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\ EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME RARER THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Public At 20 ,.-<1 by THE GEORGIA X COM PA NTT l'««t Alabama Ht.. Atlanta, f n*rr#**1 ns «f*r< - la*-' r. »'t»< •- ut Atlaroa • dai act of Ma r c>i 5, 1* 3 HEAR8TP M ’ M \ \ ' 'HKH'A.N a no THE A'i i N'T A GVIORfilAN will HEn.w. ^ .... .. - - ho mallod to •ubucrilwri i vwhtra In 1 1 1 • 1 MmIco, or.a month for *.60. thr*#* t r .tl *■ f- r |1 < hai k- >*i a<J<Jri“ in««ioMoft®nai donlrod Foreign Rubwcrijd-on rates on application. ' suess I’d BeTTew j Christmas Is Coming Governor Slaton and Senator Smith The State of Georgia is singularly well served politically at the present time. Few Commonwealths m the Republic are more ably and ac ceptably represented in Congress and the Senate, and not one of them has a more admirable Governor in the executive chair. Governor Slaton's record from the beginning has been a progressive marvel. He has risen from the ranks to the ruling place. He fought his way up by sheer force of merit and pluck through the Legislature and the Senate to the presidency of the Senate. He has been Governor by succession, and, under well nigh unanimous approval, has become Governor by voice of the people. He has borne himself highly everywhere. He has risen without stain, sustained himself with signal ability and force in every public emergency, met every expectation of the people, demonstrated the highest order of civic courage and judgment and character, and has fully vindicated his eminent fitness for any future preferment that he may seek. Glamis he is, and Cawdor, and shall be more hereafter. Senator Hoke Smith was sent to Washington with a high estimate of his ability and force. Georgians believed that he would make good in national affairs, and it is the simple truth to say that he has done so. Among the men who have been closest to the Democratic President and exercised a large in fluence in shaping Administration and Senatorial policies, Sens tor Smith of Georgia has been prominent. Before his first term is half complete he is a recognized power in the politics and pub lie sentiment of the country. There are few wiser things for a State to do than to recog nize capable and faithful public servants and to reward them. The mutations of personal politics frequently bring unworthy men to the service of the State, but the judicious people recog nize good men when they are found and hold on to them. Undoubtedly both Governor Slaton and Senator Smith ought to be kept in the service of Georgia. Both of these states men should be returned to the respective stations which they adorn. Unless, of course, they should have other ambitions. Work, Grow in Solitude Don’t Be a Sheep; Br a Man • oprnfM. im.1. by Star L«mj>«nv Do you want to succeed? Grow in solitude, work, develop in solitude, with books and thoughts and nature for friends. Then, if you want the crowd to see how fine you are, come back to it and boss it if it will let you. ( Constant craving for indiscriminate company is a sure sign of mental weakness. If you enter a village or small town and want to find the man or youth of ability, do you look for him leaning over the Village pool table, sitting on the grocery store boxes, lounging in the smelly tavern with other vacant minds? Certainly not. You find him at work, and you find him by himself. Think how public institutions dwarf the brains and souls of unhappy children condemned to live in them. No chance there for individual, separate development. Millions of children have grown up in such places millions of sad nonentities Here is what Goethe says Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, doch em Charakter in deni Strome der Welt. ' (Talent is developed in solitude, char acter in the rush of the world.) • You wonder why so much ability comes from the country why a Lincoln comes from the backwoods while you, flourishing in a great city, can barely keep your place as a typewriter. The countryman has got to be by himself much of the time whether he wishes to or not If he has anything in him it comes out. Astronomy, man s grandest study, grew up among the shop herds. You of the cities never even see the stars, much less study them Don t be a sheep or a deer. Don't devote your hours to the company and conversation of those who know as little as you do Don 't think hard only when you are trying to remember a popular song or to decide on the color of your Winter overcoat or necktie Remember that you are an individual, not a grain of dust or s blade of grass. Don’t be a sheep; be a man. It has taken nature i hundred million years to produce you Don't make her sorry she took the time. Get out in the park and walk and think Get up in your ha)' bedroom, read, study, write what you think Talk more to your fcelf and less to others Avoid magazines, avoid excessive news paper reading There is not a man of average ability but could