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EDITORIAL. RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama 8t . Atlanta, Oa. Entered as second-class matter at poatofflce at Atlanta, under act of Marcn #, i"'« Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier 10 cents a week By mall, $5.00 a year. Payable in Advance. Occasionally “Capital” Dis covers That “Labor” Really Is a Factor in National Life. One Big: City, Looking Around for 8,000 Vanished Mechanics, Makes the Discovery Just at Present (Copyright, 1913 ) Those eight thousand mechanics had not been sitting around waiting for the lockout to end, but had gone to other cities and engaged in other occupations. This discovery is useful, sinoe it makes clear the fact that in this country and in its enterprises organized labor actually playB a part that is not to he disregarded. The builders discover that their architects, their draftsmen, their enterprise and their MONEY amount to very little if they haven’t got THE WORKERS TO MAKE REALITIES OF THE IDEAS, THE PLANS, THE ENTERPRISE AND THE MONEY. Perhaps it is a good thing to have the eight thousand mechanics missing for a little while, just to teach the gentlemen who occasionally imagine that they are the entire nation that they wouldn’t be very much more important than Robinson Crusoe on his island if they didn’t have the workmen with them. The absence of these mechanics is also interesting as demonstrating the value of labor unions that keep an organized body of workers ready to do the skilled work of the country upon demand. KARMA By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Copyright, ISIS, by Amerlcan-Journal-Kxamtner. W E cannot choose our sorrows. One there was, Who, reverent of soul, and strong with trust, Cried, “God, though Thou shouldst bow me to the dust, Tet will I praise thy everlasting laws. Beggared, my faith would never halt or pause; But sing thy glory, feasting on a crust. Only one boon, one precious boon I must Demand of Thee, oh, opulent great Cause. Ix-t Love stay with me, Cot)stunt to the end. Though fame pass by and poverty pursue. With freighted hold, her life ship onward sailed; The world gave wealth, and pleasure, and a friend, I’nmarred by envy, and whose heart was true. But ere the sun reached midday. Love had failed.” II. Then from the depths. In bitterness she cried, “Hell Is on earth, and heaven is but a dream: And human life a troubled aimless stream: And God Is nowhere. Would God so deride A loving creature’s faith?” A voice replied. “The stream flows onward to the Source Supreme; Where things that ARE replace the things that SEEM; And where the deeds of all past Uvea abide. Opee at thy door, Love languished and was spurned. Who sorrow plants, must garner sorrow’s sheaf. No prayers can change the seedling In the sod. By thine own heart, Ixtve’s anguish must be learned. Pass on, and know, as one made wise by grief. That In thyself dwells heaven and hell and God.” Chicago had a lockout of workmen in the building trades. It was decided by those engaged in building that something must he done, and so all building was stopped for a while, build ers agreeing to stand the loss in order to carry their point. Finally building was resumed and something strange and surprising happened. IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT 8,000 BUILDING MECHANICS WERE MISSINO IN CHICAGO. And the builders, anxious to rush through the work that had been delayed during the lockout, did not know exactly WHERE to get the eight thousand mechanics. The Chicago lesson teaches that if labor were NOT organ ized, if the unions did not, by demanding fair wages and fair hours, limiting apprentices and preventing oversupply, regulate conditions, the labor market would be chaotic and the great operations of this day impossible. If the lack of mechanics in Chicago teaches capital the im portance of labor and teaches aho the Important fact that or ganized labor makes great building and manufacturing possible, the hardship of the Chicago lockout will not have been endured entirely in vain. The country has grown too big for the old system under which both labor and capital were disorganized, with the capitalist, when the mood seized him, deciding to build something, going out looking for isolated workers, gathering them together and putting them to building. To-day capital is organized AND OUGHT TO BE ORGAN IZED UNDER PUBLIC CONTROL AND REASONABLE CON DITIONS. And labor is organized and ought to be organized, also under public control and reasonable conditions. Taking the Finger Prints Winifred Black Writes on Elderly Flirts They Haunt the Summer Resorts, She Says, Like Some Kind of Ghosts and They Are Dreadfully Silly. By WINIFRED BLACK. T HEY’RE here—in full force— the elderly flirts. I met two of them down at the Springs Just now. The first elderly flirt was a man, forty-five If he was a day; strag gling along behind his good, comfy, kindly, middle-aged wife—making eyes at every girl of twenty or so he met. I walked behind him and heard the girls—after they had passed. I really wish he could have heard them; he would have been edified. The Girls Know Him. “Here’s father again,” said one pretty thing In pink. "Oh, do look, he’ll get cross-eyed, he ogles so.” “I heard him calling the tele phone girl ‘honey’ at the hotel this morning,” said a sweet Bister In blue, “and you should have seen the face she made when he turned the other way.” "Father certainly Is a giddy old thing.” said the prettiest of