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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANT At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga. Entered as second-class matter at postoftlce at Atlanta, under act of March 3, 137*. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mall, 35.0# a year. Payable tn advance. No Good Filing Is Ever Lost •> K ■» Brave Men and Women Live, Struggle, Die and Are Forgotten, But No Good Thing Is Ever Lost. Nothing good is EVER lost. The wisdom that rules this universe forbids loss absolutely. The scientists can prove to those intelligent enough to see the truth that matter and force are indestructible. When you burn a log of wood in your fireplace, you destroy the shape. Yon do not destroy the wood. Not one atom of it is lost. The moisture is changed into steam and goes up the chimney. And that steam may be changed into the gases, oxygen and hydro gen. of which water is made—but not an atom ceases to exist. The carbon may go off in the form of gas. certain solid parts are reduced to ashes—nothing is LOST. The matter changes from one form to another and will exist entire—just as it was. If it were possible to destroy the matter by burning, the earth would Jtxng since have disappeared, for the bulk of wood and coal burned through the ag-es would more than equal the bulk of the world. Nothing is lost. When you blow oirt a candle there is no loss—the light of the flame and the heat of the flame still exist in another form of energy. When you strike your hands violently together, the force that yon use in the blow is changed into heat as the hands meett no particle of force is lost. It Is probable that not a particle of matter or any force of any kind was ever created or ever destroyed. The universe is a great, endless, infinite combination with out beginning and without end, indestructible. Nothing in the physical world is ever destroyed. Nothing in the world of the spirit is ever lost. , The architects and the artists built a temple. It fell and vanished. But its beauty and power still exist in the written words that the temple inspired, and in the better thought hand ed down to the generations that survived the temple’s fall. A child is bom. eagerly awaited, warmly welcomed. It dies, and the father and mother feel that the world has come to an end. that nothing is worth while, 'rhe earth swallows the child's body as it swallows the stones of the fallen temple. But noth ing is lost. The lovs of the parents for the child; the power and beauty that have disappeared persist in another form. Kindness to other children, sniypathy for unfortunate mothers, greater devotion and care for the children that remain—those things prove that the dead child did not live or die in vain. Hospitals have been built, schools established, charities of all kinds have been organized in memory of children that have died too soon. The child has disappeared, like the fallen temple. But the beauty and the power exist in another form, as the flame and the heat and the substance of the burnt-out fire still exist and still do useful work elsewhere. The real work of the world, the only work that counts, the work in comparison with which that of all the “great men'’ is nothing, IS THE WORK OF THOSE THAT ARE NEVER HEARD OF. THOSE WHO TOO OFTEN BELIEVE THEY LIVE IN VAIN. No good thing is ever lost. Kindness to the poor, unselfish demotion to children, justice and generosity to the weak—-these are manifestations of the highest force in the universe, the force of the spirit. And that force is indestructible; it lasts forever, like the common forces—heat, light, electricity—that science tells ns can not be destroyed. Foolish are they that long for praise. That which is un known and apparently forgotten is as important as the deed most widely advertised. The temples of Babylon and the first monuments of Greek now entirely vanished, exist today and do their work to day just as when the first stone of each was laid. The slave who set fire to the great temple in order that his name might be remembered burned the temple, but did not de stroy it. 4 The religious vandals of the Middle Ages that burned the magnificent works of the ancients, the wonderful books, the no ble poems, believed falsely that they had destroyed the work of Ihe writers. But they did not destroy it. It lives in the de scendants of those that read the books. It lives in the civiliza tion and the better thought of today NO GOOD THING IS EVER LOST. Remember that truth, the most important and encouraging of all truths. Your life may not seem worth while, the sacri fice that you make for others may not seem worth while. But NO GOOD IIIING IS EX ER LOST. And he who does his dutv contributes FOREVER to the sum total of that which is good in the universe. _ Monkeys and Measles Science is steadily robbing us ot some of the pastimes used to think most amusing. Hereafter when we march to the zoo with the little ones we will do well to remember that