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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN FubliHhed Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY Al 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga. • Entered as second-claae matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act <>t March 3. 1879. Subscription Price Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week Ry tnr.ii, S". on a year Payable In advance. No Man Is as Great as His Work * r r In His Little Lifetime He Can Do Only a Small Part of Any Important Task, Then He Must Pass On and Leave Its Completion to Others. • _ “You can lake it from me. young man. that neither Wall street nor the Standard Oil Company nor any other power on tMTth had anything to do with the building of this railroad. I built it with my own brains. They got me the money. they got me tin men. Il is a good railroad: one of the best m the world, and it is goinir to last for many years as a monument Io me. But bear in mind that I made the railroad; the railroad didn I make me." I This came fiVm a pompous, iron-.jawed railroad president, as he scowled at an inquisitive reporter. The reporter duly set this speech down, and somewhere in some newspaper it may he found, essentially as we have set it forth here It isn’t true, it isn’t just, it isn’t even common sense, but there can be no doubt that wnen the railroad president uttered it he believed it. every word He fancied then, as be fancies now. that he was greater than his work, and that the railroad prac ticall' sprang from Ins brain, as we are told that lesser deities sprang from the brain of Jove, who was th» head ol the family of deities worshipped by the thoughtful but credulous people of early times Now Ibis man, able as he was. merely put together that I railroad Centuries before he was ever heard of men dug iron ore from Ihe earth, and thus provided the means by which his track and locomotives and car wheels could he built. While the buffaloes were still kicking up dust clouds along . his present right-of-way. Stephenson was tinkering at his lea kettle of a locomotive engine, thus beginning ONE BRANCH of the railroad business, of ALL <)!■’ WHOSE BRANCHES this man calls himself the master. Thi'ii other men improved the locomotive and devised meth ods of engineering and harnessed the lightning to the electric telegraph, and taught steam how to work in a steam shovel, and educated the public into ways of buying railroad stocks and bonds, and experimented with different kinds of rolling stock, until from the abundance of the work that they had produced it was possible to choose and arrange the materials for a rail road And meanwhile the tough, sinewy pioneers who had crossed the plains with ox teams, fighting their way against Indians and wild animals and famine and blizzards, developed a new country and planted the wheat fields that made the railroad worth while. So the great railroad builder, instead of being greater than his work, was merely a small part of it. He took up the work of hundreds, even thousands, of other men. and. bellowing the example of many other railroad builders, combined it all into a tolerably efficient railroad. Relatively he was about as much the originator of the great system that he brought together as the fourteenth eoral insect in a reef composed of fourteen hundred billion coral insects is the originator of the reef. The world requires men like ibis man men with imagina tiou and nerve, who can see its needs, and who have the courage to supply them, no matter whether their motives are purely phil anthropic which is often or wlml'v selfish. But the world can not afford to let such men get conceited or to fancy that com pared to their own important personalities the work that they are doing is a mere incident. Several times in history big. able men have become possess cd with the idea that they were greater than all other earthly beings, she last of these was Napoleon, and he lived io under stand, if not to admit, his mistakes. America has Iweu more fortunate in its great men. Wash itiglon knew that compared Io the cause he served his own per sonality counted lor hut little. There was never a time that he would not have stepped aside Io let an abler man lake charge ot trie Colonial army, had an abler man been possible to find. Lincoln counted his country first and |iimself lasi He had m> vanifv that h's contemporaries were able to discover: he had i no ambition other than to the country once more united and al peace Great men were both of thes". yet neither of them fora minute fancied that In was a- eieai as the task that he , had been set to do Jhe world that hum >f ns ;<imu is ;l o t . ( ii workshop, m which each must find the job h" is l>,.st fitted to do. ami do it as well as he may Education is bm ■.i.i,i> n< ; vvlmi mher men iiav d„r m ,h world inorder th.l vv may v:.-. ~i imie in dis.