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Let the Baltimore Conven
tion Beware
The reactionaries have shown that they are now in control
of the Republican part'. The ‘Obi Guard." the janisaries of
privilege and special interests, have won the first bailie,, and
have routed both the progressive wings of their part.'.
The\ are hot with the hope that they will carry to success
their whole tortuous plot against the people.
There is no doubt that the mass of the people so far as
the' had a voice in the preparations for the Republican
convention had utterly repudiated the bosses who were in
control at Chicago, and had done their best to free themselves
from the thraldom of the Republican machine.
Bui the machine ground on indiffi rent to the voice of the
people careless of flic scorn of public reproof.
Reactionaries of all names those who. for their own gain,
call themselves Democrats, as well as those who call theinseltes
Republicans- will no doubt derive fresh encouragement awl a
more insolent assurance from what has happened in Chicago.
The powers of predatory finance, all the agents and willing
servants of the great corporations, will now lay their plans Io
•aptnre the Baltimore convention as they seem to have captrtred
the convention at Chicago,
It is their wont to gamble for a sure thing and play both ends
against the middle.
Therefore, The Georgian warns the Democrats who are
ahmit to convene at Baltimore that they must be on their
guard. The Democratic party in the. nation is free from the rat
of patronage and the rot of stagnant power.
It comes fresh from the people, and il is of the people and for
the people.
But the Democratic party must beware!
President Hadley Makes a
Mistake
President Hadley, of Yale, in his baccalaureate sermon
sounds a note that will make the thoughtful pause. The error
of todav. he says, is measuring success in terms of dollars, for
"(he amount of wealth each man acquired or the progress he
has made possible.” But Mr. Hadley hows his head to mam
mon. and declares that the universal standard of worth today is
measured in dollars, pounds or francs.
Concretely the president of Y ale would say : He is a suc
cessful man, he is worth a million dollars. He admits that
this is all wrong, but he sees no way to right it. Il is the pop
ular standard, and he sees no gleam of promise in the future.
He declares that the legal and the ethical side is lost Io sight
in the glitter and the tingle of the coin.
Therein is his mistake. He has not read the sign of the
times. Patriotism and love of humanity would be very dead i.f
the people took the pessimistic view of this cold-headed thinker.
But who ever discusses the wealth of W ashington the private
fortunes of Longfellow or Emerson the dollars accumulated by-
Edison? And are those names held in less esteem,than that of
< 'roesns ?
The eminent president ol Yale is wrong. Americans do not
measure success in terms of batik accounts, and Int tire genera
tions will revere the names ol Jefferson and Lincoln and frank
lin when the memories of the Morgans and the Rockefellers
and the Carnegies have passed away.
I'he Gift of Loving
BY WINIFRED BLACK.
Sweet are the dew on the roses.
Sweet If the flowers of Spring;
Sweet are the dew on the roses.
Says the po' gynrl that nobod-y
10-o-oves ’
I HEARD the man who ran plat
the "Hare and Hounds" on the
guitar with the blade of his
pocketknife singing as he swept
the porch early this morning, and
that is what he sang
So you see you are not the only
one who is starving for affection.
Laugh at you! Not 1 I'd as soon
augh at the forlorn mite who
threw her puny arms around my
neck at the orphan asylum the
other day and tried to make me say
I was her really, truly mamma.
Funny" There's nothing funny
about lonelincs-. nothing amus
ing m a sad heart I think ymi are
pitful and I do wbh there wa>
.»(yme way .to help you. hut there
isn’t not much of a w..y for
w hat you want.
The poor narrow "i.r-. o.muv
you’ve married can't git' you wre.m
when you ask for It. ' iyb* '■>
woulif If b* ■ oulri. hut he ium't
he gives y ou the nearest thing in It
he has ami think hr bo .- amo ,n
that is required of hie
It is not given to ever' the
gift of loving. I< i gift ■ g . .t
and noble gif’. much a . tit
a; any of the othei things ur ~<ll
genius.
It takes a big heart to know how
to love, and a big soul, too Be
thankful that you have the great
gift. Enjoy it to the full, but
don't waste it. Don’t throw It away
on a poor, half-blind, half-deaf,
half-alive creature who can't ap
preciate you and yvhat you are try -
ing to give him.
Another man? Nonsense You re
a good woman and a sensible one.
Why should you throw away you 1
life completely just because the
poor, tingy hearted creature you
have married can't see wn.it he it
losing. Don't lose your life through
v.air gift of loving. Save it.
