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Let Us Have Progress Coupled
With Prosperity
SOME DAY!
’’opyrlght, 1013, International Nawa Servi e
President Wilson says: There is but one cloud upon our
horizon, and describes that cloud as our trouble with Mexico.
Mr. Wilson evidently is not an expert in political meteor
ology.
There Is, perhaps, only one cloud on the distant horizon, but
ther# are several very threatening clouds hanging immediately
overhead, and casting a very heavy shadow upon the business
interests of this country and upon the general prosperity of the
producing classes. This heavy shadow, with a prospect even of
a serious storm, is due to the President's exceedingly obstinate
attitude in regard to the modifications of the tariff.
The President is one of those men to whom success gives hal
lucinations.
He has the Presbyterian belief in predestination.
He is convinced that he is the direct representative of the
Almighty on earth, and that, being in more immediate contact
with mundane affairs, his knowledge of them is, perhaps, a little
ttpenor to that of the Almighty.
This conviction is not uncommon among men whose sudden
rise to power is as incomprehensible to them as it is to the rest
of the community. Not only politicians have this obsession, but
nusiness men also who attain unusual success or important posi
tion too rapidly.
A conspicuous example of this hallucination was given by
George F. Baer, of the Reading Railroad, with his avowed inspi
ration and his arrogant action by “Divine right.’’
Vanities of this kind would be harmless enough if they did
not so often lead men to become inaccessible to facts and im
pervious to reason, and if they did not so often persuade men
that their own fallible opinions were direct inspirations from on
High, not to be modified or ameliorated by the opinions of other
men or the actual conditions which confront them.
The clouds which now hang menacingly overhead and
threaten the prosperity of the nation could have been dissipated
if Mr Wilson had taken a broader and more liberal view in his
policies of tariff reduction.
He should have realized that tariff reduction, however
necessary for the benefit of the consumers, must fall more or less
heavily and disastrously upon the producers of the country.
He should have appreciated the necessity of compensating
these American producers for the markets which they would
lose here at home by opening to them markets which he could
easily have secured for them abroad.
The reduction of our tariff barrier* allows our markets to be
invaded by foreign products, and our producers to be deprived
of a greater or less proportion of our American markets.
If ,i policy of reciprocity had accompanied the policy of
tariff reduction the markets of foreign nations would have been
reciprocally opened to the products of our American manufac
ture! and producers. The advantages gained in these foreign
markets would have compensated our producers, and, perhaps,
more than compensated, for the loss of part of their home
markets.
Mr. Wilson should realize that the word “producers’’ does
not mean only the big business men who conduct manufactories,
but the workingmen, who are the partners in this production, and
the farmers, who are the most important producers of all.
However desirable it might have been to benefit the consum
ers, it was certainly as desirable, or even more desirable, to ben
efit the producers in this country. THE GREATNESS OF THIS
COUNTRY AND THE WEALTH OF THIS COUNTRY ARE
DUE NOT TO WHAT WE CONSUME, BUT TO WHAT WE
PRODUCE.
The increase-in the creation of wealth depends in great meas
ure upon proper encouragement to production, and the distribu
tion of wealth in good prices to farmers and good wages to
workingmen is obviously dependent in the first instance upon the
creation of wealth through profitable production.
Profits on production depend largely on the extent and ex
cellence of available markets, and any sort of ordinary business
intelligence or political intelligence ought to have observed the
wisdom of increasing and improving the markets for American
products.
In f act, the only kind of mind that could not see the practical
and : ntimental, the material and human advantage of such a
poliev would be that type which believes itself to be the medium
for the direct transmission of Divine instructions.
li is certainly not incompatible with any moral obligations
to consider the material welfare of a country and the financial
prosperity of the individual citizens.
The material prosperity of the people is a matter worthy of
the attention and consideration of any Administration, but par
ticularly of a Democratic Administration, and Mr. Wilson’s
policies no matter how inspired he may believe them, should be
executed with due regard for the welfare of the nation and of
the citizens.
T ndeed, it would be well if Mr. Wilson could realize that no
one man is doing God s work on earth, but that all men are
doin it, in the place and with the power that God has allotted
to them; that vox populi vox Dei, that all men are entitled to be
heard, and that the moral and material interests of all are right
fully to be considered and conserved.
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST
P 1TIENT, plodding, bravely tolling.
Slipping on the ley grade
Where the devil's pot Is boiling
In the city that he made;
Straining at the thoughtless urging
Of grim men as dumb as they.
Where the trafTlc s tide 1s surging.
See them on their weary way.
Sick and tore, but uncomplaining
At their humble, dreary lot.
Wet and cold when It is raining.
Dizzy when the sun is hot;
Oier pavements hard and endless.
See the city horses go.
Till removed, all still and friendless,
To tin graves they welcome no.
Mr. Mc( 3ay hero shows one argument that will persuade our slumbering statesmen of tho neces
sity for an adequate navy. Let us hope that a majority of them will wake up before this day comes.
