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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY
At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga.
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Will Hotel Owners Disgrace
i'liemselves and Their
Hotels?
Their Alleged Decision to Allow Women to Smoke in Public
Would Disgrace New York as Well as the Hotels.
It is stated that a majority of important hotel managers of
New York, after consultation, have decided to permit women to
smoke in public.
“If the fashionable ones want Io puff in public, well, let them,”
say the managers.
Put in plain English, this means that the managers have de
cided to ignore decency and respect for the public in pursuit of
profit.
The owners of various hotels, including some of the biggest in
New York, expressed grief that an English concern, the Ritz-Carl
ton. should degrade the level of hotel morals, etc., etc.., when the
Ritz-Carlton offered smokes for women as an inducement.
It will be rather sad now if these gentlemen who protested so
volubly decide that they, too, will permit women to smoke.
If they haw reached this decision it is simply because they
have found their best customers going to the Ritz-Carlton hotel.
For their enlightenment, we assure them that their customers
have not gone to the Ritz-Carlton because a few shameless women
smoke there in public.
The Ritz-Carlton has attracted desirable customers BECAUSE
THE RESTAURANT HAPPENS TO BE WELL MANAGED,
BECAUSE THE MANAGER OF THE 11OTEL—barring the affront
to public decency in permitting women to smoke—HAPPENS TO
KNOW MORE ABOUT HOTEL MANAGEMENT OF THE •‘UL
TRA-FASHIONABLE,” LUXURIOUS KIND THAN A MAJOR
ITY OF HIS COMPETITORS
We beg to inform the sad-eyed imitators who are going to make
their hotels resorts for female smokers that they will simply get
an abundance of disreputable women that want to smoke in public.
They will not get the desired trade away from the Ritz-Carlton.
They will till their establishments with smoking women—of the
worst kind and they will drive away many of their decent patrons.
If the other hotels are to follow the example of the Ritz-Carl
ton, in the foolish belief that the disreputable feature of the latter
hotel accounts for its success, we suggest to the Ritz-Carlton man
agement that THEA’ stop the women smoking at once, thereby mak
ing their place really desirable and showing the managers of other
hotels that you can not take away a man's success by imitating his
worst point.
And once more, we want, to tell women that smoking is harm
ful, degrading, demoralizing.
Women have been tree from nicotine for centuries. They can
no more stand tobacco than the Indians could stand whisky or the
American men opium.
It will take centuries for women to become accustomed to to
bacco and able to stand it as well as men.
And when they’ arc accustomed to it their faces will be ugly,
their skins will be yellow, the tips of their noses will be red. their
mustaches will grow and their breath will be offensive, as is the
breath of all smokers ami they will have gained nothing.
P. S. All honor, incidentally, to George T. Boldt, the owner of
the biggest hotel and in many ways the best hotel- -in America.
Mr. Boldt lakes the stand that European women may’ smoke if they
choose, hotel managers fresh from Europe and Hushed with success
and American hotel failures may make their hotels indecent if they
please, but at his hole], the Waldorf-Astoria, women will be ex
pected to behave as respectable women should, and will not be per
mitted to smoke publicly.
Good l imes Really at Hand
At last there are unmistakable signs of that general revival
of business which has been so long expected and postponed.
President McCrea, of the Pennsylvania railroad, denies that
prosperity is “coming' H< says. “It's here. Everybody can
see that Tie pulse of the whole country is beating to the
rhythm of happier limes. We are just entering the new era of
prosperity.
Mr. R. S ett, the executive head of the I nion Pacific,
the Southern Pacific, the Illinois Central and the other Harri
man lines, returns from a five weeks inspection trip ranging
from the Gulf to the Pacific and says.
“I have ne'er known crop conditions in the West to be
better 1 don I see liov. they could be better. Business through
out the W. st and Southwest is for that reason fine. Tha. out
look is exeelletit. \ great dal of our work is retarded for
lack of labor, much of our construction work in particular be
ing delayed So. with line crops and the demand for labor
much in excess of the supply, times ought to be very good.”
