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THE A
R .. GTORGIAN
At 20 East Alabama Street, Atlanta, Ga.
Entered as second-class matter at postofice at Atlanta under act of Murch 3, 1872
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Light—or Something
The emerging of our esteemed contemporary, The Constitu
tion, from a state of wavering doubt and painful misgiving as to
whether the Western and Atlantic railroad should be sold—ex
pressed more in sorrow than in anger in an editorial some few
weeks ago, herewith reprinted in part—has been a matter of pro
found satisfaction and gratification to The Georgian.
In March, The Constitution was quite SURE that the move
ment to sell the Western and Atlantic was formidable and en
tirely worthy of the public’s most respectful and serious con
sideration At that time, a number of newspapers throughout the
State, led by The Macon Telegraph, were clamoring, loud and
long, for the sale of the property. Nobody was saying anything
much on the other side—whereupon the always circumspect
Constitution ventured forth upon the ice, even though it might
be thin, to this extent:
(From The Atlanta Constitution, March 16.)
Possibilities of revolution in public sentiment were never
more strikingly illustrated than in the present day attitude
toward the future of the Western and Atlantic railroad.
* Five years ago scarcely a newspaper in the State would
have thought for a moment of advocating the sale of the
Western and Atlantic. Today newspapers all over Georgia
are pronounced in favor of that policy, and the sentiment of
the people themselves indicates a division on the subject not
heretofore known. * * * * '
Here is something well worth while being made an is
sue in the campaign. * * * *
As to the question of the use of the proceeds, should the
road be sold, the State constitution fixes that, up to a certain
point. * * * *® But one-third of the purchase price would
cover the State’s indebtedness, and leave a surplus of $lO,-
000,000 to $12,000,000, in addition to the present State in
come now devoted to sinking fund and bond interest, to be
used for schools or such other purpose as the legislature
might see fit. ® © ¢ ¢
What is best to be done with the State road?
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: The foregoing was written, gentle reader, in March—and
since that time quite a good deal has been said on the other side.
. The Georgian, for instance, has taken occasion to express
some of its views in behalf of the people and their great railroad
property, and the evident propaganda under way to create a sen
timent in favor of its sale—and The Atlanta Journal also has
been expressing its mind rather freely along the same line.
Moreover, it has become abpndantly apparent that the peo
ple of Georgia are rather solidly behind The Georgian and The
Journal in their opposition to the proposed sale.
The Georgian has been overwhelmed with letters and com
munications of one sort and another from all over the State,
indorsing and upholding its attitude—and we have no doubt The
Journal has enjoyed the same experience.
The atmosphere thus having been cleared, AND THE PROP
AGANDA SEEKING TO BRING ABOUT THE SALE OF THE
STATE ROAD HAVING BEEN MASHED RATHER FLAT,
- The Constitution last Sunday promulgated another editorial con
cerning the Western and Atlantic railroad, from the body of
which—expressive of its main purpose—The Georgian herewith
culls and presents these scintillant gems:
(From The Atlanta Constiution, Moy 7.)
The effort to whip the State into a froth over the pro
posal to sell this invaluable property is a waste of energy.
THERE IS NO MORE CHANCE OF IT THAN THERE IS
FOR GEORGIA TO REPEAL THE STATE CONSTITU.-
TION.
GEORGIA IS NOT GOING TO SELL THE STATE
ROAD!
The people of Georgia have never seriously considered
the question of so disposing of it. ‘
The question is already settled, and settled definitely, so
far as this generation is concerned. * ® * #
Georgia owns the Western and Atlantic railroad, lock,
stock and barrel, and is going to keep it. The problem today
is not the sale of it, but how to get the most out of it as an
income-bearing property, ®* * ¢ o
What Georgia should do and will do with this property
is to lease it for a reasonable period at the best obtainable
rental. In an ordinary lease period it will bring into the
State treasury for educational and other purposes vastly
more than its sale price, and at the end of that term Georgia
will still own the property, worth then several times its sale
value today.
With such possibilities before it, it would be folly to put
this magnificent property upon the block, and the suggestion
is not even being seriously considered, except by those who
arve sounding tom-toms over an issue that does not, will not,
and can not exist, .
