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EDITO KI Al, PA O E
GOVERNOR BROWN EXPRESSES APPRECIATION OF GEORGIAN EDITORIAL
Editor of The Atlanta Georgian. Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sir:- It is not my c ustom to criticise or otherwise com
ment upon editorials in the press, but yours in The Georgian on the
subject “M irtial Law in Georgia,” has so commanded my approval
and has struck me as being so timely in its fitness that I can not re
frain from writing to express to you as an official and as a citizen my
high appreciation and commendation of it.
You ire indeed quite correct in your statements to the effect
that “martial law" and the use of the military must be made the last
resort of the authority of the State of Georgia. In truth Ido not be
lieve that liu ro will be scarcely an occasion calling for the active
use oi tile military as much as once a year if the judges, sheriffs and
mayors in their respective localities will courageously and firmly
exercise the authority which the laws place in their hands.
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The Book Agents Deserve
Sympathy—Theirs is an
I Jngrateful Business
p f r
They Ate as a Ilt.’t More Honest Than Their Employers—They
Should Fir.d Other and Better Occupations.
Ih> not buy hooks oi book Hgeiits.
But Imo -for what the\ are worth, uoi with the salary of a
book aaent added.
NN’li'ii a in u iells you that a special edition is sold for sl9
beeaust a p,i. e was i eidcnLillt printed upsid down. HE IS
FOLLOWING .11- EMPLOY ER S IXSTRI (TIOXS TO CHEAT
THE PEBLIC.
The hook supposed to !><■ cheap at sl9 did not cost $3 to
make. You pa< sl9 or more lor what you niiuht buy for $3 or
$4 •. o s.*> I ’ ■ nisi you are paying for the TIME of the hook
anent who thinks he makes yon want the book, and you are
payirie tor the ’’.X!”i\StVE IXSTAIAIEXT plan system of book
bovine.
I'here was time wi'en Ihe people -were more iynorant than
that arc now, when many could hardly read, when big. fat
books with 'aiie\ covers were bought “to look respectable on
the able In those lays the book agent used to point out the
pictures, ell preposterous yarns about the value of the books,
and by misrepresent in ■ the cost of the books, .and urging the
cas\ ii,a' m id >ys mi. books were sold at a tremendous profit
often books of inferior kinds, and the buying of good books was
discouraged.
Tim book agents, .ys a class -men and women—are worthy
of sonnpath'.. l ard working and honest. I nfortunateiy, they arc
employed I - out too often by dishonest concerns, that
send them daily instructions as to swindling and deceiving the
public They are compelled by the nature id’ thejr business to
anno) tiie public. *
T’li- oi bound to make the book pay for its cost, for the
publisher s pi ■•■'i for the hiss when the instalments are not paid
by th oilers, and dso for their own time.
If \on buy a boo!; in a book store, you gel what you want
at a fair price. \
Wb' n xml buy a book of .a book agent, xou pay for his time
—-which does xi ii no good you pay for the bad debts of others
that do not meet their instalments.
V a you x anl to buy books, make up your mind WHAT
you »- .mt. write or go to a fust-class store, and get the goods at
a fair price.
file day of the book agent lias gone by.
Ami that parti<mlar nuisance and interference with tluj
rights of citizens should be suppressed.
Caring for Things That
Nobody Owns
'! 1,1 i Iry of Mr Russell Sage's act in buying Marsh Island,
in tin Gid: of M- xico. in order to provyle a feeding ami breeding
ground for bird- ami Io protect them from slaughtering pot
hunters is the most remarkable thing about it. In the better civil
ization that is io com. we shall no doubt grow familiar with the
idea that the earth, the sea and the air are full ot valuable things
that nobody in particular can own, but that ought to be taken care
of by socio,y at aige or by enlightened individuals acting in that
interest.
I lie bird liti ot the I nited States lias been wasted, so that to
day the 'lords are fewer by half than twenty years ago. because the
birds of the air are a precious natural asset that nobody owns.
in the spirit of Mrs. Sage's wise and public-spirited deed, it is
to be hoped that the rising generation will achieve a keener sense of
| public p;o[ . nv in natural things, and will take long-sighted and
F ocicutihc means of coiiscrx iug such property.
The Atlanta Georgian
TH CBS DAY. O< TO BER 17, 1912.
&
British scien
tists are greatly
exercised over
the declaration
that the steel
bird shown in the
picture is not
“The Sacred
Peacock of the
Yezidis.” which
it was supposed
to be.
Instead it is
said the bird is a
common Persian
ornament worth
about SSO.
Thousands of
dollars are said
to have been
paid for it.
Working For the Boss
HEALTH—By THOMAS TAPPER
HEALTH is an asset of youth,
but it is not guaranteed to
remain an a£set.
Health is also a trust fund which
you have no right to neglect. It
entails responsibility: To care for
it, to keep it up, and to make it last
♦ unto the end of your days.
Health, or its absence, is a con
dition. You can not shrike it off.
You get up with it in the morning,
carry it around with you all day,
and take it to bed with you at
night.
As you work at your job, you will
find that unless health is your inti
mate partner the days will be hard
and the nights restless.
