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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga.
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' Criminals Are Al ways Stupid
as Well as Criminal
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And, Therefore, Good Reader, We Need Not Fear That the
Criminals Will Ever Rule.
The other day some wicked men blew open the safe in a small
postoffice, stole the money and escaped in a motor boat, while the
postmaster stood firing his revolver into the night, vainly trying to
waken bold chaos.
A gentle lady who read of the occurrence, writes, perturbed, to
this newspaper. Without trying to look for any original expression
she asks: “What are we coining to ! Where are we drifting? What
hope is there for honest people, when thieves can have motor boats
and automobiles? The next thing we know they will he coming
down in airships and stealing our clothes off the lines and our chil
dren off the grass and holding them for ransom. Wouldn’t the
world be better off if we did not have so many of these inventions,
which seem to be more useful to thieves than anybody else?
Wouldn’t it be a good idea to make a law against selling motor
boats and automobiles and flying machines to thieves, the same as to
make a law against selling them revolvers and other deadly
weapons?”
Gentle lady, do not lot the combination of criminals and modern
inventions disturb you. Criminals are nearly always dull-minded.
They have their little pleasures while they lasi and they get caught
in the end. We speak of the small-fry criminals, of course—those
that commit the crimes punished with imprisonment. There is an
other set of criminals —bigger and blacker—that last longer than
the small, safe-blowing, pickpocket criminals. But in the end. even
the very biggest criminals are caught and punished.
In Cromwell’s day the people of England caught and dealt
sufficiently with the big criminals of England.
In Danton’s day the people of France caught, punished and dis
couraged the big criminals of France.
Sometimes violently, sometimes quietly and thoughtfully, the
people that the big criminals rob catch up with the robbers and deal
out justice.
As for the little criminal with his flying machine, his smoke
less, noiseless revolver, his automobile, motor boat, yacht or what
not, don’t worry about him.
The criminal of the sort that disturbs you is always foolish,
weak and vicious. He never lasts long.
Murderers are caught nearly always and newspapers pay
especial attention to the crime and compel the police to show in
terest.
Murderers arc caught because it takes imagination and intelli
gence to escape justice. And the man who has imagination and in
telligence DOES NOT COMMIT MURDER. You read of the execu
tion of convicted criminals, and nearly always you learn that the
criminal was quiet during the night preceding his death, slept
peacefully, ate ham and eggs in the morning, and went to his death
serene, mumbling over the words that some good, religious gentle
man recited for him.
Murderers die easily and are eaught easily BECAUSE THEY
HAVE NO IMAGINATION.
Imagination would make them realize the horror and the shame
of public execution. Imagination would make them realize the
vastness, the strange puzzle of the unknown future so soon to be
made, by death, THE PRESENT.
The criminal does not see the horror of death, for he lacks im
agination. And because he lacks imagination he is a criminal, and
because he lacks imagination HE IS CAUGHT.
I herefore, do not worry because criminals can buy motor boats.
Intelligent men will catch them in boats that are faster.
And do not worry even about tin* big criminals—the men of
power and finance that buy senators and use them as the little
criminal uses his slung shot and his revolver.
The big criminal, like the little criminal, lacks imagination.
He does not know the people s temper or realize the people’s
power. He plans, plots and thrives for a while, but in the end he
goes to the wall, like the thief in the motor boat or the flying ma
chine or the yacht.
Civilization and society are safe because INTELLIGENCE IS
HONEST Men that are really honest are honest because their
pride, their determination to have their own approval, keeps them
honest.
Character is honest. Education devolops character—in that
fact lie the hope and comfort of civilization.
Sunday Concerts Up to the
People
The fate of the free Sunday concerts at the Auditorium is
up to the people.
President Peel, of the Music Festival Association, says
concerts will be continued as long as there's money in the
treasury to pay for them. When the fund is exhausted the con
certs will come to an eml. There seems but one way to keep
them going, and that is for the lovers of good mqsie in At
lanta to help pay the expenses of the converts.
No admission fees have been charged to these concerts.
