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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26
A Fine Old Heather
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.

VVTQNDERFUL in a far more
w useful way than We fiji, find
it described in the Ara
bian Nights" was the fine old
heather known as Haroun AL
Raschid. who died eleven hun
bred and four years ago.
In a time of intense bigotrv
and cruelty he was tolerant and
merciful. II an age of blacklist
ignorance and brutal indiffer-
ence to every form Of intellec-
tual enlightenment, he was
deeply interested in learnings.
and employed every aid at his
command for the elimination of
the superstition that was sitting
like an incubus upon the breast
of humanity.
While Christian Europe Law in
the shadow of its seemingly ir-
remediable ignorance, Bagdad
was cultivating the sciences out
of which was to come the worlds
mental resurrection. While the
Christian teachers were assert
ing the flatness oc the earthJthe
Mohammedan doctors of Bag
dad and Cordova. Seville and
Alexandria were teaching geog-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26

West interviewed the members of
a graduating class Of girls in a
great school yesterday, and out of
thirty girls, twenty-four said
that they hoped they would not
have to marry. Marriage was
narrowing and cramping, they
said.
Driftwood. driftwood! From
what strange tides does it come
these days! The bees-oh, yes
that's what I mean.
The bees have arranged all
this affair of the feminine upris-
ing--arranged it years and years
ago.
The queen bee rules. She
breeds the young. divides the
hive into workers and drones.
There is no mingling of the two
classes at all. One bee is to gath
er honey. one is selected to found
the future of the hive. When his
work is done, out he goes. Is
that what we are coming to, we
humans, some day?
win there be home women and
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26

raphy in the common schools
from globes. While in London
and Paris they were practicing
and protesting to cure mems
ills through the agency of
charms, trinkets and incanta-
tons in the great Mesopotamian
capital they were treating the
sick upon the principles of
science and common sense.
So famous was Al Raschid's
medical school at Bagdad that
the great and mighty Char
Iemagne issued a decree that no
man should practice medicine in
ms dominions without first hav-
ing passed a satisfactory exami-
nation before the Bagdad facul-
~. And tn old Mohammedan's
heart was as sound as his mind,
for be it remembered that at the
time Charlemagne was using
lire and sword against all who
would not, or could not. accept
the theological beliefs he had
sworn to champion, Haroun AL
Raschid was doing all he could
to protect Charlemagne's ~.
Jects in the full exercise Of IN
religion. = ~.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26
By wINIFRED BLACK.

AVE you ever read Maeter-
linck's marvellous story of
the bees?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26
She Likes to Work.

A clever writer married a clev-
er business woman a week or so
ago. and he told his friends and
hers that he did not expect her
to give up her business to stay at
home for him.
she likes to work" he said.
why should l take it upon my
self to deny her her own life?
Women are something more than
the echo of men"
In high school out West they
find that the average height Of
the high school graduate is low
ering for the boys and heighten-
ing for the girls.
The boy babies born at the
great public hospital in Boston
to-day are one inch shorter on
the average than they were ten
years ago The girl babies are
nearly an inch taller than they
were ten years. ago and weigh.
on an average almost pound
more.
A newspaper in the Middle
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26

