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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, ISIS. Subscription Price —Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mall, $5.00 a year. Payable in advance. WANTED: A Free Ballot, Not a Pink One Tin 1 state Democratic executive committee is goinp far out of its way in undertaking to say what sort of ballot shall be cast for Wilson and Marshall electors in the November presidential election, and that it shall be of a, different color from the ballots cast for the other electors. |1 is one thing for the committee, in exercising its guar dianship over the affairs of the Democratic party in Georgia, to set up rules and regulations for primary elections, but it is as suming a good deal when it attempts to dictate at regular na tional elections. Putting aside all partisanship and factional feeling, and dis regarding the question of voters bolting primaries, the people of this stat- have severally the right TO VOTE AS THEY PLEASE -and it is highly unbecoming in a Democratic committee to threaten them with political excommunication if they do not cast their ballots in a regular election in such away that they may lie checked up subsequently and located exactly in the mat ter of their choice. Regardless of who wins, the people demand a “FREE BAL LOT AND A FAIR COUNT.” That is a Democratic slogan as old as the hills, and it never has been found wanting! The state committee should recede from its foolish pink bal lot proposition. It is both impertinent and unwise to undertake an innovation at once so dangerous and so absurd. Woodrow Wilson himself repeatedly has emphasized the ab solute patriotic necessity of freedom of thought in the matter of polities. He would reject the pink ballot suggestion immediately. It is contrary to the letter and the spirit of many high-mind ed public statements he has made upon the subject of a fair, frank, honest and unterrified ballot! Wilson and Marshall will carry Georgia handsomely. Let the victory be one free from a possible flareback. and far removed from questionable method. Announcement for Thanks- giving Quietly and without ostentation for political effect, the presi dent of the United States, with the help of the department of agri culture. makes an announcement of tremendous interest to all the people of the country. I tie supply of foodstuffs is meeting the demand in the year's crops, and high prices have reached their height and are now sub siding everywhere. The wheat crop is 100,000.000 bushels larger than last year, and high-grade Hour has already fallen HO cents a barrel. The saving in Hour to consumers is estimated at SIOB.- 000,000. The unprecedented corn crop reaches 3,000,000,000 bush els. Also the hay crop is enormous. The falling prices will save consumers some $94,000,000 in po tatoes. and on the nine great crops of the country—corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye. buckwheat, potatoes, flaxseed and hay—the prices now indicate a saving of $500,000,000 to the people. This announcement is really good enough for a Thanksgiving proclamation, but the president, who is bearing himself everywhere with a dignity worthy of his office, gives it out without delay. Another Foolish Bryan Idea Mr. Bryab. assuming his usual dictatorial tone in polities, takes occasion in advance of November to say: ■Governor Wilson is pledged by his platform to a single term.’ Let us see about that. Mr. Bryan is responsible for the plat form. Likewise he was permitted to rule the program so as to re verse ihe usual order of Democratic conventions, which always adopt the platform first. Bryan, for his own reasons, insisted that the candidate should be elected first and the platform made after ward. * And so, on the eighth day of an exhausted convention, the Bryan-made platform containing the Bryan declaration for a single presidential term was read to a listless, sleepy audience eager to get away, and adopted, of course. Twenty-four hours after the convention adjourned Governor \\ ilson, at Seagirl. N. J., talking to the newspaper men, remarked: “AND NOW. BOYS, YOU MUST EXCUSE ME. I HAVEN’T HAD TIME TO READ THE PLATFORM YET.” And in the first speech of the campaign—or the first but one— Governor Wilson very wisely and very significantly remarked: “A PLATFORM IS NOT A PROGRAM.” Os course, no such unwise policy as the single presidential term would have been adopted by a wide-awake Democratic convention in its earlier and more deliberate considerations. Os course, no intelligent American commonwealth, upon its sub mission. would vote for this foolish amendment, which Washington rejected and which Jefferson strongly condemned. As Mr. Hearst declared in his review of this plank of the Bal timore platform : “A SINGLE TERM IS TOO SHORT FOR A GOOD PRESI DENT AND TOO LONG FOR A BAD ONE!” Suppose that Bryan's wild dream of a fourth nomination for himself had been realized. It is more than probable, that there would have been one omission from that platform so carefully post poned! Which one? Whatever Bryan's motive in projecting this fatuous idea here and by all the Bryan precedents it must have been selfish—neither Governor Wilson nor the people are likely to pay anv attention k to it The Atlanta Georgian © An English Hop Picker on Stilts, © S A'V- ’ V- \ , 'Fl'/ Av, ~ ip \ y X IgMB : IS it . XtJH »I/K- •/ r I llaOsssWk Hll WIRWiIMftS mill- -<<v JS . Z if I '.''