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England Now Insists’Upon
Denying Our Rights
Till’ London Times says that it i- th" business of the Hearst
newspaper- to alia*-* British th . - The London Times refers to our
contentions as to American riehts in th" Panama canal, and our op
position to tin British tln ory that w have no rifthl. as the nation
building and owning th* Panama canal, to give American ships any
preferential rights whatsoever in its use.
The Tinies and several other English journals suggest that
congress, n voting 1 > give EREE TOLLS ONLY TO OCR COAST
WISE VESSELS, ami Pr -j*D nt Taft, in signing the bill, weakly
yielded to political sent iim-iit* expressed by ih< Hearst newspapers,
public nien finding such sentiments "difficult to resist in presiden
tial years The London Times says that an appeal will he made to
The Ha gm tribunal if the United States persists in ignoring its
treaty obligations. This prophecy has been fulfilled. The British
government has given of ci;d notice of such appeal.
It is now plain that th" British government s pon* l ption of the
meaning of the Hm Pam ■ ,te treaty was entirely different from
the conception of *h< A • •>• e.-m diplomatists wlm negotiated it and
of the senat< ■- wlm rat it I it
No om will believe tl,ri an Am tiean president and senate so
far forgot the M<u -oe Doetr as to permit Great Britain to say
that the United Stales con’d not build an intcroceanie -anal on its
own continent in its • n d"m stie territory and at its own expense
without first securing ’he rpprm;.) of Great Britain and guarantee
ing that Aineric m ship- ■ * num m- ami of war should never have
any preferential rights or privileges in lhat canal. Senator Lodge,
chairman of tin foreign r< tions committee of the senate that re
ported the treatv. is our nutlmi i y for this stat, inent.
The Georgian i> one • f those that believe that treaty obligations,
when authoritative y ascerlair d. should he scrupulously observed
as long as the treaty is in force.
But we do not Mi-m liiat ’hr British interpretation of the
tc aty is the correct one. or that Great Britain will gain anything in
the long run by an appual to The Hague for arbitration.
We believe that if this trea’y is found to stand in the way of
absolute con; rol bv T - government of its own domestic possessions,
without dictation by any for- ign power, the treaty itself will have
to go by the bo*rd.
Solving the High Cost of
Living
The newest, i(s well as the oldest, solution forth" high cost of
living problem is the bankruplev court A New York lawyer, it is
announced, has applied this reined) to his domestic problems, ami
the result is that he is supreim i\ satisth-d Tim list of his d* >ts
shows that he owes everybody .it about the proper ratio; that is,
he owes the butchm more than < • owes the druggist, ami the laun
dress more than h> ow es the tailor. <hi it- surface bis accounting
show s that his i i ico m - del not keep up with his expenses, and that
he simph declined to cut his style of housekeeping.
Brie'ly. ‘hat is exaetl.v the box that many of us are in Those
who hav imt had substantial increase <>f u -onie during the hist
n\i o six v• a now find tn... t'mir margin of savings is swept
awa.v. or. it th.y w. r< living up tn their income, tin v now find
t hemsd ves hoj e|ess|y in debt. mao v are looking 1 ovv ard an in
c.rease of incoim to solve their problem instead of trying to reduce
< xpens. A man • m.mut- d mii-;<|. the other day rather than live
tn an: ’■ m -■ mini’ -r •' n 1 ■ was ni‘ii<> d to.
I nt’ 1 tl- solution o' ' n> p-obh n of high prices is found the
average citizen mus ne his < utgo. even though his
incoim increases mtheiwis. the bankruptcy courts will work
overtime.
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Women Say They Are
N oung at Forty
Al wlmt tig' •iiies . vvo. i ase to In young This is no gibe
at tii" suiter-e\. Im' i- i p i business question prompted by an
noui-cciiK ti’s o Y' ing Woman 's Christian Association. The
western brat eh of tin,’ worthy mmitution has’s't twenty-five years
as ’he limit <>■ yo it! ''or women. mid has declared that after that
age women ->i m I ■ <■ t .are of themselves But the
ladies of i’.xssaic. \ w .1. r-. y. av. other tlioughts upon the subject.
