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EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME RARER THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THK GEORGIAN COMPANY At DO East Alabama Si . Atlanta, Ga Entered as ser-ond-clans matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 8,1873 Subscription I*rlcc Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mall, $5.00 a year. Payable in Advance Encouraging the Little Bullfrog to Think Himself an Ox UNCLE TRUSTY! f<»t»yrl*ht, 1>13, liUMvainul Newa Ht-rUcf That Is What Woodrow Wilson Is Doing With Japan. May Make It Necessary to Treat Japan Unkindly. Hr Copyright, 1913 As an educator, Professor Wilson knows that it is a mistake to give children an exaggerated idea of their own importance. The spoiled child, taught that he should have everything he wants, and that older and bigger beings should bow to his will, is a great nuisance. Japan is the child among civilized nations so called. And Professor Wilson, representing Uncle 8am, an old and big gen tleman, is doing everything possible to make a spoiled child of Japan. This is unpleasant and troublesome. In our brutal way of settling affairs, the spoiled child usually ends with a good spanking And if Professor Wilson cannot be a wiser educator among the nations, Japan may have to end with the spoiled child’s spanking. Nothing could be more ridiculous than to have the Jap anese people calling upon us to arbitrate OUR RIGHT TO MANAGE AFFAIRS INSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES One of the States, entirely within its rights and protecting it* interests, has declared that it doesn't oars to have Japanese colonies or Japanese land owners. And a very simple, plain bill has been passed saying that the Japanese must not own land in California If Professor Wilson had found it possible to let California manage her own affairs, and had refrained from playing the part of the professor on that occasion, nothing would have been heard ahout the law passed by California. But Professor Wilson began telling the little Japanese boy that he was badly hurt and badly treated, and naturally enough along comes Japan now, demanding the right to investigate what we do, INSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES, WITH UNITED STATES TERRITORY, and telling us that we must arbitrate and find out whether or not we have a right to man age onr own affairs. The Japanese have laws that will not permit an American to own Japanese soil except under definite regulations. An American can RENT the surface of the soil for a certain length of time. But he can’t own it. And if he happens to find a mine, or something else of value underneath the soil, that doesn't belong to him, it belongs to the Japanese Government. Lass* of this kind Japan has passed, a* she has sssn fit. And the United States has never said to her, ‘‘Won’t you please ar bitrate THE RIGHT OF JAPAN TO REGULATE JAPANESE MATTERS 0 ” We recognize the fact that Japan, although smaller, and in our opinion a good deal weaker than we are, has a right to man age matters inside of Japanese territory to suit herself. And the average citizen of the United States would frankly tell Mr. Wilson that he ought to till Japan to PERMIT THE UNITED STATES TO REGULATE AFFAIRS WITHIN ITS OWN BORDERS ACCORDING TO ITS OWN FASHION. For centuries the Japanese wouldn't allow any white man of European strain to enter Japanese territory at all. Only very recently the Japanese have changed this law. We didn't threaten to shoot them, we only talked to them in a friendly way And let them do exactly as they pleased. Now, they have opened their ports, after having kept them closed for centuries. And they say, "Little Japanese boy wants to go and sit in Uncle Sams lap.” And if Uncle Sam doesn't care to have the little Japanese boy sitting in his lap, Japan is very indignant and Mr Wilson encourages the indignation. Nothing very much will come of it, for, of course, the oiti- *ens of California will exercise their right, regardless of Mr. Wilson's interference. And somebody will tell Mr Wilson and Mr Bryan that it is usual for those who represent a nation TO TAKE THE SIDE OF THEIR OWN NATION. AND ASSUME THAT IT HAS A RIGHT TO REGULATE ITS OWN INTERNAL AFFAIRS. And the thing will blow over after the little spoiled Jap anese boy has had his say. However the oitisens must be good natured, and just, and remember that the spoiled boy of the Far East, acting rather impertinently, is not entirely to blame Where you see a spoiled child acting badly, you blame the older person, who has failed to set the good example. And when yon see Japan acting impertinently, you blame Professor Wilson, who has dona what he could in his short tsrm to encourage Japanese arrogance and interference with very simple American rights. When Modesty Quickens hope Ella Wheeler Wilcox Writes on Spreading Scandal Refuse to Hear.Any Story Under Promise of Con cealing Author’s Iden tity—The Way to Deal With Gossip Mongers. Written For The Atlanta Georgian By Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copyright, 1913, by Bt.w Company. Well, hoys, I see that t-lie War Department thinks of using moving pictures showing the pleasures of a