Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, June 25, 1912, EXTRA, Image 14

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Newspaper Page TextEDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published EverV 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, 187?. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mail, $5.00 a year. Payable in advance. 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, they will probably "point with pride to the pero ration. The final passages of the speech in which Mr. hoot 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 tor a moment by the contempla tion of the blessings political inlrigm s bestow upon him. Krom the 'mm tin ing of the world the high courtiers ol king ships and other forms of established privilege have played the same verba! trick upon the patient populace that Mr. Root re sorts to in his sophisticated argument against the recall ol judges. He begins by announcing the sublime truth that justice is divine ami is higher l han all human opinion, and then, while the people stJtml reverently gazing into heaven, he slips a false bottom into his argument, lie suddenly decides with a violence to logic which only the discerning may perceive that the particttlar insti tution that has fostered his own fortunes is the only extant ve hicle and embodiment <>l the divine law. Thus Mt. Root exclaims : "There is a di-inc principle of justice which men can not make or unmake, which is above all government, above all legisla tures. above all majorilies. 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 jndi ciarv recall is seen to be nothing bit! a ghostly survival of the superstitions of Old World court preachers. The divine law that men ought to obey is not to be 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 soveri ignly . Sometimes the hearts of the majority are fat and foolish, filled with passion, prejudice ami blindness, I hen. lor*the mo ment. the divine lav !< to be found in the wisdom of the few; hut if it is real wisdom it '•non spreads to the many in om laud. It is the faith of America that, itt 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 ('oust it lit ion was created by the truth and justice of the multitude. It is to be revered on that account and continually improved by fresh inspiration?' ol justice. It is not to be worshipped since nothing that men make should be worshippml. As fm- the courts of law and equity, they are made by the const it til om. ami they ■'hare its moral authority. Ihe judicial branch of the government stands mi precisely the same moral ground as lhe executive and legislative branches. The American people stand by the constitution. It is be cause thc\ 'land by the const it lit ion that they insist that lhe three great branches of the government shall be kept on an equal fooling and ol co-ordinate power. I hey insist that the judiciary must not laud it over the others. Tile American people insist in spite ol Mr. Root and all other snbverters of constituional right .that the judges shall be as amenable Io the authority that is sovereign under the consti tution as the executives and legislators are. This is the meaning of the movement lor llie judiciary re call. Perhaps Mr. Rook knows that this is so and willfully under take- to deceive. Perhaps Mr. Root is in spite of his cunning brain blind at heart and wholly unable Io understand. S('hool of Economy Wanted By ADA RATTEKSON. MISS SARAH MACKINTOSH. Tl'l'KEß said site would iik* to see schools of *-* »no tny estalili'. It, ,1 in this country. “At any rat. ’’ -in insist* il. I should Ilk. to sc, ,i char of e.on omy in all wonion's . <>tl< m s." Miss Tucker spoke like e pr.ieti* al, level-headed wom.il: she Lectures* on how to live within j’our Income might profitabi* lie delivered in . ,C.I. g. be g i .-. and classes in marketing and shopping would be rfs pra< 'i< ab ! . am! helpful as the cooking schools rvnich have ■ Set a higitei st..mi.ltd foi our kit* to ns and a correspondingly higher standatd for family health in this * ountr*. Frida* as ernoon talks on the values of food and elot It. s stuffs, object lessons in mateiial that will' wear wa ll in rain and snow and not fade in sunshine, and demonstia tions in meats and vegetables that will nourish would be of m ■ , b.n efit to pupils in the publi* e hoo - than learning all about lite petals and stamens of a rose Sentimentalists make si.l ~y, j about the causes for lov. grow n cold, but a great realist . ompn s-.-d more truth into a senten.. tain they have used in on ering .ams of paper when he wrote Th -r. is no wind that blows so coldly upon love as a demand for mom*,' When a couple do not g.'t on we" the root of the discord is oftener money than anything else. The break comes in some such way as this: Didn't 1 see the washerwoman carrying away that pink dress you got iast week?" he asks. "Yes." replies th* 1 w ife of his bos om: "1 gave it to her. 1 didn't like It after I got it home. 1 don't know why I ever bought it." , Then falls the thunderbolt of hus bandly wrath. ' You uro always buying clothes, but never have any.” he storms. He reminds her of a green gown that bad g ■'!■ to her cousin after one wearing a blue one she had given ’■> : ft end be, aii<e “he had found th. trimming unbecoming after t. e *k one that didn’t fit so wi is sfo thought. And when th. norm ti.is passed the. wife has gon*' home to mother because she does not believe in free speech for husbands. This and hundreds of similar Sc. lies and similar sequels could h< avoided If there were schools i.n household economy, or if. until we have them, ever.* woman set herself to learn true economv. * first great rule is: "Buy only what you need." Money will dis appear as though from a bottom less purse if you buy what you want. I.ate in one season look 'over your wardrobe and decide what clothes and wraps and hats you ne»d. not want, for tile m et. Make a list of them and follow that list as you would th*' map of a strange country. There will be jun ghs of temptation in this strange shopping country, beauties and novelties among which you may wand. r and be lost, but keep In the highroad of what you need. Stick to your map. 