They have been free to all who eared to attend them. It is an
nounced that no admission price will ever be charged. There
fore. as has been said, it s up to the people. Certainly there art'
enough music lovers in Atlanta to make the concerts a suc
cess. If every one who attends would contribute a nickel,
dime, quarter or such sum as he or she feels able to give, it is
certain the concerts could be held even Sunday for an indefinite
period
The weekly expense of these concerts is about $l5O, That
they have not I heard with ndiffrrence is demonstrated in
the fact that they have Im en well attended and the attendance
i> increasing. It is believed that with the public’s better under
standing of the situation, the response will be .sufficient to in
. bure the success ui these Sunday cunccrtt>.
The Atlanta Georgian
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1912.
MEN AND ANIMALS X
WHAT DO THE LOWER ANIMALS THINK OF US AND OUR WAY OF TREATING THEM?
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Playing With a Pet Elephant.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
DO' the "lower animals” think?
Os course they do. Look at
these photographs, if you
have any doubt on the subject.
They represent the little daughter
of the French representative resi
dent. at Prey-Veng, in Cambodia,
playing with her pet elephant,
"Tamtap,” and her pet panther,
whose name we do not know.
Regard the expression on the ele
phant's face; kindly, indulgent,
consciously submissive. He knows
his pow<*r and the weakness of his
little mistress, but he obeys even a
motion of her linger. Perhaps lie
finds pleasure in obeying her when
he knows well that lie could dis
obey her and crush her under his
heavy feet if he would. Perhaps in
his elephantine brain, which is not
as big as his head, tb< re are some
cells that tingle with humor over
the funny situation In which he
chooses t o place himself. Possibly
the little girl appears as beautiful
to him as a goddess would appear
to us. and he obeys her because of
her beauty and the grace of her
movements. But, deep down in his
nature there may lurk a certain,
undefined fear of her, based upon
recollections of her larger relatives
with their sharp prods and whips.
And, then, the panther. It is not
a full grown one, but it is quite big
enough to eat little Mademoiselle
Migny Bellan.
It.has that inscrutable, unreliable
look in its eyes, which is character
istic of the whole cat tribe, and one
would not like to trust it too far. It
would not sacrifice itself for its
mistress as the elephant would. It
sees no humor in the situation. It
is thinking of its own enjoyment
and not of hers. The fact is that
character shows itself in the faces
of animals as plainly as in those of
men. There is no nobility in any
kind of eat, only selfishness.
There Is perhaps no kind of
knowledge lying beyond our reach
which would be more Interesting to
possess than that of what passes in
the minds of animals when brought
into contact with man. If we could
but read them what revelations
might not be made! Why are they
usually so patient under bondage?
Consider what the horse bears un
complainingly from his two-legged,
and often too merciless, master!
Instead of exhibiting that violence
of revolt, that ungovernable fury of
anger which man shows under op-
:: I low to Treat a Gossip ::
By WINIFRED BLACK.
X "X T HA r would I do if some one
VV l thought was my friend
went and told things I hud
confided to her, thinking she would
never tell them? And what if she
made the stories all over, so that
they were so different when she
was through that no one would
ever recognize them?
What would I do?
\\ ell. my dear correspondent, I
wouldn't do a thing but think what
a goose I'd been to tell anybody's
secrets to anybody efee and expect
them to stay secrets.
I Wouldn't Quarrel.
Quarrel with the oni who told?
Not I. l.ife is too short to quarrel
too short to hate, too short to
“get even.''
Id just see as little of that per
fidious person as 1 possibly could,
and some day I'd thank her for
teaching me a lesson, the lesson
every impulsive, open-hearted per
son has to learn some time or
other, or go through life in hot
water.
What was your secret, anyhow
something about why you wear
curls that ar.' not your own. or did
you really tell the perfidious one
that you and your husband had a
quarrel?
W 11. what of If |io you sup
po-, you and your husband ate the
only ones who • ver quarto)?
In ar lm it you could only hear
th. disput. * that go on under the
i 'of of your dear, t friend, who 1
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Little Migny Belan and her pet Cambodian Panther.
pression and injustice, the horse, 'i
the elephant, the dog, bows to his
punishment, submits to his bur
dens, forgets his Injuries and is
tireless in his devotion and un
changing in his submission. But
what does he think of it all? It is
nonsense to say that he DOESN’T
THINK He DOES think, but we
can not penetrate his thoughts.
