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TRUTH-=-JUSTICE
ATLANTA i GEORGIAN
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Render therefore Yo all their dues;: (rvibule to whom
iribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom
fear; homor to whom honor. Owe no man anything,
but to love one anather; for he that loveth another
hath fulfilled the law—Romans, X111:7-8~"Text to
day by the Rev. 8. W, Reld, Pastor Assoginte Reform
rredogierian Church.
THE ATLANTA PLANNING
COMMISSION BEGINS WELL
HE Atlanta Planning Commission has set jtself |
T diligently and aggressively at work along those
Hnes 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 sut in a
week or a month, yet the commissgion 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
sdan, through its committee on housing and general
welfare, has taken actively in hand 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 diseriminating intelligence he and his
excellent committee have approached their task. 1
And the ocommission, as an immediate step for
ward—and as a thing fundamentally correct in city |
planning—has recommended recognition and support, ‘
official and otherwise, of the committee of citizens
proposing to establish here an Atlanta Community
Service Bureau.
The commissfon, as a step preliminary to the estab
lishing of this buresau, requested the newspapers of
Atlanta to print the following report of its Commiitee
on Recreation, Arts and Music, bearing upon 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 irrvestigating the plan of the pro
posed Atlanta Community Service, your committee is
of the opinion that such an erganization would op
erate to the great good and benefit of our community, \
particularly in the matter of extending playgrounds, |
wholesome recreation and amusements, park amplifi
cations, better sanitary and heaith conditions, and per
haps, above all things, operate to a clearer and more 4
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, thngugh
wveoluntary contributions and otherwise; provi‘dod.!u
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 cijy and
county authorities.
It is In order, first, perhaps, to set forth the names
of the committee of citizens, who will ask 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 hass
agreed to see the work through.
The tentative organization follows: Basil Stock
bridge, president; Julian V. Boehm, vice president;
Ivan E. Allen, W. E. Harrington, Mrs. Harry I’. Her
mance, Mrs. T. T. Stephens, Mrs. James 1. Dickey,
R. A. McGill, George T. Haney, W. R. C. Smith aind
Dave Webb.
The great usefulness and tremendoas effectiveness
of community service was so clearly demonstrated
during the war that it hardly seems necessary to com
ment 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 convineed it.
The war work is finished, however, and unless At
lanta takes over the earefully assembled machinery
of the War Community Nervice 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 foolish in the
extreme, so the Planning Commission thinks, for At.
lanta to do this; and the commission is persuaded
that Atlanta will not do this, if given an Intelligent
opportunity to save it.
And that Is what the Planning Commission pro
poses shall be done,
The commission thinks the matter shonld be given
ofticial consideration, recognition and standiug, through
the awarding of finanecial support, in connection with
such volunteer support as the burcau may secure, ks
pecially does the commission think this necessary and
desirable, as the burean will work only through recog
niged official channels aud authorities.
This propesed Atlanta Community Service Bureaun
appeals espeerally to industrial organizations; the
work It does is fundamental to thelr welfare. And
they, above all, should lend it ample ald and encour
agement,
The buréau proposes to address itself directly and
sincerely to the problem of establishing wholly cordial
and mutually heipful relations between the races in
Atlanta—a fine and worthy undertaking
The Georglan belleves this great work should be
accordad the heartiest co-operation and extended the
most willing help at the hands of Atlantans, officia
RDO Wherwise
rripAY—Editorial Page of The Atlanta Georgian—FEß 271920
A Lay Sermori
WHERE DO YOU DUMP YOUR RUBBERS.
Do you use any method about your work at
} home or at the office, or do vou do just whatever
- |reems 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 erter 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, till
your cap is in the vestibule, your muffler on a chalr
in the hall, your coat om the rack, your gloves
tucked in the corner of the divan under one pillow,
go that 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
upstaire, and then take three times as long to find
them later? Apply method all along the line and
save time,
e st
LOST FOR A HUNDRED
YEARS AND MORE
OST of the news that you read from Mexico Is
M of revolutions, killings, abductions and out
lawry of all kinds.
