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editorial rage 'The Atlanta Georgian the home rarer THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Publish** hy THE OF.ORG!AN mMI At 20 Hunt Alabama S' Atlanta. •i-'-iaiK mattar at poataff't ai Atlanta. -INI' A Y A MERIC! A N h t I GO i*r art of Marrh 8, 1171 THE ATI S GEORGIAN will ribrra anywhere In the United State* thru month* for f: 78, m< 1 tha if address made a« often aa deal red. 1* . at Mexloo ’ and one year gn aubMcrlption At Santa Needs Mozley Park and Must Have It It r if The Gty Can Not Have Too Many Playgrounds for the People. The movement looking to the purchase of Mozley Park by the fit v h;ir. been revived, and it is to be hoped that this time it may succeed. The property may be acquired just now at a price perhaps lower than ever again will be possible, and Atlanta needs this lovely park to strengthen its already too weak chain of recrea tion and play grounds. Moreover, the people in the immediate vicinity of Mozley Pari contend that they have not been equitably treated in the matt r of park distribution in Atlanta, and the property they are y< tiiioning Council to buy does not call for a very heavy out lay of money. Next year, in 1914, we are to celebrate fittingly the fiftieth aimi- it: a.ry of the battle of Atlanta. Then would be a most acceptable time for the city to take over Mozley Park. It i the only remaining spot that, in its physical aspect, calls to mind vividly and picturesquely the battle of Atlanta. It was well within the zone of that fierce encounter, and bear to-day the honorable scars of the conflict enacted upon and about it. Besides the citizens of the Seventh Ward, there are hun dred of citizens from other sections of Atlanta earnestly and sincerely urging upon Council the desirability of securing this magnilu ent park NOW Its history is by no means the greatest thing in its favor— above all things, it meets the best ideals of a REAL PARK for city purposes. At lanta should acquire before it grows any bigger ALL the I park it possibly may. It soon will be too late to acquire this particular spot. Tie Georgian most cordially commends the present move ment looking to the purchase of Mozley Park. What Woman Has Done, Woman Can Do What woman has done to lessen the high cost of living in the matter of eggs she can do with other food products. She has rot taken kindly to the Administration advice to eat cheese, but 1 as gone about to obtain eggs at a reasonable price. She has applied the law of deprivation to cure the effort of capitalists, food speculators and cold storage men to make the law of sup ply and demand subservient to their greed. What woman has dor.e in the egg business she will do some day to the ice business. One of these days she will force into use a large community ice box with compartments for the use of families in the tenements that will cut down the profits of the ice baron. The Money Value of Politeness While “doing your Christmas shopping early,” as you are asked to do by your wise friends, remember also to do it politely. Few -ommodities so cheap as politeness can be turned to so good account The tired girl who waits on you can not be expected, if you are sharp and exacting, to help you to find bargains. She knov better than you do what she has to sell. Be polite to her and she will assist you with ideas and suggestions that will mean money in your pocket and time on your hands to complete your ■hopping in one day. Remember that no shopgirl, however well paid, likes to be snapped and snarled at. Save her nerves, and she will save your Be considerate of her, and you will be surprised to find how much her expert knowledge can aid you in choosing your gifts. That Naval Holiday The House of Representatives, after some flamboyant ora tory, s gayly voted a “naval holiday’’ for one year, during which time none of the nations making holiday shall build any warships. O' course, the matter is utterly unimportant. None of the ship’ ling nations will participate. Not even the navy of whu : the good ship Piffle” flies the Admiral’s flag shall be balked of its just increase by so silly a legislative act. Since the statesmen have time to waste thus, why do bills ‘.or Fathers' Day,” for a "Sunflower Day,” a “Temperance Day' id the like lag in committee? Why not appoint a ”Con gressional Day" on wnich statesmen shall be peculiarly priv ileges lo make fools of themselves without being taken seriously? STARS AND STRIPES • n.v m never see i the tnjkn who is not aulets. with a dimple ;n her not always have a all right if the not gettinK our There are none so companion able as the henpecked married man when away from home. • • • The overestimated man gener ally has to keep on the Jump to prevent being fount! out. l! miunei .mee requires more skill graoefully in let go than it does to catch