Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24
Those That Spend Are an Inter-
esting, Necessary, but Not
a Happy Class
Millions Of Men Are Working Struggling Make Of Their Sons
the Thing That You See at the Top Of This Page
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the Thing hat HOu See at the lOP OF IhS rage
Two forces are at work in this word-he forces of GATH
ERING which up the forces of SCATTERING, which
tear down.
On edge African desert small lion cub waits for
its mother to come home dead antelope
you might that cub young lion going out to hunt
following timidly behind the mother ioness
Again you him a huge beast with heavy
hunting on and 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 in the
ing there would be nothing but white bones
The iackas that whned and fawned around him living,
his hide and flesh Some heavy awed hyena would
drive them away and eat his fill
Flies would lay their eggs the dead ants and many
different insects would eat their share.
And that dead lion in the evening would
lions skeleton in the mornngthe power that gathered
SCATTERED.
Look the picture this page before you read the of
this editorial and think YOUR OWN EDITORIAL
about it. say that TEN MINUTES THINKING
OF YOUR OWN is WORTH TEN HOURS OF READING.
Does this picture remind you any way of the story of the
lion cub? 1t should do
You may this country little business waiting for
business and HIS START He is the cub
And you may him later midy hunting behind others for
the business man. prey, MONEY
Later you can see him. aedged hunting getting mil
lions on his account.
And still later you picture newspapers read his
wiI and that he is dead lion
His days of gathering ended and the days of scattering
begin The scaterer the boy sitting beside the gamblers tape
whisky his left hand and the gambling machine the right
The scattering in day The bones of the big
fortune not picked bare overnight But the work is just
and certain in the CuboOm where the sits as 1t
is under a thorn bush where the dead lion lies
jackals the hyenas the mice the flies and the ants
bne to pick the bones of the old lion
So the hyenas and jaas of the human hasten to pick
of the dead millionaire and divide the fortune repre-
sented by poor little in this picture
who ito live happily the result OF his fathers hard work
This good picture to show to your SON. and good picture
for you the serious citizen think and take into
reproduce it from article by Frederick Townsend
Martin entitled The Morality of the Idle Rich published in the
September number of Hearst's Magazine
Mr. Martin KNOWS the idle rich he related to many of
them He has struggled hard aud peenty NOT TO BE ONE
OF THEM
What Mr. Martin has say about the that floats idly
the top of civilization scum that call SOCIETY is
interesting.
What YOU viii THINK about his article and what you
think express your brain about this picture
important to you than what any other person writes.
you realize what thing the four
legged hyenas pick hon. and that the two
legged hyenahe gamblers the money lenders the swnders of
all kinds-pick the financial bones millionaire?
This earth would be unnhabitabe if all the dead lions ele
plants and gaes remained piled upon sands and
all the dead bons piled mountain high
prairies
Nature fortunately destroys and that has
answered its purpose and dead And the world keeps
beautiful clean and full of energy-free decay
1t is lucky that the accumulated fortunes piled up by useful
productive energy not left to pile up and
earth.
Once a while is true you find mammoth frozen in the
flesh hair hoofs usks just thousand cenu
ago, you find mummfed body slfuy deying decay
in Egypt But this is exception
Occasionally also you find big fortune preserved used as
paythng for the vicious of ncompe
tent iders, but THAT also exception
AS rule the big body of disappears completely
tire body Of the dead lion.
That is extremely good thing for this world
Three generations from shirt sleeves is the
old saying.
This that intelligence kept working. means that
The rich fail neky effort lr work unacessa for