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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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At 20 East Alabama Street, Atlanta, Ga.
Entered as wwcond-class matter at postoffice al Atlants under act of March 8, 1872
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Stella Griffin Should be
Paroled
- 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 that 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 voluntarily and told the truth as to her
connection with it. S
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 m'y caréfully and have reached the conclusion that
the Governor would be entirely justified in paroling her—AND
WE SINCERELY TRUST 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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Twenty-five Words Hold the
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Wisdom of the Ages
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InLolAmluthonusyoun‘mnofthonmothrlu
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
‘“Rateatcher-Philosopher;'’ and any one who can combine so
agile and practical vocation as that of rateatching with the un.
reality of philosophy is surely good on combinations.
Youhg Mr. Frey has been rateatching philosophical thoughts
from all the sages who have become dust these many years, and
a 5 & result he has epitomized the wisdom of the world in twenty
five carefully selected words, culled from the tomes of seven
Philosophers. This is the wisdom of the ages:
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“‘Consider the end."’ Cleobulus
Pitacus ‘‘Avoid excess.”’
"“Know thy opportunity.' Thales *
Bias ""Surety is the precursor of *
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ome of the wisdom of the "‘Seven Bages of Greece,’’ and put the
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Their Serious Lesson
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ANOTHER ATROCITY!
Willlam J. Bryan has loudly
protested against being haled
from Miami, at s own expense,
to testify in a New York lawsuit
«in which he had no interest what
ever.
Have Noted Statesmen no motre
rights
Than men composed of com
mon clay?
Must dazzling Diplomatic Bights
Do just as captious Judges say?
Do statutes, made for you and me,
Apply g the Distinguished
Great— .
To gentlemen who used to be
Directors of affairs of state?
Can courts drag Bryan here and
there
And nick him for the rallroad
fare?
Enough that William should be
haled
A thousand miles to testify,
On pain of being rudely jailed
If he neglected .to comply.
Enough to foPee him to submit
To an unkind tribunal's power,
Upon a wooden chair to sit
Ard talk—for nothing-—for an
hour,
But worst of all the law's of
fenses,
It frisked him for the full ex
penses.
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 5
Compute the loss of words and
time—
And bsth to Willlam J. mean
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And estimate the heinous crime
That's been committed for
yourself.
“Pwas more than poor old Bl
could bear
To stick him with that raiiroad
fare!
HINT.
Naval officers who for patriotic
reasons desire publicity for
their reports Ido well to lay
down hard Josephus to sup
press them,
EXPERTS.
It Professor Lowell will just
hurry up and get into communi
oation with Mars we may get
some useful gdvices about how to
koot cunais open
The Interpretative Dance
PAR!WELL the day of jigs and reels; of maldens who kick up their heels,
Ag village belles in bosky dells,
The bright-hued flow-rets gleaning! b
The mission of the Higher Dance is to interpret True Romance—
The hop and skip and glide and dip
Is full of tragic meaning.
TH! dancer creeps upon the stage and whils three times—denoting rage—
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,
H!R lissome figure droops and sags—this means the shoffer's name is
Baggs.
He's twenty-three, as you can see
When you observe her shiver,
A languid hesitation waltz proclaims she’s blind to all his faults.
She tears her hair in dumb despair—
Which means he drives a Flivver.
WA?CH closely now; behold her wince, from which you gather that the
y prince
Is eight by six; two graceful kicks
Inform you he's bald-headed. ’
A waving toe reveals her hate for this fond, fatuous old skate,
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 fall
And in her swoon you see the tune
The wedding bells are ringing.
The voice of conscience can oc
casionally give a fellow a wild
look without arousing the neigh
borhood.
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A man ecan 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
an agent attired in a short skirt
and white shoes, the work of
landing ‘em is easy.
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When religion will make a foi
low more economioal it helpe
some
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Ax & rute 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 s
& relief from war talk.
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The song of the has-been is in
variably in the llne of a bowl.
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The peekaboo walst Is the joy
of the fellow with low-necked
morals
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In overtaking a hustler. \
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Those siiver linings do not al
ways make up for the cloudy cov
erings.
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Men satisfled with & rear pew
At church always demand a front
#eat at the prize fight.
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The homely woman usually im-
Proves on acquaintanes, but the
handsome one seldom does.
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Goose farmer arrested for mak-
Ing love to 124 girls was a goose
farmer ¥
By James Swinnerton
THE FELL CLUTCH OF CIRCUM
STANCE!
We are not certain who mussed up
The tulip bed last night.
The culprit might not be the pup,
And then, again, it might. -
We're baffled in our search for
clews;
The crafty pup has fled;
But little Tommy shined his shoes
Before he went to bed.
We do not know who spilled red
ink
On Father’'s new silk hat.
We none of us should like to think
That Tommy would do that.
