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rateg on application,
Atlanta Must Have No
Aftermath of Bitterness
An honest newspaper carries always a very serious sense of
responsibility to its community and to the State. It is the duty
and the policy of every real newspaper to fearlessly record the
facts with accuracy, to interpret fairly the public sentiment, and
when it can do so, to wisely lead the public sentiment of the
people who support it. The Georgian feels this obligation keenly,
and hopes to illustrate it always.
No greater and more serious issue has fronted the life of this
community than has been developed in the case of Leo Frank.
When it was the wise policy to cover this issue with the mantle
of silence, we have followed that policy. There are reasons now
—a due respect for justice and for the unity of our people, and
for the public opinion of the country—why something should
again be said by an Atlanta newspaper touching this case. And
this period cf comparative tranquillity and reason is the time
to say it.
It is lamentable past all expression that there ever crept into
this tragedy, and the question of the guilt or innocence of this
young man charged with murder, any possible feeling between
the two races which for fifty years have grown up side by side
in full fellowship, in friendship, in progress and in patriotism,
in the city of Atlanta.
No feeling of prejudice or proscription against the Jewish
race was ever representative of Atlanta. The Georgian firmly
believes that no feeling or discrimination growing out of the
earlier details of the Frank trial expressed the representative
feeling of this broad-minded and liberal-spirited Capital of the
South. If such a feeling was expressed anywhere by the Gentile
blood, it was impulsive, unthinking, unwise and unrepresenta
tive, wherever it had racial flavor. If it was expressed by any
representative of the Jewish race, it was equally unwise and
equally unnecessary. THERE HAS ENTERED INTO THE AN
NALS OF THE JEWISH RACE IN AMERICA S 0 MUCH LESS
OF CRIME THAN INTO THE RECORD OF ANY OTHER
RACE, that the Jewish race, of all others, could best afford to
ignore any racial issue, and view this purely as a civic question,
involving the peace and order of society and the State.
The Georgian believes above all things in the majesty and
fairness of the law. It believes that no cleaner and abler judges
dispense justice in any city or State of the Republic than the
judicial officers of the lower and the higher courts of Georgia.
Whatever their final decision in this matter is, should be received
in good faith and in good temper, as the full and fair conclusion
of a great issue, and all classes and all races should accept it in
this spirit, AND RESUME A 8 SPEEDILY AS POSSIBLE
THAT HIGH AND CORDIAL INTERCHANGE OF CIVILITY
AND CONFIDENCE AND FRIENDSHIP WHICH HAS MADE
THIS A UNITED, PROGRESSIVE AND MARVELOUSLY
SUCCESSFUL CITY.
Having said this much, The Georgian after a long and delib
erate survey of the situation does not hesitate to express the
conviction that four-fifths, if not nine-tenths, of the thinking
people of Atlanta would be glad now to see this young man,
Leo Frank, have another chance to prove his innocence, if the
law and the evidence will permit it. If a new trial can be had
under the law and under the evidence, it would be good for the
city and for the South, and would do much to clear the atmos
phere of bitterness and prejudice, that the new trial should be
granted, and we feel sure that every judge in higher and in low
er court entertains the same opinion. If it can not be had under
the written law, and under the legal evidence, then no just man
and no law-abiding citizen of any race or any condition should
want it.
The Georgian was the first daily paper in Georgia to advo
cate this view. Only recently our esteemed contemporary, The
Journal, has written an editorial along the same line.
ON NOVEMBER 1, 1913, THE GEORGIAN'S EDITORIAL
SAID: ‘‘EVERY ACCUSED PERSON UNDER THE LAW
MUST BE GIVEN THE BENEFIT OF DOUBT. THAT IS
FAIR. THAT IS JUSTICE AS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
UNDERSTAND IT. WHEN JUDGES AND PEOPLE ARE IN
DOUBT IT IS TIME TO PAUSE AND IF NECESSARY TO
RETRY. ‘BETTER THAT TEN GUILTY MEN SHOULD ES.
CAPE THAN THAT ONE INNOCENT MAN SHOULD SUF.
