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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. Bntered as second-class matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 1X73 Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. Ry mail. 55.00 a year Fa yabl e > vanes A National Platform on Poverty R * * Some of the Problems Political Conventions Fail To Solve. For two weeks this eouotry has listened to the talking' and planning of the two great parties I hat pretend to provide na tional welfare. In Chicago and in Baltimore those supposed to know what the country needs have met and fought ami intrigm-d and ‘•‘dickered. ’ ’ They have written their platforms and denounced what they considered the great evils. One set denounced the high tariff because it makes living expensive. And the other set denounced the suggestion of free trade because it would destroy the workman’s opportunity to get good wages. Gigantic trusts, great organizations, monopolies, the modern dinosaurs and mammoths, received attention. One single state in this I nion could provide for the needs of all the people in the country and for many more if the state were cultivated properly and the products properly distributed. The manufactured products of another great state in Amer ica have increased in a short period FOIRTEEN 111 NI)R EI ) PER (‘ENT: the production of wealth of valuable needed manu factured articles of that state has increased TEN TIMES AS RAPIDLY AS THE POPI LATION. That is the state of New York. Yet, while the production of wealth has been ten times more rapid than the production of human beings, the happiness of I hi 1 people has not increased. Wealth multiplied by a percentage ten limes greater than the increase of population should mean the multiplication by ten of wellbeing and general happiness But that does not happen. The added wealth goes to the accumulation of wealth, goes (instantly to increase the store of those that have TOO MICH, and little, if any. of it goes to make happier the lives of those that carry the burden of TOO LITTLE. This is the real problem of the world, the distribution of .wealth and the increase of happiness. And it is the problem about which, although they may talk of it ami think that they plan to remedx it, the so-called big politicians and statesmen feel not at all. Their plans are for those that have enough. l’he\ try to pro tect the man fairly well to do against the man very well Io do. They are deeply interested in the mechanic who has five dollars a day. and in the manufacturer who needs five millions to in crease his business. But not one of them thinks or plans sufficiently for the man who has a dollar or a dollar ami a half a day. for the children whose playground is the gutter, whose only knowledge of govern ment is the policeman with his club telling them that lhe\ must not play and must not be happy. < We have a nation in -which men are kept down because wom en compete with them in Hieir labor, glad to work for starvation wages. And. each competing with the other, the men arc kept too poor to marry, and the women are kept too poor for happi ness and health. And nobody jdans seriously to change that condition. What shall be the tariff on steel and on lumber" How shall w punish that combine to change five millions of profits into fifty millions by freezing out competitors'’ What shall we do to the railroads that give better rates to one company than another? These are the questions that our conventions and onr stales men” deal with. But thev do not deal with these other questions. * What shall we do to prevent Corti thousand children in one year, IN ONE SINGLE CITY. being infected with the taint of tuberculosis? What shall we do to protect the health of children ami of mothers that see the children die unnecessarily ? What shall we do to arrange the distribution of the earth's products so that a fair day’s work by those willing Io work will give a decent living to a wife and her children? What shall wo do to protect those that are herded in tone ment houses, living without light or air ami dying unnecessar ily? What shall we do to make life worth while to the vast num her of human beings to whom it is only a worry, a curse, a sorrow and a discomfort ? The few have TOO AH’(ffl. the main have TOO LITTLE yet there is PLENTY for both, if it wore only distributed. What party, what convent ion,-what gathering of wise mon will work earnestly to solve that problem- THE INCREASED DISTRIBUTION OF THE WEALTH OF THE WORLD, now that the problem of PRODI ( TION ha-- been solved