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EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian the home rarer
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
Published by THE GEORGIAN COMPANY
At 20 East Alabama Street. Atlanta Ga.
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In Making Peace Plans Omit
the Panama Canal
WILL DR. DERNBURG AND OTHER OFFICIAL AND
SEMI OFFICIAL WRITERS ABOUT THE RESULTS OF
THIS WAR KINDLY LEAVE THE PANAMA CANAL
OUT OF THEIR SUGGESTIONS OF THE CONDI-
TIONS OF PEACE? THE CANAL BELONGS TO THE
UNITED STATES. THIS NATION IS NOT A PARTY TO
THE WAR. AND NEITHER NOW NOR WHEN THE MAD
MEN OF EUROPE GET TIRED OF FIGHTING DO WE PRO
POSE TO HAVE THE PANAMA CANAL CONSIDERED AS
PART OF THE SPOIL OF BATTLE FOR ANY OR FOR ALL.
We will leave it to others to discuss whether Dr. Dernburg’s
letter was a covert bid for peace or merely an academic discus
sion of war issues. Whether it was inspired by Prince von Bue-
low is a matter of secondary importance—we think too highly of
Dr. Dernburg’s literary attainments to doubt that he, in fact,
wrote it.
But one proposition put forth by the Doctor, ’and reiterated
by him in subsequent interviews concerning his letter, should
be disposed of now, before any web of plausibility can be butlt
up about it to conceal the real central fact.
Urging the neutralization of the high seas, and especially
of narrow straits and highways of commerce, Dr. Dernburg has
included in the latter the Panama Canal. He asserts that under
the tentative plan so ingenuously put forth by him in a letter to
an obscure correspondent—‘IN TIME OF WAR YOUR (OUR)
SHIPS COULD foOT USE THE CANAL, NEITHER COULD
THOSE OF ANY OTHER NATION. ”
The reference to ships of any other nation sounds uncom
monly like an afterthought. The chief thought in the Doctor’s
mind was of a self-sacrificing agreement by Germany, France,
England, Russia and other bellicose nations which have not one
dollar in the Canal that in time of war WE SHOULD NOT USE
IT FOR OUR OWN WARSHIPS.
It would be reassuring if the people could feel that a prop
osition of this sort would be greeted at Washington with the
amused contempt which it merits. Unhappily in the course of.
the debate on the Panama tolls there was some evidence that
Administration spokesmen thought there was some doubt
whether in time (ft war we could bar enemy ships from the
Canal, while using, it for our own.
Whatever doubt may be felt in Washington on this sub
ject there is none among the people. Whatever illusion Europe
an publicists may have of an ultimate treaty of peace which
shall include any regulations whatever for OUR Canal, they had
better be dispelled at once by an authoritative statement. For
the language of such a proclamation the President may turn to
a Democratic predecessor for whom he has expressed admiration,
and say of the Canal in paraphrase of what Cleveland said of
South America:
IN CONTROL OF THE PANAMA CANAL THE UNITED
STATES IS SUPREME AND HER FIAT ALONE IS WAR.
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See Your Own Country and
Take a Trip Around
the World
In spite of the war, the danger of sea travel, the submarines
and the mines, you can see this summer the best things of j
Europe and of the whole world.
And you can see your own country at the same time, BY j
GOING TO THE WONDERFUL EXPOSITION AT SAN
FRANCISCO.
The countries of the world have sent their most interesting
exhibits and their most interesting people to the Exposition in
San Francisco.
A trip around the Exposition by a thoughtful human being
is really a trip around the world. It is a time-saving trip with
the best of things selected and put before you.
The working brains of the world, from here to China, and
from China all the way around back here have combined to
build up in San Francisco an Exposition that is an education.
The Exposition offers to the people of this country an op
portunity that will not come again for many years, if ever.
Thousands of interesting things you will see at that Exposi
tion, and for every one of those thousands of things you will see
something as interesting, IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY, as you
travel to the Exposition and back again.
On the road to that Exposition you travel the real road of
wonders. You may, going or coming, see the great Panama.
Canal, built by the Government after private enterprise has
failed. The Exposition celebrates the finishing of that canal,
which unites the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, and emphasizes
man’s power to control this earth. You ought to see that.
On the return journey you may see the wonderful Glacier
National Park, the Canadian Rockies, the Grand Canyon of Ari
zona, the world’s great wonder; the Petrified Forest, the reser
vations of different strange Indian tribes.
It is your duty to go to San Francisco if you possibly can.
