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EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian Published by THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St. Atlanta, Ga. Enter.fi as aacond-claaa matter at postnfflce at Atlanta, under act of March S. It" HEARBT'S SUNDAY AMERICAN and THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN wHl tie mailed to subscribers anywhere in the United States. Canada and Mexico, * one month $ 60; three months $1.75; six months $3.50 and one year $7.00. COMING BACK TO ATLANTA FO »R SERVICE By JOHN TEMPLE GRA VES bar k to The Georgian as the personal representativi It is something far more than a pleasure to come 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 me work of so mail} years was always a matter <>t personal loyalty and love. And second, in the fact that the power and liberality of Mr. Hearst enable me to come hack to Atlanta equipped for a general and eomprehensive service for the <'ily, the State and the South, far greater than an\ 1 might have attained if I had remained at home, and greater even than I had over dreamed of having il mj largest dreams of local success had been realized. I can not better illustrate what this means than by printing here Mr. Hearst’s letter which commissions me. 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 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 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 M r. Now York, < ’hicago, Atlanta, and San Francisco to Los sold every day of the population of the United States. 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 persona! 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 Hearst lias a series of eleven daily newspapers, stretching across tin* continent from Boston, through Angeles. Two and a half million of these newspapers make between ten and twelve million daily readers of the Hearst newspapers—nearly one-eighth 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 be 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 tight 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, for a water supply from the Heteh-Hetchv 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 the finest water supply in the world. The Atlanta Shriners desired to entertain in 1!)14 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 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 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 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 1 invoke the sympathy and co-operation of my Southern friends while 1 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 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 tht flank. Atlanta lacks the one gr&A 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 ard 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 $95,000 should be raised before Saturday ir rht. THE BOGIE MAN Copyright, 1913, International News Service. /if THERE5 AMYtHiNOThaT’ ( MAfttS ME TlRFD ITS THAT/ OLD JOKE ABOUT A MA»N < taking on 5hoes> whekI . HE COMEB HOME. LATE AND/"' CREEPING UP 5TAIRS’ I 1 HOME WHEN I LIKE ANPHi TWALK R'OHT IM and/ | Mo0opf 5AY*> A YWoRp. THAT'S, K , r j>oVoU 5EE WHAT TIME 1 IT 1ST YOU PN BETTER, do A SOFT CREEP if You Don't l want your. V WIPE TO HEAR The Fate of Crassus By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY O N December 9, 53 B. C., In what Is now Asiatic Tur key, was fought one of the decisive battles of history. At Carrhae the Parthians 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 Pompey, 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 Spns of the Desert, no fear was felt as to the outcome of the expedition. Striking boldly into the desert, Crassus came up with the enemv a little to the eastward of 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 shroud; for, just as the Par thians had crushed Crassus, the groat 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 Franco. 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 w'here he died, near "Chitambos Vil lage,” on the MaJil&no. Living stone’s body w T as, 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 b§ not a single blot. i What a Boy Should Aim For By EDWIN MARKHAM. ILLIAM DE WITT HYDE. 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 boys. 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. “He 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 all the amusement and fun 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 end 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, creditor, employer or employee. “He tells the truth in kindness to all who have a right to hear it. “He makes the future as real as the present, and treats present and future, both for self and for others, as one. “He is orderly for the most part, and disorderly on special oc casions, as -he pleasure and con venience of all concerned may require. “He talks frankly about un pleasant facts when necessary; but keeps silent about them when talk would serve no good social purpose. “He is polite with an inner po liteness bom of a desire to give pleasure rather than pain. “He has at n^art the welfare of * all with whom he associates; liv ing at peace with them so far as he can; and fighting fairly when peace can not be honorably main tained. “He is loyal to his group and his friends when he can be loyal to them without being false to himself. “He thinks little of his attain ments, but much of his alms; de riving humility from the former and self-respect from the latter. “He treats in thought, word and deed ail women and girls as he would wish others to treat his own mother or sister. “He is as kind and helpful to those who wrong him as he can be without being misunderstood, and ready to forgive them the in stant they repent. “He devotes himself to his friends and companions as so many extensions of himself; and takes as much delight in their happiness and success as in his own. “He regards himself as a mem ber and servant of the one social whole, and holds the social claim above individual inclination whenever the wo conflict. “Not that any boy, or tnan for that matter, attains this compre hensive Best; but that he who is enlisted in the Quest of the Best deliberately accepts nothing low er or less,’