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Let Us Celebrate Christmas
Quietly and at Home
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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 366 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
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 conies.
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 Anaer
ican people.
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“Hooray!” “Avast!” “Hip, hip!” “Oh, you Juice!” “Shiver my binnacle lights!” This outburst
of sailor-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,
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!”
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.
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By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
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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 East 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:
'All Motherhood Is now an art; the greatest art on earth;
And nowhere Is there known the crime of one unwelcome birth,
Prom 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 at*.
There are no slums; no needs of alms; all men are opulent
For Mother Earth belongs to them, as was the First Intent”
It may be that / dreamed a dream; it may be that I smo
The forecast of a time to come, by some supernal late.
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.
© The First Woman Doctor *.<• rev, thomas b. Gregory
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 people. Where would
she And a medical college that
would admit a woman to its lec
ture rooms and laboratories 0 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 moat
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 would 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.”
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 1b frrr the purpose of drink
ing whisky, carrying pistols or
shooting or murdering somebody.
This kind of thing Vs 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
Christinas 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 tn 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 sea.son ? 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 11, I am sure It would ac
complish great good. Perhaps we
might designate the day a* “Anti-
Whisky and Pistol Day.” I very
much wish that all the ministers
and teachers In fhe 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 Christ
mas season will show an absence
of whisky drinking and pistol
carrying that will be most grati
fying and encouraging.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.
Tuskegee, Ala.
Questions Answered
THE LOMBARDS.
F. O.—The Lombards were
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 Arian-
ism, and between 750 and 800
were conquered by Pepin and
Charlemagne. For conquering the
Lombards Pepin was 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.
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 eklrta.
...
Mayor Harrison says Chicago
restaurants are places to eat, not
dance. Quite different from many
in New York.
...
Statistics show 88,000,000 ani
mals are killed annually In the
United States. And the automo
bile slaughter 19 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.
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Society Note: Finding New
York too warm, Mr. Sam Schepps
will winter in Paris and Mr.
’’Bridgle" Webber will spend ths
season in New Jersey.
THE EVERGLADES.
G H. R.—-The region down in
Florida known as the "Bver-
glades” Is not ae yet available for
cultivation, although It Is under
stood that an attempt Is being
made by the State to reclaim the
territory. The region Is 70 miles
long and 60 wide, the water being
.from one to six feet deep, studded
thickly with ridges, or islanda
from one-fourth of an acre to
hundreds of acres In extent. Out
of the water stows a rank grass,
from six to ten feet high. The
vesetable deposits of the Ever
glades are enormons, and beyond
a doubt the great swamp, when
thoroughly drained, will produce
amazing crops, especially of ba
nanas and plantain and other
subtropical fruits.
Person who stole sack of pota
toes 64 years ago returned anoth
er sack the other day. A case of
conscience sprouting.
...
Winston Chrrrchfli spent 48
minutes In an airship. Not the
first time that the Lord of the Ad
miralty has been up In the air.
...
Ten or twelve mil'Ion small
boys and girls are hoping hard
that Santa Claus did his shop
ping early.
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Look for a report from the Ag
ricultural Department advising
farmers to raise egg plants If
th# hens won't lay.
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It Is astonishing: how the world
will fight to keep a down-and
outer from coming back.
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Do not bottle wrath. Blow It
out at some one and them
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