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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 postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 1873. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mall, 15 00 a year. Payable in advance. Threatened Dismember ment of China HMM 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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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.