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Christinas That Makes
Thousands Miserable
i You Who Read This Newspaper, and Other Buyers of Christ
inas Gifts, Can Free Many from Suffering AND AT THE
SAME TIME HELP YOURSELVES.
♦
Tens of thousands of women and girls and men are worn out
by the intense strain of Christmas work BECAUSE THE PEOPLE
.HAVEN'T SUFFICIENT CONSCIENCE TO CONSIDER THE
EMPLOYEES IN THE STORES.
Men and hoys that do the packing of parcels must work late at
night BECAUSE THOSE THAT LIVE COMFORTABLY WILL
NOT TAKE THE TROUBLE TO DO THEIR SHOPPING EARLY
IN THE DAY.
This Christmas season, which ought tn mean happiness for all,
means suffering, fatigue, overwork, loss of sleep and injury to
health in thousands of cases
Use your influence to impress upon your friends their duty to
those that work to make the Christmas season successful.
It is an Intensely important season to all of the people.
At this time of year, merchants sell the products that hundreds
of thousands of workers have been creating for months past.
When yon do your buying at the stores now you are not hand
ing your money to the merchant who runs the store.
You are giving thf money to that merchant that he may pass
it on to the manufacturer and thus pay for the salaries of those that
create the goods. The merchant’s share is comparatively small.
The share of hundreds of thousands of workers-is the great part.
Remember, for your own sake, that shopping early in the day
when the stores arc not crowded, when the air is good, when the
eierks are not so tired, makes your work easier and healthier.
Remember, for the sake of the women that work, for the sake
f the harassed merchants trying to satisfy the public, for the sake
OF COMMON DECENCY that shopping early in the Christmas sea
son and early in the DAY’ is a duty that no good citizen should
neglect.
Remember, also, to keep your temper, be good natured, HAVE
( (INSIDER ATION FOR THOSE THAT SERVE YOU.
Remember that the man or woman whom you question has been
answering thousands of questions that very day. Remember that
while YOU may he very intelligent, and very polite, the person to
'•’■ horn you talk deals all day long with many that have less intelli
gence, and are not at all polite. Be patient, good natured, CON
SIDERATE. even if you happen to find a tired girl or harassed man
a little short in temper
You like others to help YOU, so yon ought to want to help
OTHERS.
It costs very little Io say “Thank you.” yet that “Thank you”
to commence is what oil is to the axle and the wheel.
Remember that excellent line of advertising which the tele
phone company posts np everywhere, “It’s the voice with the smile
that wins.”
\ on might, just as well go through the world quietly, kindly,
gently and with a smile, as elbow and push and struggle and com
plain.
Give others a chance, set a good example. Be useful, consid
erate. A COMPASSIONATE atom in the great crowds that put a
heavy load upon the store workers at this Christmas time.
The Call to Arms
By CHESTER FIRKINS.
'T'HE bugle calls from fortress walls
* YVhere Danube's waters shine;
she banners fling their challenging
From Volga to the Rhine.
Tiber and Thames their diadems
Turn fretful toward Islam—
But, bloody though her waters glow.
The Bosphorus lies calm.
If" ROM camp and coast the Teuton host
L *■ Is summoned to prepare;
O'er hurried mile, in Cossack file.
Comes, ravening, the Bear.
W ith bristling guns the war-fleet runs
From Budapest’s gray piles—
W hile. stricken dread, yet respited.
I he ’lurk looks on—and smiles.
A Y. ride ye forth from west and north.
“ Y Czar, emperor and king!
| Ay. nobly ride in battle pride
■ And silent threatening.
In blood to sale the ancient hate
And plunge a world in wars;
B\ brother s death to give now breath
To Moslem conquerors!
VX 7 1 boots your vow for friendship now—
’t our sacred pledge of peace,
W h< u southward lies a golden prize
Your coffers to increase?
Hie glutted boar still fights for more—
bPake lesson of the brute!
" ,l - ■''' kings' Ihe clarion rings!—
Ibe 'iniling | ork is mute.
The Atlanta Georgian
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Conquest of Mt. McKinley Is a
Lesson EMr All
IN Hearst’s Magazine for Decern- •
ber you will read the story of
the final “conquest” of Mt. Mc-
Kinley, the loftiest mountain in
North America, and you will see
photographs that will thrill you
with the excitement of dangers and
difficulties met and overcome. It is
a remarkable story of a wonderful
feat.
