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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 second-class matter ax ice at Atlanta, under act of March 3, 1873 Subscriptton Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mail. J 5.00 a year Payable in advance. Reciprocity Must Go With ’ Tariff Revision Governor Wilson’s eyes fell upon a striking object-lesson in reciprocity, as he stood on the dock at Hamilton, Bermuda, the other day and watched the landing of that cargo of Argentine cattle that reduced the cost of living on the island. The lesson should be applied in this country. Not only in the little British island, but in the whole United States also, the market prices of the necessaries of life can be cut to the basis of reason by freer commerce with countries that have the things we want to eat and wear, and that want the things we hare to sell. This is the way of the Democratic party to continued .power and popularity, and the opposite way leads to discredit and de feat. Chairman Underwood’s initial conference lacks force and directness along this line. The principle of reciprocity should be the guiding principle of tariff revision. It is not necessary for the Democratic congress to wait for the incoming majority of March 4. The majority in the house is ample for the work, and as a broad national policy, the reci procity principle has been indorsed by every Republican national convention for the last twenty years, and by McKinley. Roosevelt and Taft. Republican presidents and congresses have never done much toward putting the principle into practical effect. But the lead ers of the party have always recognized the fact that the mass of Republican voters, like the mass of Democratic voters, believe in the kind of tariff laws THAT WILL EXPAND OUR MARKETS WITHOUT DIMINISHING OUR POWER TO PRODUCE AND DELIVER THE GOODS. THAT IS R'ECPROCITY. Rightly considered, it is not a party question at all. It should be lifted out of the ruts of party controversy. The gist of reciprocity is to make trade free, so far as free trade is profitable to us, and to maintain protection to American industries, so far as they need protection. The Americans are a practical sort of people, with a practi cal eye for realities and results. We are not easily carried away by any theory of closet philosophers. We are tired of the word-wars between rampant protectionists and raving free-trad ers. Every sensible American understands that in order to have a great volume of commerce going out to the ends of the world, we must produce goods on a large scale. They know that if we should make trade absolutely free, it would ruin many of our in dustries and destroy much of our productive power. They know, on the other hand, that if we should maintain an impassable wall of protection, it would restrict our foreign commerce to the nar rowest limits and destroy much of our commercial power. It is absurd to expand our commerce by methods that de stroy our industries. It is equally absurd to build up world supplying industries by methods that destroy foreign commerce. Thus it is clear to all but rapt visionaries and the muddle headed that, reciprocity is the only reasonable tariff policy. IT COMBINES WHAT IS SOUND IN PROTECTION WITH WHAT IS SANE IN FREE TRADE. Every nation in Continental Europe has lived under a consistent system of reciprocity for the last half century. The United States has been struggling to establish such a system for more than thirty years. We have been balked and thwarted in thia struggle by the rival fanaticism of tariff doctrinaires and by a solid phalanx of selfish vested interests. It was Senator Aldrich who knocked the life out of the reciprocity plans made by James G. Blaine under the McKinley hill of 1900. Aldrich and the sinister interests which he repre sented were the chief enemies of every other reciprocity plan for twenty years. These powers of obstruction have now lost their footing in the United States senate. And the time has come to do, and do thoroughly, what the nation has so long striven to accomplish. Now is the time to plan for a vast expansion of foreign trade through the establishment, of an orderly and consistent sys tem of reciprocity. The Commonplace Adventurers By BERTON BRALEY I '' I ’'HE tang of seas is in them, the power and the might, < A They bring a thrill of tempests and breakers foaming white; > Their faces spell Adventure and in their darting glance There burns the quenchless glamour of those who love Romance. > Yet, though they brave destruction and ever play with death i And danger is their comrade whenever they draw breath. t: The wonder of their toiling is quite beyond their ken— ’ It s only daily labor for Deep Sea Fishermen 1 £ The lacking out of harbor past every rock and shoal, ’ The lift and sag and shudder when heaving combers roll, s Fhe rush of deep sea breezes, the sting of deep sea sprav 5 Are only common items in a common working day, ' 1 hesc tried ami true adventurers are dreaming not at all, S They speak of wind and weather and the chances of a haul, - And when your hours tor sleeping are less than one in ten • Vou 11 do as little dreaming as Deep Sea Fishermen ! < Ihe tog may bring disaster—-a liner, looming high ; (Can twenty thousand tonners look out for smaller fry?l S And when it s ” Dories over"—and gray clouds turn to black, > Aon gamble with your Maker that you’ll he coming back; J 1' s work and sweat and peril from bait to dressing down, fcißAnd all Io feed the Hungry who crowd the busy town. puts hack to Glouc'-ster and widows wail agtnii. ; so our fish is paid fur by Deep Sea Fishermen .' The Atlanta Georgian It’s Nearly the 25th By UAL COFFMAN. 