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The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME RARER EDITORIAL RAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga. Entered as second-class matter at postofflre at Atlanta, under act of March 3,1873 Subscription Price Delivered by carrier. 10 rents a week. By mall, $5 00 a year. Payable in Advance. [.Made in Atlanta^ A Permanent Exhibition of Our Goods Would he a Liberal Education to the Whole Coun= try==The Time to Act Is NOW. The plan of the manufacturers and merchants of Atlanta to install a permanent exhibition of MADE IN ATLANTA goods in this city is excellent. Chattanooga has an exhibition along similar lines, and it is proposed by the Chamber of Commerce of this city that the j manufacturers and merchants of Atlanta shall study this exhibit in Chattanooga, and install an exhibition of MADE IN AT- j LANTA goods here, so that people of the entire south, and other j parts of the country as well, may know exactly what MADE IN ATLANTA goods really mean; The Georgian suggests that the business men of Atlanta take up this question at once, with the idea of devoting a week during this summer or early fall to a SHOW THEM exhibition j of the 1,000 or more articles that are now manufactured in At- I lanta by the 600 manufacturers now engaged in Buch work. An exhibition of this kind would attract the attention of business men and merchants from all over the south. The rail roads would undoubtedly offer low rates to travelers; hotel ac commodations are ample, and with the superb summer weather that Atlanta always enjoys, an exhibition week here would be beneficial to all concerned. A permanent exhibition of MADE IN ATLANTA goods would be a liberal education. Atlanta needs that kind of an ex- ! hibition. MADE IN ATLANTA should mean the highest stand ard of merit. Articles made in Atlanta will undoubtedly find a ready sale all over the country, as soon as it is known what Atlanta really can do. Every business man in Atlanta, no matter in what enter prise he is engaged, should help this movement along. It will mean much to the city. It will make for progress in every di rection. The Georgian congratulates the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce and the manufacturers and merchants of this city in taking up this permanent exhibition idea, and hopes it will be pushed forward in an active way. What Is To Be Done for These I Women and Others LikeThem? Who Will Answer the Questions That These Human Ques- I tion Marks Permanently Represent in Our Civilization? Isn’t It Time TO MAKE A BEGINNING? Copyright, 1913. Hold this paper at arm's length and the three women at j the top of the page look like three question marks. AND THEY ARE THREE QUESTION MARKS. They are the oldest question marks in the world, or at least in the world as long as men have lived on it, some two or three hundred thousand years. From the beginning women have done the hard work, the dull work, the work that wears the brain, the body and the nerves, AND THE HORRIBLE WORK THAT HOLDS OUT NO FUTURE HOPE. These question marks stand out on our so-called "civiliza tion'' of to-day. You have the girl in her childhood bending over the ma chine. What are you going to do for her? How are you going to set her free? You have the young woman bending over her child, in pov erty, misery and anxiety. What are you going to do for her? How are you going to make your boasted civilization and pros perity free her from a life of sorrow, worry and want? You have the older woman bending over the washtub, using up the last fragment of vitality and energy, painfully and slow ly doing work which could be done quickly and easily by a ma chine—if it were ‘‘worth while" for men to use their intelli gence and their machinery to free women from slavery. How are you going to free these three slaves, straighten up their backs and answer the questions which they represent? We have more than half a thousand solemn statesmen in Washington. And we have thousands in the Capitols of the States. They are discussing laws and "economic questions,” talk ing, advising, sometimes honestly urging, more often dishon estly selling their opinions. When will they find time among other questions to take up the three questions at the top of this page? Is it not almost time to make a BEGINNING? And wouldn ’t the best beginning be the fixing OF A MINI MUM WAGE FOR WORKING GIRLS AND WOMEN? That would be at least a start. It would stop or check the present profitable money making schemes of hiring and working girls and women for less than it costs to feed them properly. It is true that you could not in this way free from misery the wives of underpaid workingmen, or the mothers, old and half worn out. But you could at least BEGIN with the wages of women, making it a crime to force a woman by poverty and want to work for such wages as mean a life half starved. Who cares now for these miserable women ? What voice have they? They can t send a man to Congress, or take him from Congress. They can’t put a judge on the bench or take him off the bench. How long must women wait for their rights? How long ' shall this picture continue? How long shall these human question marks £end over their tasks, neglected apd forgotten? I Living Questions Here are three human question marks. When will