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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 act of March 3. 1379. The Man in Congress Who Votes For the Dillingham i Immigration Bill Is a F 00l or a Knave—in Any Case ■ Unfit to Live in This Country. « K R That Bill Would Have Excluded the Mother of Abraham Lin coln From Our Ports. It Is Un-American, Undemocratic, Brutal and Offensive to Common Decency. And We Are Inclined to Think It Would Be Highly Pleasing to Russia, Keeping at Home and at the Czar's Mercy the Jewish Revolutionists and Enemies of Autocracy. The members of congress are considering a bill known as the “Dillingham measure. " It is a bill neatly worded, smoothly disguised, which PRE TENDS to protect American workers from the competition of for eigners. It is really a bill drawn to oblige the Russian government. It contains an amendment known as “the Root amendment'’ prepared by a “gentleman" who probably includes Russia among his sources of income This amendment provides that any alien “who conspires with others for the violent overthrow of a foreign government shall be liable to deportation. " Every intelligent American knows what that means. It means that the vicious and cruel government of Russia, anx ious to get hold of those that work for freedom in behalf of the Russian people, has introduced a bill into the I'nited States con gress that would send back to Russia those that Russia wants— those that would be sent to Siberia, or a quicker death, especially the Jewish revolutionists. How disgraceful for any congressman to introduce a measure or vote for a measure that would send back to Russia or Turkey or any foreign country a man guilty only of the effort to do FOR HIS OWN NATIVE LAND WHAT THE AMERICANS OF 1776 DID FOR THIS LAND ! The population of the United States, the government of the United States, the prosperity of the United States, everything that we possess worth while, is the result of “the violent overthrow of a foreign government." We are what we are because we overthrew violently the gov ernment of Great Britain, which taxed us and oppressed us. Mr. Dillingham, with his bill, and Mr. Root with his amend ment. are sponsors for the hill that should have had a knave for its originator—A WELL-PAID KNAVE—and a fool for its gulli ble sponsor. The Dillingham bill would enable obliging gentlemen like JVfr. Root—properly “RETAINED" and seeing no difference between an honest dollar and any other kind of a dollar- to send back to Russia any Jewish or other Russian immigrant whose death or im prisonment might be desired by lhe czar. < This bill would enable the Russian government, with a little judicious bribery of the right individual, to reach across the ocean and pluck from ♦his land of safety and freedom any revolutionist, any man GUILTY OF DOING WHAT EVERY AMERICAN DID WHEN THIS COUNTRY WAS ESTABLISHED. One feature of the bill, which is supposed to make it accept able hut which is almost as offensive as the Root amendment intro duced by Russia, is the so-called educational test This is a test which would have kept the mother of Abraham Lincoln out of the United States if she had come to our shores and found such a bill as the Dillingham bill in existence. It is a bill that would keep out of our country millions of hon est. earnest, sincere men and women that the country needs. Fortunately, this bill will not pass. Even if enough money were spent to pass it in congress, it would not become law. For President Taft couldn't, without stultifying himself, sign a bill that would give Russia a chance to take back to Siberia immigrants ac cused of no crime except patriotism. The only question is. WHO ARE THE KNAVES AND THE FOOLS THAT WILL VOTE FOR THIS BILL’ Who are they whose fathers and mothers or grandfathers ami grandmothers more or less removed would have been kept out of America by such a bill, and who will now vote to build up a wall against those that have a right to come here and that the country needs ? It ought not to he necessary to say one word against a bill as vile, cowardly and unworthy as this one. Everyone knows that a “Root amendment" MEANS MONEY SPENT BY SOMEBODY, and everybody knows that a Root amend ment such as that which Russia has put into this bill means that there is plenty of money where the original money came from. Therefore, it is necessary to point out the ‘act that the man who shall vote for this Dillingham bill will prove himself a fool who knows no better, or a knave who has part of the ' amendment moaFviu his pocket ■* j \ 4 The Atlanta Georgian WHAT IS HOME WITHOUT A SUFFRAGETTE? By T. E. POWERS. Copyright. 1912. by International News Service. rTTUATT?" 1 <■ " /kA H < beautiful) -J* \ V’ A * A ° g > A,. —A" A r - T -r~ gHig Ur w ® f / . C U A ALjIB ' < n - • x lOfA hlr B&gW |A| A Wlf 3M " A -f Z S' JX- ora-g f WILL YOU SPEAK ’YTNoTonVour ) wr - A 3 ATTHESoffracedt -nNTYPE H 2i JC Q g'M MEETING ToHIG.HT?) LUA—X_J ImT IwM . ZXX-- "2^—-A rX ■ -VS ■—w/ . A . > SMOOTHING _THE SEA - Boats Have Been Saved From Destruction by Use of Oil on the Waves I ; ; THE growing use of motor boats has given renewed in terest to the question of the usefulness of the method, which has been known from remote an tiquity, of smoothing the waves by means of oil spread upon them. It is a matter of common observation that a thin Aim of oil resting upon a surface of water prevents the lat ter front rippling under the action of a brisk wind. The popular ex planation is that the oil holds the water down. Rut this is not the true explanation, for the oil is lighter than the water —if it were not it would float on the surface. The action of tYie oil is due to the fad that its surface tension is less than that of the water. In conse quence of this difference the oil spreads rapidly over the water, and