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FRIDAY MORNING AUGUST 29, 1913.
PUSHING THE
CURRENCY BE
Looks as Though the “Impos
sible" Would Happen.
WILSON FORGING CONGRESS
MEXICAN PACT
IS IMPOSSIBLE
Shifting Conditions Are Against
It, Say Officials.
CANADIANS SMUGGLE WHEAT
Mawachuactt* Members Fighting Free
Fiah—"Accidental" Protection on Ba-
nanaa—Lack of Attention by Oppoa-
ing Factions—Gardner to Make Tariff
Issue In Gubernatorial Fight.
i By ARTHUR W. DUNN.
Washington, Aug. 27. - [Special.] -
What senators and representatives
said was Impossible is to be accom
plished. Currency legislation has been
"Impossible" during all these years.
As different bills have been proposed,
Including the much abused Aldrich
plan (which by some other name would
huve been called very good), legisla
tors have practically thrown up their
hands and said nothing could pass.
But several mouths ugo the presi
dent sent a message to congress say
ing that currency legislation wus need
ed. But even the majority party did
not take It very seriously, although
work progressed on the bill In the
hands of real enthusiasts. Then a
movement for postponement was made,
to which nearly everybody agreed un
til the president sent the faithful Tu
multy to the senate and the caucus by
an overwhelming majority decided to
stay and push currency legislation. It
seems to be the man behind the gun
that mukes this possible.
Taft Alto Forced Action.
It must not be supposed that Boose-
velt and Wilson are the only men who
could “drive” congress. Taft forced
congress as well ns other presidents.
A notable example was In the Cumt
dian reciprocity bill. Senator Borah
of Idaho, commenting on the criticisms
of Wilson for forcing his ideas, said
he did not take much comfort In them.
"If Republican senators,” he said, "had
voted their convictions when the Cana
dlan reciprocity bill was before con
gress there would not have been ten
votes on the Republican side in favor
of It."
Senator Borah was extremely mild
As I recall, there was scarcely a Re
publican senator who was really In
favor of the bill, but was forced by
the Taft administration.
Massachusetts Fish.
Those Massachusetts men can al
ways be found on the firing line when
a measure comes up taking the duty
off fish. There wus a strong fight
against the Canadian reciprocity bill
made by Congressman Gardner. The
same member fought the fish provision
in the Underwood bill, and both Mas
sachusetts senators were on hand con
testing the free fish provision in the
senate.
Senator Lodge was not only eloquent,
but historical, calling both the Ad
amses, who had been president, to sus
tain him in his fight for the fishing in
terests of Gloucester and Province-
town.
For some unknown reason fish goes
into the agricultural schedule, and the
Massachusetts senators were fighting
side by side with western agricultural
senators on this schedule.
‘‘Accidental" Protection.
We have heard a great deal about
“incidental” protection, but it was Sen
ator Lane who found "accidental" pro
tection in one item. The Oregon sena
tor was favoring the duty on bananas
and said that when the Panama canal
was completed the apples and other
fruits of Oregon would be sold In the
east in place of bananas. Senator
Jones of Washington asked if the rate
on bananas wus Intended as a protec
tive duty.
"I think not,” replied Lane. “I think
it Just accidentally happens that way.”
There was quite an outburst of
laughter at the answer.
Burton's Seriousness.
Senator Williams replied to Senator
Burton in the senate, prefacing his re
marks by saying, “It is a w’ell known
fact to all those who know and love
him that when he does try to look se
rious nobody in the world can look
more serious than my genial friend,
the senator from Ohio.”
But Burton is always quite serious.
Lack of Attention.
Senator Smith of Michigan called at
tention to the fact that only eight
Democratic senators listened to Sena
tor Bristow’s speech opening the de
bate on the sugar schedule, although
it was conceded that the Kansas sena
tor was one of the best informed men
in the senate on sugar.
A little later while Senator Williams
was speaking Bristow asked to be ex
cused as he had had no lunch. “Why,
exclaimed Williams, “I thank God for
the fact that there is nothing In the
constitution compelling us to listen to
one another. It would be .the most
miserable existence on earth if we had
to stay here all the time and hear one
another.”
Gardner and the Tariff.
If Congressman Gardner is nominat
ed for governor of Massachusetts he
will make the tariff the issue. In fact,
it has been given out by the Repub
licans that they intend to force that
issue In every state holding an election
this fall. Gardner hns already printed
the views of New England men In
pamphlet form for distribution in the
Old Bay State during the campaign.