FER,' SAITH THE HOLY SCRIPTURE."
THE JOURNAL ON MARCH 10, 1914, SAID: ''THE
EVIDENCE ON WHICH FRANK WAS CONVICTED IS NOT
CLEAR. SUPPOSE HE IS HANGED AND IT SHOULD DE.
VELOP THAT THE MAN WAS INNOCENT AS HE CLAIMS?
THE PEOPLE OF THIS STATE WOULD STAND BEFORE
THE WORLD CONVICTED OF MURDERING AN INNO
CENT MAN BY REFUSING HIM AN IMPARTIAL TRIAL."'
At the time of writing The Georgian editorial feeling was so
high in Atlanta that The Georgian creed was misunderstood
and criticised as having undue consideration for the Jewish race.
But a period of calmer thought and better judgment has con
vinced our citizenship that The Georgian’s attitude was impar
tial and its advice sound. The Georgian has no personal or racial
concern for Frank. This paper does not care whether he is a
Jew or a Gentile, a Christian or an Atheist. The Georgian's con
cern is for the people of this country—for the reputation of this
city and State—FOß UNITY AND CONFIDENCE AMONG
'OUR OWN PEOPLE—for exact justice without passion or prej
udice.
It is first of all for the supremacy of law and justice—of
law that will always be founded on impartial justice, and of
c:;a%justice under the law, ,‘/‘
Photographing an Avalanche % 2rcasere smvss
i O photograph a falling ava
| T lanche go close at hand
I that the photographer nar
rowly escapes being buried under
l its tons of snow is a feat that re
guires asx much good juck as
l steadiness of nerve. We repro
. duce here a photograph of this
“ kind, which perhaps has no equal
in the world. It is an avalanche
descending the precipices of the
dreaded Wetterhorn, one of the
most formidable peaks of the
Alps, well known by sight to all
visitors to Switzerland.
The falling mass, curiained
with clouds of snow produced by
ite own plunging descent among
ihe broken Tocks, is thousands of
I feet in length. It has broken
away from the overhanging front
of the Huhnergutz glacier, whose
white wall of ice is seen in the
backgmund at the top,
The wonderful pleture was
made by a party of English
climbers making their way along
the foot of the Wetterhorn up to
the Great Scheldegg. Suddenly
they saw an avalanche beginning
almost, as it seemed, directly
over their heads, They tore open
a ruck-sack containing a photo
graphic camera and then ran for
the nearest elevated rocks, They
got Into a safe position in time to
snapshot the avalanche before its
roaring head had quite reached
"ihe bottom of the mountain be
fore them.
A Great Power.
Then it shot across the depres
slon, and leaped up the opposite
slope, creating a draught of air
g 0 powerful that it tore out by
the roots some of the low bushes
growing in the crevices of the
rocks, The party was invelved in
@ blinding, whirling storm of
snow, which was so finely pow
dered that it filled their eyes and
ears and even the pockets of their
coats, It choked thelr nostrils so
that they had to fight for breath,
When the avalanche ceased,
through exhaustion of the supply
from above, the snoweloud quick
ly cleared off, the sun came out,
and the party looked upon one
another in amazement, for they
were cloaked with glittering snow,
while all theilr baggage was deep
buried, and had to be dug out.
The snow had been driven with
such force that it penetrated the
texture of their garments, and
required long efforts for its re
moval,
This strange power of an ava
lanche to create a tempestuous
whirl of wind around it and to
drive the air ahead of it as if it
were a solid object has often
been observed in the Alps, and
some of the facts known about it
seem absolutely incredible. In
many cases the wind of an ava
lanche has not only unroofed
houses, but lifted them bodlly
from their foundations and
crushed them by hurllng them
against the mountain side. In
the great avalanche that buried
~# Unbalanced Social Conditions
Egypt, Persia, Babylonia, Greece and Rome Were Founded Upon
Slavery and Fell—Will the Same Fate Overtake England and U. S.?
; OR thoughiful people who
i F wonder why women want
the vote in England so
badly, the following statistics may
l prove of interest, 1
They are authentic and are
l worth pondering over
70,000 English Die in a
Year of the Dreaded
Tuberculosis.
