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The Book Agents Deserve
Sympathy—Theirs Is an
I ngratefnl Business
They Are as a Rule More Honest Than Their Employers—They
Should Find Other and Better Occupations.
1 )(i not buy books of book agents.
But boots for wlnul Ihev tire worth, not with tin* salary of a
book tiueiil addt'd.
Wii 'I man tolls you that a spacial edition is sold for sl9
becansi' a was a< >-id ntally printed upside down. HE IS
FOLLOWING HIS EMPLOYER’S IXSTI.’I <’TH >XS To ('HEAT
THE I’l’BLK’.
The book supposed to be cheap at sl9 did not cost $3 to
male. Yon pat sl9 or more for what you might buy for $3 or
$4 o Sa because >.ii are paying for the TIME of the book
agent who thinks h< makes yon want the book, and you are
paying for 1 lie EX BE X’SIV E IXSTALMEXT plan system of book
buying.
There was a time when the people were more ignorant than
the.' are nov . whim many could hardly read, whim big, fat
books with sanes covers were bought “to look respectable on
the table.” In those days the book agent used to point out the
piefnri s. teii , esterous yarns about the value of the books,
and by misreor renting the cost of Ihe books, and urging the
easy payment system, books were sold at a tremendous profit--
often books of inferior kinds, and the buying of good books was
discouraged.
The hook agents as a class—men and women—are worthy
of svinpathy. hard working and honest. Fnfortunately, they are
employed and -<nt out too often by dishonest ♦mcerns, that
send them daily mstruetions as to swindling and deceiving the
public. Th a" eonipt'lled by the nature of their business to
annoy the public.
They arc bound to make the book pay for its cost, for the
publisher's profit, for the loss when the instalments are not paid
by the others, and also for their own time.
If you buy a bool; in a book store, you get wh.it you want
at a fair price.
Win n yon buy a book of a book aggnt, you pay for his time
-which does you no good you pay for the bad debts of others
that do not meet their instalments.
When you want to buy books, make up your mind WHAT
yon want, write or go to a first-class store, and get the goods at
a fair price.. *
The day of the book agent has gone by.
And that particular nuisance and interference with the
rights of citizens should be suppressed.
Dawn of a New “Era of
Good Feeling”
The West has taken Woodrow Wilson to its heart.
file scenes that have hceompanied his recent progress—in Den
ver. m Kansas City, in St. Louis, in Chicago—have hardly a parallel
in American history. He has seemed not to he the candidate of a
party, but of a people.
In these great cities Mr. Wilson has been received in a spirit of
holiday rejoicing as if the electoral debate bad been closed. The
throngs unprecedented in multitude- have not eared for speech
making. because they have not needed to be convinced.
Such signs ot gathering social concord suggest that the country
is standing on the threshold of a “new era of good feeling.’’
There lias been more than enough of rancor and bitterness in
the convulsion that has shattered the Republican party. But the
temper of the nation has recoiled from all that. The Democratic
standard-bearer has gone abroad through the land, without a word
of malice on his tongue—preaching a gospel of political repentenee
and recovery, of conciliation and construction, of contagious good
humor and good cheer
Woodrow Wilson is bringing the nation within sight of a fair
land ot peace and prosperity. Willi the passing of election day we
may expect to enter upon a new and spacious time—a time in which
we shall be freer than this generation has even been from the wastes
and losses of party strife and class-struggle, and shall have room
and breadth to build the cities and subdue the earth.
The felicitous period that is known in history as the “era of
good feeling” was ushered in by the election of .lames Monroe to
the presidency in 18111. Il was preceded by the break-up of the
Federalist parly even as the Republican party has now broken up.
Monroe had 183 votes in the (doctoral college, while his Fed
eralist opponent. Rufus King, had only 34. Four years later Monroe
was chosen again by national acclamation in an (doctoral college
that lacked only one vole of unanimity . The eight years of his ad
ministration were all years of healing and mending -party lint's
were Utterly effaced. The people united in vast works of internal
improvement, in the state-making migrations to the tiew West, and
in the lay ing of the foundations of that stupendous structure of in
dustry and commerce which was the world-wonder of the nine
teenth century.
