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EDITORIAL. PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN THE HOME PAPER
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
Published by THE GEORGIAN COMPANY
At 20 East Alabama Street. Atlanta Ga.
fcjiirred M •emnd-clMi matter at portoflo* at Atlanta. under art of March S. 1**3
What Is the Matter With
Atlanta’s Police Depart-
ment? Is it Politics?
The question of efficiency in Atlanta's Police Department is
NOT going to be determined by the findings of a secret investi
gating committee, framed up of partisans of Chief Beavers.
The Police Board may keep its deliberations under cover
and guard itself against newspaper reporters and others by sen
tinels ; it may enter into a conspiracy of silence against the public
as to what is going on, it may stand for "whitewash" com
mittees, whose verdicts of “not guilty" already may be confi
dently anticipated; and it may denounce the newspapers and in
dividual citizens for complaining of laxity and inefficiency in
the Police Department, BUT IT WILL NEVER SETTLE THE
QUESTION OF POLICE EFFICIENCY IN ANY OF THESE
WAYS.
The question of efficiency in the Police Department is NOT
a question of politics.
Chief Beavers is not efficient merely because Mayor Wood
ward hates him. A verdict touching the efficiency of the Police
Department, which grows out of partisan hatred of the Mayor
and not out of the merits of the controversy, will leave matters
exactly where they have been for months—that is, in abeyance,
while the disgraceful wrangling goes on.
The Georgian has no interest whatever in the political fate
of James G. Woodward, Mayor of Atlanta. The Mayor is play
ing the game of petty, cheap, and little politics just as hard as
anybody is playing it.
He is standing as a stubborn obstructionist against many
’ progressive movements (and against necessary constructive
work, in numerous instances), because of deep-seated spites and
grudges he entertains against various persons who have ventured
to oppose his ambitions in the past.
AND ATLANTA IS THE LONG SUFFERING VICTIM OF
ALL OF THIS!
AS A MATTER OF COLD FACT, THE GEORGIAN BE
LIEVES THAT THE SOONER WOODWARDISM AND
BEAVERISM BOTH ARE ELIMINATED FROM POLITICS
IN THE CITY OF ATLANTA, THE BETTER IT WILL BE
FOR EVERYBODY!
The final and convincing test of efficiency in the Police De
partment of Atlanta will be found in its works.
The exact TRUTH about the department will dwell therein,
and nowhere else. Certainly it will NOT dwell within the find
ings of framed-up, partisan investigating committees
SO LONG AS BURGLARIES CONTINUE IN WHOLE
SALE NUMBERS; SO LONG AS FOOTPADS RUN AT LARGE
AND FRETTY MUCH AT WILL; SO LONG AS SNEAK-
THIEVES, CHEAP GAMBLERS, AND CROOKS SWARM
THROUGHOUT THE TOWN, JUST SO LONG WILL THE
CONCLUSION BE WARRANTED THAT ATLANTA'S POLICE
DEPARTMENT IS UTTERLY INEFFICIENT, AND THAT
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIS INEFFICIENCY CAN REST
NOWHERE BUT UPON THE CHIEF AND THE POLICE
BOARD, WHOSE DUTY IT IS TO DIRECT AND CONTROL
THE DEPARTMENT.
The Chief of Police, left by the board for many months to
run the department at his own discretion and pleasure, has run
it that way, naturally.
The Department has exploited persistently, and pretty much
to the exclusion of all else, one or two sensational fads of one or
two self-exploited and self-advertised sensational extremists in
Atlanta, bent upon pushing their own narrow propaganda to the
exclusion of other phases of crime of equal or more importance.
The reason the Police Department is "run down at the heel"
is because it has been a department devoted to narrow-minded
ness and intolerance, and dominated, either directly or indirectly,
by one or two bigots and fanatics.
There is one little school of loose-moraled politicians in At
lanta that would like to see the city made “a wide-open town" in
every sense of the word, with all the riot of indency that goes to
make up such a town. There are not many who belong to that
school.
There is another set of puritanical politicians in Atlanta,
who drape themselves in a mantle of extreme piety, that would
like to make Atlanta a narrow, long-faced community, attractive
principally to kill joys and glooms. There are not many who be
long to that school.
There is a large element (by far, we think, a majority ele
ment) that forms its opinion between these two extreme schools,
who want to see Atlanta clean, moral and decent (AS ATLANTA
IS, AND HAS BEEN FOR YEARS) and that doesn’t care to see
it run to extremes IN ANY DIRECTION.
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Marriage: Meaning and Responsibilities
By ELBERT HUBBARD
We believe the average citizen of Atlanta is utterly out of
sympathy with fanatics of all sorts. What Atlanta wants and
jght to have is a period (and a long period) of REST FROM
AGITATION, OFFICIAL SQUABBLES AND MUD SLINGING.
