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the home rarer EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published by THF< GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St Atlanta, Os FntrrM a* second Mae* matter at poetoffW a» Atlanta, mder act of March 2. 1873 HKARST’E hl T NDAV AMKHIOAN and Till-: ATLANTA GEORGIAN will be me I lad t< subscribers any where in th« iiiada and Ilex oq. .re rr -nth for $60, three month* for fl 7f>: - hare' f aTJrees mad*' as often a# desired. Foreign Hubucrlptlon rates on application What Every Man and Woman in Atlanta Should See and Remember Do You Intend to Take Part in the Battle for Oglethorpe? 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. 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 your 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 tp 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. TRANSMIGRATION ^ By WILLIAM F. KIRK. I I * H~E transmigration of souls, my dear," Said the grocery clerk who had gone to college. ''Is a granh belief that the Greeks made clear In the days when the Greeks were steeped In knowledge. It means that I loved you long ago On another planeL in other ages. And a million years haven't changed, I know, The passion that now in my whole soul rages. We hare transmigrated throughout ell time. Just your dear bou] and the soul of me. From planet to planet In many a clime, And our new, grand marriage is bound to he.” Then her old man came down the massive stairs, , Saying “I heerd your smooth tongue work. A™t 1 rec-ion none til my uaughters „ ^ heirs 1 Hi Hi *iU no grocery ,'iei.Al" 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. They 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 $250,000 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. The Traffic Squad Youth IsGirrsOpportunity By ELBERT HUBBARD BY DOROTHY DIX. When Opportunity Knocks Better be on the job. Don’t be out wasting your working hours, for opportunity knocks but once. T HE traffic squad comni In with the benzine hungry. Before that, there were wrangles, tangles, tie-ups, terri ble talking matches, swear feats, and occasionally killings at the crossings. The word “pollca” Is derived from the Izatln polls, a city. Cae sar set apart certain soldiers to serve the people In peaceful ways. These soldiers were cho sen on account of tl eir intelli gence, suavity, and 6ense of honor. They were called poHtes. 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 «?peak the English language so a wl lte man could understand them. If you asked them a question the sec ond time, you ia.i» ihe risk of get ting stung with a nightstick. This oop was always out after his personal enemies. His social status was ever at stake, and his business was largely to chase bad 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 thanks—he is always right there when ypu need him. His task is to make the wheels go round, and In such 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-driverf had 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 know the city of London, the principal buildings, the many thorough fares. That is, they had to he 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, glided, 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 la, twelve streams of traftlo croas 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 werka 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, good 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 Teelers. 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 s Its proud w j OUTH Is not only the 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 parents’ 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 baiting their traps. If a girl lacks attraction it is all the more the mother's duty to make her home so delightful and so hospitable that young people will like to come to It. People wfll 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 her. In the case of a girl who wants to have a good time, and who is ieft out of all of the frolics of the girls and boys about her, the 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 aeries 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 bovg and girls can’t go gayly off and leave Mabel sit ting at the window 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 bars done. His profits have been enormous, and his radicalism is whip and spur to the circulation department. The masses devour moat ravenously the Hearst sup plements and magazines, which urge that children be treated kindly, that husbands and wives 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 oitizens in Mexico.] ^ John Temple Graves Writes on Our Canal for Aliens The flag: of the United States will be a rarity on the vessels of com merce passing through the Panama Canal- Think of that! By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES ry^nE tremendous engineering j 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 thatl 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 nr paralleled gen ius of the American people for GREAT ENGINEERING AC COMPLISHMENTS, but what 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, otrtttng off 8.000 miles of unnecessary travel by ships, & 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 oanaJ that opens up to commercial ex^ ploltatlon the rich states and fer tile and fruitful Latin-American countries on the west coast of th* ^Western Hemisphere, in which the American ship, the central object for which the canal wa* built, win be signally conspicuous by its abeencet The Panama Canal could be made the greatest possible in strumentality for the promotion of American shipping end we are told that we have freelv and fool ishly given away the n ower with which to thus benefit our own ships alone. Whatever we do for ourselvee, 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 *ex laxity, the Increased facili ties for divorce, the crowding of <rar institutions for the care of defectives are causing the great thinkers and educators of all lands to turn their attention in the direction of sexual ethics and education. Both the modern stage and modern 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. Modem 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 for the attainment of the highest in dividual moral development, the conserver or intensifler of man's energies. Rarely even in happy marriages do we find two people paired to gether without any 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 soli In which may be developed the beautiful fruits of self-sacrifice, generosity, tor- given ess and forbearance. Indissoluble marriage I better® 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 chHdx«u keep alive the spirit of chivalry In the heart of r man. The true woman is as rich in charity as man is In chivalry. She protects her husband from his own weak ness, is tolerant of his shortcom ings and draws out and develops that which is best in him. Instead of encouraging divorce we should seek to avoid those things which may lead to it. 1 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 Mb* tie of common interest and dally adjustment between man and wife, with the result that, when In middle life the leisure of suc cess comes, It is found that levs has lost its savor and the affec tions have flattened out. The man and wife have drifted apart *n 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 situation 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 w’.io seems to have more points of af finity. STARS AND STRIPES The man who throws bouquets at himself and bricks at his neighbor can not expect to be come very popular. * * * It is illegal to kill Americans in Nicaragua, as Mr. Zelaya has dis covered. He should have exer cised his talents in Mexico. • • • Only unmarried men work on the Shamrock in order to insure secrecy. Has Sir Thomas lost his far-famed gallantry? • • * Jersey man with two wives, who elopes with a daughter of one and takes along daughter of the other, qualifies as a diplomat ist of high rank. The sheet music trust can b® capitalized for a mere song. * * * The most fireproof material In New York tenements Is usually the coal. • • • It begins to look as if there would be a new set of rebels !n Mexico shortly—viz., the present Federals. • • • "I am an exceedingly clever man,’’ said G. B. Shaw, and firm ly believes that that makes the opinion unanimous.