wherever it spreads it presents a surface whose tension is less than that of water anil which has a less tendency to break into combing crests. It protects the water be neath from the combing force of the wind driving across the sum mits of the waves. Oily Film Prevents Breaking Os Upper Edge of Waves. In a series of letters published in the May number of the magazine MOTOR BOATING the experiences of navigators with the use of oil on stormy waves are interestingly* summed up. The oil can not "hold the sea down.” The waves con tinue to rise and fall, whether thev are covered with oil or not. but the oily film prevents the. breaking of the Upper edges of the waves, which is the great source of danger to ships and boats. If waves do not "break" the boat will simply ride smoothlv upon them, running over the - rest, and down through the hollows tik- a bird rising and dipping in the air It h i been suggested that the • u.c o! cti m tiiiz wa> -vas first WEDNESDAY, MAY 15. 1912. By GARRETT P. SERVISS called to the attention of naviga tors by observation of the "slick" which forms In the wake of a whale. It may also have been sug gested by the effect of oil accident ally spread upon the surface of wind-driven water. At any rate, it was known as long ago as the time of the early Phoenician navigators, and yet it is only in'modern times that Its use has become general. Even now there are seamen who ex press little confidence In it—prob ably because in their experience it had been improperly applied, or be cause in great storms it has not proved effective. When a ship is driving through a heavy sea the ap plication of the oil must be, con tinuous in order to afford any pro tection. Means must be found, if practicable, to make the oil spread to windward in order that the crests of the waves may be smooth ed at the moment when they rush upon the.ship. Undoubted!? the effect.of the oil is more pronounced in the case of a small boat than in that of a large vessel. The impact of the waves against the bow or side of the latter is sufficient to cause them to break toser and rightly judging the prop boat offers less resistance, and if the surface of the waves is suffi ciently smoothed to prevent the wind from combing them the boat rides triumphantly over the stormy water. Still, there are many cases on record where large vessels, in the opinion of the navigators, have been saved from damage, if not from de struction. by the free use of oil. The effect has sometimes been de scribed as almost miraculous, and there is, 1 believe, a rule prescribed by the conditions of marine insur ance requiring the use of oil at sea, and this rule insures the use of oil even by sea captains who. person ally. have 6ut little faith in it. One of them is quoted as saying "I use oil according to prescribed rules, because I have valuable Ilves and cargo in charge. Suppose my vessel should be lost and the in vestigation disclosed that 1 didn't use oil? I'd be censured, probably lose my certificate, and have a deuce of a wait before getting an other command.” But this same old salt, who ap parently personally prefers to fight it out with old Neptune with bare fists, makes this statement, con taining a significant confession: "One big sea generally does the damage in hurricanes, a sea as big as a mountain, that may not have another anywhere as large in 24 hours. Oil might smooth that par ticular sea enough to enable a boat to live, provided that you hadn't wasted all your'oil before it hap pened along." In other words, it is a question either of having enough oil to out last a storm or of husbanding- the store and rightly judging the prop er moment to use it. Any Kind of Oil May Be Utilized. X’arious kinds of oil ma?’ be em ployed. Fish oil appears to be a favorite with many: others prefer lard oil or some kind of vegetable oil: still others cylinder oil or min eral oils. In fact, an? kind of oil is effective, although not all are equall.v so. The general method of application is to put the oil in loose!?' woven bags, such as gunny sacks or specially prepared canvas bags, together with oakum, and then to pierce the sacks w ith holes through which, the oil ma?’ slow)?- escape. When at anochor the bags ma?’ be bent to the cable ahead of the boat. From a ship running be fore a gale the oil ma?’ be dropped from the quarters. The bags may also be suspended over the bow or along the quarters, or fastened to the forward catheads, or allowed to drip through the forward water closets. Whatever the manner of applica tion. the chief Essential i. that thc o'.l shall as far as possible, be made to spread over the surface t n the direction from which the waves ad vance THE HOME PAPER Dr. Parkhurst’s Article ° n . Who Is the Liar, Roose- L. velt or Taft? —and— A Considerate Word for I Astor Written For The Georgian By the Rev. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst THE controversy between the two Republican candidates for the presidency has reached an stase whnh is disappointing humiliating and damaging. So long as a campaign is utilized to the threshing- out of political principles we can afford to be grat ified by the intensity with which it is maintained, for the more sharply antagonistic views are set over against each other the morNinter eeting and instructive the process becomes. But nothing of the kind can be said of the scrimmage at the point at which it has now arrived. It is no longer a matter of pro gressivism against converatism or of conservatism against progressiv ism. It is simply a question of who is the liav, Roosevelt or Taft? It has reduced to a wrangle of personalities, and develops the un comely passions of the two leaders in the first instance and of their respective followers in the second instance. It makes a bad spectacle before the world abroad and