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EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME RARER THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Kverv Afternoon Fxrept Sunday By THU GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 Rest Alabama St Atlanta. Ga ICnter»»d a< M»cond-e1as< matter at p • t..f::. • • at Atlanta, under act of Mareb 3. js.l Subscription Price—Delivered t carrier, Id u week. By mail, Ij-O'j a year. Payable in Advance. Whisky !s a Good Driver. It Drives Away Friends, Happiness, and From the Mind Drives Confidence and Courage. I (Copyright. HIS.) Send the picture on this page to some man who needs it. Many men need it, unfortunately. As you see this man at the table and the two spirits that leave him, you realize that man is not single, but made up of many elements. These are firmly compacted in the self-controlled man; they work together to make him what he should be. But whisky, the drug and poison, has the subtle power to dissolve character and take away from the man who scarcely knows it the best elements in his nature. Whisky beggars a man! It finds him full of hope and cour age and confidence in himself. It finds him with friends, receiving and giving affection. And one by one it takes these things from him. The friends are taken and affection is taken. His strength, his prospects go, little by little, as the whisky fills his tissues, conquers his nerves and rules in the foolish brain which often says so pitifully, “If I had just one more drink, I’d be all right.’’ Just one more drink, and then another, and dozens and hun dreds following. And at last the unhappy man on whom whisky has fastened its clutch sits like the man in this picture. Of all men he alone does not see his degradation, the brutal defacement of what was once a man. Have you seen a buzzard, a vulture or a crow picking the skeleton of a horse? Whisky does its work as vilely and as thoroughly as the meanest buzzard. Bit by bit it picks from the man all he has that is worth while. Saddest of all is the scene in this picture, when the two spir- i Its that give man his chief hope leave him—when COURAGE AND SELF-RESPECT PASS OUT OF THE DOOR LEAVING THIS POOR WRECK ALONE AT THE TABLE. Is it even then too late, and is the case hopeless? No, fortunately, it is never too late, and no man’s case is hopeless. HE CAN, IF HE WILL, RISE UP AND FOLLOW OUT OF THAT DOOR THE SPIRIT THAT HAS LEFT HIM AND OVERTAKE IT AND MAKE IT HIS OWN. Some of the world’s best work has been done and is done now by those that were once robbed by alcohol of all save the one spark that brings man back to his place WHEN HE WILL. Many a man sits disconsolate, gazing into space, wondering what is to become of him, bitterly repentant, anxious for those that suffer. And his hope and courage and confidence disappear in the distance. Help him if you can. Lift him to his feet, start him in the right road. He may overtake them, HE CAN IF HE WILL. Portugal Will Never See King Manuel on the Throne—^With Gaby Deslys on the Throne Steps. The Trouble With Portugal Is Ignorance of the People. INABILITY TO READ, but the Republic Will Live. (Copyright. 1918.) News from Portugal, sent out by those that hate republican government and that like ignorance, is to the effect that the Republic of Portugal is in danger. These reports need not seriously worry those that believe in republican government. For a good many years there have been periodic reports of the same kind coming from France. The world has been asked to believe that a French pretend er, with a forehead one inch and a half high and the intelligence of a canary bird, would succeed in putting up a throne and rul ing the French people. Everybody knows that that is a pitiful joke. The French pretenders have about as much chance of ruling | In France as they have of ruling in Alaska. The news from Portugal is disturbing only because of the 1 fact that the system of tyranny, brutality and superstition that ruled there for so long, PURPOSELY KEPT THE PEOPLE IN IGNORANCE AND UNABLE TO READ. Those that would mislead the people, those that hate the re public and hate government by the people, are helped by the fact that the poor peasants in the country, and the clerks and the workers in the cities and towns, are, as a rule, illiterate, unable to read or to sign their own names. There is no real danger, however, for the Republic of Portu gal. There may be a revolution again, but it will cud IN AN OTHER REPUBLIC. The interesting little Manuel will continue sitting at a little tin table on the French boulevard; he will continue to be a mov ing picture king—not a real one Never again will Portugal see him sitting on the throne, ■pending the money of a people overtaxed and kept ignorant. If the present rulers of Portugal are replaced by others, they will be no men of the King Manuel type, but men of greater force than the present rulers, able to continue Portugal as a re. public; able to carry on the real business of a republic—THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THE ABOLI TION Of IGNORANCE AND THE SUPERSTITION AND BRUTALITY THAT GO WITH IGNORANCE. Do You Know Any Man Ruined by Whisky? Show him this picture and the two spirits, SELF-RESPECT and COURAGE, walking away from this unhappy victim of his own weakness. This