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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1.011.
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the aspirations of new Chiba,
supported as it is by an array of
facts and made impressive by
keen logic, forceful argument
and stirring exhortation.
The facts that he states have
been known before, but, adduced
in th. connection in which he
uses them, they seem almost
Littered as ,rcond-elsss tpa*t.r .t th.
paatuffica at Atlanta. Oa.. un4»r tha aoi
or March 2. 1272.
It. Palmer. Forelm Tra«lHjf Wjj
tcnfatlT, Address. car. Th. O.orpan,
Atlanta. Oa.
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culatfon department and hara It promptly
remedied. Both phone. WOO.
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nd Nor/. discontinued mult notify »h'*
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It Will b. continued at the resylar euh
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celvea.
In orderlnf a chans, of addrM*. pie***
elve tno old .« wall a. tha new addren-
.... startling. We ordinarily think
Months I mo of China as a country of ig-
‘ “ noranee, heathenism and stagna
tion, its people a backward
race, to whom the duties and
| responsibilities of citizenship in a
republic would be utterly alien.
But says Dr. Wu: “The Chi
nese people are not untried in
self-government. For countless
ages they ruled themselves and
developed an observance of the
law to a degree not known
among other races. They devel
oped the arts and industries and
agriculture, and knew peace and
contentment surpassingly sweet.”
These conditions, he says, pre
vailed prior to the time the Man-
chus, an alien race, descended
upon China, 'conquered it, and
ruled it with a rod of iron for
nearly three hundred years.
The Manehu dominion has now
crumbled to pieces, and for as
suming a republican form of goV'
ernment, Dr. Wu summarizes
China’s Equipment as follows
‘‘Already we have provincial as
semblies and a national assem
bly. Already we. have a full set
of competent officials. Within a
few days the constitutional con
vention will meet. Arrangements
were made for it long ago. At
the convention will be fully aw
fhorized delegates from every
province. A constitution of the
most enlightened character will
be adopted and new officers of
the provisional government will
he elected. Following will come,
under the provisions of the con
stitution, provincial and nation
al elections. We ask recogni
tion of the republic because the
republic is a tact."
Here indeed is the inaugura
tion of a momentous movement,
affecting as it does the desti
nies of more than -100,000,000
people, or nearly five times as
ninny persons as constitute the
population of the United States,
History will look back upon it
as due of its epochal points.
A Review
_ and Reply
By Dr. H. P. Fitch. Pastor Woodward-ave. Baptist Church, Atlanta
Judge Russell s Atlanta Speech
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The Georgian fcnd News prints no un
clean or objectionable advertising matte..
Neither doe* It print whlaky or liquor ada
USED TO BE.
love to dream of the dear old days.
Of the old time friends and th* old tlma
waya:
Of the old home scenes and tha old homo
ties.
Of the Joys of youth and Its bright blue
skies. «
So oft I sit in the gray twilight
And drtam the dreams of the old days
bright.
And dreaming roam In my fancy free
Thru the good old day* of Uaad to Be.
Down the village street on my way to
school. ,
Or thru tha woods to th* swimming pool;
Or o'er the hills where the nut-filled trees
Their welcomes sent on the autumn
breeze;
Or further still, on the winter's night.
With rocker skates with thalr runners
bright.
And ever on in my fancy eee
All the good old days of Used to Be.
And a maiden sweet as a dewy roes
Adown the lane with the dreamer goes;
Once more the tale that Is never old,
And ever new. Is again retold;
And the sweet vows made In the clear
moonlight
While the future holds forth a promise
bright.
Ah, the vjslons sweat'aa they coma to me
From the good o|d^iays of Used to Be.
But the dreamer wb'kes from tb* pleasant) ppQjyjjgQ
To find at hand ara tha Joys supreme.
For his ayes behold all tho awsats of Ufa
In home and chlfdran and loving wife;
n quiet rest whan tha day Is dona
And tha Joy of home Is a goal well won;
When children climb on my waiting
knee—
Joys greater than those of th* Used to
Be!
—Will M. Maupfn In The Commoner.
Madero Makes Good a
The Detention Home for
Juvenile Prisoners.
The establishment of a deten
tion home for juvenile prisoners
marks Another step in tile ad-
aneing system of penology in
Atlanta and Fulton county.
After next Monday, prisoners
less than sixteen years old will
not bn confined at the police sta
tion, but. will be sent to the new
detention home at 164 Central-
■e.