all. In mauve. “I saw him holding hands with teacher, the one with the glasses, out on the porch just at sunset. “Quoting poetry, too; and his wife came round the corner. I felt so sorry for her, I couldn't bear to look at her.” "Here he Is,” said the sportive widow to her escort. "Grandpa Googoo Eyes. I met him with his little girl this morning and he stopped talking to her and made an excuse to ask me the way some where. You ought to see the way he takes off his hat, ugh—he makes me shudder.” “Orandpa Googoo Eyes.” "Grandpa Googoo Eyes"—not a pretty name, Is it. Mr. Elderly Flirt? Yet that is what they call you, the young things you try so hard to impress. “Grandpa Googoo Eyes,” and yet you are not a grandpa at all, only a pa—and not a day over forty-five at the most—but, oh, you do look so elderly to the girls you so much admire—and your Jokes are so el derly, too, and your compliments and the sweet, clever things you try so hard to say—can't you see how they laugh at you, all hut those who want you to give them something—something that costs more money than young Romeo can afford. Can’t you see how sorry they are for the good, sweet woman who gave up everything else in the world to be your wife—poor silly elderly flirt, you—and the wife—do you think she doesn’t know? Do you imagine that she is so used to your artless little ways by this time that it doesn't stab her to the faith ful heart to hear the girls make fun of you? Oh, yes, she hears them—trust her fpr that. She hears everything, sees everything that concerns you—for she loved you once and she never can get over that. Your First Flirtation. Now she looks upon you with a kind of contemptuous pity, a sort of kindly forgiveness now; what else can she do? She looks older than you—she knows that; knows it in every beat of her heart, In every line of her tired face. She has borne you chil dren. See that line by the sensi tive mouth—that came when the boy was so ill. That wrinkle there by the eyes—that was when you were ill and she worried so about you. The hair there on the temples— It was your first flirtation, that you thought she never even heard of. brought that. Don’t you remember PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS “September Morn” is barred from the mails—unless clad in an envelope. Lovesick newly-wed rub. laundress pursues prince. Bride’s the Latest War Bulletin—New York surgreon says he can graft arms. ... Auto runs down bandit. That's carrying joy-riding too far. • • * Gerard wants Uncle Sam to cut a figure (I) in Berlin, It is possible to be out of the lunatic class and still not have much sense. • • • So. after all, Mexico’s decisive battle is likely to be fought in Wall Street. • • • Only woman who won't fight when called an “old maid” is one. • • • The soles of the shoes supplied by Satan are always slippery. • • • Honesty is the best policy if you do not talk too much about It, that summer when the second baby was so little and so delicate, she couldn’t go out much, and you— but rest assured she heard. There is always someone to tell. You have cut those lines on a sensitive face—you and no other—none but you—and everyone who sees you together sees it and pities her for being married to one so shallow- hearted, so cruelly light of mind as you, Mr. Elderly Flirt. There’s your sister t there—In the shadows behind you — painted, made up. bedizened. How old is the boy she has in tow? Not an hour over twenty-two, if faces tell anything like the truth. She’ll get him out Into the moonlight and make a fool of him and the nice girl will cry her eyes out about it. Poorly elderly flirt—what a sorry thing she is—even when she is married and makes a fool of her husband as well as of herself. Tries to Look Young. She tries so pitifully hard to look young—hark, what an Imitation giggle It is that she gives. Be care ful, those high heels were never meant for a charmer over forty. You’ll slip, beautiful lady, you’ll slip, and what a time you’ll have getting up again. Oh, why don’t you give It all up once and for all. Elderly Flirt, in petticoats too short and slippers too tight for elderly comfort—let It all slip, the silly game you have played so long. The girls there behind you—they do the thing much better; they do really—and how about the decent, kindly, honest man who pays your bills and sends you away to have a good time? It isn’t fair; honestly It isn’t—It Isn’t the square deal. He works so hard and is so proud of you—why can’t you pretend to be halfway decent—just for his sake—at your age? The Elderly Flirts—they haunt the summer resorts like some kind of forlorn ghosts. THE HOME PAPER Elbert Hubbard Writes on An Opportunity for Women There Never Was a Time, He Says, When the Need for Women to Become Wise Was So Great as It Is Now. By ELBERT HUBBARD A CERTAIN California Bishop was at first opposed to woman suffrage. Next he investigated it. Then he saw It was coming. It came. Now he gives instruction to the women of his bishopric. It Is something like this: “Inform yourselves thoroughly on all questions of state. You are entering Into grave responsibili ties, that of free citizens. Inform yourselves, be wise In what you do.” This is advice that a wise father should give to his children. There was never a time when the need for women to become wise was so great as it is now. Their rights, personal, political, commercial, Involve a concomitant responsibility. When we were children we used to think how glorious it would be when we were grown up. Then we would