WITHIN a few weeks past
w l have been asked to
address two different
aeronautical societies on the Gu
rious subject of the possibilities
of trip to the moon.
As far as 1 am aware this does
not indicate an intention on the
part of any aviator to essay a
voyage to our satellite, but, at
least, it shows that the flying in
stinct is growing by what it feeds
upon, and that, having navigated
the air, practical men are giving
little extra rein to their imagi-
nations, and wondering whether
the empire of birds marks the ul-
innate frontier of human con-
quest.
In fact, the dream of going to
the moon, which, in every age,
has occupied daring minds, is
hardly more impracticable at the
present time than would have
been a project, springing up in the
mind of Balboa, of making ships
sail across from the Atlantic to
the great Western ocean which
he saw from his paak in Darien.
But it is not the invention of
either the aeroplane or the dirig-
IDLE balloon that stimulates
thoughtful minds at the present
time to consider, half seriously,
the idea of lunar voyage. The
success of those inventions, defy
ing scientific predictions and
probabilities, only forms an In
centive. It turns mems minds
hopefully to things that hereto
fore they have regarded as lying
beyond the limits of human pow
er.
1t has always been so. Every
great advance has been a mar
vel at the beginning, derided or
laughed at. Each one of them
has been a victorious birth Of the
Imagination. The greatest drag
on progress is lack of faith in the
hidden capacities of man.
Verify, / say unto you, if We
have faith, as a grain of mustard
seed, We shall say unto this noun
tain; Remove hence to yonder
place, and it shall remove; and
nothing shall be impossible unto
Won
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26
Only Beginning.

That is high authority for be-
lieving that we are only just be-
ginning to discover the extent Of
our control over nature, and such
things as wireless telegraphy, X
ray photography and the disin-
tegration of atoms, with conse-
quent unlocking of tremendous
concealed energy. prove that hith-
erto we have been like the man
who buried his talents in the
earth instead of making them
produce ten or a hundred fold.
Suppose we look at the sub
ject of visiting the moon in the
light of present knowledge. The
distance in itself is nothing
100000 miles! Many a sea cap
tain has sailed much farther than
that. 1t is less than ten times
the circuit of the earth.
If the atmosphere extended
from the earth to the moon, we
could go there now by modifying
our present apparatus. At
hundred days! But at a height
of five or six miles the atmos-
phere becomes so rare that we
could not live in it without an ar
tidcial supply. Yet unnamed
halloons have pona ton y,oilaS
high, and meteors take fire from
friction at an elevation of a hun
bred miles or more.
Still the atmosphere does prac-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26
SONG OF THE GOOD
ROAD
By Ella wheeler Wilcox
Copyright, 1918. by A merican- Journal Examiner

7 AM Road good road, fair and broad;
And link with my beautiful tether
Town and Country together,
Like ribbon rolled the earth from the reel of God
Oh great the life of a Road!
I am Road; long road, leading and on;
And I cry to the world to follow,
Past meadow and hill and hollow,
Through desoate night, to the open gates of dawn.
Oh, bold the life of a Road!
I make strange cities neighbors;
The poor grow rich with my labors
And beauty and comfort follow through the lands
Oh glad the life of a Road
I am Road; wise road. knowing all mems ways;
And I know how each heart reaches
For the things teaches
And am the path that leads into green young Mays
Oh, sweet the life of a Road!
I a Road and speed away from the sums
Away from desolate places
Away from unused spaces
Wherever I go, there order from chaos comes
Oh, brave the life of a Road
I would give hope TO duty
And cover the earth with beauty
Do you not Oh men how all this might be done?
SO the power of the Road
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26
BY GARRETT P. sERvIss.

