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The White Star Line Should
Pay Millions in Damages
i That Is Settled by the United States Senate Report—And No
Technicality of International Law Should Prevent Damages.
Mr. Ismay and hi§ boat advertising itself through speed was in
a hurrv. Anti it killed nearly two thousand 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 bv 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 hv the presence and the
urging of a responsible owner and manager of the line.
The speed with which «I. 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 au
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 were 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. i
We are told that Ismay, who showed such energy in saving his
o«m 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 lhe 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 intelligently. These
findings should be sufficient to get fn>m 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 and odd unfortu
nate steerage passengers locked below and drowned because they
were poor and “scarcely worth saving.
tPo Linked by Links t>?<3
BY WINTERED BLACK.
THE middle-aged woman is
learning to pin} golf. I saw
her out at the links the other
day.
It was early in the morning
enough to make the day seem
a miracle of glorious beauty. The
new grass sparkled with dew, the
lilacs swnug purple, sensuous in
■the light wind, down at the eighth
.hole the wild crab trees scattered
their pink petals till the grass was
etarred with perfumed loveliness.
The mocking birds were out, too.
I saw one in a tall maple, and pear
him were two brown finches And
W«r in the field the meadow' lark
called and whistled, and, yes. from
the edge of the cloudy woodland
came the beautiful cry of the fid
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, fid
dler," and the catbird mocked him,
atid the woodpecker hammered at
the door of the hickory like a posrt
m&n 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 golf stick in the
hands of the middle-aged woman.
Swish, through the grass traveled,
not so very swiftly, the hall she
tried td send flying.
"Scat!" cried the man who played
with her. "that's what 1 ' all it cat
ball.” ’And the middle-aged wom
an laughed and walked gravely to
the place where the little white ball
blinked up at the early sun as if ft
shared a joke with him. something
about the middle-aged woman and
the way she played golf or tried to
play it. I'm afraid.
Swish, clip, knock, the middle
aged woman worked seriously, and,
hello, that wasn't such a bad drive,
what? Well, well, she may make a
goif player after all.
At 11 o'clock I saw the middle
aged woman going home.
"Dear me." she said, I m tired,
but'it's a good tired. I'm going
home and have a good rub down,
and then it will be time for lunch
eon, don't you think”"
She rested h< ■ muscles a it;.-
as she stood for a moment at the
step. Her face was burned, there
were two wisps of nondescript
middle-aged hai straying fmm un
der her correct hat. Her wrist
hung as if it was a little iatne.
but her eyes were vers bright, and
her voice was as insistent!}' op
timistic as the robin.- who chirped
‘‘cheer, cheer up" from the tali ma
ple "I’ll be out in th morning
she said. and with a teuf. :>uf of
the motor horn she was gone.
Then we all spoke at om '
"What for?” asked one woman.
“Never can make it in the world,
said another.
"Trying to keep her figure. ' sa.u
a third.
“Not a bit of it," said the fourth
woman; ‘shea trying to keep her
husband That's what. I do."
"Her husband.” came the horri
fied and all too eagerly interested
chorus, "why, is he —er —a —that
is. now he always seemed so—er—
a—”
“No,” said the last who had
spoken, “he isn't er—a —either now
or any time, but the same kind of
a husband as mine, and mine is the
best there is, too.
“But,” and her voice became at
once very sensible and practical,
just as the doctor’s voice sounds
when he says. "You'll have it tn do
some day and you might as well let
me phone to the hospital for your
room right now.”
"But my husband does just two
things on earth, tends to business
and plays golf. I can't git in the
office with hm>. so I’ve come out
here to the links. We are having
quite a honeymoon since I've learn
ed to play; we see 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. bast
night it was an hour after dinner
before he took up the paper. 1 al
most. hurrahed in triumph.
"You see w e 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 w alking, the hours are
always Inconvenient for me; 1 don't
like getting so sunburned, but it
pars I decided that last night."
"Oh!" gurgled the engaged girl
rapturously, tilting her head at a
sentimental angle that made us all
long to slap her. "Oh. he’d miss
you terribly if you didn't come with
him. wouldn't he?"
The woman with the second hon
eymoon laughed quite cheerfully.
"Weil." she said. Tin afraid I'd do
most of the missing.'
The engaged girl gasped and
looked too shocked for words.