How? Begin with that little girl
of your®. She is cold and undem
onstrative. to". Ymi may teach her
tn bn different
•lust take that poor little pover
ty-stricken native right into the
warmth of yout big heart and
she'll warm up in spite of herself.
That little soul around the cor
ner. She came to town from the
mountains of Tennessee. She's
homesick and lonesome. Get ac
qualnted with her. Re a friend to
her.
How about that girl who's trying
to make her way alone in the big
city' where she is so friendless.
She has a place In one of the big
shops Rretiy thing, isn't she?
| Such big bine. Innocent ryes, Han't
yon help keep them innocent?
The" -a boy In the flat Just be
low mu, i rather stupid, awkward
f-ttow all hands and feet. He's
so lonesome ami forlorn he has to
whistle every minute to keep up his
i"U age, Wlly don't you help him
.1 little.'
He's sating every cent be can
rake end scrape to send hi® little
sister to reboot. Get Idm to show
ynil her picture and tell you how
"■n.i't he i and bow she', doing ai
■ chon'
I >id you «eo that old man wait
ing on ihe steps for the postman
today ‘ His son is ill down South
'omowherc and he's worried about
him. Couldn't you cheer hint up a
bit?
Tlie world is full of love and of
life, and of interesting things, and
human, simple, hoping. fearing
people. Make some; friend among
them
Sweet is the clew on the roses."
says th" po' gynrl that nobody
l-o-v e-s. Do you know who is
moi e to he pitied than the po’ gy-jrl
whom nobody loves IT, tell you.
The poo» girl who loves nobody
that's the real poverty
Don't let that happen to y on.
The Atlanta Georgian
Can You Read Design in Nature? &
The Atmosphere Might Have Heen Composed So That Lightning Would 'Burn nr Explode It
(Ph«»togra phs reprotlib Pii by pi.-niiiNon from Hearst's Magazine for June.)
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A Ship Literally Enveloped by Liql
ninq Flashes.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
READ Dr. Williams’ explana
tion why the air is not eel
afire by lightning in the
.tunc number of Hearst’s Maga
zine. Then think about It a while
and you will probably (Ind yourself
agreeing in opinion with the great
astronomer. Kepler, when he de
clared that if pewter dishes, leaves
of lettuce, grains of salt, drops of
oil and vinegar and slices of <-gg
had been flying about in the air
from all eternity it might at last
happen. BY (’HANCE, that a salad
would come out of them- but never
a salad so exactly right in all re
spects as those that his wife had
prepared for him.
One of the most interesting re
sults of the progress of science is
the opening of our eyes to the as
tonishing number of delicate ad
justments by which everything in
nature is made to run safely and
smoothly. Perhaps we unduly flat
ter ourselves if we think that this
was all done for our particular
benefit—hut. nevertheless, WE Do
GET THE BENEFIT, and many
devout minds believe that they can
lead therein the hand of a benefi
cent deity. Surely, nobody can
read there the blundering hand of
chance.
Suppose that you Mere in a great,
mine, buried deep in the earth, and
that you saw, from time to time, a
crinkling flash of fire darting
through the air. You would shrink
into yourself through fear. You
would believe that at any moment
the whole mine might be blown up.
You would tremblingly recall many
stories of terrible mine explosions,
mid you would find difficulty in re
assuring yourself, even if some sci
entific companion said tn you,
"Don’t be afraid. THIS air can’t
burn. The flashes you sec put
themselves out too quickly. There
is a little burning, but It can’t ex
tend. The composition of the air
makes you safe." Nevertheless, you
would get out of that mine at the
first opportunity.
A Kind of Mine
Now, when you arc on she sur
face of the earth you are in a kind
of mine, from which you can not
escape. Every time a bolt of light
ning darts through the skyflt burns
a little of the nitrogen, which is
one of the two principal gases con
stituting the atmosphere. If that
burning extended, as it sometimes
extends in a coal mine, where other
inflammable gases abound. It would
be all over with you and yom com
panions in a moment. One mag
nificent flame, sweeping valley and
hill, and good-bye to this world!
But we are protected by the com
position of the air. Nitrogen is not
inflammable. In ordinary circum
stances it will not burn. An intense
electric flash .an burn a little of
it. lying in the track of the dis
charge. but outside that narrow
space the heal is so quickly riissi-
Laws Need Revision
Editor of The Georgian
Supplementing remark mad® bx
me quoted in your issue of T'.o
Georgian of June 19. with refer
once to the criminal courts. I de
sire to say that the fault I find
is with antiquated, old-time crim
inal laws, and procedure, not with
the judges.
