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JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES, Ediior. F. L. SEELY, President. Atlanta Georgian. Subscription Rttes: Published Every Afterneon One Year 54.50 Except Sunday kjr Six Months 2.50 THE GEORGIAN CO. Three Months 1.25 at 25 W. Alabama Street, By Carrier, per week 10c Atlanta, Gs. 1 — ==a—g*3* prM >• srron.l PigVI manor April *, «*, it lb* rostefle. at Alltuta. C«.. onfl.r set of ceosrrss of March I. M7*. Unleaa thou find occaalon, Hold thy tongue; Thyself or other* careless talk may wrong. —Sir John Denham. Saturday Evening. Mme. da Sevlgno has recorded tbe opinion that “the world lainelther foolish nor nnjuat.” A buslneaa Institution In New York baa started out on tbe theory tbat the world la likewise honest, as a rule. ■ / \ In a more or leas retired section of tbe city an en terprlalng man baa opened up a restaurant where a variety of food Is set out after the fashion of the free lonoh counter. There are no waiters whatever, and thus an Important Item of expense la saved. Customers are expected to walk In gnd help them' velvet to whatever they want. They are left to their own linnor to say what they have eaten and how touch they owe. It Is the Ibsory of this tinlquA business man that • rery few pebplr, thus placed on their honor, will tell n lie or attempt In ,80^ way to beat the house, and tbat whatever m$y be lost In 'Inflated Instances where be Is swindled wUI.be more lhab made ap by the amount he asvps on the coat of waiters. / At Intervals a watch has. In point of fact, been kept <ni customers to see If there was any effort “to beat the houfte." ' i The detective who did this work recently gave hts esppriences to one of the Now York papers. He says that moat people dra “on tbo level,” to use Ills own Inngtiagp, and that the men who try to “do' place of that kind are not frequent. He relates that one man was noticed to come there for his maala for about a week, and created the Impression .that ha was not square. ' He waa .watched. On one day ho ate 30 cents worth and when ha -want to the counter be paid 10 oente. Tbe next day he ate 35 cents worth and paid f ceata. The third day he did the same thing. On the fourth day, which was Saturday, the detective made up bis mind that It the customer did the same thing again he would call him down. True to the clock ho came, and ate 30 cents worth. Tha detective followed him to the counter, and great was his surprise when the man took out a two-dollar bill and said; “A dotlnr five out of that, please. I have been besting the place this week, because I was broke, and to day Is pay day, so I want to settle.” Thus the confidence that the establishment reposed In mankind, aa a general proposition, was vindicated, and they probably atarted Into work on Sunday morning with a Armor conAdence In the syatem on which they were doing business. . \ .... ., . We are entirely prepared to believe thfe story and to accept the moral It teachea. Tho trouble It that tbe Aoe sente of honeaty become* atrophied by tbe frequency and extent of the nppeala made to the cupidity and avarice of mankind. ' No better Illustration could be given of this than tho subtle bribes offered the employees of the Pennsylvania railroad In the shape of stock and cash contribution from alleged anony mous sources. Of course these men knew all the time where these bonuses were coming from and what they were expected to do for them. But they deluded themselvoa Into believ ing that they were given out of personal regard or af a part of a general builneaV system. They probably did not confess even to themselves that It waa strictly dis honest. By the time they had advanced so far In thelV sense ' of right: and wrong they were of ,courae a long way from the simple little truth of their childhood that “It la a sin To steal a pin.” We prefer to believe that tbe natural predilection of mankind la to be honest. They will noi swindle a lunch counter. But It seems so different when It comes to tak- sjoney from a great corporation. Tbe upheaval which hat come within the peat few months along the line of reform has dona much to bring tha public conscience to a realisation of the difference between right nnd wrong and It would be made yet. mom effective If some of the offenders are made to suffer per sonally Instead of being allowed to turn state's evidence or go free after the payment of a nominal Ane. A Home Run. You fellows with nver trouble; you pessimists who see through things, and darkly; lo, all you who are sad gnd lonely—we have the remedy. Place, the ball park—ttfne,,4 p. m. Go a bit earlier though and see the huskies warm up. Know the players. their UngJes, anil their bungles, and root! root! root! | to the personal disease Ion of Hoke Smith. Called again The sublime Idea is to root! .