But we are all philosophers, often
without knowing it, and many will
ask: “What is the good of this
desperate mountain-climbing; what
does humanity gain by It, after
all?”
From a strictly utilitarian point
of view it is difficult to answer such
questions. If you are one of those
who think that nothing is worth
while that can not be expressed in
dollars and cents, then there is no
answer that will satisfy you. The
climbing of Mt. McKinley was sim
ply the achievement of an ideal, and
nobody can appreciate it whose own
life is not led on the uplands of i
ideality, and whose nature does not
demand something more than food,
drink, clothes and ordinary social
amusements.
But to those who do set noble j
ideals before their minds, and who
believe that utilitarianism, in its
usual sense, is death to man's high
er nature, the feat of Professor
Parker and Mr. Browne will appeal
with the mysterious force of a great
poem—a poem written not in words,
but in achievement.
Measurement Not Object.
Those men did not go there
merely to measure the height of Mt.
McKinley. Its height had already
been measured, probably more ac
curately than they were able to do
it, by means of surveying instru
ments, played many miles away in
the valleys and on lower peaks.
Whether its elevation is 20.300 feet
or 20,450 feet is a matter of small
moment compared with the fact
that men. in spite of enormous dif
ficulties, have succeeded in reach
ing its summit. The grit, the de
termination, endurance and courage
which they exhibited form a valu
able object lesson in the develop
in'tit of character. Every reader
feels himself stronger, bolder, mon
capable as he follows the nurnitivt
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1912.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
> of their adventures. It is a tonic
for the soul. It makes all difficul
ties seem less formidable.
The young man who starts out in
life without any of the advantages
of education, or wealth, or social
position, and by sheer grit over
. comes every obstacle, never losing
confidence in himself, never giving
way to discouragement, never whin
ing. never thinking that he Is the
victim of fatality or bad luck, never
paralyzing his energies, or wasting
his time by envying the good for
tune of others, is climbing Mt. Mc-
Kinley. and he will go to the top.
Unbroken Courage Won.
When Frederick, who afterward
won the title of “the Great," found
himself, like a bull In the ring,' sur
rounded and tormented by innum
erable enemies, his army in flight,
his capital captured his palace
looted, his friends falling away,
every circumstance against him,
but his courage and resolution un
broken. he was climbing Mt. Mc-
Love Symphony
By A. O’SHAUGHNESSY.
» LONG the garden ways jusi
YA. no, s
( 1 lieatiT the flowers speak:
1 The white rose told me of your brow,
< The red rose of your cheek:
I The Illy of your bended head.
I The bindweed of your hair;
Each look, d its loveliest and said
You were more fair.
1 went into the wood anon.
And heard the wild birds sing.
How sweet you were: they warbled
on,
Piped, trill’d the selfsame thing.
Thrush, blackbird, linnet, without
pause.
The burden did repeat,
I And still began again because
You were mote sweet.
And then I went down to the sea,
And heard it niurntering, too,
Part of an ancient mystery.
And made of me and you;
Hon many a thousand years ago
,s I loved, and yon were sweet
(Longer 1 could not stay, and so
( I fled buck to your feet
Kinley, and he got to the top.
When Robert Bruce, the Scotch
hero, lying on his bunk, a fugitive
from his kingdom—alone, deserted
and haJf starved —sa,w a spider fix
its broken line a dozen times to the
ceiling, never giving up its efforts
until at last it made the web fast,
he was watching the conquest of
Mt. McKinley, and he learned the
lesson so well that he himself soon
stood on the pinnacle.
Eveiw man has his Mt. McKinley,
if he is good for anything. Those
who have none are of little use to
themselves or anybody else. It is
only by continuous, untiring effort
that a man can perfect himself. If
you find yourself becoming lazy, in
different, easilj- discouraged, dis
posed to think that' fortune has
turned her back on you, or if the
world loses its interest for you. and
you begin to let things slide as they
will, wake up! You need a mountain
to climb. Don’t envy tjie rich and
idle —they know nothing of the joy
and strength that come from the
conquest of difficulties. Set an
ideal before you, and mount, over
the crevasses, the chasms, the snow,
slopes, the ridges, the precipices,
defying the clouds, the winds, the
cold, and the fatigue, until you see
the world at your feet.
