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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday Bj THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St.. Atlanta. Ga. T'v * -cd as second-class mtnter at postonice at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 1873. B joscrlption Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week By mail. J5OO a year Payable In advance. I he Banks Can Lower the Cost of Living r » » Association of Moneyed Men Is Trying to Find Out How it Can Aid Farmers. The American Banking association has entered upon a crusade to further the cause of scientific agriculture and to help capable farmers to finance their business. There are thirteen thousand hanks in this association. And organizations have already been formed in twenty-three states to push this movement. Mr. Edwin Chamberlain, of San Antonio, Texas, one of the leading bankers of the South, has just sailed for Europe Io find out what the bankers of France and Germany are doing for agriculture. He represents a commitlee of the association appointed to study these matters. The assumption is that a system of cooperation between the bankers and the farmers of the country can be worked out that will go far toward solving the cost of living problem. This assumption is reasonable and hopeful. Certainly it would be hard to say what the bankers could do that is better cal culated to establish cordial relations between the banking frater nity and the mass of ihe people. It is possible that this movement may open a new era in American banking an era in which bankers shall more nearly realize the constructive and statesmanlike possibilities <>f their busi ness. Hitherto banking in America has been too often regarded merely as a lucrative calling for gentlemen of means, with a talent for keeping correct accounts and making safe loans. Bid now there are signs that banking in America is destined to become a liberal profession. It was said of Alexander Hamilton that "lie smote Ihe rock of the national resources, and abundant springs of revenue gushed forth.’’ Even so, it lies in the power of a country banker to be come not only a curator of money but also a creator of public wealth. Then* is high significance in the linking of the idea of agri cultural education with the idea of extending credit to farmers on better terms. For as John Ruskin taught long ago, the real “veins of wealth” for a nation are in the bodies and brains of its people. Thus it becomes practicable to lend money at low rates to men who are accomplished in their calling and so may be depended upon to “make good.” The “back-to-the-farm" cry will be heeded by multitudes of city inen when every country schoolhouse has become a center of agricultural science and when every country banker stands ready to back the man who knows how to farm. At the convention of the National Education association in Chicago the superintendent of education of Ohio showed how a law of that state established agricultural instruction in all the rural schools was working a swift change of sentiment among the rural population. The law went into efl’ect only last year; yet in a certain Ohio country town where last year lb per cent of the young people declared their intention to farm ami S.'i per cent declared their intention not 10, these percentages had been exactly reversed by the teaching of agricultural science in the “little red school house.” « The Deficiency of American Men An American woman, wife of a wealthy manufacturer, of Grand Rapids, Mich., is authority for the statement that American husbands are a drag on their wives and women folks. Especially is this true she says when it comes to traveling. The American man, according to this representative of the gentler sex, does not know how to entertain the women of their parties, does not know how to order a meal for them, and in many ways hampers them in the free and untrammeled pursuit of pleasure that they dearly love. This is an indictment that comes not from the feeble and effete East, hut from the strong ami virile West. And “pity ‘tis, ‘tis true.” The indifference of the average American man to the social ambitions and pleasures of their women has been the theme of more than one novel and ot many, many essays. The American male animal is interested in “getting there” in business, in build ing and creating and battling in a crude and savage mercantile warfare. What little time he has from his strenuous days he spends in sleep and rest. He seems to think that by handing over to the woman of the house so much money every week or month or year and telling Imr to go mil and enjox herself he has fulfilled his obligations to society Hence the discontent of women, ami hence the savage charge that American husbands are in the way. When American civilization has reached a