Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-09
WINIFRED BLACK
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What Is It the Cow.
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BY WINIFRED BLACK

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world, they say. l wond.,
- who's on it? If you cor,s
have the say, what would Won 4,
about that world?
What would you keep off it.
all the human qualities and sn
the human failings and all III.
human vices, which would Won
Danish from the new world.
you could?
believe I'd take cowardice ift
could only choose one.
Cowardice is at the bottom 4,
so much that is wrong and foolish
and cruel, so much that is terri.
BILE in this world of ours. I'd sim,
all the towards out of the Nsv
Jupiter If had my way.
It's the coward who commit,
nearly all the murders. Hs,
afraid someone will kill him. 81
he shoots first. He saw the other
man put his hand toward hi,
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
man for a job and stick to it 90
he kills somebody for money, or
he's too cowardly to deny him.
self luxuries he can not earn, So
he puts poison in the cup Of bis
benefactor.
All the poor women who are
left to fight for a 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, I wonder if they can help
ii, really?
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, worm ut body, IL
he a coward too? II he's keeping
hiss place by sneaking tricks and
by sycophantic fiattery instead Of
by honest work, he is. 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.
fear not. To me it is always
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 who
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 noy'
and all the girls used to beg him
to pull their sleds for them. But
one day somebody said something
about his mother and he whipped
three boys in succession, and
asked how many more wanted
taste of the same medicine.
No coward, that boy. And one
Of the boys gave him a good, marc
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 ne
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wouldn't give up, and so he won
He's head of a big concern now
and the leading man in his CITY
He won it by courage-notnlns
on earth but sheer, bulldog cour-
age. His cousin, from the same
town, was cleverer than ne
quicker, had more money, Oe'-
ter education, but he was cow
ard. He's a clerk working loi
Redhead now and grumbling a'
the long hours he has to keep
A woman escaped from sam
tariun1" the other day. She was
sane and well but her reltal'es
wanted her money. 80 they shu'
her UP, and when she brought SUI.
for false Imprisonment it turner
out that half the village WheEe
she lived knew that she was
good woman being crueHS
wronged. And not one OF thsn
woulo protest-why? CoWarhS
every one of them-shaAlnE
trembling cowards-afraid some.
body would be offended. One man
said his cousin was a doctor d
the sanitarium and, of course
he