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THK ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: MONDAY, JtJLY 17, 1911. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN (AND NEWS) F. L. SEELY. Publlihtr. EDWIN CAMP. Managing Editor. Published Every* Afternoon By THE*VEORofAN d ’ciMPANY At 10 E. Alabama St.. Atlanta. Oa. SUBSCRIPTION RATES) .. .. On. Yaar S4.M Six Months 2.60 Three Months One Month t * *fj By Carrier, Per Week Telephones Connecting All Departments. Long Distance Terminals. aters-f f\% «rcond-class matter at the pnptnfTIre at Atlanta. Ga.. under th* act of March 3. 1*79. ft Palmer. Foreign Traveling Repre- tentative Address. care The Georgian, nnfn. On. fvydu ha\e nnv trouble settle* The. Gentxlnh and News, telenhore the elf- rulatlqn department nnd have It promptly remedied Roth phone* SOOl). ilwcrlher* de«lrlnir The ^poutlsn New- df«ccn»lr«ied nv»«t notify this office on thp date of expiration, otherwise It will he continued at' the regular sub scription rates until notiee to atop I* re ceived. and non • manual occupations should he denied them least of all." Committee* may sleep or, wak- inc, may murdpr wisdom, hut we do not Helieve that the Georgia legislature in ita entirety will longer delay this plain justice to the womankind of the state. UNCLE WALT * PHILOSOPHER new add-ea* It 1* desirable that all communication* Intended for mibllcatlon In The Georgian and Now* he limited to §00 word* In length. It Ir Imperative that they ba slimed, aa an evidence of good faith. Re jected manuscripts will not be returnee unless stamr* are sent for the purpose. Kelther does ft print whisky or liquor ad*. A ROBIN AT DAYBRBAK. •Tl* four o'clock. Folks say. Th* f*t*l *bb when sinks ' Th# human pulse ao low That from thl* hour ag* •hrlhk*. Fearlnn the call to ©o Th* ns'sr-rsturnlng way. But with such song to charm Th* sllanca-waarisd tar, Who could avoka alarm Or chtrlsh thought of faart A robin, nigh In his nsst, Tolls the departing night Th* atory 6t his guest For llfa'a lovs-born dtlight. Ha -alequsntiy tings . Bayond th* kan of bird; Evan at genius wlnga Above the written word. 3 re came man's mlrth snd wot, arth'a 'primal Joy he namss. , Then, In prophstle guise, Ha aaaka, bayond tha flam** Where tune do wane or riaa, * Stare that hava yat to glow! —William Struthera In Boeton Transcript. Woman Lawyers and Woman Notaries. That was a happy conception on the part of somebody—hav ing, two judiciary committees in the house of the Georgia legis lature, for if wisdom shall die or be killed.in‘otte—an eventuality not'i’Aprobrfhle-iMt may yet have a chaiiee of resuseitntion in the other; Committee No. 1 voted down the bill to permit women to prac- tiee law, but committee No. 2 has indorsed the measure to let women he appointed commercial notaries. Wisdom got a resound ing Whack in the former, but a godspeed in the latter. Other states have pEAKd both of these lows so long ago that they'Ore now asking among them selves, “Does the Georgiu legisla ture meet once a year, as we have been led to believe, or once a century I” And it must be confessed that many of the arguments being used against the proposed laws do give credence to the belief of the existence of centenary ses sions. “We must offer no more op portunities for women leaving home, where they - rightly '-be long," run the argument*. “We thoroughly approve, how-, ever, of woman earning a living, but she must do it by staying at home and engaging in the aes thetic, refining and jonl-enno- bling occupation of taking in washing. We bid her beware— in fart, we would forbid her en tirely—embarking upon the peril ous business of being a notary public. Such a stormy career is fit only for bold, seafaring men like us; and, besides, we want the money ourselves. Again we in sist that woman is too refined and too delicate a creature to lift the’ ponderous lever of s twelvc- or.noe seal and imprint it on legal documents or business con tracts. and still have strength enough left to sign her name and collect a quarter. Ah, to think of women—even girls—hav ing to earn money in this way makes us shudder with the cruelty of it!” Other states hear and exclaim: “Sure, it’s Rip Van Winkle talk ing, and he isn’t quite awake! When he is we will suggest to him that it isn’t a question of opening up more opportunities for women to leave home. They have already 1-ft. The root-hng- or-die necessity of earning their living has forced them to. All that can now he