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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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At 20 East Alabama Straat. Atlanta Ga.
EntaraO u MnuMt-cliu m»tt« al poBofllcii at Atlanta, unitor act of MarrJi I. 1*71
Keep Dogs Out of Cities and
Prevent the Dreadful Menace
of Hydrophobia
In Jersey City recently a mad dog rushed through a crowded
street, and before it could be shot seven people had been bitten.
This means that seven people must for months live in the
fear of hydrophobia, the most frightful disease that can be con
tracted by a human being.
How many other dogs the creature had infected will not be
known until they go suddenly mad and begin to snap and bite
the people about them.
One mad dog can give hydrophobia to dozens of other dogs.
These in turn can spread the infection till all the loose dogs in the
neighborhood have become a deadly danger.
There is no need to dwell on the horrors of hydrophobia. Your
doctor will tell you that it is the most terrible infliction with
which a person can be stricken—that unless treatment is at once
given death is certain, and certain to come in a hideous form.
In many instances the treatment is unavailing. Sometimes a
child, merely scratched by the teeth of a dog whose madness is
never suspected, is seized with rabies long after the wound seems
to be healed. Then, of course, it is too late. The parents can only
watch their child die in agony, their prayers for its life in vain.
There is one way, and one way only, to protect the popula
tion of a city against dogs. That way is to keep dogs out of
cities.
In the country, where they have free range and where they
are of real use, there is abundance of room for them. Even there,
in modern days, they are not in the least necessary.
The hunter who uses dogs to help him retrieve a duck or
drag down a deer can do all the killing necessary to his happi
ness without any assistance.
Many farmers manage to get along without watchdogs. And
sheep ranges, where the help of dogs is really valuable, are so dis
tant from civilization that there is little danger that the animals
employed will contract hydrophobia.
But any loose mongrel cur in a city can, in half an hour’s
time, spread his malady among scores of other dogs, the aristo
cratic household pets as well as the vagrant brutes that travel
with him.
There have been many instances where dogs held in leash
and taken out for a morning stroll have been bitten by mad dogs
and have gone mad in turn, biting and infecting the children
that petted and played with them.
The life of one child is, of course, worth the lives of all the
dogs that ever descended from wolves, weasels or whatever fore
fathers in the animal kingdom the domestic dogs may have.
Doubtless the banishing of all dogs from every crowded city
would mean the breaking of many ties, the weeping of many chil
dren and the righteous indignation of many adult dog fanciers.
Violent protests have met every effort to get rid of them in
most cities, but the effort is going steadily forward, and in time
will succeed.
It ought to succeed soon. It should not be necessary for an
other epidemic of rabies to awaken people to the danger of keep
ing animal pets in their city homes.
Tigers and lions could hardly be more of a menace. As a
matter of fact, a whole troupe of lions recently got loose in one
of the most thickly settled parts of New York, and did no real
damage beyond scaring a few people to the verge of convulsions.
The same day a little black dog, in another part of town,
trotted down the street and bit two people. It will be months be
fore they know whether or not they must die as the result.
The movement to keep dogs out of apartment houses is wise,
and should be supported by all thinking people. That will serve
as a beginning.
But the danger of hydrophobia can never be avoided till they
are kept out of cities altogether or subjected to restrictions like
those imposed in England, where no dog is admitted without a
two months’ quarantine and where rabies is unknown.
A German newspaper has printed affidavits of persons in
Alsace who depose that French officers told them that orders
were to behave decently in Alsace, but to commit any outrages
they chose when they had entered Germany, sparing neither,
women nor children.
On the face of them, such allegations are monstrously absurd,
The French soldiers are well disciplined, humane and brave.
They will commit no such deeds. And it is well to remember
that the German soldiers are just as well disciplined, just as
brave and just as humane as the French.
