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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-17

ksTNO the ultra-pure all things
are impure" Such is the
corruption of an ancient
proverb, a corruption which, we
are sometimes forced to admit,
bears a firmer stamp of truth
than does the original maxim.
1t is a sad commentary upon
human nature that the person
possessing a consciousness of
self Righteousness is pretty sure
to be conscious also Of the other
fellows faults.
II he didn't appreciate them he
would lose half the pleasure Of
his own virtues!
Some people, compelled by
what they consider a sense of
propriety, are particular to the
point of prurience in speaking of
doubtful subjects. Their hyper
trophied modesty makes them
ridiculous, and the subject of
"IllNH lAcy are IolCSu 10 BpSdh
assumes an indecency that would
not belong to j. if it were treated
honestly.
Il am suffering with rheuma-
tism in my limb" complained an
a-fastidious spinster to her
physician.
You have four limbs, madam"
the blunt practitioner reminded
her. From your vague reference
to the affected member l suppose
it is one of those limbs termed
by sensible people LEGS!"
You need not ask a chaperon
to accompany u.s." a girl said to
a young man who had asked to
be allowed to take her for an
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-17

right action, to right thinking, to
high aspiration, and to the uss Of
every faculty and power we DOS
sess while here on earth, no mat
ter how limited our outlook,
A man who has been Obliged 10
follow a mercantile business or a
trade, yet who has longed to be A
scholar, and who has spent all his
spare moments in the study Of
law, or literature, will come bach
to earth in his next life with a
precoctous mind, ready to attain
the heights of learning with small
effort. A woma.4 who has all her
life longed to be a musician began
after she | used the meridian 10
study the rudiments OF mus. Shs
Will not live to achieve more
than a beginning in this life; and
the uninstructed mind might
think she was wasting time. The
Knower realizes that she Is pre-
pairing herself to come back to
earth a great musician.
Nothing can stand in the way
of divine soul which Is burning
with an all-compelling resolve.
1t burns away the obstacles
which lie between 1t and its goal.
1t brings into the visible realm
the invisible helpers.
Meantime all that a man Is do
ing will count for great value
when he comes again to earth.
His efforts, his ambitions, his
hopes are not lost.
We will be what we will to be;
if not here and now, then later
on. when We will bring new pow
ers and new strength from the
spiritual realms through which
we will pass en- route to earth
again.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-17


his steak was hroiled and
he called the cook in and
said so. and the cook, being a
Western man and OF high spirit
and very sensitive, pulled his
gun" and shot the man who COM
planned dead.
This happened in st. Louis the
other day. The cook is in jail,
grumbling good deal about the
meals they serve there, they say,
The man who complained is
buried. | wonder II someone won't
put up a monument to him? He
deserves one if man ever did,
Whatever is the matter with US
Americans that we will allow
people to feed us the stuff they
call food and never even voice
one single protest? There are
no restaurants so good as the best
American restaurants in all the
wide and rolling world. and may
ask a long suffering public if
there is any restaurant so bad as
the second class American res
taurant anywhere in the uni
verse?
Where did You go this summer?
Down to the New England coast?
What did they give you for
breakfast? Anything you could
eat and enjoy? Tell the truth.
now And the dinner-forty dish
es on the bin of fare and not one
of them Mt to eat.
A la this and that and the
other thing, and not one slice Of
decently cooked meat, not one
vegetable that tasted like any
thing but an imitation
Peas! What were those peas,
those little brigh tgreen bullets
they served with what they called
roast lamb7 Beans! Those pal
lid strings? Corn! That with
cred thing on a cob? Beef
Where did you get 1t? Chicken!
What did Il taste like2 Feall oh,
spectered horror of pale misery.
Pork! Well yes, that does look
like an old fashioned pork chop
when you take a microscope and
took IT right straight in the face.
But what, oh, what did the cook
in his fiendish fury do to IL?
Pie! Leather and stewed fruit,
Cake! You could taste the grease
long before you got chance to
cut it, Ice cream! That was
fairly decent. though IL you went
far enough South, that began to
taste Of hair OIL In some mystic
rious way.
The mouutains--fresh trout, The
best vegetables in the world
ruined in the cooking absolutely
cooked to death, or left half-raw
what is the matter with our
cooks, who are they, and what
are they, that they make us suffer
thus?
Why are there no little inns
pleasant homelike stopping
places where you can get a chop
and a potato and a salad and a
bit Of cheese any hour of the
day or night and find ii good and
savory, too
You can find such everywhere
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-17

