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EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME RARER ^ THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama 8t.. Atlanta, Ga Entered aa second-cl a ■■ matter at post office at Atlanta, under act of March 3.18*3 Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week By mall, $5.00 a year. 1 i Payable in Advance. The Issues Between Japan and This Country Constitute Es sentially a World Question. On the very day on which Governor Johnson of California signed the alien land bill came unmistakable evidences that the sentiment of the entire world of Occidental civilization is sweep ing to the support not only of the State of California, but of the United States in upholding the action of that great Common wealth. The emphatic declarations of the Hearst newspapers are be ing echoed and indorsed wherever it is being recognized, as already both in Great Britain and Germany, that the issues between Japan and this country constitute "ESSENTIALLY A WORLD QUES TION.” These four words from Sir Valentine Chirol, who not so long ago was received in Tokio with almost diplomatic honor and dom iciled in a wing of the Japanese Foreign Office, have not been penned lightly. “No useful purpose,” he tells the British public, ‘‘can be served by blind condemnation of the tendencies of public opinion in the Western States. They do not spring so much from race hatred as from the.instinct of self-preservation. The time has come when Japan is disposed to challenge the very essence of the attitude of Western nations toward Asiatics.” There need be no doubt at all that Sir Valentine is entirely in touch with official British opinion. For twenty years he has been listened to with attention as a responsible exponent of Eastern problems. Only last year he was a member of a Royal Commission on such a subject. The suggestion, therefore, that "Japan will do well to re member that her claim to enter a neighbor 's garden can at best be •aly quietly pursued" carries with it the utmost significance. For Great Britain, the ally of Japan, has precisely the same problem to solve, and in more quarters of the globe. -I-I-I-H-H-I-H “The Perfect Baby”—What’s It Worth? *Th\S ON*. SKOOLt) G-oob uerr OF Japan can not demonstrate to the world a civilization equal to the best of Occidental civilizations by forcing a suicidal war on her best customer in the world's markets. That would be an act of piratical barbarity that would, as is already indicated, instantly focus on this country the moral support of all white nations. And Japan is perfectly aware that without the moral support of at least some of the white nations she could not have prosecuted her war against Russia, even close to home as it was. What is now becoming plain to all nations was plain to this newspaper at the beginning and was plainly stated. California is right. It is a WORLD QUESTION. If this country is to be forced to settle this world question for the rest of the world, as the result of an act which is already recognized abroad as an act only of self- preservation, then at least the United States is assured of the moral approval and support of all white nations. first PRIZE V V r V fa*** <9~ V k, — Dorothy Dix Writes on “Suffrage” Valuable Report on Vice Conditions The report on vice conditions in New York City, issued by the committee of which John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is at the head, will furnish a basis for the work of every organization whose purpose is to make its home city a better and a safer city. The report is remarkably exhaustive, and proves that those who were associated with young Mr. Rockefeller in making it spared neither time nor expense in getting the actual facts, instead of collating hearsay evidence and jumping at sensational conclu- riona. The makers of newspapers understand something about the difficulties of getting exact facts. This report means that many men have worked hard and long at disagreeable tasks. It means that they have been brave enough to face the most dangerous ele raent of municipal life, and that they have been clear-headed enough to find out what was going on rather than to make guesses that would have proved utterly useless if put to the test. Young Mr. Rockefeller has freely given his money—of which he has abundance—and his time—of which he has far less than the average man—to the making of this report. It is to his everlast ing credit that it is so complete and that its results are so available for every organization whose business it is to help in stamping out a cruel, sordid and nefarious traffic. It is a hopeful indication of the future of this country that the Rockefeller fortune will some day fall into the hands of a young man whose earnestness, sincerity and desire for the welfare of the community in which he lives is so well proven by this great work wkioh his initiative set on foot and which his energy, plus his great means, has so well accomplished. TRUE CHARITY By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Copyright, 1918. by American-Journal-Examiner. I GAVE a beggar from my little store Of well earned gold. He spent the shining ore And came again, and yet again, still cold And hungry, as before. 