-ov ring v.hai has already been discovered or m following paths that have t been found to load in no useful dire,•non There is no work so unimportant that u is lo be despised so long as il is wholesome; ihei" >s no field of human endeavor 1 that has been so fully cultivated that it will give no further re turn for labor The man vv ho realizes that instead of being cr. aler ihan his task he is infinitely small in comparison with u has a chance to do his best, ami in doing his best he is reasonably sure to h. successful. Whether lie gathers together a great fortune or not does not matter a great deal Snnr men were not meant for foi tunes, and are spoiled by them But whether or not he can jiislily his existem-. by heme of use to those that are here ami those who are to .onm mat tors a great deal Let him lake hold of any work that ionps i,, hand if Im finds that In 1 can do il. and after learning all that there s to know about what has been done upon it go e.mrageoiislv to work to do a little more if he can He will soon find that as lie progresses th, importance of his . task becomes constantly greater in his eves. and that .is i]p vears have passed by he has <<>m. io prefer ii to anvil, ..g Is, in the world Whether it is medicine, lav. engineering or selling ies. if he feels that it is a great and useful work he w II find m if pleasure and satisfaction, and urn-...-,• .mslv .• qdl . one of *he world s really valuable hoi The Atlanta Georgian Gie never had a chance That Is What Nine Men Out of Ten Who Are Failures Say. Look Out That You Don't Say It Yourself. By FAD I -s II 3 I ■ 11 IMIVATE ; ‘I 1 ' ' Sil ' |Jm| ,i" ’ ~ i ' ' - » NO. 10. One of Ihe regulars in the corner saloon straightened Yum up and he left to see some I good friends. Yum wanted lo start all over again anti he a right guy. ” He thought lie d t;i l<• a small heer for hefore he started, hu! on • of Hie gang fold hint that drinking heer right: whisky was the stuff. Drinking heer. said, always made him think of a fellow trying io scratch his hack without any finger nails. Yum took a few shots and went down to sceTiii old friend He sat in the hall. When the office hoy asked for his name he said. '■Just tell him that Yum is here; he'll know." Fhe Working Man and His Money Save, Save, Save. Fhe Future Will Care For Itself (Tile pillow mg .irtieh is piloted In !><•! i o ission from Mr, Timm is Tapp ’s blink jll: I published by Illi' F’l.i 11 Beck ( ‘o., New York. ind copyrighted by tnn tit led " Youth and < tppin t unity." I IK I us keep bi fol i ii- the a ve> - ■ ego w n u mid iiis money . ami let 11 ask w li.u his money imams. what its power is. mid how it may serve him now .lid m I lie fill 111 e . I'm Ve| y UUI 11. who earns little or much, looks upon money almost hungrily as th" one .('souive of saletv. lie wants tile use of it now and the com fort of it in the future. Most peo ple get the one the use of it in the present lint not thei. thi fut w < pi nt, lion of it. ' 'mi a men have both'’ - It is a comforting fact to state that he e in. Hut in m .1- ■ th.it a workingman of any status, may i liav- this two-fold use of nr-ney he must begin the- study of two t kings I lift he money he ea I|S (if the time he possesses l-'i mu :se he must get I lie t w o fold satisfaction In see's pte.-'-nt • eomfm i mid fut ure insurani ■ How shall he begin . Assuming ii*.' he gives the very i ties! there i- in him fm ihe money he leceivs. it becomes clear th it money is otilv another term of the best there is m him lb- thinks ami works, is faithful tn bis task, ami al the end Os Ihe w eek t • P V env elope I fix KS HIM THESE <„>l AI.ITIES HACK AGAIN IN t.A'oTHKK I 'lltM. Illis money is a thing he can exchange readily i.e other things But before he be gins tn exchange it lie should pans, a moment and -ay to himself: What He Should Think When He Gets His Pay. This envelop! contains ill dr • ffort of my health, strength uid thought tm a we. k I may m may not be able to keep health, strength .ml thought up to the present pitch t • the end of my life, hence this nr nev should protect and guaran k. m. protection 'ai<-'. when I m.o possibly be loss so I'lii-mtiL' ibis tin> of reasoning, bis fust d. dm tion will he Ibis • o all mils against himself th it be commits ’Io. waiting of money ’ cm of the most disastrous. for • ■ mj va m ■ o w 1- ( oig bi w WK I INKS DAY. JINK 12, 1912. The hoy returned to tell Yum that his boss was out. Yum went to other offices, but they all seemed lo be out. Einally he thought of the boy that drove the butcher wagon in the smdll town years ago. lie came out and saw Yum. He thought perhaps that if his old pal was given a help ing hand he might get going after all. He told Yum to see him the next day and that he'd rig him up with some new scenery and give him a job. The world seemed a bit brighter now. Yum had a slight chance at last, To Be Continued. Bv THOMAS TA Pl’Kir power of mind