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f 4 ( EDITORIAL RAGE The Atl LtEORGIAN THE: home rarer THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE OEOItOIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St . Atlanta, Gh Entered an second-cIjuih imitter at postofttoe at Atlanta, under act of Mar. h 3.1873 Subscription Price -Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week. By mall, IS.00 a year Payable 1n Advance. You Must Do Your Own Climbing The Steps Are High and Broad, and the Climb Is a Long One—to REAL SUCCESS. d-I-d-d* v v*I ’.-I *!-! • v*X*v v vv v -X-’-v*! X*d**X**XX~!~rXXn*vv-X~W*v*H"XH~H* DID YOU EVER KNOW IT TO FAIL?— ! x'''^.OMFOUMP AUToMOdU-fcSfL (They ought to aBouxep) BY LAW)y-— ' This is the country of success and we hear endless talk about it. This newspaper has discussed success often, yet it takes the subject up again to-day, for the young men among our readers, and the young women as well, are writing constantly for advice or for suggestions. Certain men whom we call successful, by which we mean that they have got MONEY, have succeeded " without the quality of industry. They are the gamblers, the Wall Street geniuses, or others who with tricks have got the better of their fellow men, BUT THEY ARE NOT SUCCESSFUL Men of the same stamp have succeeded, even without sobriety or honesty. But even such success as theirs demands certain qualities. They must have, for instance, at least temporarily, SELF-DE NIAL. They must know how to hold themselves back, husband their resources, keep themselves in hand until they shall have achieved the particular object or the particular sum which they have in mind. To tell a young man that he NEEDS certain qualities is Wasting his time and your own—except as you may direct his attention TO THE POSSIBILITY OF DEVELOPING IN HIM SELF the essentials of sucoess. The late Collis P. Huntington, asked to advise a young man, said: “Take ten thousand dollars and go into the business of raising rubber trees." The young man didn’t have ten thousand dollars. Mr. Huntington said: Well, go and get it before you come to me for advice.” The great railroad man s attitude is very much like that of • the ORDINARY adviser of the young. He says, Be honest, be industrious, be self-denying, be courageous, patient, sober”— i but he does not tell him how he CAN BE these things. To make a real success you must have, first of all, INDUS TRY—the faculty for hard work. That quality is greater than all others put togethei. AND YOU CAN CULTIVATE THAT QUALITY IN YOURSELF. Map out what you are going to do each day, AND DO IT. Never let yourself get into the habit of leaving a thing UNFIN ISHED. It is hard; for some it is almost impossible. But if you WILL IT, you can make yourself a hard worker eventually. You must do that—that is the FIRST step to the real success. SELF DENIAL is especially a matter of self-education. Instead of putting your mind on the question, “How can I amuse myself or dress myself?” say to yourself, 'WHAT CAN I DO WITHOUT?” Se'lf-deuial is not important simply because it saves your money—it is especially important because IT SAVES YOUR TIME AND YOUR VITALITY. Sobriety is, of course, a part of self denial. If you don’t smoke excessively or at all. if you don't drink excessively or at all—you save money and you save vital ity. If you don’t pay foolish attention to dress -only neatness and common sense are necessary to success—you save the time and the thought that many men put ou worthless worrying about their personal appearance. The most important in the line of self-denial perhaps is TO MAKE YOURSELF NOT WORRY ABOUT WHAT OTHERS THINK OF YOU. Try to earn the approval of those wno are worth while, and dismiss from your mind the opinion of the crowd that means nothing to you and can do nothing for you. More men waste time and energy and worry on the opinions of others than would make them successful if they could be indif ferent to public opinion. N ENTHUSIASM is one of the great factors in success. It is important especially BECAUSE IT HELPS A MAN TO GET A START. Unfortunately, enthusiasm is one of the qualities most diffi cult to cultivate. It is almost a part of a man's own self, like his dark hair or regular features, or wide shoulders. Yet even en thusiasm CAN be cultivated, and it should be cultivated. Begin by getting out of your mind the critical, complaining, dissatisfied feelings. That is like pulling the weeds out of a field. If you can get out of your own brain the foolish feeling of complaint, of mortified vanity, you will be clearing the field for enthusiasm to grow. Enthusiasm