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EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME RARER
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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Gasoline Is a Necessity of Life
Because”-
1 Industry and Farming Are Necessary to Life, and GASOLINE Is
Necessary to Industry and Farming—When Will Government
Investigate the Gasoline Extortion?
(Copyright, 191*3. >
The City’s Children
By PERCY F. MONTGOMERY.
I WISH that all the children of the city's
grimy street
Were out here with these wild flowers
beneath this sky of blue:
I’d like to see their faces as they scampered
o’er these hills—
I’d like to see them happy, wouldn’t you?
They're stunted, maimed and weary, and
their eyes are far away;
The sunshine never sees them and they
never know ’tis true.
There’s no flower In the alley ami no IS'r
fume in the air—
Oh. I'd like to see them happy, wouldn’t
you?
Sorry jest to sing on Sunday, “Ye did it
unto me."
With the children all in prison ami the
green fields far away.
Nodding flowers wait their handclasp, where
the sunshine cleaves the blue
till. I’d like to see them Imppy. wouldn't
you ?
Every day in some part of the country the price of gasoline
is increased.
Men that used to buy it for six and seven cents a gallon now
buy it for twenty cents, twenty five cents, and even more.
The gentlemen that control the gasoline supply need not
worry about business or prosperity.
They simply make up their minds just how much robbery
the public will stand—and raise the price of gasoline accord
ingly.
They can say to themselves, “With gasoline at eighteen
cents we were getting so many millions. Let us sell gasoline at
twenty cents and make so many millions more. Then gasoline
at twenty-two cents, and make still more millions.”
Only this question interests them: ‘' Had we better take it
all in a lump and run the risk of trouble, or take it slowly and
cautiously?’*
How many farmers after buying agricultural implements
requiring the use of gasoline find themselves unable to use them
economically because of the excessive price?
One trouble with the big Rumley Company, maker of agri
cultural implements, was the fact that not allowing for the thiev
ish inclination of those that control the price of gasoline, the
company built a great number of gasoline tractors—and has
them on its hands unable to sell them, BECAUSE THE FARM
ERS FIND THAT THEY CAN T AFFORD TO USE THE GAS
OLINE TRACTORS BECAUSE OF THE PRESENT PRICE
OF GASOLINE
What is this gasoline that gives tens of millions a year to a
few, through extortion from many?
It is a product very simply made of crude oil pumped out
of the earth.
If this country had been properly managed from the start
that oil WOULD BE THE PROPERTY OF THE PEOPLE,
PAYING REVENUE AND PROFIT ONLY TO THE PEOPLE.
This gasoline is part of the wealth stored up in the earth
millions of years ago, now monopolized for a few and used as a
means of extortion.
This country pays out millions annually to prevent robbery
on a SMALL scale.
Woe to the man who takes a pair of shoes, a loaf of bread or
an overcoat.
We are willing to spend millions to catch and punish him.
Why shouldn't we have a national police to stop thievery on
a big scale, as well as the municipal police to stop the thievery on
a small scale?
Why worry so much about the poor devil who steals ten dol
lars occasionally, and ignore calmly the very rich devil who
steals ten millions or more at regular intervals?
The necessities of life, the necessities of industry, should
not be agents of extortion.
The prices of necessities should be investigated by govern
ment, regulated by government.
And the gigantic organizations that are able to produce
cheaply by combination and are permitted to rob wholesale
should be compelled to give to the public their fair share of the
economies and to sell AT A FAIR PRICE that which costs them
nothing in comparison to the price asked.
The gasoline stealing has gone on about long enough.
Government should do something more drastic about it than,
loudly with the beating of drums, bring about so-called “dissolu
tion” of the trust, which has simply put up the price of stocks,
put up the price of gasoline and increased the prosperity of the
smiling individuals who laugh at government and laugh at law.
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By DOROTHY DIX.
Laziness is the Root of Most Misery
Unhappy, Are You? Do You Enjoy It (Many Do) or Are You Too
Lazy 1 o Be Otherwise? This Is Especially the Case With Women.
