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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Aften. -on Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East A..» • ' -■ S’ . Atlanta. Ga Entered as second-class matter at p. st c anta under a • r ' March 3. IST) Subscription Price—Delivered t> *r 10 c« a w-e . By mail. ?5 00 a year. Payable 1# advance. 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. r 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. ... .--■••••s- ' '' ■ NOU knows vjhaT E. SANS e ' B'll- E sans ‘e owns )/•! I TO Go's 'IS Z ■-lUt W’' '-w ' '.d.i •<.' ... .A" ; 1 - - wi? ' wmS * - & E '.i z< z A>'T7 f -- . ' :: 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 f ' - ' • . tn . aw I 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 I -/A l/d W-f rt? jar 117 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 - • N 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- | Ugs. | W. R. Hearst on Canal Rights Domestic Possession of L’. S. Hague Biased: Nations Envv r r r ‘ 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