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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-10
SOCIETY WOMAN POOR
INSURANCE RISK. EXPERT
PROBER FINDS

pleasant surroundings, her hours are
regular, and then there is enough art in
her work to keep her in the right frame
of mind" is Dr.. Spratlings explanation
of this conclusion.
Chorus Girl Bad Risk.
Life can not be long if it is sordid
in thought or surroundings, and the
art in the miliner's work keeps her in
terest going, but it isn't enough to give
her temperament, which usually means
nerves and a desire for late hours and
high living
Il neglected to mention two other
occupations in which the women rank
as exceedingly poor risks, and they ara
the trained nurse and the chorus girl.
The chorus girl, of course, lives to ex-
cess; she eats too much lobster and
drinks too much wine and keeps worse
hours than the woman in high society,
and then doesn't sleep as much.
The occupation Of a trained nurse is
one Of the most dangerous there is fo-
a woman. on account Of the long hours,
the mental worry, the unhealthful sur
roundings and the hard physical work
Women of Middle Glasses Good.
Psychological and physical ques-
tions enter into the discussion Of what
is the best risk in insurance. The
woman who is the head of a family in
the middle classes usually feels certain
that her children will have enough to
eat and that her husbands salary is
paying the rent and leaving a little to
be put aside for a rainy dy. She may
have to do the house work and cooking,
but she hasn't enough money to allow
her to do society," and as result her
life is heightened.
Her amusements are simple and not
too many. and the loving care of her
children and simple joys with them
keep her thoughts fresh and pure After
five years of married life this sort Of a
woman is regarded as very good risk.
I'm the lower classes where the
struggle for life is constantly before
her mind and where often her food is
insufficient and she doesn't get the
medical attention she ought to have.
the married woman is very poor risk
and we hesitate to take her: in fact.
very few OF this class apply for insur-
ance."
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-10

The ma r1ied woman in society is
one of the worst risks in life insurance
She eats too much, drinks too much
keeps too late hours and makes her
life a burden by social worries. She is
a worse risk than the department store
girl who stands on her feet all day
and these saleswomen usually either
marry or die young"
DR. f. J. Spratling, head Of the med =
ical department Of the Empire Life In
surance Company, made this statement
today. Dr. Spratling has just returned
from the American life insurance con-
vention in Chicago. where he delivered
an address on Women as Insurance
Risks"
Among housewives the orthodox
Jewish woman in middle age is the
best. She is inherently and religiously
clean; she takes her religion naturally
and doesn't worry over it. The middle
class housewife among the Christians.
while not so good a risk as among the
Jewish women, is fair and ranks with
the better class of working girl"
Wary of Policies For Husbands.
While not all Of the confreres agreed
with me- says DR. Spratlng my con-
clusion is that a woman Is very good
moral risk, especially when she insures
her life for her minor children.
Do you know that life insurance
companies go very slow in insuring a
woman when the application is taken
out with her husband as the benefi-
ciary? 1t may be a startling thing. but
numbers Of men will insure their wives
when they see them begin to get in bad
health. SO when the application Of the
woman states that the policy is to be
made out in favor Of her husband we
make very careful examination be-
fore we accept her"
In discussing the various risks among
women. the conclusion was reached
that the mllinor is the best risk among
women applicants and the rich married
woman, especially during the first five
years of her married life. the very
poorest except for factory hands house
servants and the poverty stricken house
wives of the large cities.
The work of a milliner is among
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-10
SAVANNAH MACHINISTS
GIVE UP WAGE FIGHT

SAVANNAH, GA, Sept 10.-After sew
eral months the machinists of the several
railroads entering Savannah who have
been making an effort to get an increase
in wages and better shop conditions have
given up the fight, for year, at least
This action was taken it is understood,
after the machinists of the Southern rail-
way, who had pursued their demands to
a definite decision from the officials, had
failed.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-10
BEGINS HIS list YEAR
AS A SCHOOL TEACHER