There are always isolated cases of outrageous conduct in
any war. But the tales of wholesale barbarity told of Germans
in France and Belgium are just as unreasonable and false as are
tales told of the barbarities Frenchmen are prepared to commit
if they succeed in invading Germany. It is wonderful that in
telligent persons can give credence to such palpable lies.
No disciplined army murders and outrages and pillages.
No army which did these things would remain disciplined or
efficient for the space of a month.
OUR ANTEDILUVTAN ANCESTORS!
C/v. pn*bi. 1W5 iB'^roaiioBAJ lfcrrv«
"Judge Skinclrthes has an awfully hard time on the bench.
'.'How no?”
"Whv his court Stenographer makes so much noise taking notes that nobody can hear the testi
mony!
Must Begin Young to Grow Old Gracefully
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Shows That Persons Who Are Narrow, Critical and Sel
fish in Youth Can Not Command Respect in Last Years of Life.
T O grow ofd gracefully one
must begin when very
young; it is like dancing,
swimming or speaking foreign
tongues—a thing not to be per
fectly acquired suddenly or if be
gun too late.
"Grandma is so hypercritical, so
fault-finding, so censorious; she
has no sympathy with young peo
ple!" cries the blooming grand
daughter, who, ten years later,
will tear to tatters the character
or costume of some companion
with her sarcastic comments. She
does not realize that every time
she Indulges this habit she takes
one more step toward that hide
ous goal of disagreeable old ag».
The extremely well-behaved
young girl, who has never been
tempted and who can not under
stand how another could commit
a folly, is certain to become tho
most censorious of old women. If
she does not develop into a cruel,
mallcious-tongued scandalmon
ger, !t will be a wonder. Nothing
is so easy as the descent from un
charitableness to malice.
As a young girl she prides her
self Mpon her love of morality and
good behavior; all her friends
speak of her as ‘‘such a strict
girl” in her ideas. No one would
think of appealing to her for sym
pathy or advice in an hour of
temptation, but she is respected
for her high ideals, if feared for
her severity. As an old woman
she Is simply held in abhorrence,
and her name becomes a neighs
borhood synonym for cruel judg
ment.
Criticism of our frail fellow be
ings is a vice .which takes posses
sion of us like a stimulant or a
drug. or\ce we encourage it, It
may begin in our high moral
standard and our hatred of sin,
but once it becomes a habit we
indulge it for the pleasure it gives
us. It is a bad habit in the
young, in the old it is intolerable.
Nothing renders old age interest
ing or lovable save sympathy for
the young and charity for the
erring.
It is strange that we all do not
grow charitable as we grow old.
As we learn more and more of our
own frailties, and more and more
of the temptations and illusions of
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
life, we ought to become more and
more tender and pitying. One can
be sympathetic without encourag
ing vice and wrongdoing or cloak
ing sin.
The girl with no object or aim
in life save to ‘‘have a good time”
and outshine her companions
must look forward to a miserable
old age; for after a certain time
•we become unsatisfied with or
grotesque in a pursuit for gayety,
and if w*e have formed no other
tastes* or learned no ther occupa
tion there is a wretched outlook
for us.
The petted daughter and socie
ty belle usually builds an inde
structible and solid masonwork
of ugly old age for herself in her
youth, and all her friends, rela
tives and admirers lend a helping
hand.
She is a belle and a favorite
while she is young; but she makes
a poor wife, and a worse mother,
and a most detestable old woman.
She has never known what it was
to give up anything for the sake
of others, and she is foreve*
thrusting her "i.erves” and her
“sensitive feelings” and her
whims in the way of others’ en
joyment.
All her relatives dislike her, and
strangers abhor her. Yet she is
the same sort of old woman that
she was child and maiden; only
the blossoms and leaves of youth
having fallen away, the bare,
In-Shoots
Some fools make more noise
about it than others when they
rush where angels fear to tread.
• • •
Don't marry a girl Just because
she has a good job unless she will
promise to keep on working.
• • •
Occasionally the cynic is sup
posed to laugh inwardly, but it is
probable that the effort gives him
pain.
