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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 ns 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. Nash Broyles, Gentleman In withdrawing from the court of appeals contest before the Ftate convention. Nash R. Broyles did a manly and ma unanimous thing. He had divided the county-unit vote exactly in half with his adversary. Judge Robert Pottle, and Pottle had very little the het ter of the argument in the matter of the popular majority. Broyles made his race upon a platform of “justice first and technicalities afterward.” and that his appeal went home to the people unmistakably was demonstrated abundantly in the returns. Had Broyles been any fraction less than a thoroughgoing man of his word, he might have blocked the convention nomina tion indefinitely. He elected to stand by his platform, however, and to reject an honor for the sake of consistency and straight forward sincerity. Broyles declined to take advantage of even a broad technical ity. It was a brave and big thing to do. There are many men who endeavor in many ways to live up to the grand old name of gentleman. Sonic carry their endeavor ' into their personal acts, but discount il in their politics Not so Broyles. He draws no fine distinctions and discrimination. Georgia may well be proud of Broyles. He fought a dean ! fight, he waged an honest battle. He lost like a gentleman. And that should commend him most favorably to the future consid eration of the people and Broyles still is a young man. [Now, Women, You Sec That i It Pays to Organize Four years ago the big political parties looked upon woman suffrage as an amusing joke, a sentimental theory, or a plain nuisance. Four years ago no big political party or big politician cared much about women or what they thought or what they did. Four years ago no important politician would have dared to as sociate himself in polities with women. He would have been afraid of making himself ridiculous, afraid of hurting bis standing before the voters. Four years ago the women of the country were classified legally and in the minds of politicians WITH THE ('IIILDR EN. INDIANS AND IDIOTS, NOT PERMITTED TO VOTE. But everything is changed today. Four years have worked wonders. Today each of the throe big candidates for the presidency is doing his best to interest women in his campaign. Each is proud to select some woman of character and intelligence as his associate in the work of convincing voters Roosevelt is proud, and well ho may ho. of the friendship and co-operation of that splendid woman. Jane Addams. Mr Taft has invited Miss Boardman, of the lied Cross Society, to interest herself in his campaign If she persists in her refusal he will find somebody else. Mr. Wilson, the Democratic candidate, has among his fighting generals Mrs J. Borden Harriman, an energetic and intelligent woman, who will try 1 o eon vineo other women t hat Wilson's elect ion will help the country, and help women and childrt n especially It is not necessary to tell any intelligent woman WHY the big politicians and parties show this sudden interest in women, this violent desire for their advice and help. Women are important today in the eves of men. BECAUSE WOMEN HAVE HAD THE BRAINS TO ORGANIZE AND DE MAND THE VOTE AND THE RIGHT TO A SHARE IN GOV ERNMENT Already women have acquired the ballot in six states. In the election which is coming women might possibly decide the whole contest in favor of one or another of the three leading candidates Politicians realize this, and they suddenly realize that women are important and worth while. They want the approval of women, and. therefore, they ask the co-operation of women. They want the votes of women, therefore they will try to work for women and for the children whose defenders the women are The Roosevelt platform gives us for the first time in the history of this country a serious effort to include the family and its needs, and the protection of children especially, as important parts of national government. Women, politicians realize your importance BECAI'SE YOC YOURSELF HAVE BEGUN TO REALIZE YOl'R POWER Work and fight for female suffrage everywhere. Don’t allow the men exclusively to decide what shall be done with the sons and daughters that you bring into the world. Don't permit the men to decide on peace and war while vou create every soldier that lies dead when the war is over. Don't allow the men exclusively to settle the questions of taxa tion by government and by trusts when the taxes come out of your pockets, out of the money that you need for your children Don't be classed any longer with the Indians and the idiots, unfit to vote. Let the attitude of the three presidential candidates, suddenly, violently interested in you. teach yon a lesson. The way for women to be considered and to get then- rights and their share in government is through the ballot box and government control. Now that women begin to vote, women are considered When 100 per cent of the women are permitted to vote, all women and children will be at least 100 per cent better off The suffrage movement has accomplish'd wonders already, it will do infinitely more. Every intelligent woman Ml ST b< in favor of votes lor women. I The Atlanta Georgian Some Thrills of Mountain Climbers Perilous Thrills That Confront the Daring A”". •W v < '■ ' " fl UK " >-■ \ " < ■’ * - »*<**’*' - *«>. « ..... . .