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( - +&aatma&mr % EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian the: home: rarer >42 ’ < f THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Pub) •».-1 by Tli:: GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama Ft Atlanta. Ga Entered a* narond-clAFs matter at postnff t at Atlanta, under art of March X. 1171 HKAR.'-T'fl SUNDAY AMERICAN .nd THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN will he mulled to fuhwrlhr'^ anywhere in the United States, Canada and Mexico, one month for 160. three u.ncithH for $ 1 nix month* for T>0 and one \.-ar for $7.00; change of acldos* made aa often as desired. lore.gu m..Inscription rates on application. The Russian Question Must WAIT While Mr. Bryan s Mr. Pindeil Breathes Aristocratic Air— Unlr s ihf Senat, of the United Stair. Wurly Decide. That Mr. Pmdell Will Get Along Just a. Well WITHOUT Meeting Royalty. fV>prrri|ftit. U>13, l»j- Rt*/ Coniimm Mr, Pindeil is an estimable prentleman, probably, in addition to being a good Bryan man and “the original Wilson man in Illinois.'' But the fact that Mr Pindeil is estimable, and the other fact that Mr. Pindeil would like “to meet royalty and introduce his daughter," is not an argument sufficiently strong for holding up for one year the important business pending between Russia and the United State?. A letter has been published in which Senator Lewis, speaking for Mr Bryan, the 'lecretary of State, tells Mr. Pindeil that he can go to Russia, FOR ONE YEAR ONLY. At the end of a year he must come back, resigning to give some other Bryan man. “or original Wilson man,’’ a chance to meet the Czar face to face and shako hands with Grand Dukes. There is nothing hesitating or doubtful about the letter that Pindeil got It assures hini that all important business between the United States and Russia will be HELD UP during the year that he is to devote to breathing aristocratic air. He will have nothing to do but travel about in Europe, meet noble creatures, and then at the end of a year come home to have bis great grandchildren brag that their father was a Russian Ambassador. The whole Ambassador business is ridiculous and out of date. International matters are settled by the heads of nations—-and the Ambassador is nothing but a messenger boy. Seventeen thousand five hundred dollars a year and expenses is too much to pav a messenger boy. Our diplomatic service should be eliminated, and this business nation should be represented by business men in the consular service. A consul attending to business, selected for his business knowl edge and ability, is quite able to hand a telegram from our Secre tary of State to the Minister of Foreign Affairs in another country. Our nation has important business with Russia, We need a treaty that will put ALL CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES ON AN EQUAL FOOTING WHEN THEY GO TO RUSSIA, Failing such a treaty, we need to make it clear to Russia that We want nothing whatever to do with her. And, first of all, we should end that extradition treaty now existing by which the Rus sians are able under false pretenses to LEAVE THEIR CRIMI NALS over here and take back for use in the Siberian mines Rus sians guilty of working for freedom. Mr. Bryan's message, sent through Senator Lewis to Pin- dell, says that the United States Government will not for a year- while Mr. Pmdell is introducing himself at court—have anything important to gay to Russia. But the United States, in view of the Beilis trial, OUGHT to have something important to say to Russia at once; we ought not to have to wait a year for Mr. Pindeil to come home before saying it.' Instead of sending to Russia a gentleman who is anxious to have his daughter shake hands with the Grand Dukes, we ought to send over some man—if we must have a diplomat—who will tell the Czar and his government what we think of both and make it clear that we want as little as possible to do with a nation that bases official murder upon religious hatred and prejudice. The Pindeil incident is a disgrace to the United States, a dis grace to the Administration. And unless the letter, which still stands, can be proved a forgery, The -sending of Pindeil is out rageous, and should not be permitted. Will Santa Clans Skip Any . Child in Atlanta? “IT’S A SAD STORY, MATES!” Or, How to Civt Rid of a Dictator ! Copyright, 1918, International New* Ferric*. TE l L Tt-rE Powet^) ( WON T RESil&K'i ( J>0 You get MET —-7SrTTTGTA /OH GLORIOUM GoARouHpTol /imPERAtorThe / The laundry and) (po\NtR<? won't ' (GST MY 5H»RTc,Y \ UETThe LAUNDRY] v — } (DOYollF^WASHING 1 What Travelers See on the Canal