Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-04

himself. When he has been through
the battle in which he fought up
from the ranks where he was a poor,
little, ragged private, to being a cap
tain of industry, he can look himself
in the face and know that he was
no weakling, but a man.
EVERY man who makes fortune
knows all of this, and he knows that
nothing his money buys him gives
him the pleasure that his work did;
knows that nothing the world Of
fers can give him the absorbing in
terest that his business or profession
did in the old days when he was
struggling for a start, and when a
dollar advance on a, barrel Of flour,
or a new client made his heart sing
for joy.
Our happiest days are those in
which we are toiling with might
and main to build a foundation un-
der our castles in Spain, not those
in which we loll about in the COM
pleted edifice, bored stiff because
we have nothing to do and nothing
to strive for. All parents know
this, and the amazing thing is that,
knowing this, and loving their chill
dren as they do; they are bent and
determined to cheat them out of the
most interesting and delightful ex-
perience in life.
Furthermore, parents know that,
beyond modest competence, just
enough TO give them an education
and a small start in life, money is
curse to their children. There is
no such safeguard against tempta-
ton as the lack of the price and a
thin pocketbook is better protec-
ton against the Wiles of Satan than
the ten commandments.
Every rich boy is a shining mark
for all the vamps in his community,
and if he escapes them it is nothing
less than miracle of God. Every
rich girl is the predestined victim Of
fortune hunters. and she hasn't one
chance in q hundred of marrying a
man who loves her for herself, and
who will treat her kindly.
at is the misfortune of the very
rich that they cannot save their
children from what the movies call
1.-The blight of gold.' That is the
heart breaking price that the man
who makes a big fortune pays for
his success, as you will see if you
observe how millionaires' sons and
daughters nearly always turn out.
But people in more modern cir
cumstances could avoid this terrible
catastrophe if they would, and that
is why it is so pitiful to see fathers
and mothers working their fingers
to the bone and denying themselves
every luxury that will not only de-
prive them of the greatest fun in
| life, but that nine times out of ten
will ruin them.
why do they wish to deprive
their children of the pleasures they
had? Why do they cut their chill
dren off from the experiences thai
| taught them endurance and patience
and grit and self-control, and that
made them the kind of men and
women they are? Nobody knows
| but they do.
"You will hear parents say I'VE
don't want our children to &C
through the struggle we did Yet
that very struggle developed the
strength of character that enabled
them to climb to the top of the lad
der, and the lack of any necessity
to struggle, and thereby to develop
the muscles of their souls, will make
their children poor, weak, flabby
parasites who will collapse just as
soon as the prop of fathers check
book is removed.
$50 I say again." said the self
made man, that I pity the mar
who doesn't have to make his own
way in the world. He misses sitting
in the big game, and PARENTS who
| deprive their children of this priv
| ilege and pleasure do them a great
wrong" DOROTHY DIX.
Copyright, 1924.)