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Root on the Infallibility of
the Courts
While Mr. Root's friends will generally be obliged to admit
that his speech at Chicago was in the main a purely partisan
argument. the> will probably “point with pride” to the pero
ration.
The final passages of the speech—in which Mr. Root apos
trophizes the practice of law as it now exists—do, indeed, re
veal a kind of eloquence, the rapture of a highly prosperous cor
poration attorney, transported for a moment by the contempla
tion of the blessings political intrigues bestow upon him.
From the beginning of the world the high courtiers of king
ships and other forms of established privilege have played the
same verbal trick upon the patient populace that Mr. Root re
aorta to in his sophisticated argument against the recall of judges.
He begins by announcing the sublime truth that justice is divine
and is higher than all human opinion, and then, while the people
stand reverently gazing into heaven, he slips a false bottom into
his argument. *He suddenly decides—with a violence to logic
which only the discerning may perceive—that the particular insti
tution that has fostered his own fortunes is the only extant ve
hicle and embodiment of the divine law.
Thus Mr. Root exclaims:
‘‘There is a divine principle of justice which men can not
make or unmake, which is above all government, above all legisla
tures. above all majorities.”
He carefully refrains from saying that this divine principle
is also above ail lawyers and above all courts of law. For he
is preparing his hearers to believe that while legislators and ex
ecutive officers may be earthly, sensual and devilish, there can
be no question at all about the abounding grace and plenary
inspiration of all the judges.
Stripped of its cant, Mr. Root ’s argument against, the judi
ciary recall is sc« to he nothing but a ghostly survival of the
superstitions of Old World court preachers.
The divine law that men ought to obey is not to he found
with utter certainty in any political institution. It is in the
human conscience. It is in the hearts of the people. It consti
tutes their sovereignty.
Sometimes the hearts of the majority are fat and foolish,
filled with passion, prejudice and blindness. Then, for the mo
ment, the divine law is to he found jn the wisdom of the few;
but if it is real wisdom it soon spreads to the many in our land.
It is the faith of America that, in the long run, truth and jus
tice are uttered by the people—by the people in mass.
It is the belief of Americans that the Federal Constitution
was created by the truth and justice of the multitude. It is to
he revered on that account—and continually improved by fresh
inspirations of justice. It is not to be worshipped —since nothing
that men make should ho worshipped.
As for the courts of law and equity, they are made by the
constitution, and they share its moral authority. The judicial
branch of the government stands on precisely the same moral
ground as the executive and legislative branches.
The American people stand by the constitution. It is be
cause thex stand by the constitution that they ipsist that the
three great branches of the government shall be kept on an
equal footing and of co-ordinate power. They insist that the
judiciary must not laud it over the others.
The American people insist—in spite of Mr. Root and all
other subverters of con.stituional right—that the judges shall be
as amenable to the authority that is sovereign under the consti
tution as the executives and legislators are.
This is the meaning of the movement for the judiciary re
call.
Perhaps Mr. Root knows that this is so and willfully under
takes to deceive. Perhaps Mr. Root is in spite of his cunning
brain blind at heart and wholly unable to understand.
School of Economy Wanted
Bv ADA PATTERSON.
MISS SARAH MACKINTOSH
TUCKER said she would
like to sec schools of econ
omy established in this country.
"At any rate," she Insisted, "1
should like to nee a chair of econ
omy in ail women's colleges." Mis”
Tucker spoke like the practical,
level-headed woman ahe is.
Lectures on how to live within
your Income might profitably be
delivered In colleges for girls, and
classes in marketing and shopping
would be as practicable and helpful
an the cooking schools which have
set a higher standard for our
kitchens and a correspondingly
higher standard for family health
in this country.
Friday afternoon talks <>n the
'alues of food and clothes stuffs,
object lessons In material that will
wear well in rain and snow and not
fade in sunshine, and demonstra
tions in meats and vegetables that
will nourish would be of more ben
efit to pupils in the public schools
than learning all about the petals
and stamens of a rose.
