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Pret not thyself because of evil doers, meither be thou
envious against the workers of iniquity, For they shall
goon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the
green herb.—Pralms XXXVII, 1-2~Text today by the
Rev. W. C. Lovett, Bditor Wesleyan Christian Advo
cate.
DOES THE SOUTH REALIZE THAT
WOMAN SUFFRAGE IS HERE?
O Georgians generally realize how very close we
D are to universal suffrage In this nation and
State?
And bave they considered, even superficially, just
what sweeping changes and realignments this may—
undoubtedly will—mean in our politieal affairs?
The Georgian doubts it.
And yet, there is little or no doubt that the suf
frage amendment will be In full operation by the fall
.presidential élections; and, once it goes into effect,
women will be entitled to vote freely and without re
strictions as to sex in all of our elections, from Presi
dent down to the bailiffs in the militia districts.
The Aungusta Chronicle, commenting upon the pres
ent status of the suffrage amendment, says:
With West Virginia in favor of woman suffrage, it
Is claimed that “the fight” for votes for women has
been won. This was the verdict of Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Catt, president of the National Woman Suffrage
Association, when informed of the action at Charles
ton. The vote there came late in the afternoon Wed
nesday. The ballot in the Senate was 14 to 15. The
deciding vote was by Senator Bloch of Wheeling, who
had hurried from California to the West Virginia
capitol to support the amendment. Adding to the ten
sion and sensation in the Senate during the final hours
of the contest over the legisiation, was the refusal to
permit Senator A. R. Montgomery to vote. His seat
had been declared vacant. Had he been given the
right to vote, ratification would have been defeated.
A week ago the Senate refused to ratify. Wednesday
that body reversed itself, adopted the House ratifica
tion resolution.
Mrs. Catt bases her ery of “victory” on the fact
that the Delaware and Washington legislatures are to
meet soon in special session, and that these States will
ratify. With ratification by them, a sufficient number
of States will have ratified to make the amendment a
law. *
The amendment will go into effect immediately that
the thirty-sixth ratification is made of record. West
Virginia was the thirty-fourth State to ratify. With
Washington and Delaware ratifying—their legisia
fures meet this month—all women of voting age in
the United States will participate in the presidential
elections in the fall, '
The South has stood rather steadfastly against
woman suffrage.
; The South has had its own reasons for this, gener
ally satisfactory to itself, however mistaken wmany
people may think~them to have been.
But that is pretty much water under the bridge
mow ; suffrage is here,
The South will not undertake to throw restrictions
around the right of wothen to vote. There will be no
*“men only” primaries. The mere matter of sex qualifi
“eation likely will be viewed after the fashion attaching
to male suffrage.
It is doubtful whether woman suffrage will work
‘any immediate change in the South's primary systems
and customs, albelt it {& quite likely that woman's
Anfluence will be felt there gradually, and may exert
itself to a point where later great change will come,
However, the prospect of women voting within the
@ext few weeks—well, that still seems “rather sudden”
§goo Dixfe. But it's undoubtedly at hand.
And The Georglan had no sort of doubt that even
*ually the South not only will become wholly and
wompletely reconciled to it, but will rejoice in and call
Plessed the day upon which it became a legally estab
lished thing.
THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE
ULD DISAVOW ANDERSON
' HATEVER value has attached to the previous
activities of William 11. Anderson, directing
spirit of the American Anti-Saloon League,
Seertainly exists no longer, so far as his future uuSul
pess to that organization and the prohibition move
‘ment is conoerned, by the amagzing folly and shock
‘b injustice of his present outburst of bigotry.
The right of American citizens to favor or opptme
‘modifications of any law is fundamental. It is quali
fled only by the requirement that, while sefking to
,t¢hange a law, they shall not break any law.
In the exercise of this right they are morally en
witled to freedom from attack-——such as this Mr. Ander
#on has been making—because of their membership in
any chureh, lodge, union, club or pelitical party, un
&l and until the pesition which they take as citizens
is adopted by such church, lodge, union, club or po
litieal organization.
" Their view may be challenged and debated at any
time by anybody, for this is a right of free speech.
But it is unwise, unfair, unwarranted, dastardly to
play on prejudice or bigotry by imputing to these indl
‘yidual opinions an endorsement which they have not
recelved from organizations to which the citizens
themselves may belong. 3
There are Catholics, Protestants, Jews, agnosites
and every other shade of religion or irreligion whe are
in favor of complete prohibition, rigidly ‘enforced.
There are other Catholies, Protestants, Jews, ete.,
who favor varying degrees of prohibition enforcement.
