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Will Hotel Owners Disgrace
Themselves and Their
Hotels?
H H M
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 to puff in public, well, let them,”
say t ! • managers.
I m in plain English, this means that the managers have de-
cided to ignore decency and respect for the public in pursuit of
protit. *
The owners of various hotels, including some of the biggest in
New York. ' Xpressed grief that an English concern, the Ritz-Carl
t<■>:. should ilegrade the level of hotel morals, etc., etc., when the
R ; f>: t 'arlt i ‘cred smokes for women as an inducement.
It will I , ither sad now if these gentlemen who protested so
vln > decide that they, too. will permit women to smoke.
I' 1 liex have reached this decision it is simply because they
1 . , found their best customers going to the Hitz-Carlton hotel.
E r their enlightenment, we assure them that their customers
ha' i' not gone Io the Ritz-Carlton because a few shameless women
smoke there in public.
The Ritz-Carlton has attracted desirable customers BECAUSE
Till RESTAURANT HAPPENS TO BE WELL MANAGED.
BE< Al SE THE MANAGER DE THE HOTEL- barring the affront
to public decency in permitting women to smoke—HAPPENS TO
KNOW MORE ABOUT HOTEL MANAGEMENT OE THE “UL
TRA 'ASIIiONABLE." LI XURIOUS KIND THAN A MAJOR
ITY oE 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 nol 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 awaymany of their decent patrons.
If i: other hotels are to follow the example of the Ritz-Carl
ton, in . foolish belief that the disreputable feature of the latter
hotel am ounts for its success, we suggest to the Ritz-Carlton man
agement Hiat THEY 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 poin*.
And once more, we want to tell xvomen 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.
II will take centuries for women to become accustomed to to
bacco and able to stand it as well as men.
And xx hen they are accustomed to it their faces will be ugly,
their skins will lx yellow, the tips of their noses will be red. their
mustaches will grow and their breath xvill be offensive, as is the
breath <■!' all smokers and they xvill have gained nothing.
P S Ail honor, incidentally, to George T. Boldt, the owner of
the biggest hoti I and in many ways the best hotel—in America.
..Mr Boldt takes the stand that European xvomen may smoke if they
choose, hotel managers fresh from Europe and flushed xvith success
and \merican hotel failures may make their hotels indecent if they
please I it at his hotel, the Waldorf-Astoria, xvomen xvill he ex
pected to behave as respectable xvomen should, and will not be per
mitted to smoke publicly.
Good l imes Really at Hand
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." He says, "It's hero. Everybody can
see that. The pulse of the xvhole country is beating to the
rhythm of happier times. We are just entering the new era of
prosperity.”
Mr. R. S. Lovett, the executive head of the Union Pacific,
the Southern Pacific, the Illinois Central and the other Harri
man lines, returns from a five weeks' inspection trip ranging
from tin Gulf to the Pacific and says;
"1 have never known crop conditions in the West to be
better. I don t see hoxx - they could be better. Business through
out the West and Southwest is for that reason tine. The out
look is exei lo nt. A treat deal of our xvork is retarded for
lack oi labor, much » our construction xvork in particular be
ing delayed. So, with tine crops and the demand for labor
much m excess ol the supply, times ought to he very good.”
M Lovett thinks that tin opening of the Panama Canal
xx i> insure a long lease of life to tin new era of prosperitx
that it xvill cause a rapid development of the Pacific Coast
’'’ii- and that any loss of through traffic to the continental
railroads will h< compensated by an increase of local traffic all
along the lines.
' r tin* present, at b ast. xve may breathe once more the air
o' .-oididence and high expectancy.
1 ' more Nature has come to rescue of men. The incubus
' sis and tariff has been lifted by the growing corn. The
Portions of monopolists ami the fraud and folly of politics
have been cancelled bx the crops,
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w Courtesies of the Road
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ON a recent trip of about three •!
hundred miles through the
middle states by automobile,
I noted the uniform good nature,
patience and courtesy of the auto
mobile drivers.
Before the days of the Hepburn
bill we had a fine phrase, to-wit:
"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
manifest 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?” "I 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 otl|ers.
If you sit at a wheel, you can
not afford to lose your temper. All
of the nerves you possess should be
used in carrying your machine
through to safety.
As for stinging 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 the dan
gers of travel; now we are begin
ning to understand Aristotle's dic
tum to Alexander the Great; "The
enemies of an arm) are in its own
camp."
A man’s enemies are in his 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, or reached by the pres
sure of the foot, and yet never 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 never possess.
it so happens that the running
of an automobile with tins tremen
dous power w ithin your reach tends
to give a sort of freedom from all
little perplexing cares.
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ILTRSDAY. SEPTEMBER 26, 1912.
By ELBERT HUBBARD.
Copyright, 11112, by International News Service.
4 If a teamster blocks the way un- ••
necessarily, you do not roar at him;
j but, if possible, you catch his eye,
smile, wave your hand, and he gets
the idea and partakes of this spirit
I 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 spoke 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 well in hand 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 running thus: "If I can do
a kind act or sax - a kind xvord, let
me say it noy. for I may not pass
this xxay again.”
The autoist, however, realizes
that he will pass this xvay again;
also hundreds and thousands of
other autoists will pass this xvay
again, and his endeavor is to leave
a kindly remembrance behind
rather than one of wrath or indif
ference. Because it Is a somewhat
curious fact that anybody that has
been insulted by a reckless auto- j
mobilist scorching the pavement in 4
i Knowledge
By WILLIAM F. KIRK
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'"T'IIEKE was a time, a wondrous time indeed,
-I When I was just a curly headed boy, ?
