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Render therefore to all their ducs; tribule to whom
tribute iz due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom
Jear; homor to whom homor. Owe no man anything,
but to love one another; for he that loveth another
hath fulfilled the law—Romans, X111:7-8—Text to
day by the Rev. 8. W, Reid, Pastor Associate Reform
Vredosverian Church,
YHE ATLANTA PLANNING
COMMISSION BEGINS WELL
HE Atlanta Planning Commission has set itself
T diligently and aggressively at work along those
lines of constructive endeavor its projectors
wisely and patriotically had in mind when it was sug
gested originally as an organization that might be em
ployed to most helpful ends in our community.
While realizing that a visualized and fully projected
Atlanta, such as we like to conjure up in our mind’s
eye ten years hence, say, can not be worked out in a
week or a month, yet the commission does not pro
pose to “do nothing” as the larger and more definite
program is being considered.
With that view of the matter in mind, the commis- J
gion,’ through its committee on housing and general
welfare, has taken actively in hanmd the problem of
more homes for the people, especially, we should say,
for the people of more limited means, the wage earners
and salaried people; and already it has made marked
progress. It is hoped within a very short time to have
a comprehensive report ready. for the commission’s
consideration that will point the way to quick relief.
This particular phase of the work is at present
under the committee direction of Mr. John J. Eagan,
and those who read his two preliminary reports in the
Thursday papers surely must realize with what con
scientious and discriminating intelligence he and his
excellent commitiee have approached their task.
And the commission, as an immediate step for
ward—and as a thing fundamentally correct im city
planning—has recommended recognition und support,
official and otherwise, of the committee of citizens
proposing to establish here an Atlanta Community
Service Bureau.
The commission, as a step preliminary to the estab
lishing of this bureau, requested the newspapers of
Atlanta to print the following report of its Committee
on Recreation, Arts and Music, bearing wpon this
question, and to call the especial attention of the Indus
trial establishments of Atlanta to the same:
Mr. Chairman: Your Committee on Recceation,
Arts and Music has had under consideration, at the
direction of the Planning Commission, the proposal to
establish in Atlanta a Community Service Bureau.
Your committee, at a publicly arranged meeting, in«
vited discussion of the subject from all parties at in
terest.
After carefully investigating the plan of the pro
posed Atlanta Community Service, your committee is
of the opinion that such an organization would op
erate to the great good and benefit of our epmmunity,
particularly in the matter of extending playgrounds,
wholesome recreation and amusements, park amplifi
cations, better sanitary and health conditions, and per
haps, above all things, operate to a clearer and more
cordial relation between the white and colored people
of Atlanta. :
Your committee, therefore, recommends to the
Planning Commission that it endorse the proposal to
establish a Community Service Bureau in Atlanta, and
that the commission suggest, in an endorsement to the
city and county authorities, that the Community Serv
ice Bureau is worthy of such financial support as they
may deem proper, in connection with such other finan
cial support as the bureau proposes to secure, through
voluntary contributions and otherwise; provided, how
ever, that the Community Service organization, par
ticularly in the matter of park extensions, playgrounds
and such matters, shall operate at all times through
and in connection with the duly constituted city and
county authorities. :
It is in order, first, perhaps, to set forth the names
of the committee of citizens, who will agk that they be
incorporated as a legal body, empowered to carry on
this Community Service work, that Atlanta may know
just the high quality of the local citizenship that has
agreed to see the work through.
The téntative organization follows: Basil Stock
bridge, president; Jullan V. Boehm, vice president;
Ivan E. Allen, W. E. Harrington, Mrs. Harry P. Her
mance, Mrs. T. T. Stephens, Mrs, James L. Dickey,
R. A, McGlll, George T. Haney, W, R. C. Smith and
Dave Webb.