the frolicsome mon key is a carrier of measles and that when infected he throws off millions of germs every time he sneezes. Next to the common drinking cup, our Simian friends may have done a good deal to develop that uncomfortable disease But we may still admire the giraffe and the polar bear’at close range without bad effects. Let us hope that science, having discovered the danger, will quickly devise t>uuie means to render the monkey cage harmless. The Atlanta Georgian SAVED FROM LAST YEAR B! NOThsI A J mV' —i i Bfi" TI i m ,i:' sit = liw IM 'd' 1, ; B J iL] ■= M fl 5 : I -iL li II ■ 1 ■? ■t-ksvl’’—lulU - y . _ - One Way to Reduce Living Cost NO one knows much about the Cost of Living who does not keep strict account of Income and Expense. Not a gen eral account, but one that shows exactly what is done with every cent. The great value of keeping ac counts lies in the fact that it is constantly jolting the bookkeeper. Such items as cigars, 30 cents; soda. 20 cents; hard drinks, 90 cents: moving picture shotvs, 70 cents, will look very different next Saturday than they seem when we put them down one at a time. The fundamental cause of much of the trouble about the Cost of Living is Carelessness. Many of us spend what money we have as freely as we let water run from the faucet in the kitchen sink. We no more think of measuring our money spent than we think of measuring the water we wash with. But the strict accounting for money is one of the ways to for tune in business. Now, running a household is as much of a business as any other. Hence, it ought to run its finances like a business. As a rule, there is simply sub lime ignorance on the part of hus bands and wives as to where the money has gone. True, they may hold a mournful wake over the remains, if there are any. but that does not bring the money back. It dqes not require much time or intelligence to keep a family ex pense book. Day by day set down all amounts expended and at the emi of the week or month subtract them from the Income. Rut that is not tile end of the operation. To make a success of it. the man and wife should sit down once a wet k and plav Sherlock Holmes on every item and account for its be ing there. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11. 1912. By HAL COFFMAN. By THOMAS TAPPER. This does take time and intelli gence. But it leads to a great result, j which is: That gradually they begin to question the necessity for spending > J Bp i*. 'wlh THOMAS TAPPER. even little sums that do not bring in full value—that are not really necessary. And a second result soon fol lows the first. These accountants will begin to see that they can actually admin ister their home expenses Just as if it were a business, AND THEN THEY WILL WANT TO HAVE IT PAY A PROFIT. 11. Every man ami vv ife .should take no end of trouble ami pains to . put the family finances on a pay ing basis. The surplus the) ma.v be able to set aside piottcts the family's business in hard times; when thv • wage earner is sick, or work is slack, or other causes take more money than regular expenses, al low. When the family business be gins to show a surplus (and this x always comes from good manage ment), it is time to apply other business principles to the family’s future. First, that future should be in sured as fully as possible, so that if one of the partners dies, par ticularly the husband, th\re is pro tection for those remaining. Second, every well-conducted business sets aside annually—be sides its insurance—an amwjnt of casli to make a Reserve Fund. This Reserve Fund is the health of the business and protects it in bad times. Third, every business that pros pers can afford to pay better sal aries to its workers. When the man and wife have the family affairs moving smoothly and show ing a profit, they are justified in many little expenditures for per sonal and family pleasure that should not be thought of in the be ginning. It is a good rule to consider a regular savings bank deposit as a bill to be paid, and when it is paid, TO FORGET ABOUT IT. Just imagine that the money is gone and that you can not get at it. Let it alone to gather up interest— momentum. Interest is a wonder ful thing. If you save One Hundred Dollars this year, and invest it at five per cent, your principal next year is One Hundred and Five Dollars. The following year it is One Hun dred and Ten Dollars ami Twenty five cents—and so on. Don’t think it beneath your dig nity to keep account!. It is as tine a training for the mind and for tune as cali-thenlc exercises are for the body. THE HOME PAPER Ella Wheeler Wilcox Writes on Rights of Birds i|Sli Women, She Says, Should Oiganize No-Bird Move ment to Prevent Slaughter. Written For The Atlanta Georgian By Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copyright, 1912, by American-Journal-Examiner. NOW, while the agitation ot woman’s rights is going on, let all women give a thought to the rights of birds in God’s beau tiful world. The season for fall hats is