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Governor Wilson’s Fight For
Educational Freedom
The ingenious gentleman in Los Angeles who started the story
that Governor Wilson wants poor people to be kept in a state of
contented illiteracy should enter into congenial correspondence
with that other gentleman in Philadelphia who made the sur
prising announcement that the governor's lady is a spendthrift
shopper—burning scads of money upon Paris gowns.
These tales belong to the gayeties of politics. Similar in
ventions and surprises may be expected to thicken as tne cam
paign draws to a close. For the roorback rage is a disease that,
afflicts imaginative people with sporadic virulence only on the
eve of election day.
The humor of the suggestion that the former president of
Princeton is aristocratic and exclusive in his educational ideas
will be best appreciated by those who have fell the damaging
thrust of his sword-arm in his long battle for academic democ
racy.
It is only in real life, and not in story books that people are
invested with the character that they specially abhor. And it
is only in the frenzy of a presidential campaign that anybod.i
could have thought out so fantastic a skil as the picturing of
Woodrow Wilson in the role of intellectual snob.
Wilson’s fight for the democratization of Princeton ('Diver
sity belongs to the history of education in this generation. His
career as h teacher is as significant ami memorable as that of
Arnold of Rugby. It did not run so smoothly as Arnold’s career'
—because Wilson declared unceasing war upon a bristling host
of menial macaronis and academic fops who shot from the am
bush of vested interests.
Arnold was prudent enough to take the encrusted scholastic
snobbery of the English public school as he found it and leave
t mostly undisturbed.
Governor Wilson is precisely the one most fit man in the
country to lead the nation-wide fight for a new education, free
from pedantory and arbitrary routine and free from favoritism
and privilege.
For Mr. Wilson knows, if any man in America knows, that
it is wholly impossible that there should be any such thing as
a democratic government without a democratic education.
Roosevelt Brave and Sin
cere Now
Standing before the Milwaukee audience with a bullet in his
breast, holding up a manuscript an inch thick which that bullet had
pierced, and bleeding from a wound which had so nearly perforat
ed his lung and cost hiw life, Theodore Roosevelt really stood in the
very shadow of death, face to face with that eternity, which as an
old-fashioned Presbyterian he solemnly revered.
In these surroundings, physically sustained by his enormous
vitality and strength, the ex-president said :
“I tell you now with absolute truthfulness. I am not think
ing of my own life. I am not thinking of my own success. 1
am thinking only of the success of this great cause."
In the partisan stress of the campaign there have been those
who have questioned Mr. Roosevelt's sincerity and unselfishness in
the notable movement which he leads.
But no man who heard these words or reads them in remem
brance of their tragic environment can fail to believe that Theodore
Roosevelt is not only superbly brave but that he is also splendidly
sincere in his present struggle for the people.
The Republic can ill afford to lose the energy, the courage and
the directness of this remarkable man.
Dangersof the Popular Song
A recent letter to a New York paper called attention to the
coarse and vulgar ragtime songs that are growing more and more
popular in every walk of life.
A catchy tune, a suggestive phrase, an indelicate allusion,
woven together into a "popular" song can do more harm in twenty
four hours than a church mission can cure in a week. And the
worst of it is that "popular" songs of this character are growing
more and more "popular." They are being sung everywhere. Chil
dren are picking up the tunes and humming the choruses, ami
adults, calloused to such melodies, are seeking those that are more
and more risque. At the summer resorts the young girls sing them
with innocent looking faces and mothers sit by and applaud. Young
men now hum them in mixed company Io the amqsement of every
one.
The evil is growing greater, instead of less, and it is high time
for popular disapproval of the business. And if the people them
selves do not take the matter in hand and cure it. then it would be
wiser to censor all songs, in the same manner that our moving pic
tures are censored.
A Good Hint From Japan
To insure safety ai sea. let us take heed of all innovation recent
ly adopted by u Japanese steamship company.
To each ticket sold by this line there is attached a cmip.m which
represents a scat in a lifeboat. The purchaser is requested when
first going aboard to locate his lifeboat and to make a note of the
position of the seat
In ease of an accident perfect order would inevitably prevail.
Every passenger would know just what lifeboat to go to and just
m hat seat in that lifeboat to occupy.
lould any device be simpler <>r mop; effective in the saving of
life at a time of great excitement '
The Atlanta Georgian
A AT on o crorin nf I noonFc? Strange Museum and Laboratory That
Ai IVI El 1 v-1 Iv O1 llloWLo a pf,>}ich Naturalist Has Established
~~~ "' *»* cilessly destructive than the hosts
V X I of Attila,” declares M l.abitte.
