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What Good Weather Does
NOT Do for the Streets
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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
rains.
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 co-operat'ion 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.
But now there is hope.
The Chamber of Commerce is holding some encouragement,
over the quagmires we call streets. It has secured experts to
ihow just what can and should be done to improve them.
This is real public service.
The experts’ report will go to council and on facts and
up-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 trains and 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. They 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 balke<| and thwarted by an an
tagonistic majority at the north end of the capitol.
It is particularly to bo 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
tacancies 1o be filled on the 4th of next March—making thirty-four
seats in all to be considered.
It is to be 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
will gam two senators in Colorado, one or two in Idaho and one
■ each in New Jersey, Nevada, Nebraska, Montana and Kansas.
The Atlanta Georgian
THE FOOTBALL SEASON IS HERE
Copyright, 1912. International News Service.
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A SQUIRREL in a cage can
travel a good many miles and
get nowhere.
A good many people In the store
work the same way.
When Columbus was done think
ing about the 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 wafting 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
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 ufcder the cap
tion, “It’s Too Easy to Kill in At
lanta,” with intense Interest and
I heartily agree with jsou in every
word you say. I am compelled to
make an even stronger statement,
and if I 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
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THOMAS TAPPER.
he is going. Take the case 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, uncivilized 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 The Georgian:
The 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.
111.
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 ptace 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 Destructor 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 have 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 PApjx
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 we
choose the easiest way.
Importance of Mother’s Talk.
Just as our mother’s pies give us physical nourishment or dyspepsia, sa
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 something
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 the 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, yoftr thoughts, your sentiments for
the next 40 or 50 years. How vital then that they shall hear only the things
worth 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 little ones on unclean food,
swarming with bacteria, but she doesn't hesitate to let their eager, hungn
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. Uhat
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 chi.d s
grammar. All children that are decently dressed look very much alike, lou
couldn’t hazard a guess from the appearance of a dozen little Buster Brown
boys or Peter Thompson girls If you met them away fro pi 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 families or to
ignorant ones; you know even the family’s outlook on life. The child s gram
mar, his choice of words and phrases, his attitude toward the other ‘
dren, whether he is envious or snobbish or gentle and courteous and con?
erate, till you absolutely know’ exactly what sort of a mother he has and the
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 an
fashion and social climbing, can you wonder that she grows up to think
that those things are the most Important things in the world and the objec
most to be striven for? ]
If a little girl hears her mother and father continually quarrc lug ' in
hurling hideous recriminations at each other, can anybody expect hi■
grow up with any high ideals of married life? Isn't she really foreordain
for the divorce court by her mother’s precepts?
Her Talks Remain With Us.
On the contrary, if a little girl hears nothing from her mothers ip h
high and noble thoughts; if she hears her mother talk about the beautj a
the strength that come from self-sacrifice and devotion to duty; If ■ ■ ’
her mother constantly giving utterance to liberal views, is it not as s> r
anything can humanly be that such a little girl will grow up to N a
broad-minded woman who will bless the world as long as she li'rs •
We are always being called upon to mingle our tears with
some mother whose son has gone astray and brought disgrace and
upon her. I wonder if it isn’t the mother’s talk that ninety-nine lime
of a hundred has started the boy on the wrong road?
How can the woman who brags of the souvenirs she has so
hotels and restaurants blame her son when he turns out a thief
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 11
dlse be surprised when her son falsifies his accounts? How can !
whose talk has all been of expediency and not of right expect
have rock-bound principles? , .- l , ug h
It is mother’s talks, and not mother’s pl«s, that stays by "
life. It's mother’s talks that we remember when we stand at
roads and we take the strait and narrow path or the broad downward
way, according as we recollect the directions she has given us.
Dorothy
Dix
’ 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 th. gtate .
ment that It Is * ptty thw
we don't remember mother’s
talks as l ong as we do
pies.
, Ah, but ws do; nje tWnR
we remember longest on earth, that
makes us what we are, that Is p art
and parcel of what we call charac
ter, Is the memory of what mother
said to ns.
In the great crises of life we don’t
stop to reason. We act on Impulse,
and the thing that decides us Is not
the wisdom, nor the learning, nor
the philosophy that we have ac
quired in our maturer years. It | s
the principles that have been bred
In us, the ideals that have been
grounded 1n us tn our childhood.
tt Is the memory of some talk we
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
daring that have been our mother's