Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, September 20, 1912, FINAL 2, Image 20

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Newspaper Page TextEDITORIAL 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, 18*3 Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mail. 36.00 a year. Payable in advance. If Job Lived in 14th Street •t * M Row Do You Think He Would Behave About Unpractical Pav ing Joke That Has Been Played There? H . WIJ ~ _ - ■ Perhaps no group of American citizenry is watching the rapid progress of avia’ion with more interest than the residents of West Fourteenth street. Already they have been forced Io abandon their automobiles a block or two from home and seek their door st"ps on foot, and they can not depend upon a winter rainfall which will guarantee steady motorboating from car line to cozy corner. Tin airship is the only hope of the Fourteenth street maro ners unless a relief expedition is sent out to bring them back Io civilization before winter sets in. Students of scientific management could find no better ex ample of how-not-Jo-do-it than the paving or non-paving of West Fonrl enth street. They have been led to believe, from lhe method of not completing the work, that the contractor is really a plumber in disguise. About duly 1. of lhe present year, the contractor arrived with many men and tore the top dressing off that street in a manlier at once energ' tie and enthusiastic, leaving exposed a soil well irri gated and admirably adapted to rice culture. This done as a guar antee of good faith lie withdrew his forces to another street whose residents, with the innocence of an unthinking public, clamored for his services. The stone, which had been dug up from the old street, re mained for a ime, and then a few negro workmen equipped with hammers began converting the large rocks into little ones. Some times there were two workmen, sometimes twenty. It was as though one attacked Stone Mountain with a tack hammer, but they feared no odds The stone dressing is there today, and. occasionally, so are the workmen, two of them, and both tired. The residents of the street are leaving their cars at the Peachtree corner and walking to their homes. Fourteenth street housewives can give no bridge parties, for guests can only with difficulty find their way to the hostess. Laundry drivers and grocers’ boys find it convenient to forget orders rather than climb the granite Alps. Fourteenth street practically is cut off from civilization. But the residents have hope. They believe that when the can yon of Peachtree is leveled, when the smoke nuisance is a thing of the past and the Bleckley plaza is completed, then the contractor may strike his forehead with his open hand, remember with a start that he has forgotten something, and go out and finish paving West Fourteenth street. And even if the present generation does not profit, surely posterity will be benefited. The city at large is not specially interested in the plight of Fourteenth street, annoying and distressing as it is to the residents and users of that NO THOROUGHFARE. But the city at large IS interested in a system of public, im provt ments which tears up a street and leaves it impassable for months, while the squad of workmen who did the destruction are gaily Hitting from one more such task to another. The city at large is more than interested. It is disgusted. Providing for Old Age Before the eyes of the average man then* is but one bugbear old ige. In these days when specialization is inevitable the spectre of penniless declining years is more to be feared than formerly by lhe jacks’of all trades. To the ease in point is information imparted to a Chicago college class by Superintendent Graves, of the King Horne for Old Men. •'Only one man in 10,000,” he says, “is self-supporting at seventy. In the United States there x are now 1,125,000 former wage arm rs sixty five and more, dependent upon public and privati el- irit) at a cost of $220,000,000. Moreover, there are tlUd.lMxi old men and women in homes whose upkeep costs $50,- 0(10.00(1 annually. "In these days of efficiency tests when one must measure from 70 to SO per cent of perfect service to hold his own, in dustrial old age comes to many who are mentally and physically able to work.” These facts and figures teach the need of training oneself h iw tu do what there is to do a little better than the other fel low. The brain grows more capable with use. Allowing that wo have provided for our old age. we ought still to provide against the mental poverty that is sure to come in the days of enforced physical idleness. Love Is the Basis of Life So much is being written and spoken on eugenics that it is worth while to ponder the words of President David Starr Jordan, of Leland Stanford University, in regard to what he calls ‘‘Bur banking” the human race. ”1 use the phrase ‘ Burbanking', ” he says, “to show that, al though systematic scientific selection of mates could be made to produce great physical strength, beauty, endurance and even mutual power, those very persons who might be thus effectively mated would never submit to state dictation. If they would, they must in time eliminate the most vital ele ments in human evolution—love and initiative. Love is the best basis for marriage, and love is a very real and noble thing, in spite of the baseness of its many imitations.” essential that love shall endure, for without it the great moving lurce o f u le universe would be swept away. 4 The Atlanta Georgian BRIBERY By HAL COFFMAN. < ij J -wi T 111 J A f \ ’ “TmiOL; 1 I J i/i,/ liniiiuTT J j i J IS /yy / t \ p 11 ! / /// // \ / mint'd '» II i'X' $' Wi i X 7 II 'I '■■ i, ii’‘‘ iiiu WOk fi W c _> 1(! || u H fl m W uni hi, to I Ik/ ,a Ay .5 tyW' Making Food in the Laboratory Is the Time Near at Hand When Chemistry Will Supply All the Essentials of Life? HE basis of physical life is a I substance called protoplasm. The word protoplasm means “the first formed,” and the idea un derlying it is that this substance