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. ±XrTa *n, ■**wi*fc /;-j T . ^ *''.*. a .v:., is . ...... >-• 3£ .wii EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME RARER THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Holiday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St.. Atlanta, Ga Entered a* second-class matter at postofflre at Atlanta, under art of March 3.18*3 Subscription Price Delivered by carrier, 10 rents a week By mall, $6 00 a year. Payable In Advance. A Treaty Japan Has Steadily Dodged The Japanese Have Not Lived Up to the Treaty I hey Are NOW Invoking in I heir Own Behalf Japan, we now know, has not only protested specifically against the California alien land bill on the ground that it is con trary to the treaty of 1911, but on the more general basis that it is an offense as between nations and not in harmony with the tradi tions and friendship existing between the Mikado’s Government and that of the United States. The reply of our Government is that there is no violation of treaty, and that the broader question of offense is a proper sub ject for diplomatic negotiations. But with how clean hands can the Japanese Government complain of a violation of treaty? If, under its terms, Japanese subjects have irrevocable rights to own and lease land in the United States, there must also be an equivalent. Citizens of the United States must have the right to own and lease land in Japan. Have they? The Jap anese Parliament passed such a law, but IT HAS NEVER BEEN PROMULGATED. It has never been put into force by imperial decree. It is a dead letter. That law, even as it stands, is not an equivalent such as Japan is claiming in the United States. An American corpora tion, for instance, cannot acquire lands or any other rights in Japan, even under the statute, unless a special charter is issued and the application approved by the Minister of Home Affairs. The law reserves to the Japanese Government the right to exclude aliens and alien corporations from any place the Home Minister may deem advisable. The law excepts Hakodate, Naga saki, Formosa and many other places where Americans might want to go. JAPAN HAS NOT LIVED UP TO THE TREATY IT IS NOW INVOKING IN ITS OWN BEHALF. As for the broader and more serious protest against an “offense between nations,” this newspaper has already pointed out that the sovereignty of the United States is thereby chal lenged more than the sovereignty of Japan. For eighteen years, until quite recently, the State of New York maintained a law prohibiting aliens from holding land. Indeed, that law was repealed only at the just closed session of the Legislature and the repealing measure signed by Governor Bulzer. IN ALL THOSE EIGHTEEN YEARS NO NATION OB JECTED TO THAT LAW AS A NATIONAL AFFRONT. Any such objection would have been an international ABSURDITY It is the sovereign right of the United States to determine who shall and who shall not be citizens, and each State has its own right to determine whether individuals not citizens shall own land in it. To challenge these sovereign rights is to step out of the do main of international law and custom into the arena. tt ^ « OUR ANTEDILUVIAN ANCESTORS! Copyrlcht, Itll. International New* Servlet. Bry an’s StilhWater Statesmanship What shall one say when the registered pilot of the ship of state refuses to face anything but fine weather and a smooth sea? c<yn “Poor Skinclothes has awfully hard luck!” “What's the matter with him?” ‘ ‘ Why, he's trying to start a little fruit and vegetable farm and the dinosauruses and pterdactyls eat up everything he raises! ’ ’ t Rev. John E. White on “Marriage in a Hurry” By REV. JOHN E. WHITE. Pastor Second Baptiet Church. Mr. Bryan is not willing to superintend the foreign relations of the United States if there is going to be any serious trouble about them. He says: “I made up my mind before I accepted the office of Secretary of State that I would not take the office if I thought there was to be a war during my tenure.” Now that Mr. Bryan’s mind is thoroughly made up about it, he says he feels sure there will be no storm while his discriminat ing hand is on the helm. These assurances may reveal a tender heart in Mr. Bryan, But they expose the incompetence of his executive character and the shallowness of his political thought. The implication is that wars are simply sinful and that they occur only when unjust or unamiable men are put by unhappy accident into places of power. Mr. Bryan has lived and prospered so well by the mere facility of his tongue that he seems to have lost all sense of those real and passionate contradictions of human interest and honor that spring out of settled rights and moral convictions and that j can not be disposed of by any form of words. Imagine, for example, what would happen if Mr. Bryan's free and unlimited coinage of fine words were to be applied to such an issue as that raised by the suggestion that the '' national | honor” of Japan requires the admission to American citizenship of hordes of Orientals on equal terms with Germans or French- j men. IMAGINE. IF YOU CAN, THE MEEK SUBMISSION OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO A JUDGMENT OF HAGUE LAWYERS THAT THIS COUNTRY OUGHT TO CONSENT TO BE ORIENTALIZED WITHIN THE NEXT TWENTY YEARS! The plain truth is, of course, that nations, as they are now constituted, can not keep clear of war for a single year save as “strong men, armed,” who keep their palace that their goods may be in peace. Brave and foreseeing