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EDI'TORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga. Entered as aecond-class matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 1579. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mail, $5.00 a year. Payable In advance. Too Much Protesting Will Surely Lead to a New Canal Treaty In the chorus of protest that has arisen from British news papers and their Tory echoes on this side of the water since the passage of the Panama canal bill, there is far more fury than reason. The Georgian does not believe that anything in the Hay- Pauncefotc treaty binds the United States to forbid American ships free passage through the canal. Senator Lodge, a member of the senate committee on foreign relations, admits that such an idea never entered his head when the treaty was reported. The Georgian does not believe that the term, “all na tions.” used by the treaty in speaking of eqnal treatment for vessels passing through the canal, meant American ships, any more than the term, “all nations,” applies to American war ships in the rule which forbids vessels of war of a belligerent from revictualing or taking any stores in the canal. Such an interpretation of the term would render the canal utterly value less to us in time of war. But it seems to be necessary to remind British newspapers, AND NEWSPAPERS SERVING THE INTERESTS OE THE AMERICAN RAILROADS DENIED A MONOPOLY OF THE CANAL BY THE PASSAGE OF THE BILL, that since the signing of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty great things have hap pened. Great Britain, the power with which the treaty was nego tiated. is no longer, as it then was, the possessor of the majority of territory nearest the canal. The United States is no longer, as it then was, a power seeking a waterway through alien ter ritory, and requiring the consent and co-operation of another great nation to do so. SINCE THE SIGNING OF THE HAY-PAUNCEFOTE TREATY THE UNITED STATES HAS BOUGHT A STRIP OF LAND ON THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA. THIS STRIP IT OWNS OUTRIGHT. IT NEEDS NO ALLY IN CANAL BUILD ING OR CANAL OPERATING. IT NEED MAKE NO CON CESSIONS TO A POWER WHICH CONTRIBUTED NOT ONE PENNY TO THE BUILDING OF THE CANAL, AND CAN BE OF NO AID TO THE UNITED STATES IN ITS CON DUCT OR IN ITS DEFENSE. The British press and its Tory allies in the United States may very easily protest too much for their own good in this matter. Assuming that, in answer to the outcries against the provisions of the bill, the case is taken to The Hague tribunal, the extreme penalty, in the event of a decision adverse to the United States, would be the return of the money collected from vessels of foreign nations which had passed through the canal be tween the date of its opening and the time the decision was rendered. And that would defeat the very object for which the British newspapers and the American railroad organs are striving, FOR IT WOULD INEVITABLY LEAD TO THE DENUNCIATION AND TERMINATION OF THE TREATY. The treaty terminated, an end would be made of the conten tion that we can not conduct our own canal for lhe benefit of our own citizens. Great Britain’s enthusiasm as an ally of the American railroads in fighting the canal bill would cease, and the enemies of the anti-monopoly provisions of the bill would have to come out and tight in the open—solely as the advocates of greed. GeorgeW. Perkins Will Write For l he Atlanta Georgian in Favor of Roosevelt At the beginning of the campaign this newspaper an nounced that it would print the news of al! the parties, that the Hearst newspapers would support Wilson and that represen tatives of Mr. Taft, and Mr. Roosevelt would be invited to con tribute to the paper as often as they choose and discuss their side of the campaign. It will interest, our readers to know that George W. Per kins. a man very successful in large affairs, now very prominent in the Roosevelt campaign, will discuss “the Bull 'Moose move ment” with our readers and try to persuade them that they should vote for Roosevelt and the Bull Moose or Progressive party. Mr. Perkins has built up big industries and a big individual fortune. He is interested now in building up a new party, and our readers will be interested in his point of view and in his ar guments. The contention of Mr. Perkins and the others interested in the Roosevelt-Progressive movement is that the people do not govern themselves, but accept government from above. Roosevelt may win ami he may lose; there is no doubt that he is doing his share toward ripping up and tearing out old, fossilized i’deas of government by party. There is no doubt that he and those associated with him are appealing directly to the people AND RELYING ON THE PEOPLE FOR SUCCESS. In the old days a man like Perkins, with a very large for tune and wide business connections, would have used his money to buy or hire politicians. oftic< holders and the lower class of newspaper editors. Now. instead of working behind closed doors in secret, through the power of money, Mr. Perkins appeals directly to the people, says what he thinks and signs his name to his opinions —and. by the way, is able to get them printed in the Hearst newspapers, circulating more than two millions of copies each day and read by at least six or eight millions of Americans. The new method of publicity, of direct appeal to the people, is certainly an improvement on old style polities. And Mr. Perkins and the cause that he represents will at least get a respectful hearing from our great army of readers. We shall publish the important sayings of the various can didates. And we shall give space to those that are authorized to speak on their behalf- and our readers will make up their minds and vote accordingly which is the right and the only way to run a republic. “Give light and the people will find lhe road.” The Atlanta Georgian DIOGENES HAS BRIGHT IDEA! Copyright, 1912, by International News S ervice. /W.ARCHBouI) I’M -sgi.zagTzJ ARCHBoupA , / '"ns ME 15 To \ PUT SOMETMirtG I w* ooo ( \ over om /•'S i 1U M Ji. o J&IL cgfL - flipi > ' t . | Almost gets big piece of coin! Arrival of Honest Man ruins delicate negotiations! Causes violent exit ot aged philosopher! Department of Water Supply now repairing