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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY
At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga.
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What Do You Think About
the Recall of Judges Now?
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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.
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Jut a lit
lit tit WRiM ’ ■ w a '
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■■ ■' 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
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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. ' .
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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
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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.
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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!?
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