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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, undgr act of March 3. 1379 Subscription Price—-Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. Bv mall, $5.00 a year Payable in advance. t.. | Archbold Tells Frankly How He d ried To Buy a | President The secrets of the Standard Oil eheek-book which Hearst s Magazin • has been disclosing for several months -and which we hope it will I'ont tine to disclose are epoch-making. Tiu-v have furnished legal proof of political practices which everybody knew, but which nobody has been able to prove hither: ■ Tiic; have shown that in tin* traffic in men's souls, in buy ing ( l.i i- men or legislation or in paying for immunity, the erim trusts asked not what party a “statesman' belonged to. bo’ ini', what price he asked for services to the trust. Tiie first instalment of the Archbold letters read by Mr. Hearst four years ago showed how strictly non-partisan the Standard Oil Trust was. It had bought the chief I oiled States senator in President Taft's own state, who largely controlled legislation affecting corporations in the I nited States senate. It bought al lie same time the man closest to Mr. Bryan and most active n his campaign. The one was a Republican ami the other was a Democrat. The • limiiml trust did not at all object to or approve the poli tics of either. It required only strict fidelity to the criminal trust on the pari of both. Now the whole country is stirred by the particular instal ment of the Archbold letters which reveals the relation of the Standard (til Coinpain to the present Republican leader in the I riit’d State-, senate and to the Roosevelt campaign of 1904. Mr. Cortelyoii. who was the chairman of the Republican campaign committee at that time, has recently testified before the senate committee that the Standard Oil Company made no contribution to the campaign fund of 1904. And if it had not been for the publication in Hearst’s Magazine the latter would have rested there. Nothing more would have been said or done. But the publicity in the August Hearst’s Magazine of Mr. Penrose's financial dealings with Mr. Archbold has compelled Mr. Penrose to tight for any shred or patch of respectability that can be saved from his tattered toga. He has striven to show and has been able to show that at least the larger part of the $125,000 that he had to account for did not go into his private pocket. Mr. Archbold says that when be handed SIOO,OOO of the money to Mr. Bliss he told him—in accordance with the habit of the Standard Oil board of directors who had voted the monel that he did not want to give the nioney unless the fact of the assistance was known to the “powers that be,’’ that is to say. as Mr. Archbold repeatedly explained unless the transac tion *' was thoroughly approved and thoroughly appreciated ’ ’ by Mr. Roosevelt Tim Standard Od Trust does not fling its money to the birds. When it pays for political favors it wishes to know that it will get what it pays for. That Archbold gave $100,900 to the Republican campaign fund in 1904 can not be doubted in view of Archbold's testi mony. Penrose's testimony, and the statement in President Roose v Itletter to ('hairman f’ortelyou, dated October 26, 1901, saying: "I have just been informed that the Standard Oil peo pie have contributed SIOO,OOO to our campaign fund. • » * If true I must ask yon to direct that the money be returned fort hwith. “ I'lu r- are only three persons living whose testimony is now admissible. 11. II Rogers, of the Standard Oil. knew, but he is dead Cornelius X Bliss, the Republican treasurer, knew, but is dead. The three living witnesses are Colonel Roosevelt. John D. Archbold and George B. f’ortelyou. Me \rchbold is the head of a corporation which has been convicted of criminal practices by the unanimous judgment of the circuit court and of the nine judges of the Pnited Slates supreme court. The trust was a felon. If the guilt of the criminal trust was personal, and all guilt is said to be personal, it would attach to its president, and then Mr. Archbold’s testi mony would not be accepted without corroboration; it would be discredited by his bad character. But Mr. Archbold was not convicted as an individual, but only as a corporation, so that his testimony is admissible, .Mr. ('ortelyou who has said that he is out of polities for ever, has no motive to cornea! the truth, and has a high ch/Tr acter for ability and veracity. He says that Colonel Roosevelt’s version is true. The lett< rs of Colonel Roosevelt, the other wit ness. .