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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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To Diose That Work in the
Stores at Christmas Time
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It Is a Hard Seasen. But It Is Also the Season When the Man or
Woman Destined to Get Ahead Proves His Ability.
The otlnr day we advised ('hrislnias shoppers to do their
shopping early, to remember the tired ehrk.s, to be patient ami
considerate.
Shopping early in the day when the stores are not crowded,
when th, air is good, and when the clerks are not tired, will help
YOU and make your shopping far easier.
I’nder 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 last
minute. Work enough for ten days must (d'ten be done in one.
The hours are long, buyers are often insolent and 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 I Ik 1 stores.
Bid here is something for the ambitious young man or wo
man to remember THIS IS YOI R ('I IA \( ETO PROVE WHAT
IS IX YOI'. AXI) TO GET OUT OF 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-beater.
But in the stress of the race, arid especially in the last few
laps, we know which is the REAL racehorse, which is really the
high power car. and which is the man or woman or girl or boy
fitted to win in .1 Im race of life.
Not only for your employer's sake, but for your own sake
.specially. AND TO FIND OUT.H'ST WHAT THERE IS IN
YOI . 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 vep 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 IN MY
WAY. I am going to prove that I have the stamina, the pa
tience AND THE DETERMINATION that outside influences can
not shake.”
If the rush of business does not make you lose your head;
if the crowd about you does not fluster you; if'the foolish im
pertinence of customers does not make you lose your balance and
answer with impertinence 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 DEVELOPED HIMSELF. He was past forty when his
chance came, and he 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 sucee’ss in busi
ness ANYWHERE. That man succeeds who knows how to deal
with people ol 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 slowly at the end of the day.
REMEMBER that the onlv thing von own IS YOUR OWN
MIND AND BODY, AND OUT OF THEM YOUR Sl'Ct ESS
MI ST COME.
Remember, also, that your work, whatever it is. is the MEN
TAL GYMNASH'M 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
he dreaded. But the man or woman who will can look back to
this season ol the year as the time when success was established.
Good luck to all that TRY.
‘‘Brdther! Brother of AI ine, Answer ?
Me Phen, Have I Paid?”
By LILLIAN LAUFERTY.
\"I THEN yesterday you passed me on the street nty very soul went ;
yrV leaping to your hand; <
i thought. ‘God bless the chance that makes us meet;" but now, J
my brother, now—l understand. <
S Tin 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; jet now he walks in quiet, well 1
trained ways. >
And you—l think you stand to him as God—a kindly God who taught j
him to be kind.
Perhaps I needed but th. chastening rod. Well, yesterday we passed. i
Ate j ou—oh, brother mini -w.- met .gain at last; 5
j Brother! brother of mine, whj were your eyes so blind" 5
< Long j ears ago We loved in childish ways the silver starlight and the mel- )
low moon. <
( Ihe sun agleam through our ut shadowed days; December magic and the '
lure of June.
) We tasted then of living; it was wim whose golden bubbles frolicked in ;
my brain !
5 TUI I went mad. The frenzy seemed divine. Today the score stands S
> matked in figures plain: 1
; lor nil th. tasted fruit of stolen sweet, wh.-re hungry lip- and thieving S
hands were laid—
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Getting Together
IN the year 1899 there was or
ganized at Austin, Texas, a
society knowns as “The Jo
vians.” It was simply a local or
ganization of men who were en
gaged in the business of harnessing
electricity.
The particular excuse for found
ing the society was to entertain a
convention of manufacturers and
jobbers that was to meet in Austin
The charter membership was 44
These men it ere mo e or less in
competition with one another, but
they said: "For the time we will
sink our prejudices and tears of
one another and get together and
take care of the visitors.”
They Got Together.
And so when the men got to
gether and looked into one an
other's faces, and laughed and
joked, the.v really liked one an
other ft st rale, and they discovered
that, although men may be in com
pt tition with one another, yet if
they are working in the same line
of business, there is something
which they have in common that
makes for respect and confidence.
Especially is it true that after you
have played with a man you can
not go away and lie about him nor
defame him.
And, lo! there were other Jovian
so<. ties founded ill the immediate
vicinity. Wherever there was a
central power plant it was suggest
ed that there should be an associa
tion ot tiie Jovian- And so the
idea Ims gtauuallj' spread until the
Jovians now number in the United
States over 8,000 members.
