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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon E»<vnt Siindax B> THE CEORCJA.X < ~ . , u -> E*»t Alabama St.. Atlanta. Entered as s.-. ..nd-. .uaa matter at poatvffb * at Atlanta, under a--t of Man h 3.1*73 subscript on I rite [telivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. H. mall. ’’> Oo a ear Payable in Advance. Was YOUR MOTHER Unfit to Vote? If She Was. We Are Sorry for You. But 1 hat Is No Reason for Your Frying to Keep the Vote Away from Women Better I han Your Own Mother Hap pened to Have Been. Pity the Man Who Despises Women. Copyright, li«i:i It is an outrageous thing, a disgrace to men and a cruel in justice to women, that the mothers of this country should be forbidden to share in the making of the laws. Look at the picture on this page. It represents the average good woman taking care of a family. What man will dare say that this woman is not fit to vote or that she has not THE RIGHT to vote? She brings the children into the world. She cares for them. She endures the drudgery, hardship and monotony of the home, while the man is away, engaged in work infinitely less trying. The mother suffers the dreadful agony of childbirth, in finitely worse than any suffering on the battlefield, about which men talk so much. And she suffers the pangs of anxiety and sorrow when her children are ill; she goes through an ordeal which to men is in conceivable when one of her children dies. The whole load of the world is upon woman’s back. She creates the entire race, the men and the women. Unjust laws weigh heavily upon her. Bad laws and failure to execute the laws destroy the char acter of her sons, and she suffers. Inconceivably stupid and brutal are those who would for bid women the vote. Nothing more admirable could be conceived than tne won derful courage shown by those women in England, protesting in starvation and to the point of death against man's injustice. Did you read the description of that noble old woman, Mrs. Fankhurst, tried by a judge and a lot of other MEN, and sent to jail for three years? You talk about the courage of men. Where has a man shown the courage of that old woman, refusing to eat, defiantly telling her judges that she would come out of prison soon— DEAD OR ALIVE- and proving the courage to live up to her declaration? Don't you know that that woman was only asking for HER RIGHT? And they have released her from prison because she would not eat jail food. Suppose she had been an old MAN. brought before twelve WOMEN and one female judge. What would you think if you saw an old man, judged by women exclusively, pitifully asking for the right to share in the making of the laws that sent him to jail? Have not the women of the country a right to defy laws WHEN THEY AKE NOT PERMITTED TO SHARE IN THE MAKING OF THE LAWS? Have not men from the beginning done infinitely worse things than the suffragettes of England ever did, in the effort to get the vote and freedom? Did not the so called noble patriots of this country in the early days resort to excesses that cannot even be described, when they were protesting against England's refusal to give them a share in representation, since they paid taxation? We all talk with admiration about our Revolution, and about the fights THAT MEN MADE AGAINST MEN TO GET THE RIGHT TO VOTE AND CONTROL THEMSELVES. AND WE FORGIVE THE FACT EVEN THAT IN BOSTON “THE PATRIOTS DROVE NAKED WOMEN THROUGH THE PUBLIC STREETS Why do we not show some of that admiration and sympathy and forgiveness for the women of England and for the women of other countries in their desperate effort to obtain for them selves justice and fair treatment? To the man who opposes suffrage, or who sneers at the ef forts of noble women to gain their right, we ask these questions: Why do you despise women and think them unfit to vote? WAS YOUR OWN MOTHER UNFIT TO VOTE? Have you so poor an opinion of your mother, of your sister, of your daughter, that you think her less worthy to exercise her judg ment and share in government than some miserable • creature soaking himself with whisky in a corner saloon? Every bit of gentleness