-peak for themselves. Archbold appeared in Washington as a voluntary witness to back up the Standard Oil agent. Senator Penrose, alias “Fan ning.'’ in his testimony and to show his extreme hatred of Col onel Roosevelt. The power is not vouchsafed us to penetrate the mysteries of the Roosevelt mind to find the real motive which prompted his relentless warfare against the Standard Oil. Prosecute it. or persecute it, he certainly did. He had it indicted nineteen times in Illinois in 1906, ten times in New York in 1907. He had it fined $29,000,000 in Indiana for rebating, and when the judgment was reversed President Roosevelt denounced it as “a gross miscarriage of justice.” Finally, Mr. Roosevelt had the Standard Oil Trust sued under the anti-trust act. and a decree of dissolution was entered against it. Archbold declares boldly that Roosevelt did all these things because the Standard Oil refused to give the additional $l5O, 000 Treasurer Bliss asked for. To the Standard Oil apparently the only question of importance about any statesman is. “Wbat is his price?” Archbold states under oath his brlim that *150.000 was President Roosevelt's price But lias Archbold forgotten that President Roosevelt got Continued in Last Column The Atlanta Georgian I ltP Rnilte Hip Air T,le Aviator Photographed in Full Flight To- 1 lie iXOUiC Ol trie ikir gether With His View of * the Earth Beneath ’ ynriih z. . .. ■ 11- - - ZB'' z-*z zz . '*• zz v * '* r&r, z*'-* ’ zz z-zv ... , [g/G n i / -/9 // ‘ r 4 h of- J JSf r/ \ J* -I | // > -tor ’ 4 z ff"' / '■’Mtoib, ' . '■ ilhi I TXT # if F A IS -9 -nw ■ J >ww z " - fly f ‘ F fTwS®’ T. W- ,W x .J* ” Photographed by then-sel'-ss while in flight: MM. Andre Schelcher and Pierre Debroutelle aboard a biplane nearly I,CCO feet above the chateau and park of Breteuil, the country resi dence of the Prince of Wales’ host in France. By GARRETT P. SERVISS. ONE only neeus to glance at the photograph accompany ing this article in older to understand Hr- irr. -i: i il>h> lure of the highway of the air. On ■ feels the charm, and sr-.-s why no num ber of fatal accidents can dissolve its power oyer advet tmous spirits. The photograph tin- first of the kind was made by Andre Sehelch er, the r , 're’nch aviator, who has 'i <§ Heart-Hungry Wives & I ’GET a gr- ,t mny letters from women who claim that they are starving for a litt'e affec tion from their husbands Th'-w --women write licit they are mar ried to good men, who provide them with all the physical comforts of life, and that they have everything to make them happy, except the one most needful thing of all for a woin.-t n. This is love; not the love of the take-it-for-grante<l. eonmibi.il kind not the lukewarm, milk-and-wa ter affection but r, al love, of tin si bng. burr.il : ■■ . \ ,-r sort . the lot e that < xj.i < >s, . itself In ar dent glances, and wrecks the dic tionary in e.lining t,f.iis of endo ir ment and that clings to the hand ol the beloved ope like a drowning man to a straw. Why There's Heart Hunger. Needless to remark, these wives are not permitted to fe ist upon this fancy variety of matrimonial devo tion. hence their hcart-liungcr and these tears. They siy that when it comes to being old and unrespon sive their husbands could beat the ice cold stone of poetry a cite block; that kissing- their husbands is like kissing the nutmeg grater, , because it Is the custom of hus bands to turn an unshaved cheek to their wives' lips; and that as for their husbands pax ing them a com pliment upon their look-, they yvould fill dead with surprise if such a phenomenon sihould occur. These ladies also declare that they love their husbands and their homes and that they enjoy doing all the yvork and making saeritices necessary to tunning a home and rendering a man lomforlable, but they yvould like for their husbands te. ahoxx that th- y low them, if such is the case, and to give some sign that they ;i|'preciate th i’ wiy good qualities, and al! th.it they do lor Io -i The women yy ho are envied by TFESDAY, AUGUST 27. 1912. devoted himself with great enthu siasm to the development of pho tographs from aeroplanes in flight. M Schelcher, in this case, is the passenger, and the pilot is M. Pierre Debroutelle. Th,- peeuliaiity of the picture, that yy hich gives it its strange charm, consists in the fact that it shows at one glance both the in terior of the aeroplane and the vieyx that is spread beneath the • yes of its occupantfe. The camera By DOROTHY BIX other xx omen are not the ones who ride in automobiles and have boxes at the opera and glitter with dia monds. The women who make every woman who knows them pea green with jealousy are the xvlves whose husbands remain lovers aft er marriage, and xx ho receive from their husbands the delicate little attentions of courtship. l- exx xx omen ar- fortunate enough not to lose their sweethearts when they get a husband. The average man loves his wife, nut he would rather die than let her know it. P obably he feels that he expresses himself in sufficiently intelligible terms of affection when he pays her biH', hut tl’.is doesn’t satisfy a woman. She wants to bo continu ally told, with good round oaths, that’ho still adores her, and con siders