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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 second-class matter at post, trice at Atlanta, under act of March 3. IS'J. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week By mail. |5 00 a year Payable in advance Governor Wilson on Trade Expansion It is said that two-thirds of the half-thousand business men who heard Got ernor Wilson s speech before the Omaha < '<>inim reia l club last Saturday came to protest, but remained to applaud. The speak er converted th" mass of his Republican hearers into enthusiastic champions of trade expansion, through commercial reciprocity, and the revival of the American merchant marine. There ran through Governor Wilson’s Omaha speech the thrill of that prophecy which was voiced so memorably by President Mc- Kinley in his admonition. Mr. McKinley said at Buffalo on that September day. 19(11 : W» have a vast and intricate business, built up through years of toil and struggle, in which every putt of the country has had its stake—which will not pennit elthc of neglect or of undue selfishness. No narrow, sordid policy will subserve it. The greatest skill and wisdom on the part of the manufacturers atiri producers will be required to hold and increase it. • • • Our capacity to pioduce has developed so enormously and our prod ucts have so multiplied, that the problem of more markets requires our urgent and immediate attention * » • Only a broad and enlightened policy- will keep what wo have. No other policy will get more. • » » W» must not repose in fancied security on the assumption that we can forever sell everything and buy little or nothing » » » THE PERIOD OF EX< IJ’SIVENESS IS PAST THE EXPANSION OF OIK TRADE AND COMMERCE IS THE PRESSING PROBLEM. Commercial wars are unprofitable. A policy of good will and friendly trade relation- will prevent reprisals. Reciprocity treaties are In har mony with the spirit of the times measures of retaliation are not. • » » We must encourage our merchant marine. WE MUST HAVE MORE SHIPS THEY MI’ST RE IN'DER THE AMERICAN ELAG—BUILT AND MANNED AND OWNED RY AMERICANS. There is no sentence of this unforgettable farewell deliterauee of a great Republican president that was not paralleled by the Democratic presidential candidate al Omaha on Saturday. Rut Mr. McKinley did not have his party behind him. There is no doubt, on the other hand, that Governor Wilson speaks, not only for a united Democracy, Imt also for that nett and improved commercial intelligence of the country which broke into repentant Republican cheers at Omaha, and which isflboveall party names. What’s the Matter With the lurk? Once more Europe is ablaze with indignation against the Turk. It seems very’ likely that now at last doomsday is really coming to the nation which for half a thousand years has been in Europe, but never has been European. It was in the middle of the fifteenth century that the Mo hammedan power captured Constantinople ih e key of the com merce and civilization of the Near East; and ever since that time, in intermittent spasms, at shortening intervals. Europe has groaned and travailed to east the intruder out. The whole world today is insurgent against old habits. Tin 1 uprising against the Turk is a phase of the general movement of radicals against reactionaries. The final trouble with the Turk is that he is a fatalist, and will not move. He stands pat There was high hope two or three years ago that the Young Turk would conquer the Old Turk—the “Sick Man," the “In speakahle." But that hope seems now to have faded. The revolutionary movement in Turkey has spent itself in political intrigues. It has tried to cement and subjugate the outlying provinces. It has been incapable of internal reforms. In all European Turkey there are said to be no more Ilian a million people of pure Turkish blood. This ruling caste has inherited a great tradition—much tine art, some science and a language that is the joy and admiration of all philologists. Its religion is. in theory, humane and liberal. The Turk was toler ant of dissenters at a lime when Christians put their heretics to the rack and thumbscrew. Yet the soil of Turkey is soaked with' the blood of massa cre. And no permanent truce is possible between the Turk and Europe. The final reason of this irreducible antagonism is the fact that the Turks hate progress. The Turkish view of the meaning of life is that of a stand pal senator of the United States nr a beneficiary of Schedule K Perhaps a little more so. The Turk turns with a pious loathing