In England 70,000 people die
every vear from tuberculosis and
300,000 suffer from it. This terri
ble disease is caused by a lack of
conveniences and decencies of
life. ¥Frezh air and sanitary sur
roundings are needed. Tenants,
however, can have no say as to
how the shelters in which they
exlst shall bhe ordered or policed.
England has an area of 77,000,-
000 acres and a population of
43,000,000, More than one-half the
land is owned by 2.000 persons.
Legs than 10,000 people onn two
thirds of the total land of Scot
‘ land, Ireland and England. There
| are 30,000,000 pecple that have not
any land at all, and consequently
not any homes of their own. The
’ averiage amount of land owned by
i the British peer is 15,000 gores,
i There i 8 one péer Who owns over
1 R million acres, The average land
| owned by the British cottager is
l one-quarter of am acre. The
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the well-known Gemmi Pass in
896 men and cattle were blown
before the advancing mass like
autumn leaves, The front of the
descending ice and snow was so
broad and deep that the air could
not, so to speak, get out of lits
way fast enough, and was there
fore packed and driven straight
ahead. The elasticity of the com
pressed air was so great that it
hurled about everything that lay
in its path with the most ca
pricious exhibitions of energy,
The avalanche shown in the
photograph was a small affair
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
phrase “bless our native land,”
in the British national anthem, is
rather meaningless to all but a
few thousand British subjects.
The annual income of Greal
Rritain, from land and rent, is
ahout $42,000000 a week, About
one-half of this goes to 5,000,000
people whose annual income
ranges from $BOO up. There are
10,000 000 that are so vpoor that
they can not provide the neces
saries of life. The average wage
of these is §i a week. The aver
age wage of the 5,000,000 indus
trial women is $1.75 a week. The
paupers of England, if lined up
four abreast, would make a line
four miles long.
That's Why the Phrase
““Free Country’’ Is
a Joke.
Egypt, Persia, Babylonia,
Greece and Rome were founded
upon slavery,’ and siavery, cor
rupted aad imbeciled, finally
overthrew them., History empha
sizes this instruction in the down
fall of Exyvpt, when 2 per cent of
its people owned 97 per cent of its
wealth,
In Persia, when 1 per cent of its
inhabitants ewned all the land: in
Babylonia, when 2 par cent of its
citizens; in Greece and Rome,
when 1,800 porsm owned, suf
ey
compared with that which pro
duced the Gemmi catastrophe,
but yet, as we have seen, it gave
rise to a wind of terrific power.
Incredible as {t may seem, men
have sometimes ridden down a
mountain side on an avalanche
and escaped with their lives. This
happened, for instance, once on
the Matterhorn when two Aus
trian climbers, Herren Lorria and
Lammer, unwittingly stepped
upon an avalanche that was about
to start. Down they went with it,
now buried in the snow and now
tossed upon its surface. At every
ficiently well, to force service and
tribute from the then known
world. /
Of the 100,000,000 people in the
United States 80,000,000 are with
out lands or homes of their own,
This more than any other state
ment that can be made, shows the
| failure of the United States as a
' government of the people for the
peapla; far it was to get lands
and homes of their own that the
colonists that founded the Re
public, left Great Britain. This
was their ideal. They had no
other.
Professor Charles J. Bushnell,
in a lecture at Washington, D.
C., August, 1907, sald:
“The control of the nation's
wealth and, through it, of the
nation itself, is fast centering
into the hands of the few. It is
said that the control of one
twelfth of the nation’s wealth
! {s represented at the meeting
i of the twenty-four directors of
i the United States Steel Corpora
i tion alone, apd that the all-im
portant railway systems of the
! country are controlled by just six
men, with only one supremely
dominant.”
’ On the other hand, 10,000,000,
§ ,or one-tenth, of the people of the
i’ country are in constant poverty,
l while 4,000,000 are paupers,
change of slope they were shot
up in the alr. They got tangled
up in the climbers’ rope by which
they were tied together, and one
of them was nearly choked to
death by it. One of them lost
consciousness, and did not recover
his senses until 21 days after
ward: the other kept his senses
throughout the whole dreadful
experience, Both were terribly
injured, but both eventually re
covered. Ths perpendicular
height of their fall, which, of
course, was a sloping one, was
about 800 feet.
