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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 postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 3, 1375. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mail. $5.00 a year. Payable in advance. You Must Do Your Own Climbing ». •*. M The Steps Are High and Broad, and the Climb Is a Long One— tn REAL SUCCESS. ' . - This is the country of success, and wp hear endless talk about if. These talks vary from simple advice concerning a man like Lincoln, who had only a few books and a few chances, but made lhe best use of them he could, al) the way up to the complicated recipes for succeeding that are given out by the gentlemen of the insurance companies and the get-Hch schemes. This newspaper has discussed success often, yet it. takes the subject up again today, for the young men among our readers, and the young women as well, are writing constantly for advice or for suggestions. Certain men whom we call successful, by which we mean that they have got MONEY, have “succeeded” without the quality of industry. They are the gamblers, the Wall Street geniuses or others who, with tricks, have got the better of their fellow men, BUT THEY ARE NOT SUCCESSFUL. Men of the same stamp have succeeded, even without sobrie ty or honesty. Ruf even such success as theirs demands certain qualities. They must have, for instance, at least temporarily, SELF DE NIAL They must know how to hold themselves back, husband their resources, keep themselves in hand until they shall have achieved the particular object or the particular sum which they had in mmd. To tell a young man that he NEEDS certain qualities is , wasting his time and your own except as you may direct his attention TO THE POSSIBILITY OF DEVELOPING IN HIM SELF the essentials of success. The late Collis P. Huntington, asked to advise a young man. said: “Take ten thousand dollars and go into the business of raising rubber trees.” The young man didn’t have ten thousand dollars Mr. Huntington said: “Well, go and get it before you come to me for advice.” The great railroad man’s attitude is very much like that of the ORDINARY adviser of the young He says. “Be honest, he industrious, be self denying, be courageous, patient, sober”— but he does not tell him how he (“AN BE these tilings. To make a real success you must have, first of all, INDUS TR.y—the faculty for hard work. That quality is greater than all others put together. AND YOl (’AN UI.LTIA ATE THAT QUALITY IN YOURSELF. Map out what you are going- to do each day, AND DO IT. Never let yourself get. into the habit of leaving a thing UNFIN ISHED. It is hard; for some it is almost impossible. But if you WILL IT. you can make yourself a hard worker eventually. You must do that that is the FIRST step to the real success. SELF-DENIAL is especially a matter of self education. Instead of putting your mind on ths question, “How can 1 amuse mvself or dress mvself?” sav to yourself. “WHAT (“AN I DO WITHOUT?” Self-denial is not important simply because it saves your money—-it is especially importimt because IT SAVES YOl R TIME AND YOUR VITALITY Sobrietv is. of course, a part of self-d enial. If yon don't smoke excessively or at all. if you don't drink excessively or at ail you save money and you save vitality. H you don't pay foolish attention to dress—only neat ness and common sense are necessary to success- -you save the time and the thought that many men put on worthless worrying about lheir personal appearance. The most important in the line of self denial perhaps is TO MAKE YOURSELF NOT WORRY ABOUT WHAT OTHERS THINK OF YOU Try to earn the approval of those who are worth while, and dismiss from your mind the opinion of the crowd that means nothing to you and can do nothing for you. More men waste time and energy and worry on the opinions of others than would make them successful if they could be indif ferent to public opinion. ENTHUSIASM is one of the great factors in success. It is important especially BECAUSE IT HELPS A MAN TO GET A START Unfortunately, enthusiasm is one of the qualities most diffi cult to cultivate. It is almost a part of a man’s own self, like his dark hair or regular features, or wide shoulders. Yet even enthusiasm CAN he cultivated, and i( should be cultivated. Re gin by getting out of your mind the critical, complaining, dis satisfied feelings. That is like pulling the weeds out of a field. If you can get out of your own brain the foolish feeling of complaint, of mortified vanity, you will