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EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian
E HOME RARER
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
Published by THK GEORGIAN COMPANY
At 20 East Alabama Street, Atlanta, Ga,
!£nter*4 as «*con4-class matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 3, 1878
A Splendid Offer for the
Splendid Belgians
“The United States Should Own
a World Fleet”
The offer of the Stevens Pottery people to the Belgian farm
ers is worthy of the best traditions of enterprise and good judg
ment in the South.
It should be given the widest circulation by every citizen
whose influence stretches beyond his home.
Stevens Bros. & Co. offer 5,000 acres of fine farming lahd in
one tract to twenty-five Belgian families free of rent for two
years, with plenty of remunerative work between farming sea
sons. The big terra cotta works will be doubled in case of the
Belgian arrival, and each Belgian will be given employment be
tween farming seasons at wages commensurate with the skill of
the employed.
It would be difficult to imagine an immigration offer more
intelligent, more liberal, more practical, and more complete.
It is a joint tribute to the intelligence and public spirit of
these notable Georgians and to the high American estimate of
the character and caliber of the Belgian people. The people of
Georgia who have kept in touch with the great conflict in Europe
have been impressed, as the world has been, with the superb
courage and devotion of the Belgians. They naturally feel that
it would be a great achievement to enrich our citizenship with
a people whose heroism and endurance are akin to all that is
best in the history and record of our Southern people. In many
ways the Belgians resemble the people of the South. There is
something in the defense of Liege that calls to mind Pckett’s
charge at Gettysburg, and a people who love their own country
so well and are willing to express their devotion in such sacri
fices. must surely make splendid citizens of a new country which
provides them home and shelter and opportunity in this awful
cataclysm which has ruined their own beautiful land.
Georgia is fortunate indeed if it can utilize this opportunity
to make our great Commonwealth the haven and refuge of a
people so fine and true. Perhaps in a’l the world of immigration
we could not have chosen a people of higher grade or better
qualities and more adaptable to ourselves than these expatriated
martyrs thrown upon our kindness by the storms of war. It may
be that the hand of Providence is moving in it to help Belgium
and to help our Georgia, too. For these Belgian people are as
thrifty and industrious as they are brave and true. Their conn
try was one of the gardens of the world in the products of the
soil and in the higher products of art and industry. They are
among the highest efficiency for men of the world.
The Stevens brothers have set a wise and wholesome lead.
Others are following fast. Brooks County, that thrifty and alert
community of South Georgia, is stirring vigorously to lead a
State movement to induce Belgian immigration to the State.
It is high time for the constructive forces of Georgia to take
hold of this unequaled opportunity to enrich our population
and our industry.
There should be vigorous and immediate action.
Mr. Reynolds, the gTeat Chicago banker, says that the
United States Government should build ships and spend hun
dreds of millions at once. A good, if a late, idea.
George W. Norris, director of docks and ferries in the port
of Philadelphia, says that the Government must go into the ship
business and do for the carrying trade of the United States what
private individuals can not do.
All over the country statesmen and business men are waking
up to the fact that this Government ought to have a great fleet,
and that THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT should be the owper
and manager of the fleet.
Year in and year out the Hearst newspapers have advocated
the building of ships to be owned by Americans for the benefit
of Americans.
We fought for the free use of the Panama Canal by Ameri
can ships IN ORDER TO ENCOURAGE AMERICAN SHIP
BUILDING. But narrow-minded and short-seeing newspapers,
filled with the dread that some mythical ship trust might benefit,
opposed a plan that would have encouraged private building of
ships.
And in the Middle West the newspapers, which now realize
their folly, opposed the idea of free use of the Canal for Ameri
can ships on the gTound that the Middle West ' WAS NOT IN
TERESTED IN BUILDING UP SHIPPING ON THE COASTS.”
Now, with its supplies of grain and manufactured goods
piled up and suffering for lack of ships, the Middle West and its
newspapers realize probably that it is not advantageous for one
part of the United States selfishly to oppose the welfare of an
other part of the United States. SINCE ALL MUST PROSPER
OR SUFFER TOGETHER
The fact is, as this newspaper has repeatedly said, that
the Government of the United States should be the great United
States owner.
Instead of a few war vessels, our navy should consist of
thousands of gTeat ships capable of being used in war, capable
of carrying guns or freight if necessary.
