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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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I “Money Goes to Money”
Said the Old Peddler
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He Left His Little Fortune to Rothschild. Money DOES Go to
Money, and Those That Are Richest Can Buy the Cheapest.
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We have told you of the old peddler—-dead, in the city of
Nice. His will simply said. “Money goes to money,” and left all
that he had to the great Rothschild, although he never saw him.
In life everv day, as well as in the will of the eccentric old
peddler. MONEY GOES TO MONEY.
Mrs. J. J. M. writes asking how it happens that, with the
price of coal increasing, “the well-to-do people should receive a
special letter, quoting the price of coal 25 cents cheaper on the
ton than prices quoted to ordinary working people.”
Mrs. J. <l. M. says that the prices quoted come from the big
rest coal concern of which she has any knowledge.
It is not true, however, that, the coal companies maliciously
sell more cheaply to the rich than to the poor.
When they deal with men that buy great quantities of coal,
they are dealing with successful men. cunning and resourceful,
able to get. the best prices and the best bargains.
And in order to GET the business from the big and intelli
gent men the companies make them lower bids.
They do this to get. the business, and they do it also because
it is much cheaper to deliver coal in great quantities than in
small quantities.
The rich family buys eoal more cheaply than the little fam
ily.'
The quotations sent out today in the suburbs of a, big city
quote a certain price on coal, and then add, “You must add 25
cents a ton to this price if you order less than four tons at a
time.” •
Four tons of coal means more than twenty-five dollars in
New York. The little family can not afford to order twenty-five
dollars’ worth of coal at once. Therefore THE LITTLE FAMILY
WHICH REALLY CAN NOT AFFORD TO PAY THE MONEY.
PAYS TWENTY-FfVE CENTS MORE THAN THE RICH 1
FAMILY WHICH CARES NOTHING AT all about THE
EXTRA TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.
The lady who writes us probably buys her coal one ton at
a time—and the richer woman in the neighborhood buys four or
five tons, or an entire earload, and gets it much cheaper. <
But there are others in worse plight than the woman who
writes us.
They are the hundreds of thousands that buy their coal
during the winter season. ONE PAILFUL AT A TIME.
The very rich person buys stove eoal now by the carload.
And the smaller citizen buys the same coal from the same dealer
one or two tons at a time and pays more.
Rut THINK OF THE VERY POOR PEOPLE COM
PELLED TO BUY THEIR COAL BY THE PAILFUL, AND
TO PAY SOMETHING LIKE TWENTY DOLLARS A TON
FOR IT.
So it is with ice. and with everything else.
If you are prosperous you can buy flour by the barrel and
ice in quantities and coal and other things in quantities and
save money.
“Money goes to money.”
And if you are poor and must hu,\ in small quantities you
must pay more because you ARE poor.
It isn’t done, dear Mrs. J. J. M.. because the rich coal
companies hate the poor and love the rich. The coal companies
do not hate anybody or love anybody. They arc simply bent on
making as much money as they possibly can.
And they can make more money selling four tons of coal at
a time to one person for tweny-five cents less per ton than they
can in selling the same eoal in small quantities at a bigger price.
One man and one pair of horses with an automatic eoal wa
gon attached can haul and dump four tons of coal for just, about
what it costs to dump and haul one ton or two tons. Hauling
and the handling make up A LARGE PART OF THE COST OF
COAL.
An ice wagon can deliver a ton of ice to a corner saloon and
make money selling at a low price.
But if that ice wagon must deliver a few pounds of ice at a
time along a hot street, up many stairways, carrying small lumps,
letting the ice melt, waiting to make change, then the ice costs
more, the deliverv costs more AND THE POOR PEOPLE PAY
MORE
The great is not so much in the heartlessness and
extortion of the big seller, although extortion does play an im
portant part. Ihe trouble is in the lack of organization among
the many.
Many thousands of poor families buy separately a certain
amount of ice and get a certain amount of refrigeration.
If they had organization, if they were united in the keeping
of their food or the arrangement of their dwelling, they could
have twice as much refrigeration for less than one-half the
quantity of ice, and buy that ice for one-quarter of what they
pay now.
