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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
Published by THE GEORGIAN COM PANT
At >0 East Atsbftma Stmt, Atlanta. Ga.
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If You Have Consumption CURE
IT—Don’t Be Afraid of It
Chicago recently announced, with legitimate pride, “the
dedication of the first municipal tuberculosis sanitarium of its
kind in the world.’’
Chicago now has 1,843 beds for consumptives, and the num
ber this year will be increased 2,357.
The right spirit is shown in the building of that municipal
home for the fighting of a terrible disease.
Dr. Young, the Commissioner of Health, representing Mayor
Harrison, said:
“This enterprise is unique in Chicago, for it is the first com
plete institution of any size for the care of the sick possessed by
the city as such. This is not a charitable institution. If you come
here you are taking care of yourself. Your taxes pay the bill. Un
der these conditions we propose that this place shall be good
enough for anybody and free to everybody.’’
It would be well for the country if more public officials in
and outside of Chicago understood that institutions paid for by
the people are not charitable. For the people who go to them
PAY FOR THEM AND PAY THE SALARIES OF THE OF
FICIALS. THE DOCTORS AND THE NURSES, AND ALL
OTHERS.
One trouble with this country is that officials elected by the
people and paid by the people have the impression that the peo
ple are their servants, whereas the reverse is the case.
Dr. Young, of Chicago, sets a very good exapmle when he re
minds those who come to the public hospital that they are coming
to that which they OWN AND PAY FOR.
In connection with this opening of a splendid institution in
Chicago, a place where the white plague is fought in comfortable
cottages, in cheerful surroundings, it is appropriate to publish
some good news for consumptives.
The greatest surgeon lives in Chicago. His work is useful to
doctors and to the sick all over the world. He was discussing
with the editor of this newspaper the importance of making
medical knowledge public and simple.
He said in substance—we do not pretend to quote him ex
actly :
“It would be an excellent thing if the public knew and if the
newspapers would emphasize the fact that consumption in its
preliminary stage can be cured, and it can be cured much more
easily, for example, than typhoid.
“Much good has been done by newspapers spreading infor
mation concerning medical treatment, even though occasionally
misinformation be mixed with the information.
“Newspapers discussing surgical treatment, taking it for
granted, as in the case of the operation for appendicitis, have
rendered a public service.
' ’ Public service could be rendered if the newspapers day in
and day out would emphasize simple, important medical truths.”
Unquestionably the trouble with the public is indifference to
facts.
When an individual is told that he has typhoid fever, or that
some member of his family has typhoid fever, he at once does
WHATEVER IS NECESSARY.
The patient is put to bed, taken care of. Diet is regulated,
there is no question of indifference or of leaving things to take
their own course.
Rules are carried out strictly, proper nursing is seen to, and
the patient usually recovers.
Consumption is neglected because it is long and tiresome.
Death is at the end of it just as surely as in typhoid or in more
rapid diseases.
But the public has become accustomed and rather callous to
consumption.
The patient knows that there are hundreds of thousands of
other consumptives, and he goes along indifferently as the leper
used to do in the olden days, or as the sufferers from sleeping
sickness do in Africa.
One will say, “lam poor and can not send my child away to
a great distance.” Another will say, “I can not leave my busi
ness and go away to take care of myself. ’ ’
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It isn’t necessary to send your child away, it isn't necessary
to leave your business.
To cure consumption you need:
Common sense and willingness to listen to those who know.
Good food and plenty of it. (Poverty is the mother of con
sumption.)
Fresh air, above all, night and day.
If you are working where there is no fresh air, complain to
the Health Department, and things will change.
If you keep your windows closed at night, don't blame the
tubercular bacillus; blame yourself for your illness.
Fresh air, sunlight, long sleep at night, good food, will cure
consumption in all but the last stages, jf.
The Georgian is carrying to-day a communication from a
well known citizen of Atlanta touching the matter of qualifica
tion for membership upon the city school board.
Our correspondent agrees with The Georgian, as do thou
sands of people all over Georgia, that it would be a most ex
cellent thing to make women eligible to membership generally
upon such boards.
We believe that it would have a marked effect for good
upon the school situation in Atlanta, for instance, were the mem
bership of the board made up in part of intelligent women. In
deed, it is recognized everywhere nowadays that women are
peculiarly fitted for this sort of work, and wherever they have
been made eligible to membership on boards of education, the
results have been most satisfactory.
