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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 J. IS7J. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mail, Jo.oo a year Payable In advance. What Good Weather Does NOT Do for the Streets KUH But There Is Hope. The Chamber of Commerce Has Secured Experts to Show Just What Can and Should Be Done by the City Authorities. The fine weather which has prevailed most of the time since the middle of the summer has served to prove beyond a doubt that the present system for constructing and improving Atlan ta’s streets is about as efficient as a one-horse power engine would be in a racing automobile. When The Georgian began its campaign for Letter streets several months ago, the officials took refuge behind the heavy rainsi However, council agreed that the street system was faulty and the city’s charter was amended so that the department could be reorganized. Captain Clayton, head of the street department, fought a re adjustment. “Give me good weather, the eo-operafion of coun cil. and I will give you good streets.” he said. Up to date Captain Clayton has had a lot of excellent weather. Council says he has had its co-operation. Look at the street in front of your house. The holes in it will answer this weather promise. Rut now there is hope. The Chamber of Commerce is holding some encouragement over the quagmires we call streets. It has secured experts to jhow just what can and should be done to improve, them. 1 This is real public service. The experts’ report will go to council and on facts and np-to-date methods the reorganization of the department will be made this month. Following the natural order of things, some real improve ments along the lines of what a big city needs may be started about January 1. In the meantime. The Georgian wishes to thank The Atlan ta Constitution, which, during the last few days, has joined the fight for better streets. Drinking Water and Public Health Now that railroads and steamboats engaged in interstate com merce are forbidden to furnish public drinking cups, the public health service has turned its attention to drinking water. It is issuing an order to all railroads and steamboat lines that water for drinking on trainband vessels shall be certified as to its purity by the health authorities of the state from which it is drawn. The same rule applies to ice. Moreover, it requires that water con tainers be scalded with steam once a week. The second order is as needful as the first. No one who travels can be blind to the carelessness with which water is handled. The containers are often dirty, the water is carted in dirty cans and when ice is used it is dragged through all sorts of filth and dumped by grimy hands into the cooler. Indeed, it is not only on trains and boats that this gross care lessness exists. One can see icemen anywhere hauling ice over the sidewalks preparatory to putting it into refrigerators, where after ward it is chipped off and used to disseminate germs in drinking water. The new rule of the health service is particularly beneficial be cause trains and boats pass through so many sections of country, any one of which may be infected. The only wonder is that such regulations were not made and enforced long ago. The answer lies in the happy-go-lucky attitude of Americans, who prefer to suffer all sorts of indignities rather than make a row. Probability of a Democratic Senate Democrats in the states that elect new United States senators before the 4th of next March have a special and urgent responsi bility laid upon them. I hey should not fail to appreciate the im mense importance of making the senate Democratic. Half the gain that the country should derive from a Democratic administration will fail to materialize if the white house and the house of representatives are to be balked and thwarted by an an tagonistic majority at the north end of the capitol. It is particularly to be noted that relief in the matter of tariff and trust legislation will very largely depend upon the democratiza tion of the senate. As the senate now stands, there are fifty Republicans, forty three Democrats and three vacancies. In addition to the filling of the three vacancies that already exist, there will be thirty-one other vacancies to be filled on the 4th of next March—making thirty-four seats in all to be considered. It is to he recorded with thanksgiving by a grateful country that one of the twelve Democratic senators whose terms expire next March is the Hon. Joseph W. Bailey, of Texas. Most of the other Democrats will doubtless be returned to office. Mr. Bailey will be allowed to prosecute his lucrative legal calling—in other quarters. There is particularly good reason to expect that the Democrats "•'Hj;ain two senators in Colorado, one or two in Idaho and one m New Jersey, Nevada, Nebraska, Montana and Kansas. The Atlanta Georgian THE FOOTBALL SEASON IS HERE Copyright, 1912, International News Service. .