I N' “The Use of Leisure," a re
markable book sent out by
B. W. Huebsch, Mr. Temple
Scott has put some of hie keen
est work. Prom his chapter
“W anted—Leisure" I cull a pas
sa Re:
Buried in foul basements and
bereft of sunlight and air, hun
dreds of thousands of young men
ami young; women are daily occu
pied In a deadly routine of em
ployment at tasks that Concern
them only in so far as their ac
complishment brings them a
weekly wage
“And they are doing these tasks
from early morn till dewy eve.
Out In the streets and in the
country the blue sky Is effulgent
In golden sunlight, and trees are
blossoming, lirds singing, clouds
mailing and gentle breezes blow
ing. But the toilers see nothing
and feel nothing of what is going
on without. They have not the
time; they are too busy asserting
their Ood-given rights to ‘life,
liberty and the pursuit of happi
ness.’ 'Blessed are the horny
handa of toll!’
"In stuffy little shops are thou
sands of others—husbands and
wives and children—smirking,
genuflexing, tricking, nattering,
dm l iving, cajoling customers into
buying the wares they are offer
ing for sale From 7 or 8 o’clock
in the morning until 7, 8. 9 and
even 10 o’clock at night, they are
engaged in this degrading labor.
They have no time for anything
else: for If they took the time
their neighbor shopkeeper might
lake customers from them. More-
ovc they must, at any cost, make
goo.; their inalienable rights to
'life liberty and the pursuit of
hai riness So 'Toil on, toil on,
Selected by EDWIN MARKHAM
thou art in thy duty, be out of it
who may.’
"Watch the farmer at his work
end his family at their daily
tasks. The pageant of landscape
and of sky passes by thei.. unseen
They are bowed and bent earth
ward. For a brief moment they
look up; but their eyes are blind
For a short spare they plod
homeward a weary way and leave
the world to darknens and them
selves to brutish sleep. He Is his
own taskmaater. with the whip of
anxiety to spur him on to effort
after effort. Tet they are also
told that ‘to labor is to pray.’
"See the employer at his office
desk, tricking, cajoling, swin
dling. haggling, directing, smirk
ing. Juggling and doing the many
other worthy and unworthy acts
that he calls business. He alsa
is harnessed to the mortar-
wheel. lie is the blind leading
the blind. He is the slave of his
enterprise, the creature of his
success. Listen to him. In his
hours of ease, at the restaurant,
in the theater, or at his own din
ing table, and he is saying, ‘Dol
lars, dollars, dollars!’ If other
words fail from his lips, they
have reference to dollars; if he
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THE CITY HORSES .*
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
talks of art, it is in terms of dol
lars; if he dsaeants of pleasure,
it Is in the language of the mar
ket place; if he speaks of love. It
is with synonyms for money.
"He kno\\s no god but tl\e Gold
en Calf and no joy but the fever
of desire. And he is oppressed
i with worry and depressed by
anxiety. If he makes thousands
in a day, he loses them In a night.
He is the gambler offspring of
competition and the millitariat
system. He Is Time’s slave; he
• 1s the chained driver of the com
petition car, doomed for life to
cross and recross the Bridge of
Sighs. And in his wake follow
the groans of the hungry and the
moans of the stricken. Yet he
can not help them because he
is himself stricken; he is the
slave of the system which com
pels him to do what he does.”
.:. ln=Shoots
Good morning; have you pick
ed your all-America team yet?
• • *
Man asked that his electrocu
tion be put off until he had fin
ished reading a joke book. Dis
counting his doom.
• * *
Suffragettes will march seven
times around the White House.
Hope it’s better built than Jeri
cho was.
• • *
President Wilson has a cold.
Not stated whether he Is.taking
a cough cure or pursuing a policy
of watchful waiting.
* * •
Rvery time the Kaiser needs
more money he sells another cas
tle. The plain citizen has to slap
on another mortgage.
* * *
Man loses claim of Sl.OOO.QOO
from Government for inventing
wax-page stamp books. In other
words, he was stuck.
•8 Is Most of Our Labor Joyless? §>
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By Garrett P. Serviss
T HERE was once /rreat excite-
ment In the kingdom of the
moles over the discovery
ef a peculiar Instrument which
rendered It possible for them to
see something of the world about
them. Every one of those blind
little animals wished to try the
powers of the strange Instrument,
and the mere thought that there was
: a world around them, of whoae ex
istence they had been unaware,
awoke their intelligence, widened
their minds and stimulated their
desire to see it for themselves.
But there were millions of moles
and only one instrument of vtsion.
Moreover, a little clique immedi
ately took possession of the sin
gle instrument and. on the pre
tense that they alone knew how to
use it, kept every other mole
away. In a short time this clique
developed Into a separate order,
speaking a language of their own.
which was mostly unintelligible to
their compatriots. They did, how
ever. occasionally talk In the ver
nacular a little about their discov
eries, and this was Just sufficient
to Intensify the desire of the mill
ions to see something of these
wonders for themselves. But they
were kept away from the marvel
lous Instrument more kincharit-
ably than before.
At last an appeal was made to
the King of the Moles, and he de
creed that another Instrument
should be made for the purpose of
satisfying the public curiosity.
New Instruments Are
Seized by Clique of
Students.
