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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 aa second-class matter at postotTice at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 1575 Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mail, $5.00 a year. Payable in advance. Never Strike or Beat Your Child Without Waiting to See It Asleep * F * If You Can Beat the Child After That, Then the Poor Thing Is the Child of a Savage. It Can Only Be Pitied. Those that whip children unfortunately arc often well mean ing hut ignorant fathers and mothers. They have had brutality whipped into them when THEY were young, and they haven't got it out. In regard to the whipping of children, they are like the savages in some voodoo region who never get voodooism out of their sys tem-even after you convert them to Christianity. Certain fathers and mothers will go on whipping children as long as they live. The sad thing is that they probably will not he punished for it after they die. The Atlanta Georgian, which wishes to discourage brutality, offers one suggestion to the father or mother of a child “supposed to need whipping." If you feel that you must beat your child, to satisfy your anger—that is the usual fact—or to save its little soul from per dition. wait until the next day. And go up at night and look at your child sleeping. A reformed beater of children said to this newspaper: I had always been taught that it was the duty of a father to discipline children, make them mind, and if necessary whip them. “ I whipped my small boy one day, and whether you believe it or not, it actually did hurt me more than it hurt him. That night 1 went up and saw him asleep. He had had his whipping just before he went to bed. "The tears were still on his face, dried and dirty. And the face was troubled and sad. If I could have seen that face before, I should not have struck him. And I shall never whip him again.’’ Try the experiment of going upstairs to see your child asleep, BEFORE, instead of after, giving it a beating. If there is any thing good in you, the sight of a sleeping child ought to convert you from the ranks of brutal fathers and mothers. You will see in that sleeping face YOUR OWN FACE MODI FIED AND IMPROVED. You will see before you the child as you have made it. What it lacks, it lacks BECAUSE YOU DID NOT GIVE IT. You are responsible for the union that created that child. And that child IS THE RESULT OF THAT UNION AND YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CHILD AND ALL ITS SHORTCOMINGS. • • Those that know most about education tell you over and over that beating a child is brutal, and useless. It breaks the child’s spirit and will diminish its chances of success in life. It makes the child a hypocrite and liar You live in an age which no longer beats convicts or unruly sailors —and still you beat the delicate body of a helpless child. In the face of that child asleep you see affection, trust and hope. What a horrible thing to fill the young mind with fear, with a threatened whipping, with a blow that might kill and that ought to kill all affection ! How rarely one man beats ANOTHER man's child! Fear pre vents that. THE OTHER CHILD HAS A FATHER WHO WOULD NOT PERMIT IT And yet thousands of parents cowards, bullies, confessing their incompetence and admitting that they have brought into the world a child that needs thrashing beat their own children: it is so safe and easy. A child beater is ignorant, cowardly, bad tempered or incom petent—and often all of those things. e Blossoms of Peace © By MINNA IRVING. r T'HE Spirit of Peace to the battlefield came. 1 lhe cannon had blackened the earth with its flame. The drums were all hushed ami the bugles were still The smoke-wreaths had vanished from valley and hill; lhe swords that were rod. though it was not with rust, Were broken and tarnished and ground in the dust ; And she gazed with a tear at the blue and the gray. Where silent and stark in the shadows they lay. She summoned a cricket to pipe them a mass While she wove them a pall of the daisies and grass. She fashioned of violets sheaths for the swords. To buttercups ehanged all the cavalry eords. And out of the blood of the soldiery brave Commanded the wild rose to blossom and wave; And buried in myrtle, starred over with dew. The bayonets dropped by the gray and the blue. She hade from the forest the woodpeckers come. And to each of the birds she presented a drum; Then, calling the wood-thrushes brown, on parade. She gave them the bugles that heralds had played, lhe trumpets she hung on a slender green vine I hat she taught o'er the door of a cottage