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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta. G»? Entered as second-class matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 187 J Subscription Price —-Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mail, $5.00 a year Payable In advance. I Criminals Are Al ways Stupid as Well as Criminal v v r And, Therefore, Good Reader, We Need Not Fear That the Criminals Will Ever Rule. The other day some wicked men blew open the safe in a small postoffice, stole the money and escaped in a motor boat, while the postmaster stood firing his revolver into the night, vainly trying to waken hold chaos A gentle lady who read of the occurrence, writes, perturbed, to this newspaper. Without trying to look for any original expression she asks: " What are we coming to .' Where are we drifting? What hope is there tor honest people, when thieves can have motor boats and automobiles? The next thing we know they will be coming down in airships and stealing our clothes off the lines and our chil dren off the grass and holding them for ransom. Wouldn't the world be better off if we did not have so many of these inventions, which seem to he more useful to thieves than anybody else? Wouldn't it be a good idea to make a law against selling motor boats and automobiles and flying machines to thieves, the same as to make a law against selling them revolvers and other deadly weapons?" Gentle lady, do not lei the combination of criminals and modern inventions disturb you. Criminals are nearly always dull-minded. They have their little pleasures while they last and they get caught in the end. We speak of the small fry criminals, of course—those that commit the crimes punished with imprisonment. There is an other set of criminals bigger and blacker—that last longer than the small, safe-blowing, pickpocket criminals. But in the end, even the very biggest criminals are caught and punished. In Cromwell's day the people of England caught and dealt sufficiently with the big criminals of England. In Danton's day the people of France caught, punished and dis couraged the big criminals of France. Sometimes violently, sometimes quietly and thoughtfully, the people that the big criminals rob catch up with the robbers and deal out justice. As for the little criminal with his flying machine, his smoke less, noiseless revolver, his automobile, motor boat, yacht or what not, don’t worry about him. The criminal of the sort that disturbs you is always foolish, weak and vicious. He never lasts long. Murderers are caught nearly always and newspapers pay especial attention to the crime and compel the police to show in terest. Murderers are caught because it takes imagination and intelli gence to escape justice. And the man who has imagination and in telligence DOES NOT COMMIT MURDER. You read of the execu tion of convicted criminals, and ftearly always you learn that the criminal was quiet during the night preceding his death, slept peacefully, ate ham and eggs in the morning, and went to his death serene, mumbling over the words that some good, religious gentle man recited for him. Murderers die easily and are caught easily BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO IMAGINATION. Imagination would make them realize the horror and the shame of public execution. Imagination would make them realize the vastness, the strange puzzle of the unknown future so soon to he made, by death. THE PRESENT. The criminal dot's not see the horror of death, for he lacks im agination. And because he lacks imagination he is a criminal, and because he lacks imagination HE IS CAUGHT. Therefore, do not worry because criminals can buy motor boats. Intelligent men will catch them in boats that are faster. And do not worry even about the big criminals—the men of power and finance that buy senators and use them as the little criminal uses his slung shot and his revolver. I he big criminal, like the little criminal, lacks imagination. He does not know the people's temper or realize the people's power. He plans, plots and thrives for a while, hut in the end he goes to the wall, like I he thief in the motor boat or the flying ma chine or the Vacht Civilization and society are safe because INTELLIGENCE IS HONES I. Men that are really honest are honest because their pride, their determination to have their own approval, keeps them honest. Character is honest. Education develops character in that fact lie the hope and comfort of civilization. Sunday Concerts Up to the People The fate of the tree Sunday concerts at the Auditorium is Up to the people. President Peel, of the Music Festival Association, says these concerts will be continued as long as there s monev in the treasury to pay for them When the fund is exhausted the con certs will come to an end. There seems but one wax to keep them going, and that s for the- lovers of good music in At lanta to help pay the expenses of the concerts. No admission tees have been charged to these concerts. They have been free to all who cared to attend them. It is an nounced that no admission price will ever be charged. There fore, as has been said, it s up to the people. Uertainlv there are enough music lovers in Atlanta to mak. the concerts a suc <’;** 11 even one who attends would contribute a nickel, quarter or such S'-.n as lie or she fee- •>»,;.