Mr. Lovett thinks that the opening of the Panama Canal
"ill insure a long least* of Ide to the new era of prosperity
•hat it will cause a rapid development of the Pacific Coast
r**gion. and that any loss of through traffic to the continental
la iioads wil. In* compensated by an increase of local traffic all
along the lines.
1* or ihe present, at f ast, we may breathe once more the air
of confidence and high expectancy.
< tiice more Nature has conic to rescue of n>**n The incubus
trusts and tariff has been lifted bv the growing corn. The
■ ■xiortions of monopolists and the fraud and folly of polities
Lave been cancelled by the crops
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The mirror in which the young man may see his reflection as he will be in later years—
if he gazes into it long enough. s
< Courtesies of the Road M
ON a recent trip of about three
hundred miles through the
middle states by automobile,
1 noted the uniform good nature,
patience and courtesy of the auto
mobile drivers.
Before the days of the Hepburn
bill we had a tine phrase, to-tvit:
''The Courtesies of the Road.” This
meant a railroad pass. The ten
dency of the times wiped out that
particular kind of "courtesy," and
now the term means simply the
good will which gentlemen always
m inifest toward each other when
they meet.
Six years ago the automobile was
a plaything. Men who drove a ma
chine were more or less heroes;
also more or less brigands. The
spirit of the larrikin and the hood
lum sat at the wheel. If a farmer
did not get out of the way quick
enough there were shouts of “Clear
the track!” "Don’t you know any
thing?” “What’s the matter with
you?” "1 will take a wheel off you
next! ”
A Thing of the Past.
It is the rule now of the good au
toist never to use such language,
nor even resent coarse language
and epithet when applied by others.
If you sit at a wheel. you cun
not afford to lose your temper. All
of the nerves you possess should be
used in carrying your machine
through to safety.
As for stingin? somebody up with
a few hot words—that is a thing of
the past. The traveler now no
longer considers himself a section
of the Day of Judgment.
We used to talk about tin, dan
gers of travel; now we are begin
ning to understand \ristotle s' dic
tum to Alexander the Great: "The
enemies of an army are in its own
camp.”
A man’s < netnies are in ids own
heart; his enemies are his limita
tions. his impatience, his hot haste,
his desire to get even, his fear of
being injured or defrauded.
Well has it been said: "There is
no devil but fear."
There is something heroic about
having sixty horsepower at your
finger tips, ot reached by the pres
sure of the foot, and yet niter us
ing this power to the limit. About
it there is a quality that makes you
proud and gives a dignity which
men without power inter poss.-s.
It so happens that the running
of an automobile with this tremen
dous piner within your reach tends
to give sort of freedom from all
little ptrph xlng . ares
TJURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 26, 1912.
By ELBERT HUBBARD.
Copyright. 1912, by International News Service.
If a teamster blocks the way un
necessarily, you do not roar at him;
but, if possible, you catch his eye,
smile, wavf* your hand, and he gets
the idea and partakes of this spirit
and responds.
The automobile clubs all over the
country undoubtedly have done
much to make peace between the
man who hasn't an automobile and
the one who has.
Had Contempt For Autoists.
For a while we had a beautiful
contempt for the man with a ma
chine, and we spokt of the Red
Devil, having the chauffeur quite
as much in mind as the machine.
No chauffeur now will run over
chickens, dogs, ducks'or geese, if
he can help it. He keeps his ma
chine Will in band when passing by
houses where animals or persons
may run out or appear suddenly.
He is considerate for the feelings
of others.
There used to be an old Quaker
maxim tunning thus: “If I can do
a kind act or sac a kind word, let
me say it now. for 1 may not pass
this way again.”
Tin* autoist. however, realizes
that he will pass this way again:
a'.sY hundreds and thousands of
other autoists will pass this way
again, and his ndeavor is to leave
a kindly remembrance behind
rather than one of wrath or indif
ferent. . Because it Is somewhat
cti iov.s fact that anybody that has
been instilled by a reckless auto
mobilist scorching the pavement in
Knowledge
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
''T'MIERE was a lime, a wondrous time indeed.
i When I was just a curly headed boy,
Caring no whit for any sect or ereed.
While chasing through the meadow lands of Joy.
1 heard strange talks, by older people planned.
And strange beliefs to which these people clung;
I listened, but I could not understand— <
I w;is too young. ;
There was a time, in older, bolder years.
