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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 postofliee at Atlanta, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mall, $5 00 a year. Payable in advance. The Democratic Nominee and the Progressive Creeds Woodrow Wilson, governor of New Jersey, is the nominee of the national Democratic convention for president of the I nited States. The Georgian will support the Democratic nominee. The Georgian, as a progressive Democratic newspaper, would have supported any progressive Democrat nominated at Baltimore. The Georgian has not only been a progressive Democratic newspaper always, hut it has been a progressive Democratic news paper in advance of the Democratic party, and it will continue to he a progressive newspaper in advance of the party. Whatever is progressive in the nominee of this convention, and in the platform of this convention, this newspaper will indorse. For anything less than progressive in the nominee or in the plat form The Georgian will feel and express its regret, and will en deavor to strengthen and amend the weakness in platform or in candidate as the campaign progresses. Because The Georgian and its kindred newspapers are con vinced that the only true Democracy is progressive Democracy. The Georgian does not hesitate to say, and has already earnest ly said, that there were many things in the Baltimore convention far from progressive and far from democratic. The spirit of the convention and its methods are made open to attack upon many lines, and, most of all. in the overriding by demagogy ami other influences of the will of the majority, which is the will of the people and the essence of Democracy. We have made, and shall continue to make, the improper meth ods and the undemocratic spirit of this Democratic national con vention and of the Republican national convention a con tinuous and double-barreled argument for the abolition of national conventions in both parties and the substitution everywhere of direct nominations—preferential presidential pri maries, which will do away with conventions and allow the people to choose all officers, from president down, directly by their own will and their own ballots. This is the essential lesson learned and the essential reform made necessary by the errors and iniquities of both national con ventions. The circumstances and conditions surrounding the nomination of Governor Wilson furnish the amplest vindication of Champ Clark from the assaults and misrepresentations of (governor Wil son s triend, Bryan Because the very influences about which Bry an made his demagogic assault upon Champ Clark were identically the same influences which at the appointed time brought about the nomination of Woodrow Wilson There is only one thing that is rankling in the hearts of Clark men, and that is the false accusations, or insinuations, that have been made against Mr. Clark. It was said by Mr. Clark's opponents that Mr. Clark's man agers had made deals with the interests. Those insinuations were not only false, but they were not made in good faith. A simple analysis of the vote will show, that it was the states which the interests controlled that prevented Mr. Clark from get ttng the nomination, and that it always has been the determination .of the interests to interfere at any cost with the nomination of Mr. Clark. Ihe stales which I hoinas Fortune Ryan controlled were the states instructed for Mr. Underwood. Those states were withheld at the time when their votes could have given Mr. Clark the nom ination, and they were released at the time when their votes could and did give Mr. Wilson the nomination. Both Mr. Wilson and Mr. I nderwood have had abundant money at their command, and it is well known that Mr. Clark made his campaign throughout the country and won the greatest number of delegates in the presidential primaries with a pitiful fund of a jew thousand dollars contributed by personal friends. Io say that a man conducted such a campaign was or could be the candidate of the interests is not only an unjust and unworthy reflection upon a stainless public man, but is also a reflection upon the common sense and intelligence of lhe American people. And to say that the nomination of Governor Wilson was finally made possible by the support of Taggart in Indiana and of Ryan in \ irginia and Sullivan in Illinois and Tammany in New York is not a reflection upon Governor W ilson, but is an all sufficient vin dication ot flu slandered speaker of the Democratic house. lhe one ipan upon whom the final support of the interests for Governor Wilson does reflect most directly and seriously and per manently is William .1 Bryan Bryan, just at the moment when the transfer of the New York delegates from Harmon to t’hamp ('lark gave ('hamp (’lark the majority ot the convention s votes and fully entitled him to the nomination—that moment William -I Bryan set out to defeat his noble, loyal friend. Champ Clark. Bryan hrazingly declared that he would support no man