It is easy to imagine that there
have been born in his nature some
of tlie principles enunciated in the
Sermon on the Mount, for the pos
session of which we strive in vain
—if we do not, in fact, secretly re
nounce them. It is much to be
feared that there is more of the eat
than of the elephant or the horse
in us. Strike a eat and he will not
turn the other cheek; he will
scratch you and run away. Abuse
an elephant, or a camel, and the
next moment he will kneel to take
you upon his back, and gently obey
all your behests.
In a sense, we are like gods to
the lower animals, and the noblest
•c of them exhibit an attitude toward i
4* Is pretending to be so shocked at
what this scandalous telltale is tell
ing!
Tut. tut. little woman: there are
no such things as secrets —real se
crets — in the lives of decent peo
ple. Why should there be?
The woman who plays bridge
with you tells you some day in
deep confidence that the husband
of her neighbor drinks too much,
and the whole block knew it all
the time.
Mrs. So-and-So's little boy was
expelled from school: dear me,
what a pother; what of it? So
was the brother of the woman who
whispered the awful news to you
right in Mrs So-and-So's home.
I’m Bored By * Secrets.”
My secrets? 1 haven’t one, not
one on earth, and don't want any,
thank you. I’m like a friend of
mtm. who is a good woman with
an unfortunate husband. .
My friend almost went crazy the
first few years she' was married,
trying to keep people from finding
out that her darling Geo ge drank
more than was good for him.
Every time a friend called any
where near George's hour to come
home my friend almost went into
spasms. She’d sit and watch the
window, poor thing mid turn white
at the sound of a leaf dropping on
the porch, till one day the ash man
dropped in so his money, and. be
ing a friendly and not al all formal
ash limn, who had carted for my
ft lend ever since he had hit tile
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their gods which may shame us.
How far do the peculiar senses
of animals enable them to read us
and understand us as we can
neither read nor understand them?
There is no doubt that our intel
lectual powers almost infinitely
surpass theirs, but they have gifts
which we do not possess. A squir
rel, flirting and chattering under a
hazel tree in the autumn, is guid
ed by some mysterious > sense,
which enables him to pick out all
the sound nuts, never making a
mistake, while we can discover the
false ones only by cracking them.
The animals foresee the weather
as all our expensive bureaus and
scientific equipments are powerless
to enable us to do. Can they look
Inside the human shell also? Can
they penetrate the essential char
acter of men better than Shake-
could do? There are animal
trainers who would probably an
swer yes.
From whatever point of view we
regard them, the relations of men
and animals present some of the
most fascinating problems that life
on the earth affords.
■ same public school her husband at
tended, said something sympathetic
about poor George. My friend near
ly fainted, but from that moment
on she stopped pretending, and she
looked years younger in a week.
When George comes home now
the worse for drink and my' friend
is entertaining visitors, she just
slips out into the hall, gets George
upstairs to lie down, and comes
down without turning a hair.
Mortified'.’ To be sure. Hurt?
To the very heart. But not secret,
not pretending, not making a des
perate effort to deceive every one.
Sensible woman. I call her.
Come on in; all the world and
his wife look in at my door all you
w ant to. No. lam not proud of the
skeleton that rattles his bones there
in the closet, but I'm not ashamed
of him. either. 1 didn't make him,
and I'd turn him out in a minute if
I could.
Keep Away From Gossips.
What shall you do with the ' se
cret teller?" Keep away from her
on general principles: site's a gos
sip. anti therefore to be avoided as
the plague is avoided.
Quarrel with her, try to make her
"take it all back." make a great
row an.! t um o-,... nothing " Never
in the wide, wide world A<t just
as you would if you saw a red ant
crawling in the luncheon basket at
a picnic. Take a stick and brush
lh< ant away ami go on eating your
luncheon, taking good care to keep
away from the ant hill the lest of
tin afternoon That's all
THE HOME PAPER
Thomas Tanner
Writes on
How to Build
a Fortune
The Secret of It—lt’s
Easy, He Says, to Be
come Rich on Paper,
But the Real Strain
Comes When You
Get Down to Busi
n e s s and Begin to
Save.
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IT is easy to become rich on pa
per. You begin to figure, and
all at once the result is amaz
ing. But to get down to business
and put savings aside every little
while, say, for 30 years, is a severe
strain.
