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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. 1873. What Do You Think About the Recall of Judges Now? r r r Yon Have Seen Something of the Record of One Judge Named Archbald. Don't You Think It Would Be a Pretty Good Thing For the People to Have Power to Recall Such Judges, Without Waiting For them to Prove Themselves Rascals of the Lowest Kind? This newspaper supports the idea that if the puldie is suffi ciently intelligent to HIRE judges. IT IS ALSO SUFFKTENTLY INTELLIGENT To DISCHARGE THEM. This idea is opposed energetically -B 5! LAWA ERS. t All the lawyers of all the oil ies hale the idea. And Mr. Taft, who is a lawyer or a judge when he doesn't hap ■ pen Io he a president, also hales the idea. That is natural enough. All the dog catchers would object to the idea that dog catchers could he put out ot office. And all the rat catchers would say that only rat catchers were capable of judging any question involving rat catching. Every man thinks that ho is a1 the top in his own business, and that others are unfit to judge him. Bid isn’t it the tael that the people ought to be al the top in AI.L things. And in connection with this recall of the judges, have you noticed the case of Judge Archbald, the gentleman who is just go ing to be kicked off the bench because he has - gone a lit tie* bit TOO far? This Judge Archbald, who is now sitting in the Chamber of Commerce Court, is found to have done various obliging things for a certain railroad, while his partner was buying, for a very small part of its value, the culm bank belonging to that railroad. "Sell me your culm bank for nothing, and I 'll give you judicial decisions at Hie same price." That one particular little deal would have been worth about forty thousand dollars to this judge- and. of course, in going into that deal he proved himself a criminal. He did it in a bald, stupid, dull way. THAT IS WHY HE IS CAI (HIT. How many other judges have been doing things of the same kind weddn't know. BITTHEY OR MOST <»F TH EM* WON'T BECAUGHT Il need not have been necessary to waif for this disgraceful revelation in regard to the railroad deal to let the people know what kind of a man Archbald was or to put Archbald mil of office. He has been revealing himself in bis court decisions. This Archbald is the man who dismissed, without punishment, a million dollar smuggler and scut a small, poor smuggler to jail. He was brought to New York especially to do that dirty job, and others like it This is the Judge Archbald who let off with very small and laughable fines the big offenders in the Wire Trust THEY were rich, and— as his railroad deal shows he needed money This is the judge who was deupunced by Attorney General iWiekersham for failing Io send Io jail a criminal, whom he fined “less than one-third of the year's profit from his dishonest and criminal practice." Year after year this Archbald was proving to the people that he was unlit for his office. He was sending poor men to jail and freeing rich men YET THE I’Eol’LE COULD DO NOTHING TO HIM THEY COULDN'T (JET RID OE HIM BECAI SE THEY HADN'T "THE RECALL " At last, lhe man exposed himself TOO outrageously. He enters into a perfectly shameless open and plain scheme to make the railroads give him a certain number pf thousands of dollars while lie is owing them the judgments that they want. And this is revealed largely by accident. And so this particu larly dishonest judge is to be kicked out of his place and somebody else put in. But SHol LD IT BE NECESSARY TO WAIT UNTIL A JUDGE ABSOLUTELY PROVES HIMSELF A THIEF AND A RASCAL? Shouldn't it be possible for the people when they see a judge rendering decisions such as those that Archbald has rendered to put that man off the bench and say. " We are done w ith you When you see. as the people of Nevv Y ork have seen, a certain Federal judge acting for years as the agent of the Street Car Trust that put him on the bench, don't you think the people ought to have the power to remove that man from the bench that he disgraces? Without the recall he will stay there and die there, probably. For he is more cunning than Judge Archbald When you see shameless decisions rendered against poor men at the request of rich men. and when the people decide that such de cisions are corrupt and shameful, should not the people be allowed io get rid of the judge that renders them ' This wasn't a country established to seeur< general acquies cence in the holiness and superiority of judges, but a country estab lished to secure the power and rule of the people. The recall of judges, the recall of every public official that the people mav name, is the program that alone will give the people the power to which they are entitled And tlie recall of judges is coining, and will he hero soon Judge Archbald, the judicial rascal. will help tin- good work along Even a dishonest judgje may be useful —as fertilizer of an idea. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN TIS A HARD LIFE By HAL COFFMAN. ■ ■ Jut a lit lit tit WRiM ’ ■ w a ' iiHI 1 g. I A . ■■ ■' mO r'Y " ■ ! ?■- kM - y ; ' a she Oldest Puzzle in the World An American Professor lias Discovered the Secret of the Sphinx, But there Are Other Mysteries Behind It i: pji:< >i i'.s i >1; •> v ri-j.-\i,i;. J of 11.1 IV ii il uni ver- if v t "II in Th., i' - -in.ipoht-iii VI:. i r.ini for .lime, tlw t’:m,-< storv of how Ii" imcovered the immemorial secret of the date mil meaning »f lliv great Sphinx of l>\ pt II is a fascinating narrative, which "an not ri.-n l* outlined here, but there are certain things suggested bv it which possess an interest no less intense. In following the story of the final unveiling of the riddle of. tin Sphinx wo are led back, through the broken ti lls of time, to a period nearly three times as far on the other side of the starting point of th" ehi istian era as we .are on this side of it. Millenniums lake th< o.ai •' of eetll lilies W hen We go t> these depths Hi liisiuiy. as the as tronome: substitutes 'ighi years for shorter Manila ,ds of me ' sut eini nt whin he deals with the distances of the stars. A flit yet, arrived at that r'mot epoch when the early Egyp tians began to develop their won derful civ tlization. we find the mini! of man .•■: fully »w ’ke. in m7ny ways, as it i- today '• Within fifteen centuries after their advent as appirently li.df savage tribes in the valley of the Nile, the Egyptians had invented society, government, art. a elittee ture. s. uipture, painting, hiero glyphic* \\ ii: ing. mechanical science and had b- gan the construction of buildings w hich have ranked among the marvels of the world ever sine". Egyptians Have Left Uneffaceable Marks. They left marks on the f,i< <• of the planet which will never be ob literated. Otic, at least, of their great temples eniains today th" mightiest structure of human hands. Their pyramids stand unique a mens the products of th" imildet's art. impressing the beholder with some thing of the awe which mountains inspire. They set these pyramids s.> actiy tn th mviidian that the most ERIDA Y, MAY 17. 1912 ;v <1 \RRETT I‘. SER M I SS. ,g i ijriti iii. 11 iirnrr.t of inodurn ?ii'!i<’p I’.iiiMfiotrct S'.tii'lv i ( I'tiliL iLparture from Do- true t irdinal points.< and luunu'd nu n p.ix f demanded, with wondor. "How w( i m (h* \ tbP? o <h? it " All th* ir pr-<port ;>•»»' were trm . ill tben angl»“y e\au< Win n tiny • n>d thf base fm- om of these extuamdl- - naiy structures they did it with so much prevision that today the for the mighty corner stones arc found to ID at exaetiy the same elevation. One Marble Hall Like Gigantic Telescope. Through the heart of the greatest of their pyramids they r>n immense passages, lined w ith ma: hie, one of which points, like a gigantic tele sci'pe. to th" spot in the heavens where the pole star of their day nightly culminated. If their astronomy was based upon superstitious observanv,--. and beliefs, at least ’* w a accurate in its measurement:-. Win >i King 1 hephren had the pr. it Sphinx carved "Ut of the s.ilid rock m hi* image, he per formed a work which has- never been •’-niiaied in its kind from than day to tills We may smile at the ' supers:itimi whi< h persuaded him that this mighty guardian, stand ing before his own pyramid tomb, would serve as a protection to him after his death, yet we can not but feel amazed at the magnificence of the work, as a token of the artistic and mechanical power of his peo ple. I nti! the recent diseovemes d’e'- tailed by Professor Reisner this gi gantic figure, with its lion body and its human i’-ad, remained a puzzle to the passing ages Great empires gtew up around Egypt and overran, conquered and ruled her: other em pires suneeded them: and still, thii’i ch. it all. the vast, inscrutable ta- . of the .Sphinx. Marmg over the th -< it. kept its ungues-ed secret. N itiii r the !’