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To Those That Work in the
Stores at Christmas Time—
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' It Is a Hard Season, But It Is Also the Season When the Man or
Woman Destined to Get Ahead Proves His Ability.
The other day we advised Christmas shoppers to do their
shopping early, to remember the tired clerks, to be patient and
considerate.
'Shopping early in the da.' when the stores are not crowded,
when the air is good, and when the clerks are not tired, will help
YOU and make your shopping far easier.
Under the best conditions, and with the best employers, the
season is hard and painful for all.
The public, thoughtless ami selfish, buys in crowds at the hist
minute. Work enough for ten "days must often be done in one.
The hours are long, buyers are often insolent ami unreasonable.
And many hard-working men and women feel that honest effort
is not appreciated
The Georgian sympathizes with those that bear the brunt of
this season—the workers in the stores.
But here is something for the ambitious young man or wo
man to remember THIS IS YOUR (HANCE TO PROVE WHAT
IS IN YOU, AND TO GET OUT OE THE RUT.
In dull, easy times almost any clerk is a good clerk.
Moving slowly along the road almost any horse looks like
a racehorse and any automobile like a world heater.
But in the stress of the race, ami especially in the last, few
laps, we know which is the REAL racehorse, which is really tin
high power car, and which is the man or woman or girl or boy
fitted to win in the race of life.
Not onlv for vour employer's sake, but for vour own sake
especially, AND TO FIND OUT JUST WHAT THERE.IS IN
YOU, make it your business to accomplish the best possible re
sults this year.
Anybody can be polite with a polite customer; anybody can
be patient when there is very little to do.
But the man or woman that will have future success is the
one that can say. “I am going through this hard work LN MY
WAY. I am going to prove that I have the stamina, the pa
tience AND I IIE DI, 1 ERMINA’I lO.N that outside iniluences can
not shake."
If the rush of business does not make yon lose your head;
if the crowd about you docs not tinster you; if the foolish im
pertinence of customers does not make you lose your balance and
answer with impi-rtim-tice just as foolish, although better justi
fied. you are one of those that can hope to win in the real
tight for success.
And please remember that success doesn’t always come early.
One of the richest men in this country today worked for years
in a department store always working faithfully, knowing that
he thus DEV ELOPED HIMSELE. He was past forty when his
chance came, ami lu took it. because intelligent work had made
him ready. He is richer now than the great firm that used to
employ him
The big store is the greatest business college in the world.
The man or woman that can not lay the foundation of business
success in a big department store can not learn success in busi
ness ANYWHERE. That man succeeds who knows how to deal
with people of all kinds, how to be patient with all kinds of
characters, how to keep his head in the rush these are exactly
the things that the big store teaches.
While you are doing extra work MAKE IT A RULE TO
GET EXTRA SLEEP—you can do it if you will. In a crowded
store the air is poor at best. Keep your window wide open at.
night; keep your head well covered up from the draft. Eat
slowly, and if you haven't time to eat as much as you want at.
noon SLOWLY, wait and eat slowlt at the emi of the day.
REMEMBER that the onh thing von own IS YOUR OWN
MIND AND BODY. AND OUT OF THEM YOUR SUCCESS
MUST COME.
Remember, also, that your work, whatever it is, is the MEN
TAL GYMNASIUM in which your mind develops its qualities.
If you do not do your very best you are cheating yourself
ten times more than you are cheating your employer.
For those that work so hard, Christmas time is a season to
be dreaded. But the man or woman who will can look back to
this season of the year as the time when success was established.
Good luck to all that TRY.
Civilization in Arkansas
It Is Bound to Get to the Legislature There Some Day.
In the "name of civilization." Governor Donaghev, of Ark n
sas. pardoned .'»t>o convicts to prevent them from being least <l.
This wholesale pardon was the last step in a bitter, tireless war
that the governor has carried on against this phase of barbarism
since his elect ion.
The governor failed in his fight to have the lease system abol
ished during his administration. The capitalists who have swelled
their fortunes by renting the convicts fought him at everv turn
ami vo <i their money beat him
Donaghey's term ends January 1 and his wholesale pardon
came as a final blow to tin* lease system. Today not a single con
vict in Arkansas is working for a cont raetor, ami not one w ill work
except on state ami county improvements, until the fighting gov
ernor goes out of office.
Despite the fact that he has hem beaten, Donaghey has set a
fine example for the man who suet ds him. Not once since he took
office has he wavered in his fight He has followed the lines of
civilization taken by most of the other Southern states ami sooner or
later the Arkansas law-makers will emerge from their medieval
shells and turn their backs on the well tilled hands of contractors
that have so successfully kept the stat.- from progress and decency.
