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EDUTORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga. Entered as second-class matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 1873. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mail, *6.00 a year. Payable In advance. The Judge Who Said a Socialist Couldn’t Be a Citizen M «t 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 ~z ' .AjgHßßOfc/ - 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.