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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 a good picture sermon on this page; many young
men need it.
It is true that the world ‘‘owes every man a living."” It is
also true, and the two statements can not be separated, that
every man OWES THE WORLD A LIFETIME OF GOOD,
HONEST WORK. Pay the world what you owe and the world
will pay you.
This picture, which is to-day’s sermon, will be printed in
sbout two million different newspapers. It will be seen by many
hundreds of thousands of young men.
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s few hours every day for the next few days and read short
sketches of the lives of Franklin, 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
a hundred men would realize earnestly that hard work is the
only foundation of success. And that hundred young men
would be & valuable addition to society.
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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, 111, 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 & pretty good assistant postmaster.
But George was fired the other day. Like Lucifer, he fell
from his official heaven. And, like Lucifer, he fell becatse of
the sin of irreverence.
The offense charged 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 following,
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
& year before remarrying.’’ .
Following this came an official communication summarily
removing Mr. Burkitt from office ‘‘on account of your disloyalty
to the President,’’ etc.
M. 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 Btates
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 ner 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
w’ 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
and his bride-to-be with respect, and wish them both great and
abiding joy of their marriage.
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Suppose the Men in the Background Had Said the Same Thing. (See Editorial.)
Criminals’ and Paupers’ Pedigrees
NYBODY who is stupid
A enough may become a
eriminal, Indeed, many
oriminals are actually born of
feeble wits, and these of other
feeble wits. One of the impor
tant new lights thrown upon the
problem of erime was the dis
covery, by patient investigation
of family records and neighboer
hood histories and police and jall
and poor-farm records, that a sur
prisingly large number of erimi
nals were related to one another
and to other criminals, not al
ways directly, but through the
medium of paupers or prostitutes
or epileptics or habitual drunk
ards, or simple imbeciles and
feeble-wits.
The second was the working
out by eareful 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.Simen tests.
These enabled us to investigate
rapldly large bodies of children,
both abnormal ones in the asy
lum#and normal ones in the pub
e schools, and decide with a falr
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 echildren were hunted up,
their relationships traced out,
and an attempt made to discover
what gort of families and strains
they were bern from and what
relation these familles, if any, had
to the other groups of publie
charges and wards and delin
quents.
A PLEA FCR EUGENICS.
We were not left leng in doubt;
for the results were simply as
tounding in their overwhelming
unanimity and positiveness, Nine
tenths of these feeble-minded
and sub-normal children, wheth
“@r in custodial homes or in the
By WOODS HUTCHINSON, A. M, M. D.
public schools, traced DRuck
promptly and directly to € ually
feeblo-minded and abnormal ard
defective fathers and mothers,
Jnd uncles and aunts, and grand
fathers and grandmothers. Not
only so, but all these groups were
found to be related to one an
other; and what was even more
mportant, these pathetically fee
ble and forlorn traternities fur
nished from ten to twenty times
the percentage of criminals, pros
titutes, paupers, vagrants and
drunkards that the remalnder 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 splendidly useful
work, the School for Feeble-
Minded Children, at Vineland, N.
J., revealed that of some 400 of
{ts inmates who were born in the
State, more than one-third were
as closely related to one another
as second cousins or nearer.
While as a sample of the ex
traordinary way in which these
pitiable tribes branched out into
kinship with one another and
with other public charges and
delinquents, the State Board of
CQerrections 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 Church, St
Louls.
. e
E. P. Ansley submits praposi
tion te Council to buy 60 acres of
Piedmont Park for SIOO,OOO and to
puild driveways through park and
put up huge public building,
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Council bikes salayies of Park
Nine-tenths of the Criminally Inclined Can
Be Traced Back to Deféctive Ancestors.
the inmates of all the State cus
todial institutions, reformatories,
prisons, homes for fallen women,
insane asylums, county poor
farms, etc., that of those born In
the State, running up into the
iens of thousands, over 35 per
cent could be clearly traced to
spring from and belong to some
thirteen families!
WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT.
What are we going to de about
{t? 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 gtate and in
every eounty of the Union; then
we will know exactly what we
have to deal with.
It is for these two purposes
that a most admirable and ugeful
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.
Yt 15 an extremely serfous 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 eandidacy for Gov
ernor and his intention to take
the stump January L
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Tech studerts and fans cele
brating the biggest victory over
Georgia—4s to 0.
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NOVEMBER 20, 1910.
Sunday. 29 : |
tance lies in its hopefulness, in
the splendid prospect of Improv
ing present conditions, This may
sound strange in view of the in
bgrn and long inherited charac
ter of the defeets with which we
have to deal. But it is a fair
statement of the sityation for
several reasons.
First of all, the committee of
ithe 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 in line with the
marked tendency of the progress
of civilization to break up and
limit and eliminate these unfor
tunate groups and families as
rapidly and completely as possi
ble. i i
Railrpads, trolleys, good roads,
improved methods of agriculture,
draining the swamps, clearing the
forests and the brush, all these
are rapldly breaking up the jun
gleg and the wildernesees and the
swamps and the No Man's Lands
in which these people shelter and
live.