I ' They come in the winter time,
Sys » through pipes and underground
/’.s' '■'s'N. ■ 1 ways. ami in the morning I may
/ / ■ ■■* ■■£ \x. find collection ravaged, and my
// [ ;♦» . C \\ •••.< little lutes (English "bi-.ists’T
/J it *'< \ \ <!’strove,; nr drivel -.ay ami their
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v J if- .*■ ry JmJ?* >•
THE ROLLING BEETLES AT WORK WSS X /
AND BELOV/ A SCORPION- f !
TAKING A WALK. ! J
Py GARRETT P. SERVISS. '
ONE nt’ the newest and oddest
thing- that Paris contains is
the "in* a la. ium" i>f M. Al
plion.-e Labitt inlhe Rue d" Buf
fon. It is a veritable menagerie of
living inseels Labitt'-. wisiting
tn stuiix insert- amid sun nundings
natural to them, and yet covered
uitb a roof and capable of being
kept lelativelj warm and ei-m
--foi table, has introduced into his
entomological laboratory an ex
traordinary collection of beetles,
bugs, spiders, scot pions and other
similar creatures, which he tails
his pensonnaires (boarders). They
have been brought from various
lands and appear to thrive and en
joy themselves amid their now sur
roundings. As far as possible, M.
l.abitte gives them the kiinl of *
dwellings and the sort of loot! to
which they are naturally aecus
lomed. There one may see the
sacred scatjabous beetle of Egypt
taking- his promenades ns uncon
cernedly as if in- were mi ti e banks
ot fhi- Nile; or the "fill! - rolling”
beetle laboriously .'oiling i s food
in a ball of earth Itirgei than the
insi et itself before transporting it
to its nest: or tne huge “stag-bee
tles" hunting around for i-ieir prey,
or a variety of gorgeous i niiassed
insects marching about like Knights
in glittering armor.
Exciting Battles.
M. l.abitte says that I he must ex
citing battles occasionally lake
pla.ee among his little “boarders.”
and that some of them are fiercer
than tigers! They arrange their
dens, make their path-, construct
their habitations, care forth dr
progeny, and. in short, behave in
all respects as if they were amid
their natural sq: roundings and in
their own country.
Such an exhibition is manifestly
far more interesting and instruc
tive than any eolleetion of dead in
sects pinned on cards.
Byt M. Laliitte has his troubles.
For lack of money he has been
compelled to place his menagerie in .
FOOD POISONING
\tERY few deaths are natural.
f Men die because a pari gives
out. and. unlike an Oliver plow
or a McCormick reaper, you (ant
replace the part. The next best
thing, when you have a hot-box or
get short-circuited, is to scud for
the surgeon: and he cuts into you,
removes the offender, and you go
through life with one cylinder,
somewhat proud of it. mentioning
the fact to neighbors and marvel
ing that you can run at all with
one kidney and no appendix
Bad breath, flatulence, drowsi
ness in tlte daytime, wakefulness at
night, all mean food poisoning. Re
sort to drugs for relief, continue to
gulp, guzzle and bolt, turning to
tlie doctor now and then in time
of trouble, and the water supply
gels infected by the sewerage, mil
the doctors call it nervous prostra
tion. Bright's disease, inflammatory
rheumatism. 01 neuritis, and the
undertaker begins to lake a per- .
sotial int( I est in you.
We ill realize tlte duneeis from
stioiig drink, but strong meat that
sets up its ferment is quite as bad
as the product of the grain that is
fermented first and swallowed aft
erward.
The ir.ivjng for stimulants is a
disease, and nevei goe- with dlete
tii i ighteotism ss. < 'rime follows
mal-nutrition. as docs night tin
day. Irritability, stupidity, touch
in ss. are sum of the ri >uii.- of
food poisoning. The iiim'inal is a
I tick man
MONDAY. OCTOBER 21. 1912.
ON. >--W ’T-'Wr
M. LAEITTE FEEDING HIS BOARDERS.
underground chamber*, which can •
not b<; gua"ded as carefully as he
would wish. He has to fight against
invaders who destroy his insects,
ravage their habitations and de
vour their food. Curiously enough,
one of the most interesting and in
telligent of all insects, the ants, in
st'.-i.l of forming a f-..-< mating ex
hibit in the collection, have to be
excluded and fought against. M.
l.abitte finds that many oAjtis in
ert- thrive on pain d'epiees, a kind
of spiced gingerbread, but the ants
make their way into the place, eat
the gingerbread, and poison what
remains with fvj iuie acid, so that it
often proves fatal to the “board
ers.”
-• And then the rats! "More iner- .
By ELBERT HUBBARD.
Copyright. 11)12, International News Service.
