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EDITORIAL RAGE
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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To Fill the Cupboard, Widen
Your Commerce
\Ye Should Be Fools to I ake Down Our tariff Bars Without
hirst Arranging to Havf the 1 ariff Bars of Other Countries
Taken Down at the Same lime.
Envy and Jealousy
Cannot Build States
VICE PRESIDENT MAR
SHALL was, of course, right
in saying at the Jefferson din
ner that “the right to inherit
and the right to devise are
It is true that the power to
The Atlanta Georgian the: home: pape r
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“ 1 bough reciprocity tariff reduction can be made coincident
and coextensive with trade expansion.''—Mr. t karst ni letter to
Washington Post, April 13.
We are a rich country, of course, but we cannot afford to
buy everything and sell nothing.
If we want to get cheap food stuffs from South America we
must arrange to have South America buy things from us—in
quantities or values to match.
We should be fools to take down our tariff bars WITH
OUT FIRST ARRANGING TO HAVE THE TARIFF BARS OF
OTHER COUNTRIES TAKEN DOWN AT THE SAME TIME
We cannot lower the cost of living by just letting foreign
ers have their own way with our markets. The way to fill our
bare cupboards is to widen the scope of our commerce.
This is the plain doctrine of reciprocity. It is so plain that
the people can have little patience with the tariff-makers in
Washington who refuse to respect a fact that anybody can see.
“In our tariff we have a weapon with which we can with
stand the tariff weapons of other nations, but we must not aban
don theirs.’’ It is absurd to offer the world a new free list
WITHOUT CONDITIONS IT IS ABSURD TO BEGIN. TO
BARGAIN FOR RECIPROCITY AFTER OUR OWN FENCES
ARE DOWN AND OUR OWN FISCAL WEAPONS ARE
FLUNG AWAY
That is what the new tariff bill proposes to do. The new
tariff bill is to that extent ridiculous.
t. t. t
not inherent or constitutional,
transmit fortunes by will, or by descent, from father to son, is
based not upon any inalienable’’ right, but only upon grounds
of ancient custom and public policy.
The Georgian has always contended for the right of the
public to levy a heavy tax on .inheritances, but The Georgian
cannot, in good conscience, approve of Mr. Marshall’s sug
gestion that the have-nots” may, under certain imagined cir
cumstances, “take it into their heads to make common cause
against those who have." The implication that a general as
sault of poverty upon property might conceivably be justified
in this country does not sound well in the mouth of the Vice
President of the United States.
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GETTING A PERFECT LADY’S GOAT [ “The House of Our Fathers
Never since the world began lias a free state been built by
envy.
If great fortunes have fallen into the hands of fools, or if
the power of capital is, in some degree, directed to the restric
tion of production and the narrowing of the field of general
prosperity, the remedy does not lie in jealous uprising' of the
“have-nots.”
Social progress is not to be achieved by capitalizing the
envious. It is to be achieved by capitalizing the efficient.
As things stand in this country, the people who are most
useful in producing the real values may not have as much prop
erty as they deserve, may not have as much as they ought to
have—for the sake of the general welfare. But they are pretty
apt to have some. They do not belong to the “have-nots.”
Thus it is impossible to increase the general prosperity of
this or of any other country by organizing the ' have nots”
against the “haves.”
The thing to do is for people of creative enterprise and pro
ductive skill—whether they have small means or large—to
"make common cause" not against the “haves,” but against
parasites and monopolists and against all the rabble of those
who are merely futile or greedy.
The Southern Box Is Getting in the Reach of the National Spur. There
Mam Things to Forget, But Manx More To Be Remembered. A
Babv Can Now Look Across tin* Mason and Dixon Line.
Written for The Georgian by REV. JOHN E. WHITE Pastor Second Baptist Church.
What World Needs Most of All
By ELBERT HUBBARD
upv right, 19IS, International News Settle*-
B EFORE th«» days of Jamie
Watt til manufacturing was
done In the homes.
'File word "wif* " means weaver
'I’ll** woman made the fabrics
and she made the clothes.
Man power was the only pow
er known.
'Fhe steam engine revolution
ized the business of manufactur
ing. and transferred the factory
from the home to a separate
building
With the dd of the joint-stock
company and increased capital
manufacturing became a busi
ness. separate and apart from the
household industries.
the eternal labor of digging food
out of the ground.
James Wan applied • mechani
cal power by the use of steam.
Fulton applied the principle to
water transportation.’ Stephen
son invented the locomotive. Har
greaves invented the spinning-
jenny and practically solved for
us the uuesiion of manufactur
ing.
But farming is still lagging a
hundr (I years behind, pulled by
Three Processes.
F Th
e Plea of the Guileless Jap
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE.
