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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday Ry THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St , Atlanta, Ga. Entered as second-class matter at postoff ce at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 137 J Subscription ITice—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week By mail, $5 00 a year Payable In advance. He Wouldn’t l ake a Million for His New Baby * * * But He Wouldn’t Give Ten Cents for Another One. The man eats in the German restaurant. lie is a chemist, in inkmaker anti a German thoii.iriif.ini anti j'omi. Many of his friends had said “Brosit." Julius, th waiter I (pronounce it “Yulins." please', knew how Ganymede felt wlu n all O|\ nipus was dry. The inkmaker took his fust bahy i and his friends' eon^rrafnlalions in a serious mood Tt’a a fine baby,” said he. ‘’Body of an Apollo, b: in of a R<»osev»*lt, to judge by appearance at lie end <*f two days. But, mein»* Herren, Ive got all the babies i want. I wouldn’t take a million dollars lor this one, but 1 wouldn’t give you ten rents for another.” Many a father has felt that. way. The birth of every child is an event far more dreadful than any h rem-h revolution. Every mother suffers more at the birth of her child than is suffered b\ the country that y. ;l . s through revolution. To •>■<> upon the battlefield or into the square where Cossacks swarm and charge is child’s pla\ compared with lhe long, repeated sufferings that. Eternal Wisdom inflicts upon the world’s mothers. .Men have voted tliemselvi > THE HEROES of the world, al though they roaTh /Io not know what suffering i- ’KJu. I now what it is, BY PROXY, when the first child arrives and many of them, horrified like our German chemist, value the dearly bought baby at untold millions AND AAt >1 LDN 1 GIA E lEX CENTS EOR ANOTHER ONE. Suppose YOl' were going to write the rest of this editorial —how would you finish it, and where would you find the appli cation of the remark about the baby? You’d find it. of course, IN E\ ERA GREA I HI MAN EVENT. We are collectively forever in the mental attitude of the man that values his baby at a million, but wouldn’t give ten cents for a hundred other babies. Every blessing that we have gained through suffering and self denial we value. We even exaggerate its value, perhaps, and we sa\ that life would be worthless without it. BIT WE DON'T WANT ANY MORE AT THE SAME PRICE. We like to bt free liberty is a fine thing. We paid lives, money and comfort for the freedom that is ours. BI T WE DON’T (’ARE I’o BIA' ANA' MORE EREEDO.M AT THAT PRICE. Wo were quite willing, for instance, to let the Spaniards have their way and butcher unfortunate ('uban> under our eyes. The besotted fools had to sink our warship TO Sil \ME I S INTO A EIGHT. We like our baby freedom bought in 177f‘>. Millions couldn't buy I'll AT baby. But we don't want an\ others: If you take womon'ont of the mills and give them a chance to feed their musing babies and wash the older ones, AOl LN CREASE THE AV AGES Or MEN. Working WOMEN keep down the waize* of working MEN. as working CHILDREN keep down the pay of mon and women both. Therefore, industrial freedom for women and children is a "baby’ that -as a nation we wouldn't give ten cents for. But. with the race, as with the indivjdual fatbei and mother, it is a higher wisdom that decides. The German chemist will HAVE his other babies and each one as soon as be gets it will be worth millions in his eyes. Not one would he give up—al though he will say “no more" each time. And this nation will have its various new “babies" as time passes. We shall have EREEDOM for women and children, and for working MEN. too. We shall have REAL freedom that is tn say. freedom from worry, freedom from lhe grinding toil that is relieved only by drunkenness or tin' grave. AVe shall get. one at a time, the evidences of genuine civilization. Each will be valued. AVe shall hesitate about making the s.mrilhc for each of those not yet secured. But we'll get them ALL in time. And then well say. as the German, chemist will say- thirty years from now fma\ he have fourteen children at his table . “They cost a lot. but the.' are worth it I wouldn’t ami couldn’t dispense with a single one of them." i A Mission of Peace I Dr. Wiliam O McDowell. “The .Peacemaker." sailed thq other day on the steamship George Washington bearing the American invitation to the Interparliamentary I nion, which holds its world scssmn Sepiijnber 17 19, in Geneva. Switzerland. The American nvitation is signed by • ’.