Hence, you are duty bound, to
yourself and to the Boss, to guard
health as carefully as a savings
bank guards money on deposit.
You must watch over It. guard it,
and. if necessary, fight for it. The
only fighting, however, that you
will have to do will be with your
own foolishness.
Get the fact into your head as
soon as you can that, while there is
much pleasure in eating, the prime
object of the operation is nourish
ment. Eat simple, iife-giving
foods, and do not over-eat.
No fireman will fill the coal box
to the top, and then keep on push
ing in more coal. The machine w ill
not work that way. But a man,
made after the image of God, a» we
are told, will not hesitate to fill
the stomach with pancakes, and
keep on pounding In more.
He goes back to the store and
feels heavy and sleepy and inac
tive; and it crosses his foolish
mind that the work is getting hard
er evecy day. "It will break me
This Bird Hoaxed English Scientists
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THE SACRED PEAcdcK OF THE YEZIDIS.
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Gov. Joseph M. Brown
down," he whines. “I can't stand
the strain,” and so on.
But it isn't the strain that is
troubling him.
It is pancakes. o
Any one who works hard and
thinks much about his job will get
tired. The human engine will run
about so long and then cry for
mercy. This mercy is found in
sleep. No worker, man or woman,
can afford, even once in a while, to
rob the body of the rest it demands.
Because;
1. The body gradually breaks
down under strain that is not re
lieved by sleep.
2. The bill may not have to be
handed in the next day, but it will
certainly be presented for payment
some time in the future.
11.
Some authorities recommend the
free drinking of water, plenty of it,
between meals especially. It
cleanses the system, and it is the
most satisfying beverage any one
can take. It never hurts the head,
the heart or the stomach.
But alcohol does.
The free use of water internally
is beneficial. So is its free use ex
ternally. It will vitalize the whole
external surface of the skin and
raise your efficiency several de
grees. This is what it does beyond
keeping the skin clean. An un
washed skin is precisely like a dirty
window pane. The man inside may
try to look out upon the world
about him through it —but every
thing i« hazy, misty and blurred.
Then he begins to think that IT
IS THE WORLD that is hazy,
misty and dim.
I am more reluctant to use the military power than any other
which the constitution and laws place in my hands but under the con
ditions which have prevailed, the executive office has had practically
no recourse than to respond to the calls which the laws authorize the
local authorities to make upon it. When such calls are made the
duty of the Executive is made imperative by law.
I sincerely trust that the happenings of the past few weeks will
arouse the local authorities throughout the State to the realization of
the fact that they have a duty which they should fearlessly perform
and which if so performed will hold the control of each community’s
affairs within its own bounds. This is the desideraturn of a free
people. With high regard, I am, Very truly yours
State of Georgia.
Executive Department.
Atlanta, October 15, 1912.
rpHE strange figure of a bird
I wrought in steef; which was
recently presented to the Brit
ish museum, has been briefly de
scribed as the sacred peacock of the
Yezidis. Its claim to the title is
disputed by Mr. Athelstan Riley. He
writes that as he visited the cele
brated Temple of the Devil in 1886.
before its destruction in 1892, and,
indeed, is probably the only living
European who has been in the
building In its original condition, he
took the opportunity of visiting the
British museum to see the peacock:
"One glance confirmed my suspi
cions—the bird had nothing what
ever to do with the Yezidis or their
temple. It is a Persian peacock of
the usual type, a very familiar or
nament to all who know Persia, and
the figures which decorate the tall
are not representations of Sheikh
Adi or Malik Tawus, bitt the ordi
nary illustrations of Firdusi’s Shah
nama. the great epic of the Persian
kings, as a cursory examination of
any of the manuscripts—and there
must be hundreds in the possession
of the musaum authorities —would
show.
“If anybody paid ‘some thou
sands of pounds' for this impudent
bird, he was grievously swindled.
It is a good specimen of Persian
work, going back perhaps 200 years;
an expert could date it with fair
accuracy. I doubt whether a deal
er would give ten pounds (SSO) for
it; he would not if he were famil
iar with the bazars of the East. I
gather that no national funds have
been applied to this acquisition.”
The cost of one headache a week
can be estimated in dollars and
cents as accurately as you can es
timate the cost of food. This is a
charge against the Boss.
Half a night's sleep, instead of
the full amount, means an Inac
tive mind next day in the store.
So much more expense for the Boss,
to carry on your account, and not
agreed upon, either.
And so on. Every time you al
low irregularities and oeglect to
lower the physical efficiency, down
goes your value to the man you
work for.
It xvill pay you to say to your
self every little while:
"I must learn how to keep so
well all the time that I am worth
one hundred per cent to the Boss
every minute*! am* in the store;
otherwise, I am cheating him.
’’lf I cheat the Boss by not keep
ing my health, I am acting dis
honorably.”
There is absolutely no use study
ing the job unless you study health
at the same time, just as hard and
just as persistently. Health holds
the job, gives it a basis to rest
on; in fact, it makes the job pos
sible.
Hence, going into business, even
one so simple as selling lace goods,
which are not heavy to lift, is bas
ing the whole enterprise on the
condition of health and cleanliness
of the body.