One of the greatest difficulties
in the reformation of youthful
offenders has been the fact that
they have to be brought into
contact with older and more
hardened criminals, and the ideas
and viewpoint of life thus
gained invariably result in last
ing damage to minds and char
acters in a plastic state.
TJhe detention home removes
this difficulty mid brings the
young prisoners immediately un
der the uplift influences of pro
bation officers and juvenile courts
who have special equipment and
experience in restoring erring
outh to the straight paths of
good citizenship.
Only a short time ago a
county juvenile court was estab
lished and a special probation
officer appointed. The city '.qul
heretofore maintained its ot*n
special officer. Both the county
and city officers are now to co
operate in the conduct of the de
tention home and in the work of
reclaiming children before they
hare gone too far on the wrong
road.
The city ami county are to be
congratulated on the advance of
work of such great value to
the general welfare.
The Aspirations of New China.
That the Chinese revolution
ists made no mistake in selecting
Dr. Wu Ting-fang as director .of
their department of foreign af
fairs is shown hv the ringing ad
dress he has issued to the na
tions of the world, plesding for
recognition df the new-born re
public.
It is a rare presentation of
One government can not he
overthrown and another estab
lished in its stead and set to run
ning smoothly, dispensing jus
tice and evoking law nnd order,
all in a day.
And so the disturbed condi
tions in Mexico could not be set
tled in n short time. Madero,
when he assumed the presidency,
found his task of administration
particularly perplexing. His ene
mies were active, both in political
plot and in armed resistance, and
his friends were still uncertain of
his own ability to cope with tho
situation.
Be it understood that disorder
has not yet disappeared from tho
Mexican borders, and will*not
disappear entirely for some time,
but it has greatly subsided. Tho
falling away of the news reports
of raids of marauders and irre
sponsible brigands points without
question to this conclusion.
And confidence in Madero as
an executive has swelled amaz
ingly. Rapidly is he redeeming
himself and his promises, of
which one instance serves as a
good illustration.
A few weeks before his elec
tion, he visited Ban Juan -do
illua, the famous Mexican war
and. political prison, which is sit
uated on an island in the bay of
Vera Cruz.
A prison in times of.peace and
in .the most progressive countries
is difficult to have kept fit for
the habitation of human beings.
The condition, therefore, of the
.Mexican war prison may well be
imagined. Filth, cruelty and dis
ease were brought therein to the
very acme of their viciousness.
Madero saw. “One of the first
acts of mv administration will be
to put an end to this vile place,”
said he.
He has kept his promise. Sail
Juan de Ulna has been aban
doned as a prison at his order,
and the inmates have been trans
ferred to a new prison on the
mainland, in which humaneness
nnd sanitation have been made
the chief considerations.
Here is indeed sn earnest of
Madero’s success as president
and of the success of the new
regime in Mexico.
Attorney General Wlckeraham .ay*
that he carea nothing about the cotton
bears: he la after the bulla. Hla appe
tite for beef la keen, hut hla palate
knowe not bruin. Such a restricted
diet la likely to prove politically un
healthy for the attorney seners).
* In what I have to aay In reviewing
the great apeach recently delivered by
Judge R. B. Russell In our city, I want
It dlatlnctly understood that I am deal
ing only with the epeeeh. and the mat
ter therein contained, and not with the
apeaker personally.
So far ae hie pereonaltty appear*, and
the language In which be enunciates hie
platform and explains hi* position, there
ta very little of which any cltlxen can
complain. Hla kind reference to the
ministerial profeaaion will be ae kindly
received by the profeeelon at large,
while, with but few exceptions, hla lan
guage would do credit to any Christian
gentleman In th* elate. Only In two
or three Instances does he allow such
expressions as •‘hypocrite,’’ "hypocriti
cal jugwumps,” "the puritanical soul of
old pralse-Ood barebones," and the like
to reveal his disappointment and cha
grin over the fact that the overwhelming
majority of the moral and religious sen
timent of the state t* opposed to that
part of his platform replacing prohi
bition with local option. On the whole,
a careful reading of his speech has In
creased my former respect and kindly
feelings, and for him personally I have
only th* most profound feelings of re
spect and kindness.
Having written thla much In favor of
the speaker, personally, let u* turn to
that part of his speech In which he lays
down his platform on the subject of the
liquor traffic In Georgia.
