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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday Rv THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama SI . Atlanta, Ga. Entered as second class matter at postoffa * at Atlanta, tinder act of March 3. 1*73. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mail, $5.00 a year. Payable in advance. —— ——— f 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.) X ii- i i ' ’**' I“b I I i T i ■» a A. . • '■3F s 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. I Hk. ; W < JvfrA- ■ Wk. C mW jN /SB Bar 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 .’ « THE HOME PAPER The Education of the ( V oter No. 2—lnitiative; Referendum An Easy Explanation of Some of the New Political Terms. H / I 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 j