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Regulate the Speed of Heavy ]
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Trucks in Cities }
A Suggestion to the Public Authorities. ’ 1;
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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 milet an hour, and even more.
A truck of such weight at high speed is entirely beyond con
trol and as dangerous as a moving freight train off the track.
On down grades the speed may be unlimited. The drivers as
a rule feel quite sass. 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 & 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 gnforced.
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 vehidles 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
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the Coal Mines
For six million 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
ible.
A German workman now comes along who has discovered &
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
WaYy.
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 fictitious, of the burn.
ing of a fleet with the aid of a glass and the sunbeams, will be
matier-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 ADDears, uses a new stroke, dut
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'? Show your bread card ™
Cockney: “Honest, Govnor, | was so "ungry 1 'ad to eat it”
Magistrate says that a wife has a right to choose her own friends
Bo has hubby, but let him try bringing a couple of them home to dinner
Paris physician Says that war lessens insanity. Don't see how un
iess all the nuts sre In the front line trenches
Force of habit: Drinking fved coffee out of & saucer
Natural Mstory note e
. The eurilest caterpillars bad the fashionable long, low streamiine
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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 ue. Anclent
Egypt and Babylonla seemed to
most readers to be dimmed with
the mists of almost measureless
antiquity. “As old as the Pyra
mids” was a phrase that prodnced
on the mind the same effect as the
discovery of a moldering tomb
stone In a forgotien graveyard.
BOUNDARIES OF KNOWN TIME
HAVE BEEN ENLARGED BY
25,000 YEARS BY SCIENCE.
The statement that Adam lived
6,000 years ago had about it the
venerableness of Incredible age.
The orator's tongue hung upon,
and momentously lengtheued out,
the resounding syllables: “Six——
thousand--years!” until they
seemed to echo from the abysm
of profoundest time. It was not
diMcult to belleve that man might
have lived in a Garden of Eden
and talked with angels so long
&30 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 a very moderate es
timate of the length of the back
ward leap that has been taken
from the remotest verge of the
stage of hitherto morded\ history
_ Into the darkness of the prehis
torie ages,
| The adventurous leapers into
the abyss have found solid ground
under their feet, gleaming with
| dusty riches. At one stroke, ai
-1 most, they have more than dou
- bled, and perhaps tripled or quad
rupled, the range of human rec.
l ords on this planet,
The footsteps of man—-not
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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
their 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 extinct
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
most anclent of all history, and
each new discovery Increases the
wonder. Remember that this is
man of the old Stone Age, Pal
aeolithic man, who has done and
left these things. The world that
he looked out upon was In many
wavs 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 come 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 time you come in contact with
the man,
Constant nagging will soon antagonize any person.
Allow for the growth of friendship; do not stifie it by becoming
a bore. =
The changing of a man’'s whole mode of life {& a mighty under
taking.
You can not expect to aecomplish it in a day, a mouth or & year.
Use patience with wisdom, aud do not try to foree an issue.
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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 histo.!c man,
His kind had already deveioped
several distinct races, and one of
these, whose bones and skulls
‘have been found, was In appear
ance so llke 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.
Thnis 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,sand 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 Assocla
~ 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 secn to have been ghared
by the Palaeolithic man in the
~ final stage of his evolution.
EKIRTED LADIES WEARING
SASHES ARE SHOWN DANC
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| 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 s performed by women
~ clad from the walst downward in
well-cut gowns, while In a rock
shelter of Alpera, where we meet
~ with the same skirted ladies,
~ their dress Is supplemented by
~ flying sashes. On the rock paint
ing of the Cueva de la Vieja, near
the same place, women are seen
with still longer gowns rising to
their 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
flood than Noali's flood is from
us, It is even 4,000 years back of
the traditional date of Eve here
self! Evidently the dressmakers’
ary was one of the first
1 have space to refer to but one
other mystery of the old Stone
Age, and I can do It most sue
cinetly by quoting these words of
Sir Arthur Evans: “But the
Sreatest marvel of all Is that such
polychrome masterpieces as the
bisons of the Altamira cave were
executed on the ceilings of inner
vaults and galleries where the
light of day has never penetrated.
Nowhere is there any trace of
smoke, and it {s clear that great
progress in the art of artificlal
llumination had already been
made’
THE HOME PAPER
l Letters From the Peoplz
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 Hepartment make a
school 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
boys and 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, if the
public school would render its
largest possible service to our
children It ought to begin giving
vocational training at tl:s earliest
possible moment. We are now
doing this in the Technological
High School, the English Com
mercial High School and the Nor
mal Training School. However,
our work i{s in a manner unsys
tematic, more or less haphazard,
and incomplete in many ways.