from the idea that human conditions can be improved by agitation or organized effort. He would let well enough or ill enough alone. He is placable if left to smoke in peace. But he rises like a fury to avenge himself upon those who disturb his rest. He is the paladin of vested interests, the perfect champion of privilege, the arch reactionary. That is why modern Europe can not endure him. That is why he must be driven back into Asia. Perhaps the hour of his exit is at hand. “Collier’s’’ and Standard Oil | Many persons profess surprise that Collier’s Weekly took up the cudgels in be ha 11 ot thestand ard (til (ompany in the mat ter of famous letters. It is nol quite clear why Collier's should un d?rtake to answer when the writers of the letters, ami the recipients or trie letters, did nol try to answer but simply confessed Sumc of the letters already published, ami we are informed several other letters among the two or three hundred that vet re main to he published, show that the Standard Oil Company was extremely generous with checks, subscribing in bulk for periodicals and weeklies that were willing either to defend the Standard Oil Company or to attack the enemies of the Standard Oil Compam We know’, of course, that Collier’s Weekly is sadly in need of subscribers, very few people are w illing to take it except a gift when thrown in with other publications Rut w<- have believed hitherto that < oilier's could not bi- bought It anyone in the Standard Oil ('ompany did arrange the “nt lack or “iletense whatever it may be called in tin current ■ issue, it is obvious that it was dom m the absence of Mr Archbold in Europe, been use, while Mr Are h bold s com pan v Im-. In-, n eon vmt ed ot all sorts of crimes, he has never been accused of siupiditx And the Collier s article, either as an attack m as a def. ns. was exceedingly stupid It tin Standard Oil ('ompany did proem, it it is ..m ot the very far. ease- wh.-ie the Standard Oil < ompany paid fol sum thuig «md got nothing The Atlanta Georgian The Great Political Show By HERSH Fl ELD. gill * p u |IRI PA R W feis,fiß -0' lisßl I’here was an Old Man who when little Fell casually into a kettle; But, growing too stout, he could never get out, So he passed all his life in that kettle. From Edward Lear’s Book of Nonsense. :: How to Build a Fortune :: Cupi ta /izing > 'oil rself I. A NEWS Hern stated recently that the officials of a West ern railway had sent a letter to each of its employees, asking him to incorporate himself at a capital equivalent to his earning capacity. A man earning SSOO per year is worth to himself, his family and his employer $lO.llOO on a five per cent basis. 1 'ompa' ea ma n < apita liz d at slll.llOO with a business building worth the same amount. The build-' Ing is worth less every day of its existence, and so much is written off its valut at the eml or th. year for depreciation In a few years it must come down and give place to a new structure. Now. take the man who is worth SIO,OOO as a worker, receiving five per cent of the’ amount annually lot s.‘>ooi in wages. In-tead of be ing worth less every year he can. if he wishes it. be worth more. He run last longer than a SIO,OOO building He does not need to de preciate in value. He Can Get to Work He i an I to w»rk with his head and his hands and so Improve him self that his \\a«es Im «in to ise W hen In has ma i* himself worth $1.1)00 a war hi> < apitaHzatlon mounted t«» s2o.<mih \n<| he <ioes not m ed t*> slop at tilts point if lie d« sii. s tn k»»< p on. The world *.»\s a |»hih»M<q iidi I" 'lie * man ha** Iralj -olvrd th* problem of building •< f ■ turn who puts mom . (It bank H« im -I k* ( i * . ' tn< »i • plaii moss • < ,1 » Il . I W EDNESDAY, ()< TOBER 9, 1912. By THOMAS TAPPER. Eight Hundred and Thirty-two • hollars and Eighty-four Cents in twenty years, at four per cent com pound interest, we feel convinced that it is easy to get money to gether. But it is a better form of fortune building to try to increase one's self at the same late. Don't Build Air Castles. litis < tn not lie done by building air castles. Wi-hing is the dream of the idle. Working and thinking tilt the pow , r of the industrious. Ihe oi»ly way to increase y our capitalized value is by thinking You must conti • The Sterilized Boy By PERCY SHAW. SA Y. I would like to breath*' some air That wasn't so refined: And have a chance to run and hop With no one near to mind. And eat an apple 'fore it's peeled. And own some dirty toys, And be too t>oor to have a nurse And play like other boys. Why . every time that Columbine Come- off the street with me She has to change hei clothes and mine Eot feat of get ins. you see. And if 1 tjrab a stone or touch A post along the walk, You'd think it was a crocodile To heat her line of talk. And kissing I .an' ki.