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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-09
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One of our readers woman that is cursed
violent temper and wants to know what she can do to
it.
High temper usually emperamcntathat say, it is
part of the ndivduals makeup And there is nothing harder
in this world than to change ones TEMPERAMENT
Of all temperamental qualities bad temper perhaps the
most difficult get Of the attacks of temper shut out
Judgment the and make reform almost impossible
This woman, however the right road, SINCE SHE
RECOGNIZES THAT HER TEMPER IS BAD.
Most of imagine that have not bad tempers. We
subjected irritation than Others and
that justified in getting mad
There are certain ways of mechanically calming
temper Our reader has, perhaps heard of them
plan that recommended is for the angry to
repeat Lords Prayer his mind up twenty
before saying anything.
more practical suggestion with physiological
behind it, is this:
If you a and fear that you will something fool
h put your something that you chew piece
of straw, button ball ofpaper.
actual material explanation for the good results
this way Temper accompanied almost always by
sudden rush blood to the brain Sometimes this rush of blood
is great almost to temporary insanity
If you put something in your mouth and chew it, you will
find queng The process of chewing activity of
the avay glands and this turn draws the blood to the stOm
ach and away from the brain.
Another very valuable plan is always apologize to every
body concerned after display of temper This very apt
bore those who receive the apology but makes the hot tenn
perd feel foolish and he will realize his temper
that he be apoogng his mind takes different
and he can learn gradually to control himself.
very sad fact is this, that many and dis
tncty GLAD of having hot temper They feel that there
something very credabe something asocratc and noble in
getting angry slight provocation.
They encouraged this belief by people
around Them who give their whms of dread of
temper and fatter their vanity
AS matter of fact the person who habuay shows temper
is apt to be good deal of bully you watch him carefully
you will find that his high temper is usually aimed those UN
DER him, who not resent his rudeneSs
The hottempered floor walker manager, the MOST
hot tempered apt be mild milk when his employer
around
sders beneath her is extremely apt be very
with those social prefer
ment.
This class of hotempered humanity largely born
buhes, and they easily cured
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-09

filled him with compassion and
sympathy for even the humblest of
the sex; if she has made him real
ize how sacred is the responsibility
man assumes when he takes a
woman's life into his keeping. then
his mother may hold her head
proudly erect. for she knows she is
bestowing upon the girl at the altar
gift beside which family silver
and tiaras and ropes Of pearls are
but baubles, not worth the having.
But, if when a woman watches
her son being married, she knows
that she has raised him up to be
undisciplined and untaught: if she
knows that he has an unbridled
temper ana a tongue that stabs like
a dagger; if she knows that he is
selfish and grOuchy and tyrannical;
If she knows that he will make of
his wife playthiug that he will
throw away when he is tired of it,
or that she will be a slave who wi.
tremble before him, then she must
also know herself a criminal. and
that she would do a kinder act if
she shot the bride dead where she
stood in her bridal robes than to let
her marry her son.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-09
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And the worst of it is that the
woman who gives another woman a
bad husband can never undo her
wrong. There is no place for her
for repentance, though she seek it
with prayers and tears. Her OPP
portunity is gone with her sons
plastic childhood Then she might
have trained him to make a good
husband when he was grown, but
after he reaches manageable age
it is too late.
There is nothing else on earth so
cynically humorous as that most of
the women of civilization are band
cd together in churches and altru-
istic societies to make the world
better and happier, and yet the one
thing that they could do to bring
on the millennium they never even
think of doing.
Every other sorrow in existence
is as nothing to the anguish caused
by unhappy marriages. That is the
very fountain of te1rs, the founda-
ton of the mountain Of broken
hearts, yet women have within
their grasp the panacea for all of
this woe, and they do not use it.
1t is within the bounds of pos
sibility that there would be no
more unhappy marriages if moth
ers would only train up their chill
dren to make good husbands and
wives, and when they fail to do
this they make themselves access
series before the crime not only of
divorce, but for all the wretched-
ness for which it is the inadequate
cure.
When man turns out to be fine
and brave and wonderful and
achieves a great success, we like to
give much of the credit to his
mother, and tell how she inspired
him. and nodded his character, and
helped to make him what he is.
Let US not forget that the man
who is mean, and little, who is
trihing and worthless, who is
failure. and who is a curse to all
who come in contact with him,
likewise had a mother. He is also
mothers work. 1t was her influ-
ence that nodded him. her weak
ness that is responsible for his
failure. Many a mother looking at
the sort of a job she has turned
out in her son must be conscience
stricken at the way she has acquit-
ted herself of her task.
1t is the mother who is RESPONSE
BILE for the kind of a husband her
son makes. Think of that. moth
ers. What sort of a husband are
you rearing for your neighbours
daughter? What sort of hus-
band is she bringing up for your
daughter2
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-09
Old Age and MentalACtivitV

