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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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At 20 Fast Alabama Straet, Atlanta Oa.
matter at poatofflca at Atlanta, undar art of March II.
This Thing Has Killed More
Men Than War—It Is a
Mosquito
Dear Readers: This is the thing that bites you in the sum
mer time. It is Mr. Mosquito, as he is shown at the American
Museum of Natural History in New York, very much enlarged
for your information.
You perceive that he is not a gentle, harmless, gauzy thing,
but a fighting animal, very well adapted for the deadly work
that he, or rather SHE, does. It is the female mosquito that does
the harm. But to be quite sure, kill both males and females.
Millions of human beings die of malaria, and THE MOS
QUITO ALONE gives malaria to human beings.
You can not get malaria unless a mosquito bites you. You
could live in a malarial swamp all your life free of malaria if no
mosquitoes were there.
White men in bad climates formerly devoted their tho.ught
and energy to getting “ABOVE THE FEVER,” on hills and
mountains. The mosquito went up with them and they got ma
laria—also yellow fever, which the mosquito also gives to human
beings.
Unlike the fly, the mosquito can not be dealt with by indi
vidual human beings. He does not usually come into the house
to be killed. He stays outside in the fresh air and waits for you.
And he finds you.
You can solve your fly problem for yourself by keeping flies
out of your house or killing them when they get in.
Fly screens, not forgetting fly screens across the top of the
chimneys in summer, will do the work very largely.
Fly screens HELP with mosquitoes, but help only a little.
The fight against the mosquito must be made by the Govern
ment, and the citizens should demand it.
The mosquito danger does not threaten only the unfortunate
Inhabitants of a mosquito region. LUCKILY, it is a danger that
threatens all of the prosperous, no matter where they live.
The man who goes out in his automobile to find health, stops
while a tire is fixed and has a mosquito bite him, may come back
with the malaria germ in his blood.
We say it is fortunate that the mosquito threatens those
who are prosperous. For things are attended to in this world
only WHEN THE PROSPEROUS ARE INTERESTED.
The roads were bad everywhere in our country until the
prosperous wanted to ride comfortably in their automobiles—
then we had a sudden fit of good road building, which still en
dures.
If the rich, who possess power and direct pubUawffcehold-
ers, realized the facts, there would be such a fight against mos
quitoes, house flies and consumption as the world has never seen.
The dark tenement, damp, b^dly ventilated, is a breeding
ground for the germ of tuberculosis. The germs do not stay
there. The inhabitants carry the germs, scatter them about and
the prosperous get them.
The mosquito rises from the malarial swamp in which he
was born, flies about idly; along comes a large automobile, stops
a moment—the owner takes malaria home with him.
The neglected pile of filth breeds flies. The flies scatter, and
the man who, if he would, could compel the abatement of public
nuisances, gets his share of the disease germs in his family.
This particular public danger, the mosquito, must be fought
by the Government, and the Government must be stimulated in
the work by YOU.
If you have a mosquito breeding pool near you, you should
make public officials miserable with letters of protest, and in
terest your friends in the protest. '
Some of the States, notably New Jersey, have made won
derfully intelligent and successful fights against mosquitoes.
As you look at this picture, one of the object lessons dis
played in the American Museum of Natural History in New York
City, bear in mind what is done by the malaria that the mos
quito spreads.
Malaria is bad enough in itself, weakening the body and the
will, making entire populations worthless.
But it is not only malaria that the mosquito inflicts upon
you. Malarial germs in the blood, looking like little rings in
each red corpuscle, weaken ALL your powers of resistance.
It is the man with malaria who becomes most easily con
sumptive; his malarial blood hasn't power to fight other disease
germs, and he is a camping ground for microbes of all kinds.
Get rid of the mosquito, the house fly, and you will have
taken a long step toward getting rid of consumption.
A man with blood perfectly healthy, not weakened by dis
ease, by poverty, or other causes, can absorb the germs of tuber
culosis with absolute impunity; the fighting agents in his blood
will get rid of them as fast as they come in.
