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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?
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( annot tl>c Amu ( onlmur 11 a Admirable I ask of improving the Cjlobe
or at I .east Our Part of It?
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The Panama Canal, ready to briny two oceans together and
serve the nations of the world, proves the power and possibilities
of government ownership, government management ANT) ErFEC
TIVE WORK BY SALARIED GOVERNMENT EMPLOYES
The men of the United States Army have done the work that
private individual* with capital almost unlimited failed to de
They have accomplished their task without sacrificing human
life lighting disease as they dng their way from ocean to ocean.
They have done a great work without thjerery or graft
What are they to do NOW?
What is to beoome of the great machine* that have ju*t
finished one gigantic piece of work?
Are the officer*, the intelligent directing minds of that great
enterprise, to go bark to the trivial work of drills and parades
*nd wasted hours?
Is the machinery to rust and sink into the ground or he 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?
Onr nation has built a great road for water travel from the
Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
Why not build water roads through the United Stale* leading
to that canal between the ocean*?
We have already the great Mississippi River. Why net use
the machinery, as far a* it can be used, and the splendid
brain and intellectual organization 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 tho nation?
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Center of Most
Prosperous
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BANK DEPOSITS *400,000,000
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The spending of a few HUNDREDS of mfllions 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 sonny,
the best that is In it, properly employed
It would utilize the great machines purchased for the canal.
It would plan and accomplish 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 cities, all the great industries and all the
great middle western agricultural regions down to the Gulf, and
ihus to the two oceans, east and west- "from Chicago to San
Francisco by water!”
There is a task worthy of our national wealth and power,
worthy of a great nation and a gTeat mind.
HAVE WE THE GREAT MIND IN THE RIGHT FLACE\>
How a Nation Is Built
Selected by EDWIN MARKHAM
Its Territory
Is Represented
by Deposits
Aggregating
$400,000,000.
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Radiate from
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"Atlanta is now in the center of that section of the United
State* which is generally conceded to-dfty to be more pros
perous than any other section of the country. The city is
growing rapidly. Bank clearings have increased 400 per cenl
in the past ten years The deposits have increased very largely.
"The deposits of the entire State are large and we think
ihere is a sufficient number of national banks 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 ti per cenl 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
elude any State banks or trust companies, a large number of
which will come in. of eourse, if a large number of national
banks subscribe.
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.
F 'OR vivid vista* ot plnre* and
performances in our na-
Ilona I history 1 recommend
\ou to Hubert Howe Bancroft's 1
■Retrospection,’’ an analytical re
view of the nineteenth century.
Now that everybody is out upon
he splendid roads of the land,
onsider this outline of th». be
ginning of the great roads of
i he nation
' Looking over the first half of
he last century, times max .seem
dull, methods crude and progress
slow. Rut in truth, great as were
'he works of the second half, the
works of the first half were rel
atively greater. For it was then
that was conceived and brought
forth by the American people cer
tain industrial achievements, to
say nothing of politic* and m>-
•!ety, which exerted a powerful
influence upon the advancement
of the country in peace and pros
perity, and which, considering the
itn»e and place, and the result of
human effort with the resources
at command, may be likened to
work on the pyramids of Egypt
or the great wadi of China
“These enterprises were the
construction, during the years
to 187W5. of a national turn
pike 834 miles In length, from
Fort Cumberland on the Potomac
through Ohio, Indiana and lllinoils
i© Jefferson City, Missouri, 1he
Erie Canal, in 1817-26, from the
Hudson River to Lake Erie, with
other important toll roads and
canals, and the opening of rivets
and lakes to steam navigation.
“Already at the opening of the
v eritury the waterways of western
expansion had been sought out
and proved, and the Ohio, the
Mississippi «jid the Missouri be
anie the great highways of emi
gration. And then the Cumber-
auri turnpike the first ustions*
• »^n lining in its ««>mu ruction
a e *» c torn ihf
Washington and Rraddock 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 intercommuni
cation. multiplied the mldcontinent
inhabitants and overspreading the
plains beyond, crossed the moun
tains and deserts, finally debouch
ing upon the golden shore* of the
Pacific.
