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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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Good Work of Good Men
and Good Women
Those good men and women of Atlanta who, as pari 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—
that is the sum total of their endeavor, compactly put.
The 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 been 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
out its persistent, continuing and unprotested violation.
As citizens they demand that the law be enforced, and they
invite other citizens onto their platform of anti-lawlessness.
It is not to be denied that the Men apd 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 npt 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 as 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 individually do.
The Georgian is convinced that Atlanta may be depended
upon IO 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.
And 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
citedly. and in 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.
I'heirs is not the voice of one crying-alone in a vast wilder
ness.
The authorities may be very sure of that!
Life Insurance and Women
as Risks
Interesting 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 ot households with others dependent on their efforts.
They are considered better risks than men. as their mortality is
much lower.
So much tor work. \\ hen 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 Io the
grave.
urn practical demonstration as the seeking of the working
woman as an insurance risk ought certainly to convince tin* sex o7
tne benefits of wholesome toil, for there is no sentiment in life insur
ance.
Wanted-—The Whole Truth
From Archbold
’ If I have not told the whole truth about Roosevelt's relations
w th Standard Oil it is because nobrniv asked me.'' said John 1).
Archhold to the correspondent of the Hearst newspapers on his ar
rival in England Who was it that did not ask him'' Surely the
"hoi nation asked and expected that he would tell the WHOLE
1 1,1 "hen he went before the senate committee. That he did not.
le w says In mterence. was because his friends, the senators, did
' " Il no to tell Well, every otic loves a repentant sinner ;so let
T,, w.ldiold open the tlood gates of his mmmwv and tell THE
WHOLE TRUTH.
The Atlanta Georgian
PACKING UP
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Some i ruths About Feminine Fascination
T/ie Clinging Vines, With the Come-Hither Lojk in Their Eyes, Exercise It Most
A GROUP of women were dis-
AA 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 w ho
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."
“Rut 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 womans
fascination; nor do we know why
one woman has it, and another
lacks it.
It has to do with a woman's
looks. Vet 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 dls
stance. Some of the handsomest ,
women in every community are old
maids, the tradition of whose
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 gills
with no claim whatever to pulchri
tude, who could have as many hus
bands as they have lingers 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 I
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 those shin
ing attributes That kind <>f gli I is
generally the girl th it a man ’<c
ommends other men to marry, but
doesn't hintself.
The women who have I>< l«t men
In tin.ill. from tin- time of Adam
hist wife down to lite wiuniii t
chorus girl. hat. not been notiiia
Ide fol thelt goodite-.- M«n have
known them sot wh.it they were,
the) haw tipiohiated tin in, and
HI’RSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1912.
By DOROTHY DIX
despised them, hut 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
f iscination for men. On the con-
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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.
Aux 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 in<n will stand for in a
woman is for her to have shrewd
n.ss enough to hide what she
knows and jolly him along so that
she mak'A him feel that he f K as
big and strong us a real giant,
and knows more than a dictionary.
If neither beauty, wit nor virtue
light the beacon in a woman’s eves,
what docs, tin I) '
Ptimarll) it u> sex. Tin i. are
women 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
I fighting their own battles. They
are bound to have something to
i hang on to, and it is to the 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 the come-hither look in her
I ndoubtedly. also, the come-hith
er look in a woman's eye is a look
that expresses w illingness. 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 candle.
The come-hither look is a flatter
ing look, a gentle, yielding, caress
ing look that makes ever)' man feel
that he is a hero of romance, and
ready to swear that 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 ihlng about the come
hither look In a woman's eyes is
that no other woman can see it In
her sister’s orbs. Hbe only recog
nizes Its results Nor can she ac
quire it if she lacks It It’s a gift
of tite g-ais, and eotnea. as Itogberry
thought a knowiedg* of reading and
w t Hing did, by nature.
THE HOME PAPER
Thomas Tapper
Writes on ~
The Educa-
tion of the
Voter t.'- W
The President's Cabi- I Jff/' '
net, Consisting of jKF irj* d|
Nine Men, Each of
Whom Is Chosen J
for His Ability to
Run the Depart-
ment of Which He y
Is the Head. |
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 large 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 daily
progress of its business, so the
president of the 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 men 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 with 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 ot the cabinet meetings
is made, and the public is not in
formed of what 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. I got
down my old gography and looked
all the way through it, but I can
find t)0 sieh place as you say the
tight Is to be. Is It near Red Oak
or Lick Skillet, or Gritlin, or Way
cross, or Is it somewhat- near Bull
Run or Bunker Hill, 01 Gettysburg,
or Yorktown, or Austerlitz, or Wa
terloo?
Good many of I lie boys titink It is
near Waterloo I hop' not, as this
place ha* a bad eputatlon for
Progressives
I asked all my nabors about It
and they —*n not tell m< | u> kei|
Colonel la. ■ »..nold, who knows
whar many a fight took pia... H « 1
By THOMAS TAPPER.
office. In the event of the r< moral
of the vice president, in turn, befer,
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 entire list
of cabinet officers.
THe Most Important
Cabinet Officer.
It has happened five times In the
history of the United States that
the vice p'esident has succeeded t<
the presidency—John Tyler, Mil
lard Fillmore. Andrew Johnson
Chester A. Arthur and Theodor*
Roosevelt being the vice presidents
who succeeded to the higher office
through the death of the president.
It is 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 of foreign affairs.
He is authorized (and no other
cabinet officer is) to negotiate with
foreign governments in the name
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 $12,000 per year, a small sum
when one considers the importance
of the offices to be filled and the
experience and skill necessary to fill
them properly. It has been urged
that the services of cabinet officers
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 the
nine executive departments of mi"
government were eieated by aits
of congress; thaf the bringing to
gether of these nine men to consti
tute a new organization, advisory
to the president, is sanction' 1
neither by the constitution nor by
law. Custom alone has established
the relation of this body of men e>
the chief executive, and the impos
sibility of any one man attending
personally to al! the business f the
government makes such an advis
ory body necessary.
He Must Keen in
Close Touch With Policies.
Hence, it has come about that
the importance of a cabinet officer
is greater in his relation to the
president than .to the actual busi
ness of his department. For the
latter there are skilled assistants
v horn the important work of ;bc
department is intrusted. But to
the-former, the necessity of
and intimate relation with tin prt--
ident, his party and his polici - ' 4
so great that any considi :abm '-
fetenee of opinion betw, ci!
net officer and the president ■- r :
ally results in the retirement of the
cabinet, member.
he is solicitor and tries folk f<‘ r
fighting, but he is sure th'-'' is n
sieh place, unless it is sone' I 1 '"
in the Bible, and he says he is f
posted on places mention- ! n
skripters, tho’ he ought to b>.
he is goin’ to one of ’em so c
Maybe the place you n.it- •
somewhar nea> "AH Hazard
have hearn of All Hazards. i>u
was never located, altho' i
fiiend, Bill “Arp, mad'
search for It. if we can f" 1
'em at Armageddon became ‘
not Know how to git tliar .1 ■
back and we will trv to Ih-l
ft r yer at All Hazards
You ought to name
place for the fight mor.
to us boys in <•' orgi.i I c'
A rm.igt-ddon you speak
you ale gain’ to git til
licked out' n yer if you <|.
up and tell uh w bar Ai m -
and flow we can git tilin'
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