<• 2 ihw.ta'n) r 5 o-A -K. n g® |g, U ofW, HIM- 50AKHIM v\\\\ Wife f '",IA V\V \\\ -Aon jftgLZ <’J \ \ \ trust ■hJIW i W «, W wr mW . • * ~ . ~r' Working For the Boss T, “ Job „, H ±. r .X A SQUIRREL in a cage can travel a good many miles and get nowhere. A good many people 1n the store work the same way. When Columbus was done think ing about rhe land to the west of the ocean—which he had never seen—he quit that and began to study ways and means of getting to It. He Made the Journey. Then Ferdinand and Isabella came forward. But Christopher made the Journey. Whatever job a man has, there is a better one ahead of him, or higher up. He should work everlastingly at this Job. and at the same time think hard about the land to the west that he has never seen. There are sure to be a Ferdinand and Isabella waiting to help him, if he needs help. 11. A squirrel in a cage is a crea ture of few and fixed habits—all on account of the wire-work en vironment. But keep it in mind THAT A SQUIRREL NEVER MANUFAC TURED A WIRE-WORK CAGE FOR ITSELF. A man will go to work and make a wire-net environment for him self and blame the United States government for his limited oppor tunities. No boss ever lived who was not delighted to see a thinking work l er get his reward. Reports to the contrary notwith standing. Phillips Brooks, the eminent Bos- LETTERS FROM GEORGIAN READERS THE "PISTOL TOTER.” Editor The Georgian: I have read your editorial in The Georgian of Monday under the cap tion. "It's Too Easy to Kill in At lanta,” with intense interest and I heartily agree with you in every word you say. I am compelled to make an even stronger statement, and if 1 could find words that would give greater emphasis to my thoughts on the subject I would be glad to use them. It is this: The practice of pistol toting should be made so odious and so detestable that the carrying of concealed weapons by unauthorized persons would make them hated and de tested by all decent law-abiding people everywhere. The mark of Cain should be placed upon all such persons, because It's barbaric, dev ilish, and uncivilized. In the first place, the very fact that a man carries a concealed weapon on his person as he goes to and fro Is proof positive that he is either a murderer at heart or an inexcusable coward. He is pre pared to shoot and kill his fellow man at slight, imaginary or at no provocation at all. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1912. ’ ton clergyman, once said that a man would better pray, not for strength to do his work, but for work to use up his strength. What Energy Would Do. Baek of this prayer a man must have a clear perception of where THOMAS TAPPER. he is going. Take the ease of the squirrel again: The fact that he trots on the little wire wheel all day long shows that he has energy. But it produces nothing. In the woods where he belongs, the same energy would take him • over miles of forest, and he would If he is carrying the pistol as a precautionary matter he is, by this very act, a coward. He is doing this like other murderers or other cowards ready to shoot first, if possible. Down with the pistol toting busi ness and away with the pistol toter. Let him feel the righteous indigna tion of this sort of business. When a man is found guilty let the> heavy hand of the law bear down upon him to its fullest limit nothing less than a fine and a chaingang sentence for such of fenders. This and this only will put a stop to this savage, uncivilised practice. Good citizenship demands the im mediate abolishment of this species of barbarism in this Christian twentieth century. G. W. R. Atlanta, Ga. THE CREMATORY SITUATION. Editor Tile Georgian: Tlie crematory situation is being aired again and the articles re cently given the people by Mr. Amorous and Mr. Woodward, our next mayor, are absolutely in line • be busy storing up nuts, and other forms of squirrel currency, against the hard times of next winter. There is about an equal amount of work in both operations, but not an equal amount of result. HI. Os course, you don’t need to live in a wire cage if you don't want to. But if you keep out of such an environment you must range the whole forest in search of storage products for the winter of later days. By ranging the forest, I mean living in the freedom of knowing that you are master of what you set out to do. If it keeps coming a little harder, Just smile and say: "Come on,” It may be that some political par ty will promise if you will wait to get you fifteen hundred dollars a year for half a day’s work. Don’t wait. Some of these Trains of Political Thought come in late. Perhaps life will be easier for everybody in a little while—say, two hundred years hence. But, in the meantime, the store opens at eight-thirty. The Boss’ Expectations. The Boss expects every place to be filled with a bright and active individual intent on making the salary seem worth while to him. You must not slump or look un happy when the customer asks to see sixteen and a half collars—be cause: During the collar transaction you represent the Boss and the whole establishment to the customer. As he finds you, so he interprets it all. Give the,Boss a good deal. Then expect a good deal from the ■ Boss. with the feelings of at least 90 per cent of the taxpayers of Atlanta, and if the general expressions of a large number of our leading busi ness men are to be taken into con sideration, there will be one of the worst fights yet precipitated, if the contract with the Deetructor Com pany is allowed to stand. Truly such proceeding would be one of the grossest and most uncalled-for expenditures that -the citizens of Atlanta hav4 ever been called upon to meet. It is an established fact that the city's refuse can be “destroyed” completely by a decidedly less ex pensive equipment and to just as good advantage as could be done with a plant that would cost six times as much money. It is true that Atlanta would have the “most expensive crematory" in the coun try in fact, would always enjoy the distinction, provided the plan was carried out, as no other city of twice or three times the size would stand for such an unnecessary spending of the citizens' money. F. L. SAWYER. Atlanta, Ga. THE HOME p ■ ' ——————————————t daring that have been our mother's bedside stories that give us the courage and the strength to stand up and do a man’s of a woman’s part in the world. Or else it is the memory