Sentimentalists make sad eyes
about the causes for love grown
cold, but a great realist compressed
more truth into a sentence than
they have used in covering reams
of paper when he wrote "There i’
no wind that blows so coldly upon
leva ns a demand for money."
When a couple do not get on well
the root of the die, ord is r.ftener
money than anything else.
The break comes in some such
way as this:
"Didn't I see the washerwoman
< arrying away that pink dress you
got last week?" h. asks.
"Yes," replies th. wife of his bos
om. "I gave it to lot. I didn't like
it after I got it home. 1 don't know
why I ever Jmught i: "
Then falls the thunderbolt of hus
bandly wrath.
"You are always buying clothes,
but never have any." he storms lb
reminds her of a,green gown that
had gone to her cousin after on<
wearing, a him one she h. d given
to a friend because she had found
the frimtning "unbecoming after
al," a black one Ihat didn't fit «o
well as she thought. And wb. n
the storm has passed the wife has
gone home to mother because she
docs not believe in free speech for
husbands.
This and hundreds of similar
scenes and similar sequels could
lye avoided If there were schools in
household economy, or if. until we
have them, every woman set herself
to learn true economy.
A first great rule is: "Ruy only
what you need.” Money will dis
appear as though from a bottom
less purse if you buy what you
want. Late tn one season look
over your wardrobe and decide
what clothes and wraps and hats
you need, not want, for the next.
Make a list of them and follow that
list as you would the map of a
strange country. There will be jun
gles of temptation in this strange
shopping country, beauties and
novelties among which you may
wander and be lost, but keep in the
highroad of what you need. Stick
to your map.
An admirable wai to learn econ
omy is to keep accounts. The rec
ord of what we spent last month,
written in our own hand, will face
us and laugh down onr pitiable lit
tle excuse! A y ear's accounts will
show us in what respect we have
been extravagant. If we have ex
it eded the amount we should have
.'•pent, how much have we exceeded
it and what item is the heaviest'.'
It< llection over a column of figures
will be the best investment ever
made. And the resolution to avoid
the mistakes glaring from those
columns may insure domestic hap
piness. Try to see in a sum of
money not the coin itself, but what
it represents.
A young woman who managed a
typewriting office told me that a
dime was not ten cents to her. hut
a page of copying, perhaps done at
th< end of a 'oiig day. when her
lingers ached and she was dizzy
from faintness. A half-do lar Is
lees easily pent if we remind our
selves that it is the interest on sin
loi t year, and a higher rate of
interest than is paid by the savings
banks at that.
Awaiting F" e ediu - hm> : - of
economy w • >tn s. hoot ourselves
in lhe art.
The Atlanta Georgian
JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE, MOTHER!
By T. E. POWERS
Copyright, 1912, by Internationa! News Service
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The Young Man’s Plight
How Can He Meet the Girl He Wants to Marry?
BUT supose that, fancy turns
to love? How can a young
man who is a stranger In a
town go about It to make the ac
quaintance of the girl his heart is
seeking?
There arc chances offered him
for hardening liis muscles in a
gymnasium. He can get lessons
in swimming. Opportunities for
Improving his brain are fairly
thrust upon him. He gets free
baths, free books free music, free
art galleries, free parks, and if lie
gets financially embarrassed he
gets aid from a provident associa
tion. ,
But if lie is a self-respecting,
honorable, steady young man with
ability to support a wife, and the
longing to have one, how can tie
find lieu? He is a stranger in a
big city. His employer is concerned
In his brain, his back, his hands
and his habits.
His heart, doesn’t concern the
man who employs him. Neither
does it seem to concern the al
truists. .
This is the fifth letter of this
tenor 1 have received in a week:
Few Chances to Meet Girls
Who Are His Equals.
"1 am a young man who came to
the city a few months ago. taking
a good position. Rut 1 find my
chances of meeting girls my equal
gre not very good. Perhaps you
will tell me to join some church
society, as you told a business girl
who was discouraged for the same
reason Rut I httve been to several
churches, and I do not believe, the
opportunities for a stranger to
neei girls come that way.
