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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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The Atlanta Georgian
In the Movies In Real Life
How Many Dignified United States Sena-1
tors Are Getting or Hope toGet Money
from the Express Companies?
'We Shall Know Exactly When We See How Many Senators
Fight Improvements in the Parcel Post.
(Copyright)
Betterments suggested and predicted in this and other
newspapers have already “arrived” in the parcel post system.
Mr. Burleson, the present Postmaster General, deserves
credit and praise for his efforts to make the parcel post a use
ful servant of the people, instead of leaving it like a pigeon with
its wings clipped—clipped to oblige the express companies.
The silly special stamps that were first necessary have
been abolished.
The Government has arranged to send parcel post C. 0. D.—
a great convenience for merchants and the public.
The sending of larger packages, raising the limit from
eleven to twenty pounds, will be of great benefit to business
men—especially to the small merchants throughout the country
who require and ought to have for the benefit of their customers
a complete postal delivery service.
Thanks to Burleson, the stupidities of the zone system are
being corrected with reasonable speed.
Before long it is safe to hope that the zones will be abol
ished, that the postoffice will be the real delivery service of all
the people, facilitating transactions and exchanges of all kinds,
bringing in many millions of revenue of profit to the Govern
ment, saving still many more millions to the people, and abol
ishing the dishonest, extortionate, monopolistic and stupid reign
and control of the express companies.
Do you need to be told that these improvements in the pos
tal service are opposed violently and as usual BY MEMBERS
OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS, ESPECIALLY BY
“DIGNIFIED” SENATORS?
One thing is quite certain, you won t need to be told when
United States Senators of the Lorimer type are taking or have
taken the cash of the express companies.
You will have a fairly complete list of those gentlemen,
when you find which of the “honorable Senators” are most
ardent in opposing parcel post improvement, and most vicious
in their attacks on Postmaster General Burleson.
Is Your Child Afraid at Night?
Treat the Child Kindly, Indulgently. Such a Child Needs Sympa
thy. Harsh Treatment and Scolding Are Very Harmful.
(Copyright, 1918.)
Many little boys and girls are frightened at night.
They are in terror if compelled to sleep alone in a dark room.
They awake, frightened by bad dreams, shaking with fear, tor
mented with all kinds of apprehension.
Such children are to be pitied, and they are to be pitied
especially when they happen to be “blessed” with parents that
do not understand the treatment of such children.
There are many so-called “old-fashioned” fathers and moth
ers, which usually means IGNORANT fathers and mothers, who
believe that nervous, frightened children should be disciplined
and made to get over their fears.
Such old-fashioned, ignorant parents send the child to bed
alone, preferably up a dark stairway. They put out the light
and shut the door when the child is in bed.
AND THE UNFORTUNATE, UNFIT PARENTS DO NOT
REALIZE THAT THEY ARE DOING THEIR VERY BEST TO
DESTROY THE CHILD'S CHANCE OF SUCCESS AND NOR
MAL GROWTH.
Fathers and mothers should remember that the one impor
tant thing the child possesses is brain. And they should remem
ber that the one valuable thing in the brain IS IMAGINATION.
The child that is frightened, afraid of the dark, afraid of its
own strange dreams, is the child with an active mind and an ac
tive imagination. AND THAT IS THE CHILD THAT IS APT
TO AMOUNT TO SOMETHING LATER ON, IF THE PARENTS
WILL GIVE IT A CHANCE.
Remember that the mind, in its nervousness, feeds upon
the body.
If you compel your child night after night to undergo the
torture of fear you are destroying the child's health, its nerves,
taking away its chance of strong growth and future useful work.
A child such as we have described, imaginative, timid,
should be constantly surrounded with sympathy and the deep
est affection.
In extreme cases, such a child should be allowed to go to
sleep within hearing of the voice of an older person.. If it is
a young child, it is simple enough to allow it to sleep in an ad
joining room while you read or talk. It can be moved to its own
bed still sleeping when the time comes.
Or the father and mother fit to have a child, fit for the
responsibility for developing a human being, will take the
trouble to spend the hours of the evening near enough to the
child’s bedroom so that an occasional kind, encouraging word
may dispel fear.
