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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 stale 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 he expected to thicken as the cam
paign draws to a close. For the roqrhaek rage is a disease that
afflicts imaginative people with sporadic virulence onl\ 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 felt 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 arc
invested with the character that they specially abhor. And it
is only in the frenzy of a presidential campaign that anybody
could have thought out so fantastic a skit as the picturing of
Woodrow Wilson in the role of intellectual snob.
Wilson's fight for the democrat ization of Princeton I'niver
sity belongs to the history of education in this generation. His
career as a teacher is as significant and memorable as that of
Arnold of Rugby. Il did not run so smoothly as Arnold’s career
—because Wilson declared unceasing war upon a bristling host
of mental 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
it mostly undisturbed.
Governor Wilson is precisely the one most fit man in the
country to lead the nation-wide tight 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.
j ——
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 his life. Theodore Roosevelt really stood in the
very shadow of death, face to face with that eternity, which as an
old-fashioned Presbyterian lie 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. 1 am not thinking of my own success. I
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.
Rut no man who heard these words dr 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 splendidlv
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 tiiat 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. Ami 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, and
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 to the amusement of every
one.
The evil is growing greater, instead of less, and it is high time
for popular disapproval of lhe 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 sal ety at sea. let ns lake heed>of an innoval ion recent
ly adopted by a Japanese steamship company .
—o each ticket sold by this line there is attached a coupon which
represents a seal 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 case of an accident perfect order would inevitably prevail.
Every passenger would know just what lifeboat to go to ami mst
what seat in that lifeboat Io occupy.
Could any device he simpler or more effective in the saving of
life at u time of great excitement /
The Atlanta Georgian
A i\/T on o rrcu-in kaT I nc-nrf o l/,e Strange Museum and Laboratory That
GllVienagene OI insects a French Naturalist Has Established
SV < ilessly destructive titan the hosts
of Attila," declares AL Labitte.
| "They come in the winter time.
• through pipes and underground
I way.-, unit in the morning I may
\/N. ' find my collection" ravaged, and my
\ \ I 't'ar little betes (Engl’sh "beasts")
\ \ destroyed or driv'-n away and tiieir
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IHE ROLLING BEETLES AT WORK *****' / /
AND BELOW A SCORPION f h**'
taking a walk.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS. "
ONE of the newest and oddest
thing- that Paris contains is
the "insect.l i ini" of AL Al
phnnse Labitte. in the Rae de Buf
fon. Il is ,1 veritable menagerie of
living in- <1- Al l.aliitu-. .wishing
to study insects amid surroundings
iiattunl to them, and yet covered
with a roof and capable of being
kept lelatively warm and eoni
fo table, has introduced into his
entomological laboratory an ex
t aordinary collection of beetles,
bugs, spiders, scot pions and other
similar creatures, which he calls
his petisonnalres (boarders). They
have-been brought from various
lands and appear th- thrive and en
joy themselves amid their new sur
roundings. As far as possible, Al.
Labitte gives them the kind of
dwellings and the sort of food to
which they are naturally accus
tomed. There one ntay see the
sacred searabcus beetle of Egypt
taking his promenades as uncon
cernedly as if he were on the banks
of the Nile; or the pill-rolling”
beetle laboriously rolling its food
in a ball of earth larger than the
insect itself before transporting it
tp its nest; or the huge "stag-bee
tles” hunting around for their prey,
or’a variety of gorgeous cuitassed
insects marching about like knights
in glittering armor.
Exciting Battles.
Al. Labitte says tha{ the most ex
citing battles occasionally take
place among his little "boarde.t s.”
and that some pf them are fiercer
. than tigers! They arrange their
dens, make their paths, construct
their habitations, cate for their
progeny, and. in shot I. behave in
all respects as if they were amid
their natural surroundings and in
theii" n»tt (*untry.
Such an exhibition is manifestly
far more interesting and instruc
tive than any collection of dead in
sects pinned on cards.
But AL Labitte has his troubles.
For lack of money he been
compelled tq place his menagerie tn .
FOOD POISONING
By ELBERT HFBBARD.
Copyright, 1912, International News Service.
\tHRY few deaths are natural.
/ Men die because a part gives
out. and. unlike an Oliver plow
or a McCormick reaper, yon can't
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 the daytime. wak< fulness at
night, all mean food poisoning. Re
sort to drugs for relief, continue to
gulp, guzzle and bolt, turning to
the doctor now and then in time
of trouble, and the water supply
gets infected by tll< sewerage. and
the doctors vail it nervous prostra
tion. Bright's disease, inflammatory
i heuniatisui. st neuritis, and the
Utalei (akerXnegins to take a per
sonal inlyesl_ in you.
We all realize the dangers from
strong drink, but strong meal that
sets up its ferment is quite as' bad
as th' product of the grain that is
fermented tirst and swallowed aft
erward.
The craving for stimulants is a
disease, and never goes with diete
tic righteousness. Crime follows
mal-nutrition, as does night the
day. Irritability, stupidity, touch
iness. are sonn of the :• -lilts of
food poisoning. The vtiinlnul is u.
sick man.
moxday. October 21. 1912.
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A r? v S AW I
41'%a-'VvL . * ■< aft * •’
M. LABITTE FEEDING HIS BOARDERS.
underground, chambers, which can •
not be giur ded as carefully as. he
would wish. He has to fight against
inv.aders who destroy his insects,
ravage, their habitations and de
vour their food. < uriously enough,
one of the most interesting and in
telligent of all ins* i ts, the ants, in
. stead: of forming a fascinating ex
hibit in the collection, have to be
excluded and fought against. AL
Labitte finds that many of his in
sect- thrive on pain d'epiees, a kind
of spiced gingerbread, but the ants
make their way into tile place, eat
the gingei bread, and poison what
oinains w ith fortniq m id, so that it
often proves fatal to lhe "board
ers.”