voted for by New \ ork or whose nomination was made possible by New s vote; broke his pledged instructions from Nebraska, turned his a <>tcs to W ilson and halted ('hamp ('lark s march to victory. Mark lhe hypocrisy of Bryan. lhe next day font Taggarl, the most corrupt of all bosses, swung Indiana s vote to W ilson and turned .the tide that finally made Wilson possible And Bryan, sullen, inconsistent and insincere, sat silent and unprotesting in his seat. II was the action of the New York delegation, led by Congress man Fitzgerald, of Tammany, which made Wilson's nomination certain. And Bryan, who had betrayed and defeated Champ Clark, as he said, simply because Xew \ ork had voted for him. sat silent, sullen and insincere -without a protest in his seat ! Ami when Roger Sifllivan, whom Bryan had denounced as a traitor ami a train robber, swung the .’>> votes of Illinois am! made Wilson's election sure, Bryan still sat without protest at a change of vote —sullen, silent and insincere to the end Whoever else may rise or fall in the fortunes of lhe last con vention of the Democratic party. William .1 Brian comes out of it stained forever, and stamped b\ his hypoeris.i and kis hates as a fraud and a demagogue, false in lamruage. false m profession and false in iriendship .is to parti The real reason lor Champ ('lark s defeat was the ntilgs and genuineness of his progress)!. Dcniocracs While others theorized Speaker ( hamp < lark struck with force and dead 11 directness, at th* root of tin evil Io the preachers ot progressiv< Demoeraio in gave praetn ,i| Continued in L out Co'umn The Atlanta Georgian THE REAL SKY- ROCKET By HAL COFFMAN. j « 7 4 Jills Landing on the Lockjaw Germ How Science and Sense Are Helping to Save the Small Boy and His Fingers. By JOHN BESSNER HUBER, M. I). EVERY Independence day for , more than a century and a quarter past we and our fa thers before us have been twisting the British Lion’s tai). Possibly the twisting has hurt that gigantic feline some; hut there Is no doubt but what it has hurt us a great deal more. Eor every fourth of July since, our glorious Revolution we have had more of our people killed and wounded, by reason of the way we celebrate, than there were casualties in our whole seven years war with old Mother England. Don’t calculate our mannings and killings by fireworks in* all the years eince 1783, when our war for American independence ended tri umphantly lor us; and don’t calcu late such misfortunes throughout the length and breadth of out Whole land in all these years, hut. consider mily such losses in the three years. 19117, liars and 1909. and those only in New York city; and we tihd a total of 1.339 killed and Injured in ami around the Glorious f-'ourth from fireworks more than the casualties in the Revolutionary battles of Lexington. Bunker Hill. I'ort Moultrie. White Plains. Fort Washington. Mon mouth and Cowpens combined. And these losses of ours have mainly been not among fighting men, who expect to be hurt or killed, but among youths and maids (almost all under eighteen) ami little chil dren. Ami tin- sufferings of these boj s and girls and little children that hnv,- died hav. been among the nost agonizing known to medical science; whilst of those who have not died mans hare been maimed ami disfigured for life. Staitling Figures. In the six years ending .with (90S <mr p- ople throughout th.-s. I’nited States gave up a festive offering in honor of the birth of our freedom neari\ ;io.mm killed and injured hv firewo-ks 29.29(1 wounded for the surge -n to tak( • ire of am] i.3itj for the undertaker, 7.7 Gof those d.-atne being from lockjaw In the nim s ears since 19'G the . qua. in numbers of mure than 39 regi ments were killed or injured in i elebi .ittng nip- Glorious I'ourth. Sin . 1903 11-i . dreadful misfor tunes h 1V» been I. 'selling sear hv sear becausi of the campaign in s;i t>: t • i b\ tt. \ men- n mlleii I a. sociation, and waged b\ the pub lic piess and aethiih s ;o- the Rm-.1l s.g, founi'.iimn. Year hv rat tic • Im and < omintmlt . - am '■r. rtvl ri>.'( sering th*' light. Yet la -1 ' • t I 911 >tln 1C w err ' ill .-'glP.r’n - a-. of |m k>aw Ami be sldi th* • .asrs there r* forts- THURSDAY. J CIA’ L 1912. seven deaths—eleven killed out right by firearms, nine by powder explosives, bombs or torpedoes, five by cannon, two by giant fire crackers, and eight, by blood poisoning, the explosion of chemi cals and so forth. The most deaths last year from any one cause svere twelve (includ ed in the forty-seven just mention ed). nearly all little girls, burned to death like human torches in the time of Nero, by fireworks, in sev eral cases of the “harmless" kind, small firecrackers and even "spark lers." What Is Lockjaw? But what is lockjaw ’ The dm tors .