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TRUTH, JUSTICE
A Great and Patriotic
Gathering in Atlanta
Rarely has Atlanta had the good fortune to welcome within her gates so
magnificent a gathering as that assemb'ed today for the purpose of considering
the plans and purposes of the Southern Congress of the League of Nations.
Headed by former President William Howard Taft and composed of the
I nation’s most distinguished sons, the delegation charged with the duty of set
| ting forth these matters is one that will command the instant respect and at
[ tention of all the South.
i The delegates composing the Southern congress are of the flower of the
| South’s citizenship.
i Surely nothing but good can come of such a discussion and deliberation
j as is contemplated in this meeting.
| Nothing that Atlanta has is too good for every visitor within her gates
today and tomorrow. Atlanta is honored signally in being chosen as the
place of meeting for so splendid a body.
| Those having the congress in charge in Atlanta cordially invite and urge
| every citizen to attend at least one or more of the meetings. They are all open
to the public, without reserve. The few seats that necessarily have been set
aside at the Auditorium for the accred ted delegates are only a fraction of the
tremendous seating capacity of that building. Every provision for the comfort
of the audiences has been looked after; nothing will be left undone that may
"in any wise help the congress along the road of complete success.
! The Georgian, in the name of Atlanta, extends a hearty welcome to every
vigitor; The Georgian anticipates for every visitor with a message to deliver
the sympathetic ear of Atlanta, Georgia and the South.
There is no citizen, whatever his real or imaginary degree of importance
may be, who is not cordially and whole-heartedly invited to attend each and
| every meeting at the Auditorium.
A Senseless Attempt to Revive
An Old Scheme of Censorship
T s passing strange that now. aflter the
l was is over and after the moving picture
has played its wonderful part in the
winning of it, without censorship and with
out eritacism, there ean be found any serious
and intelligent American who wants to re
vive the old ecensorship scheme.
One of the extraordimary and unaccount
able alter-war developments in America has
been the great and general reaction. This
manifested itself in the eleetion of a Repub
lican Congress, in a sudden recrudescence of
. the demand to return the railroads to “the
stock gamblers, in the scramble to snatch
away from society the soewal and economie
fruits of the war by throwing back into hel.
ter skelter spasmodie private eontrol a great
many of the proper Government functions,
while at the same time the murzle is kept on
the press.
But of all the unaccountable reactions none
are so extraordinary and so unaceountable as
the resumption of the old attempt to muzzle
the moving pieture enterprise. No single pri
vate enterprise during the war, the newspa
pers probably not excepted, rendered greater
serviee hy p{xrely voluntary aection, without
Government econtrol, without Government
censorship, and without Government aid,
than the moving picture enterprise. liberty
Loans were promoted, the righteousness of
' the war was taught, the morale of the publie
was built up aud maintained by the moving
" pictures in a way not given to any other en
terprise to sontribute to the nation’s cause.
We do not know of a single instance in
which, during the war, censorship here would
have aided the Government.
Nobody dreams of eensoring the press dur
ing peace times. During the war period we
accepted the press censorship, but no attempt
was made to censor the moving pictures after
the manner proposed in the bill now pending
in Congress, yet without that kind of eensor
ship the moving pietures “‘did their bit"
without stint and won the applause of all
of ficialdom.
There is no~more powerful agency for pa
triotic propaganda than the moving picture.
Exery consideration which leads us to make
the freedom of the press a right fundamental
to American liberty ought to lead us to make
the freedom of the moving picture an equal
fundamental right of American liberty, There
| is nothing in the newspaper as such which is
i _vital to hberty except the fact that it is the
| “vehicle of expression, the means by which
‘ kuowledge and thought are disseminated
| among the people. This is exactly what the
‘; moving picture is able to do. The moving
| picture today is a muth more graphic vehicle
i for the expression and dissemination of
| thought and of facts and news than even the
| newspaper. The moving pieture is an instru.
1 ment of liberty itself.
‘ It has come as a supplement of the new spa
| per and the magazine and the book at a time
| when the complexity of our social life and the
. pleasures and diversions which it affords and
‘1 the lack of ll('\'t‘“)' and the lack of sucrifice
i in the liberty which we enjoy, all tend to de.
velop indifference on the part of the people
2’ to théir civie duties,
{, Censorship of the moving pieture will re.
| duce its social value exactly as censorship of
{ the theater in England has reduced the great
i soeial value of the theater in that country
& At a hearing before a Parliamentary commit
” tee just prior to the war, it was the unani
! mously expressed opinion of the publicists
i and playwrights and other amportant: public
| omen of Great Britain that the consorship ol
H the theaters had stunted the quality and the
RLT I I e eAR G v es o g———
Be T hou Faithful Unto Death, and I Will Give You the Crown of Life—Rev. 2:10.
