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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN' COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St.. Atlanta. Ga. Entered as second-class matter at postoff:ce at Atlanta, under act of March 3, 18,3. The Automobile Business Is Only in Its Babyhood v r » One Man Is Making $600,000 A MONTH Out of His Fart In terest in One Single Machine—That Is Only the Begin ning. Who Will Be the REAL Automobile Builder? Before long in this country somebody is going to manufacture 1,000.000 automobiles every year. Who will be that man? He and his company—it will be too big for one man perhaps— will make a net profit of from $25,000,000 to $50,000,000 a year— and be entitled to it. A car will cost less than SSOO, perhaps less than S4OO. It will be sold for about SSO more than it costs to make. It. will be a car built for strength and endurance, for sufficient hut limited speed. It. will he made nearly entirely of metal, little if any wood about it. little if any upholst°ry. It will be arranged so that it can be used for a delivery wagon or mechanic's wagon all through tlm week, and a pleasure vehicle for the family on Sunday, or in the evening. It will be arranged also—and what inventor will give us this feature in a hurry in such away that the owner will be able to utilize the power of the engine for work of all kinds. The farmer will .jump into his machine, go out two or three miles or more to the piece of land that he is clearing, and then use the machine for power to run a stump puller. Or he will take his machine out to the fruit orchard, jack up the two rear wheels, put the weight of his own body and halt the weight of the ear on a disc harrow. AXD DISC HARROW HIS ORCHARD WITH THE POWER OF THE MACHINE THAT TOOK HIM TO HIS WORK. / He will go to another place where his truck farm needs irriga tion. The engine in his ear will be hooked up to the pump, aud the irrigating will be done. 1 Who is going to manufacture a million cars a year? Where is tfhe man big enough Some one. or some company, is going to do it. \ The car will be built TO LAST AND TO WORK. It. will be /busy ail day. It will put out of business more than half a dozen | horses —and a good thing. ? All the grass ami hay and corn and oats that we can spare we need for cows to give milk and for beasts to give meat. The more quickly the horses go, th; better for the farmers and the better for the whole country. Who will supply the combination automobile ' Who will give us the car to take the farmer and his hands to work, and when they get there supply the power to do the work What car will take a sawyer oft' to his aw mill and then run ' the saw the rest of the day.' • What <ar v ill Like Die ! mi 5 to »Iw bi'.- <it v limp. . , H id then run the vacuum pump to pull all the dust out ot the house and send it down the sewer or burn it ’ Let. no one tell yeti that the automobile business is being over done. E As great as the invention of the steam engine is the invention of the explosive gas engine that takes men at high speed and safety. The wonderful car at low price will come. And the wonderful car I'm a high price—ami worth the price— . will persist and increase in efficiency. Automobiles on wings will carry human beings through the air. Automobiles v ill carry men along the road, automobiles will I carry mechanics to their work ami help them DO then work when ■ they get there. The man who gets $600,00(1 a month out of his automobile husi i ness now is entitled to it he gives tlm country a great deal more than the country gives him. * But, unless he grows, lie will be small compart’d to the man I that one day will build a million machines each year, and make a ’ fortune equal to thai'o! -loiin D Rockefeller 5\- ■ ••Hing the best pos sible article \T THE I OWI-W POSSIBLE COST. i Do Most W omen W ant to i Vote? I iP ■ 1 " “““- 1 - ■; The question whether the majority of women want to vote may remain an open question. But the question whether most B women DO vote when they have the chance is approaching a set tlement . In San Frant iseo the other day,the newly enfranchised wo men of that city had a chance to vote at a municipal election. NINETY PER CENT OF THE REGISTERED WOMEN I AST i BALLOTS, AS COM PARED WITH FIFTY PER ( ENT OF THE ' MEN. The women who served as members of the election boards i are said to have done their work exceptionally well. Now, it may be that women when endowed with the elee [■ .toral franchise make use of it. not because they want to. but be - cause they think they ought to. If so. it can hardly be’maintained that a little more conscientiousness put into the ballot box will hurt the quality of the result. Many public men—Mr. Roosevelt among tht ni- -st em to think they have exhausted the woman 's uft'rage subject and exhibited their own unimpeachable fairmind'dness when tbmy have de clared that they are ready to let the women vote whenever a ma jority of them