tically cease to exist at no very
great elevation, and cuts short
off the road of the balloon and the
aeroplane.
We must turn to something
else. The buoyant force of air
enables US to overcome the
gravitative attraction of the
earth only up to a moderate
height Beyond that something
more is needed. I have learned
with surprise that many intelli-
gent persons suppose that If we
once got outside the air motion
would be unimpeded. For in
stance, a man said to me the
other day:
Suppose an aeroplane could
mount straight up until it passed
the limits of the atmosphere,
then having nothing more to inn
pede its motion, it would go on
with whatever velocity it had
when it left the air."
In fact, this could only occur
in case the velocity of the aero
plane amounted to near:y seven
miles per second. for that veloc-
ity would be required to COM
pletely overcome the pull of the
earth's attraction. Otherwise it
would fall back to the earth.
This is the reason why Jules
Verne, in his amusing story of
"A Voyage to the Moon" had his
Adventures shot out of an enor-
nous cannon. Only in that way,
he thought, could the requisite
initial velocity be obtained.
A Bold Plan.
But a bold mind might, In view
of recent discoveries. speculate
on the illimitable power that may
be obtained from unlocking the
energies of the atoms OF matter.
Professor Thomson has calcu-
lated that a single gram of hy-
drogen has within it sufficient
energy to lift a million tons a
hundred yards high! Does any
body imagine that that unlimited
store of energy is going forever
to remain uncontrolled by human
genius? We have discovered its
existence; the next thing is to
take it and use it.
Suppose we had it under con-
troll, as We shall have it some
time. Then reflect upon the close
relation between atomic phe-
nomena and electricity, and re-
call the familiar experiment Of
making bits of pith fly away
from an electrically charged ball.
If we could construct some kind
of car that could be powerfully
. charged with electric energy we
might be able to make it fly
away from the earth as the pith
balls fly from the charged con-
ductor Of the electric machine.
The Problem Solved.
Then it would be necessary to
establish a system of control by
which the speed and direction
could be regulated by varying the
charge-AND THE PROBLEM
OF NAVIGATING SPACE
WOULD BE SOLVED. have
developed this ( of course purely
hypotheticaD idea somewhat far
Their in a story called "a Column
bus of Space"
Such a method would avoid all
the difficulties, really insuper-
able, that hampered Jules
Verne's plan of projeetile start
ing at a velocity of almost seven
miles per second.
However, when we get the
atomic energies under control our
first efforts will be directed to
making more money out of them,
and trips to the moon will only
begin to pay after we nave got
tired of purely earthly things
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26

the other day. yes" said the
artist to the reporters, Il hate to
see her go, but she has chosen the
stage for her vocation. Who am
l, to stand in her way? She is a
human being first of all, you
know" and no one was particu-
larry surprised to hear him say
II
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26
Are We Coming to the Bee Idea Of Life

fined if you give shelter food,
employment or even a word of
encouragement to a wife who
has left his bed and board with
out his permission, no matter
what 1t was he did that made
her go.
A great artist went with his
wife to see her off on a long trip
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26
The Railroads and the Public
A Letter from Mr. Ivy L. Lee. Of the Pennsylvania
Copyright 1879
Copyright 1879

The Georgian and the other Hearst newspapers published
protect public of the fact that to protect the
public thoroughly ALL legitimate workers must be protected
big and little men, ditch diggers railroad builders street
pedders department stores thinkers and big industrial organ
cations
Criticism of big and able because they happen to be
intelligent stupid and harmful to the public vel
would be attacks unjust treatment of little men be-
cause they happen to be poor and badly organized
publish gladly letter which presents the side OF the
railroads in an important public question.
THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY
General Office, Street Station.
Philadelphia.
L. Lee.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26
The Wonderful Bee.

\ AAV w NAAANA A1COs
The beetle wonderful bee
no wonder Napoleon chose him
for his emblem.
Is that what we are all coming
to-some day I wonder-the bee
system Of living?
Every once in a while l see
something in the news that
makes me think so. 1t is great
thing to watch-the daily news of
this great, strange, simple, com
pick world of ours
The sailors on the ship that
Columbus brought across the wide
waters spent days standing at
the rail watching for the drift of
waters, and now and then they
found hope Of land in the broken
branch that floated on the silent
sea and now and then some
strange bright feather that rose
and fell on the waves told their
hopeful hearts of bright lands
beyond, where the bird that wore
the feather waited singing in a
spreading tree to welcome their
coming.
Driftwood tells strange tales
sometimes.
That's what the news is
acknowledging stories, old
stories that sometimes makes the
human hair rise and that turns the
blood cold in the veins of the one
who watches by the rail to see
the drift come by,
Now, there's that little item in
the paper this morning the one
about the Judge who told the
man that he could not make his
wife follow him to a farm, and
he could not divorce her because
she did not follow.
she hates country Hfe." said
the Judge. you cannot force
her to live It, She has the same
right to decide where she wants
TO live as you have" Drift, drift
from strange shores. is that de-
Cision.
/ wonder how they would think
of it in North Carolina. where
man can have you arrested and
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26

