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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN PuWished 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 &. 187 S Subscription Price —Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. Bv mail, $5 00 a year Payable in advance. If Job Lived in 14th Street » r r How Do You Think He Would Behave About Unpractical Pav ing Joke That Has Been Played There? Perhaps no group of American citizenry is watching the rapid progress of aviation with more interest than the residents of West Fourteenth street. Already they have been forced Io abandon thrir automobiles a block or Iwo from home and seek their door steps on foot, ami they can not depend upon a winter rainfall which wifi guarantee steady motorboating from car line to cozy corner. The airship is the only hope of the Eourteenth street inarooners unless a relief expedition is sent out to bring.them back to civilization before winter sets in. Students of scientific management could find no better ex ample of how-not-to-do-it than the paving or non-paving of West Eourteenth street. They have been led to believe, from the method of not completing the work, that the contractor is really a plumber in disgu.se. About -Inly 1. of the present year, the contractor arrived with many men and tore the top dressing off that street in a manner at once energetic and enthusiastic, leaving exposed a soil well irri gated and admirably adapted to rice culture. This done as a guar antee of good faith he withdrew his forces to another street whose residents, with the innocence of an unthinking public, clamored for his Services. The stom, which had been dug up from the old street, re mained for a time, and then a lew 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 tlje street are leaving their ears at the Peachtree corner apd walking to their homos. 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 ent 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 it is to the residents and users of that NO THOROUGHFARE. But the city at large IS interested in a system of public im provements which tears up a street and loaves it impassable for months, while the squad of Workmen who did the destruction are gaily flitting 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 there is but one bugbear —old age. Tn these days when specialization is inevitable the spectre of penniless declining years is more to be feared than formerly by the jacks of all trades. To the case in point is information imparted to a Chicago college class by Superintendent Graves, of the King Home for Old Men. “Only one man in 10.000.’’he says, “is self-supporting at seventv. In the United States there are now 1.125,000 former wage-earners sixty-five and more, dependent upon public and private charity at a cost of $220,000,000. Moreover, there are 300.000 old men and women in homes whose upkeep costs $50,- 000.000 annually “Tn 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 (.each the need of training oneself how to do what there is to do a little better than the other fel low. The brain grow < 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, <»t Leland Stanford I niversity. m regard to what he calls “Bur banking” the human race. ' I use the phrase ‘Burhanking’, " 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. >n ” h they would, they must in tinif eliminate »he most vital ele __ ments in human evolution—love and initiative. Love is the best basis tor marriage, and love is a very real ami noble thing, in spite th- baseness of its many imitations , H is essential that love phall endure, for without it the great it mu force of the universe would be swept away. The Atlanta Georgian r-~ —s BRIBERY \ ! By HAL CO FEM AN. § ——— ' _ < 'Alftii jh -f. . A/Y .■ r \ s ( ■ 1 I MHOSC \ i ,l2—' 1 | , // \ Now 7 J ' '•/ /Zo h . \ i 'CI X . a / . ■ -Man-- yW. • J I w-k 'iir . Hin ml |Jlfffflllifollß.i 'iTnll i In /! , ; i " !)i! ■' ® ! iitHH ‘ ' ,ll ' ll' If Mr / z l "" 1 2 Making Food in the Laboratory Is the Time Near at Hand When Chemistry Will Supply AH the Essentials of Life? '"J H E basis of physical life is a | 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 ro 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 his hearers how the activities 'of a living ani mal gradually use up its supply of t 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 HEADY MADE. The only living things-that can make their own protoplasm out of the raw materials of.iiature 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 from plants. 01 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 its at i birth by our patents, but as we use | it up we are compelled to replace the waste by eating something which contains it. Professor Huxley used to illus- 1 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 nt the begin ning By and by 1 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 tt a ns--übstantiate sheep into man Not is this all If digestion were a FRIDAY, S KPT EMBER 20. 1912. By GA RRETT P. SERVISS thing to be trifled with. 1 might sup upon lobster, and then. were 1 .1 to return to my own place by sea and undergo shipevreck, the crusta cean might, and probably, .’would, return the comp'iment, 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 enableci to do this because they are fixed in place, but we may imagine the process carried on by creatures capable of moving about y ; I On a Diet By N. P. BABCOCK. |< ' ■ D f 1M ES "ere when we wereS] I? I stricken si With an ailment or a pain.si ? They gave ns drugs that sicken, J By the teaspoon or the grain. ? They all were somewhat nasty t When prescribed for any case. > And the taste was very lasty. s And it made you make a face J But 'twas nothing to the portion j i of the woes you now must beat, t i Since the docs have added caution . ; To your other stomach cate. ! You seek some pang to quiet I That you've never felt since birth. ; Whereupon they older "diet!'' I Which is simply hell on earth. ; All meats they call the red ones. ! And all pastry, cakes and Sweets. i ! Are appetizing "dead ones. ' ; In the schedule of your "eats." ; ' The flying pan's aroma ! May no more your sense delight: 1 j A gustatory coma < is tlie only state that's tight. ; Did anx vegetable •. Hold a special joy for you. ; You must declare you're able ; Just that one now to eschew 1 All sauces that are pleasant > Ate a sort of devil's broth; i You stare like starving peasant i At a foodless table cloth ' And misety completing 1 Is the rule that's understood: ; "Be regular in eating. But eat nothina that tastes good." J: —_—„— —.