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EDITORI AL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga. Entered a? second-class matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 187?. Subscription Pri- ' Delivered by carrier, io rents a week. By mail. $5 00 a year ’ Payable in advance. Let the Popular Will Prevail IN nearly every '•tale in which the Republican par tv ha? held direct primaries Mr. Roosevelt has received a majority of the votes at those prima ries and a majority of the delegates from those states. In ever' case where the Republican party, there fore, has appealed to the people, which constitute the of the party, and lias referred the matter of the ■nomination of the Republican candidate to them, the ;■people have rejected Mr. Tait and Mr. I alt's poli ■ eies. and have expressed their preference for Mr. ■ Roosevelt ami for the progressive policies which he ■ promises to represent. Tn view of this very definite expression of popn- opinion. Mr. Taft should retire from the contest as |Bgraeefully as may be. ami should permit the nomina ■ tion of Mr. Roosevelt at ('hicago without dissent or j| dissension. ■ Ts Mr. Taft should not be willing to retire, t lie “ ■elegates assembled at I'hicago should, regardless ol ■■r. Tass, proceed to nominate Mr. Roosevelt as the Hnosen candidate of the Republican part}. ||||® Mr. Taft will go before the < hicago coii'enrfoti limit popular support. Ills delegates have but in ■Lirerf authority. Mr. Roosevelt's indorsement comes direct from Iff the people. And whatever we may think of Mr. ■|Rnosevelt. of his worthiness or trustworthiness, of his ■mlness or genuineness, the expressed will of the peo- should he accepted and the decision of the people ■should he regarded a- final. ■ To repudiate tin <learl\ expressed prcleremc ■n£the ma sos flic Republican part} for Mr. Roose ■■ell is not merely to deny the nomination to Mr. ■Roosevelt it is to deny to the people the right Io ■ make the Domination. / WILLI AM RANDOLPH HEARST. European Nations Must i PAY AND FEED I Their Workmen w * * Q That Is the Fact Underlying the Great Strikes in Europe. Great meetings in London and elsewhere in Europe, strikes and threats of strikes, emphasize the fact that working men must he paid enough to live, enough to clothe their wives and their chil dren. ■ln England and in other parts of Europe they are not paid They can not live. And being aide to read and to think, and hav ing the right to speak, they will continue their agitation until under kh-wfee leadership or by disastrous violence the necessary results are . obtained. The English working men are not paid enough tn make life pos sible and comfortable with the existing prices of food I To the credit of English statesmen, it must be said that great L intelligence, thought .uni earnest cooperation have been given to I the workers in the great Strikes of miners and others K But the results are not satisfactory, and they can not be satis s factory as long as a man is unable to earn as much as it costs to buy food and clothes and pay rent for himself and his children. In America, fortunately, while conditions in some trades are bad enough, it can not he said that there is a general condition of wage payments barely equal to cost of food and the poorest clothes We have not in this country men doing hard labor in the mines for less than a dollar a day. and young women by the thousands working for so little money that they can buy only bread and tea and jam to eat. and occasionally a little gin to bring forgetfulness through drunkennis- We have our problems here, and many, and we shall have many more. But. at least, the people ol America as a whole ARE FED. AND THEY ARE CLOTHED England ami the other European countries must do as much for the working man ami the working woman that is the problem No arbitration, no eoneiiiatton. no earnest effort of parliament ami statesm 'll Io sol I > problems can ey.-r take the place of Ft»«> | > E.NOI t-H AND < l.t'l IH I \oi (111 The Atlanta Georgian workTand play By HAL COFFMAN. < _ _ ’ Bui \ %.,wxZ 15 ) A**' >4 A Olio VJORK - 21-13- / X — — ' J i i’EF- b If | ’I • | r - M Y e A '"''f ■ S'- * "" < A.- ' w WIW'VT b ' . . ' IbyW V' HOT WEATHER PHILOSOPHY Keep Cool. Keep Sober, Keep Your Temper and Keep Out of Draughts MAT ha - proved Itself a very hot month The weather p-ophets are pre dicting highet and more trying temperatures for the month lust getting unde’ way It is a good time n»»w, when summer is giving us a warm foretaste of its quality, to study some of the very simple rules by which most of the flange’s and many of the discomforts of hot weather mav he avoided. 