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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-18
CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
BV DR.. Frank Crane

We hear a great deal about woman's rights,
and the rights of the negro, and the rights Of
the laborer, and the right sof all sorts and
conditions of men, but we have never yet
made the decisive move we should make to-
ward giving their proper and natural born
rights to the most important class of people
in the country.
That class is the children.
The childrens rights are very simple. They
have one right that is their due by nature,
and by every consideration of humanity and
sound sense, and that is the right to be edu-
Gated, to be properly trained before they are
sent out into the struggle for existence.
We are never going to settle the child ques-
ton right until we have a federal law that
provides that every child born in the United
States shall be properly trained until he
reaches maturity.
Child labor laws point in the right direc-
ton, but they only point They are daWdling
and fiddling with an issue that demands de-
cisive and prompt action.
1t may be good to pass law that no child
under the age of sixteen shall be employed
over eight hours day, but it is like passing
a law that no man shall kick his wife in the
face more than twice week.
Children have no business whatever in the
economic struggle. There are plenty Of husky
men and women to attend to that. Instead OF
limiting the hours of child labor, or trying
to ameliorate it, it should be absolutely pro-
hibited.
Children are entirely helpless in the mat
ter They never asked to come into the
world, and the least we can do when we have
brought them into the world is to equip them
properly for life.
And this is not question to be decided by
the family. 1t is entirely too important to
the state to be left to ignorant and brutal
parents.
The senate of the United States the other
day passed a law imposing tax on the prod
ucts of child labor, with the object of limiting
child labor by taking away it's profits. This
amounts to slapping burglar on the wrist,
We were very much alarmed when the Hun
threatened to overrun the world, and we sent
two million men to France, and spent billions
deeper and more dangerous menace that con-
fronts us in allowing children to grow up
without proper schooling,
Nine-tenths of the economic, social and
other public problems would dissolve II the
entire population of children had their rights,
if they were all properly schooled.
The United States supreme court some
time ago held the child labor law unconsti-
tutional. 1t seemed to interfere with the
rights of the states If this is true, then the
constitution ought to be changed. While |
am in favor of wOman's rights, | have never
got very excited over it. Women seem to
get along pretty we'll as it is although there
is excuse for not giving them their full
citizenship. But with children it is different.
1t is stupid, wicked and outrageous that any
child in this democracy should be forced into
the struggle for subsistence
Copyright, 1919, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-18
The Crackers.

Croakers who are disgrIntled at the
financial cost of civilizations victory over
Prussianism would do we'll to reflect what
the cost would have been had events turned
out contrarywise. We might have won on
a good deal less, but then suppose we had
lost!
There was waste, be it admitted; there
was shortsightedness here, bungling there,
and divers sorts of mOney-losing inefficiency.
Nevertheless, we are now debating the peace
terms, instead of desperately figuring how to
pay indemnity to the HOhenZOlleTns. That
should be some consolation to the croakers.
AS the Anderson, g. c. Mail cogently puts
it: eff few dollars were needlessly spent,
what of it? After the fire is out and the
factory has been saved, it's easy to fret about
the quantity of water used and the splashes
on the office rug"
Americas human losses in the war, in
Guiding deaths in action and from disease,
numbered approximately seventy two thou
sand lives. How many of those youths, do
you imagine, reckoned their sacrifice in
the terms of dollars and cents, paid their
heroic debt with miserly grudge? The
rank and file of them assuredly could have
said in their hearts with Nathan Hale, MY
only regret is that | have but one life to
give my country" How petty and truly
pitiable in contrast are the croaks of them
who having all the priceless benefits which
those sacrifices made secure, yet essay to
write the epic of the war on the keys OF a
cash register.
Why was it that American losses number
ed approximately seventy-two thousand men,
whilst those of Britain ran high into the
hundreds of thousands, and those of France
into millions? 1t was because we had few
months of extensive fighting, whilst our AL
lies had four years of it. But suppose
Americas preparations and expenditures
had been a smaller scale than they were
Suppose the Government had thought more
of saving money than CT producing guns and
munitions and ships and airplanes and all
the other mountainous array of material and
equipment. Suppose that instead of speed
ing two million soldiers to the 'front.' with
out hesitating at the cost, the Government
had gingerly figured on the minimum force
that would suffice to break the Hindenbure
line, and had paused to haggle over every
contract which entered into this herculean
performance. Who will say that if these
penurious tactics had prevailed, the wal
would have ended last November leav-
ing us with a life loss of only seventy-two
thousand? Who will say that it would not
still be in progress, with an ever-lengthenine
list of casualties, overwhelming toll OF
broken hearts. It was gigantic eXpendi-
lures that enabled America to put her forces
so swiftly and so decsively in the field; and
though there was many wasted dollar,
here is also many a spared life, in conse-
quence
Let us think of these things when the
croaker begins a lamentaion from his little
puddle of self-interest. Let us think of them
when the Victory Loan campaign begins, and
we are called upon to do our part once more
in sustaining the Governments credits,
wherewith the war for civilization was won.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-18