In order that our system of
schools may be made complete we
should open an “Industrial School
for Girls.” In this school, in ad
dition to the ordinary subjects,
should be taught millinery, dress
making, salesmanship, /cooklng,
etc,, 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 yvears of age. 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 yvou 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!!
l About Meat
By WOODS HUTCHINSON, M. D.
EAT is the one perfect and
M complete food, containing
all the elements needed 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 liquid 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 dlsc-nne) 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 kigh living and
rich feeding, 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
(streptococei) 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 saily forth to polzon
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, tuberculosis and syphills,
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
their faces. For hundreds of care.
ful laboratory experiments showeqd
unanimovsly that almost every
sxperimental animal or bird could
With the foregoing “flonnm:i
in hand and the scholarshiy res.
ord before them, the school gy,
thorities ought. to be able to givy
advice as to the course of study
the child should adopt and tpy
school it should enter, 1n addl.
tion this information would ena.
ble the school authorities t shape
the course of study in the man.
. ner best suited to the wants qf
our peopls. In many cases, {4
would doubtless be found that,
after a trial, the child wag not
fitted for the calling or schoo) 56
lected. When that is found to by
the case, there ought not to be
any hesitancy on the part of thy
school authorities in making o
change, thus keeping the chjj4 n
school instead of putting it out
because it happened to fa in
some particular school.
In addition to the forezoing
work,, there ought to be a cen.
sus, kept more or less up to date
of the callings, trades and proses.
sions followed in the city ang ita
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 girle and our hyst
ness men. Ald ils now given ts
some extent In this direction he
the principals of our high
schools, but no effort has bhesn
made to systematize the work
Of course, all the work hers
outlined could not be dore in a
week, month or year, but it cas
all be done, and at a very smal
cost, year by vear.
Very truly yours,
WILLIAM H. TERRELL
Members of the School Board fe
the First Ward.
(This is the second of Mr. Terrerll,
letters on the Atlanta achools. Ther
will be others to follow at short inte.
vals.) . |
BOY, PAGE MR. VON HERREMARN,
PLEASE.
Editor The Georgian:
As a Georglan subscribar nd a
~ lover of “things beautiful,” and
particularly of one of the most
beautiful things on the continent
today, the American flag, I would
ke to call your attention to the
~ flagpole on the Empire Building
and ask that you note ths cond
| tion of the flag that is no doubt
' under the care of the Weather
| Bureau, a Government {nstitution
‘ Do you think a stranger, or even
| a native, could recognize !1?
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Atlanta,
be rendered more resistant to anv
infection by feeding liberally with
meat, either solid or liquid. In
fact many could be immunized
completely against them by z meat
diet, while, on the contrary, not 4
few animals which were natur:ily
resistant to a disease could be
made susceptibls to it by starving
them. i
“But,” says some cautious soul
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
vour liver and kidneys and tor
tures your nerves?” The uric
acid craze is already a matte:
history and about as compl
exploded as the belief In witches
Its sole surviving value is to make
a big sale for certain fake minera
waters, particularly those the
have “lithia” on their labels—bu
not inside the bottics.
URIC ACID ONLY A SYMPTOM.
. Uric acld is not the cause of got
or, as far as we now know, of
any other digease, but is merely 3
symptom and result of certann
chronie, local or concealed inflam
mations, such as abscesses abou!
the roots of the teeth, chronic &
pendicitis or rectal inflammations
Furthermore, meat contains ©°
more of this acid bugaboo tha:
many vegetable substances, #.c!
A 8 peas and beans, and red mea!
not a particle more than whi‘e
Nor has it been found trus 57
laboratory experiments, or feed
ing tests !In hospitals, that mes
leaves other more irritating ¢
fdues in the blood after diges 07
which Inflame kidneys and o ¢
load the liver. Even those '8
eases such as gout and Brig ' *
disease of the kidneys, which » ™
supposed to forbid the use ©f
meat, are found to be mace °°
worse by its moderate and #v¢7
liberal use, not even an incresst
of the albumen in the urine, '/ *
the patient, who has been polite”
starved on a vegetable diet
often made much better.
In fine, the old classic der ©
clation of mept has broken 4.+’
At almost every point. It s ¢
most appetizing, most stimulati &
most readily 3:,..«» food W
have, and one the most nu'”
tious and rapidly burning fuct
80 far as we are able to prove
produces no bad effects of ¥
sort if eaten with an appe'!'*
redsonable amounts ndpf'-'?“"“
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