And then the rats! "More mer- .
Twenty-live 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 being located just beneath
the heart, fermentation causes pres
sure on the heart, and this starts
palpitation and irregularity of
heart beat: and probably in time
may set up a regular heart dis
ease.
All diseases of the liver have
tludi rise in imperfect digestion,
t ivei taxed kidneys, with diabetes
and Bright's disease, follow like
causes. Catarrh, hay lever, 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 cillehes those who lack
resisting power, or resiliency. Keep
your bodily higilth up to a high av
erage and ym| are proof against
any mail volt nt germ that may come
along.
Health means that the friendly
germs are lighting for you. and dis
ease means that the germs of dis
solution and death are in tin- ma
jority.
Chemicals that set up tin explo
sion in the internal economy were
discovered by Hippocrates 500 years
before Christ. Il was looked upon,
ami has beetr all down the centu
ries, as a wonderful thing that you
itriio u'ZMnui_no,
habitations laid waste. The rats
actually devour some of the bee
tles. and I find their broken wing
eovers 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 Al. Labitte’s experiment, and
has 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
Palis for those who find other
things to interest them besides the
doings of men 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
lias 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
quit k action arc 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
be a victim of the drink habit. And.
in fact, it is very' much like it. save
that its symptoms tire somewhat
veiled, but it is just as deadly in
its career.
Dr. J. II Tilden, one of the great
model Ils, says that in all of his ca
reer he has never known a case of
appendicitis excepting with indi
viduals who w ere addicted to the
drug habit. Appendicitis follows
torpidity, and is the natural result
of impaction, starting inflammation
in a small but very useful organ.
Tlte vermiform appendix becomes
fevered, then inflamed, and fash
ionable surgery—not being able to
cure the complaint—simply cuts the
organ out.
Every individual should discover
for himself the foods that agree
with him and stick to them He
w ill also properly discover the foods
that disagree with him. and these
he should absolutely forego.
THE HOME PAPER
Thomas Tapper
Writes on
Working for
the Boss
t
Whether You Are
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.
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:
W hether you work for vourself or
for somebody else, yon 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. 'fact and good manners in
dealing with others.
8. A presentable
9. Capacity to speak English well
when addressing other people.
10. A lot of good habits —ifnd no
bad ones.
These are simple things, as we
have said’, but 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? >
By keeping 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 Nm. He will prob
ably never ask you if you over-eat
or drink bad drinks or fail to take
a bath every day. But he will
know in a flash when you are not
making good on these.
What Do Birds,Think 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 has. 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 getUle breezes that the merest
titmouse would laugh at! 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 all
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.
Eor many miles in all directions
Ground the great aerodromes in
Eranee, whole ascents are contin
ually being made, am! monoplanes
ami biplanes are darling through
the air at all elevations, with the
speed of express trains, complaints
have been made that the game
birds were being driven from pre
serves which they had populated
for generations. After the coming
of the aviators the chasst urs
(hunters), out for their annual
shooting in ‘their uniforms of
sportsmen—for in Europe every
occupation has its distinctive uni
form. ami you ran not shoot a
woodcock in ordinary clothes
found themselves going home with
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Bv THOMAS TAPPER.
> And then, the first thing you
know you are reading WANT APS
again.
Take Interest in the work, for
example:
Any job that is worth your tlm«
is worth every minute of it.
No job. worth while, has any
“watching the clock” in it.
Most jobs look simple on the sur
face. But trfe success element of a
job is under the surface. Even the
Boss does not know how far under
it is. So it ijs your business to
dig it up.
A boy. who went into a factory to
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 the
shelves so that she could reach out
and get it with the least loss of
time.
What was the result?
She used fewer motions. Hence,
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 customeV was served
more quickly. And, finally, more
customers could be served in an
hour. Hence, more business could
be done.
These are some of the simpior
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 more
valuable you become yourself and
to him.
The difference between a skilled
worker and an unskilled one is
called the THINKING DIITER
ENCE.
When you get working on that
basis—the basis of the THINKING
DIFFERENCES—you never med
worry again about the future. You
have become efficient, and no effi
• cient worker is ever discharged.
empty' game bags. The birds, they
alleged, abandoned f-he coun
try, frightened off by the aero
planes. The sporting papers wen*
full of it for a year or so, and the
discussion in some cases became
exceedingly warm. Some demand
ed that no aerodromes should he
permitted anywhere in the neigh
borhood of the game fields. Their
opponents responded that navigat
ing the air was more respectable
than slaughtering birds.
But now It appears that the birds
are coming back. This year the'-
have been found in numbers satis
factory to the sportsmen even in
close neighborhood to some of the
greatest aviation centers. They
have, apparently, got over their
fright. They have discovered that
the aeroplanes are not the all-de
vouring flying dragons that tlmy t
tirst took them for. A very etirioto
story about this Is quoted on
authority of The Journal I-Eleveiir.
"At first," says this journal. •"
pattridges and Woodcock prudentl'
emigrated from lhe vicinity of
monoplanes and biplane' which
they evidently took for foimid.il>‘-
birds of prey. But later lite pm
tridges (and the fact has been \
lied) sent scouts to lhe r«-radio-m",
and these envoy s, after inspect ci:,
perfectly comprehended that
huge birds of the aviators wet,
nocent of all harm.”
Similar reports of the returi
the frightened birds come from
rious parts of Eyancc. It is th-'
story of horses aid auloni""
over again. Evidently anima - ■■■
reason from experience as will 1 ■
men.