We hav< come to the beginning of smdi another time. Not
since the, days of -lames Monroe has any man approached a presi
k , dential election with such omens of universal approval as those that
" now attend the steps of Woodrow Wilson,
The Atlanta Georgian
Mountaineering in Italy—Exploring the Pennine Alps
'T3HE attractions which cause
J men. often at the risk of their
lh‘es, to negotiate mountains
J which to the inexperienced and less
i ; courageo'is would seem almost in
j accessible are very composite.
|> The mere healthiness of ttie put
’s suit no doubt aitriiv < mans. Attain,
alwa ; ■ n ... er
| J coming natural dillr-ulties by ae
i< quired skid, and lite |.-.-ling that by
} doing a thing in tie right way real
It risks can hi- greatly minimized is
|! in itself alluring. But there are
| i real dangers which can not be wlrfl-
I ly eliminated even bt the most
I; skillful climber. Unexpected dif
| ■ Acuities are' a,.; to »■ cm a -form
’ ' er gale of wind mat get up ava-
< lunches are p:one to fall, especially
< in sptin-g and winte.; falling rocks
j nod stom s a.. another source of
I danger, while the cause of many
' accidents has been due to the in
;. sutfii icpej i,; j.racthed guides.
.; But. broadlj speak infer, the experi
enced mountaineer -a ho is e!ti-
j ejentl.v equipp'd as to boots, alpen-
I st<wk and grhles for bis expedition.
< and who < xercisfs proper ,|ud-;m> nt
; and prreaution, is not in niuc.i
j gt -ator danger ih.it> we who dod-.-e
I Ihe I r;i th- ,n -, he wi. .- s
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\ A CRITICAL MOMENT—CLIMBERS NEGOTIATING THE PRECIPITOUS CLIFFS OF THE PENNINE ALPS.
t>§ Beware the Tempting Oyster gt
HE OFTEN CARRIES TYPHOID ANO DEATH IN HIS PEARLY SHELL AT THIS SEASON OF THE YEAR.
GARRETT P. SERVISS.
NOW the months with an
It" in them have come back
everybody should pay heed
to what Or. Wiley says in the Sep
tember number of Good House
keeping Magazine about the peril'
in eating raw oysters at this time
of year.
An oystei in its uncooked stat*
probably approaches nearer in ap
pearance to pure protoplasm than
any other popular food— proto
plasm, you will remember, is that
peculiar substance which Huxley
called "the physical basis of life.”
Whatever its nutritive elements
may be. the oyster is certainly as
nutritious as it is toothsome, but,
unfortunately, it is peculiarly sub
ject to become the bearer of sonid
very dangerous diseases, and es
pecially of the dreaded typhoid.
Only a thorough cooking can ren
der an oyster in the autumn
months safe to eat.
Cooking Often Kills Germs.
You may eat a thousand with
out contracting disease, and the
thousand-and-oneth may stretch
you on a sick bed or take away your
life. Luckily, oysters are extremely
good when cooked, and if they have
been sufficiently cooked the germs
that they often carry are killed.
Later in the season, as Dr. Wiley
points out, the danger is elimi
nated or almost eliminated, and*
during the winter oysters, if they
are fleshly taken from their bids,
may be safely consumed raw. file
reason why the danger is so much
greater in the early autumn months
is. we are told, because duting the
summer the waters in which oys
ter* breed are peculiarly liable to
become contaminated with refuse
from neighboring cities, charged
with the germs of the most fatal
disease. As time goes on and the
waters become dearer and the
genns perish the oysters no longer
feed upon material capable of ren
dering them perilous to the health
of the ponsutuer.. The danger of
WEDNESDAY, ()(TOBI£R 16. 1912.
rjssgsk
a. OlwiwTO
•* contamination can be avoided by a
careful selection and supervision of
the beds, but whoever knows or
takes the trouble to inquire whence
his oysters have come?
And if he did inquire, what
chance would he have of learning
tiie exact truth? Oysters are dredg
ed to sell!
Oysters Differ Widely.
Hnw imminent this peril to
health and life is may be judged
by the fact, which Dr. Wiley re
cords. that in October, a year aso.
a severe epidemic of typhoid fever
followed a supper at a little town
in New York state, where raw oys
ters formed the principal dish, and
a careful investigation traced the
trouble to those oysters. Remem
ber, then, if you are tempted to eat
raw oysters in the month of Octo
ber. that you are far mo e likely to
swallow the germs of typhoid than
to find a valuable pearl.
Our American oysters differ
k
:: 'Two Mortals ::
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
13 •I‘l ‘ BARTON was a great big child,
* a \\ ho went through life and made it play.
