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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 postoff ce at Atlanta, under act of March 3. Subscription Price Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mail, 5">00 a year Payable tn advance. Parents Have NO I the Right to Decide on Treat . ment for Their Children They Can Decide as They Please on the Child's Religion, Not on the Care of the Child’s Body. That Is a Matter for the Gen eral Wisdom and Science to Decide Th* Hearst newspapers have advocated and do advocate the establishment of a public department of health under the man agement of the national government. Th. government and the people of the I’nitcd States, spend ing millions to tell farmers how to care for young pigs, horses, chickens and geese, should spend some money telling mothers nd fathers how to care for their children and. if necessary, compelling proper care of those that need care. This wise measure has been opposed by many that do not understand if. and by many others that have uood reasons for f< ariug science and intelligent action. Sono of those that hate the idea of a department of health are well m-anins’ dreamers, who amuse themselves by saying that there - no diseas ■ until disease comes. Then they die or -“nd for a doctor. Others m il; mom \ by exploiting the diseases, terrors and ...ir."s of hiimanit,' and 'ear the spread ot knowledge. 'me. Hi. so that oppose the public health department is oh. '' ho writes as follows : Vn I S|. ak of the gie.it good that ttv -.'ovo',.>>>'nt does through the ■'epartment« that give '<> the farm ers information regarding th'- rare of their tarions anima!.. all of which is peifeetlt trit' md i gi ■ it oik. and then of th" lack of in •rest displayed by the same gov ernmi-nt in i arinu lor the health of the children. Rut it does not «i'tr tn TT.e that the <;t - - are par tot* —_'a ;se in the i-ac of the &nl!-ie?-t ; .et .- being dumb brute*, must take whatever kind of care is e t en to them without any choice in tie matter, but when it conies to a human being he. or she, is abso In reply to this we beg to say. first, that the public would not for a moment tolerate a law telling the people to adopt and submit themselves to treatment by any medical school, allo pathic or otherwise. The government does not compel the farmer tn treat his hog or his cow or his sheep if the farmer does nut want to. The farmer is allowed to let the animal die. BI T HE IS NOT ALLOWED TO LET HIS ANIMALS EN DANGER THE LIVES OF THE \NIMALS OF HIS NEIGH BORS* HE ISN'T ALLOWED To LET HIS OWN GONOEIT OR FOOLISH NOTIONS ENDANGER THE PROSPERITY OR HEALTH OF O THERS. Similarly. > department of health devoted to the interest of human h -ings would not compel the adult man or woman Io adopt any school or treatment. pint thai department would do in a national wax what the ■\ ;n>d -,i,iir departments of health do now. It would not per '• ’ "i "kbrai m ii theorist drill ing the existence of disease,*or ■ •■l.-ss, indifferent idiot, tn endanger the lives id' others. Tin liedth department would say to the citizen: It it is \diir pleasure Io di" of consumption you may do so. It yon wish tn die id' smallpox you nun do so; that is your " 'iiu'-s. Hut von shall not spread nipt ion among others t ■■ can pi’cii nl it. and you shall not spread the smallpox. \ d"i>artnieitf of health would give advice, it would prevent ir .'id ng oi disease. and no sane person could object. I" I' -.ird n children, we deny the statement of our corre- I 'Uneiii tba: the parent has the right to treat the children i l i a- !■• secs til. ind that the choice of medical treat men! is tin 'iinie as the choice of religious doctrine. ' O'lin *i" Hie right to teach his children whaf religion he P 1 ' th.-H right is guaranteed 10 him by Ihe constitution. La'er <in the "Itild can change if it wishes. Meanwhile the fact 'b '! H'e ehdd is i Mohamniedan. an agnostic, an atheist, a Chris iian Scientist. a < atholic. a Protestant, a Zoroastrian. a Confu '■inn. a Bnddhisi or what not makes no difference to the general we| fare. Religions, unlike diseases, are not catching And if a parent chooses to inculcate religious doctrines, truthful nr false, that doesn t do an' harm to the coinmunit'. With disease and with the practice of medicine if is dif ferent Ihe child is entitlei: to th. protection which is offered to it b_\ the progress of science. Our correspondent knows that in China, for instance, the Ignorant natives refuse to he treated when they have the plague. They die in heaps. and their children die because the' won't let them be treated. Does nur correspondent think ii vise to permit human be ings and children to die in this wav" On- correspondent is aware of the fact that the Indians, when they see a child dying, s, nd for the medicine man, This medicine man weaves his body back and forth in front of the child, or holds up some ridiculous charm, and sits there plaeidlv while the child dies or gets well. Does our correspondent think that the government would be wise to allow children lo die in this fashion if they had diph theria. smallpox or other diseas-s that evert both knows require Bane, scientific treatment Grown people may die if I hey choose, tliey mat refuse to *at or wear clothing if the> want to But they can not refuse to give their children the treatment which the most advanced science prescribes. Many parents have contested in the courts the theorv that II is illegal to allow a child lo die without care, and such parents have learned to their cost that medicine and religion are two dif ferent things. A national bureau of health would he chiefb advisor', an swprmg questions, spreading information, preventing the spread o’ ontagiouK diseases And once established, not even the most crai-kbrained dreamer or the most selfish exploiter of disease would really advocate discontinuing it, lutely entitled I" the right to choose for himself, or herself, what meth od of treatment lie, or >he, desires, or in the case, of children, the pa rents have the right to make this choice, as we certainly are entitled to the inalienable right when it comes to the selection of our medi cal school as we are in selecting our religion. And should this de part inent of health lie established it would without doubt be run abso lutely by physicians of the allopath ic school, and they would have, of course, I lie medical laws so framed as to make it impossible for you to employ a method of treatment that did not correspond to their views. The Atlanta Georgian JOY AND GLOOM Remember Those Golden Words of Pop Rockefeller---“ Eat Lightly” Copyright. 