her as beautiful ;vnd charm ing, and is slender, xvhen she is fat ami forty, as he thought her when she was slim, and sxveet, and txventy. Knowing this insatiable hunger of women for love, and how happy a few compliments make them, it is strange that any man could be so hard-hearted as not to take the trouble to feed his xvife daily on a choice assortmvnt of the bonbons of affection. He doesn't do it. hoyv ey. . and even when yvife goes fish ing for compliments, she makes a water haul. < >f eout -e men ought to make love to their wives even more ardently after marriage than before, but in asmuch as they don't do it women should try- to view the situation with more philosophy than they do. They should try to realize that because a prosaic, ha'd worked business man doesn't quote poetry to his wife of an evening, or hohi her hand, is no sign that he isn't tilled with surging emotions of af fection for la r. A passionate de votion may exprt-s itself just as xveil in beefsteaks as it does in vio lets. and the man yx ho toils early and late In k'-eo bis wife com i lortabie and shelteseU from the was placed at the end of one of the upper planes, at such a distance that both the machine and the landscape should be in focus at the same time, and it was operated by the pulling of a string. 'Thus the observer is made to feel that he is actually taking part in the adven ture. In the most realistic way he goes along with the aviators, see ing them as if he were their com , panion, and also seeing what they hardships of life is giving a work ing model of true love that makes tiie rantings of a Romeo look like thirty cents. Women who are married to these dumb, devoted, domestic slaves of men may "ell recall that talk *is cheap, and that it is actions that really prove things, and as long as their husbands continue to spend their days toiling for their families these wives need not xvorry about the state of their husbands’ affec tion. Another thing that these heart hungry wives should remember is that men and women look at the subject of love-making from differ ent points of view. A woman is in her element in it. A man feels like a fool when he Is doing it. It is for that reason that men hate long engagements. They are in a hurry to get married and be able to cut out the mushy talk. They never realize that a woman marries in the fond belief that the man is going to monologue along in the same strain, ami keep asking her. "(loose ducky is oo?” to the day of her death. Quit Counting Heart Throbs. Doubtldss all of this is cold com fort to the women who pine for some audible expression of their husbands’ affection. The best ad vice that one can give them is to use a little common sense in the matter, to believe that as long as a man xvorks for a woman he is giv ing the best possible proof of his devotion to her, and that a hus band who loves his wife feels no more need to go about proclaiming the fact than an honest man does to cry out ip the streets his virtue. Besides which love is not the whole of life, and the less women live in their emotions the happier they are. If women xvould stop taking the temperature of their husbands’ affections and counting their own heart throbs the world would be a cheerier place in which to live THE HOME PAPER Elbert Hubbard Writes on |E|| Co-operation and ■ How It Makes For ■LgJh the Big HkW | Things of Business By ELBERT HUBBARD Copyright, 1912. by International News Service IN an enterprise that amounts to anything- all transactions should be in the name of the firm, because the firm is more than any person connected with it. Clerks or salesmen who have pri vate letterheads and ask custom ers to send letters to them person ally are on the wrong track. To lose your identity in the busi ness is one of the penalties of work ing far a great institution. Don't protest—it is no new thing—all big concerns are confronted by the same situation. Get in line; it is a necessity. If you want to ’do business indi vidually and in your own name, stay in the country or do business for yourself. Peanut stands are individualistic; when the peanut man goes the stand also droaks. Successful corporations are some thing else. Saving of Time Is Problematical. Or course, the excuse is, it you send mo the order direct, I, know ing you and your needs, can take much better care of your wants than that disputed and intangible thing, “the house.” Besides, send ing it through the circumlocution office takes time. There Is something more to say. First, long experience has shown that “the saving of time” is< ex ceedingly problematical. For, while in some instances a rush or der can be gotten off the same night by sending it to an individual, yet when your individual has gone fish ing, is at the ball game or is sick, or else has given up his job and gone with the opposition house, there are great and vexatious de lays, dire confusions a l ''" ft groat strain on vocabularies. This thing of a salesman carry ing his trade with him and consid ering the customers of the house his personal property is the thought of only 2x4 men. A house must have a certain fixed policy—a repu tation for square dealing—other wise it could not-exist at all. It could not even give steady work and good pay to the men who think it would be only a hole in the ground without them. In the main the policy of the house is right. Don't acquire the habit of hutting in with your stub end of a will in opposition to the general policy of the house. To help yourself, get in line with your house, stand by it, take pride in it. respect it, uphold it and regard its interests t as yours. The men who do this become the only men who are really necessary. These are the Archbold Tells Frankly How ‘ He Tried To Buy a President Continued From First Column. $260,000 from Mr. Harriman one inontl after-Treasurer Bliss got only SIOO,OOO from Archbold, and that this Hid not prevent Colonel Rooseveß from attacking Harriman a, little later and calling him an undesirable citizen? Archbold evidently regards his purchase of statesmen with smug satisfaction. His testimony reminds us of the ?ollossal van ity attributed to great criminals. Note this passage- ••Senators Scott and Elkins, too. were inclined to give us credit lor going into West Virginia.” said Mr. Archbold “with enough Republicans to turn the tide from the Demoeraev to the Republican party in that state.” Mr. Archbold states under oath his belief that, for $l5O 000 more he could have bought President Roosevelt. Mr. Harriman gave $260,000 and did not buy him. Nothing but good can come out of this inrush of li-Mit into the dark places of polities. Those who have be..,, t!1( . illsl i„. lt(l|S oi the political corruption that has gone so far to make laws a marketable commodity and thus to sap the foundations of Gov ernment. will be revealed in their true character. On the other hand, those who have been swept along by the tide of evil cits toms, but have themselves neither instigated the evils nor profited by them, will receive ,ueb measure of exculpation as they deserve. There can be no doubt, for example, that such a man a the late Cornelius X. Bliss was caught in the swirl of a svsteni that was not ol the color of his own eharaeter. He was a man of high honor and delicate conscience. One of the most interesting things hronght Al ,. h . “fi Td " " S r ’-' "f in M,it,nation is ,/.i XZg to “T .. „ . ' ' !" ls( >trd political iurisdic. tion was confined to those two stat,-. w J 10 top-notchers. the hundred-pointers. The worst about the other plan Is that it ruins the man who un dertakes it. For a little while to do a business of your own in the shad ow of the big one is beautiful— presents come, personal letters, in vitations favors. “Is Mr. Johnson in’.~ By and by Johnson gets chesty; he resents it when other salesmen wait on his customers or look after his mail. Fie begins to plot for personal gain, and the first thing you know he is a plain graft er. at loggerheads with his col leagues. with the interests of the house secondary to his own. We must grow toward the house, and with it. not away from it. Any policy which lays an employee open to temptation or teud= to turn his head, causing him to lose sight of his own best interests, seizing at a small present betterment and losing the great advantage of a life’s busi ness is bad. The open cash drawer, valuable goods lying around not re corded or inventoried, free and easy responsibility, good-enough plans and let *’*er go pqlicies all tend to ruin men just as surely as do cig arettes, booze, pasteboards ami tho races. The man who thinks he owns “his trade” and threatens to walk out and take other employees and cus tomers with him is slated to have his dream come true. The mana ger gives in; the individualist is then sure he is right: the enlarged ego grows, and some day the house simply takes his word for it and out he goes. The down-and-ouler heads off his mail at the postoffice and for some weeks embarrasses customers, delays trade and more or less confuses system, but a month or t*vo smoothes things out and he is forgotten absolutely. The steamship ploughs right along. This Kind of Man Seldom Learns. Our egotist gets a new job, only to do it all over again, if he can. This kind of a man seldom learns. When he gets a job he soon be gins to correspond with rival firms for a better one. with intent to tak“ his “good-will” along. The blame should go hack to tho first firm where he was employed, that allowed him a private letterhead and let him get filled with the fal lacy that he was doing business on bis own account, thus losing sight of the great truth that we Avin through co-operation and not through segregation or separation. The firm’s interests are yours; if you think otherwise you are al ready on the slide