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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 second-class matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under art of March 3. 1879. Why Women Should Vote » * » Not to Help Women, but to Help MEN. Women Will Improve All Governments, Nullify the Bad Men, Multiply the Good Men by Two ' Whether yon believe in female suffrage or not. whether you WANT to see women vote or not. make- up your mind to this: Women are going to vote. They are going to have their say in the laws that rule them and their children. They are go ing to add morality, benevolence and kindness to man’s gover ing selfishness, and NOTHING WILL STOP IT. There is a time for each important work. THIS IS THE TIME TO WORK AND GET THE VOTE FOR WOMEN. You will hear the subject discussed often in this newspaper. You are invited to join in the discussion. The Georgian has talked of votes for women often—but that was only the begin ning. We shall succeed in this “votes for women’’ campaign, as we succeeded in the others. BY THE HELP OF WOMEN. Our purpose is to interest, first of all. the poorer women. It is eas'- for the rich and prosperops “lady” to discutes in a distant, indifferent way her future and her rights. She has com fort,, luxury and ease now. Her rights do not really worry her verv much, except as an added luxury. Those especially interested, and in whom The Georgian is especially interested, are the poor women—women whose hus bands or fathers earn two dollars a day. or five or ten dollars a day perhaps. They are the women that really pay the cost of government today. Is not our government a trust government” Are not the real taxes in this country imposed BY THE TRI STS? The man with a little house pays a little tax on that house. And he pays to the government a little tax on his tobacco or his beer, if he uses either, another little tax on his woolen suit. But the government doesn’t get the REAL tax. That goes to the trusts. The real tax laid upon the people. WITHOUT REPRE SENTATION IN THE TAXING BODY, is made by the trusts. There is Mr. Rockefeller’s tax from the Oil Trust. There is the tax from the Sugar Trust and th* Meat Trust, and all the other trusts. WHO PAYS THOSE TAXES’ THE WOMEN PAY THEM. Thei spend the household money, and the trusts raise •their incomes by taxes in the household. The women of the poorer families, the wives of men with four or five hundred dollars a year, or of the lucky man with his three or four thousand dollars a year. THEY PAY THE COST OF OUR TRI ST GOVERNMENT. The poorer women pax the taxes; the poorer women should be allowed to vote. There are a hundred ways of looking at this question of votes for women, and no matter how you look at it. if you respect wont en. if you have had a good mother, a good wite. good daughters and sisters. GOOD WOMEN AROUND YOU. YOU MUST WORK IN FAVOR OF THE VOTE FOR’ WOMEN. Suppose a woman holds stock in a railroad. Is she not allow ed to vote like any man. as . stockholder in that railroad’ Is not every woman in America a stockholder in this NA TION? Do not the women of America CREATE the nation’ Wil] there be anything left of Ihe United States a hundred years from now. EXCEPT THE CHILDREN CREATED BY THE WOMEN LIVING IN THE I NITED STATES; Is not the nation made up of its people, and do not the women CREATE the people? Are they not entitled to an opinion, to cast ‘ a vote, in the lawmaking, in the country governing, in the tax im posing ' . You will hear women say that they do not want to vote, they are happy as they ar<. quite contented. And this is said often by some of the best women, the most intelligent in certain directions, excellent morally. We would ask them to remember that exactly the same thing was said by the black slaves when abolition was suggested. When there was talk of freeing the slaves many of the very best be haved, most worthy among the slaves, said: “We do not want freedom; we do not want abolition; we are satisfied as we are.” But those very good slaves that wanted to REMAIN slaves realize now that any kind of freedom was better than any kind of slavery. And to the women, well-meaning, satisfied, intelligent. BUT NARROW, we would say. ami we shall often repeat, THAT WHILE THEY MAY THINK THEY ARE CONTENTED IN THEIR. SLAVERY. ONCE THEY GET FREEDOM. ONCE THEIR MORAL CHARACTER IS EXPRESSED IN THE COUN TRY'S GOVERNMENT. THEY WILL FIND THE FREEDOM AND THE RIGHTS OF THE VOTER INFINITELY PREFERA BLE TO PEACEFUL, WELL-DRESSED. SILKY SLACTRY. The Atlanta Georgian THE CRITIC *• By HAL COFFMAN. i -- ' I A Home Workin* / _ 1 -T-nni •'■tW' r - X 'i. I ’ VOTfci i -Si ‘ WcMfh; i sl zlj , . FM .? IWHP /aLHs ■■■ r G ;/ i n’MwMw 'WiiiiiimA ■ ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The Importance of Breathing Deeply properties that we j have been wondering at and labeling as almost miraculous in the new element ra dium are possessed in small but measurable degree by the internal organs of oui own bodies. Our brains are especially radio-active, the heart less so, and the kidneys still less. As our means of de tecting radio-activity become more delicate, we are discovering it in more and more natural objects and