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The War’s End Must Await
the Reign of Common Sense
How long can the nations in Europe fight?
Harden, the German writer, discusses the question and
Jets us know that some Germans think France ‘‘can not continue
fighting beyond the autumn.’’
Nonsense, of course, France can continue fighting through
the next five, six or ten autumns, if she chooses.
Men can fight as long as they WILL fight, until common
sense puts an end to the butchery that ought never to have
begun.
If a few hundred thousand Indians were able to go on fight
ing the United States for fifty years, how long do you suppose
two hundred millions of Russians will be able to go on fighting
Germany?
As long as the Germans are willing to endure semistarvation,
as long as the French and others are willing to endure war on
their own territory and wholesale butchery, the war will con
tinue.
The English are safe on their island. A few Zeppelins do
nothing—less harmful than the measles. The English have just
begun to use the millions of men that they have been training
and feeding and teaching. 8o far as England and Russia are
conoerned, the war might last ten years longer. It is a very little,
very young war, if you look back to the SBeven Years' War, the
Thirty Years’ War, and the Hundred Years’ War. The hope is
not in the exhaustion of any group of fighting nations, but in
general realization of the war’s brutality and uselessness. Every
nation would go back now to the days before the war if it could.
The longer each waits, the worse it will be when the day to go
back arrives.
Fortunately, it seems safe to predict that wars on this scale
will not be seen again for many & day.
Barring the Asiatio problem, the problems of half brutal,
mmovilized little peoples like the bandits of Mexico, the world
will probably see no more exploding ghrapnel for many a day
after this war ends.
It Is Hard to Find Tears for
Roumania’s Woes
Roumania seems to be getting a good drubbing in this war,
and it is hard to squeeze out a tear of sympathy or to heave a
sigh of regret. For there certainly was no nobility of purpose
or lofty patriotism in the motives that inspired the entrance of
Roumania upon the field of the world conflict.
Hers is a bargain counter war, pure and simple. SBhe waited
and watched and haggled, and when she thought the time was
ripe and her assurances complete, she started to rob her neighbors
of territory. There was no pretense that her neighbors had in
vaded her lands or trampled on her rights. There was no national
wrong to avenge. >
But Roumania waited until she thought the cause of the cen
tral empires was failing and her opportunity had come to grab
some land from Austria and Bulgaria, and then she declared
war, just as a robber baron would go out on raid for loot. She
has found that the robbery is not as safe and easy as she thought,
and is being well punished for her cupidity.
And hardly had she entered upon her first campaign when
complaints were made of the atrocities committed by her troops
—atrocities that rival in barbarity the deeds of the Mohawks
and Apaches. It has been necessary to send an American com
mission to inquire into the reported outrages. Up to now the ac
counts of the atrocities have come from Austro-German sources,
and, therefore, it is necessary to take some of them with a grain
of salt.
But it must be remembered that a people who go to war sole
ly to rob their neighbors will not be likely to conduct their rob
beries on high-minded or chivalrous principles. 8o it is more
than likely that when we get the report of William Warfield, the
American charge d'affaires, we will find that many of the tales of
heartless cruelty are based entirely upon facts.
ONCE-OVERS
IN THE SUNLIGHT.
There is too much brightness and sunshine in the world for you to
be forever gloomy.
This old world is full of beauty, full of things whichk should make
you thank a kind Providence that you were placed here to enjoy them.
You must expect some clouds, but they will not remain forever. The
clouds will pass away and the sunshine will come to you again as it has
{n the past. All you have to do is to take advantage of it
. Brighten with its rays.
As they become stronger, grow with them. You will be surprised
how much you will get out of life when you cease to grumble and join
with nature in ber joyousness.
You would be foolish to sit {nside with the shades down when the
sun is shining brightly. When trouble goes, let your gloom go, too.
§ m not punish yourself deliberately. Why do you do it?
The sun shines for all of us. Be ready to bask when it comes.
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TELEPHONE TANTRUMS.
(Savannah News.)
It is strange but true a host of
folks, including both men and
women, have apparently never
found out that a telephone girl is
human., But she really is. She
gets tired at times. When calls
are coming as rapidly as bullets
from a Belgian “rattlesnake” gun
she gets confused at times. She
even gets a headache when some
hundred or two hundred impa
tient folks jam the recelver up
and down on their telephones,
flashing lights in their eyes, mak
ing clicking noises in their ears,
and giving her ‘“sass” that they
would not think of giving her in
the street, because, likely as not,
if they did she would give their
ears a good boxing.