A MONG my acquaintances is
a young woman who. ten
years ago, was an extraor
dinarily brilliant and beautiful
girl, talented in half a dozen dif
ferent directions. This girl had the
misfortune to marry a drunkard,
or. to tell the simple truth, she
did marry a drunkard in spite of
all that her family and friends
could do to prevent her.
It Turned Out as Such
Marriages Nearly
Always Do.
The marriage turned out as
such marriages almost invariably
do, and after enduring seven or
eight years of untold misery she
divorced her husband, and went
hack home to live with her two
little children.
This woman is still young.
She is only 32. and in all proba
bility has thirty or forty years
more of life left to her, and that's
a long time in which to be happy
or miserable, and to make your
self a blessing or a curse to those
about you.
And she has accepted her mis
ery. She has enrolled herself
among the human tragedies. She
is the most haggard figure of woe
that you ever saw. She has per
mitted herself to turn into one of
those cynical, bitter, disgruntled
women, with a tongue with a razor
edge, from which the boldest flee.
Her family are In very moderate
circumstances, not able to support
her and her children, though they
willingly divide what they have
with her. Her poverty is another
goad in her side, but she accepts
this, as she does her other sorrow,
as just another drop of. bitter in
her cup. and another thing to wail
over.
This woman has just one pleas
ure in life, and that is that she
lives in a perfect debauch of self
pity. She keeps herself drunk on
her own tears, and drugged with
the thought of her, own troubles
until she is just as dulled and
lethargic as any man that ever
wallowed in a gutter, or lay stupe
fied in an opium joint.
None of her friends ever speaks
of her except as “poor Sadie,” but
for my part, 1 always feel like
screeching “Coward! Quitter! De
serter!" at her. for in my eyes
there is no more contemptible fig
ure in world than that of the
man or woman who refuses to
fight the battle of life, who sur
renders in lhe very first skirmish,
and before the fight is really on.
Of course, it's a terrible thing to
make a mistake in marriage. 1
am not minimizing that sorrow,
though it has always seemed to
me that a woman who married a
man knowing that he drank, was
in honor bound to stand for a
drunken husband, but in this en
lightened age people are uot bound
forever to the cross of their matri
monial mistakes.
Divorce Is Unpleasant;
So Is the Knife of
the Surgeon.
I Divorce is also unpleasant, but
it is like a surgeon's knife that
cuts away a festering sore, and
the clean wound it leaves Is a
thousandfold more endurable than
the daily nagging and gnawing of
a sorrow that feeds on your heart
like a worm on a rose.
At any rate, having made an un
fortunate marriage and having di
vorced an unworthy husband, the
incident is closed so far »s the
woman is concerned, andl she
should put the affair out <JT her
life. She certainly does herself no
good by sitting up and brooding
over what might have been. That
is with the past, and her business
is with the future.
She can't change what has been
one iota by thinking about it, or
weeping over it. or regretting it,
but she can make what is to be
full of happiness and content, and
brightness, if she will.
No One Need Be Miser
able Unless lie or She
Enjoys It.
Nobody need he perpetually
miserable unless they really enjoy
it and unless they get more fun
out of crying than they do out of
laughing. Plenty of people do.
They are built that way. especially
women who are most naturally of
a sort of half mourning com
plexion.
This woman of whom I am writ
ing—and there are thousands like
her—has accepted misery, and de
pendence, and poverty as her lot
in life. And she needn't endure
this melancholy existence for an
other hour if 'she has the back
bone of a fishing worm. She's
strong, and healthy, aud young.
She is intelligent enough to learn
how to do anything on earth if
she'd put as much energy into it
as she does to mourning over her
fate, ami as much thought as she
does in dwelling on her troubles.
All that she needs is to say to
herself, “I am not going to be mis
erable. I am not going to have
my life wrecked bv one mistake
that I made when I was a foolish
young girl. I am not going to be a
dependent. 1 am not going to be
[xior. 1 am going to roll up my
sleeves and go to work, and fill
my life so full of fresh interests
and occupation that I won’t even
have time to remember that I've
got a past. I'm going to make
money to buy the things I want,
and to give my children the ad
vantages they would have had if
they had had the right sort of a
father, and 1 am going to be happy
because I am going to be of some
use to my follow creatures.”
