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EDITORIAL PAGE
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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Elbert H. Gary
Atlanta has entertained this week a man of no ordinary
character and capacity in the person of Judge Elbert H. Gary,
of New York.
The fact that Judge Gary is chalrman of the United States
Steel Corporation, president, director or moving spirit in a
dozen great railroad and other companies, is the mere formal
and superficial circumstance in his history. Other men have
held similar positions and made little impression upon the time.
The essential fact is that Judge Gary is a real man and is
so recognized throughout the commercial and political world.
There are force and power, integrity and candor, kindliness and
a great catholic spirit behind the commanding personality of the
head of American Steel.
“Fairness’’ is the word current among the elements both
corporate and popular—'‘Judge Gary is the fairest man that
holds the balances between the corporations and the people.””
He has the fine judicial quality of being able to see both sides
of the equation. He has the firmness to impress this just view
upon the great interests that he represents, and his spirit of
consideration impresses the people’s representatives and
the people. Corporations in their better sense are the servants
of the people and should be so recognized when they are. Their
prosperity should be builded enduringly upon their own recog
nition of this fact. When the Gary method and the Gary spirit
of fairness become dominant in the corporate world it will be so.
It is the broad constructive policy of justice and considera
tion which commends Judge Gary's executive career above that
of many other financial magnates of the time. Few men hold
so absolutely the confidence of the money kings. His judgment
has been so often vindicated in results, his courage and self
control have been so fully attested, and his catholic temper to
ward the whole great country has become so well understood
that he fully deserves to be ranked among the constructive and
conserving. statesmen of the republic.
Atlanta has found him also to be a guest of most engaging
qualities and of noble heart.
You Have Seen a Drunkard, an
Idiot, an Indian, a Child,
a Woman?
Answer the question at the head of this editorial, and we
will tell you what you think about woman suffrage—ALSO
WHAT YOU ARE MENTALLY.
This little picture, simple as it is, tells the intelligent man or
woman all that need be known about votes for women—the
slow-coming justice to one-half of the human race.
You have seen all the types of humanity shown in this pic
ture.
On the left, there is the political heeler.
Next to him, with a ‘‘stovepipe’’ hat, is the political boss
and combination drunkard.
Next to the half-drunken boss stands the respectable woman.
He is pushing her away from the ballot box—he doesn't want
‘“‘the likes of her’’ to be meddling in government and men's
affairs.
Then comes the little child, the Indian, and the idiot.
If you know anybody who opposes woman suffrage, hand
him this picture and ask him what he thinks about the people
shown in the picture, and how HE would place them, in intel
ligence, usefulness, and the right to SHARE IN GOVERN
MENT.
The man who opposes suffrage would put the political crook
and the half-drunken political boss side by side first. He would
say that they alone of those in the picture must vote.
He would put the woman, the child, the Indian and the idiot,
where our laws in many States put them—down below, among
the class unfit to share in government.
Those who favor woman suffrage know that government
should be, if it is not, a matter of kindness, intelligence and
morality.
They know that women are the equals of men in intelligence,
the superiors of men in kindness and morality.
Women and men alike, who are above the political heeler in
decency and a sense of justice, see in this picture the answer to
the woman suffrage question.
And the answer is:
THE DAY HAS GONE BY WHEN WOMAN SHOULD BE
CLASSED IN TURKEY AS THE TOY OF MAN, IN ENGLAND
AS THE ENEMY OF MAN, IN AMERICA AS THE INFERIOR
OF MAN AND THE MENTAL EQUAL OF IDICTS, INDIANS
AND BABIES.
For Good Faith
eS . B e e . e B L A - '. . SO
The Georgian publishes to-day an article on the Democratic
Committee's Rules. It ils sigmed ‘‘Voter. '’
Ordinarily the public cares little for communications that
do not bear the writer's name. Nor do newspapers care much
to publish them
But when a citizen has anything to say and has some good
reason for saying it over an anonymous signature, the fair and
proper ihing to do is to send the writer's name to the editor
‘‘not necessary for publication, but as an evidence of good
A faith.’” This ‘'Voter' has done. May others follow him.
