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EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME RARER THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Except Sunday Published Every Afternoon By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St. Atlanta, G». Entered as second-class matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act or March 3, i8<3 Subscription Price—Delivered hv carrier 10 cents a week I3y mall, $6.00 a year. Payable In Advance. No Refuge for Thaw in the Dominion of Canada A Foreign Flag Is Not Necessarily a FRIENDLY Flag in Such a Case as His. However clever were Harry K. Thaw’s friends in piloting him through the lines of hopeful sheriffs in Connecticut and New Hampshire, after lightning work between Matteawan and the New York State line, they were assuredly ill-advised to let him get into Canada. Of all countries in the world, Canada offers the least secur ity to strangers with unpleasant chapters in their histories. The Dominion has a cold way of looking at these things, that, to a inspect, must appear exceedingly inhospitable. In the first place, the Canadian courts have absorbed from the present British tradition an appalling contempt for techni calities. Anyone who has ever watched criminal trials of the present day in England must have been impressed with the brusque at titude of judges to phrase-juggling or efforts to translate words into some meaning other than what might be called their “horse sense.” Barristers even hesitate to chance the snub of “his ludship” by advancing a technical objection, unless it be unusually clever and subtle, in which case the court may, after a few brief, keen witted sallies, leave it to the jury, with a shrug, as much as to say: “You gentlemen of common sense are, of course, not going to take such mental gymnastics into consideration.” This reaction from a too technical period, when a misspelled name or word by an ill-fed engrosser could almost upset an in dictment, has had its effect on Canadian practice. We recall the cases of Greene and Gaynor after the Captain Carter-Savannah harbor scandal. In these the defendants, refu gees intrenched with unlimited money in a luxurious hotel in Quebec, fought with the aid of the most astute legal talent for months, right through all the Canadian courts to the Judicial Committee of the Imperial Privy Council in London, only to be landed back ignominiously in the United States for trial and sentence. Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. O TTR wax with Mexico wu officially closed by the rati fication of tho Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo S5 years ago. The great Pascal declared one day: “Justice Is what Is estab lished." He also said: "Justice Is subject to dispute, force 1s very recognisable, and without dis pute." In the Mexican war the "force" was on our side, and In the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidal go It was “established" that such and such things should be "Jus tice.” As things go In the "corrupted currents of this world," setting aside, for the time being, all thoughts of the "above,” the re sults of the Mexican war were fine. The most progressive coun try on earth acquired from one the least progressive a terri- flt. for the habitation and de cent of the white man, of square miles; an empire -s more than three times the else of the French Republic or the Ger man Empire, and more than five times larger than the United Kingdom, the State of California alone being larger than the Jap anese Empire with all Its posses sions. Corea excepted. The territory acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Guada- loupe Hidalgo Is to-day occupied by a thoroughly up-to-date, pro gressive people, who number close on to 4,000,000; a population greater than that of the whole nation when the Constitution went Into efTect with Washington's in auguration, and which is growing rapidly. With the help of scien tific agriculture, the “desert" places are being changed Into gardens of loveliness, and it is the clearest of "manifest destiny” that the vast region is by and by to throb with every sort of civiliz ing energy. Apart from this, Thaw was ill-advised to cross the Dominion frontier, for the reason that Canada has an immigration law un der which its Department of Immigration can deport him almost at will. “Undesirable citizens” can not enter Canada as a place of refuge or residence. Jack Johnson, the pugilist, only escaped the clutches of this law by having in his possession a through ticket from Chicago to Havre, France, which had been actually purchased in Chicago and was convincing evidence of his bona fide intention to seek neither refuge nor residence in Canada. The criminal offense of which he had been convicted in Illinois was not an extraditable offense, the Mann White Slave Act hav ing been passed long after the extradition treaty had been ne gotiated. , Even at that, the Canadian immigration authorities never lost sight of him until he left the country on a steamship. Nor did he then take a chance on landing at any British port. So broad is the scope of the Canadian immigration law that the officers of the Department may be said to have the power to deport almost without reason, just as in old days in the West there were sheriffs who would order “tin horns” beyond what they ambitiously called the “city limits” because they had taken a sudden dislike to the color of their eyes. Thaw, so far as is known, had no through ticket to prove that he sought neither refuge nor residence in Canada, and it looks as if his only chance may be to be put across the line into the State of New Hampshire, whence he came, rather than into the State of New York. It seems hardly conceivable that the Canadian immigration officers will allow him to continue his journey to a port, even if they should thereby insure his promptly