But when the blood is weakened by malana the disease germ
Here Is Another Enemy
This Thing Has Killed Tens of Millions of Men—It’s a Mosquito.
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More T ruth Than Poetry
By JAMES T. MONTAGUE.
The Curse of Work
ives.
T'D Ilka to sit 'round every day and watch the Yanks or Giants play,
I'd like to go and see a show
Whenever I felt tired;
I’d like to sail a boat around the dimpling Inlets of the Sound,
But I don't dare, for I'm aware
These things would get me fired.
fJtTHEN Spring paints all the woodlands green I'd like to loiter In some
scene
Where playful trout were leaping out
Of some clear crystal brook:
I'd like to feel them tug my line and see their sliver bilges shine,
But though, no doubt, I'd bag the trout
I’m sure I'D get the hook.
T KNOW some men who In the Spring don’t ever do a single thing
Except to play through each glad day
With easy unconcern.
But how to Journey here and there and breathe the vernal country air
And draw my pay while I'm away
Is something I can't learn.
A Real One
TlAR be It from my peaceful pen
"*■ To stir up rancor or dissension.
1 commonly am shocked when men
Engage In strife and contravention.
I should not care, like Irvin Cobb,
To sit and hear the muskets rattle;
My heart, I'm sure, would never throb
With what is called the joy of battle.
TTUT still I trust no meddling friends.
■*"* With hearts too soft and tongue too ready-
To gain their own unworthy ends—
Will reconcile Bill Barnes and Teddy.
It would be silly to assuage
The angered William’s awful fury,
Or soften Teddy’s noble rage
Until they get before a jury.
rTIHAT fight will be worth while to see,
The quarrel has been long years in brewing;
And when they meet—take this from me—
There surely will be something doing.
And so I hope their difference is
So great their followers can't fix it.
I don’t like fighting, but gee whiz!
I want to see those fellows mix it!
By WEX JONES.
Husband tells his wife that she has a "tenement heart." Hope It
was properly provided with fire escapes.
Canadian paper publishes "Hints for those who wish to secure
really fresh eggs from tKeir own hens." We wouldn't feed a hen that
laid any but fresh eggs.
General Palafax has been quite nice about the murder of the Ameri
can. McManus in Mexico. The General says he's sorry It happened.
Bang goes another "Impregnable fortress."
Life's mysteries: Painless dentistry.
Chickens in Roselle Park, N. J., must wear license tags and, pre
sumably, will have to stamp their official number on any eggs they
may lay.
Hair tonics were known in the time of Moses. Only difference
between the old ones and the hair tonics of to-day is that the old ones
would grow hair.
Military Preparedness
of the IL S,
By JUSTIN McGRATH.
Washington, D. C.
A S a part of his campaign to
create a national sentiment
in favor of more adequate
military preparedness. Represen
tative Augustus Peabody Gard
ner, of Massachusetts, gave a din
ner at the Willard recently to the
reserve army of the United States.
It wasn’t a very extravagant act
of hospitality on Mr. Gardner's
part, for the reserve army of the
United States consists of just six
teen enlisted men, and only nine
of them found It possible to ac
cept an invitation to Mr. Gard
ner’s feast.
Five of the nine who came were
foreign-born.
Perhaps that fact may have
some interest for those who are
be-moaning the dying out of the
old American stock, and who have
been rather inclined to think that
American, ideals were perishing
with the stock that first proclaim
ed them and fough to mak$ them
realities.
It certainly interested greatly
Mr. Augustus Peabody Gardner,
whose ancestors have been "made
in the U. S. A.” since the days of
the Revolution.
When the coffee and cigar stage
of the feast had been reached Mr.
Gardner frankly stated that he
would be pleased if his guests
would satisfy his curiosity as to
the motives which had prompted
them to join the reserve army of
the United States, and also give
him the benefit of any ideas they
might have formed on the subject
of establishing a proper reserve
force for the United States.
Well, those young men were
just full of ideas, and. what is
more, they were able to give their
ideas surprisingly good expres
sion.