The great usefulness and tremendous effectiyveness
of community service was so clearly demonstrated |
during the war that it hardly seems necessary to com
went extensively upon the same now. |
That work was so well done that it not only chal
lenged exhaustively the best thought of the city but |
thoroughly convinced it. |
The war work 18 tinished, however, and unless At- |
lanta takes over the carefully assembled machinery
of the War Community Service and converts it to her
own use, as a local matter, it will disintegrate, and
Atlanta will lose one of the biggest and finest agencles
for good ever set up here. It would be foollsh in the
extreme, 8o the Planning Commission thinks, for At
lanta to do this; aid the commission Is persuaded
that Atlanta will not do thls, it given an intelligent
opportunity to save it
And that is what the Plannlug Commlission pro
poses shall be done®
The commisslon thinks the matter should be given
officlal consideration, recornition and standing, through
the awarding of flnancial support, in connection with
such volunteer support as the bureau may secure, Es
peclally does the commission think this necessary and {
destrable, as the bureau will work only through recog
nized official channels and authorities. ‘
This proposed Atlunta Community Serviee Bureaun
appeals especlally to industrial organizations; the ‘
work it does is fundamental to their welfare. And
they, above all, should Jend it ample ald and encour
agement,
The bureau proposes to address itself direetly and
sineerely to the problem of establishing wholly cordial
and mutually helpful relutions between the races in
Atlanta—a fine and worthy undertaking
The Georgian belleves this great work should be
accorded the heartiesty@o operation and extended the ‘
most willing help utm hunds of Atluntans, official "
and otherwise. !
rRIDAY—-Editorial Page of The Atlanta Georgian—FEß 271920
WHERE DO YOU DUMP YOUR RUBBERS.
Do you use any method about your work at
home or at the office, or do you do just whatever
seems to demand attention?
You would do well to consider the difference be
tween results obtained by adhering to a set order
of things, and doing without it
‘When you enter your home, do you take your
rubbers off outside and leave them there, later bring
ing them In to get warm and put away; or do you
take them off and carry them right along inside in
one trip.
Do you drop your other wraps as you go, tiil
your cap is in the vestibule, your muffler on a chair
in the hall, your coat on the rack, your gloves
tucked in the corner of the dlvgn under one pillow,
0 4hat only a Philadelphia lawyer could say where
they're likely to be when you want them again?
Why not have a place for each article, in regular
order, as you would put them on?
Why should you leave your Sunday things in
the library just because you do not want to go
upstairg, and then take (hree times as long to find
them later? Apply method all along the line and
save time.
LOST FOR A HUNDRED
YEARS AND MORE
OST of the news that you read from Mexico s
M of revolutions, killings, abductions and out
lawry of all kinds.
You are surprised when a peaceful dispatch tells
you some interesting news such as the igformation that
has just been sent out from Mexico City that the re
mains of Hernando Cortes have, after a century of
mystery, been definitely located in the Temple of Jesus,
one of the many (z‘athollc churches of the Mexican
capital.
Cortes was one of the most remarkable figures in
the history of the Western Hemisphere. He was a 80l
dier of great attainments, a diplomat of superior
merit, and as a conqueror of territory and peoples—the
outstanding figure of that part of American history
which chronicles the activities of Spain in annexing
to the crown of that country the richest lands discov
ered in the then new world.
Cortes died, nevertheless, in solitude, bemoaning
that his sovereign did not recognize the fact which he
once told him face to face in the bitterest words ever
said to a king: “I am the man who has given you
more provinces than your ancestors left you cities.”
If his spirit wandered after death, his body was
no less uneasy. Buried at Seville, Spain, in 1547, his
body was exhumed and taken to Mexico in 1562. In
1620 it was moved again, and in 1794 a third time.
In 1823 a group of revolutionists determined to
make their opposition to the government the more pro
nounced by scattering the ashes of its founder to the
winds, and to protect the remains from this vandal
ism they were secretly removed, and from then until
now their resting place had been a mystery. =
The coffin in which he was buried’ was made of
glass bound together with plates of silver, and the
erypt in which it was deposited was locked with &
golden key. The reported discovery of this key in the
possession of a Spanish woman in Paris, who is said to
have received it as a heirloom, and the further un
earthing of documentary evidencee are expeeted to
authenticate the last resting place of the most spec
tacular of the Spanish conquerors. v
Cortes was only 19 years old when he came from
Spain to San Domingo. From San Domingo he went to
Cuba, where at 26 he was made governor of Santiago.