eve dying too young declares the brilliant Professor
Maria Sanford seventy and retired Carnegie pension
after thirty years of active work
Il have heard it said that animals the time of life
five times the that required reach maturity see
why mankind should not under the law AS thirty
needed for reach maturity then
raj conditions he should live to be hundred fifty
is dying what might be termed childhood"
mental exercise.
While it true that many of greatest reached
advanced thus seeming to bear the soundness
lessor Sanford theory the other hand litter
ate persons live beyond the century mark Metchnko work
ncessant IS at great apparently robust health
other day there died in Mexico have been one
hundred and eghtyfve years old
With present day scientific knowledge we have already
reached greater than
that few OF would drag along to oothess
hairless wrlnked century and half unless means shall
be found to rob old age of its hepessness
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-09
=: MOTHERS WORK

THE son of a woman who is
said to be worth seven million
dollars got married, and after
the manner of the sons of rich and
doting mothers conducted himself
in such way that his wife was
obliged to sue him for divorce.
Then the question of support for
his wife and two children came up,
and the young man protested that
he was poor; that he earned only
a small salary, and could pay but
pittance of alimony
But the judge-may his tribe in
crease--overruIed this plea. and, in
awarding the wife and children
enough money to insure them a de-
cent living, said;
"If a woman brings up her son
in idleness, with the idea that he is
to Inherit wealth, then what the
mother is worth is clearly admissi-
BILE in determining what alimony
the son shall pay"
And so mamma has got to go
down in her own pocket and pay
the alimony.
This is a righteous decision that
every just person will applaud. If a
woman rears her son to be a waster
and a spender instead of thrifty
and Industrious, it is no more than
right that she should be forced to
support the wife and children she
has not fitted him to care for like a
decent man. It is her fault that
he is worthless, and it is not fair
that his family should eXpiate in
poverty his mothers crime.
AS a cold. plain matter of fact
every mother is responsible for the
kind of a husband her daughter-in-
law gets, and the tragedy or 1t Is
that when the daughter in-law gets
a bad husband. it is only when it is
question Of money that his moth
er can make any reparation for
the deadhest wrong that one hui
man being can do to another.
In the matters that really affect
woman's happiness such as kind
ness, consideration, generosity. ten
derness, chivalry. every man is alb
solutely what his mother makes
him. Il he has these good qualities
his wife is blessed among women,
though she lives in a hovel, and
wears calico. If he has them not
she is accused, though she may
dwell in a palace, and cover her
bruised and aching heart with point
lace ana diamonds.
The wedding present that the
bridegroom's mother makes a bride
on her wedding day is, literally and
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-09

