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Threatened Dismember
ment of China
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Why Does the President of the United States Fail to Acknowl
edge the New Republic?
Mr. Chfio-Chu Wu is the only son of Wu Ting-fang, the former
Chinese minister at Washington and one of the leaders of the re
cent Republican revolution in China.
The younger man was educated in the I nited States and in
England. At the outbreak of the revolution in his home country he
was practicing law as a barrister in London. He immediately’ re
turned to China to help in the struggle for political liberty, and upon
the establishment of the republic young Wu became the most per
suasive spokesman of the new government in its plea for diplomatic
recognition by the great powers.
Speaking with marked reserve and temperance, this man has
published to the world an argument for Chinese recognition. It is
full of facts, good sense and good international law It can not fail
to convince any’ fair minded reader that the administration at Wash
ingtonin company with the European chiefs of state —is commit
ting an inexcusable offense against the custom and comity of na
tions in withholding recognition from the republican government of
Pekin.
The candid reader of Mr. Wu’s appeal can not fail to perceive
also that in wronging the Chinese we are wronging ourselves. For
we are inviting a Chinese cataclysm —a dismemberment and disin
tegration of that vast country, with immense loss to our own polit
ical prestige and our honest commercial profits.
Thomas .Jefferson, secretary' of state under George Washington,
formally’ acknowledged the first French republic on the 23d day of
February. 1793- six days after a request for recognition had come
from the provisional executive council in Paris. Through all the
mutations of revolution in France the government of the United
States has been equally prompt to recognize the de facto govern
ment —whether imperial, royal or republican. Os the empire of Na
poleon the First, of the Restoration, of the Second Republic, of the
Second Empire, of the Third Republic we have asked only, Do the
bulk of the French people obey the new authority? And. without
delay, we have given diplomatic recognition to the actual power,
whatever it might be.
In accordance with the law of nations and qur own national
traditions, the president of the United States should have acknowl
edged the Chinese republic three months ago.
Why did he not. do so? Why does he not do it now?
Every day of delay strains toward the breaking point the long
established good feeling between China and America. There is a
continual loss of trade, a steady’ diminution in the momentum of
American enterprise in the Orient, a constantly' increasing peril to
American missionaries and all other foreign residents in China
and over and above all there is a growing danger that Russia or
Japan will seize upon some local disorder in China and the pretend
ed lack of a responsible government to take forcible possession of
some vast tract of Chinese territory. Then will come the scramble
of the evolves for a share of the plunder. That will be the end of
the Oriental balance of power. The end of peace in the Eastern
world. The closing of the open door.
The catastrophe in Asia is likely' to precipitate the long-expect
ed European war. And no man can foretell the end of such an
event or what damage the United States may suffer by it.
Thus it is evident that every political and commercial interest
of ordinary Americans demands the immediate recognition of the
Chinese republic. It seems, however, that there are a few extraor
dinary' Americans high financiers who have the ear of the state
department at Washington.
In the name of Hollar diplomacy, these gentlemen are making
intricate and mysterious plans in the “six-power conference’’ of
bankers in Paris to finance the Chinese republic to their own ad
vantage. They are private citizens, but they have much money;
and so the six powers, headed by a king and a mikado, a czar, a
kaiser and two presidents, are waiting for a nod from the amalgam
ated bankers before giving recognition to the young democracy' of
Pekin.
It is a shameful stale of affairs and as dangerous as it is dis
graceful.
The Socialists Do Some
Things Intelligently
The nomination of Charles Edward Russell for governor of
New York state by the Socialist party calls attention to the fact
that the Socialists understand some things better than the old
parlies seem to understand them.
The Socialists pick out their ablest men. nominate them, honor
them, give them united support- and no kicking or selfish, jealous
criticisms.
The Socialists are able to identify the intelligent among them
selves and back them up with earnest, enthusiastic approval and
praise, following the nominations.
The Socialists avoid bolts arid treachery and the submission of
party to the egotism and selfish ambition of an individual.
They may. as success comes to them, acquire the vices and stu
pidities of the older parties.