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 10.-Dr. Yep
paniah Hopper. professor of political
ecohomy. has begun his list year as
teacher in the schools here
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-10
BUGS" RAYMOND'S
ASSAILANT is HELD
AS INQUIRY GOES ON

CHICAGO sept 1O.-Fred Cicranz
is held by the police today pending
further investigation into the death of
Arthur Raymond-better known AS
Bugs Observation-Disclosures baseball
pitcher Cigranz admitted that he had
a Eight with Bugs at a baseball game
a f." days ago and that he struck him
with a piece OF "a broken flower Dot.
According To- his story. Bugs" got up
ana hit ham with the same missile.
l'a known him for dfteen wears
80 ] wouldn't have hurt him bad for
thing said Cisrauz
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-10
DESERTS HUSBAND WHO
REFUSES TO COOK FOR HER

NEW YORK, Sept. 10-Because
James Lang, of this city, refuses to do
the cooking, his wife, Mrs. Mabel Lang,
has left him.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-10
SAYS BOSTON is RULED
BY UTAH MORMON KING

BOSTON, Sept. 10,-In an address
here, ex-senator Frank ]. Cannon, Of
Utah. declared that Massachusetts is
under the domination of Mormon king
who has his throne at Salt Lake City"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22
By DOROTHY DIX.
BY TOM POWERS.

idiots not to assert their own in
dependence by dressing in a ration
al and comfortable way until you
take look at men themselves.
Then you perceive that women
are not the real AFFECT slaves of
fashion. Men are, for women, at
least show some glimmer of re-
bellon against the autocrat occa-
sionally, while men follow the lead
er blindly
woman, for instance, conforms
to the general mandates Of the ty-
rant who decreed that dresses shall
be tight or loose. and hats small or
large, but she has enough origin
ality to try to make her own gown
or hat different from the others,
and expressive of her individual
taste, whereas a man would die be-
fore he would put on a pair of
trousers that wasn't duplicate of
those worn by every other man in
the street and he would as soon be
accused of committing murder as
of having appeared in public in a
hat with a brim a quarter of an
inch wider or narrower than that
OF Brown or Smith.
A man may have the courage to
lead a forlOrn hope, or to try to
break the aviation record or drive
an automobile 80 miles an hour, but
he turns pale and faint at the mere
suggestion of dressing differently
from his neighbors. Old Dame
Fashion has got him under her
thumb, all right.
Men boast Of the superior com
fort of their style of dress over that
of women, bur between the misery
of straight front corset and a
high stiff linen collar that looks
like a section of sewer pipe heaven
knows there is little to choose. One
chokes you about the waist and
hips and the other around the neck,
and which is the most uncomfort-
able and the most unhealthful no.
body knows.
The collar has no justification on
earth. 1t is harsh and hard
abomination that cuts off the blood
supply from the brain and holds the
head in wise, and that adds 20
degrees of temperature to the body
in hot weather yet no man dares
defy fashion and so down to bust
ness in a cool, comfortable Dutch
neck. such as women wear
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22

AS a further proof Of mans alb
ject slavery to fashion, consider the
way he dresses in summer. Even
on the most tropical days he at
tires himself as IL he were going
on a north pole expedition. He
puts on a wooden suit, a stiff
starched shirt, a three-ply stiff
starched collar, a thick silk neck
tie Every layer of clothes means
that much more heat to be endured,
but while he mops the steaming
persOiratton from his brow he dons
the coat and vest that will put him
in danger of perishing of heat apo
plexy before he gets home.
A few years ago a philanthro-
pist, seeking to mitigate the suffer-
ings of his fellow man in the dog
days tried to induce men to leave
their coats and vests in summer
and wear shirtwaists, as women do.
The idea had everything TO recon-
ment it. 1t was comfortable clean
", hygienic and even picturesque.
Abstractly, men were enthusiast
tically in its favor, but when 1t
came to putting the theory into ac-
tual practice they were so COM
petely dominated by fashion and
custom that they hadn't the BRAY
cry to do it.
In view of all these facts men
have no right to ridicule women
for the folly of their dress, or for
being slaves of fashion. We are
all tarred with the same brush. If
men point the finger of scorn at
women's straight front, women can
retaliate by calling attention to
their choking collars, and if women
show their lack Of sense by wearing
too little clothes in winter, men
show their deficiency of intelli-
gence by wearing too many in sum
mer
AS a matter of fact women have
a better excuse for being slaves of
fashion than men have. because
women dress to please men. They'd
be glad enough to be loose, and fat.
anu NOll'AVi tdpIei ana would 90
about in flowing mother hubbards.
except that men demand trimnesS
and slimness in woman, and so
women have to sacrifice comfort to
that masculine ideal
Bot women Will take men how
ever they can get them, so men
have nobody but themselves TO
please and no justification for their
slavery to fashion.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22
:: SLAVES OF FASHION ::

