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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-21
Universalist,

FIRST CHURCH-16 East Harris
street (near Peachtree). Pastor, Rev
Fred A. Line. Sunday school at 9:45
Preaching by the pastor at IL a. m. and
p. m.
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Unitarian.

CHURCH OF OUR FATHER-sunday
school at 9;45 a. m. Morning service at
IL o'clock Preaching by DR.. ]. Wade
Conkling. Place of meeting. Cleveland
Manning Hall. so North Pryor street.
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NEW YORK, Feb, 2l-The weekly
statement Of the New York Associated
Banks shows the following changes:
Excess cash reserve, $36, 4t6, 400; de-
crease 50 IA 800
Loans, increase 81 .2g5 900
Specie, Increase $50. 900
Legal tenders decrease 81 go 900
Net deposits, increase 81. 500 900
Circulation. decrease &2S5, 900.
Actual statement
Loans increase SO. TOO. 600
Specie. increase 81. 036, 600
Legal tenders, decrease "a. 916. 600.
Net deposits, increase $3.50, 900.
Reserve. decrease 1885 roo.
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Weld & Co: "Spinners bought very
and their purchases this week have been
on a much smaller scale"
Morris II. Rothschild e. Co: We see
no inducement to espouse the bull side
Of the market"
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Church of Christ.

CONSTITUTION - Communion and
fellowship at In the afternoon, followed
by preaching.
EAST POINT-Lowe and William
streets. Bible study from 9:45 to 1o:45;
communion and fellowship at IL a. m.
Preaching by Thomas d. Rose at 1880
" SOUTH Pryor sTREET-Bible
study from 9:45 to 1915; communion
ing at 1880 a. m. by J. H. Hall.
WEST END AVENUE-Bible study
from 9:45 to 10:45; communion and fell
lowship from II to II 80; preaching at
11:30 by S. H. Hall @and at 1880 p. m.
by w. NJ Summit.
BUENA VISTA AVENUE-Commu-
MON and fellowship. II a. m. Preaching
11:8O a; m; mo- ana ?; m; Py E "; ~ mar
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BAR SILVER.

LONDON. Feb. 21.--Bar silver quiet
at 26 9-1Sd.
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CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO, Feb. 2f.-Wheat--No 2
red, 96A d96& No. red. 94@95: No.
hard winter. 93IE a94i No. 3 hard win
ter. 90; No. I Northern spring, 96097;
No. Northern spring, 1896; No.
spring ring $780, $g eo0eo,1 No ,vh,t.
s8% No yellow, 81 ls No. 4. b7K $50;
No, white, 57G5918; No. yellow, $50
COZ.
Oats-No. 2 veiite. AK; No. 3 white,
s9A @s99s' No. Z white, S9qS9A; stand
ard, 401a
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Lutheran.

ST. JOHNS GERMAN EVANGELI-
CAL-Forsyth and Garnett streets.
German service at IL a. m. Bible school
at 9:45 q. m.
DEEMER-Trinity avenue and Capitol
place, Rev w. c Schaeffer, Jr:, pas
tor. Services at 1 a. m, and 1880 p. m.
Bible school at 9:45 a. m.
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Opening.
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Atlanta. nominal; middling 13c.
Athens, steady; middling 1875.
Macon, steady: middling 1917.
New Orleans, firm; middling 13c.
New York, holiday.
Boston, quiet; middiing iSc.1
Liverpool, steady; mfddling 7.06d.
Savannah, steady; middling 13c.
Augusta, steady; middling 1874.
Charleston, steady; middling 1917. p
Norfolk. steady; middling 1874
Galveston, firm; middling 12A.
Mobile, steady; middling ~ 7-16-
Little Rock. quiet; middling 13c.
Baltimore, nominal; middling 12&.
St. Louis, quiet; middling 13k.
Memphis. steady; middling 13c.
Houston, steady; middling ~ Ills.
Louisville. firm; middlinR 12A.
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eoRT RECEIPTS.

