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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 sacoßd-elass matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 3, 1873. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mail, 35.00 a year. Payable in advance. Why Not Make Each Stock Broker Responsible for All the Others? / m n m This Would Eliminate the More Dishonest, Make Investments Safer—lt Is the French Method. A New York “stock broker,” now in Europe, has filed 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 to 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 FYench Bourse you 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 all the other brokers. It should be so in this country. The brokers enjoy peculiar privileges. They have practically a monopoly of a lucrative busi ness. They have a reasonably short day of work—from ten to t hree. Some of them are very earnest, honest and useful citizens, doing work necessary to the carrying on of the nation’s business. More of them ARE GENTLEMEN ENGAGED IN PERSUADING THEIR FRIENDS TO GAMBLE. KNOWING THAT EVERY FRIEND THAT GAMBLES IN THEIR PLACE WILL BE RUINED EVENTUALLY. Why not say to the gentlemen of the Stock Exchange, unless they change their rules voluntarily: “If one of you fails, the others 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. It will strengthen the reputations 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, and full of information and essential truth, the brief address was at once an argument and an 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 wt*h to control poli tics tn their own interest. 1 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 that 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 politics but graft. The boss belongs to no party, 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 parties—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 j By WILLIAM F. KIRK. , T SAW’ a little urchin chase a dog across tne street; * X The dog was plainly frightened by the pattering baby feet, j < “Be careful, kid.” I cautioned, “that's a great big dog. you see.” 5 I “W’hat of it?” said the youngster, “can’t you see he's scared of { ME?” i A dog whose name is Trouble barks at every grown-up boy, (But barks are only noises—’tis the sharp fangs that destroy. s Keep Trouble ever yelping and his rout will be complete. As surely as the urchin chased the dog across the street. The Atlanta Georgian * Under-Water Photography and Its Marvels * A Simple Device Reveals the Habits of Subaqueous Amphibious Life By GARRETT P. SERVISS. • IF Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo, during his journey of twenty thousand leagues under the sea, had thought of it he might have left photographs of the ex traordinary scenes ’that he wit nessed which, because "photo graphs never lie,” would have con vinced the readers of his strange history that 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. Ward gives us to day. Some of Dr. Ward’s photo graphs are reproduced, with this article and the reader can judge for himself how interesting his experi ments have been. And they are not only curious and interesting, but scientifically important as well. i The scheme is simplicity itself, as a glance at the accompanying dia- •! V, - z'- ... ' * X'WrJWW ' xyr ■ .. * M '□aTN PENGUIN ON SEA BOTTOM. DIAGRAM EXPLAINING THE SIMPLE DEVICE MAKING UNDER ABOUT TO SEIZE A FISH. WATER PHOTOGRAPHY POSSIBLE. gram reveals. Dr. Ward happened to live near the bank of a creek into which tidal water flows. The water was 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 and his camera, cover it with a trap door to keep out the light from the sky, and then place a large sheet of clear glass, her metically sealed, on the side toward the water. Enough light, he found, penetrated down through the wa ter to vender 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 easv, for, since the creek was connected with the sea, aquatic life of many kinds entered it and passed freely before the camera. One great advantage was that these creatures were not prison ers, amid strange surroundings, but had come of themselves into the place. Thus the photographer could be sure that they were not posing for effect, but were acting in accordance with their natural proclivities. However, he was not altogether satisfied with this. As soon as he :: Good Counsel to Widows :: A FEW weeks ago a fine and no ble man, who was a peculiar ly devoted husband, passed into the Great Beyond. After his death, when his strong box in the bank was opened, the topmost thing in it was found to be a let ter addressed to his wife. It was a beautiful and tender love letter, telling her of his great affection for her, and 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 pieces of advice: Don't go to live with any 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 but 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 vou 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 buj untried securities because they promise big interest. You can only get a low rate of Interest on absolutely safe Investments. Never lend money to a relative or a friend Never go into a business deal with a .relative or a friend. Take care of jour money. Remember that her pocketbook is an old woman's best friend. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1912. PENGUIN REACHING SURFACE OF WATER WITH ITS CATCH. found .that his plan was a success, he induced other animals to enter his photographic trap, and made pictures of them in the same man ner. It was in this way 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, irttrodueed by its plunge, is as clearly shown as if 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 water. That surface acts like a screen sheering off all extraneous light from above. Thus water birds that are returning to the surface after a plunge, If the camera catches them just as their heads have emerged, look as if they had been beheaded. These photographs—and Dr. Ward has made a great many— reveal for the first time the actual movements of aquatie animals amd fish when they are in their native element, and from this fact arises the scientific importance of the ex- By DOROTHY DIX. Never forget that people do not want a poor old woman about them, and that the only way you can be sure of always being a wel come guest and made much of when you are old and feeble is to have enough money to make it worth while for people to court you. Don't forget that all through life we have to pay as we go, and when we are old the price is doubled on us. Don't give away your money, even to your children, while you are alive. Expectation of favors 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 they are a guide and a sign post, pointing a safe road for her to travel that will keep her from falling into the bogs of misery into which women left alone to shape their own course generally stumble. Consider again the pith of the counsel of this modern Solomon. DON’T GO TO LIVE WITH YOUR MARRIED 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 OWN. No woman who has been mistress of her own house for half her life time can ever fit 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 you know are the easy marks of scoundrels who rob them of the money their husbands have left them. DON'T LEND MONEY TO YOUR RELATIVES OR FRIENDS. You lose both,’when you do. HANG OY TO YOUR OWN PURSE. Wtive all seen the differ- periments. Thus far such photo graphs have been made at a depth of a few feet only; but evidently the depth can be greatly increased, for considerable 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 £ict that Dr. Ward's photo graphs are made with an exposure of less than one five-hundredth of a second. Among the animals experiment ed with, penguins, which are great fishers, furnished some of the most remarkable photographs during their 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 cormorant. This bird is of a bronze-black color and was expected to form a very distinct object. But it turned out that the feathers of the cormorant, through some peculiar property of their surface, became at once so coated with glittering air bubbles that the picture was nothing but a light blur. ence in the way poor old Aunt Su san and rich Aunt Susan are treated. DON'T TURN OVER YOUR MONEY TO YOUR CHILDREN WHILE YOU'RE ALIVE. If your children love you, and consider you, they won't want you to beggar yourself frir them and become de pendent upon them. They won’t want your money, and if tiiey are th< greedy sort that can't wait till you die to get it, they will have no further 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 tragedy of widow hood that it so often leaves a wom an as bewildered and helpless as a child. She has always been taken care of. always thought for. always had somebody to make the decisions for 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 her 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 she has made it. Many years of life stretch before her in which she can be at least comparatively happy and peaceful, if she has had intelligence enough to choose the right road that leads through the valley of widowhood. And along this road she can have no better mentor than the words of this man. left as a guidance to his own beloved wife. THE HOME PAPEf Thomas Tapper Writes on " Work, Wag es and Cost of Living the Problem of the Present Day & Everybody Trying to Make a Guess at Its Solution. Majority Go About It in the Wrong Way and Therefore Fail. /» 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. There 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 he 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 pail. 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 THE banishment of the Aca dians 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 six 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. Sinking 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 By THOMAS TAPPER. V do not think this is true in all cases. But it is true in many. Not many of us realize that Work, Wages and the Cost of Liv ing all unite to constitute a busi ness that must be run on business principles, AND MADE TO PAY 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. remedy, then, is for the un skilled worker to become skilled. To do this he must think, keep his eyes open, and gradually find a place for himself that wilCdemand more of him than unskilled labor calls out. When unskilled labor waits dis contentedly for some higher power i 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, file whole business of getting a living from the world j I about us is very much like the I 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 with 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 all 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 possible. Well, then, every penny ought to be made to bring in as much milk ’•* and honey as possible. The Acadians By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY IT US®* i * i l S. themselves back in their old haunts. But it was a very sad 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 wintry storms. New, 'strange faces filled the old homes. Strange children played beneath the windows of the cottages and the voices of the boys under the apple trees shouted in an alien tongue. The great majority of the Aca dians. however, made no attempt w return, and. accepting their fate a* gracefully as was possible, abided in the places where their destinV had sent them. Today, all the way from Maine to Louisiana, dwell the descendants of the people who wore banished from Acadia in 1755, and some of them, especially in Louis iana. occupy high positions in so cial and civic life. As regards England's guilt in the matter of the banishment of the Acadians. something worth while is to be said on both sides. Theue may have been guilt in the trans action. but it was not all onl the side of England. That much fs\ cer tain. it may be that England! did wrong in deporting the Acadians, but what was England to do? The Kcadians, aliens in race, politics and religion, absolutely refused to take the oath of allegiance to thie British government, refused to bet come a part of the British or to become subject to their laws; and thus did they invite the fait which overtook them.