• to give, it is certain the concerts eould be held even Sunday for an indefinite period. Ihe week!) expense of these rone, its is about That thex haxe not been heard with inditl'Tetiee is demonstrated in ,tl " 'a.-r that th, \ have been well attended ami the attendance is increasing. It is believed that with the public's better under standing of thi situation, the responst will be sufficient to in k Suri tile bllcee-s of 11|< s, SlimlllX Cornells. The Atlanta Georgian MEN AND ANIMALS X WHAT DO THE LOWER ANIMALS THINK OF US AND OUR WAY OF TREATING THEM? •JIMP J X JU . MF wmO&wMot \ BM!// "’IT Z ■ ( O "" ” - ” /s * Ns —1 Playing With a Pet Elephant. By GARRETT P. SERVISS. DO the "lower animals” think? Os course they do. Look at these photographs, if you have any doubt on the subject. They represent the little daughter of the Drench representative resi dent at Prey-Veng, in Cambodia, playing with her pet elephant, "Tamlap,” and her pet panther, whose name we do not know. Regard the expression on the ele phant’s face; kindly, indulgent, consciously submissive. He knows his power and the weakness of his little mispress, but he obeys even a motion of her finger. Perhaps he finds pleasure in obeying her when he knows well that he could dis obey her and crush her under his heavy feet if he would. Perhaps in his elephantine brain, which is not as big as his head, there are some cells that tingle with humor over the funny situation in which he chooses to place himself. Possibly the little girl appears as beautiful to him as a goddess would appear to us, and he obeys her because of her beauty and the grace of her movements. But, deep down in his nature there may lurk a certain, undefined fear of her, based upon recollections of her larger relatives with their sharp prods and whips. And. then, the panther. It is not a full grown one, but it is quite big enough to eat little Mademoiselle Migny Bellan. It has that inscrutable, unreliable look In its eyes, which is character istic of the whole cat tribe, and one would not like to trust it too far. It would not sacrifice itself for Its mistress as the elephant would. It sees no humor in the situation, it is thinking of its own enjoyment and not of hers. The fact is that character shows Itself In the faces of animals as plainly as tn those of men. There is no nobility in any kind of cat, only selfishness. There is perhaps no kind of knowledge lying beyond our reach which would be more interesting to possess than that of what passes in the minds of animals when brought into contact with man. If we eould but read them what revelations might not be made! Why are they usually so patient under bondage? Consider what the horse bears un complainingly from his two-legged, and often too merciless, master! Instead of exhibiting that violence of revolt, that ungovernable fury of anger which man shows under op- :: How to Treat a Gossip ' :: By WINIFRED BLACK. \ "X 7 " °uld I do if some one VV 1 thought was my friend went and told things I had confided to her. thinking she would never tell them? And what if she made the stories all over, so that they were so different when she x\as through that no one would ever recognize them? XVhut would I do? Well, my dear correspondent, I wouldn’t do a thing but think what a goose I’d been to tell anybody’s secrets to anybody else and expect them to sta> secrets. I Wouldn't Quarrel. Quarrel with the one who told? Not 1. Life is too short to quarrel too short to hate, too short to "get ev< n.” I’d just see as little of that per fidious person as I possibly could, and some day I’d thank her for teaching me a lesson, the lesson < very impulsive, open-hearted per son has to learn some time or other, or go through life In hot water. What was your secret, anyhow something about xvhy you wear • ur s that are not your own. or did ou raallj tell th» perfidious one that you and your husband had a quarrel? XX 11, what of It Do you sup ■ >re you ind your husband are th.' onlx ones who evei quarrel’’ Dear uh . if you could only hear th. disputes that go on under the r f ..f < O'.r .' t.' f frl- pa «|, n THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1912. r N-f ZTVf, 0 " y-wwmiipr ar V j Little Migny