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V \ t f i =**««*«: 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 Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mail, $5 00 a year Payable in Advance. 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. A 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of speeches he makes to the Chautauqua ladies and gentlemen represent any considerable amount of valuable gray matter withdrawn from the service of the United States.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? Mr. Henpeck’s Dream Henry DE-eR Yoo’lv. 5POU- The Curtains ip you smoke in i The. House I SHOULD \ WORRY iHBOoT ~r«e corTfhns. These BiSCuiTs Livce BolleTS , Boo - Ht>o • l TRIED HARD TO PIM5C You a r /Mf >. ~7S\/ > & o o l DON'T 09*6 if it's Three THIRTY - PLE/rse PEED Tee CAT XENR-Y l WILL i not! ) A mow j UilLE- I KePT f <h ouT op rte TFHS WEEK. y ~~7' MERE AFTER. - I’LL PICK OUT MY OWN NFckTies , ^ > ^ • cr life MiTT Hpi-m-m ^HENRV /Y l BUT Yes’" Is a i- I Wonder Why— Just what i’m LOOKING FOR A LODGE IN THE WILDS A 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 wcyk for pay on the Sabbath7 ^j UJfl Q ill!Alii 1 " '-A? AFTER Two DATS ON THE MOUNTAIN EXPRESS d ///»* FIFTY MILES IN A BUCKBOARO L AAA, forty miles OVER A ROUGH TRAIL JkAk MILES / IN A CANOE To CAMP II n AND HE COULD get The same m Thing thirty w MINUTES FROM HOME 1 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.