men have indeed a right to look forward to a day when nations that now confront each other with menaces may be so transformed in their social and economic substance that all marked antagonisms of interest shall be canceled and dissolved. BUT IN THE MEANTIME IT IS NOTHING LESS THAN A GRAVE MISFORTUNE THAT THE CHIEF SPOKESMAN OF THE UNITED STATES IN ITS FOREIGN RELATIONS SHOULD BE A STILL WATER STATESMAN. WHO DE CLINES IN ADVANCE TO FACE THE POSSIBILITY OF A STORM. AND WHO RELIES SOLELY UPON RAPTUROUS PHLABF.R TO MEET DANGEROUS EMERGENCIES. A YOUNG lady of Georgia went to Vienna to complete her musical education in the great conservatory there. She met her fate In the person of a splendid young Austrian. The distance from her home In Geor gia and the impatience natural to love's young dream seemed to make ft impossible for the mar riage to take place in due and ancient form at the bride’s home. Desiring to proceed with the wed ding ceremony in Vienna, after n full correspondence with the bride’s family, a stubborn ob stacle presented Itself in their path. Our Hurry-Up System. The Austrian Government in terposed a startling amount of legal red-tape with reference to the bride. It was required that legal evidence be transmitted through the Austrian Consul at Savannah that the young lady in question was of marriageable age. health record, moral character, and that her father was a citi zen In good standing—all to be certified to in writing and at tested by Government officials and ministers of religion. Fortunately the • young lady had no difficulty in complying with the Austrian marriage laws. The Germans are a long headed people. They have dis covered that the marriage altar is a national strength or a na tional weakness This discovery has not yet been made in Georgia and in this country. If statesmen had planned for it a more efficient hurry-up system for marriage than ours could not have been devised. There are enough forces of self- interest brought into play to fa cilitate matrimony in Georgia to constitute a practical conspiracy to get as many people married as possible. The State and County la % ws of license make it profitable to the officers to issue licenses. Over the doors of the office of Ordinary in Fulton County might be written the motto: “Marriage for Revenue Only,” without seri ous offense. Justices of the Peace profusely welcome the touch of romance and the tingle of silver which brighten their dusty of fices. The preacher and the preach er's wife ardently believe in peo ple getting married, and not for reasons too numerous to men tion. So from the man who sells rice and cow-bells to the livery man and the instalment furniture shop there is a chorus of “Hur ry up, John, and hurry up Mary, and get off.” If the young foreigner had met his fate in Georgia, our hurry-up system, which asks no questions, and trusts to matrimonial luck. with a spur on both heels, would have convinced him that the peo ple of this country were looking for a chance to marry off their young ladies, quite regardless of whom they married. So we have the fiddler to pay. Hurry-up marriages demand hur ry-up divorce courts. The serious vows of wedlock, their sacred sanction? and solemn responsi bilities. so vitally concerning the welfare of society and the happi ness of souls, are bound to lack impressiveness since they are left almost entirely to a passing men tion in the wedding ceremony which the average bride and bridegroom in this country wants hurried up and over with. Peopje are not likely to stick together through thick and thin if their marriage is cheaply con ceived and unimpressively con summated. “Hold Up, There!” Another penalty but recently regarded as mentionable Is the gross inattention to physical fit ness. What brides can not be ex pected to know parents should in sist on knowing. The perpetuation of disease through the blood channels of the race begins at the unguarded marriage altiar. If we believe what the physi cians are testifying, the marriage altar is society's "bloody angle," when it ought to be the open sesame of health, happiness and the growing of a stronger and purer race. The demand for a "Hold up. there! - ' can not be long postponed. The only voice that can utter It effectively is the voice of the State. The talk among ministers about organization for the* purpose of refusing to perform a wedding ceremony except on conditions is practically useless. The Legisla ture must impose the necessary conditions with proper penalties attached. Parents are perfectly ready to be protected, but are helpless to i protect themselves. Proper mar riage laws would educate public opinion against the matrimonial speed mania. Jacob could be trained to wait at least three months for his Rachel, and Rachel would not have to have her Jacob on a week's acquaintance. It ought not to be possible for anybody’s best man to swear suc cessfully that the bride is 18 years old because the bridegroom told him so. The Ordinary is protect ed by the lie that Is sworn to! The preacher is protected by the cer tificate of the same lie which has received the sea! of the Ordinary. Georgia is behind every other Southern State, except South Carolina, in the looseness with which marriage licenses are is sued and in the practical absence of any requirements of vital sta tistics. June is coming and our hurry- up system will celebrate itself. Qualities That Popularize Men With Women and Women With Men By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Copyright, 1913. by Journal-Amer ican-Examiner. J UST what are the qualities which make men popular with women and women with men .' This query ofttlmes puzzles wise heads to answer. Some of the ugliest men physi cally have been great Lotharios; and women without marked beauty have been heart winners Men with no decided talents, men of no social prowess; men without money; men with shad owy records, have all succeeded with women where other and seemingly more attractive and certainly more desirable men have failed. A bigamist who was under en gagement of marriage to thirty girls, when he married two of them, says his* success resulted from “always talking to women about themselves." That is the secret of most friendships and all love affairs, and the explanation of most di- vorces lies in the fact that the rnan or worn** n ?