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‘American Preparations for
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| PEACE AND FOR WAR
! The Troublesome ‘‘How'' Will Be the First Problem Before
g Emergency Federation— Great Men Already Have Answered
'
The Emergency Peace Federation, which is to meet in Chi.
cago within a few days, will not confer on mere abstractions
and glittering generalities at this time.
On the contrary, the delegates will have before them a mat
ter which recent events have made a LIVE QUESTION-—one
that can't be satisfactorily treated by the utterance of amiable
platitudes only.
The delegates will all be in favor of peace, of course. This
sentiment is nearly unanimous among all classes and in all sec.
tions of the United States.
Intelligent Americans do not want war with any nation.
They want peace and concord with all countries, and will
not allow mere trifies or an irritable sense of honor to destroy
their humane policy.
But the delegates will hardly get started upon their subject
before the perplexing question “HOW?'' will be thrust upon
them.
HOW CAN WE BEST SECURE AND PRESERVE
PEACE?
Then, probably, they will begin to reflect upon the maxims
of those great architects of our national edifice who had before
them the same problems that we have to-day, and who studied
them with a measure of wisdom which everybody recognizes.
2 For instance, Washington said in his address to Congress
in 1790: ,
70 BE PREPARED FOR WAR is one of the most effec
tual means of PRESERVING PEACE."”’
And six years afterwards he said in his Farewell Address:
““Taking care ALWAYS to keep ourselves, by suitable es
tablishments, on a RESPECTABLE DEFENSIVE POSTURE
we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary
Jefferson in his letter to General Washington (1788) said:
“THE POWER OF MAKING WAR OFTEN PREVENTS
IT; and, in our case, would give efficacy to our DESIRE OF
PEACE."”
And in a letter to John Jay he said:
‘“Weakness provokes insult and injury, while a condition to
punish often prevents them."’ :
Abraham Lincoln in a speech delivered at Springfleld in
1856 scandalized some good orthodox people by saying:
“‘Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in
the providence of the most men, the longest purse and the largest
cannon.”’
The Georgian could produce many other quotations from
our great men of the past to prove that a peace-loving people,
like ours, does not necessarily have to be an unarmed and de
fenseless people. On the contrary, in order to make our peace
dispositions effective we must be prepared for war.
The members of the coming conference will doubtless re
flect upon these wise sayings and will shape their expressions
accordingly.
They also will note the recent warnings given us by our
military and naval experts, who, one and all, assure us that our
government is now shockingly unprepared for war either on
land or sea!
There is no violation of government secrets in making such
a statement. Everybody knows it!
The Peace Federation therefore will probably repeat in
various phraseology our earnest desire for peace and good will
toward all the world, but will reserve the thought that our coun
try, however large and resourceful, must exercise a prudent
caution and PREPARE FOR PEACE AND WAR.
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TheHonorsofthe Panama Canal
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Are Uncle Sam’s
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The great Panama-Pacific Exposition which was thrown
open last week makes the final paragraph in a long chapter of
history and illustrates how slowly and precariously the great
canal project came along.
For a long while it looked as though the honor of making a
Panama Canal must go to SPAIN. Three hundred and eighty
eight years ago the Spanish Government actually surveyed a
route across the isthmus; and, for a while, it looked as though
SPANISH hands would dig the canal. Nothing further was
done, however, and the project slumbered for 160 years.
Then in 1787 Thomas Jefferson, afterwards President of the
United States, somehow got wind of the old Spanish survey and
wrote to our Ambassador at Madrid asking him to purchase
copies of the survey and report, stating that the documents
would be to him ‘‘a vast desideratum for reasons political and
philosophical.”” Apparently at this stage the job looked like
UNCLE SAM’S.
A few years later (1803.9) Goethe, the German poet, and
Humboldt, the German explorer, urged a Panama Canal upon
their people. Then it looked as though the great work would
be GERMAN.
Later (in 1879) a French company under the famous en
gineer, De Lesseps, actually began the work and made consid
erable progress. Looked like the honor was to be FRENCH
this time!
~ But the French companly became bankrupt in 1881 and the
great pro{ect became somnolent again. ;
y the ball in the wheel rolled back to the old Jeffer
sonian idea of 115 years before; COpngress passed an appropria
an and the work was oommem:&:d finished !
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Coloring Life
B
UST as some men build a
house that is simply good
enough to live in, so do some
people build their lives. I have
heard it said of the man who
bullds the house just good envugh
to live in that he could do no bet
ter. That is not true. He could
do better. He could take an in
terest if only—as I once knew a
man to do—in inviting the dirt
dobber (a kind of stingless wasp
using mud for its home) to make
a terracotta frieze in his best
room,
There are a thousand ways a
man can embellish his habitation,
even apart from the expenditure
of money; and so it is with hu
man lhife. One scarlet geranium
can light up a good-sized vege
table garden—one glowing thought
ean light up a common-place life.
