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Fun? guarai The Democratic Party Can and Ought To Do It.
two years or
free 1 '
Money refun.f prices per pound have gone up two or three cents in
fill’ h pope \v ( week, four or five cents this month and eight or ten
1614 Main sti « .
at— thin a year.
j is the kind of fact that most deeplt concerns the mass
A^^rEW^mimerican |><?ople. Il is the kind of fact that will con
keji under "im*pricTP»’oph* ""td conditions are remedied.
* ll l months that intervene before election day
■pWAEMERS 30 4-paasenr
> condition, top. winding-Mountrv will have ample titne to consider
I'Wrt-O-Lite and a ana '
I frhAuicd this oursholitical parties in the field offers the best pros-
I I r *f ht and cheap t ' ■ , i i
L fHEN WE offef from the commercial extortion and the industrial
I I fevis A Almand. •
1 Beil phone odnet-d by monopoly. That party will win at the
I R SALE Pope .
L curing car in pmber.
M let. Must h*
B unbiased observer with ordinary sense will deny that
S onipAom tiocrat ic party has an unrivalled chance to make itself
jH ir'rar*’rmt. of the people's business. There is simply no com
■ " TTC 1 '* nu ’ , ' v ’h ( ' advantage of its strategic posi
■ ' GNErrsA**"' ” rK ' lal flnv r ' va ’-
■ * RFX'HAR<ng can defeat the Democratic parti’ except the fad
B RBITRETOT r . i
n > careful ale Democratic party to maintain its own unity. If the
B v 'VB'* convention should permit itself to be split in two by
■I >d Ave., greed and folly it would destroy its own nn
F fed opportuniti
isoidd destroy also the only existing instrument in the
L. makes ' the people that is capable of working a speeds solu
ircycle det , , , .. .
' them dist the problem of monopoly.
tell Comp. . . , ' . i <• i
•r jis no good reason why nine-tenths of the convention
not hold firmly together. There are in that convention
every political gathering of a thousand men a few
of reaction ami a few fanatics of reform. There are
rfoNEH ess agents of privilege and there are frenzied agents of
nshness. But the great mass of the delegates are temperate
Jhonorable men.
CARHy represent a party that has not been made fat with
40-42 PETFi{ e or drunk with power party that has not been a
m the colossal crimes of the tariff and the trusts.
f and ' eo ld , ‘ 9ie I’mted States have need of this party.
——l it in the integrity and strength of its working organi-
They need it sound and whole.
or it is onl\ as a complete and living tiling, a thine >»f his
MH 'and reality, a vast and vital organism, rooted in evert
HBH • and every town, and throwing its sap into the great trunk
Mfl '’ederal Government, that the 1 ieinoer.it ic party can succor
MNi shelter the people.
- cihis is no time to wrangle over abstract principles. It is
I t,f ‘ .ne to put principle into practice.
[ « lft 'he nation has big business that needs to be done and the
\ R f ‘ MLicratie party can and ought to do it.
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* ’.ansas the Modem Utopia
oi the Gulliverian land of Laputa. where the industrious inhab
™ r,’ sought to make sunshine from cucumbers, there must have
a spirit which has descended upon Kansas.
(■r'or in that happy land the fly has been swatted, the roller
iel abolished, the common drinking cup banned, and now a eant
fgn is on to rout the gourmand from the shadow of the Sun
' Mfccer State.
J* Under the direction of indefatigable Dr. t'rumbine. the state
yoard of health is at work on formulas to determine how much
a he Kansan should eat. These experiments, if followed, will save
he individual money, improve his health and add to his wisdom.
' “One might as well take a tive-dollar bill and light his pipe
vith it as to burn up that money In wrong eating." says Dr. Crum
>ine. Isn't it simple’,' It requires a certain number of heat units
o keep man going at a normal gait ; once that number is found for
he various occupations all the Kansan will have to do is to visit
l>jt»s4..le with his index in his hand, pick out the food with the
-i juisite sustaining power and go serenely on his way
Banished will be the fiend of indigest ion ami the deadly grouch.
Jt'e have long sought for I topia in vain, but now we are turning
>ur fevered gaze toward the West, toward Dr. Crujnbine and
Kansas.
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To Destroy the Hookworm
Now for the hookworm! His case will be taken up in the fall
at the fifteenth National Congress of Hygiene, when experts will
report that he has been run to his lair.
It is a large lair, embracing a belt of 66 degrees circling the
globe. Fifty-four nations abroad are infected, though in Germany,
Wales, the Netherlands. Belgium. France and Spain the disease is
confined to the mines. ,
fj In our own country eleven states, with a population of 20.000.-
*)0O. 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.
