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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 matter at postvfiice at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 1873 Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mall, 85.00 a year. Payab’n in advance. | “ England Now Insists JUpon Denying Our Rights The London Times says that it is th« business of Ibe Hearst newspapers to attack British ideas. The London Times refers to our contentions as to American rights in the Panama canal, and our op position to the British theory that we have no right, as the nation building and owning the Panama canal, to give American ships any preferential rights whatsoever in its use. The Times ami several other English journals suggest that i-migr ‘ss. in voting to give I'l’EE TOLLS ONLY TO Ol'R COAST WISE VESSELS. and President Taft, in signing the bill, weakly yielded to political sentiments expressed by the Hearst newspapers, public men finding such sentiments “difficult to resist in presiden tial years.” The London Times says that an appeal will be made to The Hague tribunal if the United States persists in ignoring its treaty obligations This prophecy has been fulfilled. The British government has given official notice of such appeal. It is now plain that the British government’s conception of the moaning of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty was entirely different from the conception of the American diplomatists who negotiated if and of the senators who ratified it. No one will believe that an American president and senate so far forgot the Monroe Doctrine as to permit Great Britain to say that the United States could not build an interoceanic canal on its own continent in its own domestic territory and at its own expense without first securing the approval of Great, Britain and guarantee ing that American ships of commerce and of war should never have any preferential rights or privileges in that canal. Senator Lodge, chairman of the foreign relations committee of the senate that re ported the treaty, is our authority for this statement. The Georgian is one of those that believe that treaty obligations, when authoritatively ascertained, should be scrupulously observed as long as the treaty is in force. But we do not believe that the British interpretation of the treaty is the correct one. or that Great Britain will gain anything in the long run by an appeal to The Hague for arbitration. We believe that if this treaty is found Io stand in the way of absolute control by t his gov eminent of its ovv n domestic possessions, without dictation by any foreign power, the treaty itself will have to go by the board. Solving the High Cost of Living The newest, as well as the oldest, solution for the high cost of living problem is the bankruptcy court. A New York lawyer, it is announced, has applied this remedy to his domestic problems, ahd the result is that he is supremely satisfied. The list of his debts shows that he owes everybody at about the proper ratio; that is, he owes the butcher more than ho owes the druggist, and the laun dress more than he owes the tailor. On its surface his accounting shows that liis income did not keep up with his expenses, and that he simply declined to cut his style of housekeeping. Briefly, that is exactly the box that many of us are in. Those who have not had a smistantial increase of income during the last live or six years now find that their margin of savings is swept away. or. if llie.v were living up to their income, they now find themselves hopelessly in deht. Too many are looking toward an in crease of, income to solve their problem instead of trying to reduce expenses. A man committed suicide the other day rather than live in a mo ,- e modest manner than he was accustomed to. Until the solution of the problem of high prices is found the average citizen must prune and prune his outgo, even though his income increases Otherwise the bankruptcy courts will work overt ime. Women Sav l liev Are Young at Forty At what age does a woman cease to be young.' This is no gibe al the softer sex. but is a plain business question prompted by an nouncements of tin* Young Woman's Christian Association. The western branch of that worthy institution has set twenty-five years as the limit of youth for women, and has declared that after that age women should be able to take care of themselves. But the ladies of Passaic. New Jersey, have other thoughts upon the subject. Miss Smith, the president of Hie local branch, has declared that the limit of youth for a woman is a movable feast. There is no age limit, says Miss Smith, but as a rule a woman of forty “ought, in the ordinary course of events, to be able to take care of herself.” She is still young at that immature age and may need help and pro tection for a few years longer. Os course, says Miss Smith in effect, a girl of forty will be protected by the Y. W. ' . A. until such time as she grows up. We have merely quoted the testimony of woman herself