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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-09-24


has been greater in the South than
in any other section, is it wonderful
that the negro has advanced?
1t is such sentiment as this,
coupled with what the people of the
South honestly know of the limita-
tions of the negro, that has made
the Democratic party of today, for
the first time in history, go on record
as trucking to the negro for his
favor and his support.
Just how far has the negro gone
in any of the laudable enterprises
mentioned in the editorial, unaided,
unguided and unadvised by his white
friends? How many negro land
owners are there in the South, as
against those of the North? And
how long does the negro make a
success of anything once he has come
from under the influence of the
white brother?
Liberia and Haiti are the answers
to this, and the man who wrote that
editorial should learn just how far
the dominion of the French in Haiti
is accountable for the small need
of success which that country has to
her credit. AS for Liberia-just
how many months ago was it that
the Liberian envoy was in Washing
ton asking favors of the U. S. gov
eminent?
In song and story, the sentiment
of the negro is a pathetic thing, but
in real life, it is something different.
''The wonderful loyalty" which in
duced so many of the colored brother
to skeedaddle after his white one,
was even more emphatic in the
South, and many a Southern house
wife will tell with pride and pathos
Of the hams and the horses, the food
and the silver which old Toby or
Aunt Dicey or Uncle Jake helped her
to hide from the Yankees, when the
thrifty ones of the ilk were not only
eating all they could lay their hands
on, but stealing household goods
from a helpless lot of women and
negroes.
The South has a keen sense of
that loyalty, and for that reason it
has tolerated abuses which no other
section of the country would toler-
ate; for that reason there are ten
white children working in mills and
fields, to one negro child; for that
reason there are thousands Of dollars
paid by white landowners in the
South, on land which years of negro
tenantry have almost made worth
less; for that reason the percentage
of illiteracy in the Southern States
among the white children is appall-
ing, while the negro colleges and
schools, upheld by Northern philan-
thropists, are filled to OVERLOOKING.
But it is when the negro is used as
political asset by both the Old Par
ties, that the South rebels, and if
the Northern press really wants to
aid and help the colored brother,
let it stress the fact that his greatest
success and usefulness to his race lies
along further development Of "arts
and crafts" and less along the line
of political preferment which will
place him in authority over white
people.
The South has a keen sense of
gratitude-but it begins first with
the whites of the South.
The war has given the German
Kaiser the time of his life for being
photographed.
The --latest war news" reads very
much like the first, and the toll in
lives and property almost beyond be-
lief.
Just how many lives must be lost
at railroad crossings, before the mat
ter will be made Interstate, and the
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-09-24

- period is one only of heresay
lew families, North or South
did not contribute at least distantly
to the numbers who fought for what
they considered right.
OF course, in the concrete, the ne
gro was the pivot on which the Wal
rc7olved, but there was, so far as
the South was concerned, a mightiel
thing at stake than even the question
OF slavery. There was the right OF
a State or number of States tC
choose for themselves, the things
and the manners they preferred.
1t seems that the time would have
come, if ever it was to come, thai
the North would at least try to I'M
derstand this much, but when one
raeds such f1apdoodle as the follow
ing, taken from a Northern paper
one simply throws up the sponge
and gives up the "watchful wait.
ing" which might be freighted with
the hope of enlightenment:
America has proved to be
one Of the lands Of surprises in
modern times, especially in the
matter of rapid growth. But in
no respect has the advancement
of the negro race been surpassed
in the last half century. When
it is considered that the blacks
came out of the Civil War with
freedom in their hand and moth
ing else, that their race had
been in state Of slavery for
hundreds of years, that teach
ing had been forbidden them and
property holding and the learn
ing of arts and crafts beyond
the very simplest for planta-
ton use, the holdings of that
race in property, the success of
many of them in trade, the es-
Enlistment and progress of
seminaries Of learning, is the
answer to the idea that the race
is incapable of genuine progress.
Behind it all is the fact that
no class of citizens can possibly
exceed those of the colored race
in loyalty to the Union. Many
a veteran of the Civil War is
living today in the North be-
cause he never found a cOlored
man in the South who was not
eager to + otect the Northern
soldier and send him on his
way, if it were possible to do
so. That wonderful loyalty will
never be forgotten, either by
those who felt the benefit of it
during the struggle, or the his
torian who writes the history of
the conflict"
Those noble sentiments were taken
from the editorial columns of the
Buffalo, New York; Evening News;
of course it is a Republican paper
and equally of course, it expresses
the honest sentiment of it's editor.
"When it is considered that the
blacks came out of the Civil War
with freedom in their hand, and
nothing else, that their race had
been in a state of slavery for hund-
reds of years, that teaching had been
forbidden them" ETC., why didn't
that editor go a bit further and say:
when it is remembered that they
came to the plantations of the South
with those hundreds of years OF
slavery back of them, added to the
savagery which was also their in
heritance; that the arts and crafts
necessary for them to be used as
on those plantations had tC
be taught them by the people who
owned them; that the business OF
slave gathering and slave selling was
strictly a Northern enterprise, and
4h OF 81: ~ q tic nnnditinnS had q grea1
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-09-24
THE REAL STATUS OF THE
NEGRO.