done is to let them enter whatever occupations they desire, and the intellectual w.'ni. In Earnest About Good Roads. The wisdom of abolishing the old lease system and putting the convicts at work improving the highways of the state—a thing for which The Georgian fought so vigorously—is continually being justified. It has generated a good roads fever that is co-extensive with the boundaries of the state—in fact, has spread beyond into other Southern states—and by reason of it Oeorgia occupies the front rank in road improve ment. It hns already added millions of dollars to the wealth of the state. The distance from the farm to rail and water transpor tation has been shortened and cheapened. Land values have risen, and life has hecome easier and happier. And so apparent are these re sults that the counties of the state have dropped all .doubt nnd delay and have set about road- bnitdtng in earnest, working con sciously or.unconsciously toward this ideal consummation—J grad ed and paved road from every farmer’s home to the county seat. What such a consummation will do for Georgia is well nigh be yond imagination. Another proof of good roads earnestness was the passage hy the lower house of the legisla ture of a hill permitting counties to increase the rate of their road tax from two mills to four mills. The bill proposed by Representa tive LeSeur was originally passed by a vote of 97 to 50, and later 4 motiop to reconsider was em- - pnAtlCAlly aqilFIChed hy a VOtfl oil verb |o macadamize. nn< 101 to 58. Increasing the tax rate ordi narily is never anywhere a popu lar proceeding, but when it is proposed for extending good roads in Oeorgia, it makes an immediate hit. Even the smaller counties are clamoring for it be cause under the old rate in many cases they find themselves with out sufficient funds with which to maintain and use their con vict* to the heat advantage. A healthful and hopeful sign is this, for it hns ever been th? part of wisdom to spend some money now thnt a greater return may be had in the future. The grocer said: "I have some good and satisfying break fast food." I viewed with scorn and said: “Tut, tut! Your breakfast food is nothing but—excelsior!^ Men had more sense when I was young,” I said, when I had oiled my EXCELSIOR tongue; “they lived on brend and wholesome meat, and never asked themselves to eat excel sior. Their grists they carried to the mill and had them ground and paid the bill; and they were men of brawn and pith; they never filled their stomachs with excelsior. Then men got value for their scads; they reared up healthy girls and lads; but now we feed them, day by day, on shredded thistles, toasted hay, excelsior. We toddle to the mill no more; we buy kids fodder at the store—the stuff put up by health food ernnks; they carry in their little tanks excelsior. We’re guilty of these measly crimes, nnd fh c n we talk of stringent times, and at the county farm wc di? because, like chumps, we always buy excelsior. For good old meal I’ll pay my rocks; I want no saw- dust in a box; to old time ways I stick like glue, and you won’t spc your uncle chew excelsior.” WALT MASON. Copyright, 1311, by George Matthew Adame. MACADAM, ROAD-MAKER In America. On hi, return | ward hy thenreuure and vibration of land toward the close of I he Waffle. The whole road wa« of email land, 'ewnrd insi close or broken etonee, even over nwampy ground. Again the Problem of Asiatic Cholera. Cholera plagues have been un known in American cities for tho last two or three decades. Vast ly improved methods of sanita tion, the growing aholition of crowded city tenements and a general elevation of the standard of living account for it. The same causes have ended yellow fever, which was once indeed the scourge of America. These Causes, however, have not been operative in certain European and Asiatic countries, and as a,consequence the cholera plaifn^ Specially is never quite stamped but, and at present Italy i< afflicted with a serious out break of it, a* are likewise cer tain other Mediterranean sec tions. 