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A Conceited, Shuffling and
Insipid Platform
Any living num who should completely embody in the flesh
the qualities of I lie Republican platform, just published from ( hi
cago, would show in bis face and figure such piisillanimoiisness of
character that he would certainly be added to the number of the
unemployed.
It may be too severe to say that this ambiguous and cowardly
document reflects the eharactcrW the gentleman who presided over
the Republican platform commit fee. Let us rather say that the.
character of the platform is the character ol Mr. Fairbanks —car-
tooned. It is Fairbanks exaggerated and raised to supernatural
degree of flubdub and forcible feebleness.
It is boastful of the past, wholly self-salislied with the present,
ard weak and vacillating in everything but standpatism for the
future. If has no definite program on any public question. It dis
misses every living, pressing issue either in silence or with vague
terms which mean nothing.
To analyze the contents of this document seems a little like
describing the anatomy of a tub of lard. But a few specifications
may be attempted.
To begin with, the platform is very notable for the things it
docs not contain. Il is, of course, wholly vacant on the subject of
the vast transforming national movement for direct primaries—
since the direct primaries came pretty near putting an everlasting
end to the kind of convention that made this platform. All refer
ence to direct legislation is also eloquently absent. A tepid article
deprecating the ideas that misbehaving judges should ever be re
called is buried in a flourish of phrases about “the integrity of the
courts." aud so on.
Concerning all the defaults of the Taft administration in such
matters as conservation, parcels post, merchant marine and the en
forcement of pure food laws the plat form brags—but promises uoth
ing. The party has no program.
Ou the subject of the tariff, which could not be avoided, the
platform is so blind to the dreadful record of the Republican party
and so barren of promises of repentance that it first glorifies lire
present tariff and then admits in a single sentence that some tariff
taxes are too high and ought to be reduced ; but it makes no promise
to reduce them.
Indeed, it clearly promises the favored interests that if the Re
publican party is again entrusted with power, nothing will be done
to the tariff for at least four years, for it demands the continuation
of the tariff board. Mr. Taft's excuse for vetoing the tariff reduc
tion hills sent to him l>v the present Democratic house and Repub
lican senate passed in obedience Io an overwhelming public senti
ment was that his tariff board, which had been at work nearly
two years collecting information on which to recommend changes,
had uot at that time reported. I'bo Tait tariff board has since re
ported and confessed its inability to recommend any definite rates.
The Republican platform demand lor the continuation of the tariff
board is. therefore, a sufficiently definite promise to the privileged
interests that their tariff favors shall not bJ withdrawn or curtailed
Ss long as Mr. Taft is president.
Again, the plank on “monopoly and privilege’’ is a study in
the art of offending everybody by a too abject subservience to a
privileged class.
The machine politicians who ruled the Republican convention
were so anxious to avoid any lightest suggestion that the great
corporate combinations should be legally controlled that they have
committed their party to the absurd doctrine that there ought not
to be any combinations at all and that every check put upon com
petition is criminal.
The insincerity or hypocrisy of this is plain. Nothing is plainer
than the fact that public service corporations and many other cor
porations that are not usually called by that name can not possibly
he regulated bv competition, Bl’T MI’ST BE REGULATED BY
LAW
But, of course, the employers of the bosses who will approve
the Republican platform know that the Chicago epistle, however
imperfectly worded, is full of love and devotion. Not only in its
tariff plank, but in every line and between the lines, it is a faithful
promise to the favored interests that the party will do as little as
possible to bother them in the future.
The failure of the Republican platform to touch even with the
lightest hand certain matters that the people are determined to have
and that “the interests" arc trying desperately to keep from them,
such as the direct election of Inited States senators and the income
tax, leaves the high road of politics wide open V> the Democrats at
Baltimore
There can be no question that the new party that Mr. Roose
velt is nursing into life will seize upon these great popular de
mands Tlfey are strong in Hie East, but in the West they have
achieved’an overwhelming power
The Baltimore convention would miss the greatest opportunity
that has been offered to the Democratic part} in half a century if it
failed to commit itself with utter simplicity ami clearness to the
whole great cause of popular progress.
