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1 —-•'Wll' I' I," EDITORIAL RAGE \he Atlanta Georgian home pai=er THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published by THK GEORGIAN (V'MI’A.VY At 20 Kant Alabama St . Atlanta, Ga Tntarad an second-<'la*8 matter at n- noffice at Atlanta, act of Ma^ch 1, 1*1 HE A RST’R RIINI >A Y AMKRK’AN and THE \TJ.ANTA GEORGIAN will be mailed to subscriber* anywhere one month for MO, three month* for II 7f»: ■ hangr of address made aa often aa desired Foreign subscription rati - on appMcatlon Patrick Henry's Speech«=and Roping a Mule Th* Diflrr<nc« Brtv.rrn thr Patnotum That Foundrd Thu Country and the Modem Mexican Brand. Coprngbt. 1918. Wy bur Orenpanv Yon remember how Patrick Henry wanted liberty or death— and, with the help of his friends, got liberty. Yon remember the long, weary, patient fight of Washington, the noble sentiments of those ancient gentlemen who established the United States, and you say They DESERVE the freedom they got ” You may be inclined to suppose that It li cruel to refuse a& solute freedom to the Filipinos, or cruel not to sympathise with the Mexicans, who demand permission to murder each other in definitely Your idea may be that Filipinos and Mexicans TO DAY are just like our ancestors of the battlefield and the council j chamber—back in the latter part of the eighteenth century. To judge conditions intelligently is to know that the differ ence between the patriotism that established the United States and the kind of patriotism that is shooting itself to pieces in Mexico is as great as the difference between the Declaration of Lndepen dence and the act of roping a Mexican mule on the run. One grand Mexican hero and patriot” is Emeliano Zapata. What was Emeliano Zapata originally? Was he an earnest thinker and student like Thomas Jefferson, a lofty, earnest aristocrat like Hamilton, a burning patriot like Patrick Henry, or a lofty character like Washington? Hardly. Zapata, Mexican patriot and thirster for liberty and glory, was a fancier of chicken fights a well-known sport. He did not get his start by starting any Declaration of Independence. He got it by “roping a nrule.” This patriot was fond of roping contests—he and others see mg whioh could most successfully throw a lasso around an ox and bring it down Once he was disappointed because he failed} to ge* first prize. As he stood nursing in his heart the wrongs} of Mexico and his own especial wrongs in having lost first prize,} a mule belonging to a Spaniard came galloping along. Zapata, patriot, roped the mule most beautifully, and he was applauded But he broke the mule's leg. The Spaniard had him arrested. He was convicted and was} sentenced to serve in the army they recruit their patriotic troops down there by compelling convicts to become soldiers. Zapata went to the army waving both arms and vowing vengeance. / He kept his vow. When he came back he killed the Spaniard who owned the mule with the broken leg. That made him a hero Soon he had the poor, miserable, half breed peons surround ing him and cheering him They said, “The man who breaks the mule’s leg and then kills the Spaniard who complains is the man for US He knows how to get revenge.” The Mexicans do not think about liberty; they think about revenge i Mexican and Filipino patriots, be it said with all sympathy, 1 belong very largely to the Zapata brand of hero. And there is as much difference between the early United States demand for | independence and the demand in Mexico or in the Philippines to-day as there is between such a man as Jefferson writing his Declaration of Independence and Emeliano Zapata roping the mule that belonged to the Spaniard. It is well to be sympathetic, and every man is entitled to justice. The important thing is to be JUST and, as an intelligent ob server in Mexico has said, not to take advantage of Mexicans or Filipinos merely because we are stronger than they, and at the same time not to assume that they are capable of self-govenment merely because they say they want it. Justice demands that the various peoples be made free and self governing as soon as THEY ARE CAPABLE OF UNDER TAKING THE TASK of self-government. Common sense demands that they be managed, directed, helped and governed by those who understand government while they are in the process of grow ing up. And the simple fact is that in Mexico, and still more in the Philippine Islands, where our representatives talk foolish non sense about ABSOLUTE INDEPENDENCE, freedom from super vision and control