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EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME RARER THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN PttMifhed Every Afternoon Excrpr Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 30 Knxt Alabama St , Atlanta, <>a Entered a? second-Class matter at pontoffice at Atlanta, under a- I <>t March 3.1*7.”» £ubacripiion Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week By mail,, $6 00 a year. Payable In Advance The Railroads Can Rob the People IF*-- They Can Arrange to Keep American Ships from Free Use of the Panama Canal. Copyright, 1913. In a cartoon printed several days ago our artist showed the Panama Canal with American ships held back by American loco motives. That was a picture of fact, although many citizens do not know it All the solemn talk about "treaty obligations” about our duty to England, our national honor, is merely so much “rail road talk, ' a good deal of it well paid for by the railroads. We are told that it is dishonorable, unfair, treacherous, etc., to permit American SHIPS to use an American CANAL, unless we also let English ships use the canal, without charge. And the so-called friends of national honor—who are in reality gentlemen and newspapers subsidized or controlled by railroads--have actually managed to compel all but coastwise American ships to pay toll, like foreign vessels. The railroads want no free use of the canal by American coastwise ships, and they fight such use through the politicians and newspapers that they own, for a simple reason. The railroads make money carrying freight from the Atlan tic to the Pacific. And the more they can CHARGE the more they can MAKE. Hitherto ships carrying freight from New York to San Francisco had to go all around South America. Therefore, the railroads could charge for freight carried 3,000 miles across the continent as much as It would cost to send a ship all around the continent. And, in addition, the railroad could add a charge for quick freight as against necessarily slow ocean freight. Now ships will go from New York to the Pacific Coast through the canal, and the cost of water freight will be very small—UNLESS THE RAILROADS CAN MANAGE TO FASTEN A TOLL ON AMERICAN FREIGHT USING AN AMERICAN CANAL. This the railroads are trying to do, in the high-sounding name of national honor, treaty rights, etc. For, don't you see, every dollar that railroad influence can lay as a tax on American shipping in the canal IS A DOLLAR THAT THE RAILROAD CAN ADD TO ITS FREIGHT CHARGES. Let our Government charge American ships S3 a ton for using the canal, and the railroads can at once add $2 a ton to their freight rate. Quite simple and clear, is it not? Remember that when you hear the pitiful sobbing talk about protecting poor Great Britain against such an ■‘outrage” as letting Americans, who built the canal and paid for it, give free use of it to American ships. England, as a matter of fact, is very little interested in the matter, except that England's rich men own the Canadian Pa cific Railroad, and they, like our railroad owners, are working j to fasten a tax on American ships IN ORDER TO ADD THAT TAX TO AMERICAN FREIGHT SHIPPERS Fortunately the matter is pretty well understood. This country will let all American ships use the canal with out charge very soon. And our coastwise shipping will be. free at once. The Congress in this instance will not be used as a rail road freight collector. One Senator the other day introduced a resolution to set aside the existing treaty with England en tirely—a thing we have a right to do at any time. There is no doubt that whatever may be neceesary will be done to make and keep the American Canal FREE TO AMERICAN SHIPS. Even the railroads, after they lose their foolish fight, will find it a good thing FOR THEM to help the general American prosperity. Free use of the canal and low freight rates will bring lum ber to the Atlantic Coast from the Far Northwest and bring ; fruit to the East from California and other Paciflfc States. Eastern products will go at low freight rates through the canal to the Pacific. Business will grow, enterprise will find en couragement, labor, industry AND the railroads will share in the benefit of a canal UNITING THE COUNTRY MORE CLOSELY AND MORE CHEAPLY. For every carload of cheap freight going through the canal and taken, apparently FROM the railroads, there will be two extra carloads of high priced freight FOR the roads. Profitable long hauls will increase and profitable short hauls as well. And within ten years intelligent railroad men will thank the Panama Canal and free use of it by Americans for prosper ity such as they have never seei^ MEANWHILE.-IT IS IMPORTANT TO REALIZE THAT THE RAILROADS AND THEIR MANAGERS, NEAR SIGHT ED AS USUAL. ARE THE REAL POWER FIGHTING TO SHUT AMERICAN SHIPS OUT OF AN AMERICAN CANAL in the name of our holy duty to England. PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS t is* ilifliruh to keep »evreu» m thoa** w ho have your friend - SofBP men never heeri a sugges tion that is not accompanied by a kick. • * • Speaking <*f perches, the pinna - ie of fame is the most uncertain of all • * • Matrimony will not always re form a man. but it will make him more cautious. • • * WTw© s good man goes wrong bo eeteorally gallop*? down the broad pathway of sin When matrimony brings man a • t of trouble he seems morn anx ious to take a second chance. • • • A lot of character can often he ;aken from a man's face by shav ing off his mustache. Those of our women folk who aie not en«^**®d in moving are looking out the front window at the new neighbor's furniture. • * a When a grown-up man meets ihe sweetheart of his youth lie often wonders* whv sonic one did oof S 1 .