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I 1 H 4hii Sufi ft IS ! ft 0»lS!!2' fcftSS'SS 'Ill 11' 1 'III . 11 ‘III! I* 1 " IS III, "1,11,. ’"I i„. '"Mr la “MSl'ii " ii Wmyi 'll ill! l!!? ill 1 ! EDITORIAL RAGE HP 1 he Atlanta THE HOME RARER THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN •uUifihr.t Kverv Afu n By THH (iMoiKil ' \t 20 Boat Alalmt i i iusM mutter hi post of ru l »elivore«t hy rHrrWt . 1 Payable In Bryan’s Narrow “Little Navy” Policy the Cause of His Visit •r 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 great He for tho hav tainh 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. 1