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I EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St Atlanta, Oa Entered as second-class matter at postoflice at Atlanta, under art of March 3, 1873 Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a w< ek By mail, $5.00 a year. Payable in Advance. City Can Run Its Street Cars and Make Money San Francisco, After a Successful Flyer in the Traction Field, Extends Its Business and Makes Its Traction Competitor Clean Up and Hurry Up Its Service. San Francisco has declared a bond issue to build its own street railways to the great Panama Pacific Exposition, which will be open in a year and a half. There have been other municipal bond issues for such pur poses, hut the imposing thing about the San Francisco episode is that IT COMES AS A NATURAL EXTENSION OF BUSINESS. The value and success of the municipal ownership of street railways have already been demonstrated in the Western me tropolis. The three and a half million dollar bond issue just voted by a tremendous majority is simply an extension of the principle which has made a success of the Geary street railway, which came into the city’s possession by the lapsing of a franchise, and which was retained in the city’s possession as a result of the cam paign conducted by The San Francisco Examiner, which fought every movement looking toward another leasing of this line. Already San Francisco has a municipally owned and oper ated line running the entire length of the city, and crossing the peninsula on which it is situated. This road, the immediate bankruptcy of which was prophe sied by every interest opposed to the extension of the municipal principle, PASSES INTO THE TREASURY OF SAN FRAN CISCO $400 A DAY AND GIVES THE PEOPLE THE BEST SERVICE OF ANY ROAD IN THE CITY. It has had another effect; the United Railways, which con trol the privately owned franchises on San Francisco's streets, has been spurred by the growth of the municipal principle and by the popularity resulting from ihe excellent service to improv ing its own service. From being the most insolent, grasping cor poration that ever oppressed the people of a city by an inade quate service, it has become the suavest and most obliging. From the date the people serenaded The San Francisco Ex aminer office and inundated Mr. William Randolph Hearet in New York with congratulatory telegrams over the first running of the city’s own street cars the municipal ownership principle has grown in popularity. The original Geary street municipal project was carried by a comparatively small vote; the recent bond issue which will gridiron the city with municipal tracks— and which is particularly calculated to take care of the enormous crowds that will attend the exposition—was carried by a land slide. A municipal experiment of this magnitude and success car ries an interest to every city which faces the problem that San Francisco faced in the days when its streets were held by a pri vate corporation. San Francisco has proved that a city can operate its own street railroads—OPERATE THEM SUCCESSFULLY, BOTH FROM POINT OF SERVICE AND POINT OF FINANCIAL RETURN. The Georgia Railway and Power Company, which operates the street cars in Atlanta, has for years given the city a manifest ly fair deal in the matter of service. In view of the successful experiment in San Francisco, it should see that excellent service is maintained at all times. Letters From The Georgian's Readers THE MUFFLER NUISANCE. Editor The Georgian: Just a word of thanks for tak ing up the matter of that muffler cut-out nuisance. 1 live on a street which is much frequented by automobilists. and there is a small hill right at my home. It does seem that every driver who comes to this incline make all the fuss he possibly can. I hope the ordinance aimed against the nuisance will be enforced. I am glad to note that Chief Beavers has interested himself in the mat ter. We should be able to get some action now. GORDON STREET. HUERTA AND UNCLE SAM. Editor The Georgian: It seems to me that the Tinted States is taking the right tack in this affair with Mexico.. But if we are to have any trouble, we should be prepared for it. Uncle Sam ought to protect American citizens who are in Mexico. All the other foreign powers can be depended upon to carefully look after their citizens. Just let an ^ Englishman or a German be im posed upon and see how quick John Bull and the Kaiser will get busy! These foreigners are very keen about their rights, and when they have been imposed upon they don t kill a lot of time talk ing about it. They act! Of course, downright trouble with any nation is to be deplored. We should have peace at all times, but 1 don't believe in swallowing insult and worse to preserve it. The question should be dealt with firmly. When Huerta under stands that we are not to he bluffed, he’ll take in his horns. R. T. M. Griffin, Ga. MUFFLER CUT-OUTS. Editor The Georgian: I want to take this occasion to thank you for the little editorial in your pa per regarding muffler cut-outs. They have become quite an an noyance on Peachtree street, making life miserable for the people living on it. not only all day. but the greater part of the night. If it is not asking too much. I would like for you to touch them up occasionally until it is stopped. Again thanking you for the ar ticle above mentioned. 