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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 i after at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of Marctf*3. 1873. Subscription Price—Delivered bj carrier. 10 cents a week. By mall, »5 00 a year. Payable In advance. Panama Pecksniffs and the Shipping Trust A l.'ircv contingent of newspapers—of the kind that live by their < i ini fig alliances have fallen into sudden paroxysms of moral horror at tin - .■iciion taken last week by the I nited States sena'te on Ih> Panama question. jp.j \ ; .pb who save no time to unravel the intricate prob lem diph ii ii't . nd ‘‘iiancc are perhaps puzzled Io understand wh\ 1 < !; ial lonal morality should seem tor the moment t u find its < ls f p ; -sionati devotees in the ranks of privilege. They learvl t,common honesty and simple good faith should be claim. ! ,mmpoly of those who have cornered so many other of the good things of life. Win is • .at tii -taiid pat senators, whose consciences have j;. ~. '-med too tender for tins rough world—Crane, Gal- r Led'..’ Oliver, I’enrosc, Root, Wetmore and so on—are now S{) di shocked by the proposal that American ships should go fi , o : ills through an American waterway? Tie p,. ,J, of Um I nited Slates are not all—or even mostly - 1 ols. Ami hi-y . prepared to understand that it is not pure j that !m i '.r id tlo- stand pat senators in such solid ranks against free tolls. h . ned of all’tin sanctimonious humbug that has been si,;■r. io\ r ' bis subject, the plain fact is, of course, that the Pan ; : ; lai be I to the I iiitml States just as Ihe Erie canal does.- '■ "mans who espouse the supposed right of England fl ]m " :. i conn: l ies to manage the canal as equal partners v ■!- I n:ied Stales an no doubt merely honest people with mud d dle: ds P.ut the main strength of this preposterous opinion is deri\ t L ii the l ack stairs influence of the International Ship ping Tt iist amids allied financial interests. I .• p|. ■ nt controversy over the question of canal tolls should rra a.■ ! hi Am rican people to a certain broad tact of modern life tli.-it has a -\er b. for. In nso vividly illustrated, to-wit : THE EX ] Tl.\< I Id' A VAST INTERCONTINENTAL COMBINATION OF ■ I l.nsil INTERESTS that knows no patriotism, rd I'St’.S ALL GOVERNMENTS FOR ITS OWN PRIVATE ENDS e hy b ri' il outcry against a reasonable American policy for ini ■ .m \nn rican waterway is due to the organized hyp ocrisy of this ( onibinal ion. ’ in-:ti'liim n. Friiol and Germans, so far as they are free . nr’ i in -. ri .ol:! ? agree that Americans are right in man a-.- ■ I in. ■ inal Io suit themselves. They admit, as a mat t< r • < ii. . th -y would wish to do lhe same t hing if they were in our place. I our obligation under the Clayton-Bulwcr treaty mit 1 Hay I’auimi fotc treaty, to treat the canal as if it did not 1 m, .. cunning sophistication. This is evident from th-- toi owing considerations: h|’. vmld dare question our right to stop work at n:is and even to destroy all that we have done there— , v ii’.; would not i><> the ease it’ our property right were not absolute. ’’’n r,- is no existing consideration that could possibly Stall s at this moment to enter into an agreement illier country to bind our hands in the way a • .Hors and stand pat newspapers say we are IL j I’.inw •fotc treaty. They, therefore, rest their <•;> ii. v< have got ourselves into a diplomatic ti.x and can not get out. I or no great nation ever did. ever will or interminably to a bargain that is whollv one ... i ■ -'W' and take to it Such bargains are respected only '■ ’' ' i' a'lt nt stales Among self i especting nations ated when they cease to have mutuality of advantage. of the Clayton-Bulwer and Hay Pauncefote treat ' I'Gii -s the action taken by the senate last week. go. when the ('layton Bulwer treaty was mmi' . .i si; • j consideration to offer us. because of its claim .: - ■ Mosquito Indians and some more or!- • "is m m rtain C< ntral American territories. The su>. ■ 't: ■ r .'hts torn ■ d the consideration for the bargain ma • iy . y H ;. with Lord Pauncefote in 1901. The treaty < ' ■ abrogated list as the treaty of 1901 might now be abrogated if it w. r- worth while to do so. 1 ■’ o‘ the Hay-Pauncefote treaty when wo acquired sovereignty er th. canal strip, and decided to build the canal NOT THROLGH FOREIGN AND NEFTRAL TERRITO RIES BI T THROIGH <>:. !•: (>WN LANDS. A earetui study ol the history of the long controversy with England about tin neutralizing of a canal across the American isthmus will show that the claims of England had steadily weak-' em d and had nearly reached the vanishing point. WHEN THEY WERE SI DDENI ¥ REVIVED THE OTHER DAV BY INVIS IBLE L\i 'J EN( 1 S THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT WAS THEN .MADE THE TOOL OF THE PRIVATE POWERS THAT RI LE OVER I N FERNATIONAL TRANSPORTATION The broken sobs of outraged morality that have since filled the air prot' ed from emotions that are. at bottom, predacious and Pecksiiiltiau i The Ati,anta Georgian Can Death by Disease Be Eliminated? // Doctors Succeed tn Finding a Specific For Cancer, the Last of Man's Greatest Maladies Will Have Been Mastered In this picture ~ laboratory as 7*** Fi-F' df sistants ate shown inocu- jr-ft lating a rat with M cancer tissue. —1 Both of these *-q 1 I'lM; ||l f I ~ ® \ pictures I Jh taken and re- f.