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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-05

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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-14
War and Common Sense
Bv EBERT HUBBARD.

Copyright, 1912. International News
Service.
TIME modern nation is totally
different thing from the an
cient empire or the medieval
monarchy.
The idea Of the king or monarch
was that he was the viceroy Of
Deity. This kind brooked no rivals.
The interests or rights of other ma
tions were never considered,
neither we're the rights of indi-
viduals.
The court Of the king was as
splendid as he could make it, and
his palace as sumptuous as he
could afford. The limit Of his mag
nifcence was his ability to tax the
people and the extent of his power
was his ability to subjugate. An
army of trained fighting men, ready
to use at any moment, was needed.
First, he must be able to sup
press any possible revolt at home.
Second. he must at all times re-
veal a glamour and splendor that
would excite both the adulation and
the fear of his subjects
Third, he must be able to fight
off foreign foe.
Fourth, he must be able to take
advantage OF any opportunity that
might occur to acquire new terri
tory should any rival kingdom re-
veal weakness.
Today the strength. PROPERTY
and perpetuity of a nation does not
turn on its ability to fight. but on
its ability to render a service to
other nations.
It is productive skill that counts,
not destructive ability
The army of the modern state Ia
a medieval appendenda vermifor-
mis-. 1t is the most costly and flu
tile item in the government over
head, the most dangerous thlng
in point of national health-and the
chief cause for dread as a disturber
of our national peace.
Nations today are interdepend-
ent. Each one fulflls a certain
economic purpose. Permanent
prosperity for all nations turns on
permanent peace,
Our solicitude is for the happi
ness and prosperity of the indi
vidual, not the ambition of the So
called rulers
And happiness. health and pros
perity for individuals demand dis
armament.
The United States, in point of
wealth. leads all nations. Yet the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-14
BY GARRETT P. SERVISS.
By T. r. POWERS.
Copyright. 1912, by International News Service

ton, but all seems at rest. The
three score years and ten Of 3
mans life afford him but single
peep into the wonder tube Of the
universe. We know that il is end
lessly turning, but we should need
to live and watch for a million
years in order to see it's many hued
and infinitely diverse stars falling
in ceaseless showers from one com
bination to another. and the con
stellations rolling from form to
form like clouds or sparks.
Here the marvellous power of the
Imagination, guided by science, aids
us We can look both backward
and forward in time and see the
heavens as they have been and as
thew will he
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-14

size of our army is less than that
of any of the so-ealled seven Pow
ers of the first class. In numbers
we have one sixteenth of the pop
ulation of the world. but one-third
of the wealth of the world is ours.
This wealth has come through
the peaceful industry Of our peo-
pie, not through the destructive
ability of our army.
Yet - per cent Of the govern
ment revenue of the United States
goes for war. war purposes and the
results of war. and only IS per cent
is used for furthering the arts, the
sciences and commerce.
Ninety six of our farmers out Of
a hundred founder to market
through almost impossible mud
during certain seasons of the year,
but all the time we are building
dreadnoughts and recruiting men
to man them.
Arrangements are now under way
for an International Congress Of
the Nations The first session is
to be held in San Francisco in 1915,
when plans will be effected for the
permanence of the congress.
ii will be made UP of 100 of the
very best and strongest men in the
world And its membership will be
so distinguished that any individual
who is nominated can not afford 10
decline to serve,
The first intent of the congress ia
to bring about a federation of the
twelve great Powers. to the end
that disarmament shall follow.
Today we have generated a world
spirit, and It only remains to give
the world spirit a voice, through an
international congress, to make It
effective as counsellor and a con-
ciliator.
In 1899 we rushed to war with
Spain to right a wrong. Aneinter-
national congress that could have
turned cosmic mega phone on
Spain would have caused her to
right her wrong herself Our in
reference was meddlesome, costly
and in great degree ineffective
When great commercial institu-
tons can eliminate competition
and get together on a community
of-interest basis, and one institu-
tlon minister to the world instead
of doing business through a hun
dred little, warning, lighting fac
tions, surely the question of four
teen great world Powers getting
together on mutual understand
ing is not an idle dream.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-14

