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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN A A GEORGIAI Pubiished by THE GEORGIAN COMPANY Al 20 East Alabama ‘irest, Allaila, e Enterad s second ciaes Sl of padallee & Aleßis WA o Meow i | o : & 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 There is & good picture sermon on this page; many young men need it. i nhwmzmwofld“omtwonm;uflu."nh also true, and the two statements can not be separated, that every man OWES THE WORLD A LIFETIME OF GOOD, HONEST WORK. hythomldwhtyonmudthwofld will pay you. 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. Ilncholtlnuyon‘mmldntolnblklibrmfu alwhunmdtylortbomxtfwdaynudrudlhofl 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 nmmmflctflmhsfmbdmmmnm building. And the higher the building is to go the deeper the founda tion must be. Unless you can honestly say, young man, that you are mmm.m,»nmkuuhfllu mhowm.mwdyummphynm”nwfi. mhnnmhn»hhmmhapm. nmm.pu-m.m:n.unnwmm. hhpfl.yuwul&utuyy"munmmnldfl You would realize that you must dig into the hill, find the gold and 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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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. - - d 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. ' i = # 9 Council hikes salaries of Park Nine-tenths of the Criminally Inelined Can v e—————————————————— Be Traced Back to Defective Ancestors. e e ——————————— ————————————— 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. - * - Clark Howell notifies Hoke Smith of his candidacy for Gov ernor and his intention to take the stump January 1. - - - 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