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The Beginning of Marriage
Haphazard Reflections on Grave T opics
(Copyright, 1913.)
At stated times we mortals have stated visitations.
One day it is the gTippe, next day the financial problem.
Then it is the marriage and divorce question, with much
learned expounding by the good and the pure, such as bishops
and members of Sorosis.
What is marriage? How did it begin? Whence does it
come?
Why is it a feature of human life wherever that life is
found?
You must begin with such questions. Always study begin
nings. Nothing can be learned by taking hold of a thing in the
middle and examining its imperfections.
The first priest to join man and woman together was no
benign being with lawn sleeves and soul-stirring words.
Marriage was brought about on this earth by the will and
wisdom of God Almighty working through primitive babyhood.
In the old days, when the world was cruder, men and wom
en ran wild through forests and swamps. They fought nature,
fought each other, as savage as other beasts around them.
There was no love; there was no marriage. The instincts of self
preservation and of reproduction worked alone to keep the race
here through its hard childhood.
In the Run of the News
But in cold stone caves or in rough nests under fallen tree
trunks savage children were born and nursed by their savage
mothers with savage affection.
Through those infants of the stone age, or of ages much
earlier, marriage and pure affection came into the world.
It is not hard to reproduce in our minds the picture of the
first marriage.
A savage woman, half human, half ape, with rough, matted
locks hanging round her face, sits holding her new-born baby,
protecting it from wind and cold.
It is a queer baby, covered perhaps with reddish hair, its
brow no higher than a rat’s. Its jaw protrudes; its tiny, grimy
hands clutch with monkey power all things within reach.
Along comes the father, full of plans to kill a mammoth or a
cave bear; interested in his stone-tipped club, but caring noth
ing for the mother, who has been for some time only a whining
nuisance.
He stops for a second to look at the small creature which he
has added to earth's animal life.
Its misshapen skull, ferret eyes, miniature shoulders—some
thing about it reminds him of his royal self, as studied in the
pool. He stoops to look closer. His bristly hairs are grabbed,
and a weird, insane, toothless grin lights up the little monkey
face.
Then the savage takes a new view of life; there the mar
riage institution and the marriage problem are born simultan
eously.
Says the mammoth hunter, with whistling words and hoarse
throat sounds half articulated :
“I like this baby. He's like me. Let me hold him. Don't
you go out with him looking for food, and don’t leave him alone
while I’m gone. I've got a bear located. No one can beat me
killing bears. I’ll bring the bear's heart to you this evening.
You can give this baby some of the blood. It will do him good.
Don’t have anything to say to that mammoth hunter in the next
swamp. I want you to stick to me. I'll look after you. I have
taken a fancy to that baby. He looks very much like me.”
Off goes the father, and that savage mother, in a primitive
way, is a wife. Hereafter she is to be cared for. Bears will be
killed for her, even while she has children to keep her busy and
unattractive. Society takes a new turn and the red-haired baby
has done it.
To childhood, helpless and beautiful, we owe marriage and
all that growth of morality which is gradually making us really
civilized.
The basis of all real growth is altruism; and altruism, the
inclination to think more of others than of yourself, came into
the world through the cradle.
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Drawn by HAL COFFMAN, the Famous Cartoonist.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Writes On Women Smokers
Smoking Is Serious Drawback to Equal Franchise, and in Additiou Is One of
the Greatest Beauty Destroyers Women Contend With.
The influence of childhood has transformed mere animal at
traction into unselfish affection. It has substituted family life
for savage life. The interests of childhood demand that mar
riage and its responsibilities be held sacred.
Duty to future generations demands that divorce be made
difficult and considered a misfortune.
Marriage, brought into the world through the influence of
children, should be dissolved only with due regard for the inter
ests of children.
An unhappy marriage is earth’s worst affliction. Quite true.
But it is not affliction wasted.
Examples are needed to warn the young against the matri
monial recklessness which underlies most unhappy marriages.
Unhappy wives and husbands are human lighthouses—
lonely, but useful.
A man who marries a woman undertakes to make her happy
and keep her busy. If he keeps his contract, she will keep hers.
If he fails, he has no right to experiment on another un
fortunate. The divorce class is a self-indulgent, malformed
elass, not worth notice.
As a matter of fact, there really is no marriage or divorce
problem which sensible beings need consider.
At present men are not good enough to be trusted with lib
eral marriage or divorce laws. When they are good enough the
laws will not be wanted. For the man fully developed and fully
moral will know what he is doing when he goes into a marriage
contract. His stability of character will insure permanency.
There will be no need of laws.
