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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. 1573. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. Ry mail. $5.00 a year. Payable in advance. Attend to the People’s Big Business ■? « » The Democratic Party Can and Ought To Dn It. I Beef prices per pound have gone up two or three cents in the past week, four or five cents this month and eight or ten cents within a year. That is the kind of fact that most deeply concerns the mass of the American people. Il is the kind of fact that will con tinue to interest the people until conditions arc remedied. During the four months that intervene before election <lax the voters of the country will have ample time tn consider which of the political parties in the field offers the best pros pect of relief from the commercial extortion and the industrial depression induced by monopoly. That party will win at the polls in November. No unbiased observer with ordinal - ' sense will deny that the Democratic party has an unrivalled chance Io make itself the agent of the people's business. There is simply no com parison to be made between the advantage of its strategic posi tion in the field and that of any rival. Nothing can defeat the Democratic party except the fad ure of the Democratic part) to maintain its own unity. If the Baltimore convention should permit itself io he split in two by an explosion of greed and folly it would destroy its own tin precedented opportunity. It would destroy also the only existing instrument in the hands of the people that is capable of working a speed) soln tion of the problem of monopoly. There is no good reason wh) nine-tenths of the convention should not hold firmly together. There are m that convention —as in every political gathering of a thousand men a few fanatics of reaction and a few fanatics of reform. There arc shameless agents of privilege and there are frenzied agents of foolishness. But the great mass of the delegates are temperate and honorable men. They represent a party that has not been made fat with patronage or drunk with power party that has not been a partner in the colossal crimes of the tariff atid the trusts. The people of the United States have need of this parly. The) need it in the integrity and strength of its working organi zation. They need it sound and whole. For it is only as a complete and living thing, a thing of his tory and reality, a vast and vital organism, rooted in every state and ever) town, and throwing its sap into the great trunk of Federal Government, that the Democratic party can succor and shelter the people. This is no time to wrangle over abstract principles, ft is the time to put principle into practice. The nation has big business that needs to be done—and the Democratic part) can and ought to do it. Kansas the Modern Utopia In the Gnlliverian land of Laputa. where the industrious inhab itants sought to make sunshine from cucumbers, there must have been a spirit which has descended upon Kansas For in that happy land the fly has been swatted, the roller towel abolished, the common drinking cup banned, and now a cam paign is on to rout the gourmand from the shallow of the Sun flower State. Under lhe direction of indefatigable Dr. Crumbine, the state hoard of health is at work on formulas to determine how much the Kansan should eat These experiments, if followed, will save the individual money, improve his health and add to his wisdom. “One might as well take a five-dollar bill and light bis pipe with it as to burn up that money by wrong eating,'' says Dr. Crum bine Isn't it simple? It requires a certain number of heat units to keep man going at a normal gait; once t hat number is found for the various occupations all the Kansan will have to do is to visit, the stale with his index in his hand, pick out the food with the requisite sustaining power ami go serenely on his way. Banished will he the fiend of indigestion and the deadly grouch. We have long sought for Utopia in vain. but now we are turning our fevered gaze toward the West, toward Dr Urumbine and Kansas. To Destroy the Hookworm Now for the hookworm! His ease will he taken up in the fall at the fifteenth National Congress of Hygiene, when experts will report fiiai tie nas neon run to Ids lair It is a large lair, embracing a belt of Gfi degrees circling the globe Fifty four nations abroad are infected, though in Germany, Wales, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Spain lhe disease is confined to the mines. hi our own country eleven states, with a population of 20.000.- 000. are in trouble, and of the total population of the world more than half a billion live in countries where the disease has a foothold The commission will show that millions of dollars are lost an nually because of impaired efficiency of victims of the trouble A campaign will be devised whereby the various nations may work together to wipe out what is now regarded as the greatest scourge of the human race. Unde Sam’s Laundry Uncle Sam has gone into the laundry business Instead of pay ing sll a thousand to print new notes, he has installed a machine to wash and iron old bills at a cost of 2’> cents a thousand. Sowell does the machine do its work that tit' per cent of the dirtv bills presented Io the treasur) department for redemption come out as new and clean as though th’ x had never left the press that printed them This move is a step in th’ inter-'. of i eouoni) and with the restoration of lulls to cireulaiion dad) the taxpayers of the land will rejoice in the saving of u>ih).iiihi yearly, t The Atlanta Georgian Shooting Butterflies With Guns and Bows A Strange Sport That Suggests Thoughts on Some of the Riddles of Existence. IJ a# > ssW .