is largely a matter of vitality, health and strength. Get up in the morning after eight hours' good sleep, and you will be enthusiastic—ready to attack any proposition. Get up with five hours’ sleep and a night foolishly spent, and you will have no strength for enthusiasm. Cultivate your strength, save it, and train yourself to look enthusiastically and hopefully at the world, scorning its difficulties. Honesty has been talked of incessantly ever since the writing of the Ten Contmandments and long before. There are many false reputations, and not a few big fortunes, built ON DISHON ESTY. There are some men who might have been rich if they had beer, dishonest, but who are poor now But be sure that REAL success comes only to the honest man. to the man who thinks and works AND TREATS OTHER MEN HONESTLY. Whatever you do HAS GOT TO BE DQNE ABSOLUTELY BY THE EXERCISE OF YOUR OWN WILL POWER : IF YOU DECEIVE YOURSELF, BLAMING OTHERS INSTEAD OF YOURSELF. YOU WILL NEVER GET AHEAD YOU MUST BE YOUR OWN MOST SEVERE JUDGE. Remember that it is not sufficient to WISH for success or to ADMIRE the qualities that make success. You must develop those qualities and use them. There is one feature of real success about which we shall say little. That is UNSELFISHNESS It is the greatest, highest quality of all—although the usual talkers on success do not men I tion it. Unselfishness enters into our modern calculations bfi.t 1 little. Yet. any man who would be truly great in his achieve i ments must have for inspiration an unselfish desire to be of use i to other men. He may pile up millions, but he will not be one of the world's really great men unless guided by the conscious ness that a man s first duty and last duty is lo try to make others better off and happier for his having lived on the earth. j // // & & ,4m , fsSo'W V'-Th" -A 1 j? The "UMP 5IX" GREATt>T CAR om SELT STARTER, MAj4YVf> GA^Ob'taE, REPAIR.V WASHER £|| week %<goo WHEN You RE A PEDESTRIAN v 0URE 50RE ON AUTOMOBILES,- f How osUlTwYnTTAKg?! A IN up THE ROAp AMP} /x „T5>Y HfcR OUT J r (CONFOUWD PEPtSTR -iTueY ought to sse. kept ( get The PU3MO -\SYLAW // 311 -W HEM You GET A Ml AUT OMO0IUt, Rev. John E. White Writes on Interesting Sinners and Stale Saints ft “ft I he Problem of Religion Is to Sweeten the Saints and Save the Sinners He Says There Are No Godless Good or Godly Bad. WRITTEN FOR THE GEORGIAN By REV. DR. JOHN E. WHITE Pastor Second Baptise Church -Youre Sore on Ptjsts.triakis»\ DOROTHY DIX SAYS: Women Want to It Is Born in Reform Everybody Them By DOROTHY DIX. T HE other day a cult ured woman, of rather senti mental tendencies. asked me what I thought was the great est art In the world. "The art of letting other people alone,” l answered, and thru 1 said, "and It’s the least under- , stood.’* She stared and then smiled, as if she thought 1 intended to be funny, but 1 was never more deadly !n earnest in my life. I have suffered, you have suffered, the whole world has groaned under a martyrdom at the hands of those who would not let us alone, but who Insisted on regula ling our lives according to their own notions, and without the slightest regard for any pre judices we might have in the op posite direction. 1 am loath to confess it, but these well-meaning persecutors are generally women. Men are so busy trying to make both ends meet in their own business they have scant leisure to meddle in the affairs of their neighbors. A shoe merchant may do busi ness for twenty years next door to an insurance agent without at tempting to show him how to " rite out a policy, or to conduct his office. A woman, on the other hand, can never see anybody do anything differently from the way she does it without burning with a frantic desire to correct them and set them right. Born With Desire to Reform. If Mrs. A's children wear flan nel she can no more help worry ing over the B childen having on cotton than she can help breath ing Every woman in her heart believes that she is the only huma.i being who possesses the real secret of economy, the true religion, and an infallible gift for managing, and. being so perfectly convinced of the correctness of her point of view it seems to her actually criminal to let you alone and permit you to do your own way instead of hers. As a matter of fact, the passion for reforming thing's is inherent in tite sex. \Ye can't help it. We w t re born that way. Ir it« vio lent and insane form it makes deat, sweet, refined and angelic girls throw themselves away on disgusting, drunken brutes, w hom they marry, expecting to reform them and lift them out of the gut ter into respectability. woman