must simply mean wholesale murder and anarchy. STARS AND STRIPES A lady from Minneapolis chides members of her sex for their in ability to grasp great Enterprises. "The trouble with women." she says, "is that they only think in one or two figures." As the mer ry Christmastime approaches < glance at almost any married man * check hook would dispel this hallucination. Chicago women solve the high 'gg problem by eating meat. Pretty soon they'll ha\e to sol\t the high meat problem by eating eggs. The good old ham and eggs days are over. • • * Woman in letter to husband says she left him for a man who would treat her with more bru tality Sno use; you simply can’t dope them out. North Dakota has barred the sale of snuff. Odd how a man who chews tobacco looks dow n on one w no merely sniff® it. The Pied Piper h Pf Tk. 1A'a N. & — 1 - —- —>*-* _»..i / X \ V \ \ \ / T / / / By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. There is a legend of a “Piper Pied,” Who charmed the rats with music of his reed. Shrilling his way down to the river side He led them to their death. The Town in Gre Withheld the promised price; the Piper then Walked, blithely playing, past the homes of men. The listening children followed on his trail And none came back. So ends the olden tale. Still lives the Piper: piping tho' the land. He calls the children as he called of yore. The greedy world, indifferent, sees the band Follow him blindly, to return no more. Shilling his tune, as blithely as of old, Hard by the homes of men, unchecked and bold. He pipes his music while the children dance And disappear. His name is-IGNORANCE. What Travelers See on the Canal Voyage By WILLIAM HOSIER II. I MAGINATION plays with real ity out here on Gatun Lake. One finds it difficult to real ize that up here, where the Con tinental Divide loombs straight ahead and the mountains are tak ing on dizzy heights, it is alto gether real for a great ship of commerce to be floating along, penetrating the heart of the trop ics on an inland sea of artificial construction. More suggestive is it of n mountain lake, tucked somewhere up in thehAdirondacks, and the tourist feels that Ills ap propriate conveyance would be a bark canoe. The feeling is given further point by the appearance of a native dug-out fourteen feet long and scarcely a foot wide, fashioned from the trunk of a Panamanian mahogany tree, which comes gliding down the canal, propelled by a dusky San Bias Indian, with his squaw and a dozen children behind him in the crude craft. Town Under Water. Off there in the heart of the jungle, too. is another incongru ous sight. Lighthouses! Trim towers of glistening • white con crete tucked away landward as range lights to guide the canal mariners at night. The strange ness of these lighthouses in the jungle has traveled to far Nor way A Norwegian engineer came to the canal on a visit of inspec tion recently, and the first thing he asked for was a picture of the lighthouses in the jungle which His Majesty of Norway had ordered him to secure. On loi twenty miles the ship steams without sign of human habitation — wilderness every where—jungle and forest, with the purple mountains rising in the background. Yet there is one sign suggesting human habita tion. Steaming south, we came recently across tho sight of the formerly bustling town of Gorgo- na. It is under twenty feet of water now. But rising a foot above the surface of the lake is the top of the baseball pavilion, once the pride of the canal dig gers at Gorgona, who had a base ball team whose fame extended all over the Zone. There stands the pavilion now, only the top- . most seats showing. "The game lias been postponed on account of wet grounds," said Colonel Goeihals as our tug sped along. The scene begins to change somewhat now. The jungle being left behind. The country grows more rugged. Instead of tropical foliage on either side of the lake, which is beginning to narrow, the scarred edges of dirt bank and cliff are beginning to appear. We glide forward to a narrow neck of land, pass over the site of what was once Gam boa Dike, blown up on October 10 so that the flood waters could enter Culebra Cut, and presently we are entering thejCut itself. Here begins that portion of tho (*nnal which lias been cut through solid rock—theater of all the heart breaking slides, battle ground of the fiercest fighting of the seven years’ war on the Isth mus. It is peaceful enough now. Where thunderous volleys of dy namite daily rocked the Zone with their constant blasting, where the rat-tat of