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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 nostoffwe at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 1873. 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 lulled 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, but it has been a progressive Democratic news paper in advance of the Democratic party, and it will continue to be 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 and other influences of the will of the majority, which is the will of Ihe 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 parlies 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 friend, Bryan. Because the very influences about which Bry an made his demagogic assault upon Champ ('lark were identically the same influences which'al. the appointed time brouiiht about the nomination of Woodrow Wilson There is only one thing that is rankling in Ihe 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 Ihe vote will show that it was ihe states which the interests controlled that prevented Mr. Clark from get ting the nomination, and that it. always has been the determination of the interests to interfere at any cost with the nomination of Mr. Clark. The states which Thomas 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 voles could and did give ATr. Wilson the nomination. Both Mr. Wilson and Mr. Underwood 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 few thousand dollars contributed by personal friends. To say that a man conducted such a campaign was or could bo 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 the American people. And to say that the nomination of Governor Wilson was tinallv made possible by the support of Taggart in Indiana and of Ryan in Virginia and Sullivan in Illinois and Tammany in New York is not a reflection upon Governor Wilson, but is an all sufficient vin dication ot the slandered speaker of the Democratic house. The one man upon whom the final support of the interests for Governor Wilson does reflect most directly and seriously and per manently is William J. Bryan. Bryan, just at the moment when the transfer of the New York delegates from Harmon to Champ Clark gave Champ ('lark the majority of Ihe convention's votes and fully entitled him to the nomination—that moment William J. Bryan set out to defeat his noble, loyal friend. Champ Clark. Bryan brazingly declared that he would support no man voted for by New York or whose nomination was made possible bv Yew V ork s vote; broke his pledged instructions from Nebraska, turned his votes to Wilson and halted Champ Clark's march to victory. Mark the hypocrisy of Bryan, The next day Tom Taggart, the most corrupt of all bosses, swung Indiana's vote to Wilson and turned the tide that finally made Wilson possible And Bryan, sullen. ineons'---»nt ami insincere, sat silent and unprotesting in his seat. It was the action of the Yew York delegation, led bv Congress man Fitzgerald, of Tammany, which made Wilson's nomination certain. Ami Bryan, who had betrayed and defeated (’hamp ('lark, as he said, simply because Yew V ork had voted for him, sal silent, sullen and insincere— without a protest in his seat! And when Roger Sullivan, whom Bryan had denounced a traitor and a train robber, swu.ip' the 58 votes of Illinois and made Wilson s election sure. Bryan >h!l sat without protest at a change of vote sullen, silent alul ii ■ IIH-I re to the end Whoever‘else may ri>< >r fall in the fortunes of the last con vention of ihe Democrat ie part;.. William J Bryan comes out of it stained lor< v<". and stamped Io his hypocrisy and his hates as a fraud and a demagogue, false n lnngua_" . false in profession am! tals< in friendship as to part} The real reason for < hamp ' lark defeat w;i- the realilv and genuineness of his progresdxe Democracy While others theorized Speaker ('hamp ( lark struck with force and deadly directness at th> root of fh< < vil To th. pr.-aebers <>f progressive ItefiHu i ,o-y li< ..m practical Continued in L ant Column The Atlanta Georgian THURSDAY. JULY 4, 1912. > THE REAL SKY ROCKET By HAL COLEMAN. '• ' '• MWJRIFW -I HF/ WwW ill |g I z/ T I,'#/’ /' zzfjf W/S- 1 / Landing on the Lockjaw Germ How Science and Sense Are Helping to Save the Small Boy and His Fingers. By JOHN BESSNER HUBER. M. D. 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 tali. Possibly the twisting has hurt that gigantic feline some; but there is no doubt but what it has hurt us a great deal mote. For 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 maiming? and killings by fireworks in all the years since 1783, when our war for American independence ended tri umphantly for us: and don't calcu late such misfortunes throughout the length and breadth of our whole land in all these year.