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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Fvarv Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga Entered as second-class matter at postoftice at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 1*73. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week By mail, >5 00 a year. Payable in advance. The Democratic Nominee and the Progressive Creeds Woodrow Wilson, governor of Now Jersey, is the nominee of the national Democratic convention for president of the United 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 w< re 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 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 eon 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 arjd the essential reform made necessary by tIA errors and iniquities of both national con ventions. The circumstances and conditions surrounding the nomination of Governor k 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 Clark were identically the same influences which at the appointed time brought about the nomination of Woodrow Wilson. There is only tine 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 Ms. 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 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 lor 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. 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 m the presidential primaries with a pitiful fund of a tew thousand dollars contributed by personal friends. To say that a man conducted such a campaign was or could be the candidate <>t 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 finally 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 sufl'ieient vin dication of the slandered speaker of the Democratic house. I he one man 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 Xew York delegates from Harmon to Champ Clark gave Champ Clark the majority of the convention s votes and fully entitled him to the nomination —that moment William .1 Bryan set out to defeat his noble, loyal friend. Champ Chirk. '*ryan orazenly declared that he would support no man voted for by New York or whose nomination was made possible by New York'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 al) bosses, swung Indiana's vote to Wilson and turned the tide that finally made Wilson possible. And Bryan, sullen, inconsistent and insincere, sat silent and unprotest ing in his seat It was the action of the New York delegation, led by Congress roan Fitzgerald, of Tammany, which made Wilson's nomination certain And Bryan, who had betrayed ami defeated Champ Clark. Continued in Lest Column. The Atlanta Georgian The Story of Ahab and Jezebel By Garrett P. Serviss How the Modern Science of Archaeology Confirms the Narrative of Hebrew Scriptures The Remains of the Jewish Gate at Samaria. ip •' I - : 1 v II ' • '«A - z ? Jr* I \wlSßl < H 7/ ff/\\ y " *"*'* ~ u m / Mjn \ \ f(f -Ssßgtym v i . J|A |J /. / >ujW Sj As The 80-foot Wide Staircase in Ahab’s “Ivory House’’ WE all like to see the stories of the Bible, which in out youth, at least, we read with wonder and veneration, con firmed. in some of their most in teresting details, by the results of modern exploration, which seeks only for hard facts, and often ob tains them in unexpected and sur prising ways. Most of us, no doubt, have been better pleased with the thrilling stories of the earliest adventurers around the Dead Sea. who thought that they had seen the very pillar of salt into which Lot’s wife was changed, and had caught sight, deep beneath the tremulous water, of the walls of Sodom. * * * old palaces and towers Quivering within the waves’ in tenser day," than with the mote scientific rela tions of later travelers, who find only indications of a great geologi cal catastrophe there. Yet even these, in a manner, confirm the Scriptures, for they show how the legend of the destruction of Sodom inay have originated. But lately there has been made a discovery w hich offers a more di rect. if only partial, confirmation of one of the most fascinating of the Bible narratives, that which tells of the wickedness and woes of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel, and the adventures of the Prophet Eli jah. Explorers, digging on the site of the ancient royal city of Samaria, have uncovered what are believed * J"he Artistic Temperament * Bv WINIFRED BLACK. SHE wants to be an artist's model, and she has written to me asking me how to get to work at being one "I have an exquisitely molded form." she says in the letter, "and an artistic temperament. I am very talented and have done artis tic work My work has been ac cepted and highly praised in va rious stores, and 1 would like to go on with it. but they offer me such ridiculous prices that 1 can not do it How shall I get into my proper st»heie?" My dear, sweet, foolish little girl, your proper sphere is right at home with your good, sensible mother "who worries about you." you say. I don't blame her If a daughter of mine ever got tile idea into her little head that •she had "an exquisitely molded form" I'd never give her rest or peace, night or day. til! 1 got that notion out of her brain, if I had to dischatgc the laundress and give daughter the family washing to do to make her realize that there is only one thing on earth worth hav ing, and that is rest, \ ti-tie temperament! It 1 e\ -t caught atty girl of mine thinking herself "temperamental" I’d shut her up in a convent with a wall six teet high all around the place, and I’d keep her there til] she came tn Iter senses. FRIDAY, JULY J. 1912. to be foundations of Ahab's palace, or "ivory house,” containing He brew inscriptions, with familiar Hebrew names, and, what -seems especially significant, references to a "vineyard.” This, it is thought, can be nothing other than the vineyard of Naboth, which the Bi ble says lie near Ahab’s' palace, and the coveting of which by the king, who wished to turn it into a royal park or garden, brought about a terrible example of the wrath of God. The owner of the palace, some of whose walls are shown in the photographs, and which occupied about two acres of ground, witfi its many chambers grouped around inner courts, "<jid more,” says the Bible itself, "to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him." His fundamental offense was in marrying Jezebel, the daughter of an idolatrous king, and herself a worshipper of Baal, who steam rollered the enemies of her religion with a cold nerve that would have made even a national committee man’s teeth chatter. It is true that the other side had set her some examples, for Elijah took her prophets, and "brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.” When Jezebel heard of this she sent to Elijah a mes sage. which, from the point of view of literary effectiveness of ex pression, must be regarded as one of the most blood-curdling threats Artistic temperament! Yes, there is such a thing, but the people who have it never know it themselves. The one sure sign that a girl is ab solutely without what yve call tem perament for want of a better name, is when she starts talking about it. And lour work, poor little girl, ha; "artistic" work you do so de lightfully. what is it. tatting or wool work? Perhaps Voti make doilies with marguerites on them, or tray cloths with pond lillies all over the part where the unoffending cups ought to -it. or maybe you print panels or decorate china, all nice work; but how can you think that there is anything serious about it'.' They puaise you at home and tell vou you are "so artistic." Well, so you are. no doubt, within the limits. Why don’t you stay in the limits and be happy’.' Some day some nice young man will see you sitting on the porch embroidering a bureau scarf and he’ll think. "There, she is the right kind of a girl. No tennis for her. no golf, no running around al! hours of the twenty-four, but just a nice, quiet, neat, gentle. little soul who'll love to darn socks and ' ark pleasant while she’s doing it." And he’ll speak to you with a new note in his voice, and all at once you'll see what trice eyes he has and how broad his shoulders are. and you’ll forget all about the "artistic tem- ever uttered: "So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as- the life of one of them by tomorrow, about this time.” * <* Elijah, who had just performed a marvelous meteorological feat by putting an end to a three-year drouth, quailed at that threat, and. In the language of the scriptural writer, "when he saw that (the queen’s message), he arose and went for his life.” But the ful anger of the Lord was not excited against Ahab and Jezebel until the incident of the vineyard occurred. When Ahab told his relentless wife that Na both refused absolutely to sell his inheritance to suit the royal pleas ure, Jezebel took charge of the affair herself. She trumped up false charges against Naboth, got some rascals to swear to them and then had the unfortunate man stoned to death, by due process of law. Then back came Elijah with a message to Ahab from the Lord God of Israel: “In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Na both shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine!" • It all came out according to the words of Elijah’s message, but the wicked queen, strangely enough, long survived the husband she had ruined, although she, too. finally felt the vengeance of Jehovah, for she was thrown from her palace window, and when the dogs were through those who went to bury her found only bones. perament" and the things that go with it. You'll find yourself walking up the aisle of a quiet little church some day to the old. old sopg the organ sings, and your little head will be w hirling around and around with happiness, and you will have found your vocation and the best vocation it is on earth, too. Don't envy the girl with the real artistic temperament, pity her. She’ll fiy farther than you. but oh. how her wings will acfie some times! She'll see the world, she’ll be part of it. and half the time she'll be envying you. just simple, con tented. little wholesome you. with all her poor, hungry heart. Oh. yes. they’re »all right, the studio teas, and the Bohemian din ners. and the "Art for Art’s sake" jargon, for a while, but any one who really grows up. grows away front all that sort of thing some day. and then what? You don’t belong there, little girl, at al). Be content In your "com fy" home, with your mother, the best and dearest friend you'll ever have. And remember that HE is com ing down the toad some time, may be today, perhaps next week, to round out and fill in your life. “Artistic temperament." “exquis itely molded form." forget these foolish words, my deat little girl, and some day you'll be quite, quite happy. TME HOME PAPER The Education of the Voter PROSPERITY—GOVERNMENT Prosperity Is Not Dependent Upon the Election of a President A GOOD many ea rnest people try to convince us that Pros perity depends entirely on who happens to be president of the United States. When Populism was rioting through Kansas in 1896." like a cyclone, William Alien White wrote an editorial on the movement, in which he begged to suggest to the Kansan that he "raise more crops and less hell." When citizens get down to busi ness and raise crops, Prosperity takes care of itself; when they’ begin to raise the other thing, it is impossible even for the president of the United States to take care of Prosperity. The Crop is the thing. Any man who devotes his days to industry is a crop raiser. If he cares for his