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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 you have been talking
in a dilatory manner about 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 Roosevelt, like the cunning hun-
Dear Sir. it is up to you and , cr that j ie j 8 | ias se t the trap
the influence of your articles I" with false promises, and is lying
save the republic from going • ...
down in August, like th- Titanic lo " to tir ’ rlns ” Hgilln ,n
unaware of the floe. August unle-s the country is awak-
A petition to congress, signed by eneil to the danger and wipes out
both Democrats and Republicans every chance by constitutional law
opposed to a third term, if publish- of this man who has shown hint
ed in your columns, would no doubt. self truly great in brazen effron-
secure the passage of a measure tery and dastardliness from grutl-
prohibiting more than two terms in tying his ambition.
the presidential chair. This, like The American people have yet
the Monroe doctrine, would help to to learn that it only takes this
■preserve and hand down to pos- kind of greatness to make a king.
■ferity" the liberty we love and rep- and ate adding to It by every '‘Rah!
resent throughout the world. Rah!" forging their own chains and
For the love of our country, both that of their country. For God’s
Democrats and Republicans would sake who gave us this beautiful
sign such a petition and demand land in all its grandeur and virgin
this of congress Immediately be- glory? Let us "down with the
fore it adjourns and before the traitor and up with the Stars!"
convention meets In August L. HELEN I’YFE.
“ Down with the Traitor. ami up with the Stars" by all 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 M r. Roose
velt or his third term.
It does seem rather ridiculous to give a third term lo 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 f.haji 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 bo\ MIGHT waul a third piece, and yet
there would not be any great danger to the nation. Individuals tlial
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
he much of a tyrant.
If he had got up in that convention hall and made his fight ami
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 we 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 fifty
SUCCESSIVE TERMS FOR THE TRUSTS.
There is nothing in our traditions, nothing in t he story of Wash
ington ami Jefferson, that prevents the power of money, commonly
••ailed the trusts, from sitting in the While House indefinitely.
If you have first a mild Republican, who is actually a trust man.
so thatjhe trusts occupy the White House, ami if you then have, let
us say byway of imagination, an energetic ami noisy Democrat—
who also at heart is a perfectly good trust man— you have two terms
for the trusts in the White House.
Ami 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 one man sitting in the White
House indefinitely
What this 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 Hu count rv assurance TH AT TH E I’E()BLE ARE At TU A Ij-
LY RUNNING THE COUNTRY. AND NOT AXY IXI) IVI DU AI,
OR AXY SPECIAL INTEREST*.
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 of him. might take flu place of the people in popular
government.
When you have in the White House, ami in the office of the
governor in various states, ami in the senate, and in all of your
important bodies, man sifter man, a long succession of officials. ALL
REPRESENTING THE TRUSTS AND ORGANIZED MONEY, you
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 io a certain number of seals in
congress he swore by the Eternal that if there was anything so pow
erful in the country he would d'-stroy it rather than let it compete
with the government
What would he think if he eame 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. BUT A GOOD CLEAR WORKING MAJORITY IN
ALMOST EVERY LEGISLATIVE I'.ODY IN THE NATION''
Good Helen Fyfe, do not worn about Mr Roosevelt he will
not sink this republic, nor wipe the stars off the flag. He is simply
an excitable, earnest gentleman who likes to enjoy himself and lo
hear himself and to be big ami important.
He is going to find out before very long something about tiie
difference between a man who achieves success and the man who is
made successful by accident. And he will NOT sink your republic.
If you have lime to spare in worrying, worry about the fact that
in the long run our ruling is done not for two terms or three terms,
bin for almost every term from aiderman up by representatives of
organized power and money in this country —ami that there is ap
patently no prospect in sight of any rotation in office so far as the
trusts are concerned. They doo 1 rotate. They stay.
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she Philosophy of Anger By Garrett P. Serviss ;
sbz J//TO’ A/<zzz, Like an Angry Lion. Harms Himself. More Than He Harms Others
/x HOT Summer is on.
ZA A still hotter political cam
paign is coining with it.
Now is the time, before they ac
tually arrive, to put a. curb on one's
temper.
Anger is a doubly dangerous
thing after the summer solstice. It
catches fire from the kindling at
mosphere. it is. itself, a. fire, 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
cases in which people have been
kdled bv the explosion of their
own angry feelings.
In the brain of an angry man the
trained cells have become an ttn
governed mob. They 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 his mercy. The
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
with the "Flaming Tinman.'' won
the victory because the "Flaming
Tinman" got furious with anger.
Anger is a Polyphemus with 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 dies. The
man who is in a fury throws away
his weapons without knowing it.
His shield falls, his sworn snaps,
he can not even see his enemy. and
strikes wildlt and at random. He
is no longer a man but a. raging
brute He has delivered himself to
folly To 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 • asy prey of the
cool marksman.
Whatever you do in. anger you
always repent of. No more unwor
thy words wej'e 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 tits
of useless fury Jove kept his
Olympian temper, and made sport
of his enemies.
