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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 postoffiee at Atlanta, under act of March 3, 1375. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mail, $5 00 a year. Payable in advance. England Now Insists JUpon Denying Our Rights The Loudon Times says that it is the business of the 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 and several other English journals suggest that congress, in voting to give EHEE TOLLS ONLY TO Ol R ( OAST 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 Tinies says that an appeal will be made to The Hague tribunal if the I'nited States persists in ignoring its treaty obligations. This prophecy has been fulfilled. The British government lias given official notice of such appeal. It is now plain that the British government’s conception of the moaning of the Hay Pauncelote treaty was entirely different from the conception of the American diplomatists who negotiated it 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 I nited Slates could not build an interoceanie 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 to stand in the Way of absolute control by this government of its own domestic possessions, without dictation by any foreign power, the treaty itself will have to go by the bo»rd. 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, lias applied this remedy to bis domestic problems, and 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, be owes the butcher more than he owes the druggist, and the laun dress more than he owes the tailor. On its surface bis accounting shows that his income did not keep up with his expenses, and that fie simply declined to cut his style of housekeeping. Briefly, that is exactly the box that many of us’are in. Those who have not bad a substantial increase of income during the last five or six years now find that their margin of savings is swept away, or. if they were living up to their income, they now find themselves hopelessly in debt. 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 n:.■re modest manner than he was accustomed to. I'ntil tin* 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 overtime. Women Say They Are Noting at Forty At what age does a woman cease to be young.' This is no gibe at the softer sex. but is a plain business question prompted by an uouucements of Hie 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 he able to take can* of themselves. But the ladies of Passaic. New .Jersey. have other thoughts upon the subject. Miss Smith. tlm president of the local branch, has declared that the limit of youth for a woman is a movable feast. There is no age limit, says Mis* Smith, but ns 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 'I . W. ('. A. until such time as she grows up. We have merely quoted the testimony of woman herself on this question, for far he it from the duty of any masculine editor to tackle such a fearsome and serious subject as this. Dreams and Their Value Every dream, especially every day dream, has its value. 'Pile gigantic enterprises that now cover the land had their beginnings in dreams of one kind or another. Eulton dreamed the transatlantic liner into existence, and Morse dreamed the telegraph. Bell dreamed of sending his voice through a wire tor thousands of miles, and the Wrights dreamed of conquering the air. The great achievements of the earth were originally stuff that dreams are made of and noth ing more. So when you see your boy day-dreaming on the grass or at the window, do not check him. Let him send his little mind out into the future ami some day from the weird dream he may create a lever to move the world- The Atlanta Georgian FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 6, 1912. JUST LISTENING Drawn by TAD. ■ 1 ■ 1 !■—■■■—■ I ■ ■■ " ■— ■■■ ■— 'I - ... ■ - ■ I , -L- ( No ° ** , .°'*' € SAYS ! 6ILL ~ fc ' 5Av5 ' fc ! r H-fcr cai/au‘6 boat i H / s ¥ 1 Amc * good MiHO jhl® IJI I :: PROTECTING A HUSBAND : : A MISSOURI judge has deinand- AA <-d to konw of a woman, whose husband was lost, strayed or stolen, why she didn’t take better earc of him As Mr. Webber would say, "That listens good,” but in the aefnal practice how is a wife to take care of a husband? How to pro tect him against himself and other women'.’ 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 tiie 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 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 todaj. the torture of the Inquisition, Not Fools. Half of tiie fat. middle-aged women you know are putting them selves through horrible exercises am! 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 dow n their waist measures and hang on to the last shied 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 are they blind. No man thinks that his middle aged, fat. gray-headed wife Is as beautiful as Miss Peacherino. If he still loves her. 