money, manages himself and his household on a wise and economic basis, he will be prosperous. When, by careful management, he has been able to set aside a ten-dollar bill for deposit in the savings bank, the name of the president of the United States is not likely to enter his mind while he Is waiting for the return of his bank book. He is probably pleased to know that he has so ordered his affairs as to have the money for deposit. And if he thinks further, he may real ize that while Prosperity in gen eral is talked of a great deal and freely argued, it does him no good • until he finds the perspiration of hard work and careful manage ment streaming down his own face. Devotion to Work Gives Best Results. Considerable attention has re cently been given to the point of view of Mrs. John H. Flagler, In reference to labor problems in the household. Mrs. Flagler points out that when the mistress of a house begins to recognize a difference be tween her servants and the furni ture of the kitchen, there will be less domestic friction. This ail means careful study of household management. Politics has nothing to do with that. As a man intent on securing the benefits of prosperity, you will real ize that loud talk and argument put no money in the bank. Pros perity and Politics have a rela tion, but you w’ill never know muefi about it until you fix the mind on getting all the prosperity you can OUT OF YOUR OWN INDUS TRY. There are countless voters in the United States who feel that they could run the government, but who, very apparently, can not run them selves. The great value of learn ing that government means guid- The Democratic Nominee and the Progressive Creeds Continued from First Column. as he said, simply because New York had voted for him. sat silent, sullen and insincere—without a protest—in his seat! And when Roger Sullivan, whom Bryan had denounced as a traitoi and a train robber, swung the 58 votes ol Illinois and mad? 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 the last con vention of the Democratic party. William J. Bryan comes out of it stained forever, and stamped by his hypocrisy and his hates a- a fraud and a demagogue, false in language, false in profession and false in friendship as to party. Die real reason for Champ Clark 's defeat was the reality and genuineness of his progressive Democracy. While others theorized. Speaker Champ Clark struck, with force and deadly directness, at the roof of the evil. so the preachers of progressive Democracy he gave practical illustration of what he meant when he stayed at his post, and from his seat of authority as speaker started the investigation of the Steel I rust and the Money Trust, representing not hundreds of millions, but thousands of millions of dollars—an inconceivable power of money. The investigation of the Steel Trust and the Money Trust sent •I. Pierpont Morgan and W. E. Corey to Europe, where they have found it convenient to stay, and the vast forces which Morgan and ( orey controlled, with the kindred interests which surround them, made up their minds that whoever else was nominated at Balti more must not be. ami should not he. the great, practical progres 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. 1 pon this belief in Governor Wilson's innocence of any con nection with these evil forces, we are going to support him in this election. But while we do this, we need not forget to honor and to eulogize that great Missouri Democrat who was by these interest made the martyr for his real progressive Democracy. Bv THOMAS TAPPER. ance, management and control liej in settling down to the busint of guiding, managing and controll ing one’s self. You have your crofis to raise ar 1 your money to spend. You tai-« crops by being busy and turning out as much good work as lies In you. Most men, tike you. think they know how to spend monev. But they do not. There never was a harder thing to learn than ho v to distribute the income, doing it with justice to yourself «nd all others. Urges Setting Aside Fund For Needs of the Future. Government and organizations of men become very powerful, but let every acre of ground in America produce its maximum of crops, and you will see all the rulers of the people standing in amazement at the vastness of prosperity. Likewise, let every workingman work with all his energy, let him learn how to govern himself, to ad minister his family affairs, to begin to set aside some of his earnings as a fund for the future, and he will tell you without hesitation that while it may pay to argue about Politics and Prosperity, he, in the meantime, is taking care of his own Prosperity, BY PRODUCING IT. The gentleman ivho meanders through life looking for a windfall or a pension is apt to get shabby and to lose connection with three meals a day. Until he comes back, he is a stray dog without a master. What he needs is to examine the power of the Initiative IN HIS OWN BEHALF. He must set things going again. The wise advice of all philosophers, once expressed in these words, "First be sure you are right, then go ahead," is the Initiative in its highest form. The Successful Man Is One Who Does Things. If you are fond of trout, it will give you only a second-hand form of satisfaction to sit on the bank of the stream and see another man catch them. If you want them in your own frying pan. you know what to do. Prosperity is the same. If you want it, go out and get it. The fact that another man across the street is making good will not cheer up your family. There is a very direct connect ion between Prosperity and Gov ernment, but the connection is first with self-government. Most men are prone to wish that a.ll things be done for them. But the man who wins out sees the joke in that platform and begins to do all things for himself