The point that our correspondent makes with reference to
prohibiting from membership on boards of education persons
who are interested in book publishing concerns, either directly
or indirectly, of course, is correct. There can be no doubt what
ever about that.
It would be nothing short of scandalous to have upon a
board of education an agent of a book publishing house. His
interest would be too obvious, if generally known. The law of
Georgia expressly provides against this sort ofj thing on the
State Board, and that law was passed when the Legislature had
its eyes wide open as to conditions in Georgia at the time it
was passed. Members of all boards of education should be com
pletely free of even the suspicion of interest in book publishing
houses.
It is gratifying to note the growing interest the people gen
erally are taking in the matter of their public schools. There
is an awakening all along the line in Georgia in this matter. It
is a most wholesome symptom of the trend of time.
Our public schools are our most precious institutions. They
should be safeguarded against every evil influence, and particu
larly guarded against people with private or political purposes
to serve, friends to reward, or enemies to punish.
Old Wine in a New Bottle
News of Atlanta Five and Ten Years Ago
APRIL 9, 1910.
Fulton County near-beer taxes
amount to $40,450.
• • •
Woman suspected in myste
rious slaving: of William M. Hol
land, night watchman of Atlanta
Coal and Ice Company.
• • •
Many buyers seek opportunities
m Edgewood Park property, new
subdivision.
Tech beats Mercer,
last-inning rally.
to 3, in
Indication of city’s growth in
nineteen permits to build houses
awarded to-day to J. D. Fleming
A Bros.
• • •
W. P. Sewell, Atlanta man.
elected president Georgia Sigma
Mu Fraternity.
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Macon takes second game from
Atlanta Southern League team. 2
to 0.
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Fifth Ward citizens in meeting
indorse T. C. Waters for County
Commissioner.
APRIL 9, 1905—SUN DAY,4
Mothers as Leaders
in Great Reforms
By ELBERT
E lizabeth fry, mother of
thirteen children, is one of
the great reformers of the
world.
She it was who changed mad
houses into asylums for the men
tally sick.
It was through her insistence
that insane people ceased to be
treated as criminals.
She made her way to the King of
France and said to him, omitting
ceremony, "When thee builds a
prison thee would better build no
dark cells, for thee or thy children
may occupy them."
We now say: "What sublime
courage! What power!"
In her own time most uncom-
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plimentary adjectives were used
to distinguish her.
It may not seem possible that
the same epithets were applied to
Elizabeth Fry that are being used
to describe Emmeline Pankhurst.
We think of Elizabeth Fry as
one "used by an Unseen Power
for an Unknown End"—an instru
ment in the hands of a Divine
Worker.
Elizabeth Fry changed our en
tire civilization. She made it
leap and bound onward.
Because it was not alone the
insane who were benefited; it was
the people who made and main
tained the madhouses.
This generation is not in a po
sition to see what Mrs. Pankhurst
has done—is doing—for civiliza
tion. It takes perspective, and
for this the element of time is
necessary.
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Great reformers have always
disturbed the peace of civiliza
tion.
No reform was ever made with
out shocking people into first
talking, then thinking.
It requires the unusual to break
up old customs. The methods
used have been iconoclastic, be
cause the masses can not think.
A reformer alone, however,
could never reform. The oppo
sition is just as necessary to the
reform as is the reformer.
One person, or one group of
people, never reforms. It is only
when the mass will tolerate the
new idea, and allow a response to
it, that progress can be made.
The brain of a man is a dull,
stupid, inactive organ 99 per cent
of the time. It takes intense agi
tation of the most brilliant kind
to impress the mind of the mass.
Thomas Carlyle said; "Ten
thousand people cross London
Bridge every day—mostly fools."
We are "all fools” most of the
time, and asleep a part of our in
terval of intelligence. And be
cause of our comatose condition
it requires the unusual to make
the brain active.
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The "Opposition" in the Gov
ernment in England is quite as
necessary for the reform for
which a few of the women of the
world are now working as is the
work of the women.
Letters From the People
MEMBERSHIP ON THE BOARD
OF EDUCATION.
