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The Atlanta Georgian the: home: paper
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright, 1913, by Star Company.
T HERE is great hope for the
future of our nation when
the school authorities ask
the co-operation of the public in
pointing out the errors of the edu
cational system.
The work in the schools is too
varied, and there is not time
enough given to the proper under
standing of any one study.
There is not enough common
sense used by parents, oY teach
ers. in fitting the studies to the
children—all are put through a
routine with no consideration of
different tastes, needs and capac
ities.
No creeds should be taught in
schools. But reverence for the
Creator of this mighty universe
should be imparted with such les
sons as botany, natural history
and astronomy.
Remind the children that with
all man's vast learning and power
he can not make a single seed, or
star, or animal, and that the in
telligence which conceived the
worlds about and above us should
be thought of with reverence.
In morals there is no greater
factor than self-control.
Many people thinle self-control
means self-repression.
Children should be taught that
it means controlling the unworthy
impulses only, and that each time
anger, Indolence, greediness or
selfishness is controlled it is one
step toward a higher education
and toward success in life.
To study when you feel like
loafing, to persevere with a prob
lem when you want to ask some
one else to solve it for you, to
go directly to school or home
when you want to lag, to shut
your lips close when you want to
say unkind ’Words, to put your
pennies in a bank when you want
to buy candy—all tTiose are steps
toward higher education, and they
all mean self-control.
Continual brief reference to
these facts as a basis of all worth
while character should be made in
schools.
The early Ideals of Washington
and Jefferson and others -men of
great and broad principles—
should be taught, and the children
given a sense of the ^responsibil
ity of each individual to make
himself worthy of liis country and
to aid in making his country
worthy of the world's respect.
Manual training, sewing and
cooking are of great importance
in the schools.
But before the "submerged
tenth” enters the public or graded
schools it should have a careful
kindergarten training.
All the educators and philan
thropists and reformers in Amer
ica should band together to es
tablish kindergartens for the
children of the poor and vicious.
In its instruction order, sys
tem and self-reliance are con
tained.
Not one child in America reed
be deprived of this advantage
were our wonderfully generous
and philanthropic people aroused
to the importance of the w'ork.
Then the public schools should
amplify their manual training ad
vantages and add to the number
of teachers in those departments
Besides this a thorough course
of humane education should be
come a part of every school
course.
Until this is done it is impos
sible to eradicate the tendencies
toward cruelty borri in the chil
dren of the vicious and selfish.
The majority of parents never
do, and probably never will, un
aided by the schools, educate
their children to be humane and
kind to creatures weaker than
themselves.
Wherever humane education
has been introduced in school.'
there may be found a remarka
ble decrease of cruelty and vi
ciousness among children.
They become proud defenders
and protectors of suffering or
misused animals or human beings
they encounter.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
Published by THE GEORGIAN COMPANY
At 20 East Alabama St Atlanta, Oa
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UFA FIST' 8 SUNDAY AMERICAN and THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN will
b* tnaJlerf jo -fibers anywl <-n Wi the United Ktatea. Canada arid Mexico,
one month for $00 three months for $1 f», six month* for $1 f*0 and one year
for $7 00. change f add res* made aa often an desired. Foreign subscription
rates on application.
The Conspirators
Be a Founder of Oglethorpe
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A young teacher in the Atlanta public schools gave $3 of her
hard-earned salary yesterday morning as'a subscription to Ogle
thorpe University.
Her name is Jeanette Little.
Her subscription was applauded as loudly and as long as that
of the man who gave $5,000.
It was just as welcome.
It meant that Jeanette Little, as an Atlantan, was doing her
share toward the foundation of a great university^
It meant that Jeanette Little will be ONE OF THE FOUND
ERS OF OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY just as truly as any of
the men who give $1,000 or $5,000. _
It is a great thing to help found a university. It is a work
in which you, AS AN ATLANTAN, can help, whether you happen
to be a wage-earner or a millionaire.
If every Atlantan subscribes to this fund as Jeanette Little
subscribed, according to her ability, the $250,000 will be more
than raised. It will be doubled.
