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Work, Affection. Power and
Health—Without Work and
Useful Work Life Is a Failure
and a Misery.
WORK. AFFECTION, POWER. HEALTH
Those are among the things that make life noble, happy and
worth while. Tell the young boys and girls of your family to
think and write about the picture at the top of this page.
Not what others write, but what YOU think is important.
It is the intention of this newspaper to print from time to
time pictures with a meaning and ask the readers to study them,
discuss them, THINK AND WRITE about them.
Vague thinking does little good. Merely to look and ad
mire is nothing. Young people should be encouraged and taught
to think and write EXACTLY.
Take an hour by yourself, or in the family circle, to discuss
this picture and its meaning. Write down what you see in it.
Don't try to do FANCY WRITING, but see how much you can
find in this particular picture and how simply and briefly you
can express it.
This picture is reproduced from the September number of
Hearst's Magazine.
In that Magazine there is an article based upon the picture
written by a well known writer—one of the best known in the
United States.
Before you read what he thinks, however, find out WHAT
YOU THINK.
Hundreds of thousands of different things may be said about
this picture by The Georgian s great family of readers.
It is a picture of that which makes life WORTH WHILE.
Write out now YOUR list of things that are worth while in
life.
First comes USEFUL WORK and that is the biggest thing
in this picture.
Without work and useful work life is a failure and a misery.
The highest type of work is that which exercises the brain
and the body, calling for imagination, patience and persistence.
Next in importance after work comes AFFECTION—the
power that keeps the race moving upward, the power that has
changed men from savages to human beings nearly civilized.
The affection of men and women for each other, the deep
devotion of a mother for her child—these are the forces that do
the work of civilization. And they are in this picture.
What else do you sec in the picture?
You see the mysterious head near the hand that holds the
chisel. That represents the strange fascination of the unknown.
All the strange religions and beliefs for which men have given
their lives and taken the lives of others belong to the realm of
mystery—an interesting part of life.
What else do you see in the picture?
You see the hand that holds the scales by which we measure
values and typify justice.
Justice and property—and the laws—they are important to
life. They and many other things are in this picture.
Ask the children, young and old, what this picture means to
them. Teach them to think and to express thought. Ask them
i what seems to them worth while in life, and of all the things
which one they think most important.
Is it success, happiness, peace of mind, love, glory, property?
An hour spent thinking about this picture and discussing it
with the family will do more good than much reading of ordinary
news and discussion of ordinary topics.
After you have thought over the picture yourself, yoxi may
read in Hearst's Magazine the writings of a well paid profes
sional writer on the same picture. Compare his ideas and your
own.
The American’s Mission Abroad
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
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THE summer tourists* that
come trooping; home across
these summer seas bring
with them a freshly invigorated
and inspiring Americanism.
Paris and London have their
wonders and attractions. Em
bossed history and gilded remi
niscence linger in the recollection
of French and English capitals,
and the gayeties and enjoyments
of these ancient and illustrious
lefties are meeting now in compe
tuion the progressive splendors
a*J audacities of Berlin, toward
? Wch the tourist tide stronglj
put the steady drift of national
a.r 1 international sentiment with
in the decade is to New York as
the foremost city of the world in
interest, in enjoyment, in vitality
and in promise
The Viscount Haldane. ]x»rd
High Chancellor of England. <aid
.aaerc than one significant i.nd in>
pressHve thing during his brief
stay in America Most flattering
and generous from so high and
serene an intelligence was his
parting statement that L > • bser
vations had made him < ♦ r:.< n
that "the foremost place m the
world was assured to America
in the future.
But in the journex to Wen
Point this bread-mii de llngl .-li
man remarked: Th« g' of
the Hudson surpass •xv u • or.
You do not speak of them in > :• • t
countries as much a- you : i.
And you do n««i >pe<ii
Palisades at all. If v< a.id t'le
Ifcdisudes on tue Thames taey
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would be known throughout the*
world.”
It is not often that American
enterprise or national pride is
challenged for a failure to adver
tise. But it is here justly ar
raigned.
Beyond Niagara and Mammoth
Cave, Yosemite and the Yellow
stone. foreigners hear little of the
wonders of s*. enery in a land
where the Hudson matches the
Rhine, where Fike’s Peak and
Shasta vie with Mont Blanc,
were the chateau country of Ken
tucky and the Berkshire.* com
pares with th. region around
Tour- and whore histon gathers
f.t Bunker Hill and Yorktown and
Gettysburg and Appomattox and
the Alamo as rich and inspiring as
Bannockburn and Waterloo and
Balaklava and Thermopylae—if
we would only say so.