have the privilege of stay ing out at night as long as we chose, and of doing what we pleas ed all day long. Self-Control. But when we became men we realized that there was a limit to the hours of the night, also to our capacity to keep awake, that in order to be able to “have a good time," a man must control himself. Every privilege Is bounded by responsibilities which have to be carried in order to make the priv ilege possible. That is all any human being has —opportunity. The opportunity for suffrage and personal rights has not come easily to women. They have worked un til they have quite an understand ing of the rights that they want and the privileges that have been denied them. Civic Research Clubs. In most of the States where suf frage has been granted, the Wo man Suffrage clubs have been turned into Civic Research clubs. Women are bringing politically un prejudiced minds to bear on po litical situations and their new privileges. Their actions, as a rule, are decided by this test, "Is it right or Is it wrong.” Women whose actions are not influenced by right and wrong are taking very years ago—August 1, 1798. In May, 1798, Nelson, now in Independent command, was dis patched by his Government to Intercept the great French arm ament which was intended to reach Egypt and threaten India, Napoleon had vast ideas In his head, and he hoped by means of this armament to materialize them In the shape of a great Ori ental Empire. Coming up with the French fleet In the roads of Abouklr, Nelson lOBt no time in getting ready for action. With sublime audacity, and ~In defiance of all the then recognized rules of sea fighting, he ordered part of his fleet to get in between the French ships and the shore, while with the other part he attached from the side of the open sea. As sailed from front and rear, the French were taken at a great dis advantage, and though they fought with a splendid courage, there was never a moment when the Issue of the battle was In doubt. The genius, audacity, quickness of the little English Admiral were too much for them, and of the thirteen French bat tleships only two escaped. little interest In the woman suf frage movement The Reverend Mabel M. Irwin, a Universallst minister, gives out a well-timed warning to women. She urges them to make no mis takes In using the newly acquired privilege of their natural rights. She eloquently urges them to use their power to develop a better, nobler race. Mabel M. Irwin affirms that women have not been shirking the burden of motherhood, but the bondage of motherhood. When women have the rights of free citi zens this bondage will be removed. Then there will be the Joyous laughter, the patter of little feet that makes perennial youth. English Women’s Demands. Beatrice Harraden, the English author, In a recent number of Votes for Women, expresses a clear understanding of how vital to the Englishwomen Is the cause of woman suffrage. If there were only a few women engaged in this movement we might think it was only a dream of fair women. But when fishwives, tinplate workers, weavers, tailor- esses, upholsteresses, laundresses, charwomen, ropemakers, shop as sistants, nurses, teachers and sweatshop workers unite In the de mand for suffrage as equals with the women of nobility, there is something very vital in the move ment. It means that these women are stirred into action by a primi tive instinct Women and Statesmen. Recently a deputation of women from every walk in life spoke elo quently to Mr. Lloyd George and his colleagues. Many of them had never before made a speech. They were unlettered, hard-working women, moved to eloquence by a cause. Miss Harraden says the women impressed the statesmen though the statesmen did not impress the women. Their cloaks and trap pings of office meant nothing to these women, demanding the privi lege to exercise their inherent right of freedom. When women who toll with their hands join with nobility, and all are made equal by the cause which Is moving them, It Is time that the Englishmen recognized that It Is an inherent, natural right that women are demanding. size and caliber muoh superior to them, the British “seventy-fours" being no match for the new and magnificent French “eighties.” But the French had no Nelsotx and that fact explains It all. Two or three very Important things were settled by Nelson’s brilliant victory at the Battle of the Nile. It settled the fact that England's navy was supreme. In vincible. It settled the fact that the long cherished idea of a French Invasion of England was never to be realized. And finally it settled the fact that Napo leon’s visions of a mighty empire in Egypt and Syria, and possibly In India, were to go up In smoka There was nothing to hinder Na poleon from making himself Em peror of France, and, for a tima dictator of Continental Europe, but the way In which Nelson smashed the great armament off the roads of Abouklr convinced every sensible man In FYanca that the First Consul could nev er become master of the East. To do that he needed, first, the mas- . tery of the Mediterranean, and the little Admiral had demons strated such mastary was out t4 j the question. Ji The Battle of the Nile By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. r E Battle of the Nile, Nel son's greatest victory, and one of the most remarkable naval fights known to history, came off one hundred and fifteen The French ought to have wo the day. Their vessels were equi In number to those of the Englls (13 on each side), and were 1 l I