Bui just at present they are teaching the nld parties that the
to win is TO PICK OUT TOUR GOOD MAN. STICK TO HIM
PRESENT A UNITED FACE TO THE ENEMY.
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Swat the fly! Scientists say it is deadlier than the tiger or the cobra. Its name, physicians
suggest, should be changed from “house fly,’’ to “typhoid fly.” In New York city alone nearly
8,000 cases of typhoid and other intestinal diseases are annually attributed to the fly. Lay ing 120
eggs a,t a time, one fly will be responsible for millions of descendants in the course of a single
season. Swat the nv!
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
111 Temper as Destroyer of Good Looks—-Good Done by
Those of Sunny Disposition
HAVE you a disagreeable
face?
Go at once and look in
the mirror.
Study your countenance, and
analyze the prevailing expression.
There came into a street car one
day a young woman dressed In
taste and possessing handsome fea
tures.
Rut her face was repellant to be
hold.
The corners of her fresh young
lips turned down.
Her brows were brought together
with a disagreeable half-frown.
Her large eyes shot forth most
unpleasant glances, and she seem
ed to affect the car like an open
door through which a cold east wind
blows.
It was not a mere mood; for the
face was so stamped with ugly
tempers and angry, petulant moods
that any observer could not fail to
see the unfortunate young woman
had long Indulged herself In those
states of mind which eventually
destroy all beauty.
A young man of fine moral char
acter, splendid mental qualities,
a good heart, and a handsome phy
sique. has marred the whole opu
lent outfit by a grouchy” state of
mind
Avoid All Discords
In Your Own Life.
He finds one person in his ac
quaintance to praise where he
finds twenty to score; he approves
•of one thing in life where he dis
approves of fifty. He is quick to
condemn and slow to praise; and
all the time he believes it is his
wonderful "SENSE OF JUSTICE”
and his great "pow er of discrimina
tion" which causes him to take
this attitude toward the world.
He does not realize that ho is
weakening in his power for useful
ness. and increasing the misery of
the world, and all the evils in it,
by dwelling so persistently upon
that mental plane
If you do not like discords in
music, how absurd it would be to
stt down at the piano and keep
striking the keys, making such
sounds in order to call the atten-
TUESDAY, JULY 9. 1912.
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
(Copyright, 191”, by American-Journal-Examiner.)
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
tion of the world to their unpleas
antness.
Your time would he better em
ployed PRACTICING HARMONY.
If the world seems to you full
of cruelty and coldness and self
ishness and vice, gvi about your
business and show it Ifow beauti
ful are KINDNESS, WARMTH.
SYMPATHY and VIRTUE
That is the most effective and
practical and prompt wax to in
terest the public in your ideals of
better living.
GIVE IT A SAMPLE.
You can never improve anything
or anybody by making yourself dis
agreeable and obnoxious in man
ner, speech and conduct.
A fault-finding and over-critical
and carping manner is all of those
things.
No matter if you are finding fault
with .great evils, and great draw
backs to progress, and great flaws
in our civilization, yet. if you ear
rx a "grouchy" face, an aggressive
manner and an Irritating voice
with you. then you tire disagree
able and obnoxious, and you are
making the world worse instead of
better.
YOU ARE BECOMING A PUB
LIC NUISANCE.
Many reformers are that.
And they repel, instead of at
tract. those who might be won over
to their views of equity and justice
I if they went about their reform
work with a happy face and mag
netic personality.
tine <jf the greatest and most hu
mane-hearted reformers the world
has known (since Christ) was
Henry George.
And hjs face was a benediction.
And his voice would win a crying
child to smiles.
The longer I live the more I am
convinced that the very best way
to cure the world of its sickness is
to TALK HEALTH.
'The best way to cure it of Us
mistaken idea of finding happi
ness in immorality is to talk (and
PROVE IT P.Y ACTION! the hap
piness found in morality.
The best way to cure it of self
ishness is to talk ami live UN
SELFISHNESS.