M OST HONORABLE PRESIDENT: I s friendly Japanfee
Desire to build one stylish fort beside your Western sea.
W -• nd dist tug - *d Km:in<-er one man of High Renown
l*s friendly
To make our Fort in San Fruneisk great credit to the town.
But we the property can't hold, and so we come n you.
Most Honorable President, and ask you, "How can do?”
YJoat Honorable President Your California State
She got one legislature-law that all is out of date
We like to have one jovek dock to dry our wafship in.
So le can be already when the war she shall begin.
But we can own no land at all. and though we got the pelf.
If we start out to build him do
they tell us
"Chase yourself!” $
Most Honorable President If that wai she shall come.
We shall be what you call it in your language-—on the bum;
We like to have our ships right hv on San Francisco Bay.
we can atari right in to lick our Honored I'. S \
But them mean < alifornia men they shy no J a pa nee
Along no coast that they have, got can own no property.
\ Most Honorable President on you we lay our cause;
’ We ask yon won’t you butt n .-ml ■ iiang* them unjust law*
$ We need some arsenal- to hold our military, stores
\ And houses s*» our soldier men won't need sleep out «*f doors.
And t m lmigh men in s .- Fr <ncisk don'; want tin friendly J«i y
To b* there when tlie troub • come to blow them off the map.
,\n«. su Kind, genial President pl* a-e make that . i mi S: , u-
e' us buy all the land we need inside that Golden Gate,
ou s- in x *»ur l F S**hii. r out • Sacramento quick,
nd t* them that i«s Japam-e do- w .at you call it -kick
\Y c go: to l as. them forts and docks -we need them dreadful hud.
nt do what we ask --.beware! -you make us mac's.
The increased demand for food
from factory towns suggested a
better quality of farming, and so
horse-power came in to replace
hand-powei Farming bec ame a
Western business.
Instead of the hand-reaper,
told of in poetry and legend, we
had th • inventions *»f Cyrus Mc
Cormick and James Oliver. Maud
Muller wasn’t in it.
Constant Iv increasing, from a
machine that required one man
to ( live and one t<» take off the
sheaf to he bound, weXhtfd a '-ma
chine that not only- cut. hut
hound, threshed and bagged at
one time.
\ met tea has twenty-rive mil
lion horses We have more*horses
than any other country in th*
world We have more horses than
Germany, England, France and
Spain combined.
\ I sc x, the cost of horses to-day
i> higher than it lias ever been
before.
There a tv three proc esses in
civilization. One is to dig. the
ii'-xt *s to carry and the third i*
i c • manufacture.
W e have discarded horse-power
in the matter of transportation.
The steamboat, the locomotive
fnd the automobile- do our lug
ging.
Bin we are still digging by
hand or with the aid of animal
power.
Phe man with the hoe and the
anted brow is simply a man
who uas been unable to take ad-
move in the direction of economy
and co-operation. Jt did the work
at one-half th-* expense that
horses c ould do it.
However, in'.the neighborhoods
where coal was scarce and water
was not right a; hand, there was
a deal of dead lift and labor in
hauling. I , have seen tw o teams
of horses working steadily, one
hauling water and one coal, in or
der to keep a thresher going.
Wood, as fuel, is now practi
cally out of the question. Goal
is heavy, cumbersome and often
scarce. Gas cannot be■ ttransport
ed, and has other limitations.
Gasoline is volatile, is affected
by temperature, cannot be trans
ported in \Voodt-n barrels, has to
he stpretj ujid “ground, and in-
creas^c fire risk. Besides, its cost
is mote than double that of ker
osene.
Kerosene oil seems the best,
cheapest, most easily obtained,
most condensed and most valua
ble fuel known.
A pint of kerosene has more
potential power in it than the
same quantity < f dynamite.
Dynamite has a wonderful
power to destroy. But a mush
room can lift just as much as
the same weight of dynamite,
provided you give it time. V
lichen growing in ilie crevice of a
rock can split the rock.
The Great Needs.
W ITH a Southerner in the
Presidency, four South
erners in the ('abinet. and
a Tarheel country boy Ambassa
dor Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary to the Court of
St. James, it begins to look as if
we are back "in the house of our
fathers'' sure enough.
The South has been a long time
getting back, but there never was
any doubt about it. because
whatever the estrangement of
fifty years ago did to strain con
temporary relations with the
American government, there nev
er was a cloud between the
Southern mind and heart and the
old homestead itself
We have been walking around
the ancient premises with hungry
eyes for many years—sometimes
in the front yard, but mostly in
the back yard—with the feeling
that the old place would never
be w'hat it ought to be until we
got the old home back and the
old home got us back under the
parental roof and tucked us in
good and tight in the old "Tee-
ster” bed upstairs at the White
House.
The Greedy Tar Heels.