the hydraulic drill created a machine-shop din and the rattle and straining of the steam shovel awakened the echoes forty-five feet of water has closed in, burying from sight forever the scene of the struggle. Into a Canyon. One who was here where the fight was waging, and saw tho tremendous odds against which Goethals’ army struggled, can realize that it was with a pang of regret, and in some instances with downright tears, that these bronzed soldiers of progress saw the waters close in over their completed handiwork. The real Culebra Cut is now but a mem ory. The rise of the walls is gradual as a ship enters the Cut. One has the sensation of entering a river which ages ago cut its way through the hills. But slowly, as the ship moves forward between the walls of solid granite, the height of the cliffs increases; they rise sheer out of the water, their rough-hewn sides exposed, show ing w here drill and dynamite cut and hewed them away to make a path for commerce. Moss is filling up the interstices. The cliffs be gin to look as if they had stood as they are now from the begin ning of time. As the ship moves forward it passes into a canyon. Straight up on either side the walls of the cliff rise here to a height of sev eral hundred feet in a 300-foot channel. The effect is impres sive and subljme. It smacks strongly of the sensation one has bailing along tne Colorado Grand Canyon., in Arizona. Let those who have been carried along in a canoe in that cathedral-like canyon picture to themselves the same trip in a 10,000-ton merchant ship, and they will have a real istic idea of the ride through Cu lebra Cut. And, if they can do it, let them picture to themselves meeting at a bend of the Can yon of the Colorado a monstrous man-of-war steaming along un der its own headway. For within a few months here, eighty-five feet above the sea, piercing the very heart of the Continental Di vide, the ships of war of the com bined navies of the world will steam majestically through the Grand Canyon of Panama, other wise Culebra Cut, as safely and as securely as though they were out on the broad bosom of the Atlantic, landlocked though they will be, and gracefully proceeding Pacificward over a spot which but a year ago was dry land. High above on the cliffs one can make out the picturesque tropical quarters of the canal diggers at Culebra, at Empire, at Paraiso, where the tall fiagpole marks the site of Camp Otis, home of the Tenth Infantry. ln=Shoots .:. To be able to utilize the talents of the other fellow is one of the stepping stones to success. * * • The auto-tangro has many de votees—In the hospitals. * * * There is nothing more amusing than a big. husky woman flutter ing about trying to please a grouchy little husband. How Georgia Has Led in Corn Club Work. By CHARLES ANDERSON. G EORGIA is first In having organized corn clubs, first t in the number of boys ob taining high yields, first in the highest number of bushels ob tained from one acre in 1918, first in the organization of annual State corn show for boys, first In the efficiency of an organized force for promoting the club work. The first corn clubs ever or ganized anywhere were formed by Professor Adams in Newton County in 1905. Georgia enrolled this year 10,- 000 boys in corn clubs, the largest number for any State. The highest yield reported from any’boy’s one acre in the country is that of young Wellborn, or Morgan County, 181 bushels. More Georgia boys came through the year with big yields than the boys of any other State, as records will fully verify. Largely because of the enter prise of Atlanta, business men. Georgia has the distinction of having the first State corn show for boys. It is conceded by authorities that Georgia has the most effi cient organization of State and Federal forces for corn club work in existence. The pre-eminence of Georgia in corn club work is attributed to the able direction of those in charge, to the generous support of various agencies in Georgia and to the aid and co-operation of the farm demonstration work of the United States Department of Agriculture. In most States where the corn club work has been carried on the primary force behind it was the United States Department of Agriculture, but in Georgia corn clubs had been in existence about five years before Federal aid was extended. Professor Adams, who • ;:ed 101 boys Into corn clubs in Newton County, had an exhibit at the fair at Covington during 1905. Business men had offered prizes for which many of the boys contested. Another important item