Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-22

The philosophers political economists lawmakers editors
sociolog and all the other woudbe deep thinkers of this
earth really engaged in pretty small business
We are like a swarm of human beings cast away some
desert island This earth island little island in space
and is island and badly arranged island in
than Many of us lack good dwellings, Of
lack food all of worried about the future The island is
infested with mosquitoes and with diseases that have not
learned to There criminals it that prey
the honest people at the top and criminals at
the bottom of society.
creatures busy with the problem of putting things right
this little desert island that carries us along in the wake of the
MOST OF Us IMAGINE TINT THE MOST IMPORTANT
MEAN IDEA OF MANS REAL DESTINY.
engagements must first be attended to- After that begin the real
life and the real interests That real life and those real interests
not confined the front yard the back yard of the
that owns the house.
detailed organization Of the little home which call the earth
We fixing up moral MISUNDERSTANDING poverty mus
that of competition and the greater that is
based the dread of poverty the future Some of
ping millions that while others suffer for
the lack of that which could be abundantly supplied
All these little earthly questions that big will be
But few years the sight of Tme-a few hundred
ries perhaps count themand earthly habaton will
have been made fit to live in. We shall have eliminated the
f-no by killing them off but by educating them We shall
nsD1 n f qeGn by 0ns 29es9 Of
DEVELOPED CITIZENSHIP CAPABLE OF EARNEST
OUT THE SPUR OF WANT IMPRISONMENT OR THE SCAF.
FOLD AS NECESSARY ADJUNCTS
In time the human will have solved its little problems
here-the problems that today.
When that time shall be like the who has put
his house order and thoughts will be confined this
little piece of ground Then shall appreciate
dom which has divided day darkness gh-th light
for the enjoyment OF the material beauties of earthly
home; THE NIGHT FOR THE STUDY AND ENJOYMENT OF
THE VAST, MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE SPREAD OUT
AROUND US
Everybody knows that the aged require sleep
young In the future this will make old what ought
blessing, because will old of
night for contemplation of the Infinite all its wonders
Those OF who think themselves very abstract when
they speculate the North Pole when they discuss
sby OF retaining the desert of Sahara will have their minds
millions of miles from this earth great deal of the
time.
We shall communicate perhaps with siscrpIanet
nusthe planet most like physical We
shall be intensely interested in that world where it is always
night side of the planet and always day the other
We shall realize with deepest envy the fact the
terrific of air wrng around Venus consequence of
the extreme heat and the cold opposite sides
planet HAVE DEVELOPED ARACE AS FAR SUPERIOR TO
Us AS THE TROUT IN THE SWIFT-FT4OWING BROOK IS
SUPERIOR TO THE HEAVY-EYED CATFISH IN THE BOT
TOM OF THE POND
We shall humby beg for the superior in
habans of other worlds and perhaps Impotence
release from duty here which shall take higher planetary
existence. If look backward at ALL shall consider
present selves simply refined canniba lived upon
Dor and the suffering fellows feeding upon
bodies.
1t may ridiculous predict will come
the earth which he lives.
But to the of the Congo Sdatted beside
hppopotamuS gorging himself with with thought
beyond that carcass or beyond the edge of the would