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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday Ry THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga Entered as second-class matter at postoffnc at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 18"3. Subscription Price Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week By mail, 35.00 a year. Payable In advance. . _ ________. 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 « --- - 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 r— ~ zX rffssffl s *7' j 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 ~ . m,,i>ii, 11 virtue <<i’d b'? > 111 ■-.1 WEDNESDAY. JUNE 26, 1!)12. ' d by p*rnii - in,) f <■ i ■’ hi ' ' • nv»pQ|i tan Majuzinn for Jnlyj z ip|iL ■{'• Tsf ■»•»<> ir it VL -ff • I ; / / * .. - gy .y F v 11 / / iMn -•»■■<'?.. KaMff >. // / /' /J // tF ’Mr /jk / // ,„ ? . T / //■■'"' ‘ I ' xSWF // // -■ // ! // 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 I -" x .\\ 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, t