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COMING BACK TO ATLANTA FOR SERVICE
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES
It is something far more than a pleasure to come back to I he Georgian sis the personal representative
of Mr. Hearst himself.
First, in the return to a paper of which I was one of the founders, and to a people among whom I was
3-eared, and with whom niv work of so many years was always a matter of personal loyalty and love.
And second, in the fact that the power and liberality of Mr. Hearst enable me to come b^ick to Atlanta
equipped for a general and comprehensive service for tin* ( ity, the State and the- South, far greater than an\
I might have attained if I had remained at home, and greater even than I had ever dreamed of having if my
largest dreams of local success had been realized.
T can not better illustrate what this means than by printing here Mr. Hearst,'s letter which commissions
me.
paper, or than all locaj papers could possibly do. We can ap
peal to millions of readers in other sections than the South.
We can tell them what the South wants to tell them. We can
influence them to regard certain activities and interests in the
South as the South wants these things regarded. We cap
arouse them to co-operation and support of movements and
ideas where the South needs co-operation. In other words, we
can not only secure the united support of our family of readers
in the South for Southern projects, but we can secure the sup
port of our greater family of readers in other sections of the
country, and unite them all for the benefit of any commenda
ble object in any section.
We were already able to be of some service in helping to
secure the Shriners’ Convention at Atlanta, but that is a small
thing compared with what we can do if our forces are intelli
gently directed, and with your knowledge of Southern condi
tions and the immediate contact with them that your visits to
Atlanta will secure, I am sure this intelligent direction will be
supplied by you.
It is for these reasons that I am sending you to Atlanta
as my personal representative, and I bespeak for you the hearty
and harmonious co-operation of the editorial departments and
the business departments of The Atlanta Georgian.
Very sincerely,
W. R. HEARST.
My Dear Mr, Graves:
Will you please go to Atlanta as my personal represen
tative? I want The Atlanta Georgian thoroughly to repre
sent Atlanta and the South and Southern interests in its col
umns, and I want my system of publications generally to be of
distinct service to Atlanta and the South and to Southern in
terests. I intend to spend as much of my time as I can in
Atlanta, in order to see that these two things are accomplished,
but I can not be there all the time, and I would like some one
like yourself, who is thoroughly familiar with the Southern
situation, to represent me there in my absence, and indeed to
help me when I am there, in order that The Atlanta Georgian
particularly, and my string of papers generally, may carry out
these objects.
We have put The Atlanta Georgian ahead of ail its neigh
boring papers in circulation, and of course we are not going
to stop with the circulation we have, but will press on and try
to double it at least. The Georgian will, therefore, with your
editorial guidance, be able to cover its territory thoroughly,
and give adequate local expression to the Southern interests,
and to the aims and ambitions of the city of Atlanta.
But, as I have said, I want to do more than this. The other
Atlanta papers can do this, to a certain extent, in proportion
to their circulation and enterprise, but I think we have, with
our large number of newspapers and weekly publications and
monthly magazines, an opportunity to do more than any local
Mr. Hoarst has a series of eleven daily newspapers, stretching across the continent from Boston, through
New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and San Francisco to Los Angeles. Two and a half million of these newspapers
gold every day make between ten and twelve million daily readers of the Hearst newspapers—nearly one eighth
of the population of the United States.
Mr. Hearst owns five magazines in this country, and two in London, with an aggregate circulation of
nearly two million more.
These publications make up a great chain whose strength is in, not its weakest, but its strongest link.
They all stand together, and under the Hearst'policy they all stand as a phalanx for whatever essential gen
eral interest may he at stake in any city in which one of them is published.
Thus when San Francisco desired the Panama Exposition and made magnificent financial sacrifices to
help herself, Mr. Hearst summoned the most powerful and influential friends that his newspapers had made in
Boston, in New York, in Chicago, in Atlanta, and in Los Angeles, and marshaled them in united rank to fight
for San Francisco in Washington. San Francisco will tell you that it was the Hearst newspapers that turned
the scale and won her the Panama Exposition.
San Francisco has just emerged, victorious from a tremendous fight against vast corporate interests,
and honest, hut mistaken romanticists, fur a water supply from the Heteh-Hetehv Valley. Mr. Hearst again
marshaled his influences from every section of the country, published a Iti-page Special Edition of the San Fran
cisco Examiner in the city of Washington, and to-day city officials of San Francisco arc thanking the Hearst
newspapers for the assurance of the finest water supply in the world.
