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In the Movies In Real Life
A Georgia Woman To Be Presi'
dent of a Railroad
The first woman president of a railroad in the United States
(or anywhere else), will be elected next month by the directors
of the Georgia, Florida and Alabama Railroad. "Shades of Jay
Gould and Jim’ Fisk!” We hear a croaking Wall street lamen
tation.
Mrs. Jesse P. Williams, widow of a Southern captain of in
dustry who died recently, is the woman who is shortly to become
head of a 250-mile railroad. She already owns a steamship line
and controls a vast area of farm and timber lands in Georgia and
Florida, the value of her estate approximating $10,000,000.
Months before her invalid husband died she managed his affairs
with such a skill as to excite the admiration of grizzled finan
ciers.
A few years ago the world looked askance at the business
woman; to-day she is no nine-day wonder, but a sturdy Tabitha,
come to help cure the ills and solve the complexities of twenti
eth century business life. Women merchants, doctors, teachers,
lawyers, scientists, publicists, baseball magnates, police, artisans,
economists, all have demonstrated their ability as the equals or
peers of men.
What a transformation in public opinion in seventy five
years! In earlier days the work and aspirations of women were
circumscribed to the simplest tasks of home and farm. Mary
Lyons’ prophetic vision of 1836 most surely has come to pass.
The mental development of woman is one of the wonders of the
present age, and due tribute must be paid the founder of Mount
Holyoke Seminary, the first woman’s college in the world. Many
others have been established since, but it was there the move
ment for the intellectual and political emancipation of American
womanhood began.
To-day we have to acknowledge that even the highly spe
cialized and technical field of railroad finance and management
is not above the achievements of maiden or mother. No avenue
of progress can be closed to her; she waves aside the halting
hand of tradition by the very force of her intellect and genius.
Here’s success to this daughter of the Southland! Able to
own and operate a railroad, but "incompetent” to vote even for
a village poundmaster!
The Mockery of Law
Business and Sentiment
By THOMAS TAPPER.
C AN they be made to mix?
Young men and women
(renerally $»tart out In life
with some ambition for the fu
ture.
Then a few years p*s« and It
has all disappeared like smoke.
When we Inquire why they
have dropped Into the ambition-
less rut of everyday affairs, they
tell us there Is nothin* else to It;
that any other vision Is a trick
of the Imagination that produces
dreams In youth. Just as a Welsh
rarebit produces dreams at night.
So they keep on marchftig in
and out when the bell rings, ask
ing themselves. “What’s the use?”
Then the expert steps up and
says:
Hold on! You are ft feet 6
Inches In height. The shovel you
are using has a handle out of
proportion to your size of a man.
Take this one.”
So he takes this one. throws
more dirt around with less phys
ical force, and is marked with
a little tag:
EFFICIENT.
Well. Is he any more efficient?
Has anybody done anything for
him besides measuring his height
and the length of his arms?
Has anybody looked Into the
mind of the man to know if some
thing is latent there that might
tag him in its terms?
A properly adjusted shovel
handle changes the relation of
a man’s body to his work, but it
does not alter the adjustment of
the man’s mind to work, circum-
ambitlon, fortune, life.
love, happiness, or anything else,
except shoveling dirt.
In fact, it doesn’t touch the
man at all. It plays tricks with
him.
Must we forever go on getting
efficient motions out of men’s
bodies and never try to put an
impulse for efficient life into
men’s minds?
The employer cries out In de
spair:
"How can I learn to handle
men? Tell me this secret and I'll
pay well for it!”
Well, there is Just one way to
handle men AND KEEP THEM
MEN, and this is the way: Know
more than they know, and help
them to learn what they must
learn.
That MAKES men.
Any other scheme makes ma
chines.
When you make men you pro
duce something that goes on im
proving.
When you make machines you
produce something that goes on
deteriorating.
