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The Public’s Interest in Eight ~’
Hour Railroad Day |
Less than two months ago tbz interstate Commerce Commis
sion made to the railroads of the Eastern Division a gift various
ly estimated at from $35,000,00 to $50,000,000.
This was the culmination of a vigorous campaign waged by
the roads for an increase in freight rates. Every possible device
had been employed to affect public sentiment favorably. The na
tion was told that the prosperity of the whole people was de
pendent upon the prosperity of the roads.
We were asked to belizve that {unds drawn from the people
through the agency of higher freight rates were instantly dis
seminated through the whole business community by railroad
disbursements.
Especially were we assured that the suitable treatment of
the railroad employees was largely dependent upon the granting
es this right to increase freight rates.
Well, the railroads won their appeal. The commission
granted them a 5 per cent increase in rates.
Perhaps it would be premature to expect within two months
the full measure of the public benefit so glibly promised by the
railroad spokesmen. Certainly it has not yet put in an appear
ance. '
But the time is at hand when the railroads can make good
their profession of public spirit, can render something of an
equivalent for the tens of millions of dollars granted them by the
Interstate Railroad Commission. .
This they can do by acceding to the demand for the eight
hour day made upon them by their employees.
That demand is upheld by public sentiment. It finds sup
port in common sense and in common practice.
It expresses a perfectly reasonable aspiration of labor for
improved conditions of employment. ,
It will raise the quality of railroad labor and thereby en
hance its efficiency.
Every time and everywhere the eight-hour system has been
put to the test it has worked to the mutual advantage of the em
ployer and the employed.
But in this specific instance a third party appears with in
terests paramount to those of either employer or employed—
namely, the public.
The public has the right to insist, and does insist, that the
railroads acquiece in the men’'s demand because the public
rightfully believes that its own safety is involved in that action.
Overworked labor is not efficient labor, it is not safe labor
in a business in which hundreds of thousands of human beings
are daily exposed to serious risk. The overtired, discontented
man at the switch or signal tower, with a brooding sense of in
justice ever upon him, is not a safe custodian of human lives.
The public has been genero'with railroads. Tke moment
is here for an evidence of railroad good faith and reciprocity.
A Valiant War Lord for
President Wilson
In these days of marchings and counter marchings, of
assaults, affrays, battles, of on-fall and out-fall and leaguer, an
heroic figure suddenly looms upon the scene and fills the fore
boding eye with fateful possibilities.
- Generalissimo Julius Kahn, Field Marshal of the Republic,
War Lord of the Western March, High Constable of the Stormy
Mountains, marched up to the White House the other day and,
out of the plenitude of his warfare experiences, told the Presi.
dent of the United States just what to do about preparedness.
And then War Secretary Garrison resigned.
Why not appoint Generalis.simo Julius to the vacancy?
Could anyone be better equipped to direct the military opera
tions, the mobilizations, the grand tactics of our proposed de
fensive war? And having told the President just what to do,
why shouldn't the precious advice be taken advantage of by a
grateful and applauding land? ;
Lord High Constable Kahn began his victorious career by
mobilizing hats in a San Francisco hat store. 8o successful were
his counter marches of “‘plugs” and ‘‘Fedoras’’ and ‘‘beanies’’
that he was promoted to a place on the firing line in the Legis
lature at Sacramento. On the wind-swept escarpments there he
won either his spurs or his per diem and mileage, and he re
viewed the march past of his glorious career with fond and
approving eye.
He then flung himself into the thick of the histrionic fray,
and volleyed from the wings or thundered from the r. u. e. until
his voice—ah, sad the day—his voice failed him, and he resorted
to the breezy assaults and windy emeutes of the law, till Bel
lona's stern hand plucked him and forced him to again clothe
his neck with thunder, like the war.-horse in Job, and say
‘“Ha-ha!”’ among the armed men of the lower house of Congress.
Could military training be more complete? Our hero has
suffered upon a hundred rostrums and bled upon a thousand
stumps. He has been bred to war’s alarms, this old gray dog
of the camp and the trenches. So where, having once listened
to advice from this completely eqaipped son—no, brother—of
Mars, where could the President go for a better groomed, a
more completely hatted soldier to direct the future campaigns
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Greatest Mysteries of Nature and Science
Sun Sends Us Light and Heat as the Telephone Sends Us the Voices of Our Friends—Mar
| velous Transformation of Vibratory Energy.
By Garrett P. Serviss.