There are thouands of both kinds here in Georgia,
{ which surely is a sincere prohibition State.
The prohibition amendment decrees the death of
the American saloon, and there are few mourners.
Certainly there are precious few in Georgia and the
South.
But it does not and it can not prevent a varied dif
ference of opinion as to the exact details of the legis
lation necessary to its enforcement.
Here the discussion should be centered on facts
and honest inferences, and conducted with decorum,
It should not be beclouded by passion, intolerance,
misrepresentation or graiuitous appeals to prejudice.
It is a pity Mr. Anderson does not seem to know this.
The movement toward the extinction of the émsa
evils of the drink traffic in the United States has not
been the exclusive possession of any party, sect or
class, has been a mass vement of the American
-tople. t\'o chureh can ‘tfle the credit for it or
MonDAY-Editorial Page of The Atlanta Georgian—MAßCHls 1920.
IN THE FULNESS Ofi TIME.
The human race has traveled far in the 2,000
years since we left the age of the Greek supremacy.
We have discarded old laws that we found
bharmful, and adopted newer and kindlier laws.
We realize the importance of children, the dan
ger of leaving decisions of life or death in the
hands of a single person, and the fact that all laws
are not for the best because they have long been
congidered standard. L
l’erhap“- after another 2,000 years of attempting
to understand we Wwill discover that men and
women are only exposed babes, whining for aid
on the dark, storm-swept portal of life.
Then we will stop exposing them to-cruel criti
eisms., we will not igrnore their cries for help, we
will cease to judge them In their he!plessness and
misery, and we will take them into our homes and
lives as Christ would have done, kindly, and with
out questioning.
uecessfully use'it to discredit another religious organi
zation.
On the contrary, the forward-looking men and
women in all the churches nnd,‘po far as possible,
ontside the churches, ought to he encouraged to join
minds and strength to bring out of this great social
and economlic step the utmost public benefit.
To east an apple of digcord gmong them should be
the last thing that a friend of prohibition should wish
to see done or wish to do. This mischievous thing is
what William H. Anderson has done. He has done it
wantonly. Long indulgence in autocratic tactics ap
pears to have gone to his head and intoxicated it with
a delusion of importapce which he doe not possess.
We perceive this not unusual phenomenon with re
gret In view of the contribution which Mr. Andersdn
has made to the cause in which he has led. But our
regret does not blind us, and it should not blind other
supporters of prohibition, to the fact that he has de
stroyed his future usefulness as a leader in that cause.
It i necessary that he be disavowed and deposed,
if the Anti-Sgleon League is to remain an acceptable
instrument around which the friends of prohibition
may rally in the work yet to be done.
Its further acceptance of his leadership would
justly be construed as an endorsement of his great
blunder—a blunder more damaging than many crimes.
It would automatieally Hmit his following to'bigots.
These there still are, unfortunately. But thelr num
ber was never fewer. And their power for mischief
is happily on the decline.
OLD PROBLEMS THAT SOMEHOW
ARE EVER NEW
D. HOWELLS has an old friend who remem-
W bers the high cost of living after the Civil
. War, and says ‘“there is far less difference
in the quality than in the quantity between, say, the
conditions of 1865 and 1919.”
The friend returned from a trip to Furope which
lasted almost the entire length of the Civil War and
found the same surprises and discomforts that would
meet a American who returns today after six years in
Terra del ¥uego. The dollars were just as “ridicu
lous” then as they are today, inflated from a gold
dollar which was worth three times as much as the
paper currency.
Landlords demanded and received tremendous
prices for rent, and food prices rose to atrocious
heights—beefsteak was 40 cents a pound and eggs were
60 cents a pound. Before the war a general house
work girl was paid $2 a week; afterward she accepted
$3.00, and the housewife was glad to get her.
1t was due then, as it is due today, to a shrinking
of the dollar.
The modest dollar has been shrinking for at le: <t
twelve centuries, and our increased complication of
business methods contributes to its shrinkage.
Personal extravagance of individuals has almost
nothing to do with the rises in price of commodities,
and it is slipshod thinking to say that the high cost
of living 18 caused by the cost of high living. Gold
mining contantly inecreases the stock of gold in the
form of money, and this has its effect on prices., But
the largest cause of inflation and high prices is a tre
mendous increase in ecredit of this century,
Every man with 'a bank account—who pays by
check and rarely touches gold or bank bills, and silver
only in the form of pocket change—adds to the stock
of money in cirenlation. His money is being used at
least twice, by himself in the form of checks and by
some one else who borrows his deposits from the bank.