The making of this instrument, was
! very costly and difficult, and only
I the resources of the King were
competent for the undertaking.
There was great rejoicing at the
news of the construction of the
new instrument—but no sooner
w'as it completed than the same
clique seized upon it, and the public
saw- no more than before. When
loud popular protests were heard,
representatives of the clique went
before the King and persuaded him
that they needed the exclusive use
of both the Instruments for the
development of a wonderful new
science on which they were work
ing. The ignorant rabble, they de
clared, could not understand these
things.
"I don’t understand them very
■well myself," said the King, “but
I do understand the desire of my
people to experience this new sen
sation of seeing.”
However, the King yielded to the
representations of the clique,
chiefly because their learned Jar
gon daunted him, and so the pub-
| lie were still compelled to learn
! what they could of the world of
! eight at second hand.
I The same thing was repeated
many times, but always the new
instruments, constructed at the
King's expense, were monopolized
by the technicians of tire clique.
Finally a poor mole, gifted with
more than usual eloquence, sought
the King, and said:
“Sire, it is an adage older than
your royal line that 'seeing Is be-
Oglethorpe
Bering.’ We, your faithful sub
jects, are told wonderful things
about the powers of these new in
strnments and the marvels that
they reveal, but we are not permit
ted to see them ourselves. There
is a great longing In our souls to
partake, if but once in our lives, of
this high pleasure, which we feel
would do more to emancipate our
mind3 than all the Incomprehensi
ble preachments of the clique who
have taken exclusive possession of
the instruments of sight, and who
seem to find more interest in the
technicalities invented by them
selves than in the plain lessons to
be derived from such discoveries.
King of the Moles Is
Moved by Appeal of
the Poor.
“We therefore beseech Tour
Majesty to command the construc
tion of an instrument which all
your humble susbjects may use to
satisfy their laudable curiosity.”
The King of the Moles was
moved by this appeal, and, In an
swer to it, went deep into his royal
treasury and had an instrument of
unprecedented power constructed,
which, he commanded, should for
ever be at the disposal of his sub
jects who wished to take a glimpse
at the visible world, while a few
professors from the clique were
appointed to show the people how
to look.
The consequence was that a
beneficent mental revolution oc
curred in the kingdom of the moles,
and the clique found that they, too.
had benented by the change, be
cause now the popular mind under
stood belter what they were about
and sympathetically supported
them in their abstruse researches.
I have abstracted this short
chapter from the history of the
moles because of its bearing upon
s great question In human edu
cation. Not a week passes in
which I do not hear from some
man or woman thirsting for first
hand knowledge about the won
ders of the starry universe, and
begging to be Informed where they
can obtain a single look through
a great telescope. I gly e them
letters of introduction here and
there, but the result Is almost al
ways the same, “We are too busy.”
There Should Be Big
Telescopes for the
People.
“Don’t bother ua; this Is no place
for sight-seers*—-such are virtually
the only replies that they get.
Of course the astronomers are
busy: I know that. But, equally
of course, there ought to be a great
telescope, and more than one great
telescope, devoted entirely to grat
lflcation of the intellectual onrl-
ostty of the vast public mind con
cerning the wonders around us. I
hope to see at least one such In
stitution established before I go
elsewhere, and some generous mil
lionaire, desirous to benefit his
kind, could easily play the part of
the enlightened king of the mole*
by supplying the needed instru
ment of celestial vision.
University
(From The Griffin News.)
r pHE move to establish Ogle-
[ thorpe University in At
lanta affects the South as
a section and is the most impor
tant educational enterprise ever
attempted in the Southern States.
That Georgia ajid Atlanta should
be the home of this great insti
tution is not remarkable—Geor
gia is one of he best States in
the Union and Atlanta has never
yet failed in an undertaking.
Oglethorpe will in many re
spects be as extensive and com
plete in Us work as Harvard and
Yale and the people of the
South are loyal enough to support
it from the beginning.
Age and prestige are valuable
assets for any university, but
that they are not indispensable
to operation has been convinc
ingly illustrated by the Univer
sity of Chicago, which Is attain
ing results that compare favor
ably with any of the older insti
tutions of learning. What has
been done in Chicago can be done
in Atlanta, and Oglethorpe will
be a lasting monument to the en
terprise and liberality of Geor
gia and place it in the education
al history of the future.
Atlanta has undertaken t®
raise $260,000 of the required
amount and it is pleasing to note
that Griffin is co-operating hand
somely In this work of construc
tion.
All the eminent educators are
not employed by the older uni
versities, nor is it impossible for
the South to succeed where oth
er sections have made good.
Backed by the unlimited cap!
tal that will eventually material
ize, Oglethorpe will prove a glory
to the South and a credit to the
nation.
Stars and Stripes
Life is just one divorce after
another—in some society circles.
• • •
Dewey wants 48 battleships!
That’s the right sort of peace
talk.
• • •
No money bill, no holiday for
the President. Can’t have a
Christmas without bills
• • •
Aviator’s motor stopped % as he
' looped the loop. Hospital 'report
shows the airship went on.
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Wall Street brokers complain
I their only active accounts now
are i ho Re relating to e^pensea.