There are many great mountains
still to be ascended, both in the
physical and the moral world. No
man has ever yet reached even the
foot of Mt. Everest, the highest
point on the globe. Explorers have
gazed longingly at its gleaming
summit from the tops of lower
peaks a hundred miles away. Some
day they will climb it.
One Secret Still Hidden.
So, no man has yet climbed the
peak of achievement which carries
on its apex the talisman that will
unlock the secret of interatomic
energy, that all-enveloping power
with which nature is crammed, and
the control of which would make
our greatest engines seem but the
toys of children. But some day the
foot of man will be pressed upon
that summit also.
But don’t think that because you
have not genius, or great opportu
nity. there is no climbing for you
to do. You can climb a peak, worth
conquering every day of your life,
if vou wil)
THE HOME PAPEp
DR. PARKHURST
Writes' on
Justice, Real and F -
Human
Should a Judge Give His Sen-
tence to Fit Character of
Crime, or of the Ac-
cased Man Before
Him?
Written For The Georgian
By the Rev. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst
WHAT a convicted criminal
receives at the hands of
x the court will be an at
tempt at justice without any like
lihood of its being absolute justice.
This is written without any
thought of impugning judicial in
tegrity, but Is involved in the na
ture of things, in the nature of
man, both the man on the bench
and the man In the prisoner’s dock.
The position of the judge is a dif
ficult one, almost as difficult as
that of the one whom the judge is
there to sentence.
The only element of *diffleulty to
which this article will refer is the
following: The judge is supposed
to grade his sentence as nearly as
possible to the guilt of the party by
whom the offense has been commit
ted. Now, is the sentence designed
to fit the character of the crime or
the character of the criminal? If,
for example, the convict is given
five years, is that five years intend
ed to measure up to the size of the
offense or to the amount of inher
ent depravity in the one who com
mitted the offense? For neither
of the two can be accepted as ac
curate index of the other.
State Only to Sustain Life.
Take the following instance,
which occurred in a distant state
and some years ago, but which
has only recently been brought to
< the attention of the public.
A man of about 30 years was
driven to the verge of starvation.
To him the situation meant death
or robbery. He asked himself:
“Shall I steal or go to the river?”
He tossed up a penny. Heads
meant burglary, tails suicide. It
turned up heads. That night he
committed burglary. He was de
tected, convicted and given fifteen
years. He was sentenced as a
burglar, and he certainly was a.
burglar so far as act was con
cerned, but In spirit and in the
general tone of his character he
was no more a burglar than I am,
and that fact is certified to by his
demeanor during the term of his
incarceration and his hehavior
since his release. It is evident
enough that it was not in him to
commit the crime except at the
impulse of starvation hunger.
How many are there that would
not steal rather than die for the
lack of the food that theft would
' procure?
The judge by whom the “criminal
was sentenced to fifteen years
would doubtless have done the same
or a similar thing under the same
circumstances. The act may have
deserved fifteen years, but it does
The Republic of Cracow
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
IT was 97 years ago that the “Re- ••
public of Cracow” began its
brief and pathetic existence.
It is a story that is well calculated
to moisten the. eyes of the most
stoical of the sons of men, and not
yet has history recorded the story’s
end.
At the general settlement of the
affairs of Europe by the great Pow
ers in 1815 it was agreed that Cra
cow and the adjoining territory
should be formed into a free state,
and by the treaty of Vienna the
town of Cracow, with its territory,
was declared to be “forever a free
and independent city.” This dec
laration was signed by the repre
sentatives of Russia, Austria and
Prussia.
These representatives of the
Powers knew history, and there
fore they knew the story of Cra
cow —an ancient and honorable
story, which doubtless touched
their hearts.
Cracow’s history begins with the
year 706, when it was built by Duke
Cracus out of the spoils he had
taken from the barbarian invaders.
