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This World It Is Getting Better All the Time, She Declares, So Do Not Worry and Fret,but Improve Your self and Push Ahead. We Get Ideals Easily from Pictures What was the first animal tamed, conquered and made into a slave by man? Men had to work a long time, probably, be fore they got into their heads the idea of slavery for others— an idea that has meant so much to the comfort of a few and the misery of the rest for centuries. As a guess, we should say that the first tamed animal was some kind of a deer or female buffalo. Some savage woman found it wounded, perhaps broken-legged in a pit, the young cne standing near it. The young one was killed and eaten. The mother was hobbled and kept alive as long as possible for her milk, given to the wild woman's children. And when the milk gave out the mother probably was eaten by the wild woman and her children. After that experiment that same wild woman, or some other, decided that the captured animal could be kept per manently, made gentle and used to carry a load. The women, of course, carried all the loads at first, as they do now among the red Indians. Probably the first domestic scene was a wom an milking by force and violence some half-wild animal in order to get milk for her young ones. The first animal tamed by man was probably a wolf, the father of our present tribe of dogs, the tame wolf being used by the man to help him hunt animals or hunt other n.bn. However, speculation about the first animal tamed is not the purpose of this particular article. We want to call your attention to the most valuable animal that men use in their slavery, AND THE CHEAPEST ANIMAL. That animal is a woman, working in the factory or a sweatshop. Since the days when the first buffalo or wolf or elephant was tamed, there has been nothing as cheap as the woman worker, nothing so easily obtainable, so easily kept in slavery, so easily replaced when worked to death. You can see in the picture on this page some of man’s accomplishments. He teaches elephants to lift logs. He uses little donkeys, powerful horses, oxen with big horns, but he uses, above all THE POVERTY STRICKEN WOMAN AND HER CHILDREN AS SOON AS THEY ARE OLD ENOUGH TO WORK. Isn't that a proud achievement of civilization, to find the cheapest of all animal labor and the cheapest of all working animals IN THE FEMALE HUMAN BEING? The wise and great Moses, when he was teaching the Jews 1c keep house without an ice-box and laying down laws that make of the Jewish people the healthiest in the world to-day, 1': at wise Moses issued this order, on the authority of the Almighty: "Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.”— Exodus 34:26. Why Moses gave the order we don’t ’'now. Possibly be cause he thought it was bad enough to kill the mother and eat it. but a little too bad and too heartless to take the mother’s milk and boil her own child in that milk. Or probably Moses issued the order because of his general opinion that meat and milk should not be used at the same meal. What would Moses think, if he came along now and found a miserable, half-starved, under paid woman, working in a factory and found her own "kid,'’ the child of her body, tied to some machine in the factory with her, or sitting at her feet in a sweatshop working before it was six years of age? Would not the old Lawgiver say, ‘‘I thought it was bad enough in my day to boil a kid in the milk of its own mother. ‘ ‘ But to take a child and work it to death in the same fac tory that, worked its mother to death is going a little farther along the road of deviltry than I ever imagined human beings could go.” Yet that is what we do. Our system of industry takes these “cheapest of working animals,” the women, and takes their cheap children, and boils them all down into profits in the same factory—and that is “civilization.” You are tired, readers, of hearing about low pay for women and girls—tired, perhaps, even of the suggestion that laws should be passed compelling employers to pay to the cheapest working animal at least enough to keep clothes on her back and food in her stomach. What follows, however, you wall read with interest. It is a brilliant Frenchman’s description of woman as she lived ages ago. He calls it, “The First Tears.” It is, perhaps, as good a description as has been written of the appearance of the first woman, in the days when she drank from the horn of a bison, and kept her rainwater in the skull of an elephant. It is the woman of the days before men had learned to conquer fire. It is worth reading: "On refct of the cliff the branches of a thicket parted and an aim. 4 wnt ulder, then tin entire form of a living being, veiled "ith towny hulr. appeared, tame forth, and stood like u hunted animal, £11 reins 10 right und left a, primitive woman, with arched shelving broad flunks, short solid legs, splayfeet and thick fat hand9. V mass of foiling hair, starting from the crown of her long skull, framed her face with a somber red-brown aureole. A short, loose neck ro-e from her full should* rs. strong teeth glittered In her red Jaws, and a double furrow run from jaw to brow to divide the formless nose from e t reatur© bn ath* <•, her mobile nostrils drew back to take ioi ‘ of the wind. Sheltered by the low retreating forebear*, g at dts fell to form caverns for the restless eyes. At wrinklod > y, dd- str *U >t«ned the ev*.s widened, and an ex- l appealing softness appeared, then vanished to give place c of a worried ,boast. im* was the dawn of humanitj ^vhen Man was an animal ’ aj . • ; :.y «ik t n for* • Ear:ha poj , a So Please Look at the Picture on This Page of the Cheapest Woiking Animal in the World It May Help You to! hink. Copyright, 1913. Written For The Atlanta Georgian By Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copyright, 1913, by Star Company. By REV. T. B GREGORY. T HE foundation of the first real reform school, at Mett- ray, France, seventy-four years