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vV Y ’ T **' - ( l i t in£ : atjua:v ia uaunijxiviv Arsu isr/wa. V\ INEVITABLE Incompetent Employers Doomed to Certain Failure—Working man’s Rights Paramount. By B. C. FORBES. "It can’t be done” it the favorite argument of many employers when urged to treat their employee more liberally in the way of wages or Hours or rest days or conditions of service. And they flatter themselves that their obiter dictum—their say- eo—settles it, leaves no room for argument, closes the case finally and Irrevocably. • • • Skinflint employers are going to learn a few things before the world I# vary much older. They are going to learn that few things “can’t be done” when the public makes up its mind that they ought to be done. Not many things that are right and just are impossible. • • • The eight-hour day, you remember, was socialistic, anarchistic and ab surd when first advocated. Nothing could be more impossible, all but a few far-seeing, broad-guaged, large- hearted, humane employers argued. Well, the eight-hour day was ushered in without any tremendous upheaval in the industries concerned. • • • “It can’t be done” was once the pet reply to please for the abolition of seven-day work in the stsel in dustry. To-day not five per cent of the United States Steel Corporation’s employes work seven days a week. • * • Sunday labor in certain industries used to be considered absolutely un avoidable. To-day it has been radi cally reduced, almost eliminated in most directions. OUR ANTEDILUVIAN ANCESTORS! lWi. latBrxMUooAl Nm Servlet. The railroad, at fint vowed that rebating .imply could not ba .topped To-day thay are infinitely grateful that the law stepped in and annihi lated it. • * • Political parties could not be held together, it was urged, without bosses. To-day th# bosses are being driven out to the advantage of all. • • • “Can’t” ia an overworked word. It Is too often the refuge of the unfit, the laty and the coward. Sometimes H expresses a fact; more often it is an unconvincing excuse. • # • What ie here written is for ths edi fication and exhortation of certain corporations and other large employ ers who glibly deciare that sorely- needod reforms for the benefit of their workers “can’t be done.” These em ployers are ready to admit that they would like to do certain things, that justice is on the side of the reforms and that they hope at some distant date conditions—especially among their competitors—will so change that It will be possible to mix a little more humanity with their money-making. • • • They would like to let their work ers off one day every week, or every month. But “it can’t be done.” see They would like to pay all their helpers a Hv»ng wage. But “it can’t be done.” 0 0 0 They would like to better working conditions.. But, again, “it can’t be dona.” • • • Gentlemen, it CAN be done. And It WILL be done. • • • Any man who can’t pay his work ers a living wage has no right to own a business. If he can not supply the brains necessary so to manage a con cern that it can pay decent wages, then stop him from being an employer and let him become an employe. If capital can not be handled <n one industry so as to afford reasonable wages, then let it seek other employ ment. Not only is it an economic sin to continue the use of capital in an unprofitable business, in one that does not pay for the things necessary for the sustenance of the workers en gaged in it, but it is a crime against humanity, a orime agamst society, a crime against the State, for if an em ploye receives less wages than is ab solutely needful to maintain life, then othere—-the butcher, the baker, the dry goods merchant, the landlord, •tc., etc.—have to make up the dif ference, sinoe men and women can not allow themselves to starve to death. The employer who persists in re plying “it can’t be done” to requests for reasonable treatment of workers writes himself down incompetent, un fit to enjoy the services of others. Cspital and labor are not sufficient to insure business success; MAN AGEMENT is the third and indis pensable requisite. And any employer who can not supply it intelligently enough to enable him to deal fairly and decently with workers has no claim to be allowed to remain an em ployer. That inexorable law which ^decrees the survival of the fittest larks such an one for destruction, as ft ought to be marked. • • • It may be necessary to be more specific in a subsequent articls. KVoosmvRwT wwfcV) .3 XU r w “Can you tell me why they are all staring at that young lady?” “Can I? Why, sure. That’s Miss Stonehatchet with her new slashed skirt! The whole town is up in the air about it!’ IB PROTESTS Declares Negligence of Civil Of ficials Is All That Wakes State Troops Necessary. Declaring that if the civil officers of the Slate could be made to do their duty, there would be no need of the military, Adjutant General Van Holt Nash, before the House Committee on Military Affairs Thursday after noon, protested against the passage of the* military bill offered by Rep resentative Slade, of Muscogee. The bill repeals the military act of 1912 and re-enacts the law of 1910. making the militia subservient to the civil authorities. “The militia is entitled to some consideration,” declared General Nash. “We offer our lives to the State with practically no remunera tion. and are sworn to uphold the honor of the State and Its laws. The only reason there is any need for the militia is because the civil officers do not do their duty. If you will make the civil authorities perform their work, there will be no necessity for calling out the militia. Says Praaent Laws Protect Them. "The present law’ should stand. It protects us from being overridden by the civil authorities, and prevents us from being made the scapegoats of incomi>etent civil officers.” Mr. Slade declared the present military law is unconstitutional be cause It means the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. He likened conditions that arose in Augusta last year, under military rule, to the Re construction period. when "blood flowed as freely as water ' Representative Gnnis. of Baldwin County, spoke against the bill. He declared if the State were under mil itary rule there would be fewer law breakers. Because of the absence of a quorum the committee did not take any ac tion on the bill. Mr Slade declared he has small hopes of the passage of his bill, but seeks to effect a com promise with the bill introduced in the Senate by Senator McGregor, which curtails the powers of the mil itary. It is probable that the committee will not report on the Slade bill until next week Dies Trying to Save Chicken From Storm NORTHFIELD. MASS., August 1.— 1 Richard Stratton. 11 years old, was killed instantly in an electrical storm to-day while attempting to release a chicken which was caught in a wire fence. Lilghtning struck the fence 100 yards distant from the boy and. fol lowing the wire, passed through his body. POWER STATION DOUBLED. COLUMBUS—The Columbus Pow. er Company has doubled the capacity of its substation in Newnan because of the growth of business in that town. The substation has been tablished about one year. Girl Fights Turks as Man; Weds In U. S. PITTSBURG. PA., August 1.—A ro mance that began in the Balkans re sulted In the marriage of Vida Radak and Barbara Coganlc, Bulgarians, In Farrell, Pa. When Radak was obliged to join the army and go to the front, Barbara dressed as a man and entered the fighting against Turkey. After many hardships, she found her lover and fought by his side. In a battle, she was slightly ground ed, her sex was discovered and she was sent back home. Later Radak left the army and came to this coun try* He sent for his sweetheart. Slade’s Interpretation of Consti tution's “Good Character” To Be Recommended to House. Puts Steam Shovel Above Court; Jailed PITTSBURG. August 1.—When Judge R. A. Kennedy, in Common Pleas Court, was annoyed by the puff ing of a steam shovel excavating n street near the courthouse, he ordered the shovel stopped. When the noise continued, he issued a warrant and had the crew brought into court. The superintendent was asked whether it would be better to stop the s'hovel or stop the court. The super intendent replied that the court should stop, and was promptly sentenced to Jail for contempt. Blacksmith Gives a Social in His Shop CHICAGO, Aug. 1.—The custom of us ing the churches And school houses of a community as social centers was upset in Oak Park, a suburb, when M. M. Mc Mahon, a blacksmith, held an ice cream social where the guests sat among piles of horseshoes, ami the decorations were tongs, hummers and bellows. A lecturer from Chicago gave a ta*k on the “Rocky Mountains,” after Mc Mahon called the folks to order by pounding on the anvil. Textile Industry in Spain Hit by Strike Special Cable to The Georgian. MADRID. Aug 1.—The textile in dustry in Spain ia practically at a standstill today Twenty thou&anu men are on strike for higher wages and better working conditions, ami 195 factories have been closed. The strike is spreading hourly, the workers at Sahadell. Tarrasa and Villa Nueva joining the men who are out. Troops are being rushed to the strike zone. The disfranchisement bill of Rep resentative Slade of Muscogee, which its author* says is an interpretation of the “good character” clause in the State Constitution, will be favorably recommended by the House Commit tee on Constitutional Amendments at Friday’s session of the House. The vote was unanimous in favor oE so re porting the bill at the committee meeting Thursday afternoon. Mr. Slade’s bill interprets the good character clause to mean that ”n » man, white or black, whom a virtu ous woman will not trust in a place of seclusion without fear of phy^icni assault, shall be Allowed to vote.” The right to strike off names of voters is vested In the ordinaries of the counties If a voter objects, wom en shall not be called in, but the question shad lie decided by men who are familiar with the voter’s life and habits. Mr. Blade declared that the bill .s not directed Against white men, but by its passage he hopes to disfran chise every negro in the State. “1 have been trying to get this bill through for the past two or three years, and am very hopeful that the