4* a consequence American ports are menaced with the dis ease, by reason of arriving immi grants. Already there are fif- teen cases-of the scourge at the Swinburne island hospital, near New York. There has been noth ing like an outbreak in any American city, nor is there likely to he, if the proper care is exer cised at the various quarantine ports. In the present day, more than ever, eternal vigilance is the price of health and the continu ance of health, and both the pub lic and the constituted authori ties should exert themselves, to the end that it he never less en during nor less strict. "Watted 40 year*, hut Anally won bride.” And even he may have to re pent at leisure. France, Fpatn and Germany ore about to go to war on account of Morocco. Better aell It to the rubber or leather trust and he done with It. Money to the amount of 1750.0*0 which Greene and Oaynor had milted away ha* been found. It ic curlou* what wealthy people will sojnetime* take the pauper 1 * oath. Germany aend* proteat to Cuban government.” Jt may be truly enld that Germany It the great protettor among the nation*. It *e«m» that It la only the kicker that finally get* what h*- From Harper'* Weekly. It haa been *uld that the best road* built since the daya of the Roman* are those known a* macadamised road*. Macadam wai a Scotchman who spent several year* to hi* native the eighteenth century, he devoted hla at tention to road-bulldlng. Hla leading principle waa that a road ought to he considered as an artificial flooring so etrong and even a* to let the heavleet ve hicle pa*» over It without Impediment. People began to hear with wonder of road* 30 and 40 feet wide rising only 3 tnchee In the center, and he propounded the extraordinary heresy that a better and more lasting road could be made over the surface of a morass than over solid rock. Another of his principles was that the soil I* more resistant when dry than when wet. In order to keep It In a condition nt the greatest resistance—that Is to say. dry- he advocated the putting over It ol a covering Impervious to rain- the road. In fact. The thickness of this covering to ho regarded In relation to Iti * bearing of weight*. Instead of digging a trench, therefore, to do away with the surface of the native soli, he carefully respected it, and raised the rood sufficiently above It to let the “*ter run off. Impermeability he obtained by the prac- the traffic on a road, ranldlv settle dow-n face to face and angle to angle, and nm* * as close a mas* a* a wail. Mankind In general now believe* that this last la all thnt Macadam Invented; the rest I* for- That Important fraction of hi* their noun* macadam, macadnmlsage. and tho verb mncadsmlser. It was soon found that road* which were mere layers of broken stone six, four and even as little as three Inches In thick ness. passed thru the worst winters with out breaking up. while, as the coachman used to ray, they ‘ ran true.” Evan Jn the breaking of stones Macadam effected a revolution. He saw’ fhat able bodied men standing up with heavy ham mer* wanted the greater portion of their strength He made his stone-breakers •It. so that all the force of the biowa took direct effect on tho stone; and the re sult was that he found Nmnll hammers dtd tho work perfectly well, and thus was able to confine It to old irsn part hard labor, women and boys, which reduced the cost of the broken stone hy one-hstf. Macadam would allow no large stone* even for the foundation of hi* roada, for he found that they constantly worked up- wblch exceeds nn Inch in nnv of it* di mension* !■ mischievous” that I that the wheel In weeding on one end of It tend* to lift tho other end out of the road. In practice he found It simplest to fix a Growth and Progress Of the New South By JOSEPH B. LIVELY. Army-Navy Orders A ni Movements of Vessels 4 Under the head, "The Splendid 4 4 Prospect* For Cotton," The Cln- 4 + clnnatl Enquirer comments ed- 4 4 Itorlally: 4 4 "A government report upon the 4 4 cotton crop which carries a* a re- 4* + suit the prospect of a yield of 4 4 14.425.000 bale*, the largest amount 4 4 ever even estimated for the Unit- 4 4 ed States, in *uro a great enoour- 4 4 ngement to the business men of 4 J the Union. 4 "If It bring* to the South np- 4 4 proxlmatlng IMO.ftnn.flOO, ns there 4 t l* every Indication such a crop will 4 realise. In view of the exhaustion 4 4 of supplies nt the mills nt home 4 4 nnd abroad. It mean* *uch an en- 4 4 rlchment of the people of the 4 4 Southern states ns will render 4* 4 that section hereafter financially 4 4 Independent. 4 4 "With the values of the various 4 4 by-products of the plant combln- 4 4 ed with the value of the fiber, llf- 4 tie short of the enormous sum of 4 one billion dollar* will be the In- 4 come of the Southern planters 4 4 from the cotton plant alone this 4 4 year. 4 4 "It must not he overlooked In 4 4 the computation of the value of 4 4 the crop that the greater demand 4 4 of the Inhabitants of the world for 4 4 cotton renders It possible for the 4 4 planters of the South to market 4 J * record breaking production at a 4 record breaking price. 