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Fhe Automobile Business
is Only in Its Babyhood
» v r
One Man Is Making S6OO 000 a Month Out of His Part Interest
in- One Single Machine—That Is Only the Beginning. Who
Will Be the Real Automobile Builder?
I’., tor- long in this country somebody is going to manufacture j
l.OOli.OiHl automobiles every year.
Who will !><■ that man !
lb and his company ■-it will be too big for one man. perhaps
ill male and profit of $25,000,000 to $50,000,000 a year—and be
• nt it led to it.
A car will cost less than SSOO, perhaps less Ilian s4oo.
It will be sold for about SSO more than it costs to make.
It will be a ear built for strength and endurance, for sufficient,
but limited speed.
It will be made nearly entirely ot metal, little of any wood
about it, little of any upholstery.
I> will be arranged so that it can be used for a delivery wagon
or mechanic s wagon all through the week, and a pleasure vehicle
for the family on Sundays or in the evening.
Il will lie arranged also—and what inventor will give us this
featuri in a hurry in such away that the owner will he able to
utilize the power of the engine for work of till kinds.
Tin farmer will jump into his machine, go out two or three
miles or more to the piece of land that he is clearing, and then use
the machine for power to run a stump puller.
Or lie will take his machine out to the fruit orchard, jack up I
the tom rear wheels, put the weight of his own body and half the '
■'eight of the ear on a disc harrow, AND DISC HARROW IDS
ORCHARD WITH THE POWER Oh’ THE MACHINE THAT
TOOK HIM To HIS WORK.
He will go to another place where his truck farm needs irriga
tion. 'file engine in his car will be hooked up to the pump, and
Ihe irrigal ing w ill be done.
Who is going to manufacture a million cars a .year.’ Where is
the man big enough .' Some one, or some company, is going to do it.
The ear will be built TO LAST AND TO WORK. 11 will be
busy all day. It will put out of business more than half a dozen
horses ami a good Iliing.
All Ihe grass and hay and corn and oats that we can spare we
need for cows to give milk, and lor beasts to give meat.
The more quickly the horses go. the better for the farmer and
lor the whole country.
Who w ill supply the combination automobile.’
Who w ill give us the car to take the farmer and his hands Io
work, and when they get there supply the power to do the work?
What ear will take a sawyer off Io the saw mill and then run
the saw the rest of the day?
\\ hat car will take the house deaper to the big city house, and
then run the vacuum pump to pull all the dust out of the house and
semi it down Hie sewer or burn it ?
Lei no one tell you that the automobile business is being over
dom
As great as the invention of the steam engine is the invention
<1 iln explosive gas engine that takes men at high speed and safely.
The wonderful car at low price will come.
Ami the wonderful car for a high price ami worth the price
w ill persist ami increase in efficiency.
Automobiles on wings will carry human beings through the air.
\utomobiles will carry men along the road, automobiles will
ai ;y mechanics to their Work and help them DO their work when
1 hey get 1 here.
I'he man who gets sti(M),ooo a month out of his automobile busi- I
m>s now is entitled Io it —he gives the country a great deal more |
•han the .country gives hint.
But. unless he grows, he will be small compared to the man ■
that one day w ill build a million machines each year, and make a
fortune equal to that of John I). Rockefeller, by selling the best pos
sible article \T THE LOWEST POSSIBLE (’OST.
Aii Ample Navy and a Mer
chant Marine
S.-cretar;. ARyer believes that there Ims been a distinct change
of sentiment m tin present congress which will be so much more
favorable to a greater navy as Io justify him in asking for three
super-dreadnoughts.
/he appropriation for only one battleship In the congress
which adjourned in August last left the I’nited Stales as low or
lower than tin fourth rank among the nations.
Il will require at least three new dreadnoughts by the next
congress to return our country to its original place among tin- na
tions of naval strength.
There is every • reason why congress should view this great .
<|uestion in a larger ami morn patriotic light than it has heretofore.
The election is over, ami the unfounded fear of the people’s
protest against appropriations has passed for a season.
