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||The Judge Who Said a
Ii Socialist Couldn’t Be .
a Citizen *
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 L’nited States District
Judge Hanford, of Seattle.
Judge Hanford is the gentleman who refused to give citizen
ship papers to Leonard Oleson because Oleson dechired hiniseli a
I Socialist.
Judge Hanford thought that Socialists were not fit to be cit
izens of tlr *''niti-«l Slates, ami lie 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
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count!') will mH 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 yon would have some idiotic
A. P.A. judge decl are that a Catholic. couldn't be a eil izeii. 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 has a right to be a Social
ist—ami we think he has that right then he should not be deprived
of his rights bv a judge.
And if Socialism is a deadly, dangerous thing, one that is cal
culated Io pull down the government and incidentally take away a
salary from Judge Hanford, then the best possible way to build up
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Socialism is Io treat it unjustly and foolishly as Judge Hanford has
treated it.
Judge Hanford excuses himsell' on the ground that Oleson, the ’
Socialist, was not willing to endorse everything in the Constitul ion
of the l’nited Stales. 1
If -Judge Hanford w ill READ the Constitution,-as well as talk
about it, he will find that that very document provides for changing
. the Constitution it' the people want it changed. In other words, the
I Constitution of the Ciiited States savs in so man v words. ”1 am not
I
I perfect. 1 don t pretend to be perfect. \on people change me .
■ when you decide that I ought to be changed."
The Constitution has been changed and improved more than
once. Ami 1 here isn t anyTTbuhl that it will be further changed and
improved quite often. And if we are going to have imprpvements.
We have got to have them with the aid of people that think the Con
stitiition CAN be improved. /
Very foolish, therefore, for Judge Hanford to say to a man,
“You can't he 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.
Ot 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 be
sufficient to compel Judge Hanford to get up in open court ami read
the Constitution out loud ami (fVomise to try to understand it.
The probit bilit ies a re. lioweter. : hat Congressman Berger sees
I a good opportunity for " propaganda " and is not inclined to neg
leet it.
He wishes to have tin satisfaction of saying to Judge Hanford
. later, "You. like many other idiots in this world, have built up the ,
very thing that you trit I to pull down."
- The Departure of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred L. Seely
Atlanta wdl suffer a distinct loss io :tw departure of Mr. |
and Mrs. Fred L. Seely, who hav. made their home here for
seven years, and have taken an letive ami beneficial part in
civic and social affairs.
Mr. Seely built The Georgian <>n a foundation of good citi
zenship. and iiyhis conduct ot this paper exerted a strong and
effective influence, io an unusual extent I’he Georgian reflected
Mr. Seely’s personality, and the part it took in public affairs :s
the highest possible tribute to the loftiness of its founder’s
I ideals. z
Hi the splendid work which tie club women of Atlanta are
doing Mrs. Seely took an active interest, and has served for the
past six months as president of th- city deration.
Their beautiful home life and their social graces endeared
them to many friends who will feel a genuine and permanent
loss in their departure.
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
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'l'his is the last eh.ipter in the career of Yum.
His last few tears he spent around cases, eating
and sleeping the lies! he could. His old bones held
him up -well, but finally he was forced to seek a
place of rest, and the only one open to men like
i Yum was 1 he Almshouse.
Old. worn anil disgusted, the subject of this lit
itie pinture sought aid there and found it. Now he
sits daily charting with the other inmates of tin*
da.vs gone, by- and the chances they offered.
Accident the Golden Key of Genius
W henever Something Unexpected Happens Be Sure That a New Dis
covery Is Knocking at Your Door.
IF (here were no accidents there
would be no intentions and no
progress.
But in order that :tn accident
shall lead to nett knowledge it
llrsi AWAKEN THOUGHT, 'bum
sands of men bad been hit on the
head by a falling apple without
having the secret of the law of
gravitation jogged into their brains.
At last that accident happened to
Isaac Newton, whi'e lie was sitting
in his garden thinking about tie?
moon. Instantly titer, sprang into
bis mind the thought that the same
force which drew the appio to the
earth, pulled the moon also. It was
a big jump Iron', tile apple to the
moon, but !<ew ton's g nitts cleared
it at a bound. < mce thrown into
tile profi. r groi.y »bis mind billow
ed it out to its astonishing end.
Tliere was bard work to be done,
but tlie golden key was in his hand,
and it unlocked evert door. and.
Ilk, i magic 'amt. led the way
thr.ingh evity dark passage, until
the solar system eeas.nl to be a
in.' -tery.