Legion of Honor Miss Mary Mcdonald, the
American nurse, is the one honored by the
United States with the d. S. c., and she has
also received the British military medal for
unusual bravery under fire.
That the death of Emiliano Zapata, leader
of the southern rebels in the state of Morelos,
Mexico, who was killed in an engagement
with government troops, will bring peace tn
that part of Mexico is the belief - many WHO
are familiar with Mexican cog szy.ss. =.
outlook is hopeful for the re~~lning OF the
land to cultivation; and, as cllo region is one
of the richest in sugar and agricultural prod
cuts, the result will mean much to the
country.
The allied governments have agreed upon a
design for a Victory medal which will be Is
used to every soldier who participated in the
great war. The design will be similar for all
countries on the face, but may vary in detail
for the different armies. Th9 diverse side
of the medal will bear a winged victory and
on the reverse will be- in the language of the
country by which it is issued, the words, ''The
Great War for Civilization an$ the Arms of
the Allies"
Herbert c. Hoover, in his statement on the
Russian situation, says that very conserva-
tive estimate would indicate that upward OF
200 900 people are directly or indirectly dying
in that country from the food shortage, with
every probability of the situation growing
worse.
Distressing details of conditions of famine
and disease are coming in by mail from men,
bers of the American mission in Poland, who
say that food supplies are short everywhere,
that typhus fever, smallpox and tuberculosis
have become widespread, and that hunger IS
so desperate that seed reserved for planting
has been consumed. The situation is rem
dered more acute by reason Of the fact that
there are SO few doctors and that little or no
medicine can be secured. ..
The Women's night court of New York City
will pass out of existence after April Fl, and
the nighthawks of the great city will have
to find another rallying ground. The women
who from time imm emorial have been hailed
before the night court will be tried in broad
daylight hereafter; and, in the opinion Of
Chief Magistrate McAdoo, the morbid and
undesirable gathering of people attracted to
the sessions of the night court will be dis
sipated while the women themselves will de-
rive more advantage from the change
The last issue of t'Worlds Work" contains
a piece Information that is new to many,
for under a photograph of General Jan Chris
tan SHUTS, the South African Dutch soldier
and statesman, who led a Boer army against
the British in the Boer war, but who during
the last war has lent his influence ana aid TO
building up South Africa for Great Britain,
the statement is made: THE League of Ma
lions constitution, it emerged from the
committee, is General SHUTS work in prac-
ticalIy all it's details. The impression preva-
lent in this country that the plan is President
Wilson's is erroneous, for General SHUTS is
its author to as great a degree as THOMAS
Jefferson was the author of the Declaration
of Independence"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-18
PeIion on OHa.

Never did we quite realize what it meant
to pile Pe1ion on Ossa until we read, one
upon the other, a boll-weevil vlassic from the
Valdosta Times and the sequel which it in
spired in the Dublin Courier-Herald. The
Times had Lhronicled in its WOntedly DlQuant
manner the story of a Laurens county ginner
who in repacking some cotton that had been
baled four months previously found in the
middle of bal boil weevil mashed fiat.
But when the fresh air struck it, it began to
show signs # life and soon flew away to help
reduce the cotton production That is Ossa.
Now for the effort which, Hamlet would
say "makes Ossa like wart.'
"This reminds u.s. the Courier-Herald in
nocently begins, "of a conversation we heard
recently between two Laurens county farm
ers:
lone stated that ho had tried to burn
a boil Weevil in the kitchen stove but
that after keeping him warm one hour
the varmint flew out and set his gin on
fire before he could be caught and hang
ed. The other 'armer stated that he
had put two boil weevils between two
one hundred pound blocks of ice and
that after five hours of pressure and
sub-normal temperature the first boil
weevil came out with palm leaf fan in
one hand and ice cream cone in the
cther-we did not want 20 learn the
, fate of the othe" weevil; human nature
could stan no more.
There are more things in Georgia, Horatio,
than are dreamed of in your philosophy.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-18
By Frederic j. HaSkin