here. And here is a little extract from some statistics given by Henry’ Salt, in his booklet, “Animals’ Rights,” published in London: “One dealer in London is said to hjive received as a single consign ment 32,000 dead humming birds, 80,000 aquatic birds and 800,000 pairs of wings. A Parisian- dealer had a contract for 40,000 birds, and and an army of murderers were turned out to supply the order. No less than 40,000 terns have been sent from Long Island in one sea son for millinery purposes. At one auction alone in London there were sold 404,389 West Indian and Bra zilian bird skins, and 356,389 East Indian, besides thousands of pheas ants and birds of paradise. "The meaning of such statistics is simply that the women of Eu rope and America have given an order for the ruthless extermina tion of birds. No Justification for Such Destruction. “It is not seriously contended In any quarter that this wholesale de struction, effected often in the most revolting and heartless manner. Is capable of excuse or justification: yet the efforts of those who address themselves to the better feelings of the offenders appear to meet with little or no success. The cause of this failure must undoubtedly be sought in the general lack of any * clear conviction that animals have rights; and the evil will never be thoroughly remedied until not only this particular abuse, but all such abuses, and the prime source from which such abuses originate, have been subjected tp an impartial crit icism. In saying this I do not, of course, mean to imply that special efforts should not be directed against special cruelties. I have already remarked that the main re sponsibility for the daily murders which fashionable millinery is In stigating must lie at the door of those who demand, rather than those who supply, these hideous and funereal ornaments. Unfor tunately, the process, like that of slaughtering cattle, is throughout delegated to other hands than those of the ultimate purchaser, so that it is exceedingly difficult to bring home a due sense of blood-guilti ness to the right person.” Let every woman who claims to be more than a mere skeleton upon which fine apparel is hung, every woman who believes she has a heart and a mind, pause and con- FAULTS? I have fifteen hundred— Some of them big. some small. Thousands of times I have blundered. Answering some strange call. Thousands of times I’ve wondered What is behind it all. But once on a time I met a child Who crept up into my arms and smiled. Lies? I have told a million— Some of them big, some small. None ot these lies escaped the Eyes That watch for Ihe sparrow’s fall. My soul is seared by the wrong, the weird the painted cheeks, and the brawl. But om-e on a time I met a child . Who crept up into m\ arms and smiled. j. sider the enormity of the against the feathered creatures of earth which fashionable millinery wages. And let her resolve to use her feminine ingenuity and taste in creating hats and bonnets for her own use which do not require the corpses of or feathers of dead birds to make them beautiful. There is no more grotesque sight to behold than a woman’s club luncheon where women, wearing every manner of bird decoration on their heads, meet together to dis cuss the best ways of bringing kindness into the world and lessen ing cruelty. Decrease of Birds Means Increase of Insects. Besides the cruel aspect of this question (subject, rather, since it 1s no question), there is the ap palling FACT that the decrease of birds means the increase of in sects and moths, and the conse quent destraction of fruits, grains, vegetables and trees. From an industrial, as well as a humane point of view, women should organize a no-bird millinery movement. Beautiful creations In headgear are fashioned out of ribbons, lace, ferns, flowers and jet. Analyzed, the idea of carrying a dead bird or anything which means the destruction of life on the head is monstrous, inartistic and sense less. The wearing of furs can be de fended by the argument that wild animals would soon own the earth if not destroyed; and that human beings need their skins to keep them from the cold. But no such argument can be offered in excuse by the women who cause birds to be slaughtered by the millions for their use in head decorations. Shame Women Who Wear Dead Birds on Hats, Tell the milliner, dear lady, to fashion you the most exquisite hat possible out of nature's and art’s inanimate articles.' Suggest ideas to her. and en deavor to produce something which shall be so beautiful it puts to shame the miniature butcher shops which other women sport. Talk this subject to your friends, and to your enemies, and make it familiar to the minds of all women. Refuse to belong- to a club that does not consider this question one of importance to the progress of woman. Make the women who attend your church ashamed of wearing dead birds. Refuse to believe in their religion until they cease to aid the cause of Murderous MilH v nery. A Memory By William F. Kirk.