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
(Copyright, 1913, by American-Journal-
Lxaminer. >
I T is unfortunate for the great
and good cause of equal
franchise that women are
growing into ungraceful and un
hygienic habits in the world we
call civilized.
Smoking women arc every
where evident; and the habit
once indulged in occasionally by
the few r daring ones is now in
dulged openly and almost con
stantly In European lands; and,
of course, American women are
following suit, as is their custom
toward older countries.
A middle-aged woman or an
old woman smoking in a public
place is a sight to make angels
weep and men sigh over the
memory of their mothers.
The young girls who smoke in
public or anywhere else ought
to make men pause and hesitate
before thinking of asking these
young women to perpetuate their
species.
And to perpetuate the species
and bring normal, healthy and
moral men and women into the
world is the real business of
every young woman, however we
may regard other occupations for
her, and however wide we are
trying to make her sphere of
usefulness.
Nerves and Nicotine.
Field Marshal Lord Methuen
has now come to the front in an
open denunciation of the smoking
woman.
He declares woman has not
man’s “sense of proportion” and
does not know* when to stop.
But he also believes the smoking
habit, especially the cigarette
habit, a serious detriment to
men. Lord Methuen says:
“A man is constitutionally
* stronger than a woman, and his
nerves will stand the strain of
nicotine much better than hers
will.
“Then, again, the throat, chest
and lungs, which are some of the
principal organs affected by ex
cessive cigarette smoking. are
more susceptible in the female
sex. and consequently irritation
is set up the more quickly.
“But l think it is the eyes which
«i;e most affected by the habit.
After excessive indulgence, these
organs generally become weak-
looking and uncertain, and often
assume a watery appearance.
“Another symptom of the habit
ual cigarette smoker is a nasty,
troublesome cough, particularly in
the morning, which arises from
the irritation caused by the nico-
line to the throat and chest. This
is more often the cape with the
person who inhales the smoke—a
habit which, I am sorry to say, is
pretty general among cigarette
smokers.*
“1 think you will agree that
these ailments do not add to the
attractiveness or the charm of the
gentle sex, but then, in addition,
strong to overcome. Many wom
en who are subject to nervous
breakdowns and who are sent to
“rest cures” and sanitariums to
recover from “overwork” or “over-
pleasuring” are really suffering
from nicotine poisoning, were the
truth known.
It seems appalling that such a
condition of society should exist;
appalling that smoking among
women has attained such a hold
upon the community that men
like Lord Methuen are alarmed. ,
But it is well that one Such
man has raised his voice in pro
test. The craze for smoking
started with tho English women,
and it is befitting that English
men should make some effort at
mitigating the evil.
For evil it is, and one which
menaces the generations to come.
If woman Is to have the fran
chise, and use it to better the
world, let her not emulate the
vices of men to prove her worth
and ability.
And let her value her beauty
and health and attractiveness
enough to enable her to give up
the disgusting cigarette habit.
Let us hope Lord Methuen is a
prophet when he says:
Should Give Up Smoking.
“I do not think the time is far
distant when there will be as
strong a crusade against smoking
to excess as there has been
against drinking to excess.
“I believe it will be the doctors
who will lead the crusade against
excessive smoking.
“They will tell a person plainly
that it is ruination to his nerves
to smoke cigarettes, as some peo
ple do, from the age of 10 years
onward/’
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
you have to consider the dele
terious effect cigarette smoking
has upon the heart and the
nerves.
“The cigarette habit among la
dies is deplored by all doctors,
but particularly in r.egard to the
younger members of the sex.
“At middle age the effects are
not so much pronounced, or, per
haps. not so noticeable, hut in the
case of a young girl her develop
ment is undoubtedly impeded, and
this must have a detrimental ef
fect upon the future of the race.”
It is gratifying to lovers of the
human racq to have a man of
brain and position take this stand
toward the smoking habit, espe
cially an Englishman, for it is
English women of prominence
who have made the unwholesome
custom fashionable.
There are a million more wom
en than men in England, and
perhaps the habit first originated
in woman's desire for man's so
ciety, and in her loneliness she
found even the smell of his cigar
smoke solace.
There was once a romantic girl
living in a retired country place
who asked her lover to smoke into
a bottle that she might let the
smoke escape some lonely evening
during his absence and imagine
him present.
Present Smoking; Craze.
However the present smoking
craze originated, it is most unfor
tunate. It Is bad enough for pos
terity to have the vices of the
fathers to combat, but what hope
can the world have of a higher
humanity when both parents have
vitiated their blood and destroyed
their nervous systems by nico
tine?
