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When Opportunity Knocks
What Every Man and Woman in
Atlanta Should See and
Remember
After having inspected carefully the Child Welfare and
Health Show, now in progress in the Leyden House in Peachtree
street, the Mayor of Atlanta said: "THIS IS A SHOW THAT
EVERY MAN AND WOMAN IN ATLANTA SHOULD SEE ”
The Georgian most cordially agrees with the Mayor. It IS
a show every man and woman in Atlanta should see.
Its purposes are to better conditions in Atlanta—to make
more sanitary the city, to improve its morals, to arouse the minds
of citizens fully to the necessity of health producing agencies,
and to make them realize the pressing importance of assembling
intelligently vital statistics of ALL kinds.
To know why health conditions, even in a city so admirably
conducted in many of its departments as Atlanta undoubtedly
is, are not ideal—approximately perfect, as they might be—it is
essential that all births be registered and that all deaths be re.
corded.
The time, place, surroundings, and unusual features at
tending every birth and every death in Atlanta MUST BE AC
COUNTED FOR, or the regulation of untoward conditions can
not be effected.
The big stumbling block in the way of every movement for
better health conditions throughout this nation has been the lack
of illuminating VITAL STATISTICS upon which to predicate
conclusions.
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The Child Welfare and Health Show was designed pri
marily to demonstrate to the people of Atlanta the necessity of
preserving FACTS with regard to the thousands of children born
in Atlanta every year.
If a given number of births or deaths in a given locality re
veal a definitely similar history, it is perfectly possible to con
clude intelligently what is right and what is wrong _in that
vicinity—and this rule applies to wards, cities, counties, states
and nations.
Where does your cook live, and how? Where is your family
washing done, and in what circumstances? What are the habits
of ydur children’s nurse? How many children in your vicinity
go to school, and if many do not, why? Are the children of your
ward healthy and strong, and if not, what cause produces the un
happy effect?
Parents, above all people, should attend the Child Welfare
and Health Show; employers of labor, of clerks, of bookkeepers,
of stenographers, and of all sorts and conditions of help, can
learn much that will be helpful to them, and to those working
under their direction, by seeing what is to be seen in the Leyden
House nowadays.
No exhibition held in Atlanta in years has been more
genuinely worth while than the Child Welfare and Health Show
now in progress.
Nothing but, good can come of attending it. Be very sure
of that.
Do You Intend to lake Part
in the Battle for Oglethorpe?
The big battle for New Oglethorpe University is on.
Atlanta is in the thick of it to-day.
The Atlanta Spirit is again on trial, and the South is watch
ing.
If the South had not had confidence in the Atlanta Spirit,
the Oglethorpe University project would never have come knock
ing at the gates of Atlanta with $300,000 already raised.
Every dollar, every nickel of that $300,000 was given on the
assumption that when Atlanta’s turn came, Atlanta would rise
to the occasion as she has always done in the past.
That time has now come, AND ATLANTA IS RISING TO
IT.
Twenty of the most energetic committees that ever took off
their coats for any cause have gone into this fight to win. The/
represent the leading men in every profession, every business,
every creed. They represent Atlanta.
When they come to you and ask for YOUR SUBSCRIPTION,
they will ask not in the name of any single interest, nor in the
name of any denomination. They will ask IN THE NAME OF
ATLANTA—and on YOUR response as an Atlantan the result
depends.
The thing is to raise $260,000 in Atlanta NOW
A certain part of that obligation rests on you. Decide what
you ought to give, whether $5 or $5,000. Then give it.
^ TRANSMIGRATION j*
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
rHK transmigration of souls, m.v dear,”
Raid the grocery' clerk who had gone to college,
' !s a grand belief that the Greeks made clear
In the day* when the Greeks were steeped In knowledge.
It means that I lored you long ago
On another planet In other ages,
And a minion years haven't changed, 1 know.
The passrion that cow in my whole soul rages.
We have transmigrated throughout all time.
Just your dear soul and the soul of me.
From planet to planet In many a clime.
And our new. grand marriage Is bound to he.'*
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Then her old nto corns down th© irias^tvo »iaJrs,
Saying ’'I heord your smooth toogru# work.
But 1 reckon none of rny daughter** and heir*
Mm iiABtmiiiat* .h&u ut -sx&jiu us/kL*
Better be on the job. Don't be out wasting your working hours, for opportunity knocks but once.