“The Erie Canal, then tlie larg
est in the world, and of which
Governor (Hinton, of New York
was father, stimulated progress
at tl\c Fast and In the Lake re
gion by bringing the Atlantic into
water communication with t the
great inland seas. ’The effect on
New York was marvelous, causing
it to shoot forward rapidly hi
Population and pass Philadelphia.
A thousand flat boats and
barges floated down the Ohio.
- arrving empire to the prairie
lands beyond the Mississippi.
These were followed by the
steamboat, which marked an ei a
>n midcontinental progress
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES
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In Shoots
British captain accused of
kicking his wife. Probably car
rving a full sail.
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Dla*, tired of e.j^le, vsaarts lo
return to Mexico Evidently Urea
of life
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Famous ITinceton loot bail star
is being eued for divorce Sort
of .-i low tackle.
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Fifteen-a ear-old giri.* nee-,
income Must he saving
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opening of the Panama
’anal has inspired the
.lapa-nese lo prompt and
vigorous action.
That energetic nation is pre
paring to me©i the opportunity
of Panama with a merohant ma
rlne service around the world.
The Osaka Mercantile Steamship
Company will establish service
from the. Orierw to Nev\ York via
Honolulu. Ix>* Angeles, Panama.
Galveston and Nevt Orleans to
Xew York, and the present Yoko
hama -Tacoma steamships opera I :
ing to Europe via the Sues 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? Wl*a.t is the nation
that built the canal doing te
utilise it ?
H e 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 u per
vent preferential in favor of
American shipping that would
huve meant the rebirth of the
American merchant marine.
It in amazing that the vast pow-
c.r of a Democratic administration
of the American Government
should be used to Irinder rather
than to help the most distinctly
America n policy rhai Congress
has enacted u h'n r»e *a»i 26
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Tile whole nation believes in
the patriotic demand that our
American merchant maiVne
should be restored to the seas,
and our Atnerican 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*
fullv absent.
The whole faith and history of
the Democratic v rty is pledged
to this policy, and since there are
elements in the modern Demo
cratic party which oppose the
idea of » subsidy, then wh\
should not the modem Demo
cratic party eagerly seise upon
the idea of the preferential duty
fathered by so at’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
Vanama, can view the prompt
- ommercial statesmanship of the
Japanese without being stirred to
achieve practical competition for
the advantages *.n commerce
which we ourselves 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
ship* in the tr&ns-P&cific trade.
American industries are pro
tected on land by tariffs. Why
not those on the sea?
ABSOLUTE FREE TRADE
HAS RUINED OUR INDUS
TRIES ON THE SEA.
It would ruin our industries on
the land.
Thomas Jefferson, father of De
moo racy. said.
STARS AND STRIPES
Death list of the hunting sea
son. 186. Testimonial to our gun-
makers. anyway.
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then the homeless dog is in
terested in the dissolution of the
Tin Can Trust
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Seems foolish if you maa in the
paper. “John Smith lias lost his
garter.” Different, though, when
you read a cablegram tliat the
Duke of Connaajght ha© been rob
bed of the insignia of the Gar-
men blarm e ien for
.?e -?hertgix* of egg;,
blame everything on the other
eex
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Quick lunch counter establish-
*d on a quick train. Automobile
bourses* now; so everything will
be quick.
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“Cooking is the biggest bun-
news in the country,” declares a
paetor. Hshsh! The Attorney
G-enemi will be after it
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Government Ls eiaourag mg
ostrich farming. Don't wonder
some of its members are adepts
at burying their heads ir th«»
sand.an* they’r* jtly.
“The marketing of out . products
will be at the mercy of any na
tion which has possessed itself
exclusively of the means of carry
ing them, and OUR POLJTICS
MAT 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 w e
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
mere©” Why is our flag never
seen in the great trading ports
of South America? Why do we
rontinue to pay this prodigious
tribute to fbe foreign ships that
carry our trade .'
If it is the duty of* the Demo
cratic party, then the Democratic
party 1* full mg In its pledgee ana
it* daty.
If it U the President ana 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.
