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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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How Far Back Can Aon
Remember?
You EXISTED Before Your Present Memory Began, Did You Not?
A reader writes us:
I argue pretty often with a man who call' himself an
atheist. He lolls me that there is no such thing as heaven or
future life. We argue late at night somt times. This is one
thing he sa) sand 1 can not get around it. He sat s: “ Every
thing you ever did you can remember. Von know that you
were alive yesterday, and the day before, and last year. It
you had been alive, in existence as an angel or in any other
wav before you came into this world, yon would rememher
that. wouldn't you? If you were going to live on hereafter,
you uould know something about that. too.
This atheist has a pretty good line of argument, and 1
wish you could tell me some things that I could answer
him. He likes to talk with Christian people and make
them sound foolish with his arguments.
We advise our reader to talk to his “atheist friend’’ about
as follows:
To begin with, you are NO atheist. There is no such thing
as an atheist. An atheist is supposed to be a man who denies
the existence of God lie is in reality a man who makes HIM
SELF his god. His god is usually his own conceit. He suffers
from a more or less permanent attack of intellectual vanity, ami
he wants to be able to explain everything for himself ami do
everything for himself.
Intellectually he is about on a par with the little child that
can bardlv walk, and yet refuses to be hold by the hand by its
mother.
Occasionally a man calls himself an atheist when some
great blow has fallen upon him. and when be thinks he has
lost faith in eternal justice and wisdom. But that is not
atheism, only passing discouragement.
The professional atheist, who delights in undermining the
religious belief of others, is morally on a par with a man who
would delight in attacking the character of some man’s moth
er. The respectable man treats a man's religious faith as he
would treat the memory of a man's father or mother.
As to this foolish argument about life, before or after this
existence, it is hardly worth answering. But you might say to
your atheist friend :
How far back can .you remember in THIS life? ('an you
remember when you were four years old. or three years old, or
two years old" No matter how 7 far hack your memory goes
THERE WAS BART OF YOI R LIFE THAT YOI CAN NOT
REMEMBER AT ALL. was there not ' You can't remember
when you were a baby biting your own toes and howling for
your mother. You can’t remember when xon firs! began to
creep along the floor, bumping your head against chair tegs
and table legs.
Yet you wore ALIVE at that time. Yon actually KNOW
that you were alive, and you take the statement from others,
having FAITH in what they tell you.
How do you know that before this existence itself began
you hadn’t others, and thousands of others, perhaps? How do
you know that you haven't been coming to this earth over and
over and over again, reappearing in different human bodies to
do the work here? You can't remember your ini'ancy. Why
should you remember former existences?
What absolute know ledge of any kind have \on ? NOSE.
You simply chronicle your little impressions. You live in
a universe in which the least wonderful thing, the smallest
blade of grass or grain of sand is entirely beyond your com
prehension. Ever) phenomenon of life is mysterious beyond your
grasp. You take ever.'thing for granted the warmth of the
sun. the water and the air that you get free, the fertility of the
earth, the regular seasons, the xvondcrful balane, of our pl-imt
in its whirling journey. and all of cosmic wisdom and kindness.
And vet x our foolish little intellectual vanity forbids vou to
accept a power, justice, xvi.dom and benevolence infinite!)
above that of the linx little creatures on this earth
You ian sax to the atheist this:
You are a mr-n> denial. Other.- it least are Ari'ing dimlx- to
realize th w>-d >n> that guide- us Other at least look IT
WARD, not downward They have gratitude, which > inspira
tion. You haven't it
The atbeist is a fooh hl va’n person who delights >n set
ting his oxvn opinions ig.vnst those o* others, who makes a god
of his oxvn trifling, foolish bttl< power. DON’T WASTE TIME
ARGUING WITH HIM.
© Night. Fall ©
By FRAM'I S TA RREI i.-Gll 1..
Within, the heart's unrest, the strife of brain I,
Out there the fall of < wiling n .11
The veil of noiseless, elosi . persist 1 11’ rain:
Above. unspoiled by any (<• ir.
One golden spate in all iliM wasti- of gray;
And. somewhere, one untroubled bird.
Sang on her thankful song for night or day;
Whereat the low wind, list'ning. stirred
The dusk with some heart known refrain
Then all things were as voices blent
The rain that knew it had • tall.
The wind that answered to the rain.
The bird so sure of love thro all
To bring, in all its lull intent.
The meaning I had missed ail day
Something hid the turmoil ceas.
Things stayed, and yet had pas-ed away,
And in my soul was peace.'
The Atlanta Georgian
FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1912.
I HE NEVER HAD A CHANCE
That Is What Nine Men Out of Ten Who Are Failures Say. Look Out That You Don’t Say It Yourself.
