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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 S, 187 S. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a v/eck. By mail, 15.00 a year. Payable In advance. Christinas That Makes Thousands Miserable i You Who Read This Newspaper, and Other Buyers of Christ inas Gifts, Can Free Many from Suffering AND AT THE SAME TIME HELP YOURSELVES. ♦ Tens of thousands of women and girls and men are worn out by the intense strain of Christmas work BECAUSE THE PEOPLE .HAVEN'T SUFFICIENT CONSCIENCE TO CONSIDER THE EMPLOYEES IN THE STORES. Men and hoys that do the packing of parcels must work late at night BECAUSE THOSE THAT LIVE COMFORTABLY WILL NOT TAKE THE TROUBLE TO DO THEIR SHOPPING EARLY IN THE DAY. This Christmas season, which ought tn mean happiness for all, means suffering, fatigue, overwork, loss of sleep and injury to health in thousands of cases Use your influence to impress upon your friends their duty to those that work to make the Christmas season successful. It is an Intensely important season to all of the people. At this time of year, merchants sell the products that hundreds of thousands of workers have been creating for months past. When yon do your buying at the stores now you are not hand ing your money to the merchant who runs the store. You are giving thf money to that merchant that he may pass it on to the manufacturer and thus pay for the salaries of those that create the goods. The merchant’s share is comparatively small. The share of hundreds of thousands of workers-is the great part. Remember, for your own sake, that shopping early in the day when the stores arc not crowded, when the air is good, when the eierks are not so tired, makes your work easier and healthier. Remember, for the sake of the women that work, for the sake f the harassed merchants trying to satisfy the public, for the sake OF COMMON DECENCY that shopping early in the Christmas sea son and early in the DAY’ is a duty that no good citizen should neglect. Remember, also, to keep your temper, be good natured, HAVE ( (INSIDER ATION FOR THOSE THAT SERVE YOU. Remember that the man or woman whom you question has been answering thousands of questions that very day. Remember that while YOU may he very intelligent, and very polite, the person to '•’■ horn you talk deals all day long with many that have less intelli gence, and are not at all polite. Be patient, good natured, CON SIDERATE. even if you happen to find a tired girl or harassed man a little short in temper You like others to help YOU, so yon ought to want to help OTHERS. It costs very little Io say “Thank you.” yet that “Thank you” to commence is what oil is to the axle and the wheel. Remember that excellent line of advertising which the tele phone company posts np everywhere, “It’s the voice with the smile that wins.” \ on might, just as well go through the world quietly, kindly, gently and with a smile, as elbow and push and struggle and com plain. Give others a chance, set a good example. Be useful, consid erate. A COMPASSIONATE atom in the great crowds that put a heavy load upon the store workers at this Christmas time. The Call to Arms By CHESTER FIRKINS. 'T'HE bugle calls from fortress walls * YVhere Danube's waters shine; she banners fling their challenging From Volga to the Rhine. Tiber and Thames their diadems Turn fretful toward Islam— But, bloody though her waters glow. The Bosphorus lies calm. If" ROM camp and coast the Teuton host L *■ Is summoned to prepare; O'er hurried mile, in Cossack file. Comes, ravening, the Bear. W ith bristling guns the war-fleet runs From Budapest’s gray piles— W hile. stricken dread, yet respited. I he ’lurk looks on—and smiles. A Y. ride ye forth from west and north. “ Y Czar, emperor and king! | Ay. nobly ride in battle pride ■ And silent threatening. In blood to sale the ancient hate And plunge a world in wars; B\ brother s death to give now breath To Moslem conquerors! VX 7 1 boots your vow for friendship now— ’t our sacred pledge of peace, W h< u southward lies a golden prize Your coffers to increase? Hie glutted boar still fights for more— bPake lesson of the brute! " ,l - ■''' kings' Ihe clarion rings!— Ibe 'iniling | ork is mute. The Atlanta Georgian Admiration By HAL COFFMAN. 