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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.
WANTED: A Free Ballot,
Not a Pink One
Tin 1 state Democratic executive committee is goinp far out of
its way in undertaking to say what sort of ballot shall be cast
for Wilson and Marshall electors in the November presidential
election, and that it shall be of a, different color from the ballots
cast for the other electors.
|1 is one thing for the committee, in exercising its guar
dianship over the affairs of the Democratic party in Georgia, to
set up rules and regulations for primary elections, but it is as
suming a good deal when it attempts to dictate at regular na
tional elections.
Putting aside all partisanship and factional feeling, and dis
regarding the question of voters bolting primaries, the people of
this stat- have severally the right TO VOTE AS THEY PLEASE
-and it is highly unbecoming in a Democratic committee to
threaten them with political excommunication if they do not
cast their ballots in a regular election in such away that they
may lie checked up subsequently and located exactly in the mat
ter of their choice.
Regardless of who wins, the people demand a “FREE BAL
LOT AND A FAIR COUNT.” That is a Democratic slogan as
old as the hills, and it never has been found wanting!
The state committee should recede from its foolish pink bal
lot proposition.
It is both impertinent and unwise to undertake an innovation
at once so dangerous and so absurd.
Woodrow Wilson himself repeatedly has emphasized the ab
solute patriotic necessity of freedom of thought in the matter of
polities.
He would reject the pink ballot suggestion immediately.
It is contrary to the letter and the spirit of many high-mind
ed public statements he has made upon the subject of a fair,
frank, honest and unterrified ballot!
Wilson and Marshall will carry Georgia handsomely.
Let the victory be one free from a possible flareback. and
far removed from questionable method.
Announcement for Thanks-
giving
Quietly and without ostentation for political effect, the presi
dent of the United States, with the help of the department of agri
culture. makes an announcement of tremendous interest to all the
people of the country.
I tie supply of foodstuffs is meeting the demand in the year's
crops, and high prices have reached their height and are now sub
siding everywhere. The wheat crop is 100,000.000 bushels larger
than last year, and high-grade Hour has already fallen HO cents
a barrel. The saving in Hour to consumers is estimated at SIOB.-
000,000. The unprecedented corn crop reaches 3,000,000,000 bush
els. Also the hay crop is enormous.
The falling prices will save consumers some $94,000,000 in po
tatoes. and on the nine great crops of the country—corn, wheat,
oats, barley, rye. buckwheat, potatoes, flaxseed and hay—the prices
now indicate a saving of $500,000,000 to the people.
This announcement is really good enough for a Thanksgiving
proclamation, but the president, who is bearing himself everywhere
with a dignity worthy of his office, gives it out without delay.
Another Foolish Bryan Idea
Mr. Bryab. assuming his usual dictatorial tone in polities, takes
occasion in advance of November to say:
■Governor Wilson is pledged by his platform to a single term.’
Let us see about that. Mr. Bryan is responsible for the plat
form. Likewise he was permitted to rule the program so as to re
verse ihe usual order of Democratic conventions, which always
adopt the platform first. Bryan, for his own reasons, insisted that
the candidate should be elected first and the platform made after
ward. *
And so, on the eighth day of an exhausted convention, the
Bryan-made platform containing the Bryan declaration for a single
presidential term was read to a listless, sleepy audience eager to get
away, and adopted, of course.
Twenty-four hours after the convention adjourned Governor
\\ ilson, at Seagirl. N. J., talking to the newspaper men, remarked:
“AND NOW. BOYS, YOU MUST EXCUSE ME. I HAVEN’T
HAD TIME TO READ THE PLATFORM YET.”
And in the first speech of the campaign—or the first but one—
Governor Wilson very wisely and very significantly remarked:
“A PLATFORM IS NOT A PROGRAM.”
Os course, no such unwise policy as the single presidential term
would have been adopted by a wide-awake Democratic convention
in its earlier and more deliberate considerations.
Os course, no intelligent American commonwealth, upon its sub
mission. would vote for this foolish amendment, which Washington
rejected and which Jefferson strongly condemned.
As Mr. Hearst declared in his review of this plank of the Bal
timore platform :
“A SINGLE TERM IS TOO SHORT FOR A GOOD PRESI
DENT AND TOO LONG FOR A BAD ONE!”
Suppose that Bryan's wild dream of a fourth nomination for
himself had been realized. It is more than probable, that there
would have been one omission from that platform so carefully post
poned! Which one?