lunar craters, submits and peaks,
and spread over plains below.
During totality the moon oc-
Quilted a number of small stars
that is 1t passed between the
telescope and the stars, opscuring
them, one by one. They, at in
slant of disappearance, vanished
instantly, as if cut out by the
edge of a rapid knife. This Is
proof that the moon has no at
mosphere, for air refracts and no
refraction of light has ever been
seen at times of occultation of
many thousands of stars.
l could not detect diminution OF
light upon viewing distant peaks
with the unaided eye until the
shadow had cut off one-half of
the lunar disk. Then the black
ness of night drew on apace and
became intense at totally. Sat
urn, Mars, Venus, the Pleiades.
the Galaxy and Orion blazed and
burned and glowed with super
nal splendor when the light from
the moon was cut off.
Then | had trouble. Pasadena
turned on about a million cleo
trio lights, and this prevented
the entire scenic splendor Of the
eclipse. For Los Angeles keeps
the electric lights going at times
of full moon, while Pasadena
shuts them off. But the folk In
Pasadena turned on the glow
when they missed the moon.
At full total eclipse all Of the
light of the moon is not extin-
guished. Light is refracted around
the earth by its atmosphere and
drawn to a rude focus on the
moon. And the great object
glasses are so powerful that this
faint light could be utilized in
dimly exploring the interiors OF
the lunar craters. They present.
ed a peculiar aspect Of light and
shade under this strange illumi-
nation.
The people in Washington, D.
c., and in Baltimore and Phila-
delphia, could not see the eclipse.
as at time of beginning the moon
was setting below their distant
Western horizons. When the OBJ
iect- glasses were turned toward
the moon, of course. the opposite
or eye end was pointing through
the globe Of the earth toward the
sun. A straight line drawn
through the center of the earth
from the center of the sun to the
center of the moon, is the line of
eclipse data. But the surface of
the earth is on an average, 1888
miles from the center; the diam
eter of the moon, as seen from
the earth, is so minutes of arc;
and of the earth, as seen from
the moon, 1913 minutes Of arc; a
number that must be allowed for
in computing the time and points
of view, as seen from many
places on earth. The ephemeris
giving all computations was pub
lished in shington four years
ago, and every one was fulfilled
to the letter For great is the
power of mathematical minds.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-17
y ABSENCE
BY CONSTANCE CLARKE.

~ REAM-aden sleep hangs heavy on the flowers
Down where the lilies sway
So Night tolls her slowly passing hours,
Love have lost day.
Into that dim and far away tomorrow
Drift l, yet linger here
For of its store OF hours may not borrow,
Love, We have lost year.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-17
CELEBRATION AT coRDELE.

A LOVER OF ANIMALS.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-17
TREATMENT OF MULES.
tor The Georgian

Editor Inc Georgian:
l am a reader of he Georgian
and l agree with the gentleman
who signs himself Humane" on
the question of cruelty to dumb
brutes. l understand Atlanta has
no s. p. C. A, and shame on big
Atlanta, the Capital City of our
big State, to let these drivers
beat the faithful animals up so
brutally and not a hand is raised
to protect these poor dumb
brutes. l go to work every morn
ing and walk down Marietta
street quite a few blocks, and to
hear the whips cracking you
would think it was a sham battle.
1 know OF one contractor who has
ten or twelve teams and | have
heard him tell his drivers to hit
the mules on the legs so the
welts wouldn't show.
A LOVER OF ANIMALS.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-17

Editor The Georgian:
| feel sure that we owe much
to you and your good paper. Our
silver anniversary on Tuesday,
November II, was grand sue
cess in every way. The program
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-17
Written for The Atlanta Georgian
Bv Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright, 1879

n TO earnest effort, no use Of
" brain power, no applica-
ton to study, is ever lost.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-17
Letters From the Readers of The Georgian

went off without a hitch and
there were many thousand guests
present. l assure you that we
feel very grateful to you and your
good paper for the kind words OF
your encouragement and public
ity for our undertaking.
LOUIS SPENCER DANIEL
Managing Director Cordele
Chamber of Commerce.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-17
A CRUSADE IN GEORGIA.

