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The White Star Line Should
Pav Millions in Damages
I " tr r r
That Is Settled by the United States Senate Report—And No
Technicality of International Law Should Prevent Damages.
Mr. Ismay and his boat advertising itself through speed was in
a bur y \nd it killed nearly two thousand human beings, includ
ing many Americans.
There was a question as to the right of those surviving to ob
tain damages There should be no question any longer for the re
port made by the United States senate committee has been filed.
The report finds that Captain Smith was directly responsible
for the disaster. Hence it was not “an act of God" for which
steamship companies are not. responsible under the law. It was an
act of Captain Smith.
The report finds “that the presence of J. Bruce Ismay inspired
speed frenzy."
This shows recklessness made worse by the presence and the
urging of a responsible owner and manager of the line.
The speed with which J. Bruce Ismay rowed away from those
that were drowned by the crime of his steamship company, and the
speed with which he stupidly sent his great boat crashing into an
iceberg, should be impressed on his mind in the shape of damages
not soon to be forgotten.
The United States senate report shows that no tests wore made
of the so-called watertight bulkheads. In good working condition
they would have saved the ship from sinking.
The report shows that the life-saving apparatus was absolutely
inadequate.
And the report also shows that 372 persons drowned out of the
total number might have been saved had the crew been properly
drilled and commanded.
We learn that junior officers of the Titanic “heartlessly left
many in the water who could have been rescued" —admirable ex
hibition of sailors' courage.
We are told that Ismay, -who showed such energy in saving his
own life, was immediately warned of the danger and others were
not warned. In other words, they were kept in ignorance and ex
posed to death while the head man of the line escaped.
The above are some of the findings of the committee of the
United States senate, which acted promptly and intelligent!'’. These
findings should be sufficient to get from that shamelessly managed
line, with its unworthy and incompetent officials and its reckless
ness. .adequate damages to the survivors for their losses, and the
heaviest possible damages to the surviving relatives of those killed
—especially to the relatives of the five hundred ami odd unfortu
nate steerage passengers locked below and drowned because they
were poor ami “scarcely worth saving.
Linked by Links ra
i;v WIX I I’ll’El) BLACK.
rpHK >»’!■'-il.- i.md woman Iff
j learning to pl t\ golf. I saw
hrr out at tln links the other
day
It was early in the morning -
early enough to make the day seem
a miracle of glorious beauty. The
new gras* sparkled with dew, the
Wars swnug purple, sensuous tn
the light wind, down at the eighth
hole the wild crab trees scattered
their pink petals till the grass was
starred with perfumed loveliness.
The mocking birds were out, too.
I saw one In a tall maple, and near
him were two brown finches. And
over 1n the field the meadow lark
called and whistled, and, yes, front
the edge of the cloudy woodland
came the beautiful cry of the tid
dler bird, drumming up trade for
some party of his kind. I suppose.
“Fiddler, fiddler." he cried, like a
persistent barker at the entrance
to a side show tent “Fiddler, tid
dler," and the catbird mocked him,
and the woodpecker hammered at
the door of the hickory like a post
man with a special delivery letter
written by May and sent to Sum
mer to say that old Winter had
gone home at last and a good rid
dance.
Swish went the g->’f stick In the
hands of the middle-aged womah.
Swish, through ’he grass traveled,
r.ot so very swlf'ix, the ball she
tried to send flying.
"Scat I “.cried the man who placed
with her. "that's wba’ I call at cat
ball." And the middle-aged wom
an laughed and v alkmd gravely to
the place where the ii’t'” whit ■ ball
biinked up at the early sun as if ft
shared a joke w”h him. s-wtht"?
about the middl- -ae- I won- ,n. and
the way she played g f or t.od tn
plav it. I'm afraid.
Swish. Clip kno We rnidd'e
aged woman worked .-■■rinti .>•, and.
hello, that wasn't such a bad drive
what? Well, will sue miv ir.iki a
golf player after a”.