shall expr< ,s a desire to do so But is that really the last and all-sufficing word on the sub ject ? If only fifty per cent of the registered men ot San Francisco voted at the recent election there, would not the whole male pop . illation of that city run a grave risk of being disfranchised by tJie test that Mr. Roosevelt wants to apply to women? Has not a qualified male voter a right to v .t< -even though the majority of male voters should stay at horn Is not the suffrage a personal right or a ptt’.onal duty, inde pendent of the inertness and negligence of majorities If so, it would seem that the politicians who • :■• so r a ly to let the women vote when the majority of-them shall say they want to are just ducking and dodging the real issue. The Atlanta Georgian THE SHADOW ON THE HEARTH By HAL COFFMAN. 1 X X- I r 3 ■’ t lo’.'i fiaimit i'j ' ■ i>; ■'■b/k \ \ !• • : ;’l ria i«■/' ■■■ ; DY M A L-WBaF'ii-' m • vifc Y® a ■ Ip '.a IB A IWw it . ; - ' •'| Z" - A DOROTHY DIX WRITES OF. The Silly Girl W ho Is in Love W ith a Married Man By DOIKITHY PIN I have i letter from a silly girl who writes: ■'! am mt\ much in love with a married man. who talo .- m- out two • > three tini": a week to dinners and thi theater This man sweats that h>- worships m-, but he says that he do' sn't intend to get a rii t ore*' from iris wife because it would injure !> ! s basin*-s lie is a doctor ind that it doesn’t want to give up I’is children. But he says he lavs me better titan anything on earth. Do yea think he loves me when ?.• :r nkly t--l’.- me that there is no chiro' of my eve: becoming hls w if Do. s a man love a girl v, lien he is <lt l>e- tt. iv ruining her good nam' 1 f ~ i > own selfish pleasure? Does -I man love a girl when he pla . .. ’■••■.• in a position that he would shoot an\ other man down Ilk.- a d -g if he placed his own daughter nr sister tn? Do. > man lov. : girl when he takes ilu m st yr-.irs of her life and gives her nothing for them but shame anti regret? Dees n Man Who Can’t Marry a Girl Really Love Her? Pei a man love nirl when h wins her love, knowing that he can no' n :r-\ her, and that he is k> ■ ing her trom loving some other man who . otil,l marrr her. and who would give her a home and the natural joy f woman, wifehood and snothet hood ? Anv girl who asks if a married m ;n. w b.o ruthlessly offers her up as .. icrifii--' to his passion, loves he' is a fit inmate for an isyhim ?•' • the feeble minded. She hasn't intelligem enough to he allowed out in paolir. She m• ds a guard ian, er to he locked up somewhere iff a padded cell until sh< an take a good long think, and estimate just w hat sm a love is werti' the love that brim:;' her deg'adation instead over .nd above the fol’v and sir. a girl commits tn pi rmitting herself to fa ; in love with a married man and ae ■ pting attention fiom him, tin idioi-v ' the tiling appalls one It shm.vs si:rh an utte r lack of intel ligence t ■ play a game in w hich the FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1912. i ards are all stacked against you. and in which you are bound to lose out in the end. It brands one .as such an "usy mark to be lured into a game where one’s opponent takes none of the risks. For when a married-man invei gles a girl into a love escapade he i.n't e\en a square sport. She tab. s all t!>" chances, In non". She gets all the blame, all the criticism, she loses reputation and character, and people look at her askrnce. They jolly him about his new con quest, ano about being such a devil of a fellow among the women. It's pretty li'.mqual. isn’t it? .And a woman's a mighty foolish, unsophisticated, soft kind of a mush to t.ill for it. don t you think? How Does Giri Figure Out Result of the Situation? How does the girl who has an affair witii a murried man figure out the situation? Where does she expect to come in? If she hopes to gain any advantage from it she must count on breaking up the man'.- home, and that’s a cold blooded piece of villainy that any body short of a Lucretia Borgia might step short of. Certainly no girl with a married man’s k:.- i on h> r lips dares t ■ kneel down an dwhisper a prayer. She couldn't have the qrontery to ask God to bless her when she had been doing the best she could to bring sorrow on another woman’s head and rob a wife of the one dearest to her in life. Surely such a giri’s dreams must be night mares through which wail the cries of the little children from whom she is trying to steal their fath.-r. • it is an evil house, in which no | woman lives happily or secure, that she build.