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f wm SGm EDITORIAL rage The Atlanta Georgian the home parer THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published by THE GEORGIAN COMPANY AT 20 East Alabama 9t,, Atlanta, Qa. *«rOei 14 ea second - el*** msttsr at p»*toffle« a* Atlanta, under act of March I, ii/I HEaRBT'6 M'NDAT AMERICAN and THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN will mailed to tubocrlbor* irvwhra In the United Statea. Canada ana Mexico, month for l 00. three month* for II 75 chance of addreee made ae often ae Retired Foreign subscription ratee on application. »-♦ v-» » ♦ ♦ e “IT’S A SAD STORY, MATES! 4 4 Copyright. iei2 1 r‘friitmi Sartre What Will the Much Praised, New Fancied Tariff Do? "Watch It and See—Especially You Who Are Workingmen (Oeprlfbt. 1911.) Shall We Obliterate Panama? SAh rr5 G^tA-O To Pfc A FRtE AMERICAN'. This 'S Tut , °NiY country j WMtM A ' private I OTrzSN>\ KKWTi ARE! SPKTtp;! An intelligent man. creator and manager ol several big busi ness talked about the tariff. HE KNOWS about the tariff, for be Is a big importer, a man who deals annually in millions of dol lar*’ worth of goods that pay tariff What he had to say interest* many Americans The new tariff,” said he. "is advertised ae a great boon for the common people. ”It depends upon what you call the common people *"It will not prove to be a great boon for those that work lor a living—and they will And it out. "The new tariff means that manufacturers in this country must compete more closely with the manufacturers in Europe. And that means, of course, that WORKINGMEN in this coun fry must compete more directly with workingmen in Europe. “I know something about the making and selling of cloth, from (he mill and as a finished product. •“And here are three faots: The new tariff will save some money for those that are prosperous—that buy their things in Europe—or buy exclusive ly imported European products. The new tariff will not save a dollar in the cost of living or dressing for the masses of workingmen and the little people of modest incomes "And the tariff will deprive of work many thousands of those that work for a living in THIS country. " Thousands of men whose work has bean done in America and sold in America will lose their present employment, for the reason that the work that they have been doing will be DONE IN EUROPE and sold in America. "Just watch the importations of woolen goods, for instance, into this country. "The new tariff means that one-third of all the looms in the United States will be shut down. 'That means that one-third oi all the human beings earn ing a living at the looms will have to find some other way of earning a living. “It is not gay for them and cheerful for those who realize that the welfare of a country depends absolutely upon the wel- fare of the mass of the population. “You know that when workers in this country are brought into direct competition with workers in another country they must accept the pay of the foreign workers or give up the work. "You know, also, that an einpl<>3 r er can not successfully REDUCE WAGES Yon can not maintain your business in this country and carry on yonr enterprise with a lot of dissatisfied men whose pay has been reduced. ' Therefore, the only thing that a manufacturer can do when he finds it necessary to cut down wages in order to meet foreign competition IS TO CLOSE HIS MILL OR HIS FACTORY AB SOLUTELY. Then, after a while, he can reopen with a lot of new men on a new basis. And that is what a good many will have to do. This country is a big enterprise, a BUSINESS enterprise, a MANUFACTURING enterprise built up slowly on a certain basis. Many of those who work for a living and many manufac lurer? who have tried to build up industries in this country are going to realize that experimenting with settled conditions is dangerous V fib** GiRMAN flT ITEM? 5£*T TO PRISON Fc^LooK,^ 5^Z C I AN yJShYou OciwlT'— ]*• ***< b«.»via> ivihmcG h ,r |ft ilf? TBife / &6T oarof 1 V, 'The way,You 9oo»' 1 PO You WANT / (To ps kh-usj> y / i , V f GEn.&lU,, 1 v%' IT !> oettincA 1 So You CANT ' IT is C.ETTINO So You CANT 1 l<UN A 0UX-K C— WITHOUT UITT.hA i 5oMk PONtUEAP j v _ (Rtfalrt) U AT ONCE' A REAL l Pleasure, ^MUTToHMSAJOjUB ri 'S AUTOMoau-E ACOSWT JcfARTMlUT ——, y „ - !on, You ‘-n \r*3 / OH, YOU CPEPEyrniAH 1 . ♦ »A-»4»»444444 ♦ Marriage Brings Out Strongest Qualities By DOROTHY DIX % CARRIAGE g ■*©» aus« *\ 1 out whatever 1a th* strongest quality in them, wheth er that quality ia good or had. It intensifies virtue* and mag nifies faults. Of course. marriage 1* realty the big gamble All do not know what they are getting in a husband or a wife until they have taken the package they drew In the lottery home and examined it, but observation hands us a good many tips on a man's or woman's character that enable us to give some pretty shrewd gueanej A girl, for instance, has beer tipped off that if she marries the man who never takes heT any where. or gives her any pleasure, she will get a husband who will be miserly, selfish and a stick-in- the-mud I n© girl who marries a man w 10 comes to .