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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29
A Science Question

n II is thought that in space
I eternal cold and dark
~ ness prevail. What then.
is the explanation of the fact that
both light and heat from the sun.
some sO,OOOO.OOo miles away. in
cold space, reach the earth?
A. Heat and light as such do
not reach the earth from our own
and 100,O00,0OO more suns. Ra-
diant energy is transmitted by
undulations or waves in eleCtrons.
which energy is in--she form Of
waves OF varying lengths and am
piitudes. When some Of these
energy impulses impinge on mat
ter able to receive and sppropri-
ate them, heat and light result.
Many molecules in many thou
sands Of kind Of matter are able
TO translate energy waves into
heat, while others are translated
as light on the retina OF the eve
and On the brain But no heat
or light develops until the waves
strike forms Of matter fitted to
receive. appropriate and trans
ate. Thus energy will pass
through % burning glass made
of ice, converge to focus, ana
set light objects on FIRE.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29
Improving Thought
Editor The Georgian

Editor The Georgian:
A recent issue of The Georgian
contained an article from a read
er, asking how he and others
could improve their thought. This
ia rapidly becoming a universal
cry. l know that your splendid
editorials are for the purpose of
supplying that need, and many
people literally feast upon them.
Still, there are many who can
not take hold Of them without
some elementary preparation for
a line of thought that differs from
the accepted racial standard of
thought. For instance, your fire.
quent reference to the law of re-
incarnation is not understood by
many.
! have been a student OF phi
losophy, esoteric doctrine and, the
greatest Of all, the school of life
for thirty years. | find ii con-
stantly increasing in number of
eager students, seeking to be led.
But they must be led, and the
teaching must be simplified for
the beginner. All of the teach
ings of Jesus can be made appli-
cable in the lives of all people
when understood from an ESQ
teric sense, and when handled
without knocking orthodoxy too
hard. l would like to be useful
in any way TO help humanity to
see clearer.
MRS. L. F.. HOLMES.
81 East Lake Drive.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29
The Lesson Of "Within the Law"
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY

the canker of Greed and Indif-
Terence to the great Natural Law
of Right, which should ever pre-
vail between man and man. has
been eating away at the heart
of human joy and human good.
The Main Thing.
If you can only get wealth and
power. 1t makes no difference
now you get them, they will make
you big one" and that is the
main thing.
If you are only Orthodox" in
religion, then a fig for such idle
questions as rs this orthodoxy
true or false?" Does It emanc-
pate and uplift the mind or en-
slave and degrade it? Is it
blessing or a curse?
II the outside of things is All
right no matter about the inside.
Keep up the Appearances. Make
good blur. Be hypoCrite.
and act your part so damnably
fine that no one will be able TO
catch on" to the game.
Such are the thoughts that
range through ones mind as he
witnesses the powerful drama Of
Within the Law"
1t is a wide reaching, lynx eyed.
searching, remorseless inqui
sition, that drags out into the
light of day, and mercilessly
fiays. the double dealing, insin-
cerity and -biooded selfish
ness and brutality of institution
al society.
1t shows us what q terrible
thing it is for a man to forget
the right of his fellowmen. II
makes us feel how supremelv
necessary It is that we should
all feel a loving interest in one
another, and be willing-gladly
Joyfully willing-to find our hap
piness in the happiness OF 9th
ers, " possible. in the happiness
of all. It makes us ashamed or
the shark toothed greed when
gloats over the gain that In
wolves the misery and ruin OF
other human beings. It makes
us hate with all our heart the
suave, oily, decorous hypocrisy
that pirates of good while 1t IS
working evil. and that In It's
hawless livery of heaven IS do
ing what it can to turn earth into
a hell. -----.-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29
g. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

