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EDITORIAL. RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME PARER THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Exrept Hunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama 8t., Atlanta. Oa. Entered as second-clasu matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of Marc.i 3,ifc • Bubscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mail, IMO a year Payable in Advance. How Many Dignified United States Sena* tors Are Getting or Hope to Get Money from the Express Companies? We Shall Know Exactly When We See How Many Senators Fight Improvements in the Parcel Post. (Copyright) I Betterments suggested and predicted in this and other newspapers have already “arrived” in the parcel post system. Mr. Burleson, the present Postmaster General, deserves credit and praise for his efforts to make the parcel post a use ful servant of the people, instead of leaving it like a pigeon with its wings clipped—clipped to oblige the express companies. The silly special stamps that were first necessary have been abolished. The Government has arranged to send parcel post C. 0. D.— a great convenience for merchants and the public. The sending of larger packages, raising the limit from eleven to twenty pounds, will be of great benefit to business men—especially to the small merchants throughout the country who require and ought to have for the benefit of their customers a complete postal delivery service. Thanks to Burleson, the stupidities of the zone system are being corrected with reasonable speed. Before long it is safe to hope that the zones will be abol ished, that the postoffice will be the real delivery service of all the people, facilitating transactions and exchanges of all kinds, bringing in many millions of revenue of profit to the Govern ment, saving still many more millions to the people, and abol ishing the dishonest, extortionate, monopolistic and stupid reign and control of the express companies. Do you need to be told that these improvements in the pos tal service are opposed violently and as usual BY MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS, ESPECIALLY BY “DIGNIFIED” SENATORS? One thing is quite certain, you won’t need to be told when United States Senators of the Lorimer type are taking or have taken the cash of the express companies. You will have a fairly complete list of those gentlemen, when you find which of the “honorable Senators” are most ardent in opposing parcel post improvement, and most vicious in their attacks on Postmaster General Burleson. Is Your Child Afraid at Night? Treat the Child Kindly, Indulgently. Such a Child Needs Sympa thy. Harsh Treatment and Scolding Are Very Harmful. (Copyright, 1913.) Many little boys and girls are frightened at night. They are in terror if compelled to sleep alone in a dark room. They awake, frightened by bad dreams, shaking with fear, tor- mented with all kinds of apprehension. Such children are to be pitied, and they are to-be pitied especially when they happen to be “blessed” with parents that In the Movies In Real Life do not understand the treatment of such children. There are many so-called '(old-fashioned" fathers and moth ers, which usually means IGNORANT fathers and mothers, who believe that nervous, frightened children should be disciplined and made to get over their fears. Such old-fashioned, ignorant parents send the child to bed alone, preferably up a dark stairway. They put out the light and shut the door when the child is in bed. AND THE UNFORTUNATE, UNFIT PARENTS DO NOT REALIZE THAT THEY ARE DOING THEIR VERY BEST TO DESTROY THE CHILD S CHANCE OF SUCCESS AND NOR MAL GROWTH. The Good and Evil of Modern Inventions Where They Endanger the Peace and Safety of One They Brighten and Better a Hundred—It Is Foolish to Rail at Them. By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX (Copyrighted, 1913, by the Star Co.) Fathers and mothers should remember that the one impor tant thing the child possesses is brain. And they should remem ber that the one valuable thing in the brain IS IMAGINATION. The child that is frightened, afraid of the dark, afraid of its own strange dreams, is the child with ai» active mind and an ac tive imagination. AND THAT IS THE CHILD THAT IS APT TO AMOUNT TO SOMETHING LATER ON, IF THE PARENTS WILL GIVE IT A CHANCE. Remember that the mind, in its nervousness, feeds upon | the body. If you compel your child night after night to undergo the torture of fear you are destroying the child’s health, its nerves, taking away its chance of strong growth and future useful work. T WO brifrht and gifted women have spent much valuable thought, time and words In condemnation of the telephone and the automobile. Both women assert that these model i inventions have done much to lower the standard of manners and morals In the last decade. Youn* girls particularly have been led to do foolish and undig nified things by the use of the telephone and by the convenience of the motor car. The Evils These Women A child such as we have described, imaginative, timid, should be constantly surrounded with sympathy and the deep est affection. In extreme cases, such a child should be allowed to go to sleep within hearing of the voice of an older person.. If it is a young child, it is simple enough to allow it to sleep in an ad joining room while you read or talk. It can be moved to its own bed still sleeping when the time comes. Or the father and mother fit to have a child, fit for the responsibility for developing a human being, will take the trouble to spend the hours of the evening near enough to the child’s bedroom so that an occasional kind, encouraging word may dispel fear. If the child is happier with a light, LET THE LIGHT BURN after the child goes to bed, placing the light in such a way that the child will know it is there, without having any glare in the eyes. Or a very small night lamp, a mere tumbler of water with a few cents' worth of oil on the water and a floating wick, will answer the purpose. Remember that a child's fears, nervousness and strange dreams are THE EXPRESSION OF THAT CHILD S INTEL LECTUAL FORCE. If you were