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Rev. John E. White
Writes on
Bryan’s Narrow “Little Navy”
I Policy the Cause of His Visit
to California.
The selection of Mr. Bryan to visit California and persuade the
olthsens there to abandon the exeroiae of their sovereign rights and'
to bow timorously and obsequiously before the threats of Japan is,'
peouUarly 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 in->
fluenoe among his 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-/j
portunity to demonstrate to the country the advantages of his
peace-at-any price polioy. It will give him a conspicuous chance/
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 peace.' ’
Mr. Bryan is noted for his eloquence, if for nothing else, and it
will take considerable eloquence to prove that war is cheaper than
a reasonable naval insurance against war, and,to convince the citi-.f
sens of California that Abraham Lincoln was wrong when he said:
“One half day’s cost of this war would pay for all the slaves,,
in Delaware at $400 a head. ’ ’
It will take quite a flow of oratory to oonvince the citizens
of the country generally that the proper American policy i3 to save
a few dollars in the building of ships and sacrifice our independ
ence, our self-respect and our actual interests as a nation.
It is fortunate that CharleB Ooatesworth Pinokney, 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 Amerioa, 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
solent foreign nation may urge.
In Ambassador Pinckney’s time the United States bad 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 Amerioan 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
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, of 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 ex
periencc and from our observation of the achievements of other na
tinns reliant, upon right, it would seem that, the size of a country
l* not so important, as the size of the men it has at its head.
“TEACH US TO PRAY’'
By LILIAN LAUFERTY.
rr->K.\CH us to ]*ra> .
KACH U9 to i• ra
I 'Tig dark o’er al
the world,
And over land and sea the inlets close down.
Out in the darkness hopelessly we stray,
And search and can not find again our way.
O God! teach us to pray.
Teach us to pray;
\\V are not worthy. Lord;
For we have dwelt long years in sin and shame.
We closed our eyes and would not see the way ;
And now ’tis vain—for hopelessly we s-tray.
O God! teach # us to pray.
'I’each us to pray,
For this cannot be prayer
Which comes but as the cry of hearts of fear.
We are joor trembling mortals gone astray—
If it be not too late to find Thy way.
O God! , teach us to pray.
Teach us to pray,
For everywhere i« gloom,
And sudden terror seizes on our hearts
A bitter knowledge comes to us to-day:
We are world-weary sinners far astray.
O God! teach ut to prav
It you should lie alive 100 year? I'miii to-day, no
louht yon will be able to see sight? in the United
States like the abovp. Here you see the great, tall
buildings of the future, so tall that the giant sky
scrapers of to-day, one of which boasts of a height
of ToO feet, would appear but a pigmy coni pa red
to the skyscraper of the future with ils more than
100 stories. You may be sure that when build
ings sueli a sare pictured above become a reality,
the airship willtheu be as common as the trolleys
of to-dav.
American Genius Has Given the World Its Greatest Wonder
Teach us to pray.
We would but speak with Thee
Our hearts are full of what but Thou co
And we are tired children far astray.
We seek the light of Thine Eternal W
Dear God. teach us to pray.
By GARRETT P SERVISS
I ' N antiquity it was said that
there were seven wonders of
the world, headed by the
great Pyramids of Egypt.
In the Middle Ages the list of
world’s wonders was changed
throughout, and then it started
with the Coliseum of Rome.
To-day. if we should revise the
list once more, there can be no
doubt ns to what would stand at
the head it would be the Pan
ama Canal.
In order to be accepted as a
“wonder.” any work of man must
make a particular kind of appeal
to the imagination. That it ex
cites admiration is not enough; it
nAist also awaken the feeling that
in creating it man has taken a
step forward, beyoud the line of
his previous achievements.
What Nature Has Done.
Regarded in this wav, the Pan
ama Canal Is without a rival, as
the Intense interest shown by the
entire world in its approaching
completion proves.
For the first time in his history
hr directly joined two
oceans, th- geaust on tin *b« .
l-\.r tin first t . has cut two
continents asunder. T e
A GEO
LOGICAL AGENT. In t «p
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 at
Panama, find no words strong
enough to express his amazement.
IU* would exclaim that the Amer
icans had defied the gods by
('hanging their arrangement of
the face of the earth!
In order to understand what the
Panama Canal means as an ex
ample of human interference
with geography, we must look at
what nature had done on the
same spot. For this purpose take
a map showing the Central Amer
ican and West Indian region, w ith
indications of the depth of water
on both sides, aiid 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 past period, broad,
though ver> irregular, necks of
land probably connected the two
Americas, joining many of the
islands to the main.and. both
r rth and south. T G;; t of
Mexico was op;*e nearlv iso’.a ctl.
bean Sea now roll? its waters.
