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THE HOME RARER EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published by THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama fit Atlanta, Ga Pntered an second-Gass matter at poatnfnrs at Atlanta, undei art of Marrn 3. iifi HEARST'F SI SPAY AMERICAN and THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN will mailed t" »r hern anywhere In the United Htate*. (, anada and Mexico, one month for $ 60 three month* for 11 F6, six months for x3 50 and one year for $7 00 change f addresa made as often as desired. Foreign fubacrlptlon rates on application. Let Us Celebrate Christinas Quietly and at Home 9 9 9. Put Away the Pistol and Everybody Join in the Observance of the Holiday in Peace. Dr. Booker T. Washington once more commends himself to the people of the South by the timeliness and good sense of the communication which The Georgian publishes to-day. The beau tiful spirit of the Christmas holidays has already been redeemed in part in this section, and in all sections of the country, by the sanity and quietude of its celebration. In New York, the metropolis of the country, Christmas Day is essentially a home day. It is the quietest day that New York knows out of all the 306 days in the calendar. It is a home day. People devote that day to their children; to the happiness of their families; to the alleviation of human suffering, and to such enjoyments as may be personal and delightful without hilarity and clamor. It is really to thousands of people, to millions of people, the happiest and quietest day of the year. Atlanta has largely re deemed the clamorous and tempestuous Christmas Eve and Christmas frenzy of other years, and is all the happier for the greater decorum of self-control with which that best of all holi days should be celebrated. Dr. Washington’s suggestion is a particularly happy one, and The Georgian cordially commits it to the consideration of the ever-watchful and vigorous clergy of this city and this x State. Sunday the 21st should certainly be devoted, either in whole or in part, by every pulpit to a plea for an anti-whisky and anti-pistol day. The splendid success which The Georgian, with the wonder ful co-operation of the clergy of Atlanta, illustrated in the recent Go-to-Church Day, may well be followed with this timely anti dote to the excesses of the Year's Great Holiday. We are living in a great age in Atlanta and in Georgia, and any suggestion that is plainly for the welfare and happiness of scoiety is readily adapted from whatever source it comes. Dr, Washington, speaking to his own race, makes an especial appeal to the preachers among his own people, and to them The Georgian adds an especial earnestness of advocacy that they adopt it. There are not so many persons of home and family among the negro race as among our own, but the negroes have been stirred and are being stirred to a mighty effort to emulate the best things in the white race, and it will be a signal demonstration of the earnestness of that movement among the negroes of Geor gia if their pulpits would preach and their pews would advocate throughout the length and breadth of the negro population the abolition of whisky and the abolition of pistols from the Christ mas celebrations. If the negro preachers of Atlanta and Georgia would take this in hand and the coming Christmas could be celebrated with out a tragedy among the negro race throughout the State, the fame of it would go abroad over all the land and the negro would be elevated and advanced in the repute and esteem of the Amer ican people. Don’t Fail to See Helen Keller The most wonderful human being that lives in this world to day is coming to Atlanta to appear under the auspices of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Those who have not seen Helen Keller should not miss this opportunity to see and hear the most wonderful triumph of , science and of providence over the most sorrowful combination of physical infirmities that could afflict human beings. It is said that this wonderful woman who has overcome the paralysis of the essential senses by courage and intelligence, un der the skillful beneficence of science, is making her last public tour of the country. The opportunities to see her and to remem ber that you have seen her will be very few and far between in the future. The Daughters of the Confederacy have been very wise to bring Helen Keller to Atlanta, and to exhibit in her the greatest triumph which human intelligence has ever recorded over nat ural defects. It is enough to announce any sort of an entertainment by the Daughters of the Confederacy to invoke the cordial coopera tion and attendance of the Atlanta people, but when these noble and loyal women offer to Atlanta an entertainment so wonder ful, so suggestive, and so inspiring, any hall in the city should be filled to overflowing with those who believe in the Daughters themselves, and who would pay tribute to this wonderful miracle of science and of grace. The Easiest Way Only a few days till Christmas. While there are persons who would go the society for the suppression of useless giving one better and start an organization of vigilantes for the purpose of catching and lynching Santa Claus, the fleeting desire to do so generally is born of the knowledge that there is too little to do all we wish. A good way to get the Christmas business over is to sit down quietly and read the advertisements. Then with a list of those you are to remember, decide what you want for them. Shop early and have it over. Then after that, picking up the presents for those you forgot will be easier. T/M HAVE HERE A CoKlMUMlCATiOM,TheT-^SIs / Signature dp vi/mcn is u-le-gipue. it lookVVS l IRE "VAJ&WU&’ orVaerus" it iS AS Follows;— "At the preseht IMPIN&EMEMT oy AFFAIR The UMITED STATER Vt/lLL PURSUE A POLlcYof < F L AMBUnIKTiOUs CONlSERv/AToRl£ I LIT Y, 3LEMJiEp With a Touch oy AB5quaTULous r y \ WATCHFULoSrrr AMP WAitFULM yy/y HUERTA SAYt> L Tt>URE A BoHEMtAD) AnJ> Your lectures | \Ghve. him A PaiMI I ‘ VoT £>oes) - 3>OT MEAH1J • THE FORECAST • © I lie F irst Woman Doctor b, rev, thomas b. Gregory @ THE CRUISE OF THE “PIFFLE” Ctpfrlfht. ltlfe, lot tread lent! N«-*m Serviea. 