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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Wri tes on
Nature Secrets
Our Maker Never Intended We
Should Share the Secret of Sex
Control—It Would Be a Mis
fortune and Be Cause of Ines
timable Sorrow.
THE HOME PAPER
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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Personal Liberty, and Police^
men Who Are Overofficious
Think of it: but twelve feet apart, the child toilers of the United States would form a dreary line
from San Francisco to Boston and thence to New Orleans. Look at the fragment of this line pictured
above, and remember that almost 2.000,000 children, recruited from a hundred different occupations,
would form the living chain. How long shall America permit this vastest and saddest of processions to
take its stumbling way into the jaws of the modern Minotaur, the factory that feeds upon younc lives?
The man you see above was a bright young fellow when his friendship with whiskey began. He
was industrious and ambitious. Look at him now. He is too shaky to work, even if he had the will; and
his only ambition is to get whiskey enough to sink him in frowsy oblivion. Whiskey’s a good friend,
isn’t it? It’s the kind of pal you’d like, isn’t it? Say good-bye to whiskey before you’re introduced to it,
for you’ve only got to stay with it to wind up in the gutter.
The Longest Procession
It would be well for policemen and all other officials of this
town to bear in mind that PERSONAL LIBERTY is guaranteed
under the Constitution to every citizen, and that the people have
rights that officials must respect.
The present crusade against so-called spooning is silly, and
the arrests made would seem to be even more absurd. To lock up
young couples who are not violatng any law is outrageous.
It must he stopped!
The police department has enough work on hand to deal
with actual criminals. The wave of crime that has swept over the
city proves that the police activities are at present in the wrong
direction.
There is no law against kissing. If there were a thousand
laws against it on the statute books they would be silly and ille
gal.
Let the young people alone! Love will find a way. And kiss
ing will go on to the end of time.
Let us have no more of overofficious policemen making laws
to suit themselves and enforcing them as they please, to the
shame and disgrace of innocent and well-meaning young men and
women—the future great citizens, mothers and fathers, of our
great city.
Pure Milk Means Life, Impure
Milk Means Death
The milk supplied to Atlanta is in many instances unfit for
food. It is unfit to be fed to pigs, much less to human beings.
This is no idle statement. Proof of it may be seen every
where, by anybody who has eyes to see.
You may see it in restaurants, where dirty fingered waiters
hold a glass or a small pitcher over a can of milk while they fill
the glass or pitcher and allow the drippings from their filthy
hands to fall back into the can.
You may see the same thing at soda fountains, in drug stores
~-in fact, everywhere milk is sold.
You know that the milk that comes into Atlanta, brought in
in large cans with inverted cover, is impure, for the instant the
cover is raised the dirt and filth from the can fall into the milk.
All this and more, too horrible to mention, you may see any
moment you please in Atlanta.
What you may not see, but which is true, nevertheless, is set
forth in The Constitution. That newspaper says:
According to tests made at the Statehouse laboratories,
Fulton County dairies supplying the milk for restaurants,
soda fountains, milk depots and residences have been found,
it is alleged, to be in a condition bordering the hopeless.
Tubercular cows, open wells, in many cases being breed
ing places for fever germs, filthy cow stables and indescriba
ble sanitary conditions have been unearthed by inspectors of
the Agricultural Department, and in nineteen cases made
during the past sixty days, based on violations of the pure
food laws, each case has resulted in a heavy fine.
The Health authorities should at once put the milk supply of
Atlanta on a thoroughly pure basis, even if every one of the
present milk dealers have to be driven out of business.
And there is no reason why the most sanitary methods should
not be used, for the price paid by the consumer is higher in At
lanta than it ought to be, and much higher than guaranteed hot
tied milk is sold for in other cities.
Milk that is not sold in air-tight bottles, guaranteed by the
dairyman, is not fit to be used.
IMPURE MILK MEANS DEATH—PURE MILK
MEANS LIFE.
And there is no item in the whole supply of food that so
quickly becomes impure as milk, even if handled under the best
conditions.
There is the greatest need for an overhauling of all the
pure food laws of the city of Atlanta and the State of Georgia.
They are antiquated, and worthless.
As far as milk is concerned, it is pretty safe to say that any
milk sold from cans, and not in guaranteed bottles, is filthy and
unfit for human consumption. v
Letters From the Readers of The Georgian
A MAN CAN EDUCATE HIM-
SELF.