make a strik ing career if he could but WILL to do the best that is in him Proofs of growth due to solitude are endless. Milton's great est work was done when blindness, old age and the death of the Puritan government forced him into completest seclusion. Beethoven did his best work in the solitude of deafness. Bacon would never have been the great leader of scientific thought had not Ins trial and disgrace forced him from the company of a gTand retinue and stupid court to the solitude of liis own brain. Multum insola fuit amma mea (My spirit hath been much alone.) This he said often, and lucky it was for him. Loneliness of spirit made him. Get a little of it for yourself. Hi op youi rlnh. your -'reel corner, your gossinv boarding• hoiiE* table Drop v-i>- beep life and try beinr a man J' may improve rn\\ Are You Starving for Air? By EDWIN MARKHAM S AMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS, of the American Medical As sociation. in “The Health Master,” just from the press of Houghton Mifflin Company, offers a book of importance. It is the account of a family who adopted the old Chinese plan of retaining a doctor to keep them well. In stead of taking chances on being ill and then calling in the doctor. Lessons on pure milk, infec tions. care of eyes, etc., are given under the guise of lively fiction, and I commend the book to my fellow-citizens. Here is an ex cerpt showing the tenor of the pages: '* ‘You can, pick your air to some extent, so it's worth while to know where it's good and w here it's bad. Don’t tell me that New York is unfit to breathe in!’ said Mrs. Clyde, with a woman’s love for the metropolis “’Thus far it's prettx clean. The worst thing about New York is that they dry-sweep their stieets and throw all tlie dust there is right in your face. The next worst is the subway. When analysis was made of the tube’s air. the experimenters were sur prised to find very few germs. Hut they were shocked to find the atmosphere full of tiny splinters of steel. It’s even worse to breathe sieel than to breathe coal. *• Look at the modern sleeping car—heavy plush seats. soft hangings, thick carpet* fripper ies all as gorgeous, vulgar, ex pensive. tawdry and filthy as the mind oi man can devise. Add to that windows hermetically seal ed In the winter months, and you’ve got an ideal contrivance for the encouragement of mor tality. Never do I board a sleeper without a stout hickory stick in my suit case No matter how low the temiH*rature is, 1 pry the w inflow ol my lower berth open und push the stick under. ” *1 remember in my college days that the winter term was considered to he the most difli- cult in every year. The curricu lum didn't seem to show it. but every professor and every un- hergrauuate knew it. Had air. hat's ail. The recitation rooms were kept tightly closed. The hu man brain can’t burn carbon and set a bright flame of intelligente without a good draft, and the «; ' y • ;jp |,I “T f ‘ N O W the evidence of Charley's teach er. when winter comes percent ages go down, although the les sons are the same. So I asked her about the ventilation, and found that she had a supersti tious dread of rold.’ ” “ T remember Miss Benn’s room,* said Julia, thoughtfully. ‘It used to get awful hot there. I never liked that grade anyway, and Bobs got such bad deport ment mark's.' “ ‘Both of the twins had colds all the winter they were in that room,’ contributed Grandma Sharpless. “ 'When will the substitute mothers and fathers who run our schools learn about air?’ he cried. ‘Air! It’s the first cry of the newly born baby. Air! It's the last plea of the man with the death rattle in his throat. It’s the one free boon, and we shut it out.’ " ’Hut you wouldn’t have them study with all the windows open on a zero day?’ protested Mrs. Clyde. “ Wouldn’t I? Far rather than choke them in a close room! Why. in some schools the sickly children have special classes oil t.ir roof or m the yard* si through the cold weather. They study in overcoats and mittens. And they learn. Not only that, but they thrive on it.’” I * T was 108 years ago that the “Queen of the Adriatic” was robbed of the crown that she had so proudly worn for more than ‘twelve centuries. By the terms of the Treaty of Presburg. as dictated by that creator and destroyer of kings and kingdoms. Napoleon the Great, the ancient republic was blotted out. The glory of the City of the Doges was no more. Like a veritable fairy tale is the story of Venice. Away back in the year 452. when Attila, the “Scourge of God,” was ravaging Europe, families from the main land took refuge in the lagoons and started the little settlement which was destined to become the Venice of historic and poetic re- now'n. With the solitary exception of the Hollanders, no people ever established a state under more adverse conditions. The untilla- ble and salt-incrusted soil pos sessed no mineral w r ealth; the few thickets had no serviceable tim ber; even drinking water was at a premium; stPl the