I By TAD
I, W A
1 H1 SiSs
I - i SI sAy
I'? ** Ik?
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No. 3.
Ymn xv,is quite a success at baseball, but
the money end of it bothered him and soon
he started to figure the softest, wax to get
coin. He could have helped the groceryman
or worked in the dry goods store, as the
other lads did. but then that would lie taking
up 100 much of his time, so he turned fight
manager.
He found a young lad in the neighbor
hood who was quite a scrapper, and took him
around to the little fight clubs, where he got
half of the F> earned by his demon.
(To be continued.)
DOROTHY DIX WRITES
OF
The Man Who Admires Fat Women
By DOROTHY DIX.
OEIGINALLY the genera; pub
lit has c c<mt sympathy with
the woman who brings a
bin a< h of promis l 'Hit against the
man who has promis- I to marry h A r
end then welched his bargain.
H fills us with disgust and repul
sion to think of a woman exhibit
ing h .i t wound' to the cal
lous gaze of the public on the
< of g> tting a f*=w dollars
damages for lv r injuries, and we
t’\at am ono could !»• so
1 b’Fing in every of delicacy
that sic would be able m d’\ag to
riif altar the man who had tired of
ind who was tyving to bi ak
a 'vp v
Put < ircumstanct s alter cases,
and i b'-ac 1 ? o promise case is now
to *the f ,>r e in v hi' h th**- '* Oman's
loss, through the perfidy of her
t.i’'hires swain, is so great, so over
whelming. so uttevlv irreparable
t hat all ordinarv opinion in such
matters must be revey and the
woman's actions condoned, if not
justified.
Th< case in question is ’hat of
Miss Yaud Mitten, who is suing
< -ifin 'i Powe hf Chicago, for s">o.-
i"»n f-m breach of promise. It is said
that Colonel Power is a rich mine
■ '•'VDcr. but that is an insignificant
h t m unworthy of consideration.
Cbm Man. at Least, Who
Adores Fat
U-lonel Power'? money is the
Ic.ist "f his desirable assets What
mak. s him the pearl of price, the
ir.' omparable. the greatly to be de
s-rcrl above all other men, is that he
.■•hni <s fat on the ftminine f:ame.
11. ■ you get that, suffering sisters?
H - fit -not plumpness, but
r it—and in the mon than fourteen
hundred sizzling love U tters which
I he wrote Mis. Milton within the
| sp.ue of two years, and which form
■ xhibits A. ami B, and <'. etc., etc.
is e\ni. nee fn her suit, the gallant
■ olonel uses the word ' fat" contin
■ u.iily. as <n adjectix. of adulation
I )nst>■■ui of .is an epithet of oppro-
Yum met the ca) fellow's then. His ohe
ambition was to rig himself with a set of
swell scenery and then get a diamond ring
and pin.
“You don't need any schooling tg be a
manager.'' he said.
Half the managers never read anything
except a bill of fare and Ihe “Entries for to
morroxv." and the) haji nothing on Yum.
The money was east and his time was his
own.
brium. as is the common custom
among men.
<>ver and over again in these let
ters,he calls her "my beautiful fat
.Mitten," ".My darling far kitten,"
"My lovely fat girl," and so on,
ringing ’he usual lover's change? on
her perfections, but always striking
the high note of his praises with
the magic word "fat." She is. in
turn, referred to as beautiful, ador
able, fascinating, wonderful, but
each of these terms of flattery is
buttressed and bulwarked and
crow ned, and pinnacled, so to speak,
with fat.
$50,000 Too Little for
Such a Man.
Is it any wonder that a lady who
loses a njtan who adntires fat on a
woman tries to get him back by
process of law, or any other way
that she can" Is it to be marveled
at that, having been deprived of the
pr p and stay of the affection of
such a man. she seeks what poor
consolation $50,000 xvou’.d give her?
Hers is no common loss. An or
dinary man with ordinarv views on
the straight front subject, may be
fasiit replaced if he wriggles off
th<? mat Timonin! hook md wo ma,v
scorn the woman who is so poor a
sport that she asks to be paid for
the fish she did not have skill
enough tn land, but the man who
adores fat women, whose love is of
the elastic variety that spans a 28-
jnrb waist and who thinks there
can not be too much of a good
thing, is of another breed. He is
the treasure that only once in ten
million times may the fisherwoman
hope to bring up. in her net. and
when he is lost there is no balm in
Gilead for her wounds.
Why fat and love should be as
inimical as oil and water nobody
knows. It is merely a fact. In po
etry and romance the heroes are all
tall and slender, and the heroines
living skeletons. No woman falls in
love with a fat man. No man even
thinks of failing in love with a fat
woman That is why women tor
ture themselves to keep thin, and
w hy, w hen one woman wants to be
catty to another, she says, "My
dear, how well you ar«> looking!