"■ Uncle 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 25 cents a thousand.
Sowell does the machine do its work that 60 per cent of the
dirty bills presented to the treasury department for redemption
come out as new and clean as though they had never left tlu- press
that printed them. ;
This move is a step in the interest of economy, and ufith the
restoration of 25,000 hills to circulation daily the taxpayer' of tin
land will rejoice tn the saving of SSOU,(X>O yearly. i
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The Atlanta Georgian
Shooting Butterflies With Guns and Bows
A Strange Sport That Suggests Thoughts on Some of the Riddles of Existence.
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KILLING THE GREAT INSECT NAMED AFTER A Fl RE- BRE ATHI NG MONSTER; SHOOTING THE BUT
TERFLY, TROIDES CHIMAERA, WITH A FOUR-PRONGED ARROW.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
IN the forests of. New Guinea,
among the Owen Stanley
mountains, dwell what may be
regarded as the largest specie!* of
butterflies in the world. Some of
them have wings 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. They 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 ever fell
into the hands of a white man
WAS SHOT by Mr. A. L. Meek,
with an ordinary twelve-bore gun
He did not know that he had dis
covered a new species until he had
sent it to Trlng 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 science. It was named
Troides-t'hlmaera—Troides being
the family name of a group of but
terflies, and Chimaera 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 Mr. Meek
was requested bj Mr. Rothschild
to try to obtain a specimen of the
male. Mr. Meek was then in the
Solomon islands, but he went back
to New Guinea and began his
search. After a,seven weeks' hunt
he succeeded. He discovered raanj
females, but could seldom see a
male He found that the natives
have a belter way of killing these
gigantic butterflits than shooting
them to pieces with shot. They
climb up into the trees armed with
a bow anil light, four-pronged ar
rows There they lie in wait, in
the vicinity of a branch that is
laden with the that the
butterflies -love. and when one
comes along ami alights to suck
the nectar a pronged arrow is sent
into its vitals. The arrows do not
tear the insects to pieces as shot
are liable to do. Meanwhile, an
other native crouches on the
ground undernea’h he tree and
prays for the 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 gigantic species were
known In the islands of the Malay
Archipelago but none as large as
these They have b-en diligently
sought by naturalists since the time
when Alfred Russell Wallace mud''
his famous exploring expeditions
through those islands and when !
found has been tr-asured Ilk
j nuggets of gold Mr. Wallace has i
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TUESDAY, JULY 2. 1912.
given most amusing and exciting
accounts of his capture of the first
specimens of the huge ornithop
teras butterfly, which is thus nam
ed because its wings are shaped
somewhat like 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 tells of his sensations when
he caught. In the island of Bata
chian, the 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
less wonderful specimen, and of
this he says:
Very Excited.
"1 trembled with excitement as
I saw it coining majestically to
ward me and could hardly believe
1 had really sueveded iti my stroke
till 1 had taken.it out of the net
and was gazing, lost in admiration,
at the velvet black and brilliant
green of its wings, seven inches
across. Its golden body, and crim
son breast.”
Mr. Wallade remarked that the
flight majestic, and when near the
ground they look larger and are
much more conspicuous than the
majority of birds.
"The first sight of the great blue
Morphos. flapping slowly along in
the forest roads near Para; of the
o?o Kill That Pest &?<>
By CHARLES LIEBMAN
SNEAK behind it on the sly,
Kill that fly.
Strike it low. and strike it high,
Kill that fly.
Don't forget that you may save
Human beings from the grave.
If you're healthy, strong and brave.
KILL THAT ELY !
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,
Swat it ere it is too late.
KILL THAT FLY!
Go for it with might and main.
Kill that pest.
If you miss it, try again.
Swat that pest
Don't permit it to infest,
Slav it. flay it. don't give rest.
Soak it. choke it. for your best,
KILL THAT I’EST!
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large white-and-black, semi-trans
parent Ideas, floating airily about
the woods near Malacca, and of the
golden-green Ornithbpteras. sailing
on bird-like wings over the flower
ing shrubs that adorn the beaches
of the Ke and Aru Islands tan
never be forgotten.”
It seems wonderful that any spe
cies of animal should vary as
greatly as do the butterflies in size.
Most of those that we are familiar
with in temperate clinics have a
spread in wings not exceeding an
inch or two. One with a spread of
three inches a monster.
