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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-10

Tens of thousands girls worn
by of Christmas work BECAUSE THE PEOPLE
HAVEN'T SUFFICIENT CONSCIENCE TO CONSIDER THE
EMPLOYEES IN THE STORES
Men and boys packing parcels must work late at
night BECAUSE THOSE THAT LIVE COMFORTABLY WILL
NOT TAKE THE TROUBLE TO DO THEIR SHOPPING EARLY
IN THE DAY.
This Christmas season. which ought happiness all
suffering fatigue sleep injury to
health in thousands of cases.
Use your influence impress friends their duty
those that work to make the Christmas successful
1t is intensely important all of the people
At this time of merchants sell the products that
of thousands of workers have been creating for past
you your buying the you
ting your money the merchant who the store.
You giving the that merchant that he pass
the manufacturer and thus the
the goods The merchants share comparatively
The share of hundreds of thousands of workers the part
Remember for sake that shopping early in the day
when the crowded when the air good when the
clerks not tired makes work easier and healthier
Remember for the sake of the that work. for the sake
of the harassed merchants trying satisfy public
OF COMMON DECENCY that shopping early in the Christmas
and early in the DAY duty that good citizen should
neglect
Remember also keep your temper good naured HAVE
CONSIDERATION FOR THOSE THAT SERVE YOU.
Remember that the you question
answering thousands of questions that very day
while YOU be very intelligent and polite the person
whom talk deals all day long with that have less ne
and not at all polite Be patient good natured CON
SDERATE you happen find tired girl
a little short temper
You like others to help YOU you ought to help
OTHERS
1t very little say THANK you yet Thank you
to commerce is what oil is to the axle and the wheel
Remember that excellent line of advertising which the tel
phone company posts up everywhere smile
that wins. !"
You might well through the world quietly kindly,
gently and with smile elbow and push struggle and
plain
Give others chance set good example Be useful consd
crate COMPASSIONATE in the great crowds that
heavy load the workers this Christmas
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-10

" T was 81 years ago that the Ere
public of Cracow" began it's
brief and pathetic existence.
Ii is a story that is well calculated
to moisten the eyes of the most
stoical of the sons of men, and not
vet has history recorded the story's
end.
AT the general settlement OF the
affairs of Europe by the greatPoW-
ers in 1915 it was agreed that Cra-
COW and the adjoining territory
should be formed into free state,
and by the treaty of Vienna the
town of Cracow, with its territory,
was declared to be forever a free
and INDEPENDENT city" This dec
laration was signed by the repre-
sentatives of Russia, Austria and
Prussia.
These representatives of the
Powers knew history and there
fore they knew the story of Cra-
cow-an ancient and honorable
story. which doubtless touched
their hearts.
Cracow's history begins with the
year 706, when it was built by Duke
Cracus out of the spoils he had
taken from the barbarian invaders.
For 800 years the City of Cracus
remained the capital of Poland,
and there the Polish kings were
crowned until 1884 For generations
the city was the center Of the stur-
diest energy and brightest intelli-
gence of Europe. It's university,
one of the oldest on the continent,
like a great beacon light, shed its
rays far and wide; and in all that
was calculated to benefit humanity
the Polish capital stood pre-emi-
nent
Not only So Poland's capital had
suffered TO a greater extent than
any other place in the world Not
even Rome on old Jerusalem has
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-10