soldier’s life, to attract recruits! Here’s one I just got up! In the first scene I am charging the enemy! I always make my charges as high as possible! Next you see me do ing a little artillery practice! When one of those cannon halls hits the enemy it’s a ease of “Friends and Relatives will please pass around to the right of the casket!” Then you observe me reviewing the troops! Those brave boys never flinch as long as they get their ehecks regular ly! And last I show how a soldier does his foraging! Look at that farmer’s face. Har, bar! Ah, there’s nothing like a military life! Elihu, put down your gun and go and buy me a paek- age of cigarettes! The Season of the “Ice Saints” Centuries Old Puzzle of May’s Cold Days Scientifically Explained By GARRETT P SERVISS. There is hope for countless sufferers in the announce- ment that Dr. Howard W Nowell, of Boston, has devel oped a cancer serum that ar rests the growth of that hideous destructive agency. Dr. Now ell makes no claims and warns the world to wait at least a year before it begins to place confidence in the serum. In other worus, he auopts the me.-.iod of the true scientist, rather than do untold harm by announcing a cure that may not be a cure. Cancer has thus far baffled the medical profession. Save in few instances where radium has been of benefit, nothing but drastic operations have served to curb its inroads. If Dr. Now ell has finally discovered a means of checking it he will deserve I a place in the annals of medicine beside Pasteur and Lister. His own language in discussing the results of his labors is modest and serves to awaken confidence. All the world will hope that by the end of the senes of ex eriments he is making the same confidence will be awakened ill "his discovery. pHE "Ice Saint*” have paid us their annual visit this sprint? with their usual pun duality. Many persons doubtless have shivered at their touch without owing what it was. A word of therefore neces- T kno ter garments away until they have passed. Nearly a century ago the Ger man astronomer Maedler exam ined the records for 86 years in the past, and found that at this explanatior sary. From time immemorial it has been noticed, in both Europe and America, that, beginning about the 10th or 11th of May, a series of cold days, averaging three, but sometimes extending over a week, always interrupts the gradual in crease in temperature of the air In spring. Severe frosts and cold rains occasionally accompany the sudden falling of the thermome- Delightful Balminess. if May sets in. as it did this year, with delightful balminess, it Is certain, before the end of Its second week, to take a backward step toward win*.er temperatures The Interruption is not long, or very serious, but once in a while It produces disastrous effects upon early growing plants, and causes people hastily to resume some of their discarded winter garments. Although thex shift to and fro a little, yet, upon the average, these cold days center around May 10th or 11th. nnd they were long ago associated with the imaginary Influence of three or four saints. Pinchers of Early Buds. Their feast da ye occur at this time, and they are called “Ice Saints” or Froit Saints.” These are St Mamertius (May 11), St. Panorartius (May 12L St. ServR- tius (May 131 and St. Boniface (May 14>. Rabelais said of them that •’these saints are taken to be makers of bait, freezers and pinchers of early buds.*’ In England this cold spell In Ma\ is sometime 1 ! called “the black-thorn winter.” and in Scot land "the Borrowing Days.” al though they might, perhaps, rath* *t he (ailed the Paving Days, a* if the season had been borrow ing heat from the coming sum mer. and was suddenly called to pax up. Many persons aie so sure «»f the comma of the ”lce Saints” that they ru xer put all then xx ui- turbances of pressure and tem perature. There is a kind of con flict between the northern and southern air currents, and an in terchange of temperatures. This explanation, on account of its gen erality, does not clearly explain the marked tendency of the cold days to come at almost exactly the same time every year, on both sides of the ocean. In America the cold days are usually followed about a xveek later by a remarkable rise of tem perature. and General Greely has pointed out ?hat on this side- of the ocean th* - * warm xx eat her of the third xveek in May is often more conspicuous, ih the records, than the cold spell of the second xxeek. He shows that at this sea son loxv pressure atorma common ly pass across the northern Enited State.