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. \on can't protect a husband against stray ing from his ow n fire side by doing tin- living picture act yuurselt, because there will always By DOROTHY DIX. be 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 try ing to keep y oung and beautiful in order to take care of iter husband. , Again, wives have been told that 1 JT I wA Zri MU zy m A/ gjjjfo-: DOROTHY DIX the way to keep their husbands was to give them at heme 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 w ould her husband patronize the place if she did. If you will observe you 1 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 Httle protector for husband when she gets the chance, but she doesn't get the chance any ot'tener than he can help it. Still another theory that has been advanced for keeping husbands from straying into forbidden pas tures is for wives to turn them selves into an entertainment com mittee 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 t’> mother until she 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 en 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 holtl 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 wife, which 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 blame his wife for his shortcom ings. THE HOME PAPER W. R. Hearst on Canal Rights Domestic Possession of U. S. Hague Biased; Nations Envy •r r. r * “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 the 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 essentially a 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. Poreign nations desire certain privileges in the canal. Shall the United States submit the question of how many privileges foreign na tions shall’ have to a.n 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 lie 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 Panamd 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, and 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 der 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 tire 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 Tiie Hague, has been the chief attorney for the foreign in terests in the United States senate throughout this Panama canal question. The claim is made by men like Root, a senator of the United States, and men like Whitelaw Reid, an ambassador of the Unit .| States to the court of St. that they are influenced in titei titude by a question of hono if they were influenced by questm;.. of honor, they would be hono.al,', representing the American pop],, and the American interests, being selected and paid to do so. They would not be dishonorably repre senting the opponents of the Amer, incan people and using the pov, ,r and the position which the Amer ican people have given them :.n oppose-the rights and the interco of the American people. A Delicate Sense, of Honor. Ex-Senator Chauncey M Depew who is now abroad giving inter views in support of foreign claim is also influenced by his delicate sense of honor, so he says. Chaun cey Depew began his public carer: as a lobbyist for the New York Central railroad, endeavoring in the dark corridors of the eapitol at Albany to promote certain bills by methods and arguments which even the New York Central was not will ing to make public. Chauncey De pew, having proven, his ability ar a lobbyist, was sent to the United States senate to lobby in his offi cial capacity more effectively in the interests of corrupt corpora tions. In the same way Root has been sent to the United States senate for the same purposes by the same influences. What these agents of the trusts in public life are ex pected to do and actually do is re vealed in the Standard Oil letters. Senator Depew figures discredit ably in these Standard Oil letter l , and Senator Depew was shown > have been disgracefully involved in the insurance scandal. It is diffi cult to see, therefore, at whnt stage of his career Senator Depew developed his delicate sense of honor, and why, if it is a trie sense of honor, it does not m-c.i --sionally stimulate him to act in ti>- interests of the people of the United States. As a matter of fact. Senator De pew represents the railroads now as always, and in his opposition to the rights of the American peo ple in this canal question he is rep resenting the railroads and the in terests of the railroads. The rai - roads are not satisfied with the bid that has passed congress and hns been signed by the president This bill prevents railroads from owning ships that would go through the canal in competition or in lack of competition, with the railroads themselves. It places other e strictions upon the other monopo listic corporations, and so tie agents of the railroads and tin othei monopolistic corporation, public life have opposed the bid on questions of high honor. Have Forgotten Patriotism A good many newspapers hav" so gotten their patriotism and n 2 leeted the interests of the Amer ican people, moved by the same corporation influences. Corpofatiim not only have no souls, but have no patriotism. They have been en gaged so long in exploiting tin people that they are willing m adopt the shortsighted policy n f furthering their own immediate in terests at the expense of the peo ple ami to the injury of the gci - erous country that creates the 'i and protects them. The corpora lion agents of publicity and of pol itics are merely carrying out th orders of their selfish masters. Tim American people must act f" : ' themselves in preserving their rights. Mr. Taft lias done well up to the present in protecting Air'' lean interests, and deserves t'i p gratitude of patriotic American cit izens. It is to Ye hoped that in spite of his reputation for int-’i - stancy and inconsistency lie wiH adhere to the patrotic American policy on which he has embark< ■ and will refuse to submit American rights to the judgment of a biase foreign court or to entrust them m the hands of attorneys fo eignv, interests. WILLIAM ItANIJUI.PH HEARST