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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 postofTlce at Atlanta, under act of March S, I*7l. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mall, *5.00 a year Payable In advance. Why an Extra Session of Congress Is Necessary The People Voted for Mr. Wilson for Action, and Now He Is Planning to Have Congress Revise the Tariff Without Delay. The Georgian has never urged upon Mr. Wilson the neces sity for an extra session because there seemed to be no doubt of his course. To have waited until the congress elected with President Wilson convenes in regular session. 54 weeks from now, would have been to postpone the inevitable tariff revision Mr. Wilson announces that he will call an extra session of congress—to convene not later than April 15—as soon as he be comes president. The session will be held for the purpose of re vising the tariff. until the spring or summer of 1914—-the year of the next general election for congress. The fate of the Harrison congress that made that mistaki with the “McKinley bill,” and the fate of the Cleveland congress with the Wilson bill, are sufficient warning against procrastination. If the people wished to “stand pat” they would have elected Mr. 'Paft. If they wished to wait for a new tariff commission to report two or three years hence, they could have adopted that course by electing Mr. Roosevelt. But they voted for Mr. Wilson and for action. They expect something to be done. Among other things, they hope for prompt, judicious and discriminating modification of the tariff in away carefully calculated to benefit all the people of the United States— employers, producers, laborers and consumers. All the active members of the present congress who took part in framing the moderate tariff bills on which the Democratic party appealed to the country one year ago—the bills which President Taft vetoed—are members of the new congress. They can revise their own work in the light of later information and in accord with newer estimates of revenue required by the government, and. a care fully revised bill should pass the house by May 1 next. The senate ivill be slower, but as a majority of the present senators voted for he bills signed by Speaker (’lark in the house last year, there is no reason to doubt that the new, more Democratic, and more progres sive senate will act with reasonable expedition. Our one copeern is not that congress will delay—we do not see how it can. Our fear is that it will neglect reciprocity, and neglect preferential duties- -both cardinal Democratic doctrines—and that it will, by foolish radicalism or old stock free, trade arguments, de lay the return of general prosperity now due. T’.e house will have a greatly increased Democratic majority. The fallacies of the Bryan men will have to be voted down just as the ways and means committee wisely rejected the exploded theo ries which Mr. Bryan quarreled with Speaker (’lark and Represen tative I nderwood for refusing to inject into the recent tariff measures. Everything will depend upon the prudent ami patriotic leader ship of Mr. Wilson. He has now the extremely difficult task of translating the warm but indefinite winged-words of eloquence into the cold, exact terms of statutes. European Tyranny Defends the l urk There would he little difficulty in settling the Turkish prob lem if it were not for the intrusion into that problem of the selfish ami sinister interests of two old tyrannies. Europe trembles today on the verge of a catastrophe that may involve the whole conti nent, simph I it lacks the moral courage and concord to set its foot upon the exorbitant claims of Austria and Russia. The indomitable allies, whose victorious arms have compassed tlu whole wretched Turkish land from the Bosphorus to the Adri atic. eonlil settle the “near-Eastern question” for all time if thev were permitted now, without interference from the great powers to take possession of Constantinople and the coveted port on the Adriatic sea which belongs to Servia by natural necessity and his toric right. But Austria says the conquerors of the Turks must keep away from the Adriatic. And Russia says they must not take possession of Constantinople. Austria draws hard to compel the Triple Alliance to back its bad caiise. And the had cause of Russia summons the aid of the Triple Entente. Thus the four great progressive nations of Europe —Germany, Italy. England and Eranee—are subpenaed to sup port the schemes of the two most reactionary nations in Europe. If the four governments that stand for enlightenment and progress could somehow get together it would be easy to dis cipline the reactionary governments and compel them" to keep their hands off. In that ease the Turk would be left without a foothold and would he driven conclusively out of Europe. I’robably we shall know this week which way the tide of European destiny is to run. We shall see whether the Turkish problem ix Io be definitely solved by the elimination of the Turk, or whether, on the contrary, the Turk is now to put a climax to his five hundred years of devastation by plunging all Europe into in extricable confusion and an abyss of war. In the latter ease, history will have to reconi the fact that an unspeakable disaster to modern civilization was due to the moral irresolution of Western Europe in face of the stubborn ness and greed of two old tyrannies. Send the Georgia Militia to Wilson’s Inauguration A fine opportunity has presented itself for the residents of Georgia to compensate the militia which has been of untold ser vice to the state, particularly in the past few months. The suggestion has been made by General Anderson. Colo nel Pomeroy. Walter P. Andrews and others to send every member of the militia, if possible, to the inauguration of Wood row Wilson. Ihe trip would be a splendid experience for the men and el national importance to the state. Ways and means will have to be provided by the public. The itsi il sounds excellent. Let us hear more of u* The Atlanta Georgian Too Late \ Drawn By HAL COFFMAN. ' ' ■ ■■ 'i iiL ii lb; I ■ AtHiAc'tibi m/i < . I / ■ i < ,i j < / H 1 !’ y i / j 1 IE I .J Jhiij !l |h i -j-p . » * w 'OSiP z IBB' i «f I / a z w f// sgww \ ' ~ • f j The sayings of Omar In, Al Halif. $ FOUR THINGS COME NOT BACK— Sped Arrow. Time Past. The Spoken Word. Neglected Opportunity. \ L_ Working For the Boss • I By THOMAS TAPPER. I. A DAY stands in the same rela tion to 70 years of life as a copper cent does to a pile of 51 flve-dollar bills. It Is a good idea to appreciate what you can do with a penny, but it makes more character to learn what to do with a heap of flve-dollar bills. Likewise it takes a great charac ter to live not only from day to day. but with the full swing of 70 years in mind, even if one does not live that long. 11. INVENTORS have always kept busy trying to make clocks that run for long periods without wind ing. Time never /stops going on. And the man who succeeds in mak ing a clock that will go without winding tor a long period will do much to teach us tiie stimple fact that Time keeps on moving. Hours, days, months and years do not end anything. They are only names for a ceaseless motion. Lots of us live after tin old hour glass fashion. If some one does not turn us over every’ 60 minutes, our sand stops moving. All of which means this: Plan for today, but let today’s plan fall in its place with the gen eral larger plan you have for years to The smaller the job the more necessary it is to have this larger plan. Don't stick to it slavishly. Make it, and keep on changing It. I know a merchant who has the opinion that not one person in a thousand knows how to manage money. "I began,” he said, "to study the management of my own money some years ago, and I have kept at it. improving the plan from time to time. Now. 1 begin to know something about it." Keep before you what the boss expects for TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19. 1912. y That is the first duty. Then— Do just a little more than lie ex pects. That is the lung plan scheme. Then turn about, in your think ing. and begin to figure out how much it all serves in pushing you forward on the big plan. The next step forward will be from where you are Almost any job will do to start with, if it is a good jumping point. It’ it is not a good jumping point, it is not a good job. A store that employs several hun dreds or thousands of people is full of possible jumps. Any one. even down around the bottom of the ladder, can practice, and some day astonish everybody by beating the world’s long-dis tance jumping record, clearing a lot of heads as he does it. 111. 'T'HI*: meuhant quoted above said [ that tew people know how to | spend money. < Just a few people know how to spend Time. ' I :: Next of Kin :: i By 0. G. RASSETTI. shadows gather ’round me, while you are in the sun; J The day is almost ended, hut yours is just begun. Irhe winds are singing to us both and the streams are singing still, ! And they fill your heart with music, hut mine they can not fill. Your home is built in sunlight, mine in another day; < Your home is close at hand, sweet friend, but mine is far away. < Your bark is in the haven where you fain would be: ( I must launch out into the deep, across the unknown sea. < You, white as dove or lily or spirit of the light, 1. stain'd and cold and glad to hide in the cold dark night. ! You. joy to many a loving heart and light to many eyes: I lonely in the knowledge earth is full of vanities. t, 'tet when your day is over, as mine is nearly done. And when your race is finish’d, as mine is almost run, You, like mt. shall cross your hands and bow your graceful head: 5 Yea. we twain shall sleep together in an equal bed. Mr. Arnold Bennett lias pointed out that in the daily gift of Time we all get the same allowance. But we all do not win the same results. Some men make a fortune in 24 hours. Others make a mess of every-* thing in that time, or less. It is a good scheme to Work to wn rd next week, and next year, and to ask what they can supply to make life more worth while twenty years hence. One hour is about four per cent of a day. If a man at twenty will devote that much time regularly to improving the mind, he will know a lot worth while, long before he thinks he needs a pension. This is one phase of the “long plan,’ and there are many others possible in a 24-hour day. Work on the job for ail you are worth. Be a keen observer. Learn something. Also — Walk erect, and breathe through * the nostrils. THE HOME PAPER Elbert Hubbard Writes on The Essence of HH|| Marriage 'K-x ill Prettiness Palls Unless It Is Backed Up by Intellect. The Merely Clever Woman Is Near- !v as Bad as the Clever Man. By ELBERT HUBBARD Copyright, 1912, by Int ernational News Service A CORRESPONDENT asks me • this: “Do brilliant men pre fer brilliant women?” First, disclaiming the gentle assumption that I am brilliant, X say, yes. The essence of marriage is com panionship, and the woman you face across the coffee urn every morning for 99 years must be both able to appreciate your jokes and to sympathize with your aspira tions. If this is not so, the man will stray, actually, or else chase the ghosts of dead hopes through the grave yard of his dreams. Prettiness palls, unless it is backed up by intellect. The mere ly clever woman is nearly as bad as the clever man. All these people who carry most of their goods in the show window are headed for jobs at the button counter. Often They Are Dull. By brilliant men is meant, of course, men who have achieved brilliant things—who can write, paint, model, orate, plan, manage,’ devise and execute. And, by the way, an executive is a man who decides quickly—and is sometimes right. Brilliant men are but ordinary men who at intervals are capable of brilliant performances. Not only are they ordinary most of the time, but often they are dull, perverse, prejudiced and absurd. However, they are sometimes right, and this is better than to be dead wrong all the time. So here is the truth: Your ordi nary man who does the brilliant things would be ordinary all the time were it not for the fact that he is inspired by a woman. Great thoughts and great deeds are the children of married minds. When you find a great man playing a big part on life's stage, you’ll find in sight, or just around the • corner, a great woman. Read his tory! A man alone is only half a man: it takes 'the two to make a whole. Ideas are born of parents. Now, life never dfd, nor can, consist in doing brilliant things ail day long. Brilliant men are bril liant only two hours a day. These brilliant moments are exceptional. Life is life to everybody. We must eat, breathe, sleep, exercise, bathe, dress and lace our shoes. We must be decent to folks, agreeable to friends, talk when we should and be silent when we ought. Work of Women’s Clubs. To be companionable—fit to live under the sarrte roof with good peo ple—consists neither in being pret ty nor clever. It all hinges on the ability to serve. No man can love a woman long if she does not help him carry the burden of life. He will support her for a few weeks, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. IT was three hundred and seven ty-nine years ago that Henry the Eighth was married to Anne Boleyn—a pretty ceremony that kicked up the dust that Is not even yet fairly settled. After having lived with his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, for more than eighteen years—how Cather ine endured him for so long is one of the unsolved mysteries of his tory—Henry began to have “scru ples” regarding the validity of the union, and, inasmuch as the scru ples would not down, he deter mined to get a divorce. In plain English, Henry became enamoured of the pretty but super ficial and light-headed Anne Boleyn, the scruples being simply a pre text for his unlawful passion and the cold-blooded and iniquitous resolve to put away his lawful wife. All the world knows what snags the king encountered while seek ing the divorce, and how, “by hook or crook” (mostly by crook), he at last succeeded in getting the doc ument which released him from the wife of his youth. And so, with his “divorce” in his pocket. Henry proceeded to "mar ry” the charming maid of honor, who did not know at the time that in just a little while she was to |ave her head cut off by the crea tures of the man she was marrying in the midst of so much pomp and rejoicing. Few tears have been shed over • or possibly years; then if she doesn't show a disposition anil ability to support him, her stock drops below par. Itobert Louis, the beloved, used to tell of something he called “charm.” But even his subtle pen, I with all its witchery, could not , quite describe charm of manner— that gracious personal quality which meets people, high or low, great or small, rich 6r poor, and sends them away benefited, blessed and refreshed. Ellen Terry, turned 60, has it. The Duse, homely, positively home ly in features, rests her chin in her hand and looks at you and lis tens in away that captures, cap tivates and brings again the pleas ures of past years. I am encouraged and delighted when I think of how women every where are learning to work —work with head, hands and heart, pre paring themselves to be fit com panions of men who are able to do brilliant things. The work of women’s clubs ha< been of vast benefit to men, for it has cut them out a pace. Woman is no longer a doll, a plaything, a Teddy bear; she is the intellectual companion of man, and he must prepare himself to be her compan ion and helpmeet. There is no sex in soul. Men and women must go forward hand in hand—single file Is sav agery. Many Degrees of Brilliancy. A brilliant man is dependent on a woman, and the greater he Is the more he needs her. The only man who has no use for a woman is one 4 who is not all there—one whom God has overlooked at the final in spection. The brilliant man wants a wife 4 who is his chum, companion, a "good fellow,” to whom he can tell the things he knows, or guesses, or hopes; one with whom he can ba stupid and foolish—one with whom he can act out his nature. If she is stupid all the time, he will have to be brilliant, and this will kfil them both. To grin and bear it is grad ual dissolution; to bear It and not grin is death. We are all just children in the Kindergarten of God, and we want playfellows. If a woman is pretty, I would say It is no disadvantage unless she is unable to forget it. But plainness of feature does not prohibit charm of manner, sinceri ty, honesty and the ability to be i good housekeeper and a noble mother. There are many degrees of bii - liancy, but as a general proposition this holds: A brilliant man wants a wife who is intellectually on his wire—on* who, when he rings up, responds • Anne Boleyn’s fate, cruel as tha fate was. She made herself a par ty to the ruin and misery of ai excellent woman, and the misfor tunes that came to her seemed t> be but the legitimate fruitage " her unwomanly conduct. As for the much-married Henry the least that is said of him th' better for all concerned. No right feeling Englishman finds anythin? in Henry’s character as a man t< exult over. He was a great, big poarse, senseless, heartless brute i a man, and, from the moral view poin'tMitterly and unreservedly des picable. But few more unlove? characters have ever disgraced th' pages of history. Upon the principles of fairnes however, it must be admitted thw "Bluff King Hal” was a capab sovereign, had a “true insight inr the men and measures he had fi deal with, and helped to lead hi country into a new era.” It was in Henry's reign that tl foundation of Britain's naval glor was laid. It was in Henry’s reigi that England, for the first time ii all her history, began to be a wort power. It was in Henry's rci that the new learning, out of wh? was to come our modern progr made a secure footing for its? ii the kingdom. All of which reminds us i"' •• forcibly of the saying of Sha!. s peace, that “We may gather h?>n< from the weed, and make u lie of the devil himself.”