the father of a little gorilla, it would go to sleep at once, not dream, not imagine anything. BUT YOU WOULDN'T BE VERY PROUD TO HAVE A YOUNG GORIL LA OR CHIMPANZEE FOR YOUR CHILD. If you are the father of a highly strung, nervous, imagina tive child, be glad that you have such a child, and do all that you can with sympathy, love and kindness to make the child's early years happy and free from n^vous strain. See In “Auto” and “Phone.” Invitations are given over the telephone to meet friends* who own a motor car, and the lack of ceremony and lack of time for reflection lead quite frequently to lack of discretion. The bodiless voice and the horseless vehicle seem (so these good ladies think) like secret emissaries of Evil, moving through the earth to work mischief for the unwary. Besides this, the motor car has led women to be careless in dress and careless in deportment. It has led to noise and hurry and confusion and extravagance and roadhouse indiscretions. And to a disregard for the nice pro prieties and courtesies of life. People drive now to epeed from somewhere to nowhere and back again, without having enjoyed the scenery or the fresh air—just to make a speed record. And much more, these good ladles say In condemnation of the motor car and of the telephone, which in terrupts all efforts at quiet con versation, and which has quite done away with the art of letter writing or the habit of sending pretty notes of uiviuuioa er greetlng. and which very often makes an excuse easy where so cial obligations have been neg lected. However true all these accusa- tions are against the telephone and automobile, there is no waste of energy more foolish and none which brings less reward than railing at new inventions. Precisely so was the railroad assailed when It first appeared as a means of locomotion. Its noise, its expense, its dangers, its vulgarity, were set forth be side the time-honored stage coach; where people could be comfortable and safe and digni fied; but the assailants achieved nothing, and the stage coach de parted and the railroad remained. And. despite its objectionable features, the railroad opened up new worlds to commerce, industry and art. It brought education in to remote places and gave a larg er aspect to life for millions of mentally and physically starving human beings. The bicycle was the first vehicle after the railroad which brought forth the condemnation of the type of mind which produces the Protestor. The Bicycle a Wonderful Factor in Woman’s Development. It» lack of dignity, its boldness and its danger were all dwelt upon a* features which made It a particularly Improper convey ance for woman's use. Yet the bicycle has been a wonderful fac tor In producing our present type of athletic outdoor woman. Before it came Into use. the delicate woman with a thousand feminine ailments was prevalent everywhere — In the country places. Now sl^ is rarely around. because for two generations woman has been able to go be yond her dooryard without wait ing for the men folks to “hitch up” a tired horse and drive her to make a call or do an errand. The bicycle made It possible for woman to occupy a better-paying position than that of household drudge, because she could go to and from her more agreeable la bor Independently and swiftly. The automobile is doing more to help the cause of the suffering horse than all the S. P. C. A. and humane associations combined. It la teaching geography more practically than all the schoola of the land; and It Is one of the most efficient aids in detective work, and in first help to the wounded, the sick, the needy and the overworked. Where It endangers the peace and safety of one Individual, it brightens and betters a hundred. Where It brings Into one home temptation and Indiscretion, It helps a hundred people to do good deeds and to carry comfort and joy Into other homes. Where 1t destroys one life. It restores health to human beings whose lung cells have been starved for fresh air. Where one person uses a motor car for evil purposes, fifty use It for doing good deeds, for speed ing through familiar scenes In or der to enlarge the vision by the sight of the unfamiliar, and for giving pleasure to relays of other human beings who have not the money or time to travel by train, or the strength and leisure to travel by foot. Besides which, the automobile Is bringing human beings in hail ing distance and doing away with the sense of separateness, which means a foe to real altruism. All the world needs Cor its re generation Is a clear knowledge and understanding between the various classes and denizens of earth. The motor car Is a great Intro duction and Interpreter. People who waste their time and energy In fighting against, or even In decrying, such an Inven tion as the railroad, the tele phone or the motor, are working against their own best growth and progress. It Is wiser to learn to under stand the great psychic meaning underlying all these modern In ventions, and we must get Into touch with their vibrations, and feel their rhythm In our own minds and bodies, and to use them as they are meant to be used— sanely and helpfully. Great Mental Realm Will Not Be Closed to All But Few. All these marvellous things are being Invented that man may rise out of drudgery and avail him self of the still more wonderful opportunities which are coming to the race. The vacuum cleaners are emancipating the dust-smothered slaves of the broom. The world's work will eventually- all be done by machinery, and three hours’ time will be quite sufficient for each individual to give In direct ing this machinery-. Then the great mental realms, the realms of art and literature and research, will not be closed to all save the favored few. All hail to the age of invention! And let us devoutly thank God that we are privileged to live in this most remarkable and glorious era of the world's history. The best thing about the Past Is that it has gone, to give us the bet ter Present, and to make ready Cor tha Mill better Future, ' A Mysteries of Science and Nature Microbes, Whep Trained, Are Capable of Aiding Efficiently Man’s War Against Disease, Such as the Infections That Arc