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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. 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 mail, $5 00 a year. Payable in advance. The Ranks Can Lower the Cost of Living It » » 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 banks in this association. Ami organizations have already been formed in twenty three stales to push this movement. Mr. Edwin Chamberlain, of San Antonio, Texas, one of the leading bank, rs of the South, has just sailed for Europe to find out what he bankers of France and Germany are doing for agriculture. He represents a committee of the association appointed to study these matters The assumption is that a system of co-operation between the banker- and the farmers of tin* country (‘an 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 hankers could do that is better cal culated to establish cordial relations between the banking frater nity and the mass of the people Il is possible that this movement may open a new era in American banking mn era in which bankers shall more nearly realize the constructive and statesmanlike possibilities of their busi ness Hitherto banking in America lias been too often regarded merely as a lucrative calling for gentlemen of means, with a talent for keeping correct acemints and making safe loans. But now there are signs that banking in America is destined to become a liberal profc ssion. It was said of Alexander Hamilton that ‘‘He smote the rock of tin national resources, and abundant springs of revenue gushed forth.” Even so. it lies in the power of a country banker to be come not onh a curator of money hut also a creator of public wealth. There is high significance in the linking of the idea of agri cultural education with the idea of extending credit to farmers on belter terms. For as John Buskin taught long ago. the real ‘‘veins of wealMi” 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 lheir calling untl so may be depended ' upon to ‘‘make good.” The “back to tlie farm” cry will be heeded by multitudes of city im n when every country schoolhouse has become a center of agricultural science ami when every country banker stands ready Io hack - the man who knows how to farm. Al 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 wa< working a swift change of sentiment among the rural population. The law went into effect only last year; yet in a certain Ohio country town where last year 15 per cent of the young people declared lheir intention to farm and 85 per (‘ent declared tljeir intention not to, these percentages had been exactly reversed by the teaching of agricultural science in the “little red school house. The Deficiency of American Men Au American woman, wife of a wealthy manufacturer, of Grand liapids. Mich., is authority for the statement that American husbands an a drag on their wives and women folks. Especially is this true she says when it conies to traveling. The American man. according to this representative of the genth r si x. does not know how to entertain the women of their w parties, dm - 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 fe<■:>'• and < i¥<le East, but from the strong and virile West. And ’ pity 11-. tis t rue.' Tim iiidifi'Ti'iice of the average American man to Hie social ambitions and pleasures of their women has been the theme of jnore than one novel and of many, many essays. The American male animal is interested in “getting there" in business, in build ing and eri.-iiuig and battling in a crude and savage mercantile warfare What litth time he has from his strenuous days he spends in -h p and rest Hi seems to think that by handing over to the woman . 'I house so much money every week or month or year and l< ilii her to go out and enjoy herself he has fulfilled bis obligations to mu-mi 11. , IVI . tin* discontent of women, and hence the savaga eharg' th it \ eriean husbands are in the wav. When Aui'iican civilization has reached a point where it is more or l-ss settled. tl < u the men will study the little virtues and aceomplisiim nt.- of society And then we will bear less about nicy being in the wav and the delights of travel without them. Raise Hair and Hurry 11 will pi oba idy st art h the women of this country to know that next year, with fashions demand for new style coiffures, half the lm<r worn in this country will <oine from Asia and Europe. “(hi women live too last and :ir< in 100 great a hurry to take time to sax • their combings, declares an , Xpert, “and we have to rely mostly on the ( him s, women, from whom comes seventv per Cent of the false hair worn here." Let milady console herself with the fact that this seventy per cent is the very poorest hair in the market. It wmld Im not only profitable, but more cleanly and more satisfactory, sine our women MI ST wear puffs and curls and other addenda, if they could wear their own. Verily, haste makes waste. The Atlanta Georgian The “Good Fellow” Gets Home By HAL COFFMAN. i. i sic IS M ~ i > IwO •I : r il I. I mil ii Ila \w. safaj IBMaLifcfc r/itk, i . I " Jf ® 7 // v l! k THE HUSBAND STEALER WHEN a husband Is unfaith ful to his wife she invaria bly blames some woman for it. The man may be 60 years old, as worldly wise as Solomon, and as ex perienced 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 have been stolen away from them by younger and fairer 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. Rut there is never a word of accusation against the husband who has been so careless as to permit himself to be pilfered by these light-lingered 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 tike the Mrs. Harris of whom Shirey Hamp talk ed so much. There "ain't no sich a person " The husband stealer ts a myth, a female Erankenstein. man ufactured out of the jealous fancies