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— A
Police Problems and a Possi
| . ble Solution
An efficient Atlanta policeman who covers his beat tliorouirh
1\ must be blessed with the endurance and speed of a .McWhor
ter or the bicyling ability of a Walthour.
Some of the “beats” are so long that by the lime the aver
age policeman Ims walked from one end to the other and back
he hasn't strength to handle a baby burglar. Os coiir#-. the ex
cuse officially is that there are not enough policemen ami there is
not enough money to get any more.
The official excuse 'always tends to make one believe- that
Atlanta, the most prosperous city in the South, is a municipal
pauper.
Be that as it may. there is away that the cit\ can have a
much more adequate police protection, with little or no extra cost,
and no anxiety to the watch dogs of the city treasury.
Here is the way.
There are fourteen regular sanitary inspectors employed
by the city, and their salaries aggregate $13,260 a year. These
men sometimes look at the front of your house and sometimes
look at your back yard ami declare the premises are. clean or
unclean, as the ease may he.
Aside from these inspectors in the sanitary department, there
are thirteen others, classed as follows;
One milk inspector, two dairy inspectors, two market in
spectors, two slaughter house inspectors, two fumigating inspect
ors. and four plumbing inspectors, whose salaries total $15,440 a
year.
There are twelve'men employed by the citv whose duty it
is to read your water meter and six who are called in
spectors of the water works. These men draw an aggregate of
$17.1 (Ml for'their work. ,
In other words, the city pays $45,860 for forty-five inspect
ors in the water and health departments.
No one would suppose for a moment that a policeman who
has passed the civil service examinations could not read a water
meter after he had once been told how to do it.
Nor would any one suppose that a policeman could not look
at a back yard and tell if it was dirty.
A good policeman would make a good inspector.
Why not make at least hall ot these inspectors policemen
and make every policeman in the city an inspector?
The police would become familiar with their districts. They
would be as conspicuous on their beats as they are now, aqd bet
ter still, THEKE WOULD BE MORE OF THEM
I'he patrolling of some of the beats now is ridiculous. For
instance, there is a beat on Marietta street that runs from Simp
son street to the I nion Stock Yards, a distance of two miles.
Whitehall street, from lluumphiaes street to Fort McJ’her
soo. Capitol View and Battle Hill, a total distance of ten miles,
” is covered during the day by one lonely mounted policeman.
Another lonesome man on a bicycle preserves law and or
der all day on Peachtree street from Ellis street to the city lim
its at Brookwood, a distance of three miles.
Io make matters worse. Atlanta brags of just one police
station. That, of course, is just where it has been for twenty
years or more. A call for the police from any part of th? 1 city
means that THE police station is the starting point.
The city owns a fire engine house in every ward. Most
of them are spacious, ami a sub-police station in three or four
of them would cost practically nothing, ami. would be a step in
the right direction.
At this moment tin* police of the city are almost as hope
lessly scattered as the tribes of Israel. Without sub-stations
they will never be in closer touch with headquarters than they
are now.
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It is always good to remember that Atlanta is a metropolis*
and can't be run on the methods of way-station towns.
The city is growing wonderfully, but the municipality will
have Io make some rapid strides to keep up the pace.
The Great Gains of Wo
man’s Suffrage
Women have won their full rights of, suffrage in ten states
• —states that east in all 70 electoral votes. There can hardly be
« doubt that this number will be materially increased during the
next four years, and that in the next presidential election the
importance of the women's vote, already conceded by politi
cians. will be enhanced to such a degree that the appeal to wom
en will have a new and transforming influence upon American
public life.
They who say that the success of the Democratic party is a
setback to woman* suffrage must have neglected to read the re
turns. Certainly they fail to understand the force and quality
of the feminine influence that pervaded the Democratic campaign.