Venetians succeeded in establishing them selves upon a .firm soil and in rearing thereon a state which was for ages the strongest in the WHEN MOTHER WEEPS By HARRY BAKER T HT? earth seems sad. the skies are gray When Mother weeps Her tears, they blind the lighi of d»y The aim has not one beaming ray When Mother weep« V\ ben Mother aeeps l feel sad too When Mother weeps All things are wrong, spoiled is the view And everything about looks blue Whan Mother weeps S Mothers Irak* ho* niuca me, u,e Wheu Mother weeps Mr heart la touched, no jo> 1 Hlach boy must feei the same T **»,. When Mother weeps Vs each ea, ialis aii joy :% a a.i When Mother weens Those tears that 'ail !.ke ilea > it. n I'.ir peeling on.Mia causes pa - “ _r. ’cms- The Queen of the Adriatic By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. Stars and Stripes S-H-O-P E-A-R-L-Y! © « * Poisoned needle eclipses poi soned pen. * © » Even President Wilson must envy Huerta and his Congress. t> © » Why bother with slavery in the Philippines when they offered $25,000 for Joe Tinker? e o » Italian sculptor says Ameri can women have fat hands and big feei. A game sculptor, any - way. Do your Christmas shopping early. May as well gei it over. Save time to buy six Christmases ahead. Bomb made <•!' dynamic*- wrapped in a stock in?. Expect almost anything i ’ ' -King ill’s iime o' y' ir, Ella Wheeler Wilcox -ON— White Slavery—Twenty-five Years Ago English Girls Could Be Abducted at ThirteenWith- out Fear of Punishment—Late W. T. Stead, Titanic Victim, Brought About Much Needed Reform. By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. world. From the very necessi ties of the case Venice became a sea power, and by her merchant marine and navy she controlled the destinies of empires for more than a thousand years. It was Venice that furnished transports for the hosts of the Crusaders. It was Venice that inaugurated the trade between East and West. It was Venice that, later on. supplied the ships and sailors that beat the Turks back from Europe and finally an nihilated their sea power at Lepanto. The Bank of Venice, estab lished in 1157, was the financial center of the world, and when the glorious revival of letters came, followed almost at once by the invention of printing, it was Venice that led the world in the output of books and the spread of the knowledge which made possible the freedom and prog ress in which we are to-day re joicing. In a time when superstition and servitude ' almost uni versal Venice boldly stood forth to champiori the cause of enlight enment and liberty, and greater than all her banks and doges, than all her palaces and navies, was that Paul £arpe of hers, that pale-faced little man who, in the defense of Veneti^’s liberties, suc cessfully defied the mightiest po tentates and powers of the earth. A glorious history was that which the “Corsican adventurer" so unceremoniously brought to a close on that December day, 1805. Copyrighted 1913 b3' Star Co. T WENTY - FIVE years ago any girl of thirteen could be trapped and led into vile house*, and there was no law to protect her. The law of England, as it stood at that time, recognized that a girl one day over thirteen years of age was legally a woman, and was fully compe tent to consent to her own un doing. The law as it then stood put a positive premium upon the corruption of very young chil dren by refusing to lfet them give evidence against men un less they could satisfy the judge and jury that they under stood the nature of an oath. As soon as the child was over thirteen years of age she could be inveigled into an illegal house without any possible hope of redress, because if she had consented to go into the house she was held to have consented to everything else, although she might at that time be, and prob ably was, absolutely ignorant of what vice meant. The law to-day protects girls tq the age of sixteen; it has raised the age of consent from thirteen to sixteen, admits the evidence of children, even if they are not able to satisfy the judge and jury that they under stand the nature of an oath, and it has Increased the pains and penalties inflicted upon all those who attack girls, whether by ab ducting them abfoad or attack ing them at home. This change in the laws Came about through one man. W. T. Stead, who died on the Titanic. The White Slave Traffic is a world wide trade in young girls for immoral purposes, out of which enormous profits are nAde. They are captured by false advertisements offering employment as governesses, sec retaries, companions, servants, etc., and by making acquaint ance with girls alone in streets or trains or busses. Only 5 Girls in Every 100 Know What They Are Doing. It is estimated that only five girls In every hundred know what they are doing; the remaining ninety- five are girls who never heard of such things, girls just like your own daughters, who. but for the White Slave Traffic, might have become happy wives and mothers. If they wanted to be bad