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April 22, 1915 THE three sweetest words in the English lan guage are mother, home and heaven. Just home is enough for the average man, a place where he can go in the quiet eventide and find solid comfort and rest. The average woman can never possibly realize how a man feels, towards home. Some days ago the writer overheard a lady say: “I believe every man wants to find his wife at home when he comes in from his days’ work.” Os course he does, and it is a compliment to his wife that he feels thus, instead of wishing that she were off some place else. Through the long day’s toil the average man is sustained by the thought that at night there will be fellowship of a sympathetic nature. “Love wore a threadbare dress of gray And toiled upon the road all day. Love wielded pick and carried pack, And bent to heavy loads the back. Though meager fed and sorely tasked, One only wage love ever asked — A child’s white face to kiss at night; A woman’s smile by candle light.” Horne Life Presupposes Marriage. The Creator was infinitely wise when he saw that it was not good for man to live alone and created for him an helpmeet. Woman was God’s last crea tion and his best. If I were an infidel and could have no other reason for believing in a Supreme Being who creates and controls all things in the material and spiritual world, than the marriage of man and wife, I would be convinced of his existence and providential dealings with his creation. Call it animalism if you want to but the attraction of a man for a partner in life is divinely implanted. We all have read with peculiar interest the story of the couple who decided to bring up their boy without his ever seeing a girl. When he was about 18 years old he accidentally saw a girl, and he ran begging his father for one. Solomon wrote in the long ago that he could not understand the way of a man with a maid. It is not understandible today, but a man can no more help thinking of the oppo site sex than a young man can help his thoughts “A GREATER NATION THRU A GREATER SOUTH” (Continued from page 1.) the negative side regarding affirmations proved by the government researches of the nation. The Southern Commercial Congress is not merely an annual meeting. It is a union of effort on the part of all Southern commercial bodies and indi vidual business institutions to bring two things to pass in our day: First, to induce a proper under standing by the people of the South regarding the significance of the physical resources of their states in establishing a greater nation through a greater South; and second, to sweep out of the mind of the world all elements of misunderstanding re garding the South, its prospects, its people, and its opportunities. The Southern Commercial Congress was desig nated to be a confederation of all local Southern commercial bodies and individual business institu tions interested in Southern progress, an extended Chamber of Commerce doing for a section of coun try what the local chamber does for its community, a centralized source of information and inspira tion for local organizations, a national office for each, a co-operative bureau for assembling and cir culating nationally the broad facts regarding indus trial, commercial, and agricultural possibilities and progress in the South. National and International Organizations at Muskogee. The Sixth Annual Convention of The Southern Commercial Congress, to be held in Muskogee, Okla homa, the last week in this month, will be presided over by Senator Duncan U. Fletcher, of Florida, President of the organization, and will be partici pated in by 'representatives of national and inter national organizations, bringing to one platform the most important leaders of constructive thought in the fields of Agriculture, Immigration, Municipal Efficiency, and Foreign Trade ever assembled in this country. Four international organizations will be repre sented. “Steadying the World’s Price of Agricul tural Staples Through the Establishment of a Per manent Inernational Commerce Commission on Ocean Freight Rates” is the subject of a report from the International Institute of Agriculture, a JUST HOME By Rev. W. H. Faust. lightly turning to thoughts of love, in the glad springtide. Every normal man looks forward to the time when he can look into the face of his child. Not to be able to do so is a serious disappointment, and one from which no man ever fully recovers. Purity of life counts. Harper Scott said to his son as he left for Paris: There’ll be a time in your life when, if you haven’t been decent you will wish to heaven you had.” He that loveth his life shall lose it. This is specially true of married life. There must be in it this foundamental idea of sac rifice. One must be willing to serve and here comes in the great Christian truth that he that would be greatest among you must be your servant. Man is more than an animal. Abraham Lincoln proved that years ago and Christ taught it to the apostles in his work with them before he ascended to the right hand of the Father. Necessity for Expression of Love. Some one has truly said: “Love unexpressed soon dies.” Bowditch, the great mathematician, made it a rule of his life never to allow his wife to come into his presence without expressing in some way his pleasure in seeing her. It is useless to say that his married life was happy. It could not be other wise under such favorable conditions. Express your love and be not ashamed of it for love is of God—yea God Himself is love. In the marriage relationship it is well to understand that it is wise to be neither Epicurean * nor Stoical. There is a wise middle ground upon which the happy ones stand. The wise will find it, the foolish need not expect it. If I were to turn to the poet of love I would look in the direction of Mrs. Browning who basked in the love of her