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“IT’S A SAD STORY, MATES!"
Or, How to Get Rid of a Dictator !
The Russian Question Must
WAIT While Mr. Bryan’s Mr.
Pindell Breathes Aristocratic
OH GLORIOUS
imperatorthe
PovnER.^ won't
LET The LAm<*r
o Your, washinc?
Air
Unle.<* (hr Sen»le of the United States Wisely Decides That Mr.
Pindell Will Get Along Just as Well WITHOUT Meeting
Royalty.
Osprrlfbt, 1WI, hr rvymrwar
Mr. Pindell is an estimable g-entleman, probably, in addition
to beinpr a good Bryan man and "the original Wilson man in
Illinois."
But the fact that Mr Pindell is estimable, and the other fact
that Mr. Pindell 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 States.
A letter has been published in which Senator Lewis, speaking
for Mr. Bryan, the Secretary of State, tells Mr. Pindell 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 shake hands with Grand Dukas.
There is nothing hesitating or doubtful about the letter that
Pindell got.
It assures him 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 his great-grandchildren brag that
their fnther 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The whole Ambassador business is ridiculous and out of date.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 pay a messenger bov.
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 Miuister of Foreign Affairs in another oountry.
Our nation has important business with Russia.
We need a treaty that will put ALL CITIZENS OF THE
UNITED 8TATE8 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 baok 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. Pindell is introducing himself at court—have anything
important to say 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. Pindell 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 Pindell 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 Pindell is out
rageous, and should not be permitted.
Will Santa Claus Skip Any
Child in Atlanta?
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 toys 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.
STARS AND STRIPES
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If all Mexicans were Ilk© Villa,
peace soon would be restored.
• • •
Found dollar Is sent to oon-
rience fund. Tainted or counter-
Hopkinson Smith, the au>
A White Umbrella in
M< s ’<> roundly condemns the
administration’s Mexican policy.
i mbrellas are one thing, flags
another, be think*.
Only ten persons shot in the
Maine woods this season. Far be
hind the record of New York's
East Side jungle.
• * »
The late J. P. Morgan was bit-
lngly satarieal about the effort of
Congress to “unscramble eggs. - ’
How would he look upon the ef
fort it will shortly make to get
eggs out of cold storage and
where they can be scrambled?
« Y THAT will the world trnv-
\\ ©ler see who makes the
Journey from Colon to
Balboa through the Panama Ca
nal?
Approaching the old city of
Colon, formerly AspinwaJl, from
the Atlantic end, the ship will
enter Limon Bay, passing Toro
Point, somewhere behind which,
In a grove of magnificent cocoa-
nut palms, are hidden the fortifi
cations which guard the Atlantlo
entrance to the “ditch.” On the
left are the red roofs of Colon.
‘ ‘ Finding the Lake. ’ ’
The line of the canal 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 feet 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
straight ahead the gray walls of
the first flight of locks at Gatun.
Through those marvels of me
chanical skill and construction, by
successive stages the ship will be
lifted up the three flights of locks,
a distance of 85 feet, and, finally,
the upper level having been at
tained, will be floated out upon
the broad surface of Gatun Lake.
A tourist being shown about the
canal recently said to Colonel
Ooethals:
“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 half 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 eleotrto engines at either
side of the lock chamber. But
now, as the last lock Is passed,
these shackles are thrown off, and
under her own steam again the
■hip 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. Of 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 tho
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 serve*
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 I^ake 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 & 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 along
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 flsh at play leap from
the water Just ah ©Ad of the ship’s
bow; we get a hasty glimpse of
an alligator catapulting with
electric speed from the bank Into
the water. 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 aromatio.
Ancon, Panama,
The Value of Direct Primaries
T
By ANDREW COLVIN.
pAHE power to nominate Is the
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 tho 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 rflust 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
without being influenced by mat
ters outside of the convention,
will cortie 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 and often abso
lutely controlled by the political
lender of the district, and the re
sult ha.s been the nominations by
the district leader. The senti
ment of the various sections has
had little or nothing to do with
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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 29 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 State Legislature.
