Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-31
WORLD VASTLY IMPROVED
IN ONE HUNDRED YEARS, Z
SAYS EX-SENATOR COLE

| cans got a pretty good education
century ago, but every child's chance
Is now so much better. And even
if child labor has not been abolished
altogether, conditions are better
than they were in the past. Labor
conditions generally are better; eth
er men nor women are worked as
hard or as long as they used to be-
War Does Good
During the war there were pes
s1mists who declared that it would
put the world back: The war was
terrible thing, of course. But look
what came of it-that fine and in
spring peace and disarmament con
ference of nations at Washington
last autumn! Would the world have
staged such a conference hundred
or even fifty, years ago? Anyhow,
it didn't"
"And women have progressed so
far" I suggested.
On this point, however, Corne-
Illus Cole Is a chivalrous conserva-
tive.
ct always thought women were
about as fine as they could be-" he
observed, CALAMITY. "1t never
seemed to me there was any room
for Improvement in that direction"
"Their opportunities have improv-
3D." I limited; Gin politics and in
business
"Perhaps too much So" said Cor
nelius Cole, between a sigh and a
smile. Then the smile conquered,
as he added: "You know, I'm inclin-
ed to agree with the fellow who
| fir.
ted for politics than men were fol-
wet nurses"
However, he must be fairly toll
Grant of the political woman, since,
in 1916, his own wife was one of the
California delegates at the conven-
ton that nominated Hughes for
president. And he was devoted to
her. Their happy marriage lasted
nearly seventy years-she died three
years ago-and was blessed with
eight children.
'That's one reason, I shouldn't
wonder, why I've lived so long" the
one time senator told me, when ]
asked him how he accounted for the
census of his birthdays. "I've had
plenty of struggles and hardships
but I was happy in my marriage,
and that helps a man lot.
His Rule of Life
give never had but one real rule
Of life-act in moderation. I've
smoked and drunk and eaten and
slept and enjoyed myself and work
ed in accordance with that rule. Oh,
yes! And I've been as cheerful as I
could. I had my worries, but I
didn't go around trying to draw a
Tong face all the time. I've been in
terested in life"
whats your advice to the young.
err generation?" I asked. "And does
it shock you as badly as it does
some people?"
1.-THE young folks are all right"
former Senator Cole answered, with
his kindly smile. They're not a bit
worse-and not much differentiation
their grandfathers and grandmoth.
ers. AS for advice, all say is: BE.
have yourselves! You know what
that means as well as I do"
! 1 asked him what he considered
the biggest problem before America
today.
It's the paying of that huge debt
we contracted through the war;" he
said quickly. "And the only way we
can never do it is to be individually
thrifty and economical and wise. It's
a job cut out. for every man and
woman"
Then it was time for him to go for
another sightseeing triple was as
eager for it as any boy. I asked
him if he thought that New York,
like the rest of the world, had chang.
ed for the better in the last hundred
years.
Its wonderful-it's marvellous,
the way New York has improved
since I last saw it, forty years agop'
exclaimed this man, who, after a
hundred years, still keeps his eyes
and mind fixed on the present and
| the future. instead of ON the nnst