represents the first step from unliv ing matter to living bodies, such as plants and animals. Everything that contains protoplasm is alive, and without protoplasm there is no life. That eloquent paladin of science Thomas H. Huxley used to charm big audiences with his lecture on protoplasm. He told bis hearers how the activities of a living ani mal gradually use up its supply of protoplasm, and how it is compell ed to renew it by eating other crea tures, either animals or plants, which possess this precious sub stance, for an animal can not MAKE protoplasm; it must find it somewhere and take it READY MADE. The only living things that can make their own protoplasm out of the raw materials of nature are plants. We know what chemical elements protoplasm contains, but nevertheless we have not discover ed the secret of putting them to gether in such away as actually to form protoplasm. Plants possess that secret. We get protoplasm either by tak ing it at second hand from animals which, in their turn, have taken It primarily frottf plants, or we get it more directly by ourselves eating the plants. We start in life with a certain amount of protoplasm, which has been supplied to us at birth by our parents, but as we use it up we are compelled to replace the waste by eating something which contains it. Professor Huxley used to illus trate this process very amusingly. He said: "My protoplasm will be distinct ly less in amount at the end of this lecture than it was at the begin ning. Py and by I shall probably have recourse to the substance commonly called mutton for the purpose of renewing the supply. Now, this mutton was once the liv ing protoplasm, more or less modi fied. of another animal—a sheep. A singular inward laboratory which I possess will dissolve a certain por tion of the modified protoplasm: the solution formed will pass into my veins, and the subtle influences to which it will then be subjected will convert the dead protoplasm into living protoplasm, and thus trans-substantiate sheep into man. Nor Is this all. It digestion were a FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1912. By GARRETT P. SERVISS thing to be trifled with, I might sup upon lobster, and then, were I to return to my own place by sea and undergo shipwreck, the crusta cean might, and probably, would, return the compliment, and demon strate our common nature by turn ing my protoplasm into living lob ster.” Now, if we could make our own original protoplasm, as plants do, we might live, like the grass and the trees, wherever soil and air and sunlight exist. It is true that they are enabled to do this because they are fixed in place, but we may imagine the process carried on by creatures capable of moving about On a Diet By N. P. BABCOCK. i '’T' IMES were when we were I stricken t With an ailment or a pain. ? They gave us drugs that sicken. ? By the teaspoon or the grain. > They all were somewhat nasty j When prescribed for any case, j And the taste was very lasty, j And it made you make a face. ; But ‘twas nothing to the portion > Os the woes you now must bear, I Since the docs have added caution I To your other stomach care. I You seek some pang to quiet < That you've never felt since birth, I Whereupon they order "diet!" I Which is simply hell on earth. ! All meats they call the red ones, (And all pastry, cajtes and sweets. Are appetizing "dead ones,” In the schedule of your "eats.” Tile frying pan's aroma May no more your sense delight; A gustatory coma Is the only state that's right. Did any vegetable Hold a special joy for you, I You niust declare you're able Just that one now to eschew. All sauces that are pleasant > Are a sort of devil’s broth; I You stare like starving peapant ; At a foodless table cloth. I And misery completing J Is the rule that's understood: > "Be regular in eating. j But eat nothing that tastes good.” at will. In that case an army on the march would never have to trouble itself about its wagon trains. When we went for a day in the country we should not need to load ourselves with lunch baskets. We could dispense with our broad fields of wheat and corn, our gar dens full of vegetables, our or chards of fruit trees. We could abolish forever the nuisance of the stock yards, checkmate, once for all, the cornerers of foodstuffs and put an immediate end to the high price of living. But science has tried in vain to manufacture protoplasm. Never theless, something has recently been done in Germany which seems to offer the promise that, if we can .not actually make protoplasm, we may be able to turn the corner by making food which will do its work. Dr. Abderhalden has suc ceeded in manufacturing in his lab oratory a chemical food on which young dogs have been brought up strong, healthy and lively—appar ently just as good dogs as if they had been nourished upon their nat ural food. Dr. Abderhalden has arrived at this result by first studying the transformations that take place in the course of digestion. Finding that, during this process, certain peculiar acids are formed, which act a controlling part in the subse quent transformations, he set to work to make these acids artifi cially, and he says that he has suc ceeded, and proves his assertion by the evidence of his dogs. I have not heard that he has, as yet, tried his chemical food upon man, but that would naturally be the next step. It would not be worth while to strain all the resources of chemistry simply for the benefit of dogs. In fact, animals would, if they could comprehend the subject, very gladly lend themselves to such ex periments, the ultimate result of which is to free them from the fate of being killed rfnd eaten by their masters. Who knows but that when chemical foods have been perfected they may be delicious and so easily digested that any guorrnand would turn up his nose at the most succulent turkey or the most skillfully cooked lobster? Seriously, this is a very impor tant matter. Man, who has so amazingly emancipated himself from nature's limitations in the field of