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}The Fire Insurance Com
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~ panies and the Great Work
- They Do in the Community
‘ Some one has suggested that The Georgian print a FIRE
‘insurance editorial. Of course we are GLAD to print such an
editorial. The Georgian has felt it had a duty to perform to
the community in printing a series of life insurance editorials,
ibut it never occurred to us that any one NEEDED to be told
!of the advantages of FIRE insurancee.
i " Nearly everyone expects FIRE. Nearly everyone has felt
‘ the sting of acute loss through FIRE. BUT NO ONE EXPECTS
'DEATH. Humans know there is such a thing as death, but we
all refuse to consider death in its relation to ourselves. We
know that others die, but we refuse to believe that WE shall
surely die. That is why it is necessary for a newspaper having
the interests of the community deeply at heart to write edito
rials about life insurance. In writing such editorials a news
paper has to appeal to a man’s love of wife and children and
point out the horrors of want, misery and shame. In illustrating
such editorials the cartoonist has to draw horrid pictures. ‘
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We think the cartoonist has told the whole story of fire
insurance in his picture on this page. It is a picture of cheer
and hope and power. Fire insurance builds cities, as for infl
stance, the city of SBan Francisco, and Baltimore and Jackson-i
ville.
Fire insurance means PROSPERITY as OPPOSED TO
ADVERSITY.
Fire insurance heals the deep wounds of a city's physical
self and builds anew and better than before. .Atlanta knows
this better than most cities. A few weeks ago fire swept a large
area. Thousands of homes were destroyed and the total loss
was estimated at over $56,000,000. This loss would have been
almost overwhelming to those whose homes were wiped out
if it had not been for the fire insurance companies. A large
part of this estimated loss fell upon the street railway corpora
tion, WHILE THE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES WILL
REIMBURSE INDIVIDUALS, ON THEIR DESTROYED
‘ROIII, OVER THREE AND ONE-HALF MILLIONS OF
DOLLARS.
| The Georgian thinks the mere recital of this tremendous
fact is a far greater editorial than anything we can possibly
write.
| We thank you.
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Congress Should Not Delay
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the Daylight Bill. @1
Why does not the Sixty-fifth Congress take a restful hour'
some day in the routine of business and pass the Daylight Sav
ing bill?
There are so many issues upon which Congress is discordant
and divided that this is one measure in which it ought to be
unanimous. Perhaps there is no bill of an economic nature
ever set before Oongress which has so much to commend it and
so little to render it objectionable to anyone.
In this great era of economics, when we are saving, or try.
ing to save, everything that humanity consumes, it would seem
that Congress would fairly leap to the opportunity of saving
that priceless commodity which we call Time.
To put the clock an hour ahead in the summer months, and
to return it to its original status in October, would give more
‘pleasure and add more time and save more consumption to the
‘human race than almost any conceivable change possible to
our modern economy.
~ The whole world is practically in favor of the daylight sav
ing plan, and no part of t*.e world more unanimously in favor
of it than our American people.
: The workman gets an hour earlier to his work and has an
hour more of daylight to enjoy with his family while home. The
schoolboy goes an hour earlier to school and has an hour more
'of sunshine and light for recreation.
. The saving of time, of electricity, of gas, of kerosene and of
‘coal is simply enormous. As a measure of war economy its value
is beyond computation.
Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Holland,
‘Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Australia and Canada—
embracing almost the entire civilized world—have adopted the
daylight saving plan as a war measure, and are delighted with
the results. N
; The vital economics and the essential happiness of daylight
saving will appeal particularly to men whose minds are
harassed by so many doubtful problems and discordant theories,
| and they should actually rejoice in the opportunity to do, and do
1 promptly, one clear, sensible and universally popular thing for
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The Same Old Story
WKEN Julius Caesar went to town
To purchase steaks and chops and such,
He tried to beat the butchers down
And swore their prices were too much.
"'Two cents a pound for steak,’’ he roared.
""Why, man, that’s nothing short of erime.
You butchers are a greedy horde,
It costs but one in Noah's time!"’
WHEN Ollie Cromwell went to shop
For beef and mutton and the like,
He said if prices didn't drop
He'd spit the butchers on a spike.
‘‘Bix cents a pound for steak,’’ he said.
It’s more than honest men can pay.
You folks are robbers, on the dead,
It cost but two in Caesar’s day!"’
T ODAY when we go out and find
That beef is thirty cents a pound,
We tarry there and speak our mind
And scatter savage words around.
'Twas ever thus, in every age,
In every time and clime and season,
The price of meat has made men rage,
And always with abundant reason.
