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Good Work of Good Men
and Good Women
Those jzood men and women of Atlanta who. as part and
parcel of the widespread Men and Religion Forward Movement,
are calling upon the authorities to enforce the law with respect
to a prevailing social evil, are neither to be lightly considered
nor misunderstood.
They are invoking the ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW—
t-i. 1 ' is the sum total of their endeavor, compactly put.
i’k great problem they are undertaking to solve in such
measure as it may be solved is not a new one. It will not be
solved in a day. nor yet in a year. If a decade sees it rele
gated to the realm of unrighteous things that were, a wonder
ful work will have hem accomplished, perhaps.
In so far as is concerned the IMMEDIATE purpose of the
Men and Religion Forward Movement in Atlanta, there is little
to be debated.
■ These earnest and courageous people simply cite the un
doubted WRITTEN' LETTER of the municipal law. and point
oin its persistent, continuing and unprotested violation.
As citizens they demand that the law be enforced, and they
invite othrtr citizens onto their platform of anti-lawlessness.
It is not to be denied that the Men and Religion Forward
Movement in Atlanta- is entitled to extraordinary consideration.
It has served to AROUSE THE PUBLIC CONSCIENCE.
and to direct the minds of citizens to better, nobler and braver
things than commonly arrest their daily attention.
They are thrice armed in that they seek to proceed only in
order, and under the plain SANCTION OF THE LAW.
The specific evil the Men and Religion Forward Movement
desires now to abate in Atlanta is not an engaging topic of
discussion. It reeks with the ultra-unthinkable and. unspeaka
ble. And yet—there it is!
Relentlessly, unhesitatingly, and with unswerving precision,
the Men and Religion Forward Movement in Atlanta points its
finger directly at it!
Necessarily, with a genuine desire neither to shock nor of
fend where that may be avoided. The Atlanta Georgian has
approached editorial comment upon this work with more or less
repressed emotions.
This newspaper would not knowingly cloak anything of evil
in Atlanta, but it would not. on the other hand, hold Atlanta
up a’ being anything Atlanta is not.
The Georgian firmly believes that Atlanta is more moral
than the average city of its size. It is composed of human be
ings, nevertheless, and it makes mistakes and stumbles and fal
ters in some things now and then, just as ordinary human be
ings individual!} do.
The Georgian is convinced that Atlanta may he depended
upon TO DO THE (LEAN THING ALWAYS, once Atlanta is
aroused to a realization of the fact that it has not been doing
its full duty in that direction. •
Ami that is why The Georgian calls attention to the great
and uplifting work the Men and Religion Forward Movement
is undertaking in Atlanta calls attention to it calmly, unex
citcdly, and in sentences carefully removed from every sugges
tion of violence or hysteria.
The authorities in Atlanta MUST give heed to the protests
and petitions of the Men and Religion Forward Movement in
this city.
Theirs is not the voice of one crying alone in a vast wilder
ness.
The authorities may be very sure of that!
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Life Insurance and Women
1
as Risks
Interest ing as showing the value of work for women as a physi
cal upbuilder is the opinion of the American Life Insurance conven
tion recently in session in Chicago.
\ It is a fact that up-to-date insurance companies now accept
women as risks where only a few years ago they made no effort to
secure them, on the theory that the primary object of insurance was
to protect women and children.
But the chief reason for this more liberal policy is traceable to
the tremendous increase in the number of working women, of whom
there are now six million in America. Many of these are in effect
the heads of households with others dependent on their efforts.
They are considered better risks than men, as their mortality is
much lower.
So much for work When it comes to taking risks on society
women, or at least on the so-called high-life contingent of society
women, the insurance companies are wary. In the words of the
officials, such women eat so many indigestible viands and drink so
many harmful beverages that they hasten their own journey to the
grave.
Such practical demonstration as the seeking of the working
woman as an insurance risk ought certainly to convince the sex of
the benefits ot wholesome toil, for there is no sentiment in life insur
ance.