All of which reminds one of that historical and significant
occasion when amid the quiet and serenity of a bright and sunny
morning, the farmer’s calf strayed onto the farmer's back porch
and upset the churn with a resounding clatter, This catastrophe
so frightened an ancient Thomas cat, at the moment surreptiti.
on:l:ox;:rdlohlung milk, that, with one loud squawk, said Thomas
ca clean over the back fence and scampered
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More Truth Than Poetry
THE PRISONERS.
The frogs are piping in the pond;
* the robins, in the trees,
Spend all the pleasant afternoon
in idleness and ease;
The woodchuck ventures from his
lair and dozes in the sun
Without a gullity feeling that his
school work isn't done,
Across the hills in shining squads
the happy blackbirds wing;
No dingy schoolroom walls have
they to shut them from the
spring.
But though the wind comes warm
and soft to whisper at the
door,
And fresh new violets lift their
heads above the forest floor,
And little hearts are all a-glow
with longing to be free
And search for early blossoms
with the newly wakened bee.
The prison hours drag along till
4 o'clock, and then
A little play—a little sleep—and
back to school again.
And when vacation time is here,
with golden idle hours,
No more beside the river spring
the first and fairest flowers;
The birds have left their emptied
nests, the grass with dust s
BTAYy,
And gone is all the wondertime of
April and of May.
And through it all how sad it was
to hear the school bell ring
And know it sounded the com
mand that summoned one
from spring.
And sadder still it Is to know that
in the years to be,
And spring shall call, as spring
has called each year to you
and me,
The school will be In session still
~a& school with sterner hours—
To prison longing hearts away
from birds and bees and flow
ers.
For there is but one changeless
rule for children and for
men:
A little play-—a little sleep—then
back to school again,
WHAT A CRISIS WILL DO.
Even the pacifists begin to see
the need of an army and a navy,
Cap Pistols
LAGGING SUPERFLUOUS ON
THE STAGE.
Cole Younger lived to see his
type of bandit as obsolete as an
1892 automobile.
AN APOLOGY.
In comparing the rattlesnake to
the Mexican, the rattlesnake has
suffered an injustice. He always
warns his victim before he
strikes,
IN THE LATTER CASE IT IS
INCURABLE.
Sometimes a man learns that
he has aphasia from a doctor, and
sometimes from a lawyer,
BUT IT'S GROWING.
" Demand for the Colonel isn't
quite as great as the demand of
the Colonel, yet.
SELF-SUPPORTING.
Indlanan who cared for two
wives on $9 a week had two wives
to help him.
THE OLD 'UNS,
(Colonel Dodd, who led the won
derful march into Mexico, must
shortly retire because he has
reached the age limit—63.)
City Ways
By William F. Kirk.
“Shiftless Steve,” we called him then,
Though it wasn't to his liking;
Wouldn't work like other men—
Watched his brothers do the hiking,
Somehow he was never broke
While his father ran the shop,
"Twas a kind of standing joke—
“ Can you spare a dollar, Pop?
When he went away from home
Every neighbor shook his head,
All were glad to see him roam,
But he'd come back home, they sald.
Well, he came back yesterday,
Dressed as swell as any fop;
What d'ye s'pose we heard him say?
¢'Lend me twenty dollars, Pop!"”
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE
BADLY NEEDED.
Perhaps if we capture one of
those Mexican armies we can get
enough rifles and ammunition to
equip our own.
SAFETY AS WELL AS LUCK IN
ODD NUMBERS.
1f there had been 55 instead of
b 4 Englishmen on that British
snip Pirate Schiller might never
have succeeded in capturing it.
ONE MEMBER IS QUALIFIED.
Maybe that Grand Jury of
which young John D. is a member
might profitably take up an in
vestigation into the price of gaso
line
NATURAL CURIOSITY.
Can it be possible that those
subway workers on strike are
wondering why they didn't get
any bonuses?
SUSPICIOUS!
Scientist who says we can kill
1,000,000 mosquitoes for a dollar
talks like a Standard Oil expert.
A LONG TIME, ETC.
