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Time Has Stripped War of
False Moral Aspect
‘When the European war broke out The Georgian stated that
it was & war of rulers and diplomats—a commercial war- and
not & race War, nor & people’s war, nor a war waged to defend
jdeals of rights and liberties
The Georgian, of all SBouthern newspapers, Was practically
alone in its view then. Now it is not. Intelligent and reasonable
Americans have had time generally to reach the same conclusion.
And they have reached it.
Each of the alliances has been guilty of the same contempt
for neutral rights and neutral guarantees. Each has done its
utmost to bribe and bully small nations into abandoning peace
and taking part in war. Each has violated neutral territory,
Germany in Belgium by sudden force and the Allies in Greece
and the islands of the Aegean Sea by threats and display of
force.
The only difference between the treatment of Belgium by
the Germans and the treatment of Greece by the Allies is that the
King of the Belgians chose to fight rather than to give the Ger
man forces passage through his country, and the King of the
Greeks chose to let the troops of the Allies pass through his coun
try rather than to fight.
Had the Belgians not resisted, Belgium's condition would
have been that of Greece. Had Greece resisted, her condition
would be that of Belgium. For the Allies were just as deter
mined to force a passage through Greece by violence, if neces
sary, as the Germans were to force a passage through Belgium
by violence, if necessary.
The difference in results is due wholly to the action of the
King of Greece in choosing the easier horn of a hard dilemma.
As a matter of fact, the rulers and diplomats have them
selves abandoned the cant of high moral motives. They have left
such humbug to the poets. Anyone who reads the statements
frankly made in London, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Petrograd, Sofia,
Bucharest, Vienna and Tokio can see for himself that only cold
blooded calculations of trade and territorial spoils occupy the
thoughts of the chancelleries.
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orderly forms, Europe’s rulers and diplomats are playing the
same identical game that Mexico's principal brigands are play
ing.
The only essential difference is that the European war game
‘is being played on a far more murderous scale and for stakes far
more immense, and that it is threatening to destroy the strength
and the civilization of the whole white race instead of the
strength and wealth of one weak and insignificant nation.
Make Others Happy and
Yourself Happy
““And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the
greatest of these is love.”
They translated the last word ‘‘charity’’ in King James’
day, but as the two words are now used, ‘‘love’’ accurately ex
presses the Greek noun.
Sometimes charity and love are twins, so much alike that
nobody can tell one from the other.
The Christmas Empty Stocking Fund annually raised by
The Georgian is, in this twin sense, both a work of charity and of
love.
It is the expression of the true Christmas spirit-—that spirit
which seems to have moved the most ancient peoples to rejoicing
snd gladness and gift-giving, thousands of years before the Vir.
gin Mother held her new-born babe to her breast in Bethlehem.
2 The most charming sight in the world is the happiness of
~ children.
The most pathetic sight in the world is the sadness of little
children.
o Whoever, out of his abundance or out of his meagerness,
~ gives something to make the sad children of want happy, if only
~ for one Christmas Day, does most surely act in the spirit and
follow the example and obey the precepts of Him whose birth the
- Christmas commemorates.
;‘ Love and happiness are the essence of the religion which the
Jesus of the Ohristmas taught. He Himself had a friendly hand
adllp and a smile even for the outcast and the forlorn and
. Whoever helps to add to the Christmas happiness of the
little children of the poor keeps his own Christmas exactly as
e Jesus of the Christmas would have him keep it.
h ~ Faith, Hope and Love—and the greatest of these is Love.
» - Will you not help The Georgian swell the Empty Stocking
~ Fund to record-breaking proportions this year, reader?
M is more charity to do this year than there has been
in many years.
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W looking plain and obvious
facts which amounts al
most tga genius. Part of this Is
due to our methods of education,
both scholastic and religious,
which give us the theory of life
first and the facts afterward—lf
at all
Hence our constant endeavor
is to make the facts of our expe
rience of life about us fit in with
the theories that have been
drilled into us. Any facts that
don't fit in with the theories are
ignored in polite soclety, and so,
of course, they don't exist.
One of these dogmas, which
was lald down ages ago In that
era of lgnorance and cruelty and
llau(hter which we usually refer
to as the Good Old Days, was
that all men are absolutely and
equally responsible for their con
duct, and, if they are not good,
can be made so by punishment
and cruelty. Upon that pure as
sumption is based our whole un
speakable system of criminal law
and so-called justice.
