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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, 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 -
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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.