Then, the rich man buys a first-class icebox, in which the
ice does not molt. And he saves the .'ost of the icebox the first
year through economy in ice.
And the poor man buys a cheap icebox, in which the ice
melts very rapidly And because he has hough) a cheap icebox he
must buy a great deal inure ice than he would buy with a GOCH)
icebox.
And because he buys ice in small quantities’ he must pay
three times as much, or even five times, what the corner saloon
keeper pays—and so it goes. ‘
“Money goes to Money.” One ven rich woman, who was
formerly a Mrs. Vanderbilt, remarked that life was really verv
easy, because she always sent her washing from Newport to be
done in New York—the express company carried it for nothing,
because her husband. Mr. Vanderbilt, didn't have to pay anv
oxfng t*> the express coinpant.
aer horses and carriages and so on went back in the
same way—transportation cost nothing.
That was another ease of “monej goes to money." H was
cheerful for her, but not. so cheerful for the washerwoman at
Newport.-who did not get the washing' to do
Don’t imagine that things are worse than they were in the
past. They are not worse, but BE I I'ER. At least, poor people
now ACTUALLY HAVE SOME ICE \ND SOME COAL You
doo‘l have to go back more than the lives ot three old men to
Continued in Lest Column.
The Atlanta Georgian
FRIDAY. JUNE 21. 1912.
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Laying Giant Steam on the Shelf
His Fast-Coming Rival Is Neater, Trimmer, Less Expensive and More
Efficient.
AREMARKA'BIJE picture of
Jack the Giant Killer on the
title page of HEARST'S
MAGAZINE for June forms a sug
gestive commentary on an article
in the same magazine on the com
ing of the “steamless steamship.”
Many of tire generation which is
now on the declining slope of life's
highway will recall George W. Cut
ter's "Song of Steam,” which we
used to learn and recite with thrill
ing effect on school exhibition days.
The boastings of the Giant Steam
then seemed prophetic, of ages of
unchallenged domination.
'l've no muscles to weary, no
brains to decay.
No bones to be laid on the. shelf.
And soon 1 intend you may go and
play.
While I manage the world myself.
But harness me down with your
iron bands.
He sure of your ci/rb and rein.
For I scorn the.strength of your
puny hands
As the tempest scorns a chain."
A Better Workman Than
Steam Is Crowding.
Less than two score years ago
that seemed the proclamation of a
new reign which might endure as
long as man himself. But already
preparations are being made to lay
the boastful giant on the very shelf
that he scorned. Every automobile
that'darts through the streets an
nounces the end of the reign of
steam. A better workman than
he is crowding him out. It is no
longer-given to his powerful’hand
alone to drive the piston tfaat
makes the w heels of progress spin.
And even his right-hand partner,
old King Coal, sees a rival growing
up to push him from his throne.
The new Diesel engine, which
you will find succinctly and clearly
described in the article referred to,
uses oil for its fuel instead of coal,
and derives its motive power from
the expansive force of the
burning oil, and the recoil of com
pressed air. If o. to be sure, not
the first “oil engine" to be invent
ed. But In it a new principle has
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
been introduced, which vastly in
creases the efficiency of the ma
chine. 1 shall not here repeat the
interesting story of how this, has
been accomplished, but I would
supplement it with some thoughts
on the meaning of such an
tion.
A Motto Which Involves
Whole Spirit of Progress.
The simple fact that the new
engine is not altogether new is full
of significance and of endless
promise for the future. It empha
sizes the necessity of what was
dwelt upon in an editorial in last
Sunday's American, viz.: NEVER
LET WELL ENOUGH .ALONE.
There is a motto which involves
the whole spirit of progress. The
Chinese let well enough alone, and.
as a consequence, until very re
cently, China lias been more than a
thousand years behind the age. If
inventors had regarded steam as
“well enough. " the giant's rule
plight have continued for millen
niums to come instead of ceasing
and giving place to something bet
ter within a hundred years after he
first put on his harness.