"1 have met a few ladies of
• © Some Editorials by Readers of The Georgian © © 1 >.
HOME INSURANCE COMPANIES.
To the Tditor of The Georgian:
In tjie last twenty years millions
of dollars that formerly went to
Eastern insurance interests never
to return has been kept at home
through the patronizing of home
insurance. The raucous cry that
is being raised today for legislation
along insurance lines at the ap
proaching session of the legislature
is raised for the purpose of crip
pling home insurance rather than
to protei t it by suitable legislation.
The great state of Georgia ought to
nourish the growth of home insur
ance instead of aiding in making it
possible to destroy it.
MARK ALLEN HANDLER
Atlanta. Ga.
DENTIST'S CARELESSNESS.
To the Editor of The Georgian
From time to time I see where
the stale board of health is call
ed upon to investigate filthy milk
ami meats
I Would like Io cI 11 attention to
the fact' (hat there is a practice in
TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1912.
Bv BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
well-respected families who seem
ed to like me, but they are so much
older than myself. I only want
one girl, but I want one suited to
make a happy marriage. I be
lieve there are as many girls as
young men who find themselves in
a nosition similar to mine. Now
how are they going to get to
gether?
His Love Goes Deeper
Than Mere Beauty.
"I can dance, and have gone to
several dances lately, but the class
of gil ls one finds at dances are not
to my liking. My love goes deeper
than Just beauty. So many girls
nowadays seem to have nothing but
foolishness in their heads. They
want the real sporty man. and will
not give the other fellows a chance,
and frewn what I know the men
they prefer are not the men with
good intentions.
"Now. what are the fellows like
myself going to do to find the t ight
girl? I have about decided to go to
thr matrimonial papers, Aor, among
all the girls advertising in these
papers, there must be some chance
of finding a few with some educa
tion and good sense who could
make life happy for a man. It
certainly is hard for men placed in
positions like mine to find them."
An interesting letter and one
that carries with it a conviction of
sincerity and good faith. But who
can give the remedy?
This young man goes to church,
no one knows him. and in the great
majority of churches no one cares
to. If some good brother takes him
by the hand, it is to express the
hope that he will come again. If
he goes again, he may. by going
many, many times, finally get his
out state that 1 consider as bad
as selling filthy milk
I oclieve that 9(1 per cent'of the
dentists spread more disease than
they cure.
I have seen dentists operate upon
consumptives and never even wash
their instruments ami then use
them In another's mouth. I have
been practicing for eight years,
and know whereof 1 speak
■ I wish this subject could be
brought before the proper persons
and regulated.
Respectfully.
R. H. THOMAS, D.D.S.
Savannah Ga. .
SAVE THE SEASHORE.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
Another of the islands on the
Georgia coast lias passed into the
hands of private individuals, and
no doubt a wall will be thrown up
so that no citizen can land and get
> ven a sniff of the orTan luecze.
mm h less a dip in the serf the
beaches, and as to ihi privilege of
hunting oi fishing, he would be
thrown into jail if lie were lo catch
passport to good society (his facet
passed upon favorably, and be in
troduced to a woman.
This may happen. Sometimes it
is a year in happening. Often it
never happens. One can not blame
those inside the shelter of the
church and who are intrenched In
their circle of friends too harshly.
Serious happenings have resulted
from introducing the casual ac
quaintance Into a family fold.
At the same time there is sympa
thy for a well-meaning man like,
the writer of this letter who must
suffer isolation and loneliness be
cause of the erimes of men before
him. So much sympathy that his
protest should open some way for
him to meet the right kind of a
girl.
It is his due. He was put on
earth to marry and the progress of
the world depends, in a measure,
upon that marriage being a happy
one. Every mismated marriage is
a factor for national disaster.
He is hard working. sensible,
ambitious and wants a wife who
w ill possess good sense. .He has
looked for her at public dances and
no one is surprised that he did not
find her there.