-link the foolish Ego In | by undivided requests from Ihe audience. Mr. Howell feave your bosoms—“forget It‘*—be a boy ai more. Take oar word for It, you'll have tton. clearer eye, llrp longer, have a cbe< a hand more open. ertlo vfthout a better dlges- •rier heart, and The Joint Debate. Tha people of Georgia expect from The Georgian nothing lass nor more than tbe truth about the Howell- Btnltb debate. And this the people shall have In unvarnished and undiluted form both In the local columns and upon the editorial pago. Expressed lo a sentence, the debate ended In a deAnlte and decisive triumph for Hok_ Smith. After the first hour the laurels of tbe evening were all at hla feet. Let us note tbe condltlcfns: The audience was In all probability the largest and most representative ever addressed under shelter by polltleel speakers In Georgia. It waa an audience gathered upon equal terms. The occasion was heralded widely as a joint discussion between the two prominent candidates for governor. Both aides had equal oppor tunity for Ailing the ball. So far as all reports have gone there waa no effort on either side to pack the auditorium in the Interest of either candidate. The per sonnel of the assembly was exceptionally Ane and In view of tbe £rowdlpg bombers, the order and decorum was far above the average of political assemblies. 'ora this most magnificent and representative au dience of their home people these two political antagonists appeared to. tight out their differences ahd measure their Merita In the arena of debate. In tho first five minutes after the entrance of the candidates the volume of applause seemed to be In favor of Clark Howell Whether the voices of hla clans man were heavier, or whether they founO their throats sooner, or whether the followers of Hoke Smith were slower In llmberlug up their enthusiasm, the Impression was distinctly left upon the mind of the writer that the prlmnry balance of sound waa on Howell's aide. The basis of applause on both sides was In tbe ser ried ranks of followers who were ranged behind each candidate on the stage and In the nearby adjoining galleries. In front sat the vast body of the audience, the qnlet thoughtful people, seemingly neutral. Impassive and watching developments—apparently tbe balance of power In the debate and In the election. Up to tho close of Hoke Smith’s first speech they made little dem onatratlon and gave no tangible sign of their preference and sympathy Hoke Smith's opening speech was a Strong, clear, bold argument upon tbe Issues of the campaign. It was In no sense a remarkable speech. Neither In eloquence ,nor In logic waa It out of tbo ordinary run of political effort. Its power was lo Its directness. It* definiteness, and Its un mistakable commitment to positive reforms. Ur. 8mtth apokq forty-five of bia sixty minutes ably and exclusively upon the Issues. He devotee, by tha watch only fifteen minutes to a discussion of Mr. Howell and bit record. Tbo Impression made by bis speech waa that a great political campaign waa pending In Georgia, that Issues vital' to the people were at stake, and that ha had fixed and clear cut views upon these lasuqa and powerful rea sons for the faith that waa In him. It was rheat for voters to feed upon. It suggested statesmanship. It implied a grasp of affairs. It promised a reformer In the Georgia capital, capable to conceive and powerful to ex ecute the people's will. He not only asserted principles and proclaimed attitudes, but ho argued, reasoned and plead In effective advocacy tor hla convlcitloua. It not a great speech