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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 mall, 85.00 a year. Payable in advance. ,A Motor Boat Would Have Saved Two Lives Two young men have been drowned in the lake at Pied mont park this season. The death of both was due to boyish pranks while boating. It is easy enough to prevent further loss of life from such accidents, and the park board should take immediate steps to do so. A motor boat on the lake, constantly attended by a compe tent lifesaver, would furnish practical safety. A light power boat could traverse the greatest distance in the lake in time to save any one in peril. But unless the park board can secure such precaution, it should forbid boating of any sort on the lake. 1B - ■ ■ ■ ’Wilbur Wright—-Hero of t the Air •t M St , One More Name That Will Live, Another Grave to Decorate, An other Glory Added to the Achievements of Men. As the nation was decorating the graves of the brave men that won their battles on the earth, the name of Wilbur Wright was added to the list of real heroes. He is the first great, authentic hero of the air. He will he remembered and honored among those THAT HAVE HELPED TO FREE THE HITMAN RACE. There are all kinds of slavery on this earth. The slavery of the body is not the most important. A man can boa slave in his body, and free in his mind. Wilbur Wright helped to free the human race from the slavery of the law of gravitation. That old law. as old as the first falling atom of matter in this universe, said to mankind: “YOU SHALL STAY GLUED TO THE EARTH. I WILL HOLD YOU THERE." But Wilbur Wright, one of the men that break laws and thus help progress, defied the law of gravitation. Putting together the studies of others, building his machine on his own knowledge and on the knowledge supplied by others—as all successful men have done—Wright left the earth, laughed at gravitation, flew success fully, fearlessly, and to the many landmarks of progress that dot the earth he added the first mark of progress in the air above the earth. He will always be remembered and honored. And the world mar envy him, as it may envv al) of those THAT DO SOMETHING AND ADD SOMETHING TO HUMAN KNOWLEDGE AND I'o HUMAN FREEDOM. Fortunately for the ambitious, plenty of work remains to be done. Wilbur Wright flew almost as well as an eagle. Some man in the future will give to the race an engine and a science of flight compared with which the eagle will he as inefficient as some swift running rabbit beside an express train. And others greater than Wright, greater than any mechanical inventor, will in the future give to humanity THE REAL FREE DOM. the freedom more important than the power to fly or the power to dive deep into the sea. Wright helped to free men from the law of gravitation. Lin coln helped to free men from the slavery of the body. The great liberators of the future, as of the past, will he THOSE THAT FREE MEN FROM THE SLAVERY OF THE MIND. The law of gravitation tied down the bodies of men to this earth and forbade them to fly in the beautiful air and sunlight above us. That was a harsh slavery and ennobled the men that have helped to overcome it. But a slavery far worse is the slavery of superstition, of igno rance. of mental degradation, that keeps men’s minds in the mud, that forbids them to fly in the clear and beautiful air of free thought and free investigation. The great men of the future, as of the past, will be those THAT SHALL TEACH THE MINDS OF MEN TO FLY. The great flying teachers will be those that shall take the thought of man from this planet to the most distant sun. those that shall make man realize that he is master of his own destiny. Those great apostles of freedom and of liberty, the men that shall guide thought to absolute freedom, are still to come. Happy he whose name may be included among them. t>?<3 Wilbur Wright By CHESTER FIRKINS. » ND must we lay him also ’neath the sod. The lord and lover of the boundless sky, "*■ * Who ever starward turned his daring eye. Who first the firmament’s bright highway trod. And. building for Mankind, communed with God ' Shall the light-giver in the darkness lie? Wil! not his soaring soul the tomb defy. And.his great heart renounce the binding clod? Shall we not. rather, launch upon the breeze, And steer aloft his argosies ot air. And in a Hallowed urn hts asides Th ar Up where the cloud tops surge like golden seas Beneath the sun, and to the winds consign The dust of what in him was not divine? Nay! Let him dwell in Death as in the span Os Life—plain country blossoms for his grave; For he to whom great kings and peoples gave Frank homage in the watching world’s wide scan He knew no pride, save the impassioned plan To make the fickle air his fearful slave. In elemental battle grimly brave. Yet Earth had never known a gentler man. How should xain pomps and eulogies endow With greater glory <>m whoso deed and name Are writ upon the page of endless tame" And what are laurels for that death-pale brow That once in life thrilled to the joyous sting Os raging winds enva ailed hi? wing ’ The Atlanta Georgian THE BEST TIME OF DAY By HAL COFFMAN. fl 1 fl £ T G fl tr- Jr j,.’oyEE-Y ‘ ' fl fl E A ’ b fl A- 'fl ■ fl" >. ■" 1 WMh k’\ \f ;? y HBSm I V 5 * « iMlwll , \ ~ - '' Wil «■' h h -rj a Jill 1 ; 11 1 w M! y •I » .1 /A / / ’ll \ I I \ THE HEART OF YOUTH This Is the Day When ‘Love That Resembles the Whirlwind Wins. T -r THEN one is nineteen, the y/y heart rules the head. And that is the reason youth is. so alluring and charming. It is when the head grows older, and weighs and deliberates and gravely discusses pro and con and holds the-heart in subjection, that all the sweetness and poetry of life are missing. The writer of the following letter did what any man of his age would have done, it is. what the- world expects of all who are nineteen: :"I am nineteen years of age,” he writes, "and have, been keeping company with a girl one year my Junior for-the past six months. I love her dearly, and told her so. Was I right in telling her?” There was a time when love was conducted as the Greeks conducted a war. When they wanted to take a town, they sat down in front of it and held a ten years siege. No Girl Willing to Wait Ten Years To Be Won. The man who holds a ten years siege of the heart of a girl these days will find he,has wasted his time. No girl is.willing to wait ten years for a man to win her. And he is a poor excuse for a lover if it takes him that long There are modern implements in the game of hove, the same as in the game of war, and esery boy learns them with his a. b. c’s. He knows how to flatter, to cajole, to make love while he Is still in knicker bockers. and he is a past master of the art by the time he is eighteen. Wondered Why He Was So Slow Finding It Out. This young man had gone with the girl for six months, and it was only fair to her to tell her he loved het. though I doubt If he was telling her anything she didn’t already know If, like most of her sex. she knew WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5. 1912. Bv BEATRICE FAIRFAX it before he did, and wondered that he was so slow in finding it out.; He rnay*not have tlie means for ’ mar/ying iter. He may . not have any; brighter prospects for buying a bird cage than,he has for buying a Jiome; but, having gone with the girl six’months, he owed her a dec laration of his feelings and hopes and -intentions. .The.uncertainty of the future will not be appalling to either. It never is to-those who are eighteen and nine.tAen,’ and ;in love.. If‘he .hasn’t the money for mar riage, there is’the-Joy of earning it and saving it. knowing a nice little girl is .waiting till he has enough’ The time passes, ail the quicker when speeded by love; the hurdens .are made all the easier to bear when the girl of a man s drcams encourages him with her sympa thy. Little extravagances he enjoyed before his engagement no longer tempt him if he is saving for her and a home. t>?<t God’s Answer t>?o By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX ZA NCE in a time of trouble and of care I dreamed 1 talked with God about ray pain. With my .sleepland-courage, daring to complain Os what 1 deemed ungracious and unfair. ‘‘Lord. 1 have grovelled on my knees in prayer Hour after hour!” 1 cried; “yet all in vain: No hand leads up to heights I would Attain, No path is shown me out of my despair.” Then answered God: “Three things I gave to thee— dear brain, brave will, and strength of mind anti heart— All implements divine, to shape the way. Why shift the burden of thy toil on Me? Till io the utmost he has done his part With all his might, let no man DARE to pray.” Under favorable circumstances like these, the boy of nineteen who is engaged to a nice girl -is guarded from temptations. His habits be come more steady; he adds to the optimism of youth a little of the re sponsibility is good for him. Nothing his parents would ad vise, nor his friends implore, lias the potent influence on a man of the age <qf nineteen that a nice girl exerts. And so I say, if he loves her. after knowing her for six months, it is only right that he tel! her so. Indeed, it is her due. This Is not the Age of the Ten-Year Suit. should regard that declaration as tantamount to a proposal of mar riage, and. if she accepts, it is up to him to make himself the kind of man she deserves. To him. and to all lovers. I say the same: This is not the age for ten-year sieges. It is tlie day and generation when the love that re sembles the whirlwind wins. THE HOME PAPER Studying Human Character by Machinery Machines That Test the £r*fl ’i Brain --and— Devices That Detect the Emotions “ By GARRETT P. SER VIS S. LOOK at yourself in a minor and you will be facing the greatest mystery that you can find—unless another person hap pens to look over your shoulder and projects his image beside yours. You CAN see a little way into your own nature if you study your self with great diligence, but the eyes of your fellow men are like the windows of a house that is all dark within. It is a wonder that no pessi mistic philosopher has ever defined man as the ANIMAL THAT LIES. It is true that the cunning of the fox is a kind of lying, but the fox’s deceptions are perfectly transpar ent to his own kind, while a man’s are often impenetrable even to him self. We are such great mysteries to ourselves that frequently' we try to get our fellow men to find the key to our own characters. Does a fox ever go to another fox tq learn what he is best fitted to do in life? Well, men sometimes go to phrenologists and soothsayers to find