Newspaper Page Text
EDITORIAL RAGE
The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME RARER
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
Published by THE GEORGIAN GoMI'ANT
At 20 East Alabama St Atlanta, Ga
Enteral «» second-class matter at postofflrt. at Atlanta, under a ’ nf March 3, 13 3
HKARST'S SUNDAY AMKRICAN and THK ATLANTA OI.ORCIAN will
ha mailed to subscribers anywhere In the 1'nlted States. Canada and Mexico,
rne month for $ 60; three months for $1 7 6, fill months for $•! *0 and one year
for $7 00. change of address made aa often as deatred. Foreign -ubscriptlon
rates on application.
Youth and Enthusiasm Are
Fighting for Oglethorpe
The magnificent thing about this Oglethorpe University
movement is the way in which it enlists the splendid enthusiasm
of the young men of Atlanta.
The daily meetings of the Campaign Committee of the Ogle
thorpe founders is a flood of earnest and vigorous youth, march
ing in the fore front of a solid rank of older citizens who back
the movement with their judgment and largely with their money.
It is easy to understand why those who are to live in the
Atlanta and Georgia of the future should be filled with en
thusiasm for what the Griffin News so wisely termed “THE
MOST IMPORTANT EDUCATIONAL ENTERPRISE EVER
ATTEMPTED IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. ’
Atlanta is the South's metropolis; its leader of thought
and commerce; it is the financial center, the insurance center,
the railroad center of the entire South.
As Mr. William Randolph Hearst said yesterday, in making a
donation of $5,000 to the Oglethorpe University fund, ‘ ‘ FOR A
LONG TIME THE SOUTH LED ALL AMERICA IN THE
FAME AND EXCELLENCE OF ITS UNIVERSITIES. THERE
IS NOW NO REASON WHY IT SHOULD NOT DO SO AGAIN,
AND THERE IS EVERY REASON WHY ATLANTA SHOULD
BE IN THE FRONT RANK OF THE ADVANCING COLUMNS
OF EDUCATIONAL AND HUMAN PROGRESS. ’
This strikes the keynote of the movement for a great central
university in Atlanta. With our center and suburbs radiant with
female colleges, and with our unsurpassed Technological School
on the flank, Atlanta lacks the one great central University
arotmd which its culture, its learning and its development of
youth may gather.
In all the list of things to be desired there is no one thing so
essential as this University. Atlanta needs it more than she needs
anything else—more, in fact, than she needs all things else at this
time.
And this would not be Atlanta if she fails to win by liberality
and enterprise that which is her especial need. The outlook of
this great institution is inspiring. Mr. Hearst's donation of yester
day reaches the movement at a psychological moment, reinvig
orating its ranks and making success certain.
When Atlanta raises her $250,000, and with the $250,000
waiting on the outside, this half million dollars will give us the
magnificent foundation on which we shall ask and certainly re
ceive the co-operation of the vast wealth and power of the Presby- i
terian clientele in New York and the East.
God and the American people help those who help them
selves, and when the people of Atlanta make clear to the people
of the country that they are generously and heroically helping j
themselves, we need not fear that the wealth and the educa
tional enthusiasm of the great financial centers will respond roy
ally to this great educational movement in the South.
If Atlanta does her part, as she certainly will—and do it
soon—we shall have in Atlanta before the year is over the
equipment for the greatest educational institution south of the \
Potomac and east of the Mississippi Rivers.
The opportunity is inspiring. The end is magnificent. Surely i
the Atlanta spirit will rise to both the opportunity and the end
in view.
That $95,000 should be raised before Saturday night.
® Canopus and Sirius ©
By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN.
<4 \ * Australian friend writes
A that Canopus la more
brilliant than Sirius.
Please state if this is true. In
what part of the world Is it visi
ble? Has its parallax been accu
rately determined?”
A. Firat—1 fear that your friend
is in error. The results of that
instrument of precision, the me
ridian photometer, are that Sirius
is seven-tenths* of a magnitude
brighter ^han Canopus, which
easily teaches that Sirius is
brighter than any other star
Second—Canopus, next in bril
liancy. is visible from all that
portion of the world south of
north latitude 37 degrees, since its
declination is south 53 degrees,
and 53 iR the complement of 37.