The boy Galileo, sitting with
iinndrids of others in the Cathe
dral of Visa on a Sunday morning,
saw in att'-ndant d:aw aside the
lienvy hanging lamp to light it, and
then let it swing Many ojher eyes
saw tlie same thing, but there was
only that pair in Galileo's he.0.l
which ri-ally observed what hap
pened and only his brain began to
rea-on upon it. He alone noticed
that, as the swings of tlie huge
I imp became smaller and smaller,
th. v ALWAYS TOOK THE S \ ,\l E
TIME He proved it by counting
tlr m with his pulse He bad made
a great discovery, out of which
grew tit- pendulum clock and the
a < mate measurement of time.
Discovery of Specific Gravity.
Some mscall' workmen sold to
King Hlero, of Syracuse, a golden
crown, whiclt was alloyed with sd
\ er. I'he king suspected tlie cheat,
but could not | rove it. He asked
Ar< I'.imedes to help him. Ar.iii
tned. s was nonplussed. for the
king would not allow him to bre ig
up tne crown. I'ln n n eideni ill.',
the drr eame into his hands He
was taking a bath and the water
overflowed as In stepped Into tne
tub \n ordinary man would only
hau thought of the nuisance of a
wet floor But . lik> :i fl of light
jiing Arvlumedes - •« in that over
tl " ■ THE SOI UTION OF HIS
PR< >BI EM. Ml. bode displaces,
w a n immersed an amount of wa
t- ; equal to Us "WU bulk. Os two
HUKSDAY, JUNE 20, 1912.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
bodies having the same weight the
denser must lie tlie smaller. Gold
is denser than silver, and conse
quent l\ a crown of pure gold im
mersed in water will displace less
water than a crown of silver of the
same weigl.t. The whole meaning
of bis discovery burst upon Archi
medes and he leaped out of the
bath, crying "Eureka!” ("I have
found it out.”) Then lie got a mass
of pure gold of the same weight
as the crown, put it in water, and
ea.efully measured tlie overflow.
.Next he <iid the same thing with
an equal weight of silver. Consid-*
siderably more water flower over.
Finally he put Hiero's crown in the
water, .and tlie overflow was more
than for gold and less than for sil
ver. By measuring the excess he
calculated the amount of silver in
the m'own. Archimedes thought
little of the fact that he had found
out away to circumvent ehefling
jewelers, for he saw that lie had
discovered a new method of meas
uring speellic gravity -a principle
which has' developed into one of
tlie foundation atones of modern
physical silence.
Conquest of the Air.
Stephen Mongolfler was sitting
one day before a fire where some
shirts were drying. Olliers saw the
shirts swelling out like sails, and
rising under tlie impulsion of the
hot air, and probably they thought
oniv of saving thein from catching
fire. But Mongolfler saw infinitely
di eper. The peril to the shirts was
nothing to him, for he bad, in a.
flash, conceived the idea of a bal
loon! He saw that if hi. could eon
fine sufficient hot air inside a light
bag tlie bag would rise and float.
So the conquest of the air was be
gun
Prince Rupert observed a soldier
iaboriously polishing a musket bat
tel that had been rusted by dew.
He took the gun in his hand and
saw that the metal was sprinkled
all over with minute holes, which
h ippened to imitate the forms of an
engraving, sprang
.no: his mind th‘> idea that by caus
■ng similar Impressions to fornt
ti| on a metal plate, and brushing
them o\er with ink, prints could be
ma le from it. and thus the art of
n.eizo-tint had Its birth.
Torricelli, a pupil of Galileo, in-'
v. t ied the barometer b\ reasoning
deeper than his mister had done
upon the accidental discovery that,
"atei "ill rise' about 32 feet in a
tube exhausted of ait It must be
the outside air that pushed.the wa
tt • up. reasoned Torricelli, and
eonsequently a heavier liquid than
water will not rise as high. He
fl,led a glass tube with mercury.
Some, one said that old age was the discoverer of
lost opportunities, but -Yum doesn’t get it yet. He
tells the other old cronies of-the struggles he had in
his early years how he went out single-handed to
make his name and fortune, but 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. Some of them can see. Some of them had
chances, took them, and then lost out. They call
Yum the old boy “that never had a chance.’’
viiieh weighs about thirteen times
as much as water, held the tube
upright, 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 2ft 1-2 inches. This showed
that the height at which tlie liquid
was suspended by the air pressure
varied, as he had expected, with
the weight of the liquid, for 29 1-2
inches is one-thirteenth of 32 feet.
