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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
A A GEORGIAI
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i The World Owes You a Living-
Just as the Gold Mine
Owes You Gold
You Have Got to Dig Out the Gold and Dig to Get Out
the Living
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every man OWES THE WORLD A LIFETIME OF GOOD,
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This picture, which is to.day’s sermon, will be printed in
about two million different newspapers. It will be seen by many
hundreds of thousands of young men.
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sketches of the lives of Pranklin, Lincoln, Lee, Edison, Fulton,
Alexander H. Stephens and Marconi—as samples—it would be
an excellent thing for the world in general
Out of a hundred thousand men reading biographies, about
& hundred men would realize earnestly that hard work is the
only foundation of success. And that hundred young men
would be a valuable addition to society.
You must dig and work hard to build up a reputation, just
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get it that way.
Realize also that you must DIG INTO LIFE or life will give
you very little.
No Lese Majeste in This
Country
It is gratifying to learn that President Wilson so promptly
and sensibly has ordered George Burkitt, for six years first
assistant postmaster at Winnetka, 11l restored to his job.
As George held his job for six uneventful years, without
displeasing God or man, it may reasonably be concluded that he
was a pretty good assistant postmaster.
But George was fired the other day. Like Lucifer, he fell
from his official heaven., And, like Lucifer, he fell because of
the sin of irreverence. -
” The offense chargde against Mr. Burkitt was lese majeste.
Mr. Burkitt read in the papers the announcement that Presi.
dent Wilson was to be married again. :
Irreverently, contumaciously and immaterially, Mr. Bur
kitt remarked to a citizen waiting at the window the feliowing,
in the words hereunder set forth, to wit:
THE CITIZEN: ‘‘l see the President is to be married.
Didn't wait long, did he?"’ :
THE FIRST ASSISTANT POSTMASTER, MR. BURKITT:
“‘Hardly a year. It seems to me that a man ought to wait at least
a year before remarrying.”’
Following this came an official communication summarily
removing Mr. Burkitt from office ‘‘on account of your disloyalty
to the President,’’ etc.
Mr. Burkitt then appealed to the First Assistant Postmaster
General against dismissal, contrary to civil service rules, at the
same time denying any intentional disrespect to Mr. Wilson.
The appeal was denied and the dismissal affirmed ‘‘because
of the language you used concerning the President’s engage
ment."”’
In considering the case of Mr. George Burkitt we are divided
between an inclination to laugh and to be angry.
It is hard to say whether it is more ridiculous or more dan
gerous for a department of the Government of the United States
to take official cognizance of a casual expression of a personal
_ opinion by a Government employee and to dismiss him for having
expressed an opinion of the President, even if it were not a
charitable one or a proper one.
The remark which this assistant postmaster made was
neither respectful nor courteous, but the rebuke to the post
master should have been left to the attitude of his fellow citizens,
who are at liberty to express their opinion of his remark,
- Both a sense of humor and a sense of self-respect, to say
nothing of respectful consideration for the President and for
the bride-to-be, should have prevented the Postmaster General
from applying the law of lese majeste to this trivial offense.
Besides, it happens that we know nothing of such an offense
~ as lese majeste in this republican country, and we don’t want
- to have the principle of lese majeste introduced into this coun
~ try, either.
We regard Mr. Wilson's office with respect, and himself
gd his bride-to-be with respect, and wish them both great and
~ abiding joy of their marriage.
.~ But we balk at an¥ suggestion of lese majeste in America.
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Suppose the Men in the Background Had Said the Same Thing. (See Editorial.)
Criminals’ and Paupers’ Pedigrees
NYBODY who is stupld
A enough may become a
eriminal, Indeed, many
criminals are actually born of
feeble wits, and these of other
feeble wits, One of the impor
tant new lights thrown upon the
problem of crime was the dis
covery, by patient investigation
of family rerords and neighbor
hood histories and police and jail
and poor-farm records, thata sur
prisingly large number of crimi
nals were related to one another
and to other criminals, not al
ways directly, but through the
medhum of paupers or prostitutes
or epileptics or habitual drunk
ards, or simple imbeciles and
feeble-wits. \ .
The second was the working
out by careful study of thousands
of inmates of homes for the fee
ble-minded and equal numbers of
normal children of a series of
standards of mental capacity
known as the Binet-Simon tests.