• rsic.n nor the U'eck nor the Roman nor the Mo- Irnmae dan nor the <’liriMinn could iK-nvt .lie th" na.-k. and the Egy p- I ti.m~ theuiselvv forgot the mean- ing hidden behind it, in the confus ing rush of th* ages rolling by. How many works as enduring as that are wo producing today ? Here we get a glimpse of a riddle mor euneient and more puzzling than that of the Sphinx. It is the riddle of man’s beginning. If so many thousands of years ago lie was capable of producing such masterpieces, how far back must we go in order to find man in his cradle? We flatter ourselves with the splendors of our civilization, but our peacock plumes are lowered when we see the men of 5,000 years ago exhibiting mint of the very qualities of mind which we are apt to regard as marks of our own sup posed superiority. Even 10,000 years ago, as the re cent discoveries in Crete give rea son for believing, man already sltow'ed a capacity for civilization comparable, as far as the innate qualities of the mind are concerned, with ours. Shows luimeasiti able Time Man Has Existed. This does not imply’ that man is not the pi’o'lu t of i gradual evolu tion It only hows the almost im measurable length of the time dur ing which he lias existed on the earth. The thoughts of Job are the thoughts of men today; the things that bewildered him in his search for truth, and the origin of right eousness, bewilder us still. Then Job and the patriarchs wore, meas urably, hardly nearer to the begin ning of man on the earth than are we. Geology shows us some proofs that a lower race of man did once exist, but even geology has not yet got back to the beginning of the human mind, for all agree that the brain is the physical index of mind, ami the earliest human skulls that have been discovered in the strata of the globe show that they possesMd a caps' ity far above trfat of the brute- This is the ridtiD of riddles. When man has learned the truth about, his own beginning he will have l.i:d. a' !,i-'. the trio founda tion. of liisl-.'r.M THE HOME PAPER Ella Wheeler Wilcox Writes on Lady Florence Dixie’s Views on Sport -—and— The Tragedy of Killing Dumb Animals Written For The Atlanta Georgian By Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copyright, 1912, by Anierfcan-Jourhal-Eiaminer. _ —, is hoirible. I say it advisedly. I speak with the matured knowledge of one who lias seen and taken part in numberless foims of sport in many and varied parts of the world. "[ can handle gun and’ rifle as well and efficiently as most ‘sport ing folk,’ and few women, and not many men, have had experience of a tithe of the shooting and hunt ing in which I have been engaged, both at home and during travels and expeditions in far-away lands. "It is not, therefore, as a novice that I take up my pen to record why I, whom some have called a ‘female Nimrod,’ legard with abso lute loathing and detestation any sort or kind or form of sport which in any way is produced by the suf fering of animals. “It is a remnant of barbarism in man’s nature, that he should take pleasure in displaying his skill on living animals. Deer stalking is, no doubt, a healthy and exhilarat ing exercise, requiring endurance, stamina, a clear sight and a steady hand. Yet. the last act in a suc cessful stalk is. if we come to think about it, disgusting and horrible. In close proximity to us we see a lordly animal—happy, peaceful and enjirying fully the gift of life. VV e draw a trigger, and If we do not miss we wound or kill. Happy, in deed. if it be the latter. More often than not it is the former, and then, if limbs* are not broken, a fierce tracking ensues, resulting some-, times in lhe death of the victim, sometimes In its loss. and. as a consequence, many an hour of tor ture ere death closes its sufferings. Paean of Animal Woe Unheard by Man. "Vet thousands are spent yearly on deer forests, and the paean of animal woe that goes up therefrom throughout the stalking season ex pands itself year after year un boarri. imfelt. unthouglit of amidst the throng of men. “What more aggravated form of torture is to bo found than cours ing with greyhounds, the awful ter ror of the hare depicting itself in the la.id-baek eats, convulsive dou bles. and wild, starting eyes, which seem almost to burst from their sockets m the agony of tension which that plteou struggle for !if° entails? “And what sadder sight is there t 0 i,o found in the records of the hunted than that of a dead-beat fox, worn out. with lolTing tongue, heaving sides, bedraggled brush, with the’baying of the nearing pack growing every moment more distinct, struggling on in search of safety for his doojned life, dodging now here, now there, surrounded bv a hostile, field.