Our readers will remember the repeated suggestions that
this newspaper has made for a naval program that would in
clude enough ships to carry the grain and all of the products
of the United States at a very low cost of profit to the Govern
ment, such as the Government could well afford.
Government ownership will solve the problem of a great
American navy, nd nothing else will.
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The Vo ice of Extravagance
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Extravagance Among W omen Is the Moral Equivalent of Drunkenness
Among Men, and It Is Hard to Say Which Does the Most Harm in
the \\ T orld, or Wrecks the More Homes.
By Dorothy Dix
\ MAN who is married to a
/A woman who is a waster
and spender wants to
know some reliable reejpe for re
forming her.
As well might the wife of a
drunkard ask for some sure rule
for curing her husband of the
drink habit.
Extravagance among women is
the moral equivalent of drunken
ness among men, and it is hard to
say which does the most harm*tft
the world, or which ruins the
more lives, or wrecks the more
homes.
We hear more about the curse
of drunkenness because it is more
obvious. We can see for our
selves the drunken man stagger
ing home, and pity the poor wife,
who is perhaps ragged and hun
gry because the money that
should have gone for clothes and
food has been wasted on liquor
and barroom loafers
Rut no drunkard’s wife is any
more entitled to our compassion
than is the husband of the wom
an who sees his hard-earned
money frittered away on sense
less extravagance, who toils day
after day, and year after year to
pay milliners and dressmakers;
who i* 5 hounded continually by
the bill collector, and who sees
other men getting ahead of him
in the race for success, and
knows that he is foredoomed to
be a failure because he can never
make any headway against his
wife's spending.
The Drunkard's Wife and
the Extravagant Wom
an's Husband
The salt-faced drunkard's wife,
with her weary eyes that teii of
watching through long nights for
the drag of a drunken footstep, Is
no more pathetic and no com
moner sight than the tired, hump
shouldered man with his anxious
eyes that tell of long night vigils
he has kept, wondering how he
was to meet his wife's bills on the
first of the month.
The extravagant wife and the
drunken husband Jiave also this
h r nnmon, that their vires
spring from a common root, and
that Is, absolute and utter selfish
ness, and disregard for everybody
else’s happiness and comfort.
They are willing to sacrifice their
nearest and dearest to gratify the
impulse of a moment.
How to deal with these two
vices is still an unsolved prob
lem, mostly because through love
and pride we lack the courage to
deal drastically with the situa
tion as it deserves.
If every woman had the cour
age to tell her husband, the first
time he came home intoxicated,
that she would not allow herself
to be dragged down Into the gut
ter with him, and that he must
choose between her and drink, it
would start a prohibition move
ment that would really prohibit.
If every man had the nerve to tell
his wife that he would not permit
her to ruin him by her extrava
gance, and that he would publicly
refuse to be responsible for her
debts If she made them outside of
her allowance, there would be
mighty few women Running up
insane bills for things they can
not afford.
But most men and women lack
the courage to take the only step
that would save them and the
weaklings to whom they are mar
ried They hide the cancer that
is eating the very heart out of
their domestic happiness nntil it
is too late to cure it. More is the
pity!
So far as the extravagance of
women is concerned, men are
much to blame for it. The .first
one at fault is the father who
never takes the trouble to talk to
his daughter about money or
teaches her how to handle it. In
deed, the average girl up to the
time she is married has never had
more than the price of a matinee
ticket. Her mother has bought
her what she has needed, and she
has never had the actual spend
ing of money. Still less does she
know how hard it is to earn
STARS AND STRIPES
India is reported to be eager
to make Rockefellers of all of us,
but Rockefeller might object.
* * •
Two thousand voters having
signed a petition to oust him, the
Mayor of Salem, Mass., is unal
terably opposed to the recall.
• • •
A South Carolina rattlesnake
routs an auto. A rattlesnake and
a policeman are about the only
things an auto will run from.
* • *
While the foot and mouth dis
ease -is spreading in the Middle
West, the East is afflicted mainly
with a malady of the mouth.
* * *
“Duke sails for war in a fedora
hat." Safer way than going in
some battleships.
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While 45,000 will get only 2 per
cent on their Steel common, the
rest of us won’t get that much.
• • •
Furnace busted in Lynn high
school and principal sent the
girls homo because, as he ex
plained. they were only half
dressed and might catch cold.
What if they did? A girl would
rather sniffle in style than be
warm and dowdy.