-ee her smelling of liquor and maudlin with drink has been warned in time that if she marries him she will have a drunken husband. for whom nhw’U have to get up and open the door in the middle of the night. The girl who marries a young man who has never been able to keep a situation, or to make a living for himself, has been given a tip. big enough to knock a house down with, that she will acquire a loafing, no account husband that she will have to support. When a man In his courting days Is grouchy and surly, and ill-tempered, and a girl has to be always jollying him into a good humor, she has received her tip that if she marries him she will spend a miserable life walking on eggs for fear that she will say or do something that will explode his infernal machine of a dispo sition. If a couple quarrel before mar riage they will quarrel ten times worse after marriage, and they should have enough sense to break away before they have to call in the divorce court to help them. If a girl observes that a man is fussy about his eating, and likes to make his own salad dressing at the table, she has been tipped off that his wife will need to be a. good cook. If she notices that he’s always the hero of his own stories, and that he likes to talk about himself she’s got a tip that any wife who holds him will have to be an A No. 1 flatterer. By listening to the things that a. man laughs at you can get a good working model of the kind of a husband he will make. If he laughs at cruel speeches that stab like a knife, he will make A Child of the Nations By REV. C. F. AKED. D.D.. LL. D The man quoted above is typical of the energetic, success lul. aggressive business man and constructive citizen. What he has to say should have the attention of statesmen who are so enthusiastically experimenting with things in general. t. r r Colombia, stall aggrieved by the part played by the United States in the revolution which created the republic of Pan ama, makes the cool proposi tion that the United States should force the Panamanians to re turn to their old position as a Colombian province. There is an old saying that revolutions never go backward. The Panama affair was not much of a revolution, but it solved a problem which had disquieted the Isthmus for half a century and bade fair to block the construction of a Panama Canal for years to come That the United States was a party to the revolution can not oe denied, in the face of the historic facts and of Roosevelt's ast. I took Panama and let Congress debate about it after ard That the United States owes Colombia some reparation is possible—a matter of proper diplomatic discussion. But that such reparation should take the form of forcing the Panamanians back into a subjection which forty-seven times :n fifty years they had endeavored to throw off by armed revo. lution is unbelievable. Even so -hrfty a public man as the uresent Secretary of State can hardly take into serious consideration so flat a con traveutioii of hi- favorite dogma. All governments derive their ju:t pi.u. r: from the consent of t.hf imotiri A GREAT man is in our midst. Driven out of Al bania by the Servians, re called to duty by the provisional government, and then asked by the President of Albania to rep resent this new nation to the people of the United States, Charles Telford Erickson has a story to tell which the world ought to hear. He knows storm-tossed Albania ns few men do. In prison and in exile and amid the blood-red horrors of vs ar Erickson ha? drawn near to the heart of the Albanian people. He has been present at meetings of the Cabinet. He knows the mind land. It may oe that the Albanians represent the oldest stock in Eu rope. from whose loins sprang both Greece and Rome When The Turk broke into Europe and conquered the Balkan peninsula the Albanian held out against him. For more than half a cen tury. behind his mountain ram parts. he defied the Mohammedan conqueror He crossed the Adri atic and pleaded with the princes of the church for aid. It vus in vain. Albania was doomed. Four centuries of Turkish mis rule have done their work. The land has fallen back Into desert Their spirit is a* untamable as ever. In the war. husband, wife and little child fought side by aide. The father took the rifle. The mother armed herself with the sword. Children died point ing the bayonet at their murder ers. Men. women and children alike had their reward Thou sands of men were tied back •• back and mowed down by in a chine guiiA t cordon of tfbop© w Auid be drawn round a ' l'iagp **' T*#- m i-H- As women and children rushed from beneath the blazing roof they were received on the points of bayonets and flung back to die in the flames Tire Turk has been driven out of Albania. The Powers have guaranteed its independence. A Prince has been found for the throne, a German Prince seated there by the nations of Europe. Nominally a Mohammedan peo ple. the Albanians petitioned the Pow ers for a Protestant Prince to rule over them. Toleration of re ligions has been guaranteed by the new Government. Herein lies the significance to the Tvord of the re-birth of Albania. With three-fifths of the population supposed to be Moslem. Albania, by the voice of its accredited Government, pleads with the Christian nations for their Christianitj. Flight of the Huguenots By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. T WO HUXDRE D AND ] TWENTY-EIGHT year* ago the royal order revok ing the Edict of Name® went into force, and the beginning of the end of the prosperity of France was at hand. The order threw France into a whirlpool qf clashing hates. The ‘ Reign of Terror,” a hundred years in the future, was to be no