These enabled us to investigate
rapidly large bodies of children,
poth abnormal ones in the asy
lume and normal ones in the pub
ll,c schools, and-decide with a fair
degree of practical accuracy how
many of them were up to the .
normal standard and how many
were below it, and even to grade
fairly definitely the degree to
which they fell below that stand
ard.
Then the families of these sub
normal children were hunted up,
their relationships traced out,
and an attempt made to discover
what sort of families and strains
they were born from and what
relation these families, if any, had
to the other groups of public
charges and wards and delin
quents.
A PLEA FOR EUGENICS.
We were not left long in doubt;
for the results were simply as
tounding in their overwhelming
unanimity and positiveness. Nine
tenths of these feeble-minded
and sudb-normal children, wheth
er in custodial homes or in the
By WOODS HUTCHINSON, A. M., M. D.
public schools, traced back
prompily and directly to equally
feeblo-minded and abnormal and
defective fathers and mothers,
and uncles and aunts, and grand
fathers and grandmothers. Not
only so, but ali these groups were
found to be related to one an
other; and what was even more
important, these pathetically fee
ble and forlorn traternities fur
nished from ten to twenty times
the percentage of eriminals, pros
titutes, paupers, vagrants and
drunkards that the remainder of
the community did. ;
For instance, one of the_ first
researches of this description,
made in an Institution which has
been and still is a pioneer and a
leader in this apletkdl‘dly useful
work, the ,School for Feeble-
Minded Children, at Vineland, N.
J.. revealed that of some 400 of
its inmates who were born in the
State, more than one-third were
as closely related to one another
as second cousins or nearer. s
While as a sample of the ex
traordinary way in whieh these
pitiable tribes branched out into
kinship with one another and
wigh other public charges and
delinquents, the State Board of
Corrections and Charities of In
diana discovered by a study of
Old Wine in a New Bottle
News of Atlanta Five and Ten‘Years Ago.
NOVEMBER 20, 1905.
Dr. H. 8. Bradley, of Trinity, is
to go to St. John's Chruch, St.
Louis.
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E. P. Ansley submits proposi
tion to Council to buy 60 acres of
Piedmont Park for SIOO,OOO aud to
build driveways through park and
put up huge public building. '
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9 Council hikes salaries of Park
Nine-tenths of the Criminally Inelined Can
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Be Traced Back to Defective Ancestors.
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the inmates of all the State cus
todial institutions, reformatories,
prisons, homes for falien women,
insane asylums, county poor
farms, etc., that of those born in
the State, running up into the
tens of thousands, over 35 per
cent coulc be clearly traced to
spring from and belong to some
thirteen families!
WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT.
What are we going to do about
it? First of all, inform the pub
lic of what has already been dis
covered and the widespread ex
tent of the situation. Second,and
most fundamental, get out and
count them; make a survey of
the family connections and a cen
sus of the public charges and de
pendents in every State and in
every county of the Union; then
we will know exactly what we
have to deal with. :
1t is for these two purposes
that a most admirable and useful
new national organization has
just been founded under the lead
ership of Mrs. E. H. Harriman,
Henry Frick, Commissioner Kath
erine B. Davis, Professor Charles
B. Davenport, of the Carnegie
Laboratory, and others.
It 1s an extremely serious and
important problem which con
fronts it. But its chief impor
Woodward and W. B. Dimmock
over Mayor's veto.
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Clark Howell notifies Hoke
Smith of his candidacy for Gov
ernor and his intention to take
the stump January 1.
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Tech studerts and fans cele
brating the biggest victory over
Georgia—4s to 0.
NOVEMBER 30, 1910,
Sunday.
tance lies in its hopefulness, in
the splendid prospect of improv
ing present conditions. This may
sound strange in view of the in
born and long inherited charac
ter of the defects with which we
have tr deal. But it is a fair
statement of the situation for
several reasons.
First of all, the committee of
the association has the cheering
consciousness that whatever ac
tion it may take will be an im
provement. For our present
methods of dealing with these
feeble tribes, 'whose hand is
against every man and every
man's hand against them—in
courts and prisons—could not
possibly be worse and more in
effectual.