I have carefully studied that part of
his speech, paragraph by paragraph,
three .times over. I And It a most re
markable production. It Is only such a
speech ns an expert politician, a pro
found thinker and a versatile lawyer
could produce, it Is a speech In which
the real purpose of the speaker does
not appear at the front, but Is hidden
behind the greater and ntoro- popular
themes of "human liberty,” "Democrat
ic loyalty" and the right of the people
of any particular county to regulate
their own county affairs. By making
these subjects prominent nnd sand
wiching the whisky traffic In between
them, he, doubtless, hoped to get .the
people to swallow It, as the doctor coats
the bitter pill with sugar to delude the
children.
Contradictory and Illogical.
After the most careful study and
analysis of thla speech, I am compelled,
tho In all kindness, to pronounce It the
most contradictory, the most Illogical,
and the most Inconsistent declaration I
ever read In my life, clulmlng to be a
logical argument. 1 am aware that
those arc strong statements, but I will
take them up separately and will fully
justify every one of them.
First, I say It Is contradictory, even
to the extent of being ridiculous. His
effort to hide the real purpose—that of
restoring the legalized liquor traffic In
this state, and to make people believe
that be is only contending for the su
premacy of "orthodox Democracy" nnd
the right of citizenship, Is so bungling
that It reminds me of tho ostrich which
hides Its head In the sand and Imagines
that thereby It Is entirely concealed.
T.et me here quote two positive state
ments. mnde at the very beginning of
his speech: "With me the question Is
not one of liquor, but of human liber
ty;" and further along—"The term local
option has nh' special reference to th*
sale of liquor." This, when lie knows as
well ns he knows he Is a living man
that his local option measure has not
the slightest reference to anything else
under the sun but the liquor traffic. He
knows that every man and woman In
Georgia knows that hla real purpose
Is to exchange our statewide jrnhlbt-
tlon law for a law that will allow the
whisky men to n|>en saloons In every
county In the state, in which, hv fair
menna or foul, they can secure enough
votes to carry It.
The ostrich net Is seen In th* fact
that notwithstanding he positively de
clares that "the question Is not one of
liquor"—that "local optl >n has no spe
cial reference to the sale of liquor,”
from one end of his speech to the other
he reiterate* the right of the people of
each countv to regulate the aale of
liquor In their own county. I could All
a whole column with quotations, prov
ing that while he claims that he la
only contending for the civil right of the
"dear people" he Is striking at our pro-
hltltlon law and seeking to make It
possible to reintroduce again Into the,
state under the pl.a of local option that
worst of all ,'uraes—the curse of mnk-
Ing men and boys drunkards under the
sanction of law. Bo complete a con
tradiction and ao flimsy a veil by which
a politician would hide his purpose I
have never before seen.
Weak aa a Rope of 8and.
Having thus shown his contradiction,
let us now analyze hla logic. Here, too,
we will And his reasoning as weak aa a
rope of sand. He taya down aa a basis
for his argument In favor of the right of
each county to regulate the liquor traf-
fle within Ita borders that grand politi
cal truth first enunciated by Thomas
Jefferson, that "All just laws derive
their power from the consent of tho
governed." Let me say here In pass
ing. Thomas Jefferson never dreamed
of applying that axiom to the right of
a county to regulate the whisky traffic.
He Intended It to have only a nation
wide application. Could he know that a
learned and Ingenious lawyer und poli
tician was using It to boost up this fear
ful political heresy that the state has
no right to prohibit, but that a county
has the right to legalize the sale of a
deadly poison. It would make the grand
old patriot turn over In his grave.
But to the judge's logic. Hie post
tlon Is clearly this: "The county Is the
unit of the state, and as no law can
have any power over the unit, except
by the consent of the unit—the gov
erned—It follows thqt any prohibition
law passed by the state except a local
option law, passed by the county unit,
Is entirely without power, not having
obtained the consent of the unit—the
governed." Now, let us follow up the
judge's reasoning to Its last analysis
and see where It will land us. "Tho
county is the unit of the state.” Yes,
but what Is the unit of the county?
The township. Therefore, the county
can not pass a law—applying the same
principle—that will have any power
without "the consent of the governed,"
which is the unit or the township.
Is now u(i to the township. But the
same rule applies here. They must
have the consent of “the governed"—or
"the unit" of the township—which Is
the Individual. No laws the townBhlp
can pass can have any power that does
no* have tho "consent of the governed,”
which Is the Individual. Here we have
reached the Ipst analysis, and where
does It land us? In deadly anarchy.
