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a asaSe ‘«isag ■Wi &1£3§£ mmwm 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 Published Everv Afternoon Except Sunday Bv THK OEORillAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St. Atlanta. Oa Entered aa second-clsss matter at postnf Friends for Twenty Years Subscription Pric«—Dell 1 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. EDITORIAL- PAGE The Atlanta Georgian