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Highest Government Officials
Protecting the Vilest Form of Crime
President Wilson and Mr. Bryan May Permit I his BL i
THEY CAN'T EXCUSE IT.
(Copyright, 1911 )
This is "The Caminetti Story”:
A man in California was accused of a serious crime against a
young woman. There was no apparent hope of his escaping if
properly and promptly tried. H:s chief hope was in delay, sub
terfuge and waning public interest, and, above all, DISHONEST
OR INDIFFERENT PROSECUTION.
The man accused and guilty, Caminetti, happened to have a
father who held public office under the Federal Government.
And this father was a friend of the Attorney General, Me
Reynolds, appointed by Mr. Wilson TO ENFORCE THE LAWS
THAT CAMINETTI WAS SEEKING TO EVADE, AND TO
PUNISH THE CRIME OF WHICH CAMINETTI WAS AC
CUSED.
There was delay in the Caminetti matter, and McNab, repre
senting the Government as a prosecutor in California, resented
the delay and denounced it.
He showed that the Attorney General, McReynolds, sworn to
enforce the law and punish violators of law, bad, at the request
of the criminal’s father, ACTUALLY DIRECTED THAT THE
PROSECUTION BE PUT OFF. That is to say, that every oppor
tunity be given to the criminal to escape the consequences of his
crime.
This is a most shameful act on the part of McReynolds. It
makes his dismissal from office a duty.
If a man, to oblige a friend whose son is accused of a serious
crime, interferes with justice, what will that man do when bigger
and other crimes are committed, not by individuals against indi
viduals, but by corporations against the entire people?
If McReynolds, to oblige the father of Caminetti, interferes
with justice, what will he do to oblige the father of some trust
when the time comes?
Is such a man fit for office?
The amazing thing is that Mr. Wilson, instead of praising
and thanking McNab, an honest official, who denounced the in
famous delay and favoritism, actually rebuked that man and ac
cepted his resignation from office.
And now, as Senator Ashurst earnestly and justly points out,
comes the culminating outrage—THE APPOINTMENT OF
HAYDEN, A FRIEND OF CAMINETTI S TO ACT AS PROSE
CUTOR IN THE PLACE OF M NAB, THE CONSCIENTIOUS
OFFICIAL.
Senator Ashurst is to be thanked for his timely and vigorous
protest against a shameful miscarriage of justice.
In the first place, we have Caminetti, who should long since
have been tried, gaining delay, at the request of his father, who
is a friend of McReynolds.
And now, when McNab, an honest man, is removed from the
case, we have another friend of Caminetti, Hayden, put in as
prosecutor.
No collection of fine words or platitudes from McReynolds,
President Wilson or anybody else will explain away an action
such as this.
It is not a matter of politics, as Senator Ashurst proves. He
is a Democrat, but he knows that there is nothing to be gained
for any party by leaving such an outrageous state of affairs un
touched. As well talk of helping a living body by leaving a
cancer free from molestation in that body as to talk of helping a
political party by leaving unrebuked such a shameful Govern
ment crime in the Caminetti case.
It is bad enough when “friends in the Government” are used
by men of the Archbold type, with the aid of their checkbooks, to
permit extortion and robbery of the public.
It is inconceivable and infamous that Government pull, the
friendship of a papa Caminetti for an Attorney General McRey
nolds, should be used to delay and perhaps frustrate the prose
cution of a man accused of an infamous crime against a young
woman.
Such conduct by McReynolds and Caminetti, condoned ap
parently by President Wilson, does not fit in very well with the
protestations that preceded the recent election.
Letters From The Georgian's Readers
LABOR INDORSES EDITORIAL.
Editor The Georgian: The ac
companying resolutions regard
ing a recent editorial appearing
In your paper were unanimously
adopted at the last session of the
Atlanta Federation of Trades, and
I was Instructed to forward this
copy to you. With best wishes.
1 am, respectfully,
J. F. BRADFIELD,
Secretary' Atlanta Federation of
Trades.
