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EDITORIAL 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. ISIS. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mall, >5 00 a year. Payable in advance. No Good Thing Is Ever Lost is n •> Brave Men and Women Live, Struggle, Die and Are Forgotten. But No Good Thing Is Ever Lost. Nothing good is EV EK lost. The wisdom that rules this universe forbids loss absolutely. Th? scientists can prove Io 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. You 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 om? form to another and will exist entire—just as it was. If it were possible to destroy the matter hv burning, the earth would long since have disappeared, for the hulk of wood and coal Horned through the ages would more than equal the bulk of the world. Nothing is lost. When you blow out 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 you use in the blow is changed into heat as the hands meet; 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 mt beginning and without end. indestructible. Nothing in the physical world is ever destroyed. t Nothing in the world of the spirit is ever lost. The architects and the artists built a temple. It fell and vanished. Rut its beaut\ 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 born, eagerly awaited, warmly welcomed. It dies, and the father and mother feci that the world has come to an end. that nothing is worth while. The earth swallows the child’s body as it swallows the stones of the fallen temple. But noth ing is lost. The love of the parents for the child: the power and beauty that have disappeared persist in another form. Kindness to other children, smypathy 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 1 ’ 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 popr. unselfish devotion 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 us 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 beauty, 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 tire to the great temple in order that his name might be remembered burned the temple, but did not de stroy it. 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 the writers. But they did not destroy it. li lives in the de scendants of those that read the books It lives in the eiviliza tion and the better thought of today NO GOOD THING IS EVER LOST Remember that truth, the most important and encouraging of al! truths. Your life may not seem worth while, the sacri fice that you make for others max not seem worth while. Rut NO GOOD THING IS EVER LOST. Ami he who does his duty contributes FOREVER to the sum tot JI of that which is good in the universe. Monkeys and Measles - - Science is steadily sobbing us of some of th' 1 pastimes we 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 eup. <>ur Simian friends max have dour a good deal to develop that uncomfortable disease But we may still admire the giraffe ami the polar bear al close range u it bout bad effects Lot us hope thi'il science, having diseox<-ii-d tin danger, will uuu'kh devise -owe ui*'uu*' l<» ioido the iu<»ui.< x eug, haruiics. | The Atlanta Georgian SAVED FROM LAST YEAR By HAL CO EEMAN. i - j noTH v i ' RG bSO I I —I MM , tiß •: /'oKSF fi I ' ' U"W I w ■ •OvWH-'? iTEVyriiLj' ypb-i i i! /. W ! i ;; i' ' : : " JS It j FR' Ii T, 7 Ife.■ ■*" ■' Ip hj r LI lit $ j *U” G’n 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 witli 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 shows. 70 cents, will look very different next Saturday than they seem when we put them down one at a time. Tile fundamental cause of much of the trouble about the Cost of Lixing 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 s 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 arc any, but that does not bring the money back It docs not require much time or intelligence to keep a family < x ponsc book. Ila) by day set down all amounts expended and at the end of th> week or month subtract them from the Income But that is not the end of the operation. To make a suet ess of It. the man and wife should »ll down one. a week and play Mln-rloek Hollies on iliii item ami accailini 10l It be ing iln r<. ERO)AY, OCTOBER IL 1912. By THOMAS TAPPER. • This docs take time and intelli gence. But it leads to a great result, whieli is: That gradually they begin to question the necessity lor spending F ...zT7~—U~ ’’ y. ■’ v < Hp i,y ''Wfec ■ Zs SB™ 3 JOT ’ ' 17/ ' ■ THpMAS TAPPER. even little sums that do nut bring in full value —that are nut really necessarj . And a second result soon fol lows the first. These accountants «ill begin to see that they can actually admin ister thou home expenses just as • f it w< r« a business ANI> THEN THEY WILL WANT TO HAVE IT PAY \ PlloEH II livtit man ami wife should take no end <>l trouble ami pains to put tin family tirmm < s on u |-oy - mg bari- Tlio surplus tin' mt v be able Io st i » ah pion els Hie luillll} > I'i.im in ituid mm Alien Hie 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 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, there is pro tection for those remaining. Second, every well-conducted business sets aside annually—be sides its insurance—an amount of cash 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 mining smoothly and show ing a profit, they are justified in iniinj 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 i«u save One Hundred Dollars thi- year, and invent it at five per • nt. your principal next year is one Hundred and Five Dollars. Tin following year it is one Hun dred and Ten - Dollaia and Twenty tlve cents —and so on Don't think it beneath your dig nil) to keep accounts It i» as fitn a tialning for tin mind and fm ' <" ' i llielili • t > I-< ,<|, I to, m< body. nTHE HOME PAPER Ella Wheeler Wilcox Writes on Rights of Birds / Women, She Says, Should Organize No-Bird Move ment to Prevent Slaughter. Written For The Atlanta Georgian By Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copyright, 1912, by Ajuerican-Joumal-Exaraiaer. NOW, while the agitation of 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 have 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 lights; 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 to 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 titan a mere skeleton upon wnieh tine apparel is hung, every woman who believes she has a heart and a mind, pause and con- :: A Memory I By William F. Kirk. , AULTS? I have fifteen hundred * Some of them big, some small, Thousands of times I have blundered. ■ Answering some si range call. B II housands of times_l've wondered What is behind it all. H Hut once on a time I met a t'hild ■ Who crept up into nn and smiled H Lies" I have told a million - H Some ot them big, some small. H| None ot these lies escaped the Eyes I hat watch for the sparrow's fall. My soul is seared by the wrong, the weird - B Ihe painted cheeks, and the brawl. B But once' mi a tune I met a child B W ho cr< pi tip into my arms mid smiled , ■> ■flLa ■ , A. >2 . sider the enormity of the crime against the feathered creatures of earth which fashionable millimn wages. And let her resolve to u r 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 chin luncheon where women, wearing every manner of bird decoration mt their heads, meet together to dis euss 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 thi, question (subject, rather, -since it is no question), there is the ap palling hACt that the decrease of birds means the Increase of in sects and moths, and the cons, quent destruction of fruits, grain vegetables and trees. From an industrial, as well as t humane point of view, women should organize a no-bird millinery movement. Beautiful creations in headg-ar are fashioned out of ribbons, i,,. , ferns, flowers and jet. Analyzed, the idea of carrying a dead bird or anything which mean* I the destruction of life on the head I is monstrous, inartistic and sen.-, - less. I The wearing of furs can be de- I fended by the argument that , r I animals would soon own the eart. I if not destroyed; and that human I beings need their skins to ke-m. I them from the cold. I But no such argument can !-■ I offered in excuse by the women I who cause birds to be slaughtered I by the millions for their use in I head decorations. I Shame Women Who Wear Dead Birds on Hats. Tell the milliner, dear lady tn I fashion you the most exquisite im! I possible out of nature's and .ir ■' I inanimate articles. ■ Suggest ideas to her. and I deavor to produce something wm- 'n B shall be so beautiful it puts m B shame the miniature butcher sem ■ ■ which other women spurt. H Talk this subject to your friend'. ■ and to your enemies, and m,iL H familiar to the minds of ■ women. ■ Refuse to belong to a club 'i H does not consider tills questini: ■ of importance to tlie progie-s M woman. ■ Make the women who M your church ashamed of w, - H dead birds. Refuse to boii'. > ■ M their religion until they ■> H aid the cause of Murderous M ■ nery. M