He threatens to look to the mat
rimonial papers, and I seriously
doubt if lie will find her there.
Hard to Wajt Patiently
When One Is Young.
Then what- chance is left’.’ If he
waits in patience I am sure he wilt
meet her* but it is hard to accept
such counsel w lien one is young
and it is springtime.
It is a problem for the altruists
who must know that true love is as
important a factor in the soul sal
vation as free lib aries. ft ee art
gallarics and free swimming pools.
even a iittle minnow . Etut he. still
has the privilege, for a short time,
at least, of standing off within the
three-mile league and viewing the
Immense piles of brick and mor
tar. taxed at one-tenth their value,
and get a glimpse of the imported
.white-aproned servants as they flit
from one millionaire to another
bearing imported supplies for their
coinfort and pleasure. They have
displaced many Georgia Crackers,
who could at least vote and fight,
too. if the state required it, and
would do a little trading with us in
chickens and eggs, if nothing more,
instead of Importing them. Be
sides, hundreds of fishermen and
oy stermen are out of a job.
Only St. Simon and Cumberland
are left, and they say it is only a
matter of a short time when the
latter will probably pass into the
hands of one of the Carnegies, to
gether with the tomb of “White
Horse Harry Lee.”
These seacoast island beaches
are nature's greatest sanitariums
tor the people of the state. They
have sated thousands of lives and
THE HOME PAPER
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Writes on
The Healing Power of
Faith
---and— ICt. jR
The Power of Mind I
Over Body
iJVritten For The Atlanta Georgian
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright, 1912. by American-Journal-Examir.er.
SICKNESS is very largely the
want of will. Everything is
brain. There is thought and
feeling not only, but will; and will
includes in it far more than men
tal philosophers think. It acts
universally, now upon the mind,
and then just as much upon the
body. It is another name for life
force. Men in whom this life—or
will-power—is great resist disease f
and combat it when attacked. To
array a mans mind and will
against his sickness Is the supreme
act of medicine. Inspire in men
courage and purpose, and the
mind-power will cast out disease.
The doctor was himself the best
medicine and often cured by his
presence those whom drugs would
have scarcely helped. These cures
through the spirit of his patient he
regarded as far the most skillful
and philosophical. ’Nothing ails
her. It is only her Imagination."
said the nurse to him one day.
"Only imagination? That is enough.
Better suffer in bone and muscle
than in imagination. If the body
is sick the mind can cure it. Rut
if the mind itself is sick what
shall cure that?”—Henry t Ward
Beecher in "Norwood,” printed 1867.
That the healing power is not in
the remedy, but in the faith that
is placed in the remedy, is often
illustrated by amusing instances
like the following:
"Middlebourne, W. Va. —Roused
in his sleep In the dead of night by
intense pain caused by acute indi
gestion, T. P. Swan, road commis
sioner. swallowed three shoe but
tons, mistaking them for pills. Aft
er taking the supposed pills the
pain wore off. Swan went back to
bed and was comfortable until this
morning."
Law Is Central Thought
Os a Great Religion.
Since Henry Ward Beecher wrote
his "Norwood” the world has ad
vanced marvelously in this under
standing of the power of the mind
over the body.
Now, that law is the central
Thought of a Great Religion, the
Old "New Thought.”
Never was a more beautiful, a
more wholesome religion than this.
Or one which brought more im
mediate results in the way of hap
piness. and health, and peace, and
power, and plenty.
But it, like all religions, is much
more easily preached than prac
ticed.
All over the land there are teach
ers and societies which make the
promulgation of this beneficent
philosophy a life w'ork.
Among all these people are great,
souls and logical minds living the
philosophy they teach; and there
are, alas, others w'ho talk more
than they act.
An organization of Metaphysical
workers was asked recently if sim
ilar societies could he formed else
where. The reply was:
"You can start a society of Silent
Unity if you begin with this loy.
restored tens of thousands to
health.