Many people agree with me. that
the time has come when the crim
inal laws of Georgia should be
changed so as not to allow cases
to be continued because defend
ant's attorney happens «to be in
another court trying a case, and
for many other reasons which ap
pear as trivial. When one of these
motions is made under the law as
it exists, our judges are required to
continue the cases. Should he try
them m motion for new trial, one
"•■mid have to tie granted by th"
higher l ourt.
MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1912.
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After the Flash the HeaJ Dissipates so.
Quickly That the Burning of Nitro
gen Stops and the. World's
Supply Is Saved From
Destruction.
pa ted that the burning eeases as
soon as it begins. Oxygen, the oth
er principal gas of the atmosphere,
which is a great and en
oouragei of combustion. is there
in abundance, hut, nevertheless, the
inertness of the nitrogen, its indis
position to burn, is so great that it
refuses to catch fire as a whole.
It defies the lightning, as a chem
ically prepared paper defies a
flame. There? is a little local char
ring, but the tiro can not spread.
Now. look in another direction.
From ait' turn to water. Water is
composed of two gases—oxygen
and hydrogen. Hydrogen is in
flammable. Oxygen is a supporter
of flame, although it does not .itself,
burn. When they are Combined into
the liquid called water, which con
tains two volumes of hydrogen to
one of oxy gen, they do Tot burn.
Rut take the hydrogen out of the
water, as van be done in a labora
tory, and it burns with case.
An Experiment
That great experimental philoso
pher, Michael faraday, used to de
light his audiences—the elders as
much as the youngsters—by put
ting one volume of oxygen and two
volumes of hydrogen together in
a stout glass bulb, and then pass
ing an electric spark through them.
Flash! The oxygen and the hydro
gen both disappeared in an in
stant. awl a little water, formed by
their explosive combinations, tric
kled down the inner side of ( the
bulb. That was all that remained.
I was once the ivtrnrss of a very
startling accident due to allowing
Would it not be a wise amend
ment to the criminal law also,
which will require all eases to !>•-
tried on their merit, and wipe
from the statute books all tech
nicalities as to language used in
indictments and technical points as
to names of parties in indictments,
which frequently gain an acquit
tal, even for a confessed murder
er. The times are too far advanced
for these old cobwebs w hich are an
obstacle to the administration of
justice to longer remain on our
statute books.
1 wish to say a word about “pis
tol toters" who infest this city. If
it is necessary to do so. the con
stitution of the state of Georgia
should be amended, allowing evi
dence to go before a jury of a
pistol found on a man's person.
• o n though tils arrest might hap
pen io be "illegal” Our city po
lice b.,’i the right to mike, at
rest-, for violation of 'in ordi-
“he Weird Traceries of Light Are the
Paths of Electricity Setting Afire
the Air's Nitrogen as It Goes.
! a little hydrogen to come into con
tact with oxvgon in the presence of
a flame. You know that Ihe oxy -
hydrogen light used with the stere
opticon is produced by combining
jets of oxygen and hydrogen and
setting them on tire against a stick
of chalk. The intense heat makes
the chalk glow like a little sun.
(•tie night, while giving a lecture
in New York, the operator
lantern carelessly allowed a rub
ber tube to slip out of place. In
stantly there was a .lightning flash
ajrd a loud explosion, which sent
the audience flying, with cries of
dismay, out of every exit, though
fortunately nobody was hurl. The
operator had let a little hydrogen
escape, and it had met just enough
oxygen to produce an explosive
combination. Hut. if the operator
was careless, he had nerve. In
stantly he tinned a cock that
stopped the escaping hydrogen, and
Ihe danger was over.
Now. remark this significant
fact: THERE IS No FREE HY
DROGEN IN THE AIR. The earth
can't hold hydrogen gas. If It
gets out It flies away Into space,
because its molecules are ton live
ly to be permanently retained by
the earth's gravitation. Hut we can
imagine a planet having the pow
er to hold hydrogen in its atmos
phere. Suppose tile air. of such a
planet to contain two volumes of
hydrogen io one of oxygen- ami we
know no reason why intelligent
beings might not be so constituted
as to live in such an atmosphere.