--. But consider only such losses in the three years, 1907, 1908 and 1909. and those only in New York city; and we find a tolal of 1,339 killed and injured in and around the .Glorious Fourth from fireworks - more than the casualties in the Revolutionary battles of Lexington. Bunker Hill. Fort Moultrie, White Plains. Fort Washington, Mon mouth <nd Cowpens combined. And these losses of ours have mainly been not among fighting men, who expect to be butt or killed, but aiming youths and maids (almost all under eighteen» ami little chil dren. And the sufferings of tile-, |>ov s and girls and little children that have died have been among the most agonizing known to medical science; whilst of those who have not died many have been maimed and disfigured for life. Startling Figures. In the six years ending with 19'"’,k our people throughout these United States gave up a festive offering in boner of the bi: th of our freedom nearly 30.000 killed and injured by fireworks ,"9..'96 pounded tor the surgeon to take care of and 1,316 for the undertakv r. 776 of those deatun being front lockjaw. In the nine years since 1903 the equal in numbers of m..>. than 39 regi ment? wore l:i M .a nr injured in celebrating our Glorious Fourth. Slm . 1003 the-• <!• < i.'ful mb fm tones have been 1 ■enfng 'mar bv ...It beaus, of the ea utpHIIEII -In • stltufeil by the Vti.'ii. tn Medical t oti.ilimi, and wage.l bv the pub lic pros- and .-m u aetlvlti. s i the flu . I S .u'' !- iiii.'u I lon '.’ear l.v year eitlzeti' uiiil ■ •ommunftivs :it* more and mote -e.dng th* light, Yet 1. -t y. , I1? 11 it> t,•v <r. n'l . fgltt. -ell . ~f. s of Im !>,|.i .1 \||d be pith ■ th* <■ mi m. th* If at i< fort . • 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. life explosion of chemi cals and so forth. The most deaths last year from any one cause were twelve (includ ed in the forty-seven just mention ed). nearly all little girls, burned to death like human torches in the lint • 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 doctors call 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 why there are not more deaths from lockjaw is that the germ fortunately will not thrive in .he presence of air, but only in wounds that are closed up and devoid of the oxy gen tn the air. When this germ gets lodg ment in a wound it generates poi sons (toxins, the doctors call them), which circulate in the lymph and blood channels and thus produce the dreadful symptoms of the dis ease. So lockjaw happens whenever any dirt or blank cartridge wails, or paper from a giant firecracker or a rag containing the germ, is introduced into the wounds —espv - •jally wounds of the head, lace am! hands. The wound may be very slight, nothing more than the set aped skin or a slight burn; yet the germ may find lodgment in a microscopic pocket beneath the skin. Great and open wounds do not so much result in lockjaw, bee tuse the germ will not thrive in open wounds, and because great wounds are taken at once to the doctor, whilst slight and seemingly inno cent wounds tire either disregaided " managed by household surgery. Tie'. >s an "incubation period’’ in lockjaw, this is the time bctwei n tin introduction of tin germ in •he wound ami the <’,< velopmem of the sy aptoms which announce lite df-etin . this ncubation period is from five to fifteen days. Then come rite heartrending symptoms, ("hills and high fever, rapid heart beat profust sweat ing. rigidity of the neck ami jaw. a dreadful appearant e of grinning or smiling difficulty in t h, wing or swallowing and in breathing, mat* v tllar spasms ami formation • f the "bridge" a < urvature of the boil* re-ling on tin back of too head ami tin heels from th*' Inflammation m .h< : pin*' \ml think of all t fi. ... agonies In a lltth 1 hild. Up to very recent y ears 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 this 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 and the bomb—all of which have caused lockjaw. What To Do. Then, for any wound, however slight, a doctor must be summoned. Heroic surgery "is the only way to treat, such n wound.” There must be free incision under cocaine or a general anesthetic. The wound must be enlarged, if 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 wound must then be cauterized by a 23 per cent solution of carbolic acid in alco hol or glycerine. There must be a loose, wet boric avid 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 after tile injury, will almost certainly protect the body against the development of lockjaw. The real failures from this remedy have been because ill* injection was not made until after the appearance of the symptom: Help at Hand. Yet this tetanus antitoxin should be used at any time, for it has in some cases been found curative, which no other remedy has ever b>> ( r, for this disv ae*-'. when fuiiv dev- 10p.'.l Fr.lv tleaily all health departments, state and municipal. ■ I’o" ‘'p ii on Ipdv 0.-mieii, , d.-v --anil have this antitoxin ready for immvdi.it> use by physicians. hos pitals and dispensaries on tele phone application. We a i- now substituting tne safe ami sane I’ourth (without fire works) tot the old, bloody, harba r m ■ vml insane Fourth. The small hoy till be deprived if a lot t’lti. but he w 111 save :c_. fingers ‘mil " ■ ■ aml ji..esil_.lv hi* ofc. whiv h I.