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EDITORIAL RAGE The THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By TUB GEORGIAN COMPANY At -0 Kant Alabama St.. Atlanta. Ga. altered as second-class matter at pottofflre at Atlanta, under act of March 3,1873 >ubt»rrfpt1on 1’rioi Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mall, $5.00 a year. Payable in Advance. Atlanta Georgian the home paper^ A Giant Who Starves His Dwarfs A Warning Lesson From the War of 1812—We MUST Keep Our Navy Up to a Proper Standard. During the War of 1812-15 a British fleet sailed up the Chesapeake and the Potomac and burned the Capitol at Wash ington. It was a cruel and unnecessary action—even in war—and ! London journals were ashamed of it. The Cossacks spared Paris, but English soldiers did not spare the Capital of America. England was able to inflict this overwhelming humiliation upon our country because the United States, under a Demo cratic administration, had allowed its navy to deteriorate. So long as our ships were anywhere nearly equal on the sea the little American navy defeated the British ships in such bril liant victories as to astonish and enrage the British public, and one London journal was moved to inquire if England was to be ! stripped of her maritime supremacy by “a piece of striped bunt ing flying at the masthead of a few fir-built frigates manned by a handful of bastards?” But England, roused by the prowess of American sailors, massed her many ships against our deteriorated navy, and re duced our Capital to ashes. That was under a Democratic administration. We have another Democratic administration now, during these anniversaries of the War of 1812. The last Congress was Democratic, and was responsible for our navy ’s threatened decline and loss of rank among the na tions of the world. Shall it continue to decline? Shall we continue to be un prepared? Are we going to celebrate one great national disaster by inviting another? Are we going to learn nothing from bitter experience? Is this Democratic Congress and administration going to repeat the follies of an earlier Democratic administration and allow greed for domestic spoils to interfere with our national defense? Are ' pork barrel politics' ’ to be allowed to expose our country once more to invasion and insult, to disaster and dis- ■ honor? If any trouble should anse with England or Russia or Ja pan, is an inadequate and decreasing navy to present in its weakness an invitation to English or Japanese warships to sail again up the Potomac and burn our infinitely more beautiful Washington of to day? Is the Democratic party going to make it possible to do th\»? If so, it is time that we had a new popular party—as pa triotic as it may be democratic—that will strengthen the de- j fenses. uphold the ideals, and maintain the honor and safety of the American Republic. ^ V V Telescope Has Told Us More About Moon Than We Know About Earth’s Surface The Lunar South Pole Is Dotted With Huge Mountains, Rugged and Clear Cut, with No Air to Sweep Over Them, No Water to Wear Them Down. No Clouds to Hide Them. The Worst Sort of Deadbeat Is the Man Who Is Too Proud to Work These Days the One Infallible Test of a Man’s Real Love for a Woman Is Not Whether He Will Die for Her, But Whether He Will Get Out and WORK for Her. The United States of the Far Fast — Let not the Administration at Washington wait, after all, for European sanction before giving recognition to the new government in China. That government has stood for a year. There is not the least chance that the old government of the Mancbus will be re stored. The republican order, which all the leading men of China are trying so hard to perfect, is the only order that can be hoped for. IT IS THAT OR NOTHING—THE REPUBLIC OR ANARCHY AND DISSOLUTION. We in the United States should remember that the making of our own Federal Constitution was a perilous process. John Fiske was right when he called that period emphatically, “the critical period of American history.” We could hardly have survived that time, as a united nation, if the whole world had given us nothing but cold shoulders and suspicion. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC GAVE CORDIAL DIPLOMATIC REC OGNITION ’5*0 THE NEW AMERICAN NATIONALITY- EVEN WAILE BRITISH SOLDIERS WERE BILLETED IN OUR CAPITAL. It is even truer to day than it was a hundred and thirty odd years ago that no free government can live in isolation. To say that we will “wait and see” whether the Chinese republic ;an survive a universal political boycott is to state an absurdity and to mock at the necessities of the Chinese. The assembling at Pekin last week of the first legally elect ed Congress of the new republic was an historical event of the first magnitude. In that event the Orient broke a tradition of ages and turned its face toward the fellowship of Occidental civilization. This Chinese Congress expects to frame a Consti tution. The Constitution will follow the lead of our own or of the French republic—or «-lse will borrow from both. American sts-ndai fls are uppermost in the minds of the Con stitution wikers. Yuan-Shi Kai, now provisional president, will s.and lor a constitutional presidency on the American pat tern—a real head of the government, not a ceremonial figure head as in France. Probably Yuan-Shi Kai will have his way— since he has had the appointing of the special committee that is making the first draft of the Constitution. His efforts to create a real United States in China has the support of the northern provinces and of conservatives all over