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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. Sntered as second-class matter at postoflice at Atlanta, under act of March 3, 1875 Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mail, $5.00 a year • Payable in advance. Archbold Fells Frankly How He Fried To Buy a 1 ’resident The secrets of the Standard Oil check-book which Hearst’s Magazine has been disclosing for several months—and which we hope it will continue to disclose—arc epoch-making. They have furnished legal proof of political practices which everybody knew, hut which nobody has been able to prove hitherto. They have shown that in the traffic in men's souls, in buy ing public men or legislation or in paying for immunity, the criminal trusts asked not what party a “statesman" belonged to, but only what price lie asked for services to the trust. The 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 United States senator in President Taft's own state, who largely controlled legislation affecting corporations in the United States senate. It bought at the same time the man closest to Mr. Bryan and most active in his campaign. The one was a Republican ami the other was a Democrat. The criminal 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 part of both. Now the whole country is stirred by the particular instal ,merit of the Archbold letters which reveals the relation of the Standard Oil Company to the present Republican leader in the United States senate and to the Roosevelt campaign of 1904. Mr. Cortelyou, 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 IlearsUs Magazine the latter would have rested there. Nothing more would have been said or done. But the niiblieity in the August Hearst's Magazine of Mr. Penrose's financial dealings with Mr. Archbold has compelled Mr - . Penrose to fight for any shred or patch of respectability that can be saved from his tatter, <1 toga. lie has striven to show—and has been able to show—that at least the larger part of the $12.">.000 that he had Io 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 the money —that he did not want to give the money 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. The Standard Oil Trust does not Hing its money to the birds. M hen it pays for political favors it' wishes to know that it will get what it pays for. That Archbold gave SIOO,OOO to the Republican campaign fund in 1901 can not be doubted in view of Archbold's testi mony, Penrose's testimony, and the statement in President Roose velt’s letter to Chairman Cortelyou, dated October 26, 1904, saying: "I have just been informed that the Standard Oil peo ple have contributed SIOO,OOO to our campaign fund. • * * If true I must ask you to direct that the money be returned forthwith." 1 here are only three persons living whose testimony is now admissible. 11. 11. Rogers, of the Standard Oil. knew, hut he is dead. Cornelius N. Bliss, the Republican treasurer, knew, but is dead. Ihe three living witnesses are Colonel Roosevelt, John D. Archbold and George B. Cortelvou. Mr. Archbold is tlie head of a corporation which has been convicted ol criminal pra'tires by the unanimous judgment of the circuit court and of the nine judges of the United States 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. Cortelyou who has said that he is out of politics for ever. has no motive to conceal the truth, and has a high char acter for ability and veracity. He says that Colonel Roosevelt’s version is true. The letters of Colonel Roosevelt, the other wit ness. speak 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 ami 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. ton tiriles in New York in 1907. He had it tim’d $29,000,000 in Indiana for rebating, and when the judgment was reversed President Roosevelt denounced it as “a gross miscarriage of jus ice.” Finally, Air. 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 $1.'»0,- 000 Treasurer Bliss asked for. To the Standard Oil apparently the onlv question of importance about any statesman is. “What is his price?” Archbold states under oath his belief that $15<(000 was President Roosevelt’s price. But has Archbold forgotten that President Roosevelt got Continued in Last Column I. The Atlanta Georgian TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1912. Thp Rm it Ans th A Air The , Aviat ?r Photographed in Full Flight Fo- 1 lie IXOUie Ol ine /Air gether With His View of the Earth Beneath -- ; j " W,ll,>ri ' ' - ''l X ' z v ■ hZ/fGY II Jr J ‘ ■. r ■O&. .ft 1 ' ■ ?W’ -< : .•wraßMfe- Photographed by themselves while in flight: MM. Andre Schelcher and Pierre Oebroutelle aboard a biplane nearly 1.000 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 needs to xlancc at the photograph accompany ing this article in order to understand the irresistible lure of the highway of the air. One feels the charm, and sees why no num ber of fatal accidents can dissolve , Its power over adventurous spirits. The photograph—the first of the kind—was made by Andre Schelch er. the 1-Tench aviator, who has Heart-Hungry Wives T(,ET a great many letters from | women who claim that they are starving for a little affec tion from their husbands. Tiles' women write that they are mar ried to good men. who provide them with all the physical comforts of life, atid that they have everything to make them happy, except the one most needful thing of aU for a w oman. This is love; not the love of the take-it-for-granted, connubial kind not the lukewarm, milk-and-wa ter affection —but real love, of the sizzling, burning, boiling-over sort; -the love that expresses itself in ar dent glances, and wrecks the dic tionary in coining terms of endear ment, and that clings to the hand of the beloved fine like a drowning man to a straw. Why There’s Heart Hunger. Needless to remark, these wives are not permitted to feast upon this fancy variety of matrimonial devo tion. hence their heart-hunger and these tears. They say that when it comes to being cold and unrespon sive their husbands could beat the ice cold stone of poetry a city 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 paying them a com pliment upon their looks, they would fall dead with surprise if such a phenomenon should occur. These Radies also declare that they love their husbands and their homes and that they enjoy doing all the work and making sacrifices necessary to running a home and rendering a man comfortable, but they would like for their husbands to show that they love them, if such is the ease, and to give some sign that they appreciate their wives' good qualities, and all that they do for them. The