*>_* immheis of the American c<>ngr> >s. by 404 cxveutiee heads of stales uiiiviTsitii s. colleges, religious, pair 'th- commer ial. •«><■.■.'. fraternal and tabor org,afi:/..it ions, h ur-es a joint meeting of tlu parliaments of the work! in th- <•0111111' ip IPI lin \< vv York and in 101 >,u San Eratn-iseo. . i nt. i. s|s of movers d pe.m-,.. The impia s- ve i names on th •• most impr<-ssi\e memo rial Dr. McHowi II h s • ,ir- ■! by h * own untiring ami imbviduai effort,-. The lab. h.,-. n prodigious tie luutwe the highest and most •.inselh-h, ; : ,. t n 4to be m eomplish.-d the most milh-nttial known to met * Wil il'O! Ft; I 'll . I I I' 11 • 1 • ends its if to : ins ti"i> . . •;> • m ii v i ■ t he w <>rld ■•■•ii bi p< - laded : » hob • imno s. ~,mn in our mmiitry . or vheihcr the a,i -e •lt> mi •.!’ uv < t i wdl a rbe real ized we do not But Ili< lie.i'gian. as lhe <ti ■nuous ulvoeate national f>reparedm ss or war in mi ■m p. navy, is to -vauge T unive; s;:i ]., fore Tb< Georgian p u ■ D- M. I) ,|| for hs e\ adintr; m.ss.. ■ The Atlanta Georgian An Artificial Flying Fish An Amphibious AcroplancWithW htch a French Aviator Is Going to Make a Trip to England > “ ■ -- a&w. . - „ a i // ■■ BEAUMONT MANEUVERING WITH HIS HYDROAEOPLANE. By GARRETT P. SERVISS. ' / ■ja.’lll French ”;tir-man” B< ui- I irmni, aa ho Avon distinction last y«-;ip in the long flights of aeroplan* s over Europe, and es pecially the one from Paris to Koine, has now a hydro-mi oplane, which he is going to sell to the Eng t'li a mil all a, and he proposes to navigate it himself tn England, by f dimming the riv« • Seine from Palis to the sea, and then taking flight over iho Hng’ish channel. Part of the time he Avill be on the Avater, and part of the time in the air. The pi vuliarities of his ma chine will bo noticed in the photo graph. Whether it is on 11m Avate> or in the air. it is driven by a screw ac tuated b> the uno motor. When it traverses the water the aeio plancs mo so disposed that they do not lift it into the air. though they may add to its buoyancy, and assist its progress by decreasing the im mersion of the hull. Beaumont're gard.' this machine as pra< tically safe, because, as he says, the avi ator cimoiintrrs no serious danger from a tail. K< epipg always over, or near the water, if a fall occurs the worst that is to be apprehend ed is a din king. lii hi- H e.my tried the machine ti Captives of Fate & By \\ INIFRED BLACK. < T tE -i« her up there on tin V/\/ nu - i 11, other ilay Lor na I'ooiie. the sweet m oh n ponhi'- tree standing light and grmefirl u the great gather ing ein le of g ooniv pines. Stolen, (hat tiling, from a quiet valley by some wandering breeze of mischief, and set there in the woods with the dark evergreens soughing around her like some fair maid ■ arrii'd off by robber chieftains and kept captive in their mountain fast ness. How light she was, how graceful, how modest ami timid, and yet she stood her ground, too. and would not let any of the rough, burly pines or the melancholy brooding cedars come too < lose. Even the tall si.nice. with as silver-tipped ting's-. she kept at a distance, like some modest princess of royal blood kt ' ping up the tradition of proud alo fness even in her captivity. I'bitt t. flutter, all her gracifu! leaves si .tn d sending signals to her tall brothers down there in the vallej. On Wind-Swept Hill. “'Come up." she seemed to cry to tin m. "come up ami take me home. I want to be bv the water. I do not like this high mesa. I am afraid of all these dark trees crowd ing around me Come. brothers, m.ncu up tin hill tonight when the ■i on - gor< and take me home II :: th- brothers down tluie, by t the green valley do I ..; . ven take the trouble to wave i a s-I i\ i- l‘rince<f<. ami - • t sin - . m!.~ todax I.urna Ibuitie w« iia.i- named her a eap tit > ’ • ; 11 I'.lll. Il ibbi'l' I ITS. tin * on tin x. mi-swept hill. ...run I >OOl.l ' I I\. a fr.ond I ioi heal mi She married when s »■<.•- s t. ■ n. married a man - . *<• \ kin " , > irrit*d aw iy urh : s t’.iik n.tr.QSonu face and th.