The national convention of the Democratic party has expressed
a strong demand for an ample navy.
The president-elect has expressed himself strongly for an ample
navy The Republican minority is on voting record in favor id' a
greater navy.
Ami the Hearst newspapers have prosecuted a vigorous, insist
'nt nd untiring campaign for a naval equality, which has merited
111. thanks of the navy's friends everywhere, ami which has had a
powei lul effect Upon public Opinion.
■Tie Democratic party, in power, must surely vindicate Ameri- i
eau spirit -its regard for the honor, dignity and safety of the covin- ■
by building a gr< ater navy and by re wsti’blishiug the \uieri- '
van merchant marine. I
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The Atlanta Georgian
The Old and the New
Their Mingling in Japan Today Makes One of the Significant Sights of the World
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
WE hat*- here a photograph of
the famous Admiral Togo,
one of the greatest sea
light' is ol the age. an Asiatic, with
no drop of Aryan blood in his veins,
who lias shown that he can handle
a fleet of modern battleships, con
structed, armed and manned on
European and American principle:-,
a: iis a Farragut, a D< w«-y or
a Nelson could do it. Alt the world
admires and honors him as a hero,
a patriot and a man of genius. We
see him just issuing from the gate
of the palace of the Japanese sen
ate in Tokio. where, with his col-"
leagues, who are following him. lie
has doubtless been engaged in con
sidering mailers of vast importance
to his great country.
Nobody questions that Xdmiral
Togo is a piun who must lie reck
oned witii by the nations of tin
world. !<" any of them should think
of making war upon Japan the im
age of Togo and his fighting fleet
would rist menacingly before their
eyes. The bmvest naval officer,
trained in western schools and
western methods of war. would
steer his ships into Japanese wa
ters witii an anxious heart if lie
knew that Togo was there waiting
for him.
And yet. notwithstanding our re
spect for this great Japanese, when
we look at this phototgraph of him.
a snilli comes upon our lips. There
Is something about ' which amuse*
our Occidental minds in spite of the
honor which we instim ively pay to
the man. Our attention is distract
ed from him to lii.s conveyance. He
reminds us, irresistibly. of a man
taking a riile. in a baby carriage.
The Old Form Remains.
It is the national vehicle of his
I country, the jinricksha, it lias been
used f<>r generations.* To the Jap
anese < y there is nothing undigni
fied about it. Tile man who is able
to ride in a jinricksha is envied by
his countrymen. It is as honorable
a distinction in Tokio to be swiftly
.irawn through the streets in a glit
tering jinricksha by a running
coolie as to ride behind a spank
ing team of 510.000 horses in New
York. Hut people usually judge
things not by their suitability to
surrounding circumstances, but by
their accord with inherited ideas
and prejudices. Foreigners who
have ridden in these man-drawn
vehicles all agree that, after they
got over laughing at the funny
spectacle which they thought they
were making of themselves, they
found the’, xperlence altogether de
lightful. The motion is smooth and
easy, ami there Is no danger of
running people down in narrow,
crowded streets.
Hut observe now how the spirit of
western Invention has affected even
this < haraeterisi ie and traditional
institution of old Japan. The
wheels of Admiral Togo’s jinrick
sha are furnished w ith modern rub
ber tires ami braced witii light
steel spoki s, like an American bi
cycle. ’l’lic folded leather top,
which lie can have put up in an
instant to shield off the sun or
Hie rain, is constructed aftejr the
plan of our best buggy tops. Only
the old form remains: tile materials
and the workmanship are bor
rowed from the western world.
So, too, the palace, as far As we
can see it in the picture. Look at
|" THE REINCARNATION FAD
S' • tiir reincarnated princess isn't
a princess at all, ami Raine
ses come to earth again is
just a plain every day man. when
he gets to tlie divorce court. Dear,
dear, what a disappointment!
They met in Egypt, he and she,
In a dead king's tomb. She was
tall and svelte. 1 don’t know what
it is to lie svelte, but oh! how in
teresting it sounds, and—and she
had big eyes and a lovely ankle.