out what THEY were born to do in the world. No self-observ ant person is likely to do that, ex cept out of mere curiosity, but self observant persons are compara tively rare. How does the "character reader” proceed? By observing little things, slight indications which es cape the majority of men. It is not the bumps on your head which re veal your character, but the look of your eyes, the lines of your face, your unconscious manner and bear ing. Man’s nervous system is so highly developed and so active that it writes its secrets all over him, hut it requires a great deal of expe rience and power of observation to decipher them. Invention of John Gray Computes Brain Power. One of the most surprising de velopments of this age of machin ery is the invention of a great va riety of delicate mechanisms which are capable of reading secrets that escape the closest observation by ordinary means. Take, for in stance, a recent invention of John Gray, the treasurer of the Royal Anthropological institute in Eng land. By its means lie claims that he can discover the relative brain power of a human being. At least he can find out how quickly' the brain acts —and quickness of ac tion is becoming more and more im portant in this age of hurry. The apparatus, to whose tests such men as Lord Avebury and Sir William Crookes are said to have submitted themselves is sim ply a box containing a revolving mirror. As the mirror turns it throws out, in rapid succession, two beams of light of contrasted colors. The rapidity with which one color follows the other is meas ured by means of an indicator that shows the speed of the mirror's revolution. As the speed increases 'the colors begin to blend. First there is a flicker and then a com plete blending, in which both col ors disappear, giving rise to a steady flow of another color made up of the mixture of the two. The test consists in seeing how rapidly the mirror can be turned without causing a complete blending of the colors. A quick acting brain con tinues to perceive the separate flashes of color after thev have be conie indistinguishably blended to the eye of a person whose brain is more Klujrs'tet* in its action, Aston- ishing differences are said to be re vealed in this manner, and any one can see that such a test might have valuable results in many ways. Since the invention of scientific tests of color-blindness. color blind persons no longer find em ployment in occupations where light signals are employed. It may be that a test of quickness of per ception will prove equally impor tant in similar cases, Testing Human Qualities Like Testing Engine. The modern tendency to test hu man qualities by mechanical means is continually growing. It is some what like testing an engine. It not only aids in the selection of the proper persons to do certain kinds of work, but it is of use to the sur geon and the doctor in dealing with disease, and with the results of accident. One kind of instrument produces photographs of heart beats, by the careful inspection of which a doc tor can sometimes detect the ex istence of lurking and dangerous disease, which could not be discov ered by ordinary means. In London, as I have read, they have an instrument of this kind which can be used to test the beat ing of a patient’s heart a hundred miles or more away from the doc tor’s office. The indications, mag nified by a megaphonic attachment, are transmitted by telephone. This was recently tried with success be tween a patient in the Isle of Wight and a physician in London. We are getting a little deeper into the springs of human nature when we deal with the Munster berg machine for testing the emo tions. This apparatus consists of three machines combined—an au tomatogiaph, to detect involuntary’ movements of the arm; a pneu mograph, to record irregularities of breathing, and a sphygmograph, to take the pulse beats. It is said that a man can not prevaricate without detection when one of these tell tale machines is attached to him. • and he can not conceal his emo tions. however well he may govern his features. One can imagine such an instrument applied to a witness in the chair, with Its In dications made visible to the jury while he tells his story! It would be a fine deterrent against per jury. Frisco Man Has Apparatus Called “Love Machine.” Similar tests penetrate into the most secret emotions. A San Fran cisco inventor has contrived an ap paratus which he calls the “love machine.” Two persons of opposite sex grasp the handles of a machine which records involuntary move ments of the nerves and muscles. A dial shows the intensity of the emotion measured. Tlie inventor thinks he has been able to dis criminate the disturbance made in the nervous system hy the senti ment of love existing between ths subjects of the experiment? If the two persons are indifferent to each other, he says, the dial remains motionless. The amount of motion varies with the intensity of the sentiment. But there are easier, if less scientific, ways of discovering whether people are in love. Machines of this kind are really capable of great usefulness when directed to proper ends and under strictly scientific management. The less mysterious man becomes to himself and the less capable of de ceiving himself and others the bet ter for him and for his kind.