to t wine . And when she had broidered on caisson and gun * lier name in white clover, her labors were done. The Atlanta Georgian ’Twas Ever Thus By T. E. POWERS. Copyright 1912, by American-Journal-Examiner. |OM HUBW I HAVE A NEW SLRVAHp ( LeTS Pl PF CT / OHLA'ia' < ) 1 ANDSHtSA PERFECTS.You ( HER. OFF I LAW / WKX memeksaw such a hard worker ) V— —-_y ] ■ K L_ 1 - WW® W □ Look HoW~\ JL 'St KMT f a > she carries That /z L < Trunkupstairs ) .J' II OH AAART THE DIMMER,‘’I (fL«VE To PLEASE) [OHI NE\fEK Qo OUT-lUWEW WORK-CAN ICL EAM THE J 5 DELICIOUS J/ D k sHo£ s , XT” J® fWHAT NWto| _ ; O vyJyou want ] & Gb tlic —tfL/y iwf ■ -4B M f vJuSP jiJ ! J L E a^ ! | - kS'hST T ? WA LIKE THAT, NAPOLEOMIS RRlcrt \ DE DISHES TOO ? / ILL WASH <<v-Zur E ’ ST -yZ m O iOsr AS Ts O- Hl -VT wn A. <,Th? a Vigß ® / TH°S E VIEReY WAVs zWtok WfrrUlN -AThe qo°o °li> ) KP $ y FW? V PANS £ '“d \ v The Electromagnetic Voice » The Time Is Drawing Near When We Shall Speak Around the World as Now We Speak Across the Room. By GARRETT P. SERVISS. A STARTLING prophecy, made fifteen years ago by Profes sor Ayrton, seems on the eve of fulfillment, through recent ad vances in wireless telegraphy, and more particularly wireless tele phon.' . Said the English physicist; "Al though still far away, we are gradually coming within thinkable distance of a time when, if a per son wants-to call a friend, he knows not where, he will call in a loud electro-magnetic \ oice, heard by him who has the electro-magnetic ear, silent to him who has it not. 'Where are you?' he will ask. A small reply will come, ’I am at the bottom of a coal mine,' or ‘cross ing the. Andes.’ or 'in the middle of the Pacific.' or, perhaps, in spite of all the calling, no reply will come, and the man will know that his friend is dead." About four years after that prophecy was made the world war ringing with the news of the trans mission of wireless messages across hundreds of miles of sea. Soon they were sent half across the ocean: then all the way across. The electro-magnetic voice and the electro-magnetic ear had begun to enter into the domain of human ■consciousness. Everybody know s the subsequent history of v ireless telegraphy. Now we read the daily news on a speeding ship in the midst of the Atlantic. Now ships in distress can call rescuers from hundreds, or even thousands, of miles away. The sinking ship mac go down before aid can reach it, but at least it will not disappear and leave no token, as happened so often in the past. Telephony in Its Infancy. But the complete fulfillment of the prophecy has not yet arrived, although it seems to be fast ap proaching. Wireless telegraphy is an accomplished fact, simply need ing further development and im provement. but wireless telephony, hich will be a greater marvel, is still In its infancy. But it is grow- WEDNESDAY. JUNE 19. 1912. ing w ith astonishing rapidity, if the reports of what has recently been done In England may be accepted. The "aerophone” of Mr. H. Grin doll-Matthews transmits human speech over a distance of twelve miles. It is no longer a question of simply sending signals which have to be translated into Intelli gible language, but THE VOICE ITSELF GOES, and is heard with all its Intonations by the recipient. Tints Professor Ayrton's scientific dream is partly realized. The voice may at' least be heard at the bot tom of a coal mine, though it can not yet reach the summit of the Andes, or the middle of the Pacific ocean. First Step That Counts. It Is the first step that counts. Wireless telegraphy was at the be ginning confined in its range to a few miles Rut, with amazing swiftness, that range was extend ed. until now there is no recog nized limit. There is reason to be lieve that wireless telephony will exhibit a similar capacity of ex pansion. The one implies the other. They are "sister arts." Laboratory experiments long ago demonstrated the possibility of transmitting speech without wire. It could be ovei small distances by electro mag netic induction. An American'in ventor, Mr. A. F. Collins, showed Its possibilities a few years ago in New York I myself was a wit ness of the transmission of tele phonic messages, by Mr. Collins' method, between ferry boats cross ing the North river. In some ex periments he made the voice audi ble/ at a distance of throe miles Other experimenters have achieved a certain degree of success. Rut Mt. Grindell-Matthews appears to hare outstripped them all. The dif ficulties are purely technical, aris ing mainly from the fact that while almost any series of electric waves will serve to send telegraphic sig nals, a partlculai form of wave, having