leaving the country. In any event, he has to face another perplexing and costly fight, and this time with a very unemotional foe. Harry Thaw would have been better off had he stayed in New England or fled to Pennsylvania, than in Canada. A foreign flag is not necessarily a friendly flag In such a case as his. From all accounts, too he might now have been well off to Paris or Peru or the unrecognized Mexico had he only kept his mouth shut at a critical moment in his six-cylinder career. In the Movies In Real Life The Nose as an Indicator of Character Physician Invents Apparatus Which Perfects Telephonic Speech by Utilizing Nasal Sounds. By GARRETT P. SERVISS N APOLEON preferred big-nosed men for his army leaders, and the correctness of his Intuition concerning the signifi cance of the nose as an Indicator of character seems to have been vindicated by bis experience at Waterloo, for tbe Duke of Welling ton had one of the biggest noses of his day, and anchored, as It were, by the Iron Duke’s nose the Eng lish army remained Immovable un til both night and Blucher arrived. Lavater, the physiognomist, laid great stress upon a large nose as a token of a sturdy, energetic na ture, and this feature has generally been regarded In that light. ‘Nasal Voice’ Due to Nose Performing Functions Improperly. Science has discovered no rear son why the nose should possess this kind of significance, but it has recently been found out that th* nose plays a far more Important part than had been suspected In the utterance of speech. The dis agreeable sounds of what we call a “nasal voice” are due to the fact that the nose does not properly perform Its functions. When tt is well shaped within and unob structed, the nose perfects the voice, and without its aid syllables containing the consonants "m” and "n" can not be clearly uttered. Dr. Glover, of the Conservatory of Paris, has given special study to the functions of the nose In speech, and he points out that the chief trouble with the ordinary tele phone Is due to the fact that it does not transmit the sounds as these mouth sounds are transmitted to the vibrating membrane, the conse quence being that many words are heard obscurely, the nasal sounds which would complete their utter ance being absent. Accordingly he has Invented a special form of telephone trans mitter, furnished with an extra tube, which gathers and transmits the sounds coming from the nose. The results have fully corresponded with his expectations, for when one speaks through a telephone of this kind the words are trans mitted In their Integrity, the “m” and "n” sounds are distinctly blended with the others, and those peculiar to the nose. Only the reproduction of the speaker’s voice Is perfect. The speaker himself, It is claimed, finds It easier to use this form of telephone, for It requires less exertion of the voice. It Is not necessary to speak loudly In order to be well heard. Dr. Glover has also found that Interposition of a very thin paper between the mouth and nose of the speaker and the vibratory apparatus does not in the least diminish the distinctness of the sounds, while It serves to prevent possible contamination. He calls his new apparatus the "physiological telephone,” not merely because of the precaution to prevent contamination, but more By WILLIAM F. KIRK. H E left the place where strange men dwell In hideous harmony; He left a ghastly, babbling hell And now men call him free— For him who walks with a ghost that talks There is no liberty. He is not free whose mind retains The memory of a shot That made an evil soul take wings, And left a form to rot. He knows but pain who shares with Cain The murderer’s awful lot. He is not free who can not dream Of rivers and the sky, Who asks no favor of his God Except the wish to die— For Dead Sea ashes wet with tears Make soul-destroying lye. especially because with its aid, for the first time, the full physiological value of the voice Is utilized in telephonic transmission. The voice of the speaker Is, at the same time, rendered clearer to the hearer and its timbre is completely trans mitted, so that it sounds more nat ural. as If the speaker were ac tually present For those who are curious about such things It may he Interesting to remark that this function of the nose In speech may possibly have some connection with the observa tion of the physiognomists that the nose Is a significant feature In revealing the mental character of its possessor: Every part of the body that Is employed by the mind for expressing Itself Inevitably ac quires tell-tale marks which enable a shrewd observer to discern some thing of the mental make-up. It Is notably so with the mouth, not be cause it Is employed In eating but because It Is an instrument for he expression of thought through the medium of speech. Mental Characteristics Im print Themselves on One’s Features. Since the nose also takes part In the verbal utterance of thought, why should It not, too, exhibit simi lar Indications of character? It is not alone upon the size of the nose that the physiognomist bases his conclusions, but upon peculiarities of shape and appearance which are gradually developed and empha- sized as the individual grows older and hts mental characteristics be gin to imprint themselves on his features. IF I WERE A MAN, A YOUNG MAN By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. (Copyright, 1913.) I F I were a man, a young man, and knew what I know to-day, I would look in the eyes of Life undaunted By any Fate that might threaten me. I would give to the world what the world most wanted— Manhood that knows It can do and be; Courage that dares, and faith that can see Clear Into the depths of the human soul, And find God there, and the ultimate goal, If I were a man, a young man, and knew what I know to-day. If I were a man, a young man, and knew what I know to-day, \ I would think of myself as