worse. The “September Massa cres” of the revolution of 1789 were but to k repeat the work of the dragonades turned loose by Louis the Fourteenth upon the Huguenots. The result of the King’s mad ness was just such as might have been expected, just such as he might easily have foreseen had his judgment been equal to his fanaticism Harried to death by the royal edict, the Huguenots began the emigration which, be fore it was finished, deprived A SHADOWY something drifting son Gemmed thick with paling stars The softened blur of apple tress. That, nwaying, whisper in the breeze \ud scatter storms of rose and while In blinding ©weeuiee® through the nigh; \nd then—a thickening of the mi*' The silver blurred to amethyM And on me creep* the fog And through fhe deptns o? front) w n « ome memories of another night, j he »oent of apple bloaaom* blown The mist-—your mouth upon my own 4nd you. afraid 10 give se much, erre to trembling at tone* u>en—miet again and memories phantom*—sheR I never knew France of more than a million of her faire&t people. The perse cuted Huguenots, seeking tiie lib erty that was ®o dear to them, fled to Holland, Germany. Eng land, Switzerland and the Ameri can Colonies, giving to those countries the benefit of their superior skill, intelligence and moral worth. If Louis had deliberately willed to ruin his country, ho could not have gone about it in a better way. His foolish decree drove away from his kingdom its finest brain, its most robust energy, it® most valuable handicraft, its no blest men and women: and what France lost the other countries gained. We hear much these days about the “Decline of France,” but we do not always stop to think that the decline began with the infer nal foolishness that led Louis the Fourteenth to revoke the Edict of Xante®, thus completely undoing all the good work that had been so wisely begun by Henry the Fourth. If Louis had had sense enough to have given the Hugue nots the liberties that belonged to them, the history of France would have been altogether dif ferent. The Huguenots would probably have rendered the bloody revolution of ’89 quite urmecessa- ry, and it is more than likely that they would have made impossible the deep humiliation of 1870. In-Shoots Those who live in glass houses had better bathe afier dark. * * * A lot of u& find that virtue is . erv modest in rewarding her self. The men real!} fit to tiolto of fice are generally holding r *M*rri© his wife the butt of his sarcasm. If he laugh® at coarse, vulgar ! stories, he will make the kind of a hueband who has no delicate appreciation of a woman's na ture. If the sight of other people’s misfortunes fill him with mirth, j there'® nothing on earth that he will sympathize with except him self: but if he has the kindly hu mor that can gild every misfor tune in life, and if his smile at others' weaknesses is full of ten derness and understanding, then he's a man to tie up with, no matter whether he's rich or poor, or of high or low estate. He'll make the kind of a husband that’ll keep a woman on her knees thanking God she’s got him. Oh, men furnish plenty of tips about the kind of husbands they will make if only girls had the sense and the courage to refuse to play the bad ones. Garrett P. Serviss Writes on Highways in the Air Entliusiahtic aviators are talking of the establishment of great world roads through the air: it is the boldest experiment in aerial navigation that has yet been faced, a really grand enterprise that must com mand the admiration of the whole world, he savs. By GARRETT P. SERVISS rpilE first great world roads I were on the land, and they made rich and powerful such cities as Palmyra, Damas cus, Cairo. Bagdad, Samarcand, situated at the beginning or the end, or at important intersections, of long and difficult routes oveT vast deserts and tangled moun tains. Then came the great sea routes, first on the Mediterranean, and then round the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn, and even tually across the oceans, which made, in succession, the fortunes of Alexandria Tyre, Carthage, Venice, Antwerp, London, New York, San Francisco. Now enthusiastic aviators are talking of the establishment of great world roads in the air, and it remains for the future to de-i cide whether they, in their turn, will lay the foundations of com mercial capitals as yet undreamed of. The atmosphere, too. has Its natural routes, determined part ly by the lay of the land, partly by the existence of great centers of population, partly by the inac cessibility of points otherwise de sirable for the development of hu man Industry, and partly by the peculiarities of winds and air cur rents. Three such route® ihrougn the air are being considered for ex ploration by French aviators. One of them lies across the des ert of Sahara, from Algeria, southward, to Timbuctoo and the River Niger. Three years ago French military authorities sent squadrons of aeroplanes to Biskra and Dakar with orders to attack the great desert. Explorations were made, but nothing of seri ous importance wa® accomplished, because, as is now alleged, there was not sufficient initiative shown hv those in charge of th© work. Take the airships to Co- lomb-Bechar, says an experienced aviator, and the problem will b* solved, and the transit of the dw elt, which now requires fw month® by caravan, will be mad* easily in two days. Next year !t is expected