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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 3. 187 J. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mall, $5.00 a year. Payable tn advance. Good Work of Good Men and Good Women Those good men and women of Atlanta who, as pari and parcel of the widespread Men and Religion Forward Movement, are calling upon the authorities to enforce the law with respect to a prevailing social evil, are neither to be lightly considered nor misunderstood. They are invoking the ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW— that is the sum total of their endeavor, compactly put. The great problem they are undertaking to solve in such measure as it may be solved is not a new one. It will not be solved in a day, nor yet in a year. If a decade sees it rele gated to the realm of unrighteous things that were, a wonder ful work will have been accomplished, perhaps. In so far as is concerned the IMMEDIATE purpose of the Men and Religion Forward Movement in Atlanta, there is little to be debated. < These earnest and courageous people simply cite the un doubted WRITTEN LETTER of the municipal law, and point out its persistent, continuing and unprotested violation. As citizens they demand that the law be enforced, and they invite other citizens onto their platform of anti-lawlessness. It is not to be denied that the Men apd Religion Forward Movement in Atlanta is entitled to extraordinary consideration. It has served to AROUSE THE PUBLIC CONSCIENCE, and to direct the minds of citizens to better, nobler and braver things than commonly arrest their daily attention. They are thrice armed in that they seek to proceed only in order, and under the plain SANCTION OF THE LAW. The specific evil the Men and Religion Forward Movement desires now to abate in Atlanta is npt an engaging topic of discussion. It reeks with the ultra-unthinkable and unspeaka ble. And yet—-there it is! Relentlessly, unhesitatingly, and with unswerving precision, the Men and Religion Forward Movement in Atlanta points its finger directly at it! Necessarily, with a genuine desire neither to shock nor of fend where that may be avoided. The Atlanta Georgian has approached editorial comment upon this work with more or less repressed emotions. This newspaper would not knowingly cloak anything of evil in Atlanta, but it would not. on the other hand, hold Atlanta up as being anything Atlanta is not. The Georgian firmly believes that Atlanta is more moral than the average city of its size! It is composed of human be ings, nevertheless, and it makes mistakes and stumbles and fal ters in some things now and then, just as ordinary human be ings individually do. The Georgian is convinced that Atlanta may be depended upon IO DO THE ('LEAN THING ALWAYS, once Atlanta is aroused to a realization of the fact that it has not been doing its full duty in that direction. And that is why The Georgian calls attention to the great and uplifting work the Men and Religion Forward Movement is undertaking in Atlanta -calls attention to it calmly, unex citedly. and in carefully removed from every sugges tion of violence or hysteria. The authorities in Atlanta MUST give heed to the protests and petitions of the Men and Religion Forward Movement in this city. I'heirs is not the voice of one crying-alone in a vast wilder ness. The authorities may be very sure of that! Life Insurance and Women as Risks Interesting as showing the value of work for women as a physi cal upbuilder is the opinion of the American Life Insurance conven tion recently in session in Chicago. It is a fact that up-to-date insurance companies now accept women as risks where only a few years ago they made no effort to secure them, on the theory that the primary object of insurance was to protect women and children. But the chief reason for this more liberal policy is traceable to the tremendous increase in the number of working women, of whom there are now six million in America. Many of these are in effect the heads ot households with others dependent on their efforts. They are considered better risks than men. as their mortality is much lower. So much tor work. \\ hen it comes to taking risks on society women, or at least on the so-called high-life contingent of society women, the insurance companies are wary. In the words of the officials, such women eat so many indigestible viands and drink so many harmful beverages that they hasten their own journey Io the grave. urn practical demonstration as the seeking of the working woman as an insurance risk ought certainly to convince tin* sex o7 tne benefits of wholesome toil, for there is no sentiment in life insur ance. Wanted-—The Whole Truth From Archbold ’ If I have not told the whole truth about Roosevelt's relations w th Standard Oil it is because nobrniv asked me.'' said John 1). Archhold to the correspondent of the Hearst newspapers on his ar rival in England Who was it that did not ask him'' Surely the "hoi nation asked and expected that he would tell the WHOLE 1 1,1 "hen he went before the senate committee. That he did not. le w says In mterence. was because his friends, the senators, did ' " Il no to tell Well, every otic loves a repentant sinner ;so let T,, w.ldiold open the tlood gates of his mmmwv and tell THE WHOLE TRUTH. The Atlanta Georgian PACKING UP By HAL COFFMAN. '•. • , • wt ? \ "■•siwSLj G- ( Xk G • X Al ifcn * ’■'■U.. . wk’''’WY X ; < ? .'Ns /< •s I ' ( .v* 'ggA / 3? "J Luw'Xrf z . L • . A - v . - Z; A? L?—' z y /X; . meoyt&k -5-. Some i ruths About Feminine Fascination T/ie Clinging Vines, With the Come-Hither Lojk in Their Eyes, Exercise It Most A GROUP of women were dis- AA 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 men. "Ah," said an old Scotchman w ho 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." “Rut what is the come-hither look in a woman's eyes?" they ask ed him. but the old man could only shake his head. He recognized it when he saw it, but he could not describe it. Neither can any one else tell what is the secret of a womans fascination; nor do we know why one woman has it, and another lacks it. It has to do with a woman's looks. Vet the whole of it is not beauty, for we all know women of classical form and features whom all men admire at a distance-—and are content to keep their own dls stance. Some of the handsomest , women in every community are old maids, the tradition of whose youthful fairness lingers like a halo about them as long as they live. It is also notorious that beau ties generally make the worst •mar riages. Marriage Easy. On the other hand, there are gills with no claim whatever to pulchri tude, who could have as many hus bands as they have lingers and toes were not one husband as much as 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 a woman's fascination | for men have any relation to her I worth of character. Theoretically, men worship • goodness, purity, amiability, modesty and domestici ty in a woman, but personally they do not run after the model of vir tue that possesses all of those shin ing attributes That kind <>f gli I is generally the girl th it a man ’<c ommends other men to marry, but doesn't hintself. The women who have I>< l«t men In tin.ill. from tin- time of Adam hist wife down to lite wiuniii t chorus girl. hat. not been notiiia Ide fol thelt goodite-.