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T • EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian the home THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published by T1IK <5l:"l!^lAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St Atlanta, Oa Tntrrad as second-class matter at no*- ' -fflce at Atl uita '.d«r a^t of March 3, 1*"1 HKARST'F SUNDAY AMERICAN amt TIM ATUNTa ORnHGIAN xvIII I l*e mailed to aubMcribers anywhere In ft e I'j lt*d s*ate». Canada and Mexico, one month for $ 60. three months for tl 7f* char i-< ,,t ad-lrean made aa often aa desired Foreign subscription rates on application Patrick Henry’s Speech=~=and Roping a Mule 111' Diflrrrncf Behwren Hie P»triotr*m Hiat Founded Fhis Country «nd thr Modem Mexican Brand. Oernrlfht. 1918. hr Star Company. You remember how Patrick Henry wanted liberty or death— r;nd, with the help of his friends, got liberty, You remember the long, weary, patient fight of Washington, J 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 is cruel to refuse ab 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 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 Indepen- i deuce 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 mule.” This patriot was fond of roping contests—he and others see ing which could most successfully throw a lasso around an ox and bring it down Once he was disappointed because he failed to get first prize. As he stood nursing in his heart the wrongs of Mexico an 1 his ovw 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 entenced to serve in the army—they recruit their patriotic troops clown there by compelling convicts to become soldiers. Zapata went to the army waving both arms and vowinf \ ehgeance. He kept his vow. I When he came back he drilled 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. Mexican and Filipino patriots, be it said with all sympathy, 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 thei same time not to assume that they are capable of self-government 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, direoted, 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 It rasp treat enterprises. The trouble with women" she says, "is that they only think in one or two figures." As the mer ry Christmastime approaches a glance at almost any married man's check book would dispel this hallucination. * • * Chicago women solve tlie high «*rk problem by eating meat. Pretty soon they’ll have to solve the high meat problem by eating eggs The good old ham and eggs days are over. * • • Woman in letter to husband sain s 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 sa'e of snuff. Odd how a man who chews tobacco looks down o*' one who merely sniffs it. The Pied Piper A 1 By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Them is a legend of a “Piper Pied,” Who charmed the rata with music of his reed. Shrilling his way down to the river side lie led them to their death. The Town in Greed 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 n. I MAGINATION plays with real ity out here on Oatun I-Ake. On© 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 /?ea of artificial construction. More suggestive is It of a mountain lake, tucked pomewhere up In the Adirondacks, and the tourist feels that his 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, whio&i 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. Us lor 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 the 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 has been postponed on account of wet grounds,” said Colonel Goethals as our tug sped along. The scene begins to change somewhat now. The jungle is being left behind. The country grow8 more rugged. Instead of tropical foliage on either side of tfte lake, which is beginning to narrow*, the scarred edges of dirt bank and cliff are beginning to appear. We £:llde 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 the Cut itself. Here begins that portion of the canal which has 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 racked the Zone w ith 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 aw r akened the echoes forty-five feet of water has closed in, burying from sight forever the scene of the struggle. ' Into a Canyon. On© who was here where the fight was waging, and saw’ the tremendous odds against which Goethals’ army struggled, can realize that it was with a pang of regret, and in some instances w'lth downright tears, that these bronzed soldiers of progress saw’ the waters close in over their completed handlw’ork. 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 w’hich 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 hew’ed 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 forw’ard 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 sublime. It smacks strongly of the sensation one has sailing along the Colorado Grand Canyon, in Arizona. Let those who have been carried along in a canoe in that cathedral-llke 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 w’ill be, and gracefully proceeding Paclficward 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 flagpole marks the site of Camp Otis, home of the Tenth Infantry. ln=Shoots .: How Georgia Has Led in Corn Club Work. By CHARLES ANDERSON. G EORGIA is first in having organized corn clubs, first in the number of boys ob taining high yields, first In the highest number of bushels ob tained from one acre in 1913, 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 anyw'here w’ere 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 com show for boys. It is conceded by authorities that Georgia has the most effi cient organization of State and Federal forces for com club work in existence. The pre-eminencr of Georgia in com cluV 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 w’ork 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, hut in Georgia com clubs had been in existence about five years before Federal aid was extended. Professor Adams, who nized 101 boy* Into com 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 com 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 com 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 best ears of com and th« five best stalks of cotton at th* State Fair, which that year Wl , held in Atlanta. Boys of twenty counties entered the contest. With the comtnir of Dr. Andrew M. Soule to the presidency of the State College of Agriculture | n 1907 the corn club movement centered In that institution and since then has had its headquar- ters at and direction from that place. With his characteristic power to organize and promote, Pres!, dent Soule began the rapid de velopment of the corn clubs Hi raised money, issued a bulletin, sent out organizers etirred 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 organ!- 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 of the cause. In Georgia the girls' Canute* club work, the farm demonstra tion work, the hoys’ corn dubs, 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 dubs and the girls’ canning clubs. All these clubs center Into one su pervising head, Professor J. Phil Campbell at the State College of Agriculture, who In turn reports to President Soule for the State and 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 hut fur 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 com club movement speaks for hla success. To be able to utilize the talents of the other fellow Is one of the stepping stones to success. * V • The auto-tango has many de votees—in the hospitals. * * * There* is nothin* more amusing than a big. husky woman flutter ing; about trying to please a grouchy little husband. Battle of the Nations H 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, 06 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. Leipzl? meant Elba. From the blow that day received Napoleon never re covered. And Leipzig meant a free Ger many. PUTTY: Saved by a Mere Pup Copyright, 1918. IntwnxtloTia] Xwwb Herrtae. CD "(2) M.1L 7 \\ ® v 3 0