Twenty-five years ago Dr. Char- •!<
cot. of Paris, said: "Ninety-five
per cent of all diseases have their
origin in the digestive tract.”
Most of the so-called heart dis
eases are stomach troubles. The '
stomach beihg located just beneath
the heart, fermentation causes pres
sure on the heart, and tin's starts
palpitation and irregularity of
heart beat: and probably in time
nun set up a regular heart dis-
All diseases of the liver have
their rise in imperfect digestion,
overtaxed kidneys, with diabetes
and Bright's disease, follow like
causes. Catarrh, hay fever, colds,
typhoid, yellow fever and smallpox
may originate from imperfect elim
ination.
Even when there are epidemics of
yellow fever, typhoid and small
pox. only a part of the population
are infected.
. Disease xalehes those who lack
resisting power, nr resiliency. Keep
your bodily health up to a high av
erage and you are proof against
any malevolent geim that may come
along. "
Health means that the friendly
germs are fighting for you. ami dis
( asc means that the germs of dis
solution and death are in the ma
jority.
Chemicals that set up an i xplo
shm in the internal economy were
discovered by Hippm rates 500 years
In fol e ( 'hrist. Il Was looked Upon,
I ink h !><■•;> ~ii dow n tie « ent u.
ties, a- a wonderful thing that you
•f habitations laid waste. The rats
actually devour some of the bee
tles. and I find their broken wing
covers scattered about. They
robbed me in that way of a superb
Algerian beetle which, with infi
nite pains and trouble. I had suc
ceeded in acclimatizing.”
But there are better days in store
for this curious menagerie. A rich
man of Paris has become interest
ed in M. I.abitte’s experiment, and
lias promised to aid him financial
ly. so that before long it is proba
ble that the enterprise will be es
tablished on a scale which will
make it one of the attractions of
Paris for those who find other
things to interest them besides the
doings of -i and women, which
are sometimes less important than
• • those of insects.
could take a drug and bring about
a certain result in a short time.
But there is one thing the world
has not known until very recent
times, and that is that'every drug
has not only a direct, but a reac
tionary effect. Action and reaction
are equal.
The use of drugs that bring about
quick action are always followed by
periods of inaction and torpor.
Then, after a time, the individual
has to take more medicine. He is
educating his body, and he is
wrongly educating it. and in course
of time he becomes a victim of the
drug habit—which is as bad as to
he a victim of the drink habit. And.
in fact, it is very much like it. save
that its symptoms are somewhat
veiled, but it is just as deadly in
its career.
Dr. .1, H Tilden, one of the great
moderns, says that in all of his ca
reer he has never known a case of
appt udiciiis excepting with indi
viduals who were addicted to the
drug h (bit. Appendicitis follows
torpidity and is the natuial result
of'im pact ion, starting inflammation
in a small but very useful organ.
The vermiform appendix becomes
fevered, then inflamed, ami fash
ionable surgery—not being able to
l itre the complaint—simply cuts the
organ out
Every individual should discover
for himself the food- (hit agree
with him and stick to them Ho
w ill also properly diseovi r the foods
•b'| di'-um.'i « with him. and these
he should absolutely forego.
Thomas
Writes on
Working for
the Boss
Whether You Ar e
Working for Your
self or for Somebody
Else, You Are Ac
tually Conducting
Your Own Business.
You Are Your Own '
Boss!
A JOB—or a position—is a great ■
thing. i
It means that you go out
into the world provided with a
chance to make good.
But the chance to make good
does not lie in the job itself. It lies
in you.
And for this reason:
Whether you work for vourself or
for somebody else, you are actually
conducting your own business. You
are your own Boss!
The principal things that go into
making a success of a job are sim
ple enough. Here they are:
1. Some knowledge by which you
can get the job to begin with.
2. More knowledge gained by ex
perience, so that you can keep the
job once you get it.
3. Health.
4. Punctuality.
5. Dependability.
6. Interest in the work.
7. Tact and good manners in
dealing with others.
8. A presentable appearance.
9. Capacity to speak English well
when addressing other people.
10. A lot of good habits —and no
bad ones. .
These are simple things, as we
have said, hut they are the gist of
the whole matter. No success is
ever won without them, and never
can be.
Why Look For One?
Now, why do you look for a job.
and take one when it comes?
To earn money.
How can you earn more money
than the sum at which you start
in ?
Bylkeeping everlastingly at every
one of the things mentioned above.
Take Health, for instance.
Health is an effect that follows a
cause. The cause is made up of
several items. Simple food, pure
water, sufficient sleep, deep breath
ing, absolute Cleanliness of the body,
a determination to be cheerful and
no 'bad habits.