IT has been a goodly number Of
/ years since the Civil War, and
to a great many of US, the
j period is one only of heresay:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-11
Mexican "War Measure"
Favors the Saxon Cars

Buying automobiles by the pound
Is the way they are doing it in Mexico
these days. And thereby hangs a tale.
The Mexican government in its des-
peration to get out of the throes of
financial stringency, is levying a duty
OF nifty cents a pound on all motor
cars that are imported. Every make
OF car is being hit by this duty, the big
cars being the greatest sufferers
There Is one automobile that is get
ting off easier than any other, and it
is the Saxon, which weighs slightly
more than 1000 pounds. A few days
ago the Saxon dealer In Mexico City
wired to the Detroit factory as fol-
lows:
Send us all the cars you can as fast
as you can supply them"
A letter followed explaining that
the Saxon being the lightest on the
market, less import duty Is charged
than for any other cars. The agent
added that he had given up hopes
of selling the larger cars he handles
until the excessive duty Is cut.
1t is announced by President II.
w. Ford of the Saxon Motor Com
pany that the high water mark of
March shipments was reached with a
record of &c cars shipped in a day.
The output for the last week in March
was 1877 cars.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-11
High Water Mark in REQ
Production and Sales

A trip through the REQ factories
at thls period .discloses activities such
as nave never been witnessed before
In the history of the Reo-either al
the Truck plant or at the Pleasure
Car factory.
The demand for REQ cars and
trucks keeps the Pleasure Car and
truck factories in a continual riv-
airy; this also applies to the Pleasure
car and Truck Sales Departments.
And rivalry exists between the sales
and factory organizations-the sales-
men to sell faster than the factory pro-
ouces, and the factory trying to get
a hundred or two ahead of the sales
men.
Last year at this time 40 REQ cars
day was the limit of production.
With the additional buildings, and
the factory facilities that were added
last Fall, the production has been in
creased to 80 day. which is the
daily average. There have been
many busy days lately when the
shipments have run up to 115 cars
per day.
NOT lnfrequently during the past
rev weeks have orders been tele-
graphed and mailed to the number of
z25 cars or more a day. This indi-
Gates q glowing tribute 10 the popu-
iarlty OF REQ the Fifth. The orders
now coming in to the factory are not
by large majority the greatest in
dication of general prosperity, for
there are over 1000 orders already
on the books for April delivery.
An immense amount of new ma
chinery was installed last fall which
greatly increased the manufacturing
Iacilities, and a man even remotely
familiar with manufacturing, would
be impressed with the wonderful la
bor-saving devices which lend their
mechanical brains to producing ac-
curately and in large quantities in
the REQ factories.
one large building was added 10
the REQ factory for storing cars, but
that building has been as empty as
furnished apartment in a plague
injected city. This building was
erected without giving full considera-
ton to the popularity of the car and
the ability of the sales organization
TO place the cars as fast as they We're
turned out.
The Truck end of the REQ business
mas been hit with the same wave of
popularity and the factory is work.
ing full capacity, and then some, TO
I'LL orders on the now famous Model
j. 1t is a safe predication that the
REQ Truck business will be double
that or last year.
All in all, everybody is happy
heads of departments are buster than
ever before, and the employees are
sharing the satisfaction that goes with
a busy organization.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-11
COFFIN TALKS ON
|. FUTURE OF THE SIX
Predicts That Six Cylinder Cars
Will Displace All Fours Selling
For. More Than $1,000