All taws arc rendered powerless, except
that each individual la a law unto him
self to do right or wrong a* his own
will may dictate, tf It Is possible for
any man to Invent a more deadly form
of anarchism than that I sincerely hope
he will not make the effort.
Permit me to say here, In justice to
the Judge, that this la not Intended, In
the slightest degree, to even Intimate
that he Is talnted“vlth anarchism. That
thought Is as horrible to him as to my
•elf—or any other citizen of Georgia. •
am only showing where hla mode of
•KW-i-i-I-H-M-H-i-I-i-I-I-I-l-H-I-l-i-’I"!'
•h
I Growth and Progress
¥ of the New South
ng November IS, as reported by • •
The Tradesman, shows that In num
bers and capitalization'the new In
dustries organized arc If anything • •
more than the average. While the •>
severe spell of cold weather has • •
done some damage In certain sec- • ■
tlons It Is not calculated to have had • >
any far-reaching effects.
The summary of new Industries
for ths week are as follows:
Alabama—Eclectic. 110,000 bank;
Fauns<|ale, 125,000 bank.
Arkansas—Argent*. 17,500 publish- • •
Inc company; London. 110.000 bank; • ■
Millville, *50,000 Investment com- • •
pany; Mena, *50,000 Investment com
pany.
Georgia—Atlanta,.. *10,000 realty
company, *50,000 furniture factory;
Cordele, *25,000 flour and grist mill;
Coolldgs. *26,000 bank; Dahlonega,
(25,000 bank; Juliette, *6.000 manu
facturers of sash, doors and blinds;
Lyons, *25,000 bank; Macon, *10.000
really company; Savannah, *50,000 • >
realty company.
Kentucky — Owensboro, *160,000
distilling company.
Louisiana — !':nnkllntnn, *20,000 -,
saw mill: New Orleans. *300,000 n«- ■ •
v„l stores oon,|,any; .New Iberia,
160.000 plantation company.
.Mississippi ,— Jonsetown. *10,000
tmnk; Jackson, 130,000 lumber com
pany; Meridian, 120,000' furniture
"tJorth Carolina—Asheville. *12.000
hardware company; Bladenboro.
» drug company; Urevard,
cotton mill; Candor, 125,000
Infield, *25,000 drug company;
Gastonia, *50.000 garage company: • •
Kinston, *50,000 warehouse com
pany: Halelgh, *50.000 quarry.
Oklahoma—Alfalfa, $10,000 bank;
Elk City. *30,000 Investment com
pany; Miami, *100,000 mine; Potcau,
*20,000 development company;
Tulsa, *20,000 oil company; vintta.
*6,000 oil company; Wewoka, *15,-
000 bank,
Bouth Carolina—Blacksburg, *30,-
000 drug company; Conway. *1,000
telephone company; Charleston, *6,-
m lumber company; Greenville,
,000 automobile company; Lau
rens. *10.000 land company; Sumter,
S 10.000 builders supply company;
partanburg. *50,000 broom factory.
Tennessee—Chattanooga, *100,000
railroad company; Dyersburg. *10,-
000 hoop factory; Memphis, >tt,250
realty company. *10,000 development
company, *26.000 cereal company:
Nashville, (40,000 realty company.
125,000 land and supply company:
Bhelbyvllle. *5,000 auto company.
Texas—Big Wells, *50,000 town-
site company; Beaumont. (120.000
Investment company; Crosbyton,
(25,000 cotton company; Del Rio,
*40,000 fee and electric company;
Lufkin, *20,000 gin and lumber com-
pany; McKinney, *76.000 telephone
company: Richards, (10,000 bank:
San Antonio, *5,000 transfer com
pany, *50,000 bath house company.
Virginia—Churchland. *60,000 fer
tilizer 'company; Danville, (5,000
specialty company: Fredericksburg.
*10,000 automobile rompany; Nor
folk. *10,004 automobile company,
116,000 wholesale* produce company;
panfVWO.. . _ _
pany: Roanoke, *25,400 Investment
company; Stuart, *50,000 orchard
eompanm South Boston, (25,000 fur-
""vest* vfrglnia—Blusllsld, *10,000
realty company: Charleston, *60.000
automobile company; Huntington,
*6,000 amusement company, *1,000,-
OOO oil company; Weston. *76,000
gloss factory.
