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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 Eaet Alabama St.. Atlanta. Ga. Entered as eerend-claas matter at poctofflce at Atlanta, under act of March 8. !8?>. Subscription PMca—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a weak. By mall, |6 00 a year. Payable tn advance. I The South Is Astride a Wave of Prosperity RUM The Last Decade Has Witnessed a Marvellous Growth—ls There Any Reason Why the Next Ten Years Shall Not Sec an Even Greater Advance? - ■ *— What has the South clone materially in the past ten years? What will the South do in the next ten years’ These are questions that interest not only the South, but, the whole of this great republic- for the eves of the nation are on the South today as they never have been before. The South today is employing $3,397,006,1100 of capital in manufacturing go.ods t?\the value of $3,800,001 >.OOO annually— more than double the figures of ten years ago. Upon $9,000,000,000 worth of land, agricultural products to the extent of $3,000,000,000 are being raised every year -a gain more than double the figures of ton years ago. It is so all the way along the line. Every interest is ad vancing with giant’s strides—manufacturing, agriculture, the cut ting of lumber, mining, quarrying—even the fresh and salt water fisheries are yielding today $20,000,000 annually to the South. Tn the matter of bank clearings, the South lias quadrupled its clearings of ten years ago. The present wealth of the South if $12,000,000,000 greater today than was the wealth of the entire nation in 1860. These figures might be carried forward indefinitely and into ultimate detail the answer would be the same at every’ turning. ■ The South has more than doubled itself in wealth in the past I ten years What, then, will the South do in another ten years? Rather would it be easier to answer, What will the South NOT do in another ten years? The South today’ is manufacturing $3,800,000,000 of goods— in ten years it will manufacture $12,000,000,01X1. Perhaps more —for the South will progress in the next ten years to an mi- I paralleled extent. It will advance far beyond the dreams of ten years ago! The South, which once was an agricultural section exclusive ly’, still is an agricultural section—but it is more. It is a manu facturing section now—ten years from now it will be THE manufacturing center of the Union. The South will benefit by the opening of the Panama canal as no other portion of the country can hope to. The reasons i why this is true are so apparent that they need not be stated here. The achievements of thy South from 1902 to 1912 have been amazing. Its prosperity’ has arrested the attention of the world. But as wonderful and as convincing as the progress of the. South has been in the past ten years, it is small beside the show ing the next ten years will make. Dixie land is the land of cotton’’—Dixie land is that—but Dixie land also is the land of the spindle and the loom, the roll ing mill and the furnace, the sawmill and the crate factory, the fruit cannery and the coke even, the marble quarry and the coal mine, the oil mill and the tobacco factory, the petroleum well and the pecan grove, the stock farm and the peach orchard! It is the land of banks and trust companies, of railroads and boat lines, of electricity and water power—it is the land of plen ty, and more! The South of teu years heuce will be the greatest, grandest, wealthiest, happiest South “Uncle Sam’’ has loved to call his own. Advising College “Infants" | With almost heartless indifference for the feelings of those most important individuals, college freshmen and sophomores. President James, of Illinois university, speaks of them as' “in fants.’’ And he continues: "Many failures in college work of the first two years can be directly traced to alcohol and tobacco. Seniors and Juniors might build up an excel lent tradition If they would prohibit freshmen and sophomores from smoking and drinking." President James believes there is a time and place for all things, and lie warns his charges that they can learn to play poker at any crossroads, whereas what, they can do better at college than anywhere else is to develop their intellects. This will probably seem hard to the “infants,” whose ideas of importance are concentrated in a pipe, a flaring hat band and a knowledge of “draw.” but it is good, sound doctrine, just the same. j Divorce and the Can Opener | Some sttange things have a subtle and secret relationship, but where is there a greater mystery than the affinity between divorce and the can opener? Missouri clubwomen hav< agreed that bad cooking not only affects a man's stomach, but also his disposition, and they pro pose. therefore, to teach their sisters to do something besides opening cans and frying potatoes A lecturer will spend a year traveling through the state showing its women how to cook, on the principle that it’s much easier to love nd .'her sh a I cook than a l>ad on- The Atlanta Georgian The Music That Helped Win for the Allies ■ I fife -*■» ’ nraulJkSaHk * & '■ B \ 'T ji i*. && st'-W / Me fr&K Wp y 7 / W Wil Ju •€> JMs i Wjr Wm i f I t ■! If L. - .. jbKwM? tn InP/ S§kk I IMw F ""A* < rXr\ ’ wfWh *Kt 7-/7 Jw* ■ -.t \ .. j ' «L mBeI (( Top Picture A cheery call on the trumpets and bugles to inspire the soldiers of the Greek army. Lower Pic- > i ture at Right—A young Serb playing on a gaida, a form of bagpipe. Center Picture—A Macedonian drummer at i ; Sofia. Picture at Left—An old Serb playing the gusia, a sort of primitive violin. / A Travesty on Marriage Bishop hughes says that • Mrs Wentworth, the Boston Socialist, who gave her hus band up to her friend, Is a wicked woman, as well as a foolish one. "The whole affair is a travesty on marriage,’' says the bishop. "What is the world coming to when such a woman as that can be ad mired, nay, even honored, for doing such a tiling?” Well, I'm afraid none of us, even the wisest, has