It waa a strong speech, p vote-winning speech. It was recolved with strong approval and ap plauded wildly by his cohorts In the rear and ou tbe sides, and moderately by the audience In front. But the mighty waiting mass In the center sat com petently reserving its decision until It had heard tbe pareatly reserving their decision until they had heard the other man. The msas had not yet committed Itself. Mr. Howell was received wllth an applause from hla own Immediate ranks, fully equaling the reception given to Mr. Bmlth by hla rear guard. Ho fronted a great op portunity. Ho had much to gain and little to too* In a contest In which public opinion had already credited hla experienced antagonist with superiority In dabat*. It Mr. llowcll had made a strong, clear presentation of defi nite views upon the great and pressing Issues before the people In this campaign, If he had Illustrated convictions and the courage of them upon the things that were moving aa realities In the publla mind—even It these con victions bad been counter to their own—the psople would hare applauded hla definiteness and respected hts honest opinions. Mr. Howell made here the same fatal mistake which he has made all through his canvass of pitching hla cam paign purely anil simply upon the Idea of proving Hoke Smith to bo unworthy of the place. The editor ot The Georgian has warned him ot this error a dozen times. Mr. Smith made hla bid for suffrage upon tho advocacy of certain pressing and necessary changes In the con duct and personnel ot the state government. Mr. Howell made hla plea upon the Kies of personal depreciation of Hoke Smith's sincerity and consistency. Mr. Howell ppokc by tbs watch aixty-onc minutes without touching an Vwtl*—except the Issue of Hoke Smith's political In tegrity. hts temperance, hla consistency. When the au dience finally demanded by. calls some comment upon pending laauea, Mr. Howell spoke by the watch seven minutes upon freight rates without argument and confin ing himself to Um assertion tbat he had always been on the side Of cheaper freight rates. Then he drifted back six minutes by the watch to the strong argument, that .Mr. Smith's disfranchisement plan would | audlenc disfranchise thousands of white men. Then he returned to Hoke Smlth’c record and stayed there until his pero ration. This Is accurate statement carefully and Judicially measured, watch In band, and absolutely without preju-1 dice. These aro the two plans of political campaign, set aid by aide tor trial and experiment. One man debating strong ly the economic and racial Issues of. the hour, (the other man discussing chiefly the personal unfitness of bis antagonist We have never had any doubt for a moment that tha debater of Issues was on stronger and more hopeful ground, and we have said so. If -Mr. JTowell Is not In accord with Mr. Smith's views on railroads he has powerful ground for argument on tbat side. Charles Pendleton, of the Macon Tele graph has made that fact dangerously clear to the Atlsnta Journal In these later days. But we lay down here tbo proposition as a fact and a philosophy that If a man gets an the people's side of a public question and advocates It powerfully and con. slstently you may abuse him till doomsdsy and convict him of a dozen Inconsistencies, but you can't shake tbe faith of the people In the fact that ha Is right now. and they are going to stand by him. If there Is any winning strength In Hoke Smith's campaign It Is due to the fact that he has convinced the people that tbtfy need negro disfranchisement and a home regulation of freight rates, and that he is the man to get It for them. If there Is any weakness In Mr. Howell's campaign It is due to the fact that he has devoted more time to discrediting Hoke Smith than he has to making clear hla own convictions and Intentions on these great questions. The two plans of campaign—the two theories of can didacy had at least a fair experiment last night. At tbe conclusion of Mr. Howell’s speech his partisan rear guard rose at him In a volume of sound thgt was equal to anything that had gone before. But the great central audience were yet unrespon sive. They gave Small external evidence of their Impress