The Traffic Squad
By ELBERT HUBBARD
in
rpHE traffic squad comes
| with the benzine buggy.
Before that, there were
wrangles, tangles, tie-ups, terri
ble talking matches, swear feats,
und occasionally killings at the
crossings.
The word ‘■police” is derived
from the I^atin polls, a city. Cae
sar set apart certain soldiers to
serve the people in peaceful
ways. These soldiers were cho
sen on account of their Intelli
gence, suavity, and sense of
honor. They were called polites.
The gendarme—a gentleman of
arms—Is Caesar's police without
a single patentable improvement
A few years ago. in America,
any ignorant, lazy loafer was
good enough for a policeman. We
had cops who couldn't speak the
English language so a white man
could understand them. If you
asked them a question the sec
ond time, you run the risk of get
ting stung with a nightstick.
This cop was always out after
his personal enemies. His social
status was ever at stake. and his
business was largely to cha.se had
boys who used his bulky form as
a target for o’erripe tomatoes
But the modern cop is differ
ent.
He asks for no bouquets, no
tips, no thank®—he is aJwnys
right there when you need him.
His task is to make the wheels
go round, and in s>uch a way that
collisions never occur.
If he has a temper, you never
know’ it; if a grouch, he forgets
it; If a heartache, it is his own.
The crossing “peeler” in Lon
don was inaugurated by Sir Rob
ert Peel. London at that time
was the most congested city in
the world. Two lines of busses
followed each other in solid mass
through the Strand.
Sir Robert devised the plan of
stationing men at the crossings,
and one of the arguments he put
forth was that the carmen and
bus-drivers lmd got into the habit
of using such atrociously bad
language that they asphyxiated
people in the vicinity. Then the
drivers had a way of cracking
their whips at anybody that did
not move fast enough for them.
And at these things the night-
watch laughed.
These men had to knjwp ikfi
city of London, the principal
buildings, the many thorough
fares. That is. they had to be
able to answer intelligently most
of the questions that the aver
age visitor might ask. Their busi
ness was to aid the public, not
to terrify it.
Sir Robert devised a new uni
form for his men. Instead of a
flashy, dashy, gilded, gaudy uni
form. he dressed his men in plain
blue, with a minimum of buttons.
They wore white gloves and a
smile.
Sir Robert Peel said, “Behind
the uplifted white glove of every,
one of my policemen stands the
power of the British Nation.’’
The policeman at the crossing
wins with the power that he nev
er uses. He may be ambidex
trous, and probably is: and can
strike a quick, sudden, short
armed jolt But you •never see
him apply the sedative.
Here comes a stream of traffic
from four directions; that is,
twelve streams of traffic cross his
path where two streets meets.
People come from both sides of
the street, and teams and autos
in the middle. Here they come!
And it -is the business of this
one man to stand where the ways
of the multitude cross, and pre
vent collisions, to speed the crowd
on its way, to prevent alterca
tions. bad language.
Hour after hour he works. His
attitude is one of vigilance. He
sees everything and nothing. He
plays no favorites.
The strain on an average person
in such a position is terriffle. Few
men can do the work. It requires
superb physical health, gfood
cheer, right intent, a level brain.
Let's give credit to Sir Robert
Peel.
We have improved on his ideas,
bettered them, sandpapered them,
buffed them, but the original
thought was his.
Sir Robert was the friend of the
people. He was the original
Bobby, the king of all Peelers.
He used to don a uniform, put on
his bloomin' white gloves, you
know, and show his men how to
render an active, intelligent ser
vice.
And to this high minded, intelli
gent kindly athletic man our
traffic squad traces its proud
pedigree, _
Youth IsGirl’sOpportunity
BY DOROTHY DIX.
-x Y OUTH is not only the
V' pleasure time of life with
a girl, it is the season of
her opportunity, of her chance
to marry and settle herself well
in life, and it is just as much
parent|’ business to help daugh
ters secure good husbands as it
is to help their sons get into
business. A grouchy father and
an Indolent mother have queered
many a girl’s chances in life.
Many a girl’s social success
rests on a basis of her mother’s
cakes and sandwiches. If noth
ing for nothing is the rule of the
world, it is equally true that
something for something always
goes, and we can always get
what we want If we pass the le
gal tender over the counter.
Mothers can make or mar their
daughters’ popularity in society,
and it is well for them to re
member that you can make peo
ple fight for any kind of a pack
age of tea if you will give an at
tractive enough chromo with it.
