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EDITORIAL PAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME PAPER
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday
By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY
At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta, Oa
Entered as second-cl a ns matter at postofflce at Atlanta, under act of March
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Mr. Bryan Says He Can Not
Live on $12,000 a Year.
What Did He Do When He Had Less Than $t,200 a Year?
He Didn’t DIE.
(Copyright, 1913 )
If Mr. Eryan, while holding public office, chooses to make
speeches, that is his business.
Whether or not he should make speeches for pay is possibly
the people's business.
If Mr. Bryan out of his own pocket were paying a man
$12,000 a year to look after an important department of his busi
ness, and if that man went off lecturing for six weeks, we think
that Mr. Bryan would talk in this way:
"I pay you $12,000 a year to look after my business. WHY
DON'T YOU LOOK AFTER IT? It is no excuse to say that you
are making speeches during your vacation. A man can only do
one year’s work IN ONE YEAR. You get the vacation in order
that you may REST, and be in shape to do my work better when
you get back. If you use the vacation for making speeches, tir
ing yourself out, and if you use the working hours for which you
are paid BEFORE the vacation PREPARING THE SPEECHES,
what kind of work do you do for me? You must either work for
me or for the lecture bureau. If you work for me, drop the lec
ture bureau.”
That is about how Mr. Bryan would talk if he were owner of
the United States and had hired a bright young man from
Nebraska to run the State Department. And that is about how
the people of the United States are inclined to talk to Mr. Bryan.
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We don’t believe that it makes much difference whether Mr.
Bryan makes speeches at Chautauqua gatherings for pay or
whether he stays in Washington.
The easiest thing that Mr. Bryan does is to make a speech.
And we do not think that the kind of speeches he makes to the
Chautauqua ladies and gentlemen represent any considerable
amount of valuable gray matter withdrawn from the service of
the United States.
The interesting thing is Mr. Bryan’s statement that ho goes
lecturing, wandering away from Washington, with important
international affairs unsettled, BECAUSE HE CAN NOT LIVE
ON HIS SALARY OF $12,000 A YEAR.
Twelve thousand dollars a year is one thousand dollars a
month, $250 a week, just about $36 a day.
If Mr. Bryan can not live on $35 a day now, HOW DID HE
USE TO LIVE ON $5 A DAY AND LESS?
And how does Mr. Bryan imagine that
the rest of the United States manages to
live?
Since Mr. Bryan began to make patriotism pay he seems to
have lost track of the average American, of the “Commoner”
who in Mr. Bryan's stock in trade.
If Mr. Bryan can’t LIVE on $12,000 a year, what plan is he
formulating for the millions of Americans who are living on less
than $12,000 a year, less than twelve hundred dollars a year,
LESS THAN SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS A YEAR—FOR
THERE ARE MILLIONS THAT DO THAT?
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When Mr. Bryan says that he can not “live” on $12,000 a
year, what is his exact definition of the verb "to live?”
A mouse can live well on a cent a day. An elephant can i
not. That is because the elephant is much bigger than the
mouse.
Does Mr. Bryan imagine that he is an elephant, and the
ordinary citizen a mouse, when he says that he can not live on
$12,000 a year, in this country where millions of men presumably
about as good as he is live on less than one-twentieth of $12,000?
Mr. Rryia has taken the world into his confidence. He car- j
rim his hraclrto work with him. His most expensive drink is
grape juice—diluted with water. It costs little. He doesn’t
smoke, chew, curse, drink rum or gamble. If HE can not live on
$12,000 a year, it is truly a wonder how the rest of the world
manages to get along.
One interesting little point in Mr. Bryan's Chautauqua lec
turing, in the effort to make enough “to live,” is the fact that
he spoke FOR PAY ON SUNDAY, in a State where that had
never happened and never been permitted before.
We wonder how Mr. Bryan reconciles that with some of the
preaching that he has done.
We do not say that it is wrong to speak in public on Sun- ;
day.
On the contrary, if a man has anything worth saying, the
better the day, the better the speech.
Sunday is a good day to speak earnestly and tell the truth.
But it isn’t a very good day for a man to speak FOR PAY, j
after he has spent his time preaching respect for Biblical teach- 1
ings and protested hiz itemized belief in the Bible, which forbids
labor for profit on Sunday except as an actual necessity.
Would Mr. Bryan urge that starvation staring him in the
face, absolute inability to live on $12,000 a year—$35 a day buys
a god deal of grape juice and beefsteak—COMPELLED HIM to
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Writes on
Electricity as a
Miraculous
Force
But There Are Even
Finer, More Remark
able Forces in Universe.
Written for The Atlanta Georgian
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright. 1913, by Star Company.
j. jO less authority in electrical
l\l science than Thomas Edi
son is reported to have said:
"If electricity is a substance or
fluid of any kind, I have not been
able to find, see, weigh or in any
manner sense it.” Electricians,
and students of physics generally,
are more and more inclined to the
belief that there is no such thing
as electricity. The phenomenon
known as electricity may be liken
ed to an echo. The impact of air
waves, caused by the explosion of
powder against trees, houses or
rocks, causes a disturbance in the
aerial elements that produces
sound. Sound is a rate of motion.