instilled into you as a child you got from your mother. Every man is born a savage, and it is the mother who patiently and gently diminishes cruelty and vio lence and instills kindness and gentleness into him. What an infamy for a man to say that the woman who is fit to direct him in his childhood, to govern him in his boyhood, and to inspire him in his manhood IS UNFIT TO CAST A VOTE Women to day are the heavily taxed class. The taxes used to be laid by government ON MEN. Men paid the road tax. and they paid stamp taxes and other taxes. ■To day the chief taxes are laid BY TRUSTS ON WOMEN The Oil Trust, the Coal Trust, the Beef Trust, the Sugar Trust, the Flour Trust, the Ice Trust—these are forces of gov ernment that tax without representation, AND THEY TAX WOMEN WHO PAY THE HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES Don't you think that the woman who pays the taxes of the trusts would have intelligence enough to vote to stop this tax ation? Is not the woman good enough to educate the boys and girls, good enough to advise her husband, patient and kind enough to endure the hard lot of women, good and intelligent enoueh to share in the government of a country? Woman is braver than man; she has proved it a thousand million times in childbirth. Woman is more devoted than man; the woman who will not sacrifice her life for her child is an ex ception And even in those fields of courage of which the men boast, the women prove themselves more courageous than the men Women ought to vote, and they will vote The man who op poses woman suffrage disgraces himself, and he indirectly casts reproach upon his own mother and upon the other wemen that he has known If you have been unfortunate enough to have a mother unfit to vote KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT and let others more fortu uale than yourself give votes to the good mothers of this country. The Atlanta Georgian Hasn’t She a RIGHT to Vote? ill Isssl IB 'Wf II; ti.W- Wi w im II I wk i® . it -M; -lai Mfcg f&a-gaaWK ■>' •tJSWI •■mm ■■■ ■ ■ wiioß ‘ . BBEIB WZ&i, niarS EHENSIGtSBE£. How can any but a brute and an ignoramus deny that this woman, the mother of children, has a right to share in the making of laws? It is not a favor that woman asks when she demands the vote. Indoor Safest Place—Shun Trees, Umbrellas and Wire Fences. By GARRETT P SERVISS, ALA DY writes me that Mie narrow’.* vsvaprd Im ing struck hy lightning some y <ars ago. and now she Is ill mor nl tenor cveiy time the Season for thunderstorms approa< hes. anil she wishes to know hat pre cautions one ought to take in or der to avoid danger from this source. At the same time a man writes that he and his family llk« to spend the hot months in the coun try mar a small boiiy of water, but, having heard piat water at tracts-lightning, they are nervous alwHit it. and much of their sum mer pleasure is destroyed by fear o* t b unders I«a m« The Idols in Our Midst By JACOB J. LEIBSON. II.!Z\TIOX i> prowl She boasts among In r ebnouests x ihe overthrow of >upf rMition il’i passing of darkness from the mind ami idolatry fr«»m the hca r \V. vain vre.’t in the kn<»w!r<ia* that v-r no longer se<K favor from fetiches «r grace fr mi gargoyles. Th idols arc. indre d. • broke in the Temples of Baal.” Astarte and Moloch arc de stroyed. t’hemosh is no more. And »'<w. do oe not worship a living God The very thought of idols repels us. and the horror of idol-worship. with its unspeakable outrages, aroit>i‘s abhoirw nw and pity. When the last of their temples w.r* destroyed ami their priests put to tile -word there was m i« h rej*d« ing -imoiit the righte<»u>. \ • iM-li*-ved tin* saw tile drab of heal Hut ;da-‘ Baal though ut’ : ' »tis»d. lived. on. and x ’ ' lived lid Mohs h R- well—in the hea*ts •»? men It was t in-re they had their origin. Fiom Gruelty t.ev sprang and Vhr nurtured v.t m tnd there thex < «>ntin io wa>k bcddlx abroad ,m "he and tm w■’ ,<r* they tii.it aievu. V\ Im id oil H« ua» ntia f Precaution Against Lightning Everybody knows phoplv who are almost paralvznl by terror whenever a thundei-torm is rag ing about them, ami since the sea son of such storms is not far off. ami there