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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. R Entered as second-class matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of Marches. 1879. I Subscription Price —Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mail, £5.00 a year. Payable in advance. ||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 * 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 4 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 '* "’A 'ij’’ '• 'gvXz /■? ,T< ? " Z7 F... '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