The basis of the new type Hud-
son Six said Howard e. Coffin, sis
economy. People used to think the
very name six-cylinder meant size.
weight, extravaganza. Now we know
F, better. We can build a four. This is
because we have lower explosive
strains to meet. We can machine a
| six-throw crank shaft quite as cheaply
as we used to turn out a four. 1t
takes no more time to bore six holes
| than it does four. when we use the
new multiple spindle drills and taps.
And In the items of gasoline and fuel
consumption. not to speak of lessened
tire wear. the six has demonstrated
! its supremacy over any four-cylinder
my claims than some of the six
cylinder advocates, but I want to be
absolutely fair to both types. l have
built them both and know them both. :"
will the six completely displace
the four in all sizes and types of
cars?" Mr.. Coffin was asked.
Yes and no." the great engineer
replied. But in cars at price about
$1,000 can see no hope for the sur
vival of the four. The six-cylinder
even now dominates the field over
$1,000. 1t is a repetition of the way
In which the four swept the boards
of twos and ones when first the low
priced four was built. Twos and ones
went out of use almost over night.
Fours are mechanically less efficient
and more costly to maintain than
skies. And the whole history of ma
chinery tells us that the better type
machine inevitably drives out the less
efficient. When buyer can get six
at $3.50, for example why should he
pay S1,S00 for a four? When the six
is lighter weight. handsomer, uses less
gasoline, is easier on tires, costs less
for repair. and is very many times
more pleasant and comfortable to
drive what is the sense of even con-
sidering the four? Yes. l designed
many fours. But we all grow and
progress. And new things are con-
stantly being discovered and old ones
improved. / see no reason why we
should stand still. If better motor
than siX-cylinder is evolved it will
as surely drive out the six-cylinder
type as this model is driving out the
four. How far distant that day may
be, no man knows. But now the six
is supreme"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-11
SEE PERSONAL TESTS /
II AS AID IN CAR SALE
Mitchell Co. Says Its Dealers viii
Put Demonstrators at Service
of Interested Critics
BY f. G. wEsTLAKE

personal touch" and personal ex-
perienee" are two features that the
, statement that any Mitchell dealer in
any part of the world will turn his
demonstrator den over to the prospect for
put the machine through any test the
interested critic may suggest.
by this plan." said o. G.. Friend.
from the East to-day. "the critic may
get personal experience which proves
, to him the merits of our car.
Rather risky to turn a demonstra-
tor over, to anyone who comes. along?
Not much. Men who mean business In
the auto world-men who are interest
ed enough to study cars and get per-
are not going to deceive dealers who
own demonstrators and pay for rum
ming them.
almost daily get letters from
Mitchell dealers in all parts of the
country complimenting the Mitchell
Lewis company on this phase of ex-
over demonstrators to prospects. They
say that the execution of this idea
bring brings sales 3 that no other plan can
Dring; There's nothing, like a close
personal knowledge of the feel of the
car. and there's nothing that fills q
dealer with so much elation as to have
critic admit that the car has done
more than the seller of cars claimed for
at that"
One OF the best recommendations
ever volutariIy given to the M;tcbaI1
3aImtomobile Company's selling forces at
zj54 Michigan avenue was that of q
Well- known representative of an East
Mitchell and told Manager Halls sec
retary that he probably made more
stops on a days run than any other
motorist in Chicago.
Il picked a Mitchell car several wears
ago when l took this territory" he
said, because | found 1t more economi-
cai and efhclent in starting and stop
pihR hundreds Of times every day than
other cars had driven. The same holds
good on my 1914 Mitchell"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-11
Hupp Makes Triumphant Run
Of 1000 Miles in Louisiana