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Unnatural history-—A heron has
no halir on,
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The printer who set up “rabid
rrogress”’ for “rapid progress”
must have been chrllto.d at the
wrong font,
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Unpatural history. Gull will
gulp anything into its gullet, it is
s 0 gullible.
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Regarding the garden—wind
your melon vines at the top of the
hill if you don't want them to run
down,
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“On to Vienna.” That's making
say while the Hun shines.
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Artist in New York cabaret is
press-agented as “dmppwing card.”
Ala carte tune, I&M? {
WHAT DID IT?
Shafts of Sunshine
If there be several degrees of
patriotism, move that the rules
be suspended and all degrees con
ferred at once.
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Huns are hunzry. for honey.
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Another meeting, we see, has
been held “behind closed doors.”
‘What we have been waiting for,
lo! these many years, is a meet
ing behind open doors,
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There's patriotism for you in
the statement of the Los Angeles
woman that while she could knit
well encugh for Belgians she
wonlln't think of Knitting for
Americans
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Is kelp game? California game
commission says it must be if it
keeps on reproducing in face of
discouragement.
Monday, July 23, 1917
BUT THEY CAN'T DO IT.
The Junkers are trying to make
the world safe for inhumanity.
THE LONGEST WAY,
The new head of the British
Admiralty began his career on
the B. & 0., which probably ex
plains why he was so late in ar
riving.
. WHAT'S THE USE.
It might be a good scheme to
send Colonel Gorgas, who knocked
the mosquitoes on the Canal
Zone, to battle with the Yaphank
pests, were it not for the likeli
hood that some board chairman
would want him to fight 'em with
wooden clubs.
BESIDES, LOOK WHAT JOHN
BUNYAN DID IN JAIL.
The Washington suffs who
raided the White House are com
plaining bitterly at their sen
tence to 60 days at Occoquan, but
Occoquan is a nice, airy place in
the Virginia hills, and sensible
people would rather be in jail
there than at liberty in Washing
ton. .
JUDGING BY THE NEWS.
Fortunately, we haven't all the
I. W, W.'s here. There seems to
be a lot of 'em in Russia.
ONLY A SECOND STRING BOY.
They seem merely to have put
Michaelis in for an inning, while
Ludendorff is warming up.
ANYBODY'S JOB.
The Chinese presidency is va
cant, and no statesmen are whirl
ing around the country in private
cars campaigning for the nomina
tion, either.
“What's the matter?” said the
man in th cafateria when the next
in line bumped into him with a
tray. “Is my tail light out?”
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To the pure many injunctions
are puerile,
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War changes prounciation.
For. instance, it accentuates the
“vast” in devastation,
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Unnatural history—Larkspur.
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A novel must have extraordina
ry qualities to keep one from skip
ping chapters to see more quickly
“how the story comes out.”
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An indestructible hen's nest is
now belnf made. We hope the
indestructible hen will remain on
the nest instead of getting in the.
pot. a
By
* James J. Montague
[ Toulon, Awviation I;
I Training Camp |
EVIDENTLY the French War
Office does not believe that
student aviators should be sub
jected to the danger of a baptism
of bombs while they are learning
the mastery of the air,” says a
war geography bulletin issued by
the National Geographic Society.
“This fact is indicated by the
choice of Toulon as a training
camp for American flying men.
An aviation school located in this
city, one of the strongest fortress
es in France, and sharing with
Brest the distinction of being the
two leading bases of the French
navy, is about as far removed
from the danger zone of German
raiders as it is possible to be and
still remain on French soil.
‘Toulon, with 'its exceptional
harbor, comprising five splendid
basins, is situated on the Medi
terranean, forty-two miles by rail
southeast of Marseilles and 100
miles southwest of Nice. The
entrance to the bay, easily de
fended by torpedoes and girdled
by forts and batteries, is 1,300
feet wide.
“Now boasting a population of
more than 100,000 and enjoying
~ brisk commercial life, fostered by
such industries as shipbuilding,
wine-growing, fishing and lace
making, Toulon is one of the most
ancient cities of France. It is sup
posed to have been founded by
those great merchants of the an
cient world, the Phoenicians, and
it was known to Greek travelers
as Telonion, while the Romans
knew it as Telo Martius.
“Goths, Franks, Burgundians
and Saracens sacked Toulon from
time to time; it was twice cap
tured during the sixteenth century
by Charles V., and it was finally
fortified during the reign of
Henry IV. The famous engineer,
Vauban, under the direction of
Louis IV, greatly strengthened
its military works and during the
~ year in which that military genius
died broken hearted because many
of the 160 fortresses which he had
constructed or rebulit had been
captured, Toulon, thanks to his
labors, was able to withstand an
~ attack from the allied fleets of
Fngland and Holland and an
} army under Prince Eugene.