Voyage By WILLIAM H0STER The Georgian's Christmas Fund is still far below the $1,000 mark. There are more than 1,000 children in Atlanta who are dependent on this fund for their Christmas. Being dependent on The Georgian’s Fund means being dependent on YOU. a Georgian reader. And being dependent on The Georgian s Fund means being dependent on YOU not only for dolls and toy^ and Christmas cheer, but also for SHOES and STOCKINGS and GLOVES and UNDERCLOTHES for the winter. The merchants of Atlanta are more than generous in their aid. Through the low prices for which they sell to the Fund, $4.00 will give each poor child a doll, a set of toys, fruit, a pair of shoes that retail at $3.00, two suits of splendid underwear, two pairs of warm stockings and a pair of heavy gloves. Can you imagine what that much means to a child 4 or 5 years old, that already is beginning to believe that there is no such person as Santa Claus? There is no waste in the fund. The Georgian pays all ex penses for collecting it, and any merchant will tell you the presents are bought for less than he paid for the goods. And you can rest assured that each child who gets a present is DESERVING and is DEPENDENT ON YOU for its Christmas. So let us all work together and see if this year every child in town wont agree that there is a Santa Claus, after all. T T THAT will the world trav- XX see who makes the Journey from Colon to Balboa through the panama Ca nal? Approaching the old city of Colon, formerly Aspinwall. from the Atlantic end. the ship will enter Lin on Bay, passing Toro Point, somewhere behind which, in a grove of magnificent cocoa- nut palms, are hidden the fortifi cations which guard the Atlantic entrance to the “ditch.” On the left are the red roofs of Colon. Finding the Lake.” The line of the ('anal is easily picked up through the buoys which mark the channel. Under its own steam the ship will pro ceed slowly southward, passing in transit the new American town of Cristobal, built by the Canal Commission, and so on into the canal itself. 1,000 feel wide, across a six-mile stretch of low land -the only unattractive coun try traversed throughout the en tire 48 miles of waterway. Already, however, the tourist will have noticed looming up straighTahead the gray walls of the first flight of looks at Gatun. Through those marvels of me chanical skill and construction, by successive stages the ship will be lifted up tlie three flights of locks, a distance of S5 feet, and, finally, the upper level having been at tained, will be Moated out upon the broad surface of Gatun Lake. A tourist being shown about the canal recently said to Colonel Goethals: “How fortunate you were in finding this lake here.” It was a remark illustrative of the popular ignorance of the work which has been done here. A few years ago a broad, popu lous valley stretched away from the point where the locks begin. There were haJf a dozen busy lit tle communities between the two hills where the lake now rests. Then the canal diggers came along, built a dam across from hill to hill, and by slow stages this magnificent lake took shape. Off to the left from where the ship emerged from the final lock for a mile and a half stands the famous Gatun Dam. which it was said was an impossible engineer ing feat, and which rests so nat urally in the scheme of things now that it has to be pointed out before any one realizes that it. is a dam and that this lake, which extends down across the Isthmus for a distance of about 30 miles, is entirely the work of man. During the transit through the locks the ship has been towed by little electric engines at either side of the lock chamber. But now, as the la^st lock is passed, these shackles are thrown off, and under her own steam again the ship begins the passage of Gatun Lake, one of the most picturesque rides on the globe. River and ocean together have mingled here to make this bridge of water across the continental divide. With the dam built, the problem of the raging Chagres River was solved. old, the charging Chagres had swept and swirled across the Isthmus, car rying flood and devastation with it—rising frequently over twenty feet overnight—the despair of the canal diggers. Then Gatun Dam was devised, the barrier was erected across the hills, and the Chagres River came pouring down over the water sheds to discover that her devastating sway was ended at last. Har nessed by the hand*of man, the wilder her rage now. and the greater the volume of her torren tial floods, the better she serves the purpose of man in keeping the flow of water in Gatun Lake at the height necessary to float the commerce of the world. A Scene of Grandeur. So