But when the evidence we weigh,
As all detectives do,
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 ddubt,
- 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, Feb. 26.—The salary
of Permanent Peace Commission
er has been fixed at $25,000 a year
and expenses.
Miami, Flg, Jan. 31 —Mr, Wil
liam J. Bryan has decided to go to
- Stockholm as a Permanent Peace
Commissioner.
MERE lUOQIPAL MANIA,
Nobody will believe the Hai
tians’ assertion that they are suf
ficiently intelligent for seif-gov
:::aont as long as they make at
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.
IMPOSSIBLE.
The high price of quinine leaves.
druggists up a tree. Nobody will
believe them when they assert
* that they have something just as
bad.
TAKING A LONG CHANCE.
Perhaps after this the Navy De
partment will know better than to
send our submarine . 1o sea
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 min 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 particularly to extremes
in any direction, bus who admires
a wholesome, hearty, human,
manly man, ¢
It has been my very great good
fortune to meet Dr. Porter upon
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 {no.t
engaging after-dinner speakers I
ever listened to, Hig 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 wq in anywise common
place. On the other hn.nd,' 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 lam
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 cir
cumstances such as these, 1 do
not believe there s anything
much more that might be added
to, it.
1 believe every one feit as 1
did after Dr. Porter had finished
—that to attempt to say any
thhy more of the splendid sig
nificance of the occasion would,
after all, have been adding per
fume unto violets.
CHANGING IDEALS.
I sometimes wonder if, in reach
ing for “efficiency,” “system,” etc.,
in this day and time, we do not
sacrifice “y good deal of the old
fashioned that was mighty well
worth while.
An efficlency expert some time
Ago gave it as his opinion that it
is a great waste of time and an
unnecessary loss of energy to
write “Yours very truly” or “Very
respectfully yours” at 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-—if you count it a
loss of time to be courteous.
I wonder, however, If what you
Bain is not vastly less than what
1 you loae by such a proceeding?
‘ I notice a growing disinclina
| uonumthopcnolmto.m
up their seats in street cars to
women—and there are many ar
fuments that may be advanced
1o sustain this new point of view
. upon the part of the men,
1 And the same 1s true of the an
clent custom of removing your
hat in an elevator in which there
are women.
~© Al of these things are matters
that involve largeiy a question of
courtesy, for it frequently hap
pens that the woman to whom a
L #eat is given by a gentieman on a
Street car is better equipped phys
loally for strap-hanging than is
the man nimself. There Is some
thing rather disconcerting in see
ing & man of 60 or &0 arising to
Eive his seat on & street car to o
&irl of 18 or 20-—and yet lecan 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 -
Bess and in social life, really and
truly, than anything else. not.
By James B. Nevin.
withstanding the fact that they
sometimes may stand in the way
of mere money-making.
I went into a barber shop last
Saturday night about 9 ofclock.
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 ¢f a high crime and
misdemeanor to have one’s hair
cut on Saturday night then—and
l yvet 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
~ presenl as nice an appearance as
possible next day—whieh, 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 I
‘ to say otherwise? ;
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:TWIN IVIL&_
‘ The city of Macon has been very
, much agitated of late—and
~ righteously so—because of the
~ shooting of a young girl there re
~ cently by an Irresponsible ana
€razy drunken man, driving reck
lessly in an automobile, The eity.
~ 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 bhas been
said of the evil of “pistol toting”—
and vet if it had not been for the
fact that this drunkard had in his
possession at the time of the kill
ing a pistol, the killing would
NOT have occurred.
I do no know where he secured
his pistol-—maybe from some
cheap junkshop in Macon-—but 1
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
4s a person to whosé custody it
was entirely unsafe to entrust
firearms.
1 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
to abolish blind tigerism and the
illegal sale of whisky in Georgia.
It OUGHT to be abolighed —and
every fair-minded and right
thinking man should be willing te
help in abolishing it—and should
help.
It is unfortunate, however, that
it Is 80 hard to arouse indignation
and protest against pistol toting—
& kindred evil and as great an
evil—in view of the fact that it is
80 easy to arouse all of this in re
spect of blind tiger booge.
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 com Mon
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 principles—partidularly as
contrasted with the ideas in re
spect of I alr entertained 25 or
uyur.x:—u-mnmhw
ried to the point, particularly with
some people, where 1t Works far
more hatm than good,
What you must do s to see
that your sleeping room is well
and sensibly ventilated—that de
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o e e s e
conditions. Much depends upon
Whether the night is drissly, or
windy, or n«:« it be &.hu t::r‘
mometer registers from 30 to 40
"la otl:: m fresh air, like
everything ‘else—be it food
dowes, temperately, m not over-
From the sleeping-poreh fad.
nNevertheloss, has come a
amount of lasting M—-ul-l't-i:
A happy circumstances that mos:
T o s
this liga,