Atlanta Georgian. [volume], July 11, 1914, Extra, Image 16

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EDITORIAL PAGE
Lawlsthe Only Thin
on This Earth to
Curb Child Labor
Employers
When you get out of bed
tomorrow you may know that
two hours or three hours
earlier, thousands of children,
LITTLE CHILDREN, weak
and tired, were pulled from
their beds and sent to work in
Greorgia.
When your work ends this
evening, and you prepare for
dinner and leisure and a good
night’s sleep, you may kmow
that the children pulled from
their beds and driven to labor
while you were still asleep are
laboring still.
Highly righteous men sing
in the churches on Sunday,
and listen to the sermon and
drop blood money into the col
lection plate, and between
Sunday and Sunday they
work the poor children LIT
ERALLY 'l"O I.)EQTH
The mothers bear theirehil- * —
dren; poverty and hunger send them into the mills and fac
tories. Out of one door come the children, pale, tired, slowly
drifting toward the grave, and out of the other door, marked
*‘Manager's Office,’’ come the dividends, and the glowing re
ports showing that ‘‘your board of directors beg to call attention
to the great economy and efficiency displayed in the manage
ment of your plant.”’
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*“Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw
we thee an hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick,
or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
““Then shall He answer them, saying: Verily I say unto
you, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye
did it not to me.”’
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Those that exploit children for dividends feel that ‘‘life
eternal’’ or ‘‘everlasting fire’’ is a long way off. Dividends are
the question of the hour, close at hand, and other things can
wait. ‘
You can't reach the man who employs child labor with ser.
mons, or threats of the life to come. They have listened to that
kind of thing for nineteen hundred years, and it hasn’t fright
ened them. What they need is a law which will punish them
severely if they employ children in their mills and factories.
And that is the kind of a law Georgia will have if the Shep
pard bill passes.
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We are almost daily asked to urge good and generous peo
ple to contribute to various charities. And we do urge those to
give that can give. :
But what is the use in talking about the duty of charity?
What is the use of pretending that we are anything but cold
blooded, indifferent, heartless cynics, when we permit the
slavery of children all through the week and soothe our con
science by giving a few cents, singing & few hymns and whining
a few prayers on Sunday.
“Oglethorpe” to John “Wesley”
It has been asked many times since the movement to estab
lish a great Methodist university in Atlanta what effect it would
have upon the future of Oglethorpe University.
Yesterday the executive committee of the board of directors
of Oglethorpe University made noble and inspiring answer to
this question.
In urging cordial words of welcome, good wishes and prof
fered co-operation, the friends of Oglethorpe made plain that
the building of the Methodist college would be a help and an in
spiration, rather than a handicap to the great Presbyterian in
stitution.
Even if built side by side, the two universities would mu
tually prop and help each other.
‘The one would no more hurt the other than the Chicago
University hurts the Northwestern, than the University of New
York hurts Columbia, or than Rich and Keely hurt High and
Allen and Davison-Paxon-Stokes in trade on Whitehall street.
There is room for all, and prosperity and usefulness for both
great colleges in Atlanta.
The patronage which the Presbyterian environment of the
South gives to Oglethorpe will simply inspire the great Metho
dist Church to the support of its university, and both will add
immensely to the glory and honor of Atlanta and the South.
In this connection the generous and noble words of the
Oglethorpe directors to Bishop Oandler will surely develop a re
sponsive and fuw spirit that will be inspiring to higher
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The Short-Term Senatorial
Race Simplified
There never were but five reasons against the establishment
of the Parcel Post!
THOSE FIVE REASONS WERE THE FIVE EXPRESS
COMPANIES—AND THEY SBTOOD ALL ALONE!
Charles Barrett, President of the Farmers’ Union, with
nearly 8,000,000 signed members, and officially the leading and
representative farmer of America, declares, ‘'THE PARCEL
POST IS THE GREATEST BOON EVER HANDED BY THE
GOVERNMENT TO THE AMERICAN FARMER. I keep out of
politics go far as individuals or parties are concerned, but when
a great measure involving the vital convenience of our people is
at stake, it is my duty to speak.’’