If Dr. Diesel had thought that the
older oil engines were well enough,
wc should not now be opening our
eyes at the sight of a large ocean
going ship driven by the new mo
tive power. AVe should not have
had before us the prospective of
steam, and smoke, and huge bunk
ers full of dirty coal about, to be
driven from the sea and the land,
and in place of these things the de
lightful promise of clean, cool, easy
working motors, and compact,
manageable liquid fuel. “It is es
timated that the Diesel engine
would drive a ship as fast and as
far with 100 tons of fuel as the
best steam engine would with 350
tons of coal." In that single sen
tence you have an inspiring glimpse
of what tlie tireless spirit of in
vention and contempt for the lazy,
"good enough" principle can do.
No human invention has ever
been perfected at a stroke or by a
single drain. After Edison had
proved that an electric current
could be "sub-divided" Indefinitely
and made to cajise thousands of
brilliant lamps to glow through the
"resistance" of little loops of car-
bon. unprogressive minds may
have thought that the invention
was completed. But it was not.
Other brains set to work upon the
problem SEEKING IMPROVE
MENT. Then came the various
metallic filaments for lamps which
have produced wonderful results.
.First, the forests of the whole
world were ransacked for a vege
table fiber that would furnish the
best carbon loops. Then chemis
try took hold of the problem and
sought for a" metallic substance or
combination that would do better
still.
The telephone was not the sole
invention of any single genius.
Every improvement suggested an
other—and the end is not yet.
Wireless telegraphy is not a com
pleted thing. It would be foolish
to think that it can not and will
not b<> pushed far beyond anything
we now' know of it.
Human Progress Result
Os Cultivation.
Human progress is the result of
combination. A hundred pushing
shoulders make the wheel roll fas
ter than one, even if some of them
arc ineffectively applied. Two
heads are better, than one. and no
where more so than in invention.
One head sometimes gets all the
credit, but each helps in its degree.
The greatest inventor would fail if
he did not have aids and sugges
tions. and if others did not follow
him with improvements. When the
w hole world takes up a new thing
it begins to grow like a snowball.
This is the secret of "the psychol
ogy of a crowd*' The orator finds
a wonderful inspiration blown to
him from his interested listeners,
and the inventor Is stimulated by
the focussing of many minds upon
his work. If an invention fails to
attract attention, it dies; if it gets
the attention of the world, thou
sands of minds set to work to im
prove it. and it rises into a marvel.
When it reaches Its limit something
else will take its place and a new
giant will arise. The lesson Is
never to believe that we have the
best thing possible.
THE HOME PAPER
Dr. Parkhurst’s Article
on
The Recall as a Parallel
to Divorce
Capital and the Labor I
Unions
Written For The Georgian
By the Rev. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst
DIVORCE is in essential par
ticulars similar to what is
known in politics as the “re
call,” and the two can properly
enough be considered as illustrat
ing each other.
Marriage and election are both
of them to some extent a leap in
tile dark.
A man never knows the woman
he marries till after he has mar
ried her and the courting days are
over.
Neither does a voter know his
candidate till after the canvass is
completed, the polls have been
closed and the elect has gone about
discharging the duties for which
he was chosen.
The two kinds of courtship,
therefore—the political and the
matrimonial —require to be con
ducted as studiously and thorough
ly as may be. that the unknown
elements in each of the two varie
ties of candidacy may be reduced
lo a. minimum, t-tnd <fisappointinent
obviated if possible.
It is unfortunate on the whole
that such a thing as divorce is pos
sible, for while the prohibition of
it would in particular cases'work
hardship and injustice the harms
made possible by divorce are in
general severer than those that re
sult from strict monogamy—one
many and one wife apiece.
One resulting harm is that it
converts courtship into very much
of an amusement and reduces it to
the low grade of a matrimonial
experiment, the lover —that Is to
say the man who imagines himself
a lover—relieving himself, in view
of the uncertainties of the ulti
mate outcome, by the reflection
that if the first wife proves dis
appointing he has learned enough
by his first trial to make a follow
ing experiment more probably suc
cessful.
With the matrimonial door thus
widely and variously open, his
courtship becomes an easy-going
affair, and in this way careless
courtship engenders divorce and
facility of divorce engenders care
less courtship.
A necessary result of all of which
is that marriage ceases to he a
human, a dignified or a holy thing.
The "recall" in politics is all the
way througli the exact parallel of
this.