ago, marks the beginning of one of the most vitally Important institutions that are at work among us at this time for the uplift of the race. The honor of starting this most effective propaganda for the sal vation of the young, who may well be called the “seed-corn” of hu manity. belongs to M. de Metz, at one time a great lawyer in Paris. Dangers to Youth. In the Gay City Metz witnessed the temptations and dangers to which young boys and girls were exposed; he saw them falling by multitudes* Into the way of evil; and what was mole to the point, he observed that even the worst of the delinquents never quite succeeded In totally demoralizing themselves, and that most of them were redeemable if approached in the right spirit and assisted by the proper environment. Set Himself the Task. With this conviction deep set in his mind the ex-councillor set himself to the task of putting his faith to the test of actual ex periment. Putting his hands into his own pockets, and into the pockets of as many of his friends as would allow it, he soon had a considerable amount of cash, and upon ground given by the Vicomte de Courcelles the Reform School was built and put into operation. The results more than justified the good man’s dream: and when, some years later. M. de Metz lay upon his deathbed, he was com forted with the happy conscious ness that he hacM^rought nobly and permanently for the Humani ty he loved so well. The Met tray School set the world a-thinking. and It was not long before other countries were establishing similar institutions. Great Britain, Germany. Austria, Italy, the United States fell into line, and the idea of saving the. boys and girls from becoming hardened criminals became almost a passion. To-day—less than a century- after the foundation of the school at Met tray-—the institutions for the moral uplift of juvenile delin quents are to be numbered by the thousands. They have ramified not only throughout Christendom, but are to be found in the so- called “Pagan** lands of the earth, where Christianity, as an organi zation. is but little known. Wherever humanity is found there in the midst of it is the spirit of the Paris lawyer—which is, of course, but a reflection of the spirit of the Great Brother of us all—working to save the youth of the race, to redeem fallen boys and girls from the grip of the de stroyer and to restore them to the ways of decency and peace. If all the youth who have been reached and lifted up to a sense of self-respect and happiness by these reform schools could be got together what a procession they would make! Needs No Monument. The temptation is strong to ask the question: Has M. de Metz a monument*? But how foolish, aftef all, the question would be. He j needs no monument. This same mighty army of redeemed youth is his monument and he requires no other. T HERE are hundreds of other wise sensible and good men and women in the land to day who are wasting precious vital force, and losing great op portunities for achievement, in a useless and foolish worry and de spondency over the industrial sit uation of the country. Food ie high: rents are high; fuel is high, and the trusts and monopolies are carrying things from bad to worse. YET ALL THE TIME THE WORLD IS IMPROVING. And all the time we are going toward a better era. Work for Improvement. Great men and gr^at women are thinking and working to bring about an improved system of life and labor; and more work is be ing done for the uplifting and en lightenment of the race than ever before since the earth came out of chaos. So do not dwell too much on the troubled social conditions of the day and grow bitter and pessi mistic over them. The situation is one which calls for all your optimism and cheer fulness. The world has been wagging on for millions of years, and will con tinue to wag, and humanity has been slowly improving and will continue to tmprove slowly for many millions of years. The first important thing for you to do is to improve yourself, and that you can not do if you grow' bitter and despondent and harp continually upon the evil of the world. If you allow your mind to dwell upon the scarcity of fuel and Its high price, you will not increase the supply of fuel or lower the price, and you will exhaust your own vital forces, w’hich might, properly conserved, fire you with ambition enough to go forth and invent some new fuel. Help by Example. Try in the moments of greatest gloom to realize that out of such strife and chaos as exist just now- new conditions are formulated and in time are materialized. Be ready to meet these new* condi tions and be worthy of them. It is useless to ask for a better social system unless the people who form it are better. A government is made by the people. If it is faulty, it is be cause the people are faulty. If it Is to be bettered, the peo ple must become better. Begin with yourself. Keep wholesome, and hopeful, and rea sonable, and industrious, and economical. Help others to do so—not en tirely by advice, but by example. Try to save a little of what you earn to meet the emergency that may come. You think you can not, but if you once realize how little you really need to sus tain life and keep well and strong you will find you can economize. Half the food we now consume is more than enough! And the things which cost more are al most invariably the things we need least. Consume fresh air. breathe deep and develop your muscles with outdoor exercises or room calis thenics. Look on the philosophi cal side of life and think cheer fully. Believe progress is back of all this chaos, just as you know the tom-up conditions of the city ’streets indicate future comfort and convenience for the people. Everything will settle down by and by. Be ready to settle down with it, a healthy, hopeful, useful citizen. It’s Not a Theory. Do not allow yourself to go to pieces with old conditions. If you want to know some very interesting things which are be ing done for humanity get some leaflets and