be clearing the field for enthusiasm to grow. Enthusiasm is largely a matter of vitality. health and strength Get up in the morning after eight hours' good sleep, and you will be enthusiastic- ready to attack any proposition. Get up with five hours’ sleep aud a night foolishly spent, and you will have no strength for enthusiasm. Cultivate your strength, save it. and train yourself to look enthusiastically and hopefully at the world, scorning its difficulties. Honesty has been talked of incessantly ever since the writ ing of the Ten Commandments, and long before. There arc many false reputations, and not a few big fortunes, built ON DISHONESTY There are sonm mon who might have been rich if they had been dishonest, but who are poor now. But he sure that REAL success comes only Io the honest man. to the man who thinks and works AND TREATS OTHER MEN HON ZZRTLY Whatever you do HAS GOT TO RE DONE ABSOLUTELY BY THE EXERCISE OF YOl R OWN WILL POWER: IF YOU DECEIVE YOI’RSELF BLAMING OTHERS INSTEAD OF YOURSELF. YOV AVILL NEVER GET AHEAD. YOU MUST BE YOUR OWN MOST SEVERE JUDGE. Remember that it is not sufficient to WISH for success or to ADMIRE the qualities that make success You must develop those qualities and use them. There is one feature of real success about which we shall say little. That is UNSELFISHNESS It is the greatest, highest quality of all - although the usual talkers on success do not mention it. Unselfishness inters into our modern calcula tions but little. Yet, any man who would be truly great in his achievements must have for inspiration an unselfish desire to be of use to other men He may pile up millions, but he will not he one of the world’s really great men unless guided by the eon scious:r*ss I hat a man’s first duty and la.-l duty is to try to make others better off and happier for In- having lived on the earth The Atlanta Georgian Farming by Dynamite firing Agriculture By GARRETT P. SERVISS. DOING work by explosion is one of the most remarkable features of modern scientific advance. Automobiles, aeroplanes and motor boats are driven by a series of rapid explosions In the cylinders of an engine, Instead of by the pressure of eteam, and with out these engines actuaffid by ex plosion many of the most marvel ous of swift locomotion with which we have recently be come familiar would be hnpossi- i blc. With their aid man has con quered the air. The science of ex plosives has reached a point Where their application appears to be al most limitless. By careful manipulation and in genious machinery an explosive agent, like dynamite, or nitro-gly cerine, tn some of their many forms, can be made to work with the nicety and certainty of a steel tool, in boring tunnels through rocks mountains. Study and experience have rendered it possible to direct anil confine th* force of an explo sive almost as if It were a hammer or a chisel of superhuman power In the hand of a workman. Working by the application of slow , gradual pressure is an out -of-date process now we work with strokes as quick as lightning, but perfei tly con trolled. Modern machines operated by explosion are THE GUNS OF SCIENCE. Their force Is empow ered not to hurl projectiles, but to fie useful w ork Among all the aplications of the principle of explosion none is more surprising than its recent Introduc tion into agriculture. dc-crib*d by Dr Henry Smith William.’; in Hearst's Magazine for May. Ry ex plotting sticks of dynamite In the ground the subsoil is broken up and pulverized to a depth of five or six feet. This is three or four times as deep as a subsoil plow can go, and the pulverization effected i more complete. The result Is that new soil is made available to an al most unlimited extent. The work of the farmer with his old-fash ioned plow compares with that done by dynamite as the scratch ing of a rake with the delving of the plow itself. Ry the new process the loeked up treasures of the soil several feet beneath the surface are re ‘ leased, and the consequences are amazing Corn, cotton, hay, gar den veegtables. fruit trees —all re spond astonishingly to the stimu lus In some cases cotton crops . have been QUADRUPLED by the dynamite treatment of the soil One cultivator of fruit declares that he has got from four-year-old peach trees, "planted with dynamite." as much fruit as six-year-old trees ordinarily yield, and when a tree begins to decline, he starts it off again by exploding dynamite sticks around it. Simple Explanation. The explanation, as Dr Williams points out, is simple. The effect of breaking up and pulverizing the soil is to bring its constituents into contact with air and moisture. The plow only scrapes the surface, while deep beneath lie vast quantities of potential soil energy, which can not be brought into play as long as the ground remains in a hard, compact -late. By deepening his available soil the farmer CRE ATES A NEW FARM, and even, manx new finin', on the same area of giouml. Son >■ made from lime and r<» k. FRIDAY, MAY 31. 