Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-08
WINIFRED BLACK
Writes on
What Is It the Cow
ards Fear?
By WINIFRED BLACK

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world, they say. I wonds,
- who's on it? If you could
have the say. what would Won A.
about that world?
What would you keep off it-ot
all the human qualities and an
the human failings and all thu
human vices, which would Won
Danish from the new world,
you could?
l believe I'd take cowardice. i'll
could only choose one.
Cowardice is at the bottom NJ
so much that is wrong and foolish
and cruel, so much that is terri.
BILE in this world of ours, I'd shut
all the towards out of the New
Jupiter if had my way.
It's the coward who commits
nearly all the murders. Hes
afraid someone will kill him, 50
he shoots first. He saw the other
man put his hand toward his
pocket, so he grabbed his knife.
He had heard that the other
man was looking for him, so he
didn't wait for him to find him.
He's Too Cowardly.
He is too cowardly to ask A
man for a job and stick to it, 50
he kills somebody for money, or
he's too cowardly to deny him.
self luxuries he can not earn, 50
he puts poison in the cup of his
benefactor.
All the poor women who are
left to fight for living for them.
selves and their babies are left
SO by cowards-men who can not
face the cold or who are afraid
OF the sun or who fear to under
take any responsible work at all.
So they run away and let their
wives face the cold and the heat
and the worry alone. Poor COW
ards, wonder if they can help
1t, really2
1t is the cowardly girl who goes
wrong. She is afraid of displeas-
ing someone If she doesn't do as
the rest" do. So she does as the
rest" do and ends as they do,
poor thing-some day-in the
poorhouse or at the county hos
pital.
The young assistant who trun'
dies the dead wagon to her room
to get her poor, worn out body, Is
he a coward too? If he's keeping
his place by sneaking tricks and
by sycophantic fiattery instead Of
by honest work, he il. He won't
keep it long. They never do, the
towards; their hands are TOO
weak and trembling to hold any
job for any length of time.
The Brave Who Win.
I fear not. To me it is alway'
the brave who seem to win. The
red-headed boy who couldn't add
to save his life, and who never
had a square meal till he went out
and earned one, is the one wh9
made good" from my town. he
was always a fighter-not quar-
relsome or bullying He'd do any
thing in reason for a little boy
and all the girls used to beg MIN
to pull their sleds for them. But
one day somebody said something
about his mother and he whipped
three boys in succession, anu
asked how many more wanted
taste of the same medicine.
No coward, that boy. And one
Of the boys gave him g good, hare
beating, too, but he wouldn't give
up-hung on till the other boys
patience gave out and he won
That's the way he did when nc
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wouldn't give up, and so he Won
He's head of big concern no"
and the leading man in his CITY
He won it by courage-nothins
on earth but sheer bulldog cour'
age. His cousin, from the sans
town, was cIeverer than IT,
quicker, had more money, Del
ter education, but he was a COW
ard. He's clerk working lol
Redhead now and grumbling al
the long hours he has to keep
A woman escaped from SAM
tarium" the other day. She was
sane and well but her reltal'''
wanted her money, so they shu.
her up, and when she brought su',
for false Imprisonment it turned
out that half the village "heio
she lived knew that she was
good woman being crueL,
wronged. And not one OF 'neE
would protest-why? Cowa'u'
every one of them-shaNlns'
trembling cowards-afraid some
body would be offended. one MAJ
said his cousin was doctor
the sanitarium and, OF course