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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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The Judge Who Said a
Socialist Couldn’t Be
a Citizen
r •? ».
His Decision Need Not Be Taken Too Seriously. The Judge
Should Simply Be Condemned to Read the Constitution of
the United States, AND. IF POSSIBLE, UNDERSTAND IT.
An effort is made by Congressman Berger, encouraged by At
torney General Wickersham, to impeach United States District
Judge Hanford, of Seattle.
Judge Hanford is the gentleman who refused to give citizen
ship papers to Leonard Oleson because Oleson declared himself a
Socialist
Judge Hanford thought that Socialists were not fit to he cit
izens of the United States, and he wouldn’t let Oleson be a citizen
in consequence. Much shrieking, moaning and denouncing ever
since.
The thing has really been treated too seriously. Naturally the
country will not allow one judge to say a Socialist cannot be a
citizen. The next day you might have a .judge saying that a Baptist
couldn’t be a citizen, and after that you would have some, idiotic
A P.A. judge declare that a Catholic couldn't be a citizen, and so on
Even if a Socialist were everything that Judge Hanford’s
provincial imagination paints him. Judge Hanford's action would
be extremely foolish.
If Socialism is harmless, if a man lias a right to he a Social
ist—and we think he has that right— then ho should not be deprived
of his rights by a judge.
And if Socialism is a deadly, dangerous thing, one that is cal
culated to pull down the government and incidentally take away a
salary from Judge Hanford, then the best possible way Io build up
Socialism is to treat it unjustly and foolishly as Judge Hanford has
treated it.
Judge Hanford excuses himself on the ground that Oleson, the
Socialist, was not willing to endorse everything in the Constitution
of the United States.
If Judge Hanford will HEAD the Constitution, as well as talk
about it. he will find that that very document provides for changing
the Constitution if the people want it changed. In other words, the
Constitution of the United States says in so many words. “ I am not
perfect. I don’t pretend to he perfect. You people change me
when you decide that I ought to he changed. "
The Constitution has been changed and improved more than
once And there isn’t any doubt that it wit he further changed and
improved quite often. And if we arc going to have improvements,
we have got to have them with the aid of people that think the Con
stitution CAN he improved.
Very foolish, therefore, for Judge Hanford to say to a man,
“You can’t be a citizen," when the citizen’s chief offense is that he
takes the Constitution at its own word and thinks that the people
have a right to change it or improve it.
Os course the effort to impeach Judge Hanford, if it were a
serious effort, would he condemned as foolish and exaggerated.
There is no use taking a steel rad to kill a mosquito. It would ho
sufficient to compel Judge Hanford to get up in open court and read
the Constitution out loud and promise to try to understand it.
The probabilities are, however, that Congressman Berger sees
a good opportunity for “propaganda" and is not inclined to neg
lect it.
He wishes to have the satisfaction of saying to Judge Hanford
later. “You. like many other idiots in this world, have built up the
very thing that you tried to pull down."
The Departure of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred L. Seely'
Atlanta will suffer a distinct loss in the departure of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred L. Seely, who have made their homo here for
seven years, and haw taken an active aud beneficial part in
civic and social affairs.
Mr. Seely built The Georgian on a foundation of good citi
zenship. and in his conduct of this paper exerted a strong and
effective influence. To an unusual extent The Georgian reflected
Mr. Seely's personality, and the part it took in public affairs is
the highest possible tribute to the loftiness of its founder’s
ideals.
In the splendid work which the club women of Atlanta are
doing Mrs. Seely took an active interest, and has served for the
past six months as president of the city federation.
Their beautiful home life and their social graces endeared
them to many friends who will feel a 'zmiuinc and permanent
loss in their departure.
The Atlanta Georgian
HE NEVER HAD A CHANCE
That Is What Nine Men Out of Ten WXo Are Failures Say. Look Out That You Don’t Say It Yourself.
By TAD
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Jr
Rf /
This is the last chapter in the career of Yum.
His last lew years he spent aryuntl calcs, eating •
anti .sleeping the best he. could. His old bones held
him up well, but linaHy he was forced io seek a
place of rest, and the only one open Io men like
Yum was the Almshouse.
< >l<l, worn and disgusted, the subject of this lit
tie picture sought aid there and found it. Now he
sits daily chatting with the other inmates of the
days gone by and the chances they offered.
Accident the Golden Key of Genins
Whenever Something Unexpected Happens Be Sure That a New Dis
covery Is Knocking at Your Door.
11-' their were no accidents there
would be no inventions and no
progress.
But in ordci that ait ;o civleut
shall lead to new knots ledge it Hurt
first AWAKEN T1 IO I'(I 1 IT. Thou
sands of men had been hit on the
head by tt falling apple without
basing the secret of the liv. of
gravitation jogged into their brains.
