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Entered &s second-class matter at postofice at Atlauts under act of March 8, 1372
Stella Griffin Should be
Stella Griffin Should b
| Paroled |
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The Georgian is entirely and wholly in sympathy with those
citizens who are petitioning the Prison Commission to recom.
mend to the Governor a parole or pardon for Stella Griffin.
We believe thati this girl has been more sinned against than
sinning—and we think that she is entitled to another chance.
We are of the opinion that it not only is essentially just and
right, from a legal standpoint, that she be given this chance, but
we believe it undoubtedly is MORALLY right as well.
Conceding the legal righteousness of her conviction and the
propriety of her sentence, it still seems to The Georgian that her
punishment has been sufficiently heavy for her misdeeds. At
best—or worst, as you care to view the matter-—she was more
an instrument, it seems, in the hands of more designing and
crafty people, and we are moved to believe that to parole her at
this time likely would set her footsteps for all time along the
right way. And that is ‘‘a consummation most devoutly to be
wished."’
Stella Griffin apparently was an unsophisticated girl when
she came to Atlanta—and although that, from a strictly legal
standpoint, does not relieve her of responsibility for crime, at
the same time all the circumstances of the case indicate that she
was misled into being wicked, and was not deliberately so. It
is to her credit, too, that when the whole miserable story began
to leak, she came forward voiunurily and told the truth as to her
connection with it. i
) The Georgian does not care to embarrass her (nor anyone
~ else) by reviewing her case in detail here, but we have gone over
" the record very carefully and have reached the conclusion that
the Governor would be entirely justified in paroling her—AND
WE BINCERELY TRUST THAT HE WILL. .
And we believe that any citizen who is sufficiently inter.
ested to go over the record as The Georgian has will reach the
same conclusion.
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Wisdom of the Ages
e‘; - In Los Angeles 'bn is a young man of the name of Charles
M. Frey, who is editor of a paper issued by one of the spacious
. hotels of the South. He is also known, is Mr. Frey, as the
~ “‘Ratcatcher-Philosopher;” and any one who can combine so
agile and practical voeation as that of ratcatching with the un.
~ reality of philosophy fs surely good on combinations.
. Young Mr. Freyhas been ratcatching philosophical thoughts
~ from all the sages have become dust these many years, and
_&5 a result he has epifomized the wisdom of the world in twenty
~ five carefully 8 words, culled from the tomes of seven
m wisdom of the ages:
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“Know thyself)"’ | “Nothing is impossible to in-
Chilon - | dustry.”’
~ "'Consider the end. ' Cleobulus '
Pitacus . *r\ ““Avoid excess.'’
~ "Know thy opportunitw s>, Thales
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& "'C-" Know thy opportunity. " day. As
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| The Goethals Charges and
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Their Serious Lesson
k General Goethals, in whom the country has learned to put its
! trust, says that Uncle SBam has been swindled out of $17,000,000
Jn land frauds on the Isthmus.
~ This swindle was perpetrated because the commissioners ap
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consideration before public duty.
- The amount is so large that General Goethals’ charges un
-1 ly will lead to an investigation and perhaps punishment.
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- ANOTHER ATROCITY!
Willlam J. Bryan has loudly
protested against being haled
from Miami, at his own expense,
to testify fn & New York lawsuit
in which he had no interest what
ever.
Have Noted Statesmen no more
rights
Than men composed of com
mon clay?
Must dazzling Diplomatic Lights
Do just as captious Judges say?
Do statutes, made for you and me,
Apply to the Distinguished
Great—
To gentlemen who used to be
Directors of affairs of state?
Can courts drag Bryan here and
thero
And nick him for the railroad
. fare?
Enough that w
~. haled . Jatled
1 W NeRA.Ted te comply.
Enough to force him to submit
To an unkind tribunal's power,
Upon & wooden chalr to sit
Ard talk—for nothing-—for an
hour.
But worst of all thy law's of.
senses,
It frisked him for the ful! ex
penses. a 5
No wonder that a yell of pain
Arises from his outraged throat.
The fare is elghteen bucks by
train
One way—and hardly less by
boat.
