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The European War Is
. Awakening Many
American Industries
Everybody has discussed the horrors of war. It has some
cheerful features, big and little—and in the long run undoubted
ly the good things that come out of this war will more than out
weigh the loss of money and the loss of life. ¢
For instance, the United States has learned from this war
HOW TO MAKE CHEESE. And that is very important knowl
edge.
In Wisconsin wise German families are making an imitation
of the more violent German cheeses—and experts declare the imi
tation to be perfect.
In the chicken raising Petaluma region of California, dairy
men are making an imitation of the French Camembert cheese
that would deceive Jules Guesde himself. In other parts of the
country this American manufacture of cheese is progressing suc
cessfully. :
It is illustrating incidentally the benefit of PROTECTION
which some wise American statesmen do not yet seem to under
stand. '
The American cheese makers have now the absolute protec
tion which the war gives. The foreign cheeses can not come in
AT ALL. And consequently our farmers are learning to make
cheese, and will continue making it, and drive out the European
manufacturers by underselling them, when the war is over.
We are having the kind of protection that France had when
she established the manufacture of silk, of velvet and of glass and
the cultivation of the silk worm, upon which so much of her pros
perity has been founded.
A French statesman seeing the noblemen wearing their for
tunes on their backs had the brains to say to them, ‘‘lf you must
spend your money for these things, at least the workers of France
shall manufacture them and get your money."”
This wise protectionist absolutely stopped the importation of
silks, satins and glassware into France, and thus forced the
Erench workman to get absolute control of those industries so
that a few years ago, when this particular writer was putting
plate glass windows in office buildings in Kansas Oity, it was
necessary to bring the plate glass from France across the At
lantic Ocean, and across half the American continent, and send
the money to French workmen, thanks to wise protection.
Let the gentlemen who think we have outgrown protection
study the cheese question. "
Also, let the people realize the value of cheese as a food in
SMALL quantities, and realize its dangers in large quantities.
Nothing helps digestion more than a very small amount of
well-made cheese, taken at the end of a meal. The French have
a wise saying : '
"“Le fromage digere tout excepte lui-meme."’
This means cheese digests everything but itself. In other
words, if you take a very little, your meal is digested. If you
take a great deal you can not digest so much cheese and you
suffer.
‘ Many good things will come out of the war. Well-made
American cheese is one of them, and more important than you
may imagine. For the American farmer, fighting the Milk Trust,
fighting the free trade tendency that takes the duty off wool
and makes it hardly worth while to raise sheep, fighting the fer
tilizing trust, the agricultural implement trust, and the other
American institutions, needs a little encouragement.
The making of cheese would enable him to develop his origi.
nality, and build up for himself a market of his own, and prob
ably the ‘‘Fancy Cheese Trust’’ would not come along for a few
years anyhow.
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I Inklings and Thinklings l
E " By Wex Jones.
The home of the brave and the land of the free. Free speech, free
hgeh. free verse. Lord help us; we gotta be brave.
They never strike—
Mothers. Cuckoo clocks. Congress.*
*Unfortunately,
Pharaoh’s palace found.—Headline.
Yes, but where's Pharaoh?
Force of habit: Addressing the boss as “Your Honor.”
~The masque “Caliban of the Yellow Sands” is out $25,000, Evi
~ @ently the yellow sands weren't pay gravel
Jobs we don't want: King Constantine's.
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THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG
WITH ALL OF 'EM,
Adele has grace and beauty:
Adele has charm and style;
It's worth the price of dinner
To watch her eat—and smile.
- But partner of my fortunes
i Adele can never be—
She WILL put powdered sugar
On rabbit fricassee!
Marie with wealth a-plenty .
Is generously blessed; 2
Her heart is warm and tender,
And, golly! How she's dressed.
But as my life's companion
Marie will never do— "
She mixes maple syrups
With beef and kidney stew!
Alicla has the finish,
Alicia has the looks
Of all the girls you read of
In Mr. Chambers' books, |
But she will never bind me |
With love's delightful tether—' ‘
She always eats her oysters |
And cantaloupe together! |
WHY NOT?
