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EDITOR! AI, 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 3, 1373. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mall. 35.00 a year. Payable In advance. The Gunmen of Atlanta M M M Any Way You View the “Pistol Toter’’ He Is An Undesirable Citizen. There have heen many unnecessary shootings in 'Atlanta within the past few months—not a few of them fatal in conse quence. ATLANTA MUST RID ITSELF OF ITS GUNMEN. The 'pistol toter’’ invariably is a coward. As a rule he is a loafer. Any way one views the “pistol toter,” he is an undesirable citizen He shoots when he has the advantage, and rarely before. Nine times in ten his victim is infinitely more worth while than he! There is a certain quality of manhood in the fellow who, with a grievance to redress, resorts to his fists. There is no manliness in the sneak who arms himself with a concealed pistol and shoots when he thinks it safe—or when he is drunk. There was a judge in northwest Georgia one'e who made himself a terror to “pistol toters," and just about put them out of business in his vicinity hy keeping everlastingly after them. He never charged a grand jury that he didn’t charge it specifically on the subject of “pistol toters.” He never got a chance to sentence one that he didn’t give him the ultimate limit of the law! He made it plain to juries that he regarded the crime of “pistol toting” as one much more to be deplored and sternly suppressed than the crime of “blind tiger ing." And he was pretty hard on “blind tigers,” at that! This judge—his name is and he sat on the Rome bench—had the correct idea. Gunmen learn to leave their guns at home in communities where they KNOW the law will be relentlessly applied, if once they are brought to the bar of justice. The “pistol toter” has no taste for the judge and the jury, particularly when he is assured in advance that no quarter will be shown him at their hands. Atlanta must not be known abroad as a city where gunmen ply their calling unmolested, or in any wise unprotei ted. It must not be known as a city wherein life is cheaply held, NOR ONE WHEREIN COWARDS RESOLVED INTO WALKING ARSEN ALS ARE I’ERtfIITTED TO RUN AT LARGE. Atlanta does not realize, perhaps, how lax it has been with respect to the “pistol toter”—it has never stopped to count up the appalling instances of the “pistol toter’s" work in this com munity. The courts of Atlanta should let it be known that “pistol toters" brought before them will be given all the law allows FROM THE CHAINGANG TO THE GALLOWS! And they should insist that every ease of shooting—every criminal incident occurring, in which a “pistol toter” is involved— shall be brought quickly to trial and severely punished. The law is ample against gunmen—it should be sternly, im partially. and impersonally invoked when broken! THE SUPPRESSION OF THE GUNMEN OF ATLANTA IS SQUARELY IT TO THE AUTHORITIES. Doomed to Baldness It you could open your eyes suddenly five hundred years Aence you would see many strange things, but perhaps the one that would cause you the most regret would be the universality of bald heads. For. according to Dr. Wells, brain specialist, both men and women will be without a hair on their heads in that highly developed . ra. and more than that, baldness will be fashionable. This will be due to the brain activity of the American peo ple. who. with the French, already take the lead in the number of hairiess m ad>. As the brain power develops the supply of hair With '! three centuries the male sex will have smooth pates, and tw > centuries thereafter a sirgle hair on a woman's head will bi a sign of lack of mentality. Merely a Suggestion | Once a day at least some letter sent to this office causes a consultation between experienced typesetters and others as to the .citers contained in the name signed at the bottom of the letter. ji is possible to GUESS names however interesting and important. There is an idiotic notion that illegible writing is a sign of genius. It is. on the contrary, a sign of slovenly carelessness. We may not all be able to write interestingly, we mav not A be able to havi ideas of actual value. BUT WITH EARNEST F PRACTICE WE CAN AT LEAST SIGN OUR OWN NAMES SO THAT THEY CAN BE READ. Please let us do it—at least iu writing to this office. The Atlanta Georgian l ire Great Political Show By HERSHFIELD. L_Hl / >. \\ .Xjmiwirtrtir 'f/eRSHF/£Ll> • There was an Old Man who supposed That the street door was partially closed; But some very large Rats ate his coats and his hats While that futile Old Gentleman dozed. :: Phe Decline in Matrimony :: By DOROTHY DIX A DISTINGUISHED English scientist now visiting this country is much disturbed over the future of the race, and, Adamlike. he blames the decline in matrimony, and consequently the falling off of the baby crop, solely on women. He declares that the most menac ing portent of our times is the fact that the educated, athletic, bril liant. capable woman, who has been evolved by modem conditions, will not marry and burden herself with children and bumble domestic duties. This woman isn't a man-hater. On tlie contrary, she is fond of masculine so< icty. but she prefers man as comrade rather than as a husband. Above all. says the doc tor, the young woman of today has tasted the joy of having her own