No objection can be made to this increase in the
stock of money, as long as no one is hurt by the con
stant changes in market value. But the man on 4
salary or a wage is always pinched In the process.
In those months before the wage earner and the
salaried man are able to get their incomes up to their
actual needs, the man who loses gets no consolation
from the knowledge that it is an economic law and
not an individual which is operating against him.
Prof. Irving Fisher thinks that a stabilization of
the dollar is the remedy. But this means increased
complication and the setting up of intricate standards
of value, with the creation of boards of economists to
determine them.
The answer to this ancient grievance may bJ in
another direction—in changes in the system of prof
its and losses, rather than manipulation of the value
of the dollar, ,
Old problems have a disconcerting habit of sud
denly forcing a satisfactory answer, and it will not be
surprising if the answer comes in this generation, or
at least in this century,
Secretary Daniels says we should have the largest
navy in the world, “if—" A whole lot of Americans
think we surely should have, without any “ifs.”
l Letters From the People l
COMPLIMENT TO ATLANTA. -
Editor The Georgian:
It Judge Johnson was correctly quoted in The
Georgian a few days since, he paid to this city a com
pliment greater than any ever spoken or printed.
A young boy (or at lc;st the imitation) was before
the judge, charged with striking his own mother.
While the misguided “str6et corner Johnny" was
waiting to hear his sentence, these words were spoken
by the judge: “You are the first person, young or
old, white or colored, man or woman, that came before
me charged with striking his or her mother.”
We are a city of 250,000 people; we have a judge
who has served us these many years, who has passed
judgment on many thousands, not one of whom was
charged with striking his mother.
Isn’'t that a real compliment to our ecity?
Atlanta, H. W. QUINN.
The Farmer—*Boys, Where Do I Come In?
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Comment
WORK AS A DUTY.
(Augusta Herald.)
Miss Janie A. Delano, an Ameri
can nurse whose life had Dbeen
given to earnest work, said as she
lay dying in a Red Cross hospital
in France: “My work, niy work, I
must get back to my work.”
The hardship of work has been
talked of so incessantly until the
most of us believe in it. Yet work
is that which gives color to life
and makes it worth while. Work
of itself has furnished more enter
tainment to mankind, and added
more to the sum of human joy,
than any other one thing. All who
work are not happy, and all work
1s certalinly not happiness, but life
without work would indeed be un
bearable.
But just at the present time the
world is suffering from a lack of
work. We are suffering for thou
sands of things, for food, or cloth
}ng. for houses, for machinery, for
arming implements, for cars and
locomotives, and numberless other
things, but what we need most is
a re-birth and reorganization of
the spirit of work.
We need workmen, master work
men who have a conception of their
duty to God and their fellowman,
and who find a joy in the privileeg
of working, whether he be building
a house, clearing a forest, digging
a ditch or running the government.
Work is nature’'s highest and su
premest law, and our greatest op
portunity for good. Wea are told
that “In the sweat of thy face
shalt thou eat bread,” yet there are
many who are slackers in work,
who shirk the responsibilities that
lie upon every man and are drones
in the human hive.
That man who refuses to work,
or who works as little as he can,
debauches his own character,
hushes the spirit of brotherhood in
his heart, and becomes a menace
to organized soctety. For it is with
the pride of achievement in our
work that we can look into aur
souls and see there a ' strength
that overcomes all ~ tendency to
moral decay.
No man {s born i{nto the world
whose work,
Is not born with him. There is
alwavs work,
And tools to work withal, for those
who will,
And blessed are the horny hands of
toll
TALKING TIME AT HAND.
(Conyers Times.)
We heartily agree with the Madi
sonian when it savs that the time
for “talking in whispers" as re
gards national affairs is past. The
utter squelching of free expression
of opinfon during the war was one
of the most criminal acts any gov
ernment ever did.
RARE BIRDS.
(Birmingham Age-Herald.)
Contrary to popular belief there
are a few senators in Washington
who are not spending most of their
time nursing a presidential boom.
THRIFT EXHIBIT “Z»
(Union Tribune.)
Uncle Dick Payne wore a pair of
trousers in town last week that he
wore at his weddMg sixty-three
Years ago.
l More Truth Than Poetry l
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE.
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THE SUCCESS.
The show’s full of jazzes from Paris, *
So very well, call ’em grotesque—
That seeing ’em done would embarrass
An elderly queen of burlesque;
And now we are patiently trusting
That when it begins its career, .