He wasn't so much to look at, hut
oli, what a soul for romance he
had! So they fell in love, dead in
love, so much in love that there
wasn't anything in the world so
wonderful to him as the way she
did her hair, and how she walked,
and tlie manner she had of saying
' really." and looking so cunning
when hi said she looked like Cleo
patra.
She Was in love, too. His rather
ordinary American features were
transformed for her and the things
she thought and said. too. in public
at that, about his soul were too
thrilling for words.
And tlnv were just plain Cook's
tourists doing the Pyramids at so
much a day guides, carriages and
hotels all included.
They Were Egyptians.
They weren't just honest, well
meaning Americans with good plain
names to keep straight, and nice
plain old ideals to uphold: they
were Egyptians, lie and she, and
Ancient Egyptians at that—rein
carnated. Reincarnated to beat the
band, as Dorothy Dlx would say.
She stopped wearing it perfectly
good diamond with a chipped ruby
on each side of it. and got a sar
donyx with something mysterious
written on it. She wouldn't look at
an honest dog. though she had a
perfectly dear Boston bull at home.
Sin cultivated cats and wore green
veils t<» make her eyes look the
color of tin Nile grass win n the
floods go down, and she bought &.n
asp—such a poor seared crawly lit
tle asp and kept it in a gi- q and
l e,,dish , ag. . and site tied* dihgh
dangles all over her clothes, and .-lb
never Went anywhere but in a
Irogt. i >li. .-In was Cleopatra all
[ right, as fa i as Ip could be.
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 21. 1912.
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Admiral Togo in one of the curious Japanese jinrickshas, and (the smaller
picture) a portrait of General Nogi.
tiie brick-laid gateposts with th’eir
super-incumbent electric lamps,
and the gilded bronze gates, which
night stand before any pretentious i
building in any American or Euro- ’
penn city. Notice the modifications
that have been introduced in the
roofs, gables and windows of the
building behind.
Hon we catch Hie whole secret |
of Japanese success, a secret which
lias enabled them ’witii vertiginous
rapidity, to place their country in
I lie forefront of modern progress, .
and to improve, in some respects,
upon their models. It is the same
secret wlileh. according to tile great
philosopher-historian. Montesquieu,
made Rome great.
“Whenever tiie Romans,” says
Montesquieu, “found among the
peoples whom they subdued any
thing that seemed to be an im
provement upon what they had
been accustomed to, they imme
diately adopted it and turned il to
their own use.” /
• But neither the Japanese, nor th
Romans before them, ever thought j
|- of‘wholly revolutionizing their oyvn
By WINIFRED BLACK.
And Jie was Mark Antony, oh.
.1•• s that’s who he tv as.
He could feel it just as plain as
anything.
He couldn't exactly remember all
about the battles he lost or won.
but lie knew just exactly how Mark
Antony felt that day when he help
ed stab Caesar, and the minute he
saw Cleopatra standing there with
the Cook’s tourists in the tomb of
the dead king he knew her just as
quick as a wink, knew her in her
short skirt and coat suit, knew her
in her neat traveling hat, knew her
in her perfectly good Boston boots.
And all the rest, of the time they
were in Egypt she was Cleopatra
and he was Mark Antony, and they
didn’t cape who knetv it.
Now They Are Divorced.
And when they were nturried
odd they went through that silly
ceremony, wasn't, it. like ordinary
Americans, but they did? —when
they were married they told tlie r> -
porters all about the reincarnation
and how creepy they felt when they
glimpsed each other over there m
the dusty tomb, and how fond she’d
always been of cats, though of
course she never realized it till lie
told iter about Cleopatra and the
sacred green-eyed ones.
What a glorious tinyt> they were
going to have being ancient and
weird and queer and rapturous!
And now they are divorced, just
plain divorced.
She didn't find another Caesar
either, or he another Flavia.
They just didn’t agree about the
bills and whether to heat with hot
water or with air. and who should
answer the telephone when it rang
late at night.
