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THESUPREMACYOFTHELAW
•^Governor Brown’s Splendid State
ment tame at the Right Time and
Was * Masterpiece of Thought.
The Atlanta Georgian
the:
The Power Against the Panama Canal
The statement of Governor Joseph M. Brown, written at the
request of Hearst's Sunday American, and published exclusively
in last Sunday 's American, created no end of favorable comment,
not only in Atlanta and the State but throughout the entire
South, as well.
Every sentence was well thought out. The statement was
clean cut. It was backed by reason and logic. It was a plea for
law and order.
Governor Brown has performed no greater service during
his busy term in office than this ringing address to the people
at a time when cold, calm, dispassionate reasoning was necessary.
Nearly every newspaper in the State has commented upon
the Governor’s statement. The Athens Banner sums it all up
in the following paragraph:
Governor Brown’s address to the people
of Atlanta, and through them a sermon to
the people of the entire State, was a master
piece of thought and reason for respect for
law and confidence inlaw enforcement.
It is not too much to say that Governor Brown’s appeal was
THE BEST SERMON delivered anywhere throughout the South
last Sunday morning.
H H H
The transcontinental railroads, mainly the Canadian lines, are said to be
hacking England in the Britsh protest, which has for its purpose the abolish
ment of the law which favors American ships (not owned by railroads) in an
American canal, dug by American dollars on American soil.
Fun on the Farm With a Prize Fighter and
Some Literary Lights
Elbert Hubbard Tells of Freddie Welsh’s Visit to the Itoycrofters.
Explains the Benefits Derived From Good Nature.
What Would Happen if the Orbital Motion j
of the Earth Were Retarded
By ELBERT HUBBARD.
J UST before going: across the
sea to box Matt Wells for the
championship of England
Freddie Welsh spent six weeks
with us at East Aurora. Fred
die’s go with Wells netted him
just twenty-one thousand dollars.
The champ is twenty-seven
years of age; weighs 135 pounds;
stands five, feet six. He has
fought eighty-six battles, and lost
tWQ.
At Roycroft. Freddie passed the
medicine-ball with the girls, play
ed baseball with the boys, and
every evening put on the mitts,
over on the Roycroft playground,
with any individual who an
nounced himself as a candidate
for honors. And the farmers
came from up the creek.
Freddie does not talk much.
Neither is his lighting done on
the typewriter. I never heard
him say a purple word. His gab
is short, clear and epigrammatic.
Once in a while he passes out a
jab like this: "Look here, have
you ever noticed that there is a
class of fellows who, when you
make a suggestion, always coun
ter with another?”
Keeping One’s Temper.
Every good thing can be abus
ed. Exercise can easily be car
ried to the point where it gives a
diminishing return; continued, tt
may be fatal to life.
But it must be admitted that
man has a body that thrives only
when it is properly exercised. We
eliminate the cosmic slag only
when we work.
Boxing Is a game. It tends to
give courage, to make the man a
cheerful lose '. It teaches him to
keep his temper, and its general
tendency is to put fear behind and
make him carry the crown of his
head high and his chin in.
During the time that Freddie
Welsh was with us 1 never sajv
him lose his temper nor give w™
to any fits of unpleasantness. He
was always courteous, kind, gen
tle. moderate in speech.
He uses no tobacco, nor strong
drink, nor strong language, and
for the most part is a vegetarian.
Freddie Welsh realizes that
ELBERT HUBBARD.
most of us eat too much and our
energies are consumed in running
our boilers. Right breathing,
right mental attitude, moderation
in all things make for efficiency
and length of clays.
While I have no desire to revive
the Roman sports as practiced in
the Coliseum of old, yet I realize
the important part that play and
games form in a well-rounded un
iverse.
On Boys and Girls.
I believe the man who knows
how to counter is reasonably free
from introspection and brooding.
He is not looking for insults,
slights and trouble.
The days that Freddie Welsh
spent at The Roycroft exerted a
beneficial influence on all of the
boys as well as the girls around
the institution. Freddie told the
rubes u few things about right
living that they will remember
long; and as a general result, we
have every day a deal of road
work, cross country’ hikes, wrest
ling on the mat, and a general
desire of everybody to get in con
dition, with orders always and
forever to keep your temper no
matter what happens.
Life is no soft, silly, four
o’clock tea. The business of man
is to hustle, and w’hen an individ
ual has lost his fighting edge he
is out of the game, and the Great
Timekeeper is about to give him
the count.
