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' Democratic House Caucus
Imperils Democratic
Success in 1912
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In the Vital Matter of the Navy, the Democratic Majority Is
Ingloriously Un-American and Wrong.
The Democratic house majority of the sixty-second congress
won golden opinions from the country. It passed with prompt
vigor and decision a series of wholesome measures near to the heart
of tin* people, and advanced the cause of Democracy far to the
front for 1912.
But the Democratic house majority, in caucus majority, stab
bing the navy to inferiority, and weakening the international status
of the Republic, has evoked the condemnation of the people, and, in
its hands, the last, two months have done as much to injure the
prospects of Democratic success as the earlier months did to ad
vance Democracy's cause.
There’s yet time to redeem the picayunish, parsimonious and
unpatriotie record.
It is simply a question of Democratic intelligence and Demo
cratic loyally.
If it is true, as alleged and never denied, that the two battle
ship program was killed in the Democratic house by certain Dem
ocratic congressmen in retaliation for the failure to secure certain
little postoflice or public buildings in their districts, then the action
of these congressmen is shamefully little and unpatriotic, and
should bring down upon these little congressmen the indignant
rebuke of their larger minded colleagues, as it has evoked the indig
nation of the country.
A Democratic congressman who xvould vote to weaken his
count ry s defense ami degrade his count ry’s stat us because he could
not secure a new postoffice building for some minor town in his dis
trict. is not worthy to represent a Democratic constituency in the
national congress, and should he retired to make room for a better
American as he doubtless will be.
If there are congressmen on the Democratic side who honestly
oppose- the two battleships, because they wish the party to go before
tin country with a record of great economy in public expenditure,
they are fighting progress arid safety and public opinion and their
own party platform, and are degrading a great rich republic into
a miserable miserly policy of stinginess iii the richest and most
essential investment that a republic can make in peace and honor
and national safety.
Ender the stress and loading of the circumstances, the vigo
rous and honest thing for an American congress to do is to ignore
a caucus that has ignored the party platform, and to vote for
country above parly as the party's freshest representatives have
urged t hem to do.
If the new called Democratic caucus does not vote to sustain
the senate and the national Democratic platform in support of two
battleships, then no honest American congressman should be
bound to support a caucus that insults the platform and the senti
ment of his party.
Sulzer and Lee and Curley and Oscar I'nderwood are right.
Every honest Democrat in congress can safely follow them.
In this vital matter ol the navy the Republican minority in
congress is gloriously American ami right. In the same matter the
Democratic majority is ingloriously un American and wrong.
The Democrats of parsimony in the "pork barrel” may go too
far in thinking that the Democrats will win in November despite
their attitude against the navy In the hands of a consummate
political campaigner like Roosevelt, this little, stingy, un-Ameri
can attitude may become, and will become, a tremendous issue.
It is three months yet before the November ballot.
Manx a political revolution has been wrought and won in less
lime than that
An un \meriean policy is a frightful handicap under which
to mill c a presidential campaign.
Japan Ims a new ruler He must do something to render his
reive illustrious England and Germany are restless and aggres
sixe in territorial opposition to the Monroe Doctrine.
It is a sorry time for America to batter down its chief inter
national defenses ami Io invite aggression by shameful weakness.
It th Democratic house caucus lorees the Democratic party
1o go before the country upon this basis, then the Democratic
house caucus must he responsible for the national protest of No
vember.
j Teach \ our Eyes to See
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Advice for Would-Be Reporters and All Others.
An ingenious young num writes the following touching note:
Edu-'r Th- Georgian:
I>* S ' I it a buy fifteen years old. I should like to enter journalism
and is - nas r -■i'>!e become one of the great editors of the world. I‘lease
tell nit how I tn.iv 1. hii-ve this.
AV c can not give an absolute recipe for becoming one of the
greatest editors ot the world. II we possessed such a recipe we
should long since have applied it in our own interest. But looking
oar*k o\ ei ! 011 l' x ears, r• ■ m>■ ml*erlll g a tew successes anil manv
scores of failures among men who have tried to be editors, we feel
like giving and emphasizing to the fullest extent this piece of
adx ice:
LEARN T< > SEE
\\ hat the world demands ol a newspaper man. of aiiv writer,
ig that he shall tell things exactly as they are. To tell things as
they are he must learn to sec them, and learning to see is the most
difficult task in the world.