It is high time that Americans
abroad wi re impr ‘ssing their his
tory anil traditions. their heroic
memorii a and their immortal
t ames upon the «>ld World., as
t.‘> old. World has impressed it.-»
history upon us.
We are no longer young. We
ire old enough now to gather our
relics and marshal our traditions
while the photograph upon the
universal mind the wonders of
our material realm. It is time
also for the old W orld to know
that Pickett’s 12,'"' at Gettys
burg were a* wonderful ■- Lord
Card gan’g Six Hundre ’ at Bal
aklava. and that Thermopylae
had its mvsseng. r of defeat, the
Alamo had none.
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The Atlanta Georgian
What, in Our Life, Is Worth While?
EDITORIAL '>l^7- -T--. that is worth while in life. We offer
this to the thousands of families
"’fiich this newspaper
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(1 he above picture reproduced by permission from Hearst’s Magazine.)
Men Slaves to Beauty, Women Are Not
Girls of U. S. Won’t Find It Necessary to Form Protective League
Against Handsome Men, Says Dorothy Dix.
:■ N Berlin, where a man’s a man
and a husband's a husband and
hard to get. no matter what
sort of a face he has on him.
Fraulein Berben has organized a
society that is called “The League
Against Beauty.”
The members of this organiza
tion are all young women, and they
have pledged themselves to marry
only ugly men. on the theory that |
handsome husbands make more
unsatisfactory life partners than
homely ones, and that in matri
mony pretty is as pretty does.
American girls will probably not
find it necessary to form a pro
tective league to guard themselves
against youths who are cursed with
the fatal gift of beauty, A polios not
being overly plentiful in this coun
try. however common they may be
in Germany.
In America We Do Not
Exalt the Dandy; We
Make Fun of Him.
Indeed, in America the living
picture man finds scant favor
either with his own or the opposite
sex. and we do not exalt the dandy
who is the glass of fashion and
the mold of form to a pinnacle and
imitate him. We throw bricks at
him and laugh at him
Strangely enough, it is men who
are slaves to beauty and who make
fools of themselves over it—not
women. When you tell a man
about a woman the very first ques
tion he asks yon is. "Is she pret
ty?" He never inquires whether
she is intelligent, or talented, or
agreeable, or good, or what she
has done to merit the approval
of her fellow creatures. The thing
that he Is chiefly interested in is
her looks, lie places more value
on her complexion than her char
acter. and considers the outside of
her head of more importance than
the inside.
If a girl has yellow hair and blue
eyes, and a peaches and cream
skin, and a willowy figure, she
may be the dullest, the stupidest
imbecile that ever lived, her heart
may be as hard as a nick and she
herself nothing but a clothes horse
to hang fine dresses- on, but men
will flock around her like bees
By DOROTHY DIX
around a honey pot. and fight with
each other for a chance of marry
ing her.
On the contrary, when .von tell a
woman about a man in whom you
wish to interest her, she practically
never asks a question about his
physical appearance. His looks,
provided lie is not a deformity and
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DOROTHY DIX.
has the appearance of a gentleman,
do not count with her. What she
wants to know is whether he is in
telligent, and strong; whether he
knows how to talk ami entertain
her. and particularly what he has
achieved, whether he has made
something out of his life, or is one
of the "also rans.”
Os course, beauty is a gift of the
gods, ami if a man van have that
in addition to all the other desira
ble qualifications he is just that
much to the good. A woman would
naturally rather contemplate an
Adonis than otherwise, but a man’s
looks cut a very small figure in her
estimate of him. la?t him lie
charming in manners, glib in
speech, a good dancer, and espe
cially know bow to take care of
a womap, and do the little things
just right, and the man with car
roty hair, no eyebrows, a snub
nose and a stumpy figure can back
the classical featured six-foot tai
lor's dummy off of the board any
day.
in proof of this observe the ob-
vious pleasure with which girls re
ceive the attentions of bald-headed,
bay-windowed men who break ev
ery rule of physical pulchritude but
who are clever and bright and
overflowing with the graces of
mind and soul.
But can you imagine a fat.
dumpy, bald-headed woman ever
being a belle, or men deliberately
seeking her out as a partner for
the dance and rejoicing in being
seen in public with her? Never.
Such a woman might be the most
gifted creature on earth and a per
fect angel of goodness, yet no man
would ever take the trouble to look
beyond her homely face and see
the superlative beauty of her soul.
