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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 postoftice at Atlanta, under act of March J. IS7». Subscription Tlice—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mall, Jo 00 a year. Payable In advance. Another Big Ship Trust- Competition. »V * Then, the Two Trusts Become One Trust. No Competition, But Higher Prices. The Public Pays the Competition Bill—A Better Plan Suggested. Sir Owen Phillips, of England, has started a new ship trust -to make extra money out of the boats that carry passengers between Europe and America. and to compete with .1. I’. Morgan s American Ship Trust. Sir Phillips starts modestly, with $113,.300.000 of capital, tor a fleel of 416 ships. Mr. Morgan, head and boss of the Ship Trust in America, knows more than poor Sir Owen about finance. Mr Morgan's trust has $120,000,000 capital and only 126 ships -—57,000,000 more capital, and about three hundred fewer ships than the Englishman. Now. we shall have for a little while some competition between the two trusts. The f'nnard and other great lines will be in the new English trust, and Mr. Morgan's trust will continue the fight with the com panics that he controls. Perhaps for a while you will see prices reduced, almost to the prices that prevailed before any trusts existed. Each of the big combinations will try to get the business. One will cut prices on freight, one on express matter, and both, perhaps, on passengers. The public will be happy, and say. ‘-‘What a fine thing big organizations WITH COMPETITION are." Then will come the usual end. Mr. Morgan will say to Sir Owen when the latter begins to get tired of competition, "What is the use of throwing your money away? Von are simply making things cheap for the public., and it is a bad thing for the owners." Sir Owen will hem and haw and say how much his lines are worth, and how much they earn, or will earn, and how much he ought Io get for them. Air. Morgan. with a generous wave of the hand, will say : " Your price is too reasonable, and your estimate is too low. I 'll take all you’ve got, take particular care of you and your friends, and I will give you $20,000,000 m*re than you ask." Sir Owen', simple Englishman, will say: "Dear met dear me, how can you do that ? How can you expect to make a profit ?" Mr. Morgan will explain it very simply by saying: "If one hundred passengers at, let us say SIOO each, pay SI,OOO profit, then, one hundred passengers at sllO each will pay $2,000 profit. "And when the two Trusts become one Trust, and when we make this very wise and beautiful deal, that which is now sold for SIOO will be sold for sllo—-and more later on—and the profit which is now SI,OOO will suddenly become $2,000.” And Sir Owen will understand, and the deal will be accom plished and the two big Ship Trusts will melt into one, as you occa sionally see two clouds melt together in the skies, making one big > cloud. After that lhe people will pay more. Nothing will be DONE about this when it happens, because it . is not the custom to DO anything about combinations of that sort. There will be TALK about it, of course. And after the organi zation has been completed, and the properties are firmly in the hands of one management, there may be a "dissolution.” after which the prices will probably be higher, to make up for the "extra cost of management," and the property will be just as valuable, and noth ing be gained. How would it bo if the government of the United States, which spends hundreds of millions each year for a navy, should decide under the direction of a wise man, like Morgan or Rockefeller TO MAKE THE NAVY PROFITABLE? Rockefeller and Morgan must both be rather tired of making money by this time. Taking tens of millions from the American people must be a rather slow, dull game—about as exciting as tak ing a stick of candy from a sick baby. 3 hose two men, able, with power and imagination, would prob ably gladly undertake to make the American navy bigger than any five navies in the world, AND AT THE SAME TIME ITT IT ON A PAYING BASTS. They would do it. Suppose we had outlines, owned by the United States navy, running in Europe, manned by American sailors, thoroughly trained, well paid, working eight hours a day for fair wages when at sea, and getting extra pay for a few hours’ drill each week—is all that any fighting sailor needs, and more. Suppose these great government-owned ships left their guns and their armor on shore in time of peace—which they might easily do. And suppose, at high speed crossing from America to Europe, they carried freight and passengers, at reasonable rates, paying the government two or three per cent on the investment—the price at which the government can borrow money—and saving the govern merit the present terrific loss on the navy. Instead of the government having twenty or fifty big battle ships. it could have a thousand, practically as good, once their guns and their movable armor were taken aboard. These great ships could carry all the passengers and all the exgiit. reduce the cost of ocean tonnage, help industry mid com merer AND MAKE THIS NATION ABSOLUTELY SAFE * AGAINST WAR Such a navy, with great fleets on the Pacific and on the Atlan tic. covering the waters of lhe earth'in all directions, read> at