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EDITORIAL RAGE
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
Published Every Afternoon Except Hunday
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At 20 East Alabama Ht Atlanta, Qa.
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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 ake
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. 8he has demolished the “arguments” that
prejudiced men and milk and water “clinging vine” women of
fer against justice to women.
The Atlanta Georgian
In the Shadow of the Factory
THE HOME PAPER
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.
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
courage—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
»A5 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
eoi^try. _ „ f
In the United States to-day there are about TWO 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 S tate, the greater the shame of child labor.
When the Star Comes Back
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PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
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The most successful lie is the
one that ha® a scant seasoning of
truth in its construction.
* * *
Genius is all right if you are
working at something else for a
living.
When a man begin® to tell you
of his good traits, it Is safe to
assume that ho has others that
will not hear inspection.
* * *
In trying to get what is coming
to you don’t grab that which be
longs to anothe/
The “has been” in the role of a
"comer” seldom receives much
encouragement.
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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.
• * •
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 himself 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
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
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 thr&e
minutes you will find vour por
trait in the box at the bottom.”
After that, as before said, the
sitter can watch many of the
automatic proceedings of the mar
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.
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 discourses 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 from 1,500 to
2,000 miles, and about twenty feet
in width. They were built of
heavy flags of freefone, 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 canais,
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 wi
great Rome made Itself a wori<
power, and it© citizenship reaper
ed. at home and abroad, becaui
it had lines of communlcatlc
over good roads. In all, 29 goc
roads, with a width of 16 feet ar
a 'ength of 52,964 Roman mile
centered at Rome.
"Gibbon tells us: ‘Cities ww
connected with each other ar
with the capital by the publ
highways, which, issuing from t\
forum of Rome, traversed Ital
pervaded the provinces and wei
terminated only by the front!©]
of the empire. If we could can
fully trace the distance from tl
wall of Antonius to Rome ar
from thence to Jerusalem, it wl
be found that the great chain <
communication, from the nortl
wesit to the southeast of the err
pire. was drawn out to a lengl
of 4.080 Roman miles. The pul
Me roads were accurately divide
by milestones and ran in a dlre<
line from one city to another wil
very little respect for the ol
stacles, either in nature or 1
private property.’
“These roads were extend*
across Mediterranean islands ar
extended into portions of Afric
and Asia. Even in England Ron
built great north-south and eav
west causeways.
“Again Oibbon says: 'Housi
were everywhere erected at dii
tanoes of five or six miles, ear
of them constantly provided wil
forty horses, and by help of the:
relays, it was easy to travel
hundred miles a day along Roma
roads. Nor was the communica
tion of the Roman Empire lei
free and open by eea than It w«
by land.’ ”