Ruskin says :
"Hundred- of p. q.|. n,, i< f.- , n . «| b , ~,i n think but thousand- can
Hunk I’m one who van
l>. see ,'liai'tv is po.ttv ; ■. h'< \ ami religion ait in one."
Again he says:
‘ I'lie gre.l I cst 11 1 r.' .1•1 ■ ..O ... , \ .in'b S U orhi is to see some -
tiling and tell what ii saw in a |!aln wai."
"AND I SAW . thus reads the convincing. inspired statement
of one ot' tin divine reporters
Get all the know ledge you can. read, w rite, revise, question the
wise man. listen to the foolish.
BET ABOVE ALL LEARN To SEE
Knowing how to see may not inak< von a great editor, but it
xvill make you more competent ami more successful in aux line ot
cudcaxor that may attract you.
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The Atlanta Georgian
« UNCLE TRUSTY! *
( Copyright, 1912, by International News Service
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‘‘Well, boys here xve are again! I’ve had a fine vacation and
have brought back some rare natural history specimens! I caught
this Talking Boob bird by putting salt on its tail! I also have a
Goggle-eyed I nip and a Whiskered William, I would
ZTAHERE’S a woman out in Den-
jj ver wliw wants to tell the
children all about everything
the minute they are old enough to
go to school.
She lias talked the school people
into her way of thinking and a very
logical, sensible, practical, matter
of-fact way it seems to be w hen she
tells about It, and the new course
Is to begin ttiis fail, maybe. A
protest against the new course is
going up already.
"I don’t want my little girl to
learn-that sort of thing in a class,"
said an indignant and protesting
mother to the president of the board
of education the other day. "When
it is time for tier to know I’ll tell
her myself, thank you. And, be
sides. 1 don’t believe in all this
study of the body, what the body
needs, and what tile body is ami
isn’t. Why not get the mind to
work a while and see whnt that
will do?"
And altogether there’s quite an
interesting light going on over this
question of what a child should
know, and who should tell him
about It.
It’s a. queet thing about th.s body
business. The first time I heard
some one say that a certain man
was too strong to work 1 thought it
was rather a foolish joke.
I’d never known a "good condi
tion" faddist then. 1 know several
of them now, and every one that 1
know is "too strong to work."
Tip x’ll run on the track, play bas
ket ball wrestle, "chin” themselves
a dozen times a day; but run on an
errand for anybody, mow the lawn,
put up a shelf in the pantry when
the perfidious carpenter tias broken
his plighted word- not they.
XX lien 1 want anx real wot k done
1 don’t get a big imskx six-footer
with a famous set of muscles to do
it. I pick out some little delicate
man who lias to make Ids tired
body work xvlien it doesn’t want to,
and he’ll do the job and do it right.
He Means Well, of Course.
The strong man means well
enough, but he can’t reallx work;
liis body won’t let him and his body
is the ruler of the firm every dax
In the week.
XX bx not ' lb’ has much \.liva
ble time teaching his bodv tliat it is
the most important tiling on earth.
XX hy should it lie bossed around by
nothing but xxlll and mind all at
am < ’
Tin great, log. bessi dieiimatitig
body has been the tuler too long to
gix- up Without a Sttuggie and the
poor, w • 11- meaning little soul has to
sit in the <oiin r and whine for a
x liam <• to ■ vp . -s itself at nil.
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EUGENICS AND CHERRIES
-’RIDAY, AVGUST 2. 1912.
By WINIEREI) BLACK.
I wonder if all this idea of con
centrating so much attention on the
body i.s going to turn out so well
after all'.’
Early in life I found out that the
way to keep from climbing the
elmrry tree when the cherries w • i e
too green to be wholesome was to
keep just as far away from that
tree as. I could and to I iiink about
something else as hard as I eoub.l.
Mx new frock, the heroine in my
latest bonk, the way my mother
looked when she was pleased with
something I had done, how the
Chinamen doxvn at the bottom of
Questions in
By Edgar Lucien Larkin
0 11 > "Is there a soul 11 mag-
netic pylc?”