Compute the loss of words and
time -
And both to Willlam J. mean
pelf—
And estimate the heinous crime
That's been committed for
yourself,
"T'was more than poor old Bill
Could bear-— ’
To stick him with that raliroad
fare!
MINT,
Naval oficers who for patriotic
Teasons desire wide publicity for
their reports will do well to lay
down hard on Josephus to sup
press them.
EXPERTS.
¥ Professor Lowell will just
up and get Into communi-
E with Mars we may get
o useful advice about how to
A 8 canais open.
The Interpretative Dance ‘
FAI!WILL the day of jigs and reels; of maidens who kick up their heels,
As village belles in bosky dells,
The bright-hued flow-rets gleaning!
The mission of the Higher Dance is to Interpret True Romance— i
The hop and skip and glide and dip !
Is full of tragic meaning. i
THI dancer creeps upon the stage and whils three tlmo—"donflln"r.fihl
She makes four turns, which means she yearns
To wed her father's shoffer. :
A quick bend backward deftly hints that pop’s betrothed her to a prince.
Her doubled knee betrays that she .
Just hates this gilded loafer.
ER lissome dro~ B—this means the shoffer's name s
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her hair in dumb desjae
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WAT'.‘.H closely now; behold her wince, from which yOou gather that the
prince
Is elght by six; two graceful kicks
: Inform you he's bald-headed.
A waving toe reveals her hate for this fond, fatusus old skate,
o A swoop and swim means that to him
' She never will be wedded.
BUT look! a palpitating throb announced Baggs has got a job
At three per day to shofe a dray.
Her toes are nimbly swinging
To show she's happy after all, but ah! you see her reel and fail
' And In her swoon you see the tune— |
The wedding bells are ringing.
The voice of consclence can oc
casionally give a fellow a wild
look without arousing the neigh
borhood.
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A man can sometimes drink
nothing stronger than buttermilk,
and yet be more disagreeable than
& boose artist the morning after.
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When the devil Is assisted by
&n agent attired In a short skirt
and white shoes, the work of
landing ‘em s easy.
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When religion will make a fel
low more econonilcal It helps
some.
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As & rule the word to the wise is
unnecessary. They don't need It
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Anyhow, discussion of the
league games and trout season is
& rellef from war taik,
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The peekaboo walst is the Joy
of the fellow with low-necked
morals.
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Misfortune often has dificuity
in overtaking a hustler,
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Those silver linings do not al
ways make up for the cloudy cov
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Men satisfled with a rear pew
at church always demand a front
Seat at the prise fight,
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handsome one seldom does.
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Goose farmer arrested for mak-
Ing love to 120 girls was & gooss
farmer.
By James Swinnerton
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE
THE FELL CLUTCH OF CIRCUM
STANCE!
We are fiot certain who mussed up
The tullp bed last night.
The culprit might not be the pup,
And then, again, it might.
We're baffled in our search for
The crafty pup mwu-\
But little Tommy !
Before he WaiSw who spilied red
X
n % new silk hat,
of us should like to think
v #hat Tommy would do that
But when the evidence we weigh,
As all mv“ dot
We find he washed his hands to
day
When no one told him to. *
We missed a pie one day last
week,
And still we are in doubt,
| Though sternly we set forth to
seek
The gulity party out.
But Tommy, knowing not repose,
All night lay wide awake,
And groaned and moaned as one
who knows
The pangs of stomach ache!
TWO ITEMS!
Stockholm, Jan. 31.—The sajary
of Permanent Peace Commission
er has been fixed at $25,000 a year
and expenses.
Miami, Fla., Jan. 31.—-Mr., Wi
liam J. Bryan has decided to go to
Stockholm as a Permanent Peace
Commissioner,
MERE SUICIDAL MANIA,
Nobody will believe the Hai
tians’ assertion that they are suf
ficiently intelligent for self-gov
ernment as long as they make at
tacks on United States marines.
THE ONLY DRAWBACK.
Senator Gore says that as he
Sees the political situation, Jus
tice Hughes will be the G. O. P.
candidate. But Senator Gore has
been blind for a great many years.
A NOTABLE EXCEPTION,
“Congress ready for work."-—
. Evening Post. If this s true, it
is the only instance of prepared.
ness to be found in the national
Capital.