< ' w ' '' G X- The snow-corniced crest of the Ecrins W a typical snow summit - c-pxHE Ecrins is tlie loftiest of the I Dauphiny Alps, and affords more snow and ice climbing than the Meije. The usual and preferable plan is to climb tile north face of the peak from La Berarde and descend on the south side, mak ing a circuit of the peak by cross ing tlie Col des Ecrins. The Ecrins was first climbed by the late Ed ward Whymper from' the south side, but nowadays this route is scarcely ever used excepting for the <l< scent. The great rift, now known ns the t'ouloir Whymper, is a ter rific f< \ slope. 1,000 feet long and of appalling steepness. Sharp rock splinters protrude at places. These form ani horage for those who care fully zig-zag downward, thinking meanwhile how true were tlie im mortal poet'- words: “lie that stands upon a slippers' place Makes nice of no vile hold to slay him up." To think of slipping whilst in the act of clinging to such a horrible slope is inexpressibly uncomforta ble One has impressions'of whirl ing over those rockj spikes, of being cut and quartered, and finally deposited out of human sight in | tlie huge crevasse that vawns be low. I'he Eerlns is curiously suscepti bh to sudden weather changes, and the writer has unpleasant memories of its northerly face at such a time. Tlie ascent of tlie Meije Is of en grossing interest, and few of the great Alps afford such a wonder full.' impressive final approach to the summit. The early morning hours are spent climbing the huge rock wall overlooking La Berarde. and at last tlie little Glacier Carre leads to the wall of the last ridge. The ascent of a vertical and diffi cult slab tests every lota of muscle and skill to the utmost. The arri val on Its crest is surprisingly Startling. The fingers grip the sharp top. and left foot swings around air ily. and with a desperate upward heave one lands breathlessly astride what is in reality the narrow ridge pole of the mountain. The right leg swings in mid-air above one of the greatest of Alpine I'lecipices; the left dangles over the other side of the mountain above a tiny village of La Grave. 7,500 f,, Pt below, and re- g 1 -ct ters From Georgian Readers © HOW TO GO TO SLEEP. F.tlltor The Georgian.' I always read what you write a great deal of interest and profit. In jour article on "How to Go to Sleep" 1 notice you offer a suggestion "most humbly." I have read this article with a good deal of interest, and have intended to try it; at the same time I write you a word on the subject of sleep lessness from which 1 suffered very much some time ago. The remedy > this. Bathe the back of the head and neck for three or four minutes with cold water. This takes the blood from the brain and cools it, and 1 have never seen it fail to ac complish the object of bringing about almost immediate sleep - sound and refreshing sleep. I have nlade the suggestion very frequent ly. and it has never failed, as far as 1 know, to accomplish the ob ject. With kind regards. T remain, Yours trulj. S P. R. FAIRNESS IN POLITICS. Edit",- The Georgian: 1 picked up tonight's edition of your paper because the sporting page looked good to me, and on pei using its contents further was forcibly struck with the fairness of vour articles lam from Chicago. I know nothing of Southern poli tics, but when I read "The Voter and His Backbone,” on the back page, I noted the good common sense in it and dived deeper, read j 'our art. . -hr Senatot Dixon ami ' barl, - 1> Hille- If JI, Hilles thinks the Progressive party is a 1 one-man part) he will wake up THURSDAY, AUGUST 29. 1912. v il ’ SwWßv ’ Ji j 'A W’ ■' G-4 SBf - ’Twixt earth and sky on the great wall of the Mejie. veals thus dramatically for the first time. There may have been talk of a visit to tlie old-world village, but now there is no desire of fulfilment. Rather, to prevent an involuntary visit thereto, every roughness of the sky-courting summit is gripped convulsively. But upward. not downward, is the cry. and Caliban • like one crawls and clings up and along tlie aerial highway. Soon there is a confronting bulge in the narrow ridge and one has to mount warily to balance at full height on its sharp tip. Then conies a long stretch and perchance the French gui le ahead strengthens the en tente cordiale with an opportune pull on the rope. Thus the final difficulty is conquered. A few minutes later upward progress next November to find that Illinois voters don't agree with him, and from close observance I could name quite a bunch of other states that will fall right in line with Illinois, and as to President Taft's progres siveness, we settled that for our selves at tlie last primaries, along with the Lorimer