ions. That mighty mass had heard Hoke Smith In com paratively unresponsive silence. They had now heard Clark Howell In the same unmoved temper of attention. They bad listened to both man now and were ready at last to express an opinion. Tbe great body which had preserved almost judicial calm was now ready to rotum a Judicial decision. It came with a whirlwind of approval when Hoke Smith rose for hla concluding speech. As he rose the whole center of tbe house seemed to rlae with him. It was an ovation of swinging hands and waving hand kerchiefs and ringing cheers—a wonderful and Inspiring scene. Be for* this tribunal at taast, and npon this presenta tion tbe campaign of Issues had triumphed over the cam paign of personal objection. The decision was clear, unmistakable and emphatic. Hoke Smith's concluding speech was a total departure from hla first. It was personal, masterful and thrllllpg. It rnng with confidence. It sparkled with satire. It pulsed with dramatic defiance. He towdred In his superb per sonality and swept Into further and fuller enthusiasm an audience which had already committed itself to his cause. The conditions were unequal for Clark Howell. The editor and the trained debater were separated by temper amental differences as vast as tbe disparity in thelf physical proportions. Physical differences are of small account. Aleck Stephens made that plain with Toombs and Hill. It was the temperament that told. The mili tant, Intense and forceful mind of conviction against the light, lovable and forceful spirit of concession and peaoe. Mr. Howell's voice In Its range and cot*pass placed him also-at great disadvantage with hi* robust and sonorous rival. It cannot be denied tbat Mr. Howell executed his theory of debate with fearlessness and skill. His per sonalities were marshaled ably and he put them keenly and brilliantly. If they had been new and fresh to tho they would have made a sensation and might have turned the scale In his favor. But the fact that they had all been rehashed in the prints and replied to in kind made them stale, fiat and unprofitable In a skirmish so near to tho end of the war. Summed up In a nutshell here are tho equations: | A robust personality, a strong temperament, a forceful conviction, against a likeable personality, a lighter temperament and Indefinite convictions. Issues against assertions. Policies against personalities. Is It any wonder that In a political pitched battle Iho victory went to the stronger temper, the Impressive con viction and the definite Issue? GEORGIANS IN GOTBUl ) —.—I - Leased Wire. K-, June ’--Her. are .me „ "aTL V^Ta" Y p rk tWlay: MV McLr °' Earne "' O- >rps. IN PARIS. Jpsclal to The Georgian Paris. June 9.—A. Sandh.lm— . Mr. and Mrs. L Epstein, of SarakrTh registered at the cilice ol the E^roifi edition "i 'Phe'.Vewrork HarewfuSS 1 ’ The Joys of Summer. All the delights of summer do not consist merely In sitting upoft the sunlit sands, swept by ocean breezes and allowing the complexion to assume a nut-brown tint. Nor yet do they consist wholly In sitting under the In fluence of the big round moon and allowing the soul to grow full of synabub ant, sentiment These have their Joys, but there ts a certain pleas* ure In the marvelous stories which come to light at this seductive season of the year, and tho present year ap pears to have been particularly fruitful. Jn our own columns the other day It was related that a certain Nimrod, one of tbe mightiest hunters In our midst, testified that he had a gun which would shuot so far that he had to put salt on his bullets to keep the game from spoiling before he could get to it This waa a truly remarkable gun—or rifle, as the case may have been—and must have delighted the spirit of that veracious chronicler, Baron Munchausen. But the Incoming steamers which are arriving at the various ports of the country are bringing In some stories —not atl of them on the log book—which are even more astounding. These jolly skippers would be under suspi cion of avenging themselves for not seeing the sea ser pent thus far this year If It were not for the fact that we all know the men of that walk—or roll—of life to be above exaggeration, not to say