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EDITORIAL, PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga. Entered as second-class matter at postclfice at Atlanta, under act of March 8. 1871. Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mail, 15 00 a year. Payable in advance. The Automobile Business Is Only in Its Babyhood 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? .... Before long in this country somebody is going to manufacture .1,000.000 automobiles every year. Who will be that man? He and his company—it will be too big for one man, perhaps will make a net prolit of $25,000,000 to $50,000,000 a year—and be entitled to it. A car will cost less than SSOO, perhaps less than $40 I ’. It will be sold for about SSO more than it costs to make It will be a car built for strength and endurance, for sufficient, but limited speed. It will be made nearly entirely of metal, little of any wood about it, little of any upholstery. It 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. It will be arranged also—and what inventor will give ns this feature in a hurry—in such away that the owner will be 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 will take his machine out. to the fruit orchard, jack up rhe two rear wheels, put the weight of his own body and half the weight of the car on a disc harrow. AND DISC HARROW IDS ORCHARD WITH THE POWER OF THE MACHINE THAT TOOK HIM TO HIS WORK. He will go to another place where his truck farm needs irriga tion. The engine in his car will be hooked up to the pump, and the irrigating will 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 car will be built TO LAST AND TO WORK. It will be busy all day. It will put out of business more than half a dozen horses—and a good thing. All the grass and hay and corn and oats that we can spare we need for cows to give milk, and for beasts to give meat. The more quickly the horses go. the better for the farmer and for the whole country. • Who will supply the combination automobile? Who will give us the car to take the farmer and 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 ? What car will take 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 down the sewer or burn it? Let no one tell you that the automobile business is being over done. As great as the invention of 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. And the wonderfid ear for a high price—and worth the price— will persist and increase in efficiency. Automobiles on wings will carry human beings through the air. Automobiles will carry men along the road, automobiles will carry mechanics to their work and help them DO their work when they get there. The man who gets $600,000 a month out of his automobile busi ness now is entitled to it—die gives the country a great deal more than the country gives him. But. unless he grows, he will be small compared Io the man that one day will build a million machines each year, and make a fortune equal to that of John D. Rockefeller, by selling the best pos sible article AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE COST. An Ample Navy and a Mer chant Marine Secretary Meyer believes that there has been a distinct change of sentiment in the present congress which will be so much more favorable to a greater navy as to justify him in asking for three super-dreadnoughts. , The appropriation tor only one battleship by the congress which adjourned in August last left the I’nited States as low or lower than the fourth rank among the nations. It 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 larger and more patriotic light than it has heretofore. 'l’he election is over, ami the unfounded fear of the people’s protest against appropriations h: s 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 of a treater navy. And the Hearst iieivspapers have prosecuted a vigorous, insist ent and untiring campaign for a naval equality, which has merited rhe thanks of the navy’s friends everywhere, and which has had a powerful effect upon public opinion. The Democratic party, in power, must surely vindicate Anieri ••an spirit its regard for the honor, dignity and s.af< ty of the coun try—by building a greater navy and by re -siablishing th- Ameri can merchant marine. The Atlanta Georgian Their Mingling in Japan Today Makes One q/ the Significant Sights of the World By GARRETT P. SERVISS. x I rE have here a photograph of Vy the famous Admiral Togo, one of the greatest sea fighters of the age. an Asiatic, with no drop of Aryan blood in his veins, who has shown that he can handle a tleet of modern battleships, con structed, armed and 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 ate in Tokio, where, with his col leagues, who are following him, he has doubtless been 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 the 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 rise menacingly before their eyes. The bravest naval officer, trained in western schools and western methods of war, would steer his ships into Japanese wa ters with an anxious heart if he 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 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. Our attention is distract ed from him to his conveyance. He reminds us. 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 sw-iftly drawn through the streets in a glit tering jinricksha by a running coolie as to ride behind a spank ing team of 810,000 horses in New York. But people usually judge things not by their suitability to surrounding circumstances, but by their accord with inherited ideas and prejudices. Foreigners who have riddXn 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. But observe now how the spirit of western invention has affected even this characteristic and 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 the old form remains; the materials and the workmanship are bor rowed from the western world. So, too, the palace, as far as wo can see it in t-he picture. Book at SO the reincarnated princess isn’t •: a princess at all, and Rame 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 in 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 to 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," and looking so cunning when he 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 they 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 bones., well meaning Americans with good plain names to keep straight, and nice plain old ideals to uphold; they were Egyptians, he and she. and Ancient Egyptians at that—rein carnated. Reincarnated to beat the band, as Dorothy l>ix 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. She wouldn't look at an honest dog. though she had a perfectly dem Boston bull at home. She cultivated eats and wore green veils to make her eyes look 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 tn a green and reddish cage, and she tied dingle dangles all over her clothes, and