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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-11
WOMAN's DRESS is NOT IMMORAL
Those Who Saw That Had Better Check Up Their Own Principles of
Virtue for to the Corrupt All Things Are ComptC Controlling
Female Dress by Law Is a Joke Says Dorothy DIX

And this is the attitude of The
average man. He has the mod
esty that springs from being
clean minded. What he notices
about a woman's clothes is mere
ly whether they are pretty and
becoming, not if they are lure
to sensuality. So far as tina
American man is concerned. bs
could qualify morally and mental
ly as a Knight of the Garter, and
his motto is. "Honi soft qui nal
pense."
After ALL custom and fashion
make the law that determines
what is proper and improper in
such matters The Turkish wom-
an outrages deceney if she ex-
poses her face to the public eve,
We see nothing immodest in
viewing a woman's countenance.
Our grandmother would have
been esteemed bold If they showed
the tip of their slippers.
We wear short skirts, and no
one perceives anything any more
vulgar in the sight of a foot than
a hand.
In the summer. on the bathing
beach. no one looks a second time
at a woman with skirt that
comes only to her knees, though
the police would run her in if she
should appear on Peachtree in
such an abbreviated costume in
the winter.
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Be an Enthusiast!
That Is the First Sep Toward Success.
By Clarence L. Cullen.

T is easy to remember when the word
enthusiast" was used only in ridi-
cule or derision. The enthusiast
was jeered at, looked upon as a sort
Of mild lunatic.
Then the world woke up 1t was dis
covered that all of the fellows who
were doing the big things were rank.
incurable enthusiasts.
So, nowadays. when you call man
an enthusiast. you mean that he has
got a line on something or other that
is occupying his thoughts day and
night.
And you are not at all surprised (as
you used to be when enthusiast" was
taken to mean something else). when
he wins and wins big at his speciality.
For the enthusiast is specialist, first
and foremost. He Is a concentration.
He is a man with a hobby. The en-
thusiast and the man with a hobby al
ways were one and the same person.
The enthusiast does not sing Il Don't
Know Where I'm Going. But I'm on
My Way
On the contrary, he knows exactly
where is is going. and he carries a
chart He doesn't have to navigate bx
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the Pole star or use dead reckoning. He
has every inch Of the course scanned
and he makes for 1t as the crow flies.
He thinks. dreams. sleeps, eats and
has his being, solely and exclusively
in the thing he is enthusing about. 1t
Possesses and controls him. He Is a
fanatic on that one thing. And in spite
of ridicule and jeers and downright
foolish contempt, the enthusiast goes
right ahead and accomplishes the thing
that he has been enthusing about
Whereupon the world proceeds to hail
him as a wonder.
Enthusiasm sways the world. where
as all of the combined stolidity of the
ages never has given IL the tilt of an
inch forward.
1t is possible and it is desirable to be
enthusiastic over so seemingly unim-
portant a proposition as your own job.
1t has been noticed that the fellows
who become enthusiasts over their jobs
don't have to wait very long for big
ones-and then they go right on being
enthusiasts. having something worth
enthusing over.
1t would easily take about page Of
this newspaper to set down a bare list
of the enthusiasts who have been doing
the big things OF the world since the
days of Julius Caesar. who was con.
siderable of an enthusiast himself. The
list would include about everybody who
has been important In any way since
lhistory began,
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EUROPE AND MONTENEGRO.

With an international fleet on her Adriatic coast,
and an army of Austrians massed just opposite her
border. with the powers nominaly united in insist
ence that she must not do it, Montenegro has gone
right anead and taken Scutari, and announces that
she will hold it unless somebody strong enough to
do so throws her out.
There's no doubt that Austria is strong enough
to do it, and perfectly willing But Russia isn't will
ing to have it done, and neither Germany nor Italy
feels disposed to back Austria in extreme measures
that might unduly arouse Russian feeling.
Montenegro is in Scutari; and precisely how she
will be put out without kicking up huge row
throughout Europe, is beyond the diplomats. If the
powers were really agreed about it; if they were
able really to agree about anything at ALL it would
De otherwise. But they can't unite on any possible
proposition. At the beginning Of the Balkan war,
IN selfdefense, and inspired by the fear that they
might all be dragged into the conflict, they agreed
in announcing that no matter what the war might
bring FORTH the status quo on Balkania was not to
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Here's a Book

