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EDITORIAL. RAGE
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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The Atlanta Georgian
The Messengers of Death
THE HOME RARER
More Flies Than Ever This
Season Because of the
Mild Winter.
More Living Flies Means More DEAD Children.
Copyright, 1913.
When you see ONE fly at this time of year, you see the
mother or father of hundreds of thousands of flies.
And when you kill that ONE fly early in the season, you kill
vast swarms of the pests unborn.
No well-informed man or woman needs to be told how flies
spread disease. They seek the vilest tilth to deposit their eggs,
they light with their spongy feet upon decaying matter of all
kinds. The disease germs stick to the fly’s feet—and the fly,
having laid its eggs and provided for the next generation of flies,
hurries to your sugar bowl, or to your child’s face, and spreads
the germs of disease wherever he goes.
The mild Winter makes this a most dangerous year for flies.
The crop of this year depends upon the number that have
escaped death through the cold, and this Spring the number that
will start the Summer crop is ten times as great as usual.
There is no task more important than wiping out disease—
and dangerous disease comes from the tiny germs of which flies
are the carriers. If the flies were destroyed, the germs of dis
ease would not be carried to the faces of sleeping children, or
to the food that is eaten. To kill flies alone and banish them
from the country would do more to save life than any ONE
thing that intelligent human beings could accomplish now.
You know what wonderful work the Government did at
Panama, in New Orleans, in Cuba and elsewhere, driving out yel
low fever, simply by destroying mosquitoes. No man can pos
sibly get yellow fever, unless he is bitten by a mosquito carry
ing the yellow fever germ.
When the breeding grounds of the mosquitoes were covered
up and the mosquitoes destroyed, yellow fever disappeared at
once.
Government eventually will fill in marshes and thus wipe
out the mosquito as effectually as wolves and rattlesnakes have
been wiped out. Human beings acting collectively can do for
the flies what the Government will do for the mosquitoes—and
tho thing is that each should do his share. Screen your
windows, kill the early flies and teach your children to kill them.
KILL THE FLIES AND SAVE THE CHILDREN.
» H «
The world is full of men with
weak wills. It is full of men
that blame everything but
themselves. It is full of feeble
brothers that run home and
mope because they stub their toes.
If you can realize that independence for the individual
means a FIGHT, just like independence for a nation, and if you
make up your mind to keep at the fight, YOU WILL WIN IT.
When you start to be your own boss, BE YOUR OWN
BOSS, if you have to live on bread and water and black boots.
This world cannot beat the man who can do just two things:
SAVE MONEY.
WORK HARD.
Neither requires genius. But each requires WILL POWER.
Have you got it? If so, start out as soon as you can and.
make your own career.
Do you LACK will power?
Stay in the pleasant shade of the cashier's office. It would
never do for you to wander from the pleasant pastures of the
salaried payroll.
Among the Philistines, Beelzebub was regarded
as the god of flies. He was the prince of corrup
tion— when the plague of flies descended upon
EgypL the Biblical story tells us that “the land
was corrupted by reason «f the swarm of flies.”
To-day we do not believe in Beelzebub, but modern
science tells us that the disease-breeding fly is in
deed a messenger of death. (SEE EDITORIAL.)
Letters From The Georgian's Readers J HOW THE WIRELESS' WORKS
By Garrett P. Serviss
WILL GIVE HIM A CHANCE.
iditor The Georgian;
From a clipping 1 sec that AV11-
im Stripling, son of the Dan
nie police chief, can't find work,
‘he clipping refers to Atlanta as
hard-hearted city. If young
tripling cannot get work there
d him come to me and I'll do
ie best I can for him. I am in
re steam shovel work. 1 am
rom South Carolina but 1 know
tlanta well and don't believe
he is the hard-hearted city she
! painted.
A. G. FRETWELL.
ranklin, Tenn.
THEIR PARTNERSHIP.
Editor The Georgian:
It has been my fortune to read
several articles in your paper by
Dorothy Dix concerning the rela
tions of husband and wife and as
■lie 1s writing trom the woman’s
point of view it naturally fol
lows that her constructions are
hardly as broadminded as they
might be. It is wrong to assume
that woman is perfect or that
she is a martyr, patiently suffer
ing under the tyrannies of man,
i refer especially to the article of
April 11 entitled “Does Marriage
Bore You?”
