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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St.. Atlanta, Ga Entered as seeond-elass matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 1873. ! A Mother’s Work and Her Hopes This editorial is not written FOR WOMEN. It is written for MEN, and for boys: for the millions who fail to appreciate the work that mothers do, for the millions that ignore the self sacrifice and devotion upon which society is based. On a hot night, in the dusty streets of a dirty city, you see hnndedrs o fwomen sitting in the doorways, FAKING CARE OF BABIES. In lonesome farmhouses, far out on monotonous plains, with the late sun setting on a long day of hard work, you find wom en, cheerful and persevering, TAKING * ARE OF BABIES. Tn the middle of the night, in earliest morning, when MEN sleep, all over the world, in ice huts North, in Southern tents, in big houses and in dingy tenements, you find women awake, cheerfully and gladly TAKING CARE OF BABIES. We respect and praise the man selfishly working for himself. If he builds up a great industry and a great personal fortune, we praise him. If he risks his life for personal glory and for praise, we praise him. If he show’s courage even in saving his own carcass from de struction, we praise him. There was never a man whose courage or devotion could be compared with that of a woman caring for her baby. The mother’s love is unselfish, and it has no limit this side of the grave. You will find ONE man in a thousand who will risk his life for a cause. You will find a THOUSAND women in a thousand who will risk their lives for their babies. , Everything that a man has and is he owes to his mother. From her he gets health, brain, encouragement, moral character and ALL his chances of success. How poorly the mother's service is repaid by men individ ually. and by society as a whole '. The individual man feels that he has done much if he gives sufficient money and a LITTLE attention to her who brought him from nothingness into life and sacrificed her sleep and youth and strength for his sake. Society, the aggregate of human bc.ngs, feels that its duty is done when a few hospitals are opened for poor mothers, and a lit tle medicine doled out in cold-hearted fashion to the sick child. Fortunately, it may truly be said that the great man is almost always appreciative of his greater mother. Napoleon was cold, jealous of other men. monumentally ego tistical when comparing himself with other sons of women. But he reverenced and appreciated the noble woman who bore him, lived for him and watched over him to the end. He said; The future of the individual child depends on the individual mother, and the future of the race depends on the mothers of the race. Think what has been done for mankind by thousands of mil lions of perfectly devoted mothers. Every mother is entirely DEVOTED, entirely HOPEFI L. en tirely CONFIDENT that no future is too great for her baby's deserts The little head—often hopelessly ill-shaped—rolls about fee bly on the thin neck devoid of muscles. The toothless gums chew whatever comes along. The wondering eyes look feebly, aimless ly about, without focus or concentration. The future human be ing, to the cold-blooded onlooker, is a useless little atom added to the human sea of nonentity. But to the mother that baby is the marvel of all time. There is endless meaning in the first mumblings, endless soul in the senile, baby smile, unlimited possibilities in the knobby forehead and round, hairless head. She sees in the future of the baby re sponsibilities of government, and feels that one so perfectly lovely must eventually be acclaimed ruler by mankind. As a result of perfect confidence in its future, the mother gives to every baby perfect devotion, perfect and affectionate moral education Each child begins life inspired by the most beautiful example of altruism and self-sacrifice. Kindness has gradually taken the place of brutality among human beings, because every baby at its birth has found itself snr '* rounded by absolute kindness. The mother’s kindness forms moral character. The mother’s confidence and encouragement stimulate ambi tion and inspire courage. The mother’s patient watchfulness gives good health, and fights disease when it comes. The mother's wrathful protection shields the child from the stern and dwarfing severity of fathers. Truly, a man may and should be judged by his feeling toward his own mother, and toward the mothers of other men—-of .ALL MEN In the character of Christ, whose last earthly thought on Gol gotha was for His Mother, as in the character of the ing. ignorant man whose eernings go to make his mother comfort able, the most beautiful trait is devotion to the mother who suf fers and works for her children, from the hours that precede their birth through all the years that they spend on earth together, t- Honor thy father and THY MOTHER. And honor the mothers of other men Make their task easier through fair payment of the men who support rhe children, through good public schools for their childreu, through respect ! ful treatment of ALL women. The mother is happy. For she knows -rhe deep joj of loving some one else more than herself." You honor yourself, and prove yourself worthy of a good mother and of final success, when you do something for the moth ers of the world. Begin bv working to GIVE WOMEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE. I The Atlanta Georgian IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE By HAL COFFMAN. 