Although the women at the national Democratic headquar
ters demanded much more than votes for women, they never
for a moment demanded less. And they are planning to move
forward to a wider assertion of political rights and duties of
women than their sisters of tin 1 other parlies seem fullv to com
prehend
The states that voted in favor of woman's suffrage on No
vember 5 arc Michigan. Kansa*. Oregon and Arizona. In six
other slates California. Colorado, Washington Idaho. Utah and
Wyoming full rights of suffrage ! '«d wlreadv been conceded
to women. •
The Atlanta Georgian
Wonderful Underground .Dwellings -
HOW MEN LIVED BEFORE THEY LEARNED TO CONSTRUCT FIFTY-STORY BUILDINGS.
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Plateau, Northern New Mexico. New Mexico.
Wilson’s Election Proves Suffrage Theory
•s | xllK election is over, and as the
J shouting ana the tumult die,
there stand forth three
points that are particularly inter
esting as they affect women.
First and foremost, four more
states Michigan, Kansas, Oregon
and Arizona—have joined the hon
orable procession that has granted
political freedom to its women.
Second, although Colohel Roose
velt came out in favor of woman
suffrage, and the Progressive party
was the only one that inserted a
woman suffrage plank in its plat
form. the Bull Moosers did not car
ry ui single state in which women
• were voting.
This one fact—that women did
not stampede in a body to the Pro
gressive party—is the best suffrage
argument that has ever been ad
vnr#ed. It shows that women can
keep their heads under the stress of
great temptation, and refutes the
often expressed fear that they
would be fanatics in polities, guid
ed solely by their emotions and
prejudices.
Patriotism Before Profit.
An* I say this without intending
any disparagement whatever to the
Progressive party, which many
women supported just as conscien
tiously and intelligently as they did
either the Democratic or. Republi
can party.
, But in considering the high pa
triotism and unselfishness of the
women who voted for and worked
for the Democratic anl Republican
parties, which offered them noth
ing. instead of the Progressive par
ty, which promised them their
heart s desire, simply because they
believed in the Democratic or Re
publican doctrine rather than the
Progressive doctrine, think of this:
FoV 60 years and more—longer
than the Children of Israel wan
dered hopelessly in tlie wilderness
we women who believe that taxa
tion without representation is ty
ranny. and that all just government
rests upon the consent of the gov
erned, have been battering upon
the doo s of the great political par
ties. begging to bo let in. if only wo
might have the humblest seat, be
low the salt, at our father's table.
And year.after year the door has
been barred against us. and we
have been turned away with jeers
and ridicule.
Nobody knows the toil and blood
of our striving, the bitterness of
our eefeat; of how. time and again,
our hearts have fainted with de
spair. of how often, when w< saw
our I, aders full and die by the was -
WEDXEShAY. NOVEMBER 13. 1912.
By DOROTHY DIX
side, It has seemed that we were
fighting for a lost cause. Sixty
years and more of baffled effort,
and then, one party—the Progres
sive party—opens the door and
leads us in, an honored ;ind in
vited guest;*one presidential can-
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DOROTHY DIX
didate, after having long turned a
deaf ear- to our entreaties, at last
claims, like Saul << Tarsus, to have
seen a great light and been con
verted.
One would have thought that
women would have been drunk with
the joy of this partial victory, and
that with one accord they would
have rushed, pell tnell, to enroll
themselves under the Bull Moose
standard. To their everlasting hon
or this has not happened. Women
put their patriotism before their
profit, their love of their country
before .good to the cause that is
nearesAind d< arest to their hearts
and tried to do what they believed
to be the best for the United
States, even though it might not
have been best for suffrage. They
knew that they had nothing to
hope for from Mr. Tass, and little
to expect from .Mr. Wilson, and yet
because they believed in the Dem
on atic or Republican doctrine they
split along those lines If men
ev.r gave a example of sanl-
• ty and appreciation of the sanctity
of the ballot under tempting condi
tions to'become selfishly partisan, I
don't know of it.
The third point of interest to
women In the election is that it af
fords them a visible illustration of
the different political status of
women with the ballot and women
without the ballot.
