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THE HOME RARER
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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Payable In
Bryan’s Narrow “Little Navy”
Policy the Cause of His Visit
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to California.
The selection of Mr. Bryan to visit California and persuade the
citizens there to abandon the exercise of their sovereign rights and
to bow timorously and obsequiously before the threats of Japan is<
peculiarly appropriate.
The reason that Californians are asked to give up their rights in
order to pacify Japan, and to sacrifice their interests and the in
terests of the country at large in order to please the Japanese, is
because we have no sufficient navy, and the main reason that we
have no sufficient navy is because Mr. Bryan has exerted his hi
fluence among hiB unthinking followers In the Democratic House^
to prevent the country from having a sufficient navy.
This visit to California, therefore, will give Mr. Bryan an op ,
portunlty to demonstrate to the country the advantages of his
peace-at-any price policy. It will give him a conspicuous ohanoe
to establish his superiority in wisdom and patriotism to George,'
Washington, who said:
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual methods ,
of preserving peiioe. ’’
Mr. Bryan is noted for his eloquenoe, if for nothing else, and it
will take considerable eloquence to prove that war is cheaper than I
a reasonable naval insurance against war, and to convince the citi
zens of California that Abraham Lincoln was wrong when he said:
“One half day s cost of this war would pay for all the slavesJ
In Delaware at $400 a head.”
It will take quite a flow of oratory to convinoe the citizens
of the country generally that the proper American policy is to save
a few dollars in the building of ships and sacrifice our independ-j
ence, our self-respect and our actual interests as a nation.
It is fortunate that Charles Coatesworth Pinckney, statesman.
and partiot, is no longer alive to learn from the Democrats of to
day how poorly he represented the American spirit when he replied
to the demands of Napoleon’s Minister that the motto of America,',
was “Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.”
To-day, at least among the Democrats of America, there are
no millions for defense, but there is a pitiful disposition to pay
tribute in consideration and concession to any demands that an in i
solent foreign nation may urge.
In Ambassador Pinckney's time the United States had about
one third the territory that it now possesses and about one-twen-!
tieth of the population.
It was smaller in men, but larger in manhood. It was smaller
in size, but larger in independence and honor. It was lesser in
wealth, but greater in courage.
For Ambassador Pinckney was not speaking for a nation of a
hundred millions to a nation of less than half that number. He
was speaking for a scant five million of plain American citizens,
and asserting his independence and theirs in the face of the great
est military nation of that time, and of the greatest military leader
of the world.
But courage and determination more than made up for lack of
numbers and lack of wealth, and Talleyrand accepted Pinckney’s
defiance and abandoned France’s insulting demands.
Even in our day courage and conscience count for more than j
size. Little Montenegro is one of the smallest nations in the world.
Yet all the powers of Europe, with their fleets concentrated at its
shore, could not make it abandon what it believed to be right. King
Nicholas, ol Montenegro, in spite of the threats of the powers,
prosecuted the siege of Scutari until he took the city.
And withal little Montenegro is so small upon the map and the
rest of Europe is so large. In view, then, of our own American ox
periencc and from our observation of the achievements of other na
tions reliant upon right, it would seem that the size of a country
is not so important as the size of the men it has at its head.
“TEACH US TO PRAY
Bv LILIAN LAUFERTY.
* KAi’H us to , r., \ .
Tis dark o'er all the world,
And over land and sea the mints close down.
Uui ill the darkness hopelessly we stray,
Ynd Heart h and can not find again our way
<) < Jod! touch us to pray.
Lm everywhere h gloom.
And sudden terror prizes on our hear*?
A blttetvknftu lodge comes to un to-da>
We are world-weary sinners far astray.
O God’ teach us to pray.
Teach us to pray,
AVe would but speak with Thee.
Our hearts art* full of what but Thou could at
And we an- tired <hudnn far astray
We seek the light of Thirn* Eternal Way.
Hear God. s.\teh us to pray.
It You Should Live 100 Years
If you should !>u alive 100 years from to-day, no
loubt you will be able to see sights in the l uit’ed
Static like the above. Here you see the great, tall
buildings of the future, so tall that the giant sky-
serapers of to-day, one of whieli boasts of a height
of 750 feet, would appear but a pigmy compared
to the skyscraper of the future with its more than
100 stories. You may be sure that when build
ings such a sare pictured above become a reality,
the airship willtlieu be'as common as the trolleys
of to-dav.
American Genius Has Given the World Its Greatest Wonder
By GARRETT P SERVISS.
I N antiquity it was sold that
then' were seven wonders of
the world, headed by the
great Pyramids of Egypt.
In the Middle Ages Me list «.f
world's wonders- mhh changed
throughout, and then ii started
with the Goliseiim of Rome.
To-day, if we should revise the
list once more, there can be no
doubt us to what would stand at
’the head —it would he the Pan
ama (‘anil.