One of their ideas was that
they thought so well of the United
States and its institutions that
they were desirous of defending
them with their lives if the occa
sion should arise.
The diminishing Hack Bay blue
stockings and F. F. V.’a certainly
should find cause for gratification
in that patriotic declaration.
Doubtless they will.
Mr. Gardner's guests said they
had joined the reserve army be
cause they thought, in the event
of war, they would have a better
standing than the volunteers
called out when war was declared.
None of them thought the serv
ice in the army was made as at
tractive as it might be.
One of them told an amusing in
cident of his enlistment expe
rience to illustrate how the enthu
siasm of recruits sometimes was
dampened at the start.
His ambition, he said, was to
wear the uniform, and put him
self in the way of learning some
thing about military science.
At the barracks the first ques
tion asked him was what busi
ness he had followed before he
joined the army. He replied that
he had been a barber.
"Fine! Start right in and clip
the grass," said the commanding
officer.
Mr. Gardner got a lot of ideas
from those young men. which, he
thinks, will prove hot shot for
those who are opposing all sug
gestions for & better national de
fense.
Letters From the
# People <G>
OUR SCHOOL SUPERINTEND
ENT.
Editor The Georgian:
On June 5 next a Superintend
ent for our city schools is to be
elected.
A very determined effort has
been and is being made to defeat
Professor William M. Slaton, who
now holds that position.
In view of this situation, I think
It proper to call to the attention
of the patrons of the schools some
things which they may not know.
The only charge made against
him is that he "is not progres
sive enough.” Precisely what this
phrase means In this connection
no one of those opposed to his re-
election has condescended up to
this hour to inform us. Unless
the charge Is made more specific,
it can not be rebutted by Profes
sor Slaton’s friends except in a
general way. Fo^one, I defy his
opponents to specify.
I ASSERT, AND CHALLENGE
A DENIAL. THAT IF PROFES
SOR SLATON’S RECOMMEN
DATIONS MADE IN PAST
YEARS HAD BEEN ADOPTED,
OUR SCHOOLS WOULD NOT
BE IN THE CONDITION THE?
ARE AT PRESENT. NOT ONLY
THAT, BUT THEY WOULD
HAVE BEEN THE EQUAL OF
ANY.
There is nothing the matter
with the Atlanta school system
that money can not remedy.
THE MOST DETERMINED
OPPONENTS OF PROFESSOR
SLATON UPON THE BOARD
OF" EDUCATION ARE MEN
WHO ARE NOT NOW AND
NEVER HAVE BEEN PAT
RONS OF OUR PUBLIC
SCHOOLS. AND SOME OF
THEM, FROM THE PRESENT
OUTLOOK, NEVER WILL BE.
I hope the patrons of our school
will go to work for Professor Sla
ton at once, because if they are to
be heard they must speak quickly.
Yours truly,
W. H TERRELL,
Member of the Board of Educa
tion for the First Ward.
NEED FOR GREATER NAVY.
Editor The Georgian:
I want to express my appre
ciation of the public service
which The Georgian has ren
dered in its editorials on the na
val situation.
The American people can not
have driven home to them too di
rectly the grave import of our
present condition of unprepared
ness. as shown by the official
statements prepared by the Na
tional Security League.
A partial defense is absolutely
ineffective and of no value in
preserving our nationality. We
must have a navy that is able to
maintain itself under all condi
tions against any aggressor. In
considering this question, we
can not overlook the circum
stance that we have a broadly di
vided coast line. The navy in the
Pacific could not co-operate with
that in the Atlantic with any
celerity unless the Panama Ca
nal wag maintained In its integ
rity, and the vulnerability of a
canal of its length from attack
by vigilant foes is too apparent to
require discussion.
S. STANWOOD JIBNKEN,
President National Security
League, Washington.
THE REV. "BlLLY” SUNDAY
AS CRITIC.
Editor The Georgian:
When Peter was misled by a
sense of "who shall be greatest,”
into questioning the ability of
John to work out his own salva
tion. Jesus rebuked Peter, say
ing: "What is that to thse? Fol
low thou me.”
