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Strange Champions of Nature
and States' Rights
You Never Can Tell
The interests which have so far been able to prevent the
city of San Francisco getting the right from the Government to
provide a water supply from the Hetch Hetchy Valley have been
flooding the country with literature intended to appeal to na
ture lovers, arguing against the alleged desecration of one of the
great natural wonders of the West.
From this literature it might be supposed that the city of
San Francisco meant to take the mountain gorge, blow it off the
map with dynamite and grind it up into concrete.
Now, what San Francisco purposes doing in Hetch Hetchy
is to substitute for the rough floor of the canyon a lake. It is not
going to blow down any cliffs, or shut off any waterfalls or do
anything else that would destroy or even lessen the beauty of
this seldom visited, remote mountain fastness.
It is not the beauty of the Hetch Hetchy Valley that the
pump and water company that at present enjoys a monopoly in
San Francisco fears will be destroyed. It fears any interfer
ence with the perfection of a monopoly of a city’s greatest ne
cessity.
It is from the same unselfish source that proceeds the agi
tated torrent of indignation at possible national jurisdiction over
a municipal utility.
All the objections to the Hetch Hetchy Valley plan were
fully met in the bill by which it was hoped that California Bay
cities would get the supply of pure water that is so necessary to
them.
The most jealous guardians of States’ rights scrutinized
that bill and found in it no surrender of their principles.
It appears, however, that the issue of Federal versus State
jurisdiction is going to be raised again. It would be a calamity
if such an issue should defeat or even delay the relief these cities
require.
When a private water company anxious to sell an archaic
system to a city at an exorbitant figure, and a power company
anxious to avoid any interference with its grip upon a rich fran
chise solemnly fare forth as the champions of scenic beauty and
States ’ rights they are not convincing.
San Francisco is not a vandal, nor has it any deep purpose
of Federalism.
It is merely a city that was well-nigh destroyed when its
privately owned water supply failed at the critical moment, and
it wishes to guard against the possibility of a repetition of that
thing and provide itself with an adequate supply of pure moun
tain water that now runs to waste during the wet season in Cali
fornia.
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Your Work Is Your Brain’s
Gymnasium
(Copyright, 1913.)
When the Wife’s Away
For “buyers” in big stores,
For clerks in little stores,
For office boys,
For typewriters, reporters, car conductors, household do
mestics, for all who are hired to work for others, this article is
intended.
There is no greater mistake than skimping your work BE
CAUSE YOU ARE WORKING FOR ANOTHER, AND FEAR
YOU MAY DO TOO MUCH.
For your own sake remember that whatever you do in the
way of honest concentrated work you do FIRST OF ALL FOR
YOURSELF.
Only one thing in the world can improve you and better
your condition, and that thing is your own effort.
You begin life with certain mental faculties, and with cer
tain muscular faculties. Their development or decay depends
entirely on yourself.
No work that you do is worthless. It will NEVER pay you
to neglect or slur the task that you have undertaken.
You may be idle, in the thought that you are indulging
yourself at the expense of your employer. It is a dishonest
thought, and it is a stupid thought at the same time.
You may rob your employer of the time that he pays for,
but when you shirk your work you rob yourself first of all.
You may say that your employer pays you too little. Per
haps he does. But that is no reason for hurting your moral
character through dishonesty. It is no excuse for failing to de
velop yourself.
The store, or factory, or office in which you work is to your
mind what a gymnasium is to your muscles.
You enter a gymnasium AND PAY FOR THE PRIVILEGE
OF WORKING THERE.
You do not say to yourself: “This gymnasium belongs to
another man. The profits go to him, and so I'll not work hard.”
On the contrary, you realize that the owner of the gym
nasium gives you the chance to develop your muscles, and you
thank him, although he makes you pay for the privilege. And
yon do your very best, on the trapeze, rings, parallel bars, or in
any other direction.
Act in your work as you do in your gymnasium hours.
There is no kind of work that can fail to make you a better
and more successful man if you work at it honestly and loyally.
