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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
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 in
fluence among his unthinking followers in the Democratic House f
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 I
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 peace.
Mr. Bryan is noted for his eloquence, if for nothing else, and it j
will take considerable eloquence to prove that war is cheaper than
a reasonable naval insurance ugainBt war, and to convince the citi-,'
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 American policy is to save
a few dollars in the building of ships and sacrifice our independ-,
ence, our self-respect and our actual interests os a nation.
It is fortunate that Charles Goatesworth 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
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
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 oi 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
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For this cannot i ; • r
Which comes hat an the cry of hear
We jtiv hour trembling mortal gone a«tra>
If it be not tc>o late to find Thy way.
O God! tenth u* to pray.
Teach us to pray.
For everywhere is gloom,
And sudden terror seizes on our hearts
A hitter knowledge comes to us to-day:
We are world-weary sinners far astray.
O God! teach us to pray.
Teach us to pray.
We would but speak with Thee.
Our hearts are full of what but Thou <
And we are tired children far astraj
We seek the light' of Thine Eter
Hear God, teach us to pray.
"T st under®
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Teach us to pray
Vet this Itself is prayer
I-Yum h« arts* of troubled pllgH
Grant u* hu; strength t.o g«* a’
We are Thy little ehlfdreu \\h
J,..: . re we sleep,* a e pay!
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By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
I N mtlquity it was said that
there were seven wonders
the world, lieu wed by the
great Pyramids of Egypt.
In the Middle \ges the lis! of
world's wunder* was changed
throughout, and then it Plaited
with the Goliseum of Runic.
To-day, if we should revise the
list once mure, there fan la* ih>
doubt as to what would stand at
the head -it would be the Pan
ama Canal.
Iti 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
must also awaken the feeling that
in creating it man has taken a
step forward, beyond the line of
his previous achievements.
What Nature Has Done.
Regarded in this way, the Pan
ama Canal is without a rival, as
the intense inter* st shown by the
entire world in its approaching
. ompletLon pr«>\ * s.
For the first lime ill his history
man ha* 1 directly joined two
oceans, the greatest on the globe
r the tir.-i m. ivy cut two
continents asunder. T >..•
. ,io 1 in- . • ■ • i. A GEO
LOGICAL AGENT.
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,
lie would exclaim that the Amer
icans had defied the gods by
changing their arrangement of
the lace of the earth!
In order to understand w hat the
Panama Canal means as an ex
ample of human interference
w ith geography, we must look at
what nature had done on the
same spot. For this purpose take
a map show ing the Central Amer
ican and West Indian region, w up
indications of the depth of water
on both
’ike Mr
bird's-ey
canal ac
Thus ;
some lo
though
land pro
A m erica:
islands
and
G ra
a raised chart,
exhibiting a
the line of the
sihmus.
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lev
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nnocted t
jo ining many
the mainland
south. - T (
oat. ill
broad,
cks of
both
bean Sea now roll? 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,
w hatever 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 w hich she had
separated and united them by a
waterway That waterway, to be
sure, is a mere thread, and we
have had to elevate much of it
abovu s- y level twhivli ;iu
vomd not have done), but it serves
our purpose, and does it without
upsetting any of .Nature's broader
designs. If the whole isthmus
w« r. swept away the Gulf Stream
would probably be diverted, and a
Rev. John E. White
Writes on
The Sociological
Congress
•Si g
It Means That 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
\ \ THEN sociology first came
V \ 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.
W ho 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 fheans 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 moat
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 band, 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 dea.lt
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 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 progressiveness of
the Southern States, but there ars
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
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-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.
If you should he alive 100 years from to-day, no
doubt you will be able to see sights in the United
States like the above. 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 750 feet, would appear but a pigmy compared
to the skyscraper of the future with its more tha it
100 Stories. You may be sure that when build-
ings such a sure pictured above become a reality,
the airship willthen he as common as the trolleys
of to-day.
American Genius Has Given the World Its Greatest Wonder
*
No Molecule Ever Rests
By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN.
M
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
tlie north, composed of a differ
ent race from his. and destined,
in so fbort a time, to link the
ocean behind him with that which
he saw far ahead.
No More to Discover.
The ag< <»f discovery of new-
habitable lands, capable of becom
ing the seats of now empires, is
past. Wo now* know the whole
earth, as Nature made it. having
seen even its poles, through the
eyes of brave explorers. It ,only
remains for us to complete its*
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 We have paid its cost in
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 tin* 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 unde**
the lenses of a very high power
microscope ifnci 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 w ill bo 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
cists. At first investigators
thought that the mysterious mo
tions were caused by slight in
equalities in temperature in the
Utile 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 f.trte; they moved. Finally
tin
met
1
1«
the rapidity of the strange move
ments ever Increased with de
crease of size.
All kinds of liquids were use
to sustain the floating and flyin
things. No explanation of
motions was made; still
could scarcely believe that th.
moved of themselves. Tht
came the very wonderful new u
tra-violet energy-ray mtcroscop
and new methods of a.pplyir
rays to the flying bodies. A
was now animation in laborati
rles: the limit of all power <
seeing was reached: -and
seemed that the very interiors i
the particles could be reache
New kinds of liquids were dl;
covered and used, and new kin<
of excessively minute partlcli
suspended. They ail moved; bi
new rates, new speeds were dl;
covered.
Speeds Increased.
Then another new plan wt
tried; fine metals, as silver, we:
torn apart by electricity into du
of silver so fine as to be beyor
imagination. These were put In'
liquids, and specific speeds we;
greatly Increased.
Then an unheard-of experlmei
was made—the extremely sma
fragments of silver were float.
In gas. They moved faster tha
ever and In far longer paths b<
fore turning. The great discoi
ery was made; they do not mot
of themselves, but are carrle
along hither and thither by tt
original invisible molecules
"quills and gases. These
perpetua
of t
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