on this question. for far be it from the duty of any masculine editor to tackle such a f< arsonic and serious subject as this. Dreams and Their Value c... Every dream, especially every day dream, lias its value. The gigantic enterprises that now cover the laud had their beginnings in dreams of one kind or another Fulton dreamed the transatlantic liner into existence, ami Morse dreamed tin* t -legraph. Bell dreamed of sending his voice through a wire for thousands of miles and the Wrights dreamed of conquering the air The great achievements of tin 1 earth were originally stuff that dreams arc made of and noth ing more So when you see your lap day dreaming on the grass or at the window, do mJ check him Let him'.semi his little mind out into th" future and some day from the weird dream In uiav create a lever to move the world- The Atlanta Georgian I JUST LISTENING 71 Drawn by TAD. ■■■ ' ■* ■■■ ~, , , . ■ , ~, I , J / .A* **"* ■ M i i - i ' t WT- ' ) [ No ° E. SAVS Jr \ B |U -~ £ sA ‘7' i T Owns ' ~/ &. rHAT ° AMAt -’ E °UfLT I i iif x 1 * SOOO ** ,MO i w Wffi Ml > ! 1' ■AT ™ I I > ~~ ? |r | | :: PROI ECTING A HUSBAND :: Bv DOROTHY DIX. A MISSOI'RI judge ha.-demand rA «<1 to konw of a Woman. whose husband was lost, strayed or stolen, why she didn't take better care of him. Vs Mr. Webber would say, "That, listens good." but in the actual practice how is a wife to take care of a husband? How is site to pro tect him against himself and other wojnon? By what means can she build a fence so high and tight .around the domestic fold that it will prevent a roving man from jumping over the bars or sneaking out un der the gate or being abducted by some husband snatcher? A great many thousands of anx ious women would like some au thentic information on this subject, and it is to be devoutly hoped that the judge who thinks that a wife is to blame for her husband's side stepping will furnish a reliable reci pe for preventing this disaster. A great many plausible formulas looking to the same end have been handed out to women from time to time, but each one has had the fatal defect that while it was lovely as a theory it was utterly impracticable > as a working proposition. Women have been told, for in stance. that in order to retain their husbands' love they must keep themselves young and slim, and straight-fronted, and as good-look ing at fifty as they were at twenty. Accepting this idiotic idea as true, tens of thousands of noble and de voted wives have endured, and are enduring today, the torture of the Inquisition. Not Fools. Half of the fat. middle-aged women you know are putting them selves through horrible exercises and starving themselves into nerv ous prostration, and being pum melled into a jelly by masseurs, and flayed alive by beauty doctors, in order to keep down their waist measures and hang on to the last shred of their complexions in the fond belief that by keeping a sem blance of youth and beauty, after youth and beauty are gone, they will keep their husbands fascinated. What nonsense! Husbands are not fools. Neither ate they blind. No man thinks that his middle aged. fat. gray-headed wife is as beautiful as Miss Pcacherino. If he still loves Iter, and she's the one woman in the world to him when she is fifty, it is not because of her looks, but in spite of them. He loves her for something a million times more potent than beauty. No vmi can't protect a husband gainst straying from hi - own fire side by doing the living pwtuie a< t I yourself because there will always FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1912. bo younger and fairer ladies abroad than you are. So if there's one. place in the world more than an other where love's labor is lost it is where a woman makes a martyr of herself trying to keep young and beautiful in order to take care of her husband. Again, wives have.been told that $ V r* 1 E5 j | VfjL e' J Al DOROTHY DIX. the way to keep their husbands was to give them at home the pleasures they sought abroad. Considering that the gregarious husband goes in search of saloons and barroom company and little games of poker and the society of chorus girls, this piece of advice is somewhat diffi cult to follow . The atmosphere of the home is one of pink tea. and not the car mine beloved of those who paint things red, and it is doubtful if any respectable wife, however devoted, could successfully run a home that would be a good understudy of a bar or a lobster palace. Nor would her husband patronize the place if she did. If you will observe you will notice that the men who are the gayest and noisiest abroad are always the quietest at home, and this is why wife is never a success as a chaperon. She may be a great littie protector for husband when she gets the chance, but she doesn't get the chance any oftener than he can help it. Still another theory that has been advanced for keeping husbands from stray ing into forbidden pas tures is for wives to turn them selves into an entertainment eqjn mitlee and keep their husbands so amused