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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19

lights and the movement of peo-
pie.
The wife wants a change from
the surroundings and the things
she's been doing all day, just as
the man wants a change from
what ne has been doing all day,
and the environment that he has
been in, and the pity of 1t Is that
these two desires are diametrical-
ly opposed to each other. Hence
these quarrels and reproacnes
and tears.
The man complains: My wife
is never satisfied unless she Is
gadding about at night.
The woman walls: My husband
is never willing to take me out
anywhere In the evening.
And both feel that they are very
much misused. and both are right
from their individual standpoint,
and both are utterly and entirely
selfish, because each refuses to
look at the matter from the 9TH
er's point of view.
Certainly the man who has
been on a terrific strain all day
that taxed body and brain to the
very breaking point is entitled
to a quiet evenings rest at home
in which to build himself up to
meet the strenuous struggle OF
the next day. He needs it. What
is more, he must have it if he Is
to hold his own in the fierce COM
petition Of modern business life.
No man whose wife drags him
around OF evenings to theaters
and the opera and parties and
dances and late suppers where
he eats and drinks too much can
hold his own against the man
who comes to his work with
rested nerves and a brain cleared
with eight hours good sleep and
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
The Amusement Question

to places of amusement in the
evening rather than the after
noon. Scat! Any woman who
takes that attitude is inspired not
by love, but by the spirit of do
mestic tyranny. She's determined
to make an unwilling man go
with her just to show that she
can triumph over him.
However, compromise Is a good
thing In matrimony, as it is else
where in the world, and it has al
ways seemed to me that it would
be a good way to settle this
question for the wife to demand
and receive a cooks privilege of
an evening off every week. It
wouldn't hurt man either in
health or pocket to give his wife
one little treat a week. and 1t
would freshen and brighten her
up amazingly, and keep her from
nasgtng him the balance of tho
time,
AS Thursday is the maids day
out, SO let Saturday night be sa-
cred with husbands to the enter
tanning of their wives. On that
evening let them take their wives
to the theater, or to a restau-
rant for dinner, or a friends for
a bit of party. 1t would break
the deadly grind of domesticity
for the women and rob them of
their cause of complaint.
For, after all, marriage is no
picnic to a woman, and just being
married to man isn't all the
amusement she requires. Nor is
1t exciting to spend all your even
ings sitting up looking at man
who is as dumb as an oyster and
as unresponsive as a clam,
Matrimony needs some sort Of
outside amusement to cheer IL
along, for both men and women.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19

n FR. FLOYD DELL. under the
lVi title Women as World
Builders" sends out
through Forbes & Co, of Chicago,
some six or seven studies OF the
present leaders OF the feminist
movement. Mr.. Dell gives us this
rather poignant argument for
woman suffrage:
Can anyone doubt the effect
which the mergence of women
into politics will have, eventually,
on politics? Eventually, for Gin
spite of their boosted independ-
ence) the decorous example of
men win rule them at first. But
when they have become used to
politics-well, we shall find that
we have harnessed an unruly Nj
agara!
In women as voters we shall
have an element impatient OF re-
straint. straining at the rules of
procedure. cynical OF excuses for
inaction; not always, by any
means, on the side of progress,
making every mistake possible to
ignorance and self-conceit, but
Transforming our politics from a
vicious end to an efficient means
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
Letters From the Readers of The Georgian

read, and coming as II does from
a distinguished son of the South.
1t has no doubt produced q pro
found impression for good. II
should be printed in pamphlet
form for general distribution.
The negro sees more and mora
that self help is the best help,
and is moving with renewed en-
ergy in that direction; still In his
struggles for a higher and better
life and material advancement,
he needs the sympathy and en-
couragement OF the white people
among whom he lives; and l
thank God for the numerous evt-
dences that they, more and more
realize the duty Of according sucn
assistance.
Again thanking you for myself
and friends for your great eol-
torial and wishing you a Ions
prosperous life Of continued nss-
fulness to mankind, / -.
Very respectfully,
DANIEL 8. BRANDON lot MAJ
Pension onrlcA
Washington. D. c.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
STARS AND STRIPES

