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TBK ATLANTA (lEOIHUAN AND NEWS.
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Dissatisfaction With Business
Conditions Exists, but There Is
Little Revolutionary Spirit.
By B. C. FORBES.
“If | thought the great body of the
American people were as bitter, as
hostile to business as many of our
legislators I would give up and re
tire,” said one of the country’s fore
most men of affairs, a man who has
built up an important industry, a di
rector in corporations of the first
magnitude and the possessor of a
large fortune.
* * •
* “Do you think the people are as
discontented and antagonistic to cap
ital as is often represented—as ugly
a6 Vice President Marshall says they
are?” I was asked.
* * •
What do YOU think? Are they?
Is It a case of empty vessels making
most noise? Or are the majority of
American citizens deeply disgusted
with the present order of things? Are
they on the verge of revolt, as the
Vice President alleges? Is widespread
revolutionary sentiment cooped up in
the average citizen’s breast? Is un
rest in the United States worse than
in other lands? Or is all our fretting
and fidgeting, our mania for reform
and regulation, our striving after in
novations merely part of a world
wide movement toward a fuller meas
ure of democracy?
* * •
These are questions not easy of
dogmatic answer. The Hearst publi
cations reach a greater number of
Americans than the publications of
any other concern in tne country, and
experience has taught me that they
somehow come nearer the heart-beats
of the people than any other publica
tions of which I have any knowledge.
The readers Have a flattering habit of 1
speaking their minds, of voicing ap
proval or disapproval of articles, of
taking the writers into their confi
dence, so to speak. In this way one
; ® able to feel the pulse of the people.
* * *
Hundreds—thousands—of letters ,
come to the business news department
—not only from the East, but from
the Middle West, the Far West and
the South, as what is here written is
printed in Hearst newspapers cover
ing virtually the whole Union. Judg
ing by this mass of correspondence
from men and women in all ranks of
life, there IS a good deal of discon
tent, of dissatisfaction with existing
conditions, of bitterness against cor
porations, of determination to compel
reforms in many directions.
* * *
But of revolutionary, anarchistic
sentiment there is extremely little
trace.
* * *
Speaking broadly, a great section of
the population have the conviction
that most ultra-rich capitalists have
done things they ought not to have
done, and by the doing of which they
have taken unfair advantage of the
people at large.
* * *
Let me give extracts from some
letters received within the last week
or two.
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C. H. Burnham, 131 State Street,
Boston, writes:
On the strength of the interview
given out by Jacob H. Schiff just be
fore Mr. Harriman died—declaring
Mr. Harriman was practically a well
man—I bought Union Pacific, as at
that time I believed Mr. Schiff, and
it cost me a good many hundred dol
lars.
What do you think when Major
Higginson comes out in an interview
and says there is nothing the matter
with the New Haven Railroad?
What is the answer, after reading '
what is going on before Commission- j
er Prouty?
* * *
From Cornina, N. Y., “A Rail-
reader on the Erie.” criticising my
articles on railroad subjects, writes:
Railroad managers and owners ar *
nothing more or less than straight un :
and down thieves, robbing the publH. !
They never tell how much they make.
Rut anybody who becomes a railroad
manager becomes a millionaire in a 1
few years. They find fault about giv
ing a few cents extra in wages to
their men. But such as President
Baer, the head of the coal trust, pays
$100,000 for a private car. When such
things as this are done it only makes
you appear ridiculous in the articles
you publish in favor of railroad rob
bers.
* * *
It is not my intention to-day to dis
cuss the reasonableness or unreason
ableness of hostility to corporations
and capitalists, but only to indicate
what the temper of a large section of
the public real! - is. The subject will
be worth considering again.
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NEWS ITEM—The Democratic majority of the Senate, in causes, has made a determined attack on the seductive influence
of golf and baseball. A promise was exacted from members that hereafter enough members will be present in the Senate to main
tain a quorum.
More than an hour was spent one day in a futile effort to get enough Senators to transact business at an executive session.
Strong Lead Will be Gained
Over Your Rivals by Enter
ing Competition Early.
Anyone can nominate a contestant
for the pony outfits which the Greor-
gian and American will give away as
prizes.
This has been exruained before, but
many people still ask. so it may he
well to state it again.
All that is neoeawiry Is to s*end in a
nomination blank. Parents, uncles,
aunts, friends, or even the contestant
may make the nomination, and the
result is the same—the name is listed,
and 1.000 votes are credited to the
name.
The call for books, used to make
a record of subscriptions and votes
and to furnish a receipt to the sub
scribers. shows that all are making
an early start. One employee of the
Georgian and American finds the dis
tribution of these books to callers
takes a good deal of his time.
So the contest is well under way.
The ponies, too, are here. The beet
ponies in the Tennessee bluegrass
section—twelve of them—have been
purchased by an expert delegated to
the task by the Georgian Rnd Ameri
can.
Early Start Counts.
Remember that an early start
counts for much. A big lead over your
friends and acquaintances before
they are approached by the other
boys and girls.
