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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 postofflce at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 187>. ttabacrlptton Price- Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mail, $5.00 a year S'j-.-nnl* in adviutea. ■ z zz i Uncle Sam LIVES IN PAN AMA—And Where He Lives, He Is the Ruler It May Make John Bull Tearful, But He Will Have to Make Up His Mind That American Territory Is To Be Controlled by Americans. The right of this (•oiniirv to the Panama canal, and in the terri tory through which tlx Panama canal runs, and in all matters affecting the i-anai. is exactly the same as the right of any little, round bodied Englishman in his little English home at Clapham • lunelion or al Basingstroke Tin Englishman bought the laud on which his little house stands. And h,- Imilt the little house, and paid for it. lb would In much amazed and apoplectically indignant if any “blasted Yaitlw dared suggest that he (the Yankee) had rights in that house, or could forbid the Englishman to treat his own chil dren in Itis own house with especial consideration. We submit to the congress of tin i oiled States and to Mr. Wilson, who will soon follow Mr. Taft, and. let us hope, maintain the doctrine of American authority al Panama, that what the Eng lishman s little house is to the Englishman, tin Panama canal is to the I Hited Stales government. The United States bought the land surrounding the canal, and built the canal, just as the Englishman bought the land and built his house. The Englishman in his own house has a perfect right to say that his own children may come and go without charge, or Jive with out paying board. At the same time, he has a right to make out siders pay. if he takes them in at all This government, in its own Panama territory and its own Panama canal, has a right to say that the children of the American government —the people of this country—may enjoy special favors in the American canal, and that the outside world shall not be on a par with the citizens of this country. That is all there is to this canal controversy. We have at Pan ama the rights that an Englishman has in his house. And the na tion would resent and repudiate any attempt by Anglomaniacs OR AMERICAN FINANCIERS OWNING FOREIGN STEAMSHIP LINES, to dictate conditions or impose regulations. I The United States government has been more than fair in its attitude toward other nations. Ships of all the world, crossing the oceans, are allowed to use the canal, and they pay for its use only as much as is paid BY THE OCEAN-GOING SHIPS OF THE UNITED STATES We make a discriminat ion only tn favor of our coastwise trade, that is to say, in favor of American ships that trade from one American port to another American port. And this can not possibly work injustice to any foreign nation, SINCE FOREIGN NATIONS ARE NOT ALLOWED, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. TO EN GAGE IN COASTWISE TRADE IN OUR COUNTRY. . It would not help them to have the United States charge our coastwise shipping for the use of the canal. THERE IS NO COM PETITION AT ALL IN THE COASTWISE SHIPPING BUSI - NESS. The fact is that the Ingenious Englishmen always ask for I everything in sight, and the American Anglomaniac toadies are not alone in siding with England in this canal matter. There are men far more powerful and able than our snobs and toadies working on the side of England. These men include some of the richest men in the United States, who own great fleets of ships sailing under English colors, and who are very anxious that those ships should make as much money as possible-regardless of the interests of the United States. The American ship trust owners, controlling various English lines, look into the future with their minds and hearts on the divi (lends of their ship trust. Os course, as their money is in English shipping, they want English shipping under the American (lag to be profitable. They fear that the freedom from canal charges now granted to American coastwise vessels otdj may be eventually extended to include bona fide AYnerican ships crossing the oceans. There is no question that that SHOULD be done for the sake of American shipping. These men that own English ships are Americans, where their pocketbooks are not concerned adversely, but they are very loyal Englishmen in matters affecting the protit of their English ships. And they are the gentlemen that puli the strings and cause certain • aim . w. ak-backed new spapers to declare that America has ao right to control her own canal, and that it is treachery and dishonesty for the United States to exercise authority in its own house. Fortunately, tin people of the I'nited Slates understand the situation. They know that several hundred millions of their dollars built the canal. And they know that lite people that built the eanal and own tb tliw>ut.'i> which it runs. SHOULD control it. The Atlanta Georgian THURSDAY. DECEMBER 26. 