Health not only allows you to
keep at your job today, but it
quickly puts a little more of itself
in the Bank of the Future, where
you will find it at some later day,
ready to carry you over a hard
place.
THE HOME PAPER
JOSEPH M. BROWN, Governor.
Dorothy Dix
Writes on
Wearing Mourning
A LITTLE eignteen-year-old
working gill writes me a
pathetic letter in regard to
the etiquette of mourning attire.
She says that her father died a
month ago, and she scraped to
gether every penny she could spare
and bought a black frock for the
funeral. Now the weather is be
ginning to grow cool, and she
wants to know if she can wear her
good last winter’s suit and jacket
and hat if she will sew a band of
black around the arm of the coat.
She says her friends tell her it
would be highly improper, and that
she must have an entire outfit of
black clothes.
The Father’s Wish.
.The poor little girl Is greatly
troubled because she doesn't want
to do anything that would seem to
be wanting in respect to her fa
ther’s memory, nor does she want
to lay herself open to the criticism
of her friends, and yet she doesn't
see where she’s got the money to
buy all this regalia of woe.
If this little girl will take my ad
vice, she won’? put on one stitch of
mourning, but go right along wear
ing her every-day clothes. Mourn
ing is In the heart, not in the black
garments that we hang upon our
backs, and if the dear dead can look
back upon us and take account of
what we do, be sure that it can add
no joy to their heaven to see
•swathed in crepe that makes us
sick, or burdened with debt for new
black clothes that we can not af
ford.
This girl had a loving, unselfish
father, who tried his best to take
care of her. Does she not know
that he xvould far rather that she
put the money that a mourning
outfit cost in good food to nourish
her, and keep her well and strong,
than for her to go half starved in
order to pay for garments publicly
to proclaim her loss?
And inasmuch as it can do the
dead no good for us to clothe our
selves in sombre garments, and as
it intensifies the sorrows of the liv
ing. why should we be bound by the
opinion of fools in such matters?
Why should we even listen to their
chatter, or be affected by it?
Fanatics of Grief.
The heart that mourns has no
need of a black uniform to adver
tise its bereavement, and when the
livery of grief is wom by those who
rejoice, rather than sorrow, it be
comes a sacrilege, a mockery of
death itself. Yet, we see women
dressed in the deepest black whose
actions belie their clothes, whose
faces, belong to the comic opera
chorus rather than the funeral pro
cession, and who justify the theory
that the grief Is the safest that
breaks out the most profusely In
billows of crepe, and that many a
widow wears a weeping veil to hide
her joy at being free again.
It is one of the tragedies of dea*n
that we meet It neither with the
faith of Christians nor the common
sense of philosophy. Whether we
believe that the beloved ones that
have passed on have gone to Ely
sium or into Nirvana, we know
that they are, at least, at peace and
■ at rest, and better off than they
were in this hard and cruel world.
Theirs is the gain, ours the loss, but
instead of trying to mitigate our
natural sorrow we seem to think
that there is merit in making it as
hard as possible. We are like the
Eastern fanatics that keep their
xvounds green by turning the knife
in them.
We need cheer and whatever
brightness possible brought into our
lives then more than at any other
time, and yet we pull down the
blinds of our windows and shut out
the sunshine: we silence music, anti
we garb ourselves in black that
makes every- casual glance at our
dress stab us anew with our sor
row.
All physicians bear testimony to
the unhealthfulness of wearing
mourning. Every nerologist will
Jell you that for a delicate and
nervous woman, in the throes of a
great grief, to smother herself in
crepe is to endanger not only her
life but her reason, and that many
a woman owes her being a mental
and physical wreck to her mourn
ing Yet so great is the power ot
fashion and convention that only
women of the ’greatest independ
ence of character dare to defy the
edict that dyes them in black for a
prescribed number of months after
a death in their families.
Idiotic Convention.
The heaviest burden of thia
senseless custom falls, however, on
the poor. <The rich can at least
afford to throw away all of their
old clothes and buy new black ones
when they suffer a bereavement.
The poor can not.
To many a poor family a death
means not only the grief of losing
one they love, but being plunged
into financial ruin by the necessity
they feel to have a display funeral,
and to purchase mourning ward
robes. Dresses and hats and warm
coats, not new, but with months of
good wear in them, must be east
aside, and nexv black ones pur
chased in order to comply with an
idiotic convention.
To pay for these black clothes
means that every legitimate ex
pense must be cut down. There
must be less food, less fire, less
light; old people must be denied
comforts, little children deprived of
the things they need. A hard
worked man or woman must w orK
still harder. Young boys and girls
must be taken from school and sent
out to earn a few more cents a day
to help the family pay off the debts
for their mourning.
Is It not pitiful? Is It not gro
tesque? Is it not time that people
began to use a little sense in the
matter, and refused to be bound I"
a heathenish superstition that com
pels them to certain kind
of garment, whether they can af
ford It or not. in order to pro
claim to the passerby the most si
cred secret of their hearts?
Away with the mourning garbl
Each heart knoweth its own bitter
ness and its loss, and clothes have
nothing to do with the measure of
Its grief.