'Chose rules are based on com mon sense, and common sense is based on experience 'At forty." says an old proverb, "••v ci y man is oithet a fool <»t a physician.** There would he n<» fools if every body studied what is good and what is bad for him. and followed up his self-teaching with self-prac tice. and there would be little need' for physicians. When the thermometpt begins to mark eighty m ninety degrees In the shade, and the sun is tike an open furnace overhead, imitate the inhabitants of regions where the wrath- ' is alway ? hot. They do not suffet from sun • st rokes Thev know better. They neither heat th* blood from within with fiery drinks, nor the flesh from without with bur densome garments Single Covering of Cotton Is Enough. They cover their head* with tur batu which look h-avy but which pre. in fart, light and airy For a person In good, vigorous health a single covering of cotton, or linen, or thin flannel is enough in hot weather, during the da ’.time. In the chill of night something more is needed, but it should not be burdensome The occupation and the place where on** works determine the kind c.f garments that should be w -rn If you! <»» < uj-h i ion pe- - mils it. carry a light umbrella w lu-m-v-'i you go out in the «i.m shin* In hot - -uintvh-s ul* Spain, i (i-rt u i’l > • almost (man h-dv MONDAY. JI NK T 1912 Bv GARRETT' P. SERVLSS carrying a sunshade, or wearing a tool, light head-covering. ami you w ill see nobody falling from a sunstroke. Put <»n your straw hat as soon as the weather gets hot. and pay no attention to wnat fashion may say. (’house a hat that is so woven that the air can circulate freely through it. Some of the hot-weather helmets are excel lent to wear in such weather. At any cost keep your head eo<»l Wea i garments that are not only light in weight but also light in eoloi. Black ->r daik colored objects absorb the solar rays; white or light-colored ones reflect them. Wear white linen garments, if you can The cost of washing will b* saved from th- doctoi's bill, nr gained by your increased ability to wn’k. Chills Must Be Kept. Away From the Abdomen. Person?' of a delicate constitu tion. or those subject to rheumatic complaints, s Iwu Id wear a thin hand of flannel round the abdomen and the small of the hack (’hills must be kept away from those parts of the body. W hen you are hot and perspiring, drink little water, and No ICE W ATEII. for if you do you will not merely in< lease y*»ui discomfort, but you will invite danger. Ikm’t run into the first soda water es tablishment you see and pour iced drinks down your throat. If you must drink, it would be better to tak- something moderately warm, or tepid. Above all. don’t go to a bar and drink fiery liquors AVOID WHIS KY AND ALL ITS COMPANY as you would your deadliest enemy. Aaohol. m any form, taken as a drink is doubly dangerous in hot w ea t her. Drink just enough water to keep the skin moderately moist; then, if your garments air of an open weave, and loose-fitting the « in il lation of the air will gently evapo rate the moisture, and thereby pro dure a i»i* r.ini . on’n* 1.. ■ jnao evaporation, or the turning of wa ter into invisible vapor, coolst the surroundings, a consumption of In at being required tn turn water into vapor. This heat, which comes partly from your body, is used up in driving the molecules of liquid apart so that they can form vapor. A very important thing is to avoid draughts of air. It makes a great different e In the effect upon the body whether it is cooled uni formly. as -n the open air. or only in certain exposed parts, as when a coql breeze blow? through an open w indow on your hack or you’r neck. The majority of serious < olds contracted in hot weather arise from exposure to insidious draughts. If your work is done indoors. keep the window s open, but don't throw the lower -ash up tn its ful height, leaving the upper one closed. Open each of them a foot or so, for thus you will pro mote a proper circulation of rhe air in the room. Hot air rises and cold air sinks. The former will pass out at the top of the windows as the latter enters below. Com mon sense will tell you how much circulation to have, hut avoid ex tremes. AND RE SITE T< > KEEF’ OCT OC STRONG DRAI’GHTS. Never Get Angry, and Don't Worry. You can promote bodily comfort by keeping a firm hand '»n your temper. .Never suffer yourself tn get angry, and esperially not in fiot weather. If you have a quarrel on hand, let it stand over until next winter by that time, perhaps, it will no longer seem necessary, and so you will have kept enol both physically and mentally Don't worry, and don’t swear at the weaflhf r, no matter b-»w hot it gets. Keep your temper, keep your head - 001, give your body a chance to perform its functions without hindrance from heavy, unseasona ble clothing. EAT MODERATELY, avoiding meats and highly sea soned food*?, drink .c* little as poss ible. and the "dog Ja - <’ need have »».» rruF- f r vmi THE HOME PAPER Dr. Parkhurst’s Article on The Reason That Phy- f sicians Practice foNTS —and— -1 he Execution of Rev. C. V. T. Richeson Written For The Georgian Bv the Rev. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst THE following question has re cently intruded itself three times upon my attention: Do physicians exist for the purpose of curing the sick or for the purpose of maintaining the doctrine of the particular medical school to whtch they have attached themselves? In order to indicate that this question does not proceed from any malice toward the profession ii might have been broadened out io include also some members, at least, of the school of theology, and then the inquiry would have been. Do theologians exist for the sake of saving souls or for the purpose of maintaining and perpetuating the distinctive tenets of their own theological school? Our thought just now. however, is limited to the medical profes sion. for I have recently had the ■ pleasure of being approached by 1 three regularly graduated physi cians, belonging to different si hools. but each of them had ar rived at certain conclusions and made what he considered valuable discoveries in the matter of treat ment, but discoveries that were off from the line of traditional thought pursued by his school, and discov eries which his colleagues resented, although he was able to cite dell nite facts and results in corrobo ration of his theory. Doctors Take Treatment. But Don't Recommend It. Among these three is one partic ular practitioner who has heretical lx strayed awa? from the field of q ordinary treatment, the efficacy of whose methods I have been able for a number of years to experience and to testify to. a physician whose treatment a few other physicians come to his office to avail of, but who scrupulously refrain from rec ommending the treatment to lheir own patients. Os course, a physician that can do what other physicians can not do moans loss of revenue to the other ph? sicians. No one. however, would like to suppose that a homeopathist for tlie sake of the fee would rather have one of bis own patients die under homeopathy than live un der allopathy, and vice versa; but whatever construction is put upon it, medical bigotry is an easy sec ond to theological bigotry, even if not fully up with it- not to say a hit in the. ar neither of the two lin*s of service Is the world being profited as much as it would be if we thought more of doing the world good than of making a pet of our own particular way of doing il. • • • lisI is not out of any morbid sym pathy with the man who has been put to death for the murder of Avis Unnell that some who had noi previously given so much thought to methods of of ficially killing criminals have been led to inquire whether the ends of A Government Railroad By ELBERT HUBBARD. Copyright. 1912. International News Scrvlte. IT is a new proposition for the United States of America to construct, equip, own and man age a railroad. Rut a bill is now in the United States senate provid ing that Uncle Sam shall become railway builder. The plan and purpose is to build a thousand miles of railroad in Alaska at government expense. The bill -perns to have the approval of the best men in congress. Public sentiment favors it. and when pub lic sentiment is with you everything succeeds, and without it everything fails—so said Abraham Lincoln. Public sentiment is opposed to conservation that conserves for generations yet unborn and makes the generations that now exist suf fer. A conservation that does not take • care of the present wants and needs of the people now on earth is silly and absurd. We have a deal of this conservation which was prompted by the law of inertia. It Is easier to do nothing then to do something. It is very much eas ier to set apart a great tract of land and dedicate it to the prairie dogs the owls, the coyotes and the rattlesnakes, than to plat it. plant it. irrigate it. and thus make the waste places green. It one wants a little object les son. unforgettable, of the folly of conservation without