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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, 1878. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mail, $5.00 a year. Parable in advance. ' Criminals Are Al ways Stupid as Well as Criminal r r 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 bold 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 coining to ! Where are we drifting? What hope is there for honest people, when thieves can have motor boats and automobiles? The next thing we know they will he 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 be 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 lot the combination of criminals and modern inventions disturb you. Criminals are nearly always dull-minded. They have their little pleasures while they lasi 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 arc 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 nearly 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 eaught 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 be made, by death, THE PRESENT. The criminal does 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. I herefore, 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 tin* 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. The 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, but in the end he goes to the wall, like the thief in the motor boat or the flying ma chine or the yacht. Civilization and society are safe because INTELLIGENCE IS HONEST Men that are really honest are honest because their pride, their determination to have their own approval, keeps them honest. Character is honest. Education devolops character—in that fact lie the hope and comfort of civilization. Sunday Concerts Up to the People The fate of the free Sunday concerts at the Auditorium is up to the people. President Peel, of the Music Festival Association, says concerts will be continued as long as there's money in the treasury to pay for them. When the fund is exhausted the con certs will come to an eml. There seems but one way to keep them going, and that is for the lovers of good mqsie in At lanta to help pay the expenses of the converts. No admission fees have been charged to these concerts. They have been free to all who eared 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. Certainly there art' enough music lovers in Atlanta to make the concerts a suc cess. If every one who attends would contribute a nickel, dime, quarter or such sum as he or she feels able to give, it is certain the concerts could be held even Sunday for an indefinite period The weekly expense of these concerts is about $l5O, That they have not I heard with ndiffrrence is demonstrated in the fact that they have Im en well attended and the attendance i> increasing. It is believed that with the public’s better under standing of the situation, the response will be .sufficient to in . bure the success ui these Sunday cunccrtt>. The Atlanta Georgian THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1912. MEN AND ANIMALS X WHAT DO THE LOWER ANIMALS THINK OF US AND OUR WAY OF TREATING THEM? -I r- I / J J / Srf — — - - • x fjWt l ; Wr // \ X' fl®// Ju "if //. Jww 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 French representative resi dent. at Prey-Veng, in Cambodia, playing with her pet elephant, "Tamtap,” 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 pow<*r and the weakness of his little mistress, but he obeys even a motion of her linger. Perhaps lie finds pleasure in obeying her when he knows well that lie 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, tb< re are some cells that tingle with humor over the funny situation In which he chooses t o 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 in those of men. There is no nobility in any kind of eat, 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 could 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- :: I low to Treat a Gossip :: By WINIFRED BLACK. X "X T HA r would I do if some one VV l thought was my friend went and told things I hud 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 was through that no one would ever recognize them? What would I do? \\ ell. my dear correspondent, I wouldn't do a thing but think what a goose I'd been to tell anybody's secrets to anybody efee and expect them to stay secrets. I Wouldn't Quarrel. Quarrel with the oni who told? Not I. l.ife is too short to quarrel too short to hate, too short to “get even.'' Id just see as little of that per fidious person as 1 possibly could, and some day I'd thank her for teaching me a lesson, the lesson every 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 why you wear curls that ar.' not your own. or did you really tell the perfidious one that you and your husband had a quarrel? W 11. what of If |io you sup po-, you and your husband ate the only ones who • ver quarto)? In ar lm it you could only hear th. disput. * that go on under the i 'of of your dear, t friend, who 1 -/J .? .1 11-L. L i <■ \ jiPSb Little Migny Belan and her pet Cambodian Panther. pression and injustice, the horse, 'i the elephant, the dog, bows to his 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 he 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 tlie 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 eat than of the elephant or the horse in us. Strike a eat 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, we are like gods to the lower animals, and the noblest •c of them exhibit an attitude toward i 4* Is 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 — in 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? 1 haven’t one, not one on earth, and don't want any, thank you. I’m like a friend of mtm. who is a good woman with 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 was good for him. Every time a friend called any where near George's hour to come home my friend almost went into spasms. She’d sit and watch the window, poor thing mid turn white at the sound of a leaf dropping on the porch, till one day the ash man dropped in so his money, and. be ing a friendly and not al all formal ash limn, who had carted for my ft lend ever since he had hit tile 5 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, which 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- 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. ■ 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 hall, 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 and his wife look in at my door all you w ant to. No. lam not proud of the skeleton that rattles his bones there in the closet, but I'm not ashamed of him. either. 1 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 ' se cret teller?" Keep away from her on general principles: site's a gos sip. anti therefore to be avoided as the plague is avoided. Quarrel with her, try to make her "take it all back." make a great row an.! t um o-,... nothing " Never in the wide, wide world A<t just as you would if you saw a red ant crawling in the luncheon basket at a picnic. Take a stick and brush lh< ant away ami go on eating your luncheon, taking good care to keep away from the ant hill the lest of tin afternoon That's all THE HOME PAPER Thomas Tanner Writes on How to Build a Fortune The Secret of It—lt’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. IT. In talking this over with 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: "1.4 n Emergency I'und. “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 CEASES. "Hence I 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 him 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 we can afford to be pa tient and let the two accounts grow slowlj-. Note how his accounts will stand in the even years up to the tenth, without counting interest: Emergency Reserve Years. Fund. Fund. 2 $ 48.00 $192.00 4 96.00 384.00 6 144.00 576.00 8 192.00 768.00 10 240.00 960.00 "This two-fold saving account has many excellent features about ■ | “ Your Father :: By WILLIAM F. KIRK. XTES, college hoy. I know you’re bright: 1 You've studied Horace through and 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 biinc. “The old man” knew it years ago. “ I he old man” lets you have your way Ami chuckles when you “put on airs.” He lets yon 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 bore you. Ten hard years hence, you’ll have some sense. “The old man” knew it long before you. h ; ; ’Wf Fb A' - A/ ?Sr * wiaalSMl By THOMAS TAPPER. f 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 with 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 i< tlve on the entire amount, and he should repay the loan as additional expense, making any sacrifice he can. except ceasing to save the monthly amount he has decided on "Now, then,” he concluded, “tell them two 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 for him who saves a thousand dollar a year. The value of the scheme lies in the continuous, unbroken ef fort; not in the amount of savings involved. “I should look for greater success in the end on the part of the poor man who saves a little regularly than of the man better off who saves larger sums only when tae notion seizes him. “The one tiling that makes mon ey grow is time. To get more than a dollar out of a savings bank you must leave your dollar alone, and and let time work on it. “So you see that successful sav ing. even in small amounts, depenc- ( less on a man’s money than it d >• on his character.”