can not put tired eyes, pallid
cheeks and languid little limbs
into statistics"
But Robert Collyer capped the
common fate of child laborer.
In 1850, when about 20 years of
age, he and his bride reached the
bright shores of this Land of OPP
portunity 1t was land of OPP
portunity then.
No child labor TO speak of, as it
was then known in England, as
ii is known here to-day. No pow
erty such as England was then
beginning to struggle with, such
as we now see In our larger cities.
A century has passed since
Robert Collyer landed. We have
recruited a standing army of
child laborers 100000 strong.
1t is quite impossible to visual
ize this appalling number of lit
tie tots at labor, but as Robert
Hunter says: We could never
forget the sight of hundred of
these little ones if they were
marched out of the mills. mines
and factories before our eyes, or
if we saw them together toiling
for ten or twelve hours a day or
night for a pittance ola wage;
but that we do not see. What we
see are the figures, and we forget
figures.
I'm New York City alone we
have the records of many thou
sands of families receiving char
ity, public and private.
Undoubtedly a very large pro-
portion of these families are de-
pendent chiefly because of child
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29

hours on Saturday He said he
believed child labor morally
wrong and uneconomical"
Is it not time that the intelli-
gent and humane hearted people
of America combined in one great
body of PROTEST?
If every woman, and every
churchman. of no matter what
creed or belief, should unite in
one vast organization and march
through the land, demanding the
adjustment of child labor 1T
WOULD HAVE TO COME.
If such an organization would
form and fix upon a certain half
hour of every day for united
prayer, asking the Unseed Forces
of the Universe to give them pow
er to abolish Child Labor, 1T
WOULD COME!
Remember what came when the
people of France COMBINED IN
ONE TREMENDOUS PRO
TEST!
There is land enough and mon
ey enough in our vast, opulent
country to give homes and com
fort to every adult human being,
and to give sun and air and free
dom to every child.
If we want to save our land
from certain destruction and our
rising generation from poverty,
sickness and despair, we must
rescue our little children. and
send them out to play.
Let our churches and our hu-
name organizations begin united
campaign of Protest against Child
Labor.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29
100000 Children Toll in American Mills and Mines

Copyright 1913, by Star Company
WYE have in America LOO
w 900 CHILD LABORERS.
Those are the appalling
figures.
In 1850 Robert Collyer. who had
been an orphan boy in England
and a child laborer escaped from
his servitude and came to Amer
lea He was then stalwart
youth. man grown, for he had es-
capped in time to save his vitality.
Joseph Kingsbury, General
Agent for Improving the Condi-
ton of the Poor, says:
England is VIGOROUSLY a land
OF paupers, A third of it's last
generation lies al rest in potter's
field In the life histories of these
poor wretches could be traced,
how many of them would lead
back TO the poor little tired bod
les. to the crookedlimbs of the Rob
ert Collyers who were dragged
out from the barren walls of or
phan asylums to be bound to the
racking machines in the factories
and mills-the Collyers who never
escaped? The question can not
be answered We haven't the fig
ures But who will doubt that
they would he most Illuminating
If they could he obtained? If
we could show accurately the ex-
tent of the poverty under which
England staggers to-day, which is
the result Of child labor the sta
tistics would be invaluable to us
in securing proper child labor leg
islation. But, after all. as some
one has strikingly put it, You
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29

labor. Last year eleven thousand
families were under the care of
the Association Improving the
Condition of the Poor, This is
but one of the large private char
table organizations in that city"
Again Mr., King says: Il per
sonally have looked oyer the his
tories of many Of these families,
and can assure you 1t is difficult
to find a single case in which the
father or the mother, and usu-
ally both. did not go to work at
an early age"
Here is what one investigator
says about a certain mill:
The machinery in the mill
starts at $50 every morning, and
pressure is brought to bear upon
the workers to see that they are
there when the machinery begins.
The time is counted from o'clock
only. A half hour is counted out
at Qlnner time, out the mdCnln-
cry goes right on, and many of
the workers stay. The shop closes
at 5 80. after it has been running
twelve hours.
AT 6 O'Clock ii begins again,
and works till 3, This is con-
.8tinued for five nights of the week,
and any of the workers who will
return are permitted to work Mr.
Massey told me there were no VIC
lations OF the law in his mill. He
seemed to think an emergency
gave him the right to work seven
ty-five hours per week. In reality
he was working eighty hours, for
many of the people worked fif-
teen hours for five days and five
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29
Attacking a Corner
in Eggs