Wanted—The Whole Truth
• From Archbold
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ls 1 have not told the whole truth about Roosevelt’s relations
with Standard Oil it is because nobody asked me.” said .John I).
Archbold to the correspondent of the Hearst newspapers on his ar
rival in England Who was it that did not ask him Surelv the
whole nation asked and expected that he would tell the WHOLE
truth when he went before the senate committee That lie did not.
Iw now says by inference, was because his friends, the senators, did
not ask him to tel I \\ el I, e v ery "lu* Io ves a repentant sin to r so I< t
Ah Archbold open the tlood gates of his liieinorv and tell fill'.
WHOLE TRUTH.
The Atlanta Georgian
PACKING UP
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Some Truths About Feminine Fascination
! The Clinging Vines, With the Come- Htther Look in Their Eyes, Exercise It Most
A GROUP of women were dis
cussing another woman who
was neither uncommonly
beautiful, nor clever, nor accom
plished. but had made three very
excellent marriages. They could
not understand the secret of her
fascination for men.
"Ah,” said an old Scotchman who
was listening to them, “ ’tis not
beauty, nor intelligence, nor wit
that draws men to a woman. It’s
the come-hither look in her eyes."
“But what is the come-hither
look in a woman's eyes?" they ask
ed him. but the old man could only
shake his head. He recognized it
when he saw it, but he could not
describe it.-
Neither can any' one else tell
what is the secret of a woman's
fascination; nor do we know why
one woman lias it, and another
lacks it.
It has to do with a woman's
looks. Yet the whole of it is not
beauty, for we all know women of
classical form and features whom
all men admire at a distance —and
are content to keep their own dis
stance. Some of the handsomest
women in every community are old
maids, the tradition of wiiose
youthful fairness lingers like a
halo about them as long as they
live. It is also notorious that beau
ties generally make the worst mar
riages.
Marriage Easy.
On the other hand, there are girls
with no claim whatever to pulchri
tude. who could have as many hus
bands as they have fingers and toes
were not one husband as much as
any woman can stand mussing
around the house. Indeed, it is al
most an axiom that the woman who
- can marry once can marry again
should Providence or the divorce
court free her.
Nor does a woman's fascination
for men have any relation to her
worth of character. Theoretically,
men worship goodness, purity,
amiability, modesty and domestici
ty in a woman, but personally they
do not run after the model of vir
tue that possesses all of these shin
ing attributes. That kind of girl is
gem rally the girl that a man rec
ommends other men to fluirry. but
doesn't himself
Tib women who have held men
In tin; II from the time of Adam's
tirst wife down to the youngest
■ lioriH girl have not been noticea
ble for i ii goodness Men have
Knot' n i hem for list they were,
they have ceprobrated them, and
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 19, 1912.
By DOROTHY DIX
despised them, but they saw the
come-hither look in the women’s
eyes, and they followed it to their
doom.
Even less has intelligence in a
woman anything to do with her
fascination for men. On the con-
DOROTHY DIX
trary, feminine brains are caviar,
as a general thing, to the mascu
line taste, and the less sense a
woman has the better men like her.
Any pretty fool can marry a dozen
times to a college graduate's once,
and the surest way for a girl to
eliminate the beau proposition is to
attempt to talk to men as if she
were a reasonable human being in
stead of a foolish, fluttering butter
fly.
Brains Below Par.
The limit of intelligence that the
average man will stand for in a
woman is for her to have shrewd
ness enough to hide what she
knows, and jolly him along so that
she makes him feel that he is as
big and strong as a real giant,
and knows more than a dictionary.
If neither beauty, wit nor virtue
light tlie beacon In a woman's eyes,
what docs, than?
Piimarlly It is sex. There are
w omen who are human beings, and
there are other women who are just
women. There are women in whom
femininity is raised to the ninth
power. There is not a line of their
bodies nor a quality of their minds
nor a fiber of their characters that
isn't just all woman, and these
women by the very law of nature
draw every' man they’ meet toward
them, as a magnet attracts the
needle.
Clinging Vines.
