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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. Entered as second-class matter at postoff’ce at Atlanta, under act of Starch 3. 18’J Subscription Price —Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mall, $5.00 a year. Payable in advance. 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 The Atlanta Georgian lj CRYSTAL GAZING F| By HAL COFFMAN.;' < /"Ml i z iJ / ■ ” ’ ' A I .'''ftik 'ft z ,/ ,y , ft Si //Z JOL'M 'k; J4 ' £ ' > ; ’.* <- H ~|y - MW just" ft - I —____ ~ I ig —— —- WSr- IfesSs - J ra H-Wi tit iff ' t -wwwtmwl ft <'a § a i • ' \ M U f f L / \ft x 'ft z ' ftftft i - -1 " 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 I ; 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.