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


Two forces are at work in this word-the forces of GATH
ERG which build up and the forces 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 lion out to hunt
following timidly behind the mother ioness.
Again you would see him huge beast, with heavy
hunting on his own able pull down any animal
except the elephant and rhinoCeros
Still later you would him. his days of GATHERING
ended stretched on the ground, dead
evening would be there complete and in the morn
ing there would be nothing but white bones.
The ackals that whned and fawned around him living
would flesh Some heavy awed hyena would
drive them away and eat his fill
would their eggs the dead carcass ants and many
different insects would eat their share.
And that dead lion in the evening would
the mornngthe power that gathered
SCATTERED.
Look at the picture page you the of
this editorial and think YOUR OWN EDITORIAL
about it. Once more say TEN MINUTES THINKING
OF YOUR OWN IS WORTH TEN HOURS OF READING.
Does this picture you any way of the story of the
lion cub? It should do
You may see this country waiting
business and HIS START. He is the cub.
you may him later tmdy hunting behind others for
the business mans prey, MONEY
Later you him. full fedged hunting and getting mil
lions his account.
you his picture the newspapers read his
will and know that he is a dead lion
His days of gathering the days of scattering
begin the boy sitting beside the gamblers tape
whisky hand and the gambling machine the right
The scattering done in day The bones of the big
picked bare overnight But the work is just
sure and the cubroom where the young
is under thorn bush where the dead lion lies.
ackals the hyenas the mice the flies and the ants
bine to pick the bones of the old lion
hyenas and acals of the human hasten to pick
the bones millionaire and divide the fortune repre-
and owned by the poor little creature in this picture
live happily the result of his fathers hard work
good picture your and good picture
you citizen think and take into account
We reproduce from article by Frederick Townsend
Martin entitled Morality of the Idle Rich published the
September number of Hearsts Magazine
Martin KNOWS the idle rich he related to many of
has struggled hard and prently NOT TO BE ONE
OF THEM.
What Mr. Martin has say about scum that floats idly
on top of civilization, that call SOCIETY is
interesting.
What YOU will THINK about his article and what you
think and express your this picture
important to you than what any other person writes.
Do you realize what fortunate thing that the four
legged hyenas pick the dead lion that
legged gamblers the money lenders the swnders
kindspick financial bones of the dead millionaire?
This would be unnhabitabe if all lions ee
plants and gaes remained piled upon the desert sands
all the dead bison piled mountain high Western
prares
Nature fortunately destroys and scatters that which
purpose and dead And the world keeps fresh
beautiful clean and full of energy-free of rotten decay
is lucky that the accumulated fortunes piled up by useful
productive energy left to pile up and
earth
a while true, you find in the
ice flesh hair hoo and us just he thousand
ago you find mummfed body sfuly defying decay
in Egypt. But this is exception
Occasionally you find big fortune preserved as
payhng for the less vicious amusement of ncompe
idlers but THAT also exception
AS rule the big body fortune disappears completely
Ii body Of the dead hon.
That extremely good thing for this world
Three generations from shirt sleeves shirt sleeves
old saying.
This that intelligence is kept working that
the rich fail luckily in their effort unnecessary for