But “over the telephone” is dif
ferent from “in thé street.” In
the former case she is just a part
of the mechanical contrivance
that enables men te talk to each
other with the aid of electricity,
and it evidently is assumed that
the Wmaptient user of the tele
phone has as much right to swear
at her as a piece of mechanism &as
he has to swear at his automobile
when it stalls ten miles from town
with night comipg on. He never
stops to think that it was his un
intelligent driving that, perhaps,
caused the car to stall, and he
never stops to think that when he
slams the receiver up and down
and shouts in the telephone op
erator's ear he is helping to bring
about a “stall,” that he is contrib
ullng‘ to a tangle that would be
quickly straightened out if he had
patience enough to wait ten little
seoconds.
In England, we are told, the
telephone service is, as folks say,
“rotten.” In this country it is far
better. It might be a good thing
to give telephone boors—those
impatient folks who forget that
a telephone girl is human—a lit
tle taste of England service. May
be they would be so chastened in
spirit that they v ould even forget
to slam the receiver on the hook,
and one or two of them might say
“Thank you"” when the operator
was especially earnest and oblig
ing in her efforts to serve them.
There might be some more tel
ephone politeness and common
gense exhibited if the boors were
invited to sit for an hour in the
ecentral exchange and hear all that
one telephone operator has to
hear, and try to keep up with the
stream of calls, of clicking sounds,
of flashing lights, of back talk,
without mixing any numbers, and
especially without “sass” for
“sass"” After such a lesson it is
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remain a boor. For he would
have learned that the telephone
girl's is certainly one of the most
trying of all occupations, and that
she Is really human, not a piece
of mechanism that never ge'n
tired or worried. It would be a
great pleasure to hear him use
the telephone afterward. How
easily he would raise the receiver
from the hook. How clearly he
would speak the number. How
patiently he would wait through
the few seconds before his answer
came. How plentiful his “Thank
you's" would be. And how poign
ant his regret that he ever was a
boor.
GREAT ADVERTISING STUNT.
(Savannah Press.)
Further evidence of the fact
that it pays to advertise. A negro
over in Brunswick was senetnced
to be hanged. He had succeeded
in “passing up” one execution day
by corveniently escaping from
jail about 3 o'clock of the morn
ing set for his execution. He was
gone for several days and when
he was finally caught the Sheriff
had no authority to swing him off
because the day set for the execu
tion had passed. This made it
necessary for the man to be re
sentenced and this was promptly
done. He was to hang this time
somewhere about the middle of
October
But the negro seems to have
been pretty smart and he had a
smart lawyer, They determined
to make one more effort to save
the life of him who seemed des
tined in a very short time to dan
gle around in the air.
They wanted to reach the pub-
i Inklings and Thinklings
By Wex Jones.
Leland Stanford girls, as part of their home economics course,
have an imaginary husband, income, home and children.
It the income were only real, the rest might just as well be imagi
nary.
In designing a Taft-Roosevelt button, it would be advisable to put
them on opposite sides of it.
Jobs we don't want:. Counting John D.'s blllion.
They’re going to make alcohol from sawdust. Well, alcohol has
brought many to the sawdust.
The only voice that never givee out in a campaign is
old Vox Populi.
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He's eye and ear and they decided
to advertise. So they bought a
a page in one of the daily news
papers of Brunswick and told the
black man’s story to the people
at home. It set the folks to think
ing. Probably they concluded
the negro had not been so much
in the wrong after all as to de- «
mand the taking of his life. His
statement made a better impres
sion in print than it did when the
defendant went upon the stand
in his own behalf. The adver
tisement made such a good im
pression that a fight was started
on behalf of the man and the
Governor recently commuted his
sentence to life imprisonment.
By using the newspaper col
umns the negro saved his spinal
column. It certainly pays to ad
vertise.
THE WOODS.
(Albany Heraid.)
What do the woods mean to
you? How often do you drift into
their depths, revel in their sooth
ing solitudes and get inspiration
out of their strange mysteries?
Not when you go with gun and
dog, not when bound over some
much or little used route that
leads you through them in a rat
tling wagon or a chugging auto
mobile, but when you go solely to
get there, and, when you get
there, sit yourself down where the
grass is thick, the trees are big
and the myriad voices of the
woods are like the babbling of the
waves when a tide comes in.
There are unfathomed myste
ries in the woods. There are in
spirations never guessed at by the
man who has not sought them.
There are beauties never trans-
ferred to canvas by the artist's
brush, and sermons the like of
which ne'er came from man-built
pulpits.
Many a man who finds the bur
dens of life so grievous that he
staggers 'meath their weight, and
who faces perplexities so numer
ous and nagging that ofttimes he
feels as If the limit had been
reached, would find a solace for
his tortured brain and sweet
soothing for his nerves if he
would betake himself to the won
drous woods and lend himself to
their always gracious mood.