she never went anywhere bi t in a barge. Oh, she was <’leopa.tra all right, as far as she could be. The Old and the New THE REINCARNATION FAD TIIFRSDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1912. ! DWt w ■L t’ll • Ul r~" " _ A \ '--'j/k rs Im, B o» ■T I S ' B 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 glided 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 catch 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 philosopher-historian, 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 bad 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’ remember all about the battles ho lost or won, but he knpw 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 tn her perfectly’ good Boston boots. And ail the rest of the time they were in Egypt she was Cleopatra and he was Mark Antony , and they didn't care who knew it. Now They Are Divorced. And when they were married odd they went, through that silly ceremony, wasn't, It, like ordinary Americans, but they did? —when they were married they told the re porters all about the reincarnation and how creepy they felt when 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 told her 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 i either, or he another Elavia. 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—J wouldn't give the snap of my finger for the whole lot of them, from Cleopatra to Thais. They were just grass widows, these persons of nueii great ro mance. and they dyed their hair and wore rouge so thick you couldn't see 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 can not change the heart of a people. Railroads, electric lights, rifled guns, automobiles, subma rines, aeroplanes, warships, tele graphs, telephones ana 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 As!- 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 day when General Count Nogl, as great a warrior on land as Togo is at sea, committed hari j kiri. together with his aged wife, 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 •• he appears. ■f" 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 ail colors. Fabgh, 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 woman's business in those days, and 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 bo somebody in “dem days." as I’ncle Remus says, was by "luring" men, and ail the clever women wont 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 their 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 more 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 th<- llasons 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 .'til my dreams fresh in my innocent heart. And I bore the reincarnated man i fall in love with will b ■ 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 lit-, and a good job somewhere, and a little house to take m< to, after they’ve thrown all the old shoes and rice in town after us. That's the kind of reincarnation I want, and if I can't get it I shan't play incarnation at al), so there THE HOME PAPER Why Destroy the Old Cre matory at All? r •», *! 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 the contro versy that is now going on between the health board and certain, members of 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 entlrelji 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 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 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. 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 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 same time patriotic, should ob ject to tile retention of the old cre matory plant for 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 .jp 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 cremators- 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 factors' or business in stitution ever close do" n 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 • flies dtiring next summer? Whv should Dr. Gilbert and the health board frame an ordinance and have the city council pass same to screen 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 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, which they can do under their contract, or suppose the new plant would not do the work that it is supposed to do, or assume that It does work, but some of the intricate machinery breaks, would not the 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 wait 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 serv ice, etc., to prevent a total shut down in case of an accident or nec essary repairs, and why not for our disposal plant and our health? Gentlemen, you are simply giving us another dose of muddy water as the water board did some time ago in order to put on the city a broken pump. The citizens do not want a 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 how this council proposes to spend our $50,000 bond monej in such away that succeeding coun cils will be obliged to pay the bal ance or get no disposal plant at all. Or I could make some re marks about Dr. Gilbert and the 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, but I am Interested at present in pre venting its being destroyed and in having it put back in commission, and I believe that if the citizens will wake up to what they are be ing led into and to their duty, this crematory will never be destroyed, and if they will make a little In vestigation into this matter, they will find that the old crematory is in the way of the new one in more than one way. Yours vein truly, DR. J. T. FLOYD ■- 324-5 Candler Building. p. struck on the breast by no less 1 personage than he himself, whii the defy is thrown down, begads. that the old cremators', worth S3O. 000, must be razed TO THE GROUND, SIR, 'Tis true, City Attorney Maysm says, the contract is legal. ’Ti true, Engineer Benjamin says, ther is room enough on the city’s prop erty to build the new while the ol is retained for necessary garbage i destruction. ’Tis reported that tin proposed plant will cost Atlanta SIOO,OOO more than a similar plant cost Milwaukee. ’Tis alleged that this contract is so excessive in profit that the Destructor Compaim has offered $30,000 to have it financed. These things are of small • cent—for Judge Candler is insist ent that the contract is a leg. one—and that Attorney Mayso: and Engineer Benjamin need t look again. But Judge Candler has spoken and before his potential ipse dixit the honor view of all other mem bers of council must yield. And the health of Atlanta, in » fever-laden summer, that is sum to follow this reckless, unbusiness like plan of doing without protec tion until a protectorate is built, i to pay the rueful cost—and on the od eaptandum argument of Judg Candler, which, whatever his wish, will not please, I opine, people "Im t’tink and discriminate. Which is the more important - Judge Candler’s legal view or 'he health of the people? BENJAMIN M. BLACKBURN. Atlanta, Ga.