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THE HOME RARER EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St. Atlanta, Oa Entered a* second-class matter at post office at Atlanta, under act of March 3, 1373 Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cent a a week By mail, $6.00 a year Payable in Advance. One Woman Who Made the British Empire “Sit Up" and Pay Attention. She Is Mrs. Pankhurst, and She Will Be Welcome in America —the Country That Also Made England “Sit Up and 1 alee Notice" a Little More Than a Century Ago. < Copyright, 1913.) We are told that Mrs. Pankhurst, the determined, fighting English woman, is coming to America. Good news. This country will be glad to see her, welcome her, and to honor her. Mrs. Pankhurst, a frail woman of middle age, has proved by her own courage, and her own acts, the folly of those that object to woman’s suffrage. She has demolished the “arguments" that prejndioed men and milk and water “clinging vine" women of fer against justice to women. They said that women ought not to vote because they had not the courage to go to war, they didn’t have the warlike qualities of men. Mrs. Pankhurst showed them that SHE had the courage to go to jail. i In addition, she had the courage to starve herself repeatedly ; until the British Government did not dare keep her longer in jail. When she came out of jail, too feeble to walk, she had the eourage—splendid, moral, spiritual courage—to continue her fight for women’s rights and her denunciation of injustice. Idiots say that woman suffrage is opposed to the home and ' the proper bringing up of children. Mrs. Pankhurst is the mother of daughters heroic and de voted like herself. She has brought them up well, and they, like their mother, are making a brave fight for womanhood, and for justice. Those who oppose suffrage declare—without knowing any thing about it—that women have not the intelligence to under stand public questions, and, therefore, should not vote. Mrs. Pankhurst and her daughters, and the good women as sociated with them in the English movement, have proved that THEY understand public questions, and know how to CON TROL public questions. Mrs, Pankhurst, repeatedly arrested, dragged to court, judged and condemned by a man sitting on the bench, and by twelve men in the jury box, was able to conduct her own case as well as any lawyer. And while the men condemned her and jailed her, she made every arrest, and every imprisonment that she suffered, the text of a splendid talk on the rights of women that went all over England and increased the suffrage movement. Those that have misjudged Mrs. Pankhurst in this country do not take into consideration the different conditions in England and in America. Remember that in this country you can convert to suffrage ONE STATE AT A TIME You can gain your States one by one, making your fight in one place, then another, and thus spreading. But in England, all the laws for all England, and for the whole Empire, ARE MADE IN ONE PLACE, UNDER THE BIG CLOCK. IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. The women of England have got TO MOVE ALL OF ENG LAND AT ONCE, OR NOT WIN AT ALL. What do you suppose the women of America would have to do if it were necessary for them TO CARRY EVERY STATE IN THE UNION THE SAME DAY? They would have no hope at all—THE ONLY POSSIBLE CHANCE WOULD BE TO WORK AND TO FIGHT DETERMINEDLY AS MRS. PANKHURST HAS DONE. The women of Illinois would not have the right to vote to day if it had been necessary that they should carry the whole ' United States at once. Mrs. Pankhurst is a woman of wisdom, of character and courage. She knew that for centuries women might remain classed with idiots and children unless something was done. SHE HAS DONE IT. The courage of that one woman, physically feeble, but spirit ually a giantess, has made it absolutely certain that the women of England will vote on every question, and that the great re form will come while the daughters of Mrs. Pankhurst are still alive, even though their magnificent mother may not live to see the day. Honor to such a woman. She will be welcome indeed in this r \ ntry. _ In the Shadow of the Factory In the United States to-day there are about TW O MILLION child workers UNDER 16 YEARS OF AGE. Flowers will not grow in the dark; children cannot grow in the shadow of the factory. Give the little ones a chance in the sunlight. The greater the State, the greater the shame of child labor. When the Star Comes Back A UTTLe noth AS-SO-LvTe-LY ; I'LL PL fW NCTHING- , BvTT ft LEhOlNC- \ PART AtRE A)FT£L PPOM MV f-RlEND BELA5C& 1 WOULDN'T MOTHER. . I Wft*5 OFFERED "B\0- noNEY in The ■’roovtES BuT .OF COUME X —- refo sen it r Then I SftYs To pROVtfWi — SAYS I ** s ’\ — ETC - WELL MY MAN - V-OOF- fOR. MY NAME |N ELECTr'C. LIGHTS ON BROADWAY The Carri/AS-E. /AWAITS WITHOUT, W LEOOY '2'. I DON'T SIT Tbvj TovjM . MUCH ON <8 <8 * PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS §> §» The most successful lie is the one that has a soapt seasoning of truth in its construction. * ^ * Genius is all riglv if you are working at something else for a living. When a m-n begins to tell you of his good traits, it Is safe to assume that he has others that will*not bear inspection. • * * In trying to set what is coming to you don't grab that which be longs to another. J The “has been” in the role of a “comer” seldom receives much encouragement. * * * Rather than lose sleep over the troubles of the other fellow, it is better to look up some of your own. Do not gamble on borrowed money. However, it is better to use borrowed cash than your own. • V * When weather prophets dis agree, it is not as dangerous as when the doctors argue over the patient. Everyone His Own Photographer, Thanks to the Latest Device, a “Vanity” Ma chine. Sit in Front of It, Ar range Your Expres sion, Drop a Coin or Press a Button and— There You Are. By GARRETT P. SERVISS A French inventor has con trived an improved means of flattering human vanity, in the form of an auto-phographic machine, with whose aid the sitter can chose his own pose and ar range his own expression, with out the intervention of a third person. All he has to do is to place him self on a stool before the machine, look into a mirror, fix his hair and his necktie, and graduate his smile to suit his mood or his fancy, and then drop a coin in a slot, or, if it