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,”g] beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service--ROMANS, XII: 1.
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The Fire Insurance Com
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| They Do in the Community|
- They Do in the Community|
Some one has suggested that The Georgian print a l"IREl
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,
but it never oocurred to us that any one NEEDED to be told
of the advantages of FIRE insurancee.
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.
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 in
stance, the city of SBan Francisco, and Baltimore and Jackson
ville. :
Pire 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 $5,000,000. 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
HOMES, 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
he Daylight Bill.
. the Daylight Bill. |
Why does not the Sixty-fifth Oongress 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 Congress 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 wonld 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 the 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.
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
promptly, one clear, sensible and universally popular thing for
the country. :
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The Same Old Story
WHBN 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 crime.
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.
‘‘Six 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 halr on, ~
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The printer who set vp “rabid
rrogress” for ‘“rapld progress”
must have been christened at the
wrong font.
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Unnatural history. Gull will
gulp anything into its gullet, it is
80 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. ‘g
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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 “drawing card.”
A la carte tune, maybe?
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 l:un.cry 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 & 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
wonldn'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 wase 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
Ludendorft is warming up.
ANYBODY’S JOB.
The Chinese presidency is va
cant, and no statesmen are whirl
ing around the country in private
cars campalgning for the nomina
tion, either. ’
“What's the matter?” gald 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 puerlle.
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War changes prounciation.
For instance, it accentuates the
“vast” in devastation.
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Unnatural hlnt.ory-h.rklpur.
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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 betnf made. We hope the
indestructible hen will remain on
the nest instead of getting in the
pot.
Toulon, Aviation f'
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
cholce 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
ralders 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 }nost
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 Baracens 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
dled broken hearted because many
of the 180 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
England and Holland and an
army under Prince Eugene.
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) In-Shoots
! There is no nuisance like the
~ too observing neighbor.
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Matrimony that is approached
through the divorce court always
looks risky.
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It does not avall 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 favortte,
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
making ex
s
l? cuses about
v Y] father's fail
' 'k:J &
? s i ure in busi
¥ LT nessg or
’ ; i mother's lack
| (8l of legal ex
-4 W l perience—
.77 77T M she's taking
W 4. €% her job as
i%: she finds it
’ %. # ’ "’1 and maklng
~ iy the best of
Y e it, Jjust as
i R ) rr brother
i i G s oes, and
A every real
Q 78y
N 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, 1 suppose,
| When I picked up the board to
i 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 like grass once; and bugs,
and little insects of all sorts, and
two or three 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 it 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 they'll grow.
And we'll all wonder why on
earth we let the board lle there
for =o long.
How gradually it has all come
about, this idea of plain, common
sense 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, efficient and intelligent
clerk?
Nhy 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.
Begides, the woman clerk is
just as apt to have 2 family de
pendent upon her as the man
clerk, and, whisper, in these days
of bachelors and clubs I'm afraid
shes’ a little apter.
What's become 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 go little sister will be able
to earn a little more than $lO a
week 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
—ghe has learned better.
She is working for wages, good,
honest, substantial, fair and
square 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 es them, thank vou.
She can take care of herself all
right and help to take care of two
or three others, too,
All Pin Meney Polly wants is a
squara 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.
g:e doesn’t have to do that these
VS,
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 in the family, and she has a
pretty good idea of a real man
whenr she sees him. She knows
80 maiy 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 s easy
enough, and so's all the rest of
the housework. Why, it's a joke,
compared 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, Servise,
“Is the time far off when we
shall have health evangelists as
well as soul evangelists 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.—S. W, F.”
THINK you are right as to the
l good offects that might be
wrought by an evangel of
health. A revival of interest In
e the care of
‘ (PO § the body
W would be a
| :-" vast aid to
| “?_',W”!; the cause of
»;,;;‘ the right
’ Cusiw . T kind that of
re %4l ten char-
B b Ml acterizes
; Y | minds weak
b‘. / ened by
| ! | Physical
j I e m aclation
| I and choked
| I by the weeds
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%v: tion, which
; flourish with
special luxuriance when the brain
is ill-nourished.
I should suppose that Mr. Bun
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 i 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
enjoyment.
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 im
mortal Pilgrim.
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 clvilization. .
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 multitndes of his
fellow creatures,
He would have a very difficult
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, avoldance of Injuri
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 heaiin.
Aside from the marvels of sur
gery that it has glven birth to, 1t
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.