husband always. She sings truly: “How do I love thee. Let me count the ways. I love thee to the breadth, and depth, and heighth My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day’s Most quiet need, by sun and candle light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right; federation of fifty-four nations, prepared by Hon. David Lubin, the American Delegate. Hon. John Barrett, Director General of the Pan- American Union, will deliver an address on Foreign Trade Day, interpreting the activities of the Pan- American Union, a federation of American Repub lics. J. B. Case, President of the International Irriga tion Congress, will speak on “The Colonization of Irrigated Lands.” The American Commission on Agricultural Or ganization will be represented by Col. Harvie Jor dan, of Atlanta, Georgia, President of the South ern Cotton Growers’ Association. Among the national organizations to be repre sented are the United States Commission onßural Credits, appointed by President Wilson, to be rep resented by Congressman Moss, of Indiana. The United States Commission co-operated with the American Commission in the investigation, of rural finance in eighteen countries of Europe in 1913. The United States Commission has, by Act of Con gress, been perpetuated throughout the fiscal year 1916. The National Marketing Committee, in session at Washington recently, adjourned, to meet in Mus kogee in April, and appointed Congressman Wm. S. Goodwin, of Arkansas, to deliver an address inter preting the plans and purposes of the Committee. The Committee on Immigration,, appointed at the national conference held in Washington, December 12th, will submit its report. Hon. M. V. Richards, Industrial Commissioner of the Southern Railway, a member of the Committee, will be the representa tive of the Committee at the Congress. The report of the American Commission of Mu nicipal Executives, which participated in the Inter national Municipal Congress, in London, in July, 1914, will be made by Leßoy Hodges, of Virginia. The American Commission was assembled under the auspices of The Southern Commercial Congress. The Latin-American Trade Committee, appointed by Secretary Redfield, will be represented by sev eral members and a report will be made to the Congress by Clarence J. Owens, Managing Director THE GOLDEN AGE I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs and with my childhood’s faith. I love thee with a love, I seem to lose With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and choose, I shall but love thee better after death.” Too often the flowers are kept until the nostril is still in death. The kind word is held back until the ear is beyond the reach of sound, or the heart out of the realm of sympathy. If you have flowers give them to the living. If you have a kind and cheerful word speak it today and let the preachers do the eulogy stunt after death. In a magazine I read what at first seemed to me a piece of fool ishness. You read it and then reread it, and then read it again, and you will begin to appreciate its wisdom and beauty. Some one writes in my Little Boy: ‘Father,’ says he ‘What is life’ I give him a tap in his little stomach, roll him over on the car pet and conceal my emotion under a mighty romp. Then when we sit breathless and tired I answer gravely. ‘Life is delightful, my little boy. Don’t you be afraid of it.’” It is hard for one to awake to realize what un selfish love is until he discovers it in the fields of fatherhood or motherhood. I have my serious doubts whether one can ever pray “Our Father” un til he has looked into the face and felt the pull of little fingers around his heart-strings. Home is poorer without mother, and it is but a step above without children. Take out of this country our homelife and the prattle of children and it would be a vast winderness of unhappiness. Thrice blessed is the man who has a home, and blessed above all men is that man who can, at the close of day, frolic with his own children and thus drive away the ghosts of unhappiness. “A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there Which seek through the world is ne’er met with elsewhere. Home, home, sweet, sweet home Be it ever so humble there’s no place like home.” of The Southern Commercial Congress, who is a member of this committee. The National Foreign Trade Council will be rep resented by Mr. Jas. J. Farrell, President of the United States Steel Corporation, and Mr. Willard Straight, of Morgan & Company. The National Association of Commercial Organi zation Secretaries will be represented by Mr. W. C. Culkins, of Cincinnati, and Mr. Lucius E. Wilson, of East Dorset, Vermont. Hon. Joseph E. Ransdell will be present, repre senting the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, and will deliver an address on “Our Rivers and Harbors and Their Relation to Agriculture.” The Inland Navigation Bureau will be represented by its Manager, Hon. John M. Bernhard, of New Orleans. The Southern Commercial Secretaries’ Associa tion, made up of the commercial executives of six teen Southern States, will participate on the pro gram, through several of its officials, including Mr. Adolph Boldt, of Houston, Teaxs Past President of the Association; Mr. Bruce Kennedy of Montgom ery, Alabama, Past President; Mr. A. V. Snell, Past Secretary, of Charleston, South Carolina; Mr. Carl J. Baer, of Little Rock and Mr. Walter Parker. Manager of the Progressive Union of New Orleans, Louisiana. > (Continued on page 11.) RECREATION VERSUS DISSIPATION. (Continued from page 2.) ures and in his preparation to prepare himself for a life worth while. Therefore, be a Christian in your play and in your work. Take no chances. Character is all that is worth while in this world. Be right with God, and right with man, and you shall be blessed for ever more. Do not tamper with sin. It will bite. Its sting is death. 5