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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-30
HOW BOOTH WON PARIS
Planted ''Fort" Beside Rue
Montmartre and Ridi-
Guile Is Over.
Foreign Correspondence Of The Star.

Foreign Correspondence Of The Star.
PARIS, September IS. 1912.
People passing on Sunday evening
through the Rue Montmarte were often
accosted by a man wearing spectacles
who stood at the entrance Of a narrow.
tunnel-like passage. To one and all he
offered small leatlet. and gave an invi-
tation to enter the dark passage. Those
who accepted the invitation found at
the end small room draped with red
baize. bearing in letters Of gold such in
scriptions as 1--WE are waiting for a
new EARTH" 1--WE preach Christ cruel
fed" Il am the Life" II am the Truth. -
In q corner hung the portrait of a white
bearded man-Gen. Booth. This is the
home of the Salvation Army in Paris,
whose members yesterday assembled in
honor of the memory of it's late revered
chief. Salvationst ''lasses' glided
around the room selling a special num-
Der of the organ, En- .Avant, with the
generals picture on the front page.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-30

over now. and. as a writer in the FL
caro- puts it.: 1--WE know now what this
uniform IL worth. We know why the
Salvationists have that candid look and
SO much light in their eyes. They are not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-30

only apostles. but women who minister
to the sick and the poor"
It is difficult to imagine a more vio-
lent contrast than the atmosphere OF
the Salvation Hall at one end Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-30

passage and the Rue Montmartre at thu
other. but the spot was chosen OF set
fort within striking distance OF the
enemy's lines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-30
Ridiculed at First.

When the Salvationists first appeared
I'm Paris they were unsparingly ridiculed
by people always ready to seize the
slightest pretexs for fun. but all this is
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-14
An Indefensible Breach of
Contract

Editorial in Today's Constitution.)

Notwithstanding wak-ou of the pressmen Of The
Atlanta Georgian Saturday that paper has suffered little
no inconvenience It is issuing regularly time and with
practically the normal complement of news and features
But the pressmen itself sustained blow
as organization that be depended to live its
solemn contracua obligations It's individual members having
violated binding agreement absolutely without shadow
of justification themselves regarded everywhere
whose contractua obligation must always regarded
suspicion
In Chicago even where the disagreement originated there
was no lust ground for action temporarily embarrassed
all the papers that city The details have ALREADY been told
and they must sadden every who sympahzes with the
more exalted phases labor and mission In Atlanta
the wakou was and is wholly udefensible The pressmen
themselves that they had and have for
complaint against The Georgian They have been we'll and
promptly paid questions Of and hours
dispute and ALL they collectively and Severaly
bound by written legal document the discharge
specified duties Of mistaken sympathy for who have
themselves Of their making. The Geor
gan pressmen break also their and abandon
charge which they moment less mop
perfume o the public than TO the publishers
Their shown the regrettabe by the fact that
only other Chicago itself and San Francisco has
their action confirmed by their conreres In other cities
and even upon alleged offending Hearst newspapers the
pressmen ghteously regarded deliberate
preference breaking obedience i'll advised orders issued
papab attempt unfair intimidation IN this connection
refreshing the upright and conservative LOYALTY to
tract powerful typographical which refused by
Chicago and elsewhere their pledged word
and join n sympathetic strike
In any business time and unless abro
gated by the side of either obedience writ
fen contract is the indispensable principle and
the maintenance serespe Wantony disregardng this
the pressmen on have brought drepute
their order and aenated the sympathy OF the overwhelming
ma iory of lawabiding and pledgekeepng this
country
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-14
Absurdity of Half-Cent
Piece in Coinage

The vote IN the house representatives, the coinage of
pieces the tt@aghtfu public puere and
antiquated
It is in response demand and is situation It
is the intelligent piece legislation that the house has passed
1t simply the return progressive, modern nation to the
ridiculous basis of Chinese currency.
Cinnamon carry pounds copper pieces with hole in the
center they buy five cents worth Of rats they
hand the long heavy string of coins payment
Is that what American congress would bring this
age and country
Is our progress currency be measured by return
to system which prevails only China Egypt the
beggars of the Orentq
Surely been mapping without thought
chen such foolish piece of legislation got through
All modern nations grown of rather than toward
the aenuaed division coinage centme banshed from
France and farhng England and the cntessme from
av The smallest coin in which five confines
and the smallest in England the ha penny, which
one cent
why should go backward when all other progressive
nations going forward
What spectacle average American win make with
pockets bullying with copper and haggng with ademen
the matter Of one half Of . copper cent
And what an absurdv suppose that such farce coinage
could reduce the high living Would make things
cheaper that man has pay mnng of pieces of
copper instead of one7
The copper penny abomnaion to the American
pocket number of copper pieces the small
shopper purse simply slap the face of financial civilization
Such legislation as excellent diversion
on some first day Of April than waste of time
serious assemblies.
We trust the deliberate viii promptly sit down upon
the folly
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-14
Pathetic Letter of a Girl
Whose Home Is Threatened.