The opponents of woman suf
frage are always saying that when
women vote, the one and only
qualification that a candidate will
need to swing the feminine ballot
will be a handsome face. They
are dead wrong there. Women
won't care a rap about a man’s
I limits. Indeed, they are always
suspicious of one who is overly
endowed with beauty, but Heaven
help the country when we have
feminine candidates for office and
j a Lillian Russell takes the stump!
The men would vote for her en
masse, without ever stopping to
inquire which side of the political
fence she stood on.
Women Do Not Care to
.Cater to Caprices of
a Vain Man.
In reality, it is not too much to
say women rather resent than ad
mire beauty in men. It is a poach
ing on their own preserves, the in
vading of a field they hold sacred
to themselves. If any body is going
to be admired, a woman knows
who ought to be IT. She wants
the tributes laid at her feet, and
not to lie compelled to scatter
roses before a man and tell him
what lieautiful eyes he has got,
and how exquisitely his hair grows,
and what a magnificent straight
front figure he possesses.
Faugh! The very thought of
such a thing knocks romance out i
of the ring with the average girl. I
nor does the idea of being the ordi- ;
nary looking wife of a handsome j
man make any hit with her. i
if there’s going to be any Beauty
and the Beast business in her
family she wants to qualify for
the role of Beauty. That’s the
reason that you often see a pretty
woman marry a grotesquely ugly
man, but very rarely a handsome
man married to a homely woman.
Another reason why women do
not care for a superabundance of
good looks in a man is because a
handsome man is invariably inor
dinately vain, with the vanity that
makes the vainest woman seem
humble and self-deprecating. He
has a vanity that requires to be
continually fed on flattery of a
warmer and more piquant kind
than any domestic brand. It seems
a pity to him to waste so much
charms on any one woman, and
that one a mere wife, so he roams
abroad to give other women a
chance "for to see and to admire”
him.
An instinctive sense of self
protection makes women choose
homely men as husbands. They
may like to feast their eyes occa
sionally upon a matinee hero, but
when they go home they want
something more than a living pic
ture in the house. They want a
man, and if he's intelligent, and
good, and kind, and generous, they
don’t care a button about his looks.
Stars and Stripes
Although straw hats have been
automatically retired, we may be
»xcused for wearing ours a few
days longer for three reasons—
the first being ample.
Philadt Iphia woman who traps
husband by imitating her rival
apparently solves the whole
marital problem.
Food prices jumped 60 per cent
in thirteen years. Always a few
jumps ahead of the consumer.
Thaw case is so involved it will
take habeas corpus writs to get
the lawyers out.
Pence is rapidly being restored
in Mexico—3oo more killed in
Chihuahua.
Boy is arrested playing police
man; qualified for the force.
The vaudeville circuit is might
ier than the battleship.
Grate times are coming—
Br-r-r-r-r!
the: home paper
Wonders of the
Planet Jupiter
He Is the “Co ni e t
Catcher’’ of the Uni
verse —Were It Not for
the Sun. Our Earth
Woul<lß e v o 1 v e
Around Jupiter—S<>
Fast 1) o the Big
Planet and All His
Satellites Move That
His Day Is Only Ten
Hours in Length.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
IF you look toward the south in
the early’ evening you will see
the planet Jupiter glowing
placidly among the constellations,
like a great super-star which has
no need to twinkle in order to call
attention to itself.
You will understand at a glance
why the ancients gave to this
magnificent planet the name of
the chief of their gods, why the
Chinese called it the ‘Regulator"
and the Egyptians “Horus, the
Guider of the Sphere.”
In our scientific way we have
found more accurately descriptive
terms for this big planet, which
exceeds the earth about 1,300
time« in magnitude. Among other
things, we call Jupiter the “Comet
Catcher.”
Nearly Thirty Comets Have
Been Captured by
Jupiter.
Its power of attraction is so
great (more than 300 times that
of the earth) and its position in
the solar system is .«*> command
ing (about five times as far from
the sun as the earth is) that it
often draws wandering comets
out of their paths as they ap
proach the sun from outer space
and turns them into smaller,
shorter orbits, so that, henceforth,
they are unable to go very far
away, but continue to revolve
around the sun in elliptical
curves, whose form has been im
posed by the interference of Jupi
ter.
Nearly thirty comets are now
known which have thus been
“captured” by Jupiter.
He is not powerful enough to
keep them for himself, but is
compelled to hand them over to
the sun. He is like one of the
great feudal barons of the Mid
dle Ages, who had to surrender
his prisoners to his the King.
Still, he sometimes interferes
with them a second lime, if they
venture near him, and sends them
scurrying off In new orbits.
