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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every 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. 1378. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mail, 36.00,a year. Payable in advance. , , Jl - - ~ . ■ - • ' The Most Beautiful Smile of All rr r « What Is It? Stop For a Moment and Answer That Question Before You Read the Answer Given Here. In many business offices you see a sign that reads. Keep on Smiling.” The idea in that sign is not based upon knowledge of the power that lies in a smile, but rather it is the kind ol sign that might have been hung above an Indian tied to the stake, ready for torture. When the business man hangs up a sign. ‘'Keep on Smiling,” he does not mean that he is going to smile continuously, but that he is NOT going to weep. It means that he intends, in spite of hard times, hard competition, grinding monopoly, high prices, high rents, high taxes ami high interest rates, to keep up his courage and, metaphorically at least, ‘‘keep on smiling. The smile of “business” is tile least important and the least pleasant of ail smilbs. It is at best a make-believe smile, a money getting smile, a smile iuteiidetl to beguile and overcome rather than to communicate spiritual happiness to another. But even the business smile is better than none. And as all of us actually do hypnotize and make ourselves better by thinking that we are better, so perhaps the improved methods of business, the greater honesty and self-respect among business men today as compared with shopkeepers of old. may be due to the in troduction of the permanent smile into business methods. Enough about the business smile least important ol all and least pleasing. What is the mosl beautiful and ■ •si uonderful smile that you can ci|j)eeive? Please stop for a moment and answer the question before you read the answer given here. There are many smiles of great meaning and beauty. It is beautiful when an old mother smiles upon hearing praise of her son, or an old man when he witnesses the first triumph of his boy. There must have been a wonderful smile on Caesar s grim face when after the long years of fighting in Gaul he drove into Rome, dragging Vercingetorix behind his car. There have been deep, heavenly smiles upon the faces of great scientists as PROOF has come to justify and vindicate their spec ulations. The great astronomers, mathematicians, philosophers, working through themges amid hatred, distrust, bigotry and persecution— wonderful and awe-inspiring their quiet smiles must have been as each in turn found that he was indeed a servant of eternal truth. Imagine the face of such a man as Newton when absolute proof came to vindicate his law of gravitation a law proved exact by every movement of distant stars, by every falling leaf. Then there is the smile of the callow young man who has just been accosted by a young woman too good for him. His smile is positively sickening in its dreadful complacency yet it has its own sticky beauty. And there is the smile of the girl that accosts him poor thingl She believes that in him she has Bayard, The (’id. Ben Franklin and Little Rollo into one. Very beautiful is her seraphic smile and very pitiful. Would that it might last I This world, luckily, is full of smiles of all kinds - they are the bull bearings that make life possible. Each has its especial value. Even the man whoseliat has blown off, who smiles that hollow smile as he races after it. and the man who slips ami falls before thousands and smiles that smile of hellish hate- such smiles have value, lor the hat-chasing man and the fallen man if they did not smile might commit murder instead. Then the little boy with his first pair of long “pants” and the little girl with a brand new dress and a big blue sash and her hair brushed as precisely as tin* fun on a bronze Newfoundland dog— how beautiful are theit’’smiles ami their efforts not to look self-eon scions I If the angels really do notice us and rejoice when we are happy, it is a rejoicing day in heaven when a small boy. hitherto un spoiled, gets his first watch and his first “long pants” at the same time. The most beautiful smile of all has not been named and that is the first smile of a little baby. Thai smile and the answering smile on the mother's face are both, of all things of this world, perfect and beautiful. The baby's first smile is his real entrance into human life. He has had a very hard and a very cruel time His arrival has been dreadfully pain ful. and it has compelled him to inflict pain upon his mother. Sorrowful surprises have awaited him here in this world of giants and wonders that suddenly surrounds him. His little Jogs have been lied up, he has been thrust into cloth ing. often choky' and pricky. More than once his system has been convulsed by terrible agony, as important to him as the Martinique eruption. Sour milk has made him feel that the cosmos was shaking on its foundations. But. in spite of all. the smile comes as his mother s face bends over him. and there is her reward for all that she has suffered: her payment, perhaps, for many bitter disappoint mentc. A baby smile is such a complete thing. His little face goes all to pieces His cheeks and even the top of his little bald head are wrinkled with pleasure Frankly he reveals the full extent of his pink, toothless gums He smiles all over mouth, save, head, tongue, legs, arms and wriggling body. A smiling baby is simply one happy amile and such a baby is the prettiest thing that exists between the North and South Poles, without a doubt Laughing ami smiling are keys to human nature. Study a Continued in L ast Column. The Atlanta Georgian UNCLE TRUSTY! Copyright, 1912, National News Association. c® X m •"‘br f It ‘ tr” is - <COF<poRATidN) KqMil ' $■ J ACKAu , . y r 7 z a “William, now that the convention is over, there seems to be a carnival of nature-fak ing started! Theodore has got ajiew animal, a cross between an elephant and a bull moose! He calls