N F the morality Of gambling
" nothing need be said. All
affirm is that it is simply alb
surd to enter on a habit where
success is defeat and to win is ca
lamity.
The successful amateur gambler
graduates into a professional-he
has to, for business men shun him.
No man who plays cards for
money can keep his position long.
The fact is, none of US has a sur
plus of brains, and If we are going
to succeed in business all the power
we have to our credit is demanded.
The man who can play cards at
night and do business in the day
time hasn't yet been born.
Life is a bank account with so
much divine energy at your dispo-
sal. What are you going to do with
it? If you draw your checks for
this YOU can not draw for that.
Take your choice. And, above ALL
do not draw on the Bank of Futu-
rity by breathing bad air. keeping
bad hours and bad company.
The man who succeeds in bust
ness Is the one who goes to bed
before 10 o'clock at night, and only
one thing is he jealous of, and that
is outdoor exercise.
Gambling robs a man Of rest,
and the keen edge Of life is lost
in shuffling the pasteboards. All
he gives to his employer or the
world is the discard. Outside of his
play he is a weak, inefficient per-
son, and his weakness is very apt
to manifest itself in burdening his
friends.
The curse of gambling does not
fall on the gambler alone, any more
than the drunkard alone suffers for
his fault. Suffering falls upon
every one within the radius of the
gambler
If your gambler is on salary,
he very often comes around for his
wages before pay day, then he gets
to discounting his salary to mon
ey shark; then, if he can, he will
borrow" his pay before he earns it,
without first consulting you. He in
tends to pay it back-oh, yes!
He wins and pays it back. This
encourages him to borrow more the
next time. He takes more in order
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-09
HarVesters Are Needed

With harvest full swing the Northwest farmers can
not hands enough to gather the crops
At ranging from $3.50 to So day is estimated by
the railroads that there work for 5000 Dakota
and Montana alone.
In other states the story the samebumper yield lack
Of force to take advantage of it.
1t pity that the thousands of wandering the
streets Of big cities anxious work. transported
to this land of plenty where their would saving
The time is to when the tenement dweer strug-
ghng along without sunlight and attempting to
BRING up family will realize that the open country the place
I the man who wants physical mental and moral well
1nancal value for the labor Of his hands,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-09
Loves Supremacy
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

\ yon great sun in his supreme condition
Absorbs small worlds and makes them all his own
So does my love absorb each vain ambition
Each outside purpose which my life has known
Stars shine so that vast orb d splendor
They are content to feed his flames of fire;
And so my heart is satisfied to render
It's strength, its all, to meet thy strong desire
AS in forest when dead leaves falling
From all some perennial green tree,
So one by one find all pleasures paIIing
That not linked with enjoyed by thee.
And all the homage that the world may proffer
take perfumed oils Incense sweet
And think of it thing to offer
And sacrifice to Love, at thy dear feet.
I love myself because thou art my lover
My dear since uttered by thy voice;
Yet, argus-eyed, [ watch and would discover
Each blemish in the object of thy choice
I coldly sit in judgment each error;
To my souls gaze hold each fault of me-
Until my pride is lost in abject terror
Lest I beGome inadequate to thee.
Like some swift-rushing and sea-seeking river
Which gathers force the farther on it goes
So does the current Of my love forever
Find added strength and beauty as it flows
The more ] give the remains for giving
The more receive, the more remains to win
All only in eternities of living
Will life be long enough to love thee in
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-09
Ebert Hu
Writes on
The
Gambler
Bv EBERT HUBBARD
Copvright 1872 by International News Service

to win more. He is now obliged to
play heavily because his debts are
accommodating. 1t is an old story,
and dozens of men in prison can tell
you all about It.
To do business with gamblers
leads, as a rule, to disappointment,
because with gamblers the idea
of reciprocity, mutually and CO.
operation, except TO skin some.
body, does not exist.
From betting to beggardom is
only one step. No man can play
the pasteboards or the races con-
tinually and win. Mechanically
he Is bound to lose at last. And
of all fools the biggest is the man
who bets on sure thing"
John Madden has followed the
business for a quarter of a CEN
fury and says: az quit betting
years ago and if I ever bet again
1t will be because the disease has
gotten the better of my business
judgment"
The bookmaker gets it all-he
has but to wait and the whole
thing is his. 1t Is just like the
game where the dealer takes care
of all the bets and gives the first
booster an ace in the hole. If the
boosters do not get the Five ones"
money the dealer will. He gets
all the others have, as sure as
death, If they continue to play.
Do not imagine that all gam
bling is done in the cities, Man
made the cities, God the country,
but the devil made the small
towns" Hardly a village in
America is free from the scourge.
Gambling means blurred vision,
weak muscles, shaky nerves. Loss
of sleep, lack of physical exer-
else. irregular meals, bad air, ex-
element, form a DEVILS monopoly
of bad things-and the end is dis
grace, madness, death and the
grave.
am not member of the
Christian Endeavor society, the
Epworth League. the Baptist
Union, the Knights of Columbus
or the Society for the Suppression
of Vice, and all say here is sim
ply little plain talk by one bust
ness man to others, with all soft
sentiment omitted.
Boys, we need all the brains we
have in our work.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-09
By DOROTHY DIX.