pocketbook. ind she prefers finan cial independence to love. She can earn as much money as the aver age young man does and the idea of living on half that a man makes, rather than the whole that she makes, does not allure her. In a word, she would rather be single and comfortable, than married and poor. This is an interesting, and so far as women are concerned, a flatter ing explanation of why people don't marry as early and as often as they used to. The learned scientist is, at least, gallant in attributing the falling oft' in matrimony wholly to woman's disinclination to marry. Every spinster likes to have it as sumed that there were rows of suitors sighing at her feet, and that it was only her disinclination to ward the hoi) state that kept her from the altar. Unfortunately, however, a strict veracity will not permit us to lay the nattering unction to our soul that women are entirely to blame for the lack of weddings Truth compels us to admit that men also share in tlie condemnation. One of the things that a woman can't achieve by herself is a marriage, and either our grandpapas were much easier to catch than men are nowadays, or else <Hir grandmamas were superior to us as fishers of men. As a matter of fact, at this pres ent time, marriage is n d a popula Institution, and both men and women are inclined to tight shy of fl. Old) the young and foolhardy rush blythely into it, and when men and women leach the age of dis etion stil' single, and begin to lamsidcr me. riag. seriousls . they a'se begin to .uqui'e col : f, Tlie THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3. 1912 prospi >f gain, it takes a got■ sport to gamble on a hundred-to one shot. Os course, in tlie days when mat rimony was the only way by which a woman could make a living, she | had to marry and to take what she i could get. Doubtless a kind-heart ed man thought it his duty then also to marry and support some hapless female who but for his condescension must almost starve. But now, when women are just as capable of supporting themselves as men are, there is no compulsion toward the altar on either side. Marriage is a matter of inclination and pepple are less and less In clined toward it. (if course, tlie high cost of living is the main reason for the decline in marriage. A man who finds it hard enough to take care of one hesitates a long time before he un dertakes the responsibility of a family. Boor little Cupid has been choked to death on beefsteak at 35 cents a pound, and if we want to promote our most important infant industry, we have got to find some way to fill the market basket cheaper. Another thing that discourages matrimony is that under the condi tions of modern society men and women are not necessary to each other. In a primitive state of civ ilization, a woman had to marry because she had otherwise no home, no occupation, no weight in the community. A man had to mar ry to get somebody to cook his meals, and sew on his buttons, and make him comfortable. j A Balladette > By MINNA IRVING. v t E was a gay young actorette, j ■( i I And met a golden-haired co- ? Iquette; ? She wore a stylish turbanette, They took a motor landaulctte. ? lb owned a well stocked cellarette, ? And she diamond hair barrette; 5 They found a youthful parsonette, ) Who soon performed the mar- > riagette. 5 I They journeyed to a villagette And hired a house and gardenette, 5 Where they could plant some mig- $ nonette ? And stand a marble statuette; But dining in th< kitchenette, I'poit a little oysterette, lie learned she was a suffragette, s Which ends their little storiette. ■ Now the unmarried woman may set up a home of her own, may en gage in business or the professions, or be active in some movement and have a life overflowing with inter est and be the most sought-after person in her vicinity. She has no necessity to marry unless she wants to. Nor has the man, whose club and club valet feed him better and take better care of him than the most devoted wife could. Still another reason that people do not marry as much as formerly is that the spirit of luxury has gotten into our blood, and we find it easier to deny our hearts than we do our stomachs or our bodies. The girl who has been accustomed to be waited upon by servants, to riding in an automobile, to having pretty clothes, is not willing to marry if marriage means living in a cheap cottage in a cheap suburb, doing her own housework and wearing made-over clothes. The man who is used to clothes hy the best tailors, fine cigars, first nights at the theater and dinners at smart restaurants doesn't want to marry if the price he pays for a wife and family is having to smoke stogies, wear hand-me-downs and push the baby carriage when he goes out on Sunday byway of amusement. These men and women ask .hemsolves if marriage is worth the crucifixion of every taste and they answer it in the negative. Perhaps, though, the final reason for the decline in marriage is to be found in tlie fact that people are not as sentimental as they used to be. To prove that you have only to note that the theme of the popular play and the popular novel is no longer love. The heart interest Is an aside. The real problem is the working out of some sociological or political question. Love is not the whole of life any more. People do not die of broken hearts The maiden who is