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ED1TO:?I \T. 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. 1873 Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mail, J 5.00 a year. Payable in advance. Beating the English at Their Own Game Recently the city of Manchester, England, wanted steel rails for its roads. The contract was not a large one. but when it was adver tised the bidding for it was sharp and bitter. Manchester is in the iron and steel district of England, and in a position to command the lowest price on the domestic product When the bids were opened, however, it was found that an American concern, the Lorain Steel Company, of .Johnstown, Pa., had made the lowest offer. In round figures the Lorain company would sell Im- $51,(100 what its English rivals demanded $55,000 for. The American company was prepared to manufacture the rails, pay freight and handling to the Atlantic seaboard, pay freight and handling by st a to England, and again pay freight and handling to Manchester, and still make a profit on its sale at nearly 10 per cent under the Bril ish price. And yet, m the face of such a showing as this, the stand-pat Re publican still maintains that the present tariff on steel rails is abso lutely essential to the prosperity of the industry in this country. The steel business is still for him an infant industry, even though it can go into the heart of Britain and win contracts in competition with hard-headed, close-calculating manufacturers of the tight lit tle isle. As it is with steel, so it is with a number of other products of our manufacturing plants, and with much of our raw material. Some day the American citizen will wake to the fact that he has been swindled by the tariff mongers who have fattened on his toil, and then the day of reckoning will come. We Must Build Our Own Ships The rider in the Panama canal bill granting free admission to American registry of foreign-built ships seems likely to have no practical •effect whatever. Journals of the shipping interest report that no projects are afoot for the purchase of British oi German vessels by American citizens. The accepted theory is that they are deterred from doing so b\ the fact that American sailors and marine engineers de mand high wages. But back of that fact lies the still more sig nificant fact that American shipowners have not been much moved by patriotic considerations in this matter; and they can own under foreign registry all the ships they care to own. This newspaper has always contended and still believes that America should lake direct means, under the protective princi ple, to revive its deep-sea shipbuilding industry. The admis sion of foreign-built ships to American registry for foreign '.rade s bed policy. Xo good can come of it. build our own ships. We must breed a new race of seafaring men. The way to do it is to protect this industry as we have protected other industries through a period of weak ness We ought to understand that all-around greatness for any nation requires that it should he at home on the sea as well as on the land; and that the sacrifices necessary to produce that balance in social and industrial life and national character should be accounted light. A system oi preferential duties in favor of home-built ships engaged in foreign trade would pul new salt ami savor into the American people. Romance and the Vikings Romance is not dead; it lives and breathes now as in the days of the bow and arrow. ‘‘Romance brings up the nine fif teen. says Kipling. She does more; she sits at our shoulders waiting for us to see with individual eye her ever fresh con trasts. What could In more inspiring than the discovery of the lost descendants of the bold Lief Ericksen, who invaded the shores of Greenland a thousand years ago? • I'hose thousand years have led Europe through the mazes of barbarism to Christianity, through the glories of the Renaissance to an <nl ghtened civilization daily growing more wonderful. The sane thousand years have led the descendants of the Ice land \ iking.s slowly backward. The daring that moved tin 1 sea-kings of the flowing beard to brave unknown oceans in cockleshells lives no more in the hearts of the white Eskimos of the North. Saga and sea song stir them not. Sate to say, if some astral habitant could view, through rays to u I t this earth a thousand years ago. the landing of Lief lari •'<> ti. he would predict the conquering of the world by people such as his. 80. it this discovery teaches ns anything, it is a lesson on our own littleness. Our boasted civilization is only an incident in tti’ turn of the wheel. Lucky for us Romance remains to gild our