When you begin—even with a
worker of middle age—to have in
terest in the individual well-
spring of his life things brighten
up The old ambition of youth
returns and the worker hears a
new tone in the factory bell: “I’m
working for a man who is Just as
Interested in ME as he is in my
muscles.”
Then Business
mix.
And I’Jiey mix perfectly.
It may be only a coincidence, the escape of Harry K. Thaw
from the Matteawan State Asylum for the Criminal Insane, at a
time when the Government of New York State is so hopelessly
demoralized. But such an incident, and more like it, may be ex
pected. When the moral laxity of the head of the State is the
theme of derisive conversation everywhere within it, and
throughout the country, when the motives and methods of many
of its lesser rulers are being exposed as mean and contemptible,
when the ideals and hopes of the plain people are beinf rent and
scattered, there need be no surprise at finding that the rot of
demoralization has spread clear down to obscure servants of
that State.
There have been the riotings at Sing Sing prison, the bribery
charges at Matteawan, one unsavory investigation after another,
the recent disgraceful night scenes in the metropolis—the evic
tion of diners from all-night restaurants—due to the ignoring of
a court of law by the police "under orders”—surely enough de
moralization to put into the heart of every voter in New York a
grim resolve to have his say at the first opportunity.
Every possible legal effort should be made to return Thaw
to Matteawan. The niceties of States’ rights should not be de
based by allowing them anywhere to set justice at defiance and
to submit law and order to ridicule and mockery.
Dreams—The Country Girl’s and the City Woman’s
•* The Farm Boy’s Kiss *
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
Sentiment
T HE farm boy paused a moment in the lane
When morning mused upon her dewy throne;
The silence told him that they were alone
And so he kissed the rosy mouth of Jane.
They trembled there behind a leafy screen;
They did not know it was a world-old bliss.
They did not know it was the same first kiss
That Antony exchanged with Egypt’s queen,
Such wondrous joy, they deemed, was ne’er before;
To them it was a madness newly found.
They little thought that underneath the ground
Are many million lipe that kiss no more.
They kissed and parted in the tender dawn,
One little kiss, stolen where roses blowed,
As sweet a kiss as ever was bestowed.
By any glorious lover dead and gone,
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Writes on
School Hygiene
Buffalo Congress to Dis
cuss Everything Which
Can Lead to the Better
ment ofConditionsSur-
rounding Schools and
Pupils.
Written for The Atlanta Georgian
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright,
A GREAT congress Is to be
held in Buffalo, August 25
to 30. It Is a congress of
school hygiene. Everything is to
be discussed which can lead to
ward the betterment of the condi
tions surrounding schools and pu
pils.
Eminent physicians and eminent
instructors will be present and con
tribute their wisdom to the resets
voir of human knowledge.
Mr. Herbert Blakeslee, executive
secretary, says of this congress;
“The various clubs of the city
will be open to visitors. Special
automobile trips will be taken
through the beautiful parks of the
city, ending at the Country and
Park clubs, where polo and tennis
exhibitions will be given. There
will be special receptions at the
Buffalo Club, the University Club
and the Twentieth Century Club.
Different societies of the city are
also planning to entertain the dele
gates from their fatherland. There
will be an exhibition of folk danc
ing, Interspersed with music by the
combined choral societies of the
cityr There will also be special
trips to the world's great scenic
wonder, Niagara Falls.
“The Women’s Entertainment
Committee is composed of over 100
leading society and club-
of the
women of Buffalo. The women’s
committee is divided into groups
representing different foreign coun
tries and sections of our own coun
try. There is a French, German
Italian, Russian, Polish, Scandi
navlan, South American, Mexican
East, West and Southern States
Scotch, Irish and English group,
and the duties of these groups will
be to look after the delegates from
these particular localities.
2,000 Boy Scouts to Guide
Visitors to the Con
vention.
“During the congress nearly 2,000
boy scouts of Buffalo will act as
guides to the visitors. Boy scouts
will be stationed .day and night at
the railroad stations and docks to
meet the visitors upon their ar
rival. Each boy will wear a badge
indicating what foreign language
he speaks, so that It will be no
trouble for the delegates to make
their wants known. The women’s
clubs will also give their services
in assisting the women at the dif
ferent headquarters and meeting
places of the congress.