'r o' —— — *Y“' 'A 000/- - You Tc uP \ *////' 'll I Js 3 >5 a VlTTue PtACfc ;: j ' ///////zO for nN 1 \/V —'S f.’.i ’7. 7”/aw-g-6e!\ To- oo ANY - —SC WORK ABOUT fflf. The Hoose r -~ ' —~r f LtMME. \ 1" — dis sone. \ ; i i \ w tut ya l I 'll TT'"'-- \ ARCHIE ? J * i ' Il /—Uh ; a . Uz / ' NOPe! tTs\ I I 1 | | ( H6Y ARCHIE LEAVE s SHOveu I | I j K I D'G AwhilE. ) » AN’ I v/oNT I • '"K. f I \ will Ya 7 /Z l\ let xa i / \ JI /~~\h ~? C* 1 / said i \// wAO \ I 11/ 1 ; I could d«s- )// *Y 2 >I I - v / ’—fowl /L O ' Tn,s makes -A. z'-X ' I 5-Ol HOW \ Ik H lAs, BsjT HE ' y '’-mCr HSH ... M woRmS i’'S 7 I Different ’< -«air \ y-"' - < The Mystery of the Gulf Stream The Atlantic Ocean Is a Great Engine For the Conveyance of Heat By GARRETT P. SERVISS. According to the reports of many sea captains, icebergs have this year appeared in the Atlantic ocean more abundant ly and farther south than ever be fore. Some have thought that the Titanic disaster was the result of a temporary change in the direction, or force, of the gulf stream. The captain of an Italian steamship saw a berg 300 feet long, and rising 50 feet above the sea, in lattitude 39 degrees, 20 minutes; longitude 40 degrees, 3 minutes. That point is in the middle of the north Atlantic, as far south as Baltimore. A few hundred miles farther north the berg fields of ice have recently cov ered hundreds of square miles of the ocean's surface. Some reports indicate that the Titanic ran at a speed of 25 miles an hour, between two spreading wings of an immense fle»t of Icebergs, which were ar rayed in the form of a great V. with the opening toward the east, and that the fa’al encounter occurred when the ship bad reached the in ner end of tne V, where only the most careful navigation could have found a safe, passage. If that be true, the huge ship, with its cargo of move than 2,000 lives, disregard ing all the warnings received from other vessels, was simple rushing upon aimost certain destruction, like a cruiser speedinc recklessly into a cunning trap laid tor it bv a squadron of battleships. The suggestion tha-; there may have been a temporary change ir. the direction of the ocean currents is not, in itself. <rltogerher improb able. There are two great currents which are primarily concerned w ith the < ircuiatioii of the North Atlan tic ocean. There are 'he gulf stream and the Labrador current, the first composed of warm. tly> second of cold, w ater. They encoun ter each othe east, or southeast, -f New foundland The gulf stream, after rushing out of the narrow straits of Florida, turns gradually away from the American coast and spreads more and more broadly, until it finally divides into vast branches, one of which trends southward between the Azores and the coast of Spain, while another goes on and warms the air around the British Isles. The cold Labrador current, bear ing the icebergs from Greenland, hugs the American coast, and is probably mainly responsible for the cool spring weather we sometimes enjoy, and sometimes denounce, when its changeable moods become too eccentric. If you will look at a hart of the North Atlantic, show - ing the ocean currents, you will perceive how the great Labrador stream, with its cold, heaiy. ice- SATURDAY. MAY 4. 1912. burdened water, seems to shoulder the genial current of the gulf stream away from the eastern shores of America, forcing it far ther out in the ocean. It is evi dent, at a glance, that either an increase in the force, of the cold stream from the north or a de crease. in that of the warm one from the south would tend to widen the area covered by the icebergs, and send them farther than usual across the lane of the trans-At lantic liners. If such a change has occurred, it must be due to some alteration in the force and direction of the pre vailing winds, for the ocean cur rents mainly arise from the general circulation of the air, and that in turn depends upon the rotation of the earth on its axis. The warm air in the region of the equator rises and flows off northward at a high elevation, and the cold air from the north moves southward, near the surface, to take its place. But this surface air. coming from a part of the earth where the east ward motion due to the rotation of the earth is less rapid than it is toward the equator, finds itself moving over parts of the earth whose speed of rotation is greater than its own The consequence is that a wind arises blowing west ward over the surface. You can see how this is if you take a school giobe and set it spin ning on its axis Then v ,u will per ceive that a point near either pole moves only an inch or less in the same time that a point near the equator moves a foot or more. In fact, this motion of translation in creases from nothing