The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-06-26

1. EH the Government has decided
to appropriate what looks
liza d huge sum of money to develop
better strains of stock in these Uni
ted States. By "stock" is meant
largely the COWS, hogs and beeves
which play so important a part in
the food of the Nation. These good
people weep and wall because Uncle
Sam will not finance some very beau
tiful theories, along the line of i'm
proving the infant humans, and some
of the artists are busy drawing pic
lures which represent Uncle Sam as
a good farmer, but a poor father.
Theories are hard things to fight;
you find so many delightful people
who believe implicitly in them, and
it takes so long to get them to take
practical view.
In regard to all the hygienic bosh
we have had to wade through in the
magazines and newspapers, it is re-
freshing, and at the same time start
ling to note that, the finest babies
in recent baby show, were found in
New York tenaments-andn no theme
thropy, save maybe '"The Song of the
1t developed that these babies were
all the children of foreign born par
ents, they were all raised by their
own mothers, and incidentally, those
same mothers didn't do much but
raise babies. Of course the. theo-
rists will look on all this as pure
accident, and they will account for
the perfect health of the babies by
claiming the parents had not been in
this country long enough to lave be-
come vitiated by the usual tenement
mode of living. Granted all that, it
still stands to reason that the human
mother, when backed by the common
sense Nature gave to mothers in the
beginning, needs no more help in
raising her children to the perfect
physical standard, than that good,
clean, healthy husband, earning and
devoting to his family a good wage,
can give. The hog will work out her
salvation too, if given the proper
range, ard the proper food.
AS theorists we have become a ma
ton alone; we need only to read a
narrowing story, which a smart
newspaper man has gotten up on
the spur of the moment, often, to
make us shed gobs of tears, dozens
of dollars and enough maudlin SYM
pathy to keep the gallery of a ten
cent show weepy for a week. But
when the time comes for us, as in
dividuals, to help our fellow man,
as an individual-we ind it is our
busy day and we have only money
enough to get the lace curtains which
we have so long needed for the
spare bedroom, and the new hat that
is such bargain.
Buff you need us to help you
gouge money out of the other family
We are right there with our theories,
and We will gladly write a piece
for thes paper" telling the other
folks what they should do to help
the poor. unfortunate brother and
sister and baby, who is doubly I'M
fortunate in that they have to have
our sympathy added to their woes.
A long time ago we, as people
let down the bars for the state of
affairs which exist now in all our
large cities; unrestricted immigra-
ton brought to us the very classes
of people who make all the squalor,
dirt, crime and insanity which have
been SO tremendous a burden to the
taxpayer in every large city. If we
had done one of two things; set ear
lier the standard for these immi-
grants, or seen to it that the corpora
tons in whose interests they come,
had been made to care for them ac-
cording to the standard we have