Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-11
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mans stomach, corrected certain defects of
the organ and put it snugly back, the patient
chatting the while as if nothing unwonted
were going on. Few may be aware, however
that just that sort of operation is performed
repeatedly in this city, with never line of
news to bazon it to a gaping universe. Only
fortnight past, we happen to know, the
feat was done at Wesley Memorial hospital
! by an Atlanta physician, who deemed 1t
merely a part of the days work. Had he
| been visiting in Vienna, demonstrating his
skill before a foreign clinic, the cables or
wireless probably would have sent his Eame
vibrating round the world. But being
| Georgian to the manner born, he reaped the
proverbial honors of a prophet in his own
country.
| So was it wel-nigh century gone with a
young Georgia doctor who settled at Jeffer-
son, some eighteen miles from Athens, and
began experiments by which he discovered
the anaesthetic power of sulphuric ether
Crawford W. Long, beyond the remotest of
tenable doubts, is the genius to whom man
kind is first indebted for that vast benefac-
ton. But as he did not see fit to play mis-
own Boswell, popular credit drtfted, at the
time, to more talkative claimants; and only
within the last year or so has his birth
State prepared to do his memo justice with
stature in the Washington Hall Of Fame.
True fame, be it granted, Is Milton
sang
No plant that grows on mortal soil
Nor in the clustering foil
Set off to the Wild, nor in broad ru-
mour lies
The nobly great need no buzzing tribute; in
is noised abroad about them, lives their
goodliest praise, their fairest guerdon. But
next to doing a golden deed, there is no
happier virtue han to honor it, particularly
when the doer dwels amongst us, gliding
our very doorsteps with his CLEAN. Geor
gians, for all their pride of commonwealth,
have 49, .uriously &c such n tiers.
Lanier was hailed abroad as a master poet
long his OWL ~o.,4e took mea Ire OF his
genius. William T. Thompson, author of
Major Jones Courtship," and A. B. Long
street. Of Georgia Scenes" now almost for
gotten on their native heath, were de-
scribed few years ago by distinguished
historian at the University of Chicago as
having produced perhaps the most crigiha-
writings" of the golden age of American
literature. For one instance more amid
swarm it has remained for an Indiana man
BILE Party Battles of the Jackson Period" to
restore to their rightful place in American
annals the name and fame of John Forsyth.
If we of Georgia, and of the South at
large, were less sensitive to foreign stric-
lures and discriminatory alert to merit at
home, we should learn more and feel better.
Our record is written and our character re-
vealed, not in what others say, but in what
we ourselves do. We no more should re-
sent just criticism than desire unearned
praise; no more defend a weakness
wrong because it is in our midst than be-
little an achievement because it belongs to
others. Too many times our attitude sayors
of Touchstones to his gawking sweetheart
"a poor virgin, sir, an ill-favoured thing, sir,
but mine own Yes, just as frequently,
we err on the other side by overlooking or
undertaking the true mettle of our pasture.
Heaven save us from that narrowest of all
provincials, whose eyes are in the ends of
the earth but who sees never a talent or
treasure at home.
A stomach is as much a stomach in Geor-
gia as in New York; and a great surgeon
l. as great in Atlanta as in Vienna. This
commonwealth has much to do by way of
squelcling the demagogue and wedding out
the undesirable. But a greater and more
fruitful task is to encourage the builC-c and
the benefactor, whether in business, in in
dustry in science, in literature and art, or
>luly our resources ana Abilities : we'll as
traditions to find the work we bet can do
and to do it with our might, is to be Cd
Georgians, good Americans. Infinitely better
is L. t,an either boosting or apolos.2ing.
1t is battle we'll worthy OF sons and daugh-
ters of the shining Sixties, tug of which