Higher Pay For Teachers
of the Nation
Or. Claxton, I nited States cojnmissioner of education, has
COine out with a plea dor higher paid and more thoroughly
equipped teachers. For th* past ten tears he shows that the
average annual income of our teachers, inclusive of those in the
high schools, has been less than Solti 1 .
In eleven states the average is less than S4OO, in eight less
than S3OO, in two less than $250: and he remarks:
“For salaries like this it is clearly impossible to hire the
services of men and women of good ability and sufficient train
ing scholarship and experience. More'over. the large majority
of the teachers are men and women under t wentv-one. ’lhe ex
penditure for public education is less than $5 per capita in
twenty-five states, and less than halt that in ten states.
No wonder with a tax burden so comparatively light, does
the commissioner urge more liberal salaries for those who shape
the destiny of the nation through the .schoolroom.
The Atlanta Georgian
When Did Mind Begin? * By Garrett P. Serviss
.1/ Least Twice (),000 Years Ago Man lias Already an Artist and a Mechanic
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PROFESHoR ALFRED HER
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rector of the Peslalozzi insfi-
I ne ip Zurich, opens lip, in The
Cosmopolitan Magazine for July,
one of tiie most wonderful glimpse-'
Into the beginnings of human his
tory that it is possible to imagine.
We have got past the days when,
misled by a. mistaken chronology
all but a few progressive thinkers
believed that man’s first appear
ance on tills earth was made sud
denly' 6,000 years ago. Science no
longer refers to Adam, ft lias dis
covered no facts about Adam. But
ii lias discovered an abundance of
facts about men who lived so long
anterior to the traditional time of
Adam that he seems quite a mod
ern instance. Millions of men and
women were dwelling about the
Mediterranean sea. amt in the val
leys of the Nile and the Euphrates,
and developing civilizations which
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The top picture shows workmen employed in the stratum of La Micogne in
the near vicinity of Les Eyzies, while the center picture shows
the complete skeleton of a huge prehistoric
man found at that place.
arouse our admiration, much more
than 6,000 years ago. They were
erecting palaces in Crete perhaps ®
ns long as MOO years ago.
Rut even these people seem mod
ern tn comparison with other early
men that we are beginning to learn
something about. In the sunny land
of southwestern France, as recent
exploration shows, men lived in
large communities at least 12,000
years ago. Yoh may see the illus
trations of Professor Hertig’s ar
ticle, photographs of skulls and
skeletons of some of these people,
and also of Ihe beautiful bone nee
dles, with perfect eyeholes for
thread, which they made, and the
great rocky hill which they turned
into a subterranean city, and the
pictures which they drew', with ar
tistic skill, on stones and walls, rep
resenting Ihe horses, deer, buffalo,
birds, wild hogs and other ani
mals of their times.
How Many Years?
Taking these together with other
remains of man found elsewhere,
which represent several long stages
of progress, and noting that even
the earliest skulls of men were
plainly superior to those of any
other Animal, one asks himself:
How many tens of thousands of
years must not man have existed,
as a peculiar species, higher than
all others on the earth, and how
far back must wo go in order to
find a type of man not character
ized by an intelligence vastly great
er than that of the brutes?
That man did not begin every
where at the same time in the same
stage of evolution seems clear
enough from the fact that in simi
lar epochs early man showed dif
ferent degrees of devehtpmcnl in
different countries, or in different
parts of the same country. This Is
exactly what we see today. Some
favored parts of the world are now
Inhabited b\ men who have at
tained a marvelous ivillzation,
while other parts are the homes of
men who an- relatively mere sav
ages. Every body knows that man
kind is divisible into a considerable
number of different races, vary ing
in color, in physical make-up. in in
tellectual power, in ideas but no-
Editorials by Readers ot The Georgian
COUNCIL'S ECONOMIES.
To the Editor of Tito Georgian:
I noticed a few days ago that tile
council had held up vouchers for
trips of some of the officials to
conventions, among them being
that of the adult probation officer.