•< .W. ’ z w KILLING THE GREAT INSECT MAMED AFTER A FIRF BREATHING MONSTER: SHOOTING THE BUT- TERFLY, TROIDES CHIMAERA. WITH A FOUR PRONGED ARROW. By GARRETT P SERVTSS IN Ibe fores I' of N'ew Guinea, among the ow'en Stanley mountain?, dwell what may be regarded as Ihe largest species of butterflies in the world. Somi of them have w Ings which, when opened, spread to a width of al most a foot lacking but half an inch. Many have a spread of wings varying from eight to ten Inches. Thev are brilliant in color and haunt the branches of tall flowering trees, so that it is diffi cult to capture them. The first specimen that evei fell into the hands of a white man WAS SHOT by M A. 1. Meek, with an ordinary tw<Mvo-hore gun He did not know that he bad dis covered a new species until he had sent it to Tring park in England, where Walter Rothschild has a. wonderful natural history museum. Word was sent back to Mr. Meek, who has been hunting in New' Guinea and neighboring islands for more than twenty years, that the wonderful butterfly he had killed was new to silence. It was named Troides-Chimacra —Troides being the family name of a group of but terflies. and t'himae'a the name of. the traditional monster that the Greek hero Bellerophon killed while riding the winged horse Pegasus The Native Way. It was a female, and M . Meek was requested by Mt - . Rothschild to try to obtain a specimen of lite male. Mr. M<ek was then in the Solomon islands, but he went ba. k to New Guinea and began his search. After a seven weeks' hunt he succeeded. He discovered many females, but could seldom see a male. He found that tin natives have a better way of killing tlie-e gigantic butterflies than shooting them to pieces with shot. They climb up into the tr-es armed with a bow and light, four-pronged ar rows There they lie in wait, in the vicinity of a branch that is laden with the flowers that the buttet flies love. and when one comes along and alights to suck tltc nectar a pronged ariow Is sent into Its vitals. The arrows do not tear the insects to pieces r- shot are liable to do Meanwhile, an other native crouches on the ground undcrnca'h he tire and prays for tip’ success of his com rade up among the branches The same arrows are used to kill small birds. Previous to the discovery of these titanic butterflies of New Guinea, several other gigantb species were known in the islands of the Malay Xrehipelago but none as large a« these. Thev have been diligently sought by pat ut allsts since the time when Alfred Russell U allace made his fann>u- exploring expeditions through those islands, and when found ha- been ttsasured Ik'- I ntiKg. t of gold Mr Wallace has TUESDAY. JULY 2. 1912 gix ’ n most amusing and exciting accounts of his capture of the first specimens of the huge ornithop trras butterfly, which is thus nam ed because its wings are shaped somew hat lik® those of a bird. They vary from six to eight Inches in spread, and are gloriously beauti ful in color and markings. Their brilliancy and beauty, Mr. Wal lace says, are indescribable. He thus tell.- of his sensations when he caught. In the island of Bata <hian. th® first specimen he had ever seen: ‘‘On taking it out my net and opening its glorious wings, my heart began to beat violently, my blood rushed to my head, and I felt much more like fainting than I have ever done when in apprehension of immediate death. I had a head ache the rest of the day, so great was the excitement.” Afterward, in the Aru islands. Mr. Wallace caught a second no le-s wonderful specimen, and of this tic says: Very Excited. "I trembled with excitement as I saw it coining majestically to ward me, and could hardly believe 1 had really succeeded in my stroke til) I had taken ii out of the net and was gazing, lost in admiration, al the velvet black and brilliant green of its wings, seven inches across, it golden body, and crim son breast.” Mr. Wallace remarked that the flight majestic, and when near the ground they look larger and are much more conspicuous than the majority of birds. "Tlie first sight of the great blue Morphos. flapping slowly along in the forest roads near Para: of the t>?o Kill That Pest t>?o By CHARLES LIEBMAN SNEAK behind it on the sly. Kill that fly Strike it loxv. anil strike it high. Kill that fly Don't forget that you may save Human beings from the grave. ll' you're healthy, strong ami brave. KILL THAT FLY ! Don't permit it to get by. Kill that fly Don't you let it multiply. Kill that fly If disease and death you hate. For goodness sake, don 't hesitate, Sxvat it ere it is too late, KILL THAT FLY ! (to for it xvith might and main. Kill that pest. If you miss it. try atrain. Swat that post. Don't permit it to iuiesi. Slav it. flax- it. <lon t give rest, • - • Soak it. choke it. for xour l>esl, KILL THA I’ ITS’I ! large w hlte-and black. scm!