-;, A rawing in warm air from the south, and these are followed by high pressure anti cyclones, which suck down cold air from British America. The next passage of loxv pressure cen ters from west to east draws still more warm air from the south, causing a marked rise of temper ature again, and so on, until at length summer is established. Appeals to the Imagination. Still, the curious punctuality of the cold days, in which they differ from all other weather phenom ena. appeals strongly to the im agination, suggesting some regu larly recurring influence more fixed in character than simple at mospheric changes usually are and it will be a long time before the "common people,” especially in Europe, abondon their belief in the “Ice Saints,** xvhlle more learned persons will continue to speculate on the possibility of the intervention of something that the meteorologists have not yet discovered. (0) Fhe Bridge of Lodi # By DR. T B GREGORY. I T is reported of Hanna More, the English woman poet (a woman writer is no more “po etess” than a woman artist is an "arlistess”), that when gossip about anyone was repeated to her she said, “Well, let us go at once to this person and find out how true this story is,” and she drag ged the terrified gossiper to the person under discussion and in sisted on having the story sifted to the bottom. Of course, scandal mongers and gossipers soon ceased to tell her the tales they heard; for not one person in one hundred who hears a story about another and repeats it is willing to stand before the accused and say where the story originated. That is the only right and proper way to do, however, if we wish to be thought fair in our dealings with humanity. When anyone starts to tell you a tale on condition “that you swear yourself to secrecy,” let the matter go no further. Refuse to Swear Secrecy. Say In reply, “I will not make any such promise; I do not want to hear a tale that I can not hunt to its source; and if you tell me scandal about some one I know I must reserve the right to refer to you as the informant if it be comes necessary for me to do so.” There are occasions when we must warn one person of associa tion with another. A very young girl must be told that the com panionship of an older woman is not safe for her reputation, or a young man (or an older man for that matter) needs to know that a certain acquaintance must not he permitted to become an intimate friend if he would avoid be smirching his good name. In such a case the request not to repeat the gossip should be followed by the statement, “If you find yourself at any time obliged to speak of this matter, give me as your informant. I do not want to take part in an unpleasant scene unless necessary, but if it becomes so I will tell what I have to 'jsay against this party.” A mother of a young lady In a hotel ^ had positive proof that a guest \of the house was unfit to associate with honest women. She was living a life of deceit and infamy. The mother said to her daughter, “Treat, this woman whom we»have met here politely, but she does not strike me as one who would benefit you by her association. Do not accept any invitations from her. Say Nothing Derogatory. “Say nothing derogatory of her to any one. but should she at any time ask you why you had ceased to go out with her, re,fer her to me.” That was honest and straight forward dealing. The daughter was protected from an unsafe as sociation without hearing mind soiling facts, while there was no coward shelter behind a vow of secrecy taken by the mother. A young girl was told that one of her admirers was an unsuit able man to address a good wom an. She demanded proof. But while the first and second infor mants gave the source of the tale, the third was sw r orn to secrecy to protect her informant. It so happened that this pro tected informant was possessed of strong “circumstantial evi dence” of what she had told. But she was not brave enough to come to the front and declare it, nor wise enough to keep her own counsel. So she had embroiled half a dozen people in what seem ed to be malicious gossip, because she had told facts w'hich she did not stand ready to prove. Don’t Tell Unpleasant Facts. But those who listened were equally culpable. One’s own father or mother has no right to extract such a promise when telling unpleasant facts about another human being; either the facts should not be told or the one telling should not be afraid to be quoted. Refuse to listen to any story you can not help to disprove or prove. # ® Stop Whining By BYRON H. STAUFFER. GARRETT P. SERVISS. precise time in the year the aver age temperature in central Europe always declined suddenly more than txvo degrees. Often, how ever. the decline is very much greater, sufficient, ns already said, to produce disastrous effects upon vegetation. Another German savant. Er- nmnn. offered the somewhat start ling suggestion that the cause of the sudden falling of the ther mometer before the middle of May was the annual passage of a cloud of meteors between the sun and the earth. This viexx was accepted as possibly correct by the English astronomer. K. E. Proctor, xx ho spoke of the earth as being at this time in “meteoric shadoxx.” How It’s Regarded. Meteorologists, however, are in clined to regard the phenomenon as due merelx to readjustments in the atmosphere, resulting from differences of air pressure. As the sun begins to swing north after /he spring equinox its 1*41 uia- I T was one hundred and seven teen yeaTS ago that the "Lit tle ('orporal” made his ter rible passage of the Bridge of Lodi.” In the thick of the onset fate seemed to he going against the young general, when, seizing the colors and pressing them to his breast, he rushed into the midst of the deathhail and bade his Frenchmen folloxx him. Hyp notized by his magnificent cour age, the men obeyed his call, and in a fexx minutes the victory xvas won, and the