- on the wrecks of an other woman’s home that she has torn down. Yet if a.girl isn't plan ning such a home for herself when she abets a married man in being false to his wife, what is she do ing ’ If she doesn’t expect him to divorce his wifi and marry her, w hat future does she conjure up for herself? She knows that she is deliberate- ly cutting herself oft from mar riage any other man, because there is nothing that so bespatters a girl's garments with mud as such an affair. The girl may be really innocent -of any actual wrongdoing. She may have been more silly and sen timental than sinning, but the mere fact that she received a mart '• i man’s attentions when she knew that they were bound to compro mise her in the eyes of the world, and that she was willing to run s'ch a risk, makes people inva riably put the worst construction possible upon her acts. Another way in w hieh a girl s love affair with a married man is disastrous to her is that.it almost always leaves her bankrupt in heart. She has given to him all the love, all the tenderness, all the faith and sweetness that were in her, and she has no more left. I have s I n many such w;onT n, whA de veloped into sour, disgruntled old maids. 1 have seen many other such women who married, and who were weary, bored, joyless wives, who gave a hard, cold duty to their husbands in return for the love that good men lavished upon .them. Th se w omen had broken their ala baster box at the feet of false gods, and i bey had nothing to offer up to the true g<>d of love. Here Is the Acid Test of Any Man’s Love. I do not deny that there are real • - tied to . wife who is unworthy or uncongenial, and for whom he has no particle of affection, floes sometimes me -t a girl who is. his real soul mate, and for whom he has* an ovt i-whelming love. But such a man. inspired by a roal anrf honest love, would die before he would hurt the girl, or compromise her. If his love can bring her nothing hut sorrow, he goes away and leaves her. ' r h. acid test of a man's lave for a woman is whether it cherishes ami protects her or hurts her. Try that, girl-, when a married man makt e lovi t< you i■tdccoii’l! semi him sack to tne iionte where he belongs. THE HOME PAPER Dr. Parkhurst’s Article on God’s Business Is Not Our Business -—and— Cardinal Gibbons’ View of the Disaster Written For The Georgian By the Rev. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst WERE the man who some times writes the articles that are printed in this column possessed of omniscience, he would be easily able to answer the questions put to him, includ ing such a theological one as has now come to him. I will not quote the old proverb that fools can ask questions which philosophers can not answer, for neither am I a philosopher and certain correspondents are not fools, but, on the contrary, are usually bright and thoughtful and honestly desirous of having their mental difficulties met. An inquirer writes me tonight as follows: 'The Titanic disaster; was it God's will? Did God steer the iceberg toward the Titanic, or was it another of man’s blunders?” In some way, which no man can precisely state, it was both. The idea which we have of God is not satisfied, can not be satisfied by supposing that there is anything in the universe of nature or in that of history over which he does not exercise some kind of control. The Bible says that "His king dom is over all. - ’, and it would not be if there were anything left out for which He had no responsibility. But, while, it is well enough to theorize about all of that. His business is not our business. The thing He is accountable for, He will take care of in His own way. Whatever He may have had to do with the sinking of the Titanic man had enough to do with it to occupy his attention, and if he had occupied his attention with it more closely and faithfully than he did it would not have sunk. God : and man constitute a kind of co-partnership in such matters and it is easier to theologize about them and to dream over God’s end of the contract than it is to attend in a practical way to our ownend. As soon as we are willing to set tle down tnd be practical we have no real difficulty with such a matter as my correspondent pro poses. The officers of the Titanic were, to this degree, responsible for the wreck, that if they had -done what they ought to have done, and could have done, had kept the boat down to a proper speed and had steered off to the south far enough’to get around the ice instead of going bumping into ji the bodies that now lie at the bottom of the Atlan tic would be live men and women, happy in themselves, happy in each other and praising the Captain AND prac-ing God for having Justice Without Mercv BY WINIFRED BLACK. Did you see the story in the paper about the girl who had a woman arrested and put in jail for slander? The girl wa. young and w ell to do—she has a good position in some millinery shop or other, so the paper ii.