1912. International News .Service. < ( EVERY THINq) LET SEE! 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He has achieved Self-Mastery lo the extent that he cares now for nothing on earth save to be helpful to othci men and to aid them to this same aehievenient. Mr. Floyd and his wife have named their place the Self-Mastery i'olony. but some people call it ' Hobo Farm. " Mr Floyd as known success, money success, position and popu larity with ihe gay world. Then he knew failure. and that put him in touch with every other failure on earth. Only Necessary That He Knows. Now. the only letter of introduc tion which is needed to bls Self- Mastery Colony anil work and friendship is the knowledge that a man is t failure, homeless and f- iendless Tin n In- c. admitted and given the hand of friendship and •">>'>■ tack r set for him tn do. Hi idea ' that men who have TUESDAY, JULY 16. 1912. By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX (Copyright, 1912, by American-Journal-Examiner.) lost the work habit must be at tainted back, not driven, and. un like the business man who asks for all sorts of references when an ap plicant comes for work. Mr. Floyd asks nothing and gives much. Here is a little classification which has been given by rhe founder of this colony of Ihe type of men who come to him How He Classifies The Types of Men. "Young men who are drifting and homeless come to us from the charity associations, missions, cler gymen, Y. M C. A. and interested friends, and may be classified as follows: "First—The man unable to find immediate employment. "Second—The man in middle life who has lost his business. "Third The intemperate man trying to control himself. "Fourth - The country hoy stranded in the city. "Fifth—The rich man's son way ward. estranged from his family "Sixth—The man discouraged through domestic troubles. "Seventh —Men run down physi cally and mentally needing out door work. "Who are the 'guests' at the Self- Mastery Colony? Men of educa tion and refinement, who have fail ed in business and can not get a job: men driven to the gutter by liquor or cocaine or morphine; men rendered desperate and despond ent by domestic infelicity: men from whose characters have drib bled the last grains of sand, the last atom of pluck." These men are given many tasks to do and after they onie learn the road back to labm through this pleasant path, they either stay a.- helpers and co-workers or go forth to take their place among the w orld r tollers again. Such a work as Mr. Floyd is do ing needs co-operation. He has issued a call to all phil anthropic people who long to be of assistance to humanity. Here it is: "Your heart goes out in sympa thy to the broken man. who. though the fault is his own. has become a social outcast. It is with the keen est regret that you turn him from your door knowing that he is like ly to fall into deeper and deeper desecration. until even health, lib erty and self-respect are lost to him. At best, all that you can give him is temporary assistance food and money—when his real need is a higher and better viewpoint of life. "For years I have been convinced that to give this so-called derelict foor and shelter was not enough for under this man's forbidding ex terior I find there dwells some one s son. brother or father, who has lost -that which he can least afford to lose—his ideals. Opens His Door When All Others are Locked. "Firmly held by this conviction. I started to open my doors day and night to this friendless man. who in his hour of discouragement mut ters to himself that all men have turned from him; that all doors are locked against him; that there can be no God; that the world's ideals are dead. "Then it is thal I would have him know of the Self-Mastery Colony, where the aim is toward the ideal the ideal of human service—where no doors are locked against him. where no man turns from him. and that after al! there really is a GOD whose CHRIST calls out to the good that live" within his own err ing hea't calls to him to reclaim THE HOME PAPER Winifred Black Writes —OF— The Drudge Husband I* ir T husband is a good man. \/| He has never said an un kind word to me since I’ve been his wife. He is hard working, devoted, honest, but he is a drudge —just a plain < very-day drudge, and he never will be anything else. "My school girl companions who married when I did have gone on and on with their husbands. One of them has an automobile, one has a beautiful home of her own and one has just gone to Europe on a pleasure trip and here I am tied down to the drudge in the same house we took when we were mar ried. "My girls go to a public school and learn public school ways. I don’t mind for myself. 