It is a short trip in time, even though you cross the entire con
tinent. It is NOT expensive.
The railroads are reducing rates in all directions. They have
arranged it so that without extra expense you may go on one
railroad and come back on the other. Thus, if you cross from,
the Atlantic to the Pacific you travel six thousand miles in your
own country, and do not go twice over the same spot.
The railroads have arranged also so that you may stop
where you choose and continue your journey, seeing the won
ders on the way without extra charge for railroad tickets or for
sleeping car tickets.
You will see six thousand miles of the United States and
realize that what you have seen on either side of your train is
merely a little ribbon drawn across the continent. You will re
turn with an idea of the greatness of this country, a better idea
of the honor and responsibility that American citizenship brings
with it and a keener sense of your own duty as a worker.
That is most important of all, a realization of duty and re
sponsibility.
Plan to go to the fair, persuade your friends to go with you.
Take your children if you have any old enough to travel intelli-.
gently.
(This editorial is published In all of the Hearst newspapers. Editors
of other newspapers who think their readers might be interested in the
great Panama Exposition held in San Francisco, or who think it desirable
to encourage American citizens to travel to the great exposition and see
this nation, may reproduce this editorial, or any part of it.)
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SOMETHING SOME DAY.
Great Britain seems to think
she ought to enjoy the same priv
ileges on the high seas that the
gang fighters enjoy in the streets
of New York.
THE DAWN OF EQUALITY.
Men can cook, make (tresses,
trim hats, wait on the table, teach
school and do housework success
fully. And recently *.c saw a
story called "The Diary of a Suc
cessful Wife,” by Frederick Ar
nold Kummer
THE UNFAILING SIGN.
Immigration from Europe has
fallen off nearly 60 per cent, as
you will observe from the dimi
nution in the number of people
who applaud when the restaurant
bands play "Dixie.”
ALWAYS A CHANCC!
Hush little baby, don't > u cry;
You’ll be a grown-up by and by.
And If you are Industrious and
learn a lot of law
Maybe you can get a job defend
ing Hurry Thaw.
More Truth Than Poetry
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE.
Casting Their Shadows Before.
The mother of n famous dancer s ays she knev' her daughter teas des
tined for Terpischorean celebrity, be rouse when a little baby she used to
kick her feet.
TXTHEN Bryan first beheld the light—a bald and red and wrinkled mite—
He closed his eyes and uttered cries,
Denoting high ambition.
And aa hit father heard him yell his manly breaat began to awell
, With pride and joy—he knew his boy
Would be a politician.
TX7HEN Goethala waa a babykln he'd dig hie thumb Into hie chin
*' With wabbly jabs and wavering stabs
And queer and curious motions.
And thus his doting mother knew that, when to men's estate he grew,
He’d dig the ditch at Colon which
Would join the rolling oceans.
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TX7HEN Jesse James was six months old he loved the sight of shining gold,
And every time he’d see a dime
He'd Instantly demand it.
Which made his stricken mother eigh, for well the knew that by and by
Her darling one would buy a gun
And go and be a bandit.
DOOMED TO OBLIVION.
Most of the seeds you plant
this month will never get a place
in the sun.
BUT THAT 16 GOING SOME.
The allied fleet seems well sat
isfied if it can rapture one Dar-
danelle at a time.
AND A RED NOSE IS A ROSE,
OF COURSE.
A poet says that freckles are
wild flowers placed by the sun on
a girl's cheeks. What then is a
mole?
PRACTICAL EDUCATION.
The acquisition of the Spanish
language in Sing Sing will prove
very valuable to the graduates if
any of them happen to slip back
into the old ways and are advised
by their lawyers to spend a few
years in Honduras or some other
non-treaty Central American
country.
WELL NAMED.
The battlesh.p Pennsylvania
was named after a State that was
named after a Quaker, and Qua
kers are strong for peace. Which
is right and proper, for the Penn
sylvania is the strongest peace
argument that Uncle Sam has to
offer.
A BURBANKIAN TIP.
It would help European agri
culture a whole lot to irrigate all
the powder plants thoroughly.
Some Reasons Why You Should
Read The Sunday American
The Sunday American is absolutely supreme in circulation
in the city of Atlanta, the State of Georgia and throughout the
entire South, BECAUSE IT IS A PAPER FOR ALL OF THE
PEOPLE, ALL OF THE TIME.
It not only carries all of the foreign and domestic news of
the day, but it is filled with entertaining and instructive features
and special articles in every issue.