THE Hill Of Venus by Nathan CALI
zier. published by L. c. Page & Co.. Of
Boston.
To the greater mass of humanity the
historical novel, or tale, dealing with
those portions Of history Of which time
luckily precludes any definite knowi-
edge of facts and customs. there 10 no
limit to the amount Of probable TO
nance. comedy. and tragedy which an
imaginative author can feed to . gull
ible public.
Some folks like it. and for those who
do books on the order of THE Hill Of
Venus are written. There T. little or
no attempt at plot. and around tie
figure of young man who was forced
his father. who very selnshly sacrificed
him to atone for mortal sin, ortllians
scenes from Italian life at the time Qx
Charles Of Anjou and Pope Clement Nv
are hung promiscuously.
Though the descriptions are very gooa.
the book is rambling and consistently
dreary. The rebellion Of young man
against entering the church and leaving
his love is a sorry subject to harp on
for 335 pages.
Illustrations from paintings oy e. ..-rs. n.
Garrett are four in number. Tne
Scorceress Of Rome" by the same au-
thor. is a much better guarantee Of his
ability as a writer.
The ninth revised edition Of Emily
LOiseau Walters pamphlet OF 1ns
.Ouotattons and Inscriptions in the
Library Of Congress- has been received
This little volume gives the translation
and source Of every inscription appear
ing in the library, and Is incidentally
an excellent guide to the paintings "
also contains excellent prints of some OF
the paintings. Published by the Indus
trial printing Company. of Baltimore.
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WHERE THE GOLD. IS GOING.

A British roy al commission--they have them for
every possible purpose of investigation and enght.
enment-s going at the task of deciding what India
does with all the gold it takes away from the rest
of the world In the last ten years. it appears, India
has drawn $650,oOO,OO0 of gold from the West
world; that is almost one-fourt the worlds pro-
ducton in that time. For the greater part this In
dian gold disappears. 1t seems to be boarded by
people who have superstitous notion of its tre-
mendous power and importance. And they are right
about it, too, as the Western worlds growing con-
Germ about India proves.
To draw this immense amount of gold from the
commercial world, and pa yfor it in goods, is, of
course, a great drain on India, economically. Yet
India does not seem to suffer more by the process
than the rest Of the world, which needs the gold,
imagines 1t has it on hand for use and finally dis
that the part of its imagined supply which goes
India is Lost as completely if it had been shot
into space
The worldsspent some centuries looting India of
its precious metals and jewels. Now India has found
systemby which to put the boot the other leg to
the great financial discomfort of the commercial COM
munity. -
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THE SATURDAY HALF.HoLIDAY.

Washingtons great coterie of Government work
ers owe rising vote of thanks to William c. Red.
field, Secretary of Commerce. 1t seems very likely
at this time that these men and women will be given
Saturday half-holiday during every month of the
heated term, from May to the last Saturday of Sep
tember. They can thank Mr.. Redfeld's methods for
the first show of initiative and direct dealing prob
lens affecting the clerks.
The Saturday half-hoday question has been
agtated for years, but no one has ever taken
it problem demanding solution, and affected an
immediate answer on direct issue. little more of
this initiative and direct dealing would 60 long way
toward settling unrest and dissatisfaction with their
lot by major portion of Uncle Sans employees.
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WHO WOULD SUSPECT 1T?

Perhaps somebody in Japan is scratching his
head and wondering what 80" Daniels is up to.
Is he just plain Tarheel from the inland who has
the crude idea of a landlubber-as expressed in the
new navy lingo, person unaccustomed to maritime
transportation ships are built to 81 to sea? Or
behind the guileless smile which cheered Governor
Wilson through dolefu days last summer is there
canny impression that the Mediterranean is nearer
than Hampton Roads to Japan, and that a navy is
built even for something more than voyaging if a
pinch comes?
Perhaps it was merely coincidence that the
Secretary to the front with his innocent little
suggestion for letting the jackies the world about
the time Of the announcement that Tokyo was get
ting real peevish over the ant-alien legislation in
California. 1t may be matter of no moment at
all that those 364OOO tons Of volcano, earthquake
and lightning will be in position to dodge through
the Suez canal if the occasion calls for it, instead
of doubling the Horn and crossing the wide Pacific.
Besides, the Secretary says he isn't going to send
the fleet until next winter although, Of course, the
tickle man may change his mind at any time
The Democratic Administration must do some
thing to live up to the promise of the latest See
the-world' poster issued by the Navy Department
to attract recruits if the picture of the dancing
girl which adorns it has only embematc mean
ing.
Japan ought to be treated justly in the alien
land dispute and every effort ought to be made to
remove the causes of irritation. We mistake the
temper Of tine American people if they do not insist
on settlement that will stop the rash talk in Cali
fornia and the rawlings of the mob in Tokyo.
But, just the same, it would not be surprising if
the Japanese remembered that the last time great
American fleet made long voyage they were sup
posed to be taking special notice of it. One can
never tell what notions will get into some peoples
heads. -..... ..--.,....,..
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LOOK OUT, .SOLONS!

