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Why Atlanta Is the Logical Site for One of the
Regional Banks
What Will Be Done with Panama
Machinery and Workers?
Cannot the Army Continue lb Admirable Task of Improving the Globe
or at I-east Our Part el lt>
rw*pr«M. i»u hr M.
Atlanta Is
Center of Most
Prosperous
Section.
The Panama Canal, ready to bn 114 two oceans together and
serve the nations of the world, proves the power and possibilities
of government ownership, government management AND EFFEC
TIVE WORK BY SALARIED GOVERNMENT EMPLOYES
The men of the United States Army have done the work that
private individuals with capital almost unlimited failed to do.
They have accomplished their taak without sacrificing human
life fighting disease aa they dug their way from ocean to ocean.
They have done a groat work withont thievery or graft.
What are they to do NOW?
What is to become of the great machines that have just
finished one gigantic piece o< work?
Are the officer*, the intelligent directing minds of that great
enterprise, to go back to the trivial work of drills and parades
and wasted hours?
Is the machinery to mat and sink into the ground or be sold
as junk?
Why cannot the brains and the machines that worked so well
at Panama BE KEPT WORKING IN OTHER PARTS OF THE
UNITED STATES?
Why should not the genius of the army continue to be the
honored worker for the people, accomplishing work elsewhere as
important as the work at Panama?
Our nation has built a great road for water travel from the
Atlantic to the Paoiflo Ocean
Why not build water roads through the United States leading
to that canal between the oceans?
We have already the great Mississippi River. Why not use
the machinery, as far aa it can be used, and the splendid
brain and intellectual organisation of Panama, INCLUDING
GOETHALS, to make a great national highway of the Mississippi?
What could be better than to open the whole Middle West,
from the Great Lakes to the Gulf and to the mouth of the Panama
Canal, by making of the Mississippi River a thoroughly controlled
sufficiently deep central waterway of the nation?
POPULATION ^40*000,000
BANK DEPOSITS *400,000,000
BALES « COTTON — 6,000,000
14 INDEPENDENT RAILWAY LINES
WITW — AT-I A KfTA"AS A CENTER.
The spending of a few HUNDREDS of millions wisely, intelli
gently and with a general permanent plan on the Mississippi
would add THOUSANDS of millions to the wealth of the nation.
The army can supply engineers with knowledge for the solv
ing of the big problem.
The right kind of work would keep the brain of the army,
the best that is in it, properly employed.
It would utilise the great machines purchased for the canal.
It would plan and aeoomplish the storage of the waters of
the Mississippi and diminish the greatest national waste, which
is the waste of needed fresh water rushing out into the ocean.
This would mean also the reclaiming of vast areas of fertile
swamp land It would permit boats to go from the Great Lakes,
tapping the Great Lake citiee, all the great industries and all the
great middle western agricultural regions down to the Gulf, and
thus to the two oceans, east and west—“from Chicago to San
Francisco by water!”
There is a taak worthy of our national wealth and power,
>, erthy of a great nation and a great mind.
RAVE WE THE OREAT MIND IN THE RIGHT PLACE?
How a Nation Is Built
Selected by EDWIN MARKHAM.
F OR vivid vletae of places And
performances In our na
tional history, I recommend
you to Hubert Howe Bancroft's
Retrospection." an analytical re-
v■>of (he nineteenth century.
N. tv that everybody le out upon
the splendid road* of the land.
■ onsider thie outline of the be
ginning of the great roade of
the nation:
hooking over the first half of
the last century, times may eeem
'■iil, methods crude and progress
s'nw. But In truth, great as were
•I:, works of the second half, the
v ■ rk> of the first half were rel
atively greater. For it was then
that was conoelved and brought
forth by the American people cer
tain industrial achlevemente. to
say nothing of politic* and so
ciety, which exerted a powerful
influence upon the advancement
of the country in peace and pros
perity. and which, considering the
time and place, and the result of
human effort with the resources
»t command, may he likened to
work on the pyramids of Egypt
»r the great wall of China.
"These enterprises were the
tonstructlon, during the year*
"6 to 183S, of a national turn-
erne 834 miles In length, from
Kort t'umberland on the Potomac
through Ohio, Indiana and Illtnolls
v, Jefferson City, Missouri; the
Erie Canal, In 1817-26, from the
ttudsoo River to Lake Erie, with
ether Important toll roads and
annals, and the opening of river*
and lakes to steam navigation
‘‘Already at the opening of the
century the waterways of western
expansion had been sought out
and proved, and the Ohio, the
> ssissl’-oi and the Missouri be-
. ihe great highways of emi
gration And then the Cumber-
,1*1 turnpike, the flret national
i using In its construction
whatever was available turn the
Washington and Rraddook routes.