Tue ATLANTA GEORGIAN
The Real Argument for Woman Suffrage
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it takes years for the simplest fact—the right of women
to vote, for instance—to get through the thick skull of some
men, and through the artificial ourls of some women.
War on White Bread
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
HW cry for good household
bread, bread that has not
hed its best elements of
nourishment removed for the sake
of whiteness, is now making itself
heard in France.
Dr. Wiley does not actually
need any outside ald in the cam
paign which he {g conducting in
Good Housekeeping Magazine for
wholesomse foods and pure medi
cines, but when a man is in the
midst of a hard fight, with ene
mies swarming all around him, he
may gather strength and courage
from the sound of blows dealt by
others, who, without being sum
moned by him, have entered the
battle on his side. 80, I think,
Dr. Wiley will not be unwilling
that the American public should
hear what French sclentiflc au
thorities are saying about the
bread we eat.
TAsten to Mr. A. Balland, Na
tional Assoclate of the Academy
of Medicine, and correspondent
of the Institute, writing in one
of the principal scientific journals
of France:
“Neveral times 1 have pointed
out the exaggerated development
of the holting of flours, which
augments the price of bread and
diminishes its nutritive value. But
it is in vain that some of our most
distinguished physicians, eye-wit
nesses of the miseries guffered in
hospitals, and anxious for the
futura of the race, have arisen
agalnst the (nvasion of white
bread.”
No White Bread in Army.
lHa then goes on to say that the
bolting of flour, favored by the
world-wide cultivation of wheat,
which is extending every year,
reaches, at the present time, as
much as b 0 per cent of the welght
of the grain, while less than 50
vears ago only 13 per cent of the
grain was unutilized {n flourmak
ing
Household bread has disap
peared from the ration of the
French army, and this fact {is
specially dwelt upon by those who
dread the effects of the increasing
use of white bread, because never
in her history has France, in the
opinion of her patriotic citizens,
had greater need than just now of
healthful, well nourished, active
and long-enduring soldiers
Recently the bolting of the flour
ced for the Fre army ead
has bee arried up to from 20 to
a 0 p e Ihe result
g waited f A e the
ri Y ' re i ' 1 it
atant: ths hunsg soldier is
lese satisfied
'his quesiion olted Nour is
not & liew ornie Away bucxk al
the beginning of the French Rev
olution, when the army bread was
made entirely of unbolted flour,
the subject was placed before the
Academy of Sciences for a decl
sion concerning the advisability
of removing a portion of the bran,
and Parmentler, the agriculturist
who introduced the cultivation of
the potato Into France. prepared
the official report.
The report sald that bread
made out of flour from which no
bran had been removed was un
wholesome, but that brown bread,
composed of flour from which 18
per cent of bran had been re
moved, was the most substantial
aliment for the soldier, and the
one which combined the greatest
number of conditions suitable to
his manner of life.
Flour Bolting Hurtful.
Mr. Balland, quoting from this
report, remarks that there i{s still
much to be learned from it to
day. What is good for the soldier
{8 good for every man who |s
engaged in actlve physical work
and who needs thoroughly nour
{shing food, The white bread so
universally employed to-day is
made of the central parts of the
‘ grain, which are the least rich in
fat, in phosphorus and nitrogen.
Household bread contains por
tions of all parts of the grain ex
capt the exterior envelope.
Messra. Michel Levy and Be
gin, army medical {nspectors,
have this to say about white
bread:
“Bolting pushed beyond a cer
taln limit eliminates the useful
element of flour in more than one
respect, and has no other com
pensation than an improvement
in the color of the bread. Very
whita bread may agree with
stomachs that are fatigued and
habituated to a rich and varied
diet, but the less financially easy
classes are induced to prefer it
only by habit or imitation.”