War on the convict base system can never be lost entirely.
Because two or three legislatures refuse to abolish it. there is no
reason to give up the tight.
Civilization creeps in everywhere Even the legislature of
Arkansas > s not <-x.-mpt And when it does get there, Governor
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Working For the Boss
77/E TOUGH JOB : : : : : : By THOMAS TAPPER
famous African explorer.
I Henry M. Stanley (his name
was reallx John Rowlands)
knew what It meant to face a hard
.situation, to perform a difficult
piece of work. In fact, lie worked
on the Tough Job so much that he
began to think out the philosophy
of it.
Here is the way he sized it up:
"Tile bigger the work, the
greater the joy in doing it.
“That whole-hearted striving
and wrestling with difficulty,
tin- laying hold with firm grip
ami level head and calm reso
lution of lhe monster, and tug
ging. and totting, and wrestling
at it. today, tomorrow and
next, until it is done; it Is the
soldier’s creed of forward, ever
forward—lt is the man's faith
that for this task was lie born.
"Don't think of file morrow s
task, but what you have to do
today, and go at It.
"When it is over, rest tran
quilly, and sleep well.”
Good, cheerful philosophy, isn't
It? But what is it all about?
Well, it is something like this:
Work a Developer.
A good tough job gets a man
thinking. When a man thinks lie
is exercising tin- highest faculty he
possesses. And the more he exer
cises that faculty, the more of a
man he will be pretty soon
Now. when a man gets to be
more of a man. his future is is se
cure as can be. Thinking that is
developed by a big piece of work
soon leaches a man how to look
around. It is the men who do this
look around and sec things—who
succeed.
A certain cornel lot on Broad
wax had never been built on It
was surrounded by shops and
apartment houses, all full of plain
people and business men.
fine day a man came along who
was accustomed to look around and
see thing- as they are. He figured
out that an apartment house on
that particular corner would pay.
He knew in his own mind why it
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER is 1912.
" would pay, but he said nothing
about that.
On a small sum of money he took
over the property, and in the course
of a few months put up his apart
ment. When the building was ready
for tenants, another man came
along (also with the looking around
faculty) and bought it up. paying
the first man a clear profit of one
hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Language of Opportunity.
The druggist across the street
asks this question: How was it that
some of the business men in this
neighborhood did not see that
chance? The man that cleared the
profit had the foresight and the
courage to see the job through. He
was a German who could scarcely
speak English, but he could talk
the language of opportunity. Why
didn't some one of us see it?
“Brother! Brother of Mine, Answer
Me Then, Have I Paid?”
By LILLIAN LAUFERTY.
y A"! T>H'N yestei lay you passed m< on th< street my very soul went
IV V leaping to your hand;
1 thought. "God bless the chance that makes us meet;" but now,
! my brother, now—l understand.
? The well groomed dog that follows at your heel—l knew he snapped and
( bit, in youthful days;
> I know he dared to forage and to steal; yet now he walks in quiet, well
trained ways:
5 And you I think you stand to him as God—a kindly God who taught
> him to be kind.
' Perhaps I needed but the chastening rod. W ell, yesterday we passed;
' And you—oh. brother mine—we met again at last :
i Brother! brother of mine, why were your eyes so blind?
) Long years ago we loved in childish ways the silver starlight and the mel
low moon.
The sun agleam through our unshadowed days: December magic ami tlie
lure of June.
We tasted then of living; it was wine whose golden bubbles frolicked in
my brain
Till I went mad. The frenzy seemed divine. Today the score stands
marked In figures plain:
Eor all the tasted fruit of stolen sweet, where hungry lips and thieving
hands were laid—
I meet my brother on the city street —he looks an ay—he will not know I
passed;
Hisscorn—my brother's scorn—all through my life must last.
Brother! brother of mine, answer me then. Ha\. I paid?
• The answer to the druggist's
question is this:
Probably they did not see it be
cause they had had no experience
in the real estate value line.
But there is another answer
which deals with the German.
He had the courage to follow up
his belief in his judgment. That
comes always from exercising the
judgment in hard jobs and getting
on friendly terms with them. Os
laying hold of them and wrestling
with them until they are down and
you are sitting on top of the pile.
Any job that puts you face to
face with plenty of trouble Is worth
a fortune, because it is the expe
rience of doing tough jobs that
leads a man to fortune.
Abraham Lincoln looked at them
that way, and in no part of the
world is his birthday ever forgot
ten.
THE HOME PAPER
DOROTHY DIX
Writes on
Women’s
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Desire to Vote
Their Mental Superior
ity, or Deficiency, Can
Only Be Shown by
Allowing Them the
Opportunity to Sat
isfy Their Own Curi
osity.