Editor The Georgian:
Your estimable paper of Thurs
day contains photograph of Mrs
Virginia Brooks Washburn. from
the State of Illinois. who has
come to clean up" the State OF
Georgia; that is, l believe, she
proposes to lead in a vice cru
SADIE. The most noteworthy thing
about this Is the fact she comes
from Chicago. OF all the places
where she can do good Chicago
offers as fine opportunity as any
city in America. yet she leaves
there a wealth of opportunity N
her line OF work and goes to thaI
little town of Augusta to erusaoe.
I'll venture to say there is not a.
much sin in the whole town OF
Augusta as one street OF inc
great Chicago.
j. A. STEWART
Rome, Ga, ---------1'
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-03-28
WOMEN.

Women are very the public Just There at
the Evil
investigating probing suggesting
and reporting until all that be known this disgusting subject
problem whenever he allowed to apply tit inter
look the of labor expended IN
the
running body polite The Social Evil will not be cured
their places of employment
as some propose only make another for the capitalist
SalarieSwhen the present agitation the
plea their lodging that fares will have
be paid money will be required for living
will prostitution be ended the control Of dis
UNPAID guardians peace take their places proposed by
Talk about Uopian If socialist had suggested
any such what shindy there would have been.
only end the evil of prostitutonOne only
scientific and simple that led to
believe that its very simplicity stumbling block those who
shmen financing of special departments
necessary this gigantic evil be overhown The remedy
the economically Independent of the and by
will place the position where he get
without having about the wheewha to support
family will be freed from slavery To
make the economically independent that
job for her to be position her job
the and distribution be
comparatively by the whole community That only be
socialists control the executive legislative and judicial
society changed by the social revolution Then will
have tag a for meal ticket
thing than another that shows the
wickdness of the capitalist
deous evil of prostitution and the of
wisdom all the old parties and their church allies
strength the purity and the high ideals of socialists is their
confidence the knowledge that they scientifically
diagnosis this evil Prostitution
question; it economic question.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-03-28
WATCH THE SCHOOLS.

Eternal vigilance price of liberty
lasngy wide awake if going the schools for
and folly fight the
they tactics they adopt they beat
column the facsimile of ballot served
the school election Port Angeles The capitalist
party supporters very cunnngy ballot
thought the working class braness lot
chumps they expected swallow this humbug
contrary only their tricks but notice
they watched
mind In this the Socialist Educational Bureau the
department socialist Students
socialist party members watching the
will exceedingly awkward questions the educational
authorities in the state from time to time
We will begin with By whose authority four
of the Everett schools their studies
hour March 2 -Four eaces and somewhere the
vicinity hundred students spent this of during
school attending and returning from bOodhirsty talk
military adventuer Had there been something of educational
the school, the parents children
raise much objection; but tell the authorities concerned
socialist parents going pay support teachers
than the they supposed the edl-
been better display greome descriptions
save-whps which had been
they fell which to cut the hroa of the
who weak
warcubs which the children of tender
bash peoples brains wh-the
the swords repeating rifles and other murdeOus
that minutey described
children taught by make
respect wishes
giving displays right against our phil
osophy; which dear the
their members.
Watch the schools!
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-03-28
CHEAP BEDDING