Kinley, and he got to the top.
When Robert Bruce, the Scotch
hero, lying on his bunk, a fugitive
from his kingdom-alone, deserted
and half starved-saw a spider fix
its broken line a dozen times to the
ceiling, never giving up it's efforts
until at last 1t made the web fast,
he was watching the conquest of
Mt. Mckinley, and he learned the
lesson so well that he himself soon
stood on the pinnacle
Every man has his Mt. Mckinley,
If he is good for anything Those
who have none are of little use to
themselves or anybody else. It is
only by continuous, untiring effort
that a man can perfect himself. IF
you find yourself becoming lazy, in
different, easily discouraged, dis
posed to think that fortune has
turned her back on you. or if the
world loses its interest for you. and
you begin to let things slide as they
VIII, wake up! You need a mountain
to climb. Don't envy the rich and
idle-they know nothing OF the ioy
and strength that come from the
conquest Of difficulties. Set an
ideal before you, and mount. over
~ n1,r, -.
slopes, the ridges, the precipices,
defying the clouds. the winds. the
cold, and the fatigue, until you see
the world at your feet.
There are many great mountains
still to be assembled, both in the
physical and the moral world. No
man has ever yet reached even the
foot of Mt. Everest, the highest
point on the globe. Explorers have
gazed longingly at it's cleaning
summit from the tops of lower
peaks a hundred miles away. Some
day they will climb it.
One Secret Still Hidden.
So, no man has yet climbed the
peak OF achievement which carries
on its apex the talisman that will
unlock the secret of interatomic
energy, that acknowledging power
with which nature is crammed. and
the control of which would make
our greatest engines seem but the
toys of children. But some day the
foot Of man will be pressed upon
that summit also.
But don't think that because you
have not genius, or great opportu-
nifty. there is no climbing for you
10 do. You can climb a peak worth
conquering every day OF your life
If YOU win
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-10
The Republic of CracoW
BY REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

been called upon to drink more
deeply of the cup OF sorrow.
The representatives of the Pow
ers knew all this-knew what the
ancient capital had endured al tn9
hands OF the Partitioners-anu
conscience stricken as 1t were
when they got together after inc
overthrow of Napoleon, they salo'
1--WE will do something for Craco"
we will give her back her ancieh'
liberties; we will decree that fof'
ever she shall be free and indepehu'
emit" And they kept their WORD d.
the above mentioned treaty or w
emma shows.
But alas! for the faith of nations
In 1916, on account OF domesu'
trouble in Cracow, the diploma"
got together and, contrary to us
solemn assurances of the treaty 0.
Vienna, blotted out the Republic o.
Cracow and incorporated the Ct"
with the dominions Of Austria
Against this unhallowed piece OIL
business England, France, SWeosN
and even Turkey heartily protest,
ed: but Austria was determine
the diplomats were willing, ana l''
infamy was consummated. -
But, as has been intimatea' NV
end is not yet. The great po7''
philosopher wrote: in the 60,
rupted currents of this world VI.
fense's gi,ded hand oft shoVes ny
Justice, but tits not so above
There is Lower Right ana
Higher Right. and in the end u.
Higher Right always wins. sou,
time It will win in the case %.
land. Austria, at present, has w.
bles Of her own, with Hungary W.
Cling at her throat; and even 1 .s..
many and Russia, powerful as '. ~
are. are not out Of the reach 'I
old Eternal Rectitude whose "
IS. I'm the final test. supreme o''n.
the Vaccinations Of men ans
pratings OF cabinets.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-10
The Call to Arms
BY CHESTER FIRKINs.

THE bugle calls from fortress walls
Where Danube's waters shine:
The banners fling their challenging
From Volga to the Rhine.
Tiher and Thames their diadems
Turn fretful toward Islam
But, bloody though her waters glow
The Bosphorus lies calm.
IRON camp and coast the Teuton host
Is summoned to prepare;
o Fer hurried mile, in Cossack file
Comes, ravening, the Bear
With bristling guns the war-feet runs
From Budapest's gray piles
While, stricken dread, yet respted.
The Turk looks on-and smiles.
4 Y, ride We forth from west and north
Gar, emperor and kingl
Ay nobly ride in battle pride
And silent threatening.
In blood to safe the ancient hate
And plunge world in wars;
BY brothers death to give now breath
To Sioslem conquerors
w HAT boots your vow for friendship now
w Your sacred pledge of peace
When southwark lies a golden prize
Your Golfers to increase?
The glutted boar stll fights for more
Take lesson of the brute.
Ride on We kings! The clarion rinosr
The smiling Turk is mute
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-10
Browns Rebuke to Blease,
the Blatant

