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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 mutter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 1373. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mail, $5 00 a year. Payable In advance. It Is a Good Thing For This Country to Have at Least One Man and One Set of Newspapers Not Afraid to Fell the Truth. r •> The Archbold Standard Oil-Penrose-Foraker Revelations Made by W. R. Hearst in Hearst’s Magazine Have Been Most Valuable to the Citizens of This Country. There is a good Italian saying “Give Light, and the People Will Find the Way.’’ The light that the people need is information, FACTS, insight into their government ami especially into that which is hidden. While facts are hidden, the people can not find their way. If it were not for the newspapers that are truthful, and for a few men that do not fear the truth or those that hate it, there would he little light for the people, ami little hope of finding the path in the maze of graft, corruption, monopoly, bribery and dishonest control of gov ernment through which this nation is wandering. Our readers certainly appreciate the value of publicity and the value of truth telling. They have built up the Hearst newspapers, and the Hearst magazines they constitute the millions of circula tion. the gigantic family of readers from which W. IL Hearst gets the power to scatter truth, and to frighten rascals. The polities ol this country and the prospect of good govern ment owe a great debt to that revelation of Slamlard Oil activity, bribery and shameless corruption, managed by John I). Archbold, and shared by Penrose, Foraker, Sibley and others supposed to be working for the people. Foraker has been driven out of public life. Penrose will soon be out of public lite. Archbold, when he understands what the people think of him either through criminal proceedings or other wisewill cease his activities, his cheek distribution, his insolent attempts to interfere with elections, his shameless corruption of the people's officials. Even the newspapers naturally dishonest the socalled “con servative newspapers that belong to Archbold, just as Foraker and Penrose belong to him. have been compelled through very shame to publish the facts with which Hearst has supplied them. As they will be compelled to publish the further facts with which he has supplied them. In his recent cable from Europe W. IL Hearst advised Penrose, Archbold and Hie others to tell the whole truth promising that IIE would do it if they did not. Mr. Hearst has “given the people light." He has shown them which of their officials were rotten and dishonest. He has pointed out and convicted the Trust managers, guilty of wholesale bribery; he has rendered a great service to this country through his news papers and his magazines, and the people know it. Mr. Hearst’s work has been of especial value because his revela tions have been absolutely non-partisan. Democrat. Republican, Progressive, or what not, has made no difference to him. The truth as fast as possible has been given to the public. And through the Hearst publications 1 he public has learned that dishonesty in this country is no party, I’s MANAGES AND BI’YS EVERY PARTY. Mr. Howe, in Vermont, reminding the people that railroads and other corporations rule ami cheat by paying in taxes less than half what individual citizens pay, describes part of our system admirably as follows: Now, ladies and gentlemen, Is that n square deal? Was that law enact"'! by the Republican party? No, no. Was it enacted by the Dem ocratic party? No, no. War It enacted by any political party? No, no Whom was it enacted bv ? It was enacted in the crooked i-oliti cians who are controlled by the corporations. Was it enacted in the daytime? < >h, no. Was it enacted on cold water? Oh, no: they had better stuff than that. How long have we been living under that law? Twenty-six years. That is a good description of the way things are managed in this country. The graft, the dishorn sty. and the monopoly are not Democratic, they air' not Republican THEY ARE EXf U’SIVELY AND ESSENTIALLY I’Ll T< H RATK ’ Men like Archbold supply the money, the funds for corruption. Men like Foraker. Penrose and Sibley take this money and use it some of it being distributed "in the right places ami some of it being carefully kept. Hundreds of thousands and millions hat' thus been distributed bv the corporations that rob the people through monopoly But there promises to come an end. or at least a moderation, m this system —thanks to “the light given by the publications that W. IL Hearst controls. There is not. a mile of territory in the I nite.] States that does not know the name and the work of Hearst and his publications This causes envy among some editors. Bui it need cause nw They may have the same standing, and the same power for good, if they will develop