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z-anbi W* I rf**. ’•*:«..." EDITORIAL RAGE! The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME RARER THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published by TIIK GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 Kant Alabama Kt. Atlanta. Oa. Knter^rt »>>* hacond lasu matter at poatofflce at Atlanta, under act of March I, 117* HI-.' M'NDAT AMERICAN and THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN will be m t ■ * ? ■ubncrlb^r* anywhere In the United Btatee, Canada and Mexico, rne r nth fnr t 60. three month* for |1 75; chance of address made aa often aa desired r<irel*n subscription ratea on application r What Will the Much Praised, New Fancied Faritf Do? Watch It and See—Especially You Who Are Workingmen (Copyright, 1918 ) Shall We Obliterate Panama? “IT’S A SAD STORY, MATES!” Ceirjngfct. 1913, launttmO Neva Samoa IV [7 B AA AMSftio feaMW) WMW.I A Private ;n-rziM'> Skwt* A«t\ PIctep; An intelligent man, creator and manager of several big busi nesses, talked about the tariff. HE KNOW8 about the tariff, for he is a big importer, a man who deals annually in millions of dol lars ’ worth of goods that pay tariff. What he had to say interests many Americans. “The new tariff,” said he, “is advertised as 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 for a living—and they will find 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 try must compete more directly with workingmen in Europe. “I know something about the making and selling of cloth, from the mill and as a finished product. “And here are three facts: “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 been 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 instanoe, 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 of 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 realise that the welfare of a country depends absolutely upon the wel fare of the moss 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 employer can not successfully REDUCE WAGES. You can not maintain your business in this country and carry on your enterprise with a lot of dissatisfied men whose pay has been reduced. “Therefore, the only thing that a manufacturer can do when he ftnd3 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 turers who have tried to build up industries in this country are going to realize that experimenting with settled conditions is dangerous. ’ ’ SS8* GUT MAW CITiXEW? 5EKT TO PRISON AT a yrit&h'fcHTtoOMb'- f ToTm» Hail DRivsas’j Ball T«iy »vh«i,\J JJ msn I / &CT OUT Of ^ 'ThE way, You 9oof»' ) I Do You want , \To 06 KILLED x f- S' Gn.fetLi, l IT > GETTlHA \ So You canT 1 Run a 0aocmt WITHOUT UITT1k*T .Some pout heap 1 I W*aTo j \ Trt'& CIV yy\ at once >Y, OLD OUT, SIS RWAL L&ASURfc CLUB P automohv*. (WeLcohb^ ♦♦♦♦ < Marriage Brings Out Strongest Qualities By DOROTHY DIX M ARRIAGE d.esn’t Chang® people. It simply brings out whatever Is the strongest quality In them, wheth er that quality Is good or bad. It Intensifies virtues and mag nifies faults. Of course, marriage 1* really 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 tlpa on a man’s or woman's character that enable tis to give some pretty shrewd guesses A girl, for lnatanoe. has been tipped off that If she marries the man who never takes her any where, or gives her any pleasure, she will get a husband who will be miserly, selfish and a stick-in- the-mud. The girl who marries a man who comes to see 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 she'll 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 his wife the butt of his sarcasm. If he laughs at coarse, vulgar stories, he will make the kind of a husband who has no delicate appreciation of a woman’s na ture. If the sight of other people’s misfortunes fill him with mirth, there’s 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 refuee to play the bad ones. The man quoted above is typical of the energetic, success ful, 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. It It V Colombia, still 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 P.inama 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 be denied, in the face of the historic facts and of Roosevelt’s boast “I took Panama and let Congress debate about it after ward. 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 in fifty years they had endeavored to throw off by armed revo lution is unbelievable. Even so shifty a public man as the present Secretary of State can hardly take into serious consideration so flat a con travention of his favorite dogma, “All governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.” A Child of the Nations By REV. C. F. AKED, D.D., LL. D. A GRICAT 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 Erlcki»on has a story to tell whjch the world ought to hear. He knows his storm-tossed Albania as few men do- In prison and In exile and amid the blood-red horrors of war Erickson has drawn near to the heart of ths Albanian people. He has been present at meetings of the Cabinet. He knows the minds of the new rulers of the land. It may be 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 aids It was 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 as untamable as ever. In the war, husband, wife and little child fought aide by side. The father took the rifle. The mother armed herself with the 9word. Children died point ing the bayrmet at their murder ers. Men, women and children alike had their reward. Thou sands of men were tied back to buck and mowed down by ma chine guns. A cordon of troops would be drawn round a village or town. The houses were fired. As women and children rushed from beneath the blazing roof they w r ere received on the points of bayonets and flung back to die in the flames. The 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 Powers for a Protestant Prince to rule over them. Toleration of re ligions haa been guaranteed by the new Government. Herein lies the significance to ths w r ord of the re-blrth 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 Christianity. Flight of the Huguenots By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. T WO HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT years ago the royal order revok ing the Edict of Nantes went into force, and the beginning of the end of the prosperity of France was at hand. The order threw France into a whirlpool of 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 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 FOG By CONSTANCE CLARKE. j A SHADOWY something drifting soft. Gemmed thick with paling stars aloft; The softened blur of apple tress, That, swaying, whisper in the breeze. And scatter storms of rose and white In blinding sweetness through the night. And then—a thickening of the mist. The silver blurred to amethyst. And on me creeps the fog. And through ths depths of frosty white Come memories of another night. The scent of apple blossoms blown, The mist—your mouth upon my own. And you, afraid to give so much, Came to me. trembling at my touch. Then—miet again, and