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V ' * TLANTA AN the: ihome: paper H— JA EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN I3lH«r*<3 a.« Butwcrlptlon Price TUB GEORGIAN 20 Ha at A1 ilium matter at poatofilcc verail ny carrier. to Payable In A of March 3.1873 nil, 15.00 a year. if You Should Live 100 Years Bryan’s Narrow “Little Navy” Policy the Cause of his Visit w 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.