It can do without Mavor Woodward's periodic and frequent
outbursts of passion, and it can do without the hysterical "bul
letins" inflicted upon it now and then by the Men and Religion
Movement.
. IN THE MEANTIME, THE SPECTACLE OF "BILL"
FAIN, CHAIRMAN OF THE POLICE BOARD, SALLYING
FORTH WITH A WHITEWASH BUCKET IN ONE HAND
AND HIS TRUSTY BRUSH IN THE OTHER, TO "VINDI
CATE CHIEF BEAVERS, IS A SIGHT TRULY CALCU
LATED TO MAKE THE ANGELS WEEP, AND WEEP AGAIN,
PARTICULARLY INCLUDING MR. flARION JACKSON.
W ARRIAGE Is the natural
mating of a normal man
and wotnan.
And there must be a mental
mating as well as a physical, if
the relationship is to last anti
thus be worthy of the name of
■’marriage.”
The marriage rite, or ceremony,
is a proper, formality whereby the
world is notified of the relation
ship.
But the ceremony does not
constitute the marriage.
The ceremony is not vital, and
tne particular form is takes Is of
small Importance.
The vital things are the mental,
spiritual and physical qualities of
the man and woman.
There can be no lasting love
without a sincere and honest re
spect.
Truth is the first requisite n
marriage, and unless truthfulness
be present no ceremony can sanc
tify the relationship.
They whom God hath joined to
gether no man can put asunder.
• * •
The essence of marriage is com
panionship.
The man and woman must sym
pathize with each other s aspira
tions, and respect each other's
ambitions and desires.
If this is not so, the man will
stray, actually, or else chase the
ghosts of dead hopes through the
graveyard of his dreams.
Prettiness palls unless it is
backed up by intellect. The mere
ly clever woman is nearly as bad %
as the astute man. 'Ware of these
people who carry most of their
goods in the show window!
Brilliant men are but ordinary
men who at intervals are capable
of brilliant performances.
Not only are they ordinary most
of the time, but often they are
dull, perverse, prejudiced and ab
surd.
However, they are sometimes
right, and this is better than to oe
dead wrong all the time.
So here is the truth: Your or
dinary man who does the brilliant
things would be ordinary all the
time were it not for the fact that
he is inspired by a woman.
Great thoughts and great deeds
are the children of married minds.
When, you find a great man
playing a big part on life's stage,
you’ll find in sight, or just around
the comer, a great woman. Read
history!
A man alone is only half a
man; it takes the two to make
the whole.
Ideas are born of parents.
Rut life never did consist In
doing brilliant things all day long.
Before breakfast most men are
rogues.
And even brilliant men are bril-
J'rnt only two hours a day.
These brilliant moments are ex
ceptional.
♦ • ♦
Life is life to everybody. We
must eat, breathe, sleep, exer
cise, bathe, dress, lace our shoes
and use a toothbrush. We must
be decent, agreeable, talk when
we should and be silent when we
ought.
To be companionable—fit to live
under the same roof with good
people—consists neither in being
brilliant, pretty nor clever.
It all hinges on the ability and
willingness to serve. No man can
love a woman long if she does not
help him carry the burden of life.
He will support her for a few
weeks, possibly years: then If she
doesn’t show a disposition and
ability to support him her stock
drops below par.
Robert Louis the Beloved used
to tell of something he called
“charm.”
But even his subtle pen. with
all its witchery, could not quite
describe charm of manner—that
gracious personal quality which
Old Wine in a New Bottle
Nevus of Atlanta Five and Ten Years Ago
APRIL 13, 1905.
Peach experts estimate this
year’s crop at an increase of
about 1.000 cars.
• * *
James A. Landrum, well-known
Confederate veteran, dies, 60 years
old.
• * *
Clubwomen enter actively upon
work of co-operating with Asso
ciated Charities, with view to
placing organization on a sound
financial basis.
• * *
Atlanta and Birmingham Rail
road increases tangible assets by
$1.800 000 and intangible holdings
$125,000 in the last year, accord
ing to report to-day to the State
Railroad Commission.
* * •
Georgia Railroad Commission
considers suggestion of Chairman
J. Pope Brown that passenger
fare on railroads in the State be
reduced from 3 to 2 cents.
APRIL 13. 1910.
Tech students and policemen in
pitched battle following officers’
attempt to regulate crowds at
track meet on Tech Flats. Three
college men arrested. Students
drive policemen into shelter of
drug store.
• • •
Chamber of Commerce plans
annual State Fair at Lakewood
as step toward half-million city.