2,OO0-mile trip over Louisiana, the
most extensive of its character ever
made in that state, was ended last
week when Fred Perkins, Manager of
the Capital City Auto Co., Baton
Rouge, La, and j. A. Garrity, travel
ing salesman of the Hupp Motor Car
Company, returned to that city in q
Hupmobile.
The trip was the result Of a wager
, which Mr.. Perkins had with the man
ager of the Grand Hotel at Baton
Rouge. The boniface, Mr.. Grant, in
the course of conversation with Mr..
Perkins, stated that he did not be-
lieve there was car on the market
to-day that could negotiate the mud
roads of Louisiana. Mr.. Perkins de-
clared that the Hupmobile could do
1T and, what was more, he would
leave the city with "32" 1914 model
with the hood, crank and battery box
sealed, travel 1000 miles and return
with the seals intact.
Accordingly he had a special glass
hood made for the car which was
sealed by Mayor Grouehy of Baton
Rouge, and he left in the teeth of a
hard snow storm that extended all
through Louisiana.
The contestants made the trip over
the worst roads Louisiana has known
for some time, driving from Baton
Rouge to Lake Charles as far north
as Shreveport, as far east as Mander-
vile. and as far south as New Or
leans, total of'over 1000 miles. On
his return OF Baton Rouge, Mr.. Per-
kins was met by Mayor Grouchy and
Ia committee of citizens at the out
skirts of the State capital and escorted
to the city hall where there were
speeches and a general jollification
MY Hupmobile acted splendidly,"
said Mr.. Perkins, I'VE didn't have 10
touch thing on the trip, and all in
all the car was In just as good con-
dition as before we left on this Cruel
ling tour"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-11
Good Mileage From the
Miller New Tread Band

We have just heard of some re-
markable mileage made by The Mil
Ter Rubber Company's new tread
band. A short time ago we made an
announcement in these columns of the
mechanical design and special fea-
lures of The Miller retread band con-
struction. So that this quotation will
substantiate the remarks. at got
nearly, II not quite seven thousand
miles before 1 turned in the old car
and got a new one. and those bloom
ing tires not worn out yet" says f.
d. Blessing of Hummelstown, Pa,
VIII had his tires retreaded by The
Miller Rubber Company's Harrisburg
Pa. agency, the Sterling Auto Tire
Co. This band is evidently gaining
much headway.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-11
Hudson Production For
March Breaks Records

When the whistle blew at the close
of work at the Hudson factory or
March 81 1904 cars had been built
and shipped.
The production of 1904 cars. in
single month would mean that A
cars were built a day, per hour
and a car every 10 mintues, every cal
of which was tested and inspected in
every part.
When we take into consideration the
size, power and beauty of the Hudson
and that every part was inspected In
the minutest detail. 1t was an engi-
neering performance of enormous
magnitude.
Regardless of this enormous pro-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-11

duction. the local dealer. 7. w. Dill,
received advice under date of March 80
In reply to request for additional
cars: Your allotment must stand as
specified. 1t will be impossible to in
crease it,
These conditions indicate the we'll
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-11
CAN'T STAND CLOCKS DIN

DIR. G. w. Milton, of Cairo, Egypt,
writes a Detroit friend that he has
had to remove the auto clock he had
fitted to his Studebaker -Four He
alleges that the ticking disturbed the
quiet which he had enjoyed touring
in the car, prior to the clocks ap-
Dearance
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-11
HELP TOURISTS AND EACH

New England Studebaker dealers
have banded into formal association
to promote mutual welfare and to pro-
vide systematic service for the owners
of Studebaker cars who tour the re-
gion in the summer. Joseph S. Dono-
van, Studebaker distributor in Boston,
is president.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-11
MILE AN HOUR ON HIGH

Before a jury of open minded spec
tators. President Peck of the Peck
Auto Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. as
baker "Six'' in high gear for one hour
and covered exactly one mile. without
once stalling the motor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-11
known demand the Hudson has re-
ceived this season.

