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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 the 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 picayiinish, parsimonious and
unpatriotic record.
11 is simply a question of Democratic intelligence and Demo
cratic. loyalty.
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 postoffice 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 would vote to weaken his
country’s defense and degrade his country's status because he could
not secure a new post office building for some minor town in his dis
trict, is not worthy to represent a Democratic constituency in the
national congress, and should be 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
the country with a record of great economy in public expenditure,
they are fighting progress and safety and public opinion and their
own party platform, and are degrading a great rich republic into
a miserable miserly policy of stinginess in the richest and most
essential investment that a republic can make in peace and honor
and national safety.
Under the stress and leading 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 party as the party’s freshest representatives have
' urged them to do.
If the new called Democratic caucus does not vote to sustain
the svnate 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 Underwood are right.
Every honest Democrat, in congress can safely follow them.
In this vital mailer of the navy the Republican minority in
congress is gloriously American and 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, hi 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.
Many a political revolution has been wrought and won in less
time than that.
An un American policy is a frightful handicap under which
to enter a presidential campaign. •
Japan has a new ruler, lie must do something to render his
reign illustrious England and Germany are restless and aggres
sive in territorial opposition to the Monroe Doctrine.
It is a sorry time for America to batter down its chief inter
national defenses and to invite aggression by shameful weakness.
If the Democratic house caucus forces the Democratic party
to go before the country upon this basis, then the Democratic
house caucus must be responsible for the national protest of No
vember.
Teach Your Eyes to See
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Advice for Would Be Reporters and AU Others.
An ingenious young man writes the following touching note:
Editor The Georgian:
Dear Sir—l am a boy fifteen >ears old I should like to enter Journalism
and as soon as possible become one of the great editors of the world. Please
tell me how 1 may achieve this.
We can not give an absolute recipe for becoming one of the
greatest editors of the world. If we possessed such a recipe we
should long since have applied it in our own interest. But looking
back over long years, remembering a tew successes and many
scores of failures among men who have tried to be editors, we feel
like giving and emphasizing to the fullest extent this piece of
advice:
LEARN TO SEE.
What the world demands of a newspaper man. of any writer,
ig that he shall tell things exactly as they are. To tell things as
they are he must learn to see them, and learning to see is the most
difficult task in the world.
Ruskin says:
"Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can
think for one who van see.
"To see clearly is poetry prophet x and religion all In one.”
Again he says:
"The greatest thing a human sou! ever does in this world is to see some
thing and tell what It saw in a plain way.”
“AND I SAW,” thus reads the convincing, inspired statement
of one of the divine reporters.
Get all the knowledge you can, read, write, revise, question the
wise man, listen to the foolish.
BUT ABOVE ALL LEARN TO SEE.
Knowing how to see may not make you a great editor, but it
will make you more competent and more successful in any line of
endeavor that may attract you.
The Atlanta Georgian
« UNCLE TRUSTY! »
Copyright, 1912, by International News Service
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“Well, boys here we 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 Ump and a Whiskered Slob-fish! William, 1 would
THERE'S a woman out in Den
ver who wants to tell the
children all about everything
the minute they are old enough to
go to school.
She has talked the school people
into her way of thinking and a very
logical, sensible, practical, matter
of-fact way it seems to be when she
tells about it, and the new course
is to begin this 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 her to know i'll tell
her myself, thank you. And, be
sides, I don't believe in all this
study of the body, what the body
needs, and what the body is and
isn’t. Why not get the mind to
work a while and see what that
will do?”
And altogether there's quite an
interesting tight going on over this
question of what a child should
know, and who should tell him
about it
It’s a queer thing about this body
business. The first time I heard
some one say that a certain man
was too strong to work I 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 I
know is "too strong to work."
They’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 has broken
his plighted word —not they.
When I want any real work done
1 don’t get a big husky six-footer
with a famous set of muscles to do
it I pick out some little delicate
man who has to make his tired
body work when 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 really work;
his body won't let him and his body
is the ruler of the firm every day
in the week.
Why not? He has much valua
ble time teaching his body that it is
the most Important thing on earth.
Why should it be bossed around by
nothing but will and mind all at
on< i ?
The gnat, big. bosss dominating
body has been the ruler too long to
give up without a struggle and the
poor, well meaning little soul has to
sit tn the corner and whine for a
nianve to exptess Itself at all.
EUGENICS AND CHERRIES
KRIOAY, AUGUST 2, 1912.
By WINIFRED BLACK.
I wonder if all this idea of con
centrating so much attention on the
body is going to turn out so well
after all?
Early in life I found out that the
way to keep from climbing the
cherry tree when the cherries were
too green to be wholesome was to
keep just as far away from that
tree as I could and to think about
something else as hard as 1 could.