Both States have found thp
Governor of North Carolina spoke
advisedly to the Governor of
South Carolina.
MR. JUSTICE BARKIS.
He says that as a Justice of the
U. 8. Soopreme Court
He’s quite beyond political am
bition;
He couldn’t harbor hankerings of
such a sordid sort,
They simply don’t belong to
High Position.
About this nomination as the
party candidate,
He really hopes the leaders
will not make it,
It pains him to consider it—it's
most indelicate.
N. B.—He doesn’t say he will
uot take it,
He waves away Inquirers with a
deprecating hand,
His attitude is haughtily un
bending;
He will not talk preparedness or
tell where he would stand
On any of the issues that are
pending.
He sternly disapproves all talk of
nominating him;
He wishes that his foolish
friends would drop it.
It cuts him to (he very soul—his
words are gruffly grim.
N. B.—He doesn’t order any
one to stop it.
Ever watch a hungry pickerel
brush a tempting bait away
With an air of most prodiglous
irritation?
Glaring at it through the water
with a glare that seemed to
say,
“Not for me! I'm wholly proof
against temptation?”
Ever see that self-same pickerel,
when you just about were
sure
That his attitude had grown to
be a habit,
Make a little swinging circle—
edge up closer to the lure,
Turn a sudden double somer
sault, and grab ilt?
NATURALLY,
It is not surprising that the
Rockefeller Foundation consid
ers our system of education all
wrong. It teaches that 40 cents
a gallon is too much to for
gasoline, Dl‘
THE HOMVE PAPER
Women Still to Rule
e o 0 el e o ok
Dorothy Dix Makes Clear
o o ok o ol XT3
In Home of the Future
Housekeeper, However, Will Not Be the Drudge of
old, Wearing Away Her Life Uselessly—Modern
Inventions Make Wearisome Grind Unnecessary
and Foolish. :
By DOROTHY DIX.
GREAT many well-mean-
A ing people have objected
to every widening of the
sphere of woman on the ground
that it would break up the home
for her to have any outlet for her
energies except the kitchen and
the nursery.
Let them rest their souls in
peace. The home is the one sta
ble institution of society, not be
cause women can't get away from
it, but because they don’t want to
get away from it. Nothing is ever
going to interfere with the an
cient profession of nest building.
It is the occupation for which
nature intends woman, for which
#he has been bred since the be
ginning of time, and to which ev
ery instinct calls her. Out df
every thousand women nine hun
dred and ninety-nine would
¢ choose the career of housekeeping
if it were presented to them un
der any lolerable condition.
- As a sex the women of the fu
ture are going to be home-makers
Just as the women of the past
have been, but they are going to
keep house differently from their
grancmothers because they are
going to bring to the tagk the in
telligence and the training that
they have gotten in school and
business.
Already you can begin to see .
the leaven working, and its first
result is to simplify things, and to
eliminate much of the useless la
bor that made the women of other
Yyears nothing but domestic slaves.
S IMPLE, CHEAP GARMENTS TAKE
" PLACE OF OLD, CUMBER
SOME LINGERIE.
Those of us who are even mid
dle aged recall with horror the
days and days, and the dollars
and dollars, we used to spend
making up elaborate lingerie that
was clumsy and expensive, back
breaking to construct and bank
rupting to have laundered, where
now we find a satisfactory sub
stitute in garments that are
cheaper, more comfortable and
the salvation of the washlady.
Ard oh, the weary, weary, hot
summer days we stewed over
kitchen stoves making jams and
preserves because there was a
tradition that fruit must be put
up, whether it was ever eaten or °
not. How much better and more
wholesome the fresh fruit served
by the housekeeper of today!
Gone, too, are the heavy break
fasts that it took so long to pre
pare, and vanished the what-nots
with their myriads of foolish gim
cracks that had to be dusted
every day, and the throws and
tidies that it required the price of
eternal vigilance to keep in order.
Vanished likewise the heavy car
pets that took the last ounce of a
woman’s strength to keep swept.
The house of the modern wom
an In moderate circumstances,
who must do most if not all of
her housework, is almost bare in
its simplicity and Spartan in its
regimen, as compared with her
grandmother’s, for the woman of
today is bringing a trained intel
ligence to bear on the proposition
of keeping her family comfortable
and haopy with the least expendi
ture of labor and money.