.May I ask." broke in the bach
elor maid —you can't call her a
bachelor maid any more, she's real
ly a bachelor woman "mar I ask
this one question. 'Don’t any of you
clinging creatures play because
you like the game?'"
And not a single woman there
had the face to answer "Yes."
The bachelor woman sniffed;
“Well.” she said, "if m> husband
wouiii learn to embroider so as to
be near me I'd learn to play golf to
be near him. and until he did I
wouldn't " .
The other woman looked with
ryes full "f divine pity at the en
gaceri girl ami at the bachelor
woman Then the} gaz-d each at
th- other with, a look that -affi as
plain-. as ~n> word • ■
wrp’en or wirelessed attest rag
ing The} doi t understand”
Airi - think '-f it, I don't
btlieve they did, do you?
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.
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Yum. with his successful pugilist, was greeted
everywhere as one swell kid.
He soon visited the cases where other mana
gers and pugilists congregated. He listened to
the stories of how they trimmed a sucker here and
there; how they fixed the game and fooled the
public. Things went along swimmingly now.
Yum’s motto was “As we journey through life
let us live by the way.” He never gave the fu-
SLEEP AND LIFE
How Much Sleep Ought One to Have? Oversleepingas Bad as Overeating
THE eight-hour work day is
undoubtedly based 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 eight
hours apiece, each to be devoted
to a different general purpose.
"Eight 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
m eds 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
one 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 in order to keep
bod} - and mind refreshed and vig
orous? It ma}- very well be doubt
ed. and it has recently been called
in question by physicians whose
opinions on the subject are entitled
to attention. The proposition has
also been made, with apparent rea
son. that too much sleeping is as
bid as too much eating.
If it is true that we must have
not less than eight hours of sleep,
then men can do better than na
ture does, for he makes many of
his machines work almost contin
uously with the aid of proper care
and sufficient lubrication. Is sleep
the only efficient restorer of the
powers of the body and brain? It
is generally regarded as such, but
the rule is frequently violated with
impunity. It is well known that
Napoleon-—and a more energetic
person than he probablv never
lived—took habitually only four
hours of sleep out of every twenty
four. It is said that Frederick the
Great had the same habit, and it
has been averred that Thomas A.
Edison requires only four and a half
hours of sleep Other famous men
who have done an overshare of the
world's work have been similarly
chary of spending their time in a
I'tate of uneonsi It might
e thought that m th- case of Edi-
Aon the anomaly could be explained
on the ground that his work is
TUESDAY. MAY 28. 1912.
ture a tumble. HIS day was today, let tomor
row take care of itself.
“Ha. ha!” how Yum giggled over the boys in
the little schoolhouse now. There they were, the
poor boobs, reading about old kings, bum lakes and
adding numbers while he was in the calcium or
dering wine by the magnum.
His name was in all the sporting pages, his
pictures in some, and he had the swellest
sparkler along the gay white way.
(To be continued.)
y GARRETT P. SERVISS
almost purely mental. But Napo
leon and Frederick were as active
physically as- they were intellec
tually. The former tired out his
secretaries one after another, and
could.outride and outmarch his aids
and his marshals.
There appears to be no doubt
that great mental energy plays an
important part in the ability to
dispense with the ordinary amount
of sleep. And it ma}- be that in
such cases the brain y ears out the
bod}. .Napoleon died at 52. and
showed signs of failing pow ers sev
eral years before his 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
year? of his life he had no cam
paigns to make.
The secret of-making a few hours
of sleep suffice 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 frequently 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 bettered by the fact
that dreams in themselves are of
brief duration. If they are recur
rent they arouse and; disturb the
body many times in the course of a
night. The brevity of dreams is
astonishing, sometimes almost in
credible. A sleeper may be awak
ened by the slamming of a door,
and in the indefinitely short inter
val between the arrival of the
sound-waves in his ear and the ac
tual awaking he may hate such a
dream as this —which is an actual
experience: He thinks himself in
the upper part of a barn at the side
of a highway Away up the dust}
road, in the fa distance, he sees a
pig running toward the barn He
watches it with amusement as it
kicks up the dust. Suddenly, as it
approaches, it begins ominously to
grow to gigantic dimensions, it is
no longer an ordinary pig. but a
monstrous nondescript with a head
as big as an elephant's and a body
a rod long With gleaming tusks
and blazing eyes it rushes upon the
barn, rears itself on its hind legs,
level with the terrified dreamer,
w ho pushes the door to and trem
blingly fastens it But the awful
beast bang? the door open, and at
the sight of its opened jaw s in his
very face the dreamer starts awake
w ith a cry;of terror and with drops
of sweat running down his cheeks.