out upon the broad surface of Gatun Lake the ship steams, over the sites of towns wiped out by the rising waters, across the bed of the old Panama Railroad southwest, until at length sight of the Gatun Locks is lost in a bend of the channel, and the tour ist finds himself in a land-locked basin, steaming alon- at a height of 85 feet above the level of the sea in the midst of a scene of idyllic grandeur. In the background rise the pur ple hills of the Cordilleras—low- lying foothills of the Andes, which slope down gradually to ward the shore of the lake. The most beautiful vistas open out as the ship moves gracefully alcjng under her own steam. Tropical foliage abounds. Tall cocoanut palms, banana trees and the thousand and one varieties of tropical plants and flowers wave along the banks. Fire plants are in full bloom, a hundred different colors dazzling the eye. A glimpse is had now nd then of orchids of the most delicate shades clinging to the barren limbs of trees, but far out of the reach of man. Tropical birds of brilliant plumage float through the air; glistening fish at play leap from the water just ahead of the ship’s bow; we get a hasty glimpse of an alligator catapulting with electric speed from the bank into the w'ater. If one is lucky, he will get a flash even of a family of monkeys hanging by each other’s tails off there in the tropical jun gle. And over all a .brilliant sun, whose rays are tempered Dy a soft breeze, spice-laden and aromatic. Ancon, Panama. STARS AND STRIPES If all M ans were lik< Villa, on would be or* d. bund dollar is sent to ci ■nee fund. Tainted or count Hopkinaon Smith, the t r of * A White Umbrella n 'v: ■•••'.- V, * . ; i 'ther, iic thiiiivg. Only ten persons shot in the M.iine woods this season. Far be hind the record of New York's Hast to.de jungle. * * * The late J. U Morgan was Lit - inglv satarlcal about the effort of C«>run ss to ‘ unscramble <ug> “ How would he look upon the ef fort it will shortly make to get <usn out of cold storage and vMicrc -he: can oe scrambled* By ANDREW COLVIN. r V >HE power to nominate is the I power to control a public official after he is elect ed. The remedy is to take the power of nomination from the political boss, and the only way that this can be accomplished is through a genuine direct primary law Experience of States which are using direct primary laws proves conclusively that, in order to be effective, such a law must be State-wide, mandatory and open. The convention system of nom inations for public office is THEORETICALLY the ideal method. Delegates chosen from small units of representation, representing the sentiment of their party in that community, if permitted to meet together and select, by exchange of views and \\:iho u eing influenced by mat ter* ."side of the convention, will come more nearly to produc ing nominations satisfactory to the rank and file of the political party which they represent than any other method which could be devised. The conventions have, however, for more than a generation past been dominated ami often abso lutely controlled by the political leader of the district, and the re sult has been the nominations by the district leader. The senti ment of the various sections his had little or nothing to do wnh the action of the convention. This condition has given rise to the widespread dissatisfaction with the convention system, which has resulted In the adop tion of direct primary laws of one form or another in 29 States of the Union, many of them East ern States. In all but three of the L’9 States referred to the primary laws are State-wide; that is. all officers, including State officers, are nomi nated directly at the primaries, and all conventions, including the State convention, are abolished. State-wide direct primaries have proved more satisfactory to the people generally than have laws which retained the State convention. The State convention is used by the politicians and self ish interests not only to nominate State officers but to arrange for the distribution of the patronage of the State offices, and also, quite largely, to arrange for local nomi nations. including .nominations for the Slate Legislature. The experience of ether States lias brought to the direct primary struggle the support generally of all citizens believing in better State government who have paid sufficient attention to the sub ject to understand the situation intelligently; on the other hand, the opposition of the party bosses has of itself convinced a great number of people that direct pri- mar. -s would be a g*od thing for the public. TWO OCEANS AND CANAL. Editor The Georgian: The waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans will not meet in the Panama Canal, nor will they approach nearer to each other than about 34 miles. The waters of the Atlantic will enter the canal and flow as far as the lower gate of the lower Gatun Lock and no farther, which is about eight miles from deep water in the Atlantic. The wa ters/ of the Pacific similarly will enter the canal and flow up to the lower gate -of the. lower Mirafl *res locks, about eight miles from deep water iq the Pa- (ifle; and as the canal Is about 50 miles in length from deep wa ter to deep water, the waters of the two oceans will not come closer together than about 34 miles. Over these 34 miles the water i» normally 85 feet above sea level, and there is no provision for raising the ocean water to such level nor is there any ne- cessity therefor, as fresh water is supplied from the River Cha gres. 1 might say that for a distance of about two miles of the 34 miles the water is about 55 feet above sen level, that is, between Pedro Miguel and Mira- fiores locks. SAMUEL J. FRANKLIN. RELIEF FOR FARMER. Editor The Georgian: Your editorial, Relief for the Parme*v" deserves the highest praise. About twenty yearsr ago my parents and foul* of us youngsters, between 20 and 30 years of age, tilled three farms. My parents, buying more land, soon got into the hands of the loan sharks and one by one we went to the city for work to keep on pafing our debts; to-day the farms are nothing more than a wilderness. A few years ago I benight a farm I wanted to raise about half the purchase price on a mortgage. I went to a bank in which I had been a depositor for about fifteen years, but was told that they can not loan money out of the State. 1 tried an in surance company, where I was insured for about ten years on a twenty-year insurance, for the amount, but was turned down. At tha time I had a farm worth about three times the money I asked for. but that made no dif ference. The farmer is not reaping any benefit fr.-m the increase in the cost of living. All other great nations help the farmers; why are we so backward? OH AS. JOS. KRoTOCHWTL. “GEORGIA HOME WEEK.” Editor The Georgian. It is suggested, in view of the success of “Georgia Products Day.' that “Georgia Home Week" be made a time of annual pilgrimage. P. S. NORTH. Augusta t Ga. DOROTHY DIX Writes nn The Nice Little Girl The One Who Would Make a Good Wife for Any Man but Who Never Has a Serious Beau. By DOROTHY DIX. A MONG my acquaintances there is a dear little girl who is everything that we sum up in the adjective “nice.” She belongs to a nice, refined family; she has been nicely brought up. She’s no beauty, but she’s nice, and pretty, and whole some looking, and she dresses nicely, and she has been taught not only all the useful domestic accomplishments, but is a fine musician, and performs equally well upon the gas range and the piano. This prl is exactly the sort of girl that every mother and sister would like to see her son or broth er marry. She’s the very type of young woman to make a ".good wife, but for some reason that nobody can explain she doesn’t attract men at all. She never has a beau. She is never invited to go to any place of amusement by a man, and she’s left looking wistfully after the other young people when they go trooping off without her to have a good time. Naturally, this distresses the girl very much. She's young, and * she craves the enjoyment that belongs to her time of life, and she wants to know if there's any thing that she can do to take her self out of the wall-flower class, and get into the bunch, so to speak. Of course, nobody can really tell what it is that attracts a man to a maid. In its essence it is that illusive something that we call personal magnetism, and that is the gift of the gods. We have all ^een girls who were homely and commonplace to the last degree, who had neither con versation nor wit, and yet men flocked about them as bees about a honey pot. We have seen oth er girls beautiful, attractive, in telligent and adorned like Solo mon in all his glory that no man ever gave a second thought to, and the explanation of the phe nomenon lay in the fact that one girl had that mysterious attract ing power for men, the come- hither look in her eye:- that draws men on, while the other had it not. Personal magnetism is the re sult of nature, not of cultivation, and yet a girl can do much to make herself attractive to men, for, after all, men are simple creatures and easily pleased. Any girl with ordinary intelli gence can learn enough about the things men care for to talk in terestingly; she can acquire the art of listening with an expression of absorbed interest while a man