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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 postoftlce at Atlanta, under act of March 8. 1878 Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mail, $5.00 a year. Payable in advance. Democratic House Caucus Imperils Democratic Success in 1912 r •? M 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 *■ •? w 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 YH , , Cha aK JN „ A a q 0 ” 0 Hr (Y&Ut4G WOMEN TkUNtp?'' t v\ VY-NSfAVV ' // /THAT UNLESS they ( \ /Hl l x\ SN n / AEE MAR.R'EP THE'RJ \ /J®4 AW Bl /LIVEWARE NOT A MY? V NNNP ' > *>A JR CJwil ~ “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 ■ ■' • 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.