The more highly decorated a life
{s the more valuable the life to
the decorator himself, and to the
beholder.
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It has been my good fortune to
live in every kind of a room this
world offers for habitation.
Whether that room has been a
palatial one on Riverside Drive, or
a hall bedroom, or an attic, I have
never failed to put forth the ef
fort, from the hour of occupying
it, to do something with it besides
accept it at its best or worst.
That is what I think everyone
should do with his or her life.
As there should be no inharmoni
ous effects or dusty corners in a
person’s habitation, so it should
be with his life. There are al
ways some inharmonrous effects
in every habitation—something
yet to be done, some empty niche
to fill. And so it is with life.
There is always something In
one's development to curb, or
some hidden, maybe unshapely,
colorless bulb, that must have
time to flower.
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A livable habitation can be
made out of any four walls as
long as the key to the door is in
your own pocket. And any kind
of a life can be made interesting,
even enjoyable, if one earnestly
attempts to make it £O, and keeps
IT'S A LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY
control of it. Attempting some
thing, if it is only to climb a hill,
i 3 exhllarating. The thrill of all
games is that they embody an at
tempt. Sometimes it's all dead
level, not even a hill in sight to
try to climb or a game to play;
but there is always something.
Every hour should be spent col
oring one's life, even though the
colors must be created In your
own fancy. The majority of lives,
when actually faced in the begin
ning, are pretty much like the im
pression of a person that the pho
tographer makes by the use of
By Percy Shaw
“Can you let me know what positions you have to reward deserving
Democratd?’— William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State, in a letter
to W. W, Vick, San Domingo.
THE Isle of San Domingo in the spicy Southern seas
Is an unexploited vista of illimitable ease;
Its people live a happy life with nothing.much to do
But eat and sleep and smoke and drink and comment on the view;
No wonder that Chautauqua Bill, with vision overjoyed,
Beheld it as a Mecca for his weary unemployed,
“Let all the men who worked for me come hither and be fed.
“No Demoecrat shall ask in vain, for offices galore
“ Are waiting for the faithful on the rich Domingan shore.”’
They stood in long and joyous line and blessed him as he cried:
“I°d rather help my fellowman than win the world beside.
“The U. S. A. will pay your fare, but once you step on land
“Embrace the trusting natives with the politician’s hand.
“Pell them how happy they should be to have you as their own,
““ And that you hope to gayly reap what they have hardly sown.
“Then, with a diplomatic bow, turn in your bills and smile
“To think that I directed you to San Domingo’s Isle.
““And when you sit about at eve, beneath the Southern stars,
“And count your gold and dream of home and 80-horsepower
cars;
““ And when the simple-minded folks kow-tow to do your will,
“‘Pray spare a kindly phrase or two for old Chautauqua Bill.,
‘““And so I )id you all farewell, and every little while
“May all your salaries increase on fair Domingo’s Isle.”’
his camera. It is called a nega
tive. He strikes off from his neg
ative what he calls a proof. This
proof is by no means the finished
picture, and the photographer
rarely fails to remind you of this.
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The proof is not often pleasing,
especially if it be made from a
‘strong negative. If it is from a
very strong pega.tlve there an“pt
to be lines that are too marked,
shadows that are too deep, lights
too glaring on account of these
strong lines and shadows. This is
what the photographer notes and
By
G. Vere Tyler
goes to work on in order to finally
hand you a picture of yourself
that will please you and please
others, so that the picture, In
fact, will make you and others
happy.
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Sometimes, in order to develop,
we may have to put ourselves, or
fate may put us, In a dark place,
as the photographer does his neg
ative. There is no place so dark
that one can not develop if he
will,
I talked with a man the other
day—a man whose duties are of
the intellectual order. On first
sight he looked ill—pale—a halfs
hungry-looking man—mind and
body starved. He is party to a
system inaugurated in his home
that would starve the mind and
body of almost any man. He
turns over the weekly check he
receives to his wife for the bene
fit of the family, and she gives
him out of what he has made
enough to keep him in motion and
not too hungry while away from
home to go on working.
I found myself harassed and
distressed by this man, when all
of a sudden I saw him, as it
were, begin to shine. He was
telling me that he spent every
hour he could possibly grasp
“these winter days in the woods."”
