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EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME RARER THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published by THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 Kant Alabama Ft . Atlanta, Ga Entered ss second-class matter at poatofflce at Atlanta, underset of March 8, is* HEARST’R SUNDAY AMERICAN and THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN will be mailed to subscribers anywhere in the United States, Canada and Mexico, one month for $ 60, three rnontha for $1 7K: change of address made an often at desired Foreign subscription rates on application UNCLE TRUSTY! • epnlfliiL 1911. l«»/*matioDal N«w> 3*rrica. One-Day Campaign forfieorgia Chamber of Commerce—Ma con and Atlanta Join Hands. Friday will be Georgia Chamber of Commerce Day in Macon and Atlanta. In both cities will be launched simultaneously by bankers, business men and professional men a one day campaign to raise for each city its share of the fifty thousand dollar fund for financing the broad constructive program of the State Cham ber, in the framing of which program each city has had an equally important part. For the actual beginning of this or ganization, the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce deserves the credit, for it was under the guidance and leadership of the At lanta Chamber that the temporary organization was started in July. But those now charged with official responsibility in the organization declare that the remarkable success of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce is almost entirely due to the enthusiastic backing given the enterprise by the Macon Chamber of Com merce, culminating in Macon on September 16th in one of the most splendid meetings of business men ever held in the State. The officers of this organization are representative of many sections and important business interests of the State, Macon and Atlanta sharing almost equally in these honors. When com pletely organized, the State Chamber will have affiliated with it a local organization in every county of the State, and its com prehensive program includes the upbuilding of the highest and best interests of every section of this magnificent Common wealth. In every county of the State systematic appeals will be made to farmers, business men, bankers and professional men to rally to the financial support of the State Chamber, because all intelligent men recognize the fact that no continuous program of ‘constructive work can be maintained by an organization of this kind unless it is adequately financed But naturally the people of Georgia will look to the leaders in the inauguration of this movement in Bibb and Fulton for leadership; also in its finan cial support. So, it devolves upon Macon and Atlanta to set the pace for the rest of the State. As two of the great business and industrial centers of the State, their vast business interests are profoundly interested in the great agricultural, social and industrial prob lems, to aid in the solution of which the State Chamber was or ganized. The lesson of Georgia Products Day was taught by the Geor gia Chamber of Commerce with an effectiveness never equaled in Georgia before, and not only the farmers of the whole State, but especially the manufacturing enterprises of the cities of the State, have been tremendously benefited by this spectacular method adopted by the State Chamber of impressing upon the people of the State this great economic lesson. So, in the fight now being organized by the State Chamber against the absolutely certain impending invasion of the boll weevil, which has swept over Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and is now slowly but surely making its way through the State of Alabama toward the western border of Georgia. In one year thin awful pest destroyed in Louisiana alone two thirds of its cotton crop. Based upon the 1913 cotton crop for Georgia, this would mean for our State a loss of $112,000,000. Bankruptcy and business paralysis would follow in the wake of this destruction exactly as has been the case in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, where the dreaded boll weevil invasion caught the farmers unprepared. STARS AND STRIPES Tampico stand? In mortal dread of being Fletcheriied. • • • Among - President Huerta’s am bitions is not numbered any yearning for the Nobel Peace Prize. • * • With regard to bomb throwers, the police of New York appear to be pursuing a policy of watchful waiting. • * * Women’s debating class in Cooper Union. New York City, decides use of rouge is permissi ble Makes no difference—them as uses it will keep on using it. December 31 is the shortest day in daylight—ditto in available cash remaining to the average parent. • * • Six ships sailed Saturday crowded with i*»ople eager to spend their holidays away from home. Spugs. perhaps. • • • How Is the Secretary of State to get any Christmas money if the Mexican situation persists in chaining him to his desk? • • • Two sharks devoured a boat, fisherman’s sole property, off Plymouth. One case where the miscreant was not a lone shark. To advertise the great resources of our State so as to at tract the most desirable citizens to make their homes in our midst; to meet the effect of the persistent efforts of the West and Canada to draw our people out of this section; to conduct a continuous campaign of education along such other lines as better roads, better educational