• • •
It may be all right to wait for
dead men's shoes if you have
some of your own to wear in the
meantime.
• • •
When the reformer fails he is
generally regarded as a disturber.
brown branch of selfishness is
more fully revealed.
There are more disagreeable
old men than women in the world,
because women, as a rule, are
obliged to practice more 0elf?sac-
riflee and unselfishness and pa
tience in early life than men.
Men who have ruled their
households, wives, children, serv
ants and employees by a rod of
fear rather than love during youth
and middle age make very un
pleasant old men. Mentally and
physically incapacitated from in
spiring fear, th^y are unable to
inspire anything but hatred Dr
the pity which springs from scorn.
Unable to rule, which has been
the source of their happiness in
earlier years, they pass their old
age In carping criticisms and
faultfinding of those who succeed
them.
The children who have former
ly obeyed them only through fear
now ignore their wishes and fall
to show them the respect due to
gray hair—a respect impossible to
feol where there are no pualities
to inspire it, but which good
breeding and humanity ought to
impose in seeming.
It is all very well to talk about
the love and respect we owe our
ancestors, but those are emotions
which can not be prompted by
duty. If old people render them
selves absolutely unlovable, it is
not in the power of their children
or grandchildren to love them;
but it is possible for those de
scendants to tr*at them with
kindness, consideration and pa
tience.
An old man who has lived a
grasping, mercenary, selfish life
can not expect to be respected on
account of his gray hairs; but out
of self-respect his children and
relatives ought *to show forbear
ance and kindness.
The sons and daughters of such
a man will bemoan the fact that
their father is so captious and un
lovable, while at the same time
they indulge in habits and culti
vate qualities in themselves which
will lead them directly to the
same goal in time. They forget
that one does not grow old in a
day—it takes a lifetime to pro
duce old age.
Old Wine in
a New Bottle
News of Atlanta Five and
Ten Years Ago.
Stars and Stripes
APRIL 12, 1905.
Four hundred Knights of
Pythias brave fire which threat
ens their Kiser Building hall while
initiation is in progress. Cere
mony continues without interrup
tion.
* * •
Mallory Plow' Company asks
charter for establishment of $250,-
000 business.
• • •
Otto Jordan. Crackers' field
captain and manager, tries out
new invention—the "fudge" play
—with success.
• * •
Charles Leonhardt, middle
weight champion wrestler of
America, here for match with
Tom Carroll, middleweight cham
pion of England.
» # •
Atlanta ties Detroit Americans
in scoreless game.
• • •
George W. Adair elected presi
dent and W. H. Glenn vice presi
dent of Atlanta Athletic Club,
APRIL 12, 1910.
Officers sell 240 gallons of
moonshine liquor at auction,
prices averaging $1 a gallon.
• • •
In midst of rigid Investigation
of Atlanta postoffice, out of
which sensation is expected, Post-
office Inspector R. C. Bannerman
resigns.
• • •
Councilman Dan S. Walraven
says he has found a site for the
proposed crematory that will
please everybody and eliminate
objections of citizens.
• • *
Daniel Farreil purchases old
Presbyterian Hospital for $40,-
000.
* * •
W. P. Archer elected adjutant
of Camp Waikerf U. C. V.
• * •
Citizens of the portion of the
Eighth Ward known as Chas-
taintown ask for new' school, de
claring there are 731 children in
section with a schoolhouse cf 495
capacity,
There are some people so phi
losophical that they insist "every
-knock is a boost.” Fut did you
ever hear of a kick helping a man
who was down?
What good does 1t do you to
jump on a fallen nan? There is
nothing creditable about it. It
does not add to your peace of
mind or cause you to feei hwttor
pleased with yourself, does It?
Literally, when you told that
story about the downfall of your
acquaintance or friend, you kicked
him a bit lower and are helping
to keep him down.