For 300 years the City of Cracus
remained the capital of Poland,
and there the Polish kings were
crowned until 1764. For generations
the city was the center of the stur
diest energy and brightest intelli
gence of Europe. Its university,
one of the oldest on the continent,
like a great beacon light, shed its
rays far and wide; and in all that,
was calculated to benefit humanity
the Polish capital stood pre-emi
nent.
Not only so. Poland’s capita! had
suffered to a greater extent than
any other place In the world. Not
even Roniu ur old Jerusalem his
•y not follow that-> the man deserved I
fifteen years. This is not making 1
light of crime; it is only indicating I
that what a. man does is not neces- II
sarily a just measure of the man R
If he had had friends they might 1
have asked the attention of the J
court to the circumstances. It j E a '
great mistake not to have either ]
money or friends when one is
brought to court. But even so, the I
judge would probably have insis;-r
that burglary by night means a
maximum of fifteen years and
minimum of ten.
Best Way to Approach Justice.
It may be that it is not prudent 1
to leave such matters to judieia!
discretion, and that while judges 1
are human and fallible, and some j
of them hard-hearted, the nearest j
approach to average justice will | l?
secured by frafhing sentences that 1
will fit the act rather than the man. i
In a world that is not idea! -etafl ■
policies may be impracticable, bu;-
nevertheless average justice is nnt j
absolute justice, and only absolute
justice is perfectly just.
If some men keep out of ja|i ti la >
ought to be in it, others spend hms
years in jail that ought to b. om
it. life that would otherwis- be
useful becoming cojisequently prof,
itless. and the felt injustice of it ’ ■
operating a.ll the. time to tlie en
feeblement of the convict’s poweis
and the souring of his spirit.
This does not mean the d' UiTi
tion o? jails and the turning c! >
everybody loose upon the v. orb:
Invalids should go to the hospit::i
and nndomesticated animal:
whether quadruped or bipeil.-bouh l
be subjected tn some order -.t r •
straint. Our single point of cor
tention Is this, that we a ■* as y :
very far from having arrived nt th'
ideal treatment of those who trans- |
gress the laws.
More Heart Needed in Treatment i
That there to be both inorf ]
I intelligence and more heart in it. 1
that a man’s conduct may be » I
great deal worse than the man as
well as a great deal better; that j
there is a. terrific responsibility and j
accountability devolving upon nv
official who sits comfuittibly oiitiv
bench, well clad and well fed a
well housed, and who has the ail- I
! thority to reel out sentences of ii'. ■
ten, thirty or fifty years io the un
trained, hungry oi broken d".'n
convicts who, while personally rt
sponsible for their misconduct, hav I
been subjected to tests of '.'.mb .. th
judge has had no expi . ience . a .
which, had he had the- ev •iPi.-
he would very likely 'aavt
‘s' cumbed.
• been culled upon to drink
deeply of the cup of sorrow.
'l’lie representatives of the I’""
e-rs knew all this—knew wiiat tis
ancient capital had endured at th
hands of the Partiiieners—M :■
conscience-stricken as It we:
when tiiey got together aft?"
overthrow of Napoleon, they sat'
"We will do something for Cracow,
we will give her back her rtnefe
liberties; we will decree that f,w " i
ever she shall be free and in' I" 111 ''
ent." And they kept their word,
the above-mentioned treaty oft:-
enna shows.
But alas! for the faith of n it ion-
In 1846. on account of dome
trouble in Cracow, the flip om:t.‘
got together contra ry iH t"-
solemn assurances of the t
Vienna, blotted out the Repiib't
Cracow ami incorporated th
with the dominions of Aust a:i
Against this unhallowed piece
business England, Eranee,
and even Turkey heanilv protest
ed; but Austria was determl
the diplomats were willing, and th
infamy was consummated.
But. as has been intimate,i. t
end is not yet. The great per
philosopher wrote: “In the
rupted currents of this wot.,
sense's gilded hand oft shows
Justice, but ’tie not so above
There is a Lower Bight 1
Higher Right, and in the emi
Higher Right always wins,
time It will win in the case
land. Austria, at present. '
blew of her own. with Hung.t'A
glng at her throat; am! ■•vf
many and Russia, powerful a
are, are not out of the rear!' ot .
old Eternal Rectitude who* "»
is. tn the final test, sup-me ■
the machlnutlons of nivit ;l
nrutlnas of cabinet*