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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-21

flies during next summer? Whv
should DR.. Gilbert and the health
board frame an ordinance and have
the city council pass same to screen
against the infected fly and then
conduct a campaign of education
against this infected fly and then
the following summer Dr.. Gilbert
and the board of health make plans
and conditions ideal for the hatch
ing of millions of these disease
carrying files?
Barn Door" Clause.
Third. We are told that this new
plant will be ready to operate NEXT
May. Does any intelligent man
who has any conception Of the IN
dertaling believe this? If the board
OF health believes it, why did they
not name this date for completion
in the contract, instead Of ALLOWING
year OF working days with =
barn door" clause about freezine
and rainy days that will allow the
completion Of this plant extended
indefinitely? Is the CONTRACTING
company or any one else ready ia
put up forfeiture guaranteeing
that the proposed plant will be in
operation by next May?
Fourth. Why destroy the old Gre
matory at all? Suppose the COM
pany contracting for this new Gre
1natory should delay the completion
Of 1t for more than year, which
they can do under their contract
or suppose the new plant would not
do the work that 1t is supposed to
do, or assume that it does work. but
some Of the intricate machinery
breaks, would not the old crema-
tory, properly repaired, be a god
send to this city, with its noun
tains OF refuse, already piled up
about it's vacant lots? While wait
ing for this new experiment to be
completed, or even If this new plant
should be "howling success" is
it not good plan to have dupIi-
cate or relief plants? We have
them for our lights, our water serv-
ice, etc, to prevent total shut
down in case Of an accident or nee
essary repairs. and why not for
our disposal plant and our health?
Gentlemen, you are simply giving
us another dose of muddy water as
the water board did some time ago
in order to put on the city q broken
pump. The citizens do not want q
plant built or bought under this
kind Of coercion.
The Joker" Power Plant.
1 might say a great deal about
the amount Of money to be paid for
this new plant, and the JOKER
power plant that is to be attached.
and how this council proposes to
spend our $4,000 bond money in
such way that succeeding coun-
ellis will be obliged to pay the bal
ance or get no disposal plant at
all. Or ! could make some re-
marks about DIR. Gilbert and the
board Of health arbitrarily shutting
down the present crematory in the
midst Of its usefulness on the pre-
text that because 1t needs few
repairs" 1t is absolutely useless, but
am interested at present in pre-
venting its being destroyed and in
having 1t put back in commission.
and l believe that if the citizens
will wake up to what they are be
ing led into and to their duty, this
crematory will never be destroyed
and if they will make a little in
vestigation into this matter, they
will find that the old crematory
is in the way of the new one in
more than one way. Yours very
truly, DIR. j. T. FLOYD
S24-5 Gambler Building.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-21
The Old and the New
Their Mngng Japan Today Makes the Significant Sights the World

innate ideas. 1t is the idea that
governs; the method must be bent
to fit 1t. Mechanical improve
ments can not change the heart Of
a people. Railroads, electric lights,
rif1ed guns. automobiles, subma-
rines, aeroplanes, warships, tele-
graphs, telephones ana aerial com
munications cause only an external
alteration In Japan. They make
her powerful, respected and feared.
but they do not change her essen
tial nature. She is at bottom Asst
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-21

their fingers and smacked their
thick lips, and swore like troop
ers, and fought like them, too, and
gloried in it, and had affairs with
slaves of all colors.
Faugh, if they were alive now
we'd segregate them with the rest
Of the 'unfortunates" and we'd call
the places they lived in the Red
Light district!
Cleopatra was over forty when
she had that famous affair with
Antony, and he was probably bald
and more than fat at that.
Great sirens, these women. Great
nonsense! They were clever wom-
en-, and had love affairs because
there wasn't anything else for them
to do.
Love was a woman's business in
those days. and a very coarse kind
OF business you would find ii. too.
I'm thinking, if we knew all about
it.
The only way a woman could be
somebody in dem days" as Uncle
Remus says was by Turing" men,
ana all the clever women went to
work aud "lured" or made people
think they were Turing" and all
the time l suppose they had the
backache and the headache. and
their feet hurt, and they didn't
know what on earth to do for the
neuralgia, same as the elderly ST.
rens Of today.
With a True Heart.
Fudge, I'd give more for one
good decent, honest love affair be-
tween clear-eyed dreaming girl of
twenty born and bred right here in
America, and a man just old enough
to appreciate her, than / would for
all the liasons of all the passe ST.
rens of history put together.
II / ever get the reincarnation
fad I'm going to reinCarnate into
sweet sixteen with all my dreams
fresh in my innocent heart,
And | hope the reinCarnated man
] fall in love with will be a nice
broad shouldered American lust out
of college long enough to know
what fool he is. with a true heart
and decent way OF life. and a
good job somewhere, and a little
house to take me to- after they've
thrown all the old shoes and rice
in town after us.
That's the kind OF reincarnaIion
want, and If l can't get il ! shsn't
play incarnation at all, SO there
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-21
THE RElNCARNATION FAD

