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EDITORIAL PAGE The Atlanta Georgian the hom E RARER THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Entered as sc -in Subscription Pric *u blinked Kvery Afternoon Except Sunday By THi: c; EOHU I AN COMPANY At 20 Hast Alabama St.. Atlanta, Ga. lass matter at postofflce at Atlanta, under ; -Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By Payable in Advance. ict of Ma mail, $5. : 00'X'OCK:‘OOOC‘00000<>00<>C'000<<’<K>00'JOOOOC'CH>CH5<<H30<"OOOCH>C>0000<X>0<K<(00<>OOOOOOi>OOOiXKMX^OOOOO'>>0','OOOOOOOOOOCM>CRj OUR ANTEDILUVIAN ANCESTORS Copyright. 1913, International New# Service. This Nation Should Be Foremost in the Cause of Peace, hut Only the Strong Can Com= mand Peace-AVE MUST BE STRONG. They were eloquent, statesmanlike, patriotic declarations which the Secretaries of War and the Navy, Daniels and Gar rison, made at the banquet of the Navy League the other night. They should be read by every citizen who loves his country. Secretary Daniels said: When the people plead for a greater American navy we will have it, and not till then. If we can convince the people of the United States that the navy is theirs, and that you and I are her e as their servants to carry out their wishes and interests in regard to it, I will feel that my service here hag not been in vain. I do not want the people to feel that the navy is anchc-ed somewhere away from them in the far mid-ocean of profession alism. but that it is moored alongside of the American home, and for its protection. I want them to know about it; not only 'ts glories of the past, but its present efficiency and its future * possibilities. Secretary of War Garrison said: This preparedness can be had only by rounding out and com pleting the navy and making it large enough to be the strong right arm of the Republic, and to do the work for which the strong right arm is intended, not for punishment, not for injury to others, but for protection to one’s self and country. If every citizen would give the question of the maintenance of an efficient navy his serious consideration, he would appre date that our navy is a vital, practical institution; that the money which we spend upon it is a prudent, businesslike ex penditure; that its existence is not inconsistent with the highest ideals of our modern civilization; that it is not inconsistent with the principle of universal brotherhood or with the hope of uni versal peace. A navy sufficiently strong to protect our country against all probable contingencies is a provision as prudent as the insur ance which a business man takes out against fire and flood and accident. No prudent man leaves his home and his business un insured. Yet, the probability of loss by fire and flood and accident is not nearly so great to the business man as the probability of loss by war to this country. War has recurred regularly about ev ery twenty-five years with this country. Not only is this true since we became an independent nation after the Declaration of Independence, but it is true of our people since the continent was first settled, when Captain John Smith landed in 1609 on Vir ginia soil and the Pilgrims landed in 1620 on the rock bound ooest atf Massachusetts. Evs.,y generation, from the colonial days to our own gen eration, has fought a war. There is no evidence that wars have decreased in frequency. We have high hopes that the end of killing men to settle questions of conflicting interests is near at hand, because we know that it is wrong and barbarous and unbusinesslike and un necessary. We believe that the wonderful improvements in the m. ,1 oi communication, the telegraph, the telephone, the wire f ... ihe high speed of steamships, the ajrships, the advancement of universal education and everything which brings the differ- • nt peoples closer together and gives them more enlightenment, v i! make for the universal peace. When a thoughtful people appreciate the cost of war and understand who pays the bills, they will stop it. Already we see signs of this awakening in Germany and France, where the rep resentatives of the workingmen are protesting against the ter rible cost of the enormous armaments of those countries. They are beginning to realize that they pay the hills and it is their bodies which are exposed to the danger. America should be the foremost nation in promoting the cause of peace. But obedience to the great injunction of the great founder of our country, that in time of peace we should prepare for war, is not inconsistent with work in the cause of peace. We are coming to see with increased clearness every day that the criminal is more to be pitied than to be blamed. He is often the victim of inherited temperament, acted upon by his environment. Society is now giving a great deal more attention to the work of improving the conditions under which children are bom, which largely determine their temperament, and to improving their environment. But do we consider that we should abolish our police force and our criminal courts or make them any less efficient because we are working also through other means to reduce criminality? Society to-day is raising the standards of our building construc tion to lessen their liability to destruction by fire. But is the maintenance of an efficient fire department inconsistent with the work of reducing fire risks by better building laws, greater re strictions on the license of building, and the abolition of fire traps? Is the business man