substances. How do our organs acquire it? From the food we eat. or from the air we breathe? We do not know; but possibly the lat ter alternative is more probable, since the lungs are verv radio- That is what science says about radium. "Now. since sciente has. spoken the word for the breath, perhaps the men and women who have given no heed to the voice of the seers will listen and learn the great FA< -T. Quantity and Quality of Blood Depends on Air. A well known physician said years ago: "Excepting troubles resulting from physical violence, every physical trouble car. be traced to the imperfection of blood supply of the bodv Blood is the agent that gives life to every cell in the bodv. and the health of every in dividual cel! depends on the quan tity and quality of the blood that nourishes It "The quantity and quality of blood depend on the food and on THE AIR WE BREATHE.” Then the doctor fwho is an emi nent metaphysician as well as a physician) urges us to drink ‘wo quarts of pure water daily and to AVEDXESDAY’. MAX' 8. 1912. By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX (Copyright, 1912, by American-Journal-Examiner.) BREATHE. BREATHE. BREATHE often, deep!?’ and long. I'eep breathing acts as a mes sage for the internal organs. Too great stress pan not be laid on the important part the MIND PLATS in stimulating the organs of the body to perform their proper functions, he says again. Here is a part of his mental for mula : "I am breathing in the air: it is reaching every part of my lung cells. It is creating good, rich blood and supplying every part of my body. Health is my birthright. I am obtaining it from the life es sentials. nutritious food, pure wa ter and fresh air." The physician insists that this mental assertion, made with the deep breathing and the partaking of pure food, will benefit every in valid and eventually cure any mal ady. Thought is a positive dynamic force that takes form in action. But he adds: THE BODY REQUIRES THE LIFE ESSENTIALS—AIR. FOOD, WATER—AND ALL THE AFFIR MATIONS OR AUTO SUGGES TIONS OFFERED BY NEW THOUGHT WILL NOT CURE UNLESS the physical body is given proper attention." And, first of all, comes BREATH as a life essential. Here is a Good Rule for Deep Breathing. Here is a rule for deep breath ing: Take a full. Long, deep breath, that extends the chest and the ab domen. Then hold the chest distended and let the breath go out by draw ing the abdomen in and up. N Repeat this exercise seven times, and not less than three times, daily. This exercise, done while walk ing. is earnestly recommended: Breathe through the nostrils: AND MAKE THE MENTAL AS SERTIONS OF HEALTH AND PHYSICAL PERFECTION WITH EACH BREATH Here is a Rosary to use in breathing. Say mentally: This fresh air I am breathing in is RADIUM. It contains undreamed of power to rejuvenate, heal and strengthen. It is filling my whole system; and driving out every undesirable con dition. It is bringing me health, quiet sleep and pure blood. It is making my mind, clear, and en abling me to do and have what ever I wish. Think of your breathing exer cises as SCIENTIFIC methods of obtaining and keeping health. Give Deep Breathing a Thorough Trial. Remember science has declared that the human body is radio active. And that the lungs must draw in the qualities in the atmos phere which produce this wonder ful thing, radium, we know. The brain, which is the seat of radium, must be fed by the blood; i and blood must be produced by air: and air must be pumped into the veins by BREATH. Therefore, whatever your belief, or lack of belief, whatever your malady, or trouble, give deep breathing a trial-. Take the exercise three times a day for one month, never missing one day or one time. Make your mental assertions while you breathe. And then take mental and physi cal stock of yourself at the end of that time, and see If you are not richer in health, in strength, in mind and in happiness. THE HOME PAPER ( Dr. Parkhurst’s xArticle on The Three Items of Ex pense of Strikes —and— The Way Canada Deals With Them "Written For The Georgian By the Rev. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst THE Canadian method of deal ing with strikes is one that we could wisely afford to imitate. It need not be repeated that as at present conducted and fought out strikes are an expensive and repulsive feature of our economic condition, and. judging from Cana dian experience all this expensive ness, or by far the larger part of it, might be avoided. Strikes involve three items of expense: expense to the owners, expense to the operatives, which is most grievous of all in its imme diate results; expense to the genera! public in the way of dis turbing the equilibrium of pro duction and trade. .Now, in Canada they do things differently. Strikes occur there, but they are not allowed to continue a running sore, draining month after month the vitality of the body politic, using up acquired wages, intruding on acquired capital and producing a general state of uncertainty and unsettlement. The Canadian government five years ago passed a law forbidding The Whole Earth Is Not Too Great a Tomb No Matter Where the Dead Lie on This Little Globe, They Are in the Almighty’s Hand. Bv