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EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME PARER THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published by THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St. Atlanta. Ga Entered ns second-rlass matter at postofflre at Atlanta, under art of March 3. 1873 Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week By mail, $5 00 a year. Payable In Advance. ' The Reason Why Governor Slaton's Judicial Ap» pointnients Give Satisfaction Able and Courageous Men Placed Where They Can Best Serve the People. Governor Slaton’s judicial appointments, just made public, prove that our able executive is not to be influenced by politi cians or others in filling offices. The gentlemen named are well known. They are able, and have served the public well in the past. Judge Hill, in accepting the appointment to the new Atlanta circuit, sets a fine example to other men in public places, for the position he gives up on the Appellate Court bench is ranked higher than the place to which he has been assigned. Judge Hill undoubtedly considered it his duty to the public to make the change. He is the distinguished son of one of Geor gia's intellectual giants. He has an enviable record as a lawyer. His knowledge of the law has given him a commanding position among able and thoughtful lawyers. His place in the legal his tory of our State is fixed and permanent. And he possesses in a very marked degree one of the most important qualifications any judge can have—COURAGE! He knows the law. He is intensely human. He is unafraid. Mob clamor, trials by orators in and out of the pulpit and trials by newspapers of important cases do not influence him. He is a just judge, who tempers justice with mercy, but believes the laws of the Commonwealth must be enforced. The other appointees, Judge Roan, Charles S. Reid and George M. Napier, are equally satisfactory. This newspaper congratulates Governor Slaton upon the selections he has made. Thaw’s Persecuion a Legal Farce Harry Thaw is being hounded as relentlessly in Vermont and New Hampshire as he was in the Dominion of Canada. The story of Thaw’s pursuit and prosecution, with Sheriffs, Con stables, Immigration Officers and high-priced lawyers joining in, makes as disgraceful a chapter of the attempted administration of justice as could be supplied from the annals of the Middle Ages. First, Thaw is seized illegally in Canada and held illegally till W. T. Jerome has an opportunity to get on the State payroll and hurry to Canada, there to continue the bedeviling of Thaw begun seven years ago. Next, Jerome, holding a commission as a Deputy Attorney General of the State of New York, gets himself arrested as a common gambler and locked up in the cell that first held Thaw— a shameful performance. Once out of jail, he jumps into the automobile in which he had intended to rush Thaw through two States and hastens out of Canada despite the warning of the authorities that this would be jumping bail. While Jerome was crossing and recrossing the border the Canadian immigration authorities took Thaw by force out of, his prison and dragged him over the line. This was done despite a solemn writ from the King’s bench ordering Thaw to he pro duced for a habeas corpus hearing in Montreal. Jerome's part in this high-handed proceeding was to be at the line waiting for Thaw when he was ejected from Canada. His own troubles, however, had mixed his plans and he was not present. In spite of the flouting of the law by the Canadian immi gration officials, inspired by Jerome, Thaw was out of Canada and once more free. There was no immediate necessity for his deportation. He was doing no harm in Coaticook and in a posi- ^on to do no harm. He objected strenuously to being freed in such a manner, yet here he was, an American citizen, in his own country, convicted of no crime and beyond any recognized power of extradition. You would imagine that he would have at least received fair treatment in his own country. But you would be wrong. In every part of Vermont and New Hampshire Deputy Sheriffs swarmed on Thaw’s trail and within a few hours he was arrested without warrant or extradition papers and again held until the always tardy Jerome should appear and take charge of him. Why were the Canadian immigration officials in such a hurry to deliver Thaw into the hands of Jerome that they rose superior to the courts of their country? Why were the New England sheriffs obsessed with such a mad desire to lock up a man who had never violated a statute of their State and never, according to a jury, committed a crime in any other State? Why have precedent and order and decency and law been calmly set aside in shameful pursuit of a citizen to whom the Constitution of the United States supposedly guarantees the rights and privileges of all citizens? Why does the chase of one man, already punished by seven years of jail in a madhouse for ridding the world of a white slaver, cause authorities in two countries to abandon their regu i duties as if an outlaw were devastating the countryside? Ella Wheeler Wilcox Writes on The Nation’s Workers Labor Unions Should In stil the Religion of Kind ness Into the Daily Relation of Toilers. Written for The Atlanta Georqian By Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Copyright, 1913.) T J Bfforo the little fledglings leave their nest, the mother bird has taught With, dancing feet that scarcely touch the sod—the maiden's joy of liv- them how to fly, /tig sounds life’s knell. I Hut human mothers fail, to meet this test, and so their daughters flutter— How shall she learn to follow paths untrod, unguided, helpless, under | fall—and die. blindness’ spell? While mothers teach that innocence is best, that life is fair and blue and How can she guess the road that leads to God must bridge the grim abyss sunlit sky! o’er man-made Hell? L. L. It Was a 14-Inning Game HE well-being of our whole nation depends upon work ing men and women. With out labor, capital would be use less; without labor, the home, so ciety, ships, trains, pleasure, char ity, duty, would all be words de void of meaning. Were ail the idle rich of the earth to suddenly