All Parties Wanted Work.
Heretofore, so far as a presiden
tial campaign has been concerned,
women have cut just as much
rtal figure in polities as a snow
flake is supposed to cut in the
region of perpetual summer. Cam
paign orators were content to
throw them a few bouquets of
compliments, and to say something
nice and flattering about women
using their great silent influence
z in politics. And that ended it.
But with the women voting in six
states and holding the balance of
power, and with women about to
vote in many other states and
keenly interested everywhere in
politics, there was no talk about
woman's silent influence. All three
of the big parties urged women to
use their voices in their • behalf,
and to roll up their sleeves and help
with the actual political work.
Woman without the ballot was a
cipher that no one thought of con
sidering. Woman with the ballot
is a mighty power that has to be
reckoned witli and conciliated. The
granting of the franchise to wom
en in Michigan and Kansas and
Arizona and Oregon is the begin
ning of the end of the long tight
women have made for political free
dom.
Won Over Prejudice.
Other states will follow fast, and
by the time the next ‘ presidential
election comes around there will
not even be any discussion of the
advisability of inserting a woman's
suffrage plank in the platform, nor
will there be any presidential can
diate who skulks behind tile as
sertion that lie doesn't know where
he stands in regard to giving wom
an the ballot.
The knowledge that millions of
women vote, and that they hold Ute
balance of powpr in any closely cffi
tested election, will be
illuminating to the understanding
of politicians. ,
Womtrn have borne themselves
well in thU campaign, and the mor.
al victory they have won over pop
ular prejudice by their high-mind
ed attitude in politics is no less a
matter of congratulation than that
there are four more stars in the
suffrage flag
THE HOME PAPER
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Writes on
Remarriage
Only One Woman in Five
Hundred Who Is Widowed
in Her Prime Is Left With a
Memory of Such Ideals of
Love That Remarriage Is
Impossible.
Written For The Atlanta Georgian
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright, 1912, by American-Journal-Examiner
rrs Wu women, both widows,
j were talking of life, mother
hood, and their ideals of duty.
One woman was something past
forty; she had been a wife at twen
ty; and her children were growing
into the romantic age. She was
contemplating a second marriage
with a good man. The oilier wom
an was older; past the half-century
mark; and her children were all
married. ».
She rebuked the younger woman
for her thought of consenting to a
second marriage-.
“You have a comfortable income,"
she said, "and your, children ought
to fill your life so that no such
foolish idea as a second marriage
could enter your mind. I was a
widest- at thirty: and now I am
fifty-three; and I am thankful to
say I am satisfied to be my chil
dren's mother, and not their step
father’/? wife.”
Time Softens Sorrow.
“But,” replied the younger wom
an with some spirit, "1 do not see
that your example is one which
would make oth4r women eager to
follow it.”
“And pray why not?”
“Because you are a very lonely
woman: your, children are married
and have homes'of their own; they
may love you devotedly, and be
kind and all that; but the fact re
mains, they do /tot need you to
make their lives complete.
“They do not need you in their
homes, and you must feel yourself
a guest when you visit them; it
in the nature of things. A new in
dividuality has come into their lives.
The son has his wife, and the
daughter her husband; and if they
go away on a journey they wculd
find more pleasure to be with each
other than with a third party.
“Now, I have two young children
who will soon be marrying; and I
do not propose to make myself a
problem to them, nor happiness a
problem to myself.
‘7 was a good wife to their fath
er and I respect his memory. We
were when he lived, and I
Eliot and the Indians
By the REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
JOHN EBIOT, the “Apostle to
the Indians,” preached his first
sermon to the red men at a
small Indian village near what is
now Watertown, Massachusetts,
two hundred and sixty-six years
ago.
Eliot and the aborigines have
Jong been dust, but there is that in
the above statement that may well
challenge our most reverential at
tention.
John Eliot was one of the most
cultured men of his time. He was
as conspicuous among the men of
his day for learning and thorough
intellectual equipment as, say, ex-
President Eliot, of Harvard, is
among the men of the present time.