linck's marvellous story of
the bees?
No?
Go to the library and get It this
very day. You can't afford to
live another twenty four hours
without knowing that book!
Every time you see a bee in the
garden afterward you'll feel like
standing, hat in hand. and watch
ing him fly by.
Talk about man the reasoning
animal" the bee reasons so much
better and so much more closely
than man that he makes us all
seem like little blind, laundering
beetles booming around in the
sunshine, not knowing where we
are going or what we are trying
to do.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-26

work women, home men and
work men. divided quite definite
ly into classes like the bees
each having his own special mis-
sion in life, and never dreaming
of interfering with any other in
any way?
Career" Women.
Mother women and career"
women, work women and beauty
women, men workers and men
home makers, how else shall we
manage this affair of the woman
who will not live as her husband
wishes-else deal with the man
who thinks that a woman should
follow him wheresoever he lists
to go, and howsoever he intends
to do when he gets there? Buzz,
buzz! How do you think of the
bee idea, brother philosophers?
The drift, the drift! How
pleasant it is to stand in the sun
shine at the ships rail and watch
it slipping by, and speculate and
dreamA and hope, and wonder.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1913-03-14

French law courts often develoI
phases of humor that can have NJ
counterpart in American or Englisl
procedure. Monsieur Hugot is presi
dent of the Ninth chamber. one of the
courts of Paris. The other day. Mai
tire c. appeared at the bar. and with
many gestures, pointing to his throat
made the court understand that he
had lost his voice. Yes, maitre." said
the judge, sympathetically, the court
notes that you have a severe cold,
that it is impossible for you to plead.
But your client shall not on that &C.
count be deprived of defense. If you
had been able to plead you would
not have failed to show that she had
a good reputation and that she stole
from her employer to nourish her four
children. In short, that the accused
committed a fault accidentally, and
that she will engage never again to
appear before the tribunal. There,
Maitre c.. is your pleading, is it not?
Very we'll; now the judgment of this
tribunal is one month in prison"
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1913-03-14
Good WAY to Retain Youth.

"She goes around with a fixed look
in one hand and pencil in the other,
said an Old World visitor laughingly,
in describing a clever little business
woman of thirty or so. The European
was also a writer, and she had to
work as hard as did the fixed look
little person. The lady from overseas
was also thirty-and looked twenty
four-the American was thirty and
looked thirty-five. To be sure, this is
an exceptional case, and most Ameri-
can women need be told little on re
tanning their youthful figures and
faces.
Take a peep into your own hand
glass now-does it show back a face
that looks as if you had half the
troubles in the world? Now think Of
something pleasant-the world isn't
such a bad place after all! There,
did you notice the change-and did
you see the years slide away? And
isn't the second countenance the bet
ter one to show the world in general?
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1913-03-14
MEANINGS CHANGED BY TIME
Study Of Word Building Through Cen.
turtles Brings out Many Most
Interesting Points.

Word building is as much a piece
of carpentry as is house building
Only it takes longer. Sometimes a
century or more. And by that time
the words first meaning is usually
changed.
For example the old word for
'neighbor" was "sib." Ones good
neighbor was known as ones good
sib." This became shortened to god
sib." and later to gossip" Then the
words whole meaning changed and
gossip no longer meant good neigh
Dor, but applied to the sort of talk
exchanged between good neighbors.
Take the word farmer" too. The
old word for farmer was Door"
(And "boor" later was used for de
scribing farmer-like or rough per
sons.) The farmer living nearest to
one was known as the "nighbor," and
this phrase, in course Of time, was
twisted to "neighbor."
You've heard the proverb: Little
pitchers have big ears" Well. ii
doesn't refer to the utensn that holds
water or goes to the corner side door.
Pitcher" was a slang term with some
such meaning as our word chap" or
fellow" Thus. Little fellows have
big ears" is a more sensible rendering
OF the proverb.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1913-03-14
HAD HIS OWN IDEA OF ART
sordid Man Could Not Be Brought
to View It in the Same Light as
Did His Wife.