It is claimed by some of the ad
vanced thinkers that there is a
rate of motion that will always
cause the effect known as eleo-
tricity.—EEWS ITEM.
O NE hundred years ago all the
men of science would have
pronounced the prophet of eleo-
tricity a madman, a fool or a crank.
This Invisible, unflndable, un-
weighable force Is, nevertheless,
to-day the most powerful, the most
useful, the most Important factor
In modern civilization. It illumi
nates the darkness, without the
inconvenience of nauseating gas,
the annoying and uncertain match,
or disagreeable and malodorous
oil. It sends vehicles along the
track without the assistance of
weary and suffering horses or sooty
and suffocating coal fires.
It Cures Physical Ills
and Restores Lost
Vitality.
It drives engines. It cooks food,
it heats Irons.
It cures physical maladies and
restores lost vitality to the sys
tem. It sends searchlights far out
at sea, and locates the safe har
bor for the confused mariner.
It speeds the wireless message
to its destination hundreds of miles
away.
We are becoming accustomed to
Its miracles, for miracles they
would surely seem to our ances
tors were they to return to earth
to-day.
And now, why should any man
of common sense and good reason,
In face of all these facts, dare
scoff at the advanced thinkers and
clear-seers, who say there are still
finer, more intangible forces In the
universe, which promise still more
remarkable powers of usefulness
to man than electricity?
The wireless message has be
come a fact and a factor In the
business world.
But the wireless message must
have its machinery for sending and
receiving.
Why does it seem Improbable
that a finer and more subtle es
sence will be discovered by and
by, which will enable the world to
send messages, to light the dark
ness and to heal the sick, without
the use of any mechanism of elec
tricity? Indeed, why question that
many people in this age already
know the existence of this force
and that It is already In use?
A little research, carefully and
respectfully given, will prove that
In every age, as far back as his
tory will take you, there were wise
men who knew of this spiritual
force and employed it
The ancient seers of India called
It .Akasa. They said everything
which exists Is a form of Akasa.
Coal Is one form; gas, a finer form
of It; electricity, a still finer; but
the mind of man Is Akasa In a yet
more subtle shape, and the next
higher and finer is the mind of
God. So God, the Creator Himself,
is Akasa, and we are all a part of
It—Him.
Awake Every Morn With
a Prayer of Gratitude
On Your Lips.
Keep that thought in mind—ftB
yourself with It—and there Is
nothing you cannot do to better
and brighten your own life and
the life of the race.
Awake every morning with a
prayer of gratitude on your Ups.
Say, "I am Akasa, the divine Staff
of God and His universe; I am a
power for good, for usefulness, for
health, for success!”
Say it over and over, no matter
how depressing your conditions,
how dark your outlook, how full of
pain your body, how empty your
purse.
Persisting In the assertion wfll
bring results.
If you begin to think It ridicu
lous, absurd, unreasonable and
foolish to make these assertions
Just recollect how your ancestors
scoffed at the idea of the tele
graph, the cable, the telephone.
Cyrus Field was made the butt
of cruel jests for years, by the
most brilliant men of the day, be
cause he believed a cable across
the ocean could be laid under wa
ter. But he persisted in using the
"Akasa” of his mind In this thought
and we know what resulted.
If you persist In using the Akasa
of your mind In thoughts of love,
usefulness, health and success, all
these things will come to you. You
shall have your heart’s desire if
you want it enough to bring it to
you. It Is all in your own power.
Added to your assertions, live
them.
Eat Simply, Breathe
Deeply; Sleep With
Open Windows.
If you are made of the Akasa
of God (and you are), do not over
load your system with food; do
not poison it with drugs; do not
deaden It with narcotics!
Eat simply, and only what you
need to supply vital force and
strength. “Eat to live; do not live
to eat!” ^
Breathe deeply—fill your body
with fresh air many times a day.
Stand erect, as If you Intended
to look God in the face. Sleep
with open windows.
If you do all this, you will be
what you will be, in spite of
circumstances, environment and\
obstacles.
For you are greater than aBt
The Life of the Party
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
/ USED to know a bright young man named Alexander Blake,
II ho kept his neighbors laughing till it made their framercork ache.
Some gift, some intuition—you may call it what you will—
Would give your sleeping funny bone a new and startling thrill.
Beside this prodigy’s remarks, served fresh and piping hot,
The works of Twain and old Bill A’ye were that much dusty rot.
Ko party was a great success, no minstrel show would take
Without the bubbling presence of young Alexander Blake.
He was the wittiest person that the county ever knew;
He was a constant kidder, and the best that ever grew.
Before his shafts of satire and his wealth of ridicule,
The brightest of his comrades would appear a blinking fool,
tic robbed the village,bank one day—his last and merriest joke—
And now said Alexander has to wear a convict's yoke.
It always makes me gloomy, melancholy, glum and pale,
To think of all the humor that is bottled up in jail.