PORT RECEIPTS.
The following table shows receipts at
the ports to-day compared with the
same day last year:
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CHICAGO CAR LOTS.
Following are receipts for Saturday
and estimated receipts for Monday.
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appealed to u.s. and that both of them might
depend on our putting 1t into practice with or
without their approval
Such an assurance would be at least strong
incentive to peace; for 1t Is really not neces
sary, when interfering in a fight, to obtain the
consent Of the party whose side you take In
naval engagement, for instance, between and
B, England can clearly steam in and begin to
sink BIS ships If she chooses and can. the
admiral OF the fleet can no doubt signal, |
vehemently protest against your unwarranted
interference" but he cannot refoat the sunken
ships or repudiate his assisted victory. TAKE
1t how you will, England-or any one OF the
three Powers taking the line propose for Eng
land-Would be in a strong position.
Can anybody suggest an alternative policy!
Take the case of Russia and Sweden. Sweden,
the Ulster of Europe, believes, rightly or wrong
ly, that Russia has designs on her TERRITORY
north OF the Baltic. In a reasonable state OF
affairs the whole northwest of Europe should
guarantee Sweden against such an aggression:
AT present she has no guarantee at all. But Il
such an understanding as / have suggested De-
tween Germany, France and England were IN
existence, Sweden could join it and sleep IN
peace. Norway, Denmark Holland Belgium
and Switzerland would obviously stand to gain
by coming in, as they have practically no
powers OF aggression and inadequate powers
or defence and with that as a beginning
glance at the map of Europe will convince any
one tnat at last Western ciVilization-or, as OH
Edward Carson would put it, the Protestant
North-would be safe. Better that, | think
than a Concert Of Europe that can be hcKeu
out or the way by tiny State like Montenegro
invite the armament trades to note tnat Inls
policy does not involve a reduction OF arIna'
ments, though it would probably check the III
crease Of expenditure which now threatens 70
provoke reaction l have nothing but con.
tempt for the imbecility of the people VINO are
wiling to throw away hundreds OF mllons
yearly on their idlers and MASTERS, ana ye'
grudge negligible fraction of that sum TOT d
battleship-who stare idly at the sale OF
pound of LondOn's flesh for three millions oy
nobleman to Spectator, and yet feel deePH
inundated by the result of the Carpentier,WeL
glove fight. By all means let us have Dlss0
ornaments than ever; but let us get value Iol
our money in strength and influence, lnsteau W
casting every new cannon in an ecstasy Oh t -.
ror and then being afraid to aim 1t at any %
/ have no taste for the military spirit I ,.l
whines continuously for an Impossible secu'If
and thrills Europe by cutting open the heag y;
a boy pastrycook held securely by squau "
soldiers. H.
/ like courage like most consutuuouS.i
umid civilians), and the active use OF st4ehe "a
for the Aviation of the world. | thlnh ~ AZ
good to have a giants strength, and n9t Az vo o
tyrannous to use it like a giant proYlaeu w.
are a decent sort of giant. ..do
What on earth is strength for but TO DC u sn,e
And will any reasonable man tell me ma
are using our strength now to any purpose
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-15

TN a recent debate in the House of Repre-
sentatives between two we'll known mem
bers which involved their respective posi-
tons on a proposed amendment to the Fed
eral Constitution prohibiting the manufacture
and sale OF Intoxicating liquors, it was said by
the gentleman who favored prohibition: ! ask
if there is any other question you can name
that Is OF greater public moment than the
question whether people are TO be forever
debaucbed The liquor interest on
one side and the temperance, prohibition and
moral forces on the other have made II ma
tional question and he cannot escape the fact
Whether the question Is national one or not,
in my judgment there is question OF far
greater moment That is whether mdlVlduaI
liberty is still to obtain in America
II may seem remarkable that less than one
hundred and forty years after the Declaration
of Independence and twelve years less than that
time after the adoption OF the Constitution OF
the United States the question | nave pro-
pounded should be still open for discussion.
Nevertheless unless | utterly mistaken,
there is now a strong tendency in courts, In
legislatures and worst of all, in the people
themselves. to disregard the most fundamental
principles of personal rights. Judicial decisions
are made, statutes are enacted and doctrines
are publicly advocated which. when was
young, would have shocked our people to the
last degree. In those days liberty was deemed
10 be the right of the citizen to act and live
as he thought best. so long as his conduct did
not invade ike right on the part Oh otners.
To-day, according to the notion OF many II not
most people, liberty is the right of part of the
people to compel the other part to do what
the first part thinks the latter ought to do for
its own benefit II has been said that the great
misfortune of the day is the mania for reguat'
ing all human conduct by statute, from respon-
sibility for which few are exempt. For those
who resent paternalism socialism Legislative
Interference with their affairs are often
most persistent in the attempt to regulate the
conduct of others That there has been OF
late years a reaction from the faith In indi-
viduaism, which was almost universal In free
countries in the middle of the last century, Is
certain.
The consideration, however. of the re-
spective merits of indvidualism of col
lectivism or an inquiry into the proper limits
for the application of the doctrines of either
faith would raise entirely too many and too
broad questions to be the subject of discus
sion in an address like this, and that discus
sion | shall not essay, though i am frank to
admit that having been brought up in the sub
stanualy universally accepted faith in the
maxim that who is governed least is governed
best" II is hard for me- at my age, to divest
myself OF my early predictions | shall con-
fine myself to calling your attention to GER
tain things which | think might well excite
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-15
BY George Bernard Shaw.
Famous English Satlrist and Essayist.


