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EDITORIAL. PAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME PAPER THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published by THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 Ernst Alabama Bt Atlanta. Oa Entered as samnrt-rlaRs matter at poatnfflce at Atlanta, under a<'t or Ma^r ••• M 1 HEARST S SUNDAY AMERICAN and THE ATI.ANT \ GEORGIAN will • hera anywhara in the United - ! i'<. - nt: for 160; thr«e months for $1.76, *1* months f 0 and - i * ' ,ir U r $7 00; change of address made aa often as desired. Foreign subscription rates on application. _ Ambassadorships as Personal Perqusites It’s Nearly Christmas It lias been the practice of American Presidents to select Ambassadors of the United States to foreign nations from men deserving recognition because of: 1. Eminence won in private station. 2 Distingnished party services. 3 Some personal and usually sycophantic service to the President or some one of influence in his official family. Moderately good results have been attained in the past by proceeding in this manner when the selections were made in the order named. Secretary Bryan, however, has reversed the order in which qualifications for appointment have been ranked and makes his selections from class three first. The diplomatic service is probably no more the football of spoilsmen to-day than it always has been, but the methods of the more astute spoilsmen of the past sent Lowell, Choate and Phelps lo London. The Bryan method results in sending Pindell to St. Petersburg! Grover Cleveland, when President, aroused wide public indignation by the appointment of James J. Van Alen as Minister to Rome. The fact was brought out that Mr. Van Alen had con tributed $10,000 to the Democratic campaign fund, and the cry of “a purchased Ambassadorship” would not down. Mr. Van Alen was a man of birth, education and charming social qualities. He was personally well equipped for the duties of the office proffered him. But the conviction that the post was offered because of his campaign contribution made his appointment so grave a scandal that Mr. Van Alen withdrew. The Wilson Administration has rewarded large contributors with even better diplomatic posts, and has not in all cases secured Ambassadors with Mr. Van Alen’s social qualifications at that. And, as personal service to the Administration is ranked first among the qualifications for diplomatic advancement, we find the important post at St. Petersburg—one of the first class embassies, of which the United States maintains only four—of fered to a Peoria editor whose only title to distinction is that he was “the original Wilson man” in Illinois; and the post of Am bassador to Austria filled by one who contributed $30,000 to the Wilson campaign. It is a misfortune to the country that there were so many original Wilson men” and “original hungry Bryan men,” and that they are now so hungry for recognition that there are not enough foreign embassies to go around. The ingenious method has been devised of offering an Ambassadorship upon condition that the recipient will agree to resign in a year and make room for another and equally deserving "original Wilson man.” This multiplies by four the number of the Embassies to be be stowed. As such appointments involving housekeeping in Ambassa dorial style at a foreign capital are expensive luxuries, at least a few of our recent appointees have received the hint that they need not live at the court to which they are accredited, but may present their credentials and then apply for leave to travel and see Europe. We know of honorable exceptions in the present foreign service—men worthy of their honors who would not accept any honor unworthily; but there are unfortunately too many (W the other kind, and Dr. Eliot, the president emeritus of Harv is right in deploring the debasement of the foreign service t.. >y. Victory Over Cancer In Sight at Last The Home Life of One Business Man His Story Proves Not All Nor Most American Men Are Slaves of Mammon; Such Do Exist, but They Are Not the Prevailing Type By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The announcement made simultaneously by Dr. Robert Abbe, of New York, and Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly, of Balti more, before that learned body, the Philadelphia College of Phy sicians, is of supreme human interest. The two eminent surgeons declared that cancer is curable and that cancerous growths which had resisted every other treatment were cured by the properties of radium—yet mysterious properties which science has not analyzed. The marvelous effect of radium on cancer, the rapid cure, so amazed Dr. Abbe and Dr. Kelly that they have waited from six to nine years before making their announcement, dreading