MissSmi'l th p>- - ij , ’ • • • \il hmm !’.. hti- declared that Ihe
limit . ■ ■' a wo tan is i movabh feast. There is tm age
limit, sav s .'dos Sm".':. bu; .s . -u!. a woman forty "ought, in
the ordii ~rv < • o’ . ■ nt-, to be able to take rare of herself.”
She is sti:l yo..mg ic :■ . g. and ti ..y need help and pro
tection i s ' er Os ttourse. says Miss Smith in effect,
a girl o forty wi ibepr•it nd by the Y AV < A. until such time
as she gr .> - m
Wf 'iv m.t \v ’iot ! im 1 ■s’im.ftiy >f woman herself on
this - ■be • ■ ' uuty <>t any masculine editor
to tackle such a ; arsome and s. rum> subject as this.
Dreams and I "heir \ a lue |
Every d"e; y•v. ry day dr. : has iis value The
gigantic ci,*.-! s 1 .at a" ■nm t!m laud I.ad their beginnings
in dreams <>f om- .re., r. • r Eu:w-n dnamed the transatlantic
liner into cxisten •. ■ :e. Mors <b ■:I- d 1 ’■ I* gyaph. Bell dreamed
of sending his voice througl i wire for 1 sands of miles, and the
Wrights dreamevl ot con<)uering th< Thi great achievements
of the earth were uiagiim liy .Ti <• at dr< n - are mad' of and noth
ing mor<
Xi whe you - ■■ y 0,.: d•> dr< mmx 'h< grass or at the
v lifiovv . no •I- <O.. ,’ |.| . t), - mitl< out !ito
lever tv move die world- ,
The Atlanta Georgian
: JUST LISTENING
Drawn by TAD.
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' :: PROTECTING A HUSBAND : :
Bv DOROTHY DIX.
\.M ISSOI ’RI judgt ! .i:- •i- Hi no
«<1 to konw of a woman,
whose husband was lost,
I strayed or stole n, why sue didn't .
take better care of him
As .Mr Webber would say, "That
list, n- stood.", but in tile actual
practice how is a w ife to take care
of ,i husband'.' How is she to pio
l i t him against himself .nd other
women'.' By what means can she
build a fence so high and t’ght
around the domestic fold that it w ill
prevent a wing man • .mi .lumping
ovei ti.c bais 01 .-miking out uu
dei the gate r being abducted by
s mic husband snatch-r .
A gnat many thousands of anx
ious worn-n would like some au
i themie information on this subject,
anti it is to be devoutly hoped that
tip judge who thinks that a wife i
j to blame for h< r husband’s side-
I stepping v ill furnish a reliable reci
pe foi preventing this disaster.
A great many plau.-ibli formulas
looking to 'he ■ tme end have been
handed out to women from time to
time, but each one has bad 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
■st .tight-fronted, and as good-look
ing at fifty they were at twenty.
Accepting this idiotic idea as true,
tens of thousands of noble and de
voted wives have endured and are
endut ng today, the lortun of the
Inquisition.
Not Fools.
HHf of the fat. middle-aged
w omen you know ~r. putting them
selves through horrible exercises
and starving thems Ives into nerv
ous prostration and being punt-
I ntelied into a jelly by masseurs,
and flayed ally , by beauty doctors,
in order to kee] down their waist
, me;.-un s n.d arg on to the last
il shred of tinr ■•xi.i.s in the
fond belief that by k» i-| ing a sem
blan e of youth and beauty, after
I' y. uth ami b< auty are p. nt they
will keep their husbands fascinated.
Wli.c nons.-ns. ' Husbands are
not fools Neither are they blind.
No man thinks that his middle
aged. tat. gray-hiaded wife is as
b. .< .Pit.. is Miss I’eu .n i jr. If • •
still lovr hi r and she'- the one
woman n the world to him when
■lc I- fifty, t -i: ’t be', a list of
i • . ks. hut in spit, of them. H
y■ - .-t • t ->>:■ • ng a n •. i> n
tine s i . .i< potent than b< auty
N ■ yo . ■an t pioteit a husband
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FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 6. 1912.
in- 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, wivrs have been told that
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DOROTHY DIX
the way to keep their husbands was
ci., them at home the pleasures
they sought abroad Considering
that tile gregarioii- husband goes
in search of saloons and barroom
•company and little games of poker
and the society of chorus girls, this
pie a of advice is somi what diffi
cult to follow.