*■■*• to talk about the virtue* and charms of the other. That is w'hy beautiful women seldom make men happy, and why plain women frequently fascinate and hold. It is not a peculiarly feminine trait, this love of hearing oneself analyzed and made the leading topic of discussion—it is merely HITMAN. Might Gain Fiancees. Men claim to be above it, but in truth they are delighted to be the absorbing subject of conversation when a woman is the converser. Any girl, however devoid of physi cal charm, if she possesses refine ment and tact, can win the man she admires if she understands the art of keeping him entertained about himself and gives him to understand in a subtle manner that his characteristics, his aimi* his desires and interests are mat ters of continual observation and study to her. The woman who undertakes such a course of action must be modest, however, and in no way thrugt herself upon **• wan a notlo*. SShe must Put be bold or self-assertive, for these are repulsive qualities to a man. She must simply utilize her op portunities and be patient. A man. on the contrary, can make his op portunities to see a woman, and when he uses boldness and self- assertion in his suit she is all the better pleased, so long as he con tinues to occupy her time by talk ing about her. with only occas ional references to himself and other people. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand how, while an earnest woman might be slow in succeed ing in her wish to win and hold the regard of one man. a busy, trifling man might accumulate thirty fiancees with ease and ce lerity. Yet, on the other hand, woman has more latitude than man for conversation of this kind. A man is perfectly willing a woman should discuss his faults, and de lights in having her analyze his sins and weaknesses (before mar riage). with occasional laudations of his virtues, while a woman limits him to the recounting of her charming qualities and to anxious solicitude for her wel fare. The only fault she allows him to refer to is her ability to break hearts, or her cruelty to men who adore her, or her delicate physical organization. Most lover? talk of the charms of their sweethearts during courtship. Few' husbands make the virtues of their wives a topic of conversation in the fam ily circle—hence the divorce court is busy. Few lovers are so tactless as to devote many minute? to lauding the virtues or charms of other women to their sweethearts. Accuse Wives of Jealousy. But. many husbands enjoy this topic of conversation, and accuse their wives of jealousy if they seem uninterested. The successful bigamist surely would know better than to pursue such a course; so while better men have been losing their wives and sweethearts he has been win ning an embarrassment of riches. The way to win s woman lies through praise of her. The way to lose her through praise of other women. ^ John Temple Graves Writes on False Economy Which Is the Better Business Policy, He Asks, the Spend ing of $60,000,000 for Our Navy or War Costing This Country $2,000,000,000? By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES A BUSINESS man who re fused to spend $100 in or der to save $1,000 would b*> regarded among business men as miserly and incapable. The representatives of a rich nation who would refuse to spend fifty or sixty million dollars with in two years to save an expendi ture of two thousand million dol lars ought inevitably to be classed as stupid, miserly and unpatriotic. The comparision is perfect with the conditions of to-day. War with Japan is not only possible, but it is not improbable within the present month. If we have war with Japan the experts who know and not merely the gossips who speculate are a unit in the belief that within a few weeks Japan CQuld easily capture the Phillipines. the Ha waiian Islands and the Sandwich Islands. Might Land an Army. It is also agreed that Japan might land an army by trasports through Puget Sound upon Amer ican soil, make a demonstration against our beautiful City of San Francisco and invest the Panama (.