In-Shoots
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There is no nyisance like the
too observing neighbor.
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Matrimeny that is approached
through the divorce court always
looks risky. :
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1t does not avail much to purify
the ballot unless you can make it
float in your direction.
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We may laugh at superstition,
but it is safer to nail a horse
shoe over your dor than to bet
on a racetrack favor#te,
PUBLIC SERVICE
Pin-Money |
Polly |
By Winifred Black.
HE working woman is com
ing into her own kingdom
at last. She isn't sneaking
into it with an apology; she isn't
B making ex
[ ? cuses about
N o) father's fail
l P “fi ure in busi
‘ LA TR ness or
i o 4 mother’slack
| . | of legal ex
‘ 4 il I perience—
o | she's taking
5 lgy&‘ 781 her job as
b ',*.",’t;a-m:.,,, Ty she finds it
™~ | ard making
AT the best of
A, A it, Just as
i ; g her brother
% ? P does, and
% 5 every real
\"/ workingma n
in the world is proud of her and
of her work.
I went out into the garden the
other day to see what was hap
pening to the roses, and there on
the grass was an old board where
someone had thrown it carelessly
in play, I suppose,
When I picked up the board to
throw it awAy, there was the
grass where the board had been—
not grass at all, any more, but
just a pale, sickly, discouraged
looking imitation of something
that might be a degenerate third
or fourth cousin to something that
looked llke grass once; and bugs,
and little insects of all sorts, and
two or thrée white worms, horrid,
fat things, that looked as if they
needed exercise and sunshine—all
under the board in the nice, fresh,
alry garden—all under the board,
ad all because of the board.
That'’s the sort of thing you find
hidden away under any old
cramping, stifling, paralyzing idea
—and 1t will take time for the
new ideas to grow fresh and fine
and vigorous—but they'll grow,
all right—just give them sun and
air and time—and th.ey'll grow.
And we'll all wonder why on
earth we let ‘the board lie there
for go long.
‘ How gradually it has all come
| about, this idea of plain, common
pense justice for woman, and
plain, common-sense equity in
dealing with the Question of
women’'s wages.
What do you care whether the
clerk who waits upon you in the
department store is a woman or a
man—all you want to know is,
do you get what you came after,
and do you find it easy to get, and
is it handed to you by a courteous,
quick, efficlent and intelligent
| clerk?
Why shouldn’t that clerk get the
‘ same money for it as the man in
~ the next aisle gets for the same
work?
Family to support—what has
that to do with the case?
When the merchant hires a
clerk, he doesn't ask about the
family—that is not his affair. His
affair is to get someone to do
the work and to do it well.
Besides, the woman clerk is
just as apt to have a family de
pendent upon her as the man
clerk, and, whisper, in these days
of bachelors and clubs I'm afraid
shes’ a little epter.
What's beécome of the girl we
all used to hear about—the one
who was working to buy herself
useless finery—the Pin Money
Person, who was the source of so
much grievance and dismay?
I'll tell you where she is—she's
working right where her mother
and her aunt worked twenty years
ago, and she's paying the rent
and keeping a roof over mother
and aunty, and keeping little
brother in school, and ten to one
sending little sister to business
college so little sister will be able
to earn a little more than $lO a
weéek when her turn comes,
Poor little Pin Money Polly—
she doesn't work for pin money
these days, and she is never going
to work for pin money any more
—sk.e has learned better.
She is working for wages, good,
honest, substantial, fair and
gquare wages, and when she gets
them she is going to spend them
for good, honest clothes and sub
stantial food and a decent roof
and walls to shelter mother and
keep aunty's rheumatism away
~and help make a home for the kid
brother and little sister.
She doesn’'t want your sympa
thy nor your pity. She doesn't
need either of them, thank you.
She can take care of herself all
right and help to take care of two
or three others, too.
All Pin Mconey Polly wants is a
squaraz deal and an even chance
and she'll make her own way
without much trouble,
When she meets the right man
~ and gets good and ready she will
~ fall in love and marry, just as her
~ mother did before her, There's
~ no minimum wage or maximum
| wage, either, when it comes to
- love. But she won't marry some
one she doesn't care the snap of
‘ her finger for, just to get a home.
She doesn’t have to do that these
days. .
