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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-12
A Progressive Democracy
VS.. a Retrogressive Navy

Since the Democratic platform has declared for adequate
navysuficien defend American policies protect citizens
uphold the honor and dignity of the nations any
atves should play politics and the patriotic
amendment for baeships and additional cruisers
There either Justification Democratic
delay in this vital matter
The weather public opinion exhibited political
platforms all way-oward larger
and afraid Of losing by sufficient appropriation for the
national defense, that fear stripped of its
The Republican and the Republican platform point
edly condemn the Democratic parsmony refusing the adj
ditiona battleshps and demands stronger navy.
When Colonel Rooevelts third party assemblies
ringing declaration preserving advancing
of the navy.
And the three prongs Of the American express
ed in the platforms of the political parties prod sharply
and nsisteny the mistaken policy the Democratic house
The time for definite action has up the Demo
cratic house action rather than paude
this to be progressive rather than Democracy
impossible for the party before the country pro
when stands retrogressve the national defense The
Democratic party possibly forward mission if
takes backward step reducing the navy
place the navies Of the world The country will
the profession which beed and will
patriotic and unAmercan policy Of the house program
The challenge of public political opinion calls squarey
soutey upon Mr. Oscar Underwood
who have DELAYED val program the
Of their platform and the batteshp which
for the country honor and defense
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-12
OWNERSHIP AT TABULAR

Editor The Georgian:
The Georgia Power Company has
had articles printed in the Atlanta
papers in which they say that the
dam which they are building at
Tallulah Falls will back up the wa
ters Of the river and form an i'm
mense lake. which will be more
beautiful than the river as it now
is and that the water will run over
the dam on into the channel of the
river and that the dam will not dis
turb the falls
The power company is trying to
sidestep the issue. The question is
not whether the dam will destroy
the beauty of the falls. but wheth-
er the legislature of Georgia is go
ing to allow the state of Georgia to
be dispossessed of fifteen millions
of dollars worth of property.
If the power company own the
land bordering on the Tallulah
river. they have right under the
law, 70 stop the flow of the water
entirely If they do not own this
land, they have no right to build q
dam or any other structure on this
land. whether it will mar the beau
~ of the scenery or not,
Every lawyer. except corporation
counsel, who has examined the rec
ords and survey of this land is of
the opinion that the land has never
been granted. and that 1t is still the
property of the state of Georgia.
The corporation officers should
know that they have no title that
will bear being aired in open court
Their counsel should know that the
power company does not really own
the contested property. Either this
or they do not deserve the reputa-
ton which they bear as being
among the best lawyers of the
state
The corporation says II is anx-
ious 10 have suit brought to de-
eide definitely and finally their title
The Tallulah Falls Conservation
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-12
The Wedding Veil
az MlNNA LINING.

n RANDMOTHER wore IT long ago
Ut Mistily flowing down
over the stiff and shining silk
OF her lilac wedding gown.
over her bushes, swift and bright.
over her golden curls.
over the blossoms on her breast
over the sheen Of pearls.
ROBBED in pillows of bridal white
Under the clouds of lace.
Mother breathing her marriage vows
knelt in her girlish grace.
Oh. but she was picture rare.
have heard my father say.
Framed in the ivory-anted veil
Upon her wedding day
Lift it out of the cedar chest.
Where it has folded lain
Now its delicate sprays must drape
The form of a bride again
Look! entangled am, ng the threads.
Withered and brown and dead.
1t keeps a sprig of the orange flowers
once GROWING a fair young head.
Dear. sweet woman, who laid it by
With tender and loving care.
With fragrant rose and lavender leaves
For another bride 10 wear.
May all your virtues descend to me
With the woven lilies pale
OF this priceless treasure Of antique
point
Grandmother's wedding veil,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-12
OPPOSES WILD LAND DleEsT'

Editor The Georgian
The wild land tax digests should
be abolished. There is no wild lana
in Georgia. or should not b. All
the land now held assessed and tax
ed at a few cents or dollars
wild land, ought TO be assessed ana
taxed as improved land, and be
made to bear its part OF taxation
The wild land digests give rise
to conflicts of tile and litigation
There are cases where for years
one or more persons have claimed
certain tracts as wild land an0
some one else has claimed ths
same. or part Of the same as
improved land. Having two d'-
gests and no uniform system OF
designating improved land these
conflicts necessarily arise.
If the state should designate eve
cry tract of land in Georgia by
number and require that every con-
veyance designate that number '
be legal, even If other description
be given. it would make titles no
certain and prevent much litlsa-
ton. II would also be easy to de-
termine whether all the lands
returned for taxation, and also p7
easy to equalize their valuation ie'
the purpose of assessment and tax
alton LEVEL vN j BROWN
Social Circi1.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-12
The Thinker Rises
To the Very Top.