* his passion with i mi The Modern Gulliver ■* B > w.™ so . H *: c * Y The Lilliputian hosts of child labor wear their lives away piling up dollars for the heartless Gulliver who employs them. How Your Mind Can Aid Health feeding from one person to an- By GARRETT P. SERVISS. | GREAT DOCTOR once said: I "Successful practice re quires one-third science and two-thirds savoir faire” (knowing how' to do it Hv that he' meant impressing the imagination of the patient. ;md impressing it the right way. Any doctor can affect his pattern's Imagination, but many send its mercurial spirit dropping down ward like a thermoneter in a cold wave. If doctors ever really do kill their patients it is through what they administer to the mind. • We are only just beginning to learn something of the extent of the minds control over health and disease. Many persons are willing to admit that the mind influences nervous affections, and that the imagination may either bring them on or drive them away: but they refuse to believe that mental influences which pro duce “lessons”—1. e., physical in juries to certain parts of the body. Inspires With Confidence. But they are wrong in their ><kepticism. The imagination can produce lessons* as well as heal them. There never has been a great epidemic in which a large percentage of the mortality was not the result of mental up- .**»! Mere fear kids like « light ning strok by paralysing the nervous system, whereupon the bodily machinery tears Itself to pieces through loss of the central control. 1 do not t-Mppose that the imag ination ever broke a bone or set one. but I am sure that it has either saved or losi the life of many a sick person, according to the way in which it happened to be directed, either by the will of the patient himself or by the guiding influence of a doctor or a nurse. The successful doctor is the i man who enters the sick room w ith his face full of cheer and of masterful confidence, and' not w ith his* pockets full of pills. The good nurse is worth her pay be cause she keeps her patient cheer ful and confident. When you choose a doctor for your family, set* i t one w hose look makes you feel stronger. His presence will be like that of Napoleon on the battlefield. It is not sympathy that heals; too much sympathy sometimes kills. It is confidence that does the good work Away with your morose-looking doctor—unless it happens that behind the grave face there is an appearance of power, for that is worth more than all else in breeding con tide nee in the patient. It tyas been suggested that "per- «**»rt* nM.vitetism'Jk an actual, d y n a m i c t mo v i rf l oree pro - other. There is much to support that view. When Caesar in his scarlet cloak, with his bald head bared, rode through the lines of his sol diers at Alesia, something passed from him to them which enabled them to hurl back the assault of tiie three hundred thousand Gauls. It was the personal magnetism of Caesar that saved the day. It put courage into despairing hearts and energy into tired muscles. Rut the best way to combat disease is to meet it with your own will. The patient who gives up can rarely be saved. Believe with all your might in your pow ers of resistance. Think of re covery. not of death. Exerting Will Power. A hot summer is before us. and it will bring its lassitude and its sicknesses. real or imaginary. Prepare yourself beforehand to meet these conditions by culti vating confidence, cheerfulness and'will power. Joke about the thermometer when it goe* up to ninety or a hundred in the shade, and don’t draw a long face before It. If an epidemic breaks out. treat it as the Roman emperor treated the comet which terrified his friends. "Oh.” he said, "that hai ry star is after the king of the Persians, who ha?- got w hiskers. It won't trouble me." And if you are doubtful about the power of the imagination to influence your body. read the stories of the "Stigrmata” whtch ippeared on some of tic of old, when they concentrated their minds for days and nights together on the wounds of the Savior. All Could See Them. St. Francis, it is recorded, had all the marks of the Crucifixion upon him. though not produced by any hand or weapon. * Everybody could see them. St. Hieronyma Oarvaglio had the spear mark in her side, which bled every Friday. St. Cathar ine. of Raconteco, had the marks of the Crown of Thoms on her head. All of these things, and many like them, are said to have been produced solely by pious meditations. You may smile at that, or you may not. according to your stand ards of belief, but you can hardly refuse to believe other.things as wonderful that have been recorded on medical authority. Whether you call it Christian Science, or mind healing, or blind faith, or anything else you may choose, there is no doubt that you have it in your power to influence by mental concentration the health and well-being of your body. Cultivate that power, and you will be the better for it. You will save, or shorten, many doctors' bills—but don't negie^ the doctor, either; help him. ® DOROTHY DIX Writes on The Suffrage Pa rade—It Was a History Making Spectacle and Marks the Exit of the Doll Baby Woman From the Stage of Life. By DOROTHY DIX. W HAT did people see as they watched the Suffrage Pa rade in New York last Saturday? They saw the first real democ- , racy of woman. They sew Judy O’Grady and the Colonel’s Lady