Never to labor reconciled.
He laughed the fleeting hours away.
He mocked the king and helped the slave.
This man lor some strange purpose horn.
And when they took him to his grave
A tew true friends were there to mourn.
j What of it?
I Will Goodman was another sort.
With lips so thin that they could bite,
lie lower eared for smiles or sport;
Llle worked from morn till late at night.
He never knew the one real thrill
I hat comes to him who helps a friend.
A thousand watched his grim grave till,
But not one soul deplored his end.
What of it?
widely, in appearance and taste,
from those which are popular in
western Europe. Some of the Eu
ropean oysters are very large and
flat. In Paris there are restaurants
where, at this season, enormous
quantities of large oysters, called
marennes. are consumed raw. Peo
ple flock to them in crowds and
have to wait their turn at the ta
bles.
It is a spectacle to make the
visito open his eyes to see a young
lady with her escort, seated at a
small table, each having a huge
platter, heaped high with enormous
fiat oyster shells, apparently enough
to feed a family of ten. But not an
oy.-ter remains on either platter
when the feast is finished. An
other curious thing to American
eyes is to see the convives taking
the big shells in their hands, like
saucers, and drinking the abundant
juice of . the oyster before consum
ing the meat. It is very good, too.
THE HOME PAPER
Elbert Hubbard
Writes on
The Zeitgeist
The Word Zeitgeist Means the
Soul of things-—lt Means That
Great Mass of Opinion, Ideals,
Hopes and Tendencies That
Men in the Mass Accept.
By ELBERT HUBBARD
Copyright, 1912, by International News Service
WHEN wc have an idea we
either invent a word to ex
press it or else we borrow,
one. The best use of ideas is for
gift purposes. We keep ideas by
giving them away. And only
through formulating thoughts for
another do we make them our own.
Language, like electricity, is for
purposes of transmission.
In the last issue of The Century
Dictionary will be found the word
"Zeitgeist.” It is a German word,
now naturalized and accepted as an
American citizen.
The word Zeitgeist means the
soul of things. It means that great
mass of opinion, ideals, jiopes and
tendencies that men in the mass ac
cept.
We are all partakers of the Zeit
geist. Any man who thinks thoughts
that are original and belong only
to himself will die of heart hunger,
marooned on a desert island called
Nostalgia. We are happy only
when we are expressing the best in
the Zeitgeist. We only succeed as
we live in the Zeitgeist.
We Have to Explain.
No one understands us. save as ,
we explain to them the things they
already know, but which perhaps
they do not know they know until
we tell them.
The arts of speech, sculpture,
painting, literature, are all endeav
ors to interpret the Zeitgeist. When
a man’s head is in a certain stratum
of spiritual atmosphere he knows
all the thoughts of other people
whose heads are in the same strat
um. If you are on my wire when
I ring, you respond.
In the Zeitgeist there are de
grees of subtlety, just as in sound
there are vibrations which to some
cars are never felt. There are tints
and shades that are observable to
some people and not to others.
We are influenced by the Zeit
geist. Also, we are helping to form
the Zeitgeist.
A man may die and drop out of
the game, but the Zeitgeist lives
on and on. And the influence that
this man has exerted on the many
still endures because they are prod
ucts of the Zeitgeist.
The present Zeitgeist is of a kind
unequaled in history. We have
thousands upon thousands of men
and women who are thinking great
and noble thoughts and expressing
these thoughts in their work. Many
of our big business men regard
themselves as publie servants.
Our people are sensitive, rest
less. alert, impressionable, progres
sive, and making for righteousness.
The man who can imagine a better
religion than now exists is allowed
to throw his vision on the screen, ,
“Government Helping the Banks”
Editor The Georgian:
Your journal of October 7, un
der heading '‘The Government Is
Helping the Banks.” puts banks and
bankers before the reading public
in a false position. The bank of
which 1 am an active officer does
hold on deposit moneys belonging
to the United States government..
We are obliged to pay 2 1-4 per
cent interest on this money, sub
ject to call at any moment—a very
different proposition from a time
deposit. The government, however,
first effected a good bargain for
themselves, i. e„ we bought and left
with the United States treasury to
secure deposits United States gov
ernment bonds, paying 3 per cent
interest on their face value, but as
the bonds cost a premium, we really
obtain only 2.85 per cent on their
■actual cost.