1 gave a thought, and through that thought of mine He found himself the man. supreme, dirbo! Fed, clothed, and crowned with blessings manifold. And now he begs no more. By DOROTHY DIX. M RS. ARTHUR DODGE, the leader of the anti-suffra gists and our greatest un conscious humorist. Is out with a brand new explanation of why women want to vote. She says that the suffrage question is noth ing on earth but a sex disturb ance, and that in trying to get the ballot women are only making a sex appeal to men. That’s a pretty hard charge for a woman, even an anti-suffragist, to make against her sister woman. It is only explainable on the ground that each anti-suffragist thinks she is the only woman in the world who has sufficient in telligence and virtue to fit her to vote. I have never met an anti-suffragist who esteemed her self ao Ignorant and vicious and hysterical and venial that she felt a ballot would be unsafe in her hands. It’s all the other women that she holds so cheaply. However. Mrs. Dodge’s claim that the suffrage appeal is noth ing hut a sex appeal to man is. at least, welcome, because it is new. What anti-suffragists have here tofore claimed was that the suf frage movement was a sex war. One contention is just as silly and unworthy of the serious con sideration of sensible people as the other. On the very face of it, it is idiotic that there could be any great popular movement that had for its object the fostering of an tagonism between the sexes. Any such idea would fall at its very birth. Sex Cry Most Insistent. Nature would slay it in its very beginning, for as long as men are men and women are women, the cry of sex to sex will be the loudest and most insistent call in the world. Theories and creeds, beliefs and principles, religion and politics have never yet stood long between a man and a maid, and the only possible war between the sexes results in the call to arms that both answer, and which is arbi trated by the priest before the altar. Anybody who seriously argues that men and women can ever be arrayed against each other, as classes, needs the attention of an alienist. Aside from the affection between them, the man’s interest and the women® Interest are identical. They stand or fall to gether. Whatever makes tor the prosperity of one makes for the good of the other. W hat drags one down into the pit carries the other into the abyss. We are the wives, and sisters, and daughters of the men who want low tariff or high tariff; our husbands, and our brothers, and our fathers are manufacturers, or farmers, or merchants; our for tunes will be affected just as much as men s by currency laws. We are bound to men by every men are guilty of using their sex in furtherance of their aims it is the anti-suffragists, not the suf fragists. The chief weapon in the armory of the anti-sufFr&gist is what she calls feminine charm, or feminine influence, and she is forever urg ing women to use this instead of doing a coarse and brutal thing like casting a ballot. What the Antis Say. The antis say that women do not need to vote because they can persuade men to vote the way they want them to. They con tend that it Is easier to jolly a man into doing what you want him to do than it is to do it your self, and less labor to work him than to do the work with your own hands. When you want to get a bill passed for some meas ure you are interested in, or an appropriation for your favorite charity, they advise you to put on your prettiest frock and your most bewitching hat and go up to the legislature and make eyes at the men. They say that you can flatter a man, particularly if you are good looking, into voting for anything, and, such being the case, why bother with the ballot? Now. when a woman talks about using her “sweet womanly influ ence” she knows perfectly well that what she really means is that she is going to strike the chord o£ sex with a hand that practice has made unerring in its touch. She’s going to use every ^coquetry, and blandishment, and cajolery, and wile that have come down from the days of Eve and Delilah to the present moment, and because she may be "doing it for a good cause doesn’t alter its character one whit. One of the main arguments to be advanced in favor of giving women the franchise is that it will enable them to do decently, and clean-mindedly, the very things that they do immorally now. When a woman doesn't have to ask favors of a man she doesn’t have to do the Salome dance before him. Women With Incomes. The woman who has her own independent income doesn’t have to wheedle a new hat out of her husband by tainted kisses and caresses. The woman who can cast her own ballot for whatever measures she wants doesn’t have to debase herself by flirting with some politician to get him to vote her way. The ballot is the clean, honest high road to a desired re sult. Using your womanly influ ence is the devious and slimy path that leads in the same direc tion. but that no woman treads without bedraggling her skirts Be a Fresh Air Fiend Selected by EDWIN MARKHAM, up 1 TROUT FISHING By WILLIAM F. KIRK DOROTHY DIX tie of blood, and heart, and pock et, and the idea of our fighting them is as absurd aa to suppose we will all go adrift and cut our own throats. There can never be. even when we get the fran chise. any all-women political party as opposed to an all-men political party. There can be no female tariff schedule, no female regulation of the trust, no female banking bill differing from men’s. The idea of a sex war between men and women is so ridiculous that it is no wonder that wen the Anti-Suffragist Donna Quixotes got tired of fighting that wind mill. But Mrs. Dodge s brand-new- theory that the suffrage move ment is an Ir.siclous sex appeal to men is equally fantastic and im aginary. on -the contrary, so far from this being