1 am. yours truly. A. G. RHODES. Atlanta, Ga. The Atlanta Georgian Pi. ACL TefiS Hundred 7hou60no on The reo t^e most \ CRUSH ovjR- , C0MPe.TiToe.s ]] Duel The Business fix ME A Bracer - Those CockTvus l^t NlG-BT C-A.VE ME /AfnM The Stage Cocktail Funny how it strengthens a fellow’s nerve—in the play. Banish the Bog! He Spreads Tuberculosis The Same 1 rue of Cats---Neither of These Animals Is a Fit Companion for Man in His Home, Especially Where There Are Children. T HERE are at least 12,000 tuberculosis dogs at large in Paris! Every oue of those infected, pre-Adamite com panions .to man, tit only for the Stone Age of human culture, is a possible source for the spread of the great white plagiffe among the children of the French metropolis! Tubercular Dog a Danger as Great as Malarial Mosquito. This alarming statement is based upon a report just made to the National Academy of Medicine by Professor Cadiot, of the veterinary school of Alfort It is auother convincing reason why dogs should be banished from all centers of human population. A tuberculosis dog may he as dan gerous as a malaria-hearing mos quito. and even more so. The peril to children is especially great, ac cording to Professor Cadiot and Dr. Petit, because of their tendency to pet the infected animals, taking them ill their arms, catching their breath, and even allowing them to" lick their faces. Cats are equally dangerous, for they, too, are frequently infected with tuberculosis in its many con cealed forms. These animals contract the dis ease, Professor Cadiot says, from human sources—through the diges tive tract. Dogs and cats devour all sorts of substances, and it has been observed that the pets of con sumptive patients almost invari ably are affected by tuberculosis. Dogs that haunt restaurants, cafes, saloons, drinking places and simi lar resorts seldom escape Infection, and then they are ready to spread By GARRETT P. SERVISS it to human beings with whom they come in contact. Paris contains the astonishing canine population of 200,000! From 6 to 9 per cent of these useless dogs carry the seeds of tuberculo sis about with them wherever they go. This plague, the same authori ties declare, is not confined to Par is, hut is proportionately present in every city and town where dogs abound. It is not possible to make a medical survey of all the canine population of a city, and thousands of dangerous cases may easily exist without detection. The only safety consists in abolishing these utterly useless animals from all cities. It is well to reflect that this ten dency of dogs to contract tubercu losis, and then pass it on to hu man beings, is not confined to any climate, but exists wherever dogs and men live together. Canine tuberculosis Is, without doubt, as common in America as in France. It is a far greater danger than that of rabies, because a rabid dog can usually be recognized on sight, while one carrying the seeds of consumption can only be detected by medical examination. You would not think of giving to | your children for a pet an animal j capable of envenoming them with its bite. How much less should you be willing to subject them to the infinitely greater danger of an Infection that hides itself in ap parently innocent caresses. Every dog that runs at large is liable, from its habits, to contract tuber culosis, no matter how carefully it may be guarded against the danger O H, yes! I had a lovely time, Superlatively gay, I turkey-trotted every night And boated every day. I wore my tango bathing dress, it struck beholders dumb. It was the briefest on the bench. And that is going somo. I I’m all worn out and hardly fit To pound the keys again; On nerves and poeketbooks and clothes Vacations are a strain. But mine was worth it. for I ate Some mutton sauced with capers. Got ptomaine poisoning And my name In all the Sunday papers. when it is under observation at home. This may be one of the mysteri ous sources of the spread of tuber culosis in spite of all the efforts that have been made by medical societies and preventive associa tions to stamp it out. And remem ber that cats are equally danger ous. Neither a cat nor a dog Is a fit companion for man in his home, or in any of his great centers of population. That dogs are special ly subject to infection is show:: by the fact, noted by Professor Cadiot, that tuberculosis disease is five hundred times more frequent among dogs than among horses. And cats are, apparently, not far behind dogs in their liability to such infection. This Is a New and Terri ble Indictment Against the Dog. This new and terrible indictment against the dog, added to the many which already exist, should be suf ficient to lead to its complete ban ishment from all large cities and towns. It is dangerous because of its frequent savage attacks upon children (some of the favorite pets of dog fanciers are the most vicious in their propensities), be cause of its liability to rabies, the most awful infliction that an ani mal's bite is capable of imparting, because of its objectionable habits in the streets, and. most of all, perhaps, because now we know that it is an agent for the spread of tuberculosis. Let Constantinople enjoy alone the glory of being the metropolis of dogs! i THE HOME RARER THE SMALL TOWN By WILLIAM F. KIRK. a 1/.4.V whose nerve* were, ragged from the strenuous city lift Decided he would take a rest and wouldn't take his wife. “I’ll go to some small town,” he said, “and live upon a diet. Where folk arc kind and simple, and where everything is quiet." The weary man parked up his grip, and after some delay lie found a little village where he thought he'd like to stay. He started to enjoy the rest he had so truly earned; He strolled among the villagers, and this is what he learned: k That Hiram Jenkins was a heat who never paid a cent: That Abner Hawkins drank so much he couldn't pay his rent; , That old Squire Higgins was a crook and had been all his life; That I’erkins ran a card game, and that Jimson beat his wife. * He learned that Mrs. Hopkins washed her dishes twice a week, And did some giddy things, of which they didn’t like to speak. He learned that Mrs. Wiggins smoked a cigarette one day And flirted with the druggist when her husband was away. After he heard these items, as they passed from Up to Up, The weary pilgrim had enough, and packed his little grip. He went back to the city on the first