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A Conceited, Shuffling and
Insipid Platform
Any living man who should completely embody in the flesh
thr qualities of the Republican platform, .just published from < hi
cago. would show in his face and figure such pusillanimotisn<*ss oi
character that he would certainly be added to the number ol the
unemployed.
It may be too severe to say that this ambiguous and'cowardly
document reflects the character of the gentleman who presided over
the Republican platform committee. Let us rather say that the
character of the platform is the character of Mr. Fairbanks—car
tooned. It is Eairbanks exaggerated and raised to supernatural
degree of flubdub and forcible feebleness.
It is boastful of the past, wholly self-satisfied with the present
and weak and vacillating in everything but standpatism for the
future. It has no definite program on any public question. Il 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. Rut a few specifications
may be attempt cd.
To begin with, the platform is very notable for the things it
does 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 lie re
called is buried in a flourish of phrases about “the integrity of the
courts. ' and so on.
Concerning all the defaults of the Taft administration in such
matters as conservation, parcels post, merchant marine «nd the en
forcement of pure food laws the platform brags—but promises noth
ing. The party has no program
On 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 the
present tariff ami then admits in a single sentence that some tariff
taxes are 100 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 bills sent to him by the present Democratic house and Repub
lican senate- passed in obedience to 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 noi at that time reported The Taft tariff board has since re
ported and confessed its inability to recommend any definite rates.
The Republican platform demand for the cont nutation of the tariff
board is. therefore, a sufficiently definite promise to the privileged
interests that their tariff favors shall not be withdrawn or curtailed
as 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. BUT MUST BE REGULATED BN
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'' are trying desperately to keep from them,
such as the direct election of United States senators and the income
tax, leaves the high road of politics wide open to 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 They are strong in the 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 party in half a century if it
failed to commit itself with utter simplicity and clearness Io the
who'e great cause of popular progress.
Higher Pay For Teachers
ol the Nation
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i)r. Claxton. Unit d States commissioner of education, has
come out with a plea for higher paid and more thoroughly
equipped teachers. Eor thr past ten years he shows that the
average annual income id' our t* aehers, inclusive of those in the
high schools, has been less tha i <>OH.
In eleven states the average is less than S4OO. in eight less
than S3OO. in two less than s2'»o; and lie remarks:
“Eor salaries like this it is <*le;irl\ impossible to hire the
services of men and women of good ability and sutlieient train
ing. scholarship and experience Mor.-over, the large majority
of the teachers are men and women under twenty one The ex
penditure for public education is less than $5 per capita in
twenty five states, and less than half that in feu states
No wonder, with a tax burden so contpat alit eiv light, does
thr commissioner urge more liberal •;d.*ri> » i*o tlx. * win. shap*
the destiny of the nation through tip ■■‘’hm>lr«>om.
The Atlanta Georgian
When Did Mind Begin? * By Garrett P. Serviss
.1/ Least Twice (t.ooo Years Ago hl an l!7/.r Already an Artist and a Mechanic
I'l'le *■ pictures are r»protitt<
PROFESSOR ALFRED HER
TIG. the distinguished dl
t'evtor of the. Pestalozzl in-sti
tue in Zurich, opens up. in The
<'osmopolftan Magazine for .July,
one of the most wonderful glimpse
into the beginnings of human hie
lory that it Is possible to imagine.
IV* have trot past the days when,
misled by a mistaken chronology
all but a few progressive thinkers
believed that man's first appear
ance on this earth was made sud
denly 6,000 years ago. Science no
longer refers to A.I .m, It has dis
covered no facts about Adam. But
it. has discovered an abundance of
facts about men who lived so long
anterior to the traditional lime of
Adam that lie seems quite a mod
ern instance. Millions of men and
women were dwelling about the
Mediterranean sea, and 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 'e 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
as long as 8,000 years ago.
, But even these people seem mod
ern in comparison with other early
men that we are beginning to learn
something about. In the sunny land
of southwestern b'rance, as recent
exploration shows, men lived in
large communities at least 12,000
years ago. You may see the illus
trations of Professor Hertig's ar
ticle. photographs of skulls and
skeletons of some of these people,
and also of the 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 the 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 we 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 development in
different countries, or in different
parts of the same country. This is
exactly v hat'we see toda.v . Some
favored parts of the world are now
inhabited by men who have at
tained a marvelous 'ivilization.
whil<> other parts are the homes of
men who are relatively mere sax
ages. Everybody knows that man
kind is divisible into a considerable
number of different races, varying
in color, in physical make-up. in in
tellectual power. In ideas—hut no-
Editorials by Readers of The Georgian
COUNCIL'S ECONOMIES.
To the Editm of The Georgian
I noticed a few days ago that the
council hail held u>> vouchers for
trip, of some of the officials io
conventions, among them being
that nf the adult probation officer.
II strikes me that it was one of
ilie smallest things i have seen
them do .mil th it s saying Ims
Other officials had made their an
nual trip to theii tespei tixe asso
ciations .mil return, when ill of >
ildili'ii. without anj notw< wlim
■u\> i tn tlx o\|,e. t.ini offi. ial
the emmetl w -• ized wH li a r'tt -a
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body has ever yet been able to dis
cover the real origin of any one of
these races. Their history ante
dates all records. We can mix the.
raves, mingling their blood and com
pounding their characteristics, for
they arc all alike, men and women,
but how did they acquire their dif
ferences to begin with?