"Whereas there appeared on
the editorial page of The Atlanta
Georgian of July 22, 1913, an edi
torial making suggestions upon
how to get the American who
saves and the American who bor-
lows closer together, without be
ing robbed by the middleman with
his interest, and
"Whereas this editorial voices
sentiments and ideas long advo
cated and felt by the laboring
people of the United States, be it
"Resolved. That the Atlanta
Federation of Trades do go on
record as indorsing said edi
torial and what it advocates,
congratulates The Atlanta Geor
gian upon this masterful edlto-
i Lai, and be it further
"Resolved, That it is the hope
of this organization that the
people will Foon find (as per the
editorial) a leader big enough and
able enough to hand the savings
of the frugal workman in the
shape of a loan to the equally
frugal and valuable farmer and
take from both of them only
.enough to pay for the transac
tion
BIBLE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Editor The Georgian: Our
thoughtful statesman introduces
a bill to require or allow
the Bible to be read in the pub
lic schools. Some have sug
gested that there are six differ
ent “Bibles,” or six different ver
sions of the Bible, and th e law
would have to specify the one t >
be read in the schools. This be
ing the case we might expect dif
ferences of opinion. 1 for one
think best of King James' ver
sion. "The State legislating right
eousness into the child." "The
parent giving ovtr his duty of
teaching his children the Scrip
tures” and other such expres
sions w P see given as reasons
against enacting such a law. We
naturally expected opposition to
such a law, but not from ortho
dox ministers of any church, and
I am very much inclined to be
lieve that their opposition to
such a law will greatly weaken
their claim before their church
and the world of mankind that
the Bible is the Book of Books
and its teachings of the greatest
moment. It is no use to say to
the world, the church and to your
children that the Bihle is the
greatest book, its teachings the
most important of all. that it
should be first in importance to
all other books and then say it
should not be read to the chil
dren in the schools. That is sim
ply contradicting yourself. This
very spirit of dissension and dis
agreement among Christian min
isters and laymen is the greatest
hindrance to the success of Chris
tianity.
J. T. DAVENPORT.
HeleV i Ga.
Courtesy a Virtue All Should Cultivate
It Is a Valuable Asset, No Matter What Position One Occupies in
Life, and It Is One of the Greatest Factors in Success
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
Copyright, 1913, by Star Company.
A YOUNG man employed in
one of the many places
which contribute to the
welfare of the public, in the
great new railroad station at For
ty-second street and Park ave
nue, New York, was asked by a
patron of his department whether
the trains to New Haven went
from the upper or lower level.
He answered brusquely that he
did not know; that she could find
out by going to the inquiry bu
reau on the floor above.
His department was separate
from that, he said.
The patron turned and found
an official within a few feet of
the young man. who indicated
the way.
"If I answered all the questions
usked me in a day,” the young
man said, “I would have no time
to attend to my own business.”
But the man had taken more
time and breath and energy in
being disagreeable than he would
have required in obtaining in
formation about all the trains in
the Grand Central Station.
There are two levels in that
station, the upper and the lower.
A Correct Reply.
The New Haven and Hartford
trains and those passing on to
Boston are an important line, and
almost any youth of ordinary in
tellect, or less than ordinary,
would naturally learn in a few
days' time from which level they
started, esyecially if his business
was in sight of these trains.
Not to possess such information
in his position betokened a lack
of observation and interest in oc
currences continually taking place
about him that bespeaks failure
for the young man in anything
he undertakes; and if he Knew
and refused the information be
cause he did not like to be ques
tioned on subjects not pertaining
to his business, then hU disposi
tion is one to attract failure, not
success.
It took many words for him to
tell the lady that he did not know
and that it was not his business
to know what she wished to know.
It would have required just two
words to answer her question, had
he known, "upper level” or “low
er level,” and, with a smile added,
the lady would have gone her
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
way, thinking what a pleasant
youth he was. instead of think
ing what she did think about him.
In ten years’ time this youth
will be a man in his full prime—
somewhere in his thirties—and
he will be wondering why he has
not got on in the world; and he
w ill say he has had no “influence,”
no "pull,” and that others have
been advanced over him through
“favoritism.” and he will make a
hundred excuses for his failure to
arrive, when the real fault will lie
entirely with himself.-
He Had No Excuse.
The work this youth was doing
required no great concentration.
He was not absorbed in some dif
ficult mathematical problem, and
he had many moments when he
was doing nothing at all save w ait-
ing for people to serve. There
fore he had no excuse for not us-
ina hi* axes and ear* to learn a
small yet Important fact about the
big station; and he had no ex
cuse for not Imparting the infor
mation asked save a lack of de
velopment of kindnes and cour
tesy.