(’ariosi no whit for anv sect or creed. $
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While chasing through the meadow lands of Joy.
I heard strange talks, by older people planned.
And strange beliefs to which these people clung;
1 listened, but I could not understand—
-1 was too young. s
There was a time, in older, bolder years.
When I could never be a boy again—
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 I could noot understand—
-1 was too old. <
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• his immediate vicinity will feel a
spirit of resentment and ill will,
even for a little time, toward the
xvhole tribe of men who own buzz
xv a gons.
This being true, every good auto
ist now endeaxmrs to spread good
will, courtesy, kindness, as he goes,
knowing that he probably xvill be
back “this way again,” 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 xve 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 were signs up
—“Thank you,” or "Be consider
ate, you are approaching a vil
lage.”.' One that alxvays made us
smile was, “Good Boy—Shake!”
The man xvho 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
r* wireless and passed along.
THE HOME PAPER
I Thomas Tapper
Writes on I t
How to Build i
a Fortune
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Small Beginnings and F BF
What They Can Ac
complish if One Has I’MMII
the Ability to Stick
to a System and
Take More Trouble
Than Seems Neces- !
sary. t !,.■ w
By THOMAS TAPPER.
SOME years ago, at a party for 4
boys and girls, the hos.tess pre
sented each guest xvith a new
cent. She requested each one to
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 boj' 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 oxvning
a piece of land. There is no rea
son to suppose he will stop where
he is. On analyzing a case of this
kind xve 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- I
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-erazed com
rade, I am particularly impressed
with one feature of the case, in
whiqh I 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 pblice
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 oe not only
habitual users of intoxicants, but
frequent victims of their excessive
use, retained on the polj~ force? Is
a place among Atlanta’s ’’preservers
of the 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
J suggest that a thorough ‘‘house
cleaning" in the home of Atlanta’s
boasted "finest” might not be
1 amiss.
Our sincerest pity, as well as
| our horrified condemnation, must
extend to the unhappy perpetrator
' of this awful deed. Our Ireart-
> felt sympathy goes out to the rela
[ fives and friends of his victim
But for those responsible for the
I personnel of our police force we «
I press our indignant censure tl.< <
no information about it. an.l ,0
once sent out an inquiry o, n,. w
York. London and Hamburg
Told What It Would Cost
Some months later the x, A \ ~r k
inquiry brought the int’..i :>i .;i. (n
that such a machine xvould rust
much and would be shipped a; ( u r .
chaser's risk.
The London inquiry brought
ilar information, giving th,. ,', f
the machine in London: transpor
tation charges at the
expense.
The Hamburg inquiry brought
this information: ‘
1. The price in Peruvian monev.
2. The price including the de
livery at the point where th,. ,
chine was to be set up.
3. A plan of the inaehine, with
directions in Spanish f.., ..
up.
4. Full information as to tL na
ture and eare of the ma, :,in,.
Os course, the Hamburg f.e tory
got the order. And the.- rhr. , in
stances show exactly how people,
as well as nations, got hi-in.-s.
Some do little, some a HttL- mom.
but tlie man who is alive thinG ..f
everything, then ho thinks ~g;,it, ■ ,
be sure he has' forgotten nothing
While the fundamental mb in
fortune building is Save .Money,
there is much more to it than
that.
Dreams Worth Nothing.
A little money has in manv di
stances founded a hie business.
And a little is enough if : ,
thinking man back of it. for it is
the art of thinking that makes
money active, keeps it at work,
forces it to increase its. if and the
business it is making.
The difference between tmniiig 1
New Penny into Eighty
worth of radishes, and imestir.g
<'ne Hundred Dollars to,lax 111 a
project that proniis.-s om tlum-mnd
per cent next week, is appai'i-m to
every one.
The hoy making a radish beil has
to perspire. The man expecting 1
Hundred Hollars to m.ilw him rich
in a week Ims only to sit down ,irul
| dream rosy dreams.
Hut when June comes tm rad
ishes are worth Eiglitx 'but.-, and
th" rosy dreams are wort'i ’ -
I- ing.
y they should hold their rr--ihi -
ity so lightly as to intrust tli<- pro
tection of the lives and tl ■ prop
erty of our citizens to p ■’< ntial
drink maniacs.
Yours for a better and a •m r
Atlanta.
E. DEAN ELLEN Wonf'.
Pastor Vniversadst 1 'liitn h.
Atlanta Ga.
FREE ADVERTISING.
Editor The Georgian:
I have just read your on
the absurdity of the eountr.' edi
tors circulating free advert: m ' in
their papers, and it ini- 1
very much. You hav. the : v
and the power to fight tie s! r.-»
eat methods of the cor h
might say concern, that f.'rc.s
matter on the publishers
hope you will keep up th"
They didn’t force it on me i
The Western Newspaper rimm '•
printing my paper as well
nishing the ready-print, but I
lively refused to circulate
issue containing their advrr'
They hud printed my pap
months before they attorn
run the stull off on me. bm I h'
ideas of my own as io r
paper should be i arm
my money and ability nil
I am going to carry out the
Mine was a young i ‘p : ■ !
they told me they th',
wore doing mo a favor v
inserted their advertising .
didn’t think alike. 1 am b
vored when I get advert - :
vertising rates and not .by t • ■ ‘ ,
vertising to go ilong-r .... (
local merchants Who ar. -
ing the paper by pacing
his price for his space. 11 j
tiee is dishonest in prir ; r .
wouldn’t circulate it mid. r
cumstanees. A paper ought ' ' ' * ‘
publication before giving 1
advertisers prefer, m ■ ovi
and that’s what this am"
Fight 'em to a finish : you
> THOMAS R. i It 1
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West Point, Ga. 1
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