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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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Regulate the Speed of Heavy
. . .
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 go through the streets at a speed ranging from
ten to twenty-five miles 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 safe. Whatever happens, will not happen TO
THEM.
The number of very heavy trucks will increase more and
mere, 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 get 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
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the Coal Mines
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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, iis 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 somes 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.
Theve is endless heat power in the action of the tides, in the
rush of Niagara, in the winds, and in the endless chemical vombi
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 fictitious, of the burn
ing of a fleet with the aid of a glass and the sunbeams, will be
matter-of fact reality long before the coal shall have been ex
hausted.
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 ®now 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 distrib
uting station.
Bobby: “Ere, where are you pushin’? Show your bread card.”
Cockney: “Honest, Govnor, I was so "ungry I 'ad to eat it
Mazistrate suys that a wife has a right to choose her own friends.
Sp 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
less all the nuts are in the front line trenches.
Force of habit: Drinking iced coffee out of a saucer.
w history note:
The earliest caterpillars had the fashionable long, low streamline
bodies.
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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
sand years behind us. Ancient
Egypt and Babylonia seemed to
most readers to be dimmed with
the mists of almost measureless
antiquity. “As old as the FPyra
mids" was a phrase that produced
on the mind the same effect as the
discovery of a moldering tomb
stone in a forgotten 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
venerablecness of incredible age.
The orator's tongue hung upon,
and momentously lengthened out,
the resounding syllables: “Six—
thousand-—years!"” until 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
ago as that,
But within a few years past
the discoveries of archaeology
have thmwn‘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
tyv seem to be persons and things
of vesterday. 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 recorded history
into the darkness of the prehis
| toric ages.
| The adventurous leapers Into
the abyss have found solid ground
i under their feet, gleaming wi'h
dusty riches. At one stroke, al
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 mean—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 familiar 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 tkis uncovering of the
t most ancient 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
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 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 antagouize any person.
Allow for the growth of friendghip; do not stifie it by becoming
& bore.
The changing of a man’s whole mode of life is & mighty under
taking.
¥ou can not expect to accomplish it in a day, a month or a year.
Use patience with wisdom, and do not try to force 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 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 like 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
Naturz] 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-
ing before the British Associa
tion for the Advancement of Sci
ence on the recent advances of
archaeological science, said: “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.
SKIRTED 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 performed by women
clad from the waist 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 Noah's flood is from
us. It is even 4,000 years back of
the traditional date of Eve her
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 T can do it most suc
cinctly by quoting these words of
Sir Arthur Evans: “But the
greatest marvel of all is that such
polychrome masterpieces as the
bisons of the Aliamira 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 is clear that great
progress in the art of artificial
jlilumination had already been
made.”
THE HOME PAPER
| Letters From the People
ATLANTA’S SCHOOLS.
Editor The Georgian.
In my article a few days ago on
our public school system, 1 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
school cersus 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
vacatlional training at tle 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 is in 8 manner unsys
tematic, more cr 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, cooking,
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 years 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 you think
vou 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
Y 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
testa.
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 dietetic
errors or excesses of any sort.
GOUT FLOURISHES
AMONG POOR.
Gout and rheumatism, for in
stance, instead of being the spe
cial penalty of high living and
rich feeding, flourish most abun
dantly anrd fiercely among the
poor and underfed, who often see
meat only once a week,
Both are due to plain pus-bugs
(streptccocci) which burrow and
“den-up” in robbers’ caves about
tha 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,
typheid, tuberculosis 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
their faces. For hundreds of care
ful laboratory experiments showed
unanimously that almost every
experimental animal or bird could
With the foregoing information
in hand and the scholarship rec
ord before them, the school au- |
thorities ought to be able to give
advice as to the course of study '
the child should adopt and the |
school it should enter. In addi
tion this information would ena- |
ble the school authorities to shape V
the course of study in the man
ner best suited to the wants of
our people. In many cases, it
would doubtless be found that,
after a trial, the child was not
fitted for the calling or school se
lected. When that is found to be
the case, there ought not to be
any hesitancy on the part of the
school authorities in making a
change, thus keeping the child in
school Instead of putting it out
because it happened to fail in
some particular school.
In addition to the foregoing .‘0
work, there ought to be a cen- !
sus, kept more or less up to date
of the callings, trades and profes
sions followed in the eity and 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 would
likewise be a fine thing both for |
our boys and girls and our busi- '
ness men. Aid is now given to
some extent in this direction by
the principals of our high
schools, but no effort has been
made to systematize the work.
Of course, all the work here
outlined could not be decne in a
week, month or year, but it can
all be done, and at a very smail
cost, year by year. J
Very truly yours, -
WILLIAM. H. TERRELL,
Members of the School Board so?
the First Ward.
(This is the second of Mr. Terreril’s
letters on the Atlanta schools. There
will be others to follow at short inter
vals.)
BOY, PAGE MR. VON HERRMANN;
PLEASE.
Editor The Georgian:
As a Georgian subscriber and a .
lover of “things beautiful,” and
particularly of one of the most
beautiful things on the continent
today, the American flag, I would
like {o call your attention to the
flagpole on the Empire Building »
and ask that you note the condi
tion of the flag that is no doubt
under the care of the Weather . .
Bureau, a Government institution.
Do you think a stranger, or even ; s
a native, could recognize it?
A. M. 8.
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 a |
few animals which were naturally
resistant to a disease could be
made susceptible to it by starving®
them.
“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
your liver and kidneys and tor
tures your nerves?” The uric
acid craze is already a matter of
history and about as completely
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 acid 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
chronic, local or concealed infia.m-)
mations, such as abscesses about’
the roots of the teeth, chronic ap
pendicitis or rectal inflammations.
Furthermore, meat contains no
more of this acid bugaboo than
many vegetable substances, such
as peas and beans, and red meat
not a particle more than white.
Nor has it been found true by
laboratory experiments, or feed
ing tests in hospitals, that meat
leaves other more irritating res
idues in the blood after digestion
which inflame kidneys and over
load the liver. Even those dis
eases such as gout and Bright's!
disease of thc kidneys, which were
supposed to forbid the use of
meat, are found to be made no
worse by its moderate and even
liberal use, not even an increase
of the albumen in the urine, while
the patient, who has beéen politely
starved on a vegetable diet, is
often made much better.
In fine, the old classic denun
ciation of meat has broken down
at almost every point. It is the
most appetizing, most stimulating,
most readily digestible food we
have, and one of the most nutri-«
tious and rapidly burning fuels.
So far as we are able to prove, it
produces no bad effects of anp
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by'plenty of exercise,