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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, 1875. fcubecrlptton Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 c*n!« a week By mail. ->» 00 a year. Payable in advance. Don’t Be in a Hurry, Young Gentlemen There are many young men on earth who fail because they lack ambition and determination to advance. There are many more whose trouble is hasty ambition. They fail to realize their present chances in their hurried reaching out for something better. You may see in any club, pool room or other resort for wasting time crowds of young men smoking and deploring their lack of success. “I’ve been working three years at the same .job and the Mtilary,’’ one will say, “and 1 don’t see what, chance I have for get ting ahead.’’ The young man who talks in this way does not realize that success depends on developing the qualities which are in him. He can develop them if he will, no matter whal his place in the world. Once he is ready to do good work, once he is developed, the work will find him out. When Napoleon Bonaparte was resting from his labors at St. Helena he used to tell this story: “One day on parade a young lieutenant stepped out of the ranks much excited to appeal to me personally. He said to me that he had been a lieutenant for five years and had not been able to advance in rank. T said to him. ‘Calm yourself. I was seven years a lieutenant, and yet you see that a man may push himself forward, for all that.’ ” Napoleon, when he preached this lesson to the young, dissatis fied officer, was the self-made Emperor of the French and of a great many other nations. He had come to Paris a thin, hollow-cheeked, undersized boy from the conquered and despised Island of Corsica. He stuck in the humble grade of lieutenant for seven years. When the time came he blossomed out. When he was lieutenant be was developing himself. He studied and mastered the art of war. He wrote the history of Cor sica, and no one would publish it. He wrote a drama which was never acted. He wrote a prize essay for the Academy of Lyons, and did not win the prize. On the contrary, his effort was con demned as incoherent and poor in style. These were a few failures; enough to make your ordinary young man throw up his hands and say: “I’ve done all I can do; now let the -world look out for me.” Just as he became hopeful about the future, when he knew’that he. had real military genius, he was dismissed from the army, and his career seemed to be ended. He made the thin soup upon which he and his brother lived. He could afford to change his shirt only once a week. He said : “I breakfasted off dry bread, hut I bolted the door on my poverty.’’ He kept at it, and all the time, successful or otherwise, he was developing himself. He developed into an emperor. Young men will please notice that fact, and the fact that Napoleon worked and tried under adversity and monotony instead of grumbling. The newspaper reporter who does not get ahead very fast, the author whose manuscripts are treated as were Napoleon’s first efforts, may study with considerable profit a young American writer named Richard Harding Davis. That young man had been a re porter in Philadelphia for seven years when he went to work on a New York evening newspaper at a small salary. He had written and was writing some of his best stories, hut could not get ahead, apparently. Nevertheless, he kept on trying, and developed him self. When other young men were busy talking about themselves or deploring their lot Davis was writing and grinding away out of working hours at the effort to get out and realize what was in him. He succeeded. A few cases have been mentioned for young men to think over. They are selected at random. No young man need worry about himself so long as he can honestly say that he is doing his best. Being in the same place at the same salary for seven vears can do you no harm, if you are developing during that time what is in you. But you may well worry if you are drifting aimlessly, pitying yourself, making no effort. IPyour mind stays in the same spot for years, that is dangerous. But don’t worry about any thing else. The Church and the Plague This country seem<= to be fully in earnest over the prevention of tuberculosis. On October 27 10(1.000 pulpils will plead to 30,- 000,000 people for co-operation with the movement against the white plague. The age is proline of treni-udons enterprises. Fif ty years ago who would have thought of organizing Io banish consumption from the world? Who would have thought of ban ishing the world 's house Hies by destroying them? hifn two thousand church communicants die evert tear of consumption, and the church is renewing its own spiritual and B-uatenal life by the vigor of its efforts to combat its material de- er. The Atlanta Georgian Joy-Riding on the Back of a Sea Turtle .1 Little Known Sport That /> Ao; <7 and Thrilling rpHE mere mention of riding on I the back of a turtle will re call to many the famous nar rative of Louis Deßougemont, whose amazing exploits in Austra lia, as related by himself some years ago. marked him as a man of keen imagination. That Deßouge mont did make a turtle trip is not improbable, for not only is the pastime practiced, but that it is an amusing (not to say exciting) one may be gathered from a descrip tion received, together with the above views, from a correspondent who has indulged in this novel form of sport in the very region in which Deßougemont laid the scene of his ’G i & // LL *j \ Nek cHS /A 7 ..-.'