It therefore never rises above
the south horiaon of any point 37
degrees north. The latitude of
this observatory is 34 degrees 17
minutes, hence Canopus rises
very nearly 3 degrees above the
watery wastes in the Pacific Sea
Its low' altitude makes it much
fainter than higher Sirius, as the
light must traverse layers of dust
and water vapor near the earth s
surface. Still it is magnificent,
especially when standing over a
calm ocean surface.
Third—Canopus has no paral
lax that the hlghest-power tele-
micrometers that can be made are
able tp measure. This ts one of
the most overwhelming facts
within the entire range of human
experience. This means that if
one goes to Canopus with the
most powerful telescope ever
made, turns and looks back this
way, the base line, the entire
diameter of the orbit of the earth
—185.764,000 miles dwindles to a
minute point too small to be
measured by an\ microscope.
Some idea may be had of the
immensity of the universe by
thinking of this fact during each
spare minute. Better to so think
than to waste the precious mo
ments.
Questions Answered
THE GERMAN EMPIRE.
J. P. -Since 1871 all the States
of Germany form an ‘external
union for the protection of the
realm and the care of the welfare
of the German people ” For leg
islative purposes, under the Em
peror as head, are two Houses of
Assembly, the Upper House of
the Federated States, represent
ing the individual States, and the
Lower House, or “Reichstag. ’
The former corresponds very
closely to our Senate, while the
fatter resembles our Hous-
presentatives. Germany, while
reticaily a monarchy, is in
substance and practice as demo
cratic a country as there is on
earth. The Emperor knows, very
well, that it is no longer by “di
vine right.” but by the right of
the people that he sits at the
head.
THE CUP RACE.
E. <\ D Sir Thomas Upton is
now building a yacht to race for
the America cup. He has com
plied with the rather unfair regu
lations i.*f tin- Xew York Yacht
Club, and will race for the cup on
their own term.- The race will
> I V .
harbor some time next *fall.
Christmas Is Coming
L _ |
How We Can Remould the World
© The Great Niebuhr ®
By EDWIN MARKHAM.
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY
A FIFTEEN-CENT pamphlet
packed with value comes
from the Equal Suffrage
Association of Chicago. It comes
under the title. "Social Forces,”
tims, the plan of its realizations
and the definite practical program
of what to do next to secure it
may be perfectly developed in the
mind of one of our steady-looking
O NE hundred and one years
ago a Berlin publisher an
nounced to the world that^
he had just published the first
two volumes of Niebuhr’s His-
tricians, the nature of the public
lands, the character of the vari
ous constitutions, and the true
meaning of the early laws and
customs out of w'hich came, in
and contains a topical outline,
with a full bibliography, cover
ing government methods and
ideals, together with industrial
and educational types as well as
problems of women and children
Libraries, schools, clubs and indi
vidual students will find this an
awakening little volume. 1 cull a
few wise paragraphs:
"We should disabuse our minds
of the all-too-prevalent idea that
what we do is of no value in the
development of the race, tha -
certain reforms are bound to
come anyway, and we may as
well sit back and fold our arms
and watch them come
"Gan not women, in the larger
field now opening before them,
bring to the world as their con
tribution to social progress an at
titude of mind sufficiently open
and unhampered by tradition to
shorten the process by eliminat
ing at least the time occupied in
‘kicking the new idea around the
block?’ f
“As we think back into the hu
man societies that were here be
fore we came, we see in each a
few grekt, struggling, lifting
souls; ami here and there, among
the satisfied folks, a man or wom
an who saw the way to a freer,
more beautiful social order. And
the question at once confronts
us; Why did Mencius in China.
Gautama in India. Aurelius,
Michael Angelo, Francis Shaftes
bury. each in his time, see so
clearly, try so hard, and succeed
so little, in serving real social
progress? Why. indeed, when
each age has had its social re
deemers. has the household of the
world retained,so much of shift
less disorder and dirt, so much of
yesterday’s left-over untidiness
and ugliness and disease-breed
ing filth, so much dullness and
wretchedness of children and us
all?
• Edison can work out the plan
of a storage battery all by him
self. and Burbank ran produce a
spineless cactus all alone; but
the idea of a society without vic-
fellows, and it will never do any
good, it can never be realized,
except through the co-operation
of all of us in seeing what he sees,
in understanding his reasoning,
in uniting with his determining.