hydrant! Putting Up a Bluff g> AMAN asks these questions: “Is it not a bluff when an old maid says that, she has never envied a married woman, and wouldn’t trade, places with one, and that she is happier single than she would be if she was mar ried?” Probably every man in the world would answer these questions in the affirmative and say yes: that every old maid who pretended that she was a spinster from choice was putting up a bluff that any man would call, but a woman would reply to the question by saying both yes and no. Undoubtedly the old maid who scoffs at marriage and boasts of her single blessedness is fibbing, and putting a gay face on a sad matter. IJvery human being knows, every instinct teaches us, that men and women are each in complete without the other, and that it takes both to round out the full and perfect life. What It Should Be. Husband and wife, children and home, are the materials out of which real, lasting, soul satisfying happiness is made, and no matter what else one has, if one lacks them, one lias missed the best that the gods have to bestow. There is no other joy on earth so exquisite as the companionship of the man and woman who are mated as well as married, who have every thought in common, and who find in each other an exhaustless well of sympathy from which they may draw at will. There is no other in terest in life so intense and undy ing as that which people have in their children; there can be no happiness so sweet and serene as that which comes from the feel of little children’s arms about one’s neck, and the touch of baby’s hands within one’s own. There can be no occupation so absorbing and so worth while as the making of a beautiful home to be a shrine for this lovely family life. This is what marriage should be. It is the ideal that we all see in our dreams. It is the will-o’-the wisp that beckons millions into matrimony, and it is foolish for any man or woman to say that tie or she has not dreamed the dream, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1912. By DOROTHY DIN. and longed to be one of the blessed who dwell within some domestic Eden. We all know that a happy mar riage is the happiest estate in the world, but we also know that an unhappy marriage is an earthly purgatory. In matrimony there is something that brings out the best or the worst of people, and as there is no other blessing equal to a good husband or wife, so there is no other curse that compares with a bad one. If all marriages were happy, and if the dove of peace roosted on every roof tree, t*hcn, indeed, old bachelors and old maids would ex pire of envy, and their boasts of contentment with their hollow lots would be hollow mockery. Unfortunately, however, there is nothing in the average marriage that does anything but hold it up as an awful warning to the unmar ried, and it is only the triumph of hope over other people’s experi ences that leads any young couple to dare attempt the holy estate. The old bachelor, returning from an evening spent in the bosom of the family of his friend Benedict, reflects that poor old Benedict gets a mighty poor run for his money, and that a fretful and nagging wife, and spats and jars, and the loss of one's personal liberty, is hardly’ an adequate return for a man having to work like a dray horse to support a family. There fore. the old bachelor sighs a sigh of contentment, and says, "Not for mull,” as he turns the key’ in his comfortable apartment. Nor does the old maid, when she visits around among her married sisters and friends, find anything to shake her belief in the fact that she chose the better part when she decided to stay single. She ob serves that her sister has to work ten times as hard as she does, even if she is a working woman and sister is one of the lucky ones married to a man who "supports her.” And she takes note that while she gets a pay envelope for her work, and has money that no body presumes to dictate what she shall do with, sister has never a penny of her own, and has to go like a beggar to her husband for every cent. Also she has to give an account of what she did with the quarter he gave her week be fore last. And likewise husband groans over how much it costs to support a wife. The spinster sees that she is bet ter dressed than sister unless sister happened to marry rich, and that she looks about five years younger. Moreover, the spinster observes that in addition to everything else that sister does, she has to spend her time and energy in placating husband, or else in quarreling with him, and that, although it is polite and complimentary to believe that husband still loves sister, there’s no evidence upon which to base this conclusion. Apparently it does not take more than three months to rub the gilt off the ginger bread matrimony, and after that if a man feels any’ admiration, or tenderness, for his wife he doesn’t take the pains to show’ it. Thinks She's Better Off. So the spinster takes a good, firm grip on her latchkey and her pocketbook, and says that she's better off than sister, and that she doesn’t envy any married woman. And there’s no bluff in that. She is simply telling the truth, nine times out of ten, when she makes that assertion, for it is only too sadly’ true that ideal marriages are as scarce as hen’s teeth, and that in the whole range of our ac quaintances we scarcely know one couple who have made a success instead of a failure of matrimony. Tn the past the old maid’s boast that she didn’t marry because she didn’t want to may have been a bluff and not sincere, because in former days every’ woman had to marry in order to get a home of her own. That is not the case now. Any woman can support herself as well as a husband is likely’ to do it, and so matrimony has be come a choice instead of a neces sity. and it is because women see so few good husbands that they are getting more and more afraid of marriage, and to believe that it is better to stick to the peace and contentment they have than to risk the danger of a heart-breaking disappointment in matrimony. But the single woman knows that while she may’ have missed misery, she has also missed the highest happiness. She has but the half loaf, and she goes to her grave hungering for the love, and the man, and the child, and the home that should be every wom an’s