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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 as second-class matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 2. 1875 Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mall, >5.00 a year. Payable in advance. 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. 1 "' - * " L * ■ -- ■ * ■’ ■ " - ' - ;; ■ •■ ■ ■v. The Atlanta Georgian THE TIRELESS TOILER Drawn By TAD. X fl .. ' '■4Sh||ijj| ■' $A ‘■' Me ' .... Ln 7 J 1 ■ w •' jl iC I T; : ' y ; . • - .'ra l .s s dti| I. ■' H * iWrii ? t fra J LFpLO' ’ ILrt IJI 1 J t IBp i ’ 1 ' i i‘ .. r L' , I ! . •! i 4 L ! M I,: .' , ■ L - . 'il • ■ *1 I ill I I 11.111 111 > 1 I ~. ■ i ( I i I 111 I I I 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 i