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Two Enemies of Us All
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On the Road to Success Almost Every Man Meets These Two
Enemies. Conquering VICE and Slothful PROCRASTINA
TION. Few Succeed in Passing Them.
Readers, this is such a commonplace, obvious sort of an
editorial that you will pernaps bo impatient in the reading of
it. Nevertheless, at the risk of seeming tiresome and fond of
platitudes, we propose to discuss th< enemies of mankind «na
the possibility of conquering or avoiding them.
Ninety-nine out of every hundred human beings may he
called FAILURES.
A man may do fairly good work, he may make a success
in comparison with his fellow man. and yet be A IAILI RE.
A man who fails to do THE BEST THAI IS IX HIM is a
FAILURE, whatever he max do, no matter how he may impose
upon the world with his work.
Os all the failures you have known, can it not be said that
VILE or PROCRASTINATION might account for every one of
them ?-
“VICE" is a name that covers many human weaknesses.
Drunkenness is a vice—one which viciously suppresses,
DROWNS the very force, THE MENTAL UNREST THAT
OUGHT TO BRING SUCCESS.
Self-indulgence is another vice. It makes us devote our
energies in the present to our various tastes, and likes, instead
of controlling the present in order to provide for the future.
I Vanity and egotism in all its forms are vices. The vain man
I wastes, in self-approval, in the decoration of his person, or in
I foolish self-confidence, the time, thought or money that ought
I to be spent on improvement.
I Then there arc all the other .vices—foolish, perverted forms
I of human energy—that tear men down and make real growth and
accomplishment impossible.
Gambling, drink, love of display, lack of moral purpose—all
these vices, positive or negative, meet mankind on the road to
ward good results; only a few get by.
Many a man able to control the actively vicious side of his
character is destroyed by laziness, by the peculiar hatred of
effort so hard to overcome in millions of us.
The world is full of men and women who seem intelligent,
WHD MIGHT SUCCEED, and yet go plodding along in their
little clerkships or other little routine places. BECAUSE THEY
LACK POWER TO FORCE THEMSELVES OUT OF PRO
CRASTINATION’S RUT. They expect to begin the struggle
SOMETIME, but the time never comes.
Which of these two enemies of mankind is responsible for the
greater number of failures?
LAZINESS, lack of will power, is. tn our opinion, man's
most dangerous enemy.
Vice in a man is often only ENERGY GONE WRONG. If the
man can direct into channels of effort power which he has been
wasting in vicious self-indulgence, success will come to him, and
the monster of vice will be passed and left behind
Slotfulness, procrastination, laziness are harder to get out of
the system than vice.
Thev mean, unfortnnatelv, verv often AN ABSOLUTE
LACK OF ENERGY
And that is a thing that should be borne in mind by all of
the good, ordinary, average, well-meaning, well-behaved people
THAT CAN NOt'“SEEM TO GET ALONG."
You have got to kill the vice that stands in your way. You
have got to KNOW that it is there, and then tight it. realizing that
UNLESS YOU CONQUER IT IT WILL CONQUER YOU
When you have rooted out the viciousness in your disposition,
then go at the laziness, which is slow and sleepy and can wait
until the vice is killed.
- What do you need in anv kind of a fight ? YOU NEED A
GOOD WEAPON.
. In a fight against yourself you need the one great weapon,
which is WILL POWER.
WILL POWER—the force which makes possible repeated, de
termined. steady effort—is the only thing that will help you in
life's fight.
There arc those that say that we can not change ourselves,
that we must always remain as we were made, with our weak
nesses and our strength as at the beginning.
I BUT THAT IS FALSE.
» I A man CAN change himself The drunkard in the gutter can
rise to the highest place. IF HE WILL TRY HARD ENOUGH.
—., The way to bring about the change is through STEADY.
DAILY. CEASELESS EFFORT. There is no use in making a
violent effort, lasting a few seconds and leaving you weaker in
strength than you were before.
The wav to get up earlv in the morning, for instance. IS TO
GO TO BED EARLY THE NIGHT BEFORE.
As long as vou go to bed too late. YOU WILL GET UP TOO
LATE or if you do get up early you will be tired and your work
will be of no use.
Reform must be begun at the RIGHT end.
If you want to get out of some vicious habit, remember that
youean only do it BA ADDING T< > A OUR STRENGTH.
Good sleep, wise eating. A W ELL NOU R ISH ED BODY, will
do a great deal to overcome a desire for drink.
If your mind is given to foolish amusements. dissipation,
gambling, remember that before vou can take awav that interest
YOU MUST REPLACE IT WITH SOME OTHER
Get a real interest in vour WORK, begin saving vonr mon
ey. REALIZING THAT CAPITAL MEAN'S INDEPENDENCE.