In or« or to be accepted as a
"wonder." au\ work of man must
make a particular kind of appeal
to the imagination That it ex
cites admiration is not enough: it
must a’.s'o awaken the feeling that
in creating it man lias taken a
step forward, beyond the line of
his previous achievements.
What Nature Has Done.
Regarded. In this way. tin* Pa li
the inters** inwi. *: show n hy the
entire work! in its approaching
completion proves.
For the first time In hlj history
man ha.- directly joined two
oceans, t to g:eatest on iho globe.
: i i: • das cut two
continents asunder. Tints >
c .. • : mi-- r A CEO-
peal to the imagination all his
former works sink into relative
insignificance.
If some new Herodotus were
to go wandering through our
modern world in search of mar
vels he would, on arriving ut
Panama, tlnd no words strong
enough to express his amazement.
H< would exclaim that the Amer
icans had defied 1 * the gods i»>
changing their arrangement of
tile face of the earth!
In oi l ' r to mu •* :aml w ha i ill
Panama (’anal .means as an ex
ample of human interference
'with co 4 aph>. w e mus- look at
what nature had done on the
same spot. For this purpose take
;• map showing the Central Amer
ica n and West Indian region, with
indications of the depth of water
on both si(!• «•. and a raised chart,
like Mr Gray’s, exhibiting a
bird's-eye view of the line of the
canal across the isthmus.
Thus you will perceive that in
some long pa-t period. broad,
though vet” irregular, necks of
land probably connected the two
Americas, joining many of the
islands to the mainland, both
bean Sea now rolls* its waters.
Afterward there was a sinking,
separating the islands from the
continental shore, and leaving
only the narrow isthmus to con
nect North and South America.
Two Oceans United by Man.
For ages this condition has per
sisted. and it is doubtful if the
two continents have ever been
completely cut apart. at least
since the cretaceous age. .More
likely the rooky spine of the isth
mus has always connected them,
whatever other changes may have
occurred.
If this be so. it is evident that,
in making the Panama Canal, we
have interfered with an original
arrangement •»r Nature. We have
taken two oceans which ^he had
separated and united them by a
waterway. That waterway, to be
sure, is a mere thread, ami w<•
have had to elevate much of it
above , level (which Na are
could not have done), but it serves*
our purpose, and does it without
upsetting any of Nature's broader
designs. If the .v ole isthmus
were swept away the Gulf Stream
would probably be diverted, and a
climatic catastrophe mAh; fall
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No More to Discover.
Rev. John E. White
Writes on
The Sociological
Congress
Vt g
It Means That the South Intends to
, Make an End of Outside Fault
finding by Undertaking Itself Al!
of the Faultfinding 1 hat Is Nec
essary.
WRITTEN FOR THE GEORGIAN
By REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE
Pastor Second Baptist Church
T -T THEN sociology brat came
\V South it met h cold re
ception. Here and there
a college professor extended hos
pitality, but the popular mind
viewed it askance. The word was
the limit of new-fangled scien
tific^ and smacked of a certain
"black beast" called Socialism.
Who would have thought that
in the year 1913 a great South
ern Sociological Congress would
be meeting in Atlanta?
This Sociological Congress
which begun its session here last
Friday evening means criticism.
You know that, of course. If you
have attended any of tho con
ferences.
South Criticising Itself.
It means that the South intends
to make an end of outside fault
finding by undertaking itself all
the fault finding that is neces
sary. Southern conditions of one
kind and another have been the
subject of a good deal of dis
cussion in this country and
abroad. Injurious impressions,
about the South have gone out
over the world.
The Southern Sociological Con
gress means that Southern- men
are addressing themselves to
Southern condition# and that the
best intelligence and the most
unselfish patriotism is to be con
centrated upon all the social
problems of the Southern States.
The old protest "Let the South
alone"—may now cease. The
South is not going to let her
self alone.
Wherever there is any general
situation of social sorrow, of de
pressed civilization, of backward
progress, our minds and hearts
arc to be organized and a great
hand stretched forth with the
truth on its palm for all the peo
ple to see.
It will be a Southern hand, a
hand of understanding and sym
pathy.
The Broacl Diagnosis.
It will be again of incalculable
value for Southen men to sec the
truth about ourselves and see it
whole. None of the conditions
which need remedy can he dealt
with effectively so long as they
are considered merely individual
and local.
The slogan of the congress is
"A Solid South for a Better Na
tion." That is a solidity of
Southern society which peculiar
ly invites the sociological lever.
We are a morally inflammable
people. The resolution of Im
provement can be invoked for a
general contagion of progress.
A good straight look at the
Southern field sociologically, f«>:*
instance, w ill show our weakness
clearly in relation to our strength.
There arc 30,000,000 people, but
they arc not all safely civilized.