picture may send some drunkard hurrying out of the door to catch up with the friends that have been driven from him. (See Editorial.) Live First = = = = = Talk Afterward The Trouble with the World Is There Are So Many Teaching the Truth, So Few Living It—Let Your Life Illustrate Your Theories. . A RE you a student of the power of mind over mat ter? Are you talking to every one you meet about "Uni versal Life Principle" and “Vibra tion" and "Mental and Spiritual Science” and all the other ex pressions so in vogue to-day among advanced thinkers? See to It That Your Life Illustrates Your Theories. If you are. see to it that your life illustrates your theories. Do not let it all end in talk. I have known a self-supporting woman to use all her income in literature and lectures and les sons on these subjects: "How to Control Destiny,” "How to Grow Success," “How to Attain Self- Mastery" and “How' to Be Well and Prosperous.” Yet she was al ways ailing She had not one penny saved, nor respectable cloth ing in her wardrobe: she slighted het work and forgot her duties and was altogether an unsatisfac tory human being. At almost any gathering of peo ple identified with or interested in Mental, or Christian Science, or New Thought, or any kindred sub ject, a large majority oX fhe uu- By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Copyright, 1918, by Bt*r CVwuij>aay. kempt and nervous and erratic beings are to be encountered. Tbis is true, we know, of all new theories and creeds, for the dis appointed and dissatisfied souls of earth naturally turn to new- ave nues of thought, hoping to find peace. But when we find these unfortunate types representing a religion or a theory and talking its precepts to every passerby, It is a matter of more than temporary regret. Until you can indicate by your life, your face, your manner and your w'ork that you have found a solution for the problem of exist ence and a panacea for human ills, do not talk about it. W’ait In the silence and grow. It is a simpler matter to be filled with a conviction than It is to prove that conviction to the world. But while there are thousands of people to-day talking and writ ing the philosophy not ten in any thousand are living what they talk. A woman who was all nerves and hysteria and who kept herself and every one about her in .:. . DOUB1 By WILLIAM F. KIRK. T HERE Is a devil and his name Is Doubt: The country and the city know him well- He makes each human mind his citadel And many an honest aim he puts to rout. He argues well, about it and about— He kills more ,ove than any tongue can tell; He leads obedient mortals to his hell And mocks them when they seek a pathway out. You do not know him. yet you doubt your friend; You sneer at him. but doubt a mother's love. He camps upon your trail until the end, As smooth as silk, as fluttering as a dove In every liraiiL he builds his little fires— He is the trustiest devil Satan hires. confusion and excitement over her troubles and ailments was urged to try Spiritual Science. “Why, 1 teach it,” she said. “I do not need any one to help me in that way, as I have had a class of young women to whom I have been revealing the truth for some time.” That is the great trouble with the world to-day. We have so many people teach ing and so few living the truth. Because you have gained a little light and begin to understand the philosophy of life do not set your self up for a teacher or an ex- horter until you have proven by your life that what you teach and j preach Is practicable. Wait Until You Succeed Before Preaching Success. Wait until you can keep yourself j in health before you begin healing < others. Wait until you are successful in your undertakings before you tell ethers the way to win success. Wait until your face expresses pence and calm and happiness be fore you preach the power of your philosophy to produce these re sults. JUve fttai—tolk AXterwwi. Elbert Hubbard Writes on High Cost of Living and Wasted Crops. Lack of Transportation and the Clutch of the Middleman, He Declares, Has Left Thou sands of Carloads of Garden Produce Rotting on the Ground in Texas This Season. By ELBERT HUBBARD D OWN in the beautiful and peaceful Feeos Valley In Texas some months ago I saw tons of luscious strawberries rotting in the field because the markets of the North were over stocked and the berries were not worth the freight, much less the cost of picking. Southwestern Texas Is the coun try that General Sherman had In mind w r hen he made a certain sar castic remark that has gone clat tering down the centuries like a tin kettle to a dog’s tail. The application, however, of wa ter and intelligent labor to the arid land of Texas has worked such I miracles that William Tecumseh’s far-flung phrase puts that gentle man’s perspicacity in Jeopardy. On a single acre of irrigated land I have seen produced ten tons of onions, cabbages in proportion and spinach enough to fill a silo. The sunshine, the fertility of the soil and water produce crops which, if the truth wore told about them, would qualify the narrator for the Ananias Club in any city of the North, and quickly. Carloads Rot. The question, however, is to get these fruits and vegetables on the tables of the people who need them most. I.ack of transportation and the clutch of the middleman has left