The Power There.
Yet, in one respect they are 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 civilization, 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,
they 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.
hut 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,
li is a vast, almost immeasurable
chasm that yawns between the
power of thought and of reasoning
which the making of those holes
implies and the dull instinct of the
mere animal, which never learns to
do a new thing, but continues, for
thousands of generations, to follow
the same ways pursued by Its an
cestors. The first troglodyte who
thought of making ? needle and
thread for hi« wife ic make ami
mend his garments with was a*
that twas wrong, anyway, and it
sounded very sincere coming on the
heels of theii gross negligence,
< arelessness and indifferent c-to
expetise-for value received school
building deals.
HARDY J ‘EARN
Chauncey, Ga.
INSANITARY CONDITIONS.
To the Editor i>t The Georgian
I beg the privilege of making a
. oinplaint against the city sani
tary department for permitting th*’
mammoth livery stable *m the
\t a alt in v i <iti street b'-’dee to dump*
mat’ttre the "pen. w her- u
ilut^ x ■ v
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fa** r ">*‘D
Le Moutier cave, where evidences
of earliest civilization have
been found.
great an inventor as Edison —and
e\cn 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 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 thir.k that she would not
quickly show that she understood
the nature of a child am) how to
soothe anil care for it and how to
amuse it'.’ How long do you imag
ine it would be before she could
wear a hobble skirt ami 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 string
We must learn not. to look down
too contemptuously upon the cave
dweller of years ago. for he
was a great man in bis day and he
worthily upheld the traditions,
which may already have been an
cient. of the superiority of the hu
man mind.
is exposed to this prolific June
weather, rots and recks anti incu
bates flies by the trillion!
The poor people of this city were
made to spend something like 3100.-
OtiO f.ii garbage tans with lids to
them, and other strenuous efforts
were made to swat the deadly fly;
early in th" spring a number of
poor washerwomen were fined the
limit for not t leaning their prem
ises promptly, but all our etforrs
li «v • been <h'fe*tod by the big sta
bles pel Hie indifference of our
p. mpered sanila> y department. The
d"jd)y fli is ir>". numerous than
ever. \>iy Hid'
a Fl >5 Li.H t. lIIZEN.
THE HOME PAPER
Dr. Parkhurst’s Article
on
AJudge’s Decree Against t. 4.11
a Socialist
The Profession of Voca-
tional Tailoring
Written For The Georgian
By 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 suppression
that operates as stimulus and it
has become a proverb that the
blood of the martyrs is the seed of
the church.
In this we are thinking of J-., 'ge
Hanford’s attempt to check So
cialism by canceling the naturali
zation papers of Leonard Oleson.
Oleson 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.
Ft does not appear that the Swede
had been guilty of any disloyal 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 not
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 attempting 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 every man who is the
advocate of any constitutional
amendment, or who propagates the
doctrine of a six-year 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 for the
impeachment of the judge than for
depriving the Swede of his natu
ralization papers.
Whatever may be said for or
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
idly they propagate.
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 the planets are held in place
through opposition of forces, so
are men held In the straight and
narrow way of truth through pub
lic opinion.
'The ad clubs of’America are
great and Important factors in the
process of making men unionists.
The ad crafters stand for ethics in
the highest sense, and also they
stand for effectiveness and effi
cient y.
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
course of a year, evolve every
member from a villager into a cos
mopolite.
No man can get into an ad club
and wrap his ignorance about him.
and tuck in his prejudices, feeling
safe and secure. Sniugosity dies
a-borning. Foolishness is given the
smile audible. Selfishness flies out
through the window.
An advertising club is a pooling
proposition. Everybody puts in all
he knows, and takes out all he 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 'pragmatism is simply the
science of a sensible selfishness--
or. if you prefer, call it enlightened
■■’’lf -interest.
Prag;natism is the la-,v nf self
preservation illumined by love of
k nfl
the ■■kind of business, trade or pro
■x. session 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 it
worked over to a shape suited to
his physical stature and propor
tions.
Under the auspices of the New
York Y. M. C. A. some, rather prac
tical results apeear to have been
already accomplished along this
line at the hand of an expert im
ported from 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 the majority of young people,
drop into their employment and
their life work.
We 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 physical
figure to speak of. and one style
and shape of garment will be as
becoming as another, and ho 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 employed b.v the New
York Y. M. C. A. claims to have an
eye enabling him to take the tailor
measure of the inward contour z>f
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 par
ents and school teachers would
turn toward it 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.
Commerce 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.
N_The creed of an ad club is short
ami concise. It runs something as
fol lows
CREDO: J
I believe in myself.
I believe in the goods l sell.
I believe j n the firm for whom T
work.
1 believe in my colleagues and
helpers.
I believe in American business
methods.
I believe in the efficiency "f
printers’ ink.
I believe in producers, creators,
manufacturers distributors, and in
all industrial workers who have a
job and hold it dow-n.
1 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 th*' dollar,
Imi to confer a ben< fit: and the re
ward will c**m* automatii-alh 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 th*’ English lan
guage is "sufficiency."
I believe that when | make a sale
I must make a friend.
Ami I believe that when I part f
with a man I imi-t do it in such a '
wav that when he sees me again
he w ill fie glad and so w 111 i
i believe in the hands that ™ o*-k
m *H. h.-ii*, that *!i.nr, , n .j „
hearts tha* ‘ove Amen and am-n,
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