Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-06
Good CITIZENS Or
Good PRISONERS"
Georgia Owes to Her Self Respect and STANDING A,o.,
Nations TO abolish the Floggins of Prisoners
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front of The Sergeant Of We.
loo one evening in the snrinc.
1919 certainly would have =.
tracted by its bulk the atte1+fH-
OF any painter who might b a,.l
been passing. nave
1T was the fore carriso.
one of those drays for carr; u
heavy articles used in waSalg
countries for Transporting i oi..I
and trunks of trees; 1t consis+as
OF massive iron axle-t tree IritL
pivot to which a heavy nnla
was attached, and which NJ ~
supported by two enormous
wheels MUS
AS a whole it was srr.4
crushing and misshanen. !:
might have been fancied a o.
gantic carriage. g.
Reminder of the Galleys.
THE roads had covered a..
wheels, felloes, limbs, axle and tbo
pole with a coating of hidsa,, ,e
yellow hued mud. similar in 80,
to that with which cathedrsIs az
sometimes decorated. The wood
mn
ana the iron beneath rust
onder the axletree hung tes-
tooned huge chain, At for a Co.
Hath of the Galleys. This chain
recalled not the beams which II
was used 10 carry, but the mas
todons and mammoths which il
might have harnessed; it remind
ed one of the galleys, but of cv-
clopean and superhuman gaIleys
and seemed as if unriveted from
some monster! With it Homer
could have bound Polyphemus, or
Shakespeare Caliban.'
Why was this vehicle in this
place in the street, one may ask
First, to obstruct the land and
then to complete its work of rust,
THERE is IN THE OLD So
,C1AL ORDER A HOST OF IN
ST1TUTIONS WHICH WE FIND
LIKE THIS ACROSS ORR
PATH IN THE FULL LIGHT or
DAY, AND WHICH PRESENT
NO OTHER REASONS FOR BE
ING THERE!"
Mr.. Patterson, Mr. Dawson Mr..
Ratney, do you see the applica-
ton to YOURSELVES of this
monstrous symbol of ONE insti-
tuition of the old social order?"
Don't fail to read this. incident
in the life of Jean Vatican after
he has won the battle for the re-
spect that is accorded to a MAN
among men:
One day he came upon some
country folk very busy pulling w
nettles; he looked at the heap Of
plants, uprooted and already
wilted. and said;
This is DEAD, but il would
be well if we knew how to put it
to some USE. When the nettle il
young, the leaves make excellent
greens; when it told, it has fla
ments and fibers like hemp and
flax
Men Are Like Nettle.
"'Cloth made from the nettls
is worth as much as that mads
from hemp. Chopped up, TIM
nettle is good for poultry; pound
ed, ii is good for horned cattle
The seed of the Lettle mixed viii
the fodder of animals gives a lus'
ter to their skin; the root miXes
If makes, moreover, excellent
hay, and it can be cut twice in 3
season. And what does the net.
tie need? Very little soil no care
no culture except that the seeds
fall as fast as they ripen and 1t is
difficult to gather them. that is
all.
eff we would take a little
pains the nettle would be USE
Full; we neglect it and it be-
comes HARMFUL. Then We
"'HOW MUCH MEN ARE
LIKE THE NETTLEH
After short silence, he
added;
My friends remember this:
That there are no bad herbs and
no bad men; ONLY BAD CUL-
TIVATORS.'
Mr.. Patterson, Mr. Dawson, Mr..
Rainey, do you believe the idea
Of punishment taking precedence
over the idea of reformation could
instil in the mind of a convict
such ideas as THIS?
No. you do not. You can not
In Terre Haute. Vigo County,
Indiana, is a County Attorney
named Joe Roach. He is doing
an admirable work in cleaning up
the dives and gangs there He IS
respected and honored.
Not many years ago Joe Roach
went to the Indiana State Penl-
Tertiary at Michigan City lie
was convicted of murder and SEN
fenced for life. He was tgno-
rant. Gepraved, dope fiend and
a whisky soak. who, in fit OF
maudlin rage, shot and killed MS
chum in a dope dive in Ierfe
Haute.
Became Normal Self.
In prison Joe Roach was bult