Bv CHARLES FERGUSON

TT newspaper men were subject
TO governmental prosecution
= and possible Imprisonment for
every honest mistake they might
make in their criticism of an adj
ministration. the government would
soon cease TO be democratic.
Few journalists would be found
TO take the inevitable chances of
error and of the failure of their
witnesses. The lure of the finan
cfal and social rewards of the news
paper business would lie altogether
on the side of q studied sycophancy
in the praise and promotion of the
political pawns as they exist and
the money pawns that stand back
of them.
There would be but a short run
back to that political absolutism-
that worship of power in spite OF
every defect of title--from which
modern society has SO painfully
emerged.
Shall We say. then, that the thing
10 do is to declare for absolute
freedom Of speech and print and
to go abroad through the land stir
ring men up 10 flaming Indignation
against every restriction of tongue
or pen
heard a brilliant man make a
speech to this effect a a club din
ner Of literary men in New York
the day
The speaker called himself an
anarchist indeed, but his doctrine
was not 50 very different from that
expounded SO classically by John
Milton in his famous ESSAY "On
the Liberty Of Unlicensed Print
ing"
And il was hardly TO he distin
gushed from a notion entertained
by many scholastic people concern
ing what they call the rights of
academic freedom
1t is said by these theorists that
teachers in colleges-if they viii
but invoke the sacred names of art
and science-ought to be permitted
without hindrance or accountable
ty to say anything they please
Now, this freedom to say any
thing one pleases-in we'll en-
dowed moral vacuum may be an
academic ideal But to practical
men 1t has always seemed too aca-
demic
And modern society is likely, in
accordance with its own genius to
become not less Rat more insistent
In holding people responsible for
what they say
a society that passes the title 10,
a million dollars by single word
uttered in the exchange. and that
sets great enterprises afoot by the
faith in 2 signature IS likely to
acquire new and vivid sense Of
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-14

mans responsibility for his uttered
word. And in general, as human
relations become more delicate and
intricate in their adjustment, words
acquire a prodgious power to hurt
or help.
Ii might be safe to set down the
rule, Professionally, that it should be
lawful for a man to propose and
recommend by speech and print the
doing of anything that it is lawful
to do. Thus it should. of course. be
a crime to advise the commission
of crime.
And it should be unlawful TO use
words in such a manner as tends to
subvert the meaning and purpose
of the law.
But such procepts need to be
pressed closer home before they
can amount to much as working
principles.
We need to clear our minds as to
what is the genius and spirit or
modern law before we can Judge
what kind of speech should be con-
demned as libellous or against pub
lie policy.
Now the actual social order in
America is industrial, and is based
on property rights
This is a working society and its
master aim is to put the people in
possession of the materials of ex-
istence. This aim is not TO he
thought Of as necessarily sordid.
for the process of earth-s ubdual
and material production is seen ID
involve the fine goods Of art aud
all the spiritual issues, Therefore.
it is not and should not be lawful
in America for man to use his
tongue or pen to DESTROY rights OF
property SO far as they are genuine
and legitimate rights.
Speech and the press can not be
too free or too bold in attacking
ostensible property rights that are
not authentic
The whole battle for freedom OF
utterance is likely to be waged
around the question of the authen-
ticity of certain contestible prop
erty rights
When the battle is over We shall
probably settle down to the general
conviction that property is inviola-
BILE whatever its amount in the
hands Of an individual SO long as
the manner Of its use and tenure
tends TO difuse property through
out the whole community. and that
otherwise it has no legitimacy.
a man may be as rich as he can.
# his being rich helps to make
everybody else rich But if his
riches make the community poor he
viii be fair game for anybody with
q harbed tongue or trenchant
pen
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-14
Reflects Many Images.