is no way known to science nf preventing their •nciir rence. it i> worth while to recall some of the facts that have been learned about ii* iu. Clouds Act as Conductor. A flash, a bolt, of lightning is simply a discharge of electricity, resembling that which may be produced, on a >n»all scale, by ac f iimulating a charge on the con ductor of an »deetric machine, and then bringing ><»m« abject near, io which the electricity will leap like a tiackling thread of flame In He* case of lightning the wanted for devotees Greater than ill the i; i- h* now. more powerful, more exacting. Hi tempi, -• are many, of wood and stone. »»f metal- fine ami marble, many • übits Irgh. His priests are in the high pla* »s. surfeited with luxury and garbed like piinves. His aulytcs swing their relist;s of di.»<- and raise their voices in his praise. Ami most propitiously he |«ours into their la I s G< »LI) Cru-I as of oid. he still demands on hre altars the immolation of human beings, the lives of chil dren And what is -o cheap as the life of a child? \sk tins grinning idol .MoLih'H \\» «al! him I’HH.b I. \H« di The shameful stcl.fi. ♦ go. s oil Tbot-al.d’. O i s V.Carns suffer littl. c.dhhen to «om>- unto him, lull n a- in iio days t Semi tic h» ath<-nism. For tun s.-nd not their own chihlreh. but the children of others, the children of the ,m»oi BLESSED Alt:-: THE pi »i»::: So M.lih !1 -nmo m ours lame. set am. adv er-:i '. .ten Josiah I .J. r. ..1 T-phe.;, , t, f • F Jos' th t»» ♦ efii« i’n.‘p , i m 1 thiuugh I a u. . i<» M 1 SHE SIMPLY ASKS HER RIGHT. She ought to have it and she WILL have it. Shame on the man who thinks his own mother unfit to vote. (SEE EDITORIAL.) place of the charged conductor is taken by an electrified cloud, and the earth beneath serves as the object which "draws its fire.” But the strength of the dis charge depends upon the density of the charge on the conductor. The charge resides upon the sur face, and if more and more elec trification is given to the same’ conductor the density increases until the strain upon the sur rounding air becomes so great that it can no longer he borne, and then a discharge takes place through the air, which instantly relieves the strain by lowering the pressure. Now. on a thunder cloud, which <s composed of billions upon bil lion* of minute pat tides of vapor, each of which has contributed its ■ electrical charge to the common stock, the density, or potential becomes enormous: and. when the discharge takes place, the flash may extend several miles through the air. From House to Earth. The small • discharge from an cb'ctrival machine will burn par ticles of dust, or demolish minute ohpl t It will also produce a severe shock in the human body. But the gigantic discha ge from a thunder cloud will instantly kill m» n and larger animals, tear off the branches. «•: rend the trunks of great trees, hurl down chim neys and towers, destroy roofs, melt iron rods and chains, and set tire to buildings and haystacks. It was not until Franklin in vented the lightning r<»d that men km w any way to ward off the strokes* of lightning. The Hgh - tiing r»»u c«»» s its work by provid ing an easy j oad for the electric discharge. When |opt«l.v con st ucte.i t may t-ven prevent too eat . n .*. « nnii ..(ion of pot**n ti.»’ in the . h.<i. s above hv grau u.-*‘iy drawing <»iT their electric \ • ■ ding to Piofessnr G. F Park? . an effective way to pro •e. • an o'dinar> house from light r:ng .s to run galvanized iron Igr ..-i wire up .. *h - cor r ers. ; ,onz a! ♦ r ges an< \ ind over a.’ t.te ch nneys. ng h» > in > don n t>> ea th ir. e. v» iai ole es. and at »*o .1 1 aivund iht wirt m order io ca- 1 tabllsh an efficient connection with the ground.’’ These wires should terminate above in shat p points, elevated several feet. The object of al’ this is to furnish ready way® for the electricity to travel between the clouds and the earth. Trave! it will, somehow, if it takes a fan cy to go'in* that direction, and if the way is not open it will open it by force. But it will usually follow an iron wire, if it has no sharp turns, as obediently as a led child. There is danger however, in being near a lightning rod when a discharge takes place through it. because the, human body is .