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We Long For Immortal Im
perfection—-We Can’t
Have It
All our Joii!>i:i'zs for immortality, all our plans for immortal
life are 1 <m th< hope that Divine Providence will conde
scend to let ns li\- in another world as we live here.
Each of ns wants to be himself in the future life, and to see
his friends as lie knew them.
We want to preserve individiiality forever and ever, when
the stars shall have faded away and the Jays of matter ended.
Rnl what is individuality except imperfection? You are dif
ferent from Smith, Smith is different from Jones. But it is sim
ply a diffcreim of imperfect construction. One is more foolish
than another, one is more irresponsibly moved to laughter or
anger that constitutes his personality.
Remove our imperfections and we should all be alike—smooth
off all agglomerations of matter on all sides and everything
■would be spherical.
What would be the use of keeping so many of us if we were
all perfect, and therefore all alike? One talks through his nose,
one has a deep voice But shall kind Providence provide two
sets of wings for nose talkers and chest talkers? Why not make
the two into one good talker and save one pair of wings?
Why not. in fact, keep just one perfect sample, and let all
the rest placidly drift back to nothingness? Or. better, why not
take all the goodness that there is in all the men and women that
ever were and melt it all down into one cosmic human being?
The raindrops, the mist and the sprays of Niagara all go back
to the ocean in time. Possibly we all go back at the end to the
sea of divine wisdom, whence we were sent forth to do, well or
badly, our little work down here.
Future punishment? We think not.
One drop of wafer revives the wounded hero—another helps
to give wet feet and consumption to a little child. It all depends
on circumstances.
Both drops go back to the ocean. There is no rule that
sends the good drop to heaven and the other to boil forever and
ever in a sulphur pit.
Troubles beset us when we think of a future state and our
reason quarrels always with our longings. We all want—in
heaven to meet Voltaire with his very thin legs. But we can not
believe that those skinny shanks are to be immortal. We shall
miss the snuffs and the grease on Sam Johnson's collar. If an
angel comes up neat and smiling and says, “Permit me to intro
duce myseif 1 am the great lexicographer,” we shall say. “Tell
that to some other angel. The great Samuel was dirty and
wheezy, and I liked him that way.”
And children. The idea of children in heaven flying about
•with their little fluffy wings is fascinating. But would eternal
childhood be fair to them? If a babe dies while teething, shall it
remain forever toothless” How shall its mother know if it is
allowed to grow up?
Listen to Heine that marvelous genius of the Jewish race;
Yes, y. ’ You talk of reunion in a transfigured shape. What would
that be to me? 1 knew him in his old brown surtout, and so 1 would see him
again Thus In -.1 it table, the salt cellar and pepper castor on either hand.
\nd if the !■. pper «:i- on the right and the salt on the left hand he shifted
them over I knew him in a brown surtout, and so I would see him again.”
Thus he spoke of his dead father. Thus many of us think
and speak of those that are gone. How foolish to hope for the
preservation of what is imperfect!
How important to have FAITH and to feel that reality will
surpass anticipation, and that whatever IS will be the best thing
for us and satisfy us utterly.
A W oman’s Political Speech
How Many Men Do You Know That Could Talk More Sanely
and Usefully Than Jane Addams?
Jane Addams. of Chicago- one of the millions of good wom
en in this country hitherto disfranchised—has joined the Roose
velt party because that party is pledged to fair treatment of
women to woman suffrage.
Those that are unintelligent will believe that women are in
capable of understanding political matters, unable to discuss
public questions intelligently.
In order to dispel this idea we print here conspicuously Jane
Addams very short address in favor of Roosevelt and in praise
of his convention.
It is short. It emphasizes that which is important.
It proven intelligent knowledge of public affairs.
How main tmn in public life do you know that are capable
of making a speech • - short or as good ?
Illis is J.me Addams' speech:
"Measures of inilustri.il amelioration, demands for social justice, long
discussed by croup n irity . mferences and economic associations,
have here I>< •11 <-c>nsidi-ri ii in K'- at national convention and arc at last
thrust into the stern arena of political action.
"A great party ha- pledged Itself to the protection of children, to the
rare of tin aged. g r , . t < m.erw< rk",| girls. to the safeguarding of
burdened men. Committed to tie ■ humane undertakings, it is inevitable
that such a party hould ap| ■al to women, should seek to draw upon the
great reservoir of tin it moral < to rgy. so long undesired and unutilized tn prac
tical politics one is the core -y f th* other, a program of human welfare,
the necessity for woman's parti- >pitin.
