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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, IS7S Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mail, $5.00 a year. Payable in advance. Why Not Make Each Stock Broker Responsible for All the Others? » *> r This Would Eliminate the More Dishonest, Make Investments Safer—lt Is the French Method. A New York ’•.slock broker," now in Europe, has Hied a list of creditors. It turns out that the gentleman, whose case is not un usual, is indebted to eleven hundred and seventy different indi viduals It is quite the thing for brokers to explode in this interesting way occasionally and leave the honest investors and the gamblers in their offices to wonder why they were so foolish as to go there. We should like to ask if it would not be sensible Io adopt the method of the Paris Bourse, and. by law or by agreement, arrange to have the Stock Exchange and all of its members jointly re sponsible for each individual stock broker. On the French Bourse yon can invest or speculate with the knowledge that you need not include the dishonesty of your broker among the dangers of the enterprise. Any broker who defaults in Paris—a very rare happening—is backed up by the credit and the fortunes of ail the other brokers. It should be so in this country. The brokers enjo.i peculiar privileges. They have practically a monopoly of a lucrative busi ness. They have a reasonably short day of work from ten Io three. Some of them are very earnest, honesi and useful citizens, doing work necessary to the carrying on of the nation's business. More of them AKE GENTLEMEN ENGAGED IN PEPSI ADING THEIR FRIENDS TO GAMBLE, KNOWING TH \T EVERY FRIEND THAT GAMBLES IN THEIR PLA< E WILL BE Rl ’INED EVENTUALLY. Why not say to the gentlemen of the Stock Exchange, unless they change t heir rules voluntarily : "If one of you fails, the ot hers must be responsible. If one of you absconds or cheats, the others must make good his cheating This will inspire you to eliminate the rascals who are quite plentiful in your ranks and whose rascality is quite well known to you. Il will st renglhen the i epiiial ions of the honest brokers, make a seat more valuable, raise the tone of the exchange, increase the profits of the respectable houses." That is one polite suggestion for the Stock Exchange, one of a number that we hope to offer. ' Wilson’s Winning Note a ■ • Progressive Creed That was an admirable speech which Governor Wilson de livered to the students at Princeton. Felicitous in phrase, clear in analysis, ami full of information and essential truth. Ihe brief address was at once an argument and au appeal. What the governor said of political bosses is worthy of the em phasis of editorial reproduction "The man we call boss is the agent of those who wish to control poli tics tn their own Interest. "I have known some of these gentlemen personally, and I know exactly how they work They haven't any politics at all. That is the point, and there is no difference between a Democratic boss and a Republican boss, because neither of them is working for his party. They are both working for their clients. And their clients wish to see tiiat men do not get into office who thwart them, and that laws are not passed that em barrass their business. "The chief supporters of the Democratic boss, if he happens to be in the majority, are often those most closely associated with the Republican boss, and vice versa." Governor Wilson has expressed in plain, clear language the view which Mr. Hearst and his newspapers have urged for many years The boss has no polities but graft. The boss belongs to no parly, and unites with other bosses to control both parties. The general recognition of this fact is the best promise of the abolition of the boss Progressives of all parlies Democrat, independent and Re publican, note with eminent satisfaction that Governor Wilson in his recent speeches is swinging into the aggressive campaign which deserves and will win success Trouble By WILLIAM F. KIRK. if. I ; SAW a little urchin chase a dog across the street; arc. The dog was plainly frightened by the pattering baby feet. 1 cautioned. “ that's a great big dog, you see. ’’ pant. Big j t »• < ga y oun g s | er “can't you see he's scared of Stove an. name is Trouble barks at evert grown up boy. st ..NWtf'r on ß' tis the sharp fangs that destrot. B „ JhiJ k :' r a »d hi.* rout will be complete, ‘9 ■ trehin chased Ihe dog across the sti ■" lIU4 PhuUfc 2.55. th. „ . . The Atlanta Georgian T Under-Water Photography and Its Marvels A Simple Device Reveals the Habits of Subaqueous Amphibious Life By GARRETT P. SERVISS. v IP Jutes Vernes Captain Nemo, during his journey of twenty , thousand leagues under the sea, had thought of it he might bate left photographs of the ex traordinal y scenes that tie wit nessed which, because “photo graphs never lie," would have con vinced the readers of his strange history tiiat nothing but the sim ple truth was being presented to them. But Dr. Francis Ward had not in vented his sub-aquatic photograph ic apparatus at the time when the veracious Frenchman wrote his ro mance. and so he could not give visual proof of his statements about what goes on under the wa ter. such as Dr, Wald gives us to da.’