a moment s notice to he changed to fighting vessels, owned bv the government, manned by government officers and sailors, honestly run and efficiently run. as is the work at Panama, would make this country absolutely free even from the suggestion of war—and, at the same time, enable us to have five, or ten, or fifty times the great est navy in the world—without spending a dollar, in the way of dead loss. but. on the contrary, making money. ■What a pity such a man as Mr. Rockefeller, or Mr. Morgan, could nol see this picture distinctly. Having all the money they need, and having all the political influence necessary, they might make an experiment that would show a great profit and advantage to this nation, in place of repeating the same old well-known games for adding a few millions to the millions that are already too many. Our army and navy would PAY. The army building roads mid k ••minis, draining swamps, irrigating dry land. The na\y carrying ngers ami freight. The Atlanta Georgian Women’s Work in the Balkan War if O' / ft J \ * uum JffliM ■ r* jtfllfflw W|l 1 ? wiSI J SSUBBKa tM 1 IFJP if wflU .•FjSk. " ■ •' ■ Top picture at left —Nuns of the Capuchin order at Mahaffa, who are nursing some of the wounded Turks. Top picture at right—A Servian mother at the bedside of her wounded son in the hospital at Vranja, Servia. Oval picture—Princess Helene, wife of Prince Nicholas of Greece, as director of the special train for Greek soldiers at Larissa; she is talking to a wounded Greek soldier. Lower picture at right—Madame Ellka Tumberaski. a rich Servian woman, who is devoting her wealth and energy to hospital organization. How People Can Have Pure Food AS a. Reneral thing, I care lit tle for Thomas Carlyle’s writ ings, but he was a great man, and often he hit the nail on the head with magnificent precision and force. In reading Dr. Wiley’s ex posure of "glucose, the champion adulterant,” in GOOD HOUSE KEEPING for December. I vividly recall some burning sentences in a letter of Carlyle’s written more than forty years ago, hut sounding like the cry of an honest soul tor mented by the frauds of the present day. "What a contrast," exclaims Car lyle,‘"between now and, say, only a hundred years ago! At that latter date, or still more conspicuously for ages before that, all England awolfe to Its work with an invoca tion to the Eternal Maker to bless them in their day’s labor, and help them to do it w<sl Now all Eng land—shopkeepers, workmen, all manher of competing laborers— awaken as If with an unspoken but heartfelt prayer to Beelzebub, 'Oh, help us, thcrti great lord of shoddy, adulteration and malfeasance, to do our work with a maximum of slim ness, swiftness, profit and men dacity. for the devil's sake. Amen!’ ” What Would Carlyle Say? What would Carlyle say if he lived In our time and read Dr. Wi ley's monthly contribution to the living history of adulteration? I am sure it Is not a pleasure to Dr. Wiley to write these things, any more than It is, In the ordinary sense, a pleasure for anybody to read them, and yet one is both pleased and amused by the expos ures; pleased, as every honest per son must be, to see fraud uncov ered, and amused at the exhibition of guileless innocence, not only on the part of the public, but that of public officials in permitting their oyl's to be blinded by transparent deceptions. But the thing has become too se rious to be laughed at. When many of the staples of life have been so falsified by adulteration and sub stitution that it C almost impossi ble to procure them tn a pure state, and when the stuff offered in their place is backed up by misrepresen tation. overt or concealed, lying ami misleading labels, it is time to do something very decided about it. The people themselves arc partly to blame fol' the situation. When the laws that they have made for their protection are “queered" by manufacturers of substitutes and adulterants, the remedy lies in up holding the hands of honest officers who, as Dr. Wiley did until he was forced out. try to enforce the laws in their true spirit. But back of this lies the need of education Every head of a family owes it to himself and to those dependent upon him to learn the facts. There is no better way to do this than to ii ad Dr. Wilej s artii les. You can protect yourself by avoiding the us, of prepared food stuffs When vuu want honey you want what tie b 1( ha.- made in a THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1912. By GARRETT P. SERVISS. •• laboratory that honest science will tell you it can not imitate. Bees, the genuine bees of the fields, are still at work, and you can get the product of their honest labor if you take pains to find it, although, as Dr. Wiley says, "the bee growers of the country came near being ruined by the cutthroat competition of adulterated honeys, glucose play ing the star role." When you use syrup you want the concentrated juice of the maple, or some other sugar-producing plant; you do not want a manufac tured conglomeration which in some cases is not what it pretends to be, even when it adopts an ap parently outspoken name, and which is pushed upon the market because it is cheap to make and af fords enormous profits. When you give your children can dy you want it to be made of gen uine sugar, flavored with natural