the country. A large proportion of the Chinese Constitution-makers were educated in American public schools and universities. A few of these are cautious decentralizers, jealous of presidential power. But most of them are enthusiastic in urging the Amer ican Constitution, in something like its present highly central ized development, as a model for their own country. Taken all in ail, it is evident that this old China, now in pro cess of being born anew, is our own spiritual progeny, a giant child of our own world-stirring life. THE SYMPATHY AND ASSISTANCE OF THE AMERI CAN NATIONALITY SHOULD FOLLOW—EVEN TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GLOBE—THE CONQUERING MARCH OF ITS GREAT IDEAS. \ \ 7 1 - know more about the \\l South Pole of the moon than we do about the South Pole of the earth. One rea son why we know more about it is because we tire so far away from it Let me explain this paradox. if we stood on the moon. In the neighborhood of its south pole, wo should find ourselves' surrounded by steep and rugged mountains from ] S.OOrt to 25,000 feet high, and vast crater-like holes twenty miles acros*. and three or four miles in depth. Of course In such a situation we could see nothing but our immediate surroundings, and if we attempted to clamber over them to get wider views, we should he confronted by insur mountable obstacles. Hut worst of all, on (lie moon we should find no air to breathe, no water to drink, no clouds to screen off the blinding sunshine by day, and no vaporous blanket to afford protection at night against the awful cold of empty space, hundreds of degrees below aero! The Telescope Is a Genie. Evidently there could he no po lar or other exploration amid such circumstances. But. situa ted as we are on the earth. 240,- 000 miles from the moon, we can avoid all its inconveniences, and yet get effectively near its south pole by the aid of the telescope. This shows us the whole polar region in a single view, and all its features are before us at a glance. If we could get a similar view of the Antarctic continent the entire scene of the adventures of Shackleton. Amundsen and Scott would lie plain before us. The telescope is a genie more powerful than any in the Arabian Nights; .1 seizes the moon for us and practically putslt in our laps. With a magnifying power of 500 diameters the moon is brought within 480 miles of the observer’s eye; *f the power is 1.000 the apparent distance is 240 miles; and with a power of 2.000 the distance becomes only 120 miles, i Now. let us ?«ee what this means. Suppos* you take an ordinary terrestrial globe, on which the geographic features of the earth are plainly represented—tne seas By GARRETT P. SERVISS. and lands, the mountains and plains, the locations of the great cities, etc. Let the globe be one foot in diameter, a usual size. Take it on your knees. When it is one foot from your A decent giant would pity and feed well the little creatures bringing meat to his table. The Brobdingnagian monsters in ‘‘Gulliver’s Travels” felt sorry for Gul liver’s weakness. And Gulliver among the Lilliput dwarfs, as he ate their sheep and oxen whole, “chewing the bones as an Englishman would chew the bones of a lark,” felt sorry for the poor little creatures. But cold-blooded, pitiless and heartless is the giant of our day living upon child labor, devouring the product of the child’s work and destroying the child itself. The Democrats, quite proud of themselves, are busy abolishing? “pro tection.” Will they find some way of giving to the children that protection-which they are trying to take from monopoly? Or will they intensify the struggle for existence, and make child labor worse, and more dreadful, by putting a premium upon cheap labor, and upon ability to get the most work done for the least monev? feet and over-strained muscles as a strong man never knows. Every cent that you save out of your scant pay envelope is at the price of your starved stomach ansd un derclad body. > The man who would take from you this money, so hardly earned, so bitterly needed, is as soulless, as conscienceless, or heartless as Judas, who sold his Lord for 30 pieces of silver. Have nothing to do with such a man, little sister. All that he wants with you is to make of you a slave who will toil to sup port him. You are nothing to him but a meal ticket, and while he wheedles the money out of 1 you. he is laughing in hffc sleeve at how much easier it is to make love to a girl for a living than it is to work for it. Don’t put any faith in the vows of devotion that you have to pay for on the nail. Be suspicious of the tender speeches that a man * cashes in as soon as he makes them. Any man that doesn’t disgrace the shape he bears doesn’t wait for a bank presidency or some other gilt-edged job to come his way hunting somebody to take it. Any Work Is Respectable. He rolls up his sleeves and sails into the work that Is closest to him, and no matter how humble the labor may be, he honors it by the way he does it. He knows that ali work is respectable, and that the onlj shameful thing is for a man to be a parasite, and espe cially to be one of the parasitic men who live on working women. There are thousands of work ing girls who are being bled of their every cent by loafing sweet hearts, thousands of wives and mothers who are toiling night and day to support able-bodied loafers u ho are their husbands and sons. These women lack the courage to cast their no-account sweet hearts and husbands and sons and ^ brothers away from them, and to shut their doors in their faces and tell them to either