. Some of Dr. Ward s photo graphs a e reproduced with this article and the reader < an judge for himself how interesting his experi ments have been. And they are not only curious and interesting, but scientific ally important as well. The scheme is simplicity itself, as a glance a: the accompanying dia- PENGuIN ON SLA iOM. D’IAGRAM EXPLAINiNG TH E SIMPLE DEVICE MAKING UNDER ABOUT TO SEIZE A FISH. WATER PHOTOGRAPHY POSSIBLE. gram reveals. Dr. Word lupponed to live the bank . f a creek into which tidal water Hows. The water v. .is deep and pure, and the bank steep and rocky, it occurred to Dr. Ward to excavate a cham ber in the bank, large enough to hold him ami hi.-» < imera, cover.it with a trap door to ke. p out the light from the sir., and then place a large sheet of clear glass, het inetii ally sealed, mi the side- toward the water. Enough light, he found, penetrated down through the wa ter to render everything in it clear ly visible and photographable. It only remained to get the living creatures in the water within the focus of his lenses. This proved to be eas>. for, since the creek was connected with the sea. aquatic life of many kinds entered it and passed freely before the camera, tine great advantage was that these creatures were not prison ers, timid strange surroundings, but bad come of themselves into the place. Tims the photographer could be sire that the' weir nol posing for effect, but were acting in accordance with theii" natural proclivities. However, he was not altogether satisfied with this. As soon as lie :: Good Counsel to Widows :: a FEW weeks igo a firn- and no- AA ble man. who was a peetiliar ly devoted husband, passed into the Great Beyond. After his death, when his strong box in the bunk Was opened, the topmost thing in it was found to be a let ter addressed to bis wife. It was a beautiful and tender love letter, telling h>'r of his great affection for her. ami of how happy she had made his life. Then, as if he stretched a protecting arm about her even from the grave, he counseled her about her future life and the management of her affairs, and gave her the following saga cious pieia s of advice: Doni go to live with anj of your married children. Don’t go to live with any of your relatives. Make a little home for yourself, where you can live your own in dependent life. Have a place of your own where you rule supreme, even if it is nothing hut a room in a hotel. From it you can visit your friends and your relatives all you like, but don't go to live under anybody's roof. Don’t trust anybody to manage your business affairs for you. Do that yourself. Keep all of your business in your own hands and at your fingers' ends. If you find you can't manage your business, put it in the control of a trust company, not an individual. Don’t speculate Buy nothing but gilt-edge bonds. Don't be tempted to buy untried securities because they promise big interest. You can only get a low rate of interest on absolutely safe Itn estnients. Never lend money to a relative or a friend. Ncv< I" go into a bestness deal with a relative or a friend Take cats of your money Remembi r that In r t'oeketbook « ■n old womans best fro nd MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1912. PENGUIN REACHING SURFACE OF WATER WITH ITS CATCH. z; •' -- ~~ WS '•■v.i -■ -T-'- * IB , found that his plan was a success, he induced other animals to enter his photographic trap, and made pictures of them in the sillin’"man ner. It was in this vay that he se cured a photograph of a seagull in the act of plunging beneath the water in pursuit of a small fish. The fish can be seen, darting for the bottom at top speed, while the gull, surrounded with bubbles of air. introduced by its plunge, is as clearly shown as it’ it were flying in the air. A curious fact developed by these singular experiments is that the camera catches nothing that is above the surface of the w 'ter. ,That surface acts like a screen sheering cIT al! extraneous light from above. Thus water birds that ate returning to the surface after a plunge, If the camera catches them i just ns tl'oi; heads have eme geu. I look as it they had been beheaded. These photographs—and Dr. Ward has tna.li a great many— I reveal for the first time the actual . movements of aquatic animals and fi-h won they are in their native i " ment. and from this fact arises •r the sci ntifle importance of the ex- By DOROTHY DiX. X«. V*> I • i j rvl < 11., I Iz, Az, __ ■ Never forget that people do not want a poor old woman about them, and that the onlv way you can be stirs of always being a w< I come guest and made much of when you are old trod feeble is to have enough money to make it worth while fm people to court you. Don't forget : at all through life we l.ave to pay as we go, and when we are old tin price is doubled on us. Don't give away your money, even to jour children, while you are alive. Expectation of f:tv.