GARRETT P. SERVISS THE hearts of many women, whose husbands, fathers or brothers helped them aboard the Titanic’s lifeboats, and then, with resolute, souls, scorning the example of the head of the White Star line, turned back to the sinking decks and waited for a death from which they could not escape with honor, are troubled by the thought that their dear ones now lie. in their last sleep, a thou sand miles away from home "in the deep bosom of the ocean buried. It Is a natural feeling which has been shared by millions in ali times. The family tombs that mark our cemeteries and the "campo santos" of Italy, as they marked the highways approaching ancient Athens and imperial Rome, are a token of the strength of the sentiment, which prescribes that all the members of a family shall, as far as possible, repose in the same soil, remaining within touch in death as they were in life. It arises from the religious instinct and is connected with the belief in human immortality. In Christian lands it denoted a feeling that, when the last trump shall sound, those, who have lived in one another’s pres ence should rise AND STEP FORTH TOGETHER to receive the sentence of the Final Judge. It was a sentiment acknowledged even by the American Indians, as is shown by the dying words of the famous Iroquois chief. Red Jacket; "I do not wish to rise among pale faces. I wish to be surrounded by red men." Still, it is a feeling whose de mands can not always be respected by events, and there exists a wide and deep consolation for those who must see it violated by the infi nitely varied chances of terrestrial life. This consolation comes from reflection upon the LITTLENESS OF THE EARTH. Let her whose husband, son or brother went to his death under the chill iceberg, in a sea two thousand fathoms deep, look upon this earth not as the geographer regards it, a vast and mighty globe, whose bulk blots out half the sky, but rather as the as tronomer sees it, a little speck floating in space, too insignificant, in a physical sense, to attract the least attention from eyes that range over the limitless universe! IL t the ordering of any strike or lock out till the grievance involved or supposed to be involved had been submitted to an official board of in vestigation, on which there shall be representatives of the two parties in conflict. The Canadian law does not forbid strikes, but requires their post ponement till a determined official effort has been made to effect an adjustment. It is claimed that a 90 per cent reduction in the number of actual strikes has been effected by this policy, economizing millions of dol lars to employers and employees, and securing a better condition of feeling than would otherwise be possible between the capitalists and working men. This system of procedure wrongs no one. compromises no one’s inter ests and allows the wheels of enter prise to continue running. A move ment outside of our country, which has more than justified itself by five years of mutually beneficent, results, ought to find advocates and imitation on this side of the Cana dian frontier. There are ultra-microscopic be ings to whom a grain of sand would seem as huge and prodigious as this globe appears to us; but if their fate and that of their grain of sand were under our control we would smile pityingly to see them striving, even in death, to keep to gether lest some of them should be overlooked and forgotten in the final accounting. For. no matter on what side of their wee world they might lie. they could not be lost, or even separated, since the whole grain would lightly repose, a mere atom, in the hollow of the protecting hand. Such a speck of sand—and infinitely ] ess than such a speck—is the earth in the hand of Him who created it and the bound less universe round it. What are a thousand miles, or a thousand thousand miles, to that Great Ar tificer. of the Heavens who set plan ets revolving around suns in paths billions of miles in length and made unnumbered millions of suns to blaze in galaxies whose riches no telescope can fathom and who lights up other galaxies and sys tems in those outer depths which the swift couriers that tread the luminiferous ether are too wearied * to traverse? And what is the film of the ephemeral sea to the meas ureless, bottomless, eternal deeps of all-enveloping space? Wherever we live and wherever ' we die. on this mite of a planet, we are always TOGETHER AND IN SEPARABLE in the Eye of the In finite One, as the ultra-microscopic inhabitants of the grain of sand would be indivisible to our wider vision. Pericles had a glimpse of this great truth when he declared in his famous funeral oration that “the whole earth is the tomb of ■ illus trious men.’’ The illustrious men of whom he spoke were those who had given their lives for their coun try on the battlefields of Attica, just as the illustrious men now be fore our mental vision are THOSE WHO SANK WITH THE SHIP, THAT THE WOMEN AND CHIL DREN MIGHT STILL LIVE But Pericles felt, as we do. that the great law is universal, agd that the whole earth is not too wide a tomb to keep safely, and beyond any chance of loss, all who sink to rest in honor and with clear spirits anywhere upon its bosom.