Whatever Bryan's motive in projecting this fatuous idea here
and by all the Bryan precedents it must have been selfish—neither
Governor Wilson nor the people are likely to pay anv attention
k to it
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Working for the Boss
Wages— By Thomas Tapper
WAGES are the flowers you
pick in the garden of indus
try;-
You see. it's this wav
If you want a guidon you dig
and delve: then you turn the soil
with your hands. You add fertil
izer and care, a little loam and a
good deal of backache, and then
you drop the seeds in.
But before you drop the seeds,
you sort of plan the whole thing.
You see it in the mind as you hope
It is going to be* The pansies here,
the asters over there, and so on.
Then You Get a Garden.
Then you pull weeds for a while,
and water the garden. Then you
transplant the seedlings, and pull
more weeds and do lots more wa
tering.
And so on.
If you keep at it every day until
a backache is a regular thing—why,
then you get a garden with some
flowers.
IT.
Now, about the wages.
All that preliminary garden work
is, in the case of wages, getting
ready for the job; learning things,
doing things, working up to things.
Finally, being entrusted with
something to do, by somebody else,
for a little of his money.
By and by you begin to think the
wages are not enough. Tam worth
more. The Boss isn’t treating me
right. And so on.
Well, now. let’s wander into the
garden again.
How are we going to get a lot
more flowers than we have?
By investing in a lot more back
ache.
A job worth while is a garden
that can be enlarged indefinitely.
If there seem to be four retaining
walls around the job you have, and
you are dissatisfied, study the
RIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1912.
height of the wall. It may be pos
sible to get over it.
A man at work has every right
in the world to more pay—if there
is more in him than the job is call
ing-out.
People keep on arguing that
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THOMAS TAPPER.
Wages have not increased with the
Cost of Living. There’s Johnny Ma
son, been at work for twenty years,
at practically the same salary. Now.
he has a family of four to support,
and the cost of everything is in
creasing.
I can see that. Costs increase
and families increase—and wages
do not increase as fast. But what
I am most interested in is this.
Has Johnny Mason been increas
ing?
Ic his value as a worker in
creasing through a steady push on
his part to make a bigger and more
efficient man of himself?
J still have the notion that there
V are plenty of chances, and ever-in
creasing wages for any Johnny Ma
son in the world who will never let
up on increasing his working ca
pacity.
But 1 don’t see much in the way
of better times for the Johnny Ma
sons who were as useful and effi
cient twenty years ago as now, and
no more now than twenty years
ago.
111.
In this problem of Working for
the Boss there is one point we are
forever forgetting:
A man is his own Boss, whoever
he works for.
If there is more in him than
there is in the job, he must take
the next train Forward as soon as
he has the fare.
For this purpose a little cash in
hand to pay the expenses of the
move is indispensable. Here is the
first and logical purpose of Thrift
and Saving.
Get something ahead so as to
command your own freedom when
the move must be made.
A Boss is apt to have a fair
knowledge of relative values, if he
is a decent kind of a Boss.
How He’ll Figure.
He is apt to figure it out like
this:
So much capacity, so much pay.
Now, answer this:
If the Boss is a little slow to
raise the pay. should a man take
revenge on him by not raising his
own capacity?
If a man has Skill for Sale, he
must keep on improving it on ac
count of the competition.
And when the habit of Improving
ekill is fixed and reliable, lie will
then find a market where his goods
are in demand.
That market will be right here In
tile stores
THE HOME PAPER
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Writes on
Women Who Have
Erred
They Should Forget the Past,
She Says, by Practicing Phi
lanthropy and Benevolence.
Written For The Atlanta Georgian
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright, 1912, by Amerlcan-Journal-Examiner
Y"T T HAT,” asks a young
V W woman of 25, “is. the
future of a girl of my
age who has allowed her affection
for a man, and her belief In him, to
lead her away from the path of
prudence and purity, and who now
finds the man about to marry an
other girl?
“Can the one who is abandoned
and deserted hope for any happi
ness or success in life?
"Can she hope to be forgiven
’ sufficiently to ever take her place
again among good men and wom
en ?
“Can she do as the man is doing,
marry another without telling of
the error?”
It is the old, old story and the old,
old problem.
Yet, not quite so much of a prob
lem as in olden times.
The two standards of morals are
less marked than they were even a
score of years ago.