Text for today was selected today by the Rev, James E. Dickey pastor First Methodist Chureh, Atlanta.) .
seriousness of the British plays and deprived
the public of the great public advantages that
come from the serious appeals which may be
interpolated into their pleasures.
‘ROSES ARE RED, AND .
VIOLETS ARE BLUE---’
| We confess to a mild degree of curiosity in
' respect of the delicate differentiation in fem
inine types, set up in the following from The
i Alpharetta Free Press:
Reading between the lines, we take it that
Editor Jack Patterson, of The Covington News,
who is a lonely bachelor, desires a bouquet of
a wife, but he prefers the modest violet to the
wide-open rose.
It is notoriously true that fools oft rush in
where angels fear to tread; it may be that
we are inviting an avalanche of scorn from
the seats of the mighty down Covingtonway
in propounding a query so curious—hbut what
IS the compelling objection to a wife-bouquet
~whatever that is -of the rose persuasion
as contrasted with one of violet hue?
And what sort of rose is meant, anyway?
There are roses that cling and twine and de
port themselves graciously and sweetly.
Surely, there could be no valid objection to
that, in the erisis conjured up by The Al
pharetta Free Press?
| The violet may be entitled to its reputation
' as an approved example of extreme modesty ;
‘ but we hold brazenly that there MAY be such
a thing as over-zealousness in modesty, Who
“ever heard of a clinging violet, for instance?
Is there anything immodest about the rose :
and if not, why seck by inference to attach
such attribute of character to the same?
Roses {rroverbiall_v are given to blushing.
Ever hear of a violet being so aflicted? And
isn’t an inclination to blush upon slight prov
ocation the supreme test of real modesty?
Doesn’t it sometimes seem, when one comes
to think things over, that maybe the violet's
reputation for modesty has been more or less
undeserved-—relatively so, at least? Mersly
because it Kves elose to the ground-—and can
not help itself —and shrinks behind its ae
companying leaves, is not conclusive. Mod
esty does not necessarily mean hiding from
sight entirely; one may be ever so modest,
and still not altogether refuse to disclose
one's charms, we should say—at least, we
should if we were a woman,
TO INSURE A UNIVERSAL
i‘VOICE WITH A SMILE’
' In the run of the news Tuesday there ap
{ peared this seintillant gem :
l NEW YORK: President Wilson also made
a most favorable impression on the telephone
girls who operated switchboards for him in
Paris, several of whom returned on the George
Washington,
“If everybody were as considerate and as
eventempered in using the telephone as Presi
i dent Wilson, the telephone operator's life
would be a dream of comfort,” said Beatrice
| France Fort, of this city.
“The President has the original ‘voice with
l a smilel’ " she said.
‘ OF course, Beatriee is right, -
[ We would admonish her gently but firm
| Iy, however, that if every telephone girl were
| as prompt and as sweet in answering the or
| dinary caller as she undoubtedly is in an
boswering the President of the United States
©—and there is no good and sufficient reason
I why she should NOT be-—then the President
| would'not hold unchallenged the world’s
| clampionship as a sweet-tempered telephone
| caller or the one and only telephone user
! |m~u'sfll‘<| of & ''volce w ilh a Klllfll"!” ; .
Mayhe Beatrice will think that over-—and
then, aga, mayvbe she won 't
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| By Garrett Serviss.
“Are we, after all, such prisoners
on our globe? Take a glass of wa
ter, Is not the force of gravity on'
the container? And the water
seeks its level, Heat and light re
pel gravity,. May we heed an un
discovered force of locomotion—lire
itself?—C., G, L. J
RAVITY Is not a thing, to be
repelled; it is a force, to be
| overcome, There are many
~ forces that can, and do, overcome
! gravity., Our muscular foroe does
~ that continually, When you lift a
weight or go up a hill, you over
come, or overmatch, gravity, If
you could lift yourself by your
bhootstraps, and keep on exercising
the same force continually, you
could lift yourself to the moon.
SO, too, if there were a ladider
from the earth to the moon, and
your wind and muscular foree held
cut long encugh, yvou could ¢limb up
into the lunar world. And the far
ther vou got away from the earth
the less force of gravity, or the less
| welght, you would have {o cuontend
~ with,
i At the distance of the moon
gravity would be so much reduced
that it would pull you back with
’ only 1-3600th of the force with
I which it pulls you on the earth.