Editor Atlanta Georgian:
Dear Sir—I do not desire to an
noy you, or to appear egotistical,
but your editorial, ‘Can a Man
Educate Himself in Two Hours a
Day?" interests me, for I am that
man. Your editorial Is an auto
biography of myself. 1 had bet
ter advantages in youth than
most men. but I hated schools,
school-teachers and books.
Five years was about all the
real schooling I received. 1
worked at all sorts of things until,
at the age of thirty. 1 entered a
law office, and for thirty-two
years I have been a student. All
my acquired education l have got
myself since l was thirty. 1 have
picked up some Latin. French
and German—that is. to read. 1
have to keep all sorts of diction
aries and aids. 1 have studied
history, science, the Bible, all the
great religions and anything and
everything. 1 am an omnivorous
and prodigious reader in every
held of knowledge. I want to
know. I have not been like our
present day school children; 1
have studied to know, and not to
pass an examination.
Our school system is bad it
teaches the pupil to study to pass,
and not to know. They do pass,
but they don’t know. I believe 1
have unconsciously increased my
vocabulary several hundred per
cent over the average man. Some
of these men could do the same
thing; but the struggle nowadays
is not for existence, but it is a
struggle to suck all the pleasure
out of life at the expense of the
other fellow-. I have "caeoethes
scribendi,” so pardon this letter—
it is purely personal. Yours
truly, A.
South Georgia State Normal Col
lege. Valdosta, Ga., September
4. J 913.
Editor Atlanta Georgian:
very laudable desire to raise a
school fund for your State.
This is beginning at the wrong
end of the matter.
What is needed is a campaign
of education. If you will inves
tigate and publish facts and use
your abilities to move the people,
you will soon have millions in
the treasury for schools, libra
ries, etc.
* Georgia, especially this section,
has unrivaled soil and climate. 1
am convinced from wide observa
tion that, taken every way, noth
ing better is to he had in the
U nl on.
But the farming in most of the
State, and especially here, Is a
tragedy, to the educational and
progressive interests of the State.
Millions of dollars are sent out
of ihe State every year for eggs,
chickens, peanuts, butter and
other articles which should be
raised and sold here by the thou
sand dollars’ worth.
It is simply amazing to see the
farmers come to town here and
carry home lice, chicken and
horse feed, hog meat, eggs and.
other articles for which the farm
is intended.
If you have a genuine desire
to see a little of Georgia’s re
sources deveopled, to show the
world a little of what her sons
and daughters can do education
ally. begin a campaign of educa
tion along industrial lines, and
especially in agriculture.
The hope of the State is in the
young people. They are its only
real wealth. Enlist their enthu
siasm, their strength, their vision,
their purity in the work of car
rying forward righteousness and
manifesting the glory of Georgia.
The State, the nation, the
world rests on the teachers. They
must work through the youth of
liable paper that >ou express a
the uplift of G
J. M. OUILLLl
Written for The Atlanta Georqian
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(Copyright, 1913.)
T HIS is an age of discoveries;
of the revealing of long hid
den truths; of the unveiling
of great secrets of Nature.
And in the next ten years more
! wonderful things than are dreamed
of now will be brought to light.
But there are secrets which the
Mighty Maker of this universe
never intended to share with the
masses of his creatures.
One of these secrets is the con
trolling of the sex of an unborn
child.
Periodically, some wise man or
woman declares this secret has
been discovered; hut invariably
the excitement which follows this
assertion dies out, as the method
proves to be a failure.
The following letter is evidently
from' a sincere woman; one who
believes in herself. But it is one
thing to believe in yourself, and
quite another to he able to con
vince the world by demonstrating
your theories;
“I have discovered that mothers
can decide the sex of thir un
born child.
“If intelligent they can, accord
ing to my nature methods, be their
own judge of sex and bring forth
their desire.
Six Years Required to
Grain This GS-reat
Knowledge.
“It is undoubtedly a wonderful
discovery and has taken me six
years to acquire the knowledge.
Some parents have all satisfaction
In their offspring while others
have not.