Freddie Welsh . agrees with
Ruskln, "Industry’ without art is
brutality.”
Keats w’as a fighter, and Freddie
pays the scrappy poet the compli
ment of carrying around with him
a hundred-dollar copy of his
warm stuff.
Robert Browning, being a
wrestler, is also honored In a
similar way.
, Hudson Maxim’s Bouts.
The other day Hudson Maxim,
all-round genius, literary gazabo
and charming gentleman, was
here. He was much pleased
with Freddie’s art, and when an
invitation was offered to any one
who wished to occupy the time to
come forward, Hudson forgot the
Science of Poetry, slipped off his
coat and vest, shot his collar
and cravat, and crawled through
the ropes.
Later he went out of the ropes
in the same way.
There is a way of getting out of
the ring that is ungraceful, un
gracious and uncalled for—like
unto the scions of millionaires
who go out first-class and come
back steerage.
Hudson Maxim crawled into the
ring and stayed as long as he
wanted to; theri he crawled out,
graciously smiling, having held
his own for three very stiff
rounds with the English chain-
1 pion,
Garrett B. Serviss Says That Interference Might Precipitate It Into
the Sun or Into a Different Orbit.
HAT would happen if.
y s«omo unforeseen
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
“W H *
obstacle, the orbital
motion of the earth were retard
ed? Would the decrease of the
-earth’s centrifugal force cause it
to be drawn into the sun, or
would the orbit be automatically
adjusted, so that equilibrium
would be restored?"
The writer of that may seem to
some readers to be borrowing
trouble about nothing, but in
reality he has asked a very prac
tical question
The earth rushes eastward
round the sun at a velocity of
about 18 1-2 miles per second.
But, w hile Interstellar space, like
the Atlantic Ocean, offers plenty
of open room for speeding suns
and planets, yet it also contains
many potential obstacles, such as
great nebulae, both luminous and
dark, some of which are billions
of miles across; and wandering
comets, and shoals of meteors,
and huge invisible bodies which
are only known to exiet by the
effects that they produce upon
visible stars that have fallen un
der the influence of their attrac
tion. to say nothing of the mil
lions of other suns which, like
ours, are rushing in all directions,
like ships at sea each seeking its
own port.
Move With Appalling Rapidity.
Some of these, like the immense
star Arcturus. which exceeds our
sun thousands of times in mag
nitude, are moving with appalling
speed, as if they were giant bat
tleships ramming their way
through the universe.
So it is evident that accidents
mav happen even to the best or
dered solar systems, and an in
quiry like that made above is
worthy of an answer.
If the "unforeseen obstacle"
- nmld absolutely destroy the
earth’s orbital motion round the
- in. the consequence would be
that the earth would fall straight
into the sun and be consumed al
most in a flash But there would
be time for its inhabitants to
nace. The same result would be
produced, but much more slowly,
if the resistance were encoun
tered by the earth periodically at
some point In its orbit. The orbit
would then become a little small
er after each encounter, until, at
last, it might become so small
that it would pass within the body
of the sun, which is 860,000 miles
in diameter.
To Increase Earth’s Speed.
It would also be possible for
some vast mass, like an extin
guished sun, passing near the so
lar system, to so act upon the
earth ,as to increase instead of
decrease its orbital velocity, and
in that case the earth Would ad
just itself to the new conditions
by moving away from the sun
and traveling in a larger and
more remote orbit, perhaps away
out in the cold of distant space.
But the earth might be dragged
off, like a kidnaped child, by a
huge passing body, and then it
would never see its family again.
All the other planets would suf
fer similarly, the solar system
would be broken up and scat
tered abroad, and the sun Itself,
owing to the tremendous tidal
forces set in action by the near
approach of the disturbing body,
would probably be burst asunder,
and the entire system reduced to
the chaotic state of a whirling,
spiral ne&ula.
This Is not purely a fanciful pic
ture, for there are many reasons
for believing that just such catas
trophes have happened to other
suns and solar systems, and
have been visible to us in the
form of new. temporary stars,
some of which, like the great new-
star of 1901, have actually been
seen to turn into nebulae!