Committee Interstate and Foreign Commerce bill Furnishing
with fines and imprisonment shippers interstate lines of
fresh vegetables eggs other oodsus which been
in storage 80 days
He will also present the regular Congress- open
ing next week resolution providing for Congressional inves
tigation of the cold storage system and methods
Both the bill and the resolution should pass That the
present exoronat price of due wholly to the aid which
the cold storage warehousemen those engaged
ing the market notorious Other foodsus doubtless ma
nipuated the way Instead of being invention of
preme value to the spectators in their greed have
1t part Of the gamblers equipment
Representative Mcclellan is on the right track His bill
should be one OF the first measures reported the regular session.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29
"HAPPY DAYS!'
XII IAPPY days!" the young man said,
II With his drinking friends around him.
BY WILLIAM r. KIRK

II With his drinking friends around hi
With no sorrows to confound him
AS the priceless minutes spod.
Breasting the mahogany.
Full Of artificial glee
Telling stories. singing songs
Telling OF imagined wrongs,
Needless of the worlds grim troubles.
Babbling Boosting, blowing bubbles
Ger and DER this toast he says:
Happy days."
Happy days." the old man said,
Sitting friendless In the park
In the dusk that seems so dark,
When the spark Of hope has ned.
Yes, knew Of happy days,
Days Of mrth and strength and seornins,
When my life was In its morning;
Days that mock me through the blsr.
Now see them as they we're.
Days when was not detected.
Days of chances | neglected.
] can see them through the haze
Happy dsSsl"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29

r AM glad that l saw it--that
drama of Veiller's, Within
the Law" Never before did
l see, hypocrisy so completely
and gloriously skinned. Never
before did I see the excellent
foppery of the world"-its gilded
falsehood, it's pious deceit its
legalized robbery, and its sane
titled inhumanity-so roundly
and beautifully gibbeted.
I have listened to nearly all
the great preachers of the world.
but | never heard from any one
of them so powerful a sermon as
was preached to me in within
teh Law" 1t was an eye-opener
a soul-rouser, heart winner
II made you feel good; it made
you feel bad; 1t threw you down
to the bottom of the abyss. it lift
ed you to the glorious heights;
it made you cry, 1t made you
shout for joy.
Poor humanity, what a hard
time you have had of it down
through the long, sad, weary
ages! How your saviors have
crucif1ed you, how your govern
ments and laws have robbed and
oppressed you; how your insti-
tutions professions, sanctities,
have bled you, brutalized you,
degraded and damned you! You
are still very sad and miserable,
after thousands of years OF hon
est struggle for uplift and prog
ress Squalor, wretchedness,
degradation, almost despair, are
written very plainly in your>looks
and still more plainly in your
feeds.
Hypocrisy and Greed.
Yes, you have had a hard time
81 It, And Veiller's wonderful
play tells US why. II Is because
he whole fabric OF Society, the
whole machinery of State, of
Business, Of Politics, of the Law,
has been dominated by the spirit
OF the twin-devils of Hypocrisy
and Greed
The politicians and statesmen
have been talking of reform; the
legal gentlemen have been shout
ing about justice; the preachers
have been bombarding their con-
gregations with beautiful plsti-
tudes on Heaven and the ra pture
OF the saints. and all the while
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29
CHILDREN
Children a Duty! Why,
She Says, They Are
Comforts, Blessings,
Privileges, Joys F or
ever!
BY WINIFRED BLACK.

