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The Judge Who Said a
Socialist Couldn’t Be
a Citizen
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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 be 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 has a right to be a Social
ist—and we think he has that right—then he should not he 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 to 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 READ 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. T don’t pretend to be perfect. You people change me
when you decide that I ought to be changed.”
The Constitution has been changed and improved more than
once. And there isn’t any doubt that it will be further changed and
improved quite often. And if we are going to have improvements,
we have got to have them with the aid of people that think the Con
stitution CAN be 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 be condemned as foolish and exaggerated.
There is no use taking a steel rail to kill a mosquito. It would be
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 home here for
seven years, and have taken an active and beneficial part in
civic and social affairs.
Mr. Seely built The Georgian on a foundation of good citi
zenship, and in his conduct ot 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 it« founder's
ideals.
In the splendid work which the dub 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 man.v friends who will feel a genuine and permanent
loss in their departure.
The Atlanta Georgian
THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1912.
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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This is the last chapter in the career of Yum.
His last few years be spent around cases, eating
and sleeping the best 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
Yum was the Almshouse.
Old, worn and disgusted, the subject, of this lit
tle 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 Genius
Whenever Something-Unexpected Happens Be Sure That a New Dis
covery Is Knocking at Your Door.
IF there were no accidents there
would be no inventions and no
progress.
But in order that an accident
shall lead to new knowledge it must
first AWAKEN THOUGHT. Thou
sands of men had been hit on the
head by a tailing apple, without
having the secret of the law of
gravitation jogged into their brains.
At last that accident happened to
Isaac Newton, while he was sitting
in his garden thinking about the
moon. Instantly there sprang into
liis mind the thought that the same
force which drew the apple to the
earth, pulled the moon also. It was
a big jump from the apple to the
moon, but Newton's genius cleared
it at a bound. Once thrown Into
the proper groove, his mind follow
ed it out to its astonishing end.
There'was hard work to be done,
but the golden key was in his hand,
and It unlocked every door, and,
like a magic lamp, led the way
through every dark passage, until
the solar system ceased to be a
mystery.
The boy Galileo, sitting with
hundreds of others in the Cathe
dral of Pisa on a Sunday morning,
saw an attendant draw aside the
heavy hanging lamp to light it, and
then let it swing. Many other eyes
s.nv the same thing, but there was
only that pair in Galileo’s head
which really observed what hap
pened. and only his brain began to
reason upon it. He alone noticed
that, as the swings of the huge
lamp became smaller and smaller,
they 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.
Discover}’ of Specific Gravity.
Some 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 hands. He
was taking a bath and the water
overflowed as he 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 saw in that over
flow THE SOLUTION OF HIS
PROBLEM. Any body displaces,
when immersed, an amount of wa
ter equal to its own bulk Os two
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.”
By GARRETT P. SERVISS. •
bodies having the same weight the
denser must be the smaller. Gold
is denser than silver, and conse
quently a crown of pure gold im
mersed in water will displace less
water than a crown of silver of the
same weight. The whole meaning
of his discovery burst upon Archi
medes and he leaped out of tne
' bath, crying "Eureka!” ("I have
f6und.it out.’ ) Then he got a mass
of pure gold of the 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. C6nsid
siderably more water flower over.
Finally he put Hiero’s crown in the
water, and tiie overflow was more
than for gold and less than for sil
ver. By measuring trie excess he
calculated the amount of silver in
the crown. Archimedes thought
little of the tact that he had found
out away to circumvent cheating
jewelers, for he saw that he had
discovered a new method of meas
uring specific gravity—a principle
which has developed into one of
the foundation stones of modern
physical science.
Conquest of the Air.
Stephen Mongolfler was sitting
one day before a fire where some
shirts were drying. Others saw the
shirts swelling out like sails, and
rising under the impulsion of the
hot alt. and probably they thought
only of saving them from catching
fire. But Mongolfler saw infinitely
deeper. The peril to the shirts was
nothing to him, for he had, in a
flash, conceived the idea of a bal
loon! He saw that if he could con
fine sufficient hot air inside a light
hag the bag would rise and float.
So the conquest of the air was be
gun
Prince 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 holes, which
happened to imitate the forms of an
engraving. Instantly there sprang
into his mind the idea that by caus
ing similar impressions to form
u{< r. a metal plate, and brushing
them over with ink, prints could be
made from it. and thus the art of
mezzo-tint had its birth.
Torricelli, a pupil of Galileo, in
vented the barometer by reasoning
deeper than his master had done
upm, the accidental discovery that
water will rise about 32 feet in a
tube exhausted of air It must be
the outside air that pushed the wa
ter up, reasoned Torricelli, and
consequently a heavier liquid than
water will not rise as high. He
fl.ltd a glass tube with ip»~ury,
which weighs about thirteen times
as much as water, held the tube
u> right, 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
that the height at which the 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 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,
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 which electricity was flow
ing Instantly it BEGAN TO KICK,
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 to be impressed
with shadowy IMAGES OF THE
KEYS. So the wonderful X-rays
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
thh 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.
This list of accidental discoveries
could be extended indefinitely. Oft
en an inventor like Edison PRE
PARES his "acidents.” He js 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 ABOUT IT AND EXPER
IMENT WITH IT.
If you have sufficient patience
and penetration you may make a
great discovery, for the world is
still full of undiscovered things,
lying al! about us.
THE HOME PA-PEPI
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 com
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 the agent has told
you the whole story?
The answer is: •While he has
told you the-whole story, he knows
and the company 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 ot
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
year 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 oblfgationls 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 peekhole 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
I 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, fol
low the rule of the insurance com
pany:
READ YOUR POLICY.
HI.
The constitution of the Unite?
States was ratified on the 17th day
of September, 1787, 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 w'ith a
small loaf of bread under each arm
and his laundry in hie 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 does 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 n'ext 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. ’>• M
If it ever again happens that an V*
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 assume 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 and 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.
One-legged 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 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 me that when one
iegged 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 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 suc
cess.
Never turn a possible customer
away. Meet people rightly, but do
not fail to part with them in a
way so that when you again meet
you will both be glad.