I never heard of such things as
he told me he found there on the
trees, and ground, and beneath
frozen waters, and I never saw
one who seemed to find such joy
in telling of his wondrous dis
coveries,
That man is the developing
negative in the dark. Some day
he will be a beautifully colored
picture. Thoreau colored his life
in a similar way, and when he
died left us the plan,
There are so many ways of col
oring life that I dare not attempt .
to begin to enumerate them. All
artists color their own lives while
coverin~ canvases. A man who
thus colors his life can become
very dear to himeelf—so dear that
even though one failure crown an
other, and injustice follow loss, he
still has something that, through
his own efforts, he has nrdo val=
uable—himself. } _
THE HOME PAPER
Saturday Evening
A Week-End Oluflu House for Notes of Men and Affairs.
BACON AND CRISP,
One of the finest tridutes pald
to the memory of the late Sena
tor Augustus Octavius Bacon In
the Copgress of the United States
recently fell from the lips of Rep
resentative Charles R. Crisp, of
Georgla
Mr. Crisp knew Senator Bacon
intimately, Long before the pres
ent Congressman was elected o
the Nationa! House of Represen
tatives, he made the acquaintance
of Senator Bacon
When Mr. Crisp's father was
Speaker of the House, Senator
Bacon was just on the threshold
of his distinguished career In
Congress,
One of the most interesting
things Mr. Crisp sald in his eulo
gy was this:
“Mr. Speaker, | desire to here
vefer to an incident connected
with Senator Bacon, probably
known to very few, which illus
trates the bigness and loyalty of
my deceased friend. In 1893 Sen
ator Colquitt, whose time in the
Senate would have expired In
March, 1894, dled. He was not a
candidate to succeed himself, and
Augustus Octavius Bacon was an
active candidate for this senato
rial toga. Upon the death of Sen
ator Colquitt, Governor Northen
tendered my revered father,
Charles F. Crisp, then Speaker of
this august body, the appointment
as United States Senator to fill
this vacancy. Mr. Bacon Imme-«
diately wired his friend, Mr. Crisp,
that if he accepted the appoint
ment he, Mr. Bacon, would with
draw from the senatorial race and
give Mr. Crisp his active support
for the full senatorial term. Mr.
Crisp declined the appointment,
and Governor Northen appointed
Hon, Patrick Walsh, of Augusta,
Senator. Mr. Bacon continued his
candidacy for the Senate, and
when the Legislature convened in
1894 he was elected, and thrice
thereafter the people of Georgia
re-elected him to represent them
in the highest legislative body In
our country.”
Speaker Crisp, after declining
the senatorial appointment at
Governor Northen's hands, be
came a candidate for the Senate,
and had he lived to have his pri
mary election ratified by the Leg
islature he would have been Sen
ator Bacon's colleague in the
Senate. The Speaker died a few
days before his election could be
effected, however, and after a long
deadlock following his death, the
late Senator Clay, whose unex
pired term Senator Hoke Smith
is now filling, was named Sena
tor.
That was a memorable election,
and Mr. Clay's success came about
largely as a matter of compromise
between the supporters of Captain
Evan P. Howell, on the one hand,
and Governor Willlam Y. Atkin
son on the other.
Previous to his candidacy for
the United States Senate, Mr. Ba
con had been out of politics for a
nrumber of years, and had Speaker
Crisp accepted Governor North
en's appointment, it is highly
probable that Augustus Octavius
Bacon never would have occupied
a seat in the Senate of the United
States.
MISREPRESENTING DIXIE.
That sprightly (and sometimes
amusing, even foolish) publication
“Life"” can be just as nasty when
it chooses as it can be witty
when it so elects, and that is
quite a compliment to its occa
sional wittiness.
In a recent issue of “Life” there
appeared this illuminating para
graph:
“Our friends down South, be
ing sure that the negroes are in
ferior, deny them advantages and
provide inferior schools for negro
children in order that they will
continue to be inferior and thus
prove the correctness of the con
tention of the scientists and sen
timentalists that the negro is in
ferior. After all, there is nothing
quite so satisfying as the feeling
that you have got things fixed so
that you will always have an in
ferior race in your midst.”
It is true that the Southern peo
ple never have and never will
permit social equality between the
whites and blacks. Some people
choose to call this prejudice, oth
ers choose to say that it is a
matter founded upon common
sense and right.
Whatever the truth of that may
be, it doesn’t matter particularly,
because it is a fact, and will so
remain, there is no equality so
clally between negroes and whites
in the South, and there never will
:e. Furthermore, there ought not
e.
When “Life” states, however,
that the people of the South pro
vide inferior school advantages
for the negro, “Life” states that
which is untrue, and “Life” knows
that it is untrue.