Dear Miss Dix am thirteen
years old. and read all your ar
tlcles Now. want you to tell me
what YOU think of my case My
home is about to be broken up by
woman. OF course. she is younger
than my mother. but not any bet
ter looking nor one half so good.
Tell me. please, is that the way the
world IS going? Are there no more
happy homes? NY brothers and
sisters and / have made up our
minds that we will never get mar
ried No one could have been more
devoted than my mother has been.
She has been a slave to us all, and
this is what she gets. Please an
swer me soon. What do you think
of thief who robs little children
If their father
Poor little girl who at thirteen
has seen all of the gold rubbed off
of Cupid's wings, and who has wit
messed SO many family spats that
she has resolved never to get mar
ried, Poor little girl. who at thir-
teen. Judges between mother and
father and .contemptuously con
dennis father, Poor little girl,
whose childhood has been darken-
ed by the sad aud sordid knowl-
edge Of the world. who discusses
aninites and broken homes with
her baby sisters and brothers, and
who bears on her little shoulders
the burden of her parents weak
ness and sin,
Doesn. the mere thought Of her
bring stinging tears to your eyes
And don't YOU feel that nothing can
justify the parents in the way they
are doing Is il not the plain
duty Of that father and mother to
keep a home together for their
children. and to make their children
happy. and give them the chance in
life that only children have who are
brought UP in the environment Of
decent family hfe2
Compared to the welfare Of these
little ones what is the lure Of some
other woman to the man. How
small matter even the wifes ieal-
ousy and righteous Indignation.
The real victims of divorce ars
the children, not alone because they
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-14

IN entering. some years ago.
the city of stratford-on-
Avon, the birthplace of
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-14
Severity Is often Necessary,
to Maintain Dignity.

a NY person possessed of a gen
n erous and sympathetic spirit
4 a shrinks from the exercise Of
severity, and yet severity is very
often necessary in order to main
tain the dignity Of authority. and
not only that. but is quite likely
to prove. in the long run. the finest
form of mercy.
That is the fact in the case Of a
father dealing with his child.
The time is almost certain to
come when the young boy. realiz-
ing that he has viii Of his own.
sets it in opposition to his. faith
ers will
Now, there are two parental pol
ieies that under such circumstances
can be pursued
The child can be ooaxed into
obey ing. and perhaps have some
privilege allowed him in return
for obedience.
Or the father can then and there
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-14
Petty Sentence for Speeding
Causes Death to Innocent.

Now, undoubtedly 50 far as those
deaths have been the result of care
less driving, at least half. if not
three quarters, of such mortality
would have been avoided if the first
violations of auto statutes had been
dealt with in a manner proper
toned to the enormity of the crime.
AS rule. people who can afford
to own an automobile have so much
money as to care no more for
fine Of ten dollars than a rhinoesres
cares for q pin prick.
The pettiness of the sentence en-
oourages speeding, so that judicial
sympathy with the criminal is the
author of death to the innocent.
This Slaughter of the innocents"
would have stop very promptly
put to it if a scale of fines ade-
auate to the oriminality Of the Of
Tense were established legislatively,
and if our magistrates would agree
to put their warm sympathies in
cold storage and deal with offenses
with severity commensurate with
the seriousness Of the offense and
the just demands Of the general
public
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-14

girl thinks young man who
spends his money freely is the whole
thing but if she marries him and fnds
he has spent it all she changes her
mind.
Once in while woman buys some
thing at bargain sale. only to els
cover after she gets home that it was
just what she wanted.
When a man begins by saying. "Of
course it is none of my business"-you
may as well stand aside and let him
butt in.
Perhaps the time may come when a
vast army viii strike in the midst Of
great battle for more pay and shorter
hours.
A mans wife is always willing to
agree with him-when he declares hs
has the best wife in the world.
II 8 uSualEN much easier tor man
fool friends to get the best of him than
il is for his enemies.
1t takes a woman to tell other women
how she trusts her husband. just as if
she really did.
II a book bores you its an easy mat
ter to shut it up-but lis different with
human bore.
Instead of laughing at the mistakes
Of others try to profit by your own.
A man always has well trained chill
dren-if his wife attends to it.
We are all entitled to something in
this world, if its only lemon.
You may have noticed that a kicke.
IS usually headstrong also.
His satanic majesty -foves to nsh in
troubled waters,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-14
Duty of Parents to Protect
Children From Themselves.