It strikes mo that it was one of
the smallest things 1 have seen
them do -and that's saying lots.
Other officials had made their an
nual trip to their respective asso
ciations and retmn. when all of a
sudden, without any notice what
soever to the expectant officials,
the cmtnell was seized with a fit of
(vimoinical virtue and hollcted out
WEDNESDAY. JUNE 21 i. 1912.
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body has ever yet been able tn dis
cover the real origin of any’ one of
these races. Their history ante
dates all records. We can mix the
races, mingling their blood and com
pounding their characteristics, for
they are all alike, men and women,
but how did they acquire their dif
ferences to begin with?
The Power There.
Yet, in one respect they arc not
different. They ah possess similar
feelings, similar emotions and sim
ilar minds They all carry' the
common birthmark of intellect. In
some it Is but little developed, BUT
THE POWER IS THERE, and it is
always at least sufficiently- devel
oped to make its possessors in
comparably’ superior to any other
kind of animal. You can make a
savage comprehend the idea of
justice, but you can not. by’ any
effort make it comprehensible to
a gorilla. It is impossible to find a
tribe of human beings, However low
in the scale of eivilizatiftn, who do
not manifest the common qualities
of humanity, although they may be
distorted, or latent, or covered up.
When and how- did these qualities
originate? /
Think for a moment what those
pictures, drawings, paintings in
ochre, and carvings, found in the
once man-inhabited caves of
France, and made at least 12,000.
and perhaps much more than 12,-
000 years ago, mean. Notwith
standing their lack of artistic skill,
thc.v show, that the artistic instinct
was already alive and In full oper
ation Those early men not only
SAW what the brutes did not see,
but they invented away to REP
RESENT WHAT THEY SAW.
Consider those bone needles, ob
serve how well they are made, and
look particularly at the eye-holes.
It Is a vast, almost immeasurable
chasm that yawns between the
power of thought and of reasoning
tlie making of those holes
implies and the dull instinct of lire
mere animal, w hich never learns Io
do a new thing, but continues, for
thousands of generations, to follow
the same ways pursued by its an
< estors. The first troglodyte who
thought of making a needle and
thread for his wife to make and
mend his garments with was as
that 'twas wrong, anyway, atft it
sounded very sincere coming on the
heels of their .gross negligence,
carelessness at* indlfferenco-to
expense-for value received school
building deals.
HARDY J CI.ARK.
Chauncey . Ga \
INSANITARY CONDITIONS.
To the-Editor of The Georgian
I beg the privilege of making a
complaint against the city sani
tary department for permitting the
mammoth livery stable on the
Washington street bridge to dump
its manure in the open, where it
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Le Moutier cave, where evidences
of earliest civilization have
been found.
groat ail inventor as Edjson -and
even greater, in the sense in which
Archimedes was greater than all
the physicists who have since, with
growing light, improved on his
discoveries.
Suppose we could call back to life
one of those artists who painted
pictures, with powdered ochre,
mixed in his blood, on the walls of
the grotto of the Font de Gaume,
and lead him into the Metropolitan
Museum. Do you think that he
would not recognize what our pic
tures essentially mean, and that if
we put a palette and brushes into
his hands and trained him for a
few years he would not be able to
turn out very good modern pictures
himself?
Not So Out-of■ Date.
Suppose we could revive one of
the mothers of that early race and
put a modern baby in her lap. Do
you think that she would not
quickly show that, she understood
lhe. nature of a child and how io
soothe and care for ii and how to
amuse it? How long do you imag
ine it would he before she could
■wear a hobble skirt and a rowdy
hat as gracefully as any of her
Twentieth Century sisters? She
might even give them lessons in
the art of leading a dog by a '--trine
We must learn not to look down
100 contemptuously upon the cavo
dweller of 12,0(10 years ago, for lie
was a great man in his day and Im
worthily upheld the traditions,
whieh-in.-iy already h;»ve been an
cient. of Ihe '-uperioriry of the hu
man mind.