The essential thing is for YOU to do YOUR SHARE.
BE A FOUNDER!
PUTTY: It’s a Cute Kid, Isn't It?
Copyright, 1913, lateruationAl New* Service.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Writes on
Our Public School
System
Teach No Creeds—-Don’t
Mistake Repression for
Self-Control—Fit the
Studies to the Children,
She Says.
G*
Atlanta Should Have One of
the Regional Banks
r » r
The Location of the Institution Here Would Make the City the
Financial Center of This Whole Section.
Atlanta, reliable reports from Washington say, stands an
excellent chance of being made the site for one of the regional
banks which will be created under the new currency system.
Robert F. Maddox says if there are twelve central banks,
there is no doubt that Atlanta will have one of them, and if the
Senate decides to cut the number to eight, still he is confident.
The regional banks, crudely described, will be the great
reservoirs of credit. The banker in Augusta or Jacksonville who
has supplied the solid merchants aud factory owners of the city
with the funds they need to carry on business can bring the notes
these gentlemen sign to Atlanta and sell them at the regional
bank. The funds he gets in this way he can lend, of course, to
more merchants and manufacturers—and the very limited
amount of currency circulating in the nation by this means will
be sufficiently elastic to supply all the needs of business, it is
hoped.
The cities which possess the regional hanks will become the
financial centers of their entire sections. It is history that when
a city holds the purse strings, soon it dominates in all other lines.
One of the things which has built New York is the fact that New
York always has held all the money—and one of the principal
objects of the currency bill is to take some of this power away
from New York.
There is no doubt, then, that the regional bank will be a good
thing for Atlanta, and there should be no doubt that Atlanta
deserves it.
From Virginia south to the extreme tip of Florida, from the
Atlantic coast west to the Mississippi River, Atlanta’s influence
is felt. Already it is the trade center of this rich area and in
large degree the financial center, though New York always has
and always will dominate money until the currency bill operates.
Geographically and economically,' Atlanta deserves the
bank.
There is another reason.
Joseph A. McCord and Robert F. Maddox are among the
most able students of the currency question. Mr. McCord long
has been a member of the currency commission. Mr. Maddox
participated in the famous conference of bankers at Chicago, and
was the Southern member chosen to present the bankers' views to
the Senate.
The Senate was so keenly interested that the two hours ’ time
it allotted to hear the bankers' case was extended to several days.
Whatever improvement is seen in the bill as compared to its
crude original draft will be due more to Mr. McCord and Mr.
Maddox than to any other two men in the South.
Having assisted so materially in formulating the plan which
is to revolutionize the nation’s banking system, Atlanta shauld
have all possible benefits from it.
No Partnership in Intervention
From various sources, and so nearly at the same time as to
suggest the possibility of preconcerted purpose, comes the sug
gestion that when the United States does intervene in Mexico, it
should invite Brazil, the Argentine Republic and Chile, one or all,
tq join in that intervention.
The idea is preposterous. Its proponents are so uniformly
public men or publications that have opposed the necessary inter
vention as to justify suspicion that this new scheme is suggested
to divert public opinion from the main issue.
It is not suggested that the United States is unable alone, by
its own military and naval power, to bring order out of the Mex
ican chaos. Nobody is mad enough to entertain such a doubt.
But it is urged that by iniviting one or more of the chief
Latin-American republics to join us in the task we shall be giving
evidence of our unselfishness and sincerity. Such a course is ex
pected to endear us to the group of Central and South American
republics and lead them to look on us as a partner in a good cause,
rather than as a dreaded rival.
But will it? War waged by allies is apt to end in war be
tween the allies. We need only to contemplate the situation in
the Balkans to see a striking illustration of this fact.
If we should for a moment consider inviting South American
aid in a matter touching us so much the more nearly, the selection
of the ally or allies would almost inevitably lead to’hard feeling.