'll! admirable way to learn econ omy is to keep accounts. The rec ord of *vhat we spent last month, written in our own hand, will face - and laugh down opr pitiable lit t;. excuses, A * ear's accounts will show us in what re*peet we have been extravagant. If we hare ex < . . led the amount we should hare “pint, how much have we exceeded n and v. hat item is the. heaviest ? Ri lle, tion over a column of figures will be the best investment ever num And the resolution to avoid the mistakes glaring from those columns may insure domestic hap piness Tr* to see in a sum of money not th*' coin itself, but what it epresents. I young woman who managed a ’vp. writing offii. told me that a dim. was not ten cents to her. but .* peg. ~f . opying. perhaps'done at th> end ..f a long day. when her fingers ached and she was diz.zv from faintness. \ half-dollar is les- cas, * spent if we remind our- Helres .it it i> the interest on $lO sot a veal, and a higher late of inter. St than is laid by th.- savings banks it that. Awaiting th. m eded schools of economy, w* can school ourselves In the art, The Atlanta Georgian TUESDAY. JUNE 25, 1912. JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE, MOTHER! By T. E. POWERS Copyright, 1912, by International News Service 'I SWFET HfART, HONEY) A.Ly OpT'j AoNLY $+ 9 FOR. THIS AHI I QUE LOVE CAN I - HAVE. 1 CHAIR? WHY ITS 500 YEARS SSO FOR A N’W DRESS i '■ X W OLD QUEEN ELIZABETH i IH«£H«IhI<WwRAR \ / jV, T-JjA SAT Ifi'A/OATh A / _ ,\\u I Thousand Easuy 7 if I —»c- p -M r rtf* .LY-v A J) £ 7 . TtCPTATioS f Sold To The J ( OH DARLING, SEE THE.'J I Lady at SSO Beautiful bargain ' ■ I GroT For, SSO. J __ Y/V - z r >5 'N T*''■ I - ■-j i u The Young Man’s Plight & How Can He Meet the Girl He Wants to Marry? Bl’T siipose that fancy turns to love? Ho\<ean a young man who is a stranger in a town go about it to make tlte ac quaintance of the girl his heart is seeking? There are chances offered him «sot hardening his 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 he gets tinaneially 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 he tlnd her" He is a stranger in a big city. His employer is concerned in his brain, his back, his hands ami his habits. His heart doesn't concern the man wbrt employs him. Neither does it seem to concern the al truists. This is tlte fifth litter of this tenor I have received in t week: Few Chances to Meet Girls Who Are His Equals. “I ant a young man who came to tin- city a few months ago, taking a good position. But I find my chances of meeting girls my equal art* not very good. Perhaps ynu will tell me to join some church society, as you'told a business girl who was discouiaged for tlte same re tson. But I have been to several churches, and I do not believe the opportunities for a stranger to meet girls come that way. ”1 have met a few ladies of ® ® Some Editorials by Readers of The Georgian © © HOME INSURANCE COMPANIES. To the Tdltor of The Georgian: In the hist twenty years millions of dollars that forme; ly w ent to Eastern insurance interests novel to return has been kept at home through the patronizing of home insurance. The raucous cry that is being raised today for legislation along insuianee lines at the ap proaching session of the legislature is rahed for the purpose of erip pling home insurance rather than to protect it by suitable legislation. The great state of Georgia ought to nourish the grow th of home insur ance instead of aiding in'making it possible to destroy it. MARK ALLEN CANDLER. Atlanta. Ga. DENTIST'S CARELESSNESS. To the Editor of The Georgian: EromAime to time I see where the state board of health Is call 'd upon to investigate filthy milk and meals I would like to call attention to the fact that there is a pinelice in By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. well-respected families who seem ed to like me, but they ate so much older than myself. I only ’want one girl, but 1 want one suited to make a happy marriage. I be lieve there ate as many girls as young men who find themselves in a osition similar to mine. Now how are they going to get to gether? His Love Goes Deeper Than Mere Beruty. "1 can dance, and have gone to several dances lately, but the class of gills 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 thelt heads. They want the real sporty man, and will not give the other fellows a chance, and from what 1 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 right girl? I have about decided to go to the matrimonial papers, tor. among all the girls advertising In these papers, there must be some chance ■ f finding a few with some educa tion and good sense whe 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 u-medy? This young man goes to church, no one know s him, and in the great majority of churches no one cares to. If some gooil brother takes him by the hand, it is to express the z hope that he will come again. If he goes again, he may. by going many, many times, finally get his our stale that I* consider as bad as soiling filthy milk I oelieve that 90 per cent of the dentists spread more disease than they cure. I have seen dentists operate upon consumptives and never even wash their instruments and then use them in mother’s mouth. I have been practicing for eight years, and know- whereof I speak. I wi-h this subject could be brought before the proper persons and ngulated. Respectfully. R. H. THOMAS. D.D.S. Savannah. Ga. - SAVE THE SEASHORE. To the Editor of The Georgian: \nother of the islands on the Georgia coast has passed into the hands of private individuals.yttnd no doubt a wall will be thrown up so that no citizen can land and get even a sniff of the ocean breeze, mu h less a dip in the serf on the beaches, and as to the privilege of hunting or fishing, he would be thrown into jail if he were to catch passport to good society (his face) 