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EDITORIAL PAGE TTHE ATLANTA CtEORGIAN Published by THE OEORGIAN COMPANJ At 20 Ewt .VAtlan": u’nd.?«c« or M.rch S. 1*71 Entrr.n •"''onnd-claM matter at ppstofn«»t_Ai tT.WTA GEORGIAN will H KA RS I S SI NDA V AMERICAN ,ml i nr. Canada and Mexico, *L”S£& l H , lx" , .n.,n,l,s t: - and mm STOP 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