that cancer would recur in their patients. Now Dr. Abbe says confidently: “I am convinced we have reached a stage in our study of radium in which we dare predict that the next two or three years will see the most WONDERFUL MEDI CAL MARVEL IN HISTORY.” Every month some quack or self-deluded savant discovers a "cancer cure” only to exalt the hope of those who suffer from that frightful affection, then to udd profounder mental depres sion, darker hopelessness to their intense physical suffering. But here are Abbe and Kelly—it is necessary to tell who they are to emphasize the importance of their pronouncement made after years of watching and waiting. After these years the two scien tists seek not to add to their purses, but tell the whole world of medicine, and so benefit all mankind, the results of their study and practice. The true physician keeps nothing secret from his brothers. Dr. Abbe is surgeon to St. Luke’s Hospital, to the New York Cancer Hospital, professor of surgery at the New York Post Graduate Medical School, lecturer on surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, and consulting surgeon at Roosevelt, the Woman’s and other hospitals. Dr. Kelly is professor of gynecology at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, an institution famed all over the world for the learning of its teqehers and the thoroughness of its teaching. In proud and grateful acknowledgment of his skill and wisdom foreign uni versities have conferred degrees on Dr. Kelly. Many medical and surgical societies have elected him an honorary member. Such the men who, risking their brilliant reputations, say radium cures cancer. To the layman it seems that sufferei from cancer should be more hopeful now—and that may help to cure them, T HE writer and hla brother are president and cashier, respectively, of our bank. We also conduct an Insurance bnslnes*. In addition, the writer la president and manager of a .telephone company, besides being Interested In various minor enter prises. The writer goes to hla of fice every morning at six. He happens to he so situated that It does not Inconvenience any mem her of his family In doing so. t return to lunch at noon, and stay at home with the family until I have had my full hour. We finish the day’s work at from five until sir The evening le Invariably spent with the family. In nice weather and good roads we use the automobile. Although a mem her of lodges, It ts very seldom that I go. I allow no business of any kind to lnterfers with my evenings or Sundays, as all of that time belongs to my family. Every other week I have one day from business. My brother en joys the same privilege On those days we do not go to the office, but spend the time at home with the family, or take them out for a ride, or spend the day In the woods, or any way that we choose. At any rate. It Is with the family. Business men. as a rule, will eay that they cannot take a day every two weeks from business. They can Where there Is a will there Is a way. We do It, and we are always busy. We have a thorough system In our business. Men owe It to their families to give them more of their time, and to add to their happiness, which, at the same time, adds to the happiness of the men. Thera would he more happiness In the world If they would do It. BUSINESS MAN T HIS expression of one man’s views of home life Is Interest ing. and must come as a sur prise our loreigu vielwr*. who are • Oopyrifht, 1913, all, more or less, Imbued with the prevailing belief that American men are so absorbed In business that they never give any time to their families. Such Men Do Exist, but They Are Not in the Majority. In every part of the world one hears this Idea enlarged upon; hears the American woman discussed as a brilliant, extravagant, attractive and neglected being, and the Amerlcun man described as a slave to ambition, chained to Mammon’s car. dragged by St&r Company. through the world by the Tyrant Finance, while his wile and children sit at home, alone, or dependent npon others for entertainment. Such men do exist In our busy new wopld, hut they are not the prevailing type. The writer of the letter quoted above Is exceptionally devoted to his family. Doubtless he has a wife who under stands the art of keeping her husband Interested. She knows how to make herself so attractive and entertaining that he enjoys himself better in her society than anywhere else That is the greatest of all arts. THE TIDES. S. J.—Tides rise highest at the head of land-locked and narrow bays, such as the Bay of Fundy, where there Is a tide "bore" or more than 60 feet. On the coast of Long Island, at Montauk Point, the difference between high and low water Is but three feet save when the heavy “spring'’ and "neap” tides come. THE FOUNDATION OF MANHATTAN. B. C. E.