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- —- EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME RARER THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published by THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 Bast Alabama Ht Atlanta, Oa. Entered as ssoond-claat matter at posfnfflce at Atlanta, under act of March t, 1172 mCARSTS SUNDAY AMERICAN and THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN will be mailed to subscribers anywhere In the United States. Canada and Mexico, ore month for S fiO- thrse months for 1178, six months for $3.80 and one year f< r $7 00, chanpre of addreaa madt as often as desired. Foreign subscription rates on application. How a Nation Is Built Selected by EDWIN MARKHAM F OR vivid vistas of places and performances In our na tional htatory, I recommend you to Hubert Howe Bancroft's "Retrospection,” an analytical re- v i"w of the nineteenth century. Now that everybody la out upon thi splendid roads of the land, consider this outline of the be ginning of the great roads of the nation: l ooking over the first half of the last century, times may seem dull, methods crude and progress s ■ -w. Rut 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 was conceived and brought forth bv the American people cer tain industrial achievements, to say nothing of politics and so- tiety, 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 v ork on the pyramids of Egypt or the great wall of China. "These enterprises were the construction, during the years 1S<>6 to 1838, of a national turn pike 834 miles In length, from Fort Cumberland on the Potomac through Ohio, Indiana and lllinolis to Jefferson City, Miaaouri, 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 Mississl-nl and the Missouri be- i line the great highways of emi gration. And then the Cumber- turnpike, the first national !'•• • using in Its construction v-er w as available from the Washington and Braddock 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 midcontinent Inhabitants and overspreading the plains beyond, crossed the moun tains and deserts, finallv 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 seas. The effect on New York was marvelous, causing It to shoot forward rapidly In copulation 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 midcontinental progress." In=Shoots British captain accused of kicking his wife. Probably car rying a full sail. * • • Dlast, 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-year-old girls need $6,000 income. Muwt be saving up to catch »om« uuke. 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 Least Our Part of It) Copyright. I Wit, tay Hto OoopavT. 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 as they dug their way from ocean to ocean. They have done & 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 cannot the brain* 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 oontinue 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 Paciflo Ooean. 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, a* 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 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? 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 lng 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 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 great mind, AVE WE THE GREAT MIND IN THE RIGHT PLACE? Atlanta Is Center of Most Prosperous Section. Ff?ANKhCH?r ^ _ _ _ _ ^ ^ ^ POPULATION ^10*000,000 _ANK DEPOSITS *400,000,000 BALES or COTTOM 6,000,000 fcl 14 INDEPENDENT RAILWAY LINES - ATLANTA*^k e U er KNOXyUJLfc^ sw-lk • yf' ~ ^ I^Tc ©o DALTON I I _ret£viu- i>: / \ -rcqHE .QiMHfcSY'i-LE.' ^ATUNTA - SM-lSm)'*'*' ASHEVILLE /M c&VcOfft) CHA.KLOTTE^'# \ _ -± .a riONRpE J . VAU.ADt.CA , Its Territory Is Represented by Deposits Aggregating $400,000,000. A7ALAOHICOU Atlanta. “Atlanta is now in the center of that section of the United Stages 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, Alabaina J J'Jorth Carolina, South Carolina and Flor ida—tli ere 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 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. By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES T HE openln* 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 w r ill establish . service from the Orient to New York via Honolulu, IjOs 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 year for this great enterprise. And what are we doing In America? What is the nation that built the canal doing to utilize 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 hr American Government should he 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 ma.rfne 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 eo long and so shame- folk absent. The whole faith and history of the Democratic prrty 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 ab'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 ourselves have opened. Ts our canal indeed an altru istic enterprise? Ts 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-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 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 lien 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 rastor. 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 onr product* 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 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 ig the sound American way to do it. Fourteen In dependent Railway Lines ( Radiate from Old Oglethorpe Gave Great Men 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 Atlan'ans and Georgians, living and dead with old Oglethorpe. The appeal Is not to any class or faction of Gecrgian citizenship, but to all. Former Governor Joseph M. Brown Is an alumnus of old Ogle thorpe, ha - 'lng 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 family attended the old University. Senator Bacon and ex-Presi- dent Roosevelt are both descend ed ffom 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 Is to rear its head again 1n Atlanta, as the result of the 3250,000 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 founder* 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 1 ig enough, the pose becomes natural, and he 1* 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 hi* opinions even from him self. He evolve* a lingo before ho learns to think. This lingo his dlsctples accept and take on, each on* 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 pollob In the meantime they have hypnotized themselves Into the belief that they mean somothtng, 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 oomest Can a man be an unconscious fakerf And the answer Is; He most osr- talnly can. Having once espoused a estate, we are bound to maintain It. Even when new Hght comes we will fight against change. So with the theological sod 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 ws 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 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 can was gtven; “All right,” and then the tape measure was put over my manly anatomy. It was pleasing to my sense ef approbation to be thus ministered to. The man measuring me and the man looking on consulted from tlms to time. They called off the measure ments thus; "Thirty-two and a half, twenty-one and three-quar tern, sixteen sod a halt” Then the tape measure was applied the second time, and the call was given: “Make that sixteen and setveo-elghths," and the la the dark recesses of the store echoed back the numbers. These were repeated, to see that duty were all down correctly. This means truth Id business. Quality and fit are guaranteed. And, behold, now, clothes ready to wear represent, In a business way, the very acme of honesty, directness, simplicity and rigit 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 {he 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 1n the hands of the men wanted lished. - — who the Inquisition estab- Those men, having duly ouv lined the dread tribunal «wl se cured as Its manager that pas*, gon of kindness and mercy named Torquemada, proceeded to carry out the object of thedr 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 flotrrWh- 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. 1&18. International News Service. ® © s ftu