He has also created havocamong
the orbits of the hundreds of little
planets, called “asteroids.” which
he has trained into groups, and he
is even suspected of having
turned some of them into his own
retainers, in the character of lit
tle “moons.”
In fact. Jupiter is so powerful
that he would make the earth re
volve around him if the sun were
absent. One of his four principal
moons is larger than the planet
Mercury, and yet he swings it
around him once every week,
making it travel in that space of
time more than 4.000.000 miles.
The nearest of them, which is
considerably larger than our
moon, is whipped around him at
a speed of 40,000 miles per hour.
Everything goes fast about
The Supreme Court
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
llt was one hundred and twenty
years ago—on September 11.
1787—that the Judiciary Com
mittee of the Federal convention,
assembled at Philadelphia, pre
sented to the convention its final
report on the third of the three
great departments of the General
Government —the Supreme Court.
With very little bickering the
committee’s report was sanction
ed. and the "most remarkable and
original of all the creations of the
convention" became a part of the
Constitution
The Supreme Court is unique
among the intellectual work of
the ages. At the time there was
nothing like it anywhere on earth;
nor, for that matter, is there any
thing like it to this day. Mr.
Gladstone declared, with unusual
enthusiasm, that the Constitution
of the United States was the
greatest piece of work that ever
sprang from the human mind:
and the Supreme Court is in
many ways the most wonderful
part of the Constitution.
Its creation stamps the men of
the Philadelphia convention as
having been pre-eminently wise
and far-seeing. They were form
ulating a government for a fami
ly of States stubbornly tenacious
of their rights, and they kntw
that there would be endless strife
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Jupiter, He turns on his own axis
s’o rapidly that his day is only
ten hours long, and if we were
situated on his equator we should
find ourselves whirled round at
the rate of more than 27,000 miles
per hour.
One consequence of this i» that
he has Battened his own roles and
swelled out his own equator by
centrifugal force to such an ex
tent that he measures about 5,000
miles less through the poles than
through the equator. His equa
torial diameter is about 88,000
miles, and his polar diameter only
about 83,000 miles.
This difference is so striking
that you can see it easily if you
look at Jupiter through a tele
scope. He is not round like a
baseball, hut elongated like a foot
ball, or. rather, flattened like a
pumpkin. Another consequence
of his mad energy of motion,
which you will see if you inspect
him with a telescope, is that his
whole surface is covered with
parallel belts of clouds drawn
out into bands by the swift rota
tion. These clouds vary in color
and in form, and while you are
watching them you will actually
see the planet turning, if you
continue observations for an hour
or two.
Discovery of His Moons
Upset the Ancients’
Astronomy.
Another thing of fascinating in
terest which a telescopic view of
Jupiter affords is the motion of
the four nearby moons. It was
Galileo a discovery of these moons
that upset the ancient system of
astronomy. They seem to fly as
if terrified at the possibility of
being drawn down into the grasp
of their relentless master. In the
course of a single evening you can
see them cross his disk or pass
into and out of his shadow, and
often you can watch their own
little round shadows, as biaclc
as ink drops, moving swiftly
across his broad, oval, shining
face or disk.
If you have not studied as
tronomy—a subject that every in
telligent human being should
know something about—begin at
once with the planet Jupiter. If
you can not get a chance to look
at him witli a telescope, watch
iiim with tile naked eye, observe
his place among the stars—he is
now in the constellation Sagitta
rius—and see how that place
Slowly changes from week to
week. Then get a hook on astron
omy. and learn from it all you
can. not only about Jupiter, but
about other things in the sky. and
the result, in the broadening of
your mind and the tranquillizing
of your-spirit, will be both a de
light and a surprise to you.
between the local and general
authorities unless It was fore
stalled by- some sort of constitu
tional means. Congress—the Fed
eral Legislatun—would pass the
general laws—the laws that
should concern the States In their
confederated capacity; but what
if this or that State, or this or
that citizen of a State should
question the validity of the Fed
eral statutes? "Well,” said the
Fathers, "we will settle all such
troubles in the Supreme Court,
before the decisions of which all
must bow."
The Supreme Court is the near
est approach to earthly omnipo
tence that we have any knowl
edge of. A statute enacted by
Parliament must stand until some
future Parliament sees fit to re
peal it. but an act passed by both
Houst s of "Congress and signed
by the President may still ne set
aside as unconstitutional by this
most august of all tribunals—the
Supreme Court of the United
States.
Most nobly has the illustrious
body served the high purpose for
which it was created, and the
most cynical or pessimistic of
Americans would hesitate long
before offering the faintest insin
uation against its honor or effi
ciency. !