1912. Every Man Master in His Own House Drawn by TAD. Iflfei.; I ' ■ z . . i I yZZV 'ASZJ JZ. ' V.K <»• -hl'A i.'LU i •z z - f - SjK J '• • 4 . i B3SB2SS I viilß J. t ! | .WOOW —a : J |||| i l' -<z_. - |||} ”11 I --y- The Englishman is very fond of reminding you that “An Englishman's house is his castle.” S But he would make himself very much at home in our American house at Panama, if Uncle Sam ; would let him. Some keen American money-makers and some selfish American snobs would help < him, if they could. But Americans will manage American territory for some time to come. Women W ho Talk About Their Husbands By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. « Copyright, 1812, by American-Journal-Examiner. . WHATEVER you may suffer, 'y madam, from the sins of omission or commission of your husband, the moment you speak of these matters to any one save your attorney (or to the ex ceptional parent), you arc proving yourself to be a woman lacking the finer qualities of womanhood. And you are proving your inabil ity to really love. The woman who has Celt love in its fullest and best sense could not talk of the wounds she had received at love’s hands, only as .slie had resolved to make an end of a sit uation which had become intoler able. And then she would talk alone to those whom she might look for aid and counsel. It is a distressing fai t, neverthe less, that scores of wives who claim to be loving and loyal find hysteri- ■ cal pleasure in talking to friends and even mere acquaintances about their marital dlsillusionments. It is seldom a man is found woo is so weak and mawkish as to dis cuss his domestic infelicities with other men But in every community women abound whose principal distraction lies in posing as misundetstood and unappreciated wives. Complain to Their Mothers. Many wives begin to voice their complaints to their mothers by the end of the honeymoon, and If tlie mother is lacking in sound good sense (as so many mothers are), the young wife is encouraged to pour into the maternal ear every fleeting thought of dissatisfai tion or momentary trouble which may come into her life. The sensible and uell-polsed motlie’ doos not lend a •ready ear to such complaints. She says to her daughter. "You must not per mit every little disappointment which comes to all of us to as sume th? form of a tragedy : you must not allow your mind to dwell . on the fallings anti shot feomiligs of the man you have chosen for a husband. “You must continue to think of him as you did in your days of courtship ami to believe he is all you dreamed he was. Speak only of his good qualities, of his virtues and worth, and give him much praise in speaking to him, and of him Whatevei faults you observe keep quiet regarding I hem and wait and hope and pray and believe that they will decrease “Remember lie is also discover ing faults in you Ami remember how mortified and angry y ou would feel if you knew he wa- complain ing to his patents or friends about you." The mother al o talk u te.i iwuiner to her daughter nrny emo. ')• the steps of a. young wife away from the path that leads to discord a,nd divorce, while she who listens to and sympathizes with every slight or fancied trouble is help ing to make another marriage a failure. Confessing' a Mistake. The greatest humiliation which can come to am \v»inan is to con fess that she has made a mistake in her marriage : that she has mar ried a man who does not love her enough to render her happy and who in any way neglects or misuses her. It should be the last thing a woman could !)<• rorued into saying, * ind only to b<- said when she is resolved upon putting an end to an intolerable situation. Woman’s tirs» md imumost dll- - i ness in lit’, is to b< loved and ad mired and respected by a man and to stand as his ideal mate and companion. If she ha.