the same "amplitude," “phase" and "frequency” as the --vibrations 0/ the voice, must be employ’d for w ireless telephony. The new aerophone is described as being astonishingly compact. The sender consists of a small box containing a battery, a motor and a. transmitter, which anybody can carry about with him. The receiver is equally simple and compact. The one stands for the "electro-mag netic voice" imagined by Professor Ayrton, the other for the "electro magnetic ear." Everybody must rejoice at this news, but there is no reason to be astonished by it. It was inevitable. It had to come. We have at last got so close to some of nature's greatest secrets that the real won der would boa failure to get into the very heart of them. They cease to be mysterious as so'tjn as they are grafted. The steam engine was a wonder only while it was new ; wireless telegraphy no longer astonishes anybody; in a little while wireless telephony talking with our friends, transmitting our wishes and our orders by means of ethereal waves, hundreds of miles, as wo now transmit them n few yards by means of air waves—may be so common a method of com munication that nobody will see anything surprising In it. It sim ply means taking away the wires of the telephone and talking through space, just as we have dis carded telegraph wires and begun to send signals, dots and dashes through the air. < Worked Twelve Lears. It is patience as much as genius that accomplishes those things, it is stid that Mr. Grindell -M at thew s has worked unceasingly for twelve years on his invention Now- that success is in sight no doubt he will have many follow laborers. Somebody may soon outstrip him. as he has outstripped others. Every Invention implies a successor; ev ery step in advance demands an other. Wireless telephony is in sight—what next? THE HOME PAPER Dr. Parkhurst’s Article I on - 1 What Socialism t'io | Really Is How We Should |SH| Regard It JST Written For The Georgian By the Rev. Dr. C. 11. Parkhurst - WJIEN a considerable number of people combine in the enthusiastic support of any doctrine, religious or economic, it is safe to assume that there is some thing.in it. more or less, that is north standing for and saving. They may misunderstand their own ideas and give to them a mis taken shape, but. even so, it is rea sonable to suppose that, however much of error there may be. there is mixed with it an element of truth; and. if there is, it Is a mis take to oppose it, for truth will bear any amount of crushing with out crumbling. It is in some such way as this that it is necessary to look upon what is known tinder the name of Socialism. Socialism is a difficult thing to lalk about intelligently, for to no two persons does it carry the same meaning; but it is safe to say as much as this: That it Is a policy devised by the discontented for cor recting social maladjustments and for Improving conditions of social inequality. Whether the methods proposed for accomplishing this are the wisest and the zest is a question by itself, but in regard to the ob ject which those methods have in view there can be no question. The poor are too poor, and the rich are dangerously rich. The poor do not have all that righteously belongs to them, and the rich have more than they have the disposition righteously to han dle. Every Man Entitled To a Fair Chance. American aristocracy Is aris tocracy of wealth, and that means undeserved degradation to those who have little and artificial ex altation to those who have much. Every man is entitled to a chance to become the best that there is in him. Under the existing state of In equality the poor man is defrauded of that right. The impatient discontent fostered by that fraud is the genius of So cialism. Now. if we see fit we can criti cise methods adopted or proposed for righting the wrong .but the wrong is there, and it is unfair and also imprudent to pass stric tures upon Socialism in such away as to have the impression that while criticising Socialistic schemes we are indifferent to the wrongs to which these schemes are designed to bring relief. Fully in line with the foregoing are the following words spoken by- Bishop Linos at the Episcopal dio cesan convention, recently held In Newark: "A good many people are joining in the cry against Socialism who know very little about it. No such movement can have gained its strength and hold upon many peo ple without expressing some need and some truth which right-minded t>?o Deathless Fame By ELBERT HI BBARD. I' FROM COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE VERY good thing lias been condemned in its day and gen eration. Every