7-wi J ' m s 8118 f k FAT Jf feat 38ty JgoMf/ Ogl' Jw/4 whr ' r iffl ml rIHKKmA W rjj isl I" ? w B r w iwm Jr /"I fifc ' /Jf Um wMB. HK Conquest of Mt. McKinley Is a Lesson EMr All IN Hearst’s Magazine for Decern- • ber you will read the story of the final “conquest” of Mt. Mc- Kinley, the loftiest mountain in North America, and you will see photographs that will thrill you with the excitement of dangers and difficulties met and overcome. It is a remarkable story of a wonderful feat. But we are all philosophers, often without knowing it, and many will ask: “What is the good of this desperate mountain-climbing; what does humanity gain by It, after all?” From a strictly utilitarian point of view it is difficult to answer such questions. If you are one of those who think that nothing is worth while that can not be expressed in dollars and cents, then there is no answer that will satisfy you. The climbing of Mt. McKinley was sim ply the achievement of an ideal, and nobody can appreciate it whose own life is not led on the uplands of i ideality, and whose nature does not demand something more than food, drink, clothes and ordinary social amusements. But to those who do set noble j ideals before their minds, and who believe that utilitarianism, in its usual sense, is death to man's high er nature, the feat of Professor Parker and Mr. Browne will appeal with the mysterious force of a great poem—a poem written not in words, but in achievement. Measurement Not Object. Those men did not go there merely to measure the height of Mt. McKinley. Its height had already been measured, probably more ac curately than they were able to do it, by means of surveying instru ments, played many miles away in the valleys and on lower peaks. Whether its elevation is 20.300 feet or 20,450 feet is a matter of small moment compared with the fact that men. in spite of enormous dif ficulties, have succeeded in reach ing its summit. The grit, the de termination, endurance and courage which they exhibited form a valu able object lesson in the develop in'tit of character. Every reader feels himself stronger, bolder, mon capable as he follows the nurnitivt TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1912. By GARRETT P. SERVISS. > of their adventures. It is a tonic for the soul. It makes all difficul ties seem less formidable. The young man who starts out in life without any of the advantages of education, or wealth, or social position, and by sheer grit over . comes every obstacle, never losing confidence in himself, never giving way to discouragement, never whin ing. never thinking that he Is the victim of fatality or bad luck, never paralyzing his energies, or wasting his time by envying the good for tune of others, is climbing Mt. Mc- Kinley. and he will go to the top. Unbroken Courage Won. When Frederick, who afterward won the title of “the Great," found himself, like a bull In the ring,' sur rounded and tormented by innum erable enemies, his army in flight, his capital captured his palace looted, his friends falling away, every circumstance against him, but his courage and resolution un broken. he was climbing Mt. Mc- Love Symphony By A. O’SHAUGHNESSY. » LONG the garden ways jusi YA. no, s ( 1 lieatiT the flowers speak: 1 The white rose told me of your brow, < The red rose of your cheek: I The Illy of your bended head. I The bindweed of your hair; Each look, d its loveliest and said You were more fair. 1 went into the wood anon. And heard the wild birds sing. How sweet you were: they warbled on, Piped, trill’d the selfsame thing. Thrush, blackbird, linnet, without pause. The burden did repeat, I And still began again because You were mote sweet. And then I went down to the sea, And heard it niurntering, too, Part of an ancient mystery. And made of me and you; Hon many a thousand years ago ,s I loved, and yon were sweet (Longer 1 could not stay, and so ( I fled buck to your feet Kinley, and he got to the top. When Robert Bruce, the Scotch hero, lying on his bunk, a fugitive from his kingdom—alone, deserted and haJf starved —sa,w a spider fix its broken line a dozen times to the ceiling, never giving up its efforts until at last it made the web fast, he was watching the conquest of Mt. McKinley, and he learned the lesson so well that he himself soon stood on the pinnacle. Eveiw man has his Mt. McKinley, if he is good for anything. Those who have none are of little use to themselves or anybody else. It is only by continuous, untiring effort that a man can perfect himself. If you find yourself becoming lazy, in different, easilj- discouraged, dis posed to think that' fortune has turned her back on you, or if the world loses its interest for you. and you begin to let things slide as they will, wake up! You need a mountain to climb. Don’t envy tjie rich and idle —they know nothing of the joy and strength