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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday Ry THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga. Entered as second - oles matter at p. tnff- >at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 1873. Subscription Price Delivered 1- ■ arrter. 10 > c s a week By mail. $5.00 a year. Payable in adtae e. 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 1 K A S' <> w ms . vflwlS ■SB i - ~ mK ’-■ ’ • 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.