Belan and her pet Cambodian Panther. pression and injustice, the horse, the elephant, the dog, bows to his I punishment, submits to his bur dens, forgets his injuries and is tireless in his devotion and un changing in his submission. But what does he think of it all? It is nonsense to say that lie DOESN’T THINK He DOES think, but we can not penetrate his thoughts. It is easy to imagine that there have been born in his nature some ■of the principles enunciated in the Sermon on the Mount, for the pos session of which we strive in vain —if we do not. in fact, secretly re nounce them. It is much to be feared that there is more of the cat than of the elephant or the horse in us. Strike a cat and he will not turn the other cheek; he will scratch you and run away. Abuse an elephant, or a camel, and the next moment he will kneel to take you upon his back, and gently obey all your behests. In a sense, y V e are like gods to the lower animals, and the noblest f-xem exhibit an attitude toward •• •• 1» pretending to be so shocked at what this scandalous telltale is tell ing! Tut, tut. little woman; there are no such things as secrets —real se crets—ln the lives of decent peo ple. Why should there be? The woman who plays bridge with you tells you some day in deep confidence that the husband of her neighbor drinks too much, and the whole block knew it all the time. Mrs. So-and-So's little boy was expelled from school; dear me, what a pother; what of it? So was the brother of- the woman who whispered the awful news to you right in Mrs. So-and-So’s home. I'm Bored By "Secrets.” My secrets? I haven't one. not one on earth, and don’t want any, thunk you I’m like a friend of mine, who is a good xvoman xvith an unfortunate husband. My friend almost went crazy the first few years she was married, trying to keep people from finding out that her darling Geo ge drank more than war good for him. Every tim. a friend called any where near George’s hour to come homo my fikml almost went into spasms. She’d sit and watch the window, pour thing and turn white at the sound of a leaf dropping on the porch, till otic day th. ash man d upped in for his money, and be ing a friendly and not at all forma 1 ash man, who had carted f : my f' lend ..u ... h. '■ their gods which may shame us. How far do the peculiar senses of animals enable them to read us and understand us as we can neither read nor understand them? There is no doubt that our intel lectual powers almost infinitely surpass theirs, but they have gifts which we do not possess. A squir rel, flirting and chattering under a hazel tree in the autumn, is guid ed by some mysterious sense, yvhich enables him to pick out all the sound nuts, never making a mistake, while we can discover the false ones only by cracking them. The animals foresee the weather as all our expensive bureaus and scientific equipments are powerless to enable us to do. Can they look inside the human shell also? Can they penetrate the essential char acter of men better than Shake speare could do? There are animal trainers who would probably an swer yes. From whatever point of view we regard them, the relations of men and animals present some of the most fascinating problems that life on the earth affords. •f same public school her husband at tended, said something sympathetic about poor George. My friend near ly fainted, but from that moment on she stopped pretending, and she looked years younger in a week. When George comes home now the worse for drink and my friend is entertaining visitors, she just slips out into the hail, gets George upstairs to lie down, and comes down without turning a hair. Mortified? To be sure. Hurt? To the very heart. But not secret, not pretending, not making a des perate effort to deceive every one. Sensible woman, I call her. Come on in; all the world ami his wife look in at my door all you want to. No. lam not proud of the skeleton that rattles his bones there in the closet, but I'm not ashamed of him, either. I didn't make him. and I’d turn him out in a minute if I could. Keep Away From Gossips. What shall you do with the "ge cret teller?” Keep away from her on general principles; she’s a gos sip, a"d therefore to he avoided as tile r.ague is avoided. Quaiael with her. try to make her "take It all back," make a great row and fuss over nothing? Never in the wide, wide world. Act just ns you would if you saw a red ant crawling in the luncheon basket at a picnic. I’ake a stick and brush the ant awaj and go on eating your lunchei.n, taking good < a e to keep aw»j from the ant hl 1 th« ..st of I* >'< T •’ THE HOME PAPER Thomas Tapper Writes on How to Build a Fortune The Secret of It—-It’s Easy, He Says, to Be come Rich on Paper, But the Real Strain Comes When You Get Down to Busi n e s s and Begin to Save. i. IT is easy to become rich on pa per. You begin to figure, and all at once the result is amaz ing. But to get down to business and put savings aside every little while, say, for 30 years, is a severe strain. Every one of these years has its burden to pay for. its temptations that waste money, its unexpected demands that can never be accu rately taken into account. Hence, back of all successful saving, there must be found a high moral quality, or capacity; that of Persistence. To succeed de mands Persevrance, dogged Deter mination, willingness to make fre quent sacrifices, forehandedness to meet the unexpected. In short, it is a game that requires a brave and skillful player. 