a RE children a duty? Dear
n me, is it possible that there
is still alive anyone who
declares that children are duties,
and that no woman who has
children or not, as she thinks
best, will call herself a good
woman?
Well, well! ] suppose there's
someone, somewhere, reading by
candle light and sewing by hand
because a machine is a wicked
invention of the Evil One to en-
courage idleness.
Children a duty! Why, bless
their hearts, they are comforts,
blessings, privileges, joys forev-
err. But duties? Who dares to
say so in this day and age? |
owe my duty to my mother not
because she brought me into this
world of woe, but because she
was good to me after ! got here.
Took Care of Me.
She could have let me starve,
or freeze, or die of yawning, or
just fade away, if she had
thought of her own comfort in
stead of me-but she didn't.
She took care of me, no mat
ter whether she felt like doing it
or not
She gave up the best of two
years in the very best part of her
life to getting me started right
with the proper amount of
teeth, and the right sort Of nails,
and the appetite that would
make me grow. She stayed at
home from church socials when
l had whooping cough. She
gave up visit to her home folks
back East when I had the Group.
She never thought of leaving
home for an hour when i had the
measles, and whenever didn't
act as if I had just come back
from the frozen North, with the
hunger of an exiled sea captain,
she said, "Tk! tx" with a gen
tie clicking sound, and went and
had something special made for
me in the kitchen.
She bought me a hat with red
wings, when cheaper one with
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-29

out the wings would have done,
and she saw that / had bronze
shoes when they cost lot more
than black ones; and didn't no.
tice her buying any fancy shoes
for herself along about that time
either.
She made me stay in after
school and sew a seam, and SNAP
ped me on the head with her
thimble when | didn't sew right:
and she tried her best to teach
me how to make buttonholes-not
that she liked to do it, but
because she thought some dav
I'd wish I knew. And she told me
stories when she was tired, and
when her head ached, and when
she was worried about things I'd
never even heard of.
That's why 1 ought to be good
to her-and why I would he eood
to anyone on earth who had done
those things for me, even if they
were red Indians and 1 was as
white as Snow Drop, the Queen
Of the Fairies, herself.
| ought to be good to my moth
er, because l love her. couldn't
help loving her to save my life.
She's the same blood as ! am,
for that matter, and we shall
never be civilized and scientific"
enough to cease to feel the tie of
that blood bond.
Cant See It That Way.
I ought to be good to her be-
cause she's good woman and I'm
the one she likes best in the
world. But the mere fact that
she brought me here is not the
least sort of reason for me to
owe her" thing on earth, so
far as can see.
She didn't bring me here 10
e5fige me. or to give me a chance
to live. l do not bring my chill
dren here for any such reason,
either-and l don't expect them to
believe that l did / love my
children because they are mine
and because they are the greatest
JOY in the world to me. Where
does the duty business come In
there, pray tell?
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-03-06
Delinquent Poll Tax List Of
Forrest County, Mississippi

List of delinquent poll bary 1913 for the fiscal
year 1912 published as required by 1906
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-30
New Skirts for Dancing


fctticoats are Il triilc wider but still
two GOOD hrcndths az sin, o- tb. .,...,.
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leave the seam on one side omen for
ten or twclyr inches above rho non,
u,Lit ,,, - 80
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Ter OF inches. Fancy fringe, lace or Il
traccry of oInhrOidcrv finishes ~
lo,,o. ~, 49,. ~, ,,;
=" Wv ''''''o"' "h" out-
ines Inc siaShcs,
Skirts ion day wear are of creme de
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-30
To nnrni-h Bishc. ArtisticaiI,.

To garrish artistica!iy Is AN impOr-
rant secret IN lending zest 10 a dish.
Frittcrs and vegetables are attractive
and detachable accomplishments OF meat
dishes during cold weather. and tho
rarnishcs that can BE- FORMED from
hard boiled eggs. tomatoes. cucum
berg. aspic jcliics and pickles make
q Ions list by themselves The red
radish cut fancifully IS a pretty gar
nis,i. and when the little rcd buttons
topped with small green leaves are
placed on slice OF green pickle. a
most attractive combination Of color
j. obtained
instead OF tho heavy. old-timc wreath
Of green about meats ANA fowls. IL Is
better 10 use a few spriGs ut one side
OF the foods. Nut meats can be used
advantageousiy with savory and sweet
dishes. and croquettcs are delightfully."-
ada pied for garnishment. Flowers and
fruits should ncve; earnish any dish
bat sweet one, excepting nnstur-
tiuTns, which are OF the crcss family,
and combine better with meat and
vegetables. In preparing the toast. an
attractive variety can he given by
lightly buttcring after toasting and
sprinlSlinE partly or wholly with
minced green parsley
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-30

required in u brides trouSScau. and
inanv designs arc easily dunlir,,,d
~ ,,si.i
h''' % '""'cS'
''''U' It par 81 soios 'h' correct size
ana To the front stitch Nalnps formed
of hrocadcd satin rlbbon or cmbroidcr-
ed linen
,o.,
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,i,,.le ~ .ni,s
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-30
ARadiator Plate Warner