Whatever the cause, the pain
ful fact remains that, up to a bare
third of a century ago, the uni
versal rule of the law and the
courts in dealing with the of
fender was, if any man Dbroke
the law, punish him; if he repeat
ed the oftense, punish him again
and keep on pumshlpg with in
creasing severity as long as the
offense or the offender lasted,
without ever for a moment stop
ping to look at, so to speak, its
raw material and consider care
fully what manner of men it was
who were thus being punished
and imprisoned. >
About thirty-five years ago,
under the lead of the noble and
gifted, but erratic, Lombroso, an
attempt was made for the fixst
time in human history to quietly
and dispassionately sit down and
study the habitual criminal, the
chronic offender, the actual pop
ulation of our prisons and peni
tentiaries. 3
Unfortunately, the first start
was made along mistaken lines;
By WOODS HUTCHINSON, A. M, M. D.
that is to say, upon anatomical
differences which distinguished
the criminal from the normal
man, setting up a'so-called crim
inal type, which could not be
supported.
But two things quickly stood
out unmistakably and clearly.
First, that the heavy maljority of
all our prison populations on both
sides of the Atlantic consisted of
what is technically known as ‘“re
peaters” or recidivists. That is
to say, sixty to eighty per cent
Old Wine in a New Bottle I
News of Atlanta Five and Ten Years Ago. 3
NOVEMBER 12, 1905.
Sunday. .
NOVEMBER 12, 1910.
Loud complaints from strap
hangers tell of shortage of cars
during rush hours.
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Atlanta Methodists preparing
for big North Georgia Conference
to be held at Athens.
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Eugene M. Mitchell elected
It is better to have reward for
heroism in the form of & cheap
medal than an expensive tomb
stone. ’
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1t is easler to bet on the num
ber of votes to be cast at an elec
tion than on the results that will
be refurbed by tlie boards.
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Some of the chickens who come
home to roost would be more wel
come if they did not bring unde
sirable sons-in-law with them.
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The hand of the plain girl may
be much more artistic than that
of the beauty. But no fellow ever
seems to want to hold it
of them had been criminals by
lifelong habit, since boyhood and
even early childhood.
Second, that while no clear
cut criminal physlognomy or
criminal bodily type could De
made out, the prisoners, as a
mass, wherever simply” weighed
and measured in sufficient num
bers, were from one and a half
to three inches shorter in stature,
from fifteen to thirty pounds
under weight, and had less than
president of ihe Board of Educa
tion, succeeding Luther Z. Ros
ser, resigned.
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Reuben Tuck, of Georgia foot
ball squad, gives pint of bleod
in transfusion in effort to save
his mother's life at Wesley Me
morial Hospital.
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vanderbilt trounces Tech, 23
to 0, but Jackets play good game.
In-Shoots
A man may wear a Wise ex
pression and still not be thinking
of anything of consequence. y
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It has been demonstrated that
once in a while a fat woman can
have a mean disposition.
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When considering the unlim
ited supply of safety razors, we
have no patience with the man
who dyes his whiskers in order to
look young.
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In some respects the second
baby has a better time than the
first. The parents do not waste
much effort in bringipg him up by
numerous rules "
two-thirds of the chest expansion
of the average of the community
fromi which they were taken.
In other words, nearly two
thirds of our criminals “did
wrong” as constantly, as in
stineflvely and as persistently as
nine-tenth Yof their fellows out
€ldé of the prison walls ™ “did
Fight;” and these wrongdoers
were under-sized, under weight,
narrow-cheste’d. stupid and as
markealy inferior physicdlly and
mentally to the right-doers as
they were morally. :
""But here the matter hung in
the air for some time.” The find
ings, though interesting, had no
“pite” to them and carried "little
definite conviction.
Possibly habitual criminals and
frequent offenders were under
sized and narrow-chested and
anemic and fearfully subject to
tuberculosls; but might not
much 6f this be due to their
vicigus and ill-regulated habits of
life, their drunkenness, their gross
sexual vices, the firregular hours
they kept and the wretched slums
and dens in which they harbored
and lay hidden from the police?
Even if they were under-sized
and under weight, so were some
of the greatest men in history;
and a moment’s glance up and
down our home streets woull
show us scores of men below the
minimum height and chest-girth
for army reeruits, yet who were
earning a good living and playing
a useful and honerable part'in
their circle and in the community.
Just the mere fact of a man being
under-sized and slack-muscled is
no explanation of or excuse for
his being & criminal.
However, we drew one useful,
if not wholly logical, conclusion
from the facts, and that was:
That if criminality and stunted
growth and narrow-chested and
consumptive tendencies go hand
in hand, then the better we can
feed and house and care for our
children, especially those in the
slums and the back 'alleys, the
fewer of them will turn into
criminals, O
THE HOME PAPER
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Some (reat Features in The
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Sunday American of Nov. 14
The Sunday American is your newspaper, reader—the fawo
rite newspaper of many thousands of you and your kind.
The issue of The American for next Sunday, November 14,
will be a little better than usual—so do not miss it.
The Sunday American has been designated ‘‘The South’'s
Greatest Newspaper,'’ and it is because it prints not only all the
news—more of it than its contemporaries—accurately, intelli
gently, fully and authoritatively set forth, but it prints surpass.
ingly splendid features as well.