Every one of these years has its
burden to pay for, its temptations
that waste money, its unexpected
demands that can never be accu
rately taken into account.
Hence, back of all successful
saving, there must be found a high
moral quality, or capacity; that
of Persistence. To succeed de
mands Persevrance, dogged Deter
mination. willingness to make fre
quent sacrifices, forehandedness to
meet the unexpected. In short, it
is a game that requires a brave
and skillful player.
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In talking this over with a bank
president, he said to me:
“Tell people to carry two sav
ings accounts, both in safe savings
banks. These two accounts have
two distinct purposes:
"1.4 n Emergency I'und.
“2. A Permanent Reserve Fund.
"The purpose of having two ac
counts instead of one, is this:
“Many people start a savings
bank account with great hope and
some persistence. They expect to
leave their money undisturbed, and
to benefit in the future by the in
terest it earns. But some unex
pected demand comes along, the
savings are withdrawn from the
bank, the interest stops, AND THE
MOTION OF THAT MONEY TO
WARD FORTUNE CEASES.
"Hence I suggest two savings
accounts. The emergency fund
should be used only when earnings
are not sufficient to tide over a
particularly hard place, only when
some unavoidable expense comes
up that can not otherwise be met.
If a man thinks he can save $lO a
month, let him put twenty per
cent of it aside for the emergency
fund and the balance in the per
manent reserve fund.
"If he is working on a long-dis
tance plan we can afford to be pa
tient and let the two accounts grow
slowlj-. Note how his accounts will
stand in the even years up to the
tenth, without counting interest:
Emergency Reserve
Years. Fund. Fund.
2 $ 48.00 $192.00
4 96.00 384.00
6 144.00 576.00
8 192.00 768.00
10 240.00 960.00
"This two-fold saving account
has many excellent features about ■
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“ Your Father ::
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
XTES, college hoy. I know you’re bright:
1 You've studied Horace through and through.
That's why you stay up late at night
And strive to be a Roman, too.
But here’s a thing to bear in mind
When you are telling all you know;
You're just a puppy, small and biinc.
“The old man” knew it years ago.
“ I he old man” lets you have your way
Ami chuckles when you “put on airs.”
He lets yon say your little say
And lets you show your little wares.
But here's a thing he never tells
Because he fears that h • might bore you.
Ten hard years hence, you’ll have some sense.
“The old man” knew it long before you.
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By THOMAS TAPPER.
f it. Even the small sum of S4B
which he will have in two years
may help him over a hard place
and prevent his drawing against his
reserve of $192 in the same year.
This protects the interest of his
reserve fund, and it keeps growing
•steadily without interruption for
his old age.
“I would advise the man who
saves on this plan to limit the
TOTAL amount of his emergency
fund to one-fourth of his total an
nual expenses on the lowest basis
he can figure them. That is, if his
expenses are $450, his emergency
fund should be about slls. This
amount represents three months’
expenses, and with this insurance
in hand he can readily tide over a
break.
"Again, if some day he actually
must have more money than his
emergency fund amounts to he can
arrange to borrow against the re
serve fund without actually draw
ing his money from deposit. This
will keep his interest account i<
tlve on the entire amount, and he
should repay the loan as additional
expense, making any sacrifice he
can. except ceasing to save the
monthly amount he has decided on
"Now, then,” he concluded, “tell
them two other facts:
“First, this sounds easy and rea
sonable. but it is really very diffi
cult, for it requires sticking to a
definite purpose for a long time It
is only the exceptional person who
can do that.
"Second, the plan works relative
ly just as favorably for the man
who saves one dollar a week as for
him who saves a thousand dollar
a year. The value of the scheme
lies in the continuous, unbroken ef
fort; not in the amount of savings
involved.
“I should look for greater success
in the end on the part of the poor
man who saves a little regularly
than of the man better off who
saves larger sums only when tae
notion seizes him.
“The one tiling that makes mon
ey grow is time. To get more than
a dollar out of a savings bank you
must leave your dollar alone, and
and let time work on it.
“So you see that successful sav
ing. even in small amounts, depenc- (
less on a man’s money than it d
>• on his character.”