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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday Uy THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St., At’.unta, Ga. Entered as second-class matter at postoftice at Atlanta, under act of March 3,187 S. Subscription Price—Delivered by earlier. 10 cents a week. By mall, 35 00 a year. Pavable in advance. 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, The Atlanta Georgian || Crystal gazing j] By HAL COFFMAN. I ' j / I I , Ct J I / u aa \ XW -A, z ~ ■ I;! I A Mab ■ a * wife i m y - Iry L - LwwWWWPMr' •. <ss*" i ■/ ipl Ww f F ' I ' yfeN'Wfr ■- I '■ 1 f! In Z \ C x i - - I ? The mirror in which the young man may see his reflection as he xvill be in later years— j I if he gazes into it long enough. s w Courtesies of the Road I 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. t 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 ij j '"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. $ H * • * ( 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. < 1 1 . J • 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 - IgN At 1 & & I ITT - ! 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 I 1 West Point, Ga. 1 J I