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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday Ry THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St.. Atlanta, Ga. Entered as seeond-class matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 8. 1878. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mail, >5.00 a year. Payable In advance. No Wonder the Country Editors Are Poor When the Money for Their Advertising Is Stolen rr » 1 And No Wonder Advertisers Complain That ‘ Country Papers Do Not Give Results,” When the Man Who Places the Ad vertising Without Paying for It Swindles the Advertiser as Well as the Country Editor. Country Editors, PLEASE READ THIS. Every editor of a country newspaper knows what an uphill fight lies before the man who undertakes to work as a distributor of news, a critic and a writer of honest opinions. It is not necessary to impress the lesson of the country editor's poverty UPON THE COUNTRY EDITOR. He knows ALL about it. More than once we have talked to the country editors about the folly of permitting advertising to be forced upon them in the shape of ‘ ’ ready prints. ” The ready print which carries advertising IS SIMPLY THEFT IN A VERY BALI) FORM. It is an impertinent and shameless method <>f accumulating money for an individual who is utterly worthless in the community al the expense of all the hard-working publishers and editors. This newspaper and the other Hearst newspapers hope eventu ually to put an end to the system of robbing the country newspapers through free advertising. Today we call special attention to a feature of this free adver tising with which some country editors may not be acquainted. The usual system of the publishers that palm off free advertis ing on the country editors is to send the advertising IN ALL OF THE - READY PRINTS” SENT OFT. But what the country editors do not know—many of them—is that exceptions are made in the cases of editors determined not to be swindled in this fashion. We ask the editors of the country this question: How many of you carrinyg advertising for which you get no pay through your entire edition know that the more cunning and determined editors in the country permit no such nonsense? How many of you know that those ready print concerns which swindle the editors with advertising not paid for have a particular kind of contract which they make with editors that refuse to be swindled .’ These are the facts: , When the editor writes to the manufacturer of the dishonest “ready print and says, “ I refuse to fake your ready print as long as you swindle putting in advertising that is not paid,” he gets this kind of a communication, usually sent by word of mouth: “I understand how you feel about advertising in the ready print. But you see, in order to get paid for the advertising, I must show a certain number of all the papers with the advertising in it. There fore I shall send you just a few copies of the ready print containing this advert i.sing After you have published these few copies you can send 110 in back to me at mv expense. The rest of the ready prim sen to you will contain NO advertising, and I hope this will be sat isi act ory. Hou many editc s know that thia deal is made with country editors tl.a refuse to lie swindled ? The local editor, with a hard, uphill tight, who carries every week or every day advertising for which he gets nothing ought to writ at out to the ready print concern that swindles him and say : ‘ Why don i you make a -p-euil arrangement with ME as you make with others, and let me have M'l ready print free of advertising ixeepting ,i dozen or so that you ve got to semi to the advertisers that you swunile as you have b th swindling me?" Do com : editors realize how much they are swindled Dy this s; a i of Hi tending Io publish advertising amt only sending a marked copy Io 1 liV adv ml iser .’ Do uni all Im country editors know that they are hurt year in and _v ai oiii i>\ the common statement aiming advertising agents and Hi ts. “Il doesn't pay Io advertise in the country newspa pers <’ course, it doesn't pay to advertise in the country newspapers when tin adverti.'.iug is done stupidly by a concern that has no in terest. no special pride in the work. AND, OFCOI RSE. THE COUNTRY NEWSPAPER ADVER TISING DOESN'T PAY WHEN THE ADVERTISING is PRINT - ED ONLY IN A FEW COPIES TO BE SHOWN TO THE SWIN DLED ADVERTISER. The editors of the country should tomorrow refuse to publish one line of advertising for which they are not individually paid so much per inch or per line. And the postotfiee authorities should refuse to carry through the mails, and especially to carry free within the county, this swin dling and dishonest advertising, for which the editor is not paid. And tile men that advertise should no longer permit their ad vertisements to be put into ready prints against the wishes of the editors, thus making enemies for themselves among the publishers. We are glad Io say that some of the more intelligent advertisers in the country —the International Harvester Company, the Stand ard Oil Company and others have made up their minds that they will no longer spend their money in dishonest readv prints. TH \T THEY WILL NO LONGER SPEND THEIR MONEY TO MAKE THEIR CORPORATIONS HATED BY THE EDITORS. The two concerns that we have mentioned are now PAYING for the advertising that the Country editors carrv. AND SENDING THAT ADVERTISING THROUGH CONCERNS THAT \RE H< >N EST AND THAT PAY CASH TO THE EDITOR FOR THE WORK THAT HE DOES. The editors of the country can stop this system of swindling as soon as limy choose. And the revelation here of one particular method of swindling, the printing of the advertising in a few papers only to show to the advertiser, ought to convince advertisers throughout the country that they ought to change their method and give up the swindling ready prints that carry advertising for whirl) the country publisher is not paid. Wc again urge the country editors to take some united action to pm an end tu the swindling advertising ready print.” The Atlanta Georgian e: THE MAN WHO DARES :-: Drawn by HAL COFFMAN Zig: jwjjjj ■ fl ® m H 11 ■ Ofc Ah®' ~ MSL --- Z ' ‘ i X C v S ■ - ■ .