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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, 1873. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mail. $5.00 a year. Payable in advance. I You Must Do Your Own Climbing r r 9. 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. J ’I i Jraife-, xP’ I * 111 I film' FwHMHp f 'HI - -yW Mi ol A- I• * j ■ " ; 'W ........... J 2. .til (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