Courtesy a Great Factor.
No matter what may be one’s
position in life, from the most
menial to the most lofty place,
kindness and courtesy are most
valuable assets for human beings
to possess. They are great factors
in success.
Observation is another factor;
and the habit of using odd, unoc
cupied moments in learning some
thing that will be of value to one’s
self or others later—that, too, is a
habit which leads to the road of
success.
It Is a better habit than that
of watching the clock for fear of
working five minutes overtime.
And still another habit is of vast
value on that road—the habit of
smiling and speaking in an agree
able tone of voice in the small
daily occurrences of life.
Each one of us is subject to an
noyance by having people ask
questions which it is not our prov
ince to answer; but when we fail
to give the information desired we
can give something better oft-
times by the bestowal of a pleas
ant look and manner.
The Song of Joy and Pain
By LILIAN LAUFERTY.
O H, I tasted of pleasure—and liked It,
For the flavor was sweet to my lip.
“Life Is joy,” then X cried, "and my sea’s at full tide:
Life's a garden—each flower I’ll sip.”
But a sting lurked in every bright flower,
And the waves of Joy’s sea broke In foam.
While the lure of gay Pleasure’s fleet hour
Rore me wandering—far from my home.
Then I tasted of sorrow—’twas bitter.
And the talons of pain tore my heart.
“Life is torture,” I cried. “Must I linger and bide
All my losses in Cruelty’s mart?”
But a message was hid In the tangle
Of these noisome and bitter dark weeds;
From the sound of harsh bells all a-jangle
Pealed a chime for the doer of deeds.
“There’s pleasure to taste, and there's sorrow—-
Take from one, from the other you borrow:
Sim to-day may mean storm-clouds to-morrow;
All your life you must mark the measure
Of sorrow attuned unto pleasure—
The heart that is wise still will treasure
Its joys the more dear, for its sorrow,
Its pain as a wonderful measure
When joy brighter radiance shall borrow.”
Mysteries of
Science and
Nature
The Mysterious Properties
of Steel, Tin and Glass.
If Cooled Slowly Steel
Will Not Take a Cutting
Edge; Cooled Suddenly
It Becomes Hard and
Tempered—Tin Will
Crumble in Severely
Cold Weather.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
H ERE is a fact, known to
everybody, which is as
mysterious as would be
the actual appearance of a ghost,
by which I mean that the funda
mental explanation of the phe
nomenon is about as far beyond
our reach in the one case a.s in
the other.
The fact to which I refer is the
production of tempered steel by
quenching in cold water. If hot
steel is cooled very slowly it be
comes soft and can not take a
cutting edge, but if it is cooled
suddenly it becomes very hard
and can he ground into keen
swords, knives and cutting tools.
Now why the difference? Have
you ever thought about that
question? If you have not,
many a man of science has, and
has been greatly puzzled over it.
Here is another related mys
tery. If you heat an old Japan
ese sword, which for centuries
has retained its capacity to slice
off a head at a blow, or to open
a swift passage for the soul of the
victim of the hari-kari mania, to
the temperature of boiling water
it gradually softens and loses the
keenness that once made it so
formidable.
It Is the Same Steel.
It is the same steel, but it, too,
seems to have lost its soul. At
a temperature of 150 degrees
Centigrade the hardened steel
commits hari-kari in a few min
utes. Surely there is something
strange in that.
Then consider this: At zero
temperature water changes from
a liquid and suddenly becomes
solid. But if you put the water
in a vase and carefully protect It
from dust, you may cool it as
much as twenty degrees below
zero, and yet It will not freeze!
But now shake the vase or drop
in a bit of ice, and the water im
mediately solidifies!
I owe the collection of these
facts to a paper by Professor
James H. Walton, Jr., of Wis
consin University. The explana
tion which he gives is that sub
stances like the hardened steel
and the unfreezing water are in
a state of “suspended change.”
That accounts for the phenom
ena, but, in a certain sense, they
remain mysterious, just as life is
mysterious.
Many substances possess the
same curious characteristics. Pro
fessor Walton says that if a flafck
containing sodium acetate, which
has been cooled below T its nat
ural freezing point without solid
ifying, is opened in a room con
taining dust of the solid acetate,
the fine particles of the latter
dropping into the flask will cause
the whole contents to solidify.