escapes the fa-clna- >f the idea entirely, and the first thing a girl thinks of she gets engaged is what a ily delightful time she i* ng to have reforming her hus- )d just as soon as she gets him. netimes it's his politics, and gion that site means u* have i change, sometimes it's merely shape of his collar, or the cut his hair, but she's aiwavs bent would he nothing to change about him. Men seldom suffer from this peculiar mania. When a man first falls in love with a girl he thinks that everything about her long as we can, and thus them of tin great ssons experi ence teaches, and, finally when they will bear coddling and lead ing strings no longer, and they do make a break for liberty, we sit down and bemoan their lack of filial reverence and gratitude. Our theory of doing the best we can for our children is always to be doing something. We never think that the very highest best— if one may use the phrase—is to let them alone, and let them find out for themselves what they are and what they want to be. It is a piece of monstrous vanity, any way, to want one's children to be just like one’s self. Fatal Bar to Friendship. The art of letting alone never seems so admirable and so unat tainable as when we deplore its absence in our associates. Noth ing else is so fatal a barrier to friendship. It is not possible to b< on terms of any sort of in- timacy with one woman in a hun dred without her trying to more or less supervise your entire affairs. It isn't enough for a w oman to be satisfied with her own superlative dressmaker and infallible doctor. She is miserable until she foists ihem on every one of her friends, and then, when she fails out with "those paragons, she expects you to change with her. All sorts <>f ivasons haw been given for the scarcity of friendship between women. The real explanation is light here in a nutshell. It sounds like a joke, but it’s tlu* sober truth that a woman has to reach the very highest pinnacle of unselfishness and generosity before she is willing to let others do their own way, and be happy after their own taste, instead of lu rs. but how perfect and incom parable she is in every relation of lit'*' when she docs master the art of letting others alone! Day Dreams DOROTHY DIX. is absolutely perfect, and by the time he gets over it and gets a second view of her. he is too wise to undertake the job of improving her. He has found out that there Is nothing mutual in a woman's . idea of reform, and that she most emphatically objects to the proc ess being tried on her, and he lets h« r alone. Women seldom e arn tlmi. and so we are continually treated to tiie spectacle of wives who have an unsuccessful war against their husband’s smoking for twenty- years and who are still hammer ing away at the same reform, in stead of letting him smoke in peace. It is doubtful if tobacco is harmful. Certainly# it can't be as bad morally, physically or mentally as a perpetual argument on the subject. Only fancy what we should think of a man who was forever harping on the in jurious effects of chocolate creams, or nibbling between meals, or ice cream soda. Our own especial vices are the only ones that never need reforming. There isn’t much doubt that the great domestic problem is going to be solved when wo'men make up then minds it) let their Inis bands alone a little more -to take them as they are. faults and vir- By BYRON H. STAUFFER. m X orator won much ap- h\ plause by declaring that some p'-oplc have wish bones where their backbones ought to be. It may be true that the spinal column should not be supplanted, but the fact is that a stout backbone and a strong wishbone, each in its proper place, will go a long way toward mak ing a fine bird or a stalwart man. The beginning of success is wishing. Wishing begets dream ing. dreaming begets yearning, yearning begets effort, effort be gets success. Our wishes, some une lias said, are the foregleams of our capabilities. Wishing is net w rong. Our dreams are more or less vague prophecies of our possibilities. Fai th. be ing the substance of tiling- s hope d for, is the link that joins the dr ea m to its fulfillment. We need 1 faith in ourselves to start with. croaker con- st ant ly tall* :ing f *bo iut ill luck is predt ■st i nod to U iil. Old General Scott laid li iis de: lea t in 'the Pres- idem ial rac e to tht * ridicule cast upon hi? letter o f acceptance. whicl a a w k warrll y ' enough began by s aying: "Ge nil mien—I have just . arisen from a hasty bowl of soup to ans wer >■' 0U1 • letter." Wags at on c ? pro p'nesn ?d that he would fall l lack in ito th steaming bowl with a ypi lash. TI