BUT THE FINISH?
In the proposed party to be
formed by Mr. Ford and Mr. Bry
an, Mr. Ford will start with the
money and Mr. Bryan with the
experience,
THE HOME PAPER
Saturday Evening
A Week-End Clearing House for Notes of Men and Affairs.
ONE NEWCOMER.
There is one newcomer in our
midst with whom Atlantans ought
to get acquainted speedily. His
name is Alfred Henry Porter—
and he has the right to place
“Rev.” before it and “D. D.” (and
some other things of that sort)
after it, for he is a minister, now
in charge of the Second Baptist
Church.
Dr. Porter is a man after my
own heart, and the better you
come to know him, the more you
are going to find him, I think, a
man after YOUR heart, reader—
because you are a level-headed,
average sort of person, who does
not run particylarly to extremes
in any direction, but who admires
a wholesome, hearty, human,
manly man, \
It has been my very great good *
fortune to meet Dr. Porter npon
several occasions of late, and
every time I hear him talk or
watch him as he moves among
the crowd, the more I am con
vinced that here is a man very
much more than ordinarily worth
while.
Dr. Porter is one of the most
engaging after-dinner speakers I
ever listened to. His little talk
before the Ad Men, a day or so
ago, in which he eulogized Frank
L. Stanton and that gentleman’'s
splendid literary achievements,
was a real gem of oratory—a
‘genuinely helpful and interesting
talk. It was not ornate—it was
not spectacular. He did not
snatch the stars from the heav
ens, nor did he seek to paint the
rainbow. On the contrary, it was
the sanest, sweetest and most
repressively eloquenf talk that I
have heard in Atlanta in many
days.
Not one sentence of Dr. Porter's
address was in anywise common
place. On the other hand, not
in any one sentence was it ex
traordinarily oratorical, in the
common acceptance of that term.
It was simply beautiful, in that
it was so beautifully simple—so
direct, so moving and so straight
forward in its appeal.
I do not believe anybody felt
like undertaking a Speech after
Dr. Porter sat down, but I am
sure there was not one man in
all that splendid gathering of At
lanta’s representative citizens
who did not feel better for hav
ing heard him.
I do not believe there was one
person in that dining room who
did not appreciate more than ever
before the real worth of Frank
Stanton’s work and the real ef
fectiveness of ministers like Dr.
Porter when the doctor had fin
ished his exquisite little address—
and when you can say that of a
man, honestly and truly, in ecir
cumstances such as these, I do
not believe there s anything
much more that might be added
to it.
- m felt as I
. —that to attempt to”#agished
thing more of the splendigny
nificance of the occasion woul
after all, have been adding per
fume unto violets.
CHANGING IDEALS.
I sometimes wonder if, in reach
ing for “efficiiicy,” “system,” ete.,
in this day and time, we do not
sacrifice a good deal of the old
fashioned that was mighty well
worth while.
An efficiency expert some time
Ago gave it as his opinion that it
Is a great waste of time and an
unnecessary loss of enmergy to
write “Yours very truly” or “Very
respectfully yours” «t the end of
a letter just preceding your sig
nature.
And you can take that idea,
tOO, and figure that in a year's
time you will lose quite a bit of
time thereby—lif you count it a
loss of time to be courteous.
I wonder, however, if what you
Fain is not vastly less than whag
You lose by such a proceeding ?
I notice a growing disinclina
tion upon the part of men to give
up their seats in street cars to
Women-—and there are many ar
fuments that may be advanced
to sustain this new point of view
upon the part of the men than
You may suspect.
And the same is true of the an
clent custom of removing your
hat In an elevator in which there
Are women,
All of these things are matters
that involve largeiy a question of
vourtesy, for it frequently hap
pens that the woman to whom a
seat is given by a gentleman on a
Street car is better equipped phys
leally for strap-hanging than is
the man nimself. There is some
thing ruther disconcerting in see
ing a man of 0 or 60 arising to
Five his seat on & street car to a
£irl of 18 or 20—and yet I can not
persuade myself that, after all,
courtesy and kindness are not the
two greatest things in the world,
and that they go further in busi
ness and lu social ife, really and
By James B. Nevin.
i truly, than anything else, not
~ withstanding the fact that they
~ somatimes may stand in the way
of mere money-making. A
I went into a barber shop last
Saturday night about 9 o'clqck.