portion. THE HOME PAPER Elbert Hubbard Writes on College Degrees “The Best Way to Prepare for Life Is to Begin to Live. A School Should Not Be a Preparation: a School Should Be Life.” By ELBERT HUBBARD Copyright, 1912, by International News Service SO long as some men who are not college bred take first place on the roster of fame, and other men who are college bred, working alongside of them, sink out of sight, most thinking men are quite willing to admit the so-called higher education is not a necessity. Os the college men who suc ceed, who shall say they succeeded by and through the aid the college gave, or in spite of it? Yet many men who win will wail, “If I only had the advantage of college training!” If so, it might have ironed all the individuality out of them. Let All Go To School. However, I would have every man have a college education in order that he might see how lit tle the thing is really worth. I would have every man rich that he might know the worthlessness of riches. To take a young man away from work, say at eighteen years of age, and keep him from useful labor, in the name of education, for four years, will some day be regarded as a most absurd proposition. It is the most gigantic illusion of the age. Set in motion by theologians, the idea was that the young per son should be drilled and versed In "sacred” themes. Hence, the dead languages and the fixed thought that education should be esoteric. This separation from the prac tical world for a number of years, where no useful work was done, and the whole attention fixed on abstract themes and theories, often tended to cripple the man so that he could never go back to the world of work and usefulness. He was no longer a producer, and had to be supported by tithes and taxes. And, of course, as he did not in tend to go back to the world of work and usefulness, it really didn’t make any difference if he did sink End of the Revolution By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. THE last battle of the Revolu tionary war was fought at Blue Lick, Kentucky, Au gust 20. 1782. England died hard, and in ways that were far from being in strict keeping with international law tried to postpone the final surren der as long as she. could. It was in consequence of such tactics that the battle of Blue Lick was fought. On the 16th of August, 1782, a force of several hundred Canadians and Wyandotte Indians laid siege to Bryan’s Station, some five miles from the present city of Lexington, the capital of the famous Blue Grass region. The next day a party of 180 frontiersmen, commanded by Dan iel Boone, John Todd and Stephen Trigg, hastened to the rescue, not withstanding the fact that they were greatly outnumbered by the enemy. Upon reaching the near neigh borhood of the station a council of war was held to determine upon the line of attack. Boone’s advice was to march silently up the river and fall upon the rear of the enemy, while, at the same time, the main attack should be delivered in front. Unfortunately, this sensible ad vice was spoiled by the rash action of a major named McGary, who dashed his horse into the river, shouting: “Let all who are not cowards follow me." Os course, McGary’s action was madness, but it was a madness that’became in stantly contagious, and soon most KB into a pupa-like condition of nu - lit);. In the smaller colleges many in stances are found o f students working their way through sch‘> ■ My experience leads me to believe that such students stand a very much better chance in the world’s race than those who are made ex empt from practical affairs by hav- Ing everything provided. The re sponsibility of caring for himself Is a necessary factor in man’s evo lution. And the point of this preach ment lies right here—that to make a young man exempt from the practical world, from eighteen to twenty-two, is to run the risk of ruining him for life. Possibly you have taken opportunity from him and turned him into a memory ma chine. There are persons who are al ways talking about preparing for life. The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. A school should not be a prepara tion; a school should be life. Isolation from the world in order to prepare for the world’s work is folly. You might as well take a boy out of the blacksmith shop in order to teach him blacksmithing. Is the Useful Man. Any college that does not teach its pupils to work at practical, useful tasks, la a make-believe, and every college student knows it. From the age of six or seven and upward the pupil should feel that he 1* doing something useful, not merely killing time; and so his work and his instruction should go right along hand in hand. The educated man is the useful man. And no matter how many college degrees a man has, If he can not do something that the world wants done, he is an educated Ignoramus, and is one with the yesterdays, doing pedagogic goose-step ad own the days to dusty death. of the men were fording the stream hard after the rash major. Crossing without molestation, they reached the top of the ridge, when their troubles began In dead earnest. From front and flanks they received a deadly Are from the Indians and their Canadian al lies. They had been ambushed, and the invisible foe shot them down like dogs. Outnumbered three to one. and presently quite surrounded, they fought like the brave men they were until they realized that to re main longer was to be annihilated, whereupon they broke through the fiery cordon and escaped as b<-t they could. Sixty-seven Kentuckians were killed outright and many of the w'ounded were afterward massa cred. The loss of the Canadians and Wyandottes was never known, as they carried away their k:l l< 'd and wounded. But the redmen made no mere trouble for Kentucky. The maty of peace deprived them of tin tr British backing, and the United States was left to deal with them after its own way. The memory of the brave fight that was put up by the handful of frontiersmen ti gered with them, and. with no hoi” 1 of help from England, they the Kentuckians a grand htti - alone. Such, in brief, is the story ■ last battle of the war of the B''' olution. Beginning away up Massachusetts, the great stride • ended at Blue Lick. Kcntuck.'. * region that was an unknown "H" derness when the struggle began.