the truth, if any wo- W HE3N good old Isaak Walton used to angle after trout He always journeyed homeward with a dozen fish, about. All of these flgh were beauties, very long and broad of back, For when he caught a one-pound ftsh he always threw it back. The bird# were aJways singing aid the sky was always blue; The brooklet rippled dreamily, the buds were wet with dew. The music of the whirring line mixed with the slim rod’s swish When good old Isaak Walton us>jd to hypnotize the fish. When l go out to catch a trout—and that is very rarely— I always reason with the fish and try to treat them fairly. I always use the choicest worms to give the trout a treat. But trout all drink so nowadays they do not care to eat. I lose my hooks on hidden snags, my reel gets out of whack. Mosquitoes sting my features and the gnats swarm down my back. I scratch my ftns and bark my shins, my neck I nearly break: I guess my name is Isaak, with the accent on the “aak.” At twelve o'clock I want to eat and find to my dismay That 1 forgot my luncheon when I started dor the day. The water isn’t good to drink: a cold rain soaks my thatch; • And when I try to take a smoKe I can not find a match. In sheer disgust T give it up. vow ing that I'm a frost. And when the shades of night steal on ? find that I am lost. I totter home at midnight like some poor old broken tout And I dream how Izaak WAlton used to angk after trout. iRESH AIB AND HOW TO USE'IT.” by Thomas Spees Carrington, M. D., is a book sent out by the Na tional Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. If every one would put into^prac tice its teachings, how the life and force of *i:he nation would bd augmented. See-df you come urn- der Professor Carrington’s ar raignment: “Under present housing condi tions the air finds its way fnto and from dwellings through open windows, doors, transoms, regis ters, flreplapes, chimney flues and various ventilating devices, also by leakage around window# and doors, and by passingsthrough the building Itself. After entering through these openings the fresh air Is mixed with the inclosed at* mosphere through the. movement of the air due to the wind pres* sure on the outside of the build ings. the tendency of heated air to rise and of all gases to Inter mingle or diffuse. In the Bed Room. “In admitting fresh air into a room through an opening below the window sash some kind of wind shield or air deflector is often necessary to protect those sitting near the window from exposure to direct draft. "Fresh air Is as essential in the bed room at night as during the day. and every one Should sleep with window* ^ide open during all seasons of the year. A small aperture at the top and bottom of the window does not give a sufficient supply of pure air to the sleeper. Too much empha sis can not be placed on this phase of the fresh air problem, for the habit of closing up sleep ing rooms at night is prevalent throughout the entire country. An Old Prejudice. "In all countries where the win ters are severe man's ideal shel ter has been one that would in sure the best protection from the cold, but unfortunately this pro tection has been gained by the ex clusion of fresh air. Even to-day. with all our modem inventions, we can not produce proper ven tilation without losing a large percentage of heat; so the poor, in the attempt to prevent the waste of fuel, make their living rooms as near airtight as they can. "In the North fresh air ia shut not th order to Obtain a com fortable temperature In the South it ia. shut out ^<j,prevent material fever. MflUona-tif peo* pie in-maiscrWlatnupt^ies-Stin be* lieve that ffilght 4ti> rfbr -elVdeadly disease, «rt® -they use everydmean3*o<keerk#8*Hrt>r>t fodr homes byeg'losfrtg' Rnd doors-as soon«o»<he ssUngjBbfc. appears Sn tho avert, holds fn rflele -hot untnmphvtotftadXIHfJSa communities -<;l<udngTfheft l "*fambefl' carefully qsreoon sta*tih>*ttn * down enffmotxopenh until morning. "This prejudice <tg>e$£4> a* aly should ha banished‘inori* mlnd,for„rfncefthe.<i!Bco«>erv*ft the mosquito Is the caarter troplta! f«wer»ajia Hot thh ftjfc a1r,-ft'mayffie«t«*Bt»*yItW®u*ht ity that the man may fresh night air with ton he protect* h hnectf-Hanm. tjp||| t Outdoor air i» much jnrrwrtij given location at nighti during the d»yt The.a' Is cleansed hy the preutpBxtJbn of dew and frost, for motsttrrekae it drops to the earth-carries .' it from the air the partteTes ✓of dust and smoke which pollutant* I A Recognized Remedy, "When there is no wind atmosphere is also dleansfl gravity, thetgnatlctes of.duat ista tllng »lo«ly<to the earth. Wnest| cold night air stimulates and tones the body and iodtidae strength andta fresh-mental-oute look upon life. "The interiors of th&rmajbrits of homes in northern countries are breeding places for diasaom because of the difficulties in, the way of, and the objection to, ad mitting fresh air. Fbul«Jr, which is full of poisonous gases exhaled from the lungs of the inmates, is the usual atmosphere of the home, and it can not be otherwise when our houses are built to be closed as tightly as possible. "To-day fresh air is a reco*» nized remedy for pneutr— tuberculosis, and it is also knows to be a preventive of diseases generally. It is essential to good health, and for this reason it is necessary to make arrangements for obtaining it in every inclosed space used as a shelter by human beings. Building* should be vet^ tilated so that it will be impos sible for those who use them to re-breathe the air which has been expelled from tit lung*,"