1912. EXPLOSION OF 12-INCH SHELL BURIED EIGHT FEET UNDER SAND. ■ ” 'Ji J J : M / Jnaff If j J ■ Hos y ; h 1 . 1 , .- ' ' W ill I '- t -v-Illi I *. II Ir- ' , Ofc’*** • I l ? • ' a JU wk ■$ -I IMb % ■ .... (CENTER PICTURE) THE OLD, LABORIOUS METHOD OF PLOUGH ING AS SHOWN IN THE FAMOUS PAINTING BY ROSA RON HEIJR. (BOTTOM PICTURE) EXPLOSION OF 12-INCH SHELL SUSPENDED EIGHT FEET UNDER WATER. ALL THREE PICTURES REPRODUCED FROM HEARST'S MAGAZINE FOR MAY. Nature works slowly In breaking these up. Even when triturated by natural processes the resultant soil is not very deep, and. more over, it has to be stirred up again every year in order that its plant stimulating powers may be fresh ened. The plow and other anti quated agricultural implements simply stir the old soil over and over again until its potential en ergy is exhausted. The explosive process by carrying the pulveriza tion several feel downward brings new soil into activity. Amazing Figures. The gain is almost incredible. A cubic foot of stone, as Dr. Wil liams says, has a total surface of six feet, but when this is broken into particles as fine as those that constitute productive soil, the to tal surface is increased MANY THOUSAND TIMES Then the at mospheric agents set to work upon it, and the elements needed for plant growth are produced in abundance. "Each acre of fertile land, of average depth of soil, ex poses to the action of air and wa ter an area of perhaps 70 square miles;” and. "by running tills plow a few inches deeper, the farmer max add several miles per acre to the available surface of his soil ” Even wi'h the aid of engines to drive his plows, the farmer can not go nTuch deeper with them than he has already gone, but by apply ing an EXPLOSION he can go sev eral feet deeper. Theoretically, it would seem to be impossible to set a limit to the gain in available soil that this new process places with in the farmer's reach, if he can thus make several farms out of one, the productiveness of the earth may in time be made so great that It can maintain fi.000.000,000 inhabitants as easily as it now sup ports 1.500,000.000. The relation of cost to results remains to be worked out by exqpr'imerit. Perhaps one of the most gratify ing results of the use of scientific methods in the cultivation of the soil may be the encouragement of that which the world so seriously needs at present, viz, a tendency of those who now flock to the cities to "go back to the land." Men will not long devote themselves to occupations that do not Interest them. Old-fashioned methods on tlie farm are not interesting when contrasted with the charm that mechanical employments offer. Rut let science once shed her fas cinating light upon agriculture, let tile farmer feel that his work, too, represents the highest results of knowledge, and there will be no lack of cultivators of jhe soil So feed the world, and keep the price of foodstuff- within reasonable limits. • THE HOME PAPER Dorothy Dix Writes —OF— Little Things That Count in Home -AND- Nagging Wives and Grouchy Husbands Bv DOROTHY DIX IN trying to Adjust the matrimo nial differences of an unhappi ly married < oupie a judge re cently ruled that a husoand has a perfect right to swear at and tn suit his wife all that he likes, and that the fact that he used abusive language to her every time he speaks to her does not constitute any ground for her bringing a le gal action against him. Another judge, in deciding the case of a. wife deserter who had fled a home rendered intolerable by a shrewish wife, punished the man, and asserted that a wife’ nagging was no excuse for her hus band leaving her. No doubt these two judges were perfectly correct in their interpre tation of the law. No doubt the law does give a husband the privi lege of snapping, and snarling, and cursing his wife as much as be pleases. No doubt the law does give# woman the right to fret, and Whin*, and complain, and harp on her grievances as much as she likes, and to badger a m<n out of his very soul, but if the law does permit these things It