70% “Hooray!” “Avast!” “Hip, hip!” “Oh, you Juice!” “Shiver my .binnacle lights!” This outburst of saflor-like expressions was uttered by the gallant crew of the peace ship “Piffle.” The occasion was the annual banquet of the “Society for the Prevention of Hurting the Feelings of Mexicans!” When the applause had subsided Admiral Juice arose and said: “We have with us to-night as our honored guest one of the most peaceful men on record. Our old friend Rip Van Winkle went away from home in order to have peace and slept twenty years! But he has nothing on us! When it comes to peacefulness we have got him faded!” As the fearless Admiral ceased speaking the mellow voices of the ship’s quartette were heard in the following chorus. . “Way down in distant Mexico they’re having quite a time, i With murder-fests and arson-fests and other brands of crime! But it can’t go on forever, and we’ll give a joyful whoop When the frost is on Carranza and Huerta’s in the soup!” ■M H-i-d-H-H-H-l-l I l'H-l-l-l-I-l-l-l-M I I I I I I I I I I I IT HT H- p p V ■! ; HH+H-H 1 I i | -1-1-t-i 1 I I I I 1 I -H-fr-H-I- I-H-l-l-I I I 1 I H I i H H- By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Copyright, 1913. by Amerlcan-Journal-Examir.er. JT may be that ! dreamed a dream: it may he that l saw * The forecast of a time to come by some supernal law. I seemed to dwell in this same world, and in this modern time; All strife had ceased; men were disarmed; and quiet Peace had made A thousand avenues for toll in place of War’s crime trade. From Fast to West, from North to South, where highways smooth and broad Tied State to State, the waste lands bloomed, like garden spots of God. There were no beggars in the streets; there were no unemployed, For each man owned his plot of ground, and labored and enjoyed. Sweet children grew like garden flowers; all strong and fair to see; And when I marvelled at the sight, thus spake a Voice to me: I “Ail Motherhood is now an art; the greatest art on earth; And nowhere is there known the crime of one unwelcome birth, From rights of parentage, the sick and sinful are debarred; For Matron Science keeps our house, and at the door stands guard. We know the cure for darkness lies in letting In the light; And Prisons are replaced by Schools, where wrong views change to right The wisdom, knowledge, study, thought, once bent on beast and sod, We give now to the human race, the highest work of God; And, as the gardener chooses seed, so we select with care; And as our Man Plant grows, we give him soil and sun and air. There are no slums; no needs of aims; all men are opulent, For Mother Earth belongs to them, as was the First Intent." It may be that I dreamed a dream; it may be that l saw The forecast of a time to come, by same supernal law. A Plea for Peaceful Christmas Mince Pie Time Editor The Georgian: In many parts of the country where our race lives in large numbers a cloud of gloom is spread over the Christmas holi day season because of the large number of people who are mur dered or wounded. Many of our people seem to feel that Christ mas is for the purpose of drink ing whisky, carrying pistols or shooting or murdering somebody. This kind of thing is not confined to the negro race, but just now I am trying especially to advise my race. A careful study and observa tion convince me that these shoot ings and murders are brought about by two causes. The first cause is drinking. Many of our people who, during the other months of the year, seldom touch whisky feel at liberty—in fact, the necessity—of drinking and mak ing fools of themselves during the Christmas holidays. These murders are brought about, in the second place, by the senseless and useless habit of car rying pistols on one’s person for the mistaken purpose of self-de fense or protection. I have not carried a pistol in all my life, and do not keep one in the house, for I found that the carrying of a pistol or other weapon gets one into trouble in nine cases where it keeps one out of trouble in one case. It used to be that the Fourth of July was a noisy, senseless occa sion, where hundreds of people were murdered through the shoot ing off of firecrackers and fire arms. A reform has been brought about, so that the Fourth of July is now a safe, sane season. Why can not we as a race do our part in bringing about some kind of a reform with reference to the Christmas season? Why can not we change the policy of whisky drinking and pistol carrying, so that Christmas will not bring sor row, but only joy and gladness? Think of it, instead of Christ mas being a day of thanksgiving, joy and gladness, it is too often turned Into a day of misery and woe, even for a lifetime. Christ mas leaves behind it penniless widows with children to support. It leaves disappointed, broken hearted parents, whose children, heated with liquor, have commit ted some shameful or criminal act. Hundreds of young men who would otherwise lead decent, up right lives have begun their ca reers as Jailbirds on Christmas Day, and almost equally as many a young woman, due to license of the season, has started on a course of shame and disgrace. My especial purpose in writing this letter is to make a definite, strong and personal appeal to every minister, to every Sunday school teacher, to every public school teacher