MEN are always deriding
VI women for being the slaves
of fashion, and declaring
that the sex that has no pockets
has no business with the ballot
Nothing that their harshest crit
ic could say on the subject would
half do ii justice. The dress of
the average woman. particularly if
she is inclined 10 be a litte stout
is collection of implements of
torture that would put the rack and
the thumb screws of the Spanish
inquisitiou 10 shame.
Lace a woman in straight front
in which she can not take long
breath or make a free movement to
save her life, and that pushes her
stomach up under her ribs and dis
poses of the balance of her anat-
omy in unnatural places perch her
up on two-inch French heels that
make every step an acute agony:
pin on her head four pounds of
false hair With Al hair pins that
dig into her scalp at different an
giles. and you have before you a
creature who is undergoing tortures
that make the sufferings of the
early Christian martyrs look like a
picnic.
Yet this is the manner in which
fashion DEGREES that a woman shall
rig herself up when she goes forth
to enjoy herself Furthermore, fash
ion that demands its toll Of life and
death. orders women to starve
themselves to be thin; to strip off
their petticoats and go insufficient
ly clad to appear simmer, TO wear
thin slippers and silk stockings in
cold weather and to appear with
bare necks and throats when the
thermometer is lowering around
the zero mark, and women meekly
obey. though they kill themselves
by doing SO.
When you contemplate the offer
ings of life and comfort and health
and happiness that women make on
the altar of fashion it does look as
II their brains were cut ON the
bias, ana friued in the middle. and
hobbled around the bottom, and
that the fit home Of the entire sex
was the institution for the feeble
minded.
You can't wonder that men grid
at them for being the slaves Of
fashion. and call them fools and
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22
Seek to Elevate
Morale of Glass.

Nothing need be said antagonis-
tic to labor unions 80 long as they
work within their own rights and
do not seek to exercise those rights
in a spirit contemptuous to the
rights of the general public.
1t would be much more to their
credit it, instead of using their
power as a means of escaping the
just penalty for their shortcomings,
they would seek to elevate the
morale of their class and to ami
mate 1t with spirit prompting
to finer and more generous 10y
atty toward the public that it is its
privilege to serve.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22
IIdDIt 70 dCtIutnI.
Many Accidents
Due to Negligence.

BY one who has been for 81 years
in railroad service, and during all
that time a careful observer and
student of conditions, the published
assertion is confidently made that
at least IS per cent of these ia
talities are due to the negligence
of employees.
If this is in the case, is there
anything for an endangered and an
unnecessarily endangered public
to say or to do in the premises?
This negligence is certainly not
due to the failure on the part of the
railroad management to issue a
program Of service and to con-
struct a rigid system Of rules and
regulations. The root of the diff
ficulty lies in the laxity of en-
forcement, and that laxity is due to
two causes, the first of which is
that an American is rarely willing
to do exactly as he is told. He has
such a conception of the sufficiency
of his own judgment that he re-
CARDS every ordinance promulgated
for his observance as something to
be more or less literally interpreted
and applied just according to the
impulse of the moment.
It cuts across the grain of the
American temperament to obey-to
do ABSOLUTELY AS HE IS OR
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22
Hasty Judgment
VS.. Regulations.