If the child is happier with a light', LET THE LIGHT
BURN after the child goes to bed, placing the light in such a
way that the child will know it is there, without having any
glare in the eyes.
Or a very small night lamp, a mere tumbler of water with
a few cents’ worth of oil on the water and a floating wick,
will answer the purpose.
Remember that a child’s fears, nervousness and strange
dreams are THE EXPRESSION OF THAT CHILD'S INTEL
LECTUAL FORCE.
If you were the father of a little gorilla, it would go to
sleep at once, not dream, not imagine anything. BUT YOU
WOULDN’T BE VERY PROUD TO HAVE A YOUNG GORIL.
LA OR CHIMPANZEE FOR YOUR CHILD.
If you are the father of a highly strung, nervous, imagina
tive child, be glad that yon have such a child, and do all that
you can with sympathy, love and kindness to make the child’s
arly years happy and free from nervous strain.
The Good and Evil of Modern Inventions
Where They Endanger the Peace and Safety of One They Brighten
and Better a Hundred---It Is Foolish to Rail at Them.
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
(Copyrighted, 1913, by the Star Co.)
T WO bright and gifted women
have spent much valuable
thought, time and words in
condemnation of the telephone
and the automobile.
Both women assert that these
modern inventions have done
much to lower the standard of
manners and morals in the last
decade.
Young girl* particularly have
been led to do foolish and undig
nified things by the use of the
telephone and by the convenience
of the motor car.
The Evils These Women
See In “Auto” and
“Phone.”
Invitations are given over the
telephone to meet friend* who
own a motor car. and the lack
of ceremony arid lack of time for
reflection lead quite frequently to
lack of discretion. The bodiless
voice and the horseless vehicle
seem (so these good ladies think)
-'like secret emissaries of Evil,
moving through the earth to work
mischief for the unwary.
Besides this, the motor car has*
led women to be careless in dress
and careless in deportment.
It has led to noise and hurry
and confusion and extravagance
and roadhouse indiscretions. Anil
to a disregard for the nice pro
prieties and courtesies of life.
People drive now to speed from
somewhere to nowhere and back
again, without having enjoyed the
scenery or the fresh air—just to
make a speed record. And much
more, these good ladies say in
condemnation of the motor car
and of the telephone, which in
terrupts all efforts at quiet con
versation. and which has quite
done away with the art of letter
writing or the habit of sending
pretty notes of invitation or
greeting, and which very often
makes an excuse easy where so
cial obligations have been neg
lected.
However true all these accusa
tions are against the. telephone
and automobile, there is no waste
of energy more foolish and none
which brings less reward than
railing at new inventions.
Precisely so was the railroad
assailed when it first appeared
av a means of locomotion. Its
noise, its expense, its dangers,
its vulgarity, were set forth be
side the time-honored stage
coach; where people could be
comfortable and safe and digni
fied; but the assailants achieved
nothing, and the stage coach de
parted and the railroad remained.
And, despite its objectionable
features, the railroad opened up
new worlds to commerce, industry
and art. It brought education in
to remote places and gave a larg
er aspect to life for millions of
mentally and physically starving
human beings.
The bicycle was the first vehicle,
after the railroad which brought
forth the condemnation of the
type of mind which produces the
Protestor.
The Bicycle a Wonderful
Factor in Woman’s
Development.
Its lack of dignity, its boldness
and its danger were all dwelt
upon as features which made it
a particularly improper convey
ance for woman's use. Yet the
bicycle has been a wonderful fac
tor in producing our present type
of athletic outdoor woman.
Before it came inio use. the
delicate woman Vith a thousand
feminine ailments was prevalent
everywhere — in the country
places. Now she is rarely around,
because for two generations
woman has been able to go be
yond her dooryard without wait
ing for the men folks to "hitch
up" a tired horse and drive her
to make a call or do an errand.
The bicycle made it possible for
woman to occupy a better-paying
position than that of household
drudge, because she could go to
and from her more agreeable la
bor independently and swiftly.
