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Regulate the Speed of Heavy
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Trucks in Cities
A Suggestion to the Public Authorities
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There are in every big city scores of trucks that with their
load weigh from two to ten tons.
These trucks ge through the streets at a speed ranging from
ten to twenty-five miles an hour, and even more.
A truck of suck weight at high speed is entirely beyond con
trol and as dangerous as & moving freight train off the track.
On down grades the speed may be unlimited. The drivers as
a rule feel quite safe. Whatever happens, will not happen TO
THEM.
The number of very heavy trucks will increase more and
more, and the speed of such trucks, at least above one ton, should
be regulated strictly by law.
It is possible to put on every truck an adjustment that will
make it impossible to EXCEED a certain speed. The adjustment
could be made not only to cut off the supply of gasoline above a
certain speed, but also in such a way as to set automatically an
emergency brake above that speed. .
The speed limit should not be above eight miles per hour for
the very heavy trucks—they do not need to go faster.
An intelligent body of men should discuss the matter and the
regulations should be enforced.
Every truck put on the street could be arranged so that it
would not be possible for the driver to evade the law—and this
would not be difficult.
A similar regulation as regards passenger vehicles would not
be unwise.
Inasmuch as Atlanta's streets are destined to become more
and more congested by vehicles, the matter ought to be attend
ed to.
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The Human Brain Beats
the Coal Mines
For six xfiillion years, during the carboniferous period, the
tree ferns dropped their pollen dust to the earth, forming coal
beds which now cook our dinners and incidentally make the Mor
gans and their sort so prosperous.
A good deal of useless anxiety has been devoted to the ques
tions: What will the human race do when the coal gives out?
Shall we freeze, or begin planting huge forests of wood, or what?
In the first place, coal will not give out for a long, long time.
In the second place, its disappearance will not make the slightest
difference, for in the few cubic inches of the human brain nature
has stored up treasures greater than all those hidden in the
depths of the earth.
The creation of the human brain took more years than the
creation of the coal fields, but the brain's resources are inexhaust
fble.
A German workman now comes along who has discovered a
chemical substitute for coal, better than coal in many ways, and
before this German shall have been dead many years some other
will find a further substitute far better and cheaper than his.
There is endless heat power in the action of the tides, in the
rush of Niagara, in the winds, and in the endless chemical combi
nations. Heat is motion, and the universe is motion. Men will
soon cease lighting tiny bonfires to obtain crude heat in a crude
Way.
Electricity or the sun's rays, concentrated for heating pur.
poses, will do the work without any digging in mines by men, or
delving in ashes and clinkers by women.
The story of antiquity, more or less fictitions, of the burn.
ing of a fleet with the aid of & glass and the sunbeams, will be
matter-of-fact reality long before the coal shall have been ex.
hausted. .
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Inklings and Thinklings ]
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By Wex Jones.
Mr. Ice having married Miss Freese, a correspondent writes that he
hopes their love will never thaw,
Japanese lawn tennis player, it appears, uses a new stroke, but
doesn’t know it. And so many of us write prose without knowing it
Life's mysteries: The Balkans.
Proposed to introduce bread cards In London. Scene at distrid.
uting station.
Bobby: “Ere, where are you pushin'? Bhow your bread card.”
Cockney: “Honest, Govnor, I was so "ungry I ‘ad to eat it."
Magistrate says that a wife has a right to chgose her own friends.
80 has hubby, but let him try bringing a couple of them home to dinner.
Paris physiclan says *hat war lessens insanity. Don't see how, un-
Jess all the nuts are In the front I'ne trenches.
Force of havit: Drinking #ved coffee out of a saucer.
‘m )istory note:
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One Hundred Centuries Ago an Artist
. Painted Women in Skirts .°
Colors Are Still Undimmed, Says Garrett P. Serviss, in This Picture Drawn on the Ceiling
of a Deep Cave Eight Thousand Years Before Christ, and Which Now Tells a New
Age of a Long-Vanished Race.
By Garrett P. Serviss.
T is not many years ago that
I the horizon of human history,
As seen by all but a few eyes,
extended only four or five thou
#and years behind us. Anclent
Egypt and Babylonia seemed to
most readers to be dimmed with
the mists of almost measureless
antiquity. “As old as the Pyra
mids” was & phrase that produced
on the mind the same effect as the
discovery of & moldering tomb
stone In & forgotten graveyard.
