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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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At 20 East Alabama St.. Atlanta. Ga.
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ItlsNOT Drink That Causes
the High Cost of Living
The High Cost of Living and Other Kinds of Anxiety, on the
Contrary, Cause Drunkenness and Drive Men to Drink.
Eugene Chafin, who was the earnest and interesting presiden
tial candidate of the Prohibition party, made a remarkable state
ment the other day.
He said : “Liquor is the real cause of the high cost of living.'’
Liquor is nothing of the kind.
Nothing is more foolish than to say that drunkenness is respon
sible for all the ills of society.
The ills of society, on the contrary, are largely responsible for
drunkenness.
Men drink to excess when they are underpaid, underfed, wor
ried and distressed.
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Those that are foolish say that drink causes poverty. It is pov
erty that causes DRINK.
When a man lives in a state of anxiety and whisky holds out
temporary relief, the man is apt to lake whisky.
When the high cost of living drives men to despair, and they
find it difficult to provide for their families, aiyl when whisky holds
out temporary happiness and contentment too many of them take
whisky. -
It is not drink that causes poverty so much as poverty that
causes drinking.
And the same is true of dirt, disease and ignorance.
Ignorance causes drunkenness.
Dirt is caused by poverty, and dirt and poverty combined
cause drunkenness.
Take away the high cost of living, tight ignorance with educa
tion, abolish poverty with opportunity, good Mr. Chafin, and you
will be surprised to find how quickly you will diminish drunken
ness, and how rapidly you will solve the problem presented by “the
demon rum.”
Important Directions For
< - Mailing Parcels
The people of this country have at last obtained the much de
sired parcels post system—or at least an excellent beginning of the
complete system. >
It is difficult to realize what this will mean to the country in
convenience, in time-saving, in direel economy and ultimately, in
greatly reducing the cost of living.
We have received today from the postal authorities the com
munication which we print here conspicuously. We earnestly re
quest readers to co-operate with the postoffice and to utilize the par
cels post system in accordance with the postoffice regulations.
Postoffice News Item
DOMESTIC PARCEL POST REQUIREMENTS.
The United States postal authorities invite the special attention of the
'public to the following features of the proposed domestic parcels post resu
lt tions which will go into effect on January 1 next:
That distinctive parcel post stamps must be used on all fourth-class
matter, beginning January 1. 1913. and that such matter bearing ordinary
postage stamps will be treated as "held for postage."
That parcels will be mailable only al postoffices, branch postoffices, let
tered and local named stations and such numbered stations as may be des
ignated by the postmaster.
Thai all parcels must bear the return card of the sender; otherwise they
will not bo accepted for mailing.
It is of the utmost importance that those requirements be observed in
mailing parcel post packages In order that such packages may be promptly
handled and dispatched, as failure to so comply will result jn inconvenience
and annoyance to the public.
:: Sympathy ::
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
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s Copyright. 1912, by American-Journal-Examiner.
I S the way hard ami thorny, oh, my brother?
1 Do tempests beat, and adverse wild winds blow!
■> A .\n<l are you spent and broken at each nightfall.
Yet with each morn you rise and onward go?
| Brother, I know. 1 know!
1. too, have journeyed so.
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, Is your heart mad with longing, oh. my sister*
Are all great passions in your breast aglow?
Does the white wonder of your own soul blind you,
And are you torn with rapture and with woe?
5 Sister, 1 know, 1 know!
• V h too, i lave suffered so.
Is the road filled with snares and quicksand, pilgrim!
< Do pitfalls lie where roses seem to grow?
And have you sometimes stumbled in the darkness,
i \ 'And are you bruised and scarred by many a blow!
■ \ Pilgrim, I know. I know !
I \ I, too, have stumbled so.
Do you send out rebellious cry and question.
As mocking hours pass silently and slow.
Does your insistent “whe’refor'’ bring no answer.
While stars wax pale with watching, ami droop low*
I, too, have questioned so,
But now 1 know. I know !
To toil, to strive, to err, to cry. to grow.
To love through all—this is the way to know
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“American Fashions For American Women”
A CAMPAIGN that should have
the support of every intelli
gent woman in the land has
been inaugurated by Mr. Edward
Bok for the suppression of the
Paris label on gowns and hats, and
the substitution therefor of the
home grown one.
rhe battle cry of this holy war
is, "American fashions for Amer
ica women.” Its appeal is to the
good sense, the pocketbook and the
patriotism of the women of the
country, and here’s wishing the new
crusade success, and that the time
will not be far distant when a re
spectable American woman will no
more think of getting her clothes
from Parts than she does her mor
als from there.
100 long have we been under the
thralldom of the fallacious idea
that all sartorial glory not only
originated in Paris, but stayed
there, and that because a dress or
a hat was made in Paris if was
bound to be a marvel of beauty and
taste, and have points of excellence
about it that no other dress or hat
made elsewhere, and especially in
America, could possess. Paris has
had us hypnotized to that degree
that we have taken whatever she
handed out. and have worn it, no
matter what freaks it made us look
like, without daring to criticise or
question.