. - J It* t XJa ■M j ''»>c \ ... J . J EQUAL TO HALF A DOZEN MEN. A STILT WALKER STRINGING IN A KENTISH HOP FIELD. As a general rule the stringing is done by men on the tops of high steps. Ity is claimed that a stilt walker can do the work of six such. Ihe feet ati strapped into special overshoes fixed to rests; the belt at the top is strap ped around the wais: Working for the Boss Wages— By Thomas Tapper WAGES are the flowers you pick in the garden of indus try;- You see. it's this wav If you want a guidon you dig and delve: then you turn the soil with your hands. You add fertil izer and care, a little loam and a good deal of backache, and then you drop the seeds in. But before you drop the seeds, you sort of plan the whole thing. You see it in the mind as you hope It is going to be* The pansies here, the asters over there, and so on. Then You Get a Garden. Then you pull weeds for a while, and water the garden. Then you transplant the seedlings, and pull more weeds and do lots more wa tering. And so on. If you keep at it every day until a backache is a regular thing—why, then you get a garden with some flowers. IT. Now, about the wages. All that preliminary garden work is, in the case of wages, getting ready for the job; learning things, doing things, working up to things. Finally, being entrusted with something to do, by somebody else, for a little of his money. By and by you begin to think the wages are not enough. Tam worth more. The Boss isn’t treating me right. And so on. Well, now. let’s wander into the garden again. How are we going to get a lot more flowers than we have? By investing in a lot more back ache. A job worth while is a garden that can be enlarged indefinitely. If there seem to be four retaining walls around the job you have, and you are dissatisfied, study the RIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1912. height of the wall. It may be pos sible to get over it. A man at work has every right in the world to more pay—if there is more in him than the job is call ing-out. People keep on arguing that IBr Kass# ” I fw z ■ z : THOMAS TAPPER. Wages have not increased with the Cost of Living. There’s Johnny Ma son, been at work for twenty years, at practically the same salary. Now. he has a family of four to support, and the cost of everything is in creasing. I can see that. Costs increase and families increase—and wages do not increase as fast. But what I am most interested in is this. Has Johnny Mason been increas ing? Ic his value as a worker in creasing through a steady push on his part to make a bigger and more efficient man of himself? J still have the notion that there V are plenty of chances, and ever-in creasing wages for any Johnny Ma son in the world who will never let up on increasing his working ca pacity. But 1 don’t see much in the way of better times for the Johnny Ma sons who were as useful and effi cient twenty years ago as now, and no more now than twenty years ago. 111. In this problem of Working for the Boss there is one point we are forever forgetting: A man is his own Boss, whoever he works for. If there is more in him than there is in the job, he must take the next train Forward as soon as he has the fare. For this purpose a little cash in hand to pay the expenses of the move is indispensable. Here is the first and logical purpose of Thrift and Saving. Get something ahead so as to command your own freedom when the move must be made. A Boss is apt to have a fair knowledge of relative values, if he is a decent kind of a Boss. How He’ll Figure. He is apt to figure it out like this: So much capacity, so much pay. Now, answer this: If the Boss is a little slow to raise the pay. should a man take revenge on him by not raising his own capacity? If a man has Skill for Sale, he must keep on improving it on ac count of the competition. And when the habit of Improving ekill is fixed and reliable, lie will then find a market where his goods are in demand. That market will be right here In tile stores THE HOME PAPER Ella Wheeler Wilcox Writes on Women Who Have Erred They Should Forget the Past, She Says, by Practicing Phi lanthropy and Benevolence. Written For The Atlanta Georgian By Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copyright, 1912, by Amerlcan-Journal-Examiner Y"T T HAT,” asks a young V W woman of 25, “is. the future of a girl of my age who has allowed her affection for a man, and her belief In him, to lead her away from the path of prudence and purity, and who now finds the man about to marry an other girl? “Can the one who is abandoned and deserted hope for any happi ness or success in life? "Can she hope to be forgiven ’ sufficiently to ever take