of an evening that they will never desire to seek outside recrea tion. This looks like a helpful hint to mother until sh«' tries it; but say, suffering sisters, have you ever | attempted to play a two-handed game of cards with your husband? Or read aloud to him'? Or play some of the music for him that you used to play before you were mar ried? Or to discuss politics, or the stock market, or baseball, or some thing that you think he's interested in with him? You have? Then I need say no more. You will never forget the things he said, nor what you an swered back, nor how you ended the .evening, both so mad you wouldn't speak. There may be men meek enough of spirit to suffer themselves to be deliberately enter tained by their wives, but if there are, they are so entirely and com pletley married that their wives can't lose them, and nobody need worry about keeping them nailed to the hearthstone. All of this does not tell how a woman is to take care of her hus band as the Missouri judge indi cates she must do. That's a conun drum nobody has answered. She can't always be young and beauti ful. for she must grow old and ugly with time. She can't always be gay and entertaining, because she must undergo the work and worry and sorrow of life. She can’t keep her husband from seeing more attractive women than she is. because she can’t put blind ers on him. and the woods are full of fascinators. She can’t watch him all the time, because men and wom < n go different ways about their daily affairs. A Puzzle. The woman who thinks she pro tects her husband from the charms of other women by keeping a sus picious eye upon him and having jealous fits every time he shows or dinary politeness to another woman makes the mistake of her life. So does the woman who spies upon her husband and goes through his pockets to see if he has any letters in feminine handwriting. So also does the wife who drives with too tight a rein. To watch anybody puts a pre "mium upon deceit, and the last way in the world to make a man faith ful is for his wife to try to hold him on the leash as she would a pet dog. He would be more than mor tal if that did not make him slip the collar now and then. How then is a wife to protect a husband? The answer is. she can’t. All that she can do is to be a good w ife, w hich includes being a pleas ant and agreeable individual with whom to live. Then all the rest is up to the man. and it's unfair to blimp his «if e for his shortcom ings. THE HOME PAPER W. R. Hearst on Canal Rights Domestic Possession of U. S. Hague Biased; Nations Envy r r k “Impropriety of Submitting a Matter So Intimately Involving American Interests to Foreign Arbitration is Evident.” Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON. Sept. 6.—To submit 4he rights of the United States in the Panama canal to arbitration at The Hague tribunal is to submit a question of vital importance to the United States to the representa tives of nations whose interests are directly opposed to the interests of the United States. In the first place, the majority of the powers represented at The Hague tribunal are European and Asiatic powers—un-American pow ers—and those foreign powers have ideas of government and of social and political rights opposed to those of the United States. In the second place, these foreign powers have as a rule actual ma terial interests -diametrically op posed to those of the United States. The Hague court is essentiallya foreign court in its constituent parts and in its sympathy and sen timent. Therefore, questions which are immediately and peculiarly American can not be safely sub mitted to it. There, is no better illustration of this fact than the one to be de rived from the Panama canal ques tion. The United States built the canal after a European nation had failed to build it. The United States built the canal entirely with its own money and with its own efforts and enterprise. The United States acquired finally as its own abso lute property the territory through which the canal zone passes. Is Part of United States. The canal zone, therefore, is as much a possession of the United States as the District of Columbia, in which the capital at Washington is situated. The canal is a domes tic possession of the United States and our property rights in the canal are fully established by purchase. Foreign nations desire; certain privileges in the canal. Shall the United States submit the question of how many privileges foreign na tions shall have to an arbitration board composed in its large ma jority of the representatives of the foreign nations interested? Would a dispute between capital and labor be submitted for arbitra tion to a board composed mainly of capitalists: or. on the other hand, to a board composed mainly of la bor men? If a farmer had a dis pute about the ownership of a cer tain portion of his farm would he submit that dispute to the decision of the other claimant to the land? It is obvious that American inter ests could not receive fair consid eration from