* - - krw n Tall and coni' '] ■: ’’"'a i’t.t.r !,< • ua is iuitn«»n»d . j h • i ii ■ \ ■ ur h h■ - Lun, , and pntiy MONBAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1912. on the Seine, twice traversing the city of Paris, with satisfactory re sults. When in flights, it looks, from certain points of view, strik ingly like a flying fish, which is the name popularly bestowed upon It. Ii was, I believe, in America, tlie first successful experiments with hydro-aeroplanes were made, but Beaumont’s apparatus, it is claimed, has great advantages over its predecessors. It certainly looks like a very successful device, and it will, no doubt, open Ute way to many more improvements. In view of th< many fatal accidents which have attended the development of aeroplanes intended only for use in the air, it Is probable that, in the immediate future, we shall see the "airmen” tuning more and more to the amphibious type of machine. It is quite natural that Beaumont should do so. because he is an en sign in tlie b'rench marine (his real name being Conneau), and water navigation is consequently familiar to him. This may give him c. rtain personal advantages in tlie development of the new form of machine. That high authorities see great promise in Beaurqont’s machine is sufficiently proved by the undis puted statement that tlie English navy has agreed to buy it. if it answers tlie tests. Evon the laymen can see how wide its usefulness and soft-voiced, and gent 10-heart ed, and the man who carried her away with him is saturnine and sarcastic and cynical. H». doesn’t believe in anybody, lie thinks people who laugh are al! fools. He never reads anything but some book which proves that every thing is all wrong every where, •nd when poor Lorna for gets tor a minute her melancholy fate and tries to sing a little sim ple song of tov< and laughter, the robber chi. stain frowns and the song <lies in poor Lorna’s throat. And He's a Captive. Captive, pom- little girl, a captive bowed down with iron chains, though *be work! thinks they are nothing but i etty bracelets, I wonder how long she will live in prison? They arc not always wo:m"n, the captives of fate. I know a man who's a captive, too. He's a big headed, generous soul with a laugh like a burst of primal joy. He has a brain, too. a qui* k. keen, active brain. He likes to eat and to drink, and to laugh, and to talk, and he 1-^,— -"X-- ./S.'Sj—u— They’re Coming Home By CHESTER FIRKINS. rpil ESI-! are th. days .if terror; J These are the du.xs of joy. < I Alarms ami hopes commingled < In marvelous alloy; When from the shore or mountain, < <*r w llrl-rMr'rl tilev roam. I’ Our wives send letters saying That tlmx ai. coming home. The lawn is long and seedy: Tb< rubbf i plant has died. ! Though Alien we said we’d water it - We didn't think we lied. The eat (her pet. most treasured) f Has simply quit the flat. \V x lid xv.i ever promise That we would feed the cat? (Hut .il' she s coming, coming. Anr! no s the tow-head boy. To aim t < '-n a home again Wi too,! and love and joy. No n •' -r how thox slave ns. No ma’ter w h<- c they roam, ;It s coo, to g.-t the letters j T . I- s;.x they're omll'C home. might be both in war and peace. It would offer a ready means of com munication between the members of a squadron, it would carry dis patches, and perhaps it could be turned into some kind of a fight ing machine. At any rate, it might s< ive for scouting in shallow wa ters, as well as for reconnaissance from the air. It would form too easy a mark for the quick-firing guns of a cruiser to serve as a tor pedo carrier, hut there aie cer tainly a hundred ether ways in wltich it could be employed. Koi peaceful purposes it may have still wider uses. Beaumont’s experiments have already establish ed the fact that it can be navi gated. partly in the air and partly in the water, along so crooked a river as the Seine, and through the many obstructions offered by bridges and boats within the lim its of a great city. Why should not a simila> device attain great pop ularity as a pleasure craft? What greater delight could be conceived titan traveling like a water bird, now in free flight, and now alloat on a beautiful lake or river? Perhaps, after all, man’s final mastery of tlie atmo plieie. as a highway, will come to resemble more that of the duck, which al ways keens neat the water, than that of the eagle, which finds no dangers in the high air. is ip v. r realix liappy w ithout a |m of friends around him, and he mar ried a wife win, lives to save. She haunts the shops looking for bargain l ; she screws down the cook's wages; .