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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 postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March S. 18T>. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mail. $5 00 a year. Payable in advance. If You Know Thoroughly the Lives of Three Men, You Know Humanity The education that men tret after they grow up is their real education. Millions of men in this country are educating them selves reading. What they know when they die will consist of what they have learned since they stopped studying at school. And this includes those that went to college, took the usual degrees, and imagined that they were educated, when they knew nothing. Here is a suggestion for the man trying Io educate himself, who has not had the advantage of direction by trained educators. TO BEGIN. FIND (H’T ALL ABOI'T ONE IMPORTANT MAN. Better still, find out al) about THREE importent men. After that, find out all you can about three important women. You can’t possibly find out ALL about any important woman, for the reason that MEN have done the writing of history, and hitherto they have not thought it worth while to write much of a se rious kind about the women, and. besides, they haven’t thought it worth while to give the women a chance to do what they might really have done. A man who reads for half an hour about this great man. a half an hour about that, and who at the end of the year has read about a hundred or more men imagines that he is getting an education. He is merely getting a smattering. You ought to KNOW the man whom you study, the two or three types of great men upon whom your attention is concen trated, as the chemist knows the drop of sea water which he analyzes. A man has said truly that if you know all about one drop of wafer, you know all about the ocean. The solemn lady who sits beside you as you read this may tell you that yon can’t know all about the ocean unless you know all about the fishes in it and all about the pearls in the decayed oysters. But that is apart from the question. The ocean is made of salt water. It is composed of oxygen, hydrogen and certain mineral salts. And if yon know all about three drops of water from the Atlantic, the Pacific and some other ocean, you know about all the oceans of the world. Humanity is made up of certain qualities, certain spiritual faculties, certain instincts working subject to environment. If yon know all about three typical great men. you know all about one-half of the human rae-- And if you know all about three great women, you know all about the other half of the human race. Pick out with cart> the men and the women that you study Don’t devote your attention to Alexander, Caesar and Napo leon if you know all about Napoleon you know all about Alex ander and Caesar. And if you know all about Caesar you know practically everything about the other two. Those three men simply represent ambition, expressing itself in battle. In studying men take three ditTerent types. Begin with Napo leon if you choose. Then take some great scientist, then a great poet or musician. If you understood thoroughly ine character, the ambitions and ihe work of three such men as Napoleon. Darwin and Beetho ven. .f you studied them in every detai’ of their lives, private and public, and knew them thoroughly, you would know all men. And if you then vent back and studied others like them Alexander for fighting. Aristotle for science and Phidias for art you would Hnd no important difference between your three great men of the old day and your three great men of today. The important thing is to know three men absolutely, thor oughly. ami three worn nas nearly as possible thoroughly. THEN YOL WILL KNOW THE HINMAN RACE. It is difficult to name the three women, for as yet women have not had a chance. Madame Roland is worth study, but more because of the conditions under which she lived than because of her personality. The sister of Herschel, the astronomer, exemplifying devo tion to family and to truth, is worthy of study. The famous Christiana of Sweden, who encouraged philosophy, who prov d marvellously the power of woman to govern, and then went all to pieces suddenly, is also worth study ing. Her life teaches you that women are good as long as men will let them alone. Maria Theresa, who for so long protected her rights against the greatest soldier in Europe, is another life to study. The life of the wonderful Olympias, mother of Alexander the Gr« at. the lady who probable killed her husband to put her son on the throne, or to give the power and the treasure to her lover, tin lad) ee ho danced dressed in nothing in particular, with snakes around her. and who gave birth to one of the most wonderful men in the world, would be worth studying. The quiet little old Scotch woman smoking a pipe at the e irm r of the fire, mother of Carlyle, or the broad-hipped Cursi can woman. Letizia Ramolino. who gave Napoleon to Europe; I ll«»l SANDS OF SITU WOMEN ARE ON THE PAGES OF lIISJOIO Stud) thre. of them, know all that you can about them. 'Mud) line, ini'u KNOW ALL that you can about each ope. (| ■ ir to otic man. rather than givinv a year to three hun- II 1 i'>• and )mi will knov - inietliinv YOl’ WILL KNOW I THE HI MAN RACE The Atlanta Georgian FT PACKING UP By HAL COFFMAN. ! • -"J’'’ ' ' HAVt 1 • • ( | |f ."