..x- v) adventures. In referring to Peak Island off the coast of Queensland, where this particular trip took place, this correspondent writes that the beach is only about 400 yards long, all the rest of the is land being rocky. The first operation is to catch the turtles, which are plentifully scat tered about the island, and turn them over on their backs, in which position they are perfectly helpless. When one learns that these animals weigh from two to three hundred weight, it is not surprising that considerable knack is required to do this, but the neatest and quick est way, it is explained, is to grab the, turtle from behind and tip it over its head. As soon as a trip Is arranged the turtles—as many as are required—-are turned over, and, finding themselves on their feet once rhore, they make for the sea with the men on their backs, who, when in about a foot of water, squat on the animals, holding on to them where the coat collar ought to be. The correspondent says: "It is The Utilization of Vacant Lots for the Benefit of the V ery Poor HAVE you ever seen a little child, born and reared in a tenement house? Do you realize how many such children exist in our great cities and how they are living under as unnatural conditions as plants growing in a cellar? Have you ever wondered as you went about the big cities and saw acres and acres of unused land right within the city limits to whom this land belonged? And why it was idle? Some of our billionaires became • billionaires because this land was allowed to lie vacant without being taxed to any extent until it rose to a fabulous price through the growth | of the city. Now it has come to the minds of good people that many of these va cant lots might be utilized for the benefit of the very poor who have no privileges of sunlight and fresh air, and that the little children growing up in our great cities j might be helped by some co-opera tive efforts along these paths of procedure. The International Children's School Farm league is one of the results of these Ideas. Here is its declaration of pur pose: "To Promote and Unify a World-Wide Interest in Children’s Gardens.” Seven Ways It Will Create Interest. By assisting in starting children's gardens in suitable parks and va cant lots. By assisting in starting gardens in connection with schools, until boards of education become con vinced of their value and take over their maintenance. By assisting in starting gardens in connection with hospitals and institutions for children who are mentally or physically weak or de ficient. Bv urging :i. employment of teacher-- rained for children's gar den work. -MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1912. The top picture shows three racers lining up for a turtle race off the Queens land coast. The center pic ture shows pre liminary prepa rations for a turtle trip, the riders riding on the backs of the turtles down to the sea. The shell of the turtle, which is as broad as it is long, affords a fiat surface on vzhich to stand as the animal makes its way to sea. The bottom pic ture shows the start of one of the racers. The expression of Hie turtle is quite normal. difficult at first to balance proper ly, and the first few we tried lit erally turned turtle on top of us, whereupon we loosed our hold of them pretty hurriedly and made off in another direction as, although the turtle is harmless enough if handled with care, it has a beak which would shame a parrot of the same fighting weight, and we had By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Copyright, 1912, by International News Service By establishing a training school for such teachers. By exhibiting models and pic tures of the work for the infor mation of the public. By maintaining a bureau of In formation and advice on how' to start and conduct children’s gar dens; furnishing lectures, printed matter, photographs and lantern slides. No matter how large or small the \(r 1 f t . - " ■' X JJ ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. number, each child has his or her <wn garden, on which he or she does all the work. A new interest and sense of responsibility comes with ownership, arousing the forces of ambition and developing at once the need of property protec tion. often It is their fir-t under standing of the right- of property owners, and this awakening of the civic sense of protection is to have a tremendous influence. They spread fertilizer, spade, rake, plant, hoe, water, weed and harvest. Worthy work well done is ■- ways dignlfiei ind the worker dignities it The child must be shown how to do the work well, arouse his labor-saving intelli gence and open his mind to the forces of the elements that are O - <■ t~-~ ' .■U' ~ ' ■ ■ I. - >H»ww. r * - "%' ■ ”'"’ x • ' '■ jib' ao uesire for the beast to try it on us. "No one seems to know,” he goes on to say, "w'hat brand of turtle these are; they are used for soup, but 1 do not think they are the proper green turtle—if they are it is rather tantalizing to see forty odd on the beach worth about $l5O apiece in New York.” serving his intelligent activity, and he will never question the dignity of labor that arouses intelligence and that fills him with pride over the product. Children's gardens conducted on this plan have spaces reserved for varieties of products grown throughout the country, so bring ing the children to the larger prob lems of the nation. There is much w ork to be done in the garden outside of the child’s plot. Just as every community has public works that must be attend ed to, so the children must con tribute their services to the gen eral welfare of the whole garden. And in this work they learn of broom com. flax, wheat, cotton i and other wonderful plants that are so important to the world. To Develop Courage to Grasp Opportunities. To preserve the neatness of the garden the children are taught to gather stones and trash, load wheelbarrows and wheel them away. In doing this, and* in keep ing in order the paths over which the loads must be wheeled, they learn in simple, effective manner to think about one of the greatest aids to civilization— transportation. The way in which the question of good roads can be brought to chil dren in a garden will make them think more and more of the fact that "all production is transporta tion." and that as all material pro duction is the result of moving things, so all materia! wealth is the result <>f moving things economi tally, that they may be worth more after they are moved than they were before. The widespread use of gardens in the education of children will be a tremendous force tn hastening the people to a better use of the land. Eor all the people must kno»' something about the subject to in telligently elect representatives who are to act sos them in public matters, and to respond whe M «r tion is taken. THE HOME PAPER Dr. Parkhurst’s Article Living by Rule or Living EAw by Impulse —and— The Difference Between LTLIB Them Written For The Georgian By the Rev. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst AN editorial writer has sug gested to Mr. Stokes, the wealthy candidate for the mayoralty of Stamford and a So cialist, that if he wants to do some thing for the poor he had better turn hie property into dollars and distribute the proceeds of sale among the needy. It is disappointing that, at this stage of the game, w'hen so many sensible things have been said about ameliorating the conditions of the less favored classes, a man should be found who, while posing as an oracle, should recommend to Mr. Stokes a policy of amelioration so stupidly inadequate. Supposing that all the property in the country were converted into cash and the resulting funds ex pended in an equable per capita distribution, where would the poor people, as well as the rich ones, be at the end of a month? Dollars are necessary, but dollars are not what amelioration is made of. The man who initiated Christian civilization was not a millionaire, but was so poor that when it came time for him to pay his poll tax he had to have one of his disciples go fishing in order to raise the neces sary funds. I am not blinking the fact that the poor ought to have more money; but more money is not the chief nor the fundamental thing. Money Is Lubricant, Not Motive Power. Money is the lubricant that makes the machinery run easily, but it is not the motive power that drives the machine. An editorial writer In The Inter national Railroad Employee, ad dressing railroad operatives, says; "You seldom, if ever, give any se rious thought to bettering your condition, except by hoping for bet ter wages. Your ideals begin and end with wages, and so long as that be true there is no possibility of your condition being bettered.” Mr. Stokes will not fool with his money, but presumably will lay it out, not in filling men’s pockets, but in improving men themselves and adding to their equipment and thus qualifying ’ them to fill their own pockets. There are two ways of living; one is living by rule, the other Is living by impulse. There is a wide and important difference between the two, and I should be pleased if every one reading this article would understand what that difference is and how great and serious it is. The person who acts by impulse does what at any given moment he feels like doing; while the one who lives by rule acts according to cer tain established laws that he has deliberately laid down for himself. Os course, it is natural and a deal easier and pleasanter to do always exactly what we feel like doing, and if our feelings were, always right it would be altogether safer to do so, and perhaps there are some whose dispositions are so fine and so steadily fine that what they tvant to do will always be the thing that it is proper and wise, for them to Letters From the People —— I HONOR FOR MRS. LONGSTREET Editor The Georgian: I wish to express, through the columns of your paper, the senti ments of those women of our state who and esteem Mrs. Helen D. Longstreet in her admir able and unparalleled struggle to conserve, for immemorial genera tions, the scenic beauty of Tallulah Falls. Her combat has been Na poleonic, so invincible has she been; but so far she has not met her Waterloo. Now that the legislature has urged that Governor Brown bring suit for the conservation of the Jails, the climax of her fight is not far off. and we can only hope with Mrs. Longstreet that she wins. If de *'in there should be erect ed to hey -■ monument as big and do. But at any rate there are not ' many people of that kind. Example of Vessel Crossing the Atlantic. If a sailing vessel is crossing the Atlantic it would save the sailors a great deal of trouble and hard work to let her go as she pleases; and Ts the wind w’ere blowing from the right quarter and continued to blow from the same quarter without any veering, then the vessel might be left to herself to go her own way and she would arrive in port all right. But winds do not usually work in that way. Some of the time they come from the east and some of the time from somewhere else and everywhere else. Very much like a man’s dis position the wind is. Therefore, the captain has to lay down a line for the vessel to run upon and hold her to that line. That is to say. the vessel must sail by rule and not by impulse. Almost all people do lay down rules for themselves and some of the time they follow them, but once in a while impulse starts up. a sud den desire seizes them, and the rule is broken and goes all to pieces. Everything in nature goes by rule. The earth revolves by rule; the trees leaf and blossom by rule. If the world about us acted only by impulse, everything would be shattered inside of 24 hours; the winds would tear up the forests, the hills would tumble into the lakes and the stars would bump Into each other and the sky' be full of the flinders. It may not have occurred to the reader that what I have just been saying has a very direct applica tion to the present political situa tion. Opinions today are of two sorts. One sort is that of people who want to have government admin istered by rule, and the other opin ion is the one held by those who would like to see it administered by impulse. Mr. Roosevelt stands for the im pulsives. He is the victim of his momentary fancies and preferences. Colonel Roosevelt “Is Like a Colt.’’ Ho is like an unbroken colt that looks upon a fence not as some- « thing intended to keep him in. but as something put up for him to jump over. The whole tendency of his Influ ence is to persuade the masses that it is their rightful privilege to do as they may at any time they feel like doing, irrespective of law and constitution. He i s without reverence for what is established. If he built a boat he would leave out the anchor. If he created a tree he w’ould skip the roots. If he were to originate a state 9* would put himself at the head of tt, of course, and dispense with all constitution except such as the peo ple Would make up as they went along. And that is the kind of per son to whom a good many people would like to commit the‘shaping of our national life and the guard ianship of its interests. as high as old Yonah—not after she is dead and gone, but NOW, And the WOMEN of Georgia ought to do it (MRS.) CLARA M’KINNEY ED- WARDS. Clarkesville, Ga. “MOTHER'S WORK,'' Editor The Georgian: Dorothy Dix certainly under stands human nature. I am very fond of reading her articles in The Georgian. She writes from a won derful fund of information and she writes convincingly. J was struck by the great truth she set forth in the article on “Mother's Work;” which appeared in yesterday’s pa per l wish that every mother could lead it It would do a world of good. r. g T . Atlanta, Ga.