-the fiendish tally ho sounding in hi" ears, the crack ing of whips which warns him against anv fu ther attempt to es cape? Then the hounds rush in. For one brief moment ho .turns at hay. Cui bone'.’ The next all is worry, worry, worry, as the poor, weary but gallant fox is torn lifnb from limb, disembowelled and re duced to a shapeless mass of bloody, bedtagglcd fur. A fitting death it Is, indeed, follow ing as a sequel on the hunted torture which the poor The Voice of Spring By JACOB J. LIEBSON. OLD Winter's packed his duds and gone. B.shrew his wry old face'. And sweet, seductive, smiling Spring Has come to take his place. A spirit from its silent sleep Now wakes in bush and ti e. While in the naked maple wood The sap is flowing free. A breeze from smiling, sunny climes Non frolics as it sings. There seems to be a joyful stir About the roots of tilings. ' . jl creature has suffered from 'find to finish. , . , ( "I have ridden to hounds' ov«r many a hard-fought field, yet ever as I die} so reproach knocked at my heart, and I have asked my self. ’Can not we have sport with out cruelty?' Result Is Indifference to Suffering. "Assuredly we can. . WelDlaid drags, tracked by experts, would . test the mettle both'of hounds and riders to hounds, but then a terri fied. palpitating* fleeing life would not be struggling ahead, and so the idea is not: pleasing to those who find pleasure in blood. Much of this barbarous taste and cal lous indifference to the suffering* a. . of animals is bred with our child hood and upbringing. Youth, es pecially of the n%ale sex, is taught to regard shooting and hunting an manly accomplishments. Women, myself included, Sre in many in stances brought tip to indulge in sporting amusements, and it fol lows. as a natural sequence, that in the large majority of cases where this is so a CALLOUS IN DIFFERENCE TO THE AGONY AND MISERY’ CAUSED TO THffi VICTIMS IS IMPERCEPTIBLY ENGE.N DERED.’,’ —Lady Florence Dixie. ' , These strong, earnest word*. \ w ritten bk a woman of title, will < I do more to arouse the women of America to a sense of their, re sponsibility toward our dutrib kin , than a long course of lectures given by any reformer of our own land could do. Americg has apejl Europe in its ideas ■of isport. and few. if any. American women of this generation arc given to the cruel sport of the hunt, save thosb who liave liv ed abroad or who have been educated along foreign lines, hi the early days of J qur New England foremothers wompn knew bow to handle a gun. a.rjd knew how to kill wilji animals for self protection and for food. But that necessity passed with the onward march of progress,; and the woman who kills animals to day kills in a wanton love of cru elty, even as Lady Dixie has said, "and with a callous indifference to the agony she causes." No woman who can find enjoy ment in such sport has a right? to be a mother 51 One unfortunate youth, w hd was a criminal’almost-from the cradle, killing insects and- animals.#: and finally human beings, from mere love of seeing things die, was the victim of’an'ignorant mother, th? wife of a butcher who watched her husband kill, animals before the birth of her child. Women “First at Death” t . Unfit To Be Mothers. The woman w;ho is filled wttl keen delight in being first at the d«=ath of a fox or deer, the woman who can enjoy seeing a boas'* of a.bird die and find pleasure in the ( reputation of "a good shot" When living creatures, are the mark at which she aims. ' that, woman i» moraily unfit to be a mother. Lady Dixie’s letter snow s the change in public sentiment which is coining over the world in these matters. I hear the calling of the road That leads to \T And winds its magic wky among Its colonnades of-.trees. 1 heat a most alluring voice That makes myibeing-burn To leave the sordid city, and To nature's haunts >eturn. ■ I hear—alas! ~Tts not a call ■ Where nature's pleasures lurk; It's just the boss in gngr.v tones: -"Hev,- you, get back to work!? * r > * T