“This is the distinguishing per
ception of our time that we can
have any sort of world we choose,
that We can leave to our descend
ants any sort of world we will,
and that this recreating of social
life can not be achieved except
through our companionship in co
operation. together using all the
facts that any of us has learned.
This dawning of the creative so
cial consciousness is expressing
itself in many particular direc
tions, political, economic, artistic;
and each of these divides again
like some great limb of a living
tree into its branches.”
tory of Rome—a work that was
destined to pla$- hovoc with many
of the records of the past.
The great German's book made
a complete revolution in the
method of writing history. In
Its wide and all-important field
it did as much as Sir Charles Ly-
ell’s book did in the field of geol
ogy. or Darwin in that of biog
raphy. It was*, in fact, the his
tory of history, the key that was
to admit us to the temple of
Truth in matters historical.
In Niebuhr’s work there ap
peared. practically for the first
time, the exact facts regarding
the Romans and their institu
tions—their population, the foun
dation of their State, the origin
of the Plebs, the real relations
between the Plebs and the Pa-
the fullness of time, the all-con
quering Republic which ended
with Caesar.
The myths which, up to Nie
buhr’s time, had dominated much
of our thought about Rome were
exploded for all time, supersti
tions were wiped out, and the
wav was cleared for a proper un
derstanding of the great people
who had stamped their genius so
indelibly and permanently upon
the world.
Nor must the fact be over
looked that in clearing up the
Roman field Niebuhr cleared the
entire field of history.
The entire past, beginning with
the dawn of recorded events,
was now to begin to loom up with
something like accuracy of out
line and proportion Rollin and
his brother dreamers were to
give way to the historians who
could see clearly and report
faithfully. Fables were no long
er to usurp the place of facts, and
old tradition was to take back a
seat for the reality.
And so. what Vico and Montes
quieu did for the * philosophy of
history. Nieubuhr was to do for
Its method, and it is perfectly
correct to say that those who
have, within the past half cen
tury or so, rewritten the story of
the past, have done so largely
along the lines that were marked
out by the great German histo
rian.
Stars and Stripes
Curtiss airship plant will move
to Europe. Rather an unusual
flight.
• * •
That Illinois girl that was jolt
ed into the Governor’s lap landed
soft
• * • •
Vaudeville man in “turn" puts
stockings on woman partner. An
extraordinary feat.
,4 CONSTANCY
by LILLIAN LAUFERTY.
s ■ i
I I.OVED you one*-I love you still
What soul can bid love nay?
Your memory my heart must thrill
At this sad far-off day.
If ecstasy Is paid with tears.
. If joy must end In sorrow;
And love comes down through weary years
And grim is each tomorrow;
If fancy's hour is paid in woe.
If bliss must reap in pain.
And still slow days must dully go.
And yet stale moons must wane—
Why, I, who loved you. love you still
Despite these years apart
No price too great for that wild thrill
You once taught my sad heart.
Dr.Parkhurst s
Article
—ON—
The Churches To-day—
They Are Not Schools
of Theological Dog
ma, as One Critic
Claims — They Are
Dealing Very Directly
with Practical Things.
By DR. C. H
HURCH people, whether of
the Protestant. Catholic or
Jewish type are sometimes
made a little Impatient by the
way In which writers and de-
clafmers go out of their way to
PARKHURST.
, been in progress, and that the
Ten Commandments now fill a
very mnch larger place in pulpit
discourse than does dogmatic die
cussion.
She has let her recollection of
S
say ill-tempered and petulant
thingB about the Church and the
ministry.
It would be in exceedingly bad
taste for us to deny the defects
of an institution so evidently de
ficient in many of the elements
that make for protection; and In
telligent and generous criticism
will, by every fair-minded and
sincere churchman, be received
with becoming humility and grat
itude; but adverse judgments
when pronounced not only ignor
antly, but with a oertain malig
nant relish, are a little Irksome
to the mind even of those who
are trying to make it part of
their religion to keep even-tem
pered and good-natured.
The simplest thing that, under
the circumstances, can be said, is
that it is much easier to say what
the Church ought to be than it is
to be a member and help make it
what it ought to be.