777 _ r7\v, 0 O ® a h B il 11 fAh TT?| J • Jyi —** • --- L\\aV / Wn I - *,».<■' ■- n • z , 1 —U el Z. 4r I HAW »HiA4 O —7 The Rights of Daughters F FREQUENTLY I get letters from girls complaining that their parents will not permit them to have any friends, of either sex visit them in their homes, and that no jailer could be more cruel or more tyrannical to them than their fathers and mothers. I confess that 1 have given scant credence to these charges, for it did not seem possible to me that in this enlightened day any father or mother could have little enough sense, to say nothing of little enough affection, to do the one thing that was surest to drive a young girl away from home, and into the very dangers that beset youth and beauty in a great city. I thought that the narrow, igno rant, selfish, opinionated, mean lit tle despof of the home existed only in melodrama on Fourteenth street, where the stern parent still sur vives, and turns his daughter out of house and home. But it seems that I was mistaken, as the following letter shows. And it's a real, gen uine. bona tide letter written by a woman wko signs herself “One in Trouble." She writes: “I am tile mother of two daughters who are both work ing, but 1 think 1 have the rigrtit to control their actions in every way and expect their implicit obedience. I have no trouble with my younger daughter, who is delicate, and al ways obeys me in everything, but the older girl, who is 28 years old and a mlllinet gives me great an noyance. The Worst Enemies. “I think a girl's place is at home after her day's work is over. But my daughter wants to go out. She prefers other people's company to ours, and likes to go out to the the ater. I do not give her permission to go. nor does she go. as she knows her father would disown her if she did, and she gets very mbpy, and this is disagreeable for us. "We do not object to her getting married to a good man. but where is one who will be to her what we have been? I am constantly telling her this, but slib rebels and says that she would like to have young men i all at the house Now, my husband has gotjt ami we can not be annoyed with men culling. Be side>. we all retire at 10 o’clock every < vening. and no one comes or FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1912. By DOROTHY DIX goes from our house after that hour. We are highly respectable and al low no nonsense in our home. "1 have just found out that my daughter is keeping company with some man. I can not tell how, or where, as she is always home before 10. I do not know how to keep her from him. She used to tell me everything, but as I put a stop to all of her other men acquaintances, she is hiding this from me, and I am much worried. I do not even know If the man is a married man or not. and I do not believe any re spectable man would have anything to do with a girl who can not open ly receive him in her own home. Please tell me how to gain my daughter’s confidence, and also how to stop this affair before it has gone too far." Doesn't ft seem incredible that there could be two human beings in the world with little enough knowledge of life and youth to act as this father and mother are do ing? Undoubtedly they love their daughter, and desire her good, and ypt the most malevolent enemy in the world couldn’t have devised any better plan for ruining her life. To begin with, they are so in credibly selfish that to prevent tlfemselves from being disturbed and their provincial little pleas ures broken Into, they cut their daughters out of all of the joys and pleasures of their girlhood. Youth has a right to laugh, to have company, to dance, to make merry and to go to theaters and places of amusement, and for a girl’s par ents to keep her from enjoying these innocent pleasures is to de fraud her out of her birthright. The home, according to the moth er's own statement of it. is worse than any jail, and that the girl doesn't run away and leave it, as she would be perfectly justified tn doing at 28 years of age, shows that She is a young woman with an ex traordinarily high sense of duty, if she had been of a more pleasure loving disposition and a weak fibre, she would have skipped out long ago and joined the ranks of the chorus—or worse. Many a girl is driven into the primrose path by her parents making her own home so dreary and unattractive that