Mexico had just been discovered, and, still in his
20's, Cortes was given the task of subduing the new
country, *
His forces consisted of ten vessels, on which he
loaded about 700 Spanish soldiers, eighteen horsemen
and a few ernde canpon. His landing was made near
Vera Cruz, where he established a town and a garri
son.
To make sure that his troops should not desert
him, seize the ships and flee for home, he burned the
whole fleet and then set out to conquer the Mexican
nation. .
He annexed to his forces the opponents of Monte
zuma, marched te the capital, put the sovereign in
chains and madé him acknowledge himself a vassal
of the king of Spain. For the removal of the chains
Cortes exacted the paywent of 600,000 marks (a mark
was eight ounces) of pure gold and an enormous quan
tity of precious stones,
He continued to fight against overwhelming forces
until all the provinces of Mexico had been conquered
and he was able to go back to Spain and report to his
ruler that another country had been added to the
Spanish possessions,
But as a fighter of political battles he was much
less a success than a fighter in armg, and he was
shortly shorn of his distinctions and honors, and, over
whelmed with disappointment, he withdrew from the
court and died neglected and alone.
There is no more romantie part of the world than
Mexico and its adjoining countries, which make up
the narrow strip of land connecting the two Amerieas,
Explorers and studenis have called Mexico and
Yueatan “The American Egypt.” Architecural ruins
are there as interesting as the pyramids; temples ns
remarkable as those of the Nile: picture writings and
curvings as wonderful as any in Nubla or Syria;: hang
ing gardens that rival those of Babylon; engineering
projects of vast size and great cost, unhd evidences of
culture in the arts and sciences equal to duy found in
the ruins of the Old World., #
If' you want interesting reading, get Prescott's
“Conquest of Mexico™ Or read Bancroft's admirable
history of the P'acific States and Central America.
Lvery boy should read these
In answer to the inquiry, “Will woman ever par
ticipate in polities to the extent of throwing her hat
into the ring? we incline to think a“good many of
them will be williag enough to do that—provided it is
a last year's hat.
Mr. Hoover's name must go on the ballot, says ona
crowd : and it shall not, says apother. And it's of some
importance to Georgla, perhaps, to find out just who, if
anybody, 18 boss, anyway,
Fverybody knows that Mr. Colby has been duly
appointed to suceeed Mr. Lamsing, but in view of the
fact that the Senate threatens to begin an investiga
don of the matter, we probably vever shall know why.
Marse Henry Watterson, sojourning there, says
“prices are too high in Havana!™ Prices of what,
Marse Henry?
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Comment
MR. AVERAGE CITIZEN.
. (Rome News.)
The spirit of a city, the success
of a cit yis dependent more jargely
upon the spirit of the average citi
zen, the prosperity of the average
citizen than upon the gpirit or suc
vess of its giant business men. Mr,
Average Citizen has more t> do
with a city's growth and a city's
progressiveness than perhaps ap
pears on the surface. It is ne who
owns a modest home, works for a
steady income and spends It for the
support of his family, 6 goes to
ohurch and suppotts it, helps to
m;kxp the crowds at the movies
an n the streets, and does 21l
those things that form the life of a
city and without which there would
be no city. If it were not for the
fact that he himserf would have to
pay for it, every city would have
erected at *a prominent place a
monument to Mr. Average Citizen.
y PRACTICAL POLITICS.
(Commerce News.)
Wzm‘ed: A winning platform,
Any fellow who can write a plat.
form that will prove a winner
could salt down‘ pile of money in
A contest with the Republicans and
Democrats in a bidding contm
The problem is not ‘o much w
is right, er just wise, or unwise,
honest or dishonest, as something
that is popular and something that
will prove to be a winning card.
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PHONING WRONG NUMBER.