• * *
Girl wants $75,000 because an
auto accident made one of her
legs longer than the other, which
is a perfectly good reason why a
girl should want $75,000.
* * *
“Send my birth certificate or
I’ll be shot as a spy,” writes a
prisoner. Seems liarsh, however,
to shoot a man just because he
can't prove he has been born.
* * *
Inquirer—Yes, some of the East
Indian troops carry prayer mats
on a campaign. Oh. no; they
carry rifles as well.
• * •
Germans have crossed the Yser
seven times and are not across
yet, proving that the best way to
cross a river is to cross it only
once.
• * *
Banker complains of losing $400
a day, but why should a man who
can lose $400 a day complain?
money, and that every dollar is
dyed with the very lifeblood of
the hand that has made it.
Then when the girl marries it
is only in exceptional cases .that
her husband ever gives her an al
lowance, and makes her responsi
ble for her expenditure. In his
own business he is careful about
the pennies, and he takes pains to
drill his clerks and bookkeepers
along the newest ideas of effi
ciency, but he doesn’t take the
trouble to try to teach his life
partner how to make the most of
what she spends, or impress upon
her that the very corner stone of
a home must be thrift, or else it
Is built on shifting sands.
Women Can Be Taught
Economy When They
Learn Value of Money.
That women can be taught
economy, that women are more
inclined to be miserly than to be
spendthrifts when once they learn
the value of money, is abundant
ly proven by the fact that In any
business house where there are
both men and women employees
you will find more women with
savings bank accounts than you
will men, although women get
the smaller salaries.
This would he true of the home
if women were given a fair
chance. There are not many
women whose extravagance could
not be nipped in the bud If their
husbands would begin their mar
ried lives right by dealing fairly,
and generously but firmly, with
them on the money question, and
making them feel that they are
responsible for the prosperity of
the firm of Benedict and Wife.
Where a wrfman refuses to
listen to reason, where she shows
neither affection for her husband
nor a sense of honor to him. a
man should have enough back
bone to assert himself. He should
refuse to let her ruin him with
her extravagance, and he should
take legal means to cut off her
credit. True, this would be a
mortification to a proud man, but
it would be less humiliating than
to be u bankrupt and a failure in
life.
Do Not Be a ‘ Sob-Brother’
A Womanly Woman: Wliat Can Be More
Charming on Earth, and What More Ad
mirable Than a Manly Man 1 ? We Can Be
What We Will To Be.’
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
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pHE writer of this article re
ceived some time ago a let
ter from a young man who
complained that he had become
despondent and unhappy through
reading “Burning Daylight," by
Jack London. He asked for some
mental tonic to assist him In get
ting back to a normal state of
mind.
Knowing Jack London to be the
most optimistic and charming of
men personally, and a delight to
all his friends, the letter was for
warded with the suggestion that
he write the young man a cheer
ful w’ord and shake him out of his
despondent mood.
This brought the following re
ply from Mr. London:
“The unfortunate young man
whose letter you forward is a
weak brother; he is a sob-
brother. He is hysterical. If he
lives to be a hundred he will
spend his existence leaning on
the breast or chest of his stronger
sisters and brothers. Neither
you nor I nor God himself can
help the sob brothers and sis
ters, because they do not help
themselves."
Ruined by Ridicule.”
Mr. London has coined a new
term which is very expressive,
and which describes a large class
of human beings.
Here is another letter from an
other sob-brother.
This young inan of 30 says his
whole life is ruined by the ridi
cule of his associates, because he
happens to have a fair complex
ion and handsome features, in
stead of a rugged appearance.
Hie associates refuse to treat
him with respect, and his busi
ness is injured.
Then he adds:
“I have now such a hatred for
human nature that I do not seek
the companionship of man or
woman. I hate anyone to speak
to me, because I would not trust
anyone. I had the misfortune of
being born poor. I suppose if I
did not have to work for my liv
ing I could be more independent.
How Long Can These
Losses Be Endured?
I NTERESTING as is the matter
of losses in the war, it is
the one upon which the
world is least informed. Always,
heretofore, it has been the prac
tice of commanding generals to
give out after each battle an
estimate of the number of killed,
wounded and missing, and,though
a certain inaccuracy was always
present, due to the haste with
which the reports were compiled,
they were ordinarily sufficiently
correct to enable observers at
least to get an idea of the rela
tive losses of the combatants.