At 11 o'clock I saw the m idle
aged woman going '’"'i’*'
'Thar me." .*he .- re. I .
but it s a good tired. ’ m g■ • g
home and have a gr. ; rub ■ wn.
and then it will he time for lurch
eon, don’t you think"’
rested hm muscles a little
as she st"i"l for a mom-n! at ' e
Step. Her face arts burned rb..r,
were two wisps of 'lomtescript
middle-aged hai: straying from un
der her • orrect hat. H> r w rist
hung as if it w.-is a -’ll’ a me.
but her eyes verv bright, and
■ voice " . • as insistently op
timistic as tm robins who chirped
"cheer, cheer up" from the tap ma
ple. "I'll hi at in the morning."
siw said. ..nd wi’i a teuf. teuf. of
the m tor horn sh> was gone.
Then we al! spoke at once.
• 'A’S.at *'.>rifk- d one woman..
Nev‘r'. an mskt it tn the world."
said an 'her.
"'1 r- Ing to keep, her figure," said
a third.
' a r<t r' r . . the fourth
husband. That's what I do."
"Her husband,” came the horri
fied and all too eagerly Interested
chorus, "why. is be <-r a- -that
Is. now he always seemed so- er—
"No," sibl ilp last wbo had
spoken, ‘'lie isn't era -cither now
or any time, but the same kind of
a husband as mine, and mine Is the
best there Is. too.
"But," arid hi voi< i- bcann at
once verv sensible and practical,
just as the doctor's voice sounds
when he says. "You'll have it to do
some day ami you might as well lot
me phone to the hospital for your
room light now."
"But my husband does just two
things on earth, tends to business
and plays golf i can’t sit in the
office with him, .-o I've conie out
hero to the link We are having
quite a honeymoon since I've learn
ed tn play, we sue each other near
ly two hours every single day now.
"It's lovely and then at dinner
there’s always something to talk
about that Interests him. last
night It was an hour after dinner
before ho took up the paper. I al
most hurrahed in triumph.
"You see we got to talking about
a certain play he'd made the day
before, and how much better It was
than a play his partner made the
day before that, and we held quite
an interesting conversation.
"Oh, yes, it pays, it pays won
derfully I hate the game myself
I don't like walking, the hours are
always inconvenient for me; 1 don't
like getting sunburned. but it
I" 1 ! s. I decided that last night."
"Ohl" gnrg'ed tlje engaged girl
rapturously. tilting her. head at a
sentfm-nta! angle that made us all
long to -dap her ‘ < th. he'd miss
' "U t rrtbw if x au didn't come with
him. wouldn't he"'
The worn tn with the second hon
laughed quite cheerfully.
" tc .1 '. I'm afraid I'd do
nee cif the missing"
I'ne "v.,;, i , g’.sped and
■■■ . v ■ i>■ > p. ,: s o ,. u ords
'May 1 ~i. " broke in th. b.-ich-
• maid-- you can't call her a
ba- 1 m ili: any m-rm she's real
■> I ■ m m max 1 ask
■ ■ • -n T>-m't any of you
t' it > ray bei ause
x .-, ' ■lp ■ m ■ 1 "
'' * t 'ingle woman there
"i ■ ' ■:■ f :e ■ < " nn.-w e>- "Yes."
' ■ w. pan -niff'd.
- . • "if my hit -band
■•• - ■ ■ ■ n-i "-• j. tr so a- to
h- t • .-1 -i i . j ’.n gnlf to
I” m ■ .i'l l until he did I
wouldn't "
1 "■ " ’'m !""'xed with
■'i.' fu: pitx- a; ;he en
gaged gib •• 1 ■ th, bachelor
noir ~p T ■ t - ■ g-, "d each at
th other '■ i !- 'ha' nd as
plain!!, as .in.x ■’ • o - . pr>k.n or
‘ -1 ii to s ■ ic-
ing sr-as Thex • understand "
.'.nd <. ■r- ' • ' ■ f it, 1 don't
believe they did. . •.,>u
The Atlanta Georgian
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.