ease. The American people are tired of spinning the wheel ami taking chances on the green or red as it shows up under the wire. They are for good, clean newspapers and men with backbone. W. H, BROOKS IVY STREET REGRADING. Editor The Georgian: 1 do not wish to east a damper on any movement looking to the general good of Atlanta or for the benefit of any of our live and en terprising citizens, but for reasons of consideration sot the north side residents 1 feel that the regrading oi Ivy street should be deferred un til Peaehtiee street is again open to traffic. When the present work on Peach tree was inaugurated we were in formed in dulcet tones that "tak ing the hump off" and restoring the pavement would be a matter of only about three weeks. These weeks have passed and are likely to lengthen into months before this street is again open In the mean while if Ivy street is rendered im passable the inconvenience will be great. I have conferred with many , north aiders” and tind that, with the exception of a few interested j ones, they feel that no should is impossible, the .Meije (13.081 feet) is under foot. All around rise peaks of a thou sand forms, witli Mont Blanc s glit tering snows towering afar in the northeast, whilst, most impressive of all. and close below, looms tlie weirdly serrated eastern ridge of the .Meije, with its fearsome-look . ing tower of the Doigt de Dieu. Those who wish to traverse the mountain and descend to La Grave cross this lower summit. The somewhat lengthy expedition is now made more feasible by the erection of a mountain hut within reach of the upper ridges, and this will he welcomed by those who oth erwise might have to spend the night out on the heights, ofttimes a desperately dangerous experience. be taken at presen* which would necessitate a more rough and cir cuitous route into the city. GEORGE M. NILES. Atlanta. Ga. THE SOCIALIST AND HIS IDEA. Editor The Georgian: in a recent issue Mr. J. H. Jen kins replies to an article written by Rev. Dr. Parkhurst anent our civilization and the Socialists. Mr. Jenkins claims that Social ism does not propose to buy out the capitalist system at one clean sweep, but successively. Where Dr. Parkhurst and Mr. Jenkins got the idea that the Socialists propose to buy out the capitalists either at one clean sweep or successively is be yond my comprehension. It is sure ly not advocated by Socialist au thorities. This argument may be a good nerve sedative for an over* gtieved capitalist ora peace-loving, quiet genth man, yet a Socialist who knows Socialism and does not wish to conceal his true Socialism will never advocate this as a mat ter of bringing Socialism. I’he Socialist doctrine is that ail the machinery of production now tn the hands of the capitalists is uftjustly expropriated from those who actually produced it. Confisca tion through legislation Is the main tenet of Socialism. This is the only reason why Socialists go into polities. 1 believe that no Socialist ought to conceal the true aim of Social ism by easy -going phrases, let op ponents say what they please. J. GOLDMAN. Atlanta, Ga. John Temple Graves Writes on Startling Presidential Possi bilities T. T. V- What Might Happen If the Electoral College Can Not Settle the Three-Cornered Race By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES zI > HIS vivid and sensational I presidential campaign is charged with astonishing pos sibilities that extend beyond the ballots of November. Unless the result on November 5 should be absolutely conclusive, the excitement of American politics will have just begun. The Democratic committee ex presses the most unbounded confi dence that Wilson will be elected by a great majority of the popular vote and of the elctoral college. The Republican committee ex presses an equal confidence in Air. Taft's ele ti< n. And the Progressive party are en thusiastically sure that .Mr. Roose velt will be elected. The impartial observers in the country agree that Wilson's chances are best, but that the progress of the campaign may develop increas ing and formidable strength for Roosevelt or Taft in the electoral college. May Throw Election Into House of Representatives. There are a great many people who regard it as distinctly probable that the strength of the three lead ing candidates may be so divided in the electoral college as to throw the election, under the constitution, into the house of representatives. In this connection these are th© facts to consider: in the election of a president by the house of representatives, each of the 48 states lias a single vote, and the political majority in the state delegation determines for whom that vote is cast. There ar© 22 state delegations in which the Republicans have a majority, and four in which the Democrats and Republicans are tied. These four tied states are Maine, with two Democrats and two Republicans; Nebraska, with three Democrats anfTthree Republicans; New Mexi co, with one Democrat and one Re publican, and Rhode Island, with one Democrat and one Republican The states that would cast votes for a Democrat are Alabama. Ari zona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida. Georgia. Indiana. Kentucky. Louis iana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey. New Mexico. New York. North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina. Tennessee. Texas. Virginia. West Virginia. Total, 22. The states that would cast votes for a Republican president are Cali fornia. Connecticut. Delaware, Ida ho, Illinois. lowa, Kansas, Massa chusetts. Michigan. .Minnesota, Montana, Nevada. New Hampshire, North Dakota. Oregon, Pennsylva nia, South Dakota. Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin. Wyoming. Total. 22. Never before in American history has there been found on the eve of a presidential election a house so evenly divided between parties as to make a choice improbable, if not Fhe Little fin Pail By CHESTER FIRKINS. ( T"N Y might and magic, by table and chair, ? |j He’d scale to the heights of the playroom wall And take from its hook in the dizzy air > The Little Tin Pail—and that was all. > h A shout and a rush through the echoing hall, > 1A summons loud as an ocean gale; » And HOW should I work when I heard the call of the Little Tin Pail? 5 We would wander away to the sunny shore; y We would race to the rim of the watery sand; 5 And I was forty and he was four, | Rut which was the younger when, hand in hand, ; We journey ed down to the playtime land ( Twere hard to tell, and of no avail. < For I was a slave to his least command— V. S With the Little Tin Pail. j We built a country all our own. ? With rivers wide and with mountains high. ; And. pausing just tor an ice cream cone. > We’d fashion a town and a lake nearby. We talked to the fairy-folk who fly > On the wave-foam far as a ship can sail. > Oh. many' the magic joys that He s In a Little Tin Pail! < I Rut once, when the Work-Gnome tried me sore ( And the call of the Work-World made me dumb, S I did not go to the study door, j And I called to him that I couldn't come. < < But my thoughts went wrong and my brain was numb. And I hastened soon on his weeping trail: ’ < And all I found where the cold waves thrum j j Was the Little Tin Pall. It is hidden far in an attic grave > S Eor his mother's sake—that she may not see ? j And think again of the joy G> d gave > And carried away from her and me: > S Rut I. in that hour that used to he. { j When he'd shout to me with his playtime hail. < S Turn back, with the tears of memory, To the Little Tin Pail. THE HOME PAPER " impossible, under the party divi sions that exist. if Wilson should receive 260 votes and lack the seven votes necessary to a majority of the electoral col lege. he would not be elected, and the Roosevelt-Taft electoral votes would, be strong enough to throw the election into the house. Then the equal party division of the states might, and probably would, make an election of a president practically impossible by the house. Whereupon, after ballots extend ing through the session, the elec tion. under the constitution, would go to the senate through the neces sity of electing a vice president and presiding officer. The choice would be restricted to the two candidates receiving the highest vote for vice president in the general election. In this case the vice president or pre siding officer of the senate so elect ed would become the president of the United States. Rut notice the complications. The senate is Republican, and the Republican senate would naturally choose the Republican candidate for vice president, even though he had been beaten, world without end. in the November ballot. So that In the not improbable event .of the election going to the senate, that Republican party might elect its own presiding officer, himself a candidate, and make “Sunny Jim” tlie president of the United States. Or, in case Hiram Johnson, of California, ran second In the elec tions, the Republican senate might make Hiram Johnson president of tlie United States. The Field of Possibility Is Now Wide Open. In other words, if Wilson ran 1,000,000 votes ahead tn the general elections, and yet lacked two votes, or even one vote, in the electoral college, and the evenly divided house failed to make a choice, the senate might make one or the other of the minority candidates of a di vided or defeated Republican party for vice president the chief execu tive of the republic. If in turn the senate should by death or persuasion divide equally among three vice presidential can didates (which Is not impossible), then Philander Knox, of Pennsyl vania, secretary of state, would be come ex-officio president of the United States! S ' that the field of possibilities in this wonderful presidential cam paign is wide open and fairly thrill ing with interest. The enthusiastic friends of the candidates may, of course, laugh at the speculation, but there are thousands on the watch tower who will find enough in the outlook to keep them awake to the end of the chapter. of course, my personal opinion is that Wilson's majority in the elec toral college will be satisfying and complete.