“Is there any heat in a vac
uum, or ether?—A. H. G."
EAT is a violent agitation of
H the infinitesimal particles,
or molecules, of waich all
matter is composed; hence there
can be no heat in a vacuum,
where there are no particles of
matter to be agitated, or in the
ether, which is a medium that
does not obey the ordinary laws
of matter,
But, on the other hand, the vi
brations that give' rise to heat
when they encounter material
bodies must exist in the ether
because it is t’:» ether which car
ries them, and, since ether is not
excluded, like matter, from what
we call a vacuum, it follows that
those vibrations may exist in a
vacuum. In fact, the only thing
that a vacuum contains is ether.
According to the strict meaning
of the term, a vacuum should con
tain nothing whatever, but we are
unable to get the ether tut, and
80, perforce, we let it go at that.
Experiment long ago showed that
a greater quantity of the vibra
tions which produce heat passes
through a vacuum than through
an equal space fllled with air,
The only way in which heat is
supplied to us from the sun is by
means of vibrations in the all
enveloping ether. While they are
in the ether, before they have
stryck the earth’'s atmosphere
and, through the atmosphere, the
earth itself, the vibrations bear
the same relation to heat that the
electric impulses in a telephone
wire bear to the sounds into
which they are transformed as
socon as they strike the recelver.
The same thing is true of the
vibrations that produce light.
They are not really light until
they have impinged upon our
eyes and affected our nerves of
vision in such & manner as to set
up another sort of vibration, or
agitation, in the-molecules of our
brains, and this causes the sen
sation of geeing, or the perception
of what we call light.
Consequently, while all space
around the sun is filled with vi
brations capable of being trans
formed into light and heat, there
Is neither light nor heat in open
Space, except where the vibra
tions encounter some material ob-
Ject whose molecules éan be agi
tated by the impact, and thus
bring about the transformation
needed.
No doubt these vibrations con
veyed from the sun by the ether
may produce many other effects
unperceived by or unknown to us,
because we have no special
nerves, or organs of sensation,
suitable to their perception,
The ether, you will observe, is a
very mysterious thing, and the
discovery of its existence is one of
the greatest triumphs of human
Intelligence. It seems to possess
some of the properties of mat
ter, and yet it defies most of the
laws of matter, as we know them.
When we try to define it we im
mediately begin to contradict
ocurselves, and seem to be talking
Indifference is akin to laziness.
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Most every man can assist in
s.nawerlnx.hls own prayers.
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If you must harbor a grudge,
keep it in cold storage out of
sight,
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One brand of reform consists in
seeking amusement in new places.
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As a rule parents either abuse
their children or treat them too
well. .
nonsense, and yet without the
hypothesis of the existence of this
wonderful something - nothing
nearly the whole edifice of mod
ern science would tumble into
ruin, ;
Investigation of the world of
matter in which we live and of
which we are a part leads us to
the verge of a precipice, in the
dark, where science, sustained by
faith in+ her hypotheses, steps
boldly out over the void, and is
herself astonished to find that in
stead of being precipitated into
the gulf she is borne like a spirit
across it!
To study all the phenomena of
heat would require the devotion of
an entire lifetime. Have you
ever reflected upon the reason
why heat can turn iron into a
liquid and water into steam?
Most persons, seeing these things
done, or knowing that they are
done, every day, think no more
about it.
It 1s not from among such per
sons that the great leaders of hu
man advance make their appear
ance. If a hundred thousand men
would think e€arnestly about
these things for every one who
thus thinks about them to-day,
In-Shoots
After the bridegroom’s stock
of funny stories has been ex
hausted the honeymoon begins to
wane,
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The trouble with the idle rich
seems to be the fact that it is dif
ficult for us to "touch” many of
them.
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Every married woman {s pleased
with the popuiarity of her hus
band—if he is not too popular
with the eother ladies.
the world would soon blaze with
intellectual light like & new born
sun!
But to return to the answer to
our question. Iron is melted and
water is vaporized by that very
shaking or agitation of their con
stituent particles of which we
have been speaking, The mole
cules or particles of a solld or a
liquid are held together by their
mutual attraction—not the attrac
tion of gravitation, but another
sort of attraction called cohesion.
The distance over which this
kind of attraction acts is very
small. Each particle draws upon
its immediately surrounding par
ticles, and they, in turn, upon
others, and thus the whole mass
of a solid body or of a portion of
liquid is held together.