The crities will eall it disgusting,
And make it- the hit of the year.
: The costumes are charmingly seanty,
Just ribbons and gauzes and such;
Not even the Dancing Bacchante
Wore less—and she never wore much. ,
The poses are piquantly shocking; :
They’ll jolt the dear publie, all right,
And as soon as the papers start knocking
We'll sell out the house every night.
The plot—though there isn’t much of it—
[s culled from the time-honored theme;
The seasoned first nighters all love it;
And college boys say it’s a scream.
The pulpit, of course, has protested;
They say that the show is a crime,
And if only they’ll have us arrested,.
The piece will be made for all time.
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Quick to Learn.
The Prince of Wales picked up American ideas so rapidly
that immediately on his return he was promoted to the command
of the Royal Yacht Squadron.
Too Much to Hope For.
We shouldn’t worry any if some way could be found to make
the world a little less safe for profiteers.
Total Depravity.
There is honor among ordinary thieves, but profiteers delib
erately gouge each other.
No Wonder.
The kaiser's gix sons are still loyal to him. He kept them out
of the war.
Discources of
A Scientist
HE transcendent science of to-
I day is celestial chemistry. It
" is an exalted science, for man
boldly questions creative processes
and storms the very Lulwarks and
battlements of creation. This au
dacious thing is finding what ele
ments compose suns glowing in
space deeps at distance so im
mense that thousands of years are
required for their light to reach
the slits of the telaspectroscopes,
traveling with the set specific speed
of 186,324 miles per second.
About sixty chemical elements
have been so far discovered to be
incandescent in many thousands
of suns sending light to the earth of
sufficient intensity to be analyzed.
The most primitive element ap
pears to be hydrogen. That is, it
is seen in enormous quantities in
the earliest type of nebulae, the
spiral torm. Helium is almost om
nipresent. Nebulum is an element
projecting its lines in the spectra
of some remote nebulae, but it has
not yet been discovered here on
earth. There are now ninety-two
elements of matter known to chem
ists here in the earth and air.
All helium known to science
comes from the disintegration of
radium. But I have sent helium
in suns that are known to be 200
trillion miles apart. This shows
the wide diffusion of helium. Then,
in primeval eons there must have
been an enormous amount of ra
dium, for it is now a common ele
ment whose presence is detected
in almost all directions in suns sep
arated by trillions and even quad
rillions of miles.
But radium is a direct product of
the disintegration of uranium, the
heaviest form of matter at present
known, Uranium, tien, preceded
radium helium. Bug the period of
disintegration of uraniuvm is 5,000,-
000,000 years for one-half the quan
tity as tuken out of its ore; and
again 5,000,000,000 years for the
disappearance of the half of the
remaining half—and soo on.
This law, when it was discov
ered, filled the minds of all who
thought about it w!th wonder.
The question at once arose, how
long did it take to lirtegrate in
frigid space? The 5,000,000,000 years
for half to separate is required with
explosive force behind the atoms;
but in the deeps of space no such
force existed; the integration was
due to gentle force rsquiring per
haps centilions of years.. The
law of rate of disintegration having
been discovered, and the quantity
of radium that naturally exists in
uranium also, then the amazing
fact appears that the age of any
given specimen of uranium can be
told.
There are in the earth veins of
pitchblende containiiz a very aged
uranium, This shows that the earth
is of an antiquity beyond the limits
of imagination, or at least the
strata that contained the uranium.
No mind can hope 10 think of the
vast antiquity of matter, nor of the
forms in which it exists as of suns,
planets, moons and comets. Quad
rillions of years is now a scientific
term. The group of cighteen suns
lately discovered by the telespec
troscope in the constellation Orion,
is a case where colossal accumu
lations of radium must have existed
during untold eons, for they are now
pouring fourth flools of the light
from h¥lium, and of such brilllancy
that they can be seen nere on earth,
a quadriliion miles away. But these
suns are all made of electrons, since
nothing exists but electrons, 1
PUBLIC SERVICE
Georgia
Politics
S best,l am able to get the
A thing straightened out in my
own mind, the State Demo
cratic Executive Committee—most
probably in its entire membership,
and possibly through its subcom
mittees—would rather like to see
Mr. Hoover’'s name go on the pref
erential primary ballot; that is, it
would be perfectly willing to see it
g 0 on.
But I am inclined now to th?hk
it will not be permitted to go on.
The committee likely will stand
pat on its position that the matter
is “up to Mr, Hoover”; that this
being a Democratic primary, Mr.