Secondly, they will be putting
themselves jn line with the
marked tendency of the progress
of civilization to break up and
limit and eliminate tnese unfor
tunate groups and families as
rapidly and completely as possi
ble,
/ Railroads, trolleys, good roads,
improved methods of agriculture,
draining the swamps, clearing the
forests and the brush, all these
are rapidly b;eaking up the jun
gles and the wilidernesses and the
swamps and the No Man's Lands
in which these people shelter and
live.
SLOWLY DYING OUT.
In spite of the fact that they
spawn like codfish and breed like
rabbits, there is no valid reason
to believe that they are increas- _
ing in number in proportion to
the rest of the cgmmunlty; in
fact, all the evidence of any
weight points in. exaetly the op
posite direction.
A thousand years agce, judging
from the horrible absurditles that
were belleved and the appalling
conditions that existed, a consid
erable proportion, if not a major
ity, of the ‘population of Europé,
our illustrious ancestors, could
scarcely have passed the Binet-
Simon tests for the age of 12.
THE HOME PAPER
Saturday Evening
THOSE CHRISTMAS SEALS.
I do not know how yon feel
about it, gentle reader—and, by
the way, how is your health to
day, anyway, considering the
Harvest Festival Week and all
the good time you have had, etc,
etc.—but, speaking for mywself, 1
am going to buy & liberal supply
of Red Cross Christmas seals this
year, and use them in my corre
spondence and otherwise.
To my way of thinking, there
is no nobler work being done in
all this broad land than the fight
being made against tuberculosis.
This gation-wide campaign is the
most intelligent and the most
sensibly sustained of any similar
campaign 1 know of Here in
Georgla the work has been splen
did, although for lack of funds, of
course, it has not been.nearly so
far-reaching as it should be.
In Atlanta, this work is being
carrled forward by the Ad Men—
that splendid, progressive and
aggressive body of young busi
ness men., They haye undertaken
to sell in Atlanta this year more
Red Cross seals than ever were
sold in Atlanta before—and they
ought to succeed!
The public should get it in
mind that this work is NOT alto
gether charitable—although, fun
damentally, it is charitable work.
Primarily, of course, the relief of
the known consumptive victim is
sought—but the great purpose of
the anti-tuberculosis movement
is to check the spread of the dis
ease, to render each and every
individual citizen less liable to
attack from tuberculosis germs.
* Do you know, reader, that ony
person dies every three minutes
throughout the world from tu
berculosis? Do you know that
something like 15 per cent of all
the deaths in the United States
are from tuberculosis? Do you
know that there is an anti-tuber
culosis society that extinguishes
one of a number of lighted can
dles every three minutes, as a
pathetic object lesson, calling at
tention to the menace of tuber
culosis—just as the 11 o'clock
toast calls attemtion every 24
hours to the beauties and true
significances of Elkdom through
out the nation?
Red Cross stamps are seals of
honor. Every one that you at
tach to a letter or a document
indicates that you not only are a
person of philanthropic trend of
mind, but that you are possessed
of common sense and far-sight
edness as well.
You never know how nor when
YOU are to be brought in con
tact with the tuberculosis germ,
and the first great defense against
it is sanitation. If your cook,
your washerwoman, or your serv
ant dwells in a location where
tuberculosis germs are numerous,
just that much more liable are
YOU in your beautiful home, far
removed, to be made, neverthe
less, a victim to the same.
1t is to"be hoped that Atlanta
will break all records this vear in
the sale of Red Cross seals.
WAS HE RIGHT?
Whether it was right for that
Chicago physician to permit a
certain horribly deformed infant
to die, when an operation might
have saved it to bhe in all prob
ability, an imbecile for life—pre
suming. that you have read the
| news stories touching this mat
ter, which has so agitated the
nation of late—depends in large
measure, of course, upon how you
view the problem.
If you consider the matter
from a purely impersonal stand
point and as a cold, scientific
proposition, you doubtless will
agree with the doctor that he did
right in refusing to operate. But
it you view it from the other
.. standpoint—that is, from the
standpoint of humanity, as we
commonly use that word—you
probably will decide that he was
wrong. :
And as the great bulk of peo
ple incline to view matters of this
sort from the human and per
sonal standpoint, rather than
from the cold and scientific, the
preponderance of opinion doubt
less will be against the doctor.