inconsistent who approves of the public expenditures to make buildings proof against fire, and yet who, nevertheless, takes out an insurance on his property? If there existed in the world an insurance company gigantic enough to insure a nation against the losses which follow in the wake of war, loss of life, of health, of property, of business, of territory and worldly influence, does anybody dreair that such an insurance company would not charge us premiums greater than the entire yearly cost of our navy? Yet, when we know that since the earliest settlement on this continent every generation of our people has faced a war, wouldn t it be prudent for us to take out suoh an insurance and pay the enormous premium if we had no other way of insuring ourselves against the losses which war entails? There are some w r ho consider that we do not need expensive ■ ; 'rance against war, because our country is unconquerable, i is true that its resources, its population and the intelligence ; . r organizing capacity of its people are unmatched. But the rinory of the world is full of instances of the overthrow of rich, Aclligent peoples by an enemy of far less resources, but of nob better warlike preparation. Moreover, there is nothing more costly to a nation than a , ’ unnecessarily prolonged through a lack of preparation. If v e er. unconquerable the navy would still be a valuable, pru- dent and < umesslike insurance against unnecessary losses which would follow the unnecessary prolongation of war for which c weie not prepared. H Let us work for universal peace. But let us have a strong Wr.Avy, which can never jeopardize our own liberty, but will always insure us against the danger from without, and which at some juncture, as the possession of a righteous nation, may , guarantee the world’s peaoe, t \ Ella Wheeler Wilcox Asks Are You a Good Neighbor? If So, She Says, You Never Fawn. Flatter, Envy or Are Jealous, but You Act the Real Human Person When Your Neigh bor Is in Trouble and When He Is Not Written For The A tlanta Georgian By Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copyright, 1913, by American-Journal-Examiner. le seem to be having a lively time!" “Lively! Well,-1 should s^v so! That’s the' „ e!” “Lively! ( Tiffville Supper Club! They’ve got all the new dances, including the ‘Dinosaurus Trot,’ the ‘Pre- | historic Tango’ and the ’Brontosaurus Slide!' They’re a classy bunch, believe ME!” ^ Consider the Universe; It Improves the Mind By GARRETT P. SERVISS A CORRESPONDENT asks whether it is true, as he has read, that a faint spindle of light which an opera ulass shows in constellation Andromeda is in reality another universe lyinn far off from the uttermost shores of our universe and possessing its own Milky Way and its own clus ters of stars and swarms of worlds. And. if anybody believes this is so, he would like to know why. It will help to make the an swer clearer if we first consider the appearance of the Andromeda nebula. The naked eye can just glimpse it on a dark night like the mer est speck of luminous smoke. An opera glass, its above said, shows it in the form of a glimmering spindle. A powerful telescope re veals it as an elongated glowing cloud, the brightest part of which is at least twice as long as the full moon is broad when seen with the naked eye. Two dark rifts seem to partial ly divide it lengthwise, and a small round nebula shines, like a little attendant, off at one side. The condensed parts have a sparkling appearance, like frosted silver. Marvellous Transformation. A marvellous transformation takes place when a photographic plate instead of the eye is ex posed at the focus of a telescope pointed at the Andromeda nebula. In the photograph the glowing cloud appears in the form of a great irregular central mass, sur rounded by several more or less broken rings, all of which are seen slopingly, so that they look like long ellipses. The appear ance is as If the whole nebula were in whirling motion, like a gigantic cyclone of fiery clouds, and the rings seem to be flying asunder. Before going further, some thing should be said about the probable size of this wonderful object. Some observers have re ported that they could trace its faint extensions over a space four degrees in length, or eight times the breadth of the full moon. In order to be well within the truth, however, let us assume that the length of the brighter portion is only one degree. Now. the actual size of an ob ject which appears one degree broad depends upon its distance from the eye. We do not know the distance of this nebula, but we have the best reasons for be lieving that it cannot be less than 100 light-years away i. e. light, which travels 186,304) miles per GARRETT P. SERVISS. second, requires 100 years to come to us from it. In 100 years light travels, in round numbers, 580 millions of millions of miles! That, then, is the least distance that we can assume for the An dromeda nebula. To tell how large it is we have only to remember that the appar ent diameter of any object bears a fixed proportion to its distance. If the apparent diameter is one degree the distance will be about 67.3 times tlie real diameter. In this case we know the distance, or, at least, we know that it can not be less than a certain amount, although it may be more—and we wish to find out the real diameter from knowing the apparent di ameter and the distance. How to Judge Size. All we nave to do, then, is to divide 580,000,000,000,000 by 57.3. For simplicity call the divisor 58, and the result is 10,000,000,000,000. That tremendous number repre sents the length of the Androme da nebula in miles To comprehend it, let us make a little calculation A swift pro jectile fmm a modern gun can go at the rate of half a mile in a second, 30 miles in a minute. 