marching shoulder to shoulder. They saw the petted darling of the draw ing room walking side" by side with the girt of th« sweat shop. In that profession were mill- ionairasaes keeping step with scrubwomen: college professors with the pupUs of night schools; Ftfth Avenue hostesses with waitresses from cheap lunch rooms: old woman with withered cheeks and gray hair with girls in the Brat flush and bloom of youth and beauty. Ail lines of wealth and class and social diatinotion were wiped out by the greet cause that touches ererr woman high and low. and that has hrought them together in one great sisterhood. What did the people see when they watched the Suffrage Pa rade? They saw one of the spectacles that make history. They saw the passing Of the old order of things and the entrance of the new. Exit of Doll Baby Woman. They saw the exit from the of life of the doll baby woman of the past, of the wom an who could find the whole of life in adorning herself, whose in terests were no wider than her own home, jrnd who saw' no shame in getting what she wanted out of some man by ca jolery, or flattery, or lying, or whatever other means was neces sary. Dull, indeed, were the eyes that did not see in those thou sands and thousands of earnest faced women the type of the new womanhood that is marching onward to a place beside man. no more to be his toy and play thing, but his equal and his part ner in doing the work of the world and reaping its rewards. What did the people see as they watched the Cuffrage Pa rade? They saw the spectre of injus tice marching in every woman’s shadow. The crowds through ! which those ten thousand white- I clad women tramped were most ly silent, as well they might be with shame if they had eyes to see and a heart to comprehend the significance of the scene. , Own Millions; Can’t Vote. They saw women who owned millions of dollars’ worth of property, but who were denied the right to stay what taxes should be levied upon their prop erty. They saw the representa tives of six million working wom en. but who have no power in f shaping the legislation that af fected them. They saw mothers whose littie children’s lives were crushed out of them in factories; housewives . who must sweat every nickel to make it go a little farther when trusts put up prices; women who represented one half of the population, and who were af- facted by its every law, but who had no voice in making them. They saw highly educated women, brilliant professional women, noble women philanthropist", | saintly church women, women who represented all that is finest and best in humanity, but who were denied the previleges that the most illiterate, the most de based. man enjoy?. What did the people see as they watched the Suffrage Parade? They saw one of the most pathetic sights the world has ever witnessed. They saw woman hood humbling itself before man to ask as a boon the privilege that it should demand as a right. They saw the wife who has grown gray and old in service to her hus'band, and who has given him the best years of her fife, asking to be made his equal They saw the mother who has borne his son in her arms going before him as a suppliant. They saw the rich woman ask ing a dole of her butler and her footman. They saw the woman college professor begging the ignorant and illiterate foreigner to share wdth her the right of govern ment that he has and she has not. It was a silent, sad appeal to man to right the injustice he has done woman—to strike her political shackles from her. Made Even the Doll Think. No one except those who took part in it know what courage, what sacrifice of personal in clination. it took for quite, digni fied, reserved women to tramp I the streets, and make themselves 1 a public spectacle for hundreds of thousands of curious eyes, and to be the butt of cheap wits and village cut-ups. To most of the women every step of the way was the way of the cross, but they trod it un falteringly, because there was no other mean?* that could so effectually carry the message they had to give to the public. It was a spectacle that made even the dullest think. What did they see as they watched the Suffrage Parade? They saw victory marching on to Its crowning. Every woman ! face wore the uplifted look of a martyr, of one who would strug gle on undismayed by defeat un til she finally conquered. No one who witnessed that parade will ever jest and scoff again at woman's suffrage. He will know that it is a fact to be reckoned wdth. and that it is just as sure to come as is to-morrow. THE LAST TOWN By WILLIAM F. KIRK. Where is the Town at the end of the Line, With its lure for the great and the small? How shall we fare when we come to the sign That was painted and huDg for us all? Long is the traek and we can not go back To wait for a faltering friend: Through meadow and mart we are whirled from the etarf To the wonderful Town at the end. Some reach it in youth on a flying express That passes the stations of strife, And others grow gray while pursuing their way On the laboring locals of life. Some curse the Conductor and pray for the end. And some think the pace is too fast; Whatever the pace, we are nearing the place Where we all leave the train at the last. 'Tis a mystieal Town that no mortal has seen Till the end of his long earthly ride; But after the trip these is Knowledge to glean About pomp and possessions and pride. And perhaps we shall gain when we swing from the train All the things we were forced to resign. For the Agent is there, with each passenger's share. In the Town at the end of the Line.