What the white bread lacks in
nutrition has to be made up by
an increased consumption of
meat. This fact is brought out
very clearly in the reports of the
food supply furnished to the
French army. The whiter the
bread the larger the meat bill, and
vice versa.
If white bread increases the
| meat consumption, and household
| hread diminishes it, there alone
: « greal argument of economy
for oniy partiaily bolted flour
And ¢ ! ere are 4 freiat man)
1 wile who will rejoice to know
1 © fas reading 1t -
tion f wheat may largely elinu
nate meat eating, if only the
wheat is turned into the right
- kind of bread,
You can have a dozen arguments for woman suffrage.
ONE is enough, however, and you see it in this picture. (See
editorial on this page.)
More Truth Than Poetry
By JAMES J. MONTAGUE.
The Song of the River of Doubt
Which Was Discovered by Colonel Roosevelt, and Which
Jealous Englishmen Accuse of Crossing Other
Rivers and Flowing Up Hill.
! come from haunts of chimpanzees,
I make a sudden sally,
And foaming 'round the rubber trees,
| thunder up a valley.
To reach the moutain cresting snow
Is always my endeavor;
Some rivers seek the sea below,
But | flow up forever.
Though other streams obstruct my course,
Aside | roughly toss them,
And, gathering fresh torrentlal force,
I wildly dash across them.
! rumble up a mountain’s side,
And thrust the granite boulders
Before me as | gaily glide
About its lofty shoulders.
I hurl the glaclier from its perch,
And to their highest spire
| make the Andes heel and lurch
As | climb ever higher.
The parrots chatter as they fly
In fearful consternation
To see a river thus defy
The laws of gravitation.
But upward still | surge and flow
Untll the clouds | sever.
Some rivers seek the sea below,
But | go up forever.
Only a Piker.
The boy stood on the burning
deck:
Said he: “It's only falrta
Admit that T have nothing on
Victoriano Huerta.”
Have a Care, Caitiff, Lest You Go
Too Far!
Huerta shows little intelligence
in locking up Med!ll MeCormick
and Richard Harding Davis, the
well-known Buil Moosers, If the
Clolonel can't get them when he
wants them to open the campaign,
he will go right down there and
get them.
Judicial Bias.
The louisville judge who ap
pointed twenty lawyers to defend
a prisoner must be out after a
record for convictions.
Narrow Escape for an ex-President.
Philadelphia suffragettes cap
tured William H. Taft, but were
deterred from carrying him off
when a bystander asked, “Now,
you've got him, what are Yyou
gonna do with him?"
And This We Know:
1f the Administration really
wants Carranza to get into Mexi
co City, it will do well to keep
Funston out of the place
Wireless Politics at Last
vMarconi (o be Htalian SenatqQ!
~—-News jtem
The Older They Are, the Harder
They Fall,
That Pennsylvania bachelor
who is 113 years old will need
watching from now on.
Luck in All Things.
Can't you imagine old George
Dewey, in the privacy of his home,
patting himself on the back when
he thinks what might have hap
pened if Bryan had been Secre
tary of State in 18987
Contagious?
Another White House case and
the country will be convinced that
matrimony is catching.
Let Us Not Be Wastefully, Ridic
ulously Excessive.
Why spend three hundred dol
lars for a medal for Doctor Cook
wlhen he'd feel just as happy and
look a lot more natural with a
50-cent wreath of flowers around
his neck?
The Right Way.
Perhaps if John D. had sent
the Senate that boll weevil money
in the form of certificates of de
posit he might have got it ac
cepted.
Arousing Class Hatred.
“Vincent Astor eats corn beef
and cabbage.”"—Society note,
One would think millionaires
wounld keep their expensive fads
quiet, so as not to stir up the
envy of the less fortunate.
Big, by Comparison.
Our ex-President’ Club is lim
ited- at present-—-to two mem
bers. but it has it all over Mexi
co’'s at that
Ne Bunk About T. R.
Teddy didn't sign peace treaties
when he staged a fight He hLeld
it in the East Room of the Woite
House, invited his friends, and
took a hand himself now and
then,
THE HOME PAPER
o THE STENOGRAPHER o |
F T were 20, with an ambition
I to succeed in a business way,
I would study stenography.