-all it tetanus It is a germ disease, and the germ *s the tetanus bacillus. This germ is found in earth and sometimes in putrefy ing fluids. The reason -shy there are not more deaths from loekjasv is that 4 the germ fortunately w ill not thrive in .he presence of air, but only In wounds that are closed up and d* void of the oxygen in the air When this germ gets lodg ment in a svound it generates poi 'ons (toxins the doctors call them), which circulate in the lymph and blood channels and thus produce the dreadful symptoms of the dis- So lockjaw happ.-ns whenever any dirt or blank cartridge wads, or paper from a giant firecracker or a rag containing the germ, is introduced into tl.,- wounds—espe cially wounds of the head, face and hands. The wound may be very slight. nothing more than the scraped skin or a slight limn, yet the germ may find lodgme it in a microscopic’ poc-kit beneath the skin. Great and open wounds do not ’ so muc’h result in lockjaw, because the germ will not thrive in open * wounds, ami because great wounds ar*' taken at once to the doctor, whilst slight and seemingly inno cent wounds are either disregatded or managed by household su’ge y. There >s an "incubation period" in lockjaw ; this is the time betsse. n the introduction of the germ in *he wicuid and the (Irselopmeiit **f the symptoms which annoum e the di-ease; this Incubation period I.- from five' to fifteen diss. Then come the heartrending symptoms (’hills and high lever, rapid heart beat, profuse sweat ing, rigidity of the mcg !tt pi j i(v , a dreadful appearam-e of grinning ot smiling, difficult! in chewing or ■w.ill.iwing anc! in breathing, mm»- iiila’ spasms ami formation f i'.. I bridge" a curvature ot tin boil' | resting on the back of the he .d .ad the I'l-i’ls, from H e Inflammation of the spurn \nrf think of I agonies tn a little child. | Up to very recent years death al ways ended these sufferings. There was really no remedy at all until the appearance of tetanus antitox in. And how are we going to prevent tliisj terrible "patriotic lockjaw*”— this "Independance day tetanus?” The first thing to do is to forbid fireworks to children. But especial ly the toy pistol (in which the blank cartridge is fired), and which is the most frequent cause of lock jaw: the giant firecracker, which is the next most frequent cause of lockjaw, and also the toy cannon, firearms, powder ami the bomb—all /if which have caused lockjaw. What To Do. Then, for any wound; however slight, a doctor must be summoned. Heroic surgery "is the only svay to treat such a svound." There must he free incision under cocaine or a general anesthetic. The wound must be enlarged, it necessary. All "pockets” in which the germ might lodge must be prevented. Every particle of dirt, or other "foreign matter." such as a rag or a wad, must be removed. The wounjj must then be cauterized by a 25 per cent solution of carbolic acid in alco hol or glycerine. There must be a loose, wet boric acid dressing, changed every day. The wound must be kept invariably open and allowed to heal up from the bot tom. But most important of all. an immunizing dose of tetanus anti toxin (1.500 units) must be inject ed by the physician. A timely in jection. made immediately or very soon ifter the injury, will almost certainly protect the body against the development of lockjaw. The real failures from this remedy have been because the injection was not made until after the appearance of the symptoms. Help at Hand. Yet this tetanus antitoxin should b* used at any time, for it has in some cases been found curative, v.h, I) no other remedy h as ever 1; ■■n for tin- disease, when t’uiiy il* Volope(I. rracticalls ill h.ealth departments, st.it, and municipal, an- no's .>|..n on Independence d.iv and hav.- this antitoxin ready for immediate us by physician.-, hos pl’als .•hi.' dispensaries on tele phone i ppll. at ion (\ • a 1 < now substituting me -ate .m;l s.me I'ourth (Without file s' rl - ‘ * o tbe old, h’, H . i ha rlis ■ ion- ami In-ane I'ourth. Th,' -mall ii > .s ill l>< d* prix il of i lot fir ,I'll b. " 111 as- hl.- tit,gets an.l ■ and i.os’ihls hr- of.. I w hich is mm h gri .itei fun *f»vs di. THE HOME PAPER Dorothy Di x Writes " ON - • To Marry or Not ' '-G X". j ’ ' to Marry Question for the Individual Only DOROTHY DIX. By DOROTHY DIX I A SENSIBLE, level-headed girl /-A writes me the following let ter: "I am twenty-six years old. in business and earn a good salary. I am successful in my occupation and much liked by my employer and fellow workmen, but I am not pretty, and. therefore, do not at tract men t although 1 have a host of friends of my own sex. Now, my mother is very much worried because 1 am not married and harasses me by continually urging matrimony upon me. She seems to think it little short of a disgrace for a girl of my age not to b» mar ried. “I have no scruples against mai - ’ tying. In fact. I should like to mar ry if the right man came along, and there are times when 1 heartily wish that 1 had a husband and a little home of my own and the in dependence they give a woman, but I certainly have scruples against a man unless I love him. Fears Constant Nagging May Drive Her to Marriage. “So far as I can see I am in no way an object of pity, and I en joy my work, make a