That is the occasion of much
mischief on the part Of men occu-
plying a subordinate position. and
In the case of railway EMPLOYEES
results in substituting a hasty and
risky judgment of their own in
place of regulations that have been
carefully thought out by men who
have wider grasp and a keener
sense of contingencies.
A second cause Of lax enforce
ment lies in the fact that railway
labor organizations have now be-
come so strong that in many cases
the railway management stands
more in awe of the unions than the
unions do of the management. 81
that when a locomotive engineer.
for instance, has been guilty of an
accident through violation of one
of the rules of the road, the union
rallies to his defense.
The grievance committee. strong
in the consciousness Of the strength
of the union, fights it out with the
management, weak in it's fear of an
impending strike and the probable
issue will be that by the time the
killed and wounded are in their
graves or under treatment in the
hospital the engineer is back on his
seat and the long suffering and
helpless public stands by wondering
when the next derailment or COLI
sion will occur
We have had three Of them re-
Gently. 1t is all matter between
the management and the unions
and the poor public can either walk
or take the cars and ride to their
graves. Mr.. J. o. Pagan (the au-
thority referred to in the earlier
part of this article, in his recent
ly issued work on railroad manage
ment, quotes a railroad superin-
tendent as saying: with a free
hand we could put a stop to this
- l.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22
Written For The Georgian
By the Rev. DR.. c. H. Parkhurst

n TOT many people are sufff-
GENTLY interested in figures
to be willing to study sta
tistics, even though they relate to
matters that are of vital popular
concern.
1t sometimes results from this
that problems that wait upon pub
lie action for their solution are left
unconsidered and unsolved to the
sacrifice of the general advantage.
One of the features of our times
is the large and, we are authorita-
lively informed, increasing number
of railway accidents and horrible
railway disasters.
So accustomed are we becoming
to such events that they are now
no more than a "a hours sensa-
ton, except to those who are i'm
mediately concerned-that is to
say, the wounded. and the rela-
tives and friends of the slaugh-
tered.
The showing we maize is an I'M
favorable one as compared with the
situation in Great Britain, where,
in 1906, for instance, the number
of passengers carried was greater
by four hundred million than in
the United States, and yet only 40
per cent as many were killed as
here, and only ten per cent as
many injured-a proportion all the
more surprising from the fact that
density of conditions in Great
Britain would naturally render
traffic both more difficult and more
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22

1t is not likely that anything much will be heard about Mr.
Bryan hereafter presidential candidate And is quite prob
able that from being prosperous of profits the Chau
auqua grain fields he will dwndle down into phful
CLEANER whose earnings will not much
of the duful Ruth when old Mr. Boa gave his
servants to lei her pick up little grain here and there
Now that the convention dust settles and that the Old
the Sea- Mr.. Bryan is off the back of Smbad Democracy
interesting him. only with Bacon who dead
also, for instance, with T. F. Ryan, of New York.
Thomas F. Ryan is the whom Bryan wanted put out
of the convention. lie did not succeed by the way.
You have read enough about Thomas F. Ryan in
to understand that this is what you would call
Thomas Ryan organ
If however in the of human events HAD to be
Bryan a Ryan should after examining the work
of the men, find difficult to take the Bryan end of
the dilemma.
Ryan and Bryan both supposed engaged
in the transportation business Ryan man. takes
people the places in which they live Bryan has adver
sed himself that would take Democratic party to
Washington and the White House
AS the transportation business prefer Ryan
Bryan considerably
Ryan least does take the people somewhere WHEN HE
TAKES THEIR FIVE CENTS.
If you get of Ryans ears or subway cars or
elevated YOU GO SOMEWHERE. After reasonable time
you off your destination You don't get Just exactly
where you got aboard
With Bryans political it is otherwise You
board that train you pay Mr. Bryan his price which quite
siderable considering the delivered your Journey
YOU HAVE GONE NOWHERE You off just where you got on
Bryan took hold of the Democratic party the time
that Ryan took hold Of the system York
Both Of them made good deal of monyeach the par
Continued
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22
Does Ingratitude Pay?
Continued From First Column.

