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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. 187 J fe>««eripUon Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mail. $5 00 a year. Payable in advance. 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 \\ W <\\ 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. I J f I 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 1 y' A f®?;' I I ■ Jw 1 w fzLJI &- F-rflgy *"%■■->- ’nA ' mill 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.