The thinker rises to the top. and
the rest fall under and hold him
up.
Now, the 1876 Declaration Of In
dependence can not make YOU
think, and the Constitution of 1857
can not compel you to think.
But if you have any interest in
running the business of the nation
so that your own roof viii not
leak, you must draw up your own
Declaration of independence and
your own Constitution
If you draw these UP SO that
the republic of your mind is prop
erly established, you. too win rise
to the top.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-12
Difference Between Frank
And Truthful Husbands.

In ten years she may say: Il
lost my fresh color when ! came to
America I'm dreadfully pale.
Don't YOU think 500" If ne is mere
~ a truthful husband he viii an
swer. You are a little paler, dear.
We must take a run down the coast
to freshen you up If he is frank
spouse he viii not wait for ques-
tons, but viii announce. You're
looking horribly faded. You're not
nearly AS pretty as YOU were when
! married YOU" II the bride is as
spirtted a wife ! know. she Will
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-12
Letters From the People

and Parking association has o.
fered to furnish lawyers to bring
this suit and to bear all the ca
penses of this litigation II the
suit is brought, it will not cost the
state Of Georgia one cent The cor
poration SAYS that it wants the suit
brought The conservation assoc
citation is ready to bring this SUIT
Under these circumstances it is the
duty of the legislature to gratlfv
all parties and call on the governor
to authorize the suit.
CHARLES G. REYNOLDS
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-12
great asset Of q republic


TIME great asset Of republic
is the Thinking Citizen
You, as a voter, will find
that the whole proposition involved
in our form Of government is as
simple as possible
First we declared our independ-
ence G776) Then We made a
constitution G7S0
The Declaration of independence
was our first use of the Initiative.
BY this declaration we deposed
the English king as ruler over the
dostinies of the colonies
THAT WAS OUR FIRST USE
OF THE RECALL
The constitution begins with the
words: we, the people of the
United States. do ordain
and establish this constitution"
This was the use of Initiative and
Referendum.
Thus, these comparatively new
words are only recently adopted
names for POPULAR PR1vI-
LEGES that have been in opera
ton for nearly a century and
half
The Federal constitution applies
to the republic as whole, exactly
as a state constitution applies to
single state within the republic.
The president, senate and house
of representative stand to the re-
public as whole, exactly as gov
ernor. senate and house Tor assem-
l,l,.A stnt,d "a n 81 L.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-12
By THOMAS TAPER.

ambition to do some Of it yourself
What is the question involved
Only this: Who can do this work
in the best possible way
When the roof leaks, you 90 oui
to find man who is long on hxiny
leaks in roof or you do it vour.
self if you are able But not 9th.
erwise.
Hence. YOU are called upon "a
cast one vote for man TO fiji
leaking roof Office.
Who gets the vote?
The man who can do the ion
perfectly and without loss of time.
Having this one vote to cast On
the leaking roof ticket, you would
no more vote for a CRATER than
YOU would for thief.
Why?
Because it is your roof.
Well! this is your country.
Remember that every public on.
Ger must be chosen, SO far as YOU
axe concerned. for one oualitv
aloNe That is his ability TO keen
whatever roof he has charge of in
perfeHt condition.
This point of view shakes ali th.
dreaTs and Nightmares, all The
shadows and empty noises out Of
politics and places the whole sub
ject on the basis of business. pure
and simple.
When politics (meaning therebv
the efficient administration Of anv
public Officer begins to appeal 10
YOU as the business of the public
do not fail to remember whose the
republic is. 1t is yours and your
neighbor's, your fellow workmen's.
the motorman's and the bakers.
Most voters think the republic
consists of Mr. Taft, Mr. Roose-
welt, Mr. Root, Chauncey NJ. Depew
and a few groups of men called the
money interests" AS matter Of
fact, 1T CONSISTS OF SEVERAL
MILLIONS OF CITIZENS. among
whom each of these men counts for
one, just as YOU do,
But there comes in q diferenc.
when YOU begin to analyze men.
That difference may be expressed
thus Some think and some do
not think.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-12
Critical Situations
Saved BY Silence.