Wouldn’t you be disappointed to
have your best friend fay:
“Why, I’ve subscHbed to the Geor
gian and American for a year and
have given the subscription to George.
I would have been glad to help you,
but I didn’t know you were in the
race, and George asked me first."
Think what a disappointment that
would he.
The only way to avoid such dis
concerting replies is to he the early
bird yourself.
An early start, too. gives you ex
perience of a useful sort ahead of
the other contestants, and the result
will be that when you have become
an adept at securing subscriptions,
your rivals will be floundering around
for a start.
So. by all means, if you have not
entered the race for one of the
twelve pony outfits by now, send in
your nomination blank right away,
if you have entered, be sure to gel
tile necessary book at once, and get
bus> .
POLICEMAN DENIES
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Repairing of Dolls
Quite a Business.
“Dolls Repaired (Quickly and Cheap
ly.”
That sign prominently displayed at
a point on Peachtree Street, by which
thousands of people pass daily, is one
likely to attract the attention of little
folks—girls, of course—whose dollies
are in need of such necessaries as
eyes, hair, hands and feet.
“You’d be surprised.” said the old
gentleman who answers when anyone
makes inquiry concerning the sign,
“the number of dolls that we repair
every day. My whole family is en
gaged fn the business, ft is a queer
thing about child nature, but gir4*» —
the little ones, you know—become so
attached to their dolls that when thev
wear out the children are almost in
consolable. They like a new doll, of
course, but nothing can take the place
of the old one in their childish affec
tions: That’s where our business
comes in. We take the old doll, put
new feet and hands on it, insert an
eye if one la needed and, in fact, ilx
Miss Dollie up so that she looks like a
new one. But to its little mother’ it
Is still the same old Polly Hopkins,
or Busan or Mary,tis the case may be.
It really does my heart good to seeHhe
little folks when their mothers bring
them to inv place to get the rejuve
nated dollie. They eo into raptures
over the made-over toy, and their
outbursts are evidences of genuine
affection. ’Mother-love,’ I suppose y >u
newspaper fellows call it.”
Kirk Declares Statement That He
Made Raided House His
Headquarters Is False.
i Recent Reports Show Hundreds
| Suffer With Kidney Troubles
and Don’t Know It.
There are scores of nervous,
tired, run-down people throughout
the city suffering with pains in
the back and sides, dizzy spells,
weaknesses of the bladder (fre
quently causing annoyance at
night), who fail to realize the se
riousness of their troubles until such
conditions as chronic rheumatism,
bladder troubles, dropsy, diabetes
r even Bright’s disease result.
All this is due to weak, inactive
kidneys. The kidneys are the fll-
terers of the blood, and no one can
be well and healthy unless the kid
neys work properly. It is even
more important than that the bow
els move regularly.
If you sufTer with such symp
toms don’t neglect yourself anoth
er day and run the risk of serious
complications. Secure an original
package of the new discovery.
Croxone, which costs but a trifle,
and commence Its use ut once.
When you have taken a few doses,
you will be surprised how differ
ently you will feel.
Croxone cures the worst cases of
kidney, bladder trouble, and rheu
matism, because It removes the !
cause, rt cleans out the kidneys,
and makes them filter out all the
poisonous waste matter and uric
acid that lodge in the Joints and
muscles. causing rheumatism;
soothes and heals the bladder, and
quickly relieves you of all your
misery.
You will find Croxone different
from all other remedies. It mat
ters not how old you are or how
long you have suffered, it is so pre
pared that It is practically impos
sible to take it into the human sys
tem without results.
An original package of Crox
one costs but a trifle, and all drug
gists are authorized to return the
purchase price if it fails to give
the desired results the very first
time you use it.
How Window Dressers
Keep Track of Pins.
“I’ll bet.” said one of two men who
had paused before the display window
of a Whitehall Street department
store while the window dresser was at
work "that it was a woman who in
vented the thing that chap has fas
tened to his ieft arm.”
His attention having been called io
It. the other man took a squint at the
object. It was a pincushion about
three inches square fastened to a
wide elastic band—like a garter—-
which was passed around the arm just
above the elbow. The cushion v\,is
filled with all sorts of pins—small
ones and large ones; some plain and
some black.
As ho worked, arranging pieces .f
cloth here and there to give the d -
sired fold effect, the dresser had occa
sion to ubc countless pins. They were
always right at his hand.
“When 1 was a young man " re
marked one of the onlookers, "I used
to dress windows and l carried h
mouthful of pins all the time. The
danger of swallowing them, however,
was great, and I never cared mu h
for the job. This fellow has the prob
lem solved, but if he’s married, 1*11 bet
bis wife invented it. No mere man
would ever think of that pincushion
affair."
The Story of Two Boys
* And What They Have Done.