- 0 the reincarnated princess isn't
y a princess at all, and Rame-
SEES come to earth again is
just plain every day man, when
he gets to the divorce court. Dear,
dear what disappointment!
They met in Egypt, he and she,
in a dead kings tomb. She was
tall and svelte. don't know what
it is to be svelte, but oh! how in
teresting 1t sounds, and-and she
had big eyes and a lovely ankle.
He wasn't so much to look at, but
oh, what a soul for romance he
had So they fell in love, dead in
love, so much in love that there
wasn't anything in the world so
wonderful to him as the way she
did her hair, and how she walked
and the manner she had of saying
really" and looking so cunning
when he said she looked like Cleo
patra.
She was in love, too. His rather
ordinary American features were
transformed for her and the things
she thought and said, too, in public
AT that, about his soul were too
thrilling for words.
And they were Just plain Cooks
tourists doing the Pyramids at so
much Gay-guides, carriages ana
hotels all included
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-21
Changed the Ships.


The japanese found that steel
battleships were preferable to war
junks, and they discarded the
junks and adopted the battleships
just as the American Indian drop
ped his bows and arrows to learn
TO shoot with the white mans gun.
They find that automobiles are a
good thing for fast journeys, and so
they have automobiles; but they
also find that the jinricksha is very
suitable for their use, and they re-
tain the jinricksha, simply maxi
ing it over with Western tools and
modern materials. And it IS certain
. that Admiral Togo will continue all
his life to ride in his baby car
riage," while his countrymen will
applaud and admire him wherever
he appears.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-21
Why Destroy the Old Gre
matOry at All?
y y y

Dr. j. Floyd Asks Some Rather Pointed and Pertinent Cues
Concerning the Disposal of the City's Garbage
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-21
The Automobile Business
Is Only in It's Babyhood

One Man Is Making 100000 Month Out of His Part Interest
Single Machine-That Is Only the Beginning. Who
Will Be the Real Automobile Builder?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-21

attic. and will remain Asiatic-an
Oriental corner of the world illumi-
mated by the Occidental sun. The
whole world had a lesson in that
the other day when General Count
Nogi. as great warrior on land
as Togo is at sea- committed hari-
kiri, together with his aged wife,
as q mark of respect to his dead
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-21
They Were Egyptians.

They weren't just honest, well
meaning Americans with good plain
names to keep straight, and nice
plain old ideals to uphold, they
were Egyptians. he and she. and
Ancient Egyptians at that-rein-
carnated. Reincarnated to beat the
band, as Dorothy Dix would say.
She stopped wearing "A perfectly
good diamond with a Clipped ruby
on each side of il, and got a sar-
donyN with something mysterious
written on it. She wouldn't look at
an honest dog. though she had a
perfectly dear Boston bull at home.
She cultivated cats and wore green
wells TO make her eyes look the
color OF the Nile grass when the
floods go down, and she bought an
asp-such poor scared Gravity lit
tie asp-and kept il in a green and
reddish cage. and she tied dingle-
bangles all over her clothes, and she
never Went anywhere bat in a
barge. Oh, She was Cleopatra all
right, as far as she could be
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-05