If you sweep an office, sweep it well. And begin punctually
each day, remembering that punctuality acquired in sweeping
an office may be used later in governing- a city.
Train your mind through your work, whatever it is.
Study the lives of those who have succeeded. You will see
that they did whatever they did as well as they could.
Edison was an ordinary telegraph operator. But he was not
content with merely working as others worked. He worked
very hard, devised means to make more valuable the instru
ments of his employers. Soon he was an employer himself, and
what is far better than being an employer, he was a creator of
new ide^s and a benefactor of the world.*
SAV. CAT, DO you
REMEMBER ONE
MIGHT LAST WINTER
WHEN I CAME HOME"!
-LATEI? THAN
USUAL AW TAKING
PARTICULAR PAINS
WOT to WAKE TH’
WIFE AN' - I
-SIONNIN MY KNEES
An ANKLES ON
CHAIRS AN' TH’ UlfE
AN' not WAKIN' HER
YOU GOT UNDER MY
EOOT SOMEHOW AN'
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CONCERNING THE HEALTH MARRIAGE BILL
Editor The Georgian:
A few days ago 1 noticed that
the Senate Committee on Hygiene
favorably recommended the so-
called health marriage bill. This
bill prohibits the issuing of a
marriage license to anyone until
he has passed a successful physi
cal examination and presents a
certificate of good health from
some reputable physician.
It has been argus4 by some
that hygienic marmge would
tend to stem the great tide of the
divorce evil. This argument is
the weakest they have, for the
fact that a man and woman are
in a good state of health is cer
tainly no guarantee of happiness,
for nothing will insure happiness
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Writes on
Knowledge
Time Devoted to the Study of the
. Lives of Famous Personages, Great
Deeds and Epoch-Making Periods
in the World’s History Broadens the
Mind and Develops an Education
Beyond Value.
Written for The Atlanta Georgian
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright, 1913, by Star Company.
JL st
OU say to give up ell
study of history would
be to some of us the
keenest deprivation and it would
rob travel of its most subtle
pleasure, and to give up contem
plation of old works of art would
be crucifixion.
"Now, let me see. Because the
wheelbarrow was the first, inven
tion, or the means of transporta
tion to a great extent, would you
travel in it to-day, or would you
rather move in an auto or electric
car or railway if you had to go
somewhere far off? The libraries
are already stocked with trash,
and if anyone wants to go there
and sit and waste his life away
on some old history he can do so
—no one will stop him. But we
will all become greater when we
learn not to bother so much about
the past, but the future.
‘•READER.”
No time is wasted which is
used in opening up the mental
realm to a larger field of knowl
edge of the human race, and in
sowing the soil with information
about great lives, remarkable eras
and wonderful deeds.
Worth Pondering On.
No one can read the story of
Joan of Arc without becoming
reverent toward the Invisible
Realms and full of awe at the
thought of the unfathomed depths
which lie in human souls. That
an ignorant peasant girl of 17
could become a great war gen
eral and free her country is a sub
ject worth pondering on. and
“Reader” could spend his time to
no better advantage than to read
Mark Twain’s story of Joan of
Arc. even though she lived 500
years ago.
There is no education more
broadening to the mind than
travel and contact with various
nations and races. But travel
loses two-thirds of its value and
pleasure if the traveler does not
know history’.
There was a woman who spent
a fortune in touring the world
and stopping at expensive hotels
and wearing elaborate gowns
purchased in various capitals of
the earth.
She spoke of Rome as a terri
bly dull place, from which she fled
after a few days of boredom.
“Why, you could not buy a de
cent costume there,” she said,
‘‘and even the tailors and dress
makers did not know wnat was
up to date in Paris.”
All the wonderful epoch-mak
ing history’ of that marvelous city
was a sealed book to her. And
all its glorious art was lost upon
her fashion-blinded eyes.
Anyone who will read Watson’s
History of France, Gibbons or
Carlisle, or any of the great his
torians, will rise from the reading
with new aspirations for the world
as It Is to-day and new hopes
for the race.
Wise Not to Bother.