the ability to diseov. r the truth AND THE HONESTY TO TELL IT. The Atlanta Georgian THE CRUSHING BURDEN I Copyright, 1312, by International News Service S. / J ■ r "T- x ■■■■■ll I N ". -- ' ' ~Ft Act \J :-: "’ . ' A.; ' fl nil! w I ■■■ 5 t BM liil A --G if 1 * t jIL K '’TZ, I'lwT T - • A?' /sSr |la jSBb -nB | ' ftl ft- Jffl T~ 5 ? fl B 1 |■ I i Wlf f m A—■ ---j. g t — —*—AvV j " W 7i ~w- ” $ Keeping Accounts B> & A MAN who is a methodical. \ careful business-lik< pel trained to business accuracy, complains bitterly that he can not make ills wife keep books. He makes tier a generous allow ance, and he holds that it is his right that she should make an ac counting to him showing where every penny went, and because she refuses to do this there is endless bickering and quarrelling between the two. Theoretically, 1 agree with the husband Personalis, 1 side with the wife. For myself, I had rather do a day’s washing than add up a column of figures, and it has always seemed to me that when money is spent it is just as much gone whether you bought ice cream soda or corned beet and cabbage w itii it. However. I am quite aware that this is no proper way to view the subject, and 1 am sure that those who look over their account books where every item of expenditure is rigorously set down, and see how they wasted a quarter for* cigars here, and fifteen cents for drinks there, and a nickel for chocolate creams in another place, and a dol lar and a half for a neck fixing somew here else, must get a day of judgment jolt that is good for their souls and makes for economy. Cer tainly we never realize how much money we fool away until our ex travagances rise up from our little account book and confront us It Makes For Thrift. Undoubtedly the account book makes for thrift and judicious man agement. One of tlie tiiisi tilings that they teach girls in the school of domestic science is the necessity for having a household budget in which tlie expenses of running a family are proportioned and a cer tain per cent of the income set apart for rent, and food, and cloth ing. and sickness, and amusements, and so on. it is easy to see how much better and more intelligently a woman can manage a household w ho goes about It in this systematic manner, and whose accurately kept books show tier just where she stands, than she <an if she adopts tlie hit-or miss style of family financiering, where it's always a f< tst or a fam ine and tin first of the month in variably finds her appalled at the size of the bills. It is frequently -aid that if any business man conducted his affairs ' •IH DAY. ALGCST 30. 1912. J>y DOROTHY DIX in as slap-dash a manner as his wife does hers he would land in tlie bankruptcy court inside of a year. Doubtless this is >ru •_ it is one of tile greatest Injusth s done women that girls are ran ly t r iiir d to busi ness methods or ever given any money to handle s o that when they conn to spend their husband’s earn ings they do not know how to do it to tlie best adv tntagt. Nor do they take kindly to being taught business methods w hen their husbands try to instruct them, as in tlie case of tlie man cited at the be ginning of this article. On the con trary. when a husband tries to in duce his wife to keep books she is apt to accuse him of penuriousness in the matter of money. The wife is wrong in this. Inas much as marriage is a partnership in which tlie husband supplies the money for running the home, and the woman does the active work of making the home-, it is nothing more than fair that the wife should keep a record of the funds that pass through her li'ands and lie able to give an account of her stew ardship. He has a perfect right to know how his money is used and whether it is wasted or not. Partners in business who are managing different ■nils of an en terprise look over each other's ac counts, and there is no reason why a wife should feel miffed if her husband wants t > lake a peek at her expense book end find out how she is conducting her department. If every married woman, would k ep an accurate account of every e- nt that she spent on the family and not only permit her husband to see it. but force him to audit her books every month, ii w ould not only be a good thing economically, but it would be an eye opener to the man and stop the eternal growl about woman's extravagance. The average man always acts as If his wife sp. nt all the money on herself. You would think, to hear him talk, that she ate all the food and monopolized all the light and heat of the house, and it would put a quietus on him if he was forced to read, Item by item, of pecks of potatoes and pounds of coffee and sugar, and dozens of eggs, and beef steaks. and mutton chops, and tripe and udons. and see with his own eyas that it was for these necessi ties tor tile family and not on her own adornment that his money was spent. While a husband has the right, however, to demand an