" YOU are an apartment dwcilcr. OF
course YOU are always looking for
space savers. and your Kitchen radiator
can he utilized in II way of which You
perhaps meyer thought. by placing Il
box on top Of the radiator YOU will
lave an excellent plate warmer Make
Che frame OF this box about two
inches larger than the top OF the radia-
tor using boards six inches wide Fas-
ten two crosspicccs between the sides.
even with the bottom edges, spacing
them 30 that when the frame is placed
on the radiator the cleats viii come
between the iron sections of the radia-
tor Next fastcn strips between these
crosspicccs and the ends OF the box
and between the sides Of the box to
form ledge THEN take n double
thickness of screen wire and tack IL
10 the upper faces % this ledge
stretching the screen as tight as pos
sibl". Across tho back OF tho top of
the box strip about two Inches wide
is nailed. and on To This a board is
hinged Tor Il lid
The box is held in place by a wire
attached to scrcw-eycs In tile bottom
OF the centre crosspiccc and passed un-
der the pieces which separate tho sec
lions OF the radiator.
am sure YOU will find this plate
warmer Il blessing indeed particularly
If YOU cook by gas. when the plates
are more or less in The way while
being heated. With this radiator
warmer they may be placed there when
the meal is started. III YOU do not
have u radiator III your kitchen a neat.
" finished box. which has been stained
to harmoniZo with your dinjnv-roo,n
viii not detract from the nea tness and
appearance OF that room.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-30
FOR HER TROUSSEAU

Have YOU a Girl friend who is about
t" hc married? or course YOU have,
50 begin Immediately to make some
thing for her trousseuu. There are
countless small accessories which are
necessary TO the complete ouint. and
The clever sewer can fashion many Of
tn" dainty novelties for which the
shops demand cNorbitant prices.
The stole and mur made Of fabric
is AN excellent substitute for a FUR
set and Will prove a most acceptable
gilt TO any prospective bride
Select velvet. OF satin on chiffon.
lined with SILK in Il rich tone OF blue.
purple taupo. brown. green or black
suppose YOU decide upon taupc-
.oiored velvet, with a lining of blue
hrocaded silk Make the scarf cish-
teen inches wild" and two and u half
or three yards long. Sew tho lining
I" the velvet neatly whipstitching it
in position. Gather the ends together
and hnish them with largo taupe-
colorcd silk tasso.s. purchase a fnun-
datfon FOR the muff--and these are to
be found in any large department store
and over this lit the velvet smoothly.
Line the mun with the brocadcd silk
The beauty of the scarf and Inuff is
greatly enhanced II they are trimmed
with bands OF mole skin, opossum
skunk or fox, If expense Is no con-
Sideration.
Smart neckwcar is always an at
tractivc addition to tho trousseau. and
the handsome Nat collars OF cmbrold-
cred net arc particularly lovely.
Purchase quantity of net--selcct
tho best Guality-ard "a Violating
collar pattern. Draw the design you
wish To cmbroidcr on a piece of tissue
paper and haste this To the net rad
tho design with white darnlng cotton
and cmbroidcr with mercerized cotton
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-30

OF a medium iiucncss. When tho dc
sign is completed. tear away the paper
and finish the edge - the collar With
"a narrow plratei frill OF the nct
Tho evening coifurc is Incomplete
without hair ornament. and dainty
addition to the trousscau is made IN
this manner:
The materials required arc silver
wire. pearl heads ana Il spray OF aig d
rcti"s. paradise pluma"c ar maIahOu.
Suing the beads ON Il wire and braid
three strands loosely 10 form ban
dcau. At the Joining point AT the
side or directly in front-attoch the
spray OF paradise or marathon.
Several pair Of bedroom slippers are
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-30

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