Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME PARER THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN PubllihM by THE GEORGIAN COM!'ANT At 20 East Alabama St Atlanta. Ga. Enteral aa ^oond-cla** matter at poatofflri* at Atlanta, under art of March I, 1171 HEARSTS SUNDAY AMERICAN and THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN will be mailed to subacrlbera anywhere In the United States Canada and Mexico, ore month for ? 60; three months for 11 76, alt month* /or S3 60 and one year for f7 no. chanfe of addresa made aa often as desired. Foreign subscription rates on application. What Will Be Done with Panama Machinery and Workers? Cannot the Army Continue It* Admirable Task of Improving the Globe or at Least Our Part of It> < onertelrt 1*1*. br SUr Omsut The Panama Canal, ready to bring 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 task without sacrificing human life fighting disease aa they dug their way from ocean to ocean. They have done a great work without thievery or graft. What are they to do NOW? What is to become of the great machines that have just finished one gigantic piece of 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 rust and sink into the ground or be sold as junk? Why Atlanta Is the Logical Site for One of the Regional Banks Atlanta Is Center of Most Prosperous Section. J?AO'«C>K\AU.t I J ftovairrc FPANKi-oer ^ ^ ^ . POPULATION ^10,000,000 JANK DEPOSITS *400,000,000 BALES'* COTTON — 6,000,000 14 INDEPENDENT RAILWAY LINES C'")- “ATLANTA- AS ^ TEtt * Nk^HVJLLE ^ ^ 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 Pacific 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 as 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 Oulf and to the mouth of the Panama Canal, by making of the Mississippi River a thoroughly controlled sufficiently deep central waterway of the nation? 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-1 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 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 thus to the two ocean*, east and west—“from Chicago to San Francisco by water!" There is a task worthy of our national wealth and power, vorthy of a great nation and a great mind. HAVE WE THE GREAT MIND IN THE RIGHT PLACE? How a Nation Is Built Selected by EDWIN MARKHAM. Its Territory Is Represented by Deposits Aggregating $400,000,000. Fourteen In dependent Railway Lines Radiate from Atlanta. F OR vivid vista* of place* and performances In our na tional history, I recommend >ou to Hubert Howe Bancroft's ”Retr>spection,“ an analytical re view of the nineteenth century- Now that everybody Is out upon the splendid roads of the land, consider this outline of the be- pinninpr of the Rxeat roads of the nation: "Looking over the first half of the last century, times may seem dull, methods crude and progress plow. Hut in truth, great as were the works of the second half, the works of the first half were rel atively greater. For it was th*n that was conceived and brought forth by the American people cer tain industrial achievement*, to say nothing of politic* and *o- icty. 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 at command, may be likened to work on the pyramids of Egypt or the gTeat wall of China. “These enterprises were the construction, during the years 2806 to 1838, of a national turn pike *34 miles in length, from Fort Cumberland on the Potomac through Ohio, Indiana and Illinoils to Jefferson City, Missouri; the Erie (’anal, in 1817-26, from the Hudson River to Lake Erie, with other important toll roads and canals, and the opening of rivers 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 .MissisHi^n! and the Missouri be- * •• tiie great highways of emi- » ition And then the Cumber- ’ turnpike, the first national ; ■ .sing in its construction . ev..r 'vaa available from the 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 channel* of Intercommuni cation. multiplied the mideontinent inhabitants and overspreading the plains beyond, crossed the moun tains and deserts, finally debouch ing upon the golden shores of the Pacific. "The Erie Canal, then the larg est in the world, and of which Governor Clinton, of New York, was father, stimulated progross 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 copulation and pa*s Philadelphia. “A thousand flat boats und 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 midcontinental progress.” In=Shoots British captain 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 l* being sued for divorce. Sort of a low tackle. • • • Fifteen-year-old girls need $*,000 income. Must be saving up to catch some duke. ‘‘Atlanta is now in the center of that section of the LTniteil States which is generally conceded to-day to be more pros perous than any other section of the cofintry. The city is growing rapidly. Bank 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 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 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 clude any State banks or trust companies, a large number of which will come in, of course, if a large i/umber 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. Japanese Enterprise and American Apathy By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES rpHE a | Car p>IIE opening: of the Panama inal has inspired Hhe Japan- m* 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, lavs Angeles. Panama. Galveston and New Orleans to New York, and the present Yoko hama-Tacoma steamships operat ing: to Europe via the Suez 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 now 10,000-ton mer chant ships are building; every year for this grreat enterprise. And what are we doins in America? What is the nation that built the canal doing to utilize it? We are throttling the one thing Ip 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 5 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 <»f a Democratic administration of the American Government should bo used to hinder rather ' than to help the most distinctly American policy that Congress has enacted within the last 26 } ears The whole nation believes in the patriotic demand that our American merchant maitne 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’B commerco fr^m which it has been so long and so shame- full v absent. The whole faith and history of the Democratic p:\rty 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 atr’e a leader as Oscar W. Underwood? It is i«ast 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 ourselves have opened. Is our canal Indeed an altru istic enterprise? Is it built for other nations rather than for our own? Are Ehigland 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-Paciflc 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 mocracy, said: STARS AND STRIPES Death list of the hunting sea son. 135. Testimonial to our gun- makers, anyway. • • • Even th* 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 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 ports of South America? Why do we continue to pay this prodigious tribute to the foreign ships that carry our trade? If it is 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 Aien 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 bo many Atlantans and Georgians, living and dead with old Oglethorpe. The appeal Is not to any class or faction of Georgian citizenship, 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 hi* immediate fam attended the old University Senator Baoon and ex-Presj. dent Roosevelt are both descend ed from Oglethorpe founders. President Woodrow Wilson and Secretary McAdoo played as boys on the old Oglethorpe campus. Such is the history of the insti tution which la to rear its head again in 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 recall that you were among the founders of New Oylethorp, 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 ha s posed 1 .g enough, the pose becomes natural, and he Is therefore 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 lingo before he learns to think. This lingo hi* disciples accept and take on, each one thinkyig 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 Is 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 hare hypnotized themselves Into the belief that they mean something, and they are waiting for some messiah to come and tel] 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 o«r- tainly can. Having once espoused a cense, we are bound fo maintain U. Even when new light comas we will fight against change. So with the theological and medical faker went the sartorial faker, and we spoke feelingly and with pride of “my tailor." We made excuses for not attending this or that meeting, because we had an engagement wtth “my tailor.” I can wen 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 ooat 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 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 tera, sixteen and a halt" Then the tape measure was applied the second time, and the can was given i “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 all down correctly. This means truth In business Quality and at are 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 106 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 duty out lined fhe dread tribunal and se cured as its manager that para gon of kindness and mercy named Torquemada, proceeded to oarrv out the object of thetr 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 IPs flourish ing retail business, It finally 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 Copyright, ltMR. Internationa] News Service.