Just ordinary common things
like that. Poor Cleopatra, how she
has fallen off hasn't she?
Reincarnation ancient romance,
dry-as-dust love affairs—l wouldn’t
give the snap of my finger for the
whole lot of them, from Cleopatra
to Thais.
They were just grass widows,
thwse pgj'sous of such great ro
, mance. and they dyed their hair and
■ wo ■ 'rouge so thick you couldn't
-• ■ through it. and they ate with
• innate ideas. It is the idea that
governs; the method must be bent
to fit it. Mechanical improve
ments cun not change the heart of
a people. Railroads, electric lights,
rifled guns, automobile:’., subma
rines. aeroplanes, warships, tele
graphs, telephones a.,d aerial com
munications cause only an external
alteration in Japan. They make
her powerful, respected and feared,
but they do not change her essen,
• tial nature. She is at bottom Asi-
•j* atic. and will remain Asiatic —an
Oriental corner of the world illumi
nated by the Occidental sun. The
I whole world had a lesson in that
the other day when General Count
Nogi, as great a warrior on land
as Togo is at sea, committed hari
kiri. together with his aged wife,
j as a mark of respect to his dead
emperor.
Changed the Ships.
The Japanese found that steel
battleships were preferable to war
junks, and they discarded the
junks and adopted the battleships
just as the American Indian drop- '
ped his bows and arrows to learn
to shoot with the white man’s gun.
They find that automobiles are a
good thing, for fast journeys, and so
they have automobiles; but they
> also find that the jinricksha is very
| suitable for their use, and they re
tain the jinricksha, simply mak
ing it over with Western tools and
modern materials. And it is certain
that Admiral Togo will continue all
his life to ride in his “baby car
riage," while his countrymen will
applaud and admire him wherever
•> lie appears.
T their fingers and smacked their
thick lips, and swore like troop
ers, and fought like them, too, and
gloried in it, and had affairs with
slaves of all colors.
Faugh, if they’’ were alive now
we’d segregate them with the rest
of the "unfortunates” and we'd call
the places they lived in the Red
Light district!
Cleopatra was over forty when
slie had that famous affair with
Antony, and he was probably bald
and more than fat at that.
Great sirens, these women. Great
nonsense! They were clever wom
en. and had love affairs because
there wasn’t anything else for them
to do.
Love was a woman’s business in
those days, ami a very coarse kind
of business you would find it, too,
I’m thinking, if we knew all about
it.
The only way a woman could be
somebody in “dem days,” as Uncle
Remus saysr was by "luring" men,
and all the clever women went to
work ami "luted" or made people
think they were "luring." and ail
the time 1 suppose they had the
backache and the headache, and
i heir feet hurt, and they didn’t
know what on earth to do for the
neuralgia, same as the elderly si
rens of today.
With a True Heart.
Fudge, I'd give mote for one
good decent, honest love affair be
tween a clear-eyed dreaming girl of
■ twenty, born and bred right here in
America, and a man just old enough
to appreciate her, than 1 would for
all the liasons of all- the passe si
rens of history put together!
If I ever get the reincarnation
fad I’m going to reincarnate into
sweet sixteen with all my dreams
fresh in my innocent heart.
And I hope the reincarnated man
I fall In love with will be a nice
broad-shouldered American just out *
of college long enough to know
what a fool he is. with a true heart
and a decent way of life, and a
good job somewhere, and a little
bouse to take me to. after they’ve
thrown all the old shoes and rice
in town after us.
That - Hit kind of remeal nation
| I want, and if 1 can’t get it I shan’t ’
play incarnation at ail. so there.
Why Destroy the Old Cre- :
matory at All?
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Dr. J. T. Floyd Asks Some Rather Pointed and Pertinent Ques- i
tions Concerning the Disposal of the City ’s Garbage.