At last that accident happened to
Isaac Newton, while lie was sitting
in his garden thinking about the
moon. Instantly then sprang into
his mind the thought that the same
force which drew the apple tn the
earth, pulled the moon al-o. It was
,-t big jump from the apple to the
moon, but Newton’s genius cleared
it at a bound. Once thrown into
tlte propet groove, his mind follow
ed it out to its astonishing end.
There was hard work to be clone,
but the golden key was in his hand,
and it unlocked .every door. ami.
like a magic lamp, led the was
through every dark passage until
the solar system ceased to be a
mystery
The boy Galileo, sitting with
hundreds of others in tin- Cathe
dral of Pisa on a Sunday morning,
saw an attendant draw aside the
heavy hanging lamp to light ii. and
then let it swing. Many other eyes
saw the same thing, but there was
only that pair in Galileos head
w hivh r< ally observed what hap
pened. and only his brain began to
reason mam it. He alone noticed
that, as the swings of the huge
lamp became smaller and -mailer,
tbev ALWAYS TOOK THE SAME
TIME. He proved it by counting
them with his pulse. He had made
a great discovery, out of which
grew the pendulum clock and the
accurate measurement of time.
Discovery of Specific Gravity.
So'.te rascally workmen sold to
King Hiero, of Syracuse, a golden
crown, which was alloyed with sil
ver. The king suspected the cheat,
but could not prove it. He asked
Archimedes to help him Archi
medes was nonplussed, for the
king would not allow him to break
up the crown. Then accidentally,
the clue came into his bands. He
was taking a bath and the vv.it-r
overflowed ns be stepped Into the
tub. An ordinary man would only
have thought of the nuisance of a
wet floor. But, like a flash of light
ning Archimedes -aw in that over
flow' THE SOLUTION OE HIS
PROBLEM. Any body displaces,
when immersed, an amount of wa
ter equal to its own bulk Os two
THURSDAY, JUNE 20. 1912.
By GARRETT P. SEh’X’ISS.
bodies having the same weight the
denser must be the smaller. Gold
Is denser than silver, and conse
quently a crown of nitre gold im
mersed in water will displace les?
water than a crown of silver of the
ame weight. The whole meaning
of his discovery burst upon Archi
medes and he leaped out of the
bath, crying "Eureka!” Cl have
found it out.") Then he got a mass
of pure gold of Hie same weight
as the crown, put it in water, and
carefully measured the overflow.
Next he did the same thing with
an equal weight of silver. Consid
sittcrably more water.flower over.
Einally he put Hiero’s crown in the
water, and the overflow was mote
than for gold and less than for sil
ver. By measuring the excess he
calculated the amount of silver in
the crown. Archimedes thought
little of the fact that he had found
out away to circumvent cheating
.jewelers, for he saw that lie had
discoveit'd a new method of meas
uring specific gravity;—a principle
which has developed into one of
the foundation atones of modern
physical science.
Conquest of the Air.
Stephen Mongolfler was sitting
one day before a ’tire where some
shtrts were drying. Others saw (he
shirts swelling out like sails, mid
rising under the impulsion of the
hot nit, and probably they thought
ontv of sating them from catching
lire, But Mongoltiei saw infinitely
deeper. The peril to the shots was
nothing to him. for h<- bad. in -i
flash, conceived the idea of a bal
loon! He saw that if Im could con
fine sufficient hot air inside a light
bag the bag would rise and float.
So the conquest of the air was be
gun
Prime Rupert observed a soldier
laboriously polishing a musket bar
rel that had been rusted by dew.
He took the gun in his hand and
saw that the metal was sprinkled
all over with minute hole-, which
happened to imitate the forms of an
engraving. Instantly there sprang
.me liis mind the idea that by caus
ing similar impressions to form
it| < n a metal plate, and brushing
them over with ink, prints could be
rntttit from it. and thus the art of
me .zo-tint had its birth.
Torricelli, a pupil of Galileo, in
vented the barometer by reasoning
deeper than his master had done
upon the accidental discovery that
water will rise about 32 feet in a
tube exhausted of air It must be
i he outside air that pushed the wa
ter up. reasoned Torricelli, and
consequently a heavier liquid than
water will not rise as high. Ho
filed a glass tube with mo-mry,
Some one said that old ago was the discoverer of
lost opportunities, but Yum doesn’t get it yet. He
tells the other old cronies of the struggles be had in
his early years- how he went out single-handed Io
make his name and fortune, hut the chance never
came his way. He tells them it was battle after bat
tle, nothing but struggles.
