Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-31

Of Men
Another story Of disaster spread before the nation
may be compared with the great Galveston food the San
Francisco catastrophe any cacym which Nature shakes
the earth wipes out men their cities and for the time laughs
at the feeble efforts of the human
There are hundreds killed hundreds of thousands homeless
farms bridges reservoirs and highways destroyed
tens of millions Of property wiped out.
1t is the old story that has been told often that told
in the great disaster that told thousand times
the earth before began to write their history.
It will be told again again. tidal earthquakes
tonadoes cyclones and fires to brighten men and make
them feel their Ilaness-bu IN THE END MAN WILL CON
oUER NATURE ON THIS PLANET AND RULE THE PLANET
AND IT'S FORCES ABSOLUTELY.
Progress is slow beings work separate atoms
each for himself only when and murder change the
current that work together.
A million men can be gathered for murder in WAR But
there no united action Of the intellect of to fight against
the real enemy dsorganized nature.
Yet triumphant organization will come and in the face of
this great disaster that shakes country need not be ter
rihed or discouraged
They have largely themselves to blame If they had built
that great Ohio properly would not have burst
inundating great city
If they had built their bridges properly they need not have
been swept away.
The army upon which we spend hundreds of millions and
the educated officers upon education millions spent
should be used in studying and dealing with food problems and
reservoir problems instead of paradrs and thinking of murder
By army work this food could have been avoided
We have made step in enc ERECTION We have got rid of
the uperstaous feeling that accompanied such
events
We no longer believe that this is visitation of Divine wrath
We heads and say that nave deserved it,
Even in the storm that churches and saloons sui
fer about equally
And find that the prison stands strong with the criminals
safe while the orphan asylum blows and the children
killed.
And therefore we know that this isn't done because God
wants it done-BUT BECAUSE MEN HAVEN'T LEARNED
HOW TO PREVENT IT.
We no longer pray these things stopped We make
up our minds that WE WILL STOP THEM st is time for
men to go at it.
If the country can spend two or three hundred millions
year for an army navy keeping ready for enemy that
may come country could spend thousand millions
a year if necessary, CoNQUERING THE ENEMY SAVAGE
NATURE-wHICH is ALWAYS AT WAR WITH US.
The officials of our have mapped out every inch
of our waterways they have made maps of every hill and val
ley.
They know Just where tine danger is They where
waters that swell the Mississippi that make the
smaller Ohio rivers overflow
They know what ought to be they could find out
and take charge Of those great foundations.
The creates, part the work must be done by the army of
the United State the army able without graft build
the Panama Canal able protect the health of the builders and
fight nature which there takes the form disease That
army must do the fighting
This country should have fifty hundred thousand
soldiers marching up and down saluug idle officers wasting
time waiting for
We ought have hundred thousand trained with
the necessary number Of y educated oicers-every
engineer road builder canal builder understanding
draining and ditchng. and making reservoirs
Such an army that need he used in The
fact that it existed would make the thought impossible