Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-12-20
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SHOULD BRIDGE
CROSSINGS.
DANGEROUS

SHOULD SE1OdE O@-NG6SSOOS
CROSSINGS
Twice within few weeks has there been two fatal
railroad wrecks near town of Gainesville The
first wreck caused by a freight train suddenly
rounding a curve and which into construction
train Nine persons killed, and several others
dangerously wounded.
daughter caught by another freight train, round
ing a curve and Miss DuBose was killed and the IA
Their seriously hurt
In both instances the rounding curve. where the
people could the oncoming freight train. is
mentioned the Of disaster.
1t preposterous that such places not bridged
or an underpass made for wagons other vehicles.
the w. and A railroad tracks is enor.
nous The N C. and St L. has great number OF
and the L. and N division joins these tracks AT
Gainesville, going to Atlanta
1t is only forty-eight miles from Atlanta to Car
tersvile and surely some plan should be devised 70
avoid such fearful tragedies There are many curves
hills and short turns for railroad
trains. The wagon road should be bridged wherever
the travel is heavy at every one of these sudden
1t Is understood that Mr. DuBose stopped and list
for trains he did not hear warning whis-
tie Where the blame attaches may be fully un-
derstood but it is high the railroad commits
sion of Georgia should investigate conditions where
ten lives sacrificed and within mile of these two
late accidents
CHRISTIANS wAsTEFULNEss.
I have had considerable time in my life to get
quainted what is useful and what is needless and
it is we'll fact that enough money is wasted
at Christmas and Fourth of July to build batueshtp
or run bank Somehow it cannot break loose
from the habit of wasting money on things that alb
solutely perish with the using. have occasionally
estimates of amounts spent In frecrackers'
etc. that are dangerous enough to lame the users
five times of ten of these giddy peo
pie Sometimes hand is torn up occasionally an eye
is put out, and once in while disastrous IRE Is
started.
And the money that paid out for expensive things
of this class is actually burned up Having money 10
burn certainly apply this explosive sort OF run
Not only children, but grown people seem TO get
wild spending, even when the money. is sorely
needed for substantial comfort There is sort OF
cheap rivalry If the has lot OF the sturr the
people who should know better will defer house rent
and grocery bills splurge in noise and wasteful
things to keep up the pace. And when Christmas is
over then the begin tighten harder and every
body regrets the folly and wastefuness when II Is
late.
And there is a great deal much OF pressure pue
ON those who feel Obliged something in return
for Christmas hurrahs Like forced wedding presents
the aftercap is something onerous. 1t is a time OF
good and good will, but the demands Tor pazals
and Christmas donations have wearisome to
those are pressed into dubious charity affairs IN
spite themselves.
stout pair of actually needy than to give
charity promscuously just because II nap
pens be Christmas. But have no idea tnat car
change the pr gram by preaching against "asIeiui
spending It to be migrated into the American
Humankind to spend all that is possible at Christmas
maybe bare in essentials for SIX months aies
rEuDs IN GEORGIA
. we are aware that we had strike in Georgia--a
difficulty between railroad and its employees tnat
lasted for weeks entang heavy loss on the state as
well as the railroads and its employees
These things have been happening in the northeast
and west for decades but this late disturb
ance with the Georgia railroad was the first OF It's
kind with u.s. That there will be more strikes we may
be assured differences between labor and capal
will be no uncommon thing. because of the great am
prevailing unrest.
We are getting feuds down in Georgia ALSO and
Turner county and Iaw-abiding citizens have been
heInless to prevent bloody clash between reuoists.
The feud is not settled and there will be more blood
shed and violence without miracle Kentucky mas
been called the dark and bloody ground Tor more
than half century and reconstruction times In east
tennessee were filled with midnight shooungs
and desperate violence But Georgia has had but ht-
tle TO complain in this respect and the violence
was confined to northeastern mountains ana main
l concerned with Illicit sales of booze and revenue
raids.
But Turner county broken out into terrible Vo-
lence within the last few weeks 1t is in the very
heart of conservative Georgia, and it seems that
courts and sheriffs concluded to et it rip Vo-
lence begets violence. Every exercise OF MOB Ia"
strengthens the authority of mob violence
Fortunately the Turner county feud was between
whites and not between different races
1t would be a chapter of horrors to compute Ie
extent of mob violence and where burned oarns'
midnight assassins and foul injustice have followed