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EDITORIAL. RAGE The Atlanta Georgian I the: home rarer SHilM'V'H'i'n l wovr RIM "l ftUIVD MORE M1TLC 5HIP3’. J UTiPiW 1 &lcoND[S THC c MOTION’ *Jt A MOTION HAS BEEN HARE AND SECONDED THAT WE BUtLD MORF BATTLE SHIPS ALL IN FAVOR OF THE NOTION SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published by TITF GEORGIAN COMPACT At 20 Kant Alabama Ft Atlanta, Ga T*- f **-nr 1 class matter at postnffio* at Atlanta i* act of Mirrh 3, IPS ' - SUNDAY AMERICAN «nd THE \TLANTA GEORGIAN wUI subscribers anywhere in the United States, Canada and Mexico, r ■ ' $.*>0, three months for II 7.V charier >f addr* m mad a aa often a* deslrci Foreign subscription rates on application 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 PUTTY: He Gets the Pup in Bad - 5?S3L «.r /* WlNSOR— M c OAY. 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? §> PUBLIC WANTS - 5*4 TO STUDY sfcuV Asmm KHF • "t • • t \ eggL THE SKY ■/ £ 3m HgB’.'i ■ HHrt - - w GARRETT P. SERVISS fp SAYS: BBto, .jLs- " r,< ilySS f v*. a V~ There Should Be Great Telescopei flgMHgr/.'r e wH Where (he Va*t Mind of the ESafelL - <t. v aSsEs. People Could Satisfy Its Intel- ; --iiy , w*ar jfmm lectnal Curiousity Concerning the Wonder* in the Heavens About U*. • 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. - * - Wall Street brokers complain I their only active accounts now are i ho Re relating to e^pensea.