A graduate of Cambridge. Eng
land. he came to America in 1631,
at the age of twenty-eight, distin-
Miished for philological scholarship,
linguistic talent and a general, all
round erudition. t
It is safe to say that he might
have had whatever he wanted in
the young commonwealth in the
way of office, hpnor and power. In
the church, the best pulpits were
open to him, and in the state the
highest positions were awaiting
him. But from these allurements
he cheerfully turned away to carry
out the self-imposed task of mak
ing himself the instrument of the
mental and moral uplift of the red
men.
AS proof of Eliot’s profound ear
nestness of purpose and deep sin
cerity in his work, it is only neces
sary to recall two astounding facts
first, that he devoted fourteen
years to the study of the Algonquin
dialect that was spoken by the In
dians of Massachusetts Hay; and,
second, that, having mastered the
task, he actually translated the en-
>.
•I- mourned his death. But time
■
i softened the sorrow of his loss; and
a new affection has come into my
heart and I do not propose to
smother it.
“It may pain my children for a
time, to have me wear another
name than that of their father: but
they will become accustomed to i:,
and I trust the new father will v. in
their hearts. They will eventually
• live their own lives.
Enduring Ideals of Love.
"1 mean to have m» own com
panionship and my own home life,
so that when my children go in;,,
their new homes I will not be left
desolate,”
The younger woman unquestion
ably had the better of the argu
ment. Once in 500 cases a woman
who is widowed in her prime is left
with a memory of such happiness
and with such ideals of love that a
remarriage would be impossible; it
would savor of sacrilege to even
entertain the idea.
Once in 5,000 cases a man is left a
widower with a similar barrier to
remarriage.
The remaining cases either marry
again or would like to marry again.
A woman in the prime of life,
known and respected and loved by
all America, has announced her in
tention of a second marriage.
Best Wishes and Blessings.
In her youth she espoused a high
official of our country, and she was
a faithful wife and a devoted moth
i er, and graced every position which
she occupied, and performed every
duty with fine precision.
She bore the strong limelight of
publicity with dignity and met'the
difficulties of her position with ad
mirable poise. Wheti sickness, sor
row and death came she entered
each ordeal with the ’ same grace
and serenity which had kept her
sweet and unassuming in her hours
of prominence and prosperity.
The best wishes and sincere
blessings of a whole nation will at
tend this woman on her second
wedding day.
tire Scriptures into the Indian lan
guage.
Nothing but Love could have ac-
I complished that immense task.
"Love never faileth,” we are (add
by one of the highest authorities:
and that is why Eliot did not break
down in his herculean labors. His
unselfish love for the Indians car
ried him through.
Beginning his missionary labors
with that first sermon in 1646. Eliot
kept them up. without signs of fal
tering, for forty-four years. The
last piece of work that the good old
man did was to translate an Eng
lish book into the Algonquin tongue
Never did a human being more
completely devote himself to the
good of others. All through his
more youthful year*, through his
splendid prime, and away down into
his declining days did he toil for
tire uplift of the “savages" who, in
the opinion of most of V' “Chris
tians” of the time, were fit for
nothing but to be shot down.
Gat Ift ring them into villages, he
strove with all his might to "reach
their scanty intelligence and still
scantier moral sense.” Some five
•thousand of the “children of the
forest" were benefited by his minis
trations. and if all the other Chris
tians of Massachusetts had been of
the type of Eliot, history might
have a very different tale to tell.
• Yes, John Eliot passed away, and
with hint passed his Indians; the
Bible that he left in the Indian lan
guage can now be read by hardly a
soul on earth; and {he very places
where the red men gathered to
hear his teachings are forgotten
But none the less true Is it that the
spirit that animated Eliot was the
spirit of the Good which lives for
ever, and which Is finally to make
all tnen love each other as Eliot
loved the red tnen of Massachu
setts Bay.