The atmosphere of th. 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 w ifi . how ever devoted,
could successfully run a iiomt that
would be a good understudy of a
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he: husband patron: • the plate 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
peroi SI ■
litt • protector f. r husband when
.-he gets the < h.tnc. . but she doesn't
get the chane. any eftener than he
> an help it.
Sti s been
advance.: for keeping ausbands
fiom stray ing into forbidden pas
: in • is for w ives to turn them
-elv. s m: an ente -.ainmont . .-m
--.i.itiv .-.nd keep their husbands
. :.us. d of an evening that t! ey will
rover desire to seek outside -e«.rea
' on. This oo'.s ik- a h< ipfi:’ hint
■ 1 nr;”' ir.ry but
say, suffering sisters, iiavc you eve.
attempted to play a two-handed
game of cards with your husband?
Or read aloud to him . 1 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
tiling 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
1 i the evening, both so mad you
w ouldn't speak. There may be men
meek enough of spirit to suffer
themselves to he deliberately enter
tained by their wives, but if then
are, they are so entirely and com
pletlcy married that their wives
can’t lose them, and nobody need
worry about keeping them nailed
I 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 db. That's a conun
drum nobody has answered. She
can't alway s be young and beauti
ful. for she must grow old and ugly
with time. She can't always bo
gay and entertaining, because she
must undergo the work and worry
and sorrow of life.
She can’t keep het 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. S:.i can't watch him
all the time, because men and wom
en go different ways about their
daily affairs.
A Puzzle.
The woman who thinks sin pro
tects her husband from the . harms
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
■ ' ■ ting 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 ::.. ke a man faith
ful is for his wife to try to hold
him on the leash as she would a pet
dog. Htiavould be mor. than mor
tal if that did not make him slip
the collar now and then.
How then is a wife to protect a
i usband? The answei she can't.
A” that she can do is to be a good
w ifi wh .'li includes being a pl. rs
ant and agreeable individual with
w i-,om to livi Then ail the rest i =
up to :' < ’ -r. m. it's unfair
b'. 1 ’ - •' fx for his shortci"u-
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W. R. Hearst on Canal Rights
Domestic Possession of L’. S.
Hague Biased: Nations Envv
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‘ Impropriety of Submitting a Matter So Intimately Irvcl
American Interests to Foreign Arbitration is Evident "
j Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON Seat. 6.—To submit
the rights of the United States in
the Panama rcnci to arbitration at
The Hague ti bunal is to submit a
question of vital importance to the
United State.- to the representa
tives of nations whose interests are
directly opposed to the interests of
the United S’ :t< -
in the first pla-.e, 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 governnv-nt and of social
and political r's!. - opposed to those
of the United States.
In the sec"!, mac» these foreign
powers have as ■ rule actual ma
terial ihteresis diametrically op
| nosed to the.- 4 ' he United Stat* s
The Hague . "urt is essentially a
! foreign court in its constituent
pfß-ts and in -ympathy 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 :’.. The United State
built the canal entirely with its
own money and w ith 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 apital at Washington
is situated. The canal is a domes
tic possession >*f 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 interest'd?
Would a dispute between capital
and labor he submitted for arbitra
tion to a board composed mainly of
capitalists; or. on the other hand,
to a hoard composed mainly of la
bor men? If a farmer had a dis
pute about the ownership of a ocr
lain portion of hi farm woftld ho
submit that dispute to the decision
of the other claimant to the land?
It is obvious that American inter
ests could not rrceiv, fair consid
eration from The Hague tribunal in
the matter of this Panama ques
tion.
