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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta,M>a. fettered as second-class matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 3, 18?*. iubscrlptlon Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mall, 15.00 a year. Payable tn advance. — ' = Mr. Wilson Should Make o> 1 His Own Cabinet, Includ ing Mr. Bryan, if He J Desires His Aid The New York American prints the following: To the Editor of The American: i Sir —I note an editorial in a recent issue of The American in which you vigorously rtppose the selection of Mr. Bryan by Mr. j Wilson as his secretary of state. " With your consent T would like Io express in the columns of The American an opinion which differs from yours, if not in re gard to Mr. Bryan, at least in regard to the propriety of Mr. ' Wilson selecting Mr. Bryan. „ It is undoubtedly the right and the duty of any newly elected president of the United States to organize his cabinet and formulate his plans in accordance with what he HIMSELF believes to be for the best interests of his administration, of his party and of his country. • Mr. Wilson has certainly received a sufficiently large popu lar vote of confidence to entitle him to the ordinary privileges of the president. ( It would seem to me to be the duty of good Democrats, ’ land, in fact, of good citizens generally, irrespective of party, io sustain Mr. Wilson in the exercise of his best .judgment and best efforts, at least until events may seem to prove that his acts and efforts are not for the best interests of the party and the country. If Mr. Wilson believes that Mr. Bryan or any other man can render service to the country in a cabinet position, he should be allowed to select that man without the interposition of any un necessary objections or obstacles on the part of good Democrats and good citizens. Mr. Wilson will be held responsible for the success of his ad ministration, and he is entitled to exercise every proper means and to invite every proper aid to make his administration suc cessful. The question of whether Mr. Bryan would really be of ad vantage to the administration is a matter of opinion, and Mr. Wil son’s opinion is the one which is of chief importance. While the rest of us are entitled to entertain opinions, we should not, I think, express them at a time or in away to cause Mr. Wilson undue embarrassment. For my part, I personally hold exactly the same opinions that you have expressed of Mr. Bryan’s visionary character of mind, and also of his well-known selfishness and ingratitude. I realize that Mr. Bryan has made a specialty of sacrificing his friends on the altar of his own ambitions, and 1 realize, too, that he has sacrificed his party’ on several occasions by substi tuting his own personal fads and fancies for the actual and ac cepted principles of the progressive cause. Still, I feel that Mr. Bryan has, in the main, exercised a powerful influence in the direction of radical and reform meas ures, and that such an influence may possibly he of peculiar ad vantage in the forthcoming Democratic administration. It is true that Mr. Bryan has not been elected president upon any of the occasions that he has run for that office, and it is probably’ true that he is not qualified, and that the people do not believe him to be qualified, for an executive position. Still, that does not mean that he might not be extremely val uable in an advisory capacity. The great need of this country is judicious radicalism, and a combination might be exceedingly advisable in which Mr. Wilson would furnish the judgment and Mr. Bryan the radicalism. There is another point in relation to this question which may not be of general interest and importance, but which Mr. Wilson must consider, and which we can not blame him for con sidering. Champ Clark was the choice of the people in the vast ma jority of states in which popular primaries had been held before, the Baltimore convention. Champ Clark would certainly have been nominated by the Baltimore convention if Mr. Bryan. 1o gratify his revenge or his ambitions, had not interfered and induced the defeat of Champ Clark. • Whether or not as an object of Mr. Bryan's activity, but certainly as a result of it. Mr. Wilson was nominated. If Mr. Wilson had not been nominated, most certainly h<* would not have been elected, and Mr. Wilson may, therefore, very properly feel that he owes his nomination and his election in good part to Mr. Bryan. He may naturally feel, therefore, that gratitude, as well as public policy, requires the selection of Mr. Bryan, and. with that commendable sentiment of gratitude, so rare in politicians, no judicious person can find fault. It is generally understood that Mr. Bryan is willing to serve his country in any capacity in which he can be found useful, and it is further understood that Mr. Bryan believes that he could render his best service to the administration and the country as secretary of the treasury . If Mr. Wilson and Mr, Bryan are in aceord in this matter, and are convinced that Mr. Bryan's services in such a capacity will be of value to the nation and will inure to the success of the administration, it seems to me that the rest of us Democrats should accept this view of the situation with the best grace pos sible and do our best to facilitate and further that success in the administration of our government which we. as partisans and as patriotic citizens, so deeply desire. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST The Atlanta Georgian Two Views of a $5 Bill Drawn by HAL COFFMAN OTII .. > < II I. . ; | 'I at.. mK- '■Pl a/ ' A H J*. .... _ ~ ' *«sS**F " ■ 1 ' p 7-- This young spendthrift sees in it just "another stack of chips.’’ _ , "''"n '1 ' “ = A .mJ . ; "' | A ; '•«. <, I will hi - 'Z'Z. / 7'Zjm . Y*z'Z-- ■ - .