Many a critical situation has been
saved by enveloping it in the
blessed veil of silence, for thoughts
make no sound. and there is always
hope that they may change.
Mark Twain inscribed on a pho
tograph | have seen Truth is
precious. Let us economic it"
Doubtless he had suffered at the
hands Of some volunteer OF un-
pleasantness who called himself
frank
The world has some ugly. Jagged
rocks of fact. Life viii be more
beautiful If we screen their ugi-
ness by planting flowers of consid-
GRAFTON about them, We can at
cast refrain from brutality in the
name OF frankness.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-12

retort. DO YOU suppose you are the
handsome man ! married ."
If he be simply truthful and she
asks him if he thinks she has paid
too much for rug he viii answer:
Maybe they did overcharge you"
The frank man viii exclaim:
There is no limit to your extrava-
gance.
The truthful man. when begged
to tell her whether she is becoming
unbearabie, answers: Your nerves
are trine upset. dear; YOU need
rest. The frank man will rush
into trouble with the remark: If
had known what a bad temper you
have wouldn't have married you
The truthful husband will an
swer the inevitable post matrlmo-
NAL question DO you love me as
much as you used to do?' with
True love never changes" The
frank man will not mince delicate
matters, She will have no illusions
when the conversation with him is
ended, and he may have no wife
It would be rather painful to
know what people think Of US at
all times, their actual appraisement
of us at the moment. Because of
their mood, or ours. we might have
. lower rating than we would have
received yesterday. or than that we
viii get tomorrow
The lightning fash of anger
might show us ourselves in a way
that We would never forgive the
speaker. and would be hard press
cd to excuse in ourselves. Moods
are mighty, but their reign is bless
eddy short.
Blessed be the man who invented
silence! In crises it has saved
bloodshed and spared broken
friendships
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-12
IGIX COULDN'T YOU like 10
Wv know what he thinks Of

YOU ." one woman asked
another They had been talking
Of sphinNlike. and. because 81
lent interest provoking man. If
he had talked much. the spell would
probably have been broken.
No replied the otneg note Of
alarm in her voice mot always.
Yet little English woman. who
recently married the grandson Of
the poet Longfellow, tempted the
gods Of discord by saying that the
ideal husband is frank. Rash lit
he woman who reckoned without
moods
Moods are mental weather Some
times the sun of the spirit shines
gloriously, and at such time it is
safe to be frank The sunshine has
irradiated and beautifed the land
scape of facts. But there be times
when the SKY is overcast Perhaps
this mood portends downfall Of
rain q rafting Of verbal thunder
and lightning or it may only be a
temporary eclipse Of the sun 81
good humor But heaven spare us
absolute frankness at these timee'
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-12
The State Is Republic
In Miniature.

The state is, in fact the republic
in miniature
In like manner, these three fac
tors of government % president
or governor. (2) senate, go repre-
sentatives, are the people in minia-
ture.
Hence. the more perfect the ar
rangement is by which the people
shall say who among themselves
shall run the affairs Of nation or
state, the more truly have we es-
tablished a popular form of gov.
eminent
Any step that takes the selec-
ton and election of the peoples
representatives out of the hands of
the people themselves is a step
away from the true principle of the
republic as it was conceived by
Jefferson, Washington and their
associates.
The privilege of voting begins at
q. A man may be so fortunate as
TO live to exercise this privilege
for so or so years. You can well
understand that the first vote may
be cast in doubt and uncertainty
But the second and third and
fourth and after should be the
expression of point of view that
is becoming clearer year after year.
You, as a voter. have to assist in
providing the republic with men to
do its Nnrk or Won may have The
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-12
The Hobble Skirt Is Not a
Menace to Virtue"
But It for the Health Silly Should Have Died
Long Ago.