and every parent to use his influence to have the drinking of whisky and the car rying of firearms stopped during the Christmas season. If some thing could be said by the minis ters and teachers and other lead ers in every church in the South on this subject on Sunday, De cember 21, I am sure it would ac complish great good. Perhaps wo might designate the day as “Anti- Whisky and Pistol Day.” I very much wish that all the ministers and teachers in the day and pub lic schools might set aside this special Sunday or a special day where attention, through the me dium of sermons or lectures, might be called to this Important mat ter. Our young people need to be spoken to plainly about the senseless and useless habit of drinking whisky and carrying pistols. I realize fully that the type who are most guilty of these acts do not attend church, Sunday or day school, and know of the difficulties in this direction, but, nevertheless, if each one who reads this communication will be gin now in some way to do his part to bring about a reform, I am sure that the coming Chiist- mas season will show an absence of whisky drinking and pistol carrying that will be most grat! - fying and encouraging. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Tuskegee, Ala. Questions Answered THE LOMBARDS. F. O.—The Lombards yere originally a Teutonic, or rather Scandinavian, folk. Gradually they worked their way south ward from the land of Odin and Thor to the fair plans of North ern Italy, which they entered about the middle or end of the sixth century. They changed their Paganism for the heterodox form of Christianity known as Artan- ism, and between 750 and 800 were conquered by Pepin and Charlemagne. For conquering the Lombards Pepin w*as crowned King of France by the Pope, and Charlemagne, later on, was made Emperor. In return the Popes were given a big slice of terri tory around Rome. THE EVERGLADES. G. H. R.—The region down in Florida known as the “Ever glades’’ is not as yet available for cultivation, although it is under stood that an attempt is being made by the State to reclaim £he territory. The region is 70 miles long and 60 wide, the water being from one to six feet deep, studded thickly with ridges, or islands, from one-fourth of an acre to hundreds of acres In extent. Out of the water grows a rank grass, from six to ten feet high. The vegetable deposits of the Ever glades are enormous, and beyond a doubt the great swamp, when thoroughly drained, will produce amazing crops, especially of ba nanas and plantain and other subtropical fruits. STARS AND STRIPES “The stocking is a bad purse," says Major Sylvester, the Capi tal’s head cop. A roll does make it look kind of lumpy in these days of slit skirts. • * * Mayor Harrison says Chicago restaurants are places to eat, not dance. Quite different from many in New York. Person who stole sack of pota toes 54 years ago returned anoth er sack the other day. A case of conscience sprouting. • * • Winston Churchill spent 4 r minutes in an airship. Not the first time that the Lord of the Ad miralty has been up in the air. • • • Ten or twelve million sma 1 ' I T was 64 years ago that Eliza beth Blackwell, a young Englishwoman who had made America her home, resolved that she would enter college with a view of studying medicine and surgery. In endeavoring to carry out her resolution Miss Blackwell met with Herculean difficulties. She was told in emphatic language by her best friends that it was high ly improper for a woman to study medicine, and that no decent woman would think of becoming a medical practitioner. As for a lady practicing surgery, that was absolutely out of the question. In addition to all this was the very much more serious obsta cle of prejudice among the medi cal school peopl . Where would she find a medical college that would admit a woman to its lec ture rooms and laboratories? The young woman applied to more than a dozen of the leading medi cal schools of the country and was invariably turned down. They had no use for her. They greeted her appeal with the most derisive laughter. Finally, how ever. she received word from a small college in Geneva, N. Y., announcing that her application had been favorably considered, and that she would be admitted as a student whenever si e should present herself. The students treated Miss Blackwell with kindness and re spect, but the women of Geneva were “shocked." They "stared at her as though she had been a curious animal." and declared she was "either a bad woman, whose designs would gradually become evident, or that, being crazy, an outbreak of insanity w r ould soon manifest itself.” Graduating at the head of her class. Miss Blackwell, after study ing in the hospitals of Europe, returned to New York and be gan the practice of medicine— the first woman doctor in the United States. As a practitioner she was a marked success, and hers is the honor of having found ed the institution out of which grew the present "New York In firmary and the College for Women.” Statistics show’ 88,000,000 ani mals are killed annually in the United States. And the automo bile slaughter is keeping pace. * * * Naval Note—Secretary of State Bryan should receive Secretary of the Navy Daniels on board the tub "Grapejuice" with all the honors of—peace. ... Society Note: Finding New Tork too warm. Mr Sam Schepps will winter in Paris and Mr. •'Rridgie" Webber will spend the season in New Jersey. boys and girls are hoping hard that Santa Claus did his shop ping early. ... Look for a report from the As rieultural Department advising farmers to raise egg plants 1* the hens won't lay. • • • It is astonishing how the world will fight to keep a down-and- outer from coming back. • # • Do not bottle wrath. BIqw h out at some one and then iU S - -