Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-18

piled the spark of cooperation that built the city upon
which he gazes, do not forget that cooperation has
only BEGUN ITS WORK
Men to-day, after their fashion, still isolated
cave jewellers.
Go out tc the valley where the coal mine comes up
from the ground in a black grimy building. You will
scattered along the side of that valley houses in
which and women live not much more happily
than those that watched the mammoth go by.
And those that live in somewhat greater comfort
in the cities, in flats and tenements are cave jewellers
in THEIR way They also watch the mammoth go by
and, isolated, can do nothing.
Great wealth, like the mammoth, walks up and
down the land, with power that none can challenge
Monopoly is the mammoth, and the people as
helpless against it to-day those old men, be-
fore they combined, were helpless against the hairy
mammoth, in their valley.
Men have combined to build pyramids, and COM
bned wisely to build schools and great buildings
They have not yet combined to control and own
that which is really important in the world.
AS separate, grimy, suffering Individuals they dig
the coal and haul it to the surface Then the mammoth
of superior intelligence takes it from them, gives
them barely enough to live, and sQuanders the millions
of unearned and undeserved profits.
The workers and producers the farm struggle
and the consumers in the cities struggle.
And they have not learned by cooperation to w0rk
together to kill the mammoth of selshness that preys
upon them.
the lesson OF cooperation. They endure in sulen
silence conditions that they consider unjust And then
they strike tens of thousands of them And they hurt
themselves and each other more than they hurt any
Dody else They go hungry and, by and by, they go
back and work again. They think that what they do
is cooperation. 1t is only MOB STRUGGLE.
There was more real cooperation, considering the
times and the limited knowledge. among the old
men that killed the mammoth than among the
called intelligent citizens of modern republic.
we nave our chance to cooperate at the ballot box
we don't use it. We walk up to that box, in sepa'
rate, fighting crowds.
But, at least, we can read and talk to each other
and we know WHAT COOPERATION COULD DO
IF WE WOULD USE III.
Compared with real civilization, real civic inell.
gence, real cooperation, are as backward and
savage as is the man in this picture compared with
the city upon which he fixes his dull gaze
But time is long, there is plenty of it ahead. We do
learn we do think, we do, in dull feeble way CO.
operate, as did the killers of the mammoth. And
eventually, the mammoth of our day will be con-
quered and vanish as did the old hairy mOnster-theh
we shall pass on to some other greater problem.
For problems will end and improvement
will never end, and the human will never stop IN
its upward march until this planet shall grow old and
grow cold. and we shall all to another, better
bigger one, and begin all over again.
Progress. effort struggle, achievement forever
and ever throughout universe that has no end on
suns and planets infinite in cumberland immortal
1t is an exciting programme well worth while.