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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St.. Atlanta, Ga. Entered as second-class matter at .-tvffhe at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 18T3. Subscription Price—Delivered h.' ■ arrier. 10 cents a week. By mall. $5.00 a. year. Payable in advance. 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. By TAD M . i 1 A' : L H i P* J ''' it \ ~ hr-z=z •—=. ~ ~/ /jilEiKMCTjaLya .If '■ JHMMr '■'.Mri uM 1 wiat' / f I' No. 4. 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. ■ J