Also, if T were a stenographer,
I would learn to spell, paragraph
and punctuate,
Besides, I'd put a little furni
ture in my attic.
Stenography is a good profes
slon in itself, but as a stepping
stone to success it beats the tay
dansant to a frazzle.
Stenography puts you in a po
sition where the lightnings of
promotion may strike you. It
means opportunity.
“One-half the battle” says
Thomas Brackett Reed, “is to get
the Speaker’'s eye.”
A stenographer stands at the
pivotal point, and can not be
overlooked.
There {s to-day a demand for
stenographers such as there has
never heen before, and the wages
they command are considerably
more than are paid to the clerk
at the button counter.
That women are just as faith
ful and honest as men there is no
doubt, but the fact that many
women look upon business as a
scheme for bridging a rather mo
notonous gap in their lives is also
a fact, But there are exceptions.
The biggest man at No. 26
Broadway has a woman secretary
who began office work as a ste
nographer. This woman is eyes,
ears, hands, feet and Brey cortex
for her employer's interests. And
her pay is so much that she takes
a llvely interest in the Federal
income tax.
Stenography puts you in a po
sition where, when the limited
comes along, you Jjust jump
aboard and travel to Successtown.
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The number of big business
men to-day who began thel!r busi
ness career as stenographers is
clear beyond and out of all pro
portion to any other positions.
Frank A. Vanderlip, president
of the biggest bank in America,
was stenographer and secretary to
Lyman (Gage, & business man who
became United Btates Secretary
of the Treasury. And Lyman
Gage himself was a Bryant &
Stratton product,
George B, Cortelyvou was a ste
nographer, and got most of his
school education in a business
college,
Three men in President Wil
son's Cabinet weres stenographers
—never mind who!
A few days ago I met Mr. E. D,
Tevy, general manager of the
Frisco Rallroad System. Mr.
Levy began work in a railroad
office as stenographer, and made
himself so useful that he has
gravitated —by divine right—into
-the position of the man that he
originally worked for.
Dozens of such instances can
be stated.
A stenographer should be on
good terms with the dictionary,
and know how to manipulate the
encyclopedia.
Many a stenographer, I notice,
gets things by ear and lets it go
o We Are Proud of Atlanta o
Is there another city in the
T'nited States, only 75 years old,
which could rave taken care of the
fmmense Shriners’ conventlion as
well as Atlanta?
The News doubts lit,
In 1839, just three-quarters of a
century ago, in this very month, a
little settlement was established
in Henry County. Soon it at
tained the dignity of a name, be
ing called Marthasville by some
and Terminus by others. Not
until 1847 was it given the name
of Atlanta.
By the time Sherman marched
into Georgia Atlanfa had grown
and prospered and was practi
cally in the city class. However,
it was lald waste and desolated
by {he fiends of war, but, like the
fabled Phoenix, it rose anew from
the ashes. Ever since then it has
grown and prospered without a
The Rules of the Committee
Editor The Georgian:
The rules of the Democratic
Executive Committee of the
State are being discussed consid
erably just at this time, and it is
really amusing to see how much
interest is being taken by some
of the committee and politicians
to protect the dear little country
counties:
We quote a portion of rule 10:
“The unit rule shall prevail in
violabie in making nominations
of candidates for all offices filled
by State-wide vote.
“Those entitled to receive a
majority of unit votes for the
nominations sought shall be de
clared the nominees of the Demo
cratic party for the offices in
question, and in each case the
unit votes of all counties carried
by each candidate shall be count
ed for such candidate,
i “If any two persons receive, or
are entitled to receive, the same
l number of unit votes for an)
nomination, the one who receives
] the largest numbe of popular
votes in said primary shall be de
clared the nominee.”