ways. A New Idea in Philanthropy * I y h ;is assumed many forms, but it is doubtful whether it ever asstim d a more practical character than in the case of a man named Hawkins, in Philadelphia. Hawkins was a wealthy man. and died at the ripe old age of OS ' 1 ar- \m<mg h's possessious>were eighteen houses, valued at about •f i.tttiu each, it is now made, public that prior to his death tie paid ri ail liens upon the property-.pud’ in his will bequeathed the houses loth, icnatiis v> ho had I ’'pay ing him rent for many years. These houses were workingmen\ Itomps, the kind that rent for about $25 11 iiimi and tee eight that weupjed them have bv this uieans !,<■, n put into possession of Ifonies of their own. homes that, tie y have come to lovettrom lofig years of association. I'his is a m w idea in philanthropy and one that equid wtjjl he inutat Thinl " hat a,benefit to that tragic class,-tjie mkijl would be Os course, there are some who wjltt <t 11 . but the majority would receive»a lastingraw tils k y'; 11 }'' ing belter. It is the sJart toward home oy-rfingipud ■ l! 'hug that is hard tor the poor |f given a‘ ‘ ’aX t ' beiieiits to the race as a whole would be iiicakuil<.ldw. * The Atlanta Georgian TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1912, C Unhorsing an Emperor The Glories of Ancient Rome Reverenced by Its Animating Spirit of Today _ - —J uO t - -■ WZ hX jBBB ■ I $\ \ -15 f If WasSL MEI T ' MRi 7 |j| I Bi f ' 7// \\w* I Il fl \ I / J| **•>»'*•«*' ®-JOuB i '■ hr /_J V_ We M —WX -— i -^z. I LOWERING THF BRONZE FIGURE OF THE EMPEROR MARCUS AURtLIUS FROM HIS HORSE. By GARRETT P. SERVISS. VERY visitor to Ro 111 re j member th' him- bronze statue of the Emperor Mar cus of Aurelius, seated on his bronze horse, in front of the old _ capitol. The pedestal was designed by the great Michael Angelo, but the statue is a far older work This summer they have taken the old emperor down from his horse, which he had bestrode for centuries, and removed him to the Capitoline museum, where artists are going to •‘restore" him—for the ravages of time have made sad work upon him. In the long run an emperor in bronze is no more immortal than one in flesh and blood. It was a considerable undertak ing to unhorse Marcus Aurelius, as the photograph shows, but the op eration was successfully conducted, and for some time to come tourists tn the Eternal City will see only a big wooden shed covering the ped estal from which he stretched forth his imperial hand with a gesture of command. With what some per sons will regard as a flue s nse of propriety, they hooded the emper or's face while taking him down, as If to prevent him from looking upon his own .abasement. Rut the real reason was to save his finely molded features from damage ad ditional to that which time had already inflicted upon them. Os World-Wide Interest, This undertaking, had it oc curred in any other city, with any other old statue, would have been a matter of local importance only, but it really had a world-wide in terest, partly because all nations have a certain pride in the an tiquities of Rome, yet mainly be cause it reveals, in a very striking form, the growth of the new spirit of nationality in Italy. It is akin to the impulse which made the Venetians, when the tower of the Campanile of St. Mark fell, with a great trash a few years ago. im mediately set to work to restore it. after the old model. It is also akin to the spirit which has produced the enormous monument of Victor Emmanuel in Rome, a work so vast and splendid that but for the prestige which covers them the other monuments of th. ancient A> ■■' of th< w 1 d would seem diminished tn its presence. This spirit is now at work every- e in Italy. It is pushing on the I «> tvations at !'•mipci:. as v,li as * in the Forum. and in many other places where the glories of old Rome lie buried. But it is not al together a revival of the cultiva tion of art and history. It has produced a marvelous transforma tion in the plains and cities of Piedmont and Lombardy, w here the traveler now sees long rows of smoking chimneys towering above the poplars, the flower gardens and the cathedrals, and proclaim ing the reign of modem industry. Nowhere has electric power been further developed than in northern Italy. Nowhere are the latest re sults of practical science more . ’ promptly utilized. X Italy is awake—wider awake than Five Points For “Five Points” Editor The Georgian: Having noticed the spirit with which you undertake, through the medium of your columns, needed teforms in our city. I am writing to suggest that you get behind sev eral changes which would work to the benefit of the city ami get It