You can not think of these women
standing alone in the world, or
fighting their own battles. They
are bound to have something to
hang on to, and it is to tlie honor of
men that these clinging vines never
stretch out their tendrils in vain.
Some man always steps up and
qualifies for the oak role. The
more utterly' feminine a woman, the
more irresistible her charm for
man, and this shows why the busi
ness girl, the good fellow girl, and
the athletic girl who looks and acts
like a man's little brother hasn’t
got tlie come-hither look in her
eye.
Undoubtedly, also, the come-hith
er look in a woman's eye is a look
that expresses willingness. It is not
the hard, predatory look of the
huntress of men, of the woman who
Is determined to chase down a hus
band and catch him. and bear him
as a sacrifice to the altar. From
that look even the boldest man
flees for liberty and life. Nor is it
the cold, self-satisfied, self-contain
ed look of the bachelor maid that
says that her heart is an impregna
ble fortress that she dares a man
to try to break into. That look
affronts a man’s vanity, and makes
him feel that the game isn’t worth
the candie.
The come-hither look is a flatter
ing look, a gentle, yielding, caress
ing look that makes every man feei
that he is a hero of romance, and
ready' to swear tliat he Is the ONLY
ONE that has ever had that signal
wig-wagged to him from the eyes of
beauty. It is a fluttering, flaunting
beacon to come on into the land of
love, and a man would have to be
more or less than a man if he didn't
answer it.
A curious thing about the come
hither look In a woman’s eyes is
that no other woman can see It in
her sister's orbs. She only recog
nizes its results. Nor can she ac
quire it If she lacks It. It’s a gift
of the gods, and comes. a« Dogberry
thought a knowledge of reading and
writing did, by nature.
THE HOME PAPER
Thomas Tapper
Writes on Dy ——-
The Educa-
tion of the
Voter
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The President’s Cabi- I I
net, Consisting of I wF' 3
Nine Men, Each of u ;>
Whom Is Chosen .A'
for His Ability to .
Run the Depart-
ment of Which He
Is the Head. IFJ—
THE affairs of a country so
large as the United States
constitute an extensive busi
ness. Like any other great busi
ness, it depends for successful op
eration upon a head (the presi
dent) and a larg- number of as
sistants, who are deputized to do
certain branches of the work.
As the head of no large enter
prise can personally attend to
everything that arises in the dailj
progress of its business, so the
president of tho United States is
powerless to run the government
alone. So far as in him lies, he
is expected to organize the work, to
deputize as much of it as possible,
and to supervise it all as closely
as any one human being can do so.
Associated with the president of
the United States are nine men.
These nine men constitute what Is
known as the cabinet. To each
man there is intrusted a depart
ment of the government’s business.
These meh are appointed by the
president, by and with the consent
of the senate. It is assumed that
each man Is chosen for his pecu
liar fitness to do the special work
of the department of which he is
the head.
Each Cabinet Officer
Has Many Assistants.
Seven of these nine men are
known as secretaries. They are the
secretaries of (1) state, (2) war,
(3) navy, (4) treasury. (5) interior,
(6) agriculture, (7) commerce and
labor. The remaining two are the
(8) attorney general and (9) post
master general.
Each of these departments is an
extensive business requiring a large
corps of assistants to carry it on.
The members of the cabinet meet
at the white house to report upon
the work of the departments to the
president, and to discuss witli him
all matters of government business
and policy. These conferences are
known as cabinet meetings. They
constitute a department of govern
ment work not provided for In the
constitution.
No record of the cabinet meetings
is made, and the public is not in
formed of w’hat takes place at them.
In fact, the cabinet has no legal
existence, in a strict sense. It is
merely an advisory body. The
president may. or may not, follow’
the advice of the cabinet members.
Their duty is to consult with him
and to offer such advice as seems
to them pertinent. The duty of the
president is to make up his own
mind, after weighing all evidence,
and then to decide on his own re
sponsibility.