Tolls were collected over the
greater part of the road.
"Over this thoroughfare poured
a stream of population, thou
sands from Europe as well as
those from the Atlantic States,
which, percolating through the
minor channels of tnteroommunl-
cation, multiplied the midcontinent
inhabitants and overspreading the
plains beyond, crossed the moun
tains and deserts. Anally debouch
ing upon the golden ehores of the
Paclflc.
"The Erie Canal, then the larg
est In the world, and of which
Governor Clinton, of New York,
was father, stimulated progress
at the East and in the Lake re
gion by bringing the Atlantic Into
water communication with the
great Inland seas. The effect on
New York was marvelous, causing
It to shoot forward rapidly In
Population and pass Philadelphia.
“A thousand flatboats and
barges floated down the Ohio,
carrying empire to the prairie
lands beyond the Mississippi.
These were followed by the
steamboat, which marked an era
In midcontlnenta] progress."
In=Shoots
British oaptaln accused of
kicking his wife Probably car
rying a full sail
• • •
Diaz, tired of exile, wants to
return to Mexico Evidently tired
of life.
• • •
Famous Princeton football star
ip being sued for divorce. Sort
of a low tackle.
• • •
Flfteen-year-old girls need
$6,000 Income Must be saving
up to catch some dukes
“Atlanta is now in the center of that section of the United
States which is generally conceded to-day to be more pros
perous than any other section of the country. The city is
growing rapidly. Hank clearings have increased 400 per cent
in the past ten .years The deposits have increased very largely.
“The deposits of the entire State are large and we think
there is a sufficient number of national hanks in the Southeast
to warrant the establishment of a regional bank in Atlanta.
“The regional reserve bank’s capital is to be a minimum
of $3,000,000 subscribed. In the States adjoining Georgia—
Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina and Flor
ida—there is a capital and surplus in the national banks ap
proximately of $100,000,000.
“The subscription is to be 6 per cent of the capital and
surplus, so that if only half of the national banks in these
States come into a regional reserve bank located in Atlanta
we will have the minimum amount required. That does not in-
Fourteen In
dependent
Railway Line*
Radiate from
Atlanta.
elude any State banks or trust companies, a large number of
which will come in, of course, if a large number of national
banks subscribe.
1 ‘ By drawing a radius of 300 miles around Atlanta, which is
a reasonable distance, figuring on the time required for mail to
leave one city after the close of business to arrive in the re
gional reserve city by the opening of business the following
morning, such a circle will include the States of Georgia, Ala
bama, Tennessee, Florida and a part of Mississippi.
“In that circle is a population of 10,000,000 people. It
takes in a section growing 6,500,000 bales of cotton, with ap
proximately $400,000,000 deposits. Atlanta, by virtue of hav
ing fourteen independent lines of railways radiating from it
to practically every point of the compass, becomes the logi
cal center for the business of that section in respect to the es
tablishment of the proposed regional bank.”—Former Mayor
Robert F. Maddox in interview in New York.
Japanese Enterprise and American Apathy
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES
T HE opening: of the Panama
Canal has inspired the
Japanese to prompt and
vigorous action.
That energetic nation is pre
paring to meet the opportunity
of Panama with a merchant ma
rine service around the world.
The Osaka Mercantile Steamship
Company will establish service
from the Orient to New York via
Honolulu, Los Angeles. Panama,
Galveston and New Orleans to
New York, and the present Yoko-
hama-Tacoma steamships operat
ing to Europe via the Sue* Canal
will be continued across the At
lantic to meet the new line in
New York, and so girdle the
world with the enterprise of Ja
pan Two new' 10,000-ton mer
chant ships are building every
year for this great enterprise.
And what are we doing: In
America? What is the nation
that built the canal doing to
utilise it?