Many Attempts to Bring Grain Across
Our Northern Border, Says Senator
Nelson—Congress Is Tired, but Not
“Sweltering"—State Pride and Fight
For Free Fruit.
By ARTHUR W. DUNN.
Washington, Aug. 20.—[Special.]—
We may know more about Mexico In
the next few months than we know
at the present time, but It is doubtful
If we will ever realize the conditions
which exist In thnt country so us to be
able to deal with the people. Shurlng
the dislike and distrust of Americans,
which seems to be prevulent In every
Latin Amerlcun country, the Mexicans
will never be satisfied with either our
altrusitlc and peaceful missions nor
demonstrations by force. We cannot
expect a government which we may
set up to stund In view of the hatred
which the Mexicans have against us
as a nation and against our people
generally.
The Americans in Mexico must have
assumed very lordly and superior airs
In all the years that they have been In
Mexico In order to bring about the dis
like which the whole population seems
to have against us aB a people.
Shifting Condition*.
■ Men familiar with Mexico—and there
are quite a number in the government
service If the administration wanted to
use them—suy that conditions are con
stantly changing In Mexico; that there
is nothing like stability among the peo
ple; that leaders never know when a
freakish following may desert them;
that no set of lenders could enter into
an agreement with the representatives
of the United States or any other coun
try with any assurance that their fol
lowers would be satisfied.
We nre dealing with a people more
changeful and capricious than the peo
ple of Cuba and less amenable to rea
son than the people of the Philippines.
Smuggling Whaat.
We have heard stories about smug
gling diamonds and other precious
stones. Jewelry of different kinds, silks
and laces, furs and clothing, cigars and
liquors, but the smuggling of wheat,
barley, oats and other agricultural
products was not supposed possible un
til brought out in the tariff debate.
Senator Nelson of Minnesota said
that many Canadians had attempted
to take advantage of the higher prices
on this side of the line by hauling
grain across the line with teams. Sen
ator Norris of Nebraska said he had
personal knowledge of smuggling
grain. So far It was not developed
that any attempt was made to smug
gle hay across the border.
Iowa Not Silent,
“Four years ago,” declared Senator
Clapp In the senate, “the Republican
state of Iowa had no more voice In
framing the Republican tariff bill than
the Democratic state of Alabama.”
But when one recalls the speeches of
Dolllver and Cummins it Is conceded
that they left their Impress upon tar
iff history which brought about the
present tariff revision, although the
rates will be lower.
Would Have Been a Contest.
If Senator Tillman had not been In
such a sad physical condition the day
he made his speech on woman suf
frage there would have been what T.
Roosevelt would call a “bully fight” on
the subject. Woman suffrage sen
ators were anxious to “go back” at the
South Carolina senator, and had he
been In the vigor of other days he
would have welcomed them to the
fray. As It was, the speech did not
cause debate, although the venerable
senator was given close attention.
Tired, but Not “Sweltering.”
Senators and representatives are
tired, some of them are ill, but they
are not “sweltering”- in the nation’s
capltol. The cnpitol building Is about
as cool a place ns anywhere unless at
summer resorts along the northern
coasts.
The committee rooms and the Cham
ber3 where the legislators assemble
are supplied with electric fans. The
public need not wnste much sympathy
upon the “sweltering” members of
congress.
State Pride.
Senator Weeks, arguing In favor of
free bananas, called attention to the
food qualities of the fruit and main
talned that it ought to he made as
cheap as possible. Senator Lane broke
In with a plea for apples, remarking
incidentally that Oregon produced the
best apples In the world.
“I would tell the senator that the
best apple Is raised In New England,”
remarked Senator Galllnger.
“I believe North Carolina got the
prize," Interjected Overman.
“We have right smart apples in A1
bermarle county, Virginia—in fact, the
best,” said Swanson of Virginia.
“In order that there may not be any
thing selfish I will say New Jersey is
quite prominent,” said Senator Mar-
tine.
“I am willing to admit that New
Jersey excels in applejack,” remarked
Weeks, and went on with his speech
before nny more apple states could
be heard from.
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SEPTEMBER WOMAN’S
HOME COMPANION.