Make plans, carrv them out. TRA TO BE AS MUCH INTEREST
ED IN YOUR OWN POWERS OF SELF-CONTROL AS IN THE
FOOLISH RUNNING OF £ >ME HORSE OR THE TURNING UP
OF SOME CARD.
For young men unmarried MARRIAGE is PROBABLY THE
BEST POSSIBLE THING It forces serious thought, it brings a
great interest with the children and a steadying sense of responsi
bility.
In proportion to their numbers UNMARRIED YOUNG MEN
COMMIT TEN TIMES AS MUCH FOOLISHNESS AS THE
MARRIED MEN.
The unmarried man is like a ship with no rudder, going in
any direction, erratically
The Atlanta Georgian
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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
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No. 7.
Yiim’s job in the case held out until his voice
went back a bit. The boss came up one evening
and told him that “No hloke with cracked pipes
could chirp there," so Yum was given the gate
and forced to seek pastures new. He was a smart
young fellow, though, and knew that he could get
in around the gambling district. A fellow didn't
need to know the war was over to horn in there,
so Yum grabbed a job as lookout and assistant
stick man in a erap game.
All he had to do was to watch for suspicious
persons who might want to shoot, craps, and then
when the stick man was out he would handle the
coin and call the dice.
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What to Do in a Thunderstorm >
Its Perils Can Be Eliminated If the Proper Precautions Are Taken
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By GARRETT P. SERVISS. t
IA HE season of thunder storms has
opened, and in no country are
the electric marvels of the at
mosphere more imposingly displayed
than in the United States. They are
among nature's most magnificent spec
tacles.
We should learn to look upon these
without fear. They are full of danger,
but their perils can be almost com
pletely eliminated by proper precau
tions. All fatal accidents from light
ning are due to neglect of such precau
tion.-. Lightning rods, properly placed
and eared for. furnish an all but abso
lute protection for buildings. Great
cities are so full of ready made tracks
for electric discharges that violent
thunder storms passing over them
seldom cause any serious damage by
lightning. The sudden gusts of wind
do more harm than the electric dis
charges.
Statistics show th.it the danger is
greatest in the open country, and par
ticularly in hilly and mountainous dis
tricts. In the year 1900, 713 persons
were killed by lightning in tl\e United
States, and the greater number were
in the Rocky Mountain district and
the upper Missouri valley. In the same
year 1.542 domestic animals were killed
in the United States by lightning, and
1.547 builflings were struck. Cattle
and sheep are apt to gather about iso
lated trees, or along wire fences, dur
ing a thunder storm, and they are
sometimes killed in groups. A person
caught in a thunder storm while in the
open country should keep 100 yards
away from any tree that mav happen to
stand in the field. In a dense woods he
is safer if he does not place himself
undi r some tall tree. Eight or nine
persons have been killed by a single
stroke of lightning while sitting under
an isolated tree. Such a tree incites
lightning, and offers it a read.' path to
the ground. One should also avoid the
neighborhood of a body of water.
Electrical Charges in
Clouds Cause Lightning.
The cause of lightning is the accumu
lation of electric charges in the. clouds.
These charges grow stronger as the
particles of water in the cloud coalesce
to form larger drops. Electricity re
side.- on the surface of the charged par
ticles. and as the\ coalesce th. surface
increases proportionally less than the
volume. The consequence is that the
electricity contributed by each particle
to the unit'd mass has less .-pace to
spread itself o'er than It had when the
TUESDAY. JUNE 4. 1912
It was a soft job. There was really no hard
work about it. Every night from 8 to 10 you
could hear Yum calling out: “Who shoots?
There you are; hands up and money down, boys;
he’s coining out! Ha! ha! he shoots a seven;
that's the old house number, boys. Get down on
lhe line: the next man is ready. Hands up and
money down!"
Yum. of course, was merely the assistant up
there, but he had enough for eats and a haypile.
In his opinion, it was better than a job at S2O
per week working from 8 till 5. Yum knew; you
couldn't fool him.
(To be continued.)
particles were separate It follow s that
the combined charge on the surface of
the larger drop is more intense than
were the charges on the separate parti
cles. In other words, the “potential" of
the charge is increased. The whole
cloud becomes heavily charged as its
countless multitudes of drops grow
larger and larger
At the same time, through the ef
fects of what is called “induction." a
charge of the opposite kind is produced
on a neighboring cloud, or on the earth
beneath. As these charges increase in
intensity they strive to burst across
the intervening air. and if the potential
becomes sufficient they do so. The re
sult is a lightning stroke.