The most god-like quality that a
man can have is the ability to con
trol anger Ho that is slow to an
ge- is better than tin mighty, and
MONDAY, JULY 15. 1932.
lie that ruleth his spirit than he
ihat taketh a city.”
“When angry count ten." and if
still angry, count a hundred.
Discretion is half of every bat
lie, but discretion vanishes when
anger comes.
The bases of anger are resent
ment and indignation. They are
proper th men. It is RIGHT to re
sent injustice; we mU’ST be in
dignant al 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 as dangerous as rabid dogs.
All philosophers, in al! times,
have uttered numberless warnings
against anger. "Anger,” said Sene
ca. "is tike ruin, which breaks it
self upon that on w.hfch 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 tire which quickly
becomes a great one. When man
appeals to tire to fight for him he
lias 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 bye.
There's a fly;
Let us swat him. you and I.
There he goes
On his toes
Tainting Baby 's nose.
Baby Bye.
Watch that fly.
Watch him while he's crawling nigh
• your guard.
Little pard!
Swat him good and hard.
Elies have feet.
Never neat.
Full of germs from yard and street.
Baby Bye.
He must die—
SWAT
THAT
FLY!
A
be? It is the great breeder of war.
In war the fire of anger becomes a
conflagration. ft 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 the course of
a victorious war?
Anger is man's deadliest enemy,
and it houses in his own soul.
THE HOME PAPER
The Gossip
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
Copyright 1912, by American-Journal-Examiner.
I. It
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.
11.
The yellow Nasturtium, a spinster alt
faded.
Was telling a Lily what ailed the
poor Rose:
That wild, roving Bee, who was hang
ing about her
Has jilted her squarely, as every one
knows.
Hl.
“I knew when he came, with his 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.”
I\'.
‘‘lndeed, you are wrong,” said the Lily
belle. proudly.
"I cared 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 when he showed
her attention?
And she let him caress her,” said sly
Mignonette.
"And I used to see. it and blush foF 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 of 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 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
<arts 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 250-ton crema
tory ?
If the carts alone are used it will
take about 1,000 loads a day. It
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.-
000, and possibly abandon it in a
year or two if your arguments pre
vail?
The only practical solution is to
build three er four small cremator
ies in different separated localities.
These would be less objectionable
then 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 there is jome
probability of the contracting com
pany 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 Or. Dunbar 'Roy that in case
the proposed grade for the deaf is
made a part of the Atlanta pub
lic schools, tilt uecn. ertt!orr-i »» ,
But he tried, once, to kiss me. the im
pudent fellow,
And I got offended: 1 though - ? n
too bold.”
VHT.
"Oh. fle!” laughed the Almond. Thtt
does for a story.
Though I hang down my head. I
all that goes;
And I saw you reach out. trying h ? h
to detain him.
But he just tapped your cheek i n s
flew by to the Rose.
IX.
"He cared nothing for her. he only •< ~
flirting
To while away time, as ever' on e
knew:
So I turned a cold shoulder to al h :
advances,
Because I was certain his heart w-;
untrue."
X.
"The Rose it served right for her f'.'.’v I
in trusting
An oily tongued stranger," quo h
proud Columbine.
"I knew what he was. and thought
once I would warn her
But. of course, the affair war rr>
business of mine."
XT
"Oh, well." cried the Peony, shrugging
her shoulders.
“I saw all along that the Bee war a
flirt;
But the Rose has been always >o
praised and so petted,
I thought a good lesspn would do her
no hurt.”
XII
Just then came a sound of a love-song
sung sweetly;
I saw my proud Rose lifting up
bowed head;
And the talk of the gossips was hurn-d
In a moment.
And the flowers all listened to hear
what was said.
xin.
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’veroiT
the world over.
And you are the loveliest bio I
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 th
teaching of hearing children to th?
purely oral method.
The great objection deaf people
make to oral teaching Is that th
teaching is done only »N 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 all
must submit, no matter what their
mental or physical limitations.
MRS. C. E. 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 intr ■
duced by Hon. E. H. Beck. '
Brooks county, to give women the
privilege of practising law in Geo
gia. Every state has granted th ,;
right to women except Arkansa
Virginia and Georgia. Shall G ■’
gia again be the last, as she w>
In passing the scientific tempi
ance instruction law. which i ’
vides for the instruction of child'
in the public schools as to the
effects of alcohol on the hum
system ?
We believe it absolutely ne, •
sary to have women at the bar '
secure equal and exact justice 1
women and children in the cour’
of this state. Give us women la
yers legislation!
MARY L. McLENDON.
Atlanta, Ga.
REGARDING PAVEMENTS
Editor The Georgian:
I noticed in Tuesday's Georgian ?
plea for the protection of draugb'
animals from the slick wood, '
block pavements after rains.
It does certainly make a human
ly inclined person shudder to s
the poor dumb brutes quivering In
fear of falling, not to mention "
financial loss.
What’s the matter with vltrifie
brick set on edge? Makes i fir-,
level and durable pavement f
! wilanta, Ga. L H. A
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