The best xvay to drive its gloom
away is to SMILE AND LAUGH
IT AWAY. Emerson said:
"NERVE US WITH INCES
SANT AFFIRMATIONS. DON'T
BARK AGAINST THE BAD, BUT
CHANT THE BEAUTIES OF
THE GOOD”
Julia Ward Howe said:
THE DEEPER I DRINK OF
THE CUP OF life’ THE
SWEETER IT GROWS.”
Put Whole Soul
Into Your Work.
Another great soul, whose name
I do not know, said:
1 AM NOT FIGHTING MY
FIGHT; I'M SINGING MY
Henry Harrison Broavn (who
lost everything but life in the
great earthquake) says:
"FROM ALL LIFE'S GRAPES I
PRESS SWEET WINE
If you have a gift for speaking,
or writing, and you knoxx that
great evils exist which must be
talked or written about in order to
axxaken the public mind to a re
form, then go ahead and put your#
xx hole soul into an appeal for a re
form.
But do not carry a "grouchv.”
critical face and mind about xvjth
you. day after day, and expect to
reform the world in that way You
a e only adding to the unpleasant
things in life.
THE HOME PAPE
Atomic Life and Its
Mysteries
' '■* The H uman Body Con -
s ’ sts Milons of
.Tiny Solar Systems,
Spinning in Endless
Revolutions.
GARRETT P. SERVISS . *
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
TT TE are beginning to get
glimpses into the world of
the infinitely little which
startle the imagination even more
than the vast spectacles of the
firmament above us.
The unlocking of the atom,
within the past few years, has re
vealed the fact that all things
about us. even our very bodies,
are made up of miniatiire solar
systems, spinning so swiftly that
their infinitesimal "planets” may
make as many as three millions
of millions of revolutions, or even
more, in a single second!
No doubt you know what an
atom is, but nevertheless we will
define it again, according to the
oldest ideas of science. An atom,
until the recent discoveries were
made, was supposed to be the
smallest particle of any kind of
matter that could exist. When
they spoke of an atom physicists
and chemists thought that they
were referring to something that
was no longer divisible. There
could be. they believed, nothing
smaller than an atom. When they
got down to that they imagined
that they had got to the very bot
tom of things. Out of atoms, as
the ultimate particles, every kind
of substance was built up.
225,000 Corpuscles Are
In Atom of Radium.
Now we know that this was all
wrong. An atom Is not the small
est possible thing, and instead of
resembling an unbreakable, indivis
ible particle, an atom is made up of
a vast number of things so much
smaller than itself that, in compar
ison with the whole atom, they have
been likened to the sun and planets
in comparison with the whole solar
system.
The name corpuscles has been
given to these infinitesimal parti
cles which constitute an atom, and
it has been found that an atom of
hydrogen probably contains a
thousand corpuscles: an atom of
oxygen. 16,000: an atom of iron.
55,800; an atom of gold. 197,200;
an atom of mercury, 200,000. and
an atom of radium. 225.000. This
is sufficiently marvellous in itself,
but it is by no means the whole
story.
Amazing motions are continu
ally taking place in the atom. Its
corpuscles are in constant revolu
tion, like the planets going round
the sun. But they travel, in some
eases. 100,000 miles in a second!
In some substances, like radium, a
certain disorder arrives In the rev
olutions. Owing to the escape of
energy the velocities are disturbed,
and certain corpuscles fly away
with a speed of 20,000 miles per
second! It is as if the solar system
should suddenly reach a critical
stage and go to pieces, the earth
and other planets shooting away
into space.
Now. atoms, with their corpus
cles, combine into larger (but” still
Letters From the People
WANTS DRAUGHT ANIMALS
PROTECTED.
Editor The Georgian:
I wish to enter my protest
through the columns of your paper
against our city fathers laying any!
more wooden block pavement in
our city without having grooves
cut through the top not less than
3-8 of an inch deep, 1-2 of an inch
wide and then the corners of the
block beveled 3-8 of an inch down
each way. This could be done
without any great additional ex
pense and would give the poor
dumb brutes on our streets a
chance for their lives and as it is
now, they have no chance what
ever.
