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EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian
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COMING BACK TO ATLANTA FO
|R SERVICE
By JOHN TEMPLE GRA VES
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 absenoe, 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 all 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 {five 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 newsp^f'ers and weekly publications and
monthly magazines, an opportunity to do more than any local
paper, or than all local 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 can
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 bamonious co-operation of the editorial departments and
the 1 ’■ (' ^.irtments of The Atlanta Georgian.
Very sincerely,
W. R. HEARST.
Christmas Is Coming
Jt is something far more than a pleasure to come back to The Georgian as 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 1 was
reared, and with whom my 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 back to Atlanta
equipped for a general and comprehensive service for the City, the State and the South, far greater than any
J might have attained if 1 had remained at home, and greater even than I had ever dreamed of having it my
largest dreams of local success had been realized.
1 can not better illustrate what thS means than by printing here Mr. Hearst’s letter which commissions
me.
Mr. Hearst 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
sold 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 eity 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, but mistaken romanticists, for a water supply from the Hetch-Hetehy Valley. Mr. Hearst again
marshaled his influences from every section of the country, published a 16-page Special Edition of the San Fran
cisco Examiner in the city of Washington, and to-day city officials of San Francisco Are thanking the Hearst
newspapers for the assurance of fhc finest water supply in the world.
The Atlanta Shriners desired to entertain in 1H14 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 wer^the 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, hut it needs pub
licity to reach the national public opinion that would justify Atlanta’s selection. Robert F. Maddox went to
1 Washington representing the Atlanta Banks. Two days after his arrival three columns in the New York
w r, meriean and in all the Hearst newspapers carried to more than ten million people Atlanta’s unanswerable
B M. ri 'v 4n f° r one of the Regional Banks which will fix this city as the financial center of the South.
Surely it is worth any growing and ambitious city’s while to 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 general 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 I am empowered by Mr. Hearst’s commission to wield, working
in full and cordial harmony with Mr. Keats Speed, the Managing Editor and Mr. Hugh Murray, the Business
Manager, and the splendid staff of young men who are making The Georgian and Hearst’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 my
Southern friends while I faithfully endeavor to meet it.
The Fate of Crassus
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY
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 baok
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 AltD 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
around which its culture, its learning and its development of
youth may gather.
In all the list of things to be desired there is qo 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 oft 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 $05,000 should be raised before Saturday lyght.
O N December 9, 53 B. C.', in
what is now Asiatic Tur
key, was fought one of the
decisive battles of history. At
Carrh&e the Parthian8 killed a
Roman pro-consul, annihilated a
Roman army and precipitated the
rivalry between the two Roman
citizens which was to end in the
overthrow of the republic and the
establishment of the empire.
And all this was brought about
by a lot of semi-barbarous no
mads, who, as the Romans
thought, had no military ability
whatever and were not even wor
thy of serious consideration.
Crassus, who, with Caesar and
Porapey, formed the “first trium
virate,” being ambitious of re
nown and desirous of increasing
his store of worldly goods, set out
with an army of 50,000 men to
conquer the Parthians. . He
thought the job would be an easy
one. The legions were invincible,
and while they had never as yet
met the Sons of the Desert, no
fear was felt as to the outcome
of the expedition.
Striking boldly into the desert.
Crassus came up with the enemy
a little to the eastward pf the
Euphrates and there began at
once one of the most remarkable
fights of history. The Parthian
force, composed entirely of cav
alry, formed about the Romans in
a circle, which was slowly drawn
tighter and tighter as the strug
gle wore on. Riding close up to
the legionaries, the Parthians
would rain their deadly arrows
upon them and then suddenly ride
away. The Romans charged with
splendid courage, but they might
as well have charged the wind or
the flying clouds of heaven. Closer
and closer drew the death circle
and thinner and thinner grew the
legions. On the one side there
was no surrender and on the
other no mercy. Slowly but re
morselessly the work of destruc
tion went on, and presently Cras
sus was dead and his army anni
hilated.
The “Parthian arrow” did its
work well, and the ghost of the
dead army, flitting back to Rome,
made the Masters of the World
shiver to the very marrow in
their bones. That ghost was dou
bly significant. It meant that
Crassus’ army was dead and that
the great republic was ready for
the shroudfor, Just as the Par
thians had crushed Crassus, the
great Julius was about to crush
Pompey and establish the impe
rial rule.
