Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15
|NER|CANS NEED
|RECULA T|0N \,
| SAYS DULA
1ohacCo Chief of America -
Now in Atlanta, Talks OF
Trust Dissolution.

,rbe average American cltlzen
. needs police regulation"
a.rnhitious men in all lines OF
s..ovor sometimes overreach the
s t,,nnds of proper conduct.
.1oissoIution suits, properly oil
- work great good where cap
,a' las become, so to speak, con-
gested.
"Posiness prospers when it is
held in check by the moral force
of the people.
.r toua if that the American public
the most Intelligent body OF people
" oortb was the declaration or K. b.
,,Ia Of New York, hailed in this coun-
tine tobacco chief Of America.
=. mia accompanied by his wife, Is
r. Atlanta purely on pleasure bent. He
80 soon for Augusta. where, as he
,ys he Will play golf and loaf"
Nv DD1a's comments upon Americans
GENERAL we're suggested by the query
O., what effect the United states
a ...,ar,,a courts recent dissolution de-
q 49,. o,.6ered against the American To-
s,.,,-o company had had upon the va
4 ..,o,,, subsidiaries Of that concern.
nrssxolptiop was what the people
uou.aa" said Mr Dula. land as 1 have
~ tho neople as a rule are the intel
,.a.,t arhiters Of any great public quss-
ton
Tobacco Dissolution SuFt.
a,rbe sui, against our company was
,.4 .t, cry FOR action of a mass who
,,,;,,aa that separation Of big capital
...., oop,r,onent parts was the solution
IL what they popularity call trusts This
may be so.
,7,ba average American citizen is am
,t+;,ns The idea OF getting there Is
..aor,v implanted in each and every cit
..on 81 this country. Sometimes this
ambition leads individuals to overstep
tho boundaries of proper conduct in
heir business lite Such citizens need
regulation by the police
"Talza a man with a big brain and
with h-oed IDEAS and then 1t becomes
the duty OF the government legal FORCES
.o seq that he lxeps within the strait
sra narrow path His plans sometimes
ovars.ep the laws limits, though he
F..4.elf NAV be ignorant OF the fact.
OF ha,icve that the trust question. 50
.aHed, has been partially solved. Dis
solution by government order is good
ror combinations where capital has be
come we might say. congested.
business prospers when held in
meek by high authority and the moral
force of the people themselves. A bust
ness can not go wrong when 1t does it's
work right out where the citizens them
seIves can see its operations"
Pears for Wilson.
Mr. DuIa was asked concerning the
attitude Of business men in general to-
ward PRESIDENT elect Wilson, and said:
Wilson as a scholar and theorist is
.lo Of The worlds best products. He
means I believe, to do right But
there is likely to be q Democratic civil
war right in the party that may make
Wieons efforts futile. However. that
emains to be seen"
The head Of one of the largest to-
bacco concerns in the world is a re-
-iring man and loath to have his name
attached to publicity Of any sort. He
declares
Il have served my time Starting as
q North Carolina boy. I have tried all
my life Just to keep business in my
head and not in my mouth. I believe
have succeeded. My years in the
West were too full OF work to allow
ne to be much in the public eye. When
left St Louis for New York, my &C.
'ITitles increased. A few years ago l
'ejeyed that I owed to myself and my
VIE some rest. l am not now &C
lively engaged in the tobacco business,
ana am here solely for the purpose Of
so-hng ana loafing. as I have said"