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I You Must Do Your Own
Climbing
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The Steps Are High and Broad, and the Climb Is a Long One—
to REAL SUCCESS.
This is the country of success, and we hear endless talk
about it.
These talks vary from simple advice concerning a man like
Lincoln, who had only a few books and a few chances, but made
the best use of them he could, all the way up to the complicated
recipes for succeeding that are given out by the gentlemen of the
insurance companies and the get-rich 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 aavice
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 same stamp have succeeded, even without sobrie
ty or honesty.
But even such success as theirs demands certain qualities.
They must have, for instance, at least temporarily. SELF-DE
NLAL. 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 mind.
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,
be industrious, be self-denying, be courageous, patient, sober’’—
hut he does not tell him how he CAN BE these things.
To make a real success you must have, first of all. INDUS
TRY—the faculty for hard work. That quality is greater than
all-mothers put together. AND YOl ('AN CI LTIVATE 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 the question, “How can I
amuse myself or dress mvself?’’ sav to \ourself, “WHAT CAN I
DO WITHOUT?’’ ' “
Self-denial is not important simply because it saves your
money—it is especially important because IT SAVES YOUR
TIME AND YOUR VITALITY. Sobriety is, of course, a part of
self-denial. If you don't smoke excessively or at all, if you
don't drink excessively ot at all you save money and you save
vitality. If you don’t pay foolish attention to dress —-only neat
ness and common sense arc necessary to success-—you save the
time and the thought that many men put on worthless worrying
about their personal appearance.
The most important in the line of self denial perhaps is TO
MAKE YOURSELF NOT WORRY ABOI T WHAT OTHERS
THINK OF' YOU Tn 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 be cultivated, and it should be cultivated. Be
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 and 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 ditlieuiti<>.
Honesty has been talked of incessantly ever since the writ
ing of the Ton Commandments, and long before. There are
many false reputations, and not a few lug fortunes, built ON
DISHONESTY There are some men who might have been rich
if they had been dishonest, but.who are poor now. But be sure
that REAL success comes only to the honest man. to the man
who thinks and works AND TREATS OTHER MEN HON
ESTLY.
Whatever \ oii do HAS GOT TO BE DONE ABSOLUTELY
BY THE EXERCISE OF YOUR OWN WILL POWER IF
YOU DECEIVE YOURSELF. BLAMING OTHERS INSTEAD
OF YOURSELF. YOU WILL NEVER GET AHEAD YOU
MUST BE YOUR OWN MOST SEVERE .IUDGE Remember
that it is not sufiieient 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 usua talkers on success do
not mention it. Unselfishness enters into our modern --alrula
tions hut little. Yet, any man who would fie truly gnat in his
achievements must have for inspiration n unselfish desire to he
of us* to other men He may pjR up million.'., but he will not
be one of the world's rally great men unless juided l»*. the eon
sciousness that a man', first dnt and last duty is to try to maku
otners better oft' and happier for his having lived on the <ei 'b.
The Atlanta Georgian
Farming by Dynamite
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 steam, and with
out these engines actuated by ex
plosion many of the most marvel
ous triumphs of swift locomotion
with which we have. recently be
come familiar would he impossi
ble. 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.
Ry careful manipulation and in
genious machinery an explosive
agent, like dynamite or nitro-gly
cerine, in some of their many forms,
can be made to work with the
nicety and certainty of a steel tool,
in boring tunnels through rocks j-c
mountains. Study and experience
I
have rendered it possible to direct
and confine the force of an explo
sive almost as if ft 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 perfectly con
trolled. Modern machines operated
by explosion are THE GUNS OF
SCIENCE. Their force is empow
ered not to hurl projectiles, but to
do useful work
Among all the apl|cations of the
principle of explosion none is more
surprising than its recent introduc
tion into agriculture, described by
Dr. Henry Smith Williams in
Hearst's Magazine for May. By ex
ploding sticks of dynamite in the
ground the subsoH. 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 is
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
By the new process the locked
up treasures of the soil several
feet beneath the surface are re
leased. and the consequences are
amazing. Corn, cotton, hay. gar
den vecgtables, 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
.-uhivator 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 iie vast quantities of
potential soil energy, which can
not be brought Into play as long
as the ground remains in a hard,
compact state. Ry deepening his
avallab., soil th' farmer CRE
ATES ? NEW FARM, and even
man? no * farms, on the name area
of g oUtl'l
S"ii :* made from stone and rock.