The polished sides of tho long tri-
angles reflect multiplied images OF
the bits Of glass when the kaleido
scope is held with its outer end to-
ward bright light and marvel
ouslv beautiful combinations Of col
or ana exquisite forms are revealed
10 the eye looking through the
peephole As the instrument IS
turned the bits Of glass fan con
nnually into new shapes, 50 pleas
ing and surprising that they often
cau forth cries OF admiration.
1t is hardly possible 10 give
child a more entertaining. and at
the same time useful. toy than
Kaleidoscope. and it requires very
little skill to make one II is said
that makers Of artistic designs
sometimes employ Kaleidoscope
TO stimulate their invention. and
suggest novel combinations.
TO the discerning eve tile starry
heavens are gigantic kaleido-
scope But We. whose lives are but
a glimpse see only one q its in
finite combinations All Is in mo-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-14
The Great Kaleidoscope Overhead
Opening Night Spectacle Nature Offers All

VIZ HEN I am tired. worried,
w worn out, and uninspired by
the least thought or ambl-
ton. ! so out, II the evening is Sc
rene, and pause long under the
stars. ! get rest for the head
and stay staring at the spectacle
above me with more interest and
wonder than q child experiences
al an exhibition Of motion pictures.
The heavens are the most mar
Vicious of ali Kaleidoscope.
That word is not heard much
nowadays, and the little instrument
for which it stands is seldom seen.
When was a boy almost every
household had one. The derivation
of the name from three Greek
words r. KALOS, beautiful" Ell
DOS. AN appearance" and sKO-
PEG. Il view reveals its nature.
and tells ITS story
Three strips OF black glass. two
inches wide and six or eight long,
are set edge to edge. lensthNise.
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"FLOGGING IS LIMITED TO TWELVE STROKES, OLD
MEN THE SICK WOMEN AND CHILDREN BEING EN-
TIREIY EXEMPTED AND IF PAINTING OR THE AP
PEARANcE OF a WOUND sUPERvENEs AS A RESULT
THE APPLICATION OF FURTHER PUNISHMENT IS FOR
Ridden"
these civilized days with foggng forbidden in the
and the prisons shocking read Of Congo
logged limiting the whipping twelve strokes and
ceasing punishment if the beaten fans wound
rears does mitigate the horror Of it.
Almost every and reading the paragraph
about mder punishment Congo Mortified TO think
THAT THERE SHOULD BE ANY FLOGGING AT ALL
among Mortified the idea of logging
full grown Congo unfortunately few
parents ignorant enough TO WHIP THEIR OWN
CHILDREN
full grown Congo native with tough skin, tough
body more less toughened system ped
when he stands up helpless and blows that fall
upon his back.
What about the delicate children feeble body
suffering agony fear whipped by the fathers
and mothers moment told love the father and mother
the
What could be more horrible disgracefu than the
sight Of an angry beating deenseess child
FOR BEATING IS ALWAYS DONE IN ANGER The
father or mother pretending beat the child "for the
child pretending be angry when the beating
is administered untrthu well brutal Every blow is
given IN anger There other blow
There is story Of child that had been saying its pray
ers 6slcssy being beaten severely by its
the child pray and said TO the
9" want to pray because We GOT something say God "
And then the child prayed might off both of
mothers arms that she beat any more"
Such prayer would shock and fathers but such
nrayer unspo<en has been he of
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Under a New Congo Rule
Only MEN Are Flogged
But This Country Parents That Are savages Still Fog and
Brighten Little Children.

Read announcement Of reforms in the Congo Sir Ed
ward Gray the British Foreign Minister the following
interesting piece of regarding the punishment Of natives:
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-14