X ‘‘We ratify tins platform n 1 nh lie ausc it represents our earnest
convictions and formulates our high hopes, but because it pulls upon our
faculties and calls up to definin upon. We find it a prophecy that democ
racy shall be actually realized until n.. group of our people- -certainly not
ten million of them so badly in need of 1. issuranee shall fall to bear the
responsibility' of self-government and t at no class of evils shall lie be
yond redress.
"The new party has become the American exponent of a world-wide
movement toward juster social conditions, a movement which America,
lagging behind other great n itions, has been unaccountably slow to em
body in political action.
"I second the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt be< ause he Is one of
the few men in our public life w ho have been r< sponsive to modern movement
Because of that, because the pr gram will requln a leader of invincible
courage, of open mind, of democratic sympathies, one endowed with power
to interpret the common man and to identity himself with the common lot,
1 heartily second the nomination.”
The Atlanta Georgian
Can Death by Disease Be Eliminated?
// Doctors Succeed tn Finding a Specific For Cancer, the Last of Man's Greatest Maladies
Will Have Been Mastered
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laboratory as- ' jff[
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shown inocu-
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the Cosmopoli
tan Magazine
for August. TtTT
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By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
IN the August number of THE
COSMOPOLITA N MAGAZINE
there is an article on "The
Conquest of Cancer.” which is of
absorbing interest, for the simple
reason that it tells, tn popular lan
guage, the exact truth on a subject
about which there has been so
much sensational exaggeration that
the public mind has been perturbed
without being informed upon it.
The sad truth is that, at the
present time, the only sure cure
for cancer is the surgeon’s knife—
and that is sure in only certain
special cases. Rut doctors have
learned to recognize cancer in its
earliest stages, when it often IS
CURABLE, and that Is a vast gain
in Itself
Moreover, experimental investi
gations are now on foot which give
at least the hope that a specific
cure may be found for all forms of
cancer. Some of the lower animals
are the necessary’ victims of such
experiments, and some people, who
apparently love dogs more than
they love men and women, make
a great outcry over that fact. Such
people, whose sentimentalism has
gone astray, may be disregarded
when the object in view is an al
most immeasurable blessing io hu
manity. It would probably be im
possible to find anywhere men en
dowed with a more sympathetic
nature, and a greater desire to ban
ish suffering from the world, than
those very experimenters.
Terrible Figures.
Since, after all. selfishness is at
the bottom even of the soul of the
sentimentalist, some of the object
ors to animal experimentation as a
basis for improved medical science
may hesitate in their blind opposi
tion when they are informed that
statistics show that one out of
every fifteen men. and one out of
ever.v eight women who have
passed the age of 35 years is doom
ed to die of some form of cancer.
This is not to say that death by’
cancer is a mere lottery. It is not
as if fifteen men, or eight women,
shut up In a room, were required
to draw from an urn containing
either fourteen white balls and one
black ball, or seven white and one
black, with the certainty that the
unfortunate who drew black must
die a terrible death. The meaning
cl *2, *2,111 *2, *— * *- * *- ’ Dorothy Dix
IN a peculiar and piteous divorce
case now pending, the sole cause
that is alleged for the breaking
up of a time is a woman’s nagging.
The husband, a wealthy ami
prominent man. testified in court
that he bad left his wife because
he could stand her incessant nag
ging no longer.
The children, a neatly grown soil
and daughter, entreated the court
to give them to their father be
cause their mother’s nagging made
life unendurable to them
Neither husband nor children
manifested the slightest affection
for the woman She had killed‘their
love by nagging
The woman is pretty and good.
She lived in a palace and hail all
the luxuries that money could buy.
She had husband and children and
everything to make lite happy,
and she has thrown away every
thing. lost everything, by her nag
ging.
Not Her Fault.
There is a lesson In this little
story from real life that every wom
an who is at the head of a family
should pause and consider For
this lady with the serpent's tongue
Is not the only nagger "there are
others, and if more husband- do
not get up and desert their wives,
and more children do not turn
against their mothers, it is be
cause of the marvelous fortitude
and power of endurance that some
people have
It isn't the nagget s fault. She
does th< Very best she can to break
up her home, and make life a but
den to those unfortunates whom a
THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1912.
Cancerous growths on a carp, a rare case, which shows that even fish are not
immune to cancer.
is that, on the average, out of every
fifteen men and eight women past
35 years o? age one surely,possesses
the seeds of cancer, which will
eventually’ develop. It is as if in
the room there were a fly having
an unerring sense enabling it to
detect the presence of the undis
closed cancer. The person on whom
that fly alighted would be the vic
tim designed by fate. All the
others might be perfectly safe be
cause they' did not bear the fatal
mark. Rut. according to the sta- ‘
tistics. there would in the long
average surely be ONE in every
such assemblage who would carry
the hidden insignia.
Sometimes the doctor can detect
the fatal blight or the probability
of its existence, but generally even
he can know nothing about it until
the disease visibly declares itself.