memories go Like phantoms—shall I never know w_ Whist Ues bejiead the log! France of more than & million of her fairest people. The perse cuted Huguenots, eeeklng the lib erty that was so 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, h«* 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, its 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 Nantes, 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 unnecessa ry, and It is more than likely that they would hgv* made Impossible the deep humiliation of 1870. In-Shoots Those who live in glass houses had better bathe after dark. • * • A lot of us find that virtue Is very modest In rewarding her self. * * * The men really fit to hold of fice are generally holding down some other good Job. Garrett P. Serviss Writes on Highways in the Air ‘Enthusiastic 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 saya. By GARRETT P. SERVISS T HE fleet great world road* were on tho land, and they made rich and powerful such oltleg as Palmyra. Damas cus, Cairo, Bagdad, Samarkand, situated at the beginning or tho end. or at Important Intersections, of long and difficult routes over vast dooerts and tangled moun tains. Then came the great sea routes, first on tho Mediterranean, and then round the Capo of Good Hope and Capo Horn, ond even tually across the oceans, which made, In succession, the fortunes of Alexandria. Tyre, Carthage, Venice, Antwerp, London, Now York, Ban Francisco. Now enthusiastic aviators ar# talking of the establishment of great world roads In ths air, and It remains for tho future to de 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 tho lay of tho land, partly by ths existence of great renters of population, partly by the inac cessibility of points otherwise de sirable for the development of hu man Industry, and partly by tbe peculiarities of winds and air cur rents. Three such route# through the air are being considered for ex ploration by French aviators. On* of them Tie* across tho des ert of Sahara, from Algeria, southward, to Tlmbuotoo and tho River Niger. Three years ago French military authorities sent squadrons of aeroplane* to Biskra and Dakar with orders to attack the great desert. Explorations were made, but nothing of seri ous Importance wae accomplished, because, as Is now alleged, there was not sufficient Initiative shown by those In charge ef the work. Take the sirehlps to Co- lomb-Bechar, says an experienced aviator, and the problem wifi b» solved, and the transit of the des- ert, which now requires four months by caravan, will be made easily In two days. Next year It Is expected this will be done under the lead of M. Etienne. Within a few months past two other great air routes have been proposed, and preparations ars now under way to attempt their opening. One of these goes from Paris to Cairo, and the other from Parts to Bagdad. The first, as laid out, passes across Europe to Constantinople, thence to Konla In Asia Minor, then to Aleppo, Jerusalem. Gsxa, Port Bald and Cairo. The stop ping points and place* 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 already gone forward to Smyrna and Beirut. The stages of the second routs, also starting from Paris, are Con stantinople, Aleppo, Mesklne-Ed, east of Palestine, Delr, Aneh, Hit, Felloudja, Bagdad-Bassora. The difficulties of both these routes are foreseen. As one writer puts It, "The way from Belgrade to Constantinople Is a hard one." But there Is worse ahead. Ar rived In Asia Minor, tho aviators will have to conduct their ma chines over tho Taurus Moun tains, which attain an elevation of 18,000 feet. In 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 la tho bold est experiment In aerial naviga tion that has yet been faoed. a really grand enterprise which must command the admiration and bast wishes of the whols world! Elsie C. Parsons on Woman’s Rights Selected by EDWIN MARKHAM. v HD OLD-FASHIONED WOMAN," lasued by Q, P. Putnam's Bona and written by Elsie Clews Par sons, Ph. D., Is a mine of curious lor* about tho statu* of woman, past and present. Here are a few scattered statements from the book. "Women 1 * rights to property, either In tribal groups or in early civilizations, are rarely equal with men's. Until 18B2 an Eng lishman controlled hts 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 oeparato use without the husband's consent. In Sweden a husband etill owns whatever his wife buy* with her earnings. "Since children, like women, ars usually considered a form of property, a mother has sel dom ths 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 hi* death she has to »hare her oontrol with his kindred. "In our common law a moth er la not entitled, like a father, to the services and earnings of minors, and in some States a father can still will away ths guardianship of his child from Its mother. In all States the fa ther has the paramount right of custody. "We allow women to serve as witnesses, or to stand for trial like a man, although the courts ■till disincline to permit a per sonal Judgment against a mar ried woman. “As late as 1884 it was agreed that ‘to attend medical clinic* In company with men, women mu*t lay aside their modesty.' About this time the president of the British Medical Association, in referring to medicine ae a pro fession for women, said publicly that he shuddered to hear of what the ladles were attempting to do. 'One can but blush and feel that modesty, onoe Inherent In the fairest of God's creation, Is fast fading away.’ "Of this same period must have been the lady who had learned to swim—to the horror of her clergyman. "801/ she aald, 'sup pose I was drowning?" 'In that case,' he replied, 'you 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 oertaln, and It 1* equally certain that they did not belong to tho Semite, or Jewish race. Said the late Professor Huxley: “I am not aware that there are any living people who resemble them, ex cept the Oravidlan tribes of Cen tral India, and the Australians; 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 great antiquity, distinct alike from Aryan and Turanian on the one side, and from negro and negrlte on the ether." In a word, nobody can say, with any degree of assurance, what breed of men the builders of the Pyra mid* were. THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE. D, R. G.—There is no “Amer ican" language. The language spoken by the people of the United State* Is the English lan guage, the richest, most virile and most powerful of all the lan gauges now to be found among men. The men who conceived and made good this nation were Englishmen, and, of course, they spoke the only language they knew anything about, the lan guage ef their ancestors, the English language. The great Dr Dellinger said of this language that "to tt la oeolgned In the coming age the Intelleotual su f iremaoy that In ancient times be onged to the Greeks and after ward to the Romans." In English was the language of 9,000,000 people, To-day it is tbe language of 1TB,000,000; and by the end of the century It will b« the language ef 100.090,000 peal -a-