ie verdict of poste rity is that he was timid in dee’.a ring 1 li:; p oli* lies and too mode st in his r irol ests that his party could ly have found a r man. Let not ( oise dreams: But to that tired lad seated on Highgate Hill, resting after his flight from his master’s house: ‘‘Turn again. Whittington, thrice Herd Mayor of London.” They speak so plainly, the boy’ rises and trudges back to his task and lo the scolding cook. I like to read of Dick Whitting ton The story of his life as sures us that there is always hope for the poor youth whose day dream is coupled with dili gence and frugality. I do not like to have the story of his cat branded a legend. There is as much authority for it as for the average incident of biography. Sir Richard Whittington's name appears in the records of the city of London as its Lord Mayor for three different terms, covering the years 1397. 1406 and 1419. He was a creditor in large amounts to Henry the Fourth and his son. Henry th< Fifth. The invoices still in existence which show that he bought on the continent tiie u oding trousseaux of the Princess Blanche and the Prin cess Philippa. And the founda tion of the fortune of this Middle Age merchant prince seems to have been a cat and a day dream. ry>HE popular expression about I Interesting Pinners and Stale Saints’’ indicates a situation ^that ought to be looked into. It is a disquieting discrim ination with enough sting in it to justify an investigation. Reli gion stands or falls with the sort of life and character it creates and sustains. The Absolute reli gion may dispute Pragmatism as an unfriendly Philosophy, but' it can not avoid the pragmatic test, and its sovereignty as truth is finally demonstrated only as it produces the noblest and most at tractive human beings. “The War of Religions.” of which the Cambridge historians made so much, is in the last analysis a conflict of ideals. The true reli gion shall be able to present to the wor d a superior attraction .or it can not win and can not Hold men. ft? superiority must be con vincing in its character before it can be convincing in its creeds. Its success depends at last on Us ability to appeal powerfully to the highest admirations of hu manity. The tree is judged by Us fruits and .so is religion judged. If its fruit is full and beautiful and sweet, its appeal to men can not. be resisted. If its fruit is scant and ugly and sour they will pass it by, looking for a better tree. The question, then, of “Inter esting Sinners and Stale Saints” is a serious inquiry. Why is it that with nine out of ten people you meet the proverbial "Sinner” is more engaging than the pro verbial "Saint?” Why is it that a general sentiment should exist that sinners are juicy and saints insipid ? Look at the literature of the world. Our greatest books are about the wicked people, from Adam and Cain down to the Iliad and Shakespeare, and Hugo and Stevenson. It is notorious that ihe popular mind responds to the Jim Bludsoes. and Kipling’s Bar Room Heroes, and Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, and Trilby. When it happen.*; that the sin ners become saints, as in fhe rase of Jacob, David and Saul of Tar sus, or Augustine and Jean Val Jean and Jerry McAuiey, the in terest still lingers about the sin ner and his piquant quality aeems to come over as a sort of charm. Now literature assumes to be the true mirror of life. Godless Good and Godly Bad. The great authors are supposed to interpret the essential human ity and sound the universal note. There may be some reason for this apparent prejudice of litera ture that dresBes up its saints in somber drab and dull colors and portrays the gay sparks, the tough heroes so alluringly. Before we charge Literature^ with a bad bias and an inventive prejudice we must remember that its success as literature depends entirely upon the existence some where of the people who sat for the portraits. The saints would have a good quarrel with litera ture on this score if they them selves did not confess a leaning in precisely the same direction. There is a most famous in stance of one tvho was saintliest of all. but w r ho confessed a de cided preference.for the unreputa- ble and off-color folk—the Publi cans and the Sinners. The trouble with the popular judgment against the Saints is WANTING AND NEEDING irtu*- qi n. What modern cliibv.cn suff i r from Wo a: t so affair! that they w ! : bur: thomsu. Ivts mat we kt p ihvai padded up in cotton wool as precursors of Every elSlle must castle, and after- tone and mortar, heard Row Bells are they saying? The Garden of Dreams By E. T. SWEET. O GARDEN of