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Former Georgian for Gov
ernor of New York '
9 » at
Oscar Straus’ Nomination Is a Tribute to a Man Worthy of
Great Honor.
Oscar Straus, the nominee of the Progressive party for gov
ernor of New York, is a former Georgian and a citizen of the high
est character, an admirable choice for any public office.
His nomination was absolutely unsought by .Mr. Straus; it was
not for one moment planned by the managers of the party. The
convention met; circumstances made it possible for the delegates to
act spontaneously, and the result was .Mr. Straus’nomination, with
an enthusiasm and earnestness scarcely ever equalled in the polit
ical conventions of this country.
Mr. Straus’ nomination illustrates in real life the power of the
independent movement in our politics. In an interview in The Lon
don Standard, several days ago, Mr. Hearst said:
"The Independent movement in the United States is a real and powerful
force. It began with the Independence League in New York and developed
strongly in various sections of the country.
The advocates of this third party movement are enthusiasts. They be
lieve absolutely in the necessity of a third party to free the country from
the corrupt control of both of the old parties. They believe that both of
the old parties are In the grip of the privileged interests, and that the stran
gle hold of these special interests can not be broken. They also believe that
there is no desire on the part of the leaders of the old parties to terminate
this association with the privileged interests, as it is a profitable association
and enables these to secure large campaign contributions, as has been
shown In the Standard OU letters, and so to finance and operate their ma
chine and party organizations
"The third party supporters believe ardently in their program, the main
purpose of which is to take the control of government out of the hands of
party machines and privileged interests and restore it to the hands of the
p< ople Nearly all the measures of the third party platform are aimed di
rectly at that end.”
Mr. Straus is admirably adapted to lead the independent move
ment of thinking citizens in any state or in any republic.
His life has been devoted to public affairs and to public welfare.
As ambassador of the United States in Europe, as a member of
Mr Roosevelt's cabinet, as an earnest advocate of peace .measures,
as a private individual struggling for public betterment, and as a
member of one of the most distinguished business and philanthropic
families in the state. Mr. Straus is eminently fitted for any public
office.
He is one of three brothers one, Isidor Straus, distinguished in
business, finance and industry, a citizen and philanthropist of the
highest standing, recently lost his life on the Titanic under condi
tions of peculiar heroism still fresh in the public mind.
Nathan Straus, the third brother in this honorable family, has
done more for the children of this and all other nations than any
other ten men of his generation, and has, therefore, done more than
any other for the generations that are to come. Nathan Straus has
done for the physical health of children as much as Rousseau, I’esta
lozzi and Froebel combined did for the minds of children.
If Oscar Straus should receive from the citizens of New York
one vote for the life of every child saved hy his brother Nathan, his
election would be overwhelming.
It happens that in this case the election, important as it is, is not
the most important thing Public, office is not desired by Oscar
Straus. The nomination was absolutely against his wishes.
But the nomination is fortunate, as it gives to independence in
politics—which this country needs—dignity and character worthy
of republican government.
There can be no doubt that the tribute to Mr. Straus, the expres
sion of appreciation of his character, the type of citizenship repre
sented by himself and his brothers, will at the coming election en
courage other men of the highest character and independent thought
to interest themselves in public affairs and accept public responsi
bilities.
As Mr. Hearst said in the interview above quoted:
"The progressive sentiment in the United States is tremendous. The
men who class themselves as progressives, no matter to what party they be
long. constitute a considerable majority of the voters of the United States.'
I his progressive sentiment in our country, this independent
majority of the citizens will welcome Oscar Straus and the high
citizenship and principles for which he stands.
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Justice to Manager
i McCombs
Governor Wilson has done well to lay at rest the rumor
that political bosses and jealous rivals were to compass the re
tirement of \\ illiam I. Met ombs as manager of his campaign.
To Mr. McCombs more than to any single individual friend
in the I nited States Governor Wilson owes his nomination at
Baltimore.
The labors of the young Prineetonian to this end were as
siduous and extraordinary. His devotion amounted almost to
consecration. His energy was prodigious and he displayed con
spicuous ability in every phase of the campaign of which he
was the recognized manager and director from the beginning
Working at times almost single-handed and spending his
time and his money with lavish loyalty. Mr. McCombs impaired
his health in the cause of his candidate.
We felt sure that Governor Wilson could not afford and
would not consent to his retirement. The Democratic nominee
knows better than most men the character and capacity of the
young leader who piloted his fortunes at Baltimore. ' Nothing
short of a physical incapacity to go on with the work could pos~
sibly justify Met'ombs enforced retirement.