the victim of blighted affection doesn’t go into a decline. She rises up and goes to a breach of promise lawyer. I lie jilted swain does not commit suicide. He takes another think on the matter and blesses heaven for his escape. This practical point of view makes people look before they leap into matrimony, and those who hesitate are apt to stay on the safe shor. of single blessedness. This tnay be good for tlie individual, but it isn't good for the race. So the danger that the scientist points out is a very real one. but women are ■m more to blame for it than men THE HOME PAPER Ella Wheeler Wilcox 11 T • ■ /• Writes of The Blind © © Suggests Giving of Music and Flowers to Afflicted at Regular Intervals. Written For The Atlanta Georgian By Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copyright, 1912. by American-Journal-Examiner. ty/HEN first the shadows fell, like prison bars. VV And darkness spread before me like a pall. I cried out for the sun, the earth, the stars; And beat the air. as mad men beat a wall. I turned my vision inward. Lo, a spark A light—a torch; and all my world grew bright. For God’s dear eyes were shining through the dark. Then, bringing to me gifts of recompense. Came keener hearing, finer taste and touch; And that oft unappreciated sense Which finds sweet odors, and proclaim them such. And not until my mortal eyes were blind. Did I perceive how kind the world, how kind. THERE is so much we could all do by a little concerted ef fort to brighten and sweeten the lives of the blind. The benevolent people of wealth in America are many; and they give largely of their means to im prove the condition of the blind, deaf, dumb, lame, halt and shut in. But I doubt if there is any or ganized plan in America to pro vide music and flowers regularly for the blind, It Would Cost Little. It would cost little to give these pleasures once a week to all in mates of blind asylums; and it would afford enjoyment almost in comprehensible to those of us who possess all our five senses unim paired. In Japan blind people alone give massage. The business is wholly reserved for them, and the government pro vides schools where they are taught the Swedish movement and all sys tems of massage. Good Queen Elizabeth of Rou 'mania has built a city for the blind in her land; and she has had the blind people brought there from every part of Roiimania, and taught P The School Path j By WILBUR D. NESBIT. i In Good Housekeeping Magazine. < the path and up the path to school he goes today. ? JL-7 Little does he know the path will lead so far away; i But I linger at the gate and watch him trudge the street, Sorrowing for all the frets that wait his little*feet. ? Until now he was mine own, his only path led home; - Now it is a world-old path that he sets out to roam. '■ He thinks that he will come back, but when he comes again { In his eyes will be the light caught in the world of i.;en. i Always on, and never back, the path he takes must lead < Ont of all the world of dream, into the world of deed. ? Trials there, and victories, and futile war and quest. S Now he takes the age-old path that never gives us rest. i But the wonder of it all! The folk that he shall meet. ? Heroes that are his to know, and royalty to greet; I He shall sail the sullen seas Magellan-wise and reach Alien land and barren strand and storm-swept reef and heaelt He shall fare through wondrous plains and climb the higlest peaks; He shall know the wanderlust that comes to him who seeks. He shall hear the cannon roar and see the saber gleam, He shall hear the bugle call across the redened stream. Oh. and he shall brother, too. with all the marvel minds. Find the hidden truths that only he who conquers finds; He shall tread the dusty halls where learning has been stored, He shall share the treasury of learning’s miser hoard. But he laughs and runs along, nor knows how far it is; He must plod in weariness upon this path of his. He hears the music in the tone that urges from the bell, Yet all selfishly I hear the measures of a knell. Down the path and up the path to school he goes today, Knowing not it leads him to a world so far away. ■ He will *?me back home again, but will have left the joy That wa< mine until today when still I had mv bo\. ft T W gEte! B HB* 1 • « all kinds of occupations possible for them to acquire. That was indeed a queenly act. It is the impulse of every human being, no matter how ignorant or how wicked, to be kind to the blind. But many of us. if not most of us, fail to do all we could do to render existence less melancholy to the sightless ones of earth. If there is a blind asylum in your town or county, try and interest your friends to make up a purse the next holiday, and buy generous gifts of flowers to send to the in stitution. And send one or more of your friends witli the gifts; else they may never proceed farther than the office of the asylum or the room of the attendants. Would Make Them Happy. Then the following holiday ar range with the officers of the in stitution to have some of your mu sical friends sing or give instru mental music for the pleasure of the blind. These little acts will cost you little in time or money, and they will not only give others happiness, but they will sweeten and soften your own character, and render you more sympathetic and more lovable. /