there would be no neces sity for this trapping system. Twenty-five years ago it was regarded as improper, unclean and highly Indecorous to speak about the White Slave trade in pollbe circles. To-day, kings and queens, princes and princesses attend conferences for the discus sion of this question. Before Mr. Stead died lie wrote a pamphlet. "Why I Went to Prison in 1885.” It is inter esting reading. , Known as a great philanthropist and re former, he was urged by g<x>d people to try to bring about a change In the laws of England on this subject. A commissioner of the House of Lords had reported upon the question and strongly recom mended that an Aet of Parlia ment should be passed to cope with the two cancers that were eating into the body politic. Mr. Gladstone’s Ministry—Sir Will iam Ha rcourt being then Home Secretary—recognized the urgency of the demand, and introduced a bill giving effect to the recom mendations of the committee, but there was no motive power behind it. It was strongly op posed by a small group of men who seemed almost to have a personal interest in preventing the strengthening of the law agulnst the corruption of, weak snd innocent girls. Neither po- itical parry saw any means of making capital out of if. and the result was that session after ses slim the hill was introduced in *iue course and then included In be mas-acre of tho intiucenls at ■he eljd of I be SPSfi'iii Then the plot was laid to bring such disgrace on the laws of Eng land that a change would he forced by public censure. So Mi Stead was induced to act the part of a procurer; and a weak and wicked mother sold her daughter aged thirteen to him, for three pounds—fifteen dollars'—heller Ing that her daughter was to go into an infamous house. The daughter was indeed taken to a house and witnesses and train eel nurses and physicians were on hand to rescue her and attest !<• her leaving the house as chaste as she entered it; but the story was published in full in the Pail Mall Gazette, in an article by Mr. Stead called "The Maiden Trib ute of Modern Babylon.” 1 brought a perfect storm upon the heads of all concerned, but a worse storm of censure on Ens lish laws. Mr. Stead meantime sent, tlie rescued girl away from her wicked mother and he wa K therefore arrested for abduction and imprisoned. Late W. T. Stead Told of His Conviction in This Famous Case. -Mr. Stead says of this inciden : “After a long trial, for which the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardi nal Manning and Bishop Temple, John Morley, Mr. Ba four. Lord Loreburn (then Sir Robert Reid), Mr. Labouchere. Mrs. Butler, and many others were subpoenaed for the defence. I was convicted, together with my colleague, Mr. Mussabiul. Mr. Bramw'ell Booth and Madame Combe were acquitted. Madame Mourez was sent for six months to prison, where she died. The trial, which was reported in a the leading papers of the world, brought out all the facts of the case, so that every statement which 1 now make can be veri fied by reference to the files in the British Museum. The ni" ment I was convicted there w#> a great agitation set on fool. The Government was besieged with petitions and protests. Te egrams rained in upon the Home Office, the Prime Minister and (he Queen, and after I hud been three days in Coldbath Prison Lord Salisbury, on his own mo tion, without waiting for the con sent of the Judge who had sen tenced me, ordered me to be transferred at once to Holloway as a first-class mlsdemeanaut. The remainder of my sentence—two months and four days—I served out at Holloway, where I edited the Pall Mali Gazette from No vember, 1885, to January, 1886 Mlllicent Garrett Fawcett has issued an appeal to all friend- of Mr. Stead and to all friend- of clean womanhood to use their influence to help pass the Crini inal Law' Amendment bill now proposed. It is well known that this bl deals with the White Slave Trade and provides additions moral protection for the young A deputation about the bi waited on the Home Secretary a few weeks ago; he expressed approval of the measure, but held out. no hope that the Governmen: would take it up. Question One of Urgent and. Also, National Importance. She closes her appeal with these words: It is a question of urgent national importance The bill, If passed, would pro teet and shelter the weak again 1 - moral Injury, quite as truly as the lifeboats sheltered them, on April 15, against physical injur,' If our countrymen can am: do rise to heroism in the face of physical danger, surely they can rise to a trifling ‘-ytcrifice of Pal liameutary time. It would he the finest of all memorials t" Mr. Stead and the other men wh" have sacrificed themselves in tb** Titanic, if Parliament passed tb 1 * bill to save children and youn? women from worse than death ”1 respectfully and earnest' appeal to men in the const!w encies to lose no time tn writing to their members, to urge then t<-> induce ibe Govetmment to tat -- l*D the bill and pa- it ‘plrir; thir version