Just the grit to make the fight
is all that stands between this
woman and happiness, and be
tween every other woman of the
weeping willow type and the sun
shine. The time was when there
was nothing for the unhappy wom
an to do but to sit down and
weep and lament, but that time
has gone by. thank God. if a
woman misses the trail to con
tentment in one direction now. she
can face about and go the other
way and arrive at the same goal.
The reason most people are mis
erable is because they are lazy.
They are too indolent to make an
effort to secure happiness for
themselves, and: this is especially
the case with women.
Happiness Is for Us All
If We Have the En
ergy to Get It.
Women are sick because they
are too lazy to take enough exer
cise to keep them healthy: they
are dependent because, they are
too lazy to get up and hustle
for themselves: they are poor be*
cause they are too lazy to do the
hard work that it takes to earn
money.
Happiness is for us all if we
hjive only the energy and deter
mination to reach out and take it.
and for us to succumb to misery
is a confession of weakness for
which we deserve to be ostracized
by our friends instead of being
pitied by them.
DR. PARKHURST
Writes on
Ways of Living
The City and Country Are
in Constant Warfare, He
Says. The Trend Always
Toward Large Centers
of Population.
Written For The Georgian
By the Rev. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst
D R. JOSIAH STRONG'S new
book, “Our World,” the first
of a projected series of three
volumes, commends itself to the
attention of those who are inter
ested in the trend of present events
and in the social crisis which we
all somehow suspect to be ap
proaching.
The general purpose of the book
is to show that the current of the
general life, here and abroad, is
reaching the point where it can
no longer be held within the chan
nel that it has worn for itself, nor
restrained by the barriers with
which it has been artificially
dammed.
The author is temperate in his
statement of the situation and
thoroughly optimistic in his an
ticipations, but puts the case
strongly and illustrates his^ posi
tion clearly and in terms in which
hesitation finds no part.
The closing chapter occupies it
self with the new problem of the
city. The author has no faith in,
and little patience with, the cry
of "Back to the Land.” There has
always been a drift cityward.
Somewhat of the urban impulse
came to its expression as early in
human history as the building of
the Tower of Battel in the plain of
Shin a r. as recorded in the Old
Testament narrative. Men are gre
garious. like sheep, and tend to live
in herds.
Obstacles To City Life
Have Been Over
come.
This disposition was formerly
somewhat discouraged by the great
mortality incident to condensed
population because of unsanitary
conditions, an obstacle which has
now been largely overcome by im
proved methods. Formerly, also,
the size of a city was limited by
imperfect means of transporting,
a sufficient supply of water and of
food material.
Steam and civil engineering
have i;ow gotten the better of
these difficulties also, so that un
der those changed conditions there
is no necessary limit set to aggre
gations of population. Consequent
ly the gregarious impulse can now
have allowed to it perfectly free
scope.
So that, although the constant
effort is being made to get people
out of the city into the country,
and although the Government ha»
brought pressure to bear in th»
same direction, and during the
50 years following 1850 had pul
nearly half a billion acres of land
at the free disposition of the peo
ple, the urban population continued
to increase more rapidly than the
rural—three times as rapidly be
tween 1880 and 1900, as is reportet
on the basis of the national ceiv
sus.
All of this seems sufficient evi
dence of the fact that there is a
current setting in the direction ol
the city, having its source in the
very nature of things, and mov
ing with a momentum which
neither humanitarian effort nor
governmental discouragement will
suffice to resist.
Opposing the Cityward
Trend Like Trying to
Bottle the Wind.
That this drift cityward has its
origin in other than local and tran
sient caustes and inheres in eco
nomic conditions and in man’s na
tive disposition, is proved by the
fact that for hundreds of years
fruitless efforts have been made to
prevent people from leaving the
fields for the town. Dr. Strong
quotes the appeals made by Aris
totle, Cicero and Virgil and the
legal measures to the same end
adopted by Justinian and Queen
Elizabeth.