After it occurred to Blaise Pascal
to try Horricelli's barometer at va
rious elevations, and lie 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,
his wife 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
through whicli electricity was flow
ing Instantly it BEGAN TO KR'k,
aniL.“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 to be impressed
with shadowy IMAGES OF THE
KEYS. So the wonderful X-ra.vs
were discovered. In this case, too,
a frog chanced to play an interest
ing part. One 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 "as developed the SKELE
TON of the frog was revealed in
the picture. Thus it was learned
that X-ray photography equid be
employed tn picture the Internal
parts of living animals.
Tries Endless Experiments.
Tills list of accidental discoveries
could be extended Indeflnitclj. Oft
en in Inventor like Ellison PRE
PARES his 'aeidents.” He is in
search of some effect and he tries
endless experiments 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 \BOUT IT AND EXPER
IMENT WITH IT.
If you have sufficient patience
ami penetration you may make a
great discovery, for the world is
still 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.
WHEN you want, to take out
life insurance you pick out,
if you are wise, a solid com
pany. Then you go to the corfi
pany's physician for examination.
If he finds you a good risk, you pay
your money and get the policy.
The one thing the, company wants
you to do is expressed in these
words: «
. READ YOUR POLICY!
Why should you bother to read
a policy when tpe agent has told
you the whole story?
Tlie answer is: While he has
told you the whole story, he knows
and the cominny knows, that you
have not learned the whole story.
There is 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
head.
You read the policy then to know
your rights and privileges, to un
derstand your obligation, to make
the proper demands, and no others,
on the 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 you:
READ YOUR POLICY!
11.
When you become a voter in the
United States, 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 vote.
Like life insurance, it carries with
it not only rights and privileges,
but obligations.
By- fully understanding these
rights, privileges and obligations
you can make proper demands, and
no others, upon the company.
The company in this case is the
United States of America,
This company, like the one that
issues Insurance, has a document
in which its conditions for doing
business are clearly set forth. This
document was drawn up in the
yekr 1787. and has been in success
ful operation ever since.
Certain new conditions arising,
it has 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 accepts
you as a voter, places the ballot in
your hands and tells you that you
can cast it as your judgment ad-
© A New Story ©
By ELBERT HUBBARD.
Copyright, 1912, by International News Service.
WE are told that all stories
had their rise in Egypt in
the time of Rameses 11. But
here 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 was slightly up In an
aeroplane. He coughed, hesitated,
said "er” and "ah.” when the pro
prietor. who had been viewing the.
scene through a poekhole from the
back office, came forward and met
the situation as a brave man should
by saying to the clerk, "Show the
gentleman a shoe! How often have
1 told you to give a customer ex
actly what he wants? You know
we cater 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, everybody 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 zam-
By THOMAS TAPPER.'
vises, it depends on your know-
To know what you are doing, folr
low the rule of the insurance com
pany:
READ YOUR POLICY.
111.
The constitution of the Unitec
States was ratified on the 17th day
of September, 1757, George Wash
ington signing it as president and
deputy from Virginia.
Among the othjir 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 his 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 the
essential privileges to be extended
and preserved to every American.
The constitution docs not guar
antee that every poor man can ad
vance to fame and a place of great
responsibility.
But it guarantees to 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 t’hese 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
stitution. ♦
They will asstime you know it.
And this assumption on their
part is akin 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 these scattered over the United
States, and it should be no trouble
for you to get hold of one long
enough to read the policy of the
country that protects us.
zams? Think of it, a shoe store
catering to one-legged men!”
Every one-legged man in that
town anil vicinity had the aibshoit
ed to him fifteen Jimes before lunch.
Also, every one-legged man in that
town went down to that store and
bought one shoe.
One-legged men can kick just as
hard as men with two pedals.
Dissatisfied men are always great
kickers. And groat kickers are
great advertisers.
This man. who ran the shoe
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-legged men associate with
people who have two legs Most of
their friends have two legs. Some
one-legged men have families: and
Dr. J. H. Tilden, the eminent zena
cologist, assures mo that when one
legged men wed and have families
most of the children have two good
feet.
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 mon brought a
big lot of publicity and a goodly
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 physehnl
ogj. and a sympathetic attitude
toward the needs of humanity is
the first item in the recipe for sue-
CCS’.
pl turn a possiblp custompr
away. Meet people rightly, but do
not Mil to part with them In a
"ay so that when you again meet
you will both be glad