There are more avenues open
for a woman to find employment,
occupation and growth than there
used to be, and there is a broader
sentiment prevalent in the world
regarding the woman who has
erred, and who earnestly strives to
get back into the right paths.
Work and Study.
Such a woman (who has no un
fortunate evidence of her mistake
to confront her hourly) should en
deavor to occupy her mind as whol
ly as possible with w’Ork, study, be
nevolent and philanthropic duties
and efforts at self-development and
forgetfulness of the past.
She should think of those things
1 which build and construct the mor
al nature, and obliterate to such a
degree as is possible unhappy and
depressing memories.
Nature, as well as society, hijs
made its different laws for men and
women in matters of morals.
A man easily forgets his lapses
from virtue; they slip away, per
haps no farther than the subcon
scious mind, but far enough to give
him a very comfortable feeling and
to allow him to accept all favors
from good women with no sense of
a troubled conscience.
Even the favor of a good girl’s
love and the bestow’al of her hand
and heart he takes without a
qualm.
Possibly this is because he has
been educated from time immemo
rial to think he has a right to do as
he pleases, find because he knows
women have been educated to, ac
cept his misdeeds as trivial faults,
and to forgive them before he asks
:: Bacon and Eggs ::
By WEX JONES.
"Colonel Roosevelt had bacon and eggs for breakfast.” —News Item
LET the French with an omelette start off the day,
It’s all right for the people who breakfast that way;
Let the Scotch tumble out of their beds in the heather
To breakfast on bagpipes and oatmeal together;
But give us the dish an American begs,
A steaming platter of bticon and eggs.
Bacon and eggs, bacon and eggs,
It puts brains in the cranium and brawn in the legs.
Give wheatine to faddists to gnaw on and munch,
And nuts to raw fooders to mumble and crunch,
And let the dyspeptic despairingly peel
An orange to make his matutinal meal;
But the healthy American assuredly begs
For his breakfast a platter of bacon and eggs.
Bacon and eggs, bacon and eggs,
It builds up a man from noodle to legs.
Take Teddy—don’t tell us he’s ailing or sick;
If he is, he’ll get over it pretty blame quick.
Is it toast that he calls for and a pot of weak tea?
Not much—that’s for invalids, not such as he.
No; he knows what’ll put him right back on his legs,
And that’s a good breakfast of bacon and eggs.
Bacon and eggs, bacon and eggs.
\on bet, that ’s the breakfast a healthy man begs.
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• for forgiveness. Woman mean
while does not forget her mistakes.
At least her one mistake. A wom
an excuses herself for every other
fault but the one. She ignores her
own violent temper, her tendency to
talk scandal and injure others by
her envious speech, her sins of ex
travagance and disorder, iter lack
of loyalty, and her selfishness in the
small things which make daily Hv.
ing agreeable or otherwise, ah
these faults she denies or forgets.
But she never forgets her having
ctTed in overstepping the mark
where prudence ends and indiscre
tion begins.
The Feminine Tendency.
Therefore, it is difficult to prom
ise any woman real happiness after
a misstep because of this feminine
tendency to dwell on the errors of
the past.
So far as keeping her secret from
the man she may marry, she must
argue that out according to her own
dictates of conscience. She may
argue that her past belongs to her
self; that she is better than any
man in her conduct: that she has
not erred in any degree as the mar
has erred; that she does not a<
him for a detailed story of his pas
and that he has no right to ask het
But the old laws of the world wil
confront her possibly some day.
story may come to her ears
Ing the past of iter husband. Si
will turn a deaf ear or make ligli
of it. Even if she questions hin
and he confesses it is true, sht
will soon ignore it. But if the hits
band hears a similar story regas:-
ing her past, and if he question:
her, he will not make light of it.
Liberal in Their Views.
All this she must take into con
sfderation before she decides upm
her course of action.
There are, every year, more ant
more men who marry girls with t
past and who know it and con
done it.
Men are growing more liberal;
they are realizing that women are
only human like themselves; anil
they' are beginning to understand
that one error, caused by mis
placed affection and lack of knowl
edge of the laws of life, and lack
of the right instruction from a sen
sible mother, does not mean ti
a girl is bad or wicked or unw:-
thy of a man’s trust and confidence.
Let this unhappy young woman
live so exemplary a life that sonie
such man may choose her for a
• wife in days to come.