< fairly good conductor, and an overflow current from the wire would be apt to leap to it. As to personal protection. with out regard to lightning rods, the safest place in a thunderstorm is n a house. Keep the doors and windows closed. Avoid the neigh borhood of stoves, chimneys and fireplaces. especially if a fire is burning in them. Remain in th* center of the room. Do not car ry large metallic objects in the hand.**, ami keep away from such objects in a room. Franklin, who kn* w as much about lightning as any man that over lived, advised sitting in a chair, in the middle of the room, and putting th** feet up in anoth er chair. But the l>est protec tion »f all, according to him. is to have **a hammock. or swing ing bed. suspended by silk cords, equally distant from the walls on ♦ very ? ide. ami from the ceiling and fl tor." Some Things to Shun If you are caught hi a thtind*-’ storm in the open. d«» ti«*i «-artv an umbrella, ami do not takt -h* I tei under a lon*-Iy ux or a small group of lu es Ke, p ,v\av fr«Mti w i’e fr-m .Many < atth. have been killed i»\ lightning striaing. •• following su« h l*-m e>. There is mm danger near a body ot vvate; ifcgp tn i.-ie midst of dry land, but by keeping in doors « ne may f,*l secure even on -h*> snort of .1 bike «»r riv* . Statistic* in all <nurv.i-s ov . that the nuinlv **T m*n killed bv hg un ng i« fa grea er than I s ’*- tv. ib- • ’ won»e.i. uni the iva->n undoubtedly i- *hat t‘ie !att. i a • tw- am to >»*• »Alight out ot 1 duvtb by a dtvuu. THE HOME PAPER Elbert Hubbarci Writes on ' Gw “Tailor to the King” The Retail Clothing Busi- O. ness. He Says, Was the first to Ailopt the One-Price System. This Means Truth ■ in Business. Quality and Fit 4 ® Were Guaranteed. By ELBERT HUBBARD 1 Copyright, 1913, International News Service. THE fallacies connected with the business of merchant tailoring are exactly on a par with the fakes of alchemy, astrology, theology and medicine. All minister to the vanity of the individual who thinks he is different, peculiar, unique and re quires a special ministration. So with the theological and medical faker went the sartorial faker, and we spoke feelingly and with pride of “my tailor." M e made excuses for not attending this or that meeting because «e had an engagement with "my tailor.” 1 can well remember how my heart was tilled with pride when I stood on a platform—a kind of improvised throne —and a tailor took off his coat and made ready for a great and serious opera tion. With a tape measure around his neek and an adviser standing by. he went at me. Ami way back in the dim recesses of the stoic at a desk sat a man with pencil in lin nd. Taking His Measure. The call was given. “All right.” and then the tape measure was •put over my manly anatomy. It was pleasing to my sense of ap probation to be thus ministered to. The man measuring me and the man looking on consulted from tiim* to time. They called off the measure ments thus: “Thirty- two and a half. twenty-one and three quarters: sixteen and a half.” Then the tape measure was again applied the second time, and the • ail uas given. ‘Make that six teen and seven-eighths." ami the man in the dark recesses of the store echoed back the numbers. These were repeated to see that they were all down correctly. I was told to call in a week, and I did. and tried on the par tially completed garments. Grave Consultations. There were c onsultations, th • tape measure was applied again, chalk was freely used, pins cam? into service, diagrams were made and further consultations held. I was padded up litre, hol lowed there, hunched, bunched, smoothed out and sent away with the request that I would call the second day. it was like being treated for this, that and the oth er by a specialist with pointed whiskers. It took time to get a suit of clothes. But was 1 not getting Wilhelm Humboldt I By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. 