that come from the conquest of difficulties. Set an ideal before you, and mount, over the crevasses, the chasms, the snow, slopes, the ridges, the precipices, defying the clouds, the winds, the cold, and the fatigue, until you see the world at your feet. There are many great mountains still to be ascended, both in the physical and the moral world. No man has ever yet reached even the foot of Mt. Everest, the highest point on the globe. Explorers have gazed longingly at its gleaming summit from the tops of lower peaks a hundred miles away. Some day they will climb it. One Secret Still Hidden. So, no man has yet climbed the peak of achievement which carries on its apex the talisman that will unlock the secret of interatomic energy, that all-enveloping power with which nature is crammed, and the control of which would make our greatest engines seem but the toys of children. But some day the foot of man will be pressed upon that summit also. But don’t think that because you have not genius, or great opportu nity. there is no climbing for you to do. You can climb a peak, worth conquering every day of your life, if vou wil) THE HOME PAPEp DR. PARKHURST Writes' on Justice, Real and F - Human Should a Judge Give His Sen- tence to Fit Character of Crime, or of the Ac- cased Man Before Him? Written For The Georgian By the Rev. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst WHAT a convicted criminal receives at the hands of x the court will be an at tempt at justice without any like lihood of its being absolute justice. This is written without any thought of impugning judicial in tegrity, but Is involved in the na ture of things, in the nature of man, both the man on the bench and the man In the prisoner’s dock. The position of the judge is a dif ficult one, almost as difficult as that of the one whom the judge is there to sentence. The only element of *diffleulty to which this article will refer is the following: The judge is supposed to grade his sentence as nearly as possible to the guilt of the party by whom the offense has been commit ted. Now, is the sentence designed to fit the character of the crime or the character of the criminal? If, for example, the convict is given five years, is that five years intend ed to measure up to the size of the offense or to the amount of inher ent depravity in the one who com mitted the offense? For neither of the two can be accepted as ac curate index of the other. State Only to Sustain Life. Take the following instance, which occurred in a distant state and some years ago, but which has only recently been brought to < the attention of the public. A man of about 30 years was driven to the verge of starvation. To him the situation meant death or robbery. He asked himself: “Shall I steal or go to the river?” He tossed up a penny. Heads meant burglary, tails suicide. It turned up heads. That night he committed burglary. He was de tected, convicted and given fifteen years. He was sentenced as a burglar, and he certainly was a. burglar so far as act was con cerned, but In spirit and in the general tone of his character he was no more a burglar than I am, and that fact is certified to by his demeanor during the term of his incarceration and his hehavior since his release. It is evident enough that it was not in him to commit the crime except at the impulse of starvation hunger. How many are there that would not steal rather than die for the lack of the food that theft would ' procure? The judge by whom the “criminal was sentenced to fifteen years would doubtless have done the same or a similar thing under the same circumstances. The act may have deserved fifteen years, but it does The Republic of Cracow By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. IT was 97 years ago that the “Re- •• public of Cracow” began its brief and pathetic existence. It is a story that is well calculated to moisten the. eyes of the most stoical of the sons of men, and not yet has history recorded the story’s end. At the general settlement of the affairs of Europe by the great Pow ers in 1815 it was agreed that Cra cow and the adjoining territory should be formed into a free state, and by the treaty of Vienna the town of Cracow, with its territory, was declared to be “forever a free and independent city.” This dec laration was signed by the repre sentatives of Russia, Austria and Prussia. These representatives of the Powers knew history, and there fore they knew the story of Cra cow —an ancient and honorable story, which doubtless touched their hearts. Cracow’s history begins