* much gmatei fun after all. THE HOME PAPER Dorothy D i x \ v rites —ox— Wti To Marry or Not ' to Marry .. Question for the Individual > Only DOROTHY DIX. Bv DOROTHY DIX A SENSIBLE, tevel -headed girl writes me the following let ter: “I am twenty-pix 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. although 1 have a host of friends of my own sex. Now, my mother is very much worried because I 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 tn be mar ried. "I have no scruples against mar rying. In fart. I should like to mar ry if the'right man came along, and there are times when I heartily yvish that I 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 T am in no way an object of pity, and I en joy my work, make a comfortable income and have all the privileges of the bachelor maid, yet my moth er makes m.v life a burden to me yvlth tier nagging about my marry ing. and all of my girl friends yvho are married or engaged look at me with contempt and compassion and 'ooor Mary’ me for being single un til I feel that I will be 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 yvants to?" The situation in yvhleh my corre spondent finds herself is one in yvhleh millions of other women 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 tvhose family' and friends decided that it was time for her to be settled in life was compelled to leap from the home frying pan. when it got too hot to be comfortable into the fire of an undesired marriage. Rut the young woman of today who is self-supporting is dtlven to no such desperate alternative. If her friends and parents make her fee! that she encumbers the family hearthstone, all she needs do is to pack her trunk and go. And if she is wise she does so. instead of let ting herself be fretted to death by the continual interference of others in in affair so purely persona' as marriage. Not even a mother has The Democratic Nominee I and the Progressive Creeds Continued from First Column. illustration of what he meant when he stayed at his post, and from his seat ot authority as speaker start d the investigation of the Steel Trust and the Money Trust, representing not hundreds ot millions, but thousands of millions of dollars—-an ineoneeiva , 'i* power of money. I hi' investigation of the Steel Trust and the Money Trust -nt • I Pierpont Morgan and W. hi. Corey to Europe, where they li;>vr toned it convenient to stay, and the vast forces which Morgan at 1 < orey controlled, with the kindred interests which surround them, made up their minds that whoever else was nominated at Pal - more must not be, and should not be. the great, practical progres sive in the speaker's chair at Washington. • Il does not follow and we do not believe that Governor \\ il>"U made any deal or had any understanding with the interests win t finally secured his nomination. I pou this belief in Governor Wilson’s innocence of any motion with these evil forces, we are going Io support him • this election. But while we do this, we need not forget to honor and 1 eulogize that great Missouri Democrat who was by flv'se iut»*t< made tlw martyr for his real progressive Democracy. a right to put a finger in that pk. It's hands off for everybody, except, the individual concerned in mat ter s of the lieart. Why mothers, who presuma.br ■ love their daughters and have (heir interests at. heart, should be so crazy for thrfir girls to marry i one of the mysteries past finding out. Certainly few women have been so blessed in their own mar ilages as to lead them to think matrimony an elysium. On th contrary most of them have found it a hard road to travel, full of disillusions, and disappointment--, and privations, and sorrow, and tears: yet, in spite of their own experience, and the observation that they have fared no worse than the great majority of wives anti mothers they see about them, they eager to set their datighter'B feet on this thorny path. So we see mothers urging their daughters 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 thty 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 w'aits to pick and choose around among men until she can find wbai she wants In a husband, we ob serve her mother getting as fidgetv as an old hen who is trying to cluck and shoo her chick into th” coop at night, fearful lest she might get 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 younc’ woman earns her own bread and butter, and cake, and even con tributes to her parent’s larder, there is no possible excuse for her mother to marry off. Cruel to Force Girl to Altar Steps Unless She Loves. There is just one thing, and on» tiling only, that makes ma • worth while, and that is love- i love so great and overwhelming that It robs sacrifice of its stin,. labor of its weariness, and niak - a woman glad to give all and do ad for the sake of the man she v i ships. Unless a girl feels thi- " toward a.\ man. she is wrong and foolisli to marry him, and when she docs feel this way she won't need her mother to urge and push her into matrimony. .•'.nd when she doesn't feel ihl.’ w ay it is a hard and cruel thing of ' her mother to try to force on >'■ >' brow a wreath of orange bios>i>m? that are full of thorns.