You can take any day on any of
these streets paved with wooden
blocks, and just after a little rain
and see anywhere from six to eight
horses down at a time. In some
cases their legs are broken; in
others their teeth are knocked out
and others strained and crippled
for life. It is a sin and shame and
could be rectified if no more pav
ing were allowed to be laid with
out these corrugations.
We trust that for the benefit of
the dumb brutes, you will give this
space in your paper.
J. J. WEST.
A PLEA FOR PARKS.
Editor Trie Georgian'
About once a year somebody
comes along with an offer to
invisibly small) particles, called
molecules, and in these also revo
lutions take place. The atoms in a
molecule revolve around othr-r
atoms. They do not travel is
swiftly as the corpuscles in the
atom, and yet it has been shown
that in a drop of Mfater the hydro
gen atoms, which are the lightest,
may revolve round the oxygen
molecules so fast that they make
3,000,000,000,000 revolutions in 4
second! This is the same number
we have referred to above.
50,000 Generations Would
Pass in One Year.
Imagine one of those revolving
atoms to represent the earth, and
call its period of revolution and
“atomic year,’ thus comparing It
with the revolution of the earth
around the sun—and then go a st°p
farther, and imagine infinitesimal
beings inhabiting that atom. If
their lives lasted the same number
of atomic yea a s that our lives last
of our years. at least FIFTY
THOUSAND MILLION GENERA
TIONS OF THOSE CREATURES
YVOUED PASS IN A SINGLI-)
SECOND OF OUR TIME!
A similar eomnarison was mad a
by Dr. Johnstone Stoney many
years before the discovery of th“
real constitution of the atom. At
that time he took the velocity of
the vibrations of light as a basis
frtr his calculation, and he
"The motion of light bear the
same relation to one second of
time that the motions of our limbs
bear to a period of 30,n0n,G00 years.
If there were sentient beings with
bodies which move as deftly as
this ether, and with thoughts and
perceptions as quick as their bodi-s
are active, there would be sufficient
time for them, within a small frag
ment of one second, to liv - ’
lives of all the generations of men
that have dwelt upon 'this ear'll,
thinking all their thoughts and do
ing all their acts."
The comparison becomes all the
more striking when it is based
upon the revolution of an atom,
whictr so curiously stimulates 'io
revolution of the earth in its orbit,
It is no violation of reason to sup
pose that an inhabitant of an atom
would think and act with a <iui> k
ness proportioned to the measure
of time in his world.
Existence of Mind in
Most Minute Creature.
Are we forbidden to imagine
such beings ? No more than e
are forbidden to imagine gigantic
inhabitants among the numberless
worlds of space. We do not kno v
what life is, and it is mere f< ily
to assert that it can only manifest
itself in the forms familiar to us.
The quality of mind is of so m
calculably fine a grain (If such in
expression can be used of min l 1
that, as far as we can see. it might
as easily be present in a createure
transcending in minuteness the
utmost imaginable powers of
microscope as in an animal six f< et
tall.
"give" the city of Atlanta a "park ”
1 have no particular persons in
mind.'but as a general propositi a
this is a hoax and should be sin '
up as such. “Fine park, fine park
•—for the CITY!” is the cry. Th'-n
later on we find people living «'l
through this nice “park," with ’
ties to the property! So we rum'
no more of philanthropy until 1
next time! The intentions of smim
property owners may be good, b-d
they usually fall far short of ac
tually giving anything. Persons
who have followed city affairs for
the past ten years will bear out
this statement. For every park
that has been given, probably :<n
promises to give can be cited. T
average citizen, hearing so much
about parks, naturally thinks At
lanta a "city of parks," but " •
he count" them over he fin is many
in the list of so-called parks a
not parks at all. The city shoti. 1
have many real parks; it should co
like Jacksonville or Savannah. The
w'orking people should have place*
to take their babies for fresh air.
The city is crying for parks and
our building for the future it
should make allowance for them.
The Georgian has always 'ham
pioned the cause of the mass
and I ask you to print this for
benefit of many people who h r
stop to think of what accummn •
tions of wool are being pulled ov
their eves. .Let us have me>je
REAL parks, and fewer PARKS
ON PAPER! PARKER.