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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 S. IS7S Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mall. $3.00 a year Payable In advance. V\ hisky, Pistols and Christ mas in the South •> K » Let s Do Away With the Old Order of Things and Celebrate the Anniversary of the Birth of the Prince of Peace Sanely and as Good Folks Should. "The South is beginning to realize the true meaning of (hrist- < mas. Il is learning that a wholesale consumption of red liquor and ' a carnival oi crime is not th< most appropriate way to celebrate the birthday oi the < hrist who taught peace on earth and good I will toward men." So sai<! < olouel Reuben Arnold in his address yesterday alter- > noon to the great audience at the Empty Stocking benefit concert at tin Grand. 1 olouel Arnold was making an appeal to his hearers to gi»e ireely to the children oi the poor, lie might have said— i and doubtless it was in his mind that many oi these children were 1 ■•old .on: hungry hi cause their fathers had celebrated their Christ mas wiili fljt.-i; and pistol in the old. accepted maimer now passing I ;;:pidh ; I in- records show Inal Georgia has more homicides than the - nit iso Isles, with their overwhelming population." continued * olouel Arnoli!. And this is due, in a large proportion, to the effec! of \iiiskv ami pistol currying, h is particularly sad that I ' • ■ ■' 1 hrisi ian people, should celebrate Ihe birth oft hrist ianity by convi rting i>he anni versar.v into a day of hard drinking and brawl- I iug. <►< drunkeum ss and homicide. lam glad to note that the news- ■ papers o’’ Atlanta are Irving to lead their readers into realizing the : true spirit of Christmas—the spirit of universal love." Truly, it is a strange conception of Christmas that prevails in I mam sec; i.ms of the country. There are many men—and not all of them ignorant, uncultured backwoodsmen—who look forward io I the day as one which gives them license to drink themselves into a state of irresponsible intoxication. \nd this, coupled with a lax ' enforcement ot laws which permits any man or youth to carry a revolver without interference until he has used it—when interfer ence is too late has turned the Christmas holidays into a saturnalia of riot. | \ isit the whisky branches ot the express companies today. I See how they are piled high with eases and jugs, while rows of ; waiting wagons are bringing hundreds more. Watch the long lines oi men. white and black, some barely of age, some white-haired blear-eyed old topers, waiting to receive their jug from the nearest ! "wet city. The express officials will tell you that the whisky j business is greater in the week before Christmas than in any two months of an ordinary season. Look over the newspapers of the day after Christmas in years i gone by and for the week following. Yon will find a record of ! homicide, a tragedy staged in almost every town and village in the state. You may count hundreds of wives left widowed, hundreds of children left fatherless. And this is true simply because we have not learned that Christinas is a feast day of love toward one's fellow man and not a high carnival of brutal passions unrestrained. Do without your whisky this season. Lock up your pistols—or, better still—make an offering to the oQinniunity by throwing them away. Christmas will be better without them, f _ ; - -yt “Brother! Brother of Mine, Answer Me Then. Have 1 Paid?” By LILLIAN LAUFERTY. WHEN yesterday you passed me on the street my very soul went leaping to your hand; 5 I thought. “God bless the chance that makes us meet;" but now. > my brother, now—l understand. J ■' The well groomed dog that follows at your heel—l knew he snapped and j bit in youthful days: 1 know he dared to forage and to steal; yet now he walks in quiet, well J brained ways: > Aad you—l think you stand to him as God—a kindly God who taught J < him to be kind. $ ■ S Ferhaps 1 needed but the chastening rod. Well, yesterday we passed. ' And you—oh, brother mine—we met again at last: • Brother! brother of mine, why were your eyes blind? .■ Wj years ago we loved in childish ways the silver starlight and the mel- j j low moon. < Tm sun agleam through our unshadowed days. December magic and the ' lure of June. < We tasted then of living; it was wine whose golden bubbles frolicked in ? my brain 5 Till I went mad. The frenxy seemed divine. Today the score stands I marked in figures plain: i'ur all the tasted fruit of stolen sweet, where hungry lips and thieving J bands were laid- \ d I meet my brother on the city atreet-he looks awaj -he will not know I ; Ji; s. om my brother's scorn—ail tuiough my life nust last. , Li other brother of mine, answer me then. Have I paid? The Atlanta Georgian It’s the Way You Look at It By TAD. • - *-■ *~ 7 y T~~' * uni, •- * —*■ — 27 ' <- —— »i. 1 . *' 'l7- - j ' —— ' ~ ' i ~*2 ——- - T— ~ -v*~y ~ " - . T 1 ~G. ■' t’—mi ■! 