| That is, if on the earth's surface
your weight is 220 pounds, at the
t distance of the moon it would be,
' ag far as the earth's gravity Is con
i cerned, only one ounce. But grav
| Ity. although its force diminishes
inversely as the square of the dis
tance, never lets go altogetaer, You
would have to climb to an infinite
digtance before gravity would van
ish. }
Now, if the ladder | have imag
ined actually exigted, then, s far as
the mere question of overcoming
}mvny is concerned, vou could get
away from the earth, ilut, of course,
there is no lalder and nothing
equivalent to a ladder. You can go
up in the air to a certain limited
distance with the aid of a balloon,
or an aeroplane, so that, in a broad
sense, perhaps, you might liken the
atmosphere to a ladder, but its ex«
tent 18 trifling compared with the
diameter of the earth, to say noth
ing of interplanetary distances,
The only way in which you conld
get free from the earth, outside the
atmosphere would be by overcom
ing the force of ervavity perma
nently, and you would have to do
that at one stroke, by starting with
a veloeity which would continue
forever to exceed the aceeleration of
;.'r':\'lty. Of course, you could neu
tralize gravity If you had at com
mand an equal opposing force,
A hoy throws f ball straight up
inth the atr with a velocity suffi
clent to overcome gravity for a cer.
tain distance only. The ball goes
slower and slower under the un-
Friday, February 28, 1919
The Force of Gravity
[LEND A HAND!
ceasing backward pull of gravity
until it comes to rest, all the kinet
ic energy with which it started
having been used In overcoming
gravity up to that point, But grav
ity continues to null after the ball
stops rising, and as the ball falls
back under the pull of gravity it
picks up again the kinetic energy it
had at the start.
Only in case the bail could be
started with a veloecity sufficient to
oarry it against gravity to an in
ficite distance could it be freed from
the earth’s control. This statement,
of course, excludes the effects of the
interference of other attracting
bodies besides the earth, such as
the sun. The required velocity, as
I have before stated, is about 7
miles per second,
As to what forces might be em
ployed to drive a body to an infi
nite distance, it is interesting to re
mark that much depends upon the
size in proportion to mass of the
projected body. It has been proved
that light can drive matter against
the force of gravitation if the mat
ter is in sufficientiy minute parti
cles.
For instance, according to the
estimate of Professor J. H. Poyn
ting, the pressure of the sun's light
on the earth amounts to about 74,-
000 tons welght. But the pull of
the sun's gravitation on the earth
is greater than the pregsure of its
light in the proportion” of 47,000,-
000,000,000 to 1.
If, then, the earth were com
pressa@® to only 1-47,000,000,000,000 th
of its present diameter the push of
light would balance the pull of
gravitation, and if the earth shrank
to a still smaller diameter, solar
gravitation would be overcome andy
the minimized earth would be
driven away into space.
The cause of this is that gravity,
or gravitation, acts upon each and
every part and particle of whieh
aAny body consists, while light pres
sure acts only upon the surface, In
other words, gravitation is meas
sured by the mass, and light pres
sure by the superficies of the bhody
acted upon. But mass is propor
tional to volume, and varies as the
cube of the diametor of the body,
while pressure s proportional to
the surface, which varies, only as
the square of the diameter.
Thus, if one globe has 1-10th the
diameter of another it has 1-100th
the surface, but only 1-1000th the
volume of the larger. The earth in
the ecase above supposed would be
less than 1-90,9%00th of an ineh in
dlameter. \g'cnnunuly. a man
would only hiive to make himself
small enough in order to be blown
away from the earth by the pres
sure of its reflected sunlight with.
ont troubling himself to invent a
big cannon to shoot him awav, as
Jules Verne did when he wanted to
sond some people to the moon.
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Dear Mr, K. (. B.—Will you please write a column on persons
who worry”? There is a man named Sam in my shop who is always
worrying, and if nobody puts him wise he will soon be all warped. You
know what I mean. -~ S B H
DEAR 8. B, H. o
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IN THE first place. ’
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IT'S A waste of time.
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TO TRY to tell anyone.
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HOW FOOLISH it is,
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TO WORRY about anything.
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BECAUSE IT doesn't matter.
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WHAT YOU tell them.
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THEY GO right on worrying.
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AND GETTING thin.
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AND GETTING erabbed,
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AND GETTING wrinkles. ,
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AND CETTING gray.
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AND IN most cases,
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WHEN YOU tell them about it.
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AND HOW foolish it is
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INSTEAD OF arguing
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THEY'LL AGREE that you're right
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AND GO on worrying.
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AND WHEN they do that.
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YOou MIG':T.,’\II( as well quir,
AND IN. n.m second place.
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IF THERE was anything
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THAT | could SAy.
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THAT h'MGHT help your friend.
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I CAN'T think of it now.
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BECAUSE.THII morning.
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| GOT a telegram.
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ON THE train that I'm on,
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AND AM writing this,
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AND THE telegram suys,
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THERE I 8 o message for me,
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AT THE "“"‘fl‘.l]'h office,
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IN THE town I'm going to,
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AND | haven't any §dea.
PUBLIC SERVICE
WHAT'S IN the message.
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AND I'M worried to death.
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FOR FEAR it's bad news.