• • •
Miss Alice Gorman, superin
tendent of nurses; Miss Nellie
Harding, night Supervisor, and
Miss Hannah Gillian, head nurse of
white wards, resign positions at
Grady Hospital, alleging “inter
ference by members of house
staff, disloyalty of the training
school and non-support of the
medical board.”
* * *
Recorder Nash Broyles leaves
bench in Police Court and fights
John Jentzen, Chief of Sanitary
Department, after quarrel when
R*»cord*»r dismisses cases brought
by sanitary officers.
* * *
Chamber of Commerce starts
campaign on mad dogs, trying to
prevent hydrophobia and the gen-
eial fear of prowling animals.
• • *
Stage hands and mechanical
force of Metropolitan Grand Op
era Company here to arrange
Auditorium stage for coming sea
son.
• • *
Harvey Hatcher, attorney, an
nounces for Council from Second
Ward upon withdrawal of E. E.
Griggs from the race.
* * *
Deal for purchase by Atlanta
of Paul Sentell. shortstop, closed.
• • •
Surprise in local pugilistic cir
cles w hen George Ball knocks out
Mike Saul in third round of bout.
• * •
F. G Byrd lowers golf record
for East Lake course, coming in
with score of 78.
• • •
Miss Ethel Kelly weds William
Stamps Royster, of Norfolk, Va.
meets people, high or low, great
or small, rich or poor, and sends
them away benefited, blessed and
refreshed.
Ellen Terry, turned 65, has It
The Duse, homely.. positively
homely, in features, rests her chin
In her hand and looks at you and
listens in a way that captures,
captivates and brings again the
pleasures of past years. w
I met Sarah Bernhardt a year
ago. She Is 70—but she had me
going.
* I am encouraged and delighted
when T think of how women
everywhere are learning to work,
work with head, hands and heart,
preparing themselves to be fit
companions for able men.
The woman's club has been of
vast benefit to men. for It has cut
them out a pace. Woman is no
longer a doll, a plaything, a Ted-
dv bear: she is the intellectual
companion of man, and he must
prepare himself to be her com
panion and helpmeet.
* * *
There is no sex In soul.
Men and women must go for
ward hand In hand—single fire Is
savagery.
Every good man is dependent
on a woman, and the greater he is
the more he needs her.
The only man who has no use
for a woman Is one who is not all
there—*one whom God overlooked
at the final Inspection.
A man wants a wife who is his
chum, companion, a “good fellow”
to whom he can tell the things he
knews, or guesses, or hopes; one
with whom he can be stupid and
foolish—one w r ith whom he can
act out his nature. If she is stu
pid all the time, he will have to
be brilliant, and this will kill
them both. To grin and bear it is
gradual dissolution; to bear it and
not grin is death.
We are all just children in the
Kindergarten of God, and we want
playfellows.
If a woman ifc pretty, I should
says It is no disadvantage unless
she is unable to forget it. But
plainness of features does not
prohibit charm of manner, sin
cerity, honesty and t he ability
to be a good housekeeper and a.
noble mother.
There are many degrees of in
tellect. but as a general propo
sition this holds:
A man wants a wife who is in
tellectually on his wire—one who,
when he rings up, responds.
This is Paradisa! *
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Atlanta Must Win That
Baseball Trophy
Wednesday, April 14—that is to say, to-morrow—will be the
opening day of the baseball season in Atlanta.
This circumstance makes the occasion one of great interest,
not only to Atlanta, but to the entire baseball world. AND AT
LANTA MUST GO AFTER AND WIN THE TROPHY OF
FERED FOR THE LARGEST ATTENDANCE ON OPENING
DAY!
The thing that has made Atlanta supreme among Southern
cities has been her constant endeavor to make her achievements
bigger and better than any of her sister cities.
The farfamed "Atlanta Spirit,” which has won scores of
big victories for this city, should prompt us to make the attend
ance at Ponce DeLeon Park on Wednesday the biggest at any
opening game in the South.
The city departments generally will be given a half holiday,
and many stores and offices will close for the afternoon in order
that employees may attend the ball game. The Mayor, as the
official head of the city, has agreed to pitch the first ball, not
only to give preturesqueness to the occasion, but to show to the
world that Atlanta is unitedly behind the effort to make this
opening day a big winner, and that Atlanta expects to be a
"booster" and a "rooter" for the home team.
Baseball is the cleanest and best of all American sports. It
is the typical American game. More people are interested in
baseball in the United States than in any other one thing. At
lanta always has been a good ball town, and, inasmuch as At
lanta never does anything in a half-hearted way, it must do the
right thing by its ball team on opening day.