—The foundation of Manhattan Island Is chiefly gneiss, a hard, brittle granite, in the upper part of the city foundations are laid directly on the rook. Farther down, helow Fourteenth street, the soil is deep sand, running into quicksand, and for some of the greatest skyscrapers It has been necessary to sink caissons more than 100 feet to get to bedrock. REASON IN ANIMALS. R. K Despite the claims of many animal lovers scientists as a rule insist that there is no ab solute evidence that animals rea son. They admit, however, that standing the transmission of ani mal Instinct, or the habits of ants, bees and even higher ani mals that Indicate capacity to reason. It may be many centu ries before this question shall be definitely determined. PARLIAMENT AND CONGRESS. T. F. M.—The British Parlia ment and the United States Con gress have many points of differ ence. The Parliament is practi cally omnipotent, while the Con gress is subject not only to the provisions of the Constitution, but to the President's veto. Congress represents the people, while Pnr- liament. to all intents and pur poses, is the people. DO NOT GET DIVORCE. DISCONSOLATE.—Don't ask The Georgian how to get a di vorce from your husband. Ask yourself rather how you may not get a divorce from him. Get to gether in council, have a good, sensible, heart-to-heart talk about the matter, and maybe you will not then want to get a divorce. It may pay you to try the sug gestion. . Such a woman must he of an amia ble disposition; she must have a sense of humor; she must see the fun in things, and she must possess enthu siasm, the enthusiasm which makes her show her appreciation for every little attention and pleasure she re ceives. Then she must have good health and good spirits, and not he forever complaining of physical or mental troubles. A man may take a sick and depressed wife out occasion ally as a duty, with pity and kindness In his heart, but It could scarcely be a constant recreation. No donbt. this wife expresses her appreciation of her husband's so ciety, and does not take all his atten tions as a matter of course. And without question, she makes herself sufficiently attractive In hie eyes, so that he Is proud to be seen I with her. And she talks to him of things which entertain and amuse him. and she knows how to listen to him when he talks. Meantime, It Is not wise for two people to be perpetually In each other’s society. An occasional separation augment! love and increases the attraction be tween a man and a woman, and be tween parents and children as well. I The most adored of beings need! at times to be studied from a dis tance; Just as the artist needs to stand away and look at his plcturi after being closely with It for many hours. Let Our Home-Loving Business Man Go Away on a Little Trip. Magnetic vibrations are strength ened and given new vitality by an oo caslonal absence. Let our home-loving Business Man go away on a little trip, or send his family away for a brief outing and discover the added joy life will po* mss wh«A Cba reunion take# p-ae* Dippy! & ; By JAMES J. MONTAGUS ~~~ I WENT into the butcher shop to buy a pound of veal; 1 found the butcher busily gyrating on his heel. And when I asked him for the meat that I had come to get He cried “One, two! Pause! One, two, three!” and did a pirouette. “Get out!” he added, angrily, “don't stand there in my light; I’m practising new tango steps to put across to-night!” I saw a street cleaner giddily pursue his wabbling way, And fancied that with Christmas cheer he'd been a bit too gay. But when I offered sympathy he sternly, thundered, “Stop! You wrong me with that cynic grin; I never touch a drop. The reason I proceed with this ecstaUc undulation Is merely that I’m practising the newest Hesitation." I watched a cop arrest a man, then bear him off the ground A full five feet, then stoop a bit and whirl him round and round. “Is that jin Jltsn?” I Inquired; “If such a thing there be. If so, please stop; such methods, sir, look like rough work to me!" “Get off the block!" the cop replied. “Don't stand around an’ preach! You bonehead simp, this guy an’ me Is dancin’ the mattiche!” Where'er 1 went, to school, to court, to business, to the Street, I found the town one wriggling mass of whirling, flying feet Professors, scholars, schoolgirls, and men of grave affairs Were spinning madly round and round In genuflecting pairs. Though sadly shocked, I do not yearn to get laid on the shelf. And so I guess I’ll go and learn a few new steps myself. Major Bonaparte at Toulon By REV. T. B. GREGORY. I T was just 120 years ago that Napoleon, at the time merely “Major Bonaparte, of the ar tillery,” made his first bow to the fortune which was afterward to Crown him with such large and lasting fame. In the France of 1793 there