it a 'Progressive Mooselphant!' It almost frightens one to look at it! And your new kind of elephant called the 'Rollerphanf is also remarkable! Elihu makes up well as a jackal, too! But you haven't got anytthing on me;, what's the matter with this talking lobster of mine? I guess we'll have to start a zoo before long!" ASK HER BOLDLY TO WED, URGES BEATRICE FAIRFAX "The Father in confession. Rose. Won't count that love a sin. That with a kiss taps at the heart And lets ah angel in." Malachy Ryan. SH 1.. writes: "I am a young man of 26, and in love with an excep tionally clever girl of 19, who is possessed of all the virtues that make a girl ideal. " "1 love her so much that to Ipse her would be worse than death, but have never had the courage to pop the question. J love her more than 1 love my life, but I doubt if she loves me, for these reasons: "In spite of the fact that we have been going together for nearly a year, she has never permitted me to kiss her, nor even to put my arm around her waist. If 1 steal a kiss, after racing her al! over the house to get it, 1 have to stay away for a month, racking my brains in the meanwhileTo compose 30 letters of apology, and I am mighty fortunate if at the end of that time I get a curt little note telling me she will forgive me if it never happens again. • "I love her so 1 can't keep my Diana of the Uplands NOT with her nymphs, by some cool shadowed pool Where Pan. goat-footed, lurks among the reeds Piping his love, nor yet with valiant deeds Hunting the deer in glades of forest cool! Out on the English Uplands keen, sweet face Wind-tumbled hair, uncrescent-shaded eyes; Feet deep in bracken, braving storm-swept skies Diana! Huntress! Eager for the chase. Yet one there is who. as the Latmian. Sleeps deep, with youth untouched, and dreams unstirred By noise of chase, or song of dawn-waked bird Greeting the day. A new Endymion! Silence the horns! Forsake the Hunting ground! Once more the gods have loved His sleep is sound. SATURDAY, JUNE 29. 1912. Bv BEATRICE FAIRFAX. arms from around her waist, and when I put them there She reddens to the roots of her hair and says the tailor put pockets in my coat for me to keep my hands in them. Does she love me under, the circum stances? "Recently she went out with an other.man who is very wealthy, but she doesn't syem to care for him, and Is always refusing the atten tions of othet men. Ko 1 know I have no rfval.Z. "" "I have tried to make her jealous, ‘but when I have taken other girls out and told her so her only com ment was, 'Glad you had a nice time. Enjoy life while it lasts.’ "I have a good income, and can afford to marry, but am afraid to ask her. for fear that she will re fuse, and her refusal wilL lose me the joy of her friendship.” And that is where you make a mistake! You expect a girl to run into your arms, holding up her lips for a kiss, when, so far as she knows, you ex pect the same thing from every girl you know. You don’t expect every girl you know to become your wife. Hav ing asked a girl to become your wife, her acceptance gives you the right to give the caresses yow long to give, and I am sure she will be as prone to receive them under those circumstances as she is now to evade them. That there will be a refusal of your offer is not probable. No one knows the heart of a woman, but so far as 1 can read the heart of this girl, she cares for you. She goes with no one as much as she goes with you. And when you offend with your hands around her waist, when the tailor says they must be in your pockets, she Always Forgives. True, she makes you do penance to earn that forgiveness, but I ad mire her for it. She does not hold herself cheaply, and for this one reason alone you have won a prize of great value in the market of love. She is not like a peach on a tree, ready to fall into the hands of a man who walks underneath. You have to climb to get her, and the higher and harder the climb the more you will appreciate her when she is in your hands. Further is she to be admired be cause she refuses to let you awak en any display of jealousy. She hopes you had a good time when you went out with the other girl! I glory-fn the spirit that made her say it. I glory in the Independence of any girl whose spirit never gets on its knees to a lover. I admire, above all others, the girl who keeps herself just out of the reach of the hands that are grasping for her. Tell thifc gir you love her. and want her to be your wife. If she refuses, which I doubt, don’t be dlscoura ged "Have you not heard it said full o/t. a woman s nay doth stand for naught?" Ask her the second time and the third, and keep on asking till you win her hdnd. Her heart, I am satisfied, is already in your keep ing Anri when you have won her, you will have the supreme bliss of knowing you have won a girl who was not won lightly. You will have a wife who was never to be the wife of any man just for the mere asking. THE HOME PAPER The Education of the Voter WHAT IS GOVERNMENT? In Its Active Operations It Embraces Every Individual in the National Family ■ • - * By THOMAS TAPPER. THE word government, wheth er applied to one’s self, to a family, a city, state or na tion, means guidance, management and control. A governor is one who guides and manages and con trols. When you undertake self-govern ment (or self-control) this is ex actly what you must accomplish. And when we speak of the na tional government, we imply that there is a body of men somewhere who are guiding the affairs of the country, them on a sound basis, and controlling them so that nothing goes amiss. All this is Implied by the word government, and-when we get any thing less from the body of men who constitute our active govern ment we are not in a safe condi tion. You know that you are obliged every day of your life to take your self in hand in order to guide, man age and control yourself. Should you break the bonds of this self-government you may land in prison. It is a little harder for a family of six or eight to settle down to a