“I am at present in humble cir
cumstances and a mother of three
children. Thanking you in antici
pation and awaiting your reply, I
am yours respectfully,
.“MRS. J. HOOPER,
“177 Webster avenue, Yonkers,
N. Y.”
It would be the greatest mis
fortune which could befall this
world were every human being to
know how to control the choice of
sex of unborn children.
Within two generations woman
would become extinct, as 99 per
cent of the people would desire
sons, and after half a century the
world would be depopulated.
Without doubt, the very strong
desire of a mother whose mind is
capable of powerful concentration
can produce a son or daughter, as
she may wish.
But, fortunately for the world,
such women are quite as likely to
wish for daughters as sons.
It would be the unthinking and
unreasoning rank and file of minds
which would want only males, and
this class of minds makes the
world.
\
T HE Battle of Pydna. fought
2,081 years ago, was doub
ly decisive—it ended the
Macedonian rule and completely
established that of Romr.
In 179 B. C., the Romans,
claiming that Perseus, the King
of Maoedon, had violated his
treaty with Rome, declared war
against Macedon. and soon the
legions were in motion. First
Crassus. then Hosrtilius and then
Phlllppus, were sent out, but
only to be in turn defeated by
Perseus. For three years the
Macedonian held Rome at bay,
and it began to look as though in
Perseus a second Hannibal hud
come.
Finally Rome sent out her
great Emillus, with 40,000 of her
finest soldiers. Emillus met Per-
wei»H at Pydna, and the tug of
war began.
Extending across the plain in
solid ranks, bristling with the
long spears—a huge human wave
—the Macedonian Phalanx cs^ne
sweeping on and bearing down
upon til8 silent Romans. In vain
It is far better for the earth
that such parents are not able to
choose the sex of their childron.
It is more than probable that
the parents of Queen Victoria de
sired a son when she was born;
and it is more than probable that
England was far better off under
the guidance of that good woman
than it would have been under a
King. It Is probable that the par
ents of Jane Addams wished for
a son when she was born; but it
Is doubtful if any son would have
done for humanity what she is
doing.
No Man Accomplished
as Much for France
as Joan of Arc.
Perhaps the family of Joan of
Arc regretted bringing a girl into
life; but we have yet to find a
record of any peasant boy who did
for his country what she did for
France.
It is not well for us to know
these laws which govern sex.
We are not wise enough to use
them for the benefit of the race.
Neither should we know the day
or year of our passing out of this
body into other planes of exist
ence.
A few advanced souls, seers and
sages are permitted to know the
future; but to most of us it is a
sealed book; and were it not we
would be less capable and worth
while citizens of this world than
we now are.
The young man who knew he
was to come into a fortune at
forty would make small effort to
develop good business qualities
before that age; and the man who
knew he was to die at thirty would
lose heart in his endeavor to suc
ceed in any special achievement.
Left without this knowledge, he
may attain to great heights before
he has reached the three decades.
And by his use of all his facul
ties, in his struggle for success, he
is better fitted to go on in higher
planes after he leaves the body.
Our Aim in Life Should
Be to Aid in Beautify-
. ing the World.
Let God keep his secrets of sex
and death, and let us go on mak
ing this world better and more
beautiful for the use of men and
women who come into the earth
plane for the purpose of perfecting
themselves for more advanced
realmB. Let ns go on perfecting
ourselves.
Each man a«d each woman
needs the experience which is
gained in that particular form.
And God knows better about
what sex form each unborn soul
needs than the parents know.
did the Romans try to stem the
wave. It would not be checked
“Face to the rear and retreat."
shouted Emillus. The order was
obeyed, and with perfect disci
pline the men retired to the
broken ground beyond the plain.
After them followed the Mace
donians, until the hills wars
reached, when their lines were
broken by the roughness of the
land. Seeing his opportunity.
Emillus ordered the trumpets t*
sound, and Instantly the legion
aries faced about, rushed into the
gaps of the Phalanx with their
stout swords and put It to utter
rout. Twenty thousand lay dead
on the field and 11.000 were made
prisoners out of a total force of
40.000.
The Legion had annihilated
the Phalanx The mighty mili
tary machine, with which Alex
ander the Great had conquered
the world was no more. It had
fought its last battle—and the
Empire of Alexander, established
by the victory over Darius, at
Arbeta, lf.3 years before, passed
forever out of existence
The Last of the Phalanx
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
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