81 have fought this battle for long
time and It has been so hard to decide.
l have fought out the battle between
my duty as a wife and my love for DR..
Kelly. And love wins.
"a woman has right to leave every
thing in the world for the man sne
loves. Love is the greatest thing III
the world, and It Is the right of either
man or woman to be with the one Sho
loves and is loved"
Those are the words Of a Chicago
woman-a wife and mother Of three
beautiful little children. They were
spoken by her after the shooting OF ner
lover by her husband. Instead of
shooting the woman, as many a nus
band would have done, he shot the
man in this case when she was on the
point of leaving home with her lover.
The husband, now in Jail, has this tc
say:
Il believe have performed q sacI ed
duty and rendered an invaluable ser
vice in the protection of the family
The philosophy of affinitIes AM souI
mates is the direct cause Of mary d
tragedy. There ought TO be a law tC
curb and punish those who prey upon
married women.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-05
osBoRN's TRANSFERABLE AR.
GUMENT

Governor Charles s. Osborn of Mich
igan, like Hadley, one Of the seven
state executives who induced Theodore
Roosevelt to try for a third term,
punctures pretty thoroughly the third
party, third term movement in his ex-
PLANTATION of the reason why Wilson
should have the support OF all good
progressives. Briefly summed up,
Governor Osborn's reasons are:
81 am of the opinion that there is
no necessity for a new party.
The issue is clearly joined for the
people. II is Wall street versus vii
son.
ut Is even more than that. AL the
evil forces Of America will finally line
up with Wall street and Mr.. Taft.
Woodrow Wilson. IN character, tenn
permanent, preparation and fitness, II
above the high average Of American
presidents. He is Christian, scholar
and a fearless citizen.
'T hope Colonel Roosevelt will MOI
be q candidate"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-05
REGINA ONLY CHECKED.

Hard hit though the capital Of
Saskatchewan is By the tornado, which
tore through half Of the fine young
city, there need be no question as to
the fate OF that town. 1t is filled
with the spirit of the Canadian
northwe and It's future is well as
sured.
Few parts OF the earth are ad-
vancing as fast as the region tribu-
tary 10 Regina and nowhere is there
more confidence in the continuation
and expansion OF present prosperity.
The city itself has risen in a few
Years from a mere trading post to a
fine modern town Of more than 80, :
900 Inhabitants. Its bank clearings
building permits and railroad ton
mage records for the last year or two
compare well with like statistics in
solid old cities four times its size.
The province of Saskatchewan, in
the midst of which Regina stands
had only 81, 900 Inhabitants in 1901
BY the spring Of 1911 the province
had risen 10 1000, gaining a large
part OF that increase from the Unit
ed States. 1t is going ahead faster
than ever now and so is its capital
Such a town will recover rapidly
from the disaster which has befaller
! It. There will be no hesitation or de
lay in undertaking the rebuilding Of
the districts laid waste by the tor
rado and it will not be long before
Regina will be handsomer, richie,
and. of course, bigger than ever.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-05
Faith in Tomorrow

those of war"
But We miss much of it's signifi-
canoe if it only turns our thoughts
backward or suggests the words of
a poet. Such a scene is prophetic.
1t teaches truth We can apply with
comfort to our own pregnant day
and its hard affairs. Ours is a lesser
strife than those veterans knew II
will not be ours to know in such full
ness the peace they have come into.
But it is ours to know. taught by
those old masters of experience, that
we shall see the day of clearer IN
Outstanding.
In the same prayer. regardless OF
the accents of creeds, to the same
God; one flag, one country; one
great national purpose of fredom-
we may look ahead with faith.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-05
CAPITAL COMMENT

anything they please for their pro-
ducts. since the tariff cuts off all dang
er from competition from abroad and
enables them TO build up monopolies
at home. Reduction of the tariff,
democrats say, will force the trusts
to come down in their prices, and its
ultimate effect will be to force them
10 place real instead Of an inflated
valuation on their plants.
THE STEEL TRUST.
Seventy million dollars was paid
to ]. P. Morgan for organizing the
steel trust, and labor must be exploited
TO make up that sum, hence the -
hour day and the miserable wage of
the steel mills. After Morgan was paid,
nearly billion dollars of stock was
issued, every bit of which was water.
and interest must be paid on that. To
pay this interest prices must be kept
abnormally high, and wages must be
kept abnormally low. It would not
| be necessary for the steel trust to
sell steel rails $40 per ton cheaper in
I Europe and in Canada than in this
country if it was not for the necessity
of paying dividends on watered stock.
/ The trust makes profit on the SIS per
ton rails it sells abroad, so it is ap.
parent that it makes the same profit
plus $40 additional, on the identical
rail sold in this country for $2S ton
The additional SO per ton goes to buy
automobiles and steam yachts and
thousand dollar wine dinners for the
sons of the steel millionaires and Their
chorus girl friends in New York anG
Paris. The people pay the extra 81
in the form of increased rates fol
freight, and increased fares on pas
senger trains, as we'll as in a hundred
different other forms of tribute.
Solution of this problem must come
after the excessive tariff is removed
and removing the tariff is the frs
problem TO which democrats will ad
dress themselves.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-05
THE TWO-THIRDS RULE.

