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SECOND SECTION. □ The Atlanta Georgian. VOL. I. NO. 224. ATLANTA, UA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 12. 1007. Preachers, Rabbis, Men • • A Matter Of Decency That Concerns You: Dahlonega, Ql, I Atlanta Georgian, Atlanta. Go. Inclosed find J4.G0 for The Georgian one year. I am taking this paper be- cause It la clean, and ehould go Into alt homea. Tours truly. AMOB W. BRASETTON. Georgia Normal and Industrial College. MTM. Parke, President. .Mllledgevllle. Go., F. 1.. Seely, Publisher The Atlanta Georgian: The (acuity and students of our col- l' Kc have asked mo to write you a let- t' r at thanks (or your kindness In sending us The Atlanta Georgian. As you probably know. The Georgian I* the favorite Atlanta paper, with a grout many of us. We are glad, and thank you, that ev ery day The Georgian will bo plared ■ » our newspaper racks, where we may all have access to It. It will also he kept on (lie In the library (or future historical reference. , Very truly, KATHR1KE OREER. Librarian. Just Among Ourselves. It pays for men and wives to sit down once in a while and talk over business—troubles and pleasures too, for that matter. Men whose wives are partners in their business usually are better business men— in other words, all goes better when there is a good, open understanding. We want our readers to understand us. They are our partners in this business, and if The Georgian suits them, they will read it, talk it and help us with their suggestions. Now let’s talk over the subject of clean advertising—in fact, a clean newspaper. The price you pay for your paper is only about enough to pay for the paper it is printed on, and the post age or delivery. You see there is a pay-roll of about $2,000 a week for a paper like The Georgian, and other expenses of more than that amount each week that can only be met by the money paid by advertisers. Possibly you have never known before that the advertiser pays a large share of what your paper costs each night. He gets it back, of course, through the business it brings him because you read it. So you see a newspaper could not do liHthout advertising—but this does not mean that it must take ev erything that is offered it. No, it does not. —r——n Just suppose for a minute that a paper makes a profit of 20 or 25 per cent, as some do. You can readily see that not one-fourth of the advertising in newspapers is liquor, unclean or objectionable advertising, but if it were, that would only cut down the profit not more than one-fourth—one-eiehth would be nearer right— and we ask if it is reasonable to suppose publishers print unclean advertising because tney cannot make ends meet without doing so. — -— : — —— For instance, here is a little advertisement cut from onei of our Sunday papers: WAXTKH-P1VB YOUNO LAMER TO • „ !»«>•«• for Art advertIhIiic picture*. Must hnve fpNNl figure* and tm nmdeatT. I’len* , ant w«»rk. Fifty eenta hour for twclnner*. rnrtlcuiaia, addreaa • • • • • Atluuta. Bad enough for week day—but this was Sunday! This advertisement only paid the publishers 25 or 30 cents and surely could have been done without. The price was only what the publisher would spend for a couple of cigars, and certainly did not swell the income of the enterprise enough to be noticed. But this filthy, suggestive, Sensual, damnable little missive was flaunted in the faces of thousands upon thousands of good peopple, and sent into thousands of homes, simply because men and women who have the power in their hands to stamp out such outrages do not demand of those who are responsible for these things that they raise their standard of morals and respectability. The Georgian sent men to investigate this particular advertisement, and, lo, and behold, who confronted them but a man connected with another Sunday paper! Great God, what shall we expect! This may sound a little Pharisaical, but looseness about these things has gone too far, and if we have no law to look into such things, and our police don’t care, then we will bring to bear that power that is higher than law—higher than police and / higher than all but the Almighty—PUBLICITY. And we will see if our friends won’t stir around and fumigate their ideals, their newspapers and their men, and for the sake of de cency and respectability, stop forever the little greed, the little lust—the lack of manhood that makes these things possible. Yes, of course, it is all said to reflect credit on The Georgian—selfish, of course. Say what you like- think what you will. The Georgian has turned aside from any advertising or low business that would be hurtful to the home or the family, and though we make mistakes and are full of faults, we do not wilfully and for the money there is to be had, do things that are beneath us as citizens, as men, as fathers and as gen tlemen. Luveme, Ala. Atlanta Georgian, Atlanta, Oa. Plea*, tlnd Inclosed check for 14.50. Place thli to my credit and continue my K per. I can't afford to mlea a num- r. I eave the editorial page of each number and am going to have them bound In volumee. Long live The Georgian and lla matchlen editor! Very reepectfully, — W. H. STODDARD. ~ Valleclto, Cal.. V. L. Beely. Esq, care Atlanta Geor gian, Atlanta. Oa. My Dear Mr. Beely: I am encloa- Ing check for t4.5'i for one yenr'e sub scription to THE GEORGIAN, from April SI. ISOS, I uae "big" lettere. for It la a "BIQ" paper. I read. It dally with Interest, even though I am J.onu mllea away, nut In thla beautiful and wonderful country, full of the memoriae of the romance and tragedy of the plnneera who built the empire west of the Mlutiilppl. Your editorial pugo le unusually strong, and even way out here. It la of Internet to the people that live here. Wishing you every good thing possi ble In your Held of Journalism. Sincerely, J. O. ROSBMAN. • • if you would object, papers Next Saturday we will show you a collection of one Sunday’s advertising that The Georgian believes the public could do without—not whisky ads, either.