-he haggles over a quarter on the gas bill She wears a dress till she's tired of it. and (Inn what? Does she glx e il to a poor relation and be glad she has it to give? \'., t s h,, She sells that dross to the maid or some friend, less well iff than she. Her husband is pruned, ,-ind cut. mid trimmed down to suit her lit tle sordid, narrow seln mes. Poor fellow. I am always wondering when In will find the courage and the chance to escape down the hill, off the wind-swept mesa, and go home to his own folk. I've seen children captives in their own familv. haven't you? Clever children in a family of dolts, and the dolts all feel so superior, because "poor Alary, is so queer." ' I 1 . poor tilings, my heart aches for them, but they are not so much to bo pit i* d as flic clevi r prisoni r.- of dullness, clever people have warm hearts, a« a rule, and quick sympa thies, and there's no one so cruel < n earth as a dullard. An honest boy in a family of crooks. a good woman in a bevy of .-x-lflsh. m rcenary. worldly sisters. Stolen, every one of them, stolen away from the imiqe they should have, and brought Io sot low among aliens. She Shall Have Company. Aly heart goes out to them, and foi their sakes I .-mi going to climb tin- windswept mes i tomorrow mid tak.- with me a lift' sprig of quiv ering aspni, or a branch of poplar, : ..nd set it in tile ground beside the lonely, pale captive p.ip, !lr xvho i wave- liei slendei arms in such pa thetic app. al to Imr brethren dow n . there in the valley to come ami rest ue her. She shall ha ve com pany of her own sort if 1 can man age it. Poor, pretty, frightened Lorna Ooone. up there in the rob b. i - stronghold w >h th,- dmk pines. I And maybe sometime, when some kin of mine ivnnd<*lonely mix! misunde'-tixod. some k’ndrcd. souls .1 ill see him far off. mm ie> ogmz< him ind go mm li. ar him frnir.lv company. THE HOME PAPER Elbert Hubbard Writes on Universal Peace I ■ * The World Is (jetting Together. No Nation Can Afford to Fly in the Face of the Ideals Held by Other Nations. By ELBERT HUBBARD Copyright, 1912. by International News Service I ’l’ is quite within the range- of possibilities that Emperor William of Germany will visit San Francisco in 1915. The emperoi h;.-’ expressed great interest in the proposed Universal Peace Congress. The idea now of the fourteen great powers that con trol the world c iting together on a peace basis is no longer an idle drcam. If the emperor makes the trip, he will come on his own yacht by way of Panama, convoyed by an American ami a German man-of war. ,’l'lie presen. (• of the emperor in San Francisco w 11 be the greatest influence for poaee and a mutual understanding among the nations that has ever oct Hired in history. * His Power Is Great. The individual i owcr of Emper or William is greater than that of any other ruler. Not only does he occupy a ta rt great office, but he is a great individual. Time has tempered him. and if through ills initiative universal peace could lie < stablished through international disarmament, it would put him absolutely . first among all the kings and emper drs w ho have e.v‘r lived since time began. And it is int- ic.-ting to know that the 1 emperor himself realizes the fact. it is now gen tally conceded that we have gotten out of the struggle of war all that there is to be at tained. We have eaelied not only the point of diminishing returns, but we have rea tied tlie point where there is absolutely no return at all. Armies are a tmrible "over-head" tax. Soidiering in t oe year 1912 stands for consumption, woe, want, pov erty, diseas", ineflicicncy anil in competence. That the r< muri es of the world should ho used for purposes of de struction, and that vast numbers of men should be tv pt constantly un der arms, is a crying evil. Five million men in the world The Founding of St. Louis By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. ONE hundred and forty-nine years ago Pierre Laclede Li quest set out from New Or leans. and three months later reached the point for which he had started. Fort DeChartres. Liquest was the representative and agent of the