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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 postoftice at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 1873. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 c»nts a week. By mail. $5.00 a year. Payable in advance. This Country Built the Canal, PAID FOR IT, Owns It and Will M nage It •» F. H Suggestions From England and Elsewhere Will Be Politely Re ceived. And This Country Will Do as IT Thinks Best, With Its Own Property. We have published the text of an interview given by W. R. Hearst to The London Evening Standard. This interview s «ve the English people, in one of their own newspapers, some needed insight into American views and inten tions concerning the Panama canal, and the somewhat amusing effort of England to tell the people of this country WHAT THEY ARE TO DO WITH THEIR OWN PROPERTY. The fact is, as Mr. Hearst tells the English newspaper, that the Panama canal is not, as our English friends would have it, a public highway open to everybody, BUT A DOMESTIC POS SESSION OF THE UNITED STATES, CREATED BY THE UNITED STATES, PAID FOR BY THE UNITED STATES AND OWNED BY THE UNITED STATES. The money of this country raised by taxes upon all of the people built that canal. Hundreds of millions of dollars are go ing into construction—EVEßY DOLLAR AN AMERICAN DOL LAR. Many other millions will be spent for fortifying and for maintaining the canal. The United States OWNS the Panama canal, just as Eng land owns Fleet street —or the Manchester Ship canal. The people of the world will profit by the construction of the canal. Millions will be saved to all of the nations in shorter trips around the world and shorter journeys from ocean to ocean. The hundreds of millions that this country has spent will AND MUST do good to every nation that sends ships to sea. Uncle Sam did not go among the nations with his hat in his hand asking for money to build that canal. He did not say, as he might have said, "You will all be made richer by the canal, every one of your ships will be made more valuable because it will be able to do more work, so pay your share.’’ Uncle Sam built the canal and paid for it. And now comes England suggesting that this government has no right to permit its own ships to go through the canal free of toll. That was all that the United States contemplated of an ad vantage—the right to allow American ships, our own boats, TO USE OUR OWN CANAL WITHOUT PAYING FOR THE PRIVI LEGE. If a man builds and owns a carriage or a road it is natural that he should permit his own children to use the road or the car riage without charge, that he should, if he chose, ask others to pay for the privilege. That is what the United States government does. It will allow American ships to go through the canal free, or at a nomi nal rate —and all other ships of all other nations will pay a fair price for the use of the canal—as they pay a price now in the Suez canal and other canals. The English in their efforts to manage the great enterprise WHICH THIS COUNTRY CREATED appeal to a treaty abol ished long ago and replaced by the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, which was drawn—thanks to the efforts of the Hearst newspapers. In regard to the interpretation of the treaty Mr. Hearst, in his interview, says: "An article In The London Times says a great deal depends upon the correct interpretation of the spirit in which the Hay-Pauncefote treaty was drawn; that is to say, as to how far it perpetuated the sense of the Clayton-Bulwer convention. In view of the above facts, It ought to be clear that the Hay-Pauncefote treaty only perpetuates the sense of the Clayton-Bulwer convention where it repeats the words of the The American people will not listen patiently to any sugges tion of control of the American canal by outside powers, English or others. And the American senate will not give up this na tion’s right to control completely the two national doors which we have opened, east and west, and the lane of water which we have built across this continent from one ocean to the other. England and the other nations will be treated fairly. But fair treatment of others does not imply unfair treatment of this country’s citizens. Inasmuch as the citizens PAID FOR THE CANAL, TOOK ALL THE RISKS AND DID ALL THE WORK, THEY CAN IF THEY CHOOSE USE THE CANAL THAT THEY CREATED ON TERMS SUITABLE To THEMSELVES. It will not be forgotten, by the way, what part Theodore Roosevelt played in Hie construction of this canal and the ac quisition of the territory necessary to its construction. Whatever the individual opinion of Theodore Roosevelt’s policies and actions may be, none can deny him the virtues of energy, determination and courage. , Roosevelt is the man whose energetic action and power to decide quickly gave us that strip across the continent, and gave the world the great canal IN A HURRY. •r K Clayton-Bulwer treaty. When it does not repeat the words, it Is, as I have said, because of a definite de termination to reject the principle. Moreover, since that time the United States has acquired the ter ritory across which the canal is built, which seems to me to have considerable bearing upon the sit uation, and further to strengthen the claims of the United States in regard to the canal.” The Atlanta Georgian It Might Have Been Much Worse ON THE SANDS AT THE BEACH—By TOM POWERS Copyright, 1912, International News Service. - PLEASWIij 7 DEAR.'IHU* 15 VNou'wia. T " Mr7ou ( /BILL. I THOUGHT I’D J , u r ° R A wp \ _// J _'aL_Lxjp\, \ feS falfbr 7 ' n "AV-, .-> All |li|[lj| n I [!