work or starve, yet It is the one thing that they -houlu do. It is the only chance to make a man out of a sponge. course, we do not see the minute details, but, on the other hand, we see the broad relations of the moon's geographic features bet ter than we can represent those of the eartli on an artificial globe. Recently' Mr. Scrlven Bolton, of the Royal Astronomical Society of Great Britain, has made a se ries of telescopic studies of the soutli polar region of the moon, and then constructed a plaster of Paris model of them, which can be photographed in an electric light, at any desired angle of il lumination, and the pictures thus obtained show the moon as it would appear to us if we could visit its surface or hover close above it in an aeroplane. The mountains about the soutli lunar pole are much grander than any found near the soutli pole of the earth. Some of them are nearly five miles high, and very steep. No Air to Bend Sun’s Rays. Because of the absence of air and water, there is little weather ing action on the lunar rocks, and accordingly the huge, sharp peaks stand up in all their precipitous- ness for age after age. whereas the mountains of the earth are being continually worn down. Perhaps the feature of the lunar landscapes which would appear moat wonderful to us is the im mense number of great volcano like craters that pit the surface. One of these in the neighborhood of the south pole is called New ton, and it is so deep and so steep-walled that the sunlight can never reach the bottom of it. Owing to the absence of air, there is no diffused light in the lunar sky. The heavens are as black us ink in full daylight. The stars al! shine, with daz zling brilliance in the very pres ence of the sun, and when the lat ter rises, at the end of the lunar night of two weeks duration, it is preceded by no dawn, but comes up without warning, a curve of blinding light, shooting above the horizon and quickly swelling into a blazing globe that smites the ragged mountain peaks with its untempered rays. Yet behind every rocky wall black night pre vails. although the sun be risen, until Uv solar beams penetrate directly into the hidden recesses. eyes you .°ee its features on the same scale as you see those of the moon with a telescope magni fying only about 120 diameters, and a small telescope will easily magnify that much. Little Weathering on Rocks. Then bring the globe within a distance of about six inches and its features will appear on the same scale as those of the moon when magnified 240 diameters. In order to make the same com parison when the magnifying power of the telescope becomes a thousand or two thousand, you must bring the globe so near that distinct vision is destroyed, and the only way to see its feature?* clearly is to use a magnifying glass This shows u.s how it is that, thanks to the telescope, we really j know more about the surface <*f the moon, as a whole than we do 1 about Uk surface of tlu eartli. Of A WORKING GIRL is en gaged to be married to a young man who held a position as a salesman. The young man lost his job sev eral months ago. and since then has not been able to get an other position in a store or office that would enable him to wear good clothes and keep his hands nice and white and his nails man icured. He has been offered a place as a street car conductor, but he considers that beneath his dignity. So is any kind of man ual labor, which he declines haughtily to do. In the meantime he is living on money that is borrowed from his sweetheart. The girl is troubled by the situation. She feels that she should not be asked to sup port a husky young man. and yet what can she do? She can not se*» him starve, she writes to me in a miserable little letter that has a sob in every line, and the man tells her that he will kill himself if she turns against him In his hour of hard luck when all the world is down on him, and she wants to know what she shall do. My advice is emphatic: Shut up your pocketbook, little sister, and put a Yale lock on it. The man who is too proud to do any sort of honest labor, but not too proud to sponge on a woman, is nothing on earth but a deadbeat and a loafer, and the sooner you are rid of him, the better for you. Is Infallible Proof. The on e infallible test of a man’s love for a woman is not whether he will die for her, but whether he will work for her. No body is called on to die for any body else in these days, and it is easy for a man to profess that he would do a thing that he never has to make good on. But a man's willingness to get up at 6 o’clock in the morning and tackle a hard job because his doing it saves a woman from toil and weariness is a proof of devotion strong enough to draw money on st the bank TMeiefore. little sister, when a Mtaii rati-: .uu ——**— minute huw GARRETT P. SERVISS. DOROTHY DIX matte! squarely in the face and tell him the truth. Tell him that if he really loved you lie would starve before he would take a penny from you, and that instead of hanging aroflnd and begging from a woman, and especially the woman that he says he worships, he would sweep the streets, or break rock, or drive a . garbage wagon, or do any other work under the sun that left a man his self-respect and inde- ' pendence. Every penny in your thin pock- e’.book is stained with your very life blond, it represents such an guish of aching back ami weary By DOROTHY DIX. much he loves you, and the next minute asks you for a dollar, just try to have enough sense to size up the situation as it is. Put your own feelings to one side. Crush your vanity under foot. Look the