point where it is more or less settled, then the men will study the little virtues and accomplishments of society. Ami then we will hear less about num beipg in the way and the delights of travel without them. False Hair and Hurry It will probably startle Ihe women of this country to know that next ys-ar, with fashion's demand for new style coiffures, half the hair worn in this country will come from Asia ami Europe “Our women live too fast and are in too great a hurrv to take time to save their combings, declares an expert, “and we have to rely mostly on the Chinese women, from whbm comes seventv per cent of the false hair worn here.” Let milady console herself with Hie fact that this seventv per cent is the very poorest hair in the market It would be not only profitable, but more cleanly and satisfactory, since our women Ml ST wear puffs and curls ami other addenda, if they could wear their own. V<rilv. haste makes waste. The Atlanta Georgian The “Good Fellow” Gets Home ; By HAL COFFMAN. I ? | ; JI 1 I i I M - - --1 an « . /W / < .. 1 • /Z '< z THE HUSBAND STEALER UTHEN a husband is unfalth ' ful to his wife she invaria bly blames some woman for it. The man may be fit) years old, as worldly wise as Solomon, and as ex p to nerd as Don Juan himself, and the woman in the ease may be a seventeen-year-old girl, but his wife is firmly convinced that her husband is a poor, ignorant, unsus picious, unsophisticated infant who has been taken in against his will by a designing siren with whom he lacked the ability to cope. Every day I get letters from an gry and neglected wives telling how their husbands hare been stolen away from them by younger and f lirer women, and reciting the punishment—and. believe me, it's something terrible, with boiling oil In it —that they think should be visited upon these nefarious home robbers. But there is never a word of accusation against the husband who has been so careless as to permit himself to bo pilfered by these light-fingered ladies, or any suggestion that the wives consider that the man was any party to the crime. It is always the woman. She did It. It is, perhaps, cold comfort to say to these unhappy wives that the husband stealer is like the Mrs. Harris of whom Sairey Gamp talk ed so mm h. There "ain't no sich a person." The husband stealer Is a myth, a female Era n ken stein, man ufactured out of the jealous fancies of wives to explain a truth they have not the courage to accept. Nor is this strange. It is less wounding to a wife’s vanity to be lli that her husband has been violently shanghaied away from her against his will than to admit that he has made a sneak «>f It of his own volition. Therefore, to save their faces, as the Chinese say. wives have conjured up this Image of another wo'man. possesed of hypnotic powers, who throws a spell over perfectly good and domesti cated husbands and lure* them away from their own fireside. Easier to Pardon "a Victim." It also makes it easier for a woman to forgive her husband if she can account for his defection on the ground that he has been the victim ot some occult influence he was powerless to resist. Hence she fosters in her imagina tion tie picture of her husband, longing 'nd y> lining to return to the bosom of his family, ehating against the bond that binds him, but h*dd a fast prisoner by some enehanttess - who is about half of TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1912. By DOROTHY DIX. her own age and who weighs 50 pounds less, and h is fluffy golden hair instead of straggling grizzled locks. Thus does the feminine mind move, its wonders to perform, for by dwelling persistently on this view of the matter the wife is en abled to accumulate a fund of pity that entirely blots out her hus- *|| iw 'Sir 1 *• /liF / DOROTHY DIX. band's transgressions and leaves him a pathetic victim of the ma chination of a designing woman. And the woman is the only villain on the scene. It is a consoling theory, but there isn't a scintilla of truth for justice in it. As a matter of fact, the husband stealer does not exist in ial life No w oman ever robs another woman of her husband. He presents himself to the party of the first part as a gift, tied up in fancy paper with blue ribbons on it. You never hear of a woman who is an expert heart robber to pur loin the affections of a man who doesn't want to be stolen As long as a man really loves his wife he is just as safi from the arts ind wiles of every other woman as if he were lacked up in a chilled steel vault to which his wife has the only key. As long as a man is really and truly in love with his wife he is hung all over with burgla alarms. i and. there isn't a woman living who , is skillful enough to jimmy her way into his heart and steal it. Upon the good, honest father of a family, absorbed in his affection for his wife and children, the