| I(I ill |j| jlll TD O O en - ° i n x to o. s*o « o I 1 z c e- - a A clo R se call) (iMSoiwf)f BAH! ) , : BiLuJ Im a THOMAS TAPPER WRITES —ON— How to Build a Fortune—-No. 2—Work and Desires NO one can build a fortune who does not work. A man may have a fortune left to him by somebody who worked for it, but that, unfortunately, does not re quire the recipient to get to work. Some men have received a fortune and have straightway gone to work to increase it and use it wisely. Such men are exceptional. When you think it over careful ly you will realize that when you are paid money for your work, you receive it for the strength and quality of mind and body that you put into work. This means that strength goes out and money comes in. This, In turn, means that mon ey is your strength in another form. Now, the first thing you should determine to do concerning the money your strength earns for you is to respect it. A man who earns Thirty Dollars by the use of the best part of his mind and blows it in foolishly by the use of the worst part of his mind, fails to re spect the money, and he likewise fails to respect himself. The first steps in fortune build ing. then, are: 1. Earn the money by giving • honest labor for it. 2. Do not forget that the money you earn Is honest labor in another form.' Let us suppose you have money which you have earned, and that you have given good value for it. What Are You Going to Do With It? The next question is: What are you going to do with it? Nearly every one arises at this point and answers: •’Spend it.” It certainly must be spent, for money stored away under a brick or in an old stocking is out of the game. It is concealed and inactive. It is not working. The prime TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1912. Bv THOMAS TAPPER. quality of money is motion. Its power to work comes from keep ing it moving. So you must certainly spend the money. But how? There are four things to be pur chased with money every time you get your pay envelope. If these four things always get first con sideration, you will be started right toward success in the affairs of fortune. These four things are: 1. Shelter. 2. Clothing. 3. Food. 4. Protection for the future. We must all have a place to sleep and a place to go when the weather is inclement. We must be clothed. We must eat. We must be prepared to care for ourselves in the future when old age limits our earning capacity, for we need then as much, or more, than we need in youth, shelter, clothing and food. Nearly every one manages to get the first three. The vast majority of people rarely think of The Dream King By EARL BALDWIN THOMAS. SO he's gone into his kingdom Where the fairies 101 l at ease. Where his broken toys are wait ing In the Ship o’ Seven Seas. What surprises will awaken In his blue-eyed baby stare. When he finds the great good fairy Whom he called his "muvver" there. Yes; the little king was sleeping. As I held his hand last night; But I whispered to his spirit Just one message; ah, so bright! And I kissed his royal forehead, As I clasped my hands and prayed. •'Tell the good, kind fairy, darling, Os the castles that we made.” the fourth (future protection) until it is too late. It is just as necessary, however, as the others; and to be enjoyed in the future it must be obtained in the present. You may think the purchase of these four things makes a severe strain on a small pay envelope. It does. It is so severe that only a thinking man can make a go of it. And even he can make ago of It only by hard thinking. You Must Work Out a Schedule. What he must do is to work out a schedule that will allow for shelter, clothing, food and the incidentals, and still leave a margin to be put aside for future protection. The exclamation from a million throats is: It can't be done! And the reply to that is: It is being done every day. Those who succeed in accomplishing this ap parently impossible thing work according to a system. The name of the system is apportionment. This is not a hard word with which to get acquainted. ■Apportionment means being boss of your own treasury. You figure out just what y*ou can pay for shel ter. clothing, food, and the little odds and ends, and you keep on fig uring at that until you find that every week’s pay has been so di rected that you can meet these ex penses and have a little left over. The amount left over may be a nickel or a dime, or a quarter, or a dollar bill. Don't despise any one of these sums. You have paid your bills and you have a margin. You have succeeded in doing this by using your thought. Put the margin in the savings bank and keep your thought at work. Thought at work pays big interest. Its first great dividend comes to you in the form of bene fits from self-control, or self-gov ernment, about which the next ar ticle treats. 1 THE HOME PAPER The Georgia Tech Needs ■ $25,000 m n « And the Legislature Should Give the School That Amount. It i s Necessary For Improvements Which Can Not Be Done Without. The Georgia School of Technology needs additional help f rom the state of Georgia, in order that it may proceed effectively with the great work it is doing. A bill providing for a special appropriation of $25,000 is now pending in the house of representatives, and it. comes up for a hear ing before the appropriations committee this afternoon. The bill is a most worthy one, and should pass. No institution anywhere is engaged in finer or more promising work than the Georgia Tech. It. is known, far and wide, as one of the South’s greatest training schools. It. is turning out a class of grad uates that the state may w'ell be proud of. It is fulfilling. magnify cently the splendid purpose of its establishment . In addition to the regular yearly appropriation, the Tech needs this year $25,000. It needs $20,000 for a heating plant, and $5,000 for maintenance. It really needs this money—and the monev should be forthcoming. y Because of the utterly inadequate heating plant now employed it has been necessary in the past, in very cold weather, to abandon the class rooms at times—sometimes for one day, sometimes for several days in succession. That is argument sufficient in favor of the appropriation. The Georgia Tech is economically conducted. No great school in the Union is run on less money. There is no record of extrava gance or wastefulness inside the management of the Tech. The school would not be appealing to the house for this new heating plant, and small extra maintenance fund, if it did not actually need both. The Tech spent for new buildings last year $150,000. Georgia only gave $35,000 of that—the remaining $115,000 came from sources outside this Empire State