were “many men of many minds,” some who believed In the revo lution and some who hated It and longed for a return of the old re gime. People of the latter sort were more numerous In Toulon, and they opened their port to the English. It was, of course, necessary that Toulon should be retaken, and on the 20th of November General Dugommier, an old sol dier, and thought to be expe rienced and clever, was charged with the operations of the siege. From the 28th of August the English had been hard at work fortifying the place, and It was deemed well-nigh impregnable. Dugommier found himself help less before the French Gibraltar, and In the midst of hla fussing and “cussing” the young major of artillery, Napoleon Bonapart*. appeared upon the scene. It was Napoleon’s first battla, and he came out of it with h!s first taste of the “glory” that was so dear to his soul. The tri umph at Toulon made him gen eral of the Army of Italy, and his Italian campaign made him First Consul, Emperor and master of the Continent. The great man always kept a cozy comer in his memory for Toulon and the vic tory it gave him, and It is well known that from the day on which he demolished Eguillette to the day on which he came very near annihilating Wellington at Waterloo his favorite fighting machine was a battery of artil lery. He believed in it, and but for the big rain of the night of the 17th of June, 1815, which kept him from moving his artil lery in the early morning of the next day, he would probably have given Wellington the beating of his life. The Problem of Living By EDWIN MARKHAM. a O ,N Board the Good Ship Earth” is the catchy ti tle of Herbert Quick's latest book handed out by the Bobhs-MerrlU Company. He dis cusses the great world problem of how we ought to try to live to gether on this planet. Here Is a brief passage: “The Oriental peoples, of which the Chinese and Japanese are the best examples, are quartered on thpse portions of the decks of the good ship Earth where human be ings are most numerous. Some Europeans are almost as good husbandmen as are the Orientals. We In the United States have had only a hundred years or so In which to prove our unfitness for the ownership of fertile lands, and we have gone far to prove it by ruining large areas of good soil— and the ruin is going on faster now than ever before. “The yellow peril Is a reality to our Pacific States, to Western Canada, to Australasia and South Africa. The Asiatics wish to move from lands which.seem to he overpopulated to lands which are rich In plant food, which have good climates and not too many Inhabitants. The deepest think ers are of the opinion that this tendency on the part of large pop ulations to move Is no less impor tant, no less fateful, now than It was when the same tendencies on the part of the same peoples hurled wave after wave of war on Home and destroyed her. Will Asiatic exclusion laws always protect against these movements" “Only four of these elements give the farmer any trouble on account of their scarcity 1 —nitro gen, phosphorus, sulphur and po tassium. All the rest are found in plenty. And the passengers on the good ship Earth have chosen their quarters on her broad decks with reference to the presence of the deck-dust—called soil—of these four things—nitrogen, phos phorus, sulphur and potassium. Each presents a wonderful world problem—a problem In our future peace as well as our future plenty —great enough for a book—a li brary of books.” STARS AND STRIPES In these days of suffragists be ware, young man, of standing un der the mistletoe. * * * Secretary Bryan has sent Gen eral Pancho Villa a “serious warning." Hope the general hasn’t a sore lip. • • * Christmas terrors: No. 2—Put ting a candle on top of the tree, while balanced—more or less—on the back of a chair. * * * W. T. Stead’s ghost, which a London medium says appears at his seances, makes a lot more mis takes In its grammar than Mr. Stead ever did. * • • Increased cost of living. W1f« objects to alimony of three cows. Old Gaelic poem addressed to “Woman of Three Cows” advise* her not to be stuck up on account of her weaith. • • • Moors reported to havo bew disturbed by shower of bomb* dropped on them from Spanish aeroplanes. Moors must look out or they will lose their name fer stoicism. s CHRISTMAS GIFT j. By LILIAN LAUFERTY. W HAT Is your gift for Chrlstmastlde? A bauble or thing of worth— A jewel you buy or a love to abide In Joy with all the earth? Have you bound it round with a silken string, Or out from your heart have you let It wing In love and peace and mirth? What Is your gift for CBirlstmastldeT The spirit of love and cheer That will wing Its way on pinions wide Further than gold or gear? Or only a trinket for money bought With never a heart-throb In the thought To gladden all the year?