pamphlets describing the Single Tax propaganda. There is something in the movement and the work being done for the whole world of thinking people. The soul of Henry George is marching on, after his body is mouldering in the grave. It will convince you that Single Tax is not a theory, but a great and wonderful Fact—and that in its principles lies the lifting of the race from slavery to inde pendence. One fault to be found with “September Morn’’ is that it en able a lot of professional re formers to get free advertising next to pure reading matter. * * * Pride is a state of mind which impels a man to congratulate himself whenever his thermome ter registers more degrees of heat than his neighbor’s. * * * Sitting on the bank of the Chattahoochee, fish pole in hand, one experiences all the delights of fishing except that one does not catch fish. * * * When Luther Burbank gets around to it, we hope he. will evolve a hookless gown. * * * Handsome woman and happy home do not always go together. Ambassador Page will not wear knee breeches, but there is some doubt as to whether it is due to patriotism or the shape of his legs. • * * If Colonel Roosevelt were to accept a Job as King of Albania he would be the bass drum in the concert of powers. • • • Everybody feels like congratu lating a cripple when he feels strong enough to throw away his crutch. * * * "Baseball shatters the nerves,” says a Boston scientist, who evi dently has been watching the Cubs. * * * The man who perpetrated the first cabaret Is the man who put the harm In harmony. She is cheaper by the day, the hour or the whole lifetime than any of the different beasts that labor for men. (SEE EDITORIAL.) tlon to hide from the cold in caves. The skeletons of giant saurian* were petrifying in the upper strata of the crust, and mammals were moving In to the valleys to take their places. Great pachyderms and long-haired ruminants waded in the mire of the valleys, and beasts of prey dogged their steps. Among the animals rare beings foreshadow ing Man crept naked, timid, feeling their way, hiding from the beasts of prey. “In the low light of the primeval springtime, in silence broken only by the tramp of padded hoofs and by the lap of water against the mire, a man searching for berries saw a woman running to escape him, ran after her. caught her and carried her away. “The man vanished, and for the first time in her hunted life the woman felt the loneliness of the solitude that had been her best condi tion. and a pang like ihe yearning of hunger awoke In her. “She wandered along the hedges, through the wet fields, under the dark sky, searching for the one who had mastered her; and when af ter long quest, she saw him, she ran to him with inarticulate cries. He gave no answering sign; but, when he sat down to eat his fistful of acorn*, she sat down beside him, and when he lay down to sleep she, too, lav down. So the law of life gave the woman to the man. “At first he tolerated her: then, when she served him and was use ful to him, he made her his habit. Her relative weakness gave her quick premonitions of their need of food. His indifference to her and her dependence upon him gave him superiority. His silent acceptance of her presence aroused In her dull brain i feeling akin to tenderness, and in that feeling, humble and submissive, she withdrew when he had beaten her." That description was written by Edmond Haraucourt. It goes on to say that the primitive man called the woman ’ ‘ Hock. ” And the woman called him ‘ ’ Daah, ’ ’ a name which the French gentleman thinks was “an appeal soft as a caress.” This primitive married couple had two other words, one for hunger, “Mah, ” and another for danger, “Heugh.” Whatever else they had to say they told in gestures. Primitive times were they not—those days of three or four hundred thousand years ago? But how much worse was that primitive woman, short legged and ugly and beaten by the brute that she liked, than the woman of to-day? The woman of to-day is better made, she has a forehead where the other had none. She has feelings of which the other never dreamed. Is she any better off—SHE, THE CHEAPEST WORKING MACHINE THAT MAN EMPLOYS; SHE, THE LOWEST- PRICED ANIMAL, THE CHIEF BEAST OF BURDEN OF THE WORLD, CHEATED OF HER RIGHTS FROM BEGIN NING TO END, CHEATED AS WAS THIS WOMAN OF NEARLY HALF A MILLION YEARS AGO? The so-called educated and superior classes have tue im pertinence to laugh at the women who at last have had the courage and the intelligence to make a stand for their rights, to demand a share in the making of laws that will protect them against the brutality that has lasted a half-million years. “I Wonder How Much for a Hat?’ By George Keller "$2,500 per annum for clothes is sufficient."—XEW8 ITEM. WENTY-FIVE HUNDRED a year for clothes! (lee, Bill, just think of that— Twenty-five hundred for nothing hut clothes'. I wonder how much for a hat? Why. Daddy works like a slave, An’ he can’t get no such clothes, he can’t. An' those ’at he does get are all worn out, An’ come as a gift from my aunt. Twenty-five hundred! Whew, what a pile! An’ figurin’ on ten tones a suit— Why, two hundred and fifty new suits each year- Gosh. that gink must be a beaut’! Dad brings in six hundred a year. An’ on that we live an’ pay rent. Why can't my daddy have plenty of dough? Ain’t he as good as that gent? Twenty-five hundred a year for clothes! Gee. Rill, just think of that! Twenty-five hundred for nothing bur clothes! I wonder how much for a hat? Saving Humanity’s “Seed Corn’’ PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS EDITORIAL RAG THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME PARER Publish©*! Every Af By THE OKOK At 20 East Alaba Entered *e< end-class matter at po*t Subscription Price—Delivered by carrie ernoon Except Sunday III AN C< >M "A NY 114, St , Atianta, Ga. tffl<-e at Atlanta, under act of March 3,1873 10 cent* a week By mull, $5.00 a year. The Cheapest Working Animal Ella Wheeler Wilcox Writes on