I-l-l-l-M-l-I-r-K-K-I-H-H-r-l-M-H'
reasoning leads us when pressed to Its
last analysis.
“A Thousand Pities.”
Let us here "cut across lots” and
reach a conclusion a little more quickly.
In 1906 congress passed a law known as
"thfe pure food law." A few months ago
the government was led in some way to
believe that one of Atlanta's most hon
orable citizens was. violating that law,
and Instituted a long and expensive law
suit against him, costing tens of thou
sands of dollars on each side. What a
thousand pities It la that the defendant
In that-case did not have this learned
exponent of the law to defend him.
What a short, simple and effective plea
he could have made. Hear It:
“May It please your honor, the court,
we shall not enter Into the question In
this case, whether the defendant has or
has not violated the pure food law. Our
purpose Is to attack the validity, the
'powers' of the law Itself. That great
lawyer and statesman, the Immortal
Thomas Jefferson, laid down this great
principle of law, namely, ‘All just laws
derive their powers from the consent of
the governed.’
"May It please the court, the gov
erned In this case Is the defendant
To thla law he has never given his con
sent. It has never been submitted to
him, and without his consent this law
has no powers over him. We, there
fore, move that the case be dismissed,
at the expense of the government for
costs."
Anybody can understand how prompt,
ly the case would have been dismissed,
and the Washington attorneys gone
back home—wiser men.
have an act of congress prohtb-
Itlng the Importation and use of opium
and cocaine—h law precisely of the
same nature ae our prohibition law.
Alcohol Is classed among those same
poisons, and thousands of people are
using both of the former as well as the
latter. If Judge Russell's logic Is sound
that law Is absolutely powerless, it
should have first been submitted to the
states, the units of the nation; by them
to the counties, as a local option meas
ure; then to the townships; then to
each Individual, who only constitutes
“the governed." Such Is Judge Rus
sell’s logic.
The Dagger in Caesar's Heart.
It only remains now to show his In
consistency. I Confess that at this fea
ture of his plajforin I stand amazed,
and I approsch.lt with feelings of gen
uine sadness. -Surely the judge could
not have given sufficient consideration
to his utterances or he would not have
put himself In a position of such Incon
•latency: Inconsistency, I am pained to
say, as heartless and cruel as It Is
plainly manifest. And the strangest
part of It Is he appeals to the fathers
and mothers of Georgia to assist him In
perpetrating this glaring and cruel In
consistency. Hefcr what he says; "
want to make nn appeal to thq fathers
and mothers, to the young men who are
frank and straightforward and honest
and not sneaks and hypocrites." An
appeal for what? For help to carry out
my plan to slay state-wide prohibition
In Georgia. As Cassius drove the dag
ger to the heart of Caesar, so I pro
pose to assassinate state-wide prohi
bition, nnd put Upon Its throne a law
by, which your boys may drink and, be-
'ofite drunkards without crucifying
hell- manhood and becoming sneaks
ajid’hypocriWs. I know their lioiqjx and
manhood will keep them from the blind
tigers and unlawful drinking, so I will
mako It perfectly lawful for them to
drink and become drunkards. Then,
when they have become lawfully made
drunkards, thru the very temptations
that I myself have put In their way,
what do I propose to do with these
same poof drunkards whom I have
helped to make such? Now hear him
again: "Let a law be passed by which
any husband or father who Is able to
work and who on account of drunken
ness falls to support his wife and chil
dren. shall be punished by Imprison
ment from one to twelve months with
out the alternative of a fine.”
There you have It In all Ita glaring,
cruel lnconslatency. Surely all the
demons In tho Infernal regions com
bined could not devise a scheme more
horrible.
A Horrible Appeal.
Says the Judge, I appeal to you, fa
there and mothers and young men, to
help me. I Intend to batter down the
barriers raised for your protection—
the only barrier that stands between
thpsq noble, honest and manly boys of
yburs and drunkenness by low—and on
Its ruins I will erect a law by which
your husbands, sons and brothers may
become drunkards without crucifying
their manhood or honor—a Ian' that
wifi justify and protect the liquor sell
er In dealing out to them the body
slaying and soul damning poison. Then
when they have become drunkards thru
the operation of my law I will dress
them In the garb of a criminal, drag
them from their home, from weeping
'wife and shame-faced children, and
thru a long Imprisonment complete the
degradation" which has already been
begun thru the laws that I have myself
enacted. Verily, verily, consistency
thou art a Jewel!