“Under the pressure of these
abnormal conditions, drinking,
smoking, murder, suicide, insan
ity, robbery, graft and social vice
are increasing faster than the
population, causing financial loss
that more than counterbalances
our annual national gain of
wealth,
“The modern trust is the re
sponse under individualistic con
ditions to the inevitable demand
for a more unified and economi
cal business organization.”
A student of the stars, in cast
ing the horoscope of Vincent Amse
tor and his bride-to-be, mention
ed an industrial and social rev'o
lutlon in 1917. After reading the
figures quoted above; this threat
ened revolution does not seem an
improbable occurrence.
Meantime constructive efforts
at beiter conditions’ are being
made by a society in Cincinnati,
Ohio, :
Day Isn’'t Far Off When
Every One Will Be
Interested.
The more people think about
these things, the better for all of
us. The day is not far off when
every one will be obliged to think
seriously of our social conditions.
Better begin now, A
DOROTHY DIX
Writes on ,7'l;"4'2;“7s"’;"‘s§\
Does Martiage | & diom |/
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Character? [ G < & &
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A A ey M
The Idea That Mar- i',t‘ <§*‘ . \"3
viage Ts a Miracle W o S 4
Worker Is General ) e i
NV b T
ly Accepted by the 41'0" Ghi t"fi
Unthinking. N =X
By DOROTHY DIX
MAN asks this question:
“Does marriage change
the character for the bet
ter?”
That depends on the individual
man or woman. When we are
young our natures are fluid. They
may be compared to the juice of
a grape, and marriage may be
likened to the fermentation pro
cess. Some it turns into sound
wine. Others it turns into vine
gar.
No experience of life leaves us
just where it found us. We are
either the better or the worse for
it, and this is particularly true
of marriage, which is the great
est of all human experiences.
That is why marriage makes
or mars a man or woman,
The idea that matrimony is
some sort of a miracle worker is
very generally accepted by the
unthinking, and it is responsible
for more suffering and more
broken hearts than ar;_vthlng else
in the world.
A man will be caught by a
pretty face of a girl whom he
knows to be silly, vain, selfish
and frivolous. He knows that
these qualities in a wife will
make any man miserable, yet he
goes along and marries her under
the delusion that marriage will
change her character and con
vert her into a wise, intelligent,
unselfish, devoted helpmate. Of
course marriage does nothing of
the kind. Tt doesn’t put brains
into an empty head, or a heart
into a sawdust filled doll. He
gets what he married. Not some
thing else.
A Girl in the Same.
In like manner a girl falls in
love with a handsome Yyouth,
who is a drunkard, or a gambler,
or lazy and shiftless, and she
marries him believing that mar
riage will change his character.
She thinks that as soon as the
words of the wedding ceremony
are said above him he will never
thirst for a highball again, nor
long for his old gay companions,
and that he will immediately be
come thrifty, industrious and do
mestic, but nine hundred and
ninety-nine times out of a thous
and nothing of the kind happens,
and the marriage estate of the
man is worse than his single.
In reality marriage only ac
centuates character, It is a crucial
experience that brings out what
ever is the strongest note in a
man’s or woman's nature, wheth
er this is good or bad. But it
does not alter this characteristic.
If it has any effect upon it at
all it 1s to exaggerate it.
For example, i{f a woman is a
narrow, prejudiced fool, mare
riage does not make her broad
minded and wise. On the other
hand, as the years go by she
gets narrower, more prejudiced
and sillier, because the very facts
of married life tend to conflne a
woman's interest to her home,
her husband and her children,
and unless she has the broad out-
o Letters From the People o
“BACK TO THE LAND.'