(Dublin Courier-Herald))
Another thing hard to understand
I 8 why they keep advising the
state department every time an
Amrrwn is kidnapped. The line
formation ought to go diréet to the
treasury department to avoid un
necessary delay in transmitting the
message,
SURE, HE WOULD.
(Columbug "'nquirer-8un))
Mr. Bryan s entirely willing to
furnish eight planks to ge into the
next Democratic platform and, no
doubt, he would be just as willing,
{f not more soo, to name the candi
date to stand on it
NOTHING DOING.
(Macon Teelgraph.)
Among the important inactions of
the duy is the fact that Acting
Becretary Polk has called no cabl
net meetings since he succeeded in
charge.
W. J. B, HIS BEST AD.
(Brunswick News.)
Governor Fdwards seema to he
making more progress toward the
White Houre with Bryan opposition
than with Bryan support,
FIFTY.FIFTY.
(Rome Tribune<Herald.)
ME, Willlam G. McAdo s not
secking the presidency, and so far
as we know the presidency is not
seeking him,
WHO ARE “THEY"? ©
(Montgomery Advertiger)
Over in Georgia they are pre
paring to run Underwood for
President.
The Great Surveyor
Ye¢ Towne Gossip
By K. C. B,
(Written 1n San Francisco years ago and reprinted to fill in while
[ am on my way back for a breath ing spell on the shores of the Pacific.
—K, C.. 8)) i
HE WAS an old man.
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AND HE had a wooden leg.
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AND HE was being jostled.
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BY THI. crowd.
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COMING OUT of the fair.
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AND MR. .Charlu L. Davis,
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WHO I 8 a banker,
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AND HQD gone with me.
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TO SEE Stella.
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SAID TO me.
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“LET'S O‘.T a Jitney.
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“AND TAKE him home.
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“IT MAY be.
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“HE'S AN old soldier”
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AND WE hlr.ed one.
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AND SAID to him.
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“COME ALONG, father.
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“WE'LL TAKE you home.”
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AND CHARLI.E helped him.
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TO THE rron.t seat.
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AND HAD trouble.
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WITH THE wooden leg.
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AND THE driver saw it.
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AND SAID,
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“WHAT IS this?"
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AND FATHER said
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“IT'S MY leg.”
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AND THE driveg said
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“IT CAN'T stick out like that,
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“YOU'LL HAVE to take it in"
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AND“CHA!LIE sald
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“LET'S OPEN the windshield
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“AND STICK.H through.'
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AND | sald.
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“l WOODEN .do thate’ ¢
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AND LAUGHED so.
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I THOUGHT Tl'a dle,
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AND WE di4 it
Shafts of Sunshine
Nearly every woman thinks she
eould vamp some man if she had
the Inclination and the necessary
¢lothes. -
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Macon man says he always hated
a quitted Ll & fellow (ried to sell
him life insurance
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The more firm!y a man is set in
AND FATHER said.
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“IF YOU have an idea. #
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“OF LEAVIN’ it there,
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“YOU'LL HAVE to take it ofg
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“I'VE GOT a cramp.”
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AND WE unbuckled it,
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AND TOOK it off.
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AND ALL got in,
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AND CHARLIE held the leg
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TILL HE got so nervous.
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HE GAVE it to me,
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AND | kept thinking.
* Al L
OF FATHER.
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IN THE front seat.
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WHILE I sat there.
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HOLDING HIS leg.
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ON MY lap.
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AND IT wasn't natural,
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AND | said to Charlie.
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“YOU STARTED this.
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“AND YOU’LL have to finish it,
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“I'M GOING to get out.”
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AND | stopped the car,
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AND GOT out.
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AND FATHER cried.
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“GIMMIE MY leg” 5
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AND | gimmied it to him.
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AND WENT to the office.
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AND TOLD Charlie Upton.
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AND ME said.
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“WRITE SOMETHING about it."
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AND | said.
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“BUT IT seunds so silly.”
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AND CHARLIE said.
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“IN YOUR column!!}!”
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JUST LIKE that,
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| THANK you,
his ways the more completely he is
upset when the right woman de
cides to shake him loose.