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Editor The Georgian;
Y TT reference to the contro-
V V versy that is now going on
between the health board
and certain members ot the alder
manie board relative to tile build
ing of a new disposal plant or cre
matory for the disposal of the city’s
refuse and the present plans of the
health board to demolish entirely
the present crematory, the only one
tiie city has, before the new build
ing is even begun. T beg to say that
as the health of the city is of para
mount importance and should be
considered first and above all oth
ers, whether financial or political,
the removal of the present crema
tory and the depriving of this city
for any length of time of a plant in
which to dispose of its garbage is
nothing short of a crime.
I am reliably informed that the
present crematory is capable of
burning 60 per cent of the city’s
garbage and was doing this at the
time it was shut down by the board
of health, and that with slight re
pairs and intelligent handling, can
burn practically all of the refuse. I
think it would be well for the citi
zens as welk as the city officials to
consider carefully the plight the
city will be in if they permit the
present crematory to be wrecked.
And in the Meantime?
First, what is to be done with the
garbage while the new plant is in
course of construction? Dr. Gil
bert says it will be dumped around
the outskirts of the city and prop
erly fumigated. What does Dr.
Gilbert mean by the outskirts of
the city? As a matter of fact a
i part of it is being dumped in the
valley between the end of Forrest
I avenue and the west end of Wil
liams Mill road and within a few
hundred feet of the houses of citi
zens who. while they can not live on
Peachtree street, are citizens and
pay taxes just the same and death
to them or in their families is just
as much a bereavement as it is to
their more favored neighbors, the
refuse from whose homes is dump
ed at their doors. X call attention
to this particular dumping ground,
as I know it personally. There
must necessarily be numerous ones
like tills about the city and they
must be worked overtime if the
crematory is demolished. Are these
dumping heaps being fumigated.’
Go and see. Only last Sunday one
of them caught fire out near Eightli
street and filled the neighborhood
so full of foul smoke that it was
necessary for one of the citizens to
come to the city at midnight Sun
day night and get permission for
the fire department to go out and
extinguish this fire; Where was
Dr. Gilbert and his fumigating out
fit?
Secbnd, there lias been a good
deal said by those interested in
building this new disposal plant
about the danger of dumping the
city's refuse about tiie city next
summer. Now, assuming that this
new disposal plant is ready to dis
pose of all the refuse by next May,
for which we have no guarantee,
what is going to become of this
garbage that will accumulate in the
time intervening between the de
struction of the old plant and the
completion of the new? Is it going
to rot and disappear during the
winter months, or is it not going to
be in just about the proper condi
tion to rot and putrefy and breed
Battle of Yermuk
By the REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
r T~'HE Battle of Yermuk, between
j the legions of Heraclius and
the hosts of the Crescent,
was fought twelve hundred aqd
seventy-six years ago. It Is a long
cry back to Yermuk, and yet upon
that far-away field results were
decreed which still prevail, and are
likely to prevail for centuries to
come.
Mohammed, the “Prophet of
God,” died in 632, and within the
succeeding ten or twelve years his
enthused Arabs had reduced 36,000
cities, towns and castles in Persia.
Syria and Africa, and had de
stroyed 4,000 churches, replacing
them with 1,400 mosques. Their
sway extended a thousand miles
east and west. That Arab advance
is the one crowning miracle of his
tory. and such it will probably re
main. for the chances are a thou
sand to one against it ever being
duplicated.
When Mohammed died the Ro
man imperial purple rested upon
the shoulders of Heraclius. a man
in some ways great, in others mis
erably small. While the followers
of the prophet were striding over
the Eastern world, laying the foun
dations of their mighty rule in
Africa. Asia and ultimately in Eu
rope, Heraclius, at Byzantium, was
up to his ears in theological discus
sion.
When informed of the .Moslem
Intoads upon Syria, he ceased his
theological discussions Jong enough
to order his General Manuel go
out against the inildels.
And Manuel went—hut lie neve
came back. The Aiabs met him
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THE HOME PAPER
flies during next summer? wq,.
should Dr. Giibeit and tiie hea t ,
board frame an ordinance ami have
the city council pass same to sereei,
against the infected fly and
j conduct a campaign of edueatin.
against this infected fly. and th, i
the following summer Dr. Gilber:
and the board of health make plans
and conditions ideal for the bat. >
I ing of millions of these disease
I carrying flies?