With three big league baseball
games going, how is the country
to find any time for business next
summer?
As for grape juice. the people
who have been drinking it can at
least say that they didn't know
they were loaded.
Mayor OF Paterson, n. j., says
women are not the intellectual
equals of men. He may be wrong,
but he's certainly game.
II Congress decides to build no
more battleships for this country
our idle shipyards might be en-
ployed building them for Japan.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
Garrett P. Serviss
Writes on
The Worlds Gold
If the Entire World Were
Suddenly Called Upon to
Pay Its Debt in Gold 1t
Couldn't Do 1t, He Says. -
By GARRETT P. SERVISS

worth of gold that was added to
the worlds resources in that yesr,
while at the same time the total
production OF the worlds other
mines fell to 100000, 900, which
was SIG. 200. 900 less than in 1909.
This state of affairs, Mr.. De-
Launay AYERS, IL becoming mors
strained every year, because
neither in the United States, nor
Australia, nor Canada are enough
new discoveries made to compen-
safe for the gradual exhaustion Of
the old ones. The faoe Of tho
world has been nearly overrun BY
the gold seekers, and, except Per
haps on the Antarctic continent,
there is not much space left IN
which to look for It. 1t fees be-
fore civilization, or rather civfli-
zation ticks 1t UP like q prairie
fire, destroying what 1t can not
replace. Cold" says Mr.. De-
Launay, significantly, has al
ways come from the frontiers Of
civilization, and before long CIV
ilization will have spread every
where"
Interesting Items.
can not here enter into M.
DeLaunay's discussion Of the cen
nection between abundance Of
gold and high cost Of living, or Of
the peculiar reasons why At the
present time, when the world 10
threatened with a falling OF IN
the gold supply. prices should
continue to soar, for all that
would demand an article by itself
But there are ono or two other
facts which he brings out that are
well worth knowing and storing
away in the memory.
For instasFos. St is very inter
esting to be told what proportion
OF the total annual supply Of gold
is turned aside from the money
vaults Of the great nations and
used up in the arts Of decora
ton and personal display, for
tewelry, watches. etc. This. sc-
cording to Mr. De1aunay,
amounts to from % TO 80 par
cent, or something more than
one-quarter Of the whole, As
luxurious tastes spread. the pro-
portion becomes larger. In an
other article, some time ago,
quoted what q weii-known stat
istician said Of the annual dis
appearance OF gold in India. which
swallows up many millions that
are never seen in the fern OF
money.
Another fact interesting TO
know Is that the ratio Of the
quantity Of gold held as money 70
the paper money credits Of the
world tends to grow smaller.
From 1909 to 1918 the total stock
of gold money increased by about
sa.S00,Ooo,0oo, while the amount
of bank notes, ETC., increased
$4,000, 100000, Thus, II the entire
world were suddenly called upon
to pay its debt In gold, It couldn't
do IT, which simply elbows that
the real wealth of the world-tr
its lands and all that they pro
duce-ip far greater than all It's
gold is capable of representing.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
By DOROTHY DIX

stomach at peace with itself
and all the world.
Many case of nervous break
down that comes to a man just
as he has success almost in hand
is wholly and entirely due to his
wife's mania for society. She's
rushed her husband from enter
tainment to entertainment when
he should have been resting and
recuperating at home, and he
simply collapses under the dou-
BILE strain of work and pleasure.
A Wrong View.
So the woman whose love for
her husband does not make her
willing to stay quietly at home
with him of evenings should be
prompted to do SO by her inter-
est. If she wants to conserve his
energies and strength and in
crease his money earning power
and hurry him ON the way to sue
cess, let her encourage him in
sticking to his own fireside at
nights instead of hunting up
amusement on the outside.
There is no reason why any
woman in these days of innu-
merable women's clubs, of hen
luncheons, of bridge whist par
ties, of matinees. of afternoon
tango teas, who can't get all the
diversion that she is entitled to
have in the daytime. She does
not need evening parties to sus-
tain her spirits, in the cases
where her husband doesn't want
to go out after dinner.
OF course, many women, with
a virtuous air. say that they
don't enjoy things SO much unless
their husbands are along, and
that therefore they prefer to go
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19