is a private machine owned by himself, touch a button, where upon the mechanism sets to work, takes his ( photograph, develops it, transfers it to a card, fixes it, and at the end of three minutes, de livers the finished photograph, in a permanent form, in a box at the bottom of the apparatus, and is ready for another pose. The entire process is effected by means of a system of electro-mag nets, and nearly all the steps are visible to the sitter, who can amuse himgelf by remaining in his chair and watching the operation through windows in the enclosing box. Lights and Shades as Del icate as if an Expert Did It. The machine also possesses a system of lighting which imitates the effects produced by the photog rapher’s shades and reflecting screens, so that the subject is prop erly illuminated, and the photo graph comes out as delicately mod eled with regard to light and sha dow as-if an expert poser had superintended the operation. Few persons are quite satisfied with the proceedings of a photog rapher, or are willing to admit that, notwithstanding all his experience, he can choose for them the exact pointment that the invention de scribed has been made. The pictures are made on the regular platino-bromide paper and lack nothing but the photogra pher’s touching up of the negative, which often does as much harm as good. They are also made on pre pared post cards. In its usual form, the machine is intended to be placed in public places, like those that deliver candies, but it can also be used without the device of dropping money in the slot, and then the mechanism can be set in motion by simply pressing a button. Not a Detail, It Seems, Has Been Missed in Its Making. Thus it becomes a private photo graphing apparatus for the home. In such countries as France, where photographs are often demanded on “cards of identification” for many purposes, its usefulness is apparent. No detail seems to have been neglected in the automatic action of the machine. As soon as it has been set in motion, a bell rings, and thereupon a placard appears before the sitter reading: “Attention! Fix your expression.” In a few moments another sign appears: “Don’t move!" Immediately afterwards the pic ture is taken by instantaneous ex posure, whereupon a third sign makes its appearance: “Thanks. The sitting is finished. In three minutes you will find your por trait in the box at the bottom.” After that, as before said, the sitter can watch many of the automatic proceedings of the ma chine through the windows. If it is a public machine that is used, the sitter’s coin remains in plain sight until the moment when the portrait is delivered. I I l pose and lighting which they would prefer, but with this machine all can arrange such things to please themselves. One often says to himself when looking into a mir ror: “Now, if I could only get THAT expression and THAT lighting in a photograph, how much better it would be! But I can’t see how I look when the photographer has posed me, and I don’t know how I am going to look until the picture is finished.” It is to avoid this kind of disap- Your Coin Comes Back If the Machine Fails to Work. If for any accidental reason the apparatus fails to work through to the end, the coin falls into an outer bowl and can be reclaimed by the sitter. So, as the inventor truly claims, his machine is “strictly honest,” or, as he might have said, automatically honest, in which respect it may be regarded as a scientific instructor in square deal ing. Ancient Roads From Edwin Markham. A lbert k. owen, author of a booklet called ‘‘Na tional and State Auto- Highways,” advocates good roads as a national agency for promot ing our industries and institu tions. He discourse** with elo quence of the ancient roads: "Our highways should be, at least, better than the highways of ancient Rome or still earlier Peru. “ ‘How best to get about in this world which God has given us,’ Anthony Trollope wrote, ‘is cer tainly one of the most interest ing subjects which men have to consider, and one of the most interesting works to which men can apply themselves.’ ‘‘In ancient times the great roads were constructed and con trolled by Governments. Isi- dorus states that the Cartha- genians had the first paved roads. In Peru, sections of roads are found of a similar kind of an unknown age. ‘Such were the great roads,’ says Prescott, ‘from Quito to Cuzco, and continued south toward Chili, laid out, through mountainous and almost impassable regions, for distances variously estimated frpm 1,500 to 2,000 miles, and about twenty feet in width. They were bi^ilt of heavy flags of freestone, and in parts covered with bituminous cement, which time has made harder than stone itself.* "The civilization of China fol lowed its great rivers and canals, Egypt held its people intact along the Nile; but the Romans ex hibited a wonderful appreciation of the importance of good roads. It is not true that Rome had great roads because Rome was great. Rome made itself a world- power, and its citizenship respect ed. at home and abroad, because it had lines of communication over good roads. In all, 29 good roads, with a width of 16 feet and a length of 52,964 Roman miles, centered at Rome. Gibbon tells us: ‘Cities were connected with each other and with the capital by the public highways, which, issuing from the forum of Rome, traversed Italy, pervaded the provinces and were terminated only by the frontiers of the empire. If we could care fully trace the distance from the wall of Antonius to Rome and from thence to Jerusalem, it will be found that the great chain of communication, from the north west to the southeast of the em pire. was drawn out to a length of 4,080 Roman miles. The pub lic roads were accurately divided by milestones and ran in a direct line from one city to another with very little respect for the ob stacles, either in nature or in private property.’ “These roads were extended across Mediterranean islands and extended into portions of Africa and Asia. Even in England Rome built great north-south and east- west causeways. “Again Gibbon says: ‘Houses were everywhere erected at dis tances of five or six miles, eaoh of them constantly provided with forty horses, and by help of these relays, it was easy to travel a hundred miles a day along Roman roads. Nor was the communica tion of the Roman Empire less free and open by sea than it was by land.’ M