You are surprised when a peaceful dispateh tells
you some interesting news such as the information 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 Catholic churches of the Mexican
capital.
Cortes was one of the most remarkable figures in
the hisgtory of the Western Hemisphere. He was a 801-
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. Burled at Seville, Spain, in 1547, his
body was exhumed and taken to Mexico in 1562, In
1629 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 a
golden key. The reported discovery of this key in the
possession of a Spanish woman in Paris, who is sald to
have received it as a heirloom, and the further un
earthing of documentary evidencee are expected to
authenticate the last resting plave of the most spec
tacular of the Spanish conquerors.
Cortes was only 19 years old when he came from
Spain to SBan 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 crude eannon. His landing was made near
Vera COruz, where he established a town and a garri
son. ;
To make sure that his troops should wnot desert
him, seize the ships and flee for home, he burned the
whole fleet and then set out to conquer the Mexican
nation. j
He annexed to his forces the opponents of Monte
zuma, marched to the capital, put the sovereign in
chains and made him acknowledge himself a vassal
~of the king of Spain. Fof the removal of the chains
Cortes exacted the payment 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 provinees 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 politieal battles he was much
less a success than a fighter in arms, and he was
shortly shorn of his distinetions and honors, and, over
whelmed with disappointment, he withdrew from the
court and died neglected and alone.
There is no more romantic part of the world than
Mexico and its adjoining countries, which make up
the narrow strip of land connecting the two Ameriens,
Explorers and students have called Mexico and
Yucatan “The American *Egypt.” Architecural ruins
are there as interesting as the pyramids; temples as
remarkable as those of the Nile: picture writings and
ecarvings as wonderful as any in Nubia or Syria: hang
ing gardens that rival those of Babylon: engineering
projects of vast slze and great cost, : nd evidences of
culture In the arts and selences equal to any found in
the ruins es the Old World,
If you want foteresting reading, get Prescott's
“Conquest of Mexico” Or read Bancroft’s admirable
history of the Pacific States and Central Awmerica.
Every boy should read these.
In answer to the inquiry, “Will woman ever pars
| ticlpate in politics to the exstent of throwing her hat
into the ring?' we incline to think a good many of
them will be willing enongh to do that——provided it is
a last year's hat.
Mr. Hoover's name must go on the ballot, says one
erowd : and it shall not, says another. And it's of some
I tmportance to Georgia, perhaps, to find out just who, it
‘ anybody, is boss, anyway.
‘) Fverrbody knows that Mr, Colby has been duly
appointed to succeed Mr. Lansing, but in view of the
fuct that the Senate threatens to begin an investiga
tlon of the matter, we probably never shall know why,
Marse Henry Wutterson, sojourning there, sayvs
“prices ure too high in Havana!™ Prices of what,
Marse Henry?
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MR. AVERAGE CITIZEN.
(Rome News.)
. The spirit of a city, the success
of a cit yis dependent more iargely
upon the spirit of the average citi
%Zen, the prosperity of the average
citizen than upon the spirit or suc
vess of its giant business men. Mr.
Average Citizen has more to do
with a eity’'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, goes to
church and supports it, helps to
make up the crowds at the movies
an don the streets.» and does all
those things that form the:life of a
eity 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.
PRACTICAL POLITICS.
(Commerce News,)
Wanted: A winning platform,
Any fellow who can write a plat
form that will prove a winner
could salt down a pile of money in
a contest with the Republicans and
Democrats in a bidding contest,
The problem is not so much what
is right, or just wise, or unwise,
honest or digshonest, as something
that is popular a.u? something that
will prove to be winning card.
PHONING WRONG NUMBER.
(Dublin Courjer-Herald.)
Another thing hard to understand
is why they keep advising the
state department every time an
American 18 kidnapped. The in
formation ought to go direct to the
treasury department to avoid un
| necessary delay in transmitting the
i message.
SURE, HE WOULD.
(Columbus Enquirer-Sun.)