You've gained at least twenty
pounds since I saw you last, haven't
you?” ,
Only women who go through the
flgonj of starvation and of being
flayed alive by mnsseursy and who
exorcise to the point of fainting
w ith fatigue, in order to keep down
their adipose tissue, know what
luck has happened to a fat woman
when a man condescends to notice
her, much less to fall in love with
her. and onlv women will know how
to estimate the misfortune one has
sustained in having lost a lover who
prefers curves to angles, and a
comfortable, well fed appearing
lady to a female who has a lean
and hungry look.
With the present mania for
gcrawniness in women it is gener
al!'- conceded that fat is the unpar
donable sin, and that for a wife to
permit het self to grow stout is suf
ficient cause for her husband tn
pension her off on alimony and get
a new and stringy mate. Think,
then, of the blighting disappoint
ment of this woman, who has just
missed getting a husband who liked
fat and who would have loved his
wife better as the years went by
and she pulled down the scales at a
heavier and heavier notch.
Happiness of Being Able
to Eat All You Want.
Picture the happiness and the
calm peace of mind of a woman
who could sit dov n to a good din
ner and eat all she wanted, untrou
bled by the thought that everything
she liked was fattening and that
she got fat at her peril. Could any
money pay for the loss of such do
mestic felicity as that—an Eden
into which, the serpent of obesity
had never entered?
The fair plaintiff in this case has
a just cause, and one that will make
an irresistible appeal to the sympa
thies of her sex. If she is wise, she
will demand to be tried by a jury of
her peers—a jury of fa 7 women—
and what they will do to the de
fendant will be a shame.
THE HOME PAPER
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Writes on
AT T- I'*
A Letter r rom an Italian
—and—
The Practice of Chang- 1
M
mg Names
Written For The Atlanta Georgian
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright, 1912, by American-Journal-Examiner.
AN Italian lady by the name of
Colombo writes to know why
the name of her illustrious
countryman. Christopher Columbus,
was changed.
Here is her letter:
■'l had in my house Germans.
Spanish and French people, and I
am Italian. We al! discussed about
Christopher Columbus, and I said
that the spelling is not correct. The
name is Cristoforo Colombo. The
Spanish and French said the name
is Cristoforo Colon; then, of course,
the American said no. the family
name changed, and they believed
Columbus was right. Now, I was
always taught the family name
never changes, and I am sure the
great discoverer's name is Colom
bo, as is my name. So I will be
obliged to you if you will explain
xx hy they change the Colombo
name.”
The lady is quite right in think
ing that the family name should re
tain its spelling and its pronuncia
tion, through change of country,
and during all the passing of the
centuries.
But this law is not followed, for
any length of time, in any land.
Without doubt, the changes occur
in order to oblige the inhabitants of
tlie adopted country.
The Italian ‘ ‘ Giuseppe' ’
Becomes Joseph.
The handsome Italian boy who
looks like his debonair name.
Giuseppe,” after a few years in
America, becomes JOSEPH. That
most unromantie of names ill be
fits him; but, still, to Americanize
himself, he makes the change.
At a little seashore resort, a
Spanish cavalier, whose eyes and
deportment are in keeping with his
ancient lineage, has adopted the
commonplace name of White in or
der to make his little shop more
popular with the people whose cus
tom he seeks than he feels would
be accomplished were he to use his
Spanish cognomen.
Over in France our good George
Washington, were he alive, would
never respond to the name they use
Antarctic Continent an
American Discovery
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
'
ONE of the prettiest examples
of the well-known British
I practice of appropriation, ex-
ercised on every possible occasion,
in all quarters of the world, has re
cently been exposed by General A.
W. Greely.
in January, 1821, Captain Na
thaniel Brown Palmer, a Connecti
cut man, only 21 years of age, com
manding the sloop Hero, of 44 1-2
tons, then on a sealing- expedition
to the South Shetland islands, dis
covered the northwestern part of
the Antarctic continent in about
latitude S. 68 degrees, longitude W.
59 degrees. Like Columbus, he did
not know that it was a continent
he had found, and. like him, too.
as General Greely points out, he
was robbed of the honor of having
his name attached to the nyt£ land
which he had been the first to
visit.
While the fleet of sealers to
which the Hero belonged was en
gaged, late in 18-0. in capturing
seals at the South Shetlands, an
other sharp-eyed Yankee. Captain
Benjamin Pendleton, saw from his
lookout, on a volcanic crater, snow
capped peaks far in the south.