In doing this she has broken
away from the old traditions that
piled up unnecessary work on the
housekeeper. This shocks the
' older generation, but it is the
evangel of the new gospel of
INSHOOTS
The pay envelope generally
gauges the worth of a man's
bluft.
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The woman hater generally
seems to fear them more than he
hates them,
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If the woman who marries a
man to reform him does not suc
ceed, she can .lt lu:t punish him.
Admiration for the joker often
prompts & man to laugh at a joke
at his own eronn.
. .
When the mean boss is unkind
to a handsome stenographer he
is beyond nfgm:uu.on.
The girl with an abbreviated
skirt can not assert that we are
not on to her curves.
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When we attempt to become
famous the most of us find that
the visible supply of fame in our
neighborhood has been cornered.
housekeeping. “When I was a
young woman,” complained an old
New England lady to me, “any
one was thought to be a very
slack housekeeper who didn't
have two kinds of ple for break
fast. My daughter doesn’t even
have ple for dinner. I never had
less than a dozen and a half pairs
of sheets that I never used. My
daughter has barely what she
can ge' along with.
“I never threw away anything, |
but had carloads of things stored
away In my attic. My daughter
never keeps anything that's old or
broken, and she hasn’t even got .
an attic. I tell you, lam afraid '
the home is doomed.”
And there you are. There is a
new school as well as an old in
housekeeping. |
It is, of course, always dan
gerous to forecgst what the home
of the future really will be. Up
to now fewer improvements have
been made in labor-saving de
vices for the home than in any
other line. The workman and
the farmer have had the first
fruits of inventive genius, and
their work has been lightened by
machinery, while the housewife's
work has gone on by hand. |
This is because men have al
ways carried the pocketbook, and
they have thought more about
saving their own backs than they
have their wives. But the new
woman movement is changing all
that, and the day is not far dis
tant when it will pay the in
ventor just as much to devise a
new sort of dishwasher as it did
to make a new harvester.
The washing machine, ‘the gas
range, the electrical cooker and
the fireless cooker are all steps in .
this direction, and they are but
the beginning of the thousand
appliances that will be devised to
make housekeeping easier and
less laborious for women.
CO-OPERATION TO PLAY LARGE
PART IN RELIEVING FU
TURE HOUSEKEEPER.
Undoubtedly, also, co-operation
will play a large part.
In large cities there will be
great central kitchens from which
the housewife may obtain her
roasts, and soups, cooked to a
turn, just as she now gets her
bread from a bakery cheaper and
beiter than, she can make it.
The housekeeper of the future
will put her money in simple fur
niture of beautiful lines and form
instead of cluttering up her rooms
with a multitude of senseless ob-
Jects. This will make the keep
ing of a house neat and orderly
merely the work of a few mine
utes. There will practically be no
sweeping or dusting, for once a
week in private houses, as is al
ready done in the big apartment
houses, a man will come around
with the vacuum cleaner and will
such every particle of dust off of
the rugs, and curtains, and walls.
The home of the future will not
be a place where a woman works
so hard to make her family com
fortable that it leaves her a nerv
ous wreck, so tired that she is
cross and {irritable and unlova
ble. {
It will be a place where steam
and gas and slectrical power have
superseded woman power in doing
the heavy work, and that is run
on scientific and business prin
ciples, and its presiding genius
will be a woman who is able not
only to keep her own nest safe
and snug, but to take part in the
big affairs of the outer world.
Literary chaps who put beau
tiful sob words in poetry can
often spill darned unpleasant
growl words about homae.
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We seldom ask advice to keep
out of trouble; it is when we
want to get out that we seek
counsel,
c. B 0 .8
June is considered the Ilucky
marriage month. But in case of a
divorce she is fortunate in getting
rid of him in any old month,
. . .
Of course, high trolley car steps
add to the attractiveness of the
modern short skirt.
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If a fellow can not pose as so
loist, he can help the band by
beating the bg.n.dn.lm. ‘
The old sport married man
dare not express fondness for
chicken In the presence of
wife, -