on. Seasonable Weather Outside the wind blows chill and the gray sky tells of snow; Inside the wood fire crackles and the embers glow. Outside the shivering toilers glean their wood from the street Inside their happied fellows bask in the pleasant heat. Now though the wind blows chill and the gray sky tells of snow The spirit of coming Christmas should set our hearts a-glow. And make those who have home and hearthstone, roof and shettei and meat, Remember their sadder fellows who glean in the icy street. The Fate of Crassus By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY What a Bov Should Aim For By EDWIN MARKHAM O N December 9, 53 B. C., in what is now Asiatic Tur key, was fought one of the decisive battles of history. At Carrhae the Parthlans killed a Roman pro-consul, annihilated a Roman army and precipitated the rivalry batWpen the two Roman citizens which was to end in the overthrow of the republic and th»* establishment of the empire. And all this was brought about by a lot of semi-barbarous no mads. who, as the Romans thought, had no military ability whatever and were not even wor thy of serious consideration. Crassus, who. with Caesar and Pompey. formed the "first trium virate." being ambitious of re nown and desirous of increasing his store of worldly goods, set out with an army of 50,000 men to conquer t tie Parthians. lie thought the job would be an easy one. The legions were invincible, and while they had never as yet met the Sons of the Desert, no l*ear was felt ns to the outcome of the expedition. Striking boldly into the desert, Crassus came up with the enemv a little to the eastward of ths Euphrates and there began at once one of the most remarkable fights of history. The Parthian force, composed entirely of cav alry, formed about the Romans In a circle, which was slowly drawn tighter and tighter as the strug gle wore on, Riding close up to the legionuries, the Parthians would rain their deadly arrows upon them and then suddenly ride away. The Romans charged with splendid courage, but they might as well have charged the wind or the flying clouds of heaven, (’’loser and closer drew the death circle and thinner and thinner grew the legions. On the one side there was no surrender and on the other no mercy. Slowly but re morselessly the work of destruc tion went on. and presently Cras- sus was dead and his army anni hilated. The "Parthian arrow" did Its work well, and the ghost of the dead army, flitting back to Rome, made the Masters of the World shiver to the very marrow in their bones. That ghost was dou bly significant. It meant that Crassus’ army was dead and that the great republic was ready for the shroud; for. just as the Par thians had crushed Crassus. the great Julius was about to crush Pompey and establish the impe rial rule. Questions Answered THE GAELIC TONGUE. 1* W M. The Gaelic language was once spoken by a consider able number of the human race in the British Isles, the Isle of Man, Northern France and Spain. There is evidence that the Gaelic branch of the Celtic breed was widespread. For instance, it is maintained by some excellent au thorities that the Ctmbri, who threatened at once time to over whelm Rome, and who were stop ped by Marius, were of Gaelic speech. The ancient language is found to-day in the Isle of Man, Wales, the Highlands of Scot land, Western Ireland and in Brittany, Northern France. DAVID LIVINGSTONE. T. C\ T.—You are wrong in your claim that the ashes of the great explorer rest in the "wilds of Africa." From the spot where he died, near "Chitambos Vil lage.” on the Malilano. Living stone's body was. in 1874, taken to England and deposited with high honors in Westminster Ab bey, the Government bearing all the expense of the elaborate fu neral. Livingstone will always rank among the most Illustrious of the African explorers. He was a real pathfinder and civilizer as well as a most devoted Christian and philanthropist. Upon his lasting fame there seems to be not a sing blot ■I T TILL1 AM DE WITT HYDE, \J\ President of Bowdoin College, in a book sent out by T. Y. Crowell called "The Quest of the Best,” gives one of the wisest of recent studies on the training of boys. I commend it to homes, schools and clubs. Here is one of it9 summaries: "If we put together the sep arate features of the boy who is enlisted 1n tlie Quest of the Rest, the portrait will be something like this: "He keeps himself clean and neat out of regard for others, but on occasion is ready to get as dirty as work or play may re quire. "He eats heartily, but only such and so much food as will keep him in most effective work ing and playing condition. "He foregoes liquor aqd tobacco whenever they would mean either deterioration for himself, or de struction of those weaker than he. "lie takes all the amusement and fun he can get without an noyance or degradation of others, or