By TAD
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’-■ ’ • w Hill
OiM 11
'flif Z
T guy i,
No. 4. Hire a tumble. Hits day was today, let tomor-
Yuni, with his successful pugilist, was greeted ro " ,;| ke Care of itself.
everywhere as one swell kid. ha , ! " J 10 "’ Ynm " i ?? lpd over the bo . VR >°
TI . . . ~ , . the little schoolhouse u<»av. ['here thev were, the
lie soon visited the cares where other mana- . i i i i * >i - . ‘ . $
poor boohs, reading about old kings, bum lakes and
gers and pugilists congregated. He listened to adding numbers while he was in the calcium or
the stories of how they trimmed a sucker here and dering wine by the magnum.
there; how they fixed the game and fooled the His name was in all the sporting pages, his
public. Things went along swimming!' now. pictures in some, and he had the swellest
Yarn's motto was "As we journey through life sparkler along the gay white way.
let us live hr the way." He never gave the fu- (To be continued. I
r SLEEP~AND Li EE
How Much Sleep Ought One to Have? Oversleepingas Bad as Overeating
rpilF. eight-hour work day is
I undoubted!.’ b ised upon a
traditional division of the 24
hours which the earth takes to
make a single rotation on its axis
into three equal periods, of right
hours apiece each to be devoted
to a different general purpose.
“Fight hours for work, eight
hours for recreation and eight hours
for sleep" thus runs the imme
morial adage. It is likely that this
offhand division of time rests upon
some widespread experience of the
needs and capacities of life and
of the human machine, for all old
time rules of this kind are always
found to be grounded somewhere
upon actual experience
The question of the proper divi
sion of time, especially between the
states of waking- and sleeping, is
„n-’ of great importance to every
human being Is it true, as it is
generally assumed, that the aver
age man or woman needs eight
hours of sleep tn order to Jjeep
b"d\ and mind refreshed and vig
orous" It may \• i y well be doubt- '
ed. and it has i'i < - ntlx been called
tn question bj physic’ms whose
opmi ’ty on the subject are entitled
to attention. The proposition has
also I” en made, with apparent rea
son. that t"o much sleeping is as
bad as too much eating
If it is true that we must have
not less thin eight hours of sleep,
thru nmn <an do bet.er than na
ture does, tor lie makes many of
his machines work almost eontin
uouslx with the all of proper care
and suftii lent lubricatt-m. is sleep
the only efficient re-torer of the
powers of the bode ind brain? It
is generally regarded as ,-ueh. but
tip- rule is frequently violated with
impunity It well known that
Na.nob on—and a more energetic
pi i-.-on than he probabh mx er
h\ d took habitually onlx four
hours of sleep out "f ever? twenty
four It is said that Frederick the
Great id the same habit an i it
i’.'en averr. d 'hat Thoma- A
Edison roquirt .- onlx four and a 1 alf
hou ■ "f sleep other famous m> n
who have done m overshare of the
world'.- xvo’k bail been similar''-
chai" of -pending their 'ime in a
state >f une’ns imisnes* I’ might
b? though' ’ ise of i.'it-
-on tin ac.'-c'-’!' could be txt l.ilnen
on the ground that his work is
TUESDAY. MAY 28. 1912.
y GAh’RETT P. SERVTSS
almost purely mental But Napo
leon ami Frederick were as active
physically as thex were intellec
tually. Ttie former tired out his
secretaries one tfter another, and
could outride and outmarch his aids
and his marshals.
There appears tn be no doubt
that great mental energy plays an
important part in the abilitx to
dispense with the ordlnaiw amount
of sleep. And it may be that in
such case- the brain wears out the
body Nipolo'in died at 52. and
showed signs of failing powers sev
eral years before bis death. Some
have thought.it was failure of the
physical powers of the great cap
tain that lost Waterloo. On the
other hand. Frederick lived to the
age of 74. but during the last 23
years of his life he had no cam
paigns to make.