I have only been married about
six months but every day brings
out the benefits which accrue to
the partnership into which my
wife and l have entered. We are
learning to see things from a bet
ter point of view’ and to enjoy
life to the fullest extent. She
realizes and assumes her respon
sibilities, as 1 do mine and the
result is obvious. Of course she
is not perfect, neither am 1 but
our intentions are right and un
der such conditions mistakes are
easily excused. However, she did
not learn this by reading such
editorials as "Does Marriage
Bore You?”
N. W. PRINCES.
Atlanta, Ga.
AGE OF ABRAHAM.
Editor .The Georgian:
In your editorial on the “Mar
rying Age” 1 see you refer to
Abraham as being 140 years old
when Sarah was fliS. 1 would be
glad to know what Abraham and
Sarah you refer to, as it does not
seem possible that it could be the
father and mother of Isaac for
Gen. 17:17 tells us that there was
only ten years difference In their
ages.
T. L. RUTLAND
Powder Springs, Ga.
HE WANTS PENSION.
Editor The Georgian:
Will you do a kindness for an
old Confederate soldier who mov
ed from Georgia years ago and
has lost track of his comrades?
All he wants is for some of his
comrades to make affidavit that
he was a Confederate soldier. His
name is John Moss and he went
to the front from Calhoun, Ga.,
at the second call with the 40th
Georgia Regiment. Company E,
Captain Grover. He is old and
needy and wishes to be put in
the way of drawing the pension
to which he is entitled.
A. D. DORSETT.
YorkviHe, C.
M ORE truly than any other
telegraphic device. the
wonderful wireless is a
speaking voice. It makes itself
heard just as the human voice
does, by a scries of waves moving
freely through space.
The one Is as simple as the
other, but they act through dif
ferent mediums.
When l speak, my voice is sent
out in undulations of varying
length and frequency through the
air. When the wireless “speaks”
its voice is conveyed by undula
tions in the ether, which is a
more refined medium than air.
carrying the waves of light and
electricity as the air carries those
of sound.
The oscillator of the wireless is
a "mouth,” sending out undula
tions in the ether as our mouths
send out undulations in the air.
and the resonator of the wire
less is an “ear,” catching theethe-
rial waves as they impinge upon
it, as our ears catch the atmos-.
pheric waves that strike them.
Old as the Earth Itself.
We see nothing wonderful in
vocal sounds, because nature gave
us, in our heads, an instrument
to produce them and another to
receive thi m. Rut she left us to
find out for ourselves how to pro
duce and receive “vocal” waives in
the ether. Since we had t«> make
the. instruments that deal with
them, the etheric waves ut
us marvelous, although they are,
in principle, no more marvelous
than the waves of air.
From the beginning of time it
has always been possible for man
to speak across the sea, if he had
known how to employ the elec
tric waves that were at his dis
posal. But he started at the
wrong end. He began to use
electricity for conveying intelli
gence by sending a current of it
along a wire. He pressed a but
ton at one end of the line, and
the electric current passing along
the wire induced a corresponding
motion in a tapper at the other
end. It was a roundabout way
of employing an agency which
we now know can be employed
more simply and directly by
throwing away the wires and
making the electric waves
“speak,” straight through the
ether..
It is true that the language em
ployed does not consist of the
words of any spoken tongue, but
it is one that call be directly
translated into any other known
to man, and so it is the most uni
versal of all languages.
Now let us see how it is em
ployed. First as to the electric
“mouth." When a charge of
electricity is accumulated on a
“tondenser." a similar but op
posite charge is induced upon an
other condenser placed near. The
air between them acts as an in
sulator because it is a poor con
ductor of electricity. But when
the charge attains a certain de
gree of intensity the strain upon
the air becomes too great, and a
spark passes between the two
condensers, by which equilib
rium is restored between them.
The passage of this spark pro
duces, so to speak, a shock in the
ether, which like the expldsion
of a gun, or the utterance of a
sound, sets up a series of waves
in the surrounding medium,
which radiate away on all sides.
These waves in the ether pro
duce the electric “voice.” If the
sparks are regulated in number
and frequency the consequent
waves are similarly regulated. An
instrument for the production of
such waves is called an oscillator
or exciter. It is a kind of vocal
apparatus for speaking through
the ether instead of through the
air.