Opposing the tendency would,
therefore, seem to be very much
like trying to imprison the wind or
like taking up arms against the
tide. If this movement is to con
tinue, and at its present rapid rate
of increase, and if our population
Is going to bulk itself at urban
centers, the prospect is fraught
with practical and serious conse
quences.
We have to think what will be
its effect upon human physique and
human character. We look to the
country for physical sturdiness. It
is by recruits from the country
that the city maintains a certain
moral determination and strenu
ousness that seem not to germi
nate and thrive so readily in urban
soil. Whatever may be the rea
son for it, such undoubtedly re
mains the fact. Perhaps it is be
cause the country furnished more
that is real, the city more that is
ficticious.
Editor The Georgian:
In The Georgian of August 9,
Ella Wheeler Wilcox has an ar
ticle, “Live First—Talk After
wards,” in which she classes
Universal Life Principle, Vibra
tion. Mental Science, New
Thought and Christian Science
as kindred subjects. The writer
being a student of Christian Sci
ence desires to dissociate Chris
tian Science from these so-called
relations and show that it has
nothing in common with any of
these doctrines. In Science and
Health, page 111, Mrs. Eddy says,
“The principle of divine meta
physics is God; the practice of
divine metaphysics is the utili
zation of the power of Truthfaver
error; its rules demonstrate its
Science.” The method of apply
ing this rule in Christian Science
is to yield thought to the divine
will or influence, in trust and
confidence. This is the faith or
understanding which the Apostle
Paul designates as “the sub
stance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen.”
Jesus proved this rule in all of
His wonderful works. He said,
“Of Myself I do nothing; not My
will but thine be done; as the
Father worketh hitherto, I
work.”
Mental Science, New Thought,
Mental Suggestion, and Kindred
Subjects, confuse the action of
the human will or carnal mind
with the divine will or law, hence
their failure. Out of this confu
sion. or lack of misunderstand
ing. comes the inability of cer
tain types to illustrate by “their
faces,” their manner, “their
work." that they have found a
panacea for human ills.
“How to control Destiny,”
“How to grow success," "How to
attain self-mastery." “How to be
well and prosperous” are sub
jects not one of which appear in
any of Mrs. Eddy's writings or
in any of the periodicals pub
lished by the Christian Science
Association. These subjects in
dicate and suggest the effort of
the human will.
Christian Science follows the
admonition of Jesus: “Seek ye
first the kingdom of God and all
these things shall be added unto
you.”
The human will, impelled by Its
own force or volition, consumes
its vitality and is self-destruc
tive. This destruction manifests
itself in physical and nervous
breakdown; hence Its weakness
and failure to heal either Itself
or another. Christian Science re
lies on its divine principle, speaks
the word, as Jesus did, and trusts
this word to fully accomplish that
whereunto It is sent. “The Word
of God is quick and powerful.” It
demonstrates Itself in health, har
mony, joy, peace, love and good
will to those who rely on it. On
page 446 "Science and Health,” by
Mrs. Eddy, are these words:
“The exercise of will brings on a
hypnotic state detrimental to
health and integrity of thought.”
Mrs. Wilcox says, “Wait until you
succeed before preaching suc
cess.” If those who have achieved
great success in any department
of life had followed this line of
thinking, the world would have
known little success. “Seek and
ye shall find, knock and it shall
be opened unto you,” are spiritual
admonitions coming down the
ages from Him whom the world
recognizes as the greatest suc
cess. Seek under divine guidance
and the way to success is already
open.
Christian Science opens wide
its arms of love to all “dissatis
fied souls,” and they come to it
from all classes of society, seek
ing solace for their wounds,
heartaches and disappointments.
Some are “unkempt, nervous and
erratic;” for this reason they need
the tender sympathy, the patient
instruction offered in this haven
of rest by those who have gained
through this great revelation
some understanding of how to
love our neighbor as ourself.
E. H. CARMAN. .