Least of all could Governor Wilson at this stage of his
campaign afford to bring upon himself the charge of ingratitude
to a friend ami benefactor such as this able and brilliant voung
lawyer has so splendidly demonstrated himself to be.
flic Georgian took it for granted that the wise ami dis
creel Democratic nominee would allow no machine bosses or
new-found triends to compass the humiliation of the best and
most effect>ye friend that his political ear has developed
Mr. Met ornbs deserves to finish the work that he betran
The Atlanta Georgian
A Drama Amid Settings 1,400 Years Old
The Open-Air Theater of the Ancient City of Carcassonne and What It Recalls
OwWiL a Jim
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
rvvHERE is one feature of life
in old Europe for which we
have no exact equivalent in
new America, and that is the
PETES (a FETE means a "feast,”
or a celebration) that are annually
given in many ancient towns and
cities. They not only serve to
arouse and perpetuate local and na
tional pride and patriotism, but
they are the delight of artists and
of all persons who have either a
taste for the picturesque or an ap
preciation of the scenes of a past
age when they are vividly brought
before the eye.
Possibly our continent is now old
enough, inasmuch as several hun
dred years have elapsed since white
men first began to do things within
its borders, to have something of
this kind to recall its former days,
but among us the spirit that in
spires fetes Is yet generally lack
ing. Perhaps a thousand years
from now there will be splendid
fetes in New York, having some of
the ruins of its skyscrapers for a
background and serving to recall to
the men and women of that time
what life was on this continent in
the days when the first feeble at
tempts at aerial navigation were
looked upon as modern miracles.
But I have no intention to dis
course on the general subject of
fetes; 1 wish simply to call at
tention to a very remarkable ex
ample of this kind of celebration
which has recently occurred in the
old city of Carcassonne, in south
ern France. If you ever go to Eu
rope you must try to see Carcas
sonne. There is a modern town and
an ancient.one, side by side, and
it is only the ancient one that has
much interest for the traveler. But
its interest is supreme. It stands
on a little hill and it looks—but I
can hardly tell you how it looks,
How to Build a Fortune No. Q—Protection
'"l'' HIS is how a business man de-
| scribed a young man as a
desirable employee and cit
izen .
1. He should take an interest in
his work.
2. Do nothing to injure ills health.
3. Hence: Have simple habits.
4. Carry as much life insurance
as his income permits.
6. Have some money, even if it be
but little, in a bank.
If he takes an interest in his work
he will soon get a better place, for
a wise business man is seldom
found who overlooks a promising
employee. Hut, he added, they do
sometimes.
If he does nothing to injure his
health he can work with all the
strength there is in him.
If His Habits Are Simple.
If bis habits are simple he will
waste none of his income; but he
w ill learn how to enjoy life sanely
as he goes on from day to day.
He must carry some life insur
ance if any one is dependent on
him. And he should acquaint him
self. as soon as he begins to earn,
w it 11 tlie necessity to a young man
of this kind of protection.
With a little money in the bank
he is prepared for an emergency.
In brief, till these five items 1 have
mentioned give him a degree of in
dependence that makes for content,
and they certainly make a good
citizen.
11.
This sounds reasonable, and the
more one thinks it over, the more
reasonable ft becomes, it is true,
however, that countless young men
never attempt to put themselves in
this class. The reason is that they
arc playing the most popular game
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 14. 1912.
YING THE "CID" IN THE ANTIQUE CITY.
for, unless you have seen some
thing of the kind, you can have no
means of making a comparison.
For one thing, it looks as old as
the rocks and hills, and as desert
ed as a wilderness. And get it is
a whole and complete city, with Its
walls, towers, houses, churches,
streets, battlements and dungeons
existing as in their pristine time,
and, simply lacking its inhabitants.
Nobody lives in it except caretak
ers and watchmen.
A Mental Picture.
Suppose the city of Albany should
be deserted by its inhabitants; then
let century after century pass over
it. leaving its great capitol and its
other buildings standing intact;
finally imagine yourself visiting It
and finding it in the same condi
tion, a thousand years or more lat
er, and you will have in your mind
some idea of the appearance of Car
cassonne. Only Albany is not a
fighting city—except for politicians
—and it has no stout walls to re
sist besiegers, no gates with port
cullises, no loopholes through which
to shoot with crossbows, harque
busses or musketoons, no donjons,
no barbicans, and no torture cham
bers. Carcassonne was a fighting
city for 1,500 years—battling against
Visigoths, Saracens and enemies of
every kind —and it has kept all
these things, except the people Who
used them. They; have vanished,
leaving their city in a state of pres
ervation more complete than that
of a specimen in a museum. It is
the mummy of a medieval city and
the most perfect thing of its kind
in the world.
