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EDITORIAL RAGE ’ Atlanta Georgian THE HOME PAPER THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN lb■ THW GEORGIAN «’< ivil'ANV \l 20 East Alabama St . Ai.unla. (in Enid rd ss m iii■ I < in''** matter ul poHtofAcc at Atlanta, under art of March 3.1373 HfibeuriplPn i’rler Delivered by carrier* 10 a week. Hy mall. 5 r < 00 a year. Payable In Advance If You Should Live 100 Years 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