-s a soul Without an aw fill tow , Mid Mother sayhig Well, for sure. . He'll get the measles HOW " I niii't p> t cats ot dog-, and w hen j A stt angel pats mv head I get it v ashed with smelly stuff, .las; as th. docto' said S I it y oil know a I ban get in T •<> st’oug to Hti’liltZ* . that you ..in i aii ti and send around I -ort of a surprise. I I tti gilt git st. k and hnt< -omr fun. Mid ma i In then th<->'d ** r ’ wi<«n't any mw t<« make I Il • study habit Study com" work and improve it. Study your chances and improve them. Every horn you loaf, when you do not need to, is so much less mental and financial fortune. The greatest, tragedy of the day is not the bad man or the bad woman. They have always been, and probably always will be. But it is the half-trained men and women, the person who can do nothing well enough to make the work a valuable service. But the moment one can do any thing up to the top notch, then the service is worth something, and people an willing to pay for it. 111. The secret of fortune building is not to give the thought wholly to money. A man who is everlaqting ly try ing to improve himself will get a fortune, or as much fortune as he wants. The Cry of the Half-Trained. The social disturbance that comes from half-trained people grumbling because life is so hard is useless and detrimental. Don't wish. Get in work. Don't criticise others. Build up yourself* Don't listen to the equal distribu tion of wealth talk. Go out and earn whatever share of wealth you w ant. Don't let your . apitalized value depreciate. Keep it up, and k-rp it going up A business with T.n I hour in.l Ulis year and Tiwiity Thousand two or three years from i no . is inspiring You .an du the satm tor yourself. HUI l! 11 n• • m 111 • j ini. f T <»n i '■ • 1’ * onu's from p i pi, ation from ii « mu cat of the brou. l>-m t io< th«» in<»n< \. Love the ‘ ‘‘ ' ■' » i :on f ;i;i I |< t I ’i.n h ■ > THE HOME PAPER Elbert Hubbard Writes on Agreeability It Is a Wonderful Asset and Its First Requisite Is Glowing Physical Health; Its Second Ingredient Is Honesty and Its Third Is Good Will. By ELBERT HUBBARD Copyright, 1912, by International News Service George Peabody, the great f American banker, had one thing which will make any man or woman rich. It is some thing so sweetly beneficent that can we. call it the gift of the gods. The asset to which I refer is Agreeability. Its first requisite is glowing physical health. The second in gredient is honesty. Its third is good will. Nothing taints the breath like a lie. The old parental plan of wash ing the boy’s mouth out with soft soap had a scientific basis. Must Have Good Memories. Liars must possess good memo ries. They are fettered and gyved by what they have said and done. The honest man is free —his acts require neither explanation nor apology. He is in possession of al! his armament. If I were president of a college, I would have a chair devoted to Agreeability. Ponderosity, pro fundity and insipidity may have their place, but the agreeable man keeps his capital active. His soul is fluid. I have never been in possession of this Social ’Radium, so as to analyze it, but I know It has the power of dissolving opposition and melting human hearts. But so del icate and illusive is it that when used for a purely sordid purpose it evaporates info thin air, and the erstwhile possessor is left with only the mask of beauty and the husk of personality. George Peabody had Agreeability from his nineteenth year to the day of his death. Colon«I Forney crossed the Atlantic with him when Peabody was in his seventy-first year, and here is what Forney says: "I sat on one side of the cabin and he on the other. He was read ing from a book, which he finally merely held in his hands, as he sat idly dreaming. I was melted into tears by the sight of his Jove-like head framed against the window. His face and features beamed with high and noble intellect, and his eyes looked forth in divine love. If ever soul revealed itself in the face, • ” ’ < :: Birth of the Navy :: i By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. IT was 137 years ago that the old • continental congress author ized the equipment of a couple of cruisers, mounting, respectively, ten and fourteen guns—and it was in that very modest bill that the American