When 1 could never be a boy again— 1
A time when manhood shut the gate of tears
And taught me how to hide the bitterest pain.
Then Knowledge came, with riches in her hand, ;
Offering gems and tempting me with gold.
I listened, but 1 coijld noot understand—
-1 w;is too old. |
■F his immediate vicinity will feel a
spirit of resentment and ill will,
even for a little time, toward the
whole tribe of men who own buzz
wagons.
This being true, every good auto
ist now* endeavors to spread good
will, courtesy, kindness, as he goes,
knowing that he probably will be
back “this way and that
everything he gives out returns to
him in some form or another.
Thus do we get in degree a con
summation of the brotherhood of
man, or the solidarity of the race.
The sentiment is not analyzed, but
the idea that humanity is one, and
that we can not Injure another
without injuring ourself, is finding
lodgment in the heart of the race.
Signs of the Road.
In Ohio, in one district. I noticed
at every sharp turn in the road, or
on a high hill, there w*ere signs up
—"Thank you,” or "Be consider
ate, you are approaching a vil
lage.” One that always made us
smile was, "Good Boy—Shake!”
The man who devised those
short, sharp, epigrammatic slogans
and then printed them on boards
and nailed these up on trees, tele
graph poles and fences, was cer
tainly a benefactor of his kind.
All through that particular dis
trict we sort of felt kindly toward
everybody and waved our hands in
greeting at the passing machines
and people in their houses.
The good will that somebody’
had given out was caught on our
4* wireless and passed along.
THE HOME PAPER
Thomas Tapper
Writes on r ~,
How to Build i
a Fortune ' ft 9
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Small Beginnings and K-r
What They Can Ac- '
complish if One Has
the Ability to Stick |
to a System and
Take More Trouble
Than Seems Neces- i
sary. |
By THOMAS TAPPER.
SOME years ago, at a party for 4
boys and girls, the hostess pre- ;
sented each guest with a new
cent. She requested each one to j
report the following year, when the
party met again, on the use of the
cent.
Only one had a report to make
the next year. This was a boy.
He had bought a package of rad
ish seeds. He planted the seeds in
the back yard at home, and by the
end of June he sold his crop for
Eighty Cents.
Next, he asked permission to use
a vacant lot, where he invested his
Eighty Cents in planting late beans
and kale. When this crop was
gathered and Sold the boy had a
total of Four Dollars and Fifty
Cents.
But This Wasn’t All.
This increase of the original cent
was not all that he had. He had
learned a good many things. He
had seen radishes, beans and kale
grow, but he had also seen the
smallest coin of his own realm in
crease four hundred and fifty times
right before his own eyes.
In the next four years, by follow
ing the same process in his spare
time, the Four Dollars and Fifty
Cents increased to over Two Hun
dred Dollars. With this money he
bought a piece of land and went
into the small gardening business —
called truck farming.
His experience, up to date, began
with a one-cent piece, and it has
brought him to the point of owning
a piece of land. There is no rea
son to suppose he will stop where
he is. On analyzing a case of this
kind we always find that the thing
the person is interested in is not
the increase of money alone, but
PROGRESS.
This boy began to do things, and
by doing things systematically one
can build a fortune and have a
good time doing it.
Success In fortune building, as in
everything else, consists in sticking
to business and taking ten times
more trouble than seems necessary.
A recent article on South American
trade illustrates this. A commis
sion house in Peru received an or
der for a machine. It could give 4*
Letters From the People
A PERTINENT QUESTION.
Editor The Georgian:
Reading your account of the sor
did tragedy in which one of At
lanta’s policemen met his death at
the hands of his drink-crazed com
rade, I am particularly impressed
with one feature of the case, in
which 1 think the municipal honor
of Atlanta is at stake.
Your issue of the 21st inst. states
that the author of this shocking
murder, one of our city’s guardians,
had been drinking heavily during
his vacation, and was intoxicated
at the time of the shooting. Ob
viously, the man has been a habit
ual user of intoxicants for several
years. Drunken murderers are not
developed during the debauch of a
ten days vacation. Yet you also
tell us that this man has been, con
tinuously, a member of the police
force for the past eight years.