TR. L. DE LAUNAY, profess
vi sor in the School of Mines
and in the School of Roads
and Bridges, Paris, is one Of the
worlds greatest authorities on
the subject of gold. He has not,
l believe, acquired any notable
quantity Of gold for himself, but
he has accumulated an enormous
amount of information about gold.
| have reason to think that If
gold mine were offered to him,
he would decline the gift, on the
ground that the care of it would
take too much valuable time.
Yet the time that he would
grudge to the work of getting gold
out of the earth he has willingly
devoted to the less patiently prof
table occupation of watching the
gold that others dig, in order to
see what is done with 1t, and
what finally becomes of 1t. Most
people have very little compre-
hension OF this devotion to knowl-
edge, and no sympathy with 1t,
but everybody is, nevertheless,
interested in its results, and
venture to spread out some of
these results here, as I have gath
cred them from recent publica-
tons of Mr.. De Laumay.
Perhaps only mind of GER
tain grain can really regard
knowledge as better than pelf, but
all will confess that the next most
pleasing thing to possessing q
great deal of gold ones self Is
knowing what others who do pos
sess It do with 1t, and what the
chances are that, as time goes
on, the world will have more or
less of it to be distributed among
its inhabitants.
Known Facts.
We all know that as the popu-
lation of the earth increases, and
the different peoples composing
1t adopt more and more a COM
mon manner of life, which for
many of them means more luxu-
rious ways of living, the demand
for gold (the universal standard
of value) continually grows great
er. But many may be surprised
to learn that outside of the Trans
wall the production of the gold
mines is falling off so that as Mr..
De Launay puts it the entire
world is becoming moro and more
dependent upon that little aurif-
erous (gold- producing) corner Of
it, the Witwatersrand."
Mr.. De Launav shows that tho
fact that the gold deposits Of the
world are being exhausted with
out new ones being discovered in
sufficient number to keep up the
rate OF supply has been obscured
by the immense productiveness of
South African mines which serv-
ed to mask the relative failure of
those In other parts of the world.
Thus the annual production be-
came four and a half times az
great in 1910 as 1t had been in
1890, but 1t was the Witwaters-
rand which was chiefly RESPONSE
BILE for the increased total. In
1912 that favored spot OF the
earth produced almost 40 per
cent of the nearly $500, 900, 900
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19

The Fflipinos must be bitterly
disappointed in Francis Burton
Harrison. He Lad them to expect
they would be fighting japan 70
preserve their independence D.
fore the first Of the year.
Singular that President WI
sons success In putting out that
fire at Mississippi City does not
stimulate him to try his proves
on the Mexican connasration'
Great establishment among
Viennese as Austrian archouSe
pushes baby carriage. what 90
they expect, that he'd let ths
duchess do III
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19

DROBABLY there is no other
one thing over which there
is more friction in the av-
erage family than there is over
the amusement question.
The man who has been hard at
work all day meeting new people,
seeking new faces, adjusting his
mind to continually changing inr
dividuals and points of view,
comes home tired. He wants to
be quiet and rest. Generally he
Is so nerve worn that he doesn't
even want to talk or to be talked
to. 1t seems to him that no other
amusement in the world is quite
so delightful as just to browse
over pipe and paper in silence.
Wants a Chance.
The woman who has been hard
at work all day in the home is
also weary when night comes,
but her work has been monotony
personified She has done over
and over again tasks that have
become purely mechanical
through constant repetition.
There's nothing in sweeping a
floor or washing dishes, or sew
ing up a seam, or darning stock
ings to exercise the mind and
keep 1t alert. During the entire
day she has possibly not seen a
fresh face or had single per-
son with whom to exchange an
Intelligent thought.
So. when her days work is over
she Graves something new and
different, something with the
thrill of excitement or interest in
1t. She wants TO visit, to go to
tho theater to at least take a
walk on the street and see the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
PRAISE FOR EDITORIAL.
ditor The Georgian:

EuIIOr TIC GeUTSIdu.
I want to thank you for the
editorial of December 20, THE
South and the Negro" 1t justi-
fies what colored people in the
South have always contended-
that you are honest and that you
have never played to the gal
leries in what you have had to
say on the race question. This
editorial will go a long way in
the solution OF our problems in
the South. 1t will give courage to
thoughtful colored men and white
men alike. Gratefully yours.
]. B. WATSON.
New York, n. Y.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19
FROM NATIONAL CAPITAL.