SLOWLY DYING OUT,
In spite of the faet that they
spawn like codfish and breed like
rabbits, there is no valid reason
to beligve that they are increas
ing in number ip proportion to
the rest of the community; in
fact, all the evidence of any
weight points in exactly the op
posite direction,
A thousand years ago, judging:
from the horrible absurdities that
were believed and the appalling
conditions that existed, a consid
erable proportion, if not a majer
ity, of the population of Europe,
our jllustrious angestors, could
searcely have passed the Bimet-
THE HOME PAPER
Saturday Evening
A Week End mun;: B;:u: ;;r Nom of Men and Affairs
THOSE CHRISTMAS SEALS.
I do mot know how you [feel
about it, gentle reader—and, by
the way, how is your heaith to
day, anyway, vonsidering the
Harvest Pestival Week and all
the good time you have had, etc,
ete.~but, speaking for mywelf, 1
am going to buy & lberal supply
of Red Cross Christmas seals this
year, and use them in my corre~
spondence and otherwise,
To my way of thinking, there
so no nobler work being done In
all this broad land than the fight
being made against tuberculosis.
This nation-wide campaign is the
most intelligent and the most
sensibly sustained of any similar
campaign I know of. Here In
Georgia the work has been splen
aid, although for lack of funds, of
course, it has not been nearly so
tar-reaching as it should be.
In Atlanta, this work is being
carried forward by the Ad Men—
that splendid, progressive and
aggressive body of young bdusi
ness men. They have 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 chu‘lhblo—nltboug. 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
{s 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 ons
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 tuberculosisa? Do av
know that there is ah anti-tubef
culosls soclety 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 attention every b 1
hours to the beauties and ‘true
significances of Elkdom through
out the nation?
Red Cross slamps are seals of
honor. Every cne 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 nuinerous,
just that much more llable are
YOU in your beautiful home, far
removed, to be made, neverthe
less, a victim to the same.
It is to be hoped that Atlanta
will break all records this year 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 he. in all preb
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.
It you censider the matter
trom a purely impersonal stand
point and as a cold, scientific
propesition, 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 I§, 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
gort from the human and per
sonal standpoint, rather than
from the cold and scientifie, the
preponderance of opinion doubt
jess will be against the doetor,
It is the first duty of a physi
cian to save life, to proleng life
and to veiieve suffering. He 18
supposed tc do his best along
these lines, even though failure
often is his reward. It is nat for
him te say when the spark of life
shall flicker out—rather is it for
him to keep it alive to the final
and eventuas mement, :
Therefore, this Chicage physi
eian, if he had inclined to be true
to the best traditions of his noble
profession, should have exerted
himself ta the utmost, even
though his doubts were grave as
to the good of it all, in the long
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Over and above that, too—to
my mind, the tremendously se
. rieus objection to the view this
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
Chicago doctor took of the case
in hand Is the great danger of
sdmitting In any circumstance
that the physician shall decide
the matter of life or death, rather
than that Supreme Fower we
call God
It & physician be permitted to
say In one instance--no matter
what the circumstance—that it ie
right for him to decide this issue,
then we set a precedent and open
& gateway to untold danger.
If it be right in one instanee
why may it not be right in thou
sands of others?
And right there is the serious
menace of such a doctrine as the
one the Chicago physiclan asets
up.
. He would have done better—he
would have been more faithful to
the tenets of his profession—had
he stood nobly to the task of
keeping allve 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 I can figure things
out, I am 26 hours 19 minutes and
4 ticks short on sleep this week,
because of the Georgia Harvest
Festival--and I still have Satur
day night to go.
But, really, I do not know the
difference, unless, perhaps, T feel
better for it
This has been one grand and
glee-o-rlous occasion—believe me
—a stupendous and scintillating
success,’ from every point of
view! ;
I do not know who deserves the
greatest measure of credit for the
splendor’of the week, so I presume
there is no occasion for individ
valizing. 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
pened 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 meteoroiogical unto
wardness, we have been packed
and jammed with welcome wvisi
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 Festival committee.
I am sure all Georgia is better and
happier because of the Harvest
Festival in Atlanta, and I feel that
they have gbundant occasion to be.
As a prelude to a glad Thanks
giving Day, commend me to such
an event as Atlanta's Harvest
Festival has been this helpful,
happy and merry week.
BOOKER WASHINGTON.
\ Where i# 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 more
progressive negroes of the coun
try, but it is the problem that is
engaging 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
_jman being, subject to the limita
tion of the human mind—and in
evitably he made some mistakes,
but there are few peopls 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 vace a splendid purpose.
He was bern a slave—he lived
‘te 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 eof thqusands upon
thousands of white people In the
South, and the nation at large,
and his death is a matter sin
~ eevely to be regretted.
1t is to be hoped that his sue
_cessor, whoever he is—if he is {o
have a successor-—may approxi
‘mate the fyl stature of intelli«
gence and poise thaf Washington
~ seems truly te have m
beyond doubt or quikbis, . .-