We are throttling the one thing
in our new boasted tariff bill that
would have given an impetus to
building any ships at all. An as
tonishing Administration and
compliant Attorney General are
going out of their way with tech
nical objections to kill the 6 per
cent preferential in favor of
American shipping that would
have meant the rebirth of the
American merchant marine
It is amazing that the vast pow
er of a Democratic administration
of the American Government
should be used to hinder rather
than to help the most distinctly
American policy that Congress
has enacted within the last 25
years
The whole nation believes in
the patriotic demand that our
American merchant marine
should be restored to the seas,
and our American flag become
once more a familiar and inspir
ing spectacle in the ports of the
world’s commerce from which It
has been so long and so shame
fully absent.
The whole faith and history of
the Democr&tio p Tty is pledged
to this policy, and. since there are
elements in the modern Demo
cratic party which oppose the
idea of a subsidy, then why
should not the modern Demo
cratic party eagerly seize upon
the idea of the preferential duty
fathered by so a v ’e a leader as
Oscar W. Underwood?
It is past all business under
standing that this great Ameri
can people, in the full flush of
their vast world achievement at
Panama, can view the prompt
commercial statesmanship of the
Japanese without being stirred to
achieve practical competition for
the advantages *n commerce
which we ourselvoe have opened.
Is our canal indeed an altru
istic enterprise? Is it built for
other nations rather than for our
own? Are England and Germany
and Japan to reap the first and
best fruits of American enter
prise? And shall our Govern
ment, which ought to be the fos
tering guardian of our commer
cial welfare, hamper the effort
that is being made by our states
men to encourage shipping?
There are only five American
ships in the trans-Pacific trade.
American industries are pro
tected on land by tariffs. Why
not those on the seft?
ABSOLUTE FREE TRADE
HAS RUINED OUR INDUS
TRIES ON THE SEA.
It would ruin our industries on
the land.
Thomas Jefferson, father of De
mocracy, said:
STARS AND STRIPES
Death list of the hunting sea
son, 135. Testimonial to our gun-
makers, anyway.
• * *
Even the homeless dog is in
terested In the dissolution of the
Tin Can Trust.
• • *
Seems foolish if you read in the
paper, “John Smith has lost his
garter.” Different, though, when
you read a cablegram that the
Duke of Connaught has been rob
bed of the insignia of the Gar
ter.
• * •
Storage men blame the hen for
the shortage of eggs. Always
blame everything on the other
sex.
• • •
Quick lunch counter establish
ed on a quick train. Automobile
hearses now; so everything will
be quick.
• • *
“Cooking is the biggest busi
ness in the country,” declares a
pastor. Hshsh! The Attorney
General will be after it.
* * *
Government is encouraging
ostrich farming. Don’t wonder;
some of its members are adepts
at burying their heads In the
sand and thinking they’re sly.
“The marketing of our products
will be at the mercy of any na
tion which has possessed Itself
exclusively of the means of carry
ing them, and OUR POLITICS
MAY BE INFLUENCED BY
THOSE WHO COMMAND OUR
COMMERCE "
Madison and Monroe sustained
our American merchant marine
with voice and Influence. It was
the policy adopted In 1789, 1790-
4-6 and In 1800. It gave us for 72
years the carrying of 80 per cent
of our foreign commerce. Now we
carry only 9 per cent.
And yet we continue to pay
A MILLION DOLLARS A DAY
to German and English ships to
fetch and carry our commerce
upon the seas.
We are Infinitely richer than Ja
pan. We are richer than Eng
land or Germany or France.
What Is It that holds us down
to this narrow policy of com
merce? Why is our flag never
seen In the great trading port*
of South America? Why do we
continue to pay this prodigious
tribute to the foreign ships that
carry our trade?
If It la the duty of the Demo
cratic party, then the Democratic
party is failing In its pledges and
its duty.
If it is the President and his
Cabinet, then these gentlemen so
recently In power are greatly
disappointing the people who had
a right to expect better or broad
er policies at their hands.
Our flag and our ships should
be restored to the seas.
The preferential tariff is the
sound American way to do it.
Old Oglethorpe Gave Great
Alen to This Country
One of the strongest appeals in
connection with the project to re-
found Oglethorpe University In
Atlanta lies In the historic asso
ciation of so many Atlantans and
Georgians, living and dead with
old Oglethorpe.
The appeal Is not to any class
or faction of Georgian citlsenship,
but to all.
Former Governor Joseph M.
Brown Is an alumnus of old Ogle
thorpe, having graduated with the
last class, In 1872.
United States Senator Hoke
Smith Is vice president of the
present board of directors, and
members of his Immediate family
attended the old University.
Senator Bacon and ex-Presi
dent Roosevelt are both descend
ed from Oglethorpe founders.
