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i EDITORIAL. RAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN PubllHhMl by THR OIORCIAN COMPANY At 20 Alabama .St Atlanta Oa. filtered aa second-cia«« matter at postoffice ar Atlanta, undar act of March S. Il'l HRARST’8 SUNDAY AMERICAN and THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN will he mailed to Mibscrlbara anywhere In the United Htatea. Canada and Mexico, one month for $ f»0 three months for S 76, Mu montha for S3.50 and one year for $7.00, change of address made aa often as deaired. Foreign eubscriytlon rates on application. The spending of a few HUNDREDS of millions wisely, intelli gently and with a general pei-manent 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 ef 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 ooean. Tilts 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 oceans, east and west—“from Chicago to San Francisco by water!” There is ft task worthy of our national wealth and power, worthy of a great nation and a great mind. AVE WE THE GREAT MIND IN THE RIGHT PLACE? How a Nation Is Built Selected by EDWIN MARKHAM. F OR vivid vista® of places and performances In our na tional history, I recommend You to Hubert Howe Bancroft's "Retrospection," 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 ginning of the great roads of the nation: "Looking over the first half of the last century, times may seem dull, methods crude and progress slow. But in truth, great as were the works of the second half, the works of the first half were rel atively greater. For It was then that wits conceived and brought forth by the American people cer tain Industrial achievements, to say nothing of politics 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 at command, may be likened to work on the pyramids of Kgypt or the great wall of China. ••These enterprises were the construction, t during the years 1806 to 183£, of a national turn pike 834 miles in length, from Fort Cumberland on the Potomac through Ohio, Indiana and Illinofls to Jefferson City, Missouri; the Erie Canal, In 1817-25, 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 Mtssissi-mj and the Missouri hq •ame the great highways of emi gration And then the Cumber and turnpike ih* fir t nations' ;oad. using in its construction a hat* ei uas available from the Washington and Braddock routes. Tolls w’ere collected over the greater part of the road. ‘‘Over this thoroughfare poured a srtreair. 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 midcontinent inhabitants and overspreading the plains beyond, crossed the moun tains and deserts. Anally 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 progress at the East and In the Lake re gion by bringing the Atlantic into water communication with the great inland MAS. The effect on New' York was marvelous, causing it to shoot forward rapidly in copulation and pass Philadelphia. ■ A thousand flat boats 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 midcontlnental progress." In=Shoots Rrlttsh captain accuser) 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 is being sued for divorce Sort of a low tackle. • • * Fifteen veur-old girls need 1F000 income vim* he saving ip to catch :.ome -iukt The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME RARER 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 Its Admirable Task of Improving the Globe or at I .east Our Part of It> CiopTTlfht, Iflfl. Yrr SUi < Vntrpapy The Panama Cana], ready to bring two oceans together and serve the nations of the world, proves the power and possibilities of government ownership, government management AND EEFEO 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 as they dng 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 Jnzt finished one gigantic piece of work? Are the officers, the intelligent directing minds of that great enterprise, to go back to the trivial work of drill* and parades and wasted honrs? Is the machinery to rust and sink into the ground or be sold a* 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 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 organization of Panama, INCLUDING GOF.THALS, 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? Atlanta Is Center of Most Prosperous Section. \.J tt?ANKf-0<?T _ _ _ POPULATION ^10,000,000 BANK DEPOSITS *400,000,000 . BALES or COTTON — 6,000.000 fc 14 INDEPENDENT RAILWAY LINES kSvJ —ATLANTA— - .MAOISOKYU-Lt. I BovaiKC / G*C£N' If /fe\ M K( \ CHMTAN'OO&a t -rt-T H I iA wivSTON- KNOXv'U-fc-^ . F’rV ,u - lK * w _ | SM-IS-BURV ASHEVILLE r\\ coKcOH’D' CHARLOTTE 7® \ —h \L HONRpfc I —V/ A c l D&.LTOH W6ST- N » POtf OlRMlYCNA fYlSTOffJi TALLADtCA .QMHESYtLUE.\ ATHENE COLUMBIA \ NtWNAK \ % I \ LA CRAK<S6 AUGUSTA fXCOY v aikfn ^-ctoeCfeTOwrr c > SELMA OPELIKA MONTCOHERV , UVlONT' >pfti»rcs‘ 'OLUMOUS' X HAWK INS-VOTE ALBANY' ,M0Gl Ita Territory Is Represented by Deposits Aggregating $400,000,000. le" „ _ & PRtfSACOLA \ X CHARLESTON S AVANNAH ) BRUNSWICK A XU&RSONmi 'live OAK '"APALACHICOLA ” 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. 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- Japanese Enterprise and American Apathy By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES T |"\HK opening of thf Panama Canal has inspired the JapancT*e to prompt and Mgorous 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 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 new 10,000-ton mer chant ships are building every rear for this great enterprise And what are we doing In America.? What is the nation that built the < anal 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 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 of a Democratic administration of the American Government should be used lo hinder rather than to help the most distinctly American policy that Congress has enacted within the last 25 year? The whole nation believes in tiie 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- full'* 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 aVe 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 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 ships in the trans-Pacific 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 guu- makers, anyway » * * Even the homeless tiog 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 Gonnaught has been rob bed of the insignia of the Gar- t er. Storage men blame the hen lor he shortage of 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 six Fourteen In dependent Railway Lines 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. “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 <»f 10,000,000 people. It takes in a section growing 6,500,000 Vjes 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. “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 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 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 lead 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 iu. sound American way to do it. 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 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 his immediate fanril» attended the old University Senator Bacon eed ex-Preet- dant Roosevelt are both deeoe«>4- ed from Oglethorpe founders President Woodrow Wilson and Secretary McAdoo played a* boy* on the old Oglethorpe campus Such is the history of the tnstJL tution which is to rear Its head again in Atlanta, as the result of the J250.W0 fund which is now being subscribed by Atlanta citi zens. It means something to beta such a movement. It will be • source of pride to YOU in after life to recall that you were among the founders of New Oglethorpe. Honest Hypocrites By ELBERT HUBBARD J OHN FISKE once vrrote 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 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 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 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 polloi. 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 cer tainly can. Having once espoused a cause, we are bound to maintain It. Even when new light comes 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 with “m.v 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 all down correctly. This means truth in business. Quality and fit are guaranteed. And, behold, now, clothes ready to wear represent, in a business way. the very' acme of honestv, directness, simplicity and right intent. I lie hnd 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 endinv 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 woul<y 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 its 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: l ie’s a Cute Baby 1®18, International News Service.