of corn club history *in favor of Georgia is that Professor J. S. Stewart, superintendent in charge of sec ondary education in Georgia, worked out a plan for interest ing .school boys in agriculture through corn and cotton clubs, and enlisted several county school commissioners and teachers. One of the first official acts of Chan cellor David Barrow, head of the university system of the State, was to authorize the publication of a bulletin setting forth plans for organizing such clubs and giving directions as to how to select seed and prepare the land. The first awards for boys’ clubs in the States was $500 obtained by Professor Stewart from the State Fair Association in 1906. The money went to boys having the ten bent ears of corn and the five beat stalks of cotton at the State Fair, which that year was held In Atlanta. Boys of twenty counties entered the contest. With the coming of Dr. Andrew M. .Soule to the presidency of the State College of Agriculture In 1907 the com club movement centered in that institution and since tliendias had its headquar ters at and direction from that place. With his characteristic power to organize and promote, Presi dent Soule began the rapid de velopment of the corn clubs. He raised money issued a bulletin, sent out ganizers stirred up public sentiment, till Georgia came into national prominence for its corn club organization. The late Seaman A. Knapp, whose name is inseparably linked with the organization of corn clubs over the country and will always.be enshrined as the great national figure in the promotion of boys’ and girls’ club work, found in Georgia a strong organi zation well on the way, and from which he doubtless obtained many good ideas for use in other States. Willing aid came from Mr. Knapp for furthering the Georgia movement and through his son. Hon Bradford Knapp, the Federal part of the corn club has been prosecuted in complete harmony with the State College of Agriculture and greatly for the good o? the cause. In Georgia the girls’ canning club work, the farm demonstra tion work, the boys’ corn clubs, the boys’ pig clubs are all closely co-ordinated and mutually help ful. This makes for the efficiency of each at the least possible cost. For instance, the farm demon stration agents and the district demonstration agents assist in or ganizing and promoting the boys’ corn clubs, the boys’ pig clubs and the girls' canning clubs. All these clubs center into one su pervising head, Professor J. Phi' Campbell at the State College of Agriculture, who in turn reports to President Soule for the State pnd Mr. Knapp for the Federal Government. For this efficiency of organization credit is due Pres ident Soule. » Although the aid from the Fed eral Government has been very material to the success of the corn clubs of Georgia, it is un questionably true that but for the liberality and co-operation of boards of trade, bankers, school authorities and other well wish ers, the movement would have been far from what it is to-day. The enlisting of this State sup port and co-operation has fallen largely upon the head of the Col lege of Agriculture. The amount which has been obtained from State sources for the support, of the corn club movement speaks for his success. Battle of the Nations By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. The "Battle of the Nations,” as the great contest at Leipzig is often called, took place just 100 years ago. October 18. 1813. It is well called the' Battle of the Nations, for in it was repre sented nearly every European country, and the issues there de cided told, directly or indirectly, upon the whole Continent, yes, upon the whole world. Even as a battle. Leipzig was a stupendous affair. outranking nearly every other battle of mod ern times. Napoleon had 160,- 000 men. who were opposed by the allied forces of Austria, Rus sia and Prussia. 240,000 strong. As it turned out. Leipzig was a crushing defeat for the Man of Destiny. He lost 40,000 in killed, wounded and prisoners, 65 pieces of artillery and many standards, and. worst of all, he had to give up Leipzig, which, from the strat egic standpoint, meant so much to him. The results of the battle were far-reaching and decisive. It meant the beginning of the end of Napoleon’s rule in Europe. The first abdication really dates from the fatal day of Leipzig. Leipzig meant Elba. From the blow’ that day received Napoleon never re covered. And Leipzig meant a free Ger many. Copyright, 1913, International News Service. CD (2) CL*’’ - yHe-Bf^rr / ? 1 \\ ® © •ff-j kijOL