The constitution provides, in case
of the removal of the president from
office, or his death, resignation, or
inability to discharge the powers
and duties of that office, that the
vice president shall succeed to the
WHERE IS ARMAGEDDON?
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt,
At Large in U. S.:
Dear Colonel—Lots of us In
Georgia are fer yer, and will fight
fer yer, but I notice you say' the
fight is to be at “Armageddon,” and
we fellers don’t know whar that Is.
We have inquired of all the boys In
this neck of the woods and no one
seems to know whar it is. 1 got
down my old gography and looked
all the way through it, but I can
find no sich place as the
fight is to be. Is it near Red Oak
or Lick Skillet, or Griffin, or Way
cross, or is it somewhar near Bull
Run or Bunker Hill, or Gettysburg,
or Yorktown, or Austerlitz, or Wa
terloo?
Good many of the boys think it is
near Waterloo. 1 hope not. as this
place has a bad reputation for
Progressives.
I asked all my nabors about it
and they can not toll me. I asked
Colonel I/O wry Arnold, who knows
whar many a fight took place, as
By THOMAS TAPPER.
office. In the event of the removal
of the vice president, in turn, befo>.
the expiration of the term, the office
of president devolves upon the sec
retary of state. In fact, provision
is now made for the presidential
succession through the entir . list
of cabinet officers.
The Most Important
Cabinet Officer.
It has happened five time- in the
history of the United States that
the vice president lias succeeded to
the presidency—John Tyler. Mil
lard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson,
Chester A. Arthur and Theodore
Roosevelt being the vice president.’
who succeeded to the higher offi-o
through the death of the president.
It 1b generally recognized that
the first in importance of the cabi
net officers is the secretary of state.
He has in charge all business be
tween our own and foreign gov
ernments. He is, strictlly speak
ing. our minister ot foreign affairs.
He is authorized (and no other
cabinet officer is) to negotiate with
foreign governments in the nanv
of the president. It is the duty of
the secretary of state to supervise
the publication of all laws, treaties
and proclamations.
The salary of each cabinet officer
is 112,000 per year, a small sum
when one considers the importance
of the offices to be tilled and the
experience and skill necessary toflll
them properly. It has been urged
that the services of cabinet officer*
would be of greater value to the
government if they were given
seats in congress. This would tend
to loosen the restrictions by which
the officers are bound.
It must be remembered that th»
nine executive departments of our
government were created by acts
of congress; that the bringing to
gether of these nine men to consti
tute a new organization, advisory
to the president, is sanctioned
neither by the constitution nor by
law. Custom alone has established
the relation of tins body of men to
the chief executive, and the impos
sibility of any one man attending
personally to ail the business of the
government makes stich an advis
ory' body necessary.
He Must Keep in
Close Touch With Policies.
Hence, it has come about that
the importance of a cabinet officer
1s greater in his relation to the
president than to the actual busi
ness of his department. I'kir to'
latter there are skilled assistants to
v.horn tlie important work of the
department is intrusted. But. so
the former, the necessity of close
and intimate relation with the pres
ident. his party and his policies ir
so great that any considerable dif
ference of opinion between a cabi
net officer and the president gener
ally results in the retirement of the
cabinet member.
he is solicitor and tries folk fer
fighting, but he is sure there is no
sich place, unless it is sonic place
in the Bible, and he says he is not
posted on places mentioned in ' l,p
skrlpters, tiio' he ought to b
lie is goin' to one of 'em spin® ■
Maybe the place you nan’ 1
somewhar near "All Hazard? ' r
have hearn of All Hazards, bT 1
was never located, litho' our
friend, Bill Arp. made a lone
search for it. If we can not I” k
’em at Armageddon because «<’
not know how to git thar, jus’ 1
back and we will try to lick r '
fer yer at All Hazards.
You ought to name soioc i
place for the tight more h 1 w
to us boys in Georgia than
Armageddon you speak of
you arc goin’ to git tin rl
licked outen yer If you don't
up and tell us whar X viiihsl'■ '
and how «e run git thm
As Ever You”'
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