No. no! Fathers and mothere, we
also make our appeal to you to help
us save those noble boys of yours from
this horrible fate. Instead of exchang
ing a law prohibiting, for one legalizing
this means of degradation and death,
let us strengthen the law we have and
make It more effective,
The Business Doctor
RoeFulKerjon
THROB MARK RBGMTBBBD
' "Holst your colors, young man!” exclaimed the Business Doctor "g,r
yourself a mark! Where arc you going? What are you aiming at* t„
get any place when you don't know where you have started is as hard as to
'. plant a piccolo and grow a (lute. When
you crawl out of your bed in the morn
ing and dress yourself for the dav'*
work, hoist yoyr colors,
“Set yourself a mark to attain. Ask
yourself the question, ‘What can I do
today to further ther best Interests of
the man who employs me? How can I
make myself more useful in some on.'
direction? Slake up your mind that
before the sun goes dowtj that you win
have accomplished some'one thing to.
ward the great goal at success. w#»
ton, in his pedestrian expedition acroti
the continent, only had to put on» foot
in front of the other a certain numb-r
of times to accomplish his feat. The
whole world moves on In one succession
of small acts, which go to make up the
great whole of life. One little fnlse step
after another spells failure, and one lit.
tie thing accompllshesd after another
makes for success.
"Holst your colors! Have a purpose
in life and let each day’s close find you
one step closer the goal for which you are aiming. Do not be ashamed nt
your ambitldn. Every human being you tell of what you Intend to acro m .
pllsh will strengthen your resolve Just that much, for It will add one pair of
eyes to the number who are watching you, .and every man who knows lif..
knows that it Is easier to be a hero, to do and to dare In front of an audience
than when alone.
“Holst your flag! Are you proud of the Job you hold? Are you content
with the consciousness that there Is no man on earth who esjt do that work
any better than you are now doing It? Is there any one particular In which
you might Improve? If there Is, set that for your objective point and stmt
this morning to accomplish that one thing before the sun sets. It Is only a
question of getting at It.
"Holst your colors! Are you starting out this morning full of grim de
termination and undaunted courage to win? Are your shoulders back and
do your eyes gleam with confidence? Or were you up so late last night that
your eye Is dim and you are lagging behind with halting gait nnd eyes that
look longingly at those who have accomplished their task? Holst your col
ors. boy, and get Into the greatest fight, the greatest game, tho finest occu.
patlon there Is in the world.' It Is the battle of commerce. It Is the game of
business. It Is the occupation of making a success out of something that
nine men In ten fall to rise beyond the dead level of mediocrity. Get Into It
with both feet!
“Holst your colors! Football, baseball, rowing and alt games of skill
and strength In which you ever entered at college are nothing compared with
It. It Is an endurance run. and only those who are trained to the minute
can win. Thv follow, who have toyed with the festive highball are out of
condition: the fellows who have dimmed their eyes sitting up at th* poker
table are 'also rans:’ the lada who have loitered and watched the clock have
little show: but the prize Is unlimited and thebe Is no entrance fee to tli»
race. Come on, they're off!
"Holst your colors! This Is your day! Victory Is within your grasp!
The world owes you a living and owes you success, but she Is hard to tnnkr
pay up. Go after It! The flag that drags In the dust and mire of discon
tent and discouragement is In the hands of the weakling, the mollycoddle.
Are you In that class? Are you willing to say to the business world that
you are made out of that sort of stuff? Are you going to do something, or
are you Just a talker and a bluffer? The trip from your Job to that of gen
eral manager Is Just a aeries of short steps. Are you going to take them?
If you are, set up your mark. Make one today. Holst your colors!"
Army-Navy Orders
And Movements of Vessels
Washington, Nov. 17.—The following
orders have been Issued:
Army Orders.
Captain C. C. Pulls. Second field ar
tillery, Chicago, as Instructor of the
organised militia.
Flret Lieutenant G. Garlth, Third
cavalry, retirement announced.
Captain R. C. Moore, corpe of en
gineers, to Chattanooga.
Captain W, D. Chltty, quartermas
ter. to Seattle, Wash , relieving Cap
tain P. M. Cochran, quartermaster of
the transport Dlx.'
First Lieutenant J. B. Henry, Jr„
Thirteenth cavalry', to Fort Slocum, N.
Y* for recruiting duty.
Resignation of First Lieutenant R. H.
