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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 postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 3, 1871 Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week By mail, $5 00 a year Payable in advance. To Those That Work in the Stores at Christmas Time— r » r ' 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 b The Atlanta Georgian The Christmas Bundle By HAL COFFMAN. 11 “- ~ W ft ® _ Oi C ff Aya. SU? ; * C$ c T Ml & /.N WflOsg; —it > > u . zf —to K±r HL * (to VHFIE - - /UX- \ here's f ' > carpet yWV zj h \ 7 '"A £’ VJeePERL jA C f ' B,'' \ 1 P 1 " 00 Ww V ' lira ) / ’ n aKBSp —\ C / J ' -FA * 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 » 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. ' *w.- I 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.