It is evident that the whole dream
was born of the impression made
by the 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 im
pressed the hearing, and construct
ed an orderly succession of events,
which seemed to the sleeper to oc
cupy in their gradual development
a long space of time before the par
ticular event 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
rushes 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
awakeneduntil it had constructed a
complete story to account for the
awaking. And then consider the
wonderful independence of real
time that was shown by the opera
tion of the mind. To the sleeper
there appeared to be no hurry; to
him 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 accompanied it.
Man.v similar instances are re
corded. and indeed the rule ap
peals to be universal that a dream
caused by a disturbing sound or
touch, no matter how long its
events may seem to the sleeper to
be dragged out, occurs In a mo
ment
But one can acquire, or at least
possess, the faculty of not having
his slumbers disturbed so easily. ■
Napoleon, when the desire for
sleep seized him. could slumber
peaceful!} on even amidst the roar
of warm -n.
The philosophy of sleep and of
dreams has not received al! the at
tention that it merits.
THE HOME PAPER
J.
t>?« Modern Education
Bv ELBERT HUBBARD.
(Copyright, 1912, International News
Service.)
THE other day a man came to
me, bringing with him his
son aged nineteen. The boy
was quite as big as his father. The
father requested that I 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 my 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 3. Pierpont
Morgan has given SIO,OOO to the
Bowery 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 who 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 only 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 postoffice 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 we 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, whoever is at fault, assume
the grave responsibility of the ap
proaching summer with its hpat
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 without a disas
ter that would be appalling.
1 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 ,T. FAXON.
ONE WAY SUGGESTED.
Editor The Georgian:
Dr. D. XV. Liddell, a well known
citizen, has proposed to the finance
committee and board of health that
if they w ill deliver to him tne city's
garbage at a place which he owns
and which is located on a railroad
near the city limits, he will effec
tually dispose of the same. His
charge for this service will be 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 will
be $7,000 or sL')t>o net year. By
having ten or a dozer. loading sta
tions at convenient points on the
formed corporations do not pos- 1
sess. *■
Then there is the example of the
National Cash Register folks, who
maintained sbhool gardens ten
years or more ago. Now the pub
lic school system of Dayton has
taken over thv* delightful better- j
ment inaugurated by that strong 1
and able man. Mr. John H. Pat- S
terson. I
But in Oregon the whole public 1
school system is committed to man- >F
ual training and the school gar
den. v
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- ,/
ricuitural colleges, the various ad
clubs, the rotary clubs, the business
science clubs, all working togetherr
to a common end and for one pur
pose.
I recently met the Oregon state _
superintendent of schools It wrfSr
at a midday luncheon of the Ro- i
tary club at Portland. These rotary 9
clubs are clubs that make the
wheels go round.
Superintendant 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 tn 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 allowed, 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 ’ths? 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 all 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 w ere 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 /i
were putting roses in their cheeks. 1
Psychology now' teaches us that
happiness is the true end and aim
of life. Unless we are happy fa T ■
our work, filled with animation, j J
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. Nothjhg is so hygienic as
success. The birch, the ferrule and
the cat-o’-nine-tails in pedagogy
have been replaced by the hoe. the
spade and the watering pot. And
laughter has taken the place of <
tears.
various railroads running through
the city, it is estimated that a sav
ing of some $15,000 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- T
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 will be seen that the net
saving to the city w ill be. SII,OOO.
In addition we must bear in mind
that if all the garbage was burned
by the city at present cost, we \
would have to add at least $2'0,000 f
to the cost, which would also ap
pear as a saving by this plan.
Why not adopt Mr. Lifidgß-g —** Z. V
plan? Respectfully. ■BY
WILLIAM H. TERRELL. / Wil
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 three 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
make would, I am sure, be agreed
to by 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- \i
ence committee and it rarely hap
pens that such a committee falls tc
solve the controversy. Why not try
this plan? Otherwise the publir .
ma} have to discharge the Ob', teats t
and hitch up new horses. 1
1 J HADEN, /
ch I tn .ommittee on kar.it a
i f the Chamber of Commerce. ■
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