1t is veraciously reported from San Francisco
that the Sacramento legislature has taken long
breath, bumped its back braced its legs firmly, taken
tremendous and given out flat that it will never,
no. never stand for any interference with its plans
by Mr.. Bryan. 1t is going to shunt him off, pay no
attention, and go right ahead just if he had never
appeared on the scene.
Plainly California is farther from home than we
had supposed. Its legislature can't have heard of
either the Chicago convention of 1896 the Balti-
more convention of 1912. They'll wake up after Mr..
Bryan begins to eat EN- alive.
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ATTACKING THE FOREST SERVICE.

Z In connection with this most recent general as
sault the management of the Forest Service, it
is fair to say that the presumption is altogether in
favor of the service and that the burden of proof is
upon its critics to make mighty strong prima facie
case before they stir up much excitement.
The Forest Service has been under fire for long
time, and every time the batteries opposing it have
been unmasked they have been identified as the
agencies of antagonism to the whole program of
servation.
Nothing would be quite gratifying to certain
interests which want to open easier access to the
treasures of the public domain, than to have the For
est Service brought into reproach 1t would make just
that much easier the task of getting the public do
main parceled around among the States SD that the
grabbers could grab.
But its really a useless effort. In the end the
country is not going to stand for that piece of bus-
ness. There is less chance today of getting the Gov
eminent to disspate the remaining public domain
than there ever before. The cooking up of
charges and scandals is just plain waste of energy.
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The Ideal Job.

JUDGE Ito man arrested for vag-
rancy)-You have no visible means
Of support. I suppose. like many
others Of your sort. you have some
excuse?
Prisoner-Sure!
Judge-well, what is It? why don't
you go to work?
Prisoner-1'm waiting to pull off a big
surprise.
Judge-Why are you waiting? What
are you waiting for?
Prtsoner-Tm waiting until navigation
Of the air becomes general. Then I'm
going to get the right to paint adver-
tising signs on roofs.-Judge.
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be changed as result. That sounded fine and au-
hortative; but the fact remains today that the allies
are going to stick fast to every foot of land they
have wrested from the Turk and the powers will not
bat an eye by way of suggesting any other course.
Is it possible that Servia Greece, and Bulgaria will
all get their winnings, and Montenegro be robbed?
Hardly; not, at any rate, by concert as dscordant
as the one now pretending to scare Montenegro with
its deep bass tones
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All in the Sound.

a r ANY tales might be told that
M hinge on the sounds of hastily
N spoken words to unaccustom-
ed words The only true one
we have heard of late is this:
Last week Charles de Harrack, the
well-known pianist. stood in front Of a
local theater. being polite to a certain
society lady. In order to make con-
versation he said:
Have you seen Julius Caesar this
week."
mo, I haven't" replied the lady.
Where is she playing g?'-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
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ALEXANDRIA COUNTY AND THE DIS
TRICT.