Onr flag and our ship© should
be restored to th©
The preferential tariff is
*ouDd American ".a •** •:
Old Oglethorpe GaveGreat
Men to This Country
One of the strongest appeals iti
connection with the project to re
wound Oglethorpe L'nivereitv in
Atlanta lie* 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 citizenship,
but to ad.
Former Governor Joseph .VI
Brown is an alumnus of old Ogle
thorpe. having graduated with the
last clase. in 1872.
United States Senator Hoke
Smith is vice president of the
present board of directors, and
members of ht# immediate family
attended the old University.
Senator Bacon and ex- Pre,-
dent Roosevelt are both descend-
ed from Oglethorpe founder*
President Woodrow Wilson and
Secretary MoAdon played a* boye
on the old Oglethorpe campus
Such ls the history of th* msu,
tutlon which is to rear its head
again in Atlanta., as the result or
the $250,0«0 fund which is no*
being subscribed by Atlanta citi
zens!.
It means something to h*Ip
such a movement. It will be a
source of pride to YOU in after
life to recall that you were among
the founders of Xew 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 1 g enough, the
pose becomes natural, and he is
therefor* not a poseur.
In metaphysics fakery flour
ishes.
The metaphysician is 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 Imgo before he
learns to think.
This lingo his disciples accept
and take on, each one thinking
that he, in time, will stow to a
point where he understands what /
it mearrs.
The lingo of frata. of secret so
cieties. of cults and religious de
nominations is all flavored with
fakery.
In an the fatter has always
abounded. The man who dogma
tizes about art puts his reason
on the slide.
Just now there is what is, called
• The Art of the Futurist." It is,
symbolic, cryptic, poetic, ir.pres-
rfonistic.
The perpetrators pretend to
know what they mean. T|ie fact
is they do not.' They smil* com
placently at the lack of imagina
tion possessed by hoi pollol.
In the meantime they have
hypnotized themselves Into toe
belief that they mean something,
and they are waiting for some
messiah to come and tel! them
what it is.
Fourniers of religion ate poets
who are taken seriously.
Then the question comes: Can
a man be an unconscious fsker"
And the answer is: He most cer
tainly can.
Having once espoused a ,aos»
we are bound to maintain U.
Kven when^new light cemes ,,
will fight against change
So with the theological and
medical faker went the sartorta
faker, and we spoke feelingly and
with pride of '"my tailor." ff,
made excuses for not attending
this or that meeting, because we
had an engagement with "mv
tailor."
I can well remember how nij
heart was filled with pride w'.ier
I stood on a platform—a kind of
improvised throne—and a tailor
took off his coat and tnsde readv
for a great and serious opers
ti<m.
With a tape measure arouns
his neck and an adviser standing
by he went at me. And way bark
iq the dim recesses of the store,
at a desk, sat a man with pencil
in hand.
The call was given: “All rig:,
and then the tape measure was
put over my manly anatom-
It was pleasing to my sense of
approbation to be thus ministereo
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 »
half, twenty-one and three-quar
ters, sixteen and a half.” Then
the tape measure was applied the
second time, and the call wae
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 the:
were all down correctly.
This means truth in business
Qualitj and fit are guaranteed
And, behold, now. clothes read:
to wear represent, in a business
way, the very acme of honest:
directness, simplicity and right
intent.
I he 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 a-t one fell
s-woop the agrony of more than
three centuries’ duration.
It was in 1480 that the Spanish
Inquisition was established by
Ferdinand and Isabella. The
Queen wa» 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 superatiticus. she
proved to be but *o much putty
in the hands of the men who
wanted the Inquisition estab
lished.
Those men, having duly out
lined the dread tribunal and m
cured as its manager that par*
gon of kindness and mercy named
Torquemada. proceeded to earr
out the object of their new eu
terprise. That object was to keep
the people of Spain from think
ing. The Institution was called
the Inquisition from the fact tna'
it was designed to make inquire
into people’s beliefs.
Not satisfied with its flourish
ing retail business, it finally wen:
into wholesale, and during the
administration of Alva sentences
to death the entire population of
the Dutch Netherlands
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