medical journal attracts attention useuy by denouncng
the hobbe skirt The editor thinks that the present styles
"a pitfa and to the innocent and yuou female and
such ntoerabe for daughters sisters and womanknd
general
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-12

than | ever saw YOU"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-12

not thinl
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-05-16

foaEed down the aisle and met Mrs.
Little Jimmie Wellington Just return
ing from the Women's Room, where
she had sought ~nepenthe in more than
IN Of her exquisite little cigars. The
familiar voice, Familiarity bibulous,
smote her a with amazement. she
beckoned the porter to her anxiousfy.
Porter! Porter! Do you know
the name Of the man who just hur~
ried in?"
"No'm," said the porter. II reckon
he's so broken up he amt got any
name left"
TT couldn't be" Mrs. Jimmie unused.
Things a be sometimes" said
the porter.
"You may make up my berth now"
said Mrs. Wellington, forgetting that
Anne Cattle was still there. Mrs.
Wellington FASTENED to apologize, and
begged her to stay, but the spinster
wanted to be far away from the dis
turbing atmosphere Of divorce. She
was QISuulll6 dlItouy WIN uOA w.
open, and she sank into number six
In a ~lotus-eater's reyerte.
Mrs. Wellington gathered certain
things together and took up her hand
bag, to return to the Women's Room,
Just as Mrs. Whitcomb came forth
from the curtains of her own berth,
where she had made certain prelim-
inaries to %disrobing, and put on a
light, decidedly negligee negligee.
The two women collided in the
aisle, whirled on one another, as wom-
en- do when they jostle, recognized
each other with Wild stares Of amaze
ment, set their teeth, and made q
simultaneous dash along the corridor,
shoulder wrestling with shoulder,
They reached the door marked
Women" at the same instant, and az
neither would have dreamed OF offer.
ing the other a courtesy, they
squeezed through together in a Xii.
kenny tumble.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-05-16

hitherto, been reserved fof the most
intimate and legaliged relations.
The porter wat deity transforming
the day-coach into a narrow lane en-.
tirely surrounded by d~raperies. Behind
most Of the portieres, %fluttertng" In the
lightest breeze, and perilously follow
ing the hasty passer-by, homely Of
fees were being enacted. The popu'
lation of this little town was going to
bed. The porter vas putting them to
sleep as If they were children in q
nursery, and he a black nanny.
The frail walls Of little sanctums
were bulging with the bodies Of PEG.
pie disrobing In the aisle, with moth.
ing between them and the beholder'e
eye but q clinging curtain that ex'
planned what 1t did not reveal. From
a~pertures here and there d~isembodied
feet were protruding and mysterious
hands were removing shoes and other
things.
Women In risky attire were scoot'
ing to one end of the car, and men IN
shirt sleeves, or less, were fastening
to the other.
When Mallory returned to the
"Snowdrop," his ear was greeted by
the thud of dropping shoes. He found
Marjorie being rapidly immured, like
Poe's prisoner, in a Jail Of closing
walls.
She was unspeakably Ill at ease,
and by the irony of custom, the one
person on whom she depended for pro
lection was the n person whose
contiguity was most alarming-and
all for lack of a brief trialogue, with
a clergyman. as the tertium Quid.
When Mallory's careworn face ap'
peared round the edge of the partition
now erected between her and the
abode of DR.. and Mrs. Temple, Mar
jorie shivered anew, and asked with
all anxiety:
did you find a minister"
Perhaps the Recording Angel over
looked Mallory's answer: Not Q
damn minister"
When he dropped at Marjorie's side
she edged away from him, pleading:
"Oh, what shall we do?"
He answered dismally and inef'
f~ecttvely: "We'll have to go on pre-
tending to be-just friends"
But everybody thinks we're mar
Red"
That's SOL" he admitted, with the
imbecility Of fatigued hope. They sat
a while listening to the porter slip
ping sheets into place and humping
pillows into cases, a few doors down
the street. He would be ready for
them at any moment. Something must
be done, but what? what?
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-05-16
CHAPTER XIV.
The DormItory on Wheels,