What the Detector Does.
But. just as we should have
no knowledge of the passage
sound waves if we were not pro
vided with ears to hear them, so
the electric waves would go un
regarded if we had no apparatus
for receiving them.
The receiving apparatus is call
ed a resonator, or detector. It
may be situated hundreds of miles
from the oscillator, but it will
catch the waves as they undulate
of
less
or
to it through the ether, and it
can be made to reproduce them
in an audible, or legible, form by
causing them to operate a Morse
dot-and-dash instrument, as in
ordinary telegraphy by wire.
But the electric voice and the
electric ear are in some ways
more manageable than the hu
man voice and ear. We can on
ly produce and hear air waves of
a limited range of frequency, and
we cannot do much to alter that
limit.
Sound waves vibrating
than forty times per second
more than 40,000 times are in
audible to us. But electric waves
varying in frequency from a few
hundred up to hundreds of mil
lions per second can be rendered
perceptible, and it is also pos
sible to so construct the instru
ments that they will send forth
and receive particular range's of
waves and be mute and deaf to
others.
Then the distance oveh which
the electric waves can be detect
ed is almost infinitely greater
than that of ordinary sound
waves. It takes a strong-voiced
man to make his words audible
across a little river, but, as
everybody knows, the electric cry
of a ship in distress can be elec
trically heard from the middle of
the Atlantic. Ocean. And there
are enthusiasts who predict that
before very long we shall be able
to speak by wireless to some
other planet, if only there A
somebody there to hear and u;>.
derstand us!
DR. PARKHURST
Writes on
Woman’s Suffrage
The original ambition, votes for
women, has been lost sight of
in a mad crusade of contempt
for the male sex, He Asserts.
Written For The Georgian
By the Rev. Dr. C. H. rarkhurst
T HE female suffrage move
ment is. step by step, dis
closing its inner spirit and
motive. Suffragists are not only
' making the Impulse by which they
are actuated more clear to the
public, but are also becoming
more conscious of that impulse
themselves.
We had supposed, and they had
supposed, that It meant simply
“votes for women.” Let them be
credited with an initial purpose
that was thoroughly honest and
in keeping with the best instincts
of high-class civilization.
Seek to Ignore Clause.
But as time goes on and they
have become more and more
heated and emboldened by their
Impetuous activity and by their
own inflammatory utterances,
their ambitions have acquired a
more and more radical character,
till it is no longer a mere matter
of suffrage, but a crusade of con
tempt for the male sex and con
sequently a revolt against that
close and tense relation in which,
according to Christian usage, a
man and a woman are bound to
gether in the bonds of marriage.
In that respect woman suffrage
is revealing itself to be a mutiny
against our Christian civilization
in that it weakens the marriage
tie and debars the conjugal rela
tion, and thus outs the ground
from under the sanctity of the
family and. the home.
The advanced guard of female
revolutionists, no longer satisfied
with puerile outbreaks against
property and decency, and with
threats of personal violence and
massacre, have committed upon
the interests of society a species
of violence still more far-reaching
iq, its peril, by its insistence that
the effect of marriage shall be
simply to make of the mkn a hus
band, and of the woman a wife,
without the inclusion of any such
idea as that they are “joined to
gether.”
This covert assault upon mar
riage. as marriage is understood
by tbe respectable element of so
ciety, Is made by a society of
English suffragists bearing the
name of the "Spiritual Militancy
League.”
This, then, shows the drift of
the suffragist mind so far as it
has yet definitely expressed it
self, and it is high time that those
women in our country whose
whole womanly nature revolts
against the unclean invasion
should express themselves with
eqi>al definiteness and emphasis,
and let it be understood that the
American feminine nature is still
feminine, that marriage 1s the
joining of the man with the wo
man and of the woman with the
man in holy, permanent contract,
with no strands left out of the
knot into which in sacred reci
procity they are tied.
Without that the basis of the
home is gone, and when the home
goes, society, church and state will
go tumbling after.