< failed in her work, either because she has not filled a worthy man's ideal or* because she has made a mistake in her selec tion. she should be too humiliated and too sad to speak of it unless driven to it by necessity. No business partnership could be :: i lie Golden Hind :: By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. IT was three hundred and thirty five years ago that Sir Francis Drake, in the Golden Hind, fol lowed by four other vessels, set out upon his memorable voyage around the world. Reaching tlie Barbary coasts and Cap< V ' • ■ < ossed the Atlantic to Brazil, thence to the Straits of Mag -Ilan, tlirougn which ue entered the Pacific, sailing along the coasts of South ami North America as far as tlie presi nt British Columbia. From that point lie crossed the Pa cific byway of the Moluccas and Java, doubled ('ape of Good Hope, passed along the western coast of Africa, and thence to Plymouth, which port he reached on the third of November, 1580, having been on his voyage two xears and ten months. It was the first time that an Eng 'ishman had eircunniavigated the globe. ;<nd, duly appreciating the ’a 't Queen Elizabeth gave direc tions for tin preservation of the Golden Hind, that it might ever re main a monument of her great ad miral's and h e countryglory. It x sad to know, however, that after something mot, liviii :• century, tin grain! old vessel heeani, so decay, d that ft bud to »e broken up. •;* expected to succeed if one partner was continually talking to outsid ers of the shortcomings of the other members of the association. Marriage js a most important and dignified business, and every rule : which makes other business asso ciations successful can well be brought into plays in the domestic concern. The very first rule of all good business men is to keep a close mouth to outsiders regarding the inside working of the business. Now that women are striving to be thought equals of men in business ■ matters, let them apply this rule to” , their married lives and cease bab bling to their relatives or tlieir friends of their infelicities. Stamps Herself a Failure. The moment a woman has spoken of her marital troubles or disappointments to any one (unless it is to her'lawyer, for the purpose of obtaining freedom), that mo ment she may as well realize she has announced some failure tn her self as the cause of the’existing condition. For the woman who is | so indelicate as to talk of such a matter to a third party proves that < her nature lacks some important qualities which go toward building -!• happy homes and marriages. A wonderful man was Sir Francis Drake. If there was ever a Vorn sailor, it was he. At sixteen lie had passed his apprenticeship on a. coasting ship; at twenty lie was a man of recognized importance, and | at twenty-one lie was a captain. W hile still a very'young man, he got, from the top of a tall tree on the Isthmus of Panama, his first glimpse of the great Pacific ocean, and it was right then and there ihut lie took a solemn oath to him self that “Gofi helping him, he would sail an English ship in those England's, and humanity’s, worst enemy at that time was Spain, and tlie story of Drtike's memorable voyage shows that from start to finish of his world-girdling trip he lost no opportunity to “singe the beard of tlie king of Spain." He pitched into every eraft that flew tin Spanish flag, and failed not to pay his warmest respects to every town or hamlet dong the coasts above which fluttered the yellow ensign of Hlspania. Drake died aboard his ship, near Hie (own ot Noinbre ■!• Dios, in the West indies, in 1595. at tlfi age of fifty , literally worn out by tht vic pries that he hud won. THE HOME DOROTHY DIX Writes on Greetings / v- r The Way His Wife Meets Him on His Return From Work Settles the Question of Many a Man’s Ability to Fight the Battle of Life—And How -a Man Greets His Wife Means Hap piness or Misery For Her. By DOROTHY DIX. IN London they are going to hold a “simple life exhibition,” in which the simple life is to be treated in its relation to the mar ried life. Demonstrations are to be given showing the right and wrong methods of treating a husband and a wife. There will be a model room, in which there will be a wife awaiting her husband's return, and a man will show how other men should act upon their return to their own firesides, while a woman wili give an exhibition of the manner in which a wife should receive her husband when he comesTiome of an evening. His Grouchmess. This exhibition of home manners ought to do good, even If It doesn’t. It’s a pity that a lot of husbands and wives can't get a living picture of the sort of welcome that they hand out to their unfortunate spouses. If they did, they wouldn’t wonder that divorce is so common. They would be amazed that one other husband or wife wasn’t on his or her way to Reno. One of the reasons why so many men come home smelling of cloves and rye of an evening is because they have to brace up their courage to go home at all, and face what, they’ve got to contend with as soon as their front doors shut behind them. The chief reason why there are so many haggard looking, nervous, hypochondriacal women is because there are such a large number of wives whose hearts go