Following a regular business
custom, Uncle Sam could buy the
Danish West Indies for $250,000,-
000, issue $250,000,000,000 stock on
them, get a well-known Wall
street firm to underwrite the deal
and make a very tidy little profit,
OVERLOOKED.
Burglars got SI,OOO from the
Boston and Maine the other day,
showing that somebody was
grossly careless when the recent
reorganization was effected.
BACK HIM WITH ALL YOU'VE
GOT.
Some day some automobile
driver will fill his tanks with the
kind of whisky they sell in Maine
and win every speed cup he en
ters for.
TOO LONG TO BE TRUE.
“New York Servant Girl
Leaves Her Employers $10,000."
~~Headling. Omit the dollar sign
and the figure and the foregoing
would be entirely credible.
EXTINCT SPECIES.
Mr. Hughes visited the Los An
geles mugeum, which seems to
indicate that he is earnestly hunt- |
ing lwkmvt ‘
The Target
Postal Freights and Public Utility
A Method by Which We Could Greatly Promote the Common Welfare.
FIND that there are very
I few men who have a broad
conception of the part rail
roads should play in modern life.
Of course, there are men who
know how to finance railroads,
and others who %now how to op
erate them, and others who can
give you offhand the statistics of
railroad earnings and profits, but
in the course of many years of
first-hand study of rallroads and
acquaintance with able railroad”’
men, I kave met perhaps half a
dozen who were able to perceive
that the true function of a rail
road is to render exactly equal
service to every man for an ex
actly equal charge,
Bvery railroad man of any im
portance and every writer upon
railroad functions I ever knew
repeats that formula, in some
form of words, over and over
again—and most of them insist
that rallroads do that very thing.
But they do nothing of the kind.
DO NOT GET EQUAL SERVICE.
They all use the words “equal
service” to mean hauling each
man's like goods the same dis
tance for the same price. And
that is not equal service at all,
If you have a hundred sacks of
potatoes to ship one hundred
miles to the New York market,
and I have a hundred sacks of
potatoes to ship two hundred
miles to the same market, the
service which the railroad per
forms for both of us is to set
our potatoes down in the New
York market. That is the only
service of value to us, no mat
ter what the rallroad has done.
And for this exactly equal
service the railroad should charge
each of us exactly the same
price,
But, someone says, the rallroad
has done twice as much for me
as for you, and has a right to
charge twice as much. No, in
deed!
What the railroad has done is
to haul one hundred sacks of po
tatoes three hundred miles, and
it should have pay for that ex
ertion, and you and I should each
pay one-half of a fair charge for
By Philip Francis.
the rallroad's labor, because we
have each had from-'that labor a
service of exactly equal value to
each of us.
Now, of course, railroad freight
tariffs are complicated enough
now to drive a man crazy, and it
would be criminal tc make them
worse by attempting to ascer
" tain and split up evenly between
you and me and all others like us
the charges jointly due for the
rallroads’ unequal exertions in
rendering us equal services.
EQUAL RATE IS SOLUTION.
But the railroads can attain
that end by charging each one
of us, you and everybody else,
an equal rate for loading our
stuff on board and delivering itat
destination, and this charge could
be estimated upon the gross rev
enue the railroads should have
for hauling the whole tonnage of
each class of goods shipped over
the entire country,
For instance, the railroads
know how many tons of flour
they will haul an average length
of 100 miles this year, and what
they will get in cash for haullng
it all. Let us say, for ease of
figures, that the roads will haul
10,000,000 tons of flour 1,000,000, -
000 miles and get a gross return
of $10,000,000.
Now, suppose that instead of
a multiplicity of charges on dif
ferent lots going over different
distances the railroads had a flat
charge of one dollar per ton for
recelving and delivering flour
anywhere,
Everybody shipping flour and
everybody receiving flour would
pay exactly the same price for
the same service to each of them,
and the railroads would have in
their treasuries exactly the same
$10,000,000 gross revenue they
would have under the present
system.