It IS the paramount duty of pa
rents to protect their children even
from themselves. and for fathers
and mothers to drag their children
into their squabbies is as bad as if
they threw the helpless little crea
lures into the midst of battle
where they would be trampled upon
and mangled For 3 father and
mother to let their children become
cognizant of their amours is worse
than taking them into a leprosy
camp II dehles the little minds
beyond the power Of cleansing
As for the woman who would
lend herself to the breaking up Of
4 home in which there are children.
the curse of God is upon her Truly
st were better for her that she
should tie a milestone about her
neck and cast herself into the sea.
than that she should offend one Of
these little ones.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-14
Professor Who Tries to Prove
Jesus Did Not Exist.

A late example OF this is afforded
BY the recently published work of
Arthur Drews. professor of theolo-
ey in the technical Hochschule at
Karlsruhe. Germany. who, in vol
ume of 800 pages, sets himself to
what is to him. evidently the very
congenial task of proving that there
has never been such person as
Jesus Christ.
Now. there is kind of impudent
audacity in the undertaking that IS
almost fitted to fascinate US by its
immensely.
Commonplace presumption we
simply resent with quiet contempt,
but arrogance that is SO colossal
and cyclopean as that of the pro-
fessor is staggering by the very
fact of its monstrous proportions.
To stand up serenely in the face
of twenty centuries of Christian in
telHgence, Christian scholarship
and Christian experience and to
challenge that whole mass Of mind
as being the collective dupe of
bodiless idea and silly delusion
involves on the part of our author
a degree of intellectual immodesty
and impertinence that should Sc
cure for him the title of psyche
logical freak rather than that Of
theological professor.
That a building as vast in its
proportions and as immense in its
pressure as Christianity can stand
the tempests and the quaking of
twenty centuries Is all the proof
that a reasonable man either needs
or wants to persuade him that un-
derneath there Is foundation COM
mensurate in breadth and soidity
with the structure that it upholds.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-14

~ entering. some years ago.
the city of stratford on
- Avon, the birthplace Of
Shakespeare. almost the first object
that arrested my attention was
volume exposed in shop window
and bearing the title. Bacon Was
the Author of Shakespeare
Although there are five points in
the life of the dramatist. stated, by
SO good an authority as Tennyson,
to be absolutely trustworthy his
torically. yet there is cast of mind
that finds a peculiar and cranky
Kind of delight in arraying itself
against the combined and estah
lished opinions of the age and in
discrediting conclusions that have
been long and confidently cherished
bv men who have been most con-
servative and judicious in their
processes Of judgment.
Since the time when, according to
the Bible story. Adam presumed to
raise a query a to whether it was,
after all. obligatory upon him to
obey the command of the Lord,
there have never been wanting peo-
pie who. either out of conceit or out
of distrust of human intelligence
and belief that every mind but their
own was a lying mind, have taken
absurd and mischievous comfort in
wantonly seeking to cut the ground
out from under convictions that
have been impregnably established
in the general mind and that have
borne the test and secured the in
dorsement of many long and
thoughtful centuries.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-14

THE one unansv cradle argu-
ment against divorce is the
child
We may say that each of US has
right to his or her own happi-
ness. We may say that an I'M
worthy husband or wife forfeits
whatever claim they have upon us.
we may say that when we make a
mistake in marriage there Is no
more reason we should be bound
forever to 1t than there is why We
should continue to he the victims
of any other error OF judgment
we may say that to be forced to
live with a husband or wife whom
we hate, and who brings out all
that is worst in our natures. is de
moralizlng to our characters that
it condemns us to live in an atmos-
phere in which all that is beautiful
and ideal in life withers and dies
as If blown upon by the blast Of a
simeon
This is true. There Is no other
such hhghting influence in the
world as discord However pa
tiently borne. it turns the very soul
into an arid desert and nobody can
blame the individual who seeks to
escape from This death In life.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-14
Children Must Always Be
Considered First.

There Is no answer 70 the conten-
ton that we have a right 10 save
ourselves from the purgatory Of an
unhappy marriage except the vail
OF child weeping over the wreck
of its home That is natures re
lentless reply To the sophistries Of
philosophy That Is dutv's stern
can 10 us 10 stand AZ our posts.
whatever the cost in suffering and
fulhn the obligations NE have taken
upon ourselves. When We have chill
dren We have given hostages to
fortune. and are no longer free 10
seek our own happiness. II is they
who are to be considered hrst
The childless may be divorced. II
II seems best to them. bur above
the noise Of warning couples with
children comes the CRY Of the help
less little ones who are left father
less or motherless in the breaking
up or 2 home
Listen TO this pathetic, curious.
unohildish letter that comes to me
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-14
Written For The Georgian
.Bv the Rev. DR.. c. H. Parkhurst