Spread by Flies, Aid Industry Also. By GARRETT P. SERVISS T HE name “microbe’* Is on© that generally Inspires ter- Tor because of all the won derful discoveries that have been made concerning the fearful death-dealing powers that many microbes possess. But, In a most interesting ar ticle in Heant’s Magaslne for July, Sir William Ram9ay ha© just pointed out how microbes may be, and are, engaged as al lies of man, either by changing their malignant nature, or by net ting them to war upon other minute foes with which we can not ourselves directly fight. In some cases the services which microbes are able to render in the battle against disease might be compared to that of fleets of small armed boats sent out from a squadron of battleships to en ter the shallow and hidden creeks and coves on an enemy’s coast, and attack the foe In positions unapproachable to the heavy ves sels. Our trained microbe allies may race through our blood, and pene trate the most secret regions of our bodies, either destroying the enemies already lurking there, or laying waste the territory against their advance by depriving It of the means of subsistence upon which the Invaders must depend. Microbes Are Scouts. And all this may be done with out harm to the tissues or tha functions- of the body. Such beneficent microbes are like scouts and guerrillas, and w-here they have skirmished the enemy Is found to be so disorgan ized and broken up that It can be swept out of existence. A dramatic example of the way In which the discovery was made that microbes can, as Professor Ramsay says, be “harnessed” for useful work, Is afforded by Pas teur’s experience with "chicken cholera." He had been inoculating healthy chickens with microbes taken from' fowls Infected with the disease, In order to study Its method of development. The va cation period came along, and Pasteur went away, leaving some of the cultures of microbes In his laboratory. When he returned he resumed his experiments with the microbes that had been left over, and which seemed, as far as ap pearances went, to be as virulent as ever. But to his astonishment, when he Inoculated them Into healthy chickens, the latter went about their gallinaceous (henlike) af fairs with their usual zest and good appetite, and did not develop disease? of any kind. Here was an opportunity for genius, and Pasteur was a genius. Instantly he set to work to find out the ’ reason for the Immunity of the chickens from so deadly an enemy. First he Inoculated them over again with microbes taken fresh from fowls that had the cholera. But the chickens remained as , lively and healthy as ever. Then < he found out that if the microbes were exposed for a long time to the air, at a certain temperature, they lost their virulence, they could no longer communicate disease, but they could, like scav engers, remove from the blood of the chickens into which they were introduced the elements up on which the disease-breeding microbes subsisted. Pasteur’s Discovery. Thus Pasteur, led by a happy accident, had learned how to “har ness” the microbes of chicken cholera and make them work for health and life Instead of for dis ease and death. They became his guerrillas, with which he waged successful war upon an enemy of tha domestic fowl that had hith erto defied attack. After that it was found that many other microbes, some of them deadly enemies to human life, like the terrible germ of spinal meningitis, could be sub- ' dued and trained In a similar way, and thus the great science of Inoculation against disease had Its birth. Professor Ramsay shows that microbes can be employed not only In combating disease, but In aiding man In a hundred other ways. For Instance, the prepara- ' tlon of tea, the curing of tobacco and the manufacture of butter and cheese are all processes con ducted through the Intervention of our microbe friends, which are falling more and more under our control and guidance. Science is teaching them new duties. Public Should Approve. “New bacteria,” says Professor Ramsay (bacteria are microbes), “are being discovered, or old bac teria are being given unaccus tomed food, from which they evolve useful products. The con version of starch, a cheap com modity In the form of maize or potatoes. Into two chemical sqb- stances, named acetone and butyl alcohol, is likely to have far- reaching results, for the latter can easily b* transformed Into In dia rubber, and the former is largely used In the manufacture of certain kinds of high explo sives.” Mistaken people who would ii» • terfere with such work on purely sentimental grounds are capable of doing much harm to the best( Interests of humanity. ® ® Julius Caesar ® ® As the Movies Woatd Have Given II ; By JAMES J. MONTAGUE. S CENE ONE—A crowd of scowling thugs, In flowing bathrobes clad, Whose gestures seem to Indicate that some one la In bad. They crowd around a hlgh-browed gent, and whisper In his ear; He waves a deprecating hand, as If In doubt or fear. A tall, gaunt person enters now and winks a leering eye, And next appear these fateful words: "WE GOT TO GET THAT GUY!’ S CENE TWO—A statue In a street—a large, Imposing man, Surrounded by the gang we saw when first the show began. And as they move along they shield their faces with their hats, And each deposits as he leaves a dagger In his slats. The large man starts; among the gang a friend he’s recognized. And this appears upon the screen: -!2l. “WHY, BRUTUS; I'M SURPRISED!” S CENE THREE—A man with waving arms is talking to a crowd; At first he doesn’t seem to stir them much, although his voice looks loud. But by and by they pay more heed and make quick movements, showing That something he has said to them has really got them going. Some now grab brickbats and run off, a dozen at a time. And on the screen these words appear: “ANOTHER BLACK-HAND CRIME.” S CENE EAST—A tent, two generals Indulge In Jeer and scoff, But presently by shaking hands they seem to call it off. And now a page comes rushing in, ami by his uttitude You know the plotters' army lias been walloped and pursued. The generals calmly kill themselves; the reels no longer hum, And this appears upon the screen: CHEW GALIEO’S GUM! !