Citizens of this republic who live without that section t
South should understand thousands of them
doubt do mderstandthatG Governor Cole L. Blease South Cara
lima representative Southern governor does not p
by the card the Southern
will prefer that the nation accept such goye
as Joseph Brown of Georgia representative TYNE
executive particularly will the South prefer the delhi
dgnid of Governor Brown be accepted as
sentiments with respect mob rather than demagou
incendiary and cheap rawlings of Governor Blease.
realizes that has the respect the sympathy and
aterna good wishes sections seeking to solve h
greatest problem handed down from days The
land drained the very dregs bitter cup pressed
lips by the msortunes of cruel As part parcel Of
inherited the negro question: all unsettled sea
has done with it the best knew howhanded light
of its purest thought and its lofes craftsmanship, with many
bunderngs and gatherings time For the result far
obtained it neither busters apologies
it's idea-maybe it's prejudces-and by them
it stands able the negro an
unaoyed rather has looked upon him grave liability
sought be fair to him. and to treat him humane with
the South has been able believe that
kindness to the to hold before him the antes suggestion
ever of social political equality.
Bease in advocating his shameless ideas Law
executive violence undertook, for political purpose to play
upon the thin strings of race prejudice.
hold the beast he pictures greater adherence
than other all menmust He spoke Richmond of negro
criminals Of certain casshese he says he would
process of law and in defiance of the constitution
his irresponsible oath observe Why he confines his
negroes would be pulling it for the fact that
sona Bease type understood in the South for the patriotic
white of the South hold in equal desatOn both white
black criminals of the sort Blease pictures.
In response to Blease, Governor Brown said:
The executive Of state has monopoly of devotion the
white of his state the determination protect them
but whatever the crime Georgia. hold that the criminal
be punished by the law instead of by the mob Georgia
have depend upon mobs punish those who violate her laws
II regard Governor Bleases advocacy Of mob law exceed
ngy unfortunate for the simple that every other state
in the American Union the devotion of white white
sacred is in South Carolina and the determination
tect them if need be- to visit condgn punishment upon Oa
who have wronged them deepseated and rreVOcabe it's
in South Carolina
Every governor with whom talked and every
Richmond who her opinion stood advancing @
process instead of mob law
The South will be content if the nation accepts the words
Governor Brown of Georgia. stating the real Southern position
this question of mob law, raised by Blease
The South will ndorse and approve Governor Brown with that
of emphasis that rejects the sinister dishonest and
illegal attitude of unfortunate South Caronas utterly cheap and
shameless executive
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-10
By GARRETT P. sERVISS.

of their adventures. 1t is a tonic
for the soul. 1t makes all Difficult
ties seem less formidable.
The young man who starts out In
life without any of the advantages
of education, or wealth. or social
position. and by sheer grit over
comes every obstacle, never losing
confidence in himself, never giving
way to encouragement, never whin-
ing. never thinking that he is the
victim of fatality or bad luck. never
paralyzing his energies, or wasting
his time by envying the good for
tune of others, is climbing Mt. Nc
Kinley, and he will go to the top
Unbroken Courage Won.
When Frederick, who afterward
won the title Of "the Great" found
himself, like bull in the ring. sur
rounded and tormented by innum-
cradle enemies his army in flight,
his capital captured his palace
looted, his friends falling away,
every circumstance against him,
but his courage and resolution I'M
broken, he was climbing Mt. Nc
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-10
Christmas 7 hat Makes
Thousands Miserable

You Who Read This Newspaper and Other Buyers of Christ
Gifts, Can Free Many from Suffering AND AT THE
SAME TIME HELP YOURSELVES.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-10
Conquest of Mt. Mckinley Is a
Lesson For All

TN Hearsts Magazine for Decem-
Der you Will read the story of
the final Conquest" of Mt Nc
Kinley, the loftiest mountain in
North America, and you will see
photographs that VIII thrill you
with the excitement of dangers and
difficulties met and overcome. 1t is
a remarkable story of wonderful
feat.
But we are all philosophers, often
without knowing it, and many will
ask: What is the good of this
desperate mountain climbing; what
does humanity gain by it, after
all?"
From a strictly unitarian point
of view it is difficult to answer such
questions. If you are one of those
who think that nothing is worth
while that can not be expressed in
dollars and cents, then there is no
answer that will satisfy you. The
climbing of Mt. Mckinley was sim
oily the achievement Of an ideal, and
nobody can appreciate it whose own
life is not led on the uplands of
Ideally, and whose nature does not
demand something more than food.
drink, clothes and ordinary social
amusements.
But to those who do set noble
ideals before their minds. and who
believe that utihtarianism. In it's
usual sense, is death to mans high
er nature, the feat Of Professor
Parker and Mr.. Browne will appeal
with the mysterious force of a great
poem--a poem written not in words,
but in achievement.
Measurement Not Object.
Those men did not go there
merely to measure the height of Mt.
Mckinley It's height had already
been measured, probably more ac-
curately than they were able to do
it, by means of surveying instru-
ments, played many miles away in
the valleys and on lower peaks.
Whether its elevation is 20,3O0 feet
or 20,450 feet is a matter Of small
moment compared with the fact
that men, In spite of enormous diff
hculties, have succeeded in reach
ing it's summit. The grit, the de-
termination. endurance and courage
which they exhibited form a vaiu-
able object lesson In the develop
ment of character Every reader
feels himself stronger, bolder more
capable as he follows the narrative
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-22