ticuar thing in which he engaged made
doubtedly AS MUCH AS HE POSSIBLY COULD
But in the results that achieved there was considerable
difference
Bryan took hold Of the Democratic party years
and earnestly and theoretically year after year pieces
He nominated himself and
tween times turning into cash the notorey office seeking
much good
Ryan also made plenty of money and turned the
INTO casa great many millions of it, But he found the street car
system anquaed pulling dirty old cars lighted oil
lamps He left the sysemhe connected
with for time having made for Morgan and ohers
different proposition, and certan than he
found it.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22
Does Ingratitude Pay?
v v y

Did Pay the Case of Bacon Who UNANIMOUSLY Attacked
His Friend Will Probably Not Pay in the Case of
William Bryan, Who for Selfish Reasons Deserted and
Attacked Champ Clark Who Had Always Befriended Him.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22

Bryan has big voice. and Ryan has small voice-he doesn't
earn his living with his voice When he he hires
them-Ehu Root If Ryan had had voice like Bry
ans voice at Baltimore he might reasonably got up his
seat when Bryan attacked him and replied:
What right have you attack anybody? What did you
do to the that you from Democratic party and
the people general? What do you that support
you? What have done for the Democratic party but lead
from failure another?
While you have got rich what has happened your follow
erY What have done in law-makng have you
built? What will there be to show fer you you disappear
at least have built the lines employed tens
of thousands of workers. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE2
With all of Ryans shortcomings whatever they may
fact that compared with Bryan he looms who has
actually done something that he undertook whereas Bryan
and has been of the Enthusiastically him. able TO
charge good price for the noise that wind makes
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22

An able man Bacon greatest philosopher since
Aristotle originator of modern scientific methods If it
possible accurately the of men would
probably Bacon least eleven thousand mil
lion times able William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska Yet
way the alike They alike in ingrattude
betrayed and personally prosecuted the death the
best friend that showed especial vehemence
prosecuting that friend because he feared that their friend
ship might wanted oblerate the memory of it.
almost ungrateful and selfish type Of man
William Jennings Bryan
yet of Bryans career, although
probably not far from it.
do know the end of Bacons life and it is
who dislike ingratitude know that Bacon died
long dsgraced despised by spite
the ability which has given him place in history
Bryan gets his just deserts and the punishment that should
follow shameless ngratude he will know the bitterness of
public contempt and ostracsm before he dies.
An individual with unusually dull mind publishes por
of Bryan and puts under it line the effect that Bryan
was fighting himself for his party Baltimore
Bryan, Baimore-as elsewhere and ALWAYS-Bryan
was fighting FOR HIMSELF for nothing He
lessy betrayed Champ Clark worked FOR
HIM during his entire He betrayed the that
him to the convention for Clark And such
ming he and such provincial oraorca he
exercises he with and ngratude undermine
manhis rendwhe trying to keep back the other cand
dates and make himself the candidate in the end.
He failed and it is good thing that he did fail Had he
nominated he of course would been defeated Three
American people expressed their opinion of his
type of character But it would have been calamity for the
Democratic party and disgrace to the country had this master
migrate again received the nomination
He beaten thoroughly and easily and appears in the
of Bryan the of Bacon that ngatude not to
be profitable
Very appropriately Bryan while abbng his friend Clark
the back and planning also eliminate the other candidates.
beaten by Woodrow Wilson who In famous letter time
expressed the desire that in light and comparatively
painless way William J. Bryan might be knocked into cooked
hat" Mr. Wilson's question How knock Bryan
into cooked hat? and the question been by
Mr. Wilson himself
While Mr. Bryan trying nominate Mr. Bryan at Bal
tmore Mr. Wilson stepped and took the fat plum upon which
Mr. Bryans eye fxed-and the knocking a cooked
accomplished.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-22

DERED. The average man among
us, of whatever kind or description.
has just intelligence enough to i'm
agine that it covers more ground
than it can naturally stretch itself
over.