But the universe is only the
more interesting for these things:
The joy of the Creator is in mak
ing. unmaking and remaking, and,
perhaps, in a higher state of ex
istence we shall take the same
pleasure in these vast changes
that we now find in watching the
progression from seed to flower
and from flower back to seed,
while spring, summer and au
tumn flit over our gardens.
make dignified preparation for
their end, since the earth would
take about 64 1-2 days to fall to
the sun after its orbital motion
was arrested. If the orbital mo
tion of the moon were similarly
destroyed It would fall to the
GARRETT P. SERVISS.
earth in about four days and
twenty hours.
If the obstacle acted for a short
time only and destroyed but a
part of the earth’s orbital mo
tion. then the earth would drop
nearer the sun and begin to
travel round it in a smaller orbit.
In that case the earth would ad
just itself automatically to the
new state of affairs. But prob
ably it would not be very agree
able for us to be carried, say.
twice as near the sun ns we are
now. for then the quantity of 5»o-
lar heat falling upon the earth
would be quadrupled.
If the obstacle acted as a con
tinuous resistance to the earth’s
orbital • motion, then the earth
would gradually approach the sun
on a spiral path, mi til. at last, it
would plunge into The solar fur-
Following foreign pro
tests, the last of which was
filed by the newly-arrived
British Ambassador, there
have been statements from
Washington that it was the intention of the leaders of the House
of Representatives to drop out of the tariff bill that sub-section
which provides “that a discount of 5 per cent on all duties im
posed by this act be allowed on such goods, wares, and mer
chandise as shall be imported in vessels admitted to registration
under the laws of the United States.”
We can not believe these reports to be true. The purpose of
this section is to make a beginning in the revival of American
shipping over all the oceans. To-day we carry ONLY 9 PER
CENT of our imports and exports in our own ships'.
The policy proposed by Chairman Underwood in the fram
ing of his tariff bill is an old, well-tried American policy.
It was the policy adopted by the First Congress in 1789, re
enacted in 1790, 1794, 1795 and 1800. In 1804 it was again re
enacted in a tariff act which was approved and signed by Presi
dent Jefferson.
That policy gave us FOR SEVENTY TWO YEARS THE
CARRYING OF 80 PER CENT OF OUR ENTIRE FOREIGN
COMMERCE.
These figures, 9 PER CENT NOW AND 80 PER CENT
THEN, fully explain these foreign protests, which are intended
to kill off at once any beginning of a new American merchant
marine. The protests are based on conventions abolishing such
discriminating duties which the United States long ago entered
into with Great Britain and other countries, twenty-two in all.
But there is a section in the tariff bill suspending the operation
of this 5 per cent discount on tariff duties whenever it conflicts
with an existing convention; and these conventions can be ren
dered void after due notice. The section, as it stands, is the
merest beginning, but it represents a mighty principle for
American advancement.
Mr. Underwood himself declared on the floor of the House
three years ago: “It seems clear to me that the CONSTITU
TIONAL AND EFFECTIVE WAY to restore the American
ships to the seas is to return to the policy of the fathers."
It does not place additional burdens on the people," add
ed Mr. Underwood. "It has been tried and proved effective. It
is a policy by which we can restore the American flag to the
seas. It is a policy that will restore the balance of commerce, as
well as trade, to our nation.”
Is it possible that Mr. Underwood, who made that utterance,
is now about to abandon that policy and drop the section from
the tariff bill? Are his colleagues so timorous, so alarmed by
these foreign protests, that they would sacrifice the upbuilding
of American shipping? Are these foreign protests being made
from fear of any harm that may befall the United States by rea
son of such discrimination in duties? Are we never to serve no
tice on the world that America is going ahead as it pleases the
wisdom of America?
That section stands in the bill in the interest of AMERICAN
SHIPPING, and it seems inconceivable that Congress should for
any reason at all abdicate to the representatives of foreign
countries its constitutional right to legislate in the interest of
the American people.
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
Tlie love blindness cure fre
quently leaves unpleasant results.
It is often difficult to deliver all
the goods mentioned by the press
agent.
The fellow on top can always
afford to smile.
Love ia more apt to soften
•riAn's head than hia heart.
There is nothing terrifying in
the crow of a whipped rooster.
A small woman can occasional
ly supply motive power for a very
large 4man.
as mougn some per
sons marry just for the sake of
getting divorced.
W hen a man pats you on the
back he may be reaching for your
pocket book with the other hand.
There is no plunger so reckless
as the one who la plunging with
the other fellow’s capital.
Restore the U. S.
Merchant Marine