The automobile is doing more
to help the cause of the suffering
horse than all the S. P. C. A. and
humane associations combined.
It is teaching geography more
practically than all the schools of
the land; and it is one of the
most efficient aids in detective
work, and in first help to the
wounded, the sick, the needy and
the overworked.
Where it endangers the peace
and safety of one individual, it
brightens and betters a hundred.
Where it brings into one home
temptation and indiscretion, it
helps a hundred people to do good
deeds and 16 erfrry comfort and
joy into other homes. Where it
destroys one life, it restores
health to human beings whoso
lung cells have been starved for
fresh air.
Where one person uses a motor
car for evil purposes, fifty use it
for doing good deeds, for speed
ing through familiar scenes in or
der to enlarge the vision by the
sight of the unfamiliar, and for
giving pleasure to relays of other
human beings who have not the
money or time to travel by train,
or the strength and leisure to
travel by foot.
Besides which, the automobile
is bringing human beings in hail
ing distance and doing a,way with
the sense of separateness, which
means a loe to real altruism.
All the world needs for its re-
the: home: rarer
Mysteries of
Science and
Nature
Microbes, When
Trained, Are Capable
of Aiding Efficiently
Man’s War Against
Disease, Such as^the
Infections That Arc
Spread by Flies, Aid
Industry Also.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
generation is a clear knowledge
and understanding between the
various classes and denizens of
earth.
The motor car is a great intro
duction and interpreter.
People who waste their time
and energy in fighting against, or
even in decrying, such an inven
tion as the railroad, the tele
phone or the motor, are working
against their own best growth
and progress.
It is wiser to learn to under
stand the great psychic meaning
underlying all these modern in
ventions. and we must get into
touch with their vibrations, and
feel their rhythm in our own
minds and bodies, and to use them
as they are meant to be used—
sanely and helpfully.
Great Mental Realm Will
Not Be Closed to All
But Few.
All these marvellous things are
being invented that man may rise
out of drudgery and avail him
self of the still more wonderful
opportunities which are coming to
the race.
The vacuum cleaners are
emancipating the dust-smothered
slaves of the broom. The world’s
work will eventually all be done
by machinery, and three hours’
time will be quite sufficient for
each individual to give in direct
ing this machinery.
Then the great me/ital realms*,
the realms of art and literature
and research, will not be closed to
all save the favored few.
All hail to the age of invention!
And let us devoutly thank Go^
that we are privileged to live in
this most remarkable and glorious
era of the world’s hlstorj. The
best thing about the Past is that
it has gone, to give us the bet
ter Present, and to make ready
for the Kill better Future.
T HE name "microbe” is one
that generally inspires ter
ror because of all. the won
derful discoveries that have been
made concerning the fearful
d^ath-dealing povvers.'that many
microbes possess.
But, in a most interesting ar
ticle in Hearst s Magazine for
July, Sir William Ramsay has
just pointed out how mievobes
may be. and are, engaged as al
lies of man, either by changing
their malignant nature, or by set
ting them to war upon other
minute foes with which we can
not ourselves directly fight.
In some cases the services
which microbes are able to render
in the battle against disease might <
be compared to that of fleets of
small armed boats sent out from
a squadron of battleships to en
ter the shallow and hidden creeks
and coves on an enemy’s coast,
and attack the foe in positions
unapproachable to the heavy ves
sels.
Our trained microbe allies may
race through our blood, and pene
trate the most secret regions of.
our bodies, either destroying the
enemies already lurking there, or
laying waste the territory against
their advance by depriving It of
the means of subsistence upon
which the invaders must depend.
Microbes Are Scouts.
And all this may be done with
out harm to the tissues or the
functions of the body.
Such beneficent microbes are
like scouts and guerrillas, and
where they have skirmished the
enemy is found to be so disorgan
ized and broken up that it can be
swept out of existence.
