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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 postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March S, IST? Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mail, $5.00 a year. Payable in advance. “Money Goes to Money Said the Old Peddler •> ». w He Left His Little Fortune to Rothschild. Money DOES Go to Money, and Those That Are Richest Can Buy the Cheapest. 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 GdES TO MONEY. Mrs. •!. •!. 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. ,L J. M. says that the prices quoted come from the big gest 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, thev 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 coal 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 Ilian 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-FIVE CENTS MORE THAN THE RICH 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- ami the richer woman in the neighborhood buys four or five tons, or an entire carload, 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 PAILI-'l L AT A TIME. The very rich person buys stove coal now by (tie carload. And the smaller citizen buys the same coal from the same dealer one or two ions at a time and pavs more. But THINK OF THE VERY POOR PEOPLE COM PEELED 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 buy in small quantities you must, pay more because .von ARE poor. It isn’t done, dear Mrs. J. J. M., because the rich goal companies hate the poor and love the rich. The coal companies do not hate anybody or love anybody. They are simply benl 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 coal in small quantities at a bigger price. One man and one pair of horses with an automatic coal 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 deliver* costs more AND THE POOR PEOPLE PAA’ MORE The great trouble is not so much in the heartlessness and extortion of the big seller, although extortion docs play an im portant part. The 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 flic arrangement of their dwelling, they could have twice as much refrigeration for less than one-half the quantity of ice. and but that ice for one-quarter of what they pay now. Then, the rich man buys a first-class icebox, m which the ice does not melt And ho saves the cost of the icebox the first year through economy in ice. And the poor man buys a cheap icebox, in which the ice melts very rapidh \nd because ho has bought a cheap icebox bo must buy a great deal more ice than he would buy with a GOOD 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. s - “Money goes to Money. - Ono very rich woman, who was formerly a Mrs. Vanderbilt, remarked that life was really very 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 any thing to the express company. And her horses and carriages and so on went back in the same way—transportation cost nothing. That was another case of “monej goes to money.’' It was cheerful for her. hut not so cheerful for the washerwoman at J?ewDort. who did not get the washing to do Don’t imagine that things are wm-si than they were in the past. The* are not worse, hut BE I I ER. At least, poor people nov MTI'ALLY HAVE SOME HE AND SOME < OAL. You don’t ha\i io go hack more than the lives of three old men to Continued in Last Column. The Atlanta Georgian FRIDAY, .TUNE 21. 1912. OH! THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY!! By T. E. POWERS. Copyright, 1»12, by International News Servic* A tuoAt T« ‘sit’ l I LETS SPEND TBE MY C OH SEE W BEAUTIFUL COW Q (h The country ) oh see the Beautiful TSee; j ! “ A -rui/ ,7 oh see beautiful G Ml LIKE THIS _ AhE ul TAKE A < ] -r ~ r LOM< yjAtiy Y “ y WaSCEw? wffw /Rs? —I > Mali i 11 1 7, ' i' < Mfr w WnTvIP / h H oatstki jL_— $ IB I TV- \lp'“= II /'A& L / ‘Mi 1 JW iL, CoHWALEjceNT ( OH SEE THE BEAUTIFULj 8^ 0 ?<T UL ') INN ycVeV 2 I CAFE— y 1 < ye o Lg* [Pof I A AZ Jo □ a □ D ~ /; V \ % TLggjgr n Wi // _ ’• //Ji\ * a v ® 1 tv OH SEETHE beautiful') fTHATSA UQ ON Nou! ) dice BOX -I^^— —- ft" el i ’ 4 fSBIBIBy TazirnmoH . Laying Giant Steam on the Shelf His Fast-Coming Rival Is Neater, Trimmer, Less Expensive and More Efficient. AIIEMARKABI.E 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 "sleatnless, steamship." Many of the generation which is now on the declining slope of life's highway w ill recall Georce 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. ’ "I’ve no muscles to weary, no brains Io decay No bones to be laid on the shelf. And soon 1 intend yon may go ami play. While 1 manage the world myself But harness me* down with your iron bands. Re sure of your curb and rein. For I scorn the strength of your puny hands As the tempest scorns a chain. " A Better Workman Than Steam Is Crowding. boss titan two score years ago that seemed the proclamation of a new reign which might endure as long as man himself. But akready P’-eparations are bring 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 h’ m out. It ‘is no longer given to his powerful hand alone to drive the piston that makes the wheels 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 it- motive power from Ihe expansive force of the burning oil. and the recoil of com ’ pressed nit. Ii to be sure, not the first "oil engine" tn be invent 'd. But in ii a new p incipb - h>’ By GARRETT P. SERVISS been Introduced, which vastly, in creases the efficiency' of the ma chine. I shall not here repeat the interesting story of how this has been accomplished, but 1 would supplement it with some thoughts on the meaning of such an inven 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 WEJ.L ENOUGH .ALONE. There is a motto involves the whole spirit of progress. The Chinese let well enough alone, and, as a consequence, until very re cently, China