exactly at the pole to a thousand miles an hour at the equator. Now. imagine your self to be moved suddenly from the pole to the equator. YOU WOULD APPEAR TO BE SPINNING THROUGH SPACE A THOUSAND MILES AN HOUR, in a direction opposite to that of the earth's rota tion. The air from. the Arctic regions experiences no such sudden in crease of motion because it re quires a long time to make the journey over the earth's surface. But all the while it is moving to. ward the equator it is continually finding the surface beneath it mov ing faster eastward than it was farther north, and. consequently, because it can not instantly take up this increase of eastward mo tion itself, it allows the surface to turn beneath it; thus, wtth regard to that surface, it becomes a west erly wind. This is the origin of the "trade winds." which blow westward con tinually along each side of the equator. These constant winds set the surface of the ocean in motion along with them. In that way a great current is set flowing in the Atlantic from the 1 direction of Africa toward America. When this current encounters South America a large part of it .is sheered off northwestward, and entering the Caribbean sea and the Gulf of Mex ica, is heaped up there, until it escapes again, mainly through the straits of Florida, thus giving birth to the gulf stream. This stream, flowing northeastward in the. North Atlantic, as we have already said, gradually spreads wider and loses its force, but not until it has crossed the ocean, going eastward. A large part of this water, turning southward again in the middle of the Atlantic, is drawn once more into the westward current caused by the trade winds, so that the whole ocean is kept in motion like an enormous eddy, whose northern edge moves eastward while the southern edge moves westward. But while the principal cause of this wonderful circulation of the ocean waters is that‘which we have described, yet minor influences also affect it. the chief of these being the winds that blow across the At lantic in a direction w hich is main ly from west toward east. These winds aid the circulation of the water, and a variation in their force or direction may at times greatly affect the speed and trend' of the currents. Looking at ail this broadly, we see that, in the great oceanic cur rents. nature has solved a vast problem which has always appealed to the imagination of man. but which he is too weak in resources to solve for himself, and that is the UTILIZATION OF THE EARTH S ROTATION to produce mechanical power Through the intervention of the constant winds, arising from the rotation, nature transforms this force into.a motion of the sea waters. And. more than that, by’ means of this motion, carrying warm* w ater from, the equator to ward the poles, the climates of im mense regions of the earth are changed widely from what they would be if the ocean were stag nant: It has been calculated that if all the oceanic currents-were ar rested. the temperature of the equator would rise 55 degrees, and that of the poles would become S 3 degrees lower than at present. The British Isles and northern Europe w-ould become almost arctic in cli mate. for the mean temperature in the latitude of London would sink to 10 degrees. It has also been cal culated that the quantity of heat daily conveyed northward by the gulf stream is equivalent to that received by l.soojioo square niles of the earth's surface under the perpendicular sun of the equator. THE HOME PAPER Ella Wheeler Wilcox Writes on The Effect of the Human Voice -—and— How It Echoes the Human Soul Written For The Atlanta Georgian By Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copyright, 1912. by American-Journal-Examiner. VOICES affect me like music; like perfumes; like scenes in Nature. I have heard the voice of a man or a woman who was not visible; and all the atmosphere changed.as if a sudden wind had arisen; or as if an eclipse had taken place at noonday; or as If a "light that never was on land or sea" had risen in-the skies at night. • Once in the desert of the com monplace I heard a Voice, and in stantly I was enveloped ih beauty. Statues gleamed from hidden niches; and fountains played; and there were culture’and repose and charm over all my world. Voices are exact reflections of the mind and soul; or they are echoes from past incarnations. Not all soft voices are pleasant; not all loud voices are unpleasant. It depends upon the Quality. There is a woman who is crowned with youth and classic beauty. She is like a marble goddess to see; and oftentimes I'have beheld her mov ing about exquisitely kept lawns,, under the shadow of great trees. A Woman Whose Beauty. Pleases Till She Speaks. She is a picture to please the eye; a picture—until she speaks. Always when her voice reaches my ears the same thing occurs. The beautiful lawns give place to ragged, unkempt farm house yards; the great trees vanish, and I see only forlorn buildings, dilapidated stables, men in shirt-sleeves and “suspenders,” coming home tired with toil; women with calico aprons and prematurely faded faces, performing disagreeable du ties. The utterly