There happens to be in this neck OF
the woods an insignificant hay-wire
outfit bossed by the notorious Cock
roach Capitalist Dan Fay, of Blind
Slough fame, and is run under the big
name of the West Oregon Lumber Co.;
and, by the way, they charge $1.75 a
month for the privilege of resting your
weary bones on pair of cheap springs
topped by dirty, filthy mattress, in
all probability the said springs and
mattress cost the company the enorm-
Gus sum of $500 when new. One pair
of springs and mattress took in $4,000
in less than year-very good interest
on the investment, Ell? That is a graft
in addition to the hospital graft, and
yet the poor fools stand for it, and
some actually seem to like it, for was
told a few men had been resting their
weary bones on the same springs and
dirty, filthy mattress for five years.
Are they alive? I mean the vermin
Why, yes, some of them are very live
ly, and by the way, there are three
names that apply to the same live YER
min: % The louise; CD grayback;
go seamsquirrels.
Yours truly stood one night of it,
and one night only and l think I can
truly say that I came away from the
camp with the whole family in my
clothes. And still the poor working
man says that he likes it, For Gods
sake, will they never wake up?-From
the Oregon Ballot"
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-03-28
NOAH J. BECKNER,
Mabton, Washington
DEMOCRATIC EXTRAVA-
CANOE.
Lavish Expenditures for Public
Buildings in Little Southern
Towns.
The South's Grab.

Acting Chairman Burnett, of the
Public Buildings and Grounds Com
mittee, where the omnibus bill was
drawn, lives in Alabama. So does
Representative o. W. Underwood,
chairman of Ways and Means, and
floor leader of the House. His home
is in the thriving industrial city OF
Birmingham. There may not be so
much ground for criticism, because
the bill carries an authorization for a
81, 000,0 900 public building in that Pitts.
burg of the South, with only 132,685
people. But it looks little different
when one views paragraphs in the
omnibus bill, giving Jasper, an Ala
bama town, with $500 people, a $780,
900 public building; Decatur, Ala,
with apps population, public build
ing to cost 100000, and Lanett, with
1920 souls, building to cost 100000
But that does not include Anadulusia,
Ala, which if this bill becomes law,
will have a $4,000 building The last
census does not include Anadulusia
among the towns that have popu-
lation of $500, and accordingly it is
not enumerated separately in the cen
sus reports.
So much for Alabama. But Ken
lucky, gentle reader, has an influ-
entail democratic member of the Pub
lie Buildings Committee in the person
of Representative James c. CantrilL
from one of the Night Riders dis
tricts. Cantrin, like some other
Southern members, was con the job,"
and there was put into the omnibus
bill as fine a line Of public buildings
for small towns as any state, North
or South, East or West ever enjoyed.
There are Hopkinsville, with 9,419
people, and as a public building appro-
priation of $4,000 now in prospect;
Ashland, the home of Henry Clay,
having 1888 people, and a prospective
building appropriation of $4,000. Mar
ion, with less than $500 people, Is al
lotted a $4,000 building. Glasgow,
also under $500 population. has a $780,
900 building in sight, while George
town. KY with 4,533 people twice
as many as Glasgow gets only one
half as much money, $4,000. Shell
byyille, KY, with 3.412 population,
gets a $4,000 building. and Madison
vile, Central City and Harrodsburg,
all little towns, no one of which has
5000 population. get $4,000 each for
sites; Eminence. Ky. $4,000 for a site, /
and Hogenyille, Murray. Prestonburg, T
Paintville and PikeYille, no one OF
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-03-28

system OF conditions But there is a
day OF reckoning soon. with the loan
companies. Some loaning up to 500
per acre on the inflated values Of fruit
lands. and rs a matter Of fact. they
too, will be stung. in some instances,
along with the man from Missouri
There is only one way to base a con
sentative valuation on land, and that
must be done on a basis Of actual ag-
ricultural production, and when they
get aside from this positive fact, some
body is sure to get hurt. How is this
actual conservative value of land to
be demonstrated? Under our present
prevailing system of society this can
never be done, and will never be done
till the present form of society is de-
veloped into a socialized society.
Then, and then only, will there be a
true value based on land. The people
who actually own the land will then
be able to secure, get and have to
themselves, all of what the land does
actually produce. Are they getting
it now? Ask them.
When you talk to a farmer about
the cooperative commonwealth, all the
argument he puts up is: You can't
change the nature of a man. We don't
want too. The nature of man is al
right, and Just as the Almighty in
tended it should be. The nature of
civilized man is naturally moral. 1t Is
the temptation, and force of circum-
stances that cause man to commit
acts detrimental to his fellow man
and against the will of his own moral
conscience. The greed for profit and
gain is the main incentive to cause
these acts of crime against fellow
man. Abolish all schemes for ex-
plotting each other, and you abolish
crime with 1t, for everybody will have
a chance then to live and be right.
The big trusts in our nation have been
the greatest factor to tide the cooper
ative common wealth toward that hap
by and peaceful shore. Even though,
operated for the benefit of private and
corporate interests, they have thor
oughly demonstrated and proven what
can be accomplished with concen
trated energy. We are dawning upon
new era of civilization, and will be
in fine working condition in the not
far off future, for the necessary
means of society will be socialized,
and segregated into units of them
selves and controlled under political
democracy, by and for the benefits OF
the whole society Then universal
peace and happiness will prevail in
every nation on earth.
peace on earth, good will to men,
will then be in effect in it's true sense
of meaning.
NOAH ]. BECKNER,
Mabton, Washington
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-03-28
Class Struggle
(By Carl UIonska.
Italy