They mortgaged their homes and hur-
ried to hand it over, to the clairvoy-
ants.
1t is a good ordinance for any city
and town to pass and to enforce. The
world is full Of easy marks who need
protection and of easy money grafters
who ought to be in jail. The fortune
telling business is a cheap confidence
game to get the coin of the credulous
and shallow minded The "clairvoy-
ant and her kindred grafters should
no more be permitted to operate than
the sleight OF hand swindler should be
given right of way on the street corner
to sell twenty dollar bills in soap
packages. 1t Is a meaner graft that
the monte game because the victim
Of the fortune telling fake is buying
what she supposes is service and pay
ing for it. The monte victim is trying
to skin somebody else.
1t would be an excellent plan to put
the fortune teller and the "clairvoyant''
up against a stringent ordinance every
where and stop swindle
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-22
Baby pott.r. Morals.

"Th. cotton mill at Avondale, Biz
mingham, has long had reputation
for the employment OF children. tho
conditions have improved since be-
came personally acquainted with them
some FIVE years ago." writes A. ]. Nc
Kelway OF the National Child Labor
Committee, in special issue OF The
Survey devoted to Birmingham. Ala.
"Mr. Hines investigator OF the mill,
made in November. 1910. found condi-
tions UNIV holesome, but no worse than
at Huntsville or Pell City. The chill
dren would hesitate when asked their
age, but uniformly answered, Il years
old,'-even our baby doffer' as he was
affectionately called. In the spinning
rooms Mr. Hine saw many Of the
youngsters whose photographs he had
already taken actually at work. A
couple Of very young girls were help
ing in the weave room, and few
photographs OF the children at their
machines were taken. Child labor laws
were posted conspicuously and the
certificates of age wer carefully ex-
acted, no matter what the moral GER
tainty was that the children were I'M
der age.
THE moral influences in this mill
village were found to be deplorable, as
is frequently the case where cotton
mills are within the city limits. There
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-22
AN OLD SOLDIERS "REMINISCENCES,

MAJ. >. II. u. ByerS, one OF the
prominent "old soldiers Of Iowa and
author OF the famous song celebrating
Sherman's march to tho sea and OF the
verses Iowa o, Iowa," familiar to
every school child in the state, has
written q small volume Of remin-
iscences OF the war Of the rebellion
from notes taken on the fields of the
battles and in the southern prisons he
describes in its pages.
Aside from the special interest which
attaches to it from its authorship
Major Byers has offered a picture of
war In the book which affords a graph
ic view Of its Infinite horror and suffer-
ing. In a few places his description is
10 definite as to be horrible. The de-
scrtption OF that valley where the dead
lay In unburied masses while night
animals and prowltng vermin fed upon
their bodies Is one Of these and were it
not that the very horror Of war is
the surest promise OF its sometime
abolition might well have been left I'M
written.
Old soldiers, who like Byers, fol-
lowed Grant down the river to Vicks-
burb who watched the cotton guarded
vessels run the flaming gauntlet of
forts and land batteries past the forth
Ned city which was the key to the Mis-
sissippi. who listened for news of Sher-
mans march at the open windows of
Libby and grasped at the rumors that
filtered into prison pens will read this
little book with great interest and 9TH
efs may read it with advantage.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-22
A ca.h M.xu. FOR Crime.