There is no doubt in the writ
er’s mind that America is to be
the home of the greatest school
of art the world has ever known.
The foundation of it is already
begun, and'after a few genera
tions the geniuses will be bom
who shall make It Illustrious.
But this great Art Birth will
result from the study which has
been given for half a century to
the art of the Old World.
It is wise, indeed, not to "bottl
er about the past” by regretting
it or by a pessimistic idea that
all greatness existed in the past
and that the future has nothing
better to offer us. But it would
be a -world-wide calamity to shut
out from human minds the
knowledge of what has been, and
to direct it only toward what is
to be.
There is inspiration in know
ing what great souls have done in
ages gone, in seeing what they
have achieved, and reading wbat
they have written.
And in understanding through
what difficulties they toiled and
over what obstacles they climbed.
Hours spent In gaining such in
formation are tenfold more bene
ficial to the receptive mind than
hours spent In vain self boasting
or self satisfaction.
A True Futurist.
The true “Futurist” is he who
knows all about the past; who
reverences its greatness, pities
its weaknesses and respects its
achievements, and then sets forth
to make a future greater in every
way than any past has ever been.
And such a future will come In
time to America.
It will give us, after its season
of mere commercialism and ma
terialism has passed, the great
est art, music and literature the
world has known.
And the greatest altruism.
How We Are Injured by Insects
Selected by EDWIN MARKHAM.
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but love, and should this bill be
come a law. it will certainly put a
ban on love marriage, which
would tend to increase divorces
rather than to decrease them.
FOSTER D. SMITH.
Greensboro, Ga.
OW that the year has swung
around to vacation time, it
Is worth while to note what
Dr. Woods Hutchinson has to say
on the pests of country life. From
Dr. Hutchinson’s book. “Common
Diseases.” sent out by the Hough
ton Mifflin Company, I gather
the following for you:
"In most parts of the United
States, during the season in
which the weather pf rmlts’one to
sit out of doors with any com
fort, life is rendered a burden by
flies, gnats and mosquitoes un
less behind the protection of
screens.
“The real battle of the human
species for the possession of the
earth—nay, even for the right to
exist upon its surface—must be
fought, not with mammoths, but
with mosquitoes: not with lions
and tigers, but with flies and
gnats; not with behemoths, but
with bacilli.
“Our instinct to kill insects at
eight is perfectly sound. Out of
the quarter of a million species
now known to science, a mere
handful are even remotely help
ful to man, and most of these
only by their power of living
upon other and more dangerous
insects. On the other hand, thou
sands of species are actively hos
tile to man, to his food-plants
and to his domestic animals.
Whole tribes of men have been
swept out of existence by the at
tack of insects carrying bacilli —
as within the last two decades in
Central Africa, by the dread
•sleeping sickness* carried by the
tsetse fly. Whole nations have
been weakened and crippled and
whole civilizations retarded by
another insect-bome disease, ma
laria.
“Closer study of the habits of
the mosquito during the past five
years hai9 brought out the curious
and at first sight incredible fact
that the majority of these In
sects which carry disease, such as
the malarial mosquito, the yellow
fever mosquito and the house fly,
can live and multiply, apparently,
only in the immediate neighbor
hood of human habitations. In
other words, they are literally do
mestic animals and part of our
farm stock. This is absolutely
true of the house fiy and the yel
low fever mosquito, neither of
which is ever found more than a
mile or two, and usually not more
than a few hundred yards, away
from human habitations.
“Dangerous and deadly as the
mosquitoes are, they are only
‘middlemen/ distributors, com
mon carriers of evils which they
have picked up from outside
sources. For the most part these
outside sources are diseased or
dirty human beings. So that we
have really ourselves to thank for
most of the damage they do.”
Pertinent Paragraphs
“Not yet, but soon,” would ap
pear to be Cavalieri’s attitude on
that engagement report.
Exercising its “Divine Right”
the Coal Trust goes into the pock
et of the consumer for that $4.-
000.000 tax levied by the State of
Pennsylvania.