settle the question for all time as
to which of the two is to be mas
ter-a result that is never reached
by lollypop or any processes Of
barter.
A conflict to be decisive may
wiring the heart of the father and
be full of cost to the body of the
child. but when it is once done 1t is
done for always. and one thorough
whipping may save the pain Incl
dent to hundred half way whip
pings
The current policy of afixing
small fines to the violation of Ger
tain statutes is another case where.
the desire to be nerciful results
in ten times the hardship that
would result from the resolution to
be severe.
part of this is the fault of the
laws, and part of it chargeable
to the uncalculating sentimental
ty of the magistrates
Dealing out petty fines both i'm
pairs the dignity of the law and
tempts to its violation.
Automobiles have, during the
past two years. been driven in such
a way in New York as to result in
26S deaths
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-14

are made half orphans and home
less by it, but because it destroys
their faith in all that is good and
true. How can YOU teach purity to
girl whose mother has the slime
of the divorce courts on her gar
ments? How can YOU teach honor
to the boy who knows of his faith
ers dishonor? How.can you teach
steadfastness to duty to children
who have seen their parents turn
cowardly away from hard situa-
ton? How can the weak breed
strength into the little ones?
Of course it will be said that
when a father and mother can not
agree. and life is perpetual discord
with each other. the children are
better off with either one than with
both: that no home at all is better
than home divided against itself.
TO this argument one can only
say that parents have no, right to
make such home. No matter
how deep they may feel. in their
own breasts that they have gotten
the wrong life partners. and that
some other man and woman are
the real mates, they are bound by
every law of decency to hide this
from their children. and TO keep
the doors of their skeleton closet
fast locked against jnquisitive' lit
tie eyes To be tempted is the
lot Of all To Yield 10 temptation
T. tho act ~ tho ,.,.,.o,,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-14
By DOROTHY DIX.
BY HAL COLEMAN.

from q little girl She writes in
little. round. schoolgirl handwrit-
ing
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-14
Safe Hits

A girl thinks young man who
spends his money freely is the whole
thing but if she marries- him and finds
he has spent it all she changes her
mind -.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-10

Nero in the Vatican with the name
OF ST. Paul rests My on traditions
Of more or less probability. but
there are many other localities with
which the name Of the apostle is
linked and upon which there exists
today plants and trees which. 1t Ia
said. may have hourished nineteen
hundred years ago.
Among others which the Govern
ment's experts will seek to restore
are the laurels Of the Regia, the
official residence OF tna Supreme
Tertifi. on the walls Of which were
engraved the lanes Of all the con.
suls
The flowers in the vicinity of the
house of the vestal virgins, ~ al.
ready restored by NJ. Boni, show
what may be done along these lines
and lend encouragement to the more
extended work now proposed
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-10
of
Christie nifty and eJustBe

The red roses Of the baths adjoin-
ing the house Of the vestal virgins
still flower: OF. they, too are IN b
replanted to give them new life.
The average tourist seeing ne
Towers growing upon and in the vi.
cinity of the ancient ruins. pays
little attention to them. regarding
them as moserp growtn.. Indeed.
their history il little known. and
many Of them have been destroyed
by sight-seers who would have been
greatly shocked to have learned that
in picking the uncared.for flowers
they ad committed vandalism.
When the restoration Of these
plants IL completed. however. they
will be properly enclosed to protect
them from similar Injury In TIE
future.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-10

A NCIENT Rome is to be restored
~ -forally. Although many OF
the trees and plants which
hourished when Rome itself -four
ished are still in existence, they
have been shamefully neglected IN
modern times, and the wonder Is
that they have survived at all.
Now, however. orders have been
given by the Italian Government to
use every effort 20 restore the an
Client plants, and expert horticul-
turists have been engaged to under.
take the work.
Peril. the most interesting OF
the trees which will thus come IN
for attention at the hands OF the
gardeners is the ancient fig tree OF
Romulus, the traditional founder OF
Rome. This hardy tree. said to pe
no less than twenty-six centuries
old, was still bearing fruit up 10
few wears ago, when. for some uh'
accountable reason, 1t failed. IN
ancient times such an occurrence
would have been regarded as an
omen of national calamity, and even
to-day there are those who attribute
the war in which italy has been en-
eaeed with Turkey to the fact that
Romulus's fig tree is no longer CIV
ing fruit.
Needless to say, however, it IL not
for any such superstitious reason
that the Government officials WIN
transplant the fig tree T. an enort
to revivify it.
The white rose bushes planted oy
the vestal virgins in the early Gays
Of Rome, and wl.ch in those days
were tended almost as carefully al
the sacred fire which it was the viz
eins' principal function to maintain
are also still in existence. but badly
need attention. as also the rose
bushes to be found adjoining the
statue to Praetextatus. the project
Who fought against the advance Of
Christianity,