9 SEVENTY -EIGHT years ago died Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt, a man who, though eclipsed by his mor* cel ebrated brother. Alexander Von Humboldt, wrought mightily in his tim- for the promotion of the Great Human Advance. Born at Pot dam. Prussia, in 17H7. Humboldt received as fine an education as the world at that time could give, and while his academic honor- were sHII fresh U(»on him the Government sent • him as Minister Plenipotentiary tn Rome. For nearly twenty years Hum bo!dt remained in the service of his country, and would have re mained much longer but for the fact that he possessed a con science and a -tnmg devotion to principle. In opposition to the will and purpose of th* men “up higher.*’ Humboldt. at that time filling the imposin' post of Minister of the im rior. *,+ ni-iti- »<1 a new con stitution. which siooyd cotnbiio local self-government of th.* provinces with a parliament • hos» n bv »lir»«i election. He also attacked the <* M rlsbad de crees. which aimed at a censor ship of* the pre.-> and th. sup pression of a liberal opinions As might ha\. been expected, this manly and ' ourugeouM siaml for Democrat x nd the freedom of .-peete and printing was im ' : ° s; ” '• ’’ ’* t“• Min ’s* r- C Mr s- d uom oth. . . *r , ui? ivrv-u ritirtmem, ai>u I a suit made to measure and not this man “my taih.t? , Ah. yes! I didn't know it. hut® was dating back t„ H „ ,_® only royalty had its tatlr, 7, to the King!" 1 was bring m i n H istei ed to by a sj„.< , a man who had studied m> and understood it. J », ls ~, in society. It was long years before I I was a part of unconsei nus fa cry. Certainly, the tailor M ® not a hypocrite. Perhaps h< wa ß a little of a Jesuit and figuitd out that the end justifies means. Observed of Observers 9 But I am quite sure ~f that my tightly-rii tmg suit er quite adapted itself t<. anatomy. I was so well that I was conspicuous I.umps. hollows and impeii. - were obvious, instead "f me clothed so well that I not attract attention I » as observed of the übser\ei< I the center of the stage. We work from the , ..ntpiex tliessimple, and the obvious is last thing we know It is only within recent that the discovery was n,.|, men. in their bodily ne nts, fall into four or tn.’ , es; that clothes pmperh m for one man w ill fit anj ' man in the same class iPuilH smooth, well-fitting < I.,t'n- - ■ do not exaggerate an.', of minor physical pe'-u'iai :i,. . a man may possess. Tlte old-time custom ladT tlio country town was like ,i learning to ride a !>!■ >< l> hr into (lie very tiling that lie io avoid, and the peculiar that he tried to comeal brought out. First to Adopt System ■ At that time. an> man whit hand-me-down < was socially taboo Th* 1 made clothing business was tin- hands of the Haggle and barter w -i* and the methods of l>.»oih and zaar reigned. w| Behold, however. \\ hen gei bad enough the> ciu> selves! raß The retail clothing the first to adopt the system. This means truth business. Quality and fi’ guaranteed. ffi| And. behold, now. clothes to wear represent, in a way. the very acme of directness, simplicity and intent. ®| light heart he titrn.d ’r." r r l '''™ ties to literature, in «hic:t Rental avocation he wt.J the r- mainiriK six yMf* 9 9| his life. H It was Hunihoidt wtw fir-’ eo.*i;it.-d the seietu . ■ " n, i five philology with h ''-r> ’”*■ other collateral stu»i:» i’” l z? jH it a universal signifi l an« p Humboldt who fir-’t * Irir ’• down the idea thai t’• nar, 2B| ter and structure >' c 4 express the inner life edge of its speaker- -t' 'anguages must no. *s- if from one another in ’h* and io the sam»- d*iire»- those who use them.’ It is upon this gt zation that all t! - 1 .<• n in philological scien ‘ to have discovered it '*■ alone, glorv enough ,>r ,n ' . . ...... b- It was said long a‘-<> o phlloso[bher that "' t; 9B there Is nothing ur* «• and in Man thei>- is no:iia^- rr bm Mind.” Now it JB| >hr.»iigh l-anguagc • > ♦st thing in the w«-i <<l J raKr powers known mu ’■ 4 !,r tend- thos»- power- ad 1 ifold ways wins V- ur ” n ’ lories over the biill' fof'e lg| material world To have been a ;■ ‘ lore, in the Scien* c an to have l»een am (, n»i . not the very fir-- ‘ underx an<l th’ * ;m ter of tht- rnar\. ’-•merit » lug* M iipoti lie l*-sp.*t -t ■ 188 of Mankind. 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