It is the first duty of a physi
cian to save life, to prolong life
and to reilieve suffering. He is
. supposed t¢ do his best along
these lines, even though failure
often ig his reward. It is not for
him to say when the spark of life
shall flicker out—rather is it for
him to keep it alive to the final
and eventual moment,
Therefore, this Chicago physi
cian, if he had inclined to be true
to the best traditions of his noble
profession, should have exerted
himself to the utmost, even
though his doubts were grave as
to the good of it all, in the long
Tun. :
Over and above that, too—to
my mind, the tremendously se
ricus objection to the view this
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
Chicago doctor took of the case
in hand is the great danger of
admitting in any circumstance
that the physician shall decide
the matter of life or death, rather
than that Bupreme Power we
call God shall decide it
It a physician be permitted s
say in one Instange—no matteg
what the circumstance—that it ie
right for him to decide this issug
then we set a precedent and opes
a gateway to untold danger.
It it be right in one instance
why may it not be right in thou.
And right there is the serious
menace of such a doctrine as the
one the Chicago physiclan sets
up.
He would have done better—he
would havs been more faithful ie
the tenets of his profession—had
he stood noble to the task of
keeping alive the spark of life,
and left the rest of it to another
and higher power than that
which dwells within himself.
OH, THIS WEEK!
As nearly as | can figure things
out, I am 28 hours 1% minutes and
4 ticks short on sléep this week.
because of the*Georgia Harvest
Festival—and I stil have Satur
day night to go. %
But, really, I do not know the
difference, unless, perhaps, 1 feel
better for it
This has been one grand and
glee-o-rious occasion—believe me
~—a stupendous and scintillating
success, from every point of
view!
I do not knew who deserves the
greatest measure of credit for the
success of the week, so | presume
there is no oocasion for individ
ualizing. To me it seems that
each and every Atlantan has
turned himself loose this week,
bent and determined upon making
the Harvest Festival and the
Takewood Falr just about the
biggest things that ever hap
penad in this end of creation.
The weather man was not uni
formly kind to us, but, by and
large, and taking things as they
come, we at least will have to
admit that the weather might
have been worse—and, anyway,
even though it may have been in
spite of meteorological unto
wardness, we have been packed
and jammed with welcome visi
tors,
Just about all Georgia came to
Atlanta to give us the glad hand!
Now, then, what I think we
ought to do in Atlanta is to make
this Harvest Festival an annual
event.
Next year we will have at
Lakewood a really great fair. We
shall be able to give our visitors
far more then than we have been
able to give them this year. The
Boys’ Corn Club and Girls’ Can
ning Club are already established °
events and waxing stronger all
the time, and I do not believe
there is an Atlantan who does
not want to see the Harvest Fes
tival repeated annually.
‘We ought to establish a perma
nent Harvest Festlval committee.
I am sure all Georgia is better and
happler because of the Harvest
Festival in Atlanta, and I feel that
they have gbundant occasion to be.
As a prelude to a glad Thanks
glving Day, commend me to such
an event as Atlanta’'s Harvest
Festival has been this helpful,
happy and merry week.
BOOKER WASHINGTON.
Where is the negro in America
to find another such leader as
Booker Washington?
This is the question that not
only is engaging the most
thoughtful attention of the imore
progressive negroes of the nation,
but it is the problem that is en
gaging the attention no less of
thoughtful whites.
Booker Washington unques
tionably was a great leader, and
undoubtedly was a man of
marked executive ability. Not
always was Booker Washington
right, perhaps—for he was a hu
man being, subject to the limita
tion of the human mind—and in
evitably he made some mistakes,
but there are few people who do
not know and who are not willing
frankly to admit that Booker
‘Washington really possessed
many elements of a great man,
and that undoubtedly he served
his race a splendid purpose. :
He was born a slave—he lived
to become the most eminent man
of his race in the world.
In the great work that he de
voted his lifetime to, he had the
sympathy of thousands upon
thousands of white people in the
South, and the nation at large, '
and his death is a matter sin
cerely to be regretted.
It is to be hoped that his sue
~ cessor, whoever he is—if he is to
have a successor—may approxi
mate the full stature of intelli
gence and poise that Washingtor
seems truly to have possessed,
beyond doubt or quibble. ‘ 3