- M«n have known them sot wh.it they were, the) haw tipiohiated tin in, and HI’RSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. 1912. By DOROTHY DIX despised them, hut 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 f iscination for men. On the con- I i ' i I DOROTHY DIX trary. feminine brains are caviar, as a general thing, to the mascu line taste, and the less sense a woman has the better men like her. Aux 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 were a reasonable human being in stead of a foolish, fluttering butter fly- Brains Below Par. The limit of intelligence that the average in<n will stand for in a woman is for her to have shrewd n.ss enough to hide what she knows and jolly him along so that she mak'A him feel that he f K as big and strong us a real giant, and knows more than a dictionary. If neither beauty, wit nor virtue light the beacon in a woman’s eves, what docs, tin I) ' Ptimarll) it u> sex. Tin i. are women who are human beings, and there are other women who are just women. 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 I fighting their own battles. They are bound to have something to i 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 steps up and qualifies for the oak role. The more utterly feminine a woman, the more irresistible her charm 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 I ndoubtedly. 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 a 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 ever)' 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 ihlng about the come hither look In a woman's eyes is that no other woman can see it In her sister’s orbs. Hbe only recog nizes Its results Nor can she ac quire it if she lacks It It’s a gift of tite g-ais, and eotnea. as Itogberry thought a knowiedg* of reading and w t Hing did, by nature. THE HOME PAPER Thomas Tapper Writes on ~ The Educa- tion of the Voter t.'- W The President's Cabi- I Jff/' ' net, Consisting of jKF irj* d| Nine Men, Each of Whom Is Chosen J for His Ability to Run the Depart- ment of Which He y 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 as 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 ot 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 to consult with him and to offer such advice as seems to them pertinent. The duty of the president is to make up his own mind, after weighing all evidence, and then to decide on his own re sponsibility. The constitution provides, in case 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 Theodore Roosevelt, At Large in U. S.: Dear Colonel—Lots of us in Georgia are fer yer, and will fight ' fer 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 neck of the woods and no one seems to know whar it is. I got down my old gography and looked all the way through it, but I can find t)0 sieh place as you say the tight Is to be. Is It near Red Oak or Lick Skillet, or Gritlin, or Way cross, or Is it somewhat- near Bull Run or Bunker Hill, 01 Gettysburg, or Yorktown, or Austerlitz, or Wa terloo? Good many of I lie boys titink It is near Waterloo I hop' not, as this place ha* a bad eputatlon for Progressives I asked all my nabors about It and they —*n not tell m< | u> kei| Colonel la. ■ »..nold, who knows whar many a fight took pia... H « 1 By THOMAS TAPPER. office. In the event of the r< moral of the vice president, in turn, befer, the expiration of the term, the office of president devolves upon the sec retary of state. In fact, provision is now made for the presidential succession through the entire list of cabinet officers. THe Most Important Cabinet Officer. It has happened five times In the history of the United States that the vice p'esident has succeeded t< the presidency—John Tyler, Mil lard Fillmore. Andrew Johnson Chester A. Arthur and Theodor* Roosevelt being the vice presidents who succeeded to the higher office 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 properly. 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 mi" government were eieated by aits of congress; thaf the bringing to gether of these nine men to consti tute a new organization, advisory to the president, is sanction' 1 neither by the constitution nor by law. Custom alone has established the relation of this body of men e> the chief executive, and the impos sibility of any one man attending personally to al! the business f the government makes such an advis ory body necessary. He Must Keen 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 there are skilled assistants v horn the important work of ;bc department is intrusted. But to the-former, the necessity of and intimate relation with tin prt-- ident, his party and his polici - ' 4 so great that any considi :abm '- fetenee of opinion betw, ci! net officer and the president ■- r : ally results in the retirement of the cabinet, member. he is solicitor and tries folk f<‘ r fighting, but he is sure th'-'' is n sieh place, unless it is sone' I 1 '" in the Bible, and he says he is f posted on places mention- ! n skripters, tho’ he ought to b>. he is goin’ to one of ’em so c Maybe the place you n.it- • somewhar nea> "AH Hazard have hearn of All Hazards. i>u was never located, altho' i fiiend, Bill “Arp, mad' search for It. if we can f" 1 'em at Armageddon became ‘ not Know how to git tliar .1 ■ back and we will trv to Ih-l ft r yer at All Hazards You ought to name place for the fight mor. to us boys in <•' orgi.i I c' A rm.igt-ddon you speak you ale gain’ to git til licked out' n yer if you <|. up and tell uh w bar Ai m - and flow we can git tilin' A* ci 1 OU I '• i HI HLth l M