tween Ursa Major, Hercules and
the Lyre coils the great dragon,
Draco, figure that stirred the i'm
agination OF the ancients to its
depths and gave rise to many leg
ends that viii never disappear from
literature Low in the northeast
rising with the Milky Way. you will
see the shapely form of the North
ern Cross in the constellation
Cygnus
Such is the night sky Of June
1t is a single. brief glance into the
kaleidoscope of the universe. Now,
call science and Imagination to
your aid. and you can represent
to yourself the revolution that 1t
has undergone, and win undergo
in the future. Not one of the
splendid consultations which we
now admire will remain a few hun
dred thousand years hence. Apollos
Tyre will dissolve. and men viii
no longer admire the INTERVENING
rays of it's stars, which now seem
the glitter of silver strings, trem-
bling With the music of the
spheres. The Big Dipper will fiat
ten out as If the milestone of the
ages were rolling over ii. Draco
will unwind his coils. and fit away
like a wisp Of mist The Crown
viii fall apart and all its gems will
be scattered. Arcturus win fly
away from Bootes. and the whole
constellation win drift into some
other shape The virgin goddess
Of justice win flee again. as if an
iron age had dawned in the heav-
ems. And the great Lion, which
has looked down apparently un-
changed upon the whole course Of
known history measured by its
petty centuries. viii Vanish like the
vision Of dreamer.
Constellation of the Future.
But there viii be consultations
in the far future. al there have al
Ways been consultations. Many
Of them may be more beautiful and
wonderful than those that now eN-
list The possibilities Of this vast
kaleidoscope are illimitable and it
rolls forever The astronomer can.
even now foreten some Of the
shapes that viii be formed by the
stars in future cons. for he has
measured the speed and ascertained
the directions in which many or
them are travelling. at a velocity
which sometimes amounts to hun
dreds Of miles in second.
can ANYTHING afford better
proof Of the immensely of the uni
verse and the insignifcance OF the
earth? Let us not think that these
remote things 40 not concern us.
Everything concerns u.s. because
there is something in us which
transccnds both time and space
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-14
Sights of the Sky,

When you look at the sky tonight
you viii perceive. low in the west,
Leo the Lion. with its principal
stars formins the figure of sickle.
High overhead YOU will catch sight
Of the Big Dipper," in Ursa Major.
No name could be more truly de-
scriptive of the figure shaped by
its seven stars. Just in the south.
We'll above the horizon, shines the
beautiful white star Spica. which
would be a far grander sun than
ours il We could approach near TO
it, Spica is surrounded with many e
stars which the ancierts imagined
to resemble the figure of a white
ROBBED maiden Virgo. and they had
egend that Virgo represented the
goddess Of Justice, fed from the
earth. where she resigned in the
golden age. and finding refuge in
heaven where alone justice now
rules
Between the Dipper and Virgo,
but eastward Of line joining them.
glows the magnificent Arcturus. a
star which turns red when seen
through the mists of the horizon.
and which Was worshiped for ages
in less enlightened TINS Arctu-
rus is the chief Of another constel-
lation called Bootes. or the Bear
Driver" because he seems TO chase
the huge bear, Ursa Major. round
the pole East Of Bootes IS splen-
did crclet OF stars named the
Northern Crown. or Ariadne's Dia-
dem Il is a constellation whose
neurological history runs away
back to the expedition of Jason in
search OF the golden fleece. You
viii find not the slightest difficulty
in recognizing it, Below the Grown
in the northeast is the constella-
ton Hercules. and below that again
Apolos Lvre, adorned with one Of
the most beautiful Of all The stars.
the diamond bright Vega, or Alpha
Lyrae Half round the pole. be-
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STONINGTON.

Mrs. Emily Babbidge is visiting at Bar
Harhor.
Lester Veazie has taken rent of Mrs.
S. w. Fifield.
Frank Mcclure and family are on a trip
to New York.
Mrs. Annie sicotte, of Boston, is max
ing her annual visit here.
C. P. Moon and wife are guests of rela-
tives in Portsmouth, n. Fl.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard, of Dexter, are
visiting at Mrs. S. B. Thurlow's.
Mrs. Warren Colby and child are visit
ing her parents, Henry Smith and wife.
Mrs. Mildred Webster and son, Of Port
land, are guests of Miss Nettie Buck
minister.
John Ashworth and wife have moved to
Vinalhaven, where Mr.. Ashworth has en-
plnyment.
Juanita chapter, o. E. s., will hold its
first meeting Sept. 5, after vacation OF
three months.
Mrs. Charles Flye, OF Dorchester, Mass,
formerly OF this town, is visiting her par
ents, J. g. Goss and wife.
Philip Crockett and wife are attending
the wedding OF his brother Charles and
Miss Fox, at Fall River, Mass.
The high and common schools begin
Sept. o. Most of the former teachers, ex-
cept those of the high school, are to re-
turn.
The summer people at Frazier's island
are leaving for their homes. 1t is ex-
pected that a hotel will be built on the
island next season.
Sent. 2. NIH1L.
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COUNTY NEWS.
WEST SULLIVAN.