Now, when the Boss hires you
he reasonably expects that you will
keep well and be able to do the
work you agree on. He will prob
ably never ask you if you over-eat
or drink bad drinks or fail to take
a bath every day. But lie wilt
know in a flash when you ate not
making good on these.
\\ hat Do Birds I hink of Aviators?
A BIRD has his own view of the
world, and heretofore it has
generally been wider than a
man's. Also, the bird hast, until
very’ recently, had his world pretty
much to himself. The occasional
balloons sent up a few hundred feet
from county fair grounds hardly
counted as invaders of kingdom of
wings—they were so awkward and
so helpless, driven hither and thith
er by gentle breezes that the merest
titmouse would laugh al! And
then, the birds had no reason to
fear them as enemies, for they
showed nothing resembling wings,
and tails, and talons drawn up
ready to snatch their prey.
But the aviators have altered till
that. The monoplane, especially,
looks so much like a gigantic bird
that one can hardly be surprised at
the statement that the native in
habitants of the air really take it
for one. and flee at the sight of it
with cries of terror and dismay.
For many miles in all directions
around the great aerodromes in
France, where ascents are contin
ually being made, and monoplanes
and biplanes art darting through
the air. at al! elevations, with tile
speed of express trains, complaints
have been made that the game
birds were being driven from pre
serves which they hud populated
for generations. After the coming
of the aviators tile chasseurs
(hunters i. out for their annual
shooting in their uniforms of
sportsmen for in Europe every
occupation has its distinctive uni
form. and yon can not -hoot a
woodcock in ordinary clothes
found themscAcs going hmm with
THE HOME PAPER
Tapper
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By THOMAS TAPPER.
• And then, the first thing ynt»
know you are reading WANT ADS
again.
Take Interest in the work, for
■ example:
Any job that is worth your time
is worth every minute of IL
No job. worth while, has any
“watching the clock” in it.
Most jobs look simple on the sur
face. But the success element of a
job is under the surface. Even the
Boss does not know how far under
tt is. So it Is your business to
dig It up.
A boy, who went into a factory fc
work, began to count the number of
motions necessary to "move things
from place to place. He found out
that too many motions were being
used. He arranged the material so
as to reduce the number. The re
sult was the output Increased and
the work paid more profit.
No Boss ever lived that will not
notice a result like that.
What a Girl Did.
A girl who worked at a ribbon
counter studied the demands of the
store's customers until she knew
just how to arrange the stock on ths
shelves so that she could reach out
and get it with the least loss of
time.
What was the result?
She used fewer motions. Henca
she did not get tired so quickly as
before. Stock called for frequently
was near at hand. Stock called
for once a week was not in the
way. The customer was served
more quickly. And. finally, more
customers could be served in an
hout. • Hence, more business could
be done.
These are some of the simpler
things that result from taking an
interest in what lies under the sur
face of the job. Nobody will ever
point them out to you. It is your
business to find them and to put
them into practice.
The better you do your work the
more valuable the whole business
becomes to the Boss, and the mon
valuable you become yourself and
to him.
The difference between a skilled
worker and an unskilled one is
called the THINKING Dll'EElt
ENCE.
When you get working on that
basis—the basis of the THINK 1 Nil
DIFEERENCE—you never need
worry again about the future. You
have become efficient, anil no effi-
• cient worker Is ever discharged.
empty game bags. The birds, they
alleged, had abandoned the coun
try, frightened off by the aero
planes, The sporting papers wet*
full of it for a year or so, and tee
discussion tn some cases became
exceedingly warm. Some demand
ed that no aerodromes should bo
permitted anywhere in the m s -
borhood of the game Holds. Th’ r
opponents responded that navlg -
ing the air was more respeeta'i'e
than slaughtering birds.
But now it appears that the bi «
are coming back. This year t’
have been found in numbers r -
factory to the sportsmen even n
close neighborhood to some of the
greatest aviation centers. Thev
have, apparently, got over ll ■ "
fright. They have discovered fl"''
the aeroplanes are not the all-de
vouring flying dragons that the' ’
first took them for. A very’ curibm
story about this is quoted on the
authority of The Journal l-Eh' l '■
"At first,” says this journal. "
partridges and woodcock prudent!"
emigrated from the vicinity of th
monoplanes and biplanes wli.■ a
they evidently took for forniid a
birds of prey. But later tin pa.
tridges land tile fact has liven '<•
lied) sept scouts to the aerodre ,n
and these envoys, after inspection,
perfectly comprehended that ID'
huge birds of the aviators were m
zqieent of all harm.'*
Similar reports of the return of
the frightened birds come from va
rious parts of France. It is
story of horses ind autotnorc
over again Evidently animals •■■
rc.isou from e. peilinen a.a well as
men.