misrepresentation. The other day, when the Carpathla came Into port, there were numbers of people on board who were ready to swear that the Vhlp ran Into a school, or seminary, ot whales; that one of these leviathans of the deep swam directly In the pathway of the onrushlng steamer which cut him In two. A storm was raging at the time, but so soon as the catastrophe occurred the whale oil diffused Itself over the spumy, splashing waves to such an extent that Imme diately they became as calm as the sea of Galilee and the vessel thenceforward rode on lo tranquillity and safety. To our mind this seemed quite a remarkable occur rence and was worthy of the prominence given It by the leading papers of the country. But Glamls and thane ot Cawdor! the greatest Is be hind! On the same day the American ship John Briggs put In at Seattle after a voyage of 157 days In the south seas. The crew declared, - between the staves of their dlpsy chanty, that during their passage through the Pacific tbe vessel began to steer wildly, and on Investigation It was found that the green pine planking which bad been put on astern, had sprouted pine branches, some of them ten fek long, and these had thrown the lumber ship off her course. "All hands went overside and sawed off the growth,” said the oldest-' sailor. “Then the old hooker found her course.” - Marvelous almost past belief! And yet the sailors were there and they ought to know. What with blackberries and watermelons ripe and the annual crop of sea stories keeping somewhat above the average, there is every Indication that we will have a very pleasant summer. Tins DATE IN HISTORY. "1 JUNE 9. . 1626—Mindo.i f.ik*n by Tilly 16 50-Mnrriag e of Lout, X tV with lh . Infanta. 1793—John Howard Payee, * ulh , “Honw Mr ret Horn*.- born ra,. April 10, 1S5t. rn ’ Dll J 1800—Battle at Moat-moil,, j,,,,. 1821 l'rrivistornl goyereipeni ,. MKb . fished In Oreecn. 1825—Pauline Bonaparte Ule.] 1836—Engine Hale. United State* ator from .Maine, boro ,n * :,t Afghanlva* 1870-< li , n™ le KW,r D u , a C ryT^ 1883—Tim Kelly, Phenlx Park mur. d«rur. hanged In Dnblln 1894—President Gonzales, of Paraguay •If* do sad mul lumiokag ® ua 7» deposed and banished 1904—I.<-vl z. Letter died. ' Born N 0 . vember 3, 1834. WILL D. UPSHAW AT BLUE MOUNTAIN. E Confidence In Judge Hines. August*, aa., June I, 1908. and I am convinced that Judge a man ot too much common ■ ■ purity to allow blmasif to b# used by a aet of political knaves. I bavs read with florae surprise the sinister cir cular to the l’apullst* to nominate Judge Hlne* for governor, promising the support of the Republican and de generated Democrats. This scheme .. | _.,jeBg HUM It waa done to defeat Hoke Bmlth, and to emulate, the negro In politic*; but It will fall. Yours truly, JAMES BARRETT. From Rav. C. B. Wilraar. To the Editor of The Georgian: 1 am compelled to be out of tbs city on Sunday next, June 10, and tho Rev. Mr. J. J. Lanier, of Mllledgevllle, Oa., will nil the pulpit of St. Luke'a, both morning and evening. Mr. Lanier I* not only a valued per sonal friend of mine, but one of the moat thoughtful men In the Episcopal Church. He I* the author of a three- volume book which I* not oa watt known aa It ought to be, “Kinship of God and Men." In the Introduction, which I* supplied by Judge Logan E. the author the following trtbl all the religious discourse* I ever listened to, they made the deepest Im pression upon me. I am not theologian enough to pronounce upon their con formity to scientific theology, but they seem to harmonise, certainly In moet respects, with tha principles of com mon sense and sound logic. They ap pear calculated to afford very strong assistance In solving some ot the graVe difficulties that beset the clda* and candM thinker in hla speculation on religions topics." I treat tbat Mr. Lanier win forgive m* fpr writing thus of him In tb* pa per* and I aak my Atlanta friends, whether Episcopalian or non-Eplsco tunlty afforded by Mr. our city. C. B. WILMER. Atlanta, Oa., June 7, 19(18. “Why Eat Meat at AH?" To the Editor ot The Georgia,,. Since one la not certain of obtaining untainted meaL the question arise*— why eat meat at all? Ia It neces sary? Man ts not