Time to Wake Up.
But the time lias come for us to
make a few passes at ourselves,
and wake up. and face the truth,
and that is that the superlative
artistic touch of the French dress
maker and milliner is nothing but a
myth, and that there is no other
such sloppy dressmaking extant '■as
that executed on the banks of the
Seine, and that when we buy a
French frock we pay about SSO ex
tra on it for the pleasure of de
ceiving ourselves, and as long as we
wear it we have the continual
pleasure of sewing on hooks that
were merely pasted on, and catch
ing up drapery that ripped if we
looked at it.
Our blind devotion to the French
fashion fetich is silly enough, heav
en knows, when we get the real ar
ticle that is actually made in Paris,
but it becomes grotesquely humor
ous when we find women willing to
pay nearly double for a hat or a
gown that is made in New York, or
Chicago, or Philadelphia, because it
has a bogus Paris label sewed on
it. Yet they do this every day, and
90 per cent of the “imported”
clothes for which women spend
their husband's good money were
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 7, 1912.
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v imported from Sixth avenue, and
are no nearer French than is the
, French accent of the Mary
O’Gradys, and Sally Joneses, who
I masquerade as “Madatne Therese,”
or “Clothilde,” or “Fifines."
A Trade in Labels.
Recently a pawn shop that was
investigated by the police in New
York city was found to, have tens
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of thousands of the labels of cele
brated French dressmakers and mil
liners that it sold to enterprising
dressmakers and milliners there.
Further, a man interested in this
subject was told by the head of a
large millinery house in New York
city that 80 per cent of his im
ported French models were made
right in his own work room, and
the French labels pasted in.
Now, there is no use in blaming
the merchants for this duplicity.
The fault is with the women. They
demand French goods and they are
supplied with what they ask for.
If they would ask for American
made hats and gowns, the merchant
would be glad to furnish them.
Nobody leads the double life for
choice.
Paying Paris Prices.
Os course, in millinery and dress
making. as in other things, to suc
ceed you have got to be able to de
liver the goods, as Mt* Devery
would say. And that American
milliners and dressmakers can de-
■ liver the goods is sufficiently prov
en by the fact that this substitu
tion of the domestic article for the
foreign one goes merrily on. and
women are perfectly satisfied to pay
the Paris price for a home-made
dress or hat, provided they have the
French label.
They are simply slaves to the old
idea, and the woman’s clubs can
do no more effective or patriotic
work than in bringing to bear their
tremendous influence in combatting
this hoary superstition that de
cadent Paris, and not inventive and
young America, is capable of prop
erly clothing American women of
refinement and taste.
We like to boast that we are the
most ingenious people in the world,
the most practical, the quickest to
see a need, and to supply it, and,
this being the case, we stultify our
selves if we admit that we have
nobody among us capable of origi
nating clothes that are built on
beautiful and harmonious lines, and
composed of artistic combinations
of colors.
A Fashion Originator.
That Americans can not only
originate fashion, but that the
whole world will accept them, is
shown by the short skirt, and the
shirt waist, which emanated from
the land of free women, and which
Paris at first derided, and then ac
cepted, and which fashions were so
practical and sensible that they
haVe come to stay for women just
as much as coat and trousers have
for men.
Also because American women,
refused to wear the clumsy and ill
fitting foreign shoes, the American
shoe has the earth for its own, and
on the most fashionable shopping
streets in London and Paris there
are huge signs which proclaim
"American Shoes Sold Here.”
It is absurd to say that we can't
make as pretty hats and gowns as
are made anywhere else in the civ
ilized world. We do. But we sell
them under a French label, at a
higher price, than if they had their
own honest American trademark on
them. That brands us as being
both snobs and easy marks.
Let's quit, right here, sisters.
Let’s take up the slogan, "Ameri
can Fashions for American Wom
en." and let our milliners and dress
makers know that we are ready to
encourage home talent and home
industry. It will be money in our
pockets, and it will show that our
patriotism amounts to something
more than belonging to t'olonial
L>ames and D. A. R. societies.
THE HOME PAPER
Thomas Tapper
Writes on
The Man Who
Really Works
For the
Boss
A Word or Two Con
cerning Tact and the
Value of Team Work
Which Produces Re
sults.
By THOMAS TAPPER.
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SOME boys, at work in a large
department store, were asked
to write a letter to the Man
ager, stating what they do from
the time they come in, in the morn
ing, up to the hour of closing.
The letters were very much the
same, with one exception.
The boy who wrote the excep
tional letter, pointed out that when
he reached his department, and left
at night, the man in charge
"shakes hands with me.”
Effect of Tact.
A man in charge who wears a
Prince Albert coat every day, and
can boss 20 or 30 persons, may act
like a king on a throne, or he can
step down and shake hands with
the boys.