FRIDAY, MAY 31. 1912.
EXPLOSION OF 12-INCH SHELL BURIED EIGHT FEET UNDER SAND.
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(CENTER PICTURE, THE OLD, LABORIOUS METHOD OF PLOUGH
ING AS SHOWN IN THE FAMOUS PAINTING BY ROSA B.ON
HEUR. (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 qther 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 feet 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 this plow
a few inches deepc,, the farmer
ma? add -e\er, mile.- per < r<
to the available surfsi e his soil.”
R\en with th» aid of engines to
drive hi» plows. th< farmer can
not go much 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 he made so great
that it can maintain 6,000,000,000
inhabitants as easily as it now sup
cost to results remains to .be
worked out by experiment.
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 methodr on
the farm are not Interesting .when
contrasted with the charm that
mechanical employments offer.
But let s> ience once shed her fas-
. clnating light upon agriculture, let
the farmer feel that his work, too.
represents the highest results of
knowledge, and there will he no
lack of eultivatoia of the sol! to
feed the world. aqd keep the prices
of foodstuff*. within l asonablt.
limits.
THE HOME PAPER
Xsi
Dorothy Dix
Writes
—OF—
Little Things
That Count in
Home
—AND-
Naggmg W ives
and Grouchy
Husbands
By DOROTHY DIX
IN trying to adjust the matrimo
nial differences of an unhappi
ly married couple a judge re
cently ruled that, a husband has a
perfect right to swear at and in
sult 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's
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 dobs give a husband the privi
lege of snapping, and snarling, and
cursing his wife as much as he
pleases. Nd doubt the law does
give a woman the right to fret, and
whine, and complain, avid harp on
her grievances as much as she likes,
and to badger, a man 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 cognizance of great
crimes, hut it isn’t the big things
that make or mar a marriage. It
is the little things. It isn't even
the big sin 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 hatefulnesses, 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, who
was amiable, and pleasant, and
agreeable al! 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 spouse's weakness for pretty
faces because he Is Just as gallant
and charming and makes as many
delightful speeches to her as he
docs 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
own home except to find fault.
And precisely the same thing
may be said concerning women.
The worst 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, the
woman who is extravagant, even
the c iin and flrtatious woman is a
capital prize in the matrimonial
lottei v.
In proof of this, if you will no
tice, you will observe that c long
as-a mans wife Is sweet, and as-
—jwllr -
■ ‘ ,z
fectionate, and cheerful, anfl gr>oS
natured, and sufficiently liberal to
give him some degree of Individual
freedom that he will put up with a
deal of bad housekeeping and
wastefulness from her.
Woman’s Work I*-In
Vain If She Nags.
On the other hand, a woman may
work her fingers to the bone for her
husband, and fret, herself to a fiddle
string trying to pare and scrimp
and save 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 time he shows up
at home half an hour late.
For these reasons the divorce law
should be amended, and instead of
not being considered at all, nag
ging, chronic fault finding and
abuse should be put at the head of
the offenses which would entitle
men and women to divorce. A-rulr
next to these crimes against the
peace and happiness of matrimony
should come the §re. t t silent grouch
which spreads its pall over so many
families, and which is a greater
enemy to the home than ever was
the Demon Rum.
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 take advantage 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
echo 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.
W hat are the big offenses for
which divorce is grantefi compared
to these never-ending aggrava
tions Nothing. You can forgive
a crime and he 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 i 8 this to bv
said, that the fear of the law ’ u
’’the hangman’s whip that keep.
The wretch in order" in mau»
cases, and a man who now fee»
free to sw“ar at his wife and cur>«
her would keep a civil tongue 1.
his head if he knew that he wouir
have to pay her alimony if h»
didn t, and that the permanence or
his home depended upon his po
liteness in it. Likewise, many .
woman who now bullies her unhap
py husband to distraction woula
control her tongue if she wak
aware that not only the law bu'
pu ii opinion would uphold him if
he fled from her nagging.
I’ - the little nuns.- thv take
miserj ..r happiness in marriage,
it jou lant .me nt the amenities
the morals will take care of them- .
selves