— w | 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 rhe country we should not need to load ourselves with lunch baskets. We coyld dispense with our broad fields of wheat and corn, out 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. Ur. 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 lifts 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. 1 have not heard that lie 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. Ifi fait, 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 ami eaten by their masters. Who knows but lhat when chemical foods have been perfected they may be delicious and so easily digested that any guormand 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 mechanical energy, owes it to himself to attain a similar • ■mancipation in regard to the m <intenam • of his vital energies And. sonnet or later. HE WILL DO IT. j Dorothy D i x Writes on Women on lunes Justice, She Says, I Ml Would Be Surer ’ :! With Feminine ij Counsel and i| Help. : . By DOROTHY DIX AFTER a recent very flagrant miscarriage of justice in a I murder trial in which a j woman was the defendant, the trial I judge expressed the opinion that it I would be necessary to have women , juries to try women criminals, be- J cause if a woman was young and i good looking it was practically im possible to get men to convict her, no matter how strong the evidence was against her. Judge Mary Barteime, 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 the necessity tor woman jurors. She believes in mixed juries, and says: The Metamorphosis. “Women on juries will change ; tots of things for the better. You I 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 hati no voice in government, and that in a trial by jury, which guarantees to every one a trial by liis peers women were tried by. men. And this latter joke is given a further pcrint by the fact that men frankly admit that they don t un derstand women and are not up to the tticks and manners of even the smalies, girl child. Il 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 g'et in a juiy box. Apparently they don't weigh evi dence, nor take probabilities into account, nor .ise any common sense in judging character and motives if they are trying a woman. All that the defense has to do is to talk platiiudinously 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 clea ly it lias been proven that the murderess had committed a cold-blooded and de t liberate crime. ' The Loophole. I heir theory is that perhaps she didn't do it. and if she did'do it she probably hati good reasons for do ing it. and the other parti ought lo have been killed anyway, and, anyhow , tliej are not going to semi a woman to the electric chair or to prison for life, especially If she is I good looking. An American jury dealing w ith a woman criminal is gallantry gone to seed, but it doesn’t make for justice, and it does 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 ptofitable sot other tender young creatures with blackmailing tend- THE HOME PAPER envies to bring breach of ~ omise suits against wealthy men It would have a most restraitiirg 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 jui-: - o f men. p or a Wolnan knowg ,. iHt while she may f oo l a man sh, can never deceive a sister woman. A woman jury will not care t ~„ ~l pj whether a murderess i s prettv or u=fly. or be moved thereby. wom . an jury will assay at their true value her tears, and know > .n„ r she is weeping for effect or. I„ ,, UI s S her heart is torn with grief. And a 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. 7 here is a freemasonry of sv> x n f which only the members know the grips and the countersigns. Nor win women juries a.-cept, men do. the pathetic tale of how she has been deceit , d and wronged, that a middle-aged woman with i hard painted face gives as her jus tifleation for killing some man whom she has taken away from his wife. Neither will they f , ,| ( .. alled upon to she.-J many tears over th» 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. 1 ertalnly the cases that <ome 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 lore juries on which there are mothers, with a mother's knowl edge of children, and a mother's heart to feel for other mothers. Also, it is nothing but fair that all divorce cases, and cases that in volve the relations of men and women, should be tried beifo r e mixed juries. No woman is capable of understanding men any more than a man is capable of unde-- 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 either It Is notorious that men wi ! s’ to any length short of perjury ” evade jury duty, whereas women would like it. In every community there are numbers of women of intellige> lfa > of good sound judgment, of irre proachable character, who iia»* ample leisure, and they might make a valuable contribution to the slat * by giving their services as i u '’' women. Women’s counsel and help are considered valuable everywher* else—why not in the court room • Finally, the proof of the puddin* is in the eating, and we have r.' l only theories but facts to go UP* 1 Women juries have been tried ,r several of the states where worn have the franchise, and the .iud8 p * speak with unthnsiawai and fair vuidicts they ha'* r turned