.“Barn Door’’ Clause.
Third. We are told that this new
' plant will be ready to operate m- ■
May. Does any intelligent man
who has any conception of the U) .
dertaking believe this? If the hoard
el* health believes it, why did the'-
not name this date for completion
in the contract, instead of allowing
a year of working* days with
"barn door” clause about freezing
and rainy days that will allow the
completibn of this plant extended
indefinitely? Is the contracting
company or any one else ready to
put up a forfeiture guaranteeing
that tiie proposed plant will be in
operation by next May'?
Fourth. Why destroy the old cre
matory at all? Suppose the com
pany contracting- for this new cre
matory should delay the completion
of it for more than a year, whit
they can do under their contract,
or suppose the new plant would no
do tiie work that it is supposed to
do, or assume that it does work, but
some of the intricate machinery
breaks, would not the old ctenio
tory. properly repaired, be a ‘‘god
send" to this city, with its moun
tains of refuse, already piled tm
about its vacant lots? While wail
ing for this new experiment to be
completed, or even if this new plan*
should be a “howling success,” is
it not a good plan to have dupli
cate or relief plants? We iiave
them J'or our lights, our water ser\
ice, etc., to prevent a total siuit
down in case of an accident or nec
essary repairs, and why not f"
our disposal plant aud our lieaitli
Gentlemen, you are simply giving
us another dose of muddy water li
the water board did some time am
in order to put on the city a broki ;
pump. The citizens do not want
plant built or bought under this
kind of coercion.
The “Joker" Power Plant.
1 might say a great deal about
the amount of money to be paid for
this new plant, and the JOKER
power plant that is to lie attache'
and how this council proposes to
spend our $50,000 bond money in
such away that succeeding coup
cils will be obliged to pay the bal
ance or get no disposal plant at
all. Or I could make some i*i
marks about Dr. Gilbert and
| hoard of health arbitrarily shutting
down the present crematory in tl
midst of its usefulness on the pt«
text that "because it needs a ft >
repairs” it is absolutely useies-, bo:
I am interested at present in p:
venting its being destroyed and m
having it put back in commission
and I-believe that if the citizen.-
will wake up to what they are In
ing led into and to their duty , tli
• crematory will never be destroy
and if they will* make a little ii
vestigation into this matter, tin:
will find that the old crematory
is in the way of the new one 'i
more than one way. Yours vei:
truly, DR. J. T. FLOYD.
v 324-5 Candler Building.
T and his great army on the banks
tlie Yermuk. a stream having i
| rise in the highlands about Momr
, Hermon, and utterly annihilate
him. Never was a Roman ■ ■ u
• more ingloi iously beaten.
Caldd. the “Sword of God," h
. holding the legionaries formed f
hattlq along the river, shoutei
his followers: "Paradise is bem
you. the devil and hell fire behiii
you—charge!" And the P.onrir
were swept away as though th
had been but so many autuu
leaves in the sweep of the slot
I wind.
There was never a more decisiv
hattie. It gat ■ all Syria to t
Aiabs. and along with li t
whole eastern end of the Medio
ranean. with its splendid islands
Alter the appalling dlsaste:
Yermuk, the fail of Jerusalem a:
of Damascus was a foregone cm
j elusion, and with those points
vantage in their hands, the \l<
b nis had practically completed i
Syrian coriquest.
At the time of the Battle of Y<
muk, three hundred and sixty-f"
years had passed since Aureli
crushed the power of Zenobia, tin
wonderful Queen of Palmyra. N
it has been pretty conclusively • --
tablished that Zenobia va-
Arabian, of the same race with
founder 'of Islam. and cert
there is “poetic justice." in
measure, in the fact that the
who inflicted upon Rome tin -
ter' of Yermuk. in 63G. were ■■ ■ m
' same blood with the proud but n
i fortunate, woman who w;t“ s-. >u
miliatcd by Aurelian in 272