It Is probablv tru* that no ques
tion involving distinctly American
interest- or American ideas or
American points of view would re
ceive altogether just treatment
from this- characteristically foreign
■1 ■. Tht United St - is a
tant republic, and its success a- a
republic is a perpetual impeach
ment of dynastic and despotic
forms of government. Th* United
States is an extr-mcly progressive
countrj’. and its ideas, its govern
mental attitud*. its fundamental
'•rineiples. arouse the prejudices
and opposition of most European
and Asiatic governments. The
Unitr States is very j isperous
and powerful <•'•untry. and iis 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
s m*‘ foreign gov* i nments. and
either of these things tend to preju
dice other foreUn governments
gainst the ideas and interests of
the Ur.?.- . Sfat' -
i view of these f ■
prietv submitting a m iter so
intimately involving American in
terests as th. Panama canal ques
tion to f**i* Un an I .«• fishly inter
■ - ted rb’ ti' nI ■ ■ id ent In ad
dition to which Senator Root, who
th, chi*f American repre-enta
tive * Tile H-gu- lias 1,-n the
chief attorney for the foreign in
terests sen at
throughout this Panama canal
j question.
THE HOME PAPER
The claim is mad* by u .
Root, a senator of the
States, and men like \v
Reid, an ambassador of t~
States to the court *>f St
that they are infiuenced in ■
titude by a question of .
they were influenced by ~
of honor, they would I.* h,,,,
representing the A netn *
and the ?.mniinn int*.. >-«
selected and paid to .
would not be dishonors hl.
senting the opponents of tl • ■
incctn ;ii F ■
and the position which •
ican people have giver •
oppose the rights and tin- in;. ,
Os the A ;-,*■• ri- an peoph
A Delicate Sense of Honor
Ex-Senato: Chauncey M I>. --
wlm is now ab.o-id ai*
views support off..;.
Is also influenced by h -
sense of honor, so ■ .
ccy Depew began his p u ;. .
a lobbyist for the N. y
Central railroad, end, **..
the dark , or.ddors of t’.
Albanv to promote * e>' ■? s
methods and argument.- > n
the New York Central wan, .
ing to make public.
pew, having proven h’s , - ■
a lobby;st. was sent to : : ■
States sei t*
cial capacity nm;-.. ,p.
the interests of corrupt ; .
lions.
In the same way R
sent to the United State - - . »
j for the same purposes by ■
influences. What these grtn= '
the trusts in public lif<- v <
pected to do and actual’.* s .
vealed in the Standard '
Senator Depew figures
ably in these Standarr, < i. .
and Senator Depc-w w
. been disg icefu
the insurance seandai. I:
* ult to see, therefore
stag* of his career Sep..'
developed his delicat* sens,
honor, and why. if it is
sense of honor, it does .
sional'y stimulate him m ■
interests of the people of tip* i?
States.
As a matter of ' s ■ l
n* w repres. nts th,
as always, and in his < ■ ■,..
to th*- rigiits • * 1;. .*,■. .
pie in this canal question •
resenting the rail ~ - an
terests of the rail-... .. T
toads ;*r*- no; se .ib .1 v .
that has passed c-oi'g;,-
signed by the- p:* .-
This bill prevents
owning .- 'ops that **•>■•■_■•
the canal in competition n
of competition wit' t
themselves It plans .*•:•
rtrictions upon tl; - ot’..
listic corporations, an? -•■
agelr- of th* r.i?
other mono], Jis tn.- • .
public life ha . •
■ m (I Lies’i.rns of h ig;,
Hsve Forgotten Patrioti- r.
A good manv new - p ;
forgott-n their ;.atri*i’i- o
j .* ted the inte rn's of
uan p. ople. mow 1
corporation influetK' .- C*
not only have ne sou -. W
no patriotism. They h.*ve b’
gaged "o long in cxi ■
pcppl* that they
adopt the shortsigh:*- '
ft; ■ thct’ir u their own in
terests at the * xp* •:-. of ' •
pie ami to the injur. : ’
< rous count: y th
and p otects them. Th*
’ ’ ■■gent- ;■ mi.,
itics are m*-:ely eat'yine
*>■ ■ -of th* *r s- Isl- 1 i:i.. ■
American p* opl* must
t' ■ - in pr* -• ring t
rights. Mr. Taft has d*>m
to the p; esent in protecting
i. an int* i -s:“. and .?-■:* •
gratitu ■ of j . Arm
izens It is 1. ; •
spite of ■ < repr'*:i<'H f '
-tancy • y
adhere to the pat: ti-
P , ■ ’ I* .
rights io t .e judgment
j WILLiAM RAND'.'LPH HE