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 Are Working, Struggling Make OF Their Sons
the Thing That You See at the Top Of This Page


Two forces are at work in this world-the of GATH
ERING which up the forces of SCATTERING which
down
On the edge African small lion cub waits for
its mother o home with dead antelope.
Later you might cub young lion going out to hunt
following timidy behind the mother lioness.
Again you would him huge beast with heavy name
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 he would be there complete and in the
ing there would be nothing but white bones.
The iackals that whined and awned around him living
would tear his hide heavy hyena would
drive them away and eat his fill.
Flies would lay their eggs carcass and many
different insects would eat their share
And the that dead lion in the evening would
lions skeleton in the mOrnngthe power that gathered now
SCATTERED.
the picture this page before you read the rest of
this editorial and write or EDITORIAL
about it. Once say that TEN MINUTES THINKING
OF YOUR OWN is WORTH TEN HOURS OF READING
picture remind you any way of the story of the
hon cub? 1t should do
may this country little business waiting for
business and HIS START He is the cub.
you may him later mdly hunting behind others for
the business man prey, MONEY.
you him. full fedged hunting and getting mil
lions on his account.
And still you his 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 the gambling machine the right
The scattering not done day The bones of the big
picked bare overnight But the work just
the cubrOom where the young sits it
is under a thorn bush where the dead lion lies.
The jacka the hyenas the mice the flies and the ants
bine to pick the bones of the old lion.
the hyena and acas of the human hasten to pick
the dead millionaire and divide the fortune repre-
sented and by the poor little this picture
who Ito live happily the result of his fathers hard work
This is good picture to show to your son. good picture
for you citizen think and take into
We reproduce article by Frederick Townsend
entitled The Morality of the Idle Rich published the
September number of Hearsts Magazine
Martin KNOWS the idle rich he is related to many of
them struggled hard and perssenty NOT TO BE ONE
OF THEM
Martin has say about the that floats idly
top civilization that call SOCIETY is
interesting
think and express your brain about this picture is
important you than what any other person writes.
Do you realize what thing that the
legged hyena pick the bones of the dead lion and that the
legged gamblers the money lenders the swndler of
all nds-pck the financial bones of the dead millionaire?
earth would be uninhabiabe if all the dead lions
plants and gae remained piled the desert sands and
all the dead bsons piled mountain high
prairies.
Nature fortunately destroys and that which has
answered purpose and dead And the world keeps
beautiful clean and full of energyfree of rotten decay
lucky that the accumulated fortunes piled up by useful
productive energy not left pile up and the
earth.
Once in while you find mammoth
ice flesh hair hoo and tuss just he thousand
ago. you find mummifed body sifuy defying decay
in Egypt. But this is exception.
Occasionally also you find big fortune preserved
plaything for the less amusement of incompe
tent idlers but THAT S also an exception.
As rule the big body of fortune disappears completely
tie body of the dead hon.
That is extremely good thing for this world
Three generations from shirt sleeves the