A bond for SI,OOO pays 3 per
cent ‘ $30,00
.Money of the got eminent
deposited against a SI,OOO
bo n d shows actually
$429.50 at 2 1-4 per eent.
This costs the bank, per
annum 9.f,g
Net return $20.34
Hence an actual outlay.
bond with premium cost .$1,020.00
Money on deposit 429.50
Shows net tied up $ 590.50
Which pays only s2u.:i4, or say 3.44
per cent per annum.
Any country hank in my neigh
borhood can loan all its money at
8 per cent, hence when we loan the
government at 3.44 per cent we are
paying 4.56 per cent for the pres
tige and privilege of being a United
States depository of public funds.
Surely when we have more money
invested in government bonds de
posited with the United States
treasurer than the amount of mon
ey in the bank to the credit of the
government, the difference becomes
a net loan to the government.
Every student of political econo-
and he who can formulate a better
government than we now have is
> not hanged for his pains, but is al
lowed to express his dreams.
Public Opinion Rules.
Public opinion rules. No law
that is contrary to the Zeitgeist
can be forced. •
Judges construe, translate and
interpret the laws to suit the Trend
of the ’Times.
Every man who speaks out bold
and clear is tinting the Zeitgeist.
Every man who expresses what he
honestly thinks is tt ue is changing
the Zeitgeist.
Thinkers help other people think,
for they formulate what others are
thinking. No person writes or
thinks alone—thought is in the air,
but its expression is necessary to
create a tangible' Trend of the
Times.
The value of the thinker who
writes, or a writer who thinks, or a
business man who acts, is that he
supplies arguments for the people,
and confirms all who are on his
wire in their opinions, often be
fore unuttered.
the Brotherhood of Alan is an
t idea now fully appreciated in busi
ness. Commerce today stand.- for
Mutuality, Reciprocity, Co-opera
tion.
The American department store
has taken up. lost motion and given
the people better goods at a lower
price. It has been the inevitable,
because it does the greatest good to
the greatest number. It has work
ed for economy and length of days.
It means monism—or the one.
Every Purchaser Pleased.
Every purchaser must be pleased.
A child who buys a spool of thread
is given the same courteous atten
tion as the shrewdest buyer. The
customer is made to feel that he is
at home; that he is with strong and
influential friends; that his inter
ests are safeguarded. This mat
ter of faith between buyer and
seller is a new thing in the world.
Employees who plot and plan for
private gain are swabbing the
greased chute that leads to limbus.
Owners who run a business but to
make money neither make money
not do they last.
Merchants can not make money
on one transaction. Every sale
must pave the way for further
sales. We make our money out of
our friends, for our enemies v ill
not deal with us A transaction
where both sides are not benefited
is immoral.
The Trend of the Times is all in
the direction of Enlightened Self-
Interest. Righteousness is a form
of self-preservation. We prosper
personally as we minister to tit
well-being of others. The Ini
.*• verse Is planned for good.
my knows that there are three
primal factors in the production of
wealth—labor, land and capital.
The ideal situation can only exist
where the wealth produced is di
vided equitably between labor ana
capital, after the plant or the lana
is conserved. This brings us to the
point I want to emphasize, and that
is that all earnings should not be
paid out, either to capital or to
labor. Every bank and manufac
taring plant should lay up a sur
plus. The accumulation of large
surplus accounts on the part of the
banks means lower interest rates
to borrowers. Lower interest rates
already means that American banks
are competing with European bank
ers for the banking business of tic
world.
Lower interest rates means
cheaper production on the part of
all manufacturing plants of good
credit. Manufacturers, to become
successful, must lay up a surplus
beyond repairs and depreciation.
American manufacturers who have
complied with the laws of political
economy, blessed with cheap bank
borrowings, can and will compete
successfully with the manufactur
ers of England and the continent
Etuope. What commercial America
needs, where she is woefully behind
the progressive nations of Europe,
is in the spirit of co-operation. In
banking, manufacturing anil farin'
ing, co-operation and profit-shar
ing among ma'nufacturers. ■ iist"-
tm-rs and laborers are the mean-,
and offer the only possible soluti m
1 can see to war between capita*
and labor.
Co-operative societies and co-op
erative banks have in Em'"!"’
brought down the rate of intel' -i
to the borrowing f inner. Abu-' 1 ■
the national or state financin' in
stitutions react to tne detriment
him who abandons argument i■ ' '*"
tuperation.
BENJ. W. HLNT.
Eatonton, Ga.
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