■ ■ ■ i- • ' Shut in by Walls of Ptecedpncp, the Man on the Beaten Path Goes Along on His Humdrum Way. The Man AVho Dares Tumbles Down the Forbidding Walls and Takes a Short Cut to Success. The Battle of Dunbar By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY ''l XWO hundred and sixty-two | years ago Cromwell and his Ironsides met the men of the heather at Dunbar and gave them the beating of the! l lives. That Scotchmen are brave has been demonstrated upon a hundred bat tle fields, but the drubbing that "Old Noll" gave them at Dunbar they can never forget. But Dunbar did the Scotch a world of good; and. moreover, it was something that they well de served. It was. a most righteous beating that they got on that niemorabfc September day, 1650. Cromwell, one of the greatest men of all time, was as tolerant as he was great, but lie felt that tol eration was a game that it took two or more to play at. He was more than willing to reach out the hand of good will to any one who v .19 disposed to meet him half way, but for the would-be champions of intolerance ho had no patience and lull little compassion. The Scotch, led on by their fa natical, preaehe s. were trying to make everybody Presbyterians, and not only so. but they were engaged in the attempt at making the peo ple of England accept a king that tffey did not want. In their maj esty the English people had ri.-en and brushed away the Stuart dy nasty. with all of its crimes, and now the Scotch were trying, by force of arms, to make them take that dynasty back. This was more than Cromwell could stand. He would not become a Presbyterian, or anything else, against his will, and as for accept ing Charles li he would not listen to it for a moment. He entered Scotland on July 23 with 11,000 of his “Ironsides," and on September 3 found himself face to face with Leslie’s army at Dun bar. It was the largest arm) that Scotland bad ever mustered 27,000 strong, skiriting the amphitheater of hills. Outnumbered more than two to one. Cromwell was never before in so critical a position. There was no retreat. Behind him was the sea, in front of him was Leslie and the heath, a wilderness of bog and swamp—the hammer inoor. As Cromwell was wondering what to do. his quick eye detected a certain movement on the part of the enemy and. seeing the advan tage of it. he threw up his hands with the exclamation: "The Lord hath delivered them into our hands!” Instantly the Ironsides were in motion “Let Hod arise, and let His enemies be scattered!" shouted Cromwell to them, and in a little while it was all over with the heather folk. It was a wonderful victory -one of the most wonderful on record 10, uno prisoners. 4,000 slain, 200 • ot nrs and standards, 1 ■'•.000 tand of arm*, ail ti .•rtillei', md Crom wells loss less than .'e men. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1912 THE POWER OF BEAUTY The Rosebud's Attraction Is Strong, But When Men Seek a Wife They Pluck the Modest Violet IS beauty the most important thing in the woftd to a wom an? A wife, whose husband has left her for a younger and fairer face, says that ij is. She writes: “Men care for nothing but beauty in a woman. If a man has a pret ty wife, he takes her about and shows her off. If she is ugly, she is left at home. If a woman has classical features, she is admired and petted. If not. she is discarded and thrown away. “Some humanitarian should in vent away, to make women beau tiful. It would be worth more to them than all the intelligence, all the goodness, all the devotion in •the world, if 1 could look in the mirror and see a young face in stead of an old one; golden hair in stead of grizzled locks; rosy cheeks instead of faded ones. 1 should have my husband’s love Instead of being a deserted wife. 1 should be happy instead of the most miserable crea ture alive. If I could say one word to girls who are about to be mar ried it would be this: An Exaggeration. “Don't work yourself to death, so that you get old and haggard be fore your time trying to help your husband. Instead, take cate of yourself and keep your good looks if you want to keep him. He won't remember what you've done for him. He'll only notice whether you are pretty or not. The only hand that a man takes any interest in holding is one that is nice, and »w hite, and soft, and well manicured. You never see a man holding the hand that has gotten corns on it washing dishes for him and patch ing his trousers. The only thing that counts with a man is beauty.” Is this woman right? Are men such slaves to beauty as my cor respondent thinks? Is pulchritude the only quality in woman that can attract and hold a man? I think not. I think that my cor respondent exaggerates the value that men place upon good .looks in women , Undoubtedly every man believes that lie is a worshiper at the shrine of beauty. The first question that any man ever asks about a woman is not whether she has any brains, or wit, or culture, or is entertain ing. but whether she is pretty or not. Also, evert man will turn in the street to take a second look when a human peach pa-ses him b>. ‘iid 'o- eon'-r 'Don is t..rJKl' made up of description of the liv- By DOROTHY DIX. Ing pictures that he has met at different times and places. Judging from all this, one might agree with my correspondent that men care for nothing but pretti ness in a woman, and that beauty draws them with a single hair, as ■ * r //' DOROTHY DIX. the poet says. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, however, and it is observable that when a man goes to pick out a wife he al most invariably passes by the Queen Rose of the rosebud garden of girls, and picks out a modest and demure little violet at whom nobody would ever take a second look. If you doubt this assertion, take a look around at the married worn en of your acquaintance, not one of whom would ever take a blue rib bon In a beauty shah'. Further moie. it is a notorious fact that great beauties seldom marry well. Men admire them abstractly, but they don't personally desire to pos sess these splendid ornaments. Good Looks the Least. It is true that a pretty face is a great gift of the gods, and lucky the woman who possesses one. It may attract a man to her, and he may fall in love with her, to begin with, on account of the fairness of her complexion, and the heavenly blue of her eye-, hut unless she has g<>t "omrthing elss her good looks she can never hold hint. No THE HOME PAPe r man would be any more satisfied to look at the same pretty face, for 30 or 40 years of a stretch of matri mony. than he would be interested in looking at the same pretty pic ture unless there was sympathy and intelligence, and love to back up the good looks. And these qualities the beauties seldom have. Nature holds the scales pretty evenly and gives a squarer deal than we think, and when she is prodigal in adorning the outside of a woman, she is mighty apt to scrimp on the inside in brains and heart. Moreover, the beauty from the very adulation she receives is made selfish, and con ceited, and these qualities are not the attributes that either win love or hold it. , Goodness knows, matrimony Is a risky enough proposition as it is. but if men really eared for nothing but beauty In women, it would be a desperate game in which they would be bound to lose out. For the one certain thing in life is that time will dull the brightest eyes, and silver the blackest tresses, and fade the roses on the loveliest cheeks, and turn the most vtillowy figure into the likeness of a feather bed, or a telephone post. What Men Marry For. What is to become of the holy estate then? Are we to have pro gressive matrimony, old wives trad ed for new? Or husbands who are devotees of beauty, walling and gnashing their teeth because there is a homely old face across the hearthstone instead of a fresh fair one? Nothing of the sort happens, ex cept in rare cases, because the man didn't marry for beauty in the first place, but for something better than beauty and mere lasting. Uc. married for companionship. for fidelity, for devotion, and they have not perished with the years, but grown and strengthened. Women overvalue beauty and put too much stress upon men's theo retical devotion to it, and they wor ry themselves unduly trying to be beautiful, though ugly. To the right sort of a man his fat. homely old wife, who has fried out her complexion over the kitchen stove cooking good things for him to eat, and made knots on her hands working for him. looks more beau tiful than the Venus do Medici. \nd the othei sori of a man. who chases <>ff after every pretty Chorus girl that ero”ts his path, i-n i worth any woman’s worrying about. Letters From the People PROGRESSIVE PARTY IN GEORGIA, Editor The Georgian: The Journal, in a recent Sunday issue, so emphatically misrepresent ed the attitude of Colonel Roosevelt on the negro question that it seems to call for an equally emphatic re ply. In Georgia, the Progressive party was organized as, and nas continued to be, the white man’s party of Georgia. A full and complete answer to The Journal's editorial on Colonel Roosevelt is the letter to Julian Harris on the negro topic. That letter started the factional bosses and pap-feeders in both parties into a sudden realization of the fact that by this position Colonel Roosevelt had suddenly changed Georgia into a doubtful state politically. For the first time in the history of Georgia, a white man was given the opportunity to vote his convic tions and not be menaced by the “Black Plague.” Thousands of men rejoiced to know that they were no longer mentally pledged to support Democratic candidates, but could break away from old forced neces sity and be free. This started such a movement in Georgia as to alarm the Wilson managers, and the only possible means of checking the tide running to Roosevelt was to ap peal to dying prejudice and shake the horror of negro control in the faces of people who know' it wm an insult to their intelligence, and who certainly will resent ft on No vember 5. The Progressive party In Georgia is a white man’s party. It is dom inated by white men. Its electors ticket Is made up of white men. It stands for clean politics, the elimi nation of factions, of bosses of ,he picayune stripe, of the petty ers, and finally to take the South into a new. bigger and broader of enterprise and toward greater success by the adoption of progf*** sive principles. The Progressive party in t« tor gia is fighting the battle for Geer gia only, and a most unplea>an surprise awaits Roosevelt s oppo nents in November in this state J. ST. JULIEN YATES. Progressive Party Elector at Large. State of Georgia. WOMEN ON JURIES. Editor The Georgian: I was greatly interested in article by Dorothy Dix on th»‘ Ject of women serving as jutoi-- j She certainly voices my ~ J ments. There would be mori tier done If women served 0,1 ries, and T feel sure the day far distant when they wi 11 ■ ’ opportunity to lend their tninds to such duty.