Any matt engaged in the bust
ii'ss of generating eleetrielty, sell
ing the current, contracting, eon-
MONDAY. DECEMBER 23. 1912.
By EhßEirr HEBBARD.
Copyright 1912 by International News ServL-e.
stiucting.' or dealing in electric
supplies, is eligible.
The motto of the Jovians is. "Al!
together, all the time, for every
thing electrical.”
The order of Jovians is .purely
social, but there is no doubt that
every member is inspired to a little
better work and in a little bigger
and mot e generous way than ever
before. He gets rid of his whims,
his prejudices, his fears and itis
doubts.
Good fellowship is an asset; also,
it is an education. The Jovians are
essentkill.v democratic.
The boys who string wires are
eligible. Also all central station
men, employees of street railways,
heads of departments, otlhe. sales,
factory so ces and members of job
bing concerns. Also most telephone
interests march proudly under the
Jovian banners.
:: Quiet Street ::
By KATHLEEN D. CLOSE.
\ S >'ou wandered through the city, did you come to Quiet Street.
XX fne where all is peaceful, and where storms no longer beat?
Each house there has a window looking backward through the years
But those w ho view the distant scene are past the time of tears.
They have borne the toil and trouble of the noonday stress and heat,
And now their work is over—they have come to Quiet Street.
If ever, in the gloaming, you should come to Quiet Street,
You will catch a strain of music that is faint and far and sweet,
And the people pause and wonder in their passing to and fro
For they think they hoar a melody that sounded long ago.
They could not stay to listen in the days when Life was fleet,
But time js very tender to the folk in Quiet Street.
If in summertime or winter you should come to Quiet Street,
In the sunlight or the shadow, there’s a lady you may meet.
They say her name is Memory; I know her gentle face
Is lovely with the sweetness of a long departed grace.
You will not often find her, for she walks with noiseless feet,
But 1 think she knows the secret of each heart in Quiet Street.
*• Thomas A. Edison, George West
inghouse. A. Coffin. Dr. Stein
metz. Samuel Instil. Elihu Thomson
and other human motors of high
voltage belong to the Jovians.
Just Getting Acquainted.
The id: a of ole. tricity binding
the world together lit a body ot
btotlierhi'od is something we did
not look fora few years ago. Elec
tricity occupies the twilight zone
between the world of spirit and the
world of matter. Electricians are
all proud of their business. They
should be. God is tliF GVeat Elec
trician.
Men are surel.v getting acquaint
ed and getting togethe; as never
before in history. All together, all
t'.ie time, not only fpr everything
electrical, but everything human—
why not?
I am a Jovian.
THE HOME PAPER
DOROTHY DIX
Writes on
Women’s
Desire to Vote
Ts
Their Mental Superior
ity,or Deficiency, Ca
Only Be Shown b;
Allowing Them th
Opportunity to Sat
isfy Their Own Curi
osity.
A SCIENTIST has been labori-
XjL 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 map, 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
irtg.
The first man who was curious to
know what lay beyond his imme
diate neighborhood blazed the trail
that has led other men to the north
pole.
If Newton had not been curious,
lie would never have discovered the
law of gravitation. If Jenner had
not been curious, he would not have
found out about the circulation of
tiie 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 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 all insatiably
curious men.
And let It not be forgotten that
the first of all these 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
things 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
secret"
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By 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 b-> ac
counted unto Its possessor* as a
virtue, and not a fault.
This Quality Needed.
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 nq 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 nusy
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 th'' rea
son the machine politicians are the
most determined opponents es
woman suffrage. They are like the
janitor of the school who, when he
was asked how he liked the woman
«Jto had been elected to the school
board, replied: “Aw, away wld 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 wei ■ put
up to represent decent people. Nor
would it be inimical to the welfare
<>f 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.
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Curiosity and Politics.
It would be a good thing to have
somebody curious as to where the
money goes that is approp’iated for
certain public improvements, and
why it costs the city or th, gov
ernment so much more to have a
job done than it does an individual.
It would be a good thing to have
somebody curious about why seme
laws are enforced and others i:v
not, and how men hclding sma f
flees with small pay are enabh I to
accumulate large fortunes and live
like princes.
Oh, there are a lot of things t' it
it wouldn’t hurt us to b- curl is
about, and if women bring this
quality into politics they will li
long felt want. T'tere’ll hav- te ae
some better reason adv.ir.
against giving woman the vote
than her desire to know things.