There is a little observation
that when the South walked in,
the North Carolinans were in
clined to reserve too many rooms.
Everybody is wondering how
they managed to do it. But when
the "full house” sign was hung
out, there it w r as. They had .done
it.
There is "Joe” Daniels, Com
mander of the Republic's great
high sea*, the guardian of the
ancient glories of Paul Jones,
Commodore Perry, Farragot, and
the Manila and Santiago fame
the Honorable Secretary of the
American Navy. He was the son
of a widow at Wilson, and a prin
ter's devil these thirty years ago.
It looks a far cry from the little
print shop on a side street in a
country town to the Captain's
Bridge of a world's distinction,
but a thrilling American thing it
is that the printer's devil made
the trip.
There is "Dave” Houston, out
of the woods around Monroe,
directing the fortunes of Ameri
can agriculture. Over in the lit -
tie railroad town they are whit
tling pine boards in front of the*
Court House, forgetting to ask
the usual question, whether
“Thirty-eight is on time this
morning” or not. Seeing as how
Dave has done it, it seems just
as natural as yesterday that hv
was corning home from college
yard in front, and that is whfj>
he was born. Off to the right j.
an old academy building. That*
where he went to school.
I w een these two houses, thu
American Ambassador to (; rea ,
Britain in the year of our Lo r ,|
nineteen hundred and thirteen
was flung back and forth from
bed to books and shaped for des
tiny right before our eyes.
It is like a chapter out of the
Arabian Nights.
The old story which as nothing
else exposes the secret and the
wonder of the great American
Republic.
Value of a Big Nose.
ELBERT HUBBARD.
man-power .uid animal-power.
And th* Dukhobers plow with
w *>man-power.
The tarmgr annot hope for re
demption through electricity, be
cause the farmer's business is to
move around over a space of per
haps several miles and he must
carry his fuel on his back, so to
speak. No stationary engine will
answei his purpose.
The first move in the direction
of using mechanical power on the
farm was when we ceased to use
horses for threshing stain.
The horse-pow er. \\ here a
dozed horses were driven round
and round on a sweep, is some
thing hat all of the gray beards
born in the vountrv remembet
Kerosene is nature’s own fuel.
The business of searching for
oil in tiie bowels of the earth, and
pumping it up. is practically in
its infancy. All we have endeav
ored to do. so far. is to bring up
just enough oil to supply our
needs.
The problem yet in transpor
tation is to get an engine that
will carry its fuel on its hack
The smallest quantity of fuel in
point of bulk and weight is what
the world demands.
The me! now that gives the
quickest results w ith i he least
loss is kerosen* .
Tile engine ,1m ignites kero
sene instantly and that liberates
its power so that it is used at
once -this is the principle of the
oil engine.
The great need is an oil engine
that, in clean combustion, regu
lation, durability, light weight
and control, will equal «*r better
the be>r steam or gas engines.
And the nexi need of this coun
try is that the Government sha I
a ’ Le.ist control the supply of
crude « il. "i .control the price of
ail petroleum products.
REV. *jOH N E. WHITE.
and talking about going to Texas.
Out on a little hill where the
trees stand guard and small
white tombstones here and there
hold their obscure vigil, there is
a new-made grave, and as the
farmers of old Fnion drove past
the other day with their guano,
one of them said: “It’s a pity old
man Houston didn’t live another
\ear to see what Dave was do
ing.
The New Ambassador.
Now comes this latest shock of
pride to the Tar-Heels and it is
running like a fire all over the
State—Walter I’age in the big
gest, highest station the Ameri
can Republic cgin send a citizen
to. Another little town that
did anything in the world hut
furnish il men and women is at
least, half awake to-day.
Before you get to the Capital of
the State from tfie West, you
have to pass through Cary. It
is simply one of the necessities
of the railroad situation. Out to
the left a hundred yards away
is a plain boarded, weather-beat
en. two-story house, and a big
If you have seen the picture of
the new Minister to Great Brit
ain you were struck with th?
man’s nose, for the photographer
cannot shut it off. You need not
be afraid to mention it, because
it is a family glory. It explains
why when the new Ambassador
fn some time of international exi
gency speaks the American word
with authority the European dip
lomats will sit up and take no
tice that there is a man on the
job. After all it does not matter
really where opportunity gives a
* man a place to stand if he has
the right sort of nose.
His father, old man Frank
Page, was Ambassador Extraor
dinary and Minister Plenipotenti
ary in his day. It is being re
called now in the little village,
forlorn in its pride, that one da>
our new Minister to St. James
became involved in diplomat it
complications in the horse lot
For the purpose of making it a
closed incident he earnestly ex
claimed: “Pa, you will hurt in;
new coat.”
It
evoked a most belligerent
response like this: "Yes. and I'll
hurt your back before I get
through.”