4 4 "It Is not to the South alone that 4 4 th*- financial results of this crop 4 4 will prove advantageous. 4 4 "The securities of the Southern 4 4 railways and of the coast line 4 4 steamships are largely held hy In- + + vest or* of the North nnd of the 4 4 East. 4* + "The estimated crop mean* In 4 4 itself 1,000,00© more tons of freight 4 4 for transport.up'n than last year. 4 4 and Its monetary return to the 4 4 South mean* a stimulus rf pur- *r 4 chasing and of trading thnt will 4 4* add hundred* of thousand* of tons 4* 4 of freight In other articles. 4 4 "Thru their Southern transpor- 4 tatlon line Investment* Northern 4 J capitalists nnd Investors generally 4 will largely benefit by .the tm- 4 4 mcnslty < f the cotton crop. 4 4* "The manufacturing Interest* of 4 4* the entire Uni n will he aided hy 4 4* the Increased ability of the South- 4 4 ern people to buy nnd to pay for 4 4* much greater amount* of supp'let, 4 4 and »>ur wholesale and retail com- 4 merclal houses will receive their 4 4 share of the expanded volume of 4 4 trade that will ha felt In every 4 4* state. 4 "It must he reengnlxed that the 4 crop 1* as yet subject to danger* 4l 4* that may reduce the estimate, but 4* 4- Id us h~pe f«*r the results that 4 4* present prospect* Indicate." 4* Washingtorv July 17.—'The following orders have been Issued: Army Order*. First Lleutennnt C. L. Stryker. Four teenth to Thirteenth cavalry. First Lieutenant A. M. Milton, from Thirteenth to Fourth cavalry. Colonel W. I. Wood, Nineteenth in fantry to Jefferson barrack.* Missouri, assume command recruit depot. Colonel M. F. Walts, assigned Nine teenth Infantry, vice Colonel W. T. Wood. Captain H. H. Tibbetts. Tenth in fantry. detailed to general staff. • Captain F. 8. Coeheu, general staff, assigned to Tenth Infantry. Colonel W. A. Mann, Infantry, detail ed to general staff. Movement* of Vtsaels. Arrived—Marblehead, at Santa Crux; Nebraska, at Portland. Me.; Virginia and Prairie, at Hampton Roads; Con necticut, at New Haven; Iowa. In diana Massachusetts, at Bergen; Whip ple, Hull. Truxtun, at Hoqulam. Wash.; Paul Jones. Perry. Stewart, Preble, at Wlltap*. Wa*h.: Lawrence. Goldstar* ough, Rowan, at Aberdeen, Wash.; Bru tus. at Hampton Roads. Sailed—Colorado, from Mare Island for Seattle: Louisiana, from Province- town for Norfolk; Missouri. Washing ton. Maine, Ohio. Mississippi, from jfew York for cruising; Vicksburg, from Co- rlnto for cruising. From The New York World. There Is sound *en*a In Herbert L. Towle's suggestion of summer dress re form for men. He urges the recognl* tion of the shirtwaist aa a aultable gar ment for luncheon or dinner and for public places. He denounce* the wool en uniforms of policemen and poat- men. In hot weather the woolen coat is an abomination. It is the chief Infliction of the city summer man. Swathed In Its folds man sufTer* and awelters. He is a pitiable victim of foolish custom. Discomfort makes him Irritable and as fit for quarrel or collapse aa he la unfit for companionship. The neat, clean negligee shirt Is cool comfortable and attractive. With light trousers and belt the shtrtwa'at man Is more completely clothed than the wom an with an open-neck gown or a peek aboo waist. He Is more becomlnglj dressed than a man in a coat. If he Is nn athlete or has & good figure he ap pears at his very best. The general adoption of the man s shirtwaist nnd Its admission to restau rants and public places would contrlb-' ute to tho health of city men. Clothing that Increase* the effect of heat Is un wholesome. Comfort Induces the serene mind, and the serene mind Is the con dition of efficiency. For policemen, postmen, messengers, bellboys, porters, the tight-fitting, h'gh- collared. buttoned woolen coat Is a bar barity In summer. Postmen who must walk long distances with heavy mall sacks should have summer uniform* of khaki, or. better still, belted khaki trousers with blourcs nnd loose soft col lars. Both appearance and service would be bettered by light uniforms. Health, comfort, taste, humanity, unite in support of the men's dress re form movement. The only obstacle* are tradition and prejudice—"that mon ster, custom, who all sense doth eat.” Let us throw down the bars against cool summer attire. Off with the wool- on coat! On with tho official blouse and the social shirtwaist! THE BUSINESS DOCTOR (By ROE FULKERSON Winnowed Witticisms Buying or Soiling. —o Bla?