-.A | ■ .. ■ %.. su ■ 1 .. ■ Z -UT- i2V # ■ $ This man sees in it a bountiful dinner for the whole family. Common Sense in Married Life ONE of the reasons that mar riage is so often a failure is because people bring less in telligence to bear on solving its problems than they do to any other question on earth, A man gives a hundred times as much reason and judgment to doing the simplest daily tasks by which be makes his living as he does to trying to make ills married life a success. He uses a million times more tact and di plomacy in getting along peaceably with his boss than he does to smoothing down his wife’s fur the right way. A woman uses up a thousandfold more gray matter in trying to find out what colors she can wear than she does in trying to understand her husband, and she is a billion times more concerned about how to retain her figure than she is about how to keep her husband's affec tions. Practically all of the tragedies of married life that break hearts and wreck homes and cover names with the slime of scandal people bring on themselves because they did not use the brains of a rabbit in con- • ducting their matrimonial affairs, and if most people who applied to the divorce courts to sunder their matrimonial bonds received the sentence they deserved, they would be committed to an asylum for the feeble-minded. Must Have Attention. They are to blame for the catas trophe and could have prevented it had they shown ordinary human intelligence. Here’s a case in point. The oth er day a young woman came to me with her tale of woe. She isn’t 30 yet. but she married when she was a mere child, and has three beautiful babies that she loves. Her husband is a good, honest, hard-working fellow, who toils from early morn till night to sup port his little family in comfort. M'hen he gets home he Is dead, dog tired, and after he has had his dinner he goes to sleep. The woman is a good wife and a good mother, so far as making a comfortable home for the family is concerned. She works hard, too. in the home, but when night comes and she has her babies into bed she fvants a change. She wants some amusement, some of the pleasures and gayeties that she missed at* a girl through her early marriage. Her husband won’t take her about. He Is sound asleep, and the inevitable other man has put in his appearance. He takes the wife to theaters and restaurants, and she's fallen in love with him—or thinks she has—and she looks with dis dainful eyes down upon Iter poor, hard-working, dra) -horse of a hus band. Bm the woman's conscience hurts MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1912. By DOROTHY DIN • her. In the midst of the gayest scenes she thinks that she should be back home with her babies and she wonders what her husband will do when he finds that she is galli vanting around with another man, but the tempter tells her that her husband doesn’t love her, or else he DOROTHY DIX. would be taking her to places of amusement. And the woman stands at the turn of the road, drawn one way by a sense of duty and the other by her love of pleasure, and asks actually asks—which way she shall take! She isn't using the common sense of a gnat in deciding her fate and that of her husband and chil dren. Would Avert Tragedies. She is acting like a hopeless idiot, and yet she has got plenty of intelligence and sound enough judgment about other matters. If you would show Iter a real, genuine diamond and a rhinestone, she wouldn’t hesitate for an instant about which one was of tile most value and which one to take, yet she hesitates between honor and shame, between keeping her chil dren and losing them, between a man who 4s pure gold and another who is nothing but flash) pinch beck. No woman can live to be 3U years old without knowing something about iff' She knows that when a married woman begins to have affinities she is playing with fire; she knows that the woman who receives se j cret attentions from men and goes to places with them unknown to her husbands is taking the first step on the road to perdition. She knows that sooner or later her husband will find her out and that the con ■sequence.s will be disgrace for her, that she will be turned out of house and home and her children taken away from her, and that she is put ting upon them the stigma of their mother’s shame. They Play With Fire. Also, every woman knows that the very men who are most ardent in their love-making to a married woman and w ho use every wile and art to tempt her on, are the very first to abandon her when her hus band casts her aside and they fear that they’ may be called on to marry her or support her. More than that, every woman knows that any man who works early and late to support his family, and who gives them everything and keeps nothing for hitnself. is giving the most mag nificent proof of love it is possible to conceive. One day's toil for a woman is worth all the sentimen tal talk that was ever reeled off of a glib tongue. Such being the case, consider the folly of the woman who risks so much for the pleasure of a few I restaurant dinners, a few- violets, a few trips to the theater, a few com pliments, a little love making that she must know in her heart to be spurious, for no man who really loved ti woman would seek to drag her down by making her an un faithful wife and mother. In her desire for amusement the woman is acting the part of fool. In not realizing his wife’s necessity for some entertainment, for some gaiety, for something to break the monotony’ of cooking and sewing and baby tending, tlie husband is acting the part of another fool. It is his hand that has left the door open for the robber to come in and loot his hearthstone. You can’t dump a woman down on a hard job that has no holidays or high days to it and expect her to be satisfied. She'll play truant from it, sooner or later, and when she does It’s her husband’s fault. There are certain fundamental needs of every man and woman. They must have some pleasure, they must have' some admiration, 'there must be a few kisses and bon bons, and when husbands and wives deny these to each other, some oth er man or woman steps in and sup plies the necessity. It meds only a little common sense to make the wheels of matrimony go round smoothly. THE HOME PAP&R 1 Garrett P. Serviss Writes on Heroism of Women Man Is Brave in the Delirium of Conflict, but Woman's Courage Is the Open-Eyed Sort Which Enables Her to Bear Weeks of Agony, Suspense and Fear With' Forti tude. By GARRETT P. SERVISS. WE are hearing a great deal •’ about heroes nowadays. Whenever war breaks out, hero worship is in the air. Many people seem to think that there are no real heroes except those of the battlefield. What is true heroism’.’ It is self sacrifice. And in this woman is greater than man. Men have writ ten the history of the world, and they have magnified the heroes at the expense of the heroines. Wom an never tried to write history. She leaves her deeds to speak for them selves. Even a hero does not write about himself, if he is a real one. More Heroines Than Heroes. Pages have been printed within the last four weeks about the hero ism displayed in the Balkan war. There has been plenty of it, but the writing has all been about the he roes. Who has heard a word about the heroines? If tlte true history of this war were known, it would be found that it has brought forth more heroines than heroes. It is not merely the man who goes to the front with a gun in his hand who is heroic. It is relatively easy to be a hero amid the .sound of drums, under the in spiration of fluttering flags, with the madding battle smoke mak ing the spirit drunk. It is not so easy to stay at home, struggling alone for a living, with mind and heart torn by fear, anx iety and haunting doubt. The woman who sees her husband and sons march away to the war, leav ing her at home to care for the children and to bear the suspense, has need of greater fortitude than those who charge the batteries possess. Their heroism becomes that of delirium—wild, ungovern able, blind; her heroism is open eyed, with no mad enthusiasm to conceal the anger and the horror. What does history tell us. even as men have written it’? Did Abra ham do anything heroic? But con sider his wife, Sarai. Is there a more heroic action on record than hers when she gave her hand maiden, Hagar, to him for a wife? It was pure self-sacrifice, far harder and far nobler than to rush, in the fury of battle, upon an ene my’s guns. Life is not the only precious thing in the world, nor the most precious. Woman Surpasses Man. Was Napoleon more heroic when he led the charge at Dresden to save his empire than Josephine was when she bowed, with bitter tears, yet uncomplaining, to the decree that separated her from the man she loved, and for whom she had first opened the gates of oppor tunity? Measured by any just standard, was his heroism equal to hers'.’ ~ F-:- December By PERCY SHAW. X T T HEN the harvests are In and the crickets are singing, VV And the air blows up crisp with a subtle smell, When chestnuts are dropping and bird farewells ringing And the haze takes you back like a conjurer—well, It’s surely not strange that you pause and remember S That this is December. When the dusk drops down on the knoll where the vines are ? That yielded their berries to fingers long cold, When the star rays light up the hill where the pines are, Revealing you both as you sat there of old, Aii, then it’s not strange that you sigh and remember \ That tlfis is December. ( When hearth logs crack loud and flames gleam and tremble i In ghostly contortions against the black panes, ? When you see her sweet eyes too fond to dissemble. As you walked hand in hand through glorified lanes, Is it strange you start with a Bob and remember That this is December? |L • ■*»' J Even on man’s own field —that of war —he has been rurpassed by woman in moral force. Read the story of Florence Nightingale in the Crimea. Read that of Clara Barton in the Army of the Poto mac and in the Franco-German war. Read, in scattered records, what women did in our great strug gle between the states. Recall the story of Flora Macdonald and her sacrifices for an unworthy pretend er to the throne of England. And, finally, read the history of Joan of Arc. There you will see what truo heroism means. M’hen woman visits the scenes of war she goes with her whole soul in revolt. She is not blinded by “glory,” she is led only by a sense of duty, of pity, of mercy, of com passion. That she can go at all is a proof of moral strength exceeding man’s, for he goes led by a gla mour that never dazzles her eyes. Look nearer home. Many of you read about the women who marches through New York’s streets in the demonstration for equality of rights. Did you reflect what that meant for many of them? Did you consider that the jeers of thought less bystanders were for thos-J women, sacrificing their native modesty for the sake of a grea cause, worse than bullets and bursting shrapnel? For they wounded more than flesh and bone' —they wounded the soul! Did the courage and the heroism of their act make no appeal to you? If it did not, you do not comprehend woman, and you do not understand what true heroism is. She Leads in Real Glory. It is woman who points and leads the way to real glory in this world. When her reign comes, and only jhen, will the nations learn to make war no more. But heroism will not cease: its inmost nature will then first become manifest to ail. Then we shall clearly perceive what the moral excellence of woman has done for the world, and our ambi tion will set a higher aim for It self. But while war continues to rage, and man’s ideal of glory to prevail, the deeper heroism of wom an will always strengthen him. He feels it, though he may not com prehend it. The editor of this newspaper has clearly pointed out the fatal defect of the Turk who has been driven like a whipped dog before the Bul gars, the Serbs and the Greeks, be cause he has trodden under tits feet the moral influence of woman, while his foes have been sustained by it. There could be no plainer demonstration of the fact that the source of true heroism is tn the . hearts of women.