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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 |
oitizens 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 wo have no sufficient navy, and the main reason that we
liave no sufficient navy is because Mr. Brynn has exerted his in
fluence 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
portunity to demonstrate to the country the advantages of his/
peace-at-any price policy. 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 peaoe.’’
Mr. Bryan is noted for his eloquence, if for nothing else, and it
will take considerable eloquence to prove that war is oheaper than
a reasonable naval insurance against war, and to convince the citl--
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 oonvinoe the citizens
of the country generally that the proper Ame. ican 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 i
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 had about j
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 hi 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 wiiat 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 MontenegTO is so small upon the map and the
rest of Europe is so large. In view, then, of our own American ex
•perience 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
By LILIAN LAUFERTY.
I ^ EACH us to pray,
Tig dark o’er all tl
And over land and sea the mipta cloee 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;
We are not worthy, l^ord;
For we have dwelt long years In sin and shame
W e dosed our eyes and would not see the way;
And now 'tis vain -for hopelessly we ertray.
pray.
Teach us to prey
For this cannot b
Which comes but
We a
If it t
he cry of hearts of fear,
poor trembling niortnls {cone astray—
not too late to find Thy way.
O God! teach us to pray.
Teach us to pray.
For everyw here is gloom.
And sudden terror seizes on our
A bitter knowledge comes in us to-day:
We are world-weary slnnera far astray.
O God! teach us to pra>
If you should In* alive 100 years from to-day, no
loiilu you will be able to see sights in the United
Stales like the above. Here you see the great, tall
buildings of the future, so tall that the giant sky
sempers of to-day. one of which boasts of a height
of 750 feet, would appear but a pigmy eompared
to the skyscraper of ihe 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 willtlien he as common as the trolleys
of to-dav.
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 Home.
To-day, if we should revise the
list (Mice more, there can he no
doubt as t«> what would stand at
the head it would he the Pan
ama Canal.
In order to he accepted as a
“wonder." any work of man must
make a particular kind of appeal
to the imagination. That it *k-
• ties admiration is not enough, it
must also awaken the feeling that
in creating it man has taken a
step forward, beyond the line of
hi.s previous achievements.
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 lie would, on arriving at
Panama, find no words strong
enough to express his amazement.
He would exclaim that the Amer
icans had defied the gods by
changing their arrangement of
tiie face of the earth!
in order to understand what the
Panama ('anal means as an ex
ample of human interference
with geography, we must look at
what natufe had done -on the
same spot. For this purpose take
a map showing the Central Amer
ican and West Indian region, with
indications of the depth of water
on both side*, and a raised chart,
ike Mr. Gray's. exhibiting a
bird’s-eye view* of the line of the
canal across the iMlimgs.
Thus you will perceive that, in
some long past period, broad,
though very irregular, necks of
land probably connected the two
Americas, joining many of the
islands to the main and both
i. rt i and so a T., Gulf of
Mi \ i o \\;ts Will V 11 ariv iso . 'od.
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 rocky spine of the isth
mus has always connected them,
whatever other changes may have
occurred.
If this he so. it is evident that,
iii making the Panama Canal, we
have interfered with an original
arrangement of Nature. We have
taken two oceans which sh* had
separated and united them by a
waterway., That waterway, to he
sure, is a mere thread, and we
have had to elevate much «»f it
above s» .i level I . N ,i •.. i •
could not have done), hut it serve*
our purpose, and does it without
upsetting any of Nature's broader
designs. If the whole isthmus
were swept away *hr Go.if Stream
Rev. John E. White
Writes on
The Sociological
Congress
* V.
It Means That the South Intends to
Make an End of Outside Fault
finding by Undertaking Itself All
of the Faultfinding 1 hat Is Nec
essary.
WRITTEN TCR THE GEORGIAN
By REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE
Pastor Second Baptist Church
t x THEN sociology first came
\f\ 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 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 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
w’hich 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 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 progress!veness of
the Southern States, but there are
10,000,000 white people—and An
glo-Saxon at that—who, on ac
count of illiteracy and uneocial-
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 t ailed into question.
The 10,000,000 negroes also are
here among us and a part of the
heavy doivnpuli which handicaps
us.
Optimism With Motive.
The characteristic of the Socio 5 -
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 himseif 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-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
Southern Sociological Congress.
No Molecule Ever Rests
By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN.
American Genius Has Given the World Its Greatest Wonder
Teach us to pray,
W-g would but speak with Thee.
< uir"Leans arc full of what but TV
And we are tired children far as
We seek the light of Thine Ktern
Dear God, teach us to pray.
What Nature Has Done.
Regarded in this way. the t’.m-
ii.ua 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
man ha diractly joined two
oceans, the g eat<>t on t • gl**be.
Ff-r til 1 first i i 1 • ■ ha* cut two
continent* asunder. T.
> • ms • A GEO
LOGICAL AGENT, li ;
first
Ban
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 he cer
tainly had no foresight of the
mighty nation that was to arise in
tiie north, composed of a differ
ent race from his. and destined,
in so short 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 the scats ..f new empires, 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
remain s’-for us* to complete it*
conquest by making it li11
our habitation.
Tlte Panama Canal i:
gigantic stride taken in
conquest. American a
enterprise have aehiev
M olecules are composed
of atoms: and, of course,
the leas* 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 rarjge of 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 ISL'7 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.
Tilt- Brownian motions have
been studied by many able physi
cists. At first investigators
thought that the mysterious mo
tions were caused by slight in-
* qualities in temperature in the
Hula drop of water. Thl' was dis
proved. Tiie motions were appar
ent y r 1 f-euused, and continuous,
no rest. Thus the smaller the
the rapidity of the strange move
ments ever Increased with de
crease of sire.
All kinds of liquids tvere used
to sustain tiie 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-ray 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 electrioity 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 wag made; they do not move
of themselves, but are. carried
along hither and thither by the
•r g.. il invisil, ; molecules of the
liquids and ga.-es. These
Serpetuallji.