XTASHINGTON, D. c., April 12.-When
wv once industry in this country strikes
its regular peacetime gait, there will
be marked shortage of labor. Those man
ufacturers who are now reducing their Or
CARNATIONS because they believe that wages
and cost of materials are both coming down,
will then be unable to get the labor they
need
Unemployment is still on the increase in
the United States, though it is not increasing
as rapidly as it was few months ago. This
unemployment is the cause of all the indus
trial unrest, the 5olshevism anarchy, and
other radical movements now observable in
the United States.
This unrest will not lead to revolution in
the United States because the American work
man, while we'll aware OF the shortcomings
Of our industrial system, realizes that he is
better off than any ether workman in the
world, and has too much common sense to
risk reducing himself to the present cOndi-
ton of the Russian workman. He also real
ICES that it is possible to do by the ballot in
this country what only revolution can &C
complish in an autocracy.
For these reasons, revolution is a remote
contingency in the United States, but as long
as this unemployment lasts there will be
much unrest in the country, conditions will
remain unsettled. For this reason, the I'M
employment sho1-l be ended by initiating
needed public works sufficient to take it all
up. If this is not done, the situation will be-
con worse before it becomes any better,
Public works require money, and whether
these public works can be undertaken de-
ponds largely upon the response to the next
liberty loan.
The above is the gist of a speech made re-
Gently before the National Press club by Sec
rotary of Labor Wilson, which has never
been published The labor situation is just
now the most important matter in the domes-
this affairs of the United States, and this is
the opinion of it expressed by the man who
has studied it longer and more carefully, and
with greater faciltien at his disposal than
any other. Mr.. Wilson's study of labor has
not been wholly academic either, for he spent
a good many years of his life digging coal in
the Pennsylvania mines.
His argument that there will a labor
shortage in the near future is supported by
figures. He points out that, in the first
place, we have had practically no immigra-
ton for four years. Before the war we were
getting million and quarter immigrants
annually. About 400 900 returned to Europe
every year. This left a net gain of $780,
900, of which about 100000 were of work
ing age. We have, therefore, in the past
four years, contracted a labor shortage OF g.
400, 900 from this cause alone
In the second place, we have esta blished
during the past two years, ship building in
dustry which employs about half a million
men, and which bids fair to be permanent
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-18
EXERCISE YOUR WILL
By H. Addington Bruce

BY n. AQQlnSlOn 6lCCe
Y F you want strong will, treat your will
precisely you would any part Of your
- body that you wanted to develop. That
is, exercise it.
Your will is fIabby now for much the same
reason that the muscles of your arm are
fabby.
When you were young and athletic you en-
gagged daily in games that kept your arms
actively employed. You wrestled you boxed,
you played baseball, perhaps you went in for
gymnastic exercises Your arm muscles were
strong enough then.
But when you grew older and took up a
sedentary occupation, you gradually dropped
the games you had once enjoyed. Every year
you made less and less use Of your arms.
So that now, whenever you are called upon
to employ them vigorously-as i'll moving
trunks or chopping Wood-you are surprised
at the weakness you find in them. Perhaps
you regard it as condition inevitable with
advancing years, condition for which moth
ing can be done.
Nevertheless, it is possible for you once
more to build up your arm muscles by sys-
tematic exercise. Only you must take care
to exercise them little at time, and not to
expect too much from them at once.
Otherwise they will rebel, and may int1ict
upon you aches and pains, causing you to
abandon all further attempt to strengthen
them.
similar precauton should be taken when
through exercise.
Many weak-Will men, becoming suddenly
alive to the Importance of gaining strength
at will make the mistake of demanding too
much from the will they have hitherto been
using scarcely at all.
They form resolutions which, in view of
their temperament and past history, would
call for herculean will power on their part.
Not being a moral Hercules, they soon break
their resolutions.
Whereupon they are disguised with them
selves. They bitterly reproach themselves for
their weakness of will. Perhaps they make
another attempt, only to fall again. Perhaps
they decide that it is useless to try to de-
velop the will power they so conspicuously
lack.
They would have far better results if they
began by putting comparatively light burdens
on their will.
Each day let them set themselves to do
some one thing-perhaps walking to the
office or abstaining from smoking until GER
tain hour of the day-cOntrary to their
habitual inclinations, but not too severely in
conflict with these.
After time, when they have proved to
themselves that their will can hold fast to a
single undertaking, let them give it couple
of tasks to perform. They may agree with
themselves, for example, to eat more abste-
miously throughout he day and to give more
attention than usual to their work.
In this way the will may slowly but surely
be trained to respond almost automatically to
any demand made upon it.
In this way, little by little, it's possessor
can attain the ideal of instinctively rejecting
ignoble thoughts and desires, and Of acting
in accordance with the just, the right, and the
inspiring.
Copyright, 1919, by the Associated News
papers.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-18