This practice, however, is not
followed by the European gen- #
erals to-day. The main reason for
the change is no doubt to be
found in the secrecy with which
they see fit to envelop all mili
tary affairs—the nations that fur
nish the soldiers not being in
formed how fast they are falling
at the cannon’s mouth.
An equally powerful factor In
delaying precise knowledge of
losses is the fact that in this war
“battle” has come to have a new
meaning. No longer does it sig
nify a sharp conflict of one or
two days, like our own Shiloh
or Gettysburg, with a cessation
thereafter for counting up cas
ualties and the subsequent re
treat of one of the belligerents.
The so-called battle of the Marne
lasted nine days, and while the
world began to speak of the bat
tle of the Aisne the phrase was
abandoned when that Titanic
struggle passed its twentieth day.
Military observers then recog
nized it for what it is—a siege
of the German entrenched posi
tions that may well last for
months.
The latest of the detailed offl- .
cial reports of casualties is that
of Sir John French, giving the
losses of the English forces un
der his command up to October
8. Tiiat includes the battle of
Mons, the long, stubborn retreat
upon Paris, the return stroke
and the operations by which the
Germans were forced back to
their present position on the
Aisne. According to the report,
Things have come to such e. state
of affairs I can Just oarely mate
a living, as It seems there Is lit
tle prospects ahead of me."
Surely we have here another
sob-brother.
If the young man will analyse
his mental condition he will find
weakness and self-consciousness
and a self-centered tendency, and
he will understand why he has
become the target of the Jests of
the thoughtless.
The man who has ambition,
courage, hope, will power and big
Ideals can never be put down or
pushed aside by others merely be
cause he has pink cheeks or a
Greek nose.
The best thing this sob-brother
can do is to enter into training as
an athlete. Let him take a
course of lessons with the gloves
and then reply to ridicule by a
challenge to a boxing match.
Courage and Strength
After a few such experiments
he will find the attitude of his ac
quaintances changing from rid
icule to respect.
It is unfortunate, for a man to
look like a woman, and equally
unfortunate for a woman to look
masculine.
The woman vtho is afflicted
with such an appearance should
cultivate all the feminine graces
with more earned ness even than
her normal appearing sisters; and
the feminine-faced man should
bend all his energies toward the
aim of being in every respect
manly.
A womanly woman—what can
be more charming on earth? And
what more admirable than a
manly man?
To whichever sex you belong,
cultivate the qualities which be
long to it.
And of all things, avoid being a
sob-brother or sob-sister.
Look in your own mind and
soul for the courage and strength
which lie there; look up to the
Great Source from which you
came, and be and do that which
you de9ire.
We can be what we wii* to be.
the British casualties during this
period reached 13,541, including
561 officers. »
During this period of fighting
the British expeditionary’ force
averaged 150,000 men. Toward
the end of the period there were
more; at the battle of Mons, the
beginning of the period consid
ered, decidedly fewer.
Germany has published official
ly only the losses of the Prus
sian army corps in Belgium and
P'rance, reserving publication of
the losses of troops from Bava
ria, Saxony, Wurttemberg and
Hanover. The Prussian losses
alone, however, total 123,017 of
ficers anfi men.
From these figures military sta
tisticians estimate the total losses
of Germany and Austria, in the
east and west, at 1,350,000 men—
many of whom, however, have
doubtless returned to the ranks.
Appalling as the figures seem
In the total, they prove upon
analysis to indicate much less
deadly fighting than occurred in
our Civil War. At Shiloh and
at Stone River the L’r.ion forces
alone, with fewer men engaged,
lost as many as did the Brit
ish in the three weeks covered
by G#neral French’s report.
The comparatively slight mor
tality in a war engaging such
prodigious armies and raging
over so wide a field is doubtless
due to the form of bullet now
used, which makes a smaller and
a cleaner wound. Veterans of our
Civil War would have a right to
consider scornfully the outers'
against dumdum or soft-nosed
bullets. The old leaden balls of
the Springfield rifle made a
wound that to-day would be of
fered as an example of the atroc
ities perpetrated by the enemy.
However, the losses in Europe
may compare with those in the
battles of the Civil War. they are
sufficiently great to raise the
question of the war’s duration.
The losses to the Allies can not
be materially less than those of
the Germans and Austrians
Nearly 3.000,000 men have fallen
and neither side has to-day any
appreciable advantage.