ought to be changed. The divorce law is supposed to only take cognisance of great crimes, but it isn’t the big things that make or mar a marriage. It is the little things. It isn't even the big stn that a man or woman may commit once,-Or twice, in a lifetime that really count. Little Meannesses Cause of Real Misery. It is the little meannesses, the little ha.tefulnesses, the daily looks and words and actions that rile our tempers, and rub our fur the wrong way, that make the real misery or an unhappy marriage. There isn’t a woman in the world who, if given her choice, wouldn't rather have a husband who came home blind drunk once a month and gave her a black eye, but who was amiable, and pleasant, and agreeable all the balance of the time, than to be married to a man who was as sober as the village pump, but who was always grouchy and cross, who never spoke a pleas ant word in the family circle. Nor is even infidelity' the hardest fault for a wife to forgive In a husband. Many a wife overlooks her spoufce's weakness for pretty faces because he is just as gallant , and charming and makes as many delightful speeches to her as he does to other women. And she's wise to be conveniently blind, for such a man makes a thousand-fold happier home than the man who is the pattern of all the virtues, but who never opens his mouth in his owm home except to find fault. And precisely the same thing may’ be said concerning women. The w'orst wife on earth, and the one that can bring most misery down'on her husband's head, is the nagging wife. Compared with her the woman who is a poor cook, th» woman who is extravagant, even the vain and flrtatious woman is a capital prize in the matrimonial lottery. In proof of this, if you e ill no tice, you will observe that as long as a mans wafe is sweet, and as- F J 1 K P fectionate. and cheerful, and good natured, and sufficiently liberal in give him some degree of individual freedom that he will put U|> with a deal of bad liouyk'eping and wastefulness from her. Woman's Work Is In Vain If She Nags. Un tite other hand, a woman mav work her fingers to the bone for her husband, and fret herself to a fiddle string trying to pare and scrimp and nave to help him, and all her labors will be in vain if she is ir ritable and complaining and fault finding, and if he knows that he has got to endure a scene or a cur tain lecture every shows tip at home half an hour late. for these reasons the divorce law should be amended, atid instead of not being considered as all, nag ging. chronic fault finding and abuse should bo put at the head of the offenses which would entitle men and women to divorce. And next to these crimes against the peace and happiness of matrimony should come the great silent grouch which spreads its pall over so many families, and which is a greater enemy to the home than ever was the Demon fiuni. Surely if any woman on earth has a right to a divorce and all the alimony in sight it is the wom an who is married to a man who speaks to her as he would not dare to speak to any woman who had an able-bodied brother to de fend her. and who is cur and cow ard enough to lake advamage of his position as husband to curse her and insult her. Certainly if any man in the world is justified in simply getting up and leaving his wife it is the man who Is unfortunate enough to be tied to a woman who nags him from morning until night and who comes home from his hard day's work to be fretted at and com plained to and deluged with tears and hysteria. What are the big offenses for which divorce is granted compared io these never-ending aggrava tions" Nothing. You'can forgive a crime and be done with it. but the perpetual irritation is always with you, and always keeping your . temper and your nerves sore. Take Care of Amenities and Morals Will Be All Right. Moreover, there is this to fie said, that the fear of the law is "the hangman's whip that keep® the wretch in order" in many cases, and a man who now feel.* free to swear at his wife and'curse her would keep a civil longue in his head if he knew that he would have to pay her alimony if he didn't, and that the permanence of his home depended upon his po liteness in it. Likewise, many a woman who now bullies her unhap py husband to distraction would control her tongue if she was aware that not only the law but public opinion would uphold him if he fled from her nagging. It's the little things that make nm-ery or nappmess tn if you take .are of the am»nii„» the morals will take , ale of them, selves.