accounting from his wife for the money she spends on the household, it is an in vasion of tier personal liberty. and an impertinent interference, for him to even ask to know what she did with her own allowance. That is hers to do with as she pleases, and he lacks something of being a g ntleman if he presumes to keep any espionage over her in the mat te r. That most wives have no personal allowance, and never a pi nny that they may do with as they like, is only too true, and it does more than any other one thing to account for the restlessness and discontent among married women. To a grown up woman it is as much gall and wormwood to be financially depend ent as it would be to a m in, and it is the smouldering bitterness en gendered by this state of affairs that makes many a marriage a fail ure. Is Entitled to a Wage. The woman who gives her whole life to a man. who bears his chil dren, who makes him a home, who spends every ounce of her strength and vitality in serving him and fur thering his interests, and who gives him a labor that he could not buy for money, feels that she is, at least, entitled to such wages as a cook or nurse maid might get, and to spend that much money without | giving any more account of it to her husband than a cook or a nurse maid to whom lie pays an equal amount would give him. But she rarely gets even that paltry sum to do with as she plfuses, and this is what makes the financial situation so often acute between husband and wife. The man who insists upon his wife keeping household accounts is right. She w ill be a better and a more careful manager for doing it. and it is but just that he should know how his partner is managing her side of the business. But the wife has a right to a private allow ance of her own, to do with abso lutely as she likes, and it is her privilege to do with this as she sees fit Her husband las no njore right to demand an accounting of this money than he has of any strange woman’s income. She has earned it over and over again, and it is hers. THE HOME PAPER I Thomas Tapper Writes on The Education of the Voter £ I T. V. No. 16.-—The President Not an Individual With Arbitrary Power, But the Representa tive of the People by Whom He Is Paid. By THOMAS TAPPER. A yOU have read the reports of I Y the conventions. The proceedings consisted < of prayers, excitement, hisses, yells and the buzz of the political ma- i chine. You might assume that a body of > men. representative of all the peo- > pie. gather d together to nominate ! a man capable of tilling what is > doubtless the greatest office on S earth, would realize -the responsi ; bility that rests upon themselves. You might expect a certain feeling i of awe and solemnity. You might' expect that an act so fraught with importance would be taken with the i guidance of prayer, but without the ! disturbance of excitement, hisses f and cat-calls. . You might. What is a president called upon j to do? To begin with, he is the repre [ sentative of all the people—the j head of the nation. : I resident’s Power ; Comes From People. His power comes directly from I the people, ami their welfare is as j sinned to be the prime object of his j consideration. Only a natural-born citizen may i aspire to this .office. He must be j at least 35 years of age and 14 years ! a resident of the United States. The president’s term of office is < four years. He is eligible for re ( election. So far as the constitu j tion is coni'i rm (1, a president may S be re-elected once,- or twice, or many times. Up to date, no man j has over filled the office for more < than two terms, and it seems quite ( unlikely that this precedent will be ( broken. The president is commander-ln- S chief of the army and navy of the I United States and of the states’ ? militia when called into Federal ! service. Hi’ is empowered to grant re prieves and pardons for offenses committed against the United States, but lijs power does not ex tend to cases of impeachment. With a t’.vo-thirds vote of the senate he may make treaties with foreign powi rs. thus extending his influence on behalf of the nation to the world at large. He appoints ambassadors to for eign nations. In fact, there come within his appointing power, with confirmation of the senate, about 8,000 offices. He may convene the houses of congress in extra sessions, and he may adjourn them to a date not beyond the next regular session. From members of his cabinet he may require written opinions upon their departments. He receives am bassadors and foreign ministers. All bills passed by congress are brought before him for his signa ture or his veto. First Foundling Asylum By THE REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY I' 7’ was 173 years ago—July, 1739 — that the big-hearted old sea captain, Thomas Coram, suc ceeded in getting through the pa pers for the incorporation of the “Foundling Hospital of London,” the fii st home for