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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN I’ubllshed Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY K At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta. Ga. Entered as second-class matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 1371. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mall. <5.00 a year. Payable In advance. A Tariff Policy That Suits Americans » «t V They Do Not Propose to Pull Down Their Fences. They Do Intend to Protect American Labor and Industry. And They Are Fairly Well Satisfied With Results Thus Far. We ask our readers to read again with special attention some paragraphs from an interview given by W. R. Hearst to The London Daily Express. The English are in a hopeful mood just now. They hope that we will let them manage what we built. They hope that we will accept seriously Professor Wilson’s program and make this a free trade country—which mould be very pleasant for free trade England. I In a previous statement Mr. Hearst had pointed lout the fact that the Americans propose to manage the American canal without English supervision. And in the statement quoted below he makes it quite clear that the people of this country remember the story of the fox that lost his tail—and advised the other foxes to cut their tails off. as it is much nicer not to have any tail. The T'nited States finds the bushy tail of protection for in dustry and labor quite useful and comfortable, and does not pro pose to chop it off—simply because England is mutilated. We invite special attention of our readers again to some par agraphs in Mr. Hearst’s latest statement—these paragraphs ex press clearly and in condensed form the opinions of at least nine tenths of the citizens of this country. And it is well to have the English learn, and have politicians in this country learn, that the Americans will not experiment with the free trade of Eng land, a free trade forced upon Great Britain by the fact that her own territory' was incapable of feeding her own population. Mr. Hearst says: “There are some abuses In the tariff which need correction, but for my part I bcllevi' in a proper tariff for protection, and I believe that the growth of th- unexampled prosperity of America has been largely stimulated by the principle of protection, tn spite of certain abuses In the system." "Mr. Wilson says that we have grown to such a point of production that wc om rtlow our own markets and that we must extend our markets and open foreign markets to our produce. " This is quite true; but one reason that we fill and overflow our own -irket Is be ruse legitimate protection has prevented the product of foreign manufacturers and foreign cheap labor from Invading our markets and crowding our own manufacturers and our own laborers out of business." "If we have had such splendidly prosperous business conditions at home, it would not be well or wise to alter too rapidly or too radically the system under which th. e splendidly prosperous business conditions have been de veloped. Furthermore, we can not secure the markets of foreign nations merely by reducing our own tariff wall. We must reduce the tariff wall of foreign nations. "By demolishing our own tariff fence we may get out of our own pas ture. but we can not get into the pasture of foreign nations until we have demolished their tariff fences. "If we sacrifice our protective policy we sacrifice our one opportunity to lower the tariff bars of foreign countries. It is only by reciprocity that the tariff bars of foreign countries can be lowered. "If we maintain our protective fence we can say to foreign countries; ‘We will lower our bars to your products If you will lower your bars to our products ' But If we have no tariff fences we can make no such beneficial bargain. "Mr Wilson also disapproves of American business men, and considers them ‘ignorant’ and ’provincial.’ I am almost disposed Irritably to contra dict this statement of Mr Wilson "American business men are the greatest business men in the world and have made America the greateat business nation in the world. They are ac cumulating in America the wealth of the world, and they are employing their wealth In away which excites the admiration of the world. "Some of our business men. like Rockefeller, are endowing universities for the advancement of learning and supporting Institutions of medical and surgical experiment for the benefit of our own people and of all mankind "Others of our business men. like Carnegie, are endowing libraries for the dissemination of universal knowledge and maintaining observatories and other scientific establishments for the extension of scientific research and the development of scientific pursuits. "Others again, like Morgan, are assembling In America the art and li brary treasures of the world for the development of our tastes and percep tions. and for the higher culture of our people in the refinements and intellec tual enjoyments of life. "Our business men have been able to do all this without Mr. Wilson’s