A For Rent ad In the Telegraph
Wants reaches more homes in one
evening than there are people pass
ing your home in q week.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-19
The Folly of Worry

The average girl is much too in
clined to worry. 1t is all SO futile
and useless, too, once the deed is
done, and done irrevocably. why
worry over past mistakes?
The past is so dreadfully apt to
hamper ones future. This is great
mistake. Wherever possible a mis-
take should be rectified and every
atonement made, but beyond that 1t
is foolish to worry.
One sees on every hand girls worry
ing over split milk that can never be
gathered up again. They are only
wasting their time and energy that
could be better employed in other
WAYS. says the Philadelphia Evening
Ledger.
No human being is perfect, and we
are all prone to error. There is a
certain type of girl who must always
have something to worry over, or
else she is downright miserable. She
is very far from being q pleasant
companion. No one seeks her society,
and yet, like the poor, she Is always
with u.s. She literally finds her hap
piness in being unhappy. This may
sound rather "Irish," yet it is true.
The girl who is ambitious and
strongminded will spend just the
right proportion of her time In
remedying past mistakes, and then
will turn to a fresh day, determined
to make the best of it and to start
all over again. 1t is a sure sign OF
weakness of character to dwell I'M
duly and unprofitably upon past
errors Of Judgment.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-19
what Makes Kitchen Work Easiers

What Makes Kitchen Work Easier?
Bob seems determined to investi-
gate homework and not let me know
too much more than he does. Today
he writes me that he has it on ex-
cellent authority that the average
women walks about seven miles a
day in her kitchen, and he soiicitous-
ly suggests my using a rolling chair.
Aunt Juliette laughed when l showed
his letter-just part of ito her, but
she believes he's right
That's what makes kitchen work
hard-the trudging from pantry to
table and across the room to stove,
with a hop, skip and jump from res
frigerator to sink between times" she
said, "It isn't the amount of work
YOU do in the kitchen, but the way
YOU do it, that makes it easy or diff
cult. Useless walking back and
forth, STOPPING down to uncomfort-
able levels, bending down on hands
and knees-that makes you tired at
the end of the day. Standing half
an hour at the sink washing dishes
makes a woman more tired than a
two mile walk outdoors"
"But. aunt, how can you help 60
ing to your refrigerator when you
need supplies, or to the pantry for
knives and things when you need
them?"
"By systematizing your work so
that Won make only one trip. We
save steps in our kitchen by having
all our tools and all our supplies just
where we need them. Here is our
preparing table. next the refrigerator
If want to bake cake l take my
eggs. butter, milk or whatever l need
from the refrigerator to my prepar-
ing table and then I sit down. On
the shelf above is my mixing bowl
underneath you will see the spoons
and heaters hung up, and on the
shelf at my right are sugar. salt
spices and other dry ingredients.
don't have to bend once or stoop un.
necessarily, and l make my cake
ready for the stove without waste
motion
| I never realized before why aunt'i
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-19
CHEAPER TO BUY
MEAT IN QUANTITY

In many markets where the pound
price of mutton and lamb is high
careful shoppers will find that they
can obtain this form of meat very
much lower by buying hindquarters
or half carcasses, instead of buying
chops and roasts separately by the
pound, says the Department of Agrtc-
ulture. In the case of a htndquarter
the chops can be cut off and served
for one meal and the roasts will serve
for another meal In this way the fam
lily frequently will obtain chops at a
price per pound lower than that asked
for roast alone by the pound. Where a
half carcass is bought, in addition to
the chops and roasts the family will
have forequarter and meat for stew
ing. The sheep is very convenient
for purchase in this way, as it is
small and can be kept in an ordinary
refrigerator, says the Philadelphia
Press.
Frequently families combine and
buy whole carcass and divide 1t, and
in this case get still better prices and
obtain expensive cuts at low aver
age per pound. The specialists of the
department advises women who find
the cost of other meats oppressive to
investigate these quantity buying
methods and also to look into the diff
ferences in prices charged for lamb
and mutton by different retailers In
their neighborhoods.