Therefore, it behooves those pa
rents with daughters who are not
run after to get busy bailing
their traps.
If a girl lacks attraction it is
all the more the mother’s duty
to make her hfme so delightful
and so hospitable that young
people will like to come to it.
People will always go where
there are good things to eat and
a bright, cheery atmosphere, and
against such a background even
a dull and homely girl shines
with a borrowed radiance.
Also the people that you enter
tain are bound in common decen
cy to make some return, and so
the girl who could not go any
where on her own initiative bowls
merrily along the gay social
way through the momentum her
mother has given ller.
In the case of a girl w'ho wants
to have a good time, and w T ho is
left out of all of the frolics of
the girls and boys about her. the v
difficulty Is squarely up to her
mother. There isn’t much that
the girl can do herself to help the
situation, but her mother can do
everything.
What this girl needs, and the
only thing she needs, is oppor
tunity, and that her mother can
give her. If her mother will get
busy giving the girl a series of
little parties, she will force the
other girls to invite her daugh
ter to their parties, and the
young men to pay her attention.
The other boys and girls can’t
go gayly off and leave Mabel sit
ting at the w’indow watching
them if they have just been en
tertained at Mabel’s house, or are
expecting to be entertained
there.
Not Quite Correct
(From a Contemporary.)
A NYONE interested in folk
lore can get a curious ex
ample of the working prin
ciples of this subject by compar
ing the facts concerning some of
our national figures with the ver
sions of them persistently pre
sented by our cartoonists. Hearst.
for example, is shown as a flam
boyant “yellow kid," a measure
less radical enraged against all
property and order. The oppos
ing facts are that he is that mar
vel of business ability, an inher
itor of great wealth who prospers
as a newspaper publisher. He
has mastered this trade from ink
to extras as few men of his time
have done. Hi® profits haw been
enormous, and his radicalism is
whip and spur to the circulation
department. The masses devour
most ravenously the Hearst sup
plements and magazines, wrhlch
urge that children be treated
kindly, that husbands and waives
be faithful and true—pernicious
novelties of doctrine which Han
nah More and E. P. Roe would
heartily Indorse. Finally, his de
votion to property is such that he
seems to favor war with Mexico
in order to safeguard mining
rights.
[Mr. Hearst favors intervention
in Mexico by the United States in
order that the United States may
fulfill its duties and carry out its
declarations by protecting the
lives and property of American
cuisefis m MtxicuxJ _ .
John Temple Graves
Writes on
Our Canal for Aliens
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The flag of the United
States will be a rarity
on the vessels of com
merce passing through
the Pinama Canal-
Think of that!
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES
T
'HE tremendous engineering
success achieved by the
United States in the con
struction of the Panama Canal
is universally acclaimed as the
most wonderful ever wrought by
man.
We shall see as the most fa
miliar sight in the Panama Ca
nal—the British flag—not our
own. The German flag will be
much more frequently seen than
the American. The Norwegian,
the French, the Spanish, the
Spanish, the Austrian, the Jap
anese flags—all these will be more
in evidence than our own.
The flag of the United States
will be almost a rarity on the
vessels of commerce passing
through the Panama Canal. Think
of that!
Of the great nations of the
world whose vessels use OUR
Panama Canal, the United States
will be the least.
Will this not humble our pride?
When we think that it is the
FOUR HUNDRED MILLIONS
OF DOLLARS expended by # the
American people that has aug
mented the trade and increased
the efficiency of the ships of oth
er nations, what shall we'say of
ourselves? The greatest single
factor in the world in the encour
agement of commercial growth
will be the ships of those enter
prising and sagacious nations
that have, IN ADVANCE OF
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE
PANAMA CANAL, realized the
wisdom of possessing merchant
ships.
The United States will, for a
time, take pleasure and pride and
our post-prandial orators will be
able to wave some beautiful pe
riods over the unparalleled gen*
ius of the American people for
GREAT ENGINEERING AC
COMPLISHMENTS, but wfw
will they say', WHAT CAN THEY
SAY, REGARDING THE CON
SPICUOUS EVIDENCE OF OUR
UTTER LACK OF COMMER
CIAL FORESIGHT AND LIB
ERALITY?