this will be done under the lead of M. Etienne. Within a few months past r.w»> other great air routes have been proposed., and preparation* ar* now under way to attempt their opening. One of these goes from Paris to Cairo, and. the other from Paris to Bagdad. The first, as laid out, passe* across Europe to Constantinople, thence to Konia in Asia Minor then to Aleppo, Jerusalem, Gaza. Port i^aid and Cairo. The stop ping points and places for revlc tualment have all been marked out. M. Daucourt, accompanied by M. Roux as passenger, are to attempt this passage as soon a* their preparations can be com pleted. Part of their supplies have alreauy gone forward to Smyrna and Beirut. The stages of the second route, also starting from Paris, are Con stantinople, Aleppo, Meskine-Ec east of Palestine. Deir. Aneh, Hit, Felloud ja, Bagdad - Bassora The difficulties of both these routes are foreseen. As one winter puts it, “The way from Belgrade to Constantinople is a hard one “ But there is—worse ahead. A' rived in Asia Minor, the aviators will have to conduct their ma chines over the Taurus Mouc tains, which attain an elevation of 13,000 feet. Tn this region no aid can be expected. The explorers will have to depend upon their own re sources and the excellence of their apparatus. It is the bolci est experiment in aerial navigs - tion that ha$ vet been faced, e really grand enterprise which must command the admiration and best wishes of the whole world! Elsie C. Parsons on Woman’s Rights Selected by EDV.’IN MARKHAM. ^ j/-p H E OLD-FASHIONED I WOMAN,” issued by ri Dnino 'c fl/vnQ OLD-FASHIONED by G. P. Putnam'® Sons, and written by Elsie Clews Par- Nons. Ph. D.. is a mine of curious lore about the status of woman, past and present. Here are a few scattered statements from the book. “Women's rights to property, either in tribal groups or in early civilizations, are rarely equal with men’s. Until 1882 an Eng lishman controlled his wife’s earnings. In most of the United States a married woman Is not permitted to enter into a busi ness partnership exclusive of her husband’s interests, and in gen eral the courts do not favor a woman’s acquiring earnings for her separate use without the husband's consent. In Sweden a husband still owns whatever hi® wife buys with her earnings. “Since children, like women, are usually considered a form of property, a mother has sel dom the same rights as a father. Both the Babylonian and the Ro man fathers could sell their chil dren with maternal consent. (The Babylonian could sell the mother of his children, too.) A French mother has no legal authority at all over her chil dren during their father’s life time. and after his death she has to share her control with his kindred. “Iri our common law a moth er is not entitled, like a father, to the services and earnings of minors,. and in some States a father can stili will away the 'guardianship of his child from its mother. In all State.® the fa ther has the paramount right of custody. “We allow r women to serve as witnesses, or to stand for trial like a man, although the courts still disincline to permit a per sonal judgment againet a mar ried woman. “Ae late as 1884 it was agreed that ‘to attend medical clinic® in company with men, women must lay aside their modesty/ About this time the president of the British Medical Association, in referring to medicine as a pro fession for women, said publicly that he shuddered to hear of what the ladies were attempting to do. ‘One can but blush and feel mat modesty, once inherent in the fairest of God’s creation, is fast fading away/ “Of this name period must have been the lady who had learned to swim—to the horror of her clergyman. ‘But/ she said ‘sup pose I "rfas drowningr Tn that case,’ he replied, *vou ought to wait until a man comes along and saves you.’ ” Questions Answered ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. F C. T.—Thait the ancient Egyptians were not negroes is certain, and it is equally certain that they did not belong to the Semite, or Jewish race. Said the late Professor Huxley: “1 am not aware that there are any living people who resemble them, ex cept the Oravidian tribes of Cen tal India, and the AuMralians; And I have long been inclined to think that the latter are the low est, and the Egyptians the high est, members of a race of man kind of gTeat antiquity, distinct alike from Aryan and Turanian on the one side and from negro and negrite on the other." In a word, nobody can Bay. with any degree of assurance, what breed of men th* builders of ? he Pvra- jrjide v?rq. THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE D. R. C.—There is no “Amer ican” language. The language spoken by the people of the United States is the English lan guage, the richest, most'“viril* and most powerful of all the lan gauges now to be found among men. The men who conceived and made good this nation w r er« Englishmen, and, of course, the' spoke the only language they knew anything about, the lan guage of iheir ancestors. th* English language. The groat D> Doilinger said of this language that “to it is assigned in th* oming age the intellectual su premacy that in ancient time.s be longed to the Greeks and after ward to the Romans.” In 17b' English w T a» the language 9.000.000 i»eoplf To-day ir it th* anguage of 175.000 000, and b' 1 h*- end of the century it, wilt h« *h* 'sriff .ag«a &00.000 *0*^ psop £