£ produced, by permission, from ~ ! the Comopoli- tan Magazine | for August. J By GARRETT P. SERVISS I N the August number of .THE COSMOPOI,ITA N MAGAZINE there is an article on "The Conquest of Cancer." which is of absorbing interest, for the simple reason that it tells, in popular lan guage, the exact truth on a subject about which there has been so much sensational exaggeration that the public mind has been perturbed without being informed upon it. The sad truth is that, at the present time, the only sure cure for cancer i-aihe surgeon's knife — and that is sure in only certain special cases. But doctors have learned to recognize cancer in its earliest stages, when It often IS CURABLE, and that is a vast gain in itself. Moieover, experimental investi gations are pow on foot which give at least the hope that a specific cure may be found for all forms of cancer. Some of the lower animals are the necessary victims of such experiments, and some people, who apparently love dogs more than they love men and women, make a great outcry over that fact. Such people, whose sentimentalism has , gone astray, may be disregarded when the object in view is an al most immeasurable blessing to hu manity. It would probably be im possible to find anywhere men en dowed with a more sympathetic nature, ami a greater desire to ban ish suffering from the world, than those very experimenters. Terrible Figures. Since, after all. selfishness is at the bottom even of the soul of the sentimentalist, some of the object ors to animal experimentation as a basis for improved medical science may hesitate In their blind opposi tion when they are informed that statistics show that one out of every fifteen men, and one out of every eight women who have passed the age of .15 years is doom ed to die of some form of cancer. This is not to say that death by cancer is a mere lottery. It is not as if fifteen men, or eight women, shut up in a room, were required to draw from an urn containing either fourteen white balls and one black ball, or seven white and one black, with the certainty that the unfortunate who drew black must die a teri ible death. The meaning Nagging By Dorothy Dix I tN a peculiar and piteous divorce I ease now pending, the sole cause that is alleged for the breaking up of a home is a woman's nagging. • The Husband, a wealthy and prominent man. testified in court that he had left his wife because he could stand her incessant nag ging no longer. The children, a nearly grown son and daughter, entreated the court to give them to their father be cause their mother's nagging made life unendurable to them Neither husband nor children manifested the slightest affection for the woman. She had killed their love by nagging. The woman is pretty and good. She lived in a palace and had ail the luxuries that money could buy. She bad husband and children and everything to make life happy, and she has thrown away every thing, lost everything, by her nag ging. Not Her Fault. There is a lesson in this little story from real life that every wom an who is at the head of a family should pause and consider For this lady with the serpent's tongue is not the only nagger. There are others, and if more husbands do not get up and desert their wives, and more children do not turn against their mothers, it is be cause of the marvelous fortitude and power of endurance that some people have. It isn't the nagger's fault She does the very best she can to break up her home, ami make lite a bur- | den to those unfortunates whom a THERSDAY. Al GDST 15. 1912. \ k\\ - k S \ I II x ' ; ' ■ ■ * ** / Cance ous growths on a carp, a rare case, which shows that even fish are not immune to cancer. is that, on the average, out of every fifteen men and eight worn n past .15 years of age one surely possesses the seeds of cancer, which will eventually develop. It is as if in the room there were a fly. having an unerring sense enabling it to detect the presence of the undis closed cancer, lhe person on whom that fly alighted would be the vic tim diesigned by fate. Ail the others might be peifeetly safe be cause they di<j not bear the fatal mark. But, according to the sta tistics. there would in she long average surely be ONE in everj such assemblage who would carry the hidden insignia. Sometimes the doctor can detect the fatal blight or the probability of its existence, but generally even he can know nothing about it until the disease visibly declares itself. Then, if instant action is taken, in some cases of external cancer he can effect a cure with the aid of the knife. The object of the spe cialists now is to find some remedy which will act upon the disease wherever it may be located. You will read in the article to which I have referred what has been done with such means as radium and the X-rays and certain chemicals. You will also find there what has been learned about the causes of cancer, what about the means of detecting it at an early stage, when it may still be