My new frock, the heroine in my
latest book, the way my mother
looked when she was pleased with
something I had- done, how the
Chinamen down at the bottom of
Questions in
Science
By Edgar Lucien Larkin
Qll) "Is there a south mag
netic p'lC?”
(2) "Dpes the compass
point to the north no matter on
which side of the equator it is?"
(3) "What is the deepest sound
ing that has ever been made in the
ocean, and what was used?”
(4) “When a ship sinks does it go
to the bottom of the ocean, regard
less of the depth, or is there a
point at which it will sink no far
ther?"
A.— (1) Lieutenant Shackelton,
1908-1909. measured the position of
the south magnetic pole of the
earth and found it to be in south
latitude 72 degrees 10 minutes, and
in longitude east. 155 degrees 10
minutes. But position varies. This
is the latest to be published. If
Amundsen has published a position
1 have not seen it. Yes; there is a
south magnetic ix>le.
t- J Go to the north magnetic pole
of the earth with a compass needle
free to move in any direction. It
will turn into a perpendicular di
rection. Mark the end that points
straight downward. Now carry it
toward the magnetic equator- an j
irregular line around the world not
far on either side from the real
geographical equator. The end
that pointed toward the zenith will
begin to turn downward and the
other upward. When on the exact
magnetic equator, the needle will
be horizontal, or level. Carry it
south, and the south or unmarked
end will begin to dip, and it will
be straight down when exactly
over the south magnetic pole.
(3) The shi|> Nero, off Guam,
sunk a sounder to the bottom at a
depth of 5,260 fathoms, or 31,611
feet. The sinkei mis metal prob
ably iron.
< 4 I The Titanic is at the bottom
and part of it is in mud at a dis
tance ii little below the oi < an floor.
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, how often must I tell you that when you
carry my bag I want you to hold it by both handles!”
the yvell and a little beyond wore
their long hair—anything, any
where. but the tree.
Once when I 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. I carried them in a
pretty little green basket made of
some kind of rushes or sweet
smelling grass. I can see every
cherry in that basket to this very
day.
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. In
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 I tasted
the Cherries again, and under the
weeping willow I 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 sortie
of them were a trifle sour.
Something in my mother's look
arrested the lie on my lips and I
burst out crying and told her the
miserable. disgraceful truth. And
my mother kissed me and cried a
little, too, and then she took me
out to the tree and we gathered
another basket almost as full of
cherries as the first one and my
mother said:
Wonder If It Isn’t a Good Idea?
"Now go. and I'll tell you a se
cret. You won't eat a single cherry
if you rise my secret recipe. Think
about something else all the way
and you'll forget all about the cher
ries."
Ami 1 took th<- little green basket
of sweet smelling grass and I car
ried it to the neighbor who had
been ill. and she said she hadn't
tasted" anything so good In a year,
and I sang all the way home, Just
because I "thought about some
thing else” all the way.
I wonder if it wouldn't be a good
idea to try this kind of plan when
a little girl reaches the wondering
age ’ Give her something very in
ti . ' sting to think about, all the
wax. 1 wonder.
THE HOME PAPER
If you have one dollar left over, count ten before you begin to scatter
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 long. But the fu
ture of life may be many years. On this particular Saturday evening you
are so fortunate that ydu 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
w ith the balance.
This is where self-government comes in.
It means stopping to think before you hand the money ovei- 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 week. It means $26 per
annum. This sum has helped 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 be well-to-do in old age.
Twenty-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 cent.
Self-Government the Key.
Now, self-government must decide whether you have this sum twenty
years from now, or whether you will divide it up day by day among those
who 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, will |ay,
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 have depended on you, or you may have this on
your marble slub:
Here lies Two Thousand Dollars that did not insure the family.
The Sea Nymph’s Song
By J. LEWIS .MILLIGAN.
COME with me, with me. with me!
Down into my deep-sea ca\As;
Come, I ’ll make yon glad and free;
Come, and leave the haunts of slaves!
1 will press your lips with mine,
Make them pure and sweet with brine;
Smooth the furrows from your face,
Press round dimples in their place!
Come 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 -
Save that soothing song of rest
\\ hich you heard at mother's breast.
Come, «ind all your past shall'Heem
Like a child’s distemper’d dream;
Every hope and pure desire
You shall in my home acquire;
Life shall be an endless joy.
Pleasures there can never cloy -
Come and dwell for aye with me
In the caverns of Ihe sea !
How to
Build
Fortune
No. 3
Self-Government
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By
THOMAS TAPPER
A GREAT’ many men have
written books about
saving money, about
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 most
of us. With the dollar left over
on Saturday night, we feel in
clined to cut loose from pov
erty and give the world an
imitation of how a man ought
to spend his money.
It seemed fine while we were
doing it. The cigars were good,
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, to be sure.
But what is the matter Sun
day morning? Why don't these
things seem as fine then as
they did on Saturday night?
Well, it is hard ‘ j 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.