Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24
Those That Spend Are an Inter-
esting, Necessary, but Not
d Happy Class
Millions Of Men Are Working. Struggling to Make of Their Sons
the Thing That You See at the Top Of This Page
rLrht.


Two work in this wOrld-the forces of GATH
ERNG which build up and of SCATTERING which
tear down
On the edge African desert small lion cub waits for
its mother to come home with a dead antelope.
Later you might that cub young hon. going out to hunt
following timidIy behind the mother honess.
Again you would him huge beast with heavy NAME
hunting on his own able pull down any animal
except the elephant and rhnoceros.
Still later YOU would see him, his days of GATHERING
ended stretched on the ground dead.
In the evening would be there complete and the
ing there would be nothing but white bones.
The iackals that whned and fawned around him living
would tear his hide heavy hyena would
drive them away and eat his fill.
would lay their eggs in the dead carcass ants and
different would eat their share.
And the dead lion in the evening would
lion skeleton in mornngthe power that gathered
SCATTERED.
Look at picture this page before you read the rest of
this editorial and write or think out YOUR EDITORIAL
about it say that TEN MINUTES THINKING
OF YOUR OWN IS WORTH TEN HOURS OF READING.
picture remind you any way of the story of the
lion cub? It should do
You may see in this country little waiting for
business and HIS START. He is the cub.
And you may him later mdy hunting behind others for
the business mans prey, MONEY.
Later you can see him. full hedged hunting getting mil
lions on his own account.
And still later you picture the newspapers read his
WILL and know that he is dead lion.
days gathering ended and the days of scattering
begin the boy sitting beside the gamblers tape
whisky left hand and the gambling machine the right
The scattering done day The bones of the big
fortune picked bare overnight But the work is just
certain in the cubroom where the young sits as 1t
is under a thorn bush where the dead lion lies.
acka the hyenas the mice the flies and the ants
bine to pick the bones of the old lion.
So the hyenas acka the human hasten pick
the dead millionaire and divide the fortune
sened by the poor little this picture
Ito live happily as the result of his fathers hard work
This is good picture to your son. good picture
you citizen think and take into account
We reproduce it from article by Frederick Townsend
Martin entitled The Morality of the Idle Rich published in the
September number of Hearst's Magazine.
KNOWS the idle rich he is related many of
them He has struggled hard and persistenty NOT TO BE ONE
OF THEM
Martin has say about the that floats idly
the top of civilization, that call SOCIETY
interesting.
What YOU will THINK about his article and what you
think express your brain about this picture
important you than what any other person writes
Do you realize what fortunate thing the four
legged hyena pick the bones the dead on and that the
legged hyenashe gamblers the money lenders the snders of
all kinds-pick financial the millionaire?
This earth would be unnhabitabe if all the dead lions ee
plants and graes piled upon sands and
if all the dead bOns piled mountain high
prairies.
Nature fortunately destroys and that which
answered its purpose and dead And the world keeps fresh
beautiful clean and full of energyfree of rotten decay.
1t is lucky that the accumulated fortunes piled up by useful
productive energy not left to pile up and cucumber the
earth.
Once while is true, you find mammoth frozen in the
esh hair hoofs and tusks just he thousand
ries ago. or you mummfed body suIy defyng decay
in Egypt But this exception
Occasionally you find big preserved used as
paythng for the less vicious ncompe
tent idlers, but THAT is also exception.
AS the big body of fortune disappears completely
as TIE body of the dead lion,
That is extremely good thing for this world.
Three generations from shirt sleeves shirt sleeves
old saying.
This means INTELLIGENCE is kept Workng