A careful consideration of the
rules, it seemg to us, instead of
glving the protection the defend
ers of these rules insist they will
give, places the nominations of
our Federal and Statehouse offi-
at that He writes by sound,
But this 18 not enough. 1¢ your
intelligence does not co-operssy
with your organs of hearing, yoy
are a poor stenographer, To
write things down as they “|is.
ten,” without an undemunding
of what is meant, will never lead
to promotion.
- - .
The practice of stenography 1
a college education.
Stenographers to-day start in,
say at $l5 a week. If they oap
not spell and merely write by ear,
putting things down as they
sound, taking chanceson being in.
telligible, they are cut down to
$l2 and perhaps $lO, and thep
they go back to the dray or the
box factory.
When a stenographer is raised
from $l5 to $2O a week it is oy
account of one thing—and nothing
else—and that 1s: when an ip.
closure {s mentioned the stenog.
rapher sees that the inclosure
goes in the letter.
To write out letters and lay
them on the old man's desk i
constructive or technical stenog
raphy, but there i{s no promotion
for the man or woman who
satisfled when this is done.
I notice nowadays that thars
are a great many young men who
have taken courses in salesman
ship, advertising or business or
ganization who expect to start in
and achleve quick success, leap
ing to helghts that were made to
climb.
‘“Are you a theosophist?” asked
a lady of a certain gentleman.
And he re replied, “No, but I have
the lingo.”
The lingo of business is net
enough.
To speak glibly of the over
head, fixed charges, dividends,
payrolls, maximum returns, sales
organizations, does not prove that
you can do business. You have
to be willing to do plain, every
day humdrum, menial tasks, and
the stenographer who is not will
ing to be a servant, and a good
one, will always remain a poor
stenographer.
He who renders a great servics
will get a great return.
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Business to-day i{s an exacting
taskmaster. The business world
is seeking men and women who
can carry its burdens, and ths
limit of pay that these peopie re
celve Is not yet fixed.
Business men who make ons
hundred thousand a year are not
hard to find, but the climb is long
and slow. It requires health,
good habits, good nature and 2
constant vigilance and a hunger
to serve. The price of success
is work.
Quickness, alertness, accuracy,
good cheer, these are the things.
And I believe there are Dbetter
and bigger opportunities in busi.
ness to-day than the world has
ever bhefore offered.
I also believe that stenography
offers a quicker, surer, safer and
saner pathway to success t’nar}
any other fleld of commercial
endeavor.
let up. Now it is a city of 180,-
000, and a city of which any State
in the Unfon might well be proud.
In time Atlanta is going to be the
New York, the metropolis of the
South.
Macon visitors to Atlanta and
the Shriners themselves declars
that the great convention was
superbly handled. Despite the
enormous crowds, every visitor
was taken care of {n an admirable
manner., Eating and sleeping fa
cilities were provided for all, al
though there must have been over
100,000 new faces in the city at
cne time.
Atlanta has lived up to tha
reputation of the llZmpire State of
the Sonth, and has done itself and
the State credit and honor. The
News is pleased to felicitate At
lanta on its achievement.—Macon
News.
cers in the hands of a few schem
ing politicians. It looks to us like
the sbetter plan would have beel.
in the event no nomination could
be had on the first ballot, to let
the two highest candidates run if
over in a second primary, thereby
letting the people and not the con
vention say who our candidates
chall be, or let the candidates re
ceiving the highest number of
popular votes be declared the
nominees of the party.
The present rules as we see
them are no prmectlor\ to the
country counties, and the people
in this section of the State are
finding it ocut.
Of course, where there are onl¥
two in a race for nomination,
there is nothing left for the cor
vention to do but to nominate the
one receiving the highest number
of unit votes, but where there are
three or more, it does not often
happen that nominations are
made on the first ballot. Theres
fore, it is up to the convention
and politicians to name our nont=
inees 1s that letting the pecp'®
nominate their officers? 1f so, v @
are unable to see it
Down with such nomination
and let us get back to where the
people will have an opportunit¥
to sav who shall be the numineds
of our party. VOTER.
Hartwell, Ga, May 11, 1914 .