Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24
Those That Spend Are an Inter-
esting, Necessary, but Not
a Happy Class
Mdons Of Men Are Working Struggling Make Of Their Sons
the Thing That You See at the Top of This Page
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Two forces work in this world-the forces Of GATH
ER1NG which build up and forces of SCATTERING which
tear down
On the edge desert small lion cub waits for
itsamotber to come home with dead antelope.
Later you might that cub young On going out to hunt
following timidy behind the mother ionoss
Again you would him huge beast, with heavy NAME
hunting on his own account able pull down any animal
except the elephant and rhinooerOs
Still later you would him. his days Of GATHERING
ended stretched the ground, dead
evening he would be there complete and IN the morn
ing there would be nothing but white bones.
The iaca that whined and fawned around him living,
would yar hide and flesh Some heavy hyena would
drive them away and eat his fill
would lay their eggs the dead carcass ants and many
different insects would their share.
And the sun that saw lion in the evening would
skeleton in the mOrnng-the power that gathered now
SCATTERED
Look at the picture page before you read the rest of
editorial and write think out YOUR OWN EDITORIAL
about it. Once we say that TEN MINUTES THINKING
OF YOUR OWN is WORTH TEN HOURS OF READING.
Does picture remind you any way of the story of the
lion cub? It should do
You may see in country little business waiting for
business and HIS START. He is the cub
you may him later midy hunting behind others for
the business prey MONEY.
Later you can him. full edged hunting and getting mil
lions his account
And you his picture the newspapers read his
will and know that he is a dead lion.
days of gathering ended and the days of scattering
begin the boy sitting beside the gamblers tape
whisky left hand and the gambling machine on the right
@The scattering done day The bones OF the big
fortune are not picked overnight But the work just
sure the cubroOm where the young sits it
is under thorn bush where the dead lion lies
acas the hyenas the mice the flies and the ants
bine to pick the bones of the old lion.
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the bones dead millionaire and divide the fortune repre-
sented and owned by poor little creature in this picture
live happily the result his father hard work
This good picture to show to your son. good picture
for YOU citizen think and take into
reproduce from article by Frederick Townsend
entitled The Morality Of the Idle Rich published the
September number of Hearst's Magazine.
Mr. Martin KNOWS the idle rich; he related many of
has struggled hard and perssteny NOT TO BE ONE
OF THEM
on the top of civilization, that call SOCIETY, is
interesting.
What YOU will THINK about his article and what you
express your brain about this picture
important you than what any other person writes
Do you realize fortunate thing it is that the
legged hyenas pick the bones of the dead on and that the
legged hyenahe gamblers the lenders the swndrs of
all nds-pick financial bones of the dead millionaire?
This would be uninhabtable if all dead lions
plants and gaes remained piled upon the desert sands and
all piled mountain high
prairies.
Nature, fortunately destroys and scaers that which
purpose dead And world keeps fresh
beautiful clean and full of energyfree Of rotten decay.
lucky that the accumulated fortunes piled up
productive energy not left to pile up and cucumber the
earth.
a while it true you find mammoth frozen in the
flesh hair hoofs and tusk just thousand
ago. you find mummifed body iully defyng decay
in Egypt But this is exception.
Occasionally also you find big fortune preserved used
playhng for the less vicious of noompe
tent dlers, but THAT is also exception.
As rule the big body of fortune disappears completely
Ii body of the dead lion
That is extremely good thing for this world.
Three generations from shirt shirt the
old saying.
This that intelligence kept working that