firm of Maxent & Laclede, of Nett Orleans, which enterprising company had Just been granted the exclusive trade of the Missouri and of the Mississippi as far as the mouth of River St. Pe ter, and it w'as for the purpose of establishing a point around which the advantages of this grant might materialize that the above men tioned expedition was undertaken. A month after bis arrrival at Fort DeUlmrtr -. December, I7t,h, Liquest set cut to Select the site of the company's post, and, after looking the g.otind over carefull decided upon tite locality n- ar the junction of the Missouri with the "Father of Waters " 11*- 1 . • was a ti iii. b<ifi.b.ink. high enough to be out of tn< Way of the floods, ami yet not so sleep to interfile with the loading and un loading of boats, to which might , be added the tact that it was the natural and inevitable depot of the entire trade of the Missouri. Having deli .'mined upon the site. Liquest. on the morning of Febru ary 15, 1764, turned firn first ><| for »w erection of the first building in. I'm city which today is a popll ition of iimPj a million sou's, j tl April the settlement receiver! the f na :m of- Lot. is from Lou X V I of Fiance. I SO .. ■ W- the very pick and flower of man hood—are engaged in the nonpro ductive business of drilling and training to destroy what other men have by labor produced. Doubtless when pirates roamed abroad through the land, and every nation was secretly plotting the un doing of its neighbors, the indi vidual success of a nation demand ed a big army. Noaa the world is getting togeth er. Jhe telephones, the telegraph, quick transportation, is putting every nation in touch Avith all oth ers ’he nations n<r.\ are ruled by bankers, not by warriors/ The economist, not the strategist, is supreme. Adding machines ami cash regis ters are our weapons. The typewriter is greater than the sAvord. The groAving intelligence of the time has shown us that we can only thrive as other penpie thrive. The idea of any one nation thriving by exploitation, annexa tion and destruction is* obsolete. Nations, like individuals, are to • lav held in place by public opin ion. Publicity Is a Disinfectant. No nation van afford to Uy In the face of the ideals that are held and fostered by other nations. Publicity is the great disinfect ant. So thoroughly is this understood today (hat kings have their public i.' bureaus. They not onl\ know what other nations are doing and saying, hut tin ir < ndcavor is to put themselves in tlie best, light in the world’s assize. We gre ruled by public senti ment. and as no individual can succeed in an eifterprije with pub lic sentiment against him, so no nation can hope to achieve success .and pro.spi rity unless it is moving in accordance w’ith the best ideas ■ r the best people of all other na tions. ICvi'ti successful war is a form of defeat. It looks as if tlie year 1915 will be tlie Year of Peace. Let it take its place with the immortal dates, 1492 and 1776. 1 \\ hilc Liquest was on his way up the Mississippi from New Orleans, the vast region west of the river passed into the hands of Spain, where it remained for In years, when the inevitable happened. and the 'Province of Louisiana" passed into the possession of the United States. It was an unusual spectacle that was witnessed in St. Louis on March I) and 10. 1804. The formal transfer of Louisiana from Spain to France had not been made when the time came for its transfer to the L’nited State -. In ordi r that'this transfer from France to the United States might be made, Captain Stoddard, of the United States aimv. bad been authorized to re c ive the region from France.'and was also empowered by the French government to act as its agent in the transfer, which had first to take pknfrom Spain to Frame. All being ready, the Spanish flag was low. led, with all due cefe iiionv, and in its place was run up tile standard of France. Then, w ith some moie .eiemony, the transfer 1 om J'r.n.c. to the United States took place. Ihe flag of France was pulled down and the "Stars and Stripes" waved for the first time in the future metropolis of the won <i. > ful \l is.-issippi talk y. i hit- St. Louis enjoys the unique I honor of h.-inq the only city in all history which has seen the flags of three diff. r.-nt nations float over ft ■' ■ • ii n ,i» I brief •pmc of 21 hours.