-ti ana parent Id’-as. floating airih about lhe woods, near Malacca, and of the golden-green <irnithopteras. sailing on bird-like r ings over the flower ing shrubs that adorn the beaches of th® Ke -oid Aru Islands can never be forgotten." It seems wonderful that am spe cies °f animal should var.c as greatl.x a.- do the butterflies in size. Most of those that w® are familiar with in temperate ’. limes have a spread in wings not exceeding an inch or two. One . :*h a spread of three incites seems a monster. Think, then, of Mr. Meek’s speci mens. almost a foot across, if men varied as much as that in size we might expect to encounter in the tropical forests representatives of mu- species from forty to sixty feet tall! Monk’i sand apes, which look often like caricatures of human be ings. vary greatly in siz®, and so do beetles and other insects; but the majority of animals have an aver age limit of dimensions, which is seldom much exceeded, so that even a six-and-a-half or seven-foot man seems to most of us an extra ordinary giant. What would the history of our race have been it some of its tribes had grow n to a height of several yards while others attained a stature of only a few eet? l.'nlcss the little ones were more plentifully furnished with brains than their gigantic com peeis they would have had small chance of survival, except in the slaves of their huge masters. But the law of gravitation would have come to the rescue of the little fel low-;, for the big ones would have been so he;ivy that they could hard li stand on their feet. A full.', pro portionate man sixty feet tall would weigh about 300."00 pounds! THE HOME PAPER The One Best Friend B> Bv WINIFRED BLACK. THE wayward boy has grown to be the wayward man, and all the world is after him with a hue and cry. From one ship to another the word flashes, catch him and bring him back.” Jn the midst of ali the clamor and pursuit a little woman sent a wire less to the man the whole world is hunting down. "1 love you," said the wireless. "I will be your friend always, just the same.—Mother." I hope the man who has run away with his neighbors wife and taken a. lot of his neighbor's money along with him will get that mess age his mother sent. I wonder what he'll think when he does get if? I wonder what the woman he has run away with will look like to him when he reads the signature, "Always the same, Mother.” 1 wonder if he will stop and think a minute, just a minute, before he brings any more sorrow’ to the one heart in al] the world that is real ly his. “1 love you. I w ill stand by you. I w 111 never desert you." How many men are there in this cruel old world today who are kept straight by the know ledge that there is just sitelt a message following them wherever they go? I saw such a letter as that not l”ng ago. A girl showed it to me - •' poor, painted, tawdry creature she was—a pitiful, broken toy of tlie wicked streets. She had run away from home and was leading the "gay life;" lhe “gay life" of the wretched, the "gay life" of the forsaken, the "gay life" of the friendless and the disgraced. "My mother has found out,” said the girl. "I thought she didn't know, but .'-he found out, and here’s what she says: "I’m coming to you, m.v little daughter -I'm coming straight to >ou. I love you, you are mine, I will never lot you go. Never, nevei ! Don’t be afraid of me, I won't scold you. Ixiok Into my heart, you will see nothing there but love. Look Into my eyes, / Letters From the People SAYS STATE OWNS TALLULAH 1 LANDS. Editor o r Tlie Georgian: There is pending before the Geor gia legislature a resolution, the 4 purpose of w hich is to have submit ted to a Georgia court of competent jurisdiction the question as to whether or not the property known as Tallulah Palls belong to the state or to a private corporation. This is a question of vital concern to all the people of Georgia —to the people w lio may believe that tlie demands of progress call for the commercializing of Tallulah, and to those who may believe that the western hemisphere will be a sor rier place to live in if its greatest natural wonder is destroyed. Some of the facts in the ease are as follows: Tlie lands at and near Tallulah Palls were original!.' ceded to the United States by til® Greek and <’herokee nations of Indians. The United States ceded them to the state of Georgia. Tlie legislature passed an act authorizing these lands to be ent up into squares and fra.'tions to be disposed of by a lottery to be held as provided in the act. These lands were surveyed and disposed of as provided in the act. At some distance from the Tallulah river there is a high bluff. Be tween this bluff and the river (the distance being about 200 yards and morel lies th® land in controversy. In making the survey, tlie surveyor ran the line to this bluff and stopped—measured this bluff as the river. The grants issued tn the drawers in the lottery referred to above de fined the boundaries of the lands "as shown by the survey." The boundary on one side was defined as the river. The line in the early survey did not go to the river. This is shown by the survey recently completed by the University of Georgia. Under these facts, the association claims that the land between the river and the bluff has never been granted and is still the property of the state. There