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A.Why an Extra Session of
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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 her
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 mistake 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. Taft. 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 he 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 ’ next. The senate
will be slower, but as a majority of the present senators voted for
the bills signed by Speaker Clark 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 cor corn 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,
'fhe 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 Clark ami Represen
tative Underwood for refusing to inject into the recent tariff
measures.
Everything will depend upon the prudent and 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 Turk
There would be little difficulty in settling the Turkish prob
lem if it were not for the intrusion into that problem of the selfish
and sinister interests of two old tyrannies. Europe trembles today
on the verge of a catastrophe that may involve the whole conti
nent, simply because 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
the whole wretched Turkish land from the Bosphorus to the Adri
atic, could 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 I<> Servia by natural necessity and his
toric right.
But Austria says the conquerors of the Turks must keep awav
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 cause. 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 France—are subpenaed to sup
port the schemes ot 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 case the Turk would be left without a
foothold and would be driven conclusively out of Europe.
Probably we shall know this week which way the tide of
European destiny is to run. We shall see whether the 'Turkish
problem is to be definitely solved by the elimination of the Turk,
or whether, on the contrary, the Turk is now to put a climax to his
live hundred years of devastation by plunging all Europe into in
extricable confusion and an abyss of war.
In the latter case, history will have to record the fact that
an unspeakable disaster to modern civilization was due to the
moral irresolution ot Western Europe in face of the stubborn
ness and greed of two old tyrannies.
Send the Georgia Militia to
\\ ilson’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
low Wilson.
The trip would be a splendid experience for the men and
of national importance to the state.
Ways and means will have toH>. provided by the public. The
| <an itself sounds excellent. Let us hear more of it.
The Atlanta Georgian
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i —The sayings of Omar In. Al Halif.
FOUR THINGS COME NOT BACK—
Sped Arrow. Time Past. |
The Spoken Word. Neglected Opportunity.
a DAY stands in the same rela
/■A tion to 70 years of life as
a copper cent does to a pile
of 51 tive-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
tive-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 for a long period will do
much to teach us the stimyie 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 the old hour
glass fashion. If some one does not
turn us over every t>o minutes, our
sand stops moving.
AU of which jmeans this:
Plan for today, but let today's
plan fall in its place with the gen
eral larger plan you have for years
to come.
Tile 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 1 have kept at
it. improving the plan from time
to time. Now, I begin to know
something about it."
Keep before you what the boss
expects for today.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1912.
Working For the Boss
That is the first dutyf
Then —
Do jusf a little more than he ex
pects. That is the long 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 <vhere you are
Almost any job will do to start
with, if it is a good jumping point.
If 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.
'J'HE merchant quoted above said
that few people know how to
spend money.
Just a fev. K people know how to
spend Time.
By THOMAS TAPP.ER.
:: Next of Kin ::
By C. G. RASSETTI.
THE shadows gather 'round me, while you are in the sun;
The day is almost ended, but yours is Just begun.
Tlie winds are singing to us both and the streams are singing still,
And they fill your heart with music, but mine they can not fill.
Your home is built in sunlight, mine in another day:
Your home is close 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,
I, 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.
Yet when your day is over, as mine is nearly done,
And when your race is finish'd, as mine is almost run,
You, like me, shall cross your hands and bow your graceful head:
Yea, we twain shall sleep together in an equal bed.
Mr. Arnold Bennett has 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 setieme to work to
ward next week, and next year,
and to ask what they can supply to
make life more worth while'twenty
years hence. f
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 all you are
worth. Be a keen observer. Learn
sonjething.
Also—
Walk erect, and breathe through
the nostrijs.
THE HOME PAPER
Elbert Hubbard
Writes on
The Essence of
Marriage
Prettiness Pails Unless It Is
Backed Up by Intellect. The
Merely Clever Woman Is Near
ly 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, I 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 ordl
narj- man who does the brilliant
things would be ordinary ail 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
tpry!
A man alone is only half a man:
it takes the two to make a whole.
Ideas are born of parents.
Now, life never did, nor can,
consist in doing brilliant things all
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 same 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 Vllland 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 scniples being simply a pre
text for his unlawful passion and
the cold-blooded and iniquitous
resolve to put awajb 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 ills “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
have 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
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• or possibly years; then If she
doesn't show a disposition and
ability to support him, her stock
drops below par.
Robert Louis, the beloved, used
to tell of something he called
“charm.” But even his subtle pen,
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 or 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 delightM
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 has
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
who Is not all there —one whom
God has overlooked at the final in
spection.
The brilliant man. wants a wifu
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 be
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 klil 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 a
good housekeeper and a noble
mother.
There are many degrees of bril
liancy, but as a general proposition
this holds:
A brilliant man wants a wife who
is intellectually on his wire—one
• who, when he rings up, responds.
Anne Boleyn's fate, cruel as that
fate was. She made herself a par
ty to the ruin and misery of an
excellent woman, and the misfor
tunes that came to her seemed to
be but the legitimate fruitage of
her unwomanly conduct.
As for the much-married Henry,
the least that is said of him the
better for all concerned. No right -
feeling Englishman finds anything
in Henry’s character as a man to
exult over. He was a great, big,
coarse, senseless, heartless brute of
a man, and, from the moral view -
point, utterly and unreservedly des
picable. But few more unlovely
characters have ever disgraced the
pages of history.
Upon the principles of fairness,
however, it must be admitted that
"Bluff . King Hal” was a capable
sovereign, had a “true insight into
the men and measures he had to
deal with, and helped to lead his
country into a new era.”
It was In Henry's reign that the
foundation of Britain's naval gl'T
was laid. It was in Henry's reigr
that England, for the first time in
all her history, began to be a work,
power. It was in Henry's reign
that the new learning, out of whi ii
was to come oui modern progress,
made a secure footing for itself li
the kingdom.
All of which reminds us most
forcibly of the saying of Shake
speare, that “We may gather liouey
from the weed, and make a .”>o r ai
of the devil himself,” J