The crew of the dreadnaught
Amolfi mutinied recently on account
of bad conditions on board ship. They
threw over the compass, gun fittings
and war material. Several gunners
were arrested and bound over to a
disciplinary court. After holding a
monster open-air meeting in the
streets of Milan last week, the unem-
ployed workers formed in line and
marched to the city hall and to the
offices of the prefecture where they
demanded work, which was given
them. Isn't this some more of that
horrid sabotage?
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-03-28

cour.o, peu will readily see this Is for
the benefit of the ignorant working
class. uB dues Of $500 per year
would help to relieve, In a small way.
their boiherRome surplus of coin and
would therefore be a big inducemont
to them TO get Interested. have men
toned this little affair to show you
why the prolotadiat of this oommuni-
ty are so loyal TO the master class on
election day. Why the dear masters
actually sent their autos for the nasty
social element represented in that
meeting three weeks ago StNishly
gownod wives Of the bourgeoisie
walked right up main street that
memorable first day of March with
the miners wives and some Of the
dear ladies were not too proud to
take their wash women in their autos.
Now you know it is worth being
.scorned publicly and privately three
hundred and sixty four days in the
year for the sake of being noticed on
the three hundred and sixty-fifth day.
SO we will have another year of mill
tarism, hero worship a la Roosevelt,
and hysterical patriotic slush drilled
into those horrid little ragmuffins of
working children. OF course, our So
ciety lady has no children of her own,
but she understands the economic ne
cessity of her less cultured sisters
bearing children in pain and poverty,
for If they did not who would produce
the surplus value that buys her fine
clothes and leisure time for deciding
what shall be taught those children.
Believe me, you easily flattered pie
beians, she won't decide that anything
that will prevent her luxurious ease,
is best for them.
God bless our masters and make us
good and useful servants. Let our
public schools be maintained out Of
the surplus value created by the
blood and sweat of the vulgar horde
for that purpose only, and all is well,
but If you dare hold up your heads
like the free man or woman that you
are, CD and ask for equal privileges
in the control of the glorious Ameri-
can institution, you will surely be
scorned by the better class.
In spite of this seeming defeat it is
still victory The viciously warning
factions of other years who buried the
Ratchet and embraced to defeat the
socialists in the city elections in De-
cember, find the current of socialism
so strong in this community that they
can't let go. Thus we have the spec
tacle of the devout church woman
making common cause with the sal
Don man, and politicians, who have
proven themselves thirsty for each
others gore in days gone by, pass
through the streets arm in arm like
brothers. And they say socialism
won't changashlman nature.
The appended is not business ad-
vertisement, it is a socialist society
note.
Since a certain well-known business
mans wife had a brain storm at the
parent teachers meeting on the 7th
of February. Most of the socialist
women of this community have been
buying their calico gowns and such
other luxuries in the way of dress, as
their ample incomes justify at the
Buckley Bazaar.
The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-03-28
Roumania.

Socialists of Roumania have under
taken the task of moving to smash the
old land tenure system in that coun-
try. DR.. Racovski has been chosen as
the spokesman of the socialists, and
to some extent he will be supported by
other liberal elements.-Ex.