has been more than a thousand years behind the age. If inventors had regarded steam as "well enough." the giant's rule might have continued for millen niums to come instead pt' ceasing and giving place to something Ix t 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, we should not now he opening our eyes at the sight of a large ocean going ship driven by the new mo tive power. NVe 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 ns far with 100 tons of fuel as,the best steam engine would with 35t) tons of coal." In that single sen tence you have an inspiring glimpse of what the 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 cause thousands of brilliant lamps to glow through the “resistance" of little loops of car- bon. unprogressive minds may have thought that the invention whs completed. But it was not. Other brains set to work upon the problem SEEKING IMPROVE MENT. Then came the various metallic filaments for Jumps 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 be pushed far beyond anything we now know of it. Human Progress Result. Os Cultivation. Unman progress is the result of combination. X hundred pushing shoulders make the wheel roll fas ter than <>ni. even if some of them are ineffectively applied. Two heads arc better thhn one. ami no where more so than in invention. < >ne head sometimes gets all the credh. but each helps in its degree. Tin greatest inventor would fail if he did not have aids and sugges tions. and if others did not follow him with improvements. When the whole world takes up a new thing it begins to grow like a snowbajl. 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 mart . I. When it reaches its limit something else will lake Its place and a new giant will arise. The lesson is never to believe that we have the first thing possible. THE HOME PAPER Dr. Parkhurst’s Article The Recall as a Parallel to Divorce . ---ami- Capital and the Labor |||||||| Unions ' Written For The Georgian By the Rev. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst DIVORCE is in essential par ticulars similar to what is known in polities as the "re call.'' and the two can properly cnough-'bc considered as illustrat ing each other. Marriage and election are both of them to some, extent a leap in the dark. A man never know < the woman he marries till aftgr he has mar ried her and the courting days are over. Neither does a voter know iiis candidate till after the canvass is completed, the polls have been closed and the elect has gone about discharging the duties for which lie 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 hi each of the two varie ties' of candidacy' may be reduced to a minimum. ;\n(l >fisappointment obviated if possible. II is unfortunate on Un' wliole that such a tiling 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 hiTnself, in view of the uncertainties of the ulti mate outcome, by the reflection that if the first wife proves dis appointing lie has learned enough by his first trial to make a follow ing experiment mote 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 be a human, a dignified or a holy thing. The “recall" in politics is all the way through 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 incat. They were not allowed to kill the rabbits 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 In tier —partly because the French Revolution made them better, partly because our American Revolution made them better, ami especially because human intelligence, improv ing production, reducing the cost of obtaining supplies, has made life, easier. You pay $6.50 a ton foij your coal now—because you haul it from Pennsylvania io some great <-ity thousands and thousands of tons at a time, one panting, huge engine hauling the load. If the coal had 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 couldn't TiriNK OF HAVING ANY. What tin- world needs is ORGANIZATION. Il has already organized PRODUCTION. The system of creating wealth, the system of mining coal, of manufacturing iron all that is under stood. Wonders have been accomplished because the ablest men have studied ORGANIZED PRODUCTION OF WEALTH. Bid the brains of organization have not yet been devoted to I,he great problem of DISTRIBI TION. That 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. Civilization will bo improved by making monos power and abilitv take a greater interest in the welfare of the majori'— less >b!e. That will be brought about chiefly by the natural improve ment called social Evolution and largely also by a display of greater Ibyalty on the part of the majority of the peope to those that really serve them. The great corporal ions and trusts never forgot thosi that do them favors. The people I)< > forg< t_ eliough be tried over again, if the first one fails, is dealt with only' sentt-seriously and with no anxious concern as to whether it turn out well or ill. It converts into play the most serious of all civic functions, and in proportion as the office to be filled is more critical and respon sible—like a position upon the bench.x for example—the greater the dignity and the gravel the belittlement that is practiced. If one will read the sixth plank of the Rochester platform, and in every case 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 than carelessly elected and then cash iered." • , » Although claiming that working men should have secured to them the 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 the fulfillment of its corpora te engagemen ts. A union, unincorporated, enters into a. compact witlt 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 holdcn, but being morally liolden 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. Men 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 ’aw is for—to hold up virtue that is toppling.