New York, n. Y.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-19

Editor The Georgian:
l have read your splendid edi-
torial of December 20, and write
to thank you for 1t.
It is the ablest, the best and
most courageous article touching
the race problem that l have
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-10
NOT A FRIENDLY SUIT
Attorney Holmes Says He Will
Push u. P. Action to Finish.

Delevan \ Holmes. OF Holmes. Rogers
d Carpenter attorneys for the plaintiffs
in the suit brought on Thursday TO PIE
vent the Baltimore & Ohio stock owned
hv the Union Pacific from being distrib-
uted among the common stock holders,
denied yesterday that the suit was a
friendly action He said:
THE suit will be fought to fnisn.
The plaintiffs have no relation to the
company nor its directors other than as
shareholders While We have 2 high re-
gard for the directors Of the Union Pa
cifc we have been employed 10 defeat
the plan for the proposed distribution Of
the Baltimore & Ohio stock
MI Holmes said ne hoped TO win the
suit against the Union Pacific on the
ground that the Southern Pacific stock.
part Of which was exchanged for Balti-
more & Ohio stock. was purchased with
the proceeds Of q bond issue and not out
% earnings.
a Union Pacific director held that the
company had the right TO decide what is
part Of it's surplus. whether il be cash
or securities. lie said that the courts
have upheld this point Of view time All
time again
During dull moments on the Stock IN
change Yesterday wagers were made by
the brokers that the Union Pacific extra
dividend which is payable on April J.,
would not be delayed by the suit
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-10
Where Europe Leads Us.

Z lhs wake Of the land banks there are
TN 70 come not only other benefits
re farmer. but. as o., prosperity OF
'einer Is in large sense the pros
y % every one else. benefits for the
,. % The country a. a whole Sena-
'"'cher' IN speech 10 the house
'',ihors' late in August Of last year.
sc out that in Germany and other
lean countries there were thoroughly
'~1'eo systems whe.e. through coop
- among the farmers. agricultural
- had an The dement's Of CHEAP
" scientific production and dlstribu-
a'a social unity. In Germany. for in
70 pef cent Of the food consumed
' oouniry's 100000 Of people is
- within It's boundaries. and there
y, t'0'hise OF a higher rate. farmers
a.. ~" 10 81 per cent for short term
their own credit. and can get
-" 'oans on their land, repayable
\, .a'nen's through their associations
,A..p Fertilizers. implements. etc. at
- e prices; they have a scientific
a, veF the marketing Of their prod
'nsir educationl propaganda AL
a.. :. 'Aehsnse Of ideas that is invaIu-
- 'S' all these. in the compa rison.
ssh.,, farmers. as class. are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-10
COTTON MAKES A
SHARP ADVANCE
Bullish Ginning Figures Send
Prices Up More than
S1.50 a Bale.

Ginning figures issued by the Census
Bureau showing that l3,333c0 bales had
been turned out TO January I. caused a
sharp advance in the cotton market yes
terday. March contracts touching ll.5lc'
or fully half cent above the low OF
Monday. While the figures given were
about 10000 bales over those for the
same period last year, the falling off for
the last half OF December was record
breaking compared with the figures for
the first half Of the month. and plainly
indicated n much smaller amount remain
Ing to be ginned than was the case a year
ago Previous returns had indicated a
crop Of about li.7j0.eo0 bales, but those
made public yesterday reduced the pre-
dictions TO 100000 bales There are two
more reports to be issued. but there is
not much margin for guessing left and
spot business conditions are likely TO
command the major part OF the trade 5
attention for a time. There were slight
reactions under realizing, but favorable
weekend figures and higher Southern
spot markets encouraged buyers. ana
with prices only few points below the
top the market closed steady. at net
gains for the day of , 20 81 points
Southern spot markets were unchanged to
l4c higher and the local spot market ad-
vanced 80 points to l2.6oc for mddling up
land: no sales: delivered on contract. $50
bales. Local contract prices:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-10
MAY END SO. RY.
VOTING TRUST
plan Said To Be Afoot for Vol
untary Termination and Re-
tirement of Trustees.