facilities, better sanitary condi tions; these are parts of the great constructive program to which the Georgia Chamber of Commerce is committed. The business men of Macon and Atlanta should not, and will not, hesitate to rally to the financial support of this splendid or ganization. Those who have been called on to canvass Macon and Atlanta business men are themselves busy men, and have agreed to give just ONE DAY to this important work, and The Georgian confidently believes that before Friday’s sunset both Macon and Atlanta will have done their full share in contributing to this fund of fifty thousand dollars per annum as merely an annual premium for the insuring of permanent prosperity for Georgia. “Well, Elihu, I’ve got to hand it to you! You certainly put one over on me, grabbing off that Nobel Prize of $40,000 for ‘distinguished services in promoting peace!’ Har, har! I don’t know whether I’ll let you keep it or not! It really belongs to me, I’ve been supporting you so many years! But this glad holi day season always makes me feel liberal, Elihu! Pour out some more milk for the dog and cat, and if that poor gink outside has got the snow shovelled off give him a cup of coffee and a hard boiled egg, with my compliments! As Villon,the great French poet, remarked; “ ‘Prince, let us seek the cabaray; Let’s dance the tango and be gay! Let’s fill the feed bag with good cheer! Where are the snows of yesteryear?”’ An Ultimatum to a Dictator Our Victories Are in Our Daily Work By EDWIN MARKHAM IT TILLIA.VI BAXTER OW- YY HNS book, “The Hu manities in the Educa tion of the Future." discusses the problem of efficiency with the emphasis upon a somewhat un usual aspect of the rise and fall of the aspirant: "In doing the work of the world we see that men must go up of in the long run they must go out. Take the simplest Illustration, the men that make the tires in loco motives on our railways; out of every’ hundred, .seventeen step forward to the throttle of the lo comotive; six of this seventeen are advanced to locomotives on what are called ‘passenger runs.’ There Is tnis sifting of men on the basis of their capacity to take responsibility. What then becomes of the S5? Well, there is room for them to rise in tiring, and so long as they increase in efficiency on their own level they are safe; but if they do not so increase tlj^re is other work for them—In the switching crew’, or the roundhouse, or on the road bed, and they must go out. "This is true of every level of labor. It is a law. inexorable; rather a grim law, it would ap pear at first glimpse, but really benevolent and cheerful; for it Is the basis of the noblest optimism that we can entertain, and for this reason: It is easier to go up than to go down Note the rise of a man in his business or his profession, and you will see that every stey of ascent brings him to his own, to that in which he is at home. This is the hope of humanity. that men can go up and be at home. We can go down, too, of course, but the whole atmos phere of a lower situation is striking and offensive to us, and we can only by degrees and with resistance settle down to it. "It is so in social adjustments, so in culture, so in art. Raise a man to better social conditions than those to which he has been accustomed, and he will feel an expansive thrill of adaptation that will make him instantly at home. Let there be an uplift in culture, in literature, music or any art. and the soul flutters with the joy of a new possession, a new and congenial environment: but you can’t go downward in so ciety. in culture or in art without a chill. "It is so in morals, so in the achievements of the spirit. There MRS. W. L. PEEL Writes on Needs of Atlanta Let’s get a microscope in place of the horn and take an inventory of what should be done in the matter of civic improvement, she says. By MRS. W. L. PEEL S OME TIME ago a gentleman from Richmond, Va., call ed at our home one even ing by appointment. He was three-quarters of an hour late, and said he had lost his way. This was on Peachtree street! He came on the trolley and said he had asked the conductor to put him off at. the 1300 block, whereupon the man grinned at him and said: "We ain’t got nothin’ like that in Atlanta!" Last Sunday a gentleman from Nashville arrived half an hour late for a dinner engagement. He, too, had been making a house-to-house canvass looking for our number. He was a timid man, and explained that it was a little unusual but very nice after you got used to it! Has Registered Protest. Now, we read every day in the papers that Atlanta is far ahead of Richmond and Nashville in bank clea-ings and postal re ceipts and yet how far behind in this trifling particular, which could be remedied in a week at small cost! Our distinguished postmaster has himself registered a protest against this disgusting and un necessary waste of time by the postman and every other man. In August, 1912, constrained by my great love for this city—of which I am one of the oldest in habitants—at your request I wrote several articles along this line, after making a thorough study of the subject at the Rus sell Sage Foundation. In the meantime, a visit to Panama, with its horrible climate, caused me to wonder at our high death rate and our short life average (54 years) with our splendid climate. Mr. John D. Patterson has lately returned from a short residence in Pana ma—he is overcome with the dirt. He says there is more filth on one block on Alabama street