For fifteen years—yea twenty years—the twelve Hearst
newspapers, stretching from Boston to Ban Francisco, and reach
ing from ten to fourteen million people every day, have battled
ceaselessly and earnestly for the Parcel Post.
It is a safe thing to say that eighty per cent of the people of
the United States, in farm and field and city, have stood eagerly
ready for the last decade to vote for the Parcel Post as a con
venience, and now a public necessity.
And so when a candidate for the Senate of the United States
comes before the people of the State of Georgia, thirty-five per
cent agricultural, upon a record of open and aggressive opposi
tion to the Parcel Post, and when this candidate, being arraigned
for this attitude of opposition, openly confesses that which
he could not possibly deny, and going further flagrantly and al
most defiantly announces that what he thought in 1912 he thinks
to-day, and that being opposed to the extended Parcel Post then
he is opposed to it now, and would vote in the future as he voted
in the past, against the people’s measure, WHY THERE IS
NOTHING IN CONSISTENCY AND COMMON SENSE LEFT
FOR THE PEOPLE TO DO BUT TO POLITELY AND DEFI.
NITELY INFORM THIS CANDIDATE WITH THEIR BAL
LOTS THAT THEY WILL SELECT AS THEIR REPRESEN
TATIVE IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE A MAN WHO
IS IN SYMPATHY WITH THEIR INTERESTS AND DE.-
SIRES, AND WILL VOTE THEM INTO EXISTENCE.
When Governor Slaton, who has been from the beginning
an ardent and active champion of the Parcel Post, charged Con
gressman Hardwick with opposition to the Parcel Post. when the
bill was before Congress, the State stood still in a state of ex
pectancy to see what answer Congressman Hardwick could
make to so damaging a statement.
Congressman Hardwick's best friends fully realized the
deadly seriousness of the charge. Senator Hoke Smith, who was
for so many years Mr. Hardwick’s political mentor, has based his
own Senatorial campaign in large part upon his active and effec
tive support of the Parcel Post in the Senate. Mr. Hardwick's
friends knew that he must explain or justify his course, or suffer
fearfully in the popular ballot.
It is putting it mildly to say that to the body of the people
Mr. Hardwick’s reply is a ballot-chilling disappointment. It is
in effect nothing more or less than that MR. HARDWICK IN
CONGRESS WAS OPPOSED TO THE PEOPLE'S PARCEL
POST BILL AND FOUGHT IT, BUT THAT HE WAS IN FA.
VOR OF THE EXPRESS COMPANIES’ PARCEL POST BILL
fig\DmWOULD HAVE VOTED FOR IT THEN AS HE WOULD
No doubt THE EXPRESS COMPANIES and their friends
WILL VOTE for MR. HARDWICK RIGHT HEARTILY in the
August primaries, but it is reasonably true that THE PEOPLE
ON PRIMARY DAY WILL VOTE JUST AS HEARTILY FOR
GOVERNOR SLATON, who was always the friend and cham
pion of this great, progressive, popular measure!
There was never a clearer issue put upon the hustings, or
one more likely to have a clearer answer at the polls.
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WEDNESDAY:- THURSDA |
"—figw Society May Deal With Divorce '
By SENATOR HELEN RING ROBINSON.
Colorado State Senator, and the Only Woman Holding a Senator
ship in the United States.
OME months since I heard a
S New York divine declare
with large unctuousness
that he “never married divorced
people.”
Thereupon my curlosity was
aroused to find out what sort of
people he did marry. So I under
took an investigation, which,
though necessarily superficial and
incomplete, served at least to
prove that during the preceding
six months that clergyman had
married men of notoriously im
pure lives to {nnocent young
girls; he had married profes
sional criminals and those affect
ed with communicable and deadly
disease.
Yet he faced an atndience of in
telligent men and women, and
declared with a holler-than
others air that he “never married
divorced people.”
He merely united in holy wed
lock those whose marriage society
should annul as a social menace.
Divorce in the case of some fif
teen of those marriages I investi
gated would have been far more
holy than the wedlock.
. . .