In solids the force of cohesion
is so great that the particles are
held in a rigid form; in liquids it
is relatively so weak that the par
* ticles may slide about over one
another; in a gas, or vapor, there
is no cohesion.
Now, when a solid is heated its
particles are set into extraordi
nary vibration, and if the heating
is carried to a sufficient degree
the force of their cohesion will be
so far weakened that they begin
to slide over one another, and the
solid becomes a liquid. Carry the
heating still farther, and the par
ticles will be so shaken that they
lose tlreir cohesive grip entirely,
and the liquid expands into a va
por.
As you sit in front of your win
ter fire and see the black coal, or
the hard wood, molecularly sha
ken asunder in the jaws of heat
until part of it ascends in gases
and part falls in ashes, while the
agitation sets up new waves of
heat in the surrounding air and
ether, .you may, if you will, be
come a philosopher and contrib
ute your own liittle share to the
thinking which drives the world,
THE HOME PAPER
Saturday Evening “
A Week-End Clearing House for Notes of Men and Affairs, I
“STANTON DAY.”
I wish to go on record here and
now, well in advance of the occa
sion. as indorsing with all of my
enthusiasm and sincerity the Ad
Men’s suggestion of celebrating
Frank L. Stanton’s birthday in
Atlanta, in fitting style, on Feb
ruary 22.
It was very thoughtful of Mr:
Stanton to be born on February
22, Either that, or it was very
thoughtful of George Washington
to be born on February 22, so that
* Stanton latep might be born on
the same day of the month., Any
wav, it is a happy circumstance
that the birth of both of these
gentlemen may be celebrated si
multaneously.
Frank L. Santon is a Georgia
institution, He is known from one
.end of the nation to the other as
one of the South’'s sweetest sing
ers. His repute as a writer of
.charming verse and quaint and
curious philosophy has spread far
and wide, and to that extent he is
a national figure and belongs to
the entire country—but beyond
that (and perhaps even better
than that) is the Frank L. Stan
ton that we folks in Georgia know
intimately and personally, and call
our own,
There never was and there
never will be a sweeter, gentler
man—a man whose heart {s filled
with the milk of human kindness
and a sense of broad and tolerant
affection for and consideration of
his fellow men. The most modest
and the most retiring of writers
is Stanton—comparable in this re
gard with no other Georglan so
much as Joel Chandler Harris.
Mr. Stanton has lived his days
among the people of Georgia,
where he is known and loved not
only for what he writes and for
the songs he sings, but for the
man he is.
How fitting it {s that we label a
day “Stanton Day.” and observe it
accordingly. What a slight trib
ute of affection and esteem this
is, when set as an exhibit beside
the months and years of quiet
work Stanton has done to make
all of us happier and Dbetter
Georgians. '
I wish to be one of those to
congratulate him upon his forth
coming birthday—l do not know
which one, and that does not mat
ter much—and to wish him many
happy returns.
And I doubt if there is, from
Dade to Camden and from Ra
bun to Decatur, one Georgian
who will not gladly, willingly and
heartily join me in this senti
ment,
GRANDMOTHKERS.
A young man, yet well on the
sunny side of 30, married some
four or five years and possessed
of a bright young son just over
and beyond 3 years of age, has
made a most important discovery
—that is, he believes it is a dis
covery; and it is, so far as he is
concerned.
He ventured the fixed and ma
tured opinion to me a few days
ago that it is not the mothers and
fathers, nor is it the sisters, the
cousins and the aunts that spoil
children and make them hard to
manage—not one-tenth so much
—as it is the grandmothers.
He put it to me something like
this: “Of course, my wife is like
all mothers—wrapped up in our
boy. She thinks he is the great
est, sweetest and smartest boy
that ever was, and I think so, too
-—not only because I have my own
opinions abowt things of that sort,
but because I cheerfully and will
ingly take hers. At the same
time, she shares with me some
rather fixed ideas of discipline in
the family circle, and she has
sought to lay down certain rules
and reguiations of conduct where
by this boy shall be controlled,
We started this rather early in
the game, and we thought we
were going to succeed the best
way——and we should have, If it
were not for the boy’'s grand
mother, and, if I must admit it
myself, on my side of the house,
too, for his other grandmother is
dead.