into their shoes at the click of their husbands’ key in the lock of an evening, and who use up every particle of nerve force they have got enduring the grouchiness and knocking of a man . who thinks that (lie marriage serv ice has given him a license to abuse the woman he married worse than be would a dog. Perhaps not one woman in a mil lion ever really takes any thought about how she shall meet her hus band. yet upon this apparently trivial matter hangs the question of whether marriage is a success or a failure to him. Thtnk of a man coming home of an evening, tired and worn with the day’s work. Suppose he comes home to a house that is dark. Suppose there is no one to welcome him because his wife Is away, gadding the streets. Perhaps the house is untidy, and there is no dinner, save some messy stuff from the delicatessen store that the wife will bring in when she comes home. Sacrifices Worth While. Suppose when a man comes home he looks for little faces against the window pane, watching for papa. Suppose as he puts the key into tile door there is a scurry..pf little feet to meet him, and smothering arms about his neck. Suppose his first glance of home is of a cheery, bright, orderly room, and of a swee* faced woman with eyes glorified b> love welcoming him. Suppose tlie savory odors of a good dinner cook ing streams from the kitchen also to meet him. Don't you think that makes a dif ference which way a man is met when he comes home of an even ing'.' Don't you think that one man feels that no matter how hard he works for his family nor how much he saeiiflees for them that it is worth while, and that he gets value return for his service, while T~ other man usks himself —and ■ —. *ll ‘* IMF ' '» jfl ( 4 >- f bodv can blame him—“Oh, what's the use ?” Suppose a. man eoiqes home nerve racked of an evening. All day long he has been on the rack of terrible anxiety, all day he has had to fight for his very existence, all day he had to hold himself with an Iron hand to keep from offending those whom it would be suicide in his business or profession to offend. He is <it tlie place where he feels the weight of another feather would break his back, yet the minute lie opens the door - of his home his wife deluges him with every petty vex ation that has happened to her '.lur ing the day. Before he can eaten itis urea, she has begun on how bad the eiii - dren have been, how the tab’ broke his pet pipe, how the ooi. is going to leave, how bis butcher bill is, how strange it is that he can’t make .money tu buy an automobile, as Tom Jones has done. Suppose an exhausted mau .... e home of an evening to a wife whos> wise eyes take in just how weary lie is ami who drags him aero,-, tii threshold into an atmosnhe perfect peace and calm, of soothing icfVe and flattery, and who ; only bright and joyous thing will divert his weary mind anu make him forget- the cares • •., day. That Settles Question. It doesn’t take any Sherlock Holmes to tell which urn of ti-esc men is going over tile! reeii i. . ./ nervous prostration, does it. The way his wife meets him settles question of inany a nian's ability to fight tlie battie of life. And suppose a woman has worked and toiled all -day in the home. Suppose she Las wrestled with teething babies and refractory sewing machines, and hae burnt herself to a cinder cooking some fa vorite dish for her husband. Sup pose w’hen he comes home he bang’ the door, and kick- cat. am slaps the baby, and sits down mm gobbles his dinner, and mere grunts when she asks him u ques tion. Suppose his first word on en tering the house is invariably a criticism. Suppose he never notices anything that she has done except to knock'it. Suppose a woman has spent her day in tlie dull round of doinestL duties, doing them as earnestly and conscientiously as she can and when night comes she is worn. ' n body and soul. Suppose when • ’ husband comes home he meets we witli a glad,'’sweet smile and ' ' “ and tells her that site grows mm’’ beautiful every day, and tliat tlie most wonderful housekeep. the world, and that lie think guardian angel must have working overtime when he get ' Suppose the husband brings him light and cheer, and brightt ,k s all the little gossip of the eiit-t world that he has picked ur which to amuse her. Any difference in life betw-et those two women? Any likeli! 1 of one of those two women fim 1 alfa flinfty. and the other one r"’ One may be the wife of a m'H aire and the other the wifi 11 ,l poor clerk, but one is miserabb the other happy, for the w»y husband meets her when lie > "m 1 ” home of an evening makes . ' 1 . :i envy, or envious. Believe inc, tlie firt of »oui husband or your '('•.■ i-“ 1 studying.