It would he unjust to find fault
with the ideals that the critic
exploits, but better than to stay
outside and exploit ideals would
be to come in and make them
into reality.
It would be better, but a great
deal harder.
There are few lines of busi
ness that require so little capital
as that of the fault finder, and
few that Involve so little expen
diture of Christian grace as that
of the censorious critic.
Such Criticism May Once
Have Been True, but
It is No Longer.
An article in the November is
sue of a magazine, entitled ‘‘Our
Supervised Morals," would have
made better reading and more
helpful, If it had not. been em
ployed to express a little of the
vicious animus just remarked
upon, for while it says many
good things, it is composed in
rather bad temper and indulges
in two or three slaps which do
not rise to the dignity of an as
sault.
One example is the following;
•‘Perhaps the churches are con
sidered the schools of morals,
* • • but no; the churches are
schools of theological dogma, a
matter totally unrelated to
morals, and only here and there,
sporadically, does one find clergy
men with definite ethical doc
trines, who feel called upon to
teach them.
"The topic uppermost just now
In the ministerial mind, as who
may prove who listens to ser
mons from Maine to Virginia,
and from Massachusetts to Col
orado, Is the supremacy and need
of the Church. That the Church
ts not a useless or decadent insti
tution is vociferously proclaimed
from all the pulpits. Well, is it
a school of morals? Is It intent
upon a nice distinction between
right and wrong?"
There was a time undoubtedly
when the criticism passed upon
preaching by the writer of the
article would have been applica
ble to the situation, but she has
not kept up with the progress of
ministerial thought, is not aware
that the pulpit of the present is
dealing, very directly and em
phatically. with practical matters
of conduct.
Like other members of her
class, who have a latent antipathy
to religion considered as funda
mental to sound ethics, she harps
^upon the old criticism, not hav
ing come close enough to the
spirit of the contemporary pulpit
to realize the change that has
what may have been true once,
along with an illy disguised an
tipathy to the whole religious
matter, take the place of an inti
mate acquaintance with what
ministers are now preaching
about (as disclosed by the press
and by printed volumes of ser
mons) In forming her estimate
and shaping her criticsm of cur
rent homiletics.
Had not her article been col
ored by such a prejudgment she
would have been saved from the
violation of one of those moral
principles so ardently cherished
by her—"Thou shalt not bear
false witness."
Just What Is Meant by
“Church?” What Does
It Stand For?
But her condemnation rests
not only upon the clergy but—as
shown in the quoted paragraph—
just as much upon the church.
The writer of the article in ques
tion gives no indication as to
what exactly she understands by
“Church.”
But if the superficial view she
takes of what the preachers axe
saying Is paralleled by her esti
mate of what Church denotes,
she probably understands by the
latter an assemblage of people
gathered periodically In the sanc
tuary for religious services and
in their corporate capacity un
dertaking to put some sort of
stamp upon the character of the
community.
There is considerable of that
idea abroad and she presumably
shares in it, and so far as it goes
the idea is not an altogether un
warranted one. But the fall
scope of Church is not appre
ciated and a Just accounting Is
not made till there have been
reckoned In the results wrought
by individual members who
gather in the sanctuary and who
receive from its services and
from the inspiration of its fellow
ships that inspiration that sends
them forth individually to put
their several impulses where op
portunity and the love that is in
their hearts suggests.
Take, If you please, ail the mis
sions that are being worked in
this city; add to them the Young
Men’s and the Young Women's
Christian Associations; add still
farther all the purely human!
tarian efforts that are being put
forth for human saving and up
lift.
They Are Building Men
and Women into No
bility of Life.
Remember that In almost
ever.- case the moving spirits in
these enterprises are Churchmen
and Churchwomen that are labor
ing not at all along lines of dog
matic theology but with a direct
reference to building up men and
women into practical nobility of
j life.
ln=$hoots
Cold feet never carried a man
anywhere.
• * * *
The courage of one’s convictions
# i.- more apt to invite a swat than
words of approval.
* * •
It is impossible to be real hap
py unless someone is happy with
you.
If all were forced to practice
what they preach there would not
be so much preaching.
* * *
The girl whose face newer
changes color is not always
heartless. She may be kalso-
mined-