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EDITORIAL RAGE x he Atlanta CjEorgian the - home rarer THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY _ . At 20 East Alabatnit St., Atlanta, Oa f Entered as serond-clasa matter at postofftee at Atlanta, under art of Marc-lt 3,i»i3 subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mall, ♦5.00 a year. Payable In Advance The Messengers of Death I) 1 11 I'j i \ b S u f rfl «C X aJ< 4 T HJ nr a?, Ar M H d 1h Am T t y\> More Flies Than Ever This Season Because of the Mild Winter. • More Living Flies Means More DEAD Children. Copyright, 1913. 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 oan 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 the main 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. t 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 wall 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. WILL GIVE HIM A CHANCE. Editor The Georgian: From a clipping I sec that Wil liam Stripling, son of the Dan ville police chief, can't find work. The clipplhg refers to Atlanta as a hard-hearted city. If young Stripling cannot get work there let him come to me and I'll do the best I can for him I am In the steam shovel work. 1 am from South Carolina but 1 know Atlanta well and don’t believe •he Is the hard-hearted city she Is painted. A. O. FRET WELL. Franklin. Tenn. THEIR PARTNERSHIP. Editor The tleorgian: 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 •he is writing :rom 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 . s 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 •lx months but every' day brings out the benefits which accrue to the partnership into which my wife and 1 have entered. We are learning to sec things from a bet ter point of view and to enjoy life to the fullest extent. She realizes and assume- her respon sibilities as I 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 PRINCE. Atlanta, Ga. AGE OF ABRAHAM. Editor The Georgian: In your editorial on the "Mar rying Age" I see you refer to Abraham as being 140 years old when Sarah was 96. I 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. 11:17 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 klndnesa for an old Confederate soldier who mov ed from Georgia years ago and has lost track of hla comrades? All he wants Is for some of his comrades to make affidavit that he was a Confederate soldier. His name la 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. Yorkvllle. S C, 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 filth 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 esoaped 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 whioh 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. DR. PARKHURST Writes on Woman’s Suffrage 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 Egypt, the Biblical story tells us that “the land r L-: & $ wPfc - 'if- ,, ,y.-. •y. * :• -- • * v rw' H C CAY was corrupted by reason of 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.) HOW THE WIRELESS WORKS ♦ ♦ By Garrett P. Serviss M ORE truly than any other telegraphic device, the wonderful wireless is a speaking voice. It makes itselt heard just as the human voice does, by a aeries of waves moving freely through space. The one is as simple as the other, but they act through dif ferent mediums. When l speuk. my voice Is sent out in undulations of varying length and frequency through the atr. When the wireless "speaks” its voice Is conveyed by undula tions In the ether, which is a more refined medium than air. canning 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 the ethe- rlal waves us 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 them But she left us t»> find out for ourselves how to pro duce and receive “vocal” waves in the ether. Since we had to make the instruments that deal with them, the etheric waves seem to 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 docs not consist of the words of any spoken tongue, but it is one that can 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.” W hen a charge of electricity is accumulated on a condenser," 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 explosion 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 of 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 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. \Ve 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 less than forty times per second or 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 fortli and receive particular ranges of waves and be mute and deaf to others. Then the distance over 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 ix somebody there to hear and un derstand us! 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 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 as 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 tiring line, and strive with an organized purpose to maintain the honor and dignity of their sex, and to repress and overcome the growing tendency to abandon what has been hither to the Christian stronghold domestic and social life. 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 ate 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, til! 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 cuts 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 in its peril, by its Insistence that the effect of marriage shall be simply to make of the man 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 the 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 equal definiteness and emphasis, and let it be understood that the American feminine nature is still feminine, that marriage is the joining of the man with the wo man and of the woman with the of 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 is guilt? 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 once uttered become common property, at least they become the property of all who have run them through the groove of their own thought 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 ownj article. Few Who Are Original. Now, in the first place, T had never read a page or paragraph of the writer whom he mentions, and even if I had I should not probably have fait myself called upon to refer to the man he* names unless I had gone so far as to quote his language. As to Idea*, no one owns them or holds any deed of them. They belong to the world. There is scarcely any one that can be called original. "Everyman is a quotation from all his ances tors." I write that with quo tation marks because the thought Is phrased in another’s exact words. But while the word* 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 occa sioned 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. vi’ith 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 13 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, la known to be fifty-one trillion miles. Suppose that a line of figures, as 897,648,320,91-v 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 ttm« represented would be almost zeny or nothing, in comparison with an infinite time, or eternity. So mathematicians never try-tn handle an "infinite quantity." hut when any problem is being solved that involves Infinity, they 8t0I> at once and make this mark—o» —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, of pencil, in any direction from our handy zero—the earth—and call the direction plus; then the pre cise opposite direction in space i9 minus. If the idea sought to be conveyed by a teacher, for to* stance, is infinity, he puts in » j plus or minus—oo—as the on* 9 may be. Thi» is as effective as that of writing a string of num bers many quintilllons of mile 3 ' yes, or infinitely long. To vwh e this row of figures would reQUir® an infinitely long time, the wr ing would be eternal. To avo all these impossibilities, go *u an "8” on its side, thus—oo. I-':,.