Questions Answered
THE GAELIC TONGUE.
F. W. M.—The Gaelic language
was once spoken by a consider
able number of the human race in
the British Isles, the Isle of Man,
Northern France and Spain.
There is evidence that the Gaelic
branch of the Celtic breed was
widespread. For instance, it is
maintained by some excellent au
thorities that the Cimbri, who
threatened at once time to over
whelm Rome, and who were stop
ped by Marius, were of Gaelic
speech. The ancient language is
found to-day in ‘the Isle of Man,
Wales, the Highlands of Scot
land, Western Ireland and in
Brittany, Northern France.
DAVID LIVINGSTONE.
P. C. T.—You are wrong in
your claim that the ashes of the
great explorer rest in the “wilds
of Africa.” From the spot where
he died, near ‘‘Chitambos Vil
lage,” on the Malilano. Living
stone’s body was, in 1874, taken
to England and deposited with
high honors in Westminster Ab
bey, the Government bearing all
the expense of the elaborate fu
neral. Livingstone will always
rank among the most illustrious
of the African explorers. He was
a real pathfinder and civilizer as
well as a most devoted Christian
and philanthropist. Upon his
lasting fame there seems to
not a single bloL
”i
What a Boy Should Aim For
By EDWIN MARKHAM.
T-T T IIvLIAM DE WITT HDYE,
yy President of Bowdoin
College, in a book sent
out by T. Y. Crowell called "The
Quest of the Best," gives one of
the wisest of recent studies on
the training of hoys. I commend
it to homes, schools and clubs.
Here is one of its summaries:
"If we put together the sep
arate features of the boy who is
enlisted in the Quest of the Best,
the portrait will be something
like this:
"He keeps himself clean and
neat out of regard for others, but
on occasion is ready to get as
dirty as work or play may re
quire
"Ho eats heartily, but only
such and so much food as will
keep him in most effective work
ing and playing condition.
"He foregoes liquor and tobacco
whenever they would mean either
deterioration for himself, or de
struction of those weaker than
he.
‘He takes ail the amusement
and /Bn he can get without an
noyance or degradation of others,
or enervation of himself.
"He works with an eye to his
employer’s interest as well as his
own; but not when he can help It
to the point of dullness or chronic
fatigue
"He spends freely for what he
enjoys, and saves for a rainy
day; yet holds all his spending
and saving subject to the claim of
persons and causes more needy
or worthy than he.
"He stoutly and bravely de
fends with all there is In him
whatever he stands for; yet
would rather oe called a coward
than do a foolish or foolhardy
thing to avoid it.
"He looks out shrewdly for
himself; yet Just as shrewdly for
his customer, credlthr, employer
or employee.
"He t^lls the truth in kindness
to all who have a right to hear it.
"He makes the future as real
as the present, and treats prese
and future, both for self and f
others, as one.
"He is orderly for the mo
part, and disorderly on special o
casions, as the pleasure and coi
venience of all concerned mi
require.
"He talks frankly about ni
pleasant facts when necessar;
but keeps silent about them whi
talk would servo no good eocl
purpose.
"He is polite with an innerr p
llteness born of a desire to gV
pleasure rather than pain.
"He has at neart the welfare
all with whom he associates; lh
Ing at peace with them so far i
he can; and fighting fairly wh<
peace can not be honorably mail
talned.
He is loyal to his group at
his friends when he can be loy
to them without being false
himself.
“He thinks little of his attali
ments, but much of his aims, d.
riving humility from the forrm
and self-respect from the latte
“He treats in thought, woi
and deed all women and girls i
he would wish others to treat h
own mother or sister.
"He Is as kind and helpful i
those who wrong him as he cs
be without being misunderstoo
and ready to forgive them the ii
stant they repent.
"He devotes himself to h
friends and companions c.s i
many extensions of himself: an
takes as much delight In the
happiness and success as in h
own.
"He regards himself as a merr
her and servant of the one soch
whole, and holds the social elali
above individual incllnatio
whenever the wo conflict.
“Not that any boy, or man t<
that matter, attains this comprt
hensive Best; but that he who
enlisted in the Quest of the Bei
deliberately accepts nothing low
er or less.”