|, wears neat and lather smart clothes, and is pretty. She lives at home with her moth er, brothers and sister—and she has a sweetheart. That's what all the trouble is about—-the sweet heart. The w "man who was arrested "aid something about the girl) to the sweetheart, and th" sweetheart teased the girl about it, and the girl had the woman arrested fur slander. Pile woman who was arrested was almost scared to death when the policeman came after her. She had a husband and four little chil dren. and the baby has been ill for some time. The woman cried and begged the girl to forgive her. But the girl laughed when she heard about the children, and would not withdraw the charge. So the mother left three of her lit tle children at home alone and went to jail, taking her baby with her. And the girl who had her ar rested seems to think it is all just exactly as it should be. Pf-.-hapi it -who knows? Per hags the worn n with the four chil dren talks faster and says more tnan she should. Perhaps those few days in jail will teach her to bridle her tongue. But do you know hat I w ould do if I were the sweetheart in the case? I w >uifl break my engage ment with this extremely just young person—and I wouldn’t be her sweetheart another day- no. not even if sh< had eyes like purple pansies and h o ; - as blacjt as night and a voice like dripping honey. I wouldn't tie myself up for life with an unforgiving nature like tiiat for all the promises, ever made, this Side of the Garden of Eden. f o reached the beautiful termination of a lovely voyage. So I say again, both did it, nut so much of it as man did is all that man need think about or busy himself about. We ought all of us to be glad that one dignitary of the church, and so eminent a one as Cardinal Gibbons, has not hesitated to put in crisp and unmistakable terms the resentment excited in his ca pacious soul by the unspeakable horror of the Titanic's wreck, charging it by a straight stroke to the existing passion for luxury and the greed of gain. The terms employed by him lift the entire event out of the foggy atmosphere of uncertainty and compromise. A sin is half cured when it has been characterized in language that no one can fail to understand. The testimony brought out at Washington that no attention was paid to the warning thrown down from the crow’s nest to the cap tain's bridge, that there was ice ahead, along with the testimony that the ice could have been seen long enough in advance to avoid disaster if the men on the lookout had been furnished glasses (which were asked for, but refused), seems to put the cap-sheaf on the entire stack of ignominious neglect. It costs a struggle to take it all in. One’s nerves become so tense and sensitive as almost to be able to hear the combined screams and wails that for an hour prior to the final explosion and break-up of the ship are described as having been audible to those occupying the life boats. It is all too horrible to think about, but it is so horrible that one can not help thinking about it. It is to the satisfaction of the incensed and grieving public that the investigating comifiission is canvassing the situation in a man ner so searching and so prompt and so free from all that dilatoriness and long-drawn-outedness that is so apt to characterize American in vestigations. Notwithstanding all the sorrow, wickedness and destruction that are the features of this event, we must believe that good is certain to come out of it. It is an awful price to pay, but there is nothing good to be had in this life without paying for it. •Scripture states the fact when it that without the shedding of blood there is no remission. Only let us hope, .that enough purchase money has been already laid down so that a second assess ment of the same kind -will not have to be called for. “You are five minutes late— where have you been? 1 ’ “What did you do with the $5 I saw you put in your purse yes terday “I was looking at you when you smiled at that girl this morning.” “You forgot our wedding anni versary—i shall never forgive you.'' Can t you hear those sentences and a dozen like them come ring ing down out of the future of the man who marries a girl who prides herself upon the fact that she can not forgive? “1 am not generous." said a wom an I know not long ago, “but I know I am just.” And she. who was so proud of being just, as she called it, turned a helpless little girl out into the street because the little girl had done wrong and ought "to suffer for it!” Just! Oh, heart of iron, give me no such justice! I do not want justice for myself nor for those I love. I want mercy —sympathy, forgiveness—and until I am so perfect that I need none of these myself I pray I may never forget to give them, and to give them freely and with an open heart. So she slandered you. did she. my high-heeled, proud young woman, with your beauty and your youth and your home and your friends she, the poor little, friendless, hard working mother? What a pity you couldn't forgive her for it—and make her your loving friend for life. Wouldn’t it have been nike if you could have gone to the little woman in her crowded little flat, and taken a bit of candy for the children and invited them all— every one of them—to your wed ding? Well, you are young yet—some day you •may look back and wish you hadn't been qfiite so proud of being what no doubt seems to you "absolutely just."