Is exposed to this prolific June
weather, rots and reeks and incu
bates flies by the trillion!
The poor people of this city wore
made to spend something like SIOO.-
oi'o for garbage cans with lids to
them, and other strenuous efforts
wi re made to swat the (badly flv;
early in the spring a number of
poor washerwonjeti were fined the
limit for not cleaning their prem
ises promptly, but all rtr efforts
hav > been defeated by the big sta
bles ind the indifference «f our
p; mpered sanitary department. The
deadly fly is mo. numerous taan
ever. Very truly,
A I’ll >N EER CITIZEN.
THE HOME PAPER
Dr. Parkhurst’s Article
Ajudge’sDecreeAgainst F Hy
a Socialist
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The Profession of Voca-
tional Tailoring
Written For The Georgian
Rv the Rev. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst
A SORE spot is not healed by
being rubbed with acid:
neither is bitterness of spirit
sweetened by being treated to
doses of vinegar and nutgall.
There is a kind of s-qppresston
that operates as stimulus and it
lias become a proverb that the
. blood outlie martyrs is the seed of
the church.
In this we are thinking of Judge
Hanford's attempt to check So
cialism by canceling the naturali
zation papers of Leonard Oleson.
Qleson confessed to being a Social
istic advocate of radical changes
in the institutions of the country,
and the judge undertook to scourge
Socialism over Oleson's shoulders.
It does not appear that the Swede
had been guilty, of any ylisloyal act
or of any treacherous sentiment as
toward the interests of the coun
try; but only of having opinions of
his own as to the way in which those
interests could be best promoted*-
opinions, by the way. with which
those of Judge Hanford did riot
coincide.
He is not charged with having
broken any law, or with having
in any way violated the constitu
tion, but only with cherishing the
belief, and with a (tempting to prop
agate the belief, that there are re
spects in which the constitution
can be improved.!
No Advocate of 6-Year Term
Fit To Be a Citizen.
His attitude, so far forth, is the
attitude of evej-y man who is the
advocate of any constitutional
amendment, or who propagates the
doctrine of a six-ycar term for the
president.
The Chicago Herald remarks that
"Oleson has as much right to ad
vocate Socialism as other citizens
have to advocate the recall of
judges, government railroads or the
single tax.”
Socialism may be more sweeping
in its effects than the lengthening
of the presidential term, but in one
case, as in the other, the attack
made is not against the country,
but against particular methods of
caring for its interests. It is a
question whether the situation is
not one that calls rather
impeachment of the judge fhatFfor
depriving the Swede of his natu
ralization papers.
Whatever rtuy be said for nr
against Socialism. Judge Hanford's
method of dealing with it is more
calculated to make Socialists than
to unmake them. There are certain
kinds of weed of which it is said
that the smaller the pieces into
which one cuts them the more rap
idle they propagate.
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ANEW profession has recently
been opened up. which
might take the name of
"vocational tailoring.” which has
for its object to fit people out with
Publicity and Pragmatism
By ELBERT HUBBARD.
Copyright, 1912. by International News Service
PUBLICITY eliminates pretence.
The faker can not work in a
club. *
Falsehood makes for friction.
Truth and love are lubricants.
Where many people are involved
nothing goes but truth.
The sunlight of publicity de
stroys the ptomaines of fraud. The
faker withers before the fact.
As Ihe planets are held in place
through 'opposition of forces, so
*are mon held in the straight and
narrow way of truth through pub- ,
li'- opinion.
The ad clubs of America are
great and important factors in the
process of making mefi unionists.
The ad crafters stand for ethics in
the highest sense, and also they
stand for effectiveness and effi
ciency. <
The ad clubs form, in them
selves. a university. The public
meeting once a week for a midday
lunch of an ad club will, in the
eoulse of a year, evolve every
nicinber from a villager into a cos
mopolite.
No man can get into an ad club
and wrap his ignorance about him.
rind_,tuek in his prejudices, feeling
safe and secure. Srnugosit.v dies
a-horning. Foolishness is given the
smile audible. Selfishness flies out
through the window.