guidance, and In spite of his poor opinion of them it is Just possible that under the guidance of college professors these ’ignorant’ and ’provincial’ business men of ours might not have accomplished as much for them selves and their country as they did when left to their own resources "Mr Wilson's dogmatic and didactic declarations have all the positive ness of the pedagogue who has theories on everything and experience in nothing His Is the customary attitude of the college professor who knows everything, having read it in books, where It was written down by other col lege professors with equally infallible knowledge based on equally universal inexperience. It is an interesting thing to see a college professor lecturing practical busin. > men on the practical problems of business from the musty rooms of one of the colleges which the practical success of these business men had enabled them to endow. "I <lo not wonder that Englishmen are interested In this phas. of Ameri can politics, but I think that the sound sense of American citizens will pre vent any foreign country being unduly benefited at our expense by the b.istv application of the undigested theories of some of our well-meaning, but in experienced. stab sinen.” Vhe above extracts from Mr. Hearst’s statement to the ucwsi.ape!’. followin'.' the statement of this country's determi nation to manage the canal that \ve built, express well the opinions of the majority of the citizens of this country, (’an (lidales tor office who can not make themselves agree with this analysis of the situation will find it difficult to make voters agree v itli them. i is country proposes io protect the I’nited States, its "" : 1111,1 'G manufacturers and that without permitting 1! " " ’’ "" "• tariffs for the benefit and protection of trusts "oiihl kill the tarifi absolutely, m order, as they B the trusts, simply play the part of the tame llis tn. siii > head with a rock m order to kill ,| " tlv on his master’s nose. The Atl,anta Georgian f il 7-WW A A < /// V) . /A 7 pJi z : L \ «• im / 0 o IB| cT)' //A ~ HW £ Mi ■■l 7* hi. C?" 11 riAHIS world is better supplied | with things that tempt ua to spend money than with suggestions to save money. Temptations to spend are right in front of us all the time, on both sides of us. and, if we turn around, we find them behind us. And the price is always marked in plain figures. The suggestion to save money is not much advertised. It is a mat ter of reason rather than of temp tation. and most of us are less given to entertaining our Reason (which is supposed to be of divine origin) than we are to keeping company with those unnecessary things that put up the cost of liv ing. Here Are Four Machines. American schools are a great in stitution. You get an education tn them that is a good invesement. Well, with* the education you have received figure out this problem: Here are four metal machines, all deaf, dumb ami blind. The centra! point of each machine is a slot WHERE Yiir CAN PI'SH VOIR OWN MONEY OCT OE SIGHT ANO REACH. No. 1 belches out a piece of chocolate. No. 2 a stick of gum. No. 3 perfumes your handker chief, plays a little tune (Good bye, my penny, good-bye) and tells you how much you weigh. No. 4 pushes out a printed slip which gives you credit at the Way farers Savings bank for one cent, and advises you that when you get ten such tickets that yon may come in and get a book with a total credit of one dime. Problem: Which maehltii will catch the fewest pennies" Note The fourth machine is Imaginary. No savings bank president in ex istence ever had tile idea enter his head that S(>ME pennies could be caught'ln this way Rm he into wake up some dav and try to makt saving as gr< it .r tempta tion as spending. 11 V good many saving, bank- will give a depcsltot a small natal bath, with slot- in ft. Till- - to be kept at iietiu wild tid'd by domestic Smashing the Straw Hat Bv HAL COFFMAN. Reducing the Living Cost Savings Kank Suggestions TI’ESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1912. Bv THOMAS TAPPER. economy. The banker keeps the key, and when the machine is full you take -it in and get credit for the amount it contains. This is a good scheme. But it lias one fault —perhaps more than one. 1 It is not advertised enough. 2 Homa' the machines are not common enough. Letters From the People SUPERSTITION. Editor The Georgian: I read your editorial. "How to Have Good Luck," with a great deal of interest, and I would like, in the interest of truth, to see some editorial writer go deeper into the underlying causes of su perstition. Are the educated classes less superstitious than the uneducated masses? Or do the ed ucated classes seek to spread dark ness and superstition when "fairy tales" too numerous to describe are dished out as mental food to small children? Superstition is an effect and edu cation the cause. We do not ob tain all our education in the class room, by any means. Edm .ition. in a general sense, is the result of contact, association, and I con tend that the grownup will be ab solutely free from superstition if the child could be guarded from contact with supertitious litera ture and teachers, both in and out <»f the class room. Superstition is mental smallpox and the germs ■ ire absorbed by contact; then, at ii future date, we have breaking out of the disease with more or less xio er.ee in proportion n> mental caliber. W. A. JONES. Madison. Ga. CLIPS ARTICLES FOR REFERENCE Editor The Georgian: 1 feel that I must compliment . you on having Miss Dix on your • dltortal staff. I only wish we had more broad-minded women like her She is doing a great work in a Held that Ims been neglected. I ■ lip all of her articles from the r iper and til,, away far future ref er, nt •> as | think they ,e. worth i ii W, \l.T<>.