Hetertc, medical reserve corps, accept
ed. »
Chances In pay department: Lieu
tenant J. B. Houston, deputy paymae-l
ter general, to Chicago, relieving Lieu-1 i n town and city this Impious Imp
tenant Colonel T. C. Goodman, who will I Goes up and down with a last year
Daily Health Chat
BY AM ATLANTA PHYSICIAN.
AGAIN "DOC.”
To Dr. Henry W. Roby, of Topeka, we
are indebted for the subjoined verses
which serve to emphasize some recent
remarks of ours In this column. Tht
verses are en'ltled "Doc" and run as fol
lows:
■ 6 •• .
I doubt not each of you know some rt.tr,
You would like to wallop, and whack tnd
And tumble over, and kick, and best
And trample clown In the mud of ilte
He's found'from Houston to Manitowoc;
The dubber who dubs the doctor Doc.
Out there In the country. f«m day todst
As you Jog along on the king a highway
Ha calls is soon as you coma In s gh .
And asks with an air of supreme delight,
glad and ay as a cuckoo clock—
filch way "be you goln this mornln,
Doc?”
J irooeed to Atlanta, Ga., and relieve Ma
or B. B. Ray, who will proceed to New
York city.
Naval Orders.
Captain A. H. Niblick, from duty as
naval attache, Brazil, Buenos Ayres,
Argentina, and Santiago, Chlla, De
cember 1, to duty as naval attache.
Berlin. Germany, and The Hague.
Movements of Naval Vestela.
Arrived—Tacoma, at Philadelphia;
Wheeling, at Port Llmon.
Sailed—Mohawk, from Washington
for Norfolk; California, Maryland and
South Dakota, from San Diego for San
Francisco; Oregon, from Ventura for
San Francisco.
THE DANCER OF OVER-STIMULATING THE YOUNG
From Th® Milwaukee Kvenlni Wisconsin.
Th* entrance of his lj-year-old son
Into Harvard university as sn advanced
student has called wide at'entlon to the
theory of Professor Boris Sldls. under
which the unusually forward youth hsa
bsan reared, that the energy •'MMrsn
ordinarily devote to play should be turned
to account for the promotion of their in
tellectual development. ,
Here are propositions formulated by
Profesor Sldls to serve ss maxims for
parents and teachers:
We must-begin the child's training be
tween the a*e« of two and three, not fear
ing brain fag and kindred bugaboo*.
Discus* abstract matters with the child
rrom the drat, teaching him to think. He
should be able to conduct hla own edu
cation by the time he seven years old.
At the age of nine he should be aa fa
miliar with the ordinary branches of
mathematics as the college entrant.
this In two years.
adapted for the childish mind can be dl*
Fected to the development uf his Inter
ests. Intellectual activity and love of
knowledge.
Being Tn a barbaric stage, we are afraid
of thought. We are under tha erroneous
belief that early thinking and study
cause nervousness and mental disorders.
President Quy Potter Benton, of the
University of Vermont, takes a very dif
ferent view. Here are sentences selected
from an article condemning hothouse
methods In education which appears with
his signature in The New York American:
Educations! infanticide Is a wicked
Man Is an Infant until he reacheg th*
age of twenty-flve years.-, .
Prematurity. hinders the preparation
for large usefulness.
house” child Is a mental wreck and good
for nothing.
The discussion thus epitomized Is not
new. Like many other problems In edu
cation and life the problem of how far
tt Is wise to push Instruction in the early
.. votins man should not he ready to [years of childhood has been coneuntly re
take up his life work until he is currtng in different ages of the world,
■even years old. . , There were advocates of the forcing
“ ‘ ‘ “ method In the United States before the
Civil war, and also there were those
who condemned it at that time. Among
..—mil of efrtclency Is extending
Itself; from fifty years at the beginning
of the century It Is now near sixty-five.
This Is not, as Is often said.. the age
of the young man. It is the age of the
prepared man. , . ,,,
It is better to start in one’s llfework
too late than too early.
The longer the period of Infancy Is
protracted, the more efficient your man
will be.
(elaborating on the main branch of
his theme. President Benton observes:
The effect of child labor Is familiar to
every one. It r may be seen most fre
quently In European cities. The streets
are full of queer little figures with pre
termit urally grave faces. OM before th*ir
time. They are men when they should
be playing around in some one’s back
yard. When they should be men, a few
years later, they are most often mental
and physical wrecks..
ft is the same way with too early and
too strenuous brain work. The child
can do It all right, just as the child
laborer can tend the machine or pick
the shire from the coal, or drive the mule
team in the coal mine.
