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/ EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian the home rarer THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Publish*! hy THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama Rt Atlanta Oa *•» second-cl a nr matter at poatofflce at Atlanta, under art of March 3, 1171 HEARST’8 SUNDAY AMERICAN and THE ATI.AVI \ GEORGIAN will he mailed to subscribers anywhere In the United “Ohn-x, ‘\mRf1a and Mexico, one month for $60; three montha for $1A5, lx months for t •'» and one year for $7.00; change of address made aa often as desired. Foreign subscription rates on application. Atlanta Needs Mozley Park and Must Have It * W 9. The City Can Not Have Too Many Playgrounds for the People. What Woman has Done, Woman Can Do The Money Value of Politeness Some persons can never see any good in the man who is not wearing epaulets The girl with a dimple in her cheek does not always have a dent in her heart The movement looking to the purchase of Mozley Park by the city has 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 Park contend that they have not been equitably treated in the matter of park distribution in Atlanta, and the property they j are petitioning 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 I anniversary of the battle of Atlanta. Then would be a most acceptable time for the city to take over Mozley Park. It is the only remaining spot that, in its physical aspect, i calls to mind vividly and picturesquely the battle of Atlanta. It was well within the zone of that fierce encounter, and bears to day the honorable scars of the conflict enacted upon and about it. Besides the citizens of the Seventh Ward, there are hun- j dreds of citizens from other sections of Atlanta earnestly and sincerely urging upon Council the desirability of securing this j magnificent 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. Atlanta should acquire before it grows any bigger ALL the parks it possibly may. It soon will be too late to acquire this particular spot. The Georgian most cordially commends the present move ment looking to the purchase of Mozley Park. 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 not taken kindly to the Administration advice to eat cheese, but has 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 done 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. Competition | other fellow * trade is all rig'llt if iF not gettins the our - There are none go companion able as the henpecked married man when away from home. v. Tho overestimated man gener ally has to keep on the jump to prevent being found out I; sometimes requires more skill gravel n!!> to lot go than it does to catch on. While “doing your Christmas shopping early,’’ as you are asked to do by your wise friends, remember also to do it politely. Few commodities 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 knows 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 pockej and time on your hands to complete your shopping in one day: Remember that no shopgirl, however well paid, likes to be snapped and snarled at. Save her nerves, and she will save yours. 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, has gayly voted a “naval holiday’’ for one year, during which time none of the nations making holiday shall build any warships. Of course, the matter is utterly unimportant. None of the shipbuilding nations will participate. Not even the navy of which 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 tor Fathers' Day," for a “Sunflower Day." a “Temperance Day" and the like lag in committee? Why not appoint a “Con gressional Day" on which statesmen shall be peculiarly priv ileged to make fools of themselves without being taken seriously? STARS AND STRIPES Seasonable Weather mm 9 ■ mm£M t Wm •/. as— 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. The F ate of Crassus By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY Now though the wind blows chill and the gray sky t'ells of snow The spirit of eoming Christmas should set our hearts a-glow. And make those who have home and hearthstone, roof and sheltei and meat, Remember their sadder fellows who glean in the icy street. What a Boy Should Aim For By EDWIN MARKHAM O N December 9, 53 R C., in what is not\ Asiatic Tur key, was fought one of the decisive battles of history. At Cafrhae the Parthians killed a Homan pro-consul, annihilated a Homan army and precipitated the rivalry between the two Homan citizens which was to end in the overthrow of the republic and the 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 the Parthians. He thought the job would be an easy one. The legions were invincible, and while they had never as .vet met the Sons of the Desert, no fear was felt as to the outcome of the expedition. Striking boldly Into the desert. Crassus came up with the enemy a little to the eastward of the Euphrates and there began at once one of the most remarkable fights of history. The Parthian force, composed entirel> 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 legionaries, 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 dying clouds of heaven. Closer 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 taut the great republic was ready for the shroud; for. just as the Par thians hud crushed Crassus, the great Julius was about to crush Pompey and establish the impe rial rule. Questions Answered THE GAELIC TONGUE. F 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 Cimbri. 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 Rrittan>. Northern Franc#. DAVID LIVINGSTONE. P 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 Malliance Living stone’s body was, in 1S74. 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 single blot. •f 1 7JLLIAM DE WITT HYDE, VV 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 pne of its summaries: “If we put together the sep arate features of the boy who is enlisted in the Quest of the Best, 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 and tobacco whenever they would mean either deterioration for himself, or de struction of those weaker than he. “He 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 ind 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 oe called a coward than do >. foolish or foolhardy thing to avoid it. “He looks out shrewdly for i imself. y< r just as shrewdly for l*is 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 of 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 figiiting fairly when peace can not be honorably main tained. "He is loyal to his group and liis 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. "Ho treats in thought, word and deed all women and girls as he would wish others to treat hisi own mother or sister. "He is as kind and helpful to those who wrong him as he can he without being misunderstood, and ready to forgive them the in stant they repent. "He devotes himself to his friends and companion- as so many extensions of himself; and takes as much delight in their happiness ind success as in his own. “He regards himself as a mem ber and servant of the one social whole, and holds the social claim ai-Gvo individual inclination whenever he wo conflict. h Not that ary boy. or man for r.at matter. aUains this compre hensive Best, but that he who is enlisted in-the.Quest of the Best JelibeVately accepts nothing lon er or less." Where Do the Women of the World Belong? In a Happy Home, if They Have One, Say? Dorothy Dix, bpt 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* A MAX was expressing great satisfaction over the fact that the Dew Pennsylvania law limiting the hours a week that a woman may be worked has resulted in throwing thousands of women out of employment. His rejoicing was not the re suit of any sympathy or com passion for the poor industrial slaves that have been forced to toll 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 auimals, created solely for the service and pleasure of man: tiiat. 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 la w 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, yju 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 band 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 is 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 wtll any one dispute the fact that ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the women who are out of their homes Rre 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 1 can say is that I have never met one. All the working women that I know work for bread, and r.ot for fun. Every woman belongs in a sheltered home. But suppose Bhe hasn’t got the home, where does she belong then? Where does the old maid be long. for instance? The last 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 job 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 al! their lives, and never guc- ■ coed 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 where they belong some place where they can make a good living for themselves and help their parents, instead of working their poor old father to death to try to feed and clothe them? In a family where there are healthy, intelligent girls, are they whore they belong w'hen ihey 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 with 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 Jwhere 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 his could exist on the point of a cambric needle—and not be in telephoning distance of each other. UNANIMOUS By WILLIAM F. KIRK f I foreman of the thrashing crew was reading to his men; 1_ The long day’s work was over; one and all were resting then. "This story tells about a wife who loved good times and gowns Ami 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 tank so, yes, yu bet Ay do!” Said 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 his cash. l>o you suppose, Fritz Ludwig, that your wife would be so rash':” "Chass. dot iss chust rot *he would do!” Said Dudwig. 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 story tells. Although her husband had no wish to travel with the swells. She had no pity for him when she saw his money go. Par Casey, do you reckon that your wife would treat you so?” "Oi'm irid th*• Swede and Doutchmav, too!” Said Casey, of the thrashing crew.