of the South! The Georgian hopes the appropriations committee of the house will recommend the passage of the $25,000 special appropriation the Georgia Tech is asking for. The Girl, the Man and the Money I HAVE a letter hat would be fun ny if it wasn’t so pathetic, from a girl who complains that when her “gentleman friend” comes to take her out to any place cf amuse ment he always borrows the price from her, and never pays it back. She says that she thinks he is no gentleman. No one will dispute her opinion of the grafting youth. Most of us, to quote T. R., would describe him by a shorter and uglier word. In fact, if one should apply all of the opprobrious epithets in the diction ary of abuse to the creature —it would be rank flattery to call him a man—who is mean enough to sponge on a poor little working girl, one could scarcely do the subject justice. A parasite Is a contemptible ob jest at best, but the male- parasite who fastens himself upon the slim pocketbook of the woman who earns her own living is beneath contempt. He is the lowest thing that crawls, and why a girl should permit anything so loathsome to hang about her is past comprehen sion. Every sentiment of self-re spect, every intuition of self-pres ervation should bid her spurn him from her presence the very first time he tries to dip his hand into her purse. To this girl, and all other work ing girls, I say with all the ear nestness I can .nmand, never lend money to a man. Have nothing to do with a man who lets you pay for his meals, and his drinks, and his ticket when you go to places of amusement together. He is the cheapest sort of a deadbeat, and means you no good. He is simply playing you for an easy mark that he can work by making a little love to you and flattering you a bit. A man never tries to borrow money of a woman until he has gotten so well known as a pan handler among men that no man will lend him a cent. Any honest fellow who pays his debts can get a few dollars from his men ac quaintances if he happens > strike a streak of bad luck. It is only after one becomes notorious as a borrower who never pays back, and other men refuse to be hel l up any further by him. that he descends to preying upon women. Therefore, you may kiss your money good-bye, little sister, when you lend it to one of this gentry. He never even intends to pay it back. If he did, he wouldn’t have to bor row it of a woman. Every dollar that a working girl has is stained with her very life blood. She has paid for every cent of it with long hours at desk, or typewriter, or behind the counter, or the machine in a factory. Every penny she saves out of her meager wage represents incredible self denial. If it could speak it would tell of the anguish of aching back There Are Two Felders Editor The Georgian' For the sole purpose of making the situation perfectly plain, will you be good enough to print the following, which is part of an edi torial appearing in a Savannah paper: “For the sake of clearness of un derstanding in voting at the state primary next month, it should be remembered again that there are two Felders in Georgia and two Tom Felders. One of these Is Mr. Thomas Swift Felder, of Macon, By DOROTHY 7 DIN. and fainting body by which it was earned, of long blocks weary feet have walked to save car fare, of desires for pretty clothes and good food that have been crucified, and the man who would take from her tlie few dollars of her little hoard would steal the coins off his dead mother’s eyes. No man with one spark of man hood in him but would rather starve than take money from a working woman, while as for permitting her to pay for his amusements, he would rather go to purgatory than Coney Island under such condi tions. It is the working girl and her problem we are discussing, and this is a problem she has to meet dally, for the minute a woman begins to earn money she is set upon by a horde of sycophantic men who get their evil living nut of grafting upon women. All of the drunken, trif ling, no-account lazy loafers and ne’er-do-wells, all of the tellers of hard luck stories, and all of the visionary men with dopey schemes that they never have enough money of their own to finance themselves, swarm about her, and it takes grit and courage and independence to turn them down and keep a pad lock on her pocketbook. Yet that is what she must do for her own self-preservation, and what makes the situation doubly hard for a sentimental and unsophisticated girl' to deal with Is that the foxy gentleman who Is trying to borrow her money almost always accom panies his touch for a five or ten spot with ardent love making. In this way he blinds the girl to his real motive, so that she can not see how mean and selfish and lov. he Is, or how little worth having Is the man who even before marriage is willing to live on the hard toil of a woman. .The girl who lends money to a man on the theory that she "id. thereby bind him to her by ties of gratitude and appreciation makes the mistake of her life, for if it > 3 true that the man who lends monej to his friend loses his money and his friend both, it is doubly true of the woman who lends money to a man. There is no easier way f"' a woman to make a man hate h<r than for her to put him under obli gations to her, and esneclally finan cial obligations that shame him in real men's eyes. For proof of this you have only to take the multitudinous cases you see all about you of women w'r.- support their husbands, and in n ’t one single instance will you find a man who is appreciative of what his wife does, or who treats well. He will let her work It : ■ to death for him, and then he re venges the bitterness of his pendence upon her in a thousand little tyrannies and grouch s ano tempers. who is a candidate for re-election as attorney general of the state. Now, Mr. Thomas B. Felder, who Is having his differences with Gov ernor Blease, is a different man t tirely. One, as we said, li v> - Macon and the other in At’ o Mr. Thomas Swift Felder, tin torney general of the state, is the party who is having the con troversy with the governor Carolina." A FRIEND OF BOTH TOMS. i Macon, Ga. I