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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 postoftK e at Atlanta, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week By mail. $5 00 a year. Payable in advance. ■ Two Enemies of Us All v p r i I 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 — ~ 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 ST . MW 0 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. . What to Do in a Thunderstorm > Its Perils Can Be Eliminated If the Proper Precautions Are Taken ' ' 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 The thing , t , < „ votes ate i a-t It is sell'. « 1,. ■ , , , - <'f publi .o-ntiio. io U( ,< ... , , exists, even io e>i i., go.o pniL <ifLl liit pOiii| 1 . <;■. , en in all ?.< s>t. 5 > t . , I th. . 0., . f lht' ? AL. 1 ‘ , • eg-r -i.' I fl- , i ; ■ ■: ' ; , . ..... R .1 »<-■ jl» If ; > I -* ‘ ‘ ■ -oa,