really much o's an idea as to what the world is com ing to, but it certainly is a strange affair, this affair of the wife who gives her husband up to another woman and that she is perfect ly happy to do it. Wife Gave Bride Away. I know a woman who did this very very same tiling, a brilliant woman, close akin to genius. The woman's friend fell in love with the woman's husband, and the woman said, "There, little girl; don’t cry." when the friend tried to slip away before any harm came of it. "I've seen it from the very tlrst. and lam glad. lam not hap py with this man; iie isn’t happy with me. Why should we both be miserable, to say nothing to you? Why don't you send me away and marry each other?” Which was. after some delibera tion and much discussion, exactly what they did. (inly the wife came home at the last minute and gave the bride away at the wedding. And some said, "How horrible!" and some said. "How noble!” and some said. "How tragic!" and some said. “How funny!" and the wom an's friend and the woman's hus band went away to live and were apparently very, very happy . And this is the whole queer part of the whole queer story, to the; They took the woman's little girl with them to a foreign country, where she would not see her moth er once in six years or so, and ti:v mother was glad' to have her go. FRIDAY, DECEMBER Id. 1912. By WINIFRED BLACK. * and the little girl was glad to go. There is the whole truth about the whole affair. I don’t know how to explain it exactly—but there it Is. Made Name For Herself. The woman was a clever woman, an honest woman, and, according to her ideas, a conscientious woman; :: Countries :: By GEORGETTE AGNEW. aHE country of my father was the 1 stern, brave north. Where hillocks give but heather and the heights stand forth In jagged peaks and eerie that the witches haunt. That rise above dark castles on their sides hung gaunt. Oh, the country of my father was the stern, brave north! The country of my mother was the warm, soft south. Where date palms fruit in plenty and . the curving mouth of many a bay and crecklet calls the gentle sea To shores of clusters d olive aWd the almond tree. Oh. the country of my mother was the; warm, soft south* The country of my dearest was the fresh green land Where buttercups love dancing at the winds command. And little leaves blow whispers which of promise tell. And fairies play at moontime in the meadow dell. Oh. the country of my dearest was the fresh, green land! The country of my dreaming was the sunset sky Where lonely isles of coral and lonely lakes He, \V here thoughts take shape in colors mingled sad and gay, And vanished hopes have houses in far away Ol- the count, y of ;tiy ... ring xws thi sunset .sky • ■ but she didn't seem to know how to love, and, not knowing how to love, she didn't know how to suffer, and, not knowing how to suffer, she was quite happy in her way, so long as she had a chance to do what she called “live her own life.” She lived her own life success fully. too, and made a name for herself, which she never could have made if she had been what she called "hampered'.with the husband and the little girl, and she was and is still, I hear, surrounded with ad mirers—men and women—who make a little court for her and call her a queen. They were quite comfortable and sensible about it, they said. They took a good deal of pains to say it, I thought—the husband, the wife and the wife’s friend now not a wife at all. But I don’t think it will last. Things that are not right never do last. The little girl didn’t say a word. 1 keep wondering what she thought. The little girl—she's the one I am interested in, for she will in the course of nature live when the rest are gone. It is her fate to hand the torch of life on and on again when the other three are quite in their graves. What sort of children will that child's children be? She’s the Only One That Counts. Will they believe in marriage un til death do them part, or look upon It only as an experiment? Will they believe that duty is duty, no mat ter how many people it kills, or will they think that divorce an swers all the hard questions we hear in the matrimonial witness box? I wonder and wonder; for. after all. the little girl is the only one who really counts much in such a case—isn't she'.’ I wish I knew how she felt about it all, and how she will feel when sne is a wqman and knows what now she only vaguely feels THE HOME PAPER Judge Wm. D. Ellis Writes on The Divorce W Evil gev I Drunkenness and the £ Money Craze Cause of Much Domestic Trou- ble —Divorces Too Easy to Procure. ; • Written for The Atlanta Georgian By Judge Wm. D. Ellis Os the Atlanta Circuit. ARTICLE 11. <’ Probably for the good of society divorce ought to be allowed. No I decent man ought to be yoked to a harlot, and no virtuous woman to a brute. But the grounds for di vorce are, in my opinion, too nu merous, and the facilities for ob taining them are too great. In some of the states the facility for dissolving this most Important of all domestic relations Is so ab surdly easy and quick that there Is an approach to a dissolution of mar riage at the will of the parties. This tends to marriage at will, marriage on trial and eventually to free love, so-called. Human experience has long derm onstrated the impossibility of com pletely eradicating the social evil; the attempt has been made off and on for more than twenty centuries, and almost every possible method has been tried. Yet the evil still ex ists, and there are many good peo ple who have come to advocate reg ulation, while others believe in seg regation. and others In laws which are more deterrent than prohibi tive. As great as the evil is. there has never yet been a complete sup pression and perhaps there never will be, but the laws universally aimed against it have, at least, been deterrertt. Drunkenness Causes Trouble. Drunkenness is a great and long existing evil. All sorts of expedi ents have been resorted to for pre venting