intelligent purpose, let him view the military reservation at the city of Salt Lake. There will be found a thousand acres, right at the foot of the mountains, beautiful in situation beyond description: behind are the snow-< apped bids ami to the west the horizon js bounded by the great inland Salt Sea And here is this thousand aci« of l>< dutiful. gently undulating land, surrounded np three sides by a .. . Ut. m o ilfstrtrl Whore hsi.ix »nd justice can not be met writhou* quite as large an accumulation of horrors as are now attendant upon the final scene of the tragedy. It s Brutal for State to Slaughter a Human. Without reasserting in this ar ticle our claim that for govern ment deliberately and cold-blood edly to slaughter a human being is brutal, there still remains th* question whether even a brutal act may not be so performed as to show a tinge of respect for the humanness of the victim. Paint as black a picture as we pleased of the monstrosity of Rich eson’s act. he was still a man and not a dog. and as such de . served. ev(*n in bis dying, a treat ment as considerate at any rate as would, by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, be accorded io any one of the. stray cats that wander homeless about the city, not one of whom is tied up and pounded to death by blows of a inailet or repeated shocks of electricity. It would seem as though if we study to make the death of a worthless little quadruped as painless as possible by adminis tering to it a sleeping potion that shall free from all horrors its passage out of life, we can hardly be human and not influence our treatment of a human creature bv like consideration of mercy. it is going an awfully long way even to kill a criminal, but even l though a criminal, he has not forfeited all hi' rights and among them the right to be launched into enternity without needless distress of mind or body. If Richeson was to be executed, why could not the deed be done without delay as he requested, that he might be saved the unspeak able agony of suspense? If he was to die. why could he nor have been spared the torture of thj,>«e four suspicious spying eyes of the death-watch and be al lowed to diejiv his own hand if he preferred it? What have public morals gained by having had the beating of his heart stayed by act of the state rathei than by his own act? Better to Let Criminals Commit Suicide. Why can not Christian Massa chusetts deal with the men that it wants to get rid of in as con siderate away as pagan Athens dealt with Socrates when it had be come tired of him and wanted him out of the way and courteously ad ministered to him a soporific draught of hemlock? If It is necessary for a criminal to die. would not the interests of the community and the ends of both justice and mercy be quite, as well served -by a little dose of cyanide quietly administered by his own hand in the secrecy of his cell? prosperous people live. The homes come right up to the line, and be yond this Uncle Sam has said, "Thus far and no farther." People who own these homes plant trees, flowers and vegetables. I hey water their lawns, they have sidewalks, electric lights, pave ments and every good and beautiful ininjr that nature can auppjv or man invent. Rut what has Uncle Sam done on hts thousand acres? Absolutely nothing. A few trees have been planted and then forgotten, and their dead branches creak and jib ber in the winds that blow the sands across the empty, vacant space. The buildings in this military reservation were built 30 or 40 y ears ago. They represent pioneer architecture, and the. whole tract and all of the buildings seem a sort of appenda vermiformis to this progressive, growing, advancing municipality. It is an object les son in t-he greatest futility that has ever cursed the world. Here one finds soldiering carried to its logical limit, and we behold exactly what occurred during the Dark Ages—that night of a thou sand years when the warrior was supreme. The government ones it to the people to allow his children to util ize the earth, or as much of it a, Uncle Sam has title to. The products of the earth, agri cultural and mineral, have no value without transportation. So this move on the part of the govern ment to open up the wealth of Alaska with the aid of efficient transportation is a great stride tn tin front. l-’ood separated from human bodies is valueless, and coal hope h ssly out of reach of stoves is ml. Conservation must Ih» sensible «rid sane; othpruis* it is a huU dop in mange’" und tyiannv. r ’ll. .md <.n• 4k . rmj .. U jl] )>• II ft n n ii.