innovation has to tight for its life. Error once set in motion con tinues indefinitely, .unless blocked by a stronger force, and old meth ods of thinking and doing will al ways remain unless some one In vents a new and better way and then lives and dies for it. And the reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. -Even as great a man as John Ruskin foresaw that the railroads would ruin England by driving the stages out of business and killing the demand for horses, thus bank rupting the farmer. Thomas Jefferson tells us, in Ins autobiography, of a neighbor of his who “was agin" the public schools because, w hen every one could read and write, no one would work. Sir William Berkeley thank'd God there was not a printing press in Virginia.* because printing press es printed mostly ties, and their business was to deceive the pro- >n the time of Mozart, musicians v r,. Massed with stablemen, scul lions, clown* and cooks. Titty ate men are bound to recognize. It is a means which a great many people in the harder places of life are using in their contention against privilege, and the wise course is for those who bear the Christian name to try to understand the move ment. and to get into as friendly a relation as possible with those who are finding in Socialism their re ligion.” Churches Feel Keenly | Their Responsibility. Quite as pronounced nas th® declaration made by the bishops of the Methodist church at their re cent conference in Minneapolis. It is an omen of good that the Christian churches are coming to feel more keenly, and to confess more openly, the relation of ac countability in which they stand to people in the everyday secular con cerns of life. There are two directions In rvltich the churches have been in the habit of expending a disproportion ate amount of their thought and effort to the neglect of common hu man necessities —one in trying to fit people for the world to come, the other in debating the problems of religion—it being forgotten, ap parently, that if we are fit for this world sve shall certainly be fit for the other, and that it Is not the conundrums of religion but its in telligible practical applications that best serve the purpose for which religion exists. Christianity, as Christ lived it and taught ft. seems to have had its strongest hold upon those In humble circumstances, and to have been less appealing to the educated t and well-to-do. While, on the other hand. Chris tianity, as it exhibits itself at pres ent in the more conspicuous Prot estant churches, addresses itself with more effect to the classes that were least affected by Christ's presentation of it. Which shows that there is some thing in the situation that is fun damentally wrong. Tt is therefore pleasant to ob seiAe that the thought of th® church, as expressed in the two conventions just mentioned, is giv ing a wider expansion to its inter ests and sympathies and taking upon itself the concerns, burdens and deprivations of men without regard to social distinction. How the Rent Might Have Been Prevented * If this had been done sooner, ami If Christianity had continued to have given to it its original inter pretation. the rent between the classes and th® masses might have beZn avoided, society have main tained its proper solidity, yith no destructive competition to sharpen the voracity of the rich or to in tensify the bitterness of the poor. The serious question Is whether there yet remains enough of the pur® spirit of Christianity to pm the church back into its original relation with the wants of the com mon people. below stairs, ami their business war. io amuse the great men who hired Ihmn and his assembled guests. The word business was first used m the time of Chaucer to express contempt for people who were use ful. ‘ The word was then spelled busyness. Io light cities by gas would set them afire. Electricity was dan gerous. and to pm up wires was Io invite ihe lightning to come Into mir houses and kill us all dead. only a few decades ago any man who advertised in the newspapers "as looked upon with suspicion and , von ym • haVP associations of professional men who stamp with their disapproval any Indi vidual among them who pays for bis advertising. Such a one was called an “irregular.” If we look back through history we will find that every' good and beautiful thing ha- at one time or another been under the ban. and assailed as an evil. And the argument seems to be 'hi;-: if you think a thing is right, never mind what the many s;t v’ stand by it. To achieve deathless fame. < house ■in unpopular -muse (hat you know w just, then work for it, Hve tor it, die for it!