The secret of making a few hours
of sleep ■’uffice no doubt lies in the
ability, or habit of sleeping pro
foundly. Restless sleep is often of
little or no value. The habit of
dreaming frequen.t'y breaks up
sleep. The brain goes on working,
though without the guidance of
will or judgment, while the rest of
the body slumbers, and the activi
ty of the brain reacts upon the re
mainder and breaks the sleep
This is not better’d by the fact
that dreams tn themselves are of
brief duration. If thex are recur
rent they arouse and disturb the
body many times in the . >u >c of a
night. Tire brevity of dreams is
astonishing. .-'tmetimes .il”in
credible A el*-pc - may be awak
ened by the slimming of a d""-.'.
and in Fhe indcfinitelx short inter
val between the arrival of the
sound waxes m his ear and the ac
tual awaking he may have sir '’ a
dream as this- -which is an actual
>'xperien.-< He thinks himself in
’ne upper part of a b-ai" at the s’de
of a highway Away up the dusty
road, in the fa di-tan<( . he sees a
pig running toward the barn He
watches ’• witli units’ n- nt as it
kicks up th. dust. Sui den'y. is it
approaches, it begin- ominouslx to
grow to gigao'l. dimension It is
no longer in ■"•dinarx pig. but ■
monstrous with a he.rl
as big as m !• ybant's and a body
a tod Jong W ith gleaming tusks
and.blazing ’ cs I* rush- -- upon th-’
barn, rears itself on Ps hind legs,
level with the t” 'tv ! . .iiit>'.
who pusher the - ' - and tri’in
blingiy fastens it But t■ .i'fu!
br.i.-' bang ’lie dem' men-., .’.nd at
tn sig it f its. opened ja" s in his
very sac the dieaim.' starts a x.i.V-
"ith i cry of terror and with drops
of sweat running down his cheeks.
It is evident that the whole dream
.was horn of the impression made
bv th>‘ slamming door, and yet, ob
serve the marvellous violence done
to time in the succession of the im
aginary events of the dream. With
lightning quickness the mind ran
back, the instant the sound tm
pC seed the hearing, and construct
ed an orderly succession of events,
.which seemed to tile sleeper to oc
cupy in their gradual development
a. long space of time before the par
ti' ulai - vent closely associated with
the noise of the door was reached.
At the start there is nothing alarm
ing about the dream. It begins
with the amusing incident of the
distant pig kicking up the dust of
the road. Without any apparent
reason the transformed pig becomes
a threatening monster and then
rtrhes at the spectator, who seems
at first to be at a safe elevation
above the road. The beast raises
itself on its' long legs and attacks
the closed door—and not until then
does something, happen which can
be directly connected with the
sound that caused at the same time
the awaking and the dream One
would say that the mind of the
dreamer, through a sort of logical
habit, refused to be thoroughly
awakened until it had constructed a
complete story to account for the
awaking And then consider the
xx ond-’rful independence of real
time that was shown by the opera
tion of the mind To the sleeper
the e appeared to be no hurry: to
dm there seemed to be an actual
long lapse of time —but to the per
son who slammed the door the
awaking of the dreamer was evi
dently instantaneous, and absolute
ly coincident with the cry of terror
that vi ompanled it.
Minx ,-imilar instances are re
corded. and indeed the rule ap
)'■ i . to be unixersa! that a dream
iusr-1 by i disturbing sound or
ton- ‘ no matter how long its
events ma seem to the sleeper to
I d is..-. .; out, occurs in a mo
ment
But one can acquire, or at least
f-'s.-r.-s. ’he f culty of not having
’is lumbers disturbed so easily.
Nil 0.. on. xx hen the desire for
sle-'p seized him could slumber
... , 'ii”x on even amidst the roar
or innon
The of sleep and of
i ’ h’. no' eceivfd al! tb.e at
t-r.t. n that it merits.
THE HOME PAPER
o?o Modern Education
(Copyright, 1912. Internationa! News
Service.)
THE other day a man came to
me, bringing with him his
son aged nineteen. The boy
was o.ulte as big as his father. The
father requested that .1 supply the
young man with a situation, in
other, words, give him. a job.