(2) "Does the compass
point to the north no matter oil
which side of tile equator it is""
(.'ll "What is the deepest sound
ing that has ever been made in the
ocean, and w hat was used?"
If I "When a ship sinks does it go
io the bottom of the ocean, regard
less of the depth, or is there a
point at which it will sink no far
ther?"
A. ill Lieutenant Sh.iekelton.
190S-19H9 measured the position of
the south magnetic pole of the
earth and found it to lie in south
latitude 72 degrees iti minutes, and
in longitude east. 155 degrees 16
minutes. But position varies This
is tile latest to be published. If
Amundsen has published a position
I haii not -eon it Yes, there is a
south magnetic pole.
(2j Go to tile north magnetic pole
of tlw until with a compass needle
free Io move in m\ direction. It
xvill turn into a perpendicular di
rection, Mark the end that points
straight downward. Now carrx it
toward the magnetic' equator all
Irregular line around the world not
far on either side from tin real
geographical equator. The end
that pointed toward the zenith xvill
begin to turn downward and th.-
other upward. When on the exact
magnetic equator, the needle will
be horizontal, or level < 'a; t > it
south, ami tin south or unmarked
end will beg n to dip. ami it will
be straight down when . xactlx
ex', r tile -outb ei.iunetl. polo
<;: > Tin ship X.-i■ ■. oft G :.im
sunk a 'omidei to tie bottom at a
depth of t Hhom- oi ;;1 ill I
feet. Tile sinker w.is ni< tat pt ■!,-
abli iron
(f ! Tile Titlim. >• he b tp II
I and plttof It »- 111 •:... I it a, , .
| lam i a lift l< !■ i>w tl o. <a n Ho a
remind you that paying compliments to maiden ladies and exhibiting
cows may be magnificent, but it is not war! You'd better look out
for Theodore! I see he is already sending a brief acceptance speech
to the printers! Elihu, hoxv often must I tell you that when you
carry my bag I xvant you to hold it by both handles!”
the well and a little beyond wore
their long hair—anything, any
where. but the tree.
Once when J was a little girl I
started to carry some particularly
nice cherries to a neighbor who
had been very ill. They were ox
hearts. the only ones of the kind in
those parts. 1 carried them in a
prettv little green basket made of
some kind of rushes or sweet
smelling grass. I can see every
chei ry in that basket to this very
da v.
f
It was a hot day in June. The
neighbor lived a long mile away,
through the pasture. down the
wood road, over the little bridge,
past the willow tree.
1 started with a light heart, tn
the pasture I thought: "I wonder
how many cherries there are in
this basket; it is pretty heavy, it
seems to me." And I looked and I
tasted one—just one—oh! how
sweet it was.
it was hot in the pasture, the
cherries were so juicy, just one
more.
In the woods I looked again.
Yes, just one more, who would
miss it? On the bridge 1 tasted
the cherries again, and under the
weeping willow 1 sat down calmly
and ate every single last one of
those che> ries, and I hid the basket
and went and asked the neighbor
how she was, and then I went
home and told my mother that the
neighbor was delighted with the
cherries, but that she thought some
of them were a tritle sour.
Something in my mother's look
arrested the lie on my lips and I
burst out crying aud told her the
miso able, disgraceful truth. And
mx mother kissed me and cried a
little, too, and then she took me
out to the tre.' and we gathered
.■mother basket almost as full of
< lie : ie- as the first one and mi'
mother said:
I Wonder If It Isn't a Good Idea?
"Now go. and I’ll tel; >ou a s -
at. You won't oat a single cherry
if you use my secret i-eelpe. Think
about something else all the wax
and you'll forget all about the eher-
And I took the littb- gre. n basket
of sweet smelling grass and 1 car
ried it to the neighbor who had
I con ill. and <!>.• said sh< hadn’t
tasted anything so good in a year,
an ! i sang ad th, wax home, just
bi.aus. I thought about some
thing' al’ the way
1 w elide! it 11 W 'Uldn't b. a good
d« a to try this kind of plan when
little eir le.iohe- the wende ing
ago ' Give 1.. ; something very in
i' -ting ' think about, ail the
j wa> lix under.
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THE HOME PAPER
If you have one dollar left over
it. Figure it out this way:
Here lam 23 years old. All this week’s bills are paid. And here is a
one-dollar bill that I owe nobody. What shall I do with it?