smiles and the languishing looks of the fascinators slide off as harm lessly as water off a duck’s back. He never even perceives them. He never notices whether his stenog raphers and salesladies age houris of beauty and grace, or as homely I as mud fences. All that he is in terested in is how they can spell, and the correctness of their sales slips. He's simply chained to the domestic altar, and it would be easier to steal the family watch dog than it would be to rob his home of him. Erring Hunt Temptation. It is utter nonsense to talk about a business man being the helpless victim of his stenographer, be cause at the very first roll of her eyes In his direction he could have sent her packing, if he was so sternly opposed to a flirtation as his wife believes that he was. Let it not be forgotten that men have always the opportunity, and the ability, to run away from women if tl ardently desire to do so. No adventuress is fleet enough of foot to overtake a man unless he is willing, and when she captureshim it is because he has been at least guilty of contributory negligence in not malting a get-away. It is sadly true that most of the tempted go out and hunt up temp tation on their own account, and that a- long as we keep to the right side of the road the devil passes by on the other without bothering us. Certainly this is the case as re gards the unfaithful husband. It is the man with the roving eyes who sees every pretty face. It is the man who seeks adventures that finds them. It is the man who • opens champagne for chorus girls who has to pay the bill. No wom an can hold a man or make him seek her society against his In clination. as these same neglected wives know to their sorrow. Perhaps if wives would realize that their missing husbands have strayed of their own accord, and n fl been stolen, they would find a better way to get them back. Or they might consider that household pets with such migratory instincts were not worth getting back at all. But at any rate, they would serve justice by putting the blame where it belongs, for there are no hus band stealers. The worst that a woman does under such circum stances is to become a receiver of a h< irt that does not honestly be long to her. THE HOME PAPER Michael Faraday’s Great Discovery Bv EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN. ON August 31, 1831, the Master Mind in science, manifesting in the brain of Faraday, di rected his hand to take up a wire that was conveying a current of electricity from one terminal of an ordinary zinc-copper-acid galvanic battery to the other, and place it across a bar of soft iron, not touch ing the iron. The eye of man hath not seen an event more wonderful than that which followed; the iron at'once became a temporary magnet and attracted iron filings. Faraday then wrapped thread around the wire to insulate it —that is, to prevent contact of metal —■ and made one turn of wire around the piece of iron; its magnetism was increased. Then he made a coil of many turns, like thread on a spool, and secured a strong magnet. By moving a wire in front of this temporary iron, instead of perma nent steel, magnet, increased cur rent was obtained, depending on the number of turns of wire and speed of the moving wire. One More Capital Discovery Was Made, One more capital discovery was necessary before practical ma chines could be made. This was that if the thin wire connecting the ends of the thick moving wire was insulated, lengthened and twisted around the bar, the gal vanic battery might be dispensed with. .It was found that the ma chine could use the very electricity it generated to increase the mag netic force of the bar by simply conveying the flow around it in in creased number of turns. When steel or permanent mag nets and galvanic batteries were discarded, the name was changed from magneto to dynamo. Now, bend the bar of iron into the shape of the letter U and the two poles are near to each other, with the effect of increase in the rate of alternations. Make a num ber of U magnets. Arrange them on a frame in a circle. Make hun dreds of turns of insulated wire around each branch of each U magnet. Then make many coils The Father of Texas By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. SAM HOUSTON died forty-nine years ago, and it was the “last of earth” with one of the great est Americans that ever looked up with pride to the flag of our coun try. Houston was born on a farm in Virginia in 1793. and, with a natu ral leaning toward the wild, began early in life to roam the Wilder ness. With a red man and the beasts of the forest he was solidly at home, and it was only by a very great exertion of will power that he finally betook himself to the haunts of "civilization.” After some boyish experience in the "War of ’12.” Houston became a real soldier with Jackson in