than in the whole Canal Zone. Mr. Patterson was born and raised in Atlanta, but Atlanta has become a stench in his nostrils since he has seen the possibilities of the better way. Well, my suggestions about a city plan, a social survey, an ex pert engineer marking the streets, ' numbering the houses and fixing things so they would stay fixed, and a few other little things, served to bear a little fruit, but it was only for a short time that there was a small stir, some dis cussions, some resolutions, some committees, and then we had a relapse, and our civic temperature went down again to zero. The only result apparent, so far as I know, was that we did have a social survey. Gave It Publicity. As for the social survey, that part of my suggestion was adopt ed, more than a year later. Three experts came, saw, and reported. What then? The report was read and pigeon-holed! It is unbe lievable, but true. Why? There was nothing dras tic or extreme in the report—it was far more gentle and kind than could have been expected. The finger was put firmly but ten derly upon the spot, the disease diagnosed, the remedy named. Then what? That seems to hav» been all. . How different in sVacu««, as I formerly pointed out. When they had their survey, some years ago, they had a map made of it, sixty feet long, and hung it In the largest retail store in town, show ing plainly every weak point in the municipality. The four larg est organizations in the city, the Ministers' Association, the Cham ber of Commerce, the Federation of Trades and the Associated Charities took i‘ up and gave it— PUBLICITY! sermons were preached in every church, essays were written in every school, mass meetings were held every night in different lo calities, and in one year's time oyracuse blossomed like a rose. Now what possible end is to be gained by concealment? Much is already known about Atlanta. It is public property, published by the Government of the United States that in spite of our unriv aled climate ws are the THIRD TYPHOID city in the country, ranking next to Birmingham and Nashville. Why then conceal the enemy? The disease is not nec essarily fatal, the remedy is sim ple enough, all that is needed is to follow the wise prescription that we have secured and all will be well. Of course, Mr. Editor, I am nothing but a woman, but I de mand to know what right any body of men has to withhold vital information, fraught with all the issues of life and death, from their fellow-citizens, when a little time, a little attention, a little money and a little knowledge would change our whole complexion. The Law That’s Needed. Said a distinguished gentleman to me yesterday: ‘Madame, if Atlanta were put on the footing she deserves, I verily believe you w'ould see 400,000 people here in two years." Let's stop talking so proudly about our clearings and our post- office and our skyscrapers, and get us out a microscope in place of our horn, and see if by next Christmas we can not reduce our typhoid and tuberculosis. Now, wouldn’t it be nice if we could walk out New Year’s Day and find that Santa Claus had brought us the century plan for numbering our homes, such as is in use all over the civilized world, Atlanta excepted? Atlanta is so free and easy, do as you please, go as you please. Perhaps that is why we are so popular. A gentleman on the street car the other day asked the motorman if he had been vacci nated. "No," he said; “I am just taking the place of a friend who is in the pesthouse." If we had a law requiring that everybody he vaccinated, especially those who come in contact with the public as street car men, wouldn’t it pre\ r ent the spread of loathsome smallpox? Wouldn’t it save the city some money and the people some trouble? Have we not a right to demand such a law and its proper enforcement? s RARE AND SWEET s BY WILLIAM F. KIRK. is no compulsion toward the downward way. No man can plead his evil inclinations as an excuse for his fall. “It is the very nature of spirit to be qualified by inspiration for those sudden betterments of con dition. Any upward movement is in response to the natural aspira tion of the soul, and universally we go upward with joy. down ward with regret and chagrin. "This point may well be ear nestly pressed, for it is the secret of efficiency—the animation of young life with a reasonable in citement to improve. None are more open to such wholesome ambitkms than the young, and it should be a ruling factor in the aim of those who teach to set for those they teach high standards in the best things." R ARE and sweet, like some old wine Near Belshazzar’s heathen shrine, Sweeter t an the roses crushed In their nest On her breast When Love reigns and all ie hushed; Sweeter than the million kisses Sirens promised to Ulysses; Rarer than a loyal friend When misfortune comes to rend; Rarer than were Virtue’s bowers ’Midst the Babylonian flowers; Sweeter than a bale’s caress, Rare one, sweet one, whisper "Yes.** In=Shoots Because a girl has a baby face it is no sign that she does not possess a grown-up disposition. • • * When you are patting yourself on the back someone may be longing to Lick you. * * * Do not borrow trouble, unless by so doing you can relieve some sufferer of the burden. As a rule, the dietetical cranks are the fellows who can afford to eat often • • • It is difficult to put talk fn the mouth of any man and have it come out as you desire. • • • There are lots of alleged piano players who ought to be moving ’eio.