The old boys look over at him occasionally and
smile. Sonie of them can see. Some of them hail
chances, took them, and then lost out. They call
Yum the old boy “that never had a chance."
v inch weighs about thirteen times
as much as waler, held the tube
ii'-rigbt. with its open end, at the
bottom, immersed in a basin of
mercury, and saw that the mercury
in the tube rested at a height of
about 29 1-2 inches. This showed
tba' the height at which the liquid
was suspended by the air pressure
varied, as he had expected, with
'll ■ weight of the liquid, for 29 1-2
inches is one-thirteenth of 32 feet.
AI lei it occurred to Blaise Pascal
to try Horricclli’s barometer at va
rious elevations, and he found that
it afforded a means of calculating
heights from the rise and fall of
the mercury, due to the varying
pressure of the atmosphere.
When Galvani, in 1786. was ex
perimenting with electric currents.
Ills wifi fell sick. He was prepar
ing to fry some frogs’ legs for
her when one of them happened to
come Into contact with a wire
thiough which electricity was flow
ing. Instantly it BEGAN To Klt’K,
and "galvanism" was discovered,
a branch of electrical Science which
has developed into vast practical
importance.
By mere chance Professor Roent
gen. seventeen years ago, suspend
ed a Crookes tube, through which
an electric glow was playing over
a table that had a package of pho
tographic plates in a drawer be
neath. On the table happened to
lie a bunch of keys. When the
plates were taken out to be used
they were found Io he Impressed
itti shadowy IMAGES ol THE
KEYS. So the wonderful X-rays
were discovered. In this case. too.
a frog chanced to play an interest
ing part, lino was put. with other
objects, on the table in order to get
a shadow photograph on a plate in
the drawer, and when the photo
graph was developed the SKELE
TON of the frog was revealed in
the picture. Thus it was learned
that X-ray photography could be
employed to picture the internal
parts of living animals.
Tries Endless Experiments.
Tins list of accidental discoveries
could be extended indefinitely. Oft
en an inventor like Edison PRE
PARES his "at idents." He is in
search of some effect and he tries
endless until he hits
upon what he wants. But almost
always the first clew is given by
some phenomenon in which an in
attentive mind would fail to per
ceive the germ of a discovery. The
moral is:
WHENEVER YOU SEE SOME
THING THAT SURPRISES YOU
THINK ABOUT IT AND EXPER
IMENT WITH IT.
If vou have sufficient patience
and penetration you may make a
great discovery, for the world is
-till full of undiscovered things,
lying all about us.
THE HOME PAPER
The Education of the
Voter
No. i-—Read Your Policy
It Is the Great Document Known as the Con
stitution of the United States.
t -r THEN you want to take out
V/V life insurance you pick out.
if you are wise, a solid com
pany. Then you go to lhe com
pany's physician for examination.
If he finds'you a good risk, you pay
your money and gel the policy.
The one thing the company wants
you to do is expressed in these
words:
READ YOU Ft POLICY!
Why should you bother to read
a policy when the agent lias told
you tin whole story?
The answer is: While lie has
told you the whole story, he knows
and the company knows, that you
have not learned the whole story.
There 's so much to it. so many
new words, so many conditions,
that it will take you quite a while
to get the whole matter into .your
heath
Ymj read the policy then to know
your rights and privileges, to un
derstand your obligation, to make
l lie proper demands, and no others,
on Ily company.
If you go at it in this way you
get an understanding of the whole
matter. That is what the company
wants you to get. They do not
want you to misunderstand the
agreement you have entered into.
So they say to y ou: •
READ YOl’R POMCY!
11.
M hen y ou become a voter in the
United Slates, either by right of
birth or naturalization, having
passed 'the required examination,
you get a policy- called a franchise.
This is, in brief, the right and
privilege to vole.
Like life insurance, it carries with
it not only rights and privileges,
but obligations.
Fly fully understanding these
rights, privileges and obligations
you can make proper demands, and
no olliers. upon the company.
The company in this ease is the
United States of America.
This company, like the one that
issues insurance, has a doeurnent
in which its conditions for doing
business are clearly sot forth. This
document was drawn up in the.
year 1787. and has been in success
ful operation ever since.
Certain new conditions arising,
it lias ben modified or amended,
and as it stands today it is the sub
stantial statement of agreement on
which citizenship, with its rights,
privileges and obligations rests.
The name of this great document is
The Constitution of the United
States.
Its purpose is to insure to you
those conditions of life, liberty and
happiness that are necessary for a
safe and prosperous existence.
When the Government aceept
you as a voter, places the ballot in
yout hands and tells you that you
can east it as your judgment ad-
A New Story
By ELBERT 11 IB BA RD.
Copyright, 1912. by International Newsservice
x -t r !•; are told that all stories
V/y had their ’rise in Egypt in
the time of Raineses 11. Rut
iure is a story which traces no such
proud pedigree. ,
It is not standard by reason of
parentage: but it is legitimate by
performance. It has the peculiar
and unique quality of being true.