/' sYt'Y " T? ? . Tyifv 6s. I i-' . Some Truths About Feminine Fascination 77/f Clinging Vines, With the Come-Hither Lmk in Their Eyes, Exercise It Most A GROUP of women were dis cussing another woman who was neither uncommonly beautiful, nor clever, nor accom plished, but had made three very excellent marriages. They could not understand the secret of her fascination for nu n. ■ Ah," said an old Scotchman who was listening to. them. " "tis not beauty, nor intelligence, nor wit that draws men to a woman. It's the come-hither look in her eyes.” "But what is the come-hither look in a woman’s eyes?” they a-k --ed him but the old man could only shake his head. He recognized it when he saw it. but he eould not describe it. Neither can any one else tvll what is the secret of a woman s fascination; nor do we know why one woman has it, and another lacks it. It has to do with a woman's look-. Yet the whole of it is not beauty. for we all know women of classical form and features whom all men admire at i distance —and are content to keep their own dls st nee. Some of the handsomest women in ever', community arc old maids, the tradition of whose youthful fairne-s lingers like 'a halo about them as long as they live. It is also notorious tha' beau ties generally make the worst mar riages. Marriage Easy. < »n the other hand, there tire girls with no claim whatever to pulchri tude. who could have as many hus bands as they have fingers and toes were not one husband as much is any woman can stand mussing around the house. Indeed, it is al most an axiom that the woman who can marry once can marry again should Providence or the divorce court free her. Nor does i woman's fascination for men have any relation to her worth of character. Theoretically, men worship goodness, purity, amiability, modesty and domestici ty in a woman, but |>ersonally they do not run after the model of vir tue that possesses all of these shin ing attributes. That kind of girl is generally the girl that a man rec ommends other men to marry, but doesn't himself. The women who have held men In thrall, from the time of Adams first wife down to the youngest chorus girl have not been noticea ble sot their goodness Men have known them sot what tluj were, they have it piobrulvd them, ami ITIFRSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1912. Bv DOROTHY DIX despised them, but they saw’the come-hither look in the women’s eyes, and they followed it to their doom. Even less has intelligence in a woman anything to do with her fast ination for men. (>n the con- ‘Bl <• •**' f'. S */ * j/ M DOROTHY DIX. triry. feminine brains are caviar, as a general thing, to the mascu line taste, and the less sense a woman li s the bettor men like her. Any pretty fool can marry a dozen times to a college graduate's once, and the surest way for a girl to eliminate the beau proposition is to attempt to talk to men as if she w ere a reasonable human In ing in stead of a foolish, fluttering butter fly. Brains Below Par. The limit of intelligence that the average min will stand for in a woman is for her to have shrewd ness enough to hide what she knows and jolly him along so that she mah'S him feel that he is as big and strong as a real giant, and knows more than a dictionary. If neither beauty, wit nor virtue light the bt aeon In a woman's eyes, what does then? I’t Imarlly It is sex. Tin re are women who are human beings, and there arc other women who are just w omen. There are women in whom femininity is raised to the ninth power. There is not a line of their , bodies nor a quality of their minds nor a fiber of their characters that isn't just all woman, and these women by the very law of nature draw every man they meet toward them, as a magnet attracts the needle. Clinging Vines. You can not think of these women standing alone in the world, or fighting their own battles. They are bound to have something to hang on to, and it is to the honor of men that these clinging vines never stretch out their tendrils in vain. Some man always stops up and qualifies for the oak role. The more utterly feminine a woman, the more irresistible her eharm for man. and this shows why the busi ness girl, the good fellow girl, and the athletic girl who looks and acts like a man's little brother hasn't got the come-hither look in her Undoubtedly, also, the come-hith er look in a woman's eye is a look that expresses w illingness. It is not the hard, predatory look of' the huntress of men, of the woman who is determined to chase down a hus band and catch him, and bear him as a sacrifice to the altar. From that look even the boldest man flees for liberty and life. Nor is it the cold, self-satisfied, self-contain ed look of the bachelor maid that says that her heart is an impregna ble fortress that she dares a man to try to break into. That look affronts 4 man's vanity, and makes him feel that the game isn't worth the candle. The come-hither look is a flatter ing look, a gentle, yielding, caress ing look that makes every man feel that he is a hero of romance, and ready to swear that he is the ONLY" ONE that has ever had that signal wig-wagged to him from the eyes of beauty. It is a fluttering, flaunting beacon to come on into the land of love, and a man would have to be more or less than a man if he didn't answer it. A curious thing about the come hither look in a woman's eyes is that no other woman can see it In her sister's orbs. She only recog nizes Its results. Nor can she ac quire It If she hicks it. It's a gift of the gods, and comes, as Dogberrj thought a knowledge of reading and writing did. b\ nature. THE HOME PAPE Thomas Tapper Writes on The Educa tion of the Voter ■ The President’s Cabi net, Consisting of Nine Men, Each of Whom .Ip Chosen for His Ability to Run the Depart ment of Which He Is the Head. THE affairs of a country so large as the United States constitute an extensive busi ness. Like any other great busi ness, it depends for successful op eration upon a head (the presi dent) and a large number of as sistants. who are deputized to do certain branches of the work. As the head of no large enter prise can personally attend to everything that arises in the daily progress ’of its business, so the president of the United States is powerless to run the government alone. So far as in him lies, he is expected to organize the work, to deputize as much of it as possible, and to supervise it all as closely a.4 any one human being can do so. Associated with the president of the United States are nine men. These nine men constitute what is known as the