It is time for such women a.
are strong believers in what Is
good, firm, safe and fundamen
tally essential to come out of their
covert, shake off their reticence,
stand In the firing line, and strive
with an organized purpose to
maintain the honor and dignity
of their sex, and to repress anil
overcome the growing tendency
to abandon what has been hither
to the Christian stronghold of
domestic and social life.
No one may copyright his Ideas.
We may copyright our expression
of them, and whoever uses that
expression without acknowledging
from whom it is taken iB guiltv
of theft, as much so as though
he had entered the author’s house
and appropriated his' goods, or
put his hand in his purse and
filched his gold.
But not so of Ideas, Ideas onre
uttered become common property,
at least they become the propern
of all who have run them through
the groove of their own though:
and digested them in their own
experience. And their authorship
calls for no acknowledgment.
I received a singular line of re
buke recently from some one who
expressed deep regret that in my
article on prison discipline I did
not express my indebtedness to a
certain author who had previous
ly written on the same subject,
and written—so I judge—In a
strain similar to that of my own
article.
Few Who Are Original.
Now, in the first place, I had
never read a page or paragraph
of the writer whom be mentions,
a»d even if 1 had I should not
probably have felt myself called
upon to refer to the man he
names unless X had gone so far
as to quote his language.
As to ldeae, no one owns them
or holds any deed at them. They
belong to the world.
There is scarcely any one that
can be called original. "Every man
is a quotation from all his ances
tors.” X write that with quo
tation marks because the thought
la phrased in another's exact
words. But while the words are
Emerson’s the Idea is as much
mine as it was his, and probably
had been thought by a great many
others before ever he said It.
While I am sorry to have ocea
eioned my correspondent “regret,"
I am obliged to him for supplying
me with the topic of this article.
Plus and Minus Infinity
By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN.
E VERYBODY says that de
grees above zero on a ther
mometer tube are plus, and
below, minus. If up—that is,
away from the earth—is plus,
then toward the center must
surely be minus. Directions to
the right are plus; left, minus;
to the front, plus; rear, minus;
toward the sun, plus; away,
minus.
In space there is no up or
down—for a line from the earth
to a star at midnight, if called
up, will be down at noon. A
thermometer must have a zero
mark, and explorers in space-
deeps must have a zero. The
entire globe of' the earth is so
excessively small when compared
to the sidereal universe that Its
scientific name is an infinitesi
mal, almost, but not exactly zero.
But researchers in space pay no
attention to the earth but this:
they call it zero for a starting
point, and give no heed to its
turning on an axis.
YVith the earth, zero, or noth
ing, no error can be detected in
solving any of the cosmic prob
lems; the fraction would be so
inconceivably small that it Is al
ways omitted in problems of both
mass—quantity of matter in ex
istence—and space. I am care
ful not to use the word quantity
with the word space, for quan
tity is a word used at the base of
arithmetic and all higher branches
to the very highest of mathe
matics. But the word infinite is
used. There could not be figures
enough written in a line, however
long, to express an infinite quan
tity. Hence, the two words in
finite and quantity destroy each
other.
Thus the distance of the bright
star Sirius, the “Dog Star." from
the earth Is known to be fifty-one
trillion miles. Suppose that a
line of figures, as 897,648,320,91—,
be written from the earth to Sir
ius, and let each unit—1—repre
sent a mile, then the distance rep
resented would be an infinitesi
mal when compared with an In
finite distance. Or, let each unit
represent one year, a hundred or
a thousand years, then the time
represented would be almost zero,
or nothing, in comparison with
an infinite time, or eternity.
So mathematicians never try to
handle an "infinite quantity." but
when any problem is being solved
that involves infinity, they stop
at once and make this mark—oo
—which is simply a figure 8
turned over on its side.
The title of this article Is Plus
and Minus Infinity.” The expla
nation Is: Point a telescope, or
pencil, in any direction from our
handy zero—the earth—and call
the direction plus; then the pre
cise opposite direction in space is
minus. If the idea sought to be
conveyed by a teacher, K? 18‘
stance, is infinity, he puts in a
plus or minus—oo—as the case
may be. This is as effective as
that of writing a string of num
bers many quintilllons of miles,
yes, or infinitely long. ' To write
this row of figures would require
ar. infinitely long time, the writ-
ing would be eternal. To avoid
all these Impossibilities, go turn
an “8" on its side, thus—oo.