extracts; but, says Dr. Wiley, “the little child who buys a penny's worth i>f~c&ndy is not told that it I'he Father of Waters IT was November 20, 1541, that DeSoto discovered the Missis sippi. It was the first time, so far as we know, that the great riv er was ever seen by a white man. The savage had often gazed with half-intelligent eye upon the mighty flood rolling from Itasca to the sea, and the wild beasts had long been familiar with the reflection of their images upon its waters, as they would come down to the shores to drink, but not until the great Span iard looked upon it did it the object of the intelligence that was worthy of the grandeur. It may be said in passing that while DeSoto’s followers found the mouth of the great river in 1543. its source remained a mystery until 1884. when it was discovered by Captain Glazier and Julius Cham bers. In other words, more than three and a half centuries inter vened between the discovery of its outlet into the Gulf of Mexico and the finding of ils rise, nearly 3.000 miles northward, in the uplands of Minnesota. There is but one Mississippi. There are other rivers as long and as large—the Nile, the Amazon, the Congo—but w e can say of our “Fa ther of Waters" what can not be said of any other river of its size, that it is all our own. Not a drop of its waters belongs to any other people. From the spot where it starts up out of the earth to the spot where It mingles Its floods with the brine, it is purely and simply American. For 3,000 miles it flows through one country—the United States of America. No foreign soil mingles with its current From start to finish it is American. It is said that Just before the outbreak of the Civil war a great Southern statesman exclaimed, sorrowfully, in a company of broth er -eces-'ionists: "Gentlemen, we are going to tight, and we ought to contains glucose, an insipid sub stance with just enough sugar in it to make it taste a bit sweet, and plenty of dyestuffs to make it look yellow, pink or green.” Learn a Little Chemistry. If you wish a crushing reply to those who would persuade you that some of these manufactured stuffs are even better for you to eat than the genuine products that they are driving out of the market, then read these same exposures and learn a little chemistry. And, finally, if you would know how politics plays a part in this war of greed, read the result of an appeal to the president of the United States in a battle for pure food! But polities, dear people, is your own field. YOU make presi dents and other officials, and you can control them IF YOU WILL. We could have only pure foods and pure drugs in this country tomor row if the united people WILLED IT SO! By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. fight, but wet are going to get licked. The Mississippi flows in the wrong direction. If it ran east and west we’d win, but it happens to run north and south, and our cake is all dough.” Mr. Lincoln appears to have had a somewhat similar view of the great stream, and of its paramount importance as a national factor, for was it not soon after the fall of Vicksburg that the president said: “Now the Father of Waters flows unvexed to the sea,” as though the great man had the feeling that such was the natural situation. Students of history do not need to. be told of the influence that ge ogiaphy has had upon events. Mountains and rivers, especially, have always had a great Meal to do with the making of history. All through our colonial days and throughout the earlier years of our national life the Mississippi was the great overshadowing issue between our statesmen and those of France. Spain and Great Britain, and the biggest thing that was ever done by an American was when the Father of Democracy, Thomas Jef ferson. settled the Mississippi ques tion at once and forever by the Louisiana Purchase. If there was ever a, long-headed man on earth it was Jefferson, and because he was long-headed he realized that our country could never work out Its great destiny with the Mississippi belonging In part to foreign nations. The Southerner of the days of ’6O was pa’t right and part wrong the Mississippi did flow in the "wrong direction for the would-be dismem berers of the nation, but it flowed In just the right direction for those who would keep the nation united, to become, eventually, the might iest of world power- and the great - . -t of for, . -for the intellectual and moral uplift of humanity. THE HOME PVPER DOROTHY DIX Writes on* f What Girls Should Be Taught '* 1 Every One of Them * - Should Be Trained So y/' . That They Can Earn ' an Honest Living. 