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HOME RARER EDITORIAL RAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published livery Afternoon Except Sunday By THE OEOROIAN COMPANY At 20 Fast Alabama St., Atlanta, da. Entered as second-class matter at postofflre at Atlanta, under act of March 3.1873 Subscription Price - Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mall, $5.00 a year. Payable in Advance. 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