Lightning Stroke Is
From 1 to 10 Miles Long.
The spark from an electric machine
is a baby lightning strok* 1 . As the disk
of the machine is turned, more and
more electricity accumulates on the
polished knob, called the conductor,
until the. surrounding air can no longer
resist the strain, and. then a spark
passes between the knob and some ob.
ject placed near, on which a contrary
charge has been produced by the cu
rious property of induction.
But the spark from the most power
ful electric machine is but a few inches
in length, while a lightning stroke may
be from a mile to ten miles iong! No
sudden phenomenon of. nature, except
perhaps a volcanic explosion, is more
startlingly suggestive of terrific power
than a bolt of lightning, t’onsidering
the immense number of strokes that fly
from cloud to cloud and from cloud to
earth during a severe thrunder stom'. it
stems Wonderful that lightning is not
more destructive than experience has
, proved it to.be. Our relative security is
due to the fact that most of the dis
charges take 'ace between clouds, and
that when the lightning strikes earth
ward it usually has an infinity of points
presented to it, which offer ready ways
1 for its escape and dissipation. This is
why isolated objects, especially if they
are long and pointed at the top. are the
most liable to be struck. Tail, pointed
objects, especially if they are metallic,
serve to draw off the electricity from
the clouds without an explosive dis
charge.
The danger from lightning at sea was
greater in the old days of wooden ships.
Then serious damage, or even destruc
tion from lightning was not a very un
common occurrence It .has been
thought that some cases of the disap
pearance of ships at sea may have beer.
> due to lightning A British ship, the
i Resistance, was struck by lightning in
the Straits of Malacca, the powder J
magazine exploded and every soul was
lost except three sailors. If that had
, occurred in the middle of the ocean, no
doubt the ship would have been added
to the list of the mysteriously missing.
Modern, iron and steel ships are in
little danger. They present a broad,
conducting surface for the escape of
the electricity. The latter, like water
is only dangerous wh*m it is. so tc
speak, crowded into a narrow channel,
with a steep descent and no readv wav
to escape. The flood that comes down
from a broken reservoir through a nar
row ravine destroys everything in its
path; but it spreads out harmlessly the
moment it enters a broad plain. So a
> charge of electricity dissipates itself
without violence if many ways of es
cape are presented to it.
Thunder Increases
Grandeur of Electrical Storm.
The grandeur of an electric storm is
vastly increased by the thunder. Many
‘ persons find that more terrifying than
the lightning. Thunder is due to the
rush of air to till partial vacancies made
in the atmosphere by the sudden ex
pansion produced by the passage of Ihe
• lightning. The heated air expands with
’ great force, ami immediately the va< ni
cies are filled again, thus producing at
-1 mospheric waves, w*hich impress the eat
1 as sound. If the stroke oe■ urs near b.'.
' the thunder follow s almost instantly, in
a sharp clap. If the lightning is at a
I distance from the observer, the thumb t
follows the stroke at an interval de
-1 pending upon the distance Sound
1 travels in the air about l.lhu feet per
I second. The distance of the lightning
’ stroke can easily he calculated by ob-
> setting the number of seconds which
elapse before the thunder begins. It
! only neei ssa.' to multiply this number
■ by Lion in order to have appr ximaiely
? the distune* of the lightning. Success.
’ ive pea’s of thunder following a singl*
-tst. eke at' no t.. th. sue .... .iiitv.il
■of different sound waves produced .it B
5 | varying U.-’an. ' s from the ohseivir by
I the pus-age of the lightning As w. ’
. have -aid. a lightning stroke m.' be
i miles in length. Va iaiions of density
■ in the air tend to separat. tit.- sound
waves and make them arrive in peals
? instead of in a continuous roll.
It is ar. old adage that “thunder sours
■ milk" If there is any effect of thi
- kind it must be due to t■ • . ctr: stat,
i of the air rather than to ’!■■■ thunder
■ The great heat which tier, a . mi a-;
: nies a thunder storm may .»*.;.— a
? den development of ferments in t.. .
i milk
THE HOME PAPER
Dr. Parkhurst’s Article
on
What the Voters Must f
Now Decide
—and—
Public Opinion as a
Moving Force
Written For The Georgian
By the Rev. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst
A LTHOUGH the American mind
J \ is nabie to violent spasms of
hysteria, it is naturally sound
in its operations and ordinarily re
turns pretty promptly to its normal
condition.
It may do a good deal that is ir
rational and silly while its intelli
gence is out of commission, but is
a thing that is. on the whole and in
the long run. to be trusted.