I quite liked the looks of the
youngster and. also wishing to ac
commodate the father. I cast around
in my mind for some place that the
boy could fill. And niy first ques
tion was. ' What can the young
man do?”
And the father turned the cal
cium on the situation by promptly
saying, with a look of surprise.
‘‘Why, he can't do anything; he’s
just out of college.”
Recently the Associated Press
flashed the news that J Pierpont
Morgan has given slo,one to the
Bowen.- Mission "for the benefit of
poor and needy college graduates.”
And this was no pleasantry. As
far as I know, nobody laughed.
Why are college graduates poor
and needy? Why is anybody poor
and needy?
There are two reasons that the
individual hasn-’t anything that the
world wants, and can not do any
thing that, the world wants done.
All down the centuries, men di
vided the world up into the doers
and the thinkers. The. thinkers did
no work, and'the Workers did no
thinking. And the result was that
both the work and the thinking
were very ill performed.
We are now just realizing for the
first time in the history of the world
that in order to do good thinking a
man must work with his hands a
certain number of hours each day.
He must live out in the open and
mix with the world of workers—the
people who are doing things, and
the men and women who go forth
to their labors until the evening.
And thus out of his experience
his convolutions will be caused to
vibrate.
The man who.is going to do good
work must be.a thinker. And the
man w ho is going to do good think
ing must be a worker.
These things now sound like pure
bromides. But it is necessary that
they should be affirmed again and
and again, for even yet there are
schools and colleges that cultivate
the education de luxe that is sup
posed to tend toward ease and hon
ors.
There Is onlj- one state in the
Union where school gardens and
actual outdoor work for every
scholar in the public schools, from
kindergarten to high school, is be
ing provided.
This is the state of.Oregon We
have manual training here and
there, and occasionally school gar
dens carried on by patriotic and
public-spirited persons who form
themselves into civic societies.
At Jamestown. N. D., the North
ern Pacific railroad Joins hands
with the public school system, and
the result is a most delightful ex
hibition right at the railroad sta
tion of what big business can do
when animated with soul—a thing
which we have always been in-
ATLANTA’S GARBAGE QUESTION
HEALTH COMES FIRST.
Editor Georgian:
By all means. The Georgian is
along the right line and is. as usual,
following a constructive policy.
The health of the city does and
should be considered first
It is idle to talk about our sky
scrapers, our pbstoffice receipts,
and our bank clearings if we have
a menace facing us at all times.
The garbage question has been
played battledoor and. shuttlecock
long enough It is a pity xx-e have
not some form of government
where the responsibility could be
placed and the citizens know who is
at fault.
Someone must be If it were a
private corporation the matter
would have been settled weeks ago.
The citizens will hold somebody
responsible for the delay, and they
must, xchoever is at fault, assume
the grave responsibility of the ap
proaching summer with ■ its hfat
and the garbage question still un
solved.
Because we have been, as a city,
fortunate in the past and had no
epidemic of any magnitude, there
is no reason’ why Atlanta should
pass this summer xvithout a disas
ter that would be appalling.
I am glad The Georgian has taken
this work up. and hope with its
usual persistency, and its bulldog
gedness. that it will not cease un- •
til* something is accomplished
THE SOONER THE BETTER,
and our people will be grateful.
FREDERIC J. PAXON
ONE WAY SUGGESTED.
Editor The Georgian:
Dr D. W Liddell, a well known
citizen, has proposed to th» finance
committee and board of health that
if they will deliver to him tne city's
garbage at a place which he oxvns
and xvhich is located on a railroad
near the city limits, he will effec
tually. dispose of the same. His
charge for this service will bo SSOO
per month Bear in mind, he will
dispose of all. not one-half, as the
city is doing at present The ex
pense'to the city for the freight w ill
be $7,000 or $5,000 per year B.
having ten or a dozen loading sta
tions at convenient points on the
Bv ELBERT HUBBARD.
various railroads running through
the city, it is estimated that a sav
ing of some $15.0n0 per year in
the expense of hauling can be ef
fected. So that the account will
stand, if Mr. Liddell's offer is ac
cepted. thus:
Saving by shutting down
the present crematory. ...SII,OOO
Saving in expense of haul-
ing 15.000
Total $26,000
Subtract from this Mr. Lid-
dell's pay. per year 6.000
Freight charges per year, say 10.000
Total $16,000
Thus it win be seen that the net
saving to the city will be SII,OOO.
