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rhe Automobile Business
Is Only in Its Babyhood
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I One Man Is Making $600,000 a Month Out of His Part Interest
in One Single Machine —That Is Only the Beginning. Who
Will Be the Real Automobile Builder?
Briar.' hum in this counti v somebody is going to manufacture
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1.00(1.(1(10 automobiles every year. i
\Vho will be that man ?
I !<■ and his i ompan.i—it will be too big for one man. perhaps
will make a net profit ot’s2.'>,O('o.oo() to 5.'t0.000.000 a year and be
entitled to it.
\ car will cost ie.~,s than $5()(l, perhaps less than SIOO.
It w ill be sold lor about SSO more than it costs to make.
It will l»e a car built for strength and endurance, for sufficient,
bill limited speed.
it will be made nearly entirely of metal, little of any wood
about it. little of any upholstery.
It will lie 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 famib on Sundays or in 1 he evening.
II will la arranged also and what inventor will give us this !
feature in a hurry in such away that the owner will lie able to
utilize the power of the engine for work of all kinds.
The 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 he w ill take his machine out to the fruit orchard, jack up
th" two rear wheels, put the weight of his own body and half the
weight of th ear on a disc harrow. AND DISC' HARROW HIS
O|.’( HARD WITH THE POWER OE THE MACHINE THAT
• TOOK HIM To Ills WORK.
lie will go to another place where his truck farm needs irriga
tion. Tin- engine in his ear will be hooked up to the pump, and
the irrigating will be done.
Wlm 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. ,
Tin car will be built TO LAST AND TO WORK. It will Im
busy all da.' It will put out of business more than half a dozen
horses ami a good thing.
All the grass and hay and corn and oats that we can spare we
m-ed lor cows to give milk, and for beasts to give meat.
I’he more quickly the horses go, the belter for the farmer ami
for I he whole country.
Who will supply the combination automobile'.'
Who will give us the ear to take tin* farmer ami his hands to
work, and when they get there supply the power to do the work?
What car will take a sawyer off to the saw mill and then run
the saw the rest of the day?
W hat car w ill lake the house cleaner to the big city house, and
then run the vacuum pump to pull all the dust out of the house and
send it dow n the sewer or burn it?
Let no one tell you that the automobile business is being oxer
done
As great as the invention ol the steam engine is the invention
of the explosive gas engine that takes men at high speed And safely.
The wonderful car at low price will come.
Ami the wonderful ear for a high price—and worth the price
will persist ami increase in efficiency,
Automobiles on wings will carry human beings through the air.
Automobiles will carry men along the road, automobiles will
earn mechanics to their work and help them DO their work when
they get there.
I’he man who gels $600,000 a month out of his automobile busi
ness now is entitled to it he gives the country a great deal more
than the country gives him.
But. unless he grows, he will be small compart'd to the man
that one da\ will build a million machines taieh year, and make a
tort tine equal to that ol John 1). Rockefeller, by selling the best pos
sible article AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE COST.
Ah Ample Navy and a Mer
chant Marine
Seeretar\ Meyer believes that there has been a distinct change
ot sentiment in the present congress which will be so much more
favorable to i greater nav.x as to justify him in asking for three
super-dreatlimughis.
.The appropriation for only one battleship b\ th.. u U!! gre-.s
which adjourned in August last left the I'nited States as low or
lower than the fourth rank among the nations
11 will require at least three new dreadnoughts by the next
congress to return our country to its original place among the na
tions of naval strength.
There is every reason why congress should view this great
question in a la. im and more patriotic light than it has heretofore.
'I he election is over, and the unfounded fear of the people's
protest against appropriations has passed for a season.
I he 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 of a
greater navy.
And the Hearst newspapers have prosecuted a insist
ent and until uig campaign for a naval equality, which has merited
Um thanks of the navy's friends everywhere, and which has had a
poweiUul effect upon public opinion.
Th' Democratic party, in power, must surely xindicate Ameri
can spirit ils regard for the honor, dignity and safely of the coun
i'.x b> building a great. ■ navy mid by re establishing the \meri
e.m merchant marine.
The Atlanta Georgian
The Old and the New
Their Mingling in Japan Today Makes One of the Significant Sights of the World
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By GARRETT P. SERVISS. ’
it 7'" liave here a photograph of
MM the famous Admiral Togo.
one of the greatest sea
fighters ol the age, an Asiatic, with
no drop of Aryan blood in his veins,
who ha- shown that In ialt handle
a (leet of modern battleships, con
structed. armed anti manned on
European and American principles,
as well as a Farragut, a Dewey or
a Nelson could do it. All 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-
I ate in Tokio, where, with his col
leagues, who are following him, he
has doubth ss b< en engaged In con
sidering matters of vast importance
to his great country.