Every harmful story which you
repeat gains additional impetus,
and stories of this sort do not
need a greased runway to speed
them up. Better sprinkle the
sand of helpfulness on the slip
pery ways and check the down
ward turn.
Such stories do not need addi
tional feathers in their wings to
hasten their flight. Pull a few
out. Why not trim the wings so
that they may have less power
as propellers of evil? if neces
sary, but them out altogether.
Be a booster. Take a chance on
a kind word now and then for
each one of your friends, and see
what a boomerang for good it will
prove. Even if it never reacts 10
your knowledge, be a booster for
your own self-respect.
Dr. Parkhurst’s
Article
ON
Need of International Tribunal Which Can Enforce
Its Mandates and Protect the World Against Dis-
turbances by Settling All Quarrels Which May
Arise Between Nations.
By DR. CHARLES H. PARKHURST.
New Homer baby Is an acquisi
tion to opera In English.
• • *
"Colonel will be a possibility
next year." He'll be a dead cer
tainty.
• • •
Prices of Easter millinery have
knocked many of us into cocked
hats.
• • •
“Don’t use baby talk on in
fants,” says mother. Wait till
they grow up.
• • •
With all of Mexico’s hemp.
Carranza ought to have enough
rope to hang himself.
* * •
Since Haiti has gone over to
the Allies they are abundantly
supplied with generals.
* • *
“Man with biggest butcher’s
bill will win this war," says ex
pert. Thought we were neutral.
• • •
DEADLY ENEMIES—Trolley
car and "jitney."
• • •
When I. W, W. organizes hotel
waiters we can tip ourselves.
• • •
"Another young wife vanishes.”
Seems only the old ones stay
home.
• • *
"We are making progress," says
Bryan, but he fails to state which
way.
A RESOLUTION has been re
cently presented to the
State Legislature of Mas
sachusetts and passed by both
branches, which in its significance
is far out of proportion with the
attention shown to it and the out
side interest taken in it. It was
offered by Raymond L. Bridg
man, of Boston, brother of the
Brooklyn journalist of that name.
The resolution calls for Congress
to pronounce in favor of a “World
State," with a threefold organiza
tion of legislative, executive and
judicial departments, with au
thority to act for all nations with
a view to the maintenance of
their international interests and
well-being.
The resolution has been sent to
Washington for the consideration
of Congress at its next session.
No result os far-reaching as what
Is contemplated by the resolution
will perhaps be reached during
the lifetime of anyone now exist
ing, but it marks the direction In
which men’s thoughts are moving
and indicates the goal which we
may be absolutely confident will
be ultimately attained.
Hague Conference Has Shown
Need of Some More Ef-
• fective Tribunal.
The Hague conference is a
tentative experiment looking to
ward tile same end. Its principal
value has not been so much in
what it has actually effected as In
the Indication which it expresses
of the need there is of some in
ternational arrangement or insti
tution that shall be considerably
more effective.
The weak spot in The Hague
Tribunal is its inability to enforce
its own decisions. It Is advisory
rather than executive. It is re
spected only so far as nations In
litigation consider it to be for
their advantage to respect It. It
is possessed of no compulsory au
thority.
Civilization has advanced to the
point where there is an interna
tional consciousness. The nations
are no longer able to exist in a
state of isolation, each for itself
without regard to the rest. There
exists a sense of community. We
have become not simply a collec
tion of nations, but an interna
tional family; and the apprecia
tion of that fact is so distinct a
one that there has developed a
feeling of international rights and
obligations that not simply may
be enforced, but that must be;
and that involves the necessity for
the establishment of an authority
broad and efficient enough to
comprise within its scope all the
units contained in the interna
tional family.
Exactly that is the purport of
the Massachusetts resolution,
which simply voices a feeling that
has been for some time lying in
the popular mind, but which has
had particular definiteness given
to it by the events of the past six
months.