The Atlanta Shriners desired to entertain in 1914 the Imperial Council of the Shrine, the most splendid,
spectacular and lavish spenders among American Assemblies. Forrest Adair wrote me of Yaarab’s ambition,
and under Mr. Hearst’s direction our friends in all sections became busy—in the East, the North, the Middle
States, the Northwestern States, and the Far West—and Forrest Adair will tell you that they were tin- greatest
influence that helped Atlanta capture the Imperial Council of the Shrine.
Atlanta now wishes one of the Regional Banks. Her argument for it is irresistible, but it needs pub
licity to reach the national public opinion that would justify Atlanta’s selection. Hubert F. Maddox went to
^Washington representing the Atlanta Banks. Two days after his arrival three columns in the New York
’American and in all the Hearst newspapers carried to more than ten million people Atlanta’s unanswerable
claim for one of the Hegional Banks which will ti\ this city as the financial center of the South.
Surely it is wortli any growing and ambit ions city’s while t<> have one of the Hearst newspapers published
in its midst. For surely no such power of national publicity is held in any other publications in the world. Surely
business men, merchants, manufacturers and citizens can afford to hold up in every moral and material way
the hands of an institution which carries so vast a power to help in our great rational and generaj needs.
All this power of unequaled publicity is at the service of Atlanta and Georgia and the South in any vital
question that presents itself. All this power l am empowered hv Mr. Hearst’s commission to wield, working-
in full and cordial harmony with Mr. Keats Speed, the Manager, and the splendid staff of young men who are
making The Georgian anti Herst’s Sunday American.
Surely no happier and nobler commission was ever committed to a Georgian.
I appreciate the opportunity and the responsibility. And I invoke the sympathy and co-operation of mv
Southern friends while ! faithfully endeavor to meet it.
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
TS NOW NO REASON WHY IT SHOULD NOT DO SO AGAIN,
AND THERE IS EVERY REASON WHY ATLANTA SHOULD
BE TN 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
-O" the flank, Atlanta lacks the one great central University
around 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
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
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
the Atlanta spirit will rise to both the opportunity and the end
in view.
That S95.000 should be raised before Saturday night.
Christmas Is Coming
How We Can Remould the World
By EDWIN MARKHAM
The Great Niebuhr @
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.”
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 childrens
"Libraries, schools, clubs and indi
vidual students will find this an
awakening little volume. I 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, that
certain reforms are bound to
come anyway, and we max as
well sit back and fold our arms
and watch them come. .
“Can not women, in the larger
field now opening before* them,
bring to the world as the^r 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?’
“As we think back into the hu
man societies that were here be
fore we came, we see in each a
few great, struggling, lifting
souls: and 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
•1
‘Edison can work out the plan
of a storage battery all by him
self. and Burbank can produce a
spineless cactus, all alone; bu;-
the idea of a soc^e^v without vic
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
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.”
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
tory of Rome—a work that was
destined to play hovoc with many
of t^ie 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
Truth in matters historical.
In Niebuhr’s work there
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-
of
ap-
.Jt CONSTANCY .*
SY LILLIAN LAUFERTY.
I
LOVED you once—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 jean
.And grim is each to morrow
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. 1. who loved you, love you
Despite these years apart
No price too great for tha- wild • brill
You once laugh: my sad heart.
tricians, the nature of the publl
lands, the character of the var>
ous constitutions, and the tru
meaning of the early laws an
customs out of which came. 1
the fullness of time, the all-con
querlng Republic which en'de
with Caesar.
The myths which, up to Nie
buhr's time, had dominated muc
of our thought about Rome wer
exploded for all time, supersti
tions were wiped out, and th
w ay was cleared for a proper un
derstanding of the great peopl
who had stamped their genius s
indelibly and permanently upo
the world.
Nor must the fact be over
looked that in clearing up th
Roman field Niebuhr cleared th
entire field of history.
The entire past, beginning wit
the dawn of recorded event
was now to begin to loom up wit
something like accuracy of out
line and proportion. Rollin an
his brother dreamers were t
give way to the historians wh
could see clearly and repoi
faithfully. Fables were no long
er to usurp the place of facts, an
old tradition was to take back
seat for the reality!
And so. what Vico and Montes
quieu did for the philosophy c
history, Nieubuhr was to do fc
its method, and it is perfectl
correct to say that those wh
have, within the past half cen
1 ury or so, rewritten the story c
the past, have done /so largel
along the lines that were marke
out by the great German histo
ria.n. /
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
\audeville man in ‘'turn." puts
-lockings on woman partner. An
extraordinary feau