This was the Master’s way of
telling Peter to mind his own
business and to devote himself to
the more profitable task of put
ting his Christianity into prac
tice.
Attention is called to the fore
going Biblical incident, not only
because of the importance^ to all
mankind of the lesson which it
teaches, but more particularly in
the hope that the Rev. "Billy”
Sunday—that self-appointed crit
ic of Christian Science and of al
most everything else under the
sun—may profit thereby.
ROBERT S ROSS.
Christian Science Committee on
Publication, New York.
New York.
Anyhow, the man with enemies
is never a "dead one.”
It Is easier to forgive an enemy
than to wish him good luck.
Things can appear to come our
way and yet float over our heads.
There is no place like home—
after the saloons have closed for
the night.
Seeing the Sights
The odor of the rose never
seems so sweet when the thorn
jabs you first
=By ELBERT HUBBARD-
I AM from the country.
I come to New York two or
three time* during the year,
and usually remain for a couple of
days.
I know New York better than
does any New Yorker.
I have often taken New York
City citizens to places In New
York that they had never heard
of.
Often when I am In New York
I do not go to bed until 10 o'clock
at night.
I get a room at the Biltmore,
but procure my meals at Thomp
son's Restaurant.
I used to know Thompson's
head man when he lived in
Bloomington.
I have walked across Brooklyn
Bridge and visited Plymouth
Church.
I have been to the top of the
highest skyscrapers, climbing
every step, not caring to take
chances on the elevators.
I have visited Ellis Island, Gov
ernors Island, Blackwells Island.
Bedloes Island, Staten Island—I
am some on islands!
The other day I called at the
City Hall and shook hands with
Mayor Mitchel, and he took me
over to Trinity Church to see the
grave of Alexander Hamilton.
I have been to the Aquarium
down at the Battery, and the buf
fet at the Waldorf-Astoria.
I have visited Grant's Tomb,
and have been shown over the
Pennsylvania Railroad Station by
Ralph Peters, because Ralph and
I were schoolboys together.
John Wanamaker has person
ally conducted me over his store,
and Mrs. Childs has demonstrated
for me the quality of her cooking.
William G. McAdoo has initiat
ed me into his rfnderground mon
ument.
Theodore Shonts has gone with
me over the elevated; and How
ard Elliott, whom I used to know
in Minnesota, once took me in his
private car to New' Haven.
We arrived safely.
But the most interesting thing
I saw on my last visit to Man
hattan was the Strand Roof Gar
den.
This roof garden isn’t on a
roof, and it isn't a garden. It is a
restaurant—a “California’’ res
taurant—where you flunky for
yourself and pocket your own tip.
The food Is fine—Just as deli,
cious and delicately served as In
the Roycroft Inn.
And talk about “the high cost
of living!"
My check was 20 cents for a
square meal.
This delightful Co-Ed Club is
run by four women—Anne Mor
gan, Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt, Eliz
abeth Marbury and Elsie De
Wolf.
Elizabeth is the Major Pond of
her day. She managed the Cas
tles and helped them tango a hun
dred thousand dollars into their
tillaloo.
She also booked me for a few
caloric engagements.
Elizabeth introduced me to
Anny Morgan and Mrs. Vander
bilt.
So you see, children, you should
treat everybody kindly, for you
don't know where the friendship
is going to lead.
The Strand Roof Garden was
started as a philanthropic plan,
so as to afford a pleasant and re
spectable meeting place for young
men and women.
In certain European cities there
are municipal dance halls, safe
guarded by competent people who
have the happiness an'd the wel
fare of the girls and boys at
heart.
This is the purpose of the
Strand Roof Garden, and now so
popular is the place that It is
self-supporting, and more.
That is exactly the way it
should \e.
Charity i3 atrocious—except
for cripples.
No sane person wants to be
patronized. That's the worst of
slumming—the thing is mawkish
and maudlin.