talks to her, and unless she is an utter fool she can lead a man to talk about himself, too vast is hu man vanity that every man or woman we meet within five min utes gives U9 a tip on his or her peculiar weakness, and we have only to follow that lead in order to make ourselves agreeable to that particular individual. Most of the girls that I hav- known who never had a beau had only themselves to blame. They * were girls that terrified men by either being so self-conscious and shy that a man had to do all of the entertaining himself, or else they were girls who were so mo nopolistic that they made a man feel as if he had been kidnaped, and was in danger vf being: dragged to the altar by his captor. The Manchus Take China By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY HUN-CHE, the first of the Manchu dynasty, began his reign over the conquered Ce lestials two hundred and sixty- nine years ago. The Chinamen were themselves responsible for the conquest. The Manchus were goaded to despera tion by the unjust treatment they received at the hands of the Chi nese and began the war which ended with their acquisition of the province of Leoon-Tung. The Chinese Emperor, dejected by his reverses, died of a broken heart. The Emperor's death was fol lowed by a great rebellion, and to get help against the rebels the commanding general made peace with the Manchus and invited them to assist him in repressing the uprising. After defeating the rebels the Manchus marched on Pekin, captured it, and proclaim ed Shun-Che Emperor. Thus ended the Ming dynasty, and the Empire passed under the foreign yoke from which it so re cently freed itself. h Like all conquerors, the Man chus "felt their oats,” and to keep the fact of their superiority al ways in evidence, they made the Chinaman shave his head, leav ing a tuft in the center to he worn long and braided. Such w i the origin of the famous 'pig tail.” But, strange to say, this badge of servility and degradation cam*-, in the course of time, to be looked upon as a mark of honor, so that the Chinaman who did not have his pigtail dangling from his head was considered off caste. Until quite recently the Chinese laun- dryman who shuffled along with his queue snugly coiled up under his big soft hat would not have parted with it for the world—it was his pride and his joy, as well it might have been, for should he have returned to his native land without that queue he would have met with a very cold reception. Now, however, all is different. China, like all the rest of the world, is waking up. The Manchus are gone, the pig tail is going, the great red drag ons, the army of ghosts and dev ils are departing, and it is to he hoped that China will soon be free from her idiotic superstition 5 . Questions Answered CHURCH AND STATE. B. H.—Yes. there is a very em phatic provision in the Constitu tion of the United States against any union of church and State in this nation. Article 1, Amend ment l, reads as follows; "Con gress shall make no law respect ing an establishment of religion, v or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the free dom of speech, pr of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for redress of griev ances." Uncle Sam has his own religion, and he is willing for everybody else to have theirs; but he will not enter into copartner ship with any religion. He is too wise for that. LIBERIA. C. G.—The Republic of Liberia was founded in 1820 by the Amer ican Colonization Society, which was established by Henry Clay in 1 Sl^>. The Capital of the Repub lic. Monrovia, whs so named in honor of James Monroe, Presi dent of the United States at the time the Republic was founded. Many blacks were taken over from this country, with the id pil that, having become civilized to a certain extent here, they wou'l act as valuable assistants to the natives in the work of manage* the fortunes of the new State. Liberia has never prospered and is at the present time “in !nP hands of a receiver." so to speak. GEOMETRY. H. F. C.—You are mistaken In thinking that geometry had it* origin among the Greeks. The science was probably born in old Egypt, and was intimately con nected with the art of surveying. In Egypt, owing to the annual overflow of the Nile, it was solutely necessary to fix upon some way of keeping track f boundary lines between lands 1 1 out of that necessity arose tin* art of land surveying. Geonit u > means land surveying, and • iS phetty certain that the scicn found its chief impetus, if no: origin, in the art by which the Egyptians determined the d v:- linos between the : : prnpc * and provinces. The Greeks ) ly improved what the Egyp :iar *- had begun.