absolutely" Slowly the problem will be solved, and tile dreadful contrast become a thing of the past But the change will eome vcr\ slowly. For it will eome only as men are lifted up as a whole, not’ lifted in classes, as one might lift the roof of a building and leave the foundation low . Education, intelligent voting from below, unselfish lotion from above, the use of machinery as the slave of all the people, and not merely as Hie orofit earner of a few. will settle the ones tion in I ime A LONt 1 TIM E All Hail the Army Mule Attempts by sordid innovators to tear down one of the most sacred institutions has failed, temporarily, at least The avari cious hands of commerce have been slaved, ami those who love the old-time idols of Hie Republic can sleep in peace Colonel Getty, who has been making tests as to the eompara live value of Hie automobile as compared with the good old armv mule lias reported in favor of onr long-suffering four footed friend. An exhaustive experiment has been made hv the provisional regiment which Colonel Gettv commands, and his finding is that it would be unwise and unsafe unsafe, mind von. thereby meaning that the ver.v fabric of the L’nion would be in danger to substitute benzine buggies for mules Glory be I Let us hope that that faithful long suffering and pi't iires'pte clement of armv life will remain with us lorever The Atlanta Georgian , ; :Z-. ■ - ' ><Z' Z Z ©5 .* Z Wz' £ - Z ZlZ' / MZ - U-3 i ■- *4 ' h ill i '/MK . Ase. - . 1 1 'r — 'A ■ I “ . - 1 A / These are the days that we d like to go There's something nice in unlimited ice I p in Ihe snow with Hie Eskimo. And the dripping seal has a cool appeal. But business calls Irorn the skyscraper walls Leaving the heal ol the baking street, That the Eskimo has his pile of snow. Dusty under the shutting feet. . But we must bustle a pile of dough. Phe New Fashion of Smiling in Face of Ad versity-Growth ot Feminine Optimism Beatrice* Fairfax Thinks We Are Becoming Nation of Optimists and Learning to Look on Bright Side of Things Ry BEATRICE FAIRFAX. I tlhd • nrth not but insv. \\ ( »i ■»> becoming a nation of op- till tomorrow" It will passed Heaven not grim but tair of hut . timists. and I claim that this is a\\a\. 11 p’u tk 11 twsy. largely due to the growing influ- That is Donl act rashly to- l>n I stiind and stare? Alt's blue day. Wait till tomorrow, and with enee of woman. Always the one to v. . o -Brownlne tomorrow always comes wisdom. find tbe bright side in her home. , . If not. then wait till another to ys the world becoming more her influence has spread beyond morrow 1 philosophical'.’ Tears are no h ,... r „ t|l . „ a! , s sl>e jF Ih ,„ There onee lived a Woman who longer a daily sight, and 1 'e- who finds when there is financial had a great sorrow. The day be- I'use to credit their flx-mee to in- w i-.-ck that there is enough of tin- fore that sot for her wedding day difference. debris for a new beginning. ber ,over was kllle(L There was a time when preacher Women Have Acquired 'J' 6 th, ' oUS ’" ~ - I always said everv morning, and player alike hail an easv tune , _ ... _ An Optimistic Feeling. she once told a friend, ■•that mv reducing an audience to tears In „ . , , H , She is the one who. when her friends had ‘'oubles which I must these days, the tear is seen as little consider before my own. 'I will . . .. husband pornos noinp with a brok- In the church as tn the theater go to them and help them.' 1 would The'- may be a choking of th- ' ” lml '- aiattful ’hit >t i->i t gay, 'and when tomorrow comes 1 * tbfoat. a feeling as if tip teats k ShP ' alwavs looking „.f|t give wav to my own grief" must come, but they are sup- for po-tes when she -loops. And so sbe | jvec) her davs t)]l lir , and for the blue in the -kv when thev became weeks and months -'it’ stands and stares. and years, always devoting TO- H is nn longer in as great evl- ... , . . ... Ibis optimism was not always* HAY to the sorrows of others and dence at, funerals, md is -eldom natural to het She acquired it putting off the giving way to he. s'i n it weddings, though there w hen confronted with the task of own sorrow till TOMORROW was a day when tradition and cheering up father, husband and Tomorrow never came! And her custom demanded that tbe mother son. | jr ,. was sp e nt ln a devotion Io Os tin bt'ldi cry .lining the ore- H is a good habit. It is a good others that was far better than a tnonv habit Io get cailv devotion to her grief. Misfortune and Sorrow x " ns 1 " "ot”’ x ot n ba d idea, was it? it is Faced More Bravely. I '' '" ' ", 1 ' ” n! ' kind Os procrastination