>rj» to come is a stronger staff to lean on than gratitude for benefits re ceived. These words of advice may well be taken to heart by every widow who reads them, for thej are a guide ami a sign post. . ointing a safe toad for her to travel that will keep her from falling into the bogs of misery into w hich women left alone to shape their own course generally" stumble Consider again the tilth of the counsel of this modern Solomon. DON'T GO TO LIVE WITH Vol R .M ARRIED CHILDREN. Thereby will you avoid all the sorrows, and miseries, and complex ities of the in-law proposition, and remain on good terms with your son's wife and your daughter's hus band instead of being hated and insulted by them. KEEP A HOME OF YoUR O'VN. No woman w ho lias been mistress of her own house for half her life time tan ever tit in anybody else's, and the experiment, when she tries to do it, always ends in disaster. ATTEND TO YOUR OWN BUS INESS AFFAIRS. Nine-tenths of the widows sou know are the easy marks of scoundrels who rob th<m of tin rnonej their husbands have left them DON'T LEND MONEY TO YOl R RELATIVES OR FRIENDS. You lose both when you do. HANG ON TO YOUR OWN I’I'RSE. A >■"» e all seen the differ- pet intents. Thus far such photo graphs have b"en made at a depth of a for. feet only; but evidently the depth can be greatly increased, for l onslderable sunlight penetrates clear water for many yards from the surface. A similar apparatus might even be employed to photo graph a wreck upon which divers are operating. Doubtless electric light would serve in some cases. The excellence of the natural light at a small depth is shown by the fact that Dr. Ward's photo graphs .ire made with an exposure of less than one five-hundredth of a second. Among the animals experiment ed with, penguins, which are great fishe:s, furnished some of the most ri markable photographs during" theii chase of fish under water. But a surprise was in store for the pho tographer when he tried to obtain a picture of a plunging counorant. This bird is of a bronz* - alack color and was expected to form a very distinct object. But it turned out that the feathers of the cormorant, through some peculiar property ot their suiface. became at once so coated with glitt ring air .bubbles that the picture was nothing but a light blur. ence .in the wav" poor old Aunt Su san and rich Aunt Susan are t rested. DON'T TURN OVER YOl'R MONEY TO YOUR < HILDKEN WHILE YOU'RE ALIVE. If your children love you. and consider you they won't want you to beggar yourself for them and become de pendent upon them. They won't want your money, and if they are the greedy soil that can t wait till you dll" to get it. the.' will hate no lurther use for you when they have fleeced you. We have all seen Mother treated worse than a ser vant in her own house that she had been fool enough to deed over to her son. It is an added traged.v of widow hood that it so often leaves a wom an as bewildered and helpless as a child. She has always been taken • are of. always thought for. always had somebody to make the decisions tor her, and when she Is thrown on her own resources she doesn't know what to do and becomes the victim of the sharpers that are always on the lookout for such poor innocents as she. She is lonesome, and she'll go to live with anyone who asks her. She doesn't know anything about busi ness and she signs any paper a lawyer will bring her. She is heart broken, and she is so grateful for sympathy she doesn't look to see how people are taking advantage of Iter grief to swindle her. She feels that life is over for her, and it doesn't matter much what she does or where she goes; but this is a cruel mistake, as she finds out in bitterness and tears after sh has made it. Many years of life stretch before her in which she can be at least eomparativelc happy and peaceful, if she has had inteiligenc e enough to c hoose the right road that leads through the valley of widowhood. And along this road she can have no better mentor than tlie words ot this man. left as a Uilid.ince to his own beloved wife THE HOME PAPER Thomas Tapper Writes on Work, Wages and Cost of Living the Problem of the Present Day Everybody 1 rying to Make a Guess at Its Solution. Majority Go About It in the Wrong Way and Therefore Fail. By THOMAS TAPPER. A WRITER says "The odd pen nies we spend would support some families." Another writer declares that the laboring man is entitled to a great er share in the profits of his labor than he gets. T< ere is no problem before the American people today that is so full of complexities as that which involves a consideration of Work, Wages and the Cost of Living. Everybody is facing this prob lem, and trying to make a guess at its solution. Most of us go about it in the wrong-way. You have heard the story of the city youth who spent a week in the country. He was daintily dressed and wore lavender gloves. One evening be asked permission of the farmer with whom he was boarding to milk the family cow. Trouble With the Cow. The farmer gave the young man a milk pail and a three-legged stool, and told him he would find the cow in the pasture back of the barn. An hour passed by and the lav ender gloves had not yet come in with the brimming milk pall. The farmer thought it time to investigate, and going to the edge of the pasture he saw the cow trotting- around the field about twenty yards in front of the young gent from town. "Hey!" said the farmer, "haven't you milked her yet ?” "No sir,” replied the town-bred youth. "Well, why not? You've been out here an hour.” "Why. you