The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-27
"WIGGINS OF GEORGIA."
Commissioned Wares Famous Lett
ter Not Accepted as Good Advice
to Employees.

Commissioned Wares Famous Let
ter Not Accepted as Good Advice
to Employees.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Pension Commissioner Ware, who re-
signed from the Pension Office the
other day, is a Western poet with a
breezy and wild and woolly kind of
way; something Of an iconoclast, and
with good deal of the irreverence
of new country: man with a dis
tinct individuality, and, strangely
enough, a person who completely typi-
fies that peculiar Kansas strain which
became famous when Mary Elizabeth
Lease and the Populists and the queer
people generally were to the fore in
the Sunflower State. Mr.. Ware is
not queer. he is original, and his con-
duct of the pension office. which he
describes as twice as wearing as a
sojourn in purgatory. as been tinged
with a delightful touch of humor
which the country has much enjoyed.
The Ware administration has been
one of surprises. The commissioner
had a habit of disciplining grown men
and other loafers who happened to be
caught looking at a newspaper in bust
ness tHOuTS5 ne nldue startling proc
lamations about inconsequential
things his Office was a good source of
news. The one thing which attracted
the most attention, and which may be
considered the Warean classic--if one
may be singled out of a body so uni
formly excellent-was his immortal
placard on Virgins of Georgia, con-
spicuously posted In the corridor of
the pension building:
Virgins of Georgia is a model. His
virtues should be copied by all gov
eminent clerks. Virgins of Georgia
does not lie awake at nights thinking
of promotions. His annual leave does
not disturb his dreams. Virgins of
Georgia is entitled to a place in the
hall of fame. Virgins of Georgia is
promoted. His salary henceforth is
81, 200.
Poor Virgins Of Georgia! We have
always wondered II he will ever be
able to recover from that thrust. Per-
haps it will stir his blood as the years
roll on and as his companions ieer. In
sheer desperation he will mayhap
arouse himself and resolve by heaven
to escape that encomium; perhaps he
will become great or run amuck.
The fame of Virgins of Georgia was
blown to every corner of the United
States; people who advise young men
how to attain success pointed to Wig
gins of Georgia; pursy trust magnates
who employ thousands of workers
called attention to him; country news
papers held him up for emulation;
great was Virgins of Georgia,
We are under no obligations TO MIR,
Ware, and we say TO all young men to
beware OF the Virgins of Georgia idea.
There are two ways of looking at
things in the world. DR.. Johnson was
passing along one of London's streets
on Sunday morning on his way TO
church, when he saw Frenchman
skinning an eel. The foreigner cursed
the eel frightfully because it would
not keep still while he was taking
its unfortunate hide off, and DIR. John
son, who hated Frenchman and for
eigners rather unreasonably. always
cited the instance as proof of his con-
tention that all Frenchmen were fools.
From the standpoint of the employer
who is so shortsighted that he wants
the kind of clerks who always keep
still: the clerks who let the wood of
their desks enter their souls; who have