Since Champ Clark received a ma
tority Of all votes cast at the dem
ocratic convention the statement has
repeatedly been made on the floor of
the convention and in the press that
no democratic convention had ever
failed 20 nominate a candidate and to
give him the two-thirds necessary to
nominate after he had received the ma
jority vote. The history of the ma
uonal gatherings indicates that this
statement IS not trIre. Judge Carl E.
Epler Of Quincy has looked up the his,
tory OF the conventions of the demo.
cratic party and he finds that in 1874
there were 266 delegates in the con.
vention and OF this number, Martin
Van Buren, received 146; Cass, So;
Johnson. "a; Calhoun, 6, aid scatter
ing. :. President Van Buren, failed,
however, 10 get the two-thirds major
ity and later James K. Polk was nom
| mated.
Judge EpleTs history Of the conven-
tons of the democratic party and of
the votes given the various candidates
is as follows:
AT f1rst nominations for president
and vice president were made by eau
Gus of party members in congress and
| for state officers at a similar caucus
in the Legislature.
I'm 1924, Andrew Jackson was nom
mated by a democratic convention at
Harrisburg. Pa. but Crawford was also
Z M Of
sional caucus. Henry Clay was also a
candidate for president and neither
having a majority OF the electoral col
lege, the election was thrown into the
house Of representatives. which, under
the 18th amendment, had to choose the
president from the three names high
est on the list, the vote being by
states, John Quincy Adams received
the votes Of 10 states and was elected.
I'm 1925, the legislature OF Tennes-
see nominated Andrew Jackson for
president. and he was elected in 1925.
In 1882. Jackson was again nominated
for president by the national demo
cratic convention and reelected.
jackson favored Martin Van Buren,
Of New York as his successor. TIE
national democratic convention met at
Baltimore May %. 1895. 500 delegates
attending from 22 states. Upon the
first ballot, Martin Van Buren, receiv.
ed the unanimous vote OF the conven-
ton for president. and was elected in
1886. In 1870, he was defeated by
William Henry Harrison.
Van Buren, opposed the annexation
Of Texas, but his friends presented
his name for president 70 the demo
cratic convention which met at Bal
timore. May q, 1884. On the first
ballot he received 146 votes, a major
ity, as against 100 votes for all other
candidates. After protracted ballotine
It was found that Mr.. Van Buren,
could not obtain the vote OF two-thirds
a OF The delegates to the convention a.
, required by their rules. His name wa,
therefore withdrawn and James X
= Polk OF Tennessee received the nom
: nation for president 2 Statesman,
, Manual 1913"
: Another account says: But the con
: vention having adopted the rule whicl
o had governed on former similar occa
4 sions, requiring two-thirds OF III
/. votes for a nomination. no choice Wa
Q made. After seven more ballots, Wit
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-05
AW0MANyO OBSERVATIONS
Ed>aKW

In preaching her right" to love, as
this woman does, one wonders if she
ever stops to think what her sentiment
would be provided the thing had 5cen
turned around.
Suppose the husband had found an
affinity and deciucd to follow owe,
leaving home and wife and chldrer n
order to pursue his right
Wouldn't she have felt herself All
injured wife, and wouldn't she have
Immediately hieG to court for rcd, nss
of some kind? Wouldn't she have
raised the plea that their children
needed their fathers support Would
she then have been SO wiiIing't to speak
up for the rights" Of love? Or would
she have insisted upon the rights Of a
wife and mother, and the right of a
husband>to fulfill his promise to cherish
and provide for those dependent upon
him-just as her little children are de-
pendent upon her now for love and
guidanceo
This woman fondly believed that II
SIZE were able to secure . divorce from
her husband, the affinity would marry
her. Yet it seems mat he b - not prc:n
ised MARI iage, mo since the shooting
Che is still alive) has expressed no de
sire in that direction-indeed, he has
shown no consideration at all for heI
though she declares she will visit him
il the hospital 81. re sne VIII visit
her husband in the Jail.
She claims to 1--we her chIld"aa
Those children love ,n.--poor little
tAings!"
And yet this mother is wiling tc
cave them as tie result -: an in
fatuation for me L moi The: fdth7r.
1t is difficult TO understand Nature
would seem to be against such a con
dition. Yet it is an altogether TOT
frequent occurrence that a woman will
forsake not only husband, but re-
little ones, ana in order to follow ;
forbidden love. and where th>f. ar,
few who do it openly, there ait I1orl
Who do it secretly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-05