The national feeling in the South American republics is sensitive
and high-spirited. With the Latin Amefican national greatness
is not measured by area or population. It is all very well to select
the three governments named as the '' greatest, ’ ’ but Bolivia and
Peru would always feel a certain resentment at their omission,
while, should we limit participation in the intervention to one
alone of the three, we should have all of the rest of South America
fired with indignant resentment.
The Georgian has repeatedly declared that intervention in
Mexico should be undertaken with no thought of territorial ag
grandizement for the United States. We believe that to be the
universal wish of the American people. But to maintain that pol
icy against the possible land hunger of two or three allies would
immensely complicate the situation. It would inevitably lead
either to a surrender of our own proper position, or to serious
trouble with our allies.
Nothing is more certain than that the intervention of this
nation to re establish order ui Mexico is demanded to-dav. But
it must be intervention by the United States alone. It is our
burden, our duty, and to attempt to divide the responsibility
would be only to multiply the difficulties in the way.
Whatever they tempt you into buying—buy it
NOW. The earlier you shop the better service you
get and the more you lighten the shopgirls’ holiday
burden.
The Face in
the Mountain
By WINIFRED BLACK
I T is sad to-day, the great Face
up there on top of the moun
tain. Have you ever seen such
a face?
Who carved it, I wonder? Ages
and ages ago did the wild wa
ters know what it Was they
wrought when they rushed over
the great boulders and sang and
surged and cut the face in the
great rocks?
There it is, day and night, the
great calm face, lying with its
eyes up to the sky, and the clouds
sail above and tlie winds sing be
low and still the great Face lies
there for all to flee.
There were great doings In the
valley once. Someone found a
pocket full of gold there In the
canyon by the rushing waters,
and the whole place swarmed
with men—and women followed
and the quiet night was raucous
with wild songs. Gold, gold, goid
—that's what they all wanted —
gold. What did they care for the
pence of the'valley or the calm
of the great mountain? Gold, that
was what they were after.
Strange, the fever that^urns us
when we hear the very name.
The other day I
drove
high
above 1 imber line.
It was a sight to
take
the
breath away.
While w<? stood
driver spoke.
gazing
the
"There," lie said, pointing with
Jiis whip. "There—that’s Simp
son's Dream, that hole down
there. Simpson took ten thou
sand dollars in 24 hours out of
that hole." and every one of us
turned our eager eyes from the
glory of the sky and the splen
dor of the spreading earth and—-
and looked—earnestly, eagerly,
with a vivid interest, af a dirty
hole in the ground because Simp
son, whoever he might be, took
ten thousand dollars' worth of
gold out of it once—years and
years ago.
How 1 the gods must laugh at
our strange infatuations!
Poor Simpson—he had his day
of delirium. What did it profit
him ?
He died—drunk and raving—
after he had spent his ten thou
sand dollars, and the wife of his
youth was ashamed to lay a
flower on his dishonored grave
and the boy she named for Simp
son would rather you didn’t ask
about him if you please.
Now, if he had only watched
life Face there on tbe hills—the
great, calm face, and had drawn
strength and peace from that—
how much better off he would
have been,
"Come,” the mountains call,
"come, little, tired, anxious, wor
ried, eager, quarreling children.
Come, you are th/rsty: I will give
you to drink. You are hungry:
there is plenty to eat here and
.to spare. See how light the trees
feather into a canopy for your
sleeping roojn. Peace, joy, health,
faith, trust, love—all these 1 have
for you here. »
"And we laugh bitterly and
turn away—but let the hole in
nho ground speak—gold, gold, gold
—for the digging—sorrow, greed,
care—work without ceasing, the
forgetfulness of one we once
loved—age—before the time for
age—bitterness while the brow is
smooth, distrust, envy—all this I
offer you,” and how we run to
answer—poor blind fools that we
are.
What do you think of us—Face
there on the mountain? How sad
you look. Here comes one who
laughs—a girl with a letter from
her sweetheart crackling in her
bosom—"The Face smiles," says
the girl; "see how the Face
smiles."
And here comes one in anger—
one he trusted has betrayed him.
"The Face is cruel," 'says the
man in anger—“it sneers at me
and my sorrow.”
