 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 THE TIRELESS TOILER. Drawn By TAD. nw ' ,f 'T ; Poim’cffL ’■ ■ J ! , J'. Ji d : ' ■? '1 . ' Yh Y, ! ■ I 1 I I i I ! ' , 1 li4llll ill I-1 j ■. I. I i j i I 1 h I i1 it 4 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-