The Sunday American is pre-eminently a HOME PAPER.
It is appreciated thoroughly by women readers, no less than
men, because it caters intelligently and engagingly to this most
important class.
Next Sunday’s American will be replete with articles of par
ticular interest to women.
The average man and woman, for instance, does not realize
the tremendous advance that womankind has made in the past
few years, and how she is constantly widening her sphere of
usefulness.
Next Sunday’s American will have a splendid article on
HOW WOMEN ARE DOING THE MEN’S WORK.
War conditions unheard of in modern times compel the
weaker sex to perform the most dangerous and exhausting la
bors in order to save society from chaos; illustrated with remark
able new photographs of women at work as plowmen and
blacksmiths, running street cars and taxicabs, delivering milk
and papers, carrying bricks and mortar, sweeping the streets,
driving the pigs to market, fanning, burying the dead, hauling
coai from the mines and mending roads.
Another article. FOR THE WOMAN WHO WANTS TO
MAKE HER OWN CLOTHES, is helpful, as is still another on
USEFUL HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
PICTURE FRAME PLUMES, by Lucile—always a unique
feature.
An English scientist has discovered that “some day we will
all have small, pretty feet,’’ and he tells why in the Sunday
American.
Do you know that there is a movement on foot to force J.
Pierpont Morgan to disgorge one of the most important histori
cal wills ever written? It is the will of Martha Washington,
and was stolen from the courthouse records in Virginia years
ago, and later was bought by Mr. Morgan. The State of Virginia
will bring suit to recover this document.
Readers who are interested in events abroad will look for
ward with keen interest to a story of the Duke of Orleans, pre
tender to the French throne. This noble profligate has endeavor
ed unsuccessfully to enlist in every army of the allied forces, but
none of them will accept his services.
These are only a few of the great special articles to be read
in The Sunday American of April 25. All are superbly illus
trated—some of them in colors.
And, by the way, about the famous Liberty Bell, which is to
oe carried all the way across the continent to the Panama-Pacific
Exposition; in response, it might be added, to a nation-wide ap
peal voiced by Mr. Hearst through his chain of newspapers.
What do you know about the Liberty Bell? Very little?
The Sunday American and The Georgian are going to have
much to say of the Liberty Bell in the near future, because it is
one of the most treasured historic relics in all the world, and just
now is much in the public eye.
Do you know that the Liberty Bell is suffering from a
strange disease?
An account of this extraordinary malady, which threatens
to destroy the priceless relic (with a recent photograph of the
bell, showing the progress of the disease and how it has stretched
out into heretofore healthy sections) will be read with thrilling
interest by persons who are interested in matters of that sort.
Why not order your copy of The Sunday American now?
Five cents everywhere.
THE SUNDAY AMERICAN IS THE MOST COMPLETE
NEWSPAPER PRINTED IN THE SOUTH.
Old Wine in a New Bottle
News of Atlanta. Five and .Ten Years Ago
APRIL 23, 1905.
SUNDAY.
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APRIL 23, 1910.
Local automobile dealers or
ganize $50,000 company to sell
and manufacture automobiles, to
be known as the Georgia Motor
Car Company, headed by George
W. Hanson.
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B. H. H. Roan, brother of Judge
L,. S. Roan, enters race for Fulton
County Sheriff.
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Evangelistic services at Central
Baptist Church conducted by the
Rev. W. P. Price, famous cam
paigner.
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Memphis beats Atlanta, 4 to 3.
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Vanderbilt beats Tech, 4 to 3.
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Actual work begins on proposed
$1,000,000 hotel, projected by Jo
seph Gatins, former Atlantan, at
Ponce DeLeon and Peachtree.
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Shrewd young bunco man al
most successful in passing ?7,000
check on Evins & Spence, Atlanta
lawyers.
Inklings and Thinklings
Wifh prohibition spreading over Europe, Huerta sails for Mexico.
Writing to a morning paper a New Yorker declares that he has
eaten fried hominy for breakfast every morning for seventy years. As
they say at the ringside, he's a glutton for punishment.
With the nation on the water wagon, Englishmen won't be able to
sing about the "right little, tight little island.”
See that Jersey City maniac escaped by "running as fast as two
policemen could run.” Often heard that two heads were better than
one, but had no idea that four feet wert* faster than two.
Famous fakes:
Mock Turtle
Forged Steel
False Sextus
Mock Duck
Shampoo
Spurlus Lartlus
Wish somebody would write a "Song of Hate" for ginger
snap*.
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