From the standpoint of the so
ciologist—and this is the stand
point of the truth—the South is
ten million strong and not far
from twenty million weak.
There are 10,000,000 people who
represent the intelligence, the
thrift and the progresstveness of
the Southern States, but there ar»
10.000,000 white people—and An
glo-Saxon at that—who, on ac
count of illiteracy and unsocial
ized natural intelligence, are suf
fering the penalties of backward
ness.
They constitute the Teal prob
lem, and until it is taken out of
the eddies and put into a current
the reliability of our civilization
is called into question.
The 10,000,000 negroes also arc
here among us and a part of the
heavy downpull which handicaps
us.
Optimism With Motive.
The characteristic of tlue Socio
logical Congress is optimism with
a motive. Those who stand out
side and criticise the South do not
do us any good, and, indeed, can
not.
Grover Cleveland said: "Those
who stand next to the burden are
alone able to lift it." When a
man finds fault with himself there
is hope of practical repentance.
Southern men believe in the
South. They believe that its re
sources justify a radiant vision.'
These resources of material
wealth in soil and climate, in
mind and field, are world assets.
Our resources of human nature
are generous and courageous. We
constitute the great American re
serve of the unmixed republican
stock of jealous Anglo-Saxonisin.
Our great powers only await en
listment, combination and direc
tion.
There is nothing going on below
the Mason and Dixon line that
appeals quite as much to funda
mental patriotism as the begin
nings of constructive criticism
realized and foreshadowed in the
Southern Sociological Congress.
No Molecule Ever Rests
By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN.
September since Balboa, standing
silent upon his “peak in Darien,"
saw the glitter of the Pacific and
thus knew that there was another
in west of America.
». and others after him, looked
i natural waterway between
e oceans, but the possibility
T making such a wav could not
occurred to him. and he eer-
had no foresight of the
mighty nation that was to arise in
Hie north, composed of a differ
ent race from his. and destified,
so s’hori a time, to link the
un behind him with that which
saw far ahead.
Tin- ago of <iiscovp'.A of new
habitable lands, capable of becom
ing the seats of new empires, is
past. NYe now know the whole
earth, as Nature made it, having
seen even its poles, through the
eves of brave explorers. It only
remains for us to-complete its*
conquest by making it titter for
our habitation.
Tlie Panama Canal is th - first
gigantic stride taken in this new
conquest. American genius and
enterprise have achieved it un
aided. Wo have paid its cost In
M olecules are composed
of atoms; and, of course,
the least number that can
form an atom is evidently two.
and the number varies greatly
from the molecules of rare gas
to dense solids. But no molecule
within the entire range of hu
man experience is at rest. Put
very line particles in water, put
a small drop of the water under
the lenses of a very high power
microscope and examine. The
particles move rapidly and in
many directions. Thus a particle
will move on a short straight line
and then turn abruptly, not in a.
curved or round corner, but sharp,
angular turns will be made again
and again, the path being zigzag.
When the phenomenon was <1 ia
covered in U-7 by Brown the mo
tions were named Brownian mo
tions in his honor. But tlte mi
croscopes used by him uuuld be
itt the "ash heap" now, or in a
museum of curios. The present
day microscopes arc instruments
of very remarkable power.
Brownian Motions.
The Brownian motions have
been studied by many able physi-.
lists. At first investigators
though', that the mysterious mo
tions were caused by slight in
equalities in temperature in the
little drop of water. This was dis
proved. The motions were appar
ently self-caused, and continuous,
no rest. Thus the smaller the
particles suspended In the liquid,
the fist.*: t'tuw m«»\ed. Finally
the rapidity of the strange move
ments ever Increased with de
crease of size.
All kinds of liquids were used
to sustain the floating and flying
things. No explanation of tlia
motions was made; still men
could scarcely believe that they
moved of themselves. Then
came the very wonderful new ul
tra-violet energy-rav microscope,
and new methods of applying
rays to the flying bodies. All
was now animation in laborato
ries; the limit of all power of
seeing was reached; and it
seemed that the very interiors of
the particles could be reached.
• New kinds of liquids were dis
covered and used, and new kinds
of excessively minute particle*
suspended. They all moved; but
new rates, new speed? were dis
covered.
Speeds Increased.
Then another new plan was
tried; fine metals, as silver, were
torn apart by electricity pito dust
of silver so fine as to be beyond
imagination. These were put into
liquids, and specific speeds were
greatly increased.
Then ah unheard-of experiment
was made—the extremely small
fragments of silver were floated
in gas. They moved faster than
tver and in far longer paths be- .
fore turning. The great discov-
, ry was made: they do not move
of themselves, hut are harried
along hither and thither by the
original invisible molecules of the
liquids and ga.es. Tiieet move
nerpetuttllx-
LOGICAL AGENT.
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