Hoover can easily enough qualify
by saying he is a Democrat, but not
otherwise. And one may argue
himself black in the face sustain
ing that attitude, too, and not run
out of logie of a sort. >
In the first place, as this writer has
heretofore observed, the executive
committee planted itself on rather
extreme-—and untactful, if not ac
tually un-Democratic—ground when
it decided, somewhat arbitrarily,
that Hoover’s name should not go
on the ticket. It might have await
ed further arguments in the matter,
and probably would have done so
had it realized what a storm of
protest its initial action w 8 to oc
casion. That was wrong No. 1.
Then, after this was done, a very
violent and altogether unnecessarily
vigorous effort was made on the
other side to “big stick” the commit
tee into reversing ftself. And I
think, no matter how worthy the
argument in behalf of reversal, that
it never was to be accomplished
after that fashion. And so, there
was wrong No, 2. ;
And ever since that deadlocked
status was reached, various cap
tains and rampant champions of
the two points of view have been
stewing, wrangling, lecturing, brow
beating and bullragging one anoth
er—and nobody has reached any
conclusion finally that he had not
already reached finally, anyway!
That’s the trouble about rows of
this variety.
To seek to convince a man
against his will is hard enough, at
best—or worst, as the case may be
—but to seek to convince him by
whaling him over the head, even
though it may be hard as adamant,
is about the last method promising
in any degree of success. .
The executive committee, in its
entirety or through its subcommit
tee, might have been brought
around from a wrong attitude had
persuasive arguments been in
dulged in: but it could hardly be
brought around by arguments that
amounted to downright abuse, e%en
though sugared and salved in vel
vety language, suave enough, but
full of cocksure rebuke, neverthe
less.
Here was one place where fine
words alone could not be employed
to butter political parsnips, diffi
cult enough of buttering in any
event.
I never have known two wrongs
to make a right: and history is full
of suggestions from philosophers
and wise guys to the effect that
they never have, since the world
began.
It is rather curious how many
people think politics may safely be
visnalized and worked out on a
contrary theory. I have seen many
politicians try it; T have never
known anything more than tempo
rary success—seeming success only,
at that—come of it.
1 believe the general opinion is
that Mr. Hoover’s name should be
allowed to go on the preferential
primary ballot; T believe the gen
eral opinion is that it was a mis
take not to put it there. And I
also believe the general opinion
now is that, even while it should
go there, it nevertheless will not go
there—and few people hlame the
committes for resisting efforts
to “big stick” it into putting it
there,
And there yvou are! A comedy
or tragedy of errors.
And thus have we been running
around in a circle for the past few
weeks in Georgia. -
E VENTS move so rapidly in this
world that of necessity many
things that loom large enough for
the moment soon pass into the
realms of forgetfulness and things
that were. I have paid my small
tribute to the memory of George
T.ong, lately the managing editor
of the Macon Telegraph: but 1 am
going to reprint here part of what
his “boss” said of him—for W. T.
Anderson, the publisher and editer
of the Macon Telegraph, knew
George TLong well, as few could
know him, and esteemed him after
this fashion:
“Under the reorganization in 1914
consequent upon Mr. Pendleton's
death, George Long and I had an
understanding as to future conduct
on the part of both of us that was
intended to and did remove possi
bility of suspicion of one toward
the other. We agreed to have no
secrets, and if either heard any
thing affecting the other’s charac
ter the matter was to be taken up
and discussed candidly—and the
truth was to be told. It is some
compensation in gazing upon the
lifeless form of my friend to feel
that the pact has been kept. . . .
His was a mind that was a vast
storehouse of information. It seemed
that he knew everything. His well
spring of thought and argument was
as a faucet that needed only to be
touched to have gushed forth end
less argument filled with logic and
facts. His vocabulary was an are
tist's pallet with a thousand col
ors, and his word pictures delighted
and entertained and electrified.. His
mind was an ‘intellectual ocean
which washed all the shores of
thought,” and he rode every mental
wave. . . . That he is dead is a
tragedy. He is a loss to all of us,
He was voung and buoyant and re
sponsive. He enjoyed life and his
friemds, and had more of them than
any man. *But I like to think of
this young ecaptain meeting hias
grizzled chleftain on the other
shore, receiving his hearty hand
shake and blessing ard commenda
tion. They are having a great re
union there. God rest their souls.”
That’s a high tribute, a.sincere
and honest tribute—a tribute from
one man of strength and honor to
a comrade in kind fallen by the
wayside.
And it is a fine thing to have
lived a like, though brief, that
brings forth such a tribute at its
close,