A SCIENTIST has been labori
ously- explaining that woman
stands on a lower plane in
evolution than man does, and is,
therefore, physically and mentally
his inferior. He says that structu
rally' woman is closer akin to our
great-great-grandpapa, the baboon,
than man, and that she also betrays
her nearer relationship to the mon
key by possessing the superabun
dant curiosity that is characteris
tic of the simian tribe.
For these reasons he thinks that
orangoutangs and women should
not be permitted to vote.
Oh, I don’t know.
When a man wants to offer a
blighting criticism on femininity
he always makes a few scathing re
marks about curiosity, yet curiosity
is the beginning of wisdom, and
the hall mark of an active mind.
If it hadn’t been for the curiosity
to see what-would happen when you
put two and two together, we
should not now be enjoying the
sum of countless experiments that
make up civilization.
The First Man.
The first cave man who noticed
that when he rubbed two sticks
together the friction produced
warmth, and who had the curiosity
to keep on rubbing the sticks to
gether, gave us fire. The first wom
an who had the curiosity to see
what would happen when you put
raw meat on the fire gave us cook
ing.
The first man who was curious to
know what lay beyond his imme
diate neighborhood blazed the trail
that has ted other men to the north
pole.
If Newton had not been curious,
he would never have discovered the
law of gravitation. If Jenner had
not been would not have
found out about the circulation of
the blood. If Fulton hadn't been
curious, he would never have both
ered his head with the wild idea
that a steamboat could be made to
run up a river at a speed of four
miles an hour.
If Edison wasn't one of the most
curious men in the world, we might
not be able to sit at home and listen
to Caruso sing out of a little box
in the corner, or to speak to our
friends across the continnent over
a dinky little wire. All of those
doctors who spend their lives in
laboratories searching into the ped
igree of germs, and in grafting the
bones and the organs of dead peo
ple onto live ones, are ail insatiably
curious men.
And let it not be forgotten that
the first of all tiiese original re
searchers was a woman. It is our
first mother, and not our father,
who began the investigation of the
whyness and the wherefore of the
tilings about her, and it was this
quality that she bequeathed her
sons that has sent them out to dis
cover the uttermost parts of the
world, and wrest from nature her
secrets.
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Bv DOROTHY DIX.
•- Curiosity is the dividing line be
tween ignorance and knowledge
The people who have no curiosity
concerning the things about them,
but who accept everything without
comment or question, are Invariably
those of limited intelligence, and
who are heavy and loggy In mind.
Therefore, curiosity is to be ac
counted unto its possessors as a
virtue, and not a fault.
This Quality Needed.
I
The contention that women are
more curious than men is an alle
gation that can not be substan
tiated by fact, but if it were true It
would be no reflection on the femi
nine character, and certainly no bar
to their enfranchisement.
Indeed, there is no other quality
that is more needed in voters of the
present day than a large, robust cu
riosity in good working order.
The majority of men are too busy
and too much engrossed' In their
own business to have time to look
into public matters much, but
women have more leisure, and if
they spent part of It in prying into
public affairs many abuses that
now exist would be remedied
Perhaps the fear of woman’s cu
riosity in such matters is the rea
son the machine politicians are the
most determined opponents of
woman suffrage. They are like th°
janitor of the school who, when he
was asked how he liked the woman
who had been elected to the school
board, replied: "Aw, away wfd her'
She hadn't been on dat board a
week before she was snooping
around In the cellar and made me
clean It out, and me that had been
here fifteen years with never no
man on the school board even look
ing in at the door!"
Certainly It would do no harm If
somebody had the curiosity to look
into the records of candidates and
saw that only decent men were put
up to represent decent people. Nor
would It be inimical to the welfare
of the general public if a healthy
curiosity were directed to finding
out why the man who is elected on
one platform with a specific prom
ise to do certain things forgets his
obligation as soon as he gets into
office.
Curiosity and Politics.
It would be a good thing to have
somebody curious as to where the
money goes that is appropriated for
certain public improvements, ami
w)iy it costs the city or the gov
ernment so much more to have n
job done than it does an individua .
It would be a good thing to have
somebody curious about why sonit
laws are enforced and others are
not. and how men holding small of
fices with small pay are enabled to
accumulate large fortunes and live
like princes.
Oh, there are a lot of things th..'
it wouldn’t hurt us to be curious
about, and if women bring tins
quality into polities they will fill ■
long felt want. There’ll have to 1"
some better reason advanei d
..gainst giving woman the vote
than her desire to know things.