Then, suppose another Prometheus
to bring fire to that planet, or sup
pose a flash of lightning to dart
through its atmosphere, like the
electric spark through Faraday's
bulb. There would probably be
one gigantic explosion, one all-en
veloping flame, and then another
“deserted w orld" would roll through
space, covered with a lifeless film
of water, formed try the combina
tion of the gases of the exploded
a tinosphere'
He is ,i madman who thinks Hint
this world of mils ONLY HAP
PENS to be a safe place of abode.
$
•i.'i'-y-i the law i® such that
lb" arrest i® tcclmiially illegal in
stick an extent Qtal evidence, wliieh
might be a eonr-ealed pistol, can
not go to a jut y
I earnestly hope that (he move
ment to revise the criminal laws,
started by the convention of Geor
gia judges, w ill receive seriou-t and
prompt consideration at the hands
of the incoming legislature.
While 1 am on this subject, why
not add to the gaming laws, bet
ting on horse races and baseball
games, and make the same a
crime—especially this "hand-
book" business'.’, I am sure the
baseball people would rise up and
r call the legislature blessed, and
even the horses would hail such a
law with joy. The pernicious ac
tivity of these "handbook" fellows
should be pul an end to.
Very respectfully' yours.
Ji’SEI’H \ Mcl'Oßl’.
M. lent a Gw. June .' n . 191 .’
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THE HOME PAPER
The Education of the (
V oter
No. 2—lnitiative; Referendum
An Easy Explanation of Some of the New
Political Terms. H
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By THOMAS TAPPER. G
IT is important for the citizen
of a repuhlir to know some
thing about its government.
If you help in elect those who
make laws, you are in part respon
sible for the result.
Our form of government, that of
a republii , recognizes thp people
themselves as the source of power.
Reading the daily paper of late
you have come upon a number of
new words which spring out of the
political situation of the day. These
words are Initiative, Referendum,
Preferential Primary. The Recall,
and the like. What do they all
mean ?
Keep in mind the fact that the
Federal Constitution does not es
sentially take precodencf' over
Slate Constitution? In fact, one
supplements the other. Also, keep
it in mind that a Constitution is
al wave result of progressive
history. This fait, progressive
history, made it necessary to add
fifteen amendments to the Consti
tution <»f the United States. There
is one further thing to remember:
History is progressing now. in 1912.
and it will keep on progressing, of
misfortune will swallow us up.
H.
The words Initi itivr and RcD'r
endum do not occur in tlm Fedcial
Constitution. But in Article I <»C
the Amendments il is stated that
<'ongress shall make no law pro
hibiting the right of the people to
petition the Government for a re
dress of grievances. 11 is import
ant to renirmhor this petitioning
right of- the people.
In politics, the words Initiative
and Referendum are frequently
used together. 'l’he Referendum
is nothing new and we shall see.
The word Initiative in this con
nection refers to the right of ho
people, of you as an individual
voter. t<» initiate, or start, or or
iginate legislation. Any petition
on the part of the people—yon are
one of them for the passing of a
desirable law is the Initiative.
Tho incorporation of this principb*
into practice has horn brought
about in South Dakota, lowa. Xo
braska and California.
Local application of the initia
tive has long been known. Wh m
the people of a town frame ape-l
tition to open up a new street and
present H with sufficient signa
tures to the (own fathers they
have availed of this privilege. Often
a governing body refers a ques
tion to the people. This E (he
Referendum. ’The. whole gist of
(he matter has been successfully put
by Dr. < in his treatise on
tim Referendum.
Shall the law. he says, which h is
been passer! by the state legisla
ture apply to a particular
Our Women Workers
By KLBKRT HUBBARD. L
a GREAT life insurance compa-
Z-X ny. whose actuaries have
more than a national repu
tation for soundness of reasoning,
has recently given its agents some
instructions on insuring the lives
of women. I quote:
“Whereas, this company lias not
heretofore thought best to insure
the lives of women, it is now ac
ceptable for you to secure applica
tions for policies from women as
fqllow s:
"1. Accept applications only
from women in business or from
wage-earning women who ha ve
people dependent on them,
"2. Do not accept women withan
income that is not derived fiom
thi ir own property."
Prom tins I assume that these
hard-headed actuaries, who elimi
nate , gallantry. poetry ami senti
ment f’om their calculations, re
gard married women ami women
who have tilings povii.led for I hem
as uncertain propositions to Insure.
’Vagc-earning women arc rea
sonably happy. Steady, systemat- I
'•■ work means health, The com
petent man or woman is a good
moral and financial risk.