1 _'*•* * r ~ 11 ~— ~~ ~~~~ “ = *~ ~~ ZTT - ~ -Ti 52222 -■ ""TEr*- - y-— — -- ' ’y ~T*— K ' —— • - ■ ■ • — ~" _ .r_- — f __ _ 1 ~• * --- -’ ' rwi ~ -- i . „V ''X. “ Jr ii • •. ’ . ‘ '-V> ' e,. : .... r ' a /.,• " "VLI M== ' " - ' - ■ I REAU-V DO \ ’ ‘ ' ' VNUH THAT- z -?Y" ' —— tyr - _, «Y 1 > TwSi ; 7 . "'x ' ICE SKA'TugC'- ~ Vi~ . \ '•<S-- > ,t - L 1 V' 'x f THAT COATi I ?! I ' d ’ s '^ i S oooo— '■ ■ N,ce AN ' vtAK '-c / 1- it it— I F • slEOfe T --XiZwMw' -b -• • I / 1 Getting Together IN the year 1899 there was or ganized at Austin, Texas, a soviet) knowns as "The Jo vians.” It was simply *a local or ganization of men who were en gaged in the business of harnessing electricity. The particular excuse for found ing the society was to entertain a convention of manufacturers and jobbers that was to meet in Austin. The charter membership was 44. These men were more or less in competition with one another, but they said: "For the time we will sink our prejudices and fears of one another and get together and take care of the visitors." They Got Together. And so when the men got to gether and looked into one an other's faces, and laughed and joked, they really liked one an other first rate, and they discovered that, although men may be in com petition with one another, yet if they are working in the same line of business, there is something «hich they have in common that makes for respect and confidence. Especially is it true that after you have playot with a man you can not go away and lie about him nor defame him. tnd, io! there were other Jovian societies founded in the Immediate vicinity. Wherever there was a central power plant it was suggest ed that there should be an associa tion of the Jovian?. And so the idea has grtiu tally spread until the Jovtans now number in the United States over 8.000 members. Any man engaged in the busi ness of generating electricity. see ing the current, contracting, con MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1912 By ELBERT lII’BBARD. Copyright 1.912 by International News Service. structing, or dealing in electric supplies, is eligible. The motto of the Jovians is, “AU together, all the time, for every thing electrical.’’ The order of Jovians is purely social, but there is no doubt that every member is inspired to a little better work and in a little bigger and more generous way than ever before. He gets rid of his whims, his prejudices, his fears and his doubts. Good fellowship is an asset; also, it is an education. The Jovians are essentially democratic. The boys who string wires are eligible. Also all central station men, employees of street railways, heads of departments, office, sales, factory fotces and members of job bing concerns. Also most telephone interests march proudly under the Jovian banners. :: Quiet Street :: By KATHLEEN D. CLOSE. l> A S you " ande " e d through the city , did you come to Quiet Street. S XI Tae pla.ee where all is peaceful, and where storms no longer beat’.’ I Each house there has a winded looking backward through the years But those who view the distant scene are past the time of tears. They have borne the toil and trouble of the noonday stress and heat, And now their work is over—they have conn- to yulet Street. . If ever. In the gloaming, you should come to Quiet Street. < You will catch a strain of music that is faint and far and sweet, 1 And the people pause and wonder in their passing to and fro 5 For they think they hear a melody that sounded long ago. ! They could not stay to listen in the days when Life was fleet. J Rut time is very tender to the folk in Quiet Street. < If in summertime or winter you should come to Quiet Street > In the sunlight or the shadow, there’s a lady you may meet. S They say her name is Memory : I know her gentle fact t Is lovely with the sweetness of a long departed grace. j You will not often find her, for she walks with noiseless fee:. , But I think she knows the secret of each heart in Quiet Street. v Thomas A. Edison. George West inghouse, C. A. Coffin, Dr. Stein metz. Samuel Insul. Elihu Thomson and other human motors of high voltage belong to tile Jovians. Just Getting Acquainted. The idea of electricity binding the world together In a body of brotherhood is something we did not look for a few years ago. Elec tricity occupies the twilight zone between the world of spirit and the world of matter. Electricians are all proud of their business. They should be. God is the Great Elee i j triclan. Men are surely getting acquaint ed and getting together as never before in history. All together, all I the time, not only for everything electrical, but everything human— whv not? a, I am a Jovian. DOROTHY DIX \\ rites on Women’s Desire to V ote 3 T- ft Fheir Mental Superior- I ity.or Deficiency, Can ; 7 /' On'y Be Shown bv ~ jy Fl Allowing Them the / Opportunity to Sat isfy Their Own Curi osity. By DOROTHY DIX. I, A SCIENTIST has been labori- •' XX eusly explaining that woman stands on a lower plane in evolution than man does, and is, . therefore, physically and mentally < his inferior. He says that structu < rally woman is closer akin to our > great-great-grandpapa, the