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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, 35,00 a year. Payable in advance. ' Democratic House Caucus Imperils Democratic Success in 1912 R R R 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 R R R 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. I The Atlanta Georgian « UNCLE TRUSTY! * ( Copyright, 1912, by International News Service < ’"■Fx >o* • f • /That unless THer ( ■' M \ 'X I [iW n\ ; VVU / / MVES ARE. dot A y- I /T' $ it \ A A4 l (s>lkce.ss. 1 Believe/ Al ( k \ T « 6 Rtvtß;,E r \ sk a a r '/CJk J ‘‘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. t 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. I 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 ! I No. 3 / ‘ j 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