Corsican’s fame was made. Battles are won in various ways by strategy, by tactics, by overxvHelming numbers, by supe rior fighting qualities, by any one of a thousand means, but Lodi xvas Napoleon’s victory, won by his own personality, courage and presence of mind. It is as cer tain as anything can be in this world that but for the presence of Napoleon the battle would have been won by the Austrians. Thus early in his career did Napoleon demonstrate the truth of his maxim that "in war men are nothing, the man is everything. ' It is quite * asx to understand the undying interest of the story of Napoleon. His inordinate am bition. his ruthless methods, his • old-blooded directness, his dti- uiicity. all of his many faults of omission and commission, are ( lean forgotten in thinking of his almost preternatural genius. To think of a man of twenty-six win ning that brilliant* Italian cam paign—a fine prelude to his well- nigh miraculous career of twen ty years' duration. "Hoxx do you win your victo ries?" was asked of him one day. “Bless you,” he replied, “it is per fectly natural to me." What confidence, even in the man of twenty-six! in the midst of his Italian victories, the Directory sent commissioners to consult with him. Waving them aside, he said: "The Commissioners Directory have no concern with my policy. ! do xvhat I please.” This is not conceit. It is sim ply the perfect confidence of ge nius. "*-fy movements were as quick as my thoughts. Trouble me not with your suggestions.” H»> knew xx hat he w as doing. And so the little man won his Bridge of Lodi—and Milan lay at his feet. Dazed by the sudden ness and completeness of the young general’s moves, duplica tion after duplication came to implore his clemency. All Lom bardi submitted. The Austrian Military Office xvas ranted, con founded, paralyzed. Napoleon had suddenly revolutionized the whcA art of war. W ITH all our whining, when was there a better year than this of grace nineteen hundred thirteen? A hundred years ago the work ingman’s home was a hovel, built in awkward rows, in unlighted sexverless streets. Heaps of gar bage xvere before the door, scat tering fever and plague. Father earned $1.50 per week. Mother was a beast of burden, too. Chil dren eight years old worked six teen hours per day. A little meat was a luxury; meat was only for the squire’s family. A hundred years ago England consumed six times the amount of liquor per capita as now. Gambling and drinking were wellnigh universal. Saloons of fered people r fair drunk for a penny, a dead drunk for two pence, a dead drunk with straw' on which to sober up for three pence. A hundred years ago the streets of cities xvere so unsafe that even the greatest nad no se curity from thieves. King George III. lost his purse, watch and buckles on a dark London street. A hundred years ago sports were vicious. Bull-fighting, prize fighting. cock-fighting, bear-bait ing were the chief amusements, with drunkenness and profanity characterizing the performance. A hundred years ago English convicts were sold to work on co lonial plantations, sometimes for a limited period and sometimes for life. The remains of crimi nals were left hanging in rows to rot; grinning skulls of execut ed offenders lined the top of Temple Bar. Men and women were (logged through the London streets. Prisons in England were the worst in Europe. A hundred years ago Europe was just recovering from fifty years of wild speculation. Our twentieth century get-rlch-qUick methods, are child's play compar ed to the wildcat investments of the years following the South Sea Ruhb ‘ A company xvas organ ized to fish up shipw recks on the Irish coast, and stock in It went above par before one wreck had been raised Another company, well capitalized, expected to make salt water fresh. Another proposed to extract silver from lead and iron from coal. A great success in selling stock was made by speculators organ izing a company to discover per petual motion. Another corpor ation was formed to melt down sawdust chips, “casting them in to real boards, without one flaw or crack." But perhaps the sum mit was reached when a company organized “for an undertaking which in due time was to be re vealed” sold 2,000 shares of stock at two guineas each before noon on the first subscription day. Cheer up! My Automobile. •By PERCY SHAW. xv/HEN first 1 owned an auto In the palmy days of yore, 1 ran it with a rapture 1 had never known before. For autos wSre infrequent. And all the neighbors said: "A wonderful young fellow. With a great financial head." When first I owned an auto And I tried to pay my debts. The storekeepers reproached me W ith politely voiced regrets. 1 lived sublime on credit, With diversions and to spare, And every one predicted 1 would be a millionaire. tv/HEN last I owned an auto, ’V (’Twas a month ago or more). 1 drove it with depression I had never felt before. For autos now are common, And all the neighbors said: "He’s just like all the others. Sold and mortgaged to the head." When last I owned an auto. Every tradesman with a bow Remarked with much politeness That T’s better pay him now; My poorest neighbor snubbed me. As he mentioned with a sneer; "I notice that your auto Is a model of last year.”