baboon, | > t.ian man, and that she also betrays > her nearer relationship to the mon- 5 key by possessing the superabun- * < dant curiosity that is characteris- ? tic of the simian tribe. < For these reasons he thinks that ! orangoutangs and women should > not be permitted to vote. ! Oh, I don’t know. S When a man wants to offer a s blighting criticism on femininity < he always makes a few scathing re ? marks about curiosity, yet curiosity > is the beginning of wisdom, and > the hall mark of an active mind. > If it hadn't been for the curiosity j to see what would happen when you j put two and two together, we S should not now be enjoying the J sum of countless experiments that ■n make up civilization. The First Man. Tile first cave man who noticed J that when he rubbed two sticks together the friction produced warmth, and who had the curiosity to keep on rubbing the sticks to gether. gave us fire. The first wom an who had the curiosity to see what would happen when you put raw meat on the lire gave us cook ing. Tile first mail who was curious to know what lay beyond his imme diate neighborhood blazed the trail that has led other men to the north pole. It Newton had not been curious, he would never have discovered the law of gravitation. If Jenner had not been curious, he would not have found out about the circulation of the blood. If Fulton hadn’t been curious, he would never have both ered his head with the wild idea that a steamboat could be made to run up a river at a speed of four miles an hour. _ If Edison wasn’t one of the most ! curious men in the world, we might not be able to sit at home and listen to Caruso sing out of a little box in the corner, or to speak to our friends across the continnent over a dinky little wire. All of those doctors who spend their lives in laboratories searching into the ped igree of germs, and in grafting the ( bones and the organs of dead peo > pie onto live ones, are all insatiably < curious 'men. And let it not be forgotten that i the first of all these original re > searchers was a woman. It is our < first mother, and not our father, 5 who began the investigation of the ( whyness and the wherefore of the ? things about her, and it was this $ quality that she bequeathed her J sons that has sent them out to dis l cover the uttermost parts of the > world, and wrest from nature iter I secrets. THE HOME PAPER ”<• Curiosity is the dividing line be tween ignorance and knowledge The people who have no curiosity concerning the things about them, but who accept everything without comment or question, are invariably those of limited intelligence, and I who are heavy and loggy In mind. I Therefore, curiosity is to b- ac counted unto its possessor* as a virtue, an'd nut a fault. This Quality Needed. The contention that women ire more curious titan men is ~-i alle gation that can not be sn .-ini tiated by fact, but if it were true it would be no reflection on the femi nine character, and certainly no bar to their enfranchisement. Indeed, there is no other quality that is more needed in voters of i r present day than a large, robust cu riosity in good working order. The majority of men are too busy and too much engross*, d in their own business to have tim.* m . >ok into public matters much, but women have more leisure, an . if they spent part of it in prying into public affairs many abu • s that now exist would be rem died Perhaps the fear of woman s cu riosity in such matters is: th n son the machine politicians ,u . the most determined opponents of woman suffrage. They arc like the janitor of the school wl o, win n :•’ was asked how he liked th- woman who had been elected to the school board, replied: "Aw, away vid her! She hadn't been on dat b -aid a week before she was snooping around in the cellar and made ate clean it out, and me that a.,* . *n here fifteen years with neve.* no man on the school board even look ing in at the door.”’ Certainly it would do no a win if somebody had the curiosity to look into the records of candidate- mid saw that only decent men we put up to represent decent peo). N"r would it be inimical to the v.'l’nre of the general public if a . nt ■’ curiosity were directed to tiiidi'i? out why the man who is electee on one l platform with a specific p.ooi ise to do certain things forg* :■ i • obligation as soon as he gets into office. Curiosity and Politics. It would be ,i good thing io '• somebody curious as to win money goes that is approp iat* . certain public improvement ml why it costs the city or tie v ernment -o much more to niv a job done than it does an indh ie m'. It would be a good thing to have somebody curious’about wit) s > e laws are enforced and others are not, and how men holding sin. ■•f flees with small pay are enab: accumulate large fortunes and like ’princes. Oh, there are a lot of thing- that it wouldn't hurt us to be c.r * n '’ about, and if women bring ihis quality into politics they wi lfi ' long felt want. There’ll hate to b some better reason .idvari against giving woman v>* than her desire to know thins'’