‘ sor . .. Jo,h—Hr', in Now Tork. Rube—Which ride's he on hy thlo time? Jo«h—Wh«t ,1'yer mean? Rube—I, he eellln' *oki bricks a'ready or buyln' em yet? Bad Influence. it might have a bad Influence. From Tho Detroit It, Special Part. From The Baltimore American. "It a manager could caat a play of the elementa "You needn't go on. He'd five the thunder tho heavy role." How He Eaceped. From Tho Baltimore American. "IVhnt do you think, a fellow etcle a drum from the orchestra yesterday.” "I don't like vuur caali nyalem," aald the Buslners Doclcr. -you hav.< three girls-In the office nt the end of your caeli-carrier ayrtem, all mak ing change a docen times every live minutes. They are all working n„, of the eamc mats of money. If , bob up ,hort J10 a day for ten da- s' what are you going to do abut p ; Discharge all three became one r.f them J0 dishonest cr careless? It is not f.,|, to two of them. Each girl should h» supplied with her own charge, and have her own cash slip, and be rrspon elblo for her own work only. "You »»em to have little regard hr the rights of these girls. The/ have aa much right to expect you to protect them from each other aa you have m expect them to protect your interests In handling the ca,h. No human he. Ing can handle cash all day without making a mistake now and then t knew a merchant who hired a girt cashier In a busy store, and at the end of three months she had not made an error of any sort, and hn lot her en She waa too accurate for him! I be. lleve he was right. Don't charge rm«. takes resulting In cash shortsge to vnur cashier unless you arc willing that they should Keep what happens to be over. Be consistent; If they pay one end. let them profit by the other. A 'I sav; an occurrence In a real estate office recently where a n.Sn had made large sums of money, and all thru h!s business career had had a cashier who alone bodies himself carried the key to the cash compart. inu:t of the safe. At times there were several thousand dollars In tt,i, compartment, which came Into the office after business hours. The t-.-.-o Bens of th; proprietor grew to manhood and came Into the office as Junior partnere of the firm, and one day th’ father had an extra Key to the nth compartment of the safe for each of them. As soon as tho old cashier fnind this out. he turned In his Key. sayin? thnt he had unlimited confidence in the boys, but he would not carry a key to a cns'i box to which three other people nad n key. He was laughed at. hut persisted, and In six months the cash was put Into th; safe hy one son at night, and taken out {4">o short hr the other In the morning. There was no question of dishonesty, hut a big question of responsibility, which resulted In the old oashler getting hark his key and th* two youngsters giving up theirs. "Have every detail of every transaction so arranged that when theiHS a shortage or any error of any kind that you can lay your finger on one man and know that his Is the responsibility. Cash Is mean stuff to han lls and tho heat men will make mistakes with It. but the system should b; so ar- ranged that you can determine Juet who It Is that la making the mistake* and Judge by their frequency whether they are becoming too common." There are a goodly number of pe >ple In everv city In this country who are what the N*»v England people call forehanded. They have surplus cash In bank, and are In easy enough circumstances that their purchases are not limited to necessities. They ate without doubt the most desirable people a , customers. They esn be attracted In on* v.-ay that is little used. They do not have to awlt until the snow file; before they buy furs, or until tho con crete softens before they buy summer clothes or straw hats. Thev can buy when they please, and tho early advertiser Is th : man who lands thorn. Get your fall advertisements Into the papers early. Don't wait until the seoton begins. Slake It begin by your earlv advertising, nnd 1st that advertising be lull of tho fact that your stock Is not yet picked over—that the size and styles are all there—and It’s tlms to lay In fall stuff, and that If th», are purchased now plenty of time wl'l be had to make any little ott*ratiori and that better attention con be ha l new than after tho season rr^r'i opens. This arrt of advertising will skim the cream of the trade off for