of , , Z " ,,n ' ' ° uth mu,b iR smnet ’ mef ’ which the gods approve: A pm- It wus th* compliment the world , ti t , • ■ , h . lt i,.,. n i.i'-.itx that would not na\’ crastin:ition of tears expected her to pav tic- departing con|c |(1 . hi)l| |hp | r| h( , cn i( 11 ls a piot-iastination the whn|f w omun , , . Whatevc, the orc.Mon there , , world is acquiring For the smile I<HL Hit.’ is Cowper gives His! two lines I < growing deposition to meet it \ a newer ‘ ,ine ’ nobler, braver giowing <u. i i nun nt ii want younger gills io remember: with a -Smile, Disaster, sickness, , ls desperate steps; the fashion sorrow, disappointment, and death darkest div want mv girls whose troubles itself are all met more bravelv , , . seem gteat to try this new sash- • ' 11 o ...... laved till tomorrow will have than a few generations ago. pissed away " "' n Wo have become vvlsci, ami that '’ ommlt these lines tn mento’y Urges Downcast OIICS ''■ms tilt w • have |>»min< more -I.| act upon them No om- loro O Pllt Off TfirH’S. cheerful tell a girl who-.- trouble is great Look for the posies when you I'o we -’oop’" It i- pot to find that she has no t-ouble. or that it stoop, and for blue when you stand a thorn, tint a posy ~. not a« great as she thinks. and stare —'' I’o W. stand md ■’. e t t i- alone io. the There may b» nim'h tn w<>ep ”" 1 *" ’ -'H' l "f > sin m but io I ri-it m ’nil Ivi that. |t .>u about, mu let's put off the tears t’oi. I 1 "' blue tha' i- tefi in the -k- | prove that if i i.-mii.i. n in eu 'C tomorrow. A SUMMER DREAM By HAL COFFMAN. MONDAY. .ILLY 8. 1912. THE HOME PAPER The Strongest Man on Like Socrates, Luther, Wesley, Lincoln and Other Great Men in History, It Is He Who Has the Courage to Stand Alone HOW often it goes unexplained why it was that Athens kill ed Socrates. It really is no wonder why they killed him; that flat-nosed, awk ward. barefooted inquisitor, forever poking his flat nose into other peo ple's affairs, showing them that the wisdom they claimed to have was but foolishness. Yet a Socrates is indispensable, to every community—a man who will force you to understand your self, to examine your own thought, and see that your wisdom is fool ishness. We think that we are thinking, but even a Socrates is needed to show us where we stand. We have today a Socrates with us. The dramatist Henrik Ibsen is a direct descendant of Socrates, and has inherited his right to make us think of the foundations of our knowledge. Ibsen never claimed to be more than an interrogation point; he has no philosophy or views of his own to systematize. His work is to make you think of the truth or falsity of your own thoughts. And of all his plays, the one of which he him self is the hero is the most strong, simple and direct, the drama “An Enemy of the People.” The Secret ■ $ d Os Strength. The hero, Doctor Stockmann, the man who has been so ready to tell the people of his town wherein they are wrong, when defeated in his purposes, boycotted, and even be sieged in his home, comes at last to the declaration that he made to his wife. "I have discovered that I am the strongest man on the earth -the man who stands most alone.” "Trust thyself." says Emerson, “every heart vibrates to that iron string.” So then, that is the se cret of the foundation of strength. The great men of the ages who have stood most alone are the men of whom we are now The most proud. Luther stands for the geat institution of Protestantism. Fox for Quakerism. Wesley for Method ism. and Lincoln fur the great na tion which he saved. In the case of Lincoln, in par ticular. it is impossible to account for his greatness unless we remem ber that he did stand alone. After he had reached the age of 49 he had absolutely nothing in his life that had been successful, but he .-food: so that when he was called to the highest office that the peo ple could give he was ready to take it and make that power which was given to him the power that should save the nation. <.'outage and Faith are the foun dations of the victory. The hedge hog secs a movement an inch from A Valuable Possession By EDWARD LUCIEN LARKIN. TAKE a bar of hard steel, mag netize it. and the adjacent space will be in a very pe culiar state; and this space is called a magnetic field of force; for short, magnetic field. And tbe energy is supposed to exist in lines, or flow in lines from the north pole of the magnet backward through the neutral line, the equator, to the south pole, and thii= eoinplete the circuit. The flow of energy Is sup posed to be ver.v rapid. To magnetize the bar, it must be touched