1V Knowledge of Cook- / in g , Dressmaking and Millinery Vai- ) uab 1 e to Any J Woman. I HAVE said in this paper over and over again, and I shall say it a million times more, because it is a matter that can not be impressed too deeply upon the minds of girls and their parents, that every girl in the world should be taught some way by which she can make an honest living, if it becomes necessary for her to earn her bread and butter. It doesn’t do for people to con sole themselves with the thought that a girl is sure to marry, be cause there aren't enough hus bands nowadays to go around, and every year sees a decrease in the number of men who are willing, or financially able to support a family, putting their necks in the matri monial halter. Forced to Turn Breadwinner. And even if a girl does marry, that doesn’t guarantee her cakes and ale, and pretty clothes for the balance of her life. Husbands die and leave their wives without a penny, and with a houseful of chil dren to support. Men become in valids and their wives have to take care of them instead of being taken care of by them. Husbands are often mere drunken loafers, or no account, spineless creatures who were born too tired to work, and it is a case of hustle or starve with their wives. When a woman is forced by cir cumstances to become the bread winner of a family, the tragedy of it is because she has not been pre pared for the emergency. She knows nothing to do by which she can turn a penny. If she had some trade or profession that she could fall back on in time of need, It would rob the situation of its hor rors. She would simply vet back • her old job, and live happily ever after, instead of having to go. through the torments of anxiety and striving and dependence while she begs her friends to find her something to do. and has herself to learn how to do it. This being the case, It Is nothing less than criminal for parents not to have their girls taught some oc cupation that will fit them to sup port themselves. This applies to the rich and well-to-do as well as the poor, but the practical difficulty in the way of doing this is that It is hard to get a girl to take up seriously the study of a business or a trade that she doesn’t intend to follow at the time, and the fact that most girls of the well-to-do class do marry. Expert Cook Invaluable. To my mind, the problem of teaching a girl a good trade and something that she will have use for every day of her life, whether she marries or not. and yet by which she can support herself if she ever needs to, is furnished by the courses in domestic science that are being taught to a limited de gree in the public schools, and as a profession in the colleges. Here a girl may be taught to be an expert cook. Not a three dollar or flve-dollar-a-week, igno rant, bungling slinger of pots and pans, but a chef, an artist, who can ask and get the salary of a bank president. The giil who has mastered the silence of cookery has fittey her self to become a wife who Is a jewel above price. She knoits how By DOROTH Y DIX. to preserve her husband's stom ach, and thereby render him as mild as a suckling lamb, instead of mak ing him as cross and grump as a sore-headed bear with dyspepsia She knows how to save the family pocketbook by judicious marketing, and how to conserve the health of her children by giving them the proper food. To the making of a happy home a woman can bring no more valua ble aid than the know ledge of how to cook, and if she is ever thrown upon her own resources she has got at hes fingers' ends the best trade in the world for a woman to follow if she has a family to support. In any city or town she can open a boarding house, and not only make a living, but a fortune, if she knows how to ‘keep It right. The hotel business of the world ought to be in women’s hands, and the only reason it* isn't is because they have never prepared themselves to follow it. • But if a girl does not care to spe cialize on cooking, let her take up dressmaking or millinery, and mas ter the art of one or the other or both of them. Whether she mar ries or not, she will always have to have clothes, and her ability to have beautiful ones depends on her knowledge along this lino. Make Own Gowns, Save Money. \\ hat makes a woman’s hats and gowns cost is not the material. It’s the making. A clever woman can pick up bargains here and there In lace and silk and velvet, and if she knows how to put them together herself she can have toilets for a few dollars that would have cost her hundreds if she had bought them of a fashionable shop. The result is that whether a poor woman looks like a perambulating rag-bag or fashion plate depends altogether on her skill with the needle. Certainly the dressmakers that we go to. and who charge us outrageous prices for our gowns, or the milliners who bankrupt us for a wisp of velvet and a few straggling chicken feathers that they call a “creation” have no more intelfl gence than the balance of us. They simply know how to make a frock or a hat. and we don't, and we have to pay for our ignorance. There’s no occult secret about it that any clever woman can’t master. In being able to make her own gowns and hats a woman has an art that she can apply to her own pleasure and adornment, and the saving of her husband's money. If she needs, at any time, to make money, she has only to hang out her shingle as dressmaker or milli ner. and other women will do the rest. The poorest and the most in competent dressmaker makes a liv ing. The .good ones roll up fef tunes. There are no better pain po sitions for women in business than that of hat and dress designers, and it Is significant that the teach ers of domestic science get higher salaries than the teachers of Greek. Therefore, I urge all girls, when in doubt about what to study, to study cooking and dressmaking and millinery. T.he knowledge of how to do the practical things of life is what people are willing to pay for in a practical age. and what women need to kflov