1.800 miles in an hour, 43,200 miles in a day, or 15,789.600 miles in a year. Such a projectile, if it kept right on. never slowing in the least, would take about 640.000 years to pass from end to end through ihe Andromeda nebula. assuming that its size is no greater than we have supposed. A railroad express, traveling a mile a minute, would require 1,920.000 years to make that trip. Now. what is the Andromeda nebula ? To the eye it resembles other nebulae, which we know are com- composed of gaseous matter not yet condensed into stars. But the spectroscope shows that its light is not that of a true nebula, but rather resembles the light that would come from a mass of stars so Ear away that no telescope, and no photograph, can reveal them separately to our eyes. For this reason some astrono mers have guessed that it may be an outer universe, which we see dimly gleaming in the depths of space beyond our. starry sys tem. Perhaps Another Universe. Whether this is really so or not we do not yet know, but if it is so. then we must conclude that many other so-called nebulae are also outer universes, for they too present the same peculiarity in their light. For my own part, I am disposed to think that all of these objects are parts of our own universe, but We are hardly yet In a posi tion to be dogmatic on the sub ject A Love of Home That Is Worth While T HEY are taking the Chicago Itigli school girls to ilie Stock Yards nowadays to learn how to cut meat to the best advan tage. “Chuck steak is better than tenderloin if you know how to iook it.” they ray at the Stock Yards, “and a pot roast w ill beat an oven roast all hollow if the cook is all right.” Quite true, perhaps. I always seem to catch myself preferring tenderloin and the oven roast myself, all other things being equal, though there is no question that a “chuck” steak well broiled Is better than a tenderloin or even a porterhouse, that king of meats, fried to leather; but 1 wonder if knowing these things is going to help the way taring man, though a wiseacre as to his meals .’ Just Plain Lazy. There’s no getting round it at all—the American housekeeper is lazy . not incompetent merely, just plain LAZY. getting laxier every day. Did you ever notice .he office hoy 7 Give an. office boy more to do < By WINIFRED BLACK. than lie can do hikI lie’ll be up ami coming—wideawake and right there every minute. Put him into another office where there isn’t enough to do to keep him busy and he’ll groan if you ring for a paper weight and moan if you try to drag him from his "thriller.” That’s what’s the matter with ihe American woman when it comes to housekeeping—her job is too easy and she won’t do it. It doesn’t seem worth while somehow No fires to make, no ashes to dispose of. no laundry in the house, electric irons all over the place—why not have it a little easier and run to the delicatessen and get dinner instead of bother ing with it at all? The old-fashioned housekeeper had to get her fire started just so far ahead anyhow or she wouldn’t have any oven for bis cuits so while she was waiting she did other variously useful and interesting things. Basting the roast, for instance, and flavoring it. I've eaten pot roasts at my German friends’ that were .worth eating and re membering, too, but they weren't cooked at the last minute as an afterthought when mother got home from the matinee. The mushrooms that made that gravy were in soak for two hours be fore the roast went to the pot, and somebody did some work on the almonds that gave the meat such a delicious flavor. The average cook will not do the things that mean trouble— and brains. It hurts to make your brain work when you can make somebody else do the work with his digestion. The house mother must be there to see to the general plan or somebody will see that something is slighted. Let’s Learn How to Live. We aren’t here merely for or naments. girls of the high school. Life ‘is something bigger and bet ter and more fun than any mere game. Let’s learn how to live it before we drag some foolish man into harness, where he has to do all the pulling. Industry, earnest interest in household affairs, a real love of home, a real care for comfort — these are important things to teach, too. 1 do hope some of the girls will get the fad of A RE you a good neighbor? What is a good neighbor? Hrrhaps you are a royal good chum with the popular peo ple of your town, and show them all sorts of courtesies, and you rejoice in their success, and you defend them against envy and malice. That is a part of a good neigh bor’s duty. But how do you conduct your self if they get in trouble? Are you ready to stand by them in poverty and sorrow as faith fully as In prosperity and popularity? Be a Good Neighbor. Will you be the last to censure, even if compelled to believe, when you hear they have made griev ous mistakes? It is not a good neighbor’s or a good Christian’s place to deny facts or condone crime. If you know that your neighbor has outraged the morals and broken the commandments, you are not to make yourself ridicu lous by saying he is an innocent or Injured individual. But if you are a good neighbor you will think of his family, and you will not