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AND, OF course, I know,
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IT MAY be all right,
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AND SOMETHING pleasant.
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AND M remember one time,
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I WAS on a vacation
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AND A telegram came, 4
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AND | was afraid to open it
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FOR FEAR it would tell me.
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THAT | was canned
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AND ALL It said.
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WAS THAT my boss,
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WAS GLAD to know,
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| WAS having a good time.
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AND TO take another week,
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BUT IN spite of that,
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You NEVER‘c&n tell.
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WHAT'S. IN a telegram
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UNTIL IT'? opened.
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AND I'M worried stifr
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FOR FEAR the message.
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THAT I'M going to get.
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WILL BE :m:n the boss,
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AND SAY .mu.nethlm: like this,
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*WHEN WE hired you
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“WE HIRED a writer,
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“AND NOT a tourist,
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“COME ON back home”
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BUT ANYHOW.
. . -
YOU CAN tell your friend.
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THAT IT'S awtully silly
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TO KEBP on worrving
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| THANK jyon
Timely Topi;
of Today
l By Arthur Brisbane.
' T HE aerobus has com:, a fly
{ ing omnibus, actually carry
ing passengers regularty be
tween Paris and London, regardless
[ of wind and rain. The bus has four
| wheels to get its start fPfom the
ground, plus the one thing neces
sary for safety, a set of engines
more powerful than any, wind they
will meet. /
| In 25 years, at latest, all trawvel
! for long distances will be through
! the air—three hours between Chi
| cago and New York, less time lat
| er. And the trawel will be safer
than by express. No wheels or
rails to break, no rear end colli
| sions, no sidewiping freight cars,
no washonts, snowdrifts, bridges
swept away. A wonderful roadbed,
| the air—self-renewing, no friction.
| And what fortunes for private
T owners, if that sky highway should
be theirs, as the earth’s steam
. highways have been!
! You learn from Secretary Lane
that this country relies to an
! amazing extent on workers not
born here. The foreign-born num
ber, 58 per cent in steel and iron
#rades, 61 per cent in packing, 62
per cent in woolen mills, 69 per
| cent in cotton factories, 72 per cent
. in the clothing business. This
| should interest statesmen now
planning to shut out immigration.
| There are 5,500,000 illerates in
‘; this country, Secretary Lane has a
[ plan to wipe out this illiteracy in
; seven years at a cost of 826.000,0\00.
| That would be cheap. _But the
theory that to wipe out illigeracy
would also wipe ont “anarchy and
| dangerous discontent,” is a false :
| theory. The anarchist #s not an il
| literate, It is not among those mn
| able to read or write that discon
| tent and revelution grow most rap
{ idly. The reading and writing 15
per cent of Russian population, not
the 85 per cent illiterate, overthrew
| the Czar. Slave owners understood
| that, and made it a erime to teach
| slaves to read. Knowledge, not ig
' norance, bree.ds discontent. That
is why a real republic should edu -~
| cate everybody., Democracy de
pends for stability on discontent,
well-informed, and acting in obed
! itnce to laws made, and from time
| to time changed by itself.
Peace league fireworks will flash
and sizzle J£or some time. Could
not the nerves of the anxious be
soothed and the plan, if feasible,
mr&ied out for the world's benefit
on this basis? 2
Make all kinds of fine rules for
Europe, Asia, Africa and the Aus
tralian group and let the United
States keep always in condition to
protect and, if necessary, control
THIS continent. We need no army
of half a million, not even unrea
sonable fleets of battieships, al
though we should have enough of
them.
The world’s biggest supply of fly
ing machines, paying their way in
peace, carrying dynamite to meet
attacking ships in war, a big fleet
of submarines on our East and
West coasts, with a moderate siz
ed standing army and plenty of
trained officers, plus sufficient am
munition factories, would do the
work.,
With those things, which would
not cost much, Uncle Sam eould
say to the world seeking its per
! petual peace: “Go ahead, with my
| blessing. 1 wish you success, but
l I am keeping always in shape to
protect myself, if anything shouf
l 8O wrong with your plans.™
Sitting tn s Washington office
on Saturday Secretary Danlels
sadd to his clerk: “See if you can
get the President on the tele
phone™
It was the new wireless tele
phone, of course. A few minutes
later the President, 800 miles out at
I sea, was talking to his secretary
l about plans for his reception, and
each distinguished the other's voice
clearly,
That is a real miracle for you and
only the beginning of what man
will do before they finish rultng
afd regulating this earth. To say
that they will distribute the sun
plus heat of the equator at the
poles, abolish excessive heat and
cold, putting an end to glacial
movements that have destroyed
past civilizations, and inetd Ny
control the earth's uhlfun:tb
tion is no exaggeration, Men will
look back with pity some day te
thig period in which primitive e,
with his league, is trying te slog
murdering his fellows,