BOUNDARIES OF KNOWN TIME
HAVE BEEN ENLARGED BY
25,000 YEARS BY SCIENCE.
The statement that Adam lived
6,000 years ago bad about it the
venerableness of incredible age.
The orator's tongue hung upon,
and momerntously lengthened out,
the resounding syllables: “Six—
thousand-—years!™ unti! they
~ seemed to echo from the abysm
of profoundest time. It was not
difficult to believe that man might
~ have lived In a Garden of Eden
- and talked with angels so long
#go as that,
| But within a few years past
~ the discoveries of archaeology
- have thrown human history so
much farther back that Egypt,
} Chaldea, Adam, Noah and all that
~ was formerly looked upon as rep
. resenting the extreme of antiqui
| ty seem to be persons and things
of yesterday. Twenty-five thou
sand Years is u very moderate cs
timate of the length of the back
ward leap that has been taken
from the remotest verge of the
stage of hitherto recorded history
into the darkness of the prehis.
toric ages,
The adventurous leapers Into
the abyss have found solid ground
under thelr feet, glcaming with
dusty riches. At one stroke, ale
most, they have more than dou
bled, and perhaps tripled or quad
rupled, the range of human rec
ords on this planet.
The footsteps of man—not
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Copyright, 1918, Intermatiomal News
man-monkey, but man-thinker—
can now be seen extending back
ward until they disappear under
the glittering front of the Great
Ice Age. The sting of the gla
clers’' breath was still In the air
when men began to adorn the
caverns of the Pyrenees and the
Cantabrian Mountains with rock
paintings and frescoes, some of
which are as fresh today as in
thelir prime.
THESE PREHISTORIC PAINTERS
WERE FAMILIAR WITH ANI
MALS LONG SINCE EXTINCT.
The makers of these pictures
were famillar with bisons, rein- ;
deer, mammoths, cave bears and |
other animals long since extinet
or unseen by man In that part
of the earth since history began |
to be written or Inscribed, |
Every year, now, sees some ad- |
vance In this uncovering of the 1
most anclent of all history, and |
each new discovery increases the
wonder. Remember that this is
man of the old Stone Age, Pal
aeolithle man, who has done and
left these things. The world that
he looked out upon was in many |
ways different from the world ‘
ONCE-OVERS
LEAD, RATHER THAN DRIVE.
You may have in mind some person whom you wish to lead to a
better life. :
Don't follow a course which will bore him.
Many a man has came very near the turning point when all has
been lost by some one's attempt to force a decision.
Sow a few seeds at a time.
Do not try to scatter some every t'me you come in contact with
the man.
Constant nagging will soon antagonize any person,
Allow for the growth of triendship; do not stifie it by becoming
a bore.
‘rhochmunm'lwhoh-odoulmhunmu under.
taking.
Yoflaanotc'x‘p“euomwa it In a day, a month or a year.
Use patience wisdom, and do not try to force an issue.
By Jimmy Swinnerton
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that we see today. The climate
was different, the scenery was dif
ferent, the animals and plants
around him were, in many cases,
different.
Yet he was essentially, poten
tially, the equal of historic man.
His kind had already developed
several distinct races, and one of
these, whose bones and skulls
have been found, was In appear
ance so lilke some of the strong
est and most intellectual races of
today that It is startling to look
upon their reconstructed figures
and faces, as archaeologists have
been able to present them to us.
This was the Cro-Magnon race.
Go and look, in the Museum of
Natural History, at the models of
these wonderful countenances
which have come peering out of
the past to show us that tens of
thousands of years ago man was
already clutching at the edges of
the high plateau of progress on
which we now stand, and from
which we are going to climb still
higher as the ages roll on.
Sir Arthur Evans, the discov
erer of the palace of King Minos
and the Cretan Labyrinth, speak-
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ing before the British Associa
tion for the Advancement of Sci
ence on the recent advances of
~archaeological science, sald: “One
‘ after another, features that had
been reckoned as the exclusive
property of Neolithic or later
ages are seen to have been shared
by the Palaeolithic man in the
final stage of his evolution.
EKIRTED LADIES WEARING
SASHES ARE SHOWN DANC
ING IN ONE PREHISTOR
IC PAINTING.
