Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-16
LNE R|CANS NEED
Re GULA 7 10 \,
SAYS DULA
tobacco Chief of America, y
Now in Atlanta, Talks o!
Trust Dissolution.

1.-THE average American citizen
needs police regulation.
~,,,hitious men in all lines OF
..d.svcr sometimes overreach the
bounds OF proper conduct.
opissoIution suits, properly d.
..,a5 work great good where cap
-, has become, so to speak, con-
gested.' - =
,pus,ness prospers when it is
,o,5 IN check by the moral force
Of the people.
~ tote If that the American public
..o most intelligent body of people
,,rth 81 was the declaration OF X. b.
T,,o nj New York, hailed in this coun-
the tobacco chief of America"
49, Dula accompanied by his wife, Is
- Atlanta. purely on pleasure bent. He
,.oyes soon for Augusta. where, as he
so,s he "wSl play golf and loaf"
NJ Dula's comments upon Americans
l., general we're suggested by the query
.o what effect the United States
-,,.,rsrre courts recent dissolution de-
a,,.o ordered against the American To-
nocco Company had had upon the va
r;o,s subsidiaries OF that concern.
dissolution was what the people
rorted" said Mr. Dula, land as l have
.,,d the people as rule are the intel
,,oenr arbiters of any great public ques-
ton
Tobacco Dissolution Suit.
THE suit against our company was
A,+ ths crv for action of mass VINO
noueved that separation of big capital
into component parts was the solution
n what they popularity call trusts. This
may be So
The average American citizen Is am
ht,ous. The idea of getting there is
deeply implanted in each and every cit
,zer Of this country Sometimes this
sr,b,tion leads individuals to overstep
4be boundaries Of proper conduct in
Fheir business life Such citizens need
regulation by the police.
Take man with a big brain and
w4th broad ideas, and then 1t becomes
the duty Of the government legal forces
to see that he keeps within the strait
and narrow path. His plans sometimes
Sv.rstep the laws limits, though he
himself may be ignorant of the fact.
~ believe that the trust question, 50
r.lfsd, has been partially solved. Dis
solution by government order Is good
FOR combinations where capital has be-
ZONE. we might say, congested.
Business prospers when held in
rneck by high authority and the moral
force Of the people themselves. A busi-
ness can not go wrong when 1t does its
vors right out where the citizens them
selves can see its operations"
Pears for Wilson.
Mr. Dula was asked concerning the
tttltude Of business men in general to-
Uard President elect Wilson, and said:
Wilson as q scholar and theorist is
pne Of the worlds best products. He
means believe, to do right. But
There is likely to be Democratic civil
war right in the party that may make
Wilson's efforts futile. However, that
remains 10 be seem
The head OF one of the largest to-
Nacco concerns in the world is a re-
firing man and loath to have his name
attached TO publicity of any sort. He
declares.
! have served my time Starting as
North Carolina boy, have tried all
my life just to keep business in my
mead and not in my mouth. 1 believe
! nave succeeded. My years i'll the
West were too full of work TO allow
me TO be much in the public eye. When
left st. Louis for New York, my ac-
,TitIes increased. A few years ago
believed that I owed to myself and my
VINE some rest. am not now &C
P'e| engaged in the tobacco business.
eI'a am here solely for the purpose Of
sonng and loafing. as | have said"