Yet it seems there is not a Geor
gian in all this great state who will
utter one word of protest. If some
one should diver? the little insig
nificant Indian Spring from its
course, or despoil the Tallulah l-’alls
a thousand Georgians would at
once cry. "To arms! To arms!”
What is the remedy-? What can
be done? It is easy enough. The
state could buy a few acres on the
beaches of each of these islands for
the benefit of the people and that
would-give a right of way to the
people to the beach and its enjoy
ment forever. In cases where such
purchases could not be made, then
use condemnation proceedings. If
there is no law for that purpose,
then make one If it should be un
constitutional. then change the
constitution. It would he worth it
LLEWELLYN J BROWN.
Social Circle. Ga.
OPPOSES WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Tn the Editoi of The Georgian
You discuss woman suffrage and
invite communications on the sub-
atty to the Truth and stick to it.
That is another point, that might
be brought out. It requires P"r
sis(ency to do good healing. Yotl
will Jiave to keep going right for
ward.
Principle of Life Is
Health and Strength.
“You can’t talk about the power
of God in your life one day and
whip around like the wind the next
day and talk something else. You
can't expect your diseases and your
troubles to vanish if you keep call
ing them up. and telling your
neighbois and your friends about
Vow you once demonstrated over
that thing, but it lias come back on
you. and you wonder why it is that
you don't, get along fasißr. The
principle of Life is health and
strength, and it is healing. Stick
to it. Don't allow any other thought
to come in; don't, talk about any
thing else. People salt themselves
down in the old thought, like l.ot's
wife, by looking back and calling
up in thought and conversation the
sinful past. Once you have dem
onstrated over a thing, drop it right
out of your mind, as if it never had
existence. Sin and sickness never
were any part of your trim IlAx
Those unhealthy conditions, those
discords o f mind and body, were
nightmares If they had been iiu
we could not so easily get rid of
them; we could not wipe them out
with our words of Truth."
One can feci patient, with the
Old Thoughter, who has no knowl
edge and no belief in the mental
power to control conditions.
But it is difficult to feel patient
w ith tile teacher or the devotee of
this religion w Ito goes proclaiming
it from the house tops’, and then
descends to the lower rooms to talk
of gloomy, sad and disagreeable
things.
Not ever? one is strong enough
Io accept the Spiritual philosophy
in full, and do away utterly with
obi methods of cure when ill.
But every one ought to be strong
enough to avoid talking of disease,
describing operations, dwelling on
so, row ful subjects and indulging in
gossip and tale bearing.
Try To Be Tolerant
Toward the World.
Any one who Is the Imist awak
ened upon the subject of this great
and wholesome philosophy, should
at least make it the effort of the
wholes being to talk health, hope,
charity, patience, love and good w ill
and so h’EKL toleration and sym
pathy toward all the world.
It is not an easy matter.
It requites a continual effort of
the will. ‘ y
The only way to achieve It is to
set a watch upon the lips and an
other at the door of the mind, and
Lite moment an unworthy, an over
sensitive. an over-et itival. an angry
or a glomny thought approaches to
say, "Get thee behind me. Satan:"
and to call the "Invisible Helpe-=”
to take chaige of the mind and
mouth.
They w ill < ome w hen called.
ject. God in His infinite wisdom
nev»r created woman equal with
man. either mentally or physically,
but a helpmate for man. Their do
mestic relations are Io be ruled by
love, and the marriage obligation
binds the man to provide and Io
protect the woman.
Now. lot's see. under the Chris
tian dispensation If the wife is to
be subject unto the husband.
Ephesians 5:24-25 says: “As th»
church is subject unto Christ, so
let the wives be to their own hus
bands in everything. Husbands,
love your wives, even as Christ
loved the church and gave Him
self for it.”
Do you see any God-given right
for a woman to disobey* her hus
band if he should say for her to go
vote for John Smith for governor,
if we had equal suffrage? Now, If
woman suffrage was in force, what
would they be benefited if they
obey their husbands.’ ft would b»
just double trouble tn accomplish
the same thing .1. B. JOHNSON.
LaEavrftc. Ala