And she will know something
about the man-she marries, too—
Pin Money Polly has learned a
good deal since she went to work
downtown. She’s found out that
. the best looking chap isn't al
| ways the most comfortable to
have an the family, and she has a
pretty good idea of a real man
when she sees him. She Kknows
#0 maay of the other sort.
And she'll make a good wife,
too—a beter wife than she'd be
if she had never learned a thing
but tatting and how to make bis
cuits. The biscuit-making is easy
enough, and so's all the rest of
the housework. Why, it's a joke,
ompfred to what Polly has been
: used to, and every time it rains
~and the world is soggy and weep
~ ing, Polly will look out of the
~ window and be thankful that she
doesn’t have to go downtown this
morning.
Evangel of Health|
In Temples |
By Garrett P, Serviss,
“Is the time far off when we
shall have health evangelists as
well as soul evangeiists like Billy
Sunday? This would be a won
derful world if we could place a
powerful speaker in that big Tab
ernacle after Mr. Sunday gets
through and let him make an
equally effective appeal for health
preservation and the building up
of the body.—Sß. W, F.”
THINK you are right as to the
l good effects that might be
wrought by an evangel of
health. A revival of interest in
ey the care of
{ PRI o W the body
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. B ,3»{‘% vast ald to
', waz 3 the cause of
%@l the rignt
' P i.,' 1 Kkind that of
¥ g-v # | ten char
7, Ml acterizes
i . minds weak
! L . ened by
L= {
i pPhysical
f ‘ € m aclation
| and . choked
| ] Dby the weeds
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VLR S tion, which
T * flourish with
special lnxuriance when the brain
is 111-nourished.
I should suppose that Mr. Sun
day himself would have more con
fidence In a “trail-hitter” whose
nerves, arteries and muscles were
in good working condition than in
a downcast dyspeptic or a victim
of malnutrition in any of its
forms. We ought to renew in some
way the old Greek appreciation of
the beauty of a healthy body. Af
ter all, the body is the basis of all
human effort, achievement and
enjéyment,
Everybody wants to live as long
as he can and as pleasurably as
he can on this earth, no matter
what his views may be as to the
place or nature of future exist
ence. Even John Bunyan was in
no hurry to reach the bank of the
deep, dark river that marked the
end of the wanderings of his {m
mortal Pllgrim.
Ascetics who teach and prac
tise the mortification of the body
have done no good to the cause of
religion and much harm to that
of civilization.
On the other hand, it is easy to
over-cultivate the bodily instincts.
An athlete, as such, is not an ad
mirable representatives of homo
sapiens, notwithstanding his im
mense repute in ancient Greece.
Artists who find nothing worthy
of their brush or their chisel but
the naked human form are not
promoting a healthy civilization.
College boys who devote one hour
to intellectual work and eight
hours to the gymnasium and the
athletic field overtrain their bod
ies and undertrain their minds,
with disastrous effects upon both.
Regard only for the bodily ap
petites and needs produces self
indulgence, moral aberration, de
generacy and crime. The ideal
preacher of the evangel of health
must be broad-minded enough to
include all these things in his
range. He must possess a strong
mental balance; he must be a
Washington in sanity of Judg
ment and a St. Bernard in the
power to arouse interest and in
spire action in multitudes of his
fellow creatures,
He would have a very diffieult
mission, yet I believe he might suc
ceed, for, as other similar move
ments show, the world is still full
of people whose strongest social
instinct is that of following the
crowd and chasing after a leader
with a bell. But the cause is one
which deserves something better.
The principles of healthful living
ought to be taught rather in the
home and the schools, beginning
with the most elementary, than
from the platform of a “taber
nacle.”
Teach your, children the laws of
health by example before they can
understand precept. Your own
table, and the manners that prevail
around. it, will be their first and
most impressive school, Cleanli
ness, exercise, respect and care
for the body, the necessity of fresh
air, regular habits as to sleeping
and waking, avoidance of infuri
ous food, the cultivation of re
straint, knowledge of how to deal
with the beginnings of iliness, ac
quaintance with personal peculi
arities, some of which are sure to
be of an unwholesome nature—all
these things, and many others of a
like Importance, ought to be ab
sorbed by the young as they ab
sorb a knowledge of their mother
tongue,
This great war is a wonderful
teacher of the laws of neai,
Aside from the marvels of sur
gery that it has given birth to, it
has impressed the principles of
healthful living upon millions of
minds, and if, by good chance, the
young Americans who have re
cently answered their country's
call to arms should, after all, not
have to shed their blood in battle
for the world’'s freedom, they will
have acquired bodily virtues of
inestimable value to themselves
and to coming generations,