by another magnet—or by lodestone, the magnet made by na ture. We imagine that gold and dia monds are valuable, but a mag netic field is at present the most valuable possession of man. Thus three great standard fundamentals —heat, light and power—can be. and are, incessantly* taken out of it. And several billion dollars are now invested in one little apparently trivial act. namely, that of mov ing masses of metal in this most wonderful field. No moving metal must touch another, the motion is in spare without contact: the mov ing molecules of metal must cut or pass through the invisible lines of force. Lay a straight bar magnet on a table with end projecting over. Take a wire, hold it at right an gles to the end of the bar. you have *wo nieces of me’al apparently useles". .Move the wire, and on® of the most extraordinary events within the entire range of hitman Earth Bv Dr. C. F. Aked. the end of his nose and cries that the world is coming to an end There are these hedgehogs in ev. ery line of life. The Man Who Stands Alone. Lord Acton, when asfked what ths greatest single event of the century was, answered that it was the sink ing of the trial steamer of Fulton in the Seine, for its perfection under the government of Napoleon would have changed the history of th» world. And the hedgehog peopls in New York stood on the deck and declared “it will never go,” but it did go, and Fulton’s stand alone was gloriously justified. In the church, the charge 1 8 mads that evangelicalism is dead. It is not even dying. It can never die. for it is founded on the living faith. The world is waiting for a new incarnation, a religion that shall be as good for the polling place as for the prayer meeting; as good for swapping horses as for savins prayers; as good for the primaries as for the presbytery. The gospel of today is a gospel of service. We may be thankful for the promise of mansions on high, but what we need is more decent homes on earth and more decent people In them. Religion Is not a thing of the stars; it Is a thing of the streets. In the drama referred to the here declares that in a democracy the majority rule; that the majority of the people are fools; therefore, ’he democracy Is ruled by fools. How far can we go fn this* Where is the fallacy? In this: The majority does no* rule; it never did and never will. The minority rules; Ideas govern. It is your strong men who stand alone whose strength Is fn brain and heart. These sit on the thrones of the ages, and sway the majori ties to their will. It is your Wesleys, your Luthers, your Cromwells and your Lincoln? who make and mold the mighty forces with which empires havi» had to deal. Then, the majority Is not given to foolishness after all. In the long run you can trust the in nate sanity of human nature. De mos is not a child of Chaos, it i? a child of God and the outgrow th o< the Christian spirit. Democracy '? the expression of the highest of ’he teaching of Christ. What is the manifest destiny of the American people in the growth of this democracy? America ha? years of glory behind her; she young and daring. What is her mi? sion ? It is this: To build up Ilf*' on truer. Juster foundations that the Old World ever laid; to evolve a nobler manhood and womanhood. This is the destiny of America experience will occur—electrlcit" will appear In the wire. The liner of magnetism being cut by th* atoms of the metal generate elec tricity. Move the wire up and down *a *• er, it will begin to develop warmth, faster still, it will become red hot. white hot and melt. Instead'of allowing tbe wire to be destroyed, connect the end; b' means of another wire; then a new event appears—a flow of electrlcit'' is set up within. Move the wire up and the electricity will flow in ,i ne direction; move down, the flow w! 1 stop during a minute instant of time and at once flow in the oppo site direction. The name of the ap paratus is magneto. Look closely into this .matter «« have a straight bar of steel whose atoms are saturated or endowed with magnetism, totally unknown to us. A short piece of thick wir-'. whose ends are connected by a third wire to complete a path or circuit for electricity; motion, and a sor’i” of rapid changes in direction ? motion. An additional name may now ne added -“alternating current mag neto.’’ fin the face of this matte', the word alternating Is superfluous because alt magnetos set up or ?*' erate alternating currents, or mo mentary impulses succeeding other. To secure- direct curreni’ ail flowing tn th® same direc’ior. external devices called commu'S tors must be added.