IN an earlier article I tried to
show why soclety should deal
with divorce, keeping always in
mind that it is not what leads up
to divorce, but what follows it;
it {s not the causes, but the re
sults that directly concern so
clety.
But as a cause—or what passes
for one—must precede every di
vorce, then society, as the part of
wisdom, should seek to abolish
those causes of divorce.
Here we are confronted with
the saying of a wise philosopher
that the only way to abolish di
vorce is to abolish marriage
It is evident, then, that society
must be content with halfway
measures. By educating the mar
riage hadbit we may at least curb
the divorce habit—a habit which
here in America wrecks one mar
riage in every eleven.
Nor is this strange, since the
whole tendeacy of our present
civilization {s to treat marriage
as if it were merely a personal
matter.
For almost the first time in the
history of the race we are placing
practically the entire burden of
attaining success in the relation
of marriage upon the character
and capacities of two individ
uals, generally young and often
ignorant and wayward, who must
live their married life amid a
welter of desires and loves and
hates and diseases and poverty.
Of chemistry, too, which has oft
en more to do with divorce than
unfaithfulness or jealousy.
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MARRIAGE iz Intensely per
sonal, no doubt, but at the
same time it is a social institu
tion which rose in answer to ra
cial needs.
Hence the State, as ths proper
agency for contrelling that insti
tution, should solemnize mar
riages. There may be also a re
liglous ceremony, if desired, but,
since the Statq alone can unbind,
it should also bind.
In some States there is a Court
of Domestic Relations charged
with the duty of mending mare
tween sermons, they grind up in their mills and factories the young children of
the poor. '
riages and dissolving marriages.
Wise judges, men and women
who have lived and loved, and
learned from the living and lov
ing, should alone be chosen as
members of these courts.
Before such a court a couple
geeking marriage should publish
their intention. And to avoid the
danger of marriages of mere im
pulse or alcohol at least a fort
night should elapse between that
publication and the marriage.
The court should have the right
to demand that those whom it
marries must be physically fit. A
marriage certificate should pre
suppose a physician’s certificate.
There may be other demands
‘which the court, representing so
clety, would have a right to make.
In any case the judge who is to
pérform the ceremony should be
able to offer wise counsel.
He should make it plain, when
the need shows itself, that, just
as the church and the courts have
decreed that a marriage is no
marriage if the palr are unable to
become “flesh of the flesh,” so, in
the truest sense, it is also void if
they can not become “spirit of
their spirit.”
“ .
WITH a Court of Domestic Re
lations thus dealing con
structively with marriage there
would be less occasion for lits
dealing destructively with it
through divorce.
But occasions would »til] arise
where divorce would be desirable
——since marriage is not a state of
eternal punishment.
Here ig another task for the
court, a task set at the cross
roads between the old theories of
divorce and the new.
' Snap Shots
Never try to take passengers
on your hobby.
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Poverty is not quite so bad
when it is kept behind the cur
tain.
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It {s better to have a bofl than
a grouch. You can usually cure
the boll
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It is all right to be shiftless so
long as your stock of 7 per cent
coupons holds out.
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The blushing bride has been
known to develop into a virago
with lightning speed.
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There is no status more deplo
rable than that of the poor rela
tive of the rich tightwad.
* * .
No man was ever known to
worry over the fact that he was
a fool, no matter how sincerely
his friends have grieved.
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The grouch can never under
stand why anyone should enjoy
life.
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Those who pay as they go gen
erally have to postpone a lot of
trips.
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When we “point with pride,”
the other fellow often looks the
other way.
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Greatness suddenly thrust on
the average man would probably
break his back. g
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FRIDAY- SATURDAY
«: A Prison With a Soul :=
HE penitentlary at Florence,
T Arizona, has a few things to
recommend it which no oth
er prison in the United States
has. If you are going to enjoy a
"term In prison, I recommend
Florence.
All State prisons nowadays
have libraries, a brass band and a
school.
A prison, like a corporation, has
a soul. As a school is keyed by
the principal, so is a prison keyed
by the warden and the men In
charge.
‘Robert B. Sims, the warden at
Florence, is a school teacher, an
economist, a workingman, and
reminded me very much of that
very able man, Governor Ferris
of Michigan.