There was once a Sordid, Common
place Man whose wife went in heavi
ly for Art, whereas the only kind OF
Pictures he cared anything about
were those of the Moving Variety
says Lippincott's. In an effort to cul.
tivate his Esthetic Tastes, she took
him abroad and dragged him through
the great Art Galleries, where he EN-
barrassed her by evincing a desire to
pause before pictures such as The
Temptation of Aunt Sainthony," at
which she wouldn't look except when
there wasn't anybody around.
Being of an Emotional Nature and
fond of a Good Cry, the wife used to
stop and weep before all the Sad Pic
tures-of which there were only a
few, being in this respect different
from any of our American Exhibitions.
in which the pictures are nearly all
Sad. At this, her husband. who was
entirely destitute of Temperament,
seoffed rudely.
"Oh, pickles!" he said Unsuavely.
The noise you are emitting sounds
like the Soul Of Lost Whale Do you
really enjoy believing thus before the
picture of a Poor Widow who was com
PEELED to eat her children to keep from
starving to death? AS for me, pre-
fer the other kind of Moving Pic
lures"
So saying, he wandered of and ask
ed the Liveried Attendant to point out
to him Leonardo da Vinci's Mona
Lisa" of which he had often Heard;
but the Guard told him that it too
had become a Moving Picture. This,
however, served only to confirm the
husbands good opinion of his own
Good Opinion in all matters pertain
ing to Art.
And the husband is still Sordid and
and he still likes Nov
ing Pictures.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1913-03-14
Iron-Bearino Plants.

Experiments are under way at the
agricultural archaeological station in
Vienna to increase the quantity OF
iron carried in certain plants with a
view to the effect on the human sys-
TEN when those plants are used as
food. Artificially prepared foods con-
tanning iron do not always produce
the desired effect, because the iron is
not completely assimilated. This diff
ficulty, it is thought, may be avoid
ed by causing plants to take up an
increased quantity of iron during their
natural growth. By adding hydrate Of
iron to the soil in which it was grow
ing, the experimenters have succeed
ed in producing spinach containing a
percentage Of iron seven times as
great as that found in ordinary spin
ach. It is believed that the process
will prove successful with other fer
ruginous plants.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1913-03-14
COLOR AN IMPORTANT POINT
Its Influence on Humanity Not Suff-
cientIy Recognized, Is the opin-
ion of a Traveller.

Il once met a man who wouldn t
eat tomatoes because they were red, "
said a New Yorker who has travelled
much. THE incident amused me at
the time, but later set me to think
ing. I am somewhat of a crank on
color myself l believe that color.
like blood. gets in the brain. You
know that the aroma Of tea or coffee
is more appealing than the mere taste
Of either of these beverages. If the
aroma grips you why is not the color
the amber. of these drinks appealing?
Did a glass of beer or a mug of ale
ever look like a sunset in autumn to
YOU? They have 10 me-Or like an
autumn leaf?
IF people would find their color
and stick to it, they would be more
happy. Women are more trained in
the color scheme Of life than men
that's why they worry less. Their
color instinct is more developed.
Certain colors make me seasick.
and they make other men seasick,
but they don't know it. have studied
the thing out, and am pretty sure that
know what I am talking about.
have cut out certain colors from life
just as l have cut out bread from my
diet.
They say that a word or a gesture
will make a play. have known
color to unmake a play Excellent
plays have gone to the storehouse be-
cause of a bad color scheme in the
settings. Were l to build a theater
would see to it that had the right
color in the decorations if I had to
consult the entire public as to its
color taste-would consider color
above acoustics. even"