A young woman on one of the
large ocean liners was seen al
ways with a cigarette between
her lips. She remarked to some
fellow passengers that she had
taken the cure once at a sanita
rium, but that the habit was too
Positions Wanted
By THOMAS TAPPER.
A BOUT this time, as the al
manac used to say, there
will be lots of young men
looking for jobs.
They are graduates.
Everybody loves to give a
graduate advice, to tell him how
' and what to do that he may suc
ceed.
The reason why people do this
is not that they love to preach. It
is because, having grown older,
they have discovered what a
precious thing it is to be
YOUNG, what an amazing op
portunity there is for anyone who
is about to go to work with the
STRENGTH AND FAITH OF
YOUTH in the right hand.
The business world is a place of
keen competition. To look at it
from the outside makes one think
that the effort to walk in. find a
chance and make good is impos
sible.
But it can be done.
Once landed on the job. the
graduate will probably be too
busy to remember the advice he
has received. This will do him no
serious harm if he becomes a dis
coverer.
He must discover these facts:
1. Success never comes by
parcel post. It is the blossom on
the slow-growing plant which
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
Hammerstein finds a Caruso
laying bricks. “Gold” ones?
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“I should worry about a nation
al crisis and get a wrinkle in my
lecture roll.”
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Lawyer whose wife has been
awarded alimony should have had
her for his client.
Poverty is often the
wheel of virtue.
balance
Members who took a trip under
the sea were looking for a naval
training station, not a site for a
public building.
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Wouldn’t take the chance of
sending that $5,000,000 American
Express Company melon by
freight.
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Pennsylvania abolishes State
conventions. Bread line for poli
ticians will form on the left.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
starts as a seed and is watched,
watered and nursed for about
half a century.
2. To stand up to the swiftness
of the business game demands a
clear mind, a clean body, an ac
tive imagination, the capacity for
silent observation and a spirit of
good nature that takes a blow’ the
way a punching bag does.
3. At ten dollars a week these
five qualities are being financed
at two dollars each. The rate is
low. But this standard of value
is not fixed. It can be run up to
any figure ope likes.
4. There are no idiles of suc
cess that apply equallv in all
cases. But no man ever lived
»who could get along, who could
succeed in his own way, without
the Great Five w T e have named.
5. But there are absolutely def
inite rules for failure. And the
basis of them is an unclean
mind, a body thrown out of tune
by dissipation, affection bestow’ed
upon a couple of bad habits, the
inclination to tell shady stories
and a tendency of dodging the
truth.
These and their kind will put a
young man on the scrap heap and
keep him there.
And a scrap heap is a most un
comfortable substitue flor a
mattress.
T HE mystery of mysteries in
science is the attraction of
gravitation—that very force
of nature that is the most fa
miliar to us all!
It seems strange that the most
familiar thing in the world should
be, at the same time, the most in
explicable—but so it is.
In order to see clearly wherein
the mystery consists, let us first
consider what gravitation appears
to be. It is gravitation that gives
the property of weight to all
bodies. If there were no gravita
tion, we could float like thistle
downs, and infinitely better than
thistledowns: for they, too, are
finally brought down by gravita
tion.
It is gravitation that brings a
cannon bail eventually to the
earth, no matter how swiftly it
may be projected. The faster it
starts the farther it will go, but
during every second of its flight it
drops the same distance vertical
ly toward the earth, whether the
speed Imparted to it by the pow
der is 500 or 3,000 feet per second.
Gravitation acts on a moving
body exactly as well as on one
at rest.
It is gravitation that curbs the
motion of the moon and keeps it
in an orbit of which the earth is
the active focus.
Governs Earth’s Motion.
So, too, it is gravitation that
governs the earth in Its motion
around the sun, preventing it from
flying away into boundless space.
Astronomy show’s that gravita
tion acts between all the planets
and all the stars and controls
their motions with respect to one
another.
Now, this mysterious force ap
pears to be an attraction, as if
theTe were elastic cords connect
ing all the bodies in space and
tending to draw them together.
But space, as far as our senses
can detect, is empty. There are
no elastic cords and no physical
connections whatever between as
tronomical bodies, or between a
flying stone, or cannon ball, and
the earth. How, then, can there
be an attraction? In order that
a body may be attracted or
drawn, there must be something
to draw it. Gravitation does the
trick, but completely hides from
us the mechanism through which
it acts. We can discover no
mechanism at all.