truly, her happiness or her misery
for the balance of her life. She is
responsible for the veal or woe of
her sons wife.
If she has trained him to habits
of self-control; if she has taught
him to be just and fair in his deal
ings with women; if she has made
him understand how full of suffer-
ing woman's life is at best. and so
New-York tribune., 1912-02-28
LIFTING THE LIN

The filibuster conducted in the House
of Representatives last Friday against
the passage of three omnibus private
pension bills calls attention again to
the thoroughly insincere attitude of
the majority in the House toward pen
sion legislation. That majority pledged
itself last spring to reduce govern
mental expenditure, yet the first meas
ure which it passed when Congress
reassembled in December was the Sher-
wood bill, authorizing an increase Of
S75,000,0O0 a year in pension outlay.
When the Sherwood bill was up it was
defended on the ground that passing a
measure OF universal relief. enlarging
compensation both for age and service,
would free Congress from the necessity
of considering private pension bills
dealing with special cases Of hardship.
But although the $75,OO0,O00 Sherwood
bill is pending in the Senate the House
has gone ahead just the same as ever
pushing through private pension bills
granting special favors to individuals
who cannot make out cases under the
general pension laws.
When Representative Roddenbery, of
Georgia, undertook to examine a few Of
the cases Jumped together In one of the
three omnibus bills taken up last week
the House took manifest offence at his
impertinence in challenging legislation
of that sort, and report from the COM
mittee on Rules was rushed in squelch-
ing the challenger and providing
maximum limit Of ten minutes for de-
bate on all three bills, five minutes TO
90 to the obstreperous gentleman from
Georgia. The latter protested against
such an exhibition OF Cannon Henry
gag rule" but the steam roller went
over him and the bills were passed with
out any further disconcerting criticism
from his quarter.
1t is easy to understand the indigna-
ton Of the House at an attempt to
submit private pension bills to analysis.
These bills fall more or less into the
classification Of personal perquisltes,
each Representative being theoretically
entitled to his share of the increases
recommended, which are naturally such
ps will do the most good "back home"
Private pension bills are the. small
change Of legislation, and anybody who
like Mr.. Roddenbery, tries to have the
small change supply cut OF is likely to
be treated by most of his colleagues as
New-York tribune., 1912-02-28
"NEGJECT" AT LAWRENCE.

The high-handed act Of the Lawrence
authorities In preventing the strikers
from sending their children away to be
cared for by sympathizers elsewhere may
have brought them in conflict with the
federal law, through their interference
with an interstate carrier In the per-
formance of its functions. The invesd-
cation now begun by federal authorities
Is TO be desired. for Massachusetts. In
spite of its traditional attitude on ques-
tions of individual liberty, seems singu-
larly cold with regard to the Lawrence
affair. Governor Foss apparently has
given 1t no more than perfunctory atten-
ton.
The development Of the case In the
local court yesterday shows how fiimsy
were the grounds on which the authorl-
ties acted In alleging that the shipping
of the children elsewhere amounted TO
parental neglect. No evidence was pro-
duced to show that those already sent
out Of Lawrence had not been properly
cared for or that the homes in Philadel-
phia to which children were to have been
sent were not proper homes for their re-
ception. A police officer swore merely
that the mother who was being prOsecut-
ed for neglect in the case before the
court did not know where her two chill
dren were going who was 10 care for
them or whether she was going To see
them again. Even that. II It Is true, does
fThn rnfgHt
properly have had sufficient confidence
in the labor organization which was dis
posing Of the children to trust It entirely.
We are not sure that as bad case of
neglect" might not be made out against
some mothers, ignorant aliens like this
one, who permit their children TO be
taken to the country for summer out
ings by various philanthropic organiZa-
tiOns engaged in that laudablc service.
They certainly are not likely TO know
anything about the persons who are TO
take care Of their children on their pre-
cious vacation Ignorant Of the geog-
raphy Of the country, they may have no
clear idea of where their children are
going, and they probably could not prove
to the satisfaction of police officer that
they had sufficient assurances that they
would ever get their children back again.
And yet how absurd and tyrannical It
would be for the public authorities TO
step in and allege that sending these
children away thus to fresh air and
health was neglect" on the part Of their
DarentSi
New-York tribune., 1912-02-28
orr FLAG AND IT'S "UNJOy."