members of this Legislature may see fit to pass it at the present session,” Mr. Slade said. FLU OF VOTES NIKS CLOSE OF CONTEST Names of Victors in Georgian and American Pony Race To Be Announced Sunday. The pony contest is over. Winners in the exciting races con ducted by The Georgian and Ameri can will be announced Sunday, if It Is possible to complete the necessary clerical work In time. Until midnight Thursday votes were received Wednesday night the con test manager and his assistants work ed almost as late. Friday finds them exhausted with the late hours and the strain, for the excitement of the con testants proved contagious, Infect ing the whole office. Thousands upon thousands of votes, so many that the aggregate seems in credible, were received Thursday and up to the very last minute. Most of the boys and girls too’.- to heart the repeated warnings that over-confidence was fatal, and put copious quantities of "ginger” into their final efforts. This was as true in the country as in the city. The mail brought hun dreds of letters for the contest de partment. From every point of view, It has been a thoroughly successful contest, ar.d, conducted in the most strictly impartial manner, there has not been a word of complaint. Nothing remains but to count the votes and announce the eleven win ners of ponies and carts: the eleven saddle ponies, and the twenty-two watches. Mitchell Named by Anti-Tammany Men For New York Mayor NEW YORK. Aug. 1.—After a stormy all night session of ths anti-Tammany allies, John Purroy Mitchell, collector of the port of New York, was named as the fusion candidate for Mayor of .Great er New York. Mitchell was named on the ninth ballot, with 46 votes, to 43 for District Attorney Whitman The rest of the ticket follows; Comptroller, William A. Prendergast. President Board of Aldermen, George McAneny; President Borough of Man hattan, Marcus M. Marks; President Borough of Brooklyn, Lewis H. Pounds; President Borough of Queens, Robert W. Hlgble; President Borough of the Bronx, Cyrus C. Miller; President Borough of Richmond. George Cromwell; District Attorney New York County, Charles S. Whitman. IK 11 MIXER? Tl Want Ad Contest Offers You an Opportunity to Use Your Wide Acquaintance. Vote Buttons Sold By Suffrage League Atlanta auffragiets busied them selves Thursday In the sale of suf frage buttons and distribution of suf frage literature just to be doing some thing while their suffrage sisters were parading in Washington. The button sale was held at the entiance of Mrs. Lillian Smith’s millinery store. No. 115 Peachtree street, and a neat sum secured. This fund will be expended in the holding of meetings to further the cause. The sale was held under the aus pices of the Woman's Suffrage League of Atlanta, which was the Woman's Civic League until two weeks ago. Weds Fiance, Georgia Man, on His Deathbed LEBANON. PA., August 1.—The death of Wallace Van Sickle, of Ma con, Ga., in a hospital here to-day revealed the devotion of a young woman member of a prominent Lebanon family. Miss Miriam Bow man, to whom Van Sickle became en gaged. Shortly after the announce ment was made he was stricken with typhoid fever The date of the wedding .iad been fixed, but it was postponed n the hope of Van Sickle’s speedy recovery. There was no change In hie condition, however, so it was decided that the marriage ceremony should be per formed in the hospital. The cere mony was performed, and the bride remained at the bedside of her hus band until he died. Peace Near in Mine War in Transvaal Special Cable to The Georgian. JOHANNESBURG. Aug. 1.—A peaceful solution of the demands cf the railroad men and miners seems assured to-day. doth sides are adopt ing a conciliatory attitude. Troops which were called in tj guard property in case violence was resorted to will be withdrawn by the Government. ‘Walk With My Wife, Then Buy Her Shoes’ SACO, ME.. August 1.—Irving L. Meserve, an expressman, attempted to take a new pair of tan shoes from the feet of his young wife when he met her walking in Main street with a young man he did not know. “You’re not goin^ to parade in my shoes,” he cried. “I bought these and paid for them. If that man is going to walk with you. he can buy your shoes.” With that he pulled off one of the shoes and was about to take off the other when the young man attacked him. They were fighting, it is alleged, when Special Officer Whiteworth placed them under arrest. $900 Tip by Gates Is Returned by Waiter MINNEAPOLIS, August 1.