The Strand Roof Garden is run
on business principles. It is a
restaurant without booze, where
there is an orchestra, rest rooms,
reading rooms, a charming
"hostess" who greets you and
introduces you if you want to be
introduced.
The place symbols the sensible
brain, the warm heart and the
kindly hand.
There is no loneliness like the
loneliness of a big city. To miti
gate this loneliness for young
men and women was the desire
of Miss Morgan and her partners.
And it is all in the line of Na
ture.
It is moving with the tides
that play through the human
heart.
Here there is the laughter in
which there is no bitterness, and
gayety that leads to health, hap
piness and increased strength.
Shop girls, stenographers,
salesmen, business men—a
(The foregoing article was
written for The Georgian a few
dags before Mr. Hubbard sailed
on the Lusitania—to his untimely
death.)
Old Wine in
a New Bottle
News of Atlanta Five and
Ten Years Ago.
happy, Joyous throng, with quiet
courtesy always and never an
unkind look.
The manager of a big depart
ment store told me that he
changes off and lets a dozen of
his girls go to the Strand Roof
Garden every noon. He gives
'em half an hour extra so as to
let them shake that sleepy feel
ing out of their tips.
Dancing is fine exercise;
laughter Is hygienic; and, as
President Wilson says, the Max-
lxe is merely a matter of psy
chology.
I danced with Miss Morgan. Her
"dip" Is not quite equal to that
of Miss Marbury, but shq is great
on the glide and fair on the hesi
tation.
Mrs. Vanderbilt takes the latest
steps with perspicacity and pre
cision—she is nearly as line as
Mrs. Castle.
I saw Mrs. Vanderbilt very pa
tiently teaching several shy
young men how to do the one-
step.
One of these was Norman Hap-
good.
No one in the thousand people
present guessed when Miss Mor
gan and I glided gracefully by—
talking mild nothings—for jputh
will have its day—that I was the
Lusitania of literature, or that
my dancing partner was right In
the financial class with Charley
Schwab and Henry Ford.
Hereafter, when I am In New
York, you will please direct my
mall in care of the Strand Roof
Garden,
MAY 17, 1905.
John Temple Graves, of Atlanta,
mentioned for president of the
Jamestown Exposition to succeed
the late Fitzhugh Lee.
Georgia Industrial Association
cheers wildly for Danial J. Sully,
Its guest of honor.
Invitations out to marriage of
Miss Sally Brown Connally and
Hiram Warner Martin, the wed
ding to be June 1.
Miss Mamie Johnson Irwin,
daughter of Mrs. Sara J. Irwin,
to wed Paul Willis Gorham, of
Birmingham, June 14.
Breitenstein pitching for New
Orleans beats Atlanta, 4 to 1.
MAY 17, 1910,
J. H. Piynan, prominent law
yer and former legislator, dies
suddenly.
Comptroller General W. A.
Wright mentioned as candidate
for Governor with Hoke Smith's
support.
James M. Lynch, president In
ternational Typographical Union,
In Atlanta for semicentennial of
Atlanta Union.
Invitations out to wedding of
Miss Elite Carleton Dargan and
Herbert Blair Hanger.
Montgomery beats Atlanta, &
to 1.
Tech takes double-header front
Clemson.
“They say," Is responsible for a
lot of trouble In this world.
These words have caused mur
ders and suicides. They have
changed happy lives to lives of
greatest sorrow. They have brok
en up families, pitted wives
against husbands, families
against families.
Why he a gossip conveyor?
Instead of being one of those
people who say: “Have you
heard about So and So getting
Into trouble?" why not be of the
kind to first make an investiga
tion to learn if the report be
true or not, and then use your
efforts in helping the unfortunate
if he be worthyw of help.
Why not try to smother a re
port which may be untrue, In
stead of giving it a greater cir
culation?
The person who says, "Of
course, I do not know anything
about it, but they do say,” etc.,
is a serpent in any community
in which he or she may live.
A house robber is far above
the tongue which seeks to rob
some one of his good name. Such
people are far more dangerous
because they are permitted their
libeity. The thief is caught and
Jailed.
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