further from the "has-been" class changes which are in force tn any of the larger well run cities of the country, but not. as a rule, used in the "down-at-the-heels" towns. (1) Having the traffic squad' equipped with traffic whistles. A flourish of the hand is well enough for a village street, but in a crowd ed thoroughfare it is ridiculous. It may mean "Go ahead," "Stop," or nothing. (2 > Preventing the parking of everybody's and anybody's machine along the street, thereby reducing tlx usable portion of the street to the width of the car tracks. Peach tree is narrow enough, and yet in other cities of size such a thing as allowing one to "room and board" his machine all day long along the main street would be unheard of. (3) Preventing the individual whose sole occupation is loafing to practice his prof, ssion just where the streets are narrowest and the crowds greatest. This, too, is a leave over from the days when At lanta was in the class of some of our neighboring cities and not when it is pushing its Eastern rivals for civic honors. <4l Having in the center, between the ttacks, a small refuge such as is seen in the greater cities, where by the pedestrian who is crossing may escapi the flow of traffic and whereby the traffic is evenly di vided into definite streams, (5) Enforcing 2 ami 3. • CIVIC PRIDE. it has been since the days of Cae sar. Indeed, one is tempted to think that, somehow, the spirit of that wonderful genius now inspires the descendants of his legionaries, so long apparently submerged by the influx of foreign blood which came pouring in from every side after the fall of the imperial power. That some, at least, of the Ital ians now dream of Caesar, as many Frenchmen do of Napoleon, is cu riously’ shown by an incident con nected with the unhorsing of the statue of Marcus Aurelius. Now that the statue is down, the “Young Nationalists” have demanded that, instead of replacing it on its pedes tal, after it has been “restored,” it be sent to some less conspicuous place, while the statue of Caesar be set up in its stead, on the plaza of the capitol. Marcus Aurelius was a philoso pher. He could tight, and he did fight, when he had to —and he fought well —but his was not the spirit of a conqueror. He was mild and gentle in his thoughts and manners. He put conscience above everything else, and his true glory, for centuries, has consisted in bis book of "Thoughts,” one of the greatest moral treatises in exist ence. This type of man does not fit in very’ well with the ambition of those w ho want to restore the mili tary glory of Italy, to make her a great European power, w ith formid able fleets of battleships and armies that must be taken into account when the nations go to war. But Caesar was a man after their own heart. Seated on his bronze war horse, in front of the capitol, he would, they think, better represent the Italy that they dream of—an Italy to be feared as well as ad mired. Peace Must Be Preached, So, there are three aspects of the new Italy that are revealed by’ heae •ecent events; first, the aspi ration toward art and the cultiva tion of history; second, the deter mination to keep abreast of the modern world In practical scientific advance, and third, the desire to make Rome once more a name of power because of the weight of her mailed hand. Evidently war. the charmer, has not yet lost its potency over the human spirit. The gospel of peace will have to he preached still for many centuries before it has alto gether banished its panoplied foe. THE HOME PAPER Thomas Tapper Writes on The Educa- FN * tion of the fcs, Ish ll ' i i I Voter ■ F wki j g > Jr i M [. jffjf :OI The Vice-President, a I i More or Less Obscure Gentleman, Who Never Has a Vote in jw the Senate Unless It Is a Tie. By THOMAS TAPPER. WHEN the inauguration serv ices are over, the president moves into the limelight for four years, and the vice president sits in the senate cham ber, a more or less obscure gentle man. The constitution did not origi nally state the qualifications for the vice presidency, though it implied that they should be the same as for the president. But, in the twelfth amendment, it is clearly stated: ‘‘No persons constitutional ly ineligible to the office of presi dent shall be eligible to that of vice president of the United States.” The duty of the vice president is to preside over the meetings of the senate. He can not appoint com mittees, nor can he vote save in the case of a tie. Five times in our political his tory the president of the United States has died during his term of office and the vice president has succeeded to the presidency. This possibility warrants the careful se lection of