But the effect Is sure to make itself
felt. And ten or twenty years later, when
the mind should he at its best, the "hot-
a story, entitled •’Miss Gilbert's Career.
It was a readable story and conveyed an
instructive lesson.- The lesson that to
encourage intellectual precocity in chil
dren is detrimental should hardly need
repeating at thla late day.
boy Is more .......
the average country boy of the same age;
but at thirty the country boy is likely
to have forged ahead. It Is because his
Physical system has been built up by air
and exercise and because his brain was
not forced to go to work too soon. The
country boy usually accumulates a re
serve of nervous energy, while the city
boy. overstimulated on the Intellectual
side, l* unprovided with that resource
and therefore fated to break down un
der the strain which competition In busi
ness and the professions and politics puts
upon those who essay an active part In
the affairs of the world. Indisputably there
Her Mistake,
From The Philadelphia Times.
Sweet was the lass. low was ths gas;
It was the evening she expected him to
put across the big question.
He did not look well. Something
seemed to be troubling him. He tried to
aay something, but the words stuck In his
throat, and the girl, noticing this, turned
the gas even lower.
Suddenly he turned to her and cried;
I’m a dub!”
’•No,” she said fondly. "You don’t ap
preciate yourself as well as some others
do, perhaps. Tee hee!”
"Yes,” he persisted stubbornly, "I’m a
dub!”
"No,” she maintained.
”Yes,” he almost shouted. "I'm a
dub!”
She was a sensible girl, and ao. realiz
ing that he ought to know best, she
thanked him kindly for warning her In
time and handed him his hat. It was
only after th* door slammed behind him
forever that she realized the awful truth.
He had contracted a nawsty cold, and
what he had been trying to say was,
"I’m In love!”
With arms akimbo, on hun c h |>* c k ''T’
With e boneyard yawning between nti
And head ae soft as a bes.wood block.
And ^Ins and greets you with Ilowd)
If you step out of your office door
To buy e book at e nearby store,
Or go to tho druggist's to pay your b j.
Or order a box of 81s Plnkhsm * pin*-
This old gong-beater gives you a «hock
With his loud ’'Hallo, what* your hurry
Doc?”
At the livery barn, where you keep your
There you'll encounter this living ^rM.
With a hang-dog air and a whlpped-dog
And whether the weather bei foul or fin*.
He will ask In a voice like a broken crocK,
M How do you like this weather, Doc.
When you go to church or to Sundaj
school. i . ,
You stumble onto this self same fool,
Whose only Joy Is in asking you
The silly questions that all fools do.
The question that all of them keep in
stock, s ,
How did you like the sermon, Doc
v\ nen you arc caueo, onu u cmiu
You can’t get out of the cottage
Till you hear this chump with an emptJ
pate.
Ask, In the pride of the barnyard cock,
"Is It boy or a baby, Doc?”
You’re scarcely out of the chapel door.
Till you hear the voice of this brutal bon
Saying, "It roust be an awful shock.
How did you come to lose him. Doc.
And so It wIB go till the end is reached.
And our funeral sermons have o«« n
preached.
We still shall meet in our dally round
This butting-in, blathering, bralnle*
hound.
This gibbering. Chinese Jahberwock. t .
The dubber who dubs the doctor Doc.
UNCLE WALT ^ PH?LOSOPHER\
I am couching, mother, coughing, till my neck is out of
joint, and I wish you’d bring the goosegrease, my worn bos
om to anoint. I have coughed in ancient lingoes, I have cough
ed lb modern tongues, till my India rubber
THE BAD COLD larynx seems to telescope my lungs. I’vs
done ground and lofty coughing, all the
SEASON plain and fancy kinds, till my coughing
jarred the plaster and shook down the win
dow blinds; I have coughed a counter-tenor, I have coughed »
rumbling bass. I have coughed until my coughing blew the
whiskers from my face. All the dope you’ve brought me.
mother, simply fails to hit the spot; I have taken tons of
tablet*, demijohns of liquid rot; I have drunk the tea you
brewed me. worn a poultice on my throat, and the doctor ha*
my savings and the druggist has my goat. Let us change the
treatment, mother: give me goose or gander grease: rub it on
my tortured larynx and perhaps I’ll die in peace.
WALT MASON.
Copyright. ISII. by George Matthew A darts.