and fastest train, And never took the rest cure in a little town again. It Is Difficult to Impress Truth By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN. S UPPOSE that a class of fifty students in very high mathe matics in a university should enter the recitation room at the usual hour and take seats. And let us further suppose that each student, say at near the end of the senior year, had advanced in mathematics far enough to secure transitory and evanescent glimpses into the unfathomable depths of a master mind, such, for instance, as the mind of Charles P. Steinmitz. I ,ct each student be able to solve at least a dozen of his differential equations and integrate his master ful formulas relating to modern concepts of electricity. Let the students have their lesson all ready for recitation, and then sup pose that the professor, instead of calling upon them to recite, should in a very impressive manner speak four most remarkable words. And then remain silent during two minutes, with eyes gazing at the Door. After the two minutes, which would seem long to the class, let the teacher slowly repeat the same four words and relapse into si lence. And during the one hour period, the professor, in language each time more impressive than before, would say the same four mysterious and awe-inspiring words thirty times. The students would be filled with astonishment. Concentration. Now let the class pass from the | recitation room of mathematics to the electrical laboratory, and let us imagine that the teacher should say the same four words at in tervals Of three minutes, but with this preliminary remark: “Stu dents, you are requested to sum- I mon all of your mental power and concentrate, striving to the utmost to glimpse the meaning of the four words. You will have twenty in tervals of intense silence for pow erful mental concentration.” By this time the students would be thoroughly mystified. Soon the hour would be passed ; and let them all go to the chemical laboratory, and there he astounded by the pro fessor doing the same. He would say: “Students, I am to speak four words at intervals of five minutes; and you are to concen trate on their meaning during the twelve periods of silence, and I ad- <monish you to let the silence be absolute, and your thought be In tense. Concentrate.” Then to the astronomical recita tion room. Here let the teacher In solemn and impressive tones state: “Students, to-day I will repeat four words, and remain silent dur ing five minutes and thus repeat until the end of the hour. But it is my desire that you make use of every power of mind in the effort of concentration, striving to see if you can secure a fleeting view of the real meaning of the four all- powerful words.” The mystery in the minds of the students would now be intense, and they would, indeed, summon every faculty that had been trained by their preceding mathematics. Law of the Mind. Then to the reciation room—The Hall of Mentonomy—a new room, a very recent addition to a rear wing of the university, invisible from the street; a small, obscure room, but the most majestic of all on the campus; a little room dedicated to the study of mentonomy, the law of the mind. Here the class met a new profes sor and entered, wondering what he would do. When seated, the new professor of mentonomy would say: “Fellow students, I will vary the exercise to-day. I will re peat four words and then remain silent for five minutes and re peat. But you are to awaken hitherto latent powers In your minds, powers that the professor of mathematic^ informs me are just beginning to awaken. You now have twelve periods of rigid, se vere and intense concentration, with one supreme, momentous, all- important and all-ineluding object in view, namely, that of attempting to secure an inconceivably brief glimpse of the meaning of the four words.” And then the teacher spoke the four omnific words and bade the students concentrate. To Other Planets. Total failure at first. Soon the teacher interrupted and said: “You are not concentrating.” The students protested, saying: “Why, we are striving to concentrate.” “True,” said the teacher, "but you have scarcely commenced: you have not really aroused hitherto latent powers.” One more trial— failure. Class dismissed. And the whole experiment repeated in each recitation daily for one year might possibly result In two bright stu dents being able to secure a tran sitory flashlight view or glimpse of the ineffable and majestic meaning of the four words, which are: “Nothing exists but electrons.” (Sidelights from my new book, just out.) 0. Kindly inform me if man will be able by use of electricity to transport himself to another planet? A. I have published everywhere during thirty-six years that the mind of man is illimitable. This related to the present almost in conceivable mind power in recent mathematics. Flight to planets seems to be beyond human power, hut then he may “do anything.” Q. I can not see why the law of conservation of energy should be either waste or economy. A. There is neither waste nor economy. Energy is as indestructi ble as matter. No trace of waste anywhere, no economy. Nature does not use a fraction more than necessary, nor less. The two words “waste” and “economy” can not apply to the stupendous cosmic law, the conservation of energy. The Hobble By PERCY SHAW. A ccording to the scientists Of subtlest erudition Who read on caves and obe lisks The tales of man’s ambition, The Neolithic hobble was A well-known manumission. In those coy days it must have pleased The sterner sex immensely To watch the lovely damsels flee From rock to boulder tensely The while a Pterodactyl chased Malicious and prepensely. Although the hobble still holds sway. Diaphanous, impressing, No Pterodactyls haunt the air With antics prepossessing— Which shows while woman marches on Mere man is retrogressing. _ „