see. sir,” said the young man. "I can t induce the cow to sit down on this stool." This is a good illustration of the possibility of misunderstanding" the purpose of things. Which leads to this conclusion: In the problem of Work, Wages and the Cost of Living, a lot of us are trying to make the cow sit on the stool. Another writer has insisted in saying that the average working man gets as much as he gives. I S The Acadians By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY rpHE banishment of the Aca j dtans began one hundred and fifty-seven years ago, and the world is still discussing the ques tion as to whether or not the act was the blackest ever committed under the British flag. The order for the banishment was issued in secret conclave, and mes sages were sent to the officers of land forces and ships at Annapolis to begin at once to put it into exe cution. The edict was that every man, woman and child of the Acadians should be forcibly deported. Im mediately the men of the Acadian settlements were summoned to the churches to hear the will of the king. Once inside, doors were locked, windows barred, soldiers placed on guard and the edict read. From September to December the deportation continued, and before the winter had fairly set in the Acadian people were scattered from New England to far-away Louis iana. in all some six thousand stx hundred were sent away. Some of them found in homes in Quebec, the others wandered, home less. about Boston. New York. Phil adelphia and New Orleans. After the peace of 1763 some eight hundred gathered themselves to gether in Boston and began the long march overland through the tan gled forests of Maine and New Brunswick on the return to their beloved Acadia, the present Nova Scotia. Singing hymns, dragging their baggage on sleighs, pausing to hunt by the way, the sad and weary pilgrims toiled on through more than a thousand miles of swamp and wilderness, and at last found - Hbs - l . JHiw HI - I ~ .yC r iw □Oh f do not think this Is true f n sfi cases. But it is true in many. Not many of us realise that Work. Wages and the Cost of Lfv. ing all unite to constitute a busi ness that must be run on business principles, AND MADE TO PAX A PROFIT. The Real Remedy. Lots of men and women have to take such work as they can get, and accept the wages offered, or go without. This condition af fects the unskilled labor class more than any other. On such a basis of Work and Wages, the Cost of Living is always precarious. The remedy,-then, is for the un skilled worker to become skilled. To do this he must think, keep his eyes often, and gradually find a place for himself that wilt demand more of him than unskilled labor calls out. When unskilled labor waits dis contentedly for some higher power to make life easy, it Is mistaking the office of the three-legged stool: it is trying to make the cow sit where the milker should be. In fact, the whole business of getting a living from the world about us is very much like the story told above. A man's time and strength are his milk-producer; the cow. in oth er words. The world in which he lives is the pasture. The stool is his place of work or business. Never Waste Anything. Now, a cow meandering up and down a pasture all day eating clover and rich grass comes in at night, not w-ith clover and grass, BUT WITH TEN CENT MILK AND SIXTY CENT CREAM. She would be a poor breed of cow if she sat on a stool al) day and waited for President Taft to bring her a handful of red clover and forget-me-nots every little while. Now about the pennies we waste. No farmer throws milk away. He utilizes every drop of It, and makes it bring in every penny po/isible. Well, then, every penny ought to be made to bring In as much milk • and honey as possible. themselves back in their old haunts. But it was a very sail experience that met them there. They were like the “ghosts of the dead revis iting the scenes of their childhood. Their lands were occupied by new comers. Os their flocks and herds naught remained but the bleaching bone heaps where the cattle had huddled and died in the wintij storms. New, strange faces fW e(l the old homes. Strange children played beneath the windows of llie cottages and the voices of tiie bo>» under the apple trees shouted in an alien tongue. The great majority of the Aea dians. however, made no attempt to return, and. accepting their fate as gracefully as was possible, abi'h in the places where their dcst.nt had sent them. Today, all th 11 from Maine to Louisiana, dwell !i ' e descendants of the people who banished from Acadia in !!’’• some of them, especially in I- 0111 iana, occupy high positions in ->• cial and civic life. As regards England's guilt In ’• matter of the banishment of l! ' J Acadians. something worth whil* to be said on both sides. I ' EII may have been guilt tn tne tran. action, but it was not an on tn« side of England. -That much is cer tain. It may be that England . d wrong in deporting the Aeadiu.no but what was England to do Acadians. aliens in race, ,p'l l and religion, absolutely refit- 11 take the oath of allegiance to 1 ' British government, refused come a part of the British I" ■' or to become subject to b and thus did they Invlta the o* which overtook them.