me DOTF1lloTy OF WneeIS'
OF all the shocking institutions in
human history, the sleeping car is the
most shocking-or would be, If we
were not so used to 1t, There can be
no doubt that we are the most moral
nation on earth, for we admit it our
selves. Perhaps We prove it, too, by
the Arcadian prosperity Of these two
story hotels on wheels, where mis-
cellaneous travellers dwell in com
plete promiscuity, and sleep almost
side by side, in apartments, or COM
partments, separated only BY a plank
and a curtain, ana guarded only by
one sleepy negro.
Afeer the fashion of the famous
country whose inhabitants earned a
meager %sustenance by taking in each
others washing, so in Sleeping Car
pathia we attain a meager respecta-
bility by everybody's chaperoning
everybody else.
So topsy-turvied, indeed, are our
notions, once we are aboard a train,
that the staterooms alone are regard
ed with suspicion we question the
motives Of those who must have a
room TO themselves,-a room with a
real door. that locks! =!
And, now, on this sleeping car, pref
tily named "Snowdrop," scenes were
enacting that would have thrown our
Observation-Disclosures into its-scenes
which, ii We found them in France, or
Japan, We should view with alarm as
almost uncomfortable evidence Of the
moral obliquity Of those nations.
But this was u own countryside
part Of it which admits that 1t is the
best part-the moralest part, the
staunch middle west. This was III
nois. Yet dozens OF cars were behold
ing similar i~mmodestles in chastest
Illinois, and all over the nap, thou
sands OF people, in hundreds of cars,
were permitting total strangers TO
view preparations which have always,
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-05-16
PEOPLE WE KNOW
They are OkOlOna People aAft
What They Say is of Local
Interest.

When an incident like the following
occurred right here at home, is bound
to carry weight with our readers. SO
many strange occurrences 60 Iva,
rounds of the press: are published as
facts, people become skepticaI. On
one subject skepticism is rapidly dis
appearing, This is due to the actual
experience Of our citizens, and their
public differences regarding them.
The doubter must doubt no more in
the face Of such evidence as this.
The public statement of a reputable
citizen living right at home, one whom
you can see every day, leaves no
ground for the skeptic to stand on,
L. P. Haley, lawyer, Main St.,
Okolona, Miss, says: i have used
Doans Kidney Pills procured at Boz
den & Kings Drug Store, and have no
hesitation in p~ronouncing them 10 be,
Just as represented"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents, Foster-MiIbur Co., Buffalo
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Dcan's-
and take no other.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1912-05-16
CHAPTER XII.


The Needle In the Aaystack.
The almost-married couple sat long
in mutual terror and a common par
alysis Of ingenuity. Marjorie, for lack
of anything better to do, was absent
mindedly twisting Snoozleum's ears,
while he, that pocket a~bridgment OF a
dog, in a well meaning effort to di.
vert her from her evident grief, made
a great pretense of ~ferocity, growing
and threatening to bite her fingers
off. The new ring attracted his spe-
cial Jealousy. He was growing dis
couraged at the %lllsuccess of his I'M
~personation of a wolf, and detected
at being SO crassly ignored, when he
suddenly became, in his turn, a. center
Of interest.
Marjorie was awakened from her
trance Of hamilton by the porter's
voice. His plantation voice was or-
dinarily as thick and sweet as his own
New Orleans sorghum, but now 1t had
a bitterness that curdled the blood:
"'Scuse me, but how did you-all git
that theah dog In this heah cah?"
"Snoozleums is always with me-"
said Marjorie briskly, as if that set
tied it, and turned for confirmation
to the dog himself, aren't you.
S~noozleums?"
Well" the porter drawled, trying
to be gracious with his great power,
1.-THE rules don't low no live stock In
the sleepin' cars, 'ceptin' humans
Marjorie rewarded his ~condescen
sion with a blunt: "|Snoozleums ls
more human than you are"
II p'sume he Is" the porter ad-
migted, "but he can't make up berths.
Anyway, the rules says dogs Goqs
with the baggage"
Marjorie swept rules aside with a
defiant: 81 don't care. I wca't ba
separated from my sAoo2ieume,"
She looked to Mallory for support,
but he was too sorely troubled with
greater anxieties to be capable OF any
action.
The porter tried persuasion You
beta lemme take him, the conducta
is wuss'n what I am. He th'owed q
couple OF dogs out the window trip
befo' last"
The brutel"
"Oh, yassum, he Is a regular brute,
He just loves to hear m splosh when
they light"
Noting the SILVER that shook the
girl, the porter offered q bit Of con
ISOLATION:
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