Inc ALEXANDRA IOunty monitor, WHICH IS Dotn
fearless and sane newspaper, rather unusually I'M
pervious bunk" declares that it isn't in favor Of
retrocesson of the old Virginia side of the District
and making it part of this Federal urls-
dction.
Referring to the recent appeal to President Will
son to have this question taken up, with view to
restoring the Virginia side to the District the Monitor
observes that the business and property interests
that want the thing done are mostly Washington
owners of big tracts of speculative real estate in
Alexandria county, who would like the Government
now to move in, build roads, and generally improve
their property.
The Monitor, moreover, warns the Alexandrians
not to be too sure of the benefits they would derive
from retrocession 1t thinks the nonresident real
cut, and leave the small home owners to carry the
burden of the changed and more expensive order of
things.
Beyond this, the Monitor observes that another
for wanting the county reattached to the Dis
trict is that it could be made the habitat Of Wash
ingtons undesirable institutions, whose establishment
here is the avowed purpose of several who have ad
vocated retrocession." About that we don't know;
but we do know that the Monitor is right when 1t
points out that rerocesson is gigantic real estate
speculation, boosted by small group that has huge
interests in the county, in both land and public service
franchises of various Sorts 1t would mean millions
upon millions to these interests. The public would
pay the bills until it got tred Washington proper
and the Federal Treasury would be drawn upon to
maintain the speculation. ..,
From Washington's point of view there are at
least two grave objections to this project. In the
first place, the development of that Virginia region
would cost vast amount of money which would
chiefly come from the citys revenues 1t would be
very pleasant for the owners of great Alexandra
county areas to have Pennsylvania avenue, street,
and all the rest of Washington putting up the money
to inject city values into farm lands; but it would not
much appeal to the plain Washington taxpayers who
would be doing it.
Still more serious, in some ways, is another as
pect of this matter. If by any chance Alexandra
county should be drawn back under the jurisdiction
of the District Congress would presently become ut
terly disguised with the demands that would be
pressed upon it in behalf of the territory There
would be parks to build and boulevards to create and
maintain Congress would discover that it was con-
stantly pulled and hauled to make these parks and
hoist the price of privatelyowned lands
and assist in their development. In the end it would
get disgruntled with the whole business, and there
would be greater danger than in the past of nav
ing the half-and-half revenue system abolished.
That's the plain truth about this situation. People
who pretend that they stand for the real interests of
Washington in demanding retrocession are just using
the cloak of patriotism to their strictly selfish
designs 1t is time for tine town and Congress to
this.
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Spelling in Texas.

We was known as Choctaw George,
and through ceaseless industry
he had risen to that position
where he could open a garage
in San Antonio. Tex. Over the broad
door of his establishment George put
sign consisting of the one word. Oar
age"
One morning an old negro woman
came down the street which was orna-
mented with Choctaw Georges automo-
bile emporium. She stopped and looked
at the sign a moment quizzically. Then
she chuckled:
"Humphi'' she said: ''G-a-r-a-g-ei
OATS de foolishest wav I ever seen to
spell George Popular Magazine.
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Same, But Different.

- RIEND-Well, Aunt Alice. how is
l. your old man getting along?
Aunt Alice (whose husband is
an inmate of the Soldiers Home)
Poly. chile. poly. The only way they
can keep him in the hospittle is by
putin a Mother Hubbard on him. He
Just wants to wander an wander
aroun.
Friend-Why. he is not crazy. is he,
Aunt Alice?
Aunt Alice-no, chile, he is not crazy +;
he's list done gone an lost his min
Judge.
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Not Cranky.

II N apt retort!" said Senator Du
~ Pont, in a tariff argument
n "As apt retort as the pert
young girls.
This young girl repulsed haughtily
the proffered attention of young man.
He, wounded to the quick. exclaimed:
".Ah. well. you're as full of airs as
a hand organ.
She tossed her head.
Maybe ! am she said. but all the
same, I don't go with crank -
Washington Star.
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Good Stories
No Criticism.

A SLATER who was engaged upon
~ the roof Of a house in Glasgow
n fell from the ladder and lay in
an unconscious state upon the
pavement One Of the pedestrians in
the street who rushed to the aid Of the
poor man chanced to have a flask Of
spirits in his pocket and. to revive him.
began to pour a little down mis- throat.
"Canny. mon, canny," said a man
looking on, 'or you'll choke him.
The Unconscious slater opened his
eyes and said quietly: Pour ava, pour
ava; ye're DOOM fine-"-Ottawa Jour-
nal.
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Sudden lameneSS.

"HE other day I met man whom
believe to be. without doubt.
the most absent-minded fellow in
existence I noticed him from a
distance coming toward me. and he
seemed to be On the outside edge of the
pavement. says Lippincott's. When we
were almost even with each other he
called me over and said:
Young man. think / have suddenly
gone lame. One of my legs seems to
be much longer than the other
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Sorry She Spoke.