, These ship builders were drawn from all
other occupations. They may, therefore, be
added to the shortage.
In the third place, we have still a million
and half men under arms, and a year from
now we will have at least half million men
in the army
From all of these causes, American labor, a
year from now, will be between three and
four million workers short Of the number it
would have had if there had been no war.
That there is now unemployment, despite
this shortage, is due to the fac that manu-
facturers believe both labor and material
will come down in cost in a short time.
Secretary Wilson agrees that material must
come down in cost. He says that in many
cases material has gone UP more than labor.
He cites tn case of one factO- in which
wages rose 80 per cent, while the price of the
finished product rose 275 per cent. The lCgi-
cal thing, he says, is that material should
come down to the level of labor, at least.
This reduction is what the industrial board of
the commerce department is now trying to
do, with stormy and variable results.
But Score airy Wilson does not believe that
labor will come down, or that any attempt
should be made to pull it down. Sooner o.
later, industry in this COUNTRY is bound to re-
sumo it's normal activity, and when it does
it will face a labor shortage of nearly four
million men. Labor will then be in a posi-
ton to maintain the gains has made during
the war.
Secretary Wilson says that radical prin-
ciples are undoubtedly being preached in
this country, and that the labor departn ent
has done what it can to counteract this
preaching by sending out workingmen to
tell the workers in words they can under
stand, why the teachings of the European
ultra-radicals do not ;pplv to America.
Secretary Wilson says that he has much
sympathy with som4 o the "isms" preached
by the radi ais.
"They lay down as the basis of their
philosophy, for instance the theory that ev-
cry man is entitled to the full socia' value of
what he pr duces. To my mind that is true.
1t is a so ia :stic doctrine, purel MARKHAM in
it's origin. q. TIE difficulty, however, is
that human intelligence has not as yet &C.
vised any method by which you can determine
until you are able 20 compute he value to So
society, it will be futile to lay down as the
titled to the full social valu of what his labor
produces.
MI Wilson therefore discards this social
istic philosophy as a working basis He
finds the best working basis to be the fact
that labor and capital have a mutual interest
in securing the largest possible production
with a given amount of labor. The intelli-
gent serving of this purpose comprises prop
err care for the health and well-being of the
worker.
The chief trouble, and the real cause Of
the present industrial unrest in this country,
he finds, is that tn employers do not always
serve this purpose intelliGently.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-18
No Subject for Patience.

OF a certain scribe who has been blazoned
s. the super-critic. yea the prophet omnis-
c1ent, of all things pertaining to the World
War-whether of the Hindenburg line or the
Paris conference, the fcults of the League of
Nations or the length Of a Bolshevist beard
the Thomasville Times-Ente"prise ap-
.positely observes:
"The public chat likes to read his
stuff acquired a -aste for it during the
course of the war when he rave opinions
which in reality were mere cOnjectures
cleVerly worded. Unlike some Of his
co-Workers against President Wilson,
he has been unmasked. What harm he
Gan DO will be done against the Presi-
dent and the Presidents party. He is
ESruhI!can Drass agent working to over
throw Democracy as it is exemplifed in
our policies. He is interesting in a
way, and yet to read him with intelli-
gence, one mus understand his motivea
and gauge his words. They amount to
no more than partisan statements OF
political party, viewed in hat light
If the Times Enterprise see1lls to wax
severe in IT. arraignment, it should be re-
membered that any correspondent who lets
political or personal bias turn him into a
propaganda against undertakings on which
the peace of the world and the happiness of
mankind depend is hardly a subject for mild
and patient comment.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-18
Zabata.

EmilianO Zapata, that most picturesque OIL
Mexican revolutionists, whose name has long
been one to cOnjure with in the southern
country is reported dead. We cautiously
say reported" for one never can tell when
these Mexican BanquOs, supposedly done with
lfe's fitfu1 fever, will reappear. HOW many
times have Villas obsequies been sald-or
celebrated! Nor is it surprising, where the
wish is so ardently father to the thought, that
the regime of the hour at Mexico City should
give credit and currency to rumors OF the
passing of troublous adventurers like Zapata.
To have him out of the way would mean a
simplification of problems which de1ed the
utmost of Carranza's cunning and bluff And
he was all the more a problem to the Car
rama regime because. if we may judge from
such unprecedented accounts of him as we
handed ruler in his crude way. Says w%tter
in the New York Times whether Zapata
was or is, true-blue reformer and friend
of the people, they have so believed him on
his own stamping ground. The Carranzistas
called him worse names than bandit. Aliens
have enjoyed his hospitality and found good
in him, perhaps idealized him. He kept or
der in Mexico City while he ruled there and
was neither cruel nor treacheroUs."
The fact that he remained provincial
hero never in other regions inspiring tue
enthusiasm or getting the hold that he en-
jOyed so abundantly in his native MOrelo.
will reduce him to one of the smaller inches
in the Mexican Hall of Adventure. But there
is no figure, after all, so wildly picturesque
as the clansman leader. Such Zapata was to
most appealing degree.