Then, if instant action is taken, in
some cases of external cancer he
can effect a cure with the aid of
the knife. The object of the spe
cialists now is to find some remedy
which will act upon the disease
wherever it may be located. You
will read in the article to which I
have referred what has been done
with such means as radium and the
X-rays and certain chemicals. You
will also find there what lias been
learned about the causes of cancer,
what about the means of detecting
II at an early stage, when it may
still be curable, and what is the
nature of the hopes which the
searchers for a specific cure enter
tain. The man who is foremost in
this search, and upon whom the ex
pectant eyes of the world rest, is
the German, Dr. Ehrlich, who re
cently discovered a specific for an
other disease which had been re
garded as hopeless.
Suppose that Dr. Ehrlich should
succeed (as lie may do any day).
cruel fate has doomed to live un
der the same roof with her.
When the sum of the harm that
is done in the world is added up,
it will be found that the nagger
holds the banner record. She has
driven more men to drink, more
young girls into idiotic marriages,
more children away from home,
than all other causes combined. She
is like Samson. With the jaw bone
of an ass she slays her thousands.
Take the woman, for instance,
who nags her husband about what
he shall eat, and what he shall
drink, and whether lie shall smoke
or not. She thinks that when she
mentions these things to him a
hundred times a day she is only
doing her wifely duty. She doesn't
realize that she i- invading his sa
cred liberty and insulting his judg
ment every time she reminds him
that highly seasoned food is bad for
his stomach, and that he’ll acquire
smoker’s heart from the use of a
Pipe.
still less does she pet reive the
effect of her nagging on her hus
band. She doesn’t realize that at
first he feels offended, then wor
ried. then exasperated; then he be
gins to duck when he sees her get
ting ready to launch the old. dreary
familiar arguments against him.
And at last he comes to hate her
with the deadly hatted that we feel
for thost who subject us to petty
tyrannies against which there is no
defense.
If a woman is reallv opposed to
her husband's method of eating and
drinking and smoking, she might
• fight it out with him once; but
after that she had better let him
kill himself itixpeace, doing whet
what would be the ultimate conse- .
quences? The last of the major
diseases that shorten human life
and cause endless suffering would
have been conquered. This does
not mean that they would imme
diately disappear, but there would
be good reason to hope that they
might all be eventually eliminated,
so that, after a time, death would
only' occur either as a result of
accident or murder or of simple old
age. Men would live longer and
their lives would be relatively free
from suffering.
What It Would Mean.
But would they be content even
with that condition?. Not .in the
least. The next effort would be still
further to prolong life. Then the
question would be seriously debat- /
ed—as it has indeed already been
debated whether death itself
might not be banished. It is not
in the nature of man to be content,
and his Creator did not intend that
he should be content. His wonder
ful powers were given to him in or
der that he might always seek j,o
better his condition. He was not
placed in the position of a Sisiphus,
doomed to pass all his time in
pushing a stone up hill, only to see
it inevitably roll down again. He
DOES GAIN something every day.
His progress is slow, but yet cer
tain. He was put into a world full
of enemies and given the means of
combating those enemies. Many
of them he has already conquered,
but many yet defy him. When he
has mastered all of his diseases a
new field for the exercise of his
genius will open before him. If it
did not he would WISH TO DIE,
and might welcome back the dis
eases as friends, for there is no
happiness for human nature except
in marching forward and accom
plishing something.
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he wants to do, than to be forever
nagging him about it. It would be
' an easier and a pleasanter death.
It is also the nagging of her de
voted mamma that makes many a
girl marry the first man that asks
her, or tempts her to go from-home
to work, and that causes many a
boy to leave home. The child that
said, when asked his name, that
he was called "Johnnie Don't" fair
ly expressed the position of many
unfortunate young people in their
own homes.
The Result.
They never have a minute's
peace; they never have a particle
of liberty: they can never do any
thing just as they like to do it.
because mamma is after them with
her eternal “do” or "don’t.”
she badgers them about the way
they sit. the way they speak, the
way they stand, rhe way they do
their hair, the clothes they have
got on. what they eat—everything
under the sun. until she stands to
them for nothing else on earth but
a kill joy. and their one thought,
plan and determination from the
time that they are old enough to
think at all is to get away from
her. And they do it atrthe earliest
possible moment.
of course, dear madam, you who
read these lines will never admit
that you nag. But examine your
self and see if you have fallen into
the habit of telling your husband
and ehildri n over and over again
what they should do and shouldn't
do. and if you interfere in all their
plans Naturally you don't call this
nagging, but they do. and if you
want t > keep them from hating you
stop it:
THE HOME PAPER
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Writes on
~ x- • ■
An Investigation of the
Causes Which ■ ?lj
Lead Men and -
Women Into 1
Crime -
Written For The Atlanta Georgian
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright. 1912. by American-Journal-Examiner.