enervation of himself. "He works with an eye to his employer’s Interest as well as his own; but not when he can help it to the point of dullness or chronic fatigue. "He spends freely for what he enjoys, and saves for a rainy day; yet holds all his spending and saving subject to the claim of persons and causes more needy or worthy than he. "He stoutly and bravely de fends with all there is in him whatever he stands for; yet would rather be called a coward than do a foolish or foolhardy thing to avoid it. "He looks out shrewdly for himself; yet Just as shrewdly for his customer, creditor, employer or employee. "He tells the truth in kindness to all who have a right to hear it. He makes the future as real as the present, and treats present and future, both for self and for others, as one. "He is orderly for the most part, and disorderly on special oc casions, as «he pleasure and con venience of all concerned may require. "He talks frankly about un pleasant facts when necessary; but keeps silent about them when talk would serve no good social purpose. "He is polite with an inner po liteness born cf a desire to give pleasure rather than pain. "He has at neart the welfare of all with whom he associates; liv ing at peace with them so far as he can; and fighting fairly when peace can not be honorably main tained. "He is. loyal to his group and his friends when he can be loyal to them without being false to himself. "He thinks little of his attain ments. but much of his aims; de riving humility from the former and self-respect from the latter. "He treats in thought, word and deed all women and girls as he would wish others to treat his own mother or sister. "He is as kind and helpful to those who wrong him as he can be without being misunderstood, and ready to forgive them the in- .stant they repent. "He devotes himself to his friends and companions as so many extensions of himself; and takes as much delight in their happiness and success as in his own. He regards himself as a mem ber and servant of the one social Whole, and holds the social claim above individual inclination whenever the .-wo conflict. "Not that ary boy, or man for that matter, attains this compre hensive lies;; but that he who is enlisted in the Quest of the Best deliberately accepts nothing low er, or less." Where Do the Women of the World Belong? In a Happy Home, if They Have One, Says Dorothy Dix, but if Not, They Certainly Belong Among the Workers, Not the Hangers-On—By All Means Send the Women Back Where They Belong. By DOROTHY DIX* . MAN was expressing /\ great satisfaction oyer A A the f act that the new Pennsylvania law limiting the hours a week that a woman may tie worked has resulted in throwing thousands of women out of employment. His rejoicing was not the re sult of any sympathy or com passion for the poor industrial slaves that have been forced to toil far beyond their strength. Nor was it inspired by any humanitarian sentiment toward the weakly, neurotic children that these exhausted mothers would bring into the world. He was one of the men— happily few' now—who hold the ancient faith that women are a species of animals, created solely for the service and pleasure of man; that they have no rights in the world, not even the right to make an honest living by their own labor, and that it is a .sacrilegious thing for them to dare to compete in business with men. Therefore, he was de lighted to hear of anything that would cripple their earning power. “It serves them right," he ex claimed jubilantly; “a lot of them have been sent back al ready where they belong, and a lot more will have to go, too. 1 wish they would pass a law that would send every woman in the world back where she be longs.” So say we all. brother. We would all like to see a law passed that would send every woman in the world back where she be longs. In the Centre of a Happy Home Is Where Every Woman Belongs. Before you could pass that law. however, you would have to pass another law that would usher in the millennium, and, unfortunately, you can’t create the ideal conditions of kingdom come by enacting a statute. The place where every woman belongs Is in the centre of a happy home, with plenty to eat and plenty to wear, and a hus- hand who loves her, and is good to her, and faithful to her, and with little children, amply fed and clothed, playing in the sun shine about her feet. That’s where every woman belongs. It ts a disgrace to civilization, and an outrage on posterity, when women are forced to feed the race as well as to bear it, that young girls exhaust every ounce of their vitality in store or factory before ever they come to the great work of motherhood, and that married women are compelled to give their strength to performing the work they are hired to do instead of giving it to their children. Certainly every woman be longs in a home where she is