THERE 1S NO CHARGE FOR THIS
(Swainsboro Forest Blade.)
The officlals of the Swains
boro school having ordered the
pupils to stay away from the
moving pictures on the first four
nights of the week, with indefi
nite suspension for each violation
of the rule, it is reasonable to
believe that in due time these
gentlemen will also—
Prohibit the sun from rising in
the east;
| Object to the wind blowing
' during school hours;
Make it a misdemeanor to
mention the principal's name out
loud without taking off hats and
bowing to the ground;
Prohibit the reading of all pa
pers, magazines and books;
Prohibit the perusal of The
Forest Blade, upon penalty of a
whipping with willow switches;
Forbid the eating of oatmeal,
battercakes or scrambled eggs
for breakfast;
Require a military galute upon
passing a trustee on the street;
Don the boys in stripes, teach
them the lock-step, and shave
their heads:
Restrict the girls to uniform
dresses and destroy the books of
all who dare wear silk stock
ings;
Prohibit the eating of candy,
except on Saturday mornings,
with a month’'s suspension for
each violation;
Take away the recess privilege
from each pupil who listens to a
bird sing, acmires the blue in the
gkies, or enjoys the glorious au
tumn weather
By doing any of these things
the school officials could not
make themselves a bit more ab
surd, ridiculous or preposterous,
and as long as they insist on be
ing deliberately silly they ought
to make a perfect job of it.
As a matter of fact, the school
officials have absolutely no shad
ow of legal right to deprive any
boy or girl of the privileges of a
free education, guaranteed them
by the Constitution of the State
of Georgia, because that boy or
girl chooses, out of school hours
and generally with the consent
and approval of the parent, to
attend the moving pictures; and
if the school officials are not
aware of the fact, then we here
with tender them the informa
tion, free gratis!
THE HOME PAPER
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All Children Should Be
Taught to Cultiva
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Pleasant Voice :
Garrett P. Serviss Says It Would Be Easy to Train
Girls and Boys to Speak Well if They Were Not
Bothered With Rules, but, Instead, Were Giiven
Good Examples by Their Teachers.
N the matter of education
I there is nothing more unde
servedly neglected than the
art of using the organs of speech.
Dr. C. P. Grayson, of Philadel
phia, is entirely right in urging
that voice culture should be a
part of the instruction given in
elementary schools. The schools
teach how to spell and pronounce
words, but nt how to articulate
them. To articulate a word is to
give forth the sounds composing
it in a clear, distinct, distinguish
able and agreeable manner. A
word not well articulated is a
mere .nimal grunt or cry.
A TYPEWRITER CAN CONCEAL
BAD HANDWIRTING, BUT NOTH
ING CAN DISGUISE A VOICE.
The schools teach how to form
letters in writing 4o that they
can be read with ease and cer
tainty, but they do not teach how
to utter the sounds of the voice
in speaking so that they, too, can
~ be understood with ease and cer- |
l tainty. A squeaking, guttural or
indistinct voice is the equivalent
‘ of careless, ill-formed, illegible |
‘l handwriting. The typewriter of
fers a remedy, or a substitute, for
the latter, but there is no me
chanical remedy or substitute for
a bad voice. The phonograph re
produces only what it hears; if it
could automatically replace im;
perfect sounds by perfect ones a
bad speaker might conceal his
defects by never appearing in per
son, just as a modern Horace
Greeley using a typewriter may
escape the curses, and even the
| suspicion, of the composing room.
The English language is the
best in:drument; or medium, for
the expression of human thought
and emotion that has yet been
devised, and a better one may
never be devised. The man who
can use it effectively has an in
tellectual asset of inestimable
| value. But if he can not utter
the words of the language clear
ly and pleasingly he has only half
mastered it, even though he may
write it brilliantly.
FOREIGNERS HAVE REASON TO
COMPLAIN OF THE HARSH
NESS OF THE “AMER
ICAN VOICE.”
The writers have had a tre
| mendous “pull” lately; it is the
speakers’ turn. Their art is the
older, and, upon the whole, the
more important, and it ought to
receive careful attention from ed
ucators. You need only go to a
“reception” or listen to the talk
at an average social assemblage
of any kind in order to feel the
force of the criticism which for
eigners often express concern
ing the ‘“American voice.” In
such places you can also find ma
terial for forming a judgment on
the more cutting detail of this
criticism which asserts that “the
women's voices are worse than
the men’'s.”
' The enunciation of words is an
imitative art. The child learns
Sugar-Coated Essays— C};fif;@s_"
HE circus is the oldest ex-
I cuse in existence for taking
~ day off from the office or
playing hookey from school.