A married woman may he com
petent or she may not. She may
he happy or she may not, it is
quite uwnecessa i y tn question In
-she will not toll the truth about
herself, and it is exactly the same
with a woman who lives on the
bounty provided by either a live
man or a dead one.
»
Four-fifths of all the surgical
cases in public hospitals are per
formed on women. But of the
wage-earning. wealth-producing
women, no more go to hospitals
proportionately than do men. It is
men who take the physical risks of
the world—it is men who operate
railroads, tunnel mountains, sail
ships, mine ores and build build
ing® Hint ■•'•rap'' I h>' sky .
Yet. in pile of these fact-. the*
Thr prnpir v ill iirrifie by the refer
endum.
Where shall the referendum he
taken'.’ Th'- people will decide by
the initiative.
The REFERENDUM results
Avlien laws arc prepared bv the
legislature ami are submitted tn
the people. The INITIATIVE re
sults when laws are prepared by
the people and submitted tn the
legisla t urn.
Hl.
Tbe initiative in respect tn local
conditions is frequently adopted.
When in South Dakota, as many
as five per cent nF those who
voted for governor in the previous
election sign a petition they estab
lish a right to be heard on any
question of state lalvs.
The required number of signa-'
lures to the petition is not uni
form in the states and municipali
ties in which the initiative is op
erative. tn the city of San Fran
< isco fifteen per cent of the votes
east at the last election are re
quired; in the state of California,
.'io per cent: in lowa, 7.’>’ per cent,
and in Nebraska, fifteen per cent.
To submit laws to the vote of
the people Is a live and important
question. It is not a new princi
ple in American politics in local ap
plication. The education of the
voter should convince him wheth
er the initiative is a principle that
Is capable of expansion from a
narrow to a broad application. Are
the people, as a rule, fitted to give,
judgment on legislative measures?
To answer th'e question, ask your
sel f ;
Am I so careful a student of po
litical questions that my opinion Is
intelligently formed on any pro
posed measure of legislation?
Do I .actually know anything
about il
Do 1 keep in mind when 1 vote
THE <>NF. GREAT
THAT AFFECTS MF. DIRECTLY
the prosperity of the country?
Do I vote with a sane point of *
view as to property protection, to
the purpose of taxation, and so on?
Between the man who thinks
upon Hie right of the franchise in
Illis war- and the man who crimi
nally disposes of his vote for a.
price stretches the whole range of
voting intelligence.
AU the conditions that may sur
round us as a people depend on
whether the voter is intelligent
and responsible. Let him be a re
former in the truest sense of the
word.
Let him also remember that
many writers and papers arc in
clined to regard the reformer as
working heaven and earth in hie
own inhere -t.
This is the right and proper
thing to do if. at the same time,
tits interest is the greatest good to
the greatest number.
insurance actuaries much prefer in
in ure men who arc abroad in the
world doing thing.- than to accept
risks on women who abide in Ihe , . ;
safety of the home and are pro
tected and shielded on everv side. i
I'mm this there is only one conclu
sion. and that is. that to be mar
ried and keep house, and to have
an income and do nothing, are
hazardous undertakings.
It is not the dangers of childbirth
that make women a bad risk—it is
the paucity of their lives. If it wei e >
tlie dangers of motherhood, the in- 1
‘•ii htii < companies would not re
fuse women over 50, but married
women, and those unmarried, who
arc provided for, are placed in the
same category.
Ill*- real fact is. few women, *
cojnparatlvely, ;<i-p admitted Into
the work of the world. Woman Is {
the slave of hm housekeeping ihe I 1
slave of a man. When she' get.', ,
married she throws up her job. And
in Now York, 1f she is a school
teacher, her marriage is equal tn a tj
j resignation. Hence the misery that
leads to the ether-cone, the liga
ture and lh" -calpel.
And | bat Is the reason why life |
insurance companies, as a rule, will
not Insure lb® lives of married VS
women. The average married worn- \.»
an has no high purpose In life—no
output for her ambition, no lock
upon which she can strike her in
tellect and cause the welling waters
of life to flow.
She lias tasted of life and found
it alkaline all there is for her now ■
is submission. She is a passive I
party. So the insurance actuary, I
viewing the average married worn- M
an with his. cold, calculating, finan- H
rial eye, declares her a hazardous ( i
risk, and prfWses her up. [1
Give women the ballot! it will
help to enlarge their lives, improve .
i heir mental and physical estate, |
and make Hum bcllei risk- \lso, I
ii win make them better compan
ions of men. jl
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