it. seemed better to take any risk than to stay in it. As for refusing to let a girl have • a beau at home, are there any par ents so dull as not to be able to fig ure out what the result of that is bound to be? If the girl is very homely, and the father and mother lucky, it adorns her to be an old maid. If the girl is good looking and attractive, it means that she will meet men on the street and i pick up chance acquaintances, and that some day she will elope with some stranger of whom her people never heard, and who is more likely than not to be just the man I she shouldn’t have married. To What They Doom Her. Instead of driving young men away from their home, every father and mother of daughters should not only welcome their daughter’s male acquaintances, but should use every means to get personally acquainted with the young men and find out everything possible about them, for only in that way can they guard their daughters and prevent them from making disastrous marriages. This mother complains that her daughter doesn't confide in her. Why should she? How could the mother expect it when she puts her foot down on every plan the girl has and forbids her every pleasure? I Such a woman is not a mother. She's nothing but a grinding ty rant, and she had as well realize that her daughter looks upon her as a despot and not a sympathetic friend. The mother asks my advice. It is this: Turn over a new leaf. Wake up to the fact that a girl of 28 isn't a baby. She is a woman grown, with a woman’s rights. Give her some pleasure at home if you want her to stay there. Let her invite in ail of her friends, and make as many parties as she wants to. Sus pend your 10 o’clock rule, for it's a lot better that you and your gouty husband should lose a little sleep than it Is for your daughter to be meeting strange men on the street. Just remember if you want to keep your children at home you've got to make your home an agree able place to stay in. If you want your children's love, you must be lovable, and if you desire your daughter s confidence, you must lis ten t<* her with understanding, sym pathy and helpfulness. Nobody, npt even a daughter, loves a jailer, 1 or confides in ;■ wet blanket. THE HOME PAPER Garrett P. Serviss Writes on The Automobile It Will Probably Prove To Be the Greatest Step in Locomo tion —One Million Cars Regis tered in the United States, or Nearly One for Every Ninety Human Beings. Bv GARRETT P. SERVISS. ■* ,r AN’S greatest invention is IVI the wheel. It solved the problem of swift and easy locomotion for him and rendered all his engines possible. In the wheel human ingenuity has departed fur thest from nature’s models. The wheel is a circular leg with an endless foot. It was one of the earliest products of pure brain work. We tnay imagine that on a flat surfaced planet, such as Mars ap pears to be, nature may possibly have furnished animals with wheels. Rut here man had to think of that improvement for himself. Nature gave him only spokes; he added the rim, and locomotion was revolutionized. When you walk you bring the ends of the spokes one after the other upon the ground with a great loss of time, effort and speed. The endless foot only be comes effective on an even surface, and man, almost at the beginning of his career, had the good sense to provide himself, first with smooth roads, and then with rimmed legs, or wheels. His progress at first was slow, but it has now become rapid. He had the bullock cart for thousands of years before he invented the lo comotive engine and the railroad car. Was First Improvement. But, after that, a few generations sufficed to bring in the automo bile. which needs no rails to run on. This will probably prove to be th« greatest step in locomotion that lias been taken since the invention of the wheel—greater in many ways than the locomotive engine itself. It has certainly had the swiftest progress, for half a generation has seen its almost complete develop ment. Glancing over the colored photo graphs in the current number of the monthly magazine called Mo- ToR (a quaint specimen of typog raphy which is full of symbolism), one obtains an astonishing sense of the ’ mastery that is in the motor car. It must be a revelation to many who use such cars in a half-timid way, not really compre hending the power that they pos sess. Look at the picture of a pow erful automobile easily plowing its way through a snow-choked road, in which a horse-drawn vehicle would be hopelessly moored fast. And then turn to the photographs of automobiles winding round mountain roads, skirting profound chasms, and, without loss of breath, carrying their passengers to eleva tions and viewpoints that could not otherwise be attained without great exertions on the part of horse and man, and at the cost of immense Cholera Scourges of Other Times ryMIE terrible ravages cholera Is | making at the present time in Turkey remind one of many previous occasions when epi demics have carried off thousands at a time. As early as 767 B. C. we read of a plague, and