An advertising club is a pooling
p oposition. Everybody puts in al!
he knows, and takes out all h" can
carry away. And what he takes
away is in reality what he puts in.
We keep things by giving them
away. Thus we get a practical ■
monism, or a scientific pragmatism.
And pirfgmatism is simply the
science of a senSihk selfishness
or. if you prefer, (-all it enlightened
self-interest.
Pragmatism is the law of self
px -> (ration illumin' d bv loti of
kind.
the kind of business, trade or pro
fession that is bet fitted to their
individual temperament, talents
and general aptitudes.
Expert Has Accomplished
Practical Results.
It also undertakes to correct mis
fits, as when a man goes to a ready
made clothing shop, purchases the
first article that offers, then has if
worked over to a shape suited to
lits physical stature and propor
tions.
Lnder the auspices of the New
Vock V M. ('. A. some rather prac
tical results appear to have been
already accomplished along' this
line at the hand of an expert Im
ported front across the water.
There is nothing unreasonable In
the idea and there is certainly a
wide field for its operations, con
sidering the hit-or-miss way in
which Hie majority of young people
drop into their employment and
their life work.
Wo should be funny looking peo
ple if we took no more pains to se
lect our garments with reference to
age. sex. dimensions and general
contour than we do to choose our
employment with a view to its
adaptations to us personally.
Some people have no ph'yslcal
figure to speak of. and one style
and shape of garment will be as
becoming as another, and no style
and shape becoming at all.
• So there are people that appear
to have no particular aptitude for
any kind of service and will do one
sort of work as well, or rather as
poorly, as any other. But even 'in
such case it may be that the trou
ble is simply that while the apti
tude is there it is so concealed as
to escape discovery.
It is a. pleasant doctrine and
rather a reasonable one that every
one is particularly fitted for some
thing. No two leaves are dupli
cates. no two trees, no two faces:
and it lies close by to suppose that
■ no two individuals have exactly the
same quality or quantity of talents
and that each one’s peculiarity, if
only it can be detected, furnishes
the key to the special work he can
best do.
The expert omploymd by the New
York V. M. C. A. claims to have an
eye enabling him to take the tailor
measure of the inward contour of
people.
May Do Something To
Diminish Misfits.
As above said, results seem al
ready in a degree to justify his
claim, and he is being profession
ally’ consulted by those who either
have not decided upon their calling
or have stumbled into one to which
they are not adapted.
If there is as much in this idea as
we would like to hope, and if pat
ents and school teachers would
turn towardjt an earnest attention,
it may be that something will be
done toward diminishing the
amount of present misfits and con
serving a part of the talents that
are misapplied and run to waste.
Righteousness is a form of com
mon sense.
Business is the science of hu
man service.
t’ornmerde is eminently’ a divine
calling, and the word commercial
should never be used as an epithet
save by the man with a guinea hen
mind.
The creed of an ad club is short
and concise. It runs something as
follows:
CREDO:
I believe in myself.
I believe in the goods 1 elf
I believe in tin ti in for whom 1
work.
I believe in my colleagues and
helpers.
I believe in American bu Inc a
met hods.
I believe in the officiengy of
printers' ink.
1 believe in producers, creators,
manufacturers, distributors, and in
all industrial workers who have a
job and holfl jt down.
I believe that truth is an asset.
I believe in good cheer, and in
good health: and I recognize the
fact that the first requisite in suc
cess is not to achieve the dollar,
but to confer a benefit: and the re
ward will come automatically and
as a matter of course
I believe in sunshine, fresh air,
spinach, apple sauce, buttermilk,
laughter, babies, bombazine, chif
fon. always remembering that the
greatest word in tin- English lan
guage is ''suffi 'iency.”
I believe that when I make a sale
I must make a friend.
And I belieX'- that when I part
wit Ii n man I must do it in such ii
way (hat when lie secs me again
lie will be glad and so will I.
I believe in tin- bands that work,
io iln- brain- that think, and in th®
hearts that low. Amen and amen.