be afraid to show your friendship; you will not be afraid to say to the offender: “I am sorry for you; begin over, and start life anew.” And you will be brave enough to help him to do it. Again, are you a good neighbor only in time of trouble? There are many such people to be found in country places. They are filled with enVy of another's success. They show it by keeping aloof and assuming a cold and in different manner. Sympathy in Misery. They try to find some flaw to pick in the popular or successful neighbor;. they begrudge him all his pleasures and his triumphs; but let him fall sick or lose his money and they will fly to his rescue. They will show him sympathy in his misery where they begrudg ed him congratulations in his happiness. This is admirable in a way, yet . not an altogether commendable quality. If you are this type of a good neighbor do not take pride in it. it indicates that you are filled with envy of another’s success, and that you like to bestow fa vors in time of trouble. The really good neighbor is one who felicitates a man when happiness and prosperity come; he sym pathizes sincerely when trouble and sorrow are at his door, and he encourages him to live down error and start life anew when he has made mistakes. He makes his neighbor realize that he is at his command when needed, but he does not obtrude himself either in his Joys or sor rows. It is a curious fact that hun dreds of people flock to a man when sickness and death enter his home, and offer him every kind of attention and give the greatest proofs of unselfish re gard for him, who have previous ly, in his times of prosperity ar.d pleasure, been thorns in his flesh. Don’t Wait for Disaster. It is, of course, more admira ble to treat a man kindly who is down than one who is up, if you have not nobility enough to your., nature to treat him kindly at all f times; but when you wait to show your good neighborliness until disease or death knocks at his door you are in a. certain measure placing yourself with the birds of prey who follow a' ter death and disease, and not with tne song birds that sing him awake in the sunlit mornings of the summer. A good neighbor is never jeal ous; he never fawns; he never flatters; he never envies anoth er’s success; he congratulates him sincerely. The Vigil at Sagres By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. I T was 495 years ago—April 15. 1418—that Prince Henry of Portugal, known as "Henry the Navigator.” finished his Ob servatory at Sagres. Henry was "born to tiie purple.” but It was not that fact that in terested him. He thought a great deal more of scientific truth than he did of the red tape and tinsel of royalty. Hence that Observa tory at Sagres. w'herein. while the rest of them were playing with the purple at Lisbon, he would be working to extend the frontiers of science. There he spent the greater part of his life, "studying the stars, map-making, posting himself in the art of navigation. Thence he sent forth his captains to plow the aeas: and, as year after year the weather-beaten ships returned from their venturesome pilgrim age. the first glimpse of home that greeted them was the beacon- light In the tower, where the master sat poring over problems of Archimedes or watching the stars.” Henry’s motto was. “Desire to do well;” and In the light of the sequel we are prepared to say that the Prince did excellently well. Three-quarters of a cen tury before the discovery of America Henry was busy at the work which was to find its frui tion in the voyages of Columbus and the Cabots. When Henry reared his Observatory at Sagres navigation was practically right where it had been from the rise of human history, the mysterious voyage of Lief Ericson alone ex cepted. Centuries before, it is true. Europe had known of the Ma deira.® and Canaries, and less than a century before 9he shores had been discovered; but by Henry s time these had all been forgot- \ 1 ten, and the Great Deep, save for a few' miles from shore, w T as a* mysterious as though it had neve* been sailed. Henry rediscovered the forgrrt* len islands of the Atlantic «anJ colonized them. Having dons that, he applied himself to tTfce task of finding out what Africa was. In 1435 one of hts captain* passed Cape Bojador. Ten year* later another of Henry's captain* rounded Cape Verde. In 1460 fbe Cape Verde Islands were dtscov* ered. By 1460 Sierra Leone *nd Liberia were reached. Such was the beginning of the great work which. 23 year* after Prince Henry's death, was de*^ tined to receive Its completion in the voyage of Bartholomew' Dias, who, in 1486. doubled the Cape of Good Hope and sailed Into the Indian Ocean. Henry had not kept his vigil in vain. After his eyes were closed in death the honor for which he had so bravely and patiently watched came In full glory to hi* countrymen. He tolled, and in due time the world received the reward of his labors. The doubting Thomases of th* time tried to discourage the Prince, and the wdse one* poured a perfect tempest of ridicule upon him. calling him a dreamer and a fool; but Henry stuck to his task, leaving the wiseacres to enjoy themselves as much as they liked at his expense. It was a case w’here backbone was needed, ahd where, fortunately, backbone was found. Had the discouragement and ridicule produced on Henry the effect that would certainlyj have been produced on an ordi nary man. there i9 no telling how long the world might have had to wait for the voyages of Columbu®, Cabot and Da Gama. j