It pays to come down and say,
“Good morning, Joe; how are you
today?”
It pays, because it makes the boy
know that he and the boss are on
the same job, working in the same
interest, with no kingly haughti
ness separating them.
This is an instance of the benefi
cial effect of Tact.
It has been said of salesmen that
they can get a man’s attention by
striking him on the head with a big
stick: but, having gotten attention
in that manner, they can not sett
him any goods. He is too sore to
buy.
This is an illustration of the bad
effect of Tactlessness.
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'J'HE main proposition that con
cerns many people working for
one Boss is this: Every one, from
Manager to boy, is working tn one
interest. The spirit of that interest
must be this:
How can we do the best Team
work and produce the best results?
You may think this is giving too
much to the Boss. On the contrary,
it is the only way known to man,
after centuries of trying, by which
Geoffrey Chaucer
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
Geoffrey chaucer, the
Father of English Letters,
died five hundred and twelve
years ago. The sun went down, but
its glory remained behind. The poet
departed, but his fame is everlast
ing. In the Pantheon, where dwell
the company of the Immortals, no
name is brighter than that of the
author of the "Canterbury Tales"
and the "House of Fame."
Men seem to be born Into the
world for various purposes—some
to make fortunes in money, some
to found empires, some to write
constitutions and laws, some to
demonstrate great problems In
mathematics or to make astound
ing discoveries in science, or to
give to the world the inventions
upon which depends the material
conquest of the planet, but Chau
cer appears to have been born for
a higher end than any of these—
the founding of a literature, and
that literature the English.
It has been well said that a na
tion’s literature is a nation's life.
All that a nation is, in thought
and in its action, in Its form and
substance, is mirrored in its litera
ture. Upon a nation’s literature its
children must feed, either to be
poisoned or refreshed ami reinvig
orated. Upon a nation's literature
depends very largely the question:
"Shall the nation live and grow?”
To create a literature, then, or to
take a moribund, slipshod literature
and breathe into it a new life, and
impart to it a new beauty and
power, is to do one of the greatest
things that any one can possibly do
in this world.
And this is what Chaucer did.
Rescuing his native tongue from
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’* Joe, or any other boy, can get abil
ity out of himself.
To get ability out of one’s self !»
to increase one’s efficiency, and to
increase one’s efficiency is to raise
one’s value.
The man with the cheerful view
of things and the habit of greeting
Joe pleasantly in the morning can
raise the value of all the people in
his department. Cheerfulness is
contagious. When Joe feels cheer
ful he works better and he works
more.
Watch any man of a glum and
dark-complexioned disposition, try
ing to get work out of twenty other
people. Everybody 1= rebellious.
.- Work goes hard. Nobody looks
happy. They are all taking short
gasps of breath through the mouth.
The whole equipment is like a six
cylinder motor with five cylinders
out of commission.
It pays to be cheerful.
TH.
QNE of the greatest merchants tn
America, a man who employs
more than 10,000 people, goes
among them and passes the cheer
ful habit along.
He calls them by name, asks
some personal questions that shows
he Is interested in the one to whom
he speaks. No criticism, no com
plaint, no “hurry up now and keep
busy.” He knows that a word of
pleasant greeting makes burdens
lighter, while hurry and complaint
tangle up the entire business.
Radiate Cheerfulness.
AU this means that one person
can be the center of enough cheer
fulness and good nature to change
I the atmosphere of the whole de
partment.
You can be that one person by
casting your vote for yourself.
Some men are so full of it that
even a stray dog will come trust
ingly to sniff at him. This is bet
ter than radiating an influence that
makes stray dogs and one’s own
friends want to make a mile a min
-- ute in the other direction.
its "Babylonish confusion,” he es
tablished for it a literary diction,
banished from it the superannu
ated and uncouth, and softened its
churlish nature by the intermixture
of the polite and gentle terms of the
South. As a high authority upon
English letters remarks, he "created
a new versification, and by the su
perior grace, correctness and har
mony of his style became the first
model to succeeding writers.”
What Petrarch did for Italian
literature, and Montaigne for
French, Chaucer did for English—
made it, first, alive, then attractive,
then powerful.
Chaucer brought the dawn—a
dawn that has been spreading and
brightening ever since, so that to
day it is flinging its glory all about
the earth.
The English language is the most
amazingly prophetic fact to be
found in the world today. The
speech of the two greatest nations
on earth, and steadily growing
growing faster than any other two
or three tongues put together—it
promises to be, if not the universal
language, then, certainly, the lan
guage that is to color all other lan
guages under the sun.
The thought of the English
speaking men of today is destined
to be the thought of all mankind in
the generations to come. There is
no doubt of it. It is written down
in the Book of Fate, and nothing
can stop it.
And then as the millions look
biek toward the morning time of
the glorious day they shall see, as
the preceding genius of it ail the
*-»eoffrey Chaucer,’ th*
turv 1 ' IJOe ' t ' lo fourteenth cen-