similar form of good government, and as for a family of one hundred million, witness the anxiety they are having about it at Chicago. Laws Necessary to Proper Conduct of Government. Tfle proper conduct of govern mental affairs has to proceed by rules. Collectively, they are called laws. Some men spend all their lives burrowing in law books, and even then do not obtain a full un derstanding of the subject. But for the regular run of affaire, laws are so comparatively simple any person of ordinary common sense wiU obey them all without having to read them. All law has one object: to estab lish the right. And the purpose of the right is to assure to every in dividual in the fullest measure the benefits of peace, safety, protec tion; in brief, a complete defense of his citizenship. The reason of this is that he must be left free to go and come, to perform his labor, to build up his family, to fulfill his ambition, or he cap not become a valuable citizen. But there is another side to gov ernment. It dojs not consist mere ly in a body of laws and a group of men who fight for office that they may carry out the laws for others. Government in its active operation embraces every Individ ual in the national family. Evbry citizen Is bound up in the active affairs of government to an extent he hardly appreciates. You are a citizen. Thomas Jefferson voiced the belief that you were born the equal of every other citi zen. Os course, Thomas Jefferson did not attempt to prove this in your case. He left that for you to do. Being a citizen, you have what The Most Beautiful Smile of All Continued from First Column. man's laugh, watch him smile and you will know more about him than you could know by listening for hours to his talk. » • There are frank smiles, sour smiles, crafty smiles, cruel smiles, tired smiles, sickly smiles. Study them and learn to know them. Laughter describes character. The loud laugh sometimes does be tray a vacant mind, but sometimes it tells of superabundant health or of another nationality. A laugh natural and pleasing in an Afri can might surely indicate intoxication in a certain type of whits man. and the charming laughter of Italy or Southern France might mean insanity in some cold Northern being. Remember also that smiles and laughter tell not only of different characters in different men, but tell also of the condition of the individual. Keep track carefully of your children as they smile and laugh Fewer smiles, less hearty laughter in children, are serious danget signs . If your little boy or girl comes home from school with -ths tendency to laugh and smile gradually diminishing, take the child from school, for no schooling can make up in your child for the loss of the mental happiness that laughter reveals. The child too tired to laugh and smile freely is much too tired to study—remember that —and if the boy or the girl for any reason seems less inclined to smile, tind out the reason and do away with it. Remember that laughter is a real and important remedy for illness —the greatest remedy for illness. The greatest medical au thorities will tell you that laughter actually keeps off apoplexy and other troubles t-hat come from excessive pressure on the blood vessels. The moment a man laughs, pressure on the blood vessels ceases and if a man were threatened with rupture of any artery or vein, not all the doctors in the world could do as much for him as hearty laughter. Remember also that laughter is vibration, and that vibration destroys disease germs. we term civil and political rights. Civil rights apply equally to men, women and children. Political rights belong to certain citizens, and allow them to participate in the actual government. This in cludes the right to vote and to hold office. You will remember that by gov ernment we mean guidance, man agement and control. The guid ance infers a proper direction; management means wise use of power, and control means strength for the right at all times. Every Citizen’s Political And Civil Rights. Does all this aj>ply to the offi cers of the government alone, or does it reach down and touch you with its responsibility? Both.. In your capacity as a private citizen you receive protection of person an<j property. You receive liberty to follow your activity if It be an honorable one. You send your children to school, and the gov ernment educates them, because, later on, when they grow up, the government insists that they must have a certain amount of knowl edge in OBder to become fit citizens In their turn. But when you are called upon to vote, to do jury duty, to act as a special officer, and so on, you are suddenly changed from one receiv ing rights and protection to one giving them. You are now an ac tive unit In the government of your nation. When you cast your vote you must know why you are doing it. The reason we have already learned; you are voting that the affairs of the nation may be guid ed. managed and controlled in the best possible way. When, by the action of the refer endum a law is referred to the peo ple from the legislature, it is your duty so thoroughly to understand that law that no vote of yours will disturb the guidance, management and control of our affairs. When, by the initiative, you are one of many proposing a law, your vote must kee-> this same sane and safe procedure intact. If you dis turb that, you have failed to act as a worthy and honest instrument of government. Must Know About Man J And the Office. When, through your participa tion in the primaries, you are called upon tb say whom you deem a safe man for office, you must be in no doubt about the man or the office. This Is simply and politi cally your business as a citizen. Government, then, is not merely the assurance of protection given by those in office to those who are not. It is the assurance of every citizen speaking for himself that so far as he can help to guide, manage and control the affairs of Ms country, he will do it with full understanding of his duty toward himself and his fellow man.