TIME lady had just been introduced
to her partner at a holiday
dance. and was talking to him
vlvaciously. Tell me-" she said,
who is that terribly homely man over
there?'
The gentleman looked. That" ne
said. pCnde rously. lis my brother
oh" Easped the lady in hcrrihed
anna cement. Pardon me. Really. I
hadn't noticed the Observation-Disclosures
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THE ENGLISH SPARROW.

THE ENGLISH SPARROW.
By WILLIAM H. SEvERSoN,
They light upon the window sill.
But cannot be still.
For their eyes were full of fire.
And their bodies were pent with ire.
l asked them their names, from whence
they came,
They answered and said it is Sgions
and we came,
From the lower regions.
The eggs were laid in England,
Hatched under the equator.
And were bred in Mexico among the
greaser,
Whose delight is to eat quarrel.
Get rid OF Presidents and fight, fight,
fight.
Plenty more.)
Boston, the little old last years ball
club.
When the umpire just naturally robs
a team Of victory-oh. no: but 1t MIGHT
happen-why. there's only one thing you
can call him.
Do you all give up?
An umpirate.
90
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AmusementS.
National-"Ben-Hur. and .. m.
Belasco-''The Passing Show Of 19i3~
2:l5 and Sis p. m.
Columbia-"Giri With the Green Eyea"
els and s:l5 p. m.
Polrs-"Pomander Walk" 2:15 and sis
Acade my-Thurston the Magician.
s:l5 and Sis p. m.
Chase's-Talking Pictures. to II p. m.
Cosmos - Vaudeville. afternoon and
evening.
Casino-Vaudeville. afternoon and wen.
ing.
Lyceum-"Merry Burlesquers." Els AID
Sis y. m.
Gayety-"star and Garter Show" III
and Sis ,. N - :.
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IF THERE really marrying in Heaven what will the poor
bachelors do without any other mems wipes fir NTH

IF THERE is really marrying in Heaven what will the
bachelors do without any other mems wives to flirt NTH
The who passes love by, and INDUCES of fir
taon would probably trade off the Kohnoo handful of
beads.
The trouble Nth husbands that their grows cold
but that grows stae-a gradual ossaon the heart
In these rolls his horsee carriage skins
upstairs elevator his electroer down before
gaog chats with his friends the telephone reads his wireless
neps his canned music cables amony
wfe-and calls "liping"
No. deare the modern isn't o sleeps cothing he's
sheep VOLTS clothing, Who goes through life the
every lead
rtice.
By the time through singing the popular and dancing
the popular dances of today the MONT hare illusion left
which hang thread of seninendnd the life will
be lost forever
The the bills and wres the isn't spoil
his complexion the feminist He knows that
there Mill only political opinion of IDEAS and brand
of cigarettes in HIS house.
into a duty, and a lie from a luxury into necessity
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The early crop Of Strawberries
shows them to be in the pink of con-
dition, all right, all right.
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"Wishywashington," the screaming
ly funny Pail Mall Gazette" calls 1t.
Also vichywashington, for that mat
ter.
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Why the Bryan grape-juice policy
makes a hit with US: The ridicule Of
the English papers.
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"Oh. yais; it's a tame turkey. all
right
Now, Ephraim. are you sure it's Q
tame turkeyT'
"Oh, yes, sir: deres no sot o doubt
bout dat. It's a tame turkey, all right"
He consequently bought the turkey,
and a day or two later when eating
il came across several shot. Later on.
when he met old Ephraim on the street.
he said:
We'll, Ephraim, you told me that was
a tame turkey, but l found some shot
in it when I was eating II.
.'Oh. dat was a tame turkey, all right,
was Uncle Ephraim's reiterated re1oin-
der. but de fac II. boss. Is gwine to
tell Yer In confidence dat dem ere shot
was intended for me."-Atlanta Journal.
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Coise the luck! Just when we were
ready to remark that the fence around
that Government kiosk was our idea of
the height of irony, they went and re-
moved IL.
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Romona Borden is now being dorothy
arnolded in about six cities a day.
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Go On With the Series; That Was
Only "Us."

G. s. K: Not much use going ahead
with that What People Read on Street
Cars series. The limit has been
reached. An individual in car number
664 Of the Georgetown line, westbound,
was seen reading the This and That"
column at 5:17 last evening. Humane
Society please note.
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Headline-and remember II. yc SCOT
ers-from the Washington Times" Of
April 11th, 1914: Nationals Open
Season Today; Johnson Still a Hold
Out"
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Add Hangers-On: That Chinese rec
ognition.