The admission Of New Mexico and
Arizona as states will cause the addi-
ton of two more stars TO the national
flag on July 4, in accordance with the
law of April 4, 1918, which provides
that on the admission of every new
state into the Union, one star be added
ito the union Of the flag; and that such
addition shall take effect on the 4th
"of July next succeeding such admis-
"sion." The current popular saying Is
that two stars will be added to the
Union Jack and this latter phrase is
commonly applied to the canton Of the
Stars and Stripes. For this usage there
appears to be no Justification, not even
in convenience.
The precise origin Of the phrase
"Union Jack. has been disputed, but
the great weight Of evidence is to the
effect that it was derived from Jacques
or Jacobus, the French and Latin
names of the Stuart King In whose
reign the superimposed crosses of st.
George and st. Andrew were placed In
thei canton Of the British flag to indi-
cate the union Of England and Scot
land. In that generally accepted view
of the case the name appropriately be-
longs to that portion Of the British flag,
but 1t is q misnomer to apply Ii to the
canton Of the American flag, with which
"Jacobus Rex" certainly had nothing to
do-unless simply to set the example
of placing union emblem in the can
ton. The use of the term Is general
and official in the United Kingdom, but
II is not official here and should not
be employed.
The official and correct name Of the
grouping Of stars on blue field In
the American flag is simply the union"
The original resolution of Congress OF
June IA, 1777, adopting the flag de-
signed by Washington, decreed "that
''the union be thirteen stars, white in
"a blue field" The act Of January
13, 1874, provided that the union be
fifteen stars. white In n blue field"
The act of 1918, now In force. which
we have already quoted, employs the
same words. In the official orders
of the Navy Department and the
War Department concerning the style
and proportions of the flag. union"
alone is used and union jack" is un-
known. IL seems highly desirable,
therefore, that popular usage shall con-
form with official practice and authority
and with the logic Of history, and that
New-York tribune., 1912-02-28
THE CABIN ET.
[From Tho Tribune Bureau. J

From Tho Tribune Bureau
Washington, Feb. 27.-The Secretary of the
Treasury went to New York this afternoon
to Join Mrs. MacVeagh. who preceded him
by a few hours. He will return on Friday,
and Mrs. MacVeagh will return on Sunday.
The Attorney General and Mrs. Wicker
sham entertained at dinner tonight, hay
ing in the party Senator and Mrs. Warren,
Senator Brandegee, Mr.. and Mrs Franklin
X Lane, Brgadier General and Mrs. Ed
wards, Captain and Mrs. John III. Gibbons,
Nine Christian Hauge, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles c. Glover, Mr.. and Mrs. Woodbury.
Blair and Major Butt.
Mrs. Meyer, who Is now at Hamilton, her
summer home. will remain indefinitely
with her son and daughter George yon l..
Meyer, jr., and Miss Julia Meyer, who are
indisposed. The Secretary of the Navy viii
make frequent trips between Washington
and Hamilton. IT VIII be weeks before Mr..
Meyer is able TO resume his athletics. Miss
Alice Meyer is enjoying Washington's Tit
tie social season"
Tho Secretary of Commerce and Labor
will 90 to New York the last OF the week,
and on Saturday will make an address at
the Chamber OF Commerce dinner.
The Attorney General and Mrs. Wicker
sham have as a guest Miss Mlllicent Almy,
daughter OF Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Almy,
Of Lawrence, Long Island. who was with
them for a time earlier in the season