The September Woman's Home
Companion is an advance autumn
fashion number. There is an unusu
al display of short 3tories, special ar
ticles, regular departments and art
features, but, in addition, the fash
ion department, under the direction
of Girace Margaret Gould, fashion ed
itor, is enlarged to twenty pages, and
includes a tremendous variety of facts
and ideas about dress, which will be
particularly useful to women at this
season of the year.
The Companion’s fashion policy is
to present all the latest facts about
fashions—even the extremes of Paris-
fashions—but when it comes to mak
ing suggestions and preparing pat
terns for American women the ex
tremes and the foolish novelties are
disregarded and a “middle of the road
course” is taken. In other words,
women are shown how they can dress
fashionably, and yet modestly and ec
onomically. Miss Gould is opposed
to the eccentric and the startling in
fashions, and, with great ability, suc
ceeds in being practical, reasonable,
and, at the same time, artistic.
In the same issue of the Woman’s
Home Companion the campaign for
Better Babies is carried forward with
great vigor. Hundreds of baby
shows of the new sort are being held
all over the United States this sum
mer and autumn. At these Better
Baby contests babies a jreud.
Baby contests babies are judged on
a score card precisely as livestock is
scored, according to strict, scientific
standards. By means of these score
cards thousands of apparently per
fect babies have been found to have
some defect, easily remedied, and of
real importance, that might not have
been discovered until serious harm
had resulted.
EACH IN ITS OWN WAY.
Each bird that sings, each flower that
blooms,
In its own sweet, simple way,
Makes brighter the world by having
lived
Tho’ only a single day.
Each tiny beam from the golden sun,
Lights up some dreary place,
Or helps to chase a cloud away,
Thus brightening a downcast face.
Each crimson tint in the far-off west,
At twilight’s gentle calm,
Blended with reflected shadows,
Lends to the eye a charm.
Like birds and flowers, we too, may
cheer,
When our kindly words we say,
For every word and deed of love,
Serves in its own little way.
—Bess Herring.
"IF.”
(With apologies to Kipling.)
If you can win a husband without
trying,
And make him think that he’s the
prize—not you;
If you can trust him—when you know
he’s lying,
And never can let him know you
knew;
If you can wait, and wait—and keep
on waiting,
And greet him when he comes with
smiling eyes,
And listen to the old equivocating,
And never say too much nor look
too wise;
If you can love him minus shave or
collar,
If you can cook—when cooking’s
not your aim;
If you can coax for every single dol
lar,
And go on being "thankful” just
the same;
If you can hear the earnest words
you’ve spoken
Twisted to make them sound
sane, absurd,
Or see your dearest hopes and idols
broken,
And never, never say a single
word,
If you can make one heap of your
illusions,
And risk them on one man—to
stand or fall—
And finding all your fairest dreams
delusions,
Can still declare that he was worth
it all;
If you can force your heart, and
nerves, and sinew
To keep a smiling face until the end
And never show what thoughts are
seething in you,
And seem to feel the joy that you
pretend;
If you can have your say—and then
keep quiet,
And never lose your gentle little
“Touch,”
If you can hide his weakness, or deny
it,
And other men don’t interest you
much;
If you can spend each day and hour
and minute
In pleasing Him—and never make
blunder,
Well, matrimony’s yours—for what
there’s in it;
And—what is more—my girl, you’ll
be a wonder!
—Helen Adelaide Roylands.
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD HAVE
ONE TOUCH OF COLOR.
Grace Margaret Gould, fashion ed
itor of the Woman’s Home Compan
ion, reports the new fall styles in the
September issue of that publication.
One point is as follows:
“It is the touch of color that counts
this season in the new frocks. Of
course not all women will favor the
startling, dazzling color combinations
made the vogue by the Cubists and
Futurists, but the woman who would
be stylish must not scorn at least
one touch of brilliant color in her
gowns.”
Piety.
Wee Girl—Mamma, we’ve got an
awful nice iceman.
Mother—Is he, dear. Why do you
think so?
Wee Girl—Why, he dropped
piece of ice on his foot and sat right
down on the step and talked to God.
What of it?
What if we hadn’t women’s clothes
to laugh at?
What if the ladies all wore coats and
derbies,
And all wore trousers of the selfsame
pattern,
And sheet-iron shirts and collars
coldly formal,
And look all just alike, the way we
men do?