Then comes J. J. Sanders, pa
role clerk, who makes it his busi
ness to know every prisoner and
to use his influence constantly
and in every possible way for the
betterment of the boys under his
charge.
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The third important man in the
prison is a “lifer.” His name-is
Louis V. Eytinge. Eytinge has
taken the vow of chastity, pov
erty and obedience, and prison
has given him opportunity.
He is a very good looking man,
intelligent, frank, friendly. He
wears citizens’ clothes. His cell
is an office where the door is
never locked. He has a roll-top
desk, and on the wall are pictures
of many of America's literary
men, orators, inventors, business
men.
Eytinge has a filing cabinet for
his correspondence. He also has
two private secretaries.
He i{s the most systematic,
methodical individual you ever
saw {n your life. Almo, he has
the bdiggest private correspond
ence, I belléve, of any man In
America.
In most prisons prisoners are
allowed to write one letter a month,
and no more. In Florence there is
no such limit, thanks to the sen
sible regulation inaugurated by
Warden Sims, with the consent
of Governor Hunt. When a man
is sent to prison, there is no rea
son why his relatives, friends and
family should be punished by not
being allowed to hear from him.
That {s where the wrong individ
ual is penalized.
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It is a great privilege to write
letters, and it is a still greater
privilege to receive them. Any
one who has ever felt the abject
misery of looking for a letter that
never comes will understand me.
There is no reason under the
blue sky why a conviet should not
be allowed to send out as many
letters as he cares to buy postage
stamps for.
The object of putting a man in
prison is twofold: first, to prqtect
society, and, second, to make the
convict a better man.
Louis V. Eytinge started a
business in prison—a mail order
business.
This business was to manu
facture and sell Mexican hair
goods and curios—things made in
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the prison. He had a force of
men that he taught to do this
work, and the business is still
carried on.
Eytinge, however, discovered
that in selling his products he had
something else in stock which was
valuable, and that was brains.
The man is a wizard of words,
and he is supplying selling letters
and advertisements to business
men.
Also, he has a school of adver
tising literature, and is teaching
convicts how to write good Eng
lish.
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And so I talked to the boys in
prison.
Afterward there was a lot of
handshaking; then a little batting
up of flies on the diamond; and
I climbed into a machine, and the
driver headed for the desert,
As we slipped past the last
shack on the street my chauffeur
waved a hand and said: “That is
the last house you will see for 21
miles.”
The road was Nature's own,
winding in and out through sage
brush, past the giant cactus, oc
casionally going down through a
gully and seemingly heading for
a great mountain peak, snow
covered, a hundred miles away.
And so the hours went by.
Strapped firmly to the automo
bile on either side was a keg of
water, ominous reminder of th%
danger of the desert.
The distance we had to traverse
from Florence to Tucson was 78
miles. It was a wonderful, wild,
romantic, unique ride.
For 30 miles we did not see a
human—prairie dogs, a few coy
otes, owls and rattles! Just one
automobile we met on the way.
We sighted them five miles across
the desert.
When we met we got out and
shook hands with our friends.
They drank out of our canteen
and we drank out of theirs.
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I had told the warden that I
would keep the chauffeur over
night, as the ride back was some
what dangerous on account of the
gulleys.
And so I registered for myusslf
and my convict friend. We were
given adjoining rooms. We
weashed up, brushed our clothes,
and dined together. Then we went
to the theater, and the manage
ment gave my partner a box seat.
I had to catch a train out at
3:30 in the morning. I did not ex
pect my friend would get up and
go to the train with me, but he
was up before I was.
“Couldn't you sleep?” I said..
“No” was the reply; “thege
rooms are too confining.”
And then he explained: “You
know, at home I sleep on the
roof!”
And it was so, for no man {is
locked in a cell at Florence ex
cept those who have failed te
show a proper degree of respect
for the liberties allowed.
We got into the auto just as the
first flush of pink came into the
ead t. We had an early breakfast
af the railroad lunch counter, and
ten I bade my friend good-bye.
! He climbed in behind the wheel
and headed for his prison home,
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