and body. The mom y he iirns should serve him faithfully. and lie. in t urn, must be faithful to himself in the use of his money, t'p to the prison, moment In- has perhaps saved nothing. The rule of his life has been a varia tion of "easy come, easy go." tint it hire not put him forward. He is no bitter off. lias nothing in ’.land, Ile is. in f it. a little oldei and a little nearer the time when hi - efiieiency may be less than it is toda y. He Must Make Himself a Student of Money. If he can -uv -id in Seeing him self in tills tight, he will begin to be .. sin ' nt m money. The first tiling lie nusl do is to study m order the fobow ing subjects: I Appropriation. -'. Equipment of himself as a W orker 3. Tile daily leisure lie enjoys-. By appropriation is meant this: If he is , family man. certain fixed items of expense must be met reg ularly. lb- should sit down and makr mu an accurate list of these. ll.’ should study this list until he is positive that it is light, that it represents only those things that a c neces-oiy io himself and Io his I imilv On. of three results will bi befo ■ him. (ii Tim appropriation Is beyond || te amount In earns. (2) I or it i- .’.in., p, it. leaving no mar gin. (3 I or it is below it and ae i ilally dm - e.i v < him a margin. • If be finds that he is living be yond his ineom. m even within it. bls duty is to begin again mid re apportion his expenses so as to lo.’ie margin, for the future is only S’, m. when a margin exists. It mac b- ever si. .small. Iml it pos itively must evi-.i. m he is skating on no so thin Ibn I be is in eon - slant -'.mgei of breaking tlnmigh ami drowning himself mvl his love.) Thor, is required of him noth ing less than actual - mirage. brav ery of the highest kind, to give up things he Iris |i. iiiu|>s accus tomed to. and t<. establish the mar gin he must have, hut jf he is so ri yus and manly he v. ill do it. His position now is this He earns a definite amount. Every time the contests of the pay envelope is dis tributed there is something left fol ilw savings bank, or for life itisur rime, or for both. 11. ba now put lo im.m.-.|i >f fairs in order. It has occurred to him that anything’ a man can not afford is really’ a waste, and waste is the most expensive of all habits. Extravagance is exceptionally ex pensive. Earnest men are unani mous tn their denunciation of it. Mr. Theodore Roosevelt has said: “Extravagance rots character: train youth away from it. On the other hand, the habit of saving money. . while it stiffens the will, also brightens the energies. If y ou w ould bi- sure tlfat you are be ginning right, begin to save." Hive cents thrown away for a, thing one does not* need is all the money a dollar can earn in twelve months, invested at five per cent. Hut five cents placed in the sav ings bank daily, amounts in fifty years, to marly $3,000. A dollar bet on a game and lost cannot be '■arned as interest in one year on a sum less than S2O. Small sums saved daily even for so short a time as ten years, accumulate im pressively. Ten cents saved daily for ten years amounts, at four per cent, to nearly $450. fine dollar a week placed in a savings bank continually for fifty years amounts Io over SS,OOO. These illustrations should give one faith in the power of a little money io reach considerable sums. IE IT IS CONSTANTLY SET ASIDE. John Wananiaker. who is said to have started in life on a !■ n-dollar-n - w ••• k salary, say s. Difference Between Spending All or Saving a Part. 'The difference between the clerk who spends all of his salary and ihe clerk who saves part of it. is the difference. in ion years between the owner of a business aiid the man out of a job." And Andrew Carnegie, whoso success in accumulating money is known to everybody, thus speaks of ilw losses that the improvident man must suffer:- 'Th!' failure of the man who does not save his money is due not only to the tact that he has no money with which (<• take advantag<- of the Opportunities that come in the way of every man. but also, and particularly to tin Im't that such a mnn Is not abb- or fit to avail himself of thes- opportunities. The man w ho can not and does not save money an not and will not be mi thing *l’ • north n bile.” THE HOME PAPEzR Dr. Parkhurst’s Article on Civilization in Man Is t-v Not Lasting ---and— 'jjf Our Reversion to Former | Types 'Written For The Georgian By the Rev. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst r l'' HIS is the time of the year * when a good, many people are leaving home, or, it had belter be said, are leaving the place where they are accustomed to stay, for in some cities there is not very much of the home idea left, and what is called home is for the most part simply the part of the town where one where one takes his meals and where one keeps his trunks preparatory to going into the country or going abroad. And even those who are so cir cumstanced as to be unable to ab sent themselves for any consider able time, stay away as long as they can and do not return till they have to. It may be Paris, it may be Coney Island, we all remain where we be long as little of Hie time as we can. By constitution, we dwellers in great cities are all tramps. Even people who have elegant homes to live in and comfortable beds to sleep on will lock their doors, for sake their beds and go rushing out into the woods for the fun of camp ing out. Difficulty of Living Down Inherited Impulses. It is a reversion to the original mode of living when our ancestors roamed through the forests and dwelt in tents, huts and caves. It is difficult to live down the im pulses that have descended to us from the habits of centuries ago. The original savage keeps creep ing out in us. We are constantly on the verge of becoming wild men of the woods again. A few centuries of civilization nave hard work battling against the hundreds of thousands of years that our race lived through before it struck civilization. It takes old momentum a long time to wear out. It requires con stant struggle to keep from drop ping back into the hole that man kind has crawled out of and that it is homesick to fall back into again. It is the same with man as with brute beasts. I met on the cars the other day a man who had along with him a Siberian dog. The ani mal was gentle and could be safely played with by a little child, "but." said the gentleman, "there are spots of wolf in him. and were 1 to let him run wild in the woods for six months all the savageness belong ing to his ancestry would breakout in him. and he would have to be shot or eaged." In man or beast civilization is not a permanent quality. It is against nature and becomes extinct unless constantly renewed. We are kept respectable by restraints. cSb Shirtwaist Days &?o By (’HESTER FIRKINS. i T T THETHER pink or white or blue. \ V Whether prim or peek-a-boo, Here's a welcome unto you, Pretty waist! *’f all summer comers blest. You're the brightest and the best; Every wintry clothing post You've effaced, <’ll, but aren't we glad to be k'rom those "ladies, suite" sot free. And the ugh. crochet.' Pony coat! As the May-time flowers save Country glade from Winter's grave, So you give the city pave Summer's note. It is for that reason that going off in the summer and breaking loose front our accustomed sur roundings involve* an amount of risk. We are likely not to come hack in as good moral trim as we were in when we went away. There Is a sense of wild liberty experienced" by any man when he feels that lie is looked upon by people that do not know him. Human Beings Held in Place Like Bricks in a Wall. Like bricks in a wall. «e ar* held in position In part by the hu man bricks that we are wedged in between. It is unpleasant to fall below the expectations that others have concerning us, and those to whom vv e are total strangers have no expectations regarding us one way or the other. They will not be surprised, there fore, if we behave well, nor any ' more w ill they be am prised if we behave badly. People who are good Christians when living among Christians easily turn reprobates i when let loose among people of the other kind. It is true to creed, that "once * saint, always a saint." but it does not always seem quite true to fact. Clamp a steel spring and It will retain its enforced shape so long as the clamp is on. but remove the ctamp and it will fly back to the form that it was in originally; even after a thousand years it will fly back. There is a great deal of efficacy, therefore, in clamps. Going away from home and from usual sur roundings and people is. therefore, dangerous, for it means removing some of the clamps. Much of what we commonly sup pose to be our virtue is simply the unnatural and enforced shape in which we are held by external pressure. There has recently been published the story of a person who had been dead for five min utes, but who was resuscitated by mechanical pulsation. Goodness Not Altogether j ’ A Matter of Artifice. That shows what forces operat ing from without will do for the body. They will do somewhat, the same thing foi the inward man and create in him a condition of arti ficial goodness. That does noi mean that good ness is altogether a m .er of ar tifice. but only that goodness at its ' best is more m loss infirm, and is much more dependable when ex isting in circumstances that are of < a kind to encourage it and to keep it in good spirits. Trim and dainty, tried and true. You are democratic too; For the Many, like the h’n Hail your fame. At her factory machine Sadie wears you; Fashion> queen In her gleaming limousine Does the same. , •TO * " elcotne. little Summer Waist! Though they say you're not straight laced. Let such pedantry be placed Out <ff view f 1 hie and ' harming new and neat, < AV hat has Earth that’s half so street Save the girls, who bless the street. WEARING you’