Nobody questions that Admiral
Togo is a man who must be reck
oned with by tlie nations of the
world. If any of them should think
of making war upon Japan the im
age of Togo and his fighting fleet
would lise menacingly before their
eyes. The bravest naval officer,
trained in western schools and 1
western methods <>f war. would
steer his ships into Japanese iv;i\
ters with an anxious lieart if he
know that Togo was there waiting
for him.
And yet, notwithstanding our re-
I spect for this groat Japanese, when
wc look at this phototgiaph of him.
a smile comes upon our lips. There •
is something about it which amuses
our Occidental minds in spite of the
honor which we instinctively pay to
the man. < >ur attention is distract
ed from him to bis conveyance. He
reminds its irresistibly, of a man
taking a ride in a baby carriage.
The Old Form Remains.
It is the national vehicle of his
country, the jinricksha. It has been
used for generations. To the Jap
anese eye there is nothing undigni
fied about it. The 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
drawn through the streets in a glit
tering jinricksha by a running
coolie as to ride behind a spank
ing team of $10.(W() horses in New
York. Rut people usually judge
things not by their suitability to
surrounding circumstances, but bj’
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 experience altogether de
lightful. The motion is smooth and
easy, and there is no danger of
running people down in narrow,
crowded streets.
Hut observe now how tlie spirit of
western Invention lias affected even
tills characteristic ami traditional
institution of old Japan. The
wheels of Admiral Togo’s jinrick
sha are furnished with modern rub
ber tires and braced with light
steel spokes, like an American bi
cycle. The folded leather top,
which he can have put up In an
instant to shield off the sun or
the rain, is constructed after the
plan of our best buggy tops. Only
Hie old form remains; tlie materials
and the workmanship are bor
rowed from the western world.
So, too. tlie palace, as far as we
can see it in tlie picture. Look at .
| THE REINCARNATION FAD |
St * the reincarnated princess isn't •
a princess at all, and Raine
ses come to earth again Is
just a, plain every day man. when
he gets to the divorce court. Dear,
dear, what a disappointment!
They met tn Egypt, he and she,
in a »dead king's tomb. She was
tall and svelte. 1 don't know what
it is to be svelte, but oh! how in
teresting it sounds, and—and she
had big eyes and a lovely ankle.
He wasn't so much io look at, but
oh. 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 the manner she had of saying
“really,” ami looking so , uniting
when h* said she looked like Cleo
patra.
Site was in love. too. His rather
ordinary American features were
transtorrneo t- • and the things
she thought ami said, too. in public
at that, about his soul were too
thrilling for words.
Anil thij 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, he and she, ana
Ancient Egyptians at that—rein
carnated. R< incarnated to beat the
band, as Dorothy Dix would say.
She stopped wearing a perfectly
good diamond with a chipped ruby
on each side of it. and got a sar
donyx with something mysterious
written on it. Site wouldn't look at
an honest dog though she had a
perfectly dear Boston bull at home.
She cultivated cats and wore green
veils to make her eyes took the
color of the Nile grass when the
floods go down. and she bought an
asp such a poor scared crawly lit
tle asp and kept it in a green and
reddish * age. and she tied dingle
dangles all over her clothes, and sh<
never went any win re but in
b rg<. <>ti. she was Cleopatra all
right, is fat as sir could be.
I’IICRSDAY. 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.
the brick-laid gateposts with their •
super-incumbent electric lamps,
• and the gilded bronze gates, which
, might stand before any pretentious
building in any American or Euro
pean city. Notice the modifications
that have been introduced in the
roofs, gables and windows of the
building behind.
, Here we cateh the whole secret
of Japanese success, a secret which
has enabled them with vertiginous
rapidity, to place their country in
the forefront of modern progress,
and to improve, in some respects,
upon their models. It is the same
secret which, according to the great
philpsopher-hlstorian, Montesquieu,
made Rome great.
“Whenever the 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 it to
their own use.”
But neither the Japanese, nor the
Romans before them, ever thought
• • of wholly revolutionizing their own .
By WINIFRED BLACK.
And he was Mark Antony, oh, •*
yes’ that's who he was.
He could feel it just as plain as
anything.