the masterful creature Of all the Masterful plan; The Formless Cause, with form and feature; The Power that heeds not limit or ban; Man, wonderful man. I would do good deeds, and forget them straightway; I would weave my woes Into ropes and climb tip to the heights of the helper’s gateway; And Life should serve me, and Time, And I would sail out, and out, and find The treasures that He in the deep sea. Mind. I would dream, and think, and act; I would work, and love, and pray. "nil each dream and vision grew Into a fact, If I were a man, a young man, and knew what I know to-day. If I were a man, a young man, and knew what I know to-day, I would guard my passions as Kings guard treasures, And keep them high and clean. fFor the will of a man, with his passions, measures; It Is strong as they are keen.) I would think of each woman as some one’s mother; I would think of each man as my own brother, And speed him along on his way. And the glory of life In this wonderful hour Should fill me and thrill me with Conscious power, If I were a man, a young man, and knew what I know to-da#. Some of Nature's AbstruseLaws By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN. H OW many of those who may read this note are able to repeat one, two, five or even ten of the now known laws that govern the universe? Perhaps there are as many as 500 demon strated laws In the entire range of the mathematical physical sciences. The entire sidereal uni verse and all that it contains Is managed by rigid and set laws. Every law of motion of bodies In space, as suns, planets, moons, comets and meteors, Is known to very high mathematicians with a minute degree of accuracy. Rates and rates of variation of all motions of oil cosmlcal bodies are watched with mlcro-telescop- lc care; and then placed In the clutch of the most powerful en gine, by far, now In possession of man—the Infinitesimal calculus. This has such enormous analyt ical power that all else human dwindles In Its majestic pres ence. But how many readers of to day’s Georgian can stop reading and repeat mentally or orally e-’en a few of nature’s supremely mag nificent laws? A professional novel reader oan not do it, nor can one whose entire career on earth Is centered on one all-ab sorbing work of piling up gold. As a matter of curiosity, two or three standard laws are her* given: Some Standard Laws. First—“Th© quantity of heat set free in any chemical reac tion Is a measure of the work done in the reaction.” Second—“The squares of the times of revolution of all the planets around the sun are as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun’s center.” Third—“The intensity of all forms of radiant-energy, such as light and heat, varies inversely as the squares of distances from the radiating center." Fourth—“The sum of the prod ucts of resistance and current- strength in each of several con ductors arranged in series equals the sum of the electromotive forces in the circuit.” Fifth, and a mighty law—"The differential of the product of two variables is the differential of the first into the second, plus the dif ferential of the second into the first.” Sixth, so valuable that all dia monds and gold in existence are as dross in comparison—“From expressions containing the sum or difference of finites and infi nites, the finites may be dropped without affecting the ratio.” Sublime Glories. These supremal laws and hun dreds more equal In transcendant beauty and loveliness are so much higher than all other things hu man that they can not even be compared—they are in a realm supreme—a world all by them selves. And the diggers end 50- hour workers are constantly add ing to these glories sublime. They of the Master Mind. Here are the mentologlcal facts: One living in this beauti ful world fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty years without being con versant with these and the hun dreds of other fixed laws has scarcely glimpsed anything. Th* case Is comparable to that of a person passing hurriedly through a gallery of fine paintings, look ing at the floor, or of going to a theater where all words spoken by the actors were In. to him, an unknown language. Or equiva lent to the wearing of dark glasses from youth until the clos ing scene. What One Misses. Here Is a pathetic mentologlcal fact: One not knowing a law of nature, not even one, mtssea at least three-fourths of the satis faction and genuine, not Imagin ary. happiness that he Is entitled to In this “vale of tears." One not knowing a law of astronomy Journeys from birth to death and If he looks at the stars shoot alk he Is able to say Is: “Twinkle, twinkle, little »tat\ Bow l wonder what yon are." An he can can do is to simply wonder. The stupendous modern, sciences are as sealed doors; thus; the simply amazing truths re vealed by spectroscopy are In a dead language. The endless won ders of the science of electricity are unknown to one who knows nothing of the laws supreme, sublime. Likewise the unspeak able beauties of chemical combi nations, reactions and disintegra tions. But these wane in the In effable presence of the calculus, the most exquisite poem, the very poetry of motion and of all har monics, ever within the mind of man. Three-fourths of the beau ties of all things In front of th# human eye, of all things within the vision of man, are Invisible to those not familiar with calculus— the magnificent. Triangl es By MINNA IRVING. T T THEN as a boy he went to school, y Y And later on to college, He hated mathematics most Of any kind of knowledge. He tried to shirk the knotty points And problematic tangles, And could not see the use of cube* Or circles or triangles. But now at operas and teas In fashion’s van he presses, Where ladies gather to display Their charms in V-cut dresses; And where you see a row of backs, All dimples or all angles, You’re sure to find him there intent On studying triangles*