* “I was* reading In Tha Georgian tha
other day," said the doetor. “when my
attention was attracted by an article
concerning some bequests made, to
education by Mrs. G. P. Dodd. In
stantly I remembered two young fel
lows who used to live in Atlanta aud
with whom I attended the Boys’ High
School. They were Phil and Karl
Ackerman, sons of Mrs. Fannie Ack
erman, who was a sister of Mrs. Dod i,
and to whom Mrs. Dodd left a be
quest. The Ackerman boys lived with
their uncle on Whitehall Street be
tween Cooper and Windsor. Both were
real geniuses, and both were en
amored of the stage—not as actors,
mind you. but as managers and pro
ducers. In the basement of the Dodd
home they had fitted up a scenic stu
dio and there in 1891 they built the
scenery for ‘Xonia, or the Fairy
Queen,’ a spectacular play which they
presented at Concordia Hall, then on
Marietta Street.
“The cast was made up of local
young folks and the play was put on
In admirable style. There was no end
of trick scenery, all designed, built
and painted by the Ackerman boys.
Phil played the part of an Irishman,
Karl was a ‘demon’ and- the port of i
clown was played by Cliff Saul, broth
er of Milt Saul, who is publicity man
age.- for the Georgia Railway and
Pow er Company. Another member of
Policeman James Kirk, a member
of Chief Beavers “vice squad," Fri
day morning emphatically denied the
charges of improper conduct made
against him by Mrs. N. P. Powell,
Mrs. Lena Bernard and Mrs. John
Bryant, whom Kirk, with a squad of
police, arrested last week on a charge
of running a disorderly house at 95
Spring Street.
“The charges have no foundation."
he said. “1 went to Mrs. Powell and
her husband. and told them if they
didn’t get 'rid of the women they had
staying there 'and shut up their plade,
we would arrest them. P.oth the wom
an and Powell told me they would
make the women leave and quit run
ning the kind of a. house that Chief
Beavers has ordered out of the city.
We watched the place for several
nights, and saw from five to fifteen
men going in and out of the place
every night.
“When we saw that they continued
lo run the house we raided them.
There were four men there at the
time, but they escaped by jumping
out of the windows. The women have
been held to the Grand Jury.
“The statement that I made the
place my headquarters 1s a falsehood,
pure and simple. Mrs. Powell. rMs.
Bernard and Mrs. Bryant are known
to the police. They have been ar
rested numerous times.”
The hearing of the injunction
which Mrs. oPwell, through her at
torneys. Gober & aJokson, got from
Judge Bell to restrain the police from
evicting her, will be held Saturday
morning.
Buyer of Eggs Must
Declare Intentions
That Is, If He Wants to Complain !
at the Failure of Table
THE PLAY
THIS WEEK
FEATURE BILL AT FORSYTH. I
There will be Just four more per- i
formances of the Keith vaudeville acts',
that ;ire at the Forsyth this week. One |
of ihe four will be to-day’s matinee I
which is already heavily sold, another ;
will be the Saturday matinee for which
there Is a large sale and the remaining j
performances are Friday and Saturday
nights.
The headliner this week is (Jus Ktl-
wards’ Kiri Kabaret, one of the most
original ideas in mtHlern vaudeville. The |
act is crowded with all of the Ed
wards new song hits. Another feature :
Is pretty Belle Story, the entertainingl
vocalist. Miss Story possesses a remark- '
able voice. The comedy act of VVil- j
liams, Thompson and Copeland is a '
scream. The whole bill pleases.
For next week the headline act will J
be Paul Dickey, the star football player
of the Pniverslty of Michigan, who will ,
appear with a company of five people
who will offer “The Pome Back," a
story founded on college life. Another
star act will r>e the Apollo Trio, native
Kalians, who will pose as living bronze :
statues
SOCIETY NIGHT AT THE ATLANTA. !
Miss Billy Long and the members of
her company hav<< made a big hit this J
week in "The Girl From Out Yonder."
which is at the Atlanta To-night will .
be special Society Night in honor of j
Miss AgneH Tinsley Harrison and a
packed house is expected to greet the I
company A 2i> cent matinee will be [
played to-morrow and the present bill j
offered for the last time to-morrow I
night.
Next week the company will present, j
“Are You a Mason7" which Ih a roar
ing farce comedy. Owing to the dc- !
maml for matinee seats an extra matl- j
riee has been added for Monday after ,
noon and in the future three matinees
will be given each week. “Are You a !
Mason?" has a thousand laughs ami its I
presentation will serve to Introduce twoj
new members of the company to the i
public both highly experienced. Miss j
Harrison has an important role also.
the company was Henry Franklin,
now a staid Atlanta business man,
an officer of a big hardware concern
Artistlealy, ‘Xonia’ was a success. I
am not certain about its financial suc
cess.
“Soon after this Mrs Ackerman ani
her wins removed to New York, ani
the boys evidently kept in touch with
things theatrical, because ‘Bob’ Good
man. another Atlanta boy who has
risen to heights in stage affairs, to d
me not long ago that Phil and Karl
Ackerman are the owners of one of
the largest Secnlc studios in Brook
lyn.”
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