Here are some of the great special articles for next Sunday?
INTIMATE PEEPS AT OUR AMERICAN BEAUTIES—
“THE POWDER PUFF.” A series of wonderful photographio
art studies of Miss Frances Pritchard, made especially for this
newspaper by Prof. Clarence White, of Columbia University.
ENCOURAGING NEW DISCOVERIES ABOUT TOBACCO
—Bcience finds a way of reducing the amount of nicotine in to
bacco and this may some day enable men to enjoy smoking any
kind of leaves.
THINGS TO HELP YOU FROM GOINC CRAZY—A series
of usefu! exercises designed to restore one’s mental balance and
ward off brainstorms.
A MODERN SIREN; AND WHAT HAPPENED TO HER—
And a lesson every young cashier and bank clerk may learn from
the ruin of the promising career of Ralph Lovell, teller of at
nations] bank in New Jersey.
WASHINGTON'S FASHIONABLE SOCIETY IN DISMAY
— Embarrassing position of social leaders who ignored Mrs. Galt,
the ‘‘tradesman’s widow,” and now must bow to her as their
social superior.
HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR BRAlNS—Science
makes some interesting discoveries about mental efficiency that
promises to be of great belp in using our mental powers to the
best advantage.
MLLE. KARSAVINA — PAVLOWA'S RIVAL — Striking
new photographs of and interesting facts about this remarkable
dazcer and favorite of the Czar, whom America is soon to sea
for the first time.
BARBARIC CCRONATION OF THE NEW EMPEROR
AND EMPRESS OF JAPAN—Like a comic opera are the three
weeks of solemn ceremonials, with a sacred mirror brought down
from heaven by the sun goddess, a sacred gword that was left
behind in the body of a dragon by a god, 52 kinds of food offered
by the Emperor to his dead ancestors, & dish of sacred rice to
make the gods happy, and all sorts of symbolic danoes.
STAMPING OUT HYDROPHOBIA—Surprising results al
ready accomplished in one year’s trial of the health board’s law
that every dog must wear a muzzle—a dangerous proposal to
discriminate in favor of small dogs.
THE NEW “OLD-FASHIONED' DRESSES—Lady Duff-
Gordon, the famous Lucile of London, foremost creator of fash
jons in the world, describes the ‘‘Spinster Coiffure’’ and quaint
tight bodies of grandma’s time that are the present whims of
fashion.
SUFFOCATING NEW YORK'S CHOICEST RESIDENCE
DISTRICT WITH POISONOUS GASES—For three years the
sickening smells and disease-breeding fumes from chemical fac
tories along the Jersey shore have grown worse and worse and
the slow-moving New York officials still make no effective move.
LEARN TO USE YOUR NEEDLE—First of a new series of
lessons in embroidery prepared especially for this newspaper by
Mrs. Minnie Berry.
“BAD MANS''—A series of funny cartoons by Swinnerton,
the famous cartoonist. \
Greatest Editorial section, greatest City Life section, great
est Comic section—greatest of all Southern newspapers.
Five cents—everywhere. G
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All Honor to Lady Aberdeen I
The Marchioness of Aberdeen is visiting America, and she is
most rightfully and most justly being cordially received everys
where she goes. ~
For here is a woman who was born to high position, whose
husband's vice-regal honors gave every opportunity to shine brily
liantly in society, and whose life might have been given over to\
the most luxurious idleness, But she chose a nobler part.
She went down among the poor and suffering and extended
to them a kindly, uplifting hand. With the desire to help was
merged an ability for organization and effective work second to
no woman in the world. Tens of thousands of lives have been
saved by her ministrations and activities. Hundreds of thou
sands who would have remained in squalor and ignorance have
been given education and raised to self-respect.
Her work among the lowly in Ireland, England, Scotland
and Canada has been so energetic and so able that she has earned
the title of England’s first Samaritan, and with that title, greater
than any that could be conferred by king or emperor, she has
won the love, the gratitude and the admiration of high-thinking
people all over the world.
She has quickened charity in the hearts of the callous,
aroused the negligent and unthinking, and developed order in
caring for the sick and needy where before was well-meaning
but wasted endeavor. Indifference has never daunted her. She
has risen superior to captious criticism. She has forced success
where failure was predicted. And the poor have lifted their eyes
in adoration to call her blessed.
And now she is traveling America, not for mere pleasure,
but in the hope that she may come upon ideas that will enable
her to further develop and extend her charities and to make
even kindlier and more effective her gently helping hand.
So the people of the United States can not do this noble
angel of mercy too great an honor or accord her too warm a wels
come. She glorifies womanhood, and will be regarded as a mod%
of the noblest charity in all the years to come, gy