men for an office that is generally looked upon as of small importance. At the great conventions dele gates get so out of breath yelling for their presidential candidate that his running mate slips in dur ing a profound silence. Plans to Increase Power. It. has often been suggested that the possible succession of the vice president to the higher office war rants his receiving an increase of power and importance. Two plans have been put forward —(1) to make the vice president a member of the cabinet; (2) to give him a vote as a member of the senate. The purpose of this increase of power is to assure the nomination of men of high caliber, and to erase from the popular mind the impres sion that any one will do for the tail of the ticket. The salary of the vice president is $12,000 per annum, less than one-sixth of the amount paid to the president; and the same as paid to the members of the cabi net. The vice president, like the president, may be impeached, but this has never happened in the his tory of the United States. Presi dent Johnson escaped conviction in an impeachment trial by one vote. The constitutional convention of 1 787 had been in session four months before any one suggested the office of vice president. One Tootle of Tattnall! (Tootle, of Tattnall, who will be a member of the next legislature, !s a good fellow, all right.—Darien, Ga., Gazette.) ’ By HOMER KNOTT. Now, into a world that is sordid and sad, Now, into a universe groping in gloom, Conies Tootle, of Tattnall—oh. blest be his name! For Tootle, of Tattnall, good people, make room! Oh, sighing of south winds, and singing of birds. Oh, babbling of brooklets through sylvian dells, Oh, music, Calliope—listen! Old girl. What lilting in Tootle, of Tattnall, dwells. Cease, whispering of lovers neath silvery moon! Jubilant nightingale, silence—he mute!—• Before this elimaxic concordance of sound. Tootle, of Tattnall! All sing it! 7’cot! Toot! V Smiths, and ye Johnsons, and Jones’and Browns, Too long have ye vexed us ye commonplace folk. Toot! Toot! Comes now Tootle, of Tattnall! Toot! Toot! Comes Tootle, of Tattnall—and Tootle's no joke. Tootle, of Tattnall! Good fellow? Os course! Why, how could a person named Tootle be mean? There s the song of a siren in ' Tootle" ah. yes! But naught of the siren in Tootle, 1 ween! Hail. Tootle, of Tattnall and conn into camp! Hail, surcease of sainetfas In cognomens trite. Tympanum tickler of Tattnall! Tintin- Nabulating >■ fuc.tie surely all right! member of the convention d,lar.-j such an office to be unneces.- in This office, created in strenuous times and limited as to its scope, has been a source of trouble, in the national conventions the nam ing of the vice pioident may cre ate no interest; or political hoss-s may use the office, as a hole in the ground in which 'to bury a man who promises to be a popuhi: lead er of strong convictions. Mr. Roosevelt was selected for inter ment in this political graveyard. But in the course of events re sound of the resu. section frunv -t fell upon hie ear and he has come, if not into life everlasting, then into everlasting life. You Never Can Tell. By gambling nn the chatfre that tlie vice presidential office would effectually bury the gentleman from Oyster Bay, the first step vs taken in a direct patli to what is now being affectionately called th: Bull Moose party. You never can tell what will happen when you have made your nice little plan work out just as you want it. You, as a voter, can help elect the vice president, but not the sena tors over whom he presides. Each state has two senators, elected for six years. Cases on rec ord show that some senators have served for five or more consecutive terms. The term of office of one-thi : f the senators of the United St.>tis Expires on March 4 of i've:y oml year. Hence, whatever the convic tion and policies of new senators, two-thirds of the body ar-- rets to warrant the benefits of oxp<- i ience. Must Be Thirty Years Old. A senator must be at years of age, and a citizen for nine years of the United States. He must, further, be an inhabitant of the state which he desires to i pri sent. If the methods by which t senator has secured his election -ii" open to the charge of dishonesty, ho is tried before his fellow sena tors and acquitted of the charge. H ” his seat is declared vacant. Ihe case of Senator Enrimer is an in stance. A senator receives an annual sal ary of Seven Thousand Five Hun dred Dollais. In addition to ties, he has an annual allowance of 1 »ne Hundred and Twenty-five I’ for newspapers and stations '■ Clerk hire is provided, and mile age, at twenty cents per mile, be tween his home and Washington.