Here is another secret of Amer
ican greatness.
It is all good to think of. The
Southern boy is getting in the
reach of the National spur. The
schoolmaster’s task to-day down
South is to link up the past to
the present.
There are many things to forget
but many more things to renu m
ber. A baby can now leap across
the Mason and Dixon line
From every farm where at
nigiitfall the little brood gather.-
about the fireside and from even
little school house where the day
hums along over the oasis of re
cess they are. coming. Unde
Sam—into the "House of the
Fathers.”
Does Fabled Atlantis Exist?
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
A MAN asks me by letter:
"Was there ever a conti
nent. or island, of Atlantis,
and did it really sink to the bot
tom of the Atlantic Ocean, as I
have read?”
1 do not know, and nobody
knows, whether there ever was
an Atlantis, but the great Greek
philosopher Plato said there was.
and his story of «\vhat ancient
traditions tokl about its wonders
and its* awful fate is one of the
most interesting ever written.
Mentioned Lost Attentis.
Plato, said that Atlantis was a
large continent, situated in the
Atlantic, west of the Strait of
Gibraltar: that it was the scene
of a marvelous civilization, such
as the world, up to his time, had
never again witnessed: that it
contained populous cities. with
beautiful palaces*, and broad culti
vated lands, teeming with the
richest products of the soil: and
that suddenly, it was over
whelmed by a.flood 6f waters and
sank beneath the sea. leaving
only the tips of a few mountains
projecting above the waves.
Other writers of ancient time-
mentioned the legend of lost At
lantic.
Solon, the Athenian sage and
lawgiver, who lived nearly 6ht>
years before Christ, is said to
have heard about it during his
travels in distant lands. But even
in his time the memory of the
sunken continent had almost van
ished and the traditions* con
cerning it were contradictory and
uncertain. Ye:, because they were
so persistent and widespread, it
is reasonable to conclude that
there happened in remote an
tiquity some overwhelming cata
clysm that powerfully affected the
imagination of surviving mankind
and made an ineffaceable impres
sion upon succeeding ages.
Lord Bacon named one of his
most impoftant works "The New
Atlantis.” and through all litera
ture the story of the vanished
. .mt.nent has left its traces. 1:
is* one of the greatest legends in
hum*n history.
When the new science of ge
ology began to be cultivated it
was, thought, at first, that it fur
nished unquestionable corrobora
tion of Plato’s story .because it
seemed to demonstrate that the
seas and lands of this globe had
often changed places in past
GARRETT P. SERVISS.
times; and, if that were so. evi
dently it was perfectly possible
for a continent to have once oc
cupied a large part of what is now*
the Atlantic Ocean.
In the latter half of the nine
teenth century the sceince of
oceanography was developed, and'
exploring ships were sent through
all the great seas, armed with
sounding apparatus capable of
reaching depths of several miles.
The soundings then made revealed
the fact that the bottom of the
Atlantic is very irregular, sinking
at some places in vast depres
sions, rising elsewhere in broad
plateaus, and occupied at certain
points by mountainous elevations,
whose pecks occasional!.!, attain
the surface.
Tiler, i; was guessed that the
Azores Islands might be remnants
of drowned Atlantis, and an at
tempt was made to trace the out
lines of former lands connecting
the Old World with America,
across the oceanic neck between
Africa and South America.
Speculative thinkers began to
theorize about the possible peo
pling of the American continnent
by the passage of races of men
over this supposed land bridge,
. and thus an explanation was im
agined of the curious resem
blances between the civilization
and the architectural remains of
the Eastern and Western worlds.
It is now generally held that
the ocean basins have always
been depressions filled with wa
ter. and that the great continents,
as a whole, have never been un
der a deep sea. The waters
which once covered immense
areas in North America and oth
er continents were shallow basins,
and a relatively slight change of
level sufficed to turn them into
dry land. The deposits found on
the floor of the Atlantic, in its
deeper portions, far from the
shores, are of a character which
indicates that they have been ac
cumulating uninterruptedly for
countless ages.
At. the same time, it is prac
tically certain that some of the
great archipelagos which lie* near
the shores of continents, like die
East India islands, were on*e
connected with those continents.
Question an Open One.
And it is just possible that the
changes of sea level that have
occurred elsewhere were, in some
cases, sufficient to submerge an
area of continental extent. So. it
may be said that the question of
the former existence of a conti
nent, or at least a great island
somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean
is still open.
But if future exploration should
reveal its rocky skeleton lying at
the bottom of the sea, there F
hardly the remotest chance that
any indications of the brilliant
life which Plato said once cover
ed it would be found.
The discovery of fossils in th*
rocks, however, would be irrefra
gable proof that they had once
lain near, or above, the
of the water.