“For the first time, moreover,
we find the productions of his art
rich In human subjects. At Cogul
(one of the painted caverns In
northeastern Spain) the sacral
dance is :grformed by women
clad from the walist downward in
well-cut gowns, while In a rock
sheiter of Alpera, where we meet
with the same skirted ladies,
their dress Is supplemented by
fiying sashes. On the rock paint
ing of the Cuetra de la Vieja, near
the same place, women are seen
with still longer gowns rising to
thelr bosoms., We are already a
long way from Eve!”
And these gowned and sashed
ladies lived at least ten thousand
‘ years ago, which is farther back
~ of the traditional date of Noah's
1 flood than Noah's flood is from
us. It is even 4,000 years back of
‘ the traditional date of Eve here
- self! Evidently the dressmakers’
art was one of the first,
I have space to refer to but one
other mystery of the old Stone
Age, and 1 can do it most suc
cinctly by quoting these words of
Sir Arthur Evans: "“But the
grvatest marvel of all is that such
polychrome masterpleces as the
bisons of the Altamira cave were
~ executed on the cellings of inner
~ vaults and galleries where the
light of day has never penetrated,
Nowhere is there any trace of
smoke, and It is clear that great
~ progress in the art of artificial
| illumination had already been
wmade.”
THE HOME PAPER
Letters From the Peopl;
ATLANTA’S SCHOOLS.
Editor The Georgian.
In my article a few days ago on
our public school system, I gave
it as my opinion that the first
thing to do before making any
permanent plans for the improve
ment of our school system would
be to establish a “department of
educational research” and then
have that department make a
gchool census of all children be
tween the ages of 6 and 18
vears, -
Following the establishment of
a department of educational re
search should be established as a
part thereof a bureau of ‘“voca
tional guidance” in our schools.
Not more than 1 per cent of our
bovs 2nd girls ever go to college
and less than 10 per cent ever fin
ish high school. With this fact
before us, it seems to me, ilf the
public school would render its
largest pocsible service to our
children 1t ought to bezin giving
vocatlonal training at t 1.2 earliest
possible mom-n* We are now
doing this in the Terhnnlogical
Hizh School. the English Com
m-refal High School and the Nor
mal Training School. However,
our work is in a manner unsys
tematic. more or less haphazard,
and incomplrte in many ways.
In ord~r that our system of
schools may be made compl-te we
should open an “Industrinl School
for Girls.” In this school, in ad
dition to the ordinary subjects,
should be taught millinery, dress
making, salesmanship, cooking,
ete., etc The art of selling
should be taught also in the
English Commercial High School,
but should be elective.
With our system of vocational
education in full operation, the
next thing should be to take a
vocational census of those at
tending school. This census
should include all children from
12 to 18 years of ase. Question
blanks should be sent out, one
for the child, one for the father
and one for the mother. The
questions asked ought to be,
“Name, parents’ name, age, and
in case of the child, what busi
ness, trade, calling or profession
would you like to follow? What
do you expect to do when you
leave school? What do vou think
you can do best?” In the case of
the parents, the questions should
include name of child, age, pa
rents’ names, address, what each
of them would like their child or
children to follow as a vocation
after they leave school, and also
what they think the child can do
best.
Some More Popular Delusions
i About Meat
By WOODS HUTCHINSON, M. D.
EAT is the one perfect and
M complete food, containing
all the elements neegded for
human nutrition in the proper
proportions, and the only one
upon which life can be supported
alone for indefinite periods.
Infants can live exclusively
upon milk, which is liquild meat,
but adults can not and retain
good working condition and
strength. Milk for babies, meat
for strong men, happens to be
true, though it is a proverb, and
this has been amply proven by
tests,
So far so bad for the meat
dreaders. One by one, one after
another, all the eating-too-much
meat diseases have been surely
discovered and proven to be due
to germs of different kinds, and
to HAVE NOTHING WHAT
EVER TO DO WITH DIET, ex
cept that most of them are made
worse by underfeeding and better
by liberal feeding, and, of course,
would be agrgavated by dietetie
errors or excesses of' any sort.
GOUT FLOURISHES
AMONG POOR.
Gout and rheumatism, for in
stance, Instead of being the spe
clal penalty of high living and
rich feed!ng, flourish most abun
dantly and flercely among the
poor and underfed, who often see
meat only once a week,
Both are due to plain pus-bugs
(streptococeci) which burrow and
“den-up” in robbers’ caves about
the roots of decaying teeth and
the pockets of diseased tonsils
or the cavities of the nasal pas
sage in neglected catarrh, and
from there sally forth to poison
the joints and the bones and the
kidneys and the arteries. Most
Bright's disease and paralysis are
after effects, long-distance hang
overs, of the infections of child
hood and the fevers of youth,
diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles,
typhoid, tuberculosls and syphilis.