In addition xve must bear in mind
that if all the garbage was burned
by the city at present cost, we
would have to add at least $20,000
to the cost xvhich would also ap-”*’
pear as a saving by this plan.
Why not adopt Mr. Liddells
plan? Respectfully,
WILLIAM H TERRELL.
Atlanta Ga.. May 25, 1912.
URGES CONFEREES.
To the Editor of The Georgian.
Sir—A practical solution of the
controversy it seems to me. would
be to appoint a conference commit
tee composed of say three members
of the health board and thr»e from
the finance committee, to meet
with the mayor and agree upon a
plan and adjust the differences and
proceed without delay Such report
as this conference committee would
mak c would. I am sure, be agreed
to bx the council The patience of
the people has grown threadbare. It
appears to be the case of a balky
team—-one horse pulls and then the
other pulls, but the two never pull
together. Whenever the two houses
of congress disagree on a vital
measure they resort to a confer
ence committee and it rarely hap
pens that such a committee falls to
solve the controversy. Why not try
this plan? Otherwise the public
max hav* to discharge the old team
and hitch up nexx horse.-
C. J HADEN, /
Chairman Committee on Sanitation
of the Chamber of Commerce.
formed corporations do not pos
sess.
Then there is th* example of the
National Cash Register folks, who
maintained school gardens ten
years or more ago. Now the pub
lic school system of Dayton has
taken over this delightful better
ment inaugurated by that strong
and able man. Mr. John K. Pat
terson.
But in Oregon the whole public
school system is committed to man
ual training and the school gar
den
For the school teacher to inau
gurate this great betterment with
out the backing up of public senti
ment is too much to expect. But
in Oregon we have the State Bank
ers association, the State Fair
board, the normal schools, the ag
ricultural colleges, the various ad
clubs, the rotary clubs. th£ business
science clubs, all working together
to a common end and for one pur
pose.
I recently met the Oregon statu
superintendent of schools. It was
at a midday luncheon of the Ro
tary club at Portland. These rotary
clubs are clubs that make the
wheels go round.
Superintepdant Aiderman was
there to tell what he is doing and
trying to do and hoping to do. And
the rotary boys, full of the right in
tent. were getting in line to do their
share.
Many of the city schools In Port
land were not equipped, naturally,
to carry out this work and so they
were encroaching on the Pingree
preserve, utilizing vacant lots in
the vicinity of the schools.
Each pupil had a little plot of
ground of his own. A good deal of
liberty was allow ed, and the young
ster made his selection of seeds or
plants. Some were intent on rais
ing flowers, but for the most part
they were pragmatists, and were
raising the things that had a gen
uine tangible value.
The Bankers association had of
fered prizes for each school, and
also for individual scholars for
melons, beets, potatoes, corn. Then
came a produce association and of
fered to buy al! the popcorn, canta
loupes and watermelons that the
children would produce at certain
fixed prices. Here was a chance to
make sure enough money, and the
children were going right after it.
Not only were these school chil
dren in Portland and the various
other towns and cities, as well as
the county districts in Oregon, rais
ing flowers in gardens, but .they
were putting roses in their cheeks.
Psychology now teaches us that
happiness is the true end and aim
of life. Unless we are happy in
our work, filled w ith animation,
hope and good cheer, the physical
faculties are retarded; mentality is
stunted, and through lack of re
sisting power disease, want and
woe wait just around the corner.
There is no prophylactic equal to
a laugh. Nothing is so hygienic as
success. The. birch, the ferrule and
the cat-o’-nlne-tails in pedagogy
have been replaced by the hoe. the
spade and the watering pot. And
laughter has taken the place of
tears.