In this antique city, whteh they
have taken the utmost pains to
keep intact, repairing where neces
sary the ravages of time, the
French this summer have cele
brated a fete than which nothing of
the sort could be more interesting.
Inside the deserted city, with its
walls and towers for a background
By THOMAS TAPPER.
in the World. It is called the Hand
to Mouth game.
Its rules are:
1. Let tomorrow take care of it
self.
Hr •/
Jifl
THOMAS TAPPER.
2. A short life and a merry one.
3. Better a drink tonight than a
quarter in the morning.
4. And if I die? Let wife and
children, and father and mother,
look out for themselves.
This may not be the written
< reed, but It is the living action No
man probably would admit that h<
Is willing to let those dependent on
fas you see in the photograph), in
the open air. on a stage resembling
a parterre In front of a castle, and
with a great audience seated undet
the sky, they gave representations,
by famous actors and actresses, of
classic French dramas, recalling
the manners, costumes and scenes
of the olden ages. It was an exhi
bition of the French sense of the
harmony of things, which we do
not possess as perfectly as they do.
One of the plays presented on
this remarkable stage was “The
Cid,” of the celebrated dramatist
Corneille. "The Cid” is a drama of
the heroic days of Spanish chivalry,
which brings before our eyes the
ideas and the doings of an age
which has not ceased to be inter
esting because it is past.
But on this occasion the repre
sentation derived a thrilling inter
est from the fact that the vanished
inhabitants of Carcassonne who
once dwelt on this spot, who walked
through these streets, who manned
these walls and kept watch from
these towers when an enemy's army
was seen approaching with its bat
tering rams, its catapults, or its
culverins, and its armor glittering
in the southern sunshine—that
these people would have felt per
fectly at home amid such scenes as
the actors were representing. More
than one imaginative spectator half
expected to see watching faces,
armed men, women in strange cos
tumes, looking down from the old
walls at the sight of this revival,
on their own ground, of the scenes
and deeds of their day. One com
mentator remarks that their ghosts
must surely have been there!
A Lesson For Us.
There is a lesson for us in this.
Because our past is relatively brief,
and our progress bewilderingly rap
id, we are apt to think too little of
bygone times. We have no Carcas
sonne, but we have glorious mem
ories of a great ’•.qst, and we ought
to cultivate them more.
him take their chances. But he
makes them take chances.
He may love them and hope they
may never want. But it takes more
than fair words to make them safe.
There are thousands of men who go
on from day to day, leaving the
family exposed to the most cruel
danger through waste, extrava
gance and selfishness.
The tragedy of the unprotected
family is witnessed every day. If
a man really has any pride in the
woman he marries, and in the chil
dren they bring into the world, he
will get down to business and be
gin to do things for them.
If he is anything beyond a bluff
at the art of living, if he actually
means to be honest toward those
dependent on him, he will believe
fully in the statement of the busi
ness man at the head of this arti
cle.
Must Work On System.
He must work on -this basis, even
if it costs him severe self-denial.
He has gone into the game, and he
must not only realize how serious
a game it is, but he must be a good
player.
If he is single, and no one de
pends on him, he still has his own
future to protect, or he becomes a
burden to his friends or the recip
ient of charity, if he can get it. in
his old age.
He would far better stand on his
own feet. A lot of nonsense has
been written about our independ
ence. It is far better to think of
their dependence: of the extent to
which other lives have come Into
our keeping.
Fake the five statements at (he
beginning of this article in good
faith. Then those depending on
you will have placed their faith
THE HOME PAPER
Elbert Hubbarci
Writes on
The New Way
How the Laundry Business in
the United States Has Grown
From Nothing to $125,000,000
a Year.
By ELBERT HUBBARD
Copyright, 1912. by International News Service
CTVHE other Jay in a Western
| city I sent a bundle to the
laundry,
When the clothes came bat <
there came also a big. square sealed
envelope. I opened this envelope
and found in it three ten-dollar
bills, all nicely washed, starched,
ironed and carefully placed between
two pieces of cardboard and tied
up with a blue ribbon in a lover's
knot
No explanation was made, but in
the bill 1 saw they had charged me
25 cents for laundering the ma
zuma.
Os course, I kicked, but what was
the use!
Asked for Explanation.
Just for the fun of the thing, in
order to get a line on that particu
lar wash house, I went around and
demanded an explanation.
The young woman in charge said
they had found the money in the
right-hand pocket of a left-hand
white vest which I had sent in the
bundle. Then she explained, quite
incidentally, that whenever soiled
clothes came in every garment was
carefully inspected for valuables.