WHOEVER was begotten by pure love,
And came desired and welcomed into life,
Is of immaculate conception. He
Whose heart is full of tenderness and truth.
Who loves mankind more than he loves himself,
And can not find room in his heart for hate,
May -be another Christ AVe all may be
The Saviours of the world, if we believe
In the Divinity which dwells in us
And worship it, and nail our grosser selves,
Our tempers, greeds, and our unworthy aims
Upon the cross. Who giveth love to all,
Pays kindness for unkindness, smiles for frowns,
And lends new courage to each fainting heart,
And strengthens hope and scatters joy abroad,
He, too, is a Redeemer, Son of God.
JUST at this particular juncture
several unfortunate men are
being neld prisoners for the de
liberate planning of the murder of
a fellow being in New York.
Other men implicated will no
doubt be added to the list before
this article appears.
■ The meanest and most despica
ble motive for crime in life is at
the bottom of this dreadful and ap
palling act —greed for gain.
Certain men desired to break the
laws of the land.
Certain other men were bought
who violated their oaths to pro
tect those laws.
The law breakers were caught,
and they told the tale of buying
the silent co-operation of the law
protectors.
Then these law protectors delib
erately employed professional as
sassins to murder-the man who be
trayed their act.
Murder Not Always
Result of Wild Impulse.
It is a shock to many people to
know there are professional assas
sins in our land.
Many’ good people had believed
that murder was always, in these
days, the result of some wild im
pulse—of drunkenness, or jealousy,
of anger, of self-protection or in
sanity.
It seems almost incredible that
men who are not moved by any of
these .emotions are to be found
banded together ready to kill any
one for a stated sum of money—
and a paltry sum comparatively.
Now that such men have been
found and are helfi by’ the law for
trial, it would help the students of
eugenics to learn something of the
prenatal and farly' childhood con
ditions from which those men came.
It would be worth while to appoint
committee to go about this search
for the desired information with as
great care as the detectives went
about the search for the criminals.
There should be. indeed, such a
committee, whose work is to look
up the pedigree for at least two
generations of every’ man and wom
an who becomes a criminal
Especially should the prenatal
conditions be learned when there is
any possibility of obtaining such
data
If there is a bad piece of road
where vehicles are broken and hu
man beings injured, the causes
:: Courage ::
By REGINALD LUCAS.
(j F all the boons the gods pan five.
This one 1 ask and ask in vain,
Well satisfied if I might live
My life, as it was lived, again.
Its faults and failures I confess.
Os cares and griefs its ample store;
From evils past I shrink the less
As dreading future ills the more.
And yet this were the coward's part:
"Go forward”—there’s our dutv clear-
The humble and the contrite heart
Knows not ingratitude or fear.
For this were man's most shameful lot.
To lie in an unhonored grave.
Even those who loved him daring pot
To claim for him that he was brave.
which led to such accidents are in
vestigated, in orSer to avoid future
trouble.
■ If the causes which lead men and
women into crime can be traced
then there is a firmer foundation
for our reformers and philanthro
pists to stand upon while they
seek to better the coming genera
tions.
Few Women Know Laws
Os Prenatal Influence.
Only a few women of the most
progressive order today know, or,
knowing, believe in, the laws of
prenatal influence.
Not one poor woman of the-un
educated classes in a thousand has
the least idea on this all-important
subject.
Yet a butcher’s wife, who watched
the slaughter of animals before her
child was born, brought forth a
human monstrosity—a child crimi
nal—who possessed an insatiable
desire to destroy life.
The child of a woman whose hus
band was a miser and who com
pelled her to beg or steal pennies
from his pockets to satisfy her
hunger was born a thief, and went
through life a kleptomaniac.
Innumerable cases can be cited
of the immediate results of the
mental influence of the mother on
her unborn babe; and there is no
subject of greater import for wom
an to study than this. /
The government would do well to
set aside a certain sum of money
to aid such investigations for the
benefit of the science o* eugenics.
And this present moment is a
most appropriate one to begin these
investigations.
Science is doing a great deal in
its effort to conserve and prolong
life.
World Needs a Better
Order of Things.
Rut it rs not so much the con
tinuance of the life of individuals
on earth which the world needs as
a better order of beings.
Every possible investigation into
heredity, prenatal influence, child
hood's environment and early as
sociations should be made, and the
information carefully classified and
presented to the world for consid
eration.
The capital punishment of crimi
nals will never reduce crime. But
the proper education of men and
women on what fatherhood and
motherhood means will prevent the
birth of criminals.
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