11. In talking this over xvith a bank president, he said to me: "Tell people to carry two sav ings accounts, both in safe savings banks. These two accounts have two distinct purposes: “1. An Emergency Fund. "2. A Permanent Reserve Fund. "The purpose of having two ac counts instead of one, is this: “Many people start a savings bank account with great hope and some persistence. They expect to leave their money undisturbed, and to benefit in the future by the in terest it earns. But some unex pected demand comes along, the savings are withdrawn from the bank, the interest stops. AND THE MOTION OF THAT MONEY TO WARD FORTUNE LEASES. "Hence 1 suggest two savings accounts. The emergency fund should be used only when earnings are not sufficient to tide over a particularly hard place, only when some unavoidable expense comes up that can not otherwise be met. If a man thinks he can save $lO a month, let hfm put twenty per cent of it aside for the emergency fund and the balance in the per manent reserve fund. “If he is working on a long-dis tance plan xve can afford to be pa tient and let the txvo accounts grow slowly. Note how his accounts will stand in the even years up to the tenth, without counting interest: Emergency Reserve Years. Fund. Fund. 2 $ 18.00 $192.00 4 : 96.00 384.00 6 144.00 576.00 8 192.00 768.00 10 240.00 960.01) "This two-fold saving account has many excellent f -atures about -j- Your Father :: By WILLIAM F. KIRK. f X T ES. college boy, 1 know you're bright; J- You've studied Horace through anil through. That's why you stay up late at night And strive to-be a Roman, too. But here s a thing to bear in mind When you are telling all you know: You're just a puppy, small and blind. "The old man" knew it years ago. "'i tie old man * lets you have your way And chuckles when yon ‘’put on airs.” lb’ lets you say your little say And lets you show your little wares. But here's a thing he never tells Because he fears that h" might hore yon. Ten hard y.ai's lienee, you'll have some sense. “Ilit- old man ' knew it long before you. [■ —t" i' ■ - /iiy 1 jF-' I Wi i- • -- —a Bv THOMAS TAPPER. ■ it. ‘ Even the small sum of S4B which he will have in two years may help him over a hard place and prevent his drawing against his reserve of $192 in the same year. This protects the interest of his reserve fund, and it keeps growing steadily without interruption for his old age. "I would advise the man who saves on this plan to limit the TOTAL amount of his emergency fund to one-fourth of his total an nual expenses on the lowest basis he can figure them. That is, if his expenses are $450, his emergency fund should be about slls. This amount represents three months’ expenses, and xvith this insurance in hand he can readily tide over a break. “Again, if some day he actually must have more money than his emergency fund amounts to he can arrange to borrow against the re serve fund without actually draw ing his money from deposit. This will keep his interest account ac tive on the entire amount, and he should repay the loan as additi- nal expense, mak'ng any saerifh > he can. except ceasing to save ths monthlv amount he has decided on. "Now. then,” he concluded, "tell them txvo other facts: "First, this sounds easy and rea sonable. but it is really very diffi cult, for it requires sticking to a definite purpose for a long time. It is only the exceptional person who can do that. "Second, the plan works relative ly just as favorably for the man who saves one dollar a week as lor him who saves a thousand dollars a year. The value of the scheme lies in the continuous, unbroken ef fort: not in the amount of savings involved. "1 should look for greater success in the "nd on the part of the poor man who saves a little regularly thin of the man better off who saves larger sums only when the notion seizes him. “The one thing that makes mon ey grow is time. To get more t a dollar out of a savings bank you must h ave your dollar alone, and and let time work on it. "So \ou see that successful sav ing. even in small amounts, depends less on a man’s money than it does on his character.”