‘anal for bombardment or surrender. The value of these island pos sessions are insignificant as com pared with the after expense. This nation could not afford and certainly would not afford to suf fer this indignity at the hands of the Japanese soldiers and sailors. If it took the last dollar of our money and the last contingent of our soldiers the United States would be compelled to vindicate its honor and its prestige by re capturing what Japan should win and fortify against us. There is not a statistician of war who does not believe that this gigantic effort would cost our country between one thou sand and two thousand million dollars. The records of the Russian- Japanese war vindicate the belief that this is not an extravagant estimate of the cost. Two thousand million dollars is a prodigious sum even in the day of magnificent figures in money. These two thousand million dollars, plainly stated, would rep resent just exactly what the stupid, selfish. unpatriotic and mercenary statesmanship of our recent Congresses have cost this country. Japan Would Be Silent. There is no escaping the ar raignment. If the naval programs which have been presented 'to Congress within the last ten years by men who are paid by the Government to tell the Govern ment what is needed for the na tional defense had been adopted. as they ought to have been, by the representatives of the peo ple t-here would have been a navy large enough to make this war. which is now probable, not only improbable, but impossible. Japan would never have voiced a comparative ultimatum and cer- tinly never have ventured upon a war against such a navy as our programs had required. The men who have been re sponsible by their blindness and parsimony for our debilitated navy and our unpreparedness in national defense must inevitably be held responsible for the record— responsible for war and its ex pense and its humiliation. It is useless and weak for the men to plead that they did not know and could not foresee. It was their business as states men. looking beyond the present moment, to know the probabilities of the future. Their intelligence has been appealed to by informa tion and by argument from ex perts and veterans so as to leave them no excuse save obstinacy not to have understood and to have foreseen. The narrow selfishness of local and district legislation and the desire for personal preferment will always be held as'the expla nation of the unpatriotic and par simonious policy which has crip pled our navy and made possible the humiliation that seems to be at hand. The only possible reparation which these blind and stingy statesmen can make to the coun try and to the people is to stand ready to vote now for prompt and liberal expenditures for the na tional defense. “Pork Barrel” Politics. They must do more than this. They must realize that the pres ent instance, which follows fas*, upon an incident that occurred two years ago. may be and prob ably will be folio wed by a similar incident at a near-coming time. And, whether or not the present difference with Japan should be composed or should result in a prodigiously expensive war. the representatives of the American people in Congress can only vin dicate their stupendous folly and narrowness of the last decade by voting In succeeding years for a naval program which will make impossible the shameful condi tions and the frowning menace of to-day. Hereafter the American Con gressman who votes to squander millions upon the pork barrel and his own re-election and refuses to expend the necessary millions for his country’s peace and its defense must be branded as incompetent and treasonable and sent back to the people who were foolish enough to send him to Washing ton. t / By WIGHTMAN F. MELTON. of Emory College, Oxford, Ga? T HE Pharisees are not all dead yet. Bob and his sister Polly, in a crowd, walked all the way home from Sabbath school, a full quarter of a mile, each with an arm around the other. While passing over the little bridge they kissed with a smack that was heard above the rippling of the brook. Bob and Polly had not been home ten minutes when their in valid mother was heard to shriek. "If you grown children do not stop quarreling you will kill me dead 1” Bob and Polly are Pharisees and simpletons. A Baa lam on Broadway, or in Bowery, who. through a mega phone. proclaims his love for his mother, is not to be trusted by her or by any one else. If she has any sense or decency herself she will, upon hearing him, pluck him gently by the sleeve and say. 'Don't do that, my boy! Come home and whisper It in my ear or speak it to me with your eyes or manifest it with some little deed of kindness or act of courtesy " Baalam is a Pharisee and a fool! Schnickman, at the club, loud ly and repeatedly declared that his wife was the sweetest, pret tiest little woman in the world. He offered to bet $26 that he loved her better than any other husband ever loved a wife. Schnickman was cashier at the ice plant. One night he ab sconded with the funds. A week later his wife and babies disap peared. On entering Schnickman's house his bondsmen and the of ficers found a closet full of empty jugs and bottles. In the dining room they found a buggy whip that showed much uve. Schnick man kept no horse and was nev er known to drive one. Schnickman is a Pharisee and a villain! When the old prophet Elijah, thinking there were none right eous left on earth, 'went up on Mount Horeb. as he was com manded, he stood to hear his Lord’s condemnation of a way way world. Elijah was probably surprised when God’s w r rath was not pro claimed in the tempest, or In the earthquake, or in the thunder- light. After these nois*y things had passed by a still small voice in formed Elijah that there were yet seven thousand Israelites whose lips had not kissed Baal. The Still-Small-Voice was no Pharisee. Mother-love ever expresses it - ►*elf “Sweet and low. sweet and like the tvind of a Western low, sea. while her little one. her pret ty one, sleeps Mother is not a Pharisee. Love may get itself expressed In the odor of a violet or in the dream of a kiss or in the memory of a silent sunset. True lover never blusters. True love is not loud.