comfortable income and have all lhe privileges of the bachelor maid, yet my moth er makes my life a burden to me with her nagging about my marry ing. and all of my girl friends who are married or engaged look at me with contempt and compassion and ’poor Mary’ me for being single un til T sometimes feel that I will b,e driven into matrimony in self defense. “What do you think of It? Is there any reason a self-supporting young woman should marry unless she wants to?" The situation in which my correT spond* at finds herself is one in w hich millions of other w omen have been placed before her, but for them there was no way out, while for her there Is the open door if she only' has the courage to use it. The woman of the past whose family and friends decided that it was time for’her to be settled in life was compelled to leap from the home frying pan. jvheri it got. , too hot to be comfortable, into the fire of an undesired marriage. • But the young woman of today who is self-supporting is driven to no such desperate alternative. If her friends and parents, make her feel that she encumbers the family hearthstone, all she needs do is to * pack her trunk and go. And if she isywise she does so. instead of let ting herself be fretted to ■death by the continual interference of others in an affair so purely personal as marriage. Not even a mother has j . The Democratic Nominee ■! and the Progressive Creeds 1111(1 ui™ -I 1 JIWCIHIUIIWII.IIII ■■ —HI ■llli - - - ~ I Continued from First Column. illustration of what he meant when he stayed at his post, ami Irom his seat ot authority as speaker started the investigation of the Steel Trust ami the Money Trust, representing not hundreds ot millions, but thousands ot millions of dollars—an inconceivable power of money. lhe investigation of the Steel Trust and the Money Ttusl sent •I Pierpont Morgan and W. 11,.I 1 ,. ('orey to Europe, where they have found it convenient to stay, pud lhe vast forces which Morgan and ( orey controlled, with th* l kindred interests which surround them, mad*' up their minds that whoever else was nominated al Balti more must not be, and should not be. the great, practical progr* s sive in the speaker s chair at Washington. It does not follow and we do not believe that Governor Wilson made any deal or had any understanding with the interests which finally secured his nomination. I pon this belief in Goveruoe Wilson's inimceuce of any eon nection with these evil forces, we are going to support him "i this election. But while we do this, we need not forget to honor ami ,n eulogize that great Missouri Demoeral who uas by these inteicsis | ma*|e the martyr lor his r* al progroisi'** Democracy. a right to put a finger in that pts It's hands off for everybody, except lhe individual concerned in mat ters of the heart. VZfiy, mothers, who nresumabls love their daughters and have their interests at heart, should be so crazy for their girls tn marry is one of the mysteries past finding out. Certainly few women have been so blessed in their own mar riages as to lead them tn think matrimony an elysium. On the contrary most of them have found It a hard road to travel, full of disillusion’, and disappointments, and privations, and sorrow, and tears; yet. in spite of their own experience, and the observation that they have fared no worse then tlw great majority of wives and mothers they see about them, they are eager to set their daughter’ll feet on this thorny path. So we see mothers urging their (laughters to marry, and so anxious to see them married they do not look too particularly at the man. We see them so afraid their daugh ters won’t marry that they plunge little young, unfit girls into matri mony. and when a girl does have enough sense not to take the first man who proposes to her. but waits to pick and choose around among men until she can find wha< she wants in a husband, we ob serve her mother getting as fidgets as an old hen who is trying to cluck and shoo her chick into the coop at night. fearful lest she might got left out of the fold. Os course, where a girl is de pendent on her family it is easy to see where her mother might want to shunt the burden of her support on some man. but where a young woman earns her own bread and butter, and cake, and even con tributes to her parent’s larder, there is no possible excuse for h*>r mother to marry off. Cruel to Force Girl to Altar Steps Unless She Loves. Thorp is just one thing, and one thing only, that makes marriage worth while, and that is love—a love so great and overwhelming that it robs sacrifice of its sting, labor of its weariness, and mak:s i woman glad Io give all and do all for the sake of the man she wor ships. Unless a girl feels this way toward a man. she is urong and foolish to marry him. and when she does feel this wai she won't need her mother tn urge and push her into matrimony .'.nd wi on ><he doesn’t fee) thl way It is a hard and cruel thing of her mother to try to force on her brow a wreath of orange blossoms that are full of thorns.