vanish, were all the geniuses and the society peo ple and the kings and rulers and the pleasure makers to be swept away, the world could still go on, and there would be comfort and prosperity, and homes would still exist. Men and women would be able to eat, drink and be merry: to marry, to rear children, to travel and to perform all the various of fices of daily life. But were all these geniuses and money kings, and imperial rulers, and the pleas ure makers and seekers, to remain, and the world’s workers were to be sw'ept away, w'hat awful misery would prevail! Religion Is of No Avail Unless Workers Aid One Another. Trains and ships would cease to move; the home and the hotel would become desert places, and there would be no comfort and no pleasure on earth. Therefore it should be the aim and object of all leaders of religious thought to try I and give such teachings and such prospects to this important part of our world as will awaken in each mind a truer ideal of brotherly love and human sympathy, and which will try to do away with the petty and quarrelsome and un worthy spirit which mars the ranks of labor to-day, and which interferes with the happiness and comfort of tens of thousands of human beings. Unless the working men and women are showing one another courtesy, good will, and making an effort to do as they would he done by, of what use is their religion ? The fear of doing some duty which belongs to another, and the great deRire to show a spirit of independence, rather than a spirit of helpfulness toward fellow work ers, Is everywhere prevalent to day. The greater their privileges, given by the enmloyers, the less kindliness do they seem to feel toward one another. Even in the homes where but two maids are kent, one a working tyu sekeepor and cook, the other waitress and chambermaid, discord often pre vails. because the one is exacting a the other inconsiderate. And, just in proportion as the staff in- j creases in numbers, so does the ■ discord increase, because of this j fear of being imposed upon or be- | ing asked to do some duty by a j fellow toiler. A man servant who has been, perhaps, years in some home will find a newcomer haughty and im pertinent. when trying to portion out his duties, because the new comer is filled with the modern idea of being “as good as the next.” and imagines the head man is putting on airs. Often the head man is the offender. In every de partment of labor this unfortu nate feeling is found, spoiling con ditions even where employers have tried to make them ideal. Kindness the Keynote of Harmony Among the World’s Toilers. it is ail the result of LACK OF REAL RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES. Clergymen and parents have failed to present A RELIGION QF HU MAN BROTHERHOOD to this great and important part of our republic—the laboring people—a religion which necessitates the daily and hourly practice of the common virtues of kindliness, courtesy and good will toward one another. All religions are represented among the working people of America. Protestants, Roman in dreams By EDMUND LEAMY. F you can fight, as I must fight. The daily grinding toil; Then you will know the after glow, The peace from out the moil. It you are loved, as I am loved, The earth's a Paradise; And you will play .the game alway. Nor care to win the prize. If you can hope, as I may hope. With faith that still endures. Then you will win, through all the sin— The world itself is yours. And you will dream, as I can dream. And dreams are fairer far Than love, and gold and earth so old. / Or other things that axel Catholics, Lutherans, members of the Greek Church, the Jewish Tabernacle, are all to be found among our daily toilers, in domes tic service, in the shops and fac tories and hotels. This article is an appeal to men who stand at the head of all those religious organizations to try to make the religion of their follow ers more practical and more use ful in the world. Much is said about the duty of employers to their helpers, and the duties of labor to capital, but one of the most needed reforms in the world of labor to-day is to BRING THE RELIGION OF KINDNESS INTO THE RELA TION OF WORKER WITH WORKER; BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND OVERSEER, BE TWEEN BUTLER AND VALET: BETWEEN COOK AND SECOND GIRL, AND SO ON THROUGH ALL THE VARIOUS DEPART MENTS OF LABOR. It is doubtful if in any home In the land a mistress or master of a household can be found who is so inconsiderate, so thoughtless, so selfish, so anxious to be thought “better” and so afraid of doing one act not included in the con tact, as are a large number of the maids and men who work in hotels, boarding houses or private homes, shops or factories in their relations with one another. Capital can not misuse or mal- tieat labor as labor is mistreating labor every hour of the day, in e\ery village, city and country place in America. Since it has be come the custom to specialize work, and with the increase of wages and the decrease of work ing hours, the spirit of Intolerance between working people in various departments seems to grow with astonishing rapidity. Labor unions and the progres sive spirit of the day have awak ened the mind of the general pub lic to the rights and the privileges of labor. And labor itself has grown to realize its necessity to give good work and good will in return for its shorter hours and larger wages. Treat Your Co Workers in the Same Way You Would Demand. But. it has utterly failed to grasp the meaning of Brotherhood ... Its hourly relations one with am other. It ought to be the effort of every religious teacher in America to awaken the hearts of the working people to a better understanding of this practical phase of spirit uality. if you are a laboring man or woman, stop and ask yourself, are you treating your fellow work ers, whether in factories, shops, hotels and homes, JUST AS YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE TREATED? Are you treating them as well as. you treat your employers? And do you not know of innum erable cases where labor is mis using labor, if not in acts, then in selfish and jealous and envious thoughts and words? The true religion lies in being kind.