naturally carnivorous, and his animal flesh-eating habit Is a boast Inheritance from tha lower ordere of creation. But, saya the meat eater, I must have beet, mutton or ham to keep up my strength. Fudge! Meat Is but a stimulant, my friend, and you mistake stimulation for nutrition. Beans and peas contain twice ns much nutrlclous sustenance as beefsteak, and there Is more carbonaceous and nitrogenous nutrition In barley, corn and rye meal, coarse-ground wheat, bananas, al monds, chestnuts and walnuts than there ts In any kind of meats. Grains and fruit* In season, together with eggs and milk, supply all that man's nature need*, and time Is coming when the meat eater will be looked npon aa a sort of uncivilised cannibal. There I* no doubt about that. In the hot weather, meat overheatn tha system, and la positively Injurious. Cases of aunatrok* and heat apoplexy are far more numerous among flesh- eaters than vegetarians. Other conditions equaL the vegeta rian ha* greater powers of endurance than the meat-**ter. This has been frequently demonstrated during the last few years, and I am at all times willing to demonstrate It personally to any skeptic. A simple vegetarian diet Inducen habits of sobriety, economy and self- control: In fact, the vegetarian is a more wholesome, cleaner nnd sweeter K roon altogether than the meat-eater. sides being healthier and a atrengr to tape worm. By A. H. ElletL “The *reateat good a hero does kind Is Just to have lived a hero " ™ I think Christopher Columbus was a great man. Not for sailing s-v.mv days toward the sunset. He w„ J great m*n for fighting eighteen years h Uf ^2 C *\?? Vy ftn l superstltlon t” the end 11 getting ready to sall^Hffi ■ lr Huber s a great naturalist by res- S™ of, Me »'oric h* has done. But Francois Huber Is a great man h- reason oj the odds against which h# achieved this work. “ h * I was pw-ept by the deluge of » mighty lymphony, and gladly Da i,i homagafa the marvelous musician who Write It. But when I saw them take hla by the arm nnd turn hta eyes to Iho applauding multitude, sad realized that the hand of 8|lence had smitten Ills hearing dead, I bowed my head md paid obeleance to the great ness ofja man. Do ych bid me name the greatest speech Shat Alexander H. Stephens This is It: Forty years of sitentbndurance under the merdlese rod of IWlly pain. The ether day, Will D. Upshaw came to Blue Mountain and drew nn- other be r of promise, across life's sky —the pt mlse that no deluge of diffi culty no I engolf a human soul. He re- wrote r us across the sky of life this mlg :y truth: The Immortal spir it Is eui rior to Its crumbling tene ment. Do yo think he did It In a long- faced, lo >some, lugubrious way? He did not. I Did you think there was In his mam r or words or tones a bid for your j ty ? There was not. Do yon know what men and women and boyslnd girls and little children need? 1th Inspiration. That Is what It Is—insp'atlon. You give us Inspira tion, and In will do the rest. You set before uskhe ladders, and we will climb untl|our heartstrings snap. tat Will D. Upshaw does— iplratlon. The boy who at-the close of Nnltairaai ' 1,.. .... hull M * - n»v VIOOV Ul VIIO ires believes' be can do than he thoufht on ie girl goe* array irith « holier purpose In her '•Brother WlUle M mine r glad to hove In ue the llodge that tvhile away tie blessing other lire*. For the eu| For the For tho mm he wi We lore And cordial! and mei To come wi! us again! he brought us, he taught oe. [ measure of pleasure call ht* ewiehlne and set TO THCGL00M8TER8. Gloom, flooi jfioom! Gin* nil tho lien of the tomb; Give ne tho atorUef tumor and cancer. Tale* of tho proem* with *wor; Deny «a* From the mountain’* grassy aide A guiltless feoat 1 bring— A scrip wtth herb* and fruits aupplled And water from the npring. Youra truly, BRUCE MACLEOD. Phy»lculturUt. School of Alma, 165 Peachtree Street. World-Weary. 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Jtie* nit „. i rolue* all Down . with, the vlrtuo. jpl.,., Iluln nnd fnlthle**ne«* eve nin' Wherever ye go Erotic neurotic* will cry |m n ronr; Ile'n brouuht twenty ao%ws where " before, jojpf KF.NDrjv RAXdS PICTORIAL ROUND-UP OF ANOTHER WEEK BY CARTOONIST BREWERTON