And to me who mourns for
what never can be mine again—
the Face looks mournful and full
of sadness—can It be that you
never change at all—Face there
on the mountain, and that it is
we who are sad and angry or gay
and we see ourselves reflected in
your look?
If I make my world myself It
shall be a happy one—trust me
for that, O Face of calm con
tent.
Come; the sun shines, the
winds sing, the waters rush by,
who shall bring sadness to my
heart oi to your brow, O Face of
calm delight?
My world is my own. I’ll make
it what I will—a happy one.
§ Careless Speech
By MRS. FRANK LEARNED.
Author “Etiquette In New York To-day'
T HE use of words reveals the
degree of cultivation of the
speaker. In some cases in
correct words are used by per
sons who have known better, but
have become careless from asso
ciation with others who make use
of them. Careless speakers or
writers often use the expressions
"help find,” "help build," “help
protect" and the like instead of
"help to find,” ;jk» build." “to
protect."
There are many terms or ex
pressions which are not good
form. The w*ord elegant has been
elimmated from correct usage in
conversation and in writing by
cultured people. It is. therefore,
not correct to say "an elegant
house." and it is «ven worse to
say “an elegant time." Better
expressions would be, A beauti
ful house," "A pleasant time" or
"A delightful time"
It is bad form to say folks for
family, wealthy for rich, fleshy
for stout, homely for plain.
It would spprn almost unne<
< ««nr\ to remind anyone not to
;-av “Was you" tor "Were you.
"He says” for "He said," "Says
she” for "Said she," "I done 1t"
for “I did it.” “1 don’t know as l
shall go” for "I don’t know that
I shall go," or "whether I shall
go ”
A rule to remember is that an
instructor teaches, a pupil learns:
therefore one should say, ".Miss
B. is going to teach the children
to sew," not "Miss B. is going to
learn the children to sew." One
should be careful to say, "Miss •
B. taught me to sew," not "Miss
B. learnt me to sew."
Exaggerated expressions should
be avoided. For Instance, it is
best not to say "Lots of people."
" Lots of things." "Loads of time, ’
"Loads of shops." The word.loads
is applied only to wagon-loads,
cart-loads or to things piled upi
and Is not intended for other use.
The use of grammar is part of
a good education. The neglect of
it shows a want of education
which should be very mortifying
to a person who does not wish to
be considered illiterate. Where
there have been advantages of
education Gore s no excuse for
not maintamtr .* » high standard
of accurn;. anti excellence in
speech.
Scientific Questions
—1. "Would meteors be
visible in a telescope ’"
2. “Is the law r of per
spective overcome by a big tele
scope looking toward the zenith
any more than toward the hori
zon ?”
3. “If a balloon just visible in
the horizon be placed directly
overhead will It be seen more or
less plainly?”
4 "If visible, say. at a distance
of fifteen miles on horizon, would
it be visible’at a distance of 15,000
miles overhead?”
\ —1. Yes: during an infinites-
*■** simal fraction of a second,
if one should by mere chance hap
pen to pass in front Of the great
object glass. Thus 1 saw two
last night. They appeared to
move as fast as a lighting streak.
But the magnifying power was
300. The specific speed of the
meteor w is about M miles
second. Its speed was 26 miies
per second and that of the earth
IS 1-2 The three bodies met/in
collision, both meteors hit the
earth.
A - . The law of perspective
can not be overcome; but the law
of refraction loses its effect when
a star is in the zenith—that is.
the rays of light from it come on
a straight line, while # from a star
near the horizon the ray assumes
its maximum curvature
A.—3. More plainly.
A.—4. We must first know the
diameter of the balloon and size
of telescope to see a balloon 15,-
000 miles away.
IruShoots .:.
Tuxpam must have a live press
agent.
Mexico will soon be bounded on
the east by warships and also on
the west.
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SonHe satisfaction in knowing
that the only thing that can beat
our army is our navy, and vice
versa.
* * *
English woman says American
men art- "big. splendid brutes "
Never have guessed it froth
watching a downtown corner.
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