\ I’LIFTOX 3. Most people when they get home at night are too tired to save money. The time to catch them is dur ing the day when they feel rich, and the _ pennies are running through their fingers, yelling, Push me into something. Time to Catch Them. Then is the moment when the Wayfarer's Savings Bank slot ma chine will catch its harvest. Better have three slots in your machine one for pennies, one for nickels and one for dimes. You get credit at the bank for the printed slip. You can afford to put up a nice machine —one constructed to squirt fine perfume on the depositor, or to play tunes. HI. Any device that checks the chan nels of waste, particularly little wastes, reduces the cost of living, by cutting out the cost of un necessary things. This does not exculpate the trusts for running up the price of meat. but it helps a man momentarily by preserving his resources. Eew men are so foolish as to carry their money in a pocket with a hole in it. But let some other man make the hole- surround it with printed directions, and there is scarcely any one too poor not to be tickled to death to try how it works. All of which means this: Money should not make us thoughtless, but thoughtful Money Equals Labor. Money is the equivalent of la bor. and it deserves the same re spect. Money that Is wasted today would provide an old age pension in years to come. Money can be spent to make div idends and benefits for you, or for the other man. Take your choice. The cost of Living is high, but the cost of Foolishness is higher. An education ought to teach a man to guard his own earnings and to protect himself and his family in th- future The cost of all our school books is less than Twenty - five Millions of Hollars per annum but the cost of wines, liquors, to bacco and cigars tn one year la about Eight Hundred Millions " • “le certain!) great spenders. THE HOME PAPER Elbert Hubbard 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 THE other day in a Western city I sent a bundle to the laundry. When the clothes came back 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 I saw they had charged me 25 cents for laundering the tna 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 w hite vest w'hich 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 as eleventh in size in Amer ica. ' There was a time when washing was all done in the home. Blue Monday every body 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- I he Poor Little Toe By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. AM all tired out. said the Mouth, with a pout. A “I am all tired out with talk.” •lust wait, said the Knee, “till you're lame as you can 1 And then have to walk—walk—walk.” M\ work, said the Hand, ‘‘is the hardest in the land.” “Nay, mine is harder yet,” said the Brain; When \ou toil, said the Eye, “as steadily as I, OH. I HEN you II have reason to complain.” Then a voice, faint and low. of the poor Lit lie Toe, Spoke out in the dark with a wail. “It is seldom I complain, hut you all will bear your pein With more patience if you hearken to my tale I in the joitngest of five, and the others live and thrive. They are cared for. and -considered, and admired. I am overlooked and snubbed. I am pushed upon and rubbed. 1 am always sick and ailing, sore and tired. “But I carry all the weight of the body, small or great, Yet n<> one ever praises what 1 do; I am always in the way. and ’tis [ who have to pay For the folly and the pride of all of you.” Then the Mouth and the Brain and the Hand said, “ Tis plai I hough troubled be our lives with woe. Ihe hardest lot of all does certainh befall rile poor little, humble little toe. The snubbed little, rubbed little toe.” K- 1 ing and ironing, kept the home wife busy several days a week. Commercial laundries are now t be found in every first-class city • ; America. They' cleanse, wring in iron and starch by machine!' y business in the world has evna.,- such delicate, sure and effective machines as the laundry inclustr- 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 y’all 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, lOfi.ono,. 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 w’ork they even put a deal of art. Some of these laurtdries are very sumptuously’ fitted up with tile 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 first-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!