his memorable war with the Creek In dians, and at the famous Battle of "Horseshoe Bend” the young Vir ginian displayed the valor and cour age that won from his chief the warmest praise. Nothing pleased "Old Hickory” like real bravery, and with his own eyes he had seen that Houston was the “bravest of the brave.” It was impossible that a man of Houston’s ability and "taking” ways should remain in the back ground, and in the natural course of events he found himself, at the age of thirty-one, a major general, and at the age of thirty-four governor of Tennessee, his adopted state. With the brightest of prospects, Houston about this time married the beautiful young woman who was to begin the "Iliad of his woes.” Soon after the marriage he learned, from his bride hersiflf, that she loved another and did not love her husband at all. Broken-hearted, but with wonderful magnanimity, Houston told her he would let her The Exile By ENID DAUNCEY. GLORIES of gem-bright isles and waving palms Leave my heart cold beneath this ardent sun ; I long, dear land of home. Tor sober charms Wearied till my long banishment be done. I see thy pastures, fringed with noble trees, Old farms, trim villages, familiar towns— Oh, for the freshness of the Spring, the breeze— The golden gorse upon the open downs I Oh. for loved faces and the haunting sound Os voices in those dim lands, far away; Time-honored jest, the old life's daily round— Ah, God! Could we forget, but for a day! of insulated wire into one spherical bundle, place on an axis in the center of the circle of electro-mag nets and turn the bundle. You could turn it a few times by hand possibly. Try to turn it fast er, you would feel a mysterious pull, attraction or force working against your effort. Go buy an engine to turn the coils of wire. Then this would feel the pull of magnetism, and the pull would increase with each revolu tion. Put on more steam, increase speed and likewise the pulling force and work up to limit. All Due to Faraday And His Experiment. Make thirty or forty U’s weigh ing a few tons each, bind them to gether on a huge yoke or frame of iron from thirty to forty feet in diameter. Make coils and bundles of insulated wire into a cylinder weighing many tons. Move the curved ends of all the U’s close as possible to the cylinder to allow free motion. Buy two double com pound engines to turn the bundle in air space against invisible resist ance and insensible to the human body, but very sensible to conduct ing metals. Let the compound en gines be of 5,000 or 10,000 horse power each. Buy a dozen of these gigantic sets of magnets and rapidly re volving bundles, assemble in a large building, start the huge en gines, after having built a num ber of railroads whose cars receive current from the central station tn their motors, and move the people. Do not stop at five billion dollars, make it one hundred billion, for all humanity. Change the word bun dles to armatures rapidly revolving in an intense field of self-made magnetic lines of force. Put these mystical letters on the machines: 100 KW, 3 P., 60 C., 120 R. P. S. A. C. G., which, translated, reads: 100 kilowatts. 3 phase, 60 cycle per second, at 120 revolutions per sec ond of armature, delivering as an alternate current generator. All due to the fact of Faraday taking up the wire carrying a current and placing it across a small bar of iron. go. that she might marry the man of her heart’s choice, that he would take himself out of the way. Disappearing as effectually as though he had dropped into the sea, Houston went to live with the Cher okee Indians, and borne down by the burden of his grief, sank very low. Even the Indians dubbed him "Drunken Sam.” It looked as though he was on his way to the very bottom of the abyss. But down at the bottom “Drunk en Sam" was a real man, and when Texas began her struggle for lib erty Houston shook off the rags of his degradation and became a sol dier again in the cause of free dom. All the world knows how he won Texas independence at the battle of San Jacinto in 1836, and how. as the fitting recognition of his mag nificent service in her behalf, Texas made him her first president. A thoroughgoing American, Houston’s earnest desire was that the Lone Star republic should be come a part of the United States, and he kept at it until the splendid domain his s-ord had won was united with the greater Republic of the starry flag. When the awful days of ’6l came, Houston was governor of Texas, and he did all he could to keep her in the Union, but, failing, he retired to his prairie home, say ing to them as he departed: "You can go to hell if you please, but you shall not drag me along with you.” He died July 26. 1863. as he was completing his seventieth year, the same honorable man that he had al<- ways been, "without fear and with out reproach.”