women who art envied by devoted himself with great enthu siasm to the development of pho tographs from a< replant s in flight. M. Schelcher, in this ease, is the passenger, and the pilot is M. I’ierre Dcbroutell'e, The peculiaiity of the picture, that which gives it its strange charm, consists in the fact that it shows at one glance both the in terior of the aeroplane and the view that is spread beneath the eyes of its occupanis. The camera By DOROTHY DLX other women 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 wives whose husbands remaih lovers aft er marriage, and who receive from their husbands, the delicate little attentions of courtship. Few women arc 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. Probably he feels that he expresses himself in suftk ientljl intelligible terms of affection when lie pays her bills, but this doesn’t satisfy a woman. She wants to be continu ally told, with good round oaths, that he still adores her, and con siders her as beautiful and charm ing. and as slender, when she is fat and forty, as he thought her when she was slim, and sweet, and twenty. 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 wife dally on a choice assortment of the bonbons of affection. He doesn't do it, how ex, . and even when w ife goes fish ing for compliments, she makes a water haul. Os course 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 prosttic, hard worked business man doesn’t quote poetry to his wife of an evening, or hold her hand, is no sign that he isn't tilled with surging emotions of af fection for her. A pa-sionate de votion may express itself just as well in beefsteaks as it does in Vio lets. ami the man who toils early and late’to keep his wife com fortable and sheltered front the was placed at the end of one of th, upper planes, at such a distanci that both the machine and th, landscape should be in focus at thi same time, and it was operated bi the pulling of a string. Thus thi observer is made to feel that he i: actually taking part in the adven ture. In the most realistic way hi goes along with the aviato s. see ing then! as if he were their com panion, and also seeing what the; ' ! hardships of life is giving a work ing- model of true love that makes the ranting? of a Romeo look like thirty cents. Women who are married to these dumb, devoted, domestic slaves of men may well recall 1 ' that talk is crteap, 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 worry 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, and keep asking her. “Ooose ducky is oo?” to the day of her death. • Quit Counting Heart Throbs. Doubtless 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 works 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 in the streets his virtue. Resides which love is not the whole of life, and the less women live in their emotions the happier they are. If women would stop taking the temperature of their husbands’ affections and epunting their own heart throbs the world would be a cheerier place in which to live THE HOME, PAPER Elbert Hubbard Writes on BH Co-operation and . How It Makes For flEggd the Big HH| 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 for 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 th< country or do business for yourself. Peanut stands are individualistic; when the peanut man goes the stand also croaks. Successful corporations are some thing else. Saving of Time Is Problematical. Or course, the excuse is, if you send me 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 bo 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 and a great 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 butting 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 as yours. The men who do this become the only men who Archbold Tells F rankly How He Tried To Buy a President Continued From First Column. $260,000 from Mr. Ilarri’man one month after Treasurer Bliss ■got only $100.0(10 from Archbold, and that this did not prevent Colonel Roosevelt from attacking Harriman a little later and calling’ him an undesirable citizen? Atchhohl evidently regards his purchase of statesmen with xmuir satisfa-tion. His testimony reminds us of the collossal van ity attributed to great criminals. Vote this passage: ••Senators Scott and Elkins, too, were inclined to give us credit for going into West Virginia,” said Mr. Archbold? “with enough Republicans to turn the tide friTm the Democracy to the Republican party in that state.” Mr. Archbold states under oath his belief that for $150,000 more he could have bought President Roosevelt. Mr. Harriman gave $200,000 and did not buy him. Nothing but good can come out of this inrush of light into the dark places of polities. Those who have been the instigators of the political corruption that has gone so far to make laws a marketable commodity and thus to sap the foundations of gov ernment, will he revealed in their true character. On the oilier hand, those who have been swept along by the tide of evil cus toms. but. have themselves neither instigated the evils no: profited by them, will receive such measure of exculpation as they deserve. There can he no doubt, for example, that such a num a the late Cornelius X. Bliss was caught in the swirl of a system that was not of the color of his own character. He was a man of high honor and delicate conscience. x One of the most interesting things brought out in the Arch bold testimony is the explanation of the fact that the fitfod of certificates of deposits, as revealed by the letters printed in Hearst's Magazine, was confined to the venal statesmen of Penn sylvania and Ohio. The explanation is that—accordin'-’ to Mr Archhold's own statement-his own personal political' jurisdic tion was confined to those two stat 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. He 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. i'.’e must grow toward the house, and with it. not away from it. Any policy which lays an employee open to temptation or tends 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 policies all tend to ruin men’ just as surely as do cig arettes, booze, pasteboards and the races. Tim 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-outer 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 two 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 take his “good-will” along. The blame should go back to the 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 his own account, thus losing sight of the great truth that we win through co-operation and not through segregation or separation. The firm's interests are yours; if you think otherwise you are al-