But one loophole was left. Per
haps these infections were aggra
vated by too much meat, Eagerly
the traditionalists turned to it,
only to find it blocked, shut in
thelr faces. For hundreds of care
ful laboratory experiments showed
unanimously that almost every
experimental animal or bird could
With the foregoing Inl’orms‘
in hand and the scholarsmp rec.
ord before them, the school gy.
thoritles ought to be able tg glve
advice as to the course of study
the child should adopt apg the
school it should enter, In agqj.
tion this information woyg ena.
ble the school authorities tq shaps
the course of study in the map.
ner best suited to the wang o
our people. In many cases, |t
would doubtless be found that,
after a trial, the chiig was not
fitted for the calling or schoo] ge.
lected. When that s foung ¢, be
the case, there ought not to be
any hesitancy on the part of the
school authorities In making a
change thus keeping the chilg in
school instead of putting {t oyt
because it happrned to fai] in
some partiéular school.
In addition to the foregoing
work, there ought to be a cen.
sus. kept more or less up to dats
of the callings, trodes ard proses.
sions followed in the city ang its
suburbs, with the approximate
numbers in each. The CO-opera.
tion of business should be sought,
and in connection with this work
an employment bureau woylg
likewise be a fine thing both for
our boys and girls and our bug|.
ness men. Ald Is now given to
come extent In this direction by
the principals of our high
schools. but no effort has heen
made to systematize the work
Of course, all the work hers
outlined could not be done ina
week, month or year, but it can
all be done, and at a very smal
cost, year by year.
Very truly yours,
WILLIAM H. TERRELL,
Members of the School Board
the First Ward.
(This is the second of Mr. Terrerlly
letters on the Atlanta schools. Then
will be others to follow at short inter
vals.)
BOY, PAGE MR. VON HERRMANN,
PLEASE.
Editor The Georgilan:
As a Georglan subscriber and &
lover of “things beautiful,” and
particularly of one of the most
beautiful things on the continent
today, the American flag, 1 would
like to call your attention to the
flagpole on the Empire Building
and ask that you note the cond!-
tion of the flag that is no doubt
under the care of the Weather
Bureau, a Government institutlon.
Do you think a stranger, or even
a native, could recognize it?
| A. M S
Atlanta,
be rendered more resistant to any
infection by feeding liberally with
meat, either solid or liquid. In
fact many could be immunized
completely against them by a meat
diet, while, on the contrary, not 2
few animals which were naturally
resistant to a disease could be
made susceptible to it by starving
them.
“But,” says some cautious sou!
who is proud of the delicacy of
his digestion and revels in diet
lists, “doesn’t meat contain quan
tities of uric acid which burns out
your liver and kidneys and tor
tures your nerves? The urio
acid craze is already a matter of
history and about as ecompletel:
exploded as the belief In witches.
Its sole surviving value is to make
a big sale for certain fake mineral
waters, particularly those that
have “lithia” on their labels—but
not inside the bottles.
URIC ACID ONLY A SYMPTOM.
Uric acld is not the cause of gout
or, as far as we now know, of
any other disease, but is merely a
symptom and result of certain
chronie, local or concealed inflam
mations, such as abscesses about
the roots of the teeth, chronic ar
pendicitis or rectal inflammatlions
Furthermore, meat contains no
more of this acid bugaboo than
many vegetable substances, such
as peas and beans, and red meal
not a particle more than white.
Nor has it been found true by
laboratory experiinents, or feel
ing tests In hospitals, that mea!
leaves other more Irritating res
idues ‘ln the blood after digestion
which Inflame kidneys and over
load the liver. Even those dis
eases such as gout and Brigh!®
disease of the kidneys, which wers
supposed to forbld the uss of
meat, are found to be made 10
worse by its moederate and even
liberal use, not even an increast
of the albumen in the urine, whil*
the patient, who has been polite
starved on & vegetable diet, ¢
often made much better,
In fine, the old classic den »
clation of meat has broken dow!
at almost every point, It fs U'#
most .ppetlllns. most stimulati"§
most readlly digestible food «*
have, and one J‘Jm most nutr!
tious and rapidly burning fue’
So far as we are able to prove
produces no bad effects of ors
sort If eaten with an appetite
reasonable amounts and follove’
by plenty of exercise