“Now, our boy has been utterly
‘spolled and ruined’ by his grand
mother, and we can not do a
thing with her, nor can we do a
thing with him to stop it. True,
she admits all of the wise rules
that we set up, and she says that
children should be disciplined—
but when it comes to letting him
play out of hours, dress out of
tune and <at out of season, well,
he has ledrned not to come to me
or his mother about these things,
but to trot to his grandmother,
where all As serene and lovely,
from his point of view,
“I try to work myself into
something of a protesting frame
of mind about this matter now
and then, and I have resolved
several fine and mighty resolves
as to what I was going to say to
my mother—that boy's grand
mother—about their compact of
friendship, but, somehow, 1 have
never bheen able to say it.
“I know the grandmother is
By James B. Nevin.
knocking all of my fine and dandy
theories and my wife's theories
galley west, but what am I to do?
“Grandmothers are awfyl
things to have around the house
—when you are trying to raise a
kid according to ideals!”
Now, it seems to me that there
is nothing much for me to add to
this. This young man is in ex
actly the same fix that many
other people have gotten into—
and I want to tell him right now
that there is no way out.
He is going to let that grand
mother have her own way, just as
he ought to, because that is one
of the things that grandmothers
are for—and that is one of the
privileges they enjoy, and ought
te be permitted to enjoy.
And here is another thing:
When you consider this matter,
there arises in your mind inevit
ably some numerous phases of
the ancient and decrepit mother
in-law jgke. And when you stop
to thinkK that grandmothers ai
ways are mothers-in-law as well
as grandmothers, you ought to
feel ashamed of yourself that you
ever indulged in a cheap mother
in-law joke.
And, doubtless, away down in
your heart, you ARE. .
SEE THIS PLAY.
If yon, gentle reader, care to
spegd a little money in a good
cause and get your full money’s
worth also—which is something
like eating your cake and having
it. too—l think you may accom
plish this double purpose by pur
chasing a ticket to “Aljas Jimmy
Va]entine,". which is to be pro
duced at the Atlanta Theater on
the evening of February 22 by the
police reporters of the Atlanta
newspapers, for the benefit of the
Atlanta Police Relief Assoclation.
The Atlanta Police Relief As
soclation is a most worthy insti
tution, fully and completely en
titled to the cordial support of
the people of Atlanta. The police
force is composed of a fine, com
petent set of men, and they come
as near (if not a little nearer)
to earning fully and thoroughly
thedr salaries as any other of our
public servants. Their Relief As
sociation is constantly in need of
funds, and, therefore, whatever
is given to them for the support
of that institution is money
WELL spent—money that will
pay big dividends to the people of
Atlanta in adding to the efficiency
and satisfactory administration of
the Police Department.
“Alias Jimmy Valentine” is a
" corking good play—a melodrama
of the better type, full of thrills,
but carrying a wholesome lesson,
nevertheless.
Rehearsals have been going on
steadily for many weeks, and I
understand that the performance
is to be in every way most cred
itable. Certainly, the boys pro
moting it have worked in season
and out to put it across—and they
are entitled to a packed and
Jammed house next Tuesday eve
ning from every point of view.
Atlanta is one of the most gen
erous-hearted cities. It sup
ports its various institutions and
enterprises with a good will and
enthusiasm that has made it fa
mous from one end of the nation
to the other—and I am sure that
Atlanta will feel like making the
performance of “Alias Jimmy
Valentine” a complete and thor
ough going success,
THE MOONSHINER.
An Alabama scribe avers—with
considerably more emphasis and
solemnity perhaps than the state
ment requires—that, in his opin
ion, “moonshining” is on “its last
legs,” and is destined to become
in Alabama soon merely “a mem
ory and a song.”
This statement i important, if
true—and maybe it is both. There
is some opinion more or less
rampantly at large in Georgia to
the effect that ‘“moonshining”
likely is on its last legs—but I
have a sneaking idea that it is
not destined all at once for the
land of the yesterdays, neverthe
less,
It has been a most picturesque
even though legally proscribed in~
dustry in Georgia for many, many
years, Before drastic prohibi
tion laws ever were heard of—
even when the assimilation of in
" toxicating liquors was considered
actually good form—the “moon
shiner” flourished and went his
way In joy.
True, his occupation has be
come more and more hazardous
as time runs on and public senti
ment crystallizes against the De
mon Rum—but age has failed
completely to wither the “moon
shiner,” and custom has not
served to stale his infinite va
riety.
1 think we shall hear from him
quite frequently for days to come
—and although his tribe may wax
slim and finally disappear, he
still may be far from very hope
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