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¥t EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME RARER if: b Hf! THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN r»ut.: "hwi 1’V ! Hi GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama s* Atlanta. Oa FIntereW jj» *eocnd-class matter at postnfflr* at Atlanta inder act of Marei S. tl.3 • KARST s Si NDA1 \ MERIC AN am HI AT ' GEORGIAN wMl • <- > • i, !'<<,'*!*• iwtcr*' i 11 f >•© I nlted Hta • cs, Canada and Mexico * month for f »*o thrt'r- months for 11 75, months for 13 6<i and on* year or J7 00 rl ange of addr^^s made as often ^ desired Foreign subscript ion ales on application. Why Atlanta Is the Logical Site for One of the Regional Banks What Will Be Done with Panama Machinery and Workers? # mf ( annot tl>c Amu ( onlmur 11 a Admirable I ask of improving the Cjlobe or at I .east Our Part of It? t 4j*rrit)H, JOTS ip <*»• • Mwe*** 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? Atlanta I* Center of Most Prosperous Section. FPANKkOet - ^ ^ A ^ * POPULATION ^\10,000,000 BANK DEPOSITS *400,000,000 BALES or COTTON — 6,000,000 ADI* LtfV'n.LL 14 INDEPENDENT RAILWAY LINES ■ J •' '“I- ~‘T M rATLANTA- AS ^ C ^ TER KNOXVUJLfc / * — ! SU-tw * / i—/- idaltok ~sii: | SM-lSaO*' 1 ' asmsville /'"nA cokcokd" CHARUOTTE © \ —,x riONROE ■ftKVlUE \ GKttNWOqD ‘•ROjME ) XMHfeSY'tiLE:' SPSRTSkOUR^^- \ COLUMBIA \ PlRMlN'C jyisroiq ▼ALLADtC* '. ~ATMEN'5 'N 'T T / \ AIKFTr I FctOPCtYOWir 1 t I \ k*,CRAK«t v AUGUSTA OPtLik^ ) MONTCOPTERY’ vacon: :ol umbos- >SILMA H^WKIVSVILkE ' s , \ N sCHAPUSTQK y S AVANNAH . ALBA(Cf\ 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. itfO0ILE' _ _ PENSACOLA t iB^UkYnncK A CD sWNilfoS vuii "LIV6 0AK NJ/ ^alachicou Fourteen In dependent Railway Lines Radiate from ’• Atlanta. "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 T H C* In Shoots British captain accused of kicking his wife. Probably car rving a full sail. • * • . . Dla*, tired of e.j^le, vsaarts lo return to Mexico Evidently Urea of life • Famous ITinceton loot bail star is being eued for divorce Sort of .-i low tackle. * * » Fifteen-a ear-old giri.* nee-, income Must he saving ■ i ' o • a Irk **!iUe, 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 > f'9 ”* 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. • * * then the homeless dog is in terested in the dissolution of the Tin Can Trust • • * 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 * t « Quick lunch counter establish- *d on a quick train. Automobile bourses* now; so everything will be quick. • * * “Cooking is the biggest bun- news in the country,” declares a paetor. Hshsh! The Attorney G-enemi will be after it * * * 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 PUTTY: He’s a Cute Baby