1 am not mercenary, but I do hate to see my poor daughters grow up in this miserable rut. “I simply can't stand it. I have a chance now to go into business for myself. It will take me away from horn’ and I am going to put my girls in school and go. wouldn’t you ?” Nice confidential letter, isn't it? And the worst of it is that it is miserably, undeniably true, every single word of it, and then some more. I know a dozen just such cases. They differ in particulars —one man has a pretty home, one draws a salary, one gets wages, one man has girls to support, one has boys, and one has only his wife, who de spises him for being what she loves to call a “drudge.” It Is sad, isn't it? And yet. somehow, I always won der how much better the woman who prides herself on her "ambi tion” is than the drudge who irri tates her so. Easy To Be Ambitious For Some One Else. It is very easy to be ambitious for some one else. I wonder how much headway that same woman would make with the work the “drudge” does so faithfully and well What does your husband have to make him “ambitious,” dear wom an? How do you help him, pray tell? By nagging him and making fun of hjm? That’s a good way, isn't it? Why don’t you try an other ope for a change? I've seen a very commonplace man made over into a comparative success, just by the faith his wife had In him. Have you tried believing in the drudge to see what that would do? You can’t nag a man at home and expect him to bear himself like a man away from home. It takes courage and spirit and will power to fight away up in the world, and if you take all these things out of a man before he leaves the house, what weapons has he to make the fight ? “Ambitious!” How do you know whether he's ambitious or not? What do you call ambition, any way? The wish to get rich? Fine noble work that Is. isn't it? Selling the body and the soul and the heart and the mind to leave a fine monument and a rich wid ow? It’s all well enough to live to get rich, but why make yourself believe that you have "high ideals” just because you want an automo bile and want the drudge to get It. some way, any way, only get it? Don't be too sure that you are so much cleverer and so much finer in every way than the drudge. He ma.y have his own ideas on the sub ject even though he does not think it necessary to nag you about them. Stick to Your Bargain; Make the Best of It. What shall you do? Why. what in the name of common sense is there for you to do but to stick to void bargain and make the best of It? It's good morals, good sense I he Wonder-Maker if thou rt cold to Summer's charms. ' Her clouds of green, her starry flowers, And let this bird, the wandering bird, Make his fine wonder yours; lie. hiding in the leaves so green. When sampling this fair world of ours. < ries < 'uekoo.'' clear; and. like Lot‘s wife. I look, though it should end my life. W hen I can hear that charmed one's voice, ■ I taste of immortality; My joy 's so great that on my heart Doth lie eternity. As light as any little flower— So strong a wonder works m me; ‘Cuckoo!" he cries, and fills my soul .With all that's rich and beautiful. Bv WINIFRED BLACK and good religion, nothing else MU do at an. Yopr children! What do you ex. pect to make of your children if you run away from their father because he doesn't "get on?" I’d rather give my children their start in life in a happy home, 3 home -where there’s love and trust, and faith, and courage, and pa. tience, and nobility of heart, than to send them to the finest school on earth and pay for that schooling in the bitter coin of estrangement from all that really counts. You can get "schooling” in the books—lots of it—and books come cheap in this day. You can’t learn patience, and love and truth, and forbearance in any book in the world but the good old book of life, and home is the very best place to study that. Here’s today—fresh. hopeful, wide-awake today, splendid today, glorious today—full of promise, full of possibilities; let’s make those promises come true, every one of them. Forget all this "higher ideal” twaddle; stop thinking of the au tomobile we can’t get and go to work—here—in the place where we belong, in our own home, with our own children and the man who loves them. , Get the' poor drudge the best breakfast you can buy with the money you have to spend; serve It as prettily as possible, with a smile too, that counts —oh, how much does it count! Put your heart in the coffee Put your brain into those biscuits, send your little girls off to school with the "common” children with an “uncommon” song in their happy hearts, It takes so little to do that—s new joke, a little story, a word of extra praise. When they come home be waiting for them You. yourself—not the woman with the corners of her mouth drawn down, the one they’ve seen at the door so often; not the woman who is mad because she hasn't any automobile, not the woman who is sick with envy because she can’t go to Eu rope, but YOU, the mother they love and understand, the mother they Idolize. Give Him a Good Dinner And With a. Smile, Too. At night surprise the drudge with a good dinner, a really good din ner. Give him a smile with it, and the same look you had when you thought he was the One Great man of the earth. Why, even the office boy will notice a different set to the shoulders of the "drudge” when he gets to work tomorrow, the set of the shoulders of a man who is loved and looked up to and believed in. Maybe he will cease to be » drudge. Give him a chance; give him a chance. Forget your dreams and your ambitions, forget everything but the drudge and the children The drudge who stood by you tn your hour of agony, the drudge who would cut off his hand at the wrist to make you and the children hap py. Come, come, my dear, life is with you, good, wholesome, sensible, lus ty, kindly, generous, simple life— life with its thirsts and the drink to slake them, life with its fatigue and the good rest to relieve It. Life with its tears and its laughter—for you can’t spare either of these twin sisters and really live. Dive every minute of It. with your heart and your brain and your soul, and win the right to the glory of it every minute you breathe. And peace go with you. you and the good, kind drudge, who may no* be such a drudge after all if you give him a chance, and the chil dren who will rise up and call you blessed, as they would never learn to do in any school except the school of a happy and an honest home.