What To Do With That Dollar.
Saturday evening is, at the most, six or eight hours Jong. But the fu
ture of life may be many years. On this particular Saturday evening you
are so fortunate that you actually do not know what to do with your dol
lar. The chances are you will, if you do not think, spend it for something
that you can not produce on Sunday.
Better split it up.
Buy a little future protection with a part of it. and play the rich man
with the balance.
This is where self-government comes in.
It means stopping to think before you hand the money over to some
body else who will be counting it on Sunday, while you have nothing to
count. Don’t despise 50 cents left over once a v. eek. It means $26 per
annum. This sum has jielped many a man over a hard place.
If the young man would place his small change in the savings bank as
regularly as he places it in the hands of the cigar man. the saloon keeper
and the rest of them, he could he xvell-to-rlo in old age.
Tiventy-five cents a day. handed over to these gentlemen regularly, is
One Dollar and Fifty Cents a week (with Sunday off for remorse). And
One Dollar and Fifty Cents per week is Seventy-eight Dollars per an
num. And Seventy-eight Dollars per annum placed in a savings bank reg
ularly for twenty years amounts to something over Two Thousand Four
Hundred Dollars, at four per vent.
Self-Government the Key.
Now, self-government must decide whether you have this sum twenty
years from now, or xvhether you will divide it up dax by day among those
xvho are waiting to take it over the counter every morning.
Self-government, then, means the closest kind of study in laying out
what you earn. It keeps showing you how opportunity may be found in
saving time, to earn more. It makes you decide to allow yourself so much
for the necessary expenses, so much for the future as saving, and then a
good time on Saturday night, if there is anything left.
Self-government will also lead you, more and more, to figure out the
cost of things. For example:
One time daily to the saloon keeper, or soda fountain man. xvill pay.
at the age of 21. for a straight life insurance policy to the amount of Two
Thousand Dollars.
In the event of your death, you may either leave the Two Thousand Dol
lars to protect those who hax r e depended on you. or x'ou may have this on
your marble slab:
Here lies Two Thousand Dollars that did not insure the family.
The Sea Nymph’s Song
By J. LEWIS MILLIGAN.
COME with me, xvith me. xvitli me!
Down into my deep-sua caves:
Gome, I']] make you ;gla<l and free;
Gome, and leave the haunts of slaves!
I xvill press your lips xvith mine.
Make them pure and sweet with brine;
Smooth the furrows from your face,
Press round dimples in their place!
t'ome with me and you shall share
All my ocean palace fair:
It is built of pink seashells.
Thro' its hall for ever swells
Music such as ne'er since birth
You have ever heard on earth
Saxe that soothing song of rest
Which you heard at mother's breast.
Gome, and all your past shall seem
Like a child's distemper'd dream ,
Every hope and pur" desire
\ mi shall in my home a* |uiie
Life shall he -an < miles' iox
Pleasure' there can |p.\
< otne and dxx ell for aye \\ it h me
In Ihe ea \ eras ol' the -.a '
How to
Build i
(
a
Fortune !
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No. 3 /
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Self-Government I
By
THOMAS TAPPER
/I GREAT many men have
written books about
saving money, about <1
how to be rich, and so on. Read
them all and you will find just
one rule back of their philos
ophy.
Don’t spend all you earn.
And that is all there is to it,
except what to do with what
you save.
Life is a great picnic to moirt
of us. With the dollar left over
on Saturday night, we feel in- i
clined to cut loose from pov
erty and give the world an |1
imitation of hoxx a man ought
to spend his money.
It seemed fine xx'hile we were
doing it. The cigars were good, I
the beer tasted as fine as cham
pagne, the dinner was worth all
it cost, and so on. These
things do seem to brighten up
the mind. They make the world
a rosy place, tn be sure.
But what is the matter Sun
day morning? Why don’t these I
things seem as fine then as
they did on Saturday night?
Well, ft is hard to say, for
cases differ. But there is a
way of conducting these cele
brations so that, they will not
kick remorse out of us next
morning.
What is the way?
Make every week’s pay con
tribute its toll to the future,
before you go to a picnic,
en before you begin to scatter J