REMEMBER, TO-MORROW IS OPENING DAY AT
PONCE DE LEON PARK. Be a "booster" for Atlanta and a
"rooter" for the team. Lay all other business aside, and go out
to Ponce DeLeon, in order that that day may be all that it
should be
The Chamber of Commerce, the Ad Men’s Club, the Rota-
rians and other like organizations, all have given official sanc
tion to opening day, and will be represented in large and en
thusiastic numbers when the game is called.
A Tribute to
Judge John R. Wilkinson
By SMITH CLAYTON.
The crimson banners of dying:
day are furled in the glowing
West. The gray hands of twi
light are folded on the breast of
dusk. Here in the shadows I
frame a simple wreath to lay
upon the bier of a model citizen,
a faithful official and a noble
man.
I ask for him nor kingly tomb,
nor superb mausoleum, nor
snowy shaft that lowers to meet
the sun. Ah, no! he needs them
not. A fairer, lovelier, prouder
memorial is his than which no
kinglier monument could grace
the grave of monarch, hero, sage.
His best panegyric is a pyra
mid of loving kindrfesses and
goodly deeds reared in the hearts
of those who knew him best and
loved him most!
More royal than the bounteous
gifts that untold wealth pours
out in pale drudge ’tween man and
man mid blare of trumpets, was
the deep sympathy of his inmost
soul with human suffering—the
hidden hand of whitest charity
which sought to lift the lowly and
to help rhe helpless.
Strange is Death! A mystery it
is, as fathomless as Life itself.
In the garden of this world so oft
it withers the rose in all its
beauty and its bloom—the gra
cious. radiant Yose that lives in
joyous loyalty to the velvet sun
light and the fragrant air—lives to
cheer and bless the downcast and
despairing—but leaves the darnel
in its den of rank weeds that
never made glad a tearful eye,
nor set a smile upon a pallid
cheek, nor woke to music a single
saddened heart!
When the mystic hand of doom
stills the heart of such a man as
John R. Wilkinson it strikes from
the crown Grf human kindness a
star—that brightens in that dia
dem of diadems to all eternity!
His was indeed a nature of the
noblest. True as the lapwing of
the home in the fen; faithful as
the needle to the pole of the north;
loving as the ruby drops which
flow through the heart to the
music of self-sacrifice for others;
loyal as the ever-burning lamps
which light the bloodless fields of
space, in their course in the sky!
I can not think of him as dead.
There was so much in his rare
life to make musfc In the lives of
men!
I know not where his noble spirit
rests. The rosy dawn is shad
owed by the dusk. The charm
cf his presence is lost In the gloom
of the grave. The sunset, pavil
ioned in the glory of burnished
clouds, gives no token! The
jocund spring, garlanded in garni
ture of living green, brings no
word! I look above, but even the
blazing sibyls of the night are
spechless on thpir majestic march
around the ghostly plains!
Still, in the fair forum that
rises from the icy tomb of win
ter, nestle in rosy love upon the
bosom of the spring, I read the
story of that olden, golden One
that the soul of mortal man can
never die!
And this I know, full well.
Whether that deathless spirit
graces some grand garden of the
skies, where thornless roses never
fade, or rests amid the pure White
Isles which gem the Great Pale
Sea, or where far, flashing, tropic
flowers fill the perfumed air with
blossoming beauty
I know that there is Peace!
Good night, dear friend! Sweet
er than the loving light of Araby
the Blest, gentler than the saving
smile of angel face, fall the star
light on thy grave!
Good night! And when the
clouds'of this dark night of life
roll by, we hope to meet you once
again in the sunshine of the
morning!
STARS AND STRIPES
•'Pox trot cures insanity." Stick
to it, Broadway!
• • •
Redfteld so lauds work as to al
most make us like It.
• • •
How can wfe teach fire preven
tion and expect “bargains?”
• • •
Court refuses to make woman
tell her age. That keeps the
record straight.
• * •
Photographs of its canals show
astronomers have been shooting
at the moon.
• • •
"New York is not the United
States,” says New' Orleans ed
itor. who hasn’t seen our new city
directory.
• • •
Soon can use those casualty
figures in box scores.
• * •
Russia calls Constantinople
Czar grad. Why not Czargrab?
When a man looks woe-begone
enough to excite the sympathy of
a professional charity distributor
he might as well be turned over
to the undertaker.
• * •
Rockefeller becomes a "fan” In
stead of a magnate, indicating a
desire to enjoy the game.
• * *
BACKSLIDERS—Philadelphians
are fox-trotting to "Billy" Sun
day's hymns.
• * *
Garrison says he isn’t "broke ”
That lets him sit in the game a
while longer.
• • •
In Constantinople we have an
example of how to play both ends
against the middle.
• • *
When it comes to the matter
of postponement to-morrow is as
far away as the next century.