>0 B
Maybe Mars is trying to signal
us that he would like to borrow a
sow billions of Uncle Sam's gold?
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Make a liberal offer to an avia
tor and he may take you up. i
Sounds Louder
In Winter
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
“I have noticed that there is a great
increase of loudness and clearngss of
outdoor sounds in the winter time, and
I have been told that the reason is be
cause the cold alr transmits sound bet
ter than warm air. If that is so, why ?—
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OLD air is denser than warm
‘ air, and the loudness of
sound increases with the
density of the medium through
which its waves are conveyed..
Prof. John Tyndall, the prince of
popularizers of science, used to
illustrate the effect of changes of
air density upon sound, by putting
a clock bell inside the receiver of
an air pump.
When the air was nearly all
drawn out the sound of the bell
could not be heard; when a little
air wasg let in the sound became
feebly audible, and as more and
more air wus admitted the bell was
heard moré clearly, until at last,
when the air pressure inside
equalled that outside the receiver,
the bell was heard ringing all over
the lecture room.
In midwinter the average actual
atmosphertc pressure (density) is
greater than in the warm months.
There are some apparent contra
dictions to this rule, due to local or
temporary conditions, but Gen. A,
W. Greely says in his “American
Weather” that “excepting over a
portion of the Mke region and the
Washington territory (now State)
coast there is no part of the coun
try with an elevation of less than
1,600 feet that does not ,hn.Se its
maximum (air) pressure in Janu
ary.”
The cause of the greater density
in cold weather is, of course, the
contraction in volume of the air as
its temperature falls. On the other
hand, it has been proved that the
velocity of sound is not augmented
by increase of density, but rather,
other things remaining equal, is
diminished. But velocity must not
be confused with loudness,
Sounds of all degrees of loudness
are conveyed with the same véloci
ty under the same conditions. And,
in fact, the colder the air the less
the velocity of the sound that
passes through it. At the freezing
point the mean veloeity of sound is
1,000 feet per second, while at or
dinary summer temperature it is
about 1,140 feet,
It is the ratio of the elasticity of
the medium to its density that gov
erts the veloeity of sound~-but not
its loudness. Xowever, the inten
sity, or loudness, of sound is relat
ed to its velocity, being propor
tionul, other things being equal, &r
the square of the velocity. But It
temperature and elasticity vary to
gether, and equally, the velocily is
unaffected.
Then there are other eircum
stances affecting the tranemission
of sound that may help to account
for its greater sharpness and clear
ness in the winter. On a eéalm win
ter day, or night, the atmosphere
near the ground is apt to be more
homogeneous than in summer, i o,
there are less likely to be abrupt
alterations of density in adjacent
portions of the air.
PUBLIC SERVICE
Georgia
Politics
LBy James B. Nevin ——d
R. HOOVER'S letter in re-
M gard to the placing of his
name on the Georgia prefer
entlal primary ticket most lkely
means nothing whatever, so far as
the' main point in controversy is
concerned. What it does mean, ob=
viously, is that Mr. Hoover pro
poses to stand pat on his detes=
mination not to commit himself
definitely to either one of the big
national parties—well, certainly
not at this time, anyway!
This is not astonishing, as that
attitude plainly enough was the
fundamental thing upon which the
entire Hoover movement was pro
jected originally; and the progress
of his boom in Georgia had reached
the precise point where a statement
of that attitude seemed psycholog=
lcally correct. *h
That, it seems to me, is all the
Hoover letter means—all it can
mean, as a political document,
There wiil be no let up in the
Hoover movement in Georgia—not
right now, anyway. Indeed, the
proponents of Mr, Hoover are mak
ing the best of the tactical advan
tage given them by their opponents
who undertook too procipitately to
keep that gentleman’s name off thq'
State ticket, regardless.
The charge of ‘“unfairness® 1s
being. rung in diligently, as the
veriest tyro should have known it
would be. And it is having an ef
fect, too—as was reasonably to
have been anticipated.
Whatever may be the final fate
of the Hoover boom in Georgia—
and that’s something else again—
we have not yet heard the last of
it, Mr. Hoover's adroit letter to Mr.