of wives to explain a truth they have not tiie courage to accept. Nor is this strange. It is less v minding to a wife's vanity to be lieve that her husband has been violently shanghaied away from her against his will than to admit that he lias made a sneak of it of his own volition. Therefore, to save their faces, as the Chinese say. wives have conjured up this image of another woman, possesed of hypnotic powers, who throws a spell over perfectly good and domesti cated husbands and lures them away from their own fireside. Easier to Pardon “a Victim.” It also makes it easier for a woman to forgive tier husband if she can account for his defection on the ground that lie lias liven the victim of some occult influence he was powerless to resist. Hence she fosters in her imagina tion the picture of her husband, longing find yearning to return to the bosom of h's family, ihafing against thi bond that binds him. but held a fast prison, r by some i m hantress- who is about half of TL ESI JAY, ALG EST 13, 1912. By DOROTHY DIX. her own age and who weighs 50 pounds less, and lias fluffy golden hair instead of straggling grizzled locks. Thus does the feminine mind move, its wonders to perform, for by dwelling .persistently on this vi< w of the matter the wife is en abled to accumulate a fund of pity that entirely blots out her hus- J M I. 1 "We, I i 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 tlte 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 exisl in eat life No woman 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 blip ribbons on it. You never hear of a woman who is an expert heart robbci 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 safe from the ai ts and wiles of every other woman as if he were locked up in a chilled stc. 1 vault to which his wife has tlte only key . As long as a man is really and truly in love with his wife he is hunE al! <»\t r with hm • < .4 r < 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. J He never even perceives them. He never notices whether his stenog raphers and salesladies are houris of beauty and grace, or as homely 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 hint. Erring Hunt Temptation. It is utter nonsense to talk about a business man being tlte helpless victim of Jtis stenographer, be cause at the very first roll of her eyes In hi? direction he could have sent her packing, if he was so sternly opposed to a flirtation as his w ife believes that he was Eet it not be forgotten that mon have always the opportunity, and the ability, to tun away from women if I they ardently desire to do so. No adventuress is fleet enough of foot to overtake a man unless he is willing, and when site captureshim it is because he has been at least guilty of contributory negligence in not making a get-away. It is sadly true that most of the tempted go out and hunt up temp tation on’ their ow n account, and that as long as we keep to the right side of tlte road the devil passes by on tit' other without bothering us. Certainly this is the ease as re gards the unfaithful husband. It is tin- man with the roving eyes who secs 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 bid. 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 th ir missing husbands have strayed of their own accord, and not 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 becomi a receiver of a heart that docs not honestly be- THE HOME PAPER Michael Faraday’s Great Discovery By 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 th'e iron. The eye of man hath not seen an more wonderful than that which followed; the iron at once became a temporary magnet and attracted iron tilings. Faraday then }vrapped 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 1 was increased. Then he made a coil of many turns, like threa-d 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. :i*;d 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 herself, that she loved another and did not love her husband at till. Broken-hearted, but with wonderful magnanimity. Houston told her he would let her The Exile By ENID DAUNCEY. GLORIES of gem-bright isles .Hill waving palms Leave my heart cold beneath 1 his ardent .sun- I long, dear land of home, for sober -harms. 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 hr- The golden gorse upon the open downs! Oh. for loved faces and the hanntiim sound Os voices in those dim lands, far ;iwa\ Time-honored jest, the old lif es daily round— Ah. God! Could we forget, hut for a <lav’ 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 puli 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. I 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. I.et the compound en gines be of 5,000 or 10,000 horse power each. Buy a dozen of those giganti® 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 whoso cars receive current from the central station in their motors, ami move the people. Do not stop at live billion dollars, make it one hundred billion, for ail 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 KM'.. 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, and that he would take himself out of the way. Disappearing as effectually as though he had dropped into the sea, Houston wont 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, ami he kept at it until the splendid domain his sword had won was united with tne greater Republic of the starry flag. When the awful days of ’6l came. Houston wa - governor of ' ‘ xas. and hi did all he could to keep hi r in the tjnion, but. failing, ho retired to his prairie home say ing to them as he departed: 1 ou can go to hell if you please, but you shall not drag me ali-mg with you.” He died July 26, 1863. as he was ompleting ntiet year, the same honorable man that ho had al ways been, "without feat and with out reproach.”