impairs our political dignity at home. When two boys commence call ing each other names the best treatment to give them Is to sep arate them and send them home; and what shall be said of the two most conspicuous grown-ups in the country., one a president and the other an ex-president, engaged in verbal fisticuffs, with a hundred million people gathered about the ring hounding them on? Whole Scene Enacted Is Disgraceful. The whole scene is sad and de basing, Whether it be man-fight or dog-fight, the effect in either , case is debasing. As there is little probability that either of the two will become pres ident, and as the man eventually to be elected to the office will in all likelihood be one who has not been so heavily dusted by the sand of the arena, we can tolerate the discred itable broil with more composure; but. even so, to witness two men— whom at one time the entire nation has regarded with mingled respect and reverence —each associated with the highest position of authority, either in this country or any other, seeking to crush his antagonist and t<> deliver to him his death blow, is a situation both distressing and mortifying. Without seeking to apportion the responsibility, the situation remains what it is and w'ill have neither of the two belligerents occupying the same position in national regard that they occupied before. I shall righteously resent being called a liar and a fraud, but I shall damage myself more than ! shall my vicious calumniator by re torting upon him that he is another. ♦ ♦ • IN the midst of the concert of re proaches that is now being hum med around the deaf ears of the dead Astor, there is one consid erate word that ought to be spoken in his behalf. “An Over-Production of Gold” By JAMES W. M'GEE. "Some eminent authorities attribute the high cost of living to an over production of goId.”—NEWS ITEM, T T THEN on pa? day you go to the market to buy \/V The supplies for a familv pf five. And you gaze on the prices you'll heave a deep sigh For the poor who are barely alive; In a jiffy you've spent what took six days to earn. So you walk home, dead broke, in the cold, And the reason you're broke, your amazed wife will learn. Is the overproduction of gold. Do you know why the eggs that in storage grow stale Are dumped on the market in spring. And the newly laid crop leaves a price-raising trail When to cold storage vaults it takes wing? Do you know w hy the same eggs cost six cents apiece When theyrust Lets them out to be sold? No, it's not through cpld storage that prices increase It's the overproduction of gold. The Coal Trust philanthropists, humane and good,. "Whom God in His wisdom ordained,” With those of the Beef Trust, who furnish our food, —- By pt esent conditions are pained. The Ice Trust and Milk Trust are champions of righL Bright halos their features enfold; What folly to blame these poor trusts for our plight Blame the overproduction of gold. We don't find an overproduction of bills. Os quarters or nickels or dimes; The wages the' pa? in the stores and mills Are barely enough far. the times." _ • - Perhaps when the eggs are srdollar a pair. -■ : —' 1. And when two-dollar butter is sold, The?- 1 call tn ’he silver and give us a share Os the overproduction of gold. Sad as a man may be. he'is lievet' quite so bad as he might be; and-It is-always the part of charity to pick the nuf-.tt from the dross and hold it out where the light can shire on it. and the people have a look at it. Allowance Left Girl-Wife Is Rather Meager. Considering his immense wealth, the allowance left to his girl-wife was certainly rather meager, and her hold even upon that is some what stinted: but even so. there was one fiard condition that he did not impose upon her, which he • would have imposed had he been a Hindu of the olden type, and that was that she should practice suttee and incinerate herself upon the tomb of her departed lord. The conjugal regard thus evinced for her comfort of body and peace of mind ought to count on the other side of the balance sheet and to that extent soften the asperities of adverse criticism. With that exception there is not very much to say of a pleasant kind about his testamentary treat ment of tide yoOltg comf>ant<sh of his bosom. Perhap that was more his busi ness than it is hers. It probably was, but so. long as people are bound tn the ties of communal life they are bound to have opinions, and if they hold those opinions with any intensity of conviction will be likely to ex press them, and it is to the gen eral advantage that they, should, for opinions are for general consump tion. not for storage. For a husband to deal in meager fashion with his wife while he is still living is a sad blot.on connu bial devotion.- but there is not the venality in that that there is when the same paltry impulse is so stretched to the other side of the grave that the pinch-of it remains upon his wife after he is translated. ■ His attempt to discipline her into post-mortem devotion will very likely result in her making,.a sec ond matrimonial experiment, out of spite, if for no other reason, es pecially if an arrangement can be made such as will indemnify her for the sacrifice of her first hus band's conditional beneficence. Foolish to Hire Women to Be True to First Love. It is said that the attempt to hire women to be true to their first love is not usually a success. Love and money belong respec tively to different orders qf com modity. Love is, in fact,, almost the only article in general use that can not he computed' in terms of dollars’ and cents. And yet. as” a finishing remark, it deserves to be said that a wom an who abides by her widow'hood out of VOLUNTARY loyalty'to her deceased husband evinces a quality no so likely to be found jn one Whose old love can be dissolved in the flames of a new.