The institution is at least 2,500
years old, but is still new enough
to create a sensation with the
whole family every time it comes
to town.
The circus is made up of tra
peze performers, clowns, sawduet,
animals, smells, pink Ilemonade,
side shows and a !ot of other in
teresting and mysterious things,
all of which have stood the test
of time.
The circus moves from place to
place, a mammoth aggregation of
glittering gorgeousness, amusing
the populace and gathering in the
50-cent pieces in considerable
numbers. It is a great elixir of
life, and if taken at least once a
year is guaranteed to give any
body a glimpse of the time when
he was young.
Little that was new had been
injected into the circus game
from the time of the Roman Em
perors until Phineas T. Barnum
arrived on the scene. Barnum had
tailed as a storekeeper and as a
lottery agent, and his only sue
cess had been to get himself into
jail for criminal libel while run
ning a newspaper. 8o in 1835 he
decided io abandon all the old oc
cupations and try the show busi
ness.
Immediately he exhibited a
marked genius for bunkoing the
public and making them like it.
He opened first on the spot where
the St. Paul building now stands
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By Garrett P. Serviss.
to speak by imitating the sounds
it hears from the mouths of its
parents and elders. If it hears in- :0
distinct sounds, it will make in
distinet souynds. If you ‘speak
through your nose” your child *
will do the same thing—unless it
is surrounded by better examples -
to follow. Consequently the edu- -
cation of the volce ought to be:’
begun as soon as the infant be- :
ging to speak. The earliest years !
are those during which the utter— 4
ance of primary sounds Is ac- -
quired. Even more important ¥
then than voice instruction in
school is preliminary voice in~- 3
struction at home. I do not mean
deliberate teaching, but the con
stant placing of good examples
before the child. Never let your
words fali slouchingly from Your
lips when you address your child,
even though it may be merely a J
baby, capable only of mooing.
“Baby talk” to babies is foolish,
and worse than foolish, for it
sometimes leads to the acquire-= '
ment by a child of a vague,
mouthing utterance which re~
mains with it as it grows up.
CHILDREN WILL NOT LEARN
RULES OF PHONETICS, BUT
THEY DO LEARN BY
EXAMPLE. 3
In the school, especially the
primary school, there should be .
no elahorate system of phonetics ¢
taught. Such a thing for young °*
minds is as useless and discour
aging as the rules of grammar. '
Example is the one great teacher,
and the pupll should not be told ©
that it is employed as a teacher.
One learns to write by reading,
and one learns to speak by hear
ing, and the less appearance of
instruction there is in either case
the better. Systematic grammar '
and phonetiecs are intellectual -
amusements for mature minds;
clear writing and speaking are the
results of instinctive imitation of
the best by growing minds.
I think that one of the defects
of the “movies”—and everything
has its defects—is that they elim
inate the educational influence of
‘the stage upon vocal utterance.
How many men and women, how
many speakers and crators, have
found unconscious instruction
and guidance while listening to
great actors and actresses! The
stage has done an immense work
in setting before the people ex
amples of the correct and effecce J
ive vocai use of English.
It has also stimulated improve~
ment of the voice itself. Whe
that has heard the rich, clear,
melodious utterance of some
“star” of tragedy or comedy has
not found himself afterward pay
ing more attention to his owmn
voice and its possibilities of im
provement? The time ought not
to be long in coming when it can
no more be said that there are a
hundred Americans who write
well to one who speaks well.
By Joe Whitnah.
in New York. Then he took u:_.
the road with as choice a coliec~
tion of freaks as had ever beem
seen in the world. Among the |
exhibits was a negress, said to be f
Joyce Heath, nurse of George |
Washington, 160 years old. It was |
characteristic of Barnum that he |
proved that the real Joyce Heath ,
had died a couple of years before
at the age of 70, Lis)
Barnum died at 81, after revos,
lutionizing the circus business *
and writing several books, among
them "Humbugging the Public.”
The circus as we know it today
i the largest troupe of traveling
entertainers the world has ever )
seen, though it 1s on a much
smaller scale than were the mag
nificent affairs in Rome 2,000 or
more years ago. These were de
vised for chariot races, but later
were used for fights betwcen
men and animals and for ail
kinds of tecats of .strength and
skill. Julius Caesar had a moat
ten feet wide dug to protect the
spectators in the lower tiers from
possible attacks from animals in
the arena. This would indicate
that the menagerie and the cus
tomers were not on such friendly
terms as they are today.
Pliny records that the Circus
Maximus, the largest of the ane
cieat spectacles, had a seating cam
pacity of 260,000 persons.
In this country there are now
at least a dozen large circuses, re
quiring several trains to trans— |
port them from town to
There is about $100,000,000
ed in the