are numerous decisions of courts of last resort in the several states and territories and of the su preme court of the United States which hold that when the bounda ries set out in the grant differ from those marked in the survey, the boundaries of the survey govern. Under section 1285 of the civil code of 1911, which provides that all lands which have never been sur veyed belong to the state of Geor gia. I am of the opinion that the state could recover this land. XX e can establish by proof that it was always conceded in the community around Tallulah that tin stat® owned these lands. This rii’icmi will he admissible, as giant« were made at various times between 1829 and Uin. i H AS. G REYN' 'LI'S don't shrink—you are just my lit tle girl, just my poor little tired, naughty girl who has done wrong, and is sorry anti wants to come home. I’ll come and take you t here.' " And the painted cheeks of th® girl were stained with tears, and her voice broke with sobs, and she said: “Oh, w hat shall 1 do. I am not fit to speak to her, what shall I do?" But in a little while she washed her face and she combed her hair as she combed It when she was a little girl at home and thought it hard that she had „to wear It so plain. And she went out and found honest work, and she is living in a. little hall room now. cooking oxer a gas jet and waiting for mother. And when mother comes she will find her little girl waiting for her, and they will cry all the misery and the shame and the grief and the despair mil together in each other’s arms, and they will go home together—mother and the girl she would not desert. "I will never let you go. little daughter. Never! Never!” Who stand out against such love as that? "I don't care how beautiful you are. or how clever, or how brilliant, or how stupid, or how disgraced, or how forsaken —to me you are al ways the same, always just my lit tle girl, my dear little girl, and 1 will not let you go.” Down. down. down, the cruel steps to the cruel road below. How fast the little foot have run. How slowly they drag tip the stairs again. Hut they are corning now, up. up and up—'into the clean air. up into the honest world, up where stands waiting. “Always the same. Mother.” 1 should not care to be the wom an who helped that foolish boy to disgrace an honest name when he gets that message, would you? I'm afraid the scales will fall from his deluded eyes—just for a minute, maybe—but In that minute I’m afraid the charmer will look just a little tawdry, just a little cheap —by comparison. What do you think? PROTESTS AGAINST ELECTRIC CHAIR. Editor The Georgian: As I belong to the disfranchised class and have no voice in shaping the laws under which I must live, I trust you will allow me the use of your columns for an appeal to our lawmakers in behalf of two legal reforms which I believe will meet the approval of the great body of our people when the matter is brought to their attention. The first concerns the criminal code and re lates to our barbarous methods of inflicting capital punishment. I have seen it stated In some of the papers that a bill is to be in troduced at the present session of the legislature in favor of substi tuting for the gallows the equally atrocious horrors of the electric chair. This, it seems to me. would only be exchanging a “witch for the devil,'' and I would beg to sug gest that if any such action is tak en. it be modified in the interests of humanity so far as to permit a poor condemned wretch the option of being put out of the world in a more merciful manner. This has already been accomplished In some of the more progressive Western states by a. provision allowing the unhappy victim of the law the al ternative of having administered to him by some reputable physician some painless drug, such as mor phine or cynaide of potassium, from the effects of which he could die decently in his bed. undisturbed by the lurid paraphernalia of the gallows or the electric chair The other reform to which I would call attention, is a revision of the law relating to the taxa tion of mortgages on real estate. The law as it now stands virtually imposes a double tax on the poor man who Is reduced to the neces sity of mortgaging his home. I am aware that it was enacted with the ostensible object of producing just the reverse effect, on the the ory that it would hit the holder of the mortgage, who is supposed to pay the tax on his investment. But, as a matter of fact, it is the poor, hard-pressed man who has to mort gage his house or land, that pays the tax The holder of the mort gage simply adds the amount of the tax to the interest charges, and the poor man pays it without, suspecting that he i s paying a dou ble tax on tile same property— one assessed by the tax gatherer on the land, and another levied against his indebtedness thereon by tiie mortgage holder. in our sister state of Alabama they have a law regulating this matter which Georgia might copy with advantage. Instead of assess ing a debt as property—which is practically what our law does when it permits a man to be taxed both for his land and the mortgage on it a moderate fee of one and a half per cent, equal to 15 cent” on nr hundred dollars is charged by tin tats f'oi recording a mortgage, and that i- the end of it. ELIZA ERANt'ES ANDRE" 8. Rome, Ga.