Their unequal exertions in
hauling would be paid for in full
and paid for equally by those
who had had service of equal
value to them, Of course, the
figures used In the iNustration
are arbitrarq, but they lilustrate
the principle
Poem That Ended
a Great Career
ORMER United States Sena-
F tor John M. Thurston, who
died in Omaha on August
9, came to the end of a splendid
political career because of a poem
written to a woman—a woman
whom he subsequently married.
He was a widower at the time he
composed the verse. The publi
cation of the lines convicted
Thurston of the “political crime”
of being a sentimental statesman,
and while a nation laughed at par
odies on the verse, the Senator
lost his public prestige. The fate
ful lines follow:
THE WHITE ROSE.
I said to the Rose: “O Rose, sweet
Rose,
Will you lie on my breast to
night?
Will you nestle there with your
perfume rare
And your petals pure and white?
I said to the Rose: “O Rose, sweet
Rose,
Will you thrill to my every
sigh,
Though your life exhale in the
morning pale
And you wither and fade and
die?”
I said to the Rose: “O Rose, sweet
Rose,
Will you throb with my every
breath?
Will you give me the bliss of a
passionate kiss,
Albeit the end is death?”
The White Rose lifted her stately
head
And answer me fair and true:
“l am happy and blest to lle on
your breast
For the woman who gave me to
you."
The Thrifty Swiss.
Switserland has the distinetion
of being the richest country in
the world in a savings bank
sense. The school bank of the
country, however, while an in.
teresting institution, is not an un
qualified success. Indeed, its
success is somewhat sectional, as
at Berne the undertaking has
been a distinct fallure. Deposits
In that city are declining each
year, and In six of the eight
school districts it has been neces-
Sary to lquidate the banks
THE HOME PAPER
Automobile, Teacher
of Geography, Shows
World in New Light
Turns Country Into a Moving Picture Whose
Beauties and Wonders Unroll in an Endlessi
Panorama Before Your Eyes——Surprise'
View in Oldest New York. |
S a teacher of “geography
thg automobile is unrival
ed. It carrles you so
quickly from place to place, and
so victoriously up commanding
hills which seemed unconquerable
in the old days of panting horses,
that it turns the country into a
moving picture, whose beauties
and wonders unroll in an endless
banorama before your eyes.
Formerly the farmer, if he had
a spanking team, could give his
family, during a holiday’s ride, a
fair view of a portion of the town
ship, five or ten miles square, in
which they lived. Now, with his
auto, he can take them over the
whole county, and far away into
adjoining counties, showing them
an area of the earth large enough
to make a very respectable tele
scopic patch as seen from the
moon.
And during such trips the as
pect of the country seems com
pletely changed, while the rela
tions of the various parts to one
another become evident. The
courses of the streams, the inter
sections of the ranges of hills,
the lie of the valleys, the nesting
places of villages, the pockets of
corn, the sheltered expanses of
wheat land, the favored sites for
orchards, the green valleys where
the elms grow old and lofty, and
the breezy heights where the
squirrels play among the hick
ories—all fall into a certain or
der, the recognition of which is a
lesson in practical geography.
SWIFTLY SUCCEEDING VIEWS
COMMANDING DETAILS OF
COUNTRY INTO A HAR
MONIOUS WHOLE.
And then there are the sur
prises, which are often very great
and delightful. Recently 1 took
a ride around the Mohawk Valley,
starting from Amsterdam, which,
unlike its flat namesake in Hol
land, loves steep streets. We
were all natives of the valley
and thought that we knew its
scenery well. We flew through
the township of Florida. I spent
my boyhood looking across the
brawling Schoharie at the hills of
Florida, riding occasionally over
its roads.
But now I found that I had
never known Florida as it is.
Seeing it bit by bit, now a little
and then a little, had been like
getting an idea of a house by ex
amining specimens of its brick.
But the swiftly succeeding views
afforded by the auto, llke the
progressive poses of a cinema
tograph picture, combined all the
details into a harmonious whole,
and the township of Florida stood
revealed like a beautiful face.