navy had its birth. At first the growth of the navy was distressingly slow. There was a doleful lack of efficient material at home, and our agents were un able to enlist the active sympathies of foreign nations. There was. of course, a good reason for this — those nations did not want us to have a navy. They had a sort of premonition that the embryonic re public might make trouble for them if it should succeed In getting its guns on the brine. But in the midst of our troubles something happened that put a new face on the situation at once. Daul Jones won his brilliant victory off Flamborough Head, and the Yan kee navy experienced the "boom'' that is felt to tlfi« day. The exulta tion born of that victory went through the nascent nation with a thrill and a buzz, and it was al ready written down that America was sooner or later to become a sea power. The Utt’, navy provided by the continental congress was about us. d up in the struggle w ith King George, ami flom 1780 to 1757. were practically without a war tli i t Rut wm n the Barbai y S ales began to m-.ilt us. eongii -s got busy' again and ordered the con st iHtlnn of six or tight frigates, ■bo ll gave .< ipl. ndid m ■ mini of i uid oihci waters. ■H V it was here. He was the very Kins of Men, and I did not wonder that in the past people had worked th -of such.” Cultivate This Asset. To the clerk who would succeed, I say cultivate Agreeability. Cour teous manners in little things are an asset worth requiring. You rise when a customer approaches: you offer a chair; you step aside and let the store's guest pass first into the elevator; these are little things, but they make your work and yourself finer. To guy visitors or to give short, flippant answers even to stupid or impudent people is a great mis take. Meet rudeness with unfail ing patience and politeness and s-e how much better you feel. If your business Is to wait on customers, be careful of your dr. s and appearance. Do your manicui ing before you reach the store. Dental floss is a good investment. A salesman with a bad breath is dear at any Let your dress be quiet, neat and not too fashion able. To have a good appearance helps you inwardly and helps the business. Give each customer your whole attention —and just as considerate attention to a little buyer as a big one. If asked for information, in sure you have it before you give >t. Do not assume that the location or fact is so now because you once knew it so. Don’t misdirect. Mak. your directions so clear that they will be a real help. The Greater Your Reward. The less you require looking aft er, the more able you are to stand alone and complete your tasks, the greater your regard. Then if you can not only do your work, but also intelligently and effectively di rect the efforts of others, -your re ward Is in an exact ratio; and th - people you direct, and tii higher the intelligence you can rightly lend, the more valuable is your life. The most precious possession in life is good health. Eat moderate ly. breathe deeply, exercise out-of doors and get eight hours sic- p ; And cultivate Agreeability as <- business proposition. At the breaking out of the ■ of 1812 our consisted of-■ v enteen seagoing ships, nine of t •, being below the frigate class, ami a few gunboats designed for coast defense Yet, as all the world knows, this little navy behave., splendidly in its contest with the greatest sea power in the world, and at the close of the war toe "greatest sea power in the world” had for our navy abounding re spect. After we had settled our dispute with Great Britain upon the iiigit seas, our navy, having nothing n particular to do. went into decline, where it remained until the broth ers war of '6l -'6.5. At the begi' ning of that war the United Slat- s navy consisted of but 76 vess< s of all kinds, with a roll of enlisted men of some 22,000. while at th» close of the struggle there tv»re , over 600 vessels, with over 57,""0 officers and men. The Civil war revolutionized not only our own navy, but those of al! other nations as well. Prom the day on which the battle between the Monitor and Merrimac was fought the old navies of the world ware not worth a rush, and all the naval boards b> gan to govern them selves accordingly. The present war fleet of Uncle Sam numbers somewhere abc it :' ’ cialt, classified as follows: Eir-t --class batth siilps. 24 secqnd-i I*, first-class cruisers 15; seennd i i lass. 3. third-class. H. gunboat* ■? I monitors. H'. destroyers. 1 torpedo boats. 35. siibmarin ■ k> ■ rennii '', ollb i s and m <»• 52,'>00.