It renders an electoral canvass
merely an experiment, and be
cause felt to be an experiment, and
to be an experiment that can easily
“Money Goes to Money”
Said the Old Peddler
Continued from First Column.
find conditions in which the poor people never dreamed of using
ice or coal. and. as a rule, had no shoes- —even in Winter. En
tire populations wrapped their feet up in rags or in straw. En
tire populations lived year in and year out without tasting a
mouthful of meat. They were not allowed to kill the rabbit's
and the deer that ate their crops’. They were not allowed to
shoot the pigeons that took their seeds out of the ground.
Conditions are belter—partly because the French Revolution
made them better, partly because our American Revolution made
them better, and especially because human intelligence, improv
ing reducing the cost of obtaining supplies, has made
life easier.
You pay $6.50 a ton for your coal now -because you haul
it from Pennsylvania to some great city thousands and thousands
of tons at a time, one panting, huge engine hauling the load.
If the eoal hail to be hauled as in the olden times by horse
power—those that complain of the high price of coal now
WOULDN'T HAVE ANY COAL AT ALL. AND C(»l LDN'T
THINK OF HAVING ANY
What the world needs is ORGANIZATION. It has already
organized PRODUCTION. The system of creating wealth, the
system of mining eoal. of manufacturing iron- all that is under
stood. Wonders have been accomplished because the ablest men
have studied ORGANIZED PRODUCTION OF WEALTH.
But the brains of organization have not yet been devoted Io
the great problem of DISTRIBL TION. I hat is the problem of
the future.
That problem in time will be solved also partly by greater
intelligence, partly by unselfishness on the part of the men of
power, partly because some of those whom we now denounce,
thoughtlessly at times, our great industrial organizers have
shown the way and blazed the path.
Meanwhile, it is not amusing to be poor in a civilization
which charges the poor man for the little that he needs more
than the rich man pays for what he wants.
CivilizatifMi will he improved by making men of power and
ability lake a greater interest in the welfare of the maioritv
less able.
That will be brought about chiefly by the natural improve
ment called social evolution and largely also by a displav of
greater loyalty on the part of the majority of the peope to those
that really serve them.
The ereat corporations and trusts never forget those that,
do them favors.
The people ,DO forget.
enough be tried over again, if the
first one fails, is dealt with only
semi-seriously and with no anxious
concern as to whether it turn put
well or ill.
It cjonverts into play the most,
serious of 9JI civic functions and
in proportion as the office to be
filled is more critical and respon
sible —like a position upon the
bench, for example—the greater
the dignity and the graver the
belittlement that is practiced.
If one will read the sixth plank
of the Rochester platform, and in
every ease when the word recall
occurs will substitute divorce
(along with one or two minor
changes), it will be found how
nearly alike the two vices are and
how closely resembling each other
are the results of the two vices;
also how earnest and critical a
truth it is that in both domestic
and civic matters "the fundamental
consideration is that candidates
shall be soberly elected rather titan
carelessly elected and then cash
iered.”
• • •
Although claiming that working
men should have secured to them
file right of unionizing themselves,
yet that right, like all rights, in
volves certain obligations, and ob
ligations which workingmen do not
always discharge, and their failure
in this particular is one of the rea
sons for the prejudice which capi
talists have against unions. ,
Capital organizes itself and by
act of incorporation legally com
mits itself to tlic fulfillment of its
corporate engagements.
A union, unincorporated, enters
into a compact with capital, ob
serves its contract so long as it ap
pears to be to its advantage to do
so, and then is legally free to re
pudiate its covenant.
Os course, it is morally holden,
but being morally holden does not
render It legally accountable, and
if the union is destitute of moral
respect for its pledge, capital can
have no redress.
That puts in the hands of union
ized labor an advantage not pos
sessed by the other party to the
contract.
We are not saying that unions
generally will avail of this advan
tage, but they do sometimes, just
as we are learning at the present
moment; and every time they do
they hurt themselves and their
cause.
Mon who have not the conscience
to deal on the square should so
have the leash of the law thrown
over them that they will have to
deal on the square.
That is what law is for—to hold
up virtue that is toppling.