—Charles G. Gates, son of the late John W. Gates, nearly caused the collapse of a negro waiter in a hotel cafe here. His dinner check amounted to al most $100, It is said. Gates called the waiter to him, pulled out a roll of $1,000 bills, slipped off the top ode and said: "Here, boy, keep the change.” Gates then left. The waiter turned the $900 over to the manager of the cafe, who mailed Mr. Gates a check for the amount. How many people do you know'? How long is your list of acquaint ances, friends, fellow club members, folks who know you. personally or through business connections? Well, the more people you know the better your chance to win first, prize in The Georgian Want Ad Contest. But they can not help you unless they know' you’re in the game. Be sure to tell them you’re a contestant, out to win, and want their votes. The Want Ad man will help you reach every friend in the city if you’ll ask him. Everybody in Atlanta needs a Want Ad sooner or later. They’re going to advertise for something, that’s cer tain. Everybody does. Tell your friends to use Georgian Want Ads and vote for you. They can cast ten votes for every cent tfyey spend in Want Ads. All they need do when they send in the ad is to ask that th e votes be credited to your name. The contest promises to be the one big event of the season. It isn’t too late to get in and win. If you w r ant an automobile or a piano or any of the big prizes, see the Want Ad man at the office of The Sunday American and Atlanta Georgian, 7 Edgewood avenue. He will tell ybu all about the conditions and help you get a start. Fines Both Twins To Get Right One PHILADELPHIA, August 1.—It makes $8.50 difference to-da.v to either Frank or Harry Swartz, 19 years old, because the are twins. Magistrate Morris fined them both that amount because he couldn’t tell which ha1 been guilty of flirting In the park. The only difference between the pair was that one of them wore white socks and the other lavender. Wife’s Lips Too Red; Won’t Pay Alimony NEW YORK, August 1.—Emil Kop. stein, a wine salesman, told Supreme Court Justice Donnelly yesterday that his wife, Mrs*. Elizabeth Kopstein, is not entitled to alimony pending the trial of her suit for separation be cause she painted her lips and pen ciled her eyebrows. He said that on July 4, when they were at Arverne, L. I., his wife’s cheeks were so red that he wouldn’t be seen on the street with her. and he told her that if any other man had been her husband he “would have broken her bones long ago.” SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT For the six months ending June 30. 1913, of the condition of The Continental Fire Insurance Company OF NEW YORK. Organized under the law? of the State of New York, made to the Gov ernor of the State of Georgia, in pursuance of the laws of said State. Principal office, 80 Maiden Lane, New York. I. CAPITAL STOCK. Whole amount of capital stock $ 2,000,000.00 II. ASSETS. Total assets of the company, actual cash market value $26,528,483.44 III. LIABILITIES. Total liabilities $26,528,483.44 IV. INCOME DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR 1913, Total income actually received during the first six months in cash % 5,708.526.59 V EXPENDITURES DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR 1913. Total expenditures during the first six months of the year in cash * 6,256,201.21 Greatest amount insured in any one risk $200,000.00 A copy of the act of incorporation, duly certified, is of file in the office of the Insurance Commissioner. STATE OF NEW YORK—County of New York. Personally appeared bet- :e the undersigned. J. E. Lopez, who. being duly sworn, ueposes and says that he is the second vice president of The Continental Insurance Company, and that the foregoing statement is cor rect and true. J. E. LOPEZ, Second Vice President. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th day of Juts*, 1913. WM. JOHNSTONE. Notary Public, Westchester County. New York. Name of State Agent—VERNON HALL. Name of Agents at Atlanta—J. L. RILEY &. CO. CHICKENS MUST GO TO ROOST. SAG HARBOR, N. Y„ Aug. 1.—A curfew for girls 16 years old and un der goes into effect here September 1. At 8:45 the bell rings and ail maids are supposed to be in their homes by 9 o'clock. & 2? SPECIAL REDUCTION For a few days you have an opportunity to get your eyes fitted with first-class glasses at lowest possible prices. EYEGLASSES and SPECTACLES $2.50 Glasses Now $1.00 $5.00 Glasses Now $2.50 We are thoroughly equipped to fit you with any style of glasses you may desire. Our oculist will give your eyes a thorough scientific examination, and we guarantee glasses he prescribes to give satisfaction. L. N. HUFF OPTICAL CO. Builders Fine Spectacles and Eyeglasses. TWO STORES. 70 Whitehall 52 W. Mitchell OB “The American-Built French Car n YOUR reasons for buying a 1913 Mitchell can be concentrated in one sentence: it proves itself the most reliable, powerful, complete and beautiful car in the moderate price class. All Mitchell 1913 cars have left drive and center control; Bosch ignition; Bayfield carburetor; Firestone demountable rims; rain-vision windshield; Jones speedometer; silk mohair top with dust cover; Tur kish upholstered cushions: Timken front axle bearings; gauges on the dash show air pressure and oil pressure; gauge in the gasoline tank showing the amount of gasoline it contains; and a portable electric lamp which illuminates the instruments on the dash. All with T-Heed iTK*tor, electric 7-patsengsr Six. 60 H. P„ 2 or 6-pessenger Six, 60-H. P- 2 or 6-pacteng«r Four, 40-H. P., elect He lighting i Wheel Base. 144-in.. 132-In 13«-t end 36-Inch wheel*. F. D. B. Racine. I..,$3,500 1,860 -—1,600 Mitchell-Lewis Motor Company, Radne, wi 8 . Factory Branch Mitchell Motor Co. of Atlanta, 316-318 Peachtree St.