Afterward there was a sinking,
separating fhe 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 it' the
two continents have ever been
completely cut apart, at least
since the creta< eau?* age. More
likely the rocky 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 of Nature. We have
taken two oceans which she had
separated and united them by a
waterway. That waterway, to be
sure, is a mere thread, and we
have had *o elevate much of it
above sea level tun Nature
could not ha\e done), but it serve?*
our purpose, and does it without
upsetting any of Nature's broader
designs. If the whole Isthmu-
were swept away the Gulf Stream
would probably be divyfted. and a
• iimatie catastrophe ' might fal
upon northwestern Europe, if r.ot
UP".. N-rr ; Am, r .-a its- f.
Jt wil be jug t’T» \« . r? next
The Sociological
Congress
It Means 1 hat the South Intends to
Make an End of Outside Fault
finding by Undertaking Itself All
of the Faultfinding That Is Nec
essary.
WRITTEN FOR THE GEORGIAN
By REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE
Pastor Second Baptist Church
V " THEN sociology first came
\/ South it met a 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-
tifles 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 began its session here last
Friday evening means criticism.
You know that, of course, if you
have attended any of the con
ferences.
South Criticising Itself.
It means that the South intends
to make an end of outside fault
finding by undertaking itself all
the fan.it finding that is neces
sary. Southern conditions of one
kind and another have been the
subject of a good deal (if 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
arc addressing themselves to
Southern conditions 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
are 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 Broad Diagnosis.
It will be again of incalculable
value for Southen men to see the
truth about ourselves and see it
whole. None of the conditions
which need remedy can be 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, for
instance, will show our weakness
clearly in relation to our strength.
There are 30,000,000 people, but
they are not all safely civilized.
From the standpoint of the so
ciologist—and this is the stand
point uf 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 progress! venen of
the Southern States, but there aid
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 real 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 are
here among us and a part of the
heavy downpull which handicaps
us.
Optimism With Motive.
The characteristic of the 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
I not.
Grover Cleveland said: “Those
who stand next to the burden are
alone able to lift it.” When a
man finds fault with himsejf 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 groat American re
serve of the unmixed republican
stock of jealous Anglo-Saxonism.
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
Soqthorn 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
great ocean west of America.
He. and others after him, looked
for a natural waterway between
those oceans, but the possibility
of making such a way could not
have occurred to him, and ho cer
tainly had no foresight of the
mighty nation that was to arise in
the north, composed of a differ
ent race from his. and destined,
in so s»hort a time, to link the
ocean behind him with that which
he saw far ahead.
No More to Discover.
The age of discovery of new
habitable lands, capable of becom
ing tile seats of new emuircs. is
past. We now know the whole
earth, as Nature made It. having
seen even its poles, through the
eyes of brave explorers. It.only
remains lor us to complete it?’
conquest by making it fitter for
our habitation.
The Panama Canal is the first
gigantic stride taken in this new
conquest. American genius and
enterprise have achieved it un
aided. \\V uava paid its cos- in
li\- « and treasure: let him beware
w in. would -h i rive us of the fruit
• OLECTJLBS 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 oft hu
man experience is at rest. Put
very fine 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 dis
covered in 1827 by Brown the mo
tions were named Brownian mo
tions in his honor. But the mi
croscopes used by him would be
in the “ash heap” now, or in a
museum of curios. The present
day microscopes are instruments
of very remarkable power. ""
Brownian Motions.
The Brownian motions have
been studied by many able physi
cist?. At first investigators
thought that the mysterious mo
tions were caused by slight in
equalities in temperature in the
little drop cf water. This was dis
proved. The motions were appar
ently self-caused, and continuous,
m* rest. Thus the -mailer' th*
particles susj»en*.V.i in the liquid,
the f.»st* they moved. Finally
th* y used parti* t** the limit
*f their magnifying power, and
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 the
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 particles
suspended. They all moved; but
new rates, new speeds were dis
covered.
Speeds Increased.
Then another new plan was
tried; fine metals, as silver, were
torn apart by electricity into dust
of silver so fine as to be beyond
imagination. These were put into
liquids, and specific speeds were
greatly increased.
Then an unheard-of experiment
was made—the extremely small
fragments of silver were floated
in gas. They moved faster than
ever and in far longer paths be
fore turning. The great discov
ery was made they do not move
of them.-elves, but are carried
along hither and thither by the
original invisible molecules of the
liquid.-- and gase*. These U}pve
I>erpet*—"UjL