What if? It wouldn’t be an hour, a
minute,
Before the women would do some
thing to them—
Poke in the derby, give the shirt a
ruffle,
Discover new alignments for the col
lar,
Invert the trousers and create them
graceful!
Because, you know, it’s not witn
clothes we’re dealing,
Not fashion plates or fabrics nor
cosmetics;
But, back of all, and just the same
without them,
Mysterious, adorable, perplexing,
Absurd, divine, kaleidoscopic Woman
—Exchange.
Young Man Took Warning.
“Charles,” said a sharp-voiced wom
an to her husband in a railway car,
“do you know that you and I • me
had a romance in a railway car’’”
“Never heard of it,” replied
Charles, in a subdued tone.
“I thought you hadn’t, but don’t
you remember that pair of slippers
I presented to you the Chisrtmas be-
bore we were married that led to our
union? You remember how nicely
they fitted, don’t you? Well, Charles,
one day when we were going to a
picnic you had your feet up on a seat,
and when you weren’t looking I took
your measure. But for that pair of
slippers I don’t believe we’d ever been
married.”
A young unmarried man, sitting
by, immediately took down his feet
from a 3eat.
A Rural Solomon.
“The court has taken your case in
to consideration, Mr. Slithers,” said
the judge, at Slithers’ trial for violat
ing the motor ordinance at Crackett’s
Corners, according to Harper’s Week
ly, “and, in view of what ye’ve said,
an’ with some trewth, about the bad
ness of our roads hereabouts in your
own sworn testimony, I’ve decided
not to fine ye $50, as the law permit.”
“That’s very square of you, Judge,”
said Slithers.
“We try to be square, Mr. Slith
ers,” said the judge; “and, instead of
the $50 fine, we’re goin’ to sentence
ye to work on them roads for ten
days, in the hope that your sooperior
wisdom as a road expert will make
'em cornsid’rably better.”
“CATTY.”
In the September Woman’s Home
Companion Alice Duer Millet writes
a fiction story entitled “The Barrier
to Intimacy,” in which a young man
and his promised wife have quar
reled and finally determined to sepa
rate. In the course of the quarrel
the young man became ugl(y and
spoke impertinently, to which the
young lady replied that he was talk
ing like a husband, and added ecstat
ically: “Oh, do go on. It reminds me
so much of all I am escaping.”
And Now See-
Mts. Scrappington—Oh, let the
young people flirt if they want to.
don’t believe flirting ever brought
harm to anybody.
Scrappington—You forget. That’s
how you and I began, by flirting.—
Boston Transcript.
Just Her Husband.
A woman mounted the step of a
street car, carrying an umbrella like
a reversed saber.
The conductor touched her lightly,
saying, “Excuse me, madam, but you
are likely to put out the eye of the
man behind you.”
“He’s my husband,” she snapped,
with the tone of full proprietorship.—
Chicago Post.
Prudence Suggests Keeping Aloof.
The possibilities of intervention in
Mexico reminds the Toronto Repub
lican of that beautiful Irish pastoral
which has to do with the iuylic life
of Tim Doolan, and the wife av him,
Jooley Doolan, and which runs as fol
lows:
Tim Doolan and his wife wan night
Were drinkin’ av the craychure
Whin somethin’ sta-arted up a fight
An’ they went at it right an’ tight,
Accordin’ to their nature. /
O’Grady an’ mesilf stood near.
Expectin’ a bloody murder.
Says he to me, “Let’s interfere!’*
But I, pretendin’ not to hear’
Moved off a little furder. >
“ ‘Lave off, ye brute!” says he to Tiii,-
“No mon would sthrike a lady!’”
Whin both the Doolans turned on him
An’ in a whist the two av thim
Weer wallopin’ O’Grady.
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Etiquette.
“ ‘The horse and the cow is in the
field,’ ” read the teacher. “Mary,
what is wrong with that sentence?”
Mary was evidently more versed in
the rules of politeness than in the
rules of grammar for she answered
promptly:
“The lady should be mentioned
first.”—Youth’s Companion.
Back At Him.
A?
i* J
A prominent Chicago politician
was discussing with a physician the
relative merits of theiir respective
professions.
“I don’t say that all lawyers, are
villians,” said the doctor, “but you’ll
have to admit that your profession
doesen’t make angels of men.”
“No,” retorted the lawyer, “you
doctors certainly have the best of
us there.”—Exchange.