friendless little children that was ever known among the English speaking people of the earth. From the beginning of human down to quite modern times the lot of the little child, especially if it happened to be a girl child with out legal parentage, was a most forlorn one, full of all that was cal culated to touch the heart and call forth the sorrow and pity of man kind. Hut it seems that the compas sion was not forthcoming, and the little unfortunates, friendless and neglected, had to get along as best they could, save as they were now and then assisted by some private Individual. For the idea of the sacredness of childhood—a thought that is so masterful in the present time —-the people of antiquity had but a trif ling regard. Many of the greatest thinkers of Greece and Rome, the foremost moulders of the public opinion and sentiment of their day, had no ten derness in their souls for child hood as such. Its innocence, its helplessness, made but a w-ak ap peal to their sympathy and love. The child that was born into the These, the principal duties of the president, are clearly set forth in the constitution. The office makes of him a world figure. He takes his place beside kings and potentates of whatever name. He is not an individual with ar bitrary power. He is the represen tative of millions of individuals, with powers that are especially de signed and bestowed to secure for every one whom he represents the full blessings of citizenship. You have only to picture this man as a representative of one hundred millions of people doing business with congress, with the nine de partments of our national activity, through the members of his cabi net, meeting the representatives of every nation on earth, commanding army and navy, allotting thousands of positions to office-holders, ap pointing proper representatives to foreign nations, and without speci fying further the activities of his office you can appreciate the pro priety of a convention opening with prayer. Rut it is doubtful if you can see the fitness of cat-calls, yells, hisses and the rumble of any kind of a roller, steam or otherwise. For all that is demanded of him, the president of the United States receives a salary and he gets a reputation. The salary is fixed at seventy-five thousand dollars per annum. The reputation is largely, though not wholly, of his own mak ing. Yet no position so open to pub lic scrutiny can be so influenced by conditions that the man himself does not shine through. He may be assisted in his endeavors or he may be thwarted, but his stand on ques tions, great or small, allows him to show the people, without doubt or uncertainty, «hat sort of stull he is made of. Just What You Should Decide. When the parties have held their conventions, ami the two or three or more nominees are submitted to the people, you decide, or you should decide, just this question: What man, among them, best measures up to the requirements? Then you elect that man, or you should elect him. In the course of time he appears once again in pub lic, on the 4th of March, when the chief justice of the United States administers the oath of office, which says: "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of ' president of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, pre serve. protect and defend the con stitution of the United States.” The inauguration is a more sol emn occasion than the conventions. The seriousness of the business to be done stares the man in the face. And a new period of our history, four years later, stares you. as one of its citizens, in the face. world without a legal father and mother, or that was born below a certain mental and physical stand ard, or that chanced to be a girl, was in danger of being exposed— cast out into the fields to die of hunger or to be devoured by the wild beasts. The men who built the Parthenon and the Pantheon, who created civ ilization ami carried it to the utter most parts of the then known world, were at heArt little better than barbarians, as is evidenced by their attitude of cold-blooded in difference to the appeals of help less childhood. When the Carpenter's Son came the little ones began to look up. Thebe was at last One to •‘bless” them, to take pity on their weak ness and to see in their purity, in nocence and helplessness the sacred obligation which was not to be ig nored. Hence, the beautiful words, “Suffer the little ones to come unto •Me. and forbid them not.” Hut the progress was slow, and it was not until the fifteenth century that the work of saving the little child en from destruction was fair ly and systematically begun. In Italy, France, Belgium, Aus tria, the spirit of the new humanity began to show itself in the shape of the larger kindness to waifs, but it was not until Captain Coram founded his hospital for friendless children that they were taken in hand in a waj that was at once humane and scientific.