II was learned on high authority yester-
day that the voting trust which has voted
the stock Of the Southern Railway Com
pany since its reorganization in 1924 VIII
soon be terminated. The voting trustees
are !. =. Morgan. George +. Baker ana
Charles Lanier. and their probable retire
mcnt is considered a part OF the general
programme on The part Of bankers III
breaking M tn concentrated control Of
corporations
In the plan OF reorganization OF the
Southern Railway it was originally pro-
vidod that both classes OF stock. except
enough shares to qualify directors. should
be deposited i'm a voting trust until the
company had paid in one year cash diNl-
dcnGs Of per cent on the preferred stock
That rate was paid in 1902. but before the
second half-yeaTly payment was made the
owners OF a majority OF both classes Of
stock assented 10 an extension Of the
voting trust until October 10. 1901, or until
an annual meeting thereafter. at which a
majority Of the stockholders could termi-
late the voting agreement
This right has not been exercised but IN
view Of the present sentiment against IN
tCrlocking Cirectoratcs and this form OF
control it is believed that this Is an op-
perfume time TO terminate the voting trust
Of the Southern Railway.
Last week when j. T.. Morgan an
nounccd The retirement OF himself ana
four Of his partners from the directorates
OF twenty-seven corporations it also be
came known that the voting trust Of the
Guaranty Trust Company. composed OF
Henry p. Dawson. William II. Porter
and George +. Baker would be terminated
at the emf OF this month. on october 20
the young trust by which Dawson, George
h. Case, Of White x Case. and Daniel q.
Reid voted the stock Of the Bankers
Trust Company. was also terminated.
The Pujo committee last winter laid
particular stress on the evils which might
result from the concentration OF power
exemplihcd in the voting trust. Dawson
was questioned as TO the value and pur-
pose OF such agreements He declared
that they were Of little value now, but
were servi ,eable durir & the period when
ambitious banking promoters were buying
up bank shares
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-10
Helping the Farmer.

re commission headed 10y Senator
asch1 which has been investigating
gargliural conditions abroad has come
ne Joint where 10 is ready % submit
, Congress a bill for the establishment
{ arm banks " the aim 81 the bill is
atlsd the farmers Of the country Wiz
, shls TO Do what they have never been
~ 70 % bsfore-borrow money for long
rods Of time. with their land as secur-
: AZ q rate Of interest which makes the
--i,E into debt anything but the peril
Ting Il IS now AT present the bulk
cans on land 20 farmers are made on
= terms and for such short matlrities
n even partial crop failure for the
s''cv means something close 20 a calam-
Inc foreclosed mortgage Of the rus
+ e'sma is stn zeal thing and no
~ hierar.' device Incidentally the
- system that obtains in most agri-
MA communities. particularly in the
~ one 81 the poorest in the world.
no countries % Western Europe have
~ ones. Most % them are miles above
7'h'ng thai Is known 30 this country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-10
A Hin, TO Mr.. MeAooo.

-. Van Tuyl commission has mo-
:. making it easier Tor the state
q, % issue circulation. Il they ever
=. o,nortur.ty. The only real OBJ
+. the provision .u the national
..n,t laws imposinc a tax OF lo per
~ such circulation. placed there be-
~. compulsion had 90 be put upon
g.. hanks 20 insure the success OF
...,o,sl system. born in Civil War
y msv be possible 20 set that tax
- b., 10 is worth notng that ne
-, has been made twice without
-, N 1902 the Democratic party
-, -iank I'M It's platform calling for the
"a ~ ne ,az. and tho secretary Of
-.saurv with President Cleveland
- rim pleaded strongly FOR its aoo-
=. IN, tho vote in the House was l'-
n. against i,. and o. the majority sew
ton we're Democrats Nobody seri-
= believes now that the state banks
II ,sa'r attempt 90 issue circulation
-, .st Congress will remove the impedi-
-, r.. AS q hint 20 Air McAdoo or
!. disabilities for banks which may not
~. 10 ioln the Federal Reserve Asso-
.,,.- Is a reminder that New York
r.rs 70 be- treated seriously as a
,.s,-s centre. the thine has its relish.