mechanics' energy, owes it to himself to attain a similar emancipation in regard to the maintenance of his vital energies, tnd, sooner or later, HE WILL DO IT. THE HOME PAPER Dorothy D i x Writes on I Women on . • J unes w Justice, She Says, I Would Be Surer / With Feminine Counsel and \ Help. AFTER a recent very flagrant miscarriage of justice in a murder trial in which a woman was the defendant, the trial judge expressed the opinion that it would be necessary to have women juries to try women criminals, be cause if a wmman was young and good looking it was practically im possible to get men to convict her, no matter how strong the evidence was against her. Judge Mary Bartelme, the first woman ever honored with a call to the bench in Illinois, who will sit as associate judge with Judge Mer ritt C. Pinckney in the juvenile court, takes the same view of ttye necessity for woman jurors. She believes in mixed juries, and says: The Metamorphosis. “Women on juries will change lots of things for the better. You will find that lawyers must depend on the legitimate facts if they hope to impress mixed juries. Women will puncture a good many bal loons that prove good for dizzy flights in the courts nowadays.” Undoubtedly both of these dis tinguished jurists are right. There Is not only room fcr women in the jury box, but there is a crying need for them there. Our greatest two pieces of national humor have been that in a democracy one-half of the people had no voice in government, and that in a trial by jury, which guarantees to every one a trial by his peers women were tried by men. And this latter joke is given a further point by the fact that men frankly admit that they don t un derstand women and are not up to the tricks and manners of even the smallest girl child. It has been said that the strang est thing on earth is how twelve intelligent men can get together and act like one old woman. The next strange thing is how twelve hard-headed, practical business men dissolve into a sentimental mush when they get in a jury box. Apparently they don’t weigh evi dence, nor take probabilities into account, nor use any common sense in judging character and motives if they are trying a woman. All that the defense has to do is to talk platitudinously about “home and mother,” little children and angel wings and wronged innocence, and the jury will file solemnly out and bring in a verdict of "not guilty,” no matter how clearly it has been proven that the murderess had committed a cold-blooded and de liberate crime. The Loophole. Their theory is that perhaps she didn’t do it. and if she did do it she probably had good reasons for do ing it, and the other party ought to have been killed anyway, and, anyhow, they are not going to send a woman to the electric chair or to prison for life, especially if she is good looking. An American jury dealing with a woman criminal is gallantry gone to seed, but it doesn't make for justice, and it docs make it per fectly safe for any lady with golden hair and a willowy figure to go out and shoot any man against whom she gets peeved. Also, it makes it profitable for other tender young creatures with blackmailing tend- By DOROTHY DIX encies to bring breach of promise suits against wealthy men It would have a most restraining influence on both of these types of the woman criminal if they knew that they were to be tried before juries of women instead of juries of men. For a woman knows that while she may fool a man she can never deceive a sister woman, a woman jury will not care two raps whether a murderess is pretty or ugly, or be moved thereby. wom an jury will assay at their true value her tears, and know whether she is weeping for effect or because her heart is torn with grief. Anda woman jury can tell by a thousand intangible signs, as no man jury ever can, whether a woman wit ness is speaking the truth or not. There is a freemasonry of sex of which only the members know the grips and the countersigns. Nor will women juries accept, as men do, the pathetic tale of how she has been deceived and wronged, that a middle-aged woman with a hard painted face gives as her jus tification for killing some man whom she has taken away from his wife. Neither will they feel called upon to shed many tears over the broken heart that asks money to heal it. The woman will need a cause to be just who goes before a woman Jury, but, on the other hand, there are matters involving as nice a judgment as that of Solomon in which women's sympathy and in tuition will make for mercy as well as justice. Advantages. ( ertainly the cases that come up in the children's court, in which the relation between parents and chil dren and childish misdemeanors must be settled, should be tried be fore juries on which there are mothers, with a mother’s knowl edge of children, and a mothc's heart to feel for other mothers. Also, it is nothing but fair that all.divorce cases, and cases that in volve tile relations of men and women, should be tried before mixed juries. No woman is capab'f of undenstanding men any mere than a man is capable of under standing a woman, and it needs the combined wisdom of both to strike the just mean in such cases. Another good reason why women should be on juries is that they have both time and inclination for it, whereas men seldom have eithi r. It is notorious that men will g’ to any length short of perjury tn evade jury duty, whereas women would like it. In every community then numbers of women of intelligen p , of good sound judgment, of irre proachable character, who bare ample leisure, and they might make a valuable contribution to th« st? " by giving their services a- jc-' w omen. Women's counsel and i■ -P are considered valuable every v Ivie else—whyvnot in the court room Finally, the proof of the pucc ' *• is in the eating, and we have r only theories but facts to go UP" 11, Women juries have been tr ■" several of the states where worn - have the franchise, and the ’ speak with enthusiasm of the and fair verdicts they have r«* turned.