Gardned notwithstanding!
And, anyway, who ever heard of
a statesman, real or imaginary, ad
mitting in the early stages of
a campaign that he was a candi
date? 2 &
Mr, deoo. who certainly .
is a candidate, 1s coy about saying -
go—naturally, and tactfully. He is
frank enough to say (what went
without saying, anyway) that he
would take the nomination if of
fered him—which is not so amaz
ingly frank, after all. To say that
today is Friday would be frank
and wholly truthful, but it would
not be in the least astonishing,
would 1t?
Mr. Hoover doesn’t say he wants
it—that would \be an awkward
thing for a presidential possibility of
approved size to say—but he cer
tainly refrains from saying he
wouldn't have it if offered him. ',
The only thing he does say to Mr.
Gardner, therefore, is that he will
not commit himself definitely to
the Democratic party, in advance
of that party's plateorm promulga
tions. Which has heen something
perfectly plain from the very be
ginning. L
I said on Wednesday,«and I feel *
even more confident of it today,
that Mr. Hoover iB, at present,
tentatively the administrations
candidate—that his candidacy is in
gubstanee, if not in form, the can
didacy of Mr. Wlls&n, a candidacy
designed to rally the administra
tion forces to an administration
fight for life and survival in the
next campaign. .
But, while I firmly believe that,
T still am by no means sure that
the President will stand by his
tentative candidate to the end. He
will - abandon Hoover speedily
enough, when the aha%doning
seems necessary and vital to suc
cess. And I think it probably is
understood that he may do this,
in the Hoover camp.
We still have with us this eve
ning, gentlemen, the Hoover boom
in Céorgia!
The time Lps not vet arrived to
say good night to this gentle, not
to say genteel, specter.
HERE seems to be come con-
I fusion in the public mind as
to the status set up in the
toderal judgeship for the Northern
District aof Georgia by reason of
Judge Willlam T. Newman's death.
The fact may be simply stated.
Judge Samuel Hart Sibley is now
the sole judge of that court, and
will have no assopiate and assist
ant, as the law now reads. He was
named under the provisions of a
special aet, which provided for an
assistant judge, to act as such so
long as Judge Newman should con
tinue as the active senior presiding
judge; but, in the event of a va
ecancy, the assistant judge was to
become judge-—ans has happened—
and there would be no successor
appointed to him in his late assists
ant capaecity.
S 0 Judge Sihley is now Judge
Newman’s successor, and will so
remain throughout hisg life, unless
he elects to retire, under certain
provisions of law of long standing.
If ever an aselgtant judge is named
in his court, it will require another
act of Congress to erfect it.
One of the first things Judge Bib
lev did upon taking his seat upon
the federal hench was to announce
a definite position ar to violators
of the nrohibition laws. Previous
to January 16, the day upon wxch
the federal amendment went to
effect, Judge Sibley 4id not look
upon the manufacture of liquor as
a precige violation of the 'aw; he
considered the dispnsing of it or the
keenine of it, after manufactured,
without the payment of the required
tax. n violation of the revenue laws,
and bhevond that the federal courts
were not concerned directly,
Wherefore, n man hreought before
him for evasions of this tax eould
he properlv puniched by a fine,
which might he conzidered as mak
ing up the financiat loss mvolved to
the eonvernment Jail mentences
might bhe Inflleted by way of pun
fshment, cellatera! with this Ine of
thought: MHut after the faderal
amendment hecame effective, the
manufacture of the stuff bhecame
Megal, ‘&h.- revenie lawas went hy
the hoard, and the matter heeame
one to he handled in a different
manner,
Now, then, Yauor law vislatorse
who come hefore Judge Siblay need
not expect ta be let off with a fine:
they may confidently expect to go
to inll That's all—and it seems
sufficiently plain and straightfor
ward,
And Judge Sibley is pretty mueh
the sort of judge who may be de
pended upon te live up tn‘wh" he
says—and to view the law" very'
honestly as he states it, and to re
spect it as stich,