A NATOLE FRANCE, during his recent
"A visit to u.s. took more than one oppor'
tunity to insist that it is the duty OF
England. France and Germany to guarantee
the peace OF Europe Now, considering that
the foreign policy Of these three States con-
s;sts mostly in threatening the said peace, II is
not surprising that our papers and politicians
doubted whether they could have understood
our visitors French correctly, and discreetly
allowed the subject to drop. And yet 1t Is IN
this obvious and easy combination, and not IN
that impotent and paralytic absurdlty called
the Concert OF Europe, that our salvation from
lies.
What is more no other foreign policy ex-
cept a frankly belligerent policy of war and
conquest is possible for these countries to-day.
And the difficulty of inducing them to enter on
Il is not that they have alternative policies,
but that they have no foreign policies at ALL
Being In that deplorable condition, our foreign
Ministers stare about them apprehenslvely' ana
make speeches-quite intelligent speeches.
sometimes-about the perils of the situation
Apprehen siyeness soon intensihes into plain
funk Then we have navy scares and army
scares, and invasion scares, and Channel tun
mel scares, and aviation scares, and hnally
scare positive, pure and simple, scare Tor It's
own sake. Now II is difficult TO make speeches
about this sort OF scare. Minister can say
at great length that he is afraid of Germany
or of an invasion. or Of having too few men or
too few ships; but TO say simply that he Is
afraid and TO be unable to answer the simple
question What of" is awkward, and is, in fact,
not done.
Therefore funk produces new sort or
speech in which something that sounds like
deep and complicated policy is eXpounded. 1t
is explained with impressive knowledge OF
foreign affairs, that Russia is doing this.
and Germany might do that, and France once
did the other, and that these considerations
obge Italy TO do something which VIII leave
Austria no alternative but to do something else
which will place Turkey in a position which
will force her to take steps which will reopen
the Eastern question, England will lose India
and the command Of the seas, and be reduced
TO the level of a siXth-rate Power If she does
not at once do something else, which is usually
to build twenty more dreadnoughts and then
not know what to do with them.
Please remark that this mastery analysis
of the state OF Europe resolves itself into the
fact that Russia wants something, and is
stretching out her hand to take Il. Beauti-
fully as the applicant is balanced, all that is
needed 20 upset II is that some other State
should stop twittering with terror at the rest.
and, like Russia, want something and do some.
thing. verb is a word which signifies to be
10 do or 10 suffer. To have a real foreign
policy involves being and doing TO have none
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money for meat or wine
But these people can be pardoned for their
temperance: because It is never tainted with
idealism. Fabian philosophers put up with
vegetable diet; half of the Scotch French
peasants do the same. But none of the peasants
asks other people to put up with lectures on the
life-Force as well. The average Congregational
minister abstains from wine: does the aver
age Turk. But the average Congregational
minister does not wear crooked swords and
knives or fight with MethodistS until the sub
urbs stream with blood At least, l believe not;
there may be exceptions The Turk does; that
Is why II is easier TO forgive him. even for those
who dixie myself would first forgive and then
abolish him. What men resist. in short in all
these cases. is not the moral conduct. but the
morality. And | repeat that they are perfectly
right Conduct may be really, the dear old
decadents would say immoral because it may
arise from circumstances, secondary needs, col
orlesS questions of eXpediency. Nothing can be
immoral except morality.
The chief opponents of the Simple Life show
this sharp difference in mere morals in a curl
GUS way. They show it In what must be the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-15
How Social Reormers Get Themselves DikedBy K