commonplace and upromantic side of life is expressed by the vdieft Os this beautiful wom an. It is like a blow to my ear. Her own nature, is devoid of ro mance; there is no sentiment in her soul. And the voice tells the story of temperamental poverty, despite her appearance and surroundings. Another woman who is sweet and wholesome to look upon, and nor mal in every respect, speaks, and I grow dazed, as under the influence of some strange narcotic. She may discuss . weather or bonnets; she may of art and How to Make Life Long and Happy IN his work on “Preventative Medicine.” Dr. Benjamin W. Richardson has this to say on the rules for preventing the undue waste of the bodily'energies; “The rules of right living should begin in youth. It' should be the habit ,of grow’n : up persons never to subject children to mental shocks and unnecessary griefs. When in the surroundings of the child life some grave calamity has occurred it is best to make the event as light as .possible to the child, and cer tainly to avoid thrilling it with sights and details which stir it to the utmost; and, in' the-end. only leave upon, the mind and heart in curable wounds and oppressions. Children should not be taken to fu nerals, nor to sights that cause a sense of fear and dread combined with great grief. “To avoid premature old age in mature life, the following are im portant rules to remember: “Dwelling on the inevitable past, forming vain hypotheses as to what might have been if this or that had or had not been, acquiring a craze for recounting what has occurred The May King By MINNA*' IRVING. Behold him! a giant in Jumper of blue, As he dangles his feet from a dray. With a pipe in his mouth and a match in his hand, For he is the King of the May. The sweet little May queens in ribbons and curls Their graces in vain will display. For to him we must bow, and salaam, and kow-tow The big, burly- King of the May. His crown is composed of the china and glass We have cherished for many a day; He smashes it all, but we dare not demur, For he Is the King of the May. We wish we had put off our moving a while. And view- his approach with dismay, As he drives up in.state in a lumbering van. The terrible King of the May. "-Hu - ip literature; or she may talk of cur rent gossip. Yet the same result invariably follows. There is a lit tle blur over my brain; a peculiar haze; and the real things of life seem so far away; and I. imagine incense curling up from censers in some dim room. Some time, in some past life, she has been a part of such conditions. Once I met a man of talents, a man of whom the world had great hopes, of whom it expected won derful achievements. But after I had heard him speak I ceased to believe in his future. His voice was light—as thin as -water running over shallow places. It could not be a voice of the depths. I know a man whose voice will bring calm out of turmoil; peace but of discord; and rest out of weariness. Men. women, children, animals, all feel the magnetism and charm of his modulated tones. Each sentence is a caress, however dignified the words may be. There are voices which rouse you to action, which stir you with am bition; and there are others which fill you with despondency. There are voices which irritate you like the buzzing of an insect or the grating of a file; and voices which hiss like serpents and snap like turtles, . Sometimes from the rosSbud mouth of youth proceeds the crack ed voice of age; and from feminine lips the deep bass of masculine tones; but most dreadful of all is the thin, piping voice of femininity issuing from the bearded lips of man. That which we are, that which we have been tn some former , in carnation. speaks in our tones. That which we are, and the re sult of that which we have been, can be changed and modified by the cultivation of the voice. Ask Your Best Friend About Your Voice. Were all the .world to speak in a melodious and / pleasing voice, many of the harsh and disagree able qualities in human nature would disappear. What does your voice express’ Listen and analyze it; and then ask your ibest friend, if you are brave enough to hear the answer. —these acts, do more harm to fu ture health and effort than many things connected with real calami ty. Occupation and new- pursuits are the best preventives for mental shock and bereavement. "Hate keeps the heart always at full tension. It gives rise to op pression of the brain and' senses. It confuses the whole man. It robs the stomach of nervous power,- and, digestion being injured, the failure of life begins at once. “The facia! expression of jealousy is old age in however young a face it may be cast. Jealousy preys upon and kills the heart. So jealous men are not only unhappy, but broken-hearted and live short lives. I have never known a man of jeal ous nature live anything like a, long life. The prevention for jeal ousy is diversion of mind toward useful and unselfish work. “Everything that interferes with chastity favors vita! deterioration, while the grosser departures from chastity, leading to specific and hereditary disease, are certain causes of organic degeneration and premature old age.”