Mr. Bryan I 8 entirely willing to
furnish eight planks to go into the
next Democratic platform and, no
doubt, he would be fust as willing,
if not more 80, to name the candi
date to stand on fit,
NOTHING DOING.
(Macon Teelgraph.)
[ Amom‘rhr impartant inactions of
the day i& the fact that Acting
! Becretary Polk has called no eabl
net meetings aince he succeeded in
charge.
W. J. B, HIS BEST AD.
(Brunswick News,)
Governor, Fdwards seoms to be
making more progress toward the
White House with Bryan opposition
than with Bryan support,
FIFTY-FIFTY,
(Rome Tribune-Herald.)
Mr, Willlam G. McAdo ls not
secking the presidency, and so far
as we know the presidency is not
weeking him
i WHO ARE “THEY"?
(Montgomery Advertiser)y
: Over In Georgia they are pre.
paring to run Underwood for
| President
The Great Surveyor
Ye¢ Towne Gossip
By K. C. B.
(Written 1 San Francisco years ago and reprinted to fill in while
am on my wgy back for a breath ing spell on the shores of the Pacifig.
-K. C. B))
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 THE crowd.
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COMING OUT of the fair.
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AND MR. Charles L. Davis,
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WHO IS a banker,
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AND HAD gone with me.
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TO SEE Stella.
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SAID TO me.
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“LET’S GET 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 hired one.
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AND SAID to him.
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“COME ALONG, father.
“WE'LL TAKE you home.”
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AND CHARLLE helped him.
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YO THE fron.t seat.
AND HAD trouble.
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WITH THE wooden leg. i
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AND THE driver saw it
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AND SAID. '
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“YWHAT ISB this?" \
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AND FATHER said.
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“IT'S MY leg.”
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AND THE driver 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 CHARLIE sald.
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“LET'S onN_me‘wmu..m..m.
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“AND STICK (t through.”
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AND | said. .
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“I WOODEN ‘clu that.”
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AND LAUGHED =so.
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| THOUGHT I'd die.
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AND WE did it
i Shafts of Sunshine i
Nearly every woman thinks she
could vamp some man if she had
the inclination and the necessary
clothes=.
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Macon man says he always hated
a quitted till a fellow tpied to sell
him life insuranece.
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| The more firmly 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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“'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 CF:ARLIE held the leg
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TILL HE got so nervous,
HE GAVE it to me.
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AND | kept thinking.
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OF FATHER.
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IN THE front seat,
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WHILE | 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 YQU'LL have to finish it.
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i “I'M GOING to get out”
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i AND | stopped the car.
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’ AND GOT out, ¢
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I AND FATHER cried.
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“GIMMIE MY leg.” .
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AND | gimmied it to him.
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AND WENT to the office,
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AND TOLD (?.harue Upton.
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AND HE said.
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“WRITE SOM.ITHING about it.”
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AND | sald.
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“BUT IT sounds so silly.”
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AND CHARLIE said.
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“IN YOUR column!!!1”
b
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.
v o D
Maybe Mars {8 trying to signal
us that he would ‘Lk? to borrow a
few billlons of Undle SBam's gold?
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Muake a liberal offer to an avia«
tor and he may tuke you up.
Sounds Louder
In Wi
inter :
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
“lI have mnoticed that there is a great
increase of loudness and clearness of
outdoor sounds in the winter time, and
I have been told that the reason is be
cause the cold air transmits sound bet
ter than warm air. If that is so, why ?—
A G L
OLD air is denser than warm
‘ ailr, 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 was let in the sound became
feebly ‘audible, and as more and
more air wus admitted the bell was
heard more 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
atmospheric 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 lake 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 have its
muximum (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 veloci
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 velocity of sound is
1,080 feet per second, while at or
dinary summer temperature it is
about 1,140 feet.
It is the ratlo of the olasticity of
tim medium to its density that gov
errs the velocity of sound—but not
its loudness, However, the inten
sity, or loudness, of sound is relat
ed to its velocity, being propor
tional, other things being equal, to
the square of the velocity. But if
temperature and elasticity vary to
gether, and equally, the velocity is
unaffected.