ST HE rumors of discomfort, or even mutiny,
in certain model villages or other ideal
istic social experiments, permit the
mind to pause once more upon the real human
difficulties of what is called the Simple Life.
These difficulties are in no case. think in the
mere physical restrictions themselves. lt is in
the atmosphere Of the idea; ii is not In the
thing defended. but in the defense.
People dislike the theory of teetotaliSm much
more than the practise OF it, And very natur.
ally; for by the practise there is more beer for
every one else; but by the theory there is no
beer for any one Nobody dislikcs vegetables.
Nobody tin charity and n state OF grace even
iiSlikes yegetarians. But people do dislike
vegetarianism. aud they do well. For what is
wrong is the reason and not the act What Is
resented IS the religious atmosphere that goes
with tectotslsm. What is resented is the ethl.
cal atmosphere that goes with yegetarlanism.
There are millions OF people on the planet who
are teetota or vegetarian for all sorts of vari-
ous and accidental reasons: Of which the most
intimate and delicate, and yet the most ubiqul.
tous probably consists OF not having enough
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-15

most firm and instructive expression of morals
honor They show it in what must be the most
obvious expression of honor-hospitality. A
near friend of mine was asked to lecture in the
North OF England on Socialism. and received a
cordial invitation to dine and sleep at the house
Of some local Socialist. The Socialists first of
fered him drink. 1t Is on record that they
really called it a drink And so it certainly
was; for stale soda can be drunk-unlike the
poor fellows that drink it,
My friend, however, submitted to this for he
was hungry; and he was one of those Ito steal a
phrase, not my own that heard in some tavern
Grgument who like to eat with their meals
Time passed, and dinner appeared-or rather
did not appear. Fragments of green vegetation
appeared such as would not have satisfied a
cow, even If she had been an ascetic cow or
some athletic COW training to jump over the
moon My friend endured all this admirably;
drinking what was not Il drink eating what
was not eatable. Let me explain. in passing
that my friend really means my friend it does
not mean myself, who have mostly been my
enemy. | cannot, therefore. describe the details
of what followed. but know it ended in the
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guest asking the host If he might smoke, and re-
ceivinS stern reply In the negative, my friend
Il am happy to say Immediately lit his pipe
and vanished in smoke.
Now, the ethics of instances like this are often
disputed; such things have to be disputed in
order to be derided. But l think the principle
Is perfectly sound so far as such facts can 20.
Suppose friend of mine a humane and en-
hghtened thinker, wires to me: DO sleep the
night Mt our place" And suppose | find. when
| am just ready to go to bed that it IS usual in
that place for people 10 sleep on all tours in the
front garden. do not complain of the humane
and enlightened thinker because he does such
things; let him do what he likes l do not care
in what attitude humane and enlightened
thinker goes to sleep-so long as he doesn't
wake up But l do complain of his using a
perfectly public and finally fixed phrase like
sleeping the night with anybody in a sense
it could not possibly convey. Sleeping means
sleeping In q bed in some sort of bed for
even beds can vary. The humane and enlight.
ened thinker ought to have wired 20 me: "Do
sleep the night on all tours at our place" and
then honor would have been satisfied.
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rye Bernard Shaws Sensible Method of Preventing War in Eop