A dramatic example of the way
in which the discovery was made
that microbes can, as Professor
Ramsay says, be “harnessed" for
useful work, is afforded by /Pas
teur’s experience with "chicken
cholera.” He had been inoculating
healthy chickens with microbes
taken from fowls infected with
the disease, in order to study its
method of development. The va
cation period came along, and
Pasteur went away, leaving some
of the cultures of microbes in his
laboratory. When he returned he
resumed his experiments with the
microbes that had been left over,
and which seemed, as far as ap
pearances went, to be as virulent
as ever.
But to his astonishment, when
he inoculated them into healthy
chickens, the* latter went about
their gallinaceous (henlike) af
fairs with their usual zest and
good appetite, and did not develop
diseases of any kind. Here was
an opportunity for genius, and
Pasteur was a genius. Instantly
he set to work to find out th«
reason for the immunity of the
chickens from so deadly an enemy*
First he inoculated them over
again with microbe* taken fresh
from fowls, that had the cholera.
But the chickens remained
lively and healthy as ever. Then <
he found out that if the microbes
were exposed for a long time to
the air, at a certain temperature,
they lost their virulence, they
could -no longer communicate
disease, but they could, like scav
engers, remove from the bl^od
of the chickens into which they
were introduced the elements up
on which the disease-breeding
microbes subsisted.
Pasteur’s Discovery.
Thus Pasteur, led by a happy
accident, had learned how to "har
ness” the microbes of chicken
cholera and make them work for
health and life instead of for dis
ease and death. They became his
guerrillas, with which he waged
successful war upon an enemy of
the domestic fowl that had hith
erto defied attack.
After that it’ was found that
many other microbes, some of
them deadly enemies to human
life, like the terrible germ of
spinal meningitis, could be sub- f
dued and trained in a similar
way, and thus the great science
of inoculation against disease had
its birth.
Professor Ramsay shows that
microbes can be employed not
only in combating disease, but in
aiding man in a hundred other A
ways. For instance, the prepara
tion of tea, the curing of tobacco
and the manufacture of butter
and cheese are ail processes con
ducted through the intervention of
our microbe friends, which are
falling more and more under our
control and guidance. Science is
teaching them new duties.
Public Should Approve.
"New' bacteria,” says Professor
Ramsay (bacteria are microbes),
"are being discovered, or old bac
teria are being given unaccus
tomed food, from which they
evolve useful products. The con
version of starch, a cheap com
modity in the form of maize or
potatoes, into two chemical sub
stances, named acetone and butyl
alcohol, is likely to have far-
reaching results, for the latter
t can easily be transformed into In
dia rubber, and the former is
largely used in the manufacture
of certain kinds of high explo
sives.”
Mistaken people who would in
terfere with such work on purely
sentimental grounds are capable p
of doing much harm to the best
interests of humanity. i
® ® Julius Caesar ® ®
As the Movies Would Have Given It
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE.
S CENE ONE—A crowd of scowltpg thugs, in flowing bathrobes ciad.
Whose gestures seem to indicate that some one is in bad.
They crowd around a high-browed gent, and whisper in his ear;
He waves a deprecating hand, as if in doubt or fear.
A tall, gaunt perspn enters now and winks a leering eye,
And next appear these fateful words:
"WE
h-
GOT TO GET THAT GUY!’
S CENE TWO—A statue in a street.—a large, imposing man,
Surrounded by the gang we saw when first the show began.
And as they move along they shield their faces with their hats,
And each deposits as he leaves a dagger in his slats./
The large man starts; among the gang a friend he’s recognized.
And this appears upon the screen:
“WHY, BRUTUS; I’M SURPRISED!”
S CENE THREE—A man with waving arms is talking to a crowd;
At first he doesn’t seem to stir them much, although his voice looks loud,
But by and by they pay more heed and make quick movements, showing
That something he has said to them has really got them going.
Some now grab brickbats and run off, a dozen at a time,
And on the screen these words appear:
“ANOTHER BLACK-HAND CRIME.”
S CENE LAST—A tent, two generals indulge in jeer and scoff,
But presently by shaking hands they seem to eall it off.
And now a page eomes rushing in, and by his attitude
You know the plotters’ army lias been walloped and pursued.
The generals calmly kill themselves; the reels no longer hum,
And this appears upon the screen:
CHEW GALIEO’S GUM! 1
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