A boy in Admission. Ala, trespassed
upon the railroad tracks. He was ar
rested; sentenced to sixty 'dayV' hard
labor; and leased out to a coal oper-
ator. He was totally inexperienced In
coal mining unused to it, dangers. and
was at work only a few days .whep he
met with an accident which resulted
in the amputation of one Of his legs.
He will hobble around the rest Of his
life on one leg-a cripple for life for
trespassing. thins taa. hundreds OF
people. do from year to year unmo-
Tested.
Last April sth, 12s negro convicts
working in the Banner mine owned by
the Pratt Consolidated Coal Company.
were instantly killed by an explosion.
Seventy-two Of the convicts were from
Jefferson county, in which Birming-
ham is located: and twenty-one out
Of the seventy-tWo or 80 per cent were
convicted of offenses so minor that
their sentences, aside from cost, dlo
not exceed twenty days.
Coal mining Is one Of the two most
hazardous occupations that today en-
rolls any very large number OF work
ers. And coal mining where the dan
ger is exceedingly great, where the
opportunities for those who already are
murderers to injure or kill their fell
low workers is also exceedingly great
coal mining an occupation ranking
among the two most deadly even where
free labor is employed-that is the oc-
cupation to which Alabama hires out
so per cent OF her state and county
convicts, whether they be trivial mis-
demenants or criminals Of the lowest
order Shelby NJ. Harrison in The
Survey.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-22
NationaIizins Legal Aid
A permanent national ASSOCIATE

A permanent natlOnal association OF
legal aid societies is to be the out
growth Of a convention held in Pitts
hurgh. Attic the New York Legal Aid
Society has completed it's thirty fifth
year, this Pittsburg meeting marked
the first attempt to bring together rep
resentatives of all organizations doing
legal aid work.
Fifteen delegates represented thir-
teen organizations. ranging from com
mittees of associated charities to a
municipal bureau Only TWO organiza-
tons doing such work., says The Sur
vey were not represented; viz, the
New Jersey Legal Aid Society. New
ark, y. j., and the Los Angeles Legal
Aid Society.
"The west had the distinction of pre-
senting the most interesting and pro-
gressive idea at the convention. Kan
ing, advanced the postulate-apparent
ly novel one to a majority OF the
delegates-that legal aid to the poor
should properly be a function of the
city government.
attorneys interested in the situation
are reaching at least approximate
agreement turnout the country upon
the remedial m asures necessary to
protect the poor from loan sharks and
ignorant foreigners from victimiZation
which are the two chief problems of
all legal aid work.
Mr.. Baxter and other PittSburS
speakers offered striking information
as to methods used to victimize for
eigners. Delegates were told that Ed
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-22


II row .of houses Of uncsrtsin repu-
tatoin. called aHeM.' - Hail Acre. ~
one end OF the mill settlement. A 500
cia1 worker 10 quoted 70 the eject that
broksn.down mill girls frequently emo
in these houses. and that there were
on record in court three cases within
3 year Of girls under. IA ruined In Hell's
Half Acre. No amount OF claims gem
orally made by cotton mill managers
az to the bstterment work they do. the
erection Of schools and churches. can
atone for this abuse OF childhood; and
the cotton mill employer 10 not only
blind to hts real interest, but insenssble
to . gathering avalanche Of public
opinion. in the: south 40 elsewhere.
which will certainly sweep away the,
evil Of child labor and H. likely to carry
with It the regulations Of child en-
ployers and perhaps other wreckage in
it, path
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-22
cumAlks PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY.

Senator Cummin's announcement of a
presidential candidacy was well re-
ceived In Iowa There is no doubt that
the state will gladly get behind 1t and
that the delegation will be freely grant
ed him. His announcement will prac-
tically settle the question Of presi-
Genital choice in Iowa Iowa is for
Cumn4ins
1t is a good candidacy. Sen
ator Cummins, despite all that has
Of desperate campaigns is trusted by
friends and enemies. His friends and
his enemies have always been able to
locate him. He has stood boldly for
certain principles and policies. He has
been the commander-in-chief for the
progressive movement in Iowa There
willing to push every political chip to
the center and stake his political pros
poets and position upon the righteous
ness Of his propositions. He IS bold,
Trustworthy ana OF presidential size.
He took immediate prominence in the
senate Of the United States. Perhaps
he is not as widely known as LaFol-
lette but he is better understood. He
is of judicial as well as Of constructive
temperament. Business does not fear
him and the common people trust him.
1t is good candidacy and one Of which
his state may be Justly proud
It may be safely assumed that there
will be no opposition Of note TO the
Cummins candidacy in Iowa And 1t
is, eminently to the satisfaction OF
middle west republicans that he has
consented to bring his name before the
convention.