thousands of carloads of gar den produce rotting on the ground in Texas this past season. Here is a question so big and important that it deserves the at tention of the most able men in the United States to-day. It is a somewhat curious fact that our lawmaking is largely the work of amateurs. The men we send to Washing ton are not the men who have had experience In the matter of tak ing care of great and Important propositions. They are for the most part men who have wormed themselves Into office. The business of government falls Into the hands of the inexperienced and the unfit. This thing of government by the selfish, the transient and the Irre sponsible is the most telling criti cism to be made of our so-called Democracy. There should be a method de vised by the Government whereby the sen-ices of highly trained men can be secured and utilized. And one of the crying needs of the trained man now is In this matter of getting the . desirable food products of the South and West into the hands of the people in the cities of the East who need them most. The Problem. With peaches rotting in the orchards in the Yakima Valley, millions of dollars’ worth of ap ples ungathered in Washington— hundreds of carloads of onions, cabbages, spinach, berries in Texas, and thousands of people In Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and New York going without fresh vegetables and without fresh fruit —this is the condition that chal lenges our economic skill. The solution of the high cost of living lies in getting vegetables and fruit direct from farm to family with least possible expense. And so here comes an invention successfully utilized and worked out whereby fruits and vegetables can be dehydrated. Most fruit and vegetables con tain from SO to 02 per cent of water. To eliminate this water so the vegetables and fruits can be .kept nn indefinite length of time is a most desirable evolution to bring about. Green peas, rhubarb, spinach, raspberries, blackberries, straw berries should be on Christmas tables fresh in all of the cities of the North, and this at a very rea- | sonable price. Science to Help. As It Is things have to be shipped in season, in refrigerator cars, rushed through and sold quickly. Otherwise they deteriorate and perish. The expense of transportation of perishable goods is very much greuter than that where the article is dehydrated and prepared so It will keep indefinitely. By evaporating the water in his products the farmer can find a ready market for a vast quantity of fruits and vegetables which are now practically worthless. The market where the thing has to be sold quickly places the ship per at a great disadvantage and gives the middleman his chance. I expect to see the day when the United States Government will co-operate with big business to the end that the vast crops of the irri gated lands of the West and South shall be harvested and marketed to the people who need them most, and this at a minimum of expense. Washington a Mason By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. I T WAS one hundred and sixty years ago that George Wash ington was given the well- earned right to look upon the "hieroglyphic light which none but craftsmen ever saw.” The venerable and venerated records of Fredericksburg Lodge show that Washington was ini tiated on November 4, 1752, passed feilowcraft March 3, 1753, and was raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason August 4, 1753. Strange to say, it appears to be a fact that the "Father of His Country” was initiated before he had reached the required age of 21 years Daniel Campbell, Master of the lodge, granted the special dispensation which enabled the candidate to begin his eastward journey while still a minor. Grand Master French, of the District of Columbia, declared in an address delivered in 1851 that no one stopped to. inquire about Washington's age when his peti tion was presented; that the ma jestic proportions of the candi date, together with his well- known character and ability, made upon ail concerned the im pression that might have been made by a thoroughly matured man. It appears, however, that the dispensation was based upon the fact that the candidate’s duties demanded it. So busy a man was to be received when it was con venient for him. Washington remained a mem ber of the Fredericksburg Lodge to the day of his death. Among the many other distinguished men whose names appear upon th* rolls of the lodge are George Wew- don, Washington’s adjutant-gen eral; General Hugh Mercer, who fell at the battle of Princeton; Jacob VonBraam, Washington’s instructor in sword practice, and Fielding Lewis, Washington’s brother-in-law. The Bible that was used at the time Washington was made a Mason is still in possession of the old Virginia lodge, and Is guarded with unremitting care and affection. It is said to be 226 years old. and is still in an excellent state of preservation. In the evil days of the war between the States the old town of Fredericksburg lay between the opposing lines of Lee and Burnside, and while the bloody struggle waa on thousands on botli sides thought of the little temple and altar and Bible that were so lovingly associated in their recollection with the man who made the nation whose very existence was then trembling in the balance. i / t t i r > ( J