dreams, where roses smile. Bathed in dew at the break of day! Where the weary spirit loves to while The halcyon hours away. I d linger with joy o'er the mo ments passed Where the bees on the blossoms sup- But some rock 1 must at the chickens cast That are digging my garden up. By WIGHTMAN F. MELTON of Emory College. Oxford. Ga. S OME years ago a white family was moving out of a base ment. on Linden Avenue Baltimore, near Richmond Mar ket. A one-mule wagon contained all the belongings, and there was no chair on the wagon. A passer by overheard this bit of conver sation between two negro women nexi door: "Didn’t they have a chair last year?” * "Why. no. woman, it was year- before-last that they had a chair! ” That family wanted what it needed, and it needed it whether it wanted it or not. \ savings bank offered a prize for the best advertisement of it^ business submitted. The prize winner began with this sentence: that it does not discriminate at the right place nor between the right example. For instance, an English periodical has been breaking a lance in behalf of "The Godless Good." The claim is that there are numbers of men without any relation to religion who are actually belter than many of the Orthodox. These are designated as "The Godless Good.” Only on one con dition is such a designation al lowable. There is no "Godless Good” in this world, but we will allow the phrase on this ven dition: We will call them “The Godless Good” to offset another 1 ineptitude of words which de scribes another class of men who may be known as "The Godly Bad.” The clear way out of the tangle is never to forget that Religion and life art inseparable and that a creed is va’ueless to any man until he realizes and illustrates it in his character an ' conduct. The unfairness of popun »■ compari sons between Saints an ' Sinners i lies in the selection of ti. best • Sinners on one hand and ’he worst Saints on the other. Everything worthily inter* st ing in the sinner belongs to the saint. There would be fewer people willing to be classed as sinners outside the pale of re ligion if there were more saints j inside the pale of religion to ex hibit the full panoply of beauty which belongs to all who have entered consciously into the abounding liveliness of genuine religion. t Brooks and George. The great movement in our time is not, as some suppose, against the Faith once for all delivered to the Saints, but against the saints who have not once for all delivered themselves over to the Faith. The importance of the fun damentals in theology was never so emphatic as in this day. when the world is so exacting of char acter and life. Doctrines must re joice in deeds and creeds become jubilant in conduct, for every vine must smile toward wine and every foundation must find its vindica tion in the palace erected thereon. It is the task of the church to sweeten its saints and save the sinners. A true saint Is a sinner saved by grace. It was said of Phillips Brooks: "He is a saint, but he is so hu man that you do not mind it.'* Christianity is out to produce that sort of saint. The point about Ben Aldhem was that though the angel told him that his name was not found among those that loved the Lard, he replied: "I pray thee, then, write me as one who loves his fellow men.’* Henry George, the great single T taxer, did not arrive at his reli gion by the conventional route, but he arrived. In his famous in terview with Cardinal Manning, it was discovered that the Church man and Theologian and Mr. George were spiritual brothers, since both affirmed their love for humanity. The Cardinal said: “Mr. George, 1 loved the Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, loved my fellow men.” Mr. George re plied to the prelate: ‘‘Cardinal, 1 loved m.v fellow men and, there fore, I loved the Lord Jesus Christ.” The great doctrines of religion will move toward en thronement in the popular heart when people are compelled to say: "Behold the interesting saints and the stale sinners.” "He who works for small wages and saves something every week is better off at the end of the year, than the man who works for a big salary and saves noth ing." The spendthrift is* usually the person who wants what he does not need. Humanity may be classified in the following ascending scale: 1. The ignorant, who do not want, but need; 2. The foolish, who do not need, but want; 3. The poor, who both want and need, need and want: 4. The comfortable, who do not want and do not need; The contented, the happiest people on earth, whose wants and needs coincide; they want oniv what they need, and they need only what they want.