The experience of other States
has 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
maries would be * good thing for
the public
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Letters From the Readers of The Georgian
TWO OCEANS AND CANAL.
Editor Tho Georgian:
The waters of the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans will not meet
In tho Panama Canal, nor will
they approach nearer to each
other than about 34 miles. Tho
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
Mlraflorea locks, about eight
miles from deep water in the Pa
cific; 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
Is normally 85 feet above aea
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. I might say that for a
distance of about two miles of
the 34 miles the water is about
55 feet above sea level; that Is,
between Pr.dro Miguel and Mira-*
fiores locks.
SAMUEL J. FRANKLIN.
RELIEF FOR FARMER.
Editor The Georgian:
Your editorial, “Relief for the
Farmer,” deserves the highest
praise. About twenty years ago
my parents and four 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 paying our debts; to-day the
farms are nothing more than a
wilderness.
A few years ago I bought 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. I 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 that 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 from the increase in the
cost of living. All other great
nations help the farmers; why
are we so backward?
CHAS. JOS. KROTOCHWIL.
“GEORGIA HOME WEEK.”
Editor The Georgian.
It is suggested, in view of the
success of “Georgia Products
Day." that "Geoigia Home
Week” be made a time of annual
pilgrimage.
P. S. NORTH.
Augusta, Ga,
DOROTHY DIX
Writes on
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. Sh^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 girl l* exactly the sort of
gild 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 seen 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 mystertoo* attract
ing power for men, the come
hither look In her eyas that draws
men on, while the other bad It
not.
Personal magnetism Is the re
sult of nature, not of culttvatlon,
and yet a girl can do much to
make herself attractive to men,
for, after all, men are stmp!*
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
utteT fool she can lead a man to
talk about himself, oo vast Is hu
man vanity that every man or
woman we meet within five min
utes gives us 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 have
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 mas
feel as If he had been kidnaped,
and was in danger Jt being
dragged to the altar by hks captor.
The Manchus Take China
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
S 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-Tnng. 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.
Like all conquerors, the Man
chus “felt their oats,” and to keep
the fact of their superiority al
ways in evidence, they made th«
Chinaman shave his head, leav
ing a tuft In the center to bs
worn long and braided. Such vt*
the origin of the famooa “pig
tail.”
But, strange to say, this badge
of servility and degradation came,
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 hie head
was considered off caste, Until
quite recently the Chinese laon
dryraan who shuffled along with
his queue snugly coiled up under
his big soft hat would not hav*
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 be
hoped that China will soon be
free from her ldiotlo superstition*.
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 1, reads as follows: “Con
gress shall make no law respect
ing an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof; or abridging the free
dom of speech, or 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 vtttl «©9 He is too
wise for that.
LIBERIA.
C. G.—The Republic of Liberia
was founded in 1820 by the Amer
ican Colonization Society, *vhich
was established by Henry Clay in
1816. The Capital of che Repub
lic, Monrovia, was so named in
honor of James Monroe, Presi
dent of the United States at the
time the Republic wag founded.
Many blacks were taken over
from this country, with ths idea
that, having become civilized to a
certain extent here, they would
act as valuable assistants to the
natives In the work of managing
the fortunes of the new State.
Liberia has never prospered and
is at the present time “in the
hands of a receiver,” so to speak.
GEOMETRY.
H. F. C.—You are mistaken In
thinking that geometry had Its
origin among the Greeks. The
science was probably born in old
togypt, and was Intimately con
nected with the art of surveying.
In Egypt, owing to the annual
overflow of the Nile, it was ab
solutely necessary to fix upon
some way of keeping track of the
boundary lines between lands, and
out of that necessity arose the
art of land surveying. Geometry
means land surveying, and It Is
pretty certain that the science
found its chief impetus, If not Its
origin, in the art by which the
Egyptians determined the division
lines between their properties
and provinces. The Greeks mere
ly improved what the Egyptian*
h^d begun, ■