again in 453 B. C. Rome suffered terribly. Athens was attacked by a pestilence In 430 B. C., which was believed to have been caused by their enemies poi soning the water supplies. As mans - as 10,000 people a day fell victims to the plague at Rome in A. D. 80. So mans' people were killed during the epidemic which occurred in Britain during the fifth century that there were hardly suf ficient persons left to burs' the dead. In 772 Chichester lost 34,000 people, and in 954 Scotland lost 40,000. London was visited in the tenth and eleventh centuries, and Ireland suffered severely in 1204, The Oriental plague occurred be tween 1348 and 1382. It was known as the ‘'Black Plague,” on account of the black spots which appeared on the skin at death. It started in China in 1333, and the deaths num bered 13,000,000, and 24.000.000 suc cumbed in the rest of Asia. It ap peared in Norway and Sweden in 1349 and 1382. About 2.000,000 fell victims to the Black Plague In Eng land. of which 52,000 occurred in London alone. The sweating sickness appeared in England four times during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the first time in 1485, and lasted one month, in which 20.000 people died in London alone. It also vis- ■ Z I JI F loss of time. The huge dragon eyes of the auto stare at you from the mouths of canyons, and its broad, padded wheels take safe hold on the edges of precipices where even the sure-footed broncho would not in spire confidence. The statistics of the automobile are amazingly interesting reading. If you neglect to inform yourself about them you miss one of the most significant things of our era. At the last census we had about 90,000,000 inhabitants in this coun try. On October 1 last there were almost 1,000,000 motor cars regis tered in the United States—nearly one for 90 human beings. A Prerogative of the Rich. California has one for everj- JS of its inhabitants; New York fc.r every 75. Os course, many of. these cs s are used for business purposes ami for public conveyance, and think how vastly they have promoted ef ficiency and rapidity in the carry ing of goods and passengers. The possession of private cars is still a prerogative of comparative wealth. But the cost will inevitably come down. The time is surely coming when any man who could formerly afford to own a horse and buggy can have an automobile for family and for the transaction of his affairs. At present many man ufacturers cater only to the riel, but in a little while they wilt cater to the whole people. The time when the sight of a:, automobile awakens feelings of envy and prejudice is fast passing. The world can not afford to stand in its own light. To do so Is to hold back the era of mind. All these things are the product of brain. and man’s only hope for the future on this planet is in his brain. Every invention has met with op position at the outset. They stoned railway cars when they were first introduced in England. Have Opposed Progress. Foolish workmen have smashed, or tried to smash, at the beginning, almost every new machine designed to do better and more quickly the work of human hands, but in the end they have always found that those same machines were the means of their own emancipation. The automobile has quickened the pulses of the planet. It has given us a clearer idea of the value of time. It has freed the horse from slavery and us from depend ence upon enslaved muscles. It is showing us how far behind we have been lingering in the development of speed and comfort, and it fore tells a yet brighter era when the world will move still faster, and. in . moving faster, will live more. f ited Holland, Germany. Denmark, Sweden, Poland and Russia be tween 1525 and 1530. In the seventeenth century a pestilence broke out in London anti carried off 30,000 people. In Ly ons 60,000 died during 1632 through a scourge which swept over France. Italy lost 400,000 in six months in 1656. In the seventeenth century Hol land was visited by a plague; in Leyden 13,000 died of it, and the following year 13,287 died in Am sterdam. It was brought to London in bales of cotton by some Dutch merchants. This was the plague of London, and, as every one knows, about 100,000 persons died in one year. Persia lost 80,000 from a pesti lence in 1773, and Egypt 800,000 .during 1790. Epidemics of cholera appeared in France several times during the nineteenth century, in which 18,000 people died In Paris between March and August. 1832. It appeared in England In 1848 and 1849, carrying off 13,161 person , and 5,000 persons were carried oft in London in 1866 in fifteen week 1 During recent years India has been heavily visited by plagues —In Bombay, Northwest Presidency and Punjab and in a less degree in Burma and other parts of India. In January, 1905, there was a week ly mortality of 20,000 reaching by steady increase a total of 702. By April 1 it had dropneu to 4,000 weekly, but again reached 5,000 by the end of June. Tw< years after the number of victims amounted to as many as 1,310.000