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 ciimes 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 matriage is a factor for national disaster. He is hard working, sensible, ambitious and wants a wife who will 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 pape's, and I seriously doubt if he will find her there. Hard to Wait Patiently When One Is Young. Then what chance is left? If he waits in patience I am sure he will meet her, but it is hard to accept such counsel when one is young atYil 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 libraries, free art gallaties and free swimming pools. even a little minnow. But 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 innr tar, taxed at one-tentfi 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 comfort and pleasure. They have displaced many Georgia Crackers, who could at least vote anil 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 oystermen 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 for the people of the state. They have saved thousands of lives and THE HOME PAPER I Ella Wheeler Wilcox Writes on The Healing Power of Faith —and— The Power of Mind Over Body Written For The Atlanta Ge»rgian By Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copyright, 1912, by American-Journal-Examiner. 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 sor { life force. Men in whom this life —or will-power—is great resist disease and combat it when attacked. To array a man's mind and will against his sickness is the supreme act of medicine. Inspire in men courage ami purpose, and the mind-power will east out disease. The doctor was himself the best medicine and often cured by his presence those whom drugs would have scarcely helded. 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 hone 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 Ward Beecher in "Norwood,” printed 1567. That the healing power Is not in the remedy, but in the faith that is placed in the remedy, i. 4 often illustrated by amusing instances like the following: "Middlebourne, VV. V'a. —Roused in his sleep in the dead of night by intense pain caused by acute indi gestion, T. B. 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 work. Among all these people are great souls and logical minds living the philosophy they teach; and there are, alas, others who talk more than they act. An organization of Meta physical workers was asked recently if sim ilar societies could be formed else where. The reply was: "You can start a society of Silent I’nity 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 divert the little insig nificant Indian Spring from its course, or despoil the Tallulah Balls 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 beaiti and its enjoy ment forever. In cases where such pui chases 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 bo worth it LLEWELLYN .1. BROWN. Social Circle, Ga. OPPOSES WOMAN SUFFRAGE, To the Editor of The Georgian: You discuss woman suffrage and invite communications on the sub- *■ alty to the Truth and stick to it. That is another point that might be brought out. It requires per sistency to do good healing. You will have to keep going right for ward. Principle of Life Is Health and Strength. "You can't talk about the pntrM of God in your life one day and whip around like the wind the next day and talk something else. You can't t xpect your diseases and your troubles to vanish if you keep call ing them up, and telling your neighbors and your friends about how you once demonstrated over that thing, but it has come back on you, and you wonder why it is that you don't get along faster. 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 Lot’s wife, by looking back and calling up in thought and conversation the sinful past. Once you have dem onstrated ove: a thing, drop it right out of your mind, as if it never had existence. Sin and sickness never were any part of your true Ufa Those unhealthy conditions, those discords of mind and body, were nightmares If they had been true we could not so easily get rid of them: we could not wipe them out with our words of Truth.” One can feel patient, with the Old Thoughter, who has no kiTrtwl edge and no belief in the mental power to control conditions. But it is difficult to feel patient with the teacher or the devotee o's this religion who goes proclaiming it from the house tops, and then descends to the lower rooms to talk of gloomy, sad and disagreeable things. Not every one is strong enough to accept the Spiiltual philosophy in full, and do away utterly with old methods of cure when ill. But every one ought to be strong enough to avoid talking of disease, describing operations, dwelling on sorrowful subjects and indulging in gossip and tale bearing. Try To Be Tolerant Toward the World. Any one who is the least awak ened upon the subject of this great and wholesome philosophy, should at least make it the effort of the whole being to talk health, hope, charity, patience, love and good will and to ICEtEL toleration and sym pathy toward all the world. It is not an easy matter. It requites a continual effort of the will. The only way to achieve it is to set a watch upon the lips and an other at the door of the mind, and the moment an unworthy, an over sensitive, an ovi i--ct itical, an angry or a gloomy thought approaches to say, "Get thee behind mo. Satan;” and to call I'm Invisible Helpers” to take charge of the mind and mouth. They will come when called. ject. God in Hi; infinite wisdom never created woman equal with man. either mentally or physically, hut a helpmate for man. Their do mestic relations are to be ruled by love, and tiie marriage obligation binds the man to provide and to protect the woman. Now, let's see, under the Chris tian dispensation if the wife is to be subject unto the husband. Ephesians CL'-l-iS says: "As the 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 bi wilted if they ob' i their husbands? It would be just double trouble to accomplish the same thing J. jj. JOHNSON. Lafayette, Ala.