When an unfortunate aeroplan-
ist drops from his machine at a
height of a thousand feet, he be
gins at once to fall toward the
earth as if it were pulling him;
but how can it pull if it has noth
ing to pull with? You may think
at first sight that it Is the air
which acts as an intermediary;
but that is not so, because the
earth and the moon “pull” upon
A Basket of Figs
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
I T was 266 years ago, in the city
of Naples, that a basket of
figs created a revolution
which resulted in the death of
500 men, many of them members
of the ancient nobility; the burn
ing of scores of villas and palaces,
and the elevation 'to power of a
peasant whose entire possessions
would not have brought the price
of a decent suit of clothes.
The owner of the basket of figs
was asked to pay the royal tax
upon the fruit; he refused to do
so, and emptied his basket upon
the street. Close, by stood Masa-
niello, the fisherman, young,
handsome, brave and “chock full”
of the old eternal sense of jus
tice and right. Poor and humble
as he was. Masaniello possessed a
commanding personality, the “gift
imperial” of magnetizing men,
and outraged by the injustice he
had witnessed he sounded the call
of arms.
Arming themselves, the popu
lace, with Masaniello at their
head, drove out the Spanish Vice
roy. liberated the prisoners of the
customs, burnt the houses of the
King's creatures, destroyed the
offices of the tax collectors, and
made short work of ridding the
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Mysteries ot
Science and
Nature
Force of Gravitation
Controls Cannon
Balls, Baseballs,
Moons, Planets, Suns
and Stars Without
Visible Means of
1| .0**’' s
v>onneciion.
one another with a force equal to
the strength of a steel cable five
hundred miles in diameter; but
there is no air, and no other tan
gible thing in the open space,
240,000 miles across, that gaps
between the moon and the earth*
Then gravitation exerts the
.«ame force at every instant No
matter how fast the falling aero
naut may be descending at any
moment, gravitation will keep on
adding speed as if he had just
started. Disregarding the slight
retardation produced by the re
sistance of the air, he will fall
16 feet in the first second, 48 feet
in the second second, 80 feet in
the third second, gaining 32 feet
In his velocity during every sec
ond after the first.
Falls 10.000 Feet in 25 Seconds.
From a height of 1,000 feet h©
will come down in about eight
seconds, and will strike the
ground with a velocity of about
256 feet per second. From a
height of 10,000 feet he would
fall in about 25 seconds, and
w’ould strike with a velocity of
400 feet per second.
The same kind of calculation
can be applied to the gravitation
between the earth and the moon.
If the £*oon were not in motion
across the direction of the earth’s
“pull” it would fall to the earth
in about 116 hours.
Now, to return to the mystery,
'how is this force exerted? Is it
really a pull as it seems to be?
The answer to which science is
tending is that instead of being a
pull, gravitation is a push; in
other words, that the falling aero
naut is pushed toward the ground
and the moon is pushed toward
the earth.
On the face of it one might
think that nothing was gained by
this theory, because it ssems as
impossible that a push should be
exerted without a tangible con
nection as a pull. But the clew is
found in the supposed properties
of that invisible, intangible, all-
pervading medium called the
ether.
Waves of Ether.
This, to be sure, is explaining
one mystery by another, for we
know nothing- about the ether
except that it conveys the waves
of light and electricity, but, at
any rate, it affords a conceivable
explanation of gravitation. I
have no space to go into this ex
planation, which has recently-
been developed by Dr. Charles F.
Brush, but an idea of its natuTe
may be formed from the state
ment that it regards the ether as
being filled with a peculiar form
of waves, and that material
bodies may intercept these waves
in such a way as to be pushed
toward one another on account of
the diminished effect of the ether
waves in the space between the
bodies.
city of the tyrannical nobility and
their henchmen.
In a trice Masaniello was mas
ter of Naples. The Viceroy was
forced to remove the hated taxes,
and in his rude shanty home the
barefooted fisherman, in rude,
democratic fashion, but with an
eye single to justice and human
ity, disposed of the petitions and
complaints that were handed to
him.
But Nature is inexorable, and
in establishing her balances she
is worse than a thousand Shy-
locks. For an entire week the
entire care of a city of hundreds
of thousands of inhabitants had
fallen upon Masaniello. He was
general. Judge, legislator, and’ for
the whole time he had hardly
slept or eaten. The combined
physical and mental strain was
more than he could bear, and the
fisherman’s brain began to reeL
He became a maniac and did ail
sorts of violent things; and in
stead of loving him and caring
for him until he regained his san
ity, the fools killed and buried
him like a dog. But despite this
the name of Masaniello will live
forever in the memory of the lov-.
ers of liberty and justice.