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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-