To the extent that the nations
have come into reciprocal rela
tions, much the same mutual ob
ligations subsist as are to be
found inside of any private family
where the rights of the individual
members require to be subordi
nated to the prior and superior
rights of the family as a whole.
If two or three of the children get
to quarreling and begin to ham
mer each other, break up the fur
niture and smash the crockery,
the prerogatives of the family, as
a whole, as expressed in the par
ents, voice themselves, and with
out denying that individual rights
may have been trespassed upon
by one or other of the contestants,
the edict goes forth that the quar
rel has got to stop, and that the
value of the crockery and furni
ture and the comfort and well
being of the household is more
important than the particular
grievance of any one or two of
the children. •
Welfare of Whole World Counts
For Much More Than That
of One Nation.
Now. in our international rela
tions the comfort and well-being
of the world at large count for
more than the grievance or ambi
tion, or whatever else It may be,
of any one or more of the world's
national units. The collective
rights of the world are supreme
as against the special preroga
tives of any particular people or
peoples. It Is not fair to the rest
of the world that all its Industrial
relations should be put to hazard
and upset by a quarrel that Is be
ing fought out In some limited
quarter of the world. That fact
has been brought very distinctly
home by the distraction that per
vades ail the nations because of
the hostilities that are raging in
three or four of them. The world
itself and its well-being must take
precedence over the supposed pre
rogatives of either Great Britain,
France, Germany or Russia.
The parent is justified in saying
to the squabbling children, “I do
not know which of you Is to
blame, but you must stop fight
ing.” The parent has* the au
thority and also has the power to
exercise it. Among the nation*,
however, there is no such author
ity, and still less is there any
means of exercising it. We have
no recognized international legis
lation. The Hague Tribunal 1b
the only approximation to it. We
have no recognized executive em
powered to enforce even The
Hague legislation.
The present war has taught the
world that as it has never been
taught it before. A more distinct
appreciation of it is one of the
blessings accruing from the hor
rors of the past months. It is at
the impulse of such a felt neces
sity that the Jlassachusetts Leg
islature has acted in the way in
dicated. Its action is exhibitive of
the finest type of statesmanship.
A part of what its resolution asks
for Is that Congress should make
the following declaration, viz,
that:
Should Declare for in Fro
Some of the Things Congress
posed Resolution on Matter.
“The United States of America
affirms the political unity of all
mankind. ,
“It affirms the supremacy of
world sovereignty over national
sovereignty.
“It promises loyal obedience to
that sovereignty.
"It believes that the time has
come for the organization of the
world government, with legisla
tive, Judicial and executive de
partments. ' {
"It invites all nations to Join
with it in the formal establish
ment of that government.
Now, something very much aft
er that order is coming; it has got
to come. We can not afford to
have history again put back for
50 or 100 years as a result of a
local international quarrel. It.ts
as much a necessity of world civ
ilization to have an international
system of policing as to have a
municipal one. Individual liber
ties, whether of the man or the
nation, must be subordinated to
liberties and Interests that are
universal. Mankind Is more than
man and more than nation.
By WEX JONES.
See the Government Is sending a lot of carp to the Philippines. If
this doesn’t drive the Filipinos into the arms of Japan nothing will.
Life's mysteries: Pencil sharpeners.
John D. Rockefeller has lost another lake. Funny, after all his
experience with water.
Constantinople—The city is in a state of panic. Turkish coffee has
gone up 90 piasters a cup. A Turkish bath costs $500. The SultanTias
drowned 87 wives to prevent overcrowding on the ferry to the Asiatic
side.
Constantinople—The populace is apathetic as regards the war.
Life Is normal. Prices are low. The Sultan has married 173 new wives
In the past week.
Signs of spring; Dexter Fellows and his circus.
Woman wants divorce because hubby gave her only two dresses in
thirty-two years. Don't see why she should kick—the first one Is now
right In fashion again.
Grandmothers used to be accused of dressing to look like their
granddaughters, and now the girls dress like their grandmothers.