In the light of these facts, At
lanta, who highly prizes her good
name, may with propriety ask of
the police board and the chief of
police this very pertinent question:
Why are men. known to be not only
habitual users of intoxicants, but
frequent victims of their excessive
use, retained on the police force? Is
a place among Atlanta’s "preservers
of th<f peace" of so little honor and
significance that men who have
the progressive paralysis of whisky
in their brains and the fruitful
seeds of murder in their hearts are
to be made welcome there? We
wait for your answer, gentlemen.
And while you formulate it may we
suggest that a thorough "house
cleaning" in the home of Atlanta's
boasted "finest" might not be
amiss.
Our sincerest pity, as well as
our horrified condemnation, must
extend to the unhappy perpetrator
of this awful deed.' Our heart
felt sympathy goes out to the rela
tives and friends of his victim.
But for those responsible for the
personnel of our police force we ex
press our indignant censure that
E no information about it. and at
i once sent out an inquiry to New
York, London and Hamburg.
Told What It Would Cost.
Some months later the New York
inquiry brought the information
that such a machine would cost so
much and would be shipped at pur
chaser's risk.
a The London inquiry brought sim
ilar information, giving the price of
the machine in London: transpor
tation charges at the purchasers
expense.
The Hamburg inquiry brought
this information:
1. The price in Peruvian money.
2. The price including the de
livery at the point where the ma
chine was to be set up.
3. A plan of the machine, with
directions in Spanish for setting it
up.
4. Full information as to the na
ture and care of the machine.
Os course, the Hamburg factory
got the order. And these three in
stances show exactly how peopi ,
as well as nations, get business
Some do little, some a little more,
but the man who is alive thinks of
everything, then he thinks again to
be sure he has forgotten nothing
While the fundamental rule in
fortune building is Save Money,
there is much more to it than
that.
Dreams Worth Nothing.
A little money has in many in
stances founded a big husin ss
And a little is enough if there is a
thinking man back of it, for it is
the art of thinking that makes
money active, keeps it at work,
forces it to increase itself and the
business it is making.
The difference between turning a
New Penny into Eighty Cents
worth of radishes, and investing
One Hundred Dollars today in a
project that promises one thousand
per cent next week, is apparent to
every one.
The boy making a radish bed lias
to perspire. The man expecting a
Hundred Dollars to make him rich
in a week has only to sit down and
dream rosy dreams.
But when June comes the rad
ishes are worth Eighty Cents, and
the rosy dreams are worth noth-
I- Ing.
•• they should hold their responsibil
ity so lightly as to intrust the pro
tection of the lives and the prop
erty of our citizens to potential
drink maniacs.
Yours for a better and a cleaner
Atlanta,
E. DEA N ELLENWOOD,
Pastor Universalist Church.
Atlanta. Ga.
FREE ADVERTISING.
Editor The Georgian:
I have just read your editorial on
the absurdity of the country edi
tors circulating free advertising in
their papers, and it interests me
very much. You have the money
and the power to fight the dishon
est methods of the concerns, or I
might say concern, that forces this
matter on the publishers, and I
hope you will keep up the fight.
They didn't force it on me, though.
The Western Newspaper Union were
printing my paper as well as fur
nishing the ready-print, but I posi
tively refused to circulate a single
issue containing their advertising.
They had printed my paper nine
months before they attempted to
run the stuff off on me, but I have
Ideas of my own as to how my
paper should be run, and as far as
my money and ability will enable
I am going to carry out those ideas.
Mine was a young paper and so
they Aold me they thought they
were doing me a favor when they
inserted their advertising. But " 9
didn't think alike. I am being fa
vored when I get advertising at ad
vertising rates and not by free ad
vertising to go alongside that or
local merchants who are supp r ‘
ing the paper by paying the edi
his price for his space. The prac
tice is dishonest in principle 1
wouldn't circulate it under any cir
cumstances. A paper ought to ■ -ea.-’
publication before giving one 1 ‘
advertisers preference over other.-,
and that's what this amounts a
Eight ’em to a finieh; you car.
•mOMAS R. TRAVE" -
t-. _ and Owner "The Trai.• •
West Point, Ga.