cherished and cared for. No one will dispute that. Neither will any one dispute the fact that ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the women who are out of their homes nre out because they have no homes to be in. If there are any women so madly industrious that they have left a luxurious home and a generous father or husband for the pleasure of standing all day behind the counter, or pounding a type writer. or speeding up a machine in a factory, all I can say is that I have never met one. All the working women that I know work for bread, and not for fun. Every woman belongs in a sheltered home. But suppose she hasn't got the home, where does she belong then? Where does the old maid be long, for instance? The laat census report showed there were seventeen million unmarried men in the United States. That means a corresponding number of old maids, since no woman can make a man marry her un less he wants to. Are these women to become parasites on other people, or are they to be self-supporting? Is it an old maid’s place to settle herself down on some family that doesn't want her, or to hustle out and get a lob of her own? Which way will the woman be happiest and most useful to society? I think she belongs among the workers, and not among the hangers-on, don’t you? Where Do a Houseful of Able Bodied Girls Belong? Not every man Is eminently successful in business. Many men toil honestly and faithfully all their lives, and never suc ceed in making more than a bare living. Suppose such a man has grown old and feeble, and he has a houseful of able-bodied daugh ters. Where do these young women belong? Isn’t the place whey* they belong some place where they can make a good living for themselves and help their parents, instead of working their ' poor oid father to death to try to feed and clothe them? In a family where there are healthy, intelligent girls, are they where they belong when they hang like a millstone around a brother’s neck, keeping him from marriage and establishing a home of his own, because he has to support them? Or are they where they belong when they devote their energies to work instead of playing golf, and leave their brother free to live his life unburdened by his female relatives? It is often said that the reason that men can’t marry nowadays is because of the competition In business w-ith women. The reverse of this is true, for every sister who goes out. to earn her own living leaves her brother free to marry some other woman. Where does a woman belong If her husband is Invalided, or If he dies, leaving her with little children and not a dollar to sup port them on? Doesn't she be long out in the working world then, where she can earn the money to support those de pendent upon her? Surely she is in her appointed place doing whatever work comes to her hand, and the pity of it is that the place is often so hard and its wages so poor. Wherever There Is Need Want, Sickness. You Will Find a Woman. “Send the women back to where they belong.” They go there, brother. Wherever there is need and want; wherever there is sickness and suffering; wher ever there are infirm old people to be cared for, or helpless lit tle children to be fed and clothed, there is where a woman belongs, and there you will find her. To begrudge a woman the right to earn an honest living for herself and those dependent on her Is the quintessence of human meanness. That any man could do It passes comprehension. A billion souls the size of hts could exist on the point of » cambric needle—and not be In telephoning distance of each other. T 'HE foreman of the thrashing crew' was reading to Ills men; Tlie long day’s work was over; one and all were resting then. "This story tells about a wife who loved good times and gowns And made her husband buy a ear and drive to various towns. The man was busted when he died; broke, absolutely flat. Do you think, Ole Oleson, that your wife would act like that?” “Ay tenk no, yes, yu bet Ay do!" Hold Oleson, of the thrashing crew. “The story tells,” the foreman said, “how In a single year She handled all that he had saved and saw it disappear. She paid two hundred dollars for a little Paris hat, And larger sums for frocks and gowns and other things like that. She wanted pearls and rubies; she wanted all Ills cash. Do you suppose, Fritz Ludwig, that your wife would be so rash?” "Chats, dot its ckust vot she would do!" Said Dudwip, of the thrashing crew. ".She made him go to Europe," said the foreman to his men “And when they got back home she cried to make the trip again. She hungered for society, that’s what the stogy tells. Although her husband had no wish to travel with the swells. She had no pity for him when she saw his money go. Pat Casey, do you reckon that your wife would treat you so?” “Oi’m wid the Suede and Dootchman, too!" Said Casey, of the thrashing crew. I