The Hague tribunal in the matter of this Panama ques tion. It is probably true that no ques tion involving distinctly American interests or American ideas or American points of view would re- , ceive altogether just treatment from this characteristically foreign court. The United States is a mili tant republic, ana its success as a republic is a perpetual impeach ment of dynastic and despotic forms of government. The United States is an extremely progressive country, and its ideas, its govern mental attitude, its fundamental Principles, arouse the prejudices and opposition of most European and Asiatic governments. The United States is a very prosperous and powerful country, and its pow er and prosperity arouse the jeal ousy and the envy, and perhaps, also, to a certain extent, the dread of many foreign governments. Some of these things tend to prejudice some foreign governments, and other of these things tend to preju dice other foreign governments against the ideas and interests of the United States. • in view of these facts the impro priety of submitting a matter so intimately involving American in terests as the Panama canal ques tion to foreign and selfishly inter ested arbitration is evident. In ad dition to which Senator Root, who is the chief American representa tive at The Hague, ims been tin chief attorney for the foreign in terests in th" United States senate throughout this Panama canal question. The claim is made bv m- - Root, a senator of tin i , States, and men like \y Reid, an ambassador of the I - States to the court of St. .1. that they are influenced in the , titude by a question of they were influenced by qil ■ of honor, they would be h<> : representing the American | and the American interests . selected and paid to do so Tiir, would not be dishonorably t, ; senting the opponents of the Am. r incan people and using the and the position which the A nei lean people have given th- n :n oppose the rights and the ini- . of the ‘American people. A Delicate Sense of Honor, Ex-Senator Chauncey M. |> who is now abroad giving inter views in support of foreign -Li;,,,. is also influenced by his deli, , i;s sense of honor, so he <ay. . i i lu . Jn . cey Depew began his public .. d as a lobbyist for the New Y - i. Central railroad, endeavoring the dark corridors of the capito <• Albany to promote certain bills b. methods and arguments winch even the New I ork Central was not v : ■ Ing to make public. Chauncc; it. pew. having proven his ability is a lobbyist, was sent to the Unite; States senate to lobby in his offi cial capacity more effectively in the interests of corrupt e.i pma tions. In the same way Root has n sent to the United States naie for the same purposes by the same influences. What these agents ..f the trusts in public life are ex pected to do and actually do as a . I vealcd in the Standard Oil letter--. Senator Depew figures discredit ably in these Standard Oil left.. = and Senator Depew was shonr . have been disgracefully involvec n the insurance scandal. It • diffi cult to see, therefore, at wh;-t stage of his career Senator Depew developed his ‘ delicate sense of honor, and why, if it j s ~ sense of honor. It does not oic;i sionallv stimulate him to act in i interests of the people of the Un ' States. As a matter of fact. Senator I’ ■ pew represents the Railroads n<>' as always, and in his opposition to the rights of the American peo ple in this canal question lie is rep- i resenting the railroads and th-’ i terests of the railroads. The in - roads are not satisfied with the l that has passed congress and has been signed by Hie presidmi. This bill prevents railroads ' -a owning ships that would go th.one i the canal in competition o- in la of competition with the railroad themselves. It places other strictions upon th-- other nouv'i "• ; listic corporations, and 1 I< ‘ agents of the railroads am. tla , other monopolistic corpo; public life have .opposed tin I on questions of high hour' Have Forgotten Patriotism A good many newspaj - ■ ‘ forgotten their patriotism an I n leeted the interests of tlm Ahtt- I nan people, moved by ihc corporation influences. Corpoia ii*' only have no souls, but I no patriotism. They have been en gaged so long In exploiting people that they are willing adopt the shortsighted polic,' furthering their own immediate terests at the expense of th r pie and io the injury of the gen erous country that create- I and protects them. The corp tion agents of publicitv ami of l ll! ‘ I itics are merely carrying 0.. t orders of their selfish masters, f American people must ut j themselves in preserving th ■ n rights. Mr. Taft has done v to the present in protecting A lean interests, and deserv. - gratitude of patriotic Ann ie izens. H is to be hoped ’ spite of his reputation for a - and inconsistency adhere to the patrotic A policy on which he has etn.' and will i. fuse to submit Am lights to the judgment of a • it tl ,n foreign court or !•» entrust Die hand? of eign interest 45 ( WILLIAM RANDOLPH HI-lAll' 1