Every day they found money in
pockets, diamond studs in shirt
bosoms, valuable links in cuffs, and
collar buttons enough to roll under
all the bureaus in Christendom.
"It is a part of our business."
said the young woman, “to protect
our customers against their own
carelessness.”
She saw I was interested, and
continued: "We never send gar
ments home with the buttons off.”
I said: "Do you Iron many but
tons off?”
“No, we do not; but when gar
ments come in with buttons off we
always sew them on, so as to re
turn ,the garments in good order,
ready to wear. Also, we do any lit
tle darning and mending that
should be done, and all this with
out charge. Our business is to
please our customers."
In looking over a volume of the
last United States industrial cen
sus, I find that they could not call
a laundry a factory, so they give it
a class all by itself. A laundry has
only one thing to sell and that Is
service.
Better Than Human Hand.
The laundries of the United
States, outside of hotel, factory or
institution laundries, do a business
in America of about $125,000,000 a
year. This ranks the laundry in
dustry rfs eleventh in size in Amer
ica.
There was a time when washing
was all done in the home. Blue
Monday everybody ate a cold lunch,
walked softly and never talked
back. Washing by hand on a wash
board, wringing and hanging out
clothes, carrying them in, starch-
The Poor Little Toe
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
UT AM all tired out.” said the Mouth, with a pout.
A ‘‘l am all tired out with talk.”
Just wait, said the Knee, “till you're lame as you can be
And then have to walk—walk—walk.”
“My work.” said the Hand, “is the hardest in the land.”
“Xay, mine is harder yet.” said the Brain;
“When you toil.” said the Eye, “as steadily as I.
OH, I HEN you'll have reason to complain.”
Then a voice, faint and low, of the poor Little Toe,
Spoke out in the dark with a wail.
"It is seldom I complain, but you all will bear your pain
With more patience if you hearken to mv tale
«
I m the youngest of five, and the others live and thrive.
They are eared for. and considered, and admired.
1 am overlooked and snubbed. I am pushed upon and rubbed.
I am always sick and ailing, sore and tired.
“But 1 carry all the weight of the body, small or great,
Yet no one* ever praises what I do;
I am always in the way. and 'tis 1 who have to pay
For the folly and the pride of all of you.”
I hen the Mouth and the Brain and the Hand said, “ 'Tis plain
though troubled be our lives with woe.
Ihe hardest lot of all does certainly befall
Ihe poor little, humble little toe.
The snubbed little, rubbed little toe."
■rW ■
wSllEiijiSw-';
H
ing and ironing, kept* the hou-»-
wife busy several days a week.
Commercial laundries are now te
be found in every first-class city of
America. They cleanse, wring dry,
iron and starch by machinery x 0
business in the world has evolved
such delicate, sure and effective
machines as the laundry industry
It is now no special recommen
dation to say: "The goods are laun
dered by hand.” Machines are
manufactured that can do the work
better than the human hand can
And, after all, the machine, you
must remember, is an invention of
the human brain. And when you
use a machine to take the place
of the dead lift and labor of human
muscles you pay a compliment to
the inventor.
The laundries In the United
States do by the aid of machinery,
with the help of one man. what ten
men or women were required to do
before. And with all this saving
in labor, yet the laundries of Amer
ica employ five times as many peo
ple as does the Standard Oil Com
pany, and twice as many as the
United States Steel Corporation
Our populatiaon is. say, 100.000.-
000, and we pay $1.25 a year per
capita for having our clothes
washed, and this does not count
all of the work done by housewives
who do their own washing
The women who used to go out
washing were women who could do
nothing else. We often gave out
laundry work as a matter of char
ity.
Europe Still Lags Behind.
Laundrymen today are prosper
ous. Their work comes with un
failing regularity. They can count
on their customers and their cus
tomers count on them. Next to
the supplying of food and clothing
the laundry business is the most
stable in America.
The men engaged in the business
are men of intelligence, ability and
worth, who prize system, organiza
tion; and into their work they even
put a deal of art.
Some of these laundries are very
sumptuously fitted up with tils
floors and walls, spacious offices
with all modern appliances and val
uable automobile service for col
lecting and making deliveries.
No country In the world has car
ried the laundry business to the
same degree of perfection that the
United States has. Europe still
lags behind, and in many*flrst-class
European hotels the washerwoman
will come in person and solicit your
patronage, just as she used to do
in America, 25 or 30 years ago.
The thing that has brought the
change and put it on a firm finan
cial foundation is Yankee inven
tive genius. Ask George Westing
house and Thomas A. Edison if I
am right!