Think, then, of Mr. Meek's speci- '■
mens, almost a foot across. If men
varied as much as that in size we
i might expect to encounter in the
' tropical forests representatives of
our species from forty to sixty feet
tall! Monk' ys and apes, which look
often like caricatures of human be
ings. vary greatly in size, 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 sevei.-foot
man seems to most of Us an extra
ordinary giant. What would the
history of our race have been if
some of its tribes had grown to a
height of several yards w hile others
attained a stature of only a few
eet? Unless the little ones were
more plentifully furnished with
brains than their gigantic com
peers 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
lows. for the big ones would have
been so heavy that they could hard
ly stand on their feet. A fully pro
portionate man sixty feet tall
would weigh about 300,0(10 pounds!
THE HOME PAPER
The One Best Friend &
By 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.”
In the midst of all the clamor and
pursuit a little woman sent a wire
less to the man the whole world is
hunting down.
"I love you." said the wirejess.
' "I will be your friend always, just
the same. — Mother."
I hope the man. who has run
away with his neighbor's 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 it? I wonder what the
woman he has run away with will
look like to him when he reads
the signature, "Always tl>e same.
Mother."
I wonder if he will stop and think
a minute, just a minute, before he
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blings any more sorrow to the one
heart in all the world that is real
ly his.
■'l love you. I will stand' by- you.
I will never desert you." How mahy ,
men are there in this cruel old*
world today who are kept straight
by the knowledge that there is just
such a message following them
wherever they go?
1 saw such a letter as that not
long ago. A girl showed it to me—
a poor, painted, tawdry creature
she was—a pitiful, broken toy of
the wicked streets.
She had run away from home
and was leading the "gay life;”
the “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 she found out, and
here's what she says:
"I'm coming to you. my little
daughter—l'm coming straight to
you. I love you, you are mine. I
will novel- let you go. Never,
neve' 1 Don't be afraid of me, I
won’t scold you. l.ook into my
heart, you will see nothing there
but love. Hook into my eyes,
Letters From the People
SAYS STATE OWNS TALLULAH
LANDS.
Editor of The Georgian:
There is pending before the Geor
gia legislature a resolution, the
purpose of which is to have submit
ted to a Georgia -court of competent
jurisdiction the question as to
whether or not the property known
as. Tallulah Falls 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 who may believe that the
demands of progress call for the
commercializing of Tallulah, and to
those who may believe that the
western hemisphere w ill be a sor
rier place to live in if its greatest
natural wonder is destroyed.
Some of the facts in the case are
as follows:
The lands at and near Tallulah
Falls were originally ceded to the
United States by the ('reek and
Cherokee nations of Indians. The
United States ceded them to the
state of Georgia. The legislature
passed an act authorizing these
lands to be cut up into squares and
fractions 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 2(10 yards and
more) lies the land in controversy.
In making the survey, the surveyor
ran the line to this bluff and
stopped—measured this bluff as the
river.
The grants Issued to the drawers
in the lottery referred to above de
lined 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
novel been granted and is still the
prepert.- of the state.
There are numerous decisions of
courts of last resort in the several
stat, s and territories and of the su
preme court of the United Stat- s
which hold that when the bounda
ries set --tit in the grant differ from
those marked in the survey, the
boundaries of the survey govern.
Under section 12S‘> of the civil code
of 1911. which provides that all
lands w lit h have nia- r been sur
veyed bo'ong to the stale of Geor
gia. I am of the opinion that the
state could recover this land.
We -an establish by proof that
it was always conceded in the
community around Tallulah that
th< state owned tin s-- lauds. This
t e w ill Ye atlni:.-. iltle. as
t!’o-*e grant/ wore made at various
tiim s bet w i t n 1529 and I M -
CHAS. G REYNui.I’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 and wants to. coni®
’home. I'll come and take you
there.' ”
And the painted cheeks of the
girl were stained with tears, and
her voice broke with sobs, and sh#
said: "Oh, what shall I do, I am not
fit to speak to her, what shall 1
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 tfnd 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 over
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 out 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 I
will not let you go.”
Down, down, down, the cruel
steps to the cruel road below. How
fast the little feet have run. How
slowly they drag up the stairs
again. But they are coming now,
up, up and up—into the clean air,
up into the honest world, up where
stands waiting.
“Always the same, Mother.”
I 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.
XVhat 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 gallowb- the equally
atrocious horrors of the electric
chair. This, it seems to me. would
only be exchanging a "witch for
the devil," and 1 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 '[
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 Rouse or land, that pays
the tax. 'rhe 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 is paying a dou
ble tux on the same property—
one assessed by the tax gatherer
on the land, and another levied
against his indebtedness thereon
by the 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 hi- land and the mortgage on
i' a moderate fee of one and a
half per t-ent, equal to 15
tin- hundred dollars is charge by
the - '.nt tor recording a mortgage,
ami n.at is the - rid of It
ELIZA FRANCES ANDREWS.
Rome, Gu.