There were six chairs in this shop '
and in every single one of them a
man was perched having his hair
cut. Such a situation would have
been impossible ten or twenty
Years ago. It was considered
something c¢f a high crime and
misdemeanor to have one's hair
cut on Saturday night then—and
~ Yet it seems to have come to be
quite the thing nowadays, and
there are reasons to sustain it.
All six of these men wanted to
present as nice an appearance as :
possible next day—which, of
course, was Sunday.
At the same time, having one's
hair cut on Saturday night hard
ly seems fair, all things consid
ered.
Maybe these changing customs
are all right, however—who am 1
to say otherwise? & ;
TWIN EVILS. !
The city of Macon has been very
much agitated of late—and
righteously so—because of the
killing of a young girl there re
cently by an irresponsible and
Crazy drunken man, driving reck
lessly in an automobile, The city
has been stirred from center to
circumference, and the result has
been a wholesale shutting down
of the “lid” on blind tigers and
places where strong drink of one
sort and another might be ille
gally procured.
It is a curious circumstance,
however, that while orators, min
isters and officials of one sort and,
another have waxed eloquent and
vehement over the evil of strong
drink as exemplified in this man,
practically NOTHING has been
said of the evil of “pistol toting”—
and yet if it had not been for the
fact that this drunkard had in his
poSsession at the time of the kiil
ing a pistol, the killing would
NOT have oceurred,
I do no know where he secured
his pistol—maybe from some
cheap junkshop in Macon—but I
apprehend that wherever he pro
cured it, he experienced little or
no difficulty in getting it,
This man ought never to have
been sold a pistol or in any wise
furnished one. It was well known
that he was given to drinking and
spreeing—and for that reason he
was PARTICULARLY indicated
as a person to whose custody it
was entirely unsafe to entrust
firearms.
I can not see that the blind tiger
who sold this man the “rotgut”
liquor upon which he became in
toxicated and crazy is really any
more to blame for the tragedy in
Macon than the person who sold
him or furnished him the pistol
with which he did the killing—
and yet 99 per cent of the indig
nation and protest arising out of
the killing is centered about the
blind tiger booze rather than the
pistol.
It is perfectly right and proper
*o abolish blind tigerism and the
Igal sale of whisky in Georgia. .
eVUGHT to be abolished—andy
thin, fair-mindeoulcwad = zigng to
ho:&m shing it—and should
helge /' ™
l& unfortunate, however, that
it ig ®0 hard to arouse indignation
and protest against pistol toting—
» kindred evll and as great an
{evil—in view of the fact that it is
S 0 easy to arouse all of this in re
spect to blind tiger booze
A FADING FAD.
The sleeping porch is going out
of fashion. It has, It seems, been
sadly overdone. It has suffered
the fate of many another good
thing, in being pushed far beyond
the bounds of reason and common
sense, broadly speaking. Archi
tects Inform us that plans for
houses nowadays no longer call
for sleeping porches, whereas a
little while ago it was the rare
exception that a plan did not call
for one or more.
Physiclans tell us that while
the sleeping porch is based upon
sound prlnclpln-~puucuhrly an
contrasted with the ideas in re-
Spect of fresh alr entertained 25 or
30 years ago—lit still may be car
ried to the point particularly with
some people, where It works far
more harm than good.
What you must do is to see
that your sleeping room is well
and sensibly ventiiated-—that de
pending a good deal upon the sea- .
son of the year and atm pheri.
~ conditions. Much doponz upon
whether the night is drizsly, or
~ windy, or whether it be clear and
SIArTY-—-upom whether the ther-
Momur‘:oflmu from 30 to 40,
or
In &:fnh alr, like
Ve it food or
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g Of
doses, temp ¥, and not onr?
done.
From the slesping-poreh fad,
Nevertheleas, has come a great
Amount of lasting good—and it s
& happy circumstances that most
Bt S s mach S
this line, “‘&