involves suffering; and that is exactly what
we are generally doing. We provide our for
eign minister with an enormously expensive
sword in order that he may be in position to
step into the European arena and urge Eng
lands needs and claims, backed by the means
of compelling attention to them. And, 10! he
has no needs and no claims, and stumbles
about tripping over his own scabbard when he
Is not tripping over somebody elses.
That is the impression produced by our
diplomacy to-day. And when claim. that
foreign policy should be controlled by the
democracy instead of by aristocratic foreign
secretaries and their retinues of tops, nothing
comes of it, because the democracy knows well
that IL is destitute of policy as any
Foreign Office in the world. Complaints of
expenditure on the navy, tags from Tennyson
and Christmas-card pacifsm do not make a
policy, and will not prevent the building OF
single dreadnought nor avert conscription
which is coming not because anyone outside
the military profession wants it, but because
Nature abhors vacuum, and impatiently
orders that people who won't think had better
be shot
AS for me, cannot see any difficulty in the
matter any more than Anatole France does
! want international peace. | have no objec
ton to the modern nostrum Of hygienic war
! appreciate the saying of Nietzsche that
good war justfes any cause. l am pleased
with the spirit of those who are now advocat-
ing war for its own sake, as tonic But il is
clear that war of this kind must be com
mercially and politically disnterested, and that
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Former Chief Justice Edgar NJ Cullen of the New Appeals
Who Believes There is Too Great Modern Tendency
to Restrict Personal Liberty

simply silly. Restraints on marriage are not
new in the world The only result has been,
where such restraints have prevailed, that men
and women have formed unions without the
sanction of either law or religion, and to the
credit of human nature they have, as a rule,
been constant to the obligations of those
unions If there had been legal marriage.
The confluence of the parents, however, was
unable to save their innocent offspring from
the stigma of illegitimacy. If the legislation
spoken of had this result it would be wicked
as wel as silly, but as it is so easily evaded
by going to another State to perform the mar
riage ceremony, / have characterized it only
as silly.
In the domain of commercial and industrial
industry have been the greatest attempts to
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alarm even in the minds of those whose faith
in the righteousness and efficiency of State &C
ton is the greatest II they still have some re-
gard for private rights.
1t has been recently decided that action
will lie against rich man who opens a barber
shop with the motive as charged in the COM
plant, of injuring the plaintiff, a barber IN
business at the time. and not for the sake OF
the defendants profit tTuttle V. Buck, lot
MINI, 145). If the commission Of an act I'M
questionaby lawful Is to render person liable
to respond In damages to any competitor af-
fected thereby by subjecting the motive of the
actor to the scrutiny and determination of
court jury, there is very little safety left to
the individual in the ordinary pursuits of life
Nor do think that ultimately the decision will
help the poor man. II the defendants action
in the referred to hurt the trade of one
barber it certainly gave employment to
other.
An automobile manufacturer has re-
Gently admitted his employees to share In the
profits of his business to the extent of mill
ions. If the doctrine of the case referred TO is
sound, do not see why other manufacturers
of motor cars may not restrain the action OF
the generous employer on the claim that his
real motive is not to benefit his employees, but
to injure his competitors in trade by exciting
discomfort among their workmen leading to
strikes. or course the plaintiff must satisfy
the court or jury as to the motive of the party
sued. but 1t is an easy transition from the
premises that the defendant for some reason
ought NOT 10 nave taken the action COIHpldlneQ
of to the conclusion that therefore he must
have acted with malicious motive.
Looking in the dictionaries of recent years
we find new word, "Eugenics,' defined as the
science Of improving the human race by Sc
curing better offspring. 1t is urged that for
many years it has been the constant endeavor
TO improve the breed of animals but that no
effort has been made to improve that of human
beings. The professors OF the new science
seek to accomplish this result by restraining
the procreauon of offspring by persons suf-
fering from transmissbe diseases or physical
defects. SO far as they endeavor to arouse
individual conscience on the subject doubtless
their efforts are laudable, though there seems
to be great difference Of opinion among ex-
perts upon the question of what physical weak
nesses are the subject of inheritance by chill
dren.
But. in accord with the fashion Of the
day, these gentlemen not satisfied to ad-
vance their by argument, but have
sought and obtained legislation in at least two
States. which forbids marriage without the
certificate of a physician to the physical we'll
being of the parties. If marriage were neces-
sary condition precedent to the procreation of
offspring, there would be some sense in the
legislation, however Objectionable on principle
it may be. but 1t is not. the legislation is