Some Doubt.
I often wonder II the man
Who always does the best he can
Is really certain at the test
That It Is Just his level best
Or II he couldn't stretch a mite
Perhaps by working day and night
And do, were he to work with Zest.
A little better than his best.
It Is q fiction, anyway,
That any man from day to day
Can every minute, hot or cold.
The very best he has unfold;
To his hand made ideals stick
Through thin and quite as well through
thick,
Nor give a tiny little bit,
No matter how he may be hit.
Man is a mortal weak and poor
And everything cannot endure
II on his way he joys along
And keeps his average firm and strong,
Makes out to here and there connect,
That is the best he can expect
Achievements Of another kind
Are just q Pigment of his mind.
No. you may guess It IL you try
That man is just trifie shy
OF living always at a strain
On just the very highest plane.
He slips and falls. to rise. perhaps;
Sometimes he treats himself to maps.
He does his best, but he could do
A little better. So could you.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-05

Just when and where and how Guy
HAYES and Amy WATSON met does not
appear. 1t might have been at church
sociable, or it might have been at the
dancing class, or it might have been on
the baseball grounds. for Guy was Civ
en- to athletics, and Amy was an at
tendant upon the games. Be this as it
may, they were seen together often. so
often that a rumor was started that
they were engaged.
Come in Saturday night" said Amy.
"and I'll make you something very
nice"
what is lit"
"a new dish"
what kind Of dishT
You'll have to find that out when
you come"
well, I'll be there, and l expect Q
treat, for hear you're fine cook"
please cork the alcohol bottle and
put it In the cupboard" said Amy Was
son as she lighted the burner under
the copper chatting dish.
Guy Hayes obeyed ana then returned
to the table where Amy stood, an en-.
chanting figure in pale gray gown
with a wisp of lace apron tied about
her slender waist with reese tinted rib.
bons.
"Next?" he inquired. surveying the
| various dishes of ingredients for the
mixture Amy was about to concoct.
There we're a fat cake OF cream
| cheese, a dozen eggs. a pitcher OF
cream. salt, paprika and a cake of but
! ter.
You may whisk the eggs presently
now, you may break six into this dish
and don't forget that you are to oper
ate the coffeepot."
Guy surveyed the round table witt
doubtful eyes. On one side the chatting
dish Kissed; near by copper kettle
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-05
HOW WILSON WON.

Governor Woodrow Wilson won
because the delegates who wanted
him nominated thought OF nobody
but Wilson. They would make no
deals or bargains. form no alliances,
but Just sat there and could not be
budged. They were tied together
with bands OF steel. Senator John
Sharp Williams put the purpose OF
the Wilson followers in a nutshell in
a talk he had with Roger Sullivan:
You may help US nominate VIII
son today, or you may come TO It
next Saturday. or the Saturday after
that: or you may keep us here until
October. but in the end you cannot
prevent the convention from making
Wilson It's choice"
That was the spirit that won.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-05
THE DOUBLE TRACKING OF
THIRD AVENUE.

The petition OF the Third avenue
property holders asking that the
Tri-City Railway company be requir-
ed 70 double track Third avenue
from Fifteenth 20 Twentieth. should
receive the cooperative action OF the
municipal commission. This is in
accordance with the terms OF the or
dinancs under which the company
is now operating IN Rock Island. At
the time the tracks were relaid on
Third avenue. The Argus called at
tention TO the fact that the make
shift was not IN accordance with the
provisions OF the ordinance. Instead
OF a double track IL is a switch yard
unsishtly and sloyenly n appearance