the “statesmen” of the nation find time to answer, or try to answer, the questions that these three bodies ask? (See Editorial.) What Is Ideal Love in a Man? Hie Highest 1 ype of Lover Is at Once Friend, Mate, Defender and Comrade to the Woman He Loves. “The God-Blessed Macs” Dr. White Says in the Storm the Presbyterians Are Oak and Rock, but in the Sunshine They Are Vine and Flower. x j HAT is the highest ideal \/\/ of man’s love for wom- V * an? It is a more difficult question to answer than its companion— woman's ideal love for man—be cause woman is a more difficult being to satisfy In the matter of the affections than man. Given an orderly home, a well- supplied table and a tactful, cheerful woman to reign, and the average man is content with his domestic relations. But emo tional woman wants more than these conditions grant. She wants continuous praise, a frequently recurring touch of sentiment, and ei^en a misunderstanding, now ahd then, followed by a reconcil iation, is sweeter to her than a monotony of unexpressed satis faction. The Ideal Lover. The ideal lover takes into con sideration all these peculiarities of feminine temperament, and adapts himself to them'in a rea sonable degree. Almost every woman, the most ardent and romantic as well as the phlegmatic, realizes at times the maternal element in her love for a man. It is this which aids her In being his patient nurse in hours of illness and his stimulus In times of despondency, and It is that lack of graver and more paternal element In man’s love which detracts from its ideality ao often. When he does possess it man is liable to overdo the matter and to become the slave of his lady's hysterical moods and to encour age her weaknesses and her self ish whims The lover who is at once kind, sympathetic and masterful is sel dom found, yet ho alone illus trates the highest (frder of love. The ideal lover is he who com mands his wife’s or sweetheart’s respect and admiration, together with her love; who makes her realize that his standards of womanhood and of life are high, and that he expects her to do her part toward maintaining them, and who is capable of drawing a fine line between devotion and servility. The ideal lover of either sex is not a slave or a coward. The moment thoce elements enter into a love its standard is lowered. 1 once heard a wife say that she would not live with a man who told her he thought another wom an bwmiliii I«U that h:s Written for The Georgian by REV. JOHN E. WHITE, pastor Second Baptist Church. By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. love for her should blind bis eyes to the beauty of all others. The man loved his wife, but while his lips were silent on the subject of others’ charms, his fur tive glances of admiration often bespoke the sentiments of his mind. That man’s love was not ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. ideal, since it lacked the courage to make his wife understand how »he‘belittled herself in his eyes. The ideal lover does not enter tain Ills wife by expatiating on the charms of other women for hours, but he does express his respectful admiration on occa sions. It Lacked Courage. He strives to bring out the very best and noblest qualities in the woman whom he has chosen for his life mate and to aid her de veloping into a perfect woman hood. He is her friend and her protector as well as her lover and admirer. He looks out for her best interests, but he never for gets that she has an individuality of her own which is to be re spected and considered. She is his mate and his companion, not his chattel or his servant. She is to be advised and guided, but not commanded or coerced. The highest type of lover real izes that a woman has a spirit and a soul, as well as a body. The man who hides a woman away and tries to keep her from ail association with her kind and ail pleasures not directly be stowed b\ him is not an ideal !.»ver. however madly he adores her. His love fcUAois iuo much of that of the bear who carries the lamb to its cave to devour it at leisure. Neither is that the highest type of love which encourages a wom an’s foolish ambitions and un worthy aims. I have known a man to plume himself as a model husband be cause he gave his assistance to a silly wife—the mother of his chil dren—who conceived an aspira tion for a theatrical career. She possessed no atom of talent, and made herself only the object of ridicule and pity to all observers, while she left her husband—a good man, of ample means—and her children to the care of domes tic*. Had the woman been a great genius, born to do some special work In life and no other, the hus band’s unselfishness would have been "ideal.” Highest Type of Lover. A man must be a woman s truest friend 1n order to be also her idea] lover. He must possess appreciation of al! her best quali ties. sympathy for all her femi nine weaknesses, the courage to w»m her when her highest good demands it, and the wisdom to direct her when counsel Is need ed. He must be delicate enough never to make her fee! her finan cial dependence upon him, and he must possess the will power and self-control to make his loyally to her under all conditions that which he expects of her. Yes. he must be strong enough to keep her from leading him into financial ruin, and lover enough to keep her responsive to his demonstrations of affection. Friend, defender, lover, comrade, mate—ail these must be he who possesses "the highest type of love" for woman. Pertinent Paragraphs It is rather startling to read the initials R. 1. N. G. after the name of an officer, but on reading along one may find that he be longs to the Rhode Island Nation al Guard. * * * History records that once upon a time a man had the last word. The man was Noah Webster The word was "zyxomma." * • • Wouldn’t it be a good thing to take the "rogue’’ out of ’progres sive?’’ Love will often modify the mis- er> occasioned by her piano play ing. T WO good-natured witticisms at the expense of the Pres byterians by the late Sam Jones have just passed into ob livion beyond recall. He said that the only objection to be had against the Presbyterians was that there are so few of them, and that "The Presbyterians pay more for their religion and get less fun out of it than any people on earth.” The historic gathering of 1,500 commissioners in Atlanta, repre senting American Presbyterians, has abruptly made an end of the first complaint, and their lively proceedings in debate and the good cheer they have radiated on our streets and in our homes leaves no ground for the other. The Presbyterians number nearly 5,000,000 in the world and constitute one-fifth of the evan gelical force of Christianity. They have furnished their full share to the entertainment of history. Definite Distinctions. The English and Welsh names of Smith and Jones represent our largest American classification of surnames, but the folks whose names carry the. handle of the "God-blessed Macs” belong to a class of quality incomparable in weight and achievement. Next to the Jews the Macs have preserved through genera tions a distinctive character. They are not all Presbyterians, hut there is a Presbyterian quality in them all. Presbyterianism is only a de nominational subdivision—a frag ment broken off from Scotch granite; but the Presbyterian es sence has gone with Scotchmen into every nook and corner of American character. Its leaven is pungent and penetrating, and if they could only monopolize it and secure a royal patent on all it permeates, the Presbyterians would lay claim to the most im mense religious areas. But there is no monopoly in truth, and the Presbyterians are debtors also. Renan said "Jesus begat Paul. Paul begat Augustine. Augustine begat John Calvin, John Calvin begat John Knox.” It is with difficulty that Protestants are reminded that Augustine was Roman Catholic. Aside from theological heredity, the Presbyterians, taken as they are, constitute in the world an in calculable value to human char acter far beyond thei^*numerical strength. It is not generally known that the name Scotland was stolen the little country now. known as Ireland. Scotia, before the tenth century, was a territo rial term, while Scotus was a race name and the generic term of Scoti embraced the people of that race, whether inhabiting Ireland or Britain. After the tenth century the REV. JOHN E. WHITE. principal stronghold of the people designated Scoti Included nine counties in the North of Ireland as well as the Western part of Scotland. The Scotch-Irish, therefore, are n6t a mixture of Irish and Scotch blood, but are the pure Scotch who happened to be geographically identified with Northern Ireland. The main contribution to Ameri can life from the Scotch came from this region. They brought their quality with them, and it was a fighting quality. The first Scotch-Irish clergy man to land in America, in 1682, landed in jail immediately, charged with the offense of preaching the Gospel at a private house. The first great Scotch-Irish lawyer spoke a piece in Virginia about "Give me liberty or give me death.” At Mecklenburg, North Carolina, the Scotch-Irish raised the first standard of defiance to Great Britain. At Alamance, in North Caro lina, ten years before, they had fought the first skirmish of the American Revolution. When George Washington saw red-coats landing at every sea port he said that if the worst came to the worst he would gather the Scotch-Irishmen around him and make a fortress of liberty in the Blue Ridge Mountains. At King’s Mountain the Scotch- Irish, under three Presbyterian elders, flung victory Into the teeth of despair and saved the cause of Independence. The Presbyterians may not claim them all, but we all (Malm them. Good Soldiers—Good Brothers. We have had a large flavor of this life for ten days In Atlanta. All our under-estimates are re vised. We have seen the Presbyteri ans as many and we know them as much. We have marked them as good soldiers, and we have felt them as good brothers. We have witnessed them in their conflicts, and we have warmed toward them in our homes. If in the storm they are oak and rock, in the sunshine they 1 are vine and flower. JUST YOU By LILLIAN LAUFFERTY. LL the selfish joys of earth, I am getting through— That which used to lure and lead Now I pass and give no heed; Only one thing seems of worth— Just you. Not for me the lonely height, And the larger view; Lowlier ways seem fair and wide, While we wander side by side. One thing makes the whole world bright— Just you. Not for distant goals I run, No great aim pursue; Most of earth’s ambitions seem Like a shadow of a dream All the world to me means one— Just you. .. —..,