So, here is the story:
A one-legged man in Poughkeep
sie hobbled into a shoe store on
his crutches. The clerk, who had
studied scientific salesmanship and
had just read my essay on "Charm
of Manner," wiggled, jiggled, am
bled and minced forward, smiled
serenely and asked in dulcet tones,
"May I have the pleasure of show
ing you a pair of shoes'.’" And the
one-legged man said. "Nix on the
pair. One shoe— see!"
The clerk wa< slightly up in an -
a°roplan< He coughed, hesitated,
said "er" and “ah." when the pro
prietor. who had been viewing the
scene through a peekholo from the
back office, came forward and met
the situation as a prave man should
by saying to the <-l®k. "Show the
gentleman a shoe! How often have
I told you to give a customer ex
actly what he wants? You know
we eater to gentlemen with one
good—er—leg. One shoe? Cer-
tainly. of course, of course!"
So they sold the man the one
shoe at exactly one-half the price
for the pair.
This gave the shoe man an idea,
and the next day each of the news
papers In that town contained a
goodly ad. beginning with the slo
gan. "We cater to one-legged men. "
Os course, every body interested
in advertising, and those who were
not. read the ad and laughed. Also
they passed the ad along to other
people, saying. "Bill! Well. now.
wouldn’t this give you the zani-
S TAPPER.
Bv THOMA
vises, it depends on your know-
To knbw what you are doing, fol
low the rule of the insurance com
pany :
READ YOUR POLICY.
IH.
The constitution of the Unites
States was ratified on the 17th day
of September. 1 787, George Wash
ington signing it as president and
deputy from Virginia.
Among the other 38 signatures
stands that of Benjamin Franklin--
born so poor a boy that he tramped
the city of Philadelphia with a
small loaf of bread under each arm
and iiis laundry- in his pockets.
His rise from that humble begin
ning to the -dignity of signing so
great a document is recognized
now, as it was then, as one of ths
essential privileges to be extended
and preserved to every American.
The constitution does not guar
antee that every poor man can ad
vance to fame and a place of great
responsibility.
But it guarantees Io put no let or
hindrance in his way IF’ HE
WANTS TO TRY FOR FAME
AND A GREAT PLACE.
The constitution has been In op
eration 125 years next September.
It was drawn up with a degree of
wisdom and foresight that has oft
en been marveled at. But, in the
course of time, new conditions
arose, just as they are arising to
day.
Some of these conditions were of
such importance that they had to
be recognized in the constitution
itself. Hence the amendments, fif
teen in number.
While the constitution is a na
tional document fundamental to all
our life and activity as a people, it.
is also an individual document in
the sense that it presents a body of
doctrine that, every voter should
know.
It is your starting point as an
American.
If it ever again happens that an
amendment is proposed to the con
stitution. you must be able to judge
intelligently of its place and pur
pose.
When that time comes the daily
papers will tell you all about it, but.
they will not print the whole con
stitut ion.
They will assume you know It.
And this assumption on their
part is aki» to that of the insur
ance company, which elects you to
the benefits of protection, telling
you at the same time, that it is
necessary to read your policy.
You will find the constitution
printed in every school history.
There are several millions of copies
of those scattered over the United
States, and it should be no trouble
for you to got hold of one long
enough to read the policy of the.
country that protects us.
zams ' I liink of it. a shoe store
catering to one-legge.d men!".
Every one-legged man in that
town ami vicinity had the ad show
ed to him fifteen times before lunch.
Also, every one-legged man in that
town went down to that store and
bought one shoe.
<>ne-iegged men can kick just as
hard as men with two pedals.
Dissatisfied men are always great
kickers. And great kickers are
great advertisers.
This man. who ran I lie shoo
store, instead of turning a custo
mer away, made a friend of him.
Then he took advantage of the ad
ventitious circumstance and turned
it into an advertisement
One-bgged men associate with
people who have two legs. Most of
their friends have two logs Some
one-legged men have families: and
Dr. .1 11. Tilden, the eminent zena
eologisf. assures me that when one
legged men wed and have families,
most of the children have two good
foot.
.The argument is that one-legged
men buy shoes for two-legged peo
ple, as well as themselves.
And the result of advertising
shoes for one-legged men brought a
big lot of publicity and a. goodlv
number of customers to that par
ticular shoe store.
It is a great man who can seize
the psychological moment by the
marcel wave and swim safely into
port on the ride of opportunity.
Scientific advertising is physchol
ogy. and a sympathetic attitude
toward the needs of humanity Is
the first item in the recipe for such
Never turn a possible customer
away. Meet people rightly, but do
not fail to part with them in »
■'ay so that when you again meet *
you win both be glad.