her place again among good men and wom en ? “Can she do as the man is doing, marry another without telling of the error?” It is the old, old story and the old, old problem. Yet, not quite so much of a prob lem as in olden times. The two standards of morals are less marked than they were even a score of years ago. There are more avenues open for a woman to find employment, occupation and growth than there used to be, and there is a broader sentiment prevalent in the world regarding the woman who has erred, and who earnestly strives to get back into the right paths. Work and Study. Such a woman (who has no un fortunate evidence of her mistake to confront her hourly) should en deavor to occupy her mind as whol ly as possible with w’Ork, study, be nevolent and philanthropic duties and efforts at self-development and forgetfulness of the past. She should think of those things 1 which build and construct the mor al nature, and obliterate to such a degree as is possible unhappy and depressing memories. Nature, as well as society, hijs made its different laws for men and women in matters of morals. A man easily forgets his lapses from virtue; they slip away, per haps no farther than the subcon scious mind, but far enough to give him a very comfortable feeling and to allow him to accept all favors from good women with no sense of a troubled conscience. Even the favor of a good girl’s love and the bestow’al of her hand and heart he takes without a qualm. Possibly this is because he has been educated from time immemo rial to think he has a right to do as he pleases, find because he knows women have been educated to, ac cept his misdeeds as trivial faults, and to forgive them before he asks :: Bacon and Eggs :: By WEX JONES. "Colonel Roosevelt had bacon and eggs for breakfast.” —News Item LET the French with an omelette start off the day, It’s all right for the people who breakfast that way; Let the Scotch tumble out of their beds in the heather To breakfast on bagpipes and oatmeal together; But give us the dish an American begs, A steaming platter of bticon and eggs. Bacon and eggs, bacon and eggs, It puts brains in the cranium and brawn in the legs. Give wheatine to faddists to gnaw on and munch, And nuts to raw fooders to mumble and crunch, And let the dyspeptic despairingly peel An orange to make his matutinal meal; But the healthy American assuredly begs For his breakfast a platter of bacon and eggs. Bacon and eggs, bacon and eggs, It builds up a man from noodle to legs. Take Teddy—don’t tell us he’s ailing or sick; If he is, he’ll get over it pretty blame quick. Is it toast that he calls for and a pot of weak tea? Not much—that’s for invalids, not such as he. No; he knows what’ll put him right back on his legs, And that’s a good breakfast of bacon and eggs. Bacon and eggs, bacon and eggs. \on bet, that ’s the breakfast a healthy man begs. krW' * W Ki A • for forgiveness. Woman mean while does not forget her mistakes. At least her one mistake. A wom an excuses herself for every other fault but the one. She ignores her own violent temper, her tendency to talk scandal and injure others by her envious speech, her sins of ex travagance and disorder, iter lack of loyalty, and her selfishness in the small things which make daily Hv. ing agreeable or otherwise, ah these faults she denies or forgets. But she never forgets her having ctTed in overstepping the mark where prudence ends and indiscre tion begins. The Feminine Tendency. Therefore, it is difficult to prom ise any woman real happiness after a misstep because of this feminine tendency to dwell on the errors of the past. So far as keeping her secret from the man she may marry, she must argue that out according to her own dictates of conscience. She may argue that her past belongs to her self; that she is better than any man in her conduct: that she has not erred in any degree as the mar has erred; that she does not a< him for a detailed story of his pas and that he has no right to ask het But the old laws of the world wil confront her possibly some day. story may come to her ears Ing the past of iter husband. Si will turn a deaf ear or make ligli of it. Even if she questions hin and he confesses it is true, sht will soon ignore it. But if the hits band hears a similar story regas:- ing her past, and if he question: her, he will not make light of it. Liberal in Their Views. All this she must take into con sfderation before she decides upm her course of action. There are, every year, more ant more men who marry girls with t past and who know it and con done it. Men are growing more liberal; they are realizing that women are only human like themselves; anil they' are beginning to understand that one error, caused by mis placed affection and lack of knowl edge of the laws of life, and lack of the right instruction from a sen sible mother, does not mean ti a girl is bad or wicked or unw:- thy of a man’s trust and confidence. Let this unhappy young woman live so exemplary a life that sonie such man may choose her for a • wife in days to come.