y e —get you the people with the ready cash, which may be used in discounting the bills for the very goods you sell them. It puts a man beyond theques. tlon ct early season nr late season, bs< ause there are pro-season sales. NEW JERSEY AND GEORGIA From The School and Home of Atlanta. The state of New Jersey hns re cently enacted some school legislation tflat Is of great Interest even beyond the borders of that state. The feature of the law that It la desired here to apealc of is the following: There Is provided a state school TRUTH AND POETRY commissioner with a salary of Sio.iv There are four assistant rommlulnn- era at salaries of $4,r,00 each. There] are two inspectors at salaries rf $2,000) each—d total of aev^n men nt total ary of $.12,000. Oeorgia employs a state school com missi mer at a salary of $2,ftflfl-thf same as the lowest paid man In th* New Jersey department receiv The contrast lo rather startling; and It Is only the more startling when It it) observed that the state school fund of) New Jersey is lees than* twice ns great ns Georgia's. One hates to think that these figure* represent the velnttv tercet cf the two states In thp educa- tion cf their young people. Indeed, they probably do not; but they do some things that we people in Georgia should earnestly consider. In the number of officers provided, the New Jersey people have shown that they believe In the Importance—th# practical, economic Importance of su rer, is Ion. They realize that If a rtat# Is going to - expend some millions dollars each year In a very comply buHness enterprise, It In worth while to have a sufficient force to Inspect nnd supervise that business, to s?e thnt th# money Is rot wasted. In the salaries they have fixed they have indicated that they think th* b*st sc hool men none too good for th»- work, nnd thnt they believe it worth while to pay such men a salary commensurate with the importance of the task, * ' they can afford to remain nt the .W\v Jersey has seen what every Inrge business concern in th’' world ha# s^en—that money spent in enlarging the supervising force and In getting and keeping the best men for the w. rk le money most economically 9p*nt They have realised that It doesn't pay to throw awny dollars to save p^nnl?* New Jersey hns done well. She i.« tr be congratulated for her wisdom In ele vating her schools to their proper place In th# state. Her schools are for her children; they are not childish Inter ests. The children of New Jersey are to he congratulated that their pirenti act for th?m so wisely and *0 efli lent ly. Happ.v are they In their heritise. And Georgia? "Lord, how long. Georgia parent* do not love their chil dren leas than New Jersey parents lov# theirs. But Georgians have not y#t sufficiently learned the.value of S’’*tem In th? eohcol business. Th*» fieorgli legislature has never seen th' m nu mental folly of the st-He eper llnc sv-rj year two and n ho If millions cf d-dlnrt practically without supervision Even if It did realize the waste. It is hard fr t r the a vers g L'lan to realU? thnt this waste 1 >u!! be largely arrested by proper supervision. So little experience have we had wttn supervision outside of our cities «n<i l.ipger towns, that to the great majority it i* an unknown quantity. But wh'.ls the#: facts may ^xrlatjj our backwarffntss a* compar'd -'its ether stato* in the matter of son*™ supervision. It docs not Justify or ^x* t^nuate it. What others have done ** can do. What others have d'n*' th*»lr children we ought to do f° r 0 '* ,r, At least wc can not afford to do 1##J It i.* poor reifsonlng to say our children so tenderly nnd ti ro affectionately that It Is not n*- **• nary to give them Justice! The wastefulness agd Injustice present stinginess In regard t' vision is a grave reproach ur fair state. It la an Insult to th- ne** ability of previous leglslo' i* in u grave wrong to our chlldr ■' justly expect wiser car* for their terests. It ia to Uo hoped that at the < legislature v ise »cho«! legislate . be enacted. Let all patriotic m c n women Join In Impressing th* r ard r-nate with the importance - » f * • ca*\ ar.d let these hcnorablc r t fill to do themselves honor y» e children of the state Jostle* h; - Ing s omething’ fine in this much ■-* iected matter. A Oocd Definition. NN NN * Frcm The Washington gtar •'Father, what i* a platitude? t „ fT , ”A p'.ft'itude. my eon. *» a wh-.>y# truth yon are compiled 1 v -: tittered hy some one whom you *• perscr.a y admire.” bull*