He couldn’t exactly rentember all
about the battles he lost or won,
but he 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 case who knew it.
Now They Are Divorced. *
Ami when they were married —
odd they went through that silly
ceremony, wasn't, it. like ordinavi
Americans, but they ntiTf —wnen
they were married they told the re
porters all about the reincarnation
and how creepy they felt w hen they
glimpsed, each other over there in
the dusty tomb, and how fond she'd
always been of cats, though of
course she never realized it till he
I told iter about Cleopatra and the
sacred green-eyed ones.
What a glorious time 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 ami whether to heat with hot
water or with Air. and who should
Answer the telephone when it rang
late at night.
dust ordinary common things
like that. Poor Cleopatra, how she
has fallen off—hasn't she?
Reincarnation ancient romance,
dry-as-dust love affairs —I wouldn't
give the snap of my finger for the
whole lot of them, from Cleopatra
I to Thais.
They were just gras.-, widows,
these person- of such great r<>-
1 mance. ami they dyed their hair ami
wore rouge so thick you couldn't
| -•■*■ through it ami they at* with
innate ideas. It is the Idea that
governs; the method must be bent
to fit it. Mechanical improve
ments can not heart of
a people. Railroads, electric lights,
rifled guns, automobiles, subma
rines. aeroplanes, warships, tele
graphs, telephones auct 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 Ast-
’• atic, and will remain Asiatic—an
Oriental corner of the world illumi
nated by the Occidental sun. The
whole world had a lesson in that
the other ilaj- when General Count
Nogi, as great a warrior on land
as Togo is at sea, committed harl
kiri, together with his aged wife,
las 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 tlpd 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
•• he appears.
* their fingers and smacked their
thick lips, and swore like troop
ers. and fought like them, too, anci
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
she 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 w oman's business in
those days, and a very coarse kind
of business you would find it. too,
J nl thinking, if we knew all about
■ri,„ only way a Wolnan could
somebody in "dem days,” as Uncle
Lemus says, was by "luring" men.
and all the clever women went to
work and "lured” or made people
think they were "luring,” and all
the time I suppose they had the
backache and the headache, and
then- feet ljurt. and th'ey didn't
know what yn earth to do for the
neuralgia, same as the elderly si
rens of today.
With a True Heart.
Fudge, I’d give more for one
good decent, honest love affair be
tween a clear-eyed dreaming girl of
twenty. born and bred right here in
Amet ica. and a man just old enough
to a|fpre* late her. than 1 would for
all the llasons of all the passe si
rens of history put together!
If 1 ever get the reincarnation
fad I'm going to reincarnate into
sweet sixteen with all my dreams
fresh in my innocent heart.
And I hot>e the reincarnated man
1 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 t true heart
and a decent way of life, and a
good job- somewhere, and a little
house to take me to. after they 've
thrown all the old shoes and rice
in town after us.
That's tin- kind of reincarnation ■
I want, and if I can't get it I shan’t
l lav incarnation at nil. so there
Why Destroy the Old Cre
matory at All?
M K M
Dr. J. T. Floyd Asks Some Rather Pointed and Pertinent Ques
tions Concerning the Disposal of the City’s Garbage.
Editor The Georgian:
WITH reference to tile contro
versy that Is now going on
between the health board
and certain members ot the alder
manic board relative to the 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
the city has, before the new build
ing is even begun, I 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 well 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
part of it is being dumped in the
I valley between the end of Forrest
avenue and the west end of Wil
liams Mill road and within a few
hundred feet of the houses Os 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. I call attention
to this particular dumping ground,
as I know it personally. There
must necessarily be numerous ones
like this 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 Eighth
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?
Second, there has been a good
deal said by those interested in
building this new disposal plant
about the danger of dumping the
city’s refuse about the 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 4
The Crematory and City’s
Health
Editor The Georgian:
I desire to offer my approval of
your very sensible and patriotic ed
itorial on the subject of how, when
and why Atlanta should be provid
ed with new facilities for destroy
ing the garbage of the city.
It seems to me strange that any
man, pretending to be sane, and at
the lawie time oatriptio, should ob
ject to the retention of the old cre
matory plant f6r usage while the
new is being built.
The record shows that this plant,
now under arbitrary condemnation,
performed more work than was
promised under the building guar
antee THE DAY BEFORE IT WAS
LABELED "NO GOOD” by the
health board.
Competent engineers say that for
$3,000 it can be put in such repair
as to make it do the work it did
when first built.