cabinet. To each man there is intrusted a depart ment of the government’s business. These men are appointed by the president, by and with the consent of the senate, it is assumed that each man is chosen for his pecu liar fitness to do the special work of the department of which he'is the head. Each Cabinet Officer Has Many Assistants. Seven of these nine men are known as secretaries. They are the secretaries of (1) state, (2) war, (3) navy. (4) treasury, (5) interior, (6) agriculture, (7) commerce and labor. The remaining two are the (8) attorney general and (9) post master general. Each of these departments is an extensive business requiring a large corps of assistants to carry it on. The members of the cabinet meet at the white house to report upon the work of the departments to the president, and to discuss with him all matters of government business and policy. These conferences are known as cabinet meetings. They constitute a department of govern ment work not provided for in the constitution. No record of the cabinet meetings is made, and the public is not in formed of what takes place at them. In fact, the cabinet has no legal existence, in a strict sense. It is merely an advisory body. The president may, or may not. follow the advice of the cabinet members. Their duty is tn consult c?ith him and to offer such advice as seems to them pertinent. The duty of the president is to make up liis own mind, after weighing all evidence, and then to decide on his own re sponsibility. Tlte constitution provides, in ease of the removal of the president from office, or his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of that office, that the vice president shall succeed to the WHERE IS ARMAGEDDON? Colonel Theodors Roosevelt, At Large in U. S.: Dear Colonel—Lots of us in Georgia are fer yer, and will fight fe> yer, but I notice you say the fight is to be at "Armageddon," and we fellers don't know whar that is. We have inquired of all the boys in this n ek of the woods and no one seems to know whar it is. 1 got down my old gography and looked all the way through it, but I can find no -ic<h place as you say the fight is to be. Is it near Red Oak or Lick Skillet, or Griffin, or Way cross, or is it somewhar neat Bull Run 01 Bunker Hill, or Gettysburg, or Yorktown, or Austerlitz, or Wa terloo? Good many of the boys think it is near Waterloo. 1 hope not, as this place has a bad reputation for Progressives. 1 asked all my nabors about it and they can not tell me 1 a'ked Colonel Lowry Arnold, who knows what manj a light took place, a- 1111 - it ■■ fr * J IMF lie THOMAS TAPPER. office. In the event of the removal of the vice president, in turn, before the expiration of the term, the office of president devolves upon the sec. retary of state, in fact, provision js now made for the presidential succession through the entire list of cabinet officers. The Most Important Cabinet Officer. It has happened five times tn the history of the United States that the vice ptesident has succeeded to the’ presidency— John Tyler, Mil lard Fillmore. Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur and Theodore Roosevelt being the vice presidents who succeeded to the higher ofli< e through the death of the president. It is generally recognized that the first in importance of the cabi net officers is the secretary of state He has in charge all business be tween our own and foreign gov ernments. He is, strictlly speak ing, our minister of foreign affairs. He is • authorized (and no other cabinet officer is) to negotiate with foreign governments in the name of the president'. It is the duty of the secretary of state to supervise the publication of all laws, treaties and proclamations. The salary of each cabinet officer is $12,000 per year, a small sum when one considers the importance of the offices to be filled and the experience and skill necessary to fill them propelly. It has been urged that the services of cabinet officers would be of greater value to the • government if they were given seats in congress. This would tend to loosen the restrictions by which the officers are bound. It must be remembered that the nine executive departments of our government were created by acts of congress; that the bringing to gether of these nine men to consti tute a new organization, advisory to the president, is sanctioned neither by tile constitution nor by law. Custom alone has established the relation of this body of tnen to the chief executive, and the impos sibility of any one man attending personally to all the business "f the government makes such an advis ory body necessary. He Must Keep in Close Touch With Policies. Hence, it has come about that the importance of a cabinet officer is greater in his relation to the president than to the actual busi ness of his department. For the latter thbre ate skilled assistants to v horn the important work of the department is intrusted. But, so the former, the necessity of c'o-’ and intimate relation with the pres ident, his party and his policies is so great that any considerable dif ference of opinion between a ■ abi ru't officer and the president gener ally results in the retirement of the cabinet member. he is solicitor and tries folk fer fighting, but he is sure there is no sich place, unless it is some place in the Bible, and he says he is not posted on places mentioned In the skripters, tho’ he ought to be, for he is goin’ to one of ’em some <1 Maybe the place you nam sonu whar near "All Hazards have hearn of All Hazards, but was never located, alt ho’ our friend. Bill Arp, made a 1 search for it. If we can not ’em at Armageddon because "" not Know how to git than just t back and we will try to lick t'er yer at All Hazards. You ought to name some place for the tight more. f< ’ to us boys In Georgia l.’i.i Armageddon you speak of ’ you ate goin’ to git the licked outen yer if you don't up and tell us whar Armage i and how we can git than As Evet Youti BI SLOCV''