Captain Palmer determined to sail
in the direction of these peaks in
search of new sealing grounds. The
result of his enterprise has already
been mentioned —he found the cor
ner of the Antarctic continent
which projects farthest toward
Cape Horn. The distance from the
South Shetland islands was about
70
Captain Palmer rmted that the
land was mountainous and covered
with snow. He entered several
bays and found sea leopards, but
no seals. On his way home he met
a Russian exploring expedition
under Captain F. G von Bellings
hausen. and communicated to him
full information of the- discovery
which he had just made.
For about ten years, until 1831.
ft'e name of Palmer Land was at
tached to the young captain s dis
covery. One of his fellows on the
expedition. an English sailor,
George Powell brought out a map
of the South Shetland islands, on
which he loyally charted ' Palmer
Land.” and this nomenclature was
promptly adopted by French offi
cial publications.
Then the usual thing happened
The Enderby brothers Englishmen,
one of them an influential member
of the Royal Geographical Society.”
fitted out an expedition, command-
there in speaking of him. "Geeorgg®
Vashingtbne "
But unless the traveling Ameri
can learns to pronounce this Ameri
can name in the French fashion he
will never be able to male, the eab
drivers understand where he wishes
to go. if his destination is “Rue
George Washington.”
There are certain sounds peculiar
to each language, and when a child
is brought up from the cradle to
speak only that language it is oft
entimes a physical impossibility for
vecal organs and lips to form
sounds which pertain to other lan
guages without a long course of
study.
This necessitates changing those
words, when possible, to the native
tongue of that person.
French Can’t Pronounce
“W" and “Th’’ Easily.
The French man or woman can
not, without a course of training,
say W or TH.
There are no such sounds in their
language.
The English and American can
not speak words containing the
French U so that they can be un
derstood.
Were a Frenchman and an Eng
lish-speaking man to refer to a lady
named Ursula, neither would know
of whom the other spoke, so dif
ferent would be their pronunciation
of the name.
Speak of Paris, in France as we
call it here, and no one knows
xvhat you are talking about. Speak
of going to “Paree” here, and no
one understands.
Up in Flanders there is a most
interesting city which we in Amer
ica spell and pronounce “Ghent.”
A lady traveling rushed to a
ticket office in Brussels and asked
for a ticket to Ghent, and lost her
train before she was able to find
any one to translate her word into
the GANS, by which name the city
was known to its oxvn people.
And the pronounciation of Gans
was wholly unlike its own spelling
according to our rules.
— 5
ed by John Biscoe, a retired mas
ter tn the royal navy, whereupon,
in the high British fashion, the
name of the discoverer was sum
marily thrown out and that of the
"First Lord of the Admiralty”
substituted, and so Palmer Land,
by order of “the mistress of the
seas," became "Graham Land.”
in the usual way, also, British
writers have discredited and ig
nored the work of their country
man's predecessor, preferring even
to give the honor to the Russian
Bellingshausen rather than to al
low it to be retained by an Amer
ican. to whom it justly belonged.
The Encyclopedia Britannica, pub
lished in 1875. "mentions neither
Palmer nor charts his discoveries.”
Jts new edition. "Americanized for
the United States,” "admits in two
lines that Nathaniel Brown Palm
er discovered the mountainous
archipelago (?) which now bears
his name." and then “proceeds to
give a column regarding John Bis
coe. “whose explorations resulted
in the ousting of the true discov
erer. An honorable .exception should
be made in the case of Dr. Hugh
Robert Mill, who says that, as a
matter of historic justice. Palmer's
name should be retained
Captain Wilkes, the American
discoverer of the Antarctic con
tingent (as a continent') and who”"'"
gave it that name, j> as suffered in
irr a similar way from British
jealousy, misrepresentation, ap
propriation and belittlement in
order that his rival Captain J. C.
Ross, may have all the b.cmor.
Says General Greely. The dis
crediting of Wilkes by standard
English authorities has been bold
' c-n and persistent for seventy
years, although occasionally tr
late vears some able, impartial
expert like the Scottish s. xntist,
Sir John Murray has expressed
Hf f ip V-> i rr»
All this, it must be confessed is
not calculated to create much
genera! sympathy for the uncon
cealed disappointment of the Brit
ish geographers in the fair beat
ing out of their champion, Cap
tain Scot*, by the brave Nor
wegian. Amundsen in the race
for ’he south pole The British
formula in such cases never va
ries and it is again illustrated bv
’h- - attacks m London on the
American investigrt -, n of the Ti
tanic horror. Eve"', thing is • ig
nnranr.-. 'bocrishnes-- an{ j
‘backwoods manners' that does
no’ come out of the tight littlo
is!'?.