Think! In the face of these bold,
undisputed facts, the board of
health has passed an order of con
demnation that has caused the old
crematory to be shut down, while
the garbage of a city of 175,000 peo
ple is being planted—yes, planted
for germ-breeding by-and-by
waiting on the building of the new.
Did any factory or business in
stitution ever close down the old
while a new plant or occupation
place was being built? Could any
business expand under such a
senseless rule?
It is contended that the contract
has been made to build on the old
site, and it is a legal contract, and
the honor of the mayor pro tern is
THE HOME PAPER
•J- flies during next summer? Whv
should Dr. Gilbert and the health
board frame an ordinance and have
the city council pass same to sen- u
against the infected fly and then
conduct a campaign of education
against this infected fly, and then
the following summer Dr. Gilbert
and the board of health make plans
and conditions ideal for the hatch
ing of millions of these disease
carrying flies?
"Barn Door” Clause.
Third. We are told that this new
plant will be ready to operate next
May. Does any intelligent man
who has any conception of the un
dertaking believe this? If the board
of health believes it, why did they
not name this date for completion
in the contract, instead of allowing
a year of working days with a
“barn door” clause about freezing
and rainy days that will allow the
completion of this plant extended
indefinitely? Is the contracting
company or any one else ready to
put up a forfeiture guaranteeing
that the proposed plant will be hi
operation by next May?
Fourth. W’hy destroy the old cre
matory at all? Suppose the com
pany contracting for this new' ere
matory should delay the compietioi
of it for more than a year, which
they can do under their contract
or suppose the new plant would not
do the work that it is supposed m
do. or assume that it does work, bu'
some of the intricate machinery
breaks, would, not tlie old crema
tory, properly repaired, be a “god
• send” to this city, with its moun
tains of refuse, already piled up
about Its vacant lots? While watt
ing for this new experiment to be
completed, or even if this new plant
should be a "howling success,” is
it not a good plan to have dupli
cate or relief plants? We have
them for our lights, our water porv -
ice, etc., to prevent a total shut
down in case of an accident or nec
essary repairs, and why net fee
our disposal plant and our health ’
Gentlemen, you are simply giving
us another dose of muddy water is
the water board did some time ago
in order to put on the city a broken
pump. The citizens do not want .1
plant built or bought under this
kind of coercion.
The "Joker” Power Plant.
I 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 be attached,
and hotv this council proposes to
spend our $50,000 bond money in
such away that succeeding coun
cils will be obliged to pay the bal
ance or get no disposal plant
all. Or I could ma ke some r< -
marks about Dr. Gilbert and tin
board of health arbitrarily shutting
down the present crematory in the
midst of its usefulness on the pre
text that "because It needs a few
repairs” it is absolutely useless, bu'
I am interested at present in i>r<
venting its being destroyed and i;i
having it put back in commission
and I believe that if the citizens
will wake up to what they are b< -
ing led into and to their duty, this
crematory will never be destroyed,
and if they will make a little in
vestigation int'o this matter, they
will find that the old crematory
is in the way of the new one in
more than one way. Yours ver.'
truly, DR. J. T. FLOYD.
• 324-5 Candler Building,
struck on the breast by no l's
personage than he himself, wh'i
the defy is thrown down, begads.
that the old crematory, worth s3<\
000, must be razed T< • THE
GROUND, SIR.
'Tis true, City Attorney .Uayso:
says, the contract is legal.
-rue Engineer Benjamin says, tic
is room enough on the city’s pro
erty to build the new while the ■
is retained for necessary garbar
destruction. 'Tis reported that t’le
proposed plant will cost Atlanta
SIOO,OOO more than a similar pl ■
cost Milwaukee. 'Tis alleged tr t
this contract is so excessive n
profit that the Destructor Comp:
has offered $30,000 to have It
financed.
These things are of small
cern—for Judge Candler is insi
ent that the contract is a i<
one—and that Attorney .Mays
and Engineer Benjamin *need o
look again.
But Judge Candler has spoken -
and before his potential ipse
the honor view of all other ne:n
bers of council must yield.
And the health of Atlanta, it *
fever-laden summer, that is ■
to follow this reckless, unbusim ■ -
like plan of doing without p ■
tion until a protectorate is bui
to pay the rueful cost and m>
ad eaptandum argument of .1
Candler, which, whatever his
will not please. 1 opine, poop
tl-ink and discriminate.
Which is the more impoi ■
Judge Candler's legal view 1 e
lit alto of the peopl. ■’
BENJAMIN M BLACKBI
Atlanta. Ga.