A little way over the border, in
Schenectady County, we spun
higher and higher, until, through
a woods, we shct out on the verge
of a hill, where, without any
preparation for what was in store,
we saw before us, and beneath us,
as instantaneously as if a curtain
had dropped, the most beautiful,
and, In its unexpectedness, the
most astonishing landscape that
I have ever looked upon—and I
have seen some of the world’s
most famous views.
Considering that this scene lies
in one of the oldest inhabited re
* glons of the old State of New York,
and is the gift offered to its vis
itors, not by a mountain, but by
ONCE -OVERS !I
ROUNDERS AND ALL-ROUNDERS.
Physically and mentally “fit” if you would amount to anything good
or great in this world.
Physically and mentally “At.” Say it over to yourself till it makes
a dent in your gray matter,
Mind fully up to the mark means a 80od constitution back of it.
“Physically fit” does not necessarily mean an athlete for muscle.
The majority of the brainiest men could not keep up with the trafl
ers in an athletic contest of any kind. But if brain could be united with
muscular power or perfect physical development, it would mean a
healthier brain power.
If you wish to keep your faculties till the last when you grow old,
use your brain at least a part of the time for serlous work along the
study line.
It is a human weakness to develop along a line in which one already
excels.
As soon as things gt hard. change to the thing which comes easiest.
You hear it everywhere, “this 1s the age of the speclalist.”
Better develop all round, if you wish to be great as a “speclalist.® '
And the rounder is never an allrounder. i iy
By Garrett P. Serviss.
a mere hill only some 1,500 feat in
height.
All of us in the party had been
born almost withjn sight of the
place, but only one had even a
dim recollection of having heard
of its existence. We had oft set
out to find {t; the auto had
"brought us to it.
Such a scene can not be de
scribed; one can only mention
some of its elements. Naturg has
a formula for these things, and
the first requirement, after a suit
able elevation, which need not
be very great, is isolation. The
hill that I am writing of is a few
miles from the village of Maria
ville, which itself lies beside a
little lake 1,300 feet above sea
level. The summit from which
the view is obtalned rises moder
ately above all its immediate sur
roundings. It is a kind of hill
peninsula projecting into an at
mospheric ocean, whose bottom,
composed of farm lands, gradual
ly shelves down deeper and deep
er, and sweeps away on all sides
for many miles until it begins to
rise again to meet the hills and
mountains that form its farther
coasts.
Seen through the transparent
fluid of the air, slightly blued in
the distance, the farms, With their
fences, hedges, groves, houses,
barns, grain fields, corn fields,
white buckwheat fields, stretch
away, smaller and smaller to the
eye, apparently as numerous as
the stars—you would say there
wasg a million of them. In bright
sunshine they are rich with color.
Away on in the midst of the
middle-ground, perhaps ten miles
from the eye, gleams a little white
line—the great marble-columned
Education Building lin Albany,
and close beside it is seen the
Capitol. Albany {tself is a dark
ish patch. Nearer is Schenectady,
big enough to lie on the point of
a table-knife. And all around
are towns and villages innumer
able,
FARMER HAS SUPERB NATURAL
HOME WHICH NO ROYAL
PALACE CAN EQUAL,
The frame of this marvelous
picture is superb, Only in one
direction is it cut off by a forest
on the hill. It consists of the blue
Adirondacks, merging into the
Green Mountains of Vermont,
with Greylock, the king of Mas
sachusstts’ Berkshires, set upon
the rim, and continued round
through south and west by the
beautiful domes of the Catskills
and the precipitous and almost
grotesque fronts of the Helder
bergs. Think of the sunrises and
the sunsets and the starry nights
on that lone height!
This world-fronting hill is the
property of a farmer, a farmer
who 1s also a scholar and a gen
tleman. No king has such a home
as he! No king would respect it
as he does. A king possessing that
hill would put a palace on it. A
multimillionaire would try to im
prove it with a marble garage
built on the plan of a Parthenon.
A speculator would erect a great
summer hotel there, and coin
shekels out of the wonder. The
actual owner has a low, roomy,
unpretentious, comfortable farm
house; only that—and the view
And he has the strength of mind
to work his farm!