Life — November 8, 1906 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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538 Atlanta and Its Wamings HE Richmond Times-Dispatch says that “the negroes of the entire South have a terrible warning from Atlanta, and if they value their lives they will give it heed.” The Baltimore News takes a different view, holding that ‘ Georgia’s only method of minimizing her disgrace is the prompt punishment of the men responsible.” The Grand Jury of Fulton County, Georgia, in which Atlanta is, finds the Atlanta News chiefly responsi- ble, both because of its editorial utter- ances and of its sensational presentation of the criminal news. We hope the Rich- mond Times-Dispatch has before this transferred some of its warnings from the negroes of the South, who were not at Atlanta on the night of the riot, to the Atlanta News, that was there and has been presented by the Grand Jury as rving of the severest condemna- To hold all the negroes of the South responsible for crimes which only a small proportion of them ever attempt is not only unjust but very mischievous in that it may tend to make half-way decent negroes feel that if they are to be credited with crimes an’ , they might as well attempt the crimes. To kill the innocent is no way to make guilt unpopular. On the contrary, it gives the innocent and the THERE WAS AN OLD TEACHER NAMED THWACK, WHO SAT ON HIS CHAIR WITH A WHACK; AND REMARKED ON ARIS! “YoU MAY THINK IT SURPRISING, BUT 1 DON'T LIKE THIS KIND OF ATTACK.” «LIFE * I 4 i ii i i We dj Wy ty My Lae SEEING HEAVEN Megaphone Angel INTERRUPTED HIM WHEN TELLING A STORY. y a common cause and blurs the dis- tinction between them. The ta riots were of no value at a warning to bad negroes, but by stirring up race hatred increased the danger to white women. The only profit that can be got out of them is to make them an effectual warning to newspapers. and fire-eaters not to stir up race strife and to mobs not to murder. Happily the disposition is strong in Atlanta to make them profitable in that way. We read with satisfaction of the arrest of mob leaders and promise of acute discomfort for them, and of the adjustment of the best brains in Atlanta to the prevention of such outbreaks in future. Auanta is the most modern city in the South, and the one least like a Southern city. They tell us that its negro-hunting mob was not a typical Southern mob, but more like the negro-baiting mobs of Ohio and Illinois, and that industrial rivalries and jealousies had much to do with its temper. THAT CONTENTED GENTLEMAN UP THERE Is THE YELLOW WHOSE WITE ALWAYS Not So Bad * sizes of cigarettes are being advertised "— = more we have borrowed troub- le. After all, there is going to be no such utter confusion of sex distinc- tions as we gloomily imagined imminent. A lady may still be known by the size of her cigarette, at least, and as likely as not there will be exclusively feminine tints in -balls, too. Too much reform has made us cen- sorious and inclined to magnify our afllictions. Conceivably, delicacy will come in style again, like blond hair and commercial integrity; but, whether or no, we have a good deal to be thankful for. True Gratitude IRST CAGED CANARY: Have you ever thought what a great thing it is to have wings? Seconp Cacep Canary: Indeed, yes. I thank God for mine every day. Why, without wings how could we balance our- selves on our perches? comicbooks.com