of a mother’s whining and complaints; of the false standards she Inculcated in us; of her envy, and greed, and selfishness that makes us weaklings in our hour of temptation, so that wa choose the easiest way. . .. . Importance of Mother’s Talk. Just as our mother’s pies give us physical nourishment or dyspepsia, st our mother’s talks give us the big, broad, sane outlook on life, or leaves us poor, bilious, jaundiced, disgruntled creatures. Many a child's stomach is ruined by its mother’s cooking. Many a child’s morals are wrecked by Its mother’s conversation. The importance of a talk that a child has with its mother Is somethin? that can not be overestimated, and the pity of it is that mothers do not real ize this, and that they do not take the time and the trouble to have more real heart-to-heart talks with their little ones, and to keep the conversation of jthe home at a high level. Scientists tell us that up to the age of ten, eighty per cent of th? impres sions that are made on a child's mind are permanent ones. Practically everything that little Johnnie and little Susie, playing about your knees, are hearing they will carry through life with them. They are human phono graphs that will go repeating your ideas, your thoughts, your sentiments for the next 40 or 50 years. How vital then that they shall hear only the things wqrth while! Yet, the woman who considers it almost a religious duty to properly sterilize the children’s milk bottles never bothers to sterilize her conversa tion. Nothing would induce her to feed her Ijttle ones on unclean ,n od. swarming with bacteria, but she doesn’t hesitate to let their eager, hungry little minds gorge themselves on putrid gossip that is alive with suggestions that will poison their souls. Quarrels Leave Impressions. Mothers bandy about a lying old proverb that says that “what goes in at one ear of a child comes out at the other.” But’this is not true. What goes in at a child's ears lodges there and germinates, and at last flowers into action, good or bad. As a very small example of this take merely a child s grammar. All children that are decently dressed look very much alike Y° u couldn’t hazard a guess from the appearance of a dozen little Buster Brown boys or Peter Thompson girls if you met them away fropi their parents as to what sort of people they came from. But talk to them, and in two minutes you have the family pedigree You know whether they belong to educated and cultivated famili"' or to ignorant ones; you know even the family’s outlook on life. The child's gram mar, his choice of words and phrases, hfs attitude toward the other chil dren, whether he is envious or snobbish or gentle and courteous and consid erate, till you absolutely know exactly what sort of a mother he has and ' kind of conversation he is in the habit of hearing at home. If a little girl never hears her mother talk of anything but clothes and fashion and social climbing, can you wonder that she grows up to thit that those things are the most Important things in the world and the obje most to be striven for? If a little girl hears her mother and father continually quarreling ■' hurling hideous recriminations at each other, can anybody expect her grow up with any high ideals of married life? Isn't she really foreordair ‘ for the divorce court by her mother'? precepts? Her Talks Remain With Us. On the contrary, if a little girl hear? nothing from her mothers ip‘ b high and noble thoughts; if she hears her mother talk about the beautj ani the strength that come from self-sacrifice and devotion to duty; if she 1 her mother constantly giving utterance to liberal views, is it not as sure -i anything can humanly be that such a little girl will grow up to be a broad-minded woman who will bless the world as long as she lives In !' • We are always being called upon to mingle our tears with thos p ■ some mother whose son has gone astray and brought disgrace and sorr« upon her. I wonder if it Isn't the mother's talk that ninety-nine times out of a hundred has started the boy on the wrong road? How can the woman who brags of the souvenirs she has stolen hotels and restaurants blame her son when he turns out a thief? H ’" the woman who thinks it clever to relate how she cheats her husband getting money from the tradesmen that is charged on the bills as mer' |( dlse be surprised when her son falsifies his accounts? How can the m whose talk has all been of expediency and not of right expect her have rock-bound principles? It Is mother’s talks, and not mother's pies, that stays by us t life. It’s mother’s talks that we remember when we stand at th* roads and we take the strait and narrow path or the broad downward h‘S° way, according as we recollect the directions she ha? given us. Dorothy Di x ' Writes on Mother’s Talks vs. Mother’s Pies It’s the Former That Guides When We Reach Life’s Cross Roads. By DOROTHY DIX. Aman recently made the Mate , ment that It is ptty th»t we don't remember mother, talks as long aB we pies. Ah, but we dot The tMns that we remember longest on earth, that makes us what we are, that la Mn and parcel of what we call charac ter, ii the memory of what mother said to us. In the great crises of life we don’t stop to reason. We act on Impulse, and the thing that decides ue Is not the wisdom, nor the learning, nor the philosophy that we have ac quired in our maturer years, ft i 5 the principles that have been bred in us, the Ideals that have been grounded in us tn our childhood. It is the memory of acme talk ire have had with our mothers in a solemn twilight; it is the memory of old songs sung above us In our cradle; of whispered prayers by our bedside; of tales of high and heroic