Tin is a very strange metal
with regard to this state of sus
pended change or "metastabill-
ty.” A severe winter cold will
sometimes cause it to lose its
hardness and crumble.
Suffer From ‘‘Tin Discore.”
Objects made of tin often un
dergo such change and are then
said to be suffering from “the tin
disease.” The contact of “dis
eased” tin with bright, hard tin is
capable of setting up the trans
formation.
Glass*, Professor Walton in
forms us, is “an under-cooled
substance”—that is, it is in a me
tastable condition. If old glass
tubes through which water has
frequently passed are heated, the
glass crystallizes and loses its
transparency.
Ail substances in this state are
liable to change, and the change,
under proper conditions, may be
sudden. Hardened steel is in a
similar category. If it were as
perishable as tin, it could not be
safely used for many purposes for
which it is habitually employed.
Fortunately, steel exhibits great
resistance to change of state aft
er it has been tempered. Trans
formation is retarded or arrested.
“Does steel slowly return to the
stable form and thus grow soft
er?” asks Professor Walton, and
then answers: “That we do not
know; we can only say that if
such a change does take place,
hundreds of years are necessary
to bring it about.”
Heated Japanese Swords.
The same ancient Japanese
swords, which, when heated, as
before described, become soft, re
tain all their hardness if carefully
preserved.
It is evidently of the highest
importance to the practical world
that science is investigating these
things} and discovering the way
and tne circumstances in which
the changes come about, even if
it has not unveiled the underlying
mystery of their cause.
Peter the Great’s Widow
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
T WO hundred and ten years
ago Peter the Great began
building the city of St. Pe
tersburg, a piece of work that
perhaps stands second to none as
an illustration of w r hat can ba
afccompllshed by indomitable Will
Power.
The building of a city upon the
miry delta of the Neva involved
the overcoming of tremendous
natural difficulties. Peter's engi
neers said it could not be done,
but Peter said it could, and with
characteristic grit the Czar went
to work building his city, which,
he said, should be the “Window
from which he could look out
upon Europe."
Thousands of peasants were
•ordered to the field of operations,
and great piles were driven down
into the marsh for a foundation.
Masons were scarce, but Peter
met the difficulty by an order for
bidding the erection of stone
buildings throughout the Empire.
The imperial strong box ran low.
but the indefatigable man taxed
everything he could think of for
the raising of the requisite funds.
The men died like sheep at the
shambles, but with a determina
tion remorseless as fate the Cza-
kept at the task. Dividing the
supervision of the work between
himself and his lieutenants, he
toiled away with the energy of a
demon, and by 1712 sufficient ad
vance had been made to permit
of the transfer of the Court from
Moscow.
But an imperial capital and a
royal court required a considera
ble amount of polish in its setting,
and so Peter Issued a decree that
all Russian proprietors who
owned five hundred serfs or
over should build residences in
the new capital and spend at least
the winters there. By 1800 the
population was 220,000; by 1864.
600,000; by 1900, 1,200,000; and to
day it is 2,000,000—a wonderful
monument to the will power and
dogged resolution of one man—a
man who never in hie life took
“no” for an answer. A. giant in
stature and In intellect, the
founder of St. Petersburg and of
modem Russia must always rank
among the very greatest of the
sons of men, a miracle of will
power, one of the most amazing
instances we have of the energy
that does things.
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
Better be careful when we take
Columbus’ bones through the Pan
ama Canal. He might wake up
and lay ciaim to it.
* * *
One way to judge the effective
ness of a Sunday sermon is to
count the coins in the contribu
tion box.
* * •
By arresting a fair wearer,
Richmond, Va.. police take a few
stitches in the slit skirt.
* * *
Just as soon as the Mexicans
are through fighting we’ll see that
orriaj? ia caatnrari.
It is never necessary to borrow
trouble. You can get plenty of it
for keeps any time.
* * *
If opportunity would kick in
stead of knocking, a lot merre of
us would improve its visits.
• • *
When truth and falsehood en
ter a race, the lie appears to
travel on a thousand legs.
* * *
Man may build a windmill; but
the Lord must raise the breezes.
• • *
It is easier to lay out a aoheme