Editor The Georgian:
With the heartiest commenda
tion I desire to express my cor
dial approval of your efforts in
behalf of woman representation
on our City Board of Education.
Certainly the mothers of children
know far better the needs and the
general temperaments of children
than the man who devotes his
life's energy to commercial, in
dustrial or professional walks.
In the careful government of
our city schools it seems to us
who are on the outside that there
are some very essential reforms
that the City Council could wise
ly inaugurate, notably: Adopt
one of the very wise and cautious
regulations governing the selec
tion of membership on the City
Board of Education, requirilng
that np one be chosen on the City
Board of Education who is or has
been, either directly or indirect
ly, in the employment of any book
publishing concern or house.
This is the law governing mem
bership on the State Board of Ed
ucation. The intent of this law is
very plain, and carries with it the
reasonable protection the de
mands of justice would require.
It stands without true contra
diction that the public school is
one of the greatest institutions of
American life, and its influence is
far-reaching on our civilization.
Therefore, public schools should
have thrown around them the
protection reason and justice de-
HUBBARD.
Women must educate them
selves, each other and men.
And women are just as stupid
as men, just as conservative.
Until the radical change in their
homes which was recently thrust
upon them women were content
with the old.
With the age of invention wom
en’s lives have been change^ And
they are full of unrest.
Fifty years ago a delegation of
slaves went to Abraham Lincoln
and begged of him not to sign the
Emancipation Proclamation.
We are told that If all the wom
en In England wanted the vote
they would have it. And that is
true.
Did all American women want
suffrage there would be no or
ganized State or National Wom
an Suffrage Association.
But the custom of having wom
en take none but the passive part
in politics is as old as civilization.
It takes time for people to adjust
themselves to new activities, even
after they think about them and
are convinced they are right and
good.
A privilege to exercise a right
must result in the growth of mind
and body, or why exercise? Had
the Government of England
granted the request of the wom
en when it w r as made, the vote
would have been of little benefit.
The purpose of exercise is to de
velop. •
• • •
The Premier is the representa
tive of the "Government"—the
men of England.
Mrs. Pankhurst is the repre
sentative of the unrepresented.
Each of these two people is the
representative of an idea—a prin
ciple. Each is radical, extreme,
colossal. The rule of Donnybrook
Fair, "Wherever you see a head
hit it," is universal.
Emmeline Pankhurst stands for
the extremists. She is the per
sonification of the untried.
Premier Asquith is thp person
ification of the old, the unchange-
able, the tried. He stands for the
ideals that have made England
great—stability, masculine phys
ical power; master, slave; king,
subject.
As an individual man the Pre
mier is helpless in his position.
He stands for a party—for the
stupidity of the people.
He can gt> no further than his
constituents will allow. Other
wise, he will lose his political
head.
He Is used by an unseen pow
er, which works through the
"Government."
Mrs. Pankhurst, too, is used by
an unseen power. She hears the
"voice."
The end we think we can see—
a larger freedom for humanity.
Mrs. Pankhurst Is of the heroic
type, which, through all time,
has stood for a principle—John
Brown, Roger Williams, Mary
Dyer, John Bunyan, Martin Lu
ther, Garibaldi, Oliver Cromwell,
Thomas Paine.
mand and which is the founda
tion plan of public school govern
ment and administration.
This reform certainly should
have the hearty approval of all
fair-minded people, and the / city
schools will have, by its adoption,
the same wise and cautious pro
tection that the State, in its re
gard for justice, throws around
its public schools.
Respectfully,
HENRY C. FLOURNOY.
25 Tifton street, Atlanta.
THANKfNG THE GEORGIAN.
Editor The Georgian:
At the last meeting of Atlanta
Typographical Union the follow
ing resolutions were unanimously
passed:
"Whereas government owner
ship of public utilities has been
one of the resolutional principles
of the International Typographi
cal Union for years; and
"Whereas recent editorial ut
terances of The Atlanta Georgian
have been right in line with the
belief of the union and the Inter
national Typographical Union,
therefore be it
"Resolved, That Atlanta Typo
graphical Union hereby heartily
thanks the editor of The Atlanta
Georgian for the very timely ut
terances of that paper in this re
gard.”
With highest regards, I am, i
Yours very truly, '!
WALTER H. GRANT.
Secretary-Treasurer. ■
Atlanta. -d