At any rate, that has been the
case- in times past.
A whirlwind campaign, like that
through which we have recently
been passing, in which the two
most conspicuous figures in our
national life have met in combat
as critical as that of David and
Goliath of Gath, has been as fran
tic as it has been barren of sub
stantial results, and has thrown
the general mind into a turmoil of
distraction, absolutely disqualify
ing it for reaching wey-thought
out conclusions.
A man can not think and shout
at the same time.
The case is like that of a certain
big locomotive, said to have been
built for one of the Southern rail
roads, in which the whistling ap
paratus was so immense and re
quired so much steam to fill it that
when the engineer wanted to whis
tle he had to stop the engine.
It wouldn't whistle and go at the
same time.
The nominating stage of the cam
paign is now nearing completion,
and it is to be expected that the
general condition of exhaustion
consequent upon the performarices
of the past month will be followed
by a lull precedent to the election
eering campaign proper.
lime to Think, Now
Ihat Engine Is Silent.
And now that the engine has sus
pended its whistling and the people
their shouting, it is devoutly to be
hoped that conditions of political
feverishness will be so far abated
as to allow for a brief season, at
any rate, of temperate and serious
thinking.
Enthusiasm is not a state of mind
to be utterly decried; at the same
time, great and complex problems
require for their solution delibera
tion that is quiet, careful and free
from heat and passion, and that is
something which we have had little
or nothing of.
We can not suppose that the
great majority of oifr citizens are
so destitute of patriotism as not to
desire what is best for the ' ountrj .
or so intense in their personal likes
and dislikes as not to be willing to
take into seYious consideration the
revolutionary and turbulent temper
of the times the world over, and in
view of that situation to candidly
inquire whether a leadership that is
itself effervescent and revolution
ary or one that is deliberate and
self-poised is the safest under
which to place the vast and com
plicated interests of the country
Any man who supports a candi
date for the presiciem v of the
I'nited States for no other reason
than that he likes him is not tit to
have an opinion or io ...s. a
ballot.
Now Is the Time For
Voters to Use Their Brains
Whatever conclusion i patri iti.
citizen may arrive at. tuts at any
rate, ia obligat- i•• ui <<n ism- that
he do seme solid thinking that lie
break free t om ii;e ■ on?;, iinu of
mere personal preferen es. air:
now that there :s n • more aj,
piauding just ar piesent r-attires
< sh
tunit; ■■ fa. e ’r. , ,
manner . f . ; at-.
porting with the urgency of the
crisis.
We are not pleading for or
against either candidate of either
party, but are urging that in view
of the unsettlement of mind just
now prevailing in regard to almost
every great question, a blunder
committed at this juncture is cer
tain to be a momentous blunder
and liable to be fraught with in
calculable disaster.
If a man has brains, now is the
time to use them, and if he has a
conscience, now ie a good time to
Set it to work.
• • •
A NEWSPAPER criticism was
passed the other day upon
Police Commissioner Waldo
of New York for giving to the pub
lic his information regarding the
delinquencies of certain of our
courts, instead of putting that In
formation in the hands of the bar
association or of other parties qual
ified to take action in the premises.
To criticise the commissioner's
policy in the matter is to forget
that it is public -entlment really
that is the moving force in al! civic
operations, a force that extends it
self to the three departments of
administration—legislative, judi-
cial and executive.
In a country like our own. any
movement that can be named, hav
ing for its object the enactment
of law. its interpretation or it. ex
ecution, will succeed if it has pub
■lic sentiment behind it.
It is the people really that gov
ern. and if at times it seems to be
otherwise, it is because such sen
timent has not been put forward
with that unanimity or ins'.-r< m <
that constitutes it a practical
force to be respected and taken i, -
count of.
So that while, as it appears, the
bar association is shaping its own
investigation in away to Uy a
foundation for possible definite ac
tion, the commissioner, by exploit
ing his own information, is . seat
ing a force of public opinion that
will promote and give effi. leno- to
the bar association's action should
it see its way clear to take a tjon.
In that way any man, ofti iai • r
otherwise, can become a definite
and productive factor in the . -,i
munity in the way of giving dt
rection to the course of events and
giving complexion to the < ><.’ . ,f
administration.
And n' t only is that true of >n .,.
man but also of an> w oman.
Women are liabl. to forg<t that
powei does, not RESIDE tn hai
lots
Votes arc simple the ■■ h v
which tegi-tet.- t'.s.f ar 1
has its measure computed.
The power exist* prior to th*
registration
Women Better Sentiment
Makers ’ Than Men
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