curable, and what is the nature of the hopes which the searchers for a specific cure enter tain. The man who is foremost in this search, and upon whom the ex pectant eyes of the world rest, is the German, Dr. Ehrlich, who re cently discovered a specific lor an other disease w hich had b< < n re garded as hopeless. Suppose that Dr. Ehrlich should succeed (as he max’ do any day), cruel fate has doomed to live tin der the same roof with her. When the sum of the harm that is done in the world is added up, it will be found that the nagger holds the banner record. She has driven more men to drink, more young girls into idiotic marriages, more children away from home, than all other < aus> - combined She is like Samson. With the jaw bone of an ass she slays her thou ands. Take the woman, for in dance, who nags her husband about what he shall eat. and what he shall di ink. and whether he shall smoke or not. She thinks that when she mentions these things to him a hundred times a di> she is onlx doing her wifely duty. She doesn't realize that site is invading his sa cred liberty and insulting his judg ment < v.-ri time she reminds him that highly seasoned food is bad for his stomach, and that he'll acquire smoker's heart from the use of a pipe Still less does sh< perceive the effect of her nagging on her hus band. She doesn't realize that at first hi feds offended, then wor ried. then exasperated; then he be gins to duck when he sees her get ting ready to launch the old. dreary familiar arguments against hint. And at last he comes to hate her with the deadly hatred that wo feel for those who subject us to petty tyrannies against wjtich th> re is no defense. If a woman is really Opposed to her husband's method of eating and drinking and smoking, she might tight it out with him oner, but after that sht had better let him kill himself in peace, doing what what would be the ultimate conse quences? The last of the major diseases' that shorten human life and cause endless suffeting would have been conquered. This does not mean that they would imme diately disappear, but there would be good/reason to hope that they might all .be eventually eliminated, so that, after a time, death would ' only occur either as a result of accident or murder or of simple old age. Men would live longer and their lives would be relatively free from suffering. What It Would Mean. But would they be content even with that condition? Not in the least. The next effort would be still further to prolong life. Then the question would be seriously debat ed—as it has indeed already been debated —'whether d'-ath itself might tjot be banished. It is not in the nature of man to be content, and his Creator did not intend that he should be content. His wonder ful powers were given to him in or der that he might always seek to* better his condition. He was not placed in the position of a Sisiphus, doomed to pass all his time in pushing a stone up hill, only to see it inevitably roll down again. He DOES GAIN something every day. His progress is slow, but yet cer tain. He was put into a world full of enemies and given the means of combating those enemies. Many of them he has already conquered, but many yet defy him. When he has mastered all of his diseases a new field for the exercise of his genius will open before him. If it did not he would WISH TO DIE, and might welcome back the dis eases as friends, for there is no happiness for human nature except in marching forward and accom plishing something. I he wants to do, than to be forever nagging him about It. It would be an easier and a pleasanter death. It is also the nagging of her de voted mamma that makes many a g'.r! marry the first man that asks her. or tempts her to go from home to work, and that causes many a hoy to leave home. The child that said, when asked his name, that he was called "Johnnie Don't" fair ly expressed the position of many unfortunate young people in their ow n homes. The Result. 1 hey never have a minute’s peace; they never have a particle of liberty ; tYiey can never do any thing just as they like to do it. because mamma is after them with her eternal "do" or “don't." She badgers them about the way they sit. the way they speak, the way they stand, the way they do their hair, the clothes they have got on. what they eat—everything under the sun. until she stands to them for nothing else on earth hut a kyi joy. and their one thought, plan and determination from the time that they are old enough to think at all is to get away from her. And they do it at the earliest possible moment. • of course, dwn- madam, you who read these lines will never admit that you nag But examine your self and see if you have fallen into thi habit of telling your husband and children over and over again what they should do and shouldn't do. and if you interfere in all their pl,.ns Naturally you don't call this nagging, blit they do. and if you want to keep them from hating you STOP IT! THE HOME PAPER Ella Wheeler Wilcox Writes on An Investigation of the ! Causes Which Lead Men and fl Women into Crime Written For The Atlanta Georgian By Ella Whteeler Wilcox Copyright, 1912. by Ainerican-Journal-Exapiiner ■\T7HOEVER