Then there are other circum
stances affecting the transmission
of sound that may help to account
for its greater sharpness and clear
ness in the winter. On a calm win
ter day. or night, the atmosphere
near the ground is apt to be more
homogeneous than in summer, | e,
there are less likely to be abrupt
alterations of density in adjacent
portions of the air,
PUBLIC SERVICE
Georgia |
Politics
By James B. Nevin
R. HOOVER'S letter in re-
M gard to the placing of his
= & .
name on the Georgia prefer
ential primary ticket most likely
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 deter
mination not to commit himself
definitely to either one of the big {
national parties—well, ecertainly
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
leally correct.
That, it seems to me, is all CMJ
Hoover letter means—all it can
mean, a 8 a political document,
There will be no let up in the
Hoover movement in Georgia—not
right now, anyway. Indeed, the
proponentsß 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 the
State ticket, regardless.
The charge of ‘“unfairness® |is,
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?
Mr., McAdoo, who certainly
is a candidate, is coy about saying ,
co—naturally, and tactfully. He is i
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 t?
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, thern{ore. is that he will \
not commit himself definitely to
the Democratic party, in advance
of that party's platform promulfa
tions. Which has been something
perfectly plain from the very be
ginning.
T said on Wednesday, and I feel
even more confident of: it today,\
that Mr. Hoover is, at present,
tentatively the administration’s
candidate—that his candidacy Is in
guhsgtance, if not in form, the can
didaey of Mr. Wilson, a candidacy
designed to rally the adminfistra
tion forces to an administration
ficht for life and survival in the,
next campaign.
But, while I firmly belieye 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 abandoning
seems necessary and vital to sue
cess. And T think it probably is
understood that he may do this,
in the Hoover camp.
We still have with us thia eve
ning, gentlemen, the Hoover boom
in Ceorgia!
The time has 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
tederal judgeship for the Northern
District of Georgia by reason of
Judge William 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 assoclate and assist
ant, as the law now reads. He was
named under the provisions of a
special act, which provided for an
assistant judege. to act as such so
long as Judge Newman should con
tirue as the active sensor presiding
judge; but, in the event of a va
eancy, the assistant judge was to
become judge—as has happened—
and there would be no successor
appointed to him in his late assist
ant capacity.
So Judge Sibley I 8 now Jndge
Newman’s successor, and will so
remain throughont his life, unless
he elects to retire, under certain
provisions of law of long standing.
If ever an assistant judge is named
in his court. it will require another
act of Congress to effect it.
One of the first things Judge Sib
lev Aid upon taking his seat upon
the faderal hench wasg to announce
a definite nosition as to violators
of the nrohihition laws. Previous
to Janvary 18, the day upon which
the federal amendment went into
effect, Tudee Sihlev did not Yook
upon the mannfacture of auor as
n preciea vinlation of the law; he
conaldered the disposing of it or the
keonine of it after manufactured,
without the nayment as the reanired
tax a vielation of the revenne laws,
and hevand that the foderal conrts
wore not concernsd directly.
Wharefore a man hrought hefore
him for evaslona of this tax conld
he nronerlv punished hy a fine,
which might ha conetdored ng make
e un tha finaneint loee mvalved to
the governmont Jail sentences
mirht ha Inflirted hy wny of pun
fehmeant. eollatern) with this line of
thoneht: hiit after the federal
amendAmeant heecama sffective. the
manufacture of the stuff hecame
Megal. the revenns Inwse went hy
the hoard, and the matter hacame
one to he handled in a different
manmner,
Now. then, YManer law vielators
who come hafore Judee Sihley nead
not expect tn ha lat off with a fine;
they may confidently #.pect to go
to ', That's alk.and It seems
P'vff"r'frnflv plad® and straightfor
ward.
And Judge Rihley in pretty much
the sort ol judge who tmay he de
pended upon to live up to *nat he
sayve--and to view the very
honesgtly as he states |» x.r..
spect It an such,