Editor The Georgian:
I understand from reading the
editorials in your excellent pa
per that you are interested in
the “Back to the Land” move
ment. I would be glad to go
and so would hundreds of white
mechanics and laborers in this
city. I have been trying to do
this for years, but could not for
the lack of means. 1 am the
father of four healthy, indus
trious and inteiligent .boys, three
of whom are anxious to go to the
country with me to establish a
home for us there. Our idea
would be to seltie on one tract
large enough for all to work to
gether and do our own work.
That means we would run the
place on a co-operative plan.
But how to realize this plan—
that is the trouble.
We are mechanics and work
whenever we can, help one an
other the best we can, but with
frequently enforced vacations
are not able to raise the neces
sary capital to make the thing a
go. Ours is the case of hundreds
of others Tight here in thisy city
and we all feel that {f something
is not done right away our
chances will slip away forever.
1 think it would be a splendid
thing to organize a general
movement of this sort. In fact I
believe it is necessary that
something like this be started,
because this and other cities are
look in herself she is sure to
have her horizon bounded by just
the things of her every-day life.
But the woman of wide sympa
thies, of big brain and intelli
gence finds that marriage pro
motes her spiritual growth, so
that she gets bigger, wiser, ten
derer every day that she lives.
Her character has been no more
changed than the little, narrow
woman's has. Both have just
been quickened by marriage into
being more completely what na
ture cut them out to be,
What Happens.
Men show precigely the same
characteristics under the ordeal
of matrimohy. If a man is a
drunkard or a roue by nature the
inevitable disagreeable features of
'malrlmony, the clash of different
natures together, the fret and
crying of a sickly child or an ill
managed house wijl drive him to
the saloon for comfort, or his
wife’s fading beauty gives him
excuse for attentlons to younger
and fairer women, Marriage with
its attendant Ills is an incentive
to wrongdoing to such men rather
-than a preventive,
But there are other men whose
dominant characteristic is loyal
ty and sense of duty, and when
these men marry, no matter how
wild a life they may have led be
forehand, they settle down into
models of domesticity. The
knowledge of a woman’s depend
ence on them, and their obliga
tion to the heipless little children
they bring into the world, brings
out all that {s best, and strong
est, and truest in them.
It is common observation how
often a woman who has been a
pretty and attractive looking girl
develops into a slouchy, shiftless
dowd after she is married, and
how many women, whom no one
suspects of having a temper con
cealed about their persons when
they were girls, turn into nag
ging shrews of wives, Matri
mony didn’t change these wom
en's characters. It simply gave
- them liberty to develop what
~ they were. After she had caught
~ her man the lazy girl no longer
felt it incumbent upon her to
~ keep herself neat and tidy. After
- she was safely married the {ll
tempered girl felt free to be as
disagreeable as she pleased.
In the same way the man who
was lavish as a suitor and makes
a tight wad of a husband did not
develop suddenly into a miser.
He was naturally stingy and
matrimony simply accentuated
his desire to save, because it costs
money to support a family.
Marriage doese not change peo
ple. Husbands and wives do not
change us. They only help us go
a little faster up hill—or down.
We decide the course for our
selves. If we change for the bet
ter we change ourselves, So far
as character goes, we are all seif
made. And most of us have
mighty little room te be proud of
.~ the job.
overcrowded with workmen;
also the manufacturers and em
ployers would deny this, of
course, for reasons of their own.
But nevertheless it is a fact.
You could take everyone that
wants to go out of the city and
leave plenty here to do the work
that has to be done.
I have studied this n.atter for
some time and have, I believe,
some good ideas as to how this
thing could be done.
JOHN MEIER.
Atlanta, Ga. i
PANAMA FREE TOLLS. X
Editor The Georgian: :
I have read with a great deal
of interest your editorials on the
repeal of free tolls,
I have been of the opinion that
the Panama Canal would be of
greater advantage to the South
than any other section of the
United States.
Would not free tolls for Amer
fcan ships materially decrease
the freight rate on turpentine,
rosin, lumber and various other
products raised and manufao
tured in the South?
1 have always entertained the
idea that such would be the case,
and if I am correct in my opin
ion I can not see how any
Southern Congressman or Sen
ator who has the interest of
his section at heart could vo
for the repeal. ‘
D,/ C. PICK
Dawson, Ga. !