with the year 706, when it was built by Duke Cracus out of the spoils he had taken from the barbarian invaders. For 300 years the City of Cracus remained the capital of Poland, and there the Polish kings were crowned until 1764. For generations the city was the center of the stur diest energy and brightest intelli gence of Europe. Its university, one of the oldest on the continent, like a great beacon light, shed its rays far and wide; and in all that, was calculated to benefit humanity the Polish capital stood pre-emi nent. Not only so. Poland’s capita! had suffered to a greater extent than any other place In the world. Not even Roniu ur old Jerusalem his •y not follow that-> the man deserved I fifteen years. This is not making 1 light of crime; it is only indicating I that what a. man does is not neces- II sarily a just measure of the man R If he had had friends they might 1 have asked the attention of the J court to the circumstances. It j E a ' great mistake not to have either ] money or friends when one is brought to court. But even so, the I judge would probably have insis;-r that burglary by night means a maximum of fifteen years and minimum of ten. Best Way to Approach Justice. It may be that it is not prudent 1 to leave such matters to judieia! discretion, and that while judges 1 are human and fallible, and some j of them hard-hearted, the nearest j approach to average justice will | l? secured by frafhing sentences that 1 will fit the act rather than the man. i In a world that is not idea! -etafl ■ policies may be impracticable, bu;- nevertheless average justice is nnt j absolute justice, and only absolute justice is perfectly just. If some men keep out of ja|i ti la > ought to be in it, others spend hms years in jail that ought to b. om it. life that would otherwis- be useful becoming cojisequently prof, itless. and the felt injustice of it ’ ■ operating a.ll the. time to tlie en feeblement of the convict’s poweis and the souring of his spirit. This does not mean the d' UiTi tion o? jails and the turning c! > everybody loose upon the v. orb: Invalids should go to the hospit::i and nndomesticated animal: whether quadruped or bipeil.-bouh l be subjected tn some order -.t r • straint. Our single point of cor tention Is this, that we a ■* as y : very far from having arrived nt th' ideal treatment of those who trans- | gress the laws. More Heart Needed in Treatment i That there to be both inorf ] I intelligence and more heart in it. 1 that a man’s conduct may be » I great deal worse than the man as well as a great deal better; that j there is a. terrific responsibility and j accountability devolving upon nv official who sits comfuittibly oiitiv bench, well clad and well fed a well housed, and who has the ail- I ! thority to reel out sentences of ii'. ■ ten, thirty or fifty years io the un trained, hungry oi broken d".'n convicts who, while personally rt sponsible for their misconduct, hav I been subjected to tests of '.'.mb .. th judge has had no expi . ience . a . which, had he had the- ev •iPi.- he would very likely 'aavt ‘s' cumbed. • been culled upon to drink deeply of the cup of sorrow. 'l’lie representatives of the I’"" e-rs knew all this—knew wiiat tis ancient capital had endured at th hands of the Partiiieners—M :■ conscience-stricken as It we: when tiiey got together aft?" overthrow of Napoleon, they sat' "We will do something for Cracow, we will give her back her rtnefe liberties; we will decree that f,w " i ever she shall be free and in' I" 111 '' ent." And they kept their word, the above-mentioned treaty oft:- enna shows. But alas! for the faith of n it ion- In 1846. on account of dome trouble in Cracow, the flip om:t.‘ got together contra ry iH t"- solemn assurances of the t Vienna, blotted out the Repiib't Cracow ami incorporated th with the dominions of Aust a:i Against this unhallowed piece business England, Eranee, and even Turkey heanilv protest ed; but Austria was determl the diplomats were willing, and th infamy was consummated. But. as has been intimate,i. t end is not yet. The great per philosopher wrote: “In the rupted currents of this wot., sense's gilded hand oft shows Justice, but ’tie not so above There is a Lower Bight 1 Higher Right, and in the emi Higher Right always wins, time It will win in the case land. Austria, at present. ' blew of her own. with Hung.t'A glng at her throat; am! ■•vf many and Russia, powerful a are, are not out of the rear!' ot . old Eternal Rectitude who* "» is. tn the final test, sup-me ■ the machlnutlons of nivit ;l nrutlnas of cabinet*