Mrs. J. K. Mitchell visited in Bangor
Friday.
F. Chapman and wife are attending
camp meeting at Etna.
Samuel lipsky, of Bangor, spent sun
day in town.
Mrs. Kingsley, OF Gouldsboro, has
rented the Charles Chaplain residence.
Mrs. Maggie Smith was the guest OF
Mrs. George Rinaldo a few days last week.
Miss Beatrice Smyth went to Bangor
Saturday to spend few days with friends.
Miss Sarah Bunker has gone to South
Gouldsboro to visit her grandfather, s. H..
Bunker.
Mrs. f. e. Pettingill and Miss Marcia
Wiley visited in Bangor few days last
week.
Dennis McManus and wife have gone to
st. John, N. B., called there by the serious
illness OF his brother.
Mrs. Lorinda Strong and Miss Myra
Moon, of Bar Harbor, are visiting Mrs.
Henry Bunker.
Mrs. G.. Nj. Farnsworth and daughter
Ada went to Beddington to stay couple
OF weeks.
Mrs. Mabel Gerrish and children re-
turned Friday, after visiting few days in
Ellsworth.
Alvah Blaisdell and bride arrived home
Saturday. Their many friends extend
congratulations.
Arthur Galley and wife, who have been
visiting friends here, have returned to
their home in Allston, Mass.
Miss Gertrude Wescott and Miss Jessie
Gray, OF Everett, Mass, who have been
visiting Mrs. David Patchen, have re-
turned home.
Misses Mary Mattocks and Maud Colby,
trained nurses from the Maine general
hospital at Portland, are home for two
weeks.
Roscoe Blaisdell and Miss Remission, OF
Providence, X. l.. and Miss Hazel Blais-
dell were Weekend guests at the home OF
F. E. Pettingill.
Miss Flora Goodwin, who has been at
tending the Gorham summer school, is
home for few days before going to Ad-
olson to teach.
William Robertson and brother George
have gone to the Bluehill fair, where Mr.
Robertson expects to start his horse in
the races.
Sept. 2. DIRIao.
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EAST oRLAND.
Sept. 2.
b.

Miss Hattie Parker has returned from a
visit in Bucksport.
Guy Leach, who has been quite i'll OF
sciatica, is improving.
Persis and Helen Pickering have re-
turned from visit in Brewer.
Miss Helen Churchill was the guest of
Mrs. Frank Blaisdell last week.
The dance Friday evening was largely
attended. Music by whitney's orchestra.
George and Frank Brainerd are spend
ing their vacation with their parents here.
Miss Ruth Blaisdell has returned from
Bucksport, where she has been employed.
Percy Hatton, who has been here with
his family for week, left to-day for New
York.
Miss Sarah Mead, OF Foxcroft, visited
her grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Mead, last
week.
DIR. Walter Clark and wife are receiving
congratulations on the birth OF SON
David Grier.
Mrs. Ralph Lowell and Miss Maud
Simpson have gone to Millvale to visit
their parents for week.
Mrs. Archie Haney, OF waterville, Wis
tied her mother, Mrs. Helen Blaisdell, last
week.
Mrs. Helen McMaster and two children,
Of Chelsea, Mass, visited relatives here
last week.
Miss Annie Dunbar, OF North Castine,
left Friday fer her home, otter visit OF
several days here.
Sydney Gray, OF Penobscot, has been
here doing masonry for F. P. Mason the
past week.
John P. Farnham left Sunday on his re-
turn to Buffalo, n. Y, after a months
visit here with his parents.
Pyam Gilkey, Miss Hazel Coffin, Mrs.
Cook and daughters, Dorothy and Sarah,
and Miss Breck have returned to German
town, Pa.
DR.. and Mrs. Cairnes and two children,
| OF New York, who have been guests OF DR.
Thomas Story, left for their home Satur-
day.
Thomas Hamilton, wife, daughter
Emily and Miss Adams left Saturday on
their return to their home in Hartford,
Conn, after five weeks at their cottage
here.
Sept. 2. M.