“Buffalo is aiming to make this
congress a notable gathering. We
recently took up a collection of
$40,000 for defraying the expenses
of the congress, and among those
who contributed were not only the
wealthiest citizens but also the
newsboys and school children.
Even the children of the night
schools in the poorer section of the
city contributed their mite. So
you see we are very deeply inter
ested.”
Dentists will talk about the care
of teeth so that teachers and par
ents and children will learn valua
ble things on this very Important
subject.
A paper will be read on “Mouth
Hygiene,” and It Is to be hoped
that this paper will cause teachers
and parents to impress upon chil
dren the great necessity of giving
special attention to this part of the
human machine which receives the
fuel for the body. Proper care of
the teeth and the use of antiseptics
and aromatic washes would save
many a human being from dyspep
sia and Innumerable other ills
which flesh Is not heir to, only
as the individual who carries the
flesh falls to do his duty, physi
cally, mentally or morally, or all
three.
One of the greatest charms a
man or woman can possess Is
1913, by Star Company.
sweet breath. How many people
do you know who have this charm?
School hygiene will Instruct chil
dren, and perhaps grown people,
how to obtain and keep this charm.
At this congress they will talk
about “Sex Hygiene,” a most im
portant subject Delicate and wise
methods of instructing children on
topics which are of grave Im
portance will be discussed. It la
useless to undertake to hide the
facts of life and birth from chil
dren. Nature and life Itself force
them on their attention and
awaken the youthful curiosity.
Many a child has been made an In
valid or a pervert for life by the
blindness and silence of parents
and teachers on these topics. The
schools have now awakened to the
necessity of formulating some sys
tem of education along these lines.
Use of Color in School
rooms Will Be Dem
onstrated.
The “Use of Color” In the school
room will be presented also by a
School Commissioner who has
made a study of this matter. Just
as a red rag excites the anger of a
bull, so different colors affect the
nervous system of human beings,
especially children, it is begin
ning to be understood that there
are colors which stimulate the
brain, others which cause a restful
feeling, others which produce ex
citement, others which are mental,
spiritual or militant in their influ
ence.
It is most important, therefore,
that schools should investigate this
science of colors and use the knowl
edge to good purposes; and that
parents should be induced to em
ploy the knowledge in their homes.
A congress of this nature is one
of the great moral factors in the
building of a new generation. Its
good effects can scarcely be im
agined or conceived.
All parents of children and all
teachers of children in America
should be Interested In making the
congress a mighty success.
"Women’s Work in School Hy
giene” will be the subject of a spe--
cial conference at the congress un
der the auspices of the General
Federation of Women’s Clubs of
America. The details of the meet
ing are now being arranged by Mrs.
S. S. Crockett, of Nashville, Tenn.,
chairman of the Public Health De
partment of the General Federa
tion.
Mrs. Frank J. Shuler, of Buffalo,
president of the New York State
Federation of Women's Clubs, will
preside at the women’s club ses
sion. The program as now ar
ranged by Mrs. Crockett will In
clude the following: *
Women’s Work in School
Hygiene Will Be
Discussed.
A symposium on "What Clubs of
Women Can Do In School Hy
giene,” to be discussed by a repre
sentative school man, a leading
club woman and an interested lay-
may.
“A Story on Actual Achieve
ment,” two-minute word pictures
of actual co-operation by club
women to be presented by repre
sentative women from many States.
"What Shall We Do About It?”
Three-minute prophecies of what
women’s organizations will do in
school hygiene before the next
International Congress on School
Hygiene.
Letters received by Mrs. Crock
ett show that the women’s clubs of
America are now playing a very
important part in calling attention
to the serious importance of the
Buffalo congress. The congress is
open to all interested in improv
ing the health and efficiency of
school children. .