Efforts have been made time
and again in the Georgia Legis
lature (and in other Southern
Legislatures) to distribute the
public school funds between the
races according to the amount of
taxes paid by each! This would
greatly reduce the negroes’ school
advantages. But every time this
has been attempted it has been
defeated.
The school fund is distributed
according to population, and in
some counties this means that
,:::nnezrou :focelveh colnslderably
money for school purposes
than the whites receive.
The negro, furthermore, is hap
pier in the South than he is any
where else in the United States.
The people of the South under
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
stand him and treat him well
He 1s furnished ample opportun!
ty to make a good living, and his
rights are protected In the main
better In the South
Not one negre in a thousand in
the South desires soctal equal't)
and the great bulk of them have
no inclination whatever to mix in
politica. People who live withoy!
the South may think that this
can hardly be true People who
live in the South know that it i
lterally and precisely trus
Perhaps there are gome readers
of “Life” who find satisfaction !»
absording such misinformation
and nonsense as this publication
provides for them In the quota.
tion set down As a matter of
fact, we doubt gerfoualy, however,
that such things fool or unduly
agitate very many people
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CITY PARKS,
I understand that the Hon
Joe Cochran, Superintendent of
Parks In the city of Atlanta, has
abandoned his idea of doing away
with the monkeys In the park and
replacing them with coons
Personally, 1 had mno doudt
whatever that eventually he
would reach exactly this coneclu
ston.
Coons are all right In their way,
perhaps, but there is no chance
whatever that a cage full of
coons ever will furnish as much
wholesome amusement and enter
tainment for children, and such
people generally visit our parks,
a 3 the same cage full of monkeys
do. §
There is nothing in this city of
more importance than its parks
It is an abiding pity that Atlanta
has so few,
The city is 80 lald out that it
never will have parks within par
ticularly easy walking distance of
A great majority of the popula
tion,
Of all things that make Wash
ington City so attractive as a
place of residence the great num
ber of parks scattered through
out its limits stands first. There
are nearly 300 parks in Washing
ton, ranging in extent from one
quarter to 50 acres. Many of
them are as large as six or eight
acres. Very few of them are
smaller than one acre.
The national Capital spends a
good deal of money keeping them
up and keeping them beautiful,
but nothing in the District of Co
lumbia so greatly adds to the
pleasure of residents therein as
do these beautiful and extensive
parke.
No matter where you are in
Washington City, you are al
ways within two or three min
utes’ walk of a lovely city park.
Parks were made primarily, of
course, for children, but it is
mighty easy for grown folks to
get the park habit.
1 wish Atlanta had a hundred
parks instead of two or three.
People ought to take a great
interest in matters of this sort,
for city parks tend to produce
health and happiness among the
population to an extent that is
greatly underestimated and un
dervalued in most cities, particu
larly in the early stages of their
growth. g
SARTORIAL SUGGESTIONS.
A correspondent informs me
that in her opinion “the women of
Atlanta are the best dressed
women In the South, while the
men are the worst dressed.” She
says that this is noticeable at so
cial functions generally, and that
it is no uncommon thing to see
women at more or less informal
affairs handsomely and tasteful
ly gowned, whereas a great ma
jority, if not all, of the men per
sons appear in their business
clothes, Wherefore, she wants to
know how about this!
This question of “golltnx up”
has never been settled exactly to
anybody’s satisfaction. Beginning
in the Garden of Eden, where fig
leaves were both the first and last
words in matters sartorial,
through ages of graceful Grecian
and Roman costumes, gorgeous
middle-age dress, later quaint and
curious garbs of pre-Revolution
ary days, so on through the hoop
skirt and bustle periods until now,
the matter of dress has been a
problem never to be solved and
always to be improved upon,
People may say what they
please of woman's dress to-day
(and it has been severely criti
cised by many), but so far as I am
concerned there never was a time,
in my recollection, when woman's
dress was a& becoming to her and
as sensible as it is to-day.
Why the men of Atlanta do not
pay more attention to their dress
(if it be a fact that they do not
pay the attention they ought) I
do not know.
Atlanta is a big city, but it stiil
isn’t nearly the biggest city in the
world. People are more intimate
ly acquainted in a town the size
of Atlanta than in one the size
of New York. This intimate ac
quaintance and freedom of social
intercourse, perhaps, breeds a
certain amount of familiarity
that makes the men a little more
careless in observing the formal
:,tlu than otherwise they would
e.
As a rule, I think the men of
Atlanta are very well dressed, al
though I do believe it is a fact
that there is little inclination
among the men to overdress.
Dressing well, tastily, and to the
limit of attractiveness, is an art
to be achieved in its perfection by
few. People who know how to
wear their clothes well are people
truly to be envied. There are not
many such people.