it, and the most severe penalties have been enacted to pre vent the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, and yet there are few, if any, places where the use and abuse of liquor have been successfully prevented. So we have with us drunkenness as an ever present evil, and the best so far done is to pass laws deterrent and to elevate humanity beyond and above the drunkard. I believe from many years of observation that drunkenness is on the decline; not so much from prohibition statutes as from education and a change in public opinion from the old idea that "the hero of a feast is the last man up at the table.” So with divorce—the evil can not be eradicated, perhaps ought not to be attempted, but It can and certainly ought to be curtailed. Take the state of South Carolina, and there no divorces for any cause are allowed. It is true that a good many people move from that state to other states and get divorces, but the fact remains that there are fewer separations between husband and wife in that state than in oth er states where the facilities for getting divorce are easy and quick. Money Origin of Divorce. Money Is a frequent, very fre quent. origin of divorce. The edu cation of the people all over the civilized world increases the desire for ease and comfort, the desire to keep up with the procession, and 1 failure to provide the wherewithal provokes unrest, promotes dissatls- j faction, leads to extravagance and Jesuits In "family jars.” If a man does not. or can not. make enough money, the wife in many cases feels aggrieved and seeks counsel from her neighbors. Unfortunately, the advice comes to separate, get ali mony, temporary and permanent, then a divorce and another chance -- j :: The Shopper :: By JAMES W. M’GEE. — » Rt STLE of silks and a breeze of perfume, feeling of awe as she enters the room, A ha R hour wasted in viewing the styles, A curt Thank you, miss,” and a dash through the aisles, Some bright colored silks have attracted her now; The salesman approaches and stops with a bow • The fabric feels good, but the shades aren’t right, The darks are too dark and the lights are too light.” ' I hear rugs are scarce on account of the war And I’m looking for one that would match my boudoir,” I She confides to the man who, alert for a mJ®, Turns his stock inside out, but le destined to fan "The shoes I desire must be handsome but strong, A heel not too high and a toe not too long, 1 think what I'd like Is a number two lace, But I don’t see a suitable shoe; in the place.” Some smart English gloves are the next thing she sees— "l'd juj?t like to try on a pair, if you please;’* j On goes every color from purple to cream, But the pair she selects has a flaw in the seain. [ She wanders along pricing this thing and that. From an Indian canoe to a French beaver hat, ’ Till at la.-., tired out at the close of the day. She expends fifteen cents for a pistgohe frappe. j- in the so-called lottery of marriage. Instead of bringing his earnings or his salary home, the husband, alas, too often spends it for drink I or at the gaming table, and this does authorize a protest from the wife. But she should not turn from persuasion and further effort to the divorce lawyer and the courts. Another frequent cause is that, in this day and generation, our peo ple are constantly' on the move. The love of home—the family nest —the ; place where children are born and ought to be taught to revere, Is all affected injuriously by change. The husband goes, he works In other or many places, he gets weaned from home, and I have seen many cases where husbands have sued their wives for desertion, served the suits by publication and obtained ver dicts, where, in all probability, the wife never heard of the suit and probably was anxiously awaiting his return to her and his children. Undefended Divorce Cases. About 90 per cent of divorce suits are not defended. In many case? they are collusive, and if this could be made to appear, no divorce could or would be granted. But, under the statutes of most, if not all, the states, such cases proceed ex parte, and in this state, for example, ex cept in case of adultery, a total di vorce may be obtained on the un corroborated evidence of the com plaining party. Cruel treatment, so far as my ob servation goes, is by far the great est ground for divorce. That Is u broad and comprehensive term. Our supreme court has defined crue treatment to be the willful Inflic tion of pain, either bodily or men tai, upon the complaining party, to the extent of causing a reasonable apprehension of injury to the life, limb or health of such oomplain- * ant. This broad charge, and the discretion left to the jury or to the court, backed up by the absence of any defense, leaves the question too much open to sympathy' aroused by' the harrowing details of domestic Infelicity, as presented by’ the wife or the apparently afflicted husband. Husband Appears Later. In Georgia It Is left to the dis cretion of the jury to say whether or not the disabilities of the de fendant shall be removed, and gen erally, In undefended cases, the plaintiff makes out such a case as causes the jury to refuse to re move the disability and allow the defendant to remarry. For Instance, the wife gets on the witness stand and testifies that the husband Is a brute or a drunkard or a deserter, the verdict fails to allow him the right to marry' again, and at the next term of the court he comes in with a petition for the removal of his disabilities, and tells hts side of the case, and demonstrates that his wife was a termagant, and he himself so Inoffensive, so chlldliko and bland that no divorce ought ever to have been granted to her, and that he ought to be allowed to take another chance and get a wife worthy of hie affectionate care and devotion. And so with the husband seeking a divorce. When she asks for re moval of her disabilities, she shows that instead of deserting him she was the victim of abandonment by • him.