was brirotL 11 by pur" love, V V And came desired a:id wtdeomed into life, Is of immaculate conception. He Whose heart is full of tenderness and truth, Who loves mankind more than ho loves himself, And can not find room in his heart for hate, May be another ('hrist W ■ all may be The Saviours of the world, if we believe In the Divinity which dwells in us And worship it, ami nail our grosser selves, Our tempers, greeds, and our unworthy aims I pon the eross. Who giveth love to ail, Bays kindness for unkindness, smiles for frowns. And lends new courage to each fainting heart. And strengthens hope and scatters joy abroad, He, too. is a Redeemer. Son of God. JUST at this particular juncture several unfortunate mon are being held prisoners for the de liberate planning of the 'murder of a fellow being in Now York. Other mon implicated will no doubt be added to the list before this article appears. The meanest and most despica ble motive for crime in life is at the bottom of this dreadful and ap palling act—greed for gain. Certain men desired to break the laws of the land. Certain other men were bought who violated their oaths to pro tect those laws. The law breakers were caught, and they told the tale of buying the silent co-operation of the law protectors. Then these law protectors delib erately employed professional as sassins to murder the man w ho be trayed their act. Murder Not Always Result of Wild Impulse. It is a shock to many people to know there are professional assas sins lir-uur land. Many good people had believed that murder was always, in these days, the result of some wild im pulse—of drunkenness, or jealousy, of anger, of self-protection or in sanity. It seems almost incredible that men who are not moved by any of these emotions are to be found banded together, ready to kill any one for a stated sum of money— and a paltry sum comparatively. Now that such men have been found and are held by the law for trial, it would help the students of eugenics to learn something of the prenatal and early childhood con ditions from which those men came. It would be w’orth while to appoint committee to go about this search for the desired information with as grlat care as the detectives went about the search for the criminals. There should be, indeed, such a committee, whose work is to look up the pedigree for at least two generations of every man and w om an who becomes a criminal Especially should the prenatal conditions be learned w’hen there is any possibility of obtaining such, data. If there is a bad piece of road where vehicles are broken and hu man beings injured, the causes , :: Courage :: | By REGINALD LUCAS. F all the boons the '_>o< Is can giv, . This ono I ask anti ask in t ain. Well satisfied if 1 mi Jit live My life, as it was lived, again. Its faults and failures T canfess, Os cares and griefs its ample store; From evils past 1 shrink th ■ less As dreadirtg future ills the more. Anil yet this were the coward's part: ‘‘Go forward"—there’s our duly clear; The humble and the contrite heart Knows not ingratitude or fear. For this were man's most shameful lot. To lie in an unhonored grave. Even those who lov d him darimr not To claim for him th A h wa> brave. which led to such accidents are in vestigated, in order to avoid future trouble. If tile causes which lead men and women into crime can be traced then there- is a firmer foundation for our reformers and philanthro pists to stand upon while they seek to better the coming genera tions. Few Women Know Laws Os Prenatal Influence. Only a few women of the most progressive order today know. or. knowing, believe in, the laws of pre natal influence. Not one poor woman of the un educated classes in a thousand has the least idea on this all-important subject. Yet a butcher's wife, who watched the slaughter of animals before her child was born, brought forth a human monstrosity—a child crimi nall—who possessed an insatiable desire to destroy life. The child of a woman whose hus band was a miser and who com pelled her to beg or steal pennies from ills pockets to satisfy her hunger was born a thief, and went through life a kleptomaniac. Innumerable cast s can be cited of the immediate results of the '--mental influence of the mother on her unborn babe; and there is no subject of greater import for worn ■ an to study than this. The government would do well to set aside a -certain sum of money to aid such investigations for the benefit of the science o. eugenics. And this present moment is a most appropriate one to begin these investigation-. Science is doing a great deal in its,effort to conserve and prolong life. I World Needs a Better Order of Things. Put it is not so' much the con tinuance of the lif< of individuals on earth which the world m eds as a better order of beings. Every possible investigation into heredity, pienatal influence, child hood's environment and early as sociations should be made, and the information c ut fully < : presented to the world for consid eration. • The capital punishment of crimi nals will never reduce crime. But the proper education of men and women on what fatherhood and motherhood means will prevent-the birth of criminals.