A great ship's canal, cutting off
8,000 miles of unnecessary travel
by ships, a canal that unites near
the Equator the two great ocean*
that previously came together only
In the frigid zones, a canal upon
which hundreds of millions of dol
lars of American money has been
expended, a canal that will prob
ably never pay for itself, a canal
that opens up to commercial ex
ploitation the rich states and fer
tile and fruitful Latin-American
countries on the west coast of the
Western Hemisphere, in which
the American ship. the central
object for which the canal was
built, will be signally conspicuous
by its absence!
The Panama Canal could be
made the greatest possible in
strumentality for the promotion
of American shipping and we are
told that we have freelv and fool
ishly given away the ~*ower with
which to thus benefit our own
ships alone. Whatever we do for
ourselves, we must do for aliens,
people and nations that have done
nothing, spent nothing, for the
construction of the canal, but who
will gladly avail themselves of
its existence for their own ad
vancement.
How do the American people
like this view^of the case? What
can and what will they do to rem
edy It? >
Marriage the Basis of Civilization
By MRS. JOHN HAYS HAMMOND.
T HE growing tendency to sex
laxity, the increased facili
ties for divorce, the crowding
of our Institutions for the care of
defectives are causing the great
thinkers and educators of all
■^ands to turn their attention in
the direction of sexuaj ethics and
education. Both the modern
stage and modem literature are
contributing a large share to the
tendency to undermine marriage
and the family, the very foun
dation and superstructure of civ
ilization.
Biologically, marriage rests , on
the necessity of the union of two
half lives for the production of a
new individual. The fact that the
human infant is so helpless at
birth constitutes the necessity of
enduring marriages for the pres
ervation of the species. Modern
civilized marriage is a permanent
legal union of a man and a wom
an.
Marriage is not only essential
to the preservation of the race,
but it is the social instrument foip
the attainment of the highest in
dividual moral development, the
conserver or intensifier of man’s
energies.
Rarely even in happy marriages
do we find two people paired to
gether without apy maladjust
ments. Very few are capable of
great love. It is because of the
existence of these maladjust
ments, the concrete defects and
weaknesses of human nature that
society lays such stress on the
sanctity of life-long monogamy.
Nevertheless, these maladjust
ments are the soil in which may
be developed the beautiful fruits
of self-sacrifice, generosity, for
giveness and forbearance.
Indissoluble marriage I believe
to be the greatest of all the edu
cational forces for the develop
ment of human earnestness
The bonds of marriage are a
strong incentive to the preserva
tion of chivalry. The protection
and support of wife and children
keep alive the spirit of chivalry
in the heart of a man. The true
woman is as rich in charity a®
man is in chivalry. She protects
her husband from hls own weak
ness. is tolerant of his shortcom
ings and draw's out and develop*
that which is best in him.
Instead of encouraging divorce
we should seek to avoid those
things which may lead to It. I
believe that one of the reasons
for divorces is that through the
storm and stress of modern busi
ness life, in the fierceness of pro
fessional competition and the dust
of social traffic, there is too lit
tle of common interest and daily
adjustment between man and
wife, with the result that, when
in middle life the leisure of suc
cess comes, it is found that love
has lost its savor and the affec
tions have flattened out. The man
and wife have drifted apart in
currents of thought, ambition and
pleasure. They have passed the
years when they should have
been molding each other's char
acters.
Instead of facing the situa'inn
bravely and setting about the se
rious business of mental, moral
and physical readjustment, they
often allow themselves to follow
the line of least resistance and to
be attracted by someone who
seems to have more points of
Unity.
STARS AND STRIPES
1
The man who throw’s bouquets
at himself £tnd bricks at his
neighbor can not expect to be
come ver> T popular.
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It is illegal to kill Americans in
Nicaragua, as Mr. Zelayu has dis
covered. He should have exer
cised his talents In Mexico.
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Only unmarried men work on
the Shamrock in order to insure
secrecy, Has Sir Thomas lost his
far-famed gallantry?
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Jersey man with two wives,
xvbo elopes with a daughter of
one and takes along daughter of
the other, qualifies as a dipioxn&t-
ui of high rank.
The sheet music trust can h*
capitalized for a mere song.
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The most fireproof material in
New York tenements is usually
the coal.
It begins to look as if th«»
would be a new set of rebels in
Mexico shortly—viz., the present
Federal*.
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**I am an exceedingly derrr
man,” said G. B. Shaw, and fl™-
ly believes that that makes
opinion unanimous.
The height of unkindness !* w
send a cablegram notifying a men
that he has been Indicted 4H®