President Woodrow Wilson and
Secretary McAdoo played as boys
on the old Oglethorpe campus.
Such |s the history of the insti
tution which Is to rear its hesd
again 1n Atlanta, as the result of
the $260,060 fund which Is now
being subscribed by Atlanta citi
zens.
It means something to help
such a movement. It will be a
source of pride to YOU in after
life to Tecall that you were among
the founders of New Oglethorpe
Honest Hypocrites
By ELBERT HUBBARD
J OHN FISKE once wrote an
essay entitled "Honest
Hypocrites.” The argument
was that a hypocrite is a hypo
crite; but the disciples of a hypo
crite are usually earnest and sin
cere people, and therefore honest
hypocrites, or not hypocrites at
all.
This on the theory that after a
poseur has posed ! g enough, the
pose becomes natural, and he is
therefore not a poseur.
In metaphysics fakery flour
ishes.
The metaphysician 1s a man
who believes ten times a~ much
as he can prove, and proves ten
times as much as anyone else will
believe.
He is so profound that he con
ceals his opinions even from him
self.
He evolves a lingo before he
learns to think.
This lingo his disciples accept
and take on, each one thinking
that he, in time, will grow to a
point where he understands what
it means.
The lingo of frats, of secret so
cieties, of cults and religious de
nominations Is all flavored with
fakery.
In art the faker has always
abounded. The man who dogma
tizes about art puts his reason
on the slide.
Just now there is what 1s called
"The Art of the Futurist.” It is
symbolic, cryptic, poetic, impres
sionistic.
The perpetrators pretend to
know what they mean. The fact
is they do not. They smile com
placently at the lack of imagina
tion possessed by hoi pollol.
In the meantime they have
hypnotized themselves Into the
belief that they mean something,
and they are waiting for some
messiah to come and tell them
what it is.
Founders of religion are poets
who are taken seriously.
Then the question comes: Can
a man be an unconscious faker?
And the answer Is: He most oar
tainly can.
Having once espoused a cause,
we are bound to maintain it
Even when new light comes we
will fight against change.
flo with the theological and
medical faker went the sartorial
faker, and we spoke feelingly and
with pride of "my tailor.” We
ipade excuses for not attending
this or that meeting, because we
had an engagement with "my
tailor."
I can well remember how my
heart was filled with pride when
I stood on a platform—a kind of
Improvised throne—and a tailor
took off his coat and made ready
for a great and serious opera
tion.
With a tape measure around
his neck and an adviser standing
by he went at me. And way back
in the dim recesses of the store,
at a desk, sat a man with pencil
in hand.
The call was given; “All right,”
and then the tape measure was
put over my manly anatomy.
It was pleasing to my sense of
approbation to be thus ministered
to. The man measuring me and
the man looking on consulted
from time to time.
They called off the measure
ments thus: "Thirty-two and a
half, twenty-one and three-quar
ters, sixteen and a half." Then
the tape measure was applied the
second time, and the call was
given; "Make that sixteen and
seven-eighths,” and the man in
the dark recesses of the store
echoed back the numbers. These
were repeated, to see that they
were aJJ down correctly.
This means truth in business.
Quality and fit age guaranteed.
And, behold, now, clothes ready
to wear represent, in a business
way, the very acme of honesty,
directness, simplicity and right
intent.
The End of the Inquisition
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
I T was 105 years ago that Na
poleon gave the order which
abolished the Spanish In
quisition, thus ending at one fell
swoop the agony of more than
three centuries’ duration.
It was In 1480 that the Spanish
Inquisition was established by
Ferdinand and Isabella. The
Queen was a most excellent